July 29, 2025 • 5 mins
“Would you let a chimp in a tuxedo crash your birthday party—or would you rather soak in a private whirlpool suite with a fireplace and a VCR?”Hop into the Ben and Skin Show Wayback Machine as hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray take you on a hilarious and jaw-dropping journey through the most bizarre and unforgettable listings from vintage issues of D Magazine. From nude photography “for art’s sake” to vaudeville-trained animals and the infamous Tub Club, this episode is a love letter to Dallas’ weirdest decades.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's time and I thought, you guys will love this story.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
D Magazine put out a story and way back in
the day, I guess every issue of D magazine had
like a curated consumer page called Windfalls, and it's basically
it pointed Dallas sites to specialty goods and services. It's
not imagine like a backpage, a little similar to what
the Dallas Observer. Yeah, I assume still does. I don't
(00:30):
know if they still do that or not. I should
get a Dallas Deserver. I used to check out the
Dallas Driver all the time.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Man, I saw I saw one recently and picked it up.
Not a lot of pages in it, yeah, I mean
probably about a third of what it used to be
when all the time.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
What their ad revenue is based on, like the physical
paper of it and the online part. It's probably seventy thirty, right,
seventy Online.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Has to be a shell of its former self. So
in last month's issue, they posted some notable listings from
the past.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I had posted about ten of them. I pulled out
the top four for me. That's what you guys would
like from Do you have a specific year on this?
It's just okay. February nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You could get this service for those lovers of nude
photographs for art's sake who have secretly wanted to pose
all natural themselves. Here's an opportunity. Commercial photographer Charles Column
is compiling a book of Dallas nudes, which he hopes
will find its way.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Into art book publication.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Column pays no modeling fee, but we'll provide the posers
with prints at no charge.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Porn, Oh freaks need not apply. This is classy porn.
Was this after the Burt Reynolds thing? Okay?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Maybe what year did Burt Reynolds was early? That was
early seventh plus playgirl? Yeah, that's probably I'm gonna guess.
I'm gonna set the before or after at nineteen seventy four. Okay,
I heart computer take the Yeah, December nineteen seventy four,
bitcho Skin.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Thanks, he knows every play Girl. That was your Christmas present.
I guess, man, I got so mad where they put
the stable that year? No, you're covering you up? Uh?
Was that I guess a little more common back then?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
The Durst art Yeah of course.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, Yoko and Line jeez, yes, they they kind of
did that too, there cover.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
There were jokes about uh, you know, nude painting and
that sort of stuff, and it'd be like or nude photographer.
I mean, that's the whole Austin Powers thing. But back then,
what a commercial photographer, Charles Column? What the first things said?
That guy's a freak or been like that art guy.
Do you guys know you have seen the movie Bottle Rocket. Okay,
(02:47):
there's a character in their name. Robert Maplethorpe. Okay, Robert
Maplethorpe is a very famous artist that took a lot
of nudes and he was a big in fact, he
was a guy, but he was a big I'm nude
photographer and that was just the whole thing in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's someone nude and we're gonna look at them. Yep.
I don't need that anymore. June of nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The next time you're looking for that special someone to
perk up a party or other special event, consider inviting
Dina or Lulu.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I guess it is professional parties. I'm going to say
that they pop out of cakes.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, they're chimps who make appearances.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
For ninety dollars an hour.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yes, Okay, dude, I remember this This probably would have
been early midish eighties. But we went to a thing
at my grandmother's house and they brought a.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Chimp over for a party. Dina. I don't know if
it was Dina or Lulu.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I was watching a documentary on a series on Crazy
Monkey Lady, Crazy Monkey Lady, and that's what they did.
They would monetize that, and early on you could be
around them and they wouldn't do anything, and then one
day they just snap and they eat your face and
you just.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Never knew what it was going to happen.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
They went from being adorable pets and you can put
a costume on them and take them to a birthday party,
and then the next day they eat your face off.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It's a lot like teens. Yeah, exactly like that. Yes,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
They're charging ninety dollars an hour for Dina and Lulu.
That's a long time ago too, but it goes on.
Or if monkey business doesn't appeal, ask for Cohen the
Chicken and Kelly the Rabbit, a vaudeville style duo who
perform a twenty minute act for one hundred and twenty
five dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Okay, what's the act?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Cohen the chicken, does simple math dances and plays five
card stud Kelly the Rabbit is a virtuo so at
the piano, puts money in a piggy bank and does
the basic rabbit out of the hat trick. We need
to bring this back available through the Stower Group Animal
Talent Agency, that Animal Talent Agency.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You need to hit up one of those just to see, Yeah,
well I got.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I got going atau last one I'll do here. Need
to escape for an hour or so. Want a place
for quiet relaxation. How about a private suite with a
world pool, bath, fireplace, wet bar, video recorder, private phone,
and color TV. The Tub Club can provide an hour
with all that and a VIP suite for thirty five
dollars or fifty dollars for two adults.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You know who used to talk about the Tub Club
and was a member, right, Grego talked about it all
the time on the ticket Grego was that what year
is that?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
October nineteen eighty two? Yeah, Grego was down with the
Tub club man.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
There was also a guy selling prisms, and I thought
that was pretty funny too.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Prisms. Yeah, all right, there you have it. There's the
wayback machine coming up.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Next, it's the Today Game, the only segment of the
day that won't be podcasted, and Dak Prescott makes an
appearance in the Today Game.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
That's coming up next
It's time and I thought, you guys will love this story.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
D Magazine put out a story and way back in
the day, I guess every issue of D magazine had
like a curated consumer page called Windfalls, and it's basically
it pointed Dallas sites to specialty goods and services. It's
not imagine like a backpage, a little similar to what
the Dallas Observer. Yeah, I assume still does. I don't
(00:30):
know if they still do that or not. I should
get a Dallas Deserver. I used to check out the
Dallas Driver all the time.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Man, I saw I saw one recently and picked it up.
Not a lot of pages in it, yeah, I mean
probably about a third of what it used to be
when all the time.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
What their ad revenue is based on, like the physical
paper of it and the online part. It's probably seventy thirty, right,
seventy Online.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Has to be a shell of its former self. So
in last month's issue, they posted some notable listings from
the past.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I had posted about ten of them. I pulled out
the top four for me. That's what you guys would
like from Do you have a specific year on this?
It's just okay. February nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You could get this service for those lovers of nude
photographs for art's sake who have secretly wanted to pose
all natural themselves. Here's an opportunity. Commercial photographer Charles Column
is compiling a book of Dallas nudes, which he hopes
will find its way.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Into art book publication.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Column pays no modeling fee, but we'll provide the posers
with prints at no charge.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Porn, Oh freaks need not apply. This is classy porn.
Was this after the Burt Reynolds thing? Okay?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Maybe what year did Burt Reynolds was early? That was
early seventh plus playgirl? Yeah, that's probably I'm gonna guess.
I'm gonna set the before or after at nineteen seventy four. Okay,
I heart computer take the Yeah, December nineteen seventy four,
bitcho Skin.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Thanks, he knows every play Girl. That was your Christmas present.
I guess, man, I got so mad where they put
the stable that year? No, you're covering you up? Uh?
Was that I guess a little more common back then?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
The Durst art Yeah of course.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, Yoko and Line jeez, yes, they they kind of
did that too, there cover.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
There were jokes about uh, you know, nude painting and
that sort of stuff, and it'd be like or nude photographer.
I mean, that's the whole Austin Powers thing. But back then,
what a commercial photographer, Charles Column? What the first things said?
That guy's a freak or been like that art guy.
Do you guys know you have seen the movie Bottle Rocket. Okay,
(02:47):
there's a character in their name. Robert Maplethorpe. Okay, Robert
Maplethorpe is a very famous artist that took a lot
of nudes and he was a big in fact, he
was a guy, but he was a big I'm nude
photographer and that was just the whole thing in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's someone nude and we're gonna look at them. Yep.
I don't need that anymore. June of nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
The next time you're looking for that special someone to
perk up a party or other special event, consider inviting
Dina or Lulu.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I guess it is professional parties. I'm going to say
that they pop out of cakes.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, they're chimps who make appearances.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
For ninety dollars an hour.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yes, Okay, dude, I remember this This probably would have
been early midish eighties. But we went to a thing
at my grandmother's house and they brought a.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Chimp over for a party. Dina. I don't know if
it was Dina or Lulu.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I was watching a documentary on a series on Crazy
Monkey Lady, Crazy Monkey Lady, and that's what they did.
They would monetize that, and early on you could be
around them and they wouldn't do anything, and then one
day they just snap and they eat your face and
you just.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Never knew what it was going to happen.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
They went from being adorable pets and you can put
a costume on them and take them to a birthday party,
and then the next day they eat your face off.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It's a lot like teens. Yeah, exactly like that. Yes,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
They're charging ninety dollars an hour for Dina and Lulu.
That's a long time ago too, but it goes on.
Or if monkey business doesn't appeal, ask for Cohen the
Chicken and Kelly the Rabbit, a vaudeville style duo who
perform a twenty minute act for one hundred and twenty
five dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Okay, what's the act?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Cohen the chicken, does simple math dances and plays five
card stud Kelly the Rabbit is a virtuo so at
the piano, puts money in a piggy bank and does
the basic rabbit out of the hat trick. We need
to bring this back available through the Stower Group Animal
Talent Agency, that Animal Talent Agency.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You need to hit up one of those just to see, Yeah,
well I got.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I got going atau last one I'll do here. Need
to escape for an hour or so. Want a place
for quiet relaxation. How about a private suite with a
world pool, bath, fireplace, wet bar, video recorder, private phone,
and color TV. The Tub Club can provide an hour
with all that and a VIP suite for thirty five
dollars or fifty dollars for two adults.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You know who used to talk about the Tub Club
and was a member, right, Grego talked about it all
the time on the ticket Grego was that what year
is that?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
October nineteen eighty two? Yeah, Grego was down with the
Tub club man.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
There was also a guy selling prisms, and I thought
that was pretty funny too.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Prisms. Yeah, all right, there you have it. There's the
wayback machine coming up.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Next, it's the Today Game, the only segment of the
day that won't be podcasted, and Dak Prescott makes an
appearance in the Today Game.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
That's coming up next
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