May 15, 2025 • 6 mins
“If Fort Worth is now the 11th largest city in the U.S., does it deserve its own sports teams?”That’s just one of the spicy questions tackled in this fast-paced, laugh-filled episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray break down the latest census data and local growth trends.
KT delivers a rapid-fire update on the fastest-growing cities in America—and five of them are right here in North Texas. From Celina to Princeton, the crew dives into the numbers, debates the future of Fort Worth, and jokes about the inevitable rise of Gunter (pronounce the T, please).
KT delivers a rapid-fire update on the fastest-growing cities in America—and five of them are right here in North Texas. From Celina to Princeton, the crew dives into the numbers, debates the future of Fort Worth, and jokes about the inevitable rise of Gunter (pronounce the T, please).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We have lots of fun stuff still in the remainder
of the show, so don't go nowhere. But right now
it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And now it's time for Bass Week Day Out Day
featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets. Here are the
important stories he's currently tracking from around the world. We
got some information from the census today. I think the
lead intown would probably be that Fort Worth is now
over a million people now a one of just thirteen
(00:29):
US cities to ever cross the one million marks. So
good job fort Worth, what a day. Fantastic you guys
have been pumping.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So fort Worth by itself is the thirteenth the largest market.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's now the eleventh largest city in the United States.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Wow, it's also Dallas without fort Worth.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't have that information.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's also where the West begins, so they're eleven.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Huh yeah, but the thirteenth ever to cross it. I
guess a couple have gone under that. The thirteenth ever
to cross one million.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Good job.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Okay, that's but remarkable from a sports standpoint, it's big
enough to have its own sports teams.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know, I don't want to be that's exciting. I
don't know, I'm just saying it is.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I mean, you look at like Los Angeles or New York,
they have multiple teams and and those are those are
huge obviously, But I'm just saying, well, you want to
be in all the top markets, and we're kind of
ballhogging want two huge markets with just our few teams.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's no different than uh, you know, Oakland and San Francisco.
But I would put out the caveat that all the
teams have left Oakland. But Oakland's in a different financial
situation than San Francisco's in well, I mean than Fort
Worth is.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This is why I've always subscribed to the theory that
the Attle Sins are going to move the Mavericks to Cowtown.
It's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
We could start a croquet team in Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
We could eat some croquettes. Yeah, okay. So five of
the fifteen fastest growing cities in America or in DFW, yes, fifteen.
You can guess I know one because I live there.
Say it's the line of Texas, that is correct.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That is correct? What number is it?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It clocked an eighteen percent population jump last year, So that's.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
What it's based on. His percentage of jump.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Because the lifeforms giant has been going to Poundtown.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah? Is that what It's based on k T or throwing? Yeah, okay,
not raw population. It's based on percentage of jump because
those things are different. Yeah okay, Melissa.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, ask correct ten percent population bump last year?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
What number is it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Like? Tom? I don't think I had it listed like that.
You have one k Rockwall. You know what I could
give you. I could give you. You're close, you know what
context clues? I'll tell you that a city on here
is in Rockwall County. Heath not Heath, roy City, not
(02:57):
Royce City settlement. What you say, fate? It is fate? Ah, okay,
forty five minutes east of downtown Dallas, right there on
the eastern shore of Lake rig.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I have no idea where White Settlement is. I think
it's like fort Worth, ishe I mean, I don't even care.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, west, it's a west of Fort Worth. They have
an eleven percent spike. Okay, twenty seven five hundred people.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I would like to make a guess.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
All right, what is the town that is north of
Allen and I think south of Sherman.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Where there's all the tech jobs. Anna, is it Anna,
Anna and Melissa a right next to each other, and
I wouldn't be surprised Ifannon is on there too.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Anna, just a thirty minute drive east of Salina, been
a fourteen percent population increase up to thirty two thousand people. Yeah,
and Anna's technically still in Tallman County. H So just
for reference, I'd just like to say, thirty two thousand's
a good, good hearty number. My hometown was three thousand
people and still is still three thousand people.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I told you guys, this the most populated city in
Maine is Portland, Maine, and it's smaller than Allen by population. Okay,
so there.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And Allen and Melissa and Anna.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, and Solina. We're all talking. Is wait now, is
Selina Denton or Colin County? Both those things? Daddy? Okay, yeah,
there's two. There's two. I think there's it's in both.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I believe one leg I think so.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I think you're right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
On the county line.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And this is not df W, but I think the
fastest growing city in America is Kyle. Nope, is it
in the top.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They can't even get enough Kyle's to go to Kyle.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Kyle's growing I just read an article that said it
was the single fastest growing city in America and that
it didn't have the water infrastruct New York Times.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But they didn't have the census. They have the Texas
Census down.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Okay, Solina is the city in Colin and Denton Counties,
all right, So I started thinking about other ones that
are in that area. I don't know that this is
gonna like. I know there's a lot of people that are, like,
we don't want to have a Starbucks on every corner
where we live. We're moving out of Salina before it
blows up, and we're moving to Gunter. And you don't
(05:07):
you don't pronounce the tea Gunner. Yeah, Gunner isn't in it. It's not.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
But blowing up is the last one north. Because we've
named four of the five.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Let me give you some context. Because it's an hour
north of Dallas, it's half an hour from Plano. It
is up there north. It has experienced a thirty one
percent population increase in the last year. No, but one
of our biggest fans and great listeners is from.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
There, Dennison. Nope, Oh, that's it's it is it off
of thirty five on the way to Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Little Elm, the home of Freak Jesus.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Oh oh oh, Princeton h Prince Princeville, Princeton three, isn't it. Yeah,
Princeton's over by Anna and Melissa, like those two are
all adjacent to one another.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I think thirty one population movement the last year. Yeah,
so that's some crazy numbers.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It's crazy numbers, but there's not that many people. So
the point is is that, like you were talking about Anna,
up to thirty two thousand people. That's still a third
of Allen. But percentage wise, it's growing, but it's not
population wise.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
In the twenty twenty census had seventeen thousand people, and
now it in the twenty twenty three the next update
twenty eight thousand. Yeah. Yeah, so up ten thousand people.
It's huge.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
So up on the north side Highway three eighty, anything
along that is going to be booming all the way
from Salina, all the way over to the right side.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah. All the northern birds, man, he willakers they getting bigger.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
All right, there you have it coming up next. John
Mulaney wants to fight three teenage boys.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We have an update on that story next
We have lots of fun stuff still in the remainder
of the show, so don't go nowhere. But right now
it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And now it's time for Bass Week Day Out Day
featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets. Here are the
important stories he's currently tracking from around the world. We
got some information from the census today. I think the
lead intown would probably be that Fort Worth is now
over a million people now a one of just thirteen
(00:29):
US cities to ever cross the one million marks. So
good job fort Worth, what a day. Fantastic you guys
have been pumping.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So fort Worth by itself is the thirteenth the largest market.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's now the eleventh largest city in the United States.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Wow, it's also Dallas without fort Worth.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't have that information.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's also where the West begins, so they're eleven.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Huh yeah, but the thirteenth ever to cross it. I
guess a couple have gone under that. The thirteenth ever
to cross one million.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Good job.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Okay, that's but remarkable from a sports standpoint, it's big
enough to have its own sports teams.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know, I don't want to be that's exciting. I
don't know, I'm just saying it is.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I mean, you look at like Los Angeles or New York,
they have multiple teams and and those are those are
huge obviously, But I'm just saying, well, you want to
be in all the top markets, and we're kind of
ballhogging want two huge markets with just our few teams.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's no different than uh, you know, Oakland and San Francisco.
But I would put out the caveat that all the
teams have left Oakland. But Oakland's in a different financial
situation than San Francisco's in well, I mean than Fort
Worth is.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This is why I've always subscribed to the theory that
the Attle Sins are going to move the Mavericks to Cowtown.
It's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
We could start a croquet team in Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
We could eat some croquettes. Yeah, okay. So five of
the fifteen fastest growing cities in America or in DFW, yes, fifteen.
You can guess I know one because I live there.
Say it's the line of Texas, that is correct.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That is correct? What number is it?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It clocked an eighteen percent population jump last year, So that's.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
What it's based on. His percentage of jump.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Because the lifeforms giant has been going to Poundtown.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah? Is that what It's based on k T or throwing? Yeah, okay,
not raw population. It's based on percentage of jump because
those things are different. Yeah okay, Melissa.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, ask correct ten percent population bump last year?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
What number is it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Like? Tom? I don't think I had it listed like that.
You have one k Rockwall. You know what I could
give you. I could give you. You're close, you know what
context clues? I'll tell you that a city on here
is in Rockwall County. Heath not Heath, roy City, not
(02:57):
Royce City settlement. What you say, fate? It is fate? Ah, okay,
forty five minutes east of downtown Dallas, right there on
the eastern shore of Lake rig.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I have no idea where White Settlement is. I think
it's like fort Worth, ishe I mean, I don't even care.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, west, it's a west of Fort Worth. They have
an eleven percent spike. Okay, twenty seven five hundred people.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I would like to make a guess.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
All right, what is the town that is north of
Allen and I think south of Sherman.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Where there's all the tech jobs. Anna, is it Anna,
Anna and Melissa a right next to each other, and
I wouldn't be surprised Ifannon is on there too.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Anna, just a thirty minute drive east of Salina, been
a fourteen percent population increase up to thirty two thousand people. Yeah,
and Anna's technically still in Tallman County. H So just
for reference, I'd just like to say, thirty two thousand's
a good, good hearty number. My hometown was three thousand
people and still is still three thousand people.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I told you guys, this the most populated city in
Maine is Portland, Maine, and it's smaller than Allen by population. Okay,
so there.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And Allen and Melissa and Anna.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, and Solina. We're all talking. Is wait now, is
Selina Denton or Colin County? Both those things? Daddy? Okay, yeah,
there's two. There's two. I think there's it's in both.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I believe one leg I think so.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I think you're right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
On the county line.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And this is not df W, but I think the
fastest growing city in America is Kyle. Nope, is it
in the top.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They can't even get enough Kyle's to go to Kyle.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Kyle's growing I just read an article that said it
was the single fastest growing city in America and that
it didn't have the water infrastruct New York Times.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But they didn't have the census. They have the Texas
Census down.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Okay, Solina is the city in Colin and Denton Counties,
all right, So I started thinking about other ones that
are in that area. I don't know that this is
gonna like. I know there's a lot of people that are, like,
we don't want to have a Starbucks on every corner
where we live. We're moving out of Salina before it
blows up, and we're moving to Gunter. And you don't
(05:07):
you don't pronounce the tea Gunner. Yeah, Gunner isn't in it. It's not.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
But blowing up is the last one north. Because we've
named four of the five.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Let me give you some context. Because it's an hour
north of Dallas, it's half an hour from Plano. It
is up there north. It has experienced a thirty one
percent population increase in the last year. No, but one
of our biggest fans and great listeners is from.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
There, Dennison. Nope, Oh, that's it's it is it off
of thirty five on the way to Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Little Elm, the home of Freak Jesus.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Oh oh oh, Princeton h Prince Princeville, Princeton three, isn't it. Yeah,
Princeton's over by Anna and Melissa, like those two are
all adjacent to one another.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I think thirty one population movement the last year. Yeah,
so that's some crazy numbers.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It's crazy numbers, but there's not that many people. So
the point is is that, like you were talking about Anna,
up to thirty two thousand people. That's still a third
of Allen. But percentage wise, it's growing, but it's not
population wise.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
In the twenty twenty census had seventeen thousand people, and
now it in the twenty twenty three the next update
twenty eight thousand. Yeah. Yeah, so up ten thousand people.
It's huge.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
So up on the north side Highway three eighty, anything
along that is going to be booming all the way
from Salina, all the way over to the right side.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah. All the northern birds, man, he willakers they getting bigger.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
All right, there you have it coming up next. John
Mulaney wants to fight three teenage boys.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We have an update on that story next
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