July 21, 2025 • 5 mins
"Is it possible that escalators are more dangerous than sharks?"That’s just one of the wild questions tackled in this rollercoaster episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray blend heartfelt tributes, hilarious tangents, and bizarre news into one unforgettable hour of radio.The show opens with a somber moment: the shocking report of Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s death—aka Theo Huxtable from The Cosby Show. The crew reflects on his career, from Community to Sons of Anarchy, and his quiet family life, before pivoting to a hilarious and chaotic story involving Beyoncé, a bug, and a stampede on an Atlanta escalator.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jerseys Hot Gods, every stay on top in the woods shovel.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
We'll do the sad one and more urgent one first
and then we'll have some fun. All right, guys. Uh
THEO Huxtable. He's dead at the age of fifty four.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
His actual name Malcolm Jamal Warner. So details are kind
of just kind of sneaking in here. But he drowned
off the coast of Costa Rica and official cause of
death is asphyxia. So I'm assuming he was vacationing if
he's in Costa Rica.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah. Maybe.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Police said he was caught by a high current in
the water and was discovered Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I've always worried about that rip currents and things like that.
I've seen him on you know, on Bear Grylls has
talked about him. Hell yeah, and he knows what he's
talking about. He's also one who taught me about flash floods.
But you and I've I mentioned that to my wife,
like you'll see a sign you'll be on vacation. He'll say,
be where the rip tide or whatever. She's like, that's
not real. I'm like, what are you talking about? Like
(01:16):
that sign there? Yeah, it's real, like it'll just carry
you way out. It's super powerful, carry you way out
in the ocean and drowned you.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And water's tough man.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yes, you also got to beware of iconic actor Rip Torn.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Ripped Torn might throw a wrench at you or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, he's also dead, though, you will have to watch.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The legacy of him. Yeah, so beware of the legacy
of Rip Torn. If you walk up and you see
that sign, you gotta think about it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Last time I saw Malcolm Jamal Warner, he was on
He served as a very spotty every once in a
while he would pop up on Community, Shirley's Husband. He
was also Al Colling's on the FX O J. Simpson Show. God,
I do remember that?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Apparently he was in Sons of Anarchy for a bit.
I did not know that. He also he was executive
producer and one of the voice actors on The Magic
School Bus on PBS, which highly popular growing up.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
He probably you know it's tarnish because of what all
came out about Bill Cosby. But before you guys were born,
you can't imagine how influential the Cosby Show was. I
mean it was the biggest thing on television. It was huge,
and all of the Cosby kids, they were a big deal.
They were icons.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Man, he actually didn't said in the TMZ article, which
a little bit later the show will tell you that
TMZ is not perfect. But his wife and kids like
he's kept them private pretty much his whole life. Like
they they know he's got a family with no names
or anything like that, because you know, they were all
child stars. So yeah, sucks bad breaking news that we
(03:00):
get there. Beyonce's still turning the Cowboy Carter thing, and
she's in Atlanta doing a concert concert ends, fans are leaving,
they're going down the escalator to the Atlanta equivalent of
the dart rail you know whatever train thing that, and
(03:20):
then someone on the elevator gets spooked because of a
little bug. Come on, and then eleven people get hurt
because a stampede broke out on the escalator at the
local transit station.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Oh dude, I have significant escalator fear.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I'm not. I'm with you, Ben. I have so much
anxiety when I see a little kid get on an
escalator because ninety percent of all little kids have untied shoes.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Oh my god, you see them get on with an
untied shoe and they're jumping around having fun. It's just
like it's made of shark teeth, you know. It's just
super sharp and it's a it's like a terminator. It's
never stopped and it's just gonna grind and those teeth
are gonna chew.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Okay. According to AI, how many escalator deaths are there
a year in the US?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Five?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Three?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
God?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Ten? Uh, Christina wins there's thirty. Oh my god, that's
probably more than short immediately what I thought. According to AI,
how many escalator injuries occur annually fruits about thousand thousand.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, seventeen thousand injuries from an escalator.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
According to AI, there are seventeen thousand injuries occur annually
from incidents involving these devices around the globe. This says
in the US, well.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
We got eleven here, including a broken ankle.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
So we don't know. I mean, clearly it had to
be a big bug. You want to freak out.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Over a fly?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Okay, hold on, I got an update. It's elevators and
escalators combined on the seventeen thousand injuries, all right.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
There are fifty shark related deaths every one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
More, you know, so.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Those it's more common that the shark elevator escalator teeth
will get you than the shark shark god.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yes, yeah, shark escalator coming to Shark Week.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Shark the Way.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, it just started today. I was watching AMC last night.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Maybe later in the week we'll look at some of
the programs they're breaking out on year. Yes, all right,
there's your Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
All right, thank you Kevin for contributions to Hollywood and more.
Coming up next in just over three minutes, don't miss this.
Our outdoor music concerts about to go away. We'll discuss
Jerseys Hot Gods, every stay on top in the woods shovel.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
We'll do the sad one and more urgent one first
and then we'll have some fun. All right, guys. Uh
THEO Huxtable. He's dead at the age of fifty four.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
His actual name Malcolm Jamal Warner. So details are kind
of just kind of sneaking in here. But he drowned
off the coast of Costa Rica and official cause of
death is asphyxia. So I'm assuming he was vacationing if
he's in Costa Rica.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah. Maybe.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Police said he was caught by a high current in
the water and was discovered Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I've always worried about that rip currents and things like that.
I've seen him on you know, on Bear Grylls has
talked about him. Hell yeah, and he knows what he's
talking about. He's also one who taught me about flash floods.
But you and I've I mentioned that to my wife,
like you'll see a sign you'll be on vacation. He'll say,
be where the rip tide or whatever. She's like, that's
not real. I'm like, what are you talking about? Like
(01:16):
that sign there? Yeah, it's real, like it'll just carry
you way out. It's super powerful, carry you way out
in the ocean and drowned you.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And water's tough man.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yes, you also got to beware of iconic actor Rip Torn.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Ripped Torn might throw a wrench at you or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, he's also dead, though, you will have to watch.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The legacy of him. Yeah, so beware of the legacy
of Rip Torn. If you walk up and you see
that sign, you gotta think about it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Last time I saw Malcolm Jamal Warner, he was on
He served as a very spotty every once in a
while he would pop up on Community, Shirley's Husband. He
was also Al Colling's on the FX O J. Simpson Show. God,
I do remember that?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Apparently he was in Sons of Anarchy for a bit.
I did not know that. He also he was executive
producer and one of the voice actors on The Magic
School Bus on PBS, which highly popular growing up.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
He probably you know it's tarnish because of what all
came out about Bill Cosby. But before you guys were born,
you can't imagine how influential the Cosby Show was. I
mean it was the biggest thing on television. It was huge,
and all of the Cosby kids, they were a big deal.
They were icons.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Man, he actually didn't said in the TMZ article, which
a little bit later the show will tell you that
TMZ is not perfect. But his wife and kids like
he's kept them private pretty much his whole life. Like
they they know he's got a family with no names
or anything like that, because you know, they were all
child stars. So yeah, sucks bad breaking news that we
(03:00):
get there. Beyonce's still turning the Cowboy Carter thing, and
she's in Atlanta doing a concert concert ends, fans are leaving,
they're going down the escalator to the Atlanta equivalent of
the dart rail you know whatever train thing that, and
(03:20):
then someone on the elevator gets spooked because of a
little bug. Come on, and then eleven people get hurt
because a stampede broke out on the escalator at the
local transit station.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Oh dude, I have significant escalator fear.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I'm not. I'm with you, Ben. I have so much
anxiety when I see a little kid get on an
escalator because ninety percent of all little kids have untied shoes.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Oh my god, you see them get on with an
untied shoe and they're jumping around having fun. It's just
like it's made of shark teeth, you know. It's just
super sharp and it's a it's like a terminator. It's
never stopped and it's just gonna grind and those teeth
are gonna chew.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Okay. According to AI, how many escalator deaths are there
a year in the US?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Five?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Three?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
God?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Ten? Uh, Christina wins there's thirty. Oh my god, that's
probably more than short immediately what I thought. According to AI,
how many escalator injuries occur annually fruits about thousand thousand.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, seventeen thousand injuries from an escalator.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
According to AI, there are seventeen thousand injuries occur annually
from incidents involving these devices around the globe. This says
in the US, well.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
We got eleven here, including a broken ankle.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
So we don't know. I mean, clearly it had to
be a big bug. You want to freak out.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Over a fly?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Okay, hold on, I got an update. It's elevators and
escalators combined on the seventeen thousand injuries, all right.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
There are fifty shark related deaths every one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
More, you know, so.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Those it's more common that the shark elevator escalator teeth
will get you than the shark shark god.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yes, yeah, shark escalator coming to Shark Week.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Shark the Way.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, it just started today. I was watching AMC last night.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Maybe later in the week we'll look at some of
the programs they're breaking out on year. Yes, all right,
there's your Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
All right, thank you Kevin for contributions to Hollywood and more.
Coming up next in just over three minutes, don't miss this.
Our outdoor music concerts about to go away. We'll discuss
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