October 8, 2025 • 5 mins
"Is wearing a bolo tie a bold fashion statement… or just a sign of an identity crisis?"That’s the question that kicks off this hilarious and surprisingly introspective episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive deep into the world of Western wear, small-town style, and the strange social signals we send with our clothes. With Ben Rogers out sick (recovering from what might be the most suspicious Vegas virus ever), the crew holds it down with stories, laughs, and a few fashion confessions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are giving away nine inch Nails tickets every day
this week. Gotta be listening. Gotta have the iHeart app.
You'll use the talkback feature and you'll have a chance
to win those tickets. Got that's huge. I am going
to that show all right. Coming up in the Hollywood Shuffle,
we do have the one funny thing from Saturday Night
Live last weekend, as well as THEO Vaughn getting shut
down by an ESPN reporter. But right now it's time
(00:22):
for this track.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Another edition of Things Sin is tracking.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Where did you grow up?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Katie?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Only Texas?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
What was your graduating class?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Forty to fifty people? Town's a population of three thousand people,
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
How did Is there a common way that most people
in that town dressed?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
No? Okay, I don't think so. It depends. I mean
fashion changes, all right?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
What about you, Christina?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Where'd you get about friend?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah? About boots?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You could say that on the Cowboys?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah okay, yeah, crandall Texas maybe like double the size
of KT's graduating class. Definitely a lot of boots, but
not everyone.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
What about the adults? Yeah, jeans, boots or you know,
new balances?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You knew who the country people were Yeah, like that
means a lot of family farmers and things like that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, okay, what about did you guys have people and
you know that you knew that wore cowboy hats?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I grew up in Richardson. I can't remember a single
person wearing a cowboy hat. Now, Lake Hland's had one
of those country Western dance teams, you know, or there's
like twelve couples out there, right And then I know
my stepbrother went to Bertner much after later than I did,
and he was on the rodeo team there. But it
(01:50):
was very you know, we were very suburban. On Monday nights,
we did the Maverick preseason game in Fort Worth and
people have an idea of fort Work and it is
there are there is a sector of the business community
that wears boots and hats and sports jackets and jeans
and maybe a bolo tie. I want to get Christina's
(02:14):
opinion on the bolo tie.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Did I? Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I I mean I don't really have It's not bad.
I have no bad opinion about it, but I will
say it's mostly older, older Richmond that wear the bolo tie.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So me really, I'm an old rich guy. I wore
a bolo tie on Monday night, Yes you did. I
borrowed a giant belt buckle. I borrowed a bolo tie.
I borrowed a pair of boots. I do not have
a pair of cowboy boots. Do y'all have cowboy boots?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
My wife is uh my My daughter's twenty and she
has three pair and she can't believe her dad exists
in a world where he doesn't have a single pair
of Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I've had one I've had since high school, or one pair,
and they are so comfortable every time I wear them.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I forget why I don't wear them every day.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The guy that I borrowed the stuff from, he was
about a half size too small for me, and so
my feet really hurt by the end of the day.
Like on the sides, you know, cowboy boots extend out,
but right on the sides of the toes where it
starts going in.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I was feeling a lot of discomfort, but I was.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I mean, I've worn cowboy boots three times in the
last fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And I borrowed the boots all three times. So they're
not square toed, they're pointy toe every time.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I guess I don't remember the ones I borrowed last time.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
This is funny.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I borrowed a pair from my daughter's boyfriend's friend and
he gave me cowboy boots because I had to go
to a birthday party for our buddy Ryan. It was
Western casual because all those guys are from Salina and
prosper and they've lived there for generations, so they all
have western wear. You know, Ben's got that stuff in
his closet.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You know. Yeah, I used to throw it on for
Yellowstone Watch party.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, but I have to.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I got a role play, and so my buddy JD.
It gets cool too, those names JD, and he has
all this stuff. And he gave me the bolo tie
and I was wearing and so the coat was mine.
I did have a brown, you know, kind of coat
that I could wear, and I had a dress shirt
with some brownish buttons.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
But I didn't really know.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Are you supposed to put the logo or the circle
of the bolo tie up by your Adam's apple or
do you pull it down?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I didn't know. I think either. I've seen them both ways.
I think I don't think it matters. Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You know the thing about the bolo tie that's I
think so off putting for me is anytime you see
someone wearing a bolo tie, you just feel like they're
trying something because they're going through some sort of identity crisis.
It never feels like the actual guy who would wear that.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, my grandfather, my dad's dad, wore a bolo tie
with dress shirts and I never once saw him put
on a cowboy hat. He just thought the bolo tie
with the dress shirt was the way to go. Yeah,
but he was also a guy that, like you know,
grew up when the dust Bowl was happening, you know.
So Anyways, if you do own a bowlo tie, take
(05:08):
a picture of it and send it to Christine on
social media at Ben Rogers. At Ben Rogers he loves
commenting on that. It's the Ben and Skin Show ninety
one point one. The Eagle been out today sick. Hopefully
he will be back tomorrow. Coming up next, we have
some really funny stuff we got to get into in
the Hollywood Shuffle and including an ESPN reporter shutting down
this famous social media person. We'll get into all that
We are giving away nine inch Nails tickets every day
this week. Gotta be listening. Gotta have the iHeart app.
You'll use the talkback feature and you'll have a chance
to win those tickets. Got that's huge. I am going
to that show all right. Coming up in the Hollywood Shuffle,
we do have the one funny thing from Saturday Night
Live last weekend, as well as THEO Vaughn getting shut
down by an ESPN reporter. But right now it's time
(00:22):
for this track.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Another edition of Things Sin is tracking.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Where did you grow up?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Katie?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Only Texas?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
What was your graduating class?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Forty to fifty people? Town's a population of three thousand people,
So yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
How did Is there a common way that most people
in that town dressed?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
No? Okay, I don't think so. It depends. I mean
fashion changes, all right?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
What about you, Christina?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Where'd you get about friend?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah? About boots?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You could say that on the Cowboys?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yeah okay, yeah, crandall Texas maybe like double the size
of KT's graduating class. Definitely a lot of boots, but
not everyone.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
What about the adults? Yeah, jeans, boots or you know,
new balances?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You knew who the country people were Yeah, like that
means a lot of family farmers and things like that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, okay, what about did you guys have people and
you know that you knew that wore cowboy hats?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I grew up in Richardson. I can't remember a single
person wearing a cowboy hat. Now, Lake Hland's had one
of those country Western dance teams, you know, or there's
like twelve couples out there, right And then I know
my stepbrother went to Bertner much after later than I did,
and he was on the rodeo team there. But it
(01:50):
was very you know, we were very suburban. On Monday nights,
we did the Maverick preseason game in Fort Worth and
people have an idea of fort Work and it is
there are there is a sector of the business community
that wears boots and hats and sports jackets and jeans
and maybe a bolo tie. I want to get Christina's
(02:14):
opinion on the bolo tie.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Did I? Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I I mean I don't really have It's not bad.
I have no bad opinion about it, but I will
say it's mostly older, older Richmond that wear the bolo tie.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So me really, I'm an old rich guy. I wore
a bolo tie on Monday night, Yes you did. I
borrowed a giant belt buckle. I borrowed a bolo tie.
I borrowed a pair of boots. I do not have
a pair of cowboy boots. Do y'all have cowboy boots?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
My wife is uh my My daughter's twenty and she
has three pair and she can't believe her dad exists
in a world where he doesn't have a single pair
of Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I've had one I've had since high school, or one pair,
and they are so comfortable every time I wear them.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I forget why I don't wear them every day.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The guy that I borrowed the stuff from, he was
about a half size too small for me, and so
my feet really hurt by the end of the day.
Like on the sides, you know, cowboy boots extend out,
but right on the sides of the toes where it
starts going in.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I was feeling a lot of discomfort, but I was.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I mean, I've worn cowboy boots three times in the
last fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And I borrowed the boots all three times. So they're
not square toed, they're pointy toe every time.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I guess I don't remember the ones I borrowed last time.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
This is funny.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I borrowed a pair from my daughter's boyfriend's friend and
he gave me cowboy boots because I had to go
to a birthday party for our buddy Ryan. It was
Western casual because all those guys are from Salina and
prosper and they've lived there for generations, so they all
have western wear. You know, Ben's got that stuff in
his closet.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You know. Yeah, I used to throw it on for
Yellowstone Watch party.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, but I have to.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I got a role play, and so my buddy JD.
It gets cool too, those names JD, and he has
all this stuff. And he gave me the bolo tie
and I was wearing and so the coat was mine.
I did have a brown, you know, kind of coat
that I could wear, and I had a dress shirt
with some brownish buttons.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
But I didn't really know.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Are you supposed to put the logo or the circle
of the bolo tie up by your Adam's apple or
do you pull it down?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I didn't know. I think either. I've seen them both ways.
I think I don't think it matters. Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You know the thing about the bolo tie that's I
think so off putting for me is anytime you see
someone wearing a bolo tie, you just feel like they're
trying something because they're going through some sort of identity crisis.
It never feels like the actual guy who would wear that.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, my grandfather, my dad's dad, wore a bolo tie
with dress shirts and I never once saw him put
on a cowboy hat. He just thought the bolo tie
with the dress shirt was the way to go. Yeah,
but he was also a guy that, like you know,
grew up when the dust Bowl was happening, you know.
So Anyways, if you do own a bowlo tie, take
(05:08):
a picture of it and send it to Christine on
social media at Ben Rogers. At Ben Rogers he loves
commenting on that. It's the Ben and Skin Show ninety
one point one. The Eagle been out today sick. Hopefully
he will be back tomorrow. Coming up next, we have
some really funny stuff we got to get into in
the Hollywood Shuffle and including an ESPN reporter shutting down
this famous social media person. We'll get into all that
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