June 2, 2025 • 6 mins
If you were a fugitive on the run, would you hide out 45 minutes from home… or maybe try Mexico?In this wild and wonderfully Texan episode of The Ben and Skin Show, the crew dives into a chaotic blend of true crime, storm survival, and nostalgic lake stories that’ll have you laughing, gasping, and maybe even questioning your childhood science lessons.With Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray behind the mics, the segment kicks off with KT’s Weekday Update, spotlighting the bizarre saga of Trevor McEwen—a murder suspect who snapped off his ankle monitor and vanished… only to be found hiding out in Van Zandt County, just a short drive from where he fled. “Brother, if you’re gonna take the time to snap off your ankle monitor, get out of the state!”🌩️ Then, the crew unpacks a lightning-strike incident at Mustang Park that injured 14 people trying to hold down a runaway canopy. This sparks a hilarious debate: Can lightning really electrocute you through lake water? And if so, wouldn’t it kill every fish in the lake?🎣 KT shares a childhood memory from Lake Texoma involving a storm, a fishing trip gone rogue, and a legendary family figure named Papa Buddy—a name so iconic it deserves its own country album.Whether you’re here for the true crime, the storm science, or just the absurdity of Texas life, this episode delivers a perfect storm of storytelling, humor, and heart.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is The Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point
one The Eagle. I'm very excited for the last half
hour of the show today. We got some good stuff,
including Christina's very excited about something that's coming to Netflix
and she'll tell you all about it coming up here
in about twenty minutes or so. But right now it's
time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And now it's time for Ben.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Since week Day Up Day, featuring veteran news anchor ktth
on tweets, here are the important stories he's currently tracking
from around the world. For a couple of stories, I
want to get to. A wild story finally came to
its conclusion this morning. Trevor McEwan was a murder suspect
and he was supposed to appear in court for his
trial back in early May. So the morning of his
(00:43):
trial he was not being you know, he was out
though he was out on bell but you know, ankle
monitor and all that stuff. So morning that he's supposed
to go and try it's supposed to begin, he snaps
off his ankle monitor and disappears. And they've been looking
for him for about a month now. I've been back
when this happened. It was one of those stories like Okay,
(01:03):
we'll do this on the show, and she didn't have
time to get to it. There's a fugitive. We had
to do a fart story. Yeah, it broke off is
you know, it's like as not the most fun thing.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But by the.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Way, have you ever seen one of those ankle monitors?
Like how hard is it to snap that FROs? Like
it's hard to do? But I don't I don't know.
He had, you know, a free man, I guess sort of,
you know he had. Here's what he was charged with
killing and killing his neighbor over in forty It was
not forty k though. It was a man by the
name of Aaron Martinez. They say he was shot more
(01:34):
than fifteen times. What the hell that's Yeah, So rather
than go to his trial like he's supposed to, he
takes the ankle monitor off and he's gone away and
then he's now a top ten you know fugitive in
Texas and rank him for some reason. Always weird.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
They usually do it by height.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Used to put them on these little newspapers too. They
used to see this at the gas station when I
was a kid going with my grandpa and they'd have
the America's most Wanted list on these little papers at
the station. How much the small town stuff. But maybe
in the big town they do it at the post office. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Like anytime you would walk into a post office they
would have the most one.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Crazy. But this morning he was found at a residence
in van Zant County. Is that right?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You know? Van Zant's west of Tyler, Eastern taryrel directly
east of out He was still close.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
He didn't get very far.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Brother, if you're gonna take the time to snap off
your ankle monitor get out of the state, well, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
My parents live in van Zant County.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
There's a lot of land out there, so he was
probably trying to hide out in some barn or something.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, so I'm not horrible staying in a barn. Do yeah?
Van Zant County have anything to do with towns van Zant?
I don't know, man, Come on, dude.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Uh okay, So he had been gone for a month.
He snapped off his ankle monitor and made it about
forty five minutes away.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Honestly, though, if you make it out of the side
of that five day window, you're not thinking to look
at you though, they're not really thinking to look here,
They're they're spreading out.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Don't you go to Mexico? Maybe he was confused, Maybe
he doesn't know direction like we do.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, well all you gotta do is look where the
sun sets. Man, what's this guy doing instead of South?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah? What a moron? Tough deal there? What if they
cut him?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
He was doing some good charity work though, he was
doing like a good deed. Theyll time served. Other story though.
Last night some storms kind of popped up over in
fort Worth, little South Fortworth.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
In Benbrook even.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, and these are stories I just think of as
you know, a kid when we went to the lake
a lot. I don't go to lake anymore. Have been
the lake in a long time, claiming to be a
lake kid? No, no, no, yeah, growing up, yeah, that's
all the time, Monster trucks and lakes.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah. Well yeah, jealous, Christina was what was?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I had to like use my friend's pools all the
time because that's all we had. But your friends had pools, yes,
I know, I know you guys in your country life.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
We had to go to the city pool where there's
a urine everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Uh So there's some storms that came in and there
was a lightning near Benbrook at this place called Mustang Park, Okay,
in fourteen people were injured. Now the story goes they
were trying to hold down or something. Some groups of
people were trying to hold down a canopy, Okay, and
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, those are made out of iron metal,
(04:14):
you know. Yeah. But I was also thinking this is
a thing, and I don't I did a little research
on this before the show, but I don't think it's clear.
You know, the boats all come in when there's lightning
or storm's coming. You got to get off the water
because if lightning strikes the water. We were told as
kids that you would be struck if you were in
(04:34):
the lake when the water when the lightning struck the water,
and then you know, the currents would electrocute you and
you die right then and there. But and I just
don't know if that's true or not. I think that Okay,
now it's time for people to act like they know
something that they don't know. Wouldn't the body the bigger
the body of water is the less likelihood it could
carry all, like I get it, like a swimming pool
(04:57):
or something, or you know, if like if you were
like in one of those houses that didn't have roofs
and you're in the bathtub and the lightning came into
the bathtub. But I don't know, like a lake really,
like if I'm on the other side of the lake
and lightning strikes it, Like, wouldn't that kill every fish
in the lake.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
If that exactly what I was gonna say, it would
kill everything in it. Well, let me tell you about
a quick story Lake Texomach. I'll take thirty seconds. Definitely
under the age of eight.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Papaull, Buddy, Uncle Jim, cousin Jimmy, we're going out fishing.
We got a little too far away from the camp site,
maybe went to the other way, other side of the lake. Now,
I contend it was a situation where everyone was just
trying to get away from their wife.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
But I could be wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I'm too young to know, right, I get back Nana,
my mom. There's like panic because a big storm had
hit and we'd gone through the storm back and they're
like hugging me like they like I died and they.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Were never gonna see you again.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And I gotta tell you, Papaul, Buddy and Uncle Jim
got an ash chewing the size of Texas.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Is that right? It scarred in my brain forever.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Is papau Buddy one or two people? One? Okay, Papa Buddy.
That is a badass name. It is, I guess Buddy Knocks.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, because if you said Pa Pauw Buddy, get this. Yeah,
he's Buddy Knox. Uncle Jim is Jim Reeves. Buddy Knocks
and Jim Reeves were country music singers in the sixties. Okay,
And what if you merge them together and they became
Jim Knox. It's the Bin and Skin Show ninety seven
point one. The Eagle coming up next. Let's deal a
little TV talk with our homegirl, Christina. That's right here
(06:26):
on the Eagle now
It is The Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point
one The Eagle. I'm very excited for the last half
hour of the show today. We got some good stuff,
including Christina's very excited about something that's coming to Netflix
and she'll tell you all about it coming up here
in about twenty minutes or so. But right now it's
time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And now it's time for Ben.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Since week Day Up Day, featuring veteran news anchor ktth
on tweets, here are the important stories he's currently tracking
from around the world. For a couple of stories, I
want to get to. A wild story finally came to
its conclusion this morning. Trevor McEwan was a murder suspect
and he was supposed to appear in court for his
trial back in early May. So the morning of his
(00:43):
trial he was not being you know, he was out
though he was out on bell but you know, ankle
monitor and all that stuff. So morning that he's supposed
to go and try it's supposed to begin, he snaps
off his ankle monitor and disappears. And they've been looking
for him for about a month now. I've been back
when this happened. It was one of those stories like Okay,
(01:03):
we'll do this on the show, and she didn't have
time to get to it. There's a fugitive. We had
to do a fart story. Yeah, it broke off is
you know, it's like as not the most fun thing.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But by the.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Way, have you ever seen one of those ankle monitors?
Like how hard is it to snap that FROs? Like
it's hard to do? But I don't I don't know.
He had, you know, a free man, I guess sort of,
you know he had. Here's what he was charged with
killing and killing his neighbor over in forty It was
not forty k though. It was a man by the
name of Aaron Martinez. They say he was shot more
(01:34):
than fifteen times. What the hell that's Yeah, So rather
than go to his trial like he's supposed to, he
takes the ankle monitor off and he's gone away and
then he's now a top ten you know fugitive in
Texas and rank him for some reason. Always weird.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
They usually do it by height.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Used to put them on these little newspapers too. They
used to see this at the gas station when I
was a kid going with my grandpa and they'd have
the America's most Wanted list on these little papers at
the station. How much the small town stuff. But maybe
in the big town they do it at the post office. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Like anytime you would walk into a post office they
would have the most one.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Crazy. But this morning he was found at a residence
in van Zant County. Is that right?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You know? Van Zant's west of Tyler, Eastern taryrel directly
east of out He was still close.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
He didn't get very far.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Brother, if you're gonna take the time to snap off
your ankle monitor get out of the state, well, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
My parents live in van Zant County.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
There's a lot of land out there, so he was
probably trying to hide out in some barn or something.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, so I'm not horrible staying in a barn. Do yeah?
Van Zant County have anything to do with towns van Zant?
I don't know, man, Come on, dude.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Uh okay, So he had been gone for a month.
He snapped off his ankle monitor and made it about
forty five minutes away.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Honestly, though, if you make it out of the side
of that five day window, you're not thinking to look
at you though, they're not really thinking to look here,
They're they're spreading out.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Don't you go to Mexico? Maybe he was confused, Maybe
he doesn't know direction like we do.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, well all you gotta do is look where the
sun sets. Man, what's this guy doing instead of South?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah? What a moron? Tough deal there? What if they
cut him?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
He was doing some good charity work though, he was
doing like a good deed. Theyll time served. Other story though.
Last night some storms kind of popped up over in
fort Worth, little South Fortworth.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
In Benbrook even.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, and these are stories I just think of as
you know, a kid when we went to the lake
a lot. I don't go to lake anymore. Have been
the lake in a long time, claiming to be a
lake kid? No, no, no, yeah, growing up, yeah, that's
all the time, Monster trucks and lakes.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah. Well yeah, jealous, Christina was what was?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I had to like use my friend's pools all the
time because that's all we had. But your friends had pools, yes,
I know, I know you guys in your country life.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
We had to go to the city pool where there's
a urine everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Uh So there's some storms that came in and there
was a lightning near Benbrook at this place called Mustang Park, Okay,
in fourteen people were injured. Now the story goes they
were trying to hold down or something. Some groups of
people were trying to hold down a canopy, Okay, and
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, those are made out of iron metal,
(04:14):
you know. Yeah. But I was also thinking this is
a thing, and I don't I did a little research
on this before the show, but I don't think it's clear.
You know, the boats all come in when there's lightning
or storm's coming. You got to get off the water
because if lightning strikes the water. We were told as
kids that you would be struck if you were in
(04:34):
the lake when the water when the lightning struck the water,
and then you know, the currents would electrocute you and
you die right then and there. But and I just
don't know if that's true or not. I think that Okay,
now it's time for people to act like they know
something that they don't know. Wouldn't the body the bigger
the body of water is the less likelihood it could
carry all, like I get it, like a swimming pool
(04:57):
or something, or you know, if like if you were
like in one of those houses that didn't have roofs
and you're in the bathtub and the lightning came into
the bathtub. But I don't know, like a lake really,
like if I'm on the other side of the lake
and lightning strikes it, Like, wouldn't that kill every fish
in the lake.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
If that exactly what I was gonna say, it would
kill everything in it. Well, let me tell you about
a quick story Lake Texomach. I'll take thirty seconds. Definitely
under the age of eight.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Papaull, Buddy, Uncle Jim, cousin Jimmy, we're going out fishing.
We got a little too far away from the camp site,
maybe went to the other way, other side of the lake. Now,
I contend it was a situation where everyone was just
trying to get away from their wife.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
But I could be wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I'm too young to know, right, I get back Nana,
my mom. There's like panic because a big storm had
hit and we'd gone through the storm back and they're
like hugging me like they like I died and they.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Were never gonna see you again.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And I gotta tell you, Papaul, Buddy and Uncle Jim
got an ash chewing the size of Texas.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Is that right? It scarred in my brain forever.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Is papau Buddy one or two people? One? Okay, Papa Buddy.
That is a badass name. It is, I guess Buddy Knocks.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, because if you said Pa Pauw Buddy, get this. Yeah,
he's Buddy Knox. Uncle Jim is Jim Reeves. Buddy Knocks
and Jim Reeves were country music singers in the sixties. Okay,
And what if you merge them together and they became
Jim Knox. It's the Bin and Skin Show ninety seven
point one. The Eagle coming up next. Let's deal a
little TV talk with our homegirl, Christina. That's right here
(06:26):
on the Eagle now
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