December 9, 2025 • 7 mins
“Why are people obsessed with serial killers—and what does that say about us?” That’s just one of the thought-provoking questions Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray tackle in this laugh-out-loud episode of The Ben and Skin Show.The crew dives into Wikipedia’s Top 20 Most-Read Articles of 2025, and the list is as bizarre as it is fascinating. From MrBeast’s internet dominance to Ed Gein’s chilling Netflix resurgence, and even a surprise entry for the United States (yes, people Googled that), the conversation spirals into hilarious tangents about pop culture, movies, and why everyone suddenly cares about Thunderbolts and Superman.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Been in Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle.
Hey don't fret if you didn't win your Lamb of
God tickets today. We're gonna be giving them away over
the next three days, including on Friday in person at
the Pluckers Lovers and Greenville, the og Dallas location. We'll
be doing our show there three to six. We'll give
away those last pair of lambs there. We'll do the
Today Game next. It's the only segment every day that
(00:23):
we never ever podcast. You gotta listen live, so don't
go anywhere. But right now it's time.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
For this Are You Excited?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Day featuring veteran news anchor KT's fun tweets. One of
the top twenty most read articles on Wikipedia all year long.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What could they be? What happened this year?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It might have caused people to go to Wikipedia click
on the thing.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So that's kind of interesting to me because I never
click on Wikipedia for anything like current Eventie. It's always like,
I want to hear what movies Donald Sutherland was in
in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Let me go look that up right quick. It's always
historical for me.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
You're saying that these are articles written on things right
after they happen things that happened this year.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, well just the just the leader in page views.
So I mean for a lot of these he had
a you know, I already had an article written.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
People want to go find out more? Yeah, have some
context as to what's going on. Yeah, wicked. I think
it's a pretty good guess. It's not gonna work for
them for Top twenty, but I think that's a pretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Some movies on there, Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I think like when you do some movie that has
some historical context or something like, you want to find
out more about it.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Stranger things not stranger things. I think that's a good
guess too.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
By the way, did they come out with four episodes
and then they're coming up with more on Christmas?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah? Three more on Christmas and then that's it.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, and I don't know when the I don't know
what the finale is though, Okay, it might be two
on Christmas and then a finale on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'm not sure. I'll say, watch the first three. They've
dropped very good, Yeah thought so y, I'm four in
are the are the critics getting on board with it? Oh?
All right, why don't you give us a hint.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I think the critics are worried with year in stuff,
Year in stuff, Year in stuff. Number twenty is the
Fantastic four movie.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
A good hint, that's yeah. The number just gives it
to you.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, you know time, yeah, you know time taking into
the future.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Number nineteen is a soccer guy messy. No think another
one though on the same do you think talk about
them all the time and over there we never see
him much. Rinaldo would be your number eighteen. Influencer guy.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Can't get away from him. You see him everywhere.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Mister no, what's that, mister beast?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Mister yeast beast.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Number seventeen is a TV series, very popular when a
lot of awards last year. Seven series was a one
season thing, very sad. The pit, yeah, the pit, not
the think it's coming back? Uh, adolescence yep, fantastic. Number
sixteen is a political figure Trump. No, Trump was number four, okay?
(03:14):
Oh Zelenski, No Kirk number one, Charlie Kirk, Wow, that
was number one?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Uh? But number sixteen jd vance jd vance. Number fifteen
is a movie. Didn't see it, but you I think
Ben's on.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Weapons? Yeah, you saw weapons. I did Is that pretty dark?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Yeah, it's pretty dark and that, and that makes sense
that people would go try to learn more about it
because it's wacky.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
It makes you want to go down it makes you think, like,
what in the hell? Keep that in mind. Are there
any TV shows that you wanted to go down a
rabbit hole? After watching Who's rabbit Hole?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Severance? Severance? Right there? Number twelve? Yes, Severance, did you?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, Well, wasn't the one I was looking for at
the time, But because of time, we're now just taking
what Yeah? Number fourteen is the movie Thunderbolts? What really
Pedro Pascal? Oh uh no?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Was he Fantastic four? I don't even know what that is?
Florence pew in it? Maybe is that a superhero thing?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
All right? Thirteen the United States? I'm always googling that.
People just wanted the Wikipedia that then you gonna find
out more. I know is I was still in the US.
Looked that up on Wikipedia.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Number eleven. We got a new one of these this year.
We don't always get a new one of these, Miss USA,
We get a new one of those every year. What
are you talking about? We got a new one of
these this year. Coca Cola brand new loves the White Sox.
He has a big baseball o Pope, thank you, Pope. Fantastic.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That was good. Number ten movie, big movie was released
by a lot of money. None of us. I don't
think any of us wouldn't saw it. The Smashing Massieu.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Superhero type Oh so not Avatar, not Avatar, Daredevil, Superhero Superman.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Correct, Yeah, I liked it. I did it. Seems so
stupid to force that dog on everybody. Did you like
the dog? The Kirk Curb Street thing and just put
the dog out?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
When you google Superman, don't you want to learn about,
like what happened and how it turned into a movie
in the first place, and like what you're not going
to google the new Superman.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Movie wrote it? You want to know who directed it.
You want to know about the actors behind it.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's right. You want to find out.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You want to you want to read about it and
then tell your friends that you saw it, just so
you can keep up in conversation. Okay, number nine rock Legend,
Robert Plant, you're not thinking about the year, Oh, Ozzie,
Number eight a movie.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
This is a good movie. That's a good hint. Oh oh,
one word?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Seven letters nope. It featured an actor who was in
it twice center centers.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I think I did Wikipedia that too for the backstory.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Number seven czar on mom, Donnie, Okay. Number six he
has more money than every elementary school teacher in the
als combined. Yes.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Number three, you guys have got the rest. Number three
ed Gain? Look can you tell me about Ed Gain?
Why do I know that serial killer?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yes? Yes?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And so he had a show that everybody's freaking out
about it. I show, yeah that everyone watches. I don't
even know it's called. And it proves once again that
people are obsessed with serial killers.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I heard it's good they can't handle it.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Number two was the Search for Deaths in twenty twenty five,
all right, which I've looked up many times in memoriam,
Just to so he'd start writing some lyrics for the
song I'm not gonna do this shit, Charlie Kirk. Some
traditions need to die, Christina, good job, Katie, all right,
thank you, Kevin. There it is uh coming up next,
(07:11):
it's the Today Game. We'll do that, followed by some
wildlife duds. This is crazy dude spotted bigfoot near Dallas.
We're gonna have him on the show.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Don't miss that all coming up at the back half
of the five o'clock hour in The Benetskin Show,
Been in Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle.
Hey don't fret if you didn't win your Lamb of
God tickets today. We're gonna be giving them away over
the next three days, including on Friday in person at
the Pluckers Lovers and Greenville, the og Dallas location. We'll
be doing our show there three to six. We'll give
away those last pair of lambs there. We'll do the
Today Game next. It's the only segment every day that
(00:23):
we never ever podcast. You gotta listen live, so don't
go anywhere. But right now it's time.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
For this Are You Excited?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Day featuring veteran news anchor KT's fun tweets. One of
the top twenty most read articles on Wikipedia all year long.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What could they be? What happened this year?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It might have caused people to go to Wikipedia click
on the thing.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So that's kind of interesting to me because I never
click on Wikipedia for anything like current Eventie. It's always like,
I want to hear what movies Donald Sutherland was in
in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Let me go look that up right quick. It's always
historical for me.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
You're saying that these are articles written on things right
after they happen things that happened this year.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, well just the just the leader in page views.
So I mean for a lot of these he had
a you know, I already had an article written.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
People want to go find out more? Yeah, have some
context as to what's going on. Yeah, wicked. I think
it's a pretty good guess. It's not gonna work for
them for Top twenty, but I think that's a pretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Some movies on there, Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I think like when you do some movie that has
some historical context or something like, you want to find
out more about it.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Stranger things not stranger things. I think that's a good
guess too.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
By the way, did they come out with four episodes
and then they're coming up with more on Christmas?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah? Three more on Christmas and then that's it.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, and I don't know when the I don't know
what the finale is though, Okay, it might be two
on Christmas and then a finale on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'm not sure. I'll say, watch the first three. They've
dropped very good, Yeah thought so y, I'm four in
are the are the critics getting on board with it? Oh?
All right, why don't you give us a hint.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I think the critics are worried with year in stuff,
Year in stuff, Year in stuff. Number twenty is the
Fantastic four movie.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
A good hint, that's yeah. The number just gives it
to you.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, you know time, yeah, you know time taking into
the future.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Number nineteen is a soccer guy messy. No think another
one though on the same do you think talk about
them all the time and over there we never see
him much. Rinaldo would be your number eighteen. Influencer guy.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Can't get away from him. You see him everywhere.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Mister no, what's that, mister beast?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Mister yeast beast.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Number seventeen is a TV series, very popular when a
lot of awards last year. Seven series was a one
season thing, very sad. The pit, yeah, the pit, not
the think it's coming back? Uh, adolescence yep, fantastic. Number
sixteen is a political figure Trump. No, Trump was number four, okay?
(03:14):
Oh Zelenski, No Kirk number one, Charlie Kirk, Wow, that
was number one?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Uh? But number sixteen jd vance jd vance. Number fifteen
is a movie. Didn't see it, but you I think
Ben's on.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Weapons? Yeah, you saw weapons. I did Is that pretty dark?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Yeah, it's pretty dark and that, and that makes sense
that people would go try to learn more about it
because it's wacky.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
It makes you want to go down it makes you think, like,
what in the hell? Keep that in mind. Are there
any TV shows that you wanted to go down a
rabbit hole? After watching Who's rabbit Hole?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Severance? Severance? Right there? Number twelve? Yes, Severance, did you?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, Well, wasn't the one I was looking for at
the time, But because of time, we're now just taking
what Yeah? Number fourteen is the movie Thunderbolts? What really
Pedro Pascal? Oh uh no?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Was he Fantastic four? I don't even know what that is?
Florence pew in it? Maybe is that a superhero thing?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
All right? Thirteen the United States? I'm always googling that.
People just wanted the Wikipedia that then you gonna find
out more. I know is I was still in the US.
Looked that up on Wikipedia.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Number eleven. We got a new one of these this year.
We don't always get a new one of these, Miss USA,
We get a new one of those every year. What
are you talking about? We got a new one of
these this year. Coca Cola brand new loves the White Sox.
He has a big baseball o Pope, thank you, Pope. Fantastic.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That was good. Number ten movie, big movie was released
by a lot of money. None of us. I don't
think any of us wouldn't saw it. The Smashing Massieu.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Superhero type Oh so not Avatar, not Avatar, Daredevil, Superhero Superman.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Correct, Yeah, I liked it. I did it. Seems so
stupid to force that dog on everybody. Did you like
the dog? The Kirk Curb Street thing and just put
the dog out?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
When you google Superman, don't you want to learn about,
like what happened and how it turned into a movie
in the first place, and like what you're not going
to google the new Superman.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Movie wrote it? You want to know who directed it.
You want to know about the actors behind it.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's right. You want to find out.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You want to you want to read about it and
then tell your friends that you saw it, just so
you can keep up in conversation. Okay, number nine rock Legend,
Robert Plant, you're not thinking about the year, Oh, Ozzie,
Number eight a movie.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
This is a good movie. That's a good hint. Oh oh,
one word?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Seven letters nope. It featured an actor who was in
it twice center centers.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I think I did Wikipedia that too for the backstory.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Number seven czar on mom, Donnie, Okay. Number six he
has more money than every elementary school teacher in the
als combined. Yes.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Number three, you guys have got the rest. Number three
ed Gain? Look can you tell me about Ed Gain?
Why do I know that serial killer?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yes? Yes?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And so he had a show that everybody's freaking out
about it. I show, yeah that everyone watches. I don't
even know it's called. And it proves once again that
people are obsessed with serial killers.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I heard it's good they can't handle it.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Number two was the Search for Deaths in twenty twenty five,
all right, which I've looked up many times in memoriam,
Just to so he'd start writing some lyrics for the
song I'm not gonna do this shit, Charlie Kirk. Some
traditions need to die, Christina, good job, Katie, all right,
thank you, Kevin. There it is uh coming up next,
(07:11):
it's the Today Game. We'll do that, followed by some
wildlife duds. This is crazy dude spotted bigfoot near Dallas.
We're gonna have him on the show.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Don't miss that all coming up at the back half
of the five o'clock hour in The Benetskin Show,
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