July 15, 2025 • 6 mins
What’s more rock ‘n’ roll—seeing Green Day live, or accidentally asking a baseball executive for a luxury suite during a trade deadline?In this side-splitting episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray fire up the Wayback Machine and rewind to the summer of 2021—a time of post-pandemic excitement, concert comebacks, and one hilariously misguided text.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This, fools, it's time to go into the bitter schedule Wayburgs.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I like to take you guys back four years to
the year twenty twenty one, and it was a summertime
where the living's easy. Oh, and we were gonna go
We were just talking about, Okay, there's a big concert
announcement out at Global Life Field, the new Rangers Ballpark,
and they're gonna have a I think it was Weezer
and Green.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Day Chili Peppers. Were they involved?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Fall Out Boy, Fallout Boy, Yeah, fall Out Boy, Weezer,
Green Day, Right, So like that sounds pretty fun and
we're just kind of kicking it around nothing more than that.
Keep in mind we'd been working at the Eagle at
that point about a year and a half, a little
less than a year and a half.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right, And I want to say this about my my
musical background, Guys, can I just please just mention this to.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Add a little story of yours.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
So what I really really got into was hip hop
in the nineties, and so I really wasn't listening to
a lot else outside of that. I just became immersed
in that and listened to that for a long long time,
and so later I would go through different phases where
I would listen, Like I got really into Fleetwood Mac.
I started listening to Fleetwood Mac a lot, and I
(01:14):
really dug that. And then at some point, randomly long
time later, I started listening to Weezer, and I really
liked him. I'm like, all right, I really dig them man, catchy,
catchy hooks and fun band. And so I don't really
like going to concerts because I don't I have claustrophobic
and I don't want to be in cramped up, you know.
(01:34):
And so I decided, you know what, that would be
a show I'd like to go to.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, And also keep in mind a little bit of
excitement about the new stadium at the time. Also, concerts
had gone away for a little bit. This is summer
of twenty twenty one. Yeah, so just now kind of
getting back to opening things up. Bands are just now
starting to go back on summer tour, right, you know.
So we'd been working at iHeart long enough to work. Okay,
we guess maybe we get a connection here and there.
You know, you never know, you just you send it
(02:00):
up the pipeline. We didn't have any luck for whatever reason.
Maybe there'd been not really anyone here too because of COVID. Yeah, no,
we've been going to talk to But Ben's like, man,
I got connections with the Rangers, so let's just see,
you know the time, John Daniels is still the GM.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
We had a very good relationship with John Daniels still.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And you remember we used to be at the Rangers
and we were reading promos and it was Texas Rangers
dot com Slash themed nights, and I thought it was
them nice, and so I just figured day there must
be a Ranger game and a postgame concert, like a
dude who sings chicken fried song performing after a game.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I just thought it was that kind of a vibe,
it' said them night. It turns out it was not.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That type of vibe is like a huge show, lock
Down the City, huge show, Fallout Boy, Weezer, Green Day.
So here's our discussion. Now you're gonna hear the name
Rob Matt would come up. That's a guy who is
high up in the Rangers organization.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He's the president. You know, lots of external affairs, it
runs their whole business. He didn't really deal.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
With getting tickets for people. Probably, uh, but here's what happened.
I hated it as soon as I hit sinned, I'm like, I.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Mean, I just it's so rude.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I didn't ask for tickets, ask for a suite.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I forgot that. I forgot.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
My god, Hey, if you're gonna make an ask, make
an ask good.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
But I had a parking pass. It did not answer
a marking past you unless yes, right?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
But I said, you did say, Hey, I'm assuming the
parking pass comes with the suite. I said, is there
possibly a very small broom closet suite that maybe?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Uh? And he read as this guy's taking shots in
our suite. What do you mean why would we build
a broom closet suite? He said, class operation, no food,
no drink, not catered. How they make their money off
this day Ranger game? And then you know the concert.
That's what I was.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And I know this isn't a reasonable feel free not
to spawned something like that jersey. By the way, did
they get that hotel fish for my.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Friends so bad? There was a pandemic. I'm humiliated.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Well, I send that to him and he did not respond.
Oh dude, he responded to me. He sent me a
screenshot and circled it. W T S come get your boy.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And now meanwhile I still hadn't reached out to JD.
You waited until day two. It's the draft.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I was gonna do it the other day and then
I looked up and I was like, oh, I think
the home underby's going on right now.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I go I asked my son. I was like, gallow
is Gallow up? Yet? He goes he's up right now.
And I was just about to hit sin. There's a
trade talks for Gallo look at this and reporting the
talks in advance.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The whole teams gathered around and Jad would have to
miss that to answer my text, my text, and so
I didn't do it. Green Day, I didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
The music enters up.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Then didn't really realize that, you know, Green Day was
gonna be like the concerts.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Actually, after the Rangers were done, I think it was
like in the Fall. It was. It was.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I looked at the schedule and they had a game,
but it was a road It was a road game.
I remember it was a road game, and so JD
was like, man, we're not even there that. I was like, God,
I'm so sorry. I asked for a suite, dude. Green
Day concert.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And Christina went to that show to see her, so okay.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Then heard Mike go to go to the concert in
an empty, giant luxury suite.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Didn't know it was going to be a sweet but
walked by Don Davis's office.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I was like, Hey, I'd like to go see Green
Day just if yeah have some tickets. He's like, yeah,
we can get you tickets. Show up, empty suite, all
to ourselves. It was amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It was a great show and she did not offend
Rob Mattwick or John Daniel's unbelievable. All right, very embarrassing
moment for me. Thank you Way Back Machine. I hope
you die.
This, fools, it's time to go into the bitter schedule Wayburgs.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I like to take you guys back four years to
the year twenty twenty one, and it was a summertime
where the living's easy. Oh, and we were gonna go
We were just talking about, Okay, there's a big concert
announcement out at Global Life Field, the new Rangers Ballpark,
and they're gonna have a I think it was Weezer
and Green.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Day Chili Peppers. Were they involved?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Fall Out Boy, Fallout Boy, Yeah, fall Out Boy, Weezer,
Green Day, Right, So like that sounds pretty fun and
we're just kind of kicking it around nothing more than that.
Keep in mind we'd been working at the Eagle at
that point about a year and a half, a little
less than a year and a half.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right, And I want to say this about my my
musical background, Guys, can I just please just mention this to.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Add a little story of yours.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
So what I really really got into was hip hop
in the nineties, and so I really wasn't listening to
a lot else outside of that. I just became immersed
in that and listened to that for a long long time,
and so later I would go through different phases where
I would listen, Like I got really into Fleetwood Mac.
I started listening to Fleetwood Mac a lot, and I
(01:14):
really dug that. And then at some point, randomly long
time later, I started listening to Weezer, and I really
liked him. I'm like, all right, I really dig them man, catchy,
catchy hooks and fun band. And so I don't really
like going to concerts because I don't I have claustrophobic
and I don't want to be in cramped up, you know.
(01:34):
And so I decided, you know what, that would be
a show I'd like to go to.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, And also keep in mind a little bit of
excitement about the new stadium at the time. Also, concerts
had gone away for a little bit. This is summer
of twenty twenty one. Yeah, so just now kind of
getting back to opening things up. Bands are just now
starting to go back on summer tour, right, you know.
So we'd been working at iHeart long enough to work. Okay,
we guess maybe we get a connection here and there.
You know, you never know, you just you send it
(02:00):
up the pipeline. We didn't have any luck for whatever reason.
Maybe there'd been not really anyone here too because of COVID. Yeah, no,
we've been going to talk to But Ben's like, man,
I got connections with the Rangers, so let's just see,
you know the time, John Daniels is still the GM.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
We had a very good relationship with John Daniels still.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And you remember we used to be at the Rangers
and we were reading promos and it was Texas Rangers
dot com Slash themed nights, and I thought it was
them nice, and so I just figured day there must
be a Ranger game and a postgame concert, like a
dude who sings chicken fried song performing after a game.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I just thought it was that kind of a vibe,
it' said them night. It turns out it was not.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That type of vibe is like a huge show, lock
Down the City, huge show, Fallout Boy, Weezer, Green Day.
So here's our discussion. Now you're gonna hear the name
Rob Matt would come up. That's a guy who is
high up in the Rangers organization.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He's the president. You know, lots of external affairs, it
runs their whole business. He didn't really deal.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
With getting tickets for people. Probably, uh, but here's what happened.
I hated it as soon as I hit sinned, I'm like, I.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Mean, I just it's so rude.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I didn't ask for tickets, ask for a suite.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I forgot that. I forgot.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
My god, Hey, if you're gonna make an ask, make
an ask good.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
But I had a parking pass. It did not answer
a marking past you unless yes, right?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
But I said, you did say, Hey, I'm assuming the
parking pass comes with the suite. I said, is there
possibly a very small broom closet suite that maybe?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Uh? And he read as this guy's taking shots in
our suite. What do you mean why would we build
a broom closet suite? He said, class operation, no food,
no drink, not catered. How they make their money off
this day Ranger game? And then you know the concert.
That's what I was.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And I know this isn't a reasonable feel free not
to spawned something like that jersey. By the way, did
they get that hotel fish for my.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Friends so bad? There was a pandemic. I'm humiliated.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Well, I send that to him and he did not respond.
Oh dude, he responded to me. He sent me a
screenshot and circled it. W T S come get your boy.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And now meanwhile I still hadn't reached out to JD.
You waited until day two. It's the draft.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I was gonna do it the other day and then
I looked up and I was like, oh, I think
the home underby's going on right now.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I go I asked my son. I was like, gallow
is Gallow up? Yet? He goes he's up right now.
And I was just about to hit sin. There's a
trade talks for Gallo look at this and reporting the
talks in advance.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
The whole teams gathered around and Jad would have to
miss that to answer my text, my text, and so
I didn't do it. Green Day, I didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
The music enters up.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Then didn't really realize that, you know, Green Day was
gonna be like the concerts.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Actually, after the Rangers were done, I think it was
like in the Fall. It was. It was.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I looked at the schedule and they had a game,
but it was a road It was a road game.
I remember it was a road game, and so JD
was like, man, we're not even there that. I was like, God,
I'm so sorry. I asked for a suite, dude. Green
Day concert.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And Christina went to that show to see her, so okay.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Then heard Mike go to go to the concert in
an empty, giant luxury suite.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Didn't know it was going to be a sweet but
walked by Don Davis's office.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I was like, Hey, I'd like to go see Green
Day just if yeah have some tickets. He's like, yeah,
we can get you tickets. Show up, empty suite, all
to ourselves. It was amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It was a great show and she did not offend
Rob Mattwick or John Daniel's unbelievable. All right, very embarrassing
moment for me. Thank you Way Back Machine. I hope
you die.
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