July 30, 2025 • 6 mins
"Wait… did you just say Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson are dating… and starring in a Naked Gun reboot?"That’s just the tip of the absurd iceberg in this laugh-packed episode of The Ben and Skin Show on 97.1 The Eagle. Join Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina “Kray” Ray as they dive headfirst into a tidal wave of movie nostalgia, reboot excitement, and Hollywood weirdness. The crew breaks down the upcoming revival of the iconic slapstick franchise, with Liam Neeson stepping into the legendary role of Frank Drebin. From body condoms to OJ Simpson pratfalls, the gang relives the most ridiculous moments from the original films and debates whether the reboot can live up to the legacy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey News, Hot Gods, every.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Stay on the Top in the Woods shovel. All right,
I have just a buttload of music. I'm sorry movie
News for this segment and the next segment. So let's
have a little fun Friday. There's a movie dropping. Friday's
August first, by the way, Happy August.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Huge.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
There's a movie dropping. In fact, I'm so excited about it.
I think I'm gonna go see it tomorrow night. The
Naked Gun is happening. And would you guys describe the
Naked Gun for those who don't know from the eighties.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well, I'd like a quick twenty second time out. Did
you see any of the early Naked Gun stuff?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, you know, I can't say that I sat there
as a child and watched them all in full, but
I remember them always being on. I remember, of course,
loving the baseball scene where he's the umpire. I remember
it being on on HBO like constantly around the house,
like dad having it on, and loved it.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
So just it's funny.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yeah, it's so if you like the style of humor
that is the Zucker Brothers, the guys that did the
movie the Airplane movies. Basically Frank Drebben was a It
was a television show called Police Squad, and it.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Only I believe they only ran.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Six to eight episodes because it did not get ratings.
And let me tell you ten or eleven year old
scan or however old I was when this thing was on,
I thought it was the greatest TV show ever. And
I was devastated when they took it off the air.
And devastating was it Leslie Nielsen? It was Leslie Nielsen,
just Frank Drebbon. And one of the best bits they
(01:40):
had was one of their assistants was a giant, and
so his head was always off cameras they talked to him,
and like, for example, they would go, hey, you got
something in your teeth, and he would reach up and
a whole banana would fall out.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
On the desk. There was always a chimp in the
police office.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yes, it was all like it was all like dumbss
Like he was pretending to be a locksmith and he
went in someplace, they go, who are you? How'd you
get in here? I'm a locksmith and I'm a locksmith.
I mean it's that airplane style. And then they brought
it back.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I think we were in high school when the first
Naked Gun came out, and so they brought it back
about eight or nine years later and made it a
movie and then it took off.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So I love these, you know, they were you know,
when you're that age for us when those were coming out,
that's help helping you, you know, help form your sense
of humor and things like that.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
And I just thought that was ridiculously hilarious.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
They'd be like type of jokes it is or was,
surely you can't be serious, and they're like, I am,
and stop calling me Shirley.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Yes, it's just like that, which is so stupid.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And I think a part of this too, is well,
there's a couple of reasons I've known about this a
while because I've been listening to that Lonely Island podcast
and one of the guys in the Lonely Island is
a Kiva Shaeffer and he's the director of this.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
So do we know who wrote it?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't know who wrote it, but I know that
Seth McFarland produced it, so he can do a little
money into it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You can see how he would be influenced by Airplane
and oh my god, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And either way I've been like to because I've heard
him talk about, you know, shooting it and hanging out
with Liam Neeson and some of that stuff. So I've
you know, this is going back to podcasts that probably
aired six to nine, maybe twelve months ago, even so
I've known this was coming, and then I'm just kind
of watched a couple of clips. Nice beaver, you know,
(03:32):
so you have not you need to go back and
watch the first Naked Gun movie.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
That's a wild thing to say in twenty twenty five,
but I might should because Oj Simpson is so prominently Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Man, when Oj dies, that's pretty funny when he falls down.
The Queen Dude the umpire scene was out saying, I've
watched all the fun like the stuff I remember as
a kid.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I've went and found you.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Do you remember him and Priscilla Pressley making out wearing
body condoms?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I don't think I remember that part.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Their entire bodies are covered in giant con them.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I saw it and watch it tonight, but you know,
I am getting excited for this. When I first heard
they were going to do it, I didn't think it
would play. But now hearing the people that are involved, okay,
that sounds great. And I did see something today. I
was getting ready for the show and I was watching
the Today Show and they had Liam Neeson and Pam
Anderson on. Yeah, and we've been talking about how recently
there's this thing where people try to stir up some
(04:21):
romance between cost which may be fake, may be real,
but it helps juice the promo. But there's they're saying
that they had their an item. Now.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, it certainly feels like there's one of three celebrity
couples going around right now that are a big deal.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
That's one of them.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
The other one being Tom Cruise and on a dayonymous
and the other one being Katy Perry hanging out with
Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Not very strange, I Justin ron as far as you.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Cancer, you know, the Liam Neeson thing tracks considering Tommy.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Yeah, he did that whole zone. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
You know, his first wife died in like Sonny Bono
died in a tragic skiing accident.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
All right.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
She was a British actress, I forget. Yeah, if you
look at his first wife, he.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Is seventy one, Pamela is fifty seven.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
He's seventy one.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
So that's probably about the age Leslie Nielsen was when
he's showing the journey. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Leusle Nielsen died in twenty ten at the age of
eighty four. Okay, so he is probably, But in the
eighties he was in his he was in his late
fifties early sixties doing the Naked Guy.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Yeah, he was prematurely gray too.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, he had that hair, yeah for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And it was the same trajectory right, like he was
nothing but a serious actor and then just did comedy
for this is all the actors.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
That So when Airplane was the big breakout for them,
and they were basically riffing on the disaster movies of
the seventies. So they got all these serious actors to
play against type, Robert Stack, Leslie or Nielsen and then
the dude Blanket on the dude he had famous sons.
Guy is that guy the guy who quit sniff and glue? Right,
it looks like I picked the wrong day to quit
(05:56):
sniff and glue? Yeah, God him blanket on his name.
But he was a real serious actor. So they got
all these serious actors to play against type and it
really worked all right.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, coming up next, we'll tell you about something that
happened with Netflix, a big record was set, but also
the number one reason why I'm.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Really stoked about this movie. I think you guys are
gonna like
Jersey News, Hot Gods, every.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Stay on the Top in the Woods shovel. All right,
I have just a buttload of music. I'm sorry movie
News for this segment and the next segment. So let's
have a little fun Friday. There's a movie dropping. Friday's
August first, by the way, Happy August.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Huge.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
There's a movie dropping. In fact, I'm so excited about it.
I think I'm gonna go see it tomorrow night. The
Naked Gun is happening. And would you guys describe the
Naked Gun for those who don't know from the eighties.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well, I'd like a quick twenty second time out. Did
you see any of the early Naked Gun stuff?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, you know, I can't say that I sat there
as a child and watched them all in full, but
I remember them always being on. I remember, of course,
loving the baseball scene where he's the umpire. I remember
it being on on HBO like constantly around the house,
like dad having it on, and loved it.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
So just it's funny.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yeah, it's so if you like the style of humor
that is the Zucker Brothers, the guys that did the
movie the Airplane movies. Basically Frank Drebben was a It
was a television show called Police Squad, and it.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Only I believe they only ran.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Six to eight episodes because it did not get ratings.
And let me tell you ten or eleven year old
scan or however old I was when this thing was on,
I thought it was the greatest TV show ever. And
I was devastated when they took it off the air.
And devastating was it Leslie Nielsen? It was Leslie Nielsen,
just Frank Drebbon. And one of the best bits they
(01:40):
had was one of their assistants was a giant, and
so his head was always off cameras they talked to him,
and like, for example, they would go, hey, you got
something in your teeth, and he would reach up and
a whole banana would fall out.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
On the desk. There was always a chimp in the
police office.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yes, it was all like it was all like dumbss
Like he was pretending to be a locksmith and he
went in someplace, they go, who are you? How'd you
get in here? I'm a locksmith and I'm a locksmith.
I mean it's that airplane style. And then they brought
it back.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I think we were in high school when the first
Naked Gun came out, and so they brought it back
about eight or nine years later and made it a
movie and then it took off.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So I love these, you know, they were you know,
when you're that age for us when those were coming out,
that's help helping you, you know, help form your sense
of humor and things like that.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
And I just thought that was ridiculously hilarious.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
They'd be like type of jokes it is or was,
surely you can't be serious, and they're like, I am,
and stop calling me Shirley.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Yes, it's just like that, which is so stupid.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And I think a part of this too, is well,
there's a couple of reasons I've known about this a
while because I've been listening to that Lonely Island podcast
and one of the guys in the Lonely Island is
a Kiva Shaeffer and he's the director of this.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
So do we know who wrote it?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't know who wrote it, but I know that
Seth McFarland produced it, so he can do a little
money into it.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You can see how he would be influenced by Airplane
and oh my god, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And either way I've been like to because I've heard
him talk about, you know, shooting it and hanging out
with Liam Neeson and some of that stuff. So I've
you know, this is going back to podcasts that probably
aired six to nine, maybe twelve months ago, even so
I've known this was coming, and then I'm just kind
of watched a couple of clips. Nice beaver, you know,
(03:32):
so you have not you need to go back and
watch the first Naked Gun movie.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
That's a wild thing to say in twenty twenty five,
but I might should because Oj Simpson is so prominently Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Man, when Oj dies, that's pretty funny when he falls down.
The Queen Dude the umpire scene was out saying, I've
watched all the fun like the stuff I remember as
a kid.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I've went and found you.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Do you remember him and Priscilla Pressley making out wearing
body condoms?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I don't think I remember that part.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Their entire bodies are covered in giant con them.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I saw it and watch it tonight, but you know,
I am getting excited for this. When I first heard
they were going to do it, I didn't think it
would play. But now hearing the people that are involved, okay,
that sounds great. And I did see something today. I
was getting ready for the show and I was watching
the Today Show and they had Liam Neeson and Pam
Anderson on. Yeah, and we've been talking about how recently
there's this thing where people try to stir up some
(04:21):
romance between cost which may be fake, may be real,
but it helps juice the promo. But there's they're saying
that they had their an item. Now.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, it certainly feels like there's one of three celebrity
couples going around right now that are a big deal.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
That's one of them.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
The other one being Tom Cruise and on a dayonymous
and the other one being Katy Perry hanging out with
Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Not very strange, I Justin ron as far as you.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Cancer, you know, the Liam Neeson thing tracks considering Tommy.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Yeah, he did that whole zone. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
You know, his first wife died in like Sonny Bono
died in a tragic skiing accident.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
All right.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
She was a British actress, I forget. Yeah, if you
look at his first wife, he.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Is seventy one, Pamela is fifty seven.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
He's seventy one.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
So that's probably about the age Leslie Nielsen was when
he's showing the journey. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Leusle Nielsen died in twenty ten at the age of
eighty four. Okay, so he is probably, But in the
eighties he was in his he was in his late
fifties early sixties doing the Naked Guy.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Yeah, he was prematurely gray too.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, he had that hair, yeah for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And it was the same trajectory right, like he was
nothing but a serious actor and then just did comedy
for this is all the actors.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
That So when Airplane was the big breakout for them,
and they were basically riffing on the disaster movies of
the seventies. So they got all these serious actors to
play against type, Robert Stack, Leslie or Nielsen and then
the dude Blanket on the dude he had famous sons.
Guy is that guy the guy who quit sniff and glue? Right,
it looks like I picked the wrong day to quit
(05:56):
sniff and glue? Yeah, God him blanket on his name.
But he was a real serious actor. So they got
all these serious actors to play against type and it
really worked all right.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, coming up next, we'll tell you about something that
happened with Netflix, a big record was set, but also
the number one reason why I'm.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Really stoked about this movie. I think you guys are
gonna like
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