November 12, 2025 • 6 mins
“What happens when a rising Texas politician accidentally follows adult film stars on Instagram?” That’s the jaw-dropping question Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dig into on this hilarious and unpredictable episode of The Ben and Skin Show.KT kicks off his Weekday Update with the viral Axios story about a 36-year-old Texas Democrat whose social media habits sparked a frenzy after Joe Rogan gave him a boost. The crew debates whether this was a rogue intern mistake or a classic case of “wrong account, wrong time,” while riffing on burner accounts, Instagram algorithms, and the dangers of having too many people with your password.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ninety seven point one the Eagle.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Don't forget.
Speaker 3 (00:01):
We're gonna be at Pluckers in Mesquite this Friday from
three to six. Join us for the show. Grab you
a big german, eat some wings. You're gonna have a
good time. Well so, haven't given it away those nine
inch Nails tickets yet, so be listening here in the
next forty five minutes. But right now it's time for this.
Are you excited? Featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets
(00:27):
All right, don't.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Normally go down this road, but I want to for
a second. Do you guys know anything You've seen anything
about a guy named James tall Rico.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Nope.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
So he's a Texas Democrat running for the US Senate.
But here's where he got on my radar. He went
on Joe Rogan and then Joe Rogan started like endorsing him. Okay,
and you know, Joe Rogan I think is for the
most part pretty Republican, but like he's actually not. He's
actually say he's pretty independent, pretty independent. Yeah, but he
started kind of once Joe Rogan started like talking about
(00:59):
him at kind of will fight him. So James tall Rico,
his situation is. He's thirty six. He looks like a baby.
He's very young, although he's getting graying hair already, but
he's he looking very baby face. And he's very big
about Democratic Party but like winning Christians over.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He's a Christian, a man of faith, you said, a
man of faith. This is not about really any of
his beliefs or anything.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
This is about the idea of when you start to
get famous, you usually have a team of people around you,
especially if you're like running for politics, entertainment and all
these things, or maybe you still run your social media account.
Because Axios, a famously left leaning publication they all are,
(01:47):
has a big story about James Tallerico's social media account
and which he has more than one point seven million followers.
He only follows about thirty seven hundred people, and he
has followed ten followed ten Instagram accounts of women who
are popular porn actors, OnlyFans, models, or they have accounts.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
On escorts Wow?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Which ones?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
So the first one I clicked on at iHeart on
There is someone called I Am Bentley.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh she's great.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Interesting, Now is she a Christian porn star?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Because I want to make that distinction. He also.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Followed the Instagram accounts of an adult film actor by
the name She goes by honky tonk Angel, but her
name is a Giselle Palmer. Oh oh, with an emphasis
on Jaselle Palmer. Real quick, let's see what we got there?
Like going on, Yeah, I like all honky tonk Angel
some accounts with matching user names of the Instagram accounts
(02:50):
he follows up here on sites such as dating, pornstar
dot com and escortstate dot com. And they've got you know,
a lot of them have adult content on OnlyFans as well.
Here is what his team is saying. James has never
subscribed to OnlyFans or an escort service. I believe that
while James is unaware of how these women make money,
(03:12):
he does not judge them for it and will not
play into an effort to smear them for clickbait articles.
That's exactly what his Christian faith calls him to do.
You can't say smear them. Pretty good retort though, if
you're gonna like, yeah, well whatever they do what they do, Okay,
but are you following them? And I was just thinking
about all the accounts that I have access to, Well,
(03:35):
I can anything I can on the on the Eagles.
Social media, you just switch over and control it. I
never get on it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I've got access to Ao's account. I'm gonna have him
follow a bunch of porn stars.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
But if you're like, okay, here's a seven people can
have the information to the pastors of controlling thing. And
they're just you know, they're at work or they're bored,
and they're scrolling and they forget that they're on that
account rather than their own account, and they're just liking
this and following that.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Or dming someone they shouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And now it's on him and he's got to answer
for it, or you know, the other side of it
is he's following all these people.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Which is perfectly fair to you're a thirty six year
old man.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, is he married?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I don't know, okay, I mean he might have meant
to follow them on his personal account, let's see.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And he was accidentally on the public.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Was like burner social media account and he was like.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Oops, I don't see anything about a family. But not real,
not real. Sure he's interesting if you if you've seen
him talk, I mean, he's he's very out there.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
He likes to go on. He likes to go on
Fox News.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
You know, he's taking the Pete Booty juice, you know,
thing of like, oh, I was scared to go on Fox.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
News and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, but I just thought that story.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I thought it was interesting that Axios would report that
as well, like they're pretty lefty and.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Honestly, you you look at all the stuff he's following.
Made me wonder, wonder about what am I following anything?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Like you follow Alexis Texans might act, yeah, because you
had to contact her, right, so like you had to
Are we following things that we would be you know,
an article would pop up about us, I think, probably not,
We're not that important.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, no, we're not important.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But what I was I was very meticulous once uh
in uh football play by play host Jim Brown gotten
that change. Yeah, what's he? What's he had this situation?
I went there and unfollowed everything I shouldn't be following.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
James Brown, I mean tweet, I remember that one.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Really.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
It's just the thing that's most incriminating for me is
just the Instagram algorithm, just the for you page or
any of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's like, this is what you want me to see
what is.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
This boobap oh, it's Instagram.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Just in my Twitter this morning, this is and it's different.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
But like I posted a clip of y'all's interview Haymaker
with Dirk right, and I just put Dirk for gmution
mark because it was the clip where y'all asked him
about getting into that. And then the next four responses
I got were all bots, but they were all being
very positive, all wishing me good morning, and I was like, wait,
a Dirk repost and all the bots turn nice.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Did anybody ask you if you want to smash?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
No, it was just good morning, good luck, today, rise,
and grind, depending on the state that you wake up in.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Good morning, Kevin, let's cook today. Good morning, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
May your Wednesday be as wonderful as the first sip
of coffee. Good morning, Kevin, May every may, every other
day be another beautiful secret.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Good morning, Kevin, turn around and show it to you.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Pretty good?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
All right, there he goes Kevin Turner, but he'll be back.
He just left, but he's coming back. True Crime Turner next,
Serial Killers and Tiny Peen Energy. Which thing was KT
searching on the internet. We'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Next,
Ninety seven point one the Eagle.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Don't forget.
Speaker 3 (00:01):
We're gonna be at Pluckers in Mesquite this Friday from
three to six. Join us for the show. Grab you
a big german, eat some wings. You're gonna have a
good time. Well so, haven't given it away those nine
inch Nails tickets yet, so be listening here in the
next forty five minutes. But right now it's time for this.
Are you excited? Featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets
(00:27):
All right, don't.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Normally go down this road, but I want to for
a second. Do you guys know anything You've seen anything
about a guy named James tall Rico.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Nope.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
So he's a Texas Democrat running for the US Senate.
But here's where he got on my radar. He went
on Joe Rogan and then Joe Rogan started like endorsing him. Okay,
and you know, Joe Rogan I think is for the
most part pretty Republican, but like he's actually not. He's
actually say he's pretty independent, pretty independent. Yeah, but he
started kind of once Joe Rogan started like talking about
(00:59):
him at kind of will fight him. So James tall Rico,
his situation is. He's thirty six. He looks like a baby.
He's very young, although he's getting graying hair already, but
he's he looking very baby face. And he's very big
about Democratic Party but like winning Christians over.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He's a Christian, a man of faith, you said, a
man of faith. This is not about really any of
his beliefs or anything.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
This is about the idea of when you start to
get famous, you usually have a team of people around you,
especially if you're like running for politics, entertainment and all
these things, or maybe you still run your social media account.
Because Axios, a famously left leaning publication they all are,
(01:47):
has a big story about James Tallerico's social media account
and which he has more than one point seven million followers.
He only follows about thirty seven hundred people, and he
has followed ten followed ten Instagram accounts of women who
are popular porn actors, OnlyFans, models, or they have accounts.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
On escorts Wow?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Which ones?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
So the first one I clicked on at iHeart on
There is someone called I Am Bentley.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh she's great.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Interesting, Now is she a Christian porn star?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Because I want to make that distinction. He also.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Followed the Instagram accounts of an adult film actor by
the name She goes by honky tonk Angel, but her
name is a Giselle Palmer. Oh oh, with an emphasis
on Jaselle Palmer. Real quick, let's see what we got there?
Like going on, Yeah, I like all honky tonk Angel
some accounts with matching user names of the Instagram accounts
(02:50):
he follows up here on sites such as dating, pornstar
dot com and escortstate dot com. And they've got you know,
a lot of them have adult content on OnlyFans as well.
Here is what his team is saying. James has never
subscribed to OnlyFans or an escort service. I believe that
while James is unaware of how these women make money,
(03:12):
he does not judge them for it and will not
play into an effort to smear them for clickbait articles.
That's exactly what his Christian faith calls him to do.
You can't say smear them. Pretty good retort though, if
you're gonna like, yeah, well whatever they do what they do, Okay,
but are you following them? And I was just thinking
about all the accounts that I have access to, Well,
(03:35):
I can anything I can on the on the Eagles.
Social media, you just switch over and control it. I
never get on it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I've got access to Ao's account. I'm gonna have him
follow a bunch of porn stars.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
But if you're like, okay, here's a seven people can
have the information to the pastors of controlling thing. And
they're just you know, they're at work or they're bored,
and they're scrolling and they forget that they're on that
account rather than their own account, and they're just liking
this and following that.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Or dming someone they shouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And now it's on him and he's got to answer
for it, or you know, the other side of it
is he's following all these people.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Which is perfectly fair to you're a thirty six year
old man.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, is he married?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I don't know, okay, I mean he might have meant
to follow them on his personal account, let's see.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And he was accidentally on the public.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Was like burner social media account and he was like.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Oops, I don't see anything about a family. But not real,
not real. Sure he's interesting if you if you've seen
him talk, I mean, he's he's very out there.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
He likes to go on. He likes to go on
Fox News.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
You know, he's taking the Pete Booty juice, you know,
thing of like, oh, I was scared to go on Fox.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
News and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, but I just thought that story.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I thought it was interesting that Axios would report that
as well, like they're pretty lefty and.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Honestly, you you look at all the stuff he's following.
Made me wonder, wonder about what am I following anything?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Like you follow Alexis Texans might act, yeah, because you
had to contact her, right, so like you had to
Are we following things that we would be you know,
an article would pop up about us, I think, probably not,
We're not that important.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Well, no, we're not important.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But what I was I was very meticulous once uh
in uh football play by play host Jim Brown gotten
that change. Yeah, what's he? What's he had this situation?
I went there and unfollowed everything I shouldn't be following.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
James Brown, I mean tweet, I remember that one.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Really.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
It's just the thing that's most incriminating for me is
just the Instagram algorithm, just the for you page or
any of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's like, this is what you want me to see
what is.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
This boobap oh, it's Instagram.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Just in my Twitter this morning, this is and it's different.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
But like I posted a clip of y'all's interview Haymaker
with Dirk right, and I just put Dirk for gmution
mark because it was the clip where y'all asked him
about getting into that. And then the next four responses
I got were all bots, but they were all being
very positive, all wishing me good morning, and I was like, wait,
a Dirk repost and all the bots turn nice.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Did anybody ask you if you want to smash?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
No, it was just good morning, good luck, today, rise,
and grind, depending on the state that you wake up in.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Good morning, Kevin, let's cook today. Good morning, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
May your Wednesday be as wonderful as the first sip
of coffee. Good morning, Kevin, May every may, every other
day be another beautiful secret.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Good morning, Kevin, turn around and show it to you.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Pretty good?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
All right, there he goes Kevin Turner, but he'll be back.
He just left, but he's coming back. True Crime Turner next,
Serial Killers and Tiny Peen Energy. Which thing was KT
searching on the internet. We'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Next,
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