April 30, 2025 • 7 mins
The Ben and Skin Show discusses HBO's new show featuring Bill Hader, exploring the dark themes of the Jonestown massacre. They delve into Hader's unique blend of comedy and darkness, making this upcoming series a must-watch.Plus, get the latest scoop on Steven Spielberg's pick for the greatest American movie ever made. The hosts debate his choice and share their own favorites, adding a personal touch to the discussion.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yesterday, KAT had a shocking story that involved an escaped
redtail boa in Arlington. Arlington Animal Services responded. A guy
named David Davis got very involved and saved everyone from
being eaten by a snake and then adopted the snake.
For some reason, Skin was picturing him shirtless and a
vest I want to get to the bottom of that.
(00:22):
He will be asked about that any KAT has booked
this man on our show, So David Davis will join us,
coming up here in just.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
About ten minutes. But right now it's time for this
juicy news. Hot guys come stay on top in the
hot shovel. So there's a new show that HBO has
(00:50):
green lit and they're working on and it will feature
Bill Hayter. Bill Hayter. Last scene in Barry. I guess
Barry's done forever, right, Yeah, Barry's done.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I need to watch the final season. What happened in
the last scene? Don't tell me, you know, I'm gonna
watch it tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Heat did he die?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I can't remember? Hey man, No, no, no, no, dude, no, seriously,
that's what I will watch.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
The last scene in the living room.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I want to say, there's small so you won't be
able to catch up this summer. Barry is a show
that I actually liked. I'll watch the final final season.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh so it's like you should you kind of out
of yourself the other day when you said that you
read a lot of books and then you kind of
quit towards the end. Yeah, that you have a problem
here with this. Now it happens. New episode of the
Studio drops tonight too, and looking forward to catching that.
It's gonna be fantastic. I'm caught up on the studio.
I love it. Oh yeah, how many epps is it?
This will be six or seven tonight? Yeah. Oh, I'm
(01:48):
not caught up on the studio. I love it. Next
week is good, you'll love it. So the series is
about the Jonestown massacres with Jim James.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh my god, wait Jim James of the.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Jim Jones Say James Jacket Jim Jones really so right,
just like the Studio was making fun over waight. Yes.
Sources are saying that Hayter is being eyed to potentially
star in this and then maybe he probably direct some
episodes and things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
He's got such a dark side.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah. So this is where nine hundred people. Over nine
hundred people died in a jungle when they drank some.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
They drank the cool. That's where the phrase drink the
kool aid comes from. Right.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well again, in the studio, they were trying to flip
it because they wanted to do a movie about the
cool like kool aid. Right, And it was Scorsese who
had a script about this massacre, and he was like,
there we go. We got it that they couldn't do
it because it was so dark.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
This has actually existed before as a made for TV movie.
There was a made for TV movie that aired on
Network Television about the Jim Jones. Have you guys heard
to the band the Brian Jonestown Massacre? Yeah, they did
the song to him Empire, Yeah, Boardwalk Empire. Yeah, that's
a different show. I mean there's been multiple shows made
(03:11):
about koresh in Waco. Yeah, I'm assuming this will be similar, right,
But is it gonna be a dark comedy? No? I
think it be dark.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I don't know if Hater's on. Yeah, I mean maybe
have you guys seen Skeleton Twins?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I know what you're saying, though.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I mean, it's just a movie that him and Kristen
Wig made about a brother and sister that are suicidal.
It's not, there's not. There may be like two or
three scenes that are kind of remotely funny, but they
you know, a lot of a lot of comedians have
a very very dark side. It's the whole red skeleton thing.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
But he's like before he was a comedian, he was
just big time film nerd and he was working on
the set of a movie. You know, things like that
work his way up. So I don't even know if
he's like a comedian in its truest form. He's just
funny guy. He then got to go do cool stuff.
This is a HBO will be done well, and it
(04:05):
will be it'll be funny, you sa, I think.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I think it'll be dark like Verry funny. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
The one thing that I would say, and this happened
in the late seventies.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Right, this says nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Okay, So I don't know that you can make well,
maybe you can. I mean, once upon a time in
Hollywood kind of did that. It's hard to make a
massacre funny when there's descendants that are still alive, right,
you know what I'm saying that like, is that the
challenge of it that they would look at and say, hey,
this maybe what makes an interesting I don't know, like Barry,
(04:43):
I mean, there was just so dark. It was so dark,
but clearly there were characters in it that made it
a comedy. It was a right and absurd characters. Right,
it was you know, the guy with the crazy accent.
There was the Henry Winkler, the guy. Yeah, the alopecia
Guy's one of the weirdest characters in the history of television. Yeah,
my favorite. He's great, so good. But that character would
(05:06):
never be in a serious program. No, that was entirely serious.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah. The other news, Steven Spielberger is doing an interview
and he says that the greatest American movie ever made was.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I guess, Joss, what does that mean? American movie? Just
it was in America. It's about American content with like
like not like like there's a whole French new wave
like Godart. He worshiped Godard, he actually had Francois Truffau
plays a scientist in Close Encounters. Because Spielberg worshiped the
French directors. He's saying, an American made movie made by
(05:41):
a Scorsese or a Spielberg, I guarantee you. He said,
Citizen Kane made by Orson Wells.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Nope. Is it one of his own movies? Nope? Okay,
well crap.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Did he say Goodfellas?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
What decade?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Oh oh, Touch of Evil?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Nope. I want to guess that it might have had
the phrase. I could be wrong. Maybe it had something
like say a lot of my life friend. No, no,
not that one.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh oh the Godfather, Yeah, the Godfather. They're all the same,
really right? Uh No, they're not even remotely close to
the same.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, damn, that sucks. I should probably watch it.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I have no problem with Godfather one, and I would
even say that Godfather Too is better than Godfather won.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He says, Godfather is the greatest American movie ever made.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's incredible. It is incredible, and it is I swear
to god. I've seen it a hundred times, and I
bet I watch it every time. I only see it
in a theater. I want to see Sinners tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh. Let you guys know.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
My daughter saw it with her boyfriend and they both
absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Everyone loves it. It's kind of it's getting amazing. Reviews.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I can't believe Ben won't go see it.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah I will. I'm gonna go see it tonight. What's
it's home streaming? All right?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Coming up next the interview we've all been waiting for
the guy who grabbed the Redtail Boa in Arlington. David
David KT tracked him down and he agreed to jump
on our radio show that's coming up in less than
four minutes. Don't go Anywhere
Yesterday, KAT had a shocking story that involved an escaped
redtail boa in Arlington. Arlington Animal Services responded. A guy
named David Davis got very involved and saved everyone from
being eaten by a snake and then adopted the snake.
For some reason, Skin was picturing him shirtless and a
vest I want to get to the bottom of that.
(00:22):
He will be asked about that any KAT has booked
this man on our show, So David Davis will join us,
coming up here in just.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
About ten minutes. But right now it's time for this
juicy news. Hot guys come stay on top in the
hot shovel. So there's a new show that HBO has
(00:50):
green lit and they're working on and it will feature
Bill Hayter. Bill Hayter. Last scene in Barry. I guess
Barry's done forever, right, Yeah, Barry's done.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I need to watch the final season. What happened in
the last scene? Don't tell me, you know, I'm gonna
watch it tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Heat did he die?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I can't remember? Hey man, No, no, no, no, dude, no, seriously,
that's what I will watch.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
The last scene in the living room.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I want to say, there's small so you won't be
able to catch up this summer. Barry is a show
that I actually liked. I'll watch the final final season.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh so it's like you should you kind of out
of yourself the other day when you said that you
read a lot of books and then you kind of
quit towards the end. Yeah, that you have a problem
here with this. Now it happens. New episode of the
Studio drops tonight too, and looking forward to catching that.
It's gonna be fantastic. I'm caught up on the studio.
I love it. Oh yeah, how many epps is it?
This will be six or seven tonight? Yeah. Oh, I'm
(01:48):
not caught up on the studio. I love it. Next
week is good, you'll love it. So the series is
about the Jonestown massacres with Jim James.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh my god, wait Jim James of the.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Jim Jones Say James Jacket Jim Jones really so right,
just like the Studio was making fun over waight. Yes.
Sources are saying that Hayter is being eyed to potentially
star in this and then maybe he probably direct some
episodes and things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
He's got such a dark side.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah. So this is where nine hundred people. Over nine
hundred people died in a jungle when they drank some.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
They drank the cool. That's where the phrase drink the
kool aid comes from. Right.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well again, in the studio, they were trying to flip
it because they wanted to do a movie about the
cool like kool aid. Right, And it was Scorsese who
had a script about this massacre, and he was like,
there we go. We got it that they couldn't do
it because it was so dark.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
This has actually existed before as a made for TV movie.
There was a made for TV movie that aired on
Network Television about the Jim Jones. Have you guys heard
to the band the Brian Jonestown Massacre? Yeah, they did
the song to him Empire, Yeah, Boardwalk Empire. Yeah, that's
a different show. I mean there's been multiple shows made
(03:11):
about koresh in Waco. Yeah, I'm assuming this will be similar, right,
But is it gonna be a dark comedy? No? I
think it be dark.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I don't know if Hater's on. Yeah, I mean maybe
have you guys seen Skeleton Twins?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I know what you're saying, though.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I mean, it's just a movie that him and Kristen
Wig made about a brother and sister that are suicidal.
It's not, there's not. There may be like two or
three scenes that are kind of remotely funny, but they
you know, a lot of a lot of comedians have
a very very dark side. It's the whole red skeleton thing.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
But he's like before he was a comedian, he was
just big time film nerd and he was working on
the set of a movie. You know, things like that
work his way up. So I don't even know if
he's like a comedian in its truest form. He's just
funny guy. He then got to go do cool stuff.
This is a HBO will be done well, and it
(04:05):
will be it'll be funny, you sa, I think.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I think it'll be dark like Verry funny. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
The one thing that I would say, and this happened
in the late seventies.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Right, this says nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Okay, So I don't know that you can make well,
maybe you can. I mean, once upon a time in
Hollywood kind of did that. It's hard to make a
massacre funny when there's descendants that are still alive, right,
you know what I'm saying that like, is that the
challenge of it that they would look at and say, hey,
this maybe what makes an interesting I don't know, like Barry,
(04:43):
I mean, there was just so dark. It was so dark,
but clearly there were characters in it that made it
a comedy. It was a right and absurd characters. Right,
it was you know, the guy with the crazy accent.
There was the Henry Winkler, the guy. Yeah, the alopecia
Guy's one of the weirdest characters in the history of television. Yeah,
my favorite. He's great, so good. But that character would
(05:06):
never be in a serious program. No, that was entirely serious.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah. The other news, Steven Spielberger is doing an interview
and he says that the greatest American movie ever made was.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I guess, Joss, what does that mean? American movie? Just
it was in America. It's about American content with like
like not like like there's a whole French new wave
like Godart. He worshiped Godard, he actually had Francois Truffau
plays a scientist in Close Encounters. Because Spielberg worshiped the
French directors. He's saying, an American made movie made by
(05:41):
a Scorsese or a Spielberg, I guarantee you. He said,
Citizen Kane made by Orson Wells.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Nope. Is it one of his own movies? Nope? Okay,
well crap.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Did he say Goodfellas?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
What decade?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Oh oh, Touch of Evil?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Nope. I want to guess that it might have had
the phrase. I could be wrong. Maybe it had something
like say a lot of my life friend. No, no,
not that one.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh oh the Godfather, Yeah, the Godfather. They're all the same,
really right? Uh No, they're not even remotely close to
the same.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, damn, that sucks. I should probably watch it.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I have no problem with Godfather one, and I would
even say that Godfather Too is better than Godfather won.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He says, Godfather is the greatest American movie ever made.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's incredible. It is incredible, and it is I swear
to god. I've seen it a hundred times, and I
bet I watch it every time. I only see it
in a theater. I want to see Sinners tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh. Let you guys know.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
My daughter saw it with her boyfriend and they both
absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Everyone loves it. It's kind of it's getting amazing. Reviews.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I can't believe Ben won't go see it.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah I will. I'm gonna go see it tonight. What's
it's home streaming? All right?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Coming up next the interview we've all been waiting for
the guy who grabbed the Redtail Boa in Arlington. David
David KT tracked him down and he agreed to jump
on our radio show that's coming up in less than
four minutes. Don't go Anywhere
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