July 29, 2025 • 6 mins
"Is this the greatest day in the history of Men’s Health magazine?"That’s the question that kicks off this hilarious and surprisingly heartfelt episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the viral Luka Dončić Men’s Health cover story—and all the chaos, speculation, and protein-packed drama that came with it.From Luka’s alleged 250 grams of protein per day (“That is going to be a farty farty environment”) to the possibility that half the article was written by AI, the crew breaks down the brilliance of this PR masterpiece.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
It's time. Okay, scan yesterday, why you were gone?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We actually discussed the Luka Dancic article on Men's Health
and the cover boy of Men's Health.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I posed this, what's that good looking cover boy? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
He's hot. Yeah, I pose this question. Is this the
greatest day in the history of Men's Health magazine? It's
big for them, it's huge. They've had a lot of
big days, have they.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, like what I probably had Arnold, you know, beefing
out there and yeah, I'm just imagined the other thing
in that article. One of my big takeaways was I
would not want to be living with Luca over the summer.
If he's taken in two hundred and fifty grams of
protein per day, that is going to be a farty,
farty environment.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Did you see odd?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Did you see that there's a lot of speculation that
half of that article is written by Ai.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I did see some of that, and some of the
nature changed, like the fact that it's forty two inch
com vertical leap never happened because he didn't go to
the combine nor.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I bet his vertical has never been higher than thirty
two at the top, maybe twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You know, it's probably a good business move from Men's
Health to fire the salary of all the writers and
use AI.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And so what everyone else is doing.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, I mean, no one cares about anything being right anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
No, they don't.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, I think it was weird that Luca was on
the Yankees and Rays broadcast last night on the Yes
Network in New York, wearing a white T shirt looking nice.
You can barely hear him. Listen to this energy. This
is just this guy is bursting at the seams with fire.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
After that deal was made, the Mavericks got a lot
of criticism and then they start to leak out stuff
while we don't know if he's ever going to be
in shape. You should now we're in the top of
the Men's Health margazine.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
They're probably sorry, so.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Funny, So his personality is still the same.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, he's still dry humor funny. Yeah, then a guy.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, he's quiet, quiet, he's reserved.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I saw another clip where he talked about playing baseball
a little bit as a kid, but not much, And.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
There's no way he played baseball, And.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Who knows like that you looked at me like, I
don't know world country, like he's young, Like it doesn't eight.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
They probably had baseball in Slovenia. Man.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I just remember talking to uh Zaza Pachuli about it
and he was like, man, I don't know what this is.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, well we were.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Talking about everything. Is there anything else in the article
you want to get ou?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Because I don't play audio from a clip from Dirk
We've talked about a million times, but he was on
the Graham Ben Singer show.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Oh yeah, I remember that, Just that this is this
is a good PR for Luca and that's you know,
that's all it is, is PR. Do you know how
you know what deadlines are to go to print for magazines?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Uh, it's noon.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Well, it's just it's well in advance.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Okay, So how does someone from Men's Health know to
go to Slovenia. I mean, it's all it's all a
PR campaign. But they felt like the Mavericks did a
negative PR campaign. So you know, it's fun that it
took over the internet, or at least it did on
my timeline. And I just saw people opining and going
in and in. I'm like, you're all part of a
PR campaign. That's what it is. We're all going in
(03:19):
on a pr campaign and good for him. I mean,
we all love Luca, we all want him to do well.
And if he's gonna look like that after playing seven
years in the NBA or six years or whatever it is,
I have a feeling he's going to look really good.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Next you see Lebron's post yesterday, No, at about four
forty five in the morning, driving somewhere in the dark,
I'm to the gym getting ready for year twenty three.
Come on, dude, let your boy. Haven't got him? Mighty
Derek on The Graham Bensinger Show from from years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, but this is why I think it's taken and
would always it might take a while for Luca to
get in this mode.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Yeah, we didn't know that much about nutrition, like like
you do now and everybody is vegan and gluten free
and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Back in the days.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Is maybe there was that wage slowly starting, but I
didn't really care about it. I didn't think it would
make a difference for me that much. So, I mean
it was basically like burgers and chicken sandwiches after games,
pasta before the game, and then you know, as you
get older, I think that's normal you care more about
your body. You learn more about your body and what
(04:25):
you put in it. And so I completely changed my
diet when I was about twenty seven twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Did it actually help?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
I was amazing. Probably go back now and do it earlier.
But I was just in my prime. We had just
made the finals in six we lost to the Miami Heat.
Then I only had a few weeks off and then
I played the World Championships in Tokyo, and there I
just couldn't get going. I didn't feel it. I was like, hey,
I'm in my prime. I'm what twenty seven, twenty eight,
(04:53):
I should be feeling great. Why am I not feeling good?
And then I just started reading more and more and
that's when I changed. Yeah, basically everything you know. Cut
out sugar, no sodas, no desserts during the season, barely
any alcohol maybe around the All Star break every now
and then, but usually my last ten years in my career,
didn't drink during the season. Basically cut out all the
red meat.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
When he realized he couldn't get it going.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Some one of my favorite Nate Bargatzi jokes is he
talks about whenever he has pancakes, it's like I just
can't get can't get it going.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
They may be tired. I can't get it going to sugar.
I mean, you know these guys that have these stories.
I mean, look at what happened to Steve Nash. Yeah,
Steve Nash when the Mavericks, when he got all that
money from Phoenix and they changed the hand check rules
and all that, he changed his body. And you know,
there's a lot going on right now about Luca's people
(05:44):
and how the Mavericks fired all of the people he trusted.
I mean, I'm not going to get too into it,
but I can tell you for a long time case
he was trying to get Luca to do different things
that wasn't bad or contentious or anything like that. But
every person's going to arrive at it on their own timeline.
And for Luca, losing one hundred million dollars and being
(06:05):
publicly humiliated did the trick.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And good for him.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Man.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
You can't expect a person to know what they don't know,
like you just can't. And if the Mavericks, you know,
gave up too early on him, that's on them.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
That'll play out over time.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, man, all right, it's the beIN and skin Show
ninety seven point one, The Eagle coming up next in
the big finish.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Adam Sandler's Greatest Movies
It's time. Okay, scan yesterday, why you were gone?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We actually discussed the Luka Dancic article on Men's Health
and the cover boy of Men's Health.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I posed this, what's that good looking cover boy? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
He's hot. Yeah, I pose this question. Is this the
greatest day in the history of Men's Health magazine? It's
big for them, it's huge. They've had a lot of
big days, have they.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, like what I probably had Arnold, you know, beefing
out there and yeah, I'm just imagined the other thing
in that article. One of my big takeaways was I
would not want to be living with Luca over the summer.
If he's taken in two hundred and fifty grams of
protein per day, that is going to be a farty,
farty environment.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Did you see odd?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Did you see that there's a lot of speculation that
half of that article is written by Ai.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I did see some of that, and some of the
nature changed, like the fact that it's forty two inch
com vertical leap never happened because he didn't go to
the combine nor.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I bet his vertical has never been higher than thirty
two at the top, maybe twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You know, it's probably a good business move from Men's
Health to fire the salary of all the writers and
use AI.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And so what everyone else is doing.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, I mean, no one cares about anything being right anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
No, they don't.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, I think it was weird that Luca was on
the Yankees and Rays broadcast last night on the Yes
Network in New York, wearing a white T shirt looking nice.
You can barely hear him. Listen to this energy. This
is just this guy is bursting at the seams with fire.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
After that deal was made, the Mavericks got a lot
of criticism and then they start to leak out stuff
while we don't know if he's ever going to be
in shape. You should now we're in the top of
the Men's Health margazine.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
They're probably sorry, so.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Funny, So his personality is still the same.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, he's still dry humor funny. Yeah, then a guy.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, he's quiet, quiet, he's reserved.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I saw another clip where he talked about playing baseball
a little bit as a kid, but not much, And.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
There's no way he played baseball, And.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Who knows like that you looked at me like, I
don't know world country, like he's young, Like it doesn't eight.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
They probably had baseball in Slovenia. Man.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I just remember talking to uh Zaza Pachuli about it
and he was like, man, I don't know what this is.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, well we were.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Talking about everything. Is there anything else in the article
you want to get ou?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Because I don't play audio from a clip from Dirk
We've talked about a million times, but he was on
the Graham Ben Singer show.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Oh yeah, I remember that, Just that this is this
is a good PR for Luca and that's you know,
that's all it is, is PR. Do you know how
you know what deadlines are to go to print for magazines?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Uh, it's noon.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Well, it's just it's well in advance.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Okay, So how does someone from Men's Health know to
go to Slovenia. I mean, it's all it's all a
PR campaign. But they felt like the Mavericks did a
negative PR campaign. So you know, it's fun that it
took over the internet, or at least it did on
my timeline. And I just saw people opining and going
in and in. I'm like, you're all part of a
PR campaign. That's what it is. We're all going in
(03:19):
on a pr campaign and good for him. I mean,
we all love Luca, we all want him to do well.
And if he's gonna look like that after playing seven
years in the NBA or six years or whatever it is,
I have a feeling he's going to look really good.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Next you see Lebron's post yesterday, No, at about four
forty five in the morning, driving somewhere in the dark,
I'm to the gym getting ready for year twenty three.
Come on, dude, let your boy. Haven't got him? Mighty
Derek on The Graham Bensinger Show from from years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, but this is why I think it's taken and
would always it might take a while for Luca to
get in this mode.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Yeah, we didn't know that much about nutrition, like like
you do now and everybody is vegan and gluten free
and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Back in the days.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Is maybe there was that wage slowly starting, but I
didn't really care about it. I didn't think it would
make a difference for me that much. So, I mean
it was basically like burgers and chicken sandwiches after games,
pasta before the game, and then you know, as you
get older, I think that's normal you care more about
your body. You learn more about your body and what
(04:25):
you put in it. And so I completely changed my
diet when I was about twenty seven twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Did it actually help?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
I was amazing. Probably go back now and do it earlier.
But I was just in my prime. We had just
made the finals in six we lost to the Miami Heat.
Then I only had a few weeks off and then
I played the World Championships in Tokyo, and there I
just couldn't get going. I didn't feel it. I was like, hey,
I'm in my prime. I'm what twenty seven, twenty eight,
(04:53):
I should be feeling great. Why am I not feeling good?
And then I just started reading more and more and
that's when I changed. Yeah, basically everything you know. Cut
out sugar, no sodas, no desserts during the season, barely
any alcohol maybe around the All Star break every now
and then, but usually my last ten years in my career,
didn't drink during the season. Basically cut out all the
red meat.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
When he realized he couldn't get it going.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Some one of my favorite Nate Bargatzi jokes is he
talks about whenever he has pancakes, it's like I just
can't get can't get it going.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
They may be tired. I can't get it going to sugar.
I mean, you know these guys that have these stories.
I mean, look at what happened to Steve Nash. Yeah,
Steve Nash when the Mavericks, when he got all that
money from Phoenix and they changed the hand check rules
and all that, he changed his body. And you know,
there's a lot going on right now about Luca's people
(05:44):
and how the Mavericks fired all of the people he trusted.
I mean, I'm not going to get too into it,
but I can tell you for a long time case
he was trying to get Luca to do different things
that wasn't bad or contentious or anything like that. But
every person's going to arrive at it on their own timeline.
And for Luca, losing one hundred million dollars and being
(06:05):
publicly humiliated did the trick.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And good for him.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Man.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
You can't expect a person to know what they don't know,
like you just can't. And if the Mavericks, you know,
gave up too early on him, that's on them.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
That'll play out over time.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, man, all right, it's the beIN and skin Show
ninety seven point one, The Eagle coming up next in
the big finish.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
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