WEBVTT - Mobile Containment 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.680 If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.200 was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.880 the old republic a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.760 crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.799 pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of Hot 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.560 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:29.920 Ben Maller starts right now. Yes that it does. As 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:34.960 we are in the air everywhere the vast power of 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:39.279 the I Heart Global Podcasting Department. Here you can hear 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:43.640 this podcast literally anywhere in the globe, and we are 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:49.280 providing you marginal entertainment over your long, boring weekend because 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.840 you have to practice social distancing and we will restore 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.960 your life to order unless we don't. But I am 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:00.120 joined as always by the deadweight that is David gask On, 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:06.119 who is in the house in the as this is uh. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.520 You know, it was nice to be properly introduced using 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:14.680 my correct name, and uh happy happy uh Coronavirus week 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.880 to you, Ben Mallard. It's uh. It's odd that you, 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.480 being a trained introvert, has now become a part of 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:26.759 everyone's daily life. Yes, welcome to my world. The standing 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:31.119 pat not going out and just put your feedback, relaxing 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.160 and all that. First of all, for years I have 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.240 been practicing social distancing. Now, I would also like to 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.480 thank the women that I attempted to date when I 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.880 was younger, who did also know that they also believed 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.160 in social distancing. Uh, they did not want to get 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.680 around me. So I learned the art of social distancing. Now. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.040 I gotta tell you, though, this is more nuanced because 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.640 part B of this. When I was doing my social distancing, 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.120 I was a radio reporter for the Mighty six ninety 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.000 in San Diego, and I would just go to games 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.600 every night, and that was my life. I would watch 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.400 sports and that was how I would pass the time. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.120 So I've had to adjust because I don't have the 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.920 sports to watch. None of us do right now. The 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.320 industrial complex of sports to shut down. But I was 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.160 ahead of my time. And I'm gonna write my book 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.919 and I hope everyone buys it, Social Distancing for Dummies. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.200 It's gonna be coming out an internet book. I'm looking 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.239 forward to that. Gusk On and you can write a 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.360 review if you want. I can be out. No, I 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.320 could do the the v O for the book. I 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.359 mean Obviously you wouldn't want to use your own voice 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.880 for that. That's a little narcisstic. But I don't think 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.280 it would actually sell as much as people want to 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.840 hear me the voice over. You know, I just did 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.120 a commercial for HBO hold Box office. By the way, 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.480 do you know that? No? I did not know. It's 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.919 gonna start airing next week. It is an HBO commercial. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.280 There's a new documentary coming out about the College of 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:59.480 Basketball scandal, the ADID issue scandal, and I, of all 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.320 the people, was picked to do a voice over a 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.480 v O for the HBO commercial we're gonna air this week. 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.399 Was that through Fox or I Heart Radio or what well? 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.080 I cannot reveal. That is personal information that I'm not 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.760 willing to share on the Magic podcast box. But that 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.880 will start airing and you can hear my voice, not 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:20.120 guestcon not Arnie Span, your nobody else. Me reading that 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.720 voiceop a little annoying, concerned the fact that most of 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.639 the pipes in here aren't as good as yours. Truly, 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.399 so um, I feel like the paths along that contact 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.560 and I appreciated. You are the narcissist. You are the 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.560 famous narcissist over there. So I We're gonna do something 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.680 a little different here on this dumb dope show. Uh, 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.240 tomb and dope. I think weird's dumb and dopey. I 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:47.280 try to bring the show. I'm a classy person. Guest. Wow, 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.080 I attempt to do a professional show. You try. I 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.720 think the best part, though, is that, for all intentsive purposes, 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.120 you have not acknowledged the fact that we're we're pioneers, Ben. 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.480 I mean, you haven't talked about sports and certainly two 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:03.720 thousand and I've been a part of intermittent fasting for 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.960 the last two years, and I think both of those 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.440 combined have brought us to where we're at right now. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.240 We've been doing this since September of nineteen. I think 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:15.320 we're well trained to to withstand what is happening to 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.920 our society right now. Yes, yeah, I'm not worried. I 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.280 people get upset. That's the great thing about this, that 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.400 people are upset with me that I'm not more concerned 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.760 about the decaying of society and the disease and all 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.360 the you know, the microbes of the coronavirus and all that. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.560 Like I'm getting shamed. But as far as the intermittent fasting. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.840 I how many fast have you had? Gasco Do you 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:43.040 have a number of fast the total fast you have completed? Long? 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.120 I have that kind of data, alright, I just completed 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.159 a milestone. How many you go first? How many total 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.520 fast have you taken? Part and go ahead? Oh? Total 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.839 fast or not? Or not? Time? Since you started using 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.599 an app which keeps track of all this stuff? Why 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.200 is fasting bureau? That's a good question. I do not know. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:08.240 My longest fast has been twenty six hours. God, you 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:12.360 are such a lightweight. You are such you know my 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:17.960 my longest fasts, I think no ninety hours. Okay, that 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:23.760 doesn't account when you're getting your gall bladder removed. Actually, 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:29.240 the longest non gall bladder related fast was when I 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.000 was in Boston. They flew into due shows for w 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.240 E I, and that was when we did the mallar 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.920 Man March in April of nineteen, one of the final 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:42.240 Mallard meet and greets pre coronavirus. And so I'm I'm 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.240 held up in the hotel I'm doing I think it 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.720 was eight hours of radio a day, because I had 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.839 a talk show in the evening time after Red Sox 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.839 baseball they were playing day games. That week, opening week 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.680 of the baseball season. They were in Oakland, UM either 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.800 was either after or before. I either on before or 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.480 after the games, and I did about four hours, and 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.520 then I did the overnight show, so I was doing 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.640 eight hours of radio, and I was pretty much just 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.720 going back to the hotel. And since I knew I 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.720 was three thousand miles away from my wife, I just 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.000 chose not to eat because I didn't have any time 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.120 to eat, because I needed to sleep and rest up 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.920 and all that stuff. So I went. I believe it 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:27.280 was seventy two plus maybe seventy three hours without eating 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.320 because no one could force me to eat. And then 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:34.400 I ordered a pizza, a large pizza from a pizza 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.359 shop in Boston, obviously, and I ate the whole fucking 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.440 thing and I loved every morsel of That was the 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.839 greatest taste of pizza. It was a mom and shot 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.440 pizza place in Boston, probably a terribly rated one on Yelp. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.240 I didn't give a fuck. I got that pizza and 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.479 I oh, I indulged. It's awesome. Did you did you 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.880 even have the courtesy of using a plate or a 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.520 napkin or you just eat it right out of the box. No, 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.480 I was in a hotel room. I ate it right 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.000 out of the box on the bed. Out of the box. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.400 That's good. It's great. That's good. Sitting back laying down 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:13.520 watching it was it's probably I don't know, midnight or 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.200 whatever at a couple of hours before I had to 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.120 get back and do the other show and I'm watching 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.640 some West Coast baseball at midnight. It was wonderful. That's good. Now, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.280 so I've had guests on three hundred. I just reached 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.960 my three hundred seventy five fast since I started fasting 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.040 so over a year. Now, they're not consistent. I'm my 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.280 goal now, and this, this freaking coronavirus is messing with 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.480 my My plans, the best laid plans of mice and men. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:42.080 But the plan is to hit three sixty five in 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.880 a row. So I want to do a full year 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.960 my longest streak. I'm currently on my longest fasting streak, 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:54.520 which is at forty seven consecutive days fasting. Cal Ripken Jr. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.600 You are right. So I want to hit three sixty 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.720 five and see them when I hit three sixty five 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:00.160 and want to keep going. I want to make this 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.520 the new normal. Al right, So can you tell my 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.320 wife to you, because sometimes on the weekend she's who 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.760 gres about the fucking fasting just eight, I'm gonna feed you, 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.280 And I'm like, no, don't feed me, gotta run away 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.840 from which is fascinating because she's she's full life, but 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.720 she's also optimistic and you are the other way around 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.440 with this. You're just like, this is norm for me. 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.520 I'm not worried about it. I'm not full life, a matrovert, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.520 keep away from everybody. I want to work from home. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.960 Blah blah blah blah blah. No, no, no, she wants 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.480 me to work from from home. I like going into 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.800 the radio station. I got into radio because I like 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.400 going to the radio station. Uh. You know, I shouldn't 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.360 tell people this, but the way the radio business is 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.640 going right now, like every other business, you can do 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:47.119 these shows from your house, and a lot of our colleagues, 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.160 many of the people who at Fox Sports Radio, are 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.079 starting to shift to doing the show from their home 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.000 and call that the Rush Limb Boss Steve Harvey model 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.600 of radio. And now we have public service announcements that 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.320 if we have anything that's prerecorded are taped, we have 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.320 to notify the audience like, Hey, there's a segment on 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:09.480 this show that is prerecorded, so full disclaimer if something 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.760 happens where someone's in or they're out and they have 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.839 to record something due to this or something else than 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.160 than boom, full disclaimer. So when you went shopping though, 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.280 for what's happening right now, did you did you immediately 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.600 go to the frozen meat section or get some some 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.319 snacks or did you try to pack as light as 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:34.800 possible to keep you tame during the fasting period. Yeah, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.559 I haven't changed anything. Um, I've gone to the store 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.800 to buy things that I need or we need in 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.040 the house here, and I pretty much run to the 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.920 frozen meat section in the toilet paper section because I've 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.560 this is this is crazy and it's so food gaze 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.160 what's going on. It's ridiculous. And I I've taken a 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.320 bunch of photos and every store I go to because 0:09:55.400 --> 0:10:00.160 I can't believe how ridiculous the situation is. And and 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.400 then I've had to be a grief counselor because of 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.440 my buddy in Dallas. Guys around my age and you know, 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.599 single guy, lifetime bachelor, his whole life is going to 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:14.680 bars around Dallas, A big socialite and and if they've 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.120 shut down a lot of that in Dallas, as they 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.760 have in pretty much every major city in the US, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.400 you can't go out socialize whatever. And he is so 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.720 fucking pissed. This guy called me up. He thinks like 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.959 his life is ending because he can't go have a 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.200 beer and and drink and do karaoke at a at 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.880 a bar. I'm like, what he gives a fund? Just 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.840 stay home, dummy. You know It's like and he got 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.840 he was upset at me again for being upset at 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:43.640 him for being upset about not being able to go 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.640 out to a bar. Ulous you want you want to 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:49.640 kick him all he's down now you can refer him 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.160 to his four oh one k and see how well 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.520 he's the guy that was like, Hey, I'm gonna come out. 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.360 He told me like a week ago, Hey I'm gonna 0:10:58.360 --> 0:10:59.880 come to l A. And you see how cheap the 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.960 airfares off from Dallas to l A. Totally tone deaf, 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.719 you know, it's like, I don't think this is a 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.840 good time to travel unless you have to travel the idiot. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:14.040 So we will have a in general my Corona update, 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.080 a Microna update. We also have the Florida Man will 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.240 make its debut for the first time. Grab Bag A 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.680 lot of great questions study this tough week for studying this. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.480 Pretty much every study is about the coronavirus, so the 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.480 science community has fully focused on that, which is both 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.240 a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing because 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.720 people want to know information about the coronavirus. But for 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.360 somebody like me, it is a curse because I love 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.560 reading these dopey studies and I had to really dig 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:45.679 deep this week feel my pain, my agony, I had 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.160 to feel I had to go deep to find stuff 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:49.880 to talk about. What begin with my corona? Now, I 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.240 want to start this off. Gist gun was something that 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.120 my wife occasionally will annoy me with when we sit 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.120 down to dinner and uh, which is like two days 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:59.600 a week because I don't need a couple days a week, 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.679 but she will say, name something you're grateful for, you know, 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.040 one of those deals because she's a hippie, you know, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.199 And it always annoys me because I'm not really grateful 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.560 for anything. So it always bothers me that I have 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.839 to scramble and usually what you do is you come up, Wow, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.360 I'm grateful for my health, I'm grateful for you know 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.600 you or something like that. Right, So it's the standard 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:24.720 boiler plate answer. But what are you grateful for in 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.080 relation to what's going on in the world with the 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.640 coronavirus and the was the what are they calling it, 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.839 the the Wuhan flu? Is that what they're calling it? 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:39.480 Guscon flu? The China flu or the China virus uh 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.520 COVID nineteen, COVID nineteen is another one. So here's here 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:48.080 are three things Gascon that I am grateful for from 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.079 the and I'll let you go after me. Okay, this 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:54.160 is a list. Yeah, because it's Eddie. Let me. I'll 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.800 call you Eddie. Guess how about my knee jerk reactions 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.440 to Eddie out. I haven't talked to Eddie and about today. 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.280 But but anyway, listen, alright, so gascunt listen. All right, 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.160 here's the thing. I got. Three things I got and 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:11.040 lists are allowed because we have a pandemic. The Malarule 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.720 book on radio. When you have a pandemic, you can 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.760 do list radio. You were the godfather Mount Rushmore radio. 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.640 And so I get to go into that bag of tricks. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.440 I'm gonna try to hold off as long as I can, 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.680 because this is a goal. We're in this for the 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:30.360 long haul. We are in the nuclear winter of sports. 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.559 Not in the world, but of sports. But anyway. Three 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.640 things I'm grateful for. A. I have never been more 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.800 proud to work in radio. People love the ship on 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:41.880 the radio business, but I love the fact that the 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.959 show must go on. And I worked in sports radio 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.520 my pretty much my entire adult life. And I love 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.280 the fact that we are bunkering down and we're not 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:56.040 running away from the shows and our responsibilities here. And 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.400 because it's great, we have an opportunity to present some 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.760 normal normalism. Is that's the word. I don't even know, 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:07.480 it's the word normalcy. There you go, that's the word normalcy. Um, 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:12.480 and for people that are practicing social distancing. And I 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:16.160 feel somewhat guilty though, because I feel like the numbers 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.160 have spiked over the last week, that we've had more 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:23.680 people listening to this show overnight, because there's a lot 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.560 of people a that are not working right now, be 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:32.480 there's a lot of insomnia because of anxiety, and these 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:37.400 things combined together have created a larger audience. So I'm, 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.800 in a perverse way the beneficiary of people not being 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.080 able to live their normal lives and and be I'm 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:49.440 also grateful for song parodies mocking the coronavirus. Who we 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.840 had a couple of great ones this week that we're 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:56.840 sent in. One by a listener, Ryan Parker from Kentucky 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.520 who sent in the my Corona song I Love the 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.360 the NBA one that we played. The other day, Coop 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:07.160 found a rap song that was played which was pretty good. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.000 It was like it was this rapper doing you know, 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.600 dropping bars, but all the opposite, you know, like stay away, bitch, 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.200 you know that kind of thing, which was great. It 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.360 was really funny because just mocking the whole not only coronavirus, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.040 but the whole rap community, hip hop community and all 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:22.880 that as well. And then the last thing I'm grateful 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:29.120 for is that my hypothesis has been proven correct that 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.320 human beings the vast majority I'm not saying you listening, 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.720 but the vast majority of our brothers and sisters are 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.960 reactionary morons. And and we have seen this right. People 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:44.080 have gone into primal survival mode. And I have been 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.160 convinced based on the reaction of my neighbors, the people 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.680 I live around, and the people you live around that. 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.240 This is why we can never be told there's martians 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.840 and aliens. Can you imagine if the governments of the 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:04.120 world said, you know, we have been contacted by alien 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.840 life and they would like to be our friends. If 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.920 that was even a possibility, Did you imagine what kind 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.000 of bullshit would happen in the world if people are 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.920 reacting this way to a virus. Well, let's be honest, 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.600 it's serious, but for most people who are in health 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:22.360 and good health is not going to be that big 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.960 deal at all. And this is the reaction we're getting. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.320 Holy fuck. I mean, I could turn an Independence Day 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.480 with Will Smith and see how people react. They go 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.440 either one way or the other. So it's it is. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.160 It is wild. But see I could I mean, I 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.440 can imagine what people are like in New York and Florida. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.440 But did you watch any of the videos that have 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.720 been posted over the last week week and a half 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.440 about getting those advised aias about staying home or at 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.160 least staying away from people in close proximity. And you 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.080 get all those people in Florida down the beach, just 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.880 on the coastline, living it up, relaxing because of spring break, 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:05.560 to live life Man, that's what they say. Unbelievable. So 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.800 those are your three? Yeah, what are you grateful for? Well, 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.879 I gotta I gotta preface this first by saying that 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:16.480 where we're at, or where we're gonna be, is eerily 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:21.480 similar in some ways to how you reminded me about 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:25.600 my time in Bakersfield. Now, you told me to go 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.520 for the experience. You said, it doesn't matter what you do, 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:33.200 write everything down, enjoy it. Blah blah blah blah blah. 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.920 And I had two instances. One at Bakersfield's ballpark where 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.800 a guy climbed the right field foul pole line and 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.600 popped off six rounds into the air before cops came. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.000 And yet a gun off at a baseball stadium during 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.560 the game. Yes, yes, in the right field corner. How 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.520 did that not become a National store? I don't know, man, 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.440 it's Bakersfield. The other one one was when I went 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.240 to Modesto on my first road trip with Bakersfield and 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.359 Modesto playing. The game went to eighteen innings plus and 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.240 I think it was like over five hours. I ran 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.080 out of gas so long into this ball game that 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.199 I had to revert to some of the ship on 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:17.680 your show and talk about your show dynamics it was. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.760 It was awful, So that's as it sound awful to me, 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.400 that sounds wonderful. It was pretty bad. So with that 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.879 being said, labbermouth has to blabbermouth man, come on, that's true. 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:29.399 So I think the first thing, and I don't know 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.440 if you agree with me on this, but I think 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.760 since we're not at the highest of highs in the 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.800 food chain, I think the first thing I'm grateful for 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.639 is the way that there's a correction what the airlines 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:45.639 um outside of Southwest Airlines, which does not charge for 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.520 bags and does not charge for cancelations or rescheduling unless 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:56.200 you buy a more expensive ticket. Other airlines, whether it's Virgin, Delta, American, United, 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.320 Jet Blue, whoever it may be. Unfortunately for all them, 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:01.439 if you want to bring on a bag, it's at 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.600 least seventy five dollars. If you want to change your flight, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.240 it's at least seventy five dollars, and then they nickel 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:10.040 and dime you every which way they could possibly can. 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:14.640 And that's just for a basic economy seat, not economy plus, 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:18.119 not business, not first class, whatever it may be. And 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:22.320 now they're starving for business. And they are also waving 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.200 cancelation fees, they're waving baggage fees like they're doing all 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.439 these things. That's on top of them actually cleaning and 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:34.760 being extra cautious with the cabins. So when you think 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.200 about all this, Ben, that's the first thing I'm grateful 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:41.000 for is the airlines actually looking, hey, we need the business. 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:45.080 Let's do something extra to entice the business to come in. 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.679 So you like the fact that the airline industry has 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.960 taken a haymaker right between the eyes. They have taken 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:54.640 a full head shot from what's going on. I don't 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.480 disagree and listen, they took advantage. The airline industry took 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.480 advantage is kind of like you know, the um the 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.800 medical industry took advantage of insurance. And you know that 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.320 that's part of the problem nobody likes to talk about, 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.119 is that one of the reasons, you know, the insurance 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.280 issue in America is what it is is because hospitals 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.440 realized we can charge the insurance company seventy five dollars 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.239 for an aspirin because they gotta pay for it, and 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.200 so that raised the cost of insurance on everybody. When 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.160 an aspirin doesn't cost seventy five dollars. Well, the airline 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:29.400 industry realized that most people that travel are traveling for business, 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.760 So let's stick it to the big corporations and they'll 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.760 pay because it's it has been. I I don't know 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:37.200 if it still is. It was for years. You know, 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:40.040 a tax right off travel expenses the cost of doing business. 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.760 So like, fuck it, We'll just the airlines are like, 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:46.320 I don't care about mom and pop going to see 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.840 their kids or the kids going to see mom and pop. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.960 Fuck them. Seventy five dollars for your bag. And you 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:57.800 want a meal if you wanna lukewarm meal that tastes 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:01.840 like dog food, that will cost you five bucks. Yeah, 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.520 And that leads me to something else? Is that, and 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:09.560 this is more on an American type of thing without outsourcing. 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:12.040 Is that The other thing I'm grateful for is the 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:15.280 way that we have come around as a nation to 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:19.000 not only identify the cause, but also to identify the 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:20.840 way to treat this, at least for the time being, 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:24.280 without a vaccine. Is that how dependent we have become 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.960 on China and some other companies for manufacturing purposes for 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.199 pharmaceutical You just brought it up. I believe it was 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:34.760 I was reading this. At least eighty percent of the 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:39.439 ingredients that are made in our pharmaceuticals is coming from China, 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:44.480 not from the United States, not from Canada, not from Mexico, 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:49.080 but from China. So all the outsourcing that we get 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:52.240 everything else that we need or want is coming from 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:55.479 from China. Why the funk can it be done here 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.520 in the United States. Like, I understand that people are 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:03.360 so fixated in a capitalist society about margins, but man, 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:08.800 there's something, there's something ideal and I think urgent about 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.600 having things here and available in the United States. If 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:13.840 we talk about oil now and the consumption we have 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:17.680 reserves um car manufacturing as well too, whether it's in 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:20.120 the United States or in Mexico or even in Canada, 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:24.160 having it here, having it homegrown as opposed to outsourced. 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:26.560