July 16, 2025 • 11 mins
“What’s the one social interaction that drains your energy faster than a dead iPhone at a music festival?”In this laugh-out-loud episode of The Ben and Skin Show, the crew—Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray—dives headfirst into a hilariously relatable list: the Top 10 Social Battery Zappers, based on a survey of 2,000 Americans. From awkward elevator small talk to unsolicited advice and the dreaded group Zoom call, the gang breaks down each item with their signature wit, wild tangents, and brutally honest takes.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
It is survey sent out to Americans, two thousands of them,
so the sample sizes, you know, it's okay. Top ten
biggest social batteries zippers. Zippers, not zippers. That's the place
you'd get to.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I love. Zippers are things that you just they just
sucked the life out of you. I gotta guess having
to listen to someone's politics, that's great. That's great, dude,
not on the list. No, that's insane to me. It
feels like you said, zippers that could have sucked the
(00:46):
life out of you.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I actually enjoy hearing about people's politics. Wow, not online.
You're gonna say, well in person, because in person it's not.
In my experience, it's never anything close to what it's
like online.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, my dad was telling me a funny star. I
had dinner with my dad last night. He's tell me
a funny story about this friend group. Uh, and it's
like eight people and six of them are conservative and
two are lib and the one one of the ones
that's Lib is like on Facebook blasting stuff. And so
then when they all get together, it's super awkward because
they're just talking to her about this horrible thing that
(01:18):
she blasted that they disagree with tough man. Facebook is
the place where people go blast all that stuff all
the time. I've been having a blast with the Epstein stuff.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I love it because everyone's running and hiding from it because.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Probably everyone is probably involved a little bit. I will
say the Epstein stuff is bipartisan. It is, you know,
it is. It really is amazing. So anything, I'm shocked
that's not that. Man, the sixty minutes intro, come on.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
No, no, no, I see that. But that's like not
a social thing.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, so this is so this is name people do
those things that might you might have to be a
part of. Okay, oh okay, people around yeah, yeah, invite
you to gatherings.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'll say number ten on here networking events. Yeah, okay,
number nine coworkers showing you something on their phone.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Not just coworkers, that's anyone. We're all guilty of doing it. Yeah.
I think our job is a little bit different than
the normal person in terms of showing stuff. But I
get what you're saying. That's that's the same thing kind
of as like telling someone about your kids, or you know, pulling,
pulling people into your world that don't really care. But
(02:39):
in our world. We're showing each other stuff on our
phones all the time for the show.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Right, Yeah, I want Yeah, I don't have enough office
job experience. I've had, you know, part time jobs and stuff.
I don't know I have enough office job experience. I
do wonder how often this happens, where like we're a
bit of a fonker or a little down part of
the day and they kind of have YouTube roulette for
a second, you know, just.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
What we're waiting on a meeting to start or whatever.
So you yeah, you full it bozo dubbed over, dubbed over,
is it? Uh? And now that's probably showing somebody something
on TikTok right.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, probably Number eight overly personal conversations with coworkers.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Too much information, too much sharing, and when you don't
have a relationship like that.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, man, I I shaved my pubes last night and
I have an ingrown hair like that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, I would be interested in talking to that person though.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, you know they're gonna have something interesting this person's
story if they're gonna say that much.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But you know, if it's you know, I gotta go,
you know, get my dog from the vet today and
then blah blah blah blah blah blah, and then it goes.
I don't know why the dog was the example I
used there, but you my point, Yeah, because you hate dogs, right, No,
I don't hate you hate people's dogs, not necessarily.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You like wild dogs. I know, a wild pack of
family dogs. You like the dogs that run the streets
of Detroit. Yeah, I might not as someone who was
molested by a German shepherd at the age of four.
It is uh not that I don't care about that,
but I would like to underscore the moment in time
when Ben and I looked out the window of a
restaurant and saw a pack of dogs walking down to
(04:19):
Detroit Street. It was an abandoned street downtown. It was
it was like, what's that Will Smith movie where he's
walking around by himself that I am legend or something.
It's just it was a post apocalyptic Detroit. Everyone was gone,
trash was blown everywhere. It was downtown area and just
dogs were walking down the middle of the street, like
five of them. I was worried about their economy.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Last one before we hit a quick song group video calls,
which we know this is zoom. Yeah, Okay, teams. Yeah,
that can be That can be tough because I never
get the feeling in group video calls when the group
gets too big that everyone's paying attention to chance. Yeah,
this is kind of a meaningless conversation we're having, well,
(05:02):
you know, four or five six people, that's okay, But
once it gets a little bit more than that, you know,
there's someone's they're fart and they're fiddling with something and
they go video off for a minute, so you know
they're not listening.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They're Jeffrey Tuban for sure. Yeah they are. You're right,
all right. Part two of this list coming up, and
and skin Show ninety seven point one the Eagle. Before
we get back to the back half of our list
of things that are complete energy drains on you and
your life, just know that we're still raising money for
the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund. Go to Community Foundation
(05:33):
dot net. That's Community Foundation dot net. In fact, coming
up at the bottom of the hour, we'll talk about
a Texas legend. This has impacted him greatly and he's
doing something about it. That's next in the weekday update.
But let's get it back over to KT for part
two of the list. That's on his list.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, survey of two thousand Americans. Were some things that
really just sucked the life out of you. Number six
office gossip Ooh I heard she want to host the
Border and got butt implants.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
None of your business one.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
By the way, Uh, there's a celebrity breakup recently over
butt implants.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It was.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It was Diggs's brother, the receiver. What's his name, Stefan
Diggs broke up with his CARDI B maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, oh yeah. Apparently he made an accusation that her
butt implants smell bad. Oh I can see that.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
What because and then somebody was explaining the story to
me and they were like, well, they use fat from
another part of your body and pump it into your
butt and the problem is some of it dies, and
so there's basically dead flesh and nailer and it makes
a terrible smell.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Might be confusing that smell with something else though the
timing is it? Like like, uh, she created a song
called wop. What are you saying? You never know? Weather
app Do you remember that Trayvon story that came out
too with the picture. I don't know you're talking about
(06:59):
with what was her name? No? No, Well, maybe, Yeah,
it might have been. Remember that, Gal, there was this question,
was a would you question? Yeah? Yeah, yeah? He was
like absolutely, Oh right, okay, but had y'all not heard
that about butt implants? Did I get bad information? I
don't know. I mean I don't think that's bad information.
(07:21):
That makes sense. Something about fight club and you know
what they the fact that they use and what they Yeah,
do butt implants smell bad? Man? What a bitch? I
just oh, she didn't. She just answered you to say it.
I just know that the official flagship station of the
Cowboys and Rangers once tweeted on their account that Ben
missed the show to get button plants? Do butt implants
(07:45):
smell bad? She didn't want to play ball? You remember
how bad Ben smelled after we ran that short answers? No, okay,
you're oh wait, this is answering a different question. That's
the problem. No, this is not the right question. All right, Yeah,
I think it's I think it's still in place. I'm
just going to.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Get passed by grok if she doesn't watch it. Yeah,
five unsolicited advice.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
No, I'm probably guilty of this. Yeah you are. But
sometimes it's yeah, sometimes you want it. Sometimes you don't,
and that's what the unsolicited thing comes on. You know,
it's not worse than unsolicited dog picks though, So I'm
guilty of that too. I think we all are. Christina
(08:30):
sends a bunch of them on our group. Is illegal.
Do not admit to that? Oh yeah, okay, I only
send him to dudes. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Yeah, okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
For talking to strangers that will zap your battery pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I actually don't mind it. I talk to a lot
of strangers. Does Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Customer service interactions. I can't handle that. How do you mean? Like?
What just any type of phone call that you have
to make to get something done. I like the grocery
store because I'm actually guilty of talking to the Oh
my god, thank you my pharmacist. I mean, I just
can't you have your own individual pharmacist whoever's at the
(09:16):
pharmacy at that time, because we got to get this
thing done. Yeah. I always pull up and go, do
you guys really need lab coats? Sometimes? Aren't you just
kind of putting pills in a bottle? I don't understand
the lab coat. They get paid a lot of money
to put the pills in a bottle. Yeah, there's a
lot of responsibility that goes into that. I think it
gets tricky when there's an ointment number two. Thing that
(09:39):
zaps people's battery. Awkward small talk.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
It's the worst elevator people love talking to us about
the color of our floor.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Here off on the floor three, it's very red. Yeah.
I feel like I've had four conversations in the last
two weeks about the state of the elevator renovation. Yeah,
every day that door open, so I just say beware
before I get out, and they go, who I can
see the color of our floor like a bloodspiel. I
can't tell you how many times I've heard Kat say
floor four, huh number one being interrupted or talked over.
(10:18):
We probably do that to each other every day. Definitely
guilty of that part of the radio, you know, part
of the part of the industry. It's an industry term.
So there you go. There's some things. Is there anything other
things that you know zap your energy?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I think just talking to someone who beats you down
a lot. I mean I ain't that's like enough. You
don't have to and that you kind of because we're
all good people. You don't tell the person that they're
sucking the life out of you. But like we all
know that person.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
How about if the battery or your phone dies or
anything just goes out, stops working. Okay, know that again,
But that's not so oh this is social stuff. Yeah yeah, sorry,
I'll say, uh, welcome to the segment. Now, it's a
good time to cash you in the final thirty seconds.
For me, having to interact with someone that you know
(11:05):
doesn't care or do a good job at what they
do and they're mailing it in. That to me is
the biggest energy suck of all time, because I'm like,
why do I have to spend my energy with you?
And I know you don't care about your job and
you're not trying to do a good job. This is
clearly wasting my time.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, yeah, there you have it. There are ten things
that suck the life right out of you, all right.
Coming up next, it's the weekly weekday update of Texas
Legend is helping out Kirk County. We'll talk about that
and then we'll crank up the wayback machine and have
some fun.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
At the very end of
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Today's presentation, we revisit a classic DJ truck Nut song
That's all coming your way on the beninskin share
It is survey sent out to Americans, two thousands of them,
so the sample sizes, you know, it's okay. Top ten
biggest social batteries zippers. Zippers, not zippers. That's the place
you'd get to.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I love. Zippers are things that you just they just
sucked the life out of you. I gotta guess having
to listen to someone's politics, that's great. That's great, dude,
not on the list. No, that's insane to me. It
feels like you said, zippers that could have sucked the
(00:46):
life out of you.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I actually enjoy hearing about people's politics. Wow, not online.
You're gonna say, well in person, because in person it's not.
In my experience, it's never anything close to what it's
like online.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, my dad was telling me a funny star. I
had dinner with my dad last night. He's tell me
a funny story about this friend group. Uh, and it's
like eight people and six of them are conservative and
two are lib and the one one of the ones
that's Lib is like on Facebook blasting stuff. And so
then when they all get together, it's super awkward because
they're just talking to her about this horrible thing that
(01:18):
she blasted that they disagree with tough man. Facebook is
the place where people go blast all that stuff all
the time. I've been having a blast with the Epstein stuff.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I love it because everyone's running and hiding from it because.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Probably everyone is probably involved a little bit. I will
say the Epstein stuff is bipartisan. It is, you know,
it is. It really is amazing. So anything, I'm shocked
that's not that. Man, the sixty minutes intro, come on.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
No, no, no, I see that. But that's like not
a social thing.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, so this is so this is name people do
those things that might you might have to be a
part of. Okay, oh okay, people around yeah, yeah, invite
you to gatherings.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'll say number ten on here networking events. Yeah, okay,
number nine coworkers showing you something on their phone.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Not just coworkers, that's anyone. We're all guilty of doing it. Yeah.
I think our job is a little bit different than
the normal person in terms of showing stuff. But I
get what you're saying. That's that's the same thing kind
of as like telling someone about your kids, or you know, pulling,
pulling people into your world that don't really care. But
(02:39):
in our world. We're showing each other stuff on our
phones all the time for the show.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Right, Yeah, I want Yeah, I don't have enough office
job experience. I've had, you know, part time jobs and stuff.
I don't know I have enough office job experience. I
do wonder how often this happens, where like we're a
bit of a fonker or a little down part of
the day and they kind of have YouTube roulette for
a second, you know, just.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
What we're waiting on a meeting to start or whatever.
So you yeah, you full it bozo dubbed over, dubbed over,
is it? Uh? And now that's probably showing somebody something
on TikTok right.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, probably Number eight overly personal conversations with coworkers.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Too much information, too much sharing, and when you don't
have a relationship like that.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, man, I I shaved my pubes last night and
I have an ingrown hair like that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, I would be interested in talking to that person though.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, you know they're gonna have something interesting this person's
story if they're gonna say that much.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But you know, if it's you know, I gotta go,
you know, get my dog from the vet today and
then blah blah blah blah blah blah, and then it goes.
I don't know why the dog was the example I
used there, but you my point, Yeah, because you hate dogs, right, No,
I don't hate you hate people's dogs, not necessarily.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You like wild dogs. I know, a wild pack of
family dogs. You like the dogs that run the streets
of Detroit. Yeah, I might not as someone who was
molested by a German shepherd at the age of four.
It is uh not that I don't care about that,
but I would like to underscore the moment in time
when Ben and I looked out the window of a
restaurant and saw a pack of dogs walking down to
(04:19):
Detroit Street. It was an abandoned street downtown. It was
it was like, what's that Will Smith movie where he's
walking around by himself that I am legend or something.
It's just it was a post apocalyptic Detroit. Everyone was gone,
trash was blown everywhere. It was downtown area and just
dogs were walking down the middle of the street, like
five of them. I was worried about their economy.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Last one before we hit a quick song group video calls,
which we know this is zoom. Yeah, Okay, teams. Yeah,
that can be That can be tough because I never
get the feeling in group video calls when the group
gets too big that everyone's paying attention to chance. Yeah,
this is kind of a meaningless conversation we're having, well,
(05:02):
you know, four or five six people, that's okay, But
once it gets a little bit more than that, you know,
there's someone's they're fart and they're fiddling with something and
they go video off for a minute, so you know
they're not listening.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They're Jeffrey Tuban for sure. Yeah they are. You're right,
all right. Part two of this list coming up, and
and skin Show ninety seven point one the Eagle. Before
we get back to the back half of our list
of things that are complete energy drains on you and
your life, just know that we're still raising money for
the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund. Go to Community Foundation
(05:33):
dot net. That's Community Foundation dot net. In fact, coming
up at the bottom of the hour, we'll talk about
a Texas legend. This has impacted him greatly and he's
doing something about it. That's next in the weekday update.
But let's get it back over to KT for part
two of the list. That's on his list.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, survey of two thousand Americans. Were some things that
really just sucked the life out of you. Number six
office gossip Ooh I heard she want to host the
Border and got butt implants.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
None of your business one.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
By the way, Uh, there's a celebrity breakup recently over
butt implants.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It was.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It was Diggs's brother, the receiver. What's his name, Stefan
Diggs broke up with his CARDI B maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, oh yeah. Apparently he made an accusation that her
butt implants smell bad. Oh I can see that.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
What because and then somebody was explaining the story to
me and they were like, well, they use fat from
another part of your body and pump it into your
butt and the problem is some of it dies, and
so there's basically dead flesh and nailer and it makes
a terrible smell.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Might be confusing that smell with something else though the
timing is it? Like like, uh, she created a song
called wop. What are you saying? You never know? Weather
app Do you remember that Trayvon story that came out
too with the picture. I don't know you're talking about
(06:59):
with what was her name? No? No, Well, maybe, Yeah,
it might have been. Remember that, Gal, there was this question,
was a would you question? Yeah? Yeah, yeah? He was
like absolutely, Oh right, okay, but had y'all not heard
that about butt implants? Did I get bad information? I
don't know. I mean I don't think that's bad information.
(07:21):
That makes sense. Something about fight club and you know
what they the fact that they use and what they Yeah,
do butt implants smell bad? Man? What a bitch? I
just oh, she didn't. She just answered you to say it.
I just know that the official flagship station of the
Cowboys and Rangers once tweeted on their account that Ben
missed the show to get button plants? Do butt implants
(07:45):
smell bad? She didn't want to play ball? You remember
how bad Ben smelled after we ran that short answers? No, okay,
you're oh wait, this is answering a different question. That's
the problem. No, this is not the right question. All right, Yeah,
I think it's I think it's still in place. I'm
just going to.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Get passed by grok if she doesn't watch it. Yeah,
five unsolicited advice.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
No, I'm probably guilty of this. Yeah you are. But
sometimes it's yeah, sometimes you want it. Sometimes you don't,
and that's what the unsolicited thing comes on. You know,
it's not worse than unsolicited dog picks though, So I'm
guilty of that too. I think we all are. Christina
(08:30):
sends a bunch of them on our group. Is illegal.
Do not admit to that? Oh yeah, okay, I only
send him to dudes. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Yeah, okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
For talking to strangers that will zap your battery pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I actually don't mind it. I talk to a lot
of strangers. Does Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Customer service interactions. I can't handle that. How do you mean? Like?
What just any type of phone call that you have
to make to get something done. I like the grocery
store because I'm actually guilty of talking to the Oh
my god, thank you my pharmacist. I mean, I just
can't you have your own individual pharmacist whoever's at the
(09:16):
pharmacy at that time, because we got to get this
thing done. Yeah. I always pull up and go, do
you guys really need lab coats? Sometimes? Aren't you just
kind of putting pills in a bottle? I don't understand
the lab coat. They get paid a lot of money
to put the pills in a bottle. Yeah, there's a
lot of responsibility that goes into that. I think it
gets tricky when there's an ointment number two. Thing that
(09:39):
zaps people's battery. Awkward small talk.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
It's the worst elevator people love talking to us about
the color of our floor.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Here off on the floor three, it's very red. Yeah.
I feel like I've had four conversations in the last
two weeks about the state of the elevator renovation. Yeah,
every day that door open, so I just say beware
before I get out, and they go, who I can
see the color of our floor like a bloodspiel. I
can't tell you how many times I've heard Kat say
floor four, huh number one being interrupted or talked over.
(10:18):
We probably do that to each other every day. Definitely
guilty of that part of the radio, you know, part
of the part of the industry. It's an industry term.
So there you go. There's some things. Is there anything other
things that you know zap your energy?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I think just talking to someone who beats you down
a lot. I mean I ain't that's like enough. You
don't have to and that you kind of because we're
all good people. You don't tell the person that they're
sucking the life out of you. But like we all
know that person.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
How about if the battery or your phone dies or
anything just goes out, stops working. Okay, know that again,
But that's not so oh this is social stuff. Yeah yeah, sorry,
I'll say, uh, welcome to the segment. Now, it's a
good time to cash you in the final thirty seconds.
For me, having to interact with someone that you know
(11:05):
doesn't care or do a good job at what they
do and they're mailing it in. That to me is
the biggest energy suck of all time, because I'm like,
why do I have to spend my energy with you?
And I know you don't care about your job and
you're not trying to do a good job. This is
clearly wasting my time.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, yeah, there you have it. There are ten things
that suck the life right out of you, all right.
Coming up next, it's the weekly weekday update of Texas
Legend is helping out Kirk County. We'll talk about that
and then we'll crank up the wayback machine and have
some fun.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
At the very end of
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Today's presentation, we revisit a classic DJ truck Nut song
That's all coming your way on the beninskin share
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