July 8, 2025 • 6 mins
“What would you do if you accidentally hit a bear with your car… and then tried to help it over a guardrail?” That’s the jaw-dropping question that kicks off this wildly unpredictable episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where the crew dives headfirst into the most bizarre wildlife encounters you’ve never imagined.Join hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they unravel a series of stories that blur the line between compassion and chaos. From a well-meaning motorist getting mauled while trying to rescue a bear, to a man with a live eel swimming in his abdomen, this episode is a rollercoaster of “Wait, WHAT?!” moments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Earlier today, I had to take my car in and
I just happened to be over there in Plano near
Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen. I've thought about it anytime you
get close to it. There's only one location in town
of Andrews American Pizza Kitchen. It's at Preston and Plano Parkway.
It was voted best pizzeria in all of DFW by
readers of the Dallas Morning News. They got an awesome
craft beer selection, TVs in there as far as I
(00:20):
can see, a great place to watch sports, they got
pasta they I mean, it's just a phenomenal restaurant, and
what an honor for them best pizzeri and DFW according
to readers of the Dallas Morning News. So if you're
a true foodie, get over there, man, get over there
and try Andrews American Pizza Kitchen.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
But right now it's time for this Welcome the Wildlife Centers.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
So much wildlife, tons of stories. I would like to
start with this one.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Guys. There was a fellow driving out in California.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
He's fifty nine years old and he's just driving down
Route two ninety nine YEP on Sunday and then he
slammed into a So.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
He's devastated by this.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
So he's devastated by this, but he sees that the
black bear is kind of off to the side and
trying to climb the guard rail but also not moving well.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So he's like, Okay, I'm gonna try to go help.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Him get over the guardrail and then run off into
the into the country. Now, I think, when we're talking California,
this isn't like the La portion of California. This is
more of the country side of California here. So if
this bear can get over this guardrail, it can run off,
and it can live the rest of its you know,
remaining minutes out in the out in the woods. The
(01:48):
hell yeah, gets out mortally wounded. The bear was struggling
to climb over a guard rail in the highway and
get back to the wild habitat of the other side.
The motorists tried to assist by helping the bear over
the guardrail and was bitten multiple times in the process.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Hey, I mean, it's like these two gang members are
to fight and one of them his gun is jamming.
Let me go help him help his gun. Like, dude,
I've seen people like try to rescue a tiger shark
that's up too shallow water.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
If it can, it will eat you.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I've seen people try to like give a cobra water,
Like why if it can, if.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
It can bite you, it's going to bite you.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
What are you doing? Mother Nature has no emulsion.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
God, So there was a Now by the way the
guy bit According to the San Francisco Gate, several witnesses
looked on as the fifty nine year old man approached
the bear and was bitten multiple times in his left forearm. Now,
there was an off duty EMT who witnessed the incident,
and he responded immediately applied a tournique and then you know,
(03:00):
called for the ambulance.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
To the guy or the bear on the bear. Man,
I gotta help this bear.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And what is the bear supposed to think? A human
is grabbing on him right now? It's like, why are
you trying to stop me from getting over the fit.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
But also the bear is like, that's the guy. He
just tried to kill me. Just try to run me over.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
What is he doing? This guy won't stop until he
finishes me off. Yeah, the bear.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Didn't think for a second that the guy was trying
to help. He thought he was getting in the thing.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Warning, no, bears is humans after us.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What would you do if somebody ran you over in
a car and as you were trying to get away,
they chased after you and tried to grab you.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Can they try to push you over the ramp?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah? Eighty one year old woman was killed in a
bear attack.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Are you making joke?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Come on, dude, eighty one year old woman got mauled
in her living room by a bear.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
What this is worse than the slim fast guy getting
eaten by a pack of wolves at the age of
one hundred.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's a pack of wolves.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Hey, he had like two point three billion dollars so
trade all.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Day crime he was eating by a pack of wolves. Huh.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Teiko Takahashi was found lying in a pool of blood
in the center of her living room around seven forty am.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
She's just watching the Today Show and here comes to
the bear.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And you were doing earlier when you were doing this,
You're doing that thick accent you saw when you saw
the bear.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, no, I actually just had something back of my throat.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Okay, got it, I got it out during the last
I've never heard your bear accent.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
It did say in this article, which makes me uncomfortable
that bears have been reported eating rice stored in homes
and sheds, hey man, as well as entering garages and greenhouses.
That is what the story said from the Asahi Shimbun.
That's the website that I found this on.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
You know what is terrifying is when you see a
big bear walking through a neighborhood with a jar of
soy sauce, you know exactly what it's about to go do,
or when you see him walking with a newspaper off too.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Doctors found a live eel swimming in a man's abdomen.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Ben, how did it get in there?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Thirty three year old man thirty three, yeah, he should
know better.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Showed up.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
He's from China, showed up at the first affiliated hospital
and doubled over with stomach pain and a rock hard abdomen.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Oh nice.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
They run a CT scan and they're like, oh my god,
the eel had punched through his colon and was now
swimming around his abs.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
How big a heel is? How big a guy is this?
Because eels are big, right, It was kind of big.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
It was under a foot long, but still, I mean
imagine a subway sandwich, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Okay, they had that at the ballpark foot long eel night.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So then they have emergency surgery on the guy and
the fish is wriggling in there, and they get the
clamp and pull it out.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Did they return it to its natural habit and if
they did, would it be scarred forever?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Hurry? Get that the salt water guys. You aren't gonna
believe where I've been. That guy tried to smuggle it
in the country, right.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I don't know this, it says the staff skipped, explaining
how the creature got inside.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I'm telling you I have a friend I mentioned this
who went to work in an emergency room. He said,
the biggest surprise is how often people come in there
with stuff stuck up in there.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yeah, amazing. Wait is this the love shock? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
No, that's coming up though.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Okay, all right, so watch out for bears in your
living room.
Earlier today, I had to take my car in and
I just happened to be over there in Plano near
Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen. I've thought about it anytime you
get close to it. There's only one location in town
of Andrews American Pizza Kitchen. It's at Preston and Plano Parkway.
It was voted best pizzeria in all of DFW by
readers of the Dallas Morning News. They got an awesome
craft beer selection, TVs in there as far as I
(00:20):
can see, a great place to watch sports, they got
pasta they I mean, it's just a phenomenal restaurant, and
what an honor for them best pizzeri and DFW according
to readers of the Dallas Morning News. So if you're
a true foodie, get over there, man, get over there
and try Andrews American Pizza Kitchen.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
But right now it's time for this Welcome the Wildlife Centers.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
So much wildlife, tons of stories. I would like to
start with this one.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Guys. There was a fellow driving out in California.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
He's fifty nine years old and he's just driving down
Route two ninety nine YEP on Sunday and then he
slammed into a So.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
He's devastated by this.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
So he's devastated by this, but he sees that the
black bear is kind of off to the side and
trying to climb the guard rail but also not moving well.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So he's like, Okay, I'm gonna try to go help.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Him get over the guardrail and then run off into
the into the country. Now, I think, when we're talking California,
this isn't like the La portion of California. This is
more of the country side of California here. So if
this bear can get over this guardrail, it can run off,
and it can live the rest of its you know,
remaining minutes out in the out in the woods. The
(01:48):
hell yeah, gets out mortally wounded. The bear was struggling
to climb over a guard rail in the highway and
get back to the wild habitat of the other side.
The motorists tried to assist by helping the bear over
the guardrail and was bitten multiple times in the process.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Hey, I mean, it's like these two gang members are
to fight and one of them his gun is jamming.
Let me go help him help his gun. Like, dude,
I've seen people like try to rescue a tiger shark
that's up too shallow water.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
If it can, it will eat you.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I've seen people try to like give a cobra water,
Like why if it can, if.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
It can bite you, it's going to bite you.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
What are you doing? Mother Nature has no emulsion.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
God, So there was a Now by the way the
guy bit According to the San Francisco Gate, several witnesses
looked on as the fifty nine year old man approached
the bear and was bitten multiple times in his left forearm. Now,
there was an off duty EMT who witnessed the incident,
and he responded immediately applied a tournique and then you know,
(03:00):
called for the ambulance.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
To the guy or the bear on the bear. Man,
I gotta help this bear.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And what is the bear supposed to think? A human
is grabbing on him right now? It's like, why are
you trying to stop me from getting over the fit.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
But also the bear is like, that's the guy. He
just tried to kill me. Just try to run me over.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
What is he doing? This guy won't stop until he
finishes me off. Yeah, the bear.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Didn't think for a second that the guy was trying
to help. He thought he was getting in the thing.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Warning, no, bears is humans after us.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What would you do if somebody ran you over in
a car and as you were trying to get away,
they chased after you and tried to grab you.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Can they try to push you over the ramp?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah? Eighty one year old woman was killed in a
bear attack.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Are you making joke?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Come on, dude, eighty one year old woman got mauled
in her living room by a bear.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
What this is worse than the slim fast guy getting
eaten by a pack of wolves at the age of
one hundred.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's a pack of wolves.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Hey, he had like two point three billion dollars so
trade all.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Day crime he was eating by a pack of wolves. Huh.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Teiko Takahashi was found lying in a pool of blood
in the center of her living room around seven forty am.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
She's just watching the Today Show and here comes to
the bear.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And you were doing earlier when you were doing this,
You're doing that thick accent you saw when you saw
the bear.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, no, I actually just had something back of my throat.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Okay, got it, I got it out during the last
I've never heard your bear accent.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
It did say in this article, which makes me uncomfortable
that bears have been reported eating rice stored in homes
and sheds, hey man, as well as entering garages and greenhouses.
That is what the story said from the Asahi Shimbun.
That's the website that I found this on.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
You know what is terrifying is when you see a
big bear walking through a neighborhood with a jar of
soy sauce, you know exactly what it's about to go do,
or when you see him walking with a newspaper off too.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Doctors found a live eel swimming in a man's abdomen.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Ben, how did it get in there?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Thirty three year old man thirty three, yeah, he should
know better.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Showed up.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
He's from China, showed up at the first affiliated hospital
and doubled over with stomach pain and a rock hard abdomen.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Oh nice.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
They run a CT scan and they're like, oh my god,
the eel had punched through his colon and was now
swimming around his abs.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
How big a heel is? How big a guy is this?
Because eels are big, right, It was kind of big.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
It was under a foot long, but still, I mean
imagine a subway sandwich, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Okay, they had that at the ballpark foot long eel night.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So then they have emergency surgery on the guy and
the fish is wriggling in there, and they get the
clamp and pull it out.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Did they return it to its natural habit and if
they did, would it be scarred forever?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Hurry? Get that the salt water guys. You aren't gonna
believe where I've been. That guy tried to smuggle it
in the country, right.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I don't know this, it says the staff skipped, explaining
how the creature got inside.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I'm telling you I have a friend I mentioned this
who went to work in an emergency room. He said,
the biggest surprise is how often people come in there
with stuff stuck up in there.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yeah, amazing. Wait is this the love shock? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
No, that's coming up though.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Okay, all right, so watch out for bears in your
living room.
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