July 30, 2025 • 7 mins
"Did a guy really win $10,000 in the casino… only to be poisoned with fentanyl for the jackpot?"That’s the jaw-dropping question that kicks off this wild, wave-crashing episode of The Ben and Skin Show on 97.1 The Eagle. Join Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they unravel a cruise ship mystery that sounds more like a Netflix doc than real life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle
on a home day. Man, there's lots of fun stuff
to talk about bottom of this hour. We got a
lot of movie news to get into, including your guy
Happy Gilmore breaking records. We'll be talking about that also
later in the show your chance to win ice nine
Kills tickets. We got a four pack for their show
in August at the Toyota Music Factory the pavilion over there.
(00:23):
Be listening and have your free iHeart app ready to
go because you're gonna be needing to use that talkback
feature that's coming up later in the show. But right
now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Skin is Tracking another edition of things Skin Is Tracking.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
First thing I'm tracking is, and we're gonna get into
this later in the show, is the tsunami. So whenever
like there's news event, you know, or there's a big
event and the news is covering it, and sometimes I'll
be sitting there and land next to Mama and they'll
mention a place that we've never heard of, and we
immediately start going, did he miss say it?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Have you guys ever heard of the Aleutian Islands?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
No? No, No, but is this in Alaska?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, because I saw that last night. I was like,
what Alaska has islands?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We have We have some friends from laos and you know,
obviously when there's a tsunami, you think about those countries
over there, and so we're.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Like, did he mend this? Is he is that?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
How he's saying Laosian? So we went on this wild
goose chase and couldn't find it. But that's because we
didn't put an a at the front of it. But yes,
new place, Aleutian Islands over there between Alaska and Russia,
and they were in tsunami danger.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Interesting, so they invented some new islands.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Just yeah, there are some islands. And they didn't know
what the name was, and they like, we need to
give this a name. And so he looked over and
there was a guy sitting there named Lou. He goes, hey,
elucianed islands. There's Aleutian Islands. Now here's another aquatic story.
And in order to do this, I'm gonna play some
news audio I had kt pole and then I'm going
(01:58):
to read you a text message that combines the insanity
of the world we live in, misinformation and how kids
tell stories. So let's start with a death on a cruise.
Kat has audio from a I believe a Houston news station,
and it's here this evening.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We're hearing from witnesses in the case of a mysterious
death aboard a popular Galveston cruise ship. Tonight, he's learning
new details, including the man's identity.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
He is the latest from Galveston.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
The body was found behind the red curtain.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Passenger Carl Bergmeister says, this is the Serenity Deck, an
adults only area of the ship that was closed off
last Wednesday. What did you see while you were on
the ship.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
All they had done is for a red Carnival fun
cruise advertisement around the cananda and put a yellow hazmat
bag over the cananda.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Liston County Medical Examiner's Office tells me the person who
died was forty eight year old. You've a Lester Villary
Old junior of Rio Grande City, Texas or maister telling me.
None of the passengers were notified someone had died, but
he says he knew something was wrong when chaos erupted.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
We all heard at four o'clock in the morning, medical
assistants needed at the surrendy deck. It woke everybody up
because they turned down all the speakers on the boat
and blasted the carnival.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Dream is now back out at sea after docking in
Galveston Saturday.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
We had to sit on about two more hours when
we got to Galveston so they could get the body off.
I just hope that the truth comes out.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Reporting in Galveston Orcomana KJOU eleven news.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And we'll see where this investigation goes from here in
the meantime ORCO thank you ORCO it's a badass name.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
He was an actual whale.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay, So that's the news story version of this. Now,
let me read you a text message I got from
a friend, okay whose kids were on that cruise. Now,
Ben is very uh. I got this text message before
I heard that news story because I was like, well,
this is to be a news story. So I went,
We went and found a news story. But here's what
(04:04):
I initially heard. Now, Ben will tell you it's always
interesting when your kids start relaying news to you that
they've seen. Okay, here's the text. Wild story we heard
about from our kids crewise. Some guy was playing slots
in the casino and hit the jackpot for ten thousand dollars.
(04:24):
Not long after that, he suddenly died. The cameras were
reviewed and it was discovered that a lady spiked his
drink with fininol tool to try to claim his win.
They put the man in the ship's morgue and the
woman in a cell and announce this to the whole boat.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Why would they do that they have a cell?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Then they proceeded with the rest of the crews like
nothing happened. Both of them were traveling with their families,
had to just keep So that's I had received, and
I was like, that's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I need details.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
And the person that text their kids were like high
school age or twenty.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
High school age, high school age.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So what is to be believed here because here's a
news outlet and this is what they're reporting. But this
sort of story is too wild for someone to just
make up and pull out of their ass. Or did
the kids over here? Someone on the boat say, I
heard on the loud speaker that a gal fentanyl killed
(05:33):
the guy, Like this is an insanely that's.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Crazy, right, So my wife was on a cruise. She
got my wife and daughter got back Saturday from a cruise,
and so I was wondering if this was their cruise.
They did not mention this. I'm sure they would have,
but she got back, she immediately started watching Netflix documentaries
about cruises. There's the poop Cruise one, and there's another
one about a murder that happened many years ago. And
basically the whole point of these is to point out
(05:59):
that once you're twelve to fifteen miles outside of you know,
the United States shoreline, you're in international waters or any shoreline.
So when you're on international waters, anything goes. Yeah, Like
on these boats, it's not like real police, it's just
security that works for the cruise line, and so it's
(06:20):
pretty crazy there too. And typically they want to keep
everything under wraps so it doesn't hurt their business. That's
always their priority. So I'm fascinated that they made an
announcement like that.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, and it also makes me think, Okay, what did
the kids really hear?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
How did this get relayed back to the adults?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Did it check out?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Though?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I mean, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It's too wild of a story to not have come
from somewhere, right orco was not really a trustworthy news name.
To be honest, I'm trusting these kids over the organ.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Well, we'll follow this story, we'll see if we can
get more details, and we'll update you. By the way,
tomorrow we may go deep on my Okay, I'm just saying, yeah,
who's Macha. He was a news reporter that worked with Orco.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yep. Let me just say that. There's plenty of other
radio stations in the slamee, but no one is reporting
like that with first hand witnesses on the scene. Thank
you at the Vindan Skins Show ninety KGLFM, Home of
the Dahas Mavericks.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Still yeah, And it takes a big man for you,
who's kind of a newsman, who's constantly being audited by him,
to go ahead and pay him a huge compliment like
that and let him know he's better than you. I
just wanted to breathe. Hey, man, just get ready for
the next segment coming up next in the Hollywood Shuffle,
Where are you going to take us with your inferior reporter.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
The early reviews for this movie that drops this Friday
are outstanding. I'll tell you what it is next, girl,
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle
on a home day. Man, there's lots of fun stuff
to talk about bottom of this hour. We got a
lot of movie news to get into, including your guy
Happy Gilmore breaking records. We'll be talking about that also
later in the show your chance to win ice nine
Kills tickets. We got a four pack for their show
in August at the Toyota Music Factory the pavilion over there.
(00:23):
Be listening and have your free iHeart app ready to
go because you're gonna be needing to use that talkback
feature that's coming up later in the show. But right
now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Skin is Tracking another edition of things Skin Is Tracking.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
First thing I'm tracking is, and we're gonna get into
this later in the show, is the tsunami. So whenever
like there's news event, you know, or there's a big
event and the news is covering it, and sometimes I'll
be sitting there and land next to Mama and they'll
mention a place that we've never heard of, and we
immediately start going, did he miss say it?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Have you guys ever heard of the Aleutian Islands?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
No? No, No, but is this in Alaska?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, because I saw that last night. I was like,
what Alaska has islands?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We have We have some friends from laos and you know,
obviously when there's a tsunami, you think about those countries
over there, and so we're.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Like, did he mend this? Is he is that?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
How he's saying Laosian? So we went on this wild
goose chase and couldn't find it. But that's because we
didn't put an a at the front of it. But yes,
new place, Aleutian Islands over there between Alaska and Russia,
and they were in tsunami danger.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Interesting, so they invented some new islands.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Just yeah, there are some islands. And they didn't know
what the name was, and they like, we need to
give this a name. And so he looked over and
there was a guy sitting there named Lou. He goes, hey,
elucianed islands. There's Aleutian Islands. Now here's another aquatic story.
And in order to do this, I'm gonna play some
news audio I had kt pole and then I'm going
(01:58):
to read you a text message that combines the insanity
of the world we live in, misinformation and how kids
tell stories. So let's start with a death on a cruise.
Kat has audio from a I believe a Houston news station,
and it's here this evening.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We're hearing from witnesses in the case of a mysterious
death aboard a popular Galveston cruise ship. Tonight, he's learning
new details, including the man's identity.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
He is the latest from Galveston.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
The body was found behind the red curtain.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Passenger Carl Bergmeister says, this is the Serenity Deck, an
adults only area of the ship that was closed off
last Wednesday. What did you see while you were on
the ship.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
All they had done is for a red Carnival fun
cruise advertisement around the cananda and put a yellow hazmat
bag over the cananda.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Liston County Medical Examiner's Office tells me the person who
died was forty eight year old. You've a Lester Villary
Old junior of Rio Grande City, Texas or maister telling me.
None of the passengers were notified someone had died, but
he says he knew something was wrong when chaos erupted.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
We all heard at four o'clock in the morning, medical
assistants needed at the surrendy deck. It woke everybody up
because they turned down all the speakers on the boat
and blasted the carnival.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Dream is now back out at sea after docking in
Galveston Saturday.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
We had to sit on about two more hours when
we got to Galveston so they could get the body off.
I just hope that the truth comes out.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Reporting in Galveston Orcomana KJOU eleven news.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And we'll see where this investigation goes from here in
the meantime ORCO thank you ORCO it's a badass name.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
He was an actual whale.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay, So that's the news story version of this. Now,
let me read you a text message I got from
a friend, okay whose kids were on that cruise. Now,
Ben is very uh. I got this text message before
I heard that news story because I was like, well,
this is to be a news story. So I went,
We went and found a news story. But here's what
(04:04):
I initially heard. Now, Ben will tell you it's always
interesting when your kids start relaying news to you that
they've seen. Okay, here's the text. Wild story we heard
about from our kids crewise. Some guy was playing slots
in the casino and hit the jackpot for ten thousand dollars.
(04:24):
Not long after that, he suddenly died. The cameras were
reviewed and it was discovered that a lady spiked his
drink with fininol tool to try to claim his win.
They put the man in the ship's morgue and the
woman in a cell and announce this to the whole boat.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Why would they do that they have a cell?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Then they proceeded with the rest of the crews like
nothing happened. Both of them were traveling with their families,
had to just keep So that's I had received, and
I was like, that's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I need details.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
And the person that text their kids were like high
school age or twenty.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
High school age, high school age.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So what is to be believed here because here's a
news outlet and this is what they're reporting. But this
sort of story is too wild for someone to just
make up and pull out of their ass. Or did
the kids over here? Someone on the boat say, I
heard on the loud speaker that a gal fentanyl killed
(05:33):
the guy, Like this is an insanely that's.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Crazy, right, So my wife was on a cruise. She
got my wife and daughter got back Saturday from a cruise,
and so I was wondering if this was their cruise.
They did not mention this. I'm sure they would have,
but she got back, she immediately started watching Netflix documentaries
about cruises. There's the poop Cruise one, and there's another
one about a murder that happened many years ago. And
basically the whole point of these is to point out
(05:59):
that once you're twelve to fifteen miles outside of you know,
the United States shoreline, you're in international waters or any shoreline.
So when you're on international waters, anything goes. Yeah, Like
on these boats, it's not like real police, it's just
security that works for the cruise line, and so it's
(06:20):
pretty crazy there too. And typically they want to keep
everything under wraps so it doesn't hurt their business. That's
always their priority. So I'm fascinated that they made an
announcement like that.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, and it also makes me think, Okay, what did
the kids really hear?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
How did this get relayed back to the adults?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Did it check out?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Though?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I mean, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It's too wild of a story to not have come
from somewhere, right orco was not really a trustworthy news name.
To be honest, I'm trusting these kids over the organ.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Well, we'll follow this story, we'll see if we can
get more details, and we'll update you. By the way,
tomorrow we may go deep on my Okay, I'm just saying, yeah,
who's Macha. He was a news reporter that worked with Orco.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yep. Let me just say that. There's plenty of other
radio stations in the slamee, but no one is reporting
like that with first hand witnesses on the scene. Thank
you at the Vindan Skins Show ninety KGLFM, Home of
the Dahas Mavericks.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Still yeah, And it takes a big man for you,
who's kind of a newsman, who's constantly being audited by him,
to go ahead and pay him a huge compliment like
that and let him know he's better than you. I
just wanted to breathe. Hey, man, just get ready for
the next segment coming up next in the Hollywood Shuffle,
Where are you going to take us with your inferior reporter.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
The early reviews for this movie that drops this Friday
are outstanding. I'll tell you what it is next, girl,
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