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The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:49.120 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, back at 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:54.320 it yet again, a Saturday Saturday extravaganza, eight days a week, 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.120 eight days a week. Is we are building castles in 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:03.040 the sky unless we're not. And we thank you for 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.360 supporting the podcast, telling a friend about the podcast, all 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.800 that good stuff, even if it doesn't tickle your fancy, 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.320 even if it doesn't do that, but this Saturday podcast, 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.840 and we will get into the question many people have 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:22.199 now we had Rob Parker on Friday, and we think 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.760 Rob the world Travels of Rob Parker, Clobe Trekker, just 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.520 traveling around the United States all all summer, getting as 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.399 caught up on his travel log and also a hardy 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.880 baseball conversation. There's very few people that you can talk 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:41.000 baseball with like Rob Parker, old baseball beat guy, and 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:42.880 there's not many of those left because most of the 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:44.800 radio guys are like, I don't want to talk about baseball, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.400 blah blah blah blah blah. But let's get to the 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.400 Komodo dragon in the room. We traveled now to Indonesia, 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.120 and unfortunately we thought we had gotten rid of him. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.800 But like a cockroach, he is back. West of the 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:06.480 four oh five word huckle down, Grettle Dost running on field. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:13.120 I am up, I am operational, I'm alive and I 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.200 am well. I am far from being on fumes, Ben Maller. 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:20.360 But I did make my return to this, to this 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:24.840 little box that is a a radio studio, um, and 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.799 it's it's gonna be back. And actually, how concerned are 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.560 you that you have upset many fans of the podcasts 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:37.160 that are troubled by your return that we're gleeful enjoy 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.239 that you had been replaced by the great Ryan McBain, 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.960 who did a wonderful job before it. Seemingly the last 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.320 seven months while he was here is just dominating the 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:51.639 podcast other than his hatred for Boston. Yeah, well I am. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.079 I'm paying in the butt. I really don't have much 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.200 to say for those that are upset that I've returned. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.720 I mean, you have you have listened to the first 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.280 sixty seconds of this podcast. That's all I give a 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.480 shit about. Um, So you have been You've been hooked, 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.960 line and sinkred, and so here we are. So we 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:14.359 continue this journey together like we have two years ago. Yeah, 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.800 you know, I feel like the journey though. If you 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.800 were to do a side by side analysis of who's 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.480 been on the podcast more than the other person, it's 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.240 a it's a team. I think I am. I am 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.919 way ahead. I believe you have to be. You're you're 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:33.520 on the marquee. This figure you get paid more. Um, 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.840 you do all the work. Yeah, you get paid a 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.600 lot more than we could compare. If you want to 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.400 be honest, you get paid off the podcast. So listen. 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:47.640 I gotta, I gotta. I was out of commission for 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.840 a couple of weeks and I didn't receive a fucking 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.440 text S O S smoke signal message in a bottle 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:02.000 phone call, leve letter note email from you or your wife? 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.800 What the fund is wrong with you people? What's wrong 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.360 with you? Two? Well, let me explain, Um, what do 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.560 we psychics over here? Uh? You have a you know 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.800 this is you're the boy that cred wolf David. Let 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.440 me tell you why? All right? So first of all, 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.280 let's be honest. I mean, you're not very reliable. You 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.159 miss a lot of shows for whatever reason. You know, 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.760 you got a high school softball game, you gotta know, 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.039 you got a German football game that no one's watching. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.560 You gotta go, I understand. So you got these other gigs, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:39.080 all right. So when I get the schedule and it 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.000 says you're not on the schedule, I just assume the 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:47.360 position that, okay, he must have another gig. So I'll 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.400 just you know again, it's I go back to the 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.039 to the code of the West, right, you just you 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:57.360 do your job, do your job, and so I don't 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.599 think it's like whatever, you know, I just do my thing. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:06.880 And uh and and follow that mantra and Ryan was 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.280 in here. We had a great time. Did I tell 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:10.960 you he did a really good job? Did I tell 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.240 you how great he was? A lot of people in 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.400 the Twitter universe of send me direct messages saying, how 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:23.000 wonderful of a job he did. Yeah, it's really that. No, no, no, no, 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.840 that's wrong. It is the the show philosophy, and you 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.080 don't really fee to this, but it's the train keeps moving. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.080 It's it's next man up, do your job. No days off, 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.200 those are all. Those are all the philosophy doesn't necessarily 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.960 constitute as full steam ahead. That just means that it 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:43.600 moves forward, so pace role like you're overnight show. Yeah, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:45.840 let me let me just point out so. So then 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.800 many listeners felt this was a blessing of this guy. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.040 So I I got to schedule a week after week, 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:56.840 No gas guy. At no point, no point, did you 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.800 or management or anyone re shout to me for the 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.200 first three weeks. That's not true. That said, there's actually 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.440 a company email that you have been on that I 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:10.120 looked at and failed. Well, I do not look at 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.920 company emails. I stopped that. Let me tell you why. Okay, 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.200 I got whacked by this company in twenty oh nine, 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.400 the first thing they do when they fire your ass 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.520 is shut off your company email. So what is the 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.359 point of using company email If the moment you need 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.440 it most, when you've lost your job, they shut it off. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.280 Why would I sign up for that? Management has been receptive, 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.360 they know my position on company Management's the only way 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.720 that I pushed back, and that, to me, that is 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.320 a bridge too far. I don't believe in using company 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.520 email because I know eventually it'll get rid of me 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.960 again and then I won't have access to the email. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.440 So what's the point of that. So I don't check 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.040 company email. Do not check company emails. So that's you 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.640 know that. You know that I do not believe in that, 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:01.719 and that's not something it's against my religion. Okay, So 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.560 I don't check coming email. Nobody called me, you didn't 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.080 text me, you didn't do a courtesy call. Hey, you 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.960 know you're my you're my partner in the podcast. You 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.920 know we have this this thing here we're trying to build. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.880 I can't be here because of blank none of that. 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:20.840 I had to find out second hand, two three weeks 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.320 down the line from a source what was going on. 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:29.760 And so once I found out, I pretended to be concerned, 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:35.240 and I reached out in a series of text messages 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.040 and phone calls. And you know I do not like 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:41.760 making phone calls. And I did and I did, and 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:47.880 you're such you're such a weirdo. Simple text, Hey, I 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.840 have blank and I can't be on the podcast. I 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.120 texted you the first week and I said, hey, I 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:57.760 am out tomorrow. I'm gonna be unavailable. Yes, that's that 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.960 does not mean that I have blank or blank. It 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.080 just means I'm unavailable, like, hey, I have something else 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.760 going on work wise, I'm not available. What happened, if 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:13.800 someone what happened, if someone significant to me passed away, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.520 then here's what you need to go. And I've had listen, 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.920 I've had a bunch of people die around me. It sucks, 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:21.920 but you know what I do. I said, Hey, so 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.760 and so die, I can't be there. That's how that works, 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.520 very simple, very simple. Fixed. I tell enough and enough is. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.200 I'm not going to be there, doesn't matter what the 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.959 reason is for. Okay, that's fine, and listen, you're you're 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.560 cool to do that, but don't expect any sympathy. Don't 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.960 expect any empathy. Why not, because that's not how you 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.200 get empathy when you say, hey, so and so happened 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:48.840 to me. That's when you get empathy. What about sympathy, Uh, sympathy, Well, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.160 that would be if like somebody died but nobody nobody died. 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.839 It doesn't have to be like a mortal wound. I mean, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.800 it could be, Uh, give me something less severe. What 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:03.240 do you Simone Biles? Here? You're walking away? I mean, listen, 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.120 we all have ringside seats to this. Some of us 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.000 want to, you know, be in the ring. Some of 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.520 us want to be out and back and doing their thing. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:14.600 Do whatever I mean you do. Recall when you did 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.319 call me, you started yelling at me like why weren't 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.440 you here today? Why weren't you here last week? Well, 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.880 yes I did, because I just want to know if 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.160 we you know, you were coming back or not, because 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.040 that the information I had at that time was has 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.360 there ever been a point in the time that I've 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.800 worked at Fox and worked with you that would come 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.359 across your your vision and say, man, this guy is disloyal, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.240 Like this is the type of guy that would just 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:45.760 abandon me randomly. Well, yes, for three weeks ago you 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:51.920 were not there and with all the complaining you assumed 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.200 you've threatened to leave a million times, so I figured, 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.880 finally it didn't. That's it. You didn't have the intestinal fortitude. 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:02.120 It's you took off in a building that has a 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:07.080 bunch of lazy people come to funk. Odd. Okay, I'm 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.480 just telling you my situation, and you want empathy and sympathy. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.400 I thought sympathy do better. I thought you just again, 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.120 you have to let someone know what's going on. I 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.280 you like to mind your p's and ques or whatever, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.120 and I do something similar. That's fine. You have told 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.360 me once on many occasions never to talk on the 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:33.120 phone in the company studios. Well, listen, you can talk 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:37.600 on your phone, but those but no, I I generally 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.120 do not have private conversations. There was an incident years 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:42.960 ago that we don't need to get into right now. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:47.280 That um, it was an eye opening experience. It was 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.600 an eye opening experience. And let's just say, in general, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:56.120 from what I've read, anywhere you work, big brother is 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.000 always listening. That's all I will say. That's all I 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.640 will say. Big brother is always kind of monitoring what 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.200 you're saying. You know, this is a general rule of thumps. Yes, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.320 So with that being said, did you did you miss me? 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.720 I only miss you when McBain was killing my Boston listenership, 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.880 when he was destroying the Boston and New England area 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.960 where we do very well and I have many big 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.199 p ones that are all over that region, and he 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:31.480 was giving some scandalous talk about Boston. So other than that, 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.800 it was good. We had some hearty conversations. They're back 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:40.920 and forth, a respectful, classy, professional, loyal no complaining, no 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.800 complaining by McBaine. It was like so odd to work 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.800 with someone that didn't complain about this, that or the 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.080 other thing. Uh and really settling in. I felt like 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.840 we got in the Goldilocks zone there for for a 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.319 bit and then all of a sudden, here you are 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:59.480 coming back boom to ruin the party. You're the interloper, 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.400 you're the outsider. Can you introduce yourself to the listeners 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.120 guest on? Can you let everyone know who you are? 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.800 I've been in contact with the ladies, so oh you have? 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:13.200 Is that right? Yeah? You know, so you only deal 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:18.320 with the ladies. What about the dudes? Her blind Scott 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.720 spit him on Tirade as a late and uh well, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.360 blind blind Scots like Helter skelter like he's doesn't call 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.360 for months at a time, and then for like a week, 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:32.760 he'll call every night, screaming into the phone, shouting about 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.960 the boys at the seven eleven on the North End 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.680 that listen every night, and he's like trying to impress them. 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.680 And then he disappears, and then he'll send me a 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:46.800 flurry of emails about some legal situation he's involved in, 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.240 and I was like, I don't know, it's it's weird 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:51.680 because you're like, I don't know. I don't talk about 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.760 this on the air. And then but he'll give me 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.040 like all of his information, like I don't need to 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.760 be in his business. I'm I'm flat that he trust 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.160 me so much to give me all of his legal 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.400 information like lawyer emails and things like that. But it's 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.720 it's none of my business, and I generally try to 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:12.480 stay around, you know, stay out of that, see, And 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.400 that's exactly what I try to do. I tried to 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.160 leave that information out for you because it's technically none 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.960 of your business. So that's true, loading your plate with 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.920 just frivolous content for you, because like you said, it 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.199 was a half hearted call. You didn't care anyway, So 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.400 why divulge information if you're just gonna go Well, that's true, 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.400 and listen, I I thank you for that. You just 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.520 don't complain that you didn't get sympathy, because to get 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.720 sympathy there's an exchange here, there's a give and take. 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:43.120 Right kinder than you. She quo my wife. You didn't 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:44.760 tell my wife either. He didn't tell her what was 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.199 going on. He didn't know. She's doing this lame thing 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:51.160 now where she's sealed off all of her Instagram comments. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:57.320 When she posts stories which are fucking hilarious, oftentimes you're 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.520 not a lot of comment on said story. So you yeah, 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.560 it's kind of odd, but she's probably getting blown up 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.080 for the militia. Uh yeah, I don't. I don't know. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.480 I have not Uh you know, I don't go on 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.079 Instagram all that much and I don't really check Twitter 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.559 other than for work when I'm on the show, so 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.160 she's not on there anyway, So I don't know what's 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.240 going on. Well, you've had a lot of things to 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.400 to chew on the last three or four weeks, as 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.280 did I missed. I'm a pilot. I know he's been 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.360 sitting pictures traveling around the world and Uh, he didn't 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:30.360 miss you at all. He's going, I got a question 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.560 for you when you got well, I know you, when 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:38.240 you got your gallbladder removed. Your doctor was he was 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.560 amazed by I think a couple of things like your 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:46.240 cholesterol level. He was just shocked by. Right, Uh, well 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.720 I don't. I don't. I don't. I didn't have high cholesterol. Yeah, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.360 there was a couple of things. He said that we're 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.280 just like, wait a minute, should be way off the 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.880 charts and you're not. Uh, yeah, yeah, I know. I 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.640 I was in Uh, I was in really good ship. 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.240 I had. I had mentioned I had to scare around 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:08.080 Halloween where I thought I had diabetes because I it 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.080 was dizzy, and uh, you know, I looked. Of course, 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.880 everyone goes on web MD and you look for what 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.000 do you have, and you're you're dying of something, you know, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.480 and you and I connected the dots and I said, 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.280 well that it's probably diabetes. And so I went and 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.240 I got a blood I got my full blood work, 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.640 and yeah, I turned out it was just had overdosed 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.440 on sugar. One night after you know, I got a 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.320 big bag of candy and ate the whole damn thing. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.600 And so I messed myself up for a night. But 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:34.880 other than that, yeah, that that I had really I 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.360 had improved my numbers across the boards. So they were 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:41.040 very very happy about that. They were asking me what 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:42.920 I had done that. It's always nice when the doctor 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.920 asked you what you had done to improve your health. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:46.640 And I was like, well, i've done anything other than 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:51.200 just not eat so fast. That's it? Well, I asked, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.200 because I was able to get full blood work done 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:59.200 last week, and the the rains that you want to 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:03.280 be in with with vitamin D. I believe it's between 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.840 twenty two and fifty that's the range you want to 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.600 be at. And I get my test back and my 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.920 doctor says, what are you doing in my vitamin D 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:15.240 levels at? Which is bad because if it goes over 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.920 a hundred, becomes extremely toxic and against bloodstream. So so 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.800 you were overdoing. I was overdosing on vitamin G. You 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.440 really wanted a healthy Yeah, it's in the whole nine 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.800 yards um. Oddly enough, though, there was a climate my 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.400 testosterone too, but I didn't know this. I was listening 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:37.040 to a podcast a very constraal controversial figurehead, but he 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.400 had interviewed a doctor and this doctor had said that 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.720 there's been a one percent decrease in men's testosterone since 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.560 nineteen and studies going back to when we were in 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.840 World War Two, there was actually service officers that tested 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.960 out and they had to their their testosterone level reached 0:16:55.960 --> 0:17:01.000 two thousand, five hundred. So it's amazing where we were 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.440 to where we're at now because they say the range 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.800 for healthy men are age is between like two forty 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.840 and an eight hundred or eight eighty. So you really 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.240 just did this to brag about your Oh no, no, 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.159 he really just did this to brag. Oh no, I 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.119 mean it's it's not where I wanted to be. But 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:22.359 my cholesterol level is not good. Uma my experience when 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.040 I go to the doctors, I am I gonna I'm 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.120 gonna live for a few more days or I'm gonna die. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.120 You know, that's pretty much my question. If he says 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.080 you're good, and that's it. I don't really go into 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:31.639 the specific Well, I just try to make it my 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.879 goal to only see my doctor once a year, and 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.919 that's for your annual free physical and so he does 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.360 comprehensive blood work and I think it's important. Man, I 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.480 I don't know. I mean especially you, because you had 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:46.480 a drastic change in wait. So I think that's you know, 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.480 it's like you I've had. I've had that looked at. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.760 And uh, I am a little uncomfortable the last um 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.480 a couple of months. Now, I guess because cost goes 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.320 open that's why. Well, no, no, but I love I 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.800 love it. He Actually I would regretting the Costco samples 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.159 coming back because it's not the same. But it's better 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.919 because they give you a little doggie bags and so 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.160 I can I can go through and hoard the doggie 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.480 bags and then eat them whenever I want at my convenience. 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.480 I don't have to eat them right away. And I 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:18.200 what I do is I go in my move now 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.080 I went last weekend. I'll be back probably today on 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.760 the Saturday. Here I'll go in and I I go 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.200 in there and I have my pockets empty other than 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.800 my wallet and my keys on one on one side, 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:31.280 but the other and I just fill it with all 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.800 the bags. I just go around, round and round, and 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:35.720 they don't even seem as upset. They used to. The 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:37.840 old ladies at Costco used to get upset when I 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.400 would take a lot of samples before. But now there's 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.760 still a lot of people that are skittish about taking 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.719 the scamps the samples, right, little sc and so so 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.520 the move you know, they don't care as much because 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:49.919 they just want to get rid of the samples. They 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.920 don't care who takes the samples. And so yeah, I'll 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.200 take as many as I want. So let's let's get 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.040 to the is you're move thal with the samples? Are 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.920 are you a first first morning kind of guy or 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.480 is it the middle of the day with the samples? Well, 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.600 I still sleep weird hours on the weekend, so I 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:08.879 usually to me, I go the worst time you can 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.200 go to Costco, which is around noon or one o'clock 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:16.000 in the afternoon, which is just terrible because that's prime time. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.840 That's you still have the people that got up early 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.080 that are you know, lagging going to the store. But 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:22.399 then the people that got you know, want to go 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.720 late or not late. But in the middle of the day, 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.400 it's like prime time. But that's also the sweet spot 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:31.080 for Costco samples. Okay, you wanted to get like pastries 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.520 or any kind of baked goods in the morning, And 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.040 I have not noticed as many hot dish items at 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.480 Costco because they The whole strategy now is to hand 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:43.840 these things out in bag. So it's a lot of 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:49.600 processed foods, chips, granola bars. I've noticed a lot of 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:55.000 dried fruits, trail mix, that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.120 not as I mean the old days with the cheese 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.960 steak and the mini corn dogs and the tacos, and 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.520 those days are not back yet. We're not fully back. 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.440 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.679 Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.040 on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.440 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.679 Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:23.000 on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:24.800 So I have to tell a story. This is a 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.240 story that I've not told before. I saved it for 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.879 the podcast. It is the Doggie Blues. It is the 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.359 Doggie Blues, and it's the kind of a tale. And 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.000 I don't want to oversell this, but you might want 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.200 to buckle it all right, this being the fifth Hour 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:45.119 with Ben Mallard Global Exclusive. So I had a pretty 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:50.959 big scare at the Mallard mansion in recent days. So 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:53.240 it is as I said, it's a story that I 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:57.080 have not talked about on the radio show, even though 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:02.760 it happened during the radio show. And I'll explain in 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:04.919 a couple of minutes, as Paul Harvey would say, the 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:09.560 rest of the story. So the end of last week, 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:14.520 I'm doing the Friday's show. It's going swimmingly, a lot 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:19.960 of belly laughs, having a grand time, nothing out of sorts. 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.119 And if you were listening to that show, you didn't 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:27.480 hear anything awkward at all on the air. Off the air, 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:31.280 there was a crisis that was going on, and I'm 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:34.880 not exaggerating that. So I'm in the home studio with 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:39.560 meticulous laser like focus. I'm doing my thing. The show's 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.480 flying by. We're doing the show. That's the way we 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:46.320 want to do the show. And then in the final hour, 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:49.920 hour four, with about forty minutes left in the show, 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.200 my wife who's working during the day now and I'm 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:56.440 working at Nice, so she's sleeping while I'm on. So 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:00.880 the wife there wakes you. She knocks on the door. 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:04.000 She had woken up, and she says, hey, we we've 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:05.879 had an emergency. And I said, oh my god, what happened? 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:10.679 And our beloved family dog had been bitten by a 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:15.920 coyote in the backyard of the halfway house here. So 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.560 I come out of the studio and my wife, of 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:23.960 course freaking out. My dog Bella's covered in blood. The 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:27.200 coyote had bitten her on like I used to try 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:29.800 to grab her over the top and like carry her away. 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.600