September 11, 2025 • 10 mins
"Where were you when the world changed forever?”In this deeply reflective yet wildly unpredictable episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray open up about their personal experiences on September 11, 2001, sharing vivid memories from that day — from classrooms and conference rooms to football practice and Spanish class.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kill.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And that's big, really big thank you guy who had
the boar who crashed in through the screen screen glass door.
That guy was awesome. Yeah, you can go get that
on the iHeart podcast. Okay, so today is the twenty
fourth anniversary of nine to eleven. Where were you when
(00:26):
that went down?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Where were you?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I was at CBS eleven. I was selling television advertising
and we were getting ready to go into our in
our sales meeting. I just walked in into the conference
room and our director of sales I remember her name
is Kim. She ran in and goes, a plane just
hit the you know, the World Trade Center, And I.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Was like what.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And our initial reaction was, oh my god, like there
must have been like some problem with the plane. Like
it's planes have hit buildings before, you know, not giant
planes like that, but as much, but planes to do
like a plane hit the Empire State Building.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Like I think it was like in the thirties or
forties or fifties or something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And so I was like, okay, just must have been
an aviation issue, you know, just I don't know what
somehow it happened. And then we were kind of watching
the footage of it in my boss's office, and when
the other one hit, that's when it just felt like,
oh my god, what is this? That that was the
moment where.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It was so much like I kept waiting for more
things to happen and that so for me, I was
taking my final semester of college, and my final semester
of college was four semesters of Spanish and one semester
really yeah. Wow, So I would go to school. Wait,
so you're taking different levels at seltanely Yeah, so basically
(02:00):
each month is a different semester, okay. And so that
was all I needed to graduate was my foreign language commitment.
So you could take four years or four semesters of
Spanish and one semester Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Eight to twelve. Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So I was there every day from eight to twelve.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So because of that, and then after that, I would
go to work in Dallas. So because of that, I
would leave Plano at six in the morning I lived
in Plano. I would get to campus and I would
just study because I didn't have time to study. Afterwards,
I would study until class started at eight. I think
the first one hit at like seven ish Central time
(02:50):
because I don't think my Spanish class had started yet.
I thought it was nine, but was it nine Central nine?
I thought it was okay, okay, well then maybe we
were I don't know why I wasn't in class, but
they when the second one hit, they let everyone go
from school, like they called off school for the rest
of the day. But I remember the time in between
(03:11):
the first and second you know, plane hitting, You're like, God,
this is so weird that the hell is going on,
And then when the second one hit, You're like, oh,
are we under attack?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Is this war?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You're right, I'm seeing eight forty six and that would
be Eastern time, so it's been seven forty six am.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, I was thinking my full time. Yeah, my class
hadn't started yet, and so I was sitting waiting for
class to start.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I was like, there's no way it was seven though,
like because my sales meeting was starting at eight, So
seven forty five.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Local that's what they're say. Yeah, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I don't Yeah, I don't remember my class having started yet.
I thought I was sitting there studying, waiting for it
to start. But then you know, the first one hits,
and there's kind of this, like what's going on? And
then when the second one hits, it's like, everybody go
home now, because there was this moment of no one
knew what was hell the you've seen the footage. The
president didn't even know what was going on. Yeah, like
(04:04):
he's continuing to read a book to a class of
little kids until the second one. He was in Florida, right,
I think that was Florida, So again that would have
been yeah, eight forty six am Eastern time. Have y'all
ever seen when they went back and talked to the
kids as young adults now they went, this was a
couple of years ago. They went and talked to all
the kids now they're young adults about what was going
(04:27):
on in their mind when the president was reading a
book to him and then suddenly the president had to
be ushered away.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It's really really intented.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
They're probably thirty two now, right, I like that. It's
probably three. Yeah, now I've bet there in the early
thirty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, so they probably said, yeah, that's crazy, what.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
About you, che Well, I was going into my sixth grade,
like second class, because I remember, and that's why I
asked what time? Because it was I remember it was
second period. We were walking in my teacher, Miss Mitchell.
I remember crying as soon as we were walking in,
and she had the TV on so we could see it.
But we again, sixth grade, you're like twelve years old.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, we didn't really.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Know what was happening, but it must have been when
that second one hit, because I remember we all went
to the gymnasium. They're like, go your your parents have
been called. They're coming to get you if they can
go to the gym, just wait there until your name
is called. Your parents can pick you up. And then
I remember going home and it was on our TV
and I still remember seeing all the names scrolling by too.
(05:26):
Later that day, we had it on all day, but
it was again you didn't really couldn't really register like
how bad this was what was happening, but you could
just read all the adults freaking out, and so you
knew to kind of freak out a little bit and
just lay low and do what they told you to do.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Junior has a weird age for that to happen to you,
I think, because I remember we were in uh, we
just got to say that they made you go to
athletics for first period in junior high. So you have
to go like for football practice before you go to school,
which a terrible idea because there's a lot of kids
who aren't be smelling good all day. They're not gonna
do what they need to do shower, you know, deodorize properly.
(06:05):
This is and keep in mind, I think kids at
that age probably don't smell grade either, and like in general.
Uh so, second period was US History with Jerry Scott,
and I remember there was a class. So we're walking
in from athletics, so into school for like, you know,
everyone else goes to school first period, but all the
guys were in athletics come into school for second period,
(06:27):
and I remember this one crazy girl was yelling world
War three, world War three, and I'm like, what's going
on here? You know, So there's a little whispering. And
then by the time we got in there and he'd
kind of because he was a US History teacher, he
was explaining this is a terrorist attack before like wow,
you know, this was early in the games, Like this
(06:48):
is a terrorist attack. You know, we'll still wait and
find out what's gonna happen, but this is probably a
terrorist attack. This is someone who's mad at our country
for whatever reason. He's like explaining it to us in
a way that we could kind of understand, and that
was kind of crazy. But I also remember in on
these crazy where I grew up as three thousand people
in town, so it's not that wild. If your parents
needed to drop something off for you or whatever, to
(07:09):
just drive up and hand it off to you, go
out front of the Junior High And I remember mom
during lunch break, you know, after lunch you'd go to recess.
I remember she swung by not to come to take
me home or anything that wasn't happening, but she was like, hey,
just like they sent dad home from work because my
dad worked at an airport, or not an airport, a
small municipal airport where they build airplanes, and the FA
(07:32):
had shut down everything, So you know, that was kind
of crazy, just like, yeah, everyone out there. I mean,
it's like one of the two main industries and only
so they sent like pretty much half the town home
until we had some more certainty on what was going on.
It was nuts, But I also I do wish I
remembered it a little more clear than being thirteen.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But it's still crazy that we remember that day soon
someone says that, I'm like, yes, I know exactly where I.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Was Now it looks TV all day in class. That
part that was kind of cool, man.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You know nowadays, the way that they protect the cockpit
where you can't get in there. Yeah, you know, it's
all I remember what was it back then? Was it
I don't know, was it still like a locked door?
Get in?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Okay, hold on, I know. I'm bringing this back to
the Charlie Sheen documentary. When you guys watched the Charlie
Sheen documentary, if you will, the first four minutes is
one of the craziest stories you have ever heard in
your entire life, and it ties directly.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Into what Ben is talking about. When you find out
what Charlie Sheen was getting away with doing on air flights,
you will you will be your mind will be boggled
and scrambled forever ever. Yeah, I uh, I can't even
remember what it was like, like how they got in
was it just did they and nobody had really used
(08:55):
a plane as a missile prior to that, right, Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And then the other thing is like, remember everything changed
on the other side of the You know, when you
go from the ticketing area into the terminals. Yeah, I
mean you used to be able to go to Chili's
or whatever and get steak knives, right, can't do that?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And forks also there. Yeah, like people used to bs
their ways onto planes like the cauld just talk their
way onto the plane and get on somehow.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Like I don't know if you guys have ever heard
the story. You heard me allude to it. But there's
a show where it's an old John Favreau show called
Dinner for Five. But Seth MacFarlane explains that he was
supposed to be on one of those planes. He got drunk,
was hungover, and they had already closed the gate. He
was begging to get on the flight and they wouldn't
let him on the flight because the door had closed.
(09:44):
So Seth MacFarland was supposed to be on one of
the planes that crashed, or maybe he was the plane
that crashed into the Pentagon. Ye, I'm not sure which.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I well, I like that one.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Everybody banded together.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And yeah and then youah, the well, the one they
took it down in the field in Pennsylvania and yeah,
that's flight ninety three ninety three. As they had a
movie about it well.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Anyways, this day always brings back really really strong emotions.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
All Right, it is a weird show today, better tomorrow.
I never want to know.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I thought it was a great show today. I'm like,
the three of us were really good. But I like
KT for owning up that he didn't have a great show.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I feel like him bursting through the door there created
another drop that we'll use at the end of the
show in the future. I'll never forget the time Kat
told his nine to eleven story. He looked us all
in the eye and he.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Said, burn my tongue on a Texas Twinkie.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We didn't understand how it related. Christina, You're gonna play some.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Music till ten o'clock.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
We got Christina until ten pm here on the Eagle.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Here you going, well, I'm gonna get my sock bag,
dude that I had to take a poop.
Kill.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And that's big, really big thank you guy who had
the boar who crashed in through the screen screen glass door.
That guy was awesome. Yeah, you can go get that
on the iHeart podcast. Okay, so today is the twenty
fourth anniversary of nine to eleven. Where were you when
(00:26):
that went down?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Where were you?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I was at CBS eleven. I was selling television advertising
and we were getting ready to go into our in
our sales meeting. I just walked in into the conference
room and our director of sales I remember her name
is Kim. She ran in and goes, a plane just
hit the you know, the World Trade Center, And I.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Was like what.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And our initial reaction was, oh my god, like there
must have been like some problem with the plane. Like
it's planes have hit buildings before, you know, not giant
planes like that, but as much, but planes to do
like a plane hit the Empire State Building.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Like I think it was like in the thirties or
forties or fifties or something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And so I was like, okay, just must have been
an aviation issue, you know, just I don't know what
somehow it happened. And then we were kind of watching
the footage of it in my boss's office, and when
the other one hit, that's when it just felt like,
oh my god, what is this? That that was the
moment where.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It was so much like I kept waiting for more
things to happen and that so for me, I was
taking my final semester of college, and my final semester
of college was four semesters of Spanish and one semester
really yeah. Wow, So I would go to school. Wait,
so you're taking different levels at seltanely Yeah, so basically
(02:00):
each month is a different semester, okay. And so that
was all I needed to graduate was my foreign language commitment.
So you could take four years or four semesters of
Spanish and one semester Monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Eight to twelve. Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So I was there every day from eight to twelve.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So because of that, and then after that, I would
go to work in Dallas. So because of that, I
would leave Plano at six in the morning I lived
in Plano. I would get to campus and I would
just study because I didn't have time to study. Afterwards,
I would study until class started at eight. I think
the first one hit at like seven ish Central time
(02:50):
because I don't think my Spanish class had started yet.
I thought it was nine, but was it nine Central nine?
I thought it was okay, okay, well then maybe we
were I don't know why I wasn't in class, but
they when the second one hit, they let everyone go
from school, like they called off school for the rest
of the day. But I remember the time in between
(03:11):
the first and second you know, plane hitting, You're like, God,
this is so weird that the hell is going on,
And then when the second one hit, You're like, oh,
are we under attack?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Is this war?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You're right, I'm seeing eight forty six and that would
be Eastern time, so it's been seven forty six am.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, I was thinking my full time. Yeah, my class
hadn't started yet, and so I was sitting waiting for
class to start.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I was like, there's no way it was seven though,
like because my sales meeting was starting at eight, So
seven forty five.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Local that's what they're say. Yeah, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I don't Yeah, I don't remember my class having started yet.
I thought I was sitting there studying, waiting for it
to start. But then you know, the first one hits,
and there's kind of this, like what's going on? And
then when the second one hits, it's like, everybody go
home now, because there was this moment of no one
knew what was hell the you've seen the footage. The
president didn't even know what was going on. Yeah, like
(04:04):
he's continuing to read a book to a class of
little kids until the second one. He was in Florida, right,
I think that was Florida, So again that would have
been yeah, eight forty six am Eastern time. Have y'all
ever seen when they went back and talked to the
kids as young adults now they went, this was a
couple of years ago. They went and talked to all
the kids now they're young adults about what was going
(04:27):
on in their mind when the president was reading a
book to him and then suddenly the president had to
be ushered away.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It's really really intented.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
They're probably thirty two now, right, I like that. It's
probably three. Yeah, now I've bet there in the early
thirty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, so they probably said, yeah, that's crazy, what.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
About you, che Well, I was going into my sixth grade,
like second class, because I remember, and that's why I
asked what time? Because it was I remember it was
second period. We were walking in my teacher, Miss Mitchell.
I remember crying as soon as we were walking in,
and she had the TV on so we could see it.
But we again, sixth grade, you're like twelve years old.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, we didn't really.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Know what was happening, but it must have been when
that second one hit, because I remember we all went
to the gymnasium. They're like, go your your parents have
been called. They're coming to get you if they can
go to the gym, just wait there until your name
is called. Your parents can pick you up. And then
I remember going home and it was on our TV
and I still remember seeing all the names scrolling by too.
(05:26):
Later that day, we had it on all day, but
it was again you didn't really couldn't really register like
how bad this was what was happening, but you could
just read all the adults freaking out, and so you
knew to kind of freak out a little bit and
just lay low and do what they told you to do.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Junior has a weird age for that to happen to you,
I think, because I remember we were in uh, we
just got to say that they made you go to
athletics for first period in junior high. So you have
to go like for football practice before you go to school,
which a terrible idea because there's a lot of kids
who aren't be smelling good all day. They're not gonna
do what they need to do shower, you know, deodorize properly.
(06:05):
This is and keep in mind, I think kids at
that age probably don't smell grade either, and like in general.
Uh so, second period was US History with Jerry Scott,
and I remember there was a class. So we're walking
in from athletics, so into school for like, you know,
everyone else goes to school first period, but all the
guys were in athletics come into school for second period,
(06:27):
and I remember this one crazy girl was yelling world
War three, world War three, and I'm like, what's going
on here? You know, So there's a little whispering. And
then by the time we got in there and he'd
kind of because he was a US History teacher, he
was explaining this is a terrorist attack before like wow,
you know, this was early in the games, Like this
(06:48):
is a terrorist attack. You know, we'll still wait and
find out what's gonna happen, but this is probably a
terrorist attack. This is someone who's mad at our country
for whatever reason. He's like explaining it to us in
a way that we could kind of understand, and that
was kind of crazy. But I also remember in on
these crazy where I grew up as three thousand people
in town, so it's not that wild. If your parents
needed to drop something off for you or whatever, to
(07:09):
just drive up and hand it off to you, go
out front of the Junior High And I remember mom
during lunch break, you know, after lunch you'd go to recess.
I remember she swung by not to come to take
me home or anything that wasn't happening, but she was like, hey,
just like they sent dad home from work because my
dad worked at an airport, or not an airport, a
small municipal airport where they build airplanes, and the FA
(07:32):
had shut down everything, So you know, that was kind
of crazy, just like, yeah, everyone out there. I mean,
it's like one of the two main industries and only
so they sent like pretty much half the town home
until we had some more certainty on what was going on.
It was nuts, But I also I do wish I
remembered it a little more clear than being thirteen.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But it's still crazy that we remember that day soon
someone says that, I'm like, yes, I know exactly where I.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Was Now it looks TV all day in class. That
part that was kind of cool, man.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You know nowadays, the way that they protect the cockpit
where you can't get in there. Yeah, you know, it's
all I remember what was it back then? Was it
I don't know, was it still like a locked door?
Get in?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Okay, hold on, I know. I'm bringing this back to
the Charlie Sheen documentary. When you guys watched the Charlie
Sheen documentary, if you will, the first four minutes is
one of the craziest stories you have ever heard in
your entire life, and it ties directly.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Into what Ben is talking about. When you find out
what Charlie Sheen was getting away with doing on air flights,
you will you will be your mind will be boggled
and scrambled forever ever. Yeah, I uh, I can't even
remember what it was like, like how they got in
was it just did they and nobody had really used
(08:55):
a plane as a missile prior to that, right, Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And then the other thing is like, remember everything changed
on the other side of the You know, when you
go from the ticketing area into the terminals. Yeah, I
mean you used to be able to go to Chili's
or whatever and get steak knives, right, can't do that?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And forks also there. Yeah, like people used to bs
their ways onto planes like the cauld just talk their
way onto the plane and get on somehow.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Like I don't know if you guys have ever heard
the story. You heard me allude to it. But there's
a show where it's an old John Favreau show called
Dinner for Five. But Seth MacFarlane explains that he was
supposed to be on one of those planes. He got drunk,
was hungover, and they had already closed the gate. He
was begging to get on the flight and they wouldn't
let him on the flight because the door had closed.
(09:44):
So Seth MacFarland was supposed to be on one of
the planes that crashed, or maybe he was the plane
that crashed into the Pentagon. Ye, I'm not sure which.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I well, I like that one.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Everybody banded together.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
And yeah and then youah, the well, the one they
took it down in the field in Pennsylvania and yeah,
that's flight ninety three ninety three. As they had a
movie about it well.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Anyways, this day always brings back really really strong emotions.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
All Right, it is a weird show today, better tomorrow.
I never want to know.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I thought it was a great show today. I'm like,
the three of us were really good. But I like
KT for owning up that he didn't have a great show.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I feel like him bursting through the door there created
another drop that we'll use at the end of the
show in the future. I'll never forget the time Kat
told his nine to eleven story. He looked us all
in the eye and he.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Said, burn my tongue on a Texas Twinkie.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We didn't understand how it related. Christina, You're gonna play some.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Music till ten o'clock.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
We got Christina until ten pm here on the Eagle.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Here you going, well, I'm gonna get my sock bag,
dude that I had to take a poop.
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