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July 14, 2025 10 mins
“Would it be genius—or totally traumatizing—to prank your 14-year-old daughter by having her pulled over by a cop during her first driving lesson?”That’s just one of the hilariously debatable questions raised in this laugh-out-loud, heartwarming, and wildly relatable episode of The Ben and Skin Show. Join hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they dive into a Monday full of personal stories, parenting milestones, and signature show chaos.Ben’s accidental “Vegas pit boss” moment: Find out how a pair of transition lenses turned a simple dealership visit into a viral photo op—and why Ben now goes by the nickname Squint Eastwood.Grace’s basketball breakthrough: Ben beams with pride as his daughter dominates a tournament playing two grades up, sparking a deeper convo about girls in sports and why many don’t watch the game they love to play.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
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my knowing boy's business.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Talking on the radio.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
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all of them on the radio.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Ah. Yes, Happy Monday everybody. It's the world famous Mending
Skin Show. Thank you for tuning in today, Monday, July fourteenth.
So glad to have you on board. Lots to get
into on this presentation. It's gonna be a great show.
I know. I was in the pre show meeting and
I'm here with my entire cast of characters that does
this show with me every single weekday from three to six.

(01:16):
I'm Ben Roger and I'm joined by Jeff skin Wade. Hello, friends,
Joined by Kevin K. T. Turner stuff Quaids and I'm
joined by a little baby cornbread Christina k Ray little
baby cornbread Ray from Oatmeal Pizza.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Hella, Hi, how you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm doing great?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
How are you guys? I did good. I had an
amazing weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
I just want to pull the curtain back and share
a couple of things from my personal life. Number one,
I had a picture that was posted with myself and
Jeff skin Wade with one of our advertisers that had
a lot of views.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Is that right it We stopped by and saw Edwin
Rivera at prosper Forward and posted it. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
I think I posted that Thursday Friday on the Eagle
Instagram account. He's ripped by the way he is shredded,
and it was it got to ten thousand views. Wow,
And I'm like why, I'm like, I don't And because
he's hot, well, I hey, yeah, all right, no one's hot.
Probably because he's hot. Yeah, And a lot of people

(02:16):
were wondering is there a sock invault or is it
just real? No. I think part of the reason is
these glasses that I'm wearing right now are called transitional
glasses or transition glasses. If I go outside, they'll turn
into sunglasses. And when you get to be old and
you have glasses so you can read things, but then
you have sunglasses which are just basic and not prescription,

(02:38):
or you have prescription sunglasses.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's hard to have two pair of glasses.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
So typically I just wear regular glasses outside and I
squint like Clint Eastwood. Those are your LGBT glasses, right,
they're transitioning. Squint Eastwood is your nickname. Yes, that's a
great name. And so God, I should have made that
my call of duty name. God, you know what to
start a new character. And so I had forgotten that

(03:03):
because I forget because the guy when I got went
to the glasses store, I told you I was going
to the hot Tametriss for a while, just a hot optometers,
and I just kept buying glasses because she was hot.
Remember that, Yeah she had you and a palm of
her hand. Yeah, didn't she do all her work in
a bikini? And so I go to a different guy
and I'm just I have a big pumpkinhead, so I
just need the biggest glasses they have. And so I

(03:26):
was there and I was talking to this guy who
was like checking, you know, you know, doing all the
paperwork or whatever. And he was like, don't you want
those to be transition lenses? And I was like, I
don't know, man, I do want to be that corn
dog eating or wearing sunglasses indoors. I want to look
like a Vegas pit boss, you know. I don't want
to wear sunglasses inside. And so he's like, no, the

(03:46):
technology is amazing. Now you get the glasses and as
soon as you go inside from being outside, they immediately
transitioned back to being regular glasses. And then the minute
you go outside, it's much quicker than it used to be.
And so we showed up, we had skin and I
went and shot a commercial with ours that prosper Ford
and I didn't even think about it. I walked in
and I wasn't thinking that I was even wearing these,
because I switched glasses a lot, and these are the

(04:07):
ones that go dark.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
They're transition ones.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
And so I'd gone inside and I was basically wearing
sunglasses indoors for like five minutes and talking to people,
and that looked like I showed.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Up wearing sunglasses.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
And the amazing thing about it, he showed up wearing
sunglasses indoors for a commercial shoot. Yes, so it definitely
had the air of, hey, this guy thinks he's a
really big he's.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Telling people what to do and I didn't know. I
did not know.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
So if you go look at that picture at nine
to seven one the Eagle, you can see that picture.
And I looked like a complete idiot wearing sunglasses indoors
and did not even know it. Another thing, A couple
other things took place over the course of this weekend.
They both involved my daughter who's fourteen, and she had
a basketball tournament. This was a breakthrough moment for her

(04:55):
because she was invited to play two grades up.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh wowngraduate.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Great, Yeah, so she she's going to be a freshman
and there was a girl on her team that was
going to be a senior. And so really it was
a couple, you know, a couple of grades.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
That's great.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
And so I was nervous for her, and I was like, oh,
this would be you know, because you don't want her
to be discouraged in their sports adventure and then not
want to do it anymore or whatever.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
But this was a big thing.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
And so you just watch Cooper flag go five of
twenty one in the summer league game. And so her
and another girl who's really good who's on her team
of her peers her own age, were both invited to
go play on this team with all these big girls,
these older girls, and the two young girls led their
team in scoring for the tournament. Oh wow, yeah, so

(05:42):
she had. Grace had two games where she had ten points,
one game where she had thirteen points.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
These games are only to like thirty five dude, And
so I was so proud, so proud of her. Did
you to put her in her place?

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Did you show her the footage of the weekend that
was going around to the seventeen year old French girl
that steals the ball at mid court and dribbles in
and dunks it. Oh my god, have you guys seventeen
year old girls dunking? Yeah, she's like the I don't know,
she's like the female Wimby. I'll send it to you.
I couldn't stop watching. Oh my god, it's a girl.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
I mean, she's young. She gets the ball at midcourt,
just dribbles down and dunks it. Like, what is happening?

Speaker 3 (06:16):
My daughter's playing all She's got a game tonight again.
Nine o'clock and have her dunk it. I don't think
she's ready to dunk quite yet. It is interesting too,
And I was talking to a couple different coaches at
this tournament. I did see that team from Decatur again, Deca.
It's the best organized basketball team I've ever seen in
they're going to the Olympics on their own.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
They should be. And you implied they were cheating, right,
I don't think they're cheating, okay.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
And so I talked to a couple of different coaches
at this tournament and I was like, is it weird
that my daughter doesn't like love watching basketball? And they
were like, no, it's pretty common with girls basketball players
like boys basketball players love watching the NBA. I leven
watch college basketball. They want to emulate some of the
things they see, and a lot of these girls like

(07:02):
they may watch a little Caitlin Clark or Yeah. But
it's interesting, like I assumed, just because you were crazy
passionate about it, like you would want to just like
I thought my daughter, with as much as she loves
basketball and plays, I thought she'd just be glued to
every Maverick game.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
But not so much.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Let me just say, after watching the first ten minutes
of the Wings Fever game yesterday that was on ABC.
I would encourage your daughter not to watch WNBA because
every single woman on the floor thinks they're Steph Curry.
Oh I've never seen so many contested step back threes.
I thought I was watching fifteen year old Aau basketball. Like,

(07:38):
so the game is gone, man, Man, that's like, really okay,
don't be like Squint Eastwood and say get off your lawns.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Where the game's going.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Every shot doesn't have to be from thirty right. Do
you think Grace is going to really be into like
the home run derby tonight. I think girls are into that.
So this is a cool breakthrough moment too. So she's fourteen,
she'll be fifteen in December. And when I was about
this age, my mom would start teaching me how to

(08:06):
drive a car. Did you guys remember how you started
and what age you were when you started driving?

Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't really.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
I remember my dad taking me to a school when
I was fourteen, like the school and driving around the
parking lot.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
I don't remember much after that. We did, you know?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
I did driving the summer before my sophomore year, driving school,
and that was pretty much the majority of what we did.
And then I didn't turn sixteen for another, you know,
eight months, and so I just drove around illegally for
eight months. I remember being like nine and driving on
Nana and Popaul's farm Okay, not yet nine. Yeah, yeah,
Christina I.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Was about fifteen, did the same, like we were in
a parking lot and learned that way. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
So my daughter asked me, you know, and it's my
fourteen year old daughter rarely wants to spend time with
her parents. So she was like, hey, mind, would you
take me to learn how to drive?

Speaker 2 (08:55):
All right? I was like, that is amazing. When did
she turn fifteen? December? Okay? And I was like, man,
this is such a right of passage thing.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
I remember doing this with my mom, and my mom
would take us to undeveloped neighborhoods and we'd go driving there,
right because there's no people there. Now, I took a
video of her doing this and send it to a
friend of mine, and friend of mine was like, is
that legal? And so I researched this and I was like,
only on private property, so Nana on Papa's farm, and
so luckily this was in a private area that I

(09:23):
was doing that, you owned that I owned a private
community I own. But I'm so glad I looked that
up late because I like pranking my daughter, and so
while she was driving through this neighborhood going four miles
per hour, I was going to text my friend who
was in law enforcement in that area, to have him
come pull her over because I thought, this is her
first time to drive. How great would it be to

(09:45):
get pulled over by a police officer on her first time?

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Traumatizing? Would that have been traumatizing? Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
That might not be a bad thing, though, right, traumatize
the young driver and then get them paranoid forever.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
But and then you don't have to buy another car?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Right? But had I done that, I didn't think it,
I could have been in hot water if allegedly I
wasn't a non private Yeah, neighborhood. Now, once they have
their learners permit though, they're good their gold okay, but
I think you have to be fifteen to get that.
Oh okay, this is all fiction and none of it
ever happened. Right, But would that have been uncool of
me to do that? Or would that have been genius?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
I mean?

Speaker 3 (10:23):
But then, line, dude, I think I think we should
have Grace pop on and answer that question. I did
tell her on her first flight that we all had parachutes.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
I bought. When you were telling me that you're thinking
of calling the cop, that's exactly.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
What I was. All Right, we are off and running
on the Ben and Skin show today. All right, coming
up next, Skin, where are you gonna take us in things?
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