Speaker 1: All right, it's the Been and Skins Show ninety some
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Speaker 1: us today. Now we like to give stuff away, and
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Speaker 1: or when we'll do that in around the Sports.
Speaker 2: But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 3: Juicys hot God come.
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Speaker 3: Two iconic Texans dead and we need to peddle tribute
Speaker 3: here real quick. We'll start with George Foreman, age seventy
Speaker 3: six born in Marshall, Texas out East, died in Houston.
Speaker 3: George Foreman known for many things.
Speaker 2: To me.
Speaker 3: My favorite George Foreman fun fact is of his twelve kids.
Speaker 3: He has five sons, all named George.
Speaker 2: It's very rougie, but.
Speaker 3: They'll to tell them apart though you would have to
Speaker 3: give them other names. So not to tell them apart,
Speaker 3: but to decipher their you know, future, George second, George
Speaker 3: the third, George the fourth. But what he would do
Speaker 3: is he did.
Speaker 2: To decipher their future.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because yeah, would you know which one are you?
Speaker 3: To other people, I can tell you a part, but
Speaker 3: to a stranger you wouldn't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to decipher their future, decipher for their future. You
Speaker 2: needed to.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna if you're they're all in the backyard
Speaker 4: and you have to yell for one of them to
Speaker 4: come in and do something. You have to decipher their
Speaker 4: future and tell them which one will in the future
Speaker 4: come in the house.
Speaker 2: If you're a stranger, right right, Yeah, he knew them.
Speaker 1: Otherwise someone would just distinguish them apart by something different.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: So you and the red shirt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's George two, George three, George four, George five.
Speaker 3: There's five of them, really the old numbers. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: and this is what's this is what's beautiful about it. Now.
Speaker 2: By the way, he's got seven daughters. One of them
Speaker 2: is named Georgetta. What about Georgina. They didn't he didn't
Speaker 2: do a Georgina. That's the thing.
Speaker 3: The girls have pretty normal names outside of Georgietta.
Speaker 2: Could be a Georgianna. By the five dudes, this is amazing. Yep.
Speaker 3: George Foreman has a kid. He's like, okay, let's get
Speaker 3: that one. Okay, George the second, we'll call him Red Okay.
Speaker 3: The next one, Georgia thirds the name, but internally we'll
Speaker 3: call him Monk. Has third one, we'll call him George Junior.
Speaker 3: Has a fourth one, we'll call him Big Wheel. George
Speaker 3: the fifth we know him, but we'll call him Little Joey.
Speaker 3: Those are just five kids, all know George, but those
Speaker 3: are the names they have to go by because he
Speaker 3: named them all George.
Speaker 1: Does one of them go around now they're probably on
Speaker 1: their like forties and stuff. Does that guy go around
Speaker 1: and go, hey, man, I'm big wheel.
Speaker 3: I'm big Will Foreman in Red Foreman the name of
Speaker 3: the dad on that seventies show.
Speaker 5: Yeah it is.
Speaker 2: That's pretty wild. Did you guys?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Did you guys have big wheels? Yeah? Half? Yeah, dude,
Speaker 2: do you remember did you have one? Christians?
Speaker 6: I did not know what really?
Speaker 2: Why why do you say it like that?
Speaker 6: But I had transformers instead?
Speaker 2: Yeah? But a big you know what a big wheel is?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 5: The one?
Speaker 6: I'm thinking of? A cartoon where he rode around in it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Bicycle?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you rode around on a transformer?
Speaker 5: Oh no, I well, at first I thought little hot
Speaker 5: wheels cars, and then big wheel.
Speaker 6: You're right, is the initial thing I thought of.
Speaker 4: Right, but when those came out, and I didn't know
Speaker 4: the reason I was asking is because I didn't know
Speaker 4: if there were girl things.
Speaker 2: But I think a different pick. Right?
Speaker 4: Everybody, Okay, everybody had everybody but Christina and America had one.
Speaker 6: Didn't have one either, poor be.
Speaker 1: I also, yeah, Ben's picking on the firefighters salary. I
Speaker 1: also think though that probably people their age, it wasn't
Speaker 1: as big a deal as people our That's.
Speaker 4: What I'm saying. Yes, that's I'm trying to give her
Speaker 4: a break. Here, she's attacking me. But you somehow made
Speaker 4: it a gender thing. Okay, girls aren't allowed on big wheels.
Speaker 4: My whole point was.
Speaker 2: He's got a big will story. Guys.
Speaker 4: Back when I had an Atari, uh you know, guys
Speaker 4: in neighborhood an Atari, we had an intellivision. Yeah you know,
Speaker 4: so there you were either an a Tari family or
Speaker 4: an Intellivision family.
Speaker 2: I was Division three. I had Calico.
Speaker 4: I remember everybody was riding around big wheels, and then
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, somebody else had a green machine.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, you hear those? Yeah, green machine? You remember?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah?
Speaker 1: And then it got confusing because ten years later, a
Speaker 1: green machine was an edger and a weed eater.
Speaker 2: Remember that. Okay, I had a green machine. My cousins
Speaker 2: had a big wheel. Yeah, okay, who was in trouble?
Speaker 3: I mean we were all pretty cool, I would say,
Speaker 3: I mean, not only but we got in trouble because
Speaker 3: we had an automatic garage door opener, right, and what
Speaker 3: we would do is get the wall and we would
Speaker 3: hit close on it and try to make it out
Speaker 3: before the groage door closed on us. And once my
Speaker 3: mom found out we were doing that, we got in trouble.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you know, we could have dangerous.
Speaker 2: Well, my god, let me make it. Let me make
Speaker 2: it even darker than that.
Speaker 1: I had this thought every time I see because kids
Speaker 1: still have big wheels or you know, something akin to it.
Speaker 1: And every time I see a little kid out on
Speaker 1: it in the in the street, and I'm like, and
Speaker 1: these people and I have an suv. It's people in
Speaker 1: big SUV's not paying attention. They can't even see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can't even see that down there. It is so
Speaker 1: low to the ground. It freaks me out every time
Speaker 1: I see a kid on it. Because the other thing, too,
Speaker 1: is like what Kevin was doing. You just go down
Speaker 1: your driveway and out into the street.
Speaker 2: Yeah you shoot out. Yeah it's great.
Speaker 4: And Christina's brave and noble father firefighter probably didn't let
Speaker 4: them have those for safety reasons.
Speaker 2: Well, he built one out of a tree.
Speaker 1: He didn't have enough money under big right, he couldn't
Speaker 1: buy the Big Wheel, so he built one out of
Speaker 1: a tree he chopped down hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: George Foreman three hundred million dollars celebrity net worth at
Speaker 3: the time of his death, largely in part due to some.
Speaker 2: Lean means fat burning.
Speaker 3: George Foreman grill where the grease goes onto the tray
Speaker 3: and that's the secret there.
Speaker 2: Did you guys have a George Forman girl? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Not as good as the sandwich Maker, all respect do
Speaker 4: rest in peace. But the sandwich Maker two thousand was legit.
Speaker 1: I don't have one currently, but we had one at
Speaker 1: some point in our lives.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the sandwich Maker two thousand? Yeah? Snack Masters?
Speaker 5: Come on, dude, I didn't have the snack Master, but
Speaker 5: I definitely had a George Foreman grill.
Speaker 6: And that little thing that would catch.
Speaker 5: The grease got so gross unless you cleaned it like
Speaker 5: after every single use.
Speaker 2: Yeah, disgusting.
Speaker 1: Was Foreman the endorsement on the snatch Master or was
Speaker 1: that somebody else that was bread bit.
Speaker 2: Coming to f one.
Speaker 6: Later in the years, the one Oscar Piastre first one
Speaker 6: over weekend.
Speaker 3: Also, we're all you and Tlum's here all of us
Speaker 3: here on the show, and we lost a big one locally.
Speaker 2: And this is a name that a lot of people
Speaker 2: may not know.
Speaker 3: I bet they know from wrestling, but they should know
Speaker 3: because Bill Mercer, at the age of ninety nine, has
Speaker 3: passed away, and he has he wished to make fun
Speaker 3: of Mike McCarthy not having a coaching tree. You know
Speaker 3: a lot of coaches on him that were successful that
Speaker 3: have gone. Bill Mercer has a broadcasting tree that is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: It's astonishing. I mean the amount of Hall of Famers.
Speaker 2: And he did everything.
Speaker 3: I remember my dad, would you do the whole Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: he was the voice of the Sportatorium, you know, and
Speaker 3: all that stuff, so calling wrestling, but the voice of
Speaker 3: you and T for years. I think he called Ranger
Speaker 3: games when they were an expansion team in nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 2: Wow, I know that. I mean him and.
Speaker 3: Don Drysdelle calling Ranger games. Like this guy's done everything.
Speaker 3: And when I went to un T it was always like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's like this like mythical.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I was too young to know him, but you know,
Speaker 3: people a little bit older than me definitely did. And
Speaker 3: that was kind of passed down a little bit, and
Speaker 3: uh yeah, ninety nine. He actually called the Ice Bowl
Speaker 3: as well. I did not know that ers Cowboys in
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty seven. Wow, ninety nine man, Yeah, that's a
Speaker 3: long way.
Speaker 2: It's good life. It's a big man.
Speaker 1: To have that much influence and have that many people
Speaker 1: that care about you and think about you.
Speaker 2: That's he did. He did something big man.
Speaker 4: So he was the one interviewing the ugandaan Giant at
Speaker 4: Lake Lewisville like for Friday Night Wrestling with the Von
Speaker 4: Erics and Iceman King Parsons and all that.
Speaker 1: I don't remember that part. I thought that was somebody,
Speaker 1: so it might have been Bill Mercer.
Speaker 4: Let me text follow up with the Sportatorium and yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Know he was the play by play and I think
Speaker 3: they mentioned him in that Von eric movie too, Okay,
Speaker 3: I think they had someone playing that role.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, just a legend, absolute legend.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, like if this is it's weirduse.
Speaker 3: He's ninety nine, right, so you're like this, there's things
Speaker 3: like my dad would know and maybe like y'all's parents
Speaker 3: might be more familiar with Bill Mercer's legacy, because even
Speaker 3: you guys may be too young for being down in
Speaker 3: like what he was doing. Yeah, he was everywhere Carol
Speaker 3: Old and he was on all the TV channels doing stuff.
Speaker 2: When was he done at North Texas?
Speaker 3: A few years after I got I mean a few
Speaker 3: years before I got there, Yeah, because I remember he
Speaker 3: was teaching classes into the Hollars Broadcasting class late, you know,
Speaker 3: and like Hank Dickinson is one that teaches it now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he took it over.
Speaker 3: He might have been doing it when I got there
Speaker 3: and quit like right before I took the class.
Speaker 4: Because think about us, we're me and skin are old.
Speaker 4: He was like forty five when we were born, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, already doing stuff. What year he as born? Seventy one?
Speaker 3: Because the Rangers got here in seventy two and he
Speaker 3: was already the Rangers when they were expansion I'm not
Speaker 3: expansion team, they moved from the Washington Senators, but he
Speaker 3: was their ace.
Speaker 1: I listened to every one of those broadcasts when I
Speaker 1: was won that expansion year.
Speaker 3: Do you remember, Oh yeah, Ted Williams the manager. Yeah,
Speaker 3: lots of great stories, but an absolute legend. And he
Speaker 3: passed away over the weekend as well, So you know
Speaker 3: how it goes. Whenever we have a couple of deaths.
Speaker 3: We have to say who had the better life.
Speaker 1: By the way, Ben Uh Michael p is confirming that
Speaker 1: he was the one interviewing the Gondon Giant out at
Speaker 1: Lake Louisville.
Speaker 2: It's incredible. I believe it. I believe.
Speaker 4: Is that in the od bit he interviewed you Gondon
Speaker 4: Giant by Lake Lewisville.
Speaker 3: Also a news anchor and reporter the day JFK was
Speaker 3: shot as well, he was implicating from the field broadcasting
Speaker 3: for k r l D. Later became the first reporter
Speaker 3: to inform that the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald would be
Speaker 3: charged with murder. That was Bill Mercer who broke that
Speaker 3: news that he would be charged.
Speaker 1: And then Jack Ruby heard Bill Mercer say it and
Speaker 1: ran down to the police station and.
Speaker 2: Gunned him down, started his own fire. Yeah. Incredible, incredible
Speaker 2: life and h and a big time player. Let's end
Speaker 2: the segment. Yep, there you have it. It's not a
Speaker 2: good way, Bill.
Speaker 3: Mercer by yelling that's in the segment now with a
Speaker 3: cap tip.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, let's tip our caps. Let us tip our calves.
Speaker 4: I feel like we lost momentum. Is the news about
Speaker 4: to get better for the Mavericks, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll have that discussion next