August 20, 2025 • 5 mins
“What happens when raccoons discover a jacuzzi—and invite their friends?”In this wildly entertaining edition of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the chaos of suburban wildlife, questionable human decisions, and the unexpected consequences of underestimating nature.The segment kicks off with a Florida man’s home being overtaken by a gang of raccoons—who not only broke in but threw a full-blown party in his jacuzzi. From tinkering with the jets to alerting their raccoon buddies, this story plays out like a furry version of Project X. The crew shares their own raccoon run-ins, including attic infestations and trap-dodging geniuses.Then things take a darker turn with a cautionary tale from Tennessee: a hiker picks up a timber rattlesnake… and doesn’t live to tell the tale. The team debates the rare fatality stats, the science behind venom reactions, and whether this is just Darwinism in action. (“It’s like covering yourself in chum and jumping into shark-infested waters with honey-baked hams.”)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome the wild Life News.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The wild Life for a snake story, you guys want
to hear about what happens when some raccoons broke into
a Florida man's house and had a party.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yes, I think the raccoon did that two or three
days ago. And then they came back with all their buddies.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
They were having a party. There was several of them
on the step right there. There were several of them
in the jacuzzi just splashing around. The three of them
in the jacuzzi splashing around and then looking at the
other videos from the other camera on the side covered porch,
we saw them all coming in and out of the house.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Man, the raccoons alerting each other that they found a jacuzzi.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
What a movie. Tinkering with the jets? Enough fun games.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We had a raccoon infestation in my house that I
lived in and like my junior and senior year of
high school, and it drove my mom crazy because they
are the smartest animals. Like they are so smart and
like the city would came and set up these traps
and stuff, they would figure out how to reach in
and just grab the food off the trap without getting
(01:16):
caught in the trap.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
They're smart, they're.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Crazy smart, and uh yeah, they were having a party
in our attic.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
The worst is when you're out there and you're baiting
the trap, you know, and you're putting the food in
the trap, and then you look and they slowly drive
by you and they're watching you and they're just kind
of looking with their masks on. Yeah, how many raccoons
were hanging out this kind of house, Well, it starts
three or four, and then they were alerting more apparently,
so it'd be like eight to twelve. That's the plot
(01:45):
of a movie, all the raccoons letting every other raccoon
know there's a party.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Can I ask you dog owners?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And y'all, well, I guess y' all kind of big
dogs too, shoot, but and little ones. Do y'all have
doggy door? No, because that's how this happened. They got
into the doggy door. I don't know. I remember Kavanaugh,
our buddy Jeff Kavanaugh, who he had an animal get
into his house through the doggy door.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
But you have there's gotta be a better way to
secure that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
The doggy door was so that feels like the waterbed
sort of, Yes, great comparison.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It was very prevalent in the eighties. Yeah. I used
to have one at my my condo.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
But you can slide a thing, so at night, I
would slide a thing over it.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Okay, there's a cover, yeah yeah, but it just doesn't
make sense to me.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
It doesn't check out from the safety you know, it
doesn't pass the safety test. If somebody can crawl into
that at any point, why have it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh that's when the dog greets them. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
So if you're gonna if you're gonna crawl through that
dog door, welcome, you'll see my dog.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
All genitals ripped off.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
All little person criminals will look for doggy doors absolutely
as they should.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's just being a savvy little person criminal. Hikerd Tennessee's
walking in the state park getting his steps in s
he's a rattlesnakes that I'll pick that up?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
What picks it up?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And the rattlesnakes like, hey man, I did not consent
to this and bit him. The man died a rare
fatality on a snake bike right there from the rattlesnake.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I didn't know that was rare.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It was a timber rattlesnake. He was bitten on the
hand witness said the hiker was just walking about twelve
thirty middle of the day, saw the snake, picked it up,
snake bit it.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I had my on a timber rattlesnake over at Snake's Plus.
But they sold it. Oh really was it part of
the liquidation?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
They sold it there clearing out for the Halloween stores.
You yeah, Spirit, Spirit's going to take over their space.
A little money for that, yeah, but I was it
was a good looking snake, man, I see why you
want to pick it up.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Sounds like a handsome rattler. It was.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Thousands of people in the United States are bitten by
venom of stakes each year, but only about how and
he proved to be fatal.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Did you say venomus steak?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Thousands of people in the United States are bitten by
venomous snakes.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Thousands, thousands? Okay? How many are fatal? Okay too?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
How many fatalities per year? Two per thousand, so really
this is just per year. How many fatalities are there?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Okay? Fatalities? Fatalities fifteen one? Ooh, I'm going to go sixteen.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Now I'm going to go two because with that going
over would be skinned to the interest.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Five yep, okay five.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And it's also believed scientists are saying it's smart to,
you know, not pick up the snake if you're hiking.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Takes a scientist to say that.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
But they do believe that his death was caused by
an allergic reaction to venom. Not so maybe to the venom. Right,
that's where it's the reporting is a little questionable. I
would say you're saying maybe to the venom. Well, he
was also on a trail, so it's harder for them
to get to him, so they lost valuable time. Whereas
if he's on the axis road, just you know, ambulance
(05:02):
swoops in and he's on his way.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
There's a chance that the snake had been eating peanuts
and he was allergic to peanuts nuts.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Don't you think that? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
In that like what Darwinism is all about. In some ways,
you're gonna pick up a rattlesnake.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's on you. Let the idiots eliminate themselves, is okay.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's like it's like covering yourself in chum and holding
two honey baked hams and like jumping in the water
with a bunch of sharks.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, Survival of the Fartists. Yep.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
All right, there you have it, The wildlife News. The
wild life News coming up in just over three minutes.
What did Troy Aikman have to say about the Mica
Parsons situation. It might surprise you. It's coming up in
just over three minutes.
Welcome the wild Life News.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The wild Life for a snake story, you guys want
to hear about what happens when some raccoons broke into
a Florida man's house and had a party.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yes, I think the raccoon did that two or three
days ago. And then they came back with all their buddies.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
They were having a party. There was several of them
on the step right there. There were several of them
in the jacuzzi just splashing around. The three of them
in the jacuzzi splashing around and then looking at the
other videos from the other camera on the side covered porch,
we saw them all coming in and out of the house.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Man, the raccoons alerting each other that they found a jacuzzi.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
What a movie. Tinkering with the jets? Enough fun games.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We had a raccoon infestation in my house that I
lived in and like my junior and senior year of
high school, and it drove my mom crazy because they
are the smartest animals. Like they are so smart and
like the city would came and set up these traps
and stuff, they would figure out how to reach in
and just grab the food off the trap without getting
(01:16):
caught in the trap.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
They're smart, they're.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Crazy smart, and uh yeah, they were having a party
in our attic.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
The worst is when you're out there and you're baiting
the trap, you know, and you're putting the food in
the trap, and then you look and they slowly drive
by you and they're watching you and they're just kind
of looking with their masks on. Yeah, how many raccoons
were hanging out this kind of house, Well, it starts
three or four, and then they were alerting more apparently,
so it'd be like eight to twelve. That's the plot
(01:45):
of a movie, all the raccoons letting every other raccoon
know there's a party.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Can I ask you dog owners?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And y'all, well, I guess y' all kind of big
dogs too, shoot, but and little ones. Do y'all have
doggy door? No, because that's how this happened. They got
into the doggy door. I don't know. I remember Kavanaugh,
our buddy Jeff Kavanaugh, who he had an animal get
into his house through the doggy door.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
But you have there's gotta be a better way to
secure that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
The doggy door was so that feels like the waterbed
sort of, Yes, great comparison.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It was very prevalent in the eighties. Yeah. I used
to have one at my my condo.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
But you can slide a thing, so at night, I
would slide a thing over it.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Okay, there's a cover, yeah yeah, but it just doesn't
make sense to me.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
It doesn't check out from the safety you know, it
doesn't pass the safety test. If somebody can crawl into
that at any point, why have it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh that's when the dog greets them. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
So if you're gonna if you're gonna crawl through that
dog door, welcome, you'll see my dog.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
All genitals ripped off.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
All little person criminals will look for doggy doors absolutely
as they should.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's just being a savvy little person criminal. Hikerd Tennessee's
walking in the state park getting his steps in s
he's a rattlesnakes that I'll pick that up?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
What picks it up?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And the rattlesnakes like, hey man, I did not consent
to this and bit him. The man died a rare
fatality on a snake bike right there from the rattlesnake.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I didn't know that was rare.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It was a timber rattlesnake. He was bitten on the
hand witness said the hiker was just walking about twelve
thirty middle of the day, saw the snake, picked it up,
snake bit it.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I had my on a timber rattlesnake over at Snake's Plus.
But they sold it. Oh really was it part of
the liquidation?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
They sold it there clearing out for the Halloween stores.
You yeah, Spirit, Spirit's going to take over their space.
A little money for that, yeah, but I was it
was a good looking snake, man, I see why you
want to pick it up.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Sounds like a handsome rattler. It was.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Thousands of people in the United States are bitten by
venom of stakes each year, but only about how and
he proved to be fatal.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Did you say venomus steak?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Thousands of people in the United States are bitten by
venomous snakes.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Thousands, thousands? Okay? How many are fatal? Okay too?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
How many fatalities per year? Two per thousand, so really
this is just per year. How many fatalities are there?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Okay? Fatalities? Fatalities fifteen one? Ooh, I'm going to go sixteen.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Now I'm going to go two because with that going
over would be skinned to the interest.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Five yep, okay five.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And it's also believed scientists are saying it's smart to,
you know, not pick up the snake if you're hiking.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Takes a scientist to say that.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
But they do believe that his death was caused by
an allergic reaction to venom. Not so maybe to the venom. Right,
that's where it's the reporting is a little questionable. I
would say you're saying maybe to the venom. Well, he
was also on a trail, so it's harder for them
to get to him, so they lost valuable time. Whereas
if he's on the axis road, just you know, ambulance
(05:02):
swoops in and he's on his way.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
There's a chance that the snake had been eating peanuts
and he was allergic to peanuts nuts.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Don't you think that? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
In that like what Darwinism is all about. In some ways,
you're gonna pick up a rattlesnake.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's on you. Let the idiots eliminate themselves, is okay.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's like it's like covering yourself in chum and holding
two honey baked hams and like jumping in the water
with a bunch of sharks.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, Survival of the Fartists. Yep.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
All right, there you have it, The wildlife News. The
wild life News coming up in just over three minutes.
What did Troy Aikman have to say about the Mica
Parsons situation. It might surprise you. It's coming up in
just over three minutes.
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