July 31, 2025 • 6 mins
“Wait… did Justin Timberlake just blame Lyme disease for letting the crowd sing his songs?”In this wildly unpredictable and laugh-packed episode of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray — dive into a bizarre blend of celebrity health news, personal bug encounters, and the kind of off-the-rails storytelling that only this show can deliver.
KT drops a bombshell update on Justin Timberlake’s recent Lyme disease diagnosis — and the crew wonders aloud: Is this a genuine health crisis or a clever cover-up for lackluster concert performances? The debate spirals into a hilarious exploration of tick-borne illnesses, celebrity suffering, and the Real World cast member who first introduced Krystina to the terrifying world of Lyme disease.
KT drops a bombshell update on Justin Timberlake’s recent Lyme disease diagnosis — and the crew wonders aloud: Is this a genuine health crisis or a clever cover-up for lackluster concert performances? The debate spirals into a hilarious exploration of tick-borne illnesses, celebrity suffering, and the Real World cast member who first introduced Krystina to the terrifying world of Lyme disease.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle.
It is time for us to give away those Ice
nine Kills tickets. We have a four pack. They're coming
August twenty fourth out there at Toyota. The first person
using their iHeart app use the talkback feature, leave your name,
your phone number, your email address, and tell us what
famous Fort Worth restaurant where we just talking about. Kat
(00:22):
had a great game of celebrities going to that restaurant.
Name the restaurant out there in Fort Worth, and you
are going to win those tickets.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We have another wayback machine coming up at the bottom
of the hour. We love it whenever Ben goes to
war with a listener. But right now it's time for.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
This Are you Excited.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Day day featuring veteran news anchor Kat's fun tweets.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Shout out to Tim Tebow.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Oh yeah, we've learned that justin Timberlake, who's been lampooned
a little bit on our show over the last week.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
He put the poon in lampooned, he's.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Been diagnosed with.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Lime disease. Skin l ym is how that's spelled? Is
the yes? Is that why she called on me?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
The forty four year old singer sort of the crowd's
been singing lately for him. He had a big Instagram
post opening up about how this infection has impacted his life,
causing him a massive amount of nerve pain.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
This is like when you get bit by a tick.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, tickborn, you get bit by a tick, that bacteria
spreads out your body.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
So the reason he's been in the news is because
people are going to his concerts and they're upset that
he's letting the crowd sing the lyrics into some of
his songs. And they're like, man, I didn't pay to
hear all these people sing the song. I want to
hear you sing the song. So is this tie it
into that? Has he been fighting that and that's why
he wasn't white?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Are you saying that this is a cover up for
the batter reviews of his performances. I think anything's on
the table right now because he did say this. It's
caused him a massive amount of nerve pain and crazy
fatigue or sickness during recent live performances.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, oh did you guys?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I can't remember the name of the person, but and
I can't remember what year it was. It was probably
season three or four. Of the real world. But one
of the characters on there had lime disease, and that
was the first time I had ever heard of it,
and man, it terrified. I was like, wait a minute,
you can just get bit by a tick and then
that's your situation where you just lose all your energy.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You're miserable. I mean, it's not a it's a it sucks.
It sucks so bad.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Some famous actress or singer who had it not too
long that's.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Who it was.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
But everyone thought she was already dead, right remember that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
There's some others at Shania Twain has had lime disease.
Can it like stay with you forever? She was riding
a horse and got bit by a tick, So if
the tick has lime disease, bite you boom. Yeah. She
said that she was having little blackouts.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, and that's kind of what he's saying, not blackouts necessarily.
But he was like when I first got it, I didn't.
I was I was shocked, but I couldn't finally understand
why I would be on stage in a massive amount
of nerve pain or feeling crazy fatigue or sickness. Huh.
So I was faced with the personal decision. Do I
stop touring or I keep going and figure it out.
(03:37):
So he got bit by a tick somehow. You guys, uh,
you don't get checked for ticks. They're so small they
just land on you. And if they happen to be
carrying anybody get lime disease. I saw something on my
shirt yesterday when I was doing a lot of good work.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
There's a little bug on my shirt. I noticed when
I was whizzing.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, and you're kind of own for tiny tick. So
I'm whizzing Wait, huh no, I mean yeah, you talking
about my narcolepsy.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
It is an odd disease that we should all be
creating more awareness for.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's a strange tick.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
It's so so I'm sitting there going, okay, well, I'm
we we in right now. And for me, I gotta
have I gotta go two hands because fire hose. So
I'm trying to be careful because what if the tick
falls down onto my wien. But then I got it,
and I kind of investigated as much as I could.
(04:35):
I couldn't really tell if it was a tick or not.
You know, I got it into cleanexen.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, it was a crab. Now, what the real.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
The real party was when I had to go and
buy the wasp spray because I was clearing out some trees.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Oh my, I went to town.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I mean, look, I'm not a big favorite, a big
fan of killing wildlife, but w yellow jackets they can
go right Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Wow death hornets. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh, it's so fun to shoot that. You played a
riff on it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, shoots like twenty feet straight line.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That is a fun thing to play with your friend's
wasp spray tag. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Have you guys ever seen the social media of a
guy who just grabs a horn's nest to get rid
of it? He grabs it and then eats it. What
you guys haven't seen that?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
No, he sounds like a thing.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You guys aren't good at social media.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh, it sounds awful, It's great.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You want to see it?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
No, I don't think you can ask her?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Do you want to see it?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
He says that in the HR guidelines.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Amy Schumer had lime disease, Alex Baldland lime disease, Bieber
headlme disease, Avril Levine as we mentioned, or Ben Stiller
head lime disease, but that he said he got it
in Nantucket, so you probably have no idea when it
bites you, right, you just start having the symptoms. Yeah,
he said. With Ben Steeler, he said his knee got inflamed.
You could figure it out. And they went to check
(05:58):
it out and they're like, oh, yeah, you've got lined. He's
good now, not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Good.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Kelly Osborne had it, by the way, yep, so sad SA.
The Osborne family just cry so hard.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
It sucks.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Oh, it was just awful. I didn't think we were
going to see that, all right, Kevin, thank you for
that high note things.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
On by col front coming this weekend, celebrity with the
disease almost there, just driving the ditch right, un controllable crying.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah,
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle.
It is time for us to give away those Ice
nine Kills tickets. We have a four pack. They're coming
August twenty fourth out there at Toyota. The first person
using their iHeart app use the talkback feature, leave your name,
your phone number, your email address, and tell us what
famous Fort Worth restaurant where we just talking about. Kat
(00:22):
had a great game of celebrities going to that restaurant.
Name the restaurant out there in Fort Worth, and you
are going to win those tickets.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We have another wayback machine coming up at the bottom
of the hour. We love it whenever Ben goes to
war with a listener. But right now it's time for.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
This Are you Excited.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Day day featuring veteran news anchor Kat's fun tweets.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Shout out to Tim Tebow.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Oh yeah, we've learned that justin Timberlake, who's been lampooned
a little bit on our show over the last week.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
He put the poon in lampooned, he's.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Been diagnosed with.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Lime disease. Skin l ym is how that's spelled? Is
the yes? Is that why she called on me?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
The forty four year old singer sort of the crowd's
been singing lately for him. He had a big Instagram
post opening up about how this infection has impacted his life,
causing him a massive amount of nerve pain.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
This is like when you get bit by a tick.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, tickborn, you get bit by a tick, that bacteria
spreads out your body.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
So the reason he's been in the news is because
people are going to his concerts and they're upset that
he's letting the crowd sing the lyrics into some of
his songs. And they're like, man, I didn't pay to
hear all these people sing the song. I want to
hear you sing the song. So is this tie it
into that? Has he been fighting that and that's why
he wasn't white?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Are you saying that this is a cover up for
the batter reviews of his performances. I think anything's on
the table right now because he did say this. It's
caused him a massive amount of nerve pain and crazy
fatigue or sickness during recent live performances.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, oh did you guys?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I can't remember the name of the person, but and
I can't remember what year it was. It was probably
season three or four. Of the real world. But one
of the characters on there had lime disease, and that
was the first time I had ever heard of it,
and man, it terrified. I was like, wait a minute,
you can just get bit by a tick and then
that's your situation where you just lose all your energy.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You're miserable. I mean, it's not a it's a it sucks.
It sucks so bad.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Some famous actress or singer who had it not too
long that's.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Who it was.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
But everyone thought she was already dead, right remember that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
There's some others at Shania Twain has had lime disease.
Can it like stay with you forever? She was riding
a horse and got bit by a tick, So if
the tick has lime disease, bite you boom. Yeah. She
said that she was having little blackouts.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, and that's kind of what he's saying, not blackouts necessarily.
But he was like when I first got it, I didn't.
I was I was shocked, but I couldn't finally understand
why I would be on stage in a massive amount
of nerve pain or feeling crazy fatigue or sickness. Huh.
So I was faced with the personal decision. Do I
stop touring or I keep going and figure it out.
(03:37):
So he got bit by a tick somehow. You guys, uh,
you don't get checked for ticks. They're so small they
just land on you. And if they happen to be
carrying anybody get lime disease. I saw something on my
shirt yesterday when I was doing a lot of good work.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
There's a little bug on my shirt. I noticed when
I was whizzing.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, and you're kind of own for tiny tick. So
I'm whizzing Wait, huh no, I mean yeah, you talking
about my narcolepsy.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
It is an odd disease that we should all be
creating more awareness for.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's a strange tick.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
It's so so I'm sitting there going, okay, well, I'm
we we in right now. And for me, I gotta
have I gotta go two hands because fire hose. So
I'm trying to be careful because what if the tick
falls down onto my wien. But then I got it,
and I kind of investigated as much as I could.
(04:35):
I couldn't really tell if it was a tick or not.
You know, I got it into cleanexen.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, it was a crab. Now, what the real.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
The real party was when I had to go and
buy the wasp spray because I was clearing out some trees.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Oh my, I went to town.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I mean, look, I'm not a big favorite, a big
fan of killing wildlife, but w yellow jackets they can
go right Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Wow death hornets. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh, it's so fun to shoot that. You played a
riff on it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, shoots like twenty feet straight line.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That is a fun thing to play with your friend's
wasp spray tag. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Have you guys ever seen the social media of a
guy who just grabs a horn's nest to get rid
of it? He grabs it and then eats it. What
you guys haven't seen that?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
No, he sounds like a thing.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You guys aren't good at social media.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh, it sounds awful, It's great.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You want to see it?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
No, I don't think you can ask her?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Do you want to see it?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
He says that in the HR guidelines.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Amy Schumer had lime disease, Alex Baldland lime disease, Bieber
headlme disease, Avril Levine as we mentioned, or Ben Stiller
head lime disease, but that he said he got it
in Nantucket, so you probably have no idea when it
bites you, right, you just start having the symptoms. Yeah,
he said. With Ben Steeler, he said his knee got inflamed.
You could figure it out. And they went to check
(05:58):
it out and they're like, oh, yeah, you've got lined. He's
good now, not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Good.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Kelly Osborne had it, by the way, yep, so sad SA.
The Osborne family just cry so hard.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
It sucks.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Oh, it was just awful. I didn't think we were
going to see that, all right, Kevin, thank you for
that high note things.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
On by col front coming this weekend, celebrity with the
disease almost there, just driving the ditch right, un controllable crying.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah,
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