WEBVTT - On the Brink of Elimination 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.760 If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.440 was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:13.600 old Republic, the sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.160 in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:20.680 poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, break 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.520 free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:28.720 starts right now. That it does, and we are in 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:33.640 the air everywhere, the avast power of my heart, the 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.840 global reach of podcasting here, and we are back at 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:41.080 it because we learned this last week that four hours 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.680 or not enough. Of course last week it was zero hours. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.440 We're not enough, but we are back at it. Ben 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:51.760 Maller and David Gascon not to be confused with this 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.000 alter ego Gagon, which was given to him by the 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.320 great Mike North, one of the great nicknames in radio history. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.000 That we are about these days. Mike North. I think 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.280 he's back on the air in Chicago. Actually does he. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.679 I think he's got a weekend show in Chicago. He does. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.520 He's like he's got his tentacles are all over the place. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.880 Doctor are not Doc? I called him? Mike? You know, Mike, 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.880 I think Chicago The first knee jerk reaction is Doc 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:18.880 Mike actually was just I told you before we started 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:20.759 doing this podcast that I just got a call from 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:24.919 Doc Mike in Chicago who's convinced he's my personal doctor 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:26.680 and he wants to give me some It's like he 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:28.520 works for Kaiser or something. He wants to give me 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.760 some care. But how many how many listeners have your 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:36.319 telephone number? Uh, that's a good question. We had. Well, 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.399 Doc Mike's had it for the longest. Uh, there were 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.480 a couple of other listeners, but Doc's the one that's 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.920 the most abusive. Doc's the one that really, uh just 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.360 calls me every weekn Uh, none stuff there we were. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.000 I think there's two other people I've given the number two, 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.640 but they were actually well actually, now we were a 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:58.600 friend in Maine who I met in Boston. Now she 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.680 I didn't actually give her my number, her and her 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.520 her guy Paul there. I didn't give her my number, 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.120 but I she was gonna send me. This is a funny. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.160 It was a great scams here guest gut. So She's like, Hey, 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.880 I'm gonna send you, Um, I'm gonna send you this, 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.720 uh this hat from from Maine. The minor league team 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.240 right in Maine. And so I'm like, all right, whatever. Uh. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.280 And so I had to take a picture of my 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.399 my business card which they gave me years ago, to 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.520 to show her that hey, this is uh you know, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.200 this is important whatever, this is the address, send it here. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.919 And so she said, let me just take a picture 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.720 of it. And then uh, it turns out, of course 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.720 she got a photo of my my number and uh 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.959 occasionally will send me a text message. So I get 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.440 that's the most recent one. But that was not an 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.720 intentional act. That was not an intentional act. Since I 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.880 do this this podcast for for free, Yeah, I think 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.520 I'd be willing to share that telephone number. I wanna 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.320 give that number out. Go ahead, guest. I have a 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.960 great lawyer. I have a really good lawyer, So I 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.520 would like to give you if you can, that would 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.200 be great. Yeah, I think that would be that would 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.040 be wonderful. I need a little bit of extra money 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:12.280 in the pockets, and uh, yeah, I think that'd be uh, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.200 I think that'd be great. For a good time. Call 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:21.960 This number available eleven PM till five am. Ah. Alright, alright, anyway, listen, 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:23.440 so we gotta get with on with the show here, 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.320 you're distracting me. We have the menu today, We've got 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:31.519 you have lots of gall We've got that mellow yellow tomato, 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:40.080 tomato elementary. It's the diet stupid, spanning the globe. Study this, 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.600 it's in the bag. As we're listener questions and don't 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.440 stick to sports stories of the week. So we have 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.600 all those, we will throw them all together. We'll make 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.240 some babaose. Alright, we're gonna start with this. Now, I'm 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.960 gonna begin with it's all about me, Gascon. You love 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:00.880 this type of broadcasting, do you not. It's uh, it's 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.760 a little bit different than eulogy radio. You have different forms. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:08.040 Some of it you are you are bombastic. A couple 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:09.640 of days ago it was a great rout with the 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:14.120 Houston Astros. Other times it's frankly just ejaculation radio because 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.800 you have listeners that come on and profess their love 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.120 to you. What's wrong with that? It's disgusting. And then 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.400 you have and then you have staff members that just 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.600 foam at the mouth because of you, which is a 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.760 little annoying to um. But yes, it's just foaming, well, 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.720 angry in anger, foaming the mouth. But no, no, no no, no, no, no. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.000 Like Brian Finley loves you, he adores you. He's the exceptional. 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.479 Brian Finley is like a Bennett. But Finley is like 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.880 the one of the only Benett's that's in the building. 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.880 Like everyone else is like, screw this guy's terrible, Get 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.560 somebody else in there. I don't think that's true, especially 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.039 when you're gone for a couple of days, like you 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.560 took a week off for vacation purposes, just like, Yes, 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.240 I booked myself at a four day four and a 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.840 half days at a bed in bath in a hospital. Yes, 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.960 that's exactly what I did. Hashtag sleep number bed four 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:04.640 nights at a hospital of your choice, unplanned, Yes, vacation. Oh, 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.360 it's good to know that I had the sick time. 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.880 I did not know that. Yeah, continue, I'm listen. It 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.680 was it was a little empty of a feeling for 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:17.159 you being gone for a week. Uh. I was actually 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.920 a little shocked when I knew something was up, because 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.880 I sent you a acid amount of Textas that usually 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.240 will respond, you'll respond accordingly with a wow, or what 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.839 the hell you're sending me? Or this is disgusting. But 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:32.640 all of a sudden, I got a text from another 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.840 number that I didn't recognize and it was your better 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.839 half and I was like, oh Ship, something's up. Halfway 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.640 through the text message, I realized, oh Ship, something's up. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.280 And then I had the news broken to me and 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.479 I was like, all right, jokes aside. I hope this 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.080 guy's all right. Very very odd for you to do 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.799 jokes aside. So anyway, I got a lot of email. 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.640 I told people on the radio show that I would 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.760 spend more time here on the podcast talking about it 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.440 for those that are interested. If you're not in, said, boy, 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.520 this is gonna be one hell of a boring podcast. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.520 My god, is this going to be terrible if you 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.120 don't care about this. But so as you know, we 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.200 we didn't do the podcast last week. I did have 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.320 the doctor's note if I can show you that gascon 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.360 if you want, and uh, I did get rushed by 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:19.080 my wife there to the emergency room on Friday. This 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.960 was November one. But to give you the backstory, so, 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:26.520 I I had started feeling like shit the previous Sunday. 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.760 I I felt pain like it was it was not good. 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.359 I was on my way to actually Staplesenter. I was 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.200 at a Laker Hornets game. Sitting in the near the 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.599 Pearly gates there watching that game on a on a 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.200 Sunday night, and I I figured it was acid reflux. 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.760 So I self diagnosed myself. I wanted the internet and 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.680 went to a couple of sites and I put my 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.919 symptoms in and uh and I and they put it 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.839 all there. Whatever. So I treated it with my amish cure. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.240 It didn't get better this time. It didn't get better. Uh. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.280 It stayed bad but manageable. For several days. I the 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.800 pain was continuing, and I did the show. Here's what 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.560 the day I should win like some kind of award here. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:14.800 I did the show every night for five nights, withering 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:19.680 in pain, right, And then on Thursday into Friday, I 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:24.400 did the show normally or somewhat normals Halloween, you know, 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.360 in the November one. I then went to the gym. 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.160 I've been working out all week. I did my workout. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.640 I was still in pain. And then I got home 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.200 and actually started feeling a little better. And then around 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.320 the time I went to bed, we attempted to go 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.280 to bed. It's like seven in the mornings, maybe eight 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.560 in the morning. Uh, and I just could not. It 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.920 got worse. I couldn't get comfortable, and it was this 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:53.240 throbbing like pain in my chest area. But it kind 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.240 of felt like acid reflects to me, but it was 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.120 it was pure agony. So anyway, here's how I ended 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.640 up going to the hospital. So I attempted to go 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.679 to bed at approximately seven in the morning, all right. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:09.120 I then twisted and turned. I took showers and bass, 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.480 I drank magical potions. My wife cooked up until six 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.320 o'clock at night. I did not sleep on Friday. I 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.480 was up from all four when I went when I 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.560 woke up on Thursday ironically to do this podcast until 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.880 Friday night at six, and I couldn't go to sleep 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.559 then because I I I just was terrible. My wife 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.320 got medicine, I drank water. I did everything I could 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.840 to feel better, and after twelve hours I got taken 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:36.520 to the emergency room and I end up staying there 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:41.080 for from Friday night till Tuesday afternoon. And in that 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.319 time I had my gall bladder removed. That was Sunday 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.040 during the late television window, so I did not get 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:51.920 to watch well Baker Mayfield. Uh so that was I 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:53.559 had a better day than him. As the year that 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.320 joke goes. But but this is typically a pretty routine 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.280 medical procedure. That's the other thing. Guess gun. It is 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:03.199 typically an in and out thing. But I hadlications. That's 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.040 why I had to stay longer. And you know other 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.520 people have this, they're out the same day. But because 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.760 my gall bladder was such a such a mess that 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.319 it was pretty much just a collection of gall stones 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.840 loosely hanging together and ready to fall apart and wreck 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.160 havoc on the enters of my body, they considered actually 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.560 a second medical procedure. That's one of the reasons they 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.559 didn't operate the first time, because I still I had 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.440 gall stones, they thought messing around, so they were gonna 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.040 a procedure before the other procedure. Uh. And there was 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.959 a team of doctors trying to figure out how to 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.560 fix all this. And it makes you feel very good. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.000 It makes you feel very good. But that's that's the 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:43.959 backstory on how this all down. Well, and you want 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.240 to medal for this, which is I want a purple heart. 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.280 It's a little mind boggling because I saw you that 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.320 Sunday night and I actually offered to go to Whole 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.480 Food to get you some probiotics or some tons. You said, no, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.760 well that wouldn't have worked. Stupid, I know, but I'm 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.959 just I'm just saying, oh, yeah, says the guy that 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.680 way in a week after self diagnosing him having gall stones, 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.319 which I I has been, my wife said that it's 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.000 been compared one of her friends. Uh as, it's compared 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.280 to like the paint agony of childbirth, but worse. Yeah, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.000 it's like kidney stones. But your wife also recommended that 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.480 you went to the doctor a week prior to you 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.439 actually go into the er room. So the fact that 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:25.000 you want to medal because two people recommended a little 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.200 bit of a remedy and you ignored both. Well, in fairness, 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.439 my wife always recommends going to the doctor, So it's 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.559 not that's her default. You'll go with the doctor. Check 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.200 it out. Why. I think her occupation has something to 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.000 do with it. She does work in trauma. Possibly that 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.079 could be the case. Alright, So moving out, we got 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:44.800 mellow yellow tomato. Tomato. This is continuing. It's all about 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:46.600 my gall bladder. I'm not done with the gall black. 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:47.960 I know I was gonna ask you, do you have 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.400 a souvenir. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.200 lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.520 Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.600 Radio app search f s R to listen live. Uh 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.760 we'll get to that, all right. So there were two 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:08.160 times during all of this medical malady that I thought 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.800 I was actually in some peril. All right, now, Normally 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.520 I don't think, you know, come on, I'm gonna be 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.640 fine no matter what. But when now, when my wife 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.680 dragged me to the emergency room and they started to 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:22.080 examine me, this is the first moment that I thought, oh, 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.760 oh shit, this is this is not good. The e 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.319 R doctor said I was turning jaundice. That for those 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.280 that don't know, that means you're you're the whites of 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.000 your eyes and the skin start turning yellow. Yeah. Uh 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.120 and uh. And I had a flashback because one might 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.880 my mom passed away a number of years ago from 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.440 from cancer and she she had I remember when she 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.840 started getting worse her skin, she started turning jaundice at 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.640 the end before she passed away, And uh, it freaked 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.680 me out. I was like, oh, you know, I didn't 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.560 I said much, but on the inside, I'm like, oh crap, 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.679 Like this is uh I was. I was like wow, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.200 and but apparently it's common when you have extreme gall 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.800 stones like I had, and you do go an entire 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.480 a week without treating them. Um, And so that that 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:08.880 freaked me out. And the other thing that freaked me 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.600 out was the nurses and the doctors. They wanted me. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.520 They wanted me to pee into a cup like I 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.120 was an NFL player doing steroids, and they wanted me 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.880 to know, to examine my urine and all that stuff. So, um, 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.599 which is what you have to do in any of 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.520 these situations. So and my, my, my, my urine. Guest, 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.800 you're very fascinated. It's been a little darker than normal, 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.120 which is apparently a sign that your body is screwed 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:37.080 and dehydrated. Yeah, but on that Saturday night, now I 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:41.160 was alone more on this for a few hours. So yeah, 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.280 there's nothing more dangerous than when you're alone. Your mind 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.079 plays the mind tricks on you, especially in the hospital. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.719 And that was the day the time change happened. So 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.080 at an extra hour that night in the hospital, which 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.640 is even better. So I piste into the cup and 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.640 I turned on the light and it looked handed god 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:05.480 like tomato juice. I was urinating V eight and uh, 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.319 you know, my wife had gone home because she couldn't 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.120 spend the night because the hospital had rules. Uh, so 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.200 she couldn't stay. I was all alone, and my mind 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.760 started playing, you know, walking away. I went on the 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.280 phone and I looked up you know what happens when 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.640 your urine looks like tomato juice? You know? Uh that 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.480 was a mistake. And after I read a few things 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.200 on the internet, I was convinced I was gonna die. 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:30.760 And then around if it was. It was late at night, 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.960 but my mother in law, who's she had text me 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.880 to see how I was doing. She's a very very 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.520 she's had a big careers. E ar nurse in l 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.280 A and uh we get along good. And she she 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:43.840 texted me and I was like, well, my I tried 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.719 texting my wife, but she was sleeping, so I was like, hey, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.520 it looked like blood, but you know she she was 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.679 freaking out too. But then it turned out that it 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.440 was apparently other crap that was looked like blood but 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.400 was not as bad as blood. I do you know 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.959 what Billy Reuben is, guest gun Uh yeah, I didn't 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.199 either until this, but apparently there the Billy Ruben levels 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:11.000 uh in your body from your gall bladder. If you 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.840 have excessive billy Ruben in your system that causes this 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.120 to happen. And so it's supposed to be for the 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.920 average human being, it's supposed to be below one. My 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:26.040 billy reuben was almost nine. Oh my god. Yeah, it 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.640 was a bad situation. But hey, I learned what. I 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.040 don't need it, and I don't think I do. I 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:31.640 have the billy Reuben still. I don't think I do 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.960 because I don't have my gall bladder anymore. But yeah, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:38.080 like billy Reuben is a yellowish substance made during the 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.840 body's normal process of breaking down red blood cells. There 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.960 you go. Yeah, so that's that that The billy Reuben 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.560 level was through the roof, and they messed with everything, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.600 like the whole thing, and I'm like, oh man, it's brutal, alright, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.360 that we've got elementary. Also, you're listening to the fifth Hour, 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.640 but you know that already, the elementary part. So I 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:01.000 spent four nights and not the brad guest gun four 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.320 nights and a part of a fifth day at the hospital. 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.800 And this is not the vacation I needed or I wanted. 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:12.040 I didn't notice though, that for the first time in 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.600 my life since I was in elementary school or junior 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:19.680 high school. Time slowed down like it's slowed down when 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.720 I was in the hospital. I flashed back when I 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.200 was in Northwood Elementary School and in the o C. 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:29.920 And I would watch the clock slowly tick forward and 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.640 and and plus. As I said, I had the good 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.440 fortune of spending the extra hour in the infirmary and 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.600 all that. I mean, it was. It was crazy this 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.440 and that. Everyone says the same thing. You cannot sleep 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:44.320 in hospitals. I noticed that they took my vitals, Uh, 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.440 they messed with my had and I v gon and 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:52.280 or they take my blood one of those things every 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.800 hour at least at night and then but during the 0:15:55.880 --> 0:16:00.520 day it didn't seem to happen as often. The main problem, though, 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.440 is I did not have a private room. I had 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:07.800 a shared experience guest, older, younger, all older men, three 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.880 older men. I had roommates. Now, you know, I think 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.080 about I was there long enough. Three different people came 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.960 and left the hospital. Well I was there, that's a 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.840 good sign. Yeah. And now there were two guys that 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:24.240 had knee replacement operations. The other guy, who actually was 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.640 the nicest of the guys was he had an anal fisher. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:33.200 He tore his anal spincter about that. He had a 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.240 good attitude about got The guy was upset because he's 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.080 a Raider fan, and he said that he had a 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.200 big party plan for the Raiders game that day against 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.520 I think they're playing the Lions. And he and he 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.120 had all his food he had bought and all this 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:45.960 stuff for this party, all these guys, you know, he's 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.960 a Mexican guys. All these guys are coming to my house, 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:52.080 you know, and he blew the old ring. Yeah. Yeah, 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.280 but he was like, he had a very good attitude 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.440 about He was, you know, smiling and we're talking back 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.480 and forth. The the other guys. Yeah, not that so 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.040 much much older than me, that all these guys are 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:03.880 older than me. But the other guys were really older 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.000 than me. And it was, Yeah, it's just weird because 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:10.080 you're you're not antisocial, but you're an introvert. So for 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.600 you to want somebody around or or critique the people 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.720 that are around you because they're not nice or not talkative, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.600 it's a little it's a little bit of a mix bag, 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.840 don't you think, Well, I'm not looking to have a wonderful, 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.520 heart felt conversation. I just want someone that's not a dick. 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.960 That's that's all. Or not, you know, it doesn't snore. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.440 I mean I couldn't sleep because I had my ear 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.200 you know, I had my ear plugs, but they really work. 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.800 And then they had, you know, people snoring and farting, 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.920 and you know, it's wonder It's like sleeping next to hollering. James. Yeah, 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.240 it's like it's like being on a retreat or like 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:44.960 on a boy scout trip or something like that. And 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:46.280 they were back in the day. I just a bunch 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.640 of punks in a in a bunk bed. Now, were 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.399 you thinking of any monologues while you were just laying 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:56.760 bedridden that was going through your mind outside of dying? Said, 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.160 I was trying to keep track of what was going 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:04.000 on in sports. I did see like the Kauhi Leonard 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.080 load management. I said, that would have been great. I 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.280 could have done like a two hours on load management 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:09.920 if I had been on there because he missed a 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.000 thing it's like the fourth game of the year or 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.600 something like that. That would have been good. And there 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.720 were a couple of things I was like, I wish 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.560 I had been you know, but the other times I 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.280 was like, I don't really care about that. You know, 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.160 I got, I got my own problems. But what kind 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.960 of drugs did you take? Uh? Yeah, well we'll get 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.600 to that. Uh. They gave me a bunch of ivs. 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:31.879 I took morphine. Morphine actually when I got to the 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.359 hospital and give me morphine. That actually helped pass the 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:38.680 gall stone because it opens up the tubes in your 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.760 body there. And I thank God for the morphine because 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.479 otherwise they would have had to have a second medical 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.760 procedure and that would have they would have knocked me 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:49.840 out twice and not cut me open. That correct me 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.280 if I'm wrong. But I know on kidney stones they 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.159 can they can shoot it with a laser. Can they 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.520 do that with with gall stones or no? I don't 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:02.120 think so. I I don't know, but uh, I want 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.200 to address on the email I got. I gotta ask 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.919 a lot of questions, a lot of questions people. Some jackasses. 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.360 I think they're your your friends against We're like, it's 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.840 your diet man suits you you you this intermitted Fasting 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:19.320 said something too, something about your past. Yeah yeah, yeah, 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.040 Well well so anyway, so these smarty pants, okay, uh, 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.399 these smarty pants who seemed to believe that my inner 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.760 minute fasting is to blame for all this. That is 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.560 fake news. That is fake news. I talked to the 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.760 doctor before and after the operation they gotta cut me up, 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:37.840 and he said the diet, that part of the diet 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.440 had nothing to do with Uh. This was a case 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:42.840 of my you know, the chickens coming home to roost. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.239 And I owe you from when I was in my 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:49.360 twenties and my early thirties and I ate ship. Every night. 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.159 I would be at Dodger Stadium eating ballpark food, or 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.600 I'd go to Tommy's for chili cheese fries in the 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.000 middle of the night, or go pick up a ten 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.919 pack of tacos on the way home from some fast 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.320 food joy. I mean, that's that's where this came from. 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.680 It did not happen since I got married. Actually, I've 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:07.600 eaten better. I still only great, but I've eaten a 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:09.639 lot better than when I was single and I was 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.800 a bachelor and I would just eat whatever ship I 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:14.000 could get my hands on. It was cheap, I didn't care. 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:17.400 It was quantity over quality and all this stuff. So 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:19.280 but this is this is all about my bad eating 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.439 habits when I was younger. It's paid me back in 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:25.240 spades here. And uh, I've often said at some point 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.400 that this will happen. I didn't think it would happen yet. 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.399 I thought I'd get a few more years before this 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.320 this stuff started happen. Well, yeah, and of course it's 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:36.240