October 2, 2025 • 5 mins
"If an asteroid were on a collision course with the moon… should we nuke it, plant trees on it, or just send Bruce Willis?"
In this wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray tackle the news story of a 4% chance that an asteroid could slam into the moon in 2032. What starts as a serious scientific update quickly spirals into a chaotic brainstorm of humanity’s most ridiculous (and oddly cinematic) defense strategies.
In this wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray tackle the news story of a 4% chance that an asteroid could slam into the moon in 2032. What starts as a serious scientific update quickly spirals into a chaotic brainstorm of humanity’s most ridiculous (and oddly cinematic) defense strategies.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Give me that news quickie.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
All right, all right, all right, Christina, do you mind
cranking up my sounder here real quick? All right, yeah,
good time for today's twenty thirty two asteroid did impact
the probability updates. It's been a few whiles since, been
a few months since we've broke that thing out. One
of the reasons why is because they've determined this thing's
(00:24):
not gonna hit Earth at all. It's zero percent. But
if an asteroid happened to be on a collision course
with the Moon, what should humanity do? Run? Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Where you going to run? That's a good point. No,
I mean his point to run? Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I don't know if that helped too much, but that's
your point. All right, shots on goal. There is no
bad Guess.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's what you do during a storm.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, well, because guess what happened. I guess what happens
when an asteroid hits that moon. It's nothing but storms.
That's right, Kevin, You dumb bitch for about that. You're
about to get washed out by a typhoon in Nebraska, Bitch,
furniture March.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
All he's doing is reporting the news we started attacking.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Him, So bitch should they try to nudge the space
rock out of the way the moon before it strikes.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Okay, how uh you got to go find the best
oil guys, oil drillers. You teach them how to be astronauts.
In a couple of weeks, you exonerate them of all
their previous crimes. You make sure they can never have
to pay taxes. And then you have Aerosmith make a
song for them, and you fly him up there, and
you break up the asteroid.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
With Bruce Willis and his prime Yeah, prime time Bruce Willis.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Why wouldn't you just employ the ancient Mayans? Didn't they
understand all this stuff?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
They had a better read on it than we give
them credit for it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Can we send Matt Damon up there to plant like
a whole bunch of shrubbery to just soften the blow.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
He's a botanist. Yeah, all good plans. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Are they? These are all questions that have been explored
in a recent paper. Now are you turning papers in
as adults? But a recent paper from more than a
dozen researchers and NASA scientists. They're not hypothetical either, because
this asteroid that we thought was coming to Earth now
has a four percent chance of hitting the Moon in
twenty thirty two four percent. Now they don't know. This
(02:18):
could be a problem for a lot of reasons. Number one,
Option one is you could nuke the asteroid, but using
a nuclear explosion to destroy an asteroid has never been
tested before, so.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It'll test it on that video game feels.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
A bit risky. You're talking about asteroids. Yeah, we just
shoot it and it splits up in the little parts. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The thing about asteroids, if you think about it, the
good guy doesn't win for long because the asteroids get
smaller and faster. It's very hard to get past like
level five on asteroids. That game is chaos. Yeah, you
can use your thruster and move out of the way,
but you can't run for long. Then you run into traffic.
You know what Fool's Gold has been as hyperspace. Yeah,
never know where you're gonna pop up. The Russian military
(02:56):
starts coming in and shooting at you too. NASA estimate
that this thing measures up to two hundred and twenty
feet across. But I mean, if Derek Lively keeps growing.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yep, I'll have him reach up and nudge it out.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Of the way getting an inch or two every month
or so, pretty good.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But it's it's uh, if it hits the if it
hits the moon, if it like obviously there's not life
on the moon. It's not gonna impact life if it.
If it messes with the Moon to where the Moon
messes with Earth, we lose like gravity, right like it
so all the story.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
The oceans go crazy, everything goes crazy. Everything every lose
gravity though, right it's just oceans Earth. I don't know
how it is. I don't know how it would impact gravity.
I just you know, there is a gravitational pull, and
that's what causes waves and stuff like that. And we've
become floaters, just like what I leave in the morning,
floaters leaving behind all right, see, And then I get
(03:55):
that text from my wife when she wakes up at noon.
Hey man, you say we've got the watch sealla if
you call that foreplay right, if you'd gotten up earlier,
you could have reminded me to flush before I left. Now,
another problem with this whole story here is that in
(04:15):
twenty thirty, China says they're trying to land on the
Moon and build a nuclear plant there on the Moon.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
What nuclear plant they're gonna joint operating with Russia. It's like,
we're gonna bomb Earth from the moon.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
What But much like our Rangers, NASA's future missions are
in flux right now. So we've got China and Russia
trying to get up to the moon and build a plant.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
We're down here.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
We don't really know because they've they're proposing to slash
more than six billion dollars from NASA's budget over the
next few years. So they're kind of operating like the
Rangers can't really get into the manager and we don't
really know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Russia's like, that's a nice moon you have here. We
can do this the easy way of the hard way.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So it's a story to keep tracking, and that's why
I've not fully deleted this.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
It's time for today.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's twenty thirty two, last Joy to Impact Probability updates.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
That's the stories I'm on Facebook feed all the time.
All right, Coming up next, it's the Today Game, followed
by fascinating cowboy stats that demand our attention. That's all
coming your way. Also, a man fires a gun at
a local bar. We got the story behind that. But
the Today Game is next,
Give me that news quickie.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
All right, all right, all right, Christina, do you mind
cranking up my sounder here real quick? All right, yeah,
good time for today's twenty thirty two asteroid did impact
the probability updates. It's been a few whiles since, been
a few months since we've broke that thing out. One
of the reasons why is because they've determined this thing's
(00:24):
not gonna hit Earth at all. It's zero percent. But
if an asteroid happened to be on a collision course
with the Moon, what should humanity do? Run? Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Where you going to run? That's a good point. No,
I mean his point to run? Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I don't know if that helped too much, but that's
your point. All right, shots on goal. There is no
bad Guess.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's what you do during a storm.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, well, because guess what happened. I guess what happens
when an asteroid hits that moon. It's nothing but storms.
That's right, Kevin, You dumb bitch for about that. You're
about to get washed out by a typhoon in Nebraska, Bitch,
furniture March.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
All he's doing is reporting the news we started attacking.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Him, So bitch should they try to nudge the space
rock out of the way the moon before it strikes.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Okay, how uh you got to go find the best
oil guys, oil drillers. You teach them how to be astronauts.
In a couple of weeks, you exonerate them of all
their previous crimes. You make sure they can never have
to pay taxes. And then you have Aerosmith make a
song for them, and you fly him up there, and
you break up the asteroid.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
With Bruce Willis and his prime Yeah, prime time Bruce Willis.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Why wouldn't you just employ the ancient Mayans? Didn't they
understand all this stuff?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
They had a better read on it than we give
them credit for it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Can we send Matt Damon up there to plant like
a whole bunch of shrubbery to just soften the blow.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
He's a botanist. Yeah, all good plans. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Are they? These are all questions that have been explored
in a recent paper. Now are you turning papers in
as adults? But a recent paper from more than a
dozen researchers and NASA scientists. They're not hypothetical either, because
this asteroid that we thought was coming to Earth now
has a four percent chance of hitting the Moon in
twenty thirty two four percent. Now they don't know. This
(02:18):
could be a problem for a lot of reasons. Number one,
Option one is you could nuke the asteroid, but using
a nuclear explosion to destroy an asteroid has never been
tested before, so.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It'll test it on that video game feels.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
A bit risky. You're talking about asteroids. Yeah, we just
shoot it and it splits up in the little parts. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The thing about asteroids, if you think about it, the
good guy doesn't win for long because the asteroids get
smaller and faster. It's very hard to get past like
level five on asteroids. That game is chaos. Yeah, you
can use your thruster and move out of the way,
but you can't run for long. Then you run into traffic.
You know what Fool's Gold has been as hyperspace. Yeah,
never know where you're gonna pop up. The Russian military
(02:56):
starts coming in and shooting at you too. NASA estimate
that this thing measures up to two hundred and twenty
feet across. But I mean, if Derek Lively keeps growing.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yep, I'll have him reach up and nudge it out.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Of the way getting an inch or two every month
or so, pretty good.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But it's it's uh, if it hits the if it
hits the moon, if it like obviously there's not life
on the moon. It's not gonna impact life if it.
If it messes with the Moon to where the Moon
messes with Earth, we lose like gravity, right like it
so all the story.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
The oceans go crazy, everything goes crazy. Everything every lose
gravity though, right it's just oceans Earth. I don't know
how it is. I don't know how it would impact gravity.
I just you know, there is a gravitational pull, and
that's what causes waves and stuff like that. And we've
become floaters, just like what I leave in the morning,
floaters leaving behind all right, see, And then I get
(03:55):
that text from my wife when she wakes up at noon.
Hey man, you say we've got the watch sealla if
you call that foreplay right, if you'd gotten up earlier,
you could have reminded me to flush before I left. Now,
another problem with this whole story here is that in
(04:15):
twenty thirty, China says they're trying to land on the
Moon and build a nuclear plant there on the Moon.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
What nuclear plant they're gonna joint operating with Russia. It's like,
we're gonna bomb Earth from the moon.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
What But much like our Rangers, NASA's future missions are
in flux right now. So we've got China and Russia
trying to get up to the moon and build a plant.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
We're down here.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
We don't really know because they've they're proposing to slash
more than six billion dollars from NASA's budget over the
next few years. So they're kind of operating like the
Rangers can't really get into the manager and we don't
really know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Russia's like, that's a nice moon you have here. We
can do this the easy way of the hard way.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So it's a story to keep tracking, and that's why
I've not fully deleted this.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
It's time for today.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's twenty thirty two, last Joy to Impact Probability updates.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
That's the stories I'm on Facebook feed all the time.
All right, Coming up next, it's the Today Game, followed
by fascinating cowboy stats that demand our attention. That's all
coming your way. Also, a man fires a gun at
a local bar. We got the story behind that. But
the Today Game is next,
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