May 20, 2025 • 6 mins
What do you do when a Mexican Navy ship crashes into the Brooklyn Bridge—and it looks more like a floating fiesta than a military vessel?In this segment of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray—dive into one of the strangest news stories of the week: a Mexican Navy ship, complete with string lights and dangling cadets, loses power and collides with one of New York’s most iconic landmarks.With 277 people aboard, the ship lost power and drifted into the Brooklyn Bridge. Two lives were tragically lost, and the crew reflects on the chaos, confusion, and surprising lack of media coverage.“That Looked Like a Booze Cruise”: The team can’t get over how festive the ship looked—string lights, people dangling from the mast, and a vibe that screamed party more than patrol.This episode is a perfect blend of real-world news, razor-sharp wit, and the kind of off-the-rails banter that only Ben, Skin, KT, and K-Ray can deliver. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a naval disaster meets a comedy show, this is your moment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bin and Skin Show ninety seven point one. The Eagle,
thanks for hanging out with us on a Sunday Tuesday afternoon.
We're all very excited to be hanging with you. Coming
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Give me that news quickie, all right.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I couldn't make time for this on yesterday's show, so
I wanted to squeeze this onto today's show. Uh. Saturday night,
as I was kind of getting ready to the stars
had won and I was had a little window ten
ten just kind of looking at my phone. I was
getting ready to watch Saturday Night Live and watch it live,
and then you see that breaking news ship hits the
(00:53):
Brooklyn Bridge, which, my god, I mean I remember the
last eighteen months coming in to work one morning back
when I did the morning show, and that bridge in
Baltimore that collapsed was a wild story to wake up
to and realize we're going to be talking about this
whole day. So my first thought was a, I hope
this doesn't interrupt this Saturday Night Live finale. Not I
(01:16):
hope the people are okay. Because two hundred and seventy
seven people were on a ship that was a Mexican
Navy sailing ship and it was headed to Iceland. But
the power went out and so they had lost, you know,
a control of the ship. And as it's going the
(01:38):
the mast I believe is the thing at the very
top hits the undercarriage of the Brooklyn Bridge over the water.
Two people died.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I'm assuming they were people because there's people up on
that mask.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
There's a lot of dangling happy up there. So it
just lost its power and it started floating backwards. Yes
there is, man, I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
There is another, and I'm trying to remember which boating
accident it was in the last probably decade. Maybe everything
feels weird because of the pandemic, but I know there
was a big boating accident in that New York area
where a ship had lost power temporarily and they lost
control of its course and then it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Was right around the same time as the other one.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Right, Yeah, I'm trying to remember exactly what it was,
but I remember the footage of all the lights going
out on the boat.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So I don't know about that. But like where this
boat was that it was at Pier seventeen, and it
was going northeast, like back towards if you crossed the
Brooklyn Bridge into the Manhattan Bridge going into New York City,
it was supposed to go south. So it apparently once
it got out or undocked from Pier seventeen, never had
(02:47):
control and was just kind of their floating.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Wow, you said it was the Mexican Navy, Is that right?
The Mexican Navy, sir, Because when I looked at it,
it looked like a kind of like a booze cruise,
and it looked like it had string lights. It looked
more like a sailboat type giant boat. But uh, you know,
and with people up there danglings like they were doing
some sort of a show, right, like they weren't.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I thought the same. I was confused when it said
Mexican Navy. I thought it was some sort of thing
you pay to be on or something.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
The commander of the Mexican Navy. Uh Ramundo, Pedro, Morales
and hells. They have so many names.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Is any of that hyphenated?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
He yeah, he he, that's the he said. Basically. There,
they've got a big investigation going on. They had tons
of uninjured cadets working cadets. Do they use the same
thing we use, like you know, colonels and sergeants, do
they the cadets and conquistadors and conquista doors.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
They're not from Spain.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Oh, but I think, uh, their boats are a little
more festive than ours in our navy.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I don't think it's really I don't. I think it
was decorative. I don't think that there.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm confused by that. But I
did see like a streamers, you know, somebody recording as
it went by. Did you see any of this stuff?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I saw a bunch of I mean, there were so
many people down on the pier that I saw a
ton of different angles.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, there was a lot of different angles, and you
know one of them was this person goofing off and
like laughing about it. Well, you could see there was
people's lives, you know, they lost their lives. And I'm like,
God Lord, this is a.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
This is a crazy story. Yeah, I don't understand. This
has not gotten enough coverage. Honestly.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I also think it's pretty wild, not wild, surprising, pleasantly
surprising that only two people died.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I thought that more of the people that were up
top would have died, so they maybe there's a bunch
of critical injury that I'm not aware of. But I
when I saw that there was people all the way
up that and saw how it hit, I was like,
oh my god, how many fatalities.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So those peers, there's you know, you can go there
if you're just a tourist and sit there by the water.
Yeah and so, and there's bars and yeah, yeah, yeah,
I've been over at Pier six. They said that there
was a large crowd that had gathered and there was
emergency workers just wheeling people with neck braces on and
gurneys and blood everywhere, and crowd. They said, a crowd
(05:10):
gathered there and was chanting Mexico, Mexico. It's like for support.
I guess it's.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Very that's your decision, but I think, you know, kind
of in the moment, people don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So Mexico has a navy. According to the Internet, it's
called the Armada de Mexico. Let's go, and they have
one hundred, let's see, fifty six thousand personnel and almost
two hundred ships and one hundred and thirty aircraft. And
the picture I'm seeing online looks like a regular navy,
looks like a battle like a I don't know, like
a destroyer like you would see in the US Navy.
(05:43):
That thing with the string lights and people hanging off
the top of it and all that. That again, that
looked way more like a booze cruise. I don't know
what that was.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
But also it begs the question, why is the Mexican
Navy headed to Iceland?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Start to change start some wars.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Okay, well, first they changed the name of our golf.
Then they wanted to go get Greenland. Maybe Iceland's next.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I can tell you they were on a good will
tour throughout the world. Oh good, okay, they were going
to spread goodwill. All right, Well, thank you for your
report there, Kevin. All right, coming up next, let's get
to the future. Let's talk about flying cars.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Right here on the
Speaker 3 (06:20):
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Bin and Skin Show ninety seven point one. The Eagle,
thanks for hanging out with us on a Sunday Tuesday afternoon.
We're all very excited to be hanging with you. Coming
up this Sunday b FD, It's gonna be a big deal.
Dose Eki's May twenty fifth will be in the house.
Later in the show, we'll be giving away tickets. You
need to listen to the Today Game and then listen
(00:21):
in the five o'clock hour for your chance to win
free b FD tickets. But right now it's starting for this.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Give me that news quickie, all right.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I couldn't make time for this on yesterday's show, so
I wanted to squeeze this onto today's show. Uh. Saturday night,
as I was kind of getting ready to the stars
had won and I was had a little window ten
ten just kind of looking at my phone. I was
getting ready to watch Saturday Night Live and watch it live,
and then you see that breaking news ship hits the
(00:53):
Brooklyn Bridge, which, my god, I mean I remember the
last eighteen months coming in to work one morning back
when I did the morning show, and that bridge in
Baltimore that collapsed was a wild story to wake up
to and realize we're going to be talking about this
whole day. So my first thought was a, I hope
this doesn't interrupt this Saturday Night Live finale. Not I
(01:16):
hope the people are okay. Because two hundred and seventy
seven people were on a ship that was a Mexican
Navy sailing ship and it was headed to Iceland. But
the power went out and so they had lost, you know,
a control of the ship. And as it's going the
(01:38):
the mast I believe is the thing at the very
top hits the undercarriage of the Brooklyn Bridge over the water.
Two people died.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I'm assuming they were people because there's people up on
that mask.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
There's a lot of dangling happy up there. So it
just lost its power and it started floating backwards. Yes
there is, man, I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
There is another, and I'm trying to remember which boating
accident it was in the last probably decade. Maybe everything
feels weird because of the pandemic, but I know there
was a big boating accident in that New York area
where a ship had lost power temporarily and they lost
control of its course and then it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Was right around the same time as the other one.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Right, Yeah, I'm trying to remember exactly what it was,
but I remember the footage of all the lights going
out on the boat.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So I don't know about that. But like where this
boat was that it was at Pier seventeen, and it
was going northeast, like back towards if you crossed the
Brooklyn Bridge into the Manhattan Bridge going into New York City,
it was supposed to go south. So it apparently once
it got out or undocked from Pier seventeen, never had
(02:47):
control and was just kind of their floating.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Wow, you said it was the Mexican Navy, Is that right?
The Mexican Navy, sir, Because when I looked at it,
it looked like a kind of like a booze cruise,
and it looked like it had string lights. It looked
more like a sailboat type giant boat. But uh, you know,
and with people up there danglings like they were doing
some sort of a show, right, like they weren't.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I thought the same. I was confused when it said
Mexican Navy. I thought it was some sort of thing
you pay to be on or something.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
The commander of the Mexican Navy. Uh Ramundo, Pedro, Morales
and hells. They have so many names.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Is any of that hyphenated?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
He yeah, he he, that's the he said. Basically. There,
they've got a big investigation going on. They had tons
of uninjured cadets working cadets. Do they use the same
thing we use, like you know, colonels and sergeants, do
they the cadets and conquistadors and conquista doors.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
They're not from Spain.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Oh, but I think, uh, their boats are a little
more festive than ours in our navy.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I don't think it's really I don't. I think it
was decorative. I don't think that there.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm confused by that. But I
did see like a streamers, you know, somebody recording as
it went by. Did you see any of this stuff?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I saw a bunch of I mean, there were so
many people down on the pier that I saw a
ton of different angles.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, there was a lot of different angles, and you
know one of them was this person goofing off and
like laughing about it. Well, you could see there was
people's lives, you know, they lost their lives. And I'm like,
God Lord, this is a.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
This is a crazy story. Yeah, I don't understand. This
has not gotten enough coverage. Honestly.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I also think it's pretty wild, not wild, surprising, pleasantly
surprising that only two people died.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I thought that more of the people that were up
top would have died, so they maybe there's a bunch
of critical injury that I'm not aware of. But I
when I saw that there was people all the way
up that and saw how it hit, I was like,
oh my god, how many fatalities.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So those peers, there's you know, you can go there
if you're just a tourist and sit there by the water.
Yeah and so, and there's bars and yeah, yeah, yeah,
I've been over at Pier six. They said that there
was a large crowd that had gathered and there was
emergency workers just wheeling people with neck braces on and
gurneys and blood everywhere, and crowd. They said, a crowd
(05:10):
gathered there and was chanting Mexico, Mexico. It's like for support.
I guess it's.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Very that's your decision, but I think, you know, kind
of in the moment, people don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So Mexico has a navy. According to the Internet, it's
called the Armada de Mexico. Let's go, and they have
one hundred, let's see, fifty six thousand personnel and almost
two hundred ships and one hundred and thirty aircraft. And
the picture I'm seeing online looks like a regular navy,
looks like a battle like a I don't know, like
a destroyer like you would see in the US Navy.
(05:43):
That thing with the string lights and people hanging off
the top of it and all that. That again, that
looked way more like a booze cruise. I don't know
what that was.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
But also it begs the question, why is the Mexican
Navy headed to Iceland?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Start to change start some wars.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Okay, well, first they changed the name of our golf.
Then they wanted to go get Greenland. Maybe Iceland's next.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I can tell you they were on a good will
tour throughout the world. Oh good, okay, they were going
to spread goodwill. All right, Well, thank you for your
report there, Kevin. All right, coming up next, let's get
to the future. Let's talk about flying cars.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Right here on the
Speaker 3 (06:20):
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