The Fifth Hour: Green Ghost of Brokaw Center

so amazing. And back in the day, my big eating days before I started doing this fuges fasting and all that dandy, I would go to a theater near the house and they had I don't know if they still do this, they used to do buy a large popcorn and you get a free refill. That was the thing. So I'd buy the large popcorn, like the extra large popcorn.

So Happy National Popcorn eight and we are back. A new weekend is upon us here on the fifth hour, and today's edition a hodgepodge of randomness as we head into a divisional playoff weekend in the NFL tomorrow and Sunday, we will be down to the final four teams in the NFL by Sunday. Night says it's wrapping up. But Danny, we're getting close to the silly season in football, which is also fun for sports radio. But only a couple more games to go here. It's crazy.

I'm normally not working, and Danny as well. But in addition, I canhore myself out and promote my TV show which is still on the air. It's amazing, I know. So we we recorded the latest episode, the Divisional Round episode of Benny Versus the Penny, and I was asked by a listener, I did not use this in the mailbag. I'm using it right now. Mailbag's on Sunday. But he asked, how are you guys going to do the show because there's not as many games, and you guys still have

to do the full, full show. And so my response to that is a, yeah, there aren't as many games obviously, but it's only a half an hour show. And Danny, as you know from being a seasoned radio professional, we do on a radio show, you know, twenty two and a half, twenty three minutes of content with our eyes closed and our hands tied behind our back or whatever. Rush Limbaugh used to say.

So I'm we're worried about that. And even with the fewer number of games, we still have so much to say, we likely we'll still run out of that. But that's not the point, all right. The point is this. We had a historical moment on this latest episode of Benny Versus the Petty, which will be start It's gonna start airing later today. I think the first showing is this afternoon in San Francisco. But uh, and it's on all the country. So our first wardrobe malfunction on the TV show.

You always remember your first So if that didn't catch your attention, maybe he did. I don't know. Was it me? Did I have the wardrobe malfunction? No, because I have a military like outfit when I go and do this show. I have the hat, I have the pullover top, I have the dress shirt. That's my outfit. That's what I wear. But Tom Looney was called to the carpet. Is it

true that Tom Looney had a fashion faux pauw? A fashion faux pauw on the Fifth Hour podcast or the TV show which we're talking about now, on the Fifth Hour podcast. So Looney he wore a shirt he showed up. Now, the way this works, I get there hours before we're supposed to record the TV show, and I squeeze my way into the back room there at Universal Studios. There's no one there. The place is completely empty. And I go in there and there's a table, a couple of

chairs around it. There's a big whiteboard that has some notes for some I don't even read it, some movies something or whatever. So I'm sitting there, I got like half a light on, and I'm going over my notes, doing some final preparation for the show. About half an hour before the show before the record time, Loony comes rolling it. Now, the great thing about Looney is. You don't have to be worried about being surprised by Loony

because it's like a stampede of Buffalo Danny. You can hear Looney approaching from a mile away because he's just randomly saying hello and talking to random people in the building. So I knew Looney was on the way. So he comes in there and I say hello. We do the usual niceties and all that, and I always make sure to take note of his outfit because he wears some crazy crap. And he had the shirt on and he pointed out that this is a shirt with mikecrophones, and

I was like, well, who cares? You know, I'm a big deal, and Looney was trying to explain, well, we work with microphones. This is kind of cool. And you know who does care, though, Danny. That would be the production team in Boston. And as Paul Harvey used to say on radio, you know what the news is. But now you're about to hear the rest of the story. So why would the production team in Boston be upset by Tom Looney wearing just a random shirt with microphones

on a TV show. Well, it turns out that those microphones were bright green microphones, bright green microphones. You want to take a guess, Danny, what happens when one wears the color green the television show in a studio?

trying to figure out. Originally the people in Boston are like, what's going on. They thought it was a problem with the graphics and and then we were correfully surmised. No, no, no, this was Looney going full green day and he had

to do the walk of shame. Now, Fortunately for Looney, he knew he's klutz and he did bring an extra shirt, so he did bring an extra so so it wasn't a total disaster, but it was hilarious because we're getting ready to start recording the show and they're like, we can't do it, you know, we're done, and and so Looney had to go in the back room and change it was It was pretty funny.

Celtics are probably in BC. Yeah, right, Celtics are playing tonight, so we're on late We're bumped to the late TV window tonight in Boston, Benny Versus the Penny eleven thirty. There's no good late night TV, so we'll be on eleven thirty and then an encore showing at midnight in Boston. There's a I think a Flyers game in Philadelphia. I believe on NBC Sports Phillies will be on eleven o'clock there I have a late night showing in Chicago tonight.

Bay Area. We're on first showings at two o'clock this afternoon Pacific time, so we're on early and there's three. There's two other showings after that. There's one after the

Warriors game, so check your listenings on that. We're also on a couple of times on NBC Sports California, which is the home of the Sacramento Kings, and then tomorrow Danny on Saturday, I guess the Lakers aren't playing because Benny versus the Penny will be on Spectrum Sports Net SoCal not once, not twice, not three times, but four showings for showing. That's I think that's a record.

I don't know it's gonna happen with that because we don't know who's gonna win. I have my picks. But the games on Saturday, the Texans and Ravens and the Packers and forty nine Ers, and the mother time the show airs, those two games will be long over. So either all look like a genius or a total jackass on the TV show. So now that was the Green Day story with Looney Tunes man Na Machado Pop Two Bodies Tonight. Now turning the page on that, I wanted

to share a bit of a story. So this past weekend I wanted to follow up on a story Danny that I told on the on the radio on the radio the other night. This goes way back to early in the week. So this past weekend was party Hardy's Hunt. My friend, my colleiue, Rob Parker, our buddy Rob. We

love Rob. And he celebrated his sixtieth trip around the globe here around the planet, Spin Spin, Spin Around, and so he threw a very elaborate birthday party at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in the heart of Lost Wages, Nevada and Rob invited us. So we love Rob, we love Vegas. So we were like, yeah, we're going, and so we spent the weekend. Me and the wife spent the weekend in Sin City and we had had a lot of fun. It was a great trip. I'll tell

more about it. Throughout the weekend. We drove, always drive. I've only flown to Vegas once in all these years I've been around going to Vegas. I've been going to Vegas for a long time and only once have I flown. And the only reason I flew was because somebody paid for it. I didn't pay for it. You know, a man of the people. I know all the great restaurants in Victorville. Barstow, Baker and Prim have it all mapped out, Danny, I know where to go in Victorville. There's all a

lot of good restaurants in Victoryville. But that's the first that's like the twenty five percent mark on the way to Vegas from.

the state line from California. But then you're like, it's only another hour to Vegas. Why don't I just go to Vegas? And so like Barstow is the perfect spot on that perfect spot in my opinion. But you see all the sand and the cactus and all that that your heart desires. And had a phone. We ate a lot of good food. I'll tell you more about that probably later in the weekend. Probably later I'll get to that. But watch the games and had a good and the party was was a lot of fun, a lot of fun.

Rob's Danny. Rob's much different than me. I can't imagine ever throwing a party like that. For myself. I just can't.

was like the FSR table. There were a few of the people that are on the odd Couple were sitting there as well. And then they had the event. They had a buffet meal, they had open bar kind of you had two drinks each, but it's open bar for two drinks. They had the roast of Rob and poking fund at Rob for his legendary love of a certain ballet in Atlanta, and his love of cheapness, you know

when he travels golden girls. All that. Now, Stephen A. Smith, our former morning guy at Fox Sports Radio, was supposed to speak, and I must say it again if you don't know the famous Rob Parker story. If you hate

Stephen A. Smith, you can thank Rob Parker. You can thank him or be upset with him for Steve and A still having a career in television because years ago, when Stephen A was a young sports writer, he was going to quit sports writing to work at a bank in I think it was North Carolina, the famous story, and Rob Parker talked him out of leaving sports media talked him out of him. He was gonna be he was gonna be a banker, and and Rob convinced him not to do it. And Steven A has made a

gazillion dollars since then. But anyway, his flight was delayed.

coming towards us like ships passing the night. We see this huge entourage and it's like Floyd Mayweather heading into the ring at the MGM, or Oscar de la Joya or Mike Tyson or something like that. Oh okay, And and then I was like, wait a minute, this is like uh Kevin and old Kevin Costner classic, a Kevin Costner special. Remember that movie, that old movie with Whitney

Houston The Bodyguard. Yeah, it was like, there's like a bodyguard times too, because hand to God, Danny steven A walking he had a lady friend with him and there was like one other person who was a little older, but then surrounded by these two goon bodyguards. He'll eat the table protecting steven A from the great Unwashed, which was amusing because he was walking in an empty corridor of the MGM, which was off limits to anyone else.

You weren't allowed to be in that area where we were. Uh, but yeah, he had two bodyguards with him as.

Actually Eddie brought this up. I had forgotten about it back in the Pete Carroll days of USC football when sc were rock stars in La in that era. Back in those days, stephen A showed up to a USC game Colsseum with Pete Carroll, Matt Lioner at Reggie Bush that group, and at the coliseum he went to the bathroom. We offer to go the bathroom, but he had a security guard guard the bathroom so nobody else could go in. While stephen A was was draining the snake there, no

one else could go in. So that was a long time. That's probably man Pete Carroll sc we're probably going back fifteen twenty years, not twenty years, but fifteen to twenty years, a long time ago. And so he's up the bodyguard game. And how would you think that costs? Because stephen A travels a lot. He lives on the East Coast, but he's got a place in La He's traveling all over

the place. So not only do you have to pay for the bodyguard, you got to pay for their travel, you got to pay for their food, all that, right, So it's yeah, twenty four hours a day. I know he's making a lot of money and he could afford it, but I'm still curious how much that costs. I would love to know how much he spends on privatey.

I don't enter his domain. He's in the update studio. But the other night he came wandering out of his safe space, walked down the hall, around the corner, turned the corner again, and attempted to enter the studio I was in because he wanted to tell me something about the schedule. And that is when the thing of a jig stop work, or we thought it stopped working.

We put a sign on the door, the whole thing, and so Jonas comes strolling in out do we get done? And again the way the works, we could open the door from the studio out, but you couldn't open the door going in. It wouldn't open. It was locked, you know.

Then I have them go in the studio. I try to open the door. I can't get the damn thing open, like the thing of a jig's not working, you know. Oh crap.

like press in and pull down. It's like you're pressed in, like what we did that? So by analysis, yeah, it was, it was. Don't you think Danny and I don't want to speak for management. They're very important people and I don't want to speak for them. But don't you think you could fix the door? So it doesn't ever work that way where it just stops opening for a stretch of time and you have to have some kind of secret cod It's like opening a bank vault to get

in the studio. Don't you think there's better ways to accomplish that. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just you know what, do I know? Maybe that's they want to have a locksmith. Does anyone know a locksmith? And have them them come in? We have the phrase of the week. Are you ready for the phrase of the week? The phrase of the week our phrase of the week this week, it is something we got from the radio show. I mentioned this. I was like, hey, I don't know where that came from.

And then people are emailing me, well, why don't you make that the word of the week or whatever the phrase of the week. I said, Okay, what you want, we will give you. So the term we're using this week, the phrase of the week is we hours, the wee hours of the morning. Have you heard that one Danny before the wee hours of the morning. Oh, of course,

of course everyone's heard that. So the term wee hours, according to a minutes long mallor investigation, obviously, it means the early hours of the morning and it is the time period after midnight. The term we of course in English, it means very small or tiny, and these are the hours between twelve am and the time when the sun rises, which is prime real estate. When you do an overnight talk Trump and it's the beginning of the new day,

it's called the wee hours. Now, the expression wee hours, according to my research, is a Scottish expression racist and it refers to the small number that are used to refer to them, the one, two, three o'clock as in small hours one, two, and three. Wee hours is supposedly not that old. The term when you think about the history of time, it goes back to eighteen ninety one, which is a long time ago, but you think about

how long people have been around and all that. So eighteen ninety one and then there was one reference to it. They think it might have originallyd but not gone into the lexicon in seventeen eighty seven, but it really became mainstream in eighteen ninety one. I say mainstream. There was no Internet in eighteen ninety one, so it still was

word of mouth and newspapers and things like that. But we hours is the phrase of the week, those early morning hours between midnight and the time the sun rises. It is a Scottish expression, is what it is. We'll get out on that, Dany I mentioned the TV show tonight. I'm off from radio. I did the Overnight show last night. But you, my man, Danny, right, you got a lot going on later today, right?