WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Tomm Looney, Back for More! 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.120 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now in. 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:35.000 The air Everneware The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.919 and Danny g Radio. A Happy Friday to you as 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:43.440 we kick off the weekend on this the twenty third 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.640 day of August. Happy Find your inter Nerd Day today, 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.000 big day for a lot of baseball executives who have 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:53.239 found their inner nerd and are destroying baseball on a 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.360 day by day basis. It's also National sponge Cake Day today, 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.920 It's Cheap Flight Day today, and more importantly, it is 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:06.000 a big Sigh of Relief Day today. Why we had 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:10.600 the announcement last night on the terrestrial radio show this podcast. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:14.160 Think of it as a companion of the Big News. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.000 If you missed it, bad job by you don't worry. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:26.080 I got youa The news is now out. It's back 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:31.080 double your pleasure, Double your fun. The only thing more 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:35.399 shocking than having NBC tell me that they wanted me 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.319 to do a TV show last year is that they 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.440 called me up and said, hey, let's run it back 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:45.160 and do it again. Because NBC has picked up season 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.960 two of Benny Versus the Penny. Now, there's a couple 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.120 of reasons for this. I would say the most important 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.279 is you actually watched the show, and that the base 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.360 of this audience, which is you and those that are 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.760 p ones and loyal supports. Law millions of the Overnight 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.840 Show have followed me and wherever I end up, you 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.320 guys have been great, and so that's really the backbone. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.400 So it's not anything that I've done, it's your guys 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.520 supporting the show. And this is not some kind of 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.640 April Fool's Day joke. In August, they've given me the 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:18.119 green light. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:18.720 This had been in. 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:23.000 Bargoed for a while. I was told not to talk 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:24.640 about it. They wanted me to wait until we got 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.160 closer to the start of the show. We had our 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.880 maiden voyage in twenty twenty three. It was neck and 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.480 neck between myself and The Penny, handicapping every game. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.600 And now it's time for the sequel. 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.960 I'm so excited to finally be able to talk to 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:43.760 you about this. Everything had been put on time out 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.960 the gag order, and I finally got the green light 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.840 from the network and the handcuffs have been removed and 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.440 we're ready to go. The show is actually going to 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.920 be bigger than it was last year, and we'll talk 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:59.600 more about it as we go through the podcast, but 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:04.400 no longer just on regional cable television. In addition to 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.240 that part of the puzzle, which is the base, the 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.560 show is produced out of NBC in Boston, but we 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.960 are going national. Benny Versus the Penny is going to 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.800 be a national television show. You'll be able to watch 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.320 this anywhere, any place. So many of you complained last year. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.880 I live in the boondocks. I can't get an NBC 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.800 cable affiliate, but I want to watch Benny Versus the Penny. Well, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:31.040 they heard you, and I complained, and you complained, and 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.640 we all complained, and I'm happy to let you know 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.000 that Benny Versus the Penny will be streaming. Every episode 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.480 will be available on Peacock, So there's no reason to 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.760 miss an episode of Benny Versus the Penny, and we're 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.800 going to need your help, much like this podcast. We've 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:53.320 deputized you over the years here to have your friends 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:58.000 and kids and grandkids and cousins and god children. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.360 And anyone's in your circle. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.280 One's got a circle, right, takes the village to support 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.840 what we do here, and so there's an easy way 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.800 to do it. So many people have Peacock. It's not 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:10.920 very expensive at all. In fact, there's a free version, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.880 I think, but the pay version is not not much 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.360 at all, and so people have it and we get 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.120 credit when people watch Benny versus Penny. I don't even 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.160 know how all that works, but I know if you're watching, 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.280 they know exactly who's watching, they know how many people 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.039 are watching. So a lot of you did grumble about that, 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.599 and now you're gonna be able to have a flipping 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.480 good time and be part of this show as we 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.000 go all the way through the NFL regular season and 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.240 through the super Bowl, we were qualifying for the playoffs, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:42.839 and it's it's just gonna be a ton of fun. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.839 It's just gonna be absolutely great. I'm so excited that 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.159 this is happening. And the reason I was back in 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.920 Boston was because of the TV show, and you know, 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.359 I didn't want to say anything. I was told not 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.560 to as I said, not to say anything, but now 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.919 I can. And we were trying to get Pat Sajak 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.320 to come out of retirement and represent the Penny. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.440 He rejected this, so we went back. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.040 To Tom Looney and Looney joins us. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:10.560 Right now. 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.839 He's right over there, he's putting his makeup on, and 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.680 it just came out from suntanning and we welcome in 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:23.360 the Voice of the Penny for season two of Benny 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.920 Versus the Penny and Tom Looney welcome. What is your 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.000 reaction to Looney to Benny Versus the Penny returning for 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.480 another season on television. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.599 Well, no, I'm not all that shocked. But if you remember, 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.520 if you go back on the hot Tub time machine, 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.640 when you and I worked together in the late nineties 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.360 at Extra Sports eleven fifty in Los Angeles, don the 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.480 hall from Rick D's and Ricky Martin walking down the hallways, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.680 that's true. I came up with you. I remember at 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.120 the time I was negotiating a TV deal with Canada, 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.719 the cb C, I believe it was, and it was 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.599 going to be an NFL show. Looney Versus the Loon 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.040 told you all about my idea, and then, uh, you know, 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.600 then fast forward and you're doing Veny Versus De Penny 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.760 on the radio. It's a big hit. I loved the 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.719 idea and the concept, and now it's a TV show. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.520 So I'm not so surprised that my original idea is 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:14.400 now a televison. 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.920 That's funny because I was in Vermont, uh when we 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.920 were we're in Boston, and Arnie said that I stole 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.400 the bit from him. It was Arnie versus the Shekel, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:24.479 and it. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.039 Was very excited. He was annoyed that I took his bit, 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.400 and he's like, well, I should be the one on NBC. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.320 You shouldn't be the one on NBC. What's up with that? 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:34.240 Uh? 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.960 But to me, there are broadky. You and I both 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.080 know that there are broadcasters we know that aren't satisfied 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.440 with their really cool jobs. Arnie's always been one of them. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.960 He's never stopped working. They're not satisfied with their really 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.520 cool jobs. They look at the other shiny object jobs. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.760 I should be doing that that. Oh yeah, I mean 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.120 most people that do these jobs. I don't know what 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.600 you got that job on it? How funny than you. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.400 I mean, oh man, I want. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.719 To feel like a king of the world. Okay, if 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.760 you want to feel like you're the most important person 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.800 in the world, travel all the way to Burlington, Vermont 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.880 and visit Arnie. No One no One Looney comes and 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:18.040 visits my guy Arnie out in the boondocks. He's like 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:22.000 an hour from Montreal, in the middle of nowhere, surrounded 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.080 by trees, and it's like a resort town where like 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.040 really rich people go and hang out. And I drove 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.960 up there, and we drove up in the tail remnants 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.280 of that storm that was passing through while we were there, 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.480 the tropical depression, and we drove that. 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.680 Was Debbie, Yeah, the Debbie Downer hurricane. Yeah, and she. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.920 Did drop down a lot of a lot of water. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.080 But we drove in the night, got there, Arnie picks 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.280 us up at the We told the story last week 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.280 on the podcast, but Arnie picked me and my wife 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.239 up at the hotel. We then got the VIP tour. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.880 We did everything there is to do in Burlington, Vermont 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.160 in four hours, and then got back there and headed 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.320 back down to Boston. But we should tell the full story. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.040 I feel so relieved Looney, I'm so happy to do 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.400 this podcast. I talked about this last night on The 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.920 Overnight Show, but this thing has been embargoed, And unlike 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.360 other people that I will not name, whose initials may 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:22.200 be TL, I did not tell a single person that 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.360 this was in the media anyway that this was happening. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.360 It's been in the works for a couple of months, 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.280 but we were told, and you actually were the one 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.120 that said, Hey, you want to check with the network 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.280 to make sure everything's okay. So I contacted our guy 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.560 John and he's like, hey, I want you to hold 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:36.920 off on. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.080 This, just wait until we get a little closer. Don't 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:39.840 announce anything. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.760 So it was killing me, Looney, But I feel like 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.880 a giant weight has been lifted that I am now 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.679 able to discuss this publicly the TV show, which is 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.240 kind of good because it starts next week. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.400 Oh yeah, very exciting learning our affiliates up and down 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:55.760 the line. Right now, we're going to go a little 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.559 bit over because we're talking about ourselves. But Betty Versus 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.480 the Penny season two, and we're gonna we're gonna start 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.599 before and Ffell Week one last year, which is a 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.520 NFL Week one through the super Bowl. Now it's week one, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:10.959 one week before Week one, and then we do a 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.520 put some icing on the cake once the super Bowl 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.880 is over at the end of the year. So it'll 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.040 be a nice twenty week run, right. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:23.240 Yeah, it's it's almost the next step. Would we just 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:24.199 do a year round. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:26.560 Next? Have to do this? 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.600 But uh, but but it's great fun. I'm really excited. 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.080 We have new logo this year on Benny Versus the Penny, 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.880 new season, new logo, new graphics, which. 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.040 Is you'll have I'll have twenty six new shirts. 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:40.680 I am going to be allowed. 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.240 The people at NBC have told me I can now 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.959 wear different clothes this year, so I don't have to 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.280 wear the same thing every week. Not that it is 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:50.880 wearing the same thing every single week, but I could 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:51.240 change it. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:51.800 Up a little bit. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.600 And your defense too. You shop at the same place 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.200 that the Doc River shops. The Big and Tall you likes, 0:09:58.240 --> 0:09:59.800 how both of you and how big both of you 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:00.720 and Doc are? 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:02.480 How great is that? How good is that story? 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:02.640 Though? 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.560 Looney? That and you know that story because we go 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:04.959 way back. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.760 But I ran in when Doc played for the Clippers. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.720 I knew him a little bit and I was in 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.640 New York visiting my older brother Joe, and I was 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.600 at a big and tall store and Doc was in there. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.320 He was just starting as like a broadcaster, and he 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.400 was in there and and. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.640 He said, he said hello. It was very nice. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.000 And then as the Doc Rivers said, high band, it's 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.160 really that's the greatest thing in the world. When a 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:29.040 famous person. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:30.480 It's kind of cool. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.800 But but but then the funny thing is I grew 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.200 to hate him because of his coaching. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.439 So but at the time, I mean, we had a 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.080 good relationship and all that, but it was it was 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:40.880 one of those those things. But I will be wearing 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:42.800 different filings. I did some new clothes this year, so 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:43.480 that's exciting. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:45.640 Oh that is great. Well, it's easier for me because 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.679 I'm a perfect medium. I got all I got all 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:51.559 the way down to my high school wait for the show. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.800 People don't realize, I know, you put all in, all 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.000 the work studying all these games. People don't realize the 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.920 dieting and exercise and tanning I put in, and memorization 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.400 of lines that I do every single week. People just 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.840 are all focused on you and the games and the 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.120 scores and uh and forgetting about the hard work. I 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.000 put in at the time, Well. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:14.080 Clearly yeah, and I want you a listener to know that. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.520 As we were doing this podcast, I had to fight Looney. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:20.600 He said, why is this not video? 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:21.520 This show? 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:24.760 I should be on camera and I'm like, no, this 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.800 is audio only. They don't pay me enough, Looney for video, 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.480 Like they pay more for video, right, they pay more 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:32.040 for video. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.960 And you will you will back me up that for 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.800 twenty four or twenty three years, even though I was 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.880 in a business where people couldn't see me, I was 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.520 I was camera ready at all times. I was just 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:45.400 waiting for something. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.000 Yeah, I'm the opposite, right. 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.120 I hated years ago when Fox Sports Radio put a 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.120 camera in the studio and they thought this like stream 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.600 on the on the internet and you know, five people 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.640 watched it or whatever, but there was a camera on 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:02.560 us all the time. We were like we were like 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:06.120 in a zoo cage, you know. I could not stand 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.040 at it was like the worst and uh. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.120 But now people were also paranoid too that they weren't 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.160 really using it. For that reason you know that bosses 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.800 and the the illuminati who we worked for, of course, 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.040 is because we're members of a major media corporation, would 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:22.800 be watching us, and so we were always a little 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:23.720 worried about that too. 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.120 Yeah, we were slightly slightly concerned. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.720 I did have a woman, let's talk about it was 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.040 not there anymore taco shop on Figueroa who told me 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.320 when I told her I worked at Fox Sports Radio, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.720 I came in the next time and she had questions 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.880 about the Illuminati because she told her that if I 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.880 worked at Fox, I must be part of you. Oh 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:42.480 I have. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.480 I have had several calls over the years, and my 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.800 favorite of all time was years ago. This this old grandma, 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:56.480 probably great grandma from Massachusetts called up and she was 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.120 on hold for hours because the person's screening the I 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.520 was like, ah, she's she'll. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.760 Hang up, don't you know whatever, she's terrible, So we 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:05.800 I finally went through. I felt bad she'd been whole 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:06.240 for a while. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.640 She gets on the air and she says, if I 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.120 hate Fox News, I hope you get caantheos like something 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.439 like that, and she hung up, hung up the phone, 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.920 and I'm like, it's Fox Sports. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.200 It's iHeart, it's not you know, it's a totally different animal. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:27.400 But she had no Well, what's also funny is people 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.000 thinking that Fox is so good. Fox News is a brand, 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.080 but they're forgetting what about the Family Guy and Simpsons 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.559 that used to get protested over the years for their 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:44.280 liberal content or their vulgar content. Over there, Fox On 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.800 on Century in Central City has a better place where 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.079 you could work and uh in a Hawaiian shirt and 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.400 your bare feet for the past twenty five years. So 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.880 funny people get all that all that stuff mixed up 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.280 when it comes to the media. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.280 Well, but Lody, this TV show yet again, back, get 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.400 back to let's get to us in the show about 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.760 the show, and we will be again recording at the 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:11.880 world famous Universal Studios Hollywood. Have our studio, which we 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.080 I believe the same studio last year. 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:18.880 In the Tom brocall building, Tom Tom Looney, Ben Maller. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.800 Which one We're. 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.080 Going to park our parking garages, these Laurel and Hardy garages, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.640 Abet and Costello, abbitt in Costello. I got my comedy 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.720 duos mixed up there abbit in Costello. It's been so 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.160 long since I've been to Universal. Although I did just 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.200 get an email Tom, I hope you got the email too. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.360 It appears I'll be making an early appearance at Universal 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:42.960 to get my parking squared away there. 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.280 So yeah, I didn't get a read the whole thing 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.040 when I was clicking into the zoom link. 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.400 But you have much more to do you you were 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.200 completely You have to go into the main office there 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.640 at Universal and beg for forgiveness and all that. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.360 I just merely have to pull up. But it is 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.440 a tremendous ink. He means when you live in the 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.840 north Wood, Looney. But it's a good kind of inconvenience 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:04.720 to have to get over there and get that all 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:05.120 sorted out. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.440 I'm hoping right, these are the kind of problems we want, 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.480 like the problem I was in the middle of a 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.200 vacation and had to go to Boston to make promos 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.040 and bumps. That's the kind of problems I want in 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:15.480 my life. 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.640 Yeah, So, for full disclosure me and Looney, as you know, 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.680 I was in Boston. I missed a couple of the 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:22.560 nights of the Overnight Show. And anytime I missed the 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.600 Overnight Show, I get reprimanded by the p ones, Looney. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.640 They get very upset. They're like, you got to be there, 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.960 what's wrong with you? Shame or you know. I was 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.920 like I couldn't say exactly why. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.000 People a lot of people figured out why I was 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.440 in Boston, and so they put the clues together. But 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.000 some people who are completely clueless, like a certain truck 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.120 driver in Arkansas, was giving me a really hard time. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:45.640 So I was like, whatever that is. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.400 So, by the way, it's such a compliment when it happens. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.160 Do they are all your hours live now? Do they 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.040 repeat the first hour in the last hour? 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:54.240 Oh no, I don't. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.440 When JT and I had that shift, people would people 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.880 would berate us that the first that the last hour 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:02.920 of the show was just a re recording of the 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.000 first hour, and it was such a compliments to five 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:06.720 fucking hours. 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.640 I know, I know, I know. I try to point 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:10.520 this out to people. 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.920 I was like, you know, most they claim, and I 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.640 don't know if it's changed over the years with the 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.880 world we're in now, but we both got in the radio. 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.840 They always said, well, you'll be lucky if people listen 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.120 for five or ten minutes. You're well if anything over 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:23.920 ten minutes, so much. 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.160 And that's why those news stations say give us twenty 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.120 two minutes, will give you the world, because at one 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.440 time the average person listened twenty two minutes. 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:32.720 Well, I thought that was the average commute was like 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:33.520 twenty two minutes. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.800 Oh really, Oh that was what was when we when 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.760 we were driving Model Ts. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.320 Yeah, and I would like to thank traffic because I 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.120 do very well the last hour on the overnight tom 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.200 because people get up earlier and earlier to try to 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.000 beat the traffic. So people are getting up on the 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.360 road at like five in the morning on the East 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.040 Coast and I'm still there, so it's it works out 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.560 very well for me. But we were in Boston actually 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.560 need them, Massachusetts. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.360 We flew to Logan I here. 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.720 At the taj Mahal of the NBC Regional Network studios. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:05.880 That place was amazing. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:07.600 Yeah, isn't that, Pa, And you didn't get to go 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.160 last year. I went without you and you were there 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.680 and we we went into makeup. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.080 We had everything we brought our obviously about our own wardrobe, 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.240 and we went in there and wanted it all over 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.600 the place. That's the hub of NBC and Boston. They 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:26.040 had the local NBC News, was there, NBC Sports, like, Yeah, 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:27.760 it was amazing that built. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.080 You know what was really fun when we were doing 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.439 what we were doing and recording promos and bumps and 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:39.720 all that inside lingo stuff. The United States was playing Serbia, remember, 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.360 and so what's really fun about working in this business 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.560 is everybody said that, you know, the last minute of 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.080 the game, and people said, you might just wait and 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.040 watch this last minute of the game. Where no other 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.639 you know, in any other industry, they're not going to 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.919 stop down to let you watch a game. Yeah, but 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.560 we are in the sports industry. They let us stopped 0:17:58.560 --> 0:17:59.400 down and watched the game. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:17:59.920 That was great. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:00.320 Yeah. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.960 Yeah, we we were in full makeup and all the 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:04.879 all the stuff. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:06.919 And now before we went out to dinner, did you 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:07.720 take yours off? 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.960 No? You know, I did not want people to set up. 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.720 Yeah, only TV guys were makeup. I wanted to people 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:17.760 want people to notice. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.199 That's the only way I'll make wear makeup. I'm not 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.120 a big makeup guys. You know it's but for the TV, 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.040 you know, for the almighty all powerful TV camera, we'll 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.000 do the makeup. But we had a power dinner after 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.320 we spent all day and this was a long day. 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.760 This was many hours. We had the makeup. We had 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.000 you know, the meeting, we were giving us lines. You 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.480 were then ad living some of the lines. I was 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.159