July 7, 2025 • 10 mins
In this powerful and emotionally charged episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray discuss the devastating Kerr County floods, which have left families shattered and an entire community in ruins. If this episode moved you, donate now to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund at communityfoundation.net. Every dollar goes directly to those in need.And if you love what Ben, Skin, KT, and Krystina bring to your day, subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Let’s amplify the good.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Never had anything out of a can.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I heard quick effing with our show. You're gonna ruling
it gigxcept with similar sweet pursuing it huddled out shaw
shank through the sewer. Kid, Now what you're ling at
the Eagle. Yeah, we're doing it. Three o'clock on the dock.
Got a habit for my house, a goat status. How
we're starting to get craddic shows that up multiplied like
(00:29):
a rabbit two the in zone out, creak it up
beat the habit.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm on hang out with a friend rocking on the
radio my home.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Biskin is.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Talking on the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It's time to to this false.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
All baby, he we go gay tis to stream up
and all up on the radio.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Ah, Yes, welcome to a Monday presentation of the Been
and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle. We
have an amazing show planned for you. I know I
was in the pre show meeting. We'll talk to little
Dallas Cowboys football. We got a little MAVs in the mix.
We've got a very interesting seven part docu series that's
going to premiere on July tenth, where we will get
(01:19):
in depth with here that it has to do with
a lot that I don't want to tease too much
of this, but it's I think you're gonna dig this
that We're gonna have two very special guests in studio.
With regard to that, we'll talk about Jurassic Park. We
got things. Skin is tracking, We've got so much to
get into, but our full focus, you know, where our
(01:39):
energy is, where our minds are. We were thinking about
Kirk County. Obviously, devastating floods have impacted our community and
so many people in Texas. Families have lost their homes,
communities and lives have been shattered. Children are still missing.
The need is urgent, the need is massive, and so
(02:01):
the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has launched
the Kirk County Flood Relief Fund to support response, relief,
and long term recovery efforts. All donations will go directly
to trusted local organizations to provide food, shelter, healthcare, and hope.
And so we have one easy website. If you're listening
to this and you're like, yeah, man, I want to
contribute to this, I want to give back, I want
(02:22):
to help Texans during this incredibly difficult time. The website
you need to know is Community Foundation dot net Community
Foundation dot net. Obviously, a show like ours is wacky.
We like to goof around. We want to keep you
entertained and informed and just kind of make the workday
fly on by. But when something like this happens, it
(02:43):
obviously captures our full attention, and so we are going
to do some of those things today, but we're also
going to try to make a difference in our own community.
So our focus today is going to be the Kirk
County Flood Relief Fund again Community Foundation dot net. But
all of us were extremely saddened to see the events
(03:05):
that have unfolded in Kirk County.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It's really unfathomable and hard to believe, and then you
know all the details about it, it seems so I mean,
it seems so borderline apocalyptic. You know, it's like it
came in out of nowhere. It caused so much damage,
and then there's just a lot of head scratching about
how it happened. And the more we find out about it,
(03:29):
really it kind of lends itself more to head scratching.
And I think the overall idea that you know, we
can do our best to prepare for the things that
we can prepare for. But weather like this extreme weather,
which seems to be increasingly so in the last few years.
I think there's a lot of evidence to support that
(03:51):
it is really, really scary. I was watching one news
report talking about the fact that that area, that region
has had a bunch of drought conditions, and so what
the drought conditions do to the soil is it hardens
it and dries it out, and so normally, like if
it's a normal amount of rain and a normal you know,
(04:15):
rain shower, it'll have time to absorb a lot of
that water into the ground, into the soil before it
starts overflowing and stuff. But in that condition, because it
hit the hard soil in a lot of places and
immediately almost just like almost like a water slide, just
redirected the water down directly into that basin, and then
(04:35):
suddenly you have it just overwhelming that river that was
honestly pretty low when the rain started. The last count
I saw it was close to ninety people dead. I
don't know, it's still so many people missing. I don't
know if that count has changed a.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Lot of people from here to ben A lot of
people from here, obviously. The most heartbreaking part of it all.
It's all heartbreaking, but the camp mystic component, it's an
all girls Christian summer camp. You know, this hits it
at four in the morning. Within ninety minutes, you know,
water levels have risen twenty thirty feet. This is absolute catastrophic,
(05:14):
just absolute nightmare. And so our hearts go out to
Kirk County and everybody impacted by this again. Community Foundation
dot net. We're gonna be giving you that website a
lot today if you could just give a little bit,
it goes a long way. Community Foundation dot net. But yeah, Katie,
I know we're gonna get into this much deeper a
(05:35):
little bit later, but wanted to give you and Christina
a chance to weigh in.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well obviously, like it's a terrible story and there's not
much you can say, and there's still you know, missing
people too. The last report is ninety confirmed killed, but
there's still some missing and it's like a search and
recovery mission and all that stuff. There's some audio I
thought about putting on the show and decided not to
because it's just it's so sad, like, so I was like,
(05:59):
I don't want to do that. But they were describing
it as just a big was a survivor's account of it.
Just a big black wall of water and you just
hold on to something. Yeah, they saw the story. I
think it's going around with the the girl that clung
onto a tree and rode it twelve miles down the river.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
That is that the okay?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Is that the story where the guy was in his
backyard and heard yelling yeah, and then the older guy
and then he went he couldn't get any safety, so
he got his car and drove around to the other side,
and then they formed a human chain and got her.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, it's impossible to even imagine it. I mean you,
I mean, you see the footage, but I just in
the in the moment. I mean, this is like a
truly of what a disaster movie looks like. Yeah, you know,
it's I don't know, man, I thought about it all
week and I just, uh, it's brutal, and I what
can you say. One of our good friends, Ted Emrick,
who was on the show the day of the NBA
(06:52):
Draft when we had a little the part he came.
He popped on the show to talk about Cooper Flag.
But I texted him because I knew that his daughter
had gone to a camp down in that area. I'm
not sure which one. Wow, And he said, thankfully. We
picked her up last Thursday before the you know, a
week before this happened. Next her term there, her stay
there had ended, so they had picked her up. But
(07:15):
alternate universe and they choose the second, you know whatever, if.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You guys have a chance. Our friend Gina Miller with
Fcallas posted something on Instagram that's very heartfelt because of
her daughter and her daughter's age and some of her friends,
her actual friends in the community, you know, have kids
that are that are dealing with this stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I had no idea. I mean, like pet said, it was,
it was devastating. It's awful. Anytime I got on any
social media all weekend, it was either new footage that
I've seen or another picture of a little girl and
it's gonna make me tear up again. And then there's
also people saying just like very stupid, like I know
everyone's upset and angry obviously, like it's it's weather. You
can't control the weather, you know, right, But I think
(07:57):
the best thing instead of going online and saying something
stupid or something mean whatever, just go donate, Like that's
the best thing you can do is donate and help
these people at a community foundation dot net.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Right, no, thank you, there's just no point. I mean,
so many people just want politics and so they'll swerve
over eight lanes of traffic to make something political. And
right now we just need help, we need relief. So again,
community foundation dot net. There are you know, to your point,
skin people forming a human chain to rescue people. In
(08:30):
times like these, you see so much resiliency from people.
You see so much courage and bravery and people trying
to help, and you see real humanity and those those
types of heroics are phenomenal and so amazing to see.
And there's one story I saw where there's this I
don't know if you guys saw this, but there's a
(08:50):
guy that's with the Coast Guard and he was on
his first ever rescue mission and he was this one
guy saved. According to the story, one hundred and sixty
five Texans doing this. So he was repelling down from
helicopters and stuff, and they credit him with saving one
hundred and sixty five flash flood victims.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
That is unbelievable, and I mean I think it was
a repeat. I wasn't sure. But yesterday I flipped on
CBS and sixty Minutes was on and they were doing
a story on the history of the Coastguard and how
they trained the Coastguard, And I was just sitting there
thinking about all the training and stuff that people go through,
and you hope to never have to use that training, right,
(09:34):
You hope that you never have to be in a
position to use that sort of skill set and then
something like this happens and you very much need those people.
But yeah, just horribly devastating news. And we'll be talking
about it later in the show during the weekly weekday
news update. But as Ben mentioned, if you would like
(09:56):
to be a part of the solution, you can donate
money for the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund at Communityfoundation
dot net. Again, that's Communityfoundation dot net. That is one
that iHeart very much believes in and all of your
money will go.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
To the people that need it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
We have vetted it and it is the right place.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
All right.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
So, yes, this is the thing that is most on
our minds and most in our heart. But we are
going to do what we normally do, which is to
keep you laughing, keep you entertained throughout the day. We
will get back into this later on in the presentation,
but let's officially get things underway with our ridiculous shenanigans
with things skin Weight is tracking, where are you going
to take his skin?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I've got to play you some audio that we would
normally never play on the Eagle, but it's my favorite
trend on YouTube and we'll do it next
Never had anything out of a can.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I heard quick effing with our show. You're gonna ruling
it gigxcept with similar sweet pursuing it huddled out shaw
shank through the sewer. Kid, Now what you're ling at
the Eagle. Yeah, we're doing it. Three o'clock on the dock.
Got a habit for my house, a goat status. How
we're starting to get craddic shows that up multiplied like
(00:29):
a rabbit two the in zone out, creak it up
beat the habit.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm on hang out with a friend rocking on the
radio my home.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Biskin is.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Talking on the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It's time to to this false.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
All baby, he we go gay tis to stream up
and all up on the radio.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Ah, Yes, welcome to a Monday presentation of the Been
and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle. We
have an amazing show planned for you. I know I
was in the pre show meeting. We'll talk to little
Dallas Cowboys football. We got a little MAVs in the mix.
We've got a very interesting seven part docu series that's
going to premiere on July tenth, where we will get
(01:19):
in depth with here that it has to do with
a lot that I don't want to tease too much
of this, but it's I think you're gonna dig this
that We're gonna have two very special guests in studio.
With regard to that, we'll talk about Jurassic Park. We
got things. Skin is tracking, We've got so much to
get into, but our full focus, you know, where our
(01:39):
energy is, where our minds are. We were thinking about
Kirk County. Obviously, devastating floods have impacted our community and
so many people in Texas. Families have lost their homes,
communities and lives have been shattered. Children are still missing.
The need is urgent, the need is massive, and so
(02:01):
the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has launched
the Kirk County Flood Relief Fund to support response, relief,
and long term recovery efforts. All donations will go directly
to trusted local organizations to provide food, shelter, healthcare, and hope.
And so we have one easy website. If you're listening
to this and you're like, yeah, man, I want to
contribute to this, I want to give back, I want
(02:22):
to help Texans during this incredibly difficult time. The website
you need to know is Community Foundation dot net Community
Foundation dot net. Obviously, a show like ours is wacky.
We like to goof around. We want to keep you
entertained and informed and just kind of make the workday
fly on by. But when something like this happens, it
(02:43):
obviously captures our full attention, and so we are going
to do some of those things today, but we're also
going to try to make a difference in our own community.
So our focus today is going to be the Kirk
County Flood Relief Fund again Community Foundation dot net. But
all of us were extremely saddened to see the events
(03:05):
that have unfolded in Kirk County.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It's really unfathomable and hard to believe, and then you
know all the details about it, it seems so I mean,
it seems so borderline apocalyptic. You know, it's like it
came in out of nowhere. It caused so much damage,
and then there's just a lot of head scratching about
how it happened. And the more we find out about it,
(03:29):
really it kind of lends itself more to head scratching.
And I think the overall idea that you know, we
can do our best to prepare for the things that
we can prepare for. But weather like this extreme weather,
which seems to be increasingly so in the last few years.
I think there's a lot of evidence to support that
(03:51):
it is really, really scary. I was watching one news
report talking about the fact that that area, that region
has had a bunch of drought conditions, and so what
the drought conditions do to the soil is it hardens
it and dries it out, and so normally, like if
it's a normal amount of rain and a normal you know,
(04:15):
rain shower, it'll have time to absorb a lot of
that water into the ground, into the soil before it
starts overflowing and stuff. But in that condition, because it
hit the hard soil in a lot of places and
immediately almost just like almost like a water slide, just
redirected the water down directly into that basin, and then
(04:35):
suddenly you have it just overwhelming that river that was
honestly pretty low when the rain started. The last count
I saw it was close to ninety people dead. I
don't know, it's still so many people missing. I don't
know if that count has changed a.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Lot of people from here to ben A lot of
people from here, obviously. The most heartbreaking part of it all.
It's all heartbreaking, but the camp mystic component, it's an
all girls Christian summer camp. You know, this hits it
at four in the morning. Within ninety minutes, you know,
water levels have risen twenty thirty feet. This is absolute catastrophic,
(05:14):
just absolute nightmare. And so our hearts go out to
Kirk County and everybody impacted by this again. Community Foundation
dot net. We're gonna be giving you that website a
lot today if you could just give a little bit,
it goes a long way. Community Foundation dot net. But yeah, Katie,
I know we're gonna get into this much deeper a
(05:35):
little bit later, but wanted to give you and Christina
a chance to weigh in.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well obviously, like it's a terrible story and there's not
much you can say, and there's still you know, missing
people too. The last report is ninety confirmed killed, but
there's still some missing and it's like a search and
recovery mission and all that stuff. There's some audio I
thought about putting on the show and decided not to
because it's just it's so sad, like, so I was like,
(05:59):
I don't want to do that. But they were describing
it as just a big was a survivor's account of it.
Just a big black wall of water and you just
hold on to something. Yeah, they saw the story. I
think it's going around with the the girl that clung
onto a tree and rode it twelve miles down the river.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
That is that the okay?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Is that the story where the guy was in his
backyard and heard yelling yeah, and then the older guy
and then he went he couldn't get any safety, so
he got his car and drove around to the other side,
and then they formed a human chain and got her.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, it's impossible to even imagine it. I mean you,
I mean, you see the footage, but I just in
the in the moment. I mean, this is like a
truly of what a disaster movie looks like. Yeah, you know,
it's I don't know, man, I thought about it all
week and I just, uh, it's brutal, and I what
can you say. One of our good friends, Ted Emrick,
who was on the show the day of the NBA
(06:52):
Draft when we had a little the part he came.
He popped on the show to talk about Cooper Flag.
But I texted him because I knew that his daughter
had gone to a camp down in that area. I'm
not sure which one. Wow, And he said, thankfully. We
picked her up last Thursday before the you know, a
week before this happened. Next her term there, her stay
there had ended, so they had picked her up. But
(07:15):
alternate universe and they choose the second, you know whatever, if.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You guys have a chance. Our friend Gina Miller with
Fcallas posted something on Instagram that's very heartfelt because of
her daughter and her daughter's age and some of her friends,
her actual friends in the community, you know, have kids
that are that are dealing with this stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I had no idea. I mean, like pet said, it was,
it was devastating. It's awful. Anytime I got on any
social media all weekend, it was either new footage that
I've seen or another picture of a little girl and
it's gonna make me tear up again. And then there's
also people saying just like very stupid, like I know
everyone's upset and angry obviously, like it's it's weather. You
can't control the weather, you know, right, But I think
(07:57):
the best thing instead of going online and saying something
stupid or something mean whatever, just go donate, Like that's
the best thing you can do is donate and help
these people at a community foundation dot net.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Right, no, thank you, there's just no point. I mean,
so many people just want politics and so they'll swerve
over eight lanes of traffic to make something political. And
right now we just need help, we need relief. So again,
community foundation dot net. There are you know, to your point,
skin people forming a human chain to rescue people. In
(08:30):
times like these, you see so much resiliency from people.
You see so much courage and bravery and people trying
to help, and you see real humanity and those those
types of heroics are phenomenal and so amazing to see.
And there's one story I saw where there's this I
don't know if you guys saw this, but there's a
(08:50):
guy that's with the Coast Guard and he was on
his first ever rescue mission and he was this one
guy saved. According to the story, one hundred and sixty
five Texans doing this. So he was repelling down from
helicopters and stuff, and they credit him with saving one
hundred and sixty five flash flood victims.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
That is unbelievable, and I mean I think it was
a repeat. I wasn't sure. But yesterday I flipped on
CBS and sixty Minutes was on and they were doing
a story on the history of the Coastguard and how
they trained the Coastguard, And I was just sitting there
thinking about all the training and stuff that people go through,
and you hope to never have to use that training, right,
(09:34):
You hope that you never have to be in a
position to use that sort of skill set and then
something like this happens and you very much need those people.
But yeah, just horribly devastating news. And we'll be talking
about it later in the show during the weekly weekday
news update. But as Ben mentioned, if you would like
(09:56):
to be a part of the solution, you can donate
money for the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund at Communityfoundation
dot net. Again, that's Communityfoundation dot net. That is one
that iHeart very much believes in and all of your
money will go.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
To the people that need it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
We have vetted it and it is the right place.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
All right.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
So, yes, this is the thing that is most on
our minds and most in our heart. But we are
going to do what we normally do, which is to
keep you laughing, keep you entertained throughout the day. We
will get back into this later on in the presentation,
but let's officially get things underway with our ridiculous shenanigans
with things skin Weight is tracking, where are you going
to take his skin?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I've got to play you some audio that we would
normally never play on the Eagle, but it's my favorite
trend on YouTube and we'll do it next
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