Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of
Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now. We put the pedal
Speaker 1: to the metal. It's time now for another edition of
Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller in the air everywhere,
Speaker 1: because four hours a night are not enough. Eight days
Speaker 1: a week from the Mallard podcast studio at a secret
Speaker 1: location deep in the north Woods, no disengagement. You get
Speaker 1: the radio show five nights a week, and on the
Speaker 1: weekend you get this. I hope you enjoyed our trip
Speaker 1: down memory lane. As my old mentor hacks I would say,
Speaker 1: we caught up with the great Danny G. Radio. He
Speaker 1: was on the Friday edition of the Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Mallory and my add passed with Flying Colors, Passed
Speaker 1: with Flying Colors was great to catch up in here
Speaker 1: some old radio war stories from Danny G. But on
Speaker 1: this edition of the Fifth Hour, a brief look at
Speaker 1: the menu we are serving up in Benny's Bistro. We've
Speaker 1: got the glass Man, sod God, and Magical Date, and
Speaker 1: some other things that will pop up as well on
Speaker 1: this the Saturday edition of the Fifth Hour, so we
Speaker 1: begin with the glass Man. So the Saturday podcast, it
Speaker 1: has been determined, is about the life of Mallard, which
Speaker 1: is not that interesting. Might add not that interesting the
Speaker 1: life of Mallard, but I have some random things that happened.
Speaker 1: So I don't usually talk about this stuff on the
Speaker 1: radio show, and people seem to want to know about it,
Speaker 1: so I'll share some stories here. And this past weekend,
Speaker 1: I am still working on the renovation of the new
Speaker 1: Mallard mansion I've moved in a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: Mallard Mansion two point oh, the salvage and recovery portion
Speaker 1: of the story. So this past weekend was Operation Backyard Now,
Speaker 1: cleaning up the mess left by our contractors, and the
Speaker 1: contractors did a very good job. They're not done, but
Speaker 1: they're done with the big heavy stuff. There's only some
Speaker 1: minor cosmetic things that need to work on and so behind.
Speaker 1: In their wake, they left a bunch of random crap,
Speaker 1: most of it in the backyard, most of it in
Speaker 1: the backyard, And so I've been cleaning up the mess.
Speaker 1: Just started cleaning up the mess left by the contractors.
Speaker 1: What a pain in the tookis in the tushi, uh,
Speaker 1: cleaning up random things. Now, they had been mixing in
Speaker 1: the backyard grout and cement. There was like a grout
Speaker 1: cement thing that was going on, and somehow a lot
Speaker 1: of it ended up on what was supposed to be
Speaker 1: in a normal backyard, the lawn, the grass. All right,
Speaker 1: So the lawn has this layer of this white cement
Speaker 1: grout kind of grayish. I don't even know really what
Speaker 1: it is. It's some combination of those two things. So
Speaker 1: they were mixing the stuff together in the backyard, just
Speaker 1: gonna paint the picture a bird's eye view. So they're
Speaker 1: mixing this stuff in the backyard doing the renovation on
Speaker 1: the back of the house, and they, in their haste
Speaker 1: to get stuff done, they just poured a lot of
Speaker 1: it out on what was the grass, and they ended
Speaker 1: up covering a lot of the lawn with this layer
Speaker 1: that hardened over time. And so yeah, I had to
Speaker 1: take a shovel, bang, bang and start breaking this crap up,
Speaker 1: and so so I went to, as I said, a
Speaker 1: salvage and recovery mission, trying to recover the backyard and
Speaker 1: salvage what I could of the backyard. But that was
Speaker 1: the least of my problems, right, that was the least
Speaker 1: of my problems. So there's there was a concrete area.
Speaker 1: There is patio area in the backyard at the Mallard mansion.
Speaker 1: And in the renovation of the house, the fellas had
Speaker 1: tossed the glass window you know, big giant windows on
Speaker 1: the side of the house. They had tossed those down
Speaker 1: from the very top of the house down on the
Speaker 1: floor of the house on the backyard. Uh. They claimed
Speaker 1: that the windows were so old. How old were they?
Speaker 1: They were so old at the house that they had
Speaker 1: to be popped out. That was the claim that was made.
Speaker 1: Well in doing that, what do you think happen? You
Speaker 1: knock a window out and glass goes shattering into thousands
Speaker 1: of pieces, thousands and thousands of pieces. Now, I just
Speaker 1: spend much time back there, didn't realize the amount of glass.
Speaker 1: I had heard stories from the wife that there was
Speaker 1: a lot of glass. So my job, in addition to
Speaker 1: trying to break up the hardened layer of crowd slash cement.
Speaker 1: My other job was to dig around and try to
Speaker 1: find all the glass that was also mixed in with this.
Speaker 1: So it was a complete pain in the ass. So
Speaker 1: I went in. I pulled out the shot back I
Speaker 1: had that, I had the broom, and then I just
Speaker 1: had my eyes and I rolled up my sleeves and
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I'm gonna get dirty. It's
Speaker 1: the weekend. I don't have to talk talk talk talk
Speaker 1: talk talk. I can just go about my life and
Speaker 1: do the things that I need to do here and
Speaker 1: fix fix backyard. And this is a job that needs
Speaker 1: to be done and I need to do it. So
Speaker 1: I I had the shop. Fact as I mentioned, I
Speaker 1: had the broom, rolled up my sleeves, got my finger
Speaker 1: nails dirty, and as I was cleaning up the glass,
Speaker 1: I was becoming the glass man. Some of the pieces
Speaker 1: had fused to the concrete, the layer of concrete that
Speaker 1: was already there the actual backyard patio area, not the
Speaker 1: grass area, which was also covered with the groutcome concrete mix.
Speaker 1: There will be a quiz on this later. So again,
Speaker 1: so there's glass everywhere. It's a complete shit show. There's
Speaker 1: pieces of glass that had fused the concrete. Because during
Speaker 1: the summertime, when it was hot and the glass had
Speaker 1: been thrown down, we just left it there. We didn't
Speaker 1: worry about it because they were still doing construction. The
Speaker 1: heat baked the glass and the glass then stuck to
Speaker 1: the concrete. So in an effort to pull the glass off,
Speaker 1: I'm down there on my hands and knees and I'm
Speaker 1: whistling away and I'm trying to pull the glass off
Speaker 1: the concrete, which is now stuck to the concrete. So
Speaker 1: my wife walks over. She sees what I'm doing, and
Speaker 1: she's thinking in her head, I'm imagining, what a loser
Speaker 1: this guy is. There's a better way to do this.
Speaker 1: Why is he down there on his hands and knees
Speaker 1: trying to pull the glass up. So I point out
Speaker 1: to my wife. I said, listen, I don't know how
Speaker 1: long this stuff has been down here, but this stuff
Speaker 1: has been baked. And it's not the kind of bake
Speaker 1: where you got to Mary Jane. It's baked and it's
Speaker 1: stuck to the concrete. We gotta get it off sharp
Speaker 1: shards of glass. So she says, she sees me doing this,
Speaker 1: and she says you gotta be careful, don't get cut.
Speaker 1: You're gonna cut yourself the way you're doing it in
Speaker 1: hand to God. Within less than thirty seconds, probably less
Speaker 1: than ten seconds, I go down to pull up another
Speaker 1: shot of glass that is stuck like it's vel crowd
Speaker 1: to the concrete. And sure enough I slice my right
Speaker 1: index finger. And when I say slice, it is a
Speaker 1: clear slice. We've got blood squirting out of the finger
Speaker 1: like a prop at Halloween. Good times, good times. And
Speaker 1: so I I skidaddle into the house. I run to
Speaker 1: the bathroom, warm water, scrub a dub dub. I cover
Speaker 1: my finger with a piece of cloth and then squeeze,
Speaker 1: put pressure on the finger. See, I learned first date
Speaker 1: when I was a cub scout and a boy scout.
Speaker 1: I learned basic first date. So I've got I'm not
Speaker 1: sliced up my index finger, luckily. If there is a
Speaker 1: good part to this story. As the glass man, I
Speaker 1: cut it on a piece of glass that'd been down
Speaker 1: there for a while. I had my tetness shots and all.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can get tetnics from glass. But
Speaker 1: it was a solid slice that allowed need to avoid
Speaker 1: It didn't hit any major major stuff. I didn't chop
Speaker 1: my finger off or anything like that. It was not
Speaker 1: big enough where I needed stitches. It was like in
Speaker 1: that gray area where you know, you go either way.
Speaker 1: Maybe a few stitches, maybe not. And so I hope
Speaker 1: it's like Spider Man. I hope it's like Spider Man.
Speaker 1: You know, Spider Man bitten by a spider and had
Speaker 1: these amazing powers. So what would glass Man have. What
Speaker 1: kind of power would glass Man have? Would there be
Speaker 1: some kind of magical superpower, some mystical power. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure about that, but I did feel like a blithering
Speaker 1: idiot when my wife says, hey, watch out for that.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of one of my favorite stories. He's
Speaker 1: even watch out for that. Don't cut yourself and then boom,
Speaker 1: I cut myself. One of my favorite stories of all
Speaker 1: time though. And I don't know if I've told this
Speaker 1: before in the podcast or not, but when I was
Speaker 1: early on in my career as a radio reporter, so
Speaker 1: long ago, there was a team called the Montreal Expos
Speaker 1: and they were in l A playing the Dodgers. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers had this star pitcher from Japan named today O Nomo,
Speaker 1: who was a big deal they called it normal Mania,
Speaker 1: big rock Star and huge crowds when this guy pitched.
Speaker 1: So I'm in the press box, I'm covering the game,
Speaker 1: and the game had so much media attention it was
Speaker 1: like a Saturday night game that they had to move
Speaker 1: some of the broadcast crews into the main press box
Speaker 1: where normally you have radio row in the back. You've
Speaker 1: got some TV guys on one side, and a lot
Speaker 1: of writers, a lot of scribes. And so this night,
Speaker 1: as I remember it, the Dodgers are playing. The Expo
Speaker 1: said Normo's pitching. It's on network television local TV. And
Speaker 1: the old Montreal Expos had a French broadcast, they had
Speaker 1: the English broadcast, the Dodgers had Spanish, they had English,
Speaker 1: the whole thing. So there's a lot of interest in this.
Speaker 1: There was an Asian you know, feedback to Japan with
Speaker 1: the broadcast, so it was a big deal. But network
Speaker 1: radio calling the game. Network radio calling the game, and
Speaker 1: so they moved the network radio broadcasters into the main
Speaker 1: press part because there was no other room. And I
Speaker 1: remember who was doing the game because it was one
Speaker 1: of the funniest things that that happened. Jerry Coleman may
Speaker 1: he rest in Peace, the old voice of the San
Speaker 1: Diego Padres and a former Yankee Jerry Coleman, Oh doctor,
Speaker 1: and I'm back in back in those days. So he's
Speaker 1: doing the game Gary Cohen, who is a New York
Speaker 1: Mets broadcaster played by play Guy on TV. He's there
Speaker 1: also doing the network broadcast and uh and very popular
Speaker 1: New York. He's a native New Yorker. They love him
Speaker 1: there and he's very good at his job. But this
Speaker 1: is he's doing network radio. It's a Saturday night as
Speaker 1: years ago, and it's a cool night. It's kind of
Speaker 1: a cool night and Jerry, in between innings, Jerry Coleman
Speaker 1: goes over to get a cup of coffee and he's
Speaker 1: walking back through the press box to go down. They
Speaker 1: were in the front row the Network radio broadcast. So
Speaker 1: Jerry's walking back with a cup of coffee. He's got
Speaker 1: a couple of papers like game notes that that he
Speaker 1: had and he's now doing a balancing act. He's now
Speaker 1: like he's in the in the circus. He's doing a
Speaker 1: balancing act. So instead of just holding the cup of
Speaker 1: coffee in one hand, the papers and the other my man, Jerry,
Speaker 1: he says, you know, I'm gonna what I'm gonna do here,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold the pieces of paper and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put the coffee on top like it's a dish, but
Speaker 1: it's just pieces of paper. And so as Jerry turns
Speaker 1: the corner to make it down to the broadcast position
Speaker 1: in the press box, the main press box, Steve Cohen
Speaker 1: sitting uh, Gary Cohen rather Gary Cohen is sitting down there,
Speaker 1: and Paul Bear, who also passed away, the longtime radio engineer.
Speaker 1: Paul Bear says, watch, Jerry's gonna spill the coffee, and
Speaker 1: within seconds, much like my incident in the backyard, Jerry
Speaker 1: that he only has one step to walk down, He
Speaker 1: stumbles and the papers go flying one direction. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: the boiling hot McDonald's style coffee goes all over the
Speaker 1: back of Gary Cohen, who's the other play by play guy.
Speaker 1: Now keep away. They're in a commercial break. They're about
Speaker 1: to come back to do the game. Gary is in agony.
Speaker 1: He's screaming, he's oh my god, this is horrible paint.
Speaker 1: He's at boiling coffee. He did not expect a surprise shot.
Speaker 1: He's ambushed by the coffee. This is horrible and it
Speaker 1: was just me and I remember I was laughing. I
Speaker 1: was trying not to laugh. We were all trying not
Speaker 1: to laugh. All the radio row was trying not to
Speaker 1: laugh because it was the funniest thing, just the way
Speaker 1: that Paul the engineer it said watch out, Jerry's gonna
Speaker 1: spill the coffee. And then it got even more crazy. Alright,
Speaker 1: so they come back from commercial and they just pretend
Speaker 1: like nothing happened. It was. It was a CBS radio
Speaker 1: sports broadcast that they called it. So he Jerry comes back,
Speaker 1: they do the play, but he's doing the play by play,
Speaker 1: Gary is withering in agony from just being burned from
Speaker 1: the coffee. And so then some paramedics show up because
Speaker 1: the guy's got burns, and they're like, we're gonna check
Speaker 1: him out. Well. Gary Cohen, the Met's broadcaster, then takes
Speaker 1: off his shirt because they had to examine the burns.
Speaker 1: So he's sitting in the press box. His back looked
Speaker 1: like the map of Africa with all the different outlines
Speaker 1: of the countries and all that all bubbling up. His
Speaker 1: skin was bubbling up bright red, just horrible. And he
Speaker 1: put the headset back on and Jerry Coleman starts talking
Speaker 1: to him. It was. It was craziness as I remember it,
Speaker 1: and so I just I can only imagine if you
Speaker 1: were sitting in the crowd that night and you're like,
Speaker 1: you're just doing your own thing, and you know, la
Speaker 1: la la la la la la la la la la
Speaker 1: la la, and you get coffee port on you, and
Speaker 1: then you're in the crowd and you look up to
Speaker 1: the press box and you see a broadcaster calling a
Speaker 1: game on radio, and then right next to him another
Speaker 1: broadcaster who's got a headset on but no shirt, and uh,
Speaker 1: it was it was quite quite the tail that's randomly
Speaker 1: popped in my all. Right. Now, as far as the
Speaker 1: sod god in the story, I just related to you
Speaker 1: a few minutes ago in a sorry about the glass,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned that the backyard covered in a layer
Speaker 1: of grout, a layer of concrete. So my plan for
Speaker 1: the new Mallard mansion is to make it an outdoor oasis,
Speaker 1: a casablanca. In order to do that, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of work that needs to be done. Now, you have
Speaker 1: helped me, maybe not you, but the fellow listeners have
Speaker 1: helped me with home remedies. Some I have to buy
Speaker 1: for the mosquitoes to get rid of the mosquitoes. Now,
Speaker 1: a lot of the mosquitos have already left because the
Speaker 1: weather got cooler in the north Woods, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: they'll be back as soon as it heats up again.
Speaker 1: Regardless of that. Uh, since I am focused on making
Speaker 1: this my little garden of Eden, I've decided the back
Speaker 1: in front of the Mallard mansion looked like shantytown right now.
Speaker 1: It does not look good. So I have decided on
Speaker 1: the fifty fifty split. Now what is the fifty fifty
Speaker 1: split on this? I'll tell you what the split is.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked. So the front is going to
Speaker 1: have professional side put down, very expensive side, and gardener
Speaker 1: will be brought in with his team and will put
Speaker 1: the side down, and then we will stay off the
Speaker 1: side for several weeks, will water the side religiously, and
Speaker 1: then we will be good to go. But the back
Speaker 1: of the north Woods Mallard Mansion will be a d
Speaker 1: i y situation. Do it yourself. And in preparation for this,
Speaker 1: I have been watching several YouTube videos on how to
Speaker 1: become the sod god, the god of sad, and so
Speaker 1: I've determined through my copious amounts of research, I have
Speaker 1: determined that it is a ten step process or process.
Speaker 1: So some of you, and maybe it's you are very
Speaker 1: handy and you're useful and you're not useless like I am.
Speaker 1: Where I do is talk and you do this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff all the time. But this is a new
Speaker 1: area for me. At the old Malor mansion, we didn't
Speaker 1: have to worry about this. It was all set up
Speaker 1: nice and pretty and we didn't have any worry it.
Speaker 1: So the ten steps are and you can email me
Speaker 1: at Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth
Speaker 1: Hour at gmail dot com or Ben Maller Show at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com and tell me if I'm right on this.
Speaker 1: So this is I just jotted down some notes here,
Speaker 1: just a few notes in my chicken scratch from the
Speaker 1: different YouTube videos that I've watched on how to become
Speaker 1: the sod God. So, according to the videos, step number
Speaker 1: one they say you're supposed to start in the fall.
Speaker 1: Now I don't know about that. I thought you're supposed
Speaker 1: starting to spring, but several the videos said starting to fall.
Speaker 1: But I live in a place where they don't really
Speaker 1: have fall, so I don't think that makes much sense.
Speaker 1: The first thing you have to do is kill the weeds.
Speaker 1: Kill the weeds. Now, I'm not sure how this works
Speaker 1: because the lawn right now is covered in that grout
Speaker 1: concrete mix. I picked a lot of it up. There's
Speaker 1: still a lot there. There are a few weeds, so
Speaker 1: I guess I gotta take care of that, but I
Speaker 1: have to get the concrete out also, So that's step
Speaker 1: number two. Kill the weeds and in my case, take
Speaker 1: care of the grout and the concrete. Step number three
Speaker 1: aerate the lawn. That's a fancy word for dig holes.
Speaker 1: A lot of holes. Okay, So that's that's aerating the lawn.
Speaker 1: So I gotta buy something from home deep or whatever
Speaker 1: to do that. I think you can just buy a
Speaker 1: metal contraption or you can rent it. And I that
Speaker 1: that's when I'm leaning towards at this point, so that
Speaker 1: when we step number three, so you've made holes all
Speaker 1: over the lawn, you've taken the weeds away. The next
Speaker 1: step is to buy grass seed. Now that's important. You
Speaker 1: gotta buy a fifty fifty I'm told you gotta buy
Speaker 1: grass seed that is good in the sun and good
Speaker 1: and obviously the shade. So you've got to get that
Speaker 1: you then drop the grass seed into all the holes
Speaker 1: that you've made on the lawn, very aerating the lawn.
Speaker 1: If I'm boring you, just fast forward through the podcast.
Speaker 1: So that's step number four. Step number five, you gotta
Speaker 1: apply starter fertilizer, not savvy veteran fertilizer, a new Ubi
Speaker 1: newby newby, Neuby fertilizer. Check. Then you have to water
Speaker 1: two or three times a day. Check check check. Stay
Speaker 1: off the lawn. Kind of obvious that step number seven
Speaker 1: you have to mow. I have to wait a month
Speaker 1: to mow, give it the Uncle Moe treatment, and then
Speaker 1: after two months you can mow every week if you
Speaker 1: so desire, and they tell you the exact member measurement,
Speaker 1: according to YouTube is two and a half to three
Speaker 1: and a half inches high. And then after every six
Speaker 1: weeks you're supposed to put more fertilizer down. Now, the
Speaker 1: odds that I follow all ten of these steps slim
Speaker 1: to none, and Slim has left the building. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure I will do the first five, actually the first six,
Speaker 1: and for seven, for seven, and maybe even number eight,
Speaker 1: number nine and number ten. I'm not sure that I
Speaker 1: will still do that, but my goal is to become
Speaker 1: the side gun, and I will take photo graphs and
Speaker 1: I will put some of this stuff. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: put a living on because I don't want you to
Speaker 1: know where I live, but I'll take some strategic photos
Speaker 1: and I will show you the before and after, before
Speaker 1: and after of the backyard of the Mallard match. So
Speaker 1: as soon as I get this thing going, I will
Speaker 1: make sure to do it and I will let you know.
Speaker 1: All right. Moving on from that, we have the magical date. Now,
Speaker 1: what is the magical date? Is it? My birthday? Is
Speaker 1: the wedding date? Is it? What is it? No? Uh,
Speaker 1: the magical date? Now, everyone has important dates in their lives,
Speaker 1: certain events. Human beings are fascinated by patterns, patternicity and
Speaker 1: also dates, right, random dates, They're important life events. For me,
Speaker 1: I had one of those magical dates passed by on
Speaker 1: the calendar. Uh. This is back on Wednesday, so hump day.
Speaker 1: And it was November third, big day for me. And
Speaker 1: why is November three a big day? That is always
Speaker 1: for the rest of my life as long as I'm around,
Speaker 1: going to be a special day because that was my
Speaker 1: dear old mother's birthday. May she rest in peace. She
Speaker 1: would have turned seventy five years old my mom, and
Speaker 1: I wonder what she would have been like if she
Speaker 1: had made it and been seventy five and with all
Speaker 1: the stuff that's happened in the world, and just chatting
Speaker 1: with mom and wondering what that's like and so would
Speaker 1: have had a big birthday party, I'm sure, and it
Speaker 1: would have been great and just cake and balloons and
Speaker 1: birthday cards and presents and all that. Unfortunately, my mom
Speaker 1: passed away a number of years ago, but I always
Speaker 1: make sure to honor my mom on her birthday. That's
Speaker 1: an important day, and so you know, even though she's
Speaker 1: been gone for a while, it's important. And there's also
Speaker 1: an odd bit of serendipity in my life that November
Speaker 1: three not only a big day because my Mom's birth day,
Speaker 1: but also the anniversary of the big operation. What is
Speaker 1: the big operation? That would be my big operation? A
Speaker 1: couple of years back, twenty nineteen before the world shut
Speaker 1: down with COVID, I had a gall stone attack and
Speaker 1: I got taken to the hospital gall bladder surgery. I
Speaker 1: spent a week in the hospital and I still feel
Speaker 1: the after effects of that. Not having a gall bladder,
Speaker 1: but my operation was on November three, was an NFL Sunday.
Speaker 1: I remember going under as it was this it was
Speaker 1: late afternoon and it was an NFL Sunday, and I
Speaker 1: missed the entire day in the NFL. I remember being
Speaker 1: bummed out about that. I then woke up groggy, and
Speaker 1: it was the Patriots were playing the Ravens, Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: Patriots versus the Ravens and Lamar Jackson, and they got charred, roiled,
Speaker 1: spit roasted, Molly wop curb stomped. I remember that vaguely.
Speaker 1: I remember waking up saying, holy crap, I can't believe.
Speaker 1: I can't believe what happened here. That's absolutely insane. What happened?
Speaker 1: By the way, Doc Mike just calling me. I'm Doc,
Speaker 1: I'm recording a podcast. Doc. What are you doing? You're
Speaker 1: killing me? Doc. Anyway, so that November three also the
Speaker 1: anniversary of my my operation, and so, uh, I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you that operation is pretty normal. A lot of
Speaker 1: people their gallbladder taking out. My problem is, I'm such
Speaker 1: a knuckle head, I'm so bullheaded as a Taurus that
Speaker 1: I waited too long. I waited too long to be
Speaker 1: checked out. And so that's a pretty standard operating procedure type.
Speaker 1: It's like an assembly line. Doctors will tell you in
Speaker 1: the emergency room with a gallbladder, it's a common thing,
Speaker 1: but it's not common when you wait, it's it's complications.
Speaker 1: I had so many gall stones it was like shrapnel
Speaker 1: all over that part of my body, and so they
Speaker 1: needed to pick those little needles, little gall stones out
Speaker 1: of the haystack. Good times, good times, indeed. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that was the third day of November, the big day
Speaker 1: in my life. A couple of other things. Now we're
Speaker 1: not going to do a full let's get scientifical. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna do that. But there were a couple of stories.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know if this is a style.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a science story or
Speaker 1: just an animal story. This is one of those things
Speaker 1: that should probably be an animal thunderdome. We had Danny
Speaker 1: g on yesterday and Danny talked about animal stories, and
Speaker 1: we talked about how together people love animal story stories
Speaker 1: about dogs, cats, you name it. This one is so
Speaker 1: wild you'd think it was fake, Like you'd think this
Speaker 1: is a bogus story, but we we take you to Brazil.
Speaker 1: We take you to Brazil and a story of a
Speaker 1: random man in Brazil who was having a really bad day.
Speaker 1: He was having a really bad day and it turned
Speaker 1: into a fatal day for this guy. Let me, let
Speaker 1: me give you the story. So this dude in Brazil's
Speaker 1: thirty year old guy in Brazil, and he's out there
Speaker 1: fishing with his buddies and he's in doing doing his thing,
Speaker 1: and he gets attacked by a swarm of bees. I
Speaker 1: don't think they were murder hornets. I think they were
Speaker 1: just beas. And so this guy's like, I gotta get it.
Speaker 1: I gotta get away from these bees. So he did
Speaker 1: what most people would think would be the right thing
Speaker 1: to do. He's being chased by the mob of bees.
Speaker 1: He's in Brazil. He jumps into a lake. The guy was,
Speaker 1: of course, fishing with his buddies. So this dude jumps
Speaker 1: into a farm lake in you know, a small part
Speaker 1: of Brazil, off the beaten path, and so he goes
Speaker 1: into the water to avoid the bees. He ends up
Speaker 1: drowning and being eaten by piranhas. Can you imagine? Does
Speaker 1: that sound like a horror film? That sounds like a
Speaker 1: nineteen nineties comedy old school comedy where that's Vaudevillian is
Speaker 1: what that is. Vaudvillian is a terrible and the guy
Speaker 1: the guy died. But you imagine having bad like well,
Speaker 1: I guess what's your time? At your time? But you
Speaker 1: get away from the bees and then tell here the
Speaker 1: piranhas chop chop chop. I'd like to eat. I'd like
Speaker 1: to bite to eat? Can I can I have a bite? Yeah? Brutal?
Speaker 1: All right, now this is a story that relates to us.
Speaker 1: Now again not a full let's get scientifical, but why
Speaker 1: do some people sleep walk? Have you ever been around
Speaker 1: a sleepwalker? Maybe you're a sleepwalker. I've been around a
Speaker 1: few sleep walkers over the years. And when I moved
Speaker 1: out of the Mallard mansion, originally I had some roommates
Speaker 1: and you know, sleepovers or whatever. I was a kid,
Speaker 1: we had we had occasional sleepwalkers. Occasional sleepwalkers. So why
Speaker 1: does some people sleep walk? Well? According to a new
Speaker 1: study out of Montreal, Quebec, sleepwalking, according to the scientists,
Speaker 1: is a phenomena that has intrigued this as people for years.
Speaker 1: Neurologists have examined the human brain in search of an
Speaker 1: explanation but have found no solid answer. But now, according
Speaker 1: to this new study out of Montreal, it has revealed
Speaker 1: that sleepwalking may that's a weeze a word, may have
Speaker 1: a lot to do with a person's fight or flight response,
Speaker 1: specifically those who display lower fight or flight reaction as
Speaker 1: they sleep and more nervous system response tied to relaxation.
Speaker 1: People that have that are more prone to go for
Speaker 1: a nice walk. While Unconscious says sleepwalking is a condition
Speaker 1: in which the person does not enter the rapid eye
Speaker 1: movement or rem sleep stage in adults, they say it
Speaker 1: occurs in less than five of people. Scientist say sleepwalkers
Speaker 1: usually find it difficult to stay awake the day after
Speaker 1: an episode due to exhaustion from lack of sleep. Well,
Speaker 1: I know all about that lack of sleep during the
Speaker 1: overnight show. But there you go. Too much relaxation maybe
Speaker 1: a factor. Blame it on that and fight or flight,
Speaker 1: fight or flight. Let me do one more, one more
Speaker 1: of these. Let's get scientifical stories a small version. Morality
Speaker 1: is blank? Morality is blank? Is it genetic? This story
Speaker 1: comes out of Washington? You know, listen, we all know
Speaker 1: different activities casual making whoopee a little weekend, the snow run,
Speaker 1: doing the recreational drugs all that. Uh, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: one of these things that the certain people are more
Speaker 1: prone to than others. Right, the great moral debate, Right,
Speaker 1: what is more moral for one person is a moral
Speaker 1: for another? And what is a moral is moral? You know,
Speaker 1: with vice versa, vice versus So researchers with the Association
Speaker 1: of Psychology Science wherever that is sounds official, they report
Speaker 1: that there may be may as again and we as
Speaker 1: a word very popular in these studies, there may be
Speaker 1: a common genetic basis that influences individual opinions on non
Speaker 1: committal sex and the use of drugs recreationally. According to
Speaker 1: the findings, they hold major implications towards modern sciences understanding
Speaker 1: on how genes a k a. Heredity contribute to opinions
Speaker 1: and moral values. So their argument is that you are born,
Speaker 1: and from the moment of birth, you are more likely,
Speaker 1: based on your genes to be out there like the
Speaker 1: Great Wilt Chamberlain with the twenty thousand ladies or two
Speaker 1: on the weekend to have a little baggy a coke
Speaker 1: or whatever it might be, whatever your drug of choices.
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't buy this. I think it's
Speaker 1: to me, it's more of how you were raised. That's
Speaker 1: my position on it. Now they claim differently, and they're
Speaker 1: the scientists and all that, and they study this stuff,
Speaker 1: but I I really believe it's more about the family
Speaker 1: upbringing and you know, when you were a kid being
Speaker 1: taught you can't do this, you can't do that, and
Speaker 1: instilling it. Whereas if you're in a family where it's
Speaker 1: not quite the same and you're just kind a little
Speaker 1: looser than that, you're more prone to do that stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't buy this. So I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: thumbs down on this study. It's that old nature versus nurture.
Speaker 1: I'm going nurture on this. I'm going nurture on this one.
Speaker 1: I'm not going nature. Scientist is saying it's nature. I'm
Speaker 1: going nurture. Anyway. That'll do it. For the Saturday podcasts,
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