Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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 Maller starts right now in
Speaker 2: the air everywhere.
Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben and Danny g Radios.
Speaker 1: We slide into the final day of the month of May.
Speaker 1: This is it, this swan song, the final show for
Speaker 1: me in the month of May. Today, thirty first day
Speaker 1: we got slide into June this weekend as we are
Speaker 1: here all weekend long. This is not the original Recipe podcast.
Speaker 1: This is the Extra Crispy, Extra Spicy because we can
Speaker 1: say bad words and the Boss can't mess with us bullshit.
Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour and Danny I am. I am fired up.
Speaker 1: There's some things happened to me the last week that
Speaker 1: I did not talk about. Well, one thing I did
Speaker 1: talk about on the on the radio show, but something
Speaker 1: we'll get to at some point this weekend. Happened that
Speaker 1: was one of the craziest things that has taken place,
Speaker 1: that was risky, was all that, and we'll get to
Speaker 1: it at some point. But it's it's great to hang
Speaker 1: out and we don't have to worry about any of
Speaker 1: the normal nonsense from the from the sports radio. We
Speaker 1: can talk about anything we can. In fact, we will
Speaker 1: do later on. We'll do foody fun, we'll have that,
Speaker 1: you know, the usual nonsense that we do here on
Speaker 1: a Friday.
Speaker 3: It's weird though I haven't seen anything going on in
Speaker 3: the world on Facebook or anything.
Speaker 1: Everyone's very calm and handling things as adults. And yeah,
Speaker 1: we didn't do it.
Speaker 3: I'm a very innocent man.
Speaker 1: Well, every time I see stuff like this, it reminds
Speaker 1: me of the quote, which is actually a curse. The
Speaker 1: proverb that may you live in interesting times is actually
Speaker 1: you don't want to live in interesting times. You want
Speaker 1: to live when things are very boring because you know,
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of change and all that,
Speaker 1: but the last twenty years.
Speaker 3: Boring and preferably a big savings account.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, with inflation not a factor. You don't want that,
Speaker 1: you know, want the inflation and all that. But anyway, listen,
Speaker 1: we're here, and I've been told by management. I know
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, I was told that we are what
Speaker 1: do they tell us, nanny, that we are alternative programming?
Speaker 1: Is that what they told I think they told us that, right,
Speaker 1: they told you about an alternative lifestyle. Well, that's true.
Speaker 1: I live in California, so that's obvious. Clearly, just by default,
Speaker 1: that is my position. But are you celebrating National Macaroon Day?
Speaker 1: A big day for you, Danny big fan of the macaroon?
Speaker 3: Macaroons suck? I am.
Speaker 1: I agree that's a good take. I don't like them,
Speaker 1: and I've been around a few people in my life
Speaker 1: that love macaroons. You go to those outdoor malls and
Speaker 1: we have a lot of them here in southern California,
Speaker 1: and there's a like a macaroon bakery, and like, what
Speaker 1: a waste of a bakery. I just believe that's a
Speaker 1: terrible waste of a bakery. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: my mom would occasionally, you know, stuff macaroons in my
Speaker 1: face and I didn't like them. I did not like
Speaker 1: And she wonders, like, you're a fat kid, you should
Speaker 1: love macaroons. But no, Mom, I don't like for some reason,
Speaker 1: I just never never got into them.
Speaker 3: You know, I forget which restaurant it was. But they
Speaker 3: had macaroons as their dessert choice, and our daughter was like,
Speaker 3: I have to have one. I have to have one
Speaker 3: of those. She thought it looked good. Her mom ordered
Speaker 3: it for and she takes one bite of it and
Speaker 3: she's like, this is a gross.
Speaker 1: Now, if you are someone that cannot handle gluten, I
Speaker 1: believe I think I'm right on this dandy that they
Speaker 1: are gluten free. The macaroons are gluten free. But I'm not.
Speaker 3: I eat glutens, so so I'm good. Wait a second,
Speaker 3: you don't have a gallbladder. You're not supposed to eat gluten.
Speaker 1: I eat whatever I want. I just don't eat a lie.
Speaker 1: I mean I eat like once every other day. That's
Speaker 1: what I've been doing, and only one bite of spicy food.
Speaker 1: You can't have an entire plate, No, No, I just
Speaker 1: have to be near a toilet. I can eat whatever
Speaker 1: I want. I just know that I know that my
Speaker 1: body will reject certain things at a rapid rate, and
Speaker 1: so I have to you know, I have to mind that.
Speaker 1: I have to be mindful of that, so I will
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 3: Do that.
Speaker 1: On this pod. We've got military like planning, the return
Speaker 1: by request of Big Bend's Big Board, now the Great Debate,
Speaker 1: we get the word of the week, foody fun, a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff to get to, so we'll probably get
Speaker 1: to like three things, and then we'll be running out
Speaker 1: of time for the podcast, because as you know, these
Speaker 1: podcasts are supposed to be around around thirty miss. Market
Speaker 1: research is indicated around thirty miss. I'm just saying we'll
Speaker 1: start with this. I had an audity. This is not
Speaker 1: the crazy risky story. This is just an oddity. So
Speaker 1: this goes back to the beginning of the week. And
Speaker 1: if you were listening to the original Recipe podcast, the
Speaker 1: Overnight Show, you heard a little bit about this, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to get into greater details. So during the show, Uh,
Speaker 1: normal night, and I'm in studio most of the time
Speaker 1: these days. A couple couple of nights I don't have
Speaker 1: to go in. I do the remote studio. So I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'm in studio on Memorial Day into Tuesday, and it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's a normal night. It's holiday into a holiday,
Speaker 1: A little more traffic, a little more traffic for me
Speaker 1: coming to the studio. Whatever, I don't really care, but
Speaker 1: I do the opening monologue, do the first hour, get
Speaker 1: to hour two, do the monologue, and then later on
Speaker 1: I think it was like the the second second portion
Speaker 1: we paused, hit the timeout. So what I like to do, Danny,
Speaker 1: because I know having.
Speaker 3: Wait, you mean you went to commercials?
Speaker 1: Well, I know we don't. We don't do commercial no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we we you know we we have the most important part.
Speaker 1: I just fill time around advertising, that's all I I
Speaker 1: don't call them commercial. I call him friends, you know.
Speaker 1: So I do my live read whatever. And since we
Speaker 1: have a sedentary job, I've seen so many stories about
Speaker 1: you know, if you sit, you sit, you're gonna die.
Speaker 3: Die, died.
Speaker 1: So I want to get my exercise, so I start walking.
Speaker 1: I've been doing this again. I used to do this
Speaker 1: all the time. I stopped for a while when I
Speaker 1: was in the remote studio during COVID, so I picked
Speaker 1: it up again. So I got m I'll go londer around.
Speaker 1: I don't walk outside anymore. There's so many derelicts and
Speaker 1: you know, somebody to lose. I'm gonna get shanked while
Speaker 1: I'm outside.
Speaker 3: Yo, pre COVID, when you did this, it was awesome
Speaker 3: because I could play like two three minutes of really
Speaker 3: good songs.
Speaker 1: That's a lot. I had it timed out. I knew
Speaker 1: how many times I could walk around the building and
Speaker 1: before I needed to get back in.
Speaker 3: There were times where you were lagging though from an
Speaker 3: extra few steps.
Speaker 1: Well, occasionally the security guard would want to strike up
Speaker 1: a conversation, and I had everything timed out methodically, and
Speaker 1: if he came over and wanted to have a little
Speaker 1: small talk. And I liked the guy, James, the security
Speaker 1: guards he works in an earlier shift. Now I like
Speaker 1: the guy, but he would throw off my bio rhythm.
Speaker 1: If y'all got a crew, you got to have a
Speaker 1: fall guy. So anyway, I get to the point. So
Speaker 1: it's hour two of the show Monday and the Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so Tuesday show. So I'm walking down near the old studio.
Speaker 1: I go out the main studio. I walk down, I
Speaker 1: make a right turn, go down a little hall near
Speaker 1: the old Casey Kasum studio. Then I make a left. No,
Speaker 1: I make another right, another right, and there's like a
Speaker 1: hallway and there's there's glass facing the street and this
Speaker 1: is where I walk.
Speaker 3: I pace.
Speaker 1: People probably think I'm I'm a lunatic people on a
Speaker 1: white coat need to come take me away because I
Speaker 1: walk back and forth, back and forth. It's perfect because
Speaker 1: we have the Fox Sports radio audios and the speakers
Speaker 1: in the hallway. But the problem is it's on delay
Speaker 1: because people say bad words. So I have to know
Speaker 1: like forty seconds ahead of time when I need to
Speaker 1: be back. But I'm walking. It's a normal, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: normal night. And I look out the window in my
Speaker 1: peripheral vision off to my right because I'm walking towards
Speaker 1: the vending machine. I look out to the right and
Speaker 1: I see all these cars. I don't normally see that
Speaker 1: many cars when I'm walking. I see maybe a couple.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's late overnight, so I see, I see
Speaker 1: a bunch of cars and like summer parked. And then
Speaker 1: I see a bunch of like I could kind of
Speaker 1: make out it's it's nighttime.
Speaker 3: It's dark.
Speaker 1: I can see the outline the silhouette of people. And
Speaker 1: when I say people, I'm talking the mother load, I
Speaker 1: mean convoys. It was unbelievable, I mean, what is going on?
Speaker 1: What has happened? And then I took a couple more
Speaker 1: steps because I thought maybe I was imagining in it.
Speaker 1: And then I turned and looked again. I said, oh,
Speaker 1: my god. And I looked at the corner of Ventura
Speaker 1: and sepalvaa one of the busiest intersections during the day
Speaker 1: in the Greater Los Angeles area, the beautiful San Fernando Valley,
Speaker 1: in the Oaks, shrim and Oaks, and they had they
Speaker 1: had done something I've seen on the internet. I've seen
Speaker 1: this on television occasionally. I'd never seen this in person.
Speaker 1: I'd never seen this in person. Just meandering down the
Speaker 1: Fox Pissarita Hallway, they did a street takeover. They took
Speaker 1: over the intersection of Sepulva and Vtura, right in front
Speaker 1: of our studio. A bunch of kids they were doing
Speaker 1: donuts in their car.
Speaker 3: Oh, it looks like the streets of Oakland, California for show.
Speaker 1: Oh Danny, it was amazing. So my first move I
Speaker 1: yelled back. I walked back down the hall. I make
Speaker 1: a right, and then I make a left and I
Speaker 1: yell over to Lorraina and Coop a loop. I say,
Speaker 1: straight takeover, straight takeover. I yell it, straight takeover.
Speaker 3: You're so hip.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so cool man. I'm not a boomer at all.
Speaker 1: So what do you think these two knuckleheads do. They
Speaker 1: both come sprinting out of the out of the studio.
Speaker 1: They are running past me to see what the hullabaloo
Speaker 1: is about. And so here's my favorite part.
Speaker 3: Coop on his unicycle and Loraina on or moped.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that much hustle in Coop. We worked
Speaker 1: together a while, I've never seen him hustle that much
Speaker 1: other than for food. So he he runs out, and
Speaker 1: then and then they're like, oh man, and then uh,
Speaker 1: Coop's like, I want to go out and I want
Speaker 1: to get a close review, you know, And Lorrain's like okay.
Speaker 1: And then Coop's like, oh, I don't have my key
Speaker 1: to get in the billy. So Lorrain is like, I
Speaker 1: don't worry, I got mine. We're good. So they both
Speaker 1: go and I you know, I'm I'm the talent Danny.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I can't risk my life out there, you know for
Speaker 1: a donut thing.
Speaker 3: I can't do that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna star of the show. Who you know, I
Speaker 1: got to be there. I can't leave my post. I
Speaker 1: did out the door, but I didn't, like physically step
Speaker 1: put my whole body out. So Coop runs out he
Speaker 1: walks down half a block so we can get a
Speaker 1: great view of the intersection, and Loreina's out there. She's
Speaker 1: recording it. But she didn't get that closed, so she's
Speaker 1: recording it, and so like this is crazy man. I'm
Speaker 1: standing there. I'm like, wow, this is wild man. They
Speaker 1: got this this whole intersection closed and they're doing donuts
Speaker 1: and there's people people out there with their phones.
Speaker 3: Tell you they park cars to block off both sides
Speaker 3: of the street.
Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a second. But here's here's
Speaker 1: the funny part of the stories. So again Lorena tells Koop,
Speaker 1: don't worry, we got you. So, as you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: we have a finite amount of time in between the
Speaker 1: different segments that we're talking. Oh boy, it's a network clock.
Speaker 1: Lorena realizing, wait a minute, I need to press the
Speaker 1: buttons and I'm not at the post, so she starts panicking.
Speaker 1: She runs back in Zoom's past me to get back
Speaker 1: to where she needs to be. Even Eddie, curmudgeon Eddie
Speaker 1: walked over to see what was going on.
Speaker 3: How about shut up?
Speaker 1: But Lorena runs past guess who's guess who's outside still
Speaker 1: banging on the door to try.
Speaker 3: To get It was cool.
Speaker 1: Cooloom you said you'd let me in, would you.
Speaker 3: Go, jose canseko won't be hitteo nomo. It was so
Speaker 3: it was so great.
Speaker 1: So I have to tip my headphones, Danny. It takes
Speaker 1: a lot to impress me, it does. I gotta tell you.
Speaker 1: These kids, and they look like mostly high school college
Speaker 1: aged kids, you know, they were not. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any forty or fifty year old people out there
Speaker 1: doing this. They were in their twenties and maybe early thirties.
Speaker 1: Younger than that, even maybe teenagers. This was military like planning.
Speaker 1: It was so impressive. It was like a football team
Speaker 1: preparing for a game plan. Because what they did is
Speaker 1: they had every corner an intersection, so you got four
Speaker 1: corners of the intersection and each direction they had roughly
Speaker 1: twenty cars on each side, so that's to the mat
Speaker 1: twenty forty sixty eighty cars or so, and then maybe
Speaker 1: maybe it was more, maybe it was less. It seemed
Speaker 1: like it was twenty on each side, and they parked.
Speaker 1: The kids all got to the intersection at the same time.
Speaker 1: They parked their cars around, blocking the intersection from all directions.
Speaker 1: They then get out of their cars, they put it
Speaker 1: in park, they get out to assume the position so
Speaker 1: they could have their phone to record for TikTok or
Speaker 1: whatever they're recording it for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've seen this on Fast and the Furious movies. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they left. This is where it's really next
Speaker 1: level because it's like a car show. They left a
Speaker 1: small sliver of a lane open because they wanted different
Speaker 1: cars to come do donuts. So behind where all the
Speaker 1: cars were parked like a runway. Yes, it was like
Speaker 1: it was like being at fashion Week in Paris Perie.
Speaker 1: They had a little runway where the cars and so
Speaker 1: the cars that were doing the doughnuts, the dudes, you know,
Speaker 1: they were there. You know they'll probably get all the girls.
Speaker 1: They were the ones coming through there, and then they'd rotate.
Speaker 1: It was like going to the bull like Dave Roberts
Speaker 1: going to the bullpen bringing in a new picture. It
Speaker 1: was nuts. I mean it was the planning on this
Speaker 1: so impressive. I mean, if you can put this ability
Speaker 1: to something else, you'll be very successful in your life.
Speaker 1: I don't know that you can make a lot of
Speaker 1: money doing street takeovers, but if you can use that
Speaker 1: level of planning and then my favorite. My other favorite
Speaker 1: part of this is so Coop got locked out briefly,
Speaker 1: people you know, going crazy, great planning. But then I
Speaker 1: came back because we had to go do the show
Speaker 1: so I can went back into the show, and we
Speaker 1: walked back. I walked back over about maybe fifteen minutes later.
Speaker 1: Everyone was gone, but there was one LAPD cop car
Speaker 1: that was like it was like circling, like I felt like, Tom, hey,
Speaker 1: everyone's gone. Okay, there's nothing left here, They've moved on
Speaker 1: to the next intersection. Uh, but it was It was wild.
Speaker 1: I'd never seen anything like that in person, and I
Speaker 1: guess I don't get out much, and to have it
Speaker 1: happen right in front of our building was tremendous.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I don't think a lot of people have
Speaker 3: seen that away from movies, not in person, because it
Speaker 3: would have to happen right in your neighborhood. And obviously
Speaker 3: they find places like in front of our studio to
Speaker 3: do these little takeovers. Now, now I wanted to ask you, Yeah,
Speaker 3: what was it called we used to have Eddie as
Speaker 3: our cameraman on your show. What was that platform called?
Speaker 3: Do you remember? Oh? Live stream?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is gone. It was on it was
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I forget what it was called. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: used to do different yeahs that it's gone now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a past art form.
Speaker 1: I know, ALF right now is yelling at the yeah dummies,
Speaker 1: I know more about the show than you do. You're right, Alf,
Speaker 1: you do you know more?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we jumped that information out of our heads long ago.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're very talented sports take artist and as a
Speaker 1: sports tag artist, you.
Speaker 3: Have to leave room for your sports take you do. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: So we used to do that weekly. Hell, the Tinderoni tips.
Speaker 3: We used to live stream that. Uh, too bad that
Speaker 3: wasn't around because I would have loved to see that
Speaker 3: live during the show.
Speaker 1: No, it would have been It would have been great.
Speaker 1: But Lorena did get a little video of it. It
Speaker 1: wasn't the greatest video, but she got She's fired of it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it was it was pretty cool. So that was fun
Speaker 1: and that led me by request Big Bands Big Board
Speaker 1: has returned. Are you ready for Big Bands Big Board?
Speaker 1: So this is like a top ten list? No, No,
Speaker 1: we don't do lists. I do not believe in doing list.
Speaker 1: This is Big Bend's Big Board, which is totally different
Speaker 1: than a list I would never do a list. When
Speaker 1: you do a list, you become irrelevant, you become part
Speaker 1: of a list, and I would never do a list.
Speaker 1: I would never do a list. Was it periscope? Is
Speaker 1: that what it was? It wasn't.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, it was periscope, all right.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm getting old. It was a delayed reaction,
Speaker 1: all right. So this is again not a list big
Speaker 1: Ben's Big Board Wildless Nights at the FSR Studios Wildest
Speaker 1: Nights at the FSR Studios. Are you ready? Danny is
Speaker 1: now honorable mention, but not not part of Big Ben's
Speaker 1: big Board Wildest Nights In my twenty plus years at
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio in beautiful Sherman Oaks, California, at an
Speaker 1: old Denny's, So I have homeless urination into tinted window. Now,
Speaker 1: this this outstanding. This has happened multiple times doing the midday show.
Speaker 1: I filled and I used to fill in the midday show.
Speaker 1: A couple of times it happened. I didn't see it.
Speaker 1: One time I did see it. So we have in
Speaker 1: the old studio, we have glass that looks out to
Speaker 1: the street, but it's tinted, so it kind of looks
Speaker 1: like the day it's not. If you're not familiar with
Speaker 1: how it works, you think, well, there, it's just a
Speaker 1: weird wall. And every once in a while, some homeless
Speaker 1: dude would get up. He'd walk behind the bushes and
Speaker 1: he would pull out his Twigg and Berry combination and
Speaker 1: just piss right on the glass and just show everyone
Speaker 1: his junk. And it was wild. But that did not
Speaker 1: make the top six Big Ben's Big Board Wireless Nights.
Speaker 1: I also did not include what I think is the
Speaker 1: official smell of Fox Sports trade. There's two smells. I
Speaker 1: associate Fox Sports skunk, yes, the skunk that gets into
Speaker 1: the air conditioning events which are on the roof of
Speaker 1: the building, and then Sunday night into Monday, the smell
Speaker 1: of rotting food, which is a tradition. But that did
Speaker 1: not make the Big board. Did not do it, so
Speaker 1: number six, I'm gonna put the street takeover at numbers six.
Speaker 1: Numbers six the Memorial Day twenty twenty four, we just
Speaker 1: talked to at it, so I don't need to repeat it.
Speaker 1: But that was number six, number five on Big Ben's
Speaker 1: Big Board. Burn Baby Burn. I think this was before
Speaker 1: Danny g got to the company. There was a car
Speaker 1: accident that happened right out there on Sepulvida, right next
Speaker 1: to the studio. Car on fire right in the middle
Speaker 1: Stry and one of our producers, one of our producers,
Speaker 1: you know what, I got to put this fire out.
Speaker 1: So he went out and he broke the glass on
Speaker 1: the fire expend.
Speaker 3: Yes, you've told this story on the podcasts.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite stories about corporate corporate media. So
Speaker 1: he breaks the glass, goes out, puts out the fire,
Speaker 1: saves the day, and we then get a memo from management.
Speaker 1: Now I want to I can tell this story because
Speaker 1: a the statue limitations went out and b it's different management.
Speaker 1: So the management out. So we get this angry memo
Speaker 1: complaining about how expensive it is to have the fire
Speaker 1: extinguisher reinstalled. And in the Future just can't understand it's
Speaker 1: a couple of dollars. We really watch money in the
Speaker 1: future just called nine one one. So it was so
Speaker 1: great this.
Speaker 3: Guy, instead of getting a hero's welcome, he gets a
Speaker 3: slap on the wrist.
Speaker 1: Oh it was so good. So that that is number five,
Speaker 1: burn Baby Bird, number four, classic tale of Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio never gets old. One of the most important people
Speaker 1: in pop culture. I almost killed them. Casey Casem, the
Speaker 1: voice of Shaggy in Scooby Doobe Doo and so many
Speaker 1: other things. He was the most He was the most
Speaker 1: influential radio personality with his Top twenty Countdown, Top forty Countdown.
Speaker 1: That was how people found new music, Casey case And
Speaker 1: there's generations of people that learned songs because of Casey Casem.
Speaker 1: And I almost took his life out when he was
Speaker 1: recording his voice tracking his Top twenty Countdown show and
Speaker 1: he came out of the studio and I was to
Speaker 1: try to get back to the studio. And if I
Speaker 1: had not used a technique I learned in football, the
Speaker 1: old swim technique, I would not I would not be
Speaker 1: here right now. He would not. He's gone also, but
Speaker 1: at the time he was very much alive. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: that was number four, number three on Big Ben's Big
Speaker 1: Board Wild This Nights at Fox Sports Radio, The night.
Speaker 3: You stole Steve Harvey's pen.
Speaker 1: No no, no pen no no. I did not did
Speaker 1: not make those honor mentioned. Yes, definitely, Steve Harvey complimenting
Speaker 1: my car the whole time story they did happen. I
Speaker 1: walked out, Steve Harvey was walking in with his security
Speaker 1: guard and he looked at the malomobile, the blue malomobiles.
Speaker 1: I like that color, he said it. I heard.
Speaker 3: I think he was talking about how he liked certain
Speaker 3: white people.
Speaker 1: No, he dare you. That's my hero. I love Steve.
Speaker 1: Steve Harry was great man. He's he was really cool.
Speaker 1: I was worried, you know, he was such a big star.
Speaker 1: But he was like he wore track suits, you know,
Speaker 1: just wandered around.
Speaker 3: He saw you, you know, walking around, and he told
Speaker 3: his bodyguard, He's like, you know, I like that color.
Speaker 1: Sometimes, I says, normal, other than the security guards that
Speaker 1: were following around like it was the president. But other
Speaker 1: than that, there were Secret.
Speaker 3: Service guys following Rush Limbaugh a round too, and is
Speaker 3: one in front, one and back and one was at
Speaker 3: the door already.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I understand, all right. Number three
Speaker 1: on Big Ben's Big Board Wireless Nights at Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio updated because of the street takeover. Number three. Wrong
Speaker 1: Button Bob turns out the lights. Wrong button Bob funny
Speaker 1: assnow Man. One of the all time great stories history
Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3: Turn out the the Ben Show is over. Oh it
Speaker 3: is so good.
Speaker 1: So uh the computer the old setup we could not
Speaker 1: reboot our computer. They would freeze all the time because
Speaker 1: that's old technology. And so in order to reboot the computer,
Speaker 1: you had to go out of the studio, down a hall,
Speaker 1: make a right turn, go in to what is really
Speaker 1: the brain center of Fox Sports Radio's equipment, and there's
Speaker 1: all these banks of equipment and it's just a real,
Speaker 1: real massive room. You know, there's bigger rooms, but that
Speaker 1: was that's pretty big. It's big enough. See you go
Speaker 1: in there, you gotta go to the back. You gotta
Speaker 1: hit a button and reset the computer. Great setup. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, you know, Bob, I need you to
Speaker 1: do this here. I need no problem, I got it.
Speaker 1: So he walks out and I'm doing the doing the
Speaker 1: show or whatever, and like maybe thirty seconds later, everything
Speaker 1: goes silent, like everything, and then we hear Steve de
Speaker 1: Sager's voice giving college basketball scores. And it wasn't college
Speaker 1: basketball season because Bob garra wrong button. Bob had hit
Speaker 1: the wrong button. And he still does not know what
Speaker 1: button he pressed. I've asked, he does not know what
Speaker 1: button he pressed. But whatever button he pressed was the
Speaker 1: magic button. It was the nuclear option, and we went
Speaker 1: to backup programming the knock had to turn on backup programming,
Speaker 1: unil we powered the station back on, So that was
Speaker 1: number number three.
Speaker 3: Really quick, he told he was telling somebody new here
Speaker 3: at the network that story just recently, and one thing
Speaker 3: I didn't know, one part of it I didn't know.
Speaker 3: He said that Carris, who's in charge of all the
Speaker 3: tech producers, kind of saved his butt. Wrong button Bob
Speaker 3: thought for sure he was going to get either demoted
Speaker 3: or fired.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did too. I thought we were doing yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, grand opening, grand closing, and Carris told the managers
Speaker 3: you know him and the staff. They did a good
Speaker 3: job putting a band aid on the problem, and we.
Speaker 1: Talked about it for the next two weeks. It's still
Speaker 1: I don't know how he did it. I don't know
Speaker 1: that you could ever do it again. I'm sure you can,
Speaker 1: but it was just an amazing.
Speaker 3: Thing that is network history.
Speaker 1: Yeah, congratulations, Wrong Button Bob. You made the top three
Speaker 1: Big Ben's Big Board whiles Nights at Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: number two, number two. You made the top six list,
Speaker 1: number two. This is very important. This is also a
Speaker 1: classic tale. If I ever write a book, I'm sure
Speaker 1: I'll mention this in great detail. Disheveled mobster Henry Hill
Speaker 1: wants I want to get on the fucking radio. I'm
Speaker 1: Henry fucking Hill.
Speaker 3: You told the story recently on the podcast.
Speaker 1: So I won't get into it again. You can go
Speaker 1: back and here one of the old podcasts. But I just.
Speaker 3: It was just want to go two weekends ago.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, So Henry Hill. I went out. He said, he's,
Speaker 1: you know, Henry Hill whatever, and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I just dismissed him. And then I went and googled
Speaker 1: Henry Hill and it was he was Henry Hill, the
Speaker 1: guy they made Good Fellas about, and he was in
Speaker 1: the FBI Witness Protection program. He was living in our
Speaker 1: neighborhood in lationman Oaks, but looked totally disheveled, and I
Speaker 1: guess he had an alcohol problem. I think he died
Speaker 1: from alcohol. Too much alcohol, I believe so, which unfortunately
Speaker 1: a lot of our callers died from. All right, number one?
Speaker 1: Are you ready for number one? On the edge of
Speaker 1: my studio chair, what do you think it is, Danny?
Speaker 1: You want to think of guests here? What do you think?
Speaker 3: Well? I wrote down helmet man knocks on studio door.
Speaker 1: That was also great in the studio.
Speaker 3: I set him up with my headphones at my microphone,
Speaker 3: and he famously says this on the air.
Speaker 1: I'm actually on the live air.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're on the Yeah.
Speaker 1: What gave it away? Was it the microphone? Was it
Speaker 1: the on air light flashing over your head? What gave
Speaker 1: it away? Is? That is a wonderful, wonderful tale. But
Speaker 1: my number one story I hope to never repeat was
Speaker 1: the night that I was on the air on a
Speaker 1: Sunday night with Jim Daniels. It was a shooting gallery
Speaker 1: at FSR. The glass shot out while we were on
Speaker 1: the air, and my my engineer, Jerry, I love him,
Speaker 1: and I said, hey, Jerry, we just got shot at
Speaker 1: called the cops and Jerry might or might not have
Speaker 1: had a warrant out for his arrest, so he said,
Speaker 1: he said, pet dude, Yeah, don't worry. And then he
Speaker 1: his decision was to cover, to bring the blinds down
Speaker 1: so at least if they shot again, they wouldn't know
Speaker 1: where they were shooting. And then eventually he called the
Speaker 1: security guard, who then had to call the cops. But
Speaker 1: of course, as you know, Danny, if somebody drives by
Speaker 1: and shoots you, there's really not much the cops can do.
Speaker 1: And I mean unless you have cameras or whatever. And
Speaker 1: I don't know they had cameras, so I think they
Speaker 1: do now. But anyway, that was that was a big
Speaker 1: Ben's Big Board Wildest Nights.
Speaker 3: So I have three I wrote down here that didn't
Speaker 3: make your list.
Speaker 1: Did not make the Big Board or not a list, Danny,
Speaker 1: it's not a goddamn list.
Speaker 3: Or not even your honorable mention list. So Rod and
Speaker 3: his drunk friend in the studio.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, Rod drove all the way from Bakersfield where
Speaker 1: a buddy of his and we had to have him
Speaker 1: leave because his buddy was raging alcohol.
Speaker 3: Not only was his buddy three sheets to the wind,
Speaker 3: he was handling big butcher knives. Yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 3: That was pretty al right. Coop eating Vasoline live on
Speaker 3: the air. That was a solid knight, Yeah, with some
Speaker 3: listeners in attendance.
Speaker 1: And then drove by with the Vasoline Comedy vest.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then Coop eating an eighteen hour old burger
Speaker 3: king hot dog with old Rancid relish on it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. The J Moore Show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was now owns the Lakers. J Moore, that's right,
Speaker 3: that's right, great, Coop eating bad things memories.
Speaker 1: We also had a listener were you here for this?
Speaker 1: We had a listener coming studio who were pretty sure
Speaker 1: did a line of coke in the bathroom, very nervous,
Speaker 1: very shy, and then she I.
Speaker 3: Remember one of our doing that, and memo went out
Speaker 3: to everybody.
Speaker 1: Well most of us can't afford that lifestyle. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so yeah, this the listener came in. She brought some
Speaker 1: food years ago and very nervous. I get it. You know,
Speaker 1: you're not used to that environment with the microphones and
Speaker 1: it can be a little intimidating. But she then went
Speaker 1: to the bathroom and she came out and she was
Speaker 1: like bouncing off the walls. And we're pretty sure we
Speaker 1: don't know what she did, but.
Speaker 3: She would have fit right into nineteen eighties radio.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, there was one more, one more I
Speaker 1: wrote down here.
Speaker 3: It's our show. We were in our last segment. It
Speaker 3: had been a really good show and suddenly the fire
Speaker 3: alarm system randomly went off. Oh yes, yes, And in fact,
Speaker 3: I have an old video. Yeah, I videotaped it, and
Speaker 3: you can hear me say, man, our takes were so
Speaker 3: hot early this morning that the fire system has it's
Speaker 3: gone off, and we we literally thought that a part
Speaker 3: of the building must be on fire, because whenever they
Speaker 3: test it or do anything like that, they give us,
Speaker 3: you know, notice ahead of time. Nobody said anything. It
Speaker 3: just randomly went off that night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're supposed to evacuate in a timely manner,
Speaker 1: and we didn't know.
Speaker 3: We just show must go on, burn, baby burn. We
Speaker 3: would all been burnt. You smeal me, I mean you
Speaker 3: smeal me mate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll push back the great debate. But
Speaker 1: I did want to get to the idiom of the week,
Speaker 1: not the word of the week, the idiom of the week.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for the idiom of the week? Idiom
Speaker 1: all the week?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Idiom of the week is turn a blind eye. This
Speaker 1: is not regularly used. I use it from time to time.
Speaker 1: You ever used turn a blind eye? You turned a
Speaker 1: blind eye to that, you know that kind of thing?
Speaker 3: Heard it? Never used it?
Speaker 1: All right? So the origins on this, it's an old
Speaker 1: idiom expression, and this goes all all the way back
Speaker 1: to the Battle of Copenhagen in eighteen oh one, and
Speaker 1: yet it is still occasionally used to this day. It's
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. So the expression, as the legend goes, was
Speaker 1: a result of a former well back in the famous
Speaker 1: hero of the English Navy, Admiral Horatio Nelson during the
Speaker 1: Battle of Copenhagen. The allegation is that he deliberately raised
Speaker 1: his telescope to his blind eye, thus ensuring that he
Speaker 1: would not see any signal from the superior giving him
Speaker 1: discretion to withdraw from the battle. So he turn a
Speaker 1: blind eye. Is literally in combat the Battle of Copenhagen.
Speaker 1: To use your blind eye so you do not see
Speaker 1: the orders that you're being given because you don't want
Speaker 1: to follow said orders during a battle is the idiom
Speaker 1: of the week. There, boom, we'll get out on that.
Speaker 1: Boom boom. We got to other things. We will push
Speaker 1: back on a long weekend ahead. We'll get to tomorrow,
Speaker 1: of course, the first day of June. Very exciting, the
Speaker 1: turning of the calendar, and we'll see what June has
Speaker 1: in store for us. But have a wonderful Friday. I
Speaker 1: assume you're back today later, Danny, this afternoon, you'll be
Speaker 1: in with your your Homiescobino and Rich.
Speaker 3: Yeah, gonna be in here for a fun Friday show
Speaker 3: two to four pm on the West side, and that
Speaker 3: is five to seven pm in beautiful. I'll let you
Speaker 3: pick the east coast city.
Speaker 1: All right, Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 3: Hart Hartford. Is it beautiful there? No, it's not really good.
Speaker 3: In semi beautiful Hertford, Connecticut. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean there's parts of it there nice, but I
Speaker 1: would put certain streets in Hartford exactly exactly. All Right,
Speaker 1: have a great day. We will chat with you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Asta pasta got a murder. I gotta go.