Thanksgiving Halftime Bombshells

“What makes a perfect Thanksgiving halftime show—and why is Hollywood obsessed with turning toys into movies?” That’s the question Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray tackle in this laugh-out-loud episode of The Ben and Skin Show.The crew breaks down the big NFL Thanksgiving news:

• Cowboys vs. Chiefs with Post Malone rocking the halftime stage.
• Lions vs. Packers featuring Jack White, curated by none other than Eminem.
• And the nightcap? Lil Jon bringing the “OKAY!” energy to Ravens vs. Bengals.

But the madness doesn’t stop there. The gang dives into Hollywood’s latest bad ideas, including:

• A View-Master movie (yes, the toy with the circular slides).
• A Magic 8 Ball thriller.

And the pièce de résistance: Labubu, the plush toy line you’ve never heard of—but might soon see on every screen.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Juicy news. Hot gods come.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Stay on top in the shovel. Cowboys a indated official
yesterday that Post Malone will be the Thanksgiving halftime show act.
But also they're the middle game of a tripleheader on
Thanksgiving Day. You have the Lions and the Packers at
eleven AM, and they announced their halftime show act as well,

(00:30):
and it is one Jack White.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah. Pretty good, Hell yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Very good.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Wow. Basically, news broke earlier in the week that eminem
had signed on to help curate the Lions Thanksgiving halftime
show moving forward.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
So he's the what Jay Z is to the super
Bowl for the Lions Thanksgiving game.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
He is what Charlotte Jones Anderson Charlotte Jones is to
the Cowboys Thanksgiving Day.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah. No, interesting, So there's I thought that was very interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Now the So you get Packers lines, you get Jack White, great,
you get Cowboys, Chiefs, huge ratings bonanza, you get Post Malone,
Ravens and Bengals the nightcap on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Uh, that's a good.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Question because it's got to be whatever the city, right
you got, cause post He's from here, Jack Whites from Detroit, Baldymore.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
Maybe they just show the Wire.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
That would be dope, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
He just had Cuddy come out, Stringer Bell is out there,
just come out and talk about and what was some
of the deeper meanings behind season two at the Docks,
What really happened?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
What was that all about?

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Can you imagine what if we're when we were watching
The Wire back in the day. What if I told you, man,
that little kid that ends up getting killed is gonna
end up being like one of the three biggest stars
in Hollywood in fifteen years.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Crazy crazy, And then you know, I'm surprised the same
thing hasn't happened for Tony Soprano's son.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
He's doing it and he's doing a podcast with his
on air sister, Yeah, with Meadow. Him and Meadow were
doing a podcast where they just talked about the struggles
of Italian Americans.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
The night Game. There will be a little John Okay,
yeah what Okay?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
So there you go. There's that story.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Jack White think's awesome because they've run out some bs
over the years in Detroit on the Thanksgiving halftime show
in Detroit and especially all those years of the lines
were really bad, Like here's Vanessa Carlton and you're like, what.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
They machine gun. Kellyied it up at one point, didn't they?

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Jack harlowed it.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, But now let me get my hands on this
Jack do year one of me being in charge.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Has Jack White ever done a football halftime show?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Before I was thinking about that, I was thinking about,
he's gonna do a medley, right, He's gonna do an
eleven minute medley and he'll play you know, seven Nation
Army at the end, which would be bad news for
the Packers in the second half.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
That's up me thinking about it as a Packers fan.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
But I was saying, he'll play racking tour songs, he'll
play White Striped songs, He'll play Jack.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
White songs, or well, he just goof off and play covers.
I don't know what he's gonna do.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
He just does motown covers.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
The closest thing we've we've seen him do this type
of thing is being on SNL multiple times.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, and he.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Kind of doesn't just play his hits there. He kind
of like he'll pull a deep cut out on SNL,
which is weird. So they gonna be pretty happed about
that game. Movie industry has got some bad ideas. We
told you a couple weeks ago that they're working on
making a viewmaster movie.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
How, guys, Yeah, that sounds terrible. Right, I can tell
you what it's gonna be.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Do we know who's in it?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Not yet.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
It's gonna be a thing where Okay, you guys, we're
all too young to have viewmasters.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
I know we have.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
So the beauty of it is whatever the little circular
thing you have is right, there's gonna be a character
that finds a circular thing that's got something in it
that transports them to a portal and it becomes a
whole fantasy thing.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
That sounds terrible.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Okay, No, I could see fo Yeah, that'd be fun.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, it's like finding Narnia in the back of your wardrobe.
It's not a movie. It's not a show about a closet.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
No, we've discussed Whack a Mole. They're working on a
bunch of movies. I'm serious, Magic eight Ball.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
It's just like the movie that came out this weekend,
The Running Thing, or what the Running Man, which did horribly.
They're just constantly regurgitating old stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
The runaway winner at the box office was now you
see It, Now you don't too.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
It's a magic movie.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah yeah, really yeah, who isn't that? People live magic?
Woody Harrelson and over the.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Cast of zombie Land. Yeah yeah, okay, Deve Franco uh
and the gal from Wedding Crusher's Redhead there it is.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Oh god, she's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
But the reason we were going down this path is
because Sony has announced that there's a La Boo Boo
movie in the works.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
No, it's cool aid laboom.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yes, the plush toy line.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
You guys know that the scruffy q ugly monsters that
you learned about, Well, I learned about it too in
a meeting here at iHeart same never did.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
We all looked at each other like what what did
they just say? Why do they keep saying it?

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Are we the wrong meeting?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Right now?

Speaker 1 (05:14):
That's going on right now?

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Okay, if we could have le Boo Boo takeover all
of the stations at the same time, what happened?

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Everyone else in the room thought it was a good idea.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Oh my god, quick lab Boo boo.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
You know Google and.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
I went Jesus, they are onto something here. Yeah, we
should probably get in on this. So that's the next
bad idea in movies coming soon.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
To a theater and nearview. That's fantastic. That was really good.
You got about twenty seconds. You need it for what?

Speaker 5 (05:42):
All right? Coming up next?

Speaker 1 (05:45):
I'd like, Christina, what.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
Did you want to say? Something to meet something? Where
are you gonna take us? In three minutes? In the
cookie jar? Christina.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
I've got a very thorough review of the Coults album
Electric Yes, all right,