Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio
Speaker 3: from the Malar Podcast studio deep in the north Woods
Speaker 3: and Danny at a secret, undisclosed location as we are
Speaker 3: hanging out together all weekend long. I'm on drugs right now, man,
Speaker 3: bringing the razmataz. Danny, you were bringing the rasmut as
Speaker 3: we flap our gums for as long as they will
Speaker 3: allow us to.
Speaker 1: Flap our gums.
Speaker 3: And this being the Friday podcast, it's kind of a
Speaker 3: big day, Nanny, It's kind of you probably don't think
Speaker 3: it's a big day. It's like, well, today's the eighth
Speaker 3: day of September. What's so special about that? Right?
Speaker 1: Well, there's no holiday today, right, Oh?
Speaker 4: I know what the special occasion is? What would that
Speaker 4: be you debut on national TV.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's all about me. No, well kind of.
Speaker 1: So this is a crazy day in my life where
Speaker 1: today the TV show that I've been talking about is
Speaker 1: actually going to be broadcast on regional cable channels from Boston,
Speaker 1: from Maine, all over the country.
Speaker 3: I don't even know where it's going to be on,
Speaker 3: and you know all the places it will be on.
Speaker 3: It's really a great well, it's kind of a cool day.
Speaker 3: It's also a little bit nerve racking. So this podcast
Speaker 3: dedicated to a behind the scenes look. I've been getting
Speaker 3: people emailing me quite a bit saying they have random
Speaker 3: questions about what's been going on, and like how the
Speaker 3: hell did this happen? Like are you lying to us?
Speaker 3: Like all this random stuff. So we're going to dedicate
Speaker 3: the bulk of this Friday podcast to that. And then Dandy,
Speaker 3: obviously you're here, and so if there's anything that I
Speaker 3: might have missed or anything you want to add, anything,
Speaker 3: you want to know a little spice on top of it.
Speaker 1: You're like the spice guy.
Speaker 3: You're the spice guy.
Speaker 4: I'm like your storytelling referee.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: You can say, hey, wait a minute, that's bullshit, that's
Speaker 3: not true. And then I said, well, no it is,
Speaker 3: and then you say, well, no it's not anyway, So.
Speaker 4: Before you get into it, I have one quick request. Okay,
Speaker 4: if Looney ever gets on your nerves, which I think
Speaker 4: is going to happen a few times this TV season,
Speaker 4: please tell Looney I want Danny G back as the Penny.
Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, I have had many people say, well, what
Speaker 1: about Danny G.
Speaker 3: What about you know, we got to get Danny G
Speaker 3: in there and all that, And yet you loved doing
Speaker 3: the Penny.
Speaker 1: But you're not like a.
Speaker 3: Huge gambling guy.
Speaker 1: You've admitted that you're not like.
Speaker 4: A right right, But I think that was part of
Speaker 4: the fun, was that it showed that even a non
Speaker 4: gambling person could have fun with Benny versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's kind of the deal.
Speaker 3: And I've done this for a long time and it's
Speaker 3: while it is plausibly a gambling show, it's really just
Speaker 3: you know, goofing around having fun, you know, talking football.
Speaker 4: And point out how bad your picks were.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I had great year.
Speaker 4: How dare you?
Speaker 3: I had the greatest year I've ever had last year,
Speaker 3: which means I am set up for one of the
Speaker 3: most epic falls of all time. I am going to
Speaker 3: get crushed by the penny. It is going to be humiliating, embarrassing,
Speaker 3: all of that emasculating unless it's not. But the question
Speaker 3: what is it like to launch the show? The show
Speaker 3: is done, it's airing today, and so in Malard Monologue's
Speaker 3: you know kind of style here, Danny, even though it's
Speaker 3: the podcast, I've got Robert Redford, Brokaw and comp you
Speaker 3: box those three things and.
Speaker 4: We will mix them all together like gumbo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna be well, we're not gumbo. No no, no, no,
Speaker 3: We're going to make a gulash is what we're gonna make. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Hungarian gulash. Just throw a lot of crap into a
Speaker 3: bowl and then call.
Speaker 1: It gulash racist.
Speaker 3: So uh, this is, by the way, I want to
Speaker 3: learn all the the podcast listeners. This is a.
Speaker 1: Global, worldwide exclusive.
Speaker 3: Nobody else has this content, Danny, that we are about
Speaker 3: to go over here because nobody else wants it. But
Speaker 3: we are going to take you I saw this on
Speaker 3: a TV show years ago. We're going to take you
Speaker 3: on a.
Speaker 1: Journey to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Speaker 3: I'm in command making of a regional cable television NFL
Speaker 3: gambling show, and the show we will tape the show
Speaker 3: every Thursday throughout the NFL season. Yeah. Why do we
Speaker 3: tape the show on Thursday? Because there's a lot of
Speaker 3: editing that has to go on in the show and
Speaker 3: it has to be ready to go for the East
Speaker 3: Coast early in the day, and because of my sleep
Speaker 3: schedule doing the radio show.
Speaker 4: Danny, I have yo, Ben, that poor editor. You could
Speaker 4: barely fit Benny Versus the Penny into an hour in
Speaker 4: the past. How do you fit all of that into
Speaker 4: a half hour TV show?
Speaker 3: It's a great question, Danny, and so yes. In fact,
Speaker 3: years ago, Benny Versus the Penny at some episodes were
Speaker 3: ninety minutes or more. It was just just.
Speaker 1: Going and going and going.
Speaker 3: So having met with the people at NBC, they're like, listen,
Speaker 3: this is a and we want this fast paced. You're
Speaker 3: not necessarily going to get as much stuff out there,
Speaker 3: but we're going to get the really good stuff. And
Speaker 3: I said, sure, okay, so you're gonna pay me money
Speaker 3: and I can do less, uh than I that I
Speaker 3: that I've done. Well, that's kind of that. But we're
Speaker 3: gonna we're gonna really highlight the cream of the crop
Speaker 3: and all that. So, yeah, it's a half hour, got you.
Speaker 4: So when you get to a game that is kind
Speaker 4: of a snoozer, you you really don't even spend a
Speaker 4: few minutes on it. You just pass it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we highlight what we think are the most
Speaker 3: important games of the weekend. And there's a a blue
Speaker 3: ribbon panel thing, and so I like using the term
Speaker 3: blue ribbon. But there's my names on the show, and
Speaker 3: so I have editorial control to a point.
Speaker 1: But it's meeting of the minds.
Speaker 3: And you know, Vinnie's our producer from NBC Sports Boston.
Speaker 3: He's really good, and so I I kind of go
Speaker 3: back and forth with him about what we're going to
Speaker 3: do and how we're going to do it. Oh, there's
Speaker 3: no question, yeah exactly. So we record on Thursday, and this,
Speaker 3: by the way, Dan, this turned into an epic day,
Speaker 3: all right. It actually started back on Wednesday. So we're
Speaker 3: going to go back in the hot tub time machine
Speaker 3: to Wednesday. So one of the guys, you don't know
Speaker 3: unless you're a stocker, there's a guy named John. Last
Speaker 3: names aren't really important. John's a great guy. I'd never
Speaker 3: met John until about a year ago. Actually I didn't
Speaker 3: meet him until a couple months ago. We had communicated
Speaker 3: via email on the phone, and John's actually one of
Speaker 3: the big executives at NBC. At NBC that reached out
Speaker 3: to me and say, hey, we're thinking about doing the.
Speaker 1: Show with you, and we want.
Speaker 3: To see if we have something here, which I thought
Speaker 3: was at first, I thought I was getting punk, you know.
Speaker 3: I thought, well, that's funny, uh, you know, but it
Speaker 3: looked like an official email. So we've we've gone back
Speaker 3: and forth for a while. But John flew out, he
Speaker 3: lives in Philadelphia. He flew out and some other people
Speaker 3: from NBC to be part of this the maiden Voyage
Speaker 3: of Benny Versus the Penny, And so Wednesday he was
Speaker 3: in town and so he's like, Hey, why don't we
Speaker 3: get together with you and Looney and significant others and
Speaker 3: all that, and we'll go to a nice meal and
Speaker 3: we'll celebrate because you're going to tape the show on Thursday,
Speaker 3: so we'll celebrate on Wednesday. So, you know, Looney being
Speaker 3: Looney am I on picked the Smokehouse in Burbank as
Speaker 3: the restaurant. Don't know. Have you been to the Smoke
Speaker 3: House in Burbank, Danny, have you been there? Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: a legendary place. So I got up at about one
Speaker 3: thirty in the afternoon on Wednesday. I left the house
Speaker 3: pretty quick, a lot of traffic. Took a couple hours
Speaker 3: to get from where I am to the Smokehouse, so
Speaker 3: that was a pain of the ass. Now Looney picked
Speaker 3: the restaurant because it's a classic Hollywood spot if you've
Speaker 3: never been to Los Angeles, and based on who's listening
Speaker 3: to the podcast, a lot of you have not. But
Speaker 3: it's right across the street from the legendary Warner Brothers Studios,
Speaker 3: So there's a big street and then outside of Warner
Speaker 3: Brothers Studios. Now on the other side, if you go
Speaker 3: down Riverside Drive, there is it's Gate eight of Universal Studios,
Speaker 3: and so it's right in between Warner Brothers and Universal Studios,
Speaker 3: two of the biggest movie studios in Hollywood. And so
Speaker 3: the Smoke House it's place. It was originally built at
Speaker 3: the very end of World War Two. So I know
Speaker 3: in Boston and New York and Philly, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of really old stuff and even older stuff in England,
Speaker 3: but by Los Angeles standards, this is a pretty old restaurant.
Speaker 3: There's not a lot of stuff in LA that's older
Speaker 3: than that. There's a few things, but not much. And you,
Speaker 3: of course, Danny, you know because you've been there. What
Speaker 3: is the Smokehouse known for? What is there signature dish
Speaker 3: that they're known for.
Speaker 4: What do you think meats?
Speaker 3: No, it's the it's the garlic bread. It's the cheesy
Speaker 3: garlic bread.
Speaker 4: And also spotting a lot of celebrities when you sit down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, so that it has this old restaurant aura
Speaker 3: and decor. You know, you go in there, you're like
Speaker 3: in a time portal. So it's that kind of place.
Speaker 3: And in this place, is you mentioned Hollywood? The gaggle
Speaker 3: of shows, a Rockford American woman. They filmed The Office,
Speaker 3: an episode of The Office there. I love The Office, Entourage,
Speaker 3: a bunch of other stuff that's been filmed there over
Speaker 3: the years. But this was a regular hangout spot for
Speaker 3: Robert Redford back in the day. Obviously, Judy Garland, Errol Flynn,
Speaker 3: these are some big old names in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: They'd hang out eating steak. I had a great meal
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 3: Went big because I knew NBC was paying for the food,
Speaker 3: so I didn't have to worry about paying for the food.
Speaker 3: So I was like, all right, I'll get whatever I want.
Speaker 3: So I got a ribbi steak. You know, I had
Speaker 3: it prepared, Dan, you want to take a guess how
Speaker 3: I had my ribbi steak prepared.
Speaker 4: Oh you had them burn it?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I said, I would like it to look
Speaker 3: like the tires on the mal ormobile.
Speaker 1: Not only I haven't burn it, I hadn't burn it.
Speaker 3: But I eat my steak the same way Rob Parker
Speaker 3: eats his steak butterfly cut. So you butter fly cut
Speaker 3: it and kick and you cook it well done. At
Speaker 3: some cheesy potatoes out gratten. Oh yeah, and I was, man,
Speaker 3: I was happy.
Speaker 4: I was like, I remember people ordering their clammed chowder
Speaker 4: there too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have a lot of really good stuff.
Speaker 3: I really what I wanted was the French onion soup,
Speaker 3: but that's a that's a premiere item. They only have
Speaker 3: that on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and I was there
Speaker 3: on a Wednesday, so I did not get my French
Speaker 3: onion soup, which was unfortunate. So the meal lasted about
Speaker 3: ninety minutes. As we give you the in depth coverage
Speaker 3: of random meals, but this was a big deals like
Speaker 3: the dinner before the night before, the final supper before
Speaker 3: the show. And then John did not have a car,
Speaker 3: so I gave him a ride to his hotel, which
Speaker 3: was right down the street, and we headed to I
Speaker 3: headed to FSR.
Speaker 1: I got there early.
Speaker 3: I had the decision of either going back to the
Speaker 3: north Woods, which would have been two hours, or go
Speaker 3: about forty minutes to FSR. So I did the forty
Speaker 3: minute thing and that was smooth. I got ready for
Speaker 3: the overnight show, and then after the show, I had
Speaker 3: some time to kill, so I did a crash course,
Speaker 3: well final preparation for Benny versus the Penny, and it
Speaker 3: was very rapid and intense and all that. And then
Speaker 3: I headed over to my wife's work. She was working
Speaker 3: the overnight shift at the police station, and she's my
Speaker 3: makeup lady. I'm married, my wife wants to dress up.
Speaker 3: I'm not a big makeup guy, Danny, as you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know me along.
Speaker 4: I used to wear.
Speaker 1: Lipstick back in the day, but I gave that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't I.
Speaker 4: Really make up, haven't been anything around your eyes on
Speaker 4: game day like Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I mean you're right.
Speaker 3: I mean occasionally it's a big, big night at work,
Speaker 3: I'll put some eye, will put some EyeBlack on, that's right.
Speaker 1: But I haven't done that in years.
Speaker 3: And so anyway, she was in charge of the makeup,
Speaker 3: and she figured out what I needed and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: And it's not really my domain. That's why I like radio.
Speaker 3: There's no makeup, but whatever I TV pays better. So
Speaker 3: from there headed over to this is kind of cool
Speaker 3: to Universal Studios, but not the theme park, the actual
Speaker 3: movie studio where they actually make films, although they're not
Speaker 3: making them now because everyone in Hollywood's on strike, so
Speaker 3: it's pretty it's a ghost out at Universal Studios. The
Speaker 3: studios are all mostly empty, and so went in there.
Speaker 3: We have a small studio and it is located in
Speaker 3: the Brokaw News Center, which is the West Coast Bureau
Speaker 3: of NBC. They have CNBC, which is actually where we
Speaker 3: are is near CNBC. They have MSNBC. I know, Justin
Speaker 3: and Cincinnati is a big fan of that, and then
Speaker 3: they have like the local like news network News and
Speaker 3: so there's all these different studios and a lot of
Speaker 3: random people that seem to be pretty important. I don't
Speaker 3: know if they are not.
Speaker 4: Did you pop your head in there and say fake news?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I kept my master. But we walked.
Speaker 1: I walked all over the place, and yeah, everyone was cool.
Speaker 3: Everyone's nice, and it's trying to get through the day
Speaker 3: and all that stuff. Then congratulations. Then had some more
Speaker 3: time to kill. There's a lot of time to kill
Speaker 3: on these kind of days. And you know this, this.
Speaker 1: Is actually a big deal.
Speaker 3: I want to point out, like you know, working in
Speaker 3: radio Danny, especially doing the overnight show, nobody goes out
Speaker 3: of their way at all for the show.
Speaker 1: No should they, right, you know, you know this, don't
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 3: I had people flying in from New York, people that
Speaker 3: work at Rockefeller Center for NBC. I had people from Philly,
Speaker 3: and John came out. We've got the Boston crew. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is like.
Speaker 1: A global national operation. It's insane here, man, I can't
Speaker 1: believe you. This guy, one of the guys I met,
Speaker 1: and he said, I have flo I worked.
Speaker 3: At Rockefeller Center, New York. I came out to make
Speaker 3: sure this thing goes smoothly. And I'm like, Wow, that's
Speaker 3: a long trip to make for the half hour show,
Speaker 3: you know, like Jesus. But they were all great and
Speaker 3: it was wonderful. So next up on this thorough review
Speaker 3: of Benny Versus the Penny. The opening episode, we went Seinfeld,
Speaker 3: got there early, had our window. We're gonna start recording
Speaker 3: the show. But we did a table read with television's
Speaker 3: Tom Looney at the round table at the meeting room.
Speaker 3: And there's a round table, and now I love roundtable,
Speaker 3: but there were no garlic parmesan, garlic twists or pizza,
Speaker 3: so it's just a table.
Speaker 1: It would have been better if they had that. So
Speaker 1: I did that.
Speaker 3: I kind of went over, you know, the battle plan.
Speaker 3: I wanted to make sure we did not totally embarrass ourselves.
Speaker 3: Then I went into the studio, which is very small studio,
Speaker 3: but it works. It looks massive on television. So I
Speaker 3: went into the studio, did the whole wardrobe thing. Put
Speaker 3: my I have a kind of a costume I have
Speaker 3: to wear every week. Put the mic on the IFB,
Speaker 3: which is a fancy way of saying an earpiece so
Speaker 3: the producer can yell at you and say you suck
Speaker 3: you fit that up, you know, that whole thing. Anyway, So,
Speaker 3: as I mentioned, the show's produced out of Boston, and
Speaker 3: so we kind of went over some final notes, started
Speaker 3: recording the show. Three segments. They're all timed out. Every
Speaker 3: segment needs to be in a very tight window because
Speaker 3: you got to make sure you get it in and
Speaker 3: you have time for the commercials obviously, and then the
Speaker 3: next starts and we're only half an hour.
Speaker 4: So that must have been really hard for you.
Speaker 3: Andy Reid now fun fact, Danny fun fact. Depending on
Speaker 3: which market you watch Benny Versus The Penny, it's being
Speaker 3: distributed by NBC obviously, but it's in non NBC stations
Speaker 3: will carry the show, some of them, So depending on
Speaker 3: the market, you'll see a slightly different version of the show.
Speaker 3: There are small tweaks. There's actually like three or four
Speaker 3: versions of the same show that involved. From what I
Speaker 3: was told, it's above my pay grade, but I was
Speaker 3: told it involves the you'll love this, the legal ease,
Speaker 3: the gambling.
Speaker 1: Bureaucracy in America.
Speaker 3: This is if we talk about betting and gambling, obviously,
Speaker 3: and so there's different sponsors in different cities, and you
Speaker 3: can say certain things in some cities and then in
Speaker 3: other cities. That's for voting, so you got to navigate
Speaker 3: a lot of that stuff, which I had nothing to
Speaker 3: do with that. We just did the show and then
Speaker 3: other people have to slice and dice and edit all that.
Speaker 3: But it was a very long day and then we
Speaker 3: wrapped up the shoot and you know, I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: sit here and say it was one take.
Speaker 1: No, No, we had many takes.
Speaker 3: Because there's me and Looney, there's a whole production team
Speaker 3: in Boston. We'd never really done the show that was
Speaker 3: going to be broadcast. We had done demo shows, but
Speaker 3: it's much different was actually be broadcast because especially the
Speaker 3: first show, you don't want to screw up the first show,
Speaker 3: right the first show, because if you screw up the
Speaker 3: first show, they might not give you a second show,
Speaker 3: and boy with that blow. So we really wanted to
Speaker 3: nail the first show and get it right. So we
Speaker 3: did a lot of takes, and then there'd be little
Speaker 3: things like the mic would cut out, you know, Looney
Speaker 3: would do something stupid. Then I'd have a brain fart.
Speaker 3: So we did that. But at the end of the shoot,
Speaker 3: John's like, hey, that was you know, that's great. You
Speaker 3: guys are gonna be on TV. Now, that's why don't
Speaker 3: we go have a nice meal. So we went to
Speaker 3: a kind of a breakfast. I was really lunch. It
Speaker 3: was went to Patty's. You've been to patty I bet
Speaker 3: you've been to Patty's on Riverside and Burbank. Have you
Speaker 3: been there?
Speaker 4: I have been there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's another one of these old places been around.
Speaker 3: It's a famous hangout spot. Have you seen the green
Speaker 3: room at Patty's? Have you seen the green The green
Speaker 3: room is this big boardroom type place in the back,
Speaker 3: and that's where they make deals like the movie studios.
Speaker 3: You know, they come in there they say we need
Speaker 3: the green room.
Speaker 4: Eight there twice I think when I lived there in Burbank,
Speaker 4: I always pictured Walt Disney like in the back making
Speaker 4: a deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well Burbank, like to Luca Lake, Burbank. There's some great
Speaker 3: diners in that area, like Bob's Big Boys that's still there.
Speaker 3: Bob's Big Boys still there. Yeah, to hang out there.
Speaker 3: Jay Leno when he'd host the Tonight Show would be
Speaker 3: hanging out it. Go to Bob's Big Boy all the
Speaker 3: time and all that. Yeah, I love that area. I
Speaker 3: wanted to live in te Luca Lake. I used to
Speaker 3: work there and I couldn't afford a house into Luca Lake,
Speaker 3: so I couldn't couldn't get in.
Speaker 1: I was like you, I would have absolutely, that's a
Speaker 1: great area.
Speaker 4: You would have had to be on NBC TV back then.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, the small salary and radio did not quite work.
Speaker 3: And anyway, so we did the lunch thing with the
Speaker 3: patties and I said, I'm at Patty's.
Speaker 1: You know what I have to have. I have to
Speaker 1: have a Patty's Melt.
Speaker 3: So I had a Patty's Melt and that was great
Speaker 3: and all that, and then I said I had to go.
Speaker 3: We talked a bunch of old broadcasting stories. Me and
Speaker 3: Looney went back and forth on crap that happened. We
Speaker 3: did the blitz on FSR and regaling our friend John
Speaker 3: from NBC about that, and had a ninety minute drive.
Speaker 3: So let's go quickly now to the compu box stats, Danny,
Speaker 3: the CompuBox stats, and I would like to report to
Speaker 3: all of you listening to this podcast, well mainly you,
Speaker 3: that I now have official Crackhead Bob hours, or I
Speaker 3: guess in this case, crackhead been so from the span
Speaker 3: of waking up on Wednesday to going back to sleep
Speaker 3: if you want to call what I did did sleep?
Speaker 3: I ate two meals, which for me is a lot.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm an interminute faster, but I figured rare
Speaker 3: and appropriate and how many how many chances are you
Speaker 3: gonna get to have a nice meal with a big
Speaker 3: television executive and to launch a TV show that's like
Speaker 3: a big deal.
Speaker 4: Really quick? What did Looney order to eat? By the way,
Speaker 4: did he clean the joint out?
Speaker 3: He ordered eggs benedict, which I think is disgusting, but
Speaker 3: he like, oh that's good, that good choice, and then
Speaker 3: he had like potatoes. It is odd because Looney's like
Speaker 3: a vegetable. He doesn't need anything good, anything I would like.
Speaker 4: Did he do a steak at the Smokehouse?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, I think he did prime rib if I remember,
Speaker 3: looks gooey to me. Yeah. So we were going big,
Speaker 3: you know, and that's when you go out and other
Speaker 3: people are paying, and you know they don't really care
Speaker 3: what you order. Whatever you want. Yeah, you go big.
Speaker 4: You get three four sides just for your side of
Speaker 4: the table. Yeah.
Speaker 3: If I was paying for that meal, I'd say, can
Speaker 3: I have a side of fries? So that was the
Speaker 3: meals that did so. Again, just to recaps, I mentioned
Speaker 3: CompuBox stats, Crackhead Bob hours, Crackhead Ben two meals, four hours,
Speaker 3: network radio, five hundred stations, several meetings, tape the TV show.
Speaker 3: First time I've ever done that to actually be broadcast.
Speaker 3: By the time I got home, it was two PM
Speaker 3: and I was awake for over twenty five hours.
Speaker 1: Take that for data.
Speaker 3: At one point during the production for Benny Versus Penny,
Speaker 3: John pulled me aside and gave me like, hey, come on,
Speaker 3: we need more energy, man. I was I was fading
Speaker 3: a little bit. I'm not gonna lie, Danny, I was
Speaker 3: fading a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean I was. I was not quite.
Speaker 3: I had good energy at the start, but by the
Speaker 3: time we were finishing up, I was like, whoa man,
Speaker 3: But I did complete the Malor Marathon.
Speaker 4: It was like your corner man, did he slap you around?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I told him. I said, that's great because
Speaker 3: he gave me a pep talk. You know, He's like, listen,
Speaker 3: you know, here's what And the people at NBC have
Speaker 3: been great, And the one thing that I'm most excited
Speaker 3: about about this TV show is you know how you
Speaker 3: do TV, Danny, and you see people on TV and
Speaker 3: they're all buttoned up, you know, they're all serious because
Speaker 3: you're on TV and you.
Speaker 1: Gotta act different.
Speaker 3: And when I first started doing some pilots for the show,
Speaker 3: I kind of acted like that. And and Bill, one
Speaker 3: of the big guys who's a big supporter of mine
Speaker 3: at NBC, he said, listen, we want you because of
Speaker 3: the what you do on the radio. That's what we want.
Speaker 3: That's the guy we want. We don't want the guy.
Speaker 3: You don't want to buttoned up.
Speaker 1: Guy and all that.
Speaker 3: You know, if the stuff you say on the radio
Speaker 3: and all that, we you know, goofing on Kyler Murray
Speaker 3: or whatever, that's what we want. We don't want, you know.
Speaker 1: Buttoned up guy.
Speaker 4: Last time, Like the last time you were on NBC,
Speaker 4: you were too like serious.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I was like news guy. I was like
Speaker 1: I was Ryle's having their problems on the road. I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Mallik.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So they were very cool, and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: you're gonna let you know as long as I I'm
Speaker 3: not going to get in trouble for this. And they said, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what we want. So I said, okay, So hopefully
Speaker 3: that comes across you guys. Have to let me know
Speaker 3: if I'm buttoned up Bennie on Bennie Versus the Penny,
Speaker 3: if you guys get a chance to watch it today
Speaker 3: or Saturday or you know, which is obviously tomorrow and
Speaker 3: then Sunday morning, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: But I was I felt like I was letting it
Speaker 1: rip pretty good.
Speaker 3: I was kind of doing doing what I do late
Speaker 3: night as much as you can, and you can't go
Speaker 3: certain things. We can say it three in the morning
Speaker 3: that we can't say uh yeah during the day.
Speaker 1: But that's just the way the way of world.
Speaker 3: So that was the maiden voyage of Bennie Versus the Penny.
Speaker 3: That was That was how it went, and it's going
Speaker 3: to be this way every week we are doing original
Speaker 3: TV shows. Unless no one watches and the show gets canceled,
Speaker 3: we are scheduled to do the show all the way
Speaker 3: through the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: By the time it was said and done. How long
Speaker 4: did it take to tape the maiden voyage.
Speaker 3: Let's just say the radio show that I do took
Speaker 3: less time. The overnight show takes less time than this day.
Speaker 3: But the good see, because we had so many moving parts.
Speaker 3: It was like spinning plates. We are told that within
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks it'll be real short, but because
Speaker 3: we had to make sure everything was working and all
Speaker 3: that that it took a little longer.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so you get into a groove and cut
Speaker 4: that time down in half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's really, as Looney says, the fundamentals, the
Speaker 3: big fundamental you gotta you know, the fundamentals are a
Speaker 3: little different. There's a little technical stuff that I've obviously
Speaker 3: used to radio.
Speaker 1: We're radio guys, Danny, that's what we do with the radio,
Speaker 1: and it's.
Speaker 3: A little different. In television. There's certainly more people involved.
Speaker 3: And one of the things I've all always liked about
Speaker 3: radio is that it's just a couple of people. That's it.
Speaker 3: You know, it's just you and the microphone and a
Speaker 3: couple of people with you, and that's it. But in
Speaker 3: television it's a much bigger deal, and there's a lot
Speaker 3: of people who are directing, producing, rolling video and sound
Speaker 3: and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's exciting. It's a whole new world.
Speaker 3: It's been an education and I'm very grateful that they
Speaker 3: wanted this, and hopefully it's good and people like it
Speaker 3: and you know, we could do some more different things
Speaker 3: down the line and all that. So we'll see where
Speaker 3: it leads. But even if it is only this season,
Speaker 3: I will be eternally grateful. But hopefully it'll go ten years, Danny,
Speaker 3: and then I can retire and you know, I'll be good.
Speaker 3: But who knows, who the heck knows. We'll get out
Speaker 3: on that. Thank you guys. And again, if you're wondering, well,
Speaker 3: you've talked about the show, but where's the show? It
Speaker 3: would be what's up with that? Yeah, so I'm gonna
Speaker 3: tell you what I know. And this, this might have changed,
Speaker 3: This might have changed. I probably should have led with this.
Speaker 3: It's a bad job by me, but what the hell.
Speaker 3: So the way this works, the show is definitely one
Speaker 3: hundred percent locked in on all of the NBC owned
Speaker 3: and operated stations, which is NBC Sports Boston, Chicago, San Francisco.
Speaker 3: I believe they run a station in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: So we'll be on there, and we'll also be on
Speaker 3: New York on SNY, which is the Mets affiliate.
Speaker 1: We are supposed to.
Speaker 3: Be on in Los Angeles on Sportsnet LA, which is
Speaker 3: the Dodger station. We are supposed to be on Peacock,
Speaker 3: although I'm told some of this stuff might be delayed
Speaker 3: to week two, so I'm not sure exactly. I have
Speaker 3: no idea. Much like the radio show, Danny Wright, the show,
Speaker 3: we don't know where it goes, and it goes all
Speaker 3: over the place, and we just kind of do the
Speaker 3: thing and.
Speaker 4: Provide the content and the world lets us know where
Speaker 4: they're listening or viewing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you do happen to watch the show,
Speaker 3: if you happen to see the show, let us know,
Speaker 3: let us know how it goes. I am such a
Speaker 3: radio loser. Have a great rest of your Friday. Thank you,
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you. And we've got a full weekend
Speaker 3: of podcasting. Danny, are you prepared for the weekend ahead? Here?
Speaker 4: I'm ready.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll let it rip. And thank you in
Speaker 3: advance for listening to this. I guess that would not
Speaker 3: really be advanced, Danny, right, because you've already listened, so
Speaker 3: I don't have to say in advance thank you for listening, okay,
Speaker 3: And thank you in advance for trying to find the
Speaker 3: TV show. I know it is all on also Roku,
Speaker 3: which is kind of pricey, but if you have Roku,
Speaker 3: you're going to get Benny versus the Penny. It's on there.
Speaker 3: It's part of their NBC Sports package or they have
Speaker 3: the affiliates.
Speaker 1: You got anything going? Oh you're working? Is it double
Speaker 1: dip day for them?
Speaker 4: Oh? Man, it's yeah. It's a busy day, but a
Speaker 4: good one because it's Friday. So I'll go in at
Speaker 4: two pm on the West coast and that's five pm
Speaker 4: on the East side, and that's for the Friday Fun
Speaker 4: Friday Show for Covino and Rich as we react to
Speaker 4: the Chiefs losing the opener last night against the Lions.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, my friend Bob does radio.
Speaker 3: One of my good radio friends, Bob Fesco, does a
Speaker 3: morning show in Kansas City, and I was busting his chops.
Speaker 3: I sent Bob the message. Actually, just this morning I
Speaker 3: sent him the message. I said, here are your topics
Speaker 3: for today in Kansas City Sports Radio. A. Andy Reid
Speaker 3: is on the hot seat. B Patrick Maholmes has turned
Speaker 3: into a pumpkin. He's lost his way. C should the
Speaker 3: Chiefs now tank for the number one pick to get
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams. I tossed that out, d how much would
Speaker 3: it cost to acquire reacquire Tyreek kill from the Dolphins. Uh.
Speaker 3: And then E was should Kadarius Tony be given a
Speaker 3: plane ticket or a greyhound bus ticket out of Kansas City?
Speaker 3: Those were my my tops that that Kadarius Tony game
Speaker 3: last night has to be one of the single worst
Speaker 3: games ever in the history of the NFL by a
Speaker 3: wide receiver.
Speaker 1: And that is not hyperbole, Danny. That is not like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're just saying that you don't really believe that. No,
Speaker 1: I believe that.
Speaker 3: I my got the stat line on that was unbelievably bad.
Speaker 1: It was already he finished.
Speaker 3: He had one receiving yard, negative one rushing yard, four
Speaker 3: drop passes, one of those pick six, which is gave
Speaker 3: the Lions seven points in Kansas City, lost by one.
Speaker 4: As a Raiders fan, I have to compliment him on
Speaker 4: his performance. Great job, mister Tony. I hope he becomes
Speaker 4: the Chiefs WR one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the way he played there, he should be
Speaker 3: should be working for Uber or something like that.
Speaker 1: My gut, all right, we'll get out, Thank you all.
Speaker 3: We'll get you next time.
Speaker 4: Later, skater got a murder. I gotta go