September 3, 2025 • 9 mins
"Why does your brain remember a random spaceship pilot from a 2012 movie—but not where you left your keys?"In this wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray kick off the week with a hilarious blend of movie talk, memory mysteries, and saucy debates—literally.Then, Ben takes us on a cinematic journey through his solo movie night at AMC Frisco, where he watched the new thriller Weapons—and hated it. But the real twist? While later watching Prometheus (a movie he also hates), Ben’s brain makes a shocking connection: a minor character in both films is the same actor, Benedict Wong. Cue a deep dive into memory, recognition, and the strange things our brains choose to retain.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And uh, I don't know. It's like the old sauce
looks good. Anything special sauces. I'm in it, trying any
type of special sauce.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
When we went after with a show, you're gone ruming
it get except with similar to be pursuing it. Tumbled
out Shaw, shame through the sewer, dude, now with chilling
at the Eagle. Yeah, we're doing it through your clock
on the dot. Got a habit for my house, a dope.
That is how it started. Kicking Crattit shows that enough
(00:34):
multiplied like a rabbit to tune in.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So out, creak it up, feed the habit. I'm on,
I hang out with a brand rocket on the radio.
My noise getting talking on the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's time to do this fasickin.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
All we go, Kati, Christine hold up, Oh yes, happy
humped everybody. It's the world famous Ben and Skin Show
ninety seven point one The Eagle, Ben Rogers, Jeff skin Wade,
Kevin k T. Turner and Christina Kray Little Baby corn
Bread Ray from Oatmeal Pizza. All hands are on deck
(01:18):
today for what's gonna be an incredible extravaganza. We should
tell you that this Friday we'll be doing a live
remote broadcast from Pluckers in Dallas off Lovers in Greenville.
So if you want to come hang out with us
and eat some wings talk about the cowboys tough loss
the night before, you can do that at Lovers in
Greenville this Friday. We're celebrating a big win on Friday week. Yes, no,
(01:40):
we're celebrating the tank. The tank where I'm already gonna
be uh taking I'm already gonna be tweeting out pictures
of tanks and uh, I'm already gonna be looking forward
to the draft. Hold on, guys, why are you tanking
now that arch Manning can't throw anymore? Whoever it is,
it's a great quarterback class, isn't it. It's not just
him and they loaded. They got Dak for the next
(02:02):
ten year regardless, regardless. I just want the top pick
of every round, even if you trade back. I just
want as many draft capital assets as possible. So tank
tank tank tank tank. Trade with the Panthers. They and
that was one of the teams that was reportedly in
on Micah. Right, yeah, and the Cowboys like, now, we'd
rather have these late first round picks. I think the
(02:24):
Cowboys want to see the backers be good. It's good
for the league. Okay, So I did a couple of
a couple of updates on the baseball game, a couple
things to catch up on. All right, Rangers. So what
you said at the beginning of the show the clip
Christina played, what did he say? I'm good with anything
(02:46):
that's a special sauce. I've got a special sauces. I'm
in trying any type of special sauce. A lot of
sense I I want to say, is I agree? Dude.
If somebody tells me it's a special sauce, and if
they tell me it's thousand Island, I'm like, now I'm good.
(03:08):
Like it's a special sauce. I'm like, oh, special saucial,
special sauce seems deceptive. Great, it's a it's a secret sauce, like, uh,
you know, it's like you can make Russian sauce, which
is just like ketchup and uh mayonnaise. Is that what
Russian sauce is? I think I don't see, you don't know,
but it's secrets, a special sauce, it's special. I actually
(03:29):
understood what you're saying. So I want to give you
some credit on that I didn't understand it. Now that
Ben's explained, I understand it less. There is uh. I
did watch the documentary Skin told us to watch called
Unknown Number on Netflix. Freezy watch right. Yeah, it's it's
it's it's shocking. It's definitely worth watching. You guys, You
guys should watch it Unknown Number. And then last night
(03:51):
after that, I stayed up watching a movie that I
don't I didn't want to watch, and I'm going to
tell you about how my brain works. So there's a
movie that I hate watching, but every once in a
while I watch it. You hate watch it? Yeah, it's
called Prometheus. Okay, I've heard of it, but I don't
know what it is. It came out in twenty twelve.
It's like a prelude to the alien movies. Okay. And
(04:15):
the idea is some people travel deep in space because
some gazillionaire is about to die and he wants to
meet his maker. So you find somebody who can build
a spaceship and take it way out into where they
think they can connect with the people that they believe
created us. Sounds great, I'm in okay. And so so
it's two thousand and one, but without all the artist stuff.
(04:37):
So it's it's just it's just I don't like it.
It's just, you know, I don't like I don't like
any of those alien movies. It's like, I just don't
dig that type stuff. And so I'm watching it and
I realized. So the other day, Skin and I have
another business we're involved in and there were some people
doing some remodeling and stuff there and I needed to
(04:59):
lock up after they left. So I had a couple
hours to kill, and I was in Frisco. So I
went to the AMC Theater and Frisco and I'm just
gonna watch a movie kill a couple hours. And I
was like, what's on? Well, Weapons is on? Oh dude,
I hear great stuff about Weapons. So I got a
ticket to go see Weapons, and I watched it by myself.
(05:20):
And oh, then and you a Prometheus guy and you
didn't like Weapons. It starts off, It starts off in
a great way. It's pretty fantastic early on, and then
the wheels just shoot off. So who's in it? Julia
Garner's in it? Who is from Ozark? She plays Ruth
(05:43):
Ah Yeah Langmore. You don't know s. You don't know
s about f Marty f about s or s about
I'm going to Kick your ass Chip. Yeah. Yeah, that's
a different movie. And Josh Brolin's in it, and I
was like, there's been a huge Roland resurgence. He's good
and everything, and I mean, I don't know, seems like
(06:05):
he's good and badass. That's why there's the name Josh
is coming back. We determine it because of him. Amy
Maddigan is in it now. She was you know her?
Oh yeah, she was in the NAT that you were
probably thinking of her and uh, yes, she was married
to uh the guy Ed what's that guy's name? Character actor?
He was in Ed Harris, Ed Harris. Oh yeah, they
(06:28):
were married for a long time. Great dude, you I
just watched him again this weekend when I watched Top
Gun Maverick again. Oh man, he's in Pollock too. He
plays the famous splatter artist Christina. Is that weird to
you that I watched Top Gun Maverick again?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Uh, you've just watched You've listed three or four movies already.
I'm just trying to keep up. Because we did watch
the very first alien Yesther Night, Mike and I did, yes,
seventy nine because we want to watch the TV show.
So we're like, well, we need to watch the actual
movies to catch up. First one Amazing Aliens, second one awful. Wait,
(07:05):
worst movies I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Wait when she goes come on, bitch and that one.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I mean I fell asleep before she even got to
that line because I was out.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I thought that was bad ass. I thought it was
great too, but it is hard to get to that point. Okay,
well let me just tell you so you might want
to circle back. It's a pro feminism movie. Okay, that's
what it's about because you're protagonist is a female. She's
protecting a girl.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, I knew the seventy nine one. She was one
of the first female protagonists ever, and I thought that
was cool.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So you'll watch the back half of Aliens. You need
to give it second run. All right. So here's what
I'm trying to set up. What I'm trying to get to.
This is the way my brain works. I there's so
many things that I can't remember, Like I clearly am
going to have Alzheimer someday. Like I don't know if
it works that way. I don't know if you do
somebody with bad memory, if that's it's just a sliding
(07:55):
You're just downhill the whole time. But my memory is
not very good. However, I'm watching Prometheus and I'm like,
they show the side view of one of the guys
flying one of the spaceships, and I'm like, wait, that
guy was in Weapons, Josh Brolin, Nope. And so there's
(08:15):
a moment in Weapons where this guy he's an Asian guy,
and it's one of the scariest parts. You've probably seen
a clip of it if you've seen any previews for it.
He's running and attacking someone and his eyes are wide open,
like it looks like me. He looks like he has
no eyelids. In Weapons, Okay, And so he's running and
(08:36):
running and running and running in Weapons and it's one
of the scarier parts of it. And so how does
my brain make that connection? Prometheus was twenty twelve. This
guy had a tiny role in that and a tiny
role in really Weapons, I mean, I don't know, it
was tiny. He was like the seventh most important member
of this cast, probably or tenth. How does my brain recognize, Oh, yeah,
(08:58):
that's the guy that's flying the spaceship and Atheists it
was barey he was barely in it. He barely had
any lines. And I go back, and so I was like,
I gotta I had to stop everything I was doing
and go look on IMDb. Sure enough, the same guy's
name is Benedict Wong. Oh he's great. Yeah, he's great. Anyways,
I recommend neither movie coming up next. We're you gonna
(09:20):
take his in things? Skin is tracking. Okay, I've got
some great audio from a troll for you
And uh, I don't know. It's like the old sauce
looks good. Anything special sauces. I'm in it, trying any
type of special sauce.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
When we went after with a show, you're gone ruming
it get except with similar to be pursuing it. Tumbled
out Shaw, shame through the sewer, dude, now with chilling
at the Eagle. Yeah, we're doing it through your clock
on the dot. Got a habit for my house, a dope.
That is how it started. Kicking Crattit shows that enough
(00:34):
multiplied like a rabbit to tune in.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So out, creak it up, feed the habit. I'm on,
I hang out with a brand rocket on the radio.
My noise getting talking on the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's time to do this fasickin.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
All we go, Kati, Christine hold up, Oh yes, happy
humped everybody. It's the world famous Ben and Skin Show
ninety seven point one The Eagle, Ben Rogers, Jeff skin Wade,
Kevin k T. Turner and Christina Kray Little Baby corn
Bread Ray from Oatmeal Pizza. All hands are on deck
(01:18):
today for what's gonna be an incredible extravaganza. We should
tell you that this Friday we'll be doing a live
remote broadcast from Pluckers in Dallas off Lovers in Greenville.
So if you want to come hang out with us
and eat some wings talk about the cowboys tough loss
the night before, you can do that at Lovers in
Greenville this Friday. We're celebrating a big win on Friday week. Yes, no,
(01:40):
we're celebrating the tank. The tank where I'm already gonna
be uh taking I'm already gonna be tweeting out pictures
of tanks and uh, I'm already gonna be looking forward
to the draft. Hold on, guys, why are you tanking
now that arch Manning can't throw anymore? Whoever it is,
it's a great quarterback class, isn't it. It's not just
him and they loaded. They got Dak for the next
(02:02):
ten year regardless, regardless. I just want the top pick
of every round, even if you trade back. I just
want as many draft capital assets as possible. So tank
tank tank tank tank. Trade with the Panthers. They and
that was one of the teams that was reportedly in
on Micah. Right, yeah, and the Cowboys like, now, we'd
rather have these late first round picks. I think the
(02:24):
Cowboys want to see the backers be good. It's good
for the league. Okay, So I did a couple of
a couple of updates on the baseball game, a couple
things to catch up on. All right, Rangers. So what
you said at the beginning of the show the clip
Christina played, what did he say? I'm good with anything
(02:46):
that's a special sauce. I've got a special sauces. I'm
in trying any type of special sauce. A lot of
sense I I want to say, is I agree? Dude.
If somebody tells me it's a special sauce, and if
they tell me it's thousand Island, I'm like, now I'm good.
(03:08):
Like it's a special sauce. I'm like, oh, special saucial,
special sauce seems deceptive. Great, it's a it's a secret sauce, like, uh,
you know, it's like you can make Russian sauce, which
is just like ketchup and uh mayonnaise. Is that what
Russian sauce is? I think I don't see, you don't know,
but it's secrets, a special sauce, it's special. I actually
(03:29):
understood what you're saying. So I want to give you
some credit on that I didn't understand it. Now that
Ben's explained, I understand it less. There is uh. I
did watch the documentary Skin told us to watch called
Unknown Number on Netflix. Freezy watch right. Yeah, it's it's
it's it's shocking. It's definitely worth watching. You guys, You
guys should watch it Unknown Number. And then last night
(03:51):
after that, I stayed up watching a movie that I
don't I didn't want to watch, and I'm going to
tell you about how my brain works. So there's a
movie that I hate watching, but every once in a
while I watch it. You hate watch it? Yeah, it's
called Prometheus. Okay, I've heard of it, but I don't
know what it is. It came out in twenty twelve.
It's like a prelude to the alien movies. Okay. And
(04:15):
the idea is some people travel deep in space because
some gazillionaire is about to die and he wants to
meet his maker. So you find somebody who can build
a spaceship and take it way out into where they
think they can connect with the people that they believe
created us. Sounds great, I'm in okay. And so so
it's two thousand and one, but without all the artist stuff.
(04:37):
So it's it's just it's just I don't like it.
It's just, you know, I don't like I don't like
any of those alien movies. It's like, I just don't
dig that type stuff. And so I'm watching it and
I realized. So the other day, Skin and I have
another business we're involved in and there were some people
doing some remodeling and stuff there and I needed to
(04:59):
lock up after they left. So I had a couple
hours to kill, and I was in Frisco. So I
went to the AMC Theater and Frisco and I'm just
gonna watch a movie kill a couple hours. And I
was like, what's on? Well, Weapons is on? Oh dude,
I hear great stuff about Weapons. So I got a
ticket to go see Weapons, and I watched it by myself.
(05:20):
And oh, then and you a Prometheus guy and you
didn't like Weapons. It starts off, It starts off in
a great way. It's pretty fantastic early on, and then
the wheels just shoot off. So who's in it? Julia
Garner's in it? Who is from Ozark? She plays Ruth
(05:43):
Ah Yeah Langmore. You don't know s. You don't know
s about f Marty f about s or s about
I'm going to Kick your ass Chip. Yeah. Yeah, that's
a different movie. And Josh Brolin's in it, and I
was like, there's been a huge Roland resurgence. He's good
and everything, and I mean, I don't know, seems like
(06:05):
he's good and badass. That's why there's the name Josh
is coming back. We determine it because of him. Amy
Maddigan is in it now. She was you know her?
Oh yeah, she was in the NAT that you were
probably thinking of her and uh, yes, she was married
to uh the guy Ed what's that guy's name? Character actor?
He was in Ed Harris, Ed Harris. Oh yeah, they
(06:28):
were married for a long time. Great dude, you I
just watched him again this weekend when I watched Top
Gun Maverick again. Oh man, he's in Pollock too. He
plays the famous splatter artist Christina. Is that weird to
you that I watched Top Gun Maverick again?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Uh, you've just watched You've listed three or four movies already.
I'm just trying to keep up. Because we did watch
the very first alien Yesther Night, Mike and I did, yes,
seventy nine because we want to watch the TV show.
So we're like, well, we need to watch the actual
movies to catch up. First one Amazing Aliens, second one awful. Wait,
(07:05):
worst movies I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Wait when she goes come on, bitch and that one.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I mean I fell asleep before she even got to
that line because I was out.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I thought that was bad ass. I thought it was
great too, but it is hard to get to that point. Okay,
well let me just tell you so you might want
to circle back. It's a pro feminism movie. Okay, that's
what it's about because you're protagonist is a female. She's
protecting a girl.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, I knew the seventy nine one. She was one
of the first female protagonists ever, and I thought that
was cool.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So you'll watch the back half of Aliens. You need
to give it second run. All right. So here's what
I'm trying to set up. What I'm trying to get to.
This is the way my brain works. I there's so
many things that I can't remember, Like I clearly am
going to have Alzheimer someday. Like I don't know if
it works that way. I don't know if you do
somebody with bad memory, if that's it's just a sliding
(07:55):
You're just downhill the whole time. But my memory is
not very good. However, I'm watching Prometheus and I'm like,
they show the side view of one of the guys
flying one of the spaceships, and I'm like, wait, that
guy was in Weapons, Josh Brolin, Nope. And so there's
(08:15):
a moment in Weapons where this guy he's an Asian guy,
and it's one of the scariest parts. You've probably seen
a clip of it if you've seen any previews for it.
He's running and attacking someone and his eyes are wide open,
like it looks like me. He looks like he has
no eyelids. In Weapons, Okay, And so he's running and
(08:36):
running and running and running in Weapons and it's one
of the scarier parts of it. And so how does
my brain make that connection? Prometheus was twenty twelve. This
guy had a tiny role in that and a tiny
role in really Weapons, I mean, I don't know, it
was tiny. He was like the seventh most important member
of this cast, probably or tenth. How does my brain recognize, Oh, yeah,
(08:58):
that's the guy that's flying the spaceship and Atheists it
was barey he was barely in it. He barely had
any lines. And I go back, and so I was like,
I gotta I had to stop everything I was doing
and go look on IMDb. Sure enough, the same guy's
name is Benedict Wong. Oh he's great. Yeah, he's great. Anyways,
I recommend neither movie coming up next. We're you gonna
(09:20):
take his in things? Skin is tracking. Okay, I've got
some great audio from a troll for you
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