May 6, 2025 • 6 mins
"What happens when unsuspecting guests are pranked on live radio?" This episode of The Ben and Skin Show takes you back to one of the most memorable pranks in the show's history. Join hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they revisit the infamous "Sports Inferno" prank call long ago. Travel back in time, when the hosts set up a prank call with Brad Lee, a blogger for the St. Louis Blues. The unsuspecting guest finds himself on a fake sports show with two outrageous characters: Carl Spoon, a loud and opinionated sports yeller, and Rational Bill, who refuses to take a side on anything.Listen as Carl Spoon and Rational Bill hilariously clash over their differing styles, with Carl demanding hot takes and Rational Bill staying firmly on the fence. The confusion and frustration of their guest, Brad Lee, add to the comedic gold.
- Memorable Quotes:
- "What is snook ems? They're like saying, 'Meet me at the bike rack.'"
- "Is it day or night? It's kind of dusk. It's kind of both."
- "Cats or dogs? If you like cats, cats are for you. And if you like dogs, dogs are for you."
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Old bull fools, it's time to go into the biting schedule.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Worrybugs colve all right, So the year is twenty sixteen,
This would be nine years ago, and it was May
sixth and we had you guys in a production studio
on the phone with a guy named Brad. I think
this is Brad Lee. Seriously Brad Lee. That's a funny
thing that his parents did from the Saint b Louis
(00:26):
Blues sock hockey hockey bluest Blewis.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
And the idea is, with these bits, if you're new
to the Ben and Skin Show, we like pranking people
that are out trying to do interviews and they don't
know who we are. They don't do even do the
research to find out who they're jumping on with. They're
so excited to do a radio show and they end
up being on with a fake show with two characters
that don't even really exist. So everyone's in on the
joke except the person being interviewed.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And I would say these two characters are interesting. It's
an interesting mesh. Carl Spoon, it's kind of a Colin Cowhard,
just sports yell, kind of old crimudgeony guy.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
He's a washed up sports yaller. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, and then we have he was partnered with a
guy named Rational Bill, who.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Just refuses to take an opinion, take a side on anything.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah. Now, Carl Spoon came from the school of given opinion,
have a hot take, it doesn't matter, create reaction. Yeah,
and rational Bill was more I mean rational, that's the word.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
He spends his entire existence making sure he offends nowhere. Yeah, anyway,
he may be from Guam. We're not really sure where
he's from.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I thought this was great timing with the Stars on
their playoff push. Their game won tomorrow night in Winnipeg.
Uh so the Stars are taken on the Blues nine
years ago. This is part one, Welcome back to the
Sports Inferno.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Inferno with Carl and Rational Bill. That's Carl's Bone and
Rational Bill in the Inferno.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
On a Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Lots of great stuff coming up here and afternoon drive.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Let's talg a little stick.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
And puck here and we're joined by the Saint Louis
Blues game time blogger Brad Lee.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
How the hell you doing in the Inferno today.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Brad Ham, Good guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Boil boy.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Do we have a damn series on our hands. Here
a lot of people down in Dallas pissed off by
the nature of.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
The way Game three went down.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Will start. What are your general thoughts on that's six to.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
One whooping that the Blues gave the Stars the other night.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Well, it was sealed with a kiss, right, That's that's
what people are talking about, is the kiss from Ryan
Reeves to the entire Stars bench.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, kind of a du move.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
If you ask me, if I could interrupt you, why
did Ryan Reeves you know, bloody keys to the sweaty
athletes and their muscles, and why did he blow the keys?
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Uh? Probably just to say, you know, see you later. Snooks.
I uh, schnuck the moment? What does that do?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Was he angry or was he tunting them with the leap?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
He was probably taunting him with his lips.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Let's get back to the schnuck him say was that
hockey talk?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
What is that.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Not?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Quiet? But he he definitely was sending a message at
the end of that game.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
The message was schnook eems. I don't know what schnuck'em's
like me. It's like meet me at the bike rack
one time. Yeah, when I was in eighth grade. I
was bumped into a guy in the hallway and he
said meet me outside and at the bike racks. It
was kind of the same thing. He didn't blow me
a kiss, though he punched me in the face several times.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Though, God, what a terrible story.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Uh, Sports Inferno Carl's Rational Bill. Do you think the
Stars have misplayed their hand with Tyler Sagan?
Speaker 8 (03:38):
On one hand, you can look at it and you
can say he shouldn't have played in the one game
when they brought him back, and.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I could say that they rushed it, they leave the beat.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
But at the same time, it was good to have
such a good player back out there, So I could
go either way.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I can't fault them or accuse them of doing any wrong.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I'm not asking you to give both sides.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I'm ask you to take a side.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
I think on one hand you can say they made
a mistake, but on the other hand, you could say
it was no mistake.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
So I understand that you just said that. What I'm
saying is Pega Damn's side. You can't. Oh, I like
it both ways.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
Personally, it was mistake driven, but it ultimately was well intended.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
They're saying both dangs. I'm saying pick a side.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
But I'm just saying that they tried to do the
right thing, but they led to Yes, they.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Tried to do the right thing. They did it, So
pick a side. What would you have done?
Speaker 8 (04:24):
I would have done the exact same thing and do
it over again in the heart that he brought out, And.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Did you pick a side? Is it look out the window?
Is it day or night?
Speaker 8 (04:33):
It's kind of dusk in the morning, but it's like
lad morning and early evening. It's kind of a little
bit of both.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
God Almighty, what's better? Cats are dogs?
Speaker 8 (04:45):
If you like cats, cats are for you, And if
you like dogs, dogs are for you.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Cats.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
What you pick one?
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Brad?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Do you have opinions?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
I'll pick a side. Obviously they tried Sagan in the
last year, adainst Minnesota. You played one game.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I don't need plad.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I needed a yeah from Pratt, Brad.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
If I could have just interjected for very quickly once
an opinion from you, Brett, please.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Get off the fence. Ready fence, you have an opinion.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
He's not ready. They haven't made a mistake.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
All right, He's not ready here, but he was on
the fence he said, he's not ready.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They have not made a mistake.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
He's not ready, Bill Pratt, say one guy at a time, Brad,
you're saying that they they may not make no mistake, correct.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Right, I'm not ready to play. Don't play him exactly
all right.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Finally, Jesus, no one had an opinion here on the sports.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
All right, there is part one. I would listen to
that show. Go rational, Bill all right.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Coming up next, the darkest turn in a prank in
the history of our show. Now, this is in just
over three minutes, under four minutes. Don't go anywhere. This
is coming up next, the big finish, the grand finale
of this weird prank. The Wayback Machine is operation. We'll
get to the part two coming up in less than
four minutes.
Old bull fools, it's time to go into the biting schedule.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Worrybugs colve all right, So the year is twenty sixteen,
This would be nine years ago, and it was May
sixth and we had you guys in a production studio
on the phone with a guy named Brad. I think
this is Brad Lee. Seriously Brad Lee. That's a funny
thing that his parents did from the Saint b Louis
(00:26):
Blues sock hockey hockey bluest Blewis.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
And the idea is, with these bits, if you're new
to the Ben and Skin Show, we like pranking people
that are out trying to do interviews and they don't
know who we are. They don't do even do the
research to find out who they're jumping on with. They're
so excited to do a radio show and they end
up being on with a fake show with two characters
that don't even really exist. So everyone's in on the
joke except the person being interviewed.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And I would say these two characters are interesting. It's
an interesting mesh. Carl Spoon, it's kind of a Colin Cowhard,
just sports yell, kind of old crimudgeony guy.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
He's a washed up sports yaller. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, and then we have he was partnered with a
guy named Rational Bill, who.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Just refuses to take an opinion, take a side on anything.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah. Now, Carl Spoon came from the school of given opinion,
have a hot take, it doesn't matter, create reaction. Yeah,
and rational Bill was more I mean rational, that's the word.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
He spends his entire existence making sure he offends nowhere. Yeah, anyway,
he may be from Guam. We're not really sure where
he's from.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I thought this was great timing with the Stars on
their playoff push. Their game won tomorrow night in Winnipeg.
Uh so the Stars are taken on the Blues nine
years ago. This is part one, Welcome back to the
Sports Inferno.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Inferno with Carl and Rational Bill. That's Carl's Bone and
Rational Bill in the Inferno.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
On a Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Lots of great stuff coming up here and afternoon drive.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Let's talg a little stick.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
And puck here and we're joined by the Saint Louis
Blues game time blogger Brad Lee.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
How the hell you doing in the Inferno today.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Brad Ham, Good guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Boil boy.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Do we have a damn series on our hands. Here
a lot of people down in Dallas pissed off by
the nature of.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
The way Game three went down.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Will start. What are your general thoughts on that's six to.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
One whooping that the Blues gave the Stars the other night.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Well, it was sealed with a kiss, right, That's that's
what people are talking about, is the kiss from Ryan
Reeves to the entire Stars bench.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, kind of a du move.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
If you ask me, if I could interrupt you, why
did Ryan Reeves you know, bloody keys to the sweaty
athletes and their muscles, and why did he blow the keys?
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Uh? Probably just to say, you know, see you later. Snooks.
I uh, schnuck the moment? What does that do?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Was he angry or was he tunting them with the leap?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
He was probably taunting him with his lips.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Let's get back to the schnuck him say was that
hockey talk?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
What is that.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Not?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Quiet? But he he definitely was sending a message at
the end of that game.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
The message was schnook eems. I don't know what schnuck'em's
like me. It's like meet me at the bike rack
one time. Yeah, when I was in eighth grade. I
was bumped into a guy in the hallway and he
said meet me outside and at the bike racks. It
was kind of the same thing. He didn't blow me
a kiss, though he punched me in the face several times.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Though, God, what a terrible story.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Uh, Sports Inferno Carl's Rational Bill. Do you think the
Stars have misplayed their hand with Tyler Sagan?
Speaker 8 (03:38):
On one hand, you can look at it and you
can say he shouldn't have played in the one game
when they brought him back, and.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I could say that they rushed it, they leave the beat.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
But at the same time, it was good to have
such a good player back out there, So I could
go either way.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I can't fault them or accuse them of doing any wrong.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I'm not asking you to give both sides.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I'm ask you to take a side.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
I think on one hand you can say they made
a mistake, but on the other hand, you could say
it was no mistake.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
So I understand that you just said that. What I'm
saying is Pega Damn's side. You can't. Oh, I like
it both ways.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
Personally, it was mistake driven, but it ultimately was well intended.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
They're saying both dangs. I'm saying pick a side.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
But I'm just saying that they tried to do the
right thing, but they led to Yes, they.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Tried to do the right thing. They did it, So
pick a side. What would you have done?
Speaker 8 (04:24):
I would have done the exact same thing and do
it over again in the heart that he brought out, And.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Did you pick a side? Is it look out the window?
Is it day or night?
Speaker 8 (04:33):
It's kind of dusk in the morning, but it's like
lad morning and early evening. It's kind of a little
bit of both.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
God Almighty, what's better? Cats are dogs?
Speaker 8 (04:45):
If you like cats, cats are for you, And if
you like dogs, dogs are for you.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Cats.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
What you pick one?
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Brad?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Do you have opinions?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
I'll pick a side. Obviously they tried Sagan in the
last year, adainst Minnesota. You played one game.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I don't need plad.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I needed a yeah from Pratt, Brad.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
If I could have just interjected for very quickly once
an opinion from you, Brett, please.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Get off the fence. Ready fence, you have an opinion.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
He's not ready. They haven't made a mistake.
Speaker 8 (05:15):
All right, He's not ready here, but he was on
the fence he said, he's not ready.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They have not made a mistake.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
He's not ready, Bill Pratt, say one guy at a time, Brad,
you're saying that they they may not make no mistake, correct.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Right, I'm not ready to play. Don't play him exactly
all right.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Finally, Jesus, no one had an opinion here on the sports.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
All right, there is part one. I would listen to
that show. Go rational, Bill all right.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Coming up next, the darkest turn in a prank in
the history of our show. Now, this is in just
over three minutes, under four minutes. Don't go anywhere. This
is coming up next, the big finish, the grand finale
of this weird prank. The Wayback Machine is operation. We'll
get to the part two coming up in less than
four minutes.
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