Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
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 sol 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 Mallard starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with me, Ben
Speaker 3: Malor and Danny g Radio and a happy Friday to you,
Speaker 3: the last Friday before we have football NFL football, which
Speaker 3: comes next week. It is the thirtieth day of August,
Speaker 3: and we are glad that you have tuned in. Now
Speaker 3: Danny is away, he's on assignment today. He'll be back
Speaker 3: hopefully for Saturday and Sunday, so we'll be able to
Speaker 3: break it down. But today this podcast of the Fifth
Speaker 3: Hour a special edition, a behind the scenes passed to
Speaker 3: the collaborative efforts to bring Benny versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: Back to life.
Speaker 3: We will get to that, but I did want to
Speaker 3: mention today a very important day. Now, why is today
Speaker 3: an important day? It is Warren Buffett's birthday, well, it
Speaker 3: is actually Warren Buff's birthday, but that's not why today
Speaker 3: is an important day. How about Warren Buffett, though ninety
Speaker 3: four years old today, was born in nineteen thirty and
Speaker 3: he's one of the ten richest people in the entire planet,
Speaker 3: not just the United States, the entire planet. The Oracle
Speaker 3: of Omaha, God bless him, Warren Buffett, who has lived
Speaker 3: the life. And hey, if you have that kind of money,
Speaker 3: you want to keep living as long as you can. Anyway,
Speaker 3: But the guy had nothing when he started and became
Speaker 3: a millionaire. Started in nineteen fifty one, became a millionaire
Speaker 3: by the early sixties.
Speaker 1: And think about that. That's nuts.
Speaker 3: Some of the other dopey days I know Blind Scott
Speaker 3: loves when we do this. It's National Beach Day today.
Speaker 3: This being the holiday weekend as we lead in to
Speaker 3: the Labor Day weekend. People always confuse Labor Day and
Speaker 3: Memorial Day. But it is National Beach Day today, so
Speaker 3: celebrate appropriately. A sign National Beach Day. That probably should
Speaker 3: get out to the beach because the weathers is about
Speaker 3: to turn in most places. In most places it's about
Speaker 3: to turn. That holiday not that all, that's one of those
Speaker 3: fugazi made up holidays that's.
Speaker 1: Not that old, that hadn't been around that long.
Speaker 3: But there are some legitimate holidays which I think we
Speaker 3: need to celebrate. For example, it's Slinky Day. Today is
Speaker 3: the seventy ninth anniversary of the slinky. Now, as a
Speaker 3: product of a world that did not have the Interweb
Speaker 3: and had these archaic video games, I was a slinky guy.
Speaker 3: I was had I had the slinky, and I did
Speaker 3: like every other kid in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: We took the slinky.
Speaker 3: We went to some stairs and we put it on
Speaker 3: the top of the stairs and saw if we could
Speaker 3: get the thing to go down the stairs. But it
Speaker 3: is a toy Hall of fame, legend of not quite
Speaker 3: the Bambino of toys, I would say, but it's it's.
Speaker 1: Done pretty well. It's done pretty well. The slinky.
Speaker 3: I don't know now, like is anyone using the slinky.
Speaker 3: It was made by somebody named Richard James, a Navy
Speaker 3: mechanical engine. By the way, this does count alf as
Speaker 3: the fun fact, maybe the first of many fun facts
Speaker 3: on this Friday edition of the Fifth Hour. But this
Speaker 3: guy named Richard James, as I understand, he was a
Speaker 3: Navy mechanical engineer and he was on assignment for the
Speaker 3: for the military, and he discovered the slinky by knocking
Speaker 3: a spring off a shelf by accident, and he had
Speaker 3: this epiphany. He watched as the spring ended up making
Speaker 3: all these arcs and movements and all this stuff, and
Speaker 3: he's like.
Speaker 1: WHOA, we got something here.
Speaker 3: And then for about a year, this guy, Richard James
Speaker 3: from the Navy started futting around, messing around and doing
Speaker 3: all kinds of things, and he played around with all
Speaker 3: kinds of wire and then he discovered the perfect spring
Speaker 3: that could walk. And now the interesting thing, I don't
Speaker 3: know if it's interesting to you, but I thought it
Speaker 3: was interesting. Is this this cat James. When he first
Speaker 3: came up with what became the slinky, he had trouble
Speaker 3: actually selling it to toy stores. And then what was
Speaker 3: the turning point was in the nineteen fourths, nineteen forty five,
Speaker 3: he had permission to go to a show that he
Speaker 3: could demonstrate the toy, right and nineteen forty five theres
Speaker 3: is like big toy convention, and he shut it off
Speaker 3: and that it just took off and it was a
Speaker 3: huge seller.
Speaker 1: And now I.
Speaker 3: Don't really know, it's like this, the slinkies in that
Speaker 3: class with the etcha sketch. You feel me on that.
Speaker 3: But it is a Toy Hall of Fame or the
Speaker 3: slinky was recognized by the National Toy Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: in Rochester, New York, because when you think of toys,
Speaker 3: you definitely think of Rochester, New York. But it was
Speaker 3: shown at the US Toy Fair for the first time
Speaker 3: in nineteen forty six, and all these years later, still
Speaker 3: available going to any toy store, not that there's many
Speaker 3: toy stores left, but you go to like Walmart or
Speaker 3: one of the big box stores in the toy asle
Speaker 3: and you can find yourself a slinky. All right, So
Speaker 3: enough of that, let's get to the meat of the
Speaker 3: matter here, the behind the scenes pass. I am so excited.
Speaker 3: I hope you can join me on this journey. You
Speaker 3: were with us last year. If you're listening to the podcast,
Speaker 3: I think you're a higher level in the mouth of militia.
Speaker 3: This is not for everybody. We do very well.
Speaker 1: This podcast does very well.
Speaker 3: We have a good audience, but we don't have as
Speaker 3: many people that listen to this as do the live
Speaker 3: radio show. And there's reasons for that. You know, some
Speaker 3: of our audience has no idea what podcasting is, right,
Speaker 3: they can't get bogged down by a podcast. So if
Speaker 3: you're listening to this, your next level. So the TV
Speaker 3: shows back behind the scenes kind of let you know
Speaker 3: how this all worked. This past week we had the
Speaker 3: lot Lizard, but not that kind of Lot Lizard demo
Speaker 3: day and the real deal. Plus we're going to toss
Speaker 3: in as an added bonus for a limited time only,
Speaker 3: we are going to toss in the always popular Potato Gedding,
Speaker 3: not Armageddon Potato Geddon. But we'll begin with this. So,
Speaker 3: now that the TV show had been given the green
Speaker 3: light we talked about in a previous episode, we had
Speaker 3: Looney on last week and we had to go back
Speaker 3: to Boston and film a bunch of stuff and meet
Speaker 3: with the producers and the directors and all the behind
Speaker 3: the scenes people that make TV magic, all the many
Speaker 3: people that had their hands on Benny versus the many.
Speaker 3: So we went back and did that in Boston, had
Speaker 3: a great time, got to go to BoA's Bakery on
Speaker 3: the North End and just enjoyed the heck out of it.
Speaker 3: Saw Arnie Spanier drove up to Vermont for a day
Speaker 3: saw Arnie Spanier.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: But now that the TV show's back, we had to
Speaker 3: go and get security clearance. You can't just show up
Speaker 3: on the Universe a lot. In fact, we told the
Speaker 3: story last year, if you remember, my wife wanted to
Speaker 3: come with me to see one of the episodes being
Speaker 3: filmed at Universal and they will not allow anyone on
Speaker 3: the lot unless you have security clearance.
Speaker 1: They won't do it, which I kind of get.
Speaker 3: Right, there's people that want to do bad things and
Speaker 3: all that, and you've got a ton of security and okay,
Speaker 3: good to go, right, So the security pass needed to
Speaker 3: be updated. The last show we did was Super Bowl
Speaker 3: Week back in February, and that was I Believe in Vegas. Well,
Speaker 3: we did the show from LA and then I went
Speaker 3: to Vegas for the Super Bowl. But the pass, the
Speaker 3: way it works, you have ninety days to go without
Speaker 3: using the past. After ninety days it gets deactivated with
Speaker 3: no use and then you have to reactivate it.
Speaker 1: So I needed to get that taken care of.
Speaker 3: So I went to the Universal lot the day before
Speaker 3: we were supposed to do some work on the show.
Speaker 3: I needed my Golden ticket and I gotta tell you,
Speaker 3: it's much different than the radio world.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I love radio, and I'll do radio as long as
Speaker 3: radio have me, and I'll do podcasting. I love podcasting.
Speaker 3: But the difference between television and radio is night and
Speaker 3: day and how you are treated. Now, I've been in
Speaker 3: radio a long time. I've had issues from time to time,
Speaker 3: and normally it's, hey, figure it out yourself. You know,
Speaker 3: we're not gonna help you, right, most of that. Now,
Speaker 3: occasionally though, people will help you. It's not all the time,
Speaker 3: but it seems more times than not. It's a very
Speaker 3: combative approach to helping your fellow employee. But in the
Speaker 3: television world, and again, I'm more of a radio guy
Speaker 3: than a TV guy, I don't know how the long
Speaker 3: this TV show is gonna last. I'm shocked that they
Speaker 3: brought back season two. I'm happy, but I'm surprised. I
Speaker 3: just figured it would last one year and it would
Speaker 3: go away and that would be that. However, as I've
Speaker 3: lived this experience, which is still relatively new to me
Speaker 3: and fantastic, right, it's just exceptional that this is happening.
Speaker 3: So I've gotten a bit of a masterclass on the
Speaker 3: difference between radio and TV.
Speaker 1: And again I've done a little bit of TV.
Speaker 3: I did some stuff at the NBC Sports Network back
Speaker 3: in Stanford, Connecticut, probably about twelve years ago, eleven twelve
Speaker 3: years ago, maybe even longer than that. Time has gone by,
Speaker 3: So I needed my pass updated get to the point please.
Speaker 1: Okay. So fine.
Speaker 3: So the person involved in the studio that we use
Speaker 3: at Universal, he's like, hey, listen, I'm going to take
Speaker 3: care of this. You got to show up, Ben you
Speaker 3: do this, Looney, you do this, and no problem. So
Speaker 3: I show up the day before. I'm so paranoid. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to be able to get on a lot.
Speaker 3: He's like, go to the security office or go to
Speaker 3: security guard shack.
Speaker 1: Talk to this person, do X, Y and Z. You'll
Speaker 1: be good to go. So I'm like, okay, fine, I'm
Speaker 1: going to do that and I'll be good to go.
Speaker 3: So I show up, they scan my pass and for
Speaker 3: some reason, it's not quite working. It's not working the
Speaker 3: way it's supposed to work. So I'm like, well, this
Speaker 3: is not good.
Speaker 1: This is not good.
Speaker 3: So I let the proper powers that be no, and
Speaker 3: they immediately circle the wagons. Right, they should give a
Speaker 3: workshop on how to handle an issue like this is
Speaker 3: a small issue, right, but they identified the problem like okay,
Speaker 3: So we ended up going to the main security office
Speaker 3: at Universal Studios, and people could not have been nicer,
Speaker 3: could not have been I ended up going with Looney
Speaker 3: because he had to get his stuff taken care of
Speaker 3: and boom in and out five minutes.
Speaker 1: Here's your parking, here's your pass.
Speaker 3: You're good to go. All right, So that was good.
Speaker 3: So I was on the lot. I wasn't a lot lizard,
Speaker 3: but I was on the lot. So I was kind
Speaker 3: of like a lizard on the lot, but not the
Speaker 3: lot lizard. If you're a truck driver, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. If not, google it. So then the following day,
Speaker 3: to advance the story, it's demo day. Now, demo day
Speaker 3: is not where you go and destroy stuff. It is
Speaker 3: if you're doing home repairs and whatnot. In fact, we
Speaker 3: used to have a demo guy. We had several back
Speaker 3: in the day. If you've been with the show all time,
Speaker 3: people that work in demo that would call us up
Speaker 3: on their way to destroy stuff, to take down a kitchen,
Speaker 3: a bathroom or whatever and just go in there with
Speaker 3: rage and a hammer and a chainsaw and go Rambo
Speaker 3: and just knock yourself out. So we've had those guys,
Speaker 3: but this, this kind of demo day was hey, back
Speaker 3: in the saddle again.
Speaker 1: I'd gotten my.
Speaker 3: Security pass, so I felt like I was the king
Speaker 3: of the world. I felt like, you know, this is
Speaker 3: this is great.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then I'm back on the Universal lot, but this
Speaker 3: time we're doing the TV show, but it's the demo
Speaker 3: version of the TV show. Now there's two different worlds
Speaker 3: at Universal. There's the Universal Studios Hollywood Tour, which has
Speaker 3: the Jurassic Park ride and all these other things. It's
Speaker 3: it's pretty wild. It's pretty wild, and it's it's a
Speaker 3: cool amusement park. They have a bunch of new attractions
Speaker 3: and whatnot, and so so that's neat. But this is
Speaker 3: this is where they actually make the entertainment, right. This
Speaker 3: is the back lot, which has been around since nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1: And I might have talked about this last year. I
Speaker 1: don't remember, but just about.
Speaker 3: Every iconic film or TV show has spent time on
Speaker 3: the lot. You're going back old school, early Hollywood. Many
Speaker 3: of the early Hollywood films which are still remade or
Speaker 3: still talked about and quoted. There was a famous entertainment show,
Speaker 3: The Jack Benny.
Speaker 1: Show, which was there.
Speaker 3: But some of the early movies that were filmed at
Speaker 3: Universal on that lot. Frankenstein, the Original Frankenstein, The Bride
Speaker 3: of Frankenstein, Dracula die Hard, not Diehard one, but Diehard two.
Speaker 3: Spartacus was filmed there. The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Speaker 3: Who I actually watched that about a year ago. My
Speaker 3: wife's for some reasons, let's watch the Creature from the
Speaker 3: Black Lagoon.
Speaker 1: So we put it on and I was like, boy,
Speaker 1: this is really I mean, this is not good.
Speaker 3: I mean this is I know, we people quote that
Speaker 3: movie and stuff, but man, anyway, they filmed it Universal.
Speaker 1: The Incredible Shrinking Woman was filmed there.
Speaker 3: They here's one for you, you boys from the seventies
Speaker 3: and the eighties. The Best Little Whorehouse filmed the Universal
Speaker 3: Scarface say Hello to my little Friend. Back to the Future.
Speaker 3: But wait, there's more parts of Jurassic Parker film there.
Speaker 3: Psycho Batman returns, Meet the Fokers, Abbot and Costello. Abbot
Speaker 3: and Costello meet Frankenstein. They filmed that there. Leave It
Speaker 3: to Beaver, which is an iconic show, and this is
Speaker 3: the real deal. So Demo Day is rather obvious. You
Speaker 3: go in there and it is a dry run because
Speaker 3: you don't want to screw everything up. You don't you
Speaker 3: want to get everything right. So demo day, you go
Speaker 3: in there. You're not actually doing the show. You're not
Speaker 3: doing the show. You're just going and you're you're.
Speaker 1: Doing the dry run.
Speaker 3: You're making sure the camera people know what they're doing,
Speaker 3: the producers know what they're doing, You know what you're doing,
Speaker 3: and you're doing your thing. It's it's practice. It's a rehearsal, right,
Speaker 3: research and development, and so you're experimenting. As Alan Iverson
Speaker 3: would say back, and then we talked about practice, not
Speaker 3: a game.
Speaker 1: Not a game.
Speaker 3: We in here, we're talking about practice, but you want
Speaker 3: those habits and it's like, is it muscle memory?
Speaker 1: Are you going to be back? And the same way.
Speaker 3: And television was new to me for a weekly TV show,
Speaker 3: but in combat parlance, it would be like, hey, they
Speaker 3: use blanks in practice, but in the show it's live
Speaker 3: on tape and all that stuff, and so everything's got
Speaker 3: to be timed out to the second.
Speaker 1: So so fun.
Speaker 3: So we we went in there, we did the rehearsal
Speaker 3: and it actually went pretty well. The run through that
Speaker 3: shoot was pretty well done. We really jumped right back
Speaker 3: in It's on the ground and hit the ground running
Speaker 3: and all that stuff. I don't know the cliches I
Speaker 3: can throw in there, but that was good. So the
Speaker 3: screen test, if you will, was a bit of a bonanza, right,
Speaker 3: It was good. We felt good about ourselves. We're like, okay,
Speaker 3: we got this, but that wasn't the show. We didn't
Speaker 3: record that. That wasn't the show. And we had to
Speaker 3: get to the real deal. And that was a couple
Speaker 3: days later, which was yesterday today being Friday, so we
Speaker 3: went into Universal again. So this is the third time,
Speaker 3: third day this week. I was at Universal.
Speaker 1: And when I'm there, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie just between us. It's like that
Speaker 3: I have that imposter syndrome, like I.
Speaker 1: Don't really belong here, and like what am I doing.
Speaker 3: I haven't quite assimilated to the movie studio and everything there.
Speaker 3: It's just so much going on. It's like censory overload.
Speaker 3: It's really cool. It's a culture shock. I'm used to
Speaker 3: doing radio overnight. You go into a dark studio, you
Speaker 3: do your thing and all this stuff. So I'm really
Speaker 3: a fish out of water. A fish out of water.
Speaker 1: If you wel.
Speaker 3: But fine, so we go in to do the show
Speaker 3: and we're all excited, we're fired up. However, the logistics
Speaker 3: on this, because of the way the show needs to
Speaker 3: be done and my schedule doing overnight sports talk radio,
Speaker 3: it is any.
Speaker 1: Really long day.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not complaining. I don't want you to think
Speaker 3: of this as a complaint. I'm just merely pointing out
Speaker 3: that the schedule. While I'm not having roads in the
Speaker 3: summertime when it's ninety five degrees in human I'm not
Speaker 3: doing that. I'm not doing heavy construction. I'm not driving
Speaker 3: a truck. I'm not doing stuff at a warehouse. I'm
Speaker 3: not driving a forklift. I'm not picking a bunch of
Speaker 3: stuff up, and I'm doing in that stuff. But from
Speaker 3: a mental standpoint, you do get a worn out.
Speaker 1: You do get worn out.
Speaker 3: I had to go and I live kind of far
Speaker 3: from the universe a lot, and so you got to
Speaker 3: drive from the north Woods into the Universe a lot
Speaker 3: and I did that three days. But then doing the
Speaker 3: overnight show, and because of the show being produced out
Speaker 3: of Boston, and you got to get it done by
Speaker 3: a certain hour because then they have to edit it
Speaker 3: and then it has to go to I don't even
Speaker 3: think they use satellite to themore. I think everything's used
Speaker 3: on the internet. Everyone's sending crap around on the internet.
Speaker 3: But you got to get it done by a certain
Speaker 3: hour so they have time to get it out to
Speaker 3: the powers that be and they can approve it and
Speaker 3: sign off on it, you know, all that stuff. So
Speaker 3: it makes for a day where I ended up getting
Speaker 3: two hours of sleep between the radio show, the driving,
Speaker 3: the TV show, going back getting ready for the other
Speaker 3: radio show. And it was just a whirlwind, just an
Speaker 3: absolute whirlwind. A lot of caffeine. I don't drink coffee,
Speaker 3: you know that. That's my michig gos.
Speaker 1: I don't drink.
Speaker 3: Coffee, but I do take a caffeine supplement. So I'll
Speaker 3: take a caffeine supplement and do that. So we're doing
Speaker 3: the show, go in all dressed up and fired up
Speaker 3: and all that stuff, the real deal. And it's not
Speaker 3: as smooth as the demo. I'm not gonna sit here
Speaker 3: and say it was, but it was great to be
Speaker 3: back with Looney and the finished product. I'm very proud
Speaker 3: of it. I hope you'll enjoy it. It's available today.
Speaker 3: We're going to be on all over How can you
Speaker 3: find Benny Versus the Penny, Well, the first thing you
Speaker 3: do is you look at your local TV listings, and
Speaker 3: Benny Versus the Penny available on all the NBC.
Speaker 1: Regional cable channels.
Speaker 3: So the hub is NBC Sports Boston and we are
Speaker 3: in the Friday six pm timeslot, so that's prime.
Speaker 1: We're right after Felger and Maz.
Speaker 3: Benny Versus the Penny will be on the tremendously popular
Speaker 3: Felger and mass Show, and we will be on after that.
Speaker 3: That's our first run, and we'll be on in Philadelphia,
Speaker 3: in the Bay Area, We're gonna be on in LA
Speaker 3: that'll be tomorrow, and several other major cities.
Speaker 1: And the difference this year if you missed it.
Speaker 3: Last season, a lot of you complained and said, well,
Speaker 3: I got rid of cable.
Speaker 1: I don't have that anymore. You know. It's times are tough.
Speaker 3: Not that I'm impoverished, but I'm living kind of close
Speaker 3: to the poorhouse and I look outside my window and
Speaker 3: it's the hard scrabble streets and all that stuff. So
Speaker 3: it's like that weird thing where you're not really in
Speaker 3: the Tenderloin district. But you're kind of close to it,
Speaker 3: you know, and so you try to cut back financially
Speaker 3: a little bit, and you trim here and pinch there,
Speaker 3: and I totally get it. I totally get so if
Speaker 3: you don't have cable or satellite and you're in the
Speaker 3: streaming world, which.
Speaker 1: Is actually where I am, by the way.
Speaker 3: I mean, let's be honest here, my house is a
Speaker 3: streaming house completely. I would like to point out I
Speaker 3: don't think my wife listens to this podcast that I
Speaker 3: would cut down on the number of streaming services that
Speaker 3: we have. She disagrees on that's she's a bit addicted
Speaker 3: having access. But by the time you end up paying
Speaker 3: for all these streaming services, it becomes a paneastic.
Speaker 1: I'm married, my wife wants to dress up.
Speaker 3: She today at to the point last year, it was
Speaker 3: very difficult to find the show if you didn't have cable.
Speaker 3: I had guys emailing me from across the Atlantic Ocean
Speaker 3: and the Pacific sit I'm trying to find the show.
Speaker 1: I can't find it.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah blah blah. You know, I gotta go
Speaker 4: to like the dark web. Well, that doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 4: Because I don't get credit for that. So the powers
Speaker 4: that be at NBC, and I really want to thank
Speaker 4: They've been wonderful people to work with. I am huge
Speaker 4: fans some of the coolest people I've been across my career,
Speaker 4: the people that are in charge there, from from Bill
Speaker 4: all the way down to John and Vinnie and Kevin.
Speaker 1: I mean, are these are really cool people?
Speaker 3: So you know I recommend I said, listen a lot
Speaker 3: of my guys listen to my radio show. They said
Speaker 3: they don't have cable, then they want to watch the show.
Speaker 3: Can we see if we can get on the Peacock
Speaker 3: And they made it happen. They pulled some strings and toada.
Speaker 3: So this will be our first year.
Speaker 1: This is a national TV show.
Speaker 3: Not only are we on the regional cable channels, which
Speaker 3: is great and you should watch it on there and
Speaker 3: set your device and watch it because that helps us out.
Speaker 3: But we don't have to worry about Peel and Potatoes
Speaker 3: because we will be on Peacock, I believe today and
Speaker 3: I have not We're doing this podcast very early in
Speaker 3: the morning, so I have not had a chance to
Speaker 3: turn on the Peacock app. And there are a couple
Speaker 3: of versions of Peacock. There's I think the free one
Speaker 3: and then the one that's a few bucks a month.
Speaker 3: And I've been asked, was it on the free one
Speaker 3: or do I have to pay for it? And I
Speaker 3: don't know the answer to that. I will know by
Speaker 3: the end of the day. I guess I'll know. I
Speaker 3: assume I'll be able to futz around and find Benny
Speaker 3: Versus the Penny, But that would help us out. I mean,
Speaker 3: if I just get every man, woman and child to
Speaker 3: listen to this podcast who's listening right now, to then
Speaker 3: click on the Peacock app and watch Benny Versus the Penny,
Speaker 3: and then if I can get them to get one
Speaker 3: other person to do it, my god, that's a massive
Speaker 3: amount of people.
Speaker 1: That's a huge base for the TV show. So I
Speaker 1: would really love that and it would mean a lot.
Speaker 3: And even if you don't like the TV show you're
Speaker 3: not into sports gambling, I get it.
Speaker 1: There are no games this weekend in the NFL anyway,
Speaker 1: there are no games, so you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about that. But we just goof around.
Speaker 3: I pull jokes on Loony Loony makes fun of me,
Speaker 3: and it's a half hour and it's like being in
Speaker 3: a time warp. The time goes by pretty quick and
Speaker 3: all that. So I really do appreciate at the sport.
Speaker 3: You guys were great last year, and I do think
Speaker 3: talking to some of the people around the show, if
Speaker 3: it wasn't for you, I'm talking about you because you're
Speaker 3: a podcast listener and you're like a higher level because
Speaker 3: you'll go above and beyond like Alf. I think Alf
Speaker 3: was forcing his children and his children's friends and like
Speaker 3: their neighbors to watch the show. And I'm sure Ferg
Speaker 3: Dog had some of his imaginary friends like Brian Finley
Speaker 3: and whatnot having to watch the show. But anyway, listen,
Speaker 3: thank you, thank.
Speaker 1: You, thank you for that. It does mean a lot.
Speaker 3: Now, as far as the Potato Geddon story, I didn't
Speaker 3: want to get to this and this is a wild story.
Speaker 3: So I love the potato. I am a huge fan
Speaker 3: of the potato. But the potato ended up causing me
Speaker 3: a great amount of pain, a great amount of agony.
Speaker 3: And one of the reasons is Paul Harve would say,
Speaker 3: you're gonna about to get the rest of the story.
Speaker 1: You know what the news is, but you're about to
Speaker 1: get the rest of story.
Speaker 3: So I mentioned that it was a really tough day
Speaker 3: this week with the taping of the show, and I
Speaker 3: didn't get much sleep at all. And in the twenty
Speaker 3: four hour period, I did two radio shows a TV
Speaker 3: show and I got two hours sleep. Now, the reason,
Speaker 3: and this is quite the sob store. It's like a
Speaker 3: Greek tragedy, unless it's not. But the main reason that
Speaker 3: I had these issues is because of the potato. Now
Speaker 3: you're probably saying, well, Mallow, you're just a loser. You're
Speaker 3: probably delirious. What are you talking about? The potato? The
Speaker 3: potato cannot do anything. You're just making.
Speaker 1: Crap up, right, you just making stuff up?
Speaker 3: But well, no I'm not. You see, I did the
Speaker 3: TV show and then I had to drive back to
Speaker 3: the north Woods. So I get in the mallomobile. I
Speaker 3: pulled the phone out of my pocket. I then type
Speaker 3: in the address I need to go to to get
Speaker 3: back to get some sleep. So I'm at that point
Speaker 3: on autopilot. I'm still tired. I did the radio show,
Speaker 3: I did the TV sh show. It was a full
Speaker 3: day and so I'm like, okay, so I just put
Speaker 3: it in. I follow the instruction.
Speaker 1: I didn't really look at it.
Speaker 3: You ever do that When you turn the the map
Speaker 3: thing on, you just go whatever. I was following the instructions.
Speaker 3: So I'm driving and I'm like, well, this is taking
Speaker 3: me away I don't normally go. And I noticed it
Speaker 3: was bumper a bumper to bumper. And normally the way
Speaker 3: the LA traffic patterns work, at least for me when
Speaker 3: I'm leaving the TV show, is it's really bad in
Speaker 3: patches and then it opens up for a little bit
Speaker 3: and then there's a bottleneck. But normally it's not bumper
Speaker 3: a bumper to bumper to bumper to bumper the bumper.
Speaker 1: That's normally not how it goes.
Speaker 3: So the reason the traffic was so bad was because of.
Speaker 1: The potato.
Speaker 3: A big rig loaded with French fries crashed on I
Speaker 3: five Interstead five, the freeway in the lowest feeless neighborhood
Speaker 3: of Los Angeles. Now, if you don't know that area,
Speaker 3: if you're not familiar, and most people listen to this
Speaker 3: podcast are not from the LA area, maybe you've never
Speaker 3: been to LA. So the southbound lanes, which is where
Speaker 3: I needed to go, were blocked by a wall, a
Speaker 3: wall that was made up of boxes of fries. Yes,
Speaker 3: now the crash happened overnight right on the stadium Way offramp.
Speaker 3: That is the off ramp that goes to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: So if imagine, if you will, up on the hill,
Speaker 3: there's Chavez Ravine, the home of Otani. I used to
Speaker 3: be allowed there, but not anymore. They don't want me there.
Speaker 3: So anyway, right right there Dodger Stadium and the cab
Speaker 3: of the truck. Somehow this was such a horrific accident.
Speaker 3: The cab of the truck had somehow disconnected from the trailer,
Speaker 3: and piles of French fry boxes were left all over
Speaker 3: the highway and these things were piled up. It was
Speaker 3: like the Great Wall of China or the Berlin Wall
Speaker 3: had blocked the entire highway. And so in southern California
Speaker 3: when this happens, they have this thing called the Ciga alert,
Speaker 3: which is actually named after an early la. At KTLA,
Speaker 3: they had a traffic guy named Sig and he decided
Speaker 3: to make it all about himself, and anytime there was
Speaker 3: a bunch of traffic in one area, it would say
Speaker 3: a Sig alert. And he's been dead for a while,
Speaker 3: but they still used the terminology. So anyway, they closed
Speaker 3: the California Highway troll closed it. And even when I
Speaker 3: this is hours later, I was still stuck in the
Speaker 3: traffic and I saw the clean up and it was wild,
Speaker 3: and I was wondering. And I know we have some
Speaker 3: some cops that listen to show any Highway patrol guys,
Speaker 3: did anyone get a free box of fries? Because I'm
Speaker 3: thinking the first responders. These boxes were everywhere, but some
Speaker 3: of them probably were fine, right, some of them were okay,
Speaker 3: like the boxes at the very top were okay. And
Speaker 3: did you get a free box of delicious fries to put.
Speaker 1: In your your air fryer, your deep frier at home.
Speaker 1: I don't know that is that?
Speaker 3: And again, thank you for listening and watching the TV
Speaker 3: show Benny Versus the Penny. We get the party started today.
Speaker 3: And send me some photos. I love seeing that. I
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Speaker 3: nice guy in the Bay Area, alf the Alien Opine
Speaker 3: or some other guys and gals who are fans of
Speaker 3: the show, letting me know that you're recording it and
Speaker 3: also let me know I want to see if you're
Speaker 3: watching it on Peacock and boy, we need to do
Speaker 3: well on there right. We want to keep the show
Speaker 3: on Peacock, so hopefully we'll be doing pretty well on Peacock.
Speaker 3: Have a wonderful rest of your Friday. Danny G will
Speaker 3: be back with me in the audio dojo for tomorrow's
Speaker 3: podcast and also on Sunday with the Mailbag. Have a wonderful,
Speaker 3: wonderful rest of your Friday, the last Friday of August,
Speaker 3: and we will talk to you next time. Aloha was
Speaker 3: he saying, later Skater? Is that what you say, Nanny? Yes, later,
Speaker 3: skater got a murder.
Speaker 2: I gotta go