October 16, 2025 • 5 mins
"Would you want the next Mavericks arena built where RoboCop’s evil headquarters once stood?"In this sizzling, off-the-rails episode of The Ben and Skin Show, the crew—Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray—broadcast live from the smoky paradise of The Original Roy Hutchins Barbecue in Trophy Club, Texas, celebrating National Texas Twinkie Day with giveaways, outrageous food commentary, and a deep dive into Dallas lore that somehow connects RoboCop, corn dogs, and the future of the Mavericks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point
one The Eagle and I'm trying to eat way too
fast during these songs. Come on out join us in
Trophy Club Roy Hutchins Original Barbecue, and it is unbelievable.
It is Texas Twinkie Day. We've got a big contest.
It goes on through the night. But if you come
out here you can sign up. Someone is gonna win
(00:21):
Texas Twinkies for a year.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Then on top of that, we're giving away tickets to
see see there in Daughtry on November the eleventh, But
you gotta be a person to win. And we're also
giving away tickets to the State Fair. So come get
signed up. Hopefully you win that Texas Twinkie for a year.
And then of course he's great concert tickets and fun
stuff as well. Kat, what is coming up at four
thirty five in the Hollywood Shuffle? Uh? You mean three
(00:45):
thirty five?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
That's what's happening. There's gonna be some good stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I can't believe they're gonna make a TV show about this. Incredible,
But right now it's time.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
For this.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Track, another edition of Ben Tell every one of our
listeners who Jason Farintello is okay.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Jason Faranello is a gentleman that we've known for a
long time, native Texan, grew up here. Was he's kind
of a I want to say he's a Swiss army
knife because he can do just about anything, kind of
a guy named roy. Yeah, but he is. He was
I think the twelfth guy hired or thirteenth guy hired
(01:27):
by Mark Cuban when he owned audio Net right, but
we knew him even before that. He was involved in
the local hip hop scene videographer DJ and I think
he became a millionaire working for Cuban and then opened
a T shirt company called Armhole t Shirts. Later, a
deep dive into Jason Farantello led us to believe that
his grandfather may have been involved in the invention of
(01:48):
the corn dog. Yeah. But now if we do logos
or anything involving our show with artwork or anything that
involves somebody with technical expertise, he's involved.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
If you went and looked up his Wikipedia page, that
was it, like you nailed it. And also with the
one caveat that you know he's a guy that always
smells like a Cheech and Chong movie. But The other
thing that I would throw out there is, has he
recently tried to convince you that you need to watch
this RoboCop documentary?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
No, he's not texted it, not send me that. I'm
probably the only one of all of us who actually.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Likes RoboCop keyword documentary. Probably yeah, because he smells like
a cheach and chong. So anyways, he was the other day,
he was like, you got to watch this RoboCop movie.
And you know, and I remember that it was shot
in Dallas. I don't think I've seen Robocops since it
was in the theater. I mean, I may have seen
it on cable, but it would have been late eighties,
early nineties. I don't know the last time I saw it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I watched it anytime it's on.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Okay, So the evil company in the movie, they're headquarters
is the Dallas City Hall. Like if you guys have
ever seen that building downtown, it's near Young and Irvan
and all that where it comes out at a like
a forty five degree angle sharp angle into the sky. Well,
there are all these talks that it takes tons of
(03:06):
money to do all the renovations they need to do
to it to keep it up and running. So today
the Dallas Morning News had an article that might be
the location of the next Dallas Mavericks arena slash resort,
which you guys, like a resort slash arena in the
middle of downtown Dallas, not far from where the American
(03:28):
Airlines Center is.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What would the point be.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Because how much is Dallas willing to do to keep
the Mavericks in Dallas city limits? Where There's been talk
about the old Texas Stadium, but that's Irving. It's Dallas County,
but it's Irving. There's been talk about Valley View, and
now there's talk about this which, by the way, you
know how people complain about parking at the American Airline Center.
(03:53):
How many spaces do you think are available for parking?
If you were to guess for American Airline Center Stars
MAVs gans.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
The building holds up to twenty thousand yep, I would
say ten thousand. Okay, do you have a guess, ben, Yeah,
I'd say twelve thousand. The answer is five.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
What there's five thousand parking spaces down there because remember
a bunch of them went away because there was a
fight between Cuban and Pero Junior. So he's like, fine,
I'll build another apartment building down there. Well, right now,
there's currently about fifteen hundred spaces available over there by
the city Hall, so they would have to be a
lot of that going on. But the Morning News is
(04:28):
doing a series on places it could end up, and
I'm following it because I'm interested, and so I like
today they suggested the place that is probably best known
for being the Evil Empire and RoboCop. And apparently there's
a documentary about RoboCop that you could watch right now
if you so desire.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I mean, the idea is, you know, police officer almost
dies in the line of work. Yeah, before they you know,
before they bury him. They're like, hey, man, we could
also try him in this new thing where we make
him into a robot cyborg where only his is the
human part.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's very six million dollar man but more or more robot. Yeah,
holt KT you'll like this. It stars a guy that
went to University of North Texas. What's the guys is
Peter Weller? Is that the well right?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I was gonna mixed up with the guy who
played Chewbacca.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
That's Peter Mayhew. And no one has ever seen his face. Sure, yeah,
all right, there you have it. There's things skin is
tracking KT. Where are you gonna take us next? I'm
just stunned they're going to try to make a TV
show about this?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
All right? Before we get to that, as we continue
broadcasting from the original Roy Hutchins Barbecue and Trophy Club,
one
It is the Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point
one The Eagle and I'm trying to eat way too
fast during these songs. Come on out join us in
Trophy Club Roy Hutchins Original Barbecue, and it is unbelievable.
It is Texas Twinkie Day. We've got a big contest.
It goes on through the night. But if you come
out here you can sign up. Someone is gonna win
(00:21):
Texas Twinkies for a year.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Then on top of that, we're giving away tickets to
see see there in Daughtry on November the eleventh, But
you gotta be a person to win. And we're also
giving away tickets to the State Fair. So come get
signed up. Hopefully you win that Texas Twinkie for a year.
And then of course he's great concert tickets and fun
stuff as well. Kat, what is coming up at four
thirty five in the Hollywood Shuffle? Uh? You mean three
(00:45):
thirty five?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
That's what's happening. There's gonna be some good stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I can't believe they're gonna make a TV show about this. Incredible,
But right now it's time.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
For this.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Track, another edition of Ben Tell every one of our
listeners who Jason Farintello is okay.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Jason Faranello is a gentleman that we've known for a
long time, native Texan, grew up here. Was he's kind
of a I want to say he's a Swiss army
knife because he can do just about anything, kind of
a guy named roy. Yeah, but he is. He was
I think the twelfth guy hired or thirteenth guy hired
(01:27):
by Mark Cuban when he owned audio Net right, but
we knew him even before that. He was involved in
the local hip hop scene videographer DJ and I think
he became a millionaire working for Cuban and then opened
a T shirt company called Armhole t Shirts. Later, a
deep dive into Jason Farantello led us to believe that
his grandfather may have been involved in the invention of
(01:48):
the corn dog. Yeah. But now if we do logos
or anything involving our show with artwork or anything that
involves somebody with technical expertise, he's involved.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
If you went and looked up his Wikipedia page, that
was it, like you nailed it. And also with the
one caveat that you know he's a guy that always
smells like a Cheech and Chong movie. But The other
thing that I would throw out there is, has he
recently tried to convince you that you need to watch
this RoboCop documentary?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
No, he's not texted it, not send me that. I'm
probably the only one of all of us who actually.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Likes RoboCop keyword documentary. Probably yeah, because he smells like
a cheach and chong. So anyways, he was the other day,
he was like, you got to watch this RoboCop movie.
And you know, and I remember that it was shot
in Dallas. I don't think I've seen Robocops since it
was in the theater. I mean, I may have seen
it on cable, but it would have been late eighties,
early nineties. I don't know the last time I saw it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I watched it anytime it's on.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Okay, So the evil company in the movie, they're headquarters
is the Dallas City Hall. Like if you guys have
ever seen that building downtown, it's near Young and Irvan
and all that where it comes out at a like
a forty five degree angle sharp angle into the sky. Well,
there are all these talks that it takes tons of
(03:06):
money to do all the renovations they need to do
to it to keep it up and running. So today
the Dallas Morning News had an article that might be
the location of the next Dallas Mavericks arena slash resort,
which you guys, like a resort slash arena in the
middle of downtown Dallas, not far from where the American
(03:28):
Airlines Center is.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What would the point be.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Because how much is Dallas willing to do to keep
the Mavericks in Dallas city limits? Where There's been talk
about the old Texas Stadium, but that's Irving. It's Dallas County,
but it's Irving. There's been talk about Valley View, and
now there's talk about this which, by the way, you
know how people complain about parking at the American Airline Center.
(03:53):
How many spaces do you think are available for parking?
If you were to guess for American Airline Center Stars
MAVs gans.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
The building holds up to twenty thousand yep, I would
say ten thousand. Okay, do you have a guess, ben, Yeah,
I'd say twelve thousand. The answer is five.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
What there's five thousand parking spaces down there because remember
a bunch of them went away because there was a
fight between Cuban and Pero Junior. So he's like, fine,
I'll build another apartment building down there. Well, right now,
there's currently about fifteen hundred spaces available over there by
the city Hall, so they would have to be a
lot of that going on. But the Morning News is
(04:28):
doing a series on places it could end up, and
I'm following it because I'm interested, and so I like
today they suggested the place that is probably best known
for being the Evil Empire and RoboCop. And apparently there's
a documentary about RoboCop that you could watch right now
if you so desire.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I mean, the idea is, you know, police officer almost
dies in the line of work. Yeah, before they you know,
before they bury him. They're like, hey, man, we could
also try him in this new thing where we make
him into a robot cyborg where only his is the
human part.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's very six million dollar man but more or more robot. Yeah,
holt KT you'll like this. It stars a guy that
went to University of North Texas. What's the guys is
Peter Weller? Is that the well right?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, I was gonna mixed up with the guy who
played Chewbacca.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
That's Peter Mayhew. And no one has ever seen his face. Sure, yeah,
all right, there you have it. There's things skin is
tracking KT. Where are you gonna take us next? I'm
just stunned they're going to try to make a TV
show about this?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
All right? Before we get to that, as we continue
broadcasting from the original Roy Hutchins Barbecue and Trophy Club,
one
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