August 4, 2025 • 6 mins
"Is the hula hoop a timeless toy—or just a glorified plastic circle?"In this laugh-out-loud edition of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray deliver a nostalgic, irreverent, and unexpectedly heartfelt Weekday Update that pays tribute to two very different legends: Lonnie Anderson, the iconic bombshell of WKRP in Cincinnati, and Joan Anderson, the woman who brought the hula hoop to America.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I do think it's important to cover some of the
deaths that have happened in this world. And we start
with a seventy nine year old actor that you guys
will definitely know way more about than me, Lonnie Anderson.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
This song slaps cranking dude, one dude, whatever became of
the sty w k R whatever a base is groovie
and melodic at the same time. It's just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
A show about a radio station.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, interesting and back in the heyday of radio.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, okay, uh oh.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I can't even imagine what it was like back then,
But dude, Lonnie Anderson was an absolute freaking knockout, just
totally freaking gorgeous. She was definitely there was a lot
of emphasis on her sweater action.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
This is actually one of the first scenes of w
krope in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Morning, Jennifer, morning her.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
He calls, no messages none, how about lunch, no lunch either.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Busy, Okay, how about later in my place? You're married her?
Oh yeah, I'm handy. Travis the new program di rerecord.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Sorry, I got a meeting.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We'll talk later. If you last that long one of
the best. Would you like to see the big guy,
the big guy, the skipper, the cheek, the head hon show,
the jerk who runs his place?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
God, they were a busy, bustling office environment back then too.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Radio is kick ass back then it still is. Yeah,
I huart radio that show. That show is awesome?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It had a lot of colorful characters. It's funny, Yeah,
I thought it was. Yes. What about Venus fly Trap?
Is that a person is a DJ? The DJ's name
was and then Les Nessman, but Johnny fever So Lonnie
Anderson Burt Reynolds were married for a while, right, they
(02:19):
were a big celebrity couple, and I guess I didn't
know that they were actually married married in eighty eight
to ninety four, Okay, but they were dating all throughout
the eighties before they got married. They were like in
People magazine together all the time. That's like, I don't
know who is the biggest male star in the world
right now? It's kind it's not that dissimilar Ben to
(02:39):
like Ben Affleck and Jala. I would say it would
be like who the biggest male star and biggest female
star in the world. Whoever the hottest two sex symbols
are in each two years ago?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Is Robbie at Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Right, yeah, it'd be that'd be perfect.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, okay, I said Ryan Gosling hadn't post nude on
Playgirl that we know of, that we know of. Yeah,
it's I read something that said they her divorce with
Burt Reynolds did not get settled into like twenty fourteen too,
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Like a Bobby deal?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Like a million a year?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
How it works? So okay, yeah, Lonnie Anderson, there you go.
What else was she in? Did she do anything else?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You guys know, she was on a lot of posters. Yeah,
that was her one, and then after that she was
Burt Reynolds's wife or sidepiece or whatever you want to
call it. Just search Lonnie Anderson poster. It was on
all teenage boys walls for about a decade. She was
bursting at the seams with great acting.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
She was nominated for a Worst Actress in the movie
A Stroker Ace.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh dude, it's a great movie. Great Burt Reynolds movie.
What year was that eighty four?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Eighty three?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, yeah. And then also she was in a movie
called Munchie in nineteen night.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
To Munching Munchie. Oh yeah, Munching's different, very different. So uh,
rest in peace to Lannie Anderson was ghetto about that
the nine eighty eight Monitar Fastball.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Probably let's move on to another Anderson who's passed away.
Joan Anderson. Now Joan Anderson was one hundred and one,
and she uh introduced the hula hoop to the United
States and gave it, gave it the name the Huloop.
She died doing what she loved, cocaine.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
She had a line of coke broken out in a
perfect circle.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Good for her. She was the subject of a documentary
in twenty eighteen called Hula Girl. And so basically she's
from Australia and met her husband moved here to America.
But she was the first person to name the hula
hoop and the first person to bring a hula hoop
to America.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Or she just brought it to America.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
She just brought it there. Someone already made it, but
no one made a name for it.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You get paid for it, she should. All I can
think about right now is the movie The Hudsucker Proxy.
Have you guys seen that? I heard a long time ago.
It's amazing. The whole it's so Tim rob It's a
Cohen Brothers movie, and Tim Robbins keeps talking about his
invention and they want to see it. He hands him
a piece of paper and it's a circle, and then
they look at he goes, you know, for kids, and
(05:23):
no one knows what he's talking about. But he's talking
about a hula hoop. It's a brilliant movie. It's really funny.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Can we all admit it's a bad toy?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
No? You mean, what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Well, the hula hoop? If you got a hula hoop
has always been around.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh dude, here's the thing. Look like, why would you
ever want one? Here's the thing. When you have kids,
you want anything that'll just go get them away from
you to go do it for a while, and if
they burn energy, even better. So for that reason, yeah,
I mean, they're.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Not good at it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Nobody is, except for hula dancers. But it's like the
slinky or any any number of the frisbee. It's in
that class. Yeah, what is a cheap piece of crap
that can be mass produced easily and doesn't cost anything
that we can turn around and sell it, you know,
fifty times the cost. Well, I was sadden to hear
about her loss. I thought she invented it. I don't
(06:14):
know that she really did that much. She just had
a good nameplment.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, we would never know about it without her stay.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Is that unfair? I feel like we're underrepresenting Hasbro in
this giant conversation. All right, there you have it. There
is two two legends pass one for sure, a legend.
One may rest in peace. All right, coming up next
in just over three minutes, the Fatten McMahon's are back
on the radio. That's right, we crank up the wayback
machine and keep you laughing on your way home.
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I do think it's important to cover some of the
deaths that have happened in this world. And we start
with a seventy nine year old actor that you guys
will definitely know way more about than me, Lonnie Anderson.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
This song slaps cranking dude, one dude, whatever became of
the sty w k R whatever a base is groovie
and melodic at the same time. It's just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
A show about a radio station.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, interesting and back in the heyday of radio.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, okay, uh oh.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I can't even imagine what it was like back then,
But dude, Lonnie Anderson was an absolute freaking knockout, just
totally freaking gorgeous. She was definitely there was a lot
of emphasis on her sweater action.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
This is actually one of the first scenes of w
krope in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Morning, Jennifer, morning her.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
He calls, no messages none, how about lunch, no lunch either.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Busy, Okay, how about later in my place? You're married her?
Oh yeah, I'm handy. Travis the new program di rerecord.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Sorry, I got a meeting.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We'll talk later. If you last that long one of
the best. Would you like to see the big guy,
the big guy, the skipper, the cheek, the head hon show,
the jerk who runs his place?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
God, they were a busy, bustling office environment back then too.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Radio is kick ass back then it still is. Yeah,
I huart radio that show. That show is awesome?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It had a lot of colorful characters. It's funny, Yeah,
I thought it was. Yes. What about Venus fly Trap?
Is that a person is a DJ? The DJ's name
was and then Les Nessman, but Johnny fever So Lonnie
Anderson Burt Reynolds were married for a while, right, they
(02:19):
were a big celebrity couple, and I guess I didn't
know that they were actually married married in eighty eight
to ninety four, Okay, but they were dating all throughout
the eighties before they got married. They were like in
People magazine together all the time. That's like, I don't
know who is the biggest male star in the world
right now? It's kind it's not that dissimilar Ben to
(02:39):
like Ben Affleck and Jala. I would say it would
be like who the biggest male star and biggest female
star in the world. Whoever the hottest two sex symbols
are in each two years ago?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Is Robbie at Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Right, yeah, it'd be that'd be perfect.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, okay, I said Ryan Gosling hadn't post nude on
Playgirl that we know of, that we know of. Yeah,
it's I read something that said they her divorce with
Burt Reynolds did not get settled into like twenty fourteen too,
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Like a Bobby deal?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Like a million a year?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
How it works? So okay, yeah, Lonnie Anderson, there you go.
What else was she in? Did she do anything else?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You guys know, she was on a lot of posters. Yeah,
that was her one, and then after that she was
Burt Reynolds's wife or sidepiece or whatever you want to
call it. Just search Lonnie Anderson poster. It was on
all teenage boys walls for about a decade. She was
bursting at the seams with great acting.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
She was nominated for a Worst Actress in the movie
A Stroker Ace.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh dude, it's a great movie. Great Burt Reynolds movie.
What year was that eighty four?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Eighty three?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, yeah. And then also she was in a movie
called Munchie in nineteen night.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
To Munching Munchie. Oh yeah, Munching's different, very different. So uh,
rest in peace to Lannie Anderson was ghetto about that
the nine eighty eight Monitar Fastball.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Probably let's move on to another Anderson who's passed away.
Joan Anderson. Now Joan Anderson was one hundred and one,
and she uh introduced the hula hoop to the United
States and gave it, gave it the name the Huloop.
She died doing what she loved, cocaine.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
She had a line of coke broken out in a
perfect circle.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Good for her. She was the subject of a documentary
in twenty eighteen called Hula Girl. And so basically she's
from Australia and met her husband moved here to America.
But she was the first person to name the hula
hoop and the first person to bring a hula hoop
to America.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Or she just brought it to America.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
She just brought it there. Someone already made it, but
no one made a name for it.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You get paid for it, she should. All I can
think about right now is the movie The Hudsucker Proxy.
Have you guys seen that? I heard a long time ago.
It's amazing. The whole it's so Tim rob It's a
Cohen Brothers movie, and Tim Robbins keeps talking about his
invention and they want to see it. He hands him
a piece of paper and it's a circle, and then
they look at he goes, you know, for kids, and
(05:23):
no one knows what he's talking about. But he's talking
about a hula hoop. It's a brilliant movie. It's really funny.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Can we all admit it's a bad toy?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
No? You mean, what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Well, the hula hoop? If you got a hula hoop
has always been around.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh dude, here's the thing. Look like, why would you
ever want one? Here's the thing. When you have kids,
you want anything that'll just go get them away from
you to go do it for a while, and if
they burn energy, even better. So for that reason, yeah,
I mean, they're.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Not good at it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Nobody is, except for hula dancers. But it's like the
slinky or any any number of the frisbee. It's in
that class. Yeah, what is a cheap piece of crap
that can be mass produced easily and doesn't cost anything
that we can turn around and sell it, you know,
fifty times the cost. Well, I was sadden to hear
about her loss. I thought she invented it. I don't
(06:14):
know that she really did that much. She just had
a good nameplment.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well, we would never know about it without her stay.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Is that unfair? I feel like we're underrepresenting Hasbro in
this giant conversation. All right, there you have it. There
is two two legends pass one for sure, a legend.
One may rest in peace. All right, coming up next
in just over three minutes, the Fatten McMahon's are back
on the radio. That's right, we crank up the wayback
machine and keep you laughing on your way home.
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