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October 29, 2025 13 mins
“Is it possible for a monkey to have herpes, COVID, and hepatitis C… all at once?”That’s just one of the jaw-dropping questions explored in this hilariously chaotic episode of The Ben and Skin Show, featuring hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray.From a diaper-wearing monkey swinging through the rafters of a Spirit Halloween in Plano to a full-blown outbreak of aggressive research monkeys in Mississippi, this episode is packed with bizarre news, laugh-out-loud moments, and KT’s relentless detective work. KT goes full “small-town investigator,” cold-calling courthouses and city halls to uncover the truth behind the escaped STD-carrying monkeys.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He'd like to come see our show live.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
A couple opportunities coming up Friday on Halloween, we'll be
at the Pluckers in Dallas from three to six, and
we are wearing costumes and if you show up in
a costume, you'll be enter to win some cool prizes.
So come join us at Pluckers and Dallas Lovers in
Greenville on Friday. And then Monday, we'll be at Rollertown
Beer Works in Frisco. That's a brewer we're invested in.
We'll do a live remote from Rollertown, Frisco from three

(00:23):
to six, and then I'm going to stick around for
the Cowboy game. I know you got MAVs festivities that night.
Tyler Klutz is going to join me. Former Dallas Cowboy
and he was a fullback for the Cowboys and he's
currently a business partner of Darren Woodson. And he's just
a great guy, like we would always interview him in
the locker room and a fantastic interview. He could have
done anything he wanted to do after football. Just a

(00:44):
brilliant guy. And so I'm basically going to interview him
in between quarters and talk to him and just kind
of get inside us to what he's seeing out there.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
So that's going to be a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
So pluckers in Dallas on Friday, Rollertown Beer Works for
a live remote on Monday, and then a Cowboys watch
party at that all right, the weekday updates coming up
in ten minutes. Kat is investigating something which has a
little something to do kind of with this.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Welcome the Wildlife Dude, wild Life Lude.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Get a gift from the content Gods. I have two
stories involving monkeys, but always start local Plano the Spirit
Halloween Store off of seventy five. I will now turn
it over to our friends at NBC five.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
This next story is bananas k A monkey escaped its
owner inside of a Spirit Halloween Store in Plano, and
Laura Meredith Omens has the videos to prove it. Arlene
Pinston was shopping with her daughter's at a Spirit Store
off seventy five in Plano.

Speaker 6 (01:49):
My daughter looked up and she said, what in the world,
And she's like, is that a real monkey?

Speaker 4 (01:57):
And saw I look up and I said, well, for.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
More than thirty minutes, the monkey could be seen climbing poles,
swinging from wires, and crawling around rafters. Jimmy Harris works
at the store. He says the pet monkey got spooped
by animatronics and ran away from a customer who brought
the animal inside.

Speaker 7 (02:19):
It was entertaining, and I was like, huh. A lot
of people just stood and washed for like thirty minutes.
Like the whole time. There was bunky hey kids trying
to catch it.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
And Plano police were called to the store and tell us.
When an officer arrived, he observed the monkey swinging from
the rafters wearing a diaper. Eventually, a cookie was offered
to the monkey by the owner and was able to
gain control of it.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
No, it's no there's video of it.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh yeah, man, I was just sitting there thinking if
I ever lost my mind, he started going crazy and
that would be the way to call me down to
Oh for you a cookie? Giant cookie bands out there
to diaper? Someone is that chocolate chip? Okay, okay, I'll
come down. Okay, question for you? Shoot cookie or cake?

(03:06):
Oh seven three? Text us in right now on the
fan hotline to let us know. Hey, general, I'll take cookie.
I feel like the cookie is easier because it's a
hand delivery system, Like you got to have a fork
and a plate for cake.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, but like just your your palate. Oh I think, uh,
I think. Wow.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
It really depends on the cookie. It depends on the cake.
But in general, I think i'd go cake over cookie.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
It's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Is cheesecake a cake or a pie? Okay again, dumb ass,
did you hear the question? I need to ask the general.
He's the word cake is in the name, but it's
got the texture of pie.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
He's right, it's confusing.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
It's not a cheese pie, but the same thing Hamburger
doesn't have ham in it.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Like, we're all so confused by this. That's fair. I'll
take pie over cake or cookie. I agree.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Okay, that too, that too? Should I drug test my kids?
Here's scenario. My daughter and her boyfriend are going were
going to go as Curious George and the Man in
the Hat for Halloween, and then they changed it to
Cheech and Chong.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah yeah that.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
When I get that looked at it, it's like I
had a perfectly good one, Curious George and the Man
of the yellow Hat move on.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
And they made that determination while suddenly getting the monkeys
at eleven o'clock at night. Yeah, but I'm curious, like,
how do twenty year olds even know what a cheat
and a chong is?

Speaker 1 (04:31):
How did this happen?

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Is it because of that one time it was on
every Twitter thing for every member when he still is
up there? Chong invaded Twitter a couple of days. It
was insane.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
So back to the monkey, is it Marcell? Does it
look like Marcel from Friends?

Speaker 4 (04:46):
A little kind of monkey, a little bigger, but it
was skinny like it's the Capuchin.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
I think they caught the Capuchin monkeys. It looked like
to me.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
And it was definitely doing the monkey bars like it
was up top climbing the fight. And they said the
lady who they also said at one point it was
running on the too, you see those spirit Halloween stores
are crazy?

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Does she have an emotional support monkey?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well, wasn't hers? Well somebody has saw someone? Yeah, yeah,
how do you have it? Just a pet monkey you
can just take out into I don't know, I mean
Roofman lived in that toys Rs for a long time.
Maybe the monkey just lived there.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Ever, sing guys just take the this is the famous
thing which tall falls. Over the years, a guy would
go into the Academy Sports and outdoors with a huge snake.
I don't understand how that's possible around his neck and
it's like, goodness is terrible?

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah should Tommy Lee.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
But this is not the number one monkey story of
the day. We've got another one that demands more investigation.
What happened in Jasper County, Mississippi? And have I talked
to their officials?

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Next? All right, this is three minutes away. Do not
miss this.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Ben and Skin Show ninety one point won the Eagle.
Go back and listen to the previous segment. There was
a moment in it where KT made up a word.
I think he said compuchin and then Christina goes, yeah,
uh so that's something that I want to look at later.
Coming up at the bottom of the hour, we have
a special wayback machine. God, I love Mosquito in the Hulk,

(06:06):
And let's talk about the time that they got in
with a blogger named Jason. But right now it's time
for this.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Are you excited?

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Featuring veteran news anchor KT fun tweets.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Told you we had a lot of monkey stories.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Let's go live to Channel eight in Mississippi for Jasper
County News.

Speaker 8 (06:29):
The sheriff in Mississippi says an aggressive research monkey, as
he described it from Tulane University, is on the loose.
Liz Reyes tells us a truck carrying the monkeys overturned
on Interstate fifty nine.

Speaker 9 (06:40):
The sheriff says some monkeys it carried are aggressive and
they carry disease, but Tulane says the monkeys are not infectious.
The sheriff's office says five monkeys were caught and killed.
Another fifteen were found inside the truck.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
One has not been found.

Speaker 9 (06:57):
Sheriff Randy Johnson says if anyone sees some monkey on
the loose to call nine to one.

Speaker 10 (07:02):
One has been contacted about coming off and cleaning them up,
taking them mover. Told if we killed them, about them
and move them up and let anybody get around them.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
That's the big unit the sheriff there.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
Now, I want you guys to know that in the
article that I read before I ever watched any news
story here, it said that some of the monkeys were destroyed,
which I thought was funny. Jasper County, Mississippi. There's not
a lot going on there. They went and shot them,
that's what was going on. Like that's not I can't

(07:35):
prove that right now. Pretty simple. They just started shooting
the monkeys. I feel like this is pretty pretty easy.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
That's the apply to that movie where Dustin Hoffman has
a monkey that's carrying a virus.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's what is it called? I'm aging or outbreak? Yeah,
they're just out there shooting monkeys movie pens In. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, your town was being quarantine. Are you did you
investigate into this? I absolutely. I actually had two phone
calls today. I called, uh, you know, their website was
very rinky dink.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
So usually try to get to city hall. You know,
a lot of stuff gets done at city hall, but
this went to the courthouse. I was hoping to get
city call, went to the courthouse. That tells me they're understaffed.
Hi is this Jessper County City Hall, County Courthouse. My
name is Kent. I'm really calling. Do we have any
more information on the monkeys? The rebo monkeys.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
We haven't heard anything this morning. I see when we
left yesterday there were one or three that haven't been
a county four but maybe they say they were all.
You can call the sheriff's department.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
I read the article. I don't know if you red site.
They said that they had like STDs or something.

Speaker 6 (08:47):
Yes, they were testing monkeys. What comment from Pelane? And
they had I think COVID, herpes and title.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Oh no, the big three. Oh you don't have those
together at once?

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yike? Were they dangerous to people?

Speaker 6 (09:02):
Do you think it said in the news articles they were?

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Why were they called riba monkeys? Do they look like
Gripa McIntyre?

Speaker 6 (09:10):
No? I don't even think I saw them a picture
of them?

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Oh you didn't. They're dangerous?

Speaker 6 (09:14):
Right? I think they all thought it was a joke
at first.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
A joke. Why you know, monkeys on the loose and
they're like, what yeah for county.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
So in the article too, it said that they were destroyed.
Is that just another term for uh old blood had
killed them?

Speaker 6 (09:36):
I have no idea. Like I said, you have to
call the Sheriff's apartment for any of that information.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
We're just the courthouse. We do Landean's and all that stuff.
We don't get into triffs department stuff.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, you don't get any into any monkey business, am
I right?

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Nah?

Speaker 7 (09:53):
That's right?

Speaker 6 (09:55):
Is right?

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Oh? This story's bananas?

Speaker 6 (09:58):
And where you call them from?

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Oh, I'm so I'm out there Missouri I'm about really
interested and uh monkeys and really private studies and things
like that. When Jane Goodall died a few weeks ago,
it just absolutely ripped my heart out.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Okay, yeah, for Sure's department, though, they can answer your question.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Those are my guys.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
I'm gonna give them a shout, have a great day,
and hey, uh beware, I guess be on the lookout
for some real worked up, disgusting monkeys.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Thank you. All right, uhh, that's not the answers we're
looking for. She's not very helpful.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
So st STD monkeys escaped. That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
It is crazy, herpes COVID and hepatitis se according to her.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, aggressive they need right.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Aggressive research monkeys is a good name for a Pixies
cover band.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
It's really hard to convince a monkey to wear a condom. Yeah, yeah,
I guess so.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
But we also, I would say, did you notice that
she she stopped at one point and she someone back
for us. So I was like, Okay, so everyone's talking
about it's the hot topic in town. Truly, I can
call the city administrator and find out. H my name
is Kip calling from Mississippi. Are those monkeys still loose? I?
Don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Honestly.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
I've heard people say there are some, but I don't
know for sure.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Well, this monkey is dangerous.

Speaker 6 (11:20):
I don't know any information about them. You have to
call the shrif's department to find out information.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
I tried, but they've taken their phone off the hook.
I'm not sure. I heard they had STDs? Is that true?

Speaker 6 (11:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Do you think they're going to get them?

Speaker 9 (11:34):
Like I said, I don't know anything about it.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Is this like the hot topic in town? This feels
like a huge story. It's getting picked up nationally. It is,
but you've heard anything about it. I figured everyone would
be talking about it.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Maybe, But I'm not sure what coworker Ben thinks. Mortal
Kombat on Sega Genesis is the best video game ever.
But I think Donkey Kong is the best video game.
That lady had a lot of work to the other
lady was so sweet and nice and country. This lady
was pissed. She took the skin approach.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
How do you think? What do you think that first lady?
What do you think the age range and looks of
that lady was to me, I'm fantasizing that she looked
like Marianne from Gilligan silent, Okay, Turkey athletic, maybe a
gymnast background, but it's been a few while.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Like spring Daisy Duke's Okay, that's good.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
I kind of thought I was thinking, like Reese Witherspoon
an election, like kind of a younger and maybe in
her twenties. Yeah, out of high school the actress, not
the character, right.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
And then this other lady, I'm thinking, uh, she maybe
looks like Zach Martin.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, she's definitely a Rondo that's her name.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
By the way, I did try to call the Spirit
Halloween in Plano and yeah, of course they don't have landlines.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
They're temporary stores. So yeah, it's true to National Callboy.
Fantastic detective work by Kevin K. T. Turner.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Coming up next in the Wayback Machine Mosquito and the Hulk.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
With a RAMS blogger. We'll take a look back next
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