July 16, 2025 • 6 mins
In this powerful and poignant episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray take listeners on a deeply human journey through the aftermath of one of Texas’ deadliest disasters—the Kerr County flood—and the resilience rising in its wake.KT shares the tragic story of Pat Green, the beloved Texas country artist who lost four family members in the flood. The crew discusses the upcoming Texas Flood Relief livestream and urges listeners to support the Do It For Durrett Foundation and communityfoundation.net.This episode blends heartfelt storytelling, sharp commentary, and the signature humor that makes The Ben and Skin Show a Texas radio staple. It’s a tribute to those lost, a spotlight on those helping, and a reminder that even in the darkest moments, there’s light—and laughter.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you excited? Featuring veteran news anchor Kat fun tweetstos
fired up there. So the Rangers gave one hundred thousand
dollars to Nathan EAVOLDI. They gave him his all star
bonus and his contract.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Because he deserved to be. Yoh, that's what a good organization.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Does on the right side of history when it comes
to that. The Texas Rangers. Hell yeah, Texas Rangers. That's
exactly what I was saying. That's rare, that's it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Usually organizations try to save every penny in their soulless
and they like, yep, sorry, we're not going to play
you very much, so you don't get your incentives.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Good for them, Wow, I think they're gonna win the pennant.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So Pat Green, famous Texas country at music artist, has
got a live stream happening tonight UH seven at six
point thirty. We want you to listen to Christina show,
of course, but Pat Green and friends take his flood
Relief live stream six start. He's happening at Globe Life Field,
but no audience in attendance. Now Pat lost four family
(01:08):
members and this thing and what brother four? Yeah, his brother,
his brother's wife and their two kids. Oh my gosh,
really terrible. So and this is gonna have a bunch
of a bunch of acts. It's just gonna be probably
from a few different locations as well, I know Global
Fields where he will be. But Miranda Lambert's on there,
(01:31):
John Party, Derek's Mentley Casey, Donna, Hugh, Josh Abbott, Eli Young,
Ryan Bingham, keep going. There's more there adding throughout the
day as well. It sounds like, so that's a big thing.
We also, you know that's it's gonna been a fit
a couple of places, you know, the Kirk County Relief
to do it for Drrett Foundation, you know who we
support a lot. And we also we've been telling y'all
(01:54):
for the last couple weeks the Community Foundation dot net
a place you can go as well, because they're just
gonna need a lot of money. So this article in
the Dallas Morning News today, that kind of it was
kind of wild and it's the headline is not fun.
Kirk County flood among the deadliest disasters in Texas history.
So started kind of scanning through it and I was like,
(02:15):
I wonder how many have been a part of I
won't know how many? I even remember there was a
nineteen hundred Galveston hurricane that is very historic, known as
a biggin I guess right, Yes, that was a game changer,
so to speak. And apparently before they named hurricanes. Yeah,
(02:36):
there was there's some that I bet we know. Yeah,
like the Texas winter storm of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
How many people perished in that? Two hundred and forty
six people dead? Wow? Across seventy seven counties.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And that wasn't the Super Bowl one that was like
twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Right, yeah, twenty eleven, twenty eleven, Yeah, what about look
Out twenty thirty one? How deadly was the downtown Fort
Worth tornado? You've asked that question that I'm going to
find for you. Well, depending if it was on the list.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
If it was on the list, yes, I will tell
you there's three tornadoes that I think of. I think
of the downtown Fort Worth one. There was a tornado
that happened I believe in the fifties that went right
down Harry Hines and tore through that whole area. And
then there was the one in Whichita falls. Those are
the three biggest, Yes, those are the ones that I
(03:33):
remember or read about that struck me as that which.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Tall falls one that I mean, there's images out there,
but that was a huge And yeah, Hurricane Rito was
two thousand and five. I've been a part of our life.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You know, you know what I think of.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And I don't know if I don't know how many
casualties there were, so, but I.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Do remember it being a big deal.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Was the explosion in West Oh Yes, at West Texas thing,
but that may have it's such a sparsely not a
huge population there.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
No, No, that's a good I mean, yeah, that's kind
of like dark Hole is like they're all they're all
bad stories. Yeah, right, terrible things. Yeah. I don't think
that one was on there though when I was looking, Okay,
but maybe it was, But no, it wasn't. There's something
like from like before even you guys were alive. This
is it's not that long ago, nineteen thirteen. It's a
(04:23):
long time ago. What about the Waco tornado of nineteen
fifty three, I'm unfamiliar. It destroyed over six hundred buildings. Wow,
can you imagine that? You know? And it could just happen.
It could happen today, not today.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
We're not gonna have to, uh, what about the other
flood that happened in the Guadaloupe area in nineteen eighty seven, the.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Eighty seven flood that we talked about a little bit
the other day. I don't see it on here, dude. Okay,
So there's a couple of hurricanes that come to mind.
Hurricane Harvey. You remember that one. Yeah, twenty seventeen, uh
eighty nine deaths, one hundred and sixty billion dollars in damages, displaced,
over thirty thousand people.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Harvey. Is that the one that got our buddy Brun?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I think? I think so when we were at the fan,
it was either or it was Ike because that's the
Harvey was eight. So yeah, it was hae Harvey.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So I went there with my brother and we went
and helped, and it was devastating. Our buddy Braun as
a beach cart business, like golf carts on the beach
and all of it, like he had like one hundred
carts or more, and they all got ruined, they all
got totaled. And the insurance company was like, yeah, because
it's a named storm, you're not covered. That's insane, Like
(05:36):
what I have this insurance?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, but it says if the storm is named, that's
an act of God and we can't I can't be
held responsible for that. I don't understand how the bank
can make you own insurance and then it's insurance that
isn't good.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That seems like a scam.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That's counterproductive or counterintuitive to the idea of why you
would have the insurance and why the bank would sign
off it.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Just it is such a racket because you're paying for nothing.
I'm just throwing money away. It's a shakedown. I'm gonna
do that. I just gamble.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's a good point. Is there anything else you want
to add?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
All right, coming, it's the grand finale of today's presentation.
We crank up the wayback machine.
Are you excited? Featuring veteran news anchor Kat fun tweetstos
fired up there. So the Rangers gave one hundred thousand
dollars to Nathan EAVOLDI. They gave him his all star
bonus and his contract.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Because he deserved to be. Yoh, that's what a good organization.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Does on the right side of history when it comes
to that. The Texas Rangers. Hell yeah, Texas Rangers. That's
exactly what I was saying. That's rare, that's it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Usually organizations try to save every penny in their soulless
and they like, yep, sorry, we're not going to play
you very much, so you don't get your incentives.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Good for them, Wow, I think they're gonna win the pennant.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So Pat Green, famous Texas country at music artist, has
got a live stream happening tonight UH seven at six
point thirty. We want you to listen to Christina show,
of course, but Pat Green and friends take his flood
Relief live stream six start. He's happening at Globe Life Field,
but no audience in attendance. Now Pat lost four family
(01:08):
members and this thing and what brother four? Yeah, his brother,
his brother's wife and their two kids. Oh my gosh,
really terrible. So and this is gonna have a bunch
of a bunch of acts. It's just gonna be probably
from a few different locations as well, I know Global
Fields where he will be. But Miranda Lambert's on there,
(01:31):
John Party, Derek's Mentley Casey, Donna, Hugh, Josh Abbott, Eli Young,
Ryan Bingham, keep going. There's more there adding throughout the
day as well. It sounds like, so that's a big thing.
We also, you know that's it's gonna been a fit
a couple of places, you know, the Kirk County Relief
to do it for Drrett Foundation, you know who we
support a lot. And we also we've been telling y'all
(01:54):
for the last couple weeks the Community Foundation dot net
a place you can go as well, because they're just
gonna need a lot of money. So this article in
the Dallas Morning News today, that kind of it was
kind of wild and it's the headline is not fun.
Kirk County flood among the deadliest disasters in Texas history.
So started kind of scanning through it and I was like,
(02:15):
I wonder how many have been a part of I
won't know how many? I even remember there was a
nineteen hundred Galveston hurricane that is very historic, known as
a biggin I guess right, Yes, that was a game changer,
so to speak. And apparently before they named hurricanes. Yeah,
(02:36):
there was there's some that I bet we know. Yeah,
like the Texas winter storm of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
How many people perished in that? Two hundred and forty
six people dead? Wow? Across seventy seven counties.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And that wasn't the Super Bowl one that was like
twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Right, yeah, twenty eleven, twenty eleven, Yeah, what about look
Out twenty thirty one? How deadly was the downtown Fort
Worth tornado? You've asked that question that I'm going to
find for you. Well, depending if it was on the list.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
If it was on the list, yes, I will tell
you there's three tornadoes that I think of. I think
of the downtown Fort Worth one. There was a tornado
that happened I believe in the fifties that went right
down Harry Hines and tore through that whole area. And
then there was the one in Whichita falls. Those are
the three biggest, Yes, those are the ones that I
(03:33):
remember or read about that struck me as that which.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Tall falls one that I mean, there's images out there,
but that was a huge And yeah, Hurricane Rito was
two thousand and five. I've been a part of our life.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You know, you know what I think of.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And I don't know if I don't know how many
casualties there were, so, but I.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Do remember it being a big deal.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Was the explosion in West Oh Yes, at West Texas thing,
but that may have it's such a sparsely not a
huge population there.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
No, No, that's a good I mean, yeah, that's kind
of like dark Hole is like they're all they're all
bad stories. Yeah, right, terrible things. Yeah. I don't think
that one was on there though when I was looking, Okay,
but maybe it was, But no, it wasn't. There's something
like from like before even you guys were alive. This
is it's not that long ago, nineteen thirteen. It's a
(04:23):
long time ago. What about the Waco tornado of nineteen
fifty three, I'm unfamiliar. It destroyed over six hundred buildings. Wow,
can you imagine that? You know? And it could just happen.
It could happen today, not today.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
We're not gonna have to, uh, what about the other
flood that happened in the Guadaloupe area in nineteen eighty seven, the.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Eighty seven flood that we talked about a little bit
the other day. I don't see it on here, dude. Okay,
So there's a couple of hurricanes that come to mind.
Hurricane Harvey. You remember that one. Yeah, twenty seventeen, uh
eighty nine deaths, one hundred and sixty billion dollars in damages, displaced,
over thirty thousand people.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Harvey. Is that the one that got our buddy Brun?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I think? I think so when we were at the fan,
it was either or it was Ike because that's the
Harvey was eight. So yeah, it was hae Harvey.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So I went there with my brother and we went
and helped, and it was devastating. Our buddy Braun as
a beach cart business, like golf carts on the beach
and all of it, like he had like one hundred
carts or more, and they all got ruined, they all
got totaled. And the insurance company was like, yeah, because
it's a named storm, you're not covered. That's insane, Like
(05:36):
what I have this insurance?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, but it says if the storm is named, that's
an act of God and we can't I can't be
held responsible for that. I don't understand how the bank
can make you own insurance and then it's insurance that
isn't good.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That seems like a scam.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That's counterproductive or counterintuitive to the idea of why you
would have the insurance and why the bank would sign
off it.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Just it is such a racket because you're paying for nothing.
I'm just throwing money away. It's a shakedown. I'm gonna
do that. I just gamble.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's a good point. Is there anything else you want
to add?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
All right, coming, it's the grand finale of today's presentation.
We crank up the wayback machine.
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