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Pad-Crashing L.A. Kings' Dustin Penner

Pad-Crashing L.A. Kings' Dustin Penner

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Did we come at a bad time?? L.A. Kings forward Dustin Penner is only slightly caught off-guard when we arrive to crash his pad, but being the tough hockey player he is, he quickly shakes it off and shows us around his gorgeous Newport Beach digs! Along the way, we make some discoveries, like his love of laundry, a shelf full of books, and his furry, obedient roommate! Also, see if he'll let us try on one of his Stanley Cup rings and if we can keep his attention long enough to answer some questions on the beach! Hosted by Lesley Robins (@lesleymia).

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Young Hollywood

Hey guys, Leslie Robbins here. Young Hollywood is back in Newport Beach, Cali. I'm spending the day with two-time Stanley Cup champion, forward for the LA Kings, Dustin Penner. First off, I'm crashing his pad.

Dustin Penner

These guys are idiots. Can I join?

Young Hollywood

Hey. Oh, thank you. Dustin. You guys don't knock?

Dustin Penner

Um Dustin Penner is watching The Real Housewives of No, I was just changing. It's DirectTV.

Young Hollywood

this is awkward. Action. They're defense. They do actually have real problems. Do they eat Golden Grahams and romio and fruit? What?

Dustin Penner

Saturday. I thought I'd just relax. I like to also mix in some raw meal. It's got a lot of nutrients and uh photosynthesynthesis, I can't even say it properly 'cause of my tooth. I'll try it now. Photosynthesis See, like it's a tough word for me.

Young Hollywood

What are you selling?

Dustin Penner

I'm selling an interview.

Young Hollywood

Okay. I already bought. I already bought the magazines last week. Well, I'm here to crash your pad if that's okay. All right. Introduce me, who's this handsome guy?

Dustin Penner

If you liked you he talked to you, so.

Young Hollywood

Oh. Is he flirting?

Dustin Penner

No, he's not flirting. You'll you'll know when he's flirting.

Young Hollywood

What made you get a dog?

Dustin Penner

Um, I've had dogs before. A bunch of cats with my family. My family's had the shih tzu and he's about 16 years old. But I've lived down here for six years and I got to know some of the cops around here. And uh, they told me to get a I should get a police dog because it actually listens. I got tired of cleaning up uh poopin' pee inside my own house.

Young Hollywood

Well, if he listens, let me see some tricks. What do you got?

Dustin Penner

You want to see tricks? Here. Ryback. So basically he just listens to what I say. Right back, botts. Ryback, seats. Ryback, botts. Seats. Get blouse. Get blouse. Oh, brow. There we go. There's a couple commands that that aren't aren't supposed to be set around him.

Young Hollywood

Now he's flirting. It's getting a little x-rated over here. This is the hangout spot, huh?

Dustin Penner

During the summer and during the lockout, there was definitely some people here.

Young Hollywood

So is it quieter now that you play all the time?

Dustin Penner

Yeah, it is. I had had to rent a place in Manhattan Beach. It seemed a little less busy down here. A little more open and there's a lot more golf courses.

Young Hollywood

You love golf.

Dustin Penner

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

And you're pretty good at it, too.

Dustin Penner

I fluctuate. Like a like the stock market. Uh, sometimes I crash pretty hard.

Young Hollywood

What happens if you got traded to a team up North?

Dustin Penner

It's tough. I know. Oilers. Yeah, I didn't do much golfing. Minus 40 degrees Celsius. You'd get cold enough where the the garage actually code panel your garage code, right? No. You know what I'm talking about?

Young Hollywood

Say it again?

Dustin Penner

When you punch in your garage code, right? So you can enter into the garage.

Young Hollywood

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the keypad. But you're saying garage. Say it again.

Dustin Penner

Garage. No, you didn't say it. Garage. Yeah, I don't know. No, garage. You're saying I need some iced tea. This is getting a little taxing. Okay, anyways, it got so cold that it would freeze solid. So I got home at 4:30 in the morning from a road trip and I couldn't get into my house because the keypad had frozen solid. So I had to breathe on it for half an hour with my own breath to warm it up so I could get in my own house.

Young Hollywood

So this is a gorgeous kitchen. Do you entertain a lot?

Dustin Penner

It is. It's big. Seating for four or five.

Young Hollywood

You cooking in here?

Dustin Penner

I feel like you're reaching. It's it's nice, I guess. I don't I don't do a lot of cooking. I eat really fast if you ask my friends. So I can't really justify the time it takes to make a meal. If I spend an hour, two hours making something delicious, takes me five minutes to eat it and then I spend another 45 minutes cleaning. It seems like a waste of time when I can go to a restaurant. Get the same thing. You know the nice thing about being in the NHL is they have breakfast for us when they get to the rink and they have lunch when we leave. So that takes care of two of my major decisions that day.

Young Hollywood

I think you have to be one of the funniest guys I've met. It's genius. It's genius. Where does it come from?

Dustin Penner

It's a collective mix from my mom, my dad and their parents. Yeah, there's different types of humor. I think you form and shape your own sense of humor as you get older. But a lot of it's veiled in sarcasm. And self-deprecation.

Young Hollywood

Well, we're going to go upstairs. I hope there's nothing embarrassing.

Dustin Penner

Oh, whatever you say. It's your house. It is. My friend's staying here right now. As you can see, he's a well-kept individual. This is actually I enjoy doing laundry, so I spent some time in there.

Young Hollywood

You love doing laundry too?

Dustin Penner

Yeah, I don't let my mom touch it when she comes here. I said, don't touch my laundry. And she actually gets upset. Like she's bleached enough things that don't require bleach.

Young Hollywood

What's the best thing about doing laundry?

Dustin Penner

That no one else can screw it up.

Young Hollywood

This is another guest bedroom. Clean. And I guess what you do when you play in the NHL, you just put up pictures of yourself.

Dustin Penner

Just kind of a way to keep your memories fresh because playing in the sport I play, concussions come with the territory and you tend to forget things.

Young Hollywood

Wow. You remember winning both cups?

Dustin Penner

Barely. Tell people I have books. They probably don't believe I read.

Young Hollywood

No, he. Yeah. He's very smart.

Dustin Penner

Well, you didn't have to say that. If you sounds like you're over-exaggerating. Or compensating.

Young Hollywood

No. One of the only guys in the NHL that graduated college.

Dustin Penner

I didn't graduate college.

Young Hollywood

You didn't graduate?

Dustin Penner

No. I'm two classes shy. I'm going to I'm going to donate enough money hopefully so that they give me an honorary degree.

Young Hollywood

I see another segment in the works. Penner goes back to school.

Dustin Penner

Hopefully not. Done and done.

Young Hollywood

So he has books. I have to ask where are the Stanley Cups? And I see them. Yeah. The team gives you one of those every time you win. Cups. Stanley Cup rings. Can I try a ring on?

Dustin Penner

Yeah, you can well, obviously that I only won one ring.

Young Hollywood

Wow. Don't get any ideas that I'm giving you a ring. What finger do you wear it on?

Dustin Penner

I don't wear it, but it's If you had to. I think yeah, I'm just going to put it on this one.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. So this is the master suite. If I was a magician, this is where the magic would happen. And uh See the master bathroom. Okay. Clean.

Dustin Penner

Yeah, it's I don't spend a lot of time here. I can't tell you the last time I came to the bath.

Young Hollywood

That's a great bathtub. You need to be taking baths in there. All right, where are we going to next? Because this room is very sacred. And we're spending a lot of time in here. Let's go. Look, I don't want to violate the house rules. Was that the only rule? I didn't hear any others.

Dustin Penner

This is a place I don't go often. The reason being are those stairs.

Young Hollywood

Well, this is a stunning view.

Dustin Penner

Yeah, it's nice.

Young Hollywood

Okay, tighten what kind of toy have you purchased that A, you love and B, you regret?

Dustin Penner

Probably my uh turntables. I bought them in Edmonton because like I said, there wasn't much of a life outside the house or the rink. Spent a bunch of money to make my basement into a DJ room, to make it sound like a club and have my own turntables. And then I got traded. It didn't have a lot of room for that in this place. So it's sitting in storage.

Young Hollywood

We need to find a little nook for you to set up that.

Dustin Penner

See that's the problem. You can't find a little nook to put this stuff in.

Young Hollywood

You have two guest rooms. Make one of them partly into a You'll get there. Okay, we're in the garage. Big space that has a beautiful car.

Dustin Penner

I don't spend a lot of time in here. Ryback does in his kennel. And this is a car I bought four or five years ago. I got some bird [bleep] on the side of the window. That was nice. I saw that there the other day.

Young Hollywood

It's good luck.

Dustin Penner

That's what people say to put a positive on spin on something that sucks.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, but it's good luck. To spread positivity. You just smashed your face off a wall, it's good luck.

Dustin Penner

One of those cars that you really got to squish in to get four people. I can't find anything else I want because I can fit both my hockey clubs and or hockey uh equipment and golf clubs in it.

Young Hollywood

You almost got your sportsman stuff there. You almost got your words mixed up there.

Dustin Penner

I know. It's been a long day for some reason. I feel like this has been going on forever. All right, Leslie, you've seen the house now. Now we're going to go to the beach and you know, you're probably used to this because you work in Hollywood, but we're going to go pick up some Ryback. I'm kidding. But yeah, take off your uh your heels there. Whatever they are.

Young Hollywood

For sure, the guy's really important or famous. He is. And has made himself quite a career out of making those. Yeah. And you just got like a half a foot shorter. See now I'm short.

Dustin Penner

Well, no, you've always been short. You just it was an illusion before. So you can't really complain coming home to this gorgeous beach.

Young Hollywood

No, I can't.

Dustin Penner

This is what me and Ryback do. This is a Saturday afternoon day in the life.

Young Hollywood

Well, I have a funny little thing. I called it Ponder This with Penner. Sorry. I misquoted you. I think I think this might be fun. Go ahead. I'm paying attention.

Young Hollywood

I'm an active listener. Would you ever quit hockey to become a full-time actor or comedian?

Dustin Penner

Well, who's career would I have? Let's pick someone's career. Maybe Will Ferrell. He just seems like he enjoys it. I'm sure a lot of the outtakes. Look at you. I bet that's even funnier than than the stuff we get to see on TV.

Young Hollywood

Well, during the lockout, you had a lot of time in your hands and you did an internship at Conan.

Dustin Penner

Yeah, I think we're good.

Young Hollywood

So was that an actual internship or was

Dustin Penner

Here.

Young Hollywood

So was that an actual in

Dustin Penner

Here.

Young Hollywood

So was that an actual internship?

Dustin Penner

Here. I got to teach him. I got to stay on. Yeah, it wasn't an

Young Hollywood

You're going to make this interview much longer.

Dustin Penner

It wasn't an actual. Okay, wait. internship. Everything is scripted, but thanks.

Young Hollywood

Would you take your shirt off in the middle of an interview? No. Sorry. That was just that was a joke. And then would you

Dustin Penner

Shirt. You came out of the gate hot with two good ones and then you just fizzled. Like just stale. The shirt thing you were supposed to make a joke and that was supposed to be funny. All right, well, thanks for coming to my humble abode. It was uh it was a lot of fun. Look at that. Yep. There's a person laying on your couch right now. Yeah, he's uh he does that he he shows up like bad weather. Never know when he's going to come, but and then it stays for an inordinate amount of time. Well,

Young Hollywood

No, it's uh time to go. Really? Yeah. Aren't you having a barbecue or something?

Dustin Penner

It's uh my Saturday's ending. We got a game tomorrow. Time to relax. We I play hockey. No. Yeah. I don't know if you knew that in Young Young Hollywood. I thought we were here for a galaxy play. Yeah, I probably. Okay, cut.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Lesley Robins

    Host of the Young Hollywood interview

  • Dustin Penner

    Two-time Stanley Cup champion and L.A. Kings forward

  • Ryback

    Dustin Penner's obedient dog

  • Will Ferrell

    Actor whose career Penner might emulate

  • Conan

    Talk show host Penner interned for

FAQ

Where does Dustin Penner live?+
Dustin Penner lives in Newport Beach, California.
What kind of dog does Dustin Penner have?+
Dustin Penner has a dog named Ryback, which he describes as a police dog because it listens well.
What is Dustin Penner's hobby?+
Dustin Penner enjoys doing laundry and golf.
Did Dustin Penner graduate college?+
No, Dustin Penner did not graduate college; he is two classes shy of a degree.
What kind of internship did Dustin Penner do during the lockout?+
During the lockout, Dustin Penner did an internship at Conan.

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