WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Benny the Taco Man 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.520 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.440 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.240 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.520 of the Old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.560 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.520 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:18.440 Wow. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.360 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:30.600 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:37.000 In the air everywhere. Welcome to the month of December, 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.559 the first Fifth Hour podcast for the month of December. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.360 I am Ben Mallor you probably are knew that with 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.120 the Great Danny g Radio. And this is the very 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:50.960 beginning of the December broadcast season. Always an interesting time, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.720 Always an interesting time because a lot of vacation coming 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.840 up over the next month into twenty twenty four. But 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.639 here we are Danny beginning a new How exciting is that. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.000 I'm actually a little blurry eyed right now because it 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.800 was iHeart Company party last night. 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.600 We were all looking for you too. You never walked in. 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.720 I have not been to an iHeart Christmas party since 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.200 they were at the Beverly Hills Hotel. And like the Hilton, 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.080 and these are these massive, massive parties. I actually did 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:27.840 want to go this year though, to be fair. To 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:29.520 be fair, I did wanted to, you know, be like 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.399 everyone else there and try to suck up the management 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:35.560 at the iHeart Holiday party. But because of the schedule, 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.480 it was just physically impossible. But you were there, Danny. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.760 So what was the food situation? Like? What are we 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.520 looking at here? Was it just appetizers? Did they pay 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.840 for drinks? Usually they don't pay for alcohol at these things. 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.560 What they do and it was the same way last year. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:54.800 They give you a couple of drink tickets when you 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:59.080 walk in, okay, so they try to control the damage, 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:04.880 and then there's bartering going on between coworkers with extra tickets. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.639 The food was like sliders and little mini burgers. There 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:14.399 were some hot trays of wings and stuff like that, 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.560 so the food was pretty good. Then the desserts I 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.000 didn't partake because I've still been sugar free the past 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.919 five weeks. But there were people walking around with cookies 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:26.839 and brownies. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.959 Okay, who do you think ate the most? 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:35.160 I saw Rich go back and forth about five different 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:39.160 times after he had a few drinks. Is at first 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.440 he wasn't eating and I heard Covino say dude, you're 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.840 not eating, and he's like, no. Later after I drink 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.520 and he got enough drinks in him to where I 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.760 saw him, as he said it, nibbling on the food. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.800 But it was after everybody else was done with the food. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:54.280 Yeah. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.480 Did anyone take a doggie bag of food when they 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.280 were on their way out? Did anyone say, I take 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.000 that tray of sliders. I'd like to have that for 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:04.200 tomorrow's lunch. 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.000 No, I didn't see that, but I did see what 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.079 you were talking about, with a lot of butt kissing 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.480 and stuff like that. You'll be proud to know that. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.119 I went up to Julie Talbot, who is the president 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.400 of our company. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.080 One of the most powerful people in broadcasting. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:25.840 And I did not kiss her, but I immediately started 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:27.880 to ask her about Animal Thunderdome. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.320 Oh sure, yeah, yeah, she said, what. 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.720 No, no, no, She was a fan about kick the coverage 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:40.400 and listened to it every morning, so she knows Animal Thunderdome. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.200 And she's the one who drew up the paperwork for 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.240 Clay as she lives at Nashville and is a neighbor 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:51.080 and his friends with him. So that was my You know, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.480 I've known her for a while, and I walked up 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.560 and said, so, what's going on with Clay? What's going 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.160 on with Animal Thunderdome? And she threw her hands up. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.720 She's like, I No, I gave him the paperwork. I'm 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.040 waiting for him to sign it. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.320 So all right, right, So now you can pester Clay then. 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.320 Exactly all right? Instead of and that's a rule. 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.840 On our afternoon show yesterday, Coveno and Rich did the 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.920 rules of holiday Christmas parties and they said that one 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.040 rule is you're not supposed to talk business. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:22.880 But I broke that rule. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.560 Yeah, I don't agree with that. I haven't gone to 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.440 these things in a while, but I was at one 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.680 of the greatest Christmas parties of all time. We've talked 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.599 about this over the years, so if you if you've 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.279 heard this before, you can just fast forward through the podcast. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.760 But I don't know that you were at the company yet, Danny, but. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.320 With a strip, Yes, yes, I love this story. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.719 So there was one of the guys that didn't have 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.560 a girlfriend and so he did love going to the ballet. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.120 He enjoyed the jiggle joint and was a regular there. 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:59.640 And as often happens in that world, you become obsessed 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:05.839 with one particular ballet dancer that you have to get 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.800 their attention. And so this guy, and I don't know 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.240 if we've named in the past, what. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.120 Was it, What did he do? Let's just say that 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:14.880 what did he do at the. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.680 G He did not work on the air. He was 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:17.560 behind the scenes. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.440 Okay, so like a sales guy. 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.679 Not quite a sales guy, but but he was worked 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.360 behind the scenes. And somebody that I knew and I 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.760 had known for before we worked together at at Fox 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.560 and then after and I still know him to this day. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.839 But he did have a girlfriend and producer. 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:41.320 Uh so we you know, we were buddies and and 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.159 so this man, I mean, these are back in the 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.520 days when you know, money was just flowing. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.240 I mean it was I mean, I'd go to these 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.800 holiday parties and they'd fly in all the big Premiere 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.800 Network stars like Art Bell would come in from Perrump. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.719 Matt Drudge was doing a radio show for the company 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.599 see case them. Doctor Laura was a huge star in 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.160 radio at the time. They had her a bunch of DJs. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.160 I didn't know who they were, but they seemed important 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:11.120 and they were there, and the big shots, and I 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.080 mean it was just crazy. I mean, somebody that loves radio. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:14.960 It was like wow, I mean, like the biggest names. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:16.280 I was like an All Star team, you know, it 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.159 was like the All Star Game. They're all coming out there. 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:20.640 And they used to have these things at these big, 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.200 swanky Beverly Hills hotels. Now I don't usually go to 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.400 Beverly Hills. I live, I used to live at the time. 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.280 I lived close to it, but I'm you know, it's 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.360 not my jam. So I went to the party, and 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.000 I was I did not have a date, I know 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:35.960 one I was dating at the time, so I went 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:40.080 by myself. But the guy, he didn't want to go 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:46.120 by himself, so he brought He brought the girl that 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.880 he had been giving all his money to the ballet 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.000 and she came with him, which would not have been 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.919 a problem Danny, except she dressed like she had to 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.320 work after the show, after the party she had to 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:04.720 go to. And the the snickering and the whispering from 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.440 the other women, the wives and the girlfriends that weren't 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:12.360 strippers because it was so over the top, and uh 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:12.880 and it. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.240 Eventually because their lives aren't as interesting. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:20.080 I guess, but you know, the alcohol starts flowing. Initially, 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.520 it's just you can tell everyone's talking about this woman 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.360 because she's dressed like a total whore, and uh, they're 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.160 all talking about all the other women are you know, 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:31.000 you're getting real caddy and all that, and so we're 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.280 like we're trying to figure out what's gonna happen. We're 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.280 doing the math on the alcohol. The open bar at 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.880 those days, we had open bar. Uh buffet style food 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.240 was just just wonderful, massive amounts of food and I 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.200 was fat, so I ate a lot of it anyway, 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:50.760 So uh, sure enough, once the booze started flowing, one 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.040 of the women who was I don't know she was. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.320 I assumed she was married to one of the other people. 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.080 I don't know, maybe it was a girlfriend. But she 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.680 worked up enough liquid courage to confront uh the stripper, 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.640 and there was a there was a brief conversation confrontation 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:10.360 type situation, and then then that inspired some other women 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.960 who had to get something off their chest they wanted 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.320 to say. So it was quite. It was quite the scene, 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.080 but it was it was hilarious because it was just 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.400 you don't expect to see something like that at a 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.520 family company holiday, part family there were no kids there, 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:29.080 but it was all all dressed up and all that stuff. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.720 And there was family education, money involved. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.280 Yeah, that was good. And then I was at another 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.920 different year. We were at one. I don't know if 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:39.320 you were at this one, Danny, it might have been 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.160 before you worked at the company. Two. But there was 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:46.000 a employee who while the president of the company was 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.800 giving the State of the Company address, this employee was 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:50.800 sitting there listening. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.120 Oh, I was at this heart During the speech. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.520 His wife was the one that was talking shit, and 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:03.000 she she laid it on like and she I guess 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.600 she didn't know that we could hear everyone else could 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.800 hear what she was saying that she was echoing the 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.160 president of the company. And this the Holly party was 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.240 like on a Friday or a Saturday. I think it 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.040 was on Saturday, but maybe a Friday night. It was 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.840 one of those days. But anyway, we did the Hollay 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.840 Party and then we show up to work on Monday, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:26.280 and the guy no longer worked at the company. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.400 Yeah, it would be like if my wife he got faded. 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.000 And then Scott, you know, was giving this big speech 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:37.160 about how awesome everything's going, and she's. 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:40.319 Saying, yeah, right, you're not even paying my husband enough money. 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.360 Yeah, that's pretty much how it went. That's pretty much. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:44.960 That's pretty much how it went. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.920 So because of what your significant other does. 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.080 Though, Yeah, but that does happen, right, We see that 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.240 in sports people have gotten in trouble because their wives 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:01.640 are done. True, So it happens on this pod. I 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.720 one story before I forget. I also remember getting my 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.960 balls busted when I would go to these parties because 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.760 they charged a lot of money to park at these 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.880 Beverly Hills hotels. So I would cruise around Beverly Hills 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:18.240 all dressed up to try to find street parking. And 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.439 then one of the parties I went to, I found 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.200 street parking, but then I had to go back every 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:24.560 couple hours to feed the meter. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.720 And weren't you worried about your Porsche being on the street. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.120 Well, unfortunately, they never paid me enough to have to 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.400 have a Porsche. So I think that was the company's 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.760 way of looking out for me, Danny. I think they 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.800 knew that if I had, you know, a really expensive car, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:39.560 it would be a problem. But so then I would 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.360 I would go back, you know, to feed the meter, 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.360 and I'd run back and I ended up getting covered 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.199 in sweat because I was really fat at the time, 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.040 and you know, people, well, are you all sweaty? What's 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:54.720 going on? Good memories? Though I wish I could have gone. 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.760 I mean, these things are always like during the week 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.000 in the like early evening. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.559 They're not three to five pm. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.760 So we missed more than half of it because our 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.360 show was on the air. As soon as the show 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.600 ended we crossed the street, people were already buzzed. When 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.640 you walk into a party late like that, you have 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.560 to quickly go to the bar and try to catch up. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.600 Yeah, and it's really a racing ends time because you 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.840 only have you know, you have probably by the time 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.480 you got there forty minutes maybe you know, forty minutes 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.960 to eat. And one thing I will say for this company, 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.880 they are by the clock when it comes to two hours, 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.280 not two hours, and ten minutes not two hours. You know, 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.640 five minutes. That thing cuts off at five o'clock. And 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.760 if you're if you want that extra slider, you better 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.160 grab that thing at four fifty nine fifty nine or 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:46.920 you're not getting it. It's over. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.360 They did refresh the food, which was different than last 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.880 year because I remember the food being cut off promptly 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.559 at five last year, but this year they brought out 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.840 some fresh food before the deadline and then for those 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.719 who stayed after the bell, our Boss Scott put his 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:09.280 card at the bar. Huh buddy, right, But Rich Davis 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.280 didn't know this, so he took his Covino and Rich 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:16.040 credit card for I guess like their Patreon show they do. 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.720 He took their company card and he was buying drinks 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.560 on that when he found out that card was at 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.840 the bar. You should have saw the look on his face. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.960 Oh man, awesome kick to the nuts right there. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.000 An employee came up to Scott and said, they're gonna 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.640 now close your card. Would you like one more? And 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.160 Rich looked at him and he's like. 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.520 Wait, your card is at the bar right now. 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.040 This was after he had signed all these drinks on 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:45.800 his own card. 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.240 I would like a bottle of whiskey? Can I get 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.280 a whiskey bottle and a kiel It to go in 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:54.600 a doggy bag? I would like to have that. We've 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.200 got on this pot. We've got Doc Mike Doppelganger, the 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:05.280 Taco canquistad and Hush Puppies. We start with this and 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.280 it is Friday, and so this is the time where 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.360 I tell you that I have a TV show, the 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:16.040 Chronicles of Television. It's week thirteen. We have made it 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:20.720 another week on Bennie Versus the Penny picking NFL games 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.360 against the spread man. 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.240 What does that TV money feel like? 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:28.280 Oh man, it's so amazing, it's so great. It's a 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.280 little better than radio a little better than radio money. 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.959 But you know, who knows. It's only a seasonal show, Danny, 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:34.880 so you don't know. But it is on. If you 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.439 don't live in a city that has Benny Versus the Penny, 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.280 a reminder, it's on Direct TV, It's on Fubo TV. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:47.400 But I turned out to be this week during Bennie 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:53.520 Versus the Penny doc Mike doppelgame, I did not drink 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.360 my own piss. I didn't do that. But let me explain. 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:01.440 So doing the late night show in if you're familiar 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.640 with LA if you're not from the area, we do 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:05.960 this in Sherman Oaks, which is right where the four 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.360 oh five, the infamous four oh five Freeway and the 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.280 one O one Freeway meet, just over the hill, down 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.280 the hill from bell Air, one of the ritchiest neighborhoods 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.080 in Los Angeles where a lot of fat cats and 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.000 Hollywood moguls live and all that. So we do the 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.200 show down the hill from there. Across the way is 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:28.440 a famous shopping center, the Sherman Oaks Galleria, and then 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.760 the San Fernando Valley where you have places like where 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.400 in Sino Man, that classic movie in Sino Man, Woodland Hills, 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.360 all these different places. That's one direct. Now the other 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.840 direction is North Hollywood. That's the next kind of town 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:46.200 over North Hollywood. And then you've got burd Banks down 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.200 the way and whatnot. So I get done with the 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.680 radio show in Sherman Oaks and I hop on the 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:57.960 one oh one Freeway and I head east away from 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.920 from the main heart of the San Fernando. Well, I 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.520 hit the other direction and head into Century City. 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:09.120 Yeah, you drove away from the money. Yeah good. And 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.600 then and then there's a little bit of money again 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.160 when you get to Universal City exactly. 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.800 So we went over there, yes, I says central, Yeah, 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:20.160 Universal City. So I went over there. Universal Studios is 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.360 where we record the TV and so I have my routine. 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.880 Now I do the radio show and then I zoom 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.000 over to Universal and there's no one there. There's like 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.800 a security guard who looks at me like what the 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.960 fuck are you doing here? You know, like why are 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.240 you here at this hour? So I get that, but 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.000 I know my thing. So I park in the We 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.240 have the Abbott Costello parking, so I park in that, 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.080 and then I walked to the to the place we 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.280 do the TV show. I'm the first one there. There's 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.440 no there's like a security guard sleeping at the desk, 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.720 and then there's like there's like two people manning the 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.280 NBC News the bureau, the NBC News Bureau desk, the 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.600 overnight people. So I go to I go to our 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:57.400 little room and I'm getting ready. But this week a 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.960 little different than other weeks. Now why was this week different? Well, 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.160 for some reason, I was even more tired. I must 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.080 have been the hangover from Thanksgiving and I had a 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.360 night off which was odd and all that stuff. So 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.720 I'm trying to coordinate my schedule. But I'm really tired, 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.600 and I'm like, I don't nap. I don't do that. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.920 I'm not a napper. And I didn't really have time 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:17.280 to nap because I had a lot to do. I 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:18.840 had a lot of notes I wanted to go through 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.320 I'd done a lot of prep, but really the process 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:23.960 of how we make the hot dogs is I do 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:25.400 a lot of the number I put a lot of 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:33.000 the numbers together on Monday and Tuesday, and then you know, Wednesday, 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.160 I do do more. That's where we meet with the people. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:41.120 I have email correspondence and meetings with the people in Boston, Vinnie, 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.360 the guy that produced the show, and those guys, and 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.240 John who's in Philadelphia. So we kind of email the stuff. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.120 I give them the stuff they need and then they 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.520 tell me stuff that I need and then so that's 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.640 how that goes. And so then we do that. But 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.960 then when I get done with the show, I just 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.360 really put everything together. It's like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.120 but it's not really heart a jigsaw puzzle. It's a 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.080 twenty two minute TV show, not that hard. But that's 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:05.879 the way I do it. And so I need a 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.320 certain amount of time to put everything together, just to 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.320 give you an idea I'm giving I'm like the inside whatever. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.880 So I'm really tired. I'm like really really tired, and 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.240 I end up, as I said, becoming Doc Mike s Doppelganger. 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:29.480 I fell asleep at my computer while I started out 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.960 sitting up falling asleep, and then eventually my face gravity 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:37.439 took over and went down on the keyboard, which did 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.359 wake me up. It did wake me up. So I 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.800 wasn't even out for that long though, Danny. I only slept. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.320 I think it was about fifteen to twenty minutes. I 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.679 think that's about it. But it was like a micro 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:56.320 nap and it actually worked. I woke up feeling refreshed. 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.840 I was like perked up crazy. And the reason I've 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.439 been I say, Doc Mike, because if you've been with 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:06.440 the show a long time. Years ago, Doc Mike, when 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:11.439 Michael Vick was in prison, Doc Mike drove from Chicago 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:15.040 down to Levenworth thinking that Michael Vick would take a 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.200 meeting with them. They'd have a meet and greet at 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:23.800 Levenworth Prison, and so Doc was documenting his trip from 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.480 Chicago to Kansas. Wasn't that long a drive, but he 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.440 didn't sleep, and he told me what he would do 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.040 since he didn't sleep, was he would just pull over 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:34.920 to the side of the road or get off one 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.800 of the off ramps and sleep for five to ten 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:39.720 minutes and then get back on the road for another 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.720 hour or two hours and I said, what are you going? 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:44.560 What are you a dumbass? 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:45.760 Here? 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:46.160 I am. 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.280 I didn't plan on doing this, It wasn't intentional, but 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.199 I ended up doing it, so it worked out. I 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.040 was able to get what I needed to get done. 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:55.520 And as many people have pointed out to me in 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:59.760 the past who are older than me, the thing about 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.000 get it done, it's done when the show when they 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:03.879 tell you, as we know with radio, right Dan, you 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.040 prepare Dan, you prepare for the radio show, and you're 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.320 never prepared, at least I've never prepared enough. But ultimately, 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.040 when the light goes on, you have to the show 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.639 will be fine. You know what I'm saying. Like, you 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.560 do as much as you can, but usually it doesn't 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.119 really matter. You're ready to go. And as far as 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.680 the TV show here in week thirteen, first of December, 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.480 we are actually not on quite as much in LA 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.800 because of the there's high school football. We're getting preempted 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.040 by high school football, which is a kick come on. Yeah. So, 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:39.800 for example, I believe on SoCal Sports Net tomorrow just 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:41.840 I don't know if you can record things day, but 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:43.880 we have a one showing I think it's six am 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:47.200 because if there's like high school whatnot. And then we're 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.639 on Sunday morning at a and am. But as far 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:54.080 as today, we're on in Boston on NBC Sports Boston. 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:58.240 After the Celtics play the Sixers. We'll have back to 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.480 back prime time late night TV showings at eleven and 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:06.320 eleven thirty. Philly. We're on a eleven thirty Chicago. We're 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.240 on our normal ten o'clock slot in Chicago. We're on 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:13.600 a couple times in San Francisco on NBC Sports Bay Area. 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.960 Benny Versus the Penny six o'clock ten thirty will be 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:23.119 on NBC Sports California, Sacramento there and that's at eight 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.320 and I mentioned so Cal. Also, our normal time slot 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:34.440 on SNY at eleven thirty am on Sunday in New 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.679 York will be on. There are regular times, so that 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:41.120 is that's the TV show. So see if you can 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:44.200 figure out that I was so tired I fell asleep 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.280 in the I think I fell asleep a second time, 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:50.000 but I the first one was like the big one 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.040 that really kind of woke me up, and then I 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.320 started popping caffeine pills trying to trying to keep going 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:59.360 on that. So there is some big news here outside 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:03.760 of the doc. Mike Doppelganger must alert the Mala militia 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:05.800 down the line here that I don't know if this 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.280 counts as breaking news, but it is a news update. 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:13.320