Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air.
Speaker 1: Everywhey, welcome in too, the Saturday Saturday Saturday edition of
Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g As.
Speaker 1: We're hanging out with you all week and long. Fresh
Speaker 1: audio content every single day, never before heard audio content
Speaker 1: on this the twenty seventh day now of the month
Speaker 1: of January. And what's going on today is not a
Speaker 1: good day for holidays, those goofy holidays. There there was
Speaker 1: one holiday though, that caught my attention today on this Saturday.
Speaker 1: It is Thomas Crapper Day. Danny, that's a that's a
Speaker 1: wonderful story. I love the word crap and we can
Speaker 1: thank Thomas Crapper for the word crap. What if the
Speaker 1: guy that invented the modern toilet, well, I guess he wasn't.
Speaker 1: He actually wasn't the guy that invented the toilet. He
Speaker 1: perfected it. He didn't invent it, but he perfected it.
Speaker 1: But he's the guy we know as the guy from
Speaker 1: the toilet.
Speaker 3: He finished off the dodoo pie.
Speaker 1: He flushed it down, is what he did. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is the the death anniversary of this guy who was
Speaker 1: a plumber in England and a businessman, Thomas Crapper, who
Speaker 1: was not the guy that invented the toilet. Misconception that
Speaker 1: is common. That's the Mandela effect that people believe. If
Speaker 1: everyone believes that you invented something, you invented it. But
Speaker 1: he promoted it, he fixed it up and all that.
Speaker 1: And the original flush toilet it was okay, but Crapper
Speaker 1: added he added a little more razmatazz to the toilet
Speaker 1: and he saved water by adding in that ballcock.
Speaker 4: Danny, you know, I'm not sure you can say that
Speaker 4: due to FCC regulations.
Speaker 1: On podcast They don't give a crap about podcasts. See craps,
Speaker 1: I said crap, Thomas Crapper, And anyways, design saved a
Speaker 1: bunch of water and all that, and uh, it is
Speaker 1: a day to celebrate Thomas crapper and the wonderful Crapper
Speaker 1: day and that is this is wonderful, his name becoming
Speaker 1: synonymous with shit, which is just just wonderful, just great.
Speaker 1: And his device. I mean, he's been dead for a
Speaker 1: long time, but that's still that's still the go to toilet,
Speaker 1: although they have they've added to that with the spray spray,
Speaker 1: the sprit sprits toilet. You know where they get the
Speaker 1: water the duvet. Is that what they call it? I
Speaker 1: think that's what they do. Is that what they call it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, those things are scary.
Speaker 1: Eh. My wife added him, and I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: once you cross over to the dark side, Danny, once
Speaker 1: you cross over the rubicon to the water and the toilet,
Speaker 1: it's the way to go because you save money on
Speaker 1: the toilet paper. You don't use much toilet paper. It's much.
Speaker 1: I think it's much more hygienic. But if you had
Speaker 1: told me fifteen years ago or ten years ago that
Speaker 1: I would be at the age i'm at now using that,
Speaker 1: I would say no way. But here we are. So
Speaker 1: this our Saturday podcast, I'm want to begin with a
Speaker 1: store worry of supersonic fast pain. Now, as you know,
Speaker 1: Danny and you listening tho that hanging out here doing
Speaker 1: the radio show, and get the TV show, which is
Speaker 1: gonna be aired again today all over the place. Check
Speaker 1: your local cable listings distributed by NBC Benny Versus The Penny,
Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny. I'd love for you to check
Speaker 1: that out. That would be really cool. So nonetheless, Danny,
Speaker 1: one of the things I've been doing a lot of,
Speaker 1: and it's just kind of my Michigas, is fasting, not
Speaker 1: eating for a day and then eating. And lately I've
Speaker 1: tried to extend things out a little bit. We're getting
Speaker 1: close to the end of Benny Versus the Penny. We
Speaker 1: had one more episode, but I know that I don't
Speaker 1: look great on TV. I realized that, and I'm so paranoid.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, how can I help myself out?
Speaker 1: So I'm like, if I don't eat before the show
Speaker 1: for like a day, I'm in good shape. And then
Speaker 1: lately I've been extending it out even further. And this week,
Speaker 1: this past week here, I took things to the next level.
Speaker 1: Had a seventy four hour fast.
Speaker 3: I thought you're going to say you laid in a
Speaker 3: tanning bed.
Speaker 1: That's Tom Looney. Actually, yeah, if you have not seen
Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny this weekend, let me know in
Speaker 1: the comments section on the pod on the review when
Speaker 1: you give us the five stars, let us know. Let
Speaker 1: me know what you think of Looney and what he
Speaker 1: wore on television this weekend. It's quite quite the look.
Speaker 1: Quite the look there, and I think what he wore
Speaker 1: is either from nineteen ninety one or nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure you'd have to be the judge
Speaker 1: of that. I know it's not from any time past
Speaker 1: the year two thousand. So get to the point. So
Speaker 1: I'm doing this this whole fast michig gos right, I
Speaker 1: got this thing going on. So I go. I fast
Speaker 1: for seventy four day and I from my eat on
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon and then I don't eat Tuesday, I don't
Speaker 1: eat Wednesday, and I don't eat until late in the
Speaker 1: day on Thursday because we tape the TV show on Thursday.
Speaker 1: So I wait till after that. I usually take a nap,
Speaker 1: a couple hour nap, and then I'll eat. So fine, whatever,
Speaker 1: it's my thing. It's not your thing, it's my thing, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I know when I fast for more than a
Speaker 1: couple of days that my body when I eat, it
Speaker 1: reacts where you end up having some issues because you
Speaker 1: lose certain fluids right away because your body's used to
Speaker 1: not all of a sudden not having food. Then it
Speaker 1: gets food. And I don't know the science behind it.
Speaker 1: You might know the science, maybe you're you listening know
Speaker 1: more about that than me. And I don't know exactly
Speaker 1: the inner workings, but all I know, and I think
Speaker 1: it's a combination with not having a gallbladder. I think
Speaker 1: that's part of the issue. I don't know. This happens
Speaker 1: to people that fast normally who have their gall bladder,
Speaker 1: but I don't have mine. Mine got chopped out of
Speaker 1: me several years back, so I don't have it. So
Speaker 1: this when I start eating, it kind of goes through
Speaker 1: me anyway, not to get to gravic. But I know exactly,
Speaker 1: So I know, Danny that I've got about an hour.
Speaker 1: I've got about an hour, and then after that things
Speaker 1: are gonna go bad. I'm gonna have to run to
Speaker 1: the crapper. I don't have to run to the crapper
Speaker 1: with Thomas Crapper, So I know that. But then the
Speaker 1: other thing that happens once I do that, Once I
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom real quick yet, but usually within
Speaker 1: an hour, sometimes thirty minutes, usually within an hour, about
Speaker 1: an hour, I go take care of business. And we
Speaker 1: all do every day. We're supposed to do it every day.
Speaker 1: So then the next thing that happens is I start
Speaker 1: getting cramps, like muscle cramps and my legs sometimes my
Speaker 1: arms are using my legs because of the fluids that
Speaker 1: I've lost and all that, and it's it's like really bad,
Speaker 1: like it's really I mean, it's really nasty. And this week,
Speaker 1: because I did a little extra, I went seventy four
Speaker 1: hours and then ate a decent sized meal. It it
Speaker 1: became became a problem. So I'm kind of squirming. I'm
Speaker 1: getting ready for the overnight show on Thursday night, and
Speaker 1: this starts hitting me muscle cramps, and I'm like, oh crap,
Speaker 1: you know, I said his name again and I'm all
Speaker 1: all messed up, and so I text the wife. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: can you get me one of that? We got these packets.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know what I think I've
Speaker 1: talked about these things on the show. Maybe not, but
Speaker 1: they're a hydration packets. Have you seen these things they
Speaker 1: have my Costco in different stores. Yeah, those before, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. So it's like it's like drinking one of
Speaker 1: them is like drinking eight cups of water.
Speaker 3: They taste kind of nasty though, Yeah.
Speaker 1: They got a weird taste. There's different flavors. You can
Speaker 1: buy a big bag at Costco. That's what we got
Speaker 1: our bag at Costco. So fine, I've got these things.
Speaker 1: So you need to consume a lot of water very
Speaker 1: quickly to get your body kind of back regulated to
Speaker 1: stop the muscle cramps. So I had pro I'd been
Speaker 1: proactive because I know how this works. I've been doing
Speaker 1: this a while. I think I'm over three consecutive years
Speaker 1: of fasting now, not this long yusually, but it's over
Speaker 1: a thousand a thousand something days, which I think is
Speaker 1: three years anyway, whatever, So I preemptively took one of
Speaker 1: these hydration packets, thinking that once I had to go
Speaker 1: take care of business and i'd lose all these fluid,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have cramps. Well, I had cramps, and I
Speaker 1: text the wife. I was like, Hey, can you bring
Speaker 1: me one of these hydration things? I'm kind of in
Speaker 1: bad shape. The studio and she wasn't home, she was
Speaker 1: out running some errands. I had to sit there, Danny.
Speaker 1: I couldn't I couldn't even stand up. The muscle pain
Speaker 1: with my legs was that bad. And I just had
Speaker 1: to take it, you know, I just had to take
Speaker 1: the agony, the supersonic fast pain. Just had to deal
Speaker 1: deal with it. And it was, oh my god, it
Speaker 1: was very agonizing. And then eventually it kind of it
Speaker 1: slowed down, and then I went and got one of
Speaker 1: the hydration packets, and after that it wasn't too bad.
Speaker 1: But it was you know, it was it Arkansas basketball
Speaker 1: back in the day, in the nineties they had the
Speaker 1: was it forty minutes of whatever? Remember they had the
Speaker 1: thing forty minutes a hell or whatever. This is about
Speaker 1: like ten minutes of agony, a pure, pure agony.
Speaker 4: Does it kind of feel like the leg cramp in
Speaker 4: the middle of the night because you stretch your leg
Speaker 4: too hard.
Speaker 3: Have you ever had that where it balls up?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've had exactly that.
Speaker 3: Okay, man, that's excruciating pain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty bad. This was This was one of
Speaker 1: the worst ones I've had so but it's a good
Speaker 1: thing because I'll eat I eat good this weekend. I
Speaker 1: ate pretty well yesterday, and I'll have some good meals today,
Speaker 1: and then once Monday comes around, I'll stop eating again.
Speaker 4: So now did you scream? For ten minutes there was
Speaker 4: a murder happening.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was thinking this might be the
Speaker 1: way I die. It's just going to keep going up
Speaker 1: my body. I'm like, this is the worst thing in
Speaker 1: the world. I mean, oh so bad and oh my god,
Speaker 1: but I live to do another podcast. So actually two
Speaker 1: podcasts is our second one since that, since that happened.
Speaker 1: What about your world day? What is what is wild and.
Speaker 3: Wacky in our exciting lives of broadcasting?
Speaker 1: Ben?
Speaker 4: The big happening for me this past week was that
Speaker 4: the water bottle shipment arrived. Yay. Now, I know everybody
Speaker 4: thinks that this is probably because of the pink Stanley
Speaker 4: cup craze. How people were beating each other up inside
Speaker 4: Target to get one of these stupid Stanley cups.
Speaker 2: Fans lining up at Target stores before sunrise just to
Speaker 2: snag one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there've been people stealing them and yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And our daughter out of nowhere, she asked her mom,
Speaker 4: She's like, can you buy me one of those pink Stanley's.
Speaker 4: My wife told her, I'll buy you a Flanneley. You
Speaker 4: ain't getting us Stanley. She's like, what's a Flanley and
Speaker 4: she said, a fake Stanley. That's what you're going to get.
Speaker 4: And it's funny because all of us, you know, old
Speaker 4: enough to remember Stanley. We think of our parents or
Speaker 4: our grandparents with those old coffee canisters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, you know. And isn't there a Stanley?
Speaker 1: What am I thinking of? Like not construction, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: something I remember seeing like the Stanley tape measures and
Speaker 1: things like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's that's what we think of. We think
Speaker 4: of like construction.
Speaker 3: Cry.
Speaker 1: I think I'm like going to home depot or something
Speaker 1: and seeing that. Yeah, these are limited edition pink cops, right,
Speaker 1: that's why they're right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, it's it's really popular to have
Speaker 4: your own big cup that you carry around and you
Speaker 4: fill it with ice and water. It also can keep
Speaker 4: things hot for a long time. We had last year
Speaker 4: about August, I had to start thinking forward about the
Speaker 4: little promotions budget that we have in the daytime because
Speaker 4: we don't have guests, which I like our boss at
Speaker 4: the network said, you can either have your little budget
Speaker 4: for you know, famous people to come on your show
Speaker 4: and we pay them, or you can use that for
Speaker 4: your Nerve footballs.
Speaker 3: And I said, boom, Nerve footballs all day.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 4: Once we got to about August, I was on my
Speaker 4: last big box of Nerve footballs for Covino and Rich,
Speaker 4: so I had to start thinking. I saw a spot
Speaker 4: our video producer sitting in the studio that day and
Speaker 4: he had a serious XM. Covino and Rich water bottle,
Speaker 4: and I thought to myself, I know what I'll do.
Speaker 4: Take that idea, slap Fox Sports Radio on it, and
Speaker 4: I'll get, you know, a shipment of these water bottles
Speaker 4: in Okay, before this whole Stanley craze. But you know,
Speaker 4: we didn't have the budget until the new year. A
Speaker 4: couple days ago, I get an email from our office
Speaker 4: manager upstairs saying, you got a shipment of six boxes.
Speaker 3: Once in the box, we were excited.
Speaker 4: We rip open the first box and there's the brand
Speaker 4: new Swiggy is the brand stainless steel water bottles. They
Speaker 4: came out really nice, like a metallic blue color. Obviously,
Speaker 4: I wasn't able to order as many of these as
Speaker 4: I ordered footballs because they cost more to make. Yeah,
Speaker 4: then I made an error, and you know, I'm glad.
Speaker 4: It was kind of like a good error. But I thought, well,
Speaker 4: I should give everybody, and I have one for you.
Speaker 4: By the way, I thought I should give everybody on
Speaker 4: the staff.
Speaker 3: One of these things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 4: I start passing them out and I'm doing an inventory
Speaker 4: list to tape onto the box, and quickly been within
Speaker 4: a day, I've already passed out twenty five of these suckers.
Speaker 4: Because there's a lot of damn people working in our building.
Speaker 1: Oh man, so you should work. If you work at night,
Speaker 1: there's no one there, so you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about you got crickets.
Speaker 3: In the daytime. I'm I'm you know.
Speaker 4: I had to give them to the editors because they
Speaker 4: had seen me give it to the update anchor who
Speaker 4: saw me give it to the guy that does our production.
Speaker 4: His production assistant came in, so I had to give
Speaker 4: him one. And so by the time that first box
Speaker 4: was open, I emptied the first box and Covino and
Speaker 4: Rich were kind of looking at me because they saw
Speaker 4: me going back and forth to the box, and I
Speaker 4: was like, oh shit, I think I opened up a
Speaker 4: box of worms here.
Speaker 1: Oh man, so you are these just for the people
Speaker 1: on the building. Are you going to give these the listeners.
Speaker 4: The same way we did the Nerve footballs for our
Speaker 4: trivia on Mondays and Tuesdays. Okay, and also some podcast
Speaker 4: reviews here and there. Probably average give being one away
Speaker 4: per week to a listener.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that'd be a great thing to get. It'd
Speaker 1: be pretty much, well you can actually use the damn thing.
Speaker 3: Giving them out to the staff.
Speaker 4: I got to finish that, and I was thinking, shit,
Speaker 4: this is almost gonna cut my inventory in half.
Speaker 1: Wow. But yeah, but you're you're giving people that work
Speaker 1: that you're helping morale at Fox Sports Radio, Dame.
Speaker 4: Everybody's reaction to this was so good that I thought, shit,
Speaker 4: I should have just saved these all the year and
Speaker 4: given them out as Christmas gifts.
Speaker 1: It would have been better than the Christmas gift I
Speaker 1: got from the company. So that would have been been
Speaker 1: that I'm ripping anybody. I'm just I'm just saying, you know,
Speaker 1: it would have been better than nothing. You know, it
Speaker 1: would have been nice. Uh So, speaking of it, I
Speaker 1: saw that Target is firing their the people at work
Speaker 1: who've been Apparently they've these uh, these pink Stanley cups. Uh.
Speaker 1: These things are so popular that people have been people
Speaker 1: that work at Target. When the shipman comes in, they
Speaker 1: they end up buying like all of them before they
Speaker 1: go on the shelves, and uh so.
Speaker 3: That way they could sell them on the secondary market.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone seems to be obsessed with this cup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're a bunch of creeps.
Speaker 1: It's tough, you know, but if you're working at Target,
Speaker 1: you're not making that much money. But you shouldn't be.
Speaker 1: You can't be doing that.
Speaker 3: There probably needs to be a limit on how many
Speaker 3: each employee can can snag away from the public.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you fired time out for the metaphor of the week.
Speaker 3: Yes, the metaphor of the week.
Speaker 1: Yes, the metaphor.
Speaker 3: Man, you're going deep with this segment.
Speaker 1: What the hell? Why not? So the metaphor of the
Speaker 1: week here is the Elephant in the Room. Now, I've
Speaker 1: changed this up over the years. I like to say
Speaker 1: kmodo Dragon in the Room, which is a spin off
Speaker 1: of the Elephant in the Room. And I was It's like,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this the other day during the week,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, hey, you know, I use this a
Speaker 1: lot in monologues and just in my regular dialogue, my lexicon,
Speaker 1: I use that phrase a lot. And I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of metaphors. I love metaphors. I think we all do.
Speaker 1: That's how we communicate, right, It's a wonderful thing that
Speaker 1: we as human beings have come up with these metaphors.
Speaker 1: We say things that are completely opposite of what we mean,
Speaker 1: but we all understand what we're saying. So the origin
Speaker 1: story of the phrase elephant in the room goes back
Speaker 1: to the eighteen hundreds. It goes back to the early
Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds. It was a fable written by I even
Speaker 1: Preedloth I believe is how you say his name. It
Speaker 1: was called and it still is, the Inquisitive Man. Now.
Speaker 1: The fable tells the story of a man who goes
Speaker 1: to a museum and he notices all sorts of tiny things,
Speaker 1: but he does not does not realize the elephant at
Speaker 1: the museum. And that phrase became a you know, a
Speaker 1: regular phrase in people's lexicons over years and different contexts
Speaker 1: and whatnot. It was first recorded use, the first recorded
Speaker 1: use of it in the kind of the modern way.
Speaker 1: It was in the New York Times many many years back,
Speaker 1: and it said financing schools have become a problem about
Speaker 1: equal to having an elephant in the living room. It's
Speaker 1: so big you just can't ignore it. And the phrase
Speaker 1: went into general use much earlier than that New York
Speaker 1: Times story. There was a story in a publication in
Speaker 1: Britain from nineteen fifteen, but it was out there in
Speaker 1: the eighteen early eighteen hundreds, and it's been mimicked in
Speaker 1: all kinds of different cultures and languages. They have a
Speaker 1: version of the elephant in the room, So I thought
Speaker 1: that was that was interesting. It started with a fable
Speaker 1: from Ivan kreedlof Krylov in eighteen fourteen. I don't think
Speaker 1: he'll get upset with me, Eddie. I call you Eddie. Danny.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's a Freudian sliff. I don't think
Speaker 1: he'll get upset with me, Danny. How about shut up
Speaker 1: if if I mispronounced the guy's name, because why not?
Speaker 4: It's yeah, you didn't call him by the wrong first name,
Speaker 4: and he's dead anyway. So I don't think I like
Speaker 4: that metaphor because kind of like our breaking news sounder
Speaker 4: at the network, whenever a conversation starts with Okay, let's
Speaker 4: address the elephant in the room. Gets everybody's attention because
Speaker 4: something good is coming after that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, saran, And sometimes it's not good though you say elephant.
Speaker 1: Usually you start out with a I like to compliment sandwich. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's get together. You guys are doing really good. By
Speaker 1: the way. Your ratings suck, but I think, yeah, you
Speaker 1: were in a nice shirt today. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: that kind of me.
Speaker 3: But anyway, let's let's address the elephant in the room. Yes,
Speaker 3: we're changing format.
Speaker 1: You're all fired, but no, you're not all fired.
Speaker 3: Wink wink.
Speaker 1: Yes, at least we don't work in the newspaper business.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. Danny, my god, I got friends
Speaker 1: that work in that world that is that is not good.
Speaker 1: That is not good. Pop goes the culture is good.
Speaker 1: So that means our buddy, oh hi oh ow Ohio
Speaker 1: Wow John John Pop, thank you, Ohio. A little pop
Speaker 1: culture mixed that in to the the fun. Pop goes
Speaker 1: the culture. There's a new video that has made the
Speaker 1: rounds on the interweb that claims that it has ninety
Speaker 1: two percent accuracy. It shows what the world looks like
Speaker 1: through various animal eyes have you seen this. It's it's
Speaker 1: bouncing around here. Maybe, I don't know. You think this
Speaker 1: is legit? How do they know? They claim they know,
Speaker 1: but how you don't know unless you're a dog or
Speaker 1: a cow what they see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is kind of like have you ever seen
Speaker 4: where they show supposedly what it looks like when a
Speaker 4: newborn is looking at people.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that kind of foggy kind of that can be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like it's not clear yet and it's all the
Speaker 4: colors aren't there and all of that. But I want
Speaker 4: to know how they got to that conclusion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I don't. You don't know. You have
Speaker 1: no idea to me. It's like bull junk is what
Speaker 1: it is? What it's being a bull junk. I thought
Speaker 1: this was satire when I saw it, I thought, well,
Speaker 1: this can't be when you get animal Thunderdome going. Is
Speaker 1: that happening? By the way, this year animal Thunderdome is that.
Speaker 4: It is going to happen by January twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure, yes, yes, absolutely so. This is
Speaker 1: from a professor of philosophy at Rowan University in New
Speaker 1: Jersey who has written a paper claiming that animals should
Speaker 1: be allowed to vote.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the philosophy professor, he outlined his idea for a
Speaker 1: voting system for animals and he he says, don't use
Speaker 1: the word pet. Say animal rights. This guy who's an
Speaker 1: animal rights active says, do not use the word pet.
Speaker 1: So it's these people are How do these people live
Speaker 1: amongst us? Danny? Seriously, how do they live amongst us?
Speaker 1: I'd love to know, Like, how many how many psychedelic
Speaker 1: drugs is one have to do to get to the
Speaker 1: point where I think a dog should be able to vote?
Speaker 1: Last week I bought a dog and I needed an emotion.
Speaker 4: Seriously, here's one that would have problems getting up to
Speaker 4: go vote. They couldn't get to the poles right now, Ben,
Speaker 4: did you see what's going on with the gators in
Speaker 4: North Carolina?
Speaker 1: No, what's going on with them?
Speaker 4: So there's been photos and videos shared in North Carolina.
Speaker 4: Alligators are frozen because temperatures dip just enough for the
Speaker 4: surface to freeze. Alligators are seen there with just the
Speaker 4: tips of their noses sticking up through the water while
Speaker 4: the rest of their bodies are frozen underneath. They're dead,
Speaker 4: They're alive. That's why their nose is sticking up to
Speaker 4: give them air. So what happens is they literally fall out.
Speaker 1: Really so they're like bears, hype bears going down but
Speaker 1: they're wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Instead of hibernation, it's called brumation. It's it's like hibernation,
Speaker 4: but alligators enter into this frozen state when the water freezes,
Speaker 4: their metabolic rate slows down and they become lethard. According
Speaker 4: to the South Carolina Aquarium, Once they enter that period,
Speaker 4: they don't eat, but they continue to drink to avoid dehydration.
Speaker 4: It lasts for about four to five months, depending on
Speaker 4: how long the water temperature remains cold.
Speaker 1: That's wild. I didn't know anything about that. Now.
Speaker 4: My question is, does any dope go up and start
Speaker 4: punching their nose?
Speaker 1: What would happen if you did? Yeah, because there's oh man,
Speaker 1: that's pretty wild. Not I have not seen that. I
Speaker 1: know it does get cold and part of South Carolina.
Speaker 1: I've seen videos of golf courses with giant gators walking
Speaker 1: around golf courses in South South Carolina. Where do the
Speaker 1: gators stop? Is it South Carolina? Is that the end
Speaker 1: of it? In North Carolina? Where's the point and why
Speaker 1: do they not go any further is it because of
Speaker 1: the weather. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I will have to look that up.
Speaker 4: See that's a question Clay would have asked me if
Speaker 4: I read this on the animal Thunderdome, which is why?
Speaker 4: And I know he throws a lot of curveballs. Ben
Speaker 4: So normally, when I have a story like this, I
Speaker 4: have to do my due diligence ahead of time, and
Speaker 4: like I get the most commonly asked questions about that
Speaker 4: story written on a sheet of paper.
Speaker 3: That way, I can sound like somewhat of a brainiac.
Speaker 1: Oh, the smartest gather the room, the smartest.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't got to worry about that till January
Speaker 4: of twenty five, though, I think twenty twenty six would
Speaker 4: be a good year for that.
Speaker 1: You want to take a guess how many robo calls
Speaker 1: are made in America each year? Scammers? Take a guess.
Speaker 4: Oh, man, it's got to be something like ten million.
Speaker 1: Much much more than that. Now, the US population in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, the US population here our twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Now we're in the new year. The population in the
Speaker 1: United States is what are we looking at? Three hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty something million. I think I'm right on that,
Speaker 1: right around. We'll give or take maybe closer to three
Speaker 1: hundred and forty mine now because people having babies again,
Speaker 1: so whatever, it's three hundred and thirty three hundred and
Speaker 1: forty million people. The claim is that Americans have received
Speaker 1: seventy eight billion what robo calls in the last you know,
Speaker 1: each year they get seventy eight million billion on average,
Speaker 1: according to a newport And it's funny how this works.
Speaker 1: Like the politicians have done a few things to try
Speaker 1: to stop robo calls, but not much. It's like token gestures.
Speaker 1: But now they're starting to pay attention. Now why are
Speaker 1: they starting to pay attention? Because there was a story
Speaker 1: that's been going on. This is an election year here
Speaker 1: in the US, and an AI clone voice of President
Speaker 1: Biden was used on robo calls urging New Hampshire Democrats
Speaker 1: not to vote in the primary. And so now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they're like, wait a minute, this could
Speaker 1: affect the election. So does anyone get a robo call
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, I better not vote because I got
Speaker 1: a robot call? Who does that? Are there people that stupid?
Speaker 1: I guess the answer is yes. But Americans lose sixty
Speaker 1: five billion every year from phone scammers.
Speaker 3: That is nuts damn So.
Speaker 1: Seventy eight billion robo calls leads to sixty five billion
Speaker 1: in lost money by Americans. That means the scam that's
Speaker 1: got to be one of the easiest hustles to get right.
Speaker 1: Because there was a documentary and I forget the name
Speaker 1: of it. I don't know what we talked about it
Speaker 1: on the podcast or not. It was an HBO documentary.
Speaker 1: I believe it was HBO about the police associations that
Speaker 1: were bogus that would call people up for donations, and
Speaker 1: it was kind of that thing. It was like the
Speaker 1: same although they were actually people. They had call centers,
Speaker 1: but it was scamming people out of money on the phone.
Speaker 1: And I think that stuff became automated. But that is
Speaker 1: that is a bananas star almost as bananas as that
Speaker 1: AI Taylor Swift porn.
Speaker 4: Danny, which is yeah, I know, I have seen those photos.
Speaker 1: They say that the on X over twenty two million
Speaker 1: views of Taylor Swift made up different clips and whatnot
Speaker 1: on on social and they were asking the question, will
Speaker 1: anyone actually be prosecuted, like what would the crime be?
Speaker 1: Like what would you get in trouble for? It's AI.
Speaker 1: It's not real, it's AI. And if you went to court,
Speaker 1: what would the defense be, it's art or something like that,
Speaker 1: or how would you I don't know how that would work.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a defense you'd come up with that
Speaker 1: might get you out of that, but who who knows?
Speaker 1: And we have a follow up to the George Carlin story.
Speaker 1: We talked about this AI generated comedy special.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's right. His daughter was in the news about that.
Speaker 1: Well, there has the George Carlin estate has sued the
Speaker 1: creators of the AI generated Comedy Special. How long does
Speaker 1: that a state? Thing? Last Carlin died a number of
Speaker 1: years ago. Is there in a state of babe ruth?
Speaker 1: That probably is?
Speaker 3: I would guess as long as they have living relatives.
Speaker 1: Okay, they've sued the creators of the AI generated Comedy
Speaker 1: Special and this is a supposedly one of those turning
Speaker 1: point lawsuits, his key lawsuit over AI and celebrities. And
Speaker 1: the daughter Kelly Carlin said, we have to draw a
Speaker 1: line in the same and she said, George Carlin, the
Speaker 1: special title George Carlin, I'm glad I'm dead was the
Speaker 1: thing I didn't know and I saw I heard a
Speaker 1: little clip, but I didn't see the thing.
Speaker 3: So did Carlin make a shit a ton of money?
Speaker 2: Ben?
Speaker 4: I would think that he was really at his peak
Speaker 4: when well, I guess he was one of the heavyweights.
Speaker 4: But I'm interested to know what his net worth was
Speaker 4: when he passed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know the answer. He did do very
Speaker 1: well as he got older. His career kind of flamed
Speaker 1: out for a while and then came back as he
Speaker 1: got older, and he had a bunch of HBO comedy
Speaker 1: specialisies I'm sure pay a lot of money.
Speaker 3: It says he was worth ten million at the time
Speaker 3: of his death, all right, So.
Speaker 1: I think what we're going to do here? And when
Speaker 1: did he die? It was a long time, alright, ten years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's see when did he die? Two thousand and eight?
Speaker 4: I spen that long, yeah, it says, though not as
Speaker 4: high as some other famous comedians, his wealth was a
Speaker 4: testament to his enduring popularity and success in the industry.
Speaker 1: All right, so two thousand and eight, Right, you said
Speaker 1: that ten million. I'm turning to our trusty friend, Danny
Speaker 1: the inflation calculator. Oh, I love this thing, and we'll
Speaker 1: go sit the year to twenty twenty four we'll go
Speaker 1: back sixteen years. Okay, so that ten million, if he
Speaker 1: was worth ten million when he died, that's worth fourteen
Speaker 1: fourteen million dollars in today's month. So it's not I
Speaker 1: guess millionaire. But yeah, you're doing pretty well, doing pretty well.
Speaker 1: How about that? Just in sixteen years, it's gone up
Speaker 1: forty one percent.
Speaker 4: I'm sure family has spent some of that money in
Speaker 4: those years.
Speaker 1: You think by Nick Nacks.
Speaker 3: A couple of trips to Hawaii probably.
Speaker 1: I give or take. Yeah, all right, we'll get out
Speaker 1: anything that going on today. It's Saturday. There any no
Speaker 1: NFL games today because that's tomorrow with the championship games
Speaker 1: and all that. So anything going on with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a day of rest and probably get my
Speaker 4: butt into the garage and see if I can continue
Speaker 4: to organize. Man, you think I've been waiting a long
Speaker 4: time for the Animal Thunderdome, I've been waiting even longer
Speaker 4: to have an organized garage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it'll get organized. If it's like it's like
Speaker 1: the Malor Mansion, our garage, we'll organize it and then
Speaker 1: six months later we'll have to organize it again because
Speaker 1: it's a freaking, freaking nightmare. It's a disaster. How's little
Speaker 1: g doing? By the way, haven't gotten a little g
Speaker 1: update on how you kids.
Speaker 4: CoA is doing good today, But a couple of days
Speaker 4: ago that was not the case. Ben he had his
Speaker 4: very first allergic reaction to something.
Speaker 1: Oh what is he allergic to? I want to know.
Speaker 4: He's allergic to some lavender softener that my wife he
Speaker 4: was using on our laundry.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, because.
Speaker 4: She was holding him up against her sweater which was
Speaker 4: washed in this new softener, and half his face swelled
Speaker 4: up and broke out.
Speaker 3: They're the vice. Poor guy.
Speaker 4: He got almost what looked like an eye infection, so
Speaker 4: we had to rush down and get some baby benadrill.
Speaker 4: A couple hours later, the swelling went down, and finally
Speaker 4: a day later, all the redness went away. Man, all right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's scary because you know, we had a backtrack like
Speaker 4: what did we feed him?
Speaker 3: What did he eat?
Speaker 4: Because he's been trying out new food. My wife gave
Speaker 4: him some mashed up sweet potatoes that they sell for babies,
Speaker 4: and he spit it out. He spit it on her
Speaker 4: solid I'm not a fan of this vibe.
Speaker 3: Like you suck as parents you suck.
Speaker 1: Just the most generic laundry detertion you can possibly use,
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we're gonna have to get that kind that
Speaker 4: has no scent, no crap in it.
Speaker 3: The natural stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's what we actually use because my wife's
Speaker 1: pretty not a baby, but pretty sensitive to that. All Right,
Speaker 1: we'll get out, have a wonderful rest of your day
Speaker 1: to day. Thank you of the mail Bag podcast on
Speaker 1: Championship Sunday in the NFL. You kidding me tomorrow, We'll
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