November 6, 2021 • 33 mins
Ben is back for the Saturday podcast, sharing stories about "The Life of Maller," including his plan to become the Sod God of the Northwoods and more cartoonish adventures.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
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with Ben Maller starts right now. We put the pedal
to the metal. It's time now for another edition of
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller in the air everywhere,
because four hours a night are not enough. Eight days
a week from the Mallard podcast studio at a secret
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location deep in the north Woods, no disengagement. You get
the radio show five nights a week, and on the
weekend you get this. I hope you enjoyed our trip
down memory lane. As my old mentor hacks I would say,
we caught up with the great Danny G. Radio. He
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was on the Friday edition of the Fifth Hour with
Ben Mallory and my add passed with Flying Colors, Passed
with Flying Colors was great to catch up in here
some old radio war stories from Danny G. But on
this edition of the Fifth Hour, a brief look at
the menu we are serving up in Benny's Bistro. We've
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got the glass Man, sod God, and Magical Date, and
some other things that will pop up as well on
this the Saturday edition of the Fifth Hour, so we
begin with the glass Man. So the Saturday podcast, it
has been determined, is about the life of Mallard, which
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is not that interesting. Might add not that interesting the
life of Mallard, but I have some random things that happened.
So I don't usually talk about this stuff on the
radio show, and people seem to want to know about it,
so I'll share some stories here. And this past weekend,
I am still working on the renovation of the new
Mallard mansion I've moved in a couple of months ago,
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Mallard Mansion two point oh, the salvage and recovery portion
of the story. So this past weekend was Operation Backyard Now,
cleaning up the mess left by our contractors, and the
contractors did a very good job. They're not done, but
they're done with the big heavy stuff. There's only some
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minor cosmetic things that need to work on and so behind.
In their wake, they left a bunch of random crap,
most of it in the backyard, most of it in
the backyard, And so I've been cleaning up the mess.
Just started cleaning up the mess left by the contractors.
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What a pain in the tookis in the tushi, uh,
cleaning up random things. Now, they had been mixing in
the backyard grout and cement. There was like a grout
cement thing that was going on, and somehow a lot
of it ended up on what was supposed to be
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in a normal backyard, the lawn, the grass. All right,
So the lawn has this layer of this white cement
grout kind of grayish. I don't even know really what
it is. It's some combination of those two things. So
they were mixing the stuff together in the backyard, just
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gonna paint the picture a bird's eye view. So they're
mixing this stuff in the backyard doing the renovation on
the back of the house, and they, in their haste
to get stuff done, they just poured a lot of
it out on what was the grass, and they ended
up covering a lot of the lawn with this layer
that hardened over time. And so yeah, I had to
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take a shovel, bang, bang and start breaking this crap up,
and so so I went to, as I said, a
salvage and recovery mission, trying to recover the backyard and
salvage what I could of the backyard. But that was
the least of my problems, right, that was the least
of my problems. So there's there was a concrete area.
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There is patio area in the backyard at the Mallard mansion.
And in the renovation of the house, the fellas had
tossed the glass window you know, big giant windows on
the side of the house. They had tossed those down
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from the very top of the house down on the
floor of the house on the backyard. Uh. They claimed
that the windows were so old. How old were they?
They were so old at the house that they had
to be popped out. That was the claim that was made.
Well in doing that, what do you think happen? You
knock a window out and glass goes shattering into thousands
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of pieces, thousands and thousands of pieces. Now, I just
spend much time back there, didn't realize the amount of glass.
I had heard stories from the wife that there was
a lot of glass. So my job, in addition to
trying to break up the hardened layer of crowd slash cement.
My other job was to dig around and try to
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find all the glass that was also mixed in with this.
So it was a complete pain in the ass. So
I went in. I pulled out the shot back I
had that, I had the broom, and then I just
had my eyes and I rolled up my sleeves and
I was like, all right, I'm gonna get dirty. It's
the weekend. I don't have to talk talk talk talk
talk talk. I can just go about my life and
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do the things that I need to do here and
fix fix backyard. And this is a job that needs
to be done and I need to do it. So
I I had the shop. Fact as I mentioned, I
had the broom, rolled up my sleeves, got my finger
nails dirty, and as I was cleaning up the glass,
I was becoming the glass man. Some of the pieces
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had fused to the concrete, the layer of concrete that
was already there the actual backyard patio area, not the
grass area, which was also covered with the groutcome concrete mix.
There will be a quiz on this later. So again,
so there's glass everywhere. It's a complete shit show. There's
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pieces of glass that had fused the concrete. Because during
the summertime, when it was hot and the glass had
been thrown down, we just left it there. We didn't
worry about it because they were still doing construction. The
heat baked the glass and the glass then stuck to
the concrete. So in an effort to pull the glass off,
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I'm down there on my hands and knees and I'm
whistling away and I'm trying to pull the glass off
the concrete, which is now stuck to the concrete. So
my wife walks over. She sees what I'm doing, and
she's thinking in her head, I'm imagining, what a loser
this guy is. There's a better way to do this.
Why is he down there on his hands and knees
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trying to pull the glass up. So I point out
to my wife. I said, listen, I don't know how
long this stuff has been down here, but this stuff
has been baked. And it's not the kind of bake
where you got to Mary Jane. It's baked and it's
stuck to the concrete. We gotta get it off sharp
shards of glass. So she says, she sees me doing this,
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and she says you gotta be careful, don't get cut.
You're gonna cut yourself the way you're doing it in
hand to God. Within less than thirty seconds, probably less
than ten seconds, I go down to pull up another
shot of glass that is stuck like it's vel crowd
to the concrete. And sure enough I slice my right
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index finger. And when I say slice, it is a
clear slice. We've got blood squirting out of the finger
like a prop at Halloween. Good times, good times. And
so I I skidaddle into the house. I run to
the bathroom, warm water, scrub a dub dub. I cover
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my finger with a piece of cloth and then squeeze,
put pressure on the finger. See, I learned first date
when I was a cub scout and a boy scout.
I learned basic first date. So I've got I'm not
sliced up my index finger, luckily. If there is a
good part to this story. As the glass man, I
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cut it on a piece of glass that'd been down
there for a while. I had my tetness shots and all.
I don't think you can get tetnics from glass. But
it was a solid slice that allowed need to avoid
It didn't hit any major major stuff. I didn't chop
my finger off or anything like that. It was not
big enough where I needed stitches. It was like in
that gray area where you know, you go either way.
Maybe a few stitches, maybe not. And so I hope
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it's like Spider Man. I hope it's like Spider Man.
You know, Spider Man bitten by a spider and had
these amazing powers. So what would glass Man have. What
kind of power would glass Man have? Would there be
some kind of magical superpower, some mystical power. I'm not
sure about that, but I did feel like a blithering
idiot when my wife says, hey, watch out for that.
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It reminded me of one of my favorite stories. He's
even watch out for that. Don't cut yourself and then boom,
I cut myself. One of my favorite stories of all
time though. And I don't know if I've told this
before in the podcast or not, but when I was
early on in my career as a radio reporter, so
long ago, there was a team called the Montreal Expos
and they were in l A playing the Dodgers. The
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Dodgers had this star pitcher from Japan named today O Nomo,
who was a big deal they called it normal Mania,
big rock Star and huge crowds when this guy pitched.
So I'm in the press box, I'm covering the game,
and the game had so much media attention it was
like a Saturday night game that they had to move
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some of the broadcast crews into the main press box
where normally you have radio row in the back. You've
got some TV guys on one side, and a lot
of writers, a lot of scribes. And so this night,
as I remember it, the Dodgers are playing. The Expo
said Normo's pitching. It's on network television local TV. And
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the old Montreal Expos had a French broadcast, they had
the English broadcast, the Dodgers had Spanish, they had English,
the whole thing. So there's a lot of interest in this.
There was an Asian you know, feedback to Japan with
the broadcast, so it was a big deal. But network
radio calling the game. Network radio calling the game, and
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so they moved the network radio broadcasters into the main
press part because there was no other room. And I
remember who was doing the game because it was one
of the funniest things that that happened. Jerry Coleman may
he rest in Peace, the old voice of the San
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Diego Padres and a former Yankee Jerry Coleman, Oh doctor,
and I'm back in back in those days. So he's
doing the game Gary Cohen, who is a New York
Mets broadcaster played by play Guy on TV. He's there
also doing the network broadcast and uh and very popular
New York. He's a native New Yorker. They love him
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there and he's very good at his job. But this
is he's doing network radio. It's a Saturday night as
years ago, and it's a cool night. It's kind of
a cool night and Jerry, in between innings, Jerry Coleman
goes over to get a cup of coffee and he's
walking back through the press box to go down. They
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were in the front row the Network radio broadcast. So
Jerry's walking back with a cup of coffee. He's got
a couple of papers like game notes that that he
had and he's now doing a balancing act. He's now
like he's in the in the circus. He's doing a
balancing act. So instead of just holding the cup of
coffee in one hand, the papers and the other my man, Jerry,
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he says, you know, I'm gonna what I'm gonna do here,
I'm gonna hold the pieces of paper and I'm gonna
put the coffee on top like it's a dish, but
it's just pieces of paper. And so as Jerry turns
the corner to make it down to the broadcast position
in the press box, the main press box, Steve Cohen
sitting uh, Gary Cohen rather Gary Cohen is sitting down there,
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and Paul Bear, who also passed away, the longtime radio engineer.
Paul Bear says, watch, Jerry's gonna spill the coffee, and
within seconds, much like my incident in the backyard, Jerry
that he only has one step to walk down, He
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stumbles and the papers go flying one direction. But more importantly,
the boiling hot McDonald's style coffee goes all over the
back of Gary Cohen, who's the other play by play guy.
Now keep away. They're in a commercial break. They're about
to come back to do the game. Gary is in agony.
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He's screaming, he's oh my god, this is horrible paint.
He's at boiling coffee. He did not expect a surprise shot.
He's ambushed by the coffee. This is horrible and it
was just me and I remember I was laughing. I
was trying not to laugh. We were all trying not
to laugh. All the radio row was trying not to
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laugh because it was the funniest thing, just the way
that Paul the engineer it said watch out, Jerry's gonna
spill the coffee. And then it got even more crazy. Alright,
so they come back from commercial and they just pretend
like nothing happened. It was. It was a CBS radio
sports broadcast that they called it. So he Jerry comes back,
they do the play, but he's doing the play by play,
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Gary is withering in agony from just being burned from
the coffee. And so then some paramedics show up because
the guy's got burns, and they're like, we're gonna check
him out. Well. Gary Cohen, the Met's broadcaster, then takes
off his shirt because they had to examine the burns.
So he's sitting in the press box. His back looked
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like the map of Africa with all the different outlines
of the countries and all that all bubbling up. His
skin was bubbling up bright red, just horrible. And he
put the headset back on and Jerry Coleman starts talking
to him. It was. It was craziness as I remember it,
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and so I just I can only imagine if you
were sitting in the crowd that night and you're like,
you're just doing your own thing, and you know, la
la la la la la la la la la la
la la, and you get coffee port on you, and
then you're in the crowd and you look up to
the press box and you see a broadcaster calling a
game on radio, and then right next to him another
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broadcaster who's got a headset on but no shirt, and uh,
it was it was quite quite the tail that's randomly
popped in my all. Right. Now, as far as the
sod god in the story, I just related to you
a few minutes ago in a sorry about the glass,
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and I mentioned that the backyard covered in a layer
of grout, a layer of concrete. So my plan for
the new Mallard mansion is to make it an outdoor oasis,
a casablanca. In order to do that, there's a lot
of work that needs to be done. Now, you have
helped me, maybe not you, but the fellow listeners have
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helped me with home remedies. Some I have to buy
for the mosquitoes to get rid of the mosquitoes. Now,
a lot of the mosquitos have already left because the
weather got cooler in the north Woods, and I'm sure
they'll be back as soon as it heats up again.
Regardless of that. Uh, since I am focused on making
this my little garden of Eden, I've decided the back
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in front of the Mallard mansion looked like shantytown right now.
It does not look good. So I have decided on
the fifty fifty split. Now what is the fifty fifty
split on this? I'll tell you what the split is.
I'm glad you asked. So the front is going to
have professional side put down, very expensive side, and gardener
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will be brought in with his team and will put
the side down, and then we will stay off the
side for several weeks, will water the side religiously, and
then we will be good to go. But the back
of the north Woods Mallard Mansion will be a d
i y situation. Do it yourself. And in preparation for this,
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I have been watching several YouTube videos on how to
become the sod god, the god of sad, and so
I've determined through my copious amounts of research, I have
determined that it is a ten step process or process.
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So some of you, and maybe it's you are very
handy and you're useful and you're not useless like I am.
Where I do is talk and you do this kind
of stuff all the time. But this is a new
area for me. At the old Malor mansion, we didn't
have to worry about this. It was all set up
nice and pretty and we didn't have any worry it.
So the ten steps are and you can email me
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at Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com or Ben Maller Show at
gmail dot com and tell me if I'm right on this.
So this is I just jotted down some notes here,
just a few notes in my chicken scratch from the
different YouTube videos that I've watched on how to become
the sod God. So, according to the videos, step number
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one they say you're supposed to start in the fall.
Now I don't know about that. I thought you're supposed
starting to spring, but several the videos said starting to fall.
But I live in a place where they don't really
have fall, so I don't think that makes much sense.
The first thing you have to do is kill the weeds.
Kill the weeds. Now, I'm not sure how this works
because the lawn right now is covered in that grout
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concrete mix. I picked a lot of it up. There's
still a lot there. There are a few weeds, so
I guess I gotta take care of that, but I
have to get the concrete out also, So that's step
number two. Kill the weeds and in my case, take
care of the grout and the concrete. Step number three
aerate the lawn. That's a fancy word for dig holes.
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A lot of holes. Okay, So that's that's aerating the lawn.
So I gotta buy something from home deep or whatever
to do that. I think you can just buy a
metal contraption or you can rent it. And I that
that's when I'm leaning towards at this point, so that
when we step number three, so you've made holes all
over the lawn, you've taken the weeds away. The next
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step is to buy grass seed. Now that's important. You
gotta buy a fifty fifty I'm told you gotta buy
grass seed that is good in the sun and good
and obviously the shade. So you've got to get that
you then drop the grass seed into all the holes
that you've made on the lawn, very aerating the lawn.
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If I'm boring you, just fast forward through the podcast.
So that's step number four. Step number five, you gotta
apply starter fertilizer, not savvy veteran fertilizer, a new Ubi
newby newby, Neuby fertilizer. Check. Then you have to water
two or three times a day. Check check check. Stay
off the lawn. Kind of obvious that step number seven
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you have to mow. I have to wait a month
to mow, give it the Uncle Moe treatment, and then
after two months you can mow every week if you
so desire, and they tell you the exact member measurement,
according to YouTube is two and a half to three
and a half inches high. And then after every six
weeks you're supposed to put more fertilizer down. Now, the
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odds that I follow all ten of these steps slim
to none, and Slim has left the building. I'm pretty
sure I will do the first five, actually the first six,
and for seven, for seven, and maybe even number eight,
number nine and number ten. I'm not sure that I
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will still do that, but my goal is to become
the side gun, and I will take photo graphs and
I will put some of this stuff. I'm not gonna
put a living on because I don't want you to
know where I live, but I'll take some strategic photos
and I will show you the before and after, before
and after of the backyard of the Mallard match. So
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as soon as I get this thing going, I will
make sure to do it and I will let you know.
All right. Moving on from that, we have the magical date. Now,
what is the magical date? Is it? My birthday? Is
the wedding date? Is it? What is it? No? Uh,
the magical date? Now, everyone has important dates in their lives,
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certain events. Human beings are fascinated by patterns, patternicity and
also dates, right, random dates, They're important life events. For me,
I had one of those magical dates passed by on
the calendar. Uh. This is back on Wednesday, so hump day.
And it was November third, big day for me. And
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why is November three a big day? That is always
for the rest of my life as long as I'm around,
going to be a special day because that was my
dear old mother's birthday. May she rest in peace. She
would have turned seventy five years old my mom, and
I wonder what she would have been like if she
had made it and been seventy five and with all
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the stuff that's happened in the world, and just chatting
with mom and wondering what that's like and so would
have had a big birthday party, I'm sure, and it
would have been great and just cake and balloons and
birthday cards and presents and all that. Unfortunately, my mom
passed away a number of years ago, but I always
make sure to honor my mom on her birthday. That's
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an important day, and so you know, even though she's
been gone for a while, it's important. And there's also
an odd bit of serendipity in my life that November
three not only a big day because my Mom's birth day,
but also the anniversary of the big operation. What is
the big operation? That would be my big operation? A
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couple of years back, twenty nineteen before the world shut
down with COVID, I had a gall stone attack and
I got taken to the hospital gall bladder surgery. I
spent a week in the hospital and I still feel
the after effects of that. Not having a gall bladder,
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but my operation was on November three, was an NFL Sunday.
I remember going under as it was this it was
late afternoon and it was an NFL Sunday, and I
missed the entire day in the NFL. I remember being
bummed out about that. I then woke up groggy, and
it was the Patriots were playing the Ravens, Tom Brady's
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Patriots versus the Ravens and Lamar Jackson, and they got charred, roiled,
spit roasted, Molly wop curb stomped. I remember that vaguely.
I remember waking up saying, holy crap, I can't believe.
I can't believe what happened here. That's absolutely insane. What happened?
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By the way, Doc Mike just calling me. I'm Doc,
I'm recording a podcast. Doc. What are you doing? You're
killing me? Doc. Anyway, so that November three also the
anniversary of my my operation, and so, uh, I gotta
tell you that operation is pretty normal. A lot of
people their gallbladder taking out. My problem is, I'm such
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a knuckle head, I'm so bullheaded as a Taurus that
I waited too long. I waited too long to be
checked out. And so that's a pretty standard operating procedure type.
It's like an assembly line. Doctors will tell you in
the emergency room with a gallbladder, it's a common thing,
but it's not common when you wait, it's it's complications.
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I had so many gall stones it was like shrapnel
all over that part of my body, and so they
needed to pick those little needles, little gall stones out
of the haystack. Good times, good times, indeed. But anyway,
that was the third day of November, the big day
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in my life. A couple of other things. Now we're
not going to do a full let's get scientifical. We're
not gonna do that. But there were a couple of stories.
And I don't even know if this is a style.
I don't know if this is a science story or
just an animal story. This is one of those things
that should probably be an animal thunderdome. We had Danny
g on yesterday and Danny talked about animal stories, and
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we talked about how together people love animal story stories
about dogs, cats, you name it. This one is so
wild you'd think it was fake, Like you'd think this
is a bogus story, but we we take you to Brazil.
We take you to Brazil and a story of a
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random man in Brazil who was having a really bad day.
He was having a really bad day and it turned
into a fatal day for this guy. Let me, let
me give you the story. So this dude in Brazil's
thirty year old guy in Brazil, and he's out there
fishing with his buddies and he's in doing doing his thing,
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and he gets attacked by a swarm of bees. I
don't think they were murder hornets. I think they were
just beas. And so this guy's like, I gotta get it.
I gotta get away from these bees. So he did
what most people would think would be the right thing
to do. He's being chased by the mob of bees.
He's in Brazil. He jumps into a lake. The guy was,
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of course, fishing with his buddies. So this dude jumps
into a farm lake in you know, a small part
of Brazil, off the beaten path, and so he goes
into the water to avoid the bees. He ends up
drowning and being eaten by piranhas. Can you imagine? Does
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that sound like a horror film? That sounds like a
nineteen nineties comedy old school comedy where that's Vaudevillian is
what that is. Vaudvillian is a terrible and the guy
the guy died. But you imagine having bad like well,
I guess what's your time? At your time? But you
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get away from the bees and then tell here the
piranhas chop chop chop. I'd like to eat. I'd like
to bite to eat? Can I can I have a bite? Yeah? Brutal?
All right, now this is a story that relates to us.
Now again not a full let's get scientifical, but why
do some people sleep walk? Have you ever been around
a sleepwalker? Maybe you're a sleepwalker. I've been around a
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few sleep walkers over the years. And when I moved
out of the Mallard mansion, originally I had some roommates
and you know, sleepovers or whatever. I was a kid,
we had we had occasional sleepwalkers. Occasional sleepwalkers. So why
does some people sleep walk? Well? According to a new
study out of Montreal, Quebec, sleepwalking, according to the scientists,
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is a phenomena that has intrigued this as people for years.
Neurologists have examined the human brain in search of an
explanation but have found no solid answer. But now, according
to this new study out of Montreal, it has revealed
that sleepwalking may that's a weeze a word, may have
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a lot to do with a person's fight or flight response,
specifically those who display lower fight or flight reaction as
they sleep and more nervous system response tied to relaxation.
People that have that are more prone to go for
a nice walk. While Unconscious says sleepwalking is a condition
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in which the person does not enter the rapid eye
movement or rem sleep stage in adults, they say it
occurs in less than five of people. Scientist say sleepwalkers
usually find it difficult to stay awake the day after
an episode due to exhaustion from lack of sleep. Well,
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I know all about that lack of sleep during the
overnight show. But there you go. Too much relaxation maybe
a factor. Blame it on that and fight or flight,
fight or flight. Let me do one more, one more
of these. Let's get scientifical stories a small version. Morality
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is blank? Morality is blank? Is it genetic? This story
comes out of Washington? You know, listen, we all know
different activities casual making whoopee a little weekend, the snow run,
doing the recreational drugs all that. Uh, it's it's it's
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one of these things that the certain people are more
prone to than others. Right, the great moral debate, Right,
what is more moral for one person is a moral
for another? And what is a moral is moral? You know,
with vice versa, vice versus So researchers with the Association
of Psychology Science wherever that is sounds official, they report
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that there may be may as again and we as
a word very popular in these studies, there may be
a common genetic basis that influences individual opinions on non
committal sex and the use of drugs recreationally. According to
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the findings, they hold major implications towards modern sciences understanding
on how genes a k a. Heredity contribute to opinions
and moral values. So their argument is that you are born,
and from the moment of birth, you are more likely,
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based on your genes to be out there like the
Great Wilt Chamberlain with the twenty thousand ladies or two
on the weekend to have a little baggy a coke
or whatever it might be, whatever your drug of choices.
So I don't I don't buy this. I think it's
to me, it's more of how you were raised. That's
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my position on it. Now they claim differently, and they're
the scientists and all that, and they study this stuff,
but I I really believe it's more about the family
upbringing and you know, when you were a kid being
taught you can't do this, you can't do that, and
instilling it. Whereas if you're in a family where it's
not quite the same and you're just kind a little
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looser than that, you're more prone to do that stuff.
I don't I don't buy this. So I'm gonna give
thumbs down on this study. It's that old nature versus nurture.
I'm going nurture on this. I'm going nurture on this one.
I'm not going nature. Scientist is saying it's nature. I'm
going nurture. Anyway. That'll do it. For the Saturday podcasts,
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Sunday Sunday, have a wonderful, glorious arrest of your Saturday
and we'll catch you next time.
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now. We put the pedal
to the metal. It's time now for another edition of
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller in the air everywhere,
because four hours a night are not enough. Eight days
a week from the Mallard podcast studio at a secret
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location deep in the north Woods, no disengagement. You get
the radio show five nights a week, and on the
weekend you get this. I hope you enjoyed our trip
down memory lane. As my old mentor hacks I would say,
we caught up with the great Danny G. Radio. He
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was on the Friday edition of the Fifth Hour with
Ben Mallory and my add passed with Flying Colors, Passed
with Flying Colors was great to catch up in here
some old radio war stories from Danny G. But on
this edition of the Fifth Hour, a brief look at
the menu we are serving up in Benny's Bistro. We've
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got the glass Man, sod God, and Magical Date, and
some other things that will pop up as well on
this the Saturday edition of the Fifth Hour, so we
begin with the glass Man. So the Saturday podcast, it
has been determined, is about the life of Mallard, which
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is not that interesting. Might add not that interesting the
life of Mallard, but I have some random things that happened.
So I don't usually talk about this stuff on the
radio show, and people seem to want to know about it,
so I'll share some stories here. And this past weekend,
I am still working on the renovation of the new
Mallard mansion I've moved in a couple of months ago,
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Mallard Mansion two point oh, the salvage and recovery portion
of the story. So this past weekend was Operation Backyard Now,
cleaning up the mess left by our contractors, and the
contractors did a very good job. They're not done, but
they're done with the big heavy stuff. There's only some
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minor cosmetic things that need to work on and so behind.
In their wake, they left a bunch of random crap,
most of it in the backyard, most of it in
the backyard, And so I've been cleaning up the mess.
Just started cleaning up the mess left by the contractors.
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What a pain in the tookis in the tushi, uh,
cleaning up random things. Now, they had been mixing in
the backyard grout and cement. There was like a grout
cement thing that was going on, and somehow a lot
of it ended up on what was supposed to be
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in a normal backyard, the lawn, the grass. All right,
So the lawn has this layer of this white cement
grout kind of grayish. I don't even know really what
it is. It's some combination of those two things. So
they were mixing the stuff together in the backyard, just
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gonna paint the picture a bird's eye view. So they're
mixing this stuff in the backyard doing the renovation on
the back of the house, and they, in their haste
to get stuff done, they just poured a lot of
it out on what was the grass, and they ended
up covering a lot of the lawn with this layer
that hardened over time. And so yeah, I had to
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take a shovel, bang, bang and start breaking this crap up,
and so so I went to, as I said, a
salvage and recovery mission, trying to recover the backyard and
salvage what I could of the backyard. But that was
the least of my problems, right, that was the least
of my problems. So there's there was a concrete area.
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There is patio area in the backyard at the Mallard mansion.
And in the renovation of the house, the fellas had
tossed the glass window you know, big giant windows on
the side of the house. They had tossed those down
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from the very top of the house down on the
floor of the house on the backyard. Uh. They claimed
that the windows were so old. How old were they?
They were so old at the house that they had
to be popped out. That was the claim that was made.
Well in doing that, what do you think happen? You
knock a window out and glass goes shattering into thousands
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of pieces, thousands and thousands of pieces. Now, I just
spend much time back there, didn't realize the amount of glass.
I had heard stories from the wife that there was
a lot of glass. So my job, in addition to
trying to break up the hardened layer of crowd slash cement.
My other job was to dig around and try to
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find all the glass that was also mixed in with this.
So it was a complete pain in the ass. So
I went in. I pulled out the shot back I
had that, I had the broom, and then I just
had my eyes and I rolled up my sleeves and
I was like, all right, I'm gonna get dirty. It's
the weekend. I don't have to talk talk talk talk
talk talk. I can just go about my life and
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do the things that I need to do here and
fix fix backyard. And this is a job that needs
to be done and I need to do it. So
I I had the shop. Fact as I mentioned, I
had the broom, rolled up my sleeves, got my finger
nails dirty, and as I was cleaning up the glass,
I was becoming the glass man. Some of the pieces
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had fused to the concrete, the layer of concrete that
was already there the actual backyard patio area, not the
grass area, which was also covered with the groutcome concrete mix.
There will be a quiz on this later. So again,
so there's glass everywhere. It's a complete shit show. There's
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pieces of glass that had fused the concrete. Because during
the summertime, when it was hot and the glass had
been thrown down, we just left it there. We didn't
worry about it because they were still doing construction. The
heat baked the glass and the glass then stuck to
the concrete. So in an effort to pull the glass off,
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I'm down there on my hands and knees and I'm
whistling away and I'm trying to pull the glass off
the concrete, which is now stuck to the concrete. So
my wife walks over. She sees what I'm doing, and
she's thinking in her head, I'm imagining, what a loser
this guy is. There's a better way to do this.
Why is he down there on his hands and knees
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trying to pull the glass up. So I point out
to my wife. I said, listen, I don't know how
long this stuff has been down here, but this stuff
has been baked. And it's not the kind of bake
where you got to Mary Jane. It's baked and it's
stuck to the concrete. We gotta get it off sharp
shards of glass. So she says, she sees me doing this,
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and she says you gotta be careful, don't get cut.
You're gonna cut yourself the way you're doing it in
hand to God. Within less than thirty seconds, probably less
than ten seconds, I go down to pull up another
shot of glass that is stuck like it's vel crowd
to the concrete. And sure enough I slice my right
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index finger. And when I say slice, it is a
clear slice. We've got blood squirting out of the finger
like a prop at Halloween. Good times, good times. And
so I I skidaddle into the house. I run to
the bathroom, warm water, scrub a dub dub. I cover
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my finger with a piece of cloth and then squeeze,
put pressure on the finger. See, I learned first date
when I was a cub scout and a boy scout.
I learned basic first date. So I've got I'm not
sliced up my index finger, luckily. If there is a
good part to this story. As the glass man, I
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cut it on a piece of glass that'd been down
there for a while. I had my tetness shots and all.
I don't think you can get tetnics from glass. But
it was a solid slice that allowed need to avoid
It didn't hit any major major stuff. I didn't chop
my finger off or anything like that. It was not
big enough where I needed stitches. It was like in
that gray area where you know, you go either way.
Maybe a few stitches, maybe not. And so I hope
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it's like Spider Man. I hope it's like Spider Man.
You know, Spider Man bitten by a spider and had
these amazing powers. So what would glass Man have. What
kind of power would glass Man have? Would there be
some kind of magical superpower, some mystical power. I'm not
sure about that, but I did feel like a blithering
idiot when my wife says, hey, watch out for that.
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It reminded me of one of my favorite stories. He's
even watch out for that. Don't cut yourself and then boom,
I cut myself. One of my favorite stories of all
time though. And I don't know if I've told this
before in the podcast or not, but when I was
early on in my career as a radio reporter, so
long ago, there was a team called the Montreal Expos
and they were in l A playing the Dodgers. The
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Dodgers had this star pitcher from Japan named today O Nomo,
who was a big deal they called it normal Mania,
big rock Star and huge crowds when this guy pitched.
So I'm in the press box, I'm covering the game,
and the game had so much media attention it was
like a Saturday night game that they had to move
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some of the broadcast crews into the main press box
where normally you have radio row in the back. You've
got some TV guys on one side, and a lot
of writers, a lot of scribes. And so this night,
as I remember it, the Dodgers are playing. The Expo
said Normo's pitching. It's on network television local TV. And
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the old Montreal Expos had a French broadcast, they had
the English broadcast, the Dodgers had Spanish, they had English,
the whole thing. So there's a lot of interest in this.
There was an Asian you know, feedback to Japan with
the broadcast, so it was a big deal. But network
radio calling the game. Network radio calling the game, and
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so they moved the network radio broadcasters into the main
press part because there was no other room. And I
remember who was doing the game because it was one
of the funniest things that that happened. Jerry Coleman may
he rest in Peace, the old voice of the San
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Diego Padres and a former Yankee Jerry Coleman, Oh doctor,
and I'm back in back in those days. So he's
doing the game Gary Cohen, who is a New York
Mets broadcaster played by play Guy on TV. He's there
also doing the network broadcast and uh and very popular
New York. He's a native New Yorker. They love him
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there and he's very good at his job. But this
is he's doing network radio. It's a Saturday night as
years ago, and it's a cool night. It's kind of
a cool night and Jerry, in between innings, Jerry Coleman
goes over to get a cup of coffee and he's
walking back through the press box to go down. They
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were in the front row the Network radio broadcast. So
Jerry's walking back with a cup of coffee. He's got
a couple of papers like game notes that that he
had and he's now doing a balancing act. He's now
like he's in the in the circus. He's doing a
balancing act. So instead of just holding the cup of
coffee in one hand, the papers and the other my man, Jerry,
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he says, you know, I'm gonna what I'm gonna do here,
I'm gonna hold the pieces of paper and I'm gonna
put the coffee on top like it's a dish, but
it's just pieces of paper. And so as Jerry turns
the corner to make it down to the broadcast position
in the press box, the main press box, Steve Cohen
sitting uh, Gary Cohen rather Gary Cohen is sitting down there,
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and Paul Bear, who also passed away, the longtime radio engineer.
Paul Bear says, watch, Jerry's gonna spill the coffee, and
within seconds, much like my incident in the backyard, Jerry
that he only has one step to walk down, He
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stumbles and the papers go flying one direction. But more importantly,
the boiling hot McDonald's style coffee goes all over the
back of Gary Cohen, who's the other play by play guy.
Now keep away. They're in a commercial break. They're about
to come back to do the game. Gary is in agony.
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He's screaming, he's oh my god, this is horrible paint.
He's at boiling coffee. He did not expect a surprise shot.
He's ambushed by the coffee. This is horrible and it
was just me and I remember I was laughing. I
was trying not to laugh. We were all trying not
to laugh. All the radio row was trying not to
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laugh because it was the funniest thing, just the way
that Paul the engineer it said watch out, Jerry's gonna
spill the coffee. And then it got even more crazy. Alright,
so they come back from commercial and they just pretend
like nothing happened. It was. It was a CBS radio
sports broadcast that they called it. So he Jerry comes back,
they do the play, but he's doing the play by play,
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Gary is withering in agony from just being burned from
the coffee. And so then some paramedics show up because
the guy's got burns, and they're like, we're gonna check
him out. Well. Gary Cohen, the Met's broadcaster, then takes
off his shirt because they had to examine the burns.
So he's sitting in the press box. His back looked
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like the map of Africa with all the different outlines
of the countries and all that all bubbling up. His
skin was bubbling up bright red, just horrible. And he
put the headset back on and Jerry Coleman starts talking
to him. It was. It was craziness as I remember it,
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and so I just I can only imagine if you
were sitting in the crowd that night and you're like,
you're just doing your own thing, and you know, la
la la la la la la la la la la
la la, and you get coffee port on you, and
then you're in the crowd and you look up to
the press box and you see a broadcaster calling a
game on radio, and then right next to him another
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broadcaster who's got a headset on but no shirt, and uh,
it was it was quite quite the tail that's randomly
popped in my all. Right. Now, as far as the
sod god in the story, I just related to you
a few minutes ago in a sorry about the glass,
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and I mentioned that the backyard covered in a layer
of grout, a layer of concrete. So my plan for
the new Mallard mansion is to make it an outdoor oasis,
a casablanca. In order to do that, there's a lot
of work that needs to be done. Now, you have
helped me, maybe not you, but the fellow listeners have
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helped me with home remedies. Some I have to buy
for the mosquitoes to get rid of the mosquitoes. Now,
a lot of the mosquitos have already left because the
weather got cooler in the north Woods, and I'm sure
they'll be back as soon as it heats up again.
Regardless of that. Uh, since I am focused on making
this my little garden of Eden, I've decided the back
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in front of the Mallard mansion looked like shantytown right now.
It does not look good. So I have decided on
the fifty fifty split. Now what is the fifty fifty
split on this? I'll tell you what the split is.
I'm glad you asked. So the front is going to
have professional side put down, very expensive side, and gardener
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will be brought in with his team and will put
the side down, and then we will stay off the
side for several weeks, will water the side religiously, and
then we will be good to go. But the back
of the north Woods Mallard Mansion will be a d
i y situation. Do it yourself. And in preparation for this,
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I have been watching several YouTube videos on how to
become the sod god, the god of sad, and so
I've determined through my copious amounts of research, I have
determined that it is a ten step process or process.
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So some of you, and maybe it's you are very
handy and you're useful and you're not useless like I am.
Where I do is talk and you do this kind
of stuff all the time. But this is a new
area for me. At the old Malor mansion, we didn't
have to worry about this. It was all set up
nice and pretty and we didn't have any worry it.
So the ten steps are and you can email me
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at Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com or Ben Maller Show at
gmail dot com and tell me if I'm right on this.
So this is I just jotted down some notes here,
just a few notes in my chicken scratch from the
different YouTube videos that I've watched on how to become
the sod God. So, according to the videos, step number
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one they say you're supposed to start in the fall.
Now I don't know about that. I thought you're supposed
starting to spring, but several the videos said starting to fall.
But I live in a place where they don't really
have fall, so I don't think that makes much sense.
The first thing you have to do is kill the weeds.
Kill the weeds. Now, I'm not sure how this works
because the lawn right now is covered in that grout
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concrete mix. I picked a lot of it up. There's
still a lot there. There are a few weeds, so
I guess I gotta take care of that, but I
have to get the concrete out also, So that's step
number two. Kill the weeds and in my case, take
care of the grout and the concrete. Step number three
aerate the lawn. That's a fancy word for dig holes.
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A lot of holes. Okay, So that's that's aerating the lawn.
So I gotta buy something from home deep or whatever
to do that. I think you can just buy a
metal contraption or you can rent it. And I that
that's when I'm leaning towards at this point, so that
when we step number three, so you've made holes all
over the lawn, you've taken the weeds away. The next
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step is to buy grass seed. Now that's important. You
gotta buy a fifty fifty I'm told you gotta buy
grass seed that is good in the sun and good
and obviously the shade. So you've got to get that
you then drop the grass seed into all the holes
that you've made on the lawn, very aerating the lawn.
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If I'm boring you, just fast forward through the podcast.
So that's step number four. Step number five, you gotta
apply starter fertilizer, not savvy veteran fertilizer, a new Ubi
newby newby, Neuby fertilizer. Check. Then you have to water
two or three times a day. Check check check. Stay
off the lawn. Kind of obvious that step number seven
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you have to mow. I have to wait a month
to mow, give it the Uncle Moe treatment, and then
after two months you can mow every week if you
so desire, and they tell you the exact member measurement,
according to YouTube is two and a half to three
and a half inches high. And then after every six
weeks you're supposed to put more fertilizer down. Now, the
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odds that I follow all ten of these steps slim
to none, and Slim has left the building. I'm pretty
sure I will do the first five, actually the first six,
and for seven, for seven, and maybe even number eight,
number nine and number ten. I'm not sure that I
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will still do that, but my goal is to become
the side gun, and I will take photo graphs and
I will put some of this stuff. I'm not gonna
put a living on because I don't want you to
know where I live, but I'll take some strategic photos
and I will show you the before and after, before
and after of the backyard of the Mallard match. So
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as soon as I get this thing going, I will
make sure to do it and I will let you know.
All right. Moving on from that, we have the magical date. Now,
what is the magical date? Is it? My birthday? Is
the wedding date? Is it? What is it? No? Uh,
the magical date? Now, everyone has important dates in their lives,
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certain events. Human beings are fascinated by patterns, patternicity and
also dates, right, random dates, They're important life events. For me,
I had one of those magical dates passed by on
the calendar. Uh. This is back on Wednesday, so hump day.
And it was November third, big day for me. And
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why is November three a big day? That is always
for the rest of my life as long as I'm around,
going to be a special day because that was my
dear old mother's birthday. May she rest in peace. She
would have turned seventy five years old my mom, and
I wonder what she would have been like if she
had made it and been seventy five and with all
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the stuff that's happened in the world, and just chatting
with mom and wondering what that's like and so would
have had a big birthday party, I'm sure, and it
would have been great and just cake and balloons and
birthday cards and presents and all that. Unfortunately, my mom
passed away a number of years ago, but I always
make sure to honor my mom on her birthday. That's
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an important day, and so you know, even though she's
been gone for a while, it's important. And there's also
an odd bit of serendipity in my life that November
three not only a big day because my Mom's birth day,
but also the anniversary of the big operation. What is
the big operation? That would be my big operation? A
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couple of years back, twenty nineteen before the world shut
down with COVID, I had a gall stone attack and
I got taken to the hospital gall bladder surgery. I
spent a week in the hospital and I still feel
the after effects of that. Not having a gall bladder,
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but my operation was on November three, was an NFL Sunday.
I remember going under as it was this it was
late afternoon and it was an NFL Sunday, and I
missed the entire day in the NFL. I remember being
bummed out about that. I then woke up groggy, and
it was the Patriots were playing the Ravens, Tom Brady's
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Patriots versus the Ravens and Lamar Jackson, and they got charred, roiled,
spit roasted, Molly wop curb stomped. I remember that vaguely.
I remember waking up saying, holy crap, I can't believe.
I can't believe what happened here. That's absolutely insane. What happened?
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By the way, Doc Mike just calling me. I'm Doc,
I'm recording a podcast. Doc. What are you doing? You're
killing me? Doc. Anyway, so that November three also the
anniversary of my my operation, and so, uh, I gotta
tell you that operation is pretty normal. A lot of
people their gallbladder taking out. My problem is, I'm such
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a knuckle head, I'm so bullheaded as a Taurus that
I waited too long. I waited too long to be
checked out. And so that's a pretty standard operating procedure type.
It's like an assembly line. Doctors will tell you in
the emergency room with a gallbladder, it's a common thing,
but it's not common when you wait, it's it's complications.
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I had so many gall stones it was like shrapnel
all over that part of my body, and so they
needed to pick those little needles, little gall stones out
of the haystack. Good times, good times, indeed. But anyway,
that was the third day of November, the big day
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in my life. A couple of other things. Now we're
not going to do a full let's get scientifical. We're
not gonna do that. But there were a couple of stories.
And I don't even know if this is a style.
I don't know if this is a science story or
just an animal story. This is one of those things
that should probably be an animal thunderdome. We had Danny
g on yesterday and Danny talked about animal stories, and
(25:49):
we talked about how together people love animal story stories
about dogs, cats, you name it. This one is so
wild you'd think it was fake, Like you'd think this
is a bogus story, but we we take you to Brazil.
We take you to Brazil and a story of a
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random man in Brazil who was having a really bad day.
He was having a really bad day and it turned
into a fatal day for this guy. Let me, let
me give you the story. So this dude in Brazil's
thirty year old guy in Brazil, and he's out there
fishing with his buddies and he's in doing doing his thing,
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and he gets attacked by a swarm of bees. I
don't think they were murder hornets. I think they were
just beas. And so this guy's like, I gotta get it.
I gotta get away from these bees. So he did
what most people would think would be the right thing
to do. He's being chased by the mob of bees.
He's in Brazil. He jumps into a lake. The guy was,
(26:53):
of course, fishing with his buddies. So this dude jumps
into a farm lake in you know, a small part
of Brazil, off the beaten path, and so he goes
into the water to avoid the bees. He ends up
drowning and being eaten by piranhas. Can you imagine? Does
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that sound like a horror film? That sounds like a
nineteen nineties comedy old school comedy where that's Vaudevillian is
what that is. Vaudvillian is a terrible and the guy
the guy died. But you imagine having bad like well,
I guess what's your time? At your time? But you
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get away from the bees and then tell here the
piranhas chop chop chop. I'd like to eat. I'd like
to bite to eat? Can I can I have a bite? Yeah? Brutal?
All right, now this is a story that relates to us.
Now again not a full let's get scientifical, but why
do some people sleep walk? Have you ever been around
a sleepwalker? Maybe you're a sleepwalker. I've been around a
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few sleep walkers over the years. And when I moved
out of the Mallard mansion, originally I had some roommates
and you know, sleepovers or whatever. I was a kid,
we had we had occasional sleepwalkers. Occasional sleepwalkers. So why
does some people sleep walk? Well? According to a new
study out of Montreal, Quebec, sleepwalking, according to the scientists,
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is a phenomena that has intrigued this as people for years.
Neurologists have examined the human brain in search of an
explanation but have found no solid answer. But now, according
to this new study out of Montreal, it has revealed
that sleepwalking may that's a weeze a word, may have
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a lot to do with a person's fight or flight response,
specifically those who display lower fight or flight reaction as
they sleep and more nervous system response tied to relaxation.
People that have that are more prone to go for
a nice walk. While Unconscious says sleepwalking is a condition
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in which the person does not enter the rapid eye
movement or rem sleep stage in adults, they say it
occurs in less than five of people. Scientist say sleepwalkers
usually find it difficult to stay awake the day after
an episode due to exhaustion from lack of sleep. Well,
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I know all about that lack of sleep during the
overnight show. But there you go. Too much relaxation maybe
a factor. Blame it on that and fight or flight,
fight or flight. Let me do one more, one more
of these. Let's get scientifical stories a small version. Morality
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is blank? Morality is blank? Is it genetic? This story
comes out of Washington? You know, listen, we all know
different activities casual making whoopee a little weekend, the snow run,
doing the recreational drugs all that. Uh, it's it's it's
(30:25):
one of these things that the certain people are more
prone to than others. Right, the great moral debate, Right,
what is more moral for one person is a moral
for another? And what is a moral is moral? You know,
with vice versa, vice versus So researchers with the Association
of Psychology Science wherever that is sounds official, they report
(30:49):
that there may be may as again and we as
a word very popular in these studies, there may be
a common genetic basis that influences individual opinions on non
committal sex and the use of drugs recreationally. According to
(31:09):
the findings, they hold major implications towards modern sciences understanding
on how genes a k a. Heredity contribute to opinions
and moral values. So their argument is that you are born,
and from the moment of birth, you are more likely,
(31:31):
based on your genes to be out there like the
Great Wilt Chamberlain with the twenty thousand ladies or two
on the weekend to have a little baggy a coke
or whatever it might be, whatever your drug of choices.
So I don't I don't buy this. I think it's
to me, it's more of how you were raised. That's
(31:53):
my position on it. Now they claim differently, and they're
the scientists and all that, and they study this stuff,
but I I really believe it's more about the family
upbringing and you know, when you were a kid being
taught you can't do this, you can't do that, and
instilling it. Whereas if you're in a family where it's
not quite the same and you're just kind a little
(32:14):
looser than that, you're more prone to do that stuff.
I don't I don't buy this. So I'm gonna give
thumbs down on this study. It's that old nature versus nurture.
I'm going nurture on this. I'm going nurture on this one.
I'm not going nature. Scientist is saying it's nature. I'm
going nurture. Anyway. That'll do it. For the Saturday podcasts,
(32:37):
just about don't forget Cameo, Cameo Cameo. If you're a
fan of the radio show and you're obviously are you
listen to the Dopey podcast on a Saturday, What's going
on with you? But cameo dot com search my name
Ben Maller m A L L E R. If you
want to personalize matter monologue or just a pep talk,
whatever it might be, I am at your can call
(33:00):
for a nominal fee. And unlike the price of gas,
and unlike the price of bread and milk and all
this other stuff, I have not raised my prices. I've
done so. I am at your your your back in calls,
I said so. If you want to have a cameo,
hit me up. We'll have the Mailback podcast on Sunday Sunday.
(33:23):
Sunday Sunday, have a wonderful, glorious arrest of your Saturday
and we'll catch you next time.
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