June 2, 2025 • 6 mins
What do you do when you're stuck at an 8AM Monday graduation in a baseball stadium with a Furby, a nacho-dipping stranger, and a mic-hogging principal?In this hilariously offbeat episode of The Ben and Skin Show, with Ben Rogers out on vacation, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray take the reins and dive into one of the most bizarre mornings KT has ever experienced. From waking up at the crack of dawn to attend his brother-in-law’s high school graduation at Globe Life Field, to witnessing a woman cradling a Furby like it’s 1998, KT recounts the surreal scene with his signature wit.🎓 Key Moments & Themes:
- KT’s Graduation Survival Guide: Learn how to turn a painfully long ceremony into a competitive name-drafting game with your spouse. (Spoiler: “Smith” and “Williams” are first-round gold.)
- The Furby Sighting: Yes, a real Furby. In the wild. At a graduation. Why? No one knows.
- Mic Drop Moments: “We gotta get these speeches tighter.” KT calls out the principal for a 12-minute monologue no one could hear.
- Cultural Commentary: A heartfelt nod to how graduation means different things to different families, especially those celebrating major milestones like being first-generation graduates.
- “I saw a guy dipping his toe in some nachos.”
- “The lady in front of me had a Furby in her lap”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben would be excited too, but he's out on vacation.
He will be back tomorrow, and as soon as you
get back in town, he's going to want to go
to Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen. I don't know if you
guys saw this once again in the Dallas Morning News.
They were nominated for best Pizza, Best Italian, Best comfort Food,
Best happy Hour, best Bar, and best sports Bar. They're
nominated for all those things, and I think they should
(00:21):
win every category because they're badass. Five different styles of pizza,
great bar, great beer selection, great cocktails, incredible pasta dishes.
Right there in Plano at Preston and Plano Parkway. Go
check it out. It's Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen. All right, Katie,
you had kind of a long morning, and I think
you should tell us what. Yeah, as one of those
mornings where you wake up and you kind of know. Man,
(00:42):
I feel like this is one of those stations. I
think a lot of weird stuff is gonna happen. Oh no,
So my wife's brother is graduating. He graduated high school.
All right today, that's huge graduation ceremony, just like God intended.
Monday morning at eight am, where the Texas Rangers play.
That's exactly how it's always been drawn up. Wait, it
(01:04):
was it Global Life?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah yeah, Arlington. So are a lot of big schools
in Arlington, so they oftentimes utilize those stadiums.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You know, do you know the graduating class? Do I
know the people on it? Just like about how many?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh? No, it was that Global Life field, this graduation.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
At eight am on a Monday, I mean insane.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Did you get some Hortato's barbecue? Because they're on two.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Different mills, But I did see a guy dipping his
toe in some nachos.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
They did have the concession stand going.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I just gonna looked at my phone for a couple hours.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, so what they They set up the stage behind
second base because I can't really you can't mess up
the infield. So that and then you have the you know,
did JumboTron? That's great, that's good. Uh, the students are
all in the lower bowl and then it's basically ga
so all these people with their families and their kids,
and a lot of people dressed for work because they
(01:56):
have to scurry off to work after this.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's very it's very strange Monday morning at eight am.
I've seen nothing like it.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
When when my daughter graduated from Allan High School. And
keep in mind her graduating class was about nineteen hundred people,
but it was a Friday night. It was a Friday
night in a football stadium. Yeah, and so that they
couldn't have done the old Ranger Ballpark across the streets,
hot outside.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Dude, Oh okay, that's fair. Yeah, but reason we haven't
the reason.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We have a new stadium, so we don't have to
do that.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But when we did, Alan, we did it. It was
an outdoors Alan, you guys don't have a dome, but
they could have done it at night at that stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, the taxpayers and Alan would pony up and get
a dome on that thing.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Then we might be good to talk.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But they didn't even do the foundation.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Okay, so I'm you know, it's weird eight am, but
but whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
A couple observations I would like to say is we
got to get these speeches tighter. And I realize graduating
is a big deal for a lot of people. If
you're a valedictorian or soltorian or the look, I gotta
tell you, we can't really hear you it's just a
lot of people in ga talking to each other.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
We can't hear you. Let's keep it moving.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
The principal the biggest violatory ten to twelve minutes, so
when you're gonna say names.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
This happens at every graduation, but we've all seen this routine.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's like young families want to have a you know,
shout off at some point. And that's good, you know,
because graduating to some people is a bigger deal than
it is to others. Yeah, right, And and it's.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Just a situation where that might mean more to that
family get they get pushed one. It might be like
an immigrant family, like right, that's a huge absolutely a
huge deal. But also it's you know, it's you can
kind of read how the pace of play is going here.
So the next next game, the next name is coming
up five seconds after that name. We got to get
that down to a three second rowdy thing and then
(03:51):
shut it off.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Boy ten to fifteen missing three or four names.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yea. For some families, people don't care. They make it
about themselves.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Now, another thing that I thought was a little bit
interesting about this is I saw a ferbie this morning
that was weird.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I'll move on from that. Hold on a Ferbie, like
the old toy of Ferbie. You're just gonna move on
from that. You saw it, like, did someone bring it
with them to graduation? Did they carry it across the stage.
I have a lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
The lady in the road in front of me and
the row in front of me had a Ferby in
her lap. It was like a mom, but there weren't
like any kids around. I was like, she's just carrying
a furbie around.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It happened.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Maybe it was for her kid. How old a gal
a mom?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
The hell?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
She was around my age, I would have a Ferbie.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It was older. It's forties, fifties now. I put a
video up on ninety seven to one the Eagles Instagram
TikTok onsp. I'm pretty good at making boring things fun.
So on the way to Arlington this morning, after that
six thirty wake up call, me and my wife had
a draft losers got to take care of dinner tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Okay, and ABC, you see I've done.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I've put ABC d efg all the layers and we're
drafting names.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And if they get drafted, I mean, if they get
if they graduate, you check them off.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So for instance, you know she had the first pick
in the S round when sneaker Smith clearly yep, w
with williams neld it. I went with Wilson, got it.
What was considering Wade jeffskin Wade. Okay, So that's a
good thing to do for graduation. Yeah, going to a
long one, get some of your homies together, start drafting
them up.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, here's and here's what we did in Allen is
know the demographics of the school and do over unders.
So for example, we have a large Indian population in Allen,
I said Patel twelve and a half. I you how
many Patels graduate or Johnson's or whatever. If it's a
large Latino population, Ernandez, right, like, Okay, it's a really
(05:45):
fun thing to do if you know the demographics of
the community. Set over unders and you can get some
good gambling out.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And nil it with the Salsado In the S she
took Smith, I got Salsado got the point.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Let's go, Hey, great job, Kti, that's good. It's almost
like he graduated. It's submit skin Show ninety seven point one.
The Eagle coming up next on the weekday update. Did
they catch this dangerous fugitive KT has the DEATS
Ben would be excited too, but he's out on vacation.
He will be back tomorrow, and as soon as you
get back in town, he's going to want to go
to Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen. I don't know if you
guys saw this once again in the Dallas Morning News.
They were nominated for best Pizza, Best Italian, Best comfort Food,
Best happy Hour, best Bar, and best sports Bar. They're
nominated for all those things, and I think they should
(00:21):
win every category because they're badass. Five different styles of pizza,
great bar, great beer selection, great cocktails, incredible pasta dishes.
Right there in Plano at Preston and Plano Parkway. Go
check it out. It's Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen. All right, Katie,
you had kind of a long morning, and I think
you should tell us what. Yeah, as one of those
mornings where you wake up and you kind of know. Man,
(00:42):
I feel like this is one of those stations. I
think a lot of weird stuff is gonna happen. Oh no,
So my wife's brother is graduating. He graduated high school.
All right today, that's huge graduation ceremony, just like God intended.
Monday morning at eight am, where the Texas Rangers play.
That's exactly how it's always been drawn up. Wait, it
(01:04):
was it Global Life?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah yeah, Arlington. So are a lot of big schools
in Arlington, so they oftentimes utilize those stadiums.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You know, do you know the graduating class? Do I
know the people on it? Just like about how many?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh? No, it was that Global Life field, this graduation.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
At eight am on a Monday, I mean insane.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Did you get some Hortato's barbecue? Because they're on two.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Different mills, But I did see a guy dipping his
toe in some nachos.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
They did have the concession stand going.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I just gonna looked at my phone for a couple hours.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, so what they They set up the stage behind
second base because I can't really you can't mess up
the infield. So that and then you have the you know,
did JumboTron? That's great, that's good. Uh, the students are
all in the lower bowl and then it's basically ga
so all these people with their families and their kids,
and a lot of people dressed for work because they
(01:56):
have to scurry off to work after this.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's very it's very strange Monday morning at eight am.
I've seen nothing like it.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
When when my daughter graduated from Allan High School. And
keep in mind her graduating class was about nineteen hundred people,
but it was a Friday night. It was a Friday
night in a football stadium. Yeah, and so that they
couldn't have done the old Ranger Ballpark across the streets,
hot outside.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Dude, Oh okay, that's fair. Yeah, but reason we haven't
the reason.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We have a new stadium, so we don't have to
do that.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But when we did, Alan, we did it. It was
an outdoors Alan, you guys don't have a dome, but
they could have done it at night at that stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, the taxpayers and Alan would pony up and get
a dome on that thing.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Then we might be good to talk.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But they didn't even do the foundation.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Okay, so I'm you know, it's weird eight am, but
but whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
A couple observations I would like to say is we
got to get these speeches tighter. And I realize graduating
is a big deal for a lot of people. If
you're a valedictorian or soltorian or the look, I gotta
tell you, we can't really hear you it's just a
lot of people in ga talking to each other.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
We can't hear you. Let's keep it moving.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
The principal the biggest violatory ten to twelve minutes, so
when you're gonna say names.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
This happens at every graduation, but we've all seen this routine.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's like young families want to have a you know,
shout off at some point. And that's good, you know,
because graduating to some people is a bigger deal than
it is to others. Yeah, right, And and it's.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Just a situation where that might mean more to that
family get they get pushed one. It might be like
an immigrant family, like right, that's a huge absolutely a
huge deal. But also it's you know, it's you can
kind of read how the pace of play is going here.
So the next next game, the next name is coming
up five seconds after that name. We got to get
that down to a three second rowdy thing and then
(03:51):
shut it off.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Boy ten to fifteen missing three or four names.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yea. For some families, people don't care. They make it
about themselves.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Now, another thing that I thought was a little bit
interesting about this is I saw a ferbie this morning
that was weird.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I'll move on from that. Hold on a Ferbie, like
the old toy of Ferbie. You're just gonna move on
from that. You saw it, like, did someone bring it
with them to graduation? Did they carry it across the stage.
I have a lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
The lady in the road in front of me and
the row in front of me had a Ferby in
her lap. It was like a mom, but there weren't
like any kids around. I was like, she's just carrying
a furbie around.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It happened.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Maybe it was for her kid. How old a gal
a mom?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
The hell?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
She was around my age, I would have a Ferbie.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It was older. It's forties, fifties now. I put a
video up on ninety seven to one the Eagles Instagram
TikTok onsp. I'm pretty good at making boring things fun.
So on the way to Arlington this morning, after that
six thirty wake up call, me and my wife had
a draft losers got to take care of dinner tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Okay, and ABC, you see I've done.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I've put ABC d efg all the layers and we're
drafting names.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And if they get drafted, I mean, if they get
if they graduate, you check them off.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So for instance, you know she had the first pick
in the S round when sneaker Smith clearly yep, w
with williams neld it. I went with Wilson, got it.
What was considering Wade jeffskin Wade. Okay, So that's a
good thing to do for graduation. Yeah, going to a
long one, get some of your homies together, start drafting
them up.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, here's and here's what we did in Allen is
know the demographics of the school and do over unders.
So for example, we have a large Indian population in Allen,
I said Patel twelve and a half. I you how
many Patels graduate or Johnson's or whatever. If it's a
large Latino population, Ernandez, right, like, Okay, it's a really
(05:45):
fun thing to do if you know the demographics of
the community. Set over unders and you can get some
good gambling out.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And nil it with the Salsado In the S she
took Smith, I got Salsado got the point.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Let's go, Hey, great job, Kti, that's good. It's almost
like he graduated. It's submit skin Show ninety seven point one.
The Eagle coming up next on the weekday update. Did
they catch this dangerous fugitive KT has the DEATS
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