September 2, 2025 • 5 mins
"Is binge-watching TikTok worse for your brain than alcohol?"That’s the wild claim that kicks off this hilarious and thought-provoking segment of The Ben and Skin Show, where Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the bizarre, the relatable, and the downright ridiculous.From Netflix’s jaw-dropping new documentary “Unknown Number” to WorldStar Hip Hop’s unexpected PSA about short-form content frying your brain, this episode is a whirlwind of pop culture, personal confessions, and laugh-out-loud moments.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Track. Another edition of things is traffic?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
All right? Thank you? Fam Quick question?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Has anybody heard of or seen the Netflix documentary Unknown
Number yet?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
I've I've seen it, and I have not seen the documentary.
I almost watched it. It's the cyber bullying Catfish thing. Yes,
And I asked my wife if she wanted to watch
it last night and she said, already watched it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh did she have a Did she give you any
leads one way or the other about how she felt?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
She said it was amazing. She goes, she couldn't even
believe it. Have either one of you heard of this? No,
I haven't heard of it.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Okay, it could be one of those deals where you
know how there's like a jillion true crime things on Netflix. Yeah, okay,
so if you're just scrolling.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I know me.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
If I was just scrolling, I probably wouldn't have watched it.
But I saw someone talking about it and didn't know.
There's there's a big light. It's a murder mystery, not
murder mystery. It's a big mystery and it really is
crazy and so and it's also a breezy watch. Anything
that's under an hour and a half is always thumbs
up for me. So I would recommend watching it, and
(01:08):
if you guys find time to watch it sometime this week,
maybe we'll talk about it later. But just putting that
out there. It came out on Friday, so oh it
just came out on Friday. Okay, well good. Yeah, if
you guys have time, you're bopping around Netflix, watch it.
Once we've all watched.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It, let's talk about it. If you guys want, what's
it called.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's called Unknown Number, the high School Catfish, The High
School Catfish. You'll start watching it, you'll be ten minutes
in and you'll go no way, right, like no, come on, yeah,
this is obvious, right, and you're like, wait what all right?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
You guys know what World Star hip Hop is?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, and wouldn't it like, uh, isn't it where like
all the initial street fights and chaos and anything that
happens on social media is like an aggregator of the
wildest things happening.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Nowallas Texas TV.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, no, all that's got accurate to Ben's point of kind,
I got on my radar seeing fights and stuff. But
also it was like a hip hop CNN, right, hip
hop news channel. So they have forty five million followers. Oh,
all right, and if you just scroll through it, here's
just a here's some stuff. A Call of Duty movie
(02:18):
is officially in the works at Paramount Pictures.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Let's go godamn time. Here's another one.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Twenty eight years ago today, Master P released his sixth album,
Ghetto D September second, nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Hell yeah, that was huge for me.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Here's another one. Happy Birthday goes out to Salmahayak.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
All right, So just kind of giving you an overview
of what forty five million people get on their feed.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I don't follow it, but sometimes Instagram will suggest something
to you. And I was just watching a bunch of clips.
Do you guys know what the drink Champs is. It's
a great iHeart product. It's a former rapper Noria, and
he hosts all kinds of rappers and famous people on
a show and they drink together and they talk and
he just had Eric Abadu on there with the Alchemist.
(03:08):
So I was watching clips of that. So I guess
Instagram thought that I should see a world Star hip
Hop post. Now, just think about what we've talked about,
what world star hip Hop is. Here's their posts that
got my attention. Research in Neuroscience warns that binging short
form content such as TikTok reels and YouTube shorts may
(03:30):
impair brain functions up to five times more than moderate
alcohol use, especially in areas tied to attention, memory, and
impulse control.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm already seeing the effects at home. Oh, so go ahead, lay.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I sometimes worry that dementia's sitting in setting in Oh
for you, No for her?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Oh yeah, Actually she's on TikTok a lot it is,
or she doesn't listen to me, which I get. Well, Okay,
I understand that.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Now. Part of the thing.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
About commune munication is and this is the thing my
wife struggles with. I try to spoon feed it too,
you know what I'm saying, Christina, just to try to
help her out.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, I am seeing a little pattern here. It's always
the wise, Paul. But go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Where Like my wife will talk to me while I'm
doing something else, that doesn't count as communicating. So you
may be communicating to your wife while she's not listening
to you. That doesn't count words at her, but she's
not receiving those words.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You gotta like connect, like make eye contact.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Okay, I'm not doing anything else I'm focusing on what
you're telling me.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
That's communication, right, You're right.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You know how many times I ask a question and
then follow up with are you uninterested in the question?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Did you not hear it? Can you hear me? Talk
right now? See?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I know, I wait until I have a attention, tell okay.
But then it's like I'll say, well we talked about
that three days ago.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I didn't know. But it's the same way with my son.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
My son will be downstairs and I'm talking to him,
no response, and I go.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Take the AirPods out. I'm talking to you right now.
Such an old death and so, yes and all.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
This is scary to me because I feel like my
memory is not good, as you know, and so when
I binge watch content, I retain less of it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, So when you're talking about binge watching your timeline
and it's just like one thing to the next thing
to the next thing to next, I can see that
not being helpful.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Right And no, absolutely, And it's just funny to me
that World Star Hip Hop wants us to know this.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Good.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Hey, we built our empire on short form content. Be careful.
It's five times more dangerous than alcohol.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
That's when you feel confident enough about your business that
it doesn't even matter.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Right, you got that many followers.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Now here's a thirty second compilation of the best of
Kembo Slice.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It's also like, Hey, I put this thing out there
so when I get a lawsuit later on in life.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Remember the content.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
All Right, there you have it things skin is tracking
Coming up next in the Hollywood Shuffle. It's the oral
history of the forty year old Virgin that's coming your
way next.
Track. Another edition of things is traffic?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
All right? Thank you? Fam Quick question?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Has anybody heard of or seen the Netflix documentary Unknown
Number yet?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
I've I've seen it, and I have not seen the documentary.
I almost watched it. It's the cyber bullying Catfish thing. Yes,
And I asked my wife if she wanted to watch
it last night and she said, already watched it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh did she have a Did she give you any
leads one way or the other about how she felt?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
She said it was amazing. She goes, she couldn't even
believe it. Have either one of you heard of this? No,
I haven't heard of it.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Okay, it could be one of those deals where you
know how there's like a jillion true crime things on Netflix. Yeah, okay,
so if you're just scrolling.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I know me.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
If I was just scrolling, I probably wouldn't have watched it.
But I saw someone talking about it and didn't know.
There's there's a big light. It's a murder mystery, not
murder mystery. It's a big mystery and it really is
crazy and so and it's also a breezy watch. Anything
that's under an hour and a half is always thumbs
up for me. So I would recommend watching it, and
(01:08):
if you guys find time to watch it sometime this week,
maybe we'll talk about it later. But just putting that
out there. It came out on Friday, so oh it
just came out on Friday. Okay, well good. Yeah, if
you guys have time, you're bopping around Netflix, watch it.
Once we've all watched.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It, let's talk about it. If you guys want, what's
it called.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's called Unknown Number, the high School Catfish, The High
School Catfish. You'll start watching it, you'll be ten minutes
in and you'll go no way, right, like no, come on, yeah,
this is obvious, right, and you're like, wait what all right?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
You guys know what World Star hip Hop is?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, and wouldn't it like, uh, isn't it where like
all the initial street fights and chaos and anything that
happens on social media is like an aggregator of the
wildest things happening.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Nowallas Texas TV.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, no, all that's got accurate to Ben's point of kind,
I got on my radar seeing fights and stuff. But
also it was like a hip hop CNN, right, hip
hop news channel. So they have forty five million followers. Oh,
all right, and if you just scroll through it, here's
just a here's some stuff. A Call of Duty movie
(02:18):
is officially in the works at Paramount Pictures.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Let's go godamn time. Here's another one.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Twenty eight years ago today, Master P released his sixth album,
Ghetto D September second, nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Hell yeah, that was huge for me.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Here's another one. Happy Birthday goes out to Salmahayak.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
All right, So just kind of giving you an overview
of what forty five million people get on their feed.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I don't follow it, but sometimes Instagram will suggest something
to you. And I was just watching a bunch of clips.
Do you guys know what the drink Champs is. It's
a great iHeart product. It's a former rapper Noria, and
he hosts all kinds of rappers and famous people on
a show and they drink together and they talk and
he just had Eric Abadu on there with the Alchemist.
(03:08):
So I was watching clips of that. So I guess
Instagram thought that I should see a world Star hip
Hop post. Now, just think about what we've talked about,
what world star hip Hop is. Here's their posts that
got my attention. Research in Neuroscience warns that binging short
form content such as TikTok reels and YouTube shorts may
(03:30):
impair brain functions up to five times more than moderate
alcohol use, especially in areas tied to attention, memory, and
impulse control.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm already seeing the effects at home. Oh, so go ahead, lay.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I sometimes worry that dementia's sitting in setting in Oh
for you, No for her?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Oh yeah, Actually she's on TikTok a lot it is,
or she doesn't listen to me, which I get. Well, Okay,
I understand that.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Now. Part of the thing.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
About commune munication is and this is the thing my
wife struggles with. I try to spoon feed it too,
you know what I'm saying, Christina, just to try to
help her out.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, I am seeing a little pattern here. It's always
the wise, Paul. But go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Where Like my wife will talk to me while I'm
doing something else, that doesn't count as communicating. So you
may be communicating to your wife while she's not listening
to you. That doesn't count words at her, but she's
not receiving those words.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You gotta like connect, like make eye contact.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Okay, I'm not doing anything else I'm focusing on what
you're telling me.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
That's communication, right, You're right.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You know how many times I ask a question and
then follow up with are you uninterested in the question?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Did you not hear it? Can you hear me? Talk
right now? See?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I know, I wait until I have a attention, tell okay.
But then it's like I'll say, well we talked about
that three days ago.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I didn't know. But it's the same way with my son.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
My son will be downstairs and I'm talking to him,
no response, and I go.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Take the AirPods out. I'm talking to you right now.
Such an old death and so, yes and all.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
This is scary to me because I feel like my
memory is not good, as you know, and so when
I binge watch content, I retain less of it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, So when you're talking about binge watching your timeline
and it's just like one thing to the next thing
to the next thing to next, I can see that
not being helpful.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Right And no, absolutely, And it's just funny to me
that World Star Hip Hop wants us to know this.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Good.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Hey, we built our empire on short form content. Be careful.
It's five times more dangerous than alcohol.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
That's when you feel confident enough about your business that
it doesn't even matter.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Right, you got that many followers.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Now here's a thirty second compilation of the best of
Kembo Slice.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It's also like, Hey, I put this thing out there
so when I get a lawsuit later on in life.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Remember the content.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
All Right, there you have it things skin is tracking
Coming up next in the Hollywood Shuffle. It's the oral
history of the forty year old Virgin that's coming your
way next.
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