Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So yesterday we were doing our show. We were going
Speaker 2: into the last segment and Kat said, hey, I don't
Speaker 2: feel good. It just hit me. I gotta leave. Okay,
Speaker 2: I misheard him. I thought he said, oh my god,
Speaker 2: my rectum is burning.
Speaker 1: I'm out of here. He hits it.
Speaker 2: Yah, he said he pooped his pants and he needed
Speaker 2: to leave. And he said it happened like an hour prior,
Speaker 2: but he was okay with it. Yeah, this Luke can
Speaker 2: trade is too much. My rectum is burning. I've got
Speaker 2: to go. But we then heard reports through back channels
Speaker 2: that he was throwing up profusely all evening but did
Speaker 2: not have a fever. So I was thinking, all right, man,
Speaker 2: I feel better about me not getting sick, because anytime
Speaker 2: somebody has the plague around you and you work in
Speaker 2: a shoe box with each other, the minute they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: I was throwing up blood.
Speaker 1: Hope you're okay, You're like, oh, I care about you,
Speaker 1: but mostly I care about me. I don't want to
Speaker 1: catch that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I got home last time. My wife's like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: Kat was sick. Were you around him? I go no,
Speaker 2: But he was in Ben's laughing entire show.
Speaker 3: What's so funny is as soon as he walked out,
Speaker 3: you guys looked at each other and grabbed that Purel
Speaker 3: I always save yourselves in it.
Speaker 2: I was putting Purel hand sanitizer on my face like aftershaft,
Speaker 2: all over my body. I used it to experience pleasure, right,
Speaker 2: I was using it like a like some never mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyways, KT is not with us today, man, And
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's even alive right now.
Speaker 1: I hope he is okay. But if KT is sick, right,
Speaker 1: he's homesick?
Speaker 2: Uh huh, what are the chances he's listening?
Speaker 4: Zero?
Speaker 1: Come on, dude.
Speaker 3: Well, and so it sounds like he has what Mike
Speaker 3: had over the weekend, and I will tell you that Mike.
Speaker 3: Mike was telling me he's like, I can't even believe
Speaker 3: he's texting you guys right now because I didn't have the.
Speaker 5: Energy to do that.
Speaker 3: So if he is that bad, I don't think he's listening.
Speaker 3: But KT does try his best to stay with the
Speaker 3: show as much as possible.
Speaker 2: How did KT get it from Soroy though they were
Speaker 2: hanging out all weekend.
Speaker 5: They must have been making out behind my back.
Speaker 3: I barely even saw Kat yesterday, Christina, she might be
Speaker 3: a carrier.
Speaker 1: Oh like she didn't have it.
Speaker 2: She carries it super strong immune systems. Yeah, I was
Speaker 2: about you know, I think usually with Kate emergency every
Speaker 2: day when Kat misses the show, he just listens told
Speaker 2: podcasts of shows that he was on. From what I understand, Uh, anyways,
Speaker 2: keep him in your thoughts and prayers and and thinking
Speaker 2: about Kat reminded me of the intro.
Speaker 4: Talk time. Boys.
Speaker 3: Right now, are you ready, ready, ready?
Speaker 1: Ready?
Speaker 6: When when Evan when I'll showed you go ruin except
Speaker 6: with the most we pursuing it bottled out shaw shank
Speaker 6: through the sewer.
Speaker 4: Kid, Now what chill in that day? Eagle?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're doing it. Three your clock on the doc.
Speaker 6: Got a habit for my house, a go status. How
Speaker 6: it's starting to get cratic. Shows that up multiplied like
Speaker 6: a rabbit. Tune in zone out break it up, feed
Speaker 6: the habit.
Speaker 3: I'm on a hang out with a friend, rocking it
Speaker 3: on the radio.
Speaker 6: My standing the Skin.
Speaker 1: Talking on the radio. It's time to to this wall.
Speaker 5: All babyby we go KT thristin up Skin.
Speaker 4: All up on the radio.
Speaker 1: All right, Happy Tuesday, everybody.
Speaker 2: This is the world famous Ben and Skin show we're
Speaker 2: without KT today and uh, we're It's gonna continue to
Speaker 2: be a weird show in a lot of ways. It's
Speaker 2: it's a weird time in the Metroplex, and we are
Speaker 2: a reflection of what's going on in Elas Fort Worth.
Speaker 2: The biggest story in Dallas Fort Worth is that shockingly,
Speaker 2: Luka Doncic was traded to the Lakers, and the story
Speaker 2: just keeps going and going and going because new things
Speaker 2: are happening. And today the Lakers introduced Luca. He had
Speaker 2: a big press conference right behind you, Skin, I'm looking
Speaker 2: at a huge monitor here in studio and seeing Luca
Speaker 2: with all those Lakers logos. It's just reopening wounds that
Speaker 2: haven't yet had a chance to heal. And so the
Speaker 2: Metroplex is really hurting right now just because of the
Speaker 2: shock of such a meaningful player being traded. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: play you a bunch of the audio coming up here
Speaker 2: at five o'clock.
Speaker 1: Do not miss it.
Speaker 2: It's one of those days where we are off early
Speaker 2: because pregame starts at five point thirty. The Mavericks are
Speaker 2: playing the Philadelphia seventy six ers on this station, and
Speaker 2: they made a trade with the Philadelphia seventy six ers
Speaker 2: on the day that they're playing them. It's all so weird,
Speaker 2: But they have traded Quentin Grimes. I'm assuming he's not
Speaker 2: going to suit up against the Mavericks here in a
Speaker 2: few hours. Again, for Caleb Martin, there are similar players.
Speaker 2: Grimes is a better offensive player, Caleb Martin's a more rugged,
Speaker 2: tough guy defender. But Martin's been hurt for several weeks
Speaker 2: and he's not ready to come back yet. So that's
Speaker 2: just another little sidebar that's going on. But we will,
Speaker 2: you know, basically be going till five thirty day and
Speaker 2: we'll play you all some of that. Luca rob Polinka
Speaker 2: press conference audio coming up here in the five o'clock hour.
Speaker 1: Just got a text from one of our listeners. He said,
Speaker 1: as it's our buddy Jr.
Speaker 2: He says, as I drive these d DFW streets, I
Speaker 2: stare into other cars and wonder if they are still
Speaker 2: mulling over the devastation of Saturday nights news of Luca.
Speaker 1: It's all anybody's talking.
Speaker 5: I mean, look outside, God is sad, Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: It's all anyone's thinking about or talking about. And we
Speaker 2: want to give you a chance to weigh in on
Speaker 2: this today. So here's what we're gonna do. We haven't
Speaker 2: done this in a long time, but at four to
Speaker 2: ten today we're gonna take phone calls. You get to
Speaker 2: call in, and you get to say whatever you want
Speaker 2: to say, if you want to try to find it
Speaker 2: an optimistic angle, if you want to vent, do whatever
Speaker 2: you want to do.
Speaker 1: As aren't. Don't cuss though, you cannot cuss. No cussing.
Speaker 2: But you have a chance to call in and be
Speaker 2: heard throughout Dallas, Fort Worth on the Eagle, the Mighty
Speaker 2: Mighty Eagles. So that's gonna happen at about four ten.
Speaker 2: You're gonna want to start calling in two one, four, seven,
Speaker 2: eight seven one nine seven one, and we're even going
Speaker 2: to hook up the best call, right, Yeah, so the
Speaker 2: caller that is the most passionate, as determined by our
Speaker 2: three person panel of me, Ben and Kray. We'll give
Speaker 2: you Shine Down tickets. They're going to be coming in August.
Speaker 2: I believe I think there are they playing dose ekis
Speaker 2: Do you remember?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Did I have it wrong?
Speaker 5: Well I should have. It's probably Dickie's arena.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'll look it up. I'll look it up.
Speaker 2: I'm my bad for not having that at the tip
Speaker 2: of my tongue. But uh, we do have shine Down
Speaker 2: tickets to give away. I do know they're coming in August.
Speaker 2: I'll get those details. But the best Luca caller will
Speaker 2: win those tickets. And like Ben said, it'll be the
Speaker 2: the four to ten.
Speaker 5: Segment Dickie's Arena.
Speaker 2: It's in Dickney eight okay, in Fort Worth August twenty
Speaker 2: eighth at Dickies.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: So, one of the most difficult things about this trade,
Speaker 2: not only is that the Mavericks gave up on their
Speaker 2: twenty five year old global icon superstar, it's that they
Speaker 2: got a lot older. But they did get an incredible
Speaker 2: player back. Anthony Davis is one of the best players
Speaker 2: in basketball.
Speaker 1: I think the best career of his year. He's just yeah,
Speaker 1: he's having the best year of his career. He's but
Speaker 1: he's he's almost six years older.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so, and I feel so bad for Anthony
Speaker 2: Davis because even if you were, like if the Easter
Speaker 2: Bunny got traded for Santa Claus, who still are the
Speaker 2: Easter Bunny?
Speaker 1: But you're gonna get booed at Christmas.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's an egg hunt. I mean, it's fine, little
Speaker 2: kids like it. But you know, so Santa brings PlayStation.
Speaker 2: So Anthony Davis had his press conference today, right, do
Speaker 2: you have a press just shoot around? Okay, just had
Speaker 2: a shoot around. So he just spoke to reporters and
Speaker 2: we do need to do this. Like, I feel bad
Speaker 2: for Anthony Davis. I feel like he's MAVs fans are
Speaker 2: so upset right now that they're going to take it
Speaker 2: out on him. He might get booed while he's playing,
Speaker 2: you know, and he what's the best players on earth?
Speaker 4: The team?
Speaker 1: Listen, listen.
Speaker 2: Nobody wants to hear this, and I'm not trying to,
Speaker 2: you know, make you feel a certain way. The Mavericks
Speaker 2: are a great, great team. They're a great team. Most
Speaker 2: most people that don't have an emotional dog in this hunt.
Speaker 2: Now look at the Mavericks that say they're either the
Speaker 2: first or second best team in the West right now
Speaker 2: after this trade. I've had a couple of people say, hey, man,
Speaker 2: I totally think the Mavericks have a better chance of
Speaker 2: winning a championship this year, right, But that doesn't I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to make feels some way. I'm just saying
Speaker 2: there's objective people that feel that way, whether they're right
Speaker 2: or wrong. Eventually, I think eventually our emotions will fade,
Speaker 2: will will grieve, will mourn, and then the reality will
Speaker 2: set in.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is this? What is situation?
Speaker 2: The situation is, you might have the best defensive team
Speaker 2: in basketball.
Speaker 1: Here's what will happen.
Speaker 2: You're the Mavericks will play really well, you know, your
Speaker 2: emotions will die down a little bit, and then Luca
Speaker 2: will come here April seventh and score eighty as the
Speaker 2: Lakers played the Mavericks, and we'll cheer him on. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then the Lakers will win the season tiebreaker against
Speaker 2: the Mavericks, and then they'll jump ahead of them in
Speaker 2: the standing. When is that game April seventh? I think
Speaker 2: I think it's a Wednesday. My uh, my daughter and
Speaker 2: her boyfriend looked last night. The cheapest ticket was two
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty bucks in the Upperno. Yeah, I'm going
Speaker 2: to that game, you'll see. Anyways, Anthony Davis spoke today
Speaker 2: at a shoot around and we thought we'd take a listen.
Speaker 2: Let's go to cut number two, which is actually two cuts.
Speaker 2: It is first one. We'll just do the first thoughts.
Speaker 2: This is Anthony Davis's first thoughts on the trade, when I'll.
Speaker 7: Get to Dallas, mass nothing. Obviously it was shocking, just
Speaker 7: that I didn't know. But you know, after the shot
Speaker 7: factor wore on and I know, it's get to Dallas,
Speaker 7: get to the you know a physical, see the doctors,
Speaker 7: and then't get ready to you know, be back to
Speaker 7: get on the.
Speaker 4: On the floor with these dots.
Speaker 1: Does he have a Muppet voice? A little bit?
Speaker 2: Let's here, let's hear his second part of this is
Speaker 2: kind of answering the same thing as initial thoughts on
Speaker 2: the trade.
Speaker 4: I was shocked. Everyone else, Like I said, I didn't know.
Speaker 7: I was actually at home about to watch a movie
Speaker 7: with my wife and got the phone call.
Speaker 4: So I had no idea.
Speaker 7: I just sent, you know, the team chats about riolation
Speaker 7: on a on the win against the Nats, big win,
Speaker 7: and then you know, looking forward to Tuesday's game against
Speaker 7: the Clippers to the smartest standing purposes. So they found
Speaker 7: out like hour later I was no longer with the team,
Speaker 7: So I was in shock. Obviously, had no idea that
Speaker 7: it was happening.
Speaker 4: But I mean now it's you know, I'm kind of
Speaker 4: over it and just kind of you know, getting ready
Speaker 4: to play with Dallas.
Speaker 2: Let me just say something right quick too. And by
Speaker 2: the way, I believe he was watching four and a
Speaker 2: half hour stream of Alan Harper on the Sundance.
Speaker 1: And app with his wife thought the same thing.
Speaker 2: I want to say this, And I didn't look up
Speaker 2: the exact number, but it's significant at least six, maybe
Speaker 2: seven figures. Anthony Davis didn't have to do this. Heaved
Speaker 2: a trade kicker in his contract so that the Mavericks
Speaker 2: could then do more.
Speaker 1: So as you're just wanting to I know you don't
Speaker 1: want to hear anything.
Speaker 2: But this guy, who's one of the best players in
Speaker 2: the world said, yeah, even though it's in my contract,
Speaker 2: I don't need that money. Do what you do so
Speaker 2: we can go win a championship. So he saved the
Speaker 2: Mavericks seven hundred thousand dollars or whatever it is, and
Speaker 2: that allows them to have space to on their payroll
Speaker 2: to go add other players. Yeah, they operate under what's
Speaker 2: called there's luxury tax and there's tears and I don't
Speaker 2: want to get into all this, but they operated at
Speaker 2: a certain level after the trade to where they could
Speaker 2: it would make it easier for them to make more moves.
Speaker 2: It wasn't just it wasn't just, hey, Patrick Dumont saves money,
Speaker 2: Like that's not about that, that mess about maneuvering. They
Speaker 2: traded Quentin Grimes today for Caleb Martin. We'll get more
Speaker 2: into that, but I'm glad there's another new face here,
Speaker 2: and I hope they make another trade or too, he too,
Speaker 2: because I don't want it all to be on Anthony
Speaker 2: Davis's shoulders. Here is CUTT number three, Anthony Davis talking
Speaker 2: about his relationship with Nico.
Speaker 4: Nico know me, so I was in high school.
Speaker 7: Obviously, you know one of the guys I got close
Speaker 7: way when I signed with Niking, and they just stayed
Speaker 7: close throughout the years. You know, even at this time here.
Speaker 7: We remain good friends and you know, and then now
Speaker 7: is you know, kind of come back full circle, you
Speaker 7: know with us, you know, being a guy here in Dallas,
Speaker 7: and it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: They go way way back, and this is a common
Speaker 2: theme that you will find with all things Nico. Harrison
Speaker 2: and Ben will tell you, like when we were doing
Speaker 2: sports talk radio and stuff, it's like, well, mate, we
Speaker 2: were probably on the ego by then. But I've always
Speaker 2: tried to slot slip out there. Hey, guys, keep your
Speaker 2: eye on Anthony Davis. He's a guy that Nico Harrison
Speaker 2: very much covets and now he's here.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh they Anthony Davis was asked about his first conversation
Speaker 2: with Nico about all of this.
Speaker 4: That was the excitement, you know, you know, Nico believes
Speaker 4: in that.
Speaker 7: When I answer to this team, we don't know but
Speaker 7: everything that we talked about out there, but uh, we're
Speaker 7: both you know, extremely excited about what we can do,
Speaker 7: and you know, I think we have a great opportunity
Speaker 7: in won championship.
Speaker 2: I don't even know the answer to this. Did he
Speaker 2: ever groom his eyebrow or does it still go straight across?
Speaker 2: It's still it's still the brow. Yeah, yeah, but it's not.
Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit better off. But he
Speaker 2: didn't run from his identity, right, right, But it's it's
Speaker 2: better taken care of.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's still a unibrow. It's just tweaked.
Speaker 2: It's almost a unibrow, but a manicured quite a unirow
Speaker 2: man cure Brown. Finally, Anthony Davis cut number five his
Speaker 2: thoughts on playing with Kyrie.
Speaker 7: I'm very excited. I mean, me and Kyle talked about
Speaker 7: this think in twenty eighteen. You know, when I asked
Speaker 7: for a trade from New Orleans, he was in Boston
Speaker 7: I think at the time, and he ended up leaving.
Speaker 4: One in Brooklyn. But you know, we didn't want to.
Speaker 7: Play alongside each other for a very long time, and
Speaker 7: now you know we got the opportunity to do something.
Speaker 7: In our final game, they had thirty I'm not so
Speaker 7: you know he was able to beat the game. You know,
Speaker 7: we all know what the play.
Speaker 4: If you had been there, you know, does it all
Speaker 4: for himself?
Speaker 1: Those guys both so skin I'm dying to know this.
Speaker 2: Obviously, watching Luca play with Lively and Gafford so much fun.
Speaker 2: He could just float the ball up at the rim.
Speaker 2: Those guys such great finishers. Kai didn't do it as much.
Speaker 2: He didn't have the ball in his hands quite as much,
Speaker 2: and they needed him to score. He was a great
Speaker 2: facilitator too. But it's he's now a quarterback of this team,
Speaker 2: and so what is that going to be like watching
Speaker 2: those guys play. And for those of us who love
Speaker 2: watching Lively and Gafford finish at the rim, well, Anthony
Speaker 2: Davis is even a level above them, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think Lively, you know, just because of age and size
Speaker 2: and stuff, Lively is a better finisher above the rim
Speaker 2: of the three. But it's all there's just varying degrees.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Gafford gets up high. All three of them get up
Speaker 2: super high and can finish. Gafford has an unbelievable back
Speaker 2: to the basket game. But of those three, Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: is far and away the most skilled of those three. Like,
Speaker 2: you can isolate him fifteen feet from the basket and
Speaker 2: he can face up and work you or back you
Speaker 2: down better than those other two guys.
Speaker 1: But he's also a great screener.
Speaker 2: And then the other thing is like you put Kyrie
Speaker 2: and Gafford and a pick and roll, for example, and
Speaker 2: then have Anthony Davis crashing in from the weak side
Speaker 2: as a cutter. There's just a lot of things for
Speaker 2: defenses to have to think about. It's different than the
Speaker 2: way it was structured before. But still Anthony Davis's Again,
Speaker 2: Nico said it, and I don't disagree with him. He
Speaker 2: is the best two way player in basketball. So with
Speaker 2: all that action happening with Anthony Davis, is there the
Speaker 2: chance people lose track of where Clay is.
Speaker 1: Absolutely it's huge for Klay.
Speaker 2: Is it any different than the way that they're going
Speaker 2: to try to get him open with Luca? I think
Speaker 2: we're going to start seeing even more movement with Clay.
Speaker 2: But I you know, I'm not privy to practice. I
Speaker 2: don't know what they're going to roll out, but I
Speaker 2: would suspect that we would start that stuff all right.
Speaker 2: Coming up at four ten, you'll have a chance to
Speaker 2: weigh in on this. You can call in. We're gonna
Speaker 2: give away a Shinedown tickets to whoever makes the best call.
Speaker 1: Do not cuss.
Speaker 2: That's at four ten two one, four, seven, eight, seven, one,
Speaker 2: nine seventy one. We want to give you guys a
Speaker 2: chance to weigh in on this. Tell us how you
Speaker 2: are feeling. Coming up next, this is very interesting. One
Speaker 2: of the best sports writers in all the world is
Speaker 2: Tim McMahon of ESPN. He's been writing a book about
Speaker 2: Luca called The Wonder Boy. It comes out on March
Speaker 2: twenty fifth, and it suddenly looks like it has another
Speaker 2: chapter to be written before that bad Boy comes out.
Speaker 1: Tim McMahon joins us next