WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Under the Hot Lights 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 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 fastion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.439 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.440 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:37.160 In the air everywhey as we are bloviating the weekend away. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:41.640 It's the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor and Danny g 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:46.120 Radio because four hours a night are not enough eight 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:51.960 days a week. And Danny, this is our final Friday 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:56.960 in September podcast. Here the twenty ninth day of the 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:01.520 great month of September. We are alive and well, I 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:03.040 think right alive and well. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:07.360 Yes, I can't believe how fast the month of September 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.920 went by. It felt like the Packers getting blown out 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:12.800 in the first quarter. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.040 Yeah, well, my favorite part of the Packer game last night. 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.240 There's several favorite parts, but did you happen to see 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.959 who led the Green Bay Packers out to the field 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:33.280 like General Custer? This is It's hilarious. Little Wayne. Little 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.400 Wayne led the Packers on the field to fall behind 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:38.920 twenty seven to three. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:41.880 Sports guy from Undisputed right. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.000 Think, I think that's it. Yeah, that's the ticket. That 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.480 is the ticket. But yeah, al michaels a lot of 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.480 filler time, a lot of filler time in the second 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:58.440 half of that game. So on this the Friday Podcast, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:02.400 as we have just proven we're actually doing it on Friday, 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.320 we're not. This is not some kind of deception or 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.040 mind act unless we just happen to get it right. 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.320 Maybe we just guessed and got it right. And I 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.440 also guessed Danny that I'm on Saint Brown. Pierre Sayt 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.639 was it? I'm on Saint Brown, right, Pierre st or 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:22.000 I'm on Sire whatever. The first time he did the 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:26.079 lambell lead for the Lions and somebody poured beer on him. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.120 So he got squirted. It looked like a stream of pe. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.400 Yeah, yeah, it wasn't a full And the way I 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.239 look at it, if you're gonna pour beer on someone, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.560 that's an expensive item. But if you go into the crowd, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.680 that's the fans domain. That's the fans domain there. And 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.600 if a fan goes on the field and then you 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.600 happen to get tackled. That's the player of domain. So 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:48.160 that's that's the way I look at it. So on 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:52.080 this Friday podcast, we have give me liberty, or give 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:58.200 me malor the tech rain delay the word we can. 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.200 If we have time, we'll get to some other up. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.359 But I think that's probably all. We'll have time for it. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.840 But you never know, right, Danny Niver was the magic 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:10.640 of the podcast. We're not bound by the guard rails 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:12.120 of terrestrial radio. 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.600 It's like a porta potty audio version. There's always flow over. 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.880 Yeah, it's like you know, you gotta clean around the 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.120 toilet because there's you know, a little little stuff there anyway, 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.840 all right, So interesting opportunity came up this we can 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.360 talk about things behind the scenes here. We do the 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.840 life of mal or the Life of Danny g on 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.440 Saturday Tomorrow's podcast, but today being Friday, So I had 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.800 an interesting thing that popped up. Now. I don't know 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.120 if this ever happened to you, But months ago I 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.560 agreed to do something and I completely forgot about it. 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.240 Have you ever done that? Have you agreed to do 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.720 something and then when the time comes, it was so 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:57.600 far out in the future that you forgot or you 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.600 know what I'm saying. And so this happened, and I 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:03.520 had agreed. I had gotten a call from an old 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.960 friend of mine who used to work at Fox Sports Radio, 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.200 and he's like, hey, you know, I want you to speak. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.360 I'm you know, I'm a professor, and I want you 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:16.400 to speak about your career and broadcast. And I always 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.320 love I always love these chances. I don't get to 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.400 do this very often. You know, most people don't ask 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.599 me to do anything. But this guy he asked me. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.240 And he called me up maybe three four or five 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.680 months ago, it's a long time ago, and he said, hey, 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.120 can you do it? I said, yoh, you know, that's 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.400 way in advance. I don't normally. I don't normally book 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.880 things way in advance. And he said, I really need 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.799 you to do it, and I want you to. I say, okay, 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:44.000 I'll do it. So this is way before I got 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.600 the television deal with NBC, so I didn't have that 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:52.200 on my plate. But I go by the code of 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.000 the West, and part of the code of the West 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.160 is when you make a promise, you got to keep it. Yeah, 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.920 that that's just the way it works. Deal is it 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:06.600 deal so earlier this week, I changed my entire schedule around. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:12.520 I really messed with my bodyclock. I went to bed 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.080 at a time I normally don't go to bed. I 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.680 woke up at a time I'm normally sleeping, had the 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.760 early wake up call. I got out of bed, I 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.159 put some clothes on. I walked down. I put the 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.520 water in my face. I walked out of the room, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.039 down the hall. I made a turn. I went down 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.760 another hall. I then turned. I could have gotten right 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:38.119 or left. I went facing forward. I went to my right. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:43.800 Then I went into to the studio and it was light, 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:50.200 camera action and Danny, I can now reveal the rest 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:55.080 of the story. Give me Liberty or give me Mallard. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:06:01.240 I was the keynote speaker at a broadcast class for 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:09.400 Liberty University about broad radio, broadcasting and podcasting and all 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:15.200 forms of media. I spoke for about forty five minutes 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:15.479 or so. 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.039 That's in Florida, right two Live crew always used to 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:20.560 rap about Liberty. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:25.440 Well very close or Lynchburg, Virginia. You know, so yeah, yeah, 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.200 so do you know? I wonder if you know this guy? 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.200 Do you know Steve Stillwell? Do you remember the name 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.840 Steve Stillwell, I do. Yeah, he worked at our place. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.400 So Steve Stillwell was one of our engineers and stuff, 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.920 and he left Fox Sports Radio years ago. And his 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:46.280 wife got a great job as a college not just professor. 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.080 I think she's like higher than that. I don't know 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:54.560 the hierarchy in academia, administrate or there you go. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.880 so she got a great job and you're set for 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.920 life and all that. Anyway, it was our friend Steve. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:04.000 We've went with her, and he's the sugar you know, sugar. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:05.320 She's the sugar. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.920 Mama and he's the sugar baby. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.480 Yeah, sugar baby. But he ended up getting a job 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.480 here at Liberty University, and so he reached out to 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.000 me to do it, and so, uh so I spoke 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.800 for like forty five minutes. These people, these kids had 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.560 no idea who I was. And the boy they looked young, Danny, 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.720 they looked pretty young. I was like, you all are 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.640 in college, you know, I'm looking at the camera. I'm like, 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.320 you're okay anyway now. But they seem to enjoy what 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:35.160 I thought was a pretty heartfelt, passionate soliloquy. Big word 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:36.559 at this time of the morning. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:38.760 I hope to use smaller words for them. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I looked it up. I I 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.760 the only thing I had heard about Liberty University was 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:50.120 that they had Malik Willis, the backup quarterback for the Titans, 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.120 went there. Oh okay, well he actually went to Auburn 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.440 and they transferred to Liberty, and they had a pretty 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.320 well known coach who I don't think is there anymore 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.800 like a football coach coach? But then I did some 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:06.520 digging and turns out that the Liberty University was founded 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:12.560 by an infamous figure of the past of a televangelist, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.520 Jerry Fallwell. Remember Jerry Fallwell. He passed away. 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.120 Years ago, but yeah, he was always in the middle 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:18.679 of drama. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.880 Oh yeah, big time drama when we were younger. But 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:28.720 Evangelical University in Virginia. Some of the other alum other 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:33.080 than Malik Willis, someone who's a sportscaster who blocked me 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:41.720 on social media is on there. Sam Ponder from ESPN. 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.000 She went there, she got upset with me. Were you 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.080 with me when that happened, Danny, I don't know if 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:47.800 you were with me or not. 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.040 I think so because you always used to ponder about 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.040 how her husband got a job in the NFL. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:09:00.680 Yeah, why would you even ponder passing? We did lame 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.319 Jokes of the Week, which we've done it for many, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:09.719 many years, and Sam Ponder's husband, Christian Ponder, was a 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:15.760 subject of many jokes and some of the guys from Minnesota. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.600 I remember. I think it was Hotel Ryan from Duluth Alf. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.480 Maybe he can correct me if I'm wrong on this, 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.880 but we had a guy named Hotel Ryan that used 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.679 to be a regular caller who worked the overnight shift 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.600 at the hotel there in Duluth, and he would call 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.760 us up and he thought it would be funny to 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.080 send Sam Ponder all the jokes that we were reading 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:39.840 about her husband, and he thought it'd be a funny gag. 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:44.120 She apparently did not appreciate the comedy value of the 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:49.680 jokes and she got offended. And I didn't even follow 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.720 her on Twitter or whatever, but she blocked me. 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.160 So that was that she was proactive with your ass. 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.920 And I see some notable alumni here Seth Curry, did he? 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.520 And Rick Boles? 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:02.600 What? 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:04.560 Really? Yeah? 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.440 I didn't see that. I saw here's one that you'd like, 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.320 an old baseball player. This guy was part of one 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.839 of the most infamous moments of Barry Bonds. Was it 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.120 Barry Bond? It was Barry Bond's career. Yeah, it was 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:24.640 Barry Bon's career. Sid Bream, Oh okay, wasn't Sid the 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:25.680 guy that pirate? 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:26.040 Right? 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.160 Well, he was a Dodger pirate, But I think wasn't 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:33.360 he the guy that Bonds couldn't throw out? Remember? I 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.679 thought he was with the Braves. Am I wrong on that? 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.080 I mean, I'll have to check that. But yeah, by 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.360 the way, I looked up Seth Curry really fast. He 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:48.200 played college basketball for one year at Liberty University before 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:49.280 transferring to Duke. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.559 Oh, I did not know that. I did not know that, Sam, 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.440 I am Oh, yeah, I am right. I just looked up. 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.840 So Sid Bream he played with the Pirates, got traded 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.840 to the Braves. I think he got traded of the Bridge. 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.920 But he played for the Atlanta Braves against the Pirates 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.800 in the National League Championship Series. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.640 Oh yeah, okay. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:15.960 And Sid Bream about as fast as a turtle taking 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.439 a nap, and Barry Bonds couldn't throw him out. And 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:23.720 it was at that time it was like a big deal, right, 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.280 It was like a big deal because you know, Sid 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.640 Bream was so slow and very but that was before 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.080 Bonds was known as the ped guy and then that 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:38.720 whole thing. And yeah, he batted three hundred of The 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.040 Braves defeated the Pirates, the first NL team to win 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.959 the Pennant after finishing last place the year before. There 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:52.080 you go, fun fact about Sid Bream who in which 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.160 which geame? I forget which game it was that he 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.199 he did not really important. We're getting carried away on 0:11:59.240 --> 0:11:59.640 a tangent. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.240 It's funny because he was one of the baseball cards 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.640 that stood out because of his name. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.880 Yeah, no, yeah, nineteen oh, here it's right here. Nineteen 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:16.200 ninety two National League Championship Series Game seven, Braves won 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:21.800 the NLS Pirates NLCS and the most famous moment of 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.959 Sid Breams career. In Game seven, Pirates had a two 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:29.520 to nothing lead, bottom of the ninth inning. Bottom of 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:33.079 the ninth inning, the Braves mount to comeback. Pirates left 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:37.560 field eventual NLMVP Barry Bonds fielded the ball that was 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:44.880 hit by Francisco Cabrera. Third string catcher Francisco Cabrera Bonds 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:49.840 fields it, fields the ball. Sid Bream again as fast 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:54.319 as a turtle, taking a nap and he runs as 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.640 fast as he could toward his home plate. Barry Bonds 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:05.000 throw slightly offline, bounced on the way and Sidbream got 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:09.160 in there, and some fans called to play the Bream 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:14.400 curse as the Pirates have not had any success since that, 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:18.479 so hey, I think we've we've gone out of Sidbream 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.400 fun facts. I think we're done. It's a good ten 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:26.800 minutes on that. But this week in fact, today, today's 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.760 the day, this being Friday, this week's episode of Benny 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.120 Versus the Penny, Week five in the can. It was 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.800 sliced and diced and edited and it is available distributed 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.600 by NBC. It's available in most major markets. It changes 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.000 from city to city, so check your local cable listings. 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.280 I will tell our friends listening in Boston and throughout 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.400 New England that it is locked in at the seven 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:54.480 thirty pm Eastern primetime slot on our flagship NBC Sports Boston. 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.079 And if you're not in a city that gets Benny 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.719 Versus the Penny on regular television for some reason, you 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.880 can get it on direct TV Fubo TV as well, 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.360 which is a streaming option. They got a lot of 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:12.040 cool stuff on there, so this week. A quick synopsis 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.520 of this week's edition of Benny Versus the Penny, A 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:20.080 challenging edition. Why you asked them East. So it started 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.280 out normal, as you know most things do, and then 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.720 one thing let do another. So I arrived rather early, 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:30.720 rather early, Universal Studios, and Holly would uh And I 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.840 got there, went to my little boardroom and then crossed 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.960 the hall from the studio we use and I was 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.320 prepping and I was by myself for a couple of hours. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.040 People started coming in to work on the show. The 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.760 crew showed up, they had their call time. I got 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:44.800 there way before then. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.120 And then Looney showed up an hour after that. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.400 Exactly. Yeah. In fact, Looney showed up so late I 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.960 thought maybe he had decided that he wanted to just 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:54.960 miss this week's show, and I would have had to 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.320 do it by myself. We were thinking about calling you, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.240 Danny out of the bullpen and getting you to ride 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.800 over there and uh and and filled in for Looning. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.960 But I was We did a live table read. We 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.600 do this before, like this live table read with Looney, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.360 a little walkthrough, so that is time to record. And 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:13.920 this is the part of the story with the plot 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:18.320 thickets So I'm all dauled up in makeup, and I 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:23.080 got my Mike uniform on for the show, got the hat, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:27.600 got the blue sweater. And it turns out that we 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.000 got a bit of a surprise. The forecast did not 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.360 call for a tech rein delay, but sure enough, I 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:40.920 thought this only happened in radio. The Gremlins attacked the 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.960 the feed and I don't think I'm speaking out of 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.160 school here, the feed that we use because we do 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:51.240 the show. We're remote in a studio in La Universal Studios, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.440 but the show is produced at NBC Sports Boston, so 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.280 there's a whole team of people in Boston that put 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.960 the show together. Producer, director, people that have the graphic 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.920 and a lot of people. It's much more than radio. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:05.600 It was just a couple of people, and that's it. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.840 I'm already, I'm all miked up. I have my i 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.320 FB in my ear, and I'm like, okay, I've got 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.360 I've been got over this. I have everything ready to go, 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.800 and so I've got stuff in my head. I've memorized 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.720 some thoughts I have on all these games, and let's 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.560 do it. Let's do it, Let's knock it out. Get 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.640 the hell out here. So they turn on the cameras, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.440 turn on the lights and all that, and uh, I'm 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:35.760 looking over at Looney's monitor and They're starting to freak out. 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:44.240 Looney's camera was blurry, blurry. Only my I was fine, 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.040 by the way, My little camera in my studio was fine. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.440 Looney was was blurry. And I gotta tell you, Danny, 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.720 I was okay with that. I'm fine, but I look 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:57.680 better than Looney. I'm good. H It turns out that 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.560 they actually have standard over there, the National Broadcasting Company, 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:05.399 and Loney complained. So we had then another group of 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.119 engineers that then came in out of nowhere, and then 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.720 they were working on the issue. So essentially we were 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.639 all dressed up with nowhere to go because we were 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.119 at the mercy of them fixing the issue on the 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:23.120 satellite hookup, and so they came in, they're resetting things. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.840 They're like, we're getting it. We might need another device 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.000 to connect everything, but we don't know if we have 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.119 one or where we have one, but we don't know 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.679 where it is, and the people aren't here yet because 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.639 of the time, so there are a lot of issues. 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.840 Then the green screen, this is in my studio, the 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:45.680 green screen, which is behind me there it started hiccupping, 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.600 so the graphics look kind of kind of weird. So 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.879 by this time I'm like, okay, you know that, Andrea 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.760 these Sorceress is right. There's a full moon cosmic event, 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:58.480 so this happens around the full moon. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:02.359 I was like, okay, up, and this is where you 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.760 do a call in on the phone lines and Eddie 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:07.160 co hosts the show. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.480 Exactly exactly, and I recommended that so we could get 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.680 to get out with the show. They said that's probably 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.639 not a good idea, and so we didn't do that. 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:23.920 And by the time they fixed everything, we had been 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:29.520 sitting in the studio pretty much roasting on the hot 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:34.880 lights for over an hour. Now. Needless to say, even 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:38.160 though we're both professionals, as you know, Danny, because you've 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:44.320 been broadcasting a long time, the enthusiasm gets a little softened, right, Yeah, 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.720 the gung hole ready to run through a wall like 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:51.679 the kool Aid Man, and that's just not there. So 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.400 fortunately Vinnie, our producer, gave us a little pep talk 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:56.720 kind of wake us up, a little bit of smelling 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.600 salts and and the show I think turned out pretty good. 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.280 It's really up to you who watch it. I really 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.840 do appreciate if you do take some time to watch it. 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:10.640 It's gonna be on all weekend. And now, Danny, when 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:14.560 you go, when you go do your thing, which I 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.960 guess we'll talk about later, but I'm gonna ask you 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.879 a favor, so we'll they we'll get that on Saturday podcast. 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:24.119 But I would advise you we do have a Taylor 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:29.679 Swift reference, a Taylor Swift reference, and I may or 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.639 may not be dancing. I may or may not be 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.040 dancing in this episode of the show. 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:38.000 So I feel the ratings plummeting as you explain that. 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:43.040 Anyway, let me know what you think and hopefully you 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:44.840 like it, and whether you like it or not, if 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:48.000 you watch, I get credit. I am such a radio loser. 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:54.399 Time now for the Word of the week. Are you 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.800 ready for the word of the week? 0:19:57.680 --> 0:19:59.720 Word of the week? 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.320 Word of the week is a tribute to someone that 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.080 has been a great nemesis, a sparring partner for me. 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:10.320 And if you've been a supporter of the show, you've 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.639 been part of the Malard militia, which you're clearly next level. 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.520 You're listening to the podcast, so thank you for that. 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.680 We had a great battle with one of the great 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:24.080 entertainers of the last few generations. It was the Malar 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:30.719 Militia versus the Trekkies and William Shatner back and forth 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:35.800 social media battlefield. One of the most surreal things that 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.720 has happened in my time at Fox Sports Radio. That 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.240 a global entertainment icon someone I used to watch when 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:44.760 I was a kid. I watched Star Trek when I 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.200 was a kid. My dad loved Star Trek. We used 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.240 to watch and this guy got into it with me, 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:52.639 got into a pissing match with me and our show 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:56.560 bats with Shatz. Yeah, one of the great things spats 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.639 with Shatz and so in honor of William Shatner, who 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.399 is like a hundred years old now, the word of 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:06.840 the week is the word that William Shatner. Let's see 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:08.600 if Dan, I'm going to put you on the spot here, Danny. 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:12.520 So this is the word that Shatner said to me 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:17.920 before he blocked me on what was then called Twitter. 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.160 We had a back and forth, We had a falling out. 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:22.600 Do you remember what he said? 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:23.760 Checkmate? 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:27.240 That is it? Danny ding Ding ding ning Ning You 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:32.040 win the showcase showdown. Congratulations Danny, Yeah. 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:34.040 He said show history. 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:37.240 Yeah, that's a good job by you. So checkmate is 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:39.760 the word of the week. Now. It's obviously known as 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:43.400 a chess move said of a king when it is 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:46.760 in check and cannot escape it. It's from Old French 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:54.119 from the fourteen hundreds, mid fourteen hundreds. Uh, there's also 0:21:54.200 --> 0:22:00.119 an Arabic word and a Spanish word the king. They 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.720 think it's actually taken from Arabic and Spanish words. It 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:10.720 meant the Arabic word meant the king died, and there's 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:19.639 a misinterpretation of the Persian word be astonished. And I 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:21.720 mean it's a combination of a couple of words mixed 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:24.600 together back back in the day. But I'm not a 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.480 chess player. But if you played chess, you know the 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:29.760 king does not die. Even I know that at the 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:34.320 end of the game. And so the explanation is there 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:38.720 was an explanation that was given here that the word, 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:44.000 again the Persian version of the word meant something like 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:50.840 the king is left without a way to escape, without 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:54.480 a way to escape, and that is believed to be 0:22:54.640 --> 0:23:00.639 the why there's confusion. And so that's the The origin 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:07.400 goes back to the fourteen hundreds and they updated the 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:12.240 meaning of Checkmate in the late fourteen hundreds, and to 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:17.360 thwart or frustrate, which is the appropriate usage by William Shatner. 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:18.800 I'm in command. 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:23.480 I could order this right, I mean, that's the appropriate usage. 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:29.040 He frustrated me, and he thwarted me by blocking the show. 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:32.320 But that night, when Shatner was on a flight to Germany, 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:34.760 I think you were with me, Danny was. 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:36.400 I was. Yeah. 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:39.359 It was a top ten moment in the history of 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:43.119 the show. Because William Shatner is on a cross country 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:48.120 across transatlantic flight from la to Germany for some Star 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:51.520 Trek convention or whatever the hell he's doing. He's on 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:53.680 the plane, he's using the Wi Fi on the plane, 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:57.120