September 3, 2025 • 6 mins
"You meet someone who’s never seen a single movie in their life… what three films do you show them first?"That’s the wild question at the heart of this hilarious and thought-provoking episode of The Ben and Skin Show, featuring your favorite hosts: Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray.From Inception to Step Brothers, the crew dives into a cinematic rabbit hole, debating which films would best introduce a movie-less adult to the magic, madness, and emotional rollercoaster of cinema. The conversation is packed with laughs, deep cuts, and curveballs—like Peter Sellers’ “Being There”, a film about a man who’s never experienced the real world… eerily mirroring the hypothetical viewer.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Can we hijack another fifteen minutes of your day or so?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
What is the ideal camping season?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
How are you feeling about your team these days?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
You're in your truck right now, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Are you doing anything this weekend?
Speaker 4 (00:13):
How does the vinyl of the seat feel against your scrout?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
What were you working on with that prototype? Do you
like little kids? What's the most important thing I should
know about you? You choose greatness? What were your parents like?
What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Were there more boisey guys on the Cowboys than other teams?
Are you a bigger Cowboy fan or a Maverick fan?
Did I cause you grief?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Grief?
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Okay, so I'm going to take the reins here and
ask today's question? And can I ask you a question?
Which is a question in itself? Saw us on Reddit.
I actually had a friend in college who is kind
of living really close to this life because he grew
up very sheltered.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So it made me.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Think, you meet someone who's never watched a movie in
their life, what would be the first three movies you'd
ask them to watch?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Now?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
For the sake of this, it can't be a kid.
Let's make this an adult I need more details. No,
there's no more details.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Was he in a coma? Is an alien?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
No bunker situation? They grew up in a bunker, grew
up the Orthodox Jew and mm hmm in the city
or in the country, let's.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Say in the city. But wasn't allowed to watch TV?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I mean, but it's so easy to get ahold of
a TV in the modern world, is it?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
It's easy to say, but what if your parents will
let you have the house? So because you're still living
at home? Because it's an adults I see. The question
is what you meet someone who's ever watched a movie
in their life, what would be the first three movies
you asked them to watch?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Now you're asking them to watch this for their own good,
like you're trying to let them know. You're trying to
put them on things that they need.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Basically, you are the tour guide of the world for them,
right or at least for movies.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Are they smart?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
That's not part of the question. Well, that's you know, so, no,
nobody's smart.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
There because the first the first three I thought of
the second one. You have to be pretty smart to
actually understand it. I don't even understand this movie, but
it's just such a mind bender, and I think it's
what movies should be. Inceptions.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Look but it's just so mind blowing. I think it'd
be overwhelming. So that wasn't the first movie I wrote down.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I wrote down Inception just for the fact of like, Okay,
here is this piece of clay that we can completely mold. Yeah,
that really has no connection to anything. Let's blow their
head wide open. And I wrote Inception.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
But that's like the epitome of what a movie should be, right, Like,
this is not real life, this is this is a
freaking movie.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Kind of feels mean to do that, I know.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
So that's why I had Jurassic Park first Dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah kind of.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Okay, I mean I have my three, so but I
feel good about it's hear it. Well, Number one, you're
gonna want to start them off with a movie that's
not real life.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Toy Story.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Okay, everyone, you watch Toy Story, you'll a heart little innocence,
and then you hit them over the head with step Brothers.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I have step Brothers as my third one.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
I want a variation, you know, like ease attention of
Inception with step Brothers, fine.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Kid movie, a lot of heart, and then it's like,
what the hell step Brothers? And then you come back
around and you hit them with the mind trip and
that's everything everywhere, all at once. Ready for the hot
dog fingers, the butt plugs.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
They're not ready, man, imagine watching that right after Inception.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
That would be.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Put back in a coma.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
You believe I haven't locked in and watched that. I
haven't either, dude?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
What's wrong with you guys? Years ago?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I loved it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's so good. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
The first thing I wrote down was Inception, and then
the thing I wrote down after just because I wanted
to get into the whole thing of like messing with
this person, and so then I wrote down Airplane.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Okay, okay, I thought about Airplane.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
You really, because it's like, think about you've never seen
a movie. You show him Inception, and then you show
him Airplane.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Fun and then the other.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
One, which I don't know. I'm sure Ben has seen it.
Do you guys know the Peter Sellers movie Being There?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Oh? Yeah, God, that's a weird movie Being There.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
The premise of being There is that a guy has
never been out in the real world before he's a gardener. Okay,
his name is Chauncey Gardner or Chauncey the Gardener, and
he's never he's never been in the world before, and
the guy he works for dies, so he's on his own,
so he goes out in the world for the first time.
(04:55):
So it's basically the premise of this person that you're
dealing with. And he works away all the way into
the White House and come out and he's a trusted
advisor of the President even though he's the most simple
man on the planet. It's a genius movie. And at
the end of it, he walks on water. It's it's
but that's that's That's what it was like, how can
we mess with this person? Show him inception, show him airplane,
(05:17):
and then show him being there, which is an abstract
Peter Sellers movie that mimics their life.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So I want to mess with that person a little
bit too. And the first thing I thought of was Jaws.
Oh hell yeah, because it's a great movie, but it's
immediately going to make them be.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Scared of the water forever, right yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And they've never seen special effects, so they may not
know that there aren't great special effects from the seventies.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Good point.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
My next choice is Old School. Oh yeah, because I'm
going to soften them up.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Right. It's curveball, it's you know what.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Was the one you guys had stepbrothers step the same thing,
same same vibe.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Right uh.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And then finally, after they're softened up from watching Old School,
I had him with the substance. Oh, the Demi Moore
horror movie work. Probably the weirdest movie I've ever seen
in my life. Like, that's gonna that might cause somebody
to have a bottomy.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
What if you Okay, you gave me an idea.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
What if you ended up showing them three films with
the same actor or actress over a thirty year period.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Oh wow, So.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
It'd be like, dude, every movie has this person. Let
me give you an example of some of them. Tiptoes
too would be a good Oh god, that's a great
bit KT so good.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, fantastic question. All right, there you have it. Let
us ask you a question.
Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Can we hijack another fifteen minutes of your day or so?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
What is the ideal camping season?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
How are you feeling about your team these days?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
You're in your truck right now, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Are you doing anything this weekend?
Speaker 4 (00:13):
How does the vinyl of the seat feel against your scrout?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
What were you working on with that prototype? Do you
like little kids? What's the most important thing I should
know about you? You choose greatness? What were your parents like?
What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Were there more boisey guys on the Cowboys than other teams?
Are you a bigger Cowboy fan or a Maverick fan?
Did I cause you grief?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Grief?
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Okay, so I'm going to take the reins here and
ask today's question? And can I ask you a question?
Which is a question in itself? Saw us on Reddit.
I actually had a friend in college who is kind
of living really close to this life because he grew
up very sheltered.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So it made me.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Think, you meet someone who's never watched a movie in
their life, what would be the first three movies you'd
ask them to watch?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Now?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
For the sake of this, it can't be a kid.
Let's make this an adult I need more details. No,
there's no more details.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Was he in a coma? Is an alien?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
No bunker situation? They grew up in a bunker, grew
up the Orthodox Jew and mm hmm in the city
or in the country, let's.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Say in the city. But wasn't allowed to watch TV?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I mean, but it's so easy to get ahold of
a TV in the modern world, is it?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
It's easy to say, but what if your parents will
let you have the house? So because you're still living
at home? Because it's an adults I see. The question
is what you meet someone who's ever watched a movie
in their life, what would be the first three movies
you asked them to watch?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Now you're asking them to watch this for their own good,
like you're trying to let them know. You're trying to
put them on things that they need.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Basically, you are the tour guide of the world for them,
right or at least for movies.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Are they smart?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
That's not part of the question. Well, that's you know, so, no,
nobody's smart.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
There because the first the first three I thought of
the second one. You have to be pretty smart to
actually understand it. I don't even understand this movie, but
it's just such a mind bender, and I think it's
what movies should be. Inceptions.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Look but it's just so mind blowing. I think it'd
be overwhelming. So that wasn't the first movie I wrote down.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I wrote down Inception just for the fact of like, Okay,
here is this piece of clay that we can completely mold. Yeah,
that really has no connection to anything. Let's blow their
head wide open. And I wrote Inception.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
But that's like the epitome of what a movie should be, right, Like,
this is not real life, this is this is a
freaking movie.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Kind of feels mean to do that, I know.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
So that's why I had Jurassic Park first Dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah kind of.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Okay, I mean I have my three, so but I
feel good about it's hear it. Well, Number one, you're
gonna want to start them off with a movie that's
not real life.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Toy Story.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Okay, everyone, you watch Toy Story, you'll a heart little innocence,
and then you hit them over the head with step Brothers.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I have step Brothers as my third one.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
I want a variation, you know, like ease attention of
Inception with step Brothers, fine.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Kid movie, a lot of heart, and then it's like,
what the hell step Brothers? And then you come back
around and you hit them with the mind trip and
that's everything everywhere, all at once. Ready for the hot
dog fingers, the butt plugs.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
They're not ready, man, imagine watching that right after Inception.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
That would be.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Put back in a coma.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
You believe I haven't locked in and watched that. I
haven't either, dude?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
What's wrong with you guys? Years ago?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I loved it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's so good. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
The first thing I wrote down was Inception, and then
the thing I wrote down after just because I wanted
to get into the whole thing of like messing with
this person, and so then I wrote down Airplane.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Okay, okay, I thought about Airplane.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
You really, because it's like, think about you've never seen
a movie. You show him Inception, and then you show
him Airplane.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Fun and then the other.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
One, which I don't know. I'm sure Ben has seen it.
Do you guys know the Peter Sellers movie Being There?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Oh? Yeah, God, that's a weird movie Being There.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
The premise of being There is that a guy has
never been out in the real world before he's a gardener. Okay,
his name is Chauncey Gardner or Chauncey the Gardener, and
he's never he's never been in the world before, and
the guy he works for dies, so he's on his own,
so he goes out in the world for the first time.
(04:55):
So it's basically the premise of this person that you're
dealing with. And he works away all the way into
the White House and come out and he's a trusted
advisor of the President even though he's the most simple
man on the planet. It's a genius movie. And at
the end of it, he walks on water. It's it's
but that's that's That's what it was like, how can
we mess with this person? Show him inception, show him airplane,
(05:17):
and then show him being there, which is an abstract
Peter Sellers movie that mimics their life.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So I want to mess with that person a little
bit too. And the first thing I thought of was Jaws.
Oh hell yeah, because it's a great movie, but it's
immediately going to make them be.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Scared of the water forever, right yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And they've never seen special effects, so they may not
know that there aren't great special effects from the seventies.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Good point.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
My next choice is Old School. Oh yeah, because I'm
going to soften them up.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Right. It's curveball, it's you know what.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Was the one you guys had stepbrothers step the same thing,
same same vibe.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Right uh.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And then finally, after they're softened up from watching Old School,
I had him with the substance. Oh, the Demi Moore
horror movie work. Probably the weirdest movie I've ever seen
in my life. Like, that's gonna that might cause somebody
to have a bottomy.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
What if you Okay, you gave me an idea.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
What if you ended up showing them three films with
the same actor or actress over a thirty year period.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Oh wow, So.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
It'd be like, dude, every movie has this person. Let
me give you an example of some of them. Tiptoes
too would be a good Oh god, that's a great
bit KT so good.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, fantastic question. All right, there you have it. Let
us ask you a question.
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