Chapter 1: What prank did Craig Carton play on Pete Hoffman?
Did you happen to see yesterday how poor Pete Hoffman got fooled by Craig? Uh-oh. What happened? So that's mean of Craig doing that. I don't know if it's mean as much as he's trying to keep him on his toes and he's testing him because he needs him to be a good producer. I think that's what this is. He wanted to test him. So they're talking about the Hammett bone. Okay.
And Craig has his buddy who lives in Abu Dhabi call up and say he was Todd Hunley. So former Mets catcher Todd Hunley, who was telling Pete that I had this hammock bone surgery and I could talk to the guys about it. So then Pete takes the call, and he's like, hey, you know, what's going on? And then he tells Craig, I think it's Todd Hundley. You friends with Todd Hundley?
Todd Hundley's on the line. And then he's like, well, I got to make sure it's Todd Hundley. So then Big Hurls comes in, and Big Hurls goes, well, ask him what his dad's name is. And then, like, immediately, Randy Hundley, who I guess had played baseball as well, right? Randy Hundley had also played baseball. So he goes, Randy answers right away. He goes, all right, put him right through.
Puts him right through, and he's like, this guy. It's like, he's like, hey, it's not on there. Wanted to talk to you guys. And then Craig just starts laughing. He's like, we got you, man. We got you.
Chapter 2: How did Pete Hoffman react to the Todd Hundley prank?
And Big Hurls wasn't in on it. I don't know if C-Mac was in on it. So they have, like, on WFN Digital, they got the three boxes. Yes. And you got C-Mac dying laughing on the left box. You got Craig dying laughing in the right box. And then you got poor Big Tongue Hoffman in the middle just collapsed into his hands.
They got you. Hey, I don't remember. Were we ever testing you when we started?
I don't think in that way.
Yeah, I don't think so either. I think Craig just had an outright respect for you. But then again, he was younger, and he did respect you, unlike some of the people he works with now.
Yeah, it seems like it.
Yeah. There is nothing better. And I don't know if Pete's gullible all the time. I mean, he was definitely got by this particular thing. But there is nothing better than working with someone who's gullible in radio. Like working with Joe those years. Oh, it was Joe. Yeah, I mean, you did it left and right. But then I also did it with Brian Jones. Brian Jones was easy to get to.
I had him convinced that Bob Huggins, we did this interview with Bob Huggins after the show where Huggins was just ripping Brian Jones. He believed every bit of it, that Huggins had his whole NFL career. He's like, well, you only have one sack. Who are you to be talking to me about this? You're unsuccessful, you know, whatever. And then Brian's yelling back at him.
He's like, you fat MF-er, who do you think you are? And there was this whole thing back and forth. It was great. And he was not happy. Benningo couldn't care less when he was got, but Brian Joji had to worry if he was going to hit you with a bat or something afterwards.
Well, you came up with the whole flump statistic.
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Chapter 3: What makes working with gullible people enjoyable in radio?
Did not tell him. Did not tell the co-host.
I just held on to that. You should have told D.L. You should have told him. Just to let him play along.
No, no, no. It was better this way because it was more for my entertainment.
Chapter 4: What pranks did Gio pull on Brian Jones?
or anybody else's and to see the guy go, what the hell are you talking about?
So it was organic, basically. He gave you the organic response that you were hoping for.
Yeah. And then the other one was Dave Coulier. We used to have this deal with the improv. And the improv, whoever had a comedian would come in. We'd have him in in the morning and whatever. So Dave Coulier, Full House comes in. And I put in there that Dave Coulier's favorite, because he used to wear this Gordie Howe jersey on Full House. He was a big hockey guy.
So I put in there in the Wikipedia, I changed it around, that I put in that Mario Lemieux was his favorite player. So I know he's going to bite on that, right? Bites to go right. I mean, it was fishing. That was a fisherman. Bites on that, reels him in. He's like, ah, you know, so you grew up, love Mario. He's like, no, Gordie Howe. Gordie Howe's my guy.
I mean, respect Mario, but I never really, no, I mean, I'm a Red Wings fan. It's Gordie Howe. I wore the jersey. It's Gordie Howe. Let's go to Johnny in Bayonne.
What's going on, Johnny? Hey, what's going on, man? I just wanted to know if you heard the story yesterday that Evan told about you. You guys were on a road trip, and you had to park the car for him?
I don't remember. I did not hear the story, nor do I remember that. We did take one road trip down to Philadelphia and then Baltimore. We saw the Mets and the Phillies and the Yankees and the Orioles back when I was producing that show, but I don't remember having to park the car for him.
I thought he said California, because he was claiming... That's on a road trip.
We did go out to L.A., but we flew out there. That's when you said road trip made me think. We went out to L.A. twice, 2008 and 2009. So, yeah, we were out in L.A. together as well. So I had to park the car for him?
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Chapter 5: How did Gio convince Joe Benigno of outrageous stories?
Was this a parallel parking deal?
Yeah, I mean, it had to be a parallel parking deal. Yeah, I mean, of course. I mean, we knew the outcome of that, Johnny. I mean, can Evan see over the back seat to look out the window if he had to? You know, there's men and there's children.
That's right. It was just one of those, get out of there. Come on. Let me take over. You know, and that's the producer. You know what it is? That's the South Shore in us.
We have no patience, and we want to take over. There's a lot of things that I can't do. I'm not handy. I can't fix things. But in a situation like that, with the amount of driving that I've done in my life, I think... And you're going to get annoyed, and you're going to get frustrated with a kid that can't do it.
I think one of the things that right now, my greatest skill, might be driving at this juncture. Because of all the driving that I've done in the area that I've done it, I feel like I'm... Like, enter me into the Indianapolis 500, and I feel like I could finish T10. Throw me in there. Let's go.
Yeah, but there was a lot of great stories from that particular trip, including how I thought that Joe was going to be taken down by airport security when a German shepherd was sniffing him. I thought we were in big trouble. But luckily we weren't. The weed he had brought to L.A. he did not bring back to New York. Okay. So that German shepherd sniffed out nothing. It was just a random.
Smelled the remnants. Smelled the remnants.
Oh, that image of Benico standing there with his arms up in the air and a German shepherd snout in his crotch. I'd never been so scared in my life up until that point. Too bad you didn't take a picture of that.
No, it's your fault. It's your fault he's in jail. You let him go. You let him go through LAX with marijuana. You know he's an idiot. You know that. I can't fix his stupid. That's why you're there. That's why we send you. You're the producer. You're the babysitter.
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