WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: The Final Roast 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 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 fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.439 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.280 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:29.400 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.720 In the air ey way, The Fifth Hour with Me, 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.320 Ben Mahler and Danny. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.000 G Radio, as we hang out with you. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.159 On this twentieth day of December, Happy Friday. I am 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.400 aware that I was not on my post last night 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:49.320 doing the overnight show, a rare and appropriate, rare and 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.360 appropriate day off. But we are back at it, full 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.720 weekend of podcast, full weekend of podcast, and I'm only 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:58.680 gonna be off a couple of days next week, so 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.360 I'll be here most of the upcoming week on the radio. 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:07.920 So Thursday's pretty tough day, and so I figured I 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.640 had plenty of time off in my box. If you will, 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.600 you know the work they have, how many days off 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.240 you have and all that stuff. I don't normally take 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.640 many days off, but Thursdays are very difficult because I 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.080 do the overnight show. Then I'm up during the day 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:27.520 filming Benny Versus the Penny, and then I have to 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:29.840 go back and do the overnight show and somewhere in 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:31.679 there I usually get about two and a half to 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:32.800 three hours of sleep. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.360 So I figured it's the end of the year. 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.440 They want me to use some of the time. The 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.920 company always wants me to use more time than I use. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:42.520 They kind of get upset with me that I don't 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.399 take more time off. So I said, what DF. So 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.160 I was not here last night, but I did watch 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.280 the Charger game. I want the record to show I 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.280 was I didn't go to the Charger game. I didn't 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.160 see our friend Eddie. I was not at the Charger 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:58.240 game last night because of the logistics of getting from 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:03.000 Universal Studios in Hollywood Inglewood not not an easy path 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.880 at the time that game kicked off. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.359 But oh what a game it was. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:14.560 The Chargers getting absolutely roasted at halftime, looking like they 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.840 were dead in the water, down twenty one to thirteen 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.240 and a half time in that game last night against 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.799 the Broncos, the upstart Broncos, and after watching the way 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.919 the Chargers played last week against Tampa Bay, and then 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.160 seeing the performance here. 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:31.520 I was like, WHOA, what's going on? 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.320 But they obviously played much better than the second half, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:39.160 and we saw we saw the wacky play that I 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.360 didn't even know was a thing because it's never happened 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.200 since I was a child. The Chargers. The comeback included 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:51.800 Cameron Dicker, the kicker, making the first successful fair catch 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:56.160 kick in the NFL in forty eight years. That's two generations, 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.960 and he hit it from fifty seven yards the final 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.000 play the first half, so that made it twenty one 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.440 to thirteen. The Chargers saw the game, you know, they win, 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.360 So they're nine and six, justin Herbert, a couple of 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:11.200 touchdown passes, a couple of rushing touchdowns for the Gus Bus, 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.560 and the Chargers now have a ninety seven percent probability 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:16.320 of making the playoffs. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.359 So they're in good shape. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.160 And they can wrap it up without doing anything on 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:25.080 Sunday because they've already played. If the Colts lose to 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:29.360 the Titans in Miami, also goes down to the forty 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:34.359 nine Ers and the Chargers are in the post season, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.480 so they've they've got that in the back. As far 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.240 as the dope Holidays. Today is dot your Eyes Day. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.720 You probably don't know what that is. I didn't know 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.840 what that was. I had no idea. But we are 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.720 told that the dot your eyes Day every December twentieth. 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:50.840 And what is this? 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.040 You say, Well, it's pretty simple, you know, dot your eyes, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.000 cross your t's and all that stuff. But this is 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:04.480 the day when you're supposed to supposed to finish things, right, 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.280 He's supposed to finish things that need to be finished. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.280 And there's no real history. I think this is just 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.680 one of those fugazy holidays and all that stuff. But 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.680 the entire phrase dot your eyes and all that stuff, 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.720 most of the history that goes back to I think 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.680 eighteen forty nine. There was an article by this guy 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:30.960 named William in Scribner's magazine that first carried the expression. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.880 The earliest known evidence of that saying was apparently used 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:37.640 widely in the mid eighteen hundreds. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:39.120 The phrase, of. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:43.320 Course, is used today to kind of goof on kids 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:44.360 and all that stuff. 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.480 Dot your eyes and all that. But anyway, said dope 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:47.520 Dope Holiday. 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.400 On today's podcast, the Fifth hourt we will not only 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:57.320 have an amazing final roast, we'll also say What's Up Doc, 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:02.200 A little foody fun and the Idiom of the Week. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.240 The Idiom of the Week. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.800 But I wanted to begin with this another somber note here, 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.599 But I want to be as. 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.839 Positive as I can because I really like this guy. 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:18.000 And I've done a lot of eulogies this year on 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.960 this podcast. We've lost a lot of good people that 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.479 have been a part of our family, a part of 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:25.560 our radio family. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.279 And we lost another one. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.320 If you heard the radio show during the week a 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:37.680 big part of this show, we lost Matt the Warrior 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.719 and well, he used to be Matt the Warrior Raider 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.599 as fan and over the years he just he got 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.880 rid of the a's he's the Warrior Raider fan and 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:48.480 all that stuff. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:49.320 He loved the Raiders. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:54.880 And Matt died last I guess last. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:55.719 Week or two weeks ago. 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:56.119 Now. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.400 We found out about it over the weekend. Last weekend. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:05.960 We shared with you on on Sunday night into Monday. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.120 And if you've listened to the show at all over 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:12.360 the last ten to fifteen years, you know his name. 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.080 You might not know what he sounds like. He's only 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.760 called in Mat, only called in a few times, but 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.919 he was a key part of this show, and my 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.320 condolences to his wife, Jennifer has got a teenage daughter, 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.159 she's fourteen. My condolences to the whole family. I just 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:28.719 want to share some stories. I talked about some of 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.880 these things on the radio show on Sunday Night, but 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.520 if you didn't have a chance to hear that over 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.960 the years, as you know, we use social media quite 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.520 a bit. It is a tool during the show on 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.920 x real time feedback and we go back and forth. 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.520 You'll bust my balls, I'll bust your balls. That's how 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.080 the show's worked. I mean usually I open up with 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.719 the monologue and then the next part of the show 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.720 will eventually take calls, but the first part of it 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.520 is all just reaction from you listening, hiding behind your 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:10.080 smartphone and giving me commentary. And over the years, Matt, 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.400 who I never had the chance to meet, I wanted 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:12.920 to meet him. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:13.560 I was. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.120 I tried to get him to go to the meet 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.680 and greet we did in Vegas, and he was very stubborn. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:19.080 Matt. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.600 He's like, I want to go to the I'm gonna 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.120 wait till you come to the Bay Area. We were 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:24.960 worthy of a Malor meet and greet. In the Bay Area, 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:26.520 so he didn't go to Vegas, he didn't come down 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.360 to LA And a number of you guys that live 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.960 in northern California have made the trek to other locations 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:33.920 for the Malor meet and greet. So I never got 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.840 a chance to meet Matt but every night. And he's 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.760 been sick recently, he had some issues over the last 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.520 couple of months, but prior to that, pretty much four 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.760 or five nights a week, I knew that I would 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:51.160 do a monologue and I would get real time feedback. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:52.560 For Matt. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:56.680 And he did not suck up. He was not a 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.520 toll liquor, was not would be critic goal. He would 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.840 also point out things that might not have been completely 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.880 accurate in the Malard monologue and was one of my 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.560 great fact checkers. And I really enjoyed. I really enjoyed 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.600 his feedback. I looked forward to it, and as I 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:21.680 told his wife Jennifer that he had been such a 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.880 beloved part of our show, you know, I actually want 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.160 to thank a couple of other people, Robbie the Mariner, 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:33.480 fan og Art puffin the community on the radio show. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.000 We're a small community, but you guys, the super p 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.480 Ones you reached out to me when you found out 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.880 the news that Matt had passed away. Robbie was able 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:49.199 to give me the phone number, and I felt a 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.680 little odd texting Matt's wife. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:53.040 You know, how do you do this? 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.120 You know, it's a very tough situation, obviously much tougher 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.280 for her, and you know, I'm just I'm just a 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.840 guy on the radio, you know, That's all I and 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.560 I wanted to be sympathetic, but I also wanted to 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:04.920 give the proper tribute to Matt. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:06.120 And I needed some more. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.800 Information because I know a little bit about him from 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.079 the radio show, but he didn't tell me everything. I 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.600 knew he loved AMPM he used to talk about ANPA. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.679 I knew he loved Costco. I loved Costco too, and 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.160 so I reached out to Matt's wife over the weekend. 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.360 And for those that don't know the backstorm, I don't 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.280 get all of it. But Matt had had a medical 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.960 emergency I think about a month before, but I'm not 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.600 sure on the timeline. I'm not sure exactly on the timeline, 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.559 but he stopped interacting with the show. We were concerned 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.720 about him. We did a Hey, what's going on? He 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:43.480 had almost died a couple of weeks prior, and he 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.240 came back. He had cardiac arrest and all kinds of 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.120 problems and whatnot, and based on like a COVID thing, 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.000 but it was something else mixed in, and I don't 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.400 know about everything involved in it, but he almost died, 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.120 and then he came back and he messaged me and 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.200 some of the fans of the show, and I'd give 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.840 them a little message on on X. In fact, I 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.680 was actually going to do a big to do I 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.679 can tell the story now. I was going to this 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.280 whole big to do for Matt Welcome, I'm back. And 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.600 I was actually told not to do that by some 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.160 of the guys that are friends with Matt on the show. 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:18.880 They said Matt didn't really want that. He didn't want 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.839 all the attention. So he's probably annoyed on the other 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.240 side that I'm doing this, but you know, deal with it. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.839 So so anyway, I reached out to Matt's wife to 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.000 get some more information, and Matt, as I said, four 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.680 or five nights a week, would give me feedback. He 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.840 sent jokes in occasionally for the lame jokes that we did. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.360 I did that a few times over the years. And 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:44.400 the thing that Matt was a maestro at was the 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:45.920 insta trivia and the who am I? 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:46.280 Game? 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:51.000 And this mfor okay, this Matt all right, Matt the 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:57.040 war ear raider fan, Matt was a master of trivia. 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.000 And I told his wife, you know, we were talking 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.839 about him a little bit, we're texting back and forth, 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.959 and she explained to me that he had the memory 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.400 like an elephant, right, and she these are her words, 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.280 and they were like, he should be a lawyer. You know, 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.000 he should have been a lawyer because he could have 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.720 war anyone down in an argument, which is perfectly accurate. 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:21.120 Right. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.400 And as I told Jennifer, Matt's wife that he had 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.520 become a big character on this show over the years, 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:34.319 and as a fact checker, as I said, and Matt 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.600 was forty nine, which is which is my age. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.400 We're the same age. Matt to work at night. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:48.280 He drove for Uber full time, and that that allowed 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.760 him to keep an eye on his daughter when she 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.600 was younger and kind of take care of her and 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.360 all that stuff, pick her up from school and help 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.280 pay for daycare and all that. So his wife had 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.760 a normal eight to five or nine to five whatever job, 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.560 and then he would work from five or so in 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.280 the evening in northern California until. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.560 Midnight or one in the morning, and so he would 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:14.319 listen to. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:19.079 Our show at that particular time. He's a huge, huge 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.480 sports guy, obviously, you know, listening to sports radio. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:22.040 But he loved the. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.640 Raiders, the A's, the Warriors, and even the San Jose Sharks. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.240 You didn't talk much about the Sharks on the show. 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:34.240 And while he was in active P one, Matt, the 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:39.280 Raiders left Oakland, the Warriors left Oakland to go across 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.360 the Bay, and the Athletics announced they're leaving to go 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.160 to Sacramento, and then eventually they're moving. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:47.800 To Las Vegas. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.360 And Matt would go to quite a few baseball games 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.400 and hockey games with his wife and whatnot. And he 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.920 loved to travel, loved to travel, wanted to cross his 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.760 many states off his list as he could. He got 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:07.280 up to twenty one of the fifty one states we 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.200 are told, So that's a good run. I mean, he 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.200 lived in California and the states are far apart, so 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.959 you get to twenty one, that's a solid, solid run. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:20.360 I'm also told that Matt loved Seinfeld. He could recite 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.360 old lines from Seinfeld, and he and his old man, 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:29.400 his dad loved Seinfeld, which is one of the iconic 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:33.080 shows of all time, right our period of time, the 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.240 same age as Matt, and that was a massively important 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:42.720 show for sure, for sure. And also Matt loved planes, trains, 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.360 and automobiles, and he was a big fan of that 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.280 and actually was watching it. Jennifer told me he watched 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.480 it a couple days before he had to go back 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:55.920 to the emergency room, and he watched it every Thanksgiving. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.600 That was the tradition for moving for Matt, moving. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.320 Around there around the bay. He always had the planes, trains, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.360 and automobiles. 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:09.360 Now, I mentioned the final roast because one of the 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:14.600 great final moments on our show as a super contributor 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:22.360 for Matt was the Tom Brady Roast. The Tom Brady Roast. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:27.480 So I think we're actually going to replay some of 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.560 this monologue. I did a monologue after the Brady Roast, 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:35.080 which was on I think it was on Netflix, and 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:36.680 I watched it. I thought it was funny, and I 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.480 was like, my show, I have editorial control, so I'm 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.680 gonna do a little mention in the monologu. 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.120 I don't think I started the monologue with it. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:44.800 It was like at the end of a monologue, the 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.560 last couple of minutes, I just ranted about what I 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.640 enjoyed and the Tom Brady roast and this that and 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.160 the other thing, and so that was fine. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:55.080 And that was so offensive to Matt. He was so 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:56.000 taken aback. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.320 He did not think it was funny at all. So 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.360 he was trying. He was busting my balls, Matt. And 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:06.200 then I decided, all right, you know what I'm going 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.600 to add on, just to get back at you, you sucker. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.600 I'm going to add on a fan of the Tom 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.640 Brady rose to any of your name. So I did 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:17.000 that for a while, and he seemed to be annoyed 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.720 by that, but he played along, and so we went 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:21.920 back and forth. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.360 On that quite a bit, and. 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.760 Just my my condole insist to everyone that loved him 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.640 and knew him. And you know, I didn't get a 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.600 chance to meet him. I wish I had, But I 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.920 really felt a connection as much as he can on 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.080 the radio show, because he was there for so long. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.640 I just knew that no matter how stupid I was, 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.080 or what ridiculous thing I said, or you know, whether 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.160 it was a lot going on in sports, or it 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.440 was kind of a sluggish. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.000 Time where we were. 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:53.640 I remember during COVID we were throwing marble racing monologues 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.040 out there and just anything to fill the time. We 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:57.760 had a lot of time and there wasn't a lot 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.800 of stuff going on, and we had to fill the time. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.720 And Matt was one of the guys that was there 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:05.800 and support of our show. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:11.920 So again I wanted to thank his contribution and hopefully 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.560 rest in peace. They're Matt and on the other side 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.080 and all that, and we'll hopefully get together again some 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.360 time down the line. We got a lot of good 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.160 listeners that have passed away. This has been a tough 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:27.160 year in my time doing this show is there's never 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.960 been a year quite like this. We've lost people from illness, 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.040 and a lot of people end up finding our show 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.800 when they're not doing well and then they're lonely, they're 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.320 at night in the hospital whatever, and it's in pain 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.600 and they can't sleep, and so they'll they'll find the show, 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.800 and so we've We've always had a fair number of 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.960 people that are sick or not doing well, and then 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.520 eventually a lot of them will get better and then 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.880 they'll move on to other stuff, they'll forget about us, 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.000 and then some of them will keep listening, and then 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.280 all those, unfortunately will not make it and then we 0:16:58.400 --> 0:16:58.760 lose them. 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:00.960 But this has been the year. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.320 We lost Matt, who was many more years to live 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.960 at age forty nine. And mass Ole Mickey died in 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:13.080 a car accident, also around Matt's age, so actually a 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.040 little younger, I believe. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.040 So just a tough time, a. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.639 Tough time, all right, turning the page on that, though 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.520 there's no good transition, there's really no good transition. 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:27.240 What's up, Doc? What's up? Doc? So Benny versus the Penny? 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.320 I know, shameless promotion for the TV show, but it's 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.080 not really about the TV show. So the TV show's 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:37.159 on Week sixteen. They'll start airing today the first run. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.399 We say, the biggest affiliate. It's on a bunch of 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.000 cable channels, but for us, it's produced out of NBC 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.840 Sports Boston, so that is the mothership, that is the flagship. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.280 It's on all these other NBC affiliates, but it's NBC 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.200 Sports Boston. It's their show. We do the show from 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:57.800 La Universal Studios, but they produce it. So we go 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:05.080 live on tape on and B see Sports Boston at 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.800 six pm tonight and then again at eight thirty and 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.000 nine to thirty. So that's in the span of three 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:16.800 and a half hours, three showings of Benny Versus the Penny, 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.320 and then we'll be on in the Bay Area, in 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:24.880 San Francisco and in Sacramento and Philadelphia and all these 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:25.879 other cities. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:27.800 Los Angeles, that's tomorrow. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.400 They'll pick up Benny Versus the Penny for week sixteen, 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:36.520 and this week's episode, there's something that happened that you'll 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.880 not see on the episode, but we'll make the if 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:42.160 we have a blooper. 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:42.840 Show at the end of the year. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.760 Tom Looney did the thing you can't do at the time, 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.960 you can't do it and drove me to lose my 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:56.359 mind on set while we were recording Benny Versus the Penny. 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.280 It actually involves the segment if you pay attention to 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.040 the show. I mentioned the name of one of the 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:07.800 callers to the show, and what Tom Looney did in 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.840 that moment was the thing you can't do at the time, 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.320 you can't do it, and that just drove me bonkers. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:16.000 I was on the hinge. 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:17.960 Now you probably won't see much of that. I don't 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.000 think that made the final cut of the TV show. 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:26.280 I'm just telling you when you're watching this weekend's episode, 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.640 keep an eye on that. Now, as far as What's Up, Doc, 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.720 I had one of the greatest days I've had. 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.240 How frickin lucky have I been. 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.680 We've been wandering around the back lot at the iconic 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:42.320 Universal Studios, Hollywood, and I'm going to post a video 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.720 later today I made my way to Hill Valley. 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:49.160 Now, if you don't know what Hill. 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:53.119 Valley is, that is the scene, the iconic scene in 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:57.240 the Back to the Future movies nineteen fifty five, the 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:03.720 town square, the lightning strike and Back. 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.080 To the Future. Back to the. 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:11.600 Future, that was where they filmed the amazing episode the 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:15.879 Key Mole in that It was Saturday, November twelfth, nineteen 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:20.840 fifty five, at ten oh four pm when lightning strikes 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:25.000 the courthouse clock tower, freezing the clock at ten oh four, 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:30.520 and the clock is never repaired and becomes a local landmark. 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:35.320 And so we were in that town square where they 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.320 filmed that part of the iconic Back to the Future movies, 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:43.879 and they filmed several of them there, and it's a 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:47.520 working set, so a working set on the back lot. 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.760 You know, hello to Marty McFly and Biff and all 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:56.000 those other people. But it was really one of those 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.000 moments where you're sitting there and you're walking around, you're like, 0:20:59.080 --> 0:20:59.719 oh man. 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:04.640 When I was a kid, that was a big time movie. 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.879 I was in the perfect age range when that movie 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.320 came out in nineteen. 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:14.080 Eighty five, so for me, it was like, whoa dude, 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:16.880 this is like unreal. And I just loved the whole thing. 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:18.959 And we watched it a bunch. 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.920 And here I am middle aged guy and I'm standing 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:25.480 right in front of a clock tower in the middle 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:27.200