WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Benny Behind the Scenes 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.360 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:33.040 In the air everywhere. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:38.520 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:43.440 from the Malar Podcast studio deep in the north Woods 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:49.199 and Danny at a secret, undisclosed location as we are 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:54.120 hanging out together all weekend long. I'm on drugs right now, man, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:01:00.480 bringing the razmataz. Danny, you were bringing the rasmut as 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.560 we flap our gums for as long as they will 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:05.280 allow us to. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:06.360 Flap our gums. 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.200 And this being the Friday podcast, it's kind of a 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.479 big day, Nanny, It's kind of you probably don't think 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:14.320 it's a big day. It's like, well, today's the eighth 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.440 day of September. What's so special about that? Right? 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.200 Well, there's no holiday today, right, Oh? 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.640 I know what the special occasion is? What would that 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.959 be you debut on national TV. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:32.600 That's right, it's all about me. No, well kind of. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.880 So this is a crazy day in my life where 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.200 today the TV show that I've been talking about is 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:45.000 actually going to be broadcast on regional cable channels from Boston, 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.160 from Maine, all over the country. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:49.600 I don't even know where it's going to be on, 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.400 and you know all the places it will be on. 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.560 It's really a great well, it's kind of a cool day. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.880 It's also a little bit nerve racking. So this podcast 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:03.840 dedicated to a behind the scenes look. I've been getting 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.720 people emailing me quite a bit saying they have random 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.360 questions about what's been going on, and like how the 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.760 hell did this happen? Like are you lying to us? 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.800 Like all this random stuff. So we're going to dedicate 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:22.880 the bulk of this Friday podcast to that. And then Dandy, 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.160 obviously you're here, and so if there's anything that I 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.920 might have missed or anything you want to add, anything, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.440 you want to know a little spice on top of it. 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:32.880 You're like the spice guy. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:34.280 You're the spice guy. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.440 I'm like your storytelling referee. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:38.799 Yeah exactly. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.840 You can say, hey, wait a minute, that's bullshit, that's 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.080 not true. And then I said, well, no it is, 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.440 and then you say, well, no it's not anyway, So. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.080 Before you get into it, I have one quick request. Okay, 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.639 if Looney ever gets on your nerves, which I think 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.760 is going to happen a few times this TV season, 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.920 please tell Looney I want Danny G back as the Penny. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.480 Yes. Yes, I have had many people say, well, what 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:07.239 about Danny G. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:08.840 What about you know, we got to get Danny G 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.200 in there and all that, And yet you loved doing 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:12.639 the Penny. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.079 But you're not like a. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:14.840 Huge gambling guy. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.280 You've admitted that you're not like. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.560 A right right, But I think that was part of 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.760 the fun, was that it showed that even a non 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.440 gambling person could have fun with Benny versus the Penny. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:28.960 Yeah, and that's kind of the deal. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.720 And I've done this for a long time and it's 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.680 while it is plausibly a gambling show, it's really just 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.440 you know, goofing around having fun, you know, talking football. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.480 And point out how bad your picks were. 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:42.680 Oh no, I had great year. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:43.360 How dare you? 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.120 I had the greatest year I've ever had last year, 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.720 which means I am set up for one of the 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.200 most epic falls of all time. I am going to 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.800 get crushed by the penny. It is going to be humiliating, embarrassing, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.480 all of that emasculating unless it's not. But the question 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.880 what is it like to launch the show? The show 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:06.520 is done, it's airing today, and so in Malard Monologue's 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.480 you know kind of style here, Danny, even though it's 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:13.840 the podcast, I've got Robert Redford, Brokaw and comp you 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.280 box those three things and. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.279 We will mix them all together like gumbo. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.200 Yeah, we're gonna be well, we're not gumbo. No no, no, no, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.560 We're going to make a gulash is what we're gonna make. Yeah, 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.919 Hungarian gulash. Just throw a lot of crap into a 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:31.960 bowl and then call. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.760 It gulash racist. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.520 So uh, this is, by the way, I want to 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:42.200 learn all the the podcast listeners. This is a. 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:45.080 Global, worldwide exclusive. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.599 Nobody else has this content, Danny, that we are about 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.039 to go over here because nobody else wants it. But 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.080 we are going to take you I saw this on 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:56.760 a TV show years ago. We're going to take you 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:57.120 on a. 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:01.520 Journey to boldly go where no man has gone before. 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:08.799 I'm in command making of a regional cable television NFL 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:13.239 gambling show, and the show we will tape the show 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:19.520 every Thursday throughout the NFL season. Yeah. Why do we 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.520 tape the show on Thursday? Because there's a lot of 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.919 editing that has to go on in the show and 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.080 it has to be ready to go for the East 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.920 Coast early in the day, and because of my sleep 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.360 schedule doing the radio show. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:38.400 Danny, I have yo, Ben, that poor editor. You could 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.480 barely fit Benny Versus the Penny into an hour in 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.720 the past. How do you fit all of that into 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.120 a half hour TV show? 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:51.119 It's a great question, Danny, and so yes. In fact, 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.040 years ago, Benny Versus the Penny at some episodes were 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.000 ninety minutes or more. It was just just. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.200 Going and going and going. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.400 So having met with the people at NBC, they're like, listen, 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.560 this is a and we want this fast paced. You're 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.520 not necessarily going to get as much stuff out there, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.320 but we're going to get the really good stuff. And 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.040 I said, sure, okay, so you're gonna pay me money 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.919 and I can do less, uh than I that I 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.479 that I've done. Well, that's kind of that. But we're 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.240 gonna we're gonna really highlight the cream of the crop 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.960 and all that. So, yeah, it's a half hour, got you. 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.960 So when you get to a game that is kind 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.960 of a snoozer, you you really don't even spend a 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.000 few minutes on it. You just pass it up. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:34.400 Yeah. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.320 Yeah, So we highlight what we think are the most 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.839 important games of the weekend. And there's a a blue 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.920 ribbon panel thing, and so I like using the term 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.960 blue ribbon. But there's my names on the show, and 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.760 so I have editorial control to a point. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.239 But it's meeting of the minds. 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.840 And you know, Vinnie's our producer from NBC Sports Boston. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.520 He's really good, and so I I kind of go 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.320 back and forth with him about what we're going to 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.240 do and how we're going to do it. Oh, there's 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:10.960 no question, yeah exactly. So we record on Thursday, and this, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.240 by the way, Dan, this turned into an epic day, 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:18.240 all right. It actually started back on Wednesday. So we're 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:19.880 going to go back in the hot tub time machine 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.640 to Wednesday. So one of the guys, you don't know 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.320 unless you're a stocker, there's a guy named John. Last 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.720 names aren't really important. John's a great guy. I'd never 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.760 met John until about a year ago. Actually I didn't 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.200 meet him until a couple months ago. We had communicated 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.560 via email on the phone, and John's actually one of 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.360 the big executives at NBC. At NBC that reached out 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.160 to me and say, hey, we're thinking about doing the. 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.520 Show with you, and we want. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.960 To see if we have something here, which I thought 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.360 was at first, I thought I was getting punk, you know. 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.760 I thought, well, that's funny, uh, you know, but it 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.480 looked like an official email. So we've we've gone back 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.400 and forth for a while. But John flew out, he 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:01.360 lives in Philadelphia. He flew out and some other people 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.440 from NBC to be part of this the maiden Voyage 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.240 of Benny Versus the Penny, And so Wednesday he was 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.520 in town and so he's like, Hey, why don't we 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:15.680 get together with you and Looney and significant others and 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.920 all that, and we'll go to a nice meal and 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.240 we'll celebrate because you're going to tape the show on Thursday, 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.080 so we'll celebrate on Wednesday. So, you know, Looney being 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:31.440 Looney am I on picked the Smokehouse in Burbank as 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.040 the restaurant. Don't know. Have you been to the Smoke 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.280 House in Burbank, Danny, have you been there? Yeah, it's 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.000 a legendary place. So I got up at about one 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:45.720 thirty in the afternoon on Wednesday. I left the house 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:50.079 pretty quick, a lot of traffic. Took a couple hours 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.480 to get from where I am to the Smokehouse, so 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.160 that was a pain of the ass. Now Looney picked 0:08:56.160 --> 0:09:00.400 the restaurant because it's a classic Hollywood spot if you've 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.160 never been to Los Angeles, and based on who's listening 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.080 to the podcast, a lot of you have not. But 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.920 it's right across the street from the legendary Warner Brothers Studios, 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.680 So there's a big street and then outside of Warner 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.320 Brothers Studios. Now on the other side, if you go 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:21.760 down Riverside Drive, there is it's Gate eight of Universal Studios, 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.080 and so it's right in between Warner Brothers and Universal Studios, 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.840 two of the biggest movie studios in Hollywood. And so 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.600 the Smoke House it's place. It was originally built at 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.840 the very end of World War Two. So I know 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.199 in Boston and New York and Philly, there's a lot 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.640 of really old stuff and even older stuff in England, 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.720 but by Los Angeles standards, this is a pretty old restaurant. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.000 There's not a lot of stuff in LA that's older 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.080 than that. There's a few things, but not much. And you, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.240 of course, Danny, you know because you've been there. What 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:57.240 is the Smokehouse known for? What is there signature dish 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:58.480 that they're known for. 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:00.720 What do you think meats? 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.480 No, it's the it's the garlic bread. It's the cheesy 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:06.640 garlic bread. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.760 And also spotting a lot of celebrities when you sit down. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:15.480 Yeah, exactly, so that it has this old restaurant aura 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.960 and decor. You know, you go in there, you're like 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.760 in a time portal. So it's that kind of place. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.240 And in this place, is you mentioned Hollywood? The gaggle 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:28.640 of shows, a Rockford American woman. They filmed The Office, 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.840 an episode of The Office there. I love The Office, Entourage, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.080 a bunch of other stuff that's been filmed there over 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:38.000 the years. But this was a regular hangout spot for 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:42.840 Robert Redford back in the day. Obviously, Judy Garland, Errol Flynn, 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:44.880 these are some big old names in Hollywood. 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.960 They'd hang out eating steak. I had a great meal 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:49.800 and I. 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.319 Went big because I knew NBC was paying for the food, 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.440 so I didn't have to worry about paying for the food. 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.439 So I was like, all right, I'll get whatever I want. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.640 So I got a ribbi steak. You know, I had 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.520 it prepared, Dan, you want to take a guess how 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.120 I had my ribbi steak prepared. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:06.840 Oh you had them burn it? 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.280 Yes, yes, I said, I would like it to look 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.640 like the tires on the mal ormobile. 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.160 Not only I haven't burn it, I hadn't burn it. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.040 But I eat my steak the same way Rob Parker 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:21.600 eats his steak butterfly cut. So you butter fly cut 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.840 it and kick and you cook it well done. At 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:30.840 some cheesy potatoes out gratten. Oh yeah, and I was, man, 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:31.480 I was happy. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.360 I was like, I remember people ordering their clammed chowder 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:34.840 there too. 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:36.119 Yeah. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.080 Yeah, they have a lot of really good stuff. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.679 I really what I wanted was the French onion soup, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.640 but that's a that's a premiere item. They only have 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.880 that on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and I was there 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.800 on a Wednesday, so I did not get my French 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:55.040 onion soup, which was unfortunate. So the meal lasted about 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.640 ninety minutes. As we give you the in depth coverage 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.920 of random meals, but this was a big deals like 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:05.360 the dinner before the night before, the final supper before 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:09.040 the show. And then John did not have a car, 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.800 so I gave him a ride to his hotel, which 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.520 was right down the street, and we headed to I 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:17.720 headed to FSR. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:18.800 I got there early. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.680 I had the decision of either going back to the 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.199 north Woods, which would have been two hours, or go 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.160 about forty minutes to FSR. So I did the forty 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.680 minute thing and that was smooth. I got ready for 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.520 the overnight show, and then after the show, I had 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.040 some time to kill, so I did a crash course, 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.200 well final preparation for Benny versus the Penny, and it 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.600 was very rapid and intense and all that. And then 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:52.800 I headed over to my wife's work. She was working 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.360 the overnight shift at the police station, and she's my 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.560 makeup lady. I'm married, my wife wants to dress up. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:10.839 I'm not a big makeup guy, Danny, as you know, 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:11.640 I mean, you know me along. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:12.320 I used to wear. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.800 Lipstick back in the day, but I gave that. But yeah, 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:16.319 so I don't I. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.800 Really make up, haven't been anything around your eyes on 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.320 game day like Derek Carr. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:22.719 Yeah, yeah, no, I mean you're right. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.200 I mean occasionally it's a big, big night at work, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.200 I'll put some eye, will put some EyeBlack on, that's right. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:29.400 But I haven't done that in years. 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.920 And so anyway, she was in charge of the makeup, 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.079 and she figured out what I needed and all that stuff. 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.520 And it's not really my domain. That's why I like radio. 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.520 There's no makeup, but whatever I TV pays better. So 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.839 from there headed over to this is kind of cool 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.720 to Universal Studios, but not the theme park, the actual 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.240 movie studio where they actually make films, although they're not 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.280 making them now because everyone in Hollywood's on strike, so 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.959 it's pretty it's a ghost out at Universal Studios. The 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:02.079 studios are all mostly empty, and so went in there. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.320 We have a small studio and it is located in 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:12.000 the Brokaw News Center, which is the West Coast Bureau 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:17.120 of NBC. They have CNBC, which is actually where we 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:21.880 are is near CNBC. They have MSNBC. I know, Justin 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.640 and Cincinnati is a big fan of that, and then 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.360 they have like the local like news network News and 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.760 so there's all these different studios and a lot of 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.280 random people that seem to be pretty important. I don't 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:34.880 know if they are not. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.920 Did you pop your head in there and say fake news? 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:42.240 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I kept my master. But we walked. 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.640 I walked all over the place, and yeah, everyone was cool. 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.600 Everyone's nice, and it's trying to get through the day 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:51.880 and all that stuff. Then congratulations. Then had some more 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.880 time to kill. There's a lot of time to kill 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.040 on these kind of days. And you know this, this. 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:58.800 Is actually a big deal. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.240 I want to point out, like you know, working in 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.080 radio Danny, especially doing the overnight show, nobody goes out 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:05.440 of their way at all for the show. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.280 No should they, right, you know, you know this, don't 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:08.520 do it. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.320 I had people flying in from New York, people that 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.680 work at Rockefeller Center for NBC. I had people from Philly, 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.440 and John came out. We've got the Boston crew. I mean, 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:17.880 this is like. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:22.600 A global national operation. It's insane here, man, I can't 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.480 believe you. This guy, one of the guys I met, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.120 and he said, I have flo I worked. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.480 At Rockefeller Center, New York. I came out to make 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.040 sure this thing goes smoothly. And I'm like, Wow, that's 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.640 a long trip to make for the half hour show, 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.240 you know, like Jesus. But they were all great and 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.360 it was wonderful. So next up on this thorough review 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:47.400 of Benny Versus the Penny. The opening episode, we went Seinfeld, 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:52.360 got there early, had our window. We're gonna start recording 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:57.360 the show. But we did a table read with television's 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:03.120 Tom Looney at the round table at the meeting room. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.960 And there's a round table, and now I love roundtable, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.000 but there were no garlic parmesan, garlic twists or pizza, 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:10.960 so it's just a table. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.240 It would have been better if they had that. So 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:14.800 I did that. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.280 I kind of went over, you know, the battle plan. 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.320 I wanted to make sure we did not totally embarrass ourselves. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.000 Then I went into the studio, which is very small studio, 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.120 but it works. It looks massive on television. So I 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.760 went into the studio, did the whole wardrobe thing. Put 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.680 my I have a kind of a costume I have 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:33.000 to wear every week. Put the mic on the IFB, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.960 which is a fancy way of saying an earpiece so 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.520 the producer can yell at you and say you suck 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.960 you fit that up, you know, that whole thing. Anyway, So, 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.160 as I mentioned, the show's produced out of Boston, and 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.880 so we kind of went over some final notes, started 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.080 recording the show. Three segments. They're all timed out. Every 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.240 segment needs to be in a very tight window because 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:56.920 you got to make sure you get it in and 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.600 you have time for the commercials obviously, and then the 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.720 next starts and we're only half an hour. 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:03.800 So that must have been really hard for you. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:08.760 Andy Reid now fun fact, Danny fun fact. Depending on 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.520 which market you watch Benny Versus The Penny, it's being 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.520 distributed by NBC obviously, but it's in non NBC stations 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.159 will carry the show, some of them, So depending on 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:22.400 the market, you'll see a slightly different version of the show. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.120 There are small tweaks. There's actually like three or four 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.560 versions of the same show that involved. From what I 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.359 was told, it's above my pay grade, but I was 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:37.560 told it involves the you'll love this, the legal ease, 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:39.080 the gambling. 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.720 Bureaucracy in America. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.720 This is if we talk about betting and gambling, obviously, 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.639 and so there's different sponsors in different cities, and you 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.639 can say certain things in some cities and then in 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.920 other cities. That's for voting, so you got to navigate 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:54.960 a lot of that stuff, which I had nothing to 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:56.600 do with that. We just did the show and then 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.360 other people have to slice and dice and edit all that. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:00.719 But it was a very long day and then we 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.520 wrapped up the shoot and you know, I'm not gonna 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:04.720 sit here and say it was one take. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:06.439 No, No, we had many takes. 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:10.600 Because there's me and Looney, there's a whole production team 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.480 in Boston. We'd never really done the show that was 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:16.200 going to be broadcast. We had done demo shows, but 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.440 it's much different was actually be broadcast because especially the 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.280 first show, you don't want to screw up the first show, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:23.800 right the first show, because if you screw up the 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.119 first show, they might not give you a second show, 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.560 and boy with that blow. So we really wanted to 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:31.280 nail the first show and get it right. So we 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.080 did a lot of takes, and then there'd be little 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:38.119 things like the mic would cut out, you know, Looney 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.560 would do something stupid. Then I'd have a brain fart. 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.640 So we did that. But at the end of the shoot, 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.600 John's like, hey, that was you know, that's great. You 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:48.480 guys are gonna be on TV. Now, that's why don't 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.879 we go have a nice meal. So we went to 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.200 a kind of a breakfast. I was really lunch. It 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.680 was went to Patty's. You've been to patty I bet 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:59.600 you've been to Patty's on Riverside and Burbank. Have you 0:18:59.600 --> 0:18:59.920 been there? 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:00.800 I have been there. 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.600 Yeah, it's another one of these old places been around. 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.480 It's a famous hangout spot. Have you seen the green 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.840 room at Patty's? Have you seen the green The green 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.720 room is this big boardroom type place in the back, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.960 and that's where they make deals like the movie studios. 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.240 You know, they come in there they say we need 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:17.880 the green room. 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.920 Eight there twice I think when I lived there in Burbank, 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.760 I always pictured Walt Disney like in the back making 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:24.200 a deal. 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:25.399 Yeah. 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.560 Well Burbank, like to Luca Lake, Burbank. There's some great 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:32.280 diners in that area, like Bob's Big Boys that's still there. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.000 Bob's Big Boys still there. Yeah, to hang out there. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.439 Jay Leno when he'd host the Tonight Show would be 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.560 hanging out it. Go to Bob's Big Boy all the 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.280 time and all that. Yeah, I love that area. I 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.959 wanted to live in te Luca Lake. I used to 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:49.920 work there and I couldn't afford a house into Luca Lake, 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:51.639 so I couldn't couldn't get in. 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:53.919 I was like you, I would have absolutely, that's a 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:54.679 great area. 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.400 You would have had to be on NBC TV back then. 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:02.720 Yes, yes, the small salary and radio did not quite work. 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.320 And anyway, so we did the lunch thing with the 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.680 patties and I said, I'm at Patty's. 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:09.320 You know what I have to have. I have to 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:10.800