July 3, 2025 • 7 mins
What starts as a nostalgic trip into the Ben and Skin Show Wayback Machine quickly spirals into one of the most hilariously confusing phone calls in show history. In this episode, Ben Rogers recounts the time he may—or may not—have won a luxury car at a Texas Rangers game. Was it a Mercedes? A Porsche? Or just a cleverly disguised timeshare pitch?Join Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they relive this unforgettable moment of radio gold. From the moment Ben gets a call from “Anita at the Awards Verification Center,” to the escalating absurdity of the prize reveal, this episode is packed with laugh-out-loud moments, classic Ben confusion, and the kind of comedic timing only this crew can deliver.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're gonna go around the beef. We've been doing it
all week, but we finally narrowed it down to the
top twelve beefs of all time. This segment is brought
to you by Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen in Plano, Texas.
If you're a true foodie head out there this weekend,
If you're wondering, what, hey, what is the best pizza
in all of Dallas Fort Worth Well readers of Dallas
Morning News say it's Andrews American Pizza Kitchen in Plano,
(00:22):
located off Preston and Plano Parkway. They've mastered five different
types of pizza. They got a phenomenal local craft beer
selection there that you can enjoy. There's TVs everywhere, they
got pasta, salads, you name it. But five different types
of pizza have been mastered. And DFW has spoken. They
say Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen in Plano is the best.
But right now it's time for this old mofos.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's time to go into the biting schedule. Worrybug, that's right.
So years ago Big Ben went out to the old ballpark,
the Temple. You seeing a Ranger game. He's walking around,
probably had his family with him. I don't really know
that the actual thing that happened here, but there's a
container out there in right center field, and they had
(01:09):
some promotional people out there with little notepads, and that
container was a bunch of baseballs stacked in it. And
what they tried to get you to do is stop,
guess how many baseballs are in it, and you have
a chance to win something, and then they get your data.
So nowadays this would be handled via a QR code.
Probably it's not that big of a thing, but back
(01:29):
then you fill it out. So Ben sees it guess
is you know, probably six hundred and ninety balls, and
then Ben rogers address phone number email. Well then they
keep blowing him up, so he's like, okay, let's call him,
but let's put it on the air.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
So this has been.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Live in a Ponzi scheme, not a Ponzi scheme, but
at some type of marketing scheme. It's a ploy from
people who were working with the Rangers or at Rangers
games from over a decade ago.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Oh this isn't either with the Awards Verification Center. How
may I help you?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yes, hi, how you doing? Uh? You guys have been
calling me. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Okay, Now, I can give you all the information on
why we're calling you. I just need the phone number
we tried to reach you on. Okay, all right, give
me one moment.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Okay, all right, please stay on the line and we'll
be back in just a moment. Back in a moment
to get the windows.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yes, I apologize for that way, mister Rogers. Yes, okay,
mister Rogers. The reason why we're giving you a call
because we have your entry form here from the Texas
Rangers game.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh great, Yes, I win.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You were chosen as a winner and I won.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Wait wait wait, I guess how many baseballs we're in
that thing?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I won?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I guess you were chosen us? Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Wait wait I won?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
So this does wait?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Wait wait?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Wait are you saying that? I guess the right number?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So you already entered into this instant gold promotion first
sweep takes promotion.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Wait wait, I guess the right number of base walls?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Now I'm I'm not sure if that's how they did it,
but our computer randomly selects.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Wait wait wait, wait wait, I'm a winner.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yes, you were chosen as a winner in but.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I'm only wait, I'm randomly selected as a winner.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Would the moment I can if you give me ten
minutes of your time so I can explain you exactly
how the promotion works.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
What did I win?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Okay? So now this does mean that you have won
either a new Mercedes, oh god. Okay, So now if
you give me a moment, I can tell you all
the details. Okay, okay, now you have one either any
Mercedes or forty nine thousands or fifteen hundred dollars shopping spree.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Wait wait, wait, hold on a Mercedes, a Porsche or
fifteen hundred dollars shopping All.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Right, Well, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna trust
you to my manager. Maybe she can explain it better
so you can get the you know, all the details.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay, Okay, thank you, and we'll be right back with
you on the phone to make it up.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Hero Loot, thank you for holding when it was just
one of the managers. Here I can help you. I
don't know, did you just pick the manager?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
No, here's the deal. I think I guessed the right
amount of baseballs in the glass cylinder and right center
field or the Ranger game. And I think I win
a new Mercedes, a new Porsche, and a fifteen hundred
dollars shopping spree.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
That would not be the case. And because of the
answery form you were selected for the promotion were receiving
two things. One is a choice of trip to either
Vegas Orlando Warrior Cruz. Plus you're gonna get one of
the four guaranteed awards, and that's either the five hundred
cash at fifteen hundred dollars shopping spree, the island get away,
or the grand prize, which is a new vehicle for
(04:44):
forty nine thousand.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
All right, I'll take the Mercedes.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Get to pick that up.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So how do I get to pick?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
You don't, so there's not a pick. You don't get
to pick. So it works is you're gonna receive a
scratch off card that's guaranteed to match up to one
of those four fries.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You're gonna mail me this so I could just fill
the scratch card.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
No, sorry, No, what we're gonna do is if we
need to set up a day and time for you
to pick up your prizes. On the day that you
came out and pick up your prizes, that's where you'd
receive your scratch off card.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So all I got to do is show up with
a quarter, and I'm guaranteed to win something.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Guaranteed one of those four prizes. They're also going to
offer you a chance to take a ninety minute tours,
or if you choose to do that, then you also
get that choice of vacation on top of that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Are you sure it's not just gonna be I show
up and I got to take a tour and take
a long seminar.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
It's if I wasn't sure, I would have told you, sir.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I like your confidence. I like your confidence.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Ten years I know how I work.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Okay, now, you guys have been blowing up my phone.
The lady said she was recording me, and so I
asked that I could record her. Yeah, fine, and she
said fine, And then I wanted to make sure I
could play it on the air, so she said, yeah, absolutely,
So that's kind of mydeal. I just want to make
sure that this is legit and okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
For all we didn't do on ourn is to set
up a day and time for you to pick those up.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Hey, it's must confusing giveaway. Yeah it is. I have
still ever since this happened.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I've alwayskind of wondered, did you leave something at their doorstep?
Like could you have actually won something big if you went?
And I remember, wasn't.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
There a component of this because we were the Rangers
flagship where this and this was a sales marketing thing.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Didn't we get in some hot water for this?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I think this is before we had the Rangers honestly
visit I think so.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Okay, I just kind of remember a lot of panic
going on. I think on our end on management.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I think it was ultimately the whole thing was will
you come sit in this room and let us tell
you about timeshare three hours on a Saturday, and if so,
we'll get you a complimentary caso at on the board Saturday.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's just amazing how it went from Mercedes Porsche fifteen
shopping spree, then you got a trip to Vegas or
restort or we'll.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Give you a ninety minute tour.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
None of it made sense, and there's they.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Were blowing me up going you won one calls back
you won.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I will say, though, that song is a heater yea,
oh sorry, that's not what I meant to play there.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I don't know where the song was. We should do
a live spot. Yeah, sorry, all right, good stuff there,
We're gonna go around the beef. We've been doing it
all week, but we finally narrowed it down to the
top twelve beefs of all time. This segment is brought
to you by Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen in Plano, Texas.
If you're a true foodie head out there this weekend,
If you're wondering, what, hey, what is the best pizza
in all of Dallas Fort Worth Well readers of Dallas
Morning News say it's Andrews American Pizza Kitchen in Plano,
(00:22):
located off Preston and Plano Parkway. They've mastered five different
types of pizza. They got a phenomenal local craft beer
selection there that you can enjoy. There's TVs everywhere, they
got pasta, salads, you name it. But five different types
of pizza have been mastered. And DFW has spoken. They
say Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen in Plano is the best.
But right now it's time for this old mofos.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's time to go into the biting schedule. Worrybug, that's right.
So years ago Big Ben went out to the old ballpark,
the Temple. You seeing a Ranger game. He's walking around,
probably had his family with him. I don't really know
that the actual thing that happened here, but there's a
container out there in right center field, and they had
(01:09):
some promotional people out there with little notepads, and that
container was a bunch of baseballs stacked in it. And
what they tried to get you to do is stop,
guess how many baseballs are in it, and you have
a chance to win something, and then they get your data.
So nowadays this would be handled via a QR code.
Probably it's not that big of a thing, but back
(01:29):
then you fill it out. So Ben sees it guess
is you know, probably six hundred and ninety balls, and
then Ben rogers address phone number email. Well then they
keep blowing him up, so he's like, okay, let's call him,
but let's put it on the air.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
So this has been.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Live in a Ponzi scheme, not a Ponzi scheme, but
at some type of marketing scheme. It's a ploy from
people who were working with the Rangers or at Rangers
games from over a decade ago.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Oh this isn't either with the Awards Verification Center. How
may I help you?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yes, hi, how you doing? Uh? You guys have been
calling me. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Okay, Now, I can give you all the information on
why we're calling you. I just need the phone number
we tried to reach you on. Okay, all right, give
me one moment.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Okay, all right, please stay on the line and we'll
be back in just a moment. Back in a moment
to get the windows.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yes, I apologize for that way, mister Rogers. Yes, okay,
mister Rogers. The reason why we're giving you a call
because we have your entry form here from the Texas
Rangers game.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh great, Yes, I win.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You were chosen as a winner and I won.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Wait wait wait, I guess how many baseballs we're in
that thing?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I won?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I guess you were chosen us? Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Wait wait I won?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
So this does wait?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Wait wait?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Wait are you saying that? I guess the right number?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So you already entered into this instant gold promotion first
sweep takes promotion.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Wait wait, I guess the right number of base walls?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Now I'm I'm not sure if that's how they did it,
but our computer randomly selects.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Wait wait wait, wait wait, I'm a winner.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yes, you were chosen as a winner in but.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I'm only wait, I'm randomly selected as a winner.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Would the moment I can if you give me ten
minutes of your time so I can explain you exactly
how the promotion works.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
What did I win?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Okay? So now this does mean that you have won
either a new Mercedes, oh god. Okay, So now if
you give me a moment, I can tell you all
the details. Okay, okay, now you have one either any
Mercedes or forty nine thousands or fifteen hundred dollars shopping spree.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Wait wait, wait, hold on a Mercedes, a Porsche or
fifteen hundred dollars shopping All.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Right, Well, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna trust
you to my manager. Maybe she can explain it better
so you can get the you know, all the details.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay, Okay, thank you, and we'll be right back with
you on the phone to make it up.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Hero Loot, thank you for holding when it was just
one of the managers. Here I can help you. I
don't know, did you just pick the manager?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
No, here's the deal. I think I guessed the right
amount of baseballs in the glass cylinder and right center
field or the Ranger game. And I think I win
a new Mercedes, a new Porsche, and a fifteen hundred
dollars shopping spree.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
That would not be the case. And because of the
answery form you were selected for the promotion were receiving
two things. One is a choice of trip to either
Vegas Orlando Warrior Cruz. Plus you're gonna get one of
the four guaranteed awards, and that's either the five hundred
cash at fifteen hundred dollars shopping spree, the island get away,
or the grand prize, which is a new vehicle for
(04:44):
forty nine thousand.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
All right, I'll take the Mercedes.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Get to pick that up.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So how do I get to pick?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
You don't, so there's not a pick. You don't get
to pick. So it works is you're gonna receive a
scratch off card that's guaranteed to match up to one
of those four fries.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You're gonna mail me this so I could just fill
the scratch card.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
No, sorry, No, what we're gonna do is if we
need to set up a day and time for you
to pick up your prizes. On the day that you
came out and pick up your prizes, that's where you'd
receive your scratch off card.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So all I got to do is show up with
a quarter, and I'm guaranteed to win something.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Guaranteed one of those four prizes. They're also going to
offer you a chance to take a ninety minute tours,
or if you choose to do that, then you also
get that choice of vacation on top of that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Are you sure it's not just gonna be I show
up and I got to take a tour and take
a long seminar.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
It's if I wasn't sure, I would have told you, sir.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I like your confidence. I like your confidence.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Ten years I know how I work.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Okay, now, you guys have been blowing up my phone.
The lady said she was recording me, and so I
asked that I could record her. Yeah, fine, and she
said fine, And then I wanted to make sure I
could play it on the air, so she said, yeah, absolutely,
So that's kind of mydeal. I just want to make
sure that this is legit and okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
For all we didn't do on ourn is to set
up a day and time for you to pick those up.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Hey, it's must confusing giveaway. Yeah it is. I have
still ever since this happened.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I've alwayskind of wondered, did you leave something at their doorstep?
Like could you have actually won something big if you went?
And I remember, wasn't.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
There a component of this because we were the Rangers
flagship where this and this was a sales marketing thing.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Didn't we get in some hot water for this?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I think this is before we had the Rangers honestly
visit I think so.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Okay, I just kind of remember a lot of panic
going on. I think on our end on management.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I think it was ultimately the whole thing was will
you come sit in this room and let us tell
you about timeshare three hours on a Saturday, and if so,
we'll get you a complimentary caso at on the board Saturday.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's just amazing how it went from Mercedes Porsche fifteen
shopping spree, then you got a trip to Vegas or
restort or we'll.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Give you a ninety minute tour.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
None of it made sense, and there's they.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Were blowing me up going you won one calls back
you won.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I will say, though, that song is a heater yea,
oh sorry, that's not what I meant to play there.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I don't know where the song was. We should do
a live spot. Yeah, sorry, all right, good stuff there,
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