Speaker 1: Happy Monday, everybody. It's the world famous Ben and Skin show.
Speaker 1: Before we get going here, did you guys have a
Speaker 1: good weekend?
Speaker 2: It was incredible.
Speaker 1: Really, No, no, now that I look back on it,
Speaker 1: it was it was a pretty average weekend. You didn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of free time. I haven't had free
Speaker 1: time in a long time. So I had some free
Speaker 1: time Friday night. Okay, after driving back from Oklahoma?
Speaker 2: Right, what'd you do? I don't even remember.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I do, I do we I had a
Speaker 1: couple of beers, and I watched the Lakers and the Clippers. Okay,
Speaker 1: I watched that game too, Katie. You're not able to
Speaker 1: watch Laker games, are you.
Speaker 2: That's not a recreational activity for me. It is for me.
Speaker 2: I actually am enjoying it.
Speaker 1: I think this is the most non MAVs games I've
Speaker 1: ever seen.
Speaker 2: Like I'm like, I don't. I'm not a fan of
Speaker 2: the NBA.
Speaker 1: I ca oh, look, the Bucks are playing the Hornet,
Speaker 1: so I'll sit down and watch this for three hours.
Speaker 2: That's not me.
Speaker 1: But I do find myself following Luca out to the
Speaker 1: West Coast, and I love watching him and Lebron play. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I think they're a fun team to watch because they've
Speaker 1: got my other guy, Austin Reeves, who is a baldon.
Speaker 2: This bit. Have y'all know you've seen him play?
Speaker 1: Austin is actually really cool. You've watched him play the
Speaker 1: last few weeks. He's it's like, is uh is your
Speaker 1: podcast on the MAHLF channel making him do this?
Speaker 2: No? This is okay, this.
Speaker 1: Is I'm so I watch a lot. I'm not breaking
Speaker 1: news to anybody. I watch a lot of NBA. I
Speaker 1: really enjoy watching Austin Reeds.
Speaker 2: I know. But your talented mister ripley bit it. Have
Speaker 2: you guys seen that?
Speaker 1: How did we not get him in that trade? Because
Speaker 1: it would have been nice. We could have had him
Speaker 1: thrown in.
Speaker 2: Uh, he's not a throw in?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they and and actually, I mean, honestly, you can
Speaker 1: go back and look. For the last two years, teams
Speaker 1: have been trying to get Austin Reeve from the Lakers
Speaker 1: and they're not coming off. There was still room for
Speaker 1: them to throw him in. There was room for them
Speaker 1: to throw a lot of things in. But I feel
Speaker 1: so much I would feel so much better. But okay,
Speaker 1: so I ended up watching another Laker. I watched that
Speaker 1: game and then I went back and watched it again.
Speaker 1: They played the Clippers again. Right, so last night, I
Speaker 1: think last night, So I got up and watched that
Speaker 1: this morning.
Speaker 2: Yep, we getting a shot back. He looks. I mean,
Speaker 2: they've got him listed at two thirty. Now. I don't
Speaker 2: know if he's lost forty pounds, but he's looking slim.
Speaker 2: He looks good. He looks really good. You know, It's
Speaker 2: just it takes it.
Speaker 1: By the time they get to the playoffs, it'll be
Speaker 1: his team, but it just takes a while, Like you
Speaker 1: don't just come in and go all right, Lebron, it's
Speaker 1: my team.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm coming off an injury, but that'll happen naturally over
Speaker 1: the next couple weeks. And then by the time and
Speaker 1: they're the number two seed.
Speaker 3: I feel like an accepting eighties dad of homosexuality when
Speaker 3: it comes to other people watching the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Okay, tell me, I don't.
Speaker 3: Understand it, but it doesn't bother me that you do it.
Speaker 3: I just don't understand how you do.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, let's talk through it, dad.
Speaker 1: So I fell in love with Luca, and so I
Speaker 1: love Luca the player.
Speaker 2: Now, if Luca had demanded a trade, I would hate him,
Speaker 2: but he did not. He didn't.
Speaker 1: He lost one hundred and ten million dollars in that trade.
Speaker 1: He never wanted to leave it. He was sad for
Speaker 1: about three weeks. And so I'm like, dude, I'm a
Speaker 1: Luca fan. I can't just turn it off all of
Speaker 1: a sudden because he's wearing a different jersey. Okay, do
Speaker 1: you understand what's happening here? The whole Luca It wasn't
Speaker 1: Luca's choice. Is the whole thing with the dad in
Speaker 1: the eighties saying I guess God made him that way, right, right,
Speaker 1: But it's like.
Speaker 2: Uh, and by the way, you're not the only one.
Speaker 3: There's a few other people in my life who were
Speaker 3: that way, and I've I've just it's almost like you're
Speaker 3: like driving and peering into Luca's house when he's with
Speaker 3: his new love.
Speaker 1: I know it's another guy out by the tree, just
Speaker 1: kind of watching it. And what do you talk about
Speaker 1: he's playing on television? Happen is this like? And what
Speaker 1: kind of love is it? Because I'm confused by your comparison.
Speaker 1: Are you peeking in on gay love?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 1: If Luca and the MAVs are simultaneously, I'm switching back
Speaker 1: and forth. That's I'm going back. I love them both.
Speaker 1: I love It's to me, it's two Christmases. Mam and
Speaker 1: dad got a divorce again.
Speaker 2: I'm not judging you. I just don't understand it.
Speaker 1: For me, I couldn't you couldn't enjoy Luca the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Oh Okay, it's a big because, big problem because of
Speaker 1: the history of the Lakers, or because history of Lebron.
Speaker 2: Okay, the Lebron thing.
Speaker 1: Dude at forty or whoever old he is playing as
Speaker 1: good a basketball as he did and maybe better than
Speaker 1: his last MVP or whatever in twenty twelve, twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: I don't know if those last one I just saw
Speaker 1: those two years compared his numbers are.
Speaker 2: Better at forty.
Speaker 1: I don't let me just let me just go on
Speaker 1: record here. I don't understand Lebron hate. I mean, we
Speaker 1: all have things that we hate for whatever reason we
Speaker 1: hate it. But I'm like, all right, let's take a
Speaker 1: step back and look at the entirety of what this
Speaker 1: human has done. He is probably, for sure in basketball
Speaker 1: until Wemby, the most hyped athlete of all time. He
Speaker 1: was on the cover of Sports Illustrated at seventeen, he
Speaker 1: was the chosen one.
Speaker 2: He has exceeded.
Speaker 1: All reasonable expectations for being the most hyped play ever ever.
Speaker 2: He smashed him.
Speaker 1: He's setting every record, and he's one of the ten
Speaker 1: best players in the league in his forties, and he's
Speaker 1: turned himself into a billionaire. He's never been involved in
Speaker 1: a scandal, at least one that he's been caught for.
Speaker 1: So like, I don't who's hating him? Oh man, I
Speaker 1: get people all the time, like I just can't stand
Speaker 1: that Lebron.
Speaker 2: I see a lot of it, and I see a
Speaker 2: lot of it now.
Speaker 1: Could could it be Dwayne Wade hate that spilled over
Speaker 1: because of the coughing incident?
Speaker 2: Or could it be the I'm taking my talents?
Speaker 1: Obviously he's aware, you know, the whole I don't want
Speaker 1: to be the face the NBA, but I'll take Jordan's number.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And but even that, like that whole thing becoming about
Speaker 1: Steven A. Smith is nauseating. Yeah, Like Steven A. Smith
Speaker 1: made that about him and it's just gross. I mean,
Speaker 1: I get it, it's where it sucks. I Mean, I
Speaker 1: try so hard not to watch wrestling, and it just
Speaker 1: finds me.
Speaker 2: Dude, wrestling had a big weekend.
Speaker 4: Seena turned heel man. I can't believe I've been begging
Speaker 4: someone to bring this up this whole time.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Skinning the platform is yours. How
Speaker 2: is this effecting?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, it was a huge night, John Cena.
Speaker 4: People have been wanting this for twenty years, had no
Speaker 4: idea was actually gonna happen. And the Rock, oh my god,
Speaker 4: you guys have to watch it. The Rock was there.
Speaker 3: Explain this because Mark Followell called its absolute cinema.
Speaker 4: I will say I didn't realize what I was watching
Speaker 4: while I was watching it, but Mike kind of freaked out,
Speaker 4: and I saw Twitter freaking out. I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: so this was a much bigger deal than I realized.
Speaker 2: So it's him versus the Rock or what happened?
Speaker 4: No, he's on the Rock side now, so the Rock, Yes,
Speaker 4: the Rock has been bad. He was going to Cody
Speaker 4: Roads trying to get Cody Roads to come to his side,
Speaker 4: and John Cena was pretending to be on Cody Roads side.
Speaker 4: He goes in for a hug for Cody Roads, like yeah,
Speaker 4: I got you, man, and he sees the Rock.
Speaker 2: They look at each other.
Speaker 4: The Rock does a slice the throat thing and Johnsona
Speaker 4: punches him and it was awesome.
Speaker 2: Skinny john c fake punch the Rock.
Speaker 3: No, but because the Rock was in the shadows telling
Speaker 3: him now's the time.
Speaker 1: It's an amazing fantasy world because I didn't realize the
Speaker 1: Rock was a bad guy. And I'm sitting here going
Speaker 1: so wait, the wrestling world accepts the guy that makes
Speaker 1: all the cute movies with Kevin Hard is a bad guy.
Speaker 2: Do you separate it? You separate the artist from the art.
Speaker 2: But it's a play. It's not real. It's not real.
Speaker 2: It's a play. They should they should have w W
Speaker 2: E be nominated for Tony Awards, right would it's fun?
Speaker 4: You guys are missing out.
Speaker 2: I agree, fun, it's fun. Do they ever break out
Speaker 2: in the song? They should? Would be great?
Speaker 1: That would be wrestling musical guitar out playing. I'm a
Speaker 1: real American speaking of music. It reminds me of the intro.
Speaker 2: To start Time movies. Right now, you're right, right, right, right,
Speaker 2: right time to do one poor time quick effan with
Speaker 2: I show You're gonna ruling it if you except with
Speaker 2: a similar sweet pursuing it, hold out shaw shank through
Speaker 2: the sewer. Kid now what chilling at the eagle. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're doing it. Three o'clock on the dock. Got a
Speaker 2: habit for my house, a goot status, Howard starting to
Speaker 2: get craddic shows that up multiplied like a rabbit to
Speaker 2: then zone out, crank it up, beat the habit.
Speaker 4: I'm on everything out with the friends, rocking on the radio.
Speaker 1: My home's head talking on the radio.
Speaker 2: It's oh baby by all the radio, all right. Right.
Speaker 1: As I was getting ready to, uh, you know, rolling
Speaker 1: in the studio, I was riding up in the elevator
Speaker 1: looking at social media, and I saw that Jimmy Johnson
Speaker 1: is retiring from Fox Sports after thirty one years. Oh,
Speaker 1: Jimmy is leaving out. Have we confirmed that he's gone
Speaker 1: as of now? Like he will not be there for
Speaker 1: this next season.
Speaker 2: That's what it looks like. That's what the press release
Speaker 2: kind of made it seem like, Oh, there's a press
Speaker 2: release for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they press release, okay, because all I saw was
Speaker 1: just a story of him being on Cowered and the
Speaker 1: quotes I read it made it sound like he wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be doing it anymore.
Speaker 2: But I didn't see anything official.
Speaker 3: Yeah, announcing your retirement on Colin Cowhard is like celebrating
Speaker 3: your birthday party at the landfill. It's not like the
Speaker 3: greatest place to do something anything really that.
Speaker 2: That experienced last Friday, Scar or do you have no No,
Speaker 2: it was a great time. Okay, no, I know, I'm
Speaker 2: proud of myself. Oh it was wonderful. Well and good
Speaker 2: work landfill turner. Great, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's the name of the new Taylor Sheridan show. I
Speaker 1: land Hill Landfill. Man, it's just Kevin standing out there.
Speaker 1: Let the Melissa landfill looking strong out their world.
Speaker 2: You need help it on that table.
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you do.
Speaker 1: You know everything in the world that I look at
Speaker 1: right now, I look at through the Luca lens.
Speaker 2: I can't help it. Yeah, you gotta get off that.
Speaker 2: You can't help it.
Speaker 1: I just still can't believe that we traded Luca, and
Speaker 1: so I'm still trying to just work through all of
Speaker 1: the aftershocks of that. But I you know, I'm wondering
Speaker 1: what to compare it to. Like initially, I was like,
Speaker 1: this is as bad as the Jimmy Jerry divorce, right, like,
Speaker 1: it's that magnitude. So to me, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: more like it's I understand the comparison. To me, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit more like Jerry getting rid of Tom Landry.
Speaker 3: I don't think we'd get rid of Jimmy was a
Speaker 3: bad thing until like ten years after.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, it's just that moment.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you're right, it's just that it's been uh
Speaker 1: And you're right, that's a fair point to make. I
Speaker 1: just think, is that a curse that we're about to
Speaker 1: embark upon, you know what I mean? Like I said,
Speaker 1: a thirty year curse? Right, But that's unfair to look
Speaker 1: at it through that lens now because.
Speaker 2: This may end up working out. You know.
Speaker 1: It's interesting about your curse theory, yep, is if the
Speaker 1: Mavericks were to win a championship, it'd probably be in
Speaker 1: the next two years, right, And they did win a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl with Switzer, that's right. Okay, So I couldn't
Speaker 1: even enjoy that Super Bowl without Jimmy being there, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I hated it, but there's no fun having
Speaker 1: that parade. That's irrational emotions speaking in me, like, because look,
Speaker 1: we were not there yet. But I am looking Christy,
Speaker 1: I think you're probably looking at a lot of things.
Speaker 1: So that do you how often do you think about
Speaker 1: the Luca trade way more often.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: I would like, I'm wrestling. I'm watching wrestling now, Ben,
Speaker 4: just to get my mind off of it.
Speaker 2: Right, what if Luca comes walking into the wrestling ring,
Speaker 2: what would you do? He could?
Speaker 4: There have been sports guys just walking into the ring
Speaker 4: doing things. So yeah, and I I try to watch Lakers.
Speaker 4: Like Katie said earlier, he doesn't understand. And I'm kind
Speaker 4: of on both of y'all sides on that one because
Speaker 4: I will try to watch it because I love Luca.
Speaker 4: I want to still watch him play. But then I
Speaker 4: can only get through maybe one two quarters.
Speaker 2: And I have to turn it off. Yeah, it makes
Speaker 2: me two sad.
Speaker 1: It's not that hard for me to watch these regular
Speaker 1: season games. But as I'm watching them, I am thinking
Speaker 1: about what the playoffs are going to be like because usually,
Speaker 1: you know, the only team I ever root for is
Speaker 1: the Mavericks. And then I start developing rooting interests during
Speaker 1: the any playoffs Baseball, NFL, as stories unfold, they become
Speaker 1: interesting to me. And so as I'm watching you know,
Speaker 1: Luca play, and I was thinking about the playoffs, I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be really weird because I've never, for any reason, ever,
Speaker 1: under any circumstance, rooted for the Lakers at any moment ever.
Speaker 1: But when you're in the playoffs, if I'm rooting for Luca,
Speaker 1: I will be ostensibly rooting for the Lakers. And I
Speaker 1: was sitting there watching these games thinking about going. I
Speaker 1: don't know how I'm gonna feel when that's happening, right,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be what if they play each other? Oh yeah, well,
Speaker 1: if they play each other, then I'm simply sorry. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to root for Luca to fail. But like
Speaker 1: I'll give an example, I love rooting for Steph Curry
Speaker 1: during the playoffs because of the way he plays.
Speaker 2: And the style and all that.
Speaker 1: I've never had any I'm not like some big Warriors fan,
Speaker 1: but once those series get going, I find myself rooting
Speaker 1: for him because Steph is just irresistible in that way.
Speaker 1: So for Jimmy, like he has lived a great life.
Speaker 1: I mean, what a great career choice to go into television.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's been thirty one years. All that
Speaker 1: TV money. He doesn't have to work year round. He
Speaker 1: flies in like he just flies in, flies out. He's
Speaker 1: boat man god drinking Heinekens on a boat. He did
Speaker 1: it right, Florida and fishes for marlins. What do you
Speaker 1: what do you guys think he makes per year a
Speaker 1: million or more? Oh, I was gonna say five or six.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: He offers nothing. I mean, in the last five to
Speaker 3: ten years, he's offered nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I agree, And I think honestly, like, I
Speaker 1: bet the Fox people are pumping their fists because it's
Speaker 1: hard to get rid of it. I mean, they got
Speaker 1: a lot of old guys sitting around making that show suck.
Speaker 1: They may have squeezed him out too, they may have
Speaker 1: been wanting to renegotiate. He's like, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do it for that, So that may have led to this.
Speaker 1: But there's so many people nobody has time to make
Speaker 1: any big points.
Speaker 2: Now. They got nine people out on the sets like what, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the football.
Speaker 1: The football takes it to a new level of ridiculousness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's six guys and they just drunk.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's.
Speaker 1: Sucks, dude, Terry Branshaw. Seriously, man, good lord? All right,
Speaker 1: coming up next, let's turn our attention to Hollywood. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Hollywood Shuffle where you going to take
Speaker 1: his kat.
Speaker 3: Last night was the Oscars. We had a couple of
Speaker 3: odd stories, but the star of the show was your host.
Speaker 2: That's next.