May 19, 2025 • 6 mins
“What happens when a tornado warning collides with the American Idol finale—and the city of Climax is caught in the middle?”In this hilariously chaotic episode of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive headfirst into the storm—literally and figuratively. The crew unpacks the social media firestorm surrounding WFAA’s chief meteorologist Pete Delkus, who interrupted the American Idol finale to deliver urgent tornado warnings. The result? Viewers were furious, Idol fans were left hanging, and Pete was—quite literally—out of breath and out of patience.From the absurdity of a Texas town named Climax to the debate over which weather channel had the better Doppler radar, this episode is packed with laugh-out-loud moments, sharp commentary, and a surprising amount of storm science.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up in just about ten minutes, details of a
prison break, A successful prison break that's coming up here
pretty quick. Before we get to that, I want to
say thank you to Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen in Plano, Texas.
If you're a foodie and you haven't been to Andrews,
you're not really a foodie.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
To be a foodie.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
If you love pizza, why wouldn't you go to Andrews
American Pizza Kitchen and Plano, Texas President and Plano Parkway
named best pizzeri and DFW by readers of the Dallas.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Morning News that speaks volumes.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
They got pasta, they got a great craft beer selection,
cool bar scene, and lots of televisions in there to
watch sports. I go there sometimes just to hang out.
Check it out Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen and Plano, Texas.
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's up. What's up bunch?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Twitter?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
It's up?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What's up on Twitter? That's up?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Dan Turnet.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Last night, our guy Pete Delcas was in jacket off mode. Oo.
Right situation And here's the tweet that is in question
right now. This is last night nine tornado warning for
Colin in Denton County until ten fifteen, storms moving. He's
thirty miles per hour. Here's the last now you've known
if you've seen Pete Delks's Twitter account. If you don't
(01:12):
know who he is, he's the head meteorologist to Channel eight,
but also like the Channel eight account, will regurgitate his tweets.
Jesse Joila the backup and then the third string quarterback
of whatever that weather person is. Their tweets are all
the same, They're all on one account and it's going
out to all four different accounts. It's kind of crazy
when it's something like this, But I was just really
(01:35):
entertained by watching him cover these dangerous storms up north,
but also when I clicked on the tweet to find
out how many people were effing pissed off at Peter.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
David Delkas it's his middle name. Don Do y'all know
why people were mad at Pytes?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I do.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I don't, but I can assume that it's just rediculous outrage.
Anytime people hear of a terrible forecast and it's not
terrible results, they're angry.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Do you know why, Christina?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think it's because he lied about when the storm
was supposed to hit Climax. He lied, He did the story.
It is true, it went away and then came back
and finished. Okay, now let me hold on. He lied,
he lied, He missed his prediction.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
There's a city called Climax in Texas. You guys are
totally missing the point here.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, I mean people always finish their journey when they
arrive at Climax, where it's like it's a destination.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We have to do a show there.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So I can also say that I don't want to
create a competition here, and I'm not going to say
who was more rid or wasn't.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Do you guys ever watch two news sources at the
same time all the time?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yeah, it was real interesting to me that what Channel
Light was showing was different than what Fox was showing,
and they were pretty significantly different, and I thought that
was real interesting. I'm assuming that comes down to whatever
services they subscribe to.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
One could be like an older model Doppler.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, but uh, but you know it impacted us because
we're in the middle of the storm and so we're
looking and the maps are different and they're saying different
things at the same time.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And I'm like, well, this is kind of weird.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
But the reason people were mad is they said that
Pete decided to take over ABC and kick American Idol
off the air.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You're in the American Idol finale.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So didn't every local didn't every local news weather man
take over local programming American Idol?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Dude? Huh?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Didn't everyone not American Idol but whatever was on there?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, like soup La and the Voice or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Say every network also missed out on the best storm,
the one in the Southwest that really demolished the town.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Of Gordon, and yeah, not good. Gordon got hard.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Channel eleven, who I never go to, is like, we'll
cover this, and they had a beautiful video of a
stormchaser driving into the tornado was incredible, while four, five
and eight turned their back. So no one's hands are clean,
okay right now, and we'll see they all have a
chance at redemption tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Perhaps people. Look, here's what happens.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
People are mad when you take their specific program away
from them, and if you do that, they're in the
weird position of demanding that damage happened.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Let's get some evidence.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, hold, I would say something like last night, I'm
arguing with my son and he's like, there's no tornado.
I'm like, son, you don't want the tornado. You want
to be prepared in case there's a tornado, but you
don't want to be justified by damage.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The point is what they are looking at is all
of the ingredients are there for a delicious taco, and
so one could just pop up.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I mean, look, when it's a warning, went's a watch.
We don't need to see Pete. We'll be honest, it's
a watch live in Texas. Warning is when you've seen
the taco. But a warning it's time. And there was
significant rotation.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Absolutely, there was almost a tornado up north. Here's some
of my favorite comments. Please stop interrupting American Idol. The
win about to be announced. It was not okay to interrupt.
It was okay not to interrupt the idol when the
tornado was to the south. But now you do, and
you aren't double box. Please go to a different channel
for people who want to watch the weather. Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You know what they could do.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
They could have put American Idol on KFAA and told everyone,
if you want to watch American Idol, go to kfa.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Usually they say it'll rerun at three am, but I'm looking.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
You know, maybe I'm wrong, maybe they can't do that,
but when they have a sister's stay, I mean, this
is what the NBA and NHL do when there's overtime.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
People watched American Idol all season long. They voted all
season long for their favorites. They watched the show for
two hours and forty five minutes waiting to see who
the winner was, and Pete Delcas hogged the last twenty
minutes of the show repeating the same thing over and over.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I mean, I can say this.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I like, if you were wanting to see the finale,
that I get it, that's big to you. But I
had my phone was blowing up with people checking on
me and my family. Yeah, and so I'm like, what,
how bad is it? Meanwhile, my wife doesn't care. She
doesn't believe that anything negative is ever gonna happen her. Weatherwise,
I love w FAA, so that's the only channel I'll
(06:04):
watch for weather. I'm sure there's other good ones, but
I trust them and believe in them, and so I
go to them as the authority. And it was very
important that that was on TV for me last night
because that was I felt like that was my will
be during the storm.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I do like I know, we gotta go. I do
like that.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Pete was at his wits end. He was oh yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He was out of breath. He was beaten down. He
was tired of people tweeting him about American I like
step he goes, I need to take a drink, and
then he goes, he.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Goes, he goes, believe me, I don't want to be
here right now. He said that multiple multiple tis all.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Right, dude, let's do this.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I need to find out more about that prison break
coming up next. Let's talk about the prison break in
New Orleans. Katie has the details right here on The
Eagle
Coming up in just about ten minutes, details of a
prison break, A successful prison break that's coming up here
pretty quick. Before we get to that, I want to
say thank you to Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen in Plano, Texas.
If you're a foodie and you haven't been to Andrews,
you're not really a foodie.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
To be a foodie.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
If you love pizza, why wouldn't you go to Andrews
American Pizza Kitchen and Plano, Texas President and Plano Parkway
named best pizzeri and DFW by readers of the Dallas.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Morning News that speaks volumes.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
They got pasta, they got a great craft beer selection,
cool bar scene, and lots of televisions in there to
watch sports. I go there sometimes just to hang out.
Check it out Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen and Plano, Texas.
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's up. What's up bunch?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Twitter?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
It's up?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What's up on Twitter? That's up?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Dan Turnet.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Last night, our guy Pete Delcas was in jacket off mode. Oo.
Right situation And here's the tweet that is in question
right now. This is last night nine tornado warning for
Colin in Denton County until ten fifteen, storms moving. He's
thirty miles per hour. Here's the last now you've known
if you've seen Pete Delks's Twitter account. If you don't
(01:12):
know who he is, he's the head meteorologist to Channel eight,
but also like the Channel eight account, will regurgitate his tweets.
Jesse Joila the backup and then the third string quarterback
of whatever that weather person is. Their tweets are all
the same, They're all on one account and it's going
out to all four different accounts. It's kind of crazy
when it's something like this, But I was just really
(01:35):
entertained by watching him cover these dangerous storms up north,
but also when I clicked on the tweet to find
out how many people were effing pissed off at Peter.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
David Delkas it's his middle name. Don Do y'all know
why people were mad at Pytes?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I do.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I don't, but I can assume that it's just rediculous outrage.
Anytime people hear of a terrible forecast and it's not
terrible results, they're angry.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Do you know why, Christina?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think it's because he lied about when the storm
was supposed to hit Climax. He lied, He did the story.
It is true, it went away and then came back
and finished. Okay, now let me hold on. He lied,
he lied, He missed his prediction.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
There's a city called Climax in Texas. You guys are
totally missing the point here.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, I mean people always finish their journey when they
arrive at Climax, where it's like it's a destination.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We have to do a show there.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
So I can also say that I don't want to
create a competition here, and I'm not going to say
who was more rid or wasn't.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Do you guys ever watch two news sources at the
same time all the time?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yeah, it was real interesting to me that what Channel
Light was showing was different than what Fox was showing,
and they were pretty significantly different, and I thought that
was real interesting. I'm assuming that comes down to whatever
services they subscribe to.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
One could be like an older model Doppler.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, but uh, but you know it impacted us because
we're in the middle of the storm and so we're
looking and the maps are different and they're saying different
things at the same time.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And I'm like, well, this is kind of weird.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
But the reason people were mad is they said that
Pete decided to take over ABC and kick American Idol
off the air.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You're in the American Idol finale.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So didn't every local didn't every local news weather man
take over local programming American Idol?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Dude? Huh?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Didn't everyone not American Idol but whatever was on there?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, like soup La and the Voice or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Say every network also missed out on the best storm,
the one in the Southwest that really demolished the town.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Of Gordon, and yeah, not good. Gordon got hard.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Channel eleven, who I never go to, is like, we'll
cover this, and they had a beautiful video of a
stormchaser driving into the tornado was incredible, while four, five
and eight turned their back. So no one's hands are clean,
okay right now, and we'll see they all have a
chance at redemption tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Perhaps people. Look, here's what happens.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
People are mad when you take their specific program away
from them, and if you do that, they're in the
weird position of demanding that damage happened.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Let's get some evidence.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, hold, I would say something like last night, I'm
arguing with my son and he's like, there's no tornado.
I'm like, son, you don't want the tornado. You want
to be prepared in case there's a tornado, but you
don't want to be justified by damage.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The point is what they are looking at is all
of the ingredients are there for a delicious taco, and
so one could just pop up.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I mean, look, when it's a warning, went's a watch.
We don't need to see Pete. We'll be honest, it's
a watch live in Texas. Warning is when you've seen
the taco. But a warning it's time. And there was
significant rotation.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Absolutely, there was almost a tornado up north. Here's some
of my favorite comments. Please stop interrupting American Idol. The
win about to be announced. It was not okay to interrupt.
It was okay not to interrupt the idol when the
tornado was to the south. But now you do, and
you aren't double box. Please go to a different channel
for people who want to watch the weather. Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You know what they could do.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
They could have put American Idol on KFAA and told everyone,
if you want to watch American Idol, go to kfa.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Usually they say it'll rerun at three am, but I'm looking.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
You know, maybe I'm wrong, maybe they can't do that,
but when they have a sister's stay, I mean, this
is what the NBA and NHL do when there's overtime.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
People watched American Idol all season long. They voted all
season long for their favorites. They watched the show for
two hours and forty five minutes waiting to see who
the winner was, and Pete Delcas hogged the last twenty
minutes of the show repeating the same thing over and over.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I mean, I can say this.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I like, if you were wanting to see the finale,
that I get it, that's big to you. But I
had my phone was blowing up with people checking on
me and my family. Yeah, and so I'm like, what,
how bad is it? Meanwhile, my wife doesn't care. She
doesn't believe that anything negative is ever gonna happen her. Weatherwise,
I love w FAA, so that's the only channel I'll
(06:04):
watch for weather. I'm sure there's other good ones, but
I trust them and believe in them, and so I
go to them as the authority. And it was very
important that that was on TV for me last night
because that was I felt like that was my will
be during the storm.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I do like I know, we gotta go. I do
like that.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Pete was at his wits end. He was oh yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He was out of breath. He was beaten down. He
was tired of people tweeting him about American I like
step he goes, I need to take a drink, and
then he goes, he.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Goes, he goes, believe me, I don't want to be
here right now. He said that multiple multiple tis all.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Right, dude, let's do this.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I need to find out more about that prison break
coming up next. Let's talk about the prison break in
New Orleans. Katie has the details right here on The
Eagle
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