April 17, 2025 • 5 mins
"How have you never had a chicken wing?" This bewildering question sets the stage for a segment of The Ben and Skin Show, as they dive into the shocking revelation that legendary Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer has never tasted a chicken wing.In this episode, the team explores Palmer's aversion to chicken wings and skin, leading to a series of laugh-out-loud moments and incredulous reactions. The hosts dissect the absurdity of Palmer's dietary choices. The episode also touches on broader themes of food culture and personal preferences, drawing parallels to the hosts' own experiences and memories. The banter is both hilarious and thought-provoking, making this a must-listen for fans of the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh yes, rocking Dallas Fort Worth. Thanks for rolling with
us today. We've got the Today game coming up. We've
got skins banned in the Dallas Morning News. We have
one hundred and six year old lady that's out there
talking trash, and we got to get back into that
MAVs win over the Kings. All that is coming your
way before we get out of here today on a Thursday.
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Is good.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I don't know how I found this because I don't
watch a lot of Orioles games, but the Orioles color
commentator is Jim Palmer, their old pitcher went way back
in the day.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
My guy.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
They're playback play guys, not former Rangers pitcher. But's a
guy named Kevin Brown. He's a younger fella.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
So you got the.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Younger kind of new guy to broadcasting, and then you
got Jim Palmer, the old savvy vett.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I miss him.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Baltimore a big food town, right, a lot of crabs
and stuff like that. But surely you've had a chicken wing.
Jim Olmer has not. I don't believe this, and the
play by play guy can't handle this.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You know, I never had a wing. Ever, you've never had,
never ever had a wing? You've never had Wait a minute, no,
I'm just never had.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
You've never had a chicken wing?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
No, Like, why would I? Why would you have skin
and stuff? Yeah? Yeah, lots of things have skit, but
I don't eat skin.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Now now it's turned into a thing where you just
think about our show and the future drops they are possible.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Here, never had a chicken wing?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
No, like, why would I? Why would you have skin
and stuff? Yeah? Yeah, lots of things have skit, but
I don't eat skin. Apples have skin.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You've never had a single chicken wring?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
No, I never thought about having.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
That is staggering. So what kind of chicken do you?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
White puss?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
What about like chickchicked chicken?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
They never had fried chicken? Never what I've taken the
crust off?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And what is this?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You've taken the crust off, so you're losing the frying
part of the fried chicken.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Well that's what chicken tenders, all right, But that's not
a chicken wing.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, I'm I'm Have you ever turned down the opportunity to.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Have a chicken wing? No?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I just choose not even to think of having.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
What what opportunity that's going on?
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I think we I think it went to an entire
at bat without acknowledging who was playing.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
They ignored the game.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
It was a six to one.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
And how baseball is.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
This could really help baseball non secretary conversations happening while
the action is the action is just there and you
watch them, it's a whole other.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Conversation or the radio just no updates at all.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I mean, what in the world, though, how have you
never had a chicken wing?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
A strange?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
All right, I immediately find it to be not believable. However, right,
he does indicate a strong dislike for eating skin, and
so he's thinking of the skin of the chicken. And
he wouldn't even eat fried chicken. He tore off like
the crusty part. So the fried part.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
It's interesting because even if you tear off that, that's
still fried chicken. Like the chicken was fried. He didn't
eat the skin. Yeah, that he's gotten a version of that.
But he's okay with eating apples.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Yeah, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That's that's so where chicken wings popular in the seventies,
that's my That's where I ended up thinking here.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
But it's just an old guy with the take.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I was a kid in the seventies fil only macaroni cheese, pizza,
and tacos.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I think Pluckers invented the chicken wing.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I mean we had a wing renaissance right now that
that we just.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I remember fried chicken places of course, churches and stuff
like that, but it was and you could get like
a drumstick.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
But I don't remember a little wings.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
I kind of I can kind of see someone not
being down with I mean, I think of fried chicken
is Southern cuisine, right, and so maybe he never really
threw down in the South. And I don't know, like
I think it's kind of a novelty to have fried chicken.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Well, no, Ben's right, there's fast food places everywhere.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
If Jim Palmer is from like what's where is he from?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
New York?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Maybe there's no way though, there's no way you've gone
to see the chicken wing.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
The Buffalo Wings. That's from upstate New York. It's a
thing up there.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, in Buffalo.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Yeah, I mean remember when remember when we had Moose
on and Moose was like had the entire history of
the Buffalo Wings.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yeah, could talk about it for hours. I'll show up
the Pluckers and hang out with you. Guys have wings.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
God, that friendship fell apart. Man, I wonder why ben
Well fell apart. Without a talent fee, we we could
bies friendship anymore. Alright, coming up next to the Today game.
This is less than four minutes. Who will win the
Today Game? Stick around and find out
Oh yes, rocking Dallas Fort Worth. Thanks for rolling with
us today. We've got the Today game coming up. We've
got skins banned in the Dallas Morning News. We have
one hundred and six year old lady that's out there
talking trash, and we got to get back into that
MAVs win over the Kings. All that is coming your
way before we get out of here today on a Thursday.
But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Is good.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I don't know how I found this because I don't
watch a lot of Orioles games, but the Orioles color
commentator is Jim Palmer, their old pitcher went way back
in the day.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
My guy.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
They're playback play guys, not former Rangers pitcher. But's a
guy named Kevin Brown. He's a younger fella.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
So you got the.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Younger kind of new guy to broadcasting, and then you
got Jim Palmer, the old savvy vett.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I miss him.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Baltimore a big food town, right, a lot of crabs
and stuff like that. But surely you've had a chicken wing.
Jim Olmer has not. I don't believe this, and the
play by play guy can't handle this.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You know, I never had a wing. Ever, you've never had,
never ever had a wing? You've never had Wait a minute, no,
I'm just never had.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
You've never had a chicken wing?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
No, Like, why would I? Why would you have skin
and stuff? Yeah? Yeah, lots of things have skit, but
I don't eat skin.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Now now it's turned into a thing where you just
think about our show and the future drops they are possible.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Here, never had a chicken wing?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
No, like, why would I? Why would you have skin
and stuff? Yeah? Yeah, lots of things have skit, but
I don't eat skin. Apples have skin.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You've never had a single chicken wring?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
No, I never thought about having.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
That is staggering. So what kind of chicken do you?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
White puss?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
What about like chickchicked chicken?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
They never had fried chicken? Never what I've taken the
crust off?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And what is this?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You've taken the crust off, so you're losing the frying
part of the fried chicken.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Well that's what chicken tenders, all right, But that's not
a chicken wing.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, I'm I'm Have you ever turned down the opportunity to.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Have a chicken wing? No?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I just choose not even to think of having.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
What what opportunity that's going on?
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I think we I think it went to an entire
at bat without acknowledging who was playing.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
They ignored the game.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
It was a six to one.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
And how baseball is.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
This could really help baseball non secretary conversations happening while
the action is the action is just there and you
watch them, it's a whole other.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Conversation or the radio just no updates at all.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I mean, what in the world, though, how have you
never had a chicken wing?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
A strange?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
All right, I immediately find it to be not believable. However, right,
he does indicate a strong dislike for eating skin, and
so he's thinking of the skin of the chicken. And
he wouldn't even eat fried chicken. He tore off like
the crusty part. So the fried part.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
It's interesting because even if you tear off that, that's
still fried chicken. Like the chicken was fried. He didn't
eat the skin. Yeah, that he's gotten a version of that.
But he's okay with eating apples.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Yeah, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That's that's so where chicken wings popular in the seventies,
that's my That's where I ended up thinking here.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
But it's just an old guy with the take.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I was a kid in the seventies fil only macaroni cheese, pizza,
and tacos.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I think Pluckers invented the chicken wing.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I mean we had a wing renaissance right now that
that we just.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I remember fried chicken places of course, churches and stuff
like that, but it was and you could get like
a drumstick.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
But I don't remember a little wings.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
I kind of I can kind of see someone not
being down with I mean, I think of fried chicken
is Southern cuisine, right, and so maybe he never really
threw down in the South. And I don't know, like
I think it's kind of a novelty to have fried chicken.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Well, no, Ben's right, there's fast food places everywhere.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
If Jim Palmer is from like what's where is he from?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
New York?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Maybe there's no way though, there's no way you've gone
to see the chicken wing.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
The Buffalo Wings. That's from upstate New York. It's a
thing up there.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, in Buffalo.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Yeah, I mean remember when remember when we had Moose
on and Moose was like had the entire history of
the Buffalo Wings.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yeah, could talk about it for hours. I'll show up
the Pluckers and hang out with you. Guys have wings.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
God, that friendship fell apart. Man, I wonder why ben
Well fell apart. Without a talent fee, we we could
bies friendship anymore. Alright, coming up next to the Today game.
This is less than four minutes. Who will win the
Today Game? Stick around and find out
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