June 26, 2025 • 7 mins
In this laugh-out-loud episode of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina “K-Ray” Ray deliver a perfect blend of absurdity, nostalgia, and rock ‘n’ roll nerdery. From surprise birthday calls to Eugene while he’s literally on a tractor, to a deep dive into the new Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary, this episode is a wild ride you won’t want to miss.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Give away those Kaboomtown tickets, shall we. We've got a
four pack for you, and we use the iHeart app
the talkback feature.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
If you don't have that app, what are you doing?
Download it? It's free.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
You could stream us, listen to podcasts all your favorite
iHeart programming. The first person to leave their name, their
phone number, their email address via the talkback feature, and
the answer to the question who was the only other
number one pick in Dallas Maverick's history besides Cooper Flag
We were talking about it in the last segment. If
you're a Maverick fan or you were listening, you know,
(00:32):
and you can be the person to win those tickets.
Good luck, everybody. I'm excited to get back to that
New York Times Best Movies of the twenty first century list.
We'll do that at the bottom of the hour, But
right now it's time for this.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Skin Is Track, another edition of things Skin Is Traffic.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
All Right, So, yesterday was June twenty fifth, twenty twenty five,
and we'll probably remember it for ever.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Is the day we drafted Cooper Flag. Am my dad's birthday.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh, Jeane, Yeah, you didn't tell us it was Eugene's
birthday yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I wonder why I wouldn't tell you guys about that.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We should have him on. Let's see if we can
reach him. Don't we have his house wired with Mike's
Would you pull him up in there? Okay, yeah, there is,
he's pulled up. Now.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Let's see Eugene, it's the Benning skinch Are you near
your mic?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Hold on, I got you off the tractor.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Okay, Hey, if you get a chance, we uh to
come near your mic. Bro.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We just want to tell you happy birthday. We're the
guys at work with Christina.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh hell, yesterday, little baby corn Brand didn't even wish
me happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh no, sir? Why she was down at a fancy
Dallas Areno? Oh my god, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well she's here today and she's willing to tell Christina.
Do you want to tell your dad happy birthday?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I told you this yesterday. I wouldn't listen. I was
out feeding the donkeys. Don't we got him last week?
If you come you no? No, no? Third is Christina
not come home and visit? Enough?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Get out here, I'm talking about baby right, I gotta go. Okay,
see you later, sir man. That was great.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
What's funny is we did have dinner with my mom
last night and we did talk about his tractor.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Y'all are so crandall? And what's it called estesce Eustace?
So people will remember it is Eugene's birthday, the day
we drafted Cooper flag and what's going to happen for
me tonight?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
The day that season four of the Bear dropped? Oh yesterday?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Man? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And you can watch the whole thing or you got
to wait a week at a time. God, Unfortunately, you
can watch the whole thing. I hate that we watched
the first episode. Oh you did? How is it okay?
I can't wait, high pitch.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I also watched the season three finale two nights ago
to oh you know, to do that because we did
that last time before watching season three. We're gonna slow
burn it that, I mean, I would love to extend
it throughout the summer. So is the last episode of
season three the one where they played the all of
letdown by Radiohead?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Don't remember that party? I don't think so. That might
have been season two. That's where the big confrontation happens
in the bathroom. Yeah, with Joel McHale yeah, your hero.
Oh it's so good. Okay, So I'm excited about that.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
The other thing I'm tracking is, you know, I come
in here all the time and I recommend documentaries to
you guys that I know you'll never watch. I watched
a documentary two nights ago that Christina had seen. I
think Kat is considering it. I'm curious where you're at
on this bend. But the Becoming led Zeppelin documentary is
on Netflix. Now let's turn to our resident led Zeppelin expert,
(03:50):
Christina care a Little Baby corn Bread Ray.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
How did you like it?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Well? I saw it in IMAX, so that may skew
my view of things, because I thought it was incredible,
and obviously I'm a huge Zeppelin fan, so I love
that as well. And I went into that like, I
know a lot about Zeppelin. I've read books, I've watched
some documentaries whatever. Yeah, but there are still things that
I learned about them. There was a lot from John
(04:14):
Paul Jones that I actually didn't know. And then there
was that interview of Bonham that they had never heard before.
That was my favorite part them all. Listening to that
interview anyway, I was blown away.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I really liked it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I liked seeing some of that unseen concert footage again
on a huge Imax screen and hearing it, and it's
felt like I was actually there, So I loved it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
So I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I had some things that I was a little disappointed
in or frustrated in, but there were some amazing things.
And one thing Christina is talking about is there's just
not a lot of stuff out there with John Bonham
the drummer, and honestly, as great as all those guys are,
Led Zeppelin has Led Zeppelin because of that drummer, like
he's the greatest rock drummer of all time.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I'll argue with anybody a nerd out over it.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
There's nobody and dude, the fact that John Bonham Jovie
then went out to have a singing career and after
that was incredible. And they got into that in the documentary.
I'm assuming yeah they did, and they didn't, but they did.
Did they get into the bulg ears? They was the
jeans they because they were were those real denim bulges
or were those socks as so when they first went
to America, the bulges weren't there. But the second time
(05:21):
they went back, the Bulges were more prominent.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You notice that, No, I didn't. So what I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
About is I know a lot about led Zeppelin too, Uh,
not the album, the band. And so there's a lot
of stuff in there about Jimmy Page. That's great, but
it's already been covered in the Uh it might get
loud documentary with Jack White and the Edge. So I
knew a lot of that stuff already. Which that's a
badass documentary, David S. Gugenheim. If you haven't seen it,
(05:48):
that's amazing. But also, you know, I didn't realize. The
documentary is about led Zeppelin becoming a phenomenon which happened
in one year. It happened in one year. They released
two albums. They were nothing in the UK, they toured America,
they blew up and became maybe the biggest band in
the world. And so it's basically it's about their childhood
(06:10):
and then one year of led Zeppelin. So when it ended,
it ended as led Zeppelin two is dropping and I'm
sitting there going, oh God, there's so much more I
wanted out of this because what happens with led Zeppelin,
I mean, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant ended up hating
each other, and Robert Plant blames Jimmy Page for the
(06:33):
death of his child, and he blames him for the
death of John Bonham, that Jimmy Page brought all this
black magic occult stuff into the band and.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Then all this like there's am I over exaggerating?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
No, And so to me, I'm like, I want to
hear them talk about this, And then I realized, I
bet they won't talk about you haven't heard.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
The news being led Zeppelin.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Coming out next year.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So so the way that I wanted to leave this
was what you know, me and Christina saw. We both
liked it, but I don't know that I would recommend
it to someone that wasn't a led Zeppelin nerd.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, it leaves you wanting more for sure. Yeah, that's
all I could think about leaving. I was like, there,
when do we get the rest of this? Like, if
you're way into show business, then if you're wanting.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
More, if you're way into the first two led Zeppelin
records and way into them, you'll enjoy it. If not,
you're gonna be like, wait, what are they better? Even
here Stairway to Heaven?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Are they better than def Leppard? Two? One four seven?
Eight seven one, nine seven one, And that is how
you end a segment.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Coming up next, Let's get back to the list of
the top movies of the twenty first century, fifty to forty.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Right here on the e
Give away those Kaboomtown tickets, shall we. We've got a
four pack for you, and we use the iHeart app
the talkback feature.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
If you don't have that app, what are you doing?
Download it? It's free.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
You could stream us, listen to podcasts all your favorite
iHeart programming. The first person to leave their name, their
phone number, their email address via the talkback feature, and
the answer to the question who was the only other
number one pick in Dallas Maverick's history besides Cooper Flag
We were talking about it in the last segment. If
you're a Maverick fan or you were listening, you know,
(00:32):
and you can be the person to win those tickets.
Good luck, everybody. I'm excited to get back to that
New York Times Best Movies of the twenty first century list.
We'll do that at the bottom of the hour, But
right now it's time for this.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Skin Is Track, another edition of things Skin Is Traffic.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
All Right, So, yesterday was June twenty fifth, twenty twenty five,
and we'll probably remember it for ever.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Is the day we drafted Cooper Flag. Am my dad's birthday.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh, Jeane, Yeah, you didn't tell us it was Eugene's
birthday yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I wonder why I wouldn't tell you guys about that.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We should have him on. Let's see if we can
reach him. Don't we have his house wired with Mike's
Would you pull him up in there? Okay, yeah, there is,
he's pulled up. Now.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Let's see Eugene, it's the Benning skinch Are you near
your mic?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Hold on, I got you off the tractor.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Okay, Hey, if you get a chance, we uh to
come near your mic. Bro.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We just want to tell you happy birthday. We're the
guys at work with Christina.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh hell, yesterday, little baby corn Brand didn't even wish
me happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh no, sir? Why she was down at a fancy
Dallas Areno? Oh my god, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well she's here today and she's willing to tell Christina.
Do you want to tell your dad happy birthday?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I told you this yesterday. I wouldn't listen. I was
out feeding the donkeys. Don't we got him last week?
If you come you no? No, no? Third is Christina
not come home and visit? Enough?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Get out here, I'm talking about baby right, I gotta go. Okay,
see you later, sir man. That was great.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
What's funny is we did have dinner with my mom
last night and we did talk about his tractor.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Y'all are so crandall? And what's it called estesce Eustace?
So people will remember it is Eugene's birthday, the day
we drafted Cooper flag and what's going to happen for
me tonight?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
The day that season four of the Bear dropped? Oh yesterday?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Man? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And you can watch the whole thing or you got
to wait a week at a time. God, Unfortunately, you
can watch the whole thing. I hate that we watched
the first episode. Oh you did? How is it okay?
I can't wait, high pitch.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I also watched the season three finale two nights ago
to oh you know, to do that because we did
that last time before watching season three. We're gonna slow
burn it that, I mean, I would love to extend
it throughout the summer. So is the last episode of
season three the one where they played the all of
letdown by Radiohead?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Don't remember that party? I don't think so. That might
have been season two. That's where the big confrontation happens
in the bathroom. Yeah, with Joel McHale yeah, your hero.
Oh it's so good. Okay, So I'm excited about that.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
The other thing I'm tracking is, you know, I come
in here all the time and I recommend documentaries to
you guys that I know you'll never watch. I watched
a documentary two nights ago that Christina had seen. I
think Kat is considering it. I'm curious where you're at
on this bend. But the Becoming led Zeppelin documentary is
on Netflix. Now let's turn to our resident led Zeppelin expert,
(03:50):
Christina care a Little Baby corn Bread Ray.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
How did you like it?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Well? I saw it in IMAX, so that may skew
my view of things, because I thought it was incredible,
and obviously I'm a huge Zeppelin fan, so I love
that as well. And I went into that like, I
know a lot about Zeppelin. I've read books, I've watched
some documentaries whatever. Yeah, but there are still things that
I learned about them. There was a lot from John
(04:14):
Paul Jones that I actually didn't know. And then there
was that interview of Bonham that they had never heard before.
That was my favorite part them all. Listening to that
interview anyway, I was blown away.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I really liked it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I liked seeing some of that unseen concert footage again
on a huge Imax screen and hearing it, and it's
felt like I was actually there, So I loved it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
So I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I had some things that I was a little disappointed
in or frustrated in, but there were some amazing things.
And one thing Christina is talking about is there's just
not a lot of stuff out there with John Bonham
the drummer, and honestly, as great as all those guys are,
Led Zeppelin has Led Zeppelin because of that drummer, like
he's the greatest rock drummer of all time.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I'll argue with anybody a nerd out over it.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
There's nobody and dude, the fact that John Bonham Jovie
then went out to have a singing career and after
that was incredible. And they got into that in the documentary.
I'm assuming yeah they did, and they didn't, but they did.
Did they get into the bulg ears? They was the
jeans they because they were were those real denim bulges
or were those socks as so when they first went
to America, the bulges weren't there. But the second time
(05:21):
they went back, the Bulges were more prominent.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You notice that, No, I didn't. So what I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
About is I know a lot about led Zeppelin too, Uh,
not the album, the band. And so there's a lot
of stuff in there about Jimmy Page. That's great, but
it's already been covered in the Uh it might get
loud documentary with Jack White and the Edge. So I
knew a lot of that stuff already. Which that's a
badass documentary, David S. Gugenheim. If you haven't seen it,
(05:48):
that's amazing. But also, you know, I didn't realize. The
documentary is about led Zeppelin becoming a phenomenon which happened
in one year. It happened in one year. They released
two albums. They were nothing in the UK, they toured America,
they blew up and became maybe the biggest band in
the world. And so it's basically it's about their childhood
(06:10):
and then one year of led Zeppelin. So when it ended,
it ended as led Zeppelin two is dropping and I'm
sitting there going, oh God, there's so much more I
wanted out of this because what happens with led Zeppelin,
I mean, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant ended up hating
each other, and Robert Plant blames Jimmy Page for the
(06:33):
death of his child, and he blames him for the
death of John Bonham, that Jimmy Page brought all this
black magic occult stuff into the band and.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Then all this like there's am I over exaggerating?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
No, And so to me, I'm like, I want to
hear them talk about this, And then I realized, I
bet they won't talk about you haven't heard.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
The news being led Zeppelin.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Coming out next year.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So so the way that I wanted to leave this
was what you know, me and Christina saw. We both
liked it, but I don't know that I would recommend
it to someone that wasn't a led Zeppelin nerd.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, it leaves you wanting more for sure. Yeah, that's
all I could think about leaving. I was like, there,
when do we get the rest of this? Like, if
you're way into show business, then if you're wanting.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
More, if you're way into the first two led Zeppelin
records and way into them, you'll enjoy it. If not,
you're gonna be like, wait, what are they better? Even
here Stairway to Heaven?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Are they better than def Leppard? Two? One four seven?
Eight seven one, nine seven one, And that is how
you end a segment.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Coming up next, Let's get back to the list of
the top movies of the twenty first century, fifty to forty.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Right here on the e
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