August 26, 2025 • 5 mins
"Could your tree be plotting against you?"In this wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray tackle one of the most unexpected—and oddly terrifying—stories to hit East Dallas: a massive tree randomly collapsing onto a woman’s SUV in broad daylight. The crew dives into the bizarre details with their signature blend of humor, curiosity, and chaos.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you excited? Featuring veteran news anchor Katie fun tweets.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The guy who covers the who, what, when, where, why
and how of every story is Channel. It's Matt Howardton
incredible or if you've never heard of him, Matt Hooderton.
Let's go to Lakewood Over in East Dallas for this
while last story. The woman was driving through Lakewood this
afternoon when a massive tree fell on her SUV. Matt
(00:32):
how we'd enjoined the slide from East Dallas, Mata.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Have you heard anything about the driver? Is she okay?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, Chris.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
She was taken to the hospital in serious condition, and
it's a miracle that she is alive. This can't be
described any other way.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But then, okay, how could this be described?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
How he's about to describe it?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Are we guessing?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, I'll let you hear the five seconds before.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
That she is alive. This can't be described any other
but then.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But then as a miracle, Nope.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
But then as an act of God nope.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Terrible accident closer, Yeah, horrific, But then a free just
can't be described.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Any other way. But then a freak accident. Anybody driving
along wind Over when this tree came toppling down, could
have been hit. She was driving her rescuvee here on
wind over that's when the tree came toppling down. There's
no word just yet how that tree came toppling down.
You could speculate maybe it's the roots, maybe it was
a little bit older. But at the moment there's no wind.
(01:36):
It's really hot outside, so not sure what caused this
tree to come falling down. But it hit this woman's scuv.
She had to be extricated out.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Okay. Also he did go on to mention that there
were kids walking to and from school in that area too,
and this tree's huge.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Do you have what time of day this happened?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Two pm?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh? Man?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Is it wind like? Oh, there's no wind? What there's
the wind yesterday?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I liked it. He speculated roots.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, okay, that's my number one root rot. Root rot's
big on root rot. If you're not watering around the
area under tree, you get root rot. If I was
watering my yard properly, I do contend I could be
wrong here, but the eighty mile per hour winds that
lifted a tree and took down my fence and also
my neighbor's fence across the alley. All of that might
(02:26):
not have happened if I had been taking care of
that tree. Now, you don't say that publicly for a
while because you don't want to be responsible for any
of it. And it probably was the tornadic activity and
the eighty mile per hour winds, but the root rot
that makes these trees weak. Eventually, these trees need that
foundation and that base, and they're just gonna start falling
now because people aren't tending to their trees correctly. We're
(02:48):
gonna see lots of trees falling in DFW in the
coming years because they got nowhere to go.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But up, are you a part time barbarus?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I have friends who work in the tree business, and
I've learned a lot about root rot over the years.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
That reminds me of that great commercial local commercial. It's
a good thing to have friends in the tree business.
Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It is.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's a good friend to have friends in many businesses,
but tree business always quick text now, yeah, we'll come
knock it out for you.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
This is the thing that I noticed most when I,
you know, leave the way away northern burbs where I
live up in prosperous Alana. And I'm driving around in Dallas,
is how mature the trees are? Yeah, Like we just
don't have that because it's a new community. So it
really stands out to me, Like just looking at the
video of this tree that fell in this lady's car,
it's Massachusetts, one hundred feet tall.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Good killed her.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Those trees are all over East Dallas. When when that
huge windstorm came through, I don't know it's I guess
it's it was before the pandemic. But over at Lakewood
Golf Club, which has been around for forever, they had
some massive trees that they had to remove because the
wind destroyed them.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Was that the one that came in on like not
not the tornado the night the cowboys are this like
Saturday or Sunday afternoon out of nowhere with no warning
and the crane hit that building down in deep Em Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yes, And some of these trees to Ben's Pointer, you know,
I bet that tree is one hundred years old, you know,
And there's no just no telling what's going on underneath
the soil.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You're literally never thinking though that a tree is going
to fall on you in life, right, I'm here to
tell you now that's a possibility if you're living in
the big d now like I was in Colorado a
couple weeks ago, you driving mountains, I'll be damned. I
was looking like, hey, let's watch for a falling rock here,
you know what the of the sign up every now
and then? Watch say that out.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Loud or just tell yourself. And your thought was in
my head, you know, I was talking to myself, Hey,
let's look for a falling around.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Then what would you say to yourself after you said.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
That, something about there's a chance if you really look
at these look at the side of the road here,
there does appear to be some huge rocks that I
fell from the mountain. Also, though a lot of good
natural water sources up in the mountains, I really have
that here. When's the last time you just saw some
water running you? You know how love to take a
little hit of that?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, I feel like you've been watching a lot of
final destination movies.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I haven't why I want to do.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
That, because these are random acts of insanity.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
This is the news. Brother.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I'm yeah, no, I'm not, I know, but you're sitting
here talking about falling rocks and stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Late, let's keep us the tree fell make sure is
out to get us right now because we haven't been
doing our part to protect its revenge.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
There is Captain Climate, mother nature.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Captain Climate strikes again.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
All right, get out there, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Oh yeah, coming up next, and coming up next, over
three minutes, it's the today game. Then cussing the cowboys.
It's all coming your way next
Are you excited? Featuring veteran news anchor Katie fun tweets.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The guy who covers the who, what, when, where, why
and how of every story is Channel. It's Matt Howardton
incredible or if you've never heard of him, Matt Hooderton.
Let's go to Lakewood Over in East Dallas for this
while last story. The woman was driving through Lakewood this
afternoon when a massive tree fell on her SUV. Matt
(00:32):
how we'd enjoined the slide from East Dallas, Mata.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Have you heard anything about the driver? Is she okay?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, Chris.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
She was taken to the hospital in serious condition, and
it's a miracle that she is alive. This can't be
described any other way.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But then, okay, how could this be described?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
How he's about to describe it?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Are we guessing?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, I'll let you hear the five seconds before.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
That she is alive. This can't be described any other
but then.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But then as a miracle, Nope.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
But then as an act of God nope.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Terrible accident closer, Yeah, horrific, But then a free just
can't be described.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Any other way. But then a freak accident. Anybody driving
along wind Over when this tree came toppling down, could
have been hit. She was driving her rescuvee here on
wind over that's when the tree came toppling down. There's
no word just yet how that tree came toppling down.
You could speculate maybe it's the roots, maybe it was
a little bit older. But at the moment there's no wind.
(01:36):
It's really hot outside, so not sure what caused this
tree to come falling down. But it hit this woman's scuv.
She had to be extricated out.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Okay. Also he did go on to mention that there
were kids walking to and from school in that area too,
and this tree's huge.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Do you have what time of day this happened?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Two pm?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh? Man?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Is it wind like? Oh, there's no wind? What there's
the wind yesterday?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I liked it. He speculated roots.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, okay, that's my number one root rot. Root rot's
big on root rot. If you're not watering around the
area under tree, you get root rot. If I was
watering my yard properly, I do contend I could be
wrong here, but the eighty mile per hour winds that
lifted a tree and took down my fence and also
my neighbor's fence across the alley. All of that might
(02:26):
not have happened if I had been taking care of
that tree. Now, you don't say that publicly for a
while because you don't want to be responsible for any
of it. And it probably was the tornadic activity and
the eighty mile per hour winds, but the root rot
that makes these trees weak. Eventually, these trees need that
foundation and that base, and they're just gonna start falling
now because people aren't tending to their trees correctly. We're
(02:48):
gonna see lots of trees falling in DFW in the
coming years because they got nowhere to go.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
But up, are you a part time barbarus?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I have friends who work in the tree business, and
I've learned a lot about root rot over the years.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
That reminds me of that great commercial local commercial. It's
a good thing to have friends in the tree business.
Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It is.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's a good friend to have friends in many businesses,
but tree business always quick text now, yeah, we'll come
knock it out for you.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
This is the thing that I noticed most when I,
you know, leave the way away northern burbs where I
live up in prosperous Alana. And I'm driving around in Dallas,
is how mature the trees are? Yeah, Like we just
don't have that because it's a new community. So it
really stands out to me, Like just looking at the
video of this tree that fell in this lady's car,
it's Massachusetts, one hundred feet tall.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Good killed her.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Those trees are all over East Dallas. When when that
huge windstorm came through, I don't know it's I guess
it's it was before the pandemic. But over at Lakewood
Golf Club, which has been around for forever, they had
some massive trees that they had to remove because the
wind destroyed them.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Was that the one that came in on like not
not the tornado the night the cowboys are this like
Saturday or Sunday afternoon out of nowhere with no warning
and the crane hit that building down in deep Em Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yes, And some of these trees to Ben's Pointer, you know,
I bet that tree is one hundred years old, you know,
And there's no just no telling what's going on underneath
the soil.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You're literally never thinking though that a tree is going
to fall on you in life, right, I'm here to
tell you now that's a possibility if you're living in
the big d now like I was in Colorado a
couple weeks ago, you driving mountains, I'll be damned. I
was looking like, hey, let's watch for a falling rock here,
you know what the of the sign up every now
and then? Watch say that out.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Loud or just tell yourself. And your thought was in
my head, you know, I was talking to myself, Hey,
let's look for a falling around.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Then what would you say to yourself after you said.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
That, something about there's a chance if you really look
at these look at the side of the road here,
there does appear to be some huge rocks that I
fell from the mountain. Also, though a lot of good
natural water sources up in the mountains, I really have
that here. When's the last time you just saw some
water running you? You know how love to take a
little hit of that?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, I feel like you've been watching a lot of
final destination movies.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I haven't why I want to do.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
That, because these are random acts of insanity.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
This is the news. Brother.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I'm yeah, no, I'm not, I know, but you're sitting
here talking about falling rocks and stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Late, let's keep us the tree fell make sure is
out to get us right now because we haven't been
doing our part to protect its revenge.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
There is Captain Climate, mother nature.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Captain Climate strikes again.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
All right, get out there, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Oh yeah, coming up next, and coming up next, over
three minutes, it's the today game. Then cussing the cowboys.
It's all coming your way next
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