July 21, 2025 • 7 mins
"Are we witnessing the final days of outdoor concerts as we know them?"In this thought-provoking and hilariously candid episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the scorching topic of climate change’s impact on live music—and whether the days of sweating it out at summer festivals are numbered.The conversation kicks off with a surprising announcement from Steve Miller Band, who canceled their entire tour due to extreme weather risks. From heat waves and hurricanes to forest fires and flooding, the band cited safety concerns for fans and crew alike. But is this a genuine climate concern—or just a clever way to bow out of low ticket sales?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one. The Eagle
coming up in a half hour. We celebrate maybe the
greatest Dallas athlete ever. I don't know. We'll get into
all that. Also, we're gonna be giving away Volbeat Heilstorm tickets.
Keep in mind, one winner this week is gonna get
the whole meet and greet thing. Five sets tickets go
out this week as well as the meet and greet,
(00:21):
so be listening for that. But right now it's time
for this, Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So we've got an apology from one band, and then
we've got a comment about something from another prominent figure
in the world of rock. And I wanted to throw
this out there and ask the question our outdoor concert
is gonna be going away in the near future. Now,
I know that sounds that that comment's got less teeth
to it when I say it, because I'm climate change guy.
(00:53):
So that, oh, here he goes he's doing a thing
I'm really not. Steve Miller put out a a release.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And it's what I said. Dear Steve Miller.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Band fans, real fans call him SMB. You make music
with your instincts, You live your life by your instincts.
Always trust your instincts. The Steve Miller Bands canceled all
of our upcoming tour dates. The combination of extreme heat,
unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and massive forest fires make these
risks for you, our audience, the band, and our crew unacceptable.
(01:25):
So you can blame it on the weather. The tour
is canceled, don't know where, don't know when. We hope
to see you all again, wishing you all peace, love
and happiness.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Wait, save the band and the crew.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So he's not saying it's just too hot, we're doing
too many outdoor shows. He's saying climate change makes it
too dangerous to leave your house.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
My first thought was he's saying no one is buying
tickets to see the Steve Miller Band.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Oh no, that's what I thought. I actually thought it's
along the lines of what both of you are saying.
I think he's saying no one in my fan demo
wants to be outside because I'm eighty one years old,
and the only time people that are around my age
go outside is if it's very early to play golf.
Otherwise they stay indoors and they complain about how everything
(02:10):
is going poorly in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Seem I don't mind an outdoor show. It's just in
Texas November. You just can't do it in the summer.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, there's a no fly zone and that's June through
September pretty much. Interestingly enough, I think early June you
can get away with it now because I mean, I'm
really to me, we're just now getting hot and it's
gonna be now. August and September are basically what you know,
June and July used to be.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Even go outside on a ninety degree day this time
of year.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
We'd love to have a ninety degree day. Yeah, it's
a little cold.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Frint came in. It's eighty nine degrees outside. He's got
side and if you're in the sun, you're like, it's
one hundred degrees.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
It just is the feels like temp is always higher.
The real feel, Yeah, the real feel. Okay, so let's
go to Chrissy Hind.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Wait, you guys realize that Steve Miller will in a
few months be eighty two.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay, But Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan toughed it out
and played July fourth at Dosequi's Pavilion.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
They did, and one hundred degree heats.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Do they have some drug help?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I don't think Willy smokes anymore, though, I think yeah, yeah,
I don't think he smokes.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He just does gummies. Yeah, I think so. So then uh,
Chrissy Hind she is a rock goddess. Okay, bounced out
of their chair over there. I love her of the pretenders.
Here's what she put out now. This is a couple
weeks ago. Hi all, I trust your all surviving the
heat waves.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm remembering the last couple of years when we supported
guns and roses and then the food fighters in stadiums.
It was so hot I had to strap ice packs
around my waist and I realized then that outdoor events
are going to come to an end.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
It's just too hot. Wait, ice packs around the waist.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Never heard that.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I'm gonna start on it. I did some working out
outside today's If it's that hot too, she must have
been real wet. Okay, is that like a Is that
like on the crotch? What is she saying? Below the ways?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
If one, drivers have like these little ice best that
they put on before they go for a drive, So
it's probably I love.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
The idea of an ice vest I know to some
type of hydration system.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Maybe, I said, that's not going into you though, something
to keep your body temperature a little cooler.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, and just keep your body temped down, homie. She said,
I have nothing to report because we'ren't really doing anything
at the moment. We haven't put out a record in
in fact, I'm a painter now. But there you go,
she says it. I think that I realized that quote.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I realized that outdoor events are going to come to
an end. And I was just thinking about that, and
I was thinking about Stephen Colbert getting canceled like some
of these things that we've been talking about for a
long time.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Is everything going to an end? Yeah? You can't. Can't though.
The world changes, dude, but it can just end. It evolves,
certain things end all.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
But did climate kill his show too?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
The financial climate? Did? Financial climate did? Did Let me
ask you, Kevin, do you have a landline phone in
your house? Yes? Really? Really no? No? No? Do you
know why? Because it came to an end? Things evolved,
things change. Chrissy Heine is seventy three years old. The
world she knew that she dominated it doesn't exist anymore
(05:29):
like the world that Ben and I never dominated. It's changing,
and by the time we're seventy three, it's going to
be unrecognizable because both of us will have passed. But
isn't that extreme for her? I saw I saw that
Colbert thing.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I saw that thing is loosing forty million a year?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Is that accurate? Conan? Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
There's an interview from Conan from a long time ago
after he was let go at the Tonight Show and
there said NBC was saying you were losing his forty
min dollars year, and he goes, that's impossible. And those
guys do know where the money's going. That's the biggest
jump of taking that job as you learned the business
of it and the learning that you have to budget
(06:05):
for your bits and things like that. So they do
know how much money is being spent. So I'm interested
to see if Colbert fights this. John Stewart has already
been He hasn't said it on the Daily Show, but
on his podcast was kind of like, well, if they
kick us out, I won't be surprised.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I've been kicked out of places before. We'll land on
our feet. We're good.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He's getting ready for it. I saw that the guys
from Workaholics, Adam Devine they were gonna make the Workaholics movie,
and then he looks in the middle of the interview goes,
f you Paramount Plush because Paramount Plus kept the rights
to the I guess the ip of Workaholics. And he's like,
we were gonna make the movie and then they ended
up holding it for so now they won't let us
make the.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Movie five weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
We had agreed to start shooting five weeks cruise all there,
we were building sets and those people have to look
for work now because Peamount Plus said no.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Now, this was a couple of years ago when that happened.
So you see what's happening.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yep, it's all changing, it's evolving, all right. Coming up next,
the news quickie is something you can always count on.
Pat Tillman's brother is back in the news. How does
that impact you as you listen to that tease stick
around find out that's neck
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one. The Eagle
coming up in a half hour. We celebrate maybe the
greatest Dallas athlete ever. I don't know. We'll get into
all that. Also, we're gonna be giving away Volbeat Heilstorm tickets.
Keep in mind, one winner this week is gonna get
the whole meet and greet thing. Five sets tickets go
out this week as well as the meet and greet,
(00:21):
so be listening for that. But right now it's time
for this, Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So we've got an apology from one band, and then
we've got a comment about something from another prominent figure
in the world of rock. And I wanted to throw
this out there and ask the question our outdoor concert
is gonna be going away in the near future. Now,
I know that sounds that that comment's got less teeth
to it when I say it, because I'm climate change guy.
(00:53):
So that, oh, here he goes he's doing a thing
I'm really not. Steve Miller put out a a release.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And it's what I said. Dear Steve Miller.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Band fans, real fans call him SMB. You make music
with your instincts, You live your life by your instincts.
Always trust your instincts. The Steve Miller Bands canceled all
of our upcoming tour dates. The combination of extreme heat,
unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and massive forest fires make these
risks for you, our audience, the band, and our crew unacceptable.
(01:25):
So you can blame it on the weather. The tour
is canceled, don't know where, don't know when. We hope
to see you all again, wishing you all peace, love
and happiness.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Wait, save the band and the crew.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So he's not saying it's just too hot, we're doing
too many outdoor shows. He's saying climate change makes it
too dangerous to leave your house.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
My first thought was he's saying no one is buying
tickets to see the Steve Miller Band.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Oh no, that's what I thought. I actually thought it's
along the lines of what both of you are saying.
I think he's saying no one in my fan demo
wants to be outside because I'm eighty one years old,
and the only time people that are around my age
go outside is if it's very early to play golf.
Otherwise they stay indoors and they complain about how everything
(02:10):
is going poorly in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Seem I don't mind an outdoor show. It's just in
Texas November. You just can't do it in the summer.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, there's a no fly zone and that's June through
September pretty much. Interestingly enough, I think early June you
can get away with it now because I mean, I'm
really to me, we're just now getting hot and it's
gonna be now. August and September are basically what you know,
June and July used to be.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Even go outside on a ninety degree day this time
of year.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
We'd love to have a ninety degree day. Yeah, it's
a little cold.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Frint came in. It's eighty nine degrees outside. He's got
side and if you're in the sun, you're like, it's
one hundred degrees.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
It just is the feels like temp is always higher.
The real feel, Yeah, the real feel. Okay, so let's
go to Chrissy Hind.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Wait, you guys realize that Steve Miller will in a
few months be eighty two.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay, But Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan toughed it out
and played July fourth at Dosequi's Pavilion.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
They did, and one hundred degree heats.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Do they have some drug help?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I don't think Willy smokes anymore, though, I think yeah, yeah,
I don't think he smokes.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He just does gummies. Yeah, I think so. So then uh,
Chrissy Hind she is a rock goddess. Okay, bounced out
of their chair over there. I love her of the pretenders.
Here's what she put out now. This is a couple
weeks ago. Hi all, I trust your all surviving the
heat waves.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm remembering the last couple of years when we supported
guns and roses and then the food fighters in stadiums.
It was so hot I had to strap ice packs
around my waist and I realized then that outdoor events
are going to come to an end.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
It's just too hot. Wait, ice packs around the waist.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Never heard that.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I'm gonna start on it. I did some working out
outside today's If it's that hot too, she must have
been real wet. Okay, is that like a Is that
like on the crotch? What is she saying? Below the ways?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
If one, drivers have like these little ice best that
they put on before they go for a drive, So
it's probably I love.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
The idea of an ice vest I know to some
type of hydration system.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Maybe, I said, that's not going into you though, something
to keep your body temperature a little cooler.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, and just keep your body temped down, homie. She said,
I have nothing to report because we'ren't really doing anything
at the moment. We haven't put out a record in
in fact, I'm a painter now. But there you go,
she says it. I think that I realized that quote.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I realized that outdoor events are going to come to
an end. And I was just thinking about that, and
I was thinking about Stephen Colbert getting canceled like some
of these things that we've been talking about for a
long time.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Is everything going to an end? Yeah? You can't. Can't though.
The world changes, dude, but it can just end. It evolves,
certain things end all.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
But did climate kill his show too?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
The financial climate? Did? Financial climate did? Did Let me
ask you, Kevin, do you have a landline phone in
your house? Yes? Really? Really no? No? No? Do you
know why? Because it came to an end? Things evolved,
things change. Chrissy Heine is seventy three years old. The
world she knew that she dominated it doesn't exist anymore
(05:29):
like the world that Ben and I never dominated. It's changing,
and by the time we're seventy three, it's going to
be unrecognizable because both of us will have passed. But
isn't that extreme for her? I saw I saw that
Colbert thing.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I saw that thing is loosing forty million a year?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Is that accurate? Conan? Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
There's an interview from Conan from a long time ago
after he was let go at the Tonight Show and
there said NBC was saying you were losing his forty
min dollars year, and he goes, that's impossible. And those
guys do know where the money's going. That's the biggest
jump of taking that job as you learned the business
of it and the learning that you have to budget
(06:05):
for your bits and things like that. So they do
know how much money is being spent. So I'm interested
to see if Colbert fights this. John Stewart has already
been He hasn't said it on the Daily Show, but
on his podcast was kind of like, well, if they
kick us out, I won't be surprised.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I've been kicked out of places before. We'll land on
our feet. We're good.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He's getting ready for it. I saw that the guys
from Workaholics, Adam Devine they were gonna make the Workaholics movie,
and then he looks in the middle of the interview goes,
f you Paramount Plush because Paramount Plus kept the rights
to the I guess the ip of Workaholics. And he's like,
we were gonna make the movie and then they ended
up holding it for so now they won't let us
make the.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Movie five weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
We had agreed to start shooting five weeks cruise all there,
we were building sets and those people have to look
for work now because Peamount Plus said no.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Now, this was a couple of years ago when that happened.
So you see what's happening.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yep, it's all changing, it's evolving, all right. Coming up next,
the news quickie is something you can always count on.
Pat Tillman's brother is back in the news. How does
that impact you as you listen to that tease stick
around find out that's neck
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