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 sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now in.
Speaker 4: The air Everneware The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben
Speaker 4: and Danny g Radio. A Happy Friday to you as
Speaker 4: we kick off the weekend on this the twenty third
Speaker 4: day of August. Happy Find your inter Nerd Day today,
Speaker 4: big day for a lot of baseball executives who have
Speaker 4: found their inner nerd and are destroying baseball on a
Speaker 4: day by day basis. It's also National sponge Cake Day today,
Speaker 4: It's Cheap Flight Day today, and more importantly, it is
Speaker 4: a big Sigh of Relief Day today. Why we had
Speaker 4: the announcement last night on the terrestrial radio show this podcast.
Speaker 4: Think of it as a companion of the Big News.
Speaker 4: If you missed it, bad job by you don't worry.
Speaker 4: I got youa The news is now out. It's back
Speaker 4: double your pleasure, Double your fun. The only thing more
Speaker 4: shocking than having NBC tell me that they wanted me
Speaker 4: to do a TV show last year is that they
Speaker 4: called me up and said, hey, let's run it back
Speaker 4: and do it again. Because NBC has picked up season
Speaker 4: two of Benny Versus the Penny. Now, there's a couple
Speaker 4: of reasons for this. I would say the most important
Speaker 4: is you actually watched the show, and that the base
Speaker 4: of this audience, which is you and those that are
Speaker 4: p ones and loyal supports. Law millions of the Overnight
Speaker 4: Show have followed me and wherever I end up, you
Speaker 4: guys have been great, and so that's really the backbone.
Speaker 4: So it's not anything that I've done, it's your guys
Speaker 4: supporting the show. And this is not some kind of
Speaker 4: April Fool's Day joke. In August, they've given me the
Speaker 4: green light.
Speaker 1: This had been in.
Speaker 4: Bargoed for a while. I was told not to talk
Speaker 4: about it. They wanted me to wait until we got
Speaker 4: closer to the start of the show. We had our
Speaker 4: maiden voyage in twenty twenty three. It was neck and
Speaker 4: neck between myself and The Penny, handicapping every game.
Speaker 1: And now it's time for the sequel.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited to finally be able to talk to
Speaker 4: you about this. Everything had been put on time out
Speaker 4: the gag order, and I finally got the green light
Speaker 4: from the network and the handcuffs have been removed and
Speaker 4: we're ready to go. The show is actually going to
Speaker 4: be bigger than it was last year, and we'll talk
Speaker 4: more about it as we go through the podcast, but
Speaker 4: no longer just on regional cable television. In addition to
Speaker 4: that part of the puzzle, which is the base, the
Speaker 4: show is produced out of NBC in Boston, but we
Speaker 4: are going national. Benny Versus the Penny is going to
Speaker 4: be a national television show. You'll be able to watch
Speaker 4: this anywhere, any place. So many of you complained last year.
Speaker 4: I live in the boondocks. I can't get an NBC
Speaker 4: cable affiliate, but I want to watch Benny Versus the Penny. Well,
Speaker 4: they heard you, and I complained, and you complained, and
Speaker 4: we all complained, and I'm happy to let you know
Speaker 4: that Benny Versus the Penny will be streaming. Every episode
Speaker 4: will be available on Peacock, So there's no reason to
Speaker 4: miss an episode of Benny Versus the Penny, and we're
Speaker 4: going to need your help, much like this podcast. We've
Speaker 4: deputized you over the years here to have your friends
Speaker 4: and kids and grandkids and cousins and god children.
Speaker 1: And anyone's in your circle.
Speaker 4: One's got a circle, right, takes the village to support
Speaker 4: what we do here, and so there's an easy way
Speaker 4: to do it. So many people have Peacock. It's not
Speaker 4: very expensive at all. In fact, there's a free version,
Speaker 4: I think, but the pay version is not not much
Speaker 4: at all, and so people have it and we get
Speaker 4: credit when people watch Benny versus Penny. I don't even
Speaker 4: know how all that works, but I know if you're watching,
Speaker 4: they know exactly who's watching, they know how many people
Speaker 4: are watching. So a lot of you did grumble about that,
Speaker 4: and now you're gonna be able to have a flipping
Speaker 4: good time and be part of this show as we
Speaker 4: go all the way through the NFL regular season and
Speaker 4: through the super Bowl, we were qualifying for the playoffs,
Speaker 4: and it's it's just gonna be a ton of fun.
Speaker 4: It's just gonna be absolutely great. I'm so excited that
Speaker 4: this is happening. And the reason I was back in
Speaker 4: Boston was because of the TV show, and you know,
Speaker 4: I didn't want to say anything. I was told not
Speaker 4: to as I said, not to say anything, but now
Speaker 4: I can. And we were trying to get Pat Sajak
Speaker 4: to come out of retirement and represent the Penny.
Speaker 1: He rejected this, so we went back.
Speaker 4: To Tom Looney and Looney joins us.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 4: He's right over there, he's putting his makeup on, and
Speaker 4: it just came out from suntanning and we welcome in
Speaker 4: the Voice of the Penny for season two of Benny
Speaker 4: Versus the Penny and Tom Looney welcome. What is your
Speaker 4: reaction to Looney to Benny Versus the Penny returning for
Speaker 4: another season on television.
Speaker 3: Well, no, I'm not all that shocked. But if you remember,
Speaker 3: if you go back on the hot Tub time machine,
Speaker 3: when you and I worked together in the late nineties
Speaker 3: at Extra Sports eleven fifty in Los Angeles, don the
Speaker 3: hall from Rick D's and Ricky Martin walking down the hallways,
Speaker 3: that's true. I came up with you. I remember at
Speaker 3: the time I was negotiating a TV deal with Canada,
Speaker 3: the cb C, I believe it was, and it was
Speaker 3: going to be an NFL show. Looney Versus the Loon
Speaker 3: told you all about my idea, and then, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: then fast forward and you're doing Veny Versus De Penny
Speaker 3: on the radio. It's a big hit. I loved the
Speaker 3: idea and the concept, and now it's a TV show.
Speaker 3: So I'm not so surprised that my original idea is
Speaker 3: now a televison.
Speaker 4: That's funny because I was in Vermont, uh when we
Speaker 4: were we're in Boston, and Arnie said that I stole
Speaker 4: the bit from him. It was Arnie versus the Shekel,
Speaker 4: and it.
Speaker 1: Was very excited. He was annoyed that I took his bit,
Speaker 1: and he's like, well, I should be the one on NBC.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be the one on NBC. What's up with that?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: But to me, there are broadky. You and I both
Speaker 3: know that there are broadcasters we know that aren't satisfied
Speaker 3: with their really cool jobs. Arnie's always been one of them.
Speaker 3: He's never stopped working. They're not satisfied with their really
Speaker 3: cool jobs. They look at the other shiny object jobs.
Speaker 1: I should be doing that that. Oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: most people that do these jobs. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you got that job on it? How funny than you.
Speaker 3: I mean, oh man, I want.
Speaker 4: To feel like a king of the world. Okay, if
Speaker 4: you want to feel like you're the most important person
Speaker 4: in the world, travel all the way to Burlington, Vermont
Speaker 4: and visit Arnie. No One no One Looney comes and
Speaker 4: visits my guy Arnie out in the boondocks. He's like
Speaker 4: an hour from Montreal, in the middle of nowhere, surrounded
Speaker 4: by trees, and it's like a resort town where like
Speaker 4: really rich people go and hang out. And I drove
Speaker 4: up there, and we drove up in the tail remnants
Speaker 4: of that storm that was passing through while we were there,
Speaker 4: the tropical depression, and we drove that.
Speaker 3: Was Debbie, Yeah, the Debbie Downer hurricane. Yeah, and she.
Speaker 1: Did drop down a lot of a lot of water.
Speaker 4: But we drove in the night, got there, Arnie picks
Speaker 4: us up at the We told the story last week
Speaker 4: on the podcast, but Arnie picked me and my wife
Speaker 4: up at the hotel. We then got the VIP tour.
Speaker 4: We did everything there is to do in Burlington, Vermont
Speaker 4: in four hours, and then got back there and headed
Speaker 4: back down to Boston. But we should tell the full story.
Speaker 4: I feel so relieved Looney, I'm so happy to do
Speaker 4: this podcast. I talked about this last night on The
Speaker 4: Overnight Show, but this thing has been embargoed, And unlike
Speaker 4: other people that I will not name, whose initials may
Speaker 4: be TL, I did not tell a single person that
Speaker 4: this was in the media anyway that this was happening.
Speaker 4: It's been in the works for a couple of months,
Speaker 4: but we were told, and you actually were the one
Speaker 4: that said, Hey, you want to check with the network
Speaker 4: to make sure everything's okay. So I contacted our guy
Speaker 4: John and he's like, hey, I want you to hold
Speaker 4: off on.
Speaker 1: This, just wait until we get a little closer. Don't
Speaker 1: announce anything.
Speaker 4: So it was killing me, Looney, But I feel like
Speaker 4: a giant weight has been lifted that I am now
Speaker 4: able to discuss this publicly the TV show, which is
Speaker 4: kind of good because it starts next week.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, very exciting learning our affiliates up and down
Speaker 3: the line. Right now, we're going to go a little
Speaker 3: bit over because we're talking about ourselves. But Betty Versus
Speaker 3: the Penny season two, and we're gonna we're gonna start
Speaker 3: before and Ffell Week one last year, which is a
Speaker 3: NFL Week one through the super Bowl. Now it's week one,
Speaker 3: one week before Week one, and then we do a
Speaker 3: put some icing on the cake once the super Bowl
Speaker 3: is over at the end of the year. So it'll
Speaker 3: be a nice twenty week run, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's almost the next step. Would we just
Speaker 4: do a year round.
Speaker 1: Next? Have to do this?
Speaker 4: But uh, but but it's great fun. I'm really excited.
Speaker 4: We have new logo this year on Benny Versus the Penny,
Speaker 4: new season, new logo, new graphics, which.
Speaker 3: Is you'll have I'll have twenty six new shirts.
Speaker 1: I am going to be allowed.
Speaker 4: The people at NBC have told me I can now
Speaker 4: wear different clothes this year, so I don't have to
Speaker 4: wear the same thing every week. Not that it is
Speaker 4: wearing the same thing every single week, but I could
Speaker 4: change it.
Speaker 1: Up a little bit.
Speaker 3: And your defense too. You shop at the same place
Speaker 3: that the Doc River shops. The Big and Tall you likes,
Speaker 3: how both of you and how big both of you
Speaker 3: and Doc are?
Speaker 1: How great is that? How good is that story?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 1: Looney? That and you know that story because we go
Speaker 1: way back.
Speaker 4: But I ran in when Doc played for the Clippers.
Speaker 4: I knew him a little bit and I was in
Speaker 4: New York visiting my older brother Joe, and I was
Speaker 4: at a big and tall store and Doc was in there.
Speaker 4: He was just starting as like a broadcaster, and he
Speaker 4: was in there and and.
Speaker 1: He said, he said hello. It was very nice.
Speaker 3: And then as the Doc Rivers said, high band, it's
Speaker 3: really that's the greatest thing in the world. When a
Speaker 3: famous person.
Speaker 1: It's kind of cool.
Speaker 4: But but but then the funny thing is I grew
Speaker 4: to hate him because of his coaching.
Speaker 1: So but at the time, I mean, we had a
Speaker 1: good relationship and all that, but it was it was
Speaker 1: one of those those things. But I will be wearing
Speaker 1: different filings. I did some new clothes this year, so
Speaker 1: that's exciting.
Speaker 3: Oh that is great. Well, it's easier for me because
Speaker 3: I'm a perfect medium. I got all I got all
Speaker 3: the way down to my high school wait for the show.
Speaker 3: People don't realize, I know, you put all in, all
Speaker 3: the work studying all these games. People don't realize the
Speaker 3: dieting and exercise and tanning I put in, and memorization
Speaker 3: of lines that I do every single week. People just
Speaker 3: are all focused on you and the games and the
Speaker 3: scores and uh and forgetting about the hard work. I
Speaker 3: put in at the time, Well.
Speaker 4: Clearly yeah, and I want you a listener to know that.
Speaker 4: As we were doing this podcast, I had to fight Looney.
Speaker 4: He said, why is this not video?
Speaker 1: This show?
Speaker 4: I should be on camera and I'm like, no, this
Speaker 4: is audio only. They don't pay me enough, Looney for video,
Speaker 4: Like they pay more for video, right, they pay more
Speaker 4: for video.
Speaker 3: And you will you will back me up that for
Speaker 3: twenty four or twenty three years, even though I was
Speaker 3: in a business where people couldn't see me, I was
Speaker 3: I was camera ready at all times. I was just
Speaker 3: waiting for something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm the opposite, right.
Speaker 4: I hated years ago when Fox Sports Radio put a
Speaker 4: camera in the studio and they thought this like stream
Speaker 4: on the on the internet and you know, five people
Speaker 4: watched it or whatever, but there was a camera on
Speaker 4: us all the time. We were like we were like
Speaker 4: in a zoo cage, you know. I could not stand
Speaker 4: at it was like the worst and uh.
Speaker 3: But now people were also paranoid too that they weren't
Speaker 3: really using it. For that reason you know that bosses
Speaker 3: and the the illuminati who we worked for, of course,
Speaker 3: is because we're members of a major media corporation, would
Speaker 3: be watching us, and so we were always a little
Speaker 3: worried about that too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were slightly slightly concerned.
Speaker 3: I did have a woman, let's talk about it was
Speaker 3: not there anymore taco shop on Figueroa who told me
Speaker 3: when I told her I worked at Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 3: I came in the next time and she had questions
Speaker 3: about the Illuminati because she told her that if I
Speaker 3: worked at Fox, I must be part of you. Oh
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 4: I have had several calls over the years, and my
Speaker 4: favorite of all time was years ago. This this old grandma,
Speaker 4: probably great grandma from Massachusetts called up and she was
Speaker 4: on hold for hours because the person's screening the I
Speaker 4: was like, ah, she's she'll.
Speaker 1: Hang up, don't you know whatever, she's terrible, So we
Speaker 1: I finally went through. I felt bad she'd been whole
Speaker 1: for a while.
Speaker 4: She gets on the air and she says, if I
Speaker 4: hate Fox News, I hope you get caantheos like something
Speaker 4: like that, and she hung up, hung up the phone,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, it's Fox Sports.
Speaker 1: It's iHeart, it's not you know, it's a totally different animal.
Speaker 3: But she had no Well, what's also funny is people
Speaker 3: thinking that Fox is so good. Fox News is a brand,
Speaker 3: but they're forgetting what about the Family Guy and Simpsons
Speaker 3: that used to get protested over the years for their
Speaker 3: liberal content or their vulgar content. Over there, Fox On
Speaker 3: on Century in Central City has a better place where
Speaker 3: you could work and uh in a Hawaiian shirt and
Speaker 3: your bare feet for the past twenty five years. So
Speaker 3: funny people get all that all that stuff mixed up
Speaker 3: when it comes to the media.
Speaker 4: Well, but Lody, this TV show yet again, back, get
Speaker 4: back to let's get to us in the show about
Speaker 4: the show, and we will be again recording at the
Speaker 4: world famous Universal Studios Hollywood. Have our studio, which we
Speaker 4: I believe the same studio last year.
Speaker 3: In the Tom brocall building, Tom Tom Looney, Ben Maller.
Speaker 3: Which one We're.
Speaker 4: Going to park our parking garages, these Laurel and Hardy garages,
Speaker 4: Abet and Costello, abbitt in Costello. I got my comedy
Speaker 4: duos mixed up there abbit in Costello. It's been so
Speaker 4: long since I've been to Universal. Although I did just
Speaker 4: get an email Tom, I hope you got the email too.
Speaker 4: It appears I'll be making an early appearance at Universal
Speaker 4: to get my parking squared away there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I didn't get a read the whole thing
Speaker 3: when I was clicking into the zoom link.
Speaker 1: But you have much more to do you you were
Speaker 1: completely You have to go into the main office there
Speaker 1: at Universal and beg for forgiveness and all that.
Speaker 4: I just merely have to pull up. But it is
Speaker 4: a tremendous ink. He means when you live in the
Speaker 4: north Wood, Looney. But it's a good kind of inconvenience
Speaker 4: to have to get over there and get that all
Speaker 4: sorted out.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping right, these are the kind of problems we want,
Speaker 3: like the problem I was in the middle of a
Speaker 3: vacation and had to go to Boston to make promos
Speaker 3: and bumps. That's the kind of problems I want in
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, for full disclosure me and Looney, as you know,
Speaker 1: I was in Boston. I missed a couple of the
Speaker 1: nights of the Overnight Show. And anytime I missed the
Speaker 1: Overnight Show, I get reprimanded by the p ones, Looney.
Speaker 1: They get very upset. They're like, you got to be there,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with you? Shame or you know. I was
Speaker 1: like I couldn't say exactly why.
Speaker 4: People a lot of people figured out why I was
Speaker 4: in Boston, and so they put the clues together. But
Speaker 4: some people who are completely clueless, like a certain truck
Speaker 4: driver in Arkansas, was giving me a really hard time.
Speaker 1: So I was like, whatever that is.
Speaker 3: So, by the way, it's such a compliment when it happens.
Speaker 3: Do they are all your hours live now? Do they
Speaker 3: repeat the first hour in the last hour?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't.
Speaker 3: When JT and I had that shift, people would people
Speaker 3: would berate us that the first that the last hour
Speaker 3: of the show was just a re recording of the
Speaker 3: first hour, and it was such a compliments to five
Speaker 3: fucking hours.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. I try to point
Speaker 1: this out to people.
Speaker 4: I was like, you know, most they claim, and I
Speaker 4: don't know if it's changed over the years with the
Speaker 4: world we're in now, but we both got in the radio.
Speaker 4: They always said, well, you'll be lucky if people listen
Speaker 4: for five or ten minutes. You're well if anything over
Speaker 4: ten minutes, so much.
Speaker 3: And that's why those news stations say give us twenty
Speaker 3: two minutes, will give you the world, because at one
Speaker 3: time the average person listened twenty two minutes.
Speaker 1: Well, I thought that was the average commute was like
Speaker 1: twenty two minutes.
Speaker 3: Oh really, Oh that was what was when we when
Speaker 3: we were driving Model Ts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I would like to thank traffic because I
Speaker 4: do very well the last hour on the overnight tom
Speaker 4: because people get up earlier and earlier to try to
Speaker 4: beat the traffic. So people are getting up on the
Speaker 4: road at like five in the morning on the East
Speaker 4: Coast and I'm still there, so it's it works out
Speaker 4: very well for me. But we were in Boston actually
Speaker 4: need them, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: We flew to Logan I here.
Speaker 3: At the taj Mahal of the NBC Regional Network studios.
Speaker 3: That place was amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, isn't that, Pa, And you didn't get to go
Speaker 1: last year. I went without you and you were there
Speaker 1: and we we went into makeup.
Speaker 4: We had everything we brought our obviously about our own wardrobe,
Speaker 4: and we went in there and wanted it all over
Speaker 4: the place. That's the hub of NBC and Boston. They
Speaker 4: had the local NBC News, was there, NBC Sports, like, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was amazing that built.
Speaker 3: You know what was really fun when we were doing
Speaker 3: what we were doing and recording promos and bumps and
Speaker 3: all that inside lingo stuff. The United States was playing Serbia, remember,
Speaker 3: and so what's really fun about working in this business
Speaker 3: is everybody said that, you know, the last minute of
Speaker 3: the game, and people said, you might just wait and
Speaker 3: watch this last minute of the game. Where no other
Speaker 3: you know, in any other industry, they're not going to
Speaker 3: stop down to let you watch a game. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: we are in the sports industry. They let us stopped
Speaker 3: down and watched the game.
Speaker 1: That was great.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we we were in full makeup and all the
Speaker 4: all the stuff.
Speaker 3: And now before we went out to dinner, did you
Speaker 3: take yours off?
Speaker 1: No? You know, I did not want people to set up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, only TV guys were makeup. I wanted to people
Speaker 3: want people to notice.
Speaker 4: That's the only way I'll make wear makeup. I'm not
Speaker 4: a big makeup guys. You know it's but for the TV,
Speaker 4: you know, for the almighty all powerful TV camera, we'll
Speaker 4: do the makeup. But we had a power dinner after
Speaker 4: we spent all day and this was a long day.
Speaker 4: This was many hours. We had the makeup. We had
Speaker 4: you know, the meeting, we were giving us lines. You
Speaker 4: were then ad living some of the lines. I was
Speaker 4: then throwing stuff out there. But then after that. We
Speaker 4: went back to the hotel and then we we met
Speaker 4: up at a fine restaurant in the Boston area there
Speaker 4: and we got to eat on the company dime they
Speaker 4: go for the meal, and I'm happy to report that
Speaker 4: we all ordered steak. I think we ordered the most
Speaker 4: expensive thing on the menu, which is I'm very proud of,
Speaker 4: even me. I'm not a big steak guy, Looney, but
Speaker 4: I was like, hey, listen, I'm not paying for it.
Speaker 4: NBC's paying for it. I'm getting steak. And I had
Speaker 4: it butterfly cut, just the way.
Speaker 3: I had a butterfly cut. You had one trash butterfly cut.
Speaker 1: It was so good.
Speaker 3: Oh my, you know, how how upsetting that? How upsetting
Speaker 3: that is? No, it's wonderful for the chef, Looney.
Speaker 4: The customer is always right, Mooney, and I'm the customer.
Speaker 4: And that's the way I like my steak. That's the
Speaker 4: way I enjoyed.
Speaker 3: The person who originally said the customer was never right
Speaker 3: was a rich guy who had never worked behind a counter.
Speaker 1: Well, so the customers always right, not never right, but yeah, no,
Speaker 1: but here's all right. That was your polish coming out
Speaker 1: in you right now.
Speaker 3: Well, it was, yeah, you know why, because I was
Speaker 3: looking for you know, whenever I go out to my
Speaker 3: favorite Mexican restaurant, there's this great reporter it seems to
Speaker 3: be there, and he's always still got his makeup on.
Speaker 3: So I wanted to be like one of my favorite
Speaker 3: reporters and have my makeup on when we went out.
Speaker 3: So that's why I was looking up to say. I
Speaker 3: was looking on the Channel five website for him because
Speaker 3: he's always at the UH at the don Kuco and
Speaker 3: Burdbank and says, oh, man, I gotta I gotta wear
Speaker 3: my makeup just like my guy does. And Chris Wolfe
Speaker 3: from Channel fives, because I'm one of those guys that
Speaker 3: still watch his local news back Channel five local news.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and I.
Speaker 1: Love local news.
Speaker 4: I love local news and UH and whenever I go
Speaker 4: to a new city, I always the first thing I
Speaker 4: do is get until I flip on the local news.
Speaker 4: Me too, yeah, the local I love the goofy local
Speaker 4: weather person, always complaining either too hot or too cold
Speaker 4: and then well and and sarcastically overwarms up.
Speaker 3: You know something like that. In Syracuse more than once,
Speaker 3: the UH, the weather person has become the lead news
Speaker 3: anchor because it gets so popular because all it is,
Speaker 3: you know, the whole news is always weather is news
Speaker 3: and Syracuse because it's blizzard, blizzard, blizzard, blizzard, blizzer, blizzer, blizzard, right,
Speaker 3: and the weather guy gets so much time on television
Speaker 3: They're Q rating goes up, and they said, let's just
Speaker 3: make them the anchorman.
Speaker 1: So that's what.
Speaker 3: They've done a lot of times over the years there. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: the weather people are more important in the Northeast than
Speaker 3: there where we live.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but but you know, there are always out
Speaker 1: in LA. It's just like mostly very curvacous women.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that is the most g rated way we
Speaker 3: can put it. Curvacious women who I don't think went
Speaker 3: to meteorology school at Penn stated they don't think they're
Speaker 3: working for ACU weather.
Speaker 4: The first couple can tell you the Doppler, They can
Speaker 4: read the Doppler radar, you know, but I think they.
Speaker 3: Learned on the fly. I don't because I don't think
Speaker 3: it's that hard to learn it. But I bet you
Speaker 3: anything is that that's another one of those majors that
Speaker 3: they could probably teach in a class, and they stretch
Speaker 3: them out for four years.
Speaker 4: More likely than not, Now the a couple of things
Speaker 4: happened at that dinner which were hilarious. Now you were
Speaker 4: there with your godson, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, we've got there.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: Eric, very cool guy to see him, And I was
Speaker 4: trying to remember that I meet Eric when you know,
Speaker 4: when we were there in the nineties, and I don't
Speaker 4: know that I did.
Speaker 3: I don't know that you did, but if you did,
Speaker 3: you know, he would have been tiny. And so what's
Speaker 3: what I really liked is he's just as a side
Speaker 3: notes guy because your your wife is amazing. When you
Speaker 3: have right now that you're a TV guy, you don't
Speaker 3: even have to upgrade like TV guys. Do you already
Speaker 3: have a gorgeous wife of the music personality Always you
Speaker 3: wonder where these politicians get these amazing wives who can
Speaker 3: also talk to everybody, and you've already got one. And
Speaker 3: when we were in makeup Eric and sometimes have social exiety,
Speaker 3: I came back and you're talking away. He's talking about
Speaker 3: his daughter, and I'm thinking, wow, Okay, I knew that
Speaker 3: he'd be in good hands with your wife.
Speaker 4: Oh no, it was great. But there was one moment
Speaker 4: with him where we ordered the food. So the food
Speaker 4: shows up at the table, but what he ordered something
Speaker 4: that was different than what.
Speaker 1: They screwed it up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well then they had to take the food back.
Speaker 4: But then there's this awkward situation at the table where
Speaker 4: everyone wants to be polite and wait for your, your
Speaker 4: god son Eric to get his food. In the meantime,
Speaker 4: all of our food is getting cold.
Speaker 3: I know, and I and I think it should I
Speaker 3: because and because he's young, he's just looking at his phone,
Speaker 3: not noticing everyone's waiting for him to get his food.
Speaker 3: And he's just looking at his phone and looking at
Speaker 3: his phone.
Speaker 1: And I was waiting for him to give the social
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 4: Oh it's okay, just eat, I'll get my food, don't worry,
Speaker 4: just eat and said that.
Speaker 1: He never said it.
Speaker 4: So we looked up from his phone. We're sitting there,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I'm staring at my stake. I'm like,
Speaker 4: it's getting colder. It's getting colder. And then I looked
Speaker 4: in the back and I'm like, well, maybe this will
Speaker 4: be his food.
Speaker 1: You know, they'll bring it right out.
Speaker 3: Forty two things came out before Yeah. Yeah, and I
Speaker 3: again again also point out at me I could have
Speaker 3: texted him since he was looking at his phone.
Speaker 1: Let everyone know they could just stop.
Speaker 3: And then I didn't do it because I thought he
Speaker 3: would look up at some point and he didn't look up.
Speaker 1: And and the sense of relief when his food finally came,
Speaker 1: which seemed like it was maybe, you know, fifty minutes
Speaker 1: later when when it showed up and we all started eating,
Speaker 1: was like, oh, finally.
Speaker 4: The other thing that happened at this power meal. And
Speaker 4: we had these are big time hitters here, Lenny, we
Speaker 4: had who was the executive producer. I think that's is
Speaker 4: that his title of the show, h Vinnie, Kevin. We
Speaker 4: had a bunch of people. These are all very important people.
Speaker 3: I know John's a VP. I do know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very important people.
Speaker 3: Kamala Harras of Boston.
Speaker 4: Vinnie's our day to day you know, producer. Kevin's the
Speaker 4: big shot that runs at NBC Sports Boston there day
Speaker 4: to day.
Speaker 1: So all these are very important people, right, much too
Speaker 1: important to hang out with. Me and Looney. We're grabbing it.
Speaker 4: We're having a nice steak dinner and as the the
Speaker 4: meals kind of winding down a little bit, right, Uh now,
Speaker 4: I'm sitting my wife is on my right, Looney is
Speaker 4: on uh two over my left and then and uh
Speaker 4: so we're sitting there and I look over in my
Speaker 4: peripheral vision. Now the meal is winding down. You kind
Speaker 4: of get that vibe when you're at a meal like this.
Speaker 1: It's windy, it's kind of getting over.
Speaker 4: So I look over at Looney and he's got this,
Speaker 4: You've got this plate full of broccoli.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a hard time working. I think anyone
Speaker 3: would would would be on my so and be on
Speaker 3: my side over this.
Speaker 4: No mean, let me say so, I thought you're not
Speaker 4: gonna eat the broccoli. I just assumed, Okay, you're good
Speaker 4: and you're just gonna yet you're done with your meal
Speaker 4: and you're just gonna have the waiter take the broccoli away,
Speaker 4: and that you're not didn't want to eat it. But no,
Speaker 4: you're slowly, like you're ninety five years old, working your way.
Speaker 1: Through the BROCOLI I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 4: And it took you, I would say, and I don't
Speaker 4: want to exaggerate, Looney two hours to eat the broccoli.
Speaker 1: My god?
Speaker 3: What was Well? First of all, broccoli sucks, But I.
Speaker 1: Why did you get it? You could have gotten potatoes
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 3: Well, because of because we have a TV show coming up,
Speaker 3: and I'm I'm obsessed to being at my high school
Speaker 3: weight for the TV show. So I was working forcing
Speaker 3: my way through the broccoli, as anybody who can attested
Speaker 3: and eats broccoli would let you know, you have to
Speaker 3: force your way through it. It was a tough. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was tough, and it took me way too.
Speaker 1: Love that.
Speaker 3: Those are the two most Polish moments, if I may
Speaker 3: gave an homage to my relatives in Poland, where where
Speaker 3: me not texting Eric saying let us know we can eat,
Speaker 3: and me working my way through the broccoli and taking
Speaker 3: forever like I was nine.
Speaker 4: You were involved in both of the awkward moments and naha,
Speaker 4: it's this power meal and then we add after the meal.
Speaker 4: And I do want to point out there was last year.
Speaker 4: I don't know if we talked about this when I
Speaker 4: had you on last year before season one at Beny
Speaker 4: Versus the Penny, but there were a couple of awkward
Speaker 4: moments where we talked about people in the business and
Speaker 4: each of us stepped.
Speaker 3: Ring forgetting the vice presidents and presidents of works might
Speaker 3: have worked with those people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we may may not have trash.
Speaker 3: Both stepped and ship home within a week of each other.
Speaker 4: Oh, very very awkward, very awkward. That did not happen
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 1: In fact, opposite happened one person who I praised, and
Speaker 1: I think you paused the conversation. Loony. There was a
Speaker 1: broadcaster who we will not name, who I praised, Right,
Speaker 1: I said, I think this guy's amazing.
Speaker 3: Well, I had to stop down the whole Let the
Speaker 3: whole table know that Ben is like the guy. This
Speaker 3: is a difference between your personality and mine. If we
Speaker 3: go to the prom, we are girls at the prom
Speaker 3: and I see somebody else were in the same dress. Hey,
Speaker 3: we got the same dress. You would be the one
Speaker 3: of the problem that wanted to execute the girl in
Speaker 3: the same dress. Right, you think every other broadcaster sucks,
Speaker 3: But there was one that you gave a fuse of
Speaker 3: praise to that people really hate on because they're jealous
Speaker 3: of his youth and how talented he is. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3: I was stunned by a fusive praise of a young broadcast.
Speaker 4: And was not reciprocated by some of the people at
Speaker 4: the table.
Speaker 3: Right, surprise, Yes, that was surprisingly so right, Yes I was.
Speaker 1: I was shot by that.
Speaker 4: So then after the meal we went back and we decided. Looney,
Speaker 4: I actually pitched this to you. I said, hey, why
Speaker 4: don't we celebrate rare and appropriate because I had been fasting.
Speaker 4: I told you I went five days without eating, actually
Speaker 4: actually six days without eating.
Speaker 1: I was so paranoid. I was going to look like
Speaker 1: Job of the Hut on TV.
Speaker 4: Even though I've been about the same weight for the
Speaker 4: last year and a half, two years or whatever. But
Speaker 4: in my head, I still have the mindset that I
Speaker 4: was big, real big men back in the day.
Speaker 1: And so I was doing this extreme fast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we both have body dysmorphia.
Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, I was doing this extreme fasting. But I
Speaker 1: was like, all right.
Speaker 4: We did the production shoot, we did the promos and
Speaker 4: all that stuff for the TV show.
Speaker 1: We had the meal. I ate a steak. That's good.
Speaker 4: So I was like, let's go, let's go have a canoli.
Speaker 4: Let's celebrate. We're in Boston, why not? And so you
Speaker 4: and your god send me and the wife. We I
Speaker 4: had rental car because we had to drive up to
Speaker 4: see Arnie in Vermont, and so we drove over to
Speaker 4: the north end of Boston. And I was shocked because you, Looney,
Speaker 4: travel all of you've been to a million places if
Speaker 4: you took a map out and put a pin everywhere
Speaker 4: Looney's by now yeah, insane and yet.
Speaker 3: Over forty or forty five states, and I don't know
Speaker 3: how many countries and continents, et cetera. But uh, you
Speaker 3: love the incredible A through Z list of places I've
Speaker 3: bet and.
Speaker 1: I've been to.
Speaker 4: Like I go to the same place as I go
Speaker 4: to Boston, I go to New York, I go you know, Chicago,
Speaker 4: I go to the Big Seas.
Speaker 1: I don't really get off the grid very much. But
Speaker 1: you had never been to the North End of Boston that.
Speaker 3: Bloo and I was blown away by the North End
Speaker 3: of Boston. You know, you really could judge a place,
Speaker 3: at least for me by when I walk in, When
Speaker 3: I go into a place and I say, wow, I
Speaker 3: could live here, And I've said that about about a
Speaker 3: handful of places over the years. And North oh, yes,
Speaker 3: because I could, Like I would love to be an
Speaker 3: apartment upstairs and just walk never have to drive. Because
Speaker 3: maybe it's because of all this time living in la
Speaker 3: it's always places we don't have to drive, like Amsterdam
Speaker 3: and some cities in Mexico where you can walk downstairs
Speaker 3: and get a coffee or walk downstairs and get a meal. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and North End of Boston's amazing. And what's great about
Speaker 3: that is you said you want to go out for dessert.
Speaker 3: I didn't know where you're going to take me, and
Speaker 3: then I just thought we'd pick a place nearby. No,
Speaker 3: because what we were staying wasn't nearby.
Speaker 1: About a fifteen minute driver.
Speaker 3: So oh, it's terrific. However long it was it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the North End, to me, that's Boston. If you
Speaker 4: will say they hate Boston, how can you hate the
Speaker 4: North End of Boston? And that place goes back to
Speaker 4: the early seventeenth century right right by English Puritans. I
Speaker 4: love going to places that are bathing in history. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so I'm not a lot.
Speaker 1: Of that where we are in California, you know.
Speaker 3: No, we paved pair of ice and put up a
Speaker 3: parking lot. Even the stuff that was bathing in history
Speaker 3: is gone. A McDonald's there now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that Paul Revere, his house from sixteen eighty
Speaker 4: was still there. Bill there right there after all these
Speaker 4: all these Although I did see that documentary years ago
Speaker 4: Looney where they said it was Israel Bissell, Who's who
Speaker 4: was the real hero, not Paul Revere, but Paul Revere
Speaker 4: had a better name, and so they went with the
Speaker 4: name Paul.
Speaker 3: Oh with the legend. Yeah, go with the legend.
Speaker 1: You know where it comes from. Yeah.
Speaker 3: In fact, Buzz Aldrin was supposed to be the first
Speaker 3: guy to walk on the Moon. At the last minute
Speaker 3: they got you know, I got a little round table corner,
Speaker 3: offenses said, Neil Armstrong. Is a better name for a
Speaker 3: hero than Buzz in the sixties, right, And so at
Speaker 3: the last minute they switched that up on Buzz.
Speaker 4: Did they film the moon landing at Universal or where
Speaker 4: did they film that?
Speaker 1: Do?
Speaker 3: I think it was the Tom Brokaw building before it
Speaker 3: was called the Tom.
Speaker 4: Provoco right over there, right there. And the cool thing
Speaker 4: that we didn't really get to do too much of
Speaker 4: this last year. But now since the TV show's back,
Speaker 4: we will be able to again have access to the
Speaker 4: Universal lots.
Speaker 1: So we'll have to take advantage of that.
Speaker 4: We'll have to, you know, after the taping, we'll have
Speaker 4: to pick a week and just wander around.
Speaker 1: Sure and enjoyed.
Speaker 4: I love it because I I in the old days
Speaker 4: when Fox Sports Radio launched, I had access to the
Speaker 4: to the Fox lot. I know, you worked over there
Speaker 4: with the best damn sports show. But for me, we
Speaker 4: had reading studios over there, and I had free reign.
Speaker 4: I would take relatives who would come to town from
Speaker 4: you know, other far away places, and we just go
Speaker 4: and like wander around the back lot, on the Fox lot,
Speaker 4: the New York skyline and all that, and and then
Speaker 4: nine to eleven happened, and then that was over and
Speaker 4: now and then yeah, no one's allowed on there, you know,
Speaker 4: unless you have a pass and so. But but for
Speaker 4: for about a year, it was amazing. It was so
Speaker 4: cool just to wander around and nobody cared. They ran
Speaker 4: all over the place and it was awesome. And it's
Speaker 4: a little similar. There's a lot of security at Universal,
Speaker 4: but once you get on there in the back, you
Speaker 4: can can wander around. And also, before I forget, I
Speaker 4: mentioned this at the beginning. You didn't hear it, looney,
Speaker 4: but at the beginning, not only is Benny Versus the
Speaker 4: Penny a regional cable sports show.
Speaker 3: On the end, ohoh you have you have psychic caability?
Speaker 3: Because I was gonna tell you shut up and remind
Speaker 3: him about Peacock. Is that what you're gonna do?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Eddie, Eddie.
Speaker 4: I didn't tell Eddie because he was gonna he was
Speaker 4: gonna scream it out. He was one guy I didn't tell.
Speaker 4: He asked me about this, and I didn't tell him.
Speaker 4: But we are on Peacock. We're national. This is a
Speaker 4: national TV show now, Benny Versus the Penny. We made
Speaker 4: it through our rookie year and now the show will
Speaker 4: be available everywhere.
Speaker 3: Here's why I'm excited. I'm a big fan of watching
Speaker 3: Below Deck Mediterranean. So when people are typing in b
Speaker 3: e right, Allen, Anna, right next to each other, right, Allen,
Speaker 3: it's going to suggest to the Below Deck Mediterranean pads
Speaker 3: that they watch Benny Versus to Penny. I'm very excited.
Speaker 4: About and so it's it's both exciting, it's exhilarating, and
Speaker 4: it's also scary looney because now I mean, they'll track exactly.
Speaker 4: Cable television is a little hit and miss. You don't
Speaker 4: know exactly who's watching, but it's with Peacock, they know
Speaker 4: exactly who's to do. My advice is, hey, listen, if
Speaker 4: you're a fan of the show and you have kids,
Speaker 4: you know a lot of you, maybe you have grandkids
Speaker 4: and they have Peacock. Even if they don't know who
Speaker 4: we are, me and you, Looney, just have them watch,
Speaker 4: you know, just have them this show.
Speaker 1: And we've got some credit for that.
Speaker 4: We'd love for them to enjoy the show and like
Speaker 4: the show and watch the show and be part of
Speaker 4: the show. And it's not just the hard old sports show,
Speaker 4: because Looney, I do the hard old sports. You just
Speaker 4: you know, goof around, right, You just do jokes, You
Speaker 4: do penny jokes the whole time.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, come on, I do just as much research
Speaker 3: as you do, and I steal yours as well, and everyone,
Speaker 3: so I pluck one of yours.
Speaker 1: Yah, yeah, yeah. So here's what happens, full Scoar.
Speaker 3: So I people's research is still research.
Speaker 4: I spend all week putting notes together for the show,
Speaker 4: and I use about, what do you think, maybe ten
Speaker 4: percent of what I write. So I send it to Vinnie,
Speaker 4: our producer in Boston, and like, hey, here's Vinnie, here's
Speaker 4: what I got this week. Uh. And then inevitably, during
Speaker 4: the show, while we're recording Benny Versus the Penny, something
Speaker 4: that I had sent Vinnie will will fly back in
Speaker 4: my direction.
Speaker 1: From Looney's mouth. I'm like, wait a minute. You didn't
Speaker 1: come up with it, how dare you?
Speaker 3: As you know, I did want to go up into
Speaker 3: stand up comedy when I was younger, and I realized
Speaker 3: I would get assassinated. I do not forget any good joke,
Speaker 3: any good sports factoid goes in my head, and I
Speaker 3: will unabashedly, unashamedly steal it and use it right on
Speaker 3: the air, right in front of the face of the
Speaker 3: person who did all the.
Speaker 1: Work, as you have done. We did that radio show
Speaker 1: to get well.
Speaker 4: We did the show at Extra for a little bit,
Speaker 4: and then box we did the Blitz for seven or
Speaker 4: eight years.
Speaker 3: We were doing for the show sent pre NFL game
Speaker 3: and for all six hours during I mean during the
Speaker 3: six hours when the most of the games are played
Speaker 3: from ten am Pacific time till four pm. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was terrific fun until we had to interview, of course,
Speaker 3: the athlete chapter of the early games, who's they ruined
Speaker 3: the whole show?
Speaker 1: A little tough?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was that was awkward. All right, Well, well
Speaker 4: end it there, Looney, Thank you. I look forward to
Speaker 4: seeing next week the show starts. We go live on tape,
Speaker 4: as you like to say, Looney live on Peacock and
Speaker 4: all the NBC affiliates on the cable.
Speaker 1: So we're excited.
Speaker 3: Since there's no games and we're not doing preseason games.
Speaker 3: What is the first show going to be about? Give
Speaker 3: them a little tease tease ahead here. Well, as you know,
Speaker 3: program direct you on the air, I am.
Speaker 4: A distant relative of no Stra Damas and friend of Nostradina.
Speaker 4: So show one is going to be a projection on
Speaker 4: what we can expect. A lot of win totals over unders.
Speaker 4: On win totals where me put your money with the
Speaker 4: win totals. Yeah, and there there are some people that
Speaker 4: I know that don't play the stock market and they
Speaker 4: invest their money on wins totals. There's a hack that
Speaker 4: I learned years ago that I will share on the
Speaker 4: TV show when it comes to win totals and player props,
Speaker 4: which is stacking the deck in your favor. I don't
Speaker 4: do it all the time, but it does stack. I'll
Speaker 4: explain it on the TV show and we'll also do
Speaker 4: some player props likely as well.
Speaker 3: What do you think the biggest tees right now is
Speaker 3: the most confusing head scratcher? Where are they trying to
Speaker 3: sucker people? Just to give a tease for a week
Speaker 3: one of.
Speaker 4: Well, the team that gets has gotten a lot of publicity,
Speaker 4: or the Chicago Bears on Hard Knocks, Right, they got
Speaker 4: a rookie quarterback, they've got a coach who's on the
Speaker 4: hot seat. I don't have it in front of me,
Speaker 4: but the team, generally, the team that gets the most
Speaker 4: buzz in the media run away from them.
Speaker 1: It doesn't go well.
Speaker 4: The team that wins the offseason, it doesn't doesn't generally
Speaker 4: go well for them. But we'll talk about that during
Speaker 4: the TV show. Thank you, Loony, I appreciate that. And
Speaker 4: make sure you show up on time. Do not show
Speaker 4: a don't show up late to our table read Loony, please,
Speaker 4: and you need to be there exactly when we start
Speaker 4: the table read please.
Speaker 3: I'll tell my driver