November 5, 2025 • 7 mins
"Is it finally time to break up with turkey on Thanksgiving?"In this wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray tackle the most pressing issues of the season—from skyrocketing turkey prices to the resurrection of Mr. Pibb. It’s a food-focused frenzy filled with hilarious tangents, nostalgic soda debates, and a surprising amount of toilet humor.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle.
I want to give away those nothing more tickets are
coming to the south Side Ballroom and the first person
who's in the talkback feature on their iHeart app that
you leave your name, your phone number, your email address
and can tell us which famous juggie actress is about
to start in a movie about a real life boxer
named Christy. KT just gave us the details on it
(00:23):
because he's our movie news reporter. First person that can
name that gal, your name, your phone number, your email address,
You're gonna win those tickets. Good luck, everybody, all right.
Coming up at the top of the hour, we have
some wildlife news on the one Last Missing Monkey. But
right now it's time for this. It's time all.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Times of food news and notes. On this God day.
The US turkey flock is the smallest it's been in
forty years, and turkey prices are roughly forty percent higher
than last year thanks to a combination of things, including
the avian flu, says nearly five hundred. This is from
Axios reporting nearly five hundred and fourteen thousand turkeys have
(01:11):
been affected by fresh bird flu outbreaks in October oh
I didn't know what happened so recently.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So get this.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We were down three percent last year in turkeys, but
we're thirty six percent down from the peak in nineteen
ninety six, the year of the turkey. Turkey had never
been more prominent in nineteen ninety six. We're thirty six
percent down from that. But our good friends over at
HIB did tell Axious, hey man, our turkey supply is
strong and prices are holding steady from last year. And
(01:39):
I believe them because you could walk into an HIV
and they could tell me anything and I'd believe them.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I don't think their official quote started with a hey man,
I think it. Did he read it that way? Yeah,
it's when it's in the article, yeah, man, it's not
on a press release, so it is HIB Well, gosh,
I did I wonder about that. Like some of these stores,
they all probably go to the same people to provide
yeah supply, right. Yeah, they don't have their own turkey farm.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's like there's Tyson and then there's the Turkey family,
Fred Turkey. Their family's done turkey farms for a very
long time, and.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The rest come from the country Tury right, yep, yes, right,
the flu and all that stuff, you know, and I
think it's times of society. It's twenty twenty five. I'm
thinking about moving forward, not so much looking back. We
don't have to do turkey on Thanksgiving, folks. If you
really want to, you can. I'm just here to tell
you you have options.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Did you say it's time? It's society, it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I haven't had a drink of water in a while,
so my not. It's a little dry. Yeah, Hold on
a second. I agree with that though. To get everybody motivated,
you know, you gather everyone. Okay, I got righty go, okay, righty,
it's time. It's twenty twenty five. Okay, I got my
lips wet again. I'm good to go. All right, looks good.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Do anyon't have any more turkey thoughts? Or should I
move on to story too?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Christina?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, I will say I agree. I usually go for
ham Thanksgiving, not turkey.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I've never been a big fan of turkey, so it
is a bit overrated. Yeah, but you know, if it's
made really well, it can be extraordinary. But a lot
of times it's just too dry. That's why They always
say you can judge a barbecue restaurant by the turkey.
If they do juicy, succulent turkey, then they're doing everything
else right. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I won't man up pull out the wallet and be
like I'm going to a barbecue place and bothering them
on a busy day and showing up with really good catered,
you know, turkey from a barbecue spot. I'm not doing that.
So everyone's like, why are you bitching?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Just eat the food, dude?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
What about how expensive barbecue is? Now? Yeah? I mean,
just any if you go to a super nice place
and it's great, but it's going to be prissy. I
spent forty dollars at Taco Bell last night. Everything out
of control, Oh, a single thing. You could have just
walked it all over and dumped it out in your toilet.
I drive up to the drive through holding my toilet. Go, guys,
(03:58):
I want to expedite this process. Would you guys know
it in there?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Craps so expensive? I coupon.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
We have to refile for our license every year, and
yet you do crap like that. You guys get your
benefits turned in? What do you guys doing with this year. Yeah,
I'm gonna do normal.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Last year I did plus and it didn't do well
for me. Oh no.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Last year, you know, I was like looking at the
options because everyone cares about our Ihearts benefits. I was
looking at the options and I was like, oh, I
think I can do this. And I didn't do the research.
None of our doctors were on the phone. Oh no,
it's brutal. Oh no. Oh, which reminds me tomorrow. I
have a great customer service story for you guys tomorrow
about the war I'm at with a dermatologist. You guys
are gonna love it. We need a whole new segment
(04:47):
called Skin is at War and let's just have each
each battle. Now it's time for the crotch of the
old bitch Skin.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Last story with Food News Coca Colas rebranding Mister PIBB
twenty four years after it was discontinued. About time they're
reintroducing this.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Sure, there's a clamoring for that. I am a huge
fan of retro marketing. I know that's an obscure thing,
but I like, I believe that there are some brands
that were around back in the day that have disappeared
that have nostalgic value for people, and if you put
them back out there and you market them correctly. I'm
kind of into that. I think that's really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I'm a you know, a guilty pleasure and trying some sodas.
You know, diet coke, Love diet Coke. There's a little
soda store right around near where I lived and just
went out of business. Ode killed me. Look sometimes it's
just what I need today. Soda store. Yeah, like a
little you know, drive through.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Custom like dirty sodas.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You know, when I was a kid, the Huffines Tennis
Center was always we'd walk by it on our way
home and we'd always go in there. And like just
when you're a kid and you only have you know,
fifty cents to your name and you can buy a soa.
You know, you got Welch's orange crush, You had PEPSI,
mister pitt whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Doctor pepper. Yeah, it'll tell you a big p if
you didn't get a doctor pepper.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Where I'm from, it always pissed me off when I
was a kid when I would order doctor pepper, they go,
we don't have that, we have, mister pib Really like
that's like saying ordering pizza going, we don't have that,
we have Pistromi. Now they're not related, dude, Now that
you're you are part owner of a beer company, you
can see the way those things work, right Like, so
it's a Veni machine, it's it's all the Pepsi products,
(06:31):
or it's all the coke pus. I bet they forced
a lot of restaurants to do that too, No, they do.
But the thing I'd say is that if you're ordering
a Dr. Pepper, mister Pib is not doctor Pepper. It
just doesn't have a medical degree. I think that's a
very Texan take you have right there, because I'm a Texan.
I think Texans have slandered mister Pib because it's not
(06:51):
doctor Pepper. It's not related. It's close, it's just not.
The thing is Pepsi and RC Cola, Coca Cola, they're
all very similar. They're all Cola's, they're all cousins.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well, this new one has a thirty percent more caffeine
than Pibec's.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
About that. There you go, all right there it is
food news coming up next wildlife news. We are down
to one missing monkey in Mississippi, and we'll talk about
it now
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle.
I want to give away those nothing more tickets are
coming to the south Side Ballroom and the first person
who's in the talkback feature on their iHeart app that
you leave your name, your phone number, your email address
and can tell us which famous juggie actress is about
to start in a movie about a real life boxer
named Christy. KT just gave us the details on it
(00:23):
because he's our movie news reporter. First person that can
name that gal, your name, your phone number, your email address,
You're gonna win those tickets. Good luck, everybody, all right.
Coming up at the top of the hour, we have
some wildlife news on the one Last Missing Monkey. But
right now it's time for this. It's time all.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Times of food news and notes. On this God day.
The US turkey flock is the smallest it's been in
forty years, and turkey prices are roughly forty percent higher
than last year thanks to a combination of things, including
the avian flu, says nearly five hundred. This is from
Axios reporting nearly five hundred and fourteen thousand turkeys have
(01:11):
been affected by fresh bird flu outbreaks in October oh
I didn't know what happened so recently.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So get this.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We were down three percent last year in turkeys, but
we're thirty six percent down from the peak in nineteen
ninety six, the year of the turkey. Turkey had never
been more prominent in nineteen ninety six. We're thirty six
percent down from that. But our good friends over at
HIB did tell Axious, hey man, our turkey supply is
strong and prices are holding steady from last year. And
(01:39):
I believe them because you could walk into an HIV
and they could tell me anything and I'd believe them.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I don't think their official quote started with a hey man,
I think it. Did he read it that way? Yeah,
it's when it's in the article, yeah, man, it's not
on a press release, so it is HIB Well, gosh,
I did I wonder about that. Like some of these stores,
they all probably go to the same people to provide
yeah supply, right. Yeah, they don't have their own turkey farm.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's like there's Tyson and then there's the Turkey family,
Fred Turkey. Their family's done turkey farms for a very
long time, and.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The rest come from the country Tury right, yep, yes, right,
the flu and all that stuff, you know, and I
think it's times of society. It's twenty twenty five. I'm
thinking about moving forward, not so much looking back. We
don't have to do turkey on Thanksgiving, folks. If you
really want to, you can. I'm just here to tell
you you have options.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Did you say it's time? It's society, it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I haven't had a drink of water in a while,
so my not. It's a little dry. Yeah, Hold on
a second. I agree with that though. To get everybody motivated,
you know, you gather everyone. Okay, I got righty go, okay, righty,
it's time. It's twenty twenty five. Okay, I got my
lips wet again. I'm good to go. All right, looks good.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Do anyon't have any more turkey thoughts? Or should I
move on to story too?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Christina?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, I will say I agree. I usually go for
ham Thanksgiving, not turkey.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I've never been a big fan of turkey, so it
is a bit overrated. Yeah, but you know, if it's
made really well, it can be extraordinary. But a lot
of times it's just too dry. That's why They always
say you can judge a barbecue restaurant by the turkey.
If they do juicy, succulent turkey, then they're doing everything
else right. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I won't man up pull out the wallet and be
like I'm going to a barbecue place and bothering them
on a busy day and showing up with really good catered,
you know, turkey from a barbecue spot. I'm not doing that.
So everyone's like, why are you bitching?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Just eat the food, dude?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
What about how expensive barbecue is? Now? Yeah? I mean,
just any if you go to a super nice place
and it's great, but it's going to be prissy. I
spent forty dollars at Taco Bell last night. Everything out
of control, Oh, a single thing. You could have just
walked it all over and dumped it out in your toilet.
I drive up to the drive through holding my toilet. Go, guys,
(03:58):
I want to expedite this process. Would you guys know
it in there?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Craps so expensive? I coupon.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
We have to refile for our license every year, and
yet you do crap like that. You guys get your
benefits turned in? What do you guys doing with this year. Yeah,
I'm gonna do normal.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Last year I did plus and it didn't do well
for me. Oh no.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Last year, you know, I was like looking at the
options because everyone cares about our Ihearts benefits. I was
looking at the options and I was like, oh, I
think I can do this. And I didn't do the research.
None of our doctors were on the phone. Oh no,
it's brutal. Oh no. Oh, which reminds me tomorrow. I
have a great customer service story for you guys tomorrow
about the war I'm at with a dermatologist. You guys
are gonna love it. We need a whole new segment
(04:47):
called Skin is at War and let's just have each
each battle. Now it's time for the crotch of the
old bitch Skin.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Last story with Food News Coca Colas rebranding Mister PIBB
twenty four years after it was discontinued. About time they're
reintroducing this.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Sure, there's a clamoring for that. I am a huge
fan of retro marketing. I know that's an obscure thing,
but I like, I believe that there are some brands
that were around back in the day that have disappeared
that have nostalgic value for people, and if you put
them back out there and you market them correctly. I'm
kind of into that. I think that's really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I'm a you know, a guilty pleasure and trying some sodas.
You know, diet coke, Love diet Coke. There's a little
soda store right around near where I lived and just
went out of business. Ode killed me. Look sometimes it's
just what I need today. Soda store. Yeah, like a
little you know, drive through.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Custom like dirty sodas.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You know, when I was a kid, the Huffines Tennis
Center was always we'd walk by it on our way
home and we'd always go in there. And like just
when you're a kid and you only have you know,
fifty cents to your name and you can buy a soa.
You know, you got Welch's orange crush, You had PEPSI,
mister pitt whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Doctor pepper. Yeah, it'll tell you a big p if
you didn't get a doctor pepper.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Where I'm from, it always pissed me off when I
was a kid when I would order doctor pepper, they go,
we don't have that, we have, mister pib Really like
that's like saying ordering pizza going, we don't have that,
we have Pistromi. Now they're not related, dude, Now that
you're you are part owner of a beer company, you
can see the way those things work, right Like, so
it's a Veni machine, it's it's all the Pepsi products,
(06:31):
or it's all the coke pus. I bet they forced
a lot of restaurants to do that too, No, they do.
But the thing I'd say is that if you're ordering
a Dr. Pepper, mister Pib is not doctor Pepper. It
just doesn't have a medical degree. I think that's a
very Texan take you have right there, because I'm a Texan.
I think Texans have slandered mister Pib because it's not
(06:51):
doctor Pepper. It's not related. It's close, it's just not.
The thing is Pepsi and RC Cola, Coca Cola, they're
all very similar. They're all Cola's, they're all cousins.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well, this new one has a thirty percent more caffeine
than Pibec's.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
About that. There you go, all right there it is
food news coming up next wildlife news. We are down
to one missing monkey in Mississippi, and we'll talk about
it now
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