Speaker 1: So uh here we go.
Speaker 2: Remember what George Michael said when he crashed into that tree.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good. I remember this. Wam wham went at
Speaker 1: the win. I'll show you're gone ruing it except supposed
Speaker 1: to be pursuing it. Tumbled out Shaw shaking through the sewer. Kid,
Speaker 1: Now what chilling at the Eagle. Yeah, we're doing it.
Speaker 1: Three o'clock on the dock. Got a habit for my
Speaker 1: house A go. That is how we're starting kicking cratty.
Speaker 2: Show that up multiply like a rabbit, t in so out,
Speaker 2: creak it up, beat the habit.
Speaker 1: I hang out with my friend rocking on the radio.
Speaker 2: My boys ga.
Speaker 1: Talking on the radio. It's time to do this spons again,
Speaker 1: all bababy, we know KT Christine Skin.
Speaker 2: Up.
Speaker 1: Happy Thursday, everybody.
Speaker 2: It's the world famous Ben and Skin Show ninety seven
Speaker 2: point one the Eagle. Thank you for tuning in and
Speaker 2: making us a part of your daily routine. Got a
Speaker 2: fun show for you planned today. All hands on deck
Speaker 2: on Ben Rodgers joined by Jeff skin Wade, Kevin KT Turner,
Speaker 2: Christina k Ray, a little bit cornbread Ray and Riley
Speaker 2: is in the house as well. We got a full Yeah,
Speaker 2: we got an intern in the house. We're hanging out,
Speaker 2: unpaid intern. Don't shoot at her all right, Okay, no
Speaker 2: matter what, don't do that. Uh, this is gonna be
Speaker 2: awesome though. We're gonna have a great show. I just
Speaker 2: want to dive right in. Yesterday we had a very
Speaker 2: special extravaganza. We were live from the American Airline Center.
Speaker 2: We we had our draft coverage, the MAVs draft draft,
Speaker 2: Cooper flag number one overall, and then we simulcasted three
Speaker 2: hours of the MAVs television broadcast, which featured Jeff skin Wade,
Speaker 2: Mark Followell, and Teddy Emrick and then all sorts of guests.
Speaker 2: And I want to say, I thought that was one
Speaker 2: of the most ambitious television productions and simulcast events in
Speaker 2: DFW sports history.
Speaker 1: And here's here's why.
Speaker 2: Because it's for all these different platforms, which was crazy.
Speaker 2: It was live on the Eagle, it was live on television,
Speaker 2: it was streamed everywhere. But it was also a live
Speaker 2: performance for a stadium. Yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And so you are you're entertaining eight to twelve thousand
Speaker 2: people at a state and do you know how many
Speaker 2: people are there? I think there was five five. That
Speaker 2: was the estimate. Brad Townshend had, Hey, I think he's hating.
Speaker 2: I think it was definitely twenty thousand packed. No, but
Speaker 2: it was, you know, a live show for all of
Speaker 2: those people, but also live across all these mediums and
Speaker 2: with all of these different guests.
Speaker 1: And I left.
Speaker 2: I was going to try to get home, so I could,
Speaker 2: you know, driving from the AAC back home to the
Speaker 2: Prosperous line of border, it's about fifty minutes or now, dude,
Speaker 2: And so I wanted to get back there to be
Speaker 2: able to watch the Cooper flag pick to see the video.
Speaker 2: So I listened to a full hour of that, and man,
Speaker 2: I thought it was great. Mark Orcguire is one of
Speaker 2: my favorite old time players in the history of DFW
Speaker 2: sports kind of has not been really connected with the organization.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like Wan Gonzalez and the Rangers a
Speaker 2: little bit or something like that, and the comparison something
Speaker 2: odd there. I didn't know what it was, but for
Speaker 2: him to be invited to be a part of that,
Speaker 2: he was openly sobbing and loving the adulation he was
Speaker 2: getting from Dallas fans. It's a very unique situation to
Speaker 2: be sitting next to a man that you're interviewing in
Speaker 2: front of five thousand people, who is crying because you
Speaker 2: do not know what to do. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 2: my wife makes fun of me because you know I
Speaker 2: cry all the time anyways, And so I was tell him,
Speaker 2: I just go. So you were crying, right, and I
Speaker 2: was like, I was thinking about it. I was considering it.
Speaker 2: There is a tear welling up, but you don't know
Speaker 2: what to do because you know there's an emotional moment
Speaker 2: and you don't want to talk on top of it,
Speaker 2: but you also want to like kind of, I don't know,
Speaker 2: can I help this person? When I was proud of you, dude,
Speaker 2: I thought you were very supportive because I would have
Speaker 2: been paralyzed by the moment and wouldn't have even spoken,
Speaker 2: and you were like supportive of him. You were like, dude, no, dude,
Speaker 2: let it out. I can't remember exactly how you worded it,
Speaker 2: but to me, it was like you were there supporting him,
Speaker 2: also not getting in the way of the thing and
Speaker 2: keeping everyone up to date that was listening on the
Speaker 2: radio or whatever that this is ongoing. I thought it
Speaker 2: was really well done. It's the other thing too, that
Speaker 2: I didn't know until I saw him walking out. He's
Speaker 2: got some sort of health issue that's happened in the
Speaker 2: last six months, and so he struggled to get up
Speaker 2: the stairs and so then I was like, oh, and
Speaker 2: then to get out of his chair. He was struggling
Speaker 2: to get out of his chair when this set was over.
Speaker 2: So I reached out to see if he wanted me
Speaker 2: to help him up, and he didn't. And then I
Speaker 2: realized that was a great idea because he's a big man.
Speaker 2: He just would have pulled me right back chair. I'm
Speaker 2: a little scrawny guy. God. So but it was what, like,
Speaker 2: how did he get detached from the organization and how
Speaker 2: did he get pulled back in?
Speaker 1: And what was that like?
Speaker 2: From what I understand, I mean, I'm not sure exactly
Speaker 2: whose idea it was. It might have even been Mike Marshall's.
Speaker 2: But the idea of the night, and that's why you
Speaker 2: had a video from Troy Aikman. They had this whole
Speaker 2: you know, that's why Paige Becker's came out. The idea
Speaker 2: of the night is we haven't had a number one
Speaker 2: pick since Mark Aguire in nineteen eighty one, so let's
Speaker 2: see if we can get Mark Aguire back into the mix,
Speaker 2: and you know, Harp is kept up with him, and
Speaker 2: in fact, you remember me and Harp and Maguire did
Speaker 2: a podcast in twenty twenty one talking about all that.
Speaker 1: And Harp is.
Speaker 2: One who has been big on Mark was the best
Speaker 2: player you know I've ever played with. Mark need to
Speaker 2: have his number retired and so, but there's other people
Speaker 2: in the organization that a Cuban never felt that way.
Speaker 2: Cuban didn't want his number retired. I didn't want his
Speaker 2: number retired until Harp told me I was wrong, and.
Speaker 1: I told you're wrong. Heah, it didn't impact you.
Speaker 2: Though, Yeah, And even Randy Galloway was like, I was
Speaker 2: too hard on Aguire, you know. And so you know
Speaker 2: what happened was Aguire forced his way out of here
Speaker 2: he was at and John McLeod, who was coach at
Speaker 2: the time, publicly said, you know, we need to get
Speaker 2: rid of Mark's attitude. Yeah, I'm paraphrasing. And so he
Speaker 2: went to Detroit to go play with his best friend
Speaker 2: Isaiah Thomas and win rings. While we got Adrian Dantley
Speaker 2: who was washed up and didn't even report like we
Speaker 2: traded for a washed up player. We traded our best
Speaker 2: player for a washed up player that didn't want to
Speaker 2: be here. It took a week to show up like
Speaker 2: it sucked, and it was the beginning of the end.
Speaker 2: So that happened in eighty eight, and then a year
Speaker 2: and a half later, the Mavericks were the worst franchise
Speaker 2: in the NBA for a decade. So it's not just
Speaker 2: the Aguire trade, but it's all the horrible moves they made,
Speaker 2: and that was they went from Game seven of the
Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals to the worst team in the NBA.
Speaker 2: The thing about last night that I saw, and I
Speaker 2: saw this on social media. I don't know if this
Speaker 2: is because of you guys with your broadcast, and if
Speaker 2: it was, it might have been in part you might
Speaker 2: have made this happen.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But seeing Dirk send a video on behalf of the
Speaker 2: MAVs to Cooper Flag was.
Speaker 1: Powerful and meaningful to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, because I don't know where that relationship
Speaker 2: is right now. Yeah, you know, And but Dirk is
Speaker 2: loyal to MAVs fans more than anything, and this is
Speaker 2: his organization. Yeah, but Dirk shot a video for Cooper Flag,
Speaker 2: and I thought that was so classy.
Speaker 1: So awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think I think Dirk is going to
Speaker 2: be a huge Cooper Flag fan.
Speaker 1: That's his kind of guy.
Speaker 2: Dirk showed up and was all about his business, you know,
Speaker 2: And so you don't think he's going to connect with
Speaker 2: Cooper Flag, right, Yes, he's going to connect with Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2: But also, you know, people are making a lot of
Speaker 2: this about this, and they want Dirk to be out
Speaker 2: there and you know, doing this that Dirk has focused
Speaker 2: on his next career working for Amazon. Dirk is spending
Speaker 2: his time. I'm getting ready to go kick ass at that.
Speaker 2: That's his focus, right, And so I you know, Dirk
Speaker 2: has said it. He's an MFFL for life. He loves
Speaker 2: MAVs fans, his statues out there, he's he's not gonna
Speaker 2: turn his.
Speaker 1: Back on this organization.
Speaker 2: Man. I stopped by. I spent some time at the
Speaker 2: statue last night. It is so incredible.
Speaker 1: It's did you glow?
Speaker 2: It is, man, It's and it says loyalty never fades,
Speaker 2: and it is so damn good. So of course, of
Speaker 2: course Dirk's not ever going anywhere.
Speaker 1: All right.
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