October 30, 2025 • 10 mins
"What do Americans fear more—sharks or public speaking?”That’s the wild question that kicks off this hilarious and thought-provoking episode of The Ben and Skin Show, featuring your favorite crew: Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray.Broadcasting on 97.1 The Eagle, the gang dives into the deep end of America’s top 100 fears, from cyberterrorism to jellyfish, and everything in between. Along the way, they share personal stories, questionable stats, and one unforgettable coyote stare-down.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety some point one to Eagle.
This segment right here is brought to you by Rollertown
Beer Works. That's the brewery in Frisco, Texas, on Main Street,
right over there by the Silos and Toyota Stadium, where
Ben and I are partners, and we are going to
be having a big shindig there this weekend for Halloween.
That's tomorrow night. So join us at Pluckers and then
go to Rollertown afterwards all kinds of Halloween festivities. Go
(00:22):
to Rollertown Beerworks dot com and see everything, and then Ben,
you and I are going to be doing our show
there on Monday three to six, kind of like a
Cowboys Cardinals pregame watching party. And you were partying at
Rollertown last night, Yeah, I was there, Rollertown, Little Burry.
We're invested in new location in Frisco opened a week
ago tomorrow. It's amazing. It's just that short amount of
(00:43):
time and man, people are coming out having a great time.
Brand New Funk was there last night. Nineties hip hop
DJ Menace, DJ menis the DJ, and Meds is the
drummer and dude they killed it. It's always a party
when they're there, and so it was so much freaking fun.
And they have a residency every Wednesday night from seven
(01:04):
to ten. Brand New Funk is going to be throwing
down music at Rollertown at Frisco And we got big
concerts coming up, some big announcements, like some very popular
bands are going to be coming out there performing. All
I will say is this, There's so much happening at Rollertown.
There's something every day every night. There's food there constantly,
obviously fresh local beer follow Rollertown beer works. On all
(01:26):
the social media platforms or there's no way you'll know
everything that's going on. We don't even know everything that's
going on. There's so much happening right now. It's time
for this. This thing's big.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
We talked about America's top ten fears earlier in the week,
things like cyber terrorism and uh, you know, recession and
corrupt government officials, nuclear weapons, things like that. But what
I did leave out is how far down the fear
list goes. And it's pretty good. I picked some of
(02:01):
the good ones on there. It goes down about one
hundred deep.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Wow. Down there, near near the bottom at a hundred
is homeless people you fear them or the expansion of them.
I don't know. I don't know. Do you guys fear
homeless people? Oh, men's got to look on.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I would say not not really. But I stopped to
air at my tire at a gas station. What was this,
like two weeks ago, and there was a homeless guy
sitting there and he was like, do you need help
with that? Because I clearly I hadn't used that machine before.
I didn't know what I was doing, and I just
kind of hesitated. But it was a man too, And
it's also just I'm a female just by myself. Yeah,
(02:41):
So I wouldn't say scared, but cautious.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I think it's smart for you to be cautious. Yeah,
I think that's wise. And dude, I always just assume
that anybody, if anybody is like my wife, she doesn't
really think on that level. Yeah, trust everyone. Yeah, And
I'm like, honey, you don't like some people are addicted
(03:04):
to drugs, and so all they care about is getting
those drugs, and so they'll do things that in their
right mind they would have never done. That's what you
want to be on the lookout for. So just avoid strangers,
avoid people, hustling, don't interact with strangers at all, and
always look around and be aware of your surroundings. Okay,
have you guys ever heard of something called Burna?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
All right, So when you watch AXS cable television, Oh good,
it's a good endorsement. There's a product, and I'm not
sure what it is. I've seen two of their commercials.
Go to burna dot com Byrna dot Com. One commercial,
there's an old lady leaving the boxing gym and she's
got boxing gloves and a guy tries to take her
(03:47):
purse and the boxing gloves say burna, and she knocks
the guy out and goes want protection, go to burna
dot com. Okay. Then there's another one with much younger
lady walking around with an unpeeled banana, and she goes,
because I have this faded one bite from Berna dot com.
I don't have fears of people attacking me. Want to
(04:08):
learn what it is, go to Berna dot com. And
then she eats a bite of the banana one bite,
looking directly into the eyes of the camera.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Sounds like a situation.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, I don't know what it is, but I don't
have enough interest to actually go to this website. But
I'm curious as to what is happening here. I would
like us to make some of those ads for our
new business that make no sense and aren't even realistic.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
But the.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Weirdest ads to this YouTube channel. Go to this YouTube
channels like wait, what are you worried about? The coyote
problem of this company?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
The second to last one on there is white's no
longer being the majority in the US.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I am so sick of hearing KT about this. It
is incessant. Tucker Turner over, this guy is so worried
about white people and it just makes me uncomfortable. Just
get used to it, Kevin, Okay, so is it keep going?
Here's if you want.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
How about a a devastating blizzard or a winter storm.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We should think about that. I mean we have had
that to shut down our entire grid. Yeah, I think
about it, offense. I don't want that to happen again.
Why are people more scared of that than like spiders, snakes, sharks,
and alligators?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, there they are below sharks, Ben, I'll tell you.
I'll tell you that sharks. We go a little higher
up the list there, sharks just above heights and sharks.
More people fear sharks than devastating hurricane.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Okay, what ab dangling? Oh yeah, that's great. More people
fear sharks than public speaking. Okay, here's the thing about
some of the some of these fears. It's probably there's
very few jobs that require public speaking. I know, right,
you know, never have to do it right, And you
don't have to get into the ocean. I mean, it's
a choice. Like a lot of the stuff is. You
(05:56):
can't avoid a blizzard coming near a community, hurricane, right,
but you can avoid some of this other stuff. But man,
it's like people with sharks are like, okay, look at
the stats. You're more likely to die via your toaster
than you are shark. But we have a friend who
lives in Salina. She came on our show and she
had her whole calf bitten off by shark, just having
(06:19):
fun on a little vacation in Padre, and now she
won't toast her bread.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Do well. When people do throw the stats out there,
it's usually lightning or toaster.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'm like, that's not happening very often either, Bro, Like, well,
did you compare something to the shark bite? It looks
like there's not that many shark attacks happening. No, No,
they still are compared to other things happening. Yeah, the
lightning strike. If you're telling me you're afraid of the
lightning strike, I'm on board with you, just because there's
probably been three houses within a five square mile radius
of us that have burned down. And the other night
(06:50):
we slept with the window open, and I'm pretty sure
lightning struck within two hundred yards of our house, because
it just about knocked us out of our bed.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
A quicker research tells me you're way more likely to
be struck by lightning than to be attacked by a shark.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yep, all right, I've got some numbers here. I've got
some numbers here for you. The top killers worldwide. And
he guesses on what chilling the most people worldwide. Uh,
probably heart disease. Okay. Mosquitoes kill the most people per year,
seven hundred and twenty five thousand deaths per year.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I don't know how I'm still alive.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Humans kill four hundred thousand people per year. Yeah, I
was gonna say it, is it? Yeah, Snakes kill one
hundred thousand people per year. Yeah, all in India dogs, Christina, Yeah,
kill twenty five to thirty thousand people per year.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I've been sitting on a segment and I think it's
like probably an hour step long segment though.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, of just we're the perfect format for that all.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I know, right of snake experts and like world, like
how many snake experts over the years have just been
killed by snakes.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
We got all my plea wormout hole.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I went down like three years ago and never used
it at the proper time.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Freshwater snails kill ten thousand people per year, yeah, Scorpions
three thousand to thirty five hundred, crocodiles one thousand to
two thousand, elephants one hundred to three hundred. Lions kill
one hundred people per year, box jellyfish fifty to one
hundred people per year. Wolves kill ten per year, bears
five to ten per year, and sharks five to ten
(08:25):
per year.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Do you hear about the bear attack in the shark
attack at about the same same consistency, Yeah, but ten
stories of those a year.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
A lot of this stuff, like the snakes and stuff.
That's when people live near a jungle, you know what
I'm saying, Or they live in a very rural area,
like it's something we live in the burbs, it's very
unlikely we're gonna get it. Well, we have one West
Nile death a year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Now it's like the mosquitoes are getting other like third
world countries.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
In Manila, there's a lot of mosquito deaths, right and
you know, we are in a city, so it's easy
to go get anti venom or whatever. If I had
a friend who or who had someone got bitten by
cotton mouth at their house and that's scary, but they
went and probably got the anti venom and they were okay.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
When once you get the anti venom, you just make
the just look in the mirror and say, I'm not
paying off this medical debt.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Ever. Ever, he said, I'm okay, I'm comfortable with that.
You know who you let pick up the tab on
that people that are pro venom. Yeah, those people, they're
changing everything for us. I think that's a good way
to Shah, let's end it. Oh, let's go to Pluckers tomorrow. Oh,
great idea. Let's wear costumes. Have you got yours? Noe? Okay,
I'll have one with a big night for Ben. Yes tomorrow,
(09:35):
join us at Pluckers you're gonna be the right Christine.
I am going to be there. Who We're all gonna
be in costume. Ben's gonna be dressed as a slut.
We're gonna be giving away prizes to people who wear costumes. Well,
we'll have a drawing, so if you wear a costume,
you have a chance. So come join us tomorrow three
to six at Pluckers. I'll never forget the time that
Kat looked at coyote from De Soto deadnet, sigh, and
(09:55):
he said, do your job, go home, enjoy your night,
turn around, do it again. Die. That's life. And that
coyote said, but they're trying to shoot me. I don't
understand the advice. Christina. Are you playing music tonight.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Till ten o'clock?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Stick around with our home girl right here on the eagle.
Here you going, You're sorry. I'm gonna get some cheeks
after this horse powerge Rink all Ard
Ben and Skin Show ninety some point one to Eagle.
This segment right here is brought to you by Rollertown
Beer Works. That's the brewery in Frisco, Texas, on Main Street,
right over there by the Silos and Toyota Stadium, where
Ben and I are partners, and we are going to
be having a big shindig there this weekend for Halloween.
That's tomorrow night. So join us at Pluckers and then
go to Rollertown afterwards all kinds of Halloween festivities. Go
(00:22):
to Rollertown Beerworks dot com and see everything, and then Ben,
you and I are going to be doing our show
there on Monday three to six, kind of like a
Cowboys Cardinals pregame watching party. And you were partying at
Rollertown last night, Yeah, I was there, Rollertown, Little Burry.
We're invested in new location in Frisco opened a week
ago tomorrow. It's amazing. It's just that short amount of
(00:43):
time and man, people are coming out having a great time.
Brand New Funk was there last night. Nineties hip hop
DJ Menace, DJ menis the DJ, and Meds is the
drummer and dude they killed it. It's always a party
when they're there, and so it was so much freaking fun.
And they have a residency every Wednesday night from seven
(01:04):
to ten. Brand New Funk is going to be throwing
down music at Rollertown at Frisco And we got big
concerts coming up, some big announcements, like some very popular
bands are going to be coming out there performing. All
I will say is this, There's so much happening at Rollertown.
There's something every day every night. There's food there constantly,
obviously fresh local beer follow Rollertown beer works. On all
(01:26):
the social media platforms or there's no way you'll know
everything that's going on. We don't even know everything that's
going on. There's so much happening right now. It's time
for this. This thing's big.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
We talked about America's top ten fears earlier in the week,
things like cyber terrorism and uh, you know, recession and
corrupt government officials, nuclear weapons, things like that. But what
I did leave out is how far down the fear
list goes. And it's pretty good. I picked some of
(02:01):
the good ones on there. It goes down about one
hundred deep.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Wow. Down there, near near the bottom at a hundred
is homeless people you fear them or the expansion of them.
I don't know. I don't know. Do you guys fear
homeless people? Oh, men's got to look on.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I would say not not really. But I stopped to
air at my tire at a gas station. What was this,
like two weeks ago, and there was a homeless guy
sitting there and he was like, do you need help
with that? Because I clearly I hadn't used that machine before.
I didn't know what I was doing, and I just
kind of hesitated. But it was a man too, And
it's also just I'm a female just by myself. Yeah,
(02:41):
So I wouldn't say scared, but cautious.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I think it's smart for you to be cautious. Yeah,
I think that's wise. And dude, I always just assume
that anybody, if anybody is like my wife, she doesn't
really think on that level. Yeah, trust everyone. Yeah, And
I'm like, honey, you don't like some people are addicted
(03:04):
to drugs, and so all they care about is getting
those drugs, and so they'll do things that in their
right mind they would have never done. That's what you
want to be on the lookout for. So just avoid strangers,
avoid people, hustling, don't interact with strangers at all, and
always look around and be aware of your surroundings. Okay,
have you guys ever heard of something called Burna?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
All right, So when you watch AXS cable television, Oh good,
it's a good endorsement. There's a product, and I'm not
sure what it is. I've seen two of their commercials.
Go to burna dot com Byrna dot Com. One commercial,
there's an old lady leaving the boxing gym and she's
got boxing gloves and a guy tries to take her
(03:47):
purse and the boxing gloves say burna, and she knocks
the guy out and goes want protection, go to burna
dot com. Okay. Then there's another one with much younger
lady walking around with an unpeeled banana, and she goes,
because I have this faded one bite from Berna dot com.
I don't have fears of people attacking me. Want to
(04:08):
learn what it is, go to Berna dot com. And
then she eats a bite of the banana one bite,
looking directly into the eyes of the camera.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Sounds like a situation.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, I don't know what it is, but I don't
have enough interest to actually go to this website. But
I'm curious as to what is happening here. I would
like us to make some of those ads for our
new business that make no sense and aren't even realistic.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
But the.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Weirdest ads to this YouTube channel. Go to this YouTube
channels like wait, what are you worried about? The coyote
problem of this company?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
The second to last one on there is white's no
longer being the majority in the US.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I am so sick of hearing KT about this. It
is incessant. Tucker Turner over, this guy is so worried
about white people and it just makes me uncomfortable. Just
get used to it, Kevin, Okay, so is it keep going?
Here's if you want.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
How about a a devastating blizzard or a winter storm.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We should think about that. I mean we have had
that to shut down our entire grid. Yeah, I think
about it, offense. I don't want that to happen again.
Why are people more scared of that than like spiders, snakes, sharks,
and alligators?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, there they are below sharks, Ben, I'll tell you.
I'll tell you that sharks. We go a little higher
up the list there, sharks just above heights and sharks.
More people fear sharks than devastating hurricane.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Okay, what ab dangling? Oh yeah, that's great. More people
fear sharks than public speaking. Okay, here's the thing about
some of the some of these fears. It's probably there's
very few jobs that require public speaking. I know, right,
you know, never have to do it right, And you
don't have to get into the ocean. I mean, it's
a choice. Like a lot of the stuff is. You
(05:56):
can't avoid a blizzard coming near a community, hurricane, right,
but you can avoid some of this other stuff. But man,
it's like people with sharks are like, okay, look at
the stats. You're more likely to die via your toaster
than you are shark. But we have a friend who
lives in Salina. She came on our show and she
had her whole calf bitten off by shark, just having
(06:19):
fun on a little vacation in Padre, and now she
won't toast her bread.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Do well. When people do throw the stats out there,
it's usually lightning or toaster.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'm like, that's not happening very often either, Bro, Like, well,
did you compare something to the shark bite? It looks
like there's not that many shark attacks happening. No, No,
they still are compared to other things happening. Yeah, the
lightning strike. If you're telling me you're afraid of the
lightning strike, I'm on board with you, just because there's
probably been three houses within a five square mile radius
of us that have burned down. And the other night
(06:50):
we slept with the window open, and I'm pretty sure
lightning struck within two hundred yards of our house, because
it just about knocked us out of our bed.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
A quicker research tells me you're way more likely to
be struck by lightning than to be attacked by a shark.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yep, all right, I've got some numbers here. I've got
some numbers here for you. The top killers worldwide. And
he guesses on what chilling the most people worldwide. Uh,
probably heart disease. Okay. Mosquitoes kill the most people per year,
seven hundred and twenty five thousand deaths per year.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I don't know how I'm still alive.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Humans kill four hundred thousand people per year. Yeah, I
was gonna say it, is it? Yeah, Snakes kill one
hundred thousand people per year. Yeah, all in India dogs, Christina, Yeah,
kill twenty five to thirty thousand people per year.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I've been sitting on a segment and I think it's
like probably an hour step long segment though.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, of just we're the perfect format for that all.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I know, right of snake experts and like world, like
how many snake experts over the years have just been
killed by snakes.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
We got all my plea wormout hole.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I went down like three years ago and never used
it at the proper time.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Freshwater snails kill ten thousand people per year, yeah, Scorpions
three thousand to thirty five hundred, crocodiles one thousand to
two thousand, elephants one hundred to three hundred. Lions kill
one hundred people per year, box jellyfish fifty to one
hundred people per year. Wolves kill ten per year, bears
five to ten per year, and sharks five to ten
(08:25):
per year.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Do you hear about the bear attack in the shark
attack at about the same same consistency, Yeah, but ten
stories of those a year.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
A lot of this stuff, like the snakes and stuff.
That's when people live near a jungle, you know what
I'm saying, Or they live in a very rural area,
like it's something we live in the burbs, it's very
unlikely we're gonna get it. Well, we have one West
Nile death a year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Now it's like the mosquitoes are getting other like third
world countries.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
In Manila, there's a lot of mosquito deaths, right and
you know, we are in a city, so it's easy
to go get anti venom or whatever. If I had
a friend who or who had someone got bitten by
cotton mouth at their house and that's scary, but they
went and probably got the anti venom and they were okay.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
When once you get the anti venom, you just make
the just look in the mirror and say, I'm not
paying off this medical debt.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Ever. Ever, he said, I'm okay, I'm comfortable with that.
You know who you let pick up the tab on
that people that are pro venom. Yeah, those people, they're
changing everything for us. I think that's a good way
to Shah, let's end it. Oh, let's go to Pluckers tomorrow. Oh,
great idea. Let's wear costumes. Have you got yours? Noe? Okay,
I'll have one with a big night for Ben. Yes tomorrow,
(09:35):
join us at Pluckers you're gonna be the right Christine.
I am going to be there. Who We're all gonna
be in costume. Ben's gonna be dressed as a slut.
We're gonna be giving away prizes to people who wear costumes. Well,
we'll have a drawing, so if you wear a costume,
you have a chance. So come join us tomorrow three
to six at Pluckers. I'll never forget the time that
Kat looked at coyote from De Soto deadnet, sigh, and
(09:55):
he said, do your job, go home, enjoy your night,
turn around, do it again. Die. That's life. And that
coyote said, but they're trying to shoot me. I don't
understand the advice. Christina. Are you playing music tonight.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Till ten o'clock?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Stick around with our home girl right here on the eagle.
Here you going, You're sorry. I'm gonna get some cheeks
after this horse powerge Rink all Ard
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