Speaker 1: It is the Ben and Skin Show, ninety seven point
Speaker 1: one The Eagle, and today has been a crazy day,
Speaker 1: a lot of emotions. We'll be talking about it all
Speaker 1: throughout the day, leading all the way up to pregame
Speaker 1: right here on ninety seven point one the Eagle. Yes, Luka,
Speaker 1: Doncic is in town. That game is tonight. It can
Speaker 1: be heard right here on the Eagle and so you
Speaker 1: don't need to go there, just be locked in with us. Man,
Speaker 1: I can't believe this day has finally arrived. Crazy crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2: It's time to play the Today game. It's a game,
Speaker 2: It's tonic today.
Speaker 3: Let's go take it away, jack Wagons.
Speaker 2: It is time to play the today game for today.
Speaker 1: April ninth, twenty twenty five, And it was on this day,
Speaker 1: in the Year of Our Lord twenty nineteen, that Dirk
Speaker 1: played his final home game for the Maps.
Speaker 2: Who will be the first one to side scope to see?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, who are you sure?
Speaker 3: You? As you guys might expect, this was my last
Speaker 3: home game. Yeah, I'm trying my yoga breathing, but it's
Speaker 3: not really working that well.
Speaker 2: Stand up amazing? How does he do that? In front
Speaker 2: of twenty thousand. Remember that time he played Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2: Did that stand up regime?
Speaker 1: Hey, you had a late show too after that that
Speaker 1: Who cried at that game?
Speaker 2: I did? Everybody in the building, Oh I did? He
Speaker 2: did seared up.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: I almost tried listening to that too. Man, will you
Speaker 1: cry tonight?
Speaker 2: Yes? I will to be professional in a broadcast the
Speaker 2: tribute video. That's going to get some people.
Speaker 1: Everyone's going to be surprised when it is. Oh yep,
Speaker 1: oh uh. So here's my here's my favorite moment. This
Speaker 1: is so personal. Here's my favorite moment from the Dirt Game.
Speaker 1: Is during the retirement ceremony. We were at our broadcast position, okay,
Speaker 1: and so I'm just standing there next to Harp and
Speaker 1: they bring out, you know, the Legends and Stellar Strength
Speaker 1: and all these guys, Larry Bird. And when they, you know,
Speaker 1: each one says something. And when they introduced Larry Bird,
Speaker 1: Derek Harper goes Larry effn Bird, except he didn't say
Speaker 1: ethan Like Derek Harper was in the moment and in
Speaker 1: awe of Dirk's retirement and Larry Bird standing there like
Speaker 1: it was just this moment of men, the reverence, these
Speaker 1: guys had for one another is just so intense and incredible.
Speaker 1: My favorite moment from that game was you know Dirk
Speaker 1: had kept it together and then they showed a video
Speaker 1: montage of him visiting children in hospitals over the years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he lost it on the court. He's crying, wiping
Speaker 1: away tears. I'm like, there will never be another Dirk ever.
Speaker 2: There's nothing like him. He's a one of one.
Speaker 1: That's right, Ben, Remember that only one? And then okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: Christina just made a face. Everyone feels like the feeling
Speaker 1: we have right now about Luca coming back to town
Speaker 1: and realizing that we blew it. It's like we're all
Speaker 1: in an elevator and somebody farted. Did you have that
Speaker 1: look in your face?
Speaker 2: Like this? Fuck Max, Christy. It's a good point. I
Speaker 2: like that he's young player twenty two. That should be
Speaker 2: your bingo card thing. If you could mention him every day.
Speaker 2: Remember that. Guys Parks and rec debut on this day
Speaker 2: in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 4: The band has had a few different names over the years.
Speaker 4: We started, we were Teddy Bear Suicide, but then we
Speaker 4: changed it to mouse Rat, then we were God Hates Figs.
Speaker 4: Department of Homeland, Obscurity, Flames for Flames, Muscle Confusion, nothing
Speaker 4: rhymes with orange and then everything rhymes with orange. Punch
Speaker 4: Face Champions, rad Wagon, Puppy Pendulum, Awesome Pendulum Pendulum, and
Speaker 4: Real Suicide, Angel Snack, just the three skin Jet Black Pope.
Speaker 4: We went back to mouse Rat and now we are.
Speaker 1: I am sorry, I almost changed into a Ron Swansen clip.
Speaker 2: There's just so many great characters in that, but that
Speaker 2: that's just great Top three show for me.
Speaker 1: He's got this one bit that I always see from
Speaker 1: that show where he's talking to a doctor I guess,
Speaker 1: and he's like, he goes, I got this problem when
Speaker 1: wiping and sometimes you wipe and you wipe and you
Speaker 1: wipe and you wipe and it's still stuff there. He
Speaker 1: goes like, I'm wiping a marker. And he was great
Speaker 1: before he got all in shape and turned into a
Speaker 1: superhero whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, let's cook. You got fit. Albert Hammond Junior
Speaker 2: of the Strokes is forty five. Here's that's credit card.
Speaker 1: And bought all the equipment for the band. So I
Speaker 1: think Albert Hammond Senior actually has some songwriting credit on
Speaker 1: Crete by Radiohead because they used one of his songs
Speaker 1: as a jump off. Legendary Guy KT's leader, Hugh Huffner,
Speaker 1: would have been ninety nine.
Speaker 5: Playboy Mansion has been sold after months on the market.
Speaker 5: The new owner, i should say, is a ninety year
Speaker 5: old co owner of Hostess. So that's a lot of
Speaker 5: ding dongs and slinkys. I'm not I shouldn't have gone there,
Speaker 5: and I will not go to there.
Speaker 2: I didn't think about it, and.
Speaker 6: I planned to be on the cover of Playboy magazine again.
Speaker 6: See I did Playboy magazine years ago. I thought it
Speaker 6: would be such a hood. If they'll go for I
Speaker 6: don't know if they will if I could be on
Speaker 6: the cover. You know again, when I'm seventy five, you'll
Speaker 6: have to not to me rest in peace?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: In Gerard Way of my Chemical Romances forty eight was
Speaker 1: a young boy.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: There we having.
Speaker 1: There's the today game for today. Good luck to all
Speaker 1: of our nominees. Coming up next, Let's Talk Cowboys DFW.
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Speaker 2: Don't miss it.