Truck Stop

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and proud lot. No no cheering, no applause, none of that stuff. You know, things are still in doubt, so we need to go into probably the month of December before we can get that loud, roaring ovation. But no, yeah, this is really this political stuff is affecting you. I've noticed there's you're off your normal annoying guests on routine, Like do you really troubled by the would you mean my normal annoying self. I've just I've just noticed this

week is in our brief interactions. I've noticed you don't even know what the funk I do during the week. Why are you so defensive because you come to be like I'm triggered by something like yeah, I just noticed that you're a little affected by everything going on. I'm not I'm fine. I mean there'll be a president and then that my life will not really change much at all. I don't. I don't believe other than full you didn't checking out the prop votes that were bettered against. What's that?

I voted against every prop but the Uber deal or whatever they But as far as the taxes going up, anything with tax going up, I voted, Yeah, Well, those actually lost. We're gonna have increase in state taxes. Come come, hell or high water, look came, and our taxes will be right. So the property tax thing went up, I think it was Prop fourteen was was green let the property tax? I believe it was another one. I did see that California rejected um rent control and they did

reject no cash bail. That's it. Well, if the mortgage thing went up, this is good because I can finally move. I can convince my wife you get the hell out of here and go to a place where they actually respect their citizens and don't gouge them with taxes. So that could be a good thing. Is it would be a short term pain for the long term gain. Yeah, but what I mean California is what one and a quarter percent of your property value assessed value? Uh? Well,

I haven't read. I don't know what you're talking. I didn't see the guideline that I knew. One of the props was they would raise the property taxes tremendously. Um And I don't know if that's the one you're referring to or if that is something else. No, No, I've just been in general. Are are general state tax for property? I think it's one in a quarter percent or at least enough. But they had the thing that was, you know, my father, because they bought the house a long time ago,

their property taxes have stayed flat. Yeah, they're protected. They're protected depending on when they got into the house. They're protected. And you can obviously transfer that if you're in a trust too, which is nice. But if you're not, and then you transfer that title from you know, your parents name to somebody else, than they immediately immediately get reassessed to a new value and they get hit with that property tax rate. That trust is the way to go.

That trust things the way to go. Yeah, it's best fit. You can obviously protect everybody that's underneath that that trust. At the same time, like God forbid, someone does have something bad happened to him. You got it. All in paper, and the attorneys just divvy everything up according to the trust and that's it. You don't have to worry about a will and a power of attorney and everything else that comes into play. Nice to be a trust fund, baby. That would be good to be a trust fund baby.

Man man, But what would you do though? I like, you'd have to work, you'd have to do something, especially in the pandemic. That's how I'm wired. But it'd be nice to not feel the pressure of you have a bad show. You're like, I'm losing my job and lose my house and you know that whole thing. That'd be nice to not have to deal with that. I don't think you're under that kind of a risk. No, I don't. I don't know, probably not. But I'm just saying, like, it'd be nice to have, you know, go on vacation.

It's like, all right, we have money now to go wherever. You know, we don't have to you know what I'm saying. You feel you feel me? I do. I do. I just don't know how you actually spend your money. So it's a little bit different from from my my standpoint, like what do you spend your money on? It well, I'm spending on my mortgage, I spending on my car insurance, cell phone, car payment, cell phone, no cable, Internet, no cable, we don't have cable. Certainly not spending it on gas anymore.

What are you getting at there? You're not driving anymore. To drive on the weekends, you probably save I would imagine you probably save anywhere from two to four dollars a month now and gas. Uh yeah, it's probably it depends on the price of gas. But I was spending because you get what like thirty eight miles to the gallon in your car maybe I used to. Now I get like thirty three or something, but I used to

get that. Uh. I you know, I would say I would spend like to fifty a month minimum probably on gas I have to fill up. Yeah, so yeah, because we drive a lot on the weekend. So it's like during the week it was like five hundred miles um a week, and so it would be getting a tank like every filming the tank up every like eight or

nine days would see you fill it up. Like yeah, maybe not that much, and maybe it was like going around two hundred not to fifty, but it was a lot, and the price of gas is fluctuated, going up and down. Especially in California. We pay about a dollar tax on every gallon that you purchased, right, adding gas tax, and and then an extra ten cents if you use your debit or credit card. You know, one thing I would

like to mention with these stupid propositions. The last election, the voters in California voted to get rid of daylight savings time. Yes, and nothing's happened with that, So what the fuck? What's the point of voting for it if you're not gonna do it. I don't know. It's extremely frustrating. No, because if California got rid of daylight savings time, then

that the entire like West Coast would be. They'd have to do it right, because yes, all of those states on the West coast, Arizona doesn't observe daylight second, good for them, that's a good job by them, you know. And Nevada because of Vegas. Whatever time California is on, because they want those l A dollars flowing into Vegas, they're not they're gonna keep. At the same time, they're not gonna you know, they're gonna model that after after

the California model. So oh yeah, Nevada and Arizona are coming closer and closer to California as we speak. So yeah, well there'll be a big earthquake. Everyone will be out in the open. Be all right, I get my life preserver, I'll be Okay. Were you at least excited for the election to take place and see how much of a turnout we had? Um, I'm I'm excited. I mean, then

I guess I only it's gonna change that much. I mean, I guess if Biden ultimately is the president, I'll have to you know, stay stay in more and uh, you know, I'll be in lockdown and it'll be a police state and all that. But uh, and I don't think he's gonna change that. I mean, it would just be annoying on a different different kind of annoying, right, you know

what I'm saying. Like, So I'm like, I'm not really I'm not as worked up as some people are worked up into a ladder like I I'd like to think Trump is gonna find a way to win, But if he doesn't, that's fine, I mean, and that means I guess he can run in four right, he can come back and be president four years later, and imagine that. I'm actually think it's crazy. Now, imagine if he ran again four years from now. I wouldn't want him to I wouldn't want no, I think, I mean I wouldn't.

I wouldn't want Biden to run anyway if I was a a hardcore Democrat. Well, the only problem over the age thing, because Trump he's seventy four, seventy eight, and that's well how old is Biden? So yeah, I mean that's and Biden seems like he's way too old to be president. So that would be a problem. Yeah, you just want to Trump loses like Biden lost his fastball. He's he was a very sharp well you like him or not, he was a sharp politician for years. I

mean he was, he was on his game. He's not anymore. He's a shell of what he had been. I guess it doesn't matter. But is Trump gonna be like, is he gonna have that same cognitive decline over the next four years or is he gonna still You know, some people keep their fastball right up until the end. Yeah, very few, but some people do to their last breath.

Still got their fastball. I was at least excited to see the amount of turnout that we we saw across across the land, like people actually in person voting, and yeah, you're talking about think districts and the representatives and the and the councilman um, the representatives across the state of California everywhere. I mean, it was It's good to see that kind of drama. That's really good TV in my opinion.

Although you ultimately love to have a decision on said day as opposed to dragging the shift out, but you know, this stuff is gonna go right to the Supreme Court and we won't probably get a decision until December. I think. Well, one thing I would like to mention though, is I did get a kick out of the political pundits is the night went later and later and they started bitching and complaining because they had to stay up all night.

And it reminded me of when the trade deadlines would be at midnight, and we like Rachel Nichols complained so much and a couple other media people in the NBA. They used to have the NBA trade deadline. It was like midnight Eastern, which was great for us, or the free of the start of free agency would be at midnight. It was awesome because we'd be on the radio and stuff would be trick coming in all night long. We get woe Jan Shams, bombs bombing runs in the middle

of the night. And then you know these elitist like Rachel Nichols and these people complained, and so the NBA cow towing, get your fine, you know, taking a knee, genuflecting, I should say to the to the media, they moved it to like the afternoon. Yeah, and the politically, we we we should have a deadline. You're new to announce the winner for the White House, but you know ten o'clock at night or something like that. Well, there's two guys like Chris Cuomo for CNN and Bill Hemmer for Fox.

Those two guys they had I don't know how they felt, but they looked like they had a ton of juice left in them. Like I went to bed, I think the night of the election, went to bed at two AM, maybe three. And those guys are still up. Those guys are still rocking. And that's on the East Coast. You think possibly they might have had some ambient Maybe Hember City took a forty five minute nap because they had to do a show the next day, and then Cuomo the same thing too. Like those guys, those but I'm

not gonna give them like a gold star. That's their gig, this is their super Yeah. I mean, if you're a political pundit like Cuomo and Emmer and these guys, and your job is to deal with politics, and this is this is what you live for you. I mean, how many how many people who are in political media would give their left testicle to be on election night anchoring

election night coverage? Oh yeah, it's it's great, especially because if you're on the West Coast and you're in some of those battleground states that all all the attention, like the microscope is on you. So if you're in Arizona, if you're in Nevada, if you're in parts like that, then all of a sudden, like everything of the Republic is now on here. If you're a beat reporter like that, more often than I you don't get that kind of coverage, and all of a sudden, once a year or once

every four years, you did. Yeah, So we'll see what happens with the election stuff. I as I told you, guess I believe that this will drag on like whoever we maybe they've already announced the winner by the time we're doing this. I don't know, because we recorded this a few days ago. But to me doesn't matter. I give. If you know, Trump were to win, the Biden people would sue Trump's already suit, so you know that's that's already So it's going to be decided by the court system.

And I don't even know how that all works, because you know, what's the chain of command on that, what's the the social order? And does it go to a Senate vote? Like how do they determine it's supposed to be the vote of the people. So it's a very convoluted situation. I just I'd like to think they will have that decided by the end of the year. I just I don't get, for the life of me, how I could walk into a polling center and cast my vote and all they asked me to do is identify

my name and my birthday. That's it. Well, you think they should like fingerprints or something. Well, I think they should at least identify me. You know, you know this, we pay up the wazoo for all kinds of bullshit in California, and now that includes mostly everyone here in the state has to pay for a new identification carter driver's license. So if you have a passport, you're safe, but they want you to get a new driver's license

to use that when you fly across the country. Oh yeah, I had to get a new driver's license yet, So you're paying that money. Where does it go? Like why can't it be used in situations like this for voter identification when you're at the ballot box. Yeah yeah. When they make the counter argument it's racial profiling and all. Yeah, I don't know if, I don't know where that comes from, but they put it out there, and not everyone has

an idea. I mean, I got I. I have a valid driver's license and I have to carry it with me when I drive. I have valid vehicle insurance. I have to carry that with me if I drive. If I don't have those with me, then I get a ticket. I get to fix it ticket. I it fine for that, Like, how how does that not? I can't board a plane without an identification card? No, listen, I hear you. Um. And then other people have said they should streamline the election process. But I don't think that's a good night.

It's a it's a big country. Every states rights. I would like to see the states get get off the toilet, you know, stop sitting there. Like Florida screwed up their election in two thousand and they were the most efficient state. They had that thing nailed down Florida very very fast, compared to some of these other states which are taken forever. So I saw a great tweet you that night. Uh, one of these girls that was on Twitter. She said,

So let me get this straight. Vegas and Nevada have no problems with partying and gambling and dancing and doing drugs all night and into the morning time. But god forbid, you can't count votes into the middle of the night. No. I know these people. It's like it's like Cinderella. They turned into a pump midnight. They can't do it, cannot work. They don't have the all night jeans. They just they're not workhorses. They're not. All right, we gotta get to

a gascon now. But that ends the political portion of the podcast. But now that's the third round, my mom, that's the third round, alright. So big rig Benny, big rig Benny. Another example of the difference between myself and David Gascon. So Monday, I had an emergency Mallard meet and greet, an emergency Mallard meet and greet. Now, if you don't follow me on social media, you probably don't know about this. But if you do follow me on

Facebook or Instagram, chances are you saw photographic evidence. And as the late great radio icon. At one point when I was early in my career, the most listened to person in radio, Paul Harvey would say, Now for the rest of the store. So I pressed the flesh with Mallard, Militia, bring a dear general, moving man Matt, right out of Boston, Right out of Boston, hanging out with moving man Matt. So how did this happen? All right, I will walk you through. I'm gonna hold your hand, and I'm explained

to you like you're you're in kindergarten. Alright. So, first of all, Matt, who he had informed us, he called into the show over the last couple of weeks and he said, list I'm on my way to California. He stopped off in Colorado. He had he was at the restaurant in the snow there where they had the Mallard maneuver in outside Danver, about seventy miles outside Denver. So he did that. He's stopped and had the full Mallard

food tour a couple of times. Anyway, so Matt reached out on the show and then he emailed me and we started playing email ping pong. We went back and forth. There maybe email racquetball, however you want to call it. Um. So I have a steadfast rule where I called it the Doc mic because I cannot give out my number to a list Now. A few of the listeners have been grandfathered in and have my number from years ago.

But Doc Mike wounded for everybody. That fiasco with Doc Mike when Doc was one of my guys in Chicago and he said, I'm going to jail for two years. You gotta I gotta be able to get ahold of you want to get out. And so of course the dummy that I am gave him my number, and I said, Doc, listen giving you my number. I don't want you to call me until you get out, and then I want you to lose my number. Yep, absolutely no problem. You can trust me. Guy calls me four days a week,

four days a week. It's been twenty years since he had his little escapades there. So anyway, so back to the story. So moving man matt Uh, he sent me a couple of dates. He's gonna be in California, in southern California, moving people around the country. So he had a couple of dates and the one that worked out the plan and it's aligning is Andrea the sports sorceress would say, was Monday afternoon. So I made the pilgrimage

out to Ontario, California. Right off the ten Freeway, I cruised into a place gascon would never be seen, at the Petro truck stop right off I tend there, one of the great truck stops in California. And I pulled into the parking lot and they had gas ganiall be happy to know. They had a Popeye's Chicken, they had a Burger King. There was an Iron Skillet, but that was closed to a big travel store there and a huge as big as you can possibly imagine parking lot

with nothing but these monster eighteen wheeler trucks. I'm talking hundreds. I didn't count, but it seemed like hundreds of these trucks just sleeping in the in the parking lot. So so anyway, I get in there. And there's two parts of this. There's the parking lot where you can park like regular cars, and then there's the actual truck parking lot. So I was in the mallarmobile, so I parked in the regular parking lot. So then I'm like, well, I I can't talk to you know, my guy moving man,

Matt on the phone. So I'm like, all right, so I emailed him, got right back to me. I'll come see it. So he ran over and uh, he said hello, and he had his partner in crime with him, Louis. Louis is a ferocious French bulldog. Uh. That is his travel companion on the on the road and it's pretty cool, says Louise only has to stop, like, you know, a couple of times a day to do the poop and the school and so anyway, so, uh, Matt came over and we we were like hey, whatever, and he's like hey, uh.

He says, I want you to pull the Mallard maneuver. This is the second part of the story. So he says. Matt's like, hey, listen, why don't you you go over here, We'll do the Mallard maneuver. So I was like, I don't know, okay. Uh So he says, go around out of the parking lot you're in and where the normal civilians are, and then you make a left and then another left, and I want you to go into the big rig parking lot. Um. So I'm like, okay, you know what I mean. Whatever, you must know the way

this works. You your truck driver, you're in the you know you're here, You've stopped here before. So so this is a metered parking lot. David's me the parking lot. The first two hours are free. So I I take the Malawabile to the back gate there and I'm just to paint you a picture here, a word picture. I'm driving a normal car the mallon Wibile. You know, it's normal sedan, it's nothing outraged on eighteen wheeler. So as I'm pulling around a lot, I am surrounded by these

giant trucks behind in front of me. I get to the gate, I make the left turn. I get to the gate at the Petro the truck parking lot. It is designed there's you know those those when you go into a paid parking lot, the gate comes up and comes down. So it's designed for eighteen heelers. So I have to I have to stop my car, I have to physically get out of the car reach up to grab the ticket because it's so high, because it's designed for you know, in a truck, you're much higher than

a car obviously. So so then I had an epiphany and I realized that I could simply just cruise under the gate without getting touched by the arm bar. That that thing was so high to stop trucks from going in like like that would actually stop a truck. That I could just drive under it and not didn't have to get a ticket, but I did. I took a ticket, and I cruised around, and Matt told me exactly where he was, and so I found I found his rig. Right, Moving Man Matt found his rig there, told me where

to meet him. And then the final thing here the main event. So moving Man Matt, he says, I'm gonna pull the rig away from the trailer that he was hauling with all the moving stuff. He said, so I could see in person the fur first ever mobile moving billboard for the Mallar Militia. Guess Scott. He pulled that rig away from that trailer, and it was like seeing the Mona Lisa. It was like seeing the Hope diamond. It was looking at Michael Angelo painting the ceiling at

the Sistine champell. Uh. It was goose bumps. It was breathtaking. It was extraordinary there it was right in front of me in all its glory. I had seen photos of it, but here I was face to face, eye to eye, belly to belly. With the hashtag Mallard Militia. It was a religious like experience. Guests, guy, it was did you guys hold hands and cuddle and share a glass of wine? You know, we we we might have hugged it out. You might might have hugged it out. It was a

very emotional situation there, as you know, and beautiful. It's just beautiful. My God, great job and you'll be happy to know that. Uh. As we were chatting, and I've met moving man mat before. He came to the Mathern Meet and great the great twenty nineteen Boston Meet and greet at the Casking Flagging on a cold night across from Finway in April of twenty nineteen. We made a great time there. It was wonderful. Um. So I've met him before and so so that was one of the

reasons I was willing to meet him again. But he did inform me he would like to punch Doc Mike in the face because of the number debacle and how much more difficult it was to get ahold of me. Uh. And he's also not a fan of Gascon how about that? Not a fan of Mr West of the four oh five. And he wanted a piece of Gascott. He wanted to give you the business, is what he wanted. Yeah, how encouraging. Yeah, so it once you to know, uh, And he didn't. He educated me a little bit on the truck the

trucker lifestyle, he informed me. And I didn't know this. Have you ever heard of a lot lizards? A lot lizards? Now, yes, I didn't either. I didn't know what he said. He's all stay away from the lot lizards or something like that. I forget exactly what he said or something like that. And so, what are you talking about? And so then he told me about this. There's this documentary. Um, it's a few years old. I'm actually gonna try to find it. It's like four years old, and it is a documentary

about truck stop sex workers. Yeah, and it's like there's three million truck drivers. There's thousands of truck stops throughout the United States, and many of them are frequented by whorse drivers referred to as lot lizards. And Matt was telling me that that I don't want to disparage that truck stop, but apparently back in the day, I don't know if it's still the case, that was a legendary spot for a lot lizards to do their business. Apparently the truck drivers very open to that. And uh yeah,

very very open to that. And there's the money to be made there. You do a Google search on lot lizard, the first thing that comes up is what does a lot lizard mean? And then it goes what makes a good truck stop? That's good, that's good. So and I don't want to speak for prostitutes, but I would think if you're a prostitute, this is like, you know, you know, I think it would be difficult. You're walking the streets waiting for somebody to, you know, pull up to your car.

But if you go to where the customers are right, if you're you know, why not, that's very efficient. And the best part is is you're not worried about a small car, that's true, yes, yes, And and Matt was telling me that the you could tell the guys that had the lot lizards because they would most of the guys would back their truck in so you could see

inside the rig. But if they parked against the wall, that meant they were doing the hanky panky in the truck right there because they want anybody to see it. So and it was like, I think I would have been a pretty good truck driver and maybe that'll be my fallback if this whole thing doesn't work out with Radio, if they get rid of me. But you know, you buy yourself a lot. You know, these guys actually make pretty good money. I mean, my guy Matt is hustling.

He's got a bunch of kids, and he's you know, he's supporting the hell out of his family, and he's on the road twenty five twenty days out of the month. He's home for like ten days at the most, and he's back on the road and he's making the cash. Though he's probably gonna clear more than I make, uh this year driving the truck. So there you go. Guess you want to get out of Radio guest and you want to make the real money. You be on the road all the time. But I got a lot of cash.

I got a lot of friends that worked down the docks, and they make really good money. To all the longshoreman. It's hard to get in on that though. Well, I actually no right now if they're getting a ton of work, even the casuals are getting out. From what I was told, five six days a week. There's been because everyone's buying stuff online now, they're not buying stuff in stores, and so is that wire. Yeah, there's just been a steady flow of of containers that have been coming in for

quite a while. And obviously as we get closer to the holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's yeah, I'll it'll continue. But but we we have a fair amount. We have a fair amount of Mallard militia people that work on the docks, the longshore. Do you really Yes, yes, we do. They call sporadically check in from time to time. Yeah, it's pretty pretty cool. But so I learned about lot lizards and that's a great name, by the way. Yeah, that's pretty good. That's a lot lizards. I'm gonna have

to watch that documentary. I think it's still I think it's I gotten Amazon Prime. It is, Yeah, it's on It's on Amazon Prime. I see it right now. Back in two thousand and sixteen. It was made. Yeah, so it's not that old. No, I think it's depressing or uplifting. Probably depressed. I think it's a lot of fun. Well, I mean it's nothing. We had that. What was the documentary we watched about the submarine and the Russians? Oh that was great that uh yeah that uh that guy

they I forgot his name. Now I'm having a mental block. Oh that was great, the big big guy Miami running. That was a good documentary though. It was really good. I think so good. I forgot to name him, but we we know the gist of it, which is the most important thing. Yeah. Yeah, they got a new they bought a nuclear sub from Russian helicopters. Yeah, and they could get whatever they wanted. And yeah that was man. What was the name of that? I don't remember. See,

now it's gonna bother me. Now I'm gonna be annoyed by that, and I'm like, what the hell, Well, you gotta move on a lot lizards now, Yeah, I'm watched that. I can give that a watch him I have times. I'm still watching that country music documentary. This is like sixteen hours. Man, it's good, but it's like, could you can get it down to like four hours? You know? Do you need sixteen hours to go into it doesn't matter. You're stuck apparently, I man, I'm still watching it. I'm

still checking it out. What was the name of that Russian sub documentary It was on Netflix too, right, yeah? Um? What was that? Yeah? Oh? Operational Deaths. Yes, Operation Odessa. There you go, great doctor. If you have not watched that opera, it's so good. I forgot the name. It was amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, And that they finally caught that guy right, Tony, Yeah, that guy Tony, they caught him there and he's he's in jail for what how long you went to jail for? I don't know. I

haven't looked that up. But Operation and Odessa wonderful. Gangster's mobster, you know, the Russian mob, Cuban spies. You a little bit of everything there. And let's say you very well made a couple of years old, very well made documentary documentary. Sure, all right, so we you want to get to now we'll move on from that we have some five round numbers. Have a new round numbers here, alright. So now, November three was a big day for a number of people

because of the presidential election national election. Was also a big day because of the NFL trade deadline, which sucks every year. But it was a big day for me, not because of election day. It was a big day for me for a couple of reason. It was my my late mom's birthday was always a special day, and it was also the one year anniversary of me surviving my brush with death because of you guesscan emergency gall

bladder surge three. It happened on November three. November three, nineteen was a Sunday, and I had because this is a leap year, so you jump ahead of two days. But this, uh, this was the anniversary I haven't. I had made it three d sixty five days since that medical procedure. The most painful surgery you can have is your goal bladder being taken out. As verified on the internet, you can look it up. I'm not making it up, but it's a big deal. Because humans love round numbers.

We love round numbers. There is something satisfying about round numbers, and so three sixty five is a full year, which is a round number, and people people love round numbers. I love round, round numbers. And so I'm sure there's a gift in the mail Gascon you can send my way there to celebrate that I survived. I'm a survivor, one year without a goal bladder and living my life. You know what I'll do in an auditor of your anniversary. I'll get me dinner. How about that? And how about that?

I'll get you you telegraph that one man, that was really something I've learned. I've learned throughout the days, months and years now that uh, whatever you get as a gift, you want to appreciate it. So I'm appreciate it, show a gift when I have it, and it'll still be a nice gift, you know it will. Yeah, I mean it's not like one of those old school g I Joe or Transformer toys that you can keep in your box and having I disagree. I believe the the value

will go up. It has now been in the Mallard fridge. That's gonna steak, Beckett, how about this Tomahawks steak? The value of that back in twenty nineteen was I'll bet you. I could sell that on the internet and somebody would die to have it. Yeah, I know somebody would. You can't. You're not gonna bet me on that. Of course someone would do that. I'm talking about a fan of the show. Yes, I know, someone would probably paid double the price for

that steaks A good idea. I should do that. No, no, I mean if you give me half the sure you have to eat your money back in the Yeah. Please, it's not like it was a twenty dollar steak. Wow, look at you ahead thinking it all about you? Well, actually thinking it. Actually it wasn't about me. It was about you. But not that you've turned it on me. And then yeah, why not? Well you brought up the steak. I mean, my god, you brought up the gall bladder

one year anniverarse through. Well that's a big deal. That's a it's a podcast about the show, you dummy. What do you want me to So now I will present this is a fifth Hour exclusive, Fifth Hour exclusive? Uh, and here it is Lessons learned one year without a gall bladder. All right, you ready for this? I got to hey, my life really hasn't changed that much. I I read a lot that you know, without your gall bladder. All this is gonna happen, but life goes on. It

hasn't changed that much. That was the first thing. And then part B of this I have learned and I was as a kid part of this organization on the Boy Scouts motto when you don't have your gallbladder, you must be prepared. And when I say that, I mean prepared because you have to be prepared. Whenever you eat, you have to be prepared to go to the bathroom within five minutes. You're gonna have the Tennessee Trots. You are going to have close to dysentery. Especially with my

my diet and all that. Um, I don't you know. I don't eat for a couple of days and then then I'll then I'll eat, and so uh it does accelerate the effects. But overall, I would say I've been very pleased with the last year, and they've been We've had two big f ups where we had the situation at work where I did not make it in time and ship the pants and I had to do a show, which was awkward. And then the famous story from a couple of months back when I was walking and I

couldn't make it to the bathroom. And then I finally made it and I tried to squat I made it a squatty potty in the uh the commode, you know whatever, the toilet and or like what do they call it the can in Canada, the powder room. They call the can the powder room. And uh, I missed my mark there and turned the outhouse into a ship house and uh yeah, good times. Fried food is your enemy, right,

like fried food. Once fried food is still eat fried No, I mean, but like once you ingest fried food, you're on the clock. It doesn't always work that way. It is weird because when I, you know, I eat back to back days during the week, you know, I eat like in kind of pods, right, so when I eat every day, it does not has affect me, It does not infect my body as much. But when I don't, Yeah, the spicier of the fried food, it just kicks my

intestines ass. It's brutal, very uncomfortable. I'm happy that you've lived past that one year thank you anniversary. Not that inconvenient. There are worse problems to have. Yeah, it's a bit of a nuisance from time to time. But the way I look at it, it just it empowers me to not eat much because when I eat, I occasionally have these issues. So if I don't eat, then I don't have to worry about I just drink water. That's good and I'm good. So there you go there, alright, So

why don't we want to save the Sunday Podcast. Will do some pop quiz on the Sunday Podcast. All right, we'll do that on Sunday. And also we'll have a mailbag. We'll have the mailbacks. We have that to look forward to. And again, if you have not watched Benny Versus the Penny marginal NFL handicapping every game, it's not gonna like look as good probably as it should until next week.

But Benny Versus the Penny, it's up right now. You can watch that and look at the analysis on all the games that are going to be played on Sunday. We hope they're all played. There's a lot of corona out in the world, so we'll see if those games were all played as schedule. They moved some of them to Monday and Tuesday and whatnot. But have a great day.

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