WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Domination Situation" Mail Bag 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.480 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:30.680 with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.360 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me Ben 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.479 Maller and Danny G Radio and a happy Sunday to 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.239 you early on on this Sunday as we celebrate what 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:47.199 is it today? It's August tenth and Danny G is 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.680 with me on the mailbag, and that means Danny G 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.800 that the big holiday today is a day that we 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:57.320 can all embrace. It is National Lazy Day today, a 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.720 day to celebrate laziness. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.360 Do we need a day for that? Is that something 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:02.880 that we need? 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.000 Some people don't need a day for that, They need 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.200 a week, an entire seven day week for that. You 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:11.800 and I have no lazy days. 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:13.160 We avoid lazy days. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.240 But couch potatoes, Big day for your couch potato, your 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:21.360 lazy bomb. If you're a slacker. You can celebrate today. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:26.200 It's one of those dopey holidays that's only been around 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.840 for a few years. And of course you'd argue that 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.800 lazy days have been around for more than a few years. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.679 You don't want to end up like doctor Emmitt Brown, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.319 a slacker, was it. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.760 The argument is in the Bible, right It says after 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.640 creating everything in six days, even God needed a day 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:50.960 to rest, Right, Dan, even the creator of the universe 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.200 needed a day, a lazy day. 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.200 Wow, celebrate appropriately. 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.520 We have a lot of questions in the mailbag, so 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.000 let's not waste any time. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:01.160 What do you say, Danny G. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:09.960 That means my man a multi time celebrity in the Malorpalooza. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:26.440 The Great Ohio Al. It's all right, very nice. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:31.640 So these are actual questions by actual listeners, Real fifth 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.919 Hour at gmail dot com. If you want to send 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:39.920 a correspondence in name and city, name and city before 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:47.200 your correspondence, very very important. First up is d d 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:52.040 from Vegas, writes in says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.080 know you both enjoy going to Las Vegas. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:55.799 You talk about it on the podcast. 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.920 There's a story out that the tipping here in Vegas 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:06.320 has dropped a lot recently, people complaining about the service 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.079 they get here in Las Vegas. Have you guys noticed 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:17.360 the quality going down? That's from d I did see 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:22.120 something about this, Danny, that because of all the I think, 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.799 if I read it right, and as I understand it, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.040 it's a lot of it has to do more with 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.519 all the fees, all the extra add on the nickel 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.280 and dime taxes that the Vegas people have been putting 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.440 on those that visit. So I think that's more to 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:39.880 do it. Maybe I read it wrong, but I think 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.960 that's that's the case more than anything else. I haven't 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.520 noticed when I've gone out in Vegas. It seems pretty 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:48.480 much the same. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:50.160 To me. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.080 Have you noticed anything, Danny. 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.440 Not anything that I could put my finger on as 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.400 far as being in Vegas, But the service industry overall 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.680 has been slacking, and it's because of a lot of 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.400 this generation just don't want to do those jobs. 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:11.040 Yeah, it's like it's still the after effect. We're what 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.560 are we five years out or four years out from 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.240 the COVID stuff, And like a lot of the hours 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.679 of restaurants and stores, you can't find places open late. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:24.920 And then also, as you said, because people don't want 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:29.000 to do those jobs, or they just they can't consistently 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:30.240 keep people employed. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:31.760 That's also a problem. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:37.520 Anyway, Next up, Marco, back to back in Vegas. We're 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.200 blown up in lost wages nobody and we will have 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:45.360 a Mallard meet and greet coming up on August twenty third, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.000 so a couple of weeks away, malor meet and greet 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.159 in Vegas. Want some more details on that on the 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:56.400 Overnight show early this week, tonight or tomorrow. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.080 We should have some more information on that. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.560 But Marco from Vegas right sin It says Ben and 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.640 Danny G. Do you believe that there is now? This 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.919 is I got several emails. I condensed it to just 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.600 Marco's email, Danny, because this is a very popular topic 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:15.080 that fans of the podcast and listeners want us to discuss. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:15.599 Sins. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.800 Ben and Danny G, do you believe there is a 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:23.600 dildo conspiracy involving the WNBA. That is from Marco and 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.920 several other people who I did not write your names down. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:33.080 I apologize, but they were generally about the WNBA story. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.440 So I guess there is a conspiracy Danny that, according 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:41.440 to some investigative journalism you talk about great investigative journalism. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:43.880 This is you're gonna win an. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:49.400 Award Edward Our Murow Journalism Award investigating the sex toys 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:50.400 being tossed. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.560 On the court at WNBA games. I guess there's a. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:06:00.120 Cryptocurrency group that's taking credit for this. It's like planning 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:05.160 bomb somewhere. They've they've planted the flying falluses at w 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:06.279 NBA games. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:08.880 So way to go. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.719 I mean, listen, this is the the I believe, Danny, 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.440 the WNBA should lean into this. I think they should 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.280 fully get involved in this and just go with it. 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.159 But it's some mean coin or something. 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.840 I guess they investigated and found that it's they've been 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:30.880 encouraging people to throw the green giant oversized fallus. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.080 There on the court. So any any more. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.440 To add to that, Danny, any any other inside I 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:36.160 might have missed? 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:40.159 I No, I don't think so. I did see a 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.480 clip our very owned Dan Byer and Monsey, who were 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.160 filling in for Cavino and Rich last week, Okay, and 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.960 it said Fox Sports radio hosts calling for it to stop. 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.440 The WNBA needs to really find out who's behind this 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.880 and get it to stop. The first comment underneath said 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.800 Fox Sports Radio is turning into ESPN. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.479 Well I didn't see that. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.520 So I laughed when I saw that, because I said, 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.640 this person is just reacting to this one clip. Clearly 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.040 they're not listening to the Ben Mallor show. Yeah, the 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.480 Ovino and Rich, the Odd Couple. There's plenty of shows 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.960 on our network that sound nothing like ESPN. 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:23.320 Oh. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.560 If I was the w n B A, I would 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.400 like have a mascot. I'd have a giant Fallis macot. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.720 I would know. I would put the w NBA logo 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.800 on the I mean, I would go all in. I 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:38.080 would be like, this is great. 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.800 Yeah, you'd have dill Weed the dildo as your mascot. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.480 I'd have instead. You know how they have those cannons 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.760 that shoot the t shirts out. How about a cannon 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.680 fill those out, shoot those into the crowd. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.000 Why not some of the players could have their own 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:54.040 dildo's molded. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.520 Well, there you go, there you go, Dandy h it's 0:07:58.520 --> 0:07:59.560 Brittany Grinder night. 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.600 Oh my helloo. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.040 Anyway, thank you, Marco and all the other I'm glad 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.760 you boys are so fascinated with the great dildo toss 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:14.160 scandal of twenty twenty five. Will that be remembered longer 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.440 than remember the torpedo bat Danny the first week of 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:22.320 the baseball season, where there were people convinced, I know 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.360 that every home run record in Major League Baseball was 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.920 going to be broken because the Yankees had one weekend 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.800 where they teed off on the Brewers with their torp 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.520 go back, and it was all here we go, all 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:36.760 the records are going to be broken. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.640 Were there were headlines even we had one here locally, 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:46.280 Max Munsey to debut his torpedo bat tonight, Like we 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.040 knew exactly which players were going to try them out. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.880 We have no freaking idea if there's even one of 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.040 those bats left right now. Yeah. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:54.400 Yeah. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.839 It lasted for a week and it was a great story. 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:59.599 I got a couple of monologues out of it. I 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.840 got it in and then that was that and we 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.360 moved on and it's like nothing happened, and you just 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:10.680 that's it all right. Next up is Eenie Meenie Mineymo 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:17.080 Jay from Parts Unknown. He says, hey man, congratulations on 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:23.320 the extension with Fox Sports Radio. Were you surprised, Jay says, 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.400 were you surprised by anyone that reached out either to 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.480 congratulate you? Or didn't bother to contact you. That's from 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:35.120 Jay in the parts unknown. No, I mean most of 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:41.199 the people I'm friendly with, who I have a good 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.600 standing with, who I've worked with over the years, they 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:44.160 reached out and. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:45.680 It was cool. I mean, you don't have to do that. 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:46.320 It doesn't matter. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.400 I usually want to hear people more when I don't 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.240 get a gig than when I get a gig. So 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.000 but no unusual suspect. There were a few people I 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.679 do work with closely that did not reach out, which 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.080 is not surprising because they're not really fans of mine. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.800 So that's fine. But other than that, you know, it's 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:05.800 you know, let's do my thing. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:06.080 Jay. 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:06.480 That's it. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:12.199 But thank you, Al from the hot Tub time Machine says, 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:17.760 first and foremost, he says, mega dittos, congratulations or mega 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.840 dildos if we're talking WNBA on the contract your future 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:26.240 leads me to my question and are past do you 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.800 have access or could you point me in the direction 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:34.120 of information pertaining to affiliates in regards to when they 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:35.480 picked up your show. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.079 What I'm trying to determine, Ol says, is when. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:43.679 Wei's Springfield affiliate first started to air your show. Because 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:47.760 that's how far we go back. I believe prior to FSR, 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:53.120 they were simulcasting Sporting News Radio with Peter Burn, who 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.160 I've had on this podcast. He says, yes, that's a 0:10:56.360 --> 0:11:00.360 question because I'm not sure. I do remember you on 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.480 weekend overnights and then the Third Shift with Ben Malor. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:08.800 I also recall people like Tim Ryan, Bruce Jacobs, Jorge Sadano, 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:16.200 but my memory is fleeting, says Alf. So originally we 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:20.280 had Dan Cilio very early on was the overnight guy. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.400 Cilio did the overnights who period of time, Yeah, played 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:29.520 in Miami back a million years ago, and Cilio good dude, 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:33.240 meadhead guy. We had him on and then we went 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:38.000 from him. I think that might have been a couple 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.240 of people. Tim Ryan did it. Bruce Jacobs did not 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.240 do overnights. He did do a show with he hit 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.120 a female I forget who was like his co host, 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.640 and then they did that show together for a while. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.560 So Dono did it briefly. JT. The Brick did it 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:56.520 for a long time. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:58.959 I remember the j T Brick here. 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:00.719 Yeah, did it. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:05.880 For several years, and then I have done it since well, 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.120 I had it at No. Nine. Then I got I 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.800 got it eight, it got whacked, and then I had 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.880 it backed in twenty fourteen and I've had it since 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:21.440 since then. At Sporting News Radio, Peter Brown did not 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:22.520 do overnights. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.199 I think it was Alf. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.760 Bob Kemp, I believe, not the baseball player, like a 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:35.720 kind of surly, angry talk show host guy at Sporting 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:40.560 News Radio. And our guy, the Sporting Peter Brown was 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.880 on the weekends. He did a weekday show. Papa Joe Chevalier, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.960 the late Papa Joe Savalie worked over there. And our 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.560 guy Arnie Spanier, the stinking genius back in the day, 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:52.760 back in the nineties. 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.040 That was his early nineties Sporting News Radio. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.680 So which, by the way, well, I don't know who 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.920 did it, but the art looks good. But for some reason, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.600 the who did the character like the cartoon character of you? 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.600 Oh that was sent by a listeners it was something wrong. 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:11.600 Did it look weird? 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.760 It looks like Arnie's Spaniard a little bit. Really. Oh no, 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.400 I think it's in the chin. It doesn't look like 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.080 your chin. It looks like Arnie's. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.240 Oh yeah, you know, now that you bring that up, 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.320 I'm looking at I just put it on my phone here, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.760 it's on the Instagram and the Facebook page. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.440 Then I saw the picture it was based off of, 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.680 and I was like, oh, okay, I can see it now. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.640 But at first glance it looked like Arnie to me. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.080 Oh yeah, now that you bring it up, I'm just 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.760 staring at the chin. Now, I keep staring at the 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.040 cartoon chin right there, like what's up with that? 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.840 Yeah? Oh boy, I know, and we know you have 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.679 more game than Arnie together, of course with a famous 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.000 whirlpool story. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.160 But it's a hot tub in Indianapolis, and we would 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.640 have been fine if Arnie hadn't started talking. He started talking, 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.440 and then that was it. He chased all the way. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.240 Yeah, all the women fled for their lives. 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.160 They ran for the hills, and there are no hills 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.400 in Indiana, So I can you imagine where they were running. 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.920 They were running to another state? Is where they were running. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.400 As far Alfa answer your question, I have no idea. 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.720 I know when the network started. When I first got hired, 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.680 we were on in Binghamton, New York, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:28.640 a couple of other small markets. We went on Wei, 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.720 we went off Wei, then we went back on. It 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.520 is odd though, because WEI is in Boston, but then 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.520 they have all these other affiliates around New England and 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:44.120 like the show is not on the overnight show is 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.280 on the Sports sub which is their arrival, the WE rival, 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.240 but on the affiliates on the network. All the other 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:54.480 stations in like Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.200 in Springfield they carry Fox Sports Radio. 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.840 So it's an odd I don't know how that works. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.240 I am such a radio loser. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.480 Being a longtime radio guy, and be honest, because back 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.600 then it must have seemed like it was a big 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:16.000 time uphill battle. Yeah, because ESPN Radio was the big dog. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.120 You just starting out with the network and the network 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.280 just starting out, it must have seemed like you were 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.640 never going to get up to the level of ESPN Radio. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.920 And then somewhere along the way the tables turned and 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.080 now they're like the small fry in our network just 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:32.800 completely took a coch Yeah. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:33.640 It's wild, Danny. 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.840 It is crazy to think about when Fox Sports Radio started, 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:41.560 you had at the time, sports fan radio was still around, 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:47.720 you had Sporting News, you had ESPN. Then CBS got 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:51.560 into the game. They had for a while CBS Sports 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.680 Radio that they did coming out of New York, so 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.320 you had all these other competitors and all that, and 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:00.840 I don't know, I don't even know when it happened, 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.760 but at some point, yeah, Fox Sports Radio just took over. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.520 And then it seems like ESPN's kind of given up 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.520 on radio, Like I don't know it's going. I mean, 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.480 maybe they'll get back into it, but it seems like 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.240 they're just not. They're bringing like our our leftover guys, 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:19.320 Like isn't I think Richard rich Eisen used to work. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:19.800 At our place. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.840 So but yeah, it's no, it's it's awesome they've the 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:28.240 network is in terms of audience. I think you'd agreed, Danny, like, 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.280 we've never had a bigger reach and power for Fox 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:32.000 Sports Radio. 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.840 And I think you can clearly point to the Mallard militia. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.640 The domination situation was all started by the Mallard militia. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:43.200 Obviously it trickle down from the overnight to the daytime hours. 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:48.040 Ryan in Shrewsbury, mass Right Since says, first off, he says, 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.560 hey boys, Benny, congrats on the new contract to stay 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.680 on the overnights. I never call the show, but I 0:16:55.960 --> 0:17:01.360 work in DPW in a small town here in mass 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.639 So I listen, I said, Department of Water and Powered Inn. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.679 I listen from five thirty to six, when Toucher and 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.560 Hardy come on ninety eight to five the sportsop One 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.520 of the big stories in my neck of the woods 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:18.560 is that a five foot water monitor lizard was on 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:23.359 the loose. Lizard's name is Goose. Danny, your first episode 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.680 of Animal Thunderdome should be about these freak things. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.320 You sent me a link here. What should we try 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.720 to open this year? I click on this and then. 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.160 H There's been some good animal stories out there lately, man, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.840 I've been saving all of them. Although when we get 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.120 to talk about it on the podcast is a different story. 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.600 But did you see the one where at Denmark Zoo 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:53.760 is asking people for their donations of any unwonted small 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:58.000 dog or horse to feed their predators that they have captive. 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.040 I did not see that. That seems rather. 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.280 Shocking that they would they would be There you go. 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.640 I sent you to link, Danny, Goose is no longer 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:10.399 on the loose. 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:11.080 There you go. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:15.640 Those those are like those look like creatures you might 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.560 have seen back if you had been around when the 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.840 dinosaurs were oam The planet right, you might. 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.520 Have seen something like that. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:23.160 Is there ugly? 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.800 Yeah, it's not not the most attractive thing. But are 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:28.959 they They're not deadly? 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:29.400 Are they? 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:29.760 They're not? 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.639 Like I think so though the person's holding it looks 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:37.720 like it's it's okay. I like that, seri, He says, well, 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.960 experts are still working to determine whether Goose is. 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.000 A boy or a girl. 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.680 They believe the four foot lizard is between ages five 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.560 and eight. Isn't there an easy way to find out 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.160 if it's a boy or a girl? Danny, I think 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.320 there's a you know, kind of obvious. 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:55.560 You stick your hand down there and find out. 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.720 Ryan from Shrewsbury, Mass Thank you, Ryan, and you worked 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.400 the dreaded day shift there at the dp w RT. 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.119 Next up, Reggie from Detroit says Ben, you mentioned a 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:13.360 hometown discount in your tweet. What kind of hometown discount 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.080 did you give Fox Sports Radio? Reggie, I'm going to 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.159 choose to abstain from answering that question. 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:19.280 Let's listen. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.840 They got a very good deal. The companies. They're really 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.440 doing really good. On my end, I'm giving back to 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.760 the company, so I hope they give Cowhard more money 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.640 because I'm I'm certainly not getting rich doing this. Did 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.560 they really need a discount? I don't know, Reggie, You'll 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.760 have to talk to them. There you go, he's Dan. 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:42.720 He's peppering me with questions. This a hole, Reggie. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.840 Yeah, Ben, I was getting peppered with questions. Last Wednesday, 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.639 after Covino and Rich was over, Rich Davis comes into 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.840 my production studio and he was like, Hey, congratulations to 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.560 your boy, mallor so. How many years was it for? 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.359 It had all these questions as if I was sitting 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.119 in and then to go shading meetings with you. 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:02.120 Yeah. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.159 Yeah, there was not a lot of a lot of 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:06.719 back and forth. I mean there was a little bit 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:08.080 of conversation. 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.560 But it Yeah, it was not I felt like a 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.520 proud dad, but I had nothing to do with any 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:13.720 of it. 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:18.879 Yeah, No, I just like I waited the deal. We 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:20.520 went back and forth a little bit. 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:24.399 And then got the thing done and I happened. It 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:29.120 just happened to coincide with a scheduled Danny scheduled well 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:33.720 in advance brief gap as I took a couple of days. 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:35.800 I had some family in town. I'll talk more about 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:40.040 that at another time. Some people I mentioned on Friday. 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.600 I recorded the podcast late because I had people my nieces. 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:45.720 You know, I'm being Uncle Benny. My nieces were like 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.320 right next door, and I couldn't. As much as I 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:50.800 wanted to get up at the crack of dawn and 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.399 record the podcast, I felt like that would have been 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.199 a complete asshole move, so I chose not to do 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:58.720 that and waited until later. 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:00.640 It was a good cover story. I think we all 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.000 know you went on a five day bender after signing 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:04.120 the contract. 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:08.199 Well, clearly celebrating why not at an open bar for everyone. 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:10.399 Ferg Dog and Fullerton Wrights and says, hey, Ben and 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:14.680 Danny g He says, congrats, Ben, Alf and I had 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:18.520 to stay up all night negotiating it, so you better 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:23.800 be grateful absolutely for Dog. Absolutely you and Alf and 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:26.879 my lawyer Bill from Korea Town wonderful. 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:27.640 He says. 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.399 We weren't able to get them to lower the vending 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:34.360 machines back to the original crisis. Though We're sorry, all right, 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:35.000 he says. 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:36.199 Is it just me? 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:41.120 Or is bumper music obsession getting out of control? People 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.520 are waiting on hold for an hour just to recommend 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:48.440 a song. Ferg Dog says, do these people not have 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.919 an FM dial or something. Is this a problem on 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.840 Covino and Rich as well. I hope Danny G doesn't 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:58.960 get bombarded by people trying to use him as their 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:04.080 personal jukebox. That's from Ferg Dog Danny's There a lot 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:08.320 of bumper music conversation with Covino and Rich. We have 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:13.840 people who have been very consistently calling up and emailing 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:16.600