June 17, 2025 • 7 mins
💠“What do the OJ Bronco chase, the World Cup, and Arnold Palmer’s tearful farewell have in common?”
They all happened on the same jaw-dropping day: June 17, 1994. In this time-traveling edition of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray fire up the Wayback Machine and take you on a hilarious, nostalgic, and surprisingly emotional ride through one of the most surreal days in sports and pop culture history.From the Knicks vs. Rockets NBA Finals to the Stanley Cup parade with Gretzky, and the kickoff of the first-ever U.S.-hosted World Cup—this day had it all. Arnold Palmer’s emotional US Open farewell gets hilariously overshadowed by Skin’s impersonation: “He’s just standing there drinking a tea and lemonade…”The gang reflects on how the OJ chase changed media forever, with Skin recalling: “I remember being pissed when SNL got interrupted because Princess Diana died.”Ben and Skin even reminisce about performing a rap show in Deep Ellum the night of the chase—while Counting Crows played the Bomb Factory. (Yes, really.)
They all happened on the same jaw-dropping day: June 17, 1994. In this time-traveling edition of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray fire up the Wayback Machine and take you on a hilarious, nostalgic, and surprisingly emotional ride through one of the most surreal days in sports and pop culture history.From the Knicks vs. Rockets NBA Finals to the Stanley Cup parade with Gretzky, and the kickoff of the first-ever U.S.-hosted World Cup—this day had it all. Arnold Palmer’s emotional US Open farewell gets hilariously overshadowed by Skin’s impersonation: “He’s just standing there drinking a tea and lemonade…”The gang reflects on how the OJ chase changed media forever, with Skin recalling: “I remember being pissed when SNL got interrupted because Princess Diana died.”Ben and Skin even reminisce about performing a rap show in Deep Ellum the night of the chase—while Counting Crows played the Bomb Factory. (Yes, really.)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one. The Eagle
looking forward to Christina Baby Cornbread k Ray Ray Ray's
review of F one, the new Brad Pitt movie. It's
not coming out for a couple of weeks, but she
saw it. She'll have the review for you coming up
here at four thirty or so. But right now it's
time for this as it's time to go into the
(00:23):
bitter Studule Warburton.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four was a crazy day for
a lot of different reasons. There's a whole documentary on this.
I think it's on Netflix now, but it was an
ESPN thirty for thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's fantastic and it's really good.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
But there's a lot of things that happened on that
day that, you know, get overshadowed by the fact that
the OJ chase happened on this day.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
One of them was the Nicks Rockets Finals. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So, like, here's the first thing I gonna say, is
that earlier than that day, in the daytime, the first
ever World Cup ever held in America kicked off at
Chicago at Soldierville.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I don't think I remembered that. I mean, I remember
all that happening, but I remember it being the same day.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And we have not hosted a World Cup since then.
We will be doing that in three hundred and fifty
nine days.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, So, which famous former athlete is going to commit
a murder and ruin the next World Cup? Who's the
OJ of now? Right? Antonio Brown, Emmitt Smith Day, I'm kidding.
I was just thinking of running backs who are really good?
Who's running backers? That's some acting as in the media. Oh, Marshawn,
(01:34):
come on, man, I think we should just stop while
we're at move on, casey yep? I like to move on?
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So then also happy that day, the New York Rangers
are celebrating the Comley Cup parade with Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
They're having a big time out there, World Cup, Stanley
Cup bro.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Meanwhile, Oakmont, where the US Open was this week with
our winner JJ spawn Arnold Palmer is crying and waving
goodbye to everyone on Sunday afternoon because it's his final
US Open.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
He retired during OJ Kilton the.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
US opened at sixty five. You gotta qualify, and he
was qualify clearly. So he was sixty four years old.
It was his final US Open.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
He's just standing there drinking a tea and lemonade. So
you have all these things happening.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And then we get to game five, Nixon rockets and
I remember being on my couch, you know, and it
breaks in.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
This is a father's day too, right, And it breaks in?
Was this, Yes on NBC? It breaks in because.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's NBC is a huge network, and here we go, which,
by the way, if NBA is going to NBC, like
NBC will have the finals next year, right, I think so,
so what if something happens. They had to break in.
They are a news network. They're a major news network
like ESPN. Dow had to break into anything, right, Like
I remember being a kid being pissed when Saturday Night
(02:55):
Live got broken into because Princess Diana died, and I'm like,
who cares show my sketches?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Like NBC's got to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
MAVs are in the finals, game seven and someone gets shot.
We got to zoom in, and they've got a bit
of a quagmire on their hands.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well they can they also, though they have so many networks,
they can say if you want to watch this, turnover
to blah blah.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Go download Peacock, right, but the OJ yoga. Do you
guys remember any of this when it was going down? Okay,
Sunday night, when you guys are probably hanging out.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Night we went to We went and performed that. We
had a rap show though, Oh wow, yeah in the
West End that I think that one Ben was in
Deep Elm and I think, for whatever reason, there was
something happening at Bomb Factory because I remember Cole Chris
freestyling and actually rhyming about the chase.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I can actually look it up on my setlist FM
who was playing at the Bomb Factory June seventeenth, nineteen
ninety four. Do it. There's no guarantee that we're going
to come up with what we need here, but I
can look it up.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I can at least try.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Is that all on me? I mean, like you, I
guess you guys were there. You were have phones. You
can just text someone what's going on.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
No, we were like twenty three years old and six.
That was confused.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That was four.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I had no idea it was. It was insane, man,
because you had been watching it unfold all afternoon like
it you know, it started earlier in the day. And
then also it was happening in California, so it was
still daylight there when it was dark here. But okay,
so the murder happened, not the murder happened days before.
(04:32):
Have you not? Have you watched any of these documentaries.
I've just watched the big one on that day. Oh
my god, I've watched so many documentaries on this. Yeah,
the the and there's different aspects of it. If the
one you're talking about, the thirty for thirty was the
first one, it's really more about how that's the advent
of twenty four hour media coverage. Yeah, I mean, this
(04:53):
OJ case pretty much turned the what is it? Court TV?
Into a viable product. This was it. It's just a
different era, but it there's no there's no internet, so
it just dominated everything on every network. And so there
was days leading up to it where there was chatter
about what was going on. You're like, oh, j no, way,
(05:14):
that's weird. And then suddenly the chase is happening. This
is the anniversary of the chase, right, Yes, Yeah, that's
when everything went sideways.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
What do you mean sideways? Because there were days just
now everyone's just tracking it. Yeah, there were days leading
up to it. You We're like, wait, OJ's involved.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
What I don't know, man, this doesn't come on. And
then when the police went to go get him and
he went in the Bronco chase that's where everyone's watching
TV because he's saying he's going to commit suicide. He's
got Ac in the back seat going I'm with OJ.
He's got a gun to his head. And the way
it all unfolded because it was on the heels of
all the racial tension and everything, and it was like
(05:52):
they were like Lapd was terrified of making a mistake
and so they were really worried about pr and so
OJ's lure is like, he's going to turn himself in.
It was Kardashian, right, Yeah, he's going to turn himself in,
and which was unprecedent. If there's a warrant out for
you for murder, they go get your ass. They're like no, no, no,
he's going to turn himself in. Yeah, And then he didn't.
He just got it went on this chase instead of
(06:14):
turned himself in, because that's what an innocent man does. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
June seventeenth, nineteen ninety fourth, the bomb factory in Dallas
was the Counting Crows, not open on the August and
everything after tour?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
What a what a tour? Zero? I remember there was
some bar or something. There's some club and the West
End that was doing stuff that we did stuff, and
I thought we were there. Rockle Bowl might have been,
might have been Bronckle bul was oak Cliff? Uh? There
was a West End place and I can't was it Woodies?
I think it was. Yeah, okay, maybe Woodies that night.
Can you look that up? I'm looking it up. Yeah,
(06:45):
I'm getting moo was on at the Woodies. Sports bars
like Menace and Greg Gory. Yeah, yeah, those were the days.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
What a day though, thirty one years ago. Maybe we'll
hear some more in the today game.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Cool. All right, there you have it. That is the
way back. Coming up next in a news quickie, uh
harmless conspiracy theories, Let's take a look at some up
neck
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one. The Eagle
looking forward to Christina Baby Cornbread k Ray Ray Ray's
review of F one, the new Brad Pitt movie. It's
not coming out for a couple of weeks, but she
saw it. She'll have the review for you coming up
here at four thirty or so. But right now it's
time for this as it's time to go into the
(00:23):
bitter Studule Warburton.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four was a crazy day for
a lot of different reasons. There's a whole documentary on this.
I think it's on Netflix now, but it was an
ESPN thirty for thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's fantastic and it's really good.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
But there's a lot of things that happened on that
day that, you know, get overshadowed by the fact that
the OJ chase happened on this day.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
One of them was the Nicks Rockets Finals. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So, like, here's the first thing I gonna say, is
that earlier than that day, in the daytime, the first
ever World Cup ever held in America kicked off at
Chicago at Soldierville.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I don't think I remembered that. I mean, I remember
all that happening, but I remember it being the same day.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And we have not hosted a World Cup since then.
We will be doing that in three hundred and fifty
nine days.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, So, which famous former athlete is going to commit
a murder and ruin the next World Cup? Who's the
OJ of now? Right? Antonio Brown, Emmitt Smith Day, I'm kidding.
I was just thinking of running backs who are really good?
Who's running backers? That's some acting as in the media. Oh, Marshawn,
(01:34):
come on, man, I think we should just stop while
we're at move on, casey yep? I like to move on?
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So then also happy that day, the New York Rangers
are celebrating the Comley Cup parade with Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
They're having a big time out there, World Cup, Stanley
Cup bro.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Meanwhile, Oakmont, where the US Open was this week with
our winner JJ spawn Arnold Palmer is crying and waving
goodbye to everyone on Sunday afternoon because it's his final
US Open.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
He retired during OJ Kilton the.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
US opened at sixty five. You gotta qualify, and he
was qualify clearly. So he was sixty four years old.
It was his final US Open.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
He's just standing there drinking a tea and lemonade. So
you have all these things happening.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And then we get to game five, Nixon rockets and
I remember being on my couch, you know, and it
breaks in.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
This is a father's day too, right, And it breaks in?
Was this, Yes on NBC? It breaks in because.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's NBC is a huge network, and here we go, which,
by the way, if NBA is going to NBC, like
NBC will have the finals next year, right, I think so,
so what if something happens. They had to break in.
They are a news network. They're a major news network
like ESPN. Dow had to break into anything, right, Like
I remember being a kid being pissed when Saturday Night
(02:55):
Live got broken into because Princess Diana died, and I'm like,
who cares show my sketches?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Like NBC's got to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
MAVs are in the finals, game seven and someone gets shot.
We got to zoom in, and they've got a bit
of a quagmire on their hands.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well they can they also, though they have so many networks,
they can say if you want to watch this, turnover
to blah blah.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Go download Peacock, right, but the OJ yoga. Do you
guys remember any of this when it was going down? Okay,
Sunday night, when you guys are probably hanging out.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Night we went to We went and performed that. We
had a rap show though, Oh wow, yeah in the
West End that I think that one Ben was in
Deep Elm and I think, for whatever reason, there was
something happening at Bomb Factory because I remember Cole Chris
freestyling and actually rhyming about the chase.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I can actually look it up on my setlist FM
who was playing at the Bomb Factory June seventeenth, nineteen
ninety four. Do it. There's no guarantee that we're going
to come up with what we need here, but I
can look it up.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I can at least try.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Is that all on me? I mean, like you, I
guess you guys were there. You were have phones. You
can just text someone what's going on.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
No, we were like twenty three years old and six.
That was confused.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That was four.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I had no idea it was. It was insane, man,
because you had been watching it unfold all afternoon like
it you know, it started earlier in the day. And
then also it was happening in California, so it was
still daylight there when it was dark here. But okay,
so the murder happened, not the murder happened days before.
(04:32):
Have you not? Have you watched any of these documentaries.
I've just watched the big one on that day. Oh
my god, I've watched so many documentaries on this. Yeah,
the the and there's different aspects of it. If the
one you're talking about, the thirty for thirty was the
first one, it's really more about how that's the advent
of twenty four hour media coverage. Yeah, I mean, this
(04:53):
OJ case pretty much turned the what is it? Court TV?
Into a viable product. This was it. It's just a
different era, but it there's no there's no internet, so
it just dominated everything on every network. And so there
was days leading up to it where there was chatter
about what was going on. You're like, oh, j no, way,
(05:14):
that's weird. And then suddenly the chase is happening. This
is the anniversary of the chase, right, Yes, Yeah, that's
when everything went sideways.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
What do you mean sideways? Because there were days just
now everyone's just tracking it. Yeah, there were days leading
up to it. You We're like, wait, OJ's involved.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
What I don't know, man, this doesn't come on. And
then when the police went to go get him and
he went in the Bronco chase that's where everyone's watching
TV because he's saying he's going to commit suicide. He's
got Ac in the back seat going I'm with OJ.
He's got a gun to his head. And the way
it all unfolded because it was on the heels of
all the racial tension and everything, and it was like
(05:52):
they were like Lapd was terrified of making a mistake
and so they were really worried about pr and so
OJ's lure is like, he's going to turn himself in.
It was Kardashian, right, Yeah, he's going to turn himself in,
and which was unprecedent. If there's a warrant out for
you for murder, they go get your ass. They're like no, no, no,
he's going to turn himself in. Yeah, And then he didn't.
He just got it went on this chase instead of
(06:14):
turned himself in, because that's what an innocent man does. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
June seventeenth, nineteen ninety fourth, the bomb factory in Dallas
was the Counting Crows, not open on the August and
everything after tour?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
What a what a tour? Zero? I remember there was
some bar or something. There's some club and the West
End that was doing stuff that we did stuff, and
I thought we were there. Rockle Bowl might have been,
might have been Bronckle bul was oak Cliff? Uh? There
was a West End place and I can't was it Woodies?
I think it was. Yeah, okay, maybe Woodies that night.
Can you look that up? I'm looking it up. Yeah,
(06:45):
I'm getting moo was on at the Woodies. Sports bars
like Menace and Greg Gory. Yeah, yeah, those were the days.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
What a day though, thirty one years ago. Maybe we'll
hear some more in the today game.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Cool. All right, there you have it. That is the
way back. Coming up next in a news quickie, uh
harmless conspiracy theories, Let's take a look at some up
neck
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