February 17, 2026 • 6 mins
Skin breaks down the death of friend of the show, Jesse Jackson. His legacy, what he meant to the world, and how a funny SNL sketch got stuck in the Wade household for years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've been and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle.
(00:03):
There was a concert at Arby's. We're going to talk
about that in thirty minutes. Christina has got that in
the cookie jar. We're also going to give away Bush
tickets today. They're coming to the Toyota Music Factory in April.
Be listening, have your free iHeart app where you can
leave a talk back message, and sometime in the next
two hours, we're going to give away those tickets. But
right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Track, another edition of things Skin is Traffic.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
All right, We're gonna be talking about a couple of
legends that passed away today. Later in the show we'll
talk about Robert Duval, who made it to ninety five.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Man, I saw the craziest news this weekend, All Star Weekend.
Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA, was talking about
a conversation he was having with ninety seven year old
Bob Coosey.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Damn, oh wow.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
He realized Bob Coosey was still love I didn't either,
and he's ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Is he still hooping?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I think that the broads want to see him sweat
happen in Sexton.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
But today we learned that he's a political figure, a
civil rights leader, the legendary Jesse Reverend Jesse Jackson passed
away at the age of eighty four. Now, do you
guys have any sort of things that pop in your
mind when someone says Jesse Jackson. He's been a public
figure as long as we've all been alive. He was
(01:20):
the protegeade of MLK. Right, he was part of the
civil rights movement, and he was there. He was there,
Right was there, and he was he was killed. And
you know, I just remember I think he ran for
president twice once or twice, maybe three times.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I think twice.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
And I just remember he was always around in pop culture,
Like I remember people doing impersonations of him or talking.
He was always involved. He was on the periphery of
my existence, my entire life. Okay, Ben is my age,
and so we're we got the same thing going on here, KT.
Do you have any sort of attachment or knowledge of him?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I mean, twenty thirteen Super Bowl Radio in New York,
he was wandering around and we definitely talked to him.
We had him on the show multiple multiple days that week. Yeah,
just in quick little burst and he would wander up
while we were interviewing people. I also seventy one.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
At that time. When was this what year twenty thirteen?
Maybe it doesn't. It would have been after fourteen calendar year.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, yeah, because we were we would have been at
the fan by the Yeah. It was the first one though,
So it's a twenty fourteen calendar year, okay. And I
remember very problematic Darryl Hammond impersonation of him on Saturday
Night Live, where Darryl Hammond, a white man, was being
Jesse Jackson.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Hold that thought, okay, okay, Christina anything, No, that's okay.
So I been was talking about Jesse Jackson running for president.
He ran for president against Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh wow, okay. Oh, he was the Democratic candidate.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Like I don't think he won the Democratic nomination in
one of them he was. Yeah, he did get he
may have run as an independent. Okay, he did get
some votes. He got millions, like I think he got
like three million votes, but that's not near it whatever,
But it was a big deal for an African American
man to run for president. Now, when I'm thirteen years old,
(03:15):
I don't know much about civil rights and the history
of it and all that. I just know Jesse Jackson's
on my TV and he's running for president. Now he's
hosting Saturday Night Live. Now, I'm going to play a sketch.
This is the first sketch after the monologue. And this
is a thing that in my family we went around
and said four years I skipped ahead. We're one minute
(03:37):
into the sketch. There's three contestants on a game show
and Jesse Jackson is the host. You're actually gonna hear
Elaine from Seinfeld. Julia Louis Dreyfus is one of the
contestants on this, and the host is Jesse Jackson of
a game show called The question is Moot?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
All right, why don't you go first? Fine, I'll take
astronomy please.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
And the question is when is the next reappearance of
Haley's comment schedule?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I know this, it doesn't matter. The question is moved.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
The White House is locked behind seemen barricades. The President
confesses he's afraid to go to church because terrorists are
after him. The nuclear holocaust machinery is moving into place.
As a matter of fact, it's moving into Brooklyn Harbor
right now. They're demonstrating down there all night long. The
battleship alway carrying nuclear war heads Arriot today. So we
probably won't even live to see here this comment.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Come again.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Next question, Barbara, I'll.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Take miscellaneous, please, And your question is what president is
on the one hundred dollar bill?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Oh, I'm sorry, The question is move on the last
four years of the Reagan administration.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Very few people got to see one hundred dollars bill.
Okay loves it.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Matter of fact, eight million more people living in Papa
to today than that were four years ago, up to
thirty five Milligan living in Popa at twenty four millium.
I'm a white, he live in Megan, Black, Hispanic, an Asian.
But no matter what you are, white, black of brown,
Hunger Hertz, next question, el Norah, excuse me, refend Jackson.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Are we ever going to get to answer a question here?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Move out of the ring in the administration?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Asking the questions you get the idea. That's great, and
so we would do that all the time in our family.
We'd ask questions and then cut some off.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Good.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
The question is moving and that's what I knew. Jesse
Jackson for later in life.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I learned he was a civil rights leader and he
was there with Martin Luther King the other I went
and watched it today because I hadn't in forever. When
he did the monologue, they had this funny bit where
he starts hearing a hum and he's like, what is that?
And he goes back in the control room and all
the white people that are controlling the show, they go
He's coming, and they all get up and they run out,
and then all these black people come in and take
(05:48):
their place, and then Jesse Jackson walks and he's like, who's.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Got control of this? And they're like, oh, we got it,
we got it, We're good, and.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Then they goes he gone, and then all the white
people come back in.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I mean, it's funny. Again. We've talked about this.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It was a different era in politics and TV and
satire because everybody made fun of everybody and you didn't
get offended, and the country was pulling in one way.
But it's when his life is obviously way much more
than a SNL appearance, But that's when he entered my consciousness.
And anytime Jesse Jackson pops up in the back of
(06:22):
my head, I hear the question is move God's great,
such a great, so good, and you're listening him talk
about all the things that are going on in the world.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Sounds very similar, all the same stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's all the same stuff, except we find out about it,
you know, every six minutes on social media, and people
used to find out about it on the nightly news
like once today.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yep, absolutely all right.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
There you have at the legend of Jesse Jackson coming
up next to Entertainment News.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Where you gonna take us, kat.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Well, we've got a situation going on about a celebrity
who is massively locked down.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Tell you more next on Nice Eye Legal
I've been and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle.
(00:03):
There was a concert at Arby's. We're going to talk
about that in thirty minutes. Christina has got that in
the cookie jar. We're also going to give away Bush
tickets today. They're coming to the Toyota Music Factory in April.
Be listening, have your free iHeart app where you can
leave a talk back message, and sometime in the next
two hours, we're going to give away those tickets. But
right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Track, another edition of things Skin is Traffic.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
All right, We're gonna be talking about a couple of
legends that passed away today. Later in the show we'll
talk about Robert Duval, who made it to ninety five.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Man, I saw the craziest news this weekend, All Star Weekend.
Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA, was talking about
a conversation he was having with ninety seven year old
Bob Coosey.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Damn, oh wow.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
He realized Bob Coosey was still love I didn't either,
and he's ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Is he still hooping?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I think that the broads want to see him sweat
happen in Sexton.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
But today we learned that he's a political figure, a
civil rights leader, the legendary Jesse Reverend Jesse Jackson passed
away at the age of eighty four. Now, do you
guys have any sort of things that pop in your
mind when someone says Jesse Jackson. He's been a public
figure as long as we've all been alive. He was
(01:20):
the protegeade of MLK. Right, he was part of the
civil rights movement, and he was there. He was there,
Right was there, and he was he was killed. And
you know, I just remember I think he ran for
president twice once or twice, maybe three times.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I think twice.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
And I just remember he was always around in pop culture,
Like I remember people doing impersonations of him or talking.
He was always involved. He was on the periphery of
my existence, my entire life. Okay, Ben is my age,
and so we're we got the same thing going on here, KT.
Do you have any sort of attachment or knowledge of him?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I mean, twenty thirteen Super Bowl Radio in New York,
he was wandering around and we definitely talked to him.
We had him on the show multiple multiple days that week. Yeah,
just in quick little burst and he would wander up
while we were interviewing people. I also seventy one.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
At that time. When was this what year twenty thirteen?
Maybe it doesn't. It would have been after fourteen calendar year.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, yeah, because we were we would have been at
the fan by the Yeah. It was the first one though,
So it's a twenty fourteen calendar year, okay. And I
remember very problematic Darryl Hammond impersonation of him on Saturday
Night Live, where Darryl Hammond, a white man, was being
Jesse Jackson.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Hold that thought, okay, okay, Christina anything, No, that's okay.
So I been was talking about Jesse Jackson running for president.
He ran for president against Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh wow, okay. Oh, he was the Democratic candidate.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Like I don't think he won the Democratic nomination in
one of them he was. Yeah, he did get he
may have run as an independent. Okay, he did get
some votes. He got millions, like I think he got
like three million votes, but that's not near it whatever,
But it was a big deal for an African American
man to run for president. Now, when I'm thirteen years old,
(03:15):
I don't know much about civil rights and the history
of it and all that. I just know Jesse Jackson's
on my TV and he's running for president. Now he's
hosting Saturday Night Live. Now, I'm going to play a sketch.
This is the first sketch after the monologue. And this
is a thing that in my family we went around
and said four years I skipped ahead. We're one minute
(03:37):
into the sketch. There's three contestants on a game show
and Jesse Jackson is the host. You're actually gonna hear
Elaine from Seinfeld. Julia Louis Dreyfus is one of the
contestants on this, and the host is Jesse Jackson of
a game show called The question is Moot?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
All right, why don't you go first? Fine, I'll take
astronomy please.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
And the question is when is the next reappearance of
Haley's comment schedule?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I know this, it doesn't matter. The question is moved.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
The White House is locked behind seemen barricades. The President
confesses he's afraid to go to church because terrorists are
after him. The nuclear holocaust machinery is moving into place.
As a matter of fact, it's moving into Brooklyn Harbor
right now. They're demonstrating down there all night long. The
battleship alway carrying nuclear war heads Arriot today. So we
probably won't even live to see here this comment.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Come again.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Next question, Barbara, I'll.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Take miscellaneous, please, And your question is what president is
on the one hundred dollar bill?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Oh, I'm sorry, The question is move on the last
four years of the Reagan administration.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Very few people got to see one hundred dollars bill.
Okay loves it.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Matter of fact, eight million more people living in Papa
to today than that were four years ago, up to
thirty five Milligan living in Popa at twenty four millium.
I'm a white, he live in Megan, Black, Hispanic, an Asian.
But no matter what you are, white, black of brown,
Hunger Hertz, next question, el Norah, excuse me, refend Jackson.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Are we ever going to get to answer a question here?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Move out of the ring in the administration?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Asking the questions you get the idea. That's great, and
so we would do that all the time in our family.
We'd ask questions and then cut some off.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Good.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
The question is moving and that's what I knew. Jesse
Jackson for later in life.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I learned he was a civil rights leader and he
was there with Martin Luther King the other I went
and watched it today because I hadn't in forever. When
he did the monologue, they had this funny bit where
he starts hearing a hum and he's like, what is that?
And he goes back in the control room and all
the white people that are controlling the show, they go
He's coming, and they all get up and they run out,
and then all these black people come in and take
(05:48):
their place, and then Jesse Jackson walks and he's like, who's.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Got control of this? And they're like, oh, we got it,
we got it, We're good, and.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Then they goes he gone, and then all the white
people come back in.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I mean, it's funny. Again. We've talked about this.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It was a different era in politics and TV and
satire because everybody made fun of everybody and you didn't
get offended, and the country was pulling in one way.
But it's when his life is obviously way much more
than a SNL appearance, But that's when he entered my consciousness.
And anytime Jesse Jackson pops up in the back of
(06:22):
my head, I hear the question is move God's great,
such a great, so good, and you're listening him talk
about all the things that are going on in the world.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Sounds very similar, all the same stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's all the same stuff, except we find out about it,
you know, every six minutes on social media, and people
used to find out about it on the nightly news
like once today.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yep, absolutely all right.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
There you have at the legend of Jesse Jackson coming
up next to Entertainment News.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Where you gonna take us, kat.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Well, we've got a situation going on about a celebrity
who is massively locked down.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Tell you more next on Nice Eye Legal
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