Good evening to some of you and good morning to others of you and good afternoon to the

slackers.

This is episode 39 of Effectively Wild and I'm Sam Miller talking silently listening

is Ben Lindbergh in New York, New York, Ben, how are you this evening?

I am doing very well and we have to thank our listeners for something.

And we do. Yes. I feel like they have to thank us for something.

Well, yeah, naturally, but we have to thank them for one specific thing, which is

that we out drew the Astros recently. Wow. The Astros Sunday game,

due a .05 rating in the Houston market, which means that it had an average audience of 1092 households.

And I'm not going to give away our podcast traffic because I don't want to make anyone jealous,

but I will say that we have had episodes that out drew the Astros on Sunday.

Have you made your pitch to Kevin Jolstein yet for him to come back?

You think they would consider just running reruns of up and in at this point.

They could get more listeners that way. I would think for the rest of the season,

then to actually show the Astros. That is not more than 0.18% of the market was watching the Astros

on Sunday. Well, if I were covering, if I worked in Houston and I worked for a big

metropolitan newspaper, I would right now be working on a Sunday feature about as many of those

1092 people as I could find because it really does. I saw that rating earlier today and it

does make me wonder who the people are who watch September games with the Astros. I know that

I certainly is a nine-year-old. Well, nine is a bad example because the giants were competitive when

I was nine, but when I was eight and when I was ten, they were very poor in September. And I

remember watching, although I was a listener, but I remember following every game through the end

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