August 27, 2025 • 6 mins
"Is Micah Parsons really injured—or just playing the NFL’s most expensive game of dodge?"In this high-energy, laugh-packed episode of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray tackle everything from Cowboys drama to celebrity family chaos with their signature blend of wit, insight, and unfiltered commentary.The crew kicks things off with the latest Micah Parsons mystery—spotted at DFW, not headed to Cabo, but reportedly seeking a second opinion on his back. Is it legit? Or is this a strategic move to avoid fines while sitting out? KT brings the heat with his “warrior spirit” take: “Sign him and go beat the Eagles next week!”Then it’s off to Hollywood, where Ed Kelce, father of Travis, is doing interviews like he’s the new face of the Swift empire. From revealing engagement details to appearing on Australian morning shows, Ed’s loose lips have the gang wondering: “Is Taylor Swift about to shut this man down?” KT hilariously warns, “Ed, brother, you’re gonna get shot. You are not the mouthpiece of this organization.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Earlier today, Micah Parsons was spotted at DFW Airport. Uh
(00:04):
and that's odd, just going through the normal you know,
security checkpoint like anybody else. And so people were starting
to speculate, all right, is he is this a Packers thing?
Is he on his way to the packers for whatever reason?
That rumor's out there and we'll get into it in
a bit. Jane Slater tweeted, No, he's not headed to Cabo.
I'm told Micah Parsons is getting a second opinion on
(00:25):
his back per source.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So that's that's interesting to me because this is a
good way to get out of getting fined.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Right, you're not gonna get fined, You're not gonna play.
You got another you got some other doctors like yoh yeah,
is he could have a back issue?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I'm sitting out, Yeah, a doctor's note. But he's getting
twenty four million dollars this year to play. Doesn't he
owe it to them to play for twenty four million dollars?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I don't think any NFL player owes an NFL owner
a damn thing.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Well, then why should he get paid for that game? Like,
if you're getting twenty four million dollars per season if
you just set out whenever you want, because you would,
it's not as much money as you wanted.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Why should they have to pay him anything? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
No, I this is this is why this is very
tense right now.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
You got it, well, got a Legitimi point of view
is you were here and under contract.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Remember when Dad did this, like Dak did the right thing,
you were not doing the right thing right now.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, it's a fake injury. Everyone knows it's fake.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Get a doctor's note here, though, and then you're gonna
the you know, what are the rules here?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
The NFL players association with Look, he's got the doctor's note.
What do you want say? You're saying we're lying. It's
just gross.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Sign him and go beat the Eagles next week. That's
the mindset of champions.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh yeah, thank you Kevin for that.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
The warrior spirit is we're gonna go beat the Eagles
next week.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Dude, if this was ninety six and we had Switzer,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Dude, what do you do when Jalen hurts us out there?
You just got a fold?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Man, KT's favorite restaurant on his back of the news
More cracker barrel news coming your way.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
News.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Hot gods, every stay on top in the wood shovel.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
The big story of yesterday. And I would just like
to say I'm proud of us for zagging. When the
world zigged, we zagged. Yeah, we did not hit on
the Travis kelce Taylor Swift engagement.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, a little bit. We talked about a little touch run.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
There was a local news station that did a complete
like back and forth with their female anchors.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I'm like, this is not good television, guys, is not good.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
They're just they're figuring they can tap into a massive audience.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, it's like playing Christmas songs at Christmas time.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Sure, good for the ratings.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I always wonder, Oh yeah, what if just a bunch
of stations, like you don't want to drop my format
like a month and just see if it works.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
What if every station played Christmas music in every station
was number one?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
What if us as a talk show we just saying
Christmas carols.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Over here?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
We had some originals. Because I've got a lot of
thoughts on the holiday season.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Travis Kelcey is his His.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Parents are Donna, and Ed Kelsey. You guys know that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh yeah, Donna and Ed are not together anymore, but
they do get along. They're they're able to be in
the same uh suite at Arrowhead Stadium, like they're able
to be there for each other. Or how long they've
been in the room. They were married for twenty five years.
So to me, I don't know, I don't even know.
I'd say, Ed, that's a recent divorce. Yeah, maybe, because
(03:41):
if you think of the age of the kids. I
mean I could google this. I mean, when did Ed
and Donna get a divorced? I bet in the last
six years, uh, thirteen years ago? Well see you later. Yeah,
they probably would tried, and like Jason Kelsey might have
been in the league by then.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Maybe I don't really.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Know, heart to tell.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
The point is, well, now that Taylor Swift is you know,
like Ed Kelsey's viewing this all wrong because she's not
coming to your family. It's all reversed here, the roles
have been reversed, and what we've known forever, you are
now a part of the Swift operation. She's not in
(04:19):
the family, she's not your daughter in law. You are
now a soldier in her operation. Yeah, it's not gonna
be Taylor Kelsey. So it's very strange that Ed Kelsey
is going out and doing a bunch of interviews today
and yesterday, including on Sydney's Funniest Breakfast Show, The Jimmy
and Nan Show.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He's doing interviews, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Did tons of interviews in Australia. He did one on
an Australian morning show.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
He revealed to People magazine that Travis Kelcey bought the
ring a while back, that actually did the engagement two
weeks ago. They didn't get engaged yesterday, and it was
two weeks ago. It was three before the New Heights podcast.
And I'm seeing all this and I'm like, Ed, brother,
you're gonna get shot. The mom will be after it.
(05:08):
You are not the mouthpiece of this organization. You don't
get to talk here. I'm sorry, It's just how it is.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Ed's keeping it real.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Like you think Taylor's people and Taylor are upset about this.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I think there's potential turbulence there. I bet we're gonna
have to get your dad in check here. I bet
they're outraged. I was talking to my wife about this yesterday.
I was like, when you're the machine that she is.
And I wasn't talking about in conjunction with Ed.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I didn't even know Ed was doing this, but we
were talking about when the when it happened, and I
was like, honey, Taylor probably told him what the proposal
needed to be, what he needed to say. They probably had,
you know, lighting arrange. Like that's just not the way
she operates. She's the most calculated human on earth. She
(05:52):
has her next ten years mapped out. She's had this plan.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
She's like Dignan from Bottle Rocket.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It's very crazy, and I just couldn't help but think, well,
Donna Kelsey is the one who's getting State Farm commercials,
and everyone wants to have Donna on their podcast.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Donna, and Ed's like, you know what, now's my time.
It's like, Ed, no, it's not, dude.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
This is like now, more than ever, you have to
tone it down and this is the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Do you remember the early.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Reports back in the early stages of the relationships are like, yeah,
Taylor's kind of not happy with some of Travis's boys,
some of his friends that's hanging out with.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I'm like, I honestly don't remember.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You'll get those taken care of real quickly, this will
all get handled right.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
His friends disappeared at that point. My prediction is.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
We don't hear much from Ed Kelsey moving forward. Dude,
look what happened to Rice, his teammate?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Oh six games?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, I think I think Taylor was behind that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
All Right, there you have it. There's the Hollywood Shuffle
coming up. At just over three minutes. It's food news,
Cracker barrel caves, and a new burger joint has one
hour waits it.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We'll talk about that coming up next. It's just
Earlier today, Micah Parsons was spotted at DFW Airport. Uh
(00:04):
and that's odd, just going through the normal you know,
security checkpoint like anybody else. And so people were starting
to speculate, all right, is he is this a Packers thing?
Is he on his way to the packers for whatever reason?
That rumor's out there and we'll get into it in
a bit. Jane Slater tweeted, No, he's not headed to Cabo.
I'm told Micah Parsons is getting a second opinion on
(00:25):
his back per source.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So that's that's interesting to me because this is a
good way to get out of getting fined.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Right, you're not gonna get fined, You're not gonna play.
You got another you got some other doctors like yoh yeah,
is he could have a back issue?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I'm sitting out, Yeah, a doctor's note. But he's getting
twenty four million dollars this year to play. Doesn't he
owe it to them to play for twenty four million dollars?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I don't think any NFL player owes an NFL owner
a damn thing.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Well, then why should he get paid for that game? Like,
if you're getting twenty four million dollars per season if
you just set out whenever you want, because you would,
it's not as much money as you wanted.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Why should they have to pay him anything? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
No, I this is this is why this is very
tense right now.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
You got it, well, got a Legitimi point of view
is you were here and under contract.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Remember when Dad did this, like Dak did the right thing,
you were not doing the right thing right now.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, it's a fake injury. Everyone knows it's fake.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Get a doctor's note here, though, and then you're gonna
the you know, what are the rules here?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
The NFL players association with Look, he's got the doctor's note.
What do you want say? You're saying we're lying. It's
just gross.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Sign him and go beat the Eagles next week. That's
the mindset of champions.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh yeah, thank you Kevin for that.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
The warrior spirit is we're gonna go beat the Eagles
next week.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Dude, if this was ninety six and we had Switzer,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Dude, what do you do when Jalen hurts us out there?
You just got a fold?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Man, KT's favorite restaurant on his back of the news
More cracker barrel news coming your way.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
News.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Hot gods, every stay on top in the wood shovel.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
The big story of yesterday. And I would just like
to say I'm proud of us for zagging. When the
world zigged, we zagged. Yeah, we did not hit on
the Travis kelce Taylor Swift engagement.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, a little bit. We talked about a little touch run.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
There was a local news station that did a complete
like back and forth with their female anchors.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I'm like, this is not good television, guys, is not good.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
They're just they're figuring they can tap into a massive audience.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, it's like playing Christmas songs at Christmas time.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Sure, good for the ratings.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I always wonder, Oh yeah, what if just a bunch
of stations, like you don't want to drop my format
like a month and just see if it works.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
What if every station played Christmas music in every station
was number one?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
What if us as a talk show we just saying
Christmas carols.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Over here?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
We had some originals. Because I've got a lot of
thoughts on the holiday season.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Travis Kelcey is his His.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Parents are Donna, and Ed Kelsey. You guys know that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh yeah, Donna and Ed are not together anymore, but
they do get along. They're they're able to be in
the same uh suite at Arrowhead Stadium, like they're able
to be there for each other. Or how long they've
been in the room. They were married for twenty five years.
So to me, I don't know, I don't even know.
I'd say, Ed, that's a recent divorce. Yeah, maybe, because
(03:41):
if you think of the age of the kids. I
mean I could google this. I mean, when did Ed
and Donna get a divorced? I bet in the last
six years, uh, thirteen years ago? Well see you later. Yeah,
they probably would tried, and like Jason Kelsey might have
been in the league by then.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Maybe I don't really.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Know, heart to tell.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
The point is, well, now that Taylor Swift is you know,
like Ed Kelsey's viewing this all wrong because she's not
coming to your family. It's all reversed here, the roles
have been reversed, and what we've known forever, you are
now a part of the Swift operation. She's not in
(04:19):
the family, she's not your daughter in law. You are
now a soldier in her operation. Yeah, it's not gonna
be Taylor Kelsey. So it's very strange that Ed Kelsey
is going out and doing a bunch of interviews today
and yesterday, including on Sydney's Funniest Breakfast Show, The Jimmy
and Nan Show.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He's doing interviews, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Did tons of interviews in Australia. He did one on
an Australian morning show.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
He revealed to People magazine that Travis Kelcey bought the
ring a while back, that actually did the engagement two
weeks ago. They didn't get engaged yesterday, and it was
two weeks ago. It was three before the New Heights podcast.
And I'm seeing all this and I'm like, Ed, brother,
you're gonna get shot. The mom will be after it.
(05:08):
You are not the mouthpiece of this organization. You don't
get to talk here. I'm sorry, It's just how it is.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Ed's keeping it real.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Like you think Taylor's people and Taylor are upset about this.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I think there's potential turbulence there. I bet we're gonna
have to get your dad in check here. I bet
they're outraged. I was talking to my wife about this yesterday.
I was like, when you're the machine that she is.
And I wasn't talking about in conjunction with Ed.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I didn't even know Ed was doing this, but we
were talking about when the when it happened, and I
was like, honey, Taylor probably told him what the proposal
needed to be, what he needed to say. They probably had,
you know, lighting arrange. Like that's just not the way
she operates. She's the most calculated human on earth. She
(05:52):
has her next ten years mapped out. She's had this plan.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
She's like Dignan from Bottle Rocket.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It's very crazy, and I just couldn't help but think, well,
Donna Kelsey is the one who's getting State Farm commercials,
and everyone wants to have Donna on their podcast.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Donna, and Ed's like, you know what, now's my time.
It's like, Ed, no, it's not, dude.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
This is like now, more than ever, you have to
tone it down and this is the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Do you remember the early.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Reports back in the early stages of the relationships are like, yeah,
Taylor's kind of not happy with some of Travis's boys,
some of his friends that's hanging out with.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I'm like, I honestly don't remember.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You'll get those taken care of real quickly, this will
all get handled right.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
His friends disappeared at that point. My prediction is.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
We don't hear much from Ed Kelsey moving forward. Dude,
look what happened to Rice, his teammate?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Oh six games?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, I think I think Taylor was behind that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
All Right, there you have it. There's the Hollywood Shuffle
coming up. At just over three minutes. It's food news,
Cracker barrel caves, and a new burger joint has one
hour waits it.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We'll talk about that coming up next. It's just
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