The Fifth Hour: "Scooters & Scratches" Mail Bag

four hours a night not enough. Bonus coverage eight days a week, and if my math is correct Annie, for me, this would be the eighth day of the week, Sunday, but two shows on Friday. I think it's not trigonometry. I think the math on that works out well. But anyway, we've got the mailbag and I am raring to go. Are you prepared to go into the mailbag? Danny G?

I am ready. And it's gonna be an extended Mallard week for me because I'm gonna be in for coup on Monday night and Tuesday night on your live show, The Microphone Throttler. We're going old school, and I might even make a rare and appropriate, mandated by the company appearance in studio one of those nights, I will I will likely stop by and we will hang out, and that'll be wonderful, wonderful one full circle. I'll bring Bubbo in with me, Bobo on the radio, my man, Bobbo.

I don't talk to Bobbo. Is he in on Sunday Nights? Idea? He used to say hello to me, Miller. We should get Bobbo on the Fifth Hour podcast. So we get him on here for sure? Absolutely, all right, here we go, strike up the band, let's start this thing off right here we go. Do you ever get the feeling you're living in groundhog Day that your life just repeats By the time we get to the podcast, I've got tons

of mail, so I I panic. I prematurely think, oh crap, no one's sending questions and we're not going to do the mail bag. And then inevitably it always seems to work out one way or another. Yeah, it's like a lot of shots get thrown up in the third and fourth quarter. Yeah, yeah, you fall behind early, like this is just sucks. You know what's going on here? Nothing's really working out for us, and then before you know it,

you're having a great time, so it works out. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail, Yeah, yes you do. First one comes from Pierre from Springfield, Mass And again you can post your question on Tuesday on the Facebook page Ben Mallow Show or Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Pierre from Springfield, Mass to choose at home with the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame and also alf the aen O. Piner says, with the popularity and success of your newest game show, are there any other any

others bouncing around that melon of yours? Also, like you say, football is the gas that fuels the show? Is anyone efforting the next season of Benny Versus the Penny on some type of live stream platform sans the elitist? So we have nothing concrete on Benny Versus the Penny. We have big dreams of monetizing Benny Versus the Penny, making that a big deal. I think it's a great concept. We've been doing it for a long time and there's

a there's a market for that. But somebody asked to bite, and we've been in talks with a number of people, and those kind of deals do get done now, Pierre. Even though football season is not until September, this is the time of the year where those kind of things get negotiated. So what would Marcel say, keep your fingers crossed. I think you would. I would think you would say something like that. And as far as game show ideas, I always have game show ideas. The problem is most

of them suck. We finally found one that's good. We've been playing Danny the Mallard Militia Feud is our newest game, and people seem to really like it. It's it's it's a fun game. People enjoy it. It's not really a sports game, but it's just about life and things that everyone. We're all we all live a similar life one way or another. So yeah, And as far as Benny Versus the Penny, it's kind of like when NBA teams finally put that logo on their jersey sponsored I cannot wait

for Benny Versus the Penny brought to you by co Tex. Yes. Yes, well, if this is the checks big enough, as we learned with Dustin Johnson this week going to play golf for Saudi Arabia, that if the check's big enough, it'll happen. All right, You've got mail Nick in Wisconsin rights and he says, with recently being off the last month of work, I've been podcasting the entire a show sometimes, Nick writes, and he says, it overlaps with my family time. My

wife gets piste oh at me for listing. What do you do unintentionally that pisces off your wife or in Danny G's cases, Queen Tenderoni. Yeah, so for me it's easy. I'm very stressed out all the time, thinking I'm forgetting something and worried about making the show as good as I can. So I often I'm not proud of it. I'm a finger biter. I bite my nails and uh my, my wife gets so untoid when I do that. She

can't stand it. And I do it. I don't even realize I'm doing it half the time, but that really bothers And and she has miss a phony, who so that's a problem. Chewing food becomes a problem when you have miss a phony. It's a mental illness. And so those are the things that really annoy when I eat, and which I think you have to do to live. And then when I bite my finger nails because I'm stressed out because I'm trying to think of some other

monologue ideas and I don't have any. What about you, Danny? What really annoys the good number one in arone in your life? Absolutely nothing? Man, I'm perfect in her eyes? Is that right? Really? You don't ever? You don't do that at all. I don't do that in front of it. Um. I will say, she's slightly O. C. D Ish, so she likes things in their perfect places, and so if you move something and you don't put it back right away,

it annoys her. There's times where I and I know this, so I'm really good at putting things back, but there's times where I won't put something back immediately, and when I come back to do it, she's already done it. Okay, So that that's about it. Though I don't think I get on our nerves other than some of the O. C d issues she's done. Are you still in the honeymoon? Do you't even married yet? Are the state we've been in the honeymoon? Stay all right? You live with somebody,

It's just natural. There's gonna be certain things that they do that just kind of get under your skin. But that's the key. To, you know, long healthy relationship you got. Sometimes I slap her ass too hard and she's like, well, it's a barbro. That's what we came here. So it's gotta get your money's worth with that hotel. Come on,

all right, let's see Michael from SoCal Rights. He said during the NFL off season, wire sportswriter is compelled to do mock drafts and mock fifty three man rosters and mock rookies and who may become standouts when all these mocks are wrong of the time, I'd rather they post cat photos. Mos are a complete waste of time. I'm

right there with you, Michael. You're preaching to choir. And the reason they do that stuff is a they are told to do that stuff by people who make decisions in the editorial department and then be for some reason, they get a lot of clicks. Otherwise they wouldn't do it, So somebody must be loving that content. I always get a kick out of the power rankings that come out

during the NFL season, and that's during the season. It's just I think one dude's opinion on where the teams are in the NFL, and people get so upset if their team is not high enough in the power rankings. Like I've always kind of goofed on you know, Danny have goofed on list radio, but the list, And I had had a friend tell me years ago, said, the list is amazing. People human nature get upset by a list of arbitrary list of things. If it's not in

the right order. They oh, my god, craziness, Dan, especially if they feel like something has been left off of the list. How could you overlook that? Oh? Yeah, well that's the secret, right if you if you need the answer to something, give the wrong answer and then people will give you the right. That's the old internet legend. And yeah, and I will push back slightly on the

mock draft lists. And the reason why is because my favorite NFL team would be so high up in the draft most seasons that it was all I had to look forward to. Really, I would click and be like, who are we going to draft to bring us back to greatness? And now the Raiders are following in your rams foot steps. F them picks. F them picks. Absolute. See when you f them picks, you get the daily double. That's the sound for the day. You get the daily double.

On that and the thing about the draft too, is the only thing I really value is the scouting reports. But I even laugh at that. They do strength and weaknesses, and I get sent a lot of these things links to different websites that are supposedly they want me to promote their website and all that, and some of that's

good information. And I do this bit every year where I go back five years and I look at an old NFL draft three or five years and mock all the wrong predictions, which inevitably it's shooting fish in a barrel is what that is. Let's see what is next toime. I got mail? Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, skipped a zip the old Roastmaster General known as Skippy in Ohio, It says been I ever received several invites from the proud parents of a graduating high school senior to their

child's graduation party. The most recent was a massive group text. The problem is I don't know the parents, I don't know the child, and it would appear I don't even

know anyone else in the group text. If it were you, what would you do, he says, A ignore the invites, be respond to the group text with I don't know who you are but congratulations see send a card with an inspirational quote or d send a car everybody long, obnoxious but heartfelt Valeve Korean speech type letter thing, he says, quoting Walt Disney Tesla Ronald Reagan telling the child, we are all so proud of them, and it has been such a joy to watch them grow up, etcetera, etcetera,

and let them figure it out on their own later. Well, that's a very detailed response, skipped the zip. So I'm an a guy. I love I love d The d answer was great, But I'm an a guy. That sounds like some spam to me. Well that sounds like that's a that's a fishing expedition to me. But what about you, Danny? And I was gonna say, how are you in a group chat with people you don't know? Now? Is Skip a teacher? Is it possible that he's followed in your footsteps? Danny?

And he's doing education, so maybe that's why he's taking this a little more seriously than somebody like me who's not a teacher. And somebody sent me a text like that, I'm like, if you I'm not responding, go away. We need skipped a zip. We need more context or skippy, you've got mail Orlando in Hampton Roads, Virginia. I was just in Hampton Roads, Virginia, a beautiful part of the country. That was it was cool, says I have a couple.

Hopefully it hasn't been asked already. When you look back at the time you and your wife dated, was there any pickup lines or anything you did to impress her that you you'd like to have back? He says. Also, have you and the guys considered password or mountain of money when you and Eddie are the contestants, maybe have blind Scott to mar seller, somebody be your partner. I love the show that's from Orlando. He says. He's been listening since the Tim Tebow Radio roast when the great

bits we've ever done hilarious? The Tim Tebow Radio Roast Man was that fun and that was actually skipped a zip was part of that, the roastmaster General some of those shows back in the day. But Orlando, and to answer for this question, I was terrible. I still am terrible with relationship dating. You know women, obviously somehow you

can miss my wife to marry me. But I had no pickup couch and I never told anyone I really worked in radio, because then they think I had more money than I did, and then didn't think I'm more famous than I am, and so I always kind of avoided that. So I didn't really have any any good pickup ones. I wish I did. I wish I had some corny ones I could share with you. I don't. And the idea of password and Mallard's mount of money being played with blind Scott and Marcel feedings clues is

the fuel of nightmares. Uh. And we've had Marcel and our friend from Maine, Blair whoopee pie Blair play and it's been interesting. But if they're the ones giving the clues, oh my god. Been one of the great show game show moments. And I included this in the best of was when Flexus was on password and you're like, oh, Flexus is never gonna get this, throw me a good one. Then yeah, so this is perfect number number nine that

proves its prouves you jackass. Okay, this proves and all of this is just Tom is just alright, relax, I'm trying to I'm trying to if I get it, alright, alright, all right, here we go I'll go, he's not gonna get what I wanna the angle i'd like to go. I will go. I'll just throw this up fruit banana. You got it right? Oh, stop laughing, alright, banana. And indeed it was banana the show. I mean there was

five minutes of laughter that ensued. It was great. And to hear Flexus like truly laughing to where Flexus couldn't get the words out, it was like, but I got it right, But that was right, A little classic moment, man, it was I I do remember that night. We've had some zany stuff on those those game shows. All right, who is next? We'll keep it going. A lot of mail this week, which is good. We like that, all right. Next up is Fred from Spring, Texas. Fred is a

regular in the mail bag. He says, hey, guys, when you have people over to visit, do you just talk or do you play games or charades? It's an interesting question. So usually it's around food. I've noticed the same way when I grew up. Usually it's like, let's have a meal, or let's have dessert, or let's have snacks or something like that. It's very rarely just come over and not eat anything. I don't remember the last time we've had company over that didn't involve food. So it's always food,

no charades. I like the idea of playing games, but that doesn't happen very often. What about you did my TINDERNI puts together a really nice charcovery board. Oh the cheeseboard, right, cheese and meats. We have the meats. Where are the meats? Some good hummus, some salami, some cheeses, things like that, And that gets the party started before you start hitting the alcohol. So that's like the pregame show. That's the warm up act. I got you all right, Well, thank

you for that. Comes out on stage and start stancing. Absolutely, you've got mail Chris and Marracca to Iowa, says, I understand radio stations make money by selling ads, but I'd like to know how much does it cost to place an ad? I know prime time costs more, but what kind of range are we talking about here? A hundred dollars a minute? And don't give me that that's not my job. Line. Surely you've talked to an ad guy. Your name is Ben not surely? Yes? Yes, so so

I will answer this now. I do not actually know how much. I know a ballpark figure of how much the commercials go for. But I had some people over the years that have contacted me from mom and pop businesses trying to get advertising on this pod guest or the radio show, and I said, sure, why not. And then when they saw and they found out how much it cost, it was sticker shock. I couldn't afford us out of the budget we're talking. I think the minimum buying is six figures. That's a lot of doll It's

a lot of Yeah, it's up there. There are smaller packages than that. Because I dealt with this recently, um I I was kind of like to go between for a company and our ad department. Um. But yeah, they tailor a package for you, and it is pricey because it's national, so you're not just heard in one city, You're heard all over the world, and thus the price tag. Yeah, and there's different as you said, there's different, Grady, you do live live reads costs more. Sometimes you have to

pay a talent fee. Apparently not for me, but sometimes you have to do that kind of stuff. And and so there's really depends what you want. But it's trust me, Chris, I I wish it was affordable for everybody to buy advertising, but you know, we are a national outfit. And it's like I was watching that documentary about the TV station in Perempt, Nevada, and it's like a cable channel and the guy started selling spots. It was on HBO documentary

type thing. They were selling spots for like five dollars a spot just to get advertisers in. And it was like, man, that's wild, and it is like a couple of years ago. It's like a couple of years ago. Anyway, what if we did that weed man hippie would have a series of commercials, God don't don't remind me please? And he says,

ps go raiders who from Chris It's time? From that call all right treas rights And he says, if you had to lose one or the other, would you lose one hand or one fot you get a call or a peg leg through a place. It's actually an interesting question. And as much as I love movement and walking, I would think it would be a bigger pain in the

ass without the hand. But we we have a mutual friend that used to work at Fox Sports Radio, the one Arm bandit and uh and from Syracuse who had He's his entire life, he has not had the hand. He was born without it, and he's now an extra in Hollywood. I saw he left. I did not realize he had left the company. Actually emailed him. His name is Nick. I emailed him and said, what's going on in your Hollywood? And yeah, he he left to do acting, which I don't know how good that's going. That's that's

for him to tell and all that stuff. But I guess he did think it might have been more lucrative than he turned out to turn out to be. He recently Freeze framed a show that he was in the back ground of. Yeah, catch me up the mark. Well, you can get extra work, but the problem is it a doesn't pay a lot and and be it takes a long time to do, like one scene. It's a it's a lot of hours that you're spending sitting around doing nothing. That's the one thing a lot of people

don't realize about that sort of work. Downtime. The downtime kills most people's vibe. They are like, I had no idea I was gonna sit on this set hungry and thirsty for ten hours. Oh for sure, for sure, But to answer your question, tres A, I like this question is a unique question. I would pick if I had to lose one I could choose. I would lose a foot. I would have a peg leg like a pirate, and I'd get Yeah. And I just did a two dollar drum roll for you. I couldn't do that with one hand.

My right hand was getting a workout. See that's right. What would you so you would you would choose the hands, right you, You'd pick the hands and then lose the foot. Is that what you would do? I would lose one foot, yeah, because then you'd have a reason to have motorized scooters at the theme parks it's right, yeah. And at the handicap parking right, yeah, handy in at the school campus, they'd give me a golf cart. Be great. Yeah. There

are some positives and not all negative. It's not all negative. There are some positive. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail, yeah, email from Jim and Jim's wife about Jim's wife saying Jim and Jim's wife says, Ben and Daniji, So thank you so thanks for helping me have a little fun at my husband Jim's expense. Jim's wife writes he has

a problem with the term final four? Has anyone if I don't wanted to talk about the clips in the NBA, Well, I want Jim and Jim's wife to know that my man, Eddie Garcia this week in hockey referenced the final four. So it's not just me, it's Eddie, and Eddie likes to goog fund me, and so what do you say to the final four? He did the same thing. How

about shut up? Email? Continues says He and I, meaning the wife, listen to every Fox Sports Radio and fifth hour podcast of your God, love you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. He's a huge fan of yours, Danny and all the Mallard militia. But he's not computer savvy and not even email. His life must be so much easier, right, Jim, You don't have to deal with

the bull bull crap. I almost said way less stressed. God, I wonder if I'd never plugged into America Online and Netscape Navigator back in the day, how my life would have changed. But here I am anyway, it says. She says he her husband used to call the local sports radio show while taking a bubble bath in the evening after work, so they called him bubble boy. That could be taking for her bad. Uh. If if he can ever wake up early enough to become a regular caller

to the show, would you give him a nickname? Yes, yes, I will. I love giving out nicknames. I believe overnight radio we need as many nicknames as we can possibly give out. The last nickname we gave out was to Paul from Rhode Island, Plastered Paul, who earned that nickname and Jim says he'd be honored Living in Kansas. He's a Case State fan and still calls Bill Snyder the Pope man that Manhattan, Kansas. Yeah, he can be like warm Take Jim in a warm bath. Uh. He was

wondering the email rights Jim. This is from Jim's wife. Jim was wondering if you could did George Brett whenever you mentioned the Mendoza line, never heard of him. Thank you for your humorous and engaging personality there. You have a lot of fun listening. Well. I will try to remember next time I bring up the Mendoza line, I will give a credit to George Brett. And I noticed Jim and Jim's wife there's no reference to anyone currently

on the Kansas City Royals. And I understand why because the Kansas City Royals are That's how they are this season, So why not I go on every week in Kansas City, Danny, they never want to talk Royals baseball, So I wonder why. I wonder why that's not a topic, royals having their problems on the road. I'm Ben Mallick. Alright, come back,

it's time from may call. Male continues Angelina. Mister Angelina writes in she says, responding to some of the things from last week's mail bag, she says she does intimate it fasting along with me, Helen and Stu, and she says she agrees it does work. I'm right there with yeah, absolutely. I even know that the studies said it didn't work. My my thought on that is that study was done by diet companies that are like, no, no, the key to dieting is not just intermitutefest. You know, you gotta

take our magic potion or whatever that might be. M h. She says, not that you're taking a poll, but I agree with Danny g regarding animal crackers that they are cookies. I also love wheat thins and could eat an entire box and once, yes, I don't know what that secret ingredient is in wheat thins, and that is the perfect mix of salt oil, oh, salt oil crack, Yes, pretty much.

Angeline also says it would be great if you fly into Minneapolis St. Paul and drive to Appleton sometime when you do at the Mallamilsa know when and where you'll do a meat and great. And she also added Angelina that she wants to do the Apple podcast thing for the fifth hour, but she's having a difficult time finding it. But it's in the description box on the podcast, Angelina, So on your phone, assuming you're listening on your phone, you can. You can do it if you're on your computer,

same same concept of plot. Click on the link and then page down and you'll see where you can write a review. And I still have that recipe you sent me, Angelina, I have yet to make it. I have to make that at some point this summer. She sent me a really cool monster cookie recipe that I've got to add.

I my made Macadamien nut cookies recently. Last week, I made my my wife's gluten free so I made some gluten free peanut buttercup cookies, which were very disappointing because I guess I had I screwed something up because they came out flat. I get really piste off when the cookies come out flat. It's an epic fail. That's what it is. An epic fail on that pancakes. Pretty much, little peanut buttercup pancakes is what I made. You've got

mail Cliff from Nashville rights and mail back continues. He said, Ben, does your wife make you go shopping with her? Mine has to touch and feel everything. When she finds what she wants, she doesn't buy it because it might be cheaper someone else somewhere else. I don't know what makes them tick. Well. Funny enough, Cliff, you're not gonna like this, and we'll ask Danny about him and his Tinderoni. But with me, I'm kind of like your wife more than

my My wife's probably like you, Cliff. She she didn't care about the price. She'll buy it doesn't matter and we'll figure it out financially. I'm like, Okay, do we a do we really need this? Be Let's look on Amazon, let's look around. Sometimes my wife will do that, but oftentimes she's like let's just get it. We'll buy whatever we need. That's it. And so I'm I'm more like your your wife in this instance. What about you, Denny? When you guys are out shopping, are you the one

that's like, do we really need that? Or Yeah? I'm the one who's like that because I'm usually thinking ahead, trying to save for something that I really want to spend our money on. UM. She's been really good recently because we are saving up for a trip to Hawaii in November, and we've given that advice on this podcast before. If you want to save money, put a goal out there for a trip, a nice trip that you're gonna save up for, so then you think twice and three

times about all your money decisions. Now, there are different levels to go into Hawaii. The most expensive part of it's gonna be the lodging and the obviously the airfare. You could save on lodging. Are you hotel people? You know Airbnb? What's the plan you can? You can even I was watching some YouTube videos and they have like these they're kind of camping things, but they're not it's

not like outside, they're like it's weird. They're like those shacks you can stay in there are supposedly like two hundred bucks a night or a hundred bucks a night or something like that. I've mentioned before that she's a hotel stob, which I don't mind because I feel like, if you're gonna vacation, if you're gonna honeymoon, if you're gonna do anything like that, you should be in a better place than where you live. That's the whole point

of saving up your money and to travel. So we are going to do an airbnb for half the time a little nice condo there in Maui, and then the other half of the time we're gonna do a few nights at a fancy resort. Yeah, I guess I got some money here. Gonna mix it up in the island hop a little bit. But it's a lot of saving up, a lot of saving up. Yeah, Yeah, that's cool. Which islands? Are you planning? Like? You're gonna Maui? Where else you canna go? Uh? You're gonna go to Kauaii? Are you

gonna go to Oahu? Where are you heading? TB D. Kauaii is in the conversation, Oh well, let me know, I can and tell you exactly. The beach I got married on it's I know, from Poipoo where you go, and they should put a memorial there that my my bachelorhood ended right on that beach, right there on the shores of of of that that little deserted beach in Kauai, and I wonder if they still have. There was trash that was on not a lot. There was a little

trash that had come ashore from like Asia. I don't know what's which country in Asia, but it had Asian writing on it and it floating on on the on the grass or on the sand. Rather all right, what is next year? Let's see any meaning. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail, yeah, from Fulton rights in he says, continuing on from last week. I looked into the podcast data. Take that for data, put that in your pipe, and confirmed that downloads go up when callers get blown up

for cursing. If you want to start getting Joe Rogan like numbers, just give me the green light and I'll start letting the expletives fly whenever I call in. Mike said, blank, my blank and blank you also now that, benns me, we'll be driving to the studio again. I already did. I'm going to let you in on a secret to save big on gas with nothing more than the length of two uh two of a plastic tubing and a hated neighbor. He says, I'll explain more in a separate email.

I look forward to that. All too good to be true? He he, I'm sure there's nothing nothing that could go wrong with that, Trevor and Tulsa writes in on the next mail bag. See, he says, I high bed just curious how many miles from the Mallard mansion to the FSR studios Love the show day Shift Worker podcast listener Trevor in Tulsa. So this week it was roughly round trip hundred and ten miles an hour. So I'm sure

there are people that have worse commutes than that. And the good thing is I'm on it late night, so I don't have too much traffic. But wait, and ten miles or ten miles per hour, a little bit of both, you know. No, I don't I go seventy nine. I am the guy that goes seventy nine because I got told years ago by a highway patrol officer in California here that he does not write tickets. We're seventy nine and below. He says, eighty and above. That's the ticket.

So I haven't gotten a ticket knock on woods since then. So I keep doing that, and eventually when I get a ticket going seventy nine, I will then start driving ninety miles an hour, but for now, seventy nine until further notice. So that's that's that, Trevor, thanks for listening. I appreciate the day shift, the dreaded day shift, and the podcast. That is the odd thing. We always bring this up Danny doing the overnight show. We have so

many people listen on the podcast. One of the reasons we're doing this podcast is because the podcast numbers have been so good from the radio show. And every once in a while I'll sit there, like in the middle of the show, do you think more people are gonna hear this on delay on demand than are listening right now? You never know, You never know who's out. So that's hard to do though, because you're on so many hundreds of affiliates. Yeah, no, it's true, and it is always

odd to me. I had this experience this week where like the last part of the show, I think there's a bigger audience because it's early morning drive and people are getting their start going to work and yes, that's right. Okay. Next up is Falls fan Jimmy from Big Orange Country SYS. For both of you, could you can play any position on all three major sports? What would it be? And for who? No favorite teams allowed. I think we've gotten this version of this one before. Valls fan Jimmy. Quality

of life. If you're a pitcher, you pitch once every five days. I know you have to work out and do that stuff, but once that every five days, quarterback once every seven days, although you can get your ass kicked. Yeah, what would you go with Danny? You know, when I was a little kid, it was at the very end of his career, but I loved watching Joe Morgan play second base smooth. Yes, And the very first baseball glove I got was a hand me down from my uncle

and it had Joe Morgan's signature in the glove. So yeah, So I guess I would go with second base because of the old Red's great um. Yeah. For football, I mean I love playing running back as a kid, juke and and give in and making people miss, breaking ankles, the spin move. You could be like a human video game, which is why we loved watching Barry Sanders carry the rock. Oh sure, yeah, he was the joystick on the field,

moving all over the place. Jason from Rocky Mount, Virginia. Right, so come back, it's sign from now I'll call and says so, Ben, since you've been notified that you will be making tracks from the north Woods to the studio, have they told you what days you have to make the journey? And will it be even further when the studio moves later this year? That is an interesting question. I believe it will be about the same. It might

even be a little closer from where I'm living right now. Yes, for you, it'll be closer, Okay, So for me it'll be a little closer. For you, it'll be a little further, Jason. I I don't have a set schedule. I think it's pretty fluid week the week, and so that's good, that's a bonus. It's a blessing and a curse. So it's good that I have the ability to kind of make my own schedule as far as when I come in.

But it's bad because sometimes if I don't do it the first couple of days a week, then I gotta go back to back and belly to belly and all that. But we'll see how this goes. I saw Jason and Harmon. I hadn't seen them and both of them together in a long time, a couple of years. But thank you Jason, appreciate that. I wonder how far away I was from Rocky Mount, Virginia when I was in the Hampton Roads area.

Neil and Jasper, Indiana. Right, since it says can you reveal what happened when you got a six month and twenty six day layoff from Fox Sports Radio? If you can't reveal, will you tell us in a book someday? Well, can't close the deal, Neil. I will absolutely tell tell all books about that entire episode. And I've told versions of this story over the years, but uh, it was it was an interesting time. In fact that on the Mallard Town podcast I got into this a little bit.

I told a version of the story of the Mallardtown podcast. So when that drops, maybe it's out right now you'll hear some of what happened, which led to my brief what do you call sabbatical on the beach and radio? We call it on the beach, hanging out on the beach here. One part of that story I do remember is what they replaced you with was like, quote unquote best of moments. Yeah. Yeah, it was called the Soup, The Fox Sports Radio Soup was what it was called,

and it was a rip off. Is that show still on a Comedy Central? There was a I don't think that's on anymore. It could be wrong, but um a recap basically of everything that happened on the network that that day, right, Yeah, And I was told by somebody that worked at the company after I was gone that it took so much time in production to put all that together and it was a nightmare. So I don't know if that's true or not. Maybe they're just trying

to make me feel better, but they were. There were a lot of people complaining because it was that sounds about right, because first you got a pinpoint highlights from each show. Then you'd have to edit those and put them all together and then host them. So that seems like it would be much harder than actually having the guy on that people want to listen to live Go after Yourself, San Diego. Well, I'm biased, but I agree with you, so I'm biased. Terry and England rights in

real quick. He says, if you and Danny g need a tutorial on cricket sometime, I'll be able to do that. It's the only other sport that I commit to, says Terry and England. And I think we'll end on that note. Uh So we have a bunch of other email too with Paul and cub fan Mike, Paul from Montana cup fan,

Mike from Fort Wayne, everyone else here. We will have to get you next time so to send a question in and hopefully we'll have time to get to your email questions next year and next week, not next year, next week. I was like, man, you're taking a break. Yeah, I'm taking a little Yeah, I have a question for you mail question for Ben Mallard. Okay, it's exciting. Yes, this came up in the G Household recently. Chloe, who we talked about last week, are eleven year old fart consultant. Yes,

she helped the Tinderoni pick out the perfect watermelon. Chloe did something she claims that she saw on YouTube. She was knocking on each watermelon to listen to how it sounded, and she was looking for a lot of white stripes on the watermelon. I ask you, because you know it was very red when we cut it open, but it didn't have any flavor, so it was a fail. How do you pick the perfect watermelon? Well, as you know, I'm a watermelon expert. For years, I worked in the

watermelon industry, the industrial complex of watermelons. Uh. Now, I have heard my buddy tells me that the key is that she's clothes right. You want to get the watermelon with a lot of scratch marks on it, because that's I think they said. The bees, I think it is that are trying to get into the watermelon, or some kind of bugs trying to get into the watermelon, because that means it's the sweetest. And that's a dead giveaway that that's like a really good bottomelon. That's what I've heard.

If it looks like a bug has been trying to invade the watermelon, yes, because that tells you something really good in there because the bug wants to get it, so you should you have an opportunity to get what's in there. And I always when I was picking watermelons before, I always just get the brightest green one. I said, I don't want one, so I scratched up. But those are supposedly the ones that are the greatest watermelon. But it's it's hit and miss, right, hit and miss. I'm

gonna get a lot of emails about this. Uh well yeah, sure. It's like the price of gas, right, there's at bottom. I ready to bring the gas. Yeah. Anyway, you'll be in studio right. You said that at the beginning, you'll hit a couple of nights this week, which is great.

So I'm gonna first of all, it's Sunday, so I'm gonna go in for the very fun Coveno and Rich show, which is the after noon into the evening, and then the lead into your show, which is Arnie Spaniard and Chris Plank ends at eleven pm local time here on the West Coast, the start of the Ben Mallor Show, and then your second show of the week. I'll be in Monday night, and I'll also be in for your

Tuesday night into Wednesday morning show, the Microphone Throttler. Awesome, it's gonna be great to have you back on the weekday show, Danny. Look forward to that, and have a great rest of the day today and we'll do it all over again. Cannot wait, can't wait. Cannot wait be deja vu all over again. I'll catch you then Asta pasta population