February 17, 2026 • 6 mins
Some of the greatest audio and old stories from storied actor Robert Duvall in this edtiion of Entertainment Headlines.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you for tuning in to the world famous Ben
and Skin show. Glad to have you on board today
and every day. Coming up in ten minutes, it's the
Today game coming up at five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Kevin Durant Burner thing?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is that real? Did you really have another bunch of
burner accounts?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
And then at five point fifteen or so, some people
got trapped in a cave in Texas. KT's got the
story on that and our aliens real maybe that would
have been our lead if they were.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I don't know. We'll have to stick around and find out.
But right now it's time for this intment.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
In nine.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
All right, at the age of ninety five, Robert Duval dead,
hot air bloon accident.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Now it turns out that's not what it was. Didn't
have a spotter bench pressing.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
What is your number one Robert Duval thing? What is
it when you hear the news? What are you thinking?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
For me?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I mean, I'm sure it's different for you.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
Kevin.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
It's godfather one and godfather too. That's what I thought
was probably the popular answer to the world. It's not
his most iconic line. His most iconic line was apocalypse Now,
but his most in the morning. Yes, I love the
smell of napalm in the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The first I'm sorry, no, go ahead, first thing I
think of is Boo Radley and to Kill a Mockingbird.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
That was his first role, I believe, which is a
wild role for him.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We had to read that book in high school or whatever,
and so of course went to try to watch the movie.
I think of Colors. Oh, yes, Colors. He was great
in Colors.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He's great in that The Godfather obviously. And then.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
When my dad, this is the weirdest experience I ever
had in my life. My dad the night we found
out he had terminal cancer and he died twenty eight
days later, I sat in his hot in his hospital
room and we watched Apocalypse Now because that's what he
wanted to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's like an acid trip.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's like that's so heavy and so crazy, Like just
sat there and watched him, Like I don't even know
what to do with my brain right now.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
It is the darkest for me personally. It's it's one
of the darkest movies I've ever seen. In The main
reason is, and I've probably told you guys this before,
but when I was a little kid, and we first
had pirate cable. You have one channel and you flip
the switch and it comes on. They showed Apocalypse Now
all the time, and so I was, you know, ten
years old or eleven years old. And the opening scene
(02:24):
of Apocalypse Now is Martin Sheen having a NOM flashback
and the fan in his room is the helicopter at
NOM and they're playing the doors.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
This is the end and it's all those dark.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Chords and all those you know, jazzy groupings, and it's
super dark and Martin Sheen's freaking out and that imagery
just stays with you. I imagine that's a bad thing to
watch with your dad and he gets a cancer diagnosed.
It was terrible, but it does remind me of better
times when we had pirated cable. I think it was
called the View or something like that. One pre preview, preview,
up and up on the roof. Yeah, and they always
(02:57):
showed ten with Bo Derek. Yes, yeah, we didn't pay
for it. We tried to watch it through the scrambled lines.
Remember they had Fraggle Rock. Yes, yeah, dude, you guys
need to get a cable.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I'm actually trying to cut back. What about for you
is it eating ice cream? Let's ask is it for you, Christine?
Is it for Christmases?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I barely remember for Christmases, but I do immediately think
of your favorite line when I hear Robert Duval and
that's it and his ice cream like his actual ice cream.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Never seen that movie, by the way, here it is
just so you know, I got a pitt.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I don't think so. We're busy.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Now your what.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Eating ice cream? Ice cream? Now you welcome home on
and get one.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
But I don't believe Nasscar would think much you trying
to eat.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Ice pan Cole and out pick.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You haven'tenough trouble riding.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Around the track as it is, all right, So here's
the story on that.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
He was portraying a guy named Harry Hogg, who was
a legendary crew tree. I'm sorry, Harry Hyde, which.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Harry Hole. They're all bad. This happened in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
It actually happened at a race and he was trying
to pit and Harry Hyde is there eating ice cream.
So it's a story that got around the world. In NASCAR,
they threw that in the movie Cool. The other the
line from Four Christmases, I should mention, which is not
that good of a movie. But he says, your grandma's
boyfriend is a first class ass sniffer, and you can
(04:29):
tell him, I said it, what is money to call
someone a first class ass sniffer?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Real?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
There was an article two that was out that was
really good about how him and Dustin Hoffman and Gene
Hackman all started in the fifties in New York and
had no money and they're living on each other, living
on each other's floors. And Rosberg, yeah, and Gene Hackman
and Dustin Hoffin were like, he's he's the man. He's
the best actor we've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Have you guys ever seen The Apostle? No, it's really
really good. He wrote it, he directed it, he starred
in it. He financed it. Billie about Thornton, Right, it's
him and Fara Faucet. It's really he plays a pentecostal
preacher and he's got a lot of demons, and it's
really really good.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's intense.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
It's not an easy watch, but it's powerful because it's
all Robert Duvall, his whole heart and soul everything.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You know. I want to play one more clip real quick.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
So it's one of those Hollywood reporter round tables from
like fifteen years ago. But in the room is Ryan Gosling,
James Franco, Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg's there, and Jesse Eisenberg's
talking about how many takes he had to do in
a Fincher movie.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Say fifty takes of a shot, and I felt forty
eight of them were just terrible and mortifying. And so
I felt bad because I felt like I did a
lot of bad stuff. Let me do it, David Fincher.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Let me see. Can I say one thing to me?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Stanley the Great Stanley Kubrick an actor's enemy, Well, he
did an undertake.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
There was an actor's enemy.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
And I can point to movies that he's done. The
worst performances I've ever seen, the movies which we get
the shining cooperforms, terrible performances. Maybe they're the great movies,
but they're terrible performances.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
How does he know the difference between the first taking
the seventieth take? I mean, you know, I mean, what
is that about?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Why would he you know, why would anybody do that?
I mean, maybe it was good for you, but I
don't I don't quite.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Get that the whole time.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Ryan Gosling's right beside him, just cracking over craping on
this guy.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's really funny. Uh man.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Robert Duval, great great actor, awesome stuff. There you go,
Rest in peace, Robert Duval.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
All right, coming up in just a matter of minutes,
it's the Today game, don't go anywhere, and then we'll
get into those Kevin Durant burner accounts. All that's coming
away next on The Beninskian Show.
Thank you for tuning in to the world famous Ben
and Skin show. Glad to have you on board today
and every day. Coming up in ten minutes, it's the
Today game coming up at five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Kevin Durant Burner thing?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Is that real? Did you really have another bunch of
burner accounts?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
And then at five point fifteen or so, some people
got trapped in a cave in Texas. KT's got the
story on that and our aliens real maybe that would
have been our lead if they were.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I don't know. We'll have to stick around and find out.
But right now it's time for this intment.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
In nine.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
All right, at the age of ninety five, Robert Duval dead,
hot air bloon accident.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Now it turns out that's not what it was. Didn't
have a spotter bench pressing.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
What is your number one Robert Duval thing? What is
it when you hear the news? What are you thinking?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
For me?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I mean, I'm sure it's different for you.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
Kevin.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
It's godfather one and godfather too. That's what I thought
was probably the popular answer to the world. It's not
his most iconic line. His most iconic line was apocalypse Now,
but his most in the morning. Yes, I love the
smell of napalm in the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The first I'm sorry, no, go ahead, first thing I
think of is Boo Radley and to Kill a Mockingbird.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
That was his first role, I believe, which is a
wild role for him.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We had to read that book in high school or whatever,
and so of course went to try to watch the movie.
I think of Colors. Oh, yes, Colors. He was great
in Colors.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He's great in that The Godfather obviously. And then.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
When my dad, this is the weirdest experience I ever
had in my life. My dad the night we found
out he had terminal cancer and he died twenty eight
days later, I sat in his hot in his hospital
room and we watched Apocalypse Now because that's what he
wanted to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
That's like an acid trip.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's like that's so heavy and so crazy, Like just
sat there and watched him, Like I don't even know
what to do with my brain right now.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
It is the darkest for me personally. It's it's one
of the darkest movies I've ever seen. In The main
reason is, and I've probably told you guys this before,
but when I was a little kid, and we first
had pirate cable. You have one channel and you flip
the switch and it comes on. They showed Apocalypse Now
all the time, and so I was, you know, ten
years old or eleven years old. And the opening scene
(02:24):
of Apocalypse Now is Martin Sheen having a NOM flashback
and the fan in his room is the helicopter at
NOM and they're playing the doors.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
This is the end and it's all those dark.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Chords and all those you know, jazzy groupings, and it's
super dark and Martin Sheen's freaking out and that imagery
just stays with you. I imagine that's a bad thing to
watch with your dad and he gets a cancer diagnosed.
It was terrible, but it does remind me of better
times when we had pirated cable. I think it was
called the View or something like that. One pre preview, preview,
up and up on the roof. Yeah, and they always
(02:57):
showed ten with Bo Derek. Yes, yeah, we didn't pay
for it. We tried to watch it through the scrambled lines.
Remember they had Fraggle Rock. Yes, yeah, dude, you guys
need to get a cable.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I'm actually trying to cut back. What about for you
is it eating ice cream? Let's ask is it for you, Christine?
Is it for Christmases?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I barely remember for Christmases, but I do immediately think
of your favorite line when I hear Robert Duval and
that's it and his ice cream like his actual ice cream.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Never seen that movie, by the way, here it is
just so you know, I got a pitt.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I don't think so. We're busy.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Now your what.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Eating ice cream? Ice cream? Now you welcome home on
and get one.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
But I don't believe Nasscar would think much you trying
to eat.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Ice pan Cole and out pick.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You haven'tenough trouble riding.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Around the track as it is, all right, So here's
the story on that.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
He was portraying a guy named Harry Hogg, who was
a legendary crew tree. I'm sorry, Harry Hyde, which.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Harry Hole. They're all bad. This happened in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
It actually happened at a race and he was trying
to pit and Harry Hyde is there eating ice cream.
So it's a story that got around the world. In NASCAR,
they threw that in the movie Cool. The other the
line from Four Christmases, I should mention, which is not
that good of a movie. But he says, your grandma's
boyfriend is a first class ass sniffer, and you can
(04:29):
tell him, I said it, what is money to call
someone a first class ass sniffer?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Real?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
There was an article two that was out that was
really good about how him and Dustin Hoffman and Gene
Hackman all started in the fifties in New York and
had no money and they're living on each other, living
on each other's floors. And Rosberg, yeah, and Gene Hackman
and Dustin Hoffin were like, he's he's the man. He's
the best actor we've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Have you guys ever seen The Apostle? No, it's really
really good. He wrote it, he directed it, he starred
in it. He financed it. Billie about Thornton, Right, it's
him and Fara Faucet. It's really he plays a pentecostal
preacher and he's got a lot of demons, and it's
really really good.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's intense.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
It's not an easy watch, but it's powerful because it's
all Robert Duvall, his whole heart and soul everything.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You know. I want to play one more clip real quick.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
So it's one of those Hollywood reporter round tables from
like fifteen years ago. But in the room is Ryan Gosling,
James Franco, Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg's there, and Jesse Eisenberg's
talking about how many takes he had to do in
a Fincher movie.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Say fifty takes of a shot, and I felt forty
eight of them were just terrible and mortifying. And so
I felt bad because I felt like I did a
lot of bad stuff. Let me do it, David Fincher.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Let me see. Can I say one thing to me?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Stanley the Great Stanley Kubrick an actor's enemy, Well, he
did an undertake.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
There was an actor's enemy.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
And I can point to movies that he's done. The
worst performances I've ever seen, the movies which we get
the shining cooperforms, terrible performances. Maybe they're the great movies,
but they're terrible performances.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
How does he know the difference between the first taking
the seventieth take? I mean, you know, I mean, what
is that about?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Why would he you know, why would anybody do that?
I mean, maybe it was good for you, but I
don't I don't quite.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Get that the whole time.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Ryan Gosling's right beside him, just cracking over craping on
this guy.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's really funny. Uh man.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Robert Duval, great great actor, awesome stuff. There you go,
Rest in peace, Robert Duval.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
All right, coming up in just a matter of minutes,
it's the Today game, don't go anywhere, and then we'll
get into those Kevin Durant burner accounts. All that's coming
away next on The Beninskian Show.
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