Speaker 1: Come both. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of
Speaker 1: hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now. That it does. We
Speaker 1: are in the air everywhere, whether you like it or not,
Speaker 1: eight days a week now because four hours or not enough.
Speaker 1: You hear that screeching, that's the person that's gonna be
Speaker 1: on here in a minute an interview podcast, and he's
Speaker 1: screeching in the background. Not a professional, bad job by him.
Speaker 1: But guests gone with me yet again as we do
Speaker 1: this podcast, and you can follow me all over the
Speaker 1: place on Twitter at Ben Maller, Instagram, Ben Maller, on
Speaker 1: Fox Facebook, Ben Maller Show, and on Cameo Cameo dot
Speaker 1: Com Ben Maller. But I'm not gonna even introduce guest
Speaker 1: Gone because he jumped the gun on this, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go right to it. We welcome in now a
Speaker 1: renaissance man a Television Dennis A. Newshound, a member of
Speaker 1: the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, who's making a lot
Speaker 1: of noise in the background right now, give it up
Speaker 1: for time. Loony, there he is right there, the great time. Wow.
Speaker 1: I love that you refer to me as the Renaissance.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. As you know, a big ben.
Speaker 1: I firmly believe every one of God's children has at
Speaker 1: least one area of genius. I have eleven one of them.
Speaker 1: One of them is the Renaissance. I have been I have.
Speaker 1: I have explored the Renaissance. I've been to the birthplace
Speaker 1: of modern civilization in Florence. I have seen the Last
Speaker 1: Supper on the wall of a convent in Milan. Long
Speaker 1: before the Da Vinci Code, I was obsessed with Leonardo
Speaker 1: da Vinci. You can ask me anything you ever need
Speaker 1: to know about the O. J. Simpson trial or Leonardo
Speaker 1: da Vinci and I'm ready baby. Now you're just bragging.
Speaker 1: See now, now you're just being braggadocious and the humble bragging.
Speaker 1: You know, no one likes the person that does the
Speaker 1: humble bragg Nobody likes that you said you sound like
Speaker 1: you sound like yescan is what you sound like. It's
Speaker 1: a humble in the house is what I usually like
Speaker 1: to say when I come out and said, guess one
Speaker 1: of these Nicol and Dyed podcast humble Now. On a
Speaker 1: scale of one to ten, how annoyed are you the
Speaker 1: fact that I have broadcast quality audio, a professional radio
Speaker 1: industry standard microphone that I am talking into, an electro
Speaker 1: voice that I'm talking into, and you are on a
Speaker 1: tin can in string. On a scale of one to tend,
Speaker 1: how annoyed is Tom Looney? I can because I have
Speaker 1: all the equipment necessary, but your audio engineer had no
Speaker 1: idea what I was talking about when I started up
Speaker 1: talking about technical shit. That's right. You can say shit
Speaker 1: on the podcast. That's why we can't say that on
Speaker 1: the damn radio listening. Guesscon's great. You should go back.
Speaker 1: I know you hate the podcast, but you should go back. Looney.
Speaker 1: We we have recorded some podcasts where we were just
Speaker 1: screaming on top of a hill at each other and uh,
Speaker 1: and it was recorded and broadcast and put on the
Speaker 1: internet for people to consume the audio and listen to. Uh.
Speaker 1: Free free content was placed on the internet for people
Speaker 1: to consume. I mean, let me get in here real quick,
Speaker 1: because all of a sudden, I feel young again, which
Speaker 1: is nice amongst youtub sounds beautiful. It is thank you
Speaker 1: and some of the things that not. Tom. You gotta
Speaker 1: do us a favor before we get any Q and
Speaker 1: A sessions with you right now, Can you give me
Speaker 1: a favor. Since I know you're technologically savvy, can you
Speaker 1: go to your computer and put that sucker on mute
Speaker 1: so we don't get an indicator every time you get
Speaker 1: a fucking email. Please, I really appreciate that. I think.
Speaker 1: Here's my here's my philosophy about noise in the background,
Speaker 1: technical stuff like that. We're just we're used to noise
Speaker 1: now in American culture. A matter of fact, it drives
Speaker 1: me crazy. I go hiking in the woods. There's a
Speaker 1: thousand acres behind my park, behind my house. I don't
Speaker 1: own those thousand acres, otherwise it wouldn't be here right now.
Speaker 1: But whenever I go hiking, I can't believe that people
Speaker 1: need music in their ears. The birds chirping aren't enough,
Speaker 1: or the silence that gives us chance for wonder isn't enough.
Speaker 1: People need noise, And so believe me, the noise in
Speaker 1: the background at my place isn't gonna bother any of
Speaker 1: your your mutants that listen to this thing because they
Speaker 1: need noise. Yeah, looney, you're becoming the get off my
Speaker 1: long guy. You're becoming to get off my life. What
Speaker 1: happened to get off you? Happy? You would know you've
Speaker 1: actually always been like that, loony. Remember in the old days,
Speaker 1: and when we'd have new producers and they chime in
Speaker 1: but they didn't say their name, you would you would
Speaker 1: scold them. You would pull them aside in the bottles
Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio and and lecture them that whenever
Speaker 1: they turn their mic and they have to say their name,
Speaker 1: you were defense. I would yell at them on the
Speaker 1: air because it's bad radio. When there's all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: there's this there's this voice that comes in from out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, you know, a little squeaky voice like that
Speaker 1: a child actor you have on your other show, and
Speaker 1: out of the clear blue sky. And then people are
Speaker 1: clueless that they tune in to hear the star of
Speaker 1: the show and the star the squeaky voices for people.
Speaker 1: People don't know who they People inside the building know
Speaker 1: who the voices are, but the people listening to the
Speaker 1: show ideally aren't just the five people who side. Well,
Speaker 1: and you made me like Luony the people I know
Speaker 1: you were on that you talk about Rinky Dink that
Speaker 1: Brian Finley podcast. You were on with that and we
Speaker 1: Rinky didnk podcast. Yeah, yeah, well Finley he fills in
Speaker 1: when Eddie takes time off, and he's usually like to
Speaker 1: go to filling guy for me and Finley he's lacking
Speaker 1: in somebody like he. I don't think he knew what
Speaker 1: above the Marquis or headliner what he didn't know those terms,
Speaker 1: like basic terms that I felt like every once, you know,
Speaker 1: on the Marquis, Right, So I think I said something
Speaker 1: like I'm on the Marquis or something like that. He
Speaker 1: didn't really know what that meant. How's that possible, Looney?
Speaker 1: That in in a guy and he's a grown ass
Speaker 1: man does not know what that means. Well, yeah, and
Speaker 1: especially you and I always wanted our names above the Marquis.
Speaker 1: Of course, that's right, you want you wanted where Schwarzenegger
Speaker 1: and stallone over the years and and all the great
Speaker 1: actress Daniel Day Looney, you know how dave name about
Speaker 1: the market? Yeah, it is. It is wild there, but
Speaker 1: we've had, you know, in the old days, we had
Speaker 1: some really legendarily horrific people that worked. I had one
Speaker 1: board op well, I had one guy that missed an
Speaker 1: entire Top of the Hour because he didn't I guess
Speaker 1: he said profit had an issue, so he missed an
Speaker 1: entire Top of the Hour commercial break updates thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars he missed. I had another guy in the before.
Speaker 1: We had a guy one time that played nothing but
Speaker 1: you know this guy Loony played nothing but Yahoo games
Speaker 1: back when that was a big thing in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands, and oh my god. The one time on
Speaker 1: the air, I got in an argument on the Louni
Speaker 1: and Dave show about you know, my cousins a priest,
Speaker 1: and Dave goes on the air and says, you know,
Speaker 1: not knowing this, Dave said, you know people who go
Speaker 1: into that occupation as a predisposition for the molestation, right,
Speaker 1: And I said, I said, it's not like it wasn't
Speaker 1: the conversation off the air, this is on the air,
Speaker 1: and I said, and I said, bullshit, And that that
Speaker 1: guy you were talking about was on the other side
Speaker 1: of the room playing solid air and you see him
Speaker 1: sprint across the room to press the dump. And then
Speaker 1: he told me, oh, I got it. Oh, I got it.
Speaker 1: That night I went to an l A Laker game
Speaker 1: and John Ireland, who worked for the Lakers, walked up
Speaker 1: to me and said, Hey, you said bullshit on the
Speaker 1: radio today. Yeah, that was the new guy. I was
Speaker 1: a new guy. So I didn't get in any trouble.
Speaker 1: You know how that goes. Oh yeah, well, speaking of
Speaker 1: that whole sick now you're getting me the greatest Looney
Speaker 1: story I can possibly tell. When I first met Tom
Speaker 1: Looney over twenty years ago, was a long time ago.
Speaker 1: And and and so Looney had been the he was the
Speaker 1: gossip Pound. He had a gossip blog about radio, l
Speaker 1: A radio and yes, I was, well, I was. I
Speaker 1: was an in depth background journalist covering yes journalists another
Speaker 1: biased reporters. So they hired Looney as the update boy
Speaker 1: at the radio station, right and originally and so, um,
Speaker 1: I'll never forget it. You fucked up on one of
Speaker 1: your updates, right, but the program director. But let's keep
Speaker 1: in mind on what I fucked up on. It was.
Speaker 1: It wasn't anything important. It was major League Baseball playoffs score.
Speaker 1: You screwed that up, which at the time was somewhat
Speaker 1: of a big deal. Uh, ur. It was like during
Speaker 1: the It was during the day too. It was like
Speaker 1: a daytime baseball playoffs. Yeah, and the score was like
Speaker 1: three to one. And I said, so I'll never so
Speaker 1: you funk up. We were I was doing the show
Speaker 1: with Dave and you, not Dave Guesco, but David Smith,
Speaker 1: and you, uh, you screw up. The program actor comes
Speaker 1: rumbling and stumbling down the hall and yells at us
Speaker 1: for not correcting you. He doesn't yell at you. You're
Speaker 1: the one that made the mistake. He didn't say were
Speaker 1: you because you were the gossip guy and he didn't
Speaker 1: want to offend you. So instead, the rogame director yells
Speaker 1: in us, we're not even listening to you, and he's
Speaker 1: yelling at That's the power of Looney. It was not
Speaker 1: only that, not only the power of me, but also
Speaker 1: you learned as a very young broadcaster yourself at the time. Uh,
Speaker 1: you learned what politics was all about. He didn't hire you,
Speaker 1: but he hired me. He yelled his fair haired boy
Speaker 1: had the fair haired boy also had a column where
Speaker 1: I talked about radio. Right, so you you took all
Speaker 1: the ship. Tom. Correct me if I'm wrong, because that
Speaker 1: story is pretty good. But I think my favorite story
Speaker 1: I've heard from you two guys is that the one
Speaker 1: that you I guess you you kind of misplaced or
Speaker 1: confuse a couple of shirts. Be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
Speaker 1: Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. Yes, yes, well, I've actually gave
Speaker 1: me a lot of respect from too great. Two things
Speaker 1: gave me respect for Ben because before this happened, I
Speaker 1: had none. So anyway, I I uh so what happened
Speaker 1: was an Extra Sports eleven fifty along came Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio employee, where we thrilled to have an association with
Speaker 1: the syndicated guys that we're gonna take all our shows, right,
Speaker 1: so uh so Fox Sports Radio came along, and then
Speaker 1: they knew that there was some resentment there because they
Speaker 1: were going to take over an afternoon drive and some
Speaker 1: nighttime shows and we were all local twenty four hour
Speaker 1: at the time, and so people were bitter, and so
Speaker 1: they sent us all our own really cool Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio shirts, and mine was a large and you know
Speaker 1: what a weightlifting machine I am, So I decided I
Speaker 1: needed an extra large, so I went into Ben's mailbox
Speaker 1: and stole Ben's extra large I should point out higher
Speaker 1: than me. So now, looney, let me then be point out. Looney,
Speaker 1: let me point out that the shirt in fairness and
Speaker 1: extra large would not have fit me at that time.
Speaker 1: All right, I mean, I mean point that out right there.
Speaker 1: It was rather large in those days. I steal an
Speaker 1: extra extra large. Yeah, it was at least a two x.
Speaker 1: It had to be at least okay, okay, And so
Speaker 1: then I succeed at that. No witnesses, nothing, no cameras
Speaker 1: back at the time. Uh, And we were riding horse
Speaker 1: and buggies to work. There were no cameras at the time.
Speaker 1: And the studios or the security cameras. So that night,
Speaker 1: like her game, and where do I see Ben? Of
Speaker 1: course in the media room or was there's the free
Speaker 1: food before the game? I was working, man, I was
Speaker 1: working sources. I was I was talking to Big Joe
Speaker 1: McDonald and Jim Hill and those guys. I was getting inside. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's right. I was working the buffet also, yes, and
Speaker 1: over near the buffet, I see Ben. Is that Ben?
Speaker 1: And Ben says nothing to me because he shuns me
Speaker 1: like I'm an amish first and wearing a bikini, right,
Speaker 1: damn right, So so I said to myself. Then Ben
Speaker 1: goes and sits down, and I finished getting my food,
Speaker 1: and well, I gotta go sit with Ben because because
Speaker 1: I must be loved, I'm irish, right, Ben refusing to
Speaker 1: talk to me, So I gotta go fix this. I'm
Speaker 1: a fixer. So I went and sat down. I said Ben,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? He said not too good? I
Speaker 1: said why? And Ben, some asshole at work stole my
Speaker 1: shirt sits out our next sexel for a large Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. He had no proof, but somehow he knew,
Speaker 1: and so I fessed up immediately because I had to
Speaker 1: fix it immediately. So I told him right away because
Speaker 1: who knows no matute what age we were. We weren't eleven, right,
Speaker 1: he did not know an eleven year old looney, that's true? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh and I and I. So it was an
Speaker 1: indefensible thing that I did, incredibly immature. I did it.
Speaker 1: Had Ben just right up front told me he knew
Speaker 1: that jig was up, and so I fixed it right there.
Speaker 1: Another great Ben story about telling people exactly how he
Speaker 1: feels to their face. We had a producer nobody liked
Speaker 1: and had a real nasty attitude, and and just what
Speaker 1: we only set it behind his back. Nobody complained to
Speaker 1: management nothing and so, because he was actually quite a
Speaker 1: frightening character. But but Ben walks in one day and
Speaker 1: Ben needed a chair to do some prep for the show.
Speaker 1: And Ben said to this bad guy, excuse me, piece
Speaker 1: of ship, I need that chair. I was always good,
Speaker 1: luny with the relations I learned. You know about that
Speaker 1: that famous book, right, you gotta remember people's names and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And yes, yes it was Dale Carnegie
Speaker 1: How to Win Friends. And that's right, that's right. You
Speaker 1: were the one that told me about I read the book.
Speaker 1: I didn't listen to anything in it, but I did
Speaker 1: read the book. You know. I did the absolute attention
Speaker 1: to the book and that guy because that guy had
Speaker 1: the fowless mouth in the most wicked temper, and that
Speaker 1: Ben would walk in and tempt the short temper guy
Speaker 1: with that. Well, well, I also had I had a
Speaker 1: size advantage over everybody, so I could get away with
Speaker 1: some of that stuff because I could just crush them
Speaker 1: if I had to at that at that time, but
Speaker 1: I mean we had so many remember the trip to
Speaker 1: we all went to cover the Lakers against the Pacers
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. We spent like a week in Indianapolis doing shows.
Speaker 1: We got it was the NBA Finals and it was
Speaker 1: it was you know, it's a it was a three
Speaker 1: four three, right, I'm sorry three. Yes, it's a best
Speaker 1: of ten. They changed the finals out to the best
Speaker 1: of ten. No, it seemed like seven, but it was
Speaker 1: the best of ten. That's looney math is what that is.
Speaker 1: But we we the entire radio station and and a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know this that that only heard
Speaker 1: us on Fox Sports Radio. But we did a morning show.
Speaker 1: We had the Looney and Ben Morning Show that we
Speaker 1: which made for a very awkward set up because if
Speaker 1: you remember Looney, we we had carried at that time
Speaker 1: the Bob and Tom Morning Show, right, which is which
Speaker 1: is based in Indianapolis. That and that was very part.
Speaker 1: It's still on, but it was very popular syndicated morning show,
Speaker 1: the Bob and Tom Show, and we were doing, yeah,
Speaker 1: we were doing our our morning show and covering up
Speaker 1: Bob and Tom. And remember didn't one of the guys
Speaker 1: from the show come out there. And it was very
Speaker 1: it was like very awkward. I yeah, we had to
Speaker 1: interview that the sports guy came out to the Hollywood
Speaker 1: Hollywood Film Works and spa. Remember that's where we did
Speaker 1: our we did. It was like a free country. We
Speaker 1: did a radio show and Indianapolis had no rules about
Speaker 1: small oaking and drinking. We were doing a radio show
Speaker 1: while smoking and drinking. I smoke cigarettes at the time.
Speaker 1: It was really it was like a free country. It
Speaker 1: was great. And uh, we didn't live from the in Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: a Hollywood uh film Works and spawn people would people
Speaker 1: could drink beer, smoke cigarettes and watch movies in this place.
Speaker 1: And it was a bar and chicken wing place and
Speaker 1: we had a blast. But one of the guys in
Speaker 1: the Bob and Tom show came down and we and
Speaker 1: we had to interview him. And little did he know
Speaker 1: that it's you know that we weren't even using their
Speaker 1: show anymore. Oh, yeah, they were, they were, they were.
Speaker 1: That was actually the second time. I think this one
Speaker 1: predates you. But in the early days of AM eleven fifty,
Speaker 1: they were carrying the fabulous sports Babe, right and uh
Speaker 1: and so they Yeah, this was before Looney. It's a
Speaker 1: great story. Anyways, I'll tell it because I have it
Speaker 1: in my head. So the radio station had a big
Speaker 1: Gallas social event. In fact, I remember it was at
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium because they were becoming the Dodger station. You
Speaker 1: just got text there. So they were becoming the Dodger station.
Speaker 1: And so she was on the station, some other big names.
Speaker 1: So they flew all these people out that you know,
Speaker 1: she did the show from I think Connecticut or Florida
Speaker 1: or whatever. So they flew out to l A to
Speaker 1: meet in kind of a hob knob and socialized and
Speaker 1: schmooz with all these executives and all these They brought
Speaker 1: a lot of advertisers in. Well, the problem was that
Speaker 1: the the event was on a Friday like night or
Speaker 1: something like that, the social event. But I think it
Speaker 1: was Larry Stewart in the l A Times that Friday
Speaker 1: morning had reported that the station was planning on pulling
Speaker 1: her show off the air. And uh, she came, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Luny. She came in there a ball of fire,
Speaker 1: as I you would expect, right, you flew all the
Speaker 1: way out for a social event to pro motor radio
Speaker 1: station that's about to pull your show, and uh, I'll
Speaker 1: never forget. It was so awkward and so uncomfortable, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's like you wouldn't like the planning who decided, hey,
Speaker 1: let's fly her out, but we're gonna get rid of
Speaker 1: the show in like a week. And it didn't make
Speaker 1: any sense to me, but that that kind of stuff
Speaker 1: happening all the time, Oh I had. It happened in
Speaker 1: eleventh grade when our our English teacher Elsen, who was
Speaker 1: also assistant wrestling coach, needed how he bought this farmhouse,
Speaker 1: this all broken darmed farmhouse. So it's gonna take six
Speaker 1: of the wrestlers out to help him, you know, get
Speaker 1: to junk out and paint it and stuff. And they
Speaker 1: picked me up last at my house and I got
Speaker 1: in the car and he said, before you come help
Speaker 1: me refurbish my house, I gotta let you know I failed.
Speaker 1: You want to come, Well, let's let's see. That's a
Speaker 1: good thing, that's an honest thing, because you do all that.
Speaker 1: And then it was it was great. I came. I figured, well,
Speaker 1: here's the here's the thing to do. Maybe I'll come
Speaker 1: anyway and he can give a call to the principle
Speaker 1: and then they he'll tell he'll fess up until he
Speaker 1: made a mistake. And I think exactly it happened. Oh really,
Speaker 1: Oh that's great. It got changed on my report card
Speaker 1: because I went out. I went out there and put
Speaker 1: a few coats of paint on his house. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great. So what would a big ben have done
Speaker 1: in that situation. I wouldn't have done. I would have spit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you fucking dick, go to hell. I'm done with you.
Speaker 1: That's it. But uh, but I gotta, I gotta. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we know you're the TV dennist. We know you're I know,
Speaker 1: I know all about it. But there's a lot of
Speaker 1: fans I get. I get messages about your dumbass all
Speaker 1: the time. Where's Loony? Bring Loony back? We missed Loony
Speaker 1: and all this ship? So what since you got pole
Speaker 1: axed by the company here, you have gone on, You
Speaker 1: have gone on to bigger and better things here, And
Speaker 1: what what is it? Well, first of all, let me
Speaker 1: see I went on to keep my blue check mark.
Speaker 1: You did. But how is Live treating you post Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio? I say, member of the Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: Alumni Association. Oh well, it's been wonderful, you know. As
Speaker 1: you know, I was the spokesperson for l I Bank,
Speaker 1: the TV dentist also did uh for Buffalo Wild Wings.
Speaker 1: I not only did a Super Bowl commercial playing a
Speaker 1: sportscaster because I'm such a great actor. I also then
Speaker 1: went on to do one for March Madness that nobody saw.
Speaker 1: Now you're bragging. See now again you're bragging, and you didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't see the super Bowl commercial. You told me
Speaker 1: about it, but I didn't you see it? What's up
Speaker 1: with it? I'll believe me. Ben. I have got a
Speaker 1: copy of my own that I will send you and
Speaker 1: the TV dentist? Did you get paid every time that
Speaker 1: commercial air because that thing aired a lot that was
Speaker 1: on TV? Yeah, it's really cool. You get one check
Speaker 1: for when it's on cable you get enough, and then
Speaker 1: for locals you get a check for a certain amount
Speaker 1: every time it runs on let's say on the original thirteen,
Speaker 1: and then you get a certain amount for the first
Speaker 1: ten times, and after that it cuts in half. But
Speaker 1: still it's a nice chunk of change. Wouldn't it be great? If? Again?
Speaker 1: You know what made me feel great? I reminded myself
Speaker 1: of the great justin I went out. It was my
Speaker 1: first audition after getting pole axed by Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: I said, I'll go out to some acting auditions and
Speaker 1: it was the first one I went to, and I
Speaker 1: got good the first one I went to. That's what
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be wonderful for us, Luny in radio always
Speaker 1: this always upsets me, like I'm so jealous of television
Speaker 1: and movies and things like that. Right, wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: wonderful in radio if we could still get paid from
Speaker 1: shows we did, like the old Blitz back you know,
Speaker 1: seven eight years ago. We got paid because somebody downloaded
Speaker 1: it and we got a little check, Like even if
Speaker 1: it was fifty cents, I would be full. Nobody who
Speaker 1: Nobody's going back and listening. We have all this, We
Speaker 1: have an archive of vault of audio content from the
Speaker 1: last twenty plus years of radio broadcasting. And we don't
Speaker 1: get paid at time for that, not at dime. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not done talking about myself yet. After getting
Speaker 1: pole axed at Fox Sports Radio, not only did I
Speaker 1: do that commercial, big Ben, I got hired as a
Speaker 1: real news anchor. Im I'm a journalist now, but a
Speaker 1: real journalist, not a fake journalist like you. A real
Speaker 1: journalist giving my objective point of view on the news
Speaker 1: of the day on k ABC in Los Angeles. That
Speaker 1: is a legendary That is a legendary news station. Uh.
Speaker 1: KRBC was when I was a kid, you know. Of
Speaker 1: course I used to listen to you on the radio
Speaker 1: and I was a kid, and that was the business.
Speaker 1: K ABC was a big deal. They were the top
Speaker 1: radio station in Los Angeles. But you are really in
Speaker 1: many ways louting your broadcast. You were like the mocking
Speaker 1: Bird media of of broadcast. And you admit that, right, Mockingbird,
Speaker 1: mocking Bird Media. Yeah, you're not familiar with that. You. Oh,
Speaker 1: you don't know this, Ludi doesn't know. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I feel like Brian Friendly, Oh you gotta look this up.
Speaker 1: Operation mocking Bird, Right, so this is this is all
Speaker 1: Gascon knows what I'm talking about here. But this was
Speaker 1: supposedly a c I A program that began in the
Speaker 1: Cold War, and it was a super secret program to
Speaker 1: manipulate the news media for propaganda purposes. Right, so it's
Speaker 1: it's media. Oh wow, Well, now I just get the
Speaker 1: Northeastern liberals just to send me emails and tell me
Speaker 1: what to say, and I'm off. You get the talking
Speaker 1: points memo and you're like, okay, I'm good. I know
Speaker 1: what team mom on and I am running with it now.
Speaker 1: You can never you consider yourself a limousine liberal with that?
Speaker 1: How you you would describe yourself a limousine liberal? Want
Speaker 1: to be? Because I don't have the limits yet. I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta tell you loudy forest fire. I have trouble, like,
Speaker 1: how do I give a liberal point of view on
Speaker 1: a forest fire? It's really hard. You can point to
Speaker 1: climate change? No, that's right one, yeah, because sometimes things
Speaker 1: are so slow. I pray for forest fire. Yeah. Different.
Speaker 1: Now here a question real quick, Tom, because when you
Speaker 1: worked here with us at Fox, traditionally you retire was
Speaker 1: like jean shorts and a Muhammad Ali black shirt. So
Speaker 1: when you work for KBC, do you just wear a
Speaker 1: black BLM shirt? Oh? Yeah, Well, first of all, I
Speaker 1: was wearing those shorts long before a white he came along.
Speaker 1: I've had those shorts for four years. I'm not but
Speaker 1: my white ass was on that fat The thing I've
Speaker 1: read done about that question is jean shorts? You did?
Speaker 1: You were shorts? Guy? I have I have lost a
Speaker 1: different white guy short. They're not Jane short, A lot
Speaker 1: of the same on the same one that Harball wears. Harbor.
Speaker 1: I got Ludy. You gotta get your liberal friends to
Speaker 1: be more like you, because I love, I love, I
Speaker 1: don't go we bash each other all the time, which
Speaker 1: is great, man, But some of these other people they're
Speaker 1: so sensitive they can't take the ribbing. They can't go
Speaker 1: back and forth. And I think everyone's and then aunt
Speaker 1: makes fun of themselves. The number one thing when you're
Speaker 1: when you're blow viating about politics, says who says, I'm
Speaker 1: fucking right exactly. I mean, that's my point, and that's
Speaker 1: why I love you. You know, our converence. We talk
Speaker 1: a lot, we text a lot, and it reminds me
Speaker 1: I've talked a lot when I was growing up my parents.
Speaker 1: My mom liberal, my dad conservative, and they would duke
Speaker 1: get out about the issues of the day at the
Speaker 1: dinner table. But it was kind of in a fun way.
Speaker 1: And then at the end of dinner they would, you know,
Speaker 1: hug it out or whatever, and they go, we we
Speaker 1: go watch TV. Now, Oh I'm gonna I can't. I've
Speaker 1: listened to your show for fifteen years, but you gave
Speaker 1: an opinion. I don't like him on politics, and I'm
Speaker 1: not listening anymore. I mean, right, I know, I know
Speaker 1: it's it's it's so insane that cancel culture. That's your
Speaker 1: that's your side, looney, cancel culture, that's yourself, and it's
Speaker 1: very bye. Sorry, just canceled. By the way, the Egyptians
Speaker 1: fucking inventive. The new Pharaoh would come along and you
Speaker 1: get on, you get hammer and chisel, and they would
Speaker 1: chisel away at the statutes of the forever. But but
Speaker 1: what's great about our text is you know, I you'll
Speaker 1: find like a child molesting liberal who's poisoned his family,
Speaker 1: and then you will send the story to me and say,
Speaker 1: there's your guys. Well you'll do to say, you'll you'll
Speaker 1: find a conservative nut job who's got more guns than
Speaker 1: you know military somewhere does some racking things. I see,
Speaker 1: that is your guys, Mallard right there, there's you guys.
Speaker 1: I think the one difference between you two, though, is
Speaker 1: that when you guys exchange text messages and correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. But Tom always finds the punctuation marks
Speaker 1: that are wrong with the Ben's text messages, of the
Speaker 1: misspelling or the grammar mistakes. I used to do that,
Speaker 1: but now people a lot of times, including myself, will
Speaker 1: use talk to text, and sometimes that can be a
Speaker 1: you know I had recently, I'm texting with a friend,
Speaker 1: a younger friend who needs some mentoring and happens to
Speaker 1: be gay, and so at the end of the and fat.
Speaker 1: So at the end of the text message, I wrote,
Speaker 1: I love my gay brothers and it and it transplates
Speaker 1: I mean I said that, and I hit said and
Speaker 1: it said I love my fat brother and uh right.
Speaker 1: And he's very sensitive about his weight, so that sometimes
Speaker 1: that talk to text doesn't go too well. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you do. You do that all the time, and U
Speaker 1: it's always I mean, there's words completely and you never
Speaker 1: check like when I do voice to text, like I'm
Speaker 1: a better person than you learning because I'll look at
Speaker 1: it to make sure that the spelling is is accurate
Speaker 1: and that all the time, and because because I'm usually ranting,
Speaker 1: because you know how I talk, and sometimes I rant
Speaker 1: because you've tried to push my buttons. And I'm the
Speaker 1: type of guy where even when I know someone's pushing
Speaker 1: my buttons, I fall for it, even when i know
Speaker 1: it's happening, because I'm an emotional creature. And Ben takes
Speaker 1: advantage of that. To be fair, louny mean some of
Speaker 1: these stories are just low hanging fruit. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: so ridiculous and they don't get reported by the mainstream media.
Speaker 1: So I when I see him, I'm like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is because the cool thing about it's one of the
Speaker 1: good things about social I think social media sucks mostly
Speaker 1: it's like brotal and is as it's like it's like
Speaker 1: the matrix. But one of the cool things is like
Speaker 1: everything's getting documented. Like, for example, earlier this week, we
Speaker 1: had that you know, small it's like a small nuclear
Speaker 1: bomb went out in bay Rout and there were seven
Speaker 1: there were seventeen hundred different camera angles of that thing
Speaker 1: going off. Everyone put their phone on in in bay
Speaker 1: Rout and they were recording. Everyone's got a phone everywhere
Speaker 1: and they're recording this, and he saw the whole explosions wild. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I would. I would beg that. I would
Speaker 1: think that people in by Root. Remind you that they
Speaker 1: don't know if it was a small nuclear bomb. No,
Speaker 1: I said it was the size of a small nuclear pie.
Speaker 1: Wasn't Actually that's when they claimed jumbo shrimp. No, no,
Speaker 1: but then it was it wasn't it manure, I claim
Speaker 1: it was like it was it was a fertilizer bomb. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they in the they make those in the military.
Speaker 1: They call him daisy cutters where it doesn't it doesn't
Speaker 1: burn everyone to death, but it just blows you, uh
Speaker 1: sixty ft in another direction. Yeah, there was some. You know,
Speaker 1: it is amazing now where we have camera culture everywhere
Speaker 1: in the world and something like somebody can just be
Speaker 1: mundanely pointing their uh, which would normally probably be later
Speaker 1: useless footage, you know, at a fire and sooner or later,
Speaker 1: when you run out of memory, that's something you get
Speaker 1: rid of. But instead, you know, you know, sixteen hundred
Speaker 1: tons of fertilizer blows up and you've got yourself on
Speaker 1: the Worldwide Web worldwide to catch live editions of The
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven
Speaker 1: pm Pacific. Yeah, it's it's it's insane. Now. I mentioned
Speaker 1: we we briefly did a morning show, the Mallard and
Speaker 1: Looney Morning Show or Luny and Malley whatever we called
Speaker 1: it there, and I think I'm here I had my
Speaker 1: name first in the history of l A radio. I
Speaker 1: think that show and I don't think I'm being braggadocious
Speaker 1: here Looney had the same cultural impact as rick D's
Speaker 1: in the morning, Mark and Brian, Kevin and Bean. It
Speaker 1: was like it was right. It was a shorter show
Speaker 1: than those shows. We didn't have as long run as
Speaker 1: those guys, but that the impact we had on society
Speaker 1: is a local l A morning show was right up
Speaker 1: there with Kevin and Being Mark and Brian and Ricky's.
Speaker 1: You would agree with that, Yes, I would agree that.
Speaker 1: When I walk into a seven eleven. It's the number
Speaker 1: one question I got when people recognize and they recognize you,
Speaker 1: you know, the lonely when they recognize you, they say, hey,
Speaker 1: I got a I got a problem with my back tooth.
Speaker 1: Can you take a look at it? Can you? Can
Speaker 1: you take a look? That's what happens now. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: Or they say, hey, are you the I from the
Speaker 1: best damn sports show period with Tom Arnold? Are you
Speaker 1: that guy? Are you the guy who did that used
Speaker 1: to have at the drive through? Yeah? People would people
Speaker 1: would recognize it because if I'm she was for the
Speaker 1: drive do they recognize Yes? Yes. In fact, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite no no, not from the radio, but I
Speaker 1: I was on the sports list. I think it was
Speaker 1: called with Summer Sanders on Fox Sports Network that air.
Speaker 1: I taped this thing. It was a vignette show where
Speaker 1: you know they did like the Top ten so and
Speaker 1: so this is in the early two thousand's, probably like
Speaker 1: two thousand three, two thousand four. So I I taped
Speaker 1: this in like two days. This thing aired for like
Speaker 1: eight years, and I was I was in line. I
Speaker 1: was living over in the apartment in Hollywood. I was
Speaker 1: at the Kentucky Fried Chicken getting popcorn chicken. I still
Speaker 1: remember what I was getting. I was getting popcorn chicken
Speaker 1: at Kentucky Fried Chicken on Beverly. Actually not on Beverley,
Speaker 1: it was on it was on third, third, third, it
Speaker 1: was what was what's the street? He was on Houser,
Speaker 1: What's the third It's just below Beverly anyway, whatever the
Speaker 1: street was right near the grove over there. And and
Speaker 1: so I'm in line of Camci ordering my popcorn chicken,
Speaker 1: and the guy they happen to have the show on,
Speaker 1: he recognized me from the sports list and uh, and
Speaker 1: he was like all excited. I was like, I was awesome,
Speaker 1: it's great. He didn't give me the food free, but
Speaker 1: he was very excited. I was like, you're excited by that.
Speaker 1: That's wild. My favorite about you being recognized was when
Speaker 1: you would go into the gym every night, late night
Speaker 1: to do cardio and the guy, the guy, the unfriendly
Speaker 1: guy working in front, would never say hello back to you,
Speaker 1: and it became this. You were fascinated by this, how
Speaker 1: this guy could be so unfriendly. Then the guy saw
Speaker 1: you on television. People are so funny, used to speak
Speaker 1: to you all said, hey, oh, I hate that I
Speaker 1: can't stay that loony You love that you love that
Speaker 1: is that is l a in a nutshell? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you gave him nothing back. No, No, I hate that
Speaker 1: I can't say that, you know, loony. I'm the guy,
Speaker 1: you know. When I was dating, I never and I
Speaker 1: would never even say I did radio because people, you know,
Speaker 1: they think, you know, they foolishly a lot of people
Speaker 1: think we make a ton of money, and some people do,
Speaker 1: but I don't, And so I would never when I
Speaker 1: was dating going on this, I would never even say
Speaker 1: I was on the radio. I would say something else
Speaker 1: because I didn't want them to get the wrong impression.
Speaker 1: You know, be phony. I hated that. I can't stay.
Speaker 1: I still can't stand phony people. They bother me you're loony, Bob.
Speaker 1: How dare you? How dare you? Oh? Well, yeah, I say,
Speaker 1: I just it was one of those that, uh was
Speaker 1: kind of unforgettable because I could just picture you. It
Speaker 1: was perfect time for you to stick it right back. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But as you as you know, I like to hold
Speaker 1: the grudge as you as you know, I enjoy holding. Yes,
Speaker 1: you're much more. I stay mad five minutes. You stay
Speaker 1: mad about five years. No, no, I listen. There are
Speaker 1: people at that screwed me over. I I have a list,
Speaker 1: I have. I admitted I got a list. I keep believeing. Now.
Speaker 1: We did the bless How long did we do? About
Speaker 1: seven years? Was it seven years? Seven years? Every Sunday
Speaker 1: six hours? Actually it was more. Sometimes it was even
Speaker 1: more than that. And we do the NFL scores. I
Speaker 1: love that show. That was one of the most enjoyable
Speaker 1: times of my career. I loved it. We had so
Speaker 1: much fun on that show. I missed it. It was
Speaker 1: a great The thing was one of the top icing
Speaker 1: on the kick was the fact that we would be
Speaker 1: watching those games anyway, because it was the NFL and
Speaker 1: so we would be home watching it, but instead we
Speaker 1: were in a studio watching the games, getting paid to
Speaker 1: watch the NFL and bloviate our opinions. Now, the first
Speaker 1: three hours were great radio because it was just you
Speaker 1: and May. But then and sometimes during the first three hours,
Speaker 1: what was also cool as we would get to uh
Speaker 1: interview real broadcast, just like Dick Stockton and the IK
Speaker 1: Troy When and Chris Myers and guys that called the
Speaker 1: game Joe back then. Then the show went right down
Speaker 1: the toilet because after one the earlier, the one o'clock
Speaker 1: games on the East Coast would be ending at four
Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern, and then we wouldn't have to interview athletes,
Speaker 1: and the show went right down the toilet. When those
Speaker 1: zombies came on the show and ruined the whole thing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it was you would This is a reference
Speaker 1: for you as a TV Dennis Louni. It was like
Speaker 1: pulling teeth to try to do these those interviews. And
Speaker 1: I'll never forget you had one of the great moments.
Speaker 1: And I give you full credit when you go into
Speaker 1: the Radio TV Museum some day, Looney, they gotta put
Speaker 1: this on your plaque. You figured out we were so
Speaker 1: frustrated because we were trying to ask really good questions
Speaker 1: about the game and in depth questions, and we were
Speaker 1: trying to really sound, you know, as good as we
Speaker 1: could with these guys and be relatable to these players.
Speaker 1: And you had an epiphany. You figured out that you
Speaker 1: have to dumb it down when you're interviewing athletes after
Speaker 1: NFL games. And remember we went you picked up my
Speaker 1: favorite website, sports cliche dot com, and you just would
Speaker 1: feed them the most basic what it's like. You didn't
Speaker 1: even have to watch any of the game or even
Speaker 1: look at the box score. Just you just had to
Speaker 1: do the final You had to know the final score,
Speaker 1: and you would ask them you really remember one you
Speaker 1: really bought today that was outstanding. I have those questions
Speaker 1: in front of me. I'm just waiting for it to load. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: you guys looked yourself in the mirrorge stepped up and
Speaker 1: brought your a game today. Hey, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: You guys did what you had to do. I just
Speaker 1: started reading. They weren't even questions that the statement, and
Speaker 1: they would be off and running. It was like speaking.
Speaker 1: I would speak and the reson it resonated LOODI. They
Speaker 1: were like, Yeah, that's my man, that's right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't bring my a game today. I got another one here.
Speaker 1: You came to play. You are on your game. You
Speaker 1: really must be happy. You proved you were the better
Speaker 1: teams today. And the coolest part which made it even
Speaker 1: better is you would ask the question. You would turn
Speaker 1: your mic off and then start laughing like you nobody
Speaker 1: thinks I'm funnier than me, right, so turn off the
Speaker 1: I would turn off my microphone, but yours would still be.
Speaker 1: I know, and you can hear me laughing at my
Speaker 1: own material we're listening to, like Ben Jarvis green ellis
Speaker 1: give an answer and Loony's laughing hysterically. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: you're gonna use this win as a stepping stone to
Speaker 1: the next level. You guys known a lot of poison
Speaker 1: right out there this afternoon. It was really us about
Speaker 1: a confidence booster for you. It was. It was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Now we remember we had a producer and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna name the producer who booked a player that has
Speaker 1: speech impediment twice on the two weeks in a row.
Speaker 1: Two weeks in a row. Now, I give it got
Speaker 1: credit because you know, most people, if you have a
Speaker 1: speech impediment's very It's tough, right, I mean, why would
Speaker 1: you do a radio interview and we this guy I
Speaker 1: don't know you should say the name or not of
Speaker 1: the guy, but he was one of the top players
Speaker 1: in the NFL, probably going to the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: but he never was interviewed. I remember we were like,
Speaker 1: why we never hear from this guy? Remember like a
Speaker 1: Kaiser associate type of character, where you he was just
Speaker 1: this great football player. You would he was like a coyote,
Speaker 1: you know, coyote you here, they exist and you never
Speaker 1: see them, but every once in a while you're cats missing,
Speaker 1: you know. He was like that. He was just charing
Speaker 1: this great player in the NFL that you hear about,
Speaker 1: you see, but you never hear his name, you never
Speaker 1: hear him speaking. And then we found out why, Yeah
Speaker 1: it was. And then I remember the second week when
Speaker 1: we he told us in our head said hey, we
Speaker 1: got you know, player X it's coming back, and we were,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you know, because not only that it
Speaker 1: was the first year of the show, Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was it was a producer that we weren't sure
Speaker 1: we were going to get along with. Well you didn't
Speaker 1: get along with yeah, Well, in his defense he got
Speaker 1: along with no one that is that is true. He
Speaker 1: one of the great carduns of all time. Did you
Speaker 1: guys at least any did you guys have any coaches
Speaker 1: or players that would sniff this out with you guys
Speaker 1: though from what you guys are doing, Oh, oh, Ludi,
Speaker 1: remember we had, Oh this is great. This is one
Speaker 1: of the funniest moments about the Blitz too. We would
Speaker 1: interview the broadcasters from Fox and they had the different
Speaker 1: former coaches and players. Well, well, sometimes we would have to,
Speaker 1: as Larney would say, prerecord you love that live on tape.
Speaker 1: We would have to do an interview during a commercial break,
Speaker 1: and we had in the queue, as they say, we
Speaker 1: had one of these commentators from Fox on and we
Speaker 1: was also who was also a big time coach, Yes,
Speaker 1: very successful coach at the different everything I praised it
Speaker 1: more accurately, big time coach. Alright, alright, not a successful coach,
Speaker 1: a big time name, not successful and had a lot
Speaker 1: of good jobs, shall we say, had a lot of
Speaker 1: good jobs. So anyway, so anyway, okay, all right, calm
Speaker 1: down over there, Cowboys're not talking about so so we
Speaker 1: were just imagine me and Louoni are in there. We're
Speaker 1: in the commercial break. We're getting ready preparing to do
Speaker 1: this interview. The guys in the queue so we can
Speaker 1: hear him. He can't hear us because our mics are off,
Speaker 1: and we overheard him. I'm paraphrasing here, Louni, but he
Speaker 1: this guy said he at the time of a successful
Speaker 1: career in football, he was gonna funk with us. Remember
Speaker 1: he was gonna funk around with us because he did
Speaker 1: having to do the interview and he was just gonna
Speaker 1: goof with us. That was what he said, and we
Speaker 1: had what a way to go into an interview loony.
Speaker 1: We also had another one. There was a famous Sila
Speaker 1: pretty sideline reporter. So I'm not talking about a guy
Speaker 1: and a famous pretty sideline reporter. We won't say her name.
Speaker 1: We were just wondering before she came on with us,
Speaker 1: as if she had ever heard me doing impressions of
Speaker 1: her on the air, which I always did, and um,
Speaker 1: once she came on with us, we realized she had
Speaker 1: heard me, yeah, and did not have much of a
Speaker 1: sense of humor, did not have a you know, that
Speaker 1: self deprecating thing. She did not have possessed that self
Speaker 1: deprecating humor. She did not have that. You know, Big Ben,
Speaker 1: my friend the president of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Derek Hall.
Speaker 1: He he used to be a sports talk show host
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, and he did impressions of me, and
Speaker 1: it was the only person I ever remember hearing doing
Speaker 1: an impression of me. I was blown. I was so flattered,
Speaker 1: And so I'm so surprised when people hear another person
Speaker 1: doing an impression of them and they're not flattered that
Speaker 1: someone took the time, Yeah listen and can do their voice.
Speaker 1: But she was not flattered. Yeah, now she was not.
Speaker 1: She had no sense of humor, which was really disappointed.
Speaker 1: He would have been so much more fun if she
Speaker 1: had a sense of humor. She also, as I remember,
Speaker 1: it was really kind of uncomfortable when I asked like
Speaker 1: x is and those questions, you remember, I asked some
Speaker 1: questions that too. She didn't want to talk about herself
Speaker 1: and she didn't want to talk about football. What the
Speaker 1: hell do you have anybody? I know? I mean, it
Speaker 1: made no sense. And then of all the celebrities that
Speaker 1: we had on from Fox that were forced to do
Speaker 1: this that you know, they was part of the deal
Speaker 1: we had and they had to come on and remember
Speaker 1: the coolest guy, and I think to this day the
Speaker 1: greatest radio guests, Kurt Warner. Remember he called up like
Speaker 1: an hour for the show or whatever to make sure
Speaker 1: he would be there on time. It was why we
Speaker 1: usually had us had to track them down, right, But
Speaker 1: he called in early. Yeah, yeah, he called it early.
Speaker 1: And you you you asked him one of the most
Speaker 1: famous questions, Louning. You remember when you asked him about
Speaker 1: the airport there. Yeah, it was a great comeback he had,
Speaker 1: because how many years did we play that drop? Thank
Speaker 1: you Jesus? When people see you in airports? Do they
Speaker 1: say thank you Jesus? And he said, no, they say
Speaker 1: thank you Kurt. Yeah, he was, really he was. They're
Speaker 1: making a movie about Kurt Warner. I think they're making
Speaker 1: another movie. It's coming out in the next You should
Speaker 1: be in that lone. He should get like some kind
Speaker 1: of rule you can go to. Where are you getting
Speaker 1: your steroids these days? Are you still going to want
Speaker 1: to get your steroids? Where are you going for these things?
Speaker 1: They got the border closed down now? Oh no, you
Speaker 1: can't make you run to the border anymore. Oh no,
Speaker 1: have you become a have you become a twig lunar.
Speaker 1: Are you a twig now because you haven't been able
Speaker 1: to go and go to make the run of Mexico?
Speaker 1: Did you just call me a twink or a twig? Twig?
Speaker 1: I said, twig your phone the songs I called you.
Speaker 1: It's a twig, I said, out there you okay? Speaking
Speaker 1: before I forget. One of my other favorite stories about
Speaker 1: the Blitz was we I think we named the engineer, right,
Speaker 1: we can name the guy. He's not around anymore. We
Speaker 1: can name he's still no one of my other gigs.
Speaker 1: I still work with him. Really. Oh, it depends on
Speaker 1: which depends on which one his initials are. His last
Speaker 1: name a famous soup. Uh No, it starts with an s.
Speaker 1: His last name, all right, Steve Stillwell. So Steve Stillwell
Speaker 1: was our engineer on the on the Blitz. And there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of stories about this guy. He was a
Speaker 1: real character. And he's back. He was back in Virginia now,
Speaker 1: I believe, or something like that. And he's like a college.
Speaker 1: He teaches broadcasting. I think he's teaching broadcasting. God love him.
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to when you say he teaches. I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know. But anyway, I liked the guy.
Speaker 1: He was a good guy and he meant he meant well.
Speaker 1: And so he was the engineer on the Blitz. And
Speaker 1: I remember he flew back to New York and he
Speaker 1: missed one of our our football shows on a Sunday.
Speaker 1: And and in those days, I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is still the case, but it was like Jet Blue.
Speaker 1: You could listen to Fox Sports Radio as you flew right.
Speaker 1: They had a bunch of day channels and Fox Sports radios,
Speaker 1: which was really cool to think you could be, you know,
Speaker 1: thousand feet up in the air or whatever and you're
Speaker 1: listening to our show. And so he listened to The
Speaker 1: Blitz on a flight from l a X to like JFK.
Speaker 1: And he then when he got back, he remember, he
Speaker 1: told us that he listened and then he complained, he cut,
Speaker 1: he critiqued the show, not even realized this is the show.
Speaker 1: And he said he because he was a whiner, so
Speaker 1: he was he would he didn't talk, He just whined
Speaker 1: when he spoke. Kind of affectations. He says, listens a
Speaker 1: Blitz for six hours of the same thing over, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's the show. It's the scores over and over again.
Speaker 1: Alight gets to see if the show wasn't done for
Speaker 1: people flying across alright, so people are there, they're screaming
Speaker 1: at me. We've gone long enough here. Do you have okay?
Speaker 1: Do you have anything to promote Loony? Is there any
Speaker 1: of you have a book? Do you have a movie?
Speaker 1: Do you have a TV show? Is there anything you
Speaker 1: want to promote? Here? Upcoming commercial? Thing that's interesting? I
Speaker 1: love when you you bring it back to the subject
Speaker 1: back to me. Thank you so much. I signed a
Speaker 1: Stormy Daniels type nondisclosure agreement. What we people a show
Speaker 1: business calling n d A. But as you know, I
Speaker 1: don't like inside jargon. At least people out like, uh
Speaker 1: cb A collected? Are you cb A? So it sounds
Speaker 1: like I'm on the inside you know that ship. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I signed an n DA man a non disclosure agreement,
Speaker 1: so I cannot talk about the game. You know, the
Speaker 1: game show. Remember I did a game show. Now we
Speaker 1: they they tweaked the game show. I'll send you a
Speaker 1: couple of pictures and smudge out the new name. They
Speaker 1: tweaked the game show. It's got a new aspect to it.
Speaker 1: Kept me on as the host, and so we do
Speaker 1: have a game show that's uh, this hopefully not you know,
Speaker 1: it's canceled culture. Hopefully this won't be canceled. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a game show host like Steve Harvey,
Speaker 1: Tom Looney game show host. Why it's like Steve Harvey
Speaker 1: and a lot of the other grades over the years, Gene,
Speaker 1: remember Jean ray Bird And there was Bob Barker. Yes,
Speaker 1: that that little needle hit one. Yeah, he had that,
Speaker 1: Bob Barker, that little needle microphone that he had famously. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: Bob Barker Stone. I was at a radio college radio convention.
Speaker 1: Imagine how it's terrible that must have been when I
Speaker 1: was his saddleback and Bob Barker was the keynote speaker.
Speaker 1: He started in radio, and he he was very nice.
Speaker 1: He's very nice man. He told us about his early
Speaker 1: days and radio and the transition to television and all that.
Speaker 1: But it was funny because at the time he was involved,
Speaker 1: there was some scandal with one of the models on
Speaker 1: the prices right. Oh he was banging one of the models. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was. The scandal was good for his career because
Speaker 1: he was like seventy and we're like I know everyone
Speaker 1: was shocked by that she was much younger. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah that was I I met you out loving
Speaker 1: on Gameshow. I love. There's a channel called Buzzer that
Speaker 1: it's on. It's yeah, it's they got nothing but old
Speaker 1: game shows and it's I don't know if I even
Speaker 1: know if it's Netflix, but if you go, maybe it
Speaker 1: might be Amazon Prime. But to go on, you know
Speaker 1: a lot of us are spending a lot more time
Speaker 1: indoors these days. So yeah, if you want to talk
Speaker 1: about what's on TV next time, I got a love Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I could do like the whole weekend with you. But
Speaker 1: so we got you got a TV game show, you
Speaker 1: got the radio K A b C in l A.
Speaker 1: You can hear it online on the weekends, right, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I am now an official news journalist. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: never believe the news media, and now now I know.
Speaker 1: Now I have another reason not to believe the news media.
Speaker 1: Tom Looney right there and Developing How also can't mention
Speaker 1: this either another non disposure agreement, but quite possibly soon
Speaker 1: I did all the the Actually my agent called when
Speaker 1: I was on the phone with your Happy Chatter companion
Speaker 1: David Gascon yesterday and did some demos who are very
Speaker 1: popular video game but I can't mention the name right now. Nice,
Speaker 1: all right, well that's I'm happy to report Tom that
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a little competition for that that special project.
Speaker 1: So okay, oh good, so be it'll be fine. And
Speaker 1: you know they need good good because they need several
Speaker 1: with that. So that's good because they need more than
Speaker 1: one voice. It will be glad. I mean, I hope
Speaker 1: they don't play your voice right after mine, but that
Speaker 1: would be good. Now, now Ben glanced over the one
Speaker 1: important question that I would have for you with any
Speaker 1: kind of game show, especially if you're doing television. Um,
Speaker 1: are you gonna be rocking the vest like you traditionally
Speaker 1: do when you're out in the public, are you? Because
Speaker 1: I do have my own look to Muscle Douche looks,
Speaker 1: It's true. It's it's a it's a it's it's something else.
Speaker 1: I'm working on m D. It's a clothing brand, so
Speaker 1: it's Gene shorts and a vest. It's not Jane shorts.
Speaker 1: I don't wear Gane shorts. I don't want people to
Speaker 1: be thinking they wear gan shorts. What are those called?
Speaker 1: What are those called? The gene shorts. They call start
Speaker 1: with the T. What does that call? I forget the
Speaker 1: name of the s. They're called Coover's. That's inside radio.
Speaker 1: That's inside radio. Man. All right, Loony, we love you, man.
Speaker 1: We gotta have you on more often. Uh, but good luck.
Speaker 1: I'll text you in a minute here, alright, pal okay,
Speaker 1: and David shut up. That's right. You know what it's like.
Speaker 1: It's like when we all went out before COVID. I
Speaker 1: think Bennett told the story, but it was you, myself, Ben,
Speaker 1: and Rob Parker. We got together at a nice little
Speaker 1: spot in the west side of town, Mexican food, and
Speaker 1: I said, and they get my let me get my
Speaker 1: first ten words in because I know I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get in anything else after this. So it was lunch
Speaker 1: with with with or dinner with three talk show hosts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you better be a good listener. That was so much fun.
Speaker 1: We we gotta get this pandemic over this. We can
Speaker 1: go back and enjoy some nice meals like that. All right, thanks, Loony, alright,
Speaker 1: thanks