June 5, 2025 • 5 mins
“Would you trade your F-150 for a street-legal Japanese mini truck that costs less than a golf cart?”In this wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show, your favorite DFW radio crew—Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray—dive into one of the most unexpected and hilarious segments of the year: the return of the truck segment.The gang explores the quirky rise of Kei trucks (pronounced “kay”), the Japanese mini pickups that are now officially street-legal in Texas. These pint-sized flatbeds are turning heads and sparking debates across the Lone Star State. Are they practical? Are they embarrassing? Or are they the future of hauling fence posts in style?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How much door? All right.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I know this is a little weird that we're doing
a truck segment here, but I feel like it was
time for that. There's a new thing going on. We
haven't done a truck segment in years ever, so let's
do a truck segment.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Damn it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
There's this new well, it's not new. There's a especially
a Japanese mini pickup. They're called Key Trucks AI and
they were designed to meet Japan's regulations on size and
engine power and things like that. They're usually older trucks.
They go between forty five and seventy five miles per hour.
(00:39):
You might find one that doesn't go more than fifty
miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Let's not get that thing on the highway.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But most of them nowadays do go seventy five miles
per hour. Okay, And Texas has just approved a bill
that has made them legal to drive the street. Legal
now and why that's very interesting to me. And you know,
I showed you guys a little picture of it. Would
you like to describe the picture of this truck for
our audience right here.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I mean, I've seen a picture of skin in one
of these. We had those so when we did the
Sumo tournament. We had one at the Sumo tournament. And
when we did the Sumo truck pull, that's the truck
they were pulling, all right. It's kind of it's about
the size of a golf cart, maybe a little bit bigger,
but it's a truck. Imagine that. Like it's like when
(01:24):
Skin's arm was hanging out the window, his arm looked
bigger than the whole car door. Yeah, it's and it's
it's the it's most of them are flatbed.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yes, their flatbeds. You can haul some stuff if you
need to. And they were I mean, I remember when
I went to Italy seeing these all the times because
they have those.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Narrow roads, you know, Yeah, and there's just a ton
of them. Yeah, I saw it when we were in
Turks I saw them. I was like, there's just a
pathway from the parking lot of the hotel to one
of these beach kitchens and like just to get supplies.
And they were driving these trucks down these walk paths.
I'm like, oh my god, Yeah, that's in'dible. Do you
know who doesn't like these? Your average textan, Yeah, they
(02:04):
think this is a pea truck.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well yeah, the new the new Ford F one fifty
is the most popular vehicle in Texas. Of course, you
know Axios reporting going for about thirty nine, five hundred
dollars right around there.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And F one fifty. Yeah, if you want one of those,
you got to get up to prosper Fords F one
fifty selection is bananas pick. It's all way, the whole way.
They don't sell these pea trucks. It's like a New
Marvel movie. I heard there's a new Marvel. I heard
it's nuts. Yeah, new Marvel.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
But for these little mini trucks that we're talking about,
they go for a round. And by the way, they've
gotten populark is TikTok and things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Hold on. Later in the show, we're going to do
the prices. What do you want to do it right quick?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Also a primer for later in the show when we
play the price is what about gas station snacks?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
How much? I mean it's a big range, though, ok
tell you I'll I'll go first, unless you want to
go first. No, I have no idea. Okay, I'm gonna
go seventeen thy five hundred dollars. Ben, what are you like?
Just the average of an average one. Yeah, sure, because
you can get them tricked out obviously. Oh yeah, you
can pimp them out if you want to. I will
say fifteen thousand.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oo', let's just go with the seventeen point six you
have all overbid buy a lot, guys. They're going for
about three to nine thousand.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh my god. They're cheaper than golf carts. Is why
people are going, Hell, I can drive this thing around.
Why would I buy one for nine if I can
buy it for three.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, yeah, that might might be the one that doesn't
go seventy five miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
But that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Huh. I was just thinking, sometimes I have no little work.
I had some some this is because this is gonna
become a problem.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And tell story the same time every day. I would
tell the story. What story?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
If I wanna go throw some stuff away, you know
I have to do put it in my f and
trunk of my car.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, he's right.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Why I don't like driving trucks. That's your truck in
high school? I want driving trucks.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
He's a hard to park.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Not hard to park. I just don't like parking them.
And so if you're saying inconvenient, I like cars.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
If you have to take a trash bag out of
your house, no to the behind the alley and you
have to drive it in your back of your car.
I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Maybe there's some big old fence posts that I dug
up on my own in my backyard.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You were burying the lead. You were a high school
truck turner. If you weren't, you're a big p small town.
You drive a truck. They let a guy that likes
the Dave Matthews band driving truck. It's very popular. Did
you have a cowboy hat, wranglers in a beat buckle?
I didn't, man, and I should have, and I wish
I did. You wouldn't embrace your culture? Well, I tell
you what.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Talking to some people and only two over the weekend,
and I you know you where you're from?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Blah blah blaye.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
May you're those crazy ones living in the city, you know,
like they can't fathom getting on a road that has
the least bit of traffic on it because there's no
traffic at all.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Do you know what Ben missed while he was on vacation,
Western cocktail attire skin? Yeah, God, send that picture. I
need to send it to what our buddy Ryan Griffin's
fiftieth birthday was a Western cocktail attire. Did you have
a cowboy hat? I'll let you decide. I think he.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Had a cowboy hat, but I don't know that I
would call it a cowboy hat.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh, that was a hipster hat. It was more Kenny
Chesney barefoot Nation hat. I'll send you a picture during
the break and let you be the judge. I saw
people in the Freak after party on Facebook asking if
the picture exists. So he was too ashamed to put
it out there. Now I put it on. I'll go
put it in the Freak group. I have pictures of
him wearing a cowboy hat. If he calls me, that's
(05:40):
what pops up on my phone. Yeah, but that's what
I was going through my gay face. It's been in
Skin Show ninety one point one. The Eagle coming up next.
The only segment that we never podcast. It's the Today Game.
How much door? All right.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I know this is a little weird that we're doing
a truck segment here, but I feel like it was
time for that. There's a new thing going on. We
haven't done a truck segment in years ever, so let's
do a truck segment.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Damn it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
There's this new well, it's not new. There's a especially
a Japanese mini pickup. They're called Key Trucks AI and
they were designed to meet Japan's regulations on size and
engine power and things like that. They're usually older trucks.
They go between forty five and seventy five miles per hour.
(00:39):
You might find one that doesn't go more than fifty
miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Let's not get that thing on the highway.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
But most of them nowadays do go seventy five miles
per hour. Okay, And Texas has just approved a bill
that has made them legal to drive the street. Legal
now and why that's very interesting to me. And you know,
I showed you guys a little picture of it. Would
you like to describe the picture of this truck for
our audience right here.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I mean, I've seen a picture of skin in one
of these. We had those so when we did the
Sumo tournament. We had one at the Sumo tournament. And
when we did the Sumo truck pull, that's the truck
they were pulling, all right. It's kind of it's about
the size of a golf cart, maybe a little bit bigger,
but it's a truck. Imagine that. Like it's like when
(01:24):
Skin's arm was hanging out the window, his arm looked
bigger than the whole car door. Yeah, it's and it's
it's the it's most of them are flatbed.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yes, their flatbeds. You can haul some stuff if you
need to. And they were I mean, I remember when
I went to Italy seeing these all the times because
they have those.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Narrow roads, you know, Yeah, and there's just a ton
of them. Yeah, I saw it when we were in
Turks I saw them. I was like, there's just a
pathway from the parking lot of the hotel to one
of these beach kitchens and like just to get supplies.
And they were driving these trucks down these walk paths.
I'm like, oh my god, Yeah, that's in'dible. Do you
know who doesn't like these? Your average textan, Yeah, they
(02:04):
think this is a pea truck.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well yeah, the new the new Ford F one fifty
is the most popular vehicle in Texas. Of course, you
know Axios reporting going for about thirty nine, five hundred
dollars right around there.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And F one fifty. Yeah, if you want one of those,
you got to get up to prosper Fords F one
fifty selection is bananas pick. It's all way, the whole way.
They don't sell these pea trucks. It's like a New
Marvel movie. I heard there's a new Marvel. I heard
it's nuts. Yeah, new Marvel.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
But for these little mini trucks that we're talking about,
they go for a round. And by the way, they've
gotten populark is TikTok and things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Hold on. Later in the show, we're going to do
the prices. What do you want to do it right quick?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Also a primer for later in the show when we
play the price is what about gas station snacks?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
How much? I mean it's a big range, though, ok
tell you I'll I'll go first, unless you want to
go first. No, I have no idea. Okay, I'm gonna
go seventeen thy five hundred dollars. Ben, what are you like?
Just the average of an average one. Yeah, sure, because
you can get them tricked out obviously. Oh yeah, you
can pimp them out if you want to. I will
say fifteen thousand.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oo', let's just go with the seventeen point six you
have all overbid buy a lot, guys. They're going for
about three to nine thousand.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh my god. They're cheaper than golf carts. Is why
people are going, Hell, I can drive this thing around.
Why would I buy one for nine if I can
buy it for three.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, yeah, that might might be the one that doesn't
go seventy five miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
But that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Huh. I was just thinking, sometimes I have no little work.
I had some some this is because this is gonna
become a problem.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And tell story the same time every day. I would
tell the story. What story?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
If I wanna go throw some stuff away, you know
I have to do put it in my f and
trunk of my car.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, he's right.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Why I don't like driving trucks. That's your truck in
high school? I want driving trucks.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
He's a hard to park.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Not hard to park. I just don't like parking them.
And so if you're saying inconvenient, I like cars.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
If you have to take a trash bag out of
your house, no to the behind the alley and you
have to drive it in your back of your car.
I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Maybe there's some big old fence posts that I dug
up on my own in my backyard.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You were burying the lead. You were a high school
truck turner. If you weren't, you're a big p small town.
You drive a truck. They let a guy that likes
the Dave Matthews band driving truck. It's very popular. Did
you have a cowboy hat, wranglers in a beat buckle?
I didn't, man, and I should have, and I wish
I did. You wouldn't embrace your culture? Well, I tell
you what.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Talking to some people and only two over the weekend,
and I you know you where you're from?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Blah blah blaye.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
May you're those crazy ones living in the city, you know,
like they can't fathom getting on a road that has
the least bit of traffic on it because there's no
traffic at all.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Do you know what Ben missed while he was on vacation,
Western cocktail attire skin? Yeah, God, send that picture. I
need to send it to what our buddy Ryan Griffin's
fiftieth birthday was a Western cocktail attire. Did you have
a cowboy hat? I'll let you decide. I think he.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Had a cowboy hat, but I don't know that I
would call it a cowboy hat.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh, that was a hipster hat. It was more Kenny
Chesney barefoot Nation hat. I'll send you a picture during
the break and let you be the judge. I saw
people in the Freak after party on Facebook asking if
the picture exists. So he was too ashamed to put
it out there. Now I put it on. I'll go
put it in the Freak group. I have pictures of
him wearing a cowboy hat. If he calls me, that's
(05:40):
what pops up on my phone. Yeah, but that's what
I was going through my gay face. It's been in
Skin Show ninety one point one. The Eagle coming up next.
The only segment that we never podcast. It's the Today Game.
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