Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
Speaker 1: and Danny g Happy holiday weekend today the twenty second
Speaker 1: day of the month of December, a big weekend for
Speaker 1: people to go away. But we are here, Danny. We
Speaker 1: are here when many podcasts shut down. We are still
Speaker 1: bloviating and excited to be here because normally we don't
Speaker 1: do sporting. This will be the second consecutive week Danny
Speaker 1: on the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 3: We have become sporty. Yeah, making Fifth Hour history here Ben.
Speaker 3: Two first, Uh, It'll sounded like I said two first,
Speaker 3: which is fitting. Two first for the podcast. We're talking
Speaker 3: sports like heavy two weekends in a row and CoA.
Speaker 3: I mentioned to you off the air he's a little grumpy.
Speaker 3: The reason why his teeth are coming in.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a big that's a big moment.
Speaker 3: There, not one, not two. We've counted six that are
Speaker 3: cutting through his gums right now, not two, not three,
Speaker 3: not four, not five.
Speaker 1: Ah, it's great, Well, it'll be great, but it's not
Speaker 1: great now. This is the hard part. And then and
Speaker 1: then the baby teeth fall out, and then it sucks again.
Speaker 3: He's chewing on his fingers so hard that he's making
Speaker 3: himself cry because he's hurting his fingers.
Speaker 1: Oh man, the life of a kid. This life is
Speaker 1: not that easy. It is not that easy at all.
Speaker 1: But I'm far now. I was not at my watch
Speaker 1: post last night. I didn't do the overnight show. And
Speaker 1: why are you doing the pluggists. You didn't do the
Speaker 1: overnight show. You should do the podcast. Well, no, I'm
Speaker 1: doing the podcast because there's like big time sports news here.
Speaker 1: But I was away from my post, and I'll just
Speaker 1: explain this, brotherly love. So I was not the graveyard watchtower,
Speaker 1: and it was It would have been a great night.
Speaker 1: We had the Ram game and the Rams won last night.
Speaker 1: They beat the Saints, that beat him handily, although the
Speaker 1: final score did not indicate how much of a rat
Speaker 1: kill that game was as the Rams dominated. Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: who did get some garbage time stats to make it
Speaker 1: seem like he had a good game. We call those
Speaker 1: the guys the stat Vandito when they just like run
Speaker 1: up the stats and you're like, well, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: your team was down by twenty points when it mattered,
Speaker 1: you know, the game, when the game was really in
Speaker 1: the bounds. And then he gets a couple of plays
Speaker 1: on the fourth quarter, a couple of touchdown passes on
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, Derek Carr. But anyway, just to wrap
Speaker 1: that up, So I was not on the radio last night.
Speaker 1: My older brother, but the one that lives in the
Speaker 1: Big Apple there, stopped in La for one day. I
Speaker 1: had a stopover. He's on his way. He's on a
Speaker 1: flight today on Friday here to Vietnam, a family vacation
Speaker 1: with his wife's family, my sister in law, and they're
Speaker 1: going to Vietnam. And so I did the Raiders show Thursday,
Speaker 1: taped the TV show. More on that later, and then
Speaker 1: hung out with my brother at one of the iconic restaurants,
Speaker 1: one of my old stopping grounds, Danny El Coyote on Beverly,
Speaker 1: which I used to go to all the time. I
Speaker 1: used to live right next to it in LA It's
Speaker 1: a famous, famous spot in Los Angeles for Mexican food.
Speaker 1: But so I was there hanging out with him, and
Speaker 1: then you know, went home, watched the RAM game, and
Speaker 1: then here we are on a Friday, and I don't
Speaker 1: think I got any.
Speaker 3: Sleep last night. I text you as soon as the
Speaker 3: Dodger news broke.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now you were the one that actually let me
Speaker 1: know Danny that. And this is a massive, massive story
Speaker 1: which everyone I know is gonna be talking about all
Speaker 1: day today. And do we get a jump on it?
Speaker 1: The early bird gets the word. It happened right around
Speaker 1: the time the RAM game ended. It was a late
Speaker 1: night announcement that came down from the baseball insiders. But
Speaker 1: the sweepstakes are over for Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the Japanese phenom,
Speaker 1: the next big thing in baseball. We are told the say,
Speaker 1: young king from Japan is gonna wear Dodger blue Danny
Speaker 1: twelve years. The numbers on this that are coming in.
Speaker 1: I saw report said three hundred twenty five million, But
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have to pay another fifty million because of
Speaker 1: the setup with the Japanese players. So they're actually hanging
Speaker 1: out over the next twelve years three point seventy five.
Speaker 1: I have a million, three hundred stick. I have million
Speaker 1: dollars just for Yamamoto. Who better live up to the hype, Danny,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I've seen highlights. The guy
Speaker 1: looks great on YouTube videos. But it's a different animal
Speaker 1: in the biglies. But these guys from Japan, My first
Speaker 1: thought is, these guys from Japan have usually been pretty good.
Speaker 1: They've only been a couple that have sucked. Most of
Speaker 1: them that have dominated the Pacific League in Japan have
Speaker 1: been able to dominate the major leagues, and so that
Speaker 1: is encouraging. But the second thought I had, Danny, is
Speaker 1: it is it is on. I mean, we're both Dodger guys,
Speaker 1: but the Dodgers, and I get it if I was
Speaker 1: not a Dodger fan. The Dodgers are dastardly. What they're
Speaker 1: doing here. They is demonical the money that they have
Speaker 1: spent there. They are the villains. The Dodgers are the
Speaker 1: evil Empire of baseball. It's wicked. I mean, it's nuts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right to be.
Speaker 3: The Yankees and now Yankees fans are pissed about this.
Speaker 3: Because he had visited New York and there was a
Speaker 3: story that Coveno shared on Thursday Afternoons Covino and Rich
Speaker 3: Show that Aaron Boone gifted Yamamoto a jersey and they
Speaker 3: were doing everything they could think of to butter this
Speaker 3: guy up. I'm gonna go with my homie in La
Speaker 3: Me and Otani are going to take over so Cow.
Speaker 3: After I texted you, I texted Coveno with a picture
Speaker 3: of him in a Dodger jersey that somebody photoshopped, and
Speaker 3: Covino's reply was, oh geez, with a mad Emoji face.
Speaker 1: No, this thing's been going on for like a month,
Speaker 1: at least a month. We've talked about it, I've done.
Speaker 1: I did a couple of monologues this week because of
Speaker 1: the public courtship, and I was waiting for something to
Speaker 1: happen in baseball, right and Yamamoto and his representation they
Speaker 1: were playing foot seat with the Mets and the Yankees,
Speaker 1: as you said, the Red Sox, the Giants, and the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and I was like, it's one of those things. I
Speaker 1: didn't really expect the Dodgers to get him because they
Speaker 1: had gotten these other guys. But the fact that they did.
Speaker 1: Is just it's it's nuts to me. I mean, especially
Speaker 1: living through different years of Dodger baseball. When Frank McCord
Speaker 1: owned the team, when the O'Malley family owned the team,
Speaker 1: it was always built through the minor league system. They
Speaker 1: did spend some money in the nineties of that twenties
Speaker 1: plus years ago, and that didn't work out.
Speaker 3: That Kevin Brown era was a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was when I did Dodger talk and yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh I remember, I remember. You were really hard on
Speaker 3: the team at the time because they were middle of
Speaker 3: the pack, but way up high on the payroll department.
Speaker 3: And it's funny because Bob Nightingale, he tweeted last night
Speaker 3: that the Dodgers have spent more than one point one
Speaker 3: billion dollars this winter with the signings of Yamamoto, Otawani
Speaker 3: and Glass. Now the other teams in baseball combine nine
Speaker 3: hundred million dollars, so the Dodgers have outspent every other
Speaker 3: MLB team combined.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And people were sending me messages like, wow, are
Speaker 1: they doing it well? Are they cheating? You know? Well, no,
Speaker 1: they obviously have deep pockets. And it's a really weird
Speaker 1: time in baseball because the way the cable industry has
Speaker 1: gone and the Bally sports thing. It seems like the Padres,
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks, the Mariners, a lot of these teams are
Speaker 1: in a holding pattern because either they lost their cable
Speaker 1: television deal or they're about to lose their cable television
Speaker 1: deal and it's a hot mess, and so they don't
Speaker 1: have the revenue. I mean, the whole system on baseball
Speaker 1: has been built behind television. But the Dodgers, the reason
Speaker 1: they're a super heavyweight is because they own their cable channel.
Speaker 1: It ain't going anywhere. I mean, it's like another twenty
Speaker 1: years of this, and they're guaranteed the revenue, assuming you know,
Speaker 1: the cable television thing continues on. But they're not going
Speaker 1: to lose that revenue. And they the people over there
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers are like, well, okay, we're in the
Speaker 1: thick of things for everything. But the Japanese market, they
Speaker 1: they just think they can make this money back on
Speaker 1: these two guys in Otani and Yamamoto with a belly
Speaker 1: full of cash from from the Japanese market and from
Speaker 1: Tokyo and and all that. And I mean that we
Speaker 1: know baseball's from what I've I've never been to Japan,
Speaker 1: but from people tell me it's the most popular sport
Speaker 1: in Japan is baseball. It's not you know, they don't
Speaker 1: have the NFL there. It's baseball, and and there's other
Speaker 1: things that are popular too, but baseball is at the top. So,
Speaker 1: uh it is. You talk about Robber Barron and all that,
Speaker 1: it is, it's great, and it's it's it's great to
Speaker 1: win the offseason. I don't think they give you a
Speaker 1: trophy for that. Maybe maybe they do. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but we'll see what happens. I mean, we don't know
Speaker 1: if these guys. Otani's ever been in a playoff game,
Speaker 1: and Yamamoto has never been in a big league game.
Speaker 1: But I want these guys to have that fire in
Speaker 1: their belly when they get to play. And one of
Speaker 1: the problems, Danny and you know this watching ball over
Speaker 1: the years, these guys get the big contract and they
Speaker 1: don't necessarily care as much.
Speaker 3: Otani doesn't strike me as that sort of guy or player,
Speaker 3: and the way he deferred his money was yeah, for
Speaker 3: his interests also, but also for the Dodgers to be
Speaker 3: able to put guys like this around him, which is awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you don't see a lot of American ballplayers, you know,
Speaker 3: they want the money right now in their pocket, in
Speaker 3: their bank account.
Speaker 1: We don't know about Yama Moto. I'm sure the details.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're out now. I haven't seen them. Maybe they'll
Speaker 1: come out later today. I would assume, based on the
Speaker 1: taxation in California that Yamamoto, if he's wise, would have
Speaker 1: done the same thing that Otani did. That is just
Speaker 1: I'll defer most of the money. And it's gonna be
Speaker 1: one of these things, Danny, when we're like really old guys.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers will be paying one hundred million dollars to
Speaker 1: players not on the team from this this offseason, you know,
Speaker 1: and then a lot of rookie bets all so on.
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 3: I wonder if at that point though, a lot of
Speaker 3: players will be getting five hundred million dollar contracts and
Speaker 3: we'll just think that this is not a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you might be right. And the argument to do
Speaker 1: this is, hey, you know, we'll just get more money.
Speaker 1: It's but I hate to say this, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of what the US government did, Like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll push these things down the road and then eventually
Speaker 1: we'll be okay. And I don't know if you've looked
Speaker 1: at the national debt. I don't want to be a
Speaker 1: gloomy guss here, but that's what the you know, the
Speaker 1: US government's like, ah, we'll push things down the road.
Speaker 2: God, that's America.
Speaker 3: We started off talking about your Rams. How about when
Speaker 3: they showed Otani in attendance at so Far and crowd
Speaker 3: went nuts.
Speaker 1: What a kick to the nuts to the Angels that was.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy's been playing down the road in
Speaker 1: Anaheim and no one gave a rats ass about Otani.
Speaker 1: Where's Dodger blue? All of a sudden he's being you know,
Speaker 1: the the red carpets being rolled out at RAM games
Speaker 1: and it's just hilariu. I mean, the guy's been in
Speaker 1: the market, he's been part of the LA sports scene.
Speaker 1: You know, technically LA, but it's Orange County. And it
Speaker 1: just shows you the dicotomy, the difference between playing for
Speaker 1: a team like the Angels and playing for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Tani got the heroes welcome. How about my
Speaker 1: I know you're a raider guy, but you got a
Speaker 1: little a little love, give a little love to the Rams.
Speaker 1: You can ram it all day, you can ram it
Speaker 1: all night that they got they found two ballplayers. They
Speaker 1: found two ballplayers out of the dumpster fire, like the
Speaker 1: mid rounds of the NFL draft. Kyron Williams is a
Speaker 1: big time running back. He's a top five running back
Speaker 1: in the NFL.
Speaker 3: I think you got two really good receivers who kind
Speaker 3: of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think you're talking about Robinson, right. Robinson
Speaker 1: was great, but he's bounced around. He's been played with
Speaker 1: Kansas City Hooka Nikua though. I mean, I'm loving pool.
Speaker 3: He got hit like a missile, bounced right off of
Speaker 3: it when they needed a first down to seal the victory.
Speaker 3: And he trudged forward for that first down after getting
Speaker 3: hit by a missile a rocket. That was an amazing play.
Speaker 3: I love watching that guy ball. He's a big receiver,
Speaker 3: but he's also fast and shifty. What a combination of
Speaker 3: skills that dude has.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would like to concede that I had
Speaker 1: a take that died. One of my takes died Danny
Speaker 1: from earlier in the year. I was convinced everything I
Speaker 1: had heard was Matthew Stafford. His body was broken. I
Speaker 1: thought he wasn't even going to play this season. I thought, well,
Speaker 1: this guy's not going to play. Everything I was told
Speaker 1: from the people that I trust with Stafford was beat up.
Speaker 1: The Rams wanted to get rid of him, they were
Speaker 1: ready to trade him, they wanted to eat the contract.
Speaker 1: And right now, Matthew Stafford the last month or so
Speaker 1: has been playing. I don't say that he's not rock
Speaker 1: Party because Brock's got better weapons around, but the Rams
Speaker 1: weapons are not that far behind some of the forty
Speaker 1: nine weapons. But I'm a little giddy because they won.
Speaker 3: I know I was gonna say, don't get too carried.
Speaker 1: Away, ah, but they did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they did exceed expectations. A lot of people counted
Speaker 3: your favorite team out before the season even started, and
Speaker 3: then a few games in most people are like, yeah,
Speaker 3: Rams are underwhelming. They're gonna be under five hundred, and
Speaker 3: now look at what's going on, they're probably gonna sneak
Speaker 3: their way into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, they won five of six. The loss they
Speaker 1: had was a special teams boner and overtime to the Ravens,
Speaker 1: who supposed the other top team in the AFC, And
Speaker 1: before that they lost to Green Bay. But that's pretty much.
Speaker 1: They gave that game away because they started ripping who
Speaker 1: can't play? I just can't play. They really haven't played
Speaker 1: a bad game where they've had their guys since they
Speaker 1: played the Cowboys when they just got torched by Dallas
Speaker 1: back in Week eight. But I throw away the Green
Speaker 1: Bay game because they had no quarterback. They had no
Speaker 1: chance in that game, and they lost close to The
Speaker 1: Rams lost close games to the Steelers. I was at
Speaker 1: that game. They had the lead, they blew that, and
Speaker 1: they had a shot with Philadelphia. They didn't show up
Speaker 1: in the second half. So obviously see Apsen Boughts, Kenny
Speaker 1: and nuts and all that. But the Rams are in
Speaker 1: a good spot at eight wins. And this is the
Speaker 1: best kind of years a fan, because you don't expect
Speaker 1: anything and then it turned out to be pretty good.
Speaker 3: No, you gotta be happy. And then for me, I'm
Speaker 3: also pleased because who would have thunk it? Who would
Speaker 3: have thought that Aidan O'Connell would have a better primetime
Speaker 3: game than Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, exactly. Derek Carr. What an enigma, you know
Speaker 1: what it is like he's the same guy he was
Speaker 1: with the Raiders. He hadn't change he's the same guy.
Speaker 1: He's going to be that way the rest of his career.
Speaker 3: Why does he have so many excuse makers on social media?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of life's great mysteries. I can't I
Speaker 1: can't explain it. I mean, I've seen the guy. I know.
Speaker 1: You know, I work with Eddie on the overnights and
Speaker 1: Eddie's a Fresno State guy, so he doesn't really want
Speaker 1: to be too critical of Derek Carr. But I mean,
Speaker 1: these kind of.
Speaker 3: Me a nice guy. That's great, But you see with
Speaker 3: your own eyes he throws picks fumbles constantly. I mean,
Speaker 3: I guess he doesn't have as many interceptions this season
Speaker 3: as he did, you know, when he was a Raider,
Speaker 3: but still enough to change games for the Saints. And
Speaker 3: he's been so inconsistent. One week, like last week, for instance,
Speaker 3: what he had three touchdowns and no picks, and the
Speaker 3: Saints were like, Yeah, this is the guy we wanted.
Speaker 3: But then you know that's not the guy you're gonna
Speaker 3: get the following week.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and you know, any road game hostile environment,
Speaker 1: even the Rams. I'm a Rams fan, it's not a
Speaker 1: very hostile environment. But Derek Carr on the road normally melts.
Speaker 1: It's like putting a sugar cube into water and watching
Speaker 1: it disintegrate. Any pressure situation the guy he plays that
Speaker 1: or cold weather, well yeah, cold weather, hostile environment, pressure situation.
Speaker 1: He's got a terrible record as a road favorite. But hey,
Speaker 1: it ain't my problem. The Rams are eight and seven
Speaker 1: and they've got Tommy Cutlets in week seventeen, which, assuming
Speaker 1: they don't just poop the bed, that should be a
Speaker 1: show up and win game to get you to nine wins,
Speaker 1: which should be enough to get to the playoffs. But
Speaker 1: they will see me. It's conceivable some other crazy things
Speaker 1: will happen. But either way, I like the Rams. I
Speaker 1: had zero expectations. I was like, well, that's gonna suck
Speaker 1: this year, but they've been pretty good. I had a
Speaker 1: couple other things I wanted to get to, and we'll
Speaker 1: get out because I wanted to talk about an interesting
Speaker 1: week on the TV show, dann You know, I can't
Speaker 1: do a podcast without pouring out the TV show. So
Speaker 1: Andrea the astrology Lady would say mercury is in retrograde
Speaker 1: because it started out harmlessly. I have a routine. I'm
Speaker 1: a creature of habit, and I normally you know, do
Speaker 1: some manscaping, some trimming, get ready for the show pretty up,
Speaker 1: you know, and all that stuff. Before the taping of
Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny, I realize I'm ugly, but I
Speaker 1: try to limit the damage, and so I shave and
Speaker 1: do all that stuff. So I plug the razor in
Speaker 1: per normal, get that razor juiced up to trim my
Speaker 1: facial hair, and so do that, and then I go
Speaker 1: back to after about an hour, I go back to
Speaker 1: grab the shaver. It's an electric going to shave my beard,
Speaker 1: and I turn it on and there's nothing. And then
Speaker 1: I start shaking it, you know, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe the plug's wrong. So I plugged in a different,
Speaker 1: different outlet and then I walked away and I came
Speaker 1: back and the thing's not working. Uh, And I kept
Speaker 1: Then I started hitting the thing of a jig and
Speaker 1: that didn't work. And so that was just the warm
Speaker 1: up act. I couldn't shave before, and I was like, well, boy,
Speaker 1: everything gonna say the horrible. And then after doing the
Speaker 1: radio show Wednesday and the Thursday, you know, I had
Speaker 1: some downtime. Eventually I drive over in a monsoon to
Speaker 1: Universal Studios and the broke on News Center, West Coast
Speaker 1: hub of NBC News. That's where we do the show from.
Speaker 1: So I park in the Abbott and Costello parking garage,
Speaker 1: her and on. But I realized there's no walk. We
Speaker 1: have to walk outside to get to the building. And
Speaker 1: so I'm like, I need an umbrella. So I start
Speaker 1: digging around the car. IF's like, wow, everyone's got an
Speaker 1: umbrella in their car. Couldn't find the umbrella in the malamobile.
Speaker 1: Uh oh im porked. So now I'm like, well, should
Speaker 1: I wait till the rain dies down? And I looked
Speaker 1: at my weather app on my phone. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: it says it's going to keep raining. I'm screwed. It's
Speaker 1: just going to keep rain. So I'm like, I just
Speaker 1: got to go. I just got to Maybe I'll walk fast,
Speaker 1: but so I want to paint the picture for a
Speaker 1: blind listener. So I start walking. It starts raining harder.
Speaker 1: There's like a cloud burst, right, oh is I only
Speaker 1: where I was. I don't think it was raining that
Speaker 1: hard anywhere else in La. So I'm holding my laptop
Speaker 1: like briefcase that I have with my my computer and
Speaker 1: some notes for the show. I've got a garment bag
Speaker 1: because I have to dress up as an adult. I
Speaker 1: have a box with my dress shoes on. I'm wearing sandals, okay,
Speaker 1: in sweatpants because I was just gonna casual at the
Speaker 1: radio station. By the time I made it from the
Speaker 1: parking garage to the BROCA News Center, which is about
Speaker 1: two blocks about two blocks, I was completely and I
Speaker 1: want to exaggerate here, Danny completely waterlogged. I was soaking wet,
Speaker 1: I was sopping, I was totally submerged in water and
Speaker 1: in that cartoon bubble over my head. As I'm walking
Speaker 1: to the door, I'm thinking, you know, here I am.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm at the peak of my career
Speaker 1: right now. You know, things have really come together. I've
Speaker 1: got the radio shows going well, the podcast we've used
Speaker 1: going great, got a TV show now, national TV show.
Speaker 1: Like I'm rolling in to Universal Studios here and I
Speaker 1: look like a swamp creature, like I'm totally drenched, and
Speaker 1: I was so embarrassed. I actually walked through the underground
Speaker 1: entrance to avoid the overnight security guard, who I know
Speaker 1: a little bit, because I didn't want anyone to see me.
Speaker 1: Even though I was a camera. I was that embarrassed.
Speaker 1: So welcome to the exciting, sexy world of big time
Speaker 1: sports media. What a You know, it never rains in
Speaker 1: La Danny, but when it does rain, you need an umbrella,
Speaker 1: and I didn't have an umbrella.
Speaker 3: There were tornado warnings going off at two in the
Speaker 3: morning on our phones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's when I was out about a little bit
Speaker 1: after that, a few hours after that, I was out
Speaker 1: and about. It was nuts, crazy, dude.
Speaker 3: If you've seen the pictures of West Ventura County, ox
Speaker 3: start in Ventura was underwater, cars stuck, people's houses flooded.
Speaker 3: And you know, obviously we're not used to that sort
Speaker 3: of thing here in southern California.
Speaker 1: No, not at all. And you know, it happens the
Speaker 1: La River, which is not really a river, it's just
Speaker 1: you know, it's a concrete thing. And that thing was
Speaker 1: just move. It goes right by.
Speaker 3: Universal and yeah, that's a skate park usually.
Speaker 1: So one other thing before we get out, we'll get
Speaker 1: out on this. So it turns out I wasn't the
Speaker 1: only person having issues for the TV show this week.
Speaker 1: My comrade and campadre, Tom Looney. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he wants me to tell this story, but he didn't
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast. Who cares it no matter? So I,
Speaker 1: as I told you, I ran into you know, the
Speaker 1: building there covered in water. So I then had to
Speaker 1: go to a bathroom and drive myself off and change
Speaker 1: into my church clothes to go on television in my temple,
Speaker 1: no clothes whatever. So then I'm walking around. I did
Speaker 1: a little prep and I walk into the like I
Speaker 1: don't even know what to call the NBC commissary, but it's
Speaker 1: like they don't break room where they have, you know,
Speaker 1: some food or whatever. So I go over there, there's
Speaker 1: a coffee machine. Looney's over there getting a free moocha
Speaker 1: on the peacock's dime. And he then informs me that
Speaker 1: he had one of his pets had I guess, uh
Speaker 1: cat scratch fever while he was sleeping. He was clawed
Speaker 1: in the forehead. Oh no, yeah, yeah yeah, So the
Speaker 1: right side of his forehead I'm standing right in front
Speaker 1: of it looks like Frankenstein, like it believe. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: we have to tape the TV show. The record time
Speaker 1: is in an hour, like less than an hour at
Speaker 1: this point, right because we're both there getting ready, and
Speaker 1: the call time was like half an hour and Looney
Speaker 1: Looney uses his clandestine Uh did I say that rightdys clandestine? Right,
Speaker 1: that's the word I think I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Anyway, he used his knee, I'll use ninja and his
Speaker 1: ninja ability. It's early in the morning to slither in
Speaker 1: to a back room. He found the NBC makeup depot,
Speaker 1: which I didn't even We didn't even know where this was.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. He asked somebody who led him this direction,
Speaker 1: and he his forehead by the time he got done.
Speaker 1: You probably can't tell on the TV show, but when
Speaker 1: you watch Betty versus The Penny, let me know. He
Speaker 1: looked in person like a gaudy woman painted in makeup.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: We both, right, Dad, You know women that just put.
Speaker 3: Instead of cake face, he was cake kead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, So he just yeah, he had you know, cake.
Speaker 1: It was like frosting on his forehead, like a wedding cake.
Speaker 1: And I think he pulled it up because at least
Speaker 1: in the monitors in our studio it looked fine. I
Speaker 1: don't think you know. You might know now because I
Speaker 1: told you, but none of our producers in Boston. The director,
Speaker 1: our guy Vinnie, who puts the show together. None of
Speaker 1: these guys noticed it. So that is a real miracle
Speaker 1: before Christmas that Looney was able to have one of
Speaker 1: his pets scratch his forehead where he looked like Frankenstein
Speaker 1: a monster, and then put enough makeup on to just
Speaker 1: cover it up. And you don't even know.
Speaker 2: Don't do a lost cat magnet pencil.
Speaker 1: Next, It's wild and please watch Benny Versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: It's on today all weekend. I know it's a holiday weekend.
Speaker 1: You're probably with family and whatnot, but you're listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast. You must have some free time. I do.
Speaker 1: I can't say we have some of the showings I
Speaker 1: know for today on Friday, NBC Sports Boston, we'll be
Speaker 1: on at seven thirty Tonight nine pm tonight NBC Sports Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: late night showing at eleven. In Chicago, we'll be on
Speaker 1: after the Canadians Blackhawks post game on NBC Sports Chicago
Speaker 1: at ten thirty. Benny Versus the Penny no airings today
Speaker 1: on NBC Sports Bay Area. Will be on a couple
Speaker 1: of times on Saturday. There's some games in the Bay
Speaker 1: Area that preempted us, but we are on today on
Speaker 1: NBC Sports California, which is the Sacramento Kings home. We'll
Speaker 1: be on after the Sacramento Kings Suns broadcast on actually
Speaker 1: I think before I think we might actually be on
Speaker 1: before that, the pre game, Yeah, six pm in NBC
Speaker 1: Sports California, and then we'll be on several times on
Speaker 1: Saturday Tomorrow on Spectrum Sports Net, which is Danny's favorite
Speaker 1: channel because they have some basketball team on their pop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the Lakers channel. That's how I see you
Speaker 3: and Looney.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll be on their six am, Saturday, three pm,
Speaker 1: and eleven pm all Pacific time. We'll get out on that. Danny,
Speaker 1: are you doing any working today? Are you what you
Speaker 1: got going on?
Speaker 3: I am working because we're doing the fun Friday edition
Speaker 3: of Covino and Rich before we have a couple of
Speaker 3: days off for the holiday. So two to four pm
Speaker 3: on the West Coast, and that is five to seven
Speaker 3: pm in Vermont where Arnie is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the great stinking genius. All right, have a wonderful Friday.
Speaker 1: We'll have another fresh podcast for you on Saturday, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to you then later.
Speaker 3: Skater my FLATIONI