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June 18, 2025 • 11 mins
🏁 What’s the worst racing movie ever made—and would you watch it as a bet payoff? That’s the burning question on this laugh-packed episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where the crew dives headfirst into Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the 28 best auto racing movies of all time. Spoiler: the list is as chaotic as a demolition derby.Join hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they roast, rank, and reminisce about everything from Days of Thunder to Talladega Nights, Cars, and the inexplicably real Trading Paint—a John Travolta-led disaster with a 0% critic score. Yes, zero.🎬 From forgotten flops (Driven, Herbie Fully Loaded) to cult classics (Rush, Ford v Ferrari, Senna), the crew debates what belongs, what doesn’t, and why Stroker Ace deserves a comeback. Plus, they preview their live broadcast from the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Omni PGA Frisco—complete with Rollertown Beer Works and Topgolf Lounge vibes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the Ben and Skin Show on a home day. Now,
Tomorrow's big doings because we are out at the Omnipga
Omni Frisco right out there in Frisco, and it's an
amazing place because they're going to be having the KPMG
Women's PGA Championship Tournament. And the cool thing for us

(00:20):
is that Rollertown beer Works, which is the brewery that
Ben and I are partners in. They're one of the
sponsors of this tournament. In fact, we're going to be
hanging out. Rollertown's going to be hanging out all tournament long,
all the way through Sunday out behind that ninth hole
where you can get Rollertown and some.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Swag and all that.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
But the Ben and Skin Show is going to be
broadcasting from the Top Golf Lounge tomorrow right there on site.
We're doing our show from three to six, So if
you plan on being out there, come by and see
us doing the show there. Of course, they do have
Rollertown out there at that Top Golf Lounge. It's a
really cool place and if you want to go and
you don't have tickets, you can use the promo code

(00:58):
Rollertown ten to get ten percent and off your tickets
for the KPMG Women's PGA Championship. But we are stoked,
We're happy to be sponsoring it. We're excited and I
would love to see you out there tomorrow again, we'll
be doing our show out there from three to two six.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Really cool stuff, but right now it's time for this.
The thing's big.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yesterday on the show, Christina gave her review of the
new movie starring Brad Pitt called f One. That movie's
out in nine days, so we were kind of discussing
that and her thoughts on the movie.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
You can go check it out on the podcast if
you missed it.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
But also I had found the list yesterday of the
twenty eight best auto racing movies of all time, ranked
by Rotten Tomatoes, so going through there, it's kind of
fun to see. I wanted to start at number twenty
eight though, on this list of twenty eight because it's
a zero percent score and a movie starring John Travolta,
and it's a movie called Trading Paint, and I do

(02:01):
feel like that should be a bet payoff of at
some point. It's a zero percent range movie, like you
gotta go do it. Zero does it give the year
twenty eighteen?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I know, my god, how long is it?

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (02:14):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I don't know that I have that in front of me,
but I can find out. Don't see any other big
names in that. Annie Murphy was he in it? It's oh,
it's it's only eighty eight minutes. That's good. Okay, that's
a brief In fact, an audience score of thirty one percent. Though, okay,
you know, but the critics did not like it. Stock
car racing legend is drawn back to the dirt track
when his son, an aspiring driver, joins a rival racing team.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
And he's gone through so many weird things with his
hair because you know, I think he's gone bald and
so he's got it like he's gone with a lot
of two pay looks and things like that. It looks crazy.
I think the best look for him is just straight bald. Yeah,
it's goes straight and bald. At this point, give up
the ghost. I think his best look is this.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Vinnie Barberino Number twenty seven is a movie that I
remember being marketed heavily as a thirteen year old.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
This is the two thousand and one Slice the Lone.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Movie Driven I don't remember it. You don't remember him
and Burt Reynolds and Indy Cars.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Burt Reynolds was in it. Hell yeah, God, I'm watching that.
Oh you can.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
That's incredible out a fourteen percent critics score but a
thirty three percent audience score.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Hey what, I guarantee it's better than Trade and paint Man.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
We're realizing there's not that many good movies about racing.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Number twenty six, Uh, speaking of Burt Reynolds. Cannonball Run Nope,
Damn Cannonball Run two No. Nineteen eighty three, Sharky's Machine
stroker ACEH dude, come on?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Stroker Ace was sick.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Confident NASCAR driver Stroker Ace, played by Burt Reynolds, runs
into problems when a confrontation with this commercial sponsor causes
him to click more to find out yep.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Causes him to lose his on track. Oh no, find
ned Baty in that bitch? Baty? Did he squeal like
a pig?

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Great actor?

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Number twenty five Race the Sun halle Berry nineteen ninety six.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Is that the one where she showed her moves? Jim Belushi,
Kasey affleck.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
No, I never heard of it.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
She's apparently like a science sea shairt to Hawaiian School.
Number twenty four And I have issues now with the
list because at number twenty four on the list is
Days of.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Thunder, Right, I agree with that. How's that not number one?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
That should have been number one? It's clear everyone knows it.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
What's that line where uh you know the pit crew
leaders trying to ignore Tom Cruise and he's like just
doing something.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Else he is me getting out of scream.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
That's incredible, man, I like hearing that once every weeks.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Hey, I haven't done that once every three weeks since
the freak was still in there and that was whole lifetime.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Again, they're in there with consultants like man all I
hear is that same Robert Gavall imitation every time I
turn it on?

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Get rid of it?

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Oh you take the keys out of the morning drive.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Then what they said?

Speaker 4 (05:08):
What's twenty three? You know what?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I guess they did? That they did?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, they better have six pack.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
It better be in the top ten. Herbie fully loaded.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
One.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
That's the one where that car had a substance abuse issue.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Right y the way, guys, have you all seen Lindsay
Lohan lately?

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Nope, she looks great. Yeah, good for her.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
She looks amazing. Nice speed racer.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh is that the animated one? Yeah, that one graphically
looked really good. Not animated, it's yeah, it's like hyperreal. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Nineteen sixty nine, winning winning the Charlie Sheen Story. Paul Newman.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
I was gonna say, I bet there's ten Paul Newman
movies in here.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Herbie goes to Monte Carlo, multiple Herbies. This is like
an earnest thing, and there we're six pack two four.
There's a movie called Nascar in Imax.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
No, I don't know. Is that a documentary?

Speaker 4 (06:05):
What are we doing?

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Was gonna say eighteen the twenty twenty three movie Grand Turismo,
David Barb, Orlando Bloom, Yes, it's the video game, Yeah, Turbo,
Ryan Reynolds, I don't know what that is.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Cars three, even the first cars. By the way, Cars
three is not good.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh, thank you for clarifying.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, it's not. I saw that one.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
It's better than the at least two of the Herbie movies,
but it's not good.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Fifteen Leaman, Steve McQueen.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, I was gonna say, there's gonna be a bunch
of movies with like Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, we
should say. I bet the number one racing movie of
all time is Cars. We'll find out what we'll find out.
The last American hero was Jeff Bridges I don't know
Man nineteen seventy four, seventy three, a Southern boy with
a pinch it for driving too fast.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yep, just some good old boys and Steve McQueen.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
The love Bug, wait which Steve number twelve? Which Steve
McQueen movie was number ten?

Speaker 3 (07:09):
And Lamon okay, The love Bug, Herbie Jones, Michael Lee,
the Original Herb, Yeah, Snake and Mongoose Number eleven, That
twenty thirteen that used to be a classic rock morning show.
That's Southern California drag Racers.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Who's in it?

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Uh? Jesse Williams, Richard Blake, Yeah, oh Blake Rally road
Racers number ten?

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Who never heard of any of these? JK.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Simmons, isn't it okay? Number nine?

Speaker 3 (07:42):
The Racing Life of Paul Newman Telling You starring Mario
with Michael Andretti.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh cool, it's a documentary. There's going to be so many.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
I bet we'll have at least four more Steve McQueen
and Paul Newman movies.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Before we hit number one eight, The twenty four Hour War.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Do you know what that is?

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Mario Andretti in it? This is a twenty sixteen movie.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Number seven Grand Prix nineteen sixty six. James Garner. Hell yeah,
number six Racing Dreams. One percent score from the critics.
This is a twenty nine movie. And I feel like
this is about go karts. It's just like Coop Dreams.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, maybe Racing Dreams.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah, people trying to make it.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
I can see that.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Okay, before we get to the top, where are we
to tive? Okay Aroorty at the top five? I guarantee
you cars is in there. And now I'm thinking I
never saw but maybe that Ford Verse Ferrari movies and.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh yes, that was a good movie. But also Talladega.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Nights, number five, Talladega Knights, thank you hard to be
better than that.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Thank you, Tampumm.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Cannonball run in the top five, Well, I think auto
racing would take that out right.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
I mean it's in the street racing.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Holladay and Knights is really good. And I was a
victim of expectations when I first saw it. When I
first thought, I was like, wouldn't they get I thought
it was pretty mean.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Watch it again and again and again.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
You're like, yeah, that's genius.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
We had too much Will Ferrell at that time.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Yeah, that's why so.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Hard to top all the craps up coming out. I
basically just like those two little kids that were in it.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, rest in peace to the one that's not with
us anymore. Gary cole sneaky great in that movie, sneaky
great and everything is in actually yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Gary cole Man, all right, pretty good guy.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
I'll see you guys at PGA Frisco. Jesus number four
cars what that should have.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Been number one?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Gettered on.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Right, yes, hold onchow. Oh wait a minute, that means
Cars two is in the top three.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Coow.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, remember already Rush used to come on after us. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
This is twenty thirteen. This is directed by Ron Howard.
It's Chris Hemsworth and Olivia Wilde.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
I think Geddy Lee's in that.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Remember this. I did not see this.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I got it. It's kind of good, but good.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, you ad run here, Yeah, you need to step
out of the limelight from minute, good man, I'm gonna
choose free will. You're killing I'm always in nice spirit
on the radio right now because you're a bad jokes.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
That was meta, Tom Sawyer, Here go, Ben, there you go.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
That was very good. That was really cool.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Those Olmer moment.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Get down the top two bitch, number two four, Verus Ferrari, Yeah,
twenty nineteen.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Never saw it.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Number one Cars to Senna s E N n A
twenty ten. Apparently it's great.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
So someone needs to explain to me why they chose
twenty eight movies, didn't put cars to in there, and
didn't put six pack in there. Why not put those
in there and do the top thirty movies. You should
email the people who run Rotten Tomatoes. I'll never forget
the time that KT looked Paul Newman dead in his
eye and he said to him, just.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Letting you know, starting tomorrow, start coming into work with
the mindset of a champion.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
And Paul Newman ended up making a great salad dressing.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's gonna do it for us. Christina is gonna stick
around and play some tunes. Catch us tomorrow out at
the Omnipga right there at Top Golf Lounge.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
We'll see you. Then here you going well sorry, I'm
gonna get some cheeks after this horse powerge N
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