October 2, 2025 • 8 mins
"Is it really a Vegas trip if you don’t end up in a smoking room, battling gout, and chasing down a lost iPhone like a private investigator?"In this laugh-out-loud episode of The Ben and Skin Show, the crew dives into Ben Rogers’ unforgettable (and borderline tragic) Vegas misadventure — a tale of hooker-scented hotel rooms, gout-induced agony, and a relentless quest to recover a lost phone. Joined by co-hosts Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray, this segment is packed with hilarious storytelling, heartfelt reflections, and the kind of chaos only Ben can deliver.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You act like a McNutt at McDonald's and you make
drunk and ugly things to the girls.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You're going to jail mc jail.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
With with et with I'll show your don ruin it
except simper we pursuing it. Idled out shaw shame through
the sewer. Kid, Now what chill in that day?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Eagle?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, we're doing it here your clock on the doc.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Got a habit for my house? Or go status? How
it started?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Kid?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Ratty shows that enough multiply like a radic, do it
some out, creak it up, beat the habit.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm on out with friends, flocking on her radio. Min
On boy Skin in his hand talking on her radio.
It's time to do this swanse again.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
All we got.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You Skin, All up.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Happy Thursday, everybody gets the world famous Ben and Skin
Show coming to you live on ninety seven point one
The Eagle, Ben Rogers, Jeff skin Wade, Kevin kt Turner
and Christina k Ray little baby corn Bread Ray. All
hands on deck today for what's gonna be a great show.
Keep in mind tomorrow is the chance for you to
come watch our show happen live. We'll be at the
(01:27):
Pluckers in Plano. So we'll be there doing our show
from three to six. You can come watch it happen live.
But I ain't gonna be there.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What that's right? Why going to Vegas?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
There's a Pluckers in Vegas? Yep, I'm doing a separate
remote at the Pluckers in Vegas. Yeah, Ranch driver Ben
doing a solo Vegas Pluckers remote is my favorite thing
of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It's gonna be great, Like, come out out there if
you're in the area, swing by. It's gonna be good.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
No. I was just thinking, so this, I leave for
Vegas tomorrow afternoon, and this is a trip with some
guys that Skin and I grew up with. Some of
the guys I've known, like I've known Skin since around
six or seventh grade. I guess I've known some of
the guys that are going on this trip since kindergarten
where I'll play Fantasy football together. And they're really way
more into Vegas than I am. I'm not a big
(02:18):
Vegas guy, but it's just going and spending time with friends.
And I think the older we get, you know, you've
got to be more intentional about that. You have to
make time to go spend time with people, and so
more than anything, I'm looking forward to hanging out with everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But I know it's not going to be a great experience.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I can't believe you're doing this again after what happened
last time. You spent your entire trip at the Apple Store.
So the last time I did this trip with these
same guys, And maybe we'll start doing this every year,
but this will be the second annual. It was.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It was bad.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
First of all, I'm kind of spoiled going to the
chalk Taw Casino and Resort and Durant. Those rooms are
super nice. So we were staying at the Blaggio and
I remember the Blagio being.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
A big deal.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The Big Water Fountain was supposed to be one of
the nicest hotels.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's not the case now. Time moves on.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Ben.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
The lobby was cool and everything, but like the rooms
were not not They were like old.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, they were like a fifth as nice as chalk
Taw and Durant had a lot of hooker stinch in them.
And I let my wife book my room for me,
and she is very frugal, so she had me staying
in a smoking hotel. Oh no, So when I checked in.
I called the front desk. I was like, hey, this
room stinks. Somebody was just smoking in here like two
(03:36):
minutes ago. And they were like, oh my god, I'm
so sorry, sir. Let me look up.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What room are you? And I told them, yeah, you're
in the smoking hotel. Like what, Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Specifically it's a little cheaper, but I'm like, damn it, cat,
she wants you to start smoking. And so I checked
out of the room immediately and I didn't even unpack.
I was like, put me in a different room. And
when I got back around my friends, they smelled smoke
on me. I was just from being in the room.
That's that Vegas elegance. So elegance is not the word Kevin.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, I don't think that's elegance. And so that's how
it started. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Another thing that they don't know is on that trip,
I was struggling with gout. Oh no, really, I didn't
know you had had that in a long time. So
I don't get it very often. But you know, if
it's your body produces this acid, if you're prone to it,
and if you drink a lot of alcohol or eat
a lot of like steak or something, that's that's what
happens to me. Alcohol stake is Yeah, And so I
(04:35):
had this huge gout breakout and didn't have medicine to
take it because it happened while I was on vacation.
And so like every step you take with gout, for me,
it always you know, for different people it's in different
joints or whatever, but for me, it's usually in my foot.
It starts like it feels like a torn achilles, yeah,
and then within a couple of hours it feels like
you broke the top of your foot. And every time
(04:57):
you take a step, it feels like somebody put little,
tiny sharp diamonds in your joints. So you're just like
stepping an excruciating pain every time. When when we were
at ESPN and it was I think that was the
first time, at least the first time I remember it
happening to you, he hadn't been diagnosed yet at first, yeah,
and we were like, God, what the hell is happening
(05:18):
to Ben? Because I mean, I thank god I don't
have it, but just watching him go through that pain,
I was like, man, I think he's got cancer leg.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
This is this sounds horrible.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Man. You were in incredible pain. Incredible pain. Anybody who's
gone through this you know how it is. But it
it feels self inflicted. It's the King's disease, It's for
having a bad diet or whatever. So I know there's
things I have to avoid and have to be careful.
But so here I am. I start off in the
smoking room in Vegas. I'm battling gout. The guys are like, hey,
(05:49):
we're walking down to this restaurant. I'm like, yeah, let's
take a cab and they're like, why, it's not that
far and I'm like, nah.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Vegas is like the worst place for that to happen.
But you do walk.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Everywhere everything, And no one understood why I didn't want
to walk everywhere. And so I saw on our text
chain about this trip, they're like, hey, let's not take
cabs everywhere this time.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That was expense. So they didn't know. Is there like
a pre gout medicine or something you can take?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You can, but I don't have it enough to take that.
I don't want to take medicine every day.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It happen. You know, it used to happen to me.
It used to happen to me twice a year.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And then for a long time it was like once
a year, and then it's now it's like once every
three or four years. That's great though, So I do
have stuff if it brings out, so I can treat it.
But anyways, I remember when we were at their World
Series in Saint Louis, I had it.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I was god, it was so painful.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Anyways, So walking from our hotel down to the stagium,
so I decided that I wanted to buy my son
a Rolex because he had he had gotten a full
academic scholarship to college, like his entire college experience.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Was free, fantastic. Let's make him a man.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And he loves watches, and I thought, man, what a
great way to send him off to college. I wanted
to get him a watch. And Kyrie has this saying
keep make the main thing the main thing, or something
like that, keep the main thing the main thing, which
I dig, like, hey, don't get so distracted with the
partying and all this stuff. So I'm limping around. I
leave from my dudes and I'm like, I gotta go shopping,
(07:20):
and they're like what I don't even understand, Like, don't
worry about it.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So I get in a cab.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I go to this place, to this Rolex store, and
I walk in and I'm texting my wife, I'm gonna go, hey,
you know, I'm walking in.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'm about to buy this watch, and I'm like, where's
my phone? And I didn't have it.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I had left it in a cab that gave me
about a two minute ride if you listen and just listen, fine,
So basically they say, you know, remember I told you
guys at the time that Apple store sells a ton
of iPhones in Vegas because everyone loses a lot of
people lose their and their iPhones, and when you leave
(07:55):
it in a cab, you basically say goodbye, You're never
going to see that again.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But I refuse to do that.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So I spent like eleven hours doing detective work, cracking
it down, threatening people, just total hardcore. I will not
lose this phone. And they ended up bringing it back
to me, but I lost. I was only there for
two and a half days, and I lost a full
day with it. You know what, here's to ben not
spending any time at the Apple store in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Cheers, everybody, cheers.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Did you get the Rolex?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
The thing?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
All right?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Coming up next? We're going to take us in things.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Skin is tracking the extreme highs and extreme lows of
following your favorite team
You act like a McNutt at McDonald's and you make
drunk and ugly things to the girls.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You're going to jail mc jail.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
With with et with I'll show your don ruin it
except simper we pursuing it. Idled out shaw shame through
the sewer. Kid, Now what chill in that day?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Eagle?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, we're doing it here your clock on the doc.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Got a habit for my house? Or go status? How
it started?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Kid?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Ratty shows that enough multiply like a radic, do it
some out, creak it up, beat the habit.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm on out with friends, flocking on her radio. Min
On boy Skin in his hand talking on her radio.
It's time to do this swanse again.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
All we got.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You Skin, All up.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Happy Thursday, everybody gets the world famous Ben and Skin
Show coming to you live on ninety seven point one
The Eagle, Ben Rogers, Jeff skin Wade, Kevin kt Turner
and Christina k Ray little baby corn Bread Ray. All
hands on deck today for what's gonna be a great show.
Keep in mind tomorrow is the chance for you to
come watch our show happen live. We'll be at the
(01:27):
Pluckers in Plano. So we'll be there doing our show
from three to six. You can come watch it happen live.
But I ain't gonna be there.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What that's right? Why going to Vegas?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
There's a Pluckers in Vegas? Yep, I'm doing a separate
remote at the Pluckers in Vegas. Yeah, Ranch driver Ben
doing a solo Vegas Pluckers remote is my favorite thing
of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It's gonna be great, Like, come out out there if
you're in the area, swing by. It's gonna be good.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
No. I was just thinking, so this, I leave for
Vegas tomorrow afternoon, and this is a trip with some
guys that Skin and I grew up with. Some of
the guys I've known, like I've known Skin since around
six or seventh grade. I guess I've known some of
the guys that are going on this trip since kindergarten
where I'll play Fantasy football together. And they're really way
more into Vegas than I am. I'm not a big
(02:18):
Vegas guy, but it's just going and spending time with friends.
And I think the older we get, you know, you've
got to be more intentional about that. You have to
make time to go spend time with people, and so
more than anything, I'm looking forward to hanging out with everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But I know it's not going to be a great experience.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I can't believe you're doing this again after what happened
last time. You spent your entire trip at the Apple Store.
So the last time I did this trip with these
same guys, And maybe we'll start doing this every year,
but this will be the second annual. It was.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It was bad.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
First of all, I'm kind of spoiled going to the
chalk Taw Casino and Resort and Durant. Those rooms are
super nice. So we were staying at the Blaggio and
I remember the Blagio being.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
A big deal.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The Big Water Fountain was supposed to be one of
the nicest hotels.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's not the case now. Time moves on.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Ben.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
The lobby was cool and everything, but like the rooms
were not not They were like old.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, they were like a fifth as nice as chalk
Taw and Durant had a lot of hooker stinch in them.
And I let my wife book my room for me,
and she is very frugal, so she had me staying
in a smoking hotel. Oh no, So when I checked in.
I called the front desk. I was like, hey, this
room stinks. Somebody was just smoking in here like two
(03:36):
minutes ago. And they were like, oh my god, I'm
so sorry, sir. Let me look up.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What room are you? And I told them, yeah, you're
in the smoking hotel. Like what, Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Specifically it's a little cheaper, but I'm like, damn it, cat,
she wants you to start smoking. And so I checked
out of the room immediately and I didn't even unpack.
I was like, put me in a different room. And
when I got back around my friends, they smelled smoke
on me. I was just from being in the room.
That's that Vegas elegance. So elegance is not the word Kevin.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, I don't think that's elegance. And so that's how
it started. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Another thing that they don't know is on that trip,
I was struggling with gout. Oh no, really, I didn't
know you had had that in a long time. So
I don't get it very often. But you know, if
it's your body produces this acid, if you're prone to it,
and if you drink a lot of alcohol or eat
a lot of like steak or something, that's that's what
happens to me. Alcohol stake is Yeah, And so I
(04:35):
had this huge gout breakout and didn't have medicine to
take it because it happened while I was on vacation.
And so like every step you take with gout, for me,
it always you know, for different people it's in different
joints or whatever, but for me, it's usually in my foot.
It starts like it feels like a torn achilles, yeah,
and then within a couple of hours it feels like
you broke the top of your foot. And every time
(04:57):
you take a step, it feels like somebody put little,
tiny sharp diamonds in your joints. So you're just like
stepping an excruciating pain every time. When when we were
at ESPN and it was I think that was the
first time, at least the first time I remember it
happening to you, he hadn't been diagnosed yet at first, yeah,
and we were like, God, what the hell is happening
(05:18):
to Ben? Because I mean, I thank god I don't
have it, but just watching him go through that pain,
I was like, man, I think he's got cancer leg.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
This is this sounds horrible.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Man. You were in incredible pain. Incredible pain. Anybody who's
gone through this you know how it is. But it
it feels self inflicted. It's the King's disease, It's for
having a bad diet or whatever. So I know there's
things I have to avoid and have to be careful.
But so here I am. I start off in the
smoking room in Vegas. I'm battling gout. The guys are like, hey,
(05:49):
we're walking down to this restaurant. I'm like, yeah, let's
take a cab and they're like, why, it's not that
far and I'm like, nah.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Vegas is like the worst place for that to happen.
But you do walk.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Everywhere everything, And no one understood why I didn't want
to walk everywhere. And so I saw on our text
chain about this trip, they're like, hey, let's not take
cabs everywhere this time.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That was expense. So they didn't know. Is there like
a pre gout medicine or something you can take?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You can, but I don't have it enough to take that.
I don't want to take medicine every day.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It happen. You know, it used to happen to me.
It used to happen to me twice a year.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And then for a long time it was like once
a year, and then it's now it's like once every
three or four years. That's great though, So I do
have stuff if it brings out, so I can treat it.
But anyways, I remember when we were at their World
Series in Saint Louis, I had it.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I was god, it was so painful.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Anyways, So walking from our hotel down to the stagium,
so I decided that I wanted to buy my son
a Rolex because he had he had gotten a full
academic scholarship to college, like his entire college experience.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Was free, fantastic. Let's make him a man.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And he loves watches, and I thought, man, what a
great way to send him off to college. I wanted
to get him a watch. And Kyrie has this saying
keep make the main thing the main thing, or something
like that, keep the main thing the main thing, which
I dig, like, hey, don't get so distracted with the
partying and all this stuff. So I'm limping around. I
leave from my dudes and I'm like, I gotta go shopping,
(07:20):
and they're like what I don't even understand, Like, don't
worry about it.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
So I get in a cab.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I go to this place, to this Rolex store, and
I walk in and I'm texting my wife, I'm gonna go, hey,
you know, I'm walking in.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I'm about to buy this watch, and I'm like, where's
my phone? And I didn't have it.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I had left it in a cab that gave me
about a two minute ride if you listen and just listen, fine,
So basically they say, you know, remember I told you
guys at the time that Apple store sells a ton
of iPhones in Vegas because everyone loses a lot of
people lose their and their iPhones, and when you leave
(07:55):
it in a cab, you basically say goodbye, You're never
going to see that again.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But I refuse to do that.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
So I spent like eleven hours doing detective work, cracking
it down, threatening people, just total hardcore. I will not
lose this phone. And they ended up bringing it back
to me, but I lost. I was only there for
two and a half days, and I lost a full
day with it. You know what, here's to ben not
spending any time at the Apple store in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Cheers, everybody, cheers.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Did you get the Rolex?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
The thing?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
All right?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Coming up next? We're going to take us in things.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Skin is tracking the extreme highs and extreme lows of
following your favorite team
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