October 30, 2025 • 5 mins
"Would you pay $12 for a tricked-out soda—and is Gen Z really driving this trend?"That’s the question stirring up laughs and debate on this episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the latest food news, local happenings, and generational quirks with their signature blend of sarcasm, insight, and absurdity.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, a couple different remotes coming up.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
We're gonna be doing a Halloween broadcast, a live remote
show from the Pluckers in Dallas off Lovers in Greenville.
Anyone who shows up in a costume like we will
be in costume. Anybody who shows up in costume will
be enter to win a prize. So we're gonna bring
a lot of prizes. That'll be fun. But we're looking
forward to hanging out with you at the Pluckers in
Dallas tomorrow from three to six. And then Monday, we're
(00:22):
doing a live remote broadcast from Rollertown beer Works in Frisco.
That is a brewery that we are invested in. After
the game, I'm gonna stick around. We're gonna watch the
Cowboys play the Cards on Monday Night Football and Tyler
Klutz is gonna be their former Dallas Cowboy and we're
gonna I'm gonna interview him in between periods and in
between quarters and things like that and just kind of
get his thoughts on what's happening in the game. So
(00:43):
come check out the all new Rollertown Frisco on Monday
and Pluckers in Dallas tomorrow from three to six. But
right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's time next Friday. I'm sorry, that'll be next Thursday,
November sixth. Taco Bell is debuting something at the Mockingbird
Lane location in Dallas. It's called Live Moss Cafe. It's
(01:17):
a store within the Taco Bell and it's about they're
gonna make a lot of like beverages and stuff like
customizable drinks.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So it's like Cosmics.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
They're playing off of Cosmics and trying to do their own.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Thing, which was a smashing success.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It was not well it's not a smashing success.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They have something that my family is way into, Baja Blast.
They like anytime there's a Taco Bell order, there's all
these Baja Blast orders. What does it mean? Is it
like a do you know what Christina is?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It's like a Mountain Dew mix, like there's something, but yeah,
Mountain Dew is the mean. I know.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Those drinks are a big deal. Like there's stores specifically
like Swig and things like that tops over the place,
rig just making.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I love Swig drinks. I'm also addicted to Dyke coke though.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, so you go there and get a Dike coke.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, yeah, but you can fill a cherry vanilla. It's like, yeah,
it makes the best drink. Yeah, tricked up drinks. And basically,
this is what's happening based on gen Z's love of
customizable drinks. Dude, they're gonna have a Basically, it's a
Taco Bell cafe that's going to offer thirty beverages.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Fifteen year olds with no disposable income love twelve dollars drinks. Amazing, weird,
it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It was not an option where I grew up, thank God,
but I could see why it's a big thing in
the city.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
When I was in high school, I could eat for
an entire week on twelve dollars. I had an opportunity
today to for one of my sons to go work
at a place where invested in for four hours to
make one hundred dollars just doing heavy lifting and stuff
like that, just cleaning.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Out in the old spot. Not interested, Not interested.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, but he'll probably door dash today, probably about thirty
five dollars worth of stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's insane, It is insane. This is weird that it's
happening here. Though now they're gonna they're planning at thirty
of these are you talking about in Dallas? Are you
talking about that location? No, like this is the first
one they're gonna try this in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Let me tell you that location is horrible to maneuver. Yeah,
the one on Mockingbirds. Mockingbirds, it's right over by the
old Campeses, the originales Egyptian room. The in and out
is terrible. It's that is not a good location to
roll this out. Smallish, yes, the drive through a small
the drive through a small and it's congested in that
(03:35):
Mockingbird area is bananas.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
There's just traffic there.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Ay, sucks.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It sucks.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Is that one of those where you see marks where
cars have scraped the side?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes, and then trying to turn back out on that
What is that little side street there?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Is it Mark mark Well or Carwelker.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I should know because I used to live right there.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's damn Mark Martel Martell. Yeah, we got it, everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
That's where Sarroy used to live.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, and he's ruined the second over there,
Andy Dalton was playing cornhole.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It was crazy, man, These are wild times back in
the day. Yeah. Also, we're saying that Outback Steakhouse is
closing a bunch of locations nationwide. Let's say DFW is
gonna get out alive here, they're gonna get out on
skate Nope, sorry, the one on Plano. Yeah, fifty oh
nine North Central Expressway, Plano. You are the weakest sleek. Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
We got a new one in Allen on seventy five
and it we go in there every now and then
it's time and they're doing a great job. But I
had been to that one in Plano in the last
couple of years and it was.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
On its last legs.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, you wonder how that happens, why it happens certain
ones like h what is the steak place with the
affordable steaks roadhouse?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Roadhouse?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I've never been to one that wasn't absolutely packed and
it's always awesome. You know what. The problem with the
one in Plano it was probably put there in like
night teen eighty nine, and that area of Plano's just
I mean, it's what happens to every neighborhood over a
thirty year period. Yeah, so it's just you know, it
got caught up into shifting times. Things moved away, no rules,
(05:12):
just raw it mate, Good job, Kevin. All right, there
you go. There's the food News. Coming up next, It's
the Today game. You have to listen live. And then, oh,
Anthony Davis is hurt. Who could have foreseen this? We'll
talk about that coming up next.
All right, a couple different remotes coming up.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
We're gonna be doing a Halloween broadcast, a live remote
show from the Pluckers in Dallas off Lovers in Greenville.
Anyone who shows up in a costume like we will
be in costume. Anybody who shows up in costume will
be enter to win a prize. So we're gonna bring
a lot of prizes. That'll be fun. But we're looking
forward to hanging out with you at the Pluckers in
Dallas tomorrow from three to six. And then Monday, we're
(00:22):
doing a live remote broadcast from Rollertown beer Works in Frisco.
That is a brewery that we are invested in. After
the game, I'm gonna stick around. We're gonna watch the
Cowboys play the Cards on Monday Night Football and Tyler
Klutz is gonna be their former Dallas Cowboy and we're
gonna I'm gonna interview him in between periods and in
between quarters and things like that and just kind of
get his thoughts on what's happening in the game. So
(00:43):
come check out the all new Rollertown Frisco on Monday
and Pluckers in Dallas tomorrow from three to six. But
right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's time next Friday. I'm sorry, that'll be next Thursday,
November sixth. Taco Bell is debuting something at the Mockingbird
Lane location in Dallas. It's called Live Moss Cafe. It's
(01:17):
a store within the Taco Bell and it's about they're
gonna make a lot of like beverages and stuff like
customizable drinks.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So it's like Cosmics.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
They're playing off of Cosmics and trying to do their own.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Thing, which was a smashing success.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It was not well it's not a smashing success.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They have something that my family is way into, Baja Blast.
They like anytime there's a Taco Bell order, there's all
these Baja Blast orders. What does it mean? Is it
like a do you know what Christina is?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It's like a Mountain Dew mix, like there's something, but yeah,
Mountain Dew is the mean. I know.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Those drinks are a big deal. Like there's stores specifically
like Swig and things like that tops over the place,
rig just making.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I love Swig drinks. I'm also addicted to Dyke coke though.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, so you go there and get a Dike coke.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, yeah, but you can fill a cherry vanilla. It's like, yeah,
it makes the best drink. Yeah, tricked up drinks. And basically,
this is what's happening based on gen Z's love of
customizable drinks. Dude, they're gonna have a Basically, it's a
Taco Bell cafe that's going to offer thirty beverages.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Fifteen year olds with no disposable income love twelve dollars drinks. Amazing, weird,
it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It was not an option where I grew up, thank God,
but I could see why it's a big thing in
the city.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
When I was in high school, I could eat for
an entire week on twelve dollars. I had an opportunity
today to for one of my sons to go work
at a place where invested in for four hours to
make one hundred dollars just doing heavy lifting and stuff
like that, just cleaning.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Out in the old spot. Not interested, Not interested.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, but he'll probably door dash today, probably about thirty
five dollars worth of stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's insane, It is insane. This is weird that it's
happening here. Though now they're gonna they're planning at thirty
of these are you talking about in Dallas? Are you
talking about that location? No, like this is the first
one they're gonna try this in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Let me tell you that location is horrible to maneuver. Yeah,
the one on Mockingbirds. Mockingbirds, it's right over by the
old Campeses, the originales Egyptian room. The in and out
is terrible. It's that is not a good location to
roll this out. Smallish, yes, the drive through a small
the drive through a small and it's congested in that
(03:35):
Mockingbird area is bananas.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
There's just traffic there.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Ay, sucks.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It sucks.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Is that one of those where you see marks where
cars have scraped the side?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes, and then trying to turn back out on that
What is that little side street there?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Is it Mark mark Well or Carwelker.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I should know because I used to live right there.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's damn Mark Martel Martell. Yeah, we got it, everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
That's where Sarroy used to live.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, and he's ruined the second over there,
Andy Dalton was playing cornhole.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It was crazy, man, These are wild times back in
the day. Yeah. Also, we're saying that Outback Steakhouse is
closing a bunch of locations nationwide. Let's say DFW is
gonna get out alive here, they're gonna get out on
skate Nope, sorry, the one on Plano. Yeah, fifty oh
nine North Central Expressway, Plano. You are the weakest sleek. Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
We got a new one in Allen on seventy five
and it we go in there every now and then
it's time and they're doing a great job. But I
had been to that one in Plano in the last
couple of years and it was.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
On its last legs.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, you wonder how that happens, why it happens certain
ones like h what is the steak place with the
affordable steaks roadhouse?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Roadhouse?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I've never been to one that wasn't absolutely packed and
it's always awesome. You know what. The problem with the
one in Plano it was probably put there in like
night teen eighty nine, and that area of Plano's just
I mean, it's what happens to every neighborhood over a
thirty year period. Yeah, so it's just you know, it
got caught up into shifting times. Things moved away, no rules,
(05:12):
just raw it mate, Good job, Kevin. All right, there
you go. There's the food News. Coming up next, It's
the Today game. You have to listen live. And then, oh,
Anthony Davis is hurt. Who could have foreseen this? We'll
talk about that coming up next.
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