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 Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air every where. The weekend kicks off right
Speaker 1: now on a spooky edition of The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Mallor and Danny g Radio Things that go bump
Speaker 1: during the day. As Danny, this is the Friday, the
Speaker 1: thirteenth edition of The Fifth Hour. Are you prepared?
Speaker 3: You know who is excited about being in the month
Speaker 3: of October. Who's that my next door neighbor who has
Speaker 3: not taken down their Christmas lights from last year.
Speaker 1: Oh, they're prepared. I don't have to worry about the
Speaker 1: nightmare of putting the lights up, right, the bad dream
Speaker 1: that that.
Speaker 3: Is, Uh yeah, yeah, we're early.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well there you go. Just never take them off.
Speaker 1: That's that's the definition of laziness. Just put them up
Speaker 1: and or pay somebody to put them up and then
Speaker 1: just leave them up and and that is all.
Speaker 3: That is all.
Speaker 1: So on this edition of the Fifth Hours, we kick
Speaker 1: off the weekend here in the middle of the month
Speaker 1: of October, well just about the middle. We've got the
Speaker 1: Tony Bennett Special. It's spaghetti time, the word of the week,
Speaker 1: the word of the week. And we'll see if we
Speaker 1: have time to get cy and tyfficult.
Speaker 3: Yeah we probably won't.
Speaker 1: Probably not, No, no, we win. If we don't, we'll
Speaker 1: just we'll just bump that to another day. We've got
Speaker 1: all weekend, so we'll just push that to tomorrow on
Speaker 1: Saturday or who knows. But let's start with this so
Speaker 1: Tony Bennett Special, the Tony Bennett Special. So this past
Speaker 1: week did somebody die? Well, no, not quite so, Danny.
Speaker 1: This past week now interesting for the radio show. So,
Speaker 1: as you know, we have a lot of opinions. We're
Speaker 1: in the opinion business. It's not necessarily about being right,
Speaker 1: it's about having an opinion. So on my end, Danny's
Speaker 1: on with Kovino Rich. So on my end, I do
Speaker 1: five live radio shows a week. That is twenty hours
Speaker 1: of traditional radio broadcasting. We do another three hours here
Speaker 1: on the podcast, which is not hot take driven thirty
Speaker 1: a minute TV shows syndicated where with NBC which will
Speaker 1: be on by the way today all over the place.
Speaker 1: So check your local cable listenings. So anyway, the point
Speaker 1: of this, get to the point please point on this
Speaker 1: is you become a hot take assembly line, which might
Speaker 1: sound like a bad dream to some like you know,
Speaker 1: that's an ordeal, but it's not. It's not that bad, right,
Speaker 1: it's not that bad. Opinion react to stories, have opinion.
Speaker 1: And so each monologue, the way we do the show,
Speaker 1: and I've been doing this pretty consistently the last year
Speaker 1: or so, each monologue, it's not just one opinion, it's
Speaker 1: like three, four, five, six. Usually it's like three kind
Speaker 1: of broken up parts of the monologue. And so that's
Speaker 1: like twelve a minimum, twelve takes a night, sixty hot
Speaker 1: takes in a monologue per week, the monologues per week,
Speaker 1: so you get to a certain threshold where it is
Speaker 1: just a cacophony of noise weekends. One of the reasons
Speaker 1: we don't do sports takes here, I think Danny on
Speaker 1: this podcast, is because we just need a break. I
Speaker 1: need a break, I need a break from my hot takes.
Speaker 1: So I kind of have to refresh and get away
Speaker 1: from the hot take, the grind of the hot take.
Speaker 1: These are first world problems, Danny, the grind of the
Speaker 1: hot take. And as a result of this cacoffony of noise,
Speaker 1: I just want to for the record, I want to
Speaker 1: point out that it's not that we don't work as artisans.
Speaker 3: To actor David Cacoffney, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I mean we worked as artists, right. We
Speaker 1: try to craft every take into a masterpiece, but not
Speaker 1: every take is going to be your masterpiece. Try to
Speaker 1: make it that so anyway to continue the never ending story.
Speaker 1: You don't know what you don't know, and you also
Speaker 1: don't necessarily know what's going to resonate in the ears
Speaker 1: of you the list. Right, It's like the old Joe
Speaker 1: Madden line, try not to suck. So you try not
Speaker 1: to suck, but you don't know. Certain things are better
Speaker 1: than other things. And so this week we went Tony
Speaker 1: Bennett fly into the Moon on one of the random
Speaker 1: takes that didn't even really move the needle at the time.
Speaker 1: In fact, I was getting blowback from people for the take,
Speaker 1: and it skyrocketed up the charts, just like Tony Bennett
Speaker 1: fly Me to the Moon, Right, so it went platinum. Now,
Speaker 1: of all the things that you want to take a
Speaker 1: shot of, all the sports news of the week, what
Speaker 1: do you think the thing was that took off your
Speaker 1: Danny and was very popular, very popular in that cyber
Speaker 1: warfare zone, in the bunker of cyber warfare.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say the story about Jimmy Butler not
Speaker 3: giving up coffee for a year, even if that meant
Speaker 3: he would win an NBA title.
Speaker 1: That's a good story. That Jimmy the bucket story is
Speaker 1: a good story. And I didn't even get into it
Speaker 1: that much though, so it's not It is pro bouncy
Speaker 1: ball related, but it is not the Jimmy bucket story.
Speaker 1: So I'll fill you in on this because a little
Speaker 1: birdie plugged me into the NBA said we were texting
Speaker 1: back and forth and sent me something about the Blazers
Speaker 1: and it goes back to Dame time and that Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard trade to the Milwaukee Bucks. And so this was
Speaker 1: passed on me. Now, keep in mind, Danny, I am
Speaker 1: so low on the totem pole doing the Overnight Show
Speaker 1: that when people tell me things, I just assume everyone
Speaker 1: already knows it, and they just happened to tell me
Speaker 1: at the end. You know, I don't think I'm getting
Speaker 1: any kind of real scoopage per se. People tell me
Speaker 1: interesting things, which I appreciate. These days they usually text
Speaker 1: me interesting things. But I appreciate that, and so I
Speaker 1: didn't really think anything of it. I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: this is a good story. So the story was that
Speaker 1: the Blazers were prepared to give Damian Lillard what he wanted.
Speaker 1: They were going to trade him to Miami. They had
Speaker 1: tried to work out with the Heat what exactly they wanted.
Speaker 1: They were working out the logistics of it, and then
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard's agent did a round of media and said
Speaker 1: some disparaging, disparaging things about the Trailblazers, and they were like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're here to help, and you're screwing us over here.
Speaker 1: You're making us look like a bunch of dopes, and
Speaker 1: you know the hubris of people that work in sports.
Speaker 1: So at that point a couple of the muckety MUCKs
Speaker 1: there in Portland decided to pivot. According to the source
Speaker 1: I have, and they're like, all right, well we'll do
Speaker 1: what we want with Lellard. He's under contract. We don't
Speaker 1: have to set them to Miami, and they opened up
Speaker 1: the trade market to a bunch of other teams, and
Speaker 1: the obviously ended up in Milwaukee. So I just merely
Speaker 1: passed on that part of the story. We actually started
Speaker 1: out playing somedings Lillard sound from Media Day and we
Speaker 1: went into it. Next thing I know, And I didn't
Speaker 1: know this right away. It actually took a couple of days.
Speaker 1: But I wake up and and things are just blowing up. Right.
Speaker 1: It's like this thing had rocket fuel, and the blogger
Speaker 1: sphere started picking it up. Then some prominent social media
Speaker 1: accounts for the NBA picked it up, and the flag
Speaker 1: is up. We were off to the races. We were
Speaker 1: off to the races, and this thing traveled the basketball Kingdom.
Speaker 1: And as of this morning, this just happened yesterday. But
Speaker 1: as of this morning, Danny, this thing had been viewed
Speaker 1: on only one of the one of the more prominent
Speaker 1: basketball social media accounts. Three point one million times, three
Speaker 1: point one million times. It's insane. So anyway it was.
Speaker 1: It was really surprising. I thought if anything would have
Speaker 1: gone viral this week, it would have been me losing
Speaker 1: my lunch over the debacle that is Dodger Baseball, the
Speaker 1: wash out that is the Dodgers. But you know, so
Speaker 1: this I earned my stripes this week with with our
Speaker 1: friend Sager uh and and the social media guys and
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 3: So uh so I thought you were going to drink
Speaker 3: coffee live on the air for the first time in
Speaker 3: your life.
Speaker 1: Ah, well that would know, No, I can't do that. Well,
Speaker 1: Iowa Sam was like, why don't you just drink coffee?
Speaker 1: And then I had to explain the whole story to
Speaker 1: Iowa Sam because he's the other night we were complaining
Speaker 1: because a little tired because of the TV thing. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm kind of kind of drained here and
Speaker 1: he's and he's like, well, just drink coffee. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I have caffeine. I just drink I take the pill.
Speaker 1: And he's like, no, you just have a chocolate mocha
Speaker 1: or something. I was like, I don't want to.
Speaker 3: How is it was Sam working out by the way.
Speaker 1: Oh, Sam's great. But every once in a while, Sam,
Speaker 1: we have a little bit of I don't want to
Speaker 1: call it like disarray or anything like that, but they're
Speaker 1: every once in a while, Sam goes back. We call
Speaker 1: it Iowa time where he panics, well not I don't
Speaker 1: know that panics the right word, but it's kind of
Speaker 1: like he's stuck in a labyrinth and he's he's like
Speaker 1: an amaze, right, And and every once in a while,
Speaker 1: I was Sam, We'll go down a blind, blind alley
Speaker 1: because I'll set up a sound bite, you know, because
Speaker 1: you worked with me, Dan and Danny on the on
Speaker 1: the radio show. So I'll sometimes kind of set up
Speaker 1: a drop to kind of tell the story, right, whether
Speaker 1: it's tortorella, you know, we just sucked at a time
Speaker 1: we cannot suck, or any of those ten And so
Speaker 1: Iowa Sam. Every once in a while i'll see get
Speaker 1: nothing or or and I love Iowa Sam, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna get him on the podcast here at some point.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying this an inter neegative way at all,
Speaker 1: but but sometimes he'll be kind of I don't know
Speaker 1: the disorder is the right way. It's just things get jumble,
Speaker 1: things getting muddled, cluttered, whatever you want to say there, discombobulated.
Speaker 1: So anyway, he'll he'll be messing around, he'll be futching
Speaker 1: around with the sound and I will have moved on
Speaker 1: to something else and then what do you think happens?
Speaker 1: Danny drop exactly out of context, too late, total sabotage,
Speaker 1: vandalizing the next take. I've already moved on, and my man,
Speaker 1: Iowa Sam's like, well, I found it, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play it, and uh, yeah.
Speaker 3: It's not a delay system exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: But I must say that all things considered, you know,
Speaker 1: i Sam has been great. We had a rotation of people.
Speaker 1: We had three three different engineers a week and it
Speaker 1: was a little bleary eyed, well that was going on. Uh,
Speaker 1: and so now we've settled on Iowa Sam. So it's
Speaker 1: been been pretty good. It's been pretty good.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of new like people. I feel like,
Speaker 1: I don't don't you sense there's like new people, A
Speaker 1: few new people. There's always new people coming to Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. I know there's a there's another new board
Speaker 1: op they hired that has been training with the vegan Alex.
Speaker 3: The vegan Yeah, Lorena who she's also trained in the
Speaker 3: afternoon where Ramos kind of just shadowed her. Brianna is
Speaker 3: back in the editing bay. She was an intern at
Speaker 3: the network a few years back. Yeah, the new blood
Speaker 3: and two females, which is kind of cool because except
Speaker 3: for Monci, we didn't really have any females in the building.
Speaker 1: It's it's like Chippendale's there with all dudes. It's all
Speaker 1: all that. But yeah, I know it's cool. It's nice
Speaker 1: to have new people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, previously was a sausage factory.
Speaker 1: There you go. It was like we were doing a
Speaker 1: sausage race, like the Brewers Sausage Race every single night.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: I like the extended winner. Yeah, continuing on here, I
Speaker 1: did want to tell this tales, so we'll get more
Speaker 1: into it. There's some great stories. I'll probably save some
Speaker 1: of these for the Saturday podcast. But today's Friday, so
Speaker 1: let's just worry about this. So, before the Dodgers were
Speaker 1: excommunicated from the playoffs, before they got bushwhacked by the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks there and tuckered out of the playoffs with a
Speaker 1: pathetic offensive performance, totally feeble, just stupefying how bad they
Speaker 1: were offensively, considering they were the ones that didn't have
Speaker 1: they cast offs. The secondhand players, the players that were
Speaker 1: supposedly discarded, that's mostly Arizona, right, Arizona. They got a
Speaker 1: couple of good young players, but a lot of that
Speaker 1: roster is flotsam and jetsam, and they went out there
Speaker 1: and that hodge podge of nothingness went out and was
Speaker 1: able to just burn the Dodgers. It was anyway. But
Speaker 1: before all that happened, I was able to attend a
Speaker 1: pair of postseason baseball games kind of. It was really
Speaker 1: one and some pregame festivities. But La absolutely, as we said,
Speaker 1: just spit roasted by the Diamondbacks. But the playoff omians.
Speaker 1: It was cool being out there. Now. Saturday I attended briefly.
Speaker 1: We'll have more on that on the Saturday podcast. But
Speaker 1: on Monday, which was Game two of the National League
Speaker 1: Divisional Series, that's a work night. I have the radio
Speaker 1: show to do on Monday night, which is the Tuesday show,
Speaker 1: and so that means that I am doing a NBA
Speaker 1: halftime show. I'm spinning a lot of plates and I'm
Speaker 1: running around trying to spend all the places to get
Speaker 1: ready for the show.
Speaker 3: The Miller choked night, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was when Miller came out and gave up
Speaker 1: I believe three runs, three or four. So anyway, so
Speaker 1: but I was there at the game whatever. I wanted
Speaker 1: to watch the game. So I'm gonna be out there,
Speaker 1: and I didn't think that would be the last game
Speaker 1: that I would see until twenty twenty four in person.
Speaker 1: So I'm out spinning plates just like an NBA halftime show.
Speaker 1: And there were multiple games going on, and we react
Speaker 1: to all the games, so I had to watch the
Speaker 1: I think the Phillies Braves game was that night also,
Speaker 1: that was on earlier, and the Dodger game was the
Speaker 1: late game. But there was also a Monday night football
Speaker 1: game that wasn't much of a game Vegas in Green
Speaker 1: Bay in terms of offensive fireworks. So I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: the show together. So four hours whatever you get to
Speaker 1: put together. And there's a method to the madness, and
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of time. It takes a lot
Speaker 1: of time. And normally I have my own space, my
Speaker 1: own sanctuary where I am away from all all the
Speaker 1: outside world, right all the outside world, and I don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about anything. There's no Hindenburg that's gonna
Speaker 1: blow up, no hydrogen bomb, none of that stuff anyway,
Speaker 1: So obviously I didn't have that at the Dodger game.
Speaker 1: And these playoff games are packed with media. I did
Speaker 1: media up, so it's very busy there's a lot of
Speaker 1: media freeloaders that fill up the press box. That were
Speaker 1: a ton of ara. I didn't realize Phoenix had that
Speaker 1: much media. There were a bunch of TV stations, radio stations, newspapers.
Speaker 1: I thought there was only one newspaper in Phoenix, but
Speaker 1: maybe these were blogs. I don't know. There were tons
Speaker 1: of people that were just all over the Dodger Stadium
Speaker 1: press box for the playoff game. I don't at these
Speaker 1: playoff games usually unless there's an auxiliary press box. I
Speaker 1: don't have a seat for the first round. I think
Speaker 1: if the Dodgers has gone to the NLCS or the
Speaker 1: World Series, which is totally impossible the way they hit
Speaker 1: and pitch, But if it had been possible, I would
Speaker 1: have had a seat. I didn't have a seat, so
Speaker 1: I had to sit in the around media freeloaders. I
Speaker 1: went unorthodox. The media dining room at Dodger Stadium. They
Speaker 1: turned into like a hybrid workspace mess hall. So I
Speaker 1: got there early. I didn't get a lot of sleep,
Speaker 1: had to pick up place. I didn't get there early
Speaker 1: so i'd get a spot to sit in the press room.
Speaker 1: So I sit down, set up my computer, and I've
Speaker 1: got views of the baseball game because they had the
Speaker 1: Phillies game on. And then I put the Raider Packers
Speaker 1: game on my TV, well my computer, and then but
Speaker 1: they put the Raider game on one of the TV's
Speaker 1: because there was some Raider fans I want to watch.
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting down, I'm mining my own business, okay,
Speaker 1: And the hybrid workspace slash mess Hall starts start filling up.
Speaker 1: People are coming in, you know, slowly turning into a madhouse.
Speaker 1: More and more people are coming coming and going, and
Speaker 1: it's like a Grand Central Stations. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of activity. And then at one point, as
Speaker 1: people are dining, they're starting to eat their their supper.
Speaker 1: At one point, a major league baseball legend just happens
Speaker 1: to sit down right across from me at the table
Speaker 1: I'm at, and all right, this seems I mean, this
Speaker 1: seems like kind of an interesting thing. And for him,
Speaker 1: in his head, he was saying, it's a spaghetti time,
Speaker 1: because this hardball hero had he had a couple of
Speaker 1: people with him, but he was enjoying some nice pasta
Speaker 1: and he was interrupted multiple times by other Rando randos
Speaker 1: that were well wishers, well wishers and all.
Speaker 3: That he was eating spaghetti.
Speaker 1: He was eating spaghetti. This guy was eating spaghetti. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna play a game.
Speaker 3: Here, Danny, So I know who this was?
Speaker 1: Can you name? Can you guess the baseball player who
Speaker 1: I dubbed an MLB legend who was sitting down eating spaghetti?
Speaker 1: And how many guesses do you think you need? That?
Speaker 3: Three guesses?
Speaker 1: Okay? So if you get it wrong, I think you
Speaker 1: might get this right right away. But if you get
Speaker 1: it wrong, I will give you a clue. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: every wrong guess, I will give you a clue. Okay,
Speaker 1: So do you want to go blind here without any
Speaker 1: clues to start?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll start blind with no clues.
Speaker 1: All right. This is where we're trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what I call a Major League Baseball legend who sat
Speaker 1: down at my table as I was getting the ready
Speaker 1: for the radio show to eat a nice dish of spaghetti.
Speaker 3: Let's see, stat wise, he's one of the best catchers
Speaker 3: of all time. I'm thinking Mike Piazza sat down across
Speaker 3: from you.
Speaker 1: Michael Piazza the most popular Dodgers since Sandy Cofax when
Speaker 1: he played at Dodger Stadium. Certainly you think Italian, you
Speaker 1: think Mike Piazza, right, racist the whole coach. Didn't he
Speaker 1: manage the Italian World Baseball team? Yes, well that is
Speaker 1: that is not Mike. Mike Piazza actually had a falling
Speaker 1: out with the Dodgers. He hates the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: See still holds a grudge because they traded him to
Speaker 1: the Marlins in was it nineteen ninety eight. It's been
Speaker 1: twenty five years and he still has very little, if
Speaker 1: any communication with the Dodgers. He hates him. He considered
Speaker 1: himself a met which MLB legend sat down at my
Speaker 1: table across from me and ate spaghetti. It's a spaghetti time,
Speaker 1: all right. So this person played for six teams. He
Speaker 1: played for the Padres, the Phillies, the Cardinals, the Orioles,
Speaker 1: the Angels, and the Dodgers and the Dodgers. Think about
Speaker 1: think about who is responsible for generations of Dodger fans
Speaker 1: like literally has made them probably I don't know, fifty
Speaker 1: billion dollars, some ridiculous number like that. If you think
Speaker 1: about the impact.
Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't know Fernando pitched for all those teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he did. At the end. He left the
Speaker 1: Dodgers at age like twenty nine. He bounced around, he pitched,
Speaker 1: He went to the Angels for a little bit, then
Speaker 1: he was on the Orioles.
Speaker 3: I do, okay, I do remember him as an oriole right, yeah,
Speaker 3: but no other team, Like in my mind he only
Speaker 3: wore a Dodger's uniform and then maybe an Orioles uniform
Speaker 3: for a hot second.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he actually was mostly a Dodger. He actually pitched
Speaker 1: three years with the Padres, which I barely remember him.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, Fernando sat down and he ate some spaghetti
Speaker 1: and people kept interrupting him, like these people from Arizona
Speaker 1: that were there for the for the game, from the
Speaker 1: Phoenix media. They're like, oh, I just want to thank
Speaker 1: you Fernando, you know, back in the day. And he'd
Speaker 1: pause eating the spaghetti. It was very polite. He'd nod
Speaker 1: his head. He'd then the person would leave and he'd
Speaker 1: go back to eating his pasta. I mean, you go
Speaker 1: to these Dodger games and in the Mexican American community
Speaker 1: in La Man there is no athlete more important in
Speaker 1: La sports than Fernando Alenzuela.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you totally threw me off with that list of
Speaker 3: teams because I, like I said, I don't picture him
Speaker 3: in any of those other uniforms except the Orioles. And
Speaker 3: I think he wore glasses when he was pitching for
Speaker 3: the Orioles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because remember he left the Dodgers. He had some
Speaker 1: arm issues and he wasn't pitching very well. So they
Speaker 1: were throwing all kinds of spaghetti against the wall to
Speaker 1: try to figure out what what they could do to
Speaker 1: to help him to pitch pitch a little bit better.
Speaker 3: Now, did he have any sort of interaction with you?
Speaker 1: There was a nod when he sat down, because when
Speaker 1: you sit down, you know, I was only only other
Speaker 1: one at the table, so there was a nod. There
Speaker 1: was an acknowledgement there. But but he was I didn't
Speaker 1: want to bother him, and I'm pretty sure he didn't
Speaker 1: want to bother me because I had my I had
Speaker 1: my computer going, and I was like I was running
Speaker 1: around spinning all those plates, and but it was just
Speaker 1: it was just cool. He just randomly sat down there
Speaker 1: and Fernando, and of course I eaves dropped, as you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm prone to do that, and so I learned
Speaker 1: Fernando likes playing back. He liked playing basketball back and
Speaker 1: the day who knew, and I was planning on golfing.
Speaker 1: The next day he was lining up some golf and
Speaker 1: so he had that going for him. And he was
Speaker 1: also somebody asked if he was going to be at a
Speaker 1: certain playoff game and he said he had a date.
Speaker 1: He had to go back to Mexico for something. So
Speaker 1: there you go. That's all my intel. And none of
Speaker 1: that was like, it's not like private or I mean,
Speaker 1: she just likes golfing, he likes basketball, and he goes
Speaker 1: to Mexico. I think that's all kind of public information anyway, isn't.
Speaker 3: It huge mansion in Mexico right on the water.
Speaker 1: Oh, he's got to be like the King of Mexico.
Speaker 1: Like nobody nobody's gonna mess with Fernando. Like the cartels
Speaker 1: won't mess with him, nobody, the government won't, and no
Speaker 1: one's gonna mess the Fernando Valenzuela.
Speaker 3: My very first Dodger game as a little kindergartener, my
Speaker 3: grandmother took us way up top with her son umbrella
Speaker 3: and her transistor radio with Vin Scully and it was
Speaker 3: Fernando pitching.
Speaker 1: Here's the interesting thing though, when Fernando. You remember the
Speaker 1: rumors when Fernando started pitching, he made his debut, he
Speaker 1: was nineteen years old when he supposedly almost.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fixed to birth certificate.
Speaker 1: Right, So here's the question. How for Ando's listed age
Speaker 1: is I think he's listed ages sixty two? Yeah, almost
Speaker 1: sixty three. But if he really was much older than nineteen,
Speaker 1: like there were stories I heard from old time Dodger
Speaker 1: people that he was like closer to twenty eight or
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 3: What yeah, I would say he's closer to sixty eight
Speaker 3: years old.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah. Anyway, Yeah, So anyway, that was
Speaker 1: my interaction with.
Speaker 3: I could have asked him to hey, Holmes, how old
Speaker 3: are you? For reals?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I could have. I could have gone, I
Speaker 1: don't think it would slap me or thrown some tomato
Speaker 1: sauce on me or something from the pasta I don't know. Uh. Oh,
Speaker 1: the word we want to get out on the word
Speaker 1: of a week. How about that? You ready for the
Speaker 1: word of the week? Word of the week? All right?
Speaker 1: So the word of the week here, which is actually
Speaker 1: it's more of a phrase hot potato.
Speaker 3: Wait is this of the week?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: Why you can call. There were words, But you know,
Speaker 1: why don't we say? How about the phrase of the week, Danny,
Speaker 1: are you ready for the phrase of the week?
Speaker 3: Phrase of the week?
Speaker 1: Much sought after, much desired, much coveted, requested, and very marketable,
Speaker 1: wrong and popular with a certain demographic. The phrase of
Speaker 1: the week is hot potato. Now, I think we all
Speaker 1: know what this means. Anything that is taboo, anything that
Speaker 1: is a third rail type topic of conversation right, can
Speaker 1: be awkward, controversial, delicate, can create some pushback. That would
Speaker 1: be a hot potato. The term hot potato originated not
Speaker 1: that long ago. In the context of the world and verbiage.
Speaker 1: The term hot potato originated in the mid eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: and it is taken from an older term to drop
Speaker 1: like a hot potato. So hot potato is a shortened
Speaker 1: version of the drop like a hot potato. It goes
Speaker 1: back to I just said to the mid eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: to abandon something or someone quickly. And what it means,
Speaker 1: what it alludes to is the fact that if you've
Speaker 1: ever cooked a potato, it retains a considerable amount of
Speaker 1: its temperature, its heat, and if you try to pick
Speaker 1: up said potato, you are likely to drop the potato
Speaker 1: because it will burn your fingers and your hands and
Speaker 1: all that. And so right, that is the and I
Speaker 1: have done that. My mom used to make my dad
Speaker 1: like baked potatoes, so we would us kids would make
Speaker 1: the potatoes and we take them out of the the
Speaker 1: like the stove or whatever. And it was it was
Speaker 1: very hot. I remember it being like extremely extremely hot.
Speaker 1: So I do recall, I do recall that. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get out on that. I got the TV show today.
Speaker 1: I'd love you to watch that week six, Week six
Speaker 1: of Benny Versus the Penny. It's on tonight on NBC
Speaker 1: Sports Boston at seven thirty. We're gonna play Philly, and
Speaker 1: we should get great ratings because NBC Sports Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: the Philly station. They're in the NLCS. We'll be on
Speaker 1: there at six thirty in Philadelphia. We play in Chicago
Speaker 1: late night. Don't watch late night television. Watch watch Benny
Speaker 1: Versus the Penny eleven thirty tonight in Chicago. The TV
Speaker 1: show Beyond. We'll be on multiple times in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: six thirty, seven thirty on NBC Sports Bay Area. We'll
Speaker 1: also be on all day Saturday on Spectrum Sportsnet SoCal
Speaker 1: beginning at six am here in LA on the Lakers
Speaker 1: cable station six am, three pm, seven pm, and eleven pm.
Speaker 1: Five four showings of Benny Versus the Penny on Saturday tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and we will play and as Danny says, New York
Speaker 1: City on Sunday morning at eleven thirty am in New York,
Speaker 1: we'll have just before the pregame shows and all that
Speaker 1: Rigamo roar for the NFL, we'll have Benny Versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: That's on Sportsnet New York, the cable home of the
Speaker 1: New York Metropolitans. It also airs a bunch of other times.
Speaker 1: But check your local cable listenings. Can you tell me
Speaker 1: to do that? Your local TV listings?
Speaker 3: That you tell me local listings is what you need
Speaker 3: to tell everybody. Now, as I watch Laker programming on
Speaker 3: Spectrum Sports LA, the Penny is gonna haunt me. One second,
Speaker 3: I'll be watching a Lakers preseason game. The next second,
Speaker 3: your big mug is going to be on the screen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. No, My goal and this will be
Speaker 1: the ultimate here is if Bill McDonald, who I've known
Speaker 1: for years, I haven't seen him in a while because
Speaker 1: of the COVID stuff. And I've been back to Laker
Speaker 1: games while, but back when I used to go out
Speaker 1: there all the time. Bill McDonald, the play by play
Speaker 1: guy on TV, maybe he'll be forced to do a
Speaker 1: promo for Benny versus the Penning. Now, that would be
Speaker 1: that would be that would be just great. But who knows?
Speaker 1: What are you hear going on? You got Covino on
Speaker 1: Rich today, Danny g Yes.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, got a fun Friday afternoon show planned weekend
Speaker 3: hob Nobbin and our power parlay and everything else, all
Speaker 3: the shenanigans that we normally have to end the week.
Speaker 3: And that is two to four pm on the West Coast,
Speaker 3: five to seven pm in New York City.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful day today, obviously, on this Friday, the thirteenth,
Speaker 1: Stay safe and joy, have a wonderful time, and we
Speaker 1: will catch you on Saturday later.
Speaker 3: Skater got a murder. I gotta go,