October 16, 2025 • 6 mins
The Ben and Skin Show, broadcasting live from Original Roy Hutchins BBQ in Trophy Club, breaks the news about legendary KISS guitarist Ace Frehley being on life support. Skin recounts his first-ever concert—KISS’s Dynasty Tour—and a hilarious story about a fake autograph from a kid who claimed Ace was his cousin.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, this is the world famous Bennetts Skin Show,
broadcasting live from the original Roy Hutchins Barbecue and Trophy Club.
So excited to be out of here. Have so many
friends here. Love you guys, Thank you y'all. Thank you
all for showing up and supporting us and having some
delicious barbecue. Reaction continues to pour in from KT's failed
joke about the Siemens Landscape Company.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And that what knocked us off the air earlier.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Man, We've had multiple people text in with better jokes, KT,
Do you have any feedback on that? A lot of
people out there trying to write some new jokes for you.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, And I think for the comedy simps out there,
you could easily say it's a bad joke. But if
you're a really if you're an expert land of the
world of the spoken word of comedy, you know that
the joke is not the joke itself. It's the postgame
show of the joke.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah, the idea.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
That this life we live, you get three hundred and
sixty five days a year and one day you're behind that.
Holy cow, it's observational humor. You know, you've seen this
a lot guys like Nate Burgatzi can come to town
and do two or three shows.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, I'm going on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It's in that same vane.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I feel like you're taking the air out of the
ball right now.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Joke.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So we told you yesterday that they do come in threes.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
See that's a better joke than the landscape joke.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
No, the death's coming through. He is D'Angelo Diane Keaton,
who will be the third now? I reported yesterday that
Daniel Stern, star of Home Alone, creator of Rookie of
the Year, had a medical emergency was since to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I saw him working out today on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
He was he with us, he was planking.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
He's still with us.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Let's go straight to.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The iHeart inbox of one Kevin Turner. Yes, they still
have my email. Incredible from rad Messik at iHeart quote
heads up. Some sad news here. Rumors have been circulating
that original Kiss guitarist Ace Freeley No has passed away,
(02:06):
and now TMZ is reporting that he is on life
support with a brain bleed.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Oh man, and the prognosis is not good. That sucks.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So apparently he had a fall last month in the studio,
So he canceled a tour. He's about to go on tour,
and he's been on a ventilator. Do you have an
AM seventy four right now? He's been working on a
new album. He was going to join Gen, Paul and
Peter when Kiss. They get the Kennedy Center Honors in December.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
There was a show that we promoted in the last
six months in which Ace Freeley was on the bill,
and I'm trying to remember what that was. It was recently,
you know, in the last few you know, a few
months or so. Here in town.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I will say that he again is not he's not
passed away, but there TMS is reporting that he's on
life support.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Man, that's horrible. So we've talked about this before. The
first concert I ever saw was Kiss. I was a
third grader. It was a Dynasty tour. Was in will
Rogers and Fort Worth because at the time Dallas had
pyro technics laws or whatever you like, you can have
fire indoors and so not only do the fire going
off and Jean Simon's spitting up blood at the end
(03:13):
of Ace Freeley's mediocre guitar solo, he would man. He
would let go of his guitar and it would shoot
up into the air and explode. So when you're a
third grader, that's all you care about, that's all you want,
and then I want it now, dude, that's badass. A
couple of years later, there was a kid that had
moved into our elementary school area and he said, Ace
(03:35):
Freely is my cousin.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
And I was like, oh my god, are you serious.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That's incredible, because yeah, I can get you an autograph
and I was like, oh, I.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Would love that.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Went to his house and it was a little white
piece of paper and it said Ace on it, and
I was like cool. And then his mom blew up
his spot and goes, I just wrote that he asked
me to do it. His mom called him out on
his terrible life that he was Ace Freely's cousin.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Man, I just remember when I that was my first
band that I fell in love with. That I was like, Okay,
this band is everything. And you know, at that time,
they were doing you know, around that time, a couple
of years after I fell in love with them because
they used to be in every magazine.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Oh yeah, my god.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Gene Simmons like how longest tongue is and wow, this
Paul Stanley has to be the biggest badass on earth.
Ace Freeley's the greatest guitar player, Peter Chris uh. And
then they had their own like their own special on TV.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Them at the Theme Park was nineteen eighty two. I
think it was probably earlier than that, but not sure.
It's right around there, bit.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I mean, I kiss was everything to me.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And when I was a real little kid, when he
first found out about him, me and my buddies would
take the fireplace tools and go stand on a fireplace
because it was a little higher than the carpet, then
pretend that it was a stage.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And I'm like, where were my parents at this time?
Like what when were playing Fireplace Kiss?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
They were? They were all in a very enclosed area,
smoking cigarette because that's what everyone's parents did during that era.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
But man, this is sad. News sucks.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, that's really really that's way too young.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
You always hate to see the brain bleed too. Yeah,
Like that's always a tough one to see.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Also, like the.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Note that they were about to get back together and
play a few shows or do the Kennedy Center honors,
like they were going to play, and we seemed like,
you know, Russia is just added. Russia is about to
add more cities, by the way, Like that's right, they're
about to add a bunch more like they're going on
to hardcore.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
How many shows do we have now here in Dallas?
Is it three or four?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Four?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Four? Now? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, man, I'm I want to go to that.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
When you when you missed on that joke with your
wife and her friend that was in from town, did
her brain bleed?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I heard she said, take me back to the airport
if it makes I want to I want to go
back to town, if it's any consolation.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I was in the backseat.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
That's a great wrap up. Kevin Turner in the back
seat on ninety seven point one The Eagle.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Coming up now.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Someone on eight twenty just started claughing.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
This all coming up next, the MAVs have wrapped up
their preseason. We'll talk about how they did and what
we can look forward to, and the season starts next week.
We'll do that next right here on the Eagle.
All right, this is the world famous Bennetts Skin Show,
broadcasting live from the original Roy Hutchins Barbecue and Trophy Club.
So excited to be out of here. Have so many
friends here. Love you guys, Thank you y'all. Thank you
all for showing up and supporting us and having some
delicious barbecue. Reaction continues to pour in from KT's failed
joke about the Siemens Landscape Company.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And that what knocked us off the air earlier.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Man, We've had multiple people text in with better jokes, KT,
Do you have any feedback on that? A lot of
people out there trying to write some new jokes for you.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, And I think for the comedy simps out there,
you could easily say it's a bad joke. But if
you're a really if you're an expert land of the
world of the spoken word of comedy, you know that
the joke is not the joke itself. It's the postgame
show of the joke.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah, the idea.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
That this life we live, you get three hundred and
sixty five days a year and one day you're behind that.
Holy cow, it's observational humor. You know, you've seen this
a lot guys like Nate Burgatzi can come to town
and do two or three shows.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, I'm going on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It's in that same vane.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I feel like you're taking the air out of the
ball right now.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Joke.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So we told you yesterday that they do come in threes.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
See that's a better joke than the landscape joke.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
No, the death's coming through. He is D'Angelo Diane Keaton,
who will be the third now? I reported yesterday that
Daniel Stern, star of Home Alone, creator of Rookie of
the Year, had a medical emergency was since to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I saw him working out today on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
He was he with us, he was planking.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
He's still with us.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Let's go straight to.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The iHeart inbox of one Kevin Turner. Yes, they still
have my email. Incredible from rad Messik at iHeart quote
heads up. Some sad news here. Rumors have been circulating
that original Kiss guitarist Ace Freeley No has passed away,
(02:06):
and now TMZ is reporting that he is on life
support with a brain bleed.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Oh man, and the prognosis is not good. That sucks.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So apparently he had a fall last month in the studio,
So he canceled a tour. He's about to go on tour,
and he's been on a ventilator. Do you have an
AM seventy four right now? He's been working on a
new album. He was going to join Gen, Paul and
Peter when Kiss. They get the Kennedy Center Honors in December.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
There was a show that we promoted in the last
six months in which Ace Freeley was on the bill,
and I'm trying to remember what that was. It was recently,
you know, in the last few you know, a few
months or so. Here in town.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I will say that he again is not he's not
passed away, but there TMS is reporting that he's on
life support.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Man, that's horrible. So we've talked about this before. The
first concert I ever saw was Kiss. I was a
third grader. It was a Dynasty tour. Was in will
Rogers and Fort Worth because at the time Dallas had
pyro technics laws or whatever you like, you can have
fire indoors and so not only do the fire going
off and Jean Simon's spitting up blood at the end
(03:13):
of Ace Freeley's mediocre guitar solo, he would man. He
would let go of his guitar and it would shoot
up into the air and explode. So when you're a
third grader, that's all you care about, that's all you want,
and then I want it now, dude, that's badass. A
couple of years later, there was a kid that had
moved into our elementary school area and he said, Ace
(03:35):
Freely is my cousin.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
And I was like, oh my god, are you serious.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That's incredible, because yeah, I can get you an autograph
and I was like, oh, I.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Would love that.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Went to his house and it was a little white
piece of paper and it said Ace on it, and
I was like cool. And then his mom blew up
his spot and goes, I just wrote that he asked
me to do it. His mom called him out on
his terrible life that he was Ace Freely's cousin.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Man, I just remember when I that was my first
band that I fell in love with. That I was like, Okay,
this band is everything. And you know, at that time,
they were doing you know, around that time, a couple
of years after I fell in love with them because
they used to be in every magazine.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Oh yeah, my god.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Gene Simmons like how longest tongue is and wow, this
Paul Stanley has to be the biggest badass on earth.
Ace Freeley's the greatest guitar player, Peter Chris uh. And
then they had their own like their own special on TV.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Them at the Theme Park was nineteen eighty two. I
think it was probably earlier than that, but not sure.
It's right around there, bit.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I mean, I kiss was everything to me.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And when I was a real little kid, when he
first found out about him, me and my buddies would
take the fireplace tools and go stand on a fireplace
because it was a little higher than the carpet, then
pretend that it was a stage.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And I'm like, where were my parents at this time?
Like what when were playing Fireplace Kiss?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
They were? They were all in a very enclosed area,
smoking cigarette because that's what everyone's parents did during that era.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
But man, this is sad. News sucks.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, that's really really that's way too young.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
You always hate to see the brain bleed too. Yeah,
Like that's always a tough one to see.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Also, like the.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Note that they were about to get back together and
play a few shows or do the Kennedy Center honors,
like they were going to play, and we seemed like,
you know, Russia is just added. Russia is about to
add more cities, by the way, Like that's right, they're
about to add a bunch more like they're going on
to hardcore.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
How many shows do we have now here in Dallas?
Is it three or four?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Four?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Four? Now? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, man, I'm I want to go to that.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
When you when you missed on that joke with your
wife and her friend that was in from town, did
her brain bleed?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I heard she said, take me back to the airport
if it makes I want to I want to go
back to town, if it's any consolation.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I was in the backseat.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
That's a great wrap up. Kevin Turner in the back
seat on ninety seven point one The Eagle.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Coming up now.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Someone on eight twenty just started claughing.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
This all coming up next, the MAVs have wrapped up
their preseason. We'll talk about how they did and what
we can look forward to, and the season starts next week.
We'll do that next right here on the Eagle.
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