December 1, 2025 • 7 mins
“Should halftime shows feel like a rock concert—or a Netflix promo?” That’s the question Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray wrestle with in this high-energy episode of The Ben and Skin Show, while Ben enjoys a day off.The crew dives headfirst into the Thanksgiving football spectacle, breaking down the most talked-about halftime performances:
- Jack White rocking Detroit with Seven Nation Army and a surprise deep cut that had fans losing their minds.
- Eminem crashing the stage, rapping over Jack White’s beat, and then awkwardly blocking him mid-performance.
- Post Malone’s country pivot during the Cowboys game—was it a vibe or a letdown?
- Little John’s blink-and-you-miss-it cameo at Ravens-Bengals that left KT hilariously outraged: “This free thing I’m watching is a ripoff!”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Did I see we're giving away bad Omens tickets this week?
You are correct, dudes. All right, we're doing it all
this week. You have to have the iHeart app, which
is free because we used to talk back function to
give it away. Uh, sometime in the next hour. I'll
go ahead and say we'll give them away in the
next hour. But you gotta be listening. You have to
have your iHeart app and you'll have a chance to win.
(00:20):
Bad Omens tickets are coming to the American Airline Center.
Crazy stuff happened in college football over the weekend. We'll
talk about it next, but right now, it's time for
this juicy news.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hot God, every.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Stay on top in the boots, shove.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Joe, watch football and Thanksgiving sur need so hard. It
was pretty good slate.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
The first game was the Lions and the Packers, and
we had gotten word, you know, about two weeks ago
that Jack Whitet was going to be doing the halftime show,
which is pretty awesome if everyone on this show is
Jack White.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
As soon as I woke up that morning, that's all
I was looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You didn't watch Jack White at halftime?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You don't watch the parade? No, Okay, hot Smoky Bear.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I might have had a forty five minute conversation with
Gator about the parade.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I didn't watch it. The highestrated parade of all time?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah? People are watching it, dude, Jeffrey.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
They put so much money in those parade.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No, you do put a lot of money into it. Yeah,
boy is such a promotional tool.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So it would have been great if they had giant
floats to promote the chair company. Oh my god, just
a giant Tim Robinson float chasing a teket chair.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Wouldn't that have been great?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The dog baby? The dog's name is baby.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's word. Why did he get a dog baby?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, so.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Okay, stupid, So that's great.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And then we knew that post Belles to the Cowboys
game and they've been probably Little john Is, Baltimore and Cincinnati,
and I'm like, hell, yeah, let's level up these halftime shows.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I mean, look, I'm old enough to.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Remember where even in the morning game halftime show, it
was always a bit lower production than what the Cowboys do.
I remember them running f and Vanessa Carlton out there.
My friend Kent from Forever The Sickest Kids played the
Detroit Lions halftime show.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
They really yeah, yeah, are you all going to talk
about that on the one Star podcast?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Damn?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Maybe this week we'll see what happens. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I mean they've done some really terrible ones over the years,
But no, you're not saying Kent's was terrible. No, no, no,
they knocked it out of the park. But when Eminem like,
it was announced that Eminem's kind of taking it over.
He's gonna be the Charlotte Jones, He's going to curate it.
So I was like, Okay, we're leveling up this good.
It's on TV and everyone's watching. Why not do a
good one. But they're not gonna make it twenty minutes
(02:48):
like the NFL. They're going to do an eleven minute show.
So I'm like, okay, he's gonna play three songs. So
he plays. That's how I'm feeling is you know big
single from last.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Year and if you guys remember I had a segment
where I implore, implored, iHeart start putting that into rotation.
I think it's the most uh relatable song he's released
in seven nation army.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I believe that. How'd that conversation go? Did you send
the audio to. I sent it to Amanda in promotional
thinks Hittman got ahold of it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, I don't think Pittman's got a hold of it.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well then I'm like, okay, so he's gonna do that, Okay,
I mean he could go you know, it's weird, but
ikey thump.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
If he's gonna do white stripes.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
He's got plenty of Jack White songs, but again, not
like top ten charting songs. I was a little interested
in what he's gonna do. I was very surprised that
this was the second song you did a deep cut
from the second album called Hello Operator.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Which is a great song. But he had a specific.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Reason for this.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Yes, you lare, you're getting me back my time with
the dollar bill the paper.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Let then shut film to the never say.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That I'm not killing him when it's pretty bad. It
was awesome. Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Well, my sister was my sister, me and Mike in
the living room watching this. Everyone else was getting food
and we were freaking out. She was like, it sounds
like that version is better than Eminem's original song.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's what I was gonna ask you. Is he ever
wrapped over a Jack White beat?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Before they did.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I don't know. I bet they just did it.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I didn't know if there was some remix thing or something.
But yeah, that was super kick ass as far as like.
The only thing I didn't like is at one point,
Eminem stood in front of him and held his hand
in the air and I was like, you're standing in
front of Jack, Dude, can step over just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
He's like, I curated this. I chose him.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I went to lunch with my dad and my stepmom
and we were talking about stuff that was gonna happen
throughout the day, and I was trying to explain to
them about Jack White and the white stripes, and I
was like, by the time y'all get home.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
You know, we had an early lunch.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I was like, by the time we get home, Jack
White will be on and they're like who, And I
was like, just imagine a rock star that looks like
Edward Scissorhands. They're like, oh, okay, great, I'll look for that.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It was dope, and they did seven Istion Army, which rocked,
so it was very very good. Everyone's loving it. Then
we go to the Cowboy game and post Moon is
a country star now apparently, Yeah, so that was kind
of kind of crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
What but known he was going to do the country stuff. Yeah,
recent stuff, but I was so disappointed.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Now they did the plants though, in the crowd and Detroit,
they did a really good job. We got the crowd
on the field, we got the plants, so it looks
like a rock show and everyone's into it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
For the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You don't really get that every year you get the
Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Well wait, do you know what I did?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I saw on Instagram our old friend Avianna posted something
on the story where she was on the field.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Really yeah, I mean yeah, she's kind of everywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
No, I'm just saying they did let people on the
field because she was down the.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Plants though to like, I don't know, I remember that
and the I just saw it was like, oh, they're
promoting the cheerleaders to the netflick show. Cowboys are a promotion.
The Cowboys are the parade of sports teams. There were
some people on the field though she was down there.
She posted something.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So quickly here.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
So CBS did a halftime show, Fox did their halftime show.
Everyone's talked about John Madden a lot today. Oh my god, well, NBC,
I've been told that Little John's doing.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
The halftime show at Baltimore. Now I'm not telling you
that I care.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
But I am telling you that I would like to
see Little John perform the halftime show because I like
halftime shows. And they at the halftime of the Ravens
and Bengals do a four minute package on John Madden
especially is and I'm like, guys, he died two years ago.
We all know him, but do we do this every year?
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Now?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I was told, we get a halftime show, they cut
a Little John, we get thirty seconds of him doing
Turned Down for.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
What thirty seconds?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I was like, this is a ripoff. The spree thing
I'm watching is a ripoff. I was pissed.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You're like, hey, I wasn't gonna watch this AFC matchup.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But now, yeah, that was good stuff though.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right, that's a good report, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It is the Bending Skin Show ninety seven point one
The Eagle coming up next, a wild weekend in college football.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
We'll do a little sports catchup
Did I see we're giving away bad Omens tickets this week?
You are correct, dudes. All right, we're doing it all
this week. You have to have the iHeart app, which
is free because we used to talk back function to
give it away. Uh, sometime in the next hour. I'll
go ahead and say we'll give them away in the
next hour. But you gotta be listening. You have to
have your iHeart app and you'll have a chance to win.
(00:20):
Bad Omens tickets are coming to the American Airline Center.
Crazy stuff happened in college football over the weekend. We'll
talk about it next, but right now, it's time for
this juicy news.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hot God, every.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Stay on top in the boots, shove.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Joe, watch football and Thanksgiving sur need so hard. It
was pretty good slate.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
The first game was the Lions and the Packers, and
we had gotten word, you know, about two weeks ago
that Jack Whitet was going to be doing the halftime show,
which is pretty awesome if everyone on this show is
Jack White.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
As soon as I woke up that morning, that's all
I was looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You didn't watch Jack White at halftime?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You don't watch the parade? No, Okay, hot Smoky Bear.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I might have had a forty five minute conversation with
Gator about the parade.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I didn't watch it. The highestrated parade of all time?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah? People are watching it, dude, Jeffrey.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
They put so much money in those parade.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No, you do put a lot of money into it. Yeah,
boy is such a promotional tool.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So it would have been great if they had giant
floats to promote the chair company. Oh my god, just
a giant Tim Robinson float chasing a teket chair.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Wouldn't that have been great?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The dog baby? The dog's name is baby.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's word. Why did he get a dog baby?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, so.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Okay, stupid, So that's great.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And then we knew that post Belles to the Cowboys
game and they've been probably Little john Is, Baltimore and Cincinnati,
and I'm like, hell, yeah, let's level up these halftime shows.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I mean, look, I'm old enough to.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Remember where even in the morning game halftime show, it
was always a bit lower production than what the Cowboys do.
I remember them running f and Vanessa Carlton out there.
My friend Kent from Forever The Sickest Kids played the
Detroit Lions halftime show.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
They really yeah, yeah, are you all going to talk
about that on the one Star podcast?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Damn?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Maybe this week we'll see what happens. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I mean they've done some really terrible ones over the years,
But no, you're not saying Kent's was terrible. No, no, no,
they knocked it out of the park. But when Eminem like,
it was announced that Eminem's kind of taking it over.
He's gonna be the Charlotte Jones, He's going to curate it.
So I was like, Okay, we're leveling up this good.
It's on TV and everyone's watching. Why not do a
good one. But they're not gonna make it twenty minutes
(02:48):
like the NFL. They're going to do an eleven minute show.
So I'm like, okay, he's gonna play three songs. So
he plays. That's how I'm feeling is you know big
single from last.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Year and if you guys remember I had a segment
where I implore, implored, iHeart start putting that into rotation.
I think it's the most uh relatable song he's released
in seven nation army.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I believe that. How'd that conversation go? Did you send
the audio to. I sent it to Amanda in promotional
thinks Hittman got ahold of it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, I don't think Pittman's got a hold of it.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well then I'm like, okay, so he's gonna do that, Okay,
I mean he could go you know, it's weird, but
ikey thump.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
If he's gonna do white stripes.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
He's got plenty of Jack White songs, but again, not
like top ten charting songs. I was a little interested
in what he's gonna do. I was very surprised that
this was the second song you did a deep cut
from the second album called Hello Operator.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Which is a great song. But he had a specific.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Reason for this.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Yes, you lare, you're getting me back my time with
the dollar bill the paper.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Let then shut film to the never say.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That I'm not killing him when it's pretty bad. It
was awesome. Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Well, my sister was my sister, me and Mike in
the living room watching this. Everyone else was getting food
and we were freaking out. She was like, it sounds
like that version is better than Eminem's original song.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That's what I was gonna ask you. Is he ever
wrapped over a Jack White beat?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Before they did.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I don't know. I bet they just did it.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I didn't know if there was some remix thing or something.
But yeah, that was super kick ass as far as like.
The only thing I didn't like is at one point,
Eminem stood in front of him and held his hand
in the air and I was like, you're standing in
front of Jack, Dude, can step over just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
He's like, I curated this. I chose him.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I went to lunch with my dad and my stepmom
and we were talking about stuff that was gonna happen
throughout the day, and I was trying to explain to
them about Jack White and the white stripes, and I
was like, by the time y'all get home.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
You know, we had an early lunch.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I was like, by the time we get home, Jack
White will be on and they're like who, And I
was like, just imagine a rock star that looks like
Edward Scissorhands. They're like, oh, okay, great, I'll look for that.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It was dope, and they did seven Istion Army, which rocked,
so it was very very good. Everyone's loving it. Then
we go to the Cowboy game and post Moon is
a country star now apparently, Yeah, so that was kind
of kind of crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
What but known he was going to do the country stuff. Yeah,
recent stuff, but I was so disappointed.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Now they did the plants though, in the crowd and Detroit,
they did a really good job. We got the crowd
on the field, we got the plants, so it looks
like a rock show and everyone's into it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
For the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You don't really get that every year you get the
Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Well wait, do you know what I did?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I saw on Instagram our old friend Avianna posted something
on the story where she was on the field.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Really yeah, I mean yeah, she's kind of everywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
No, I'm just saying they did let people on the
field because she was down the.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Plants though to like, I don't know, I remember that
and the I just saw it was like, oh, they're
promoting the cheerleaders to the netflick show. Cowboys are a promotion.
The Cowboys are the parade of sports teams. There were
some people on the field though she was down there.
She posted something.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So quickly here.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
So CBS did a halftime show, Fox did their halftime show.
Everyone's talked about John Madden a lot today. Oh my god, well, NBC,
I've been told that Little John's doing.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
The halftime show at Baltimore. Now I'm not telling you
that I care.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
But I am telling you that I would like to
see Little John perform the halftime show because I like
halftime shows. And they at the halftime of the Ravens
and Bengals do a four minute package on John Madden
especially is and I'm like, guys, he died two years ago.
We all know him, but do we do this every year?
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Now?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I was told, we get a halftime show, they cut
a Little John, we get thirty seconds of him doing
Turned Down for.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
What thirty seconds?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I was like, this is a ripoff. The spree thing
I'm watching is a ripoff. I was pissed.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You're like, hey, I wasn't gonna watch this AFC matchup.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But now, yeah, that was good stuff though.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right, that's a good report, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It is the Bending Skin Show ninety seven point one
The Eagle coming up next, a wild weekend in college football.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
We'll do a little sports catchup
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