September 15, 2023 • 32 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. Radio have another fun Friday bonus broadcast! They talk: Maller Report Card of Record, Gummy, Bonus Benny, Scientifical & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the a emyway. You have stumbled onto The Fifth
Hour with Ben Mallor and Danny G. We are fired
up to have you locked in on this podcast. Danny,
a brand spanking new weekend right here in the middle
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of the month of September, week number two of the
NFL season.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, and you called it right. You've had the Raiders
over the dirty Broncos, over the dirty Donkeys, I'll call
them after those two late hits, and man, what a
nice way to start the season with Jimmy G.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And I started Week two last night. I know you
don't care about the Minnesota Vikings, but a back door push,
a back door push. The Vikings scored a touchdown with
a less than two minutes. I believe you go on
the clock and they ended up pushing the point spread
in that game last night with the Philadelphia Eagles in
(01:30):
Thursday Night Football. On this podcast, we've got the Malor
report Card of record, Gummy Bonus Benny, and maybe Scientifical Danny.
We might get to all of that content, or conceivably none.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Of it or half of it. That's the way it
usually rolls.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Hey, Exactly. I always have these big plans, and then
I realized, well, no, we don't have a way of
getting to everything, but we're gonna start with this. So
we are headed into week number two of Benny Versus
the Penny. We made our maiden voyage last week. Hopefully
you had a chance to watch it. Big thanks to
(02:11):
you if you did watch the show. And these are
uncharted waters for me, and some of you have been
sending questions. We have the mailbag on Sundays, so we'll
go over some of some of those questions. But people
have been asking interesting things about how this all all works.
And as you might know, if you've been with me
(02:33):
a long time, you know, years ago I went back
to Connecticut every week we were We're not every every week,
every every month, I did a week in Connecticut for
about a year and I was on the NBC Sports Network,
which no longer exists, that one out of business. I
was a contributor to the sports talk show that they had,
which kind of makes some sense, but I was just
(02:55):
a bit player, and we had people on that show
that have that that had decorated careers. Adrian Wojanowski was
the basketball insider on that show. We had the late
Darryl Hamilton who played with the Milwaukee Brewers. Jeremy Ronick
was on there quite a bit, and some other random
(03:15):
hockey people. But this experience Benny versus the Penny, which
is just getting going right now in week number two,
which begins tonight on certain cable chances. So this has
been completely foreign to me and all the fluff that
comes with this kind of thing. Dan, It's a whole
(03:37):
new world. I'm used to do an overnight radio where
no one even knows I'm there. There is very little promotion,
there is no budget those kind of things.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
By here, like fifteen Ben mallor promos every afternoon when
I'm in the studio area.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But just in general, I don't think you're gonna see
the side of a bus or billboard or anything like that.
So it's a whole different operation which has kind of
kind of been been crazy and stuff and got to
get used to a lot of the things that are involved.
There's only once a week, so it's not like it's
an everyday situation. But it's always about the quality of
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the product, don't we always say that, Danny's the quality
of the product. You gotta have a good product.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Can I give you my first two takeaways from watching?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
First, I love how you're on the Lakers channel.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I know I saw that. Yeah, yeah, that is.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Some sweet karma right there.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Well, not only that, Danny, they have no other programming apparently,
because that show, The Benny Versus the Penny was on
in La like every three hours they were playing. The
show was insane.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The Lakers off season show handed off to you, so
they love you. Here you are slandering the Lakers sweet
organization all these years, and they're the up right now.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Listen, Danny, as you know, I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna bow down and genuflect. They made a wise programming decision, Danny.
I will give the Lakers credit. I'm sure they had
nothing to do with this, but they made a wise
programming decision to put the show on. Now, the real
test is going to be once the basketball season gets going,
(05:25):
which I think is like in a couple of weeks,
they're gonna have basketball and uh and then see people
will actually be watching that channel once that happens, and
so then the audience will will be massive, Danny, It'll
be a huge, huge audience. But but no, we have
the whole point the quality of the product, right, as
long as the product's good, that's all you can do.
(05:46):
You want it to stay on store shelves and you
don't want it to go stale and all that. But
we got Danny the first Malor report card on.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Bab Okay, before you get to that, only I'm one
other little takeaway. Okay, all right, my god, Looney couldn't
can top wait to speak, Looney chomping at the bit.
He interrupted you before you could even introduce him. And
(06:17):
then I wasn't a fan of your introduction because you
said the penny has never had a voice before, which
made me feel like the two seasons I did on
the podcast here never existed.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, I think you misheard that. I don't know if
I said exactly that. I'd have to go back and
watch Sep and all that. The Voice of the Penny. Uh,
you know it was a diva with you and is
even more of a diva now with with Looney.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Did they include that on your report card?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Well, you know, we can't get into the nitty gritty.
I'm giving you just a kind of a general sense here.
So I had no idea to expect. My nightmare, Danny,
was that no one watched. We only lasted one week,
and that would be boy, that would be a nightmare.
The good news we have made it to week two.
And so I only have the numbers from the Boston
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market because that's the home station of Benny Versus the Penny,
and that's where all the people I deal with kind
of regularly mostly are in in Boston. There's one gentleman
in Philadelphia and some other people in New York, but
the people I mainly deal with are in Boston. So
in the Commonwealth, and since that's where the show's produced,
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they have the numbers. They have all that because it
comes out of NBC Sports Boston. And were the ratings
up or down or all around on a week one
of Benny Versus Anyway, The mal report card indicates that
they were up, up, and away, Danny, So we did
(08:00):
pretty well there. We got a really good number. The
show debuted during a Red Sox game in Boston against
the Red Sox game that was on Nessen And thanks
to Alf the Alien, Opiner and Moving Man, Matt and
all the other guys in Boston, they're fans of the show,
the radio show, and they found a way to watch
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the TV show. We did pretty well with the first run.
But more importantly, Danny, I am told that we even
had a bigger audience when they rebroadcast Benny Versus The
Penny a few hours later. We even had more people listening,
which bodes well, which is a good sign. I doesn't
mean anything. I mean the long term, who cares. But
it's good because that could be word of mouth, advertising, curiosity.
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The big test is going to be every single week
adding more eyeballs and all that stuff. But yeah, it's
it's uncontrollable, Danny. On this end, it's not you can
just do this and then if people like it, that's great,
But you can't really do anything else other than that.
You can't really worry about well, I guess you could worry.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I feel like I'm in an alternate universe. The Lakers
present Ben Maller, who's number one in Boston.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, I know we were number one, but we did.
They were happy and uh so yeah, just keep the
keep the good vibrations rolling right, keep the good vibrations.
The You got to have a little bit of moxie, gumption, perseverance, uh,
that kind of stuff. I think so, and I look
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forward to seeing. I want to see how the show does.
And see we are in Chicago. I know at least
we had. My cousin in Chicago is watching, so I
know we had that. And I have heard from a
couple of people in Philadelphia that we're watching. So so
that's good. So we'll see what comes to this now. Uh,
imagine my surprise, Danny, when a couple of weeks ago
(09:59):
I got an email from NBC. I think it was
actually last week. So I click it open, and this
is from an account that I had not really dealt with,
and it said, now that you have been hired, now
that you have been put on the payroll over there,
(10:20):
that you have to take care of some things. Now.
As you know, Danny, I do not check the work
email at iHeart, which is my main home. I don't
really check the work email at all Disneyland for years.
I know, I know, I do want to thank you.
(10:40):
I'm sure it'll come up at some point. But you
did reach out to me about an event and I
was unable to attend. But I do appreciate that you
did reach out about said events. So sorry, I open
this email.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
The reason I get these emails is because they're the
email that they have on file is my main personal
email address, so they just send everything there. I told
him this says, that's it, that's my email. I'm not
you know whatever, and they were like, I don't, we
don't care, you know, send the stuff to you your email.
So this is the gummy situation, the famous doublemint gum,
(11:18):
double your pleasure, double your fun. So I got the
email that I had to do workplace training.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Boo, yeah, like the sexual harassment videos and all that.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yes, yes, yes exactly, except unlike our training which is
now mostly just all online, just have to watch the
videos online, this was in person, so I had to
go down to Universal Studios.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
They like, take your hand and show you what body
part not to mail.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
They give you a doll and say, where did they
hurt you? No? But but no, there was like training
like with like a person big shot. I don't know
big shot, just somebody that does a class. And so
they had certain times and I picked the latest one
I could go to. The problem was from where I
live in the north Woods, there was no good time
(12:15):
to get to the universal lot. So it took a
fair amount. I mean, it essentially took three hours to
do a one hour class. So that really sucked. And
I am now because of my iHeart training and now
this other stuff that I've done this week, I consider
(12:36):
myself a Rhodes Scholar when it comes to human resources
training at major media corporation. So I am two for two.
My big takeaway, though, here's the big takeaway on this
is that all you really need to know and I
thought this before, but I've gotten confirmation. All you really
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need to know you learned in kindergarten. Like I'm looking
at this like the class that I took, and I'm like,
and these are all like cubicle people. These are not
people like us, Danny, that work in the in the
broadcast world. These are these are people that have, like
you know, regular nine to five gigs. This happened to
work over there, and so I'm surrounded by these people
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and the class is going on and all that. But
it's really just like stuff you learned in kindergarten. The
world would be much better if people as adults just
followed the basic rules that we learned as kids when
you started kindergarten, Like keep your hands to yourself. I
think that's mainly what that training was about, right, Danny.
Just keep your hands to yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You should probably share some stuff, but not your fans.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Keep your fingers out of your nose.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah. Yeah, clean up after yourself, don't take stuff that's
not yours. Wash your hands right as you said, flush
the toilet was a big one. And and what's when
you're a kid to balance things you have to have.
You have to balance schoolwork, play and I guess learning.
(14:09):
I don't know. I guess that would be the work
when you're a kid, So something along those lines. But yeah,
So that was the the big training. And then skid
daddle off to Chavez Ravine. But I got there a
little late, so I didn't get my good seat. I
usually I get there early. I get a really good seat.
I am such a radio loser. And I didn't get
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there early, so I did not have a glorious seat,
which is, you know whatever, it's fine, crap happens, right.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
And then continuing on with this line of thinking, I
did have one other note, this being the Friday edition
of The Fifth Hour, I will be making a bonus appearance, Danny,
in a pathetic attempt to try to get more people
to watch this Benny versus the Penny TV show. I
am scheduled later today. I'll should be on tonight in Boston.
(15:06):
I think this show airs at six o'clock in the
Boston market. If you have direct TV you can watch
that as well. And I'm scheduled to go on a
show called The Weekly Spread. Now I don't know much
about the show. It's got Tom Giles hosts the show,
and it's a gambling show. So it's kind of like
the show that I do.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Boy, when you said the title of the show, I
thought it was something else.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well, it depends what websites you're looking at, Danny. Yeah,
but no, So I'm gonna go on there and it's
gonna be really quick. It's like a five minute pop
and I'll go on there and I'll just try to
mention Benny versus the penny as many times as I
can possibly mention. That's the goal, Just try over and over.
I'll try to like every sentence. Instead Danny of mentioning
(15:51):
like just stopping with the period, I will just go
into okay, and I'll have more on that on Benny
versus the penny, like that kind of thing, like just
over the top.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, yeah, Like Ben, what do you expect in week
two for the NFL? And you'll say, well, it's funny
you asked because on Benny versus the penny.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Exactly that's the plan. So we'll see how that goes.
But I'm looking forward to that and any promotion. You know, Dan,
I am willing to do anything. I will sit on
a billboard whatever you want. I'll go in a hot
air balloon, all of that stuff for quality promotion. Last
(16:34):
week I bought a dog and I needed an emotion.
It's all about the quality of the promotion.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Will'd be like rod Tidwell, will you ride a camel
in a TV commercial?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
If you say show me the body? If I say that,
and then you show me the money, and I want
a camel. Dare you, What a time to be alive, Danny,
What a time to be alive? A wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, glorious. Now,
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speaking of glorious, it's all about the science, Dand it's
not the sweet science, the actual science. So we have
to get cy and difficult. What do you say, si?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Science?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
All right, So these are some random science stories that
I have uncovered, and we have uncovered from scouring the
dark web.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Oh, please tell me we're going to talk about the
alien mummies.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Uh? Oh, you want to go to Mexico. We can
start with that if you want. Yeah, we go, We
go to Mexico. And yeah, yeah, we've talked a lot.
There's so many stories every week about extraterrestrials and what's
going on, and so the story if you didn't hear
about it, by chance, maybe you didn't catch up with it.
(18:08):
This week, coming out of Mexico, a mysterious corpse went
on display and scientists were trying to figure out what
was going on, whether or not these are extraterrestrials there supposedly.
I read the story. It said, non human alien corpses
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dating back one thousand years found in Peru have big eyes. Yeah, okay,
so I'm looking at the photo here. They've got very
they look like they're fun size, they got very small bodies.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
On our podcast, we have said that pretty much the
movie Men in Black is real, and these little guys
remind me of the alien that was inside the head
of that person that opened up.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Remember, yes, I do. Yeah, that's not that's not bad.
So these things have a supply. I mean based on
the picture. They have three fingered hands, they have this
weird skull. You know what they look like to me,
I'm gonna get some Reese's pieces, Danny g and I'm
gonna I'm gonna get my bicycle and put a little
basket in the front and get a get a towel
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or a plank gate, and I'm gonna I'm gonna go
hang out with e T is what I'm I'm gonna.
Obviously they're not as.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
What's that there were little e T wind up toys?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, was at its height exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You're right. They kind of look like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And so they're they're claiming the story says these mummified specimens.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
They they went into detail. They said they had in
their in their stomach. How how can they, Danny, how
can they tell it's been supposedly a thousand years give
this is even real?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
You know?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Who knows? But they claim that they in their stomachs,
they they found the remains of rare metals and eggs
in their internal cavities. What, yeah, it doesn't it doesn't
(20:22):
It look like it's made out of clay too kind
of you.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Know, I guess because they're mummified.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh is that that would be why? I guess?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And it does to me. The face looks like et
what if e T was also a real move based
on a real story, and the creature that they used
was actually just a copy of a real alien. Now
that would be cool.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Could be? Remember the famous story of Drew Barrymore because
she was what a kindergartener at the time, and when
she was filming that movie, she thought that the little
alien was real?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Wow? How old was she? She was a little kid
right when that was going on.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
She was like, I think she was four or five?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Oh yeah, okay, if you're four or five, yeah, I
got you. They said these were found they were in
the city city in Peru in twenty seventeen, so they
had X rays and found the eggs in the in
the stomach and I so I assume this came up
on Cavino and Rich. Yes, you guys probably talked about
(21:30):
this this week, a.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Little bit of alien talks.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, it's always good to go with the alien talk
there and so like what is like, I didn't see
the rest of the story. Like, so they showed the bodies,
the photo went around. They had some experts talk like,
is that it the story ends right there? That's all.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Wait, by the way, I just looked it up. Yeah,
Drew Barrymore was seven. Now that's too old.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Oh yeah, you're seven. You're you're not.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Summary I thought I remember thinking she was younger than that.
Seven And you think that little plastic guy that you're
doing the scene with is real? Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Come on, unless you unless you lived in a shoe
box or something like that, you know, down by the.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
River seven years old. You and I were already placing bets.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
We were all over it at age seven, man, we
were running around the neighborhood, the whole thing going on.
So now dam uh, you know, talking about the alien stuff.
Do you think we could pull off a scam if
we went to some far away country and we dressed
up like scientists and we put some papers together that
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looked like they were from academia that world. And we
had some like prop people, some Hollywood prop people, because
they're not making movies right now because everyone's on strike.
We hired them and they made something kind of similar
to what they had in Mexico, but we'll crank it
up a couple of notches, was some color detail, and
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like the whole bit would be that these aliens, they're
from somewhere far far away in the cosmos. We don't
know where, but they don't the bodies when they die,
don't you know how the human body kind of falls
apart and you know you're rot, but they don't rot,
So the materials are all the same from even though
(23:23):
they're not living. And then we can have like a
really cool looking alien thing. But if we sell it,
I think, I mean that could work, right, We could
pull that off.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yeah, I mean, with all this alien news we've seen
the past couple of years, especially, nobody would bat an eye.
Everybody acts like this is all just normal news. Now.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, everyone's just worried about the next story, so they
don't pay attention. But I did see NASA had that
news conference yesterday on Thursday, and they are like, well,
we have no proof of anything, but we might not
be alone. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, I saw that they think there's life on some
it's like in between some star K two.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, and NASA says it cannot rule out that alien
technology also is operating in the Earth's atmosphere. So they
said they talked out of both sides of their mouth. Dan,
from what I read, they on one side, they're like,
you have no evidence, no direct evidence. But to me,
the math on this is rather as we talked about
(24:33):
this on the fifth hour, Danny like, did you you
know sometimes late at night, if you go outside the
city lights and you go out into the desert or
where we live in California, you go out away from
the big cities and you look up to the sky.
I mean, it's just it's impossible to think that there's
nothing else out there.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Here's the headline. Web telescope detect possible signs of life
on distance planet, located about one hundred and twenty light
years from Earth in the constellation Leo K two eighteen
B lies within the habital zone to a nearby star.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So is this one of those things? There there is life,
but we will never be able to get to that place, Like, yeah,
you find it, but we'll never.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Be able to get there. But it's light years away.
I guess we would have to communicate with them through radio.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yes, we'll do. We'll send a Why I can't even
send a podcast, We'll have to send to the satellite
stream far far out.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
George, nowhere you do a podcast? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
George. George is a multi media man. He does everything podcast.
He's got his own like Coast to Coast network, which
I'm jealous of. They have like a club I think
they have. I was listening to Coast to Coast. I
listen sometimes because they replay the show out here where
we are on KFI and LA so I listen sometimes.
(25:58):
And they had like a Coast the Coast club where
people signed up. I think you pay a couple of
bucks a month. That's next level, next level. So that's
kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah, I looked it up. It says Beyond Belief with
George Nori four hundred plus episodes.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Ooh nice, you know we love George. George, George, George,
George George. This has got to be wonderful for those we.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Got to get him back on with everything that's happened
since he was a guest. I would love to talk
with you again.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, absolutely, I'll have to try to schedule something with
the great George norri An icon of the Late Night
I love that. What else do we have in scientifical Well,
here's something to look forward to, Danny, when our bodies
start disintegrating in a few years we get older. They
have successfully had a pig kidney transplanted into a human.
(26:54):
It lasted for two months. That is a brand new
record and they always put the world could in these stories.
But this could be a breakthrough for future organ donations.
So you can get like a kidney from a pig.
(27:14):
Now what I would like to do is get like
some strength from a bear. Wouldn't that be cool?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Or a lion.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
If you're gonna if you're going to take body parts
and organs and things from different creatures, don't you want
to go at the very top? Uh, the pig is
not at the top of the food chain. Wouldn't you
want to go higher up on the food chain? I would.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I would like my stomach switched out for a grizzly stomach.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Oh yeah, they any anything, right, the grizzlies. Let's go
for it.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Shout down, man, no, no more acid reflux.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah that's that's that's a fair point. Yeah, well I
can get a nice flowing head of hair from I
guess uh, well the lion, right, the lion has the
great the mame. It would be the way to go. There,
the last one we'll get out on this for scientifical
red fire ants, one of the most invasive speecies species
(28:13):
out there has stormed Europe. And I love the quote
in this story, and the quote is we knew this
day would come. It's like storming the beaches of Normandy.
We knew this day would come, is the money quote there.
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And it's great. And they've established at least eighty eight
nest across twelve acres of land in a city in
the city of Syracuse in Sicily. Who knew there was
a town called Syracuse in Sicily. You think they have
orange men there? Maybe I have no idea. So there
(29:01):
you go. They're freaking out in Sicily because of fire ants.
The scientists are like, man, I'm looking at these little buggers, dude.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Those fire ants are no joke. In rialto California, when
we were little kids, me and my older brother, we
would take tomato worms and we would feed them to
the ant hills and those red fire ants. O. Man,
they were gangster watching them take over a worm and
pull it down the hole.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah. I've never experienced the fire ant. But it says
they have a very painful sting.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Is there a non painful sting? It says they inflict
when they feel threatened.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
It feels like a beasting.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
They say it occasionally can lead to anaphylactic shock. So
oh that's good. Yeah, there you go. And I'm looking
at a map here of where these buggers are supposed
to go around Europe, which is you know, I don't
I'm not in Europe. We have people that I love.
The charts on this they've got well, by twenty fifty,
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all of Europe is pretty much going to be covered
in fire ants. And it's great. They're analyzing. They've already
analyzed wind patterns DNA tests on the Sicilian queen ant
and they determined that the pest likely came from either
(30:25):
the United States or China. US or China. Oh wow.
It says there are less than one hundred known fire
ant colonies in Italy, but scientists are warning that the
spread will be rapid and right by the seaports there
all that, so, all right, something to look forward to
(30:46):
her for our friends that listen in Europe, we'll get
out on that. It's Friday, Danny. Let you do your thing.
Promote what do you got coming up today? Covino and
Rich today, actually Benny versus the Yeah, I'm programmed to
promote that first, now that's right, that's right, Benny versus
(31:07):
the Penny. I don't know when it's even going to
be on. I know, I think it's Friday night in
Boston and then it'll hopefully be on in LA on Friday.
And I don't know, just look at your local cable listings.
But it's more Coveno and Rich, much more important, much
more important.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
You know, it is still a weekday. You finished your
radio show, you lucky dog. I'm going to go in
at one pm, and two pm is when our afternoon
show starts on the West Side, and that's five pm
in New York City for the fun Friday edition of
Covino and Rich.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Very cool, and I will be doing as I mentioned
I'm doing some double dipping. If you were not paying attention,
if you fell asleep during that part of the podcast.
I not only will be on Benny Versus the Penny,
but on NBC Sports Boston. I think it might be
on on some other NBC affiliates. I'll be on a
show called The Weekly Spread. Actually, I think this might
just be in Boston Weekly Spread, so check that out.
(32:03):
I think Shane Veren is part of that. Remember him.
He played for the Patriots back in the day. Of course, listen,
have a great rest of your Friday. Thank you for
making this podcast part of your routine. Appreciate we have
brand new original podcast audio content that is not available
anywhere other than this on Saturday, and we got the
(32:26):
mailbag on Sunday as well, so we will talk to
you next time later.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Skater Viipulation
Kabbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the a emyway. You have stumbled onto The Fifth
Hour with Ben Mallor and Danny G. We are fired
up to have you locked in on this podcast. Danny,
a brand spanking new weekend right here in the middle
(00:49):
of the month of September, week number two of the
NFL season.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, and you called it right. You've had the Raiders
over the dirty Broncos, over the dirty Donkeys, I'll call
them after those two late hits, and man, what a
nice way to start the season with Jimmy G.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And I started Week two last night. I know you
don't care about the Minnesota Vikings, but a back door push,
a back door push. The Vikings scored a touchdown with
a less than two minutes. I believe you go on
the clock and they ended up pushing the point spread
in that game last night with the Philadelphia Eagles in
(01:30):
Thursday Night Football. On this podcast, we've got the Malor
report Card of record, Gummy Bonus Benny, and maybe Scientifical Danny.
We might get to all of that content, or conceivably none.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Of it or half of it. That's the way it
usually rolls.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Hey, Exactly. I always have these big plans, and then
I realized, well, no, we don't have a way of
getting to everything, but we're gonna start with this. So
we are headed into week number two of Benny Versus
the Penny. We made our maiden voyage last week. Hopefully
you had a chance to watch it. Big thanks to
(02:11):
you if you did watch the show. And these are
uncharted waters for me, and some of you have been
sending questions. We have the mailbag on Sundays, so we'll
go over some of some of those questions. But people
have been asking interesting things about how this all all works.
And as you might know, if you've been with me
(02:33):
a long time, you know, years ago I went back
to Connecticut every week we were We're not every every week,
every every month, I did a week in Connecticut for
about a year and I was on the NBC Sports Network,
which no longer exists, that one out of business. I
was a contributor to the sports talk show that they had,
which kind of makes some sense, but I was just
(02:55):
a bit player, and we had people on that show
that have that that had decorated careers. Adrian Wojanowski was
the basketball insider on that show. We had the late
Darryl Hamilton who played with the Milwaukee Brewers. Jeremy Ronick
was on there quite a bit, and some other random
(03:15):
hockey people. But this experience Benny versus the Penny, which
is just getting going right now in week number two,
which begins tonight on certain cable chances. So this has
been completely foreign to me and all the fluff that
comes with this kind of thing. Dan, It's a whole
(03:37):
new world. I'm used to do an overnight radio where
no one even knows I'm there. There is very little promotion,
there is no budget those kind of things.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
By here, like fifteen Ben mallor promos every afternoon when
I'm in the studio area.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But just in general, I don't think you're gonna see
the side of a bus or billboard or anything like that.
So it's a whole different operation which has kind of
kind of been been crazy and stuff and got to
get used to a lot of the things that are involved.
There's only once a week, so it's not like it's
an everyday situation. But it's always about the quality of
(04:20):
the product, don't we always say that, Danny's the quality
of the product. You gotta have a good product.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Can I give you my first two takeaways from watching?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
First, I love how you're on the Lakers channel.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I know I saw that. Yeah, yeah, that is.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Some sweet karma right there.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Well, not only that, Danny, they have no other programming apparently,
because that show, The Benny Versus the Penny was on
in La like every three hours they were playing. The
show was insane.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The Lakers off season show handed off to you, so
they love you. Here you are slandering the Lakers sweet
organization all these years, and they're the up right now.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Listen, Danny, as you know, I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna bow down and genuflect. They made a wise programming decision, Danny.
I will give the Lakers credit. I'm sure they had
nothing to do with this, but they made a wise
programming decision to put the show on. Now, the real
test is going to be once the basketball season gets going,
(05:25):
which I think is like in a couple of weeks,
they're gonna have basketball and uh and then see people
will actually be watching that channel once that happens, and
so then the audience will will be massive, Danny, It'll
be a huge, huge audience. But but no, we have
the whole point the quality of the product, right, as
long as the product's good, that's all you can do.
(05:46):
You want it to stay on store shelves and you
don't want it to go stale and all that. But
we got Danny the first Malor report card on.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Bab Okay, before you get to that, only I'm one
other little takeaway. Okay, all right, my god, Looney couldn't
can top wait to speak, Looney chomping at the bit.
He interrupted you before you could even introduce him. And
(06:17):
then I wasn't a fan of your introduction because you
said the penny has never had a voice before, which
made me feel like the two seasons I did on
the podcast here never existed.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, I think you misheard that. I don't know if
I said exactly that. I'd have to go back and
watch Sep and all that. The Voice of the Penny. Uh,
you know it was a diva with you and is
even more of a diva now with with Looney.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Did they include that on your report card?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Well, you know, we can't get into the nitty gritty.
I'm giving you just a kind of a general sense here.
So I had no idea to expect. My nightmare, Danny,
was that no one watched. We only lasted one week,
and that would be boy, that would be a nightmare.
The good news we have made it to week two.
And so I only have the numbers from the Boston
(07:16):
market because that's the home station of Benny Versus the Penny,
and that's where all the people I deal with kind
of regularly mostly are in in Boston. There's one gentleman
in Philadelphia and some other people in New York, but
the people I mainly deal with are in Boston. So
in the Commonwealth, and since that's where the show's produced,
(07:38):
they have the numbers. They have all that because it
comes out of NBC Sports Boston. And were the ratings
up or down or all around on a week one
of Benny Versus Anyway, The mal report card indicates that
they were up, up, and away, Danny, So we did
(08:00):
pretty well there. We got a really good number. The
show debuted during a Red Sox game in Boston against
the Red Sox game that was on Nessen And thanks
to Alf the Alien, Opiner and Moving Man, Matt and
all the other guys in Boston, they're fans of the show,
the radio show, and they found a way to watch
(08:22):
the TV show. We did pretty well with the first run.
But more importantly, Danny, I am told that we even
had a bigger audience when they rebroadcast Benny Versus The
Penny a few hours later. We even had more people listening,
which bodes well, which is a good sign. I doesn't
mean anything. I mean the long term, who cares. But
it's good because that could be word of mouth, advertising, curiosity.
(08:47):
The big test is going to be every single week
adding more eyeballs and all that stuff. But yeah, it's
it's uncontrollable, Danny. On this end, it's not you can
just do this and then if people like it, that's great,
But you can't really do anything else other than that.
You can't really worry about well, I guess you could worry.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I feel like I'm in an alternate universe. The Lakers
present Ben Maller, who's number one in Boston.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, I know we were number one, but we did.
They were happy and uh so yeah, just keep the
keep the good vibrations rolling right, keep the good vibrations.
The You got to have a little bit of moxie, gumption, perseverance, uh,
that kind of stuff. I think so, and I look
(09:37):
forward to seeing. I want to see how the show does.
And see we are in Chicago. I know at least
we had. My cousin in Chicago is watching, so I
know we had that. And I have heard from a
couple of people in Philadelphia that we're watching. So so
that's good. So we'll see what comes to this now. Uh,
imagine my surprise, Danny, when a couple of weeks ago
(09:59):
I got an email from NBC. I think it was
actually last week. So I click it open, and this
is from an account that I had not really dealt with,
and it said, now that you have been hired, now
that you have been put on the payroll over there,
(10:20):
that you have to take care of some things. Now.
As you know, Danny, I do not check the work
email at iHeart, which is my main home. I don't
really check the work email at all Disneyland for years.
I know, I know, I do want to thank you.
(10:40):
I'm sure it'll come up at some point. But you
did reach out to me about an event and I
was unable to attend. But I do appreciate that you
did reach out about said events. So sorry, I open
this email.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
The reason I get these emails is because they're the
email that they have on file is my main personal
email address, so they just send everything there. I told
him this says, that's it, that's my email. I'm not
you know whatever, and they were like, I don't, we
don't care, you know, send the stuff to you your email.
So this is the gummy situation, the famous doublemint gum,
(11:18):
double your pleasure, double your fun. So I got the
email that I had to do workplace training.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Boo, yeah, like the sexual harassment videos and all that.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yes, yes, yes exactly, except unlike our training which is
now mostly just all online, just have to watch the
videos online, this was in person, so I had to
go down to Universal Studios.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
They like, take your hand and show you what body
part not to mail.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
They give you a doll and say, where did they
hurt you? No? But but no, there was like training
like with like a person big shot. I don't know
big shot, just somebody that does a class. And so
they had certain times and I picked the latest one
I could go to. The problem was from where I
live in the north Woods, there was no good time
(12:15):
to get to the universal lot. So it took a
fair amount. I mean, it essentially took three hours to
do a one hour class. So that really sucked. And
I am now because of my iHeart training and now
this other stuff that I've done this week, I consider
(12:36):
myself a Rhodes Scholar when it comes to human resources
training at major media corporation. So I am two for two.
My big takeaway, though, here's the big takeaway on this
is that all you really need to know and I
thought this before, but I've gotten confirmation. All you really
(12:56):
need to know you learned in kindergarten. Like I'm looking
at this like the class that I took, and I'm like,
and these are all like cubicle people. These are not
people like us, Danny, that work in the in the
broadcast world. These are these are people that have, like
you know, regular nine to five gigs. This happened to
work over there, and so I'm surrounded by these people
(13:19):
and the class is going on and all that. But
it's really just like stuff you learned in kindergarten. The
world would be much better if people as adults just
followed the basic rules that we learned as kids when
you started kindergarten, Like keep your hands to yourself. I
think that's mainly what that training was about, right, Danny.
Just keep your hands to yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You should probably share some stuff, but not your fans.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Keep your fingers out of your nose.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah. Yeah, clean up after yourself, don't take stuff that's
not yours. Wash your hands right as you said, flush
the toilet was a big one. And and what's when
you're a kid to balance things you have to have.
You have to balance schoolwork, play and I guess learning.
(14:09):
I don't know. I guess that would be the work
when you're a kid, So something along those lines. But yeah,
So that was the the big training. And then skid
daddle off to Chavez Ravine. But I got there a
little late, so I didn't get my good seat. I
usually I get there early. I get a really good seat.
I am such a radio loser. And I didn't get
(14:31):
there early, so I did not have a glorious seat,
which is, you know whatever, it's fine, crap happens, right.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
And then continuing on with this line of thinking, I
did have one other note, this being the Friday edition
of The Fifth Hour, I will be making a bonus appearance, Danny,
in a pathetic attempt to try to get more people
to watch this Benny versus the Penny TV show. I
am scheduled later today. I'll should be on tonight in Boston.
(15:06):
I think this show airs at six o'clock in the
Boston market. If you have direct TV you can watch
that as well. And I'm scheduled to go on a
show called The Weekly Spread. Now I don't know much
about the show. It's got Tom Giles hosts the show,
and it's a gambling show. So it's kind of like
the show that I do.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Boy, when you said the title of the show, I
thought it was something else.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well, it depends what websites you're looking at, Danny. Yeah,
but no, So I'm gonna go on there and it's
gonna be really quick. It's like a five minute pop
and I'll go on there and I'll just try to
mention Benny versus the penny as many times as I
can possibly mention. That's the goal, Just try over and over.
I'll try to like every sentence. Instead Danny of mentioning
(15:51):
like just stopping with the period, I will just go
into okay, and I'll have more on that on Benny
versus the penny, like that kind of thing, like just
over the top.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, yeah, Like Ben, what do you expect in week
two for the NFL? And you'll say, well, it's funny
you asked because on Benny versus the penny.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Exactly that's the plan. So we'll see how that goes.
But I'm looking forward to that and any promotion. You know, Dan,
I am willing to do anything. I will sit on
a billboard whatever you want. I'll go in a hot
air balloon, all of that stuff for quality promotion. Last
(16:34):
week I bought a dog and I needed an emotion.
It's all about the quality of the promotion.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Will'd be like rod Tidwell, will you ride a camel
in a TV commercial?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
If you say show me the body? If I say that,
and then you show me the money, and I want
a camel. Dare you, What a time to be alive, Danny,
What a time to be alive? A wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, glorious. Now,
(17:05):
speaking of glorious, it's all about the science, Dand it's
not the sweet science, the actual science. So we have
to get cy and difficult. What do you say, si?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Science?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
All right, So these are some random science stories that
I have uncovered, and we have uncovered from scouring the
dark web.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Oh, please tell me we're going to talk about the
alien mummies.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Uh? Oh, you want to go to Mexico. We can
start with that if you want. Yeah, we go, We
go to Mexico. And yeah, yeah, we've talked a lot.
There's so many stories every week about extraterrestrials and what's
going on, and so the story if you didn't hear
about it, by chance, maybe you didn't catch up with it.
(18:08):
This week, coming out of Mexico, a mysterious corpse went
on display and scientists were trying to figure out what
was going on, whether or not these are extraterrestrials there supposedly.
I read the story. It said, non human alien corpses
(18:28):
dating back one thousand years found in Peru have big eyes. Yeah, okay,
so I'm looking at the photo here. They've got very
they look like they're fun size, they got very small bodies.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
On our podcast, we have said that pretty much the
movie Men in Black is real, and these little guys
remind me of the alien that was inside the head
of that person that opened up.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Remember, yes, I do. Yeah, that's not that's not bad.
So these things have a supply. I mean based on
the picture. They have three fingered hands, they have this
weird skull. You know what they look like to me,
I'm gonna get some Reese's pieces, Danny g and I'm
gonna I'm gonna get my bicycle and put a little
basket in the front and get a get a towel
(19:22):
or a plank gate, and I'm gonna I'm gonna go
hang out with e T is what I'm I'm gonna.
Obviously they're not as.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
What's that there were little e T wind up toys?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, was at its height exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You're right. They kind of look like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
And so they're they're claiming the story says these mummified specimens.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
They they went into detail. They said they had in
their in their stomach. How how can they, Danny, how
can they tell it's been supposedly a thousand years give
this is even real?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
You know?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Who knows? But they claim that they in their stomachs,
they they found the remains of rare metals and eggs
in their internal cavities. What, yeah, it doesn't it doesn't
(20:22):
It look like it's made out of clay too kind
of you.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Know, I guess because they're mummified.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh is that that would be why? I guess?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And it does to me. The face looks like et
what if e T was also a real move based
on a real story, and the creature that they used
was actually just a copy of a real alien. Now
that would be cool.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Could be? Remember the famous story of Drew Barrymore because
she was what a kindergartener at the time, and when
she was filming that movie, she thought that the little
alien was real?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Wow? How old was she? She was a little kid
right when that was going on.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
She was like, I think she was four or five?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Oh yeah, okay, if you're four or five, yeah, I
got you. They said these were found they were in
the city city in Peru in twenty seventeen, so they
had X rays and found the eggs in the in
the stomach and I so I assume this came up
on Cavino and Rich. Yes, you guys probably talked about
(21:30):
this this week, a.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Little bit of alien talks.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, it's always good to go with the alien talk
there and so like what is like, I didn't see
the rest of the story. Like, so they showed the bodies,
the photo went around. They had some experts talk like,
is that it the story ends right there? That's all.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Wait, by the way, I just looked it up. Yeah,
Drew Barrymore was seven. Now that's too old.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Oh yeah, you're seven. You're you're not.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Summary I thought I remember thinking she was younger than that.
Seven And you think that little plastic guy that you're
doing the scene with is real? Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Come on, unless you unless you lived in a shoe
box or something like that, you know, down by the.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
River seven years old. You and I were already placing bets.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
We were all over it at age seven, man, we
were running around the neighborhood, the whole thing going on.
So now dam uh, you know, talking about the alien stuff.
Do you think we could pull off a scam if
we went to some far away country and we dressed
up like scientists and we put some papers together that
(22:39):
looked like they were from academia that world. And we
had some like prop people, some Hollywood prop people, because
they're not making movies right now because everyone's on strike.
We hired them and they made something kind of similar
to what they had in Mexico, but we'll crank it
up a couple of notches, was some color detail, and
(23:02):
like the whole bit would be that these aliens, they're
from somewhere far far away in the cosmos. We don't
know where, but they don't the bodies when they die,
don't you know how the human body kind of falls
apart and you know you're rot, but they don't rot,
So the materials are all the same from even though
(23:23):
they're not living. And then we can have like a
really cool looking alien thing. But if we sell it,
I think, I mean that could work, right, We could
pull that off.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yeah, I mean, with all this alien news we've seen
the past couple of years, especially, nobody would bat an eye.
Everybody acts like this is all just normal news. Now.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, everyone's just worried about the next story, so they
don't pay attention. But I did see NASA had that
news conference yesterday on Thursday, and they are like, well,
we have no proof of anything, but we might not
be alone. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, I saw that they think there's life on some
it's like in between some star K two.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, and NASA says it cannot rule out that alien
technology also is operating in the Earth's atmosphere. So they
said they talked out of both sides of their mouth. Dan,
from what I read, they on one side, they're like,
you have no evidence, no direct evidence. But to me,
the math on this is rather as we talked about
(24:33):
this on the fifth hour, Danny like, did you you
know sometimes late at night, if you go outside the
city lights and you go out into the desert or
where we live in California, you go out away from
the big cities and you look up to the sky.
I mean, it's just it's impossible to think that there's
nothing else out there.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Here's the headline. Web telescope detect possible signs of life
on distance planet, located about one hundred and twenty light
years from Earth in the constellation Leo K two eighteen
B lies within the habital zone to a nearby star.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So is this one of those things? There there is life,
but we will never be able to get to that place, Like, yeah,
you find it, but we'll never.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Be able to get there. But it's light years away.
I guess we would have to communicate with them through radio.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yes, we'll do. We'll send a Why I can't even
send a podcast, We'll have to send to the satellite
stream far far out.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
George, nowhere you do a podcast? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
George. George is a multi media man. He does everything podcast.
He's got his own like Coast to Coast network, which
I'm jealous of. They have like a club I think
they have. I was listening to Coast to Coast. I
listen sometimes because they replay the show out here where
we are on KFI and LA so I listen sometimes.
(25:58):
And they had like a Coast the Coast club where
people signed up. I think you pay a couple of
bucks a month. That's next level, next level. So that's
kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah, I looked it up. It says Beyond Belief with
George Nori four hundred plus episodes.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Ooh nice, you know we love George. George, George, George,
George George. This has got to be wonderful for those we.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Got to get him back on with everything that's happened
since he was a guest. I would love to talk
with you again.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, absolutely, I'll have to try to schedule something with
the great George norri An icon of the Late Night
I love that. What else do we have in scientifical Well,
here's something to look forward to, Danny, when our bodies
start disintegrating in a few years we get older. They
have successfully had a pig kidney transplanted into a human.
(26:54):
It lasted for two months. That is a brand new
record and they always put the world could in these stories.
But this could be a breakthrough for future organ donations.
So you can get like a kidney from a pig.
(27:14):
Now what I would like to do is get like
some strength from a bear. Wouldn't that be cool?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Or a lion.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
If you're gonna if you're going to take body parts
and organs and things from different creatures, don't you want
to go at the very top? Uh, the pig is
not at the top of the food chain. Wouldn't you
want to go higher up on the food chain? I would.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I would like my stomach switched out for a grizzly stomach.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Oh yeah, they any anything, right, the grizzlies. Let's go
for it.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Shout down, man, no, no more acid reflux.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah that's that's that's a fair point. Yeah, well I
can get a nice flowing head of hair from I
guess uh, well the lion, right, the lion has the
great the mame. It would be the way to go. There,
the last one we'll get out on this for scientifical
red fire ants, one of the most invasive speecies species
(28:13):
out there has stormed Europe. And I love the quote
in this story, and the quote is we knew this
day would come. It's like storming the beaches of Normandy.
We knew this day would come, is the money quote there.
(28:37):
And it's great. And they've established at least eighty eight
nest across twelve acres of land in a city in
the city of Syracuse in Sicily. Who knew there was
a town called Syracuse in Sicily. You think they have
orange men there? Maybe I have no idea. So there
(29:01):
you go. They're freaking out in Sicily because of fire ants.
The scientists are like, man, I'm looking at these little buggers, dude.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Those fire ants are no joke. In rialto California, when
we were little kids, me and my older brother, we
would take tomato worms and we would feed them to
the ant hills and those red fire ants. O. Man,
they were gangster watching them take over a worm and
pull it down the hole.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah. I've never experienced the fire ant. But it says
they have a very painful sting.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Is there a non painful sting? It says they inflict
when they feel threatened.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
It feels like a beasting.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
They say it occasionally can lead to anaphylactic shock. So
oh that's good. Yeah, there you go. And I'm looking
at a map here of where these buggers are supposed
to go around Europe, which is you know, I don't
I'm not in Europe. We have people that I love.
The charts on this they've got well, by twenty fifty,
(30:05):
all of Europe is pretty much going to be covered
in fire ants. And it's great. They're analyzing. They've already
analyzed wind patterns DNA tests on the Sicilian queen ant
and they determined that the pest likely came from either
(30:25):
the United States or China. US or China. Oh wow.
It says there are less than one hundred known fire
ant colonies in Italy, but scientists are warning that the
spread will be rapid and right by the seaports there
all that, so, all right, something to look forward to
(30:46):
her for our friends that listen in Europe, we'll get
out on that. It's Friday, Danny. Let you do your thing.
Promote what do you got coming up today? Covino and
Rich today, actually Benny versus the Yeah, I'm programmed to
promote that first, now that's right, that's right, Benny versus
(31:07):
the Penny. I don't know when it's even going to
be on. I know, I think it's Friday night in
Boston and then it'll hopefully be on in LA on Friday.
And I don't know, just look at your local cable listings.
But it's more Coveno and Rich, much more important, much
more important.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
You know, it is still a weekday. You finished your
radio show, you lucky dog. I'm going to go in
at one pm, and two pm is when our afternoon
show starts on the West Side, and that's five pm
in New York City for the fun Friday edition of
Covino and Rich.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Very cool, and I will be doing as I mentioned
I'm doing some double dipping. If you were not paying attention,
if you fell asleep during that part of the podcast.
I not only will be on Benny Versus the Penny,
but on NBC Sports Boston. I think it might be
on on some other NBC affiliates. I'll be on a
show called The Weekly Spread. Actually, I think this might
just be in Boston Weekly Spread, so check that out.
(32:03):
I think Shane Veren is part of that. Remember him.
He played for the Patriots back in the day. Of course, listen,
have a great rest of your Friday. Thank you for
making this podcast part of your routine. Appreciate we have
brand new original podcast audio content that is not available
anywhere other than this on Saturday, and we got the
(32:26):
mailbag on Sunday as well, so we will talk to
you next time later.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
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