July 16, 2025 • 8 mins
“Why won’t the LeBron-to-Dallas rumors die—are we being trolled by the universe or is there something real here?”In this laugh-out-loud episode of The Ben and Skin Show, the crew dives headfirst into the swirling vortex of NBA trade rumors, viral nostalgia, and the absurdity of modern headlines. Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina “K-Ray” Ray are all in studio, and the chemistry is electric from the jump.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Spanish government is investigating what happened at his eighteenth
birthday party, in which quote dwarves were exploited.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Ben Yes, with etic Win.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'll show your gone rubing in except pimple to be
pursuing it. Hold out shawshank through the sewer. Did Now
we're chilling at the eagle. Yeah, we're doing it. Three
you clocking on the dot and got a habit for
my house or go? That is how we're starting hitting
cratty shows that enough multiplied like a rabbit.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Tune in, so out, crank it up, beat the habit.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I hang out with my friend rocking on the radio,
my boys talking on the radio. It's time to dung
all babyk we go, Katie Christina Skin Radio.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Uh yes, it's the world famous Ben and Skin show,
the dumbest radio show in America on a hump day
and you're listening to it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
What does that say about you?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
We've got a great show planned today. The whole crew
is here. Everybody is is here with us in studio.
I'm Ben Rogers, joined by Jeff skin Wade, Kevin kat Turner,
and Christina Kray a little baby corn bread ray yep,
and we're all.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Here, all made sounds.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
No, you did good. And what sound do you want
to make? What was that sound when you're moving a couch?
What was that sound you made that one time that
we uh you gets ah, just tough talking?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Who were we talking about? I can't remember. I just
quit using my words. Yeah, but it was effective. Yeah,
everyone knew what I was saying. I think I'm the
one who had to stop it and go.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Did you hear that noise? A just cruised on?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Man?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Speaking of noises that I've made. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
There is a song that I can't get out of
my head. It's a song that just plays and plays
and plays, lifts rent free in my head right now.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Do you know what it is? Skin? Can you guess? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
It's it's I'm a bitch, I'm an lever, I'm a bitch,
I'm above you.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I forget the lyrics, but that one by Meredith Brooks
is that that's not it. There was the day that
I had you know the best, all right, No one's
ever going to give it up? That one in your head?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
That was stuck in my head as I looked into
my reflection in the elevator mirror.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yep, it's a Costco boom song.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Okay, that's a don't bring the fair question.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But I like how country she said? Did she was
it just miror she goes it the Costco boom song?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Maybe maybe not. I think I'm projecting the boom guy.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The dad went and snuck into the w f A
newsroom the other day, and Pete Friedman was tweeting about it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Who works at the Channel eight? Really?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And he was like, it was actually And Pete Friedman's
not the type of guy who would endorse the Costco guys.
In fact, I blamed the Rangers slow start on them
the first pitch. Yeah, But Pete was like, it was
actually a nice moment of levity as we've been covering
these awful tragedies down south in the hill country.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Is the guy walked in.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
And was like, I give this newsroom six booms that
really happened.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Oh yeah, And everyone was grateful for the levity.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And I was like, Pete's lost his edge.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
KT is getting the bad boy of local media. Just
put it back in KT's face. Then, hey man, we
needed that. No, there is a song that is stuck
in my head and I'm just gonna play it for.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You, all right, Oh nice classic. All right, this is
a song that I made. What year?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I think you made this in twenty ten? Alright, this
summer of twenty ten. You remember that this song is
now fifteen years old.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Show produced it, originally local producer, Great Dude Show, and
then the Dallas String Quartet got involved and played strings
on it, remixed it. And the idea was, it's a
recruitment song. Get lebron.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Let's listen for a second. Then I think that they
can understand it. Just push the sound of trade, don't
leave an empty hit it. He'll make more money. They
got Larry.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Bird right, so they'll trade you to the West so
they can sleep at night.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Take up text and then you get the Max Batch
and Wade.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
From the Cuban Billion may change pass, Oh my Tavy
Jones and your.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Favorite cow cast the ticket byball you can win right now.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Now, j that it's time to get it down.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
So the idea was that was a recruitment song, and
it was really cool because I can't remember it was
it the Wall Street Journal somebody wrote, some big New
York publication wrote about it. Yeah, there's a big article
about it or not a big tiny blurb about it,
But for me, it was a big that it got
that shine.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
I think it was the Wall Street Journal. However, I
believe the Wall Street Journal comes out of Atlanta, but
I do think it was the.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
W s G.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
While the Knicks got the sopranos to do a scene.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Okay, I don't know it was whack because it should
have been the New Jersey Nebs that should have done that.
I remember it got it got a little love, so
it got a lot of love.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
And do you remember performing it on Channel eight out
in front of the ESPN studios with Dodge and the
MAVs drum line.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Oh god, I forgot about that. So it got a
little shine and it got a little love. And well,
for whatever reason, it keeps being sent back to me.
People are sending it to me now because of all
the Lebron or because it won't go away. And I
just got this article sent to me, uh just before
I walked in the studio.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
All right, it said are you paying attention to any
of this?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I keep seeing more and more and the headline is
Mavericks make final call on Lebron James trade. What what
the headline is think about how bad that headline is. Okay,
the website, I'm like, okay, is this ESPN dot com?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
What is it? It's heavy dot com.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Yep, it's heavy dot com, which is a website about
heavy d right.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I thought it was like for big girls, you know
what a missed opportunity. And according to if if so,
it's basically saying, look, the Mavericks. This story if you
open it from heavy dot Com says Mavericks are uninterested
in matching salaries and sending a bunch of people to
go get Lebron.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
However, if there's a buyout, they're interested. That makes sense
for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Why would the Lakers do that? They wouldn't. I'm like,
so what is why won't this go away? And yesterday
Vegas put the MAVs.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
That's the number one most likely destination for Lebron to
play for in this coming season. If it's not for
the Lakers, that's sucker money from the athletic.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
At ten am this morning, one team link to Dallas,
one team linked to James. The Mavericks does not have
interest in gutting at roster to match his salary in
a trade.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Good job by team source told you. Even heavy dot
Com had that. Oh have you had that? Have you
had that?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Good job by either Nico or matt Riccardi putting that
out there so people quit freaking out. Here's the problem
with headlines. Let me read you this headline. Oh, mavericks
dream summer league script just got shredded by brutal injury luck.
That sounds pretty caustic, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, that does sound costic. I clicked on it.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Uh, Melvin a Jenta, Alexis Agensa's brother, younger brother has
a groinstream. Oh, so he's not going to get to
play in any summer league games. Think about that headline,
and I know the guy. I like the guy. It's
part of the fan side of the smoking Cuban. Maverick's
dream summer league script just got shredded by brutal injury luck.
(08:12):
Good Headlinder, a guy who wasn't going to play on
the team had a growing pole, right what and yesterday
we were.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Talking about Lively not being there? Oh does he know something?
Is he getting traded?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Oh he had he's in a boot, he had surgery
to get bone spurs taken out or some of us yet?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Yeah, which I saw one dog say that that's pretty
good that he had that surgery now, because that's not
that uncommon from the type.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Of stuff that he was dealing with. It's no different
than a radio team. But it's just trying to trick him.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Not going away though it's still lingering like an elevator
for Lebron to dallasing not dead, Skin, where are you
gonna take us in three minutes?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And things Skin is tracking.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
It's very important that everybody right now runs to Christina
Ray in ninety seven to one the Eagles Instagram account
and watches this video because it factors into things I'm tracking.
The Spanish government is investigating what happened at his eighteenth
birthday party, in which quote dwarves were exploited.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Ben Yes, with etic Win.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'll show your gone rubing in except pimple to be
pursuing it. Hold out shawshank through the sewer. Did Now
we're chilling at the eagle. Yeah, we're doing it. Three
you clocking on the dot and got a habit for
my house or go? That is how we're starting hitting
cratty shows that enough multiplied like a rabbit.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Tune in, so out, crank it up, beat the habit.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I hang out with my friend rocking on the radio,
my boys talking on the radio. It's time to dung
all babyk we go, Katie Christina Skin Radio.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Uh yes, it's the world famous Ben and Skin show,
the dumbest radio show in America on a hump day
and you're listening to it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
What does that say about you?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
We've got a great show planned today. The whole crew
is here. Everybody is is here with us in studio.
I'm Ben Rogers, joined by Jeff skin Wade, Kevin kat Turner,
and Christina Kray a little baby corn bread ray yep,
and we're all.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Here, all made sounds.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
No, you did good. And what sound do you want
to make? What was that sound when you're moving a couch?
What was that sound you made that one time that
we uh you gets ah, just tough talking?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Who were we talking about? I can't remember. I just
quit using my words. Yeah, but it was effective. Yeah,
everyone knew what I was saying. I think I'm the
one who had to stop it and go.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Did you hear that noise? A just cruised on?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Man?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Speaking of noises that I've made. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
There is a song that I can't get out of
my head. It's a song that just plays and plays
and plays, lifts rent free in my head right now.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Do you know what it is? Skin? Can you guess? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
It's it's I'm a bitch, I'm an lever, I'm a bitch,
I'm above you.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I forget the lyrics, but that one by Meredith Brooks
is that that's not it. There was the day that
I had you know the best, all right, No one's
ever going to give it up? That one in your head?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
That was stuck in my head as I looked into
my reflection in the elevator mirror.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yep, it's a Costco boom song.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Okay, that's a don't bring the fair question.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But I like how country she said? Did she was
it just miror she goes it the Costco boom song?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Maybe maybe not. I think I'm projecting the boom guy.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The dad went and snuck into the w f A
newsroom the other day, and Pete Friedman was tweeting about it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Who works at the Channel eight? Really?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And he was like, it was actually And Pete Friedman's
not the type of guy who would endorse the Costco guys.
In fact, I blamed the Rangers slow start on them
the first pitch. Yeah, But Pete was like, it was
actually a nice moment of levity as we've been covering
these awful tragedies down south in the hill country.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Is the guy walked in.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
And was like, I give this newsroom six booms that
really happened.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Oh yeah, And everyone was grateful for the levity.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And I was like, Pete's lost his edge.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
KT is getting the bad boy of local media. Just
put it back in KT's face. Then, hey man, we
needed that. No, there is a song that is stuck
in my head and I'm just gonna play it for.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You, all right, Oh nice classic. All right, this is
a song that I made. What year?
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I think you made this in twenty ten? Alright, this
summer of twenty ten. You remember that this song is
now fifteen years old.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Show produced it, originally local producer, Great Dude Show, and
then the Dallas String Quartet got involved and played strings
on it, remixed it. And the idea was, it's a
recruitment song. Get lebron.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Let's listen for a second. Then I think that they
can understand it. Just push the sound of trade, don't
leave an empty hit it. He'll make more money. They
got Larry.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Bird right, so they'll trade you to the West so
they can sleep at night.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Take up text and then you get the Max Batch
and Wade.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
From the Cuban Billion may change pass, Oh my Tavy
Jones and your.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Favorite cow cast the ticket byball you can win right now.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Now, j that it's time to get it down.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
So the idea was that was a recruitment song, and
it was really cool because I can't remember it was
it the Wall Street Journal somebody wrote, some big New
York publication wrote about it. Yeah, there's a big article
about it or not a big tiny blurb about it,
But for me, it was a big that it got
that shine.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
I think it was the Wall Street Journal. However, I
believe the Wall Street Journal comes out of Atlanta, but
I do think it was the.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
W s G.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
While the Knicks got the sopranos to do a scene.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Okay, I don't know it was whack because it should
have been the New Jersey Nebs that should have done that.
I remember it got it got a little love, so
it got a lot of love.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
And do you remember performing it on Channel eight out
in front of the ESPN studios with Dodge and the
MAVs drum line.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Oh god, I forgot about that. So it got a
little shine and it got a little love. And well,
for whatever reason, it keeps being sent back to me.
People are sending it to me now because of all
the Lebron or because it won't go away. And I
just got this article sent to me, uh just before
I walked in the studio.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
All right, it said are you paying attention to any
of this?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I keep seeing more and more and the headline is
Mavericks make final call on Lebron James trade. What what
the headline is think about how bad that headline is. Okay,
the website, I'm like, okay, is this ESPN dot com?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
What is it? It's heavy dot com.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Yep, it's heavy dot com, which is a website about
heavy d right.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I thought it was like for big girls, you know
what a missed opportunity. And according to if if so,
it's basically saying, look, the Mavericks. This story if you
open it from heavy dot Com says Mavericks are uninterested
in matching salaries and sending a bunch of people to
go get Lebron.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
However, if there's a buyout, they're interested. That makes sense
for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Why would the Lakers do that? They wouldn't. I'm like,
so what is why won't this go away? And yesterday
Vegas put the MAVs.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
That's the number one most likely destination for Lebron to
play for in this coming season. If it's not for
the Lakers, that's sucker money from the athletic.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
At ten am this morning, one team link to Dallas,
one team linked to James. The Mavericks does not have
interest in gutting at roster to match his salary in
a trade.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Good job by team source told you. Even heavy dot
Com had that. Oh have you had that? Have you
had that?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Good job by either Nico or matt Riccardi putting that
out there so people quit freaking out. Here's the problem
with headlines. Let me read you this headline. Oh, mavericks
dream summer league script just got shredded by brutal injury luck.
That sounds pretty caustic, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, that does sound costic. I clicked on it.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Uh, Melvin a Jenta, Alexis Agensa's brother, younger brother has
a groinstream. Oh, so he's not going to get to
play in any summer league games. Think about that headline,
and I know the guy. I like the guy. It's
part of the fan side of the smoking Cuban. Maverick's
dream summer league script just got shredded by brutal injury luck.
(08:12):
Good Headlinder, a guy who wasn't going to play on
the team had a growing pole, right what and yesterday
we were.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Talking about Lively not being there? Oh does he know something?
Is he getting traded?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Oh he had he's in a boot, he had surgery
to get bone spurs taken out or some of us yet?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Yeah, which I saw one dog say that that's pretty
good that he had that surgery now, because that's not
that uncommon from the type.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Of stuff that he was dealing with. It's no different
than a radio team. But it's just trying to trick him.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Not going away though it's still lingering like an elevator
for Lebron to dallasing not dead, Skin, where are you
gonna take us in three minutes?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And things Skin is tracking.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
It's very important that everybody right now runs to Christina
Ray in ninety seven to one the Eagles Instagram account
and watches this video because it factors into things I'm tracking.
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