April 10, 2025 • 7 mins
Ben’s road to the Mavs/Lakers game last night was a road most of us would rather not go down. Listen to find out what happened to Big Ben after he left work yesterday and headed down to the AAC.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're talking about everyone's feelings and what the energy was
in the building last night here on the Benin Skin
Show in ninety seven won the Eagle, and so last
night I was there broadcasting Christina, you were there as
a fan.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What was what like?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yeah, And so we got there pretty early, and like
you said on the plaza, it was just packed, like
we're It wasn't really a party, but we were kind
of celebrating having having our baby boy back. And when
you walk into the arena, it is very mixed emotions
from everyone. And there was a girl I was with
and I thought she described it perfectly. She said, it
(00:33):
was like makeup sex. It's like you're so glad to
see him again. You're so glad he's here, but then
pretty soon after you're like, oh crap, you remember the
reasons you can't be together. You remember you can't make
this work, and so you're just sad all over again.
And so that was it. That was the exact I
thought that was perfect. It was like, that's exactly how
I feel. I'm so happy to see him, but then
(00:54):
you're reminded we can't be together.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
This sucks.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Why am I doing this to myself? Why did I
do this, But I thought the audience of the crowd
was really respectful of Luca throughout the entire game. So Cash,
who invited me last night, he thought when Luca was
first gonna be up at the free throw line, that
that's when the biggest chance would be heard, And it
was the exact opposite. Every time Luca was at the
(01:18):
free throw line, it was silent, no one was saying anything,
and then if anyone else was at the line, it was,
you know, fire Nico or some other chant.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And then like, by the way, I thought that was
really disrespectful to chant, not to Nika. I mean, whatever
you say, what you want to do about Nico, but
don't yell fire Nico. While Max Christ he's at the
free throw line.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
That's trash, right, Even when the MAVs were up there,
they were yelling something.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It was disrespectful to players that are busting their ass
for you, But you know whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And then, for like almost the whole first half, anytime
Luca would touch the ball, everyone would year. And so
Luca gets the ball a lot. And so I looked
at Mike, I was like, are we doing this every time?
Like I'm down, I'll do it, but that's a lot.
That's a lot of clap and that Luca and it end.
It ended, like we were talking about that on the broadcast.
(02:05):
Follow up was like, man, the intensity completely changed after
the first quarter. Yeah, because everyone was like I was like, man,
they're just celebration fatigued, Like you can't maintain that intensity
if it's not a playoff game, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, but but it was. It was certainly intense at
the beginning, especially coming off the heels of that, you know,
that big video that they made.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh and the last thing I noticed and I talked
to a lot of people, like while walking around, and
everyone agreed that you're kind of cheering for both teams
and it was really weird, like we were all cheering
for Luca and then you forget Lebron's freaking playing too
as well. She was incredible, so we were, yeah, we
were kind of cheering for everyone last night.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
There was so much star power in that game, Like,
I mean, the Lebron story is insane, and it's just
kind of getting buried right now. That guy's forty, No
one cares that guy's forty. But also when Luca wasn't
on the floor, was the only time the Mavericks could
make any headway. Yeah, I mean they built up that quickly.
Luca goes back in and immediately the game's over, like
(03:09):
it just ended. After that, Yeah, what happened to you?
So I was I had an interview to do yesterday.
We had a big open house here at iHeart, and
so I had the opportunity to interview Mark Faber, the
president and GM of Texas Motor Speedway. And so it
was supposed to happen a little bit after five, and
so I sat down with him and had a great
(03:30):
visit with him.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And then there was still an open house, so I
was talking to clients and stuff, and then I realized, golly,
I think I'm going to be too late. And so
I'm on the phone with my wife and a buddy
and I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Know what to do, and they're like, you gotta go,
you gotta go.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You'll only have this one opportunity to you know, you
want to be in the arena for this. You're right
down the road, and I'm like, all right, what the hell?
So I get on the toll way and we're located
over by the galleria and I zip down the toll way,
and I make great time. And then and when you
get off on the toll way and you're getting closer
to kind of take the right over to get over
to the arena and the Lexus garage. I don't know
(04:07):
if that's Lemon or Harry Hines or whatever it is
over that. I don't know exactly what it is.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
But traffic completely stopped.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, it was the worst traffic I've ever and you
we did the MAVs postgame show for many years, I've
never seen that. I was stuck in that traffic, probably
for forty minutes. So six thirty tips for big games
are brutal. I was once coming this, I think we're
maybe we're on the fan. I was ten minutes late
for the start of a playoff game I was broadcasting
(04:37):
because of just all the traffic in that area on
an early tip.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So it's brutal. Yeah, so I was.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I almost found myself in a road rage situation because
I was sitting behind a car and I was over
in the far right lane just trying to get up
to I could take a right to get over that
Lexus garage, and all the cars in the second lane
to our left We're desperately trying to cut in in
front of us, and this idiot in front of me
with a Penn State sticker on the back of his BMW.
(05:03):
I think he was a teenager driving Daddy's BMW, kept
letting everyone cut.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
In front of him.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
This dude probably cost me seventeen minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And so I'm sitting there listening on the radio and
I'm like, okay, I missed Luca crying, I missed Okay,
now I've missed the whole first quarter.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And so I'm like, God, I'm already here.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I'm just sitting in traffic, waiting and waiting and waiting
and waiting.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Finally I go in.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I park in the Lexus garage and I get in
and it's halftime. Ah, and I'm like I went over
and stood behind Coop and demeris calling and I'm like,
I can't.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Really see I don't have a seat. I'm just gonna leave.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So then I went to leave and there's all this
construction on the toll wast going north, so I got stopped.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I got stuck and stop and go traffic twice to
get home.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Eventually I had to cut over to Preston and take
Preston Road to Salina from like six thirty five. It
was arguably the worst night of my human life. I
was gonna say, you're the only guy that had a
worse night than Nico.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
It was. That's brutal, brutal. I mean, it absolutely sucked.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And then I'm like, honey, you record the game and
by the time I get home, I get to watch
the end of the game and I'm like, I don't
even want to go back and watch it.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I'm just I don't want to be around anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Did you see Dirk drinking a big germany?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I did see that. I saw that live.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I was like, people started posting it all over the
place of like timing.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That was incredible.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
My phone blew up during your games, Like, okay, why's
my phone blowing up? This is crazy? Yeah, And then
you know they ran it on ESPN, on NBA, you.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Know, oh they did. They showed him.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, there's like a little Twitter account that that showed
them coming back because they showed it with all the
stars in the house, and so they show it and
I just reblast and say, man, this made the whole
night worth it. And then everyone told me I was
an a hole because I was enjoying the fact that Dirk.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Was enjoying a beer. I don't know, man.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, we'll get back in this throughout today's show. It's
probably the theme of the entire show. But coming up next,
let's turn our attention to Hollywood KT. Is Weezer involved
in a shootout?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
How do we dude?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It's a wild story involving Weezer and the police and
gunfire and attempted murder.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Next
We're talking about everyone's feelings and what the energy was
in the building last night here on the Benin Skin
Show in ninety seven won the Eagle, and so last
night I was there broadcasting Christina, you were there as
a fan.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What was what like?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yeah, And so we got there pretty early, and like
you said on the plaza, it was just packed, like
we're It wasn't really a party, but we were kind
of celebrating having having our baby boy back. And when
you walk into the arena, it is very mixed emotions
from everyone. And there was a girl I was with
and I thought she described it perfectly. She said, it
(00:33):
was like makeup sex. It's like you're so glad to
see him again. You're so glad he's here, but then
pretty soon after you're like, oh crap, you remember the
reasons you can't be together. You remember you can't make
this work, and so you're just sad all over again.
And so that was it. That was the exact I
thought that was perfect. It was like, that's exactly how
I feel. I'm so happy to see him, but then
(00:54):
you're reminded we can't be together.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
This sucks.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Why am I doing this to myself? Why did I
do this, But I thought the audience of the crowd
was really respectful of Luca throughout the entire game. So Cash,
who invited me last night, he thought when Luca was
first gonna be up at the free throw line, that
that's when the biggest chance would be heard, And it
was the exact opposite. Every time Luca was at the
(01:18):
free throw line, it was silent, no one was saying anything,
and then if anyone else was at the line, it was,
you know, fire Nico or some other chant.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And then like, by the way, I thought that was
really disrespectful to chant, not to Nika. I mean, whatever
you say, what you want to do about Nico, but
don't yell fire Nico. While Max Christ he's at the
free throw line.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
That's trash, right, Even when the MAVs were up there,
they were yelling something.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It was disrespectful to players that are busting their ass
for you, But you know whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And then, for like almost the whole first half, anytime
Luca would touch the ball, everyone would year. And so
Luca gets the ball a lot. And so I looked
at Mike, I was like, are we doing this every time?
Like I'm down, I'll do it, but that's a lot.
That's a lot of clap and that Luca and it end.
It ended, like we were talking about that on the broadcast.
(02:05):
Follow up was like, man, the intensity completely changed after
the first quarter. Yeah, because everyone was like I was like, man,
they're just celebration fatigued, Like you can't maintain that intensity
if it's not a playoff game, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, but but it was. It was certainly intense at
the beginning, especially coming off the heels of that, you know,
that big video that they made.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Oh and the last thing I noticed and I talked
to a lot of people, like while walking around, and
everyone agreed that you're kind of cheering for both teams
and it was really weird, like we were all cheering
for Luca and then you forget Lebron's freaking playing too
as well. She was incredible, so we were, yeah, we
were kind of cheering for everyone last night.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
There was so much star power in that game, Like,
I mean, the Lebron story is insane, and it's just
kind of getting buried right now. That guy's forty, No
one cares that guy's forty. But also when Luca wasn't
on the floor, was the only time the Mavericks could
make any headway. Yeah, I mean they built up that quickly.
Luca goes back in and immediately the game's over, like
(03:09):
it just ended. After that, Yeah, what happened to you?
So I was I had an interview to do yesterday.
We had a big open house here at iHeart, and
so I had the opportunity to interview Mark Faber, the
president and GM of Texas Motor Speedway. And so it
was supposed to happen a little bit after five, and
so I sat down with him and had a great
(03:30):
visit with him.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And then there was still an open house, so I
was talking to clients and stuff, and then I realized, golly,
I think I'm going to be too late. And so
I'm on the phone with my wife and a buddy
and I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Know what to do, and they're like, you gotta go,
you gotta go.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You'll only have this one opportunity to you know, you
want to be in the arena for this. You're right
down the road, and I'm like, all right, what the hell?
So I get on the toll way and we're located
over by the galleria and I zip down the toll way,
and I make great time. And then and when you
get off on the toll way and you're getting closer
to kind of take the right over to get over
to the arena and the Lexus garage. I don't know
(04:07):
if that's Lemon or Harry Hines or whatever it is
over that. I don't know exactly what it is.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
But traffic completely stopped.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, it was the worst traffic I've ever and you
we did the MAVs postgame show for many years, I've
never seen that. I was stuck in that traffic, probably
for forty minutes. So six thirty tips for big games
are brutal. I was once coming this, I think we're
maybe we're on the fan. I was ten minutes late
for the start of a playoff game I was broadcasting
(04:37):
because of just all the traffic in that area on
an early tip.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So it's brutal. Yeah, so I was.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I almost found myself in a road rage situation because
I was sitting behind a car and I was over
in the far right lane just trying to get up
to I could take a right to get over that
Lexus garage, and all the cars in the second lane
to our left We're desperately trying to cut in in
front of us, and this idiot in front of me
with a Penn State sticker on the back of his BMW.
(05:03):
I think he was a teenager driving Daddy's BMW, kept
letting everyone cut.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
In front of him.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
This dude probably cost me seventeen minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And so I'm sitting there listening on the radio and
I'm like, okay, I missed Luca crying, I missed Okay,
now I've missed the whole first quarter.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And so I'm like, God, I'm already here.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I'm just sitting in traffic, waiting and waiting and waiting
and waiting.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Finally I go in.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I park in the Lexus garage and I get in
and it's halftime. Ah, and I'm like I went over
and stood behind Coop and demeris calling and I'm like,
I can't.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Really see I don't have a seat. I'm just gonna leave.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So then I went to leave and there's all this
construction on the toll wast going north, so I got stopped.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I got stuck and stop and go traffic twice to
get home.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Eventually I had to cut over to Preston and take
Preston Road to Salina from like six thirty five. It
was arguably the worst night of my human life. I
was gonna say, you're the only guy that had a
worse night than Nico.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
It was. That's brutal, brutal. I mean, it absolutely sucked.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And then I'm like, honey, you record the game and
by the time I get home, I get to watch
the end of the game and I'm like, I don't
even want to go back and watch it.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I'm just I don't want to be around anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Did you see Dirk drinking a big germany?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I did see that. I saw that live.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I was like, people started posting it all over the
place of like timing.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That was incredible.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
My phone blew up during your games, Like, okay, why's
my phone blowing up? This is crazy? Yeah, And then
you know they ran it on ESPN, on NBA, you.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Know, oh they did. They showed him.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, there's like a little Twitter account that that showed
them coming back because they showed it with all the
stars in the house, and so they show it and
I just reblast and say, man, this made the whole
night worth it. And then everyone told me I was
an a hole because I was enjoying the fact that Dirk.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Was enjoying a beer. I don't know, man.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, we'll get back in this throughout today's show. It's
probably the theme of the entire show. But coming up next,
let's turn our attention to Hollywood KT. Is Weezer involved
in a shootout?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
How do we dude?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It's a wild story involving Weezer and the police and
gunfire and attempted murder.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
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