September 3, 2025 • 6 mins
"What would you do if the guy from Sugar Ray told you your brother got your wife pregnant?"That’s the jaw-dropping premise of this absolutely wild episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the viral genius of TikTok prankster Jimmy Clifford—a man who pays celebrities on Cameo to deliver fake, devastating news to his loved ones.This time, it’s Mark McGrath, the frosted-tip frontman of Sugar Ray, breaking the news that a man’s brother had an affair with his wife… and fathered her child. The crew plays the audio, reacts in real-time, and spirals into hilarious commentary on the absurdity of celebrity Cameos, the emotional whiplash of hearing bad news from a washed-up pop star, and the ethics of prank culture.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Juicy news gods every stay on top in theo Cho.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
There's a fello on TikTok. His name is Jimmy Clifford,
and his bit is he makes all these tiktoks. But
what he does is he goes on cameo and he
requests and pays for these celebrities to read what. You know,
he's typed out because on cameo you can leave a
pretty long description. We've done this with Gary Busey Alexis Texas.
(00:36):
But what he does is he makes them, He sets
it up as he makes them deliver uncomfortable news to
one of his loved ones. Sounds all a bit like
it's not real, like it's absolutely not real. But his
bit is that he in this case is he wanted
to get Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray to deliver some
(00:58):
news to his brother because he didn't have the balls
to tell his brother so Martin.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
McGrath, and Martin McGrath is buying in.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh, he's gonna do it now. The audio will speed
up a little bit, and I think the guy sped
it up to make the work on a TikTok. But
it's fine. You can hear mart McGrath talking fast.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
By the way, there's no way more appropriate to do
this too than Mark McGrath.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's perfect.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
He's it's perfect, He's the perfect target.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I came away from this liking Mart McGrath way more. Okay,
So uh here it is Mark McGrath delivering tough news
to this guy's that brother.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yo, Kevin, what is uh? It is Mark McGrath's from
the band Sugar Ray, off the charts but always in
our hearts. And Kevin, speaking of always in our hearts,
your brother Jim reached out to me with a bit
of news that's gonna be challenging for you, Kevin. The
(01:56):
good news is, Kevin, there's gonna be in addition to
your family, as I believe you already know. Would I
be the bad news?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Kevin is too, actually delivered the baby to your wife. Now,
Jim has given me the responsibility.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Of letting you know, Kevin.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
It's sugar and Uncle Cracker played a show on April
third at the Clay County Fair and I believe Kevin
Love was in the air that night and some alcohol
and some bad mistakes. And this is getting back to
the part, the bad mistakes part the message Jim wants
me to tell you.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Kevin.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Now, listen, man, this is difficult. It's going to really
change the family dynamic. But I like to say, I
don't think there's anything family can't get through, especially brothers. Now,
Jim let me know. He feels awful. He can't tell
you in person, otherwise he'll freak out. And by the way, Kevin,
you will freak out. And you're probably saying to me Mark,
(02:56):
I'm freaking out on you now because I don't know
how you're talking about. So I guess some on cameo.
I've got the reputation of being able to let people
know about crushing news, especially when it comes to affairs
of the heart, especially affairs of the heart that are
within the family. So here's the deal, Kevin, enough sort
of dancing around the issue. On the night that magical
Uncle Cracker sugar Ratio on a ple through with the
(03:18):
Clay County Fair.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Jim had relations with your wife and apparently the baby
your wife's, Karen Kevin is Jim's. He feels terrible, and
he says that I'm his only shot at surviving this.
If a guy who has frosted tips and is basically
(03:41):
a washed up nineties salone singer is Jim's only chance
at surviving this, Jim, they got no chance?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I can't believe you read that.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Did Mark McGrath respond to this, I don't know, like
other words, now that it's out there and he knows
he's been praying because he said, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's a good question.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But you're right, like, how common is this where Mark's like, okay, yeah,
I'll help you out.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
What a genius bit, absolutely genius, so good And imagine
that in real life though, if your brother pregnant, Mark,
that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
It just goes to show you the very frivolous nature
of cameo.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It would confuse you.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
You would be like, all right, this is terrible news.
Why is Mark McGrath telling me? It would soften it
a little bit. Think about Mark McGrath's associating himself with this.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You get that, and you're like, man, I think that's it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I know that guy.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think it's the guy from Sugar.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
You're like, I'm furious, but what were their biggest songs?
Are they? I just want to fly?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Okay, yeah, I mean that's not there.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's the best.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, they have other songs.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yes, morning, there's a halo hanging from the corner of
my girlfriend's four post bed.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, isn't he also like he's on one of those
E news type shows. Yeah, I don't know which one,
but he's.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Still doing the frosted tipspit on the video composed of this.
He's still doing that. Now, quick research, Well, it does
look like this is maybe an old story from a
long time ago. No, no, actually this happened in August,
but this happened again in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Do you guys remember the name Anthony Scaramucci. Hell yeah,
he follows all of us on Twitter. I think he's
the He's the He was PR director for Trump for
about four months and then once Trump fired him, he
went on like trashing Trump everywhere. He's like a PR guy.
You guys, the mooch. You guys would recognize him. Yeah,
(05:48):
Anthony's I guarantee you. He follows all of us on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
From a twenty nineteen article Martin McGrath and People Magazine.
By the way, highly respected People Magazine, Martin McGrath and
Anthony scaramouchie get pay had to break up with a
woman's long distance boyfriend. He's been making money breaking up
with people for years.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
A hundred bucks like that?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
How much do we play? Gary Busey Alexis, Texas was
probably like a hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
God, best hundred bucks ever.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, that was great.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
He probably could have charged more.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Do you know how much? You know how much more
you could get from her if you went ahead and
paid her the Gary Bausey rate? Oh my god, by
the way, I wonder what I wonder what Gary's rate
is now?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Gary doesn't even remember him.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And the Jerry documentary though, just for one glimpse. He's
in it.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
For what was he doing?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
He's just sitting at an award show.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Okay, that was my favorite part of the documentary. Get
Me to Utah, all right? Coming up in just over
three minutes, it's food News. How to defeat AI at
a Taco Bell that's coming up in a couple of minutes.
Juicy news gods every stay on top in theo Cho.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
There's a fello on TikTok. His name is Jimmy Clifford,
and his bit is he makes all these tiktoks. But
what he does is he goes on cameo and he
requests and pays for these celebrities to read what. You know,
he's typed out because on cameo you can leave a
pretty long description. We've done this with Gary Busey Alexis Texas.
(00:36):
But what he does is he makes them, He sets
it up as he makes them deliver uncomfortable news to
one of his loved ones. Sounds all a bit like
it's not real, like it's absolutely not real. But his
bit is that he in this case is he wanted
to get Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray to deliver some
(00:58):
news to his brother because he didn't have the balls
to tell his brother so Martin.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
McGrath, and Martin McGrath is buying in.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh, he's gonna do it now. The audio will speed
up a little bit, and I think the guy sped
it up to make the work on a TikTok. But
it's fine. You can hear mart McGrath talking fast.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
By the way, there's no way more appropriate to do
this too than Mark McGrath.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's perfect.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
He's it's perfect, He's the perfect target.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I came away from this liking Mart McGrath way more. Okay,
So uh here it is Mark McGrath delivering tough news
to this guy's that brother.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Yo, Kevin, what is uh? It is Mark McGrath's from
the band Sugar Ray, off the charts but always in
our hearts. And Kevin, speaking of always in our hearts,
your brother Jim reached out to me with a bit
of news that's gonna be challenging for you, Kevin. The
(01:56):
good news is, Kevin, there's gonna be in addition to
your family, as I believe you already know. Would I
be the bad news?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Kevin is too, actually delivered the baby to your wife. Now,
Jim has given me the responsibility.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Of letting you know, Kevin.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
It's sugar and Uncle Cracker played a show on April
third at the Clay County Fair and I believe Kevin
Love was in the air that night and some alcohol
and some bad mistakes. And this is getting back to
the part, the bad mistakes part the message Jim wants
me to tell you.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Kevin.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Now, listen, man, this is difficult. It's going to really
change the family dynamic. But I like to say, I
don't think there's anything family can't get through, especially brothers. Now,
Jim let me know. He feels awful. He can't tell
you in person, otherwise he'll freak out. And by the way, Kevin,
you will freak out. And you're probably saying to me Mark,
(02:56):
I'm freaking out on you now because I don't know
how you're talking about. So I guess some on cameo.
I've got the reputation of being able to let people
know about crushing news, especially when it comes to affairs
of the heart, especially affairs of the heart that are
within the family. So here's the deal, Kevin, enough sort
of dancing around the issue. On the night that magical
Uncle Cracker sugar Ratio on a ple through with the
(03:18):
Clay County Fair.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Jim had relations with your wife and apparently the baby
your wife's, Karen Kevin is Jim's. He feels terrible, and
he says that I'm his only shot at surviving this.
If a guy who has frosted tips and is basically
(03:41):
a washed up nineties salone singer is Jim's only chance
at surviving this, Jim, they got no chance?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I can't believe you read that.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Did Mark McGrath respond to this, I don't know, like
other words, now that it's out there and he knows
he's been praying because he said, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's a good question.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But you're right, like, how common is this where Mark's like, okay, yeah,
I'll help you out.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
What a genius bit, absolutely genius, so good And imagine
that in real life though, if your brother pregnant, Mark,
that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
It just goes to show you the very frivolous nature
of cameo.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It would confuse you.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
You would be like, all right, this is terrible news.
Why is Mark McGrath telling me? It would soften it
a little bit. Think about Mark McGrath's associating himself with this.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You get that, and you're like, man, I think that's it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I know that guy.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I think it's the guy from Sugar.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
You're like, I'm furious, but what were their biggest songs?
Are they? I just want to fly?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Okay, yeah, I mean that's not there.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's the best.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, they have other songs.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yes, morning, there's a halo hanging from the corner of
my girlfriend's four post bed.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, isn't he also like he's on one of those
E news type shows. Yeah, I don't know which one,
but he's.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Still doing the frosted tipspit on the video composed of this.
He's still doing that. Now, quick research, Well, it does
look like this is maybe an old story from a
long time ago. No, no, actually this happened in August,
but this happened again in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Do you guys remember the name Anthony Scaramucci. Hell yeah,
he follows all of us on Twitter. I think he's
the He's the He was PR director for Trump for
about four months and then once Trump fired him, he
went on like trashing Trump everywhere. He's like a PR guy.
You guys, the mooch. You guys would recognize him. Yeah,
(05:48):
Anthony's I guarantee you. He follows all of us on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
From a twenty nineteen article Martin McGrath and People Magazine.
By the way, highly respected People Magazine, Martin McGrath and
Anthony scaramouchie get pay had to break up with a
woman's long distance boyfriend. He's been making money breaking up
with people for years.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
A hundred bucks like that?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
How much do we play? Gary Busey Alexis, Texas was
probably like a hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
God, best hundred bucks ever.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, that was great.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
He probably could have charged more.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Do you know how much? You know how much more
you could get from her if you went ahead and
paid her the Gary Bausey rate? Oh my god, by
the way, I wonder what I wonder what Gary's rate
is now?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Gary doesn't even remember him.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And the Jerry documentary though, just for one glimpse. He's
in it.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
For what was he doing?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
He's just sitting at an award show.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Okay, that was my favorite part of the documentary. Get
Me to Utah, all right? Coming up in just over
three minutes, it's food News. How to defeat AI at
a Taco Bell that's coming up in a couple of minutes.
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