WEBVTT - Glue Guy 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:05.880 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:09.639 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:13.320 the old Republic, the sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.200 crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:20.640 pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of Hot takes 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.480 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:33.239 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. It is 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.800 a Friday Friday Friday edition of The Fifth Hour with 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.680 Ben Maller, because four hours a night are not enough 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:46.080 in the overnight, eight days a week, eight days a 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.320 week here from the Magic Podcast Studio, even on the 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.920 extended holiday weekend. But I have learned from years past 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.640 that there's actually more need for audio content on the 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:01.000 holiday weekend because of Thanksgiving, people trying to get away 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.680 from family, going on walks, going shopping, you know, the 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.640 whole thing. So we are here. I debated whether to 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:07.960 be here this weekend, but we were here, and we 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:13.280 have the debut on Saturday's podcast of the new official 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.760 rubber stamped UH sidekick for the Fifth Out That'll be 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.480 on Saturday. But today it's all me. But it's not 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.319 me because we get to talk to someone who I 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:28.199 find interesting, someone who uh either I know in work 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.240 or I want to talk to him. This this week, 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.120 we talked to someone who I have known for several 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.639 years now, who is part of our Fox Sports Radio 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.880 Fami Lee. And you might not know, if you're not 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.119 a big radio nerd, how much stuff goes on behind 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.000 the scenes to get everything ready, prepped to go on 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.000 the air and all that stuff. And this guy works 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.600 his tail off. I call him the glue guy at 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.919 Fox Sports Radio. And his name is Alex ty Shirt 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.440 and he joins I call him the vegan and Alex 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.880 welcome of the Fifth Hour podcast. I do call you 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.920 the glog guy. How would you describe your your job? 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.920 You don't work on my show. You worked on the 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.760 shows before me, But I talked to you every single 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.960 night before the show. We do. Man, We have a 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.000 fun ritual every time I dial you up for your 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.160 show to take over the airwaves everywhere, I always tal 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.839 you up and I stay down the line big bladder yes, 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:26.720 and then I respond vegan here yeah, as an homage, 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.200 as a tribute to your vegan lifestyle and one of 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.959 the highlights Alex, as you know when the COVID thing 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.320 became a big deal and they shut everything down and 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.080 we didn't have sports, and so I was looking for 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:47.040 content and we had you pop in for Ask the Vegan. Yes, 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.600 one of the greatest segments in the history of Fox 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.960 Sports Radio, and we we picked your brain and you're 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.359 still It's gonna be a tough weekend here. I know. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:03:01.320 Thanksgiving has passed here, but as a v in the highlight, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.240 the star for many in Thanksgiving is the turkey. Yes, 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.000 and you're not a turkey guy. No. Actually, the fun 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:09.960 thing about that too, Ben, as I always was a 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.640 turkey guy growing up. The gravy on top is probably 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.880 the secret remedy to making it that much better. It's 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.720 like in and Out. I don't know if you knew this, Ben, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.000 but I worked at in and Out for a little 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.960 bit too. I did not realize, Yes, what was your job? 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:22.800 Were you the fry guy in and out? So I 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.720 made it to fry guy. The fun thing about in 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.240 and Out is there's levels to it. Bend. Everybody starts 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.320 at the bottom, which is like basically customer service, cleaning 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.560 up tables, going around and cleaning up the area and 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.080 establishment eventually work up to being a guy behind the cashier, 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.000 and then you go up to being like the potato 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.080 guy in the back, the fry guy, the board guy, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.320 the cook guy, and then eventually management. I made it 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.240 to fry guy, Ben, So you were right. I was 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.280 the guy dipping the frys. Well then and in and 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.800 out Burger, which is great and wonderful and all that stuff. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:55.920 The synergy in the kitchen, yes, very impressive. You do 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.800 not see that at all the fast food establishments. In 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.000 and out Burger, there's a there's a really, it's a team. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.720 It's true. It's funny too, because Ben, out of all 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:07.560 the jobs I've had, not only is that the one 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.640 job I think that they take the employment factor to 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.360 the extreme where they actually take care of everybody in 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.400 a great way. They have like a fair once a 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.320 year for their employees, Ben, did you know this? And 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.120 they still we used to do that back in the 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.160 old days. They stopped doing that a long time ago. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.440 You guys had chocolate fountains and statues. I remember all them. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.159 Oh give me Ted, when I got in I'm lucky 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.560 that I got into Fox Sports Radio in the days 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.479 when they still were just really it wasn't Fox, it 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:39.800 was the Premier Network was just letting it ripped. Every 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:44.560 year gala Christmas party in Beverly Hills, they flew everyone 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.400 in from all over the country, all the big radio stars. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.599 And as a radio nerd Alex to be at the 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.200 same party with Art Bell and dr Lor. These are 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.480 heavy hitters in radio. A Matt Drudge I met one year. 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.680 You did a syndicated show for for Premier. Jim Rome 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.080 was the big star of the Premier networks. And all 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.719 these big heavy hitters they'd bring in, and this guy 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.240 Craig Kitchen, who was the president. He'd get up there 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:14.080 everyone he'd wear a tuxedo and oh it's crazy. Holy moly. 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.320 Now you're lucky if you get an extra bag of 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:20.080 chips out of the vending I got breaking news for you, Ben. 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.240 The vending machine is broke at the moment, Suit, I 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.200 heard about that. Now, who who broke the vending machine? 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.920 Somebody had I don't think the machine broke itself. You 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.920 were there a lot. Did you notice any kind of 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.800 illicit activity around the FSR vending machine? So, Ben, I 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.080 have theories, and I believe that it might have been 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.440 somebody that works with your team on the Overnight show. Bad. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.760 Is that right? Would you like to give the initials 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:47.159 of who might be responsible there? It might be something 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.640 that rhymes with oopa loop um. Interesting. So you believe 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.200 there's a chance that somebody will call me as you said, 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:58.839 the upper loop went on a rampage against the vending machine. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.400 Now they're is a camera that is positioned to focus 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.479 on the vending machine. They don't they take security very 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.800 seriously at our company, Alex right. They do not want 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:15.200 anyone stealing a seventy five cent bag of M and m's, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.000 I think, except the dollar now it's actually a dollar now, yeah, yeah, 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.440 I think it might be more. They raised the president 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.280 when they first put that thing in. They remember they 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.200 bought it was like a nineteen eighties vending machine, and 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.919 they had nineteen eighties prices for all those Yes, I 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.240 still remember that. The best part two is it always 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.080 sounds like it's a airplane about to take off. It 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.039 would have heat this like cooling system initiation for the 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.200 sodas at the bottom, and so we would have to 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.320 actually close the studio door because we like to leave 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.279 it open for air and stuff, but we'd actually have 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.480 to close it because it sounded like it'd be taking 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.680 off in about five minutes. It was hysterical. So I 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.440 think what happened was they called somebody up and said, hey, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.680 we need a vending machine. And they said that. The 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.960 company's like, well, we have these lean vending cheens, the 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.680 top model. You can't even hear them at all, and 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.719 they're really just wonderful. And then they put a price 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.280 on that, and so then whoever the company is like, Okay, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.320 well what I don't really have that kind of money. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:13.880 It's not in the budget. So what do you have 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.680 in our price range? And I said, well, we can 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.680 go on the back. You know. It's like it's like 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.840 when you go shopping at the TV and or a refrigerator, 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.240 and I don't. I'm not riding any but I do 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.560 the same thing. There's a big furniture store out in 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:32.040 uh what's mathis Brothers in southern California. Great store, very expensive. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.000 So what I'll do is I'll go. I'll go there 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.640 and I'll make the walk all the way to the 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.000 back where they have the discount section. They're trying to 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.080 get rid of stuff. And that's where I start. That's 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.480 always where I start, Alex, because I said, let me 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.320 see if I can get a deal here right right, 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.200 and then I'll work my way back to the more 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.440 expensive stuff. That's funny. My mom is the same as you. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.920 She is a I would say, low tier, top quality 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.080 businesswoman in a sense of knowing where every deal value 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:02.360 isle is in any store you go to. It's impressive, Ben, Yeah, 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.880 well you learned that as you become more frugal over. 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:11.320 I'm el Chipo, it's my nickname, not El chapo Chio. Okay, 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.680 very very frugal. But yeah, years of radio, you know, 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.280 I don't. I've never made the big, big money in radio, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.800 so I like to make the big money. I think 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.600 I would still be thrifty. I wouldn't be on a 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.400 shoe string budget or anything like. Sure, I would, you know, 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.880 that's still shop on the dollar menu, but I would 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.719 occasionally spurge a little more. Sure. It's like the encents. Uh. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:36.600 To me, it makes sense. There's a lot of people 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.360 who have a lot of money, and how do they 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.160 stay in money, Ben, It's because they don't spend a 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:41.839 lot of money, or they try not to, so they 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.840 consume the wealth, hold onto it, and then use it. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.560 Like you said, Uh, Rob Parker type who goes to 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.760 the Eloil local right here, and they up the prices 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.079 for a soft drink from seventy five to eighty cents, 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.960 and he flips out for five cents but five backpack. So, yes, 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:56.800 it makes so much sense. Yeah, we had well, we 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.480 had Rob on the podcast and yeah, yeah he's we haven't. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.120 A couple of times he told a wonderful story about 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.560 flying to the World Series in Atlanta's one of the 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.840 great stories ever told. He bought a Spirit Airlines ticket, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.920 which is dirt cheap, and they charged for everything, like 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.720 if you want to bring a bag, they charged it, 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.520 so he didn't bring anything other than the smallest bag 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:23.120 that was allowed as a carry on. He flies to Atlanta. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.920 He then goes out to buy a few clothes to 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.080 wear for the weekend at a discount store, right one 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.040 of those dress for last type things. So he buys 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.920 a few things to where he goes covers the World Series, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.360 and on the way back, he's flying the discount airline 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.800 and because you know it's some money grubbing low ball, 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.600 you can't put any pat you know, any clothes. So 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.520 all the clothes he bought he just left in the 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.080 hotel room and put a sign and he put. He 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.200 drew a little note saying, Hey, for the person cleaning 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:58.600 the room, if you want these clothes you Yeah, that's awesome. Man. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.760 I can't get away with that. Man. I told my wife, 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.560 let's travel like Rob Parker. She said, no, I like 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.360 to bring my clothes with me when I travel. Oh 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.520 my gosh. You know what's funny is he takes the 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.600 extreme of how a lot of people, especially the ladies 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.600 out there overpack where they need five out fits per day. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.600 He told himself, I'm taking nothing and leaving with nothing. Yeah, 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.480 he just went out bought a couple of pairs underwear, 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.640 bought a couple of shirts, or you know, one or two. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.559 I don't think he was there that long and right, 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.920 I can tell you the way inflation is going right now, man, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.120 this is the way of the future here, the Rob 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.520 Parker model is the way of the future. With these 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:36.719 prices swelling, uh, this infestation of inflation. I think he's 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.880 using his talents wrongly. Ben. I think he needs to 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.200 go out there and be like one of those Jim 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.960 buddies so everybody has like a personal trainer. Rob needs 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.839 to be a personal spender for you and show you 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.240 how to get through with everything and to curve the 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.760 curving of the inflation. Now, as far as the story 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.520 you told about him going into the boiled loco and 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.520 the thing goes up five cents, he says, what that. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.480 I was the same way when I back when I 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.040 was a batchler, and I would go around and I 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:07.040 did not have the healthiest diet Alex. I did, yes 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.640 hard to believe when I was way way obese, that 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.520 I ated a lot of bad stuff. So I don't 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.200 need that great anymore. I just don't eat much. Be 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.720 sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.040 weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific on 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.240 Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. We'll 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.240 get to that in a minute. But so I'm I. 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.360 I go to the Windy's. I loved Windy's the chicken 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.560 sandwich and Windy's tombo with the chicken nuggets on the 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.760 side with the fries wonderful. So I'd go there, and 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:35.840 I knew exactly and this is back in the days. 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:39.320 I paid cash, so I brought just enough to cover 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.520 the I knew exactly how much it was exactly right, 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.760 And I've eaten there on the regular once or twice 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.400 a week, so I knew exactly what the price was 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.480 from my meal. I didn't change the order. I'm a creature, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.160 a habit. I got the same thing, and I'd go 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.920 in there and drive through, and I did all the 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.400 the calculation. I'd already done that, and then all of 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.000 a sudden, they're like, uh, the prices blah blah blah 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.200 blah blah, and uh, and I said, well, no, no, no, no, 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.240 that's not the price. I know exactly what the prices. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.120 And when we raised our prices or the taxes would 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.800 go off. They'd raised the taxes, being in California taxation 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.880 without representation, and how that worth last time? Yeah, yeah, 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.640 So I'd get upset and this is this happened like 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.440 multiple times. I'd have the math and then it would 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.319 be all of a sudden, it would be algebra, you know, calculus, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.160 or so it was because they they screwed it up. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:33.800 And every once a while I wouldn't even have enough money. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.040 I'd only bring the right amount of money to buy 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:42.280 the said food items. Holy moly, yeah, he's likely. You 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:43.760 know what's funny is like that's the one thing that 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:45.280 happened in and out too. When I was there, we 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:49.199 would progressively sometimes have to increase annual prices to consistently 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.520 bring the service to provide for the customers that they wanted. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.840 And it's funny, as you said, it's just because taxes 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.440 went up on stuff, so their meat plans had to 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.679 pay a little bit more. The potato place, the bun place, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.719 which people don't know this bend in and out. They 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.640 got all of their stuff by themselves, so they actually 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:07.080 had their own bakery that they sponsored, their own butcher shop, 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.679 their own potato farm. They did it all themselves. I 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.280 thought it was really cool. Now, when I lived in 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.000 the San Gabriel Valley, which I did for a while, 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.480 there was an in and out University. Did you ever 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:24.079 have to go to in and out universe? So so 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.520 basically that's the spot you go to once you hit 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:31.800 level seven, which is basically that this like there's was 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.840 that Tom Cruise, Yes, Scientology at the level seven they 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.800 unlocked the special Scientology. That's so funny to be Uh yeah, 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.280 Basically you start as a level one, climb up your 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.440 way to level seven. Then after seven that's when like 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.480 the big honchos and the black suits and the black 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.360 sunglasses come to your house and night They're like, listen, 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.439 we would like to bring you into management. Would you 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.360 like to join? So that's where you go to that academy, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.920 Ben when you want to do management stuff. That's wild. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.599 I have no I love in and out. I'm not 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.240 saying this ripping it out. But when I went to 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.359 the gym back before the the despot leader of California, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.719 Strett down all the gyms, and uh, I used to 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.720 go to a twenty four hour gym. It was great. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.240 I'd go after the show hang out with my old friends. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.600 That show, I had a group of friends. I'm not 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:17.840 very social when I go out. I'm I'm an introvert. 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:19.920 I don't talk to many people. You're more of an extrovert. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.440 But so I will, I will. I go to the gym, 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.680 and I knew a few people, and they usually because 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.440 they talked to me, not because I talked to them, 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.000 and so they became friends. And usually older people go 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:30.880 to the gym early in the morning. When I was there, 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:35.520 and so there was a guy in there and he 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.280 he had worked at In and Out Burger for like 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.600 thirty years or something, I mean his whole life. He 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.720 was you know, he started as a kid in high 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.400 school and worked you know, all the way through and 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.920 they got rid of him, and he was swore. He 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.560 was so upset. He claimed that because he was making 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.960 too much money that they got rid of. Yeah, he 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:58.320 had risen up the ranks of the restaurant. He was 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.240 convinced because he got to a point where salary was 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.120 so high. You can make a fair amount of money, though, 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.760 and once you rise up, it's more money than some 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.520 of us making radio. And I've heard whispers. And I 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.000 talked to the store manager at Store forty eight, where 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.800 I worked in Norco back in college days. She was 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.760 telling me that if you get up to management level 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.720 and get one of those red aprons, the ones that 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.720 are the store managers, you're making about six digits just 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.680 to manage in and out. Wow, it's insane, my guy, 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.400 it's a fairies. I think that's more stressful than what 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.120 we do. Is people say that, oh, you gotta do 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:34.920 a radio show, and you gotta you know, you gotta 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.800 be there exactly this time and finished talking at this time, 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.240 and I'm like, yeah, I've done it a long time. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.600 But I go to these restaurants. You mentioned how crazy. 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.560 It is in the back they're making the fries and 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.440 the burgers and all that stuff. But it's it's a 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.600 NonStop you're on if you do the rush, the rush 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.720 hour and in and out. It could be not just lunch, 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.240 it it's overnight people going for a late night snack, 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:00.000 and it's it's intense in there. For sure. You can't 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.240 f up and you're messing with food. You mess up 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:06.280 a burger tisher, holy moment happen. And that's the thing too. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.880 They have that model where the whole customers right things. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.480 So if somebody eats half a burger and brings it 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:11.800 up and says, yo, I didn't like it, let me 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.320 make you a new one. What you want different on it? 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.280 They always do that. And as you said, the high 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.840 velocity lifestyle they had been if it was a downtime, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.880 so let's just say between dinner, late night rush, or 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.640 maybe between lunch and dinner. If it's slow bend for 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.240 at least a consistent thirty minutes to almost an hour, 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.800 they'll send people home because there's nothing to do. That's 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.120 how high strung the environment is is that they want 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.400 you always go, go going, and if there's nothing to 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.200 go on and everything is spotlessly clean. They just start 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.320 letting people go home early what we call them back though, 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.880 because people that show up and that's where they suffer. 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.200 It's all about trying to get the right management with 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.320 the money spending for the employment. So basically you have 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.600 to time and guess it off of the You're kind 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.440 of guessing, is the best way to say. You're trying 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.760 to think. Okay, it's a Tuesday night, it's already eight pm. 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.680 We've hit a lot of already the dinner rush. How 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.480 many people are gonna come through at night? Can I 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.640 get through with these crew members? I know these guys 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:05.880 can do multiple things, and it's like basically a giant 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.680 Jenga pun puzzle. They're trying to figure out which way 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.880 to go with employment to benefit themselves. During the rushes, 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:16.840 it was wild dude, wild environment. Yeah all right, well 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.520 that's uh, that's interesting. You want another fun story about 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.800 a job I had before Fox Ben, Well, of course 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.440 I don't want to hear about Fox. About other o 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.359 the Grand Vegan Adventures, Yes, the Life of the Vegan. 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.919 So this is way before I ever learned about life nutrition. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.000 This is back, I'd say in my big bend days 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.560 before any of that big Yeah, oh for sure, for sure. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.520 So this was a job I had that I would 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.399 consider bookworthy, if not movie worthy. So this was called 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.919 a caretaker position, and it wasn't of older people. It 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.639 was actually in a state. So the way I found 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:51.160 this job, and before I get into you with you'll 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.359 set it up perfectly. At the time, I was dating 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.880 my X and she was working at an animal hospital 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.320 and so one of her co workers was a dog trainer, 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.960 had her own company, and she met a couple. It 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.840 was a gay couple, a guy named Bruce and Rob, 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.320 and so they were looking for somebody to be a 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.960 caretaker of their estate. And they're very wealthy guys. They 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.560 have like a ballroom gown collection. A big company was 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.800 called Masquerade. They would make all the stuff in J. C. Penny's, 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.600 you name it, from ballrooms to they even did like 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.640 prom stuff, even special wedding dress orders. Had a couple 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.000 of factories over in China. It was insane that they're 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.880 big polarization of their company. So they had an estate 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.399 in Norco by me Ben, which is like Horsetown, USA. 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.679 I think you've heard of it, Ryan, Yes, I've actually 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.879 driven through norc Yes, it's three exits. It's a far 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.320 far away out in the outskirts. Yes, you're not far 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.440 from Riverside, no nor code. It's more it's closer to 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.600 which is out in the well I consider the boondocks. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.240 But now I live kind of in the buddocks where 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.680 I am now same and I'm about an hour from work. 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.720 So that's exactly where I live as the Cron area 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.359 right by Norco and so in Norco Ben they had 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:58.200 an estate. It was a four acre property, three houses 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.439 on the property and they were looking for somebody to 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.640 be the caretaker, which was a six day a week 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.520 job early morning till late at night, so about six 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.840 to six. And your job was not only to take 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.240 care of the estate, to do the maintenance work, to 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.480 take care of the horses they had. They had two 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.320 horses on the estate. They had a bunch of animals. 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:19.600 They had goats, lamas, ostriches, chickens, you name it. They 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:21.760 had an insane it was like their own petting zoo 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.639 basically at their estate. And so the job they wanted 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:26.560 was not only to do all that, take care of 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.199 all the other stuff. Micro managed the other employers that 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.879 would come the cleaning people, the pool people, you name it. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:35.199 And when they're gone, you're basically like the homeowner. You 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.440 take care of everything while they're away, either for business 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.520 or pleasure. And so I went for this interview Ben. 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:42.960 Keep in mind them only twenty years old at the time, right. 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:44.840