WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: The TV Miracle 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.360 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:35.000 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.239 Mahler and Danny g But you already knew that as 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:43.720 we slide into a Friday, the twenty second day of November, kicking. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:49.080 Off the last weekend before Thanksgiving twenty twenty four, and 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.080 we got to covered all weekend long. I wanted to 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.520 start by thanking you some gratitude, which I don't do 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:56.360 a lot of. But last week we were able to 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.400 have Eddie on the podcast, and we were wondering how 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.400 was that gonna do? And it was an awkward situation 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.199 because of everything that had happened. But Eddie was great 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:06.920 to come on and hang out with us, and you 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:13.080 guys overwhelmed us in downloads. So I appreciate that Eddie 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.520 is truly missed on this show, and that manifested itself 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.560 on the number of people that went out of their 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.480 way to listen to the podcast last week. So I 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:30.039 thank you for that showing the company which does keep 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:34.319 track of these numbers, just how many people love Eddie 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.560 and it's a wonderful thing. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:37.280 It's a great thing. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.520 And what that leads to I don't know, but it's 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.200 it's not a bad thing. It's not a bad thing anyway, 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.800 just lights it. But today's the twenty second day of November. 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.600 Now we'd like to do the dopey holiday thing. We 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.120 didn't do that last week, but we'll get back to 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.880 the dopey holiday thing. Today is a special day for 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.720 me because I relate to this. It is love your 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.000 Freckles Day, no if you have freckles or not. I 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.280 was given the blessing or the curse of freckles. And 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.320 this is one of those things that has changed in 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.160 my lifetime. When I was a kid, the freckle thing 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:12.239 was looked down upon. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.520 Yeah, you're like, oh, you got freckles. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.120 But somehow, now that I'm an adult, I didn't benefit 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:23.200 this from this when I was a kid, but now 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.960 freckles are considered like trendy and kind of cool, and 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.160 there's like people that go out of their way that 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.560 there's some plastic surgeon type people that put fake freckles 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.720 on it. It's it's bananas banana because when I was 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.239 a kid, Oh you got freckles. Oh it's rub skin, 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.720 you got freckles. What's going But now it's like it's 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.679 totally different. Anyway, it's a national Love your Freckles Day, 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.000 And in honor of this being that very special day, 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.400 I thought we would flash back into the hot tub 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.880 time machine with some fun facts, I know, fun facts, 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:00.880 fun facts on those little small brownish spots of of 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:05.560 your skin that are usually red usually read sometimes it's gonna, 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:09.079 you know, sandy, if you've got kind of a sandy 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.440 hair situation, they pop up as red there. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.120 So it is a variant. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.520 They claim, whoever they are the science community, that freckles 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:26.080 started to emerge in the human genotype when people started 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:26.880 leaving Africa. 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.720 It's a long time ago. That is a long, long, 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:31.919 long time ago. 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.160 As you might imagine, freckles occur in people with the 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.360 hair all over the world. It's not just one part 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.400 of the world. There at one point was a belief, well, 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.200 you've have freckles. You come from this part of the world. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.720 But it's not true. It's not true at all. There's 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:49.119 different mutations of freckles. How exciting is that dot dot 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.920 dot dot dot. That's a freckles. You have fair redheads. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:59.880 Variations you have. There are freckles in China, Japan, Frame, 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:06.360 you know, France, the Mediterranean, Israel, and certain African ethnic 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.320 groups all have have freckles. Now, as far as the 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.000 word origin, the word origin, know, we love word origins. 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.159 The word freckle was first used in the fourteenth century 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.239 and it came out of the Middle English word frecin 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:27.240 fr e k e n, which we believe, based on 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.640 those that study this kind of stuff, came from Scandinavian origin. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.120 That's at least according to the actual dictionary. But you know, 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.560 we're simple people here, we're simple people. So the basic 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:46.760 terminology freckle can stand for two distinct germatologic entities that 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:47.720 are part of the body. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.760 We don't know all that, who cares about that, but the. 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:55.640 National freckle this if you have freckles, celebrate your freckles, 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.840 enjoy your freckles. On this podcast, we have the extra spice, 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.640 the TV Miracle, three man booth, and we got a 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.080 bunch of other stuff, might even have the word of 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.479 the day, but we'll start with the extra spice. Week 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.960 twelve Benny Versus the Penny. It started airing last night 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.640 around the country. We had a few of our affiliates 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.800 that started carrying the show last night on Thursday night. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.760 But today is Friday, so this is the main event. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.320 The maiden voyage of Week twelve of Benny Versus the 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.880 Penny will pop up on a television near you, including 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.800 our flagship NBC Sports Boston. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.640 We'll be on later today, so enjoy that. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.320 Also a bunch of showings in San Francisco, Philadelphia, all 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:39.960 over the place. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:41.240 And I don't even know. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.760 I ran into some listeners in Kansas City and a 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.320 couple of people, Oh yeah, I watch the show every week, 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:46.360 and I didn't know we were. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:46.920 On in Kansas City. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.120 You say, oh, yeah, you're you're on one of the 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.240 channels here on the cable, local cable. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:52.919 And I had no idea. I had idea. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.880 I know we're on the the NBC owned and operated 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.880 or partnered cable channels, but I did not know we 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:00.919 were on a bunch of other ones. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:02.280 So that's pretty cool. 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.760 And I promote certain channels that have the TV show 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:10.800 this week a little bit of an extra spice this week, 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.360 and that means if you are a supporter of the 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.719 radio show, which I'm gonna go ninety nine point nine percent, 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.400 you are, because I don't know anyone that just listens 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.960 to this podcast and doesn't listen to the radio show. 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.880 You know why, that's right, d NA ning. This is 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.880 a companion pod, a campaign. It's as snug as a 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.440 bug in a rug. When you listen to this podcast, 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.400 it is part of the Overnight Show. It's part of 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.279 the Overnight Show. Everything's related here, everything's connected, and so 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.400 that's why almost everyone that listens to this podcast is 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:47.200 a radio listen, whether you listen to the podcast version 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:48.000 of the radio show or not. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:48.920 So that's why. 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:50.760 But if you watch all the way to the end 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.520 with Vinny the producer, I was able to put in 0:06:53.600 --> 0:07:00.320 some stuff that will resonate with the consumer of audio 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.880 content here, so I want you to check that out. 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:08.520 And a little extra spice at the end. Looney wore 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:13.440 something this week that is very unlike Looney. You'll see 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.120 it unless you're blind. You won't see it, but it's 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:21.240 something that the Smurfs would be proud of. Like if 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.240 the Smurfs went to war, if there was like a 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.080 World War three with the Smurfs and they were trying 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.680 to hide from other Smurfs, they would wear what Looney 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.000 was wearing on the TV show and they would be 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.280 very happy with that. So I'm doing a little bit 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:37.560 better as far as the picks. I don't want to 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.800 give it all away, you know, SPT no spoilers and 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:41.440 all that. I want you to actually watch the TV 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.000 show otherwise what's the point. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:44.200 It will be on Peacock. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.600 So if you don't have cable television, by the way, 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.000 I don't have cable television, I don't. I have Peacock though, 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.200 and you can watch Benny Versus the Penny all over 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:56.280 lace nationally streaming. 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:57.640 Now, remember the thing about the show. 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.360 The want to describe this the it's not a glitch, 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.840 the unique thing that sounds better, right, doesn't that sound better? 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:07.480 Unique? 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.040 The unique thing about the show is once the NFL 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.800 kicks off on Sunday, that's it, right, that's you know, 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:19.120 that's a problem time, right, NFL Sunday, So you really 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.640 have to watch the show by one o'clock Eastern on Sunday. 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.000 Now it is still available on Peacock after that. Some 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.640 people do like to go back and watch old episodes 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:32.679 of the show to see how terrible the handicapping advice was. 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.080 I do not recommend that. I do not recommend that you. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.520 Want to be part of the show when it's going 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.960 into the NFL weekend, but hey, we get credit. Whether 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.560 you watch it before or after, it doesn't really matter 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.840 as long as you watch it. So check that out 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:49.880 and make sure to watch all the way to the end. 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.000 It reminds me of when I was a kid and 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.800 my mom and dad I was on a family vacation. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.679 I've told the story, you know, years ago. So we 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.760 were on a road trip and we went to and 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:05.400 Pterson's Pea Soup, which is a hotel kind of roadside 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:11.320 attraction type thing, diner, restaurant, hotel, and there a bunch 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:12.960 of them in California used to be. I think they're 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.680 pretty much all gone now, one or two left. So 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.520 I remember as a kid we went there. My Mom's like, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.760 oh yes, listen, little Benny, if you eat that bowl 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:28.040 Benji of the soup, the pea Soup there's going to 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.600 be a surprise at the bottom of that bowl. And 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:35.000 the way my mom presented this, I was convinced that 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:39.240 I was going to get like my favorite toy at 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.760 the bottom of the bowl. The way my mom had 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:46.679 described it, so like the sucker I am. I slurped 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.560 up the pea soup, which I don't even like. My 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.800 mom gave me some crackers. She said that'll help a 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.319 little bit. It did, So I ate the pea soup 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.800 and I get to the bottom and all they have 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:02.160 is this little stupid drawing of the characters from from 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:02.760 the restaurant. 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.120 I was like, I was so pissed. I got oh man, I. 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.760 Got absolutely horn swoggled bye bye, Ma Ma. But this 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:10.480 is a little better than that. You know, if you're 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.560 truly a p one from the radio show, I believe 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.640 you will appreciate what happened here at the end of 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.880 the TV show. In the we call it the C block, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.040 got the eight block to B block to the C block. 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.720 This was the C block at the very end. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:29.360 Now, this also relates to the television show, and it 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:34.320 is the I call it the TV miracle, the TV Miracle. 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.160 We'll come up to the holidays we got Thanksgiving. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.240 This coming week, and then before you know, it's going 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.040 to be Christmas and Hanukkah. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:43.360 And all that. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.440 And if you're a Jehovah's witness, just have a good day. 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:48.360 Just have a good day, as we'd like to say. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.160 But one of the great stories, and you know, all 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.719 these stories about holidays and religion, you wonder how much 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.439 of it is true, how much of it is embellished? 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.480 You don't really know. You just go with it. Why not? 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.400 You shouldn't fight it. You just go with it. You know. 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:02.280 It's all that. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:07.760 So the famous story the TV miracle relates to a 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.840 story from Hanukkah, which I'm going to explain in a minute. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.760 But as Paul Harvey used to say in his day, 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.080 you know what the news is, and in a minute 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.280 you're about to get the rest of the story. So 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.800 I'm in scramble mode during the week, man, it is. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.240 You know, these are first world problems. I've got a 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.959 great job, I've got a great life. I'm very lucky 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.400 that I have these jobs. These jobs will not last forever. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.280 I am enjoying these jobs because I know at some 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.480 point I won't have these jobs anymore. So I i 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.959 put extra work in to make sure I keep them 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.520 as long as I can, And there's a lot of 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.280 juggling going on with the radio show. That takes a 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.000 long time to get the monologues ready and to get 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.959 everything the way I want it. My proprietary blend which 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.080 some of you hate and o those of you like. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.760 But I put the work in. That's always been my mantra. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:04.800 I learned from Lee Hacksaw Hambleton. I loved from my 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.360 mom some of the people that were mentors of mine 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.200 to put the work ethic in, So that's been instilled 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:15.240 in me. And then the TV show around the radio show, 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:16.880 because I don't want to take away from the radio show. 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.760 So I'm putting the work in after the radio show 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.439 on Monday morning and Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning, and 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.720 then also sometimes before the show get when we call 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.280 it putting the show to bed. When I've done all 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.160 the prep for the show, I've got everything ready to go. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.760 I will then start flutzing around more with the handicap. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:36.920 Not that it's really worked out that well for me. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.400 Maybe I should just not handicap at all, but I do. 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.720 I do because that's what NBC's paying me. For so 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.120 I do my work, I do my due dialergies. So 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:46.559 I'm going to rush. You know, I got to get 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.440 my clothes for the TV show. Even though it looks 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.839 like I wear the same two things every week, I 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.280 believe it or not, I actually shower, shave. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.480 I put colone on. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.120 I mean, there's all kinds of things I have to 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.600 put my I call my church, my temple clothes. They 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.559 get those ready. You gotta get all nice and pretty 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.480 and all that. So I get all that stuff ready. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:09.040 But I'm in scramble mote. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:10.080 I'm running around. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:11.839 I'm trying to do I mean a million different things, 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.240 and I'm always fighting the clock. You're always fighting the 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.480 f and clock, right, always going against the clock. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:19.880 So this past. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.679 Week on Wednesday, so I go in Wednesday to do 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.800 the radio show Wednesday to Thursday. I then later on 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.880 that Thursday morning, yesterday, I popped up on Fesco in 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.600 the morning. Bob Fesco my morning guy, So I popped 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:43.280 up with him. I then proceeded to stay in town 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:47.040 in LA and I went over to Universal Studios hung 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:51.280 out for many, many hours waiting to record the Week 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:56.280 twelve of the NFL season. Benny versus the penny. Well, 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.959 let's go back. So I get to the radio studio. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.800 I go to the very back the old Update studio, 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.640 which is and then you walk in through the main courtyard. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.360 You walk down the hall. To your right is the 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.360 Smurf kitchen. That's to your right when you first walk 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.720 in the door. There's a medical cabinet. There's a Smurf 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:16.600 that's on the right, and then on the left is 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.960 the bathrooms. So then you walk past a couple of 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.800 editing bays on each side. That's where the people that 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.840 put the audio together for the news updates and all 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.760 that stuff are there. So I walked past that. I 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.760 then walk past the not the main street. The main 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.040 studio is further up. There's the board ops studio where 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.840 the engineer sits and the producer sitys. Then further up 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.160 to the right is the old Steve Harvey rush Limbaugh Studio, 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:43.080 which is my studio. 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:44.440 But I keep going. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:49.320 I then I make a left turn, a left turn. 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.080 I then make a quick right turn. I walked by 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.080 the old Casey Kasum studio that is right where I 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.480 almost killed Casey case Now he's dead now, but the 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:04.080 great voiceover actor case Caseum and American Icon top twenty countdown. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.080 Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:07.760 the stares. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.280 I walk by that studio, think a Casey every time 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:15.000 I walk by there. Walk by the Podcast studio. Now 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.280 to my left is the old studio. But I don't 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.400 want to go in the old FSR studio, which is 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.400 still there. Colin Cowhart uses that studio, by the way, 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.520 he uses that when he does radio only he has 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.720 to use that studio, so they redid it to make 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.880 it all pretty for Colin. So I walk down the hall, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.320 long haul, giant hall. I get to the end of 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.040 that hall, there's a turn. I make a kind of 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:42.400 a quick left. I go buy the Engineer Studio. Okay, 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.240 we're the old Engineer Studio where legends like Art Martinez 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.600 and Jake Warner. These are true legends of radio worked 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.320 their craft, right Roberto, people like that. So I walk 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.800 past that and then the very back right against the wall, 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.040 there's a vending machine to the right. But I don't 0:15:58.080 --> 0:15:59.840 go to the right. What I do is I go 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.040 to the left because to the left is the old 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.480 Anchor Studio, which I started at years ago at FSR. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.600 That was the original studio that I was in. So 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.480 I go in there and there's no one there in 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.360 the very back of the building. I'm by myself, and 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:14.880 I put my bag down. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:15.440 I get my. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.240 Little cup of tea to you know, my voice has 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:18.680 been kind of messed up since I got sick. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:19.480 It's getting better. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.320 So I put everything down. I opened my computer, which 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.520 is the key to all this. It's the thing that 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.560 unlocks everything. It's a thing that just makes everything work. 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.920 So I put my computer down and I turned you out. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.800 I restarted whatever, and I noticed. I said, wait a minute, 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:38.920 you say, you know, the battery is getting pretty low. 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.520 The battery is getting pretty low, about you know, twenty 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.320 something percent. I better charge this bad boy. I got 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.120 a long night ahead, and I got a TV show 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:47.800 to do. I got a lot of stuff. I gotta 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.280 be on my computer all night, with my notes, my 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:52.440 my Bible, if you will. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.000 So I reach into my bag. 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.840 I reached down to my My bag is on my left, 0:16:58.000 --> 0:16:59.040 my left hand side. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.160 Beeter's on in front of me, kind of to the right. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.720 So I reached out of my bag to grab the charger, 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:09.000 and I grabbed the wrong charger. I grabbed the charger 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.560 from my phone instead of for the computer. So I 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.199 quickly tossed that aside. I put my hand back in 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:20.120 the computer bag and I'm fusing around. I'm going through 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.720 the computer bag and all that, doing my thing, and 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.840 I feel some pens. I felt there was some other 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.840 stuff that I had in there from my trip to 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:31.920 Kansas City that I just kind of threw in there. 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.320 So I'm like whatever, So and then I, well, I 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:36.720 must have put you know what, I must have put 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.560 the charger in the other because I have a big, 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.240 like briefcase type computer bag that I love. It's my 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:46.159 favorite bag. Take that everywhere. And so I was, all, 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:47.560 it must be in the other pockets. I have a 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.080 couple of pockets. So I opened the second pocket and 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.200 I'm kind of going through that and I don't feel anything. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.040 I just feel some papers here, So that's not good. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.440 So there's only one other pocket left, so that's got 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.760 to be it. That's where the charger. So I put 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:02.800 my hand in that and I'm I'm moving my hand 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:07.480 around and all that, and no bueno. Now this is 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.919 the moment in the story where I start panicking. Okay, 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:13.480 this is I don't know if you've had this happen 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.680 to you. But I live very far from the radio studio, 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:20.199 and I live pretty far from the TV studio, and 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:24.520 based on my schedule and I have a very tight window, 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:26.960 I still have much more do to get ready for 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.639 the TV show. In terms of notes, I have the 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.920 live radio show, which I cannot leave. You cannot leave 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.520 a live radio show. That's a sin. So I can't 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:40.359 leave the radio studio. I know that, And I know 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.720 the computer is a little over twenty percent. It's not 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:48.600 gonna last that long. And I'm like, I am completely porked. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:53.359 I am completely porked. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:54.919 So I'm freaking out, like what am I gonna do? 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:56.600 I need this for the TV shows? I do? 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.040 I turn it off right now and just you know, 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.479 do whatever for the radio show. And he was one 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.400 of the old nineteen seventies style computers they. 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:05.640 Have in the studio. 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.720 And so I called the wife to see if she 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:10.760 had a charger, and she was looking around and we 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.399 were going back and forth, and one of her friends 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.680 at work came up with a bit of a solution, 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.840 and it was like, if you plug in your C 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.639 charger I think it's called, it's like a phone charger. 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:26.720 The updated phone charger. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:32.280 You plugged that in, you should be somewhat okay, and 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.679 she's kind of vague about it. So I plugged it 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.800 in and it it said, this device is not charging. 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.240 So my initial thought was, oh, crap, I mean it's 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:41.760 not charging. 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.480 I'm done. That's I mean, that's it's not charging. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.000 But it turned out what it did was it kept 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.720 the battery where it was. It kind of maintained it 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:55.679 mostly it still went down a little bit. But I 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.480 consider this a TV miracle because I made it through 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:05.560 four hours of overnight radio, made it through that, made 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:09.600 it through a large gap where I was on the 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:13.120 computer getting ready for the TV show, made it through 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.720 the TV show, and made it all the way home, 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.680 and it really is a TV miracle. It reminds me 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.879 of the story of Hanukkah, the festival of Lights, and 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:26.480 if you know anything about Hanukkah, even if you're not Jewish, 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.840 you should know the story. Imagine this is the I 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:31.240 love this. It came out a couple years This is 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:33.600 the way to explain Hankah to somebody that doesn't know Hankah. 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:37.399 Imagine if your cell phone was at ten percent but 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:42.600