WEBVTT - Aisle Number 2 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.200 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.439 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:31.720 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air. Everywheares 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.239 we are back at it on a Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:40.080 you have stumbled upon the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:46.120 and Danny g Radio on a great, wonderful weekend. We 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.559 have begun the month of April. Actually that was yesterday. 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.600 We begin the month of April, and here we are 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:57.680 on a Saturday, back at it. And now that's not 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.920 that's the wrong show. That's the wrong And I realized 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.720 though Danny on the podcast, it's not like to restaurant radio. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.319 Nobody can stumble upon us. You have to go out 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:12.640 of your way to listen to the show. You can't 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.200 just like, how would you stumble into the podcast? It 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.640 is to me, there's no way to do that. So 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.920 it's a different dynamic. Yes, yes, what a great week 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.160 it was Ben. Now, I'm not sure if you won 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:30.640 one for saying couci. But look, it's a lot of playing. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.039 It's probably hurting your eyes because it's so shiny. But 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.960 look what I'm holding up right now. Oh my god, 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.880 look at that. That is unbelievable. Where do you get that? 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:43.800 Is that my first ever? Benny? Oh, congratulate and well learned, 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.960 well learned. But I I would like to start by 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.360 thanking my mom. It all started when I was two 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.480 years old. Yeah, you have a little passion and Mr microphone, 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:01.640 she dropped me on my head and the rest is history. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.480 The rest is history. Here we are all these years later, 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.440 like why didn't I become a doctor or a lawyer? 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.400 What what am I doing here? I'm a doctor? Thank you, 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:17.160 Thank you. Mallard Militia. Yeah, they love you, Danny G. Congratulations. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.200 You beat out the entire field, very competitive field, and 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.240 you are the King of the fill ins. That was 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.920 the title Jonas Knox had for a long time. We 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.679 don't need to bring Jonas in and then now he's 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.240 no longer a fill in, so you have now replaced 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:36.080 him as the king. And the Mallam Militia they love you. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.440 Just it's it's just love, is what it is, clearly. Anyway. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.320 So on this edition of the Fifth Hour, we've got 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:47.679 the garage mirage pissing in the wind, and we've got 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:53.520 fertilizer backscratcher, maybe even some pop quiz depending on time. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.560 You know, even though it's a podcast, we've got things 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.240 to do, places to go, people to see, right, we 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.200 don't have all all day here. And plus if a 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.080 podcast is too long, who's gonna listen to all this? 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.760 It just nobody wants that, right, Danny exactly. Even our 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.480 family members are like, can you keep it to forty 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.880 five minutes please? Yeah, he can't go too long. And 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.480 with all the commercials, that's like two hours, right, that's 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.720 like two hours of all the commercials, just the weight 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:25.800 loss commercial alone anyway. All right, So since August of 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:31.120 last year, we've documented this on the podcast The Life 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.760 of Mallard, the Saturday staple in Life of Danny G. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:39.280 So over the last eight months, I have been overwhelmed 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.720 with stuff. My pops passed away that the second day 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:50.040 of one, and he had his entire life's worth of 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:55.200 belongings that he left behind, and we all leave stuff behind. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.760 But also my mom's they've been married for many years. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.200 My mom passed away number years ago. My my dad, 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.080 God love him. He left everything my mom left behind 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.720 there and so I had everything for both my parents. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.440 My brothers are in the other parts of the country 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.000 that I where I am in l A. There in 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.040 the Midwest and the East Coast, and so I have 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.320 been the one to try to navigate my way, trying 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:18.919 to figure out what's going on here with the the 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:24.080 wife and so not to mention Danny moving twice over 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:28.760 the last year. We moved from the Mallard Mansion, which 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.159 you were at a couple of times for the holiday party, 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.680 to the Halfway House where Bella got eaten by a 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.680 coyote and survived, got the last laugh. Then we went 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:45.039 to the newly decked out Mallard Mansion in the north Woods. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.760 And so this entire time is like what to keep 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.920 with the toss away? And these are very tough decisions, Uh, 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.880 you know, tear the place apart. Some of these belongings. 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.640 I look at them and then Danny, they're like my, 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.719 not mine. They were my parents pride and enjoy and 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.320 it's hard to see that stuff just go to a landfill, 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.680 get a little sappy and sentimental. I realized that everything 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.400 we own will eventually end up in a landfill. I 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.000 understand that, but I was like, well, my mom used 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:13.719 to say, you know, life is for the living, Life 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.239 goes on all those things that parents say. But anyway, 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:21.680 it's been a bleeping nightmare every weekend since August. I 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:26.120 have spent part or all of my weekend going bit 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.280 by bit through this crap that I've had to dig 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.640 through and literally dig through, like up to the ceiling 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.440 in the garage. And we've got storage sheds and you 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:40.520 name it. It is a man made debacle and just 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:45.120 just disaster. So finally, last week was different than every 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.599 other day. My wife decided, you know what, let's work smarter, 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:52.800 not harder, and she hired a guy that had worked 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.560 at the house helping to renovate kind of fix things 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:01.279 up here to co and sort through the garage. Yeah, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.280 and so this is amazing, This is the great miracle 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.920 of the garage in one day, in one day, while 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.840 I was working getting ready for the show and then 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:17.680 doing the show, and all that stuff, everything had been 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:23.440 taken out, done, inventory of organized stuff had been thrown away, 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:30.280 cleaned up, and it took about eight hours of hard labor. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:36.680 But I witnessed the garage mirage wa la danny g 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:41.839 presto amazing. I'm still shocked by this, and that means 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.720 though after finally getting some work done, there's some power 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.720 issues that have to be fixed. So once an electrician, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.200 a licensed electrician comes over to make sure the house 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.320 doesn't burn down from an electrical fire, I will be 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:58.920 back on my beloved treadmill that I have not had 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.920 has been buried piles of stuff on top of it. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.080 So I got a treadmill a while back that was 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.480 actually before COVID and uh, and I've been able to 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:13.640 use the thing since August. So the garage mirage danny 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:18.040 G Saving the day, Saving the day. Was it weird 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:24.000 having somebody else touched the Mallar Museum or were you 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:28.680 kind of supervising? I was making sure the person, did 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.880 you know, get out of there with anything, But no, 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.520 it was it was fine. I mean, it's okay. A 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.640 lot of the stuff was very old, and it's one 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.280 of those things that's like out of sight, out of 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.000 mind kind of you know, you know it's there, but 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.880 if you don't see it, and now it's gone, you're like, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.280 well you feel better about it. You're like, well, something 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:46.840 happened to it, But I don't really know what happened 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:48.760 to it. Maybe it just vanished in the thin air. 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.320 You have no idea, you know, maybe a magician came 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.480 in thew Dany or somebody like that. Who knows. I 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.440 have no idea. But it's all cleaned up now and 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.320 I can get my weekends back, which I used to 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.480 never have weekends. I know you right now are going 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.400 through that, working on the weekends with the radio and 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:12.440 stuff and having a duck juggle everything. And so I 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:16.080 I have been very very busy here doing stuff, well 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.120 very busy, but apparently not that busy because it took 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.760 it took eight hours for stuff that I've I've taken 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:25.760 eight months and haven't made any real progress. So go figure. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.320 I hear you. We've talked about it on the podcast before. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.240 When you have a really busy schedule, you have this 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.320 to do list that just hangs around, usually on your fridge, 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:38.760 and you're like, I'm gonna get to that. I'm gonna 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.600 get to that. But once you do have a day offer, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.439 an afternoon offer, even a few hours off, you're like, 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.000 I don't want to do that, right now, that's the 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.080 last thing I want to do. Yeah, no, absolutely, it's like, 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.920 you know, what are we doing here? And uh, we 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.000 got it done or I didn't really have anything to 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.280 do with it. But now now it's done and we 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.720 move on and it's all wonderful and all glorious and 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:09.520 all that stuff. So hallelujah, hallelujah. Now you are free 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:14.240 to hang clothes back onto the treadmill, Yes, exactly, free 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.160 to hang it all back and make it all dirty. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.040 And then when I'm ready to meet my maker and 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.640 head to the pearly gates, I will leave all all 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.079 of it behind. So it's it's really just rinse, wash, repeat, right, 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.040 the cycle of life. You know. New people come into 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.040 the the act and they do the same crap that 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.640 we did, and we do the same crap that our 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.199 parents did and their parents did, and I bet you 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.320 wouldn't have done anything like just a mom and dad 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:42.480 were here. Sometimes the technology changes, but we just passed 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.199 the baton. We just passed the baton on, right, that's 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.120 what we do here. It's amazing, what an amazing thing. Anyway, 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:52.840 So that was the the garage mirage. Now, so after 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:59.360 the great garage mirage of I then pivoted. We we 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.320 actually pivot it turned to the next project. Well, I 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.600 actually had nothing to do with this also. Uh so 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.360 we finally after eight months of dealing with this, and 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:13.920 actually longer than that, the entire year plus a couple 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:18.600 of months, it's like fourteen months. So then the wife's like, hey, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.840 why don't we get to the next project right away? 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.400 Right right like a day later, right away, Let's get 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.880 to the next And so she said, uh, you know, 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:31.240 there's one bathroom that hasn't been renovated in the home 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.240 we're in here in the north Woods. And so the 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.640 wife says, yeah, let's do it. And so she we 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.960 had purchased like a bunch of materials for the the bathroom, 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.600 like the flooring and all that stuff like that had 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.560 been sitting in the garage, but now we had access 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.960 to it, and they've been sitting in the house and stuff. Anyway, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.480 that was backing on, So what the heck? So a 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.839 friend of a friend, Danny, was brought in because I 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.199 don't know how to do any of this stuff. We 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.280 don't know, and so it brought in to do the labor, 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.880 like the hard work heavy lift, friend of the family, 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.880 a new friend of the fan, and he's got a 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.600 full time gig elsewhere, so he can only come a 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.840 few days a week. You know what this means, Danny. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.120 It's gonna take eight months too. Yeah. Yeah, so you 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:17.520 know we're a couple of days a week. But he's 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:23.280 the race exactly. He can't beat the rate. The rates amazing. No, 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.520 I'm not gonna stop it. It's an amazing thing. And 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.320 so you're kind of does good work, but he's busy 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.360 to get another job, and so you can only do 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.680 a few days a week. So last Sunday we started 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:40.120 on Saturday. On Sunday, I wake up to watch the 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.040 Final Four, which was the final games of the Elite 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.040 eight to get to the Final four. So then these 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.000 were terrible games anyway. But I wake up and I 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.560 get a message. I look at my phone, which everyone 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.679 does when you wake up, you'll get your phone, and 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.800 there's a message there and it's it's it's yells at me, 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.280 do not use the toilet. Do not use the toime. 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:05.280 I'm like, wait, h, I'm a normal, normal person, don't. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.760 Most people when they wake up, the first thing they 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.719 do is they head to the powder room. That's what 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:13.320 they say an HGTV they called the powder room. Right. 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.160 I mean, I'm wrong, Danny. I know I'm wrong in 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.520 that right. The first thing I do I hit the 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.360 mouth wash, okay, and then I hit the john. Yeah. 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.880 But some whether that vice versa or whatnot, you're you're 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.120 doing that in some order. I spent some time in 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.480 the comfort station. So this time, this day is different. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.040 I wake up and you know, I'm like, I'm a 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.439 little groggy, you know, like what's going on here? I 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.439 know I gotta work get ready for a show at 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:46.559 some point here and uh, anyway, the wife's tells me, listen, 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.800 something happened, something happened here, and there's no water in 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.920 the house. It turns out the guy doing the demo 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:57.959 had accidentally in his rushed to get the tile off 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:02.280 the floor the demo part had hit a hidden water 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.880 line that was buried kind of in the concrete and 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.000 kind of against the wall when the house was built. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:13.600 Oh no, yeah, so this a caused a big flood, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.560 which was the first problem, the Great Mallard Flood, of 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.800 which then led to the water being shut off so 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.040 I couldn't use the toilets couldn't take a shower, couldn't 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.360 do any of that stuff. You don't realize how much 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.440 water you need until you don't have it. And anyway, 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.199 was like, okay, the waters a little fine. It was 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.680 called plumber was Sunday. You know how much an emergency 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:43.439 plumber charges on a Sunday. Damn right, damn right. I 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.280 don't get paid that much to do a radio show anyway. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.400 So these these guys were charging an armadal like literally 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:53.199 an armald fortunate just to show up, not even to 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:57.120 repair was ever damaged, but just to show up. So 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:02.600 we made a tactical decision that we would wait until 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.120 the following day, on Monday, because then it would be 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.840 a more reasonable price with the same job, but they 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.400 wouldn't charge the emergency rate because it was during business 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.120 hours and all that stuff. Tell me you drove down 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.120 the street to use Burger King's bathroom, Well, I will see. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.600 That's where the story takes a turn. So that meant 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:26.320 that Sunday, all day Sunday and the better part of Monday, 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:32.080 I was literally and figuratively Danny g pissing in the 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.400 north Woods. I was pissing in the wind. It's what 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.840 I was doing, which I will point out not a 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.960 problem during the day, not a problem during the day, 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.400 but at night the degree of difficulty went up tremendously. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.080 At night, you think of the other way because nobody 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:49.680 can see, you don't have to worry about that. But 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.960 you don't know where you're stepping, and you don't know 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.120 which direction the wind's blowing. As you know, you don't 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.600 want to be down wind when you're when you're leaving 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:02.440 yourself there, you're pissing in the wind. And and uh, anyway, 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:06.000 it was. It was interesting. I did go to uh, 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.280 the local grocery store. I did some shopping, which I 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.240 didn't actually buy anything. I just walked in there, looked 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.800 like I was shopping. And then I made my way 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:19.680 Danny eventually to the little boys room there two I 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.680 number two. That's right, I'll number two, that is correct. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.600 And I was worried about those little critters and all that. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.360 And then the water got turned back on. The thing 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.240 was fixed. The plumber did a good job, but the 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:36.920 water pressure it was not good. Oh yeah. It turns 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.320 out that when you turn the water on, you gotta 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:40.920 turn it all the way on. We had only turned 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:45.200 it like partially on. So there's that sweet spot, Danny. 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.480 I should know my grandfather was a plumber. My my 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:52.560 grandfather from Springfield, mass was a plumber. And I actually 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.560 have some of the business signs I have around the 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.800 house that you know that's those are a million years old. 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.720 But it clearly was a recessive gene and I did 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.520 not get it. It fell back the plumbing gene. Uh. 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.720 And I thought about going on YouTube, but yeah, I 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.200 dig into concrete and stuff like that. I'm like, that's 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.280 probably above my pay grade. And I don't think there's 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:16.120 a YouTube video where pipe breaks, turn off the water, 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:21.400 rip up some concrete and all that. You know what 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.320 I'm saying, how much money do you think you wound 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.960 up saving by pushing it off by one day? I 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:34.720 would estimate what with everything done showing up just the 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.479 rate the plumber was going to charge, I would say 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:43.160 three four dollars minimum safe minimum saved more than that. 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:49.320 Probably those were some expensive pisces in the woods, and 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:53.400 I'll number two stop offs drop offs. I did find 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.680 a spot in the north Woods that was like up 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.920 against a tree where you know, it was kind of hidden. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.520 So that was my sweets. But that was my my 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.920 place to relieve myself there. Right, it was wonderful and 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.560 it wasn't bad, I said. During the day it was 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.600 all right, but at night it was like, oh boy. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:13.639 And it keep in mind, Danny, I'm doing the radio 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.679 show and I'm in the middle of the show and 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.200 nature calls and I gotta I gotta sprint out to 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.000 the north Woods to you know, nobody beats the whiz. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:31.240 It was. It was interesting. It was definitely interesting. So 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:37.119 that was my my wonderful weekend, the life of Mallard. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:42.440 And I guess I was creating fertilizer in a way 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.080 with some of the stuff I was doing, but not 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.920 the kind of fertilizer you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, it's funny. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.480 I didn't know we'd be on the same theme this week. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.000 In between classes, I had to run to the A 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.240 t M to put some cash in. You know, I 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.280 probably had a ten minute wind. Sometimes you do the 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.600 math in your head. You're like, all right, down this 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.720 street that will be five minutes. Run to the A 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:08.640 t M in front of the bank. That will take 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.800 four minutes. So I'm I'm doing the math. I'm like, 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.600 I can get to my next class in time. Sure enough, 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.760 I was late. But I get to the A T 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:22.119 M and I'm I'm sprinting. Okay, Whenever you're in a 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.800 hurry like that, you notice people who have no care 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.560 in the world. There was a guy and he was 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:35.280 walking so slow that it made me pause because I 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.960 got jealous. I'm like, here, I am running like I'm 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.600 old school Carl Lewis, and this dude is just walking 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.200 like he's got no care in the world whatsoever, just 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.679 easy going, like Sunday drive kind of stuff like. I mean, 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:53.800 he was moving slower than a Sunday morning. Uh, And 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.879 I'm jealous. I'm like, man, this is a busy Thursday. 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.720 This guy is on a slow crawl. I get up 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.359 to the A T M machine, put my card in. 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.320 This guy slowly moves his way next to the machine 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.359 that I'm at. And now these A T M s 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.320 at Bank of America. They were made way pre COVID. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.720 You are standing close enough to the person next to 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.040 you to where if you reach your arm out you 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:23.000 could touch them. You can light me on fire. As 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.000 I'm standing there putting the cash in, I get a 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:31.639 strong whiff of fertilizer. This is not are you talking, 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.720 body owner? What do we what do we actually fertilizer? 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:41.280 What is it, you know, like actual fertilize, a pungent fertilizer. Yeah, 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:45.240 as if he did landscaping for you, had it on 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.919 his boots and then was tracking it around the town. 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:54.480 Guy was a walking fertilizer bag. It was great to 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:59.800 see Pooh, just minding my own business. I'm like trying 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.920 to to look at them. And I finished. I get 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:06.080 my receipt and then I run. Then I sprint to 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.160 my car so that I can go be late. Still, 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:18.040 as I'm driving through the parking lot, there's about three 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.959 or four people surrounding a vehicle and they're walking around 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:27.360 it looking at it curiously, almost like they're out of museum. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:32.359 Parked in the city parking lot is a tractor, like 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:38.560 an actual like you'd see out in the in the country. 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:44.400 Now I realized. Now, I realized there might be some 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:47.800 folks listening. And I say folks, because if you're listening 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:51.200 in a state where that's normal, let me assure you 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:54.040 where we are in southern California, that is not something 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.720 we see at all. Like if you're in Kansas or 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:01.960 in Iowa or Oklahoma, like somewhere that that's probably happens everyone. 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:06.960 You are in a metropoli, you are surrounded by concrete 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:10.000 as far as you can see. Would that be accurate, Danny? 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:13.719 That would be accurate. Now on the outskirts of the 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:15.880 city I live in, and I'm sure there are some 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.760 large properties where a tractor would be needed. So it 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.480 got me thinking, Ben, where the hell did this dude 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:28.159 drive in from? That's a great question. That's amazing. And 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:31.520 obviously I don't know for sure that that was his tractor, 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.600 but I kind of put two and two together there. Wow. 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:37.760 And then when you got back to class, Now you 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:39.840 were late for class. So when you showed up, did 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:45.840 the crowd go wild? And said, Danny jays back, You'll 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:49.720 love this. I had been bringing my nerf football, but 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:52.240 it's one of those newer nerve footballs where it's got 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:56.160 the hard plastic outside on it, so it's heavier than 0:21:56.200 --> 0:22:00.680 the old school nerf okay okay. So I was hitting 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:02.879 kids with the ball, but it was too heavy. It 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:07.680 was knocking some of the kindergarteners backwards, and I was like, well, 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:11.760 this is not gonna be nice on the injury reports. Um, 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:13.720 So I told one of the kids, I'm like I'm 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:17.560 gonna dig in the garage and find one of my dodgeballs, 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:25.240 because those are those really lightweight squishy balls. If they 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:28.320 hit you in the head, bounces right off and does 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:31.040 no damage to your brain, which you definitely want in 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:34.840 dodgeball squishy balls elsewhere you probably don't want that exactly. 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.920 I was able to find one, Ben, and I brought 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:41.639 it with me, so they did chair because they saw 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:45.560 me walking up with that dodgeball. And let me tell you, 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:48.600 I was head hunting blank my blank, and blank you 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:54.680 from Thursday to Friday. Once they got on that play structure, 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:57.640 I was beating kids in the head left and right. 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:03.119 I started with a trouble acers first, I got multiple kills. 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:07.239 Nice and and did they get your back at all? 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:09.679 Were they able to attack? Because if they touched the 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:16.000 ball then they were immediately frozen. Oh perfect. Their first 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:18.239 reaction was to reach and grab the ball to try 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:19.760 to throw it back, and I'm like, no, no, no, 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:23.720 you touch that ball, You're dead, you die in the game. Yeah, 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:26.240 they left it alone. I was the one doing the 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:29.080 the headhunting. I love to hear that dodgeball is going 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:31.119 on because you know there's stories A couple of years ago, 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:34.560 Danny the dodgeball had been out load and the Woosters 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:38.280 didn't want the dodgeball going on. But that's even for me. 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:40.680 I was I was terrible at dodge Bob was fat kid, 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:43.359 you know, he's he's a target, fat kid dodgeball. But 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:47.040 I have fond memories of playing dodgeball, and also some 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:52.840 scary ones, you know, But overall it was a good 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:55.640 experience and I fondly remember that. So I think it's 0:23:55.680 --> 0:23:57.840 it's good that the kids doing because the kids, I 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:01.719