August 5, 2025 • 9 mins
"Is it possible to dominate pickleball while defending your daughter's honor?"In this wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show, the crew dives headfirst into the chaotic brilliance of everyday life, starting with Ben’s hilarious and oddly heroic tale of taking on teenage rivals in a late-night pickleball showdown. Fueled by competitive fire and a $300 paddle revelation, Ben finds himself deep in the pickleball rabbit hole—complete with a new sensei and a burning desire to grip up like a pro.Meanwhile, Kevin Turner battles his aging Achilles and WebMD-induced paranoia. The gang also reminisces about their Choctaw remote broadcast, where distractions ranged from a bikini-clad pregnant woman to a man dressed as two Village People at once—cowboy and construction worker. Yes, with a safety vest indoors.Krystina Ray brings the chill with her matcha obsession, sparking Skin’s dream of becoming a “Matcha Man” in a viral Village People parody. And when the conversation turns to the mysterious “Dick Academy,” the jokes fly fast and furious, culminating in KT’s accidental deep dive into “Men’s Health’s Seven Best Paddles”—which, spoiler alert, turns out to be not about pickleball.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ron Stewart is still touring, doesn't have his age there
eighty eighty and how many times are you getting his
stomach pumped?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Show heard when Evan with I showed your gone ruben
dead be except with simples, be pursuing it.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hold out Shaw shaking through the sewer. Did now what chilling?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I think? Hegle.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, we're doing it here. You're clotting on the dock.
Got a habit for my house, a gop. That is
how we're starting getting craddit showed that up bothifi like
a rabbit dune in, so out, break it up, eat
the habit.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I won't hang out with our friend brock head on
the lady of my.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Talking on the.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Lady, it's time to do his bong. Call it in
and we know at.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Christine kid.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
All them, Yes, Hello and welcome.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's the world famous Ben and Skin Show ninety seven
point one The Eagle. Thank you for tuning in today
and every day. Thank you for making this dumb ass
show a part of your daily routine. I am Ben Rogers,
joined by my close personal homie from Richardson, Texas since
nineteen eighty two, Jeff skin Wade. Good day, mate, Pride
and Joy of Only Texas. He's a man who used
(01:28):
to bail hay and wranglers and now he just wears wranglers.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Kevin kat Turner some quaids.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Also joining us is the Pride and Joy of Oatmeal
Pizza Blanket, the wickedly talented Christina little Baby corn Bread, Ray.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Chill, Relax, have a macha, I got one.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I are macha obsessed.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah, part of my Macha march.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Skin wants to be a macha man man to do
that village.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Someone's done it. I looked it up. No one's done.
It's dude, you gotta do it. Skin wants to.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Be a man your first viral video. Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
By the way, we were a Choctaw the other day
and there was a guy that was dressed as two
of the village people at once. That cowboy construction instruction
worker he was Was he wearing a safety vest indoors?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yes, that's very strange. There wasn't.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
There were several things that distracted us during that live
remote broadcast. Do you remember what they were? Christina?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
One was boob related.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
But why do you say that I had well, I
had no visual. You guys just Katie, I think mentioned
maybe Triple H's. I didn't know if that was wrestling
reference or what you guys saw.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
And then you said that maybe you're close by a pool.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
There were a lot there was a lot of people
walking by bathing suits and that's never happened there. That
U that pregnant lady that was wearing a bikini that
could have been anywhere between the ages of fifteen and
twenty five, and her man friend, who was about four
to eight, was pushing a stroller and she was ready
like eight eight. I mean that thing was eight and
(03:08):
a half months in. I thought she was going to
give birth in the pool at Choctaw. I thought I
was going to deliver a baby right in front of
our show. I was like putting on my rubber gloves
that I carry around. Uh So, I've got to talk
to you guys about pickleball. Let's go. I can't get
enough of it. I just can't get enough of it,
and I absolutely love it. And I'm probably the back
(03:31):
end of this whole phase as this kind of going away. Now, Katie,
you said you'd play pickle with ball me anytime.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
You still haven't.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You still haven't invited me oh, I've been dealing with
a little of achilles soreness. Yeah, that you should get
out and play pickleball with that tight achilles or yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Get it ready, Yeah, just let that thing snap.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And it's a bad WebMD reading about it, and I
was like, I think I'm going to tear my achilles today.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Thirty seven. Okay, damn, hey, thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
But you have the body of a fifty eight year
old Kevin Hart. Yeah, and so I do think I'm
on a crash course collision with an injury, much like yourself, Kevin,
and skin is ripe to be injured at any point
in any moment in any day.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I'm hurt right now. I hurt. Christina. I think you're
fine for a while.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I think I'm the healthiest. But I did just go
to the doctor this morning. So oh, I mean, I
haven't found out yet, but I got a lot of
test on. Guess I'm kidding.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
I'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
How's your power walking?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Fine? I haven't done it in the past two days.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You said you're going to do American power walking because
you wanted it, like that's what was important to you.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
It's very important to me. But when you have the
doctor to go to and I have an interview yesterday,
like things interfere with America.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Things do interfere with America. That's a good drop.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
So so yeah, so I am not like a terrorist
learning more about the pickleball culture and you know much
like I love pick up basketball.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But the problem is.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I got to get a gym, and then I got
to get you know, if I'm playing half court, I
gotta get seven other guys, maybe an extra. There's a
lot that goes into my pickup basketball habit, which I'm
still playing on Sundays and Tuesdays. I realized that I'm
running out of time, not gonna be able to do
that forever, eventually, unless I'm just playing with senior citizens,
and that's gonna, you know whatever, I'm gonna have to
(05:27):
figure out something else to do. Like I can't get
on a treadmill because I know I'm exercising and I
have no interest. But if I'm competing, then my brain
doesn't realize I'm exercises. So I've been playing more and
more pickaball. And when I went to I went to
Dick's Sporting Goods and I bought like five pickleball paddles
(05:48):
because I wanted to have our four I wanted to
have enough to have a full game. I didn't want
if we wanted to play as a family, somebody didn't
have a paddle so we could go. So I bought
a bunch of balls and pickleball paddles, and I think
the most expensive when I bought was forty five dollars. Okay,
So this weekend, I have a friend of mine who,
by the way, drives a fire truck for the Dallas
(06:08):
Fire Department. Great guy, but he's not a firefighter and
drives a truck round. So he is gotten very into pickleball,
and so I'm like, dude, let's go. And his daughter
is my daughter's age, and so I'm like, man, our
daughters are really good friends. He's a great guy. I'm like, dude,
let's go play pickleball. And so he's gotten way into it.
(06:29):
His brother's even more into it than him. So I
went to meet him to play pickleball on Saturday night
and we go up to the Light Farms courts and
they're just packed, like every court is taken. And so
I don't know what the culture is like, I don't
I don't know what the rules are and he goes, oh, look,
there's some of some of the boys that are in
our daughter's grade over there. I'm like, what, that's the
mortal enemy. I don't want any part of these d bags.
(06:51):
And so we go over there and he just kind
of takes over their court. He's got you guys want
to play doubles and they're like, yeah, sure, And so
we get out.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
There and he smoked there. Nah, it was awesome. And
he came over to me and he goes, Yea, these
guys are great athletes. They don't know how to play. This.
Is this like a game where you can spike it? Yeah,
you can spike it.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And so I'm talking to him and I'm like, okay,
this is my new sense. This is my new pickleball sense.
Show me the ways of the force. I love how
you know, we're obliterating these dumb asses that are trying
to are interested in our daughters. This is great. And
so he goes here, try my paddle, and so I
use his paddle. I'm like, dude, this is way better
than mine. This is great. Where do I get this?
(07:32):
He goes, that's a three hundred dollars paddle.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh god?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Why he had.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Like four of them.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
He had a two hundred and fifty dollars paddle and
a two hundred dollars paddle, and they all had fresh
grips on him.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
And he's like, you need to regrip this once a
month and it is golf? When when when was this
game Saturday?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So you've already bought that three hundred dollars paddle three times? No,
I want to I don't even know where I can
go to buy it.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Come on Dig's authority.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
When I went to Dix, I think the one I
bought forty five bucks is one of the more expensive ones. Anyways,
I have three dollars. Get on, bro, I'm like, I don't,
I don't know I got I?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yeah? Was his wife a net?
Speaker 5 (08:10):
There?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Here's always a net when you play pickleball, right, and
that's there. You know.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
The thing is is you can be just scrimming it
with your jokes. You don't have to just say every
joke that comes in your head. You can pick and
choose the funny ones. How much you're good pickleball paddles?
Get us back on.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
What do you think, Gary? How did you get you
a good one? Get them all? Do they grip? Him
up for you over at the Dick Academy. It's just
spending questions out of his head.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Now, Dick away from the joke, not the Dick Academy,
the sports story, right authority authority.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't know if there's like a
golf pro shup where they grip it for you or.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
They will anyway, So to your point, Skin, you anticipate
me buying an expensive pickleball paddle very soon.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
I think before the end of the show. You'll have
to liver the house.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Anyways, if you know anything about pickleball, reach out to me.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Show me the ways of the force. I'm trying to learn.
All right, seven best paddles? How much? Oh that's a
sex thing. Sorry, okay, that's all right, joke, all right,
I thank Joe for what I did earlier. All right,
coming up next, where are you going to take some thing?
Skin is tracking.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Not only are we going to celebrate a local teacher,
we're going to celebrate a celebrity legend, all in the
same segment.
Ron Stewart is still touring, doesn't have his age there
eighty eighty and how many times are you getting his
stomach pumped?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Show heard when Evan with I showed your gone ruben
dead be except with simples, be pursuing it.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hold out Shaw shaking through the sewer. Did now what chilling?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I think? Hegle.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, we're doing it here. You're clotting on the dock.
Got a habit for my house, a gop. That is
how we're starting getting craddit showed that up bothifi like
a rabbit dune in, so out, break it up, eat
the habit.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I won't hang out with our friend brock head on
the lady of my.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Talking on the.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Lady, it's time to do his bong. Call it in
and we know at.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Christine kid.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
All them, Yes, Hello and welcome.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's the world famous Ben and Skin Show ninety seven
point one The Eagle. Thank you for tuning in today
and every day. Thank you for making this dumb ass
show a part of your daily routine. I am Ben Rogers,
joined by my close personal homie from Richardson, Texas since
nineteen eighty two, Jeff skin Wade. Good day, mate, Pride
and Joy of Only Texas. He's a man who used
(01:28):
to bail hay and wranglers and now he just wears wranglers.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Kevin kat Turner some quaids.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Also joining us is the Pride and Joy of Oatmeal
Pizza Blanket, the wickedly talented Christina little Baby corn Bread, Ray.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Chill, Relax, have a macha, I got one.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I are macha obsessed.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah, part of my Macha march.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Skin wants to be a macha man man to do
that village.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Someone's done it. I looked it up. No one's done.
It's dude, you gotta do it. Skin wants to.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Be a man your first viral video. Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
By the way, we were a Choctaw the other day
and there was a guy that was dressed as two
of the village people at once. That cowboy construction instruction
worker he was Was he wearing a safety vest indoors?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yes, that's very strange. There wasn't.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
There were several things that distracted us during that live
remote broadcast. Do you remember what they were? Christina?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
One was boob related.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
But why do you say that I had well, I
had no visual. You guys just Katie, I think mentioned
maybe Triple H's. I didn't know if that was wrestling
reference or what you guys saw.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
And then you said that maybe you're close by a pool.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
There were a lot there was a lot of people
walking by bathing suits and that's never happened there. That
U that pregnant lady that was wearing a bikini that
could have been anywhere between the ages of fifteen and
twenty five, and her man friend, who was about four
to eight, was pushing a stroller and she was ready
like eight eight. I mean that thing was eight and
(03:08):
a half months in. I thought she was going to
give birth in the pool at Choctaw. I thought I
was going to deliver a baby right in front of
our show. I was like putting on my rubber gloves
that I carry around. Uh So, I've got to talk
to you guys about pickleball. Let's go. I can't get
enough of it. I just can't get enough of it,
and I absolutely love it. And I'm probably the back
(03:31):
end of this whole phase as this kind of going away. Now, Katie,
you said you'd play pickle with ball me anytime.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
You still haven't.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You still haven't invited me oh, I've been dealing with
a little of achilles soreness. Yeah, that you should get
out and play pickleball with that tight achilles or yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Get it ready, Yeah, just let that thing snap.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And it's a bad WebMD reading about it, and I
was like, I think I'm going to tear my achilles today.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Thirty seven. Okay, damn, hey, thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
But you have the body of a fifty eight year
old Kevin Hart. Yeah, and so I do think I'm
on a crash course collision with an injury, much like yourself, Kevin,
and skin is ripe to be injured at any point
in any moment in any day.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I'm hurt right now. I hurt. Christina. I think you're
fine for a while.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I think I'm the healthiest. But I did just go
to the doctor this morning. So oh, I mean, I
haven't found out yet, but I got a lot of
test on. Guess I'm kidding.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
I'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
How's your power walking?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Fine? I haven't done it in the past two days.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You said you're going to do American power walking because
you wanted it, like that's what was important to you.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
It's very important to me. But when you have the
doctor to go to and I have an interview yesterday,
like things interfere with America.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Things do interfere with America. That's a good drop.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
So so yeah, so I am not like a terrorist
learning more about the pickleball culture and you know much
like I love pick up basketball.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But the problem is.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I got to get a gym, and then I got
to get you know, if I'm playing half court, I
gotta get seven other guys, maybe an extra. There's a
lot that goes into my pickup basketball habit, which I'm
still playing on Sundays and Tuesdays. I realized that I'm
running out of time, not gonna be able to do
that forever, eventually, unless I'm just playing with senior citizens,
and that's gonna, you know whatever, I'm gonna have to
(05:27):
figure out something else to do. Like I can't get
on a treadmill because I know I'm exercising and I
have no interest. But if I'm competing, then my brain
doesn't realize I'm exercises. So I've been playing more and
more pickaball. And when I went to I went to
Dick's Sporting Goods and I bought like five pickleball paddles
(05:48):
because I wanted to have our four I wanted to
have enough to have a full game. I didn't want
if we wanted to play as a family, somebody didn't
have a paddle so we could go. So I bought
a bunch of balls and pickleball paddles, and I think
the most expensive when I bought was forty five dollars. Okay,
So this weekend, I have a friend of mine who,
by the way, drives a fire truck for the Dallas
(06:08):
Fire Department. Great guy, but he's not a firefighter and
drives a truck round. So he is gotten very into pickleball,
and so I'm like, dude, let's go. And his daughter
is my daughter's age, and so I'm like, man, our
daughters are really good friends. He's a great guy. I'm like, dude,
let's go play pickleball. And so he's gotten way into it.
(06:29):
His brother's even more into it than him. So I
went to meet him to play pickleball on Saturday night
and we go up to the Light Farms courts and
they're just packed, like every court is taken. And so
I don't know what the culture is like, I don't
I don't know what the rules are and he goes, oh, look,
there's some of some of the boys that are in
our daughter's grade over there. I'm like, what, that's the
mortal enemy. I don't want any part of these d bags.
(06:51):
And so we go over there and he just kind
of takes over their court. He's got you guys want
to play doubles and they're like, yeah, sure, And so
we get out.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
There and he smoked there. Nah, it was awesome. And
he came over to me and he goes, Yea, these
guys are great athletes. They don't know how to play. This.
Is this like a game where you can spike it? Yeah,
you can spike it.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And so I'm talking to him and I'm like, okay,
this is my new sense. This is my new pickleball sense.
Show me the ways of the force. I love how
you know, we're obliterating these dumb asses that are trying
to are interested in our daughters. This is great. And
so he goes here, try my paddle, and so I
use his paddle. I'm like, dude, this is way better
than mine. This is great. Where do I get this?
(07:32):
He goes, that's a three hundred dollars paddle.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh god?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Why he had.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Like four of them.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
He had a two hundred and fifty dollars paddle and
a two hundred dollars paddle, and they all had fresh
grips on him.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
And he's like, you need to regrip this once a
month and it is golf? When when when was this
game Saturday?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So you've already bought that three hundred dollars paddle three times? No,
I want to I don't even know where I can
go to buy it.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Come on Dig's authority.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
When I went to Dix, I think the one I
bought forty five bucks is one of the more expensive ones. Anyways,
I have three dollars. Get on, bro, I'm like, I don't,
I don't know I got I?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yeah? Was his wife a net?
Speaker 5 (08:10):
There?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Here's always a net when you play pickleball, right, and
that's there. You know.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
The thing is is you can be just scrimming it
with your jokes. You don't have to just say every
joke that comes in your head. You can pick and
choose the funny ones. How much you're good pickleball paddles?
Get us back on.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
What do you think, Gary? How did you get you
a good one? Get them all? Do they grip? Him
up for you over at the Dick Academy. It's just
spending questions out of his head.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Now, Dick away from the joke, not the Dick Academy,
the sports story, right authority authority.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't know if there's like a
golf pro shup where they grip it for you or.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
They will anyway, So to your point, Skin, you anticipate
me buying an expensive pickleball paddle very soon.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
I think before the end of the show. You'll have
to liver the house.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Anyways, if you know anything about pickleball, reach out to me.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Show me the ways of the force. I'm trying to learn.
All right, seven best paddles? How much? Oh that's a
sex thing. Sorry, okay, that's all right, joke, all right,
I thank Joe for what I did earlier. All right,
coming up next, where are you going to take some thing?
Skin is tracking.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Not only are we going to celebrate a local teacher,
we're going to celebrate a celebrity legend, all in the
same segment.
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