August 5, 2025 • 6 mins
“Why would anyone own a deadly cobra… and build the cage themselves?”That’s the question that kicks off one of the most bizarre and hilarious segments on The Ben and Skin Show, featuring hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray. This episode dives headfirst into the infamous Grand Prairie cobra escape—marking its four-year anniversary—and spirals into a mix of outrageous storytelling, local news oddities, and laugh-out-loud commentary.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
An Skin Show ninety one point one the Eagle. We're
gonna be giving away Pantera tickets all week long, and
we're gonna give some away right now. You have to
have the iHeart app now, this is for the show
September third at dose Eki's have the iHeart app. Use
the talkback feature that little microphone. The first person that
can leave their name, their phone number, their email address
(00:20):
and answer this question. We talked about it earlier. What
was the name of Billy Joel's heavy metal band? We
talked about it. They put out one record in nineteen seventy.
If you're listening, you know, or if you don't know,
you can look it up online. But the first person
who gets it right with name, number, email address, they're
gonna go see Pantera September third. Be listening all week
(00:42):
for your chance to win tickets right here on the
Ben and Skin Show. Coming up at the bottom of
the hour, it's our audio bubble bath with funny bloopers
from the Ben and Skin Show for the month of July.
Always a good time have fun with us. But right
now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Are you excited? It gets to featuring veteran news anchor
Katie fun tweets.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It's a very important anniversary today in the Metroplex. It
was four years ago today that this happened.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
From his front yard and grand prairie tray. Matt told
me about his love for animals.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I've messed with tons of reptiles, and I loved all animals.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's why he owns a West African banded cobra.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Just beautiful, She's intelligent.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
A venomous six foot long, two inch wide cobra that's
now missing.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We built end house trariums and it was a caging malfunction.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
We've never dealt with a West African banded cobra before.
We want to public the.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Residents in that area to be aware that this snake
is possibly outside of that home.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It is extremely dangerous, extremely aggressive.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It is a wild story. I know that I'm pretty
obsessed with it to this day. But we get that
guy on the show talk about Trey Mat.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, how did we miss? They use two first names,
Matt Trey Mat.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
God, nobody ever cared about this story as much as
you did. That's true, not even Trey Mat.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I take pride in it, and I'll tell you what
the media had turned their back on this story. About
three days after it happened, they decided we'll move on.
I agree with you, it is scary the idea.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
First of all, why should someone be in no disrespect
to snakes. Plus they've been an incredible advertiser. They're the
number one retailer for exotic poisonous snakes in North Texas.
But there's no reason for anybody to own a deadly cobra.
And if you're going to own animals that can murder
people and kill people, you should be held responsible for
(02:43):
whatever those animals do.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Or a professional could come make the terrarium is he
called it a terrarium that he made and there's a
malfunction on his handmade terrarium.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I was more scared of the way he talked about
the snake. She's beautiful, she's intelligent. Tiles and I loved
all animals.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That's why he owns a West African banded cobra.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
She's beautiful, she's intelligence. Fun of the mascobras. Let's get
train that on the show and see how the last
four years have gone.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It was a wild story. This is back on the
on the Freak days. But I remember Julie Dobbs telling
a story about how she had her brother. Her older
brother had a python and or a boa constrict or
something and it just got out and they.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Found it like a year later. They found it like
wrapped around the toilet in the house. You're still in
the house just eating stuff for a year and they
just didn't know. Oh god, it's just chilling. And I
was like, were you not freaked out by that?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And she was like, yeah, I was for a little bit,
but then you know it's gone and you don't think
about it, and they think that it was strong enough
to get out of the cage. And if you go
to the Dallas Zoo ever, I do recommend taking a
walk through the uh and I like the Dala zook
Chune drink there, but take a walk through the reptile
(04:03):
exhibit because they've got them all in cages and you
can look at all these snakes using their own core
muscles to.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Just climb up the glass case. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
It's always the coolest part of the zoo as well,
but it's been like the cave part, so really I
just go there to get away from me. I don't
recommend going to the San Antonio aquarium. Yeah, and you
would know more about that if you listened to yesterday's show,
which you can get on the free iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Is that why you've always been such an advocate of
core work, because of how you admire reptiles and it's
good for your back? Yeah, is right, Christina, it is. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Copper theft is a growing problem across Dallas Fort Worth.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You guys, bro It's been a problem for decades.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Texas now ranks third highest, and copper theft incidents across
the AT and T network. So AT and t's people
who have AT and T are losing their service because
people are stealing the copper.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh, that fully makes sense to me, you can, Rea.
It's just so back when I worked for my dad,
the electrical contractor, we had all this copper wire and
the meth heads, and you could always tell they were
coming and trying to steal it. And then once they
stole it, they would come to electrical contractors and try
to sell them the wire because they were looking for
money for meth. Like you could always tell they just
(05:18):
show up and they go, you need some wire, you know,
because it that copper. That's why people were stealing all
those air conditioners.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Right, and you could tell they need some dental work. Yeah,
they're going big.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Why not start small and just collect aluminum cans and
the tabs off them.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Because the copper and the electrical wiring is way more
valuable on the resale market.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I understand that. I understand that, But it's also way
easier to get caught. Is it doing aluminum cams? You're
just recycling. No, you're not doing criminal activity. And but
it's just staying on the up and up.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I know, But it's like a time management thing.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
If you're methan out, wouldn't it be important to you
to stay on the up and up on the other
side of your life that's not doing the meth at
that time.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I think the myth kind of complicates all your decision making. Yeah,
it's like everything's going well, except this myth just keeps
causing me to make bad decisions.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Hey guys, how do we stay on the up and
up and do really smart work?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Care?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Hand me that pipe again?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Thank you bad Where Jesse goes up to the house
and he tells the guy, Hey, man, I found some
money down here, and he gives the guy the shovel
and the guy just starts digging the hole in the
front yard, the meth head guy, and then they went
to shovel cam, which is pretty rad.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
That's pretty genius. I don't know what I thought about that. Yeah,
steps happening. There's your story, and we're number one in
the country. We're number one, right, top three, top three,
Now there's still hope, all right.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Coming up next, it's the audio bubble Bath, the July
bloopers from this very show coming your way next
An Skin Show ninety one point one the Eagle. We're
gonna be giving away Pantera tickets all week long, and
we're gonna give some away right now. You have to
have the iHeart app now, this is for the show
September third at dose Eki's have the iHeart app. Use
the talkback feature that little microphone. The first person that
can leave their name, their phone number, their email address
(00:20):
and answer this question. We talked about it earlier. What
was the name of Billy Joel's heavy metal band? We
talked about it. They put out one record in nineteen seventy.
If you're listening, you know, or if you don't know,
you can look it up online. But the first person
who gets it right with name, number, email address, they're
gonna go see Pantera September third. Be listening all week
(00:42):
for your chance to win tickets right here on the
Ben and Skin Show. Coming up at the bottom of
the hour, it's our audio bubble bath with funny bloopers
from the Ben and Skin Show for the month of July.
Always a good time have fun with us. But right
now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Are you excited? It gets to featuring veteran news anchor
Katie fun tweets.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
It's a very important anniversary today in the Metroplex. It
was four years ago today that this happened.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
From his front yard and grand prairie tray. Matt told
me about his love for animals.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I've messed with tons of reptiles, and I loved all animals.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's why he owns a West African banded cobra.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Just beautiful, She's intelligent.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
A venomous six foot long, two inch wide cobra that's
now missing.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We built end house trariums and it was a caging malfunction.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
We've never dealt with a West African banded cobra before.
We want to public the.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Residents in that area to be aware that this snake
is possibly outside of that home.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It is extremely dangerous, extremely aggressive.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It is a wild story. I know that I'm pretty
obsessed with it to this day. But we get that
guy on the show talk about Trey Mat.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, how did we miss? They use two first names,
Matt Trey Mat.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
God, nobody ever cared about this story as much as
you did. That's true, not even Trey Mat.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I take pride in it, and I'll tell you what
the media had turned their back on this story. About
three days after it happened, they decided we'll move on.
I agree with you, it is scary the idea.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
First of all, why should someone be in no disrespect
to snakes. Plus they've been an incredible advertiser. They're the
number one retailer for exotic poisonous snakes in North Texas.
But there's no reason for anybody to own a deadly cobra.
And if you're going to own animals that can murder
people and kill people, you should be held responsible for
(02:43):
whatever those animals do.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Or a professional could come make the terrarium is he
called it a terrarium that he made and there's a
malfunction on his handmade terrarium.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I was more scared of the way he talked about
the snake. She's beautiful, she's intelligent. Tiles and I loved
all animals.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That's why he owns a West African banded cobra.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
She's beautiful, she's intelligence. Fun of the mascobras. Let's get
train that on the show and see how the last
four years have gone.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It was a wild story. This is back on the
on the Freak days. But I remember Julie Dobbs telling
a story about how she had her brother. Her older
brother had a python and or a boa constrict or
something and it just got out and they.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Found it like a year later. They found it like
wrapped around the toilet in the house. You're still in
the house just eating stuff for a year and they
just didn't know. Oh god, it's just chilling. And I
was like, were you not freaked out by that?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And she was like, yeah, I was for a little bit,
but then you know it's gone and you don't think
about it, and they think that it was strong enough
to get out of the cage. And if you go
to the Dallas Zoo ever, I do recommend taking a
walk through the uh and I like the Dala zook
Chune drink there, but take a walk through the reptile
(04:03):
exhibit because they've got them all in cages and you
can look at all these snakes using their own core
muscles to.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Just climb up the glass case. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
It's always the coolest part of the zoo as well,
but it's been like the cave part, so really I
just go there to get away from me. I don't
recommend going to the San Antonio aquarium. Yeah, and you
would know more about that if you listened to yesterday's show,
which you can get on the free iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Is that why you've always been such an advocate of
core work, because of how you admire reptiles and it's
good for your back? Yeah, is right, Christina, it is. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Copper theft is a growing problem across Dallas Fort Worth.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You guys, bro It's been a problem for decades.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Texas now ranks third highest, and copper theft incidents across
the AT and T network. So AT and t's people
who have AT and T are losing their service because
people are stealing the copper.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh, that fully makes sense to me, you can, Rea.
It's just so back when I worked for my dad,
the electrical contractor, we had all this copper wire and
the meth heads, and you could always tell they were
coming and trying to steal it. And then once they
stole it, they would come to electrical contractors and try
to sell them the wire because they were looking for
money for meth. Like you could always tell they just
(05:18):
show up and they go, you need some wire, you know,
because it that copper. That's why people were stealing all
those air conditioners.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Right, and you could tell they need some dental work. Yeah,
they're going big.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Why not start small and just collect aluminum cans and
the tabs off them.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Because the copper and the electrical wiring is way more
valuable on the resale market.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I understand that. I understand that, But it's also way
easier to get caught. Is it doing aluminum cams? You're
just recycling. No, you're not doing criminal activity. And but
it's just staying on the up and up.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I know, But it's like a time management thing.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
If you're methan out, wouldn't it be important to you
to stay on the up and up on the other
side of your life that's not doing the meth at
that time.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I think the myth kind of complicates all your decision making. Yeah,
it's like everything's going well, except this myth just keeps
causing me to make bad decisions.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Hey guys, how do we stay on the up and
up and do really smart work?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Care?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Hand me that pipe again?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Thank you bad Where Jesse goes up to the house
and he tells the guy, Hey, man, I found some
money down here, and he gives the guy the shovel
and the guy just starts digging the hole in the
front yard, the meth head guy, and then they went
to shovel cam, which is pretty rad.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
That's pretty genius. I don't know what I thought about that. Yeah,
steps happening. There's your story, and we're number one in
the country. We're number one, right, top three, top three,
Now there's still hope, all right.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Coming up next, it's the audio bubble Bath, the July
bloopers from this very show coming your way next
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