August 19, 2025 • 6 mins
Skin brings up a name none of us recognize, but absolutely SHOULD! A dive into the incredible career of one Ronnie Rondell Jr.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle
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(00:23):
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(00:45):
five o'clock hour custom The Cowboys. We have an extensive
review of the new Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones docu series
on Netflix. We'll get into that then, but right now
it's time for this. An other edition of things is
traffic all right? Fam? You know how like at the
(01:08):
end of a lot of news programs, they have like
a minute to kill and they'll come back and they'll go, today,
we remember so and so, so and so, and it'll
be like some person that maybe you've never heard of,
but you're like, oh, this is interesting. So last night,
at the end of Nightline, she comes back and she says,
it's time to remember Ronnie Rondell Junior. Yes, wow, and
(01:30):
I went, man, that is a Ben name if I've
ever heard one? Ronnie Rondell, Yeah, Ronnie and them? Have
you ever heard of the Rondel's. Have you heard of
Ronnie Rondel Junior. I'd like you to pull up your phone. Ben,
all right, and I want to show you a picture
of Ronnie Rondell Junior, who passed away at the age
eighty eight. Damn. That just helped Ben get to where
(01:50):
he needed to be. Yeah. He's got purple tinted glasses
on and a silver fox mullet and a mustache. Hell, yes,
you a fan? Yeah? Have any of you y'all heard
of Ronnie Rondel Jr. No, all right, let me read
to you his credits. Here's the movies he's appeared in.
(02:12):
The James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever Blazing, Saddles Hooper
Against All Odds, Cannonball Run two, Lethal Weapon, can ballun two.
There was a second one, They Live, The Hunt for
Red October Last Action Hero, Speed, The Crow, The Matrix Reloaded.
(02:32):
Does anybody have a guess what Ronnie Rondel Junior was?
He was a stunt He was a stunt man. Now,
so he came from a family of Hollywood people. His
brother was a stunt man, and his brother Reid read
Rondel Junior. Well, I guess there would be no Junior.
(02:53):
He died in a helicopter crash in nineteen eighty five
doing a stunt in place of eighties legend jan Mychael
Vincent on the TV series air Wolf. Oh wow, huh okay.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Are a little bit?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Uh yeah, I have no idea. It was like a
Jan Michael Vince. It was like a I don't know,
like a rugged guy from the eighties. Now, Christina Been
just added a picture, Jen tell us what that picture is.
This is on the Pink Floyd album.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's the guy's shaking hands and one of them is
on fire.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
His suit is on fire. The guy on the cover
of Wish You Were Here, probably without even debate, a
top five most iconic album cover of all time. You
don't even have to be a Pink Floyd fan to
have seen this. Ronnie Rondell Junior is the guy on
the right who's on fire. That's incredible. I saw the
picture and I was like, this is the most absurd
(03:49):
picture ever, and I was like, what could have been
happening in this movie for that to happen. They're both
in suits, they're shaking hands, but one of them's on fire,
his whole suit and his hair. It was a Pink
Floyd's comment. Those guys are supposed to be music executives,
and it was Pink Floyd's commentary on the music business.
That album sold twenty million copies? Is that the follow
(04:11):
up to Dark Side? I think Dark Side of the
Moon came after that. Do you remember? I don't remember
that they were within a year or two of one another.
I thought, when they're huge in their windows, oh yeah,
yeah yeah. And it's funny, you know they're Probably their
biggest album in terms of hits was The Wall, because
they never had a song as big as another Brick
in the Wall that broke through because it was a
(04:32):
disco beat, sure, and so that broke through in a way.
But I mean, Dark Side of the Moon is probably
still on the top hundred. It was there forever. So
Dark Side of the Moon was seventy three. Wish You
Were Here with seventy five Okay, so Wish You Were
Here came after uh and Wish You Were Here. I mean,
it's a great album. But man, I saw that last
night and I started to look it up because I
thought the name was so funny, and I was like,
(04:54):
oh my god, what a legend. Yeah, and I was
I was starting to have a stroke because those are
all my favorite movies you listed, and I'm like, I
don't remember him in any of these. These are my
favorite twenty movies.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Can I ask a question?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Do we know? Did you say how he died? Did
he die in his sleep, peace flee or did he
die riding the bull? Uh? Well, he died in a
retirement community at the age of eighty eight, but I
will assume there was a bowl in his room.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, there's something crazy, right, it's gotta be. Yeah, you
don't go down peaceful in that, well, sir, A lot
of people at those homes we have seen studies on that.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It's highly confusing.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Have you ever spent time there?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You're like, who's doing what? Might have died of crabs?
Oh man, that's a terror, Like you itch yourself to death.
What a horrible What a horrible way to die. The
Rondell's are driving around Sportler or seeking a little rock
music escape. Just take them and here you are, skinned,
(05:51):
you son of a bee. Turn at the Lone Star.
They'll be playing pink Floyd. Think about scratching your genitalia
to death because you had crabs at the age of
eighty eight. Heston piece, Ronnie, it was worth it. Hell
of a run, cannonball run too. Didn't even know that
was the thing, all right. Coming up next, it's a
Hollywood shuffle which celebrity nearly died at Jimmy Kimmel's house.
(06:13):
We'll tell you next
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle
All in August, we've been doing Iheartradios Think a Teacher
powered by donors Choose. You can go to iHeartRadio dot com,
Forward slash Teachers and nominated teacher that's changed your life
and if that teacher is the winner, they're going to
get five thousand dollars to put towards their classroom. This
year and today we are celebrating Katwindling of our old
(00:23):
Turner High School, the home of Vanilla Ice, the person
who nominated or said I was a student under her
for three years. I transferred from a high school a
few districts overdue to a family death that caused me
to be relocated. She was the light in the dark
that saved me day in and day out. Amazing. These
are the stories we like. If you have one similar,
go to iHeartRadio dot com, Forward slash Teachers and the
(00:45):
five o'clock hour custom The Cowboys. We have an extensive
review of the new Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones docu series
on Netflix. We'll get into that then, but right now
it's time for this. An other edition of things is
traffic all right? Fam? You know how like at the
(01:08):
end of a lot of news programs, they have like
a minute to kill and they'll come back and they'll go, today,
we remember so and so, so and so, and it'll
be like some person that maybe you've never heard of,
but you're like, oh, this is interesting. So last night,
at the end of Nightline, she comes back and she says,
it's time to remember Ronnie Rondell Junior. Yes, wow, and
(01:30):
I went, man, that is a Ben name if I've
ever heard one? Ronnie Rondell, Yeah, Ronnie and them? Have
you ever heard of the Rondel's. Have you heard of
Ronnie Rondel Junior. I'd like you to pull up your phone. Ben,
all right, and I want to show you a picture
of Ronnie Rondell Junior, who passed away at the age
eighty eight. Damn. That just helped Ben get to where
(01:50):
he needed to be. Yeah. He's got purple tinted glasses
on and a silver fox mullet and a mustache. Hell, yes,
you a fan? Yeah? Have any of you y'all heard
of Ronnie Rondel Jr. No, all right, let me read
to you his credits. Here's the movies he's appeared in.
(02:12):
The James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever Blazing, Saddles Hooper
Against All Odds, Cannonball Run two, Lethal Weapon, can ballun two.
There was a second one, They Live, The Hunt for
Red October Last Action Hero, Speed, The Crow, The Matrix Reloaded.
(02:32):
Does anybody have a guess what Ronnie Rondel Junior was?
He was a stunt He was a stunt man. Now,
so he came from a family of Hollywood people. His
brother was a stunt man, and his brother Reid read
Rondel Junior. Well, I guess there would be no Junior.
(02:53):
He died in a helicopter crash in nineteen eighty five
doing a stunt in place of eighties legend jan Mychael
Vincent on the TV series air Wolf. Oh wow, huh okay.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Are a little bit?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Uh yeah, I have no idea. It was like a
Jan Michael Vince. It was like a I don't know,
like a rugged guy from the eighties. Now, Christina Been
just added a picture, Jen tell us what that picture is.
This is on the Pink Floyd album.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's the guy's shaking hands and one of them is
on fire.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
His suit is on fire. The guy on the cover
of Wish You Were Here, probably without even debate, a
top five most iconic album cover of all time. You
don't even have to be a Pink Floyd fan to
have seen this. Ronnie Rondell Junior is the guy on
the right who's on fire. That's incredible. I saw the
picture and I was like, this is the most absurd
(03:49):
picture ever, and I was like, what could have been
happening in this movie for that to happen. They're both
in suits, they're shaking hands, but one of them's on fire,
his whole suit and his hair. It was a Pink
Floyd's comment. Those guys are supposed to be music executives,
and it was Pink Floyd's commentary on the music business.
That album sold twenty million copies? Is that the follow
(04:11):
up to Dark Side? I think Dark Side of the
Moon came after that. Do you remember? I don't remember
that they were within a year or two of one another.
I thought, when they're huge in their windows, oh yeah,
yeah yeah. And it's funny, you know they're Probably their
biggest album in terms of hits was The Wall, because
they never had a song as big as another Brick
in the Wall that broke through because it was a
(04:32):
disco beat, sure, and so that broke through in a way.
But I mean, Dark Side of the Moon is probably
still on the top hundred. It was there forever. So
Dark Side of the Moon was seventy three. Wish You
Were Here with seventy five Okay, so Wish You Were
Here came after uh and Wish You Were Here. I mean,
it's a great album. But man, I saw that last
night and I started to look it up because I
thought the name was so funny, and I was like,
(04:54):
oh my god, what a legend. Yeah, and I was
I was starting to have a stroke because those are
all my favorite movies you listed, and I'm like, I
don't remember him in any of these. These are my
favorite twenty movies.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Can I ask a question?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Do we know? Did you say how he died? Did
he die in his sleep, peace flee or did he
die riding the bull? Uh? Well, he died in a
retirement community at the age of eighty eight, but I
will assume there was a bowl in his room.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, there's something crazy, right, it's gotta be. Yeah, you
don't go down peaceful in that, well, sir, A lot
of people at those homes we have seen studies on that.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It's highly confusing.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Have you ever spent time there?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You're like, who's doing what? Might have died of crabs?
Oh man, that's a terror, Like you itch yourself to death.
What a horrible What a horrible way to die. The
Rondell's are driving around Sportler or seeking a little rock
music escape. Just take them and here you are, skinned,
(05:51):
you son of a bee. Turn at the Lone Star.
They'll be playing pink Floyd. Think about scratching your genitalia
to death because you had crabs at the age of
eighty eight. Heston piece, Ronnie, it was worth it. Hell
of a run, cannonball run too. Didn't even know that
was the thing, all right. Coming up next, it's a
Hollywood shuffle which celebrity nearly died at Jimmy Kimmel's house.
(06:13):
We'll tell you next
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