May 9, 2025 • 8 mins
"Ever wondered what truly defines a millennial?” Dive into this hilarious and nostalgic episode of The Ben and Skin Show as the hosts, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray, unravel the quirks and culture of the millennial generation. From the rise of hashtags to the iconic Hot Topic store, this episode is packed with laughter, memories, and a touch of millennial pride.Ben and Skin kick off the episode discussing the millennial-themed week at The Ringer, sparking a lively debate about what truly represents millennial culture.The hosts humorously navigate their generational differences, with Ben almost twenty years older than Krystina and KT, leading to some hilarious exchanges about their formative years.Krystina and KT share their love for Hot Topic and the iconic band shirts, while Ben reminisces about the early days of Nickelodeon and playing Snake on Nokia phones.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got the Today Game, we got food News, we
got a fun ride home for you here on a Friday.
But I do want to say, download the iHeart app
and you can listen to us anytime. If you miss
us over the weekend, you don't have to, you can
listen to us. Go download that iHeart app and just
go find the Ben and Skin show and click on
that and make it one of your presets. That's probably advisable,
(00:21):
and then click follow on that as well. And once
you're following, and once we're a preset, it'll be hard
for you to miss all the different things we have going.
So appreciate everybody supporting us. You can support us this
weekend by checking out some podcasts. But right now it's
time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
All right, here's what we're gonna do. It's kind of
Millennium Week or a millennial week. Now Millennium Week, Millennial Week.
Over at the Ringer, I've been talking about this going
all the way back to Monday or Tuesday, and they
had a bunch of things that kind of represent millennial culture.
Christina and I are millennials. I am thirty seven. I'm
right in the middle of being a millennial. Christina you're
(00:56):
a little younger, right, thirty five thirty five? All right,
younger side of being a millennial, you guys, honestly, you're
not too far away from being a geriatric millennial. You
guys are are you guys are middle gen gen X?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We're pretty we're pretty smack dab in gen X dude.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, yeah, right in the middle. Okay, yeah, because we're good.
I mean, Ben's like almost twenty years older than you guys. WHOA,
I was born in nineteen seventy. What year were you
guys born in?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
What your turn? Eighteen? Christina? Oh eighteen two and eight?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Why?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Where you were you born? Kevin?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Eighty eight?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Okay? Were we were juniors that year?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I definitely could have been y'all's parents because of how
sexually active Ben was. Ben only specifically, Yeah, by the way,
you hearing about only a lot lately. No, I'm just
saying I have felt a fatherly connection with you, Kevin.
This I could be your real father. It's interesting development. Uh,
(01:59):
it's not possible, Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's really not millennial stuff. And we start we're kind.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Of before you carry on, You're doing a great job, so.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Don't.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Okay, let me just say I have never once seen
been just in his garage moving stuff around. Okay, not once,
but you've seen the.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Guy who portrayed your father figure all those years. Do
it after after Today show? Would you like to have
a catch?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I would actually like to have a catch at someone
done that a while. My wife can't throw her catch.
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I totally want to see kt sobbing has been walked
out of a cornfield.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
H the letter H because they're going through the alphabetically.
Christina and I are responsible for hashtags, and we would apologize.
We thought it was going to make the search function
easier in finding thinks it's not it's become just a
bit and then now who.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Knows it's now it's an algorithm stopper. Yeah's a hot topic.
Oh yeah, I love hot topic. Still love hot topic.
You can get great shirts there. They always have like
two for like fifteen bucks or whatever. Best band shirts ever?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yes? I'm old enough to have gone to a church
service in my hometown where the pastor was explaining that
he went to the mall and he didn't know what
was wrong with kids these days because he went into
a store called the Hot Topic, which I was like, okay,
so we'll wait. What was the pastor going into a
store that makes a lot of shirts for you know,
(03:39):
emo bands and stuff and punk bands. No, no, it's
just like it's like it off, it's not far off, yeah,
heavy metal stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's the less sunny version of pH or whatever that's called,
you know, pot Oh pack Son. Yes, it's the less
sunny version of pack Son. It's like the very cloud version.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, it's so cool.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Just the entrance was awesome. That he's preaching about what's
wrong with kids now is they go into hot topics
like I go on there all the time. It's very
strange studded belt. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
It's a lot wrong with you too.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Indie bands from New York City. We will take credit
for that. Uh. Internet rankings. That is something that you
guys probably didn't grow up with on the Internet.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Okay, I thought you meant MySpace like ranking friends.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, I mean I would call that MySpace. Yeah right,
top eight bit just the idea of any Internet list
all the time. You guys didn't grow up with that. Uh,
they're giving us ip as.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I believe that the craft, the craft beer boom happened
on the Millennial watch. All right, It wasn't millennials leading
the charge, but it happened on y'all's watch.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
We will take the juice serum and run with it. Yeah,
Jackass'll get Yeah good that proud. Thanks the jet app
tel era of comedy. And that was when we were
thinking about the bracket the other day that actually had
all this. I was thinking of what encapsulates that For me,
It's that indie rock boom in New York City, and
(05:11):
it's all those comedy movies from the two thousands. That's
my life. That's it, in a nutshell pretty much. You
can kill me now, that's my life.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It really got going when y'all were ten, But I
get it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I think it got it going. Round was six with
Billy Madison, Happy Gilmour, a Spenture, a Pet, Detected Classics.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Tarn Judd apatol Man.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
The Millennial is definitely known for their Kickstarter campaigns. Yes,
how are we going to get anything funded?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
We'll take Mario Kart off your hands though.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You can have it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
We were just on a textread with some stuff going
on at our brewery and there's like a ninety celebration,
and there was a lot of talk about Mario Kart
being on the TV while we're doing ninety stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It's so fun. Yeah, MLB steroids era.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
We will take it. Man, it was fun. It was
Baseball was better than it was like, who cares? Like,
if somebody wants to do that to themselves, so be it.
If they want their neck to be whiter than a
normal man's torso yeah, but they're hitting seventy.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Home runs, that's good for the game.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I disagree that that is uh, millennials. I think that's
gen X. I think we get that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You can have some of it.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The Bash Brothers were early nineties, dude.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
But but ninety eight, Yeah, the bachelors for sure the year.
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
But y'all were like, y'all were ten, you were nine.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It was happening all in front of us because the
Cubs and Cardinals game. They would break in with Cardinals
games and the Cubs were on WGS.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And we were in our thirties. Y'all were like ten.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I think I think to you it was a big
part of getting I'm just saying it's gen x. I
don't think it's millennial.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I guarantee you I cared more about Sosain Maguire than
you did. Dude.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I worked at a sports station that talked about it
every five minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
No, you don't tell me what I do.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Nickelodeon.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, I'm old enough to have watched Dick Van Dyke
and mister ed reruns on Nicked night back in the day,
because it's all they had, parks and wreck.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, that's it's great.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Playing Snake on the phone, yes, what's odd? I used to.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
It was on Nokia phones and it was just this
little snake. You use the buttons to go back and
forth to get this little egg and you couldn't hit
yourself or the sides of the screen. Anytime my sister
diard a basketball game, she had so many, I would
sit there in the stands and play Snake.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
On the phone.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
See, I think that's the determination. Me and you were
immediately like what's that? And they were immediately like, oh
my god. You know that's the distinction. Yeah, that's when
you know it's theirs. What about the Pirate Bay, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
But like them. No, the Pirate Bay is a website
to download music, very much illegally. I've never heard of
it that the guy that ran the Pirate Bay was
caught hiding underneath his bed when the Feds broke into
his house. Good beautiful sight that I definitely have ripped
too many middlebytes of music off of, megabytes of music
(08:12):
off of Is.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That where you got all your Beyonce stuff?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Uh? Pitchfork album scores? Ye, we'll take that podcast. Do
you guys want that?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
We'll take podcasts. Have it, Pokemon will take yes, all day,
Reality TV, you guess it? Shock websites like tub Girl
and Lemon Party.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
What's Girl?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
That's y'all. I think y'all.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I think that's us and I also think real t
TV is us too. That's good.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Did you see him?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well? He did so good?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well the voke T shirts all right, there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
It's Kevin K T Turner
We got the Today Game, we got food News, we
got a fun ride home for you here on a Friday.
But I do want to say, download the iHeart app
and you can listen to us anytime. If you miss
us over the weekend, you don't have to, you can
listen to us. Go download that iHeart app and just
go find the Ben and Skin show and click on
that and make it one of your presets. That's probably advisable,
(00:21):
and then click follow on that as well. And once
you're following, and once we're a preset, it'll be hard
for you to miss all the different things we have going.
So appreciate everybody supporting us. You can support us this
weekend by checking out some podcasts. But right now it's
time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
All right, here's what we're gonna do. It's kind of
Millennium Week or a millennial week. Now Millennium Week, Millennial Week.
Over at the Ringer, I've been talking about this going
all the way back to Monday or Tuesday, and they
had a bunch of things that kind of represent millennial culture.
Christina and I are millennials. I am thirty seven. I'm
right in the middle of being a millennial. Christina you're
(00:56):
a little younger, right, thirty five thirty five? All right,
younger side of being a millennial, you guys, honestly, you're
not too far away from being a geriatric millennial. You
guys are are you guys are middle gen gen X?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We're pretty we're pretty smack dab in gen X dude.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, yeah, right in the middle. Okay, yeah, because we're good.
I mean, Ben's like almost twenty years older than you guys. WHOA,
I was born in nineteen seventy. What year were you
guys born in?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
What your turn? Eighteen? Christina? Oh eighteen two and eight?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Why?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Where you were you born? Kevin?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Eighty eight?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Okay? Were we were juniors that year?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I definitely could have been y'all's parents because of how
sexually active Ben was. Ben only specifically, Yeah, by the way,
you hearing about only a lot lately. No, I'm just
saying I have felt a fatherly connection with you, Kevin.
This I could be your real father. It's interesting development. Uh,
(01:59):
it's not possible, Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's really not millennial stuff. And we start we're kind.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Of before you carry on, You're doing a great job, so.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Don't.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Okay, let me just say I have never once seen
been just in his garage moving stuff around. Okay, not once,
but you've seen the.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Guy who portrayed your father figure all those years. Do
it after after Today show? Would you like to have
a catch?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I would actually like to have a catch at someone
done that a while. My wife can't throw her catch.
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I totally want to see kt sobbing has been walked
out of a cornfield.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
H the letter H because they're going through the alphabetically.
Christina and I are responsible for hashtags, and we would apologize.
We thought it was going to make the search function
easier in finding thinks it's not it's become just a
bit and then now who.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Knows it's now it's an algorithm stopper. Yeah's a hot topic.
Oh yeah, I love hot topic. Still love hot topic.
You can get great shirts there. They always have like
two for like fifteen bucks or whatever. Best band shirts ever?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yes? I'm old enough to have gone to a church
service in my hometown where the pastor was explaining that
he went to the mall and he didn't know what
was wrong with kids these days because he went into
a store called the Hot Topic, which I was like, okay,
so we'll wait. What was the pastor going into a
store that makes a lot of shirts for you know,
(03:39):
emo bands and stuff and punk bands. No, no, it's
just like it's like it off, it's not far off, yeah,
heavy metal stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's the less sunny version of pH or whatever that's called,
you know, pot Oh pack Son. Yes, it's the less
sunny version of pack Son. It's like the very cloud version.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, it's so cool.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Just the entrance was awesome. That he's preaching about what's
wrong with kids now is they go into hot topics
like I go on there all the time. It's very
strange studded belt. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
It's a lot wrong with you too.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Indie bands from New York City. We will take credit
for that. Uh. Internet rankings. That is something that you
guys probably didn't grow up with on the Internet.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Okay, I thought you meant MySpace like ranking friends.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, I mean I would call that MySpace. Yeah right,
top eight bit just the idea of any Internet list
all the time. You guys didn't grow up with that. Uh,
they're giving us ip as.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I believe that the craft, the craft beer boom happened
on the Millennial watch. All right, It wasn't millennials leading
the charge, but it happened on y'all's watch.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
We will take the juice serum and run with it. Yeah,
Jackass'll get Yeah good that proud. Thanks the jet app
tel era of comedy. And that was when we were
thinking about the bracket the other day that actually had
all this. I was thinking of what encapsulates that For me,
It's that indie rock boom in New York City, and
(05:11):
it's all those comedy movies from the two thousands. That's
my life. That's it, in a nutshell pretty much. You
can kill me now, that's my life.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It really got going when y'all were ten, But I
get it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I think it got it going. Round was six with
Billy Madison, Happy Gilmour, a Spenture, a Pet, Detected Classics.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Tarn Judd apatol Man.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
The Millennial is definitely known for their Kickstarter campaigns. Yes,
how are we going to get anything funded?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
We'll take Mario Kart off your hands though.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
You can have it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
We were just on a textread with some stuff going
on at our brewery and there's like a ninety celebration,
and there was a lot of talk about Mario Kart
being on the TV while we're doing ninety stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It's so fun. Yeah, MLB steroids era.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
We will take it. Man, it was fun. It was
Baseball was better than it was like, who cares? Like,
if somebody wants to do that to themselves, so be it.
If they want their neck to be whiter than a
normal man's torso yeah, but they're hitting seventy.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Home runs, that's good for the game.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I disagree that that is uh, millennials. I think that's
gen X. I think we get that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You can have some of it.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The Bash Brothers were early nineties, dude.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
But but ninety eight, Yeah, the bachelors for sure the year.
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
But y'all were like, y'all were ten, you were nine.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It was happening all in front of us because the
Cubs and Cardinals game. They would break in with Cardinals
games and the Cubs were on WGS.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And we were in our thirties. Y'all were like ten.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I think I think to you it was a big
part of getting I'm just saying it's gen x. I
don't think it's millennial.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I guarantee you I cared more about Sosain Maguire than
you did. Dude.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I worked at a sports station that talked about it
every five minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
No, you don't tell me what I do.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Nickelodeon.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, I'm old enough to have watched Dick Van Dyke
and mister ed reruns on Nicked night back in the day,
because it's all they had, parks and wreck.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, that's it's great.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Playing Snake on the phone, yes, what's odd? I used to.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
It was on Nokia phones and it was just this
little snake. You use the buttons to go back and
forth to get this little egg and you couldn't hit
yourself or the sides of the screen. Anytime my sister
diard a basketball game, she had so many, I would
sit there in the stands and play Snake.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
On the phone.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
See, I think that's the determination. Me and you were
immediately like what's that? And they were immediately like, oh
my god. You know that's the distinction. Yeah, that's when
you know it's theirs. What about the Pirate Bay, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
But like them. No, the Pirate Bay is a website
to download music, very much illegally. I've never heard of
it that the guy that ran the Pirate Bay was
caught hiding underneath his bed when the Feds broke into
his house. Good beautiful sight that I definitely have ripped
too many middlebytes of music off of, megabytes of music
(08:12):
off of Is.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That where you got all your Beyonce stuff?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Uh? Pitchfork album scores? Ye, we'll take that podcast. Do
you guys want that?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
We'll take podcasts. Have it, Pokemon will take yes, all day,
Reality TV, you guess it? Shock websites like tub Girl
and Lemon Party.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
What's Girl?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
That's y'all. I think y'all.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I think that's us and I also think real t
TV is us too. That's good.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Did you see him?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well? He did so good?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well the voke T shirts all right, there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
It's Kevin K T Turner
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