April 17, 2025 • 6 mins
"Why should Dirk Nowitzki play saxophone?" Join hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they dive into a whirlwind of topics, from sumo wrestling events to creating a fantasy band with Dallas sports heroes.In this episode, the team discusses Skin's recent interview with the Dallas Morning News, where he shares his thoughts on why Dirk Nowitzki should play saxophone and the appeal of sumo wrestling. The hosts explore the idea of a fantasy band composed of Dallas sports legends, leading to a series of laugh-out-loud moments and creative brainstorming.
- Skin: "Travis Frederick on drums. Adrian Beltre on bass. JJ Barea on percussion to stretch out rhythmically."
- Ben: "Dennis Thurman, classic Cowboys defensive back, would be great on rhythm guitar."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah Yes, this is the world famous Ben and Skin Show.
Happy Thursday, everybody. Thanks for making us a part of
your daily routine. Hopefully you're laughing it up with us.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
This segment right here is brought to you Andrew is
brought to you by Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen in Plano, Texas,
Preston and Plano Parkway. Amazing pizza, so good that readers
of the Dallas Morning News voted at the best pizzeria
in all of DFW. They've mastered five different types of pizza,
got a bunch of excellent craft beer on tap there
as well. There's TVs as far as I can see.
(00:29):
I go there sometimes just to hang out, and I
go there and eat pizza and pasta as well. It's
just phenomenal. Some of the best pizza you've ever had
in your life. What are you waiting for? Get out
to Plano to Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen. Before we move on,
we got a one hundred and six year old lady
who's talking trash. We got the MAVs and the Stars
about to get a divorce. And then let's recap the
(00:49):
MAVs beating the Kings last night. All that's coming your
way towards the back part of this hour. But before
we move forward, we probably should turn our attention to
the Dallas Morning News.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, you guys still take the paper.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I do, and my wife is mad about it. Yeah,
my wife won that battle. She finally got it to stop. Oh,
like the physical paper doesn't show. It doesn't show up anymore.
I was having a hard time getting it ins line anyway,
so it's like I couldn't really justify it.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I get it, pay an extra fee to get it
up there. Oh no, Well, there was an article in
there today. I thought this is a little interesting. The
author of the u or the writer of this article
is Sarah Heppola, And there is an update to this
article since it's been posted this morning. It says this
Q and A has been edited for LinkedIn clarity, making
you think this is not very clear. And it says
(01:37):
headline broadcaster Jeff skin Wade on why Dirk Nooviski needs
to play sacks five questions with one half of the
beloved radio duo beinin Skin, who talks about the city's creatives,
which sports stars he'd recruit for a band, and the
appeal of sumo.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
So it's like a what was she generally interested in reading?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Or was there like is this a promotion for a
sumo week at Rollertown?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
So that's a fair question. So apparently this is a
series that they've been doing where they just do five
questions with somebody. And so she hit me up about
four weeks ago or something like that and said, hey,
would you be willing to do this? I said yeah,
very nice of you, thank you, and she sent the
five questions and then you know, I answered him, sent
it back, and then she hit us back a couple
weeks later and said, hey, I want to follow up
(02:27):
on how you got your nickname Skin, and I also
want to know one of the questions was why should
I go to a sumo event? So that wasn't asked originally.
And then so I think, you know, a couple of
things got edited out. But I'm happy that she's asking
about sumbo because what happened is last year Sarah reached
out and was like, what is this sumo wrestling thing?
(02:47):
I was like, You've got to go. It's amazing. Remind
me next year when it comes up. Sarah's been around
for a long time. She was the music editor of
the Dallas Observer forever she moved to New York. She's
written books, and now she's back here and she's writing
profile type stuff for Dallas Morning News.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You know when she had Texas Monthly for a while
two May.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, she's been publishing a lot of stuff. She's a
great writer.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I want to lock in on question five here. Okay,
you're a sports and music guy, please create a fantasy
band using only Dallas sports heroes past and present.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
A great question.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Let's start with Travis Frederick on drums, Adrian Beltray on bass,
JJ Burrea on percussion. To stretch out rhythmically, Dennis Thurman
is my rhythm guitarist. Stop the show. You're going to
help me out here, dude.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Ben tell him so.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Dennis Thurman classic Cowboys defensive back from the Cowboys teams
of the seventies. But he was really smooth man. Uh
if you I could picture him to being really good
at that.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
He was also the defensive coordinator of the Jets for
a little while, especially when they were on hard knocks.
But he's he was a real smart guy, southern California guy.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I was like, man, he'd be right in the pocket.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
He'll do some chords.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, he'd be a great rhythm guitars.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Uh, Mike madonno playing lead guitar. Explain your thought process there.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
I figure, you know, he's a guy that once you
get him out on out in space, he does really
majestic things, and so it's like you got to free
him up. So you've got this incredible rhythm section and
they're they're tight. I mean, the pocket is incredible. And
then who's someone that can just dance all over the
way he skated and weaved in and out of people.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I think he'd be a great lead guitarist.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
The way he impacts panties too, is like as the
front man out there wailing on that guitar. Yea, ladies
love him and make the bands got sex appeal. It's
like Richie Sambor and suddenly eybody's throwing panties at it.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
It really is probably one of the DFW's hottest athlete.
Try to Christina absolutely, I want a tight horn section too,
wayde says uh.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Dirk on sacks.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Because he practiced saxophone upside down with Olger, he did.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Olger taught him how to play sax underwater.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Pud Rodriguez on trumpet. I like that.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I just like the idea of Pudge getting on a
tr trumpet skin, slowly moving in, getting a revenge and going,
what are you trying to do?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Does punch have trumpet lips?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Man, you got to be able to pull your lips
way back to play trumpet. You got a person that's
what you're looking for. Well, he know, it's just what
he's having. I do like to throw a broadcaster and
follow Well on trombone. Follow Well actually went to college
to play trombone. That's why I put that in there. Yeah,
he's actually a trombone player.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Baritone voice.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah, so, I mean I could see that Mark Aguire
surrounded by a Worlwitzer, Hammond and Mini mog so a
Guire on keys, and.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It's just surrounded by all these dope synthesizers. Yeah, I
like that.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Lead vocalist Drew Pearson. I thought it'd be Troy after
Oklahoma Knights. Oh yeah, I have not a country band,
though I have.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Him as the band manager.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It is well.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I saw a billboard yesterday driving home. It was a
salad and go you know that? Yeah, and Troy's on it.
I was like, did you used to do wing Stop?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It does look it's a different picture of him or something, doesn't.
It's interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It's definitely photoshop. It looks like standing in front of him.
Wait that billboard that's like right over here. Uh no, no,
it's oh you're just talking about the Sally. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I thought it was jay Z when I drove by it,
But didn't he used to own Wingstop or something or
a lot of Wingstop?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Am I making stuff up? Drew Pearson on Vocals, Your
thoughts on that?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I mean, I just looked at the way he had
the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand
at the draft that year, and I'm just like, man,
what a front man?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
What he does? What he does?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
All right?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Coming up next in just over three minutes, three or
four minutes, a one hundred and six year old lady
is talking trash.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
We've got the audio to prove it.
Ah Yes, this is the world famous Ben and Skin Show.
Happy Thursday, everybody. Thanks for making us a part of
your daily routine. Hopefully you're laughing it up with us.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
This segment right here is brought to you Andrew is
brought to you by Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen in Plano, Texas,
Preston and Plano Parkway. Amazing pizza, so good that readers
of the Dallas Morning News voted at the best pizzeria
in all of DFW. They've mastered five different types of pizza,
got a bunch of excellent craft beer on tap there
as well. There's TVs as far as I can see.
(00:29):
I go there sometimes just to hang out, and I
go there and eat pizza and pasta as well. It's
just phenomenal. Some of the best pizza you've ever had
in your life. What are you waiting for? Get out
to Plano to Andrew's American Pizza Kitchen. Before we move on,
we got a one hundred and six year old lady
who's talking trash. We got the MAVs and the Stars
about to get a divorce. And then let's recap the
(00:49):
MAVs beating the Kings last night. All that's coming your
way towards the back part of this hour. But before
we move forward, we probably should turn our attention to
the Dallas Morning News.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, you guys still take the paper.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I do, and my wife is mad about it. Yeah,
my wife won that battle. She finally got it to stop. Oh,
like the physical paper doesn't show. It doesn't show up anymore.
I was having a hard time getting it ins line anyway,
so it's like I couldn't really justify it.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I get it, pay an extra fee to get it
up there. Oh no, Well, there was an article in
there today. I thought this is a little interesting. The
author of the u or the writer of this article
is Sarah Heppola, And there is an update to this
article since it's been posted this morning. It says this
Q and A has been edited for LinkedIn clarity, making
you think this is not very clear. And it says
(01:37):
headline broadcaster Jeff skin Wade on why Dirk Nooviski needs
to play sacks five questions with one half of the
beloved radio duo beinin Skin, who talks about the city's creatives,
which sports stars he'd recruit for a band, and the
appeal of sumo.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
So it's like a what was she generally interested in reading?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Or was there like is this a promotion for a
sumo week at Rollertown?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
So that's a fair question. So apparently this is a
series that they've been doing where they just do five
questions with somebody. And so she hit me up about
four weeks ago or something like that and said, hey,
would you be willing to do this? I said yeah,
very nice of you, thank you, and she sent the
five questions and then you know, I answered him, sent
it back, and then she hit us back a couple
weeks later and said, hey, I want to follow up
(02:27):
on how you got your nickname Skin, and I also
want to know one of the questions was why should
I go to a sumo event? So that wasn't asked originally.
And then so I think, you know, a couple of
things got edited out. But I'm happy that she's asking
about sumbo because what happened is last year Sarah reached
out and was like, what is this sumo wrestling thing?
(02:47):
I was like, You've got to go. It's amazing. Remind
me next year when it comes up. Sarah's been around
for a long time. She was the music editor of
the Dallas Observer forever she moved to New York. She's
written books, and now she's back here and she's writing
profile type stuff for Dallas Morning News.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You know when she had Texas Monthly for a while
two May.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, she's been publishing a lot of stuff. She's a
great writer.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I want to lock in on question five here. Okay,
you're a sports and music guy, please create a fantasy
band using only Dallas sports heroes past and present.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
A great question.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Let's start with Travis Frederick on drums, Adrian Beltray on bass,
JJ Burrea on percussion. To stretch out rhythmically, Dennis Thurman
is my rhythm guitarist. Stop the show. You're going to
help me out here, dude.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Ben tell him so.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Dennis Thurman classic Cowboys defensive back from the Cowboys teams
of the seventies. But he was really smooth man. Uh
if you I could picture him to being really good
at that.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
He was also the defensive coordinator of the Jets for
a little while, especially when they were on hard knocks.
But he's he was a real smart guy, southern California guy.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I was like, man, he'd be right in the pocket.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
He'll do some chords.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, he'd be a great rhythm guitars.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Uh, Mike madonno playing lead guitar. Explain your thought process there.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
I figure, you know, he's a guy that once you
get him out on out in space, he does really
majestic things, and so it's like you got to free
him up. So you've got this incredible rhythm section and
they're they're tight. I mean, the pocket is incredible. And
then who's someone that can just dance all over the
way he skated and weaved in and out of people.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I think he'd be a great lead guitarist.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
The way he impacts panties too, is like as the
front man out there wailing on that guitar. Yea, ladies
love him and make the bands got sex appeal. It's
like Richie Sambor and suddenly eybody's throwing panties at it.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
It really is probably one of the DFW's hottest athlete.
Try to Christina absolutely, I want a tight horn section too,
wayde says uh.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Dirk on sacks.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Because he practiced saxophone upside down with Olger, he did.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Olger taught him how to play sax underwater.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Pud Rodriguez on trumpet. I like that.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I just like the idea of Pudge getting on a
tr trumpet skin, slowly moving in, getting a revenge and going,
what are you trying to do?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Does punch have trumpet lips?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Man, you got to be able to pull your lips
way back to play trumpet. You got a person that's
what you're looking for. Well, he know, it's just what
he's having. I do like to throw a broadcaster and
follow Well on trombone. Follow Well actually went to college
to play trombone. That's why I put that in there. Yeah,
he's actually a trombone player.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Baritone voice.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Yeah, so, I mean I could see that Mark Aguire
surrounded by a Worlwitzer, Hammond and Mini mog so a
Guire on keys, and.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It's just surrounded by all these dope synthesizers. Yeah, I
like that.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Lead vocalist Drew Pearson. I thought it'd be Troy after
Oklahoma Knights. Oh yeah, I have not a country band,
though I have.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Him as the band manager.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It is well.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I saw a billboard yesterday driving home. It was a
salad and go you know that? Yeah, and Troy's on it.
I was like, did you used to do wing Stop?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It does look it's a different picture of him or something, doesn't.
It's interesting.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It's definitely photoshop. It looks like standing in front of him.
Wait that billboard that's like right over here. Uh no, no,
it's oh you're just talking about the Sally. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I thought it was jay Z when I drove by it,
But didn't he used to own Wingstop or something or
a lot of Wingstop?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Am I making stuff up? Drew Pearson on Vocals, Your
thoughts on that?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I mean, I just looked at the way he had
the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand
at the draft that year, and I'm just like, man,
what a front man?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
What he does? What he does?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
All right?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Coming up next in just over three minutes, three or
four minutes, a one hundred and six year old lady
is talking trash.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
We've got the audio to prove it.
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