August 5, 2025 • 6 mins
"What would you do if a bat flew into your mouth while stargazing in a cave?"In this jaw-dropping, laugh-packed episode of The Ben and Skin Show, the crew unpacks one of the wildest wildlife encounters you’ll ever hear: a woman taking photos in a national park ends up with a bat in her mouth. Yes, you read that right. The bat gets stuck between her face and camera, and her reaction? “It tasted a little earthy… a little sweet.” 🤢Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the bizarre details, including the $21,000 hospital bill for a rabies shot, the terrifying reality of Cobra insurance, and the philosophical question: Would you roll the dice on rabies to avoid medical debt?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show. Nwe on Point one the Eagle.
Hopefully you're the lucky person to win those Pantera tickets.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yes, I'm talking to all of you. Sometime in the
next couple hours you'll have a chance to win. We're
giving them away every day this week on the Ben
and Skin Show. They're coming September third to the Dosekis Pavilion.
Good luck everybody. We have around the sports here in
about a half an hour with a massive concession failure
that I think you're going to enjoy. But right now
(00:25):
it's time for this.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Well a wildlife, a wildlfel lady really likes going to
national parks.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
She went with her dad.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
This is Lady Paul in her thirties maybe something like that,
and granks going to caves and take pictures of the
sky and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Likes to go be adventurous.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Takes pictures inside a cave of the sky.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yeah, you go down into the cave and shoo up
into the sky.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Badass.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Oh yeah, in the caverns.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
It's like the stalagmites or stalk tights, whatever, which one's ols. Well,
she's doing this and then this happened.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
It's a day eraic Ka Khan will never forget.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
We love to go to National Park.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
They went to a.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Horseshoe bent to take some pictures at night when she
noticed something flying right above her.
Speaker 8 (01:25):
We kind of heard and saw some baths playing around.
Never would have thought that one would fly into my face.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
She was in the middle of taking a picture of
the sky when she says, a bat flew right into
her face and got stuck between her mouth and the camera.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Her natural reaction.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Was the screen and they went into my mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Making her scream even more.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
It was a freak accident.
Speaker 8 (01:46):
I got a taste of it, and it tastes a
little earthy, little sweet, if you're wondering.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
She spat the bat out and it flew away. Con
says she wasn't bitten, but her dad, who was a doctor,
told her she needed to go to the hospital right
away to get a raby shot. The problem is Con
says she didn't have health insurance.
Speaker 8 (02:03):
Close to twenty one thousand dollars bill. Yeah, cobra is expensive,
but it's more expensive to get these twenty thousand dollars
bills when a bat flies into your mouth.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
So she took the risk of not getting cobra with
a dad who's a doctor's doctor, probably thinking my dad's
a doctor, he'll figure that out.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
If is there more audio here, that's it, because I
would like to hear the very first thing she says.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
She sounds like female mcloven.
Speaker 8 (02:30):
Love to go to national parks, like female mcleven.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
That's incredible, all right, Muhammad is a common name.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Read a book.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That is one of the greatest scenes in the history
of movie.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It's so amazing.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Wow, love to go to national parks.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Oh my god, the park.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
That is incredible.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
How does bag it stuck between her mouth and the cam?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It must have flown up or did she when it came?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Man, Well, what the hell it is weird.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
But also if you have flash on your camera, you
shouldn't be surprised bats are flying at your face.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, man, the cobra. The cobra thing is terrifying. Like
in any times we've been in this situation where you've
got to pay for your own insurance, it can be
an absolute nightmare, and just healthcare in general. Like so
we've talked about this, but my wife and two of
my kids suffer from vasovagel, which means they could.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Just pass out.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Skin has it, They could just pass out at any point.
There's different triggers for different people. Well, we've learned that.
With my daughter it's when she's dehydrated, and it usually
happens a stressful situation and she's dehydrated. My son it's
if he's overheated. My wife if she's had a quart
of wine. And so there's these different things that triggered them.
(03:53):
And so when they first happened, you like you're outside,
like with my son, and you see him pass out, like,
oh my god, get an ambulance. But as it happens
over and over again, you realize not to be concerned.
So my daughter at summer camp a couple weeks ago,
she passed out. She passed out cold in front of
her whole camp and they were freaked out. They were
panicking and we're like, now give her some water, Like
(04:16):
we're it's just you know what I mean. It's like, uh, put.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
A cold rag on her wrist or on her forehead,
you'll pop right.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And it's like everybody's different, right, Like for her, it's
if she gets dehydrated, it's gonna happen. I've paid for
huge ambulance rides. You know, it's like, pay four grand
for an ambulance ride, and then you realize, oh, she's
just dehydrated. Okay, let's save four grand and just take
her to go get a bottle of water.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's it's that vase of aagel thing is so crazy.
One of the most humiliating experiences I've ever had was
on a plane trip with Ben and our buddy Anthony
de Vincenzo. We were flying the Hilton Head for a
golf tournament like it was sponsored by ESPN, and it
was real early on a Saturday morning, and I was
crammed in a seat and I started to get vase
of agel. I was on the back row and the
guy next to me is a big, giant dude. He goes,
(04:59):
do you need to get up? Like he could tell,
and I was like yes. And I was right back
by where the little stewardess station is at the back
of the plane. So I just walked back there. We
hadn't even taken off yet. I walked back there and
I just laid down. I was like, I need to
lay down for thirty seconds, and the stewardess went to
war with me.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Like, you cannot be back here.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Did you drink too?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Like she was like scolding me and not being in
a good stage a state of mind. I just said, bitch,
let me lay here for thirty seconds. Get out of
my face. So they called it. They went on the plane,
they asked for a doctor. The doctor come came and
took my blood pressure, which when you have is vegel,
your blood pressure is dangerously low. It's gonna come back
(05:42):
in three minutes. I told the doctor. He goes, I know,
I understand, but I have to tell him. They made
me exit the plane when we landed, despite the fact
I was one hundred percent healthy in a wheelchair and
Ben and Devincenzo are taking pictures of me and laughing
at me.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
They made me.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It was so embarrassing. I'm like, this is a three
minute problem. Just let me put ice on my wrist.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
But now, Yeah, they're probably worried about, like getting into
legal troupe. People probably sue so much for everything, right,
They're probably just protecting themselves, you know, if.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
A bat flies in your mouth. Though just kind of
rolled the desk. I don't have rabies. Rabies didn't happen
that often the fact it only happens blo is it? Yeah,
like thousand times? I mean this kid thousand years or something.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Let's gets into the this goes back to the poop
too thing, like what are you willing to pay for
that medical coverage?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Like at some point it's so expensive that you're like,
if I got rabies, I got rabies. Like, if it's
twenty one grand, twenty one grand for you to make
sure that I don't have rabies, I think I'll roll
the DIC.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I'll literally never pay that off.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Right, It's it's hardcore man.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
All Right. There you have it.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
There's the wildlife news coming up next. It's a news quickie.
We have a very important story about Fort Dingleberry. It's
next
Ben and Skin Show. Nwe on Point one the Eagle.
Hopefully you're the lucky person to win those Pantera tickets.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yes, I'm talking to all of you. Sometime in the
next couple hours you'll have a chance to win. We're
giving them away every day this week on the Ben
and Skin Show. They're coming September third to the Dosekis Pavilion.
Good luck everybody. We have around the sports here in
about a half an hour with a massive concession failure
that I think you're going to enjoy. But right now
(00:25):
it's time for this.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Well a wildlife, a wildlfel lady really likes going to
national parks.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
She went with her dad.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
This is Lady Paul in her thirties maybe something like that,
and granks going to caves and take pictures of the
sky and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Likes to go be adventurous.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Takes pictures inside a cave of the sky.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Yeah, you go down into the cave and shoo up
into the sky.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Badass.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Oh yeah, in the caverns.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
It's like the stalagmites or stalk tights, whatever, which one's ols. Well,
she's doing this and then this happened.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
It's a day eraic Ka Khan will never forget.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
We love to go to National Park.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
They went to a.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Horseshoe bent to take some pictures at night when she
noticed something flying right above her.
Speaker 8 (01:25):
We kind of heard and saw some baths playing around.
Never would have thought that one would fly into my face.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
She was in the middle of taking a picture of
the sky when she says, a bat flew right into
her face and got stuck between her mouth and the camera.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Her natural reaction.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Was the screen and they went into my mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Making her scream even more.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
It was a freak accident.
Speaker 8 (01:46):
I got a taste of it, and it tastes a
little earthy, little sweet, if you're wondering.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
She spat the bat out and it flew away. Con
says she wasn't bitten, but her dad, who was a doctor,
told her she needed to go to the hospital right
away to get a raby shot. The problem is Con
says she didn't have health insurance.
Speaker 8 (02:03):
Close to twenty one thousand dollars bill. Yeah, cobra is expensive,
but it's more expensive to get these twenty thousand dollars
bills when a bat flies into your mouth.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
So she took the risk of not getting cobra with
a dad who's a doctor's doctor, probably thinking my dad's
a doctor, he'll figure that out.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
If is there more audio here, that's it, because I
would like to hear the very first thing she says.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
She sounds like female mcloven.
Speaker 8 (02:30):
Love to go to national parks, like female mcleven.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
That's incredible, all right, Muhammad is a common name.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Read a book.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
That is one of the greatest scenes in the history
of movie.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
It's so amazing.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Wow, love to go to national parks.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Oh my god, the park.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
That is incredible.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
How does bag it stuck between her mouth and the cam?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It must have flown up or did she when it came?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Man, Well, what the hell it is weird.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
But also if you have flash on your camera, you
shouldn't be surprised bats are flying at your face.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, man, the cobra. The cobra thing is terrifying. Like
in any times we've been in this situation where you've
got to pay for your own insurance, it can be
an absolute nightmare, and just healthcare in general. Like so
we've talked about this, but my wife and two of
my kids suffer from vasovagel, which means they could.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Just pass out.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Skin has it, They could just pass out at any point.
There's different triggers for different people. Well, we've learned that.
With my daughter it's when she's dehydrated, and it usually
happens a stressful situation and she's dehydrated. My son it's
if he's overheated. My wife if she's had a quart
of wine. And so there's these different things that triggered them.
(03:53):
And so when they first happened, you like you're outside,
like with my son, and you see him pass out, like,
oh my god, get an ambulance. But as it happens
over and over again, you realize not to be concerned.
So my daughter at summer camp a couple weeks ago,
she passed out. She passed out cold in front of
her whole camp and they were freaked out. They were
panicking and we're like, now give her some water, Like
(04:16):
we're it's just you know what I mean. It's like, uh, put.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
A cold rag on her wrist or on her forehead,
you'll pop right.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And it's like everybody's different, right, Like for her, it's
if she gets dehydrated, it's gonna happen. I've paid for
huge ambulance rides. You know, it's like, pay four grand
for an ambulance ride, and then you realize, oh, she's
just dehydrated. Okay, let's save four grand and just take
her to go get a bottle of water.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's it's that vase of aagel thing is so crazy.
One of the most humiliating experiences I've ever had was
on a plane trip with Ben and our buddy Anthony
de Vincenzo. We were flying the Hilton Head for a
golf tournament like it was sponsored by ESPN, and it
was real early on a Saturday morning, and I was
crammed in a seat and I started to get vase
of agel. I was on the back row and the
guy next to me is a big, giant dude. He goes,
(04:59):
do you need to get up? Like he could tell,
and I was like yes. And I was right back
by where the little stewardess station is at the back
of the plane. So I just walked back there. We
hadn't even taken off yet. I walked back there and
I just laid down. I was like, I need to
lay down for thirty seconds, and the stewardess went to
war with me.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Like, you cannot be back here.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Did you drink too?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Like she was like scolding me and not being in
a good stage a state of mind. I just said, bitch,
let me lay here for thirty seconds. Get out of
my face. So they called it. They went on the plane,
they asked for a doctor. The doctor come came and
took my blood pressure, which when you have is vegel,
your blood pressure is dangerously low. It's gonna come back
(05:42):
in three minutes. I told the doctor. He goes, I know,
I understand, but I have to tell him. They made
me exit the plane when we landed, despite the fact
I was one hundred percent healthy in a wheelchair and
Ben and Devincenzo are taking pictures of me and laughing
at me.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
They made me.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It was so embarrassing. I'm like, this is a three
minute problem. Just let me put ice on my wrist.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
But now, Yeah, they're probably worried about, like getting into
legal troupe. People probably sue so much for everything, right,
They're probably just protecting themselves, you know, if.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
A bat flies in your mouth. Though just kind of
rolled the desk. I don't have rabies. Rabies didn't happen
that often the fact it only happens blo is it? Yeah,
like thousand times? I mean this kid thousand years or something.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Let's gets into the this goes back to the poop
too thing, like what are you willing to pay for
that medical coverage?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Like at some point it's so expensive that you're like,
if I got rabies, I got rabies. Like, if it's
twenty one grand, twenty one grand for you to make
sure that I don't have rabies, I think I'll roll
the DIC.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I'll literally never pay that off.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Right, It's it's hardcore man.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
All Right. There you have it.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
There's the wildlife news coming up next. It's a news quickie.
We have a very important story about Fort Dingleberry. It's
next
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