Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, and the weekend has begun. Now,
Speaker 1: how do I know the weekend has begun? Because this
Speaker 1: is the Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mallard and Danny
Speaker 1: g Radio. Happy National Popcorn Day. Dany Are you a
Speaker 1: fan of popcorn? Uh?
Speaker 3: Not a huge fan.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you go to the movies, it's hard
Speaker 4: to pass it up when it's warm and it's got
Speaker 4: a little bit of butter on it. But I don't
Speaker 4: like the way it sticks in your teeth, and also
Speaker 4: I don't like the way you feel after you're done
Speaker 4: gorging on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well it's a popcorn orgy when you go to
Speaker 1: the movie theater. And I don't eat a lot of popcorn.
Speaker 1: I actually like popcorn. I'm positive I'm in the pro
Speaker 1: popcorn camp, but the stomach ache is pretty bad. And
Speaker 1: I was told by so many years ago that with
Speaker 1: every kernel of popcorn that you eat is about ten
Speaker 1: seconds of your life less that you're going to live.
Speaker 1: I got a thing about dead bodies eating the buttered
Speaker 1: the movie theater buttered popcorn, which is so good, yeah,
Speaker 1: so amazing. And back in the day, my big eating
Speaker 1: days before I started doing this fuges fasting and all
Speaker 1: that dandy, I would go to a theater near the
Speaker 1: house and they had I don't know if they still
Speaker 1: do this, they used to do buy a large popcorn
Speaker 1: and you get a free refill. That was the thing.
Speaker 1: So I'd buy the large popcorn, like the extra large popcorn.
Speaker 4: They still do that, but the large popcorn is twenty
Speaker 4: nine to ninety.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so back in my day it was reasonable, comparably reason.
Speaker 1: I'd get the large popcorn, and I would get there
Speaker 1: as early as I could watch all the trailers and
Speaker 1: try to finish about half of it before the movie
Speaker 1: started so I could go back and get more. And
Speaker 1: and that was my move. But there's a few things
Speaker 1: better than popcorn at a movie, and like chocolate and
Speaker 1: the sweet and the salty fatty popcorn. It's just absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1: So Happy National Popcorn eight and we are back. A
Speaker 1: new weekend is upon us here on the fifth hour,
Speaker 1: and today's edition a hodgepodge of randomness as we head
Speaker 1: into a divisional playoff weekend in the NFL tomorrow and Sunday,
Speaker 1: we will be down to the final four teams in
Speaker 1: the NFL by Sunday. Night says it's wrapping up. But Danny,
Speaker 1: we're getting close to the silly season in football, which
Speaker 1: is also fun for sports radio. But only a couple
Speaker 1: more games to go here. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating on the
Speaker 4: air the preseason and the start of the season. I
Speaker 4: can't believe it's wrapping up right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just we're on a high speed submarine, like
Speaker 1: a nuclear fusion submarine, just flying through through all of this.
Speaker 1: But we have today Today's pot, we have the Green
Speaker 1: Day Heaven Coster Special, the phrase of the week, and
Speaker 1: we'll see what else we have we have time for.
Speaker 1: So I want to start with this now. As you know,
Speaker 1: this podcast serves two purposes. Not only does it give
Speaker 1: you the consumer fresh audio content on the weekends when
Speaker 1: I'm normally not working, and Danny as well. But in addition,
Speaker 1: I canhore myself out and promote my TV show which
Speaker 1: is still on the air. It's amazing, I know. So
Speaker 1: we we recorded the latest episode, the Divisional Round episode
Speaker 1: of Benny Versus the Penny, and I was asked by
Speaker 1: a listener, I did not use this in the mailbag.
Speaker 1: I'm using it right now. Mailbag's on Sunday. But he asked,
Speaker 1: how are you guys going to do the show because
Speaker 1: there's not as many games, and you guys still have
Speaker 1: to do the full, full show. And so my response
Speaker 1: to that is a, yeah, there aren't as many games obviously,
Speaker 1: but it's only a half an hour show. And Danny,
Speaker 1: as you know from being a seasoned radio professional, we
Speaker 1: do on a radio show, you know, twenty two and
Speaker 1: a half, twenty three minutes of content with our eyes
Speaker 1: closed and our hands tied behind our back or whatever.
Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh used to say.
Speaker 4: We could go on a side rant for a good
Speaker 4: eighteen nineteen minutes and then try to get back to
Speaker 4: the point. But then your producer is saying break break,
Speaker 4: gotta go, and you've got to pick up your real
Speaker 4: topic on the other side exactly.
Speaker 1: So that's the point.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: And and you just when you do the radio stuff,
Speaker 1: it's long form. It's I do four hours a night.
Speaker 1: I've done five in the past. I did with Looney
Speaker 1: who I do the TV show with. We would go
Speaker 1: on the air at one o'clock Eastern time, ten o'clock
Speaker 1: in the West, and we would go all the way
Speaker 1: till seven o'clock. So we did six hours of live
Speaker 1: radio every Sunday for seven years. And so you learn,
Speaker 1: you learn how to how to talk, and you know.
Speaker 1: So I'm we're worried about that. And even with the
Speaker 1: fewer number of games, we still have so much to say,
Speaker 1: we likely we'll still run out of that. But that's
Speaker 1: not the point, all right. The point is this. We
Speaker 1: had a historical moment on this latest episode of Benny
Speaker 1: Versus the Petty, which will be start It's gonna start
Speaker 1: airing later today. I think the first showing is this
Speaker 1: afternoon in San Francisco. But uh, and it's on all
Speaker 1: the country. So our first wardrobe malfunction on the TV show.
Speaker 1: You always remember your first So if that didn't catch
Speaker 1: your attention, maybe he did. I don't know. Was it me?
Speaker 1: Did I have the wardrobe malfunction? No, because I have
Speaker 1: a military like outfit when I go and do this show.
Speaker 1: I have the hat, I have the pullover top, I
Speaker 1: have the dress shirt. That's my outfit. That's what I wear.
Speaker 1: But Tom Looney was called to the carpet. Is it
Speaker 1: true that Tom Looney had a fashion faux pauw? A
Speaker 1: fashion faux pauw on the Fifth Hour podcast or the
Speaker 1: TV show which we're talking about now, on the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour podcast. So Looney he wore a shirt he showed up. Now,
Speaker 1: the way this works, I get there hours before we're
Speaker 1: supposed to record the TV show, and I squeeze my
Speaker 1: way into the back room there at Universal Studios. There's
Speaker 1: no one there. The place is completely empty. And I
Speaker 1: go in there and there's a table, a couple of
Speaker 1: chairs around it. There's a big whiteboard that has some
Speaker 1: notes for some I don't even read it, some movies
Speaker 1: something or whatever. So I'm sitting there, I got like
Speaker 1: half a light on, and I'm going over my notes,
Speaker 1: doing some final preparation for the show. About half an
Speaker 1: hour before the show before the record time, Loony comes
Speaker 1: rolling it. Now, the great thing about Looney is. You
Speaker 1: don't have to be worried about being surprised by Loony
Speaker 1: because it's like a stampede of Buffalo Danny. You can
Speaker 1: hear Looney approaching from a mile away because he's just
Speaker 1: randomly saying hello and talking to random people in the building.
Speaker 1: So I knew Looney was on the way. So he
Speaker 1: comes in there and I say hello. We do the
Speaker 1: usual niceties and all that, and I always make sure
Speaker 1: to take note of his outfit because he wears some
Speaker 1: crazy crap. And he had the shirt on and he
Speaker 1: pointed out that this is a shirt with mikecrophones, and
Speaker 1: I was like, well, who cares? You know, I'm a
Speaker 1: big deal, and Looney was trying to explain, well, we
Speaker 1: work with microphones. This is kind of cool. And you
Speaker 1: know who does care, though, Danny. That would be the
Speaker 1: production team in Boston. And as Paul Harvey used to
Speaker 1: say on radio, you know what the news is. But
Speaker 1: now you're about to hear the rest of the story.
Speaker 1: So why would the production team in Boston be upset
Speaker 1: by Tom Looney wearing just a random shirt with microphones
Speaker 1: on a TV show. Well, it turns out that those
Speaker 1: microphones were bright green microphones, bright green microphones. You want
Speaker 1: to take a guess, Danny, what happens when one wears
Speaker 1: the color green the television show in a studio?
Speaker 4: You look like Casper the Friendly Ghost exactly.
Speaker 1: So we do the show obviously in a studio with
Speaker 1: green screen. That's how they are able to put the graphics.
Speaker 1: Minus it's just basic TV. And Looney sits down, he
Speaker 1: gets miked up, They put his ifb in and he's
Speaker 1: he said, oh, hello everyone, you know, and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: And we're looking in the monitor and you're right, it's
Speaker 1: like Looney has become Casper the Friendly Ghost. We see
Speaker 1: his head, but it was floating, yeah, yeah, mostly a
Speaker 1: floating head. Mostly floating again and uh, and they were
Speaker 1: trying to figure out. Originally the people in Boston are like,
Speaker 1: what's going on. They thought it was a problem with
Speaker 1: the graphics and and then we were correfully surmised. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: this was Looney going full green day and he had
Speaker 1: to do the walk of shame. Now, Fortunately for Looney,
Speaker 1: he knew he's klutz and he did bring an extra shirt,
Speaker 1: so he did bring an extra so so it wasn't
Speaker 1: a total disaster, but it was hilarious because we're getting
Speaker 1: ready to start recording the show and they're like, we
Speaker 1: can't do it, you know, we're done, and and so
Speaker 1: Looney had to go in the back room and change
Speaker 1: it was It was pretty funny.
Speaker 3: It was what would have happened if he had not
Speaker 3: had the extra with.
Speaker 1: Him, Well, it just been me. I would have been talking.
Speaker 1: I would have pretended to be loony and then I'd
Speaker 1: go back and do my thing. And yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what would have would have happened with that.
Speaker 1: But by the way, the TV show, the divisional Round
Speaker 1: edition of Benny Versus the Penny. You got to check
Speaker 1: your local TV listings, as Danny likes to say, for
Speaker 1: showings in your area. It's distributed by n B. See
Speaker 1: Celtics are probably in BC. Yeah, right, Celtics are playing tonight,
Speaker 1: so we're on late We're bumped to the late TV
Speaker 1: window tonight in Boston, Benny Versus the Penny eleven thirty.
Speaker 1: There's no good late night TV, so we'll be on
Speaker 1: eleven thirty and then an encore showing at midnight in Boston.
Speaker 1: There's a I think a Flyers game in Philadelphia. I
Speaker 1: believe on NBC Sports Phillies will be on eleven o'clock
Speaker 1: there I have a late night showing in Chicago tonight.
Speaker 1: Bay Area. We're on first showings at two o'clock this
Speaker 1: afternoon Pacific time, so we're on early and there's three.
Speaker 1: There's two other showings after that. There's one after the
Speaker 1: Warriors game, so check your listenings on that. We're also
Speaker 1: on a couple of times on NBC Sports California, which
Speaker 1: is the home of the Sacramento Kings, and then tomorrow
Speaker 1: Danny on Saturday, I guess the Lakers aren't playing because
Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny will be on Spectrum Sports Net
Speaker 1: SoCal not once, not twice, not three times, but four
Speaker 1: showings for showing. That's I think that's a record.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, the Lakers play in Sunday evening.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so we're on thank god, we're on four
Speaker 1: times in the Los Angeles market on Spectrum Sports Net SOCOW,
Speaker 1: which is my favorite. I don't know how that became
Speaker 1: my favorite cable channel in LA. It's very odd. And
Speaker 1: then on Sunday we have the normal block. We have
Speaker 1: been locked into the eleven thirty a m. Eastern TV
Speaker 1: Window on Sports Net New York better known as s
Speaker 1: n Y, which will be interesting because that show will
Speaker 1: be broadcast after the games on Saturday, and who knows.
Speaker 1: I don't know it's gonna happen with that because we
Speaker 1: don't know who's gonna win. I have my picks. But
Speaker 1: the games on Saturday, the Texans and Ravens and the
Speaker 1: Packers and forty nine Ers, and the mother time the
Speaker 1: show airs, those two games will be long over. So
Speaker 1: either all look like a genius or a total jackass
Speaker 1: on the TV show. So now that was the Green
Speaker 1: Day story with Looney Tunes man Na Machado Pop Two
Speaker 1: Bodies Tonight. Now turning the page on that, I wanted
Speaker 1: to share a bit of a story. So this past
Speaker 1: weekend I wanted to follow up on a story Danny
Speaker 1: that I told on the on the radio on the
Speaker 1: radio the other night. This goes way back to early
Speaker 1: in the week. So this past weekend was party Hardy's Hunt.
Speaker 1: My friend, my colleiue, Rob Parker, our buddy Rob. We
Speaker 1: love Rob. And he celebrated his sixtieth trip around the
Speaker 1: globe here around the planet, Spin Spin, Spin Around, and
Speaker 1: so he threw a very elaborate birthday party at the
Speaker 1: MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in the heart of Lost Wages,
Speaker 1: Nevada and Rob invited us. So we love Rob, we
Speaker 1: love Vegas. So we were like, yeah, we're going, and
Speaker 1: so we spent the weekend. Me and the wife spent
Speaker 1: the weekend in Sin City and we had had a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. It was a great trip. I'll tell
Speaker 1: more about it. Throughout the weekend. We drove, always drive.
Speaker 1: I've only flown to Vegas once in all these years
Speaker 1: I've been around going to Vegas. I've been going to
Speaker 1: Vegas for a long time and only once have I flown.
Speaker 1: And the only reason I flew was because somebody paid
Speaker 1: for it. I didn't pay for it. You know, a
Speaker 1: man of the people. I know all the great restaurants
Speaker 1: in Victorville. Barstow, Baker and Prim have it all mapped out, Danny,
Speaker 1: I know where to go in Victorville. There's all a
Speaker 1: lot of good restaurants in Victoryville. But that's the first
Speaker 1: that's like the twenty five percent mark on the way
Speaker 1: to Vegas from.
Speaker 3: La Yeah, you're barely out of southern California.
Speaker 1: Exactly, So you're better off waiting till at least Barstow,
Speaker 1: because Barstow, that's like the sweet spot that's halfway Baker.
Speaker 1: I like the mad Greek and Baker, that alien beef
Speaker 1: jerkey place out in Baker's kind of cool. But when
Speaker 1: you get to Baker, you're like, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: that much further to to Vegas. You know, you're more
Speaker 1: than a halfway. It's like the But then you go
Speaker 1: through Prim and you're like, maybe I could stop in Prim,
Speaker 1: maybe do a little gambling, cause it's just right across
Speaker 1: the state line from California. But then you're like, it's
Speaker 1: only another hour to Vegas. Why don't I just go
Speaker 1: to Vegas? And so like Barstow is the perfect spot
Speaker 1: on that perfect spot in my opinion. But you see
Speaker 1: all the sand and the cactus and all that that
Speaker 1: your heart desires. And had a phone. We ate a
Speaker 1: lot of good food. I'll tell you more about that
Speaker 1: probably later in the weekend. Probably later I'll get to that.
Speaker 1: But watch the games and had a good and the
Speaker 1: party was was a lot of fun, a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Rob's Danny. Rob's much different than me. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: ever throwing a party like that. For myself. I just can't.
Speaker 4: But no, there's no way I could see you doing
Speaker 4: something remotely.
Speaker 3: Close to that.
Speaker 1: No, I will not be renting out the hall at
Speaker 1: the MGM Grand for a birthday party. But it was
Speaker 1: very kind. I mean, Rob is he's a he's a mensch.
Speaker 1: As we like to.
Speaker 4: Say, imagine ordering big banners with your face on it.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's a little, a little much, but it was.
Speaker 1: He sat me at table nine. I was very happy.
Speaker 1: I was in the top ten tables. This was a
Speaker 1: big event. There were a couple hundred people there. So
Speaker 1: I was at table nine, at table nine man with
Speaker 1: Bob Garra Wrong Button, Bob producer. He was there. Chris
Speaker 1: Brussard was was hanging out. He sat next to me there.
Speaker 1: Chris was wearing a tuxedo. Among the other luminaries. That
Speaker 1: was like the FSR table. There were a few of
Speaker 1: the people that are on the odd Couple were sitting
Speaker 1: there as well. And then they had the event. They
Speaker 1: had a buffet meal, they had open bar kind of
Speaker 1: you had two drinks each, but it's open bar for
Speaker 1: two drinks. They had the roast of Rob and poking
Speaker 1: fund at Rob for his legendary love of a certain
Speaker 1: ballet in Atlanta, and his love of cheapness, you know
Speaker 1: when he travels golden girls. All that. Now, Stephen A. Smith,
Speaker 1: our former morning guy at Fox Sports Radio, was supposed
Speaker 1: to speak, and I must say it again if you
Speaker 1: don't know the famous Rob Parker story. If you hate
Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith, you can thank Rob Parker. You can
Speaker 1: thank him or be upset with him for Steve and
Speaker 1: A still having a career in television because years ago,
Speaker 1: when Stephen A was a young sports writer, he was
Speaker 1: going to quit sports writing to work at a bank
Speaker 1: in I think it was North Carolina, the famous story,
Speaker 1: and Rob Parker talked him out of leaving sports media
Speaker 1: talked him out of him. He was gonna be he
Speaker 1: was gonna be a banker, and and Rob convinced him
Speaker 1: not to do it. And Steven A has made a
Speaker 1: gazillion dollars since then. But anyway, his flight was delayed.
Speaker 3: So he should have bought all of you a third drink,
Speaker 3: you think.
Speaker 1: So he was supposed to speak. He didn't show up.
Speaker 1: We thought he wasn't going to show up. And then
Speaker 1: like two hours after the event started, this hooton Nanny.
Speaker 1: We were walking me and my wife were walking through
Speaker 1: the one of the hallways. We were like on our way.
Speaker 1: We're like, wait, we'll leave now. We've been here a
Speaker 1: couple hours and we're starting to walk and we see
Speaker 1: coming towards us like ships passing the night. We see
Speaker 1: this huge entourage and it's like Floyd Mayweather heading into
Speaker 1: the ring at the MGM, or Oscar de la Joya
Speaker 1: or Mike Tyson or something like that. Oh okay, And
Speaker 1: and then I was like, wait a minute, this is
Speaker 1: like uh Kevin and old Kevin Costner classic, a Kevin
Speaker 1: Costner special. Remember that movie, that old movie with Whitney
Speaker 1: Houston The Bodyguard. Yeah, it was like, there's like a
Speaker 1: bodyguard times too, because hand to God, Danny steven A
Speaker 1: walking he had a lady friend with him and there
Speaker 1: was like one other person who was a little older,
Speaker 1: but then surrounded by these two goon bodyguards. He'll eat
Speaker 1: the table protecting steven A from the great Unwashed, which
Speaker 1: was amusing because he was walking in an empty corridor
Speaker 1: of the MGM, which was off limits to anyone else.
Speaker 1: You weren't allowed to be in that area where we were. Uh,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he had two bodyguards with him as.
Speaker 4: He strolled in what He's made a lot of enemies
Speaker 4: over the years. Ben, you don't want to make an
Speaker 4: enemy out of him.
Speaker 1: You do not want to make an enemy out of me.
Speaker 1: I guess was like, was he word that Jason Whitlock
Speaker 1: was going to pop out behind a potted plant and
Speaker 1: jump on top of him or something like that? Was
Speaker 1: crazy snacks, But that was surprise. That was shocking. Now
Speaker 1: stephen A in the past when he was just starting
Speaker 1: to rise up at ESPN and that show was taking
Speaker 1: off with Skip Bayless. The famous story that we referenced,
Speaker 1: Actually Eddie brought this up. I had forgotten about it
Speaker 1: back in the Pete Carroll days of USC football when
Speaker 1: sc were rock stars in La in that era. Back
Speaker 1: in those days, stephen A showed up to a USC
Speaker 1: game Colsseum with Pete Carroll, Matt Lioner at Reggie Bush
Speaker 1: that group, and at the coliseum he went to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: We offer to go the bathroom, but he had a
Speaker 1: security guard guard the bathroom so nobody else could go in.
Speaker 1: While stephen A was was draining the snake there, no
Speaker 1: one else could go in. So that was a long time.
Speaker 1: That's probably man Pete Carroll sc we're probably going back
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years, not twenty years, but fifteen to twenty years,
Speaker 1: a long time ago. And so he's up the bodyguard game.
Speaker 1: And how would you think that costs? Because stephen A
Speaker 1: travels a lot. He lives on the East Coast, but
Speaker 1: he's got a place in La He's traveling all over
Speaker 1: the place. So not only do you have to pay
Speaker 1: for the bodyguard, you got to pay for their travel,
Speaker 1: you got to pay for their food, all that, right,
Speaker 1: So it's yeah, twenty four hours a day. I know
Speaker 1: he's making a lot of money and he could afford it,
Speaker 1: but I'm still curious how much that costs. I would
Speaker 1: love to know how much he spends on privatey.
Speaker 4: No, I feel like if it were you or me,
Speaker 4: we would try to find a way to just have
Speaker 4: one goon and it would be like a family, like
Speaker 4: a relative or something who's huge, and that way you
Speaker 4: could get like the family discount, because otherwise, I mean,
Speaker 4: even if you have a lot of money, You're right,
Speaker 4: that adds up quickly.
Speaker 1: Didn't Shaquille O'Neal have a relative as his bodyguard? I
Speaker 1: remember when he was playing for the Lakers. There was
Speaker 1: a buddy of his that was his his traveling companion.
Speaker 1: I forget the guy's name, but I believe he was
Speaker 1: a cousin or something of check.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think you're right about that. Shack is
Speaker 4: smart with his money.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, Shack. Listen, Shack made a ton, not
Speaker 1: as much as Magic Johnson. But you can't turn on
Speaker 1: a sporting event without seeing Shaq pouring himself out for
Speaker 1: some product. No, I'm sick and tired of your fire
Speaker 1: get out or multiple products. He's next level, so good
Speaker 1: job by him. Oh. I wanted to also mention that
Speaker 1: does anyone have a a locksmith? This was rather odd.
Speaker 1: Weird thing happened this week the other night in the
Speaker 1: FSR studio. So Eddie usually does not enter my domain.
Speaker 1: I don't enter his domain. He's in the update studio.
Speaker 1: But the other night he came wandering out of his
Speaker 1: safe space, walked down the hall, around the corner, turned
Speaker 1: the corner again, and attempted to enter the studio I
Speaker 1: was in because he wanted to tell me something about
Speaker 1: the schedule. And that is when the thing of a
Speaker 1: jig stop work, or we thought it stopped working.
Speaker 3: I've had this happen one time too.
Speaker 1: Okay, so ed he tries to open the door and
Speaker 1: the door doesn't open. Yeah, the main studio.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what's up?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that mechanism is janky. There's once or twice where
Speaker 4: the door we thought it was locked on Covino and
Speaker 4: Rich Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I was very concerned. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, the door if it closes, I'll not
Speaker 1: be able to get in the studio. I'll be I'll
Speaker 1: be locked out of the on air studio. So we
Speaker 1: had put a sign up and it's a really messed
Speaker 1: up And then the funniest part about it is like
Speaker 1: we're freaking out. We're like, oh no, Iowa. Sam of
Speaker 1: course goes in full panic at the disco mode and
Speaker 1: he's like, Okay, I'm gonna email this person. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: call this person. We're gonna get this thing fixed. You know.
Speaker 1: We put a sign on the door, the whole thing,
Speaker 1: and so Jonas comes strolling in out do we get done?
Speaker 1: And again the way the works, we could open the
Speaker 1: door from the studio out, but you couldn't open the
Speaker 1: door going in. It wouldn't open. It was locked, you know.
Speaker 4: Really quick, Ben Love iowa Sam to death. He's a
Speaker 4: great guy, but he has been known to have little
Speaker 4: meltdowns from time to time. I feel like he would
Speaker 4: have been a great replacement for mister Furley through these companies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you knows. He also has a little like Annie Z,
Speaker 1: which no one listening will know who that is, but
Speaker 1: our friend Annie who was a big boss at Fox,
Speaker 1: and I love Annie to death, but I was Sam
Speaker 1: as a similar personality. I think in that reward, I'm
Speaker 1: unwarning you guys anyway. The funniest thing. It was like
Speaker 1: a slapstick comedy. So we're all freaking out, you know.
Speaker 1: Hoop's trying to open the door, he can't open it.
Speaker 1: Eddie's trying to open it, he can't open it. You know.
Speaker 1: Then I have them go in the studio. I try
Speaker 1: to open the door. I can't get the damn thing open,
Speaker 1: like the thing of a jig's not working, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh crap.
Speaker 3: So then after the show does it take to open
Speaker 3: a door?
Speaker 1: I know, I know. So here's the funniest thing, right,
Speaker 1: So Jonahs shows up to do his show. I have
Speaker 1: never heard of this cracker. I'm packing my stuff up,
Speaker 1: the door's closed, and Jonas walks over, He twists the knob,
Speaker 1: walks right in like there's nothing like, there's nothing broken.
Speaker 1: What the hell I said? You some kind of ninja.
Speaker 1: We spent the last two hours obsessing with this stupid
Speaker 1: fricking door and you walk right in like it's perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, you just got to
Speaker 1: like press in and pull down. It's like you're pressed in,
Speaker 1: like what we did that? So by analysis, yeah, it was,
Speaker 1: it was. Don't you think Danny and I don't want
Speaker 1: to speak for management. They're very important people and I
Speaker 1: don't want to speak for them. But don't you think
Speaker 1: you could fix the door? So it doesn't ever work
Speaker 1: that way where it just stops opening for a stretch
Speaker 1: of time and you have to have some kind of
Speaker 1: secret cod It's like opening a bank vault to get
Speaker 1: in the studio. Don't you think there's better ways to
Speaker 1: accomplish that. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just you know what,
Speaker 1: do I know? Maybe that's they want to have a locksmith.
Speaker 1: Does anyone know a locksmith? And have them them come in?
Speaker 1: We have the phrase of the week. Are you ready
Speaker 1: for the phrase of the week? The phrase of the
Speaker 1: week our phrase of the week this week, it is
Speaker 1: something we got from the radio show. I mentioned this.
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, I don't know where that came from.
Speaker 1: And then people are emailing me, well, why don't you
Speaker 1: make that the word of the week or whatever the
Speaker 1: phrase of the week. I said, Okay, what you want,
Speaker 1: we will give you. So the term we're using this week,
Speaker 1: the phrase of the week is we hours, the wee
Speaker 1: hours of the morning. Have you heard that one Danny
Speaker 1: before the wee hours of the morning. Oh, of course,
Speaker 1: of course everyone's heard that. So the term wee hours,
Speaker 1: according to a minutes long mallor investigation, obviously, it means
Speaker 1: the early hours of the morning and it is the
Speaker 1: time period after midnight. The term we of course in English,
Speaker 1: it means very small or tiny, and these are the
Speaker 1: hours between twelve am and the time when the sun rises,
Speaker 1: which is prime real estate. When you do an overnight
Speaker 1: talk Trump and it's the beginning of the new day,
Speaker 1: it's called the wee hours. Now, the expression wee hours,
Speaker 1: according to my research, is a Scottish expression racist and
Speaker 1: it refers to the small number that are used to
Speaker 1: refer to them, the one, two, three o'clock as in
Speaker 1: small hours one, two, and three. Wee hours is supposedly
Speaker 1: not that old. The term when you think about the
Speaker 1: history of time, it goes back to eighteen ninety one,
Speaker 1: which is a long time ago, but you think about
Speaker 1: how long people have been around and all that. So
Speaker 1: eighteen ninety one and then there was one reference to it.
Speaker 1: They think it might have originallyd but not gone into
Speaker 1: the lexicon in seventeen eighty seven, but it really became
Speaker 1: mainstream in eighteen ninety one. I say mainstream. There was
Speaker 1: no Internet in eighteen ninety one, so it still was
Speaker 1: word of mouth and newspapers and things like that. But
Speaker 1: we hours is the phrase of the week, those early
Speaker 1: morning hours between midnight and the time the sun rises.
Speaker 1: It is a Scottish expression, is what it is. We'll
Speaker 1: get out on that, Dany I mentioned the TV show tonight.
Speaker 1: I'm off from radio. I did the Overnight show last night.
Speaker 1: But you, my man, Danny, right, you got a lot
Speaker 1: going on later today, right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, After producing this fine podcast, I'll take a little nap,
Speaker 4: wake my ass up, and drive to beautiful Sherman Oaks,
Speaker 4: California for the fun Friday edition of The Covino and
Speaker 4: Rich Show.
Speaker 3: That is five pm in New York City.
Speaker 1: Beautiful, Enjoy that, have a wonderful rest of your Friday.
Speaker 1: Check out versus the penny Man. Would that mean a
Speaker 1: lot to me? That would be really cool. And we'll
Speaker 1: have fresh pots all weekend. Another pod coming up on Saturday. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we'll give you all we got never before told stories.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that and we'll do it tomorrow. Have
Speaker 1: a wonderful, wonderful Friday.
Speaker 3: Asta pasta, gotta murder, I gotta go