May 5, 2025 • 6 mins
"What happens when barn swallows invade your front porch?" Tune in to this uproarious episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray take you on a wild ride through unexpected Cinco de Mayo trivia, bird invasions, and more.The hosts kick off with a fun and enlightening discussion about the true meaning of Cinco de Mayo. Did you know it's not about Mexican independence but a victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla? The team's humorous take on common misconceptions will leave you laughing and learning.Ben recounts his hilarious and frustrating battle with barn swallows that took over his front porch. From Jody Dean's unexpected Facebook advice to the legalities of dealing with these pesky birds, this segment is packed with laughs and relatable moments.Also, KT shares some intriguing insights about how climate change is affecting the timing of seasons, with mosquitoes and heatwaves arriving later than usual. This unexpected twist adds depth to the episode, blending humor with informative content.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one
(00:02):
the Eagle. Now listen. We like to give things away,
and if you know that you've been listening to the show,
you know that, then you need to have that iHeart
app because that's what we used to give stuff away. Why.
It's got a talkback feature on it. You can click
this little microphone and leave a thirty second message. So
the third person to leave a talk back with their name,
their phone number, their email address, and the answer to
(00:22):
the question what movie did Ben go to the theater
to see this weekend? We talked about it in the
opening segment. If you listen, you know see you got
to listen to when you got to have that iHeart app,
third person name, number, email address, and the answer to
the question what movie had been go see this weekend
in the theater and you will win Mars Volta tickets
October twenty fifth, Bomb Factory Mars Volta. That should be
(00:45):
a badass show. Bomb Factory back. Baby. All right, we
got lots of stuff to get to, but right now
it's time for this. It's time to go in to
get bitted.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Stridule rebird machine. Yes, and it is a Sinko to
Myos story, it's not today Sinko to miyos. Thought that
was interesting, It's fantastic. A lot of polls have shown
that thirteen percent of Americans have no idea what Sinko
Demo's all about. I thought it would be ninety percent
of Americans don't know. I'm not one hundred percent of
(01:18):
the intricate details of it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It has something to do with Mexican independence from Spain, correct,
And isn't it resting me? I have no idea. I
think you just supposed to drink Mexican beers that day,
and mitchellatas Margarita Marg's.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's the day that the sink hole opened.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No, that's sink hole to Maya sinklo. So Mexican victory
over the French at the Battle of Pueblo. Oh the
French May fifth, eighteen sixty two.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So swallowed them.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Wee wei mofos. You got your ass handed to you
by our Mexican friends. Yep uh. The wayback machine does
take us back to something that happened, though this would
be May fifth, twenty seventeen. Ben was having a problem
was something that he described as a swallow that was
a problem. Let's just hear the audio and then discuss.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Guys, they're not. That's apparently they are. What are They're
a bird and there's two of them hawks and they
are known as barn swallows.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Shocking.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
That's kind of hot. So they're birds, they're swallows. That's
the kind of old bird. You want one that's experienced
and it's going to be in that situation and do
it right, guys. Newsman Jody Dean weighed in on this
all the Facebook page shocking.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
He says, I got a lot of experiences with this guy.
A lot of these old birds love my program, he says.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Barn swallows are fast, highly maneuverable, and aggressive. When they
get close enough to the source of their irritation, they'll
turn their evil little heads towards you and screech at
your face, beaks wide open. They're so terrifying that they
have very few predators and even scare hawks and giant birds,
which they've even known to uh, which with which they've
(03:15):
been known to cooperate.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Wow, hold on, please stop.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I got they don't even have they don't have arms
or dams.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Okay, birds don't have necks, so they're not looking around.
And secondly, did he just cut and paste a Wikipedia things?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And the idea of Jody Dean copying and pasting to
other Wikipedia on your Facebook post and a comment is
hilarious to me.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Man, those things are a pain in the ass, and
if they ever infiltrate your front porch, there's very little
things you can do to get rid of them because
of bird laws and you're not allowed. They're like, I
don't know if they're endangered or what the deal is,
but hypothetically, if your kids had orbi guns, it would
be illegal for you to shoot those orbie guns at
(03:56):
the birds. Those types of orbi guns, they should out
these little water pellets. It wouldn't be enough to kill
a bird, but it would be enough to send a
message to those birds take your asses somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yep. I would personally support anyone who just was to
entertain all ideas that were legal to handle that situation.
I personally never did anything illegal. Shout out to the
orby gun. I've seen an orby gun take a bird's
eye out a little sea little bird with an iPad. Yeah,
(04:28):
usually it's a parrot.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yep. Yeah. In Texas, we protect all of our birds
pretty much except for pigeons. Pigeons you can just go
murder at any time, yeah, which is wrong. You know
they're they're bothering you.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Also, doves, because they're a bird of peace. They take
over your front porch and then they dive bomb you.
They will take your eye out.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Pigeons, Yeah, do you gotta have a permit if you're
going to kill them? Does this ever get solved? This
is a long time.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You still have the problem yearly? Do you around this time?
Do you have swallows some? Uh?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, it's it's never really swallow. Thing has never really
worked out for me. Why because as you're not into it. No,
I'm very much into like birds. Yeah, I like birds.
It just doesn't seem to be doesn't seem to go
hand in hand in with my situation, Is that right?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, because they're a nuisance. If they take over your
front door, you can't do anything to get rid of them.
Kat said, you can get a permit taken out for that.
Did you get a permit?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
KT? I did? Okay, So for you it's just let
it happen.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh, the birds and the nesting, yeah, right, and just
whatever happens happened, and you're like, hey, yeah, I didn't
know what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
One thing to watch Fords seriously though, on this bit
of climate talk here. Yeah, oh, just letting you know.
Things are pushed back about a month this year. It's
gonna get hotter a little bit later. You're gonna see
the mosquitos come out a little bit later. You're probably
used to seeing a lot of mosquitos in May, You'll
be getting them in late May, in early Things are
different than it used to be growing up, Our seasons
(06:04):
have changed by one month.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It's fantastic forward.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
How long do you wait before kissing your front porchs?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Goodbye?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
What? What? What does that mean? Hold on, don't answer that,
let him talk some more.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You're sending you're saying you had a tit mouse problem.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
No, no, not right now?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
What you now?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
She said? A nip rat coming up next?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Different bird coming up next.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
What's going on in Dallas right here on the east
What
It's the Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one
(00:02):
the Eagle. Now listen. We like to give things away,
and if you know that you've been listening to the show,
you know that, then you need to have that iHeart
app because that's what we used to give stuff away. Why.
It's got a talkback feature on it. You can click
this little microphone and leave a thirty second message. So
the third person to leave a talk back with their name,
their phone number, their email address, and the answer to
(00:22):
the question what movie did Ben go to the theater
to see this weekend? We talked about it in the
opening segment. If you listen, you know see you got
to listen to when you got to have that iHeart app,
third person name, number, email address, and the answer to
the question what movie had been go see this weekend
in the theater and you will win Mars Volta tickets
October twenty fifth, Bomb Factory Mars Volta. That should be
(00:45):
a badass show. Bomb Factory back. Baby. All right, we
got lots of stuff to get to, but right now
it's time for this. It's time to go in to
get bitted.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Stridule rebird machine. Yes, and it is a Sinko to
Myos story, it's not today Sinko to miyos. Thought that
was interesting, It's fantastic. A lot of polls have shown
that thirteen percent of Americans have no idea what Sinko
Demo's all about. I thought it would be ninety percent
of Americans don't know. I'm not one hundred percent of
(01:18):
the intricate details of it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It has something to do with Mexican independence from Spain, correct,
And isn't it resting me? I have no idea. I
think you just supposed to drink Mexican beers that day,
and mitchellatas Margarita Marg's.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's the day that the sink hole opened.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No, that's sink hole to Maya sinklo. So Mexican victory
over the French at the Battle of Pueblo. Oh the
French May fifth, eighteen sixty two.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So swallowed them.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Wee wei mofos. You got your ass handed to you
by our Mexican friends. Yep uh. The wayback machine does
take us back to something that happened, though this would
be May fifth, twenty seventeen. Ben was having a problem
was something that he described as a swallow that was
a problem. Let's just hear the audio and then discuss.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Guys, they're not. That's apparently they are. What are They're
a bird and there's two of them hawks and they
are known as barn swallows.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Shocking.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
That's kind of hot. So they're birds, they're swallows. That's
the kind of old bird. You want one that's experienced
and it's going to be in that situation and do
it right, guys. Newsman Jody Dean weighed in on this
all the Facebook page shocking.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
He says, I got a lot of experiences with this guy.
A lot of these old birds love my program, he says.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Barn swallows are fast, highly maneuverable, and aggressive. When they
get close enough to the source of their irritation, they'll
turn their evil little heads towards you and screech at
your face, beaks wide open. They're so terrifying that they
have very few predators and even scare hawks and giant birds,
which they've even known to uh, which with which they've
(03:15):
been known to cooperate.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Wow, hold on, please stop.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I got they don't even have they don't have arms
or dams.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Okay, birds don't have necks, so they're not looking around.
And secondly, did he just cut and paste a Wikipedia things?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And the idea of Jody Dean copying and pasting to
other Wikipedia on your Facebook post and a comment is
hilarious to me.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Man, those things are a pain in the ass, and
if they ever infiltrate your front porch, there's very little
things you can do to get rid of them because
of bird laws and you're not allowed. They're like, I
don't know if they're endangered or what the deal is,
but hypothetically, if your kids had orbi guns, it would
be illegal for you to shoot those orbie guns at
(03:56):
the birds. Those types of orbi guns, they should out
these little water pellets. It wouldn't be enough to kill
a bird, but it would be enough to send a
message to those birds take your asses somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yep. I would personally support anyone who just was to
entertain all ideas that were legal to handle that situation.
I personally never did anything illegal. Shout out to the
orby gun. I've seen an orby gun take a bird's
eye out a little sea little bird with an iPad. Yeah,
(04:28):
usually it's a parrot.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yep. Yeah. In Texas, we protect all of our birds
pretty much except for pigeons. Pigeons you can just go
murder at any time, yeah, which is wrong. You know
they're they're bothering you.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Also, doves, because they're a bird of peace. They take
over your front porch and then they dive bomb you.
They will take your eye out.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Pigeons, Yeah, do you gotta have a permit if you're
going to kill them? Does this ever get solved? This
is a long time.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You still have the problem yearly? Do you around this time?
Do you have swallows some? Uh?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, it's it's never really swallow. Thing has never really
worked out for me. Why because as you're not into it. No,
I'm very much into like birds. Yeah, I like birds.
It just doesn't seem to be doesn't seem to go
hand in hand in with my situation, Is that right?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, because they're a nuisance. If they take over your
front door, you can't do anything to get rid of them.
Kat said, you can get a permit taken out for that.
Did you get a permit?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
KT? I did? Okay, So for you it's just let
it happen.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh, the birds and the nesting, yeah, right, and just
whatever happens happened, and you're like, hey, yeah, I didn't
know what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
One thing to watch Fords seriously though, on this bit
of climate talk here. Yeah, oh, just letting you know.
Things are pushed back about a month this year. It's
gonna get hotter a little bit later. You're gonna see
the mosquitos come out a little bit later. You're probably
used to seeing a lot of mosquitos in May, You'll
be getting them in late May, in early Things are
different than it used to be growing up, Our seasons
(06:04):
have changed by one month.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It's fantastic forward.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
How long do you wait before kissing your front porchs?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Goodbye?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
What? What? What does that mean? Hold on, don't answer that,
let him talk some more.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You're sending you're saying you had a tit mouse problem.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
No, no, not right now?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
What you now?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
She said? A nip rat coming up next?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Different bird coming up next.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
What's going on in Dallas right here on the east
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