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July 31, 2025 11 mins
“Is it mating season… or just chaos season?”In this wildly unpredictable and laugh-out-loud episode of The Ben and Skin Show, your favorite crew — Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray — dive into the bizarre world of wildlife mating rituals, unexpected animal attacks, and the anatomy lessons you never asked for but won’t forget.

It’s mating season, and horny tarantulas are on the move across Texas. The team breaks down the annual arachnid migration with hilarious commentary, including Skin’s bold declaration: “I live on the edge — I’m gonna grab this fuzzy spider.” Spoiler: he didn’t.
Plus, KT and Krystina go down a rabbit hole (or shell hole?) exploring turtle anatomy. “You’ll never look at a turtle the same way again.
A Massachusetts woman gets attacked by a raccoon from “multiple angles,” and the crew can’t stop laughing at her defense strategy: coyote urine. Ben wonders aloud: “Do you have to walk the coyote around while it whizzes?”Also, A man in Vancouver punches a cougar in the face to survive an attack. The team debates the best way to handle wild cat encounters.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the ben In Skin Show. It is ninety
seven point one the Eagle, and we would like to
extend the invite to you to join us tomorrow at
the Chalk Tak Casino and Resort in Durant, Oklahoma. Will
be there doing the show from three to six. If
you go in like that would be on the south
side where that tower is and you going through the
parking garage. We're right there by the district area where

(00:20):
all those restaurants are. The League, that really badass sports
bar is right there. We'll be hanging out there doing
the show from three to six. Stay all weekend, and
maybe you'll be the last lucky winner of that one
million dollar prize given away on Saturday night to rewards
club members. So go be a part of the action.
We'll be there tomorrow three to six Chalk Taw Casino
and Resort in Durant, Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Right now, it's time for this well.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
The wild Life Lue.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
The wild Life Lue across the United States in California, Colorado, Kansas,
New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Be on the lookout for
hordes of tarantulas coming soon your way. Hordes of them,
horse hordes hores with a hard ds hoards. Oh yeah,

(01:15):
is this.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
The mating season thing that always happens?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
This always happens.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I feel like every time I.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Think I haven't heard many tranchula stories, I hear every
year the translas get horny and they come out.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
It is horny Trantula's out there on the prow looking
to bang.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
It is mating season for these freaks.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
They're aggressive to stay away from. How do you know,
just assuming.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
You've been at a bar and some transla comes down,
he don't want to be around.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
So May is turtle mating month. And you saw I
saw so many turtles on the road. It's crazy in
the road. Yeah, road tripping to go bang. Oh no,
I went home to see my parents are like literally
on the lass, like I can't believe what's going on.
I think I tweeted about it and the listeners like, yeah,
that's turtle mating. Moth Oh that.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Seems they seem like they'd have the hardest time mating
of anyone in the wildlife universe.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
It is hard to have, but we how do they
do it? Hard to crack that shell?

Speaker 4 (02:10):
I mean they've got like this huge protective helmet over
their whole thing.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, well they are they one of those that are
even as a male there genitals is just like a
spot on them. Than Oh tell me, everyone knows what
a turtle peen looks like.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
You're like a gator.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
You're terrible with animal anatomy. I'm gonna search that way.
She's right, like a gator. An alligator doesn't have an
alligator peener? What do they have? It's got their little
the old spot and their scales on the bottom. Is
that they where do they put it on the tail?

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Turtle peens, like those of many reptiles, are internal and
become external only during copulation. They are typically large and
proportionately sized to the turtle and are good for them,
and are often described this being surprisingly long. The unit
is a hydraulic organ, meaning it inflates with fluid during

(03:07):
a rouse. Ah, so it's like a water balloon. That's
why literally goes back inside him. That's why he's making
that sound. Can I hear that sound again?

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:19):
The turtle.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
And he's more air. It sounds like me laughing. And
see what I'm saying with the turtles. This guy who's
an environmental scientist, you can believe in he says, if
you're lucky enough, you can see them in hordes crossing
the roads at certain times of the year, which is
now apparently this is the transulis or the turtles. Yeah,

(03:44):
the trantlis.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah what Yeah, if you're lucky, you can see that
that's traumatized.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, you know these environmental scientists, they love every animal.
Showed me a turtle dung. Come on, Ernie, that's crazy.
It's kind of falling out of his kind of you know,
kind of like uh when your dog when you can
see the red thing. Yeah, kind of like that. Well,
it's very garden hose. There's nuts with Transela's. You know,

(04:14):
they don't want to be picked up, So don't go
do that.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
Ben like Chris Arnold, don't pick him up. You just
compare to trantola. To Verne Troyer say, don't pick him up.
Chris is like, let me pick up this tarantula.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
You specifically gave you instructions not to lift him. Is
your real name? Vernut? No?

Speaker 4 (04:35):
I uh? And I see people fearless with Transela's. They
do they can jump, and they do have these razor
sharp beaks and they can't bite you and inflict paine.
It's not toxic or poisonous. Yeah, some times Skin tried
to pick one.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Up, remember that.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Wild transula. I was like, bro, I'm on a rock station. Yeah,
live on the edge here, I'm gonna grab this fuzzy spider.
Yeah you didn't, but you were instructed by Gary spiders
that it was fine. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
He gives really good advice, Like I said, Yeah, that's
what they say is that they're they're fine.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
They just don't want to be bothered, and it is
mating season for them. So I didn't want to freak
anyone outcause I know some people are terrified of spiders
and things like that. What is your favorite mating season, Kevin,
that's our turtles. Yeah yeah, probably spring break. Spring breaks
pretty good back in the day, I would imagine I
never really did a big spring break go to the
beach and get hammered, binge drinking trip. I am sure

(05:37):
you guys did, because you guys, we didn't have to
go to school your senior year. We did junior and
senior year. I don't understand y'all's life. I don't man
Interestina would have been scolded, maybe even burned Salem witch
style witch trial style. If we have snuck off the
spring break without telling anybody, you guys went to witchtaf Falls.

(05:57):
He we did, I did. It would have been quite
a hole for Christina and cradle up. Yeah, but she
chooses that really was like we can go to the
movies and we have the ball. Yes, that happened, Good
luck Traantulus. Other story, would you have to hear some
adio raccoon attack? The lady will hear this? Oh right now,

(06:18):
this story it plays out, but listen to it towards
the end. Here it's about forty seconds. Listen towards the
end to see if anything catches your eye about how
she treated this.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
A Massachusetts woman is recovering after a terrifying raccoon attack
right outside her home. Catherine says she was letting her
dogs out early Saturday morning when a raccoon jumped at her.
It clawed her face, scratched her arms, noded her hands
and legs while she desperately fought it off.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Flew at me from several different directions. All I could
do was scream, help me, help me. I think had
been rabbit. Wow.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
Catherine believes the raccoon was eating from the compost been
on her deck. So yesterday she spread kyak and across
her garden to keep the raccoons away.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
She is expected to make a full recovery. You know,
she just had her windex bottle of a cootie.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, you have to stand up a coyote and kind
of walk it around while it's whizzing.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Why is there? Is that a normal thing up there?

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Well, that's not what really stuck out to me. So
it flew at her from several different angles. So it
approached her, attacked her, then retreated, then attacked again, then retreated,
then attacked again.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
And also she said she was letting her dogs out,
and her dogs didn't do anything.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
They don't like her.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
They hate raccoons.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
I'll just say I would love to take part in
the skepticism of the reporting here. Yep. But I had
for about a year living in one shoddy part of
the village. When I lived in a lot of parts
of it. Boy, they had I mean, you couldn't go
outside in the over nine hours because there was a
gang of raccoons outside this trash can and they would

(07:56):
climb up the trees and they were terrifying. Yeah, they
really were. Like I was like I don't want to
go out there because they were like they're jerks. They
were jerks, and they they kind of look like when
there's more of them than there are of you, you're
sitting there going, I know they're little, but what if
they all at once decide they're faster than me? Yeah,
then I'm then I'm.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Come for they're like smoking and have pocket knives out
or something.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Absolutely well, you see the comment, yeah they're faster than me.
They do No, you can't. Yeah, you'll see they do
social media. They do all look like cookie crook, you
know what I'm saying. By Johnson, Yeah, uh got a
cougar story though, then this is my story.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Finally something interesting, even looking at turtle peams for the
last time.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
What's great about this too is there's a site. You know,
there's always links in the in the story and click
on something else. The side story if this one wasn't
good enough for you, it's this hot tub hangout crashed
by wild cougar. That's not the lead. That's a story
from seven years ago, but they linked it here for you.
A man that suffered minor injuries after fending off a
cougar attack by punching the animal in the face. Punched

(09:14):
a cougar out there Vancouver. He was working.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
He lived in Vancougar, Yeah, in Vancougar, and he was
up there working near the lake and the animal approached
him and swiped at his upper body. He told the
police that he punched the cougar in the face and
the animal didn't disengage.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
But here's what they do say. They say, look, if
you run across a mountain, lion or a cougar in
the wild, not necessarily about app but a mountaine or
a cougar, they say, never played dead, because they will
go go to town on you. The cougar will go just
starting up.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Oh, Kobe Yashi uh Man, I just watched I started
watching a show up about this on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Cougarman cougar fights. It's called Hunting Wives. Okay, I've heard
about this.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
It's gonna say Real Housewives.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
It is good.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Not a lot of good TV happening right now. This
is what you're looking for. If this is your category.
If this is your category, you are gonna freaking love it.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Okay, there's some there's some good people in the cast here.
Britney Snow. Yes, Oh, so it's a fictional thing. It's
not like a reality show. Oh no, it's not. It's
it's a drama. It's based on a book.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
But yeah, the the main star of it is is
it Melon Mad?

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Heartbreak Kid? Yeah? And she was in Yeah, she was
in the Heartbreak Kid. And she was in Couples Therapy
VA's Wife.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
And and then Britney Snow who, of course was in
what is that called this a capella?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
S And dude, you see a lot of them. I'll
just say that movies.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
All right, we will talk about those things tomorrow as
we will be on the road at the Chalk Talk
Casino and Resort and Durant, Oklahoma. I'll never forget the
time KT looked at Cougar Dead and it's cougar eye
and he said.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Burn my tongue on a Texas Twinkie. That was not
good advice. Christina, you want to play some music?

Speaker 5 (11:15):
I do?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
All right, stick around, Christina's got all the tunes. Next
right here on the eagle.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
There you going, well, I'm gonna get my sock back, dude.
All right, Well,
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