February 18, 2026 • 6 mins
“When you first saw the video… did Michael Jordan’s celebratory ‘pinch‑pinch‑pinch’ seem innocent — or incredibly weird?”
That’s the question shaking the room as Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dig into the viral NASCAR/Daytona moment involving MJ, Tyler Reddick’s young son, and a very unfortunate camera angle.
That’s the question shaking the room as Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dig into the viral NASCAR/Daytona moment involving MJ, Tyler Reddick’s young son, and a very unfortunate camera angle.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kyrie Irving's name just came up, a little come back
up on our shows. There is news surrounding Kyrie Irving.
We'll talk about that coming up at five o'clock in
ten minutes. It's the Today Game, the only segment of
today's show that won't be podcasted. You must listen live.
But right now it's time for.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
This check what he's doing it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, we have some tape to check because we have
to follow up on a story from yesterday we told
you about again named Tyler Reddick, who won the Daytona
five hundred on Sunday, and good for him. He's thirty
year old man, but his uh, he races for Michael Jordan.
Michael Jordan owns his team. And there was a video
(00:52):
that had gone you know, viral on TMZ and stuff
like that. They're all in the Winter Circle and Tyler
Redick's son is up there by the trophy. But he's
you know, he's obviously not very tall like adults because
he's a kid.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
He's like a hat or something.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And then Michael Jordan starts kind of touched him on
the butt a little bit, well.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Kind of playing to butt bongos like well, actually he's
I'm conflating the two things. He had that old footage
of him in slow motion playing butt bongos with a
little kid at one of his camps. This was a pinching.
It was pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch, and then he
rubs on his leg.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's like he was trying to get the kid's attention. Yeah,
the kid didn't turn around.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Like the first time I watched it, I definitely went
that's odd.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
But I would like to think that.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I would have handled it a little bit better and
measure it's nothing, but you know.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's it's nothing but the world we're in right now,
with the lens that we're looking through, with all the
allegations that are out there, it's pretty terrifying.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
So just the timing of it all is bad.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So we'll get to what Tyler Reddick said about all
this in a minute, but first we need to go
back to yesterday because Skin had not seen the video yet.
So this is audio of us discussing all of this
before Skin sees the video.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I bet that you can get fifty people in in armies, right, Yeah, there's.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Never really anyone inside them when I drive. Oh no,
I just go through the drive through too.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, can we just bring up the Michael Jordan thing
real quick?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
So after the race, there's a little kid and I'm
sure he's a friend of the somebody who's on the
team or whatever, and Jordan's just kind of, hey, can
you believe we want? And he's playing bongos on the
kid's butt. He's just like pop pop pop pop popp.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
He's weird.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And there's this whole video that serves up a commercial
or he's doing that to a kid, you know, just
just being just you know, a guy having fun or whatever.
But like in this climate, like people are freaking out
over it, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Like, I don't I don't even know what to make
of all this. Here's what I think without I don't
know this story.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
But I don't think Michael Jordan is aware of anything
that's happening in the world, right.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I don't think he ever logs onto anything.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
I think he plays golf, he gambles with his frends,
he smokes cigars, and he counts his money. And I
don't think he's on Twitter. And he grew up in
an era the same one me and Ben Grup. I
can't tell you how many times I saw or even
personally to me, how to coach slap my ass as
I walked by him.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, that happened. Now that's aggressive.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I'm looking at it, and that is a sault.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
It's weird, is very weird. I never had a coach
do that. Yeah, immediately a.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Little mini ran of, like, hey man, back in our day,
you know, he didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
He didn't care. He golfs, he gambles. Coaches hit me
on the bellet up, Jesus, that is bad. It's like
ten pinches in a row. It is. It's so weird.
It's weird. It's just it's just a little awkward. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
But I couldn't think anything of it. If it was
he was doing it to me or yeah, my kids,
I wouldn't worry about it at all. I wouldn't worry
about it. But it is awkward. And and also we
don't know the relationship. They may be very close, like
I could see an uncle doing that to a nephew,
you like, messing with a nephew or whatever. But I
have no idea what Michael Jordan and this little boy.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I don't know what they're really well, I think, you know,
we can have our thoughts on it from you know,
however many miles away.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, let's go directly to the source.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Because Tyler Reddick, thirty year old NASCAR driver, just one
of the dayten of five hundred. It's like, hey man,
let's time to do some interviews. I'll call it my
friend steven A.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Smith. Okay, So steven A. Smith is very into NASCAR apparently,
and here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Is there anything that you'd like to say about the
media backlash involved with Michael Jordan's celebrating with your family.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
I mean from my perspective, I've gotten to know Michael
and his family very well. I don't see what other
people see when it comes to this.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
You know, for me, it's the biggest.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Moment of my career. It's a huge moment for my
family and for his family, and I just put that
off to the side and just think about the look
on Avett's face and the whole family and his whole group. Yeah,
that's where I'm at with it.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
That's where he's at. That's a tough spot to put
him in. That's his boss.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, Evet is his is Michael Jordan's wife, right, the
second wife.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Or third or whatever. Well, I'm not real sure I
could have sworn.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It event but it's like, what, you know, what did
you think about your boss doing that?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
It's like remember that time that rich guy assaulted your kid.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I mean, I'm not saying it would have changed the
way he felt about it, but that's it what you
expect him to say.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, you can't say, well, yeah, he was definitely diddling
my kid, Like, you can't say that.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
It's just terrible thing.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Now that I know that Steven A is pandering the
NASCAR fans, he's definitely running for president running what's he
like that? Nothing is going to make Okay, I'm going
to reach this group in a very special way and
they're going to consider me, right, I.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Mean, this all makes sense. This all checks out with
where we are too.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
He that guy was a reality TV star in two
thousand and five, and he's the president.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I can be the president. Like it's all. It's what
he's thinking. For sure.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
It's totally changed the dynamic. I mean, in some ways,
Ronald Reagan did because he was an actor. That's like
even the joke in Back to the Future, the actor,
but he had also been involved in you know, California
politics for thirty years. Arnold Schwarzenegger is another really good example.
He just can't run for president because he wasn't born here.
But you're right, man, that whole trajectory has changed the
way we look at politicians their celebrities now.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Stephen A. Smith, will he keep his show if he's president?
All right? Coming up next, just a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It's the Today Game, followed by sports catchup, some Kyrie
Irving news. All that's coming away in the Beninskin Show.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Next
Kyrie Irving's name just came up, a little come back
up on our shows. There is news surrounding Kyrie Irving.
We'll talk about that coming up at five o'clock in
ten minutes. It's the Today Game, the only segment of
today's show that won't be podcasted. You must listen live.
But right now it's time for.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
This check what he's doing it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, we have some tape to check because we have
to follow up on a story from yesterday we told
you about again named Tyler Reddick, who won the Daytona
five hundred on Sunday, and good for him. He's thirty
year old man, but his uh, he races for Michael Jordan.
Michael Jordan owns his team. And there was a video
(00:52):
that had gone you know, viral on TMZ and stuff
like that. They're all in the Winter Circle and Tyler
Redick's son is up there by the trophy. But he's
you know, he's obviously not very tall like adults because
he's a kid.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
He's like a hat or something.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And then Michael Jordan starts kind of touched him on
the butt a little bit, well.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Kind of playing to butt bongos like well, actually he's
I'm conflating the two things. He had that old footage
of him in slow motion playing butt bongos with a
little kid at one of his camps. This was a pinching.
It was pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch, and then he
rubs on his leg.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's like he was trying to get the kid's attention. Yeah,
the kid didn't turn around.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Like the first time I watched it, I definitely went
that's odd.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
But I would like to think that.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I would have handled it a little bit better and
measure it's nothing, but you know.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's it's nothing but the world we're in right now,
with the lens that we're looking through, with all the
allegations that are out there, it's pretty terrifying.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
So just the timing of it all is bad.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So we'll get to what Tyler Reddick said about all
this in a minute, but first we need to go
back to yesterday because Skin had not seen the video yet.
So this is audio of us discussing all of this
before Skin sees the video.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I bet that you can get fifty people in in armies, right, Yeah, there's.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Never really anyone inside them when I drive. Oh no,
I just go through the drive through too.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, can we just bring up the Michael Jordan thing
real quick?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
So after the race, there's a little kid and I'm
sure he's a friend of the somebody who's on the
team or whatever, and Jordan's just kind of, hey, can
you believe we want? And he's playing bongos on the
kid's butt. He's just like pop pop pop pop popp.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
He's weird.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And there's this whole video that serves up a commercial
or he's doing that to a kid, you know, just
just being just you know, a guy having fun or whatever.
But like in this climate, like people are freaking out
over it, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Like, I don't I don't even know what to make
of all this. Here's what I think without I don't
know this story.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
But I don't think Michael Jordan is aware of anything
that's happening in the world, right.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I don't think he ever logs onto anything.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
I think he plays golf, he gambles with his frends,
he smokes cigars, and he counts his money. And I
don't think he's on Twitter. And he grew up in
an era the same one me and Ben Grup. I
can't tell you how many times I saw or even
personally to me, how to coach slap my ass as
I walked by him.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, that happened. Now that's aggressive.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I'm looking at it, and that is a sault.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
It's weird, is very weird. I never had a coach
do that. Yeah, immediately a.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Little mini ran of, like, hey man, back in our day,
you know, he didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
He didn't care. He golfs, he gambles. Coaches hit me
on the bellet up, Jesus, that is bad. It's like
ten pinches in a row. It is. It's so weird.
It's weird. It's just it's just a little awkward. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
But I couldn't think anything of it. If it was
he was doing it to me or yeah, my kids,
I wouldn't worry about it at all. I wouldn't worry
about it. But it is awkward. And and also we
don't know the relationship. They may be very close, like
I could see an uncle doing that to a nephew,
you like, messing with a nephew or whatever. But I
have no idea what Michael Jordan and this little boy.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I don't know what they're really well, I think, you know,
we can have our thoughts on it from you know,
however many miles away.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, let's go directly to the source.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Because Tyler Reddick, thirty year old NASCAR driver, just one
of the dayten of five hundred. It's like, hey man,
let's time to do some interviews. I'll call it my
friend steven A.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Smith. Okay, So steven A. Smith is very into NASCAR apparently,
and here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Is there anything that you'd like to say about the
media backlash involved with Michael Jordan's celebrating with your family.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
I mean from my perspective, I've gotten to know Michael
and his family very well. I don't see what other
people see when it comes to this.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
You know, for me, it's the biggest.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Moment of my career. It's a huge moment for my
family and for his family, and I just put that
off to the side and just think about the look
on Avett's face and the whole family and his whole group. Yeah,
that's where I'm at with it.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
That's where he's at. That's a tough spot to put
him in. That's his boss.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, Evet is his is Michael Jordan's wife, right, the
second wife.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Or third or whatever. Well, I'm not real sure I
could have sworn.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It event but it's like, what, you know, what did
you think about your boss doing that?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
It's like remember that time that rich guy assaulted your kid.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I mean, I'm not saying it would have changed the
way he felt about it, but that's it what you
expect him to say.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, you can't say, well, yeah, he was definitely diddling
my kid, Like, you can't say that.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
It's just terrible thing.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Now that I know that Steven A is pandering the
NASCAR fans, he's definitely running for president running what's he
like that? Nothing is going to make Okay, I'm going
to reach this group in a very special way and
they're going to consider me, right, I.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Mean, this all makes sense. This all checks out with
where we are too.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
He that guy was a reality TV star in two
thousand and five, and he's the president.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I can be the president. Like it's all. It's what
he's thinking. For sure.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
It's totally changed the dynamic. I mean, in some ways,
Ronald Reagan did because he was an actor. That's like
even the joke in Back to the Future, the actor,
but he had also been involved in you know, California
politics for thirty years. Arnold Schwarzenegger is another really good example.
He just can't run for president because he wasn't born here.
But you're right, man, that whole trajectory has changed the
way we look at politicians their celebrities now.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Stephen A. Smith, will he keep his show if he's president?
All right? Coming up next, just a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It's the Today Game, followed by sports catchup, some Kyrie
Irving news. All that's coming away in the Beninskin Show.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
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