August 4, 2025 • 7 mins
"Is it ever safe to let your kid reach into a tank with a giant, poisonous octopus?"In this jaw-dropping episode of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive tentacle-first into one of the wildest viral stories to hit Texas this summer. A routine family trip to the San Antonio Aquarium turns into a social media firestorm when a young boy is grabbed—and bruised—by a giant red octopus. The crew breaks down the bizarre details, from suction cup bruises to the aquarium’s questionable response, and the internet’s obsession with the “hot mom” at the center of it all.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome the Wildlife newt me. You don't need me to
deliver the news. When you have the news in San Antonio?
Who can tell you about what happened at this aquarium
in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Brittany Terran took her son Leo and his brother to
the San Antonio Aquarium on July fourteenth, where she says
they were encouraged to touch the octopus, but the mother
says this time was different from their previous encounters.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Leo put his arm in the tank and the octopus
wrapped his tentacles around him and wouldn't let go.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Terren screamed for help. The mother says no employees were nearby.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
When the first employee wasn't able to remove the tentacle
from him, he called for backup and they brought ice
packs to kind of distract the octopus.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
The octopus left suction bruises on Leo's own, but the
six year old says, the only pain he feels is
poor the octopus.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We have now learned that this octopus is in sinn essence,
so it's probably not going to be around for very
much longer, so we did go say goodbye to it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Are octopus typically aggressive?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I would say not. Based on my experience with octopus
and what I saw, I couldn't help but think that
the octopus was maybe holswitch, just over stimulated.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, man traumatizing for that kid. I'd see his arm.
I just fell backwards down a hill trying to understand
all this.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Listen, I watched this. I did a deep dive in
all of this. This is a crazy story. So there
are places in this aquarium where they have like tanks
that like a child could look into that are at
head level eye level for a kid, but there's no
top on them, so they could reach over and touch
(01:54):
wildlife that's in the saltwater quam or whatever it is. Okay,
this one happened to be a giant, poisonous octopus. Yeah,
And I'm like, it's a huge, red, menacing, terrifying looking octopus.
And I'm like, I don't know whose idea is to
let the children reach over and interact with the octopus.
But this octopus basically grabbed the kid's whole arm so
(02:15):
tight that every suction cup put a bruise on his arm.
And I don't know if it was trying to pull
him into the water to like get his poisonous sharp
shark beat on it, or if it was just interacting.
And so the mom went on social media and was like, man,
we go to the sacram all the time. This weird
thing happened, and then it blew up and it went viral,
and so people are like, why are you letting your
(02:36):
kid do that? She's like, well, that's what they do here,
Like we come here twice a week. We love coming here.
But this octopus, I guess, just went ham And so
there was so much interaction about it. And by the ways,
there's a lot of things about this story that are weird.
Not only is it a poisonous octopus that you can
interact with, but the fact that there's no employees around.
(02:57):
Did that shock y'all?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
In this day and age, nobody's staffed up, cut back cutbacks,
and so the octopus my kid, there's no one. Then
one guy comes over and he can't get the octopus
off the child.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Why do you back up?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
And then guys come with ice to distract the octopus
and get it to let go.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Is there footage of this? Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Yeah, because I'm not of it on the kid and
we'll play you something else. On the second well, this
is why I asked, because I saw a tentacle wrapped
around the kid. What is the octopus doing with it's
seven other arms? Like, you can't it just start wrapping
around everything like it's got eight arms.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What's crazy is the bruises on the kid. It looks
like someone just drew a bunch of circles. Does look
like a tattoo for sure, like it's nuts or like
he's doing those suction cups to stimulate blood healing. And
then the guy said, I didn't think an octopus is
octopus the plural of octopus octopus, it's octopus.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Why did he say this?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I'll learn that this octop it's typically aggressive.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I would say not based on my experience with Art
Bust and what I saw, I couldn't help but think
that the octopus was maybe Elswitch just over stimulated.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Okay, but the story, First of all, the mom is attractive, nice,
so it's a casket girl situation.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
She's got a lot of followers to immediately she's going
viral because oh look at this hot mommy loves She's
a single mom taking her kids the aquarium all the time.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Despite the kids, right, got that like that?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
So she was getting beat up. Women were like, how
dare you put your kid in danger? Men were more
sympathetic because she's hot and that all these people were
getting involved in the story and saying, So the aquarium decided,
we've got to defend ourselves. So they send an employee
of theirs out to reach into the tank and interact
with the octopus, and they're filming it.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
It's a wild choice question. I'm glad you saw my
video and decided this was the way you wanted to respond.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
And very very strong animals, very very curious animal.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And she has a large, thousand gallons hat, which is
over the size of what is recommended for an octopus,
and she really wanted to She could totally bite me, but.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
She's not trying to do that. Octopus kisses right.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Now and just loves people.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I know you love me, but you just can't.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You can't come again.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's some tough love.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Just trying to get the tentacles off of her arm.
She's proving that you get to it. Yeah, it's terrifying,
like she cannot get off.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
That thing's so scary. This giant, red, poisonous octopus is
trying to pull her into the tank too to get
to his giant sharp beak. She's like, oh, these are
octopus kisses. She's about to call for back up herself.
It was terrifying.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I had all these people just seen the octopus teacher,
and they thought this was okay, right.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It might be what's going on? Right, it might have
been a rise in octopus culture. Do we just call
it octopus? So if there's more than one octopus, I'm
still confused on that. This lady, she's trying as hard
as she can to rip it off and hold.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
On, like, are you kidding me? So not only have
they watched my videos, but they have been reading y'all's calm.
They addressed the size of the tank, the age of
the octopus. So did you see that last clip that
is a grown adult woman struggling to get that octopus
off of her and get off of the tank. They're
(06:14):
talking like that to you, and they are telling you like,
this is playful, this is fun. They are now putting
that out as a message to the public. So much
fun you get to come here and get octopus kisses?
Do I need to remind you what my sons are on?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Looked now, I will say this. This gal appears to
be a bit of a troublemaker because I went through
some of her other videos on TikTok. She's starting a
lot of fights, She's involved in a lot of discs.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Let's cut her some slack, just because the way she looks.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's right, Chrisina, Yes, she is very attractive.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
How old do you think she is?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Maybe thirty six?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
She was give him that Elizabeth Berkeley vibes, Yeah, oh really,
bouncing up and down on Colin maclachlan's all right.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
There you have it. There it is the wildlife news,
the wildlife news coming up next, and around the sports
there were just three minutes away. Let's talk a little
Rangers baseball DFW, and let's talk the Luca contract. That's
all coming up in just over three minutes.
Welcome the Wildlife newt me. You don't need me to
deliver the news. When you have the news in San Antonio?
Who can tell you about what happened at this aquarium
in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Brittany Terran took her son Leo and his brother to
the San Antonio Aquarium on July fourteenth, where she says
they were encouraged to touch the octopus, but the mother
says this time was different from their previous encounters.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Leo put his arm in the tank and the octopus
wrapped his tentacles around him and wouldn't let go.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Terren screamed for help. The mother says no employees were nearby.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
When the first employee wasn't able to remove the tentacle
from him, he called for backup and they brought ice
packs to kind of distract the octopus.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
The octopus left suction bruises on Leo's own, but the
six year old says, the only pain he feels is
poor the octopus.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We have now learned that this octopus is in sinn essence,
so it's probably not going to be around for very
much longer, so we did go say goodbye to it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Are octopus typically aggressive?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I would say not. Based on my experience with octopus
and what I saw, I couldn't help but think that
the octopus was maybe holswitch, just over stimulated.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, man traumatizing for that kid. I'd see his arm.
I just fell backwards down a hill trying to understand
all this.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Listen, I watched this. I did a deep dive in
all of this. This is a crazy story. So there
are places in this aquarium where they have like tanks
that like a child could look into that are at
head level eye level for a kid, but there's no
top on them, so they could reach over and touch
(01:54):
wildlife that's in the saltwater quam or whatever it is. Okay,
this one happened to be a giant, poisonous octopus. Yeah,
And I'm like, it's a huge, red, menacing, terrifying looking octopus.
And I'm like, I don't know whose idea is to
let the children reach over and interact with the octopus.
But this octopus basically grabbed the kid's whole arm so
(02:15):
tight that every suction cup put a bruise on his arm.
And I don't know if it was trying to pull
him into the water to like get his poisonous sharp
shark beat on it, or if it was just interacting.
And so the mom went on social media and was like, man,
we go to the sacram all the time. This weird
thing happened, and then it blew up and it went viral,
and so people are like, why are you letting your
(02:36):
kid do that? She's like, well, that's what they do here,
Like we come here twice a week. We love coming here.
But this octopus, I guess, just went ham And so
there was so much interaction about it. And by the ways,
there's a lot of things about this story that are weird.
Not only is it a poisonous octopus that you can
interact with, but the fact that there's no employees around.
(02:57):
Did that shock y'all?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
In this day and age, nobody's staffed up, cut back cutbacks,
and so the octopus my kid, there's no one. Then
one guy comes over and he can't get the octopus
off the child.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Why do you back up?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
And then guys come with ice to distract the octopus
and get it to let go.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Is there footage of this? Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Yeah, because I'm not of it on the kid and
we'll play you something else. On the second well, this
is why I asked, because I saw a tentacle wrapped
around the kid. What is the octopus doing with it's
seven other arms? Like, you can't it just start wrapping
around everything like it's got eight arms.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What's crazy is the bruises on the kid. It looks
like someone just drew a bunch of circles. Does look
like a tattoo for sure, like it's nuts or like
he's doing those suction cups to stimulate blood healing. And
then the guy said, I didn't think an octopus is
octopus the plural of octopus octopus, it's octopus.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Why did he say this?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I'll learn that this octop it's typically aggressive.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I would say not based on my experience with Art
Bust and what I saw, I couldn't help but think
that the octopus was maybe Elswitch just over stimulated.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Okay, but the story, First of all, the mom is attractive, nice,
so it's a casket girl situation.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
She's got a lot of followers to immediately she's going
viral because oh look at this hot mommy loves She's
a single mom taking her kids the aquarium all the time.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Despite the kids, right, got that like that?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
So she was getting beat up. Women were like, how
dare you put your kid in danger? Men were more
sympathetic because she's hot and that all these people were
getting involved in the story and saying, So the aquarium decided,
we've got to defend ourselves. So they send an employee
of theirs out to reach into the tank and interact
with the octopus, and they're filming it.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
It's a wild choice question. I'm glad you saw my
video and decided this was the way you wanted to respond.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
And very very strong animals, very very curious animal.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And she has a large, thousand gallons hat, which is
over the size of what is recommended for an octopus,
and she really wanted to She could totally bite me, but.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
She's not trying to do that. Octopus kisses right.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Now and just loves people.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I know you love me, but you just can't.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You can't come again.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's some tough love.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Just trying to get the tentacles off of her arm.
She's proving that you get to it. Yeah, it's terrifying,
like she cannot get off.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
That thing's so scary. This giant, red, poisonous octopus is
trying to pull her into the tank too to get
to his giant sharp beak. She's like, oh, these are
octopus kisses. She's about to call for back up herself.
It was terrifying.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I had all these people just seen the octopus teacher,
and they thought this was okay, right.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It might be what's going on? Right, it might have
been a rise in octopus culture. Do we just call
it octopus? So if there's more than one octopus, I'm
still confused on that. This lady, she's trying as hard
as she can to rip it off and hold.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
On, like, are you kidding me? So not only have
they watched my videos, but they have been reading y'all's calm.
They addressed the size of the tank, the age of
the octopus. So did you see that last clip that
is a grown adult woman struggling to get that octopus
off of her and get off of the tank. They're
(06:14):
talking like that to you, and they are telling you like,
this is playful, this is fun. They are now putting
that out as a message to the public. So much
fun you get to come here and get octopus kisses?
Do I need to remind you what my sons are on?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Looked now, I will say this. This gal appears to
be a bit of a troublemaker because I went through
some of her other videos on TikTok. She's starting a
lot of fights, She's involved in a lot of discs.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Let's cut her some slack, just because the way she looks.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's right, Chrisina, Yes, she is very attractive.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
How old do you think she is?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Maybe thirty six?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
She was give him that Elizabeth Berkeley vibes, Yeah, oh really,
bouncing up and down on Colin maclachlan's all right.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
There you have it. There it is the wildlife news,
the wildlife news coming up next, and around the sports
there were just three minutes away. Let's talk a little
Rangers baseball DFW, and let's talk the Luca contract. That's
all coming up in just over three minutes.
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