WEBVTT - Looney Tunes 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.400 Come both. If you thought four hours a day, minutes 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:08.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.480 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.599 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.439 hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:26.000 with Ben Maller starts right now. That it does. We 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.000 are in the air everywhere, whether you like it or not, 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.560 eight days a week now because four hours or not enough. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.479 You hear that screeching, that's the person that's gonna be 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:37.839 on here in a minute an interview podcast, and he's 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.040 screeching in the background. Not a professional, bad job by him. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:45.199 But guests gone with me yet again as we do 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.559 this podcast, and you can follow me all over the 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.800 place on Twitter at Ben Maller, Instagram, Ben Maller, on 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:56.000 Fox Facebook, Ben Maller Show, and on Cameo Cameo dot 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.400 Com Ben Maller. But I'm not gonna even introduce guest 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.400 Gone because he jumped the gun on this, so I'm 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.959 gonna go right to it. We welcome in now a 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:11.080 renaissance man a Television Dennis A. Newshound, a member of 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.000 the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, who's making a lot 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.280 of noise in the background right now, give it up 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:23.560 for time. Loony, there he is right there, the great time. Wow. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.040 I love that you refer to me as the Renaissance. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.840 Thank you very much. As you know, a big ben. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.440 I firmly believe every one of God's children has at 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:39.800 least one area of genius. I have eleven one of them. 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.679 One of them is the Renaissance. I have been I have. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.880 I have explored the Renaissance. I've been to the birthplace 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:50.880 of modern civilization in Florence. I have seen the Last 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.120 Supper on the wall of a convent in Milan. Long 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.920 before the Da Vinci Code, I was obsessed with Leonardo 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.760 da Vinci. You can ask me anything you ever need 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.200 to know about the O. J. Simpson trial or Leonardo 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:08.440 da Vinci and I'm ready baby. Now you're just bragging. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.880 See now, now you're just being braggadocious and the humble bragging. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:13.720 You know, no one likes the person that does the 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.480 humble bragg Nobody likes that you said you sound like 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.040 you sound like yescan is what you sound like. It's 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.440 a humble in the house is what I usually like 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.200 to say when I come out and said, guess one 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:29.679 of these Nicol and Dyed podcast humble Now. On a 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.760 scale of one to ten, how annoyed are you the 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:38.840 fact that I have broadcast quality audio, a professional radio 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.200 industry standard microphone that I am talking into, an electro 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.880 voice that I'm talking into, and you are on a 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.440 tin can in string. On a scale of one to tend, 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:52.320 how annoyed is Tom Looney? I can because I have 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:57.440 all the equipment necessary, but your audio engineer had no 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.160 idea what I was talking about when I started up 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:04.160 talking about technical shit. That's right. You can say shit 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.720 on the podcast. That's why we can't say that on 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.320 the damn radio listening. Guesscon's great. You should go back. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.360 I know you hate the podcast, but you should go back. Looney. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.560 We we have recorded some podcasts where we were just 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.400 screaming on top of a hill at each other and uh, 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.040 and it was recorded and broadcast and put on the 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.640 internet for people to consume the audio and listen to. Uh. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.760 Free free content was placed on the internet for people 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.160 to consume. I mean, let me get in here real quick, 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.320 because all of a sudden, I feel young again, which 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:40.520 is nice amongst youtub sounds beautiful. It is thank you 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.839 and some of the things that not. Tom. You gotta 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:44.320 do us a favor before we get any Q and 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.560 A sessions with you right now, Can you give me 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.520 a favor. Since I know you're technologically savvy, can you 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.680 go to your computer and put that sucker on mute 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.560 so we don't get an indicator every time you get 0:03:54.560 --> 0:04:00.960 a fucking email. Please, I really appreciate that. I think. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.520 Here's my here's my philosophy about noise in the background, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.240 technical stuff like that. We're just we're used to noise 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.680 now in American culture. A matter of fact, it drives 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.720 me crazy. I go hiking in the woods. There's a 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.880 thousand acres behind my park, behind my house. I don't 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.120 own those thousand acres, otherwise it wouldn't be here right now. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.839 But whenever I go hiking, I can't believe that people 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:28.080 need music in their ears. The birds chirping aren't enough, 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:32.440 or the silence that gives us chance for wonder isn't enough. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:36.880 People need noise, And so believe me, the noise in 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.000 the background at my place isn't gonna bother any of 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.680 your your mutants that listen to this thing because they 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:48.200 need noise. Yeah, looney, you're becoming the get off my 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.320 long guy. You're becoming to get off my life. What 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.880 happened to get off you? Happy? You would know you've 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.360 actually always been like that, loony. Remember in the old days, 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.520 and when we'd have new producers and they chime in 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.239 but they didn't say their name, you would you would 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.160 scold them. You would pull them aside in the bottles 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.600 of Fox Sports Radio and and lecture them that whenever 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.760 they turn their mic and they have to say their name, 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.560 you were defense. I would yell at them on the 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:23.279 air because it's bad radio. When there's all of a sudden, 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.839 there's this there's this voice that comes in from out 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.039 of nowhere, you know, a little squeaky voice like that 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.400 a child actor you have on your other show, and 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.040 out of the clear blue sky. And then people are 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.039 clueless that they tune in to hear the star of 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.360 the show and the star the squeaky voices for people. 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.080 People don't know who they People inside the building know 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.279 who the voices are, but the people listening to the 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:50.719 show ideally aren't just the five people who side. Well, 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.000 and you made me like Luony the people I know 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.640 you were on that you talk about Rinky Dink that 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.320 Brian Finley podcast. You were on with that and we 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.960 Rinky didnk podcast. Yeah, yeah, well Finley he fills in 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.440 when Eddie takes time off, and he's usually like to 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:10.040 go to filling guy for me and Finley he's lacking 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.039 in somebody like he. I don't think he knew what 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.480 above the Marquis or headliner what he didn't know those terms, 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.640 like basic terms that I felt like every once, you know, 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.040 on the Marquis, Right, So I think I said something 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:23.440 like I'm on the Marquis or something like that. He 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.120 didn't really know what that meant. How's that possible, Looney? 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.040 That in in a guy and he's a grown ass 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.680 man does not know what that means. Well, yeah, and 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.120 especially you and I always wanted our names above the Marquis. 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:41.040 Of course, that's right, you want you wanted where Schwarzenegger 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.640 and stallone over the years and and all the great 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:49.960 actress Daniel Day Looney, you know how dave name about 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:54.839 the market? Yeah, it is. It is wild there, but 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.160 we've had, you know, in the old days, we had 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:02.680 some really legendarily horrific people that worked. I had one 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.719 board op well, I had one guy that missed an 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.120 entire Top of the Hour because he didn't I guess 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.360 he said profit had an issue, so he missed an 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.800 entire Top of the Hour commercial break updates thousands of 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.560 dollars he missed. I had another guy in the before. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.040 We had a guy one time that played nothing but 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.480 you know this guy Loony played nothing but Yahoo games 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.080 back when that was a big thing in the early 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.640 two thousands, and oh my god. The one time on 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.480 the air, I got in an argument on the Louni 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.200 and Dave show about you know, my cousins a priest, 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.680 and Dave goes on the air and says, you know, 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.680 not knowing this, Dave said, you know people who go 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:45.320 into that occupation as a predisposition for the molestation, right, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.960 And I said, I said, it's not like it wasn't 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.360 the conversation off the air, this is on the air, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:56.440 and I said, and I said, bullshit, And that that 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.440 guy you were talking about was on the other side 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:04.960 of the room playing solid air and you see him 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.920 sprint across the room to press the dump. And then 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.680 he told me, oh, I got it. Oh, I got it. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.280 That night I went to an l A Laker game 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.680 and John Ireland, who worked for the Lakers, walked up 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.280 to me and said, Hey, you said bullshit on the 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:27.400 radio today. Yeah, that was the new guy. I was 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.240 a new guy. So I didn't get in any trouble. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.160 You know how that goes. Oh yeah, well, speaking of 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.320 that whole sick now you're getting me the greatest Looney 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.640 story I can possibly tell. When I first met Tom 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.680 Looney over twenty years ago, was a long time ago. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.880 And and and so Looney had been the he was the 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.280 gossip Pound. He had a gossip blog about radio, l 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.280 A radio and yes, I was, well, I was. I 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:57.200 was an in depth background journalist covering yes journalists another 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.120 biased reporters. So they hired Looney as the update boy 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.200 at the radio station, right and originally and so, um, 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.680 I'll never forget it. You fucked up on one of 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.480 your updates, right, but the program director. But let's keep 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.600 in mind on what I fucked up on. It was. 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.439 It wasn't anything important. It was major League Baseball playoffs score. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.720 You screwed that up, which at the time was somewhat 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.800 of a big deal. Uh, ur. It was like during 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.439 the It was during the day too. It was like 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:32.920 a daytime baseball playoffs. Yeah, and the score was like 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:37.120 three to one. And I said, so I'll never so 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.000 you funk up. We were I was doing the show 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.679 with Dave and you, not Dave Guesco, but David Smith, 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.320 and you, uh, you screw up. The program actor comes 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:50.240 rumbling and stumbling down the hall and yells at us 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.320 for not correcting you. He doesn't yell at you. You're 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.360 the one that made the mistake. He didn't say were 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.640 you because you were the gossip guy and he didn't 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.319 want to offend you. So instead, the rogame director yells 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.920 in us, we're not even listening to you, and he's 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.680 yelling at That's the power of Looney. It was not 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.640 only that, not only the power of me, but also 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:15.240 you learned as a very young broadcaster yourself at the time. Uh, 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.520 you learned what politics was all about. He didn't hire you, 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:29.640 but he hired me. He yelled his fair haired boy 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.920 had the fair haired boy also had a column where 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.800 I talked about radio. Right, so you you took all 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.680 the ship. Tom. Correct me if I'm wrong, because that 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.640 story is pretty good. But I think my favorite story 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.760 I've heard from you two guys is that the one 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.839 that you I guess you you kind of misplaced or 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.760 confuse a couple of shirts. Be sure to catch live 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.480 editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.320 Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.880 I Heart Radio app. Yes, yes, well, I've actually gave 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.280 me a lot of respect from too great. Two things 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.720 gave me respect for Ben because before this happened, I 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:10.160 had none. So anyway, I I uh so what happened 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.760 was an Extra Sports eleven fifty along came Fox Sports 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.199 Radio employee, where we thrilled to have an association with 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:21.319 the syndicated guys that we're gonna take all our shows, right, 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.760 so uh so Fox Sports Radio came along, and then 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.520 they knew that there was some resentment there because they 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.560 were going to take over an afternoon drive and some 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.960 nighttime shows and we were all local twenty four hour 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.480 at the time, and so people were bitter, and so 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.480 they sent us all our own really cool Fox Sports 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:45.560 Radio shirts, and mine was a large and you know 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.240 what a weightlifting machine I am, So I decided I 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.439 needed an extra large, so I went into Ben's mailbox 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:57.760 and stole Ben's extra large I should point out higher 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.000 than me. So now, looney, let me then be point out. Looney, 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.079 let me point out that the shirt in fairness and 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.200 extra large would not have fit me at that time. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.240 All right, I mean, I mean point that out right there. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.840 It was rather large in those days. I steal an 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.199 extra extra large. Yeah, it was at least a two x. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.440 It had to be at least okay, okay, And so 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:23.920 then I succeed at that. No witnesses, nothing, no cameras 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.760 back at the time. Uh, And we were riding horse 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.840 and buggies to work. There were no cameras at the time. 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.320 And the studios or the security cameras. So that night, 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.480 like her game, and where do I see Ben? Of 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.600 course in the media room or was there's the free 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.040 food before the game? I was working, man, I was 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.040 working sources. I was I was talking to Big Joe 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.720 McDonald and Jim Hill and those guys. I was getting inside. Okay, 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.040 that's right. I was working the buffet also, yes, and 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:55.200 over near the buffet, I see Ben. Is that Ben? 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.760 And Ben says nothing to me because he shuns me 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.319 like I'm an amish first and wearing a bikini, right, 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:06.200 damn right, So so I said to myself. Then Ben 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.120 goes and sits down, and I finished getting my food, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.040 and well, I gotta go sit with Ben because because 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.880 I must be loved, I'm irish, right, Ben refusing to 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.520 talk to me, So I gotta go fix this. I'm 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.120 a fixer. So I went and sat down. I said Ben, 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.920 how are you doing? He said not too good? I 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.320 said why? And Ben, some asshole at work stole my 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:35.400 shirt sits out our next sexel for a large Yeah. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.840 I didn't know. He had no proof, but somehow he knew, 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.640 and so I fessed up immediately because I had to 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.920 fix it immediately. So I told him right away because 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:52.760 who knows no matute what age we were. We weren't eleven, right, 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.280 he did not know an eleven year old looney, that's true? Yeah, 0:13:55.840 --> 0:14:00.080 and uh and I and I. So it was an 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:05.080 indefensible thing that I did, incredibly immature. I did it. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.200 Had Ben just right up front told me he knew 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.040 that jig was up, and so I fixed it right there. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.120 Another great Ben story about telling people exactly how he 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:18.680 feels to their face. We had a producer nobody liked 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:23.520 and had a real nasty attitude, and and just what 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.640 we only set it behind his back. Nobody complained to 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.560 management nothing and so, because he was actually quite a 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.480 frightening character. But but Ben walks in one day and 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.640 Ben needed a chair to do some prep for the show. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.280 And Ben said to this bad guy, excuse me, piece 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:44.800 of ship, I need that chair. I was always good, 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.880 luny with the relations I learned. You know about that 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.760 that famous book, right, you gotta remember people's names and 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:56.160 all that stuff. And yes, yes it was Dale Carnegie 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.560 How to Win Friends. And that's right, that's right. You 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.320 were the one that told me about I read the book. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.160 I didn't listen to anything in it, but I did 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.320 read the book. You know. I did the absolute attention 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.640 to the book and that guy because that guy had 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.920 the fowless mouth in the most wicked temper, and that 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.880 Ben would walk in and tempt the short temper guy 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:21.480 with that. Well, well, I also had I had a 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.560 size advantage over everybody, so I could get away with 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.800 some of that stuff because I could just crush them 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.480 if I had to at that at that time, but 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.720 I mean we had so many remember the trip to 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.720 we all went to cover the Lakers against the Pacers 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.280 in Indianapolis. We spent like a week in Indianapolis doing shows. 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.440 We got it was the NBA Finals and it was 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:44.720 it was you know, it's a it was a three 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:50.360 four three, right, I'm sorry three. Yes, it's a best 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.880 of ten. They changed the finals out to the best 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:58.160 of ten. No, it seemed like seven, but it was 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:05.520 the best of ten. That's looney math is what that is. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.280 But we we the entire radio station and and a 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.200 lot of people don't know this that that only heard 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.520 us on Fox Sports Radio. But we did a morning show. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.240 We had the Looney and Ben Morning Show that we 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.160 which made for a very awkward set up because if 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.760 you remember Looney, we we had carried at that time 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:26.120 the Bob and Tom Morning Show, right, which is which 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.640 is based in Indianapolis. That and that was very part. 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.240 It's still on, but it was very popular syndicated morning show, 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.000 the Bob and Tom Show, and we were doing, yeah, 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.360 we were doing our our morning show and covering up 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.040 Bob and Tom. And remember didn't one of the guys 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:43.800 from the show come out there. And it was very 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.040 it was like very awkward. I yeah, we had to 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.680 interview that the sports guy came out to the Hollywood 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.320 Hollywood Film Works and spa. Remember that's where we did 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.720 our we did. It was like a free country. We 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.600 did a radio show and Indianapolis had no rules about 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.240 small oaking and drinking. We were doing a radio show 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.520 while smoking and drinking. I smoke cigarettes at the time. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:07.639 It was really it was like a free country. It 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:11.360 was great. And uh, we didn't live from the in Indianapolis, 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.080 a Hollywood uh film Works and spawn people would people 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.960 could drink beer, smoke cigarettes and watch movies in this place. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.040 And it was a bar and chicken wing place and 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.119 we had a blast. But one of the guys in 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.560 the Bob and Tom show came down and we and 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:28.679 we had to interview him. And little did he know 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.359 that it's you know that we weren't even using their 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.719 show anymore. Oh, yeah, they were, they were, they were. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.440 That was actually the second time. I think this one 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.919 predates you. But in the early days of AM eleven fifty, 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:46.920 they were carrying the fabulous sports Babe, right and uh 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.800 and so they Yeah, this was before Looney. It's a 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:51.320 great story. Anyways, I'll tell it because I have it 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.439 in my head. So the radio station had a big 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.840 Gallas social event. In fact, I remember it was at 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.560 Dodger Stadium because they were becoming the Dodger station. You 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.840 just got text there. So they were becoming the Dodger station. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.160 And so she was on the station, some other big names. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.359 So they flew all these people out that you know, 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.760 she did the show from I think Connecticut or Florida 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.000 or whatever. So they flew out to l A to 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.280 meet in kind of a hob knob and socialized and 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.880 schmooz with all these executives and all these They brought 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:23.280 a lot of advertisers in. Well, the problem was that 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:27.000 the the event was on a Friday like night or 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.480 something like that, the social event. But I think it 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.000 was Larry Stewart in the l A Times that Friday 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.880 morning had reported that the station was planning on pulling 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:43.160 her show off the air. And uh, she came, Oh 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.040 my god, Luny. She came in there a ball of fire, 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.560 as I you would expect, right, you flew all the 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.680 way out for a social event to pro motor radio 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.640 station that's about to pull your show, and uh, I'll 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:58.760 never forget. It was so awkward and so uncomfortable, and uh, 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.600 it's like you wouldn't like the planning who decided, hey, 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.480 let's fly her out, but we're gonna get rid of 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.359 the show in like a week. And it didn't make 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.160 any sense to me, but that that kind of stuff 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.560 happening all the time, Oh I had. It happened in 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:15.679 eleventh grade when our our English teacher Elsen, who was 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:19.240 also assistant wrestling coach, needed how he bought this farmhouse, 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.800 this all broken darmed farmhouse. So it's gonna take six 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.000 of the wrestlers out to help him, you know, get 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.359 to junk out and paint it and stuff. And they 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.080 picked me up last at my house and I got 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.120 in the car and he said, before you come help 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.040 me refurbish my house, I gotta let you know I failed. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:44.119 You want to come, Well, let's let's see. That's a 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.439 good thing, that's an honest thing, because you do all that. 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.959 And then it was it was great. I came. I figured, well, 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.480 here's the here's the thing to do. Maybe I'll come 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.520 anyway and he can give a call to the principle 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.600 and then they he'll tell he'll fess up until he 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:01.399 made a mistake. And I think exactly it happened. Oh really, 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.200 Oh that's great. It got changed on my report card 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:06.040 because I went out. I went out there and put 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.520 a few coats of paint on his house. Yeah yeah, yeah, 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.960 that's great. So what would a big ben have done 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:16.240 in that situation. I wouldn't have done. I would have spit. Yeah, 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.439 you fucking dick, go to hell. I'm done with you. 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.360 That's it. But uh, but I gotta, I gotta. Yeah, 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.880 we know you're the TV dennist. We know you're I know, 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.080 I know all about it. But there's a lot of 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.840 fans I get. I get messages about your dumbass all 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.440 the time. Where's Loony? Bring Loony back? We missed Loony 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.920 and all this ship? So what since you got pole 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.480 axed by the company here, you have gone on, You 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.320 have gone on to bigger and better things here, And 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:43.600 what what is it? Well, first of all, let me 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:45.600 see I went on to keep my blue check mark. 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.880 You did. But how is Live treating you post Fox 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:52.960 Sports Radio? I say, member of the Fox Sports Radio 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:57.640 Alumni Association. Oh well, it's been wonderful, you know. As 0:20:57.640 --> 0:20:59.840 you know, I was the spokesperson for l I Bank, 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:03.800 the TV dentist also did uh for Buffalo Wild Wings. 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:06.399 I not only did a Super Bowl commercial playing a 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.520 sportscaster because I'm such a great actor. I also then 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:14.440 went on to do one for March Madness that nobody saw. 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.639 Now you're bragging. See now again you're bragging, and you didn't. 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.000 I didn't see the super Bowl commercial. You told me 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.800 about it, but I didn't you see it? What's up 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:25.040 with it? I'll believe me. Ben. I have got a 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:28.720 copy of my own that I will send you and 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.000 the TV dentist? Did you get paid every time that 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:33.520 commercial air because that thing aired a lot that was 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.400 on TV? Yeah, it's really cool. You get one check 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.160 for when it's on cable you get enough, and then 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:42.600 for locals you get a check for a certain amount 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:48.440 every time it runs on let's say on the original thirteen, 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:53.560 and then you get a certain amount for the first 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:56.240 ten times, and after that it cuts in half. But 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:59.800 still it's a nice chunk of change. Wouldn't it be great? If? Again? 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:03.240 You know what made me feel great? I reminded myself 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:07.000 of the great justin I went out. It was my 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:12.399 first audition after getting pole axed by Fox Sports Radio. 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:14.879 I said, I'll go out to some acting auditions and 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.919 it was the first one I went to, and I 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:20.679 got good the first one I went to. That's what 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:24.920 it wouldn't be wonderful for us, Luny in radio always 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:27.520 this always upsets me, like I'm so jealous of television 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:30.080 and movies and things like that. Right, wouldn't it be 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:32.560