WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "School Lunches" Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:05.360 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day dred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.560 a week was enough, I think again. He's the last 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.240 remnants of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.400 He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:19.439 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:31.000 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:37.800 everywhere louviating every single eight days a week. This is 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:39.760 I think the eighth thing we I don't know, I 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:41.640 have no idea, but it is the Fifth Hour with 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.000 Ben Maller and not Danny G Radio. As Danny G 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:49.360 is away, we roll up our sleeves. We knuckled down 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:54.240 with the Great Alexander, Alexander the Great, well actually Alex 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.400 Alex Tiger, Alex the Vegan as he has known. Back again. 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:01.639 He was the Penny on Friday, he gave us stories 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.360 of the anime world and the gym on Saturday, and 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.080 now he is back to help us answer listener mail 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:14.520 on this podcast. Very exciting here and listen, Alex. I 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.680 hope you're prepared for this. You never know what you're 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.839 gonna get in the mail bag. You have no idea 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:25.120 what you're gonna get. It's a pot pourri of questions. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:30.200 We're about to raise the curtain and embark on a 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:35.320 mission that will go through the cosmos. And before we 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.959 get that going, here, we've got to say hello, Ohio. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.080 Al's got this little ditty. That's how we start the 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:57.560 mail bag. Here we go, all right, very good, thank you, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.320 Ohio Al. So first up here, Kevin in Kansas. I 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.520 don't have my usual male sound effects here because I'm 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.320 we're doing this on a different setup. So just imagine 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.919 male blank blanks. All right, Kevin in Kansas writes, Since says, 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.480 dear Benn and friend, it's it's a Thursday, and I'm 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.840 eating a turkey meal at school. Kevin is a teacher, 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.560 by the way, in Kansas. He says, it's pretty good. 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.040 I was wondering what you liked or looked forward to 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:32.440 for school lunches back in your heyday. Alright, So Kevin, 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.760 I'll go first here, and then Alice you can chimm it. 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:39.520 So I my mom made most of my lunches. It 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.840 was normally a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or tuna 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:48.160 fish sandwich. She alternated and a bag of chips. And 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.360 I did not like the tuna fish sandwich because often 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.959 by the time lunch came around, it was a warm 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.720 tuna fish sandwich. And there's nothing worse than a warm 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.000 tuna fish sandwich. And uh and my mom would slob 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:03.840 it with mayonnaise and all that, and she loved it 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.680 and she was an easy meal and all that, but 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.960 I I did not. So that's what I don't like. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:09.639 But every once in a while to be able to 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.080 eat the cafeteria. And this one's gonna be surprising, but 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.440 I love the big corn dog. The big corn dog 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.640 that I was like a special treat. And it wasn't 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.120 particularly good, as I remember, but for some reason I 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:23.880 loved the corn dog when they had that on the 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.840 menu when I was was a kid. What about you, Alex, 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.079 any of any fun memories of school lunches man back 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:32.960 in your day, which wasn't that long ago, But no, 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.720 it was. Actually you know what's funny, Ben, is that 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.960 I still remember. So at the school I went to, 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.080 we had this little hole in the wall Mexican spot 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:45.160 called Meet Guel's Junior. Have you ever tried Met Guels Junior? Ben? 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.960 So this is like, uh, when you're in high school 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.360 and this was This was in junior high and high 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.040 school where I went to school. They were right next 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.920 to each other the schools. Have you ever tried the spot? 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:56.920 I know their local here and Cow. I do not 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.160 believe I've seen it, but I have not eating it. Okay, 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.160 tell me the next time you're in studio, I will 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.800 bring you one of their famous bean rice and cheese burritos. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.320 So I, oh gosh, it's amazing. It's like a home 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:12.040 style grandma cooking burritos. And I remember it was the 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.839 longest line in history of school. You would literally try 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:17.680 to get out early and ask your teacher at the 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.400 class from out early so you could get your food first, 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.560 so you weren't waiting fifteen minutes of your thirty minute 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.240 lunch to get the food. Forever and always, I'll remember 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.120 those burritos and getting a bag of hot cheetos and 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.479 putting them inside of the burrito. Oh my gosh, Ben, 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.720 that was it, man, that's it, Mber we talked about 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:40.600 with the happy previous episode right or by the way, 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.480 is there anything like when you're in elementary school? I 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.320 remember the corn dog when I was like like maybe 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.440 maybe it was junior high, but I remember I wasn't. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.640 I don't think it was high school. It was high 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.400 school younger than that. In elementary I remember we had 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.159 a taco Tuesday and it would be like a taco bar, 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.000 and the best part about it was the tacos were 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.840 so messy. You would have a taco salad after so 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.159 I would always get those as a kid in elementary school. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.400 So you're from a different generation. I think by the 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.919 time you got to school, they probably had healthier items. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.840 Like when I was a kid, they did. They didn't 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.040 give a ship like whatever, and it was feeding what 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:16.880 they want. Shut the kids, Hey, what do we have 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:18.800 in the freezer on some old hot dogs? Give it 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.960 to the kids. They'll be kids like that thought. Whatever. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:23.800 As long as we don't see floaters in the toilet, 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.760 that's for another time. Yeah, exactly, all right. Next up 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.560 Pierre from the recliner, waiting to see Josh Allen dig 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.040 his way out of up the four feet of snow. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.160 Well not anymore, Pierre. They moved that game out of 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:38.400 an abundance of caution to Detroit. But Pierre, yeah, that 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.480 that that abundance of caution thing. I know Pierre didn't 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.000 ask about this from Springfield, mass But that is the 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.920 excuse he can use about anything. You know, I didn't 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.560 finish that assignment out of work, out of an abundance 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.159 of caution. I was a little onto the weather, and 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.520 I just want to you know, you can literally say 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.360 that about anything, the greatest get out of whatever you're 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.400 gonna do situation. And I said this on the radio 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.040 show the other day. But my theory is why the 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.120 NFL moved the game out of bubble. They've played games 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.760 in blizzards when I was a kid that used to 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:11.039 play no matter what. But I'm blaming lawyers, Alex really, yes, 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.560 because of liability. They don't want someone to get hurt 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:17.560 traveling tour from the game in the snow. And because 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.800 that's that's a lawsuit. If somebody were to die and 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.880 their family were to sue the NFL and say, well, 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.600 you know it's unsafe. You were asking people to come 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:25.920 to the game. I know they didn't have to come 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:27.279 to the game, but you asked them to come to 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.400 the game. You know, so and so was a big 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.839 fan of the Bills, went to the game driving on 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.440 the road. The snow would not have been driving Admint 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.400 for the game. Guy, don't accident. They died, and so 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.520 now you gotta pay us a bunch of them. That 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.240 makes sense. Yeah, I agree, they didn't do that back 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.920 in the day anyway. Pierre Pierce's is there any truth 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.960 to the rumor, uh that you and Danny and the 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.080 elitist will be subpoenaed as defendants in the ft X 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:58.080 lawsuit along with the likes of Tom Brady, Gelle, Steph Curry, 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.080 David Ortiz, and Larry David used this alex Is ft 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.920 X lawsuit was just going around about it. What happened? Yeah, 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:09.360 So this big company f t X crypto currency outfit. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.320 They they had like thirty two billion in venture capital. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.400 They were, yeah, like insane amounts of money. They had 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:20.280 Super Bowl commercials, they were mainstream, and they signed deals 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.480 with Tom Brady, Steph courage Azel, they had your kidding. Yeah, 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:29.240 they went bankrupt this week. Yeah. Yeah, the leven uh 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.920 US investors lost eleven billion dollars and now all these 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.840 famous people are being sued because they endorsed it and 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.640 they made it seem like it was no easy, no 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:45.280 brainer and all that stuff. Legit thing. Yeah, Larry David's commercial. 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.040 I don't know. If you saw that, you might want 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.520 to look that up on YouTube. It is the funniest 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.880 commercial I've seen, and it's even funnier now because the 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.800 entire thing, like Larry is like, uh, you know, who's 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.560 gonna buy coffee? Who's gonna want that man on the moon? No, 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:00.960 they're not going to the moon. You know. He said 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.320 no to all these great inventions like in human history. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.440 And then at the end of the commercial there was like, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.240 you know, they asked him about this this ft X things. 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.440 Oh no, that's not gonna work, and I'm never wrong 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.679 about this, and of course he was right. It didn't. Wow. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.960 Really it was a good commercial. That's hysterical. But I'm 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.360 happy to report I have not invested in ft I'm 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.360 not no, I don't care. I'm low on the investment 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.000 side for you without let anime money. Now you know. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.440 Then you know I will neither confirm or deny. I'm 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.320 just to fill in here. I'll keep the eyesight on 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:39.440 Danny g and yourself. But Crypto. I might have some 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.319 interest in Crypto. I'll just say that, Oh yeah, be careful, man, 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.480 that's the wild West, the wild wild West. And I'll 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.280 tell you this. If Tom Brady and Giselle invested in it, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.160 I'm going the other way. So that's a safe bet 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.200 for me. So I'm good on that. Yeah, there was 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:56.000 an interesting conspiracy theory that somebody came up with actually 0:08:56.000 --> 0:09:00.000 on TikTok that Brady when he went to the Bahamas 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.920 and Giselle when she went to Costa Rica was tied 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.199 into that story. The conspiracy is Brady went there and 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.640 I think it was August because he was tipped off 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.160 that this might be happening, that trouble with the Feds, 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.080 and so he was like, wait a minute. You know, 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.160 I've got a lot of money invested here, and I've 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.840 got you know, my name and all my brand, and 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.480 so he went down there to try to figure out 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.720 what's going on. And then the theorious Giselle went to 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.360 Costa Rica because they have a lot of offshore banking 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:30.360 options where you can hide your money. Yes, so though 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.640 it's a good conspiracy. And then they get a divorce 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.160 to cover their trail. Yeah. Well, by the way, Ben 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.520 to this whole divorcing, if Gizelle for Tom Brady, for example, 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.760 a seven times super Bowl winner, most money in the world, 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.319 a playboy guy. All this stuff can't keep Jaiselle. None 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.000 of us are safe? Are you kidding me? But she 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:50.840 might be a pain in the end. She looks like 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.240 she'd be doing those rituals for his games and stuff. 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.360 Get out of here with that? What is that? To 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.280 be fair to women? I think Brady is probably a 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:58.959 pain in the ask too. You know, he does look 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.920 like a pain? Does they both look like contaminated with 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:07.080 whatever that is? Anyway? All right? Moving on Mike from 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.880 Fullerton Rights and and so, Callie says, how big a 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.920 fan of car chases are you? Also? Do you like 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.880 the current You like the current way they're handled in 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:21.400 California where they can last until the suspect runs out 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.480 of gas, or would you rather bring demolition derby cops? 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.600 Back from Mike, Yeah, I'm a huge fan of the 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.319 car chase. It's it's great. And I have friends that 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:34.160 local that work in local television, and sometimes they get 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.360 upset because if you do the sports and there's a 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.120 car chase at eleven o'clock, they just go to the 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:43.280 car chase because it's a ratings winner. People, It's it's 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.079 the greatest drama that you have. You have good guys, 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.880 bad guys like the good guys, the cops chasing the 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:55.400 bad guys. You don't know what's gonna happen. Someone could die, right, 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.520 there's always the surprise plot twist where they throw stuff 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.360 out of the cars and they stop the car they 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.959 run somewhere. Uh, it's it's great. I had an idea. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.320 I told Eddie on the Overnight Show the other day, Alex, 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:12.880 I said, we should start a internet channel or like 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.120 a real TV channel, like on you know, traditional TV, 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.800 where all we do is show car chase. Really yeah, 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:21.800 it would only air for a few hours a day 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.240 because most of these car chases happen daytime or early evening. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.040 They get on television, and we'd go east coast, west coast, 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:31.960 Like there are car chase. People think it's only a 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:36.520 California thing. It's not. There are police chases everywhere. It 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.600 gets a lot of attention in California because they have 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.720 so many news copters up in l A, more so 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.400 than most cities, so it gets a lot of coverage. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.560 But I've yet to meet anyone that doesn't enjoy a 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.840 good car chase on TV. Are you that guy, Alex, 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:51.480 Are you the guy that does not enjoy watching a 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:58.839 car chase, Ben, I am not that guy. You've gotten 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.079 the infection. Also, dude, n I'm telling you. We're in 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.880 the studios and we have multiple TVs on multiple different stations. 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.720 I've never had anything in my life in these studios. 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.839 Stop everybody and they go, there's a chase on eight 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.200 and we put it on every single TV. It's insane. 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.800 And a few times, Alex, we've had police chases go 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:25.080 right by our studios. Awesome, it's there's something really cool. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.600 And we have these showcase studios while that we're moving 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.520 to a new studio. We can't get that right now. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:30.920 But we're moving to a new studio. We won't to 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.680 have we won't have this view anymore. But right now 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.440 we have a view out to it's right near the 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.560 corner of Ventura and Supulvito Boulevard. We have a view 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:44.280 of Subulvito Boulevard and you'll be watching It's it's really 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.319 one of those surreal things, like when you're watching the 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.200 car chase and then you look out the window and 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.680 it goes by, Yes, it goes by where you're working. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.880 It's it's pretty well. I still remember Jason Smith was 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:01.000 in studio. He ran outside, waving at the car it 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.200 was driving with all the cops, and he comes back 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.319 in like a kid who just got ice cream from 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.480 a truck. Like it was amazing to me. That's funny. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.080 It was like the the o J Chase then before 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.560 your time. Then the famous o JA people were out 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.640 running out on the freew their hundreds of people. Can't 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.599 nuts saw, you know, I saw this is I was 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.000 in college at the time. I saw. I was going 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:30.160 to my college radio station at Saddleback. The o J 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:36.160 Chase actually started in South Orange County in I think 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:41.000 it was Laguna Hills Lake Forest. That's where Nicole Brown 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:45.520 Simpson was buried. Yes, and o J, if I remember correctly, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.400 you know who knows as I understand it as I 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.240 remember it, o J went to for some reason, he 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.280 went to the cemetery and the cops got word on it, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.600 and that started the chase. And it started all the 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.680 way there, and obviously it went up. It picked up 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.120 a lot of cops and TV and all that. When 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.240 it first started, there was not that, but I I 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.960 was actually going southbound on I five. O J was 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.839 going northbound. I didn't realize at the time what I 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.280 was witnessing, But it wasn't. It wasn't until I got 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.679 to the radio station in the college station, and then 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.320 I turned on we had the TV going, and it 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.240 was like, wait, I think I saw all the beginning 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.920 of that. I was like wow, but I did. At 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.400 the time, it didn't mean much to me because I 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.560 was like, I remember there was the Knicks were playing 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.720 the Rockets in the NBA Finals and they actually NBC 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.120 split the screen on the finals to show the o 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:40.520 j CS. Was that big a deal? It's crazy? All right? 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.440 Nick in Wisconsin rights and he's next on the mail bag. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.800 He says, Ben and guest, Well, how about that? Actually 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.160 calls you guests, anticipating that there would be so many, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.320 I didn't name you because I wanted to have the surprise. 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.320 I love it. But you'll be on next week too, right, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.680 So next week people can send questions, all right, So 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.000 if you want to ask Alex a question about anime 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.520 or the vegan lifestyle or anything anything at all, he's 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.000 a bachelor life. Since Danny g no longer can do that, 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.480 I got you. You've got bohemian tendencies, right, I mean, 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.520 we're all about that action bas absolutely, I'm all about 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.680 that actual all right, Nick says Bett and guessed when 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:21.400 you were younger and you did something wrong or got 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.200 in trouble, who were you most afraid of? Your mom 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.880 or your dad? All right? So for me, it's my 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:32.640 my my dad. My mom would always put the fear 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.640 of God in me when your dad gets home from work. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.320 And I did get the belt one time, really, I 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.600 did get the belt. Yeah, because I'm of the age 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.320 you got the belt. And that's all it took was 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.240 one time. Because the rest of my life, any time 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.800 I fucked up, my mom would say, your father's gonna 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.000 get home and he's got the belt, you know, And 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:59.280 I'd be like, okay, I'll correct my behavior. Right. So 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:05.000 my dad was pretty you know, mellow as it turned out, 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.920 and he didn't like doing that stuff either, but does right, Yeah, 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.240 you know, they that's how they grew up, and so 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.640 they did it, but it was unnatural for them and 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.760 they didn't want to be part of What about you, Alex, 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.960 When you were a little kid growing up there who 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.360 who laid you to a ways? Who devastated you among 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:26.840 the ther your folks. The wooden spoon was the biggest 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.560 fear of my life growing up, Ben, And my mom 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.960 is from Macedonia, so she is from She is from 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.240 the other side of our globe here, Ben. She is 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.480 from the old Republic of Yugoslavia, and she grew up 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.360 very old school, Third World country style, and so for 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.320 her in her household, she was a very strong woman. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.560 Where if I messed up, if I slipped, if I 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.240 even thought about talking back to my mom, because I'm 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.040 sure you've seen those clips where they showed kids and 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.960 they're all like, screw you, mom, you dumb horror, and 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.040 then their friends are sitting there like what the hell 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.240 is this kid doing? And then that kid goes on 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.680 and does the same thing. Shut up, Jay, you know, Like, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.280 so my mom made it known real quick. If you 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.520 ever think about lipping off in this house, you're going 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.320 to be tasting a wood spoon. And thankfully, Ben, the 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.399 fear of God, as you said, kept me away. I 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:16.239 never got hit. There was threats, but I never got hit. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.240 My dad was so mellow, so Chilly'd come home and 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:19.640 just be like, hey, man, just listen to your mom. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.879 I know, thanks Dad. Your mom was She was the 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.800 gosh dude. She ran a strict household, and Ben, that 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.160 is why to this day. She has been running her 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.359 own daycare for twenty two years out of her house 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.760 and has up to twelve to fourteen kids, raging from 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:43.280 under one to six years old, and she runs it flawlessly, unbelievable. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.960 Man by herself or if you have people twelve kids, 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.280 you got to have people insane? No, all by herself. Really, 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:55.720 she is a super She's a superwoman, Ben, She is 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.879 a super Her gift is that it's insane. Well, I 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:00.639 told the story on the set of a podcast by 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:02.639 my niece and nephew over we had three people for 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.000 two kids. Can you imagine like we could have used 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.600 four people? That's what she just She has the gift. Ben, 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:11.600 it's crazy. Literally, people come over, it's naptime, everybody's asleep. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.439 How do you get all the kids to sleep at 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.280 the same time. You should do a podcast with your 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.280 mom and she can tell her secrets about how I 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.520 would actually do that. I'm gonna do that. Should you should? 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.520 I would like to, I would listen to that. I will. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.520 I will do a podcast. Kids weren't wild. Man, I'm 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.800 as SOFTI though, I admit it. Almost Yeah, I'm I'm 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:29.360 like God, Yeah, I feel bad for you do whatever 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.960 you want your kids, right, yeah, alright. Jeff in Chicago 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.280 rights and he says, been a friend. Uh, I called 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.280 you a friend. I'm a friend. I love friends. Do 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.800 you guys believe that compliments are really genuine? Oh no, 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:46.400 Uh well, I'll answer it this way, Tisher. I think 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:51.679 if somebody compliments everything, their phony facts. If if you 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:57.239 sporadically compliment, I think it's more genuine. We all know 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.560 people that just you know, they just they're they're sweet. 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.719 Kiss oh yeah, brown on their nose, right yeah, brown noses, 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.399 and and those people are just totally totally funny. The 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.400 other people, and I don't want to name names here, 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.879 put the thing that I don't like. And I've been 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:11.600 a lot of meetings over the years of different places 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.199 I worked. The compliments sandwich. Oh that's so annoying. Oh 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:19.359 I hate that. Oh gosh, everybody's doing great. The numbers 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.640 are down, but we're doing great. Yes, everybody. No. When 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:25.480 they start out with a compliment, they said, you know, 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.919 you're doing really wonderful, we love you. But then they 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.639 get to what they really want. You're a fucking disaster. 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.359 You don't know what the funk you're doing. And then 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.480 they by the way, I really like what you're wearing today. 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:40.280 That's so funny. It's like, no disrespect they say something 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.879 totally disrespectful, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what's funny. 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:45.639 I will say this. The reason why I said no 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.840 is because I don't believe there's true, genuine compliments unless 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.159 it is something that is heartfelt. So I think that 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.680 is something entirely different from a compliment. I truly believe 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:58.359 when you give something like a little insight, and you 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.800 give somebody like a little piece of something about you 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.240 and you really like kind of almost like you let 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.080 them in and express something deep, I think that's above 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:08.760 a compliment because to me, compliments are so like ground level. 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:10.920 It's like seeing a good looking girl, Oh, you're attractive. 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:12.520 We know why you think she's attractive. You know, like 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:14.280 you're trying to get in her pants. We know. So 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.240 I think it's the same thing though, ben like a 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.320 compliment is so skin deep to really show somebody be like, 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.040 hey man, I just want to let you know. If 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.040 I never met you, I don't think I would be 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:24.879 doing this well in my life. Like that's the stuff 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.560 I enjoyed, that's real stuff. Yeah, I have read in 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.560 the past. Obviously married now, but I wish I had 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:34.600 known this when I was single with it's more successful 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:39.080 because every guy like just compliment with always, always, So 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.800 it actually is more effective if you goof on them. Yep, 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:46.120 if you rip sarcasm and trolling works who all the time? 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:48.159 Who knew that that would be more of it? Was like, 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.640 oh yeah, beautiful, I'm living proof, brand I'm living proof 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:55.600 of it. Ben. It's crazy. It has worked all the time. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:59.120 It never fails. You want to throw them off. They're 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.720 used to everybody knocking over them. Be the different one. 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:05.600 You gotta stand out from the cross tallest play of 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:11.040