WEBVTT - Lugging Luggage 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:05.840 If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:09.480 was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:13.680 old republic a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.239 in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:20.360 poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes. 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:25.120 Break Free for Something Special Hour with Ben Maller starts 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:32.199 right now in the air everywhere as we loviate the 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:37.600 weekend away and we welcome you into the Mallard Podcast 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.960 studio deep in the north Woods eight days a week 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:47.400 as we try to overcompensate for my absence this week 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.840 from the show, my post for a few a few 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.000 nights here, and of course four hours a night clearly 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.600 not enough. And the great thing about the podcast is 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.760 you can listen to it overnight if you want, or 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.480 when the sun is up. You can actually listen when 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:06.080 the sun is up. And I know from when people download, 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.280 we actually have a lot of people that listened during 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.959 the day and so we do appreciate that. Joined yet 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:16.240 again by a man west of the four oh five, 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:31.240 David gascong Man, I I really got to give myself one. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.600 I continue to book good guests. I should start getting 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:41.240 paid for this ship. Wow. Wow, Wow, you know it's funny. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.760 I I had done a Q and A session with 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.959 one of your couple of your your listeners a few 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.720 days ago, and they had asked that question about booking guests, 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.800 and I said, you know, I like booking guests that 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:57.800 Ben doesn't know or doesn't like, doesn't come in contact with, 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.440 because it gives you. It gives you, like a little 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:01.800 bit more work to write. It's like to do a 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:03.680 little bit more research and to do a little bit 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.320 more recon and iways think it's fun. But like these guys, 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.320 certain people like that you've come across and introduced me to, 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.560 and like vice versa. I just think those people are 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.440 so fascinating because we're always stuck in this you know, 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.600 spectrum of sports and full disclosure, we've done the podcast 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.080 long enough that we pretty much run out of people 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.320 that there's very few people left that we haven't had 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.320 on like I think they like petros. People have said 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.080 we should get petro Son, and I would love to 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.160 get petro Son, but when we record the podcast, he's working, 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.079 so we can't get petro Son. Now, maybe we can 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.600 do something in another time. And we're talking about doing 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.000 some stuff differently down the line, so that will open 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:51.560 up the possibility of that and so we'll see. But 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.960 you know, yeah, I don't. I don't know a lot 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.960 of people I do. Radio radio is a small circle. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.040 There's not a lot of people in it. And of 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:00.760 the people in it, there's only a few that I 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.720 get along with. So, um, you know, it's not a 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.880 lot to work with you. There's not a lot that 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.280 we can do. And so if you have any suggestions, 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.040 we always say, hey, the email, the inbox is always 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:13.760 open if you have somebody you'd like to have on. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.880 We've had recommendation with people from Denver, were like, we 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:18.640 could get the voice of the Broncos on. We haven't 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.240 done that. Uh we we attempted to get the voice 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.480 in the Minnesota Vikings on right and then he had Yeah, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.680 we tried a couple of times and that didn't work out. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:33.079 Paul Allen, the voice of the Vikings, Dave Logan and 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:38.320 Denver that's right, maybe get them on because of scheduling issues. Um, 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.920 but yeah, I mean, so I don't. I don't. Obviously, 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.040 Andrew was fun to talk to. I like, I have 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.200 an interest in cooking. He's a professional he's on television. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.119 I think it's interesting how someone ends up on television 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.720 and we're kind of in the same ballpark age wise, 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.520 so we have our our perspective on life. I think 0:03:55.480 --> 0:04:00.520 it's pretty similar. Uh yeah, yeah. I although I don't 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.320 like sea food, I do like pizza. I love pizza. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.200 Uh And Julia Child. I got to use my favorite 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.320 Julia Child quote, and I didn't think I would ever 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.800 get to use that, and so I'm glad that I did. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.160 I found a way to use a Julia Child quote, 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.480 which I think I've only used once in my life. 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.440 But it's one of the great quotes about anything. You 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.919 can have drama, even a pancake if if done properly. 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.880 I'm paraphrasing the quote from from Julia Child. So I 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.760 didn't ask you. I'd ask Andrew this, but I should 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.080 have asked you gun to your head pancake waffle or 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:38.279 French toast pancake? Oh wow, pancake, alright, pancake. You I 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.800 don't know frive French toast, but I don't know. Arnie. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.239 Arnie every year for Christmas sending his gift packages for 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.839 you know, for all the staff. The Vermont Maple syrup 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.000 man I've gotten I haven't got one. I've known Andrew 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:58.080 longer than you, not Andrew, I've known Arnie longer. Yeah, 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.400 I haven't known I've known Andrew at all. Actually I 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.120 just met him yesterday, so but yeah, I don't know. Yeah, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.839 I mean, pancakes a good call, especially because you can pacakes, 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.200 you can stack them, you can put different so you know, 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.200 obviously one of those things you can put different syrups 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:16.719 or whatever, strawberry or the traditional maple syrup or anything 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.719 like that. But a well made pancake. And I don't 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.839 I don't need breakfast, so I don't need a lot. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.360 As you know, that is one of the great scams. 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.120 I should have brought this up with Andrew h And 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.320 you know, the whole breakfast is the most important meal 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.680 that you've heard that right, That is one of the 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:41.080 great marketing slogans of all time. John Kellogg, the guy 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:46.480 behind Kellogg's you know cereal company, That was his catchphrase 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:52.640 to try to sell cereal breakfast Cereal. Nobody in the 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.159 when they breakfast cereals started, nobody bought it. Nobody wanted it. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.000 They didn't need it, they didn't want it. Most people 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.480 ate breakfast it was just leftovers from dinner the night 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.560 before if they ate anything, and a lot of people 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.359 didn't even eat breakfast, they just skipped it. And he 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.839 they came up with that marketing slogan breakfast is the 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.040 most important meal of the day. They flooded all the newspapers, 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:19.480 all the radio stations, and and the rest is history. 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:24.240 All these years later, we're talking about probably radio started 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:32.640 in the nineteen twenties, so probably seventy eight years at least, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:37.839 I would say maybe longer than that. Damn crazy, It's amazing. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.720 I I do like the fact that Andrew said, I 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:40.800 don't know if you do it at all, but I 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:45.880 love eating breakfast for dinner. Yeah, I don't do too much. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:47.960 My wife loves breakfast, so that would be a compromise. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.320 I do. I do like similar to him. I do 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.799 like the breakfast foods. I am a fan of breakfast foods. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.359 I just I usually I'm fasting, so I can't eat breakfast, 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.520 and I I pretty much just eat lunch. I've I've 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.320 settled into a lunch I'm a lunch guy. I don't 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.800 really eat dinner. On the weekends, I'll eat because otherwise 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.359 I'll get killed with the family. I gotta eat, you know, 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.400 lunch and dinner. But that's about it. Oh, we gotta 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.960 go to Tustin. Man, I'm gonna let's do it. Let's 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.800 do it. Let's just get a big old pie. Those 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.640 those pineapples, Uh, I don't know if they're go on 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.280 my pizza. But the other pizza look delicious, they look 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.920 they look solid. That's a good looking pie. That is 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.320 a So that's that's food porn. That is food point. 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.320 All right, So we have moving man Mallard. Now, as 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:35.640 I referenced, I was away from my post this past 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.440 week for three long, painful days. I would like to 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.800 thank the staff at Fox Sports Radio for filling in. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.920 Mr Plank did a fine job sitting in for me there. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:53.360 Not not easy, not easy. The Mallard Militia, as you know, 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.560 a rather rambunctious group, the Mallard Militia. And typically when 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.400 I'm away it is is open season, open season. But 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.720 Chris Plank did a great job, as I understand, and 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.000 did a wonderful holding of the fort. So we thank 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.800 him for that. But as being away from the bully pulpit, 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.000 the reason and you know I moved, but I'll give 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.560 you some details. So the schedule worked out where my 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:23.440 wife was off from work, um at the police stations 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.960 and one operator. And so, no, you don't get a 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:27.680 lot of time off. You have to you know, you 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.040 do get a lot of time off, but when you're 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:30.800 supposed to work, you after work as well. Yeah, but 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.679 most jobs and um, so she she said, we gotta move. 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.800 This is it, you know, for for a couple of reasons. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:42.360 And so dragged me away to help help move. And 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.440 we ski at schedaddle out of the halfway house to 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:50.000 the the new Mallard mansion. And even though it's not 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.320 completely done, it's not completely done, but logistically we had 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.320 to do it. And so it's still an active construction 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.960 zone right now. Right across the room I'm in the 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.439 I'm in the studio here, but just across the other 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.760 side of the wall there are a group of hard 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.840 working people who are sweating their asses off, covered in dust. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.160 They got the studio done, but the rest of the 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.120 house is really not done, and it won't be done 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.080 for a couple more days. I've actually been staying in 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.360 a hotel the last couple of nights while they finish up. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.880 But the studio has done so I'm here and I'm 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.920 breathing in all the dust, which is great, and they 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.560 really recommend that they recommend eating breathing in a lot 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.080 of dust. But but anyway, so we it was a 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:30.800 paint in and it took I have much respect from 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.120 moving man Matt from Boston who hates you gascon uh 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.880 and and several other p ones who have reached out 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.360 to me over the years that are moving, you know, professionals. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.160 My god, what a what a pain in the ass. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:50.160 I mean, it is a crap ton of physical labor, obviously, 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.600 and you gotta take everything apart to fit it through doors, 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:58.080 and it's just a nightmare. And then you lose. I 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.440 I took some stuff apart from my student yoke because 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.560 I moved that over, and I lost a whole bunch 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.520 of screws that I needed. So then I'm going to 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.280 home depot trying to match the screws, you know, and 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.080 then they don't have the exact ones, so you gotta 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:16.200 get it kind of close. And several U haul trips loading, unloading. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.760 And the amazing about this is I'm not even done. Like, 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.360 as I said, the house where I'm moving to is 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.640 the studios done it'll be done in a couple of days. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.280 But then I have to move everything back from the 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.920 storage that it's in and put it, you know, where 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:33.320 it needs to be, and all that stuff for the 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.480 final final move. So I have several probably months, because 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:41.440 I can only do it on the weekends of sojourns. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:46.800 Renting a truck and then moving it and and all 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:51.240 of that and all that. You know, something uh that 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.520 I was not anticipating taking is long. But the good 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.839 news is this will be the final move. This will 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.160 be my my final resting place. I don't imagine I will. 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.960 I will die either in this house or while living 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.760 in this house. So that's exciting. I don't have to 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.720 move again, so I'm excited about that. And the house 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.880 is gonna look great. And my wife designed like all 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.400 I did was request the flooring. That's all I did. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.480 I said, I want a certain kind of flooring. Everything 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.760 else that was like pretty much here. So if it's good, 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.840 I'll give her credit. If it's bad, she'll blame me 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.360 for not having more of a say in the but 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.240 she know she did a wonderful job and it's gonna 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.240 look wonderful. I know you've seen some photos there gascon 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.200 of some of this stuff that's done, which is not 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.600 completely completely done, but almost done. And be sure to 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.240 catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.840 at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.040 Radio and the I Heart Radio app. It looks great. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.440 I saw a giant bowl occupying the living room, so 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:55.040 that was that was nice. Um as a giant size bathtub. Um, 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.480 that's the Mallard tub. That is the Mallard tub. It is. 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.360 It looks old school, it looks awesome. The bathroom looks fantastic. Yeah. 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.400 The bathroom is like it looks like the bellagio in here. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.520 It's yeah, because you get the little bench yeah yeah 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.679 yeah yeah. Well we figured no because this the place 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.199 I needed complete complete, like gutting a fit. Yeah, talk 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.640 to bottom. Yeah yeah. So like we can put ever 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.160 we want, Like why don't we go big? You know, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.280 it doesn't cost that much more once you once you 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.080 the hard part. The demo is expensive and then obviously 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.960 the materials, but you can make it whatever you want. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.480 It doesn't cost that much more. I think kitchens and 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.880 bathrooms you have to nail, and I think your wife 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.839 nailed him. I think uh, Liven's in the kitchen yet, 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:39.400 but the bathroom, like the tile, the color, it looks great. Um, 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.640 she looks good. Um My wife's really really good. She 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.880 a lot of HUTV, a lot of reading stuff online 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.160 and like what her tastes are, and and she tried 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.600 to compromise because I have more. I'm pretty benign with 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.360 this stuff, you know what I mean, Like I just 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.240 can't like whatever. I just like I don't need it 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.880 popping and all that stuff. But yeahs you we wanted 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.760 stuff that's gonna last for a while, so hopefully this will. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.720 You know. Sometimes you you paint something and you haven't 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.240 look a certain way, and you get tired of it 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.480 after a while. Yeah. I try to avoid that as 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.560 much as part. I mean, it's like it's like the 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.679 old cliche of buying real estate right on, like in Malibu, 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.439 and you have this amazing window looking out of the 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.560 Pacific Ocean, and then you look at it for like 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.160 the first week or the first month, and then after 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:26.960 a while you forget about it. You don't even look, 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.000 you know, used to get used to it. It says 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:30.760 like you might as well live on the wrong side 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.439 of the tracks looking at skid row because you're not 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.640 gonna look at that, and you're not gonna look you know, 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.400 you just it's not part of your routine. It's just not. Um. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.120 I think you guys did a great job. And I 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:46.360 applaud her for opening up her Instagram comments section. I 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.040 was giving her shit about it, and she said that 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.360 I was not the only person that was grieving over 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.680 the fact that she had closed the door on comments. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.000 So that's in my position is different. You know, my 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:01.640 my wife's loves to give updates, and I'm I'm more of, hey, 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.920 you know, this is our you know, my private life. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.720 You know, I don't need this out there. But I 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.280 think she has a couple of Instagram pages, so I 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.760 think it was on her personal one that she she 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:13.880 set this stuff out. I think. I don't I don't know, 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.080 but I've not been very good at the Instagram game. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.040 I just don't have I'm not a booty model. I'm 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:19.640 not good at it, and I need to do better. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.640 I did post some photos the other day of me moving. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:28.080 Yeah that's about it, and uh yeah, so uh the 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.960 house will be done in a you know, a week 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.600 or ten days, and then we gotta move everything and 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.400 and then some of the stuff won't actually be here 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.520 for months somebody because of the delay. Everything is delayed. 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.640 I guess because of COVID. I don't know, but the 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.840 production line delays some of the stuff that we got. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.040 We're looking at, well it's August right now, we're looking 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:53.960 at October. October. That's actually good news because most of 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.800 the stuff that you get in October will be in 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.200 such good condition it will be perfect for me to 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:05.400 break in during the Christmas party. Just a beautiful, beautiful 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:09.120 way to uh end there you go. Yeah, you'll have 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.360 to to come over there, and I'm sure you'll complain 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.240 about how far it is from where you live. No, No, 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.840 that's actually worth the drive. Yeah you'll complain. You know. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.680 It's a secret location deep in the north Woods. And 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.200 that would be would you live in the north Woods? 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.440 Would you live? I do? I do the studios in 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.440 the north Woods? It is, But I mean like, would 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.000 you live like Lake Arrowhead, let's say, or Big Bear? 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:35.000 Would you ever considering living there? Um? Yeah, And now 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.720 I can do. Because of the studio set up, I 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:43.320 could work anywhere, so I'm open, you know, getty up. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.400 My my wife is more tied down than I am 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:50.040 at this point because I never imagined working in radio 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:51.880 that this would be the setup. I always thought, well, 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:55.280 it's only like Rush Limbaugh and uh, you know Steve 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.200 Harvey and Art Bell could do their show from their 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.320 home studio. Now there, I'll never be able to do that. 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.760 And then because of the it's one of the benefits 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.080 of COVID we have we have full the full time 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.360 hosts that have remote access. We have hosts that work 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.600 once a week that I have access, we have anchors 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.720 that have access. It seems like everybody has access to 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.640 work remotely, except for like someone like myself. Yeah, I 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.840 knew that was coming, you know, like driving to work 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.880 paying five and a half dollars and gallon for gasoline 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:29.480 and then you can thank your your governor, Gavin Listen. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.920 I have I have voted a high, high, high dark 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.040 circle on that. Yes, recall, It'll be great. And of 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:38.600 course most of my friends are like, why are you 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:42.800 gonna recall him? What has he done? All right? Yeah, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.320 well I my favorite part of that is the positioning 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.680 of the recall, like these are extremists, this is these 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:54.240 are hardcore people that are these are Trump people? No, Huan, 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.560 that was called I believe the people. These are people 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:01.920 that overtook the White House, you know, And I'm like, real, uh, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:06.080 because California is mostly liberal, a lot of liberal people 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.520 that think this guy's a boob. So oh, we'll see 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.880 what happens. I'm glack. Should I endorse it? I don't 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.240 know if I'm allowed to endorse. Am I allowed to 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.640 endorse anybody? Somebody? As far as the pool of candidates, 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:22.080 Larry Elder, Yes, Larry Elder's the guy, radio guy, well spoken. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.440 I think I think he would be a fine temporary 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.960 governor for the state of California. I hope that Larry 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.719 Elder ends up if we do succeed in getting rid 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.840 of this stiff, this turd, Gavin Newsome. I'd love to 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:38.480 see Larry Elder in there. I think he'd do a 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.919 great job. You have to give up his radio show though, right, 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.040 he can't do the radio show'd be nice of you could, right, 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.640 That'd be they'd be kind of wild awesome. Yeah, three 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.520 or four hour and syndicated Larry Elder show as the 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.480 governor of California. Oh my gosh, could you imagine that'd 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.159 be wild? I'm glad you brought him up. And I 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.840 want to ask you, I need your your your personal 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.840 and probably your fessional opinion on this because they overlap 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:06.240 in a couple of different things. You annually do a 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.840 nice little thing for a couple of cities where you 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.879 dress up as Santa Claus. Yes, and you do it 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.000 obviously for the kids. If if there was ever a time, 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.399 because you're volunteering your time and your day to do 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.640 this for the kids, But if there was ever a 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:24.199 time where the centers that you do it for the 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.720 fire departments, that you can do it for they said, Hey, 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:30.359 we're triggered by you looking like this or doing this 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.919 as Santa Claus. We need you to change, and you 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.119 don't want to. Um, would you just tell them to 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.280 kick rocks? Or would you change for the fact that 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:43.480 you're volunteering and you're offering your services for the kids. Well, 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.359 it depends, like if I was flicking off the kids 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.720 as I was address no, Like if it was just 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:50.680 something that it was your personal choice, like the way 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.720 you dressed, the way you talk to them, um, the 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:58.920 way you looked, just something like that, like which, uh, yeah, 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.040 I mean, I don't know even it's ridiculous. I'm not 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.720 gonna do it. I'm not getting paid for it. It's 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.280 just I like doing. It's fun, all right, Why do 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.920 you so? Last week we talked about someone we were 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.959 celebrating or I was celebrating my one year anniversary on 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:18.159 the National Suicide Prevention Line, and UM, I don't know 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.840 if many people know this, but the State of New 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:25.439 York followed State of California's leader vice versa on this. 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:30.600 We're Gavin Newsom mandated that everyone in the health industry 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.560 UM Health Services has to be there. They're mandated to 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:43.080 be vaccinated. So that means employees, wage earner's staff, board members, volunteers, 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.840 everybody has to be vaccinated. And so the cut off 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:52.080 date on that is September thirty this year. And our center, 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.040 the National Suicide Prevention Center, sent out a mass email 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:56.560 to all of us and said, hey, you guys need 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:58.399 to be vaccinated by this date or at least have 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:02.440 your first shot. And prior to that, we need everybody 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:08.520 to actually get COVID test dating once a week that staff, employees, 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:12.639 and volunteers. Bend the kicker on this as they even 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.960 wanted remote employees and staff and volunteers to also do this. 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.400 So their logic was, well, it's mandated by the Health 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.800 Department or health, the health industry, and the governor. That 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:26.960 means you all have to do this because we consider 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.760 everyone to be interacting with individuals. Well, we interact with 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.720 people on phone calls. That's it. Like, we're not case managers, 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.119 were not meeting with people, were not doctors, physicians and 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:41.639 that stuff. And they basically said, hey, you either do 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.520 this or you're going to be forced to resign. And 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:49.160 a couple of days ago, after my one year anniversary, 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:53.320 I sent a pretty detailed and scathing email and I said, Hey, 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:56.240 you guys have an email that says you're either vaccinated 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.119 or you're not. But you guys haven't addressed including the 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:03.560 medical director or this agency, individuals that have out of bodies, 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.480 Like where does that come into play? And I said, 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.919 you're doing this under the advisement or recommendation of a 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:12.879 governor that staring down the barrel of a recall. What 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:15.000 happens if he gets recalled and we have a new 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.919 governor and he doesn't mandate, in fact, he retracts that 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:21.640 mandate of vaccines. So it was a long, long email, 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.560 but the gist of it was I just said I'm 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:28.480 not gonna lose agency over my body because of what 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:33.200 other individuals I think I should and shouldn't do. So 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.440 you can either accept that. You can either be comfortable 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.320 with me working from home and doing what I want 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.959 to do, or I can I can say goodbye. I 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.640 did training, I did role pall role call, role play 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:51.360 calling on the phones I did I took a TV shot, um, 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:53.879 I did a background. I did all this stuff remotely, 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:56.280 and now all of a sudden, they're like, well, in 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:58.760 case you come into the studio or into work, and 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:02.080 I'm like, well, I'm not so I've already been given access. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:03.840 I was good for eighteen months to work there, a 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:06.520