April 18, 2025 • 6 mins
Join The Ben and Skin Show, where hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray pay tribute to the legendary Lee Corso. As they reminisce about his iconic moments on College GameDay, they share hilarious anecdotes, memorable quotes, and heartfelt reflections that will keep listeners engaged from start to finish.The episode kicks off with a discussion about Lee Corso's signature move—putting on a mascot head to pick the game winner. The hosts also share some of Corso's most unforgettable moments, such as his interactions with celebrity guest pickers and his politically incorrect comments that left audiences both shocked and amused
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it's the Bend and Skin Show ninety seven
point one. The Eagle KT might know who the Cowboys
were gonna draft, and we'll tell you in about thirty
minutes or so. But right now it's time for this good.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It is good for you. You should stay clean, but you'll
have to take like a big long one. Okay. So,
uh this is a story that does a stem for
the world of sports, but I promise it's not that
sportsy because uh, Lee Corso is the old man who's
on the famous Saturday morning in the Fall Show college
Game Day, and honestly, his iconic move is that he
(00:44):
puts a mascot head on waves to the crowd. It's brilliant.
I watch it every week. I don't care, I don't
care who the celebrity guest picker is. They come in,
they pick the games, and at the end he puts
on a mascot head.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
And that's how he picks the game.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Right.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They're like, okay, who you taking, Lee? And he shows
everyone by whatever mascot that he puts.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
On, and it's usually you know, it's the big game
of the week. So they're at that university in Ohio
State or Florida or Alabama or whatever. Right, and then
he either plays to the crowd and gets them going
or he deeks them. He's he's the upset.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
He's the strange creature that does a bit in which
he plays a buffoon and then takes himself very very serious.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
He used to. He doesn't take himself that seriously anymore. Okay,
I know you're going back to an interview from twenty
years ago. I know what you're thinking.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I've seen him on TV plenty of times.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He's he's calmed down at his old age, and now
he's lost it. In fact, I would say the last
three years they should not have been putting him out there.
Wait why because he can barely get around. Basically, Herbie
has to hold his hand and get him through his script.
It's rough. It's elder abuse.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, the dad was listening to a cratorial from HU.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So she's two hundred and six and doing great.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Great.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So they announced that he's done and he is going
to do college game Day in week one next year,
and it'll be a big deal. Now they're gonna have
to do play by play. But I was like, okay, well,
I know a couple. There's one that jumps out to
me and I'm gonna play it first. My favorite things ever,
there's a little kid picking games. This kid got famous.
It's one of the kids from Ricky Bobby. Shut up, Chip,
(02:17):
I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey. He
was the celebrity guest picker picking games. So he picks
Yale in the Harvard Yale game. And listen to Lee
Corso Yale, gum booll dogs Yale, boo so fast?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Ridge?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, this guy, hey, not so fast? I go I
go with Harvard.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
What's the matter, I'm gonna go with Harvard. What year
is this?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh? Yeah, okay. What's so funny about this to be
is listen to Chris Fowler after he says it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Bool dogs Yale, boob so fast, midget not so fast,
Mitch it yeah, little guy, hey not so fast?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay. Now I heard Delkas Colonel Messi that in the
last two years, So I don't know. We have learned
it should be little people though, because we had a
person on the brink of the line of how tall
They told us that on our show.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, but then had some good bits about well, so
he was how old is he?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Lee Corso now eighty two, we're probably in the Trump
Jerry range. No. Eighty nine. Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
The older they are, the further they are from being
politically corrected. Yes, anyway, whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And really, if you've had anybody that's had a career
in media for fifty to sixty years, they've had seven
questionable moments if they're on the low side.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Here's one picking a game with Carl Lewis as your
guest picker, and here's what happened.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
How can you pick against.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
White?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You say, okay, so it's great. Is when you watch
Herbie and Chris Fower go, God, just put their head down.
When I heard it too. Arkansas really surprised me though
this last week. I'm stuggling with Ole.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Miss Arkansas shot the water last week, Miss Mississippi Arkansas
focused the last two weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
If they show up, yeah, same tchip.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Okay, are you allowed to say that?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Man, let's get Corso on this show.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And then this is one where Desmond Howard and the
other guy they're just kind of arguing and then Lee
Corso's like, no one here cares about the game. You're
talking about why the play the game?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That makes absolutely no sin there's a bunch of claimed.
These people don't give me.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And we just laugh at it. Crazy old man who cares.
We just laugh at it. It's beautiful though, it's a
great bit. I love mascot heads, so I'm in on
all of it. It's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And he waves his little hand up and if anyone
tries to recreate it, it's wrong.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's his bit and it should die with Okay, I'm
glad that he's, uh, you know, he's retiring, and you
know he's had a great career. That's that's awesome. I
feared that they were going to march him out for
the whole season and have a farewell tour. I love
that it's just one game.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, I think he can only travel to one last game.
I think is kind of like what a factory.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
No, I'm telling you. The last couple of years, they
have reduced his time on the air so much, and
when it's time to do the picks, Herbie is like, dude,
it's caretaker stuff, like handing him his notes. Okay, I'm
gonna help you get the Florida Gators head from out
under the desk.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And he's had a bunch of plastic surgery too, right,
and he's his face looks real different and he oh
it does. He doesn't wear glasses. I don't think either,
so he's like some can't see very well either.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, probably not.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know what happened today at ESPN And they made
the announcement everyone in there and went, hey, Berman, did
you hear the Corso news? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Is he still there?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Cuz I don't know if you heard of what Lee's
gonna do? You should check it out.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
They rolled burning out at like twelve thirty on a
Sunday night and has the same stuff, and he does
it like in the middle of the night. So no, Chris,
We're still running. It's great.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Sounds good. Nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Oh my god. All right, there you have it. Rest
in peace, Lee Corso or rest in retirement?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Coming up next, there's come and Go news and that
is big news for Kevin Turner and the name that
the Dallas Cowboys are most associated with in this upcoming
draft has some local ties. All that's coming your way
in the next hour of the Ben and Skin Show.
All right, it's the Bend and Skin Show ninety seven
point one. The Eagle KT might know who the Cowboys
were gonna draft, and we'll tell you in about thirty
minutes or so. But right now it's time for this good.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It is good for you. You should stay clean, but you'll
have to take like a big long one. Okay. So,
uh this is a story that does a stem for
the world of sports, but I promise it's not that
sportsy because uh, Lee Corso is the old man who's
on the famous Saturday morning in the Fall Show college
Game Day, and honestly, his iconic move is that he
(00:44):
puts a mascot head on waves to the crowd. It's brilliant.
I watch it every week. I don't care, I don't
care who the celebrity guest picker is. They come in,
they pick the games, and at the end he puts
on a mascot head.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
And that's how he picks the game.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Right.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They're like, okay, who you taking, Lee? And he shows
everyone by whatever mascot that he puts.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
On, and it's usually you know, it's the big game
of the week. So they're at that university in Ohio
State or Florida or Alabama or whatever. Right, and then
he either plays to the crowd and gets them going
or he deeks them. He's he's the upset.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
He's the strange creature that does a bit in which
he plays a buffoon and then takes himself very very serious.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
He used to. He doesn't take himself that seriously anymore. Okay,
I know you're going back to an interview from twenty
years ago. I know what you're thinking.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I've seen him on TV plenty of times.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He's he's calmed down at his old age, and now
he's lost it. In fact, I would say the last
three years they should not have been putting him out there.
Wait why because he can barely get around. Basically, Herbie
has to hold his hand and get him through his script.
It's rough. It's elder abuse.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, the dad was listening to a cratorial from HU.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So she's two hundred and six and doing great.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Great.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So they announced that he's done and he is going
to do college game Day in week one next year,
and it'll be a big deal. Now they're gonna have
to do play by play. But I was like, okay, well,
I know a couple. There's one that jumps out to
me and I'm gonna play it first. My favorite things ever,
there's a little kid picking games. This kid got famous.
It's one of the kids from Ricky Bobby. Shut up, Chip,
(02:17):
I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey. He
was the celebrity guest picker picking games. So he picks
Yale in the Harvard Yale game. And listen to Lee
Corso Yale, gum booll dogs Yale, boo so fast?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Ridge?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, this guy, hey, not so fast? I go I
go with Harvard.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
What's the matter, I'm gonna go with Harvard. What year
is this?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh? Yeah, okay. What's so funny about this to be
is listen to Chris Fowler after he says it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Bool dogs Yale, boob so fast, midget not so fast,
Mitch it yeah, little guy, hey not so fast?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Okay. Now I heard Delkas Colonel Messi that in the
last two years, So I don't know. We have learned
it should be little people though, because we had a
person on the brink of the line of how tall
They told us that on our show.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, but then had some good bits about well, so
he was how old is he?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Lee Corso now eighty two, we're probably in the Trump
Jerry range. No. Eighty nine. Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
The older they are, the further they are from being
politically corrected. Yes, anyway, whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And really, if you've had anybody that's had a career
in media for fifty to sixty years, they've had seven
questionable moments if they're on the low side.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Here's one picking a game with Carl Lewis as your
guest picker, and here's what happened.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
How can you pick against.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
White?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You say, okay, so it's great. Is when you watch
Herbie and Chris Fower go, God, just put their head down.
When I heard it too. Arkansas really surprised me though
this last week. I'm stuggling with Ole.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Miss Arkansas shot the water last week, Miss Mississippi Arkansas
focused the last two weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
If they show up, yeah, same tchip.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Okay, are you allowed to say that?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Man, let's get Corso on this show.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And then this is one where Desmond Howard and the
other guy they're just kind of arguing and then Lee
Corso's like, no one here cares about the game. You're
talking about why the play the game?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That makes absolutely no sin there's a bunch of claimed.
These people don't give me.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And we just laugh at it. Crazy old man who cares.
We just laugh at it. It's beautiful though, it's a
great bit. I love mascot heads, so I'm in on
all of it. It's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And he waves his little hand up and if anyone
tries to recreate it, it's wrong.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's his bit and it should die with Okay, I'm
glad that he's, uh, you know, he's retiring, and you
know he's had a great career. That's that's awesome. I
feared that they were going to march him out for
the whole season and have a farewell tour. I love
that it's just one game.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, I think he can only travel to one last game.
I think is kind of like what a factory.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
No, I'm telling you. The last couple of years, they
have reduced his time on the air so much, and
when it's time to do the picks, Herbie is like, dude,
it's caretaker stuff, like handing him his notes. Okay, I'm
gonna help you get the Florida Gators head from out
under the desk.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And he's had a bunch of plastic surgery too, right,
and he's his face looks real different and he oh
it does. He doesn't wear glasses. I don't think either,
so he's like some can't see very well either.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, probably not.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know what happened today at ESPN And they made
the announcement everyone in there and went, hey, Berman, did
you hear the Corso news? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Is he still there?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Cuz I don't know if you heard of what Lee's
gonna do? You should check it out.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
They rolled burning out at like twelve thirty on a
Sunday night and has the same stuff, and he does
it like in the middle of the night. So no, Chris,
We're still running. It's great.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Sounds good. Nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Oh my god. All right, there you have it. Rest
in peace, Lee Corso or rest in retirement?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Coming up next, there's come and Go news and that
is big news for Kevin Turner and the name that
the Dallas Cowboys are most associated with in this upcoming
draft has some local ties. All that's coming your way
in the next hour of the Ben and Skin Show.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!