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Skin Show Tend to two speak easy, two to six, but another opportunity
to see the Benin Skin Show with Christina and Steve is today. Tend to
two over at Zoli's in Addison. Good good spot right there, love Zoli's.
We'll talk to the benn and Skin Show in about ten minutes. But
Mike, you've got a special guest for us. Yeah, kind of.
I mean, we talked earlier during Dingo's Morning News about the murder man who
was in jail because he killed some senior citizens and he was swiftly dealt with
Billy Chamirmir Billy Chimir me senior citizens serial killer and he was killed in prison
via combination of blood, force and sharp object of some kind. And one
thing we do want to continue to do on the station is incorporate people who
are listening. They can give us perspective that we do not have. I've
never really been in prison. I mean two nights in jail, one and
one one night and one night, one of them in Mexico. But we
encourage you if you if we're talking about something that you have a specific knowledge
of, but we certainly want you to hit us up. A lot of
people do it via the text two and four or eight one seven seven eight
seven one nine seven one. You can feel free to text us throughout our
show and correct us or give us a much needed information that certainly helps whatever
we're talking about. But we got a text from a dude named Steve and
he said he used to be a corrections officer and he said I was shanked
twice by two different styles of shanks. And I said, Steve, we
would love to have you on the air. And he said, yeah,
so I'd like to welcome to the program, Stave. Are you with this?
Eve? Good morning to you? Good morning, good morn How you
doing man? Good? How are you not too bad? Dude? Are
you still in the correctional field or have you moved on to a different type
of employment. I have moved on. I was there from two thousand and
two to twenty eleven. Okay, so nine years of correctional service at t
d c J. Correct, that's the exact that's the place where this thing
happens to this gutchy right, yes, all right, See, I don't
think I can ask you too many more questions other than the circumstances surrounding one
or both times that you were shanked while working at at t d c J.
Well, it wasn't like a crazy, crazy crazy like you know,
attacking me. It was more of like they have nothing else to do kind
of thing. So it was one was a toothbrush that he sharpens in the
back of his cell, and I was just handing out food and he got
my hand on that one and that was required about a sixteen stitches on the
inside of my hand, like one hundred and twenty two on the outside of
my hand. Oh my god. Okay, So are you handing food through
like the cell slots food slot? Yes, And you hand this man his
food and you get a sharpened toothbrush through the palm of your hand on the
outside or the sumb in between the thumb and the pointer. Figure okay,
good lord. Is it was it one shot or a couple? Yes?
Yeah? And when you pull your hand out, is the sharpened toothbrush still
there? Or is does he? No? No, it was he had
still with him. So how many stitches? Sixteen on the inside for the
attendance, and then I was like one hundred and something on the outside just
to hold it all together. Good God. So that is an internal damage,
right, yes? Yeah? Okay, that's why are you limited use
of anything on the right hand? Uh no, not now, except when
when it's cold. I do a lot of work on the outside. So
when I'm walking, uh it, sometimes it'll lock up. So I have
heated gloves for the winner. Okay, But golf swing is pretty much intact.
He went. I swing my golf club like a baseball bat, so
I always shank it to the right. Okay, I can't get the swing
down. A lot of a lot of shank related stuff with you, Steve.
Okay, so that's shank Steve shanks all right. So that's the first
time you get cleaned up and stitched up there, and then you got the
pleasure of getting shank for a second time. Certainly, lightning doesn't strike twice,
right, It was a couple of years later. But this one he
actually it was more of a spear shape. He was rolled newspapers and magazines
together to make about a six foot spear. And I was just casually walking
down the aisle and he had a ink thin I think it was uh taped
to the end that was sharpened, and just decided to you know, thrust
it through the chicken wire that they use on some of the self And luckily
I was wearing a thrust vest, so we glanced uh through the thrust vest
and kind of got me on the like kidney area, geez okay and pierce
the skin again. Yes, that one was only about twenty something stitches on
the outside. There's nothing crazy internal on that one. Yeah, but twenty
stitches is a pretty big cut. I mean one hundred and whatever you had
in the hand, it's far larger, far worse than Kevo getting his warp
removed. Yeah, Kevin, Yeah, yeah, Kevin, you're a current
stitch hard Do you have any advice for Steve? And I mean, stitch
technology has changed over the years. It was just two for me, and
it was too They had to numb it up pretty good though. So,
I mean for twenty I can imagine real kindred spirits. Yeah, me and
shank man Steve. So you I found that very interesting how you started this
by These are lifers, I'm guessing, and they're just bored. So they
pretty much, I doubt, with the the life long term, uh long
long sentences, and they weren't getting out no parole stuff like that. You
did you make friends with any of these dudes? Sit, we're lifers though,
No, absolutely not. Okay, that's and go home. Yeah,
I was eighteen or I had of high school when I started it. Yeah.
How often you have to rough rough people up with your stick? How
often? Yeah? Not very I mean the sticks were only for more escort
purposes. We really didn't have him on the block with us. Yeah.
I had to use my stick on an escort a couple of times. He's
Danny Bayliss. Did a race car just pass you. I'm actually bry An
Airport. That was Parker Kligerman in the freak car forty eight freakmobile. Uh.
This is Steve who worked as a correctionals officer and got shank twice in
his time there. We're making spears out of magazines and a sharpened pen.
That's the question statement Steve, Steve, Yes, sorry, great, there's
another airplane. I don't know, man, I feel like I could whip
Steve with for like an hour about random ask questions of all goes down with
all this thing. I did like the question did you make any friends?
I guess that that was a hard no from Steve. But I don't know,
man, you got you guys made a comment about a blunt object.
So there was an incident that there was some inmates who got into a fight
in the kitchen and then the kitchen they have to sign out their stuff and
there was a dope cutter and they're blunt and that was inserted in someone's skull
in a fight during the kitchen one day. Oh man, So all right,
so these guys that are doing life, they got nothing to lose.
I'm gonna I'm gonna shank Steve with my newspaper spear. What's gonna happen to
me? What does happen to them? I mean that that for a while,
possibly you know lifers, but they're going to get another charge put on
them about somebody I mean would have life or long term minuces about popular for
roles really nothing, that's nothing really, nothing's really gonna go on there.
And what's the deepest hole, like the worst solitary like describe whatever the most
trouble one of those dudes can get in where you put them in? What
a day is like that? I mean most of the time they're locked down
twenty four hours a day, uh, which would be the act said ad
sake, lockdown twenty four hours a day. They really only come out for
one hour wreck at scortas of the showers, stuff like that. Do you
eat the same food they do when I first started? No, but laws
changed and then yes, so they give the people that work there better food
than what they have. Is that what the law change was? Yea?
What was the name of that wall? I have no earthly idea. All
I know if we had pancakes almost every day, and every time I have
pancakes, I have trouble getting it going the rest of the day. I'm
definitely not a pancake guy anymore. It's hard to get it going. So
nine years there was there ever any I mean, I suppose was there a
successful break of any kind? But any I mean, are they trying to
figure out ways to break out all the time, and you guys are also
keeping an eye on what they're probably thinking on how to bust out of this
joint clean. Because the unit that I started at, it was a transfer
facility, So anybody who got arrested didn't actually stake time. They were there
for Matt sixty days to get processed and stuff like that, so they really
didn't have time at that facility. Uh, but there was obviously the outside
security, the parole are perimeter patrols and stuff like that, but just in
case, because there wasn't about two hundred inmates that was permanently that wasn't you
know, having crazy cases or long term damn. All right, Steve Shankle,
First, thank you for joining us today. We appreciate your information.
We love your info. Yeah, thanks for listening to the show. Thanks
for texting in. Thanks for jumping on man. We hope. Uh those
scars are merely cool looking now and not not hurting you anymore. All right,
I appreciate it. Thank you guys. Good luck man, all right,
thanks thanks for hanging good luck. Okay, good luck by Steve.
Wait, were trying to wish a guy good luck. Take care. Question
if somebody is an inmate at t d C. J wants to mail us
in and equal time. Give us the other side of this story. Yeah,
tell us what was really good? Infamous and evil Steve was a real
nightmare to deal with. Yeah, roughing people up, not treating us as
men and normal innocent men. Yeah. From Steve Shanklford to Steve Shackleford with
Christina Ray and Ben and Skin let's go out to Zoli's and Addison. Hello
friends, Hello, Hi band. Well here's what we're cooking on our minds
today. We're at Zoli's and Addison at fourteen nine ten Midway Road. We'd
encourage any freaks and glens in the area to come have lunch with us today.
We'll be here from ten to two. Zoli's New York Pizza. It's
phenomenal. They also have an award winning burger in the house. They've got
a couple roller towns on tap, the Octoberfest and the big German that's Brewer
Investing. Play with their balls. Yeah, Well, somebody's gonna have the
chance to win pizza for a whole year. Zoli's gonna be given away your
chance to eat pizza at Zoli's for an entire year. I think a full
meal of pizza food once per week for a year. Incredible. That's what
they have it like sorted out as a one full pizza per week for years.
A fifty two p fifty two pizza pickup today, normal life? That
is like Christina's normal life. Yeah, fifty two pizza pickup at Zoli's or
in the Bend and skin show today. Christina had pizza last night. I
did a pizza last night at the Elamo Drafthouse and mid movie. She just
handed me a slice of pizza, which is not an abnormal move for Christian.
But you got mad at me because I didn't order your food. I
was like, I'm sorry, he's always berating her in public. I know
yells at me all the time. Please tell them I didn't get mad about
that or anything mad. No, I felt bad because she took my order
and Mike was like, oh, I was going to order something. I
was like, okay, did you not see me at the front of the
theater doing a stand up comedy performance while you were ordering? Just making people
happy? Just write it down and put on the theme. Yeah, man,
what about when you stood up mid movie spiked that football and yelled laces
out at Christina. We all, he'll die, Dann die. You were
a little abusive last night, just a little, just a little like light
living the life that I do. I see a lot of people that I've
made sad. I see a lot of I'm often surrounded by sadness, but
I don't know that I've ever seen sadness like the look on the face of
Skin's daughter when she stood up to leave the movie that Skin made her go
watch last night. Man, a lot of confusion in my family. I'm
like, why do you laugh once? No? I'm like, come on
once, no one laugh. She did get up and go to the bathroom
during the funniest part, which one the rewind part. I'm trying to remember
the funny part. I think it was when we were having this conversation on
the way home, and I think my wife said, I did laugh when
he walked out of that bathroom after the shark attack, Okay, and so
we I think we agreed that that was the moment that Mina missed. My
son, Desmond laughed the most. He liked it. I interviewed them I
didn't record it after the movie and leaned down and I said, so,
you guys had never seen this movie before, and they Bill said no,
and I go it sucked, right, Mia goes yeah, and Desk goes,
I liked it. He's so sweet. Yeah, he's the sweetest boy
in the world. He's very agreeable, that boy. I love him.
I kinda think it holds up Sam's the homophobia. I kissed a man.
Look at the links that I'm going to go through to eliminate any simple to
this from my body or memory, including Plunger to the face. Danny laughed
at Plunger to the face. It was I should have taken phone notes every
time Danny laughed, and the whole movie, it was most of the movie.
Laugh a minute in that thing. But you're laughing at how absurd.
It's like almost like ironic laughter, because it's so bad, it's so dumb
and so stupid that you cannot help but laugh. Yes, So I went
and looked up the screenplay last night. They had it posted online. It
said Carrie Physical Humor, one hour, ten minutes, and then underneath it
said trans joke and that was the entire script. They're like, all right,
okay, roll the camera and then just let Jim creep around. Well,
let's see what we get early in your career, you shoot your shot.
And he definitely walked in with I've got fifty bits that I have to
get in this film, all right, because at the end of the film
he wasn't Hollywood's first twenty million dollar man. At that point, he was
on the verge of being that. In fact, this performance launched him into
being that. That's right. So I think what he did was a winning
formula, and I think more movies should take note. I think it was
great. And I'm like, you got knocked off the gear held up?
Yeah, I think I did. I did dig how many listeners were there
wearing dolphins gear? Yeah, that was great. And I saw Mike's roy
going around and yes, buying cocktails, but as promised, not sticking around
to conversate. We've got no no take this and go over there. You
take this over there? He would just someone would walk in and a dolphin
shirt, like I saw perfect Tommy walking in a dolphin shirt and Mike pointed
at him, pointed at the bartender, and then walked out over there.
I gotta go. I don't need to be right next to you to buy
you a drink, all right, order up whatever, well, well or
draft you choose. What time are you guys reviewing this uh nineteen ninety four
cinema classic right off the rip at ten o'clock we were going to get into
an incredible night last night at the Alamo Draft House Cinema on Lake Highlands with
the mighty downbeat. We got what's going on Dallas? We'll talk a little
state fair at ten thirty. We'll also talk about maybe the greatest show in
the history of the world coming back for a new season. We'll do that
at ten thirty, and then a little trending and Ben we'll kind of get
into some of the counter reef stuff. You guys were talking about Little Dog
Star action all right, and what else is going to be on the show
after a little bit later, we're gonna talk about a runaway Pig on the
loose, and Texas we're talking about a big Rangers win. Then at one
point we'll talk about all the most historic birthdays and milestones that have happened on
this day throughout history, and then Dan Hunt joins us in person about that
at Zoli's and Addison. Dan Hunt one of the owners of the Chiefs.
Of course, he owns FC Dallas and then skin we'll bring us the one
forty shorty guys, all right, go on, then we will mix with
the speak easy at about one fifty eight, we'll get some grunts down line
and then we'll throw it to them and then they'll start their show, and
then we'll get what's on Mike's mind. We'll at Julie Sports desk. We'll
get the best segment period, and then we'll get some other stuff. This
rundown feels thin. Oh yeah. At six oh five, we'll have a
replay of the scuttle butt here what's on Ao's mind? Yeahs and no,
seriously, guys. At eleven twenty five, we have a prosper Ford spot.
Okay, seriously good the call away, the whole way. I think,
let's see it's working. I actually love it. I love that,
and put prosper on your roster. Crimes really do work. All right,
Christina, you look hot today, thanks to you. Bye, have a
fun show, all right. Thanks. I hope you guys figure out what
you're gonna do today. You guys gonna ask Dan Hunt about trailer. You
guys like sex. What time are you guys on the air. We'll make
out yep, let's go all right fine, We'll be back tomorrow morning at
six am. Join us at eight for Scorching Hunt Cowboys Predictions. Also Ryder
Cup Action Live. Can't wait to hear Benn and Skin break that down as
the pairings will be out soon. Thank you to Barry Church, our mystery
celebrity guest picker today. Thank you this Steve Shanklford for calling in, and
also thank you to J. J. Jackson, Mike's Roy, Danny Bayless,
I'm Kevin. We'll way back tomorrow morning at six am for a Friday
fun day on the downbeat. Benn and Skin show is next that Zoe's Nats and By