Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, I think again. He's the last
Speaker 1: remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as
Speaker 1: the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house
Speaker 1: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now, just a day
Speaker 1: at the park. Well come in the beginning of another
Speaker 1: edition of The Fifth Hour with I Ben Mallard. Because
Speaker 1: four hours a night are not enough, We do this
Speaker 1: eight days a week from the special Mallard podcast Studio
Speaker 1: Deep in the north Woods. And this, of course they
Speaker 1: spin off of the Overnight Show five nights a week.
Speaker 1: But this is only available in the podcast format. You
Speaker 1: found it. We thank you, Tell a friend, Tell a friend,
Speaker 1: and download. Continue to support the podcast The Fifth Hour,
Speaker 1: which is much different than the radio show. And let's
Speaker 1: just not and let's just not all that much different
Speaker 1: than the radio show. So this Saturday podcast a solo show,
Speaker 1: a solo show. Uh, we will not be sullied by
Speaker 1: anyone West of the four or five or anyone else
Speaker 1: for that matter. It is only I you're stuck with me,
Speaker 1: Big Ben for this hour now before we get into it,
Speaker 1: and I give you the rundown of what's on the
Speaker 1: menu here at Benny's Pistro. Don't forget cameo dot com.
Speaker 1: I just had a conversation this week with a buddy
Speaker 1: of mine used to work with who does TV and
Speaker 1: we're talking about cameo dot com and they were buying
Speaker 1: some cameos for random people to goof on them. And uh,
Speaker 1: and I'm open. I'm open to that if you if
Speaker 1: you wanna buy a cameo and have me goof on someone,
Speaker 1: We've we've had that already happened with one of our
Speaker 1: friends in Australia. UM, and you can join the fun
Speaker 1: on that. It's cameo dot com. Search my name out now.
Speaker 1: I would recommend if you do buy a cameo to
Speaker 1: do it on their website because if you do on
Speaker 1: your phone, they end up taking, you know, taking a
Speaker 1: bunch off the top. But anyway, coming up on this hour,
Speaker 1: the fifth hour, we will have among other things, glass Man, Ravine,
Speaker 1: return bother some Benny and time permitting, we will get scientifical.
Speaker 1: We'll get scientifical. So those are the things that in
Speaker 1: my head that we will we will brighten up your
Speaker 1: day with unless we don't. But we begin with the
Speaker 1: glass Man. I've been told by more than one member
Speaker 1: of the Malam militia that the Saturday podcast, as we
Speaker 1: chew over the events of the weekend, is really about
Speaker 1: the life of Mallard. Okay, that's what it's about, and
Speaker 1: that's what that's that interesting. It's really not. But I'm
Speaker 1: able to tell stories here that I don't tell on
Speaker 1: the overnight show for whatever reason, because of time restraints
Speaker 1: or just the way the show is set up. So
Speaker 1: the life of Mallard the glass Man. Last weekend, likely
Speaker 1: while you were listening to the podcast, I spent much
Speaker 1: of my time doing for me physical labor. Now keep
Speaker 1: in mind that you might have a job where you
Speaker 1: you actually use your body. I pretty much use my mouth.
Speaker 1: That's it. I'm a big mouth and I talk a lot.
Speaker 1: That's my gig. So physical labor is not something that
Speaker 1: I take part in. Last weekend, though, I was slaving
Speaker 1: away on my hands and knees and my exaggerating, and
Speaker 1: I was outside the great outdoors outside the new Mallard mansion,
Speaker 1: still in renovation and mission broken glass. I was the
Speaker 1: glass man as I sifted through all of the rubbish,
Speaker 1: all of the wreckage from a mass renovation which is
Speaker 1: still not even done. But I had the shop back
Speaker 1: out and was methodically searching through dirt, plants, you name it,
Speaker 1: the driveway, the whole thing, trying to track down broken glass.
Speaker 1: What a pain in the dairy air The tookis the
Speaker 1: but donka don't care you want to call it my goodness. Now,
Speaker 1: the contractors who have done a pretty good job with
Speaker 1: everything they've done on the house. One area, if I'm
Speaker 1: in a nip pick, we can agree on that they've
Speaker 1: screwed up is the cleaning up after yourself part of
Speaker 1: the equation, and that is something that has not been
Speaker 1: followed the thoughtically. And so I was the one methodically
Speaker 1: searching for the broken glass, as we said, and cleaning
Speaker 1: up the mess. They had a couple of windows they
Speaker 1: decided they needed to get rid of, and they just
Speaker 1: tossed them down and they broke and shattered into a
Speaker 1: gazillion pieces, as glass is known to do. As glass
Speaker 1: is not due No, I am. I'm happy to report
Speaker 1: that after several hours of going over everything like a
Speaker 1: bat out of hell. I was able to scoop up
Speaker 1: approximately using Mallard math, nine percent of the broken glass.
Speaker 1: Tell me, you're not impressed. You're not impressed, all right,
Speaker 1: but I did it. So I'm glassman Mallard, you can
Speaker 1: call me that. And I still have some more work
Speaker 1: to do because the back of a house I have
Speaker 1: not even touched that. I was just embarrassed because the
Speaker 1: front of the house where random people can go by
Speaker 1: and say, Wow, what kind of disheveled pig lives in
Speaker 1: that house? So we felt some shame out of vanity
Speaker 1: and we went and I went and picked up the glass.
Speaker 1: That was a solo act, by the way, so one
Speaker 1: man band. That was not a collaborative effort. It was not. Now.
Speaker 1: Part of that is because I was the only one
Speaker 1: there at the time doing it. But there you go,
Speaker 1: all right. Now, As for the Ravine return, turning the
Speaker 1: page on the Ravine return, it was quite the night.
Speaker 1: Back on Wednesday, I made my triumphant return the Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: a place I pretty much grew up at. And when
Speaker 1: I say I grew up there, I'm talking about in
Speaker 1: the radio business. I cut my teeth spending many nights
Speaker 1: in the press box at Dodger Stadium an old, long
Speaker 1: lost friend. I had not been to a game at
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium since twenty nineteen. The Dodgers were playing the
Speaker 1: Washington Nationals that natitude and got smacked around as Joe
Speaker 1: Kelly and others took a ride on the vomit comment
Speaker 1: in that game. But it's been almost two full years
Speaker 1: and I did attend. If you listen to the radio show,
Speaker 1: you know I waxed poetic a few nights ago about
Speaker 1: the National League Wild Card game with the Cardinals. Now
Speaker 1: I understand as I am talking to you right now,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and Giants have already started the Divisional series.
Speaker 1: It is underway. However, when this podcast was recorded live
Speaker 1: on tape, it was before game one of the NLDS.
Speaker 1: And I like saying live on tape because I used
Speaker 1: to work with this guy that gave me terrible real
Speaker 1: estate advice on the weekends, and he would fly off
Speaker 1: the handle when I'd say live on tape, and he
Speaker 1: would say, well, you you can't have both. You can
Speaker 1: be on tape or you can be live, but you
Speaker 1: can't be live on tape because the moment it's on tape.
Speaker 1: It's no longer live, and I pointed out, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but recorded live on tape. There's no edits in this.
Speaker 1: It's just one man barking into a microphone for as
Speaker 1: long as that person can bark into a microphone and
Speaker 1: then shutting up randomly. But with that being said, I
Speaker 1: will tell a story that I have not told before
Speaker 1: and hopefully will not get me in too much trouble
Speaker 1: on this podcast. So this is a global exclusive, a
Speaker 1: global exclude that sounds really impressive on the Ravine return.
Speaker 1: So I came close to being banished from Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: not allowed in to attend the game against St. Louis
Speaker 1: earlier this week. So let me let me paint the
Speaker 1: picture and tell you what I was going through. And
Speaker 1: it happened earlier in the day that the game started.
Speaker 1: The Dodger Cardinal game started at five o'clock and I
Speaker 1: got there at approximately one th That's a that's a
Speaker 1: lot of time to kill before the game. Now, the
Speaker 1: reason I got there, there were a couple of reasons
Speaker 1: I got there that early. H parking it was a
Speaker 1: big thing. The earlier you get there, the better the parking. Also,
Speaker 1: the earlier you get there. The less traffic and living
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, the l A area here, the traffic
Speaker 1: is a freaking nightmare. And so anything I can do
Speaker 1: lack of sleep for less traffic, I will make that
Speaker 1: change seven days a week and twice on Sunday. So
Speaker 1: I got there early, and as is the protocol, you
Speaker 1: get there, you park your car, you go and you
Speaker 1: have to go to this media will call to pick
Speaker 1: up your your past. So I got to the will
Speaker 1: call and usually you got to pull out your driver's
Speaker 1: license and you hand your driver's license over they make
Speaker 1: sure you're legit. But this was different. I got to
Speaker 1: the Dodger stating will call and they they asked for
Speaker 1: my vaccination card. Now keep in mind, if you've listened
Speaker 1: to the show, you know that I am vaccinated, but
Speaker 1: I don't carry the vaccination card around me, around with me.
Speaker 1: I don't, uh. And I actually find it offensive when
Speaker 1: people will show me your vaccination papers. Uh. It is annoying.
Speaker 1: It is an inconvenience, and it's just wrong. It just
Speaker 1: feels wrong. Am I Am I crazy to say that?
Speaker 1: It just feels wrong that anyway, and even I'm vaccinated,
Speaker 1: I think it's ridiculous. Anyway. So the person that was
Speaker 1: at the will call booth would not allow me to
Speaker 1: enter the ballpark. We're not hand over the card vential
Speaker 1: until I showed proof of the vaccination. Oh. The problem
Speaker 1: was I didn't have the vaccine card. I don't care
Speaker 1: it with me. And you said, well, what about a
Speaker 1: photo like I couldn't find it. I know it was
Speaker 1: on my phone somewhere, but I wasn't expecting this, and
Speaker 1: I I had no idea where it was. So I
Speaker 1: called my wife and and she keeps track of that stuff.
Speaker 1: She's the one that recommended strongly wink wink, not not
Speaker 1: that I get vaccinated, and so that and some other factors.
Speaker 1: I did it. And so I had the vaccine head
Speaker 1: the vaccine, and but I called my I called my
Speaker 1: wife and I said, hey, I need some help, ring ring,
Speaker 1: no answer. I called her again, ring ring, no answer,
Speaker 1: called her again, ring, ring, no answer. And this goes
Speaker 1: on for about fifteen minutes. And I'm not exagger so
Speaker 1: I'm I'm like a dufus out here. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a sandwich board. Kick me as I'm standing outside,
Speaker 1: and the the Dodgers employee says, well, you know they're
Speaker 1: gonna check with Major League Baseball to see what the
Speaker 1: protocol is with Major League Baseball. So now not only
Speaker 1: am I I feeling like a donkey, I'm feeling just
Speaker 1: ridiculous here, but now this has gone to a higher level.
Speaker 1: Now this is going to corporate, This is going to
Speaker 1: the head of Major League Baseball PR. You know, I
Speaker 1: should we let this guy in. So they get together,
Speaker 1: they have a meeting, and they compromise and say, well,
Speaker 1: since I didn't show them the vaccine paper even though
Speaker 1: I was vaccinated, and I told him, I said, just
Speaker 1: go to the the database. You've got that data base,
Speaker 1: going there and check and they said, we don't have
Speaker 1: access to it. Whatever. So I said, you're allowed in,
Speaker 1: but you're only allowed in the press box, and you
Speaker 1: can't go near the unwashed players on the feet old
Speaker 1: or the interview room. So essentially, as far as media
Speaker 1: is concerned, it was like a form of house arrest.
Speaker 1: It's like you can stay at your house, but you
Speaker 1: can't go anywhere else. Now, Fortunately, after about about thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: I was able to track down finally got ahold of
Speaker 1: my wife and she directed me to where I needed
Speaker 1: to go. The vaccine card the photo of it, and
Speaker 1: so I went back and the Dodgers were kind and
Speaker 1: they issued a mia colpa to me and said, Okay,
Speaker 1: you are allowed to go where we banned you from.
Speaker 1: But what a pain in the behind. And I have
Speaker 1: noticed now I've only been going to the game's getting
Speaker 1: out of the house here recently, the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: but I have noticed that a lot of people I
Speaker 1: don't really want to be doing the things that they're
Speaker 1: being asked to do. As far as the the busybody
Speaker 1: some woeld say bullshit that they're doing, but they're doing
Speaker 1: it because they're told to do it. I've noticed that
Speaker 1: attitude from multiple people. I will not name names because
Speaker 1: not here to get anyone in trouble. But it had
Speaker 1: a happy ending. I got into the stadium and the
Speaker 1: game itself, well, that's that actually leads us to the
Speaker 1: bothersome Benny not one of my official nicknames. That is
Speaker 1: not and we might have to add that if senior
Speaker 1: fellows of the Mallard Militia. I like that term. That's
Speaker 1: the new term that a lot of political shows. It's uh,
Speaker 1: you're an expert, you're a fellow or fellow senior Fellow
Speaker 1: of the So and So Institute, but that is not
Speaker 1: an official nickname. It is not. I am known, among
Speaker 1: other things, is the spin Master of misinformation, the bannering Broadcaster.
Speaker 1: I've been called the Beethoven of bs, Curmudgeon of commentary,
Speaker 1: Chasm of sarcasm, the Czar of Zany, the dark Night
Speaker 1: of week night sports radio, the Mogul of mischief, Benny,
Speaker 1: the Brazen King of zing, Moneyball Mallard Benny the Popper,
Speaker 1: Facetious Fox, Sultan of insulting, the Shaman of schadenfreude, the
Speaker 1: jumping Jack of wisecrack, Insight of overnight medicine Man Mallard
Speaker 1: Neighbob of negativity, Sage of outrage, Pinnacle of cynical Prince
Speaker 1: of preposters, Professor of propaganda, Wizard of wisdom, Hussar of hyperbole,
Speaker 1: and the mad Hatter of sports tender. That's actually about
Speaker 1: half of my nicknames. But bothersome Benny is not on
Speaker 1: that list. It is not on that list. And while
Speaker 1: the Dodger Cardinal Game I almost did not get into
Speaker 1: because of the lack of vaccination proof, even though I
Speaker 1: did have the vaccine UH, this game was Nippentuck. He was.
Speaker 1: It was a barn murder or a ball burner, depending
Speaker 1: how you look at it. So, as I have explained,
Speaker 1: as a member of the media, I was in the
Speaker 1: press box. And there is a code of conduct if
Speaker 1: you've ever worked in the media or no people in
Speaker 1: the media that work in sports media. There's a code
Speaker 1: that goes back many years and people have written books
Speaker 1: about it. No cheering in the press box. And this
Speaker 1: goes back to the theory, the belief that the sports media,
Speaker 1: just like the other media as a whole, are unbiased
Speaker 1: arbitrators of sport. Now you know, and I know that
Speaker 1: that is manure. It's horse manure. When I first started,
Speaker 1: I was bright eyed and bushy tail, and I like
Speaker 1: to believe that that you were just completely neutral. You
Speaker 1: were neutral. But having lived life and seeing the light,
Speaker 1: I've seen a thing or two. Unbiased media does not exist,
Speaker 1: whether it's political, sports news, it does not, in fact unbiased.
Speaker 1: If if you come across someone that says they're unbissed,
Speaker 1: I like to get around on the radio show and say,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm Switzerland, this, that and the other thing,
Speaker 1: tongue firmly planted in cheek, but in all seriousness, unbiased
Speaker 1: does not exist. Anyone that says they're unbiased is fake.
Speaker 1: And that goes all the way from the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: justices to the very bottom of the food chain. Whoever
Speaker 1: you think that might be at the bottom of the
Speaker 1: food chain. You can fill in the blank on that.
Speaker 1: But everyone is compromised by their life experience, the things
Speaker 1: you do in life, right, family, you grow up in
Speaker 1: the religion, whether you have religion or you don't have religion,
Speaker 1: your life, all of the things that pop up, the
Speaker 1: random events, those of the things that shape you. Right,
Speaker 1: life is just a series of decisions that each one
Speaker 1: leads to another decision. It's like a game show, and
Speaker 1: all of those decisions lead to biases. Anyway, I'm getting
Speaker 1: little carried away here, but get to the point, please,
Speaker 1: So all of that leading to this during the Dodger
Speaker 1: game against the Cardinals the other night, not obviously the
Speaker 1: Dodger Giants game, which was played on Friday. But as
Speaker 1: we're doing this, I don't really know who one you
Speaker 1: know more than I know, because we're recording this live
Speaker 1: on tape again before Dodgers and Giants on a Friday.
Speaker 1: So I was sitting with a bunch of hard oh reporters,
Speaker 1: the kind of people that take their job very seriously.
Speaker 1: And I get it. I take my job seriously. I
Speaker 1: try to do a professional job, but I also am
Speaker 1: a goofball, okay, and I take liberties. I admit it,
Speaker 1: you know, I take liberties. So I'm sitting there with
Speaker 1: these guys, and some of these people are my friends.
Speaker 1: Some of these people I've known for many years. Some
Speaker 1: I've never met. There's a lot of new people, the
Speaker 1: new wave that's taken over. So I'm in here and
Speaker 1: I'm agonizing because I know that there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: trolls that are pigs in slop, just waiting, just waiting
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers to go belly up right from the
Speaker 1: bottom of their hearts. They're hoping that. They're hoping the
Speaker 1: Dodgers lives and and many of you, and I know
Speaker 1: who you are. I've been doing this a while, all right.
Speaker 1: It's not my first circus, and I know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people they don't give a rat's ass about
Speaker 1: the Dodgers or the Cardinals, but they just want to
Speaker 1: see me in agony. And I get it. The show
Speaker 1: is all about busting each other's balls. I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: opposed to that. I'd like to to goof on Eddie
Speaker 1: and Coop and Robero, and they all like to goofle
Speaker 1: on me. It's all part of the deal. So here
Speaker 1: I am hanging out with all these people and again
Speaker 1: I know some of them. Whatever, and I'm just being tortured.
Speaker 1: Cardinals scored first. That's a bad mark on the Malley
Speaker 1: report card. Uh, and the Dodgers had some opportunities couldn't
Speaker 1: come through. Now, keep in mind, on the outside while
Speaker 1: this is going on, I am mr calm, I'm composed,
Speaker 1: I'm unconcerned on the outside. So I'm sitting on my
Speaker 1: on my computer. I got the game on, you know,
Speaker 1: right in front of me, and I'm getting rather impatient
Speaker 1: and on the inside, mistake after mistake from the Dodgers
Speaker 1: seemed like they were more than they were actually worri mean,
Speaker 1: looking back on it, there weren't that many mistakes, but
Speaker 1: in my head, there were a lot. And so I'm
Speaker 1: raging on the inside. So what I did was I
Speaker 1: went down the path of becoming bothersome Benny. And so
Speaker 1: I can't talk to these people about what's going on
Speaker 1: because these people will go bonkers. So what am I
Speaker 1: to do? And so I had an epiphany, and I said,
Speaker 1: you know what I gotta do. I gotta go to
Speaker 1: my guy, Roberto. He feels my agony. Roberto is a
Speaker 1: Dodger fan. He's a better fan than me. He's got
Speaker 1: a whole closet filled with Dodger paraffin is. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna blow off some steam here. I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: texting Roberto because the people I was around who would
Speaker 1: have criticized me if I had pointed out my thoughts
Speaker 1: on the game, You know, I just was sending a
Speaker 1: flurry of text messages. I talked about it a little
Speaker 1: bit on the radio show the other night, if you're listening.
Speaker 1: But I just kept sending these messages to Roberto like
Speaker 1: everything that was happening, and I was like, oh, the's
Speaker 1: share the agony. Unfortunately, and I didn't realize this until
Speaker 1: later on, Roberto pointed it out. Since I was actually
Speaker 1: in the ballpark, I was getting the live unfiltered feed. Well,
Speaker 1: Roberto was not. Roberto was watching the game. There's a
Speaker 1: long delay when you watch a game, it goes up
Speaker 1: to the satellite. It comes back down, it goes if
Speaker 1: you have a cable package, it goes to the cable
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of moving parts. It's at least
Speaker 1: of thirty second delay. And here I am spoiling Roberto's
Speaker 1: enjoyment of the Dodger game, and I'm causing him even
Speaker 1: more anxiety because I'm telling him bad ship is happening
Speaker 1: before it happens. So then he's watching and he knows
Speaker 1: the other shoes about to drop. And so that was
Speaker 1: that was how I spent much of that particular day,
Speaker 1: and Roberto was it was a relative good sport. He
Speaker 1: did ask me to wait a few more seconds before
Speaker 1: I sent him text messages when things weren't really bad.
Speaker 1: And so so that's my new thing now. Now when
Speaker 1: I need to vent, I'll just go to Roberto and
Speaker 1: I convent and he convented me, and that we can
Speaker 1: go back and forth. Absolutely again, I want to thank
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, in particular, the Dodgers will not be in
Speaker 1: the series with the Giants if it was not for
Speaker 1: the entire collective St. Louis Cardinal offense to be as
Speaker 1: smooth as ex lax. Uh my goodness, saw wing badda
Speaker 1: saw bada. It looks like the media game that I've
Speaker 1: played in a Dodger stadium, where there is swinging at
Speaker 1: pitches here, there, and everywhere, getting bug eyed and tight
Speaker 1: took his syndrome. So much for the Cardinals being the
Speaker 1: sleeping giant that so many of my Midwestern friends were
Speaker 1: telling me seventeen wins in a row, the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: in trouble. Well they weren't not that game. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: they were actually in trouble, but they won the game anyway.
Speaker 1: All right, moving on, let's get scientifical. Let's get side
Speaker 1: and tifficual. So this is a trip you to Penn
Speaker 1: and Teller. They had a show called Bullshit, and so
Speaker 1: the way this works, I I love these studies and
Speaker 1: scientifical stories. I don't use a lot of them on
Speaker 1: the radio show. It's a sports talk radio program. Why
Speaker 1: would I use a lot of science on the show.
Speaker 1: There'll be no reason to do that. So I save
Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff for the podcast. I mean,
Speaker 1: I read it anyway. Sometimes I don't bring it up
Speaker 1: on the podcast. But some of these science stories of
Speaker 1: the week, you can soon take a balloon ride into space.
Speaker 1: See that story this week? Yeah, space tourism. It's right
Speaker 1: out of when I was a kid, there was a
Speaker 1: cartoon called the Jetsons, and this is right out of that.
Speaker 1: Space tourism will be offering this business will be offering
Speaker 1: its first commercial flights to the heavens by two. That
Speaker 1: seems like it's a long way away, but it's not
Speaker 1: that long. It's gonna be in a blink of an eye.
Speaker 1: So how much is it gonna cost for a seat
Speaker 1: to go to space? I'm glad you asked. The group
Speaker 1: called Worldview Enterprises will be charging wait for it, wait
Speaker 1: for it, fifty thousand dollars fifty g s to go
Speaker 1: into outer space. That actually doesn't seem that bad. The
Speaker 1: way this works. It's not your traditional rocket ship. It's
Speaker 1: a balloon based system and it's based out of Tucson, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Shout out my old friend Rich Herrera, radio legend in Tucson, Arizona.
Speaker 1: So the according story here, it'll take people up to
Speaker 1: an altitude of a hundred thousand feet or eighteen miles
Speaker 1: in the stratosphere. Now keep in mind, technically that is
Speaker 1: not considered outer space according to NASA. The fine folks
Speaker 1: over at NASA, they say that to get out to space,
Speaker 1: you have to be fifty miles of altitude, so eighteen
Speaker 1: miles is not even halfway to space, at least by
Speaker 1: the measuring stick of NASA. But the company the Space
Speaker 1: Tourism for firm worldview. They say that passengers will see
Speaker 1: the curvature of the Earth and the blackness of space. Now, rides,
Speaker 1: how long are you gonna last? I'm glad you asked.
Speaker 1: Rides are expected to last about six to eight hours,
Speaker 1: but they plan to also offer a five day adventure
Speaker 1: that will see passengers fly over historic landmarks like you
Speaker 1: name it, Disneyland, the Great Wall of China, go down
Speaker 1: the List, the Great Barrier, Reef and on and on
Speaker 1: and on and on. So a couple of random thoughts
Speaker 1: about this. I can't believe it's actually gonna happen, that
Speaker 1: we're that close to having space tourism, and you figure
Speaker 1: over time the price is gonna go down. Uh number two?
Speaker 1: What could possibly go wrong? Right? I mean, you assume
Speaker 1: that there's a margin of error on anything, and you
Speaker 1: have to take the risk. But that's a that's a
Speaker 1: fair amount of risk if you're a hundred thousand feet
Speaker 1: up and anything goes wrong. I'm thinking they're not coming
Speaker 1: to get you. I'm thinking that's it lights out, But
Speaker 1: good luck. Kyrie Irving should do that. Get up there
Speaker 1: and see if the Earth is flat or not. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Speaker 1: All right, what else do we have? Let's get scientifical now.
Speaker 1: A lot of women like the temperature to be a
Speaker 1: little warm, men like it to be a little colder.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's just the norm. And according to
Speaker 1: a new study, the reason that the women amongst us
Speaker 1: prefer warmer temperatures is said to be because of evolution.
Speaker 1: It's all because of evolution, that's what this new study says.
Speaker 1: And the female members of the species are naturally drawn
Speaker 1: to warmer temperatures. Right. We know that experts studied around
Speaker 1: eleven thousand birds and bats using data collected over forty years,
Speaker 1: and the research suggesting that women feel the cold more
Speaker 1: due to variations in metabolism. You can blame your metabolism.
Speaker 1: What else do we have to see? Page down here?
Speaker 1: Page down? NASA? This is out of Star Wars. NASA
Speaker 1: set to launch a mission to deflect an asteroid that
Speaker 1: is on track to hit Earth. This is going to happen,
Speaker 1: not a year from now, not two years from now,
Speaker 1: not three years from now. Wait for it. How about November.
Speaker 1: We're in October. This is gonna happen in November. Nothing
Speaker 1: to see here, Everything will be fine. Don't worry, don't worry.
Speaker 1: Planetary Defense is the headline in the story. NASA set
Speaker 1: to launch a mission to save the planet, to deflect
Speaker 1: what is described as a devastating asteroid that it's on
Speaker 1: its way from you know, the heavens, the Cosmos, the
Speaker 1: heating Earth. So what are they gonna do. They're gonna
Speaker 1: nudge it with a spacecraft. According to NASA, the mission
Speaker 1: has been planned. They're targeting a late November launch. The
Speaker 1: Dart spacecraft will head towards the asteroid November aboard a
Speaker 1: space X Falcon nine rocket, and if it works, the
Speaker 1: threat to Earth will be eliminated. According to NASA, there
Speaker 1: are over twenty five thousand near Earth objects that have
Speaker 1: been discovered, and this particular item, uh, this says Camp
Speaker 1: came within some coming within three point seven million miles
Speaker 1: of of of Earth. They I guess they've done this before. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think this um kind of skimming this article. They
Speaker 1: said back in a couple of years ago, three. That's
Speaker 1: that's more than a couple of years ago. So anyway,
Speaker 1: the point of the story is they're going to deflect
Speaker 1: an asteroid. If it works, imagine keeping track. There's endless
Speaker 1: amounts of asteroids and being the one to keep tracking. Now,
Speaker 1: speaking of asteroids, this is a very space heavy edition
Speaker 1: of Let's get scientifical. We go where the news is,
Speaker 1: we go where the new us this So this one,
Speaker 1: NASA is also going to launch a different mission. And uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if NASA necessarily be the ones behind this,
Speaker 1: but there's so many asteroids near Earth, and they claim
Speaker 1: those that follow this and do this for a living
Speaker 1: that study asteroids. There are tons of asteroids that are
Speaker 1: almost entirely made out of metal. And so according to
Speaker 1: another new study, as we get scientifical, uh, this new
Speaker 1: study says that the technology will be there two mine
Speaker 1: metal off of these asteroids. The near Earth asteroids made
Speaker 1: up of almost eighty five metal talking about iron and nickel,
Speaker 1: things like that. Uh, and they claim that just one
Speaker 1: could be worth eleven trillion dollars. Let me repeat that
Speaker 1: eleven trillion with a t as in Texas could be
Speaker 1: mined for their precious resources. Yeah, so this is also
Speaker 1: out of a science fiction type deal. But NASA is
Speaker 1: sending a mission that will arrive in and the they're
Speaker 1: using the technology here. They're saying that the metals could
Speaker 1: be used on Earth for and also for space construction,
Speaker 1: such as when they go to Mars and or the
Speaker 1: Moon and they put colonies and you need metal. Well,
Speaker 1: if you need metal, it's cheaper just to get it
Speaker 1: off an asteroid than it is to bring it from
Speaker 1: planet Earth. So this is wild. That's like head spinning stuff.
Speaker 1: That ay, they've figured out that the asteroids have this,
Speaker 1: and be they think they have the technology or will
Speaker 1: have the technology shortly two take those asteroids and just
Speaker 1: be able to use the resources the iron, the nickel,
Speaker 1: and and gold. Do I say gold? Never underestimate, never
Speaker 1: underestimate the greed when you see dollar amounts. Many of
Speaker 1: the greatest accomplishments in humanity have been because of eyeballs
Speaker 1: bugging out. You know, I can get rich if I
Speaker 1: can come up with X, Y, and Z, I will
Speaker 1: make a gazillion dollars, right, I mean, I don't blame
Speaker 1: people for doing that. Why wouldn't you If you can
Speaker 1: do it, that's the way to go absolutely all right.
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