The Fifth Hour: "Smoking & Stealing" Mail Bag

with Ben Maller and Danny Gee. And it is the Sunday Bonus edition of The Fifth Hour, And that means we get down and dirty. How about Ketty. The safety net is off, Danny. We're gonna be bobbing and weaving in the mailbox like Creed three. I saw that last weekend at a theater. How was that? Did you have popcorn when you went to the movies? Did you get snacks? Yeah? We do popcorn and a slushy? Now did you mix

any chocolate with the popcorn? No? But last weekend we did get a little thing of red vines to go with the popcorn. Okay, yeah, Because I gotta tell you the chocolate the sugar and the salt. You combine those together, and it's chef's kiss, is what the Oh I know my mom she used to make the popcorn at home because she was a cheapo, and then she would take ziplock bags and she'd put peanut Eminem's mixed with the popcorn, seal it up, throw it at you and be like, here,

go to the movies. You fil the animal. That's a good mom move. That's a solid because she your mom realized that that is the magic. I've said this many times. Olive cooking is just combining fat, salt, sugar, all those things, like the proper mix. It's all you're doing in the kitchen. But it's it's awesome. Oh man, it's so great that that bliss point. Everyone's trying to find that bliss point in eating. And if you do that, you got me excited for a Sunday morning breakfast. As soon as we

get done with ask Ben two point zero. No no, no, no, no, This is not asked Ben. This is the mail bag we spill the beans, Danny. This is a much different segment of radio. This sounds nothing like ask Ben. People do. There's no confusion. If this were to go to the Supreme Court. They would say, these are two totally different entities. Good, don't don't look at me like that. I don't need you to look at me like that. Okay, I'm telling you.

I can't emphasize that enough. I'm experienced, Dear Danny, I've done this a couple of times, and I'm a savvy better and this is a much different segment. Let's bring in Ohio l. All right, it's my man Ohio awl yet again, dazzling as always, the sound on the countryside of Ohio al in the background leading us in. So wherever we go, whatever po dunk backwater place we go in the mailbag. Now, first up on the mailbag, Big

Greg in Iowa writes in. He says, dear Ben and Daddy Danny g Daddy, although I prefer name that too. Ruined Fox has the masked singer going on Wednesday nights, Big Greg points out, and he then says, if they were to ask through your bosses, of course, or who whomever they'd reach out to to get in contact with you, would you do the mass singer show? And he says, Ben, how awful would it be to find a tall enough outfit for you. Well, and this guy Greg gets it.

He knows that we are big stars in the Fox universe and that we would be perfect. Like I would get on there and i would do the jitterbug Foo Drizzle. I'd start out now, I would I would start out doing the jitterbug, I'd move into the Charleston and then maybe if we had enough time, the chat chat chop that would be. That would be how I would do it, and it would be you imagine the hosts of that

show when they did your unveiling. They always shoot for the moon with their guesses, Bradley Cooper, and then they would take your mask off and they'd be like, who the fuck is this? How the fuck this guy gets? Get Fox A Security, Get this idiot out of here. Who put this guy in here? Shame on you? And but no, I'm the guy that did the dipsy, do the docy, do the whole thing. Come on. That show is for C list celebrities, not D list celebrities. Well you you're very kind to say you're a D list.

I'm more of a z Z list generation. I was calling you a D list. No, No, I'm below d I'm I'm the Z. I'm the Z guy. I'm right there at the very bottom. But thank you, Greg, I would I would have a lot of fun. I'm not a great dancer unless nobody knows who I am. If I had a mask on and I was out there just kind of doing my thing, and I think I'd be a really good dancer if I thought no one would ever find out that it was me in the costume. Like we have to be like nineteen twenty style, like

New Year's Z for you. Well, I could do the humpy you know, I could do the humpy dance. You know, come on, pimping, got your tims off. Yeah, that was modern when we were ten years old. About the name, I could do the whip name, I can't do it. That's you could do. What about the salsa? You want to see me salsa dance? I could no? Thank you all passed the samba? No anyway. Next up is Andy from Hollywood in the Hood, in HollyHood, slap me around

a little bit. No, this is my guy and he lives right near that Tommy's off the one on one. I used to sit there and eat my right, that's right. What's up Andy? My triple chili cheeseburgers and fries and watch all the crazy drug down people come down from the sunset trip and eat their burgers and fries and all that in chili. And he says, howdy, gentlemen, have not written in ages. Still diligently listen to the radio show and obediently download all the casts, enjoy them all. However,

and he says, I am this is a quote. I'm incensed. How dare you Ben encourage Roberto to delete the go King Eddie drop. It is the connective tissue fusing the different eras of the show and makes me laugh out loud every time, no matter where I am, Go King Eddie Go. He says, I love the the Mallarin Danige lifehacks, like the chicken sauce dip from Costco. Well, that was actually from Walmart. The chicken was from Costco. Yeah, rip off Chick fil At sandwiches. Nobody emailed me to say

they tried that, so I guess nobody did. But the sauce was from Walmart. The chicken sandwich was from Costco. So he says, any other inflation busting your life enhancing pointers, it might be a good fifth hour segment says, happy Spring. That's Andy, our friend in the hood in Hollywood. Danny got anything to save a couple of bucks. We usually mention these things when they come up, right. Yeah, I mean this is regional because I don't think Alpoyo Locos

all over the country. But you could probably do this at a local chicken slash Mexican spot. Get there bean and cheese burrito. There's the BRC burrito at Elpoyo Loco, which is on the West Coast. And then I get a chicken breast on the side, I peel the chicken, put it in with their creamy cilantro sauce, and I make my own chicken burrito and it is two dollars cheaper than any chicken burrito on their menu. Oh that's a pretty good move. I like that. I have. I've

heard some McDonald's hacks. I'll have to share. I'll have to share some of the things I don't have on top of my head. And yeah, I will definitely do more of that, Andy, because we are tight wahs and everyone's got to save a couple of bucks these days, with the way the economy is and everything's so ridiculous.

I did hear a car hack, a rental car hack that if you rent a car, you say you're renting a car for a week, and they charge you, I don't know, four hundred dollars for the week or something like that, which is a probably a good deal these days. Just the date. I've heard that sometimes what you can do is you can adjust the date for a couple of days extra that you don't even need the car. It'll actually be cheaper. It'll be cheaper to rent the car.

And then what you do is when you're done with the car, you turn the car in early and sometimes I'll even give you a bigger discount. How crazy is that? Like a reward almost? Yeah, Like you turned the car in early and they're grateful and so they'll give you a little extra money back. So that's that's kind of cool.

And I did get one of those travel cards where you get points because we'll be doing a lot of mini road trips and flights this year to different locations, and so we've got one of those credit cards they tell you to use I was reading up on it. They tell you to use one credit card, have a favorite airline, and only use that airline. That way, you actually get some decent points. Otherwise not so much. Not

so much. Next up on the mailbag, Mike from Fullerton, no relation to furg Dog says, last week, you guys brought up Vinyl outselling CDs for the first time in thirty five years. I thought that was pretty neat. So I was wondering if either of you think VHS or Beta Max will make a similar comeback against DVDs and Blu rays. Ah. Did you hear what's going on with Blockbuster Video? No, what happened perfect timing for Ferg. I

mean Mike's question here. Just a couple of days ago, a story popped up about Blockbuster their website has come back to life suddenly, and they put a message on their website saying please be kind while we rewind. Oh, there's lots of speculation out there. Does this mean they're gonna start to open up more stores, because obviously they went bankrupt just over a decade ago and there's only one location left, which they did that documentary on in Bend, Oregon.

So either this is just a ploy and they're gonna sell merchandise and stuff like that, or there's rumblings that the retro movement like with vinyl, could come back with video stores. I don't buy it. I'll tell you why, because the DVD is a better quality than the VHS tape. So why like the argument, I don't think they would do VHS tapes there. They would probably do Blu Ray I'm guessing. But even that is most people are just

streaming these days, right, isn't that the that's what everyone's doing? True? But I would argue this, what's the last electronic device that most of us own where we did watch movies, and that's Blu Ray. Like I have a Blu Ray player still with my TV gear. I still can't get over the story that Blockbuster Video had a chance to eliminate Netflix and they didn't. They didn't take advantage of it. Oh,

I know, talk about kicking yourself in the ass. For how many years now, every night those executives got to go to bed knowing they made one of the worst

decisions ever. That was one of the coolest things though, when you'd go to Blockbuster Video and you'd find that new movie and there was one left and you'd grab it, you'd snatch it, and it's like, oh, that was the coolest thing yet, or you would get one of the employees to look through the return been oh yeah, yeah, yeah that too, Yeah, that was awesome, And I was like, oh, and the candy packages right at the front when you were checking out solid good memories Blockbuster videos, like what

are you doing this weekend? We're going to Blockbuster to find something to watch Blockbuster and chill. Then you'd get there and they'd have no good fucking movies, so you'd end up watching some old movie. But you're like, yeah, that's all you had, And there was that distinct smell inside every Blockbuster. Mike also says, have either of you ever been drunk or high on the air before? I think you can tell the truth on the fifth hour

without getting in trouble. So I've only been drunk on the air one time, and I've told the story randomly in the past. I haven't told a long time. This is back in the late nineties. I was doing a nighttime show in LA It was a new sports station and we got preempted for Olympic women's hockey, which was like a trial sport. It wasn't even like a real thing. But the boss is like, oh, we're going to carry the network feed and we wanted to do the show.

We were like, we know, who the hell in LA wants to hear a women's hockey game on the radio. And we were like, we want to do the show. And he's like, NA, no, no, he's we're gonna carry this. But the feed the Olympics were overseas. I don't remember what country they were in, you can look it up. But the guys, the boss at the time, this guy Bow is like, all right, listen. He said, just kind of you gotta be the station. You guys can go

out and have a nice meal. I'm probably not gonna need you, but just be in the area in case we need need to fill some time after the Olympic coverage gets done. So we were like all right. And this was in Burbank. We went to Dults, which is a legendary. It's not there. It's been gone for many many years, probably been gone for twenty years. But this place was amazing. It was sandwiched right near Warner Brothers

studios that was on one side. On the other side he had all the radio stations, all the big radio stations in LA had studios and so it was all radio people, TV people. This was back in the nineties. I used to hang out there all the time. It was like our local, our local spot. That's where I first met Pat O'Brien. Pob Wow. We had a giant. He was doing that entertainment show and he had a giant. And this location wasn't that far from your favorite karaoke spot, right, Oh,

it was right down the street from Dimple's. Yeah, right down the street. So this was back when Drew Carey was big and sein fell like that area that era of television, and a lot of the actors from those shows and the people on the crew after they were done taping, they would come hang out and have chicken fingers. Anyway, long story short, So the boss is like, you just hang out in the area. Well, the restaurant was in the next building over these two skyscrapers. It was the

next building over. I say skyscrapers is Burbank, So they were probably like fourteen stories whatever. But we went over to the next building. We were eating and drinking and and whatever, and then we were about to, you know, go on our merry way and the boss called. It wasn't even a text. This is back in the days. We you call said, hey, I need you to get back on. You gotta get back to the radio station. I probably need you for about half an hour. Oh yeah.

So now we walked back across the street, you know, and feeling feeling no pain. We get back across the street, and I'll never forget the late Mark Smith, my engineer. May he rest in peace. Mark. Mark was this interesting character who, Yeah, he came from maybe the wrong part of town, but for him, it was the great part of town. And if we screwed something up, Mark was the kind of engineer that would come in and he had these massive fists. He was from Englewood, and he

would punch. He would literally punch us if we screwed up. And it was the The Ben and Dave Show with this guy Dave Smith. And I don't even remember what was going on. All I know is that Mark kept coming in and punching me in the arm and the side of the head. I just kept finishing sentences with curse words. Oh yeah, like I just I didn't realize I was so I was so inebriated. I didn't know what's going on. So that's the only time that happened.

What about you, Danny? Any stories going back I told the story last week about being drunk on Saint Patty's Day on the air, where I said Happy Mother's Day. At the end, I've only been high on the air one time on an FM station. Our general manager used to tell all of us in staff meetings, He's like, look, I'm not naive. I know you guys all smoke weed. You do hip hop for a living. I get it, But do not smoke right before you go on the microphone.

Smoke away from work, at the club, whatever, outside the club, don't smoke outside the studio. Do not be high on the air. You're not going to get good results. Smoke weed. I didn't smoke a lot back then, but yeah, maybe a couple of times a week. And I smoked at one time because I was in pain a bad back or something at the time, all right, from lifting all those hoes at the club, and I smoked and went on the air. I was having like blank spots where

I couldn't put together my next sentence. And remember bringing the traffic girl in and she said, are you okay, went into the restroom, splashed some cold water on my face. Don't don't shit where you eat, right, And the same thing obviously working with school and with kids, and we

would get tested. And so at that point I'm like, well, I'm not going to smoke at all anymore because obviously, you know, if you're gonna be tested and or you're gonna be around kids, that's not a place to smoke either. So basically, jobs took all the fun out of smoking back in the day. Having a grow up, it's yeah boo, Pierre writes in on the mail bag Pierre from the Short Attention Span Theater. He says, guys, how devastated will

you be when they banned TikTok in the United States? So, Pierre, on a scale of one to ten, I on devastation the Mallard scale of devastation for TikTok possibly being banned, I am at a solid minus one. I don't use TikTok. It has no impact. I mean, I'm not on there. The only time I see TikTok videos are when Pierre sends them to me or some other listeners. Seriously, I'm not I'm not in that world. Are you on TikTok? Danny?

You're not on there? No, But I do get links from TikTok sent to me by Coveno all the time from Covino and Rich. So once in a while there'll be some sort of sports video or TMZ type video and they're like, hey, we need the audio from this. That is the only time I use TikTok. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not in that world of TikTok. But I know Pierre Man. He's on there. He's going for it. He's on there all the time. He loves the TikTok and everything that they have to offer. He's doing the hokey

pokey and the whole thing. Next up Fred from Spring Texas Everyboddy Fred Wrights and he says, Hi, there, you said last week that you had the rights to Benny versus the penny. Do you have the rights for in the air everywhere? Fred? No, No, I do not. I like the phrase. I've used it a lot. I don't think I owned the rights to that. I don't know that you can't own the rights of that. So the answer is a big n oh. Hey, say, just keep up the good work. Barry from Nashville Rights and says,

yo yo mo Benny. He says, you have been doing the sports overnight for a long time. Would you ever consider jumping from sports to a non sport old program. For instance, if the hosting of the Coast to Coast program became available, would you do that. I would love to sit in on Coast to Coast one night. I think that would be a lot of fun if they ever needed someone to pinch it on Coast to Coast,

like on the weekends or something like that. If I know, George does it during the week and then they've got George Knapp and some other cats that fill it on the weekends. But I would I think that would be a lot of fun. What did you make of that story last week where people report did those comment looking things that were trailing each other in the sky? Yeah? I think if I was on Coast to Coast I

could have done four hours on that. I could have like, I totally could have knocked that out of the park. But yeah, it wouldn't be fun to sit there with some I feel like I do that anyway. I talk to people that believe in a lot of that stuff, and they just happened to be sports fans, you know what I mean. Yeah, I was gonna say you could have half of your regular callers still call in. Yeah, I wouldn't be shocked at half our regular callers when they get done calling our show, they call the coast

to coast. When they get done, they move over there. Yeah, wouldn't shock me at all if that was what was going on. Next up, Thank you Barry, though my man Barry in the Music City. Ozzy was from Western Australia, right since, says dear Ben big Ben and Daddy G. I stuffed up and I think, well, he says, stuffed up, And in the United States we say screwed up. In Australia he says stuffed up. I says, I stuffed up, And I didn't actually send my question last week. Bad

job by me. I did not hit the send button. But here we go. You have started daylight savings time over there, while good for me, I get one extra hour of the Mallar Show and now only one of Colvino and Richest Show due to work hours. So here we go. Besides farmer not liking it, he says, or so I think he means my farmers not liking it, What is the funniest excuse for not having it? For example,

he says. Over here in Australia, Ozzia says I heard with the extra hour of sunlight, my curtains will fade or I will lose an hour of my life. Yeah, so I don't know what you've heard, Danny. I've heard that everyone's pretty much in agreement there is no need for daylight savings time. We should just pick a time

and just go with it. But the reason they haven't changed it is because a lot of the technology is not designed for just one time, so it would be a lot of work to fix the infrastructure, and it would take several years to get her done. Allegedly, So are you saying this is like the two K Millennium two thousand was about to roll around, everybody freaked out. The computers around the world are gonna crash. Yep, yep, yep. Don't be in an elevator, don't be anywhere near anything computerizer,

You're gonna die. And then it happened, and nothing happened. The late great Art Bell, the greatest overnight host of all time, Art Bell on his Coast to Coast show. In the lead up he did three years hand to God, three years of show about how the world was going to end, and it was all it was. We're all doomed and it was because of that, and then it happened, nothing bad happened, and then he just he just continued to hunt it. He had, he had the show to do,

and that was that. So there you go, just pretend like it never happened exactly, Kyrie and okase Wrights and he says, how is it going, gentlemen? I love the Bennies. He says, that we did the Bennies, says a couple of Bennies shows. He says. It points out that you guys care about your audience and it's a very unique feature to give back to the fans and says, say thanks. Kyrie says the mother Militia. I really appreciate it. Another reason among countless others why you are the goat in

my eyes. Well, very kind, Kyrie. Anyway, would there be ever be a fifth Hour Award show? Just wondering because I cannot contribute to the main radio show like others can. The dreaded day shift worker, he says, well, anyway, keep up the great work as always much loved Kyrie. So yeah, I don't think we're gonna do a Benny's version because I don't like to steal material. Danny, as you know from other other shows and other of course in the business. So we won't do that. But I could add a

benny for the top fifth Hour contributor. Oh, that would be cool. Actually, Yeah, like the person that contributed the most content to the show, add a category for them, and I think that would be That would be pretty neat. Nick in Wisconsin, Right, since says Ben and Danny, g you cannot use one of these for the rest of your life. Would you rather not use toothpaste or not

use the odorant? He says, have a great Sunday. So from Nick, I don't like that choice, or either of those choices, because we've all been around that one person who's allergic to deodorant for some reason, and that is not a good space to be in. But then again, I don't know about you, Ben, but if I don't taste toothpaste in my mouth, I can't even sleep comfortably. Yeah, I think your breath will not be right. And that's well,

we're both married, Danny. I don't know that we need the odor I think the toothpaste is probably more more important. How about this, Keep the deodorant and then just use baking soda. Oh, yeah, you could do that. Yeah, yeah, you could just use baking soda on your toothbrush. Sure, for sure. Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia, right she and she says, hello, Ben and Danny. Gee, I think the Safari Kingdom segment is a great addition. Maybe you can even include stories

of animal rescue groups. And she said, she sent me a link here. I will consider it, Jennifer. As you know, Danny, we are in the content business, so anywhere we can get content for it. You know, we can even have Clay Travis as a guest. Well, I have Clay's willing to do it. Drum um, drum. Now. I gotta tell you, Danny, back back in the day, I used to listen. I was a little boy and I used to I used to listen to this show called The Animal Thunderdome and it was a great show and I loved it a lot.

And you know, so they had a lot of weird animal stories. Anyway, Jennifer says, My question for you guys, when you have a light bulbs start flickering in a room and you know it doesn't have much longer to live, do you change it right away or leave it until the bulbs in the other in the other rooms flicker and then change them all at once. Yeah. So, Jennifer, here's the way I'll ask that. First of all, it is annoying. We all have had that happen when the

light starts flickering. So my move is to look under the kitchen sink where the light bulbs are stored, or in the garage and see if we have lightbulbs. If we have a light bulb, I will then immediately change the light bulb. If we don't have any light bulb, I'm not going down to lows or home depot. I will wait for all the lights to go out before I will then buy light bulbs. So that's my move.

What about you, Danny, I will one up you there with what's more annoying, Jennifer, how about when the smoke alarm needs new batteries. Oh I hate that, don't you hate that stupid chirping sound it makes, And a lot of times it is in a spot that is hard to reach, like you need a ladder, and so people

will leave that sound there for a long time. It drove me up a wall in my Burbank townhouse that I had back in the day Finally it got to the point where I went to poem Depot, bought a ladder, went up, changed it, and then the next day I went and returned the ladder because I need a ladder. I have a wonderful story that just popped in my head, and I think Jennifer will appreciate this happened. I was doing a bonus show for w EI in Boston, so

you'll appreciate this, dandy. So I'm at the old Mallard Mansion, which you were at a few times. I'm doing the show and the goddamn smoke detector starts going off while I'm on the air. In the background, you hear the noise while I'm doing the show. So I then go over to the smoke detector and I like try to take the battery out. I can't get the thing off the wall. So there's only a few minutes of commercials, so I got to go back on the air and

again the background it was from your hot sports takes. Yeah, I was burning up the thing. So the next commercial break that we had, I went back and I turned into the incredible Hulk and just ripped the thing off the ceiling. We just ripped it down, and because it was one of these smoke detectors that it had like a battery that was inside, but it would not he would not. You couldn't take it out. Once the thing died. You just had to replace the whole thing, the whole unit.

So that some of them get stuck to walls because of paint, and other ones, like you said, have the internal battery and they're impossible to turn off. A lot of people finally take wire cutters and just cut them out of the wall. Oh yeah, that's terrible. What a pain in the ass, What an absolute pain in the ass. Amish J wrote and he says originally from Cincinnati but currently reside in c Bus. What are your thoughts on

twin Peaks? He says, it's similar to Hooters and Tilted Kilt and your favorite were walking favorite walking hiking trails in the Greater metro parks of Phoenix. He says, I just did a hike in the South Mountains recently and attended two spring training games along with some NHL action in Anaheim and Vegas. To see my sorry ass blue jackets, he says, So yeah, I've not done any hiking in Phoenix. I know in Tucson, not Tucson Tempe. There's some pretty

cool trails right around the Angels. I used to go to Angels spring training. There was some cool cool things there that I recall. But other than that, no, I haven't done a lot of hiking in because I usually go to Arizona other than this year. I usually went in the summer and it's one hundred and twenty degrees. You're not hiking in one hundred and twenty degrees. That's not happening. So forget about that. Any comment on Twin

Peaks there you want chime in on that. Well, when he said Twin Peaks, I thought about the Grand Tetons, I did too, That's what I thought. He was. Wyoming not only a beautiful mountain range, probably one of the the most beautiful mountain ranges in all of the world, but there is a great hiking trail at the base

of the Grand Tetons. It's Jenny Lake. So if you ever get to go to Wyoming, if you ever get to go through there to visit Yellowstone, make sure you add that to your bucket list, and that Jenny Lake. For a couple of hours, you walk around the base of that lake, and it is just amazing because the lake is beautiful. Then when you look up, you're looking at the Grand Tetons. There you go. We had a guide. Do you remember Steve Stillwell you were you were around

when he was at Fox Sports Radio. I don't know. Yeah, still A left Fox Sports Radio to take a radio job in Shyenne, Wyoming. Oh, beautiful area. Yeah, he went there and still Well I love the guy. Yeah, just a typical radio dude. He went there, and then once he realized how much money the job paid, he didn't

stay very long. He quickly got out of there, and they had him doing like five different radio stations for That's the thing is that you want to talk about mob pop operations that Montana, Well, you would be the program director, the general manager, the morning Am drive guy, you do afternoon drive, and then you do play by play for high school sports and get paid less than somebody working at Burger King. Yeah, the glamorous life of radio. We had two more quick ones. Joe writes, and he says,

you have encouraged us to download your podcast. Is there a difference in whether we download a podcast versus just streaming it on demand? That's a good question. I don't think there's a is there a difference on that If you subscribe to the podcast, it'll download to your device no matter matter what, even if you takes you a while to get to it. Yeah. Obviously, if you're just streaming on demand, then that's whatever you have time to listen to in real time. So yeah, it's probably better

to subscribe that way. The whole library is they're waiting for you. Yeah, and it listening live on the iHeart app, for example. That's a wonderful thing because there are how many thousands of iHeart radio stations and music stations on that app. It's insane. It's biggest media, biggest audio company out there. But Fox Sports Radio is always in the top five. I say always. It's been that way for years.

That Fox Sports Radio is one of the five most listened to audio streams on the iHeart app, which is yeah, well it is incredible. A Big Lou writes in from the LBC at last one. He says, well, Big Lou, my man, Big Lue. This guy's is super fan. I hope Big Lu can make soda. What can Big Lou do for you? But A Fat sALS contributor to the show, yeah, hockey guy. He's actually watched Eddie play hockey. He says, well, you ever interview any mallor Militia members on the podcast?

Or must we wait until another pandemic? Well, big lou, We're not that far away from another pandemic, trust me. No, No, I've talked to you, Danny. We've thought about maybe having a theme like a month where we pick some celebrities in the mallor Militia and have them on and learn what makes them tick and all that. I had Cowboy on this podcast, I've had over there during the pandemic. We put Doc Mike on. We can full of lists

and maybe you could put some Benny winners on. Yeah, we could do that, But how do you whittle it down? That's always the problem. There's so many people we have to choose from, Like, how do you whittle it down? And are they gonna be good? You know? I could do an interview with Dick and Dayton. Yeah, but what if that is right now you don't have a prize for the Bennis. What if that is a prize for winning a Benny. You win a Benny and you get an invite to be on the Fifth Hour podcast. That's great.

You know, that's a wonderful idea. That's a carrot on the stick. I like that. I'm gonna have to I would not steal that, Danny, because as you know, I do not steal ideas. That's perfect because then the competition will get even more heated, because I want an hour to myself being interviewed by the great Ben Mallard. Oh that would be that is yeah, they would love that. The guys that I get emails all the time, I want to be on the fifth hour, this, that and

the other thing. That's a great idea. On that note, Danny, a fitting end to the Sunday Mailbag podcast, the Last Sunday without Baseball, real baseball and anything you want to sell, anything you want to promote, you want to give out, your cameo, your TikTok, any of that. No, just a big thank you to everybody that participates in the podcast and your live shows. You're gonna be back on tonight, Monday afternoon Covino and Rich from two to four pm on the West coast. That is, I don't know what

time is that five to seven in New York? Yeah, five to seven. You get that going on and what time is it in Tokyo? Do you know what time it is in Tokyo? That would be eleven pm. Just go with it. Yeah, I made that up. Yeah, they listened to sports radio and Tokyo the way they watched that World Baseball Classic. Oh dude, they there was like fifty million people watching the WBC in Japan. There were more people watching that than have ever watched the World

Series game. That's crazy. Yeah, they love their baseball more than us. I like baseball, but I I geez. Anyway, don't worry Mike Trout. He'll he'll strike out next time too. He'll let you down. He'll break your heart. Trout. He has a lifetime reservation at the Heartbreak Hotel. We'll get out of here. Thank you, Danny. I'll be on tonight eleven o'clock in the West and that is two am in the East on all the big Fox sports radio stations, and we'll catch you next time. Thank you, thank you,

thank you for downloading. Later. Skater gott a murder, Gotta go.