Speaker 1: It is the Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point
Speaker 1: one the Eagle, and it is a crazy day, a
Speaker 1: lot of emotions for the people of the df DUB.
Speaker 1: But we got something for you, and that's Rollertown Beer Works,
Speaker 1: the brewery that Ben and I are partners in up
Speaker 1: there in Salina, Texas tonight. That's a great place to
Speaker 1: go watch the game because not only is it the
Speaker 1: home of Recovery Beer in honor of Luke, you can
Speaker 1: recover with twenty percent off all of our canned beers. Ben,
Speaker 1: this is our five year anniversary we called our Canniversary
Speaker 1: when we had to open during the pandemic only selling
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Speaker 1: them are going to go pretty quick. This is the
Speaker 1: first day of this, so get up there if you're
Speaker 1: in the northern Urbs, watch the game up there, have
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Speaker 1: to feel close to your favorite local basketball team at
Speaker 1: a time like this. That's therapeutic and let's all get
Speaker 1: together for some group therapy. And there's a whole wall
Speaker 1: in there dedicated to dirty. It's Dirk Wall there's a
Speaker 1: beard dedicated to Dirk the big German. So it's a
Speaker 1: good place to beat to watch a game like this.
Speaker 1: Absolutely it is right now, it's time for this.
Speaker 2: This thing's big. It's big. You guys gonna go the
Speaker 2: game tonight?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'm actually about to kick down the door
Speaker 1: and sprint there.
Speaker 3: So I'm uh, I'm really on the fence. I'm on
Speaker 3: the fence about this. Emotionally, I'm on the fence about this. Financially,
Speaker 3: I you know, for me to go to this game,
Speaker 3: I can't sit in the upper bowl. I'm too bougie.
Speaker 3: So for me, the cheapest seat in the lower bowl
Speaker 3: is about six hundred and fifty bucks. Now I have
Speaker 3: a media credential to get into the game, so I
Speaker 3: could get into the game for free, I would just
Speaker 3: roam about, which I don't love, and I'm not sure
Speaker 3: if I can find my media credential. Dude, how come
Speaker 3: no one ever says I'm on the gate about this.
Speaker 3: It's always on the fence. Well, the gate is the
Speaker 3: part that swings open and then you'd fall off if
Speaker 3: somebody opened it.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, I thought the gate was like a different
Speaker 1: style of fence, like a chain leak gate.
Speaker 3: It's also the gate is the part that swings open
Speaker 3: and closed. And a gate is also the way that
Speaker 3: people like you remember when you commented on how much
Speaker 3: Katie's gate was sexy. Yeah, the gallop, the way they
Speaker 3: yes that felled g A I T What about you?
Speaker 2: Guys? Are Katie and Christina going, I'm going, Oh, I'm
Speaker 2: going the way she's dressed seats, aren't you?
Speaker 4: Like? Yeah, and like skin, I'm gonna like bolt there
Speaker 4: and get there as fast as I can because I'm
Speaker 4: sure people are already, you know, pack in the I
Speaker 4: almost said stadium, pack in the arena.
Speaker 1: It's the second, the second that I got out of
Speaker 1: my car way far away from you because someone took
Speaker 1: my parking space. I could tell Christina was going to
Speaker 1: the game because of how she's dressed.
Speaker 2: You're saying she got all dolled up for work today,
Speaker 2: she got she.
Speaker 1: Got Luca dolled up. There's a specific kind of dolled up.
Speaker 1: There's dolled up for concerts. There's dolled up for MAV game.
Speaker 1: She got Luca.
Speaker 2: Dolde Luca. We'll see if Luca plays. How come you
Speaker 2: won't answer the question, Kevin, I'll be there. Oh, let's
Speaker 2: go media credential man.
Speaker 4: I like to go up into the press box and
Speaker 4: get some of the corn and I sit next to Peasley,
Speaker 4: Corella and Tim Cato Okay, whip their ass.
Speaker 3: Do you mind if I go and shadow you and
Speaker 3: critique everything you do over the course of the night.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm glad you. Honestly you should do that. You
Speaker 4: should find your press passes, go up to the press
Speaker 4: box with me. Yeah, because me and our buddy Matt
Speaker 4: from from MAVs Studio forty one, we all do TV
Speaker 4: shows for the MAVs and you know, uh, you can
Speaker 4: watch them all this week. Great crossover episode that Porch
Speaker 4: Basin did. How do you say his last name, physic?
Speaker 4: Because I've heard Chiswick a couple of times. I say
Speaker 4: Chiswick even if he says it the other way. I
Speaker 4: think that makes more sense. I'm gonna start going to Chiswick. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think a physic.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not gonna think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're mapping out a bit because guess who's got
Speaker 4: to be back at the arena on Friday night for
Speaker 4: iHeart karaoke cam duties. That's right, why Cavio, So me
Speaker 4: and Matt are gonna map out a bit, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe a karaoke camp because you know, most fans don't
Speaker 4: have the pleasure to understand what it's like to see
Speaker 4: to be the featured guest.
Speaker 2: On karaoke cam.
Speaker 1: Right, I would say more than most fans, I'd say
Speaker 1: every fan does not know what it's like, since it's
Speaker 1: usually just an iHeart employee art.
Speaker 4: That's true, it's not always that though. When it's not that,
Speaker 4: it's very shippy. They still they turned the camera away
Speaker 4: after three seconds. I even asked last time, is like,
Speaker 4: do I even really need to do it? Because the
Speaker 4: camera guy just goes to the crowd. But so, the
Speaker 4: reason I'm doing it tonight is because last time they
Speaker 4: canceled it because it was in the aftermath of the trade.
Speaker 4: You're not doing it tonight, You're doing it Friday, doing
Speaker 4: it Friday night, okay.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: With regard to tonight, emotions are high. Emotions have been
Speaker 3: high since the moment this trade happened to where everybody
Speaker 3: in the world thought this is fake, This is a
Speaker 3: fake Shalm's account. No one has been able to make
Speaker 3: sense of this. I've never seen one person, no one
Speaker 3: person anywhere say yep, this trade makes sense. It's a
Speaker 3: great trade unless it's in the Lakers favor. And so
Speaker 3: the fact that this city, this town, this fan base
Speaker 3: was so in love with this guy that Devin Booker says,
Speaker 3: when you land, you can feel it. It's all different.
Speaker 3: I mean, he can Dirk, Dirk goes to uh Dirk.
Speaker 3: You know, you don't see Dirk at MAVs games, but
Speaker 3: you see Dirk at a Laker game, at Luca's first
Speaker 3: Laker game.
Speaker 2: So will Dirk return to the arena tonight?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: It's like the emotions could not be higher.
Speaker 3: And I don't even know if we all know what
Speaker 3: to root for, Like we're all rooting for Luca.
Speaker 1: I'd be I'm not I'm rooting for the Mavericks. I'd
Speaker 1: be real surprised if Dirk wasn't here tonight, because I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, I think he would send such a
Speaker 1: weird message to be there in La and not be
Speaker 1: there in Dallas.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: But it also we'll send a message if Dirk is
Speaker 3: there tonight. Okay, he's been been there in a long time,
Speaker 3: but he's there for Luca. H that's powerful.
Speaker 2: Too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. Whoof, But no, I will
Speaker 1: definitely be rooting for the Mavericks. They have an outside,
Speaker 1: it's very outside chance of securing the number nine seed
Speaker 1: in the playing which would be good. It'd be good
Speaker 1: to not have to fly to Sacramento. But man, that's
Speaker 1: a very outside chance, right. They gotta win tonight.
Speaker 3: But like, I'm rooting for the Mavericks too, but I'm
Speaker 3: also rooting for Luca. Like, I don't know that I'm
Speaker 3: rooting for the Lakers. I don't want them to win.
Speaker 3: I just I'm rooting for Luca. Man, that's our guy.
Speaker 3: You can't ask us to fall in love with this
Speaker 3: guy and rip our hearts out and trade him and
Speaker 3: then expect us to immediately not still be in love
Speaker 3: with the guy. And I think that's what the Metroplex
Speaker 3: is feeling. I think that's why this is so huge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I also think there's one nice little side
Speaker 1: effect of all of this for you know, mav fans,
Speaker 1: because they are paying at ten to the Lakers now,
Speaker 1: it's a unique opportunity for them to fall in love
Speaker 1: with Austin Reeves. Yeah, I feel like he has flown
Speaker 1: under Maverick fans radars in a.
Speaker 3: Way, and he shouldn't have He should have been in
Speaker 3: the trade. Like it didn't Windhorse say it was malpractice
Speaker 3: not to have him in the deal. Obviously that changes
Speaker 3: the deal, but it's like, how's he not in this deal?
Speaker 1: You know, that would have been cooler if Windhorse said
Speaker 1: that when the trade happened, as opposed to.
Speaker 2: I told you guys he was out of shape.
Speaker 1: Whinhurst did that for a week and now that he's
Speaker 1: realized everyone's on the other side of this, it is
Speaker 1: malpractice that they didn't get that little white guy in return.
Speaker 2: He's such a grand standard. You're minimizing him as you
Speaker 2: also hype him up.
Speaker 1: Windhurst. No, no, no, I've been on team Austin Reeves forever.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best stories. He's also a scratch golfer, undrafted,
Speaker 1: incredible value.
Speaker 2: Did you watch an Austin Reeves documentary or no.
Speaker 1: He's been one of the best stories in the NBA
Speaker 1: like the last two or three years.
Speaker 2: But it's with Elon on your Bingo card every day, so.
Speaker 1: You ever like cause you get the Bingos square for free.
Speaker 1: And so if I knock out Elon Austin Reeves and
Speaker 1: Porky's and there's.
Speaker 4: Really only brain Candy in there.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, do you guys see brain Candy? I think
Speaker 2: the the that's true. That's also on the bingo card.
Speaker 3: I think about the last night I felt this way,
Speaker 3: And we mentioned this earlier in the show six years ago,
Speaker 3: on this day, Dirk's final home game. Right, So that
Speaker 3: was a night where you just felt like you had
Speaker 3: to be there. You need to be in the stadium. Sure,
Speaker 3: you could watch it on TV, you can listen to
Speaker 3: it on the radio, all those things. But there's some
Speaker 3: magic and being at events like this, you know, whether
Speaker 3: it's some Nolan Ryan milestone or I don't know, some
Speaker 3: huge playoff games, something significant going on locally, some massive thing,
Speaker 3: feel compelled to be there. It pulls you like a
Speaker 3: magnetic force. And in town, I say, that's not the
Speaker 3: same thing.
Speaker 2: It depends on what time of year it is.
Speaker 1: If it's close sure to the trade deadline, it's intense
Speaker 1: for KT.
Speaker 3: For you, it's like Morgan Wallen or Jelly Roll being
Speaker 3: in town. You have to be at that concert.
Speaker 4: Gotta be there, man, those are the guys who played
Speaker 4: the most three basic three chords.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, that was not well executed.
Speaker 1: There's never there's never been a game like this in
Speaker 1: the history of Dallas Fort Worth. There's nothing maybe sports,
Speaker 1: maybe sports. There's really nothing to compare it to because
Speaker 1: even like when you know, Babe Ruth got traded, Uh,
Speaker 1: nobody went to baseball.
Speaker 2: Games back then. They had to work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they were just waiting for the economy to recover.
Speaker 1: It's a lot like now. But but there's never been
Speaker 1: anything like this, and the players are behind the scenes
Speaker 1: acknowledging there's never been anything like this. They expect to
Speaker 1: not be the home team.
Speaker 4: Usually a return of a player that's been traded, yeah,
Speaker 4: or something like that. It is a nasty thing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's never this like open arms welcome. It's usually bigger
Speaker 4: than our team.
Speaker 2: Thing.
Speaker 3: It's usually the player that requests the trade of a
Speaker 3: superstar leaves like that and you don't ever trade him
Speaker 3: if they are not requesting a trade in their twenty
Speaker 3: five Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Think like even like the Lebron comparisons are so way off.
Speaker 1: You know, when Lebron left for Miami, people burned his
Speaker 1: jersey from Cleveland. Nobody was outside burning a Luca jersey.
Speaker 1: They were like they were doing nasty things to the
Speaker 1: home of the GM Like, there's never been a game
Speaker 1: like this in which a home team is playing in
Speaker 1: its building and it's almost going to feel like a
Speaker 1: neutral site at best. Yeah, and it's getting ready to
Speaker 1: come up right here on ninety seven point one the Eagle.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we will be talking about this tomorrow. Thank
Speaker 1: you for hanging out with us today. I'll never forget
Speaker 1: the time KT had the chance to look Luca dead
Speaker 1: in the eye and he said.
Speaker 4: Maybe you've lost a step, need a little more energy
Speaker 4: the low T center. There is something you should maybe
Speaker 4: try out.
Speaker 1: If only you had done that, we would have been
Speaker 1: able to keep all right, Mavericks postgame, Mavericks pregame rather
Speaker 1: is up next right here on night some point won
Speaker 1: the Eagle.
Speaker 2: There you going, You're all I'm in a recovered beer, alright,