June 9, 2025 • 6 mins
“Wait… what the heck is a PDS?!” That’s the question that kicks off a hilariously relatable and wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show on 97.1 The Eagle.Join Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they dive headfirst into the chaotic world of Texas weather coverage, where new meteorological terms seem to pop up faster than a summer thunderstorm. From the mysterious rise of “tornadic activity” to the baffling overuse of “PDS” (that’s “Particularly Dangerous Situation” — or as Skin’s wife hilariously guessed, “Pretty Darn Serious”), the crew breaks down the absurdity of weather lingo with their signature wit and charm.Key Moments You Can’t Miss:
- 🎧 Skin’s epic rant on how “tornadic activity” suddenly became a thing.
- 🌩️ The “PDS” confusion that sparks a laugh-out-loud debate about whether weather terms should just be more honest (and funnier).
- 🛻 Pete Delkus’ storm coverage gets lovingly roasted — especially when he drops “PDS” 25 times without explaining it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle Look,
we want to give away a tickets. We got a
four pack for Rangers Royals on June nineteenth, and we
like to give away those tickets using the iHeart app.
So hit the talkback feature on the free iHeart app.
You should have it. You can stream listen to podcasts.
It's a great, great app. First person, it leaves their name,
their phone number and their email address and can tell
(00:22):
us who is not on the show today. If you're
listening to the last segment, you heard it. Now, if
you just tuned in, you don't know yet, because you
have you've only heard Me talk. You haven't heard Ben talk.
You haven't heard KT talk. You haven't heard Christina talkoled
I think she just laughed or giggled. So it's either
KT or it's been. We're whittling it down. But hopefully
(00:42):
you've been listening, heard the first segment and you already
know and you've already won those tickets. So we give
away tickets every day to someone who's been listening. Listen
all day. Use the app and you have a chance
to win. Right now, however, it's time for this skinny track.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Other edition of things.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
All Right. Coming up later in the show for the
weekday update, we're going to talk about the coverage of
all the storms last night. But there's a little slice
of something that I wanted to talk about with you guys,
because it feels like every couple of years something new
happens and there's new jargon in the weather world. Oh yes, Now,
(01:25):
maybe the one I always think of is out of
nowhere four years ago or five years ago, tornadic activity.
I mean, I lived here my entire life, in fricking
Tornado Alley, and I never weren't once heard Troy Duncan
or any of those guys say tornadic activity. That was
a pretty big.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
One coming up for me.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Tornadic activity where not on on like local onliness. Okay, yeah,
I'm telling you, Pat, I'm telling you Troy Duncan never
said it once. Like I've lived here my entire life,
I've lived through and I didn't hear tornadic activist until
five years ago. Pete started saying it, and then everybody
undersleep blew me away. It's undersleet is a new one.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Again, It's like one of these things that someone uses
a term and then everyone starts using the term. I'm
telling you, i'd never heard tornadic activity. So there's one
last night that I heard twenty five to thirty times.
Come you know what it is?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh, yeah, say it, direco.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh no, it wasn't the directo. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You didn't hear about the directo.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I mean I heard about it, but that's not the
term I'm talking about. Okay, we got another one then,
do you know?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I I don't know. I didn't watch the weather last night.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
PDS.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Oh, PTS was a new one for me too.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yes, I'd never heard PDS. Yes, and I heard Pete
say had one hundred times last night.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So you said it as if anyone knew what the
hell it was.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's exactly what I said to my wife. I was like,
interesting that we're using this term now without context. And
this happens all the time, Like radio people will just
go on the air and start talking about Marty shots
and stuff, as if anyone in the listening audience knows
what that is, right, all right? Uh? And it's funny
because like a station like the Ticket, they just calm
(03:07):
and deer it and then like all their listeners start
using it. Like people thought P one was something that
Reiner came up with. Meanwhile, it's industry jargon that's been
used in the industry for decades.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Right, called their listeners p one Right.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah. So but anyway, so last night, boy Pete's rolling
and he's just throwing PDS around. Now, do you guys
know what PDS stands for?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I think I heard him say it one time and
it was pretty drastic, pretty darn something situation. It was
oh oh, potentially dangerous situation.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
He got it. Actually, I believe it's particularly particularly dangerous situation. Yeah, oh,
I heard him say that one time. Have a million
times he's at PDS. Okay, so that was kind of
my point. And here's Pete and you know, a friend
of the show. We love Pete Channel. Yeah, I'm sorry,
Yeah yah. Their whole crew is great, and I it's
(04:04):
not the only one I watched, but I'm I love
Below and I love Cynthia, and I love all those
people out there. So I tend to watch that more
than anything. And so I'm watching that last night and
I hear PDS twenty five times, and so it starts
conversation with me and the wife. My wife goes, I go,
do you know what this means. And one of the
(04:25):
things Pete said that really stood out as he goes,
in all my time of broadcasting this, I've heard, I've
had plenty of PDS tornado situations. This is the first
ever PDS thunderstorm I've ever seen. And I was like, well,
why don't you tell us what the hell of PDS
thing is? Because I've never heard this. So I turned
to the wife. I go, have you ever heard this?
(04:45):
You know what PDS is? And she goes no. I go,
what do you think it means? She goes, pretty darn serious?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Okay, oh yeah, that's better. I like it better. Imagine
She's right. I mean it's kind of the same.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Thing, out of the same thing I've but imagine if
that an official weather term. We have a pretty darn
serious situation here.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Darn it should be here, pretty darn serious situation, Pretty
darn serious situation.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Look, I've had pretty of pretty darn serious tornado situation.
If I've never had a pretty darn serious thunderstorm situation,
I was gonna call it a night.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I think I'll leave it on the weather a little
bit more stale alert because of this pretty.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Darn serious situation. Uh, and so we looked it up
and that's when we saw that it's a particularly dangerous situation.
So clearly he's just trying to save time. Hold on,
I got it wrong. She did not say that. She said, Oh,
yes she did, Yes, she had. I thought at first
she was saying storm for the s but that would
(05:42):
make sense, a pretty darn storm. Oh, I think she
was saying a pretty dangerous storm. Were pretty good too,
It's pretty good, and really it's kind of like particularly
dangerous situations kind of the same thing. Yes, absolutely, But anyways,
we'll have another new term that'll pop onto the screen
in about it year, year and a half and everyone's
going to be saying it. Just keep an eye out.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
In the five o'clock hour, I'd like to tell you
a couple of things about how Pete threw his crew
under the bus for going to Bucky's.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
No man, there's lots of storm talking to five o'clock
our right stick around for that coming up next. Who's
getting bigger? Black Sabbath or Sydney Sweeney
Ben and skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle Look,
we want to give away a tickets. We got a
four pack for Rangers Royals on June nineteenth, and we
like to give away those tickets using the iHeart app.
So hit the talkback feature on the free iHeart app.
You should have it. You can stream listen to podcasts.
It's a great, great app. First person, it leaves their name,
their phone number and their email address and can tell
(00:22):
us who is not on the show today. If you're
listening to the last segment, you heard it. Now, if
you just tuned in, you don't know yet, because you
have you've only heard Me talk. You haven't heard Ben talk.
You haven't heard KT talk. You haven't heard Christina talkoled
I think she just laughed or giggled. So it's either
KT or it's been. We're whittling it down. But hopefully
(00:42):
you've been listening, heard the first segment and you already
know and you've already won those tickets. So we give
away tickets every day to someone who's been listening. Listen
all day. Use the app and you have a chance
to win. Right now, however, it's time for this skinny track.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Other edition of things.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
All Right. Coming up later in the show for the
weekday update, we're going to talk about the coverage of
all the storms last night. But there's a little slice
of something that I wanted to talk about with you guys,
because it feels like every couple of years something new
happens and there's new jargon in the weather world. Oh yes, Now,
(01:25):
maybe the one I always think of is out of
nowhere four years ago or five years ago, tornadic activity.
I mean, I lived here my entire life, in fricking
Tornado Alley, and I never weren't once heard Troy Duncan
or any of those guys say tornadic activity. That was
a pretty big.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
One coming up for me.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Tornadic activity where not on on like local onliness. Okay, yeah,
I'm telling you, Pat, I'm telling you Troy Duncan never
said it once. Like I've lived here my entire life,
I've lived through and I didn't hear tornadic activist until
five years ago. Pete started saying it, and then everybody
undersleep blew me away. It's undersleet is a new one.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Again, It's like one of these things that someone uses
a term and then everyone starts using the term. I'm
telling you, i'd never heard tornadic activity. So there's one
last night that I heard twenty five to thirty times.
Come you know what it is?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh, yeah, say it, direco.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh no, it wasn't the directo. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You didn't hear about the directo.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I mean I heard about it, but that's not the
term I'm talking about. Okay, we got another one then,
do you know?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I I don't know. I didn't watch the weather last night.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
PDS.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Oh, PTS was a new one for me too.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yes, I'd never heard PDS. Yes, and I heard Pete
say had one hundred times last night.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So you said it as if anyone knew what the
hell it was.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's exactly what I said to my wife. I was like,
interesting that we're using this term now without context. And
this happens all the time, Like radio people will just
go on the air and start talking about Marty shots
and stuff, as if anyone in the listening audience knows
what that is, right, all right? Uh? And it's funny
because like a station like the Ticket, they just calm
(03:07):
and deer it and then like all their listeners start
using it. Like people thought P one was something that
Reiner came up with. Meanwhile, it's industry jargon that's been
used in the industry for decades.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Right, called their listeners p one Right.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah. So but anyway, so last night, boy Pete's rolling
and he's just throwing PDS around. Now, do you guys
know what PDS stands for?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I think I heard him say it one time and
it was pretty drastic, pretty darn something situation. It was
oh oh, potentially dangerous situation.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
He got it. Actually, I believe it's particularly particularly dangerous situation. Yeah, oh,
I heard him say that one time. Have a million
times he's at PDS. Okay, so that was kind of
my point. And here's Pete and you know, a friend
of the show. We love Pete Channel. Yeah, I'm sorry,
Yeah yah. Their whole crew is great, and I it's
(04:04):
not the only one I watched, but I'm I love
Below and I love Cynthia, and I love all those
people out there. So I tend to watch that more
than anything. And so I'm watching that last night and
I hear PDS twenty five times, and so it starts
conversation with me and the wife. My wife goes, I go,
do you know what this means. And one of the
(04:25):
things Pete said that really stood out as he goes,
in all my time of broadcasting this, I've heard, I've
had plenty of PDS tornado situations. This is the first
ever PDS thunderstorm I've ever seen. And I was like, well,
why don't you tell us what the hell of PDS
thing is? Because I've never heard this. So I turned
to the wife. I go, have you ever heard this?
(04:45):
You know what PDS is? And she goes no. I go,
what do you think it means? She goes, pretty darn serious?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Okay, oh yeah, that's better. I like it better. Imagine
She's right. I mean it's kind of the same.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Thing, out of the same thing I've but imagine if
that an official weather term. We have a pretty darn
serious situation here.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Darn it should be here, pretty darn serious situation, Pretty
darn serious situation.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Look, I've had pretty of pretty darn serious tornado situation.
If I've never had a pretty darn serious thunderstorm situation,
I was gonna call it a night.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I think I'll leave it on the weather a little
bit more stale alert because of this pretty.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Darn serious situation. Uh, and so we looked it up
and that's when we saw that it's a particularly dangerous situation.
So clearly he's just trying to save time. Hold on,
I got it wrong. She did not say that. She said, Oh,
yes she did, Yes, she had. I thought at first
she was saying storm for the s but that would
(05:42):
make sense, a pretty darn storm. Oh, I think she
was saying a pretty dangerous storm. Were pretty good too,
It's pretty good, and really it's kind of like particularly
dangerous situations kind of the same thing. Yes, absolutely, But anyways,
we'll have another new term that'll pop onto the screen
in about it year, year and a half and everyone's
going to be saying it. Just keep an eye out.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
In the five o'clock hour, I'd like to tell you
a couple of things about how Pete threw his crew
under the bus for going to Bucky's.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
No man, there's lots of storm talking to five o'clock
our right stick around for that coming up next. Who's
getting bigger? Black Sabbath or Sydney Sweeney
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