The Sydney Sweeney Controversy

"Can a pun about denim really spark global outrage?"In this fiery and hilarious segment of The Ben and Skin Show, broadcasting live from the Choctaw Casino & Resort in Durant, Oklahoma, the crew dives into the latest internet uproar: Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad and the pun that launched a thousand think pieces—“Great Jeans.”Join Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they unpack the absurdity of selective outrage, the blurred lines between clever marketing and cultural sensitivity, and the deeper question: Are we choosing to be offended just to fit a narrative?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Been and Skin Show from the Chalk Tak Casino

(00:02):
and Resort in Durant, Oklahoma. Thank you for hanging out
with us today. Coming up at four o'clock, we'll get
back into the big story of the day. Micah Parsons
demands a trade. What does it all mean? But right
now it's time for this. If you're the kind of
person that's going to be offended, you're a dumb ass.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Go somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
I love America, all right, Are you offended?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hell?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
One of the big topics of the week and in
the world for some reason is the Sydney Sweeney ad
for American Eagle. Yeah, she's a denim down and uh,
American Eagles going with Sidney Sweeney has great genes j e. A. N.
S As the marketing line, it's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
They're being punny. They're being punny. But people are offended
because they're like saying, wait, are you saying that jene
of someone who's blonde with blue eyes, those are the
superior genes. Is that what you're saying? Or would you
have just used that pun no matter who it was.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
That's basically what's happening here. And I'm not just sure
who specifically is getting upset. I've not encountered that with
anybody that I know, or I.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Don't interact with anybody who cares.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Right, it seems like a waste of time because then
you're getting into this whole thing of like, wait a minute,
you're really upset that you're not saying she's the only
person in the world that has great genes. You're saying
she has great genes. You're not saying she has great

(01:41):
genes and Beyonce doesn't have great genes. Yeah, you're saying
this particular person has great genes. And this is obviously
you know, everybody has their own opinions on what they
do or don't find attractive. I think it's pretty easy
to say she and ugly. No matter what you're into.
It's not like, oh, this this person is hideous. She's

(02:01):
an attractive person by pretty much any measurement. You may
think she's not as attractive as Oh, that's fine, but
no one's saying she's the only attractive person. They're saying
she's got great genes, just like Beyonce has great genes
or Eva Longoria. I think she has great genes. I
think she's blessed. I mean, what are we doing. It's

(02:22):
like you said, You've said this before. You have to
choose to be offended.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
And sometimes people selectively choose to be offended because it
fits a political narrative that they have and they want
to reinforce that narrative, and they swerve over eight lanes
of traffic to run over somebody changing a tire on
the side of the road just so they can try
to make a political stance of some kind.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
And just to throw in there, am I missing some
other part of the story?

Speaker 3 (02:46):
No. In the video, she says trait jenes are often
passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like
hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeens are blue,
and then she's you know, she's denimed out and American
eagles at all. They don't really have great jeans, honestly.
So that's that's my take.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
It didn't look like it didn't look like the dnim
I would Christina, who great? Yeah, okay, so and Kat said,
they don't make great jeans for men. But there was
one time he made Christina turn around in an elevator
so we could see her.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Jeans, and those were not American Eagle. Actually the one
pair that are not American, so.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
KT doesn't like America. That's the first time he noticed
her genes when they weren't American Eagle.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I'm sorry, He asked Skin to turn around, so he
skins jets, I'm sorry, do you?

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Uh so those American Eagle jeans, the ones you have
where all the bedazzler is all up and down the
side and on the back pocket, is that American Eagle too?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
You're not talking to me.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
I don't own those, no, all right?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Uh yeah, so whatever. I think everyone needs to get
over everything and just to relax. We're all gonna die.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I talked over a great show.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
You say that again, Nah, I forgot all right?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Coming up, we go around the sports. The biggest story
in the world is Micah. But the Rangers were busy
at the trade deadline. Lots discuss We'll do that coming
up next