December 10, 2025 • 5 mins
“Is Chili’s Skillet Queso really back for good—or is this just a McRib-style tease?” That’s where today’s Ben and Skin Show kicks off, as Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the viral return of Chili’s iconic appetizer and the hilarious social media exchange that followed. From there, the crew unpacks the genius behind Chili’s marketing strategy, speculates on whether this was all a calculated outrage campaign, and debates if skillet queso is powerful enough to send you sprinting to the Korean embassy bathroom floor.But the laughs don’t stop there. Skin shares one of the darkest and funniest celebrity stories ever—a jaw-dropping clip from Conan’s podcast with Will Arnett.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Been in skin Show ninety one point one The Eagle.
Thanks for hanging out with us today. Be listening for
your chance to win Lamb of God tickets. They are
coming in twenty twenty six Toyota Music Factory. We have tickets.
Be listening with your free iHeart app and be ready
to go. But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Skinny track.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Another edition of things is traffic. Alright, I got two
things for you. You guys know that skill It Caso
is back at Chili's.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, saw that announcement yesterday. And is it permanently back
or is it just McRib back.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
As of it just says so Chili's blasted out on
their social media, y'all did it? Skill It Caso is
back today? So that's vague. Is it only back for today? Dude?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yes see, I didn't know. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
For real, I feel like the fans of DFW are
incredibly powerful.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Got Nico fired and now got skill It Caso back.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Maybe did you see dude Wipe's response?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
No, were they happy about it? This is so great.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
So the social media post is a picture of the
skillet Caso. It's the Chili's post it and then dude
Wipe says, says, y'all did it. Skillet Caso is back today,
and dude Wipe says, going to be a busy day
for us. And then Chili said, hope you stretched this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
My god, that's Jesus. That's a masterclass in social media.
But both friends stretching have to.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Do with any of this.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
But he got to be ready. Man, don't want to
pull a muscle.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
But I think of uh, you know, I think of
Chili's being a higher caliber, higher quality that. I don't
think it creates toilet runs like Ponchos does, Taco Bell does,
But I don't think of Chili's like that.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I think most Skillet Caso's are going to send you
to the can. They'll send you to the Korean Embassy floor,
just really quickly. Do y'all know the story about who
revitalized Chili's social media?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Going to say the Korean Embassy, No, going to say Caso.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
So I talked about there's some young guy.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, he's fright, his dad social media, Yeah, and he's
probably twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
And it was his.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Idea to fake like they were gonna like the skill
it case of thing.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
This is all a play. All Right, this guy's a genius.
Could be he created the outrage. Could be That's what
I think.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Regardless they are, their sales have gone up, up and up,
and I've seen a lot of articles going, Hey, their
social media presence.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Had a huge impact.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And it's cool because he's a Chili's lifer, the son
of a Chili's person. All right, I've got to play
this audio. I love this so much. We've talked about
the SmartLess podcast before, Will Arnett and Jason Bateman and
the dude from Will and Grace. What's that guy's name,
Sean Hayes. They had Conan O'Brien on there. And I
(02:41):
will just shut up and let this two minute audio play,
and you guys can soak it in because it's one
of the best examples of dark comedy I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Bring up a touchy actual this is real personal subject
for you in the family. Yep, my parents say so. Well, first,
let me just stay the timeline because I have it here.
I wrote it down at last year year because the
timeline was so good. And so I I hear that
that your your dad passes away and I text you,
uh that day or the next day and I said, hey, listen,
(03:11):
I'm sorry to hear about your dad's passing, sending love
from our family to yours, and you wrote thank you.
Will to be honest, I blame Bateman.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
For the death of my for the death of my
father the day after his father dies, right, so I wrote,
it's not a terrible theory and context of me back,
he killed my dad?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
My dad?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Can I say, in fairness, my dad.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Would have loved this so so so uh so then
Bateman Babeman. I tell Bateman this, we're dying. We're doing
a thing that day, so he The next day, Bateman
texts you and he says, Arnette tells me you're on
to me, Yes, and ConA texts Babman. He says, Babman,
(03:59):
do you yourself a fan favor? Turn yourself in? Yeah,
two days after your dad passes, of course your mom
passed away. Yeah, which we didn't. I did not see coming,
did not see coming. So I text you two days
after I knew you were a boss. I said, Bateman
(04:21):
is asking for your sister street addressing.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Okay, yeah, and you were busy that weekend, Like a
day and a half later, you're texted back just seeing
this Now Fantastic six twenty five, Boilston Street it from
twelve seat tell Bateman to make it look like a robbery.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
You know what's weird. I swear to God, this is
how I grieve.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
That's we'll learn that on Conan's podcast.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Oh my bat I thought it was SmartLess. I'm sorry.
That is so good there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I didn't know if y'all had heard that yet because
I saw people talk about it, but I didn't see
it until this morning.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I was like, oh my god, we are a polling.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I didn't know his parents died that quick either, like
back to back like that.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
That's horrible.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I can tell you. It's the best way to grieve.
It's the only way to do it. And that's awesome
that they're so close they can do that.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah. So anyways, there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
There's Chili's, there's dude wipes, and there's funny stuff happening
around the death of Conan's parents.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
All right, there you have it. There's things Skin is
tracking coming up next. In the Hollywood shuffle. The LA
Times has released their top TV shows of the year,
and it might impact our show. We'll tell you how next,
Been in skin Show ninety one point one The Eagle.
Thanks for hanging out with us today. Be listening for
your chance to win Lamb of God tickets. They are
coming in twenty twenty six Toyota Music Factory. We have tickets.
Be listening with your free iHeart app and be ready
to go. But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Skinny track.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Another edition of things is traffic. Alright, I got two
things for you. You guys know that skill It Caso
is back at Chili's.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, saw that announcement yesterday. And is it permanently back
or is it just McRib back.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
As of it just says so Chili's blasted out on
their social media, y'all did it? Skill It Caso is
back today? So that's vague. Is it only back for today? Dude?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yes see, I didn't know. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
For real, I feel like the fans of DFW are
incredibly powerful.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Got Nico fired and now got skill It Caso back.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Maybe did you see dude Wipe's response?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
No, were they happy about it? This is so great.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
So the social media post is a picture of the
skillet Caso. It's the Chili's post it and then dude
Wipe says, says, y'all did it. Skillet Caso is back today,
and dude Wipe says, going to be a busy day
for us. And then Chili said, hope you stretched this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
My god, that's Jesus. That's a masterclass in social media.
But both friends stretching have to.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Do with any of this.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
But he got to be ready. Man, don't want to
pull a muscle.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
But I think of uh, you know, I think of
Chili's being a higher caliber, higher quality that. I don't
think it creates toilet runs like Ponchos does, Taco Bell does,
But I don't think of Chili's like that.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I think most Skillet Caso's are going to send you
to the can. They'll send you to the Korean Embassy floor,
just really quickly. Do y'all know the story about who
revitalized Chili's social media?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Going to say the Korean Embassy, No, going to say Caso.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
So I talked about there's some young guy.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, he's fright, his dad social media, Yeah, and he's
probably twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
And it was his.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Idea to fake like they were gonna like the skill
it case of thing.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
This is all a play. All Right, this guy's a genius.
Could be he created the outrage. Could be That's what
I think.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Regardless they are, their sales have gone up, up and up,
and I've seen a lot of articles going, Hey, their
social media presence.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Had a huge impact.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And it's cool because he's a Chili's lifer, the son
of a Chili's person. All right, I've got to play
this audio. I love this so much. We've talked about
the SmartLess podcast before, Will Arnett and Jason Bateman and
the dude from Will and Grace. What's that guy's name,
Sean Hayes. They had Conan O'Brien on there. And I
(02:41):
will just shut up and let this two minute audio play,
and you guys can soak it in because it's one
of the best examples of dark comedy I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Bring up a touchy actual this is real personal subject
for you in the family. Yep, my parents say so. Well, first,
let me just stay the timeline because I have it here.
I wrote it down at last year year because the
timeline was so good. And so I I hear that
that your your dad passes away and I text you,
uh that day or the next day and I said, hey, listen,
(03:11):
I'm sorry to hear about your dad's passing, sending love
from our family to yours, and you wrote thank you.
Will to be honest, I blame Bateman.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
For the death of my for the death of my
father the day after his father dies, right, so I wrote,
it's not a terrible theory and context of me back,
he killed my dad?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
My dad?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Can I say, in fairness, my dad.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Would have loved this so so so uh so then
Bateman Babeman. I tell Bateman this, we're dying. We're doing
a thing that day, so he The next day, Bateman
texts you and he says, Arnette tells me you're on
to me, Yes, and ConA texts Babman. He says, Babman,
(03:59):
do you yourself a fan favor? Turn yourself in? Yeah,
two days after your dad passes, of course your mom
passed away. Yeah, which we didn't. I did not see coming,
did not see coming. So I text you two days
after I knew you were a boss. I said, Bateman
(04:21):
is asking for your sister street addressing.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Okay, yeah, and you were busy that weekend, Like a
day and a half later, you're texted back just seeing
this Now Fantastic six twenty five, Boilston Street it from
twelve seat tell Bateman to make it look like a robbery.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
You know what's weird. I swear to God, this is
how I grieve.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
That's we'll learn that on Conan's podcast.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Oh my bat I thought it was SmartLess. I'm sorry.
That is so good there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I didn't know if y'all had heard that yet because
I saw people talk about it, but I didn't see
it until this morning.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I was like, oh my god, we are a polling.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I didn't know his parents died that quick either, like
back to back like that.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
That's horrible.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I can tell you. It's the best way to grieve.
It's the only way to do it. And that's awesome
that they're so close they can do that.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah. So anyways, there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
There's Chili's, there's dude wipes, and there's funny stuff happening
around the death of Conan's parents.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
All right, there you have it. There's things Skin is
tracking coming up next. In the Hollywood shuffle. The LA
Times has released their top TV shows of the year,
and it might impact our show. We'll tell you how next,
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