June 3, 2025 • 8 mins
What happens when a frugal vacation plan meets a suitcase disguised as a backpack?In this laugh-out-loud episode of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers recounts his hilariously chaotic family trip to Turks and Caicos—a journey sparked by Skin’s glowing recommendations and sealed with a spontaneous charity auction bid. But paradise quickly turns into a comedy of errors when Ben’s wife, in a noble attempt to save money, outfits him with a backpack so massive it could double as a mobile closet.🎙️ Key Highlights:
- Ben’s vivid comparison of Texas beaches to “stinky seaweed and F-150s parked three feet away.”
- The epic tale of the “largest backpack in the history of mankind” and the airport showdown that nearly broke Ben’s spirit (and spine).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh you shuck on my toe. I would love it
if the sequel actually had merit. That's the Ben and
Skin show. He's Gavin, he's Piste.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Allard with Epan with our show. You're going ruling in you,
except with similar sweet pursuing it, puddled out shaw shank
through the sewer, Kid, Now what chill in at the eagle?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We doing it, three o'clock on the dock. Got a
habit for my house, a goat status. Howard starting to
get craddic shows that up multiplied like a rabbit tuned in,
zone out.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Crank it up, beat the habit I won.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I hang out with her friends, rocking it on the radio,
my home by skinkin talking on the radio.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It's time to to just falls again.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh here we go, all radio friends. It is good
to be back with you. Last time I saw you, guys,
it was at BFD. Damn, Oh my god, that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
A long time.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So I immediately after BFD, I took my family on
a vacation and I had heard Skin for years talk
about turks and kkos. For a while I worked at
the embassy there, so turks and kkos. How would you
describe where it is. It's you know, on the far
(01:36):
eastern edge of I don't know if it's technically the Caribbean.
I think it is, but it's kind of the northeastern
part of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Say I would describe it as. So I've never done
anything like that. You know. Look, I have three kids,
and it's hard to travel with all those kids.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, I don't. I don't think God wants you to
take kids on vacation. I talked to him about this
sort of thing. It's expensive too, but you know, like
we'll go to We're not rich, and so we'll go
to like Port Ransas. We'll drive nine hours to the
Texas beach, you know, to a Texas beach, and we'll
look in at brown water with all the seaweed on
(02:14):
the shore.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, and you can drive your cars and trucks on
the beach. Look, kids, it's the Gulf of America, the
sewer of the water world. You're sitting right next to
a pile of stinky seaweed and yeah, it's one hundred
and seventeen degrees and someone's f one fifty is parked
within three feet of you. As you look out at
the beautiful brown water.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
That's amazing. Man, I want to go there right now,
beautiful brown shark infested waters. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And you know, so I was like my kids though,
as they got older, they don't care. They don't you know,
they don't, they don't know. They're just like, this is great.
We're at the beach. I can build a sandcastle or whatever,
but we're my nicest place. I can look at my
phone and yeah, exactly. In my mind, I was like,
I wanted them to experience like that beautiful blue water
that you see in movies or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And so that's what they have in Turkey. Kicko.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So I was hosting a charity event and they were
doing one of those auctions and one of the auctionable
items was somebody's airbnb at Turks and Caicos.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And so I was like, man, I've been at a
million of these auctions. Sometimes I'm hosting them, and you
see these incredible things go up for auxy. This was
for a Cornerstone, an awesome charity in the Northern Urbs,
and uh, I was like, nobody's bidding on it, right.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So I kind of look out in the audience.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I'm on the stage, you know, and I look at
in the audience to my wife, I'm like give her
the look like, hey, we should bid on this. It's
like pudging that chalkdaw commercial looking at the way trishy
guys are doing that.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Are we doing this?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And you do the fingers down And I kind of
step over to the side. I maybe even text her
and said let's win this, like let's go get us.
And so we bid on it and we got it.
Just because I'd heard Skin talk about Turks and Caicos.
So the day after BFD or whatever, they're in short
order thereafter, I jumped on a plane with my family
and we went to Turks and Caicos. Now, when we
(03:57):
got there, uh you know, I mean immediately. My two
youngest kids are seventeen and fourteen, and I thought maybe
they would start to mature, like my oldest son who's nineteen,
who's just a pleasure to be around because he's like
an adult. Yeah, but they're not there yet, right, and
so they're sibling rivalry. They're fighting with each other. It
(04:18):
just seems like a blood feud. Is your son did
he just finish his junior year and your daughter just
finished her ninth grade year?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Eighth grade. Eighth grade, she's going to ninth grade.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So is high school out in Solina is yet twelve,
and so they'll be in high school together. They will
be in high school for one year, okay, and he's
already resenting that he might have to take her to school.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Everyone.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, but anyways, I'm like, there were some also some
interesting things about this. So my wife is super frugal.
God bless her for that, because I'm the opposite of that.
But you know, she grew up her family. I've mentioned
this before. I have so much love and respect for her.
Sweet mom, Rest in peace. She's past, she's no longer
with us. But she raised three kids does a single
(05:00):
mom in Oklahoma City. And her my wife's dad was
a pos. He left their family and go started a
new family on the other side of town. And so
her mom just had to figure out a way to
get these three kids through life by herself. And you know,
she would take them to happy hour and they just
go eat Nacho's at a bar. The kids would have
a great time. They had no idea, they were poor.
(05:21):
And then her mom would say, on the way out,
let's see who can steal the most rolls of toilet
paper with that kid caught. You know, they would do
like things like that, go to eat dinner. All right,
But my mom had a wonderful childhood she never realized.
But because of that, she's very frugal and thank god,
or we'd be completely broke because I'm the opposite. Do
you guys ever go steal toilet paper from like the
brass tap up there and prosper?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I believe it much like your dad's skin. The great
Jerry Wade who says, look, you can't save money on vacation.
It's not a good investment. I mean, a vacation is
not a good investment no matter how you slice it.
Like you guys have gone in big vacations. You went
to Italy, absolutely right, And it's like you go to Italy,
that's incredible, but you can't figure out a way to
(06:04):
do it on a cueony.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You just got to commit to spending a bunch of money.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Right, Yeah, yeah, because that's I mean, you don't want
to have to stress about money.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You're supposed to enjoy where you are, enjoy all these
new experiences. Just don't think about the money. Think about
that later, maybe five years later. There's no return on
that other than fun.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, and so the second that you're spending money that
is not well spent, then it's like, well, there's no
sense in trying to like, you know, nickel and diamond,
because then you're actually wasting the money more than you
would if you went all in. So that's logic, that's
exactly right. And so my wife and I, you know,
we just look at this from different angle points. And
(06:40):
you know, me, I get busy with stuff and I'm
not focused on the details of this. She you know,
she handled every aspect of it. She planned everything, okay,
and so that there's a way that she tried to
save money on this trip that almost broke my back.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
So at one point she says, I make the bold
proclamation that I'm like, uh, you know, I'm just bringing
ten black T shirts in a bathing suit. Yeah, you know,
that's fine. I don't need to even I just don't
need to take very much at all. I don't even care.
We're not they're not doing anything fancy. We're not even
going to dinner in a nice place or anything. I'm
just T shirts and a bathing suit. And she goes, yeah,
(07:21):
that's the plan. Like, we're all just going to go
carry on, and I go, okay, great, we're going to
carry on, so we're not going to check bag. So
it's going to be a cheaper way to go, right
And so I'm like, okay, So she's saving money, but
I'm on board of this.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
So she goes, I got you a backpack for the trip?
Hell yeah? And I'm like okay.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And I see it and it's literally a suitcase that
you can wear on your back like in high school
and you'd put your entire locker in a backpack and
hurt by the end of the day. It looks like
a slightly above average sized suitcase that has backpack straps
on it. And so I'm like, all right, well, yeah,
(08:02):
why not? Are you sure this is carry on size?
I don't think the airport will let me carry this on?
And she's like, yeah, yeah, you can carry this on.
And so coming up next, I'm gonna tell you exactly
what happened as I took the largest backpack in the
history of mankind into airflight. And I'll tell you that
(08:23):
in just about three or four minutes. Don't go anywhere.
The second half of the story is next
Oh you shuck on my toe. I would love it
if the sequel actually had merit. That's the Ben and
Skin show. He's Gavin, he's Piste.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Allard with Epan with our show. You're going ruling in you,
except with similar sweet pursuing it, puddled out shaw shank
through the sewer, Kid, Now what chill in at the eagle?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We doing it, three o'clock on the dock. Got a
habit for my house, a goat status. Howard starting to
get craddic shows that up multiplied like a rabbit tuned in,
zone out.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Crank it up, beat the habit I won.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I hang out with her friends, rocking it on the radio,
my home by skinkin talking on the radio.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It's time to to just falls again.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh here we go, all radio friends. It is good
to be back with you. Last time I saw you, guys,
it was at BFD. Damn, Oh my god, that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
A long time.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So I immediately after BFD, I took my family on
a vacation and I had heard Skin for years talk
about turks and kkos. For a while I worked at
the embassy there, so turks and kkos. How would you
describe where it is. It's you know, on the far
(01:36):
eastern edge of I don't know if it's technically the Caribbean.
I think it is, but it's kind of the northeastern
part of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Say I would describe it as. So I've never done
anything like that. You know. Look, I have three kids,
and it's hard to travel with all those kids.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, I don't. I don't think God wants you to
take kids on vacation. I talked to him about this
sort of thing. It's expensive too, but you know, like
we'll go to We're not rich, and so we'll go
to like Port Ransas. We'll drive nine hours to the
Texas beach, you know, to a Texas beach, and we'll
look in at brown water with all the seaweed on
(02:14):
the shore.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, and you can drive your cars and trucks on
the beach. Look, kids, it's the Gulf of America, the
sewer of the water world. You're sitting right next to
a pile of stinky seaweed and yeah, it's one hundred
and seventeen degrees and someone's f one fifty is parked
within three feet of you. As you look out at
the beautiful brown water.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
That's amazing. Man, I want to go there right now,
beautiful brown shark infested waters. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And you know, so I was like my kids though,
as they got older, they don't care. They don't you know,
they don't, they don't know. They're just like, this is great.
We're at the beach. I can build a sandcastle or whatever,
but we're my nicest place. I can look at my
phone and yeah, exactly. In my mind, I was like,
I wanted them to experience like that beautiful blue water
that you see in movies or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And so that's what they have in Turkey. Kicko.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So I was hosting a charity event and they were
doing one of those auctions and one of the auctionable
items was somebody's airbnb at Turks and Caicos.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And so I was like, man, I've been at a
million of these auctions. Sometimes I'm hosting them, and you
see these incredible things go up for auxy. This was
for a Cornerstone, an awesome charity in the Northern Urbs,
and uh, I was like, nobody's bidding on it, right.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So I kind of look out in the audience.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I'm on the stage, you know, and I look at
in the audience to my wife, I'm like give her
the look like, hey, we should bid on this. It's
like pudging that chalkdaw commercial looking at the way trishy
guys are doing that.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Are we doing this?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And you do the fingers down And I kind of
step over to the side. I maybe even text her
and said let's win this, like let's go get us.
And so we bid on it and we got it.
Just because I'd heard Skin talk about Turks and Caicos.
So the day after BFD or whatever, they're in short
order thereafter, I jumped on a plane with my family
and we went to Turks and Caicos. Now, when we
(03:57):
got there, uh you know, I mean immediately. My two
youngest kids are seventeen and fourteen, and I thought maybe
they would start to mature, like my oldest son who's nineteen,
who's just a pleasure to be around because he's like
an adult. Yeah, but they're not there yet, right, and
so they're sibling rivalry. They're fighting with each other. It
(04:18):
just seems like a blood feud. Is your son did
he just finish his junior year and your daughter just
finished her ninth grade year?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Eighth grade. Eighth grade, she's going to ninth grade.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So is high school out in Solina is yet twelve,
and so they'll be in high school together. They will
be in high school for one year, okay, and he's
already resenting that he might have to take her to school.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Everyone.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, but anyways, I'm like, there were some also some
interesting things about this. So my wife is super frugal.
God bless her for that, because I'm the opposite of that.
But you know, she grew up her family. I've mentioned
this before. I have so much love and respect for her.
Sweet mom, Rest in peace. She's past, she's no longer
with us. But she raised three kids does a single
(05:00):
mom in Oklahoma City. And her my wife's dad was
a pos. He left their family and go started a
new family on the other side of town. And so
her mom just had to figure out a way to
get these three kids through life by herself. And you know,
she would take them to happy hour and they just
go eat Nacho's at a bar. The kids would have
a great time. They had no idea, they were poor.
(05:21):
And then her mom would say, on the way out,
let's see who can steal the most rolls of toilet
paper with that kid caught. You know, they would do
like things like that, go to eat dinner. All right,
But my mom had a wonderful childhood she never realized.
But because of that, she's very frugal and thank god,
or we'd be completely broke because I'm the opposite. Do
you guys ever go steal toilet paper from like the
brass tap up there and prosper?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I believe it much like your dad's skin. The great
Jerry Wade who says, look, you can't save money on vacation.
It's not a good investment. I mean, a vacation is
not a good investment no matter how you slice it.
Like you guys have gone in big vacations. You went
to Italy, absolutely right, And it's like you go to Italy,
that's incredible, but you can't figure out a way to
(06:04):
do it on a cueony.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You just got to commit to spending a bunch of money.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Right, Yeah, yeah, because that's I mean, you don't want
to have to stress about money.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You're supposed to enjoy where you are, enjoy all these
new experiences. Just don't think about the money. Think about
that later, maybe five years later. There's no return on
that other than fun.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, and so the second that you're spending money that
is not well spent, then it's like, well, there's no
sense in trying to like, you know, nickel and diamond,
because then you're actually wasting the money more than you
would if you went all in. So that's logic, that's
exactly right. And so my wife and I, you know,
we just look at this from different angle points. And
(06:40):
you know, me, I get busy with stuff and I'm
not focused on the details of this. She you know,
she handled every aspect of it. She planned everything, okay,
and so that there's a way that she tried to
save money on this trip that almost broke my back.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
So at one point she says, I make the bold
proclamation that I'm like, uh, you know, I'm just bringing
ten black T shirts in a bathing suit. Yeah, you know,
that's fine. I don't need to even I just don't
need to take very much at all. I don't even care.
We're not they're not doing anything fancy. We're not even
going to dinner in a nice place or anything. I'm
just T shirts and a bathing suit. And she goes, yeah,
(07:21):
that's the plan. Like, we're all just going to go
carry on, and I go, okay, great, we're going to
carry on, so we're not going to check bag. So
it's going to be a cheaper way to go, right
And so I'm like, okay, So she's saving money, but
I'm on board of this.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
So she goes, I got you a backpack for the trip?
Hell yeah? And I'm like okay.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And I see it and it's literally a suitcase that
you can wear on your back like in high school
and you'd put your entire locker in a backpack and
hurt by the end of the day. It looks like
a slightly above average sized suitcase that has backpack straps
on it. And so I'm like, all right, well, yeah,
(08:02):
why not? Are you sure this is carry on size?
I don't think the airport will let me carry this on?
And she's like, yeah, yeah, you can carry this on.
And so coming up next, I'm gonna tell you exactly
what happened as I took the largest backpack in the
history of mankind into airflight. And I'll tell you that
(08:23):
in just about three or four minutes. Don't go anywhere.
The second half of the story is next
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