April 28, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have another fun bonus broadcast! They're talking: The NFL Draft & Ben's Big Board! NOT a list, it's the fellas' perfect Top 7-Heaven moments that occurred in the old FSR studios that were just replaced! "Am I on da live air??"
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Telling a friend and all that jazz, and here we
are Danny the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
We are competing today with the NFL Draft.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yesterday was round one yep in Kansas City, and today
is round two and round three on Friday.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
And really that's the cutoff as far as watching it
on TV for me and my favorite team. After that,
I'll just check my phone. You don't really need to
be sitting there watching it for all the later rounds.
I mean, I guess you can, but right, it's one
through three that really matters as far as viewing it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, and as a RAM fan, you don't even worry
about the first round, so you don't need to worry
about that. It's you know, it's like in the NFL Draft,
friends and family. If you have friends or family in
the draft.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You're gonna watch.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I don't have any friends that are being drafted or
family or anything like that. So yeah, you know, it's
really cool.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
At the end of the day, you're out doing stuff
and you go back and you maybe you're doing your phone.
I love doing this, and I'll click, like, I say,
who do they draft? And then you can a whole
list of players and then you can like click on
their bios and.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh yeah, all of a sudden, we become experts on
guys that were like at Northwestern well, you're watching the
highlight tape of this guy and you're like, wow, he's
a thumper. And of course we talk about this every year,
all the classic cliches, Oh boy, the motor on this guy,
he could what is it sideline, the sideline coach.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
On the field.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You know, he's a all the nonsense that comes up.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
But it is a slippery slope.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The NFL Draft is a slippery slope because and I've
become more jaded over the years and more cynical, and
I realized how booby trapped, for lack of a better term,
the NFL Draft is, and so it's become a.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Bit of a bane of my existence.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I do like it from the storyline standpoint, like we
get an assortment of new storylines to talk about. I
guess that's one of the cool things that we do
sports radio. I've been doing this a long time, and
like the names are always changing. That's kind of cool,
Like the names are always changing, and we get some
new quarterbacks to talk about, and since quarterbacks are more
important people, we can talk about the different stories are.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
You're talking more like how that dude had the framed
picture of his grandmother that he brought up on stage
with him a few years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Oh yeah, I mean there's that kind of stuff and
the other thing that's really the stuff that's better talk radio,
like if we have you know, I don't know what
happened yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I guess we got to go back. But like, remember
the Laramie Tunzel thing from.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Years ago, Oh yeah, every day.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
It was an all time ridiculous story. Actually mentioned.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I did a monologue the other day about the the
NFL Draft drinking game, which is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
It was for the first round of.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
The draft, but it was like, you know, if anybody
on the TV says that's a freak athlete or a
workhorse or as you said, I votor, you take a drink.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
If there's a trade, you had to take a drink.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
If they mentioned off field issues, you have to take
a drink, you know. And then if you if they
showed I'm sure they did, uh looking back to Kansas
City Barbecue, if they mentioned that or showed it, you
had to.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Take two drinks, you know, and and uh and you
go point by point.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
But the storylines I love from the Draft are like
Laramie Tunzel's gas mask, World War two or World War
one gas mask. Remember when the Vikings screwed up and
they missed their pick all together.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
They didn't get it in. That was that was in
the All Times.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
And then and then I love the dumb quotes like
Josh Rosen who said that nine teams made a mistake
not drafting him.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You know, that kind of stuff. Is He's wonderful. And
if anybody, if anybody harasses Roger Goodell.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Also there's the one player, the one poor player who
sat in the green room for way too long.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well that's right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
They put the egg timer on it, and the camera
starts feeling really bad for him. You start feeling really
bad for him at home because he's been there for
two days now in the same suit.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, and his family's like got this nervous look. You know,
his mom's there, his agent, you know, to be and
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And then but hey, you might end up doing a
morning show at Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Figure that happened to Brady Quinn back in the day, right,
he ended up at our place and Aaron Rodgers, the
most famous of them all.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Oh, yeah, yeah, you're right about Brady Quinn. Look at
he's in a brand new, state of the art studio
at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Now that's right, nothing better, nothing better.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Fact, that is a big part of this on the
Friday podcast, So we will go over what has been
a very interesting week there for a medley of reasons
there has it's been. It's been quite quite the week
at the Mothership. So we'll talk about that and we
will also have seven Heaven and Pop Goes the Culture.
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So we've got a lot to get to, but it
has been a fun week, a lot of people excited
about it as we have made the big move, as
we have gone down the hall to the other side
of the building in totality and Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
After twenty plus.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Years in our old studio, we have now moved across
to what used to be the rock Line Studio. Then
it was the Rush Limbaugh Studio when he did a
show remotely from la and more recently it was the
Steve Hardy the Studio. And we were all excited to
get in there. And it's kind of like when you
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buy a house and you think everything's perfect, but once
you buy the house, you give some things that need
pictures so that you didn't quite notice that weren't obvious
to you that you thought would be all right, but
they're not quite. But it's all stuff that I what
do they say, Danny, They're gonna circle back to they're
gonna re examine it.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Right, They're gonna they're gonna look, look and.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Reinvestigate the situation. But we'll work that out.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
But it did may make for some interesting times on
the radio this week.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I don't know about you guys during the day, but
at night I found out five minutes before the show
that we had no working phones. Then I found out
when I walked into the studio that there was no computer, like,
not even a partial computer, there was no computer. So
I was I was a little I think the word
is ambivalent, Danny.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I had, i'd mixed feelings.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But we'll work out all the kinks and all that,
and you know, the big picture, it'll be something we
tell stories about down line. Do you remember when this
went wrong? And then everything will be working fun? Isn't
that the way it's gonna work, Danny.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, there's no good reason I guess to stress too
much over little things. It's like I'll tell my girl
when she stresses on something too hard, doesn't help out
the situation.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
You got to fix it. And I kept telling.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Myself that this past week, because yeah, it looks beautiful
and that's great, But as far as functioning, a lot
of what I do behind the scenes is I need
to communicate with the hosts. I need to talk into
your ear. I need to get sponsors on the air,
I need to get callers on the air, and I
couldn't do any of that this past week. So you
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can imagine running notes into the studio. I don't think
I've made this many handwritten notes since junior high when
I was trying to mac on little Girls. At least
they're working on the list of things to iron out.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And it it was you mentioned your your gig in
what you were trying to do, and Cooper Loop's main
job is to screen calls. Well, we didn't take any
calls because we couldn't take calls. So he was sitting
there kind of like, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
But they there have been studies that it pointed out.
I bring this up from time to time.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
That was one big long smoke break for Coop.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Cooper.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Coop was literally getting paid for nothing because he was
kind of there just kind of hang up. But he
did put the podcast up, but there was a study
done years ago that said eighty five percent of what
people worry about never actually is as bad as they think.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You know, they they freak out.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So you know, this was there was a lot of
nooise and stuff and all that, and you pointed out
it does look great. And you think about some of
the big names that have worked in there, as I mentioned,
and so that's kind of cool to think you're following
in the foot steps some of these big names. It's
like the podcast studio that we have. I think of
Casey Casem that was in that studio, and I think
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how how amazing that was. You know, this was a
bigger than life legend and all that. The analogy in
the dating game, Danny would be the beautiful vixen that
you're dating that every guy's I can't believe that guy's
with her. And then you know stuff that that guy
doesn't know, like.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yeah, yeah, like about her herpes.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Oh that, or she's she's a little on the spectrum.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
You know, there's some some things going on there and uh,
you know, so.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Things.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Uh, you don't always judge a book by its cover, right,
That's the I think that's the idiom that we're looking for.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You always judge a book by its cover.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
But in honor of this being a new week, we're
christening the new studio.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Boy, are we ever christening the new studios like the Titanic?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
But I'm kidding, I'm kidding, But I do have seven
Heaven And as you know, oh, Danny g you've been
with me, you were on the radio show, we've done
the podcast a while so together, and you know I
do not do lists.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
That no, No, you do a board, which is way.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Different exactly so a list.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Let me educate you as a consumer of audio content.
You listening, so a list is lazy River sports radio stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And I would never.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Ever subject you, the consumer to lazy River list radio
slash podcast. I'm anti list. I would like to present
Benny's big board, which is much different, as you know, Danny,
from a list. And these are the seven Heaven, the
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top seven moments in what is now the old.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Fox Sports Radio Students.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Now I'm gonna give my seven Danny, if you were
to touch up my list, if you would like to
add to my list. But I have been with the
company for a long time. I had a six month
twenty six day vacation back on January twentieth of nine.
But I've been back after that ever since, and I
have continued to be gamefully employed by the company since then.
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So these are and I want to save this for
posterity sake in case I lose my memory and I
become senile and I forget all this stuff over the
course of time. So I will share this with you,
and then from time to time as a refresher course,
maybe I will go back and I will listen. So
these are these seven things. I don't try to go
quickly as possible. And you want to touch any of
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these things up, Danny and add a footnote or an antidote,
You're more than what. So anyway, these seven things seven
heaven seven moments that stand out to me about the
old Fox Sports radio studio. So number seven Bang Bam
boom is number seven, and that is year. I don't
remember the year. This is probably twenty one years ago.
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I mean, it's ridiculous. So there was a car accident
outside of the studio and the studios the Premier networks
are right on the corner of Spalvaa and Ventura in
the San Fernando Valley. It's down the hill from bell
Air and some very wealthy people in entertainment and whatnot live.
(13:18):
I think, isn't Lebron still living in bel Air?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
There's a bunch of big people live up there. So
that's where the studio is. Very congested, airy, very busy area.
So bang bam boom. There was a big car accident
that happened right out in front of the studio in
SAPULVAA car was on fire, and so one of the producers,
I will not name it the producer, but one of
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the producers went out, grabbed a fire extinguisher from the
kitchen and went out and helped put out the fire.
The engine of the car was on fire. So you
would think this would lead to some kind of honor
from the company and some kind of award. Well, it
(14:02):
turns out there were a series of emails that were
sent within the company. And I want to point out
the reason I'm putting this on the list.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
All these people are gone.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
None of these people are at the company, No the
management people. So they they were getting upset because I
didn't know this either, but when you use a fire
extinguisher you have to, and you're in a business, you
have to contact like the fire department and the city
of La had to come out to put the thing
back in up the code.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
And oh then they send you a big.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Bill exactly, and it cost a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
So the producer who's like thinking he's the hero because
he put out a fire the car was on fire,
and ends up getting an angry email saying, you know
you in the future, call the fire department and do
not do not.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Let them deal with it on their own time.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Oh, so good. I was so hilarious.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Oh God, behind the scenes Radio Storry now number six
on Benny's big board. I call this one Peppi of
the pew and you know where I'm going with this, Danny. So,
on those warm southern California nights in the San Fernando
Valley where the studio is.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It gets ridiculously hot.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And from time to time there would there would be
some critters that would try to get cool. And it
almost always happened in the summer. I don't remember what
happening in the world, maybe it did, but I remember
it in the summer. So there would be a skunk
that would get into the air conditioning which is on
the roof of the Fox Sports Radio studios in the
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old studios, and they would get into the events and
they would squirt their skunk stank and the whole building
would smell like skunk. And when I say, Danny, you've
been there, like my eyes would be running from the spell.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It was that intense.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I mean it was insane, like cat boxing with Coop
and Mike Tyson at the same time.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
In a phone booth, exactly a phone booth. There's skunk,
and there's no windows that open because it's a radio station,
so you're pretty much at the mercy of the air conditioner.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So that's number six, number.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Five on the seven Heaven the top seven moments on
Benny's Big Board from the Fox Sports Radios old the
old Fox Sports Radio studios. And if you're enjoying this content,
give us five stars. By the way, on the podcast.
That helps us out a lot. We might give you
a shout out on the podcast later on. We were
allowed to do that on the podcast. Do that on
the Apple podcast pages. In the description, Danny puts it up.
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So number five is Batman on multiple occasions. Oh yeah,
somehow flying rodents got into the FSR Premier Networks building.
I'm not sure how that happened because the doors are
always closed, but I guess some opportunistic bat at the
perfect time when the door opened, went flying in there
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and seeing a bunch of people Danny and this happened
within recent years. This has happened a few times over
the years, but seeing grown men. Pretty much all men
worked there, but a few women like freaking out because
there's a bat flying through the hallway. And when I
was told the last time, I was like, oh, there's
a bat. I said, no, there's no bat until I
saw the bat. I saw the bat, I saw the light.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It was great, insane.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yeah, I remember Mike Carmon being on his cell phone
live on the air as he was back in the
Blue kitchen and trying to catch it.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yes, we did a bit on the air. We had
play by play of the batgate.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I remember that.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
That was a fun night. That's right. Who was the
guy that was it? Harmon that opened the door was
one of the other producers who I don't think he's
even at the company anymore.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, Harmon and an editor, a sound editor were the
two that corraled it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Finally got it out of the building.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
So that is number five, number four or bang bang,
or should I say boom boom.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So I'm on the air.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
It's a Sunday night shift, end of the weekend. I'm
on the air working with Jim Daniels, who was a
Fox Sports radio host. We're doing the that's right, we're
doing the show together, and in the middle of the show,
we we notice that the glass looks a little odd
out on the on the on the side of the
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building where we have these Showcase studios, the old studios
at Showcase at windows out on se Pulpit the boulevard,
and somebody had driven by and shot the studio and
they busted a capital yeah, And so the things I
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remember that we're like, who would do that? Like what
you know I mean, And we were like kind of
obviously freaked out. It's bulletproof glass, but if you shoot
enough bullets, it's no longer bulletproof glass. And the things
I remember about that night was my engineer at the time.
We'll just say, hey, profit froze, dude. It's not my fault,
profit dude. And he's a very good guy, but he
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might have had some run ins with the police. So
I told him, I said, listen, you gotta call the
You got to call the police, not that they're going
to do anything, but you got to call him and
let him know that there's I mean, maybe they'll at
least put a patrol car out here so we don't
get shot again. Shot it again, and he's you know
what he did, Danny, his idea instead of calling the
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police because he's a little afraid of police, instead of
contacting the security guard.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
He eventually did contact the security guard.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
He lowered all the blinds, so at least the people
shoot if it came by and shot again, they wouldn't
know where to aim.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Come on, that's the best line of defense.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, Yeah, he just he lowered all the blinds in
the studio and turn off the lights.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
And we are pretty sure, as a gum show investigator,
we're pretty sure, Danny, that we know who did that.
That there was somebody who had been let go by
the company, who had moved from a far away location
to the West coast and was there only for a
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few weeks and was so bad at their job they
got let go. And the theory is that on their
way out of town on a Sunday night, packed up
their stuff on Saturday. They were leaving Sunday night and
on their way out bang bang. Now we're not we
don't know for sure. By the timeline kind of fits.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Wow, man, that Pat O'Brien guy's a feisty motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
EO b.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Don't mess with p o big Man. Jim Lampley, let
me tell you, LAMB saw my God all right? Number
three on Benny's Big Boy, Number three on Benny's Big Board.
Jasey at the bat a legendary. So all these are
things that happen in the old Fox.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Sports Radio studio.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
So this goes back probably fifteen years or so. I'm
working an afternoon shift with Chris Myers. I kid because
I care, but this is a true story. So I
had to go to the bathroom. You know, nature calls.
So I went to do my business, and then I
realized that I had taken a little too long. It
was taking longer than I expected. So I had to
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get back to do the show. So I'm rushing. I'm
running through the studio as much as I can run.
I'm morbidly obese, and so I run down the hall
from the bathroom I make a left turn and then
a quick right turn. And as I make the right
turn to turn, and then there's a door to the studio.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Which is on the left.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
As I'm making the second turn, I come face to
face with what would be my career defining moment. If
this had gone a different way in another dimension that
probably did, this would be the end of me. So
right in front of me Casey at the bat radio
legend Casey Cason, who had worked out of what is
(22:16):
now our podcast. I just mentioned him earlier in this podcast,
but he was the voice of American Top forty and
an icon in the radio business. He was the original
voice of Shaggy from Scooby Doo. When I was a kid,
I watched the cartoon he was that he was Robin
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Batman and Robin on Super Friends, which I also watched
when I was a kid. He was in Sesame Street
and trans So, I mean, this guy's a big fan
deal and a legend and a Hall of Famer and
all that stuff. And so anyway, at this point, Casey's
in his seventies. He's a frail old man. It's probably
two thousand and three, so it's about twenty years ago.
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And maybe even long the time. I forget the time
on all this stuff. I want to say, it's like
around twenty oh three. So needless to say, he was
kind of a big effing deal. So as I go
back to the story, So as I was turning the corner,
he froze and he you know that look somebody gives you, like,
oh my god, your eyes you get bug eyed. You
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know that your eyeball. So I mean, he's looking like
he's looking at me. He freezes, and he thinks, I'm
gonna run him over. Mack truck Mather is gonna run
him over. But what I did is I used an
old high school football move. I used a swim technique.
Remember the swim technique in football? We are you gonna
got up? You move your arm around. So I used
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the swim technique to barely get around Casey, narrowly avoiding
killing the legend. And also I would have killed my career, Danny,
And you could say I I guess you could say
I kept my feet on the ground and kept reaching
for the store. See that was his catchphrase. But Casey
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did eventually pass away. He died in twenty fourteen. I think,
so he's been gone for almost almost ten years, but
a very nice man.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I didn't really talk to him that much.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Certainly after that he avoided me at all costs, and
rightfully so. But that was my number three, number two
on the big board. Great moments of the old FSR studios.
Lights out, lights out. Now my computer was malfunctioning, and
rather than me go in what we call the rack
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room where all the satellite equipment is, because you had
to reset it for the other room, and so I was.
It was a short break. So I told Bob Gara,
my producer. I said, Bob, can you run back and
reset the PC? He said, no problem, because I needed
to check the text line. So his stories back runs
past me and then goes makes a right turn. He's right,
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and you're in the room, and so whatever. And then
about ninety seconds later, give or take as the crow flix.
Ninety seconds later, the light start flickering, and let's just say,
radio silence takes over as somehow Bob Gara had flipped
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the nuclear button and turned the entire Fox Sports radio
network off the air.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
This doesn't have the number one station anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Is it.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
At the time, three hundred or more radio stations and
so what happened was we went off the air. We
heard nothing but silence, and then they flipped. I guess
the master control flipped on emergency filler programming. And that
was the day. One of the great nicknames we've ever
given out was born Bob for the rest of his life.
(25:56):
He's a proud family man and a good husband. But
Bob Gara was Christen wrong Button, Bob.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
The best, and he kept this. He got promoted. He's
on a better show though.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I mean, it goes to show you, instead of getting fired,
sometimes you can fail upwards. Now, there's also a fun
fact that comes out of this. A lot of people
want to know what programming gets put on a major
national network if it goes off the air.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
We found out the answer to that trivia question.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Is Steve de Sager and an old update from like
fifteen years prior.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Sager giving a stat about Steve Sachs.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah it was. It was so much.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It was the Sager and it was I don't I
don't remember exactly what month this happened, but I think
it was during the summer and the Saga's giving like
March Madness scores or something like that.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, somebody told me it was like an update from
twenty ten.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, it was several years prior. It was several years prior.
So that was the number two and the.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Number one story, Number one, number one, number one on
Big Bends, Big Board seven, Heaven, the top seven moments
as we closed out the old Fox Sports Radio studio.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Number one. It was a random night. This is probably
two thousand.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
And nine, I want to say two thousand and nine,
So about fifteen years ago, a little less than that,
I was working the third shift and LA Radio legend
of the late great Joe McDonald was doing his local show
on our flagship station. So Joe thought it would be
fun if I would call into his show and do
a little cross talk and promote my show which was
(27:55):
on the network. And we you know, it was fun.
I had Joseh a friend, I'd known her for years,
and so I was like, sure, why not, I'll do it.
It was a little bit of a pain in the ass,
and I don't like talking on the phone when there's
other people in the room. It's kind of a thing
I have, and so it's when I'm Missigaz and so
what I would do is I would walk outside the studio.
I will walk down Sepulvita to Ventura Boulevard, far away
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from any humanity, and I would just do a little
casual cross talk. And so this would be about ten
minutes ten fifteen minutes before the show.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I would go out and do this.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
So the normal night, I walk out and in typical
La night, there's a vagrant out in front of the studio,
like there's a guy down on his luck, and this
guy engages me in conversation.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
This guy says, hey, he says, are you on the radio? Now?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Keep in mind, Danny, that I am strolling out of
the building, which has a giant Fox Sports radio sign
right about my head, right, but the guys are you
on the radio? So I of course kept my posure.
I kept walking. I said, no, I'm not on the radio.
And so I just I went and I did my
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cross talk with Joe and Joe McDonald and and so
I'm walking back and I say, wait a minute, the
bum's still there. The guy's still there. He's kind of
wandering around the door, and I'm like, well, I'm bigger
than him, so I don't, you know whatever, He's a
normal sized guy.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I don't really care that much. And so I walked
by the guy and he sees me and he says,
you're fucking lying to me. You're on the radio. I'm
Henry Hill. I want to get on the radio.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I have things to say, and and so I ignore him.
I keep walking. He's like, I'm Henry fucking Hill. So
then I quit. I somehow I was able to get
in the door opened. I used my card key to
the pass key to get in the door open.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I got in. I pulled the door closed.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
The guy kind of stumbles because he's drunk. He starts
banging on the door with both hands, like banging on
the door. Right, I'm Henry fucking Hill. Put me in.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You know, I want to be on the air. I
think you know.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Now, So I assume, why why would you think anything else?
I thought, this is just a drunk guy who's having
hallucinations when he's confused, guys down on his luck, he's
a holbo whatever. So then somebody in the buildings, I
remember Greg Bergman was my producer Old Pinky, and I
(30:26):
told Bergie, I said, hey, take care of.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
This, you know, I I don't take care of.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Anyway. So I went in there and somebody said, you know,
you might want to check out the the images thing,
just to make sure, you know, because my my favorite
movie was about a guy named Henry Hill Goodfellas. So
I did a Google image search Danny and hand the
god that drunk guy outside the studio was Henry Hill.
(30:59):
The fucking mob guy was a notorious mobster who was
part of the is it lou lu Cheesy crime family?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I don't know, some crime family in New York and
like killed people and he was.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
An FBI informant and the guy was in the witness
protection program. So I it's blew me away and my
mind is still blown all these years later that I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
It's just insane. And I guess he had lived in
Sherman Oaks, which is up the hill or where the
studios are, and he died.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
He's an alcoholic, I mean that killed him. He actually
died a couple of years after that.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
But it's crazy since I blew past the guy that
killed people and walked I walked into the building and
he was involved in point shaving at Boston College.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yeah, he was in the drug trade. I mean the
whole They made a book about him, and then Martin
Scorsese made Goodfellas and the Late Leota Right, he was
the one that played Henry Hill. I believe in that. Yes, yeah,
rip yeah, So that was the number one on the
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big board.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Anything I'm forgetting here, Danny.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Anything that said we did not get to on the
Great Moments of Fox Sports Radio, Stu.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I would give an honorable mention to the night where
Helmet Man surprised us with a visit. Yes, pushing all
of his belongings. Do you know, we just thought it
was another person struggling outside on the sidewalk, but this
guy kept banging on the door persistently, so we finally
(32:34):
went to check and he's like, it's me Helmet Man,
and we let him in, put him on the mic,
and of course we got the famous drop.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I'm actually on the live air. Yes you're on the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
There would be people that randomly stuff by. Were you
there the night remember the guy from Nashville. Were you
there when the kid from Nashville showed up and was
hiding in the bushes?
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I was there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
One of our listeners in Nashville, he was in La.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
He met some bring the entrance fee.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yeah, he didn't bring any food.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
And so he had met some girl on the internet,
and of course he wanted to hook up with her,
so he flew out to La and but he was
a fan of the show. But the rule was you
had to you're right, you had to bring food in.
And he didn't bring any food.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
And but he was like creeper. He was like a
creeper hiding in the bushes and stuff.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Yeah, good memories.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
How about the speaking of the vagrants, said, typical La story.
Multiple occasions, multiple occasions, a person who was on the
wrong side of the tracks on the hard scrabble streets,
got on to the there's a little guard.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I don't know what do you call it.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
A there's this, there's a sidewalk, there's a street, and
then in between the sidewalk and the studio.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
There's like a planter.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Oh okay, yeah, raised And so multiple times over the
years there have been homeless people that have gotten up,
pulled their pants down, pulled free Willie, and let the
elephant trunk urinate all over the glass. That's happened multiple times. Great, great,
great memories.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
And we've had listened to some interesting things.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
That last lot's a lot of your life, my life.
I've been there a while long time, so we spent
a lot of nights in that building.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
And yeah, and as far as in that studio, I
think back to all the live feeds that we did.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
But what was that even called. It's not around anymore
where we would.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Go live periscope pariscope, I think, I think of all
the great memories with us taking the show live on periscope.
Of course, Kooper Loop eating an eighteen hour old hot.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Dog with Relish on it as Berbant King.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Also us betting Coop about the vasoline because it was
in the news that a player eight spoonfuls of vassaline.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Guy that invented vasolene said that he took a spoonful
of it every day and he thought it gave him
longevity like he would.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Yeah, and there was some player that said he would
take little bites of it. And so we we would
pool our money to get Kooper Loop to eat things,
which always was a big hit, especially on periscope, Tinderoni
tips on periscope. There were times we set up the
studio to make it look like a nightclub with the
with the lights, that's right, Yeah, yeah, very good memories
(35:34):
in there. Man.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah, We've had a lot of listeners that have come through.
We had Chris and Houston, we had.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Recently he came through. We had Robbed, the Ambassador of
Bakersfield came by. He I feel bad.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
He came by one time with this guy that was
completely hammered and we had he brought some barbecue ribs
and stuff, and then.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
We made him go. We made him leave immediately because
the guy was kind of freaking us out a little bit.
We were like, what's up with that cat?
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
There have been some listeners that have come in there
and then they'd like we had some guys driving around
tow truck.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
They were what do you call repo guys and they
came in there moving. Man, Matt's been in there. Maybe
there's a bunch of people have been over heres. And
we look forward to having new people on our overnight
show and the new studio and all that. But we
went very long on Benny's Big Board, and so we'll
leave it there. I think we'll do some of our
other features on Saturday. Got a lot of content so
(36:28):
that we'll kind of let this breathe and let this
be a tribute rest in peace to the old Fox
Sports Radio studio and good luck to the future, and
we'll look forward to the new studio and anything you
want to promote. Danny, I know it's a workday for you.
It's a double workday for you, as you have double
duty today in the brand Smanking new studio. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Man, looking forward to the second round of the NFL
Draft and having some Friday afternoon fun on the Kobe
and Rich Show from two to four pm on the
West Coast, five to seven in New York, New.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
York, New York, New York.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
The Big Apple And that's that's Covino in Rich Territory,
the Big App that's their.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Their Holy Yeah, that's where they both are from. Mecca.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Have a great rest of you day, enjoy the draft
and enjoy the basketball playoffs and all that nonsense. And hey,
we'll be right back here in the podcast studio all
weekend long. Got another podcast on Saturday, and right back
on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
We'll talk to you then later. Skater got a murder.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I gotta go
Kabbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
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Telling a friend and all that jazz, and here we
are Danny the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
We are competing today with the NFL Draft.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yesterday was round one yep in Kansas City, and today
is round two and round three on Friday.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
And really that's the cutoff as far as watching it
on TV for me and my favorite team. After that,
I'll just check my phone. You don't really need to
be sitting there watching it for all the later rounds.
I mean, I guess you can, but right, it's one
through three that really matters as far as viewing it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, and as a RAM fan, you don't even worry
about the first round, so you don't need to worry
about that. It's you know, it's like in the NFL Draft,
friends and family. If you have friends or family in
the draft.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You're gonna watch.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I don't have any friends that are being drafted or
family or anything like that. So yeah, you know, it's
really cool.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
At the end of the day, you're out doing stuff
and you go back and you maybe you're doing your phone.
I love doing this, and I'll click, like, I say,
who do they draft? And then you can a whole
list of players and then you can like click on
their bios and.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh yeah, all of a sudden, we become experts on
guys that were like at Northwestern well, you're watching the
highlight tape of this guy and you're like, wow, he's
a thumper. And of course we talk about this every year,
all the classic cliches, Oh boy, the motor on this guy,
he could what is it sideline, the sideline coach.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
On the field.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You know, he's a all the nonsense that comes up.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
But it is a slippery slope.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The NFL Draft is a slippery slope because and I've
become more jaded over the years and more cynical, and
I realized how booby trapped, for lack of a better term,
the NFL Draft is, and so it's become a.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Bit of a bane of my existence.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I do like it from the storyline standpoint, like we
get an assortment of new storylines to talk about. I
guess that's one of the cool things that we do
sports radio. I've been doing this a long time, and
like the names are always changing. That's kind of cool,
Like the names are always changing, and we get some
new quarterbacks to talk about, and since quarterbacks are more
important people, we can talk about the different stories are.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
You're talking more like how that dude had the framed
picture of his grandmother that he brought up on stage
with him a few years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Oh yeah, I mean there's that kind of stuff and
the other thing that's really the stuff that's better talk radio,
like if we have you know, I don't know what
happened yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I guess we got to go back. But like, remember
the Laramie Tunzel thing from.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Years ago, Oh yeah, every day.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
It was an all time ridiculous story. Actually mentioned.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I did a monologue the other day about the the
NFL Draft drinking game, which is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
It was for the first round of.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
The draft, but it was like, you know, if anybody
on the TV says that's a freak athlete or a
workhorse or as you said, I votor, you take a drink.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
If there's a trade, you had to take a drink.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
If they mentioned off field issues, you have to take
a drink, you know. And then if you if they
showed I'm sure they did, uh looking back to Kansas
City Barbecue, if they mentioned that or showed it, you
had to.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Take two drinks, you know, and and uh and you
go point by point.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
But the storylines I love from the Draft are like
Laramie Tunzel's gas mask, World War two or World War
one gas mask. Remember when the Vikings screwed up and
they missed their pick all together.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
They didn't get it in. That was that was in
the All Times.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
And then and then I love the dumb quotes like
Josh Rosen who said that nine teams made a mistake
not drafting him.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You know, that kind of stuff. Is He's wonderful. And
if anybody, if anybody harasses Roger Goodell.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Also there's the one player, the one poor player who
sat in the green room for way too long.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well that's right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
They put the egg timer on it, and the camera
starts feeling really bad for him. You start feeling really
bad for him at home because he's been there for
two days now in the same suit.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, and his family's like got this nervous look. You know,
his mom's there, his agent, you know, to be and
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And then but hey, you might end up doing a
morning show at Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Figure that happened to Brady Quinn back in the day, right,
he ended up at our place and Aaron Rodgers, the
most famous of them all.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Oh, yeah, yeah, you're right about Brady Quinn. Look at
he's in a brand new, state of the art studio
at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Now that's right, nothing better, nothing better.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Fact, that is a big part of this on the
Friday podcast, So we will go over what has been
a very interesting week there for a medley of reasons
there has it's been. It's been quite quite the week
at the Mothership. So we'll talk about that and we
will also have seven Heaven and Pop Goes the Culture.
(06:25):
So we've got a lot to get to, but it
has been a fun week, a lot of people excited
about it as we have made the big move, as
we have gone down the hall to the other side
of the building in totality and Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
After twenty plus.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Years in our old studio, we have now moved across
to what used to be the rock Line Studio. Then
it was the Rush Limbaugh Studio when he did a
show remotely from la and more recently it was the
Steve Hardy the Studio. And we were all excited to
get in there. And it's kind of like when you
(07:08):
buy a house and you think everything's perfect, but once
you buy the house, you give some things that need
pictures so that you didn't quite notice that weren't obvious
to you that you thought would be all right, but
they're not quite. But it's all stuff that I what
do they say, Danny, They're gonna circle back to they're
gonna re examine it.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Right, They're gonna they're gonna look, look and.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Reinvestigate the situation. But we'll work that out.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
But it did may make for some interesting times on
the radio this week.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I don't know about you guys during the day, but
at night I found out five minutes before the show
that we had no working phones. Then I found out
when I walked into the studio that there was no computer, like,
not even a partial computer, there was no computer. So
I was I was a little I think the word
is ambivalent, Danny.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I had, i'd mixed feelings.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But we'll work out all the kinks and all that,
and you know, the big picture, it'll be something we
tell stories about down line. Do you remember when this
went wrong? And then everything will be working fun? Isn't
that the way it's gonna work, Danny.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, there's no good reason I guess to stress too
much over little things. It's like I'll tell my girl
when she stresses on something too hard, doesn't help out
the situation.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
You got to fix it. And I kept telling.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Myself that this past week, because yeah, it looks beautiful
and that's great, But as far as functioning, a lot
of what I do behind the scenes is I need
to communicate with the hosts. I need to talk into
your ear. I need to get sponsors on the air,
I need to get callers on the air, and I
couldn't do any of that this past week. So you
(08:49):
can imagine running notes into the studio. I don't think
I've made this many handwritten notes since junior high when
I was trying to mac on little Girls. At least
they're working on the list of things to iron out.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And it it was you mentioned your your gig in
what you were trying to do, and Cooper Loop's main
job is to screen calls. Well, we didn't take any
calls because we couldn't take calls. So he was sitting
there kind of like, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
But they there have been studies that it pointed out.
I bring this up from time to time.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
That was one big long smoke break for Coop.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Cooper.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Coop was literally getting paid for nothing because he was
kind of there just kind of hang up. But he
did put the podcast up, but there was a study
done years ago that said eighty five percent of what
people worry about never actually is as bad as they think.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You know, they they freak out.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So you know, this was there was a lot of
nooise and stuff and all that, and you pointed out
it does look great. And you think about some of
the big names that have worked in there, as I mentioned,
and so that's kind of cool to think you're following
in the foot steps some of these big names. It's
like the podcast studio that we have. I think of
Casey Casem that was in that studio, and I think
(10:09):
how how amazing that was. You know, this was a
bigger than life legend and all that. The analogy in
the dating game, Danny would be the beautiful vixen that
you're dating that every guy's I can't believe that guy's
with her. And then you know stuff that that guy
doesn't know, like.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yeah, yeah, like about her herpes.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Oh that, or she's she's a little on the spectrum.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
You know, there's some some things going on there and uh,
you know, so.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Things.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Uh, you don't always judge a book by its cover, right,
That's the I think that's the idiom that we're looking for.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You always judge a book by its cover.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
But in honor of this being a new week, we're
christening the new studio.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Boy, are we ever christening the new studios like the Titanic?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
But I'm kidding, I'm kidding, But I do have seven
Heaven And as you know, oh, Danny g you've been
with me, you were on the radio show, we've done
the podcast a while so together, and you know I
do not do lists.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
That no, No, you do a board, which is way.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Different exactly so a list.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Let me educate you as a consumer of audio content.
You listening, so a list is lazy River sports radio stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And I would never.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Ever subject you, the consumer to lazy River list radio
slash podcast. I'm anti list. I would like to present
Benny's big board, which is much different, as you know, Danny,
from a list. And these are the seven Heaven, the
(11:47):
top seven moments in what is now the old.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Fox Sports Radio Students.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Now I'm gonna give my seven Danny, if you were
to touch up my list, if you would like to
add to my list. But I have been with the
company for a long time. I had a six month
twenty six day vacation back on January twentieth of nine.
But I've been back after that ever since, and I
have continued to be gamefully employed by the company since then.
(12:14):
So these are and I want to save this for
posterity sake in case I lose my memory and I
become senile and I forget all this stuff over the
course of time. So I will share this with you,
and then from time to time as a refresher course,
maybe I will go back and I will listen. So
these are these seven things. I don't try to go
quickly as possible. And you want to touch any of
(12:35):
these things up, Danny and add a footnote or an antidote,
You're more than what. So anyway, these seven things seven
heaven seven moments that stand out to me about the
old Fox Sports radio studio. So number seven Bang Bam
boom is number seven, and that is year. I don't
remember the year. This is probably twenty one years ago.
(12:58):
I mean, it's ridiculous. So there was a car accident
outside of the studio and the studios the Premier networks
are right on the corner of Spalvaa and Ventura in
the San Fernando Valley. It's down the hill from bell
Air and some very wealthy people in entertainment and whatnot live.
(13:18):
I think, isn't Lebron still living in bel Air?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
There's a bunch of big people live up there. So
that's where the studio is. Very congested, airy, very busy area.
So bang bam boom. There was a big car accident
that happened right out in front of the studio in
SAPULVAA car was on fire, and so one of the producers,
I will not name it the producer, but one of
(13:42):
the producers went out, grabbed a fire extinguisher from the
kitchen and went out and helped put out the fire.
The engine of the car was on fire. So you
would think this would lead to some kind of honor
from the company and some kind of award. Well, it
(14:02):
turns out there were a series of emails that were
sent within the company. And I want to point out
the reason I'm putting this on the list.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
All these people are gone.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
None of these people are at the company, No the
management people. So they they were getting upset because I
didn't know this either, but when you use a fire
extinguisher you have to, and you're in a business, you
have to contact like the fire department and the city
of La had to come out to put the thing
back in up the code.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
And oh then they send you a big.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Bill exactly, and it cost a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
So the producer who's like thinking he's the hero because
he put out a fire the car was on fire,
and ends up getting an angry email saying, you know
you in the future, call the fire department and do
not do not.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Let them deal with it on their own time.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Oh, so good. I was so hilarious.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Oh God, behind the scenes Radio Storry now number six
on Benny's big board. I call this one Peppi of
the pew and you know where I'm going with this, Danny. So,
on those warm southern California nights in the San Fernando
Valley where the studio is.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It gets ridiculously hot.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And from time to time there would there would be
some critters that would try to get cool. And it
almost always happened in the summer. I don't remember what
happening in the world, maybe it did, but I remember
it in the summer. So there would be a skunk
that would get into the air conditioning which is on
the roof of the Fox Sports Radio studios in the
(15:42):
old studios, and they would get into the events and
they would squirt their skunk stank and the whole building
would smell like skunk. And when I say, Danny, you've
been there, like my eyes would be running from the spell.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It was that intense.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I mean it was insane, like cat boxing with Coop
and Mike Tyson at the same time.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
In a phone booth, exactly a phone booth. There's skunk,
and there's no windows that open because it's a radio station,
so you're pretty much at the mercy of the air conditioner.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So that's number six, number.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Five on the seven Heaven the top seven moments on
Benny's Big Board from the Fox Sports Radios old the
old Fox Sports Radio studios. And if you're enjoying this content,
give us five stars. By the way, on the podcast.
That helps us out a lot. We might give you
a shout out on the podcast later on. We were
allowed to do that on the podcast. Do that on
the Apple podcast pages. In the description, Danny puts it up.
(16:43):
So number five is Batman on multiple occasions. Oh yeah,
somehow flying rodents got into the FSR Premier Networks building.
I'm not sure how that happened because the doors are
always closed, but I guess some opportunistic bat at the
perfect time when the door opened, went flying in there
(17:05):
and seeing a bunch of people Danny and this happened
within recent years. This has happened a few times over
the years, but seeing grown men. Pretty much all men
worked there, but a few women like freaking out because
there's a bat flying through the hallway. And when I
was told the last time, I was like, oh, there's
a bat. I said, no, there's no bat until I
saw the bat. I saw the bat, I saw the light.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It was great, insane.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yeah, I remember Mike Carmon being on his cell phone
live on the air as he was back in the
Blue kitchen and trying to catch it.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yes, we did a bit on the air. We had
play by play of the batgate.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I remember that.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
That was a fun night. That's right. Who was the
guy that was it? Harmon that opened the door was
one of the other producers who I don't think he's
even at the company anymore.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, Harmon and an editor, a sound editor were the
two that corraled it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Finally got it out of the building.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
So that is number five, number four or bang bang,
or should I say boom boom.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So I'm on the air.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
It's a Sunday night shift, end of the weekend. I'm
on the air working with Jim Daniels, who was a
Fox Sports radio host. We're doing the that's right, we're
doing the show together, and in the middle of the show,
we we notice that the glass looks a little odd
out on the on the on the side of the
(18:26):
building where we have these Showcase studios, the old studios
at Showcase at windows out on se Pulpit the boulevard,
and somebody had driven by and shot the studio and
they busted a capital yeah, And so the things I
(18:49):
remember that we're like, who would do that? Like what
you know I mean, And we were like kind of
obviously freaked out. It's bulletproof glass, but if you shoot
enough bullets, it's no longer bulletproof glass. And the things
I remember about that night was my engineer at the time.
We'll just say, hey, profit froze, dude. It's not my fault,
profit dude. And he's a very good guy, but he
(19:12):
might have had some run ins with the police. So
I told him, I said, listen, you gotta call the
You got to call the police, not that they're going
to do anything, but you got to call him and
let him know that there's I mean, maybe they'll at
least put a patrol car out here so we don't
get shot again. Shot it again, and he's you know
what he did, Danny, his idea instead of calling the
(19:33):
police because he's a little afraid of police, instead of
contacting the security guard.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
He eventually did contact the security guard.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
He lowered all the blinds, so at least the people
shoot if it came by and shot again, they wouldn't
know where to aim.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Come on, that's the best line of defense.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, Yeah, he just he lowered all the blinds in
the studio and turn off the lights.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
And we are pretty sure, as a gum show investigator,
we're pretty sure, Danny, that we know who did that.
That there was somebody who had been let go by
the company, who had moved from a far away location
to the West coast and was there only for a
(20:22):
few weeks and was so bad at their job they
got let go. And the theory is that on their
way out of town on a Sunday night, packed up
their stuff on Saturday. They were leaving Sunday night and
on their way out bang bang. Now we're not we
don't know for sure. By the timeline kind of fits.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Wow, man, that Pat O'Brien guy's a feisty motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
EO b.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Don't mess with p o big Man. Jim Lampley, let
me tell you, LAMB saw my God all right? Number
three on Benny's Big Boy, Number three on Benny's Big Board.
Jasey at the bat a legendary. So all these are
things that happen in the old Fox.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Sports Radio studio.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
So this goes back probably fifteen years or so. I'm
working an afternoon shift with Chris Myers. I kid because
I care, but this is a true story. So I
had to go to the bathroom. You know, nature calls.
So I went to do my business, and then I
realized that I had taken a little too long. It
was taking longer than I expected. So I had to
(21:30):
get back to do the show. So I'm rushing. I'm
running through the studio as much as I can run.
I'm morbidly obese, and so I run down the hall
from the bathroom I make a left turn and then
a quick right turn. And as I make the right
turn to turn, and then there's a door to the studio.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Which is on the left.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
As I'm making the second turn, I come face to
face with what would be my career defining moment. If
this had gone a different way in another dimension that
probably did, this would be the end of me. So
right in front of me Casey at the bat radio
legend Casey Cason, who had worked out of what is
(22:16):
now our podcast. I just mentioned him earlier in this podcast,
but he was the voice of American Top forty and
an icon in the radio business. He was the original
voice of Shaggy from Scooby Doo. When I was a kid,
I watched the cartoon he was that he was Robin
(22:36):
Batman and Robin on Super Friends, which I also watched
when I was a kid. He was in Sesame Street
and trans So, I mean, this guy's a big fan
deal and a legend and a Hall of Famer and
all that stuff. And so anyway, at this point, Casey's
in his seventies. He's a frail old man. It's probably
two thousand and three, so it's about twenty years ago.
(22:59):
And maybe even long the time. I forget the time
on all this stuff. I want to say, it's like
around twenty oh three. So needless to say, he was
kind of a big effing deal. So as I go
back to the story, So as I was turning the corner,
he froze and he you know that look somebody gives you, like,
oh my god, your eyes you get bug eyed. You
(23:21):
know that your eyeball. So I mean, he's looking like
he's looking at me. He freezes, and he thinks, I'm
gonna run him over. Mack truck Mather is gonna run
him over. But what I did is I used an
old high school football move. I used a swim technique.
Remember the swim technique in football? We are you gonna
got up? You move your arm around. So I used
(23:43):
the swim technique to barely get around Casey, narrowly avoiding
killing the legend. And also I would have killed my career, Danny,
And you could say I I guess you could say
I kept my feet on the ground and kept reaching
for the store. See that was his catchphrase. But Casey
(24:05):
did eventually pass away. He died in twenty fourteen. I think,
so he's been gone for almost almost ten years, but
a very nice man.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I didn't really talk to him that much.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Certainly after that he avoided me at all costs, and
rightfully so. But that was my number three, number two
on the big board. Great moments of the old FSR studios.
Lights out, lights out. Now my computer was malfunctioning, and
rather than me go in what we call the rack
(24:36):
room where all the satellite equipment is, because you had
to reset it for the other room, and so I was.
It was a short break. So I told Bob Gara,
my producer. I said, Bob, can you run back and
reset the PC? He said, no problem, because I needed
to check the text line. So his stories back runs
past me and then goes makes a right turn. He's right,
(25:00):
and you're in the room, and so whatever. And then
about ninety seconds later, give or take as the crow flix.
Ninety seconds later, the light start flickering, and let's just say,
radio silence takes over as somehow Bob Gara had flipped
(25:22):
the nuclear button and turned the entire Fox Sports radio
network off the air.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
This doesn't have the number one station anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Is it.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
At the time, three hundred or more radio stations and
so what happened was we went off the air. We
heard nothing but silence, and then they flipped. I guess
the master control flipped on emergency filler programming. And that
was the day. One of the great nicknames we've ever
given out was born Bob for the rest of his life.
(25:56):
He's a proud family man and a good husband. But
Bob Gara was Christen wrong Button, Bob.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
The best, and he kept this. He got promoted. He's
on a better show though.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I mean, it goes to show you, instead of getting fired,
sometimes you can fail upwards. Now, there's also a fun
fact that comes out of this. A lot of people
want to know what programming gets put on a major
national network if it goes off the air.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
We found out the answer to that trivia question.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Is Steve de Sager and an old update from like
fifteen years prior.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Sager giving a stat about Steve Sachs.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah it was. It was so much.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It was the Sager and it was I don't I
don't remember exactly what month this happened, but I think
it was during the summer and the Saga's giving like
March Madness scores or something like that.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, somebody told me it was like an update from
twenty ten.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, it was several years prior. It was several years prior.
So that was the number two and the.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Number one story, Number one, number one, number one on
Big Bends, Big Board seven, Heaven, the top seven moments
as we closed out the old Fox Sports Radio studio.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Number one. It was a random night. This is probably
two thousand.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
And nine, I want to say two thousand and nine,
So about fifteen years ago, a little less than that,
I was working the third shift and LA Radio legend
of the late great Joe McDonald was doing his local show
on our flagship station. So Joe thought it would be
fun if I would call into his show and do
a little cross talk and promote my show which was
(27:55):
on the network. And we you know, it was fun.
I had Joseh a friend, I'd known her for years,
and so I was like, sure, why not, I'll do it.
It was a little bit of a pain in the ass,
and I don't like talking on the phone when there's
other people in the room. It's kind of a thing
I have, and so it's when I'm Missigaz and so
what I would do is I would walk outside the studio.
I will walk down Sepulvita to Ventura Boulevard, far away
(28:17):
from any humanity, and I would just do a little
casual cross talk. And so this would be about ten
minutes ten fifteen minutes before the show.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I would go out and do this.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
So the normal night, I walk out and in typical
La night, there's a vagrant out in front of the studio,
like there's a guy down on his luck, and this
guy engages me in conversation.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
This guy says, hey, he says, are you on the radio? Now?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Keep in mind, Danny, that I am strolling out of
the building, which has a giant Fox Sports radio sign
right about my head, right, but the guys are you
on the radio? So I of course kept my posure.
I kept walking. I said, no, I'm not on the radio.
And so I just I went and I did my
(29:06):
cross talk with Joe and Joe McDonald and and so
I'm walking back and I say, wait a minute, the
bum's still there. The guy's still there. He's kind of
wandering around the door, and I'm like, well, I'm bigger
than him, so I don't, you know whatever, He's a
normal sized guy.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I don't really care that much. And so I walked
by the guy and he sees me and he says,
you're fucking lying to me. You're on the radio. I'm
Henry Hill. I want to get on the radio.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I have things to say, and and so I ignore him.
I keep walking. He's like, I'm Henry fucking Hill. So
then I quit. I somehow I was able to get
in the door opened. I used my card key to
the pass key to get in the door open.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I got in. I pulled the door closed.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
The guy kind of stumbles because he's drunk. He starts
banging on the door with both hands, like banging on
the door. Right, I'm Henry fucking Hill. Put me in.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You know, I want to be on the air. I
think you know.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Now, So I assume, why why would you think anything else?
I thought, this is just a drunk guy who's having
hallucinations when he's confused, guys down on his luck, he's
a holbo whatever. So then somebody in the buildings, I
remember Greg Bergman was my producer Old Pinky, and I
(30:26):
told Bergie, I said, hey, take care of.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
This, you know, I I don't take care of.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Anyway. So I went in there and somebody said, you know,
you might want to check out the the images thing,
just to make sure, you know, because my my favorite
movie was about a guy named Henry Hill Goodfellas. So
I did a Google image search Danny and hand the
god that drunk guy outside the studio was Henry Hill.
(30:59):
The fucking mob guy was a notorious mobster who was
part of the is it lou lu Cheesy crime family?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I don't know, some crime family in New York and
like killed people and he was.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
An FBI informant and the guy was in the witness
protection program. So I it's blew me away and my
mind is still blown all these years later that I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
It's just insane. And I guess he had lived in
Sherman Oaks, which is up the hill or where the
studios are, and he died.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
He's an alcoholic, I mean that killed him. He actually
died a couple of years after that.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
But it's crazy since I blew past the guy that
killed people and walked I walked into the building and
he was involved in point shaving at Boston College.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yeah, he was in the drug trade. I mean the
whole They made a book about him, and then Martin
Scorsese made Goodfellas and the Late Leota Right, he was
the one that played Henry Hill. I believe in that. Yes, yeah,
rip yeah, So that was the number one on the
(32:06):
big board.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Anything I'm forgetting here, Danny.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Anything that said we did not get to on the
Great Moments of Fox Sports Radio, Stu.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
I would give an honorable mention to the night where
Helmet Man surprised us with a visit. Yes, pushing all
of his belongings. Do you know, we just thought it
was another person struggling outside on the sidewalk, but this
guy kept banging on the door persistently, so we finally
(32:34):
went to check and he's like, it's me Helmet Man,
and we let him in, put him on the mic,
and of course we got the famous drop.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I'm actually on the live air. Yes you're on the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
There would be people that randomly stuff by. Were you
there the night remember the guy from Nashville. Were you
there when the kid from Nashville showed up and was
hiding in the bushes?
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I was there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
One of our listeners in Nashville, he was in La.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
He met some bring the entrance fee.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yeah, he didn't bring any food.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
And so he had met some girl on the internet,
and of course he wanted to hook up with her,
so he flew out to La and but he was
a fan of the show. But the rule was you
had to you're right, you had to bring food in.
And he didn't bring any food.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
And but he was like creeper. He was like a
creeper hiding in the bushes and stuff.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Yeah, good memories.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
How about the speaking of the vagrants, said, typical La story.
Multiple occasions, multiple occasions, a person who was on the
wrong side of the tracks on the hard scrabble streets,
got on to the there's a little guard.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I don't know what do you call it.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
A there's this, there's a sidewalk, there's a street, and
then in between the sidewalk and the studio.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
There's like a planter.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Oh okay, yeah, raised And so multiple times over the
years there have been homeless people that have gotten up,
pulled their pants down, pulled free Willie, and let the
elephant trunk urinate all over the glass. That's happened multiple times. Great, great,
great memories.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
And we've had listened to some interesting things.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
That last lot's a lot of your life, my life.
I've been there a while long time, so we spent
a lot of nights in that building.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
And yeah, and as far as in that studio, I
think back to all the live feeds that we did.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
But what was that even called. It's not around anymore
where we would.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Go live periscope pariscope, I think, I think of all
the great memories with us taking the show live on periscope.
Of course, Kooper Loop eating an eighteen hour old hot.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Dog with Relish on it as Berbant King.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Also us betting Coop about the vasoline because it was
in the news that a player eight spoonfuls of vassaline.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Guy that invented vasolene said that he took a spoonful
of it every day and he thought it gave him
longevity like he would.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Yeah, and there was some player that said he would
take little bites of it. And so we we would
pool our money to get Kooper Loop to eat things,
which always was a big hit, especially on periscope, Tinderoni
tips on periscope. There were times we set up the
studio to make it look like a nightclub with the
with the lights, that's right, Yeah, yeah, very good memories
(35:34):
in there. Man.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah, We've had a lot of listeners that have come through.
We had Chris and Houston, we had.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Recently he came through. We had Robbed, the Ambassador of
Bakersfield came by. He I feel bad.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
He came by one time with this guy that was
completely hammered and we had he brought some barbecue ribs
and stuff, and then.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
We made him go. We made him leave immediately because
the guy was kind of freaking us out a little bit.
We were like, what's up with that cat?
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
There have been some listeners that have come in there
and then they'd like we had some guys driving around
tow truck.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
They were what do you call repo guys and they
came in there moving. Man, Matt's been in there. Maybe
there's a bunch of people have been over heres. And
we look forward to having new people on our overnight
show and the new studio and all that. But we
went very long on Benny's Big Board, and so we'll
leave it there. I think we'll do some of our
other features on Saturday. Got a lot of content so
(36:28):
that we'll kind of let this breathe and let this
be a tribute rest in peace to the old Fox
Sports Radio studio and good luck to the future, and
we'll look forward to the new studio and anything you
want to promote. Danny, I know it's a workday for you.
It's a double workday for you, as you have double
duty today in the brand Smanking new studio. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Man, looking forward to the second round of the NFL
Draft and having some Friday afternoon fun on the Kobe
and Rich Show from two to four pm on the
West Coast, five to seven in New York, New.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
York, New York, New York.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
The Big Apple And that's that's Covino in Rich Territory,
the Big App that's their.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Their Holy Yeah, that's where they both are from. Mecca.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Have a great rest of you day, enjoy the draft
and enjoy the basketball playoffs and all that nonsense. And hey,
we'll be right back here in the podcast studio all
weekend long. Got another podcast on Saturday, and right back
on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
We'll talk to you then later. Skater got a murder.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I gotta go
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