WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Blitz Boys Reunite.. on TV! 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:01.600 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.520 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.320 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:12.640 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.640 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:17.599 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:18.520 Wow. 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.440 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:29.560 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.320 In the air everywhere. 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.840 Back at it on another edition of The Fifth Hour 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:42.440 with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio. It is a Friday, 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.839 but a day that is unlike any other. As we 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:52.040 do this radio show five nights a week and on 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.040 the weekends we have some fun with the podcast. But 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.360 if you were not listening earlier this week, if you 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:01.760 missed the big announcement after months of speculation by people 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.920 like Alf the Alien, Opiner and others who have sent 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:09.039 emails very concerned that I was leaving Fox Sports Radio 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:13.479 to get a job somewhere else, many convinced that I 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.200 was taking a radio gig in Boston when I went 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.440 back to Boston, if you missed the announcement, I was 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:24.280 in Boston for work, but I am very excited to 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.720 announce if you've not heard yet, that after many years 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:32.920 of doing Benny Versus the Penny on radio on this podcast, 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:37.160 we did one season on YouTube that we're now heading 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.399 up to the big leagues. If you will as Benny 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.120 Versus the Penny picked up by NBC and you'll be 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:48.639 able to watch it on a bunch of regional cable channels. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.720 The hub will be in Boston on NBC Sports Boston. 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.480 I went back to Boston a couple of weeks ago, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.680 met with all the executives at NBC. Had a great 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:03.320 time there and a very nice new experience, something that I'm. 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:04.960 Not comfortable with normally. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.520 I don't normally do that kind of stuff being on 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.960 late at night, I don't normally have to deal with 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.240 executives and things along those lines. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:13.160 But everything's been great. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.600 Everything's been wonderful, and it will be on NBC Sports Boston, 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:21.720 but distributed by NBC across the country and is scheduled 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.000 if everything goes right here to be broadcast in New 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.800 York on the SNY the home of the Mets, in 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.639 LA on the Home of the Dodgers on their cable channel. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:37.200 Beyond all the NBC cable channels around the country and 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.400 should be available on the stream as well on the Peacock, 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:42.880 So we'll be everywhere. 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:44.560 Will Tom Looney be on the show? 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:50.360 Well, that's right, that's right, the voice representing the penny 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:56.920 you talk about going out of my realm here radio 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.160 and television's Tom Looney. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.000 Here's Yes. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:07.320 They wanted someone to challenge your comfort level, now Looney, 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:08.120 they brought it me. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:08.720 Yeah. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.200 Yeah, I'm gonna be the Vana White of the show. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.280 I will I will expose which side of the coin 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:15.200 has been flipped. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.839 Yes, yes, you will be the keeper of the coin, 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.480 which is a very nice job, Tom, the keeper. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:22.960 Of the coin. Yeah, so it is. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.000 Yes, I realized that we're doing God's work and I'm 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:26.960 happy to be part of it. 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:28.239 You Jesus. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.480 So we are reunited, Tom. After how many years did 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.640 we do the blizz? I've known you forever. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:36.640 Since nineteen nights this last century. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:38.680 Yeah, since the nineties. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.760 Yeah, you were barely alive, right, There was Green Day 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:42.920 on the radio when you live. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.760 Yes, the Green Day was on the radio and I 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.400 was I was there. I used to do my homework 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.280 and listen to you on the radio and send you factes. 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.720 The facts of the day, the huge facts of the day. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.800 But you're gonna be with me every show. Tom will 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.640 be sitting in a TV studio across the way from 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.560 me there, and it will. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.280 Be very exciting. It'll be cameras and makeup or have 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.000 you been canning? Yeah? 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.440 As you know, I'm very self conscious, Tom, I don't 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.000 look at all. That's why I've always done radio and 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.359 avoided television. I am such a radio loser. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:22.680 I'm very excited because I love the way I look. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.200 I can't wait for people to see me. I look 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:25.120 just like my voice. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:25.839 Yeah. Yeah. 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.400 So when we've met with the people at NBC, I 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.320 was like, yeah, can I Can I wear a burka? 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:31.320 Is that possible? 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.920 My Tom's like, can I go in there and like 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.240 like a tank top or whatever? And uh So we 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.560 have the complete opposite approach. And this is also Tom. 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.240 Now you're you've done some TV in the past. You 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:43.159 were with the best damn. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.120 Yes, That's why at the meetings you you never talked 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.320 because we TV people do all the talking. 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.559 Yeah. Yeah, no, I just sit back. 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:51.120 Uh. 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.400 And there are a lot of meetings, a lot of 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:54.440 a lot of production meetings. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:54.560 You know. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.040 I've kidded around for years Tom on the radio show 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.960 about production meetings, right, Yes, very hard to do on 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.800 my show because a lot of the guys don't show up, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.800 sometimes till after the show starts, so it can be 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.520 difficult to have a meeting off no one's. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:14.400 Actually there, especially such if you don't do the preparation, Yeah, 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:16.120 it might not get done. 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.640 Yeah, so this has kind of been you know, I've 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.160 been hoping something like this would happen. I didn't say 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:25.080 anything to anybody, though, I think you've told more people 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:26.040 than I have time. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.960 I have, but I would tell you anytime I told anybuddy, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.680 because I gave you your word. I would just tell 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.760 close relatives and a smattering of others. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:34.880 Yeah. 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.200 So I told my wife has known about this, obviously 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.400 she was locked in. But other than that, I told 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:47.440 my brothers and that's that's about it. I didn't want 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.120 to jinx it because you've known me a long time. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:54.880 Tom and I have been close to some very exciting jobs. Yes, yeah, 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:59.000 I have been a finalist for big time media jobs 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.560 and every single times up until this point. Not that 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.120 I don't have a great job doing the radio show, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:05.479 but every time I've had something else. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.480 That's like major like career. 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:08.960 Change, right they went with the skinny girl. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.400 Yes, sometimes it was always at the last minute. Like 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:13.120 I had. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.800 I had a job at TMZ lined up years ago, 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.000 and I told people because they called me said they 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.680 were going to hire me, uh like the next the 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.120 next day, and I'm still waiting. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:23.159 It's been there. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.640 I'm still waiting for that return folk call from the 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:28.600 people at TMC. 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:29.560 So that's strange. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:29.760 You know. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.120 Right after they canceled the show with j T and May, 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.679 I went, I got a call from them right away, 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.479 went straight down there to the Pla del Rey and 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.159 uh so they took me, took me around, was really 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.480 uh you know, asked me what I wanted to do. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.400 Did I want to develop shows? I came up with 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.520 an idea like ten different shows and put a lot 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:55.640 of hard work into it. And then crickets just like 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:56.400 what happened to you. 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:57.880 Just yes, no, no. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.320 So I mean this was years ago when the Tiger 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.520 Woods story, the scandal broke about Tiger Woods, and they 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.320 were they were going to really put some money into 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:08.320 TMC Sports and all that and try. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.000 To get that going. So met they were very nice people. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:12.200 They were great, Yes, they are. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.400 I do have to say that. And you know, earlier 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.360 before you pushed record, we were talking about Andy Warhol 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.560 first time for my first interview over there. I went 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.680 and down and there was on that sunset first time 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:27.640 I interviewed with them. And I'm sitting in in uh 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.960 in the office of the big head hot show there. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.520 What's his name, Harvey Levin I believe would be the 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.400 Harvey's office. Yes, and so if I knew, I didn't 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.240 watch it on television very much, and so Harvey was 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.440 often in the people's court. So I was interviewed by 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.480 two other people, the black guy with the dreads you 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:43.520 don't watch it. 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:45.640 Yes, I remember. 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.840 We're painting. Yeah, it's it's a podcast. We're painting pictures, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.240 and somebody else. And so they came. I sat down, 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.640 they sat down, and I looked up and I said 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:59.160 to them, is that an original Warhol? Because Harvey's got 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.920 money apparently, because there's an original Warhol on the wall. 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:06.080 And Charles said, I was going to ask you some 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.000 of your other interests, but now I know, yeah, because 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.440 it could be a serio graph. A seria graph would 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.320 still be worth ten thousand dollars. But if it's you know, 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.720 I'm started going over what it's worth, very excited about 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.160 the Warhol on the wall. And then after that second 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.760 interview down in Plia Delray, beautiful Plian del Ray. Yeah, 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.760 nothing happened after that. So they are wonderful, but sometimes 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.880 they they're very California and flaking. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:29.520 Yeah. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:29.760 Yeah. 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.240 And I've had some other things that we don't need 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.320 to get into here, but this nbfing NBC thing is great. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.520 I yeah, we were worried, and I was I was more. 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.000 Optimism is my oxygen. That can't just that does not 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.120 describe you. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:48.320 No, no, no, I am a pessimist. I think we're 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.880 going to die one hundred times over and over again 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.760 and right to Dante's Inferno. So this has been an 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.679 ongoing process just to kind of get people into the loop. 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:04.400 It's not, uh, it's not something that happens overnight where 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:05.600 you get a television show. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.240 You're all right, you're right, yeah, yeah, there's a lot, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.040 there's a lot of pilot, the other pilot. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:13.480 Yeah yeah. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.720 So but the entire time we were doing a pilot 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.679 and then a second pilot, et cetera. You know, they 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.880 all they had all these ideas and they put in 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:26.680 all this production, all this time, and they even you know, 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.200 we got a word at one point that it was 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.880 more likely than not, but they wouldn't give us Vegas odds. 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.920 And so it was all these vagaries that were always 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.080 on the side of that it was going to happen. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.640 But we were always too we didn't want to jinx anything. 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.840 We were always way too worried to say anything which 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:45.760 is which is fair. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.199 And then we also had we were given a date 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:54.720 back in July that because you know, do a TV 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.760 show or radio show, you have to have the most important. 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.360 We were given a date in the spring of July 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.880 first as a deadline for a yes or a no. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.199 In July first came and went yeah. 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.400 So as John Sterling, the voice of the Yankees, I'll 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.520 drop a name here. He was on this podcast and 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.480 John Sterling reminded me that the most important part of 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.600 all these jobs is you've got to sell the soap. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:16.760 You have to sell the soap. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.480 Right, yes, h Larry King used to always say, and 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.480 Tom likes as well, you're in the advertising business, yeah, 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.600 one hundred percent. You're selling at you know, you're the 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.880 you're the filler between the soap. Commercials. 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.480 You're the liaison is the product. 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.920 You're the filler between five Hour Energy and body Shape. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.080 Oh there's some great uh. 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.680 So, So, as you said, there was a date that 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.880 was given and we were I was even optimistic at 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:46.600 the beginning time. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:47.880 I was like, well, I think this is you know, 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:48.720 gonna happen. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.800 And then the date came and went, and then the 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.760 days kept adding up after that he did, and we 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:01.440 would occasionally exchange messages like a you know, you would 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.160 say have you heard anything, because I think you were 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:05.359 planning a vacation. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.760 And I said, right, yeah, no, I've not heard anything. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.040 And then the other problem is you don't want to 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:15.240 seem too eager or you're pestering the executives at NBC. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.760 Oh yeah, that's yeah, that's I had a RoadMate in 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.560 college that studied industrial psychology, and it's very important not 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.880 to look too eager, but for them to want you 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.160 and not you to look too much like you want them. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.160 Do not show up a half hour before an interview, 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.440 show up on time or five minutes ahead of time, 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.640 and so yeah, they're not looking too eager is very 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.200 important in the world of industrial psychology. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.720 Yeah, so we didn't do that, and it was actually 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:49.240 the day that I had the Samurai sword accident, was 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.000 the th that was kind of the day that this 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:57.000 all became somewhat official. But then I still didn't want 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.560 I still even when we got the green light that 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:01.480 it was no longer a yellow light or a red light, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.160 it was a green light. Still, tom part of me 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.360 was like, well, I haven't signed the deal yet, and 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.640 until I got the deal, it could fall apart. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.360 And then I got one of those emails about okay, 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.760 you know, putting the contract together and it'll be an 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.319 emails shortly, and then it wasn't shortly. 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:19.640 Yeah. 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.440 Yeah, So that was a little nerve wracking too. Yeah. Yeah. 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.440 So that so that was an interesting part. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.920 And then once once the everything was agreed upon and 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.640 we we went back and forth. Uh I believe they 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.240 call that haggling, Yes, a little haggling, And that went 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:38.240 pretty well. And then I flew back to Boston to 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.080 tape some promos and things for the TV show and 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.320 meet with everyone back there and had a great time. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.440 Went out to a to a power power dinner, like 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.120 a power dinner type thing, which was kind of cool. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.120 I met Nice at NBC. 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.160 Did you did you stop fasting it to power dinner 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:57.040 and order something good. 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.480 Well I did, but I can tell the story now 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.280 that I didn't tell before. So I flew back on 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.840 a late Tuesday night. By the time I got to Boston, 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:11.160 it was after midnight and we had a production shoot 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.960 that was scheduled for the following afternoon, but on my 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:18.160 body clock, it was the time I'm normally sleeping because 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:22.120 you know, yeah, weird hours doing so. But the big 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:27.000 problem that I had was that my bag that had 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:32.719 my wardrobe for the TV shoot was lost by American Airlines. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.640 So so I didn't have my bag with all my 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:38.560 clothes on it. 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:40.680 You know, I assume they didn't want me to wear 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:41.600 my my. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:47.800 T shirt and my shirt radio clothes exactly. So now, 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.480 like the clock is ticking right, So I get to 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:51.240 the hotel. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.000 Around one in the morning, and I'm like, hey, I 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:53.839 emailed the guys. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:58.600 I'm like, you know, sorry, and American Airlines is like, well, 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.840 we'll get your bag back, but we don't A we 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.800 don't know where it is, and B we won't get 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.480 it for about three days up to three days up 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.680 to weasel terminology. So I'm freaking out. I'm like, holy crap. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.400 Uh So then so then what happened was my wife 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.240 came with me on the trip. So my wife was there, 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:19.040 and then one of the executives, Shohn in NBC, we 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.000 went out shopping. As you know, Tom, I cannot just 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:23.880 go down to the to the regular store. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:24.880 I'm a tall guy. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.360 Oh no, yeah, you shop were Doc Rivers shops the 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:28.080 big and tall men. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:28.800 That's right. 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.760 In fact, I had before I turned on Doc Rivers. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.400 I famously ran into Doc Rivers at a clothing store 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:35.280 in New York years ago. 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.000 And well, the reason why I love that story is 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.400 because you're in New York. He was. He the coach 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:43.400 of the Clippers at the time. 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.600 No, this was actually before he was coaching the Clippers. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.840 He had played with the Knicks, but he was a 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.400 broadcaster at the time. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.240 And I knew how did he know your name that? 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:52.560 Well? 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.000 I knew him when I covered him when he played 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:56.480 at the end of his career in the NBA. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.240 Wow. So I guess because of your part of your 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:03.680 brand as your eyes. He walked in, he said, Hi, Ben, Yeah, 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:05.200 it was really cool. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.600 I mean, and Doc, listen, I think he's a terrible 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.280 coach and he'll never coach again. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.760 But he's a great guy. He's a debonair guy and 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:12.040 all that. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:13.840 So I did run into him in a clothing store 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.920 in Manhattan and he he remembered me. And as you know, Tom, 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.520 that's the most important thing when somebody who's famous remembers 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:20.080 you that, oh. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.920 The famous people say your name, Pat O'Brien is to 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.800 name my name. I used to get so excited. I 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.880 used to you know, drink beer in high school with 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.040 my friends and watch sup Portland Trailblazers of the NBA Finals. 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.320 Who was who did Portland playing in the NBA Finals? 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:36.480 Was? 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.520 Yeah, Oh my god, I just remember back and then 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.120 it just just you know, as a kid late night, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.640 and Padd O'Brien was probably when it was on a delay, 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.680 right eleven thirty at nine, unchilled two. 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.160 Oh no, my memory. 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.440 And I'm not a Laker guy, but those Lakers Celtics 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:54.920 NBA Finals, Yes. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:55.960 All that too. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:16:00.880 Yeah, Patt O'Brien at the top of the old Boss 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:05.400 with the progressive at the half giving like tennis scores 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:05.880 or something. 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.200 He just the voice of our childhood said our names. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.400 Yeah, it was great, And I also loved the life 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.720 lessons that Pat would give out randomly, and he did 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.400 not even uh they weren't even like really life lessons. 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:18.920 He didn't know. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.640 He just was tossing out random thoughts about the business 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.880 and certain things you should ask for and things like that, 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:26.880 like little Mukets. 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.240 Well, boy, could he have a chip on his shore? 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.400 I remember he used to refer to me as JT's 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:36.520 spare tire. Well the first time, even even his insults, 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.240 just I just loved that he knew who I was, 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.240 it would insult me. It was fucking great. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:40.680 Yeah. 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.960 The first time I met Pat, He's still he was 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.040 still drinking, he was you know, he was Yeah. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.360 Oh the fun Pat, Yes, yeah, it was the party Pat. Yeah. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.360 Was it Actuity Hollywood or whatever? Show? 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:50.680 Yeah? 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:51.920 Oh yeah. 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.680 So we were at Dults in Burbank. Who and I 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.680 missed that place to this day. And that was my 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.480 bar in my twenties, was Dults in Burbank and it's 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.680 it was just wonderful, just just absolutely. 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.520 Great and conveniently located across the street. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.320 Yeah, it was right across from the radio station, so 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.440 we would all go there before the show and after 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:15.119 the show. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.119 And a great place to people watch too, because there 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.280 was Kiss FM was there, and there was a soap 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:20.960 opera that I don't know what soap. I don't remember 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:22.840 what soap opera was taped in our building. But boy 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:24.600 did we have a great cafeteria because they needed to 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.200 keep those fancy people happy. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:27.520 And that was a cool building. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.440 Well, that was the building. I was in the elevator 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:33.080 with Rodney Dangerfield then, uh oh wow. I didn't say anything, 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:34.520 but but he was. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:35.720 It's hard to not. Yeah. 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.199 Usually well, and I met Ricky Martin because well we 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:40.640 used to. We used to see a lot of those 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.560 A list music people because they were visiting rick D's 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:45.280 next door. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.120 Yeah, I was there. I was there Tom the night. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.520 The handsome kids were there. Wow, and there was. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.600 The building was wrapped with teenage girls that were of 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:59.200 course back back in the day. And we also had 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.360 in those you know that before the interweb and all. Yes, 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:04.800 it was big and social media, but Warner Brothers right 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:09.400 across the street, and we'd see the cast of Seinfeld 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:13.520 sometimes would be in there, Drew Carey show, big shows 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:17.280 back in the day. I mean there was there was much. 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:22.640 Fritz Coleman would come in there sometimes from Channel four, who. 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.359 By the way, who was also a This is why 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.760 you don't have to have a meteorology degree. You know 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.119