Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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 cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 3: Mahler and Danny g But you already knew that as
Speaker 3: we slide into a Friday, the twenty second day of November, kicking.
Speaker 4: Off the last weekend before Thanksgiving twenty twenty four, and
Speaker 4: we got to covered all weekend long. I wanted to
Speaker 4: start by thanking you some gratitude, which I don't do
Speaker 4: a lot of. But last week we were able to
Speaker 4: have Eddie on the podcast, and we were wondering how
Speaker 4: was that gonna do? And it was an awkward situation
Speaker 4: because of everything that had happened. But Eddie was great
Speaker 4: to come on and hang out with us, and you
Speaker 4: guys overwhelmed us in downloads. So I appreciate that Eddie
Speaker 4: is truly missed on this show, and that manifested itself
Speaker 4: on the number of people that went out of their
Speaker 4: way to listen to the podcast last week. So I
Speaker 4: thank you for that showing the company which does keep
Speaker 4: track of these numbers, just how many people love Eddie
Speaker 4: and it's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 1: It's a great thing.
Speaker 4: And what that leads to I don't know, but it's
Speaker 4: it's not a bad thing. It's not a bad thing anyway,
Speaker 4: just lights it. But today's the twenty second day of November.
Speaker 4: Now we'd like to do the dopey holiday thing. We
Speaker 4: didn't do that last week, but we'll get back to
Speaker 4: the dopey holiday thing. Today is a special day for
Speaker 4: me because I relate to this. It is love your
Speaker 4: Freckles Day, no if you have freckles or not. I
Speaker 4: was given the blessing or the curse of freckles. And
Speaker 4: this is one of those things that has changed in
Speaker 4: my lifetime. When I was a kid, the freckle thing
Speaker 4: was looked down upon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like, oh, you got freckles.
Speaker 4: But somehow, now that I'm an adult, I didn't benefit
Speaker 4: this from this when I was a kid, but now
Speaker 4: freckles are considered like trendy and kind of cool, and
Speaker 4: there's like people that go out of their way that
Speaker 4: there's some plastic surgeon type people that put fake freckles
Speaker 4: on it. It's it's bananas banana because when I was
Speaker 4: a kid, Oh you got freckles. Oh it's rub skin,
Speaker 4: you got freckles. What's going But now it's like it's
Speaker 4: totally different. Anyway, it's a national Love your Freckles Day,
Speaker 4: And in honor of this being that very special day,
Speaker 4: I thought we would flash back into the hot tub
Speaker 4: time machine with some fun facts, I know, fun facts,
Speaker 4: fun facts on those little small brownish spots of of
Speaker 4: your skin that are usually red usually read sometimes it's gonna,
Speaker 4: you know, sandy, if you've got kind of a sandy
Speaker 4: hair situation, they pop up as red there.
Speaker 1: So it is a variant.
Speaker 4: They claim, whoever they are the science community, that freckles
Speaker 4: started to emerge in the human genotype when people started
Speaker 4: leaving Africa.
Speaker 1: It's a long time ago. That is a long, long,
Speaker 1: long time ago.
Speaker 4: As you might imagine, freckles occur in people with the
Speaker 4: hair all over the world. It's not just one part
Speaker 4: of the world. There at one point was a belief, well,
Speaker 4: you've have freckles. You come from this part of the world.
Speaker 4: But it's not true. It's not true at all. There's
Speaker 4: different mutations of freckles. How exciting is that dot dot
Speaker 4: dot dot dot. That's a freckles. You have fair redheads.
Speaker 4: Variations you have. There are freckles in China, Japan, Frame,
Speaker 4: you know, France, the Mediterranean, Israel, and certain African ethnic
Speaker 4: groups all have have freckles. Now, as far as the
Speaker 4: word origin, the word origin, know, we love word origins.
Speaker 4: The word freckle was first used in the fourteenth century
Speaker 4: and it came out of the Middle English word frecin
Speaker 4: fr e k e n, which we believe, based on
Speaker 4: those that study this kind of stuff, came from Scandinavian origin.
Speaker 4: That's at least according to the actual dictionary. But you know,
Speaker 4: we're simple people here, we're simple people. So the basic
Speaker 4: terminology freckle can stand for two distinct germatologic entities that
Speaker 4: are part of the body.
Speaker 1: We don't know all that, who cares about that, but the.
Speaker 4: National freckle this if you have freckles, celebrate your freckles,
Speaker 4: enjoy your freckles. On this podcast, we have the extra spice,
Speaker 4: the TV Miracle, three man booth, and we got a
Speaker 4: bunch of other stuff, might even have the word of
Speaker 4: the day, but we'll start with the extra spice. Week
Speaker 4: twelve Benny Versus the Penny. It started airing last night
Speaker 4: around the country. We had a few of our affiliates
Speaker 4: that started carrying the show last night on Thursday night.
Speaker 4: But today is Friday, so this is the main event.
Speaker 4: The maiden voyage of Week twelve of Benny Versus the
Speaker 4: Penny will pop up on a television near you, including
Speaker 4: our flagship NBC Sports Boston.
Speaker 1: We'll be on later today, so enjoy that.
Speaker 4: Also a bunch of showings in San Francisco, Philadelphia, all
Speaker 4: over the place.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know.
Speaker 4: I ran into some listeners in Kansas City and a
Speaker 4: couple of people, Oh yeah, I watch the show every week,
Speaker 4: and I didn't know we were.
Speaker 1: On in Kansas City.
Speaker 4: You say, oh, yeah, you're you're on one of the
Speaker 4: channels here on the cable, local cable.
Speaker 1: And I had no idea. I had idea.
Speaker 4: I know we're on the the NBC owned and operated
Speaker 4: or partnered cable channels, but I did not know we
Speaker 4: were on a bunch of other ones.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: And I promote certain channels that have the TV show
Speaker 4: this week a little bit of an extra spice this week,
Speaker 4: and that means if you are a supporter of the
Speaker 4: radio show, which I'm gonna go ninety nine point nine percent,
Speaker 4: you are, because I don't know anyone that just listens
Speaker 4: to this podcast and doesn't listen to the radio show.
Speaker 4: You know why, that's right, d NA ning. This is
Speaker 4: a companion pod, a campaign. It's as snug as a
Speaker 4: bug in a rug. When you listen to this podcast,
Speaker 4: it is part of the Overnight Show. It's part of
Speaker 4: the Overnight Show. Everything's related here, everything's connected, and so
Speaker 4: that's why almost everyone that listens to this podcast is
Speaker 4: a radio listen, whether you listen to the podcast version
Speaker 4: of the radio show or not.
Speaker 1: So that's why.
Speaker 4: But if you watch all the way to the end
Speaker 4: with Vinny the producer, I was able to put in
Speaker 4: some stuff that will resonate with the consumer of audio
Speaker 4: content here, so I want you to check that out.
Speaker 4: And a little extra spice at the end. Looney wore
Speaker 4: something this week that is very unlike Looney. You'll see
Speaker 4: it unless you're blind. You won't see it, but it's
Speaker 4: something that the Smurfs would be proud of. Like if
Speaker 4: the Smurfs went to war, if there was like a
Speaker 4: World War three with the Smurfs and they were trying
Speaker 4: to hide from other Smurfs, they would wear what Looney
Speaker 4: was wearing on the TV show and they would be
Speaker 4: very happy with that. So I'm doing a little bit
Speaker 4: better as far as the picks. I don't want to
Speaker 4: give it all away, you know, SPT no spoilers and
Speaker 4: all that. I want you to actually watch the TV
Speaker 4: show otherwise what's the point.
Speaker 1: It will be on Peacock.
Speaker 4: So if you don't have cable television, by the way,
Speaker 4: I don't have cable television, I don't. I have Peacock though,
Speaker 4: and you can watch Benny Versus the Penny all over
Speaker 4: lace nationally streaming.
Speaker 1: Now, remember the thing about the show.
Speaker 4: The want to describe this the it's not a glitch,
Speaker 4: the unique thing that sounds better, right, doesn't that sound better?
Speaker 1: Unique?
Speaker 4: The unique thing about the show is once the NFL
Speaker 4: kicks off on Sunday, that's it, right, that's you know,
Speaker 4: that's a problem time, right, NFL Sunday, So you really
Speaker 4: have to watch the show by one o'clock Eastern on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Now it is still available on Peacock after that. Some
Speaker 4: people do like to go back and watch old episodes
Speaker 4: of the show to see how terrible the handicapping advice was.
Speaker 1: I do not recommend that. I do not recommend that you.
Speaker 4: Want to be part of the show when it's going
Speaker 4: into the NFL weekend, but hey, we get credit. Whether
Speaker 4: you watch it before or after, it doesn't really matter
Speaker 4: as long as you watch it. So check that out
Speaker 4: and make sure to watch all the way to the end.
Speaker 4: It reminds me of when I was a kid and
Speaker 4: my mom and dad I was on a family vacation.
Speaker 4: I've told the story, you know, years ago. So we
Speaker 4: were on a road trip and we went to and
Speaker 4: Pterson's Pea Soup, which is a hotel kind of roadside
Speaker 4: attraction type thing, diner, restaurant, hotel, and there a bunch
Speaker 4: of them in California used to be. I think they're
Speaker 4: pretty much all gone now, one or two left. So
Speaker 4: I remember as a kid we went there. My Mom's like,
Speaker 4: oh yes, listen, little Benny, if you eat that bowl
Speaker 4: Benji of the soup, the pea Soup there's going to
Speaker 4: be a surprise at the bottom of that bowl. And
Speaker 4: the way my mom presented this, I was convinced that
Speaker 4: I was going to get like my favorite toy at
Speaker 4: the bottom of the bowl. The way my mom had
Speaker 4: described it, so like the sucker I am. I slurped
Speaker 4: up the pea soup, which I don't even like. My
Speaker 4: mom gave me some crackers. She said that'll help a
Speaker 4: little bit. It did, So I ate the pea soup
Speaker 4: and I get to the bottom and all they have
Speaker 4: is this little stupid drawing of the characters from from
Speaker 4: the restaurant.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was so pissed. I got oh man, I.
Speaker 4: Got absolutely horn swoggled bye bye, Ma Ma. But this
Speaker 4: is a little better than that. You know, if you're
Speaker 4: truly a p one from the radio show, I believe
Speaker 4: you will appreciate what happened here at the end of
Speaker 4: the TV show. In the we call it the C block,
Speaker 4: got the eight block to B block to the C block.
Speaker 1: This was the C block at the very end.
Speaker 4: Now, this also relates to the television show, and it
Speaker 4: is the I call it the TV miracle, the TV Miracle.
Speaker 1: We'll come up to the holidays we got Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: This coming week, and then before you know, it's going
Speaker 4: to be Christmas and Hanukkah.
Speaker 1: And all that.
Speaker 4: And if you're a Jehovah's witness, just have a good day.
Speaker 4: Just have a good day, as we'd like to say.
Speaker 4: But one of the great stories, and you know, all
Speaker 4: these stories about holidays and religion, you wonder how much
Speaker 4: of it is true, how much of it is embellished?
Speaker 1: You don't really know. You just go with it. Why not?
Speaker 1: You shouldn't fight it. You just go with it. You know.
Speaker 1: It's all that.
Speaker 4: So the famous story the TV miracle relates to a
Speaker 4: story from Hanukkah, which I'm going to explain in a minute.
Speaker 4: But as Paul Harvey used to say in his day,
Speaker 4: you know what the news is, and in a minute
Speaker 4: you're about to get the rest of the story. So
Speaker 4: I'm in scramble mode during the week, man, it is.
Speaker 4: You know, these are first world problems. I've got a
Speaker 4: great job, I've got a great life. I'm very lucky
Speaker 4: that I have these jobs. These jobs will not last forever.
Speaker 4: I am enjoying these jobs because I know at some
Speaker 4: point I won't have these jobs anymore. So I i
Speaker 4: put extra work in to make sure I keep them
Speaker 4: as long as I can, And there's a lot of
Speaker 4: juggling going on with the radio show. That takes a
Speaker 4: long time to get the monologues ready and to get
Speaker 4: everything the way I want it. My proprietary blend which
Speaker 4: some of you hate and o those of you like.
Speaker 4: But I put the work in. That's always been my mantra.
Speaker 4: I learned from Lee Hacksaw Hambleton. I loved from my
Speaker 4: mom some of the people that were mentors of mine
Speaker 4: to put the work ethic in, So that's been instilled
Speaker 4: in me. And then the TV show around the radio show,
Speaker 4: because I don't want to take away from the radio show.
Speaker 4: So I'm putting the work in after the radio show
Speaker 4: on Monday morning and Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning, and
Speaker 4: then also sometimes before the show get when we call
Speaker 4: it putting the show to bed. When I've done all
Speaker 4: the prep for the show, I've got everything ready to go.
Speaker 4: I will then start flutzing around more with the handicap.
Speaker 4: Not that it's really worked out that well for me.
Speaker 4: Maybe I should just not handicap at all, but I do.
Speaker 4: I do because that's what NBC's paying me. For so
Speaker 4: I do my work, I do my due dialergies. So
Speaker 4: I'm going to rush. You know, I got to get
Speaker 4: my clothes for the TV show. Even though it looks
Speaker 4: like I wear the same two things every week, I
Speaker 4: believe it or not, I actually shower, shave.
Speaker 1: I put colone on.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's all kinds of things I have to
Speaker 4: put my I call my church, my temple clothes. They
Speaker 4: get those ready. You gotta get all nice and pretty
Speaker 4: and all that. So I get all that stuff ready.
Speaker 4: But I'm in scramble mote.
Speaker 1: I'm running around.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to do I mean a million different things,
Speaker 4: and I'm always fighting the clock. You're always fighting the
Speaker 4: f and clock, right, always going against the clock.
Speaker 1: So this past.
Speaker 4: Week on Wednesday, so I go in Wednesday to do
Speaker 4: the radio show Wednesday to Thursday. I then later on
Speaker 4: that Thursday morning, yesterday, I popped up on Fesco in
Speaker 4: the morning. Bob Fesco my morning guy, So I popped
Speaker 4: up with him. I then proceeded to stay in town
Speaker 4: in LA and I went over to Universal Studios hung
Speaker 4: out for many, many hours waiting to record the Week
Speaker 4: twelve of the NFL season. Benny versus the penny. Well,
Speaker 4: let's go back. So I get to the radio studio.
Speaker 4: I go to the very back the old Update studio,
Speaker 4: which is and then you walk in through the main courtyard.
Speaker 4: You walk down the hall. To your right is the
Speaker 4: Smurf kitchen. That's to your right when you first walk
Speaker 4: in the door. There's a medical cabinet. There's a Smurf
Speaker 4: that's on the right, and then on the left is
Speaker 4: the bathrooms. So then you walk past a couple of
Speaker 4: editing bays on each side. That's where the people that
Speaker 4: put the audio together for the news updates and all
Speaker 4: that stuff are there. So I walked past that. I
Speaker 4: then walk past the not the main street. The main
Speaker 4: studio is further up. There's the board ops studio where
Speaker 4: the engineer sits and the producer sitys. Then further up
Speaker 4: to the right is the old Steve Harvey rush Limbaugh Studio,
Speaker 4: which is my studio.
Speaker 1: But I keep going.
Speaker 4: I then I make a left turn, a left turn.
Speaker 4: I then make a quick right turn. I walked by
Speaker 4: the old Casey Kasum studio that is right where I
Speaker 4: almost killed Casey case Now he's dead now, but the
Speaker 4: great voiceover actor case Caseum and American Icon top twenty countdown.
Speaker 1: Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for
Speaker 1: the stares.
Speaker 4: I walk by that studio, think a Casey every time
Speaker 4: I walk by there. Walk by the Podcast studio. Now
Speaker 4: to my left is the old studio. But I don't
Speaker 4: want to go in the old FSR studio, which is
Speaker 4: still there. Colin Cowhart uses that studio, by the way,
Speaker 4: he uses that when he does radio only he has
Speaker 4: to use that studio, so they redid it to make
Speaker 4: it all pretty for Colin. So I walk down the hall,
Speaker 4: long haul, giant hall. I get to the end of
Speaker 4: that hall, there's a turn. I make a kind of
Speaker 4: a quick left. I go buy the Engineer Studio. Okay,
Speaker 4: we're the old Engineer Studio where legends like Art Martinez
Speaker 4: and Jake Warner. These are true legends of radio worked
Speaker 4: their craft, right Roberto, people like that. So I walk
Speaker 4: past that and then the very back right against the wall,
Speaker 4: there's a vending machine to the right. But I don't
Speaker 4: go to the right. What I do is I go
Speaker 4: to the left because to the left is the old
Speaker 4: Anchor Studio, which I started at years ago at FSR.
Speaker 4: That was the original studio that I was in. So
Speaker 4: I go in there and there's no one there in
Speaker 4: the very back of the building. I'm by myself, and
Speaker 4: I put my bag down.
Speaker 1: I get my.
Speaker 4: Little cup of tea to you know, my voice has
Speaker 4: been kind of messed up since I got sick.
Speaker 1: It's getting better.
Speaker 4: So I put everything down. I opened my computer, which
Speaker 4: is the key to all this. It's the thing that
Speaker 4: unlocks everything. It's a thing that just makes everything work.
Speaker 4: So I put my computer down and I turned you out.
Speaker 4: I restarted whatever, and I noticed. I said, wait a minute,
Speaker 4: you say, you know, the battery is getting pretty low.
Speaker 4: The battery is getting pretty low, about you know, twenty
Speaker 4: something percent. I better charge this bad boy. I got
Speaker 4: a long night ahead, and I got a TV show
Speaker 4: to do. I got a lot of stuff. I gotta
Speaker 4: be on my computer all night, with my notes, my
Speaker 4: my Bible, if you will.
Speaker 1: So I reach into my bag.
Speaker 4: I reached down to my My bag is on my left,
Speaker 4: my left hand side.
Speaker 1: Beeter's on in front of me, kind of to the right.
Speaker 4: So I reached out of my bag to grab the charger,
Speaker 4: and I grabbed the wrong charger. I grabbed the charger
Speaker 4: from my phone instead of for the computer. So I
Speaker 4: quickly tossed that aside. I put my hand back in
Speaker 4: the computer bag and I'm fusing around. I'm going through
Speaker 4: the computer bag and all that, doing my thing, and
Speaker 4: I feel some pens. I felt there was some other
Speaker 4: stuff that I had in there from my trip to
Speaker 4: Kansas City that I just kind of threw in there.
Speaker 4: So I'm like whatever, So and then I, well, I
Speaker 4: must have put you know what, I must have put
Speaker 4: the charger in the other because I have a big,
Speaker 4: like briefcase type computer bag that I love. It's my
Speaker 4: favorite bag. Take that everywhere. And so I was, all,
Speaker 4: it must be in the other pockets. I have a
Speaker 4: couple of pockets. So I opened the second pocket and
Speaker 4: I'm kind of going through that and I don't feel anything.
Speaker 4: I just feel some papers here, So that's not good.
Speaker 4: So there's only one other pocket left, so that's got
Speaker 4: to be it. That's where the charger. So I put
Speaker 4: my hand in that and I'm I'm moving my hand
Speaker 4: around and all that, and no bueno. Now this is
Speaker 4: the moment in the story where I start panicking. Okay,
Speaker 4: this is I don't know if you've had this happen
Speaker 4: to you. But I live very far from the radio studio,
Speaker 4: and I live pretty far from the TV studio, and
Speaker 4: based on my schedule and I have a very tight window,
Speaker 4: I still have much more do to get ready for
Speaker 4: the TV show. In terms of notes, I have the
Speaker 4: live radio show, which I cannot leave. You cannot leave
Speaker 4: a live radio show. That's a sin. So I can't
Speaker 4: leave the radio studio. I know that, And I know
Speaker 4: the computer is a little over twenty percent. It's not
Speaker 4: gonna last that long. And I'm like, I am completely porked.
Speaker 4: I am completely porked.
Speaker 1: So I'm freaking out, like what am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: I need this for the TV shows? I do?
Speaker 4: I turn it off right now and just you know,
Speaker 4: do whatever for the radio show. And he was one
Speaker 4: of the old nineteen seventies style computers they.
Speaker 1: Have in the studio.
Speaker 4: And so I called the wife to see if she
Speaker 4: had a charger, and she was looking around and we
Speaker 4: were going back and forth, and one of her friends
Speaker 4: at work came up with a bit of a solution,
Speaker 4: and it was like, if you plug in your C
Speaker 4: charger I think it's called, it's like a phone charger.
Speaker 1: The updated phone charger.
Speaker 4: You plugged that in, you should be somewhat okay, and
Speaker 4: she's kind of vague about it. So I plugged it
Speaker 4: in and it it said, this device is not charging.
Speaker 4: So my initial thought was, oh, crap, I mean it's
Speaker 4: not charging.
Speaker 1: I'm done. That's I mean, that's it's not charging.
Speaker 4: But it turned out what it did was it kept
Speaker 4: the battery where it was. It kind of maintained it
Speaker 4: mostly it still went down a little bit. But I
Speaker 4: consider this a TV miracle because I made it through
Speaker 4: four hours of overnight radio, made it through that, made
Speaker 4: it through a large gap where I was on the
Speaker 4: computer getting ready for the TV show, made it through
Speaker 4: the TV show, and made it all the way home,
Speaker 4: and it really is a TV miracle. It reminds me
Speaker 4: of the story of Hanukkah, the festival of Lights, and
Speaker 4: if you know anything about Hanukkah, even if you're not Jewish,
Speaker 4: you should know the story. Imagine this is the I
Speaker 4: love this. It came out a couple years This is
Speaker 4: the way to explain Hankah to somebody that doesn't know Hankah.
Speaker 4: Imagine if your cell phone was at ten percent but
Speaker 4: lasted eight days, that's the legendary magic supposedly of Honkah.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, my computer battery was a little over twenty.
Speaker 4: Percent when I got to FSRS, I said, and I
Speaker 4: was able to ride that thing out. And I promise
Speaker 4: you for the rest of benny versus the penny, and
Speaker 4: for the rest of time, every time I get ready
Speaker 4: to go into the studio, I am going to make
Speaker 4: sure I have that MF and charger. All right, I
Speaker 4: am going to make sure I have that charger. No
Speaker 4: matter what come, hell or high water, I am going
Speaker 4: to have that charger. So I dodged one would have
Speaker 4: been very awkward. I would have still been able to
Speaker 4: pull it off, but the degree of difficulty would have
Speaker 4: been much higher had I not had that charger. But
Speaker 4: fortunately crisis averted. So I do want to thank the
Speaker 4: wife for her advice. And it kind of worked, but
Speaker 4: it did go down a little bit, and there was
Speaker 4: a moment where it was down like, you know, like
Speaker 4: less than than twelve percent, and I was like, oh boy,
Speaker 4: this is this thing's going to die on me.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna do. Then I have
Speaker 1: intermittent chest pain and I shortness to breath.
Speaker 3: And pain in my left arm and my left shoulder.
Speaker 4: And I'll say, oh, I say, make sure this guy
Speaker 4: gets some some medical attention.
Speaker 1: Coop.
Speaker 4: Now the three man booth. I want to go back
Speaker 4: to Monday. Monday Monday, I get the call out of
Speaker 4: the bullpen to fill in at AM five seventy Great
Speaker 4: Am five seventy, the flagship.
Speaker 1: Of Dodger Baseball. How about the Dodgers in LA.
Speaker 4: That's our home in Los Angeles, part of the iHeart family.
Speaker 4: And I was called in. Fred Rogan, who host the
Speaker 4: midday show, was not available, so they said, hey, how
Speaker 4: would you like to work with Rodney Pete on the
Speaker 4: Rogan and Rodney Show? And I thought about it, and
Speaker 4: I said, you know what, I haven't done this show
Speaker 4: in a while. I did it during the summer. I
Speaker 4: got an extra day. Why not, I'll do it, And
Speaker 4: so I did it. There I was working with Rodney Pete,
Speaker 4: who was a legendary college football player. Was the pack
Speaker 4: Old Pack ten Offensive Player of the Year back in
Speaker 4: the late nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1: He was a rival with Troy Aikman.
Speaker 4: They were going back and forth back and forth when
Speaker 4: they were at SC.
Speaker 1: He was at SC.
Speaker 4: Rodney Pete and Troy Aikman was at UCLA. He's a
Speaker 4: USC Hall of Famer, and he played in the NFL
Speaker 4: with the Detroit Lions, the Cowboys, the Redskins, the Raiders,
Speaker 4: the Panthers. He bounced bounced around the NFL in the nineties,
Speaker 4: mostly with the Lions.
Speaker 1: I remember him with the Lions.
Speaker 4: But he also played with Philadelphia and Washington Oakland in
Speaker 4: Carolina and played along. I played one hundred started, started
Speaker 4: eighty seven games. Rodney pet in the NFL played one
Speaker 4: hundred and four games. I was on the radio show
Speaker 4: with him, and then it was Monday, so we found
Speaker 4: out it was a three man booth. Three man booth,
Speaker 4: third man in, third man in. This is where it
Speaker 4: gets pretty pretty wild. So as you know, I assume,
Speaker 4: can I guess? I can't assume. You know, growing up,
Speaker 4: I was a fan of the Lams as a child.
Speaker 4: The team of my youth is Tomloney likes to say,
Speaker 4: loved loved the Rams. And one of the reasons I
Speaker 4: loved the Rams when I was a little kid was
Speaker 4: because of a certain running back who was number twenty
Speaker 4: nine in your program, but number one in my heart
Speaker 4: from Sealy, Texas SMU Eric Dickerson he's our running back.
Speaker 4: So Eric Dickerson does a lot of work for the
Speaker 4: local station AM five seventy and he was the third
Speaker 4: man in the third man in breaking down the Rams
Speaker 4: game and the Chargers game in the NFL in general
Speaker 4: from the day before.
Speaker 1: So this is one of those moments where you're like, well,
Speaker 1: is this really happening? Now?
Speaker 4: I'm all bit and jaded and grown up. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm a middle aged man now. I guess maybe past
Speaker 4: middle ages. I don't even know when it is middle aged.
Speaker 4: You don't know when you're going to die, so you
Speaker 4: don't know in middle ages. So whatever, I'm living my life.
Speaker 4: But still, when I heard that Eric Dickerson was going
Speaker 4: to be on one of my my saddest moments as
Speaker 4: a sports fan as a child was when the Rams
Speaker 4: traded Eric Dickerson in the late nineteen eighties to the
Speaker 4: Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 1: I was absolutely devastated. You can't do that. What is
Speaker 1: wrong with you? I mean, what's a shame on you?
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
Speaker 4: But it was nineteen eighty seven. I was a kid
Speaker 4: and Dickerson, I think I played a couple games with
Speaker 4: the Rams. There was that strike that Fuges strike season
Speaker 4: in nineteen eighty seven, and Dickerson was traded to the
Speaker 4: Indianapolis Colts. It was one of the largest trades in
Speaker 4: the history of the NFL, and I think still to
Speaker 4: this day it is a historically massive trade. But Eric
Speaker 4: Dickerson was great to work with. It was very nice
Speaker 4: and I don't know that he know knew my backstory.
Speaker 4: But that's the guy that still has the record most
Speaker 4: rushing yards in a single season in NFL history, two
Speaker 4: one hundred five yards. You talking about unbreakable records, even
Speaker 4: with an extra game. Most rushing yards in a season
Speaker 4: by a rookies got that record. Most rushing yards in
Speaker 4: a playoff game. Eric Dickerson put up two hundred and
Speaker 4: forty eight yards in a playoff game. He's a College
Speaker 4: Football Hall of Famer, He's a Pro Football Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4: And more importantly, he is now on my list of
Speaker 4: co hosts that I've done radio with. And it gets
Speaker 4: even more wacky. Eric Dickerson pointed out that he loved
Speaker 4: the hat that I was wearing as we did the show.
Speaker 4: I had my white and blue Brooklyn Dodgers hat where
Speaker 4: it's got the white background and the blue Bee just pops.
Speaker 4: It just absolutely pops. And Dickerson said he liked that. Hey,
Speaker 4: he wanted to get one of those hats. So this
Speaker 4: is very reminiscent. I know Alf and Bergdog will back
Speaker 4: me up on this of when I ran into the
Speaker 4: Great Steve Harvey, another one of my heroes, the Great
Speaker 4: Steve Harvey, game show host, Steve Harvey, America's game show host,
Speaker 4: in the parking lot at the a Heart Media building,
Speaker 4: the Premier Networks building, and he was walking in with
Speaker 4: his security guard and he pointed out the color of
Speaker 4: my car and said, I like that color.
Speaker 1: I liked that color of the automobile.
Speaker 4: And just like that, a bond was made, an absolute
Speaker 4: bond was made, for sure, for sure. Oh, let's have
Speaker 4: some foody fund we'll push back. I don't have too
Speaker 4: much time left, so I want to get some foody fun.
Speaker 4: And though it is Thanksgiving next week and KFC has
Speaker 4: announced they have Cajun deep fried turkey available now this
Speaker 4: is I believe only in California and in Washington State.
Speaker 4: Has KFC's jealous of Popeyes for a little while. Anyway,
Speaker 4: Popeyes has the Cajun Turkey, which is their version and
Speaker 4: KFC's turkey is fully cooked, heat and serve option. It's
Speaker 4: priced at eighty dollars. It is not available for online
Speaker 4: orders or delivery. It's only available for pickup. They have
Speaker 4: a turkey which can be purchased as part of a
Speaker 4: holiday meal for one hundred and ten dollars or a
Speaker 4: holiday feast for one hundred and twenty dollars. In it
Speaker 4: includes the turkey, the mashed potatoes, the family style gravy,
Speaker 4: the biscuits, the whole thing. That's all part of the
Speaker 4: package there at KFC. Now the Popeyes, which I have
Speaker 4: not had, but I'm not gonna lie. I'm considering the
Speaker 4: Popeyes option. I'm considering the Popeyes option. The Cajun style
Speaker 4: turkey's online available. Turkey's eleven to thirteen pounds on average.
Speaker 4: It's rubbed and infused with the signature Louisiana style seasonings
Speaker 4: for a zesty, bold flavor. And they say it serves
Speaker 4: eight to twelve people. That's what they claim, And that's
Speaker 4: one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: And I've never.
Speaker 4: Cooked the turkey. I've done a lot of other things
Speaker 4: having cooked the turkey. We are actually hosting the Thanksgiving
Speaker 4: for the family. We're at the point now where all
Speaker 4: the old relatives have died and now we're up, you know,
Speaker 4: until we die, and then we got to pass the
Speaker 4: baton to somebody else. So and that's with my wife's family.
Speaker 4: There will be over, I like one cousin that will
Speaker 4: come over. And that's about it.
Speaker 1: McDonald celebrating the return of.
Speaker 4: The McRib with a whole lot of mcrib's sauce jugs.
Speaker 4: Because if there's one thing you need in your life,
Speaker 4: it is a giant container of McRib sauce. It's available
Speaker 4: for nineteen ninety nine online and sales actually begin in
Speaker 4: a few days, so it's not available. You want to
Speaker 4: bet this sells out right away the website. I'll give
Speaker 4: it to you right now. Write this down whole Lata
Speaker 4: mcribsauce dot com h w h O l E Latta
Speaker 4: mcribsauce dot com begins on November twenty fifth, ten am.
Speaker 1: Wall supplies last.
Speaker 4: And so the sandwich they're available accessible limited time McDonald's app.
Speaker 4: Should you miss miss out on the release, the McDonald's
Speaker 4: mcgrib sandwich still available through December third, so they say,
Speaker 4: so get a bunch of that McRib sauce going to
Speaker 4: the bathtub and just bathe in mccrib sauce.
Speaker 1: How fun would that be? You nasty person? You? How
Speaker 1: dare you?
Speaker 4: Del Taco, which is not all over the country's in
Speaker 4: the West. Mostly Del Taco is long new Chipotle carne
Speaker 4: asada steak burrito, and that's you know that sounds fine?
Speaker 4: I guess I mean, I'm I'm not anti Del talker.
Speaker 4: I like Del Taco, not that I eat it anymore,
Speaker 4: but I enjoy it. I used to eat it more.
Speaker 1: Than Taco Bell back in the day.
Speaker 4: Pizza It has released a new limited edition tomato wine
Speaker 4: alongside the return of the Triple Treat box. So these
Speaker 4: fast food restaurants over the years have figured out and
Speaker 4: I blame KFC for this. They were the ones that
Speaker 4: really benefited. They found out how to make these quick
Speaker 4: money grabs, like McDonald's with the McRib pizza. U it's
Speaker 4: got the tomato wine. It's brilliant, right, It's absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 4: You limited edition product, feign scarcity and you just knock
Speaker 4: it out of the park. You just absolutely knock it
Speaker 4: out of the park. I will get out on that.
Speaker 4: Don't forget full weekend of pods. Danny g will be
Speaker 4: with me back. He's producing this podcast, but he'll be
Speaker 4: back with me tomorrow tomorrow as he travels the land
Speaker 4: around to North.
Speaker 1: America with FSR.
Speaker 4: So we'll have Danny on the Saturday and Sunday pod
Speaker 4: and I'll be right back here. Don't forget Benny Versus
Speaker 4: the Penny all over the place.
Speaker 1: Check that out.
Speaker 4: You can watch Benny Versus the Penny available everywhere, unless
Speaker 4: it's not well. It is available in most places. Check
Speaker 4: that out on peacock where is where it is available everywhere,
Speaker 4: just have to pay for it. Have a wonderful rest
Speaker 4: of your Friday, Friday Friday, and we will catch you,
Speaker 4: hopefully tomorrow, but we'll catch.
Speaker 1: You next time.
Speaker 4: And as Danny G would say, later skater, I think
Speaker 4: I got that right right, And now what you say
Speaker 4: later skater?
Speaker 1: And then congratulations, all right, got a murder. I gotta
Speaker 1: go