October 28, 2025 • 6 mins
"How are most Americans not scared of AI?"That question kicks off a surprisingly deep—and hilariously chaotic—conversation on this episode of The Ben and Skin Show, featuring your favorite crew: Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina “K-Ray” Ray.From existential dread to tucked-in t-shirts, this episode is a rollercoaster of insight, absurdity, and laugh-out-loud moments. The gang revisits yesterday’s impromptu feud over America’s Biggest Fears, only to realize they all missed the most obvious one: Artificial Intelligence. With headlines like Amazon cutting job, the crew dives into the implications of AI, wealth gaps, and the future of work.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up at the bottom of the hour, KT takes
us on a deep dive into the never ending game
A little sports happen, we'll bring it to you. Also,
we have see their Daughtry tickets to give away. They're
coming in November and be listening with your iHeart app
handy and you'll have a chance to win those tickets.
But right now it's time for this track, another edition
(00:23):
of things track.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right, I got something for you.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You guys, remember yesterday when an impromptu feud broke out? Yeah,
who could forget? Do you remember the category? It was
America's Biggest Fears? Yes, right, it's all right, Yeah, that's
all right, that's usually me that says So we had
a top ten. KT had the top ten American You
(00:48):
know what they fear the most? Number one was corrupt
government officials, which you know, that's certainly interesting in light
of just the state of the world. But you know
what was not in the top ten That was super
obvious that a friend texted me during the segment and
they were like, scared of blank spiders.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, you said that you got buzzed.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Snakes nope, sharks nope, sharks nope.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Flying Do you say fling flying. Oh, planes, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Oh yeah planes? Yeah, bad planes story. Yeah planes was
not in the top ten. That's a good guess.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It's the thing that I fear the most and I
can't believe I didn't think of it and it is okay,
So number six I believe was nuclear weapons. This is,
without a doubt, the biggest man made existential threat since
nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Without a doubt. You guys know what it is?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Is it? Robot soldiers? Close? AI?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah? How are most Americans not scared of AI? Got
a headline for you? See, you guys think about this headline.
Amazon cuts fourteen thousand corporate jobs as spending on artificial
intelligence accelerates.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, they're making ten thousand robots Amazon. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
They're not a big company though, that shouldn't impact things. Yeah,
here's the other thing that's shocking about this. When they
cut fourteen thousand jobs.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That's four percent of their workforce.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
They're actually it's gonna be close to thirty thousand. Okay,
that'll be eight percent of their work there. Yeah, it's
more than what was previously reported. And by the I
think UPS is about to lay off like forty eight
thousand employees. This isn't good, friend, No, it's not good,
and it's never gonna get better, right, like where And
(02:40):
I wonder about the value of a college education too
relative to all this, Like, what is the thing that
our kids need to study in order to give themselves
the best chance to be employable in the future. I think, ar,
I mean AI robot repairmen, yeah, digital warfare, how to
kill AI?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
But and then I think this, Actually people may not
realize are having thought through it all the way. But
number one, their distrust of government officials. Because what happens
historically at least, is like when you have these great
reduction in labor forces and all that, the people who
have all the money become even more powerful, right, And
(03:24):
so it's like that's the thing is the people that
are going to be impacted are the people that really
don't have resources and don't have money. The people that
already have all this, they're going to control all the AI.
They're going to be good. And so when we see
like think about and when your economy becomes so dependent
on one kind of thing, I know a lot of
people are like, hey, man, I don't think that billionaires
(03:45):
should pay higher taxes than your normal guy should be
a normal percentage. I get all that, but you're the
wealth gap becomes enormous. And then at that point, companies
become more powerful than governments, and we want to well,
we can't elect our companies, but we can elect our
government officials. So it's really interesting. I was shocked one
that none of the four of us in this room
(04:06):
said AI.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Like I didn't say it. I wasn't thinking it. Oh
it's yeah, I'm not. I mean, cyber terrorism makes you
think AI, but it's not. That's playing hackers in Russia.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
But if you're playing that real game of family feud,
they might give it to you, you know, because they're
very the judges a lenient on family feud.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
He gave us the first one. Remember, Yeah, Christina said
something and Kat goes, yeah, that's war.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I think now that we're all in on this, I
think tomorrow and probably Thursday, we should go through the
complete list because it does go all the way down
to one hundred and there's plenty more really there. Yeah there,
we'll discuss maybe tomorrow and Thursday, but you gotta listen
three to six right here.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
On the EU. That's that's not a good tease. That's
too non specifically good. I think.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
To Christina's point though, like, if you're thinking about jobs,
you know, for the future, I think people who code,
they can do some stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
People who know how to code really well, said Ben,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, that sounds like some advice Kat would give to
a group of students.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
He's not wrong. Ben's never been smarter. Hey, thank you, man,
thank you for supporting me.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That's a weird way to say it. Ben has never
been smarter. This is the smartest I've ever been. My
cognitive skills are increasing with age. I'm the rare, rare one.
Everyone's while see a picture of me, and I'm like, damn,
that's a lot of gray, A lot of gray, dude.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
This beard is like Santa Beard. Do studies show that
gray could be good? Though?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
All right, Kat, has ever been read this this morning?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Not checking your rad messic emails? Gray could be helpful
for fighting cancer?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
What? That's just what I said, man, Just what.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
There's a bunch of stuff now that are headlines that
don't make any sense, and so that one is one
of them.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Well, I would like to turn our attention to Jamaica
and thoughts and prayers to everyone.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, thank you for that brutal.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I'll be quick here, I'll be quick. I saw that
because this would be my list of fears. It was
a couple of women who were there and they were
doing a video and they're like, we tried to go
to the airport. They ship the airports down. We're stuck.
We're on the north side of the island. We're basically
having to ride it out there from America. And they're like,
we can't get out. I hear the storms about to hit.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I've thought about that before, being stuck on a vacation
place when something bad happens. I mean, I stripped my
daughter went to Italy for three weeks, and I just
kept thinking, oh my god, hope they don't have one
of their floods or whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, that's just being a panicky dad.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
There you have it. Things skin is tracking with a
tucked in shirt. Coming up next sports ketchup the Never
Ending Game. We'll discuss next
Coming up at the bottom of the hour, KT takes
us on a deep dive into the never ending game
A little sports happen, we'll bring it to you. Also,
we have see their Daughtry tickets to give away. They're
coming in November and be listening with your iHeart app
handy and you'll have a chance to win those tickets.
But right now it's time for this track, another edition
(00:23):
of things track.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right, I got something for you.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You guys, remember yesterday when an impromptu feud broke out? Yeah,
who could forget? Do you remember the category? It was
America's Biggest Fears? Yes, right, it's all right, Yeah, that's
all right, that's usually me that says So we had
a top ten. KT had the top ten American You
(00:48):
know what they fear the most? Number one was corrupt
government officials, which you know, that's certainly interesting in light
of just the state of the world. But you know
what was not in the top ten That was super
obvious that a friend texted me during the segment and
they were like, scared of blank spiders.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, you said that you got buzzed.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Snakes nope, sharks nope, sharks nope.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Flying Do you say fling flying. Oh, planes, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Oh yeah planes? Yeah, bad planes story. Yeah planes was
not in the top ten. That's a good guess.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It's the thing that I fear the most and I
can't believe I didn't think of it and it is okay,
So number six I believe was nuclear weapons. This is,
without a doubt, the biggest man made existential threat since
nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Without a doubt. You guys know what it is?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Is it? Robot soldiers? Close? AI?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah? How are most Americans not scared of AI? Got
a headline for you? See, you guys think about this headline.
Amazon cuts fourteen thousand corporate jobs as spending on artificial
intelligence accelerates.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, they're making ten thousand robots Amazon. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
They're not a big company though, that shouldn't impact things. Yeah,
here's the other thing that's shocking about this. When they
cut fourteen thousand jobs.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That's four percent of their workforce.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
They're actually it's gonna be close to thirty thousand. Okay,
that'll be eight percent of their work there. Yeah, it's
more than what was previously reported. And by the I
think UPS is about to lay off like forty eight
thousand employees. This isn't good, friend, No, it's not good,
and it's never gonna get better, right, like where And
(02:40):
I wonder about the value of a college education too
relative to all this, Like, what is the thing that
our kids need to study in order to give themselves
the best chance to be employable in the future. I think, ar,
I mean AI robot repairmen, yeah, digital warfare, how to
kill AI?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
But and then I think this, Actually people may not
realize are having thought through it all the way. But
number one, their distrust of government officials. Because what happens
historically at least, is like when you have these great
reduction in labor forces and all that, the people who
have all the money become even more powerful, right, And
(03:24):
so it's like that's the thing is the people that
are going to be impacted are the people that really
don't have resources and don't have money. The people that
already have all this, they're going to control all the AI.
They're going to be good. And so when we see
like think about and when your economy becomes so dependent
on one kind of thing, I know a lot of
people are like, hey, man, I don't think that billionaires
(03:45):
should pay higher taxes than your normal guy should be
a normal percentage. I get all that, but you're the
wealth gap becomes enormous. And then at that point, companies
become more powerful than governments, and we want to well,
we can't elect our companies, but we can elect our
government officials. So it's really interesting. I was shocked one
that none of the four of us in this room
(04:06):
said AI.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Like I didn't say it. I wasn't thinking it. Oh
it's yeah, I'm not. I mean, cyber terrorism makes you
think AI, but it's not. That's playing hackers in Russia.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
But if you're playing that real game of family feud,
they might give it to you, you know, because they're
very the judges a lenient on family feud.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
He gave us the first one. Remember, Yeah, Christina said
something and Kat goes, yeah, that's war.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I think now that we're all in on this, I
think tomorrow and probably Thursday, we should go through the
complete list because it does go all the way down
to one hundred and there's plenty more really there. Yeah there,
we'll discuss maybe tomorrow and Thursday, but you gotta listen
three to six right here.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
On the EU. That's that's not a good tease. That's
too non specifically good. I think.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
To Christina's point though, like, if you're thinking about jobs,
you know, for the future, I think people who code,
they can do some stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
People who know how to code really well, said Ben,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, that sounds like some advice Kat would give to
a group of students.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
He's not wrong. Ben's never been smarter. Hey, thank you, man,
thank you for supporting me.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That's a weird way to say it. Ben has never
been smarter. This is the smartest I've ever been. My
cognitive skills are increasing with age. I'm the rare, rare one.
Everyone's while see a picture of me, and I'm like, damn,
that's a lot of gray, A lot of gray, dude.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
This beard is like Santa Beard. Do studies show that
gray could be good? Though?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
All right, Kat, has ever been read this this morning?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Not checking your rad messic emails? Gray could be helpful
for fighting cancer?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
What? That's just what I said, man, Just what.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
There's a bunch of stuff now that are headlines that
don't make any sense, and so that one is one
of them.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Well, I would like to turn our attention to Jamaica
and thoughts and prayers to everyone.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, thank you for that brutal.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I'll be quick here, I'll be quick. I saw that
because this would be my list of fears. It was
a couple of women who were there and they were
doing a video and they're like, we tried to go
to the airport. They ship the airports down. We're stuck.
We're on the north side of the island. We're basically
having to ride it out there from America. And they're like,
we can't get out. I hear the storms about to hit.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I've thought about that before, being stuck on a vacation
place when something bad happens. I mean, I stripped my
daughter went to Italy for three weeks, and I just
kept thinking, oh my god, hope they don't have one
of their floods or whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, that's just being a panicky dad.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
There you have it. Things skin is tracking with a
tucked in shirt. Coming up next sports ketchup the Never
Ending Game. We'll discuss next
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