December 22, 2023 • 26 mins
Maller missed the live show, but not this one! He & Danny G. have another fun Friday broadcast! They talk: Brotherly Love, Deep Dodger Pockets, Ram It Some More, Waterlogged, Cat Scratch Looney & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
and Danny g Happy holiday weekend today the twenty second
day of the month of December, a big weekend for
people to go away. But we are here, Danny. We
(00:49):
are here when many podcasts shut down. We are still
bloviating and excited to be here because normally we don't
do sporting. This will be the second consecutive week Danny
on the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We have become sporty. Yeah, making Fifth Hour history here Ben.
Two first, Uh, It'll sounded like I said two first,
which is fitting. Two first for the podcast. We're talking
sports like heavy two weekends in a row and CoA.
I mentioned to you off the air he's a little grumpy.
(01:24):
The reason why his teeth are coming in.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Oh, that's a big that's a big moment.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
There, not one, not two. We've counted six that are
cutting through his gums right now, not two, not three,
not four, not five.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Ah, it's great, Well, it'll be great, but it's not
great now. This is the hard part. And then and
then the baby teeth fall out, and then it sucks again.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
He's chewing on his fingers so hard that he's making
himself cry because he's hurting his fingers.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh man, the life of a kid. This life is
not that easy. It is not that easy at all.
But I'm far now. I was not at my watch
post last night. I didn't do the overnight show. And
why are you doing the pluggists. You didn't do the
overnight show. You should do the podcast. Well, no, I'm
doing the podcast because there's like big time sports news here.
(02:16):
But I was away from my post, and I'll just
explain this, brotherly love. So I was not the graveyard watchtower,
and it was It would have been a great night.
We had the Ram game and the Rams won last night.
They beat the Saints, that beat him handily, although the
final score did not indicate how much of a rat
kill that game was as the Rams dominated. Derek Carr,
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who did get some garbage time stats to make it
seem like he had a good game. We call those
the guys the stat Vandito when they just like run
up the stats and you're like, well, wait a minute,
your team was down by twenty points when it mattered,
you know, the game, when the game was really in
the bounds. And then he gets a couple of plays
on the fourth quarter, a couple of touchdown passes on
the fourth quarter, Derek Carr. But anyway, just to wrap
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that up, So I was not on the radio last night.
My older brother, but the one that lives in the
Big Apple there, stopped in La for one day. I
had a stopover. He's on his way. He's on a
flight today on Friday here to Vietnam, a family vacation
with his wife's family, my sister in law, and they're
(03:21):
going to Vietnam. And so I did the Raiders show Thursday,
taped the TV show. More on that later, and then
hung out with my brother at one of the iconic restaurants,
one of my old stopping grounds, Danny El Coyote on Beverly,
which I used to go to all the time. I
used to live right next to it in LA It's
a famous, famous spot in Los Angeles for Mexican food.
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But so I was there hanging out with him, and
then you know, went home, watched the RAM game, and
then here we are on a Friday, and I don't
think I got any.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Sleep last night. I text you as soon as the
Dodger news broke.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah. Now you were the one that actually let me
know Danny that. And this is a massive, massive story
which everyone I know is gonna be talking about all
day today. And do we get a jump on it?
The early bird gets the word. It happened right around
the time the RAM game ended. It was a late
night announcement that came down from the baseball insiders. But
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the sweepstakes are over for Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the Japanese phenom,
the next big thing in baseball. We are told the say,
young king from Japan is gonna wear Dodger blue Danny
twelve years. The numbers on this that are coming in.
(04:46):
I saw report said three hundred twenty five million, But
the Dodgers have to pay another fifty million because of
the setup with the Japanese players. So they're actually hanging
out over the next twelve years three point seventy five.
I have a million, three hundred stick. I have million
dollars just for Yamamoto. Who better live up to the hype, Danny,
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I mean, I don't know. I've seen highlights. The guy
looks great on YouTube videos. But it's a different animal
in the biglies. But these guys from Japan, My first
thought is, these guys from Japan have usually been pretty good.
They've only been a couple that have sucked. Most of
them that have dominated the Pacific League in Japan have
been able to dominate the major leagues, and so that
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is encouraging. But the second thought I had, Danny, is
it is it is on. I mean, we're both Dodger guys,
but the Dodgers, and I get it if I was
not a Dodger fan. The Dodgers are dastardly. What they're
doing here. They is demonical the money that they have
spent there. They are the villains. The Dodgers are the
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evil Empire of baseball. It's wicked. I mean, it's nuts. Yeah,
you're right to be.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
The Yankees and now Yankees fans are pissed about this.
Because he had visited New York and there was a
story that Coveno shared on Thursday Afternoons Covino and Rich
Show that Aaron Boone gifted Yamamoto a jersey and they
were doing everything they could think of to butter this
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guy up. I'm gonna go with my homie in La
Me and Otani are going to take over so Cow.
After I texted you, I texted Coveno with a picture
of him in a Dodger jersey that somebody photoshopped, and
Covino's reply was, oh geez, with a mad Emoji face.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
No, this thing's been going on for like a month,
at least a month. We've talked about it, I've done.
I did a couple of monologues this week because of
the public courtship, and I was waiting for something to
happen in baseball, right and Yamamoto and his representation they
were playing foot seat with the Mets and the Yankees,
as you said, the Red Sox, the Giants, and the Dodgers,
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and I was like, it's one of those things. I
didn't really expect the Dodgers to get him because they
had gotten these other guys. But the fact that they did.
Is just it's it's nuts to me. I mean, especially
living through different years of Dodger baseball. When Frank McCord
owned the team, when the O'Malley family owned the team,
it was always built through the minor league system. They
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did spend some money in the nineties of that twenties
plus years ago, and that didn't work out.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That Kevin Brown era was a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, that was when I did Dodger talk and yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Oh I remember, I remember. You were really hard on
the team at the time because they were middle of
the pack, but way up high on the payroll department.
And it's funny because Bob Nightingale, he tweeted last night
that the Dodgers have spent more than one point one
billion dollars this winter with the signings of Yamamoto, Otawani
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and Glass. Now the other teams in baseball combine nine
hundred million dollars, so the Dodgers have outspent every other
MLB team combined.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, And people were sending me messages like, wow, are
they doing it well? Are they cheating? You know? Well, no,
they obviously have deep pockets. And it's a really weird
time in baseball because the way the cable industry has
gone and the Bally sports thing. It seems like the Padres,
the Diamondbacks, the Mariners, a lot of these teams are
in a holding pattern because either they lost their cable
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television deal or they're about to lose their cable television
deal and it's a hot mess, and so they don't
have the revenue. I mean, the whole system on baseball
has been built behind television. But the Dodgers, the reason
they're a super heavyweight is because they own their cable channel.
It ain't going anywhere. I mean, it's like another twenty
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years of this, and they're guaranteed the revenue, assuming you know,
the cable television thing continues on. But they're not going
to lose that revenue. And they the people over there
with the Dodgers are like, well, okay, we're in the
thick of things for everything. But the Japanese market, they
they just think they can make this money back on
these two guys in Otani and Yamamoto with a belly
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full of cash from from the Japanese market and from
Tokyo and and all that. And I mean that we
know baseball's from what I've I've never been to Japan,
but from people tell me it's the most popular sport
in Japan is baseball. It's not you know, they don't
have the NFL there. It's baseball, and and there's other
things that are popular too, but baseball is at the top. So,
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uh it is. You talk about Robber Barron and all that,
it is, it's great, and it's it's it's great to
win the offseason. I don't think they give you a
trophy for that. Maybe maybe they do. I don't know,
but we'll see what happens. I mean, we don't know
if these guys. Otani's ever been in a playoff game,
and Yamamoto has never been in a big league game.
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But I want these guys to have that fire in
their belly when they get to play. And one of
the problems, Danny and you know this watching ball over
the years, these guys get the big contract and they
don't necessarily care as much.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Otani doesn't strike me as that sort of guy or player,
and the way he deferred his money was yeah, for
his interests also, but also for the Dodgers to be
able to put guys like this around him, which is awesome. Yeah,
you don't see a lot of American ballplayers, you know,
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they want the money right now in their pocket, in
their bank account.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
We don't know about Yama Moto. I'm sure the details.
Maybe they're out now. I haven't seen them. Maybe they'll
come out later today. I would assume, based on the
taxation in California that Yamamoto, if he's wise, would have
done the same thing that Otani did. That is just
I'll defer most of the money. And it's gonna be
one of these things, Danny, when we're like really old guys.
The Dodgers will be paying one hundred million dollars to
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players not on the team from this this offseason, you know,
and then a lot of rookie bets all so on.
Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I wonder if at that point though, a lot of
players will be getting five hundred million dollar contracts and
we'll just think that this is not a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, you might be right. And the argument to do
this is, hey, you know, we'll just get more money.
It's but I hate to say this, but it's kind
of what the US government did, Like, well, you know,
we'll push these things down the road and then eventually
we'll be okay. And I don't know if you've looked
at the national debt. I don't want to be a
gloomy guss here, but that's what the you know, the
US government's like, ah, we'll push things down the road.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
God, that's America.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
We started off talking about your Rams. How about when
they showed Otani in attendance at so Far and crowd
went nuts.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
What a kick to the nuts to the Angels that was.
I mean, the guy's been playing down the road in
Anaheim and no one gave a rats ass about Otani.
Where's Dodger blue? All of a sudden he's being you know,
the the red carpets being rolled out at RAM games
and it's just hilariu. I mean, the guy's been in
the market, he's been part of the LA sports scene.
(12:08):
You know, technically LA, but it's Orange County. And it
just shows you the dicotomy, the difference between playing for
a team like the Angels and playing for the Dodgers.
And yeah, Tani got the heroes welcome. How about my
I know you're a raider guy, but you got a
little a little love, give a little love to the Rams.
You can ram it all day, you can ram it
all night that they got they found two ballplayers. They
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found two ballplayers out of the dumpster fire, like the
mid rounds of the NFL draft. Kyron Williams is a
big time running back. He's a top five running back
in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I think you got two really good receivers who kind
of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, well, I think you're talking about Robinson, right. Robinson
was great, but he's bounced around. He's been played with
Kansas City Hooka Nikua though. I mean, I'm loving pool.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
He got hit like a missile, bounced right off of
it when they needed a first down to seal the victory.
And he trudged forward for that first down after getting
hit by a missile a rocket. That was an amazing play.
I love watching that guy ball. He's a big receiver,
but he's also fast and shifty. What a combination of
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skills that dude has.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, and I would like to concede that I had
a take that died. One of my takes died Danny
from earlier in the year. I was convinced everything I
had heard was Matthew Stafford. His body was broken. I
thought he wasn't even going to play this season. I thought, well,
this guy's not going to play. Everything I was told
from the people that I trust with Stafford was beat up.
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The Rams wanted to get rid of him, they were
ready to trade him, they wanted to eat the contract.
And right now, Matthew Stafford the last month or so
has been playing. I don't say that he's not rock
Party because Brock's got better weapons around, but the Rams
weapons are not that far behind some of the forty
(13:59):
nine weapons. But I'm a little giddy because they won.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I know I was gonna say, don't get too carried.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Away, ah, but they did.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, they did exceed expectations. A lot of people counted
your favorite team out before the season even started, and
then a few games in most people are like, yeah,
Rams are underwhelming. They're gonna be under five hundred, and
now look at what's going on, they're probably gonna sneak
their way into the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah. Well, they won five of six. The loss they
had was a special teams boner and overtime to the Ravens,
who supposed the other top team in the AFC, And
before that they lost to Green Bay. But that's pretty much.
They gave that game away because they started ripping who
can't play? I just can't play. They really haven't played
a bad game where they've had their guys since they
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played the Cowboys when they just got torched by Dallas
back in Week eight. But I throw away the Green
Bay game because they had no quarterback. They had no
chance in that game, and they lost close to The
Rams lost close games to the Steelers. I was at
that game. They had the lead, they blew that, and
they had a shot with Philadelphia. They didn't show up
in the second half. So obviously see Apsen Boughts, Kenny
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and nuts and all that. But the Rams are in
a good spot at eight wins. And this is the
best kind of years a fan, because you don't expect
anything and then it turned out to be pretty good.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
No, you gotta be happy. And then for me, I'm
also pleased because who would have thunk it? Who would
have thought that Aidan O'Connell would have a better primetime
game than Derek Carr.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well, yeah, exactly. Derek Carr. What an enigma, you know
what it is like he's the same guy he was
with the Raiders. He hadn't change he's the same guy.
He's going to be that way the rest of his career.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Why does he have so many excuse makers on social media?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, it's one of life's great mysteries. I can't I
can't explain it. I mean, I've seen the guy. I know.
You know, I work with Eddie on the overnights and
Eddie's a Fresno State guy, so he doesn't really want
to be too critical of Derek Carr. But I mean,
these kind of.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Me a nice guy. That's great, But you see with
your own eyes he throws picks fumbles constantly. I mean,
I guess he doesn't have as many interceptions this season
as he did, you know, when he was a Raider,
but still enough to change games for the Saints. And
he's been so inconsistent. One week, like last week, for instance,
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what he had three touchdowns and no picks, and the
Saints were like, Yeah, this is the guy we wanted.
But then you know that's not the guy you're gonna
get the following week.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah. Well, and you know, any road game hostile environment,
even the Rams. I'm a Rams fan, it's not a
very hostile environment. But Derek Carr on the road normally melts.
It's like putting a sugar cube into water and watching
it disintegrate. Any pressure situation the guy he plays that
or cold weather, well yeah, cold weather, hostile environment, pressure situation.
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He's got a terrible record as a road favorite. But hey,
it ain't my problem. The Rams are eight and seven
and they've got Tommy Cutlets in week seventeen, which, assuming
they don't just poop the bed, that should be a
show up and win game to get you to nine wins,
which should be enough to get to the playoffs. But
they will see me. It's conceivable some other crazy things
(17:11):
will happen. But either way, I like the Rams. I
had zero expectations. I was like, well, that's gonna suck
this year, but they've been pretty good. I had a
couple other things I wanted to get to, and we'll
get out because I wanted to talk about an interesting
week on the TV show, dann You know, I can't
do a podcast without pouring out the TV show. So
Andrea the astrology Lady would say mercury is in retrograde
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because it started out harmlessly. I have a routine. I'm
a creature of habit, and I normally you know, do
some manscaping, some trimming, get ready for the show pretty up,
you know, and all that stuff. Before the taping of
Benny Versus the Penny, I realize I'm ugly, but I
try to limit the damage, and so I shave and
(17:53):
do all that stuff. So I plug the razor in
per normal, get that razor juiced up to trim my
facial hair, and so do that, and then I go
back to after about an hour, I go back to
grab the shaver. It's an electric going to shave my beard,
and I turn it on and there's nothing. And then
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I start shaking it, you know, and I was like, well,
maybe the plug's wrong. So I plugged in a different,
different outlet and then I walked away and I came
back and the thing's not working. Uh, And I kept
Then I started hitting the thing of a jig and
that didn't work. And so that was just the warm
up act. I couldn't shave before, and I was like, well, boy,
everything gonna say the horrible. And then after doing the
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radio show Wednesday and the Thursday, you know, I had
some downtime. Eventually I drive over in a monsoon to
Universal Studios and the broke on News Center, West Coast
hub of NBC News. That's where we do the show from.
So I park in the Abbott and Costello parking garage,
her and on. But I realized there's no walk. We
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have to walk outside to get to the building. And
so I'm like, I need an umbrella. So I start
digging around the car. IF's like, wow, everyone's got an
umbrella in their car. Couldn't find the umbrella in the malamobile.
Uh oh im porked. So now I'm like, well, should
I wait till the rain dies down? And I looked
at my weather app on my phone. I was like, well,
it says it's going to keep raining. I'm screwed. It's
(19:19):
just going to keep rain. So I'm like, I just
got to go. I just got to Maybe I'll walk fast,
but so I want to paint the picture for a
blind listener. So I start walking. It starts raining harder.
There's like a cloud burst, right, oh is I only
where I was. I don't think it was raining that
hard anywhere else in La. So I'm holding my laptop
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like briefcase that I have with my my computer and
some notes for the show. I've got a garment bag
because I have to dress up as an adult. I
have a box with my dress shoes on. I'm wearing sandals, okay,
in sweatpants because I was just gonna casual at the
radio station. By the time I made it from the
parking garage to the BROCA News Center, which is about
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two blocks about two blocks, I was completely and I
want to exaggerate here, Danny completely waterlogged. I was soaking wet,
I was sopping, I was totally submerged in water and
in that cartoon bubble over my head. As I'm walking
to the door, I'm thinking, you know, here I am.
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I feel like I'm at the peak of my career
right now. You know, things have really come together. I've
got the radio shows going well, the podcast we've used
going great, got a TV show now, national TV show.
Like I'm rolling in to Universal Studios here and I
look like a swamp creature, like I'm totally drenched, and
I was so embarrassed. I actually walked through the underground
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entrance to avoid the overnight security guard, who I know
a little bit, because I didn't want anyone to see me.
Even though I was a camera. I was that embarrassed.
So welcome to the exciting, sexy world of big time
sports media. What a You know, it never rains in
La Danny, but when it does rain, you need an umbrella,
and I didn't have an umbrella.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
There were tornado warnings going off at two in the
morning on our phones.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, that's when I was out about a little bit
after that, a few hours after that, I was out
and about. It was nuts, crazy, dude.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
If you've seen the pictures of West Ventura County, ox
start in Ventura was underwater, cars stuck, people's houses flooded.
And you know, obviously we're not used to that sort
of thing here in southern California.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
No, not at all. And you know, it happens the
La River, which is not really a river, it's just
you know, it's a concrete thing. And that thing was
just move. It goes right by.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Universal and yeah, that's a skate park usually.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
So one other thing before we get out, we'll get
out on this. So it turns out I wasn't the
only person having issues for the TV show this week.
My comrade and campadre, Tom Looney. I don't know if
he wants me to tell this story, but he didn't
listen to the podcast. Who cares it no matter? So I,
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as I told you, I ran into you know, the
building there covered in water. So I then had to
go to a bathroom and drive myself off and change
into my church clothes to go on television in my temple,
no clothes whatever. So then I'm walking around. I did
a little prep and I walk into the like I
don't even know what to call the NBC commissary, but it's
like they don't break room where they have, you know,
(22:28):
some food or whatever. So I go over there, there's
a coffee machine. Looney's over there getting a free moocha
on the peacock's dime. And he then informs me that
he had one of his pets had I guess, uh
cat scratch fever while he was sleeping. He was clawed
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in the forehead. Oh no, yeah, yeah yeah, So the
right side of his forehead I'm standing right in front
of it looks like Frankenstein, like it believe. But I'm like,
we have to tape the TV show. The record time
is in an hour, like less than an hour at
this point, right because we're both there getting ready, and
(23:10):
the call time was like half an hour and Looney
Looney uses his clandestine Uh did I say that rightdys clandestine? Right,
that's the word I think I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Anyway, he used his knee, I'll use ninja and his
ninja ability. It's early in the morning to slither in
to a back room. He found the NBC makeup depot,
which I didn't even We didn't even know where this was.
I didn't know. He asked somebody who led him this direction,
and he his forehead by the time he got done.
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You probably can't tell on the TV show, but when
you watch Betty versus The Penny, let me know. He
looked in person like a gaudy woman painted in makeup.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
We both, right, Dad, You know women that just put.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Instead of cake face, he was cake kead.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, So he just yeah, he had you know, cake.
It was like frosting on his forehead, like a wedding cake.
And I think he pulled it up because at least
in the monitors in our studio it looked fine. I
don't think you know. You might know now because I
told you, but none of our producers in Boston. The director,
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our guy Vinnie, who puts the show together. None of
these guys noticed it. So that is a real miracle
before Christmas that Looney was able to have one of
his pets scratch his forehead where he looked like Frankenstein
a monster, and then put enough makeup on to just
cover it up. And you don't even know.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Don't do a lost cat magnet pencil.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Next, It's wild and please watch Benny Versus the Penny.
It's on today all weekend. I know it's a holiday weekend.
You're probably with family and whatnot, but you're listening to
this podcast. You must have some free time. I do.
I can't say we have some of the showings I
know for today on Friday, NBC Sports Boston, we'll be
(25:03):
on at seven thirty Tonight nine pm tonight NBC Sports Philadelphia,
late night showing at eleven. In Chicago, we'll be on
after the Canadians Blackhawks post game on NBC Sports Chicago
at ten thirty. Benny Versus the Penny no airings today
on NBC Sports Bay Area. Will be on a couple
of times on Saturday. There's some games in the Bay
(25:25):
Area that preempted us, but we are on today on
NBC Sports California, which is the Sacramento Kings home. We'll
be on after the Sacramento Kings Suns broadcast on actually
I think before I think we might actually be on
before that, the pre game, Yeah, six pm in NBC
Sports California, and then we'll be on several times on
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Saturday Tomorrow on Spectrum Sports Net, which is Danny's favorite
channel because they have some basketball team on their pop.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah, that's the Lakers channel. That's how I see you
and Looney.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, so we'll be on their six am, Saturday, three pm,
and eleven pm all Pacific time. We'll get out on that. Danny,
are you doing any working today? Are you what you
got going on?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I am working because we're doing the fun Friday edition
of Covino and Rich before we have a couple of
days off for the holiday. So two to four pm
on the West Coast, and that is five to seven
pm in Vermont where Arnie is.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, the great stinking genius. All right, have a wonderful Friday.
We'll have another fresh podcast for you on Saturday, and
we will talk to you then later.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
and Danny g Happy holiday weekend today the twenty second
day of the month of December, a big weekend for
people to go away. But we are here, Danny. We
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are here when many podcasts shut down. We are still
bloviating and excited to be here because normally we don't
do sporting. This will be the second consecutive week Danny
on the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We have become sporty. Yeah, making Fifth Hour history here Ben.
Two first, Uh, It'll sounded like I said two first,
which is fitting. Two first for the podcast. We're talking
sports like heavy two weekends in a row and CoA.
I mentioned to you off the air he's a little grumpy.
(01:24):
The reason why his teeth are coming in.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Oh, that's a big that's a big moment.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
There, not one, not two. We've counted six that are
cutting through his gums right now, not two, not three,
not four, not five.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Ah, it's great, Well, it'll be great, but it's not
great now. This is the hard part. And then and
then the baby teeth fall out, and then it sucks again.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
He's chewing on his fingers so hard that he's making
himself cry because he's hurting his fingers.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh man, the life of a kid. This life is
not that easy. It is not that easy at all.
But I'm far now. I was not at my watch
post last night. I didn't do the overnight show. And
why are you doing the pluggists. You didn't do the
overnight show. You should do the podcast. Well, no, I'm
doing the podcast because there's like big time sports news here.
(02:16):
But I was away from my post, and I'll just
explain this, brotherly love. So I was not the graveyard watchtower,
and it was It would have been a great night.
We had the Ram game and the Rams won last night.
They beat the Saints, that beat him handily, although the
final score did not indicate how much of a rat
kill that game was as the Rams dominated. Derek Carr,
(02:38):
who did get some garbage time stats to make it
seem like he had a good game. We call those
the guys the stat Vandito when they just like run
up the stats and you're like, well, wait a minute,
your team was down by twenty points when it mattered,
you know, the game, when the game was really in
the bounds. And then he gets a couple of plays
on the fourth quarter, a couple of touchdown passes on
the fourth quarter, Derek Carr. But anyway, just to wrap
(03:01):
that up, So I was not on the radio last night.
My older brother, but the one that lives in the
Big Apple there, stopped in La for one day. I
had a stopover. He's on his way. He's on a
flight today on Friday here to Vietnam, a family vacation
with his wife's family, my sister in law, and they're
(03:21):
going to Vietnam. And so I did the Raiders show Thursday,
taped the TV show. More on that later, and then
hung out with my brother at one of the iconic restaurants,
one of my old stopping grounds, Danny El Coyote on Beverly,
which I used to go to all the time. I
used to live right next to it in LA It's
a famous, famous spot in Los Angeles for Mexican food.
(03:45):
But so I was there hanging out with him, and
then you know, went home, watched the RAM game, and
then here we are on a Friday, and I don't
think I got any.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Sleep last night. I text you as soon as the
Dodger news broke.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah. Now you were the one that actually let me
know Danny that. And this is a massive, massive story
which everyone I know is gonna be talking about all
day today. And do we get a jump on it?
The early bird gets the word. It happened right around
the time the RAM game ended. It was a late
night announcement that came down from the baseball insiders. But
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the sweepstakes are over for Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the Japanese phenom,
the next big thing in baseball. We are told the say,
young king from Japan is gonna wear Dodger blue Danny
twelve years. The numbers on this that are coming in.
(04:46):
I saw report said three hundred twenty five million, But
the Dodgers have to pay another fifty million because of
the setup with the Japanese players. So they're actually hanging
out over the next twelve years three point seventy five.
I have a million, three hundred stick. I have million
dollars just for Yamamoto. Who better live up to the hype, Danny,
(05:08):
I mean, I don't know. I've seen highlights. The guy
looks great on YouTube videos. But it's a different animal
in the biglies. But these guys from Japan, My first
thought is, these guys from Japan have usually been pretty good.
They've only been a couple that have sucked. Most of
them that have dominated the Pacific League in Japan have
been able to dominate the major leagues, and so that
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is encouraging. But the second thought I had, Danny, is
it is it is on. I mean, we're both Dodger guys,
but the Dodgers, and I get it if I was
not a Dodger fan. The Dodgers are dastardly. What they're
doing here. They is demonical the money that they have
spent there. They are the villains. The Dodgers are the
(05:53):
evil Empire of baseball. It's wicked. I mean, it's nuts. Yeah,
you're right to be.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
The Yankees and now Yankees fans are pissed about this.
Because he had visited New York and there was a
story that Coveno shared on Thursday Afternoons Covino and Rich
Show that Aaron Boone gifted Yamamoto a jersey and they
were doing everything they could think of to butter this
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guy up. I'm gonna go with my homie in La
Me and Otani are going to take over so Cow.
After I texted you, I texted Coveno with a picture
of him in a Dodger jersey that somebody photoshopped, and
Covino's reply was, oh geez, with a mad Emoji face.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
No, this thing's been going on for like a month,
at least a month. We've talked about it, I've done.
I did a couple of monologues this week because of
the public courtship, and I was waiting for something to
happen in baseball, right and Yamamoto and his representation they
were playing foot seat with the Mets and the Yankees,
as you said, the Red Sox, the Giants, and the Dodgers,
(07:03):
and I was like, it's one of those things. I
didn't really expect the Dodgers to get him because they
had gotten these other guys. But the fact that they did.
Is just it's it's nuts to me. I mean, especially
living through different years of Dodger baseball. When Frank McCord
owned the team, when the O'Malley family owned the team,
it was always built through the minor league system. They
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did spend some money in the nineties of that twenties
plus years ago, and that didn't work out.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That Kevin Brown era was a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, that was when I did Dodger talk and yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Oh I remember, I remember. You were really hard on
the team at the time because they were middle of
the pack, but way up high on the payroll department.
And it's funny because Bob Nightingale, he tweeted last night
that the Dodgers have spent more than one point one
billion dollars this winter with the signings of Yamamoto, Otawani
(07:56):
and Glass. Now the other teams in baseball combine nine
hundred million dollars, so the Dodgers have outspent every other
MLB team combined.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, And people were sending me messages like, wow, are
they doing it well? Are they cheating? You know? Well, no,
they obviously have deep pockets. And it's a really weird
time in baseball because the way the cable industry has
gone and the Bally sports thing. It seems like the Padres,
the Diamondbacks, the Mariners, a lot of these teams are
in a holding pattern because either they lost their cable
(08:31):
television deal or they're about to lose their cable television
deal and it's a hot mess, and so they don't
have the revenue. I mean, the whole system on baseball
has been built behind television. But the Dodgers, the reason
they're a super heavyweight is because they own their cable channel.
It ain't going anywhere. I mean, it's like another twenty
(08:53):
years of this, and they're guaranteed the revenue, assuming you know,
the cable television thing continues on. But they're not going
to lose that revenue. And they the people over there
with the Dodgers are like, well, okay, we're in the
thick of things for everything. But the Japanese market, they
they just think they can make this money back on
these two guys in Otani and Yamamoto with a belly
(09:15):
full of cash from from the Japanese market and from
Tokyo and and all that. And I mean that we
know baseball's from what I've I've never been to Japan,
but from people tell me it's the most popular sport
in Japan is baseball. It's not you know, they don't
have the NFL there. It's baseball, and and there's other
things that are popular too, but baseball is at the top. So,
(09:35):
uh it is. You talk about Robber Barron and all that,
it is, it's great, and it's it's it's great to
win the offseason. I don't think they give you a
trophy for that. Maybe maybe they do. I don't know,
but we'll see what happens. I mean, we don't know
if these guys. Otani's ever been in a playoff game,
and Yamamoto has never been in a big league game.
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But I want these guys to have that fire in
their belly when they get to play. And one of
the problems, Danny and you know this watching ball over
the years, these guys get the big contract and they
don't necessarily care as much.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Otani doesn't strike me as that sort of guy or player,
and the way he deferred his money was yeah, for
his interests also, but also for the Dodgers to be
able to put guys like this around him, which is awesome. Yeah,
you don't see a lot of American ballplayers, you know,
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they want the money right now in their pocket, in
their bank account.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
We don't know about Yama Moto. I'm sure the details.
Maybe they're out now. I haven't seen them. Maybe they'll
come out later today. I would assume, based on the
taxation in California that Yamamoto, if he's wise, would have
done the same thing that Otani did. That is just
I'll defer most of the money. And it's gonna be
one of these things, Danny, when we're like really old guys.
The Dodgers will be paying one hundred million dollars to
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players not on the team from this this offseason, you know,
and then a lot of rookie bets all so on.
Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I wonder if at that point though, a lot of
players will be getting five hundred million dollar contracts and
we'll just think that this is not a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, you might be right. And the argument to do
this is, hey, you know, we'll just get more money.
It's but I hate to say this, but it's kind
of what the US government did, Like, well, you know,
we'll push these things down the road and then eventually
we'll be okay. And I don't know if you've looked
at the national debt. I don't want to be a
gloomy guss here, but that's what the you know, the
US government's like, ah, we'll push things down the road.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
God, that's America.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
We started off talking about your Rams. How about when
they showed Otani in attendance at so Far and crowd
went nuts.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
What a kick to the nuts to the Angels that was.
I mean, the guy's been playing down the road in
Anaheim and no one gave a rats ass about Otani.
Where's Dodger blue? All of a sudden he's being you know,
the the red carpets being rolled out at RAM games
and it's just hilariu. I mean, the guy's been in
the market, he's been part of the LA sports scene.
(12:08):
You know, technically LA, but it's Orange County. And it
just shows you the dicotomy, the difference between playing for
a team like the Angels and playing for the Dodgers.
And yeah, Tani got the heroes welcome. How about my
I know you're a raider guy, but you got a
little a little love, give a little love to the Rams.
You can ram it all day, you can ram it
all night that they got they found two ballplayers. They
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found two ballplayers out of the dumpster fire, like the
mid rounds of the NFL draft. Kyron Williams is a
big time running back. He's a top five running back
in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I think you got two really good receivers who kind
of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, well, I think you're talking about Robinson, right. Robinson
was great, but he's bounced around. He's been played with
Kansas City Hooka Nikua though. I mean, I'm loving pool.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
He got hit like a missile, bounced right off of
it when they needed a first down to seal the victory.
And he trudged forward for that first down after getting
hit by a missile a rocket. That was an amazing play.
I love watching that guy ball. He's a big receiver,
but he's also fast and shifty. What a combination of
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skills that dude has.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, and I would like to concede that I had
a take that died. One of my takes died Danny
from earlier in the year. I was convinced everything I
had heard was Matthew Stafford. His body was broken. I
thought he wasn't even going to play this season. I thought, well,
this guy's not going to play. Everything I was told
from the people that I trust with Stafford was beat up.
(13:38):
The Rams wanted to get rid of him, they were
ready to trade him, they wanted to eat the contract.
And right now, Matthew Stafford the last month or so
has been playing. I don't say that he's not rock
Party because Brock's got better weapons around, but the Rams
weapons are not that far behind some of the forty
(13:59):
nine weapons. But I'm a little giddy because they won.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I know I was gonna say, don't get too carried.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Away, ah, but they did.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, they did exceed expectations. A lot of people counted
your favorite team out before the season even started, and
then a few games in most people are like, yeah,
Rams are underwhelming. They're gonna be under five hundred, and
now look at what's going on, they're probably gonna sneak
their way into the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah. Well, they won five of six. The loss they
had was a special teams boner and overtime to the Ravens,
who supposed the other top team in the AFC, And
before that they lost to Green Bay. But that's pretty much.
They gave that game away because they started ripping who
can't play? I just can't play. They really haven't played
a bad game where they've had their guys since they
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played the Cowboys when they just got torched by Dallas
back in Week eight. But I throw away the Green
Bay game because they had no quarterback. They had no
chance in that game, and they lost close to The
Rams lost close games to the Steelers. I was at
that game. They had the lead, they blew that, and
they had a shot with Philadelphia. They didn't show up
in the second half. So obviously see Apsen Boughts, Kenny
(15:06):
and nuts and all that. But the Rams are in
a good spot at eight wins. And this is the
best kind of years a fan, because you don't expect
anything and then it turned out to be pretty good.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
No, you gotta be happy. And then for me, I'm
also pleased because who would have thunk it? Who would
have thought that Aidan O'Connell would have a better primetime
game than Derek Carr.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well, yeah, exactly. Derek Carr. What an enigma, you know
what it is like he's the same guy he was
with the Raiders. He hadn't change he's the same guy.
He's going to be that way the rest of his career.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Why does he have so many excuse makers on social media?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, it's one of life's great mysteries. I can't I
can't explain it. I mean, I've seen the guy. I know.
You know, I work with Eddie on the overnights and
Eddie's a Fresno State guy, so he doesn't really want
to be too critical of Derek Carr. But I mean,
these kind of.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Me a nice guy. That's great, But you see with
your own eyes he throws picks fumbles constantly. I mean,
I guess he doesn't have as many interceptions this season
as he did, you know, when he was a Raider,
but still enough to change games for the Saints. And
he's been so inconsistent. One week, like last week, for instance,
(16:20):
what he had three touchdowns and no picks, and the
Saints were like, Yeah, this is the guy we wanted.
But then you know that's not the guy you're gonna
get the following week.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah. Well, and you know, any road game hostile environment,
even the Rams. I'm a Rams fan, it's not a
very hostile environment. But Derek Carr on the road normally melts.
It's like putting a sugar cube into water and watching
it disintegrate. Any pressure situation the guy he plays that
or cold weather, well yeah, cold weather, hostile environment, pressure situation.
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He's got a terrible record as a road favorite. But hey,
it ain't my problem. The Rams are eight and seven
and they've got Tommy Cutlets in week seventeen, which, assuming
they don't just poop the bed, that should be a
show up and win game to get you to nine wins,
which should be enough to get to the playoffs. But
they will see me. It's conceivable some other crazy things
(17:11):
will happen. But either way, I like the Rams. I
had zero expectations. I was like, well, that's gonna suck
this year, but they've been pretty good. I had a
couple other things I wanted to get to, and we'll
get out because I wanted to talk about an interesting
week on the TV show, dann You know, I can't
do a podcast without pouring out the TV show. So
Andrea the astrology Lady would say mercury is in retrograde
(17:33):
because it started out harmlessly. I have a routine. I'm
a creature of habit, and I normally you know, do
some manscaping, some trimming, get ready for the show pretty up,
you know, and all that stuff. Before the taping of
Benny Versus the Penny, I realize I'm ugly, but I
try to limit the damage, and so I shave and
(17:53):
do all that stuff. So I plug the razor in
per normal, get that razor juiced up to trim my
facial hair, and so do that, and then I go
back to after about an hour, I go back to
grab the shaver. It's an electric going to shave my beard,
and I turn it on and there's nothing. And then
(18:14):
I start shaking it, you know, and I was like, well,
maybe the plug's wrong. So I plugged in a different,
different outlet and then I walked away and I came
back and the thing's not working. Uh, And I kept
Then I started hitting the thing of a jig and
that didn't work. And so that was just the warm
up act. I couldn't shave before, and I was like, well, boy,
everything gonna say the horrible. And then after doing the
(18:34):
radio show Wednesday and the Thursday, you know, I had
some downtime. Eventually I drive over in a monsoon to
Universal Studios and the broke on News Center, West Coast
hub of NBC News. That's where we do the show from.
So I park in the Abbott and Costello parking garage,
her and on. But I realized there's no walk. We
(18:57):
have to walk outside to get to the building. And
so I'm like, I need an umbrella. So I start
digging around the car. IF's like, wow, everyone's got an
umbrella in their car. Couldn't find the umbrella in the malamobile.
Uh oh im porked. So now I'm like, well, should
I wait till the rain dies down? And I looked
at my weather app on my phone. I was like, well,
it says it's going to keep raining. I'm screwed. It's
(19:19):
just going to keep rain. So I'm like, I just
got to go. I just got to Maybe I'll walk fast,
but so I want to paint the picture for a
blind listener. So I start walking. It starts raining harder.
There's like a cloud burst, right, oh is I only
where I was. I don't think it was raining that
hard anywhere else in La. So I'm holding my laptop
(19:39):
like briefcase that I have with my my computer and
some notes for the show. I've got a garment bag
because I have to dress up as an adult. I
have a box with my dress shoes on. I'm wearing sandals, okay,
in sweatpants because I was just gonna casual at the
radio station. By the time I made it from the
parking garage to the BROCA News Center, which is about
(20:02):
two blocks about two blocks, I was completely and I
want to exaggerate here, Danny completely waterlogged. I was soaking wet,
I was sopping, I was totally submerged in water and
in that cartoon bubble over my head. As I'm walking
to the door, I'm thinking, you know, here I am.
(20:24):
I feel like I'm at the peak of my career
right now. You know, things have really come together. I've
got the radio shows going well, the podcast we've used
going great, got a TV show now, national TV show.
Like I'm rolling in to Universal Studios here and I
look like a swamp creature, like I'm totally drenched, and
I was so embarrassed. I actually walked through the underground
(20:45):
entrance to avoid the overnight security guard, who I know
a little bit, because I didn't want anyone to see me.
Even though I was a camera. I was that embarrassed.
So welcome to the exciting, sexy world of big time
sports media. What a You know, it never rains in
La Danny, but when it does rain, you need an umbrella,
and I didn't have an umbrella.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
There were tornado warnings going off at two in the
morning on our phones.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, that's when I was out about a little bit
after that, a few hours after that, I was out
and about. It was nuts, crazy, dude.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
If you've seen the pictures of West Ventura County, ox
start in Ventura was underwater, cars stuck, people's houses flooded.
And you know, obviously we're not used to that sort
of thing here in southern California.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
No, not at all. And you know, it happens the
La River, which is not really a river, it's just
you know, it's a concrete thing. And that thing was
just move. It goes right by.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Universal and yeah, that's a skate park usually.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
So one other thing before we get out, we'll get
out on this. So it turns out I wasn't the
only person having issues for the TV show this week.
My comrade and campadre, Tom Looney. I don't know if
he wants me to tell this story, but he didn't
listen to the podcast. Who cares it no matter? So I,
(22:07):
as I told you, I ran into you know, the
building there covered in water. So I then had to
go to a bathroom and drive myself off and change
into my church clothes to go on television in my temple,
no clothes whatever. So then I'm walking around. I did
a little prep and I walk into the like I
don't even know what to call the NBC commissary, but it's
like they don't break room where they have, you know,
(22:28):
some food or whatever. So I go over there, there's
a coffee machine. Looney's over there getting a free moocha
on the peacock's dime. And he then informs me that
he had one of his pets had I guess, uh
cat scratch fever while he was sleeping. He was clawed
(22:49):
in the forehead. Oh no, yeah, yeah yeah, So the
right side of his forehead I'm standing right in front
of it looks like Frankenstein, like it believe. But I'm like,
we have to tape the TV show. The record time
is in an hour, like less than an hour at
this point, right because we're both there getting ready, and
(23:10):
the call time was like half an hour and Looney
Looney uses his clandestine Uh did I say that rightdys clandestine? Right,
that's the word I think I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Anyway, he used his knee, I'll use ninja and his
ninja ability. It's early in the morning to slither in
to a back room. He found the NBC makeup depot,
which I didn't even We didn't even know where this was.
I didn't know. He asked somebody who led him this direction,
and he his forehead by the time he got done.
(23:39):
You probably can't tell on the TV show, but when
you watch Betty versus The Penny, let me know. He
looked in person like a gaudy woman painted in makeup.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
We both, right, Dad, You know women that just put.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Instead of cake face, he was cake kead.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, So he just yeah, he had you know, cake.
It was like frosting on his forehead, like a wedding cake.
And I think he pulled it up because at least
in the monitors in our studio it looked fine. I
don't think you know. You might know now because I
told you, but none of our producers in Boston. The director,
(24:16):
our guy Vinnie, who puts the show together. None of
these guys noticed it. So that is a real miracle
before Christmas that Looney was able to have one of
his pets scratch his forehead where he looked like Frankenstein
a monster, and then put enough makeup on to just
cover it up. And you don't even know.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Don't do a lost cat magnet pencil.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Next, It's wild and please watch Benny Versus the Penny.
It's on today all weekend. I know it's a holiday weekend.
You're probably with family and whatnot, but you're listening to
this podcast. You must have some free time. I do.
I can't say we have some of the showings I
know for today on Friday, NBC Sports Boston, we'll be
(25:03):
on at seven thirty Tonight nine pm tonight NBC Sports Philadelphia,
late night showing at eleven. In Chicago, we'll be on
after the Canadians Blackhawks post game on NBC Sports Chicago
at ten thirty. Benny Versus the Penny no airings today
on NBC Sports Bay Area. Will be on a couple
of times on Saturday. There's some games in the Bay
(25:25):
Area that preempted us, but we are on today on
NBC Sports California, which is the Sacramento Kings home. We'll
be on after the Sacramento Kings Suns broadcast on actually
I think before I think we might actually be on
before that, the pre game, Yeah, six pm in NBC
Sports California, and then we'll be on several times on
(25:47):
Saturday Tomorrow on Spectrum Sports Net, which is Danny's favorite
channel because they have some basketball team on their pop.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah, that's the Lakers channel. That's how I see you
and Looney.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, so we'll be on their six am, Saturday, three pm,
and eleven pm all Pacific time. We'll get out on that. Danny,
are you doing any working today? Are you what you
got going on?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I am working because we're doing the fun Friday edition
of Covino and Rich before we have a couple of
days off for the holiday. So two to four pm
on the West Coast, and that is five to seven
pm in Vermont where Arnie is.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, the great stinking genius. All right, have a wonderful Friday.
We'll have another fresh podcast for you on Saturday, and
we will talk to you then later.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
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