WEBVTT - Leave of Absence 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.360 Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:05.640 Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:11.440 If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.960 was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:18.599 the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.480 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.920 pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of hot takes, 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.800 break free or something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:37.280 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere the vast 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:42.199 and powerful podcast network, the I Heart podcast Network. The 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.400 Fifth Hour, as you heard with myself, Ben, be a 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.320 spin off of the radio show. Now. The radio show 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.919 was on hiatus for a couple of days this week, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:51.839 so still was broadcast, but I wasn't part of the 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.320 show because I've been on fur low. But we still 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.240 do the podcast here. As you know. You you heard 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:59.640 the Saturday podcast when Lee hacks on Hamilton. Back on Friday, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.880 we had Leo Terrell, the fair minded civil rights attorney, 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.120 talking about all the activism in the NBA and college 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:11.959 football madness and all that good stuff. So today is different. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.360 We are just gonna be blow beating. We have the 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:16.840 mail bag later that we're gonna get to. And also 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:22.240 because I believe in the bit Pop quiz, we've got 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.440 that as well, and joined yet again for Better or 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:30.319 Worse West of the four oh five David Gascott, who 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:37.440 is deemed a partly necessary So who will strutting here? 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.360 I definitely will. Then that's uh, it's good to know 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:48.200 that that you can, you know, extract me from my 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.400 my chains at the hospital and bring me. Yes, it's 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.320 like the old TV show The A Team. We broke 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.840 you out of the looney Band and we brought you 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:02.320 in here and to this barren, sterile, desolate radio station. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.880 What a hardship Gascon? Really? I mean you talking about 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:11.240 the misfortune human sacrifice by David Gascon, The pain and 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.639 suffering of having to do a podcast that is mau 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.760 treatment is what that is? That is mause treatment. In between, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.240 I keep in mind, in one hand, I had my 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.960 cell phone and I was, you know, texting you on 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.840 my deathbed. And then in the other hand, I had 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.919 my MacBook and I was calmly looking as I see 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:34.840 splits Apple and Tesla. Yes, yes, yes, I've I've made 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.080 one plunge into the deep end of the pool to 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:41.320 pay for for medical bills. Um, so this is this 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.880 is my life, this is my life as we get 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.320 ready for Well, I want you to know and I 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.480 don't give you should never take stock advice from someone 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.200 on the radio or a podcast. And I certainly am 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.280 not qualified to give financial advice. But I have been 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.320 told by someone who would know these things in the 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:03.680 financial world, who's a friend of sorts, that now is 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:07.520 the time to actually sell half of your Apple and 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.680 half of your Tesla. And the reason you do that 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.080 because it's at peaks. It's gonna go down here in 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.079 the next couple of months, right, because it's splay. It's 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:17.440 gonna go down a little bit and then I'll go 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.480 back up. But then you sell now, and then you 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.160 buy when it goes down, and then you sell sell again. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.320 But it's like the old saying with real estate is 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:31.239 you never ever try to time the market because when 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.440 real estate properties are up, then you got interest rates 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:40.040 that are also going the opposite direction. So you know 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.320 if you're looking at a refinance that you can't time 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.080 the market. It's not an exact science. Well, there are 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.720 some indicators though that tell you that certain things are 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.720 gonna happen because these things are cyclical, right, the the 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.000 EBB and the flow of the stock market. I've I've 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.840 gotten more into the stock market because you know, it's 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.560 just gambling. I like Hambling's just gambling, you know. I 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.680 for years I was and I still believe that really, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:06.880 if I had the money, I would be much more 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.600 more into real estate. But it's so expensive to buy 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.840 property and all that. You know, I can't afford to 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.840 be a real estate tycoon or anything like that. But 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.080 you can't play the stock market. And I have gotten 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.800 more into it. I see. That's one of the ways, Gascon, 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.800 you should be proud of me here. I have evolved 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.119 over recent years because before I was all real estate, 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.520 real estate, real estate, real estate, real estate, real estate. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:33.279 But I have broadened my horizons here. That's what I 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.720 have done. I have prolificated, uh in the podcast, on 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.160 the podcast, in the in the stock market world, I 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.120 think you hate. I think you hit the nail right 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.520 on the head. You've you broaden your horizons across the 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:50.400 podcasting world. This is a this is a victory laughter. Listen, Victoria. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.839 It's a victoria lap. It's a victory lab you know 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.960 the one thing that you're You're like Zeke Kelliott, and 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:00.880 do I go through the a gap of the beat 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.600 gap and you see daylight and you just run through 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.560 the whole. They're like z Kelly and hoping to get 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.640 in the end zone for the Cowboys. I will eat 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.640 my bowl of cheerios all the way to the finish line. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:16.360 And the one consistent is, uh, you have rotten your horizons. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:20.000 And here I am walking with you, side by side, 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:24.359 pushing you, even sometimes rolling you in a wheelchair across 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.920 the finish line. Yeah, are you done? I don't want 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.039 you to pull a muscle. Here is stretching out to 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.919 pat yourself in the back. Yeah, this is You're on 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.200 the up and up. And in a couple of days 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.400 we'll put a little powder on your nose and a 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:41.320 little makeup around your face and uh no, no, no makeup, 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.320 no makeup. But yeah, I'm excited. Week number one's right 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.080 around the corner. So NFL season is here, and who 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.279 then knows of college football? Well, I'm excited. We are artists. 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.040 Some people think we're not artists. Were audio artists. You 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.279 remember that great quote by Andy Warhol back in the 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.919 day Gascon and artist is somebody who produces things that 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.000 people don't need to have, like a podcast. So really 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.039 we're artists. We're audio artists in the definition of the 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:11.839 great late Andy Warhol. We are artists here, yes, yes, 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.320 struggling artists and so we're always trying to new things 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.080 and all that, which is which is cool. So I 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:18.800 think we's just getting right into the meet. But and 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.480 you want to you've teased this whole thing with the YouTube. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.039 We're not ready yet. We don't have the big announcement. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.360 We'll send this out on social media, yes, yes, yes, 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.919 of course. So I'll be available on social media, be 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.640 able to be part of this in real time, and 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.080 we'll we'll have some some surprises for us. So we're 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.800 excited about that. There's an army of people, an army. 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.200 It's a small army, but there's an army of people 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.720 behind the scenes that are working here on this ridiculous 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:53.080 plan for global domination. An assortment of very powerful people, 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:59.320 a multitude coming together, unless that's not actually true. No, No, 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.640 it's it's just maybe just one or two people. It's 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.359 about it. That's We've got motto kind of always be 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:10.080 prepared and uh, it's about it man. Well, it's like 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.120 D I Y right, do it yourself. That's the model 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.760 we believe in. That it might be easier and more 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:22.440 financially savvy to do it another way, but we believe 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.640 in the D D I Y model. That is the 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.080 way for us. So what's on the menu today? All right? 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.120 So we have pop quiz, as I mentioned in the mailback. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.720 So let's start with pop quiz. Yes, alright, very good. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.600 This is a quiz of gascon. We will see how 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:41.520 he does here and here we go. So twenty of 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:46.720 women would change this about their mother? What is it? 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.120 All right? See how guess gun knows about the ladies 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:55.760 and with they're into with moms um their fashion fashion? 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:00.120 Uh that is I'm gonna give you half credit? Is 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:04.880 this this fashion? Lady? Women would change their mother's hairstyle 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.880 about that? That's interesting. I don't like the mom haircut, 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.520 isn't it normally like when women get to a certain 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.160 age they go with the mom like the shortcut. You know? Yeah? 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.640 Right that that seems to happen to a high percentage 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.320 of women. Now, my wife's promised me she won't do that, 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.640 but she could always renege on that promise. Yeah. I mean, 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.520 of course here on the left coast, you've got people 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.040 now just doing their hair with like green in it, 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.720 or purple in it, or blue in it, pink. I've 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.160 seen pink. I saw someone crossing the street and it 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.400 was not the artist pink had pink hair just doing there. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.960 I saw. I saw this younger woman on the boardwalk 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.000 a couple of days ago on the boardwalk, on the boardwalk, 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:48.120 and she had purple hair. Ben she looked awesome, Oh 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.160 you're a fan of that. Well, I was a fan 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.720 of it on her. I'm not usually well you liked. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.679 I mean, she could have had no hair and you 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.920 would have been like, that's a good look, good woman, right. 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.360 Not all women can have short hair, like you gotta 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.960 really have a pretty face. That's a good point. You can't. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.640 Not everyone can pull that off. But but that's the case. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.600 I mean, that's not a good example. You were going 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.280 hubba hubba, So it doesn't really matter what kind of 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.480 hair there. You were ready to have a candlelight dinner. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.079 Did you make the move on that person with the 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.640 purple hair? I did not. I did not. Did you say, hey, 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.440 I was a fan of Barney the dinosaur and I 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.199 was a kid. I love purple. No. No, I think 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.880 that probably have got me slapped. I think so. Yeah, Okay, alright, 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:30.320 U seventy of us don't do this anymore. What is 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:31.800 it? It It was something that it had. It was a 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.120 staple of not only American life, but life around the world. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.319 But now seventy percent of us don't do this anymore. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.320 Eat family dinners at the dinner table. Uh no, this 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:49.320 involves financial uh financial stuff. Invest no right checks, all right, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.880 seventy of us no longer right checks. Everything's credit cards, 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.600 credit cards, credit cards, credit cards, credit cards, credit cards, 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.920 credit cards. They don't want you to spend cash anymore 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.280 because there's a coin shortage everywhere. I go, Oh, these 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.320 are doing no please, we need credit with no cash 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.920 or exact change if you have cash, that kind of thing. 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.360 When's the last time you wrote a check, an actual 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.880 physical check back In March? I wrote one for my 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:18.080 c p A. Okay, Like I write checks maybe once 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.360 every two years. And when I write a check, since 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:22.760 I don't do it all the time, I have to 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:24.320 like go on my phone and say, all right, here's 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.080 what boxes do I have to sign to make sure 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.360 I don't fuck it up because I don't do it 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.400 very off. So yeah, I'm in that do not do 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.400 the check thing all right. Now, did you know that 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:41.160 you can deposit a check via your cell phone? Uh? Yeah, 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.520 I assumed it. I didn't know that for sure. I 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.199 don't know how to do it, but yeah, you can 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:49.359 do anything on your phone, right, So, like if certain institutions, 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.560 you have to endorse the check on the back side 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.559 and then say four deposit purposes only with such and 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.040 such bank, and you take a picture of the front 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.079 of the check, then a picture of the back of 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.960 the check, and then you upload and transmit it to 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.959 your bank on your on your app. Then boom, it's good. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.760 There you go. My my dad had an epiphany a 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.720 while back. He was very excited when he found out 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.080 when he had to pay bills, so he had to 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:15.680 send it a couple of days early and all that 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:17.120 and to be freaking out whether they get it. So 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.040 then you can just show up to the bank and 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.400 they'll automatically send the money from the bank. And this 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.760 was like a big deal for my dad. You know, 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.440 my dad's that didn't that much going on, so it 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:26.880 was like a big deal. Was like oh, I can 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.080 just go to the bank. So he would go to 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:29.480 the bank. I think he stopped doing that because he 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:33.079 got lazy. But anyway, all right, Uh, these days nearly 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:39.079 forty of people do this at the dinner table more frequently. Burp, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.880 burpitty burp. No eat on paper plates. On paper plates? 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:48.880 You a paper plate, guy, I guess, guy. Na Um. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.000 Only if I get like the little pizza bites, like 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.880 a little bagel bites, a little pizza bites, then I'll 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.760 do on paper plates. But otherwise you pull out the 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.000 fine china. Yes, yes, yeah, I used. I used the 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.319 plates also, but when I was you know, I'm married. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.000 That's why, Because if I've been back in then, when 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.760 I was single, I would go to the cost guard 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.760 to get one of those giant things of paper plates. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:14.080 Never had to do dishes done boom right there, just like. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.040 But I wasn't even eating at home very much back 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.000 in those days, so I didn't really eat the Yeah, 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:19.640 I eat a lot, but I didn't eat at home 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.600 because I was going to games and eating there. All right, 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:26.880 A small village in Serbia, of all places, has his 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:34.040 own version of this Philadelphia tourist attraction. Um, you've been 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.439 to Philadelphia, right, I've only been to Philadelphia once. Yeah, 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:42.240 I've been there once. Also, No, it's better than the 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:47.040 Freedom Bell. Yes, the Rocky State. There was a small 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.520 village in Serbia for some reason, has his own version 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.600 of the Rocky Statue. That's kind of wild. Have you 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.160 did you run up the steps at the library? That? 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.840 Did you make the movie? I was not running. Condition 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.280 was in Philadelphia. I was way too intoxicated, and I 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.720 got you. When I was in Philly, the weather was 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.000 so nasty. I didn't want I thought I would have 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.720 died if I had tried to, because I was slipped 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.199 and fallen if I had tried to run up the 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:15.760 Rocky Statues because it was nasty, like rainy, cold and brutal. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.760 I did not know what cold meant when I was 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.320 in Philadelphia until I went there. I went there during 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.679 the wintertime, and it was so cold my ears were 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.680 piercing like it was just it was ridiculous. I had 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.560 to go inside and get some whiskey. Well you would 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.760 have gotten whiskey anyway. It reminds me of when I 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.280 was in doing the TV stuff and I was at 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:39.040 Bobby V's restaurant in Stanford, Connecticut and it was a 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.400 very cold winter night, and I thought, you know what, 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.000 I was gonna save money on like a taxi or 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.000 in uber so I was gonna walk back to the hotel, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.440 which was like three or four blocks and it was 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.240 it was cold, but I thought, you know, I can, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.080 you know, no big deal, And oh my god. I 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.160 got about a block and I'm like, what the funk 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.480 am I doing? My god, this is horrible. I got 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.520 to the hotel. My hat, my fingers were frozen, my 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.120 toes I could. It was terrible. Ship. Yeah, and it 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.600 was only like three or four blocks. That was it. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.080 Did you did you jog? Did you try to? Can't? 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.679 I tried to walk quickly, but then in my mouth 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.520 and lips get all chapped from the cold winter, you know, 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.560 night air and all that. It was brutal, all right. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.880 When it comes to the workplace, nearly twice as many 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:34.000 women as men feel guilty about doing this. Um do 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.960 do do? Do? Do? Do? Desk? No, Now, this is 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.800 something I actually feel guilty about. So I'm on the 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.640 side of the ladies on this one. Well, it's not 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.720 showing up to work because you don't do that eight 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.480 days a week. The correct answer, guest, and you have 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:55.760 no answer. Is taking vacation h Yeah, I I do 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.280 feel like I am not doing my part when I 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:00.800 am miss shows. I to miss a couple of shows 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:04.600 this week because of furlough, and uh, I do feel 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.680 a level of guilt about It's one of the reasons. 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.400 I'll be on the radio tonight on Labor Day. And 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.880 I had the option of not working, but I said, 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:14.640 you know what, I can only miss so many days. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.280 It's football season now, the NFL is coming up in 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.480 a few days. I gotta be there. Yeah, that's good. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.880 I mean, I don't take vacation days. I don't get 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:26.440 vacation days. I don't here we go contain to work 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:31.760 and press on. So well. You know, listen, there's different 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.400 types of automobiles. You've got to be more like a 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.840 Ferrari or a Porsche or a Lamborghini. Right now, you're 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.520 like the Glapi, the Toyota Camra, the you're the Chevy 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.240 Spark is what you are. You've got to upgrade. You 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:48.480 got upgrade? How did I go about upgrading? We'll make 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.080 better life choices. That's the first better life too. All 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.760 right now, all right, here we go pop quiz on average, 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.360 a man gets this item every two years. What is it? 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.360 You should know this, guest gun, because you pla posibly 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:05.920 are a man every two years. Every two years he 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:11.240 he gets this, he buys us. Uh, he gets this 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:16.400 or buys it, but either way he gets um bum 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.040 bum he gets fuck. Is that your answer? It's an 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:23.520 interesting answers. A toothbrush that's actually not a bad answer. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.840 The correct answer though, it's not toothbrush. That would be 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.600 a belt. Oh he belt. Yeah. One thing about being 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.960 a man, the older you get, the more shitty the 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:37.720 gifts get right, ties, belts, all that kind of stuff. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.600 It's like, really, what do we what are we doing? 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.400 All right? Uh? The next one on pop, because's got 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:44.520 a few more of these, and we'll get to the 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.760 mail bag. We have an extended dance remix of the 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:51.600 mail bag. In the mead fifties, a company created a 0:16:51.680 --> 0:17:00.280 toothpaste with this rather unique flavor. Is alcohol. That is actually, right, 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:04.560 guest guy, a whiskey. There was a whiskey too that 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.600 would have been right up your alley, Scotch and bourbon, 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.520 but whiskey there you go. So back in the fifties 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.600 that's absolutely the only thing Worse than that is if 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.520 they actually had a taste or a flavor that was 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.640 like black liquorice, because that sucks. You're not a fan 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.320 of the black liquorice. No, I'm not a liquorice fan. 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.840 You don't like red liquorice. I don't need it. I'm 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.200 a chocolate guy. I like the chocolate, all right. H 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:37.800 Next one, people claim these are spot on twenty five 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:44.400 of the time. What is it clear? Your clear your phone? 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:53.480 There spot on twenty five percent of the time? Yeah, um, wow, 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:57.640 I don't know. I need a hint. I don't like what. Um, 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:03.119 it's something that you would get. Uh, it's it's something 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.200 in a kind of at the end of a meal 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.280 you would get. I guess that that's not really I 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.439 don't if I give it away, if I give you 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:13.160 any more, you'll know. But it's it's a no, it's 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:19.040 the fortune in a fortune cookie. Yeah. People think this 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.680 is the same thing about um, like if you look 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.200 at the uh, what's the word I'm looking for there? 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:30.359 Your yeah, horoscope. And I read something about this back 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.639 in the day that and it's one of the ways 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:39.280 that con men operate, like when they they say they're 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:44.240 talking very vague terms. There's an art to it, like 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:49.120 when you go to see um Shaney character, that's that's 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:50.920 gonna tell you they can see into the future, that 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:52.800 kind of stuff, you know what I mean. Like you'll 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.240 go in there and they'll say, okay, uh, I'm sensing 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:02.120 a contact from a relative with a first letter m 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:07.639 Um died painfully um. You know, they use these generic 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.080 terms and then what what has happened is a lot 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.000 of times. And the way this works is the people 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.160 will fill in the blanks for them, right, They'll say, Hey, 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.960 I see someone with a name M. And then you know, 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.000 everyone's got a relative that has died that has a 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.520 letter M somewhere or a friend somewhere along the way, right, 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:28.200 and you get to a certain age. It's just like that. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.560 And so it works much the same way with fortune cookies, 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.040 like you apply it or but when you when you 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.120 get a horoscope or you get you know, a reading 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:41.160 of the other side or whatever, you end up connecting 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.160 the dots for the other person or in this case, 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:48.679 the inanimate object the fortune cookie, and those things are 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:52.480 usually generic enough where they'll you know, you can connect 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.640 them together in something in your life. You know, so 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.359 all right, by the time they're twenty three, just a 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.840 third of Americans will have done this, just a third. 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:11.000 You've got to do better. Graduated college now it's close. Uh, 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.440 get arrested. Just a third of Americans will have been 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:16.159 arrested by the time the twenty It feels like those 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:19.240 numbers are going up there with all the anarchy and 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.120 the chaos going on in major cities across and minor 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:26.280 cities across America for defending themselves, and people that are 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.520 burning buildings not getting arrested. Or you get people that 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:34.119 get arrested and it's like a turnstile and they go 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.359 in and it's like that Grandpa Slimpson meme where he 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.439 goes in, grab you know, puts his hat down in 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.800 his coat, and then right back out the door. All right. 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:47.359 A new survey says of people do this when expecting 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.080 visitors at their home. What is it that they do? 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.600 They clean their house? Uh? No, I hope we've been 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:57.440 more than They light candles like candles. Yeah, why would 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:58.960 you light a candle? You're trying to get rid of 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:03.320 the smell. Yeah, the roma brighten that day. Get little 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:07.600 vanilla up there in that action. Vanilla vanilla send him in. Yeah, 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.879 all right, You're nearly three times more likely to lose 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:15.520 weight over a course of a year if you do this. 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:22.000 What is it? Do do do do? Do do do 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:26.919 do do do do do do do vacation? Uh no. 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:30.800 You diet with a significant other, like a spouse. If 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:36.440 you're both in it together, science says you are three 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.840 times more likely to lose weight. That makes sense because 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:41.760 you hold the other person accountable and they hold you accountable. Now, 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:44.879 you guess you have multiple personalities, So do you hold 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:50.280 the other personalities in your head accountable for your dieting habits? Yes, 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.800 each each, each selfie I take, I I strap it 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.680 to that personality more and after. So it's kind of 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:59.560 like going through tridding cards. It's a little easy that. 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:02.879 It's good that you are not unaware of the many 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.560 voices in your head. That is good. So you're not 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:07.720 just whistling in the dark there, That is It's nice. 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:10.600 All right. Uh, let's move on here. Five percent of 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:15.240 people never leave home without this without this. You gotta 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.000 have it, gotta have it. I always have this with 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:20.679 me wherever I am. Wait, you said five percent, just 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:22.720 five percent, But I'm in the five percent. I'm in 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:31.480 the five percent TiAl. That's how I operate. Um do 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:35.320