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beautiful, it really is. Yeah. I put them up on the Freak Instagram and TikTok as well at ninety seven on the Freak there and at downbat DFW on Twitter at nine o'clock. Today is a significant day in television history. Is twenty five years ago the Sopranos debuted on Home Box Office, and we're gonna look back at some funny, great moments, some incredible audio. I did the I don't know if you guys heard this on Ben and Skin
that they are challenging because Christina's never seen it. And apparently there's a TikTok account that has every episode in twenty five seconds. You can go through the entire what five six seasons of the Sopranos, whatever it is, twenty five seconds at a time. You're kidding. Yeah, I bet it's that. That's pretty fun. How long did it take, well, twenty five minutes. I haven't checked it this morning because I did it last night. It
only went through season two, episode eight, which is weird. I don't know if maybe today, because of the anniversary, they're going to drop the rest of them. But I did everyone that was available, and it was really fun. I mean, it does almost no justice to the show, but it does, you know, remind you of a lot of moments that you may have forgotten. Did you ever guys see the super cut of Breaking Bed where they took it all and put it into one hour. No,
they did the entire series Breaking Bed. It's great though, super cut into and it's good. But I, even after watching it, maybe it's too close to it ten years ago, right when it ended that I was going, man, they left out so much good stuff that they could have added to this sixty minute cut that would advance the story. Yeah, but it's still fun, but it was just And then you go back and watch Breaking
Bad and you're like, okay, yep, perfect. Well, I know Christina watched what was available, and I think what they're gonna give her a sopranos quiz just on watching the TikTok twenty five second recaps of the whole thing. So I think that'll be on Ben's Skin Show today ten until two pm each and every weekday. But at nine o'clock today, we're gonna kick it around man, talk about what is considered by many periodicals is the greatest television
show of all time, and play some funny audio. That'll be cool. You're the closest to it now, Yeah, that you've watched it for the first time, all the way through. And when did you wrap it up? Late last year? Yeah, a couple months ago. I did it summer of twenty one. I've watched it probably six times, seven times, are you really? Yeah? Yeah, Well I can't wait talk about it because you illuminated me to a couple of things that I watched it and I
didn't even notice. There's just a lot going on there, and even that stupid little TikTok thing. I was like, I could go back and rewatch that now that you kind of know you think, and I'll tell you this, it's better the second and third, maybe even the fourth time, because you understand that there's so much nuance there's It's got such broad appeal. It's not just a movie about the mob. No, it is one of the funniest television shows. It's the unintentional comedic aspect of the show, which is
beautiful. It's intentionally unintentionable and yeah, and intentionally unintentional. Can I say this since we live in poo poo culture. Basically it's cool to poo poo on things, and I'm guilty of this from time to time and I try not to be. If you've never seen it. The first time I tried to watch it, I watched the first episode and I quit and I was like, I don't like the way it looks. No, But just if
you've never seen it, listen to us talk about it at nine. It won't spoil anything, and then maybe you give it a shot, because, like Danny said, it can be weird when it's you see the gun and the logo and the soprano was like, I've seen Italian mob stuff before. Great, it's just so much more than that, and you know, INCH need to give everything a chance, Like I don't know the downbeat, on't know he's having one the free tell you what back in you said this came
out in ninety nine. That's right back in when this was being promoted. I guarantee you I wasn't the only one that was aware of this show that thought it was about opera I swear to god. I thought it was about a team of opera singers and following their experiences, you know, in their in their normal lives, and which sounds like it could be pretty good.
You know, like if HBO did it and it was this group of opera singers and and what their personal lives are like and how wheels off and there's probably sex and drugs and addiction and all this stuff, they could make that really good. I swear to god until maybe about three episodes in when I heard some co workers talking about it. At the time, I didn't know it was about the mom Isn't that ridiculous? Yeah? I better one the
only one furial because they didn't show clips. They just had that that cool theme song and then the logo. You know, it was like, well, okay, I'm not gonna watch that. There is nine o'clock this morning, twenty fifth anniversary of Sopranos. We will jump in. Yeah, that'd be fun fun. That's the most important thing in the world because of the implication if we don't do it, they'll have us killed. Yeah, so obviously it's a wild day on a Monday, the three thirty pm explosion at
the Sandman Signature Hotel. And by the way, police have deemed that area. They're calling it a hot zone right now and it's close to the public until it's safe, which is gonna last a few days. But what happened Monday night? You got these high winds like sixty four mile sixty four miles per hour was the highest recorded at Fort Worth's Meecham Airport. Sixty four miles per hour. Yes, wow, which I learned that seventy four miles per
hour is minimum requirement for a Category one hurricane. Yeah, so let's just call it what it is, essentially hurricane level winds. I'm assuming made that clean up, which they're still cleaning up a disaster on Monday night. But it also knocked over the eighty foot Christmas tree in Sundance Square that they were going to take down today anyways, eighty foot tree, huh. Yeah,
And I don't know if y'all saw the video. There's a video, yeah, and it's bigger than one y. How do you know that because you could tell you just see you guys want to say it. I have an eighty foot tree. You guys are mad at me. It just sounds crazy, one of like forty five feet like three months ago. No, I think I said seventy five foot tree. Yeah, and everyone's sort of laughing. Yeah, a bunch of people who have never been to my home.
There's a green blood. I've answer, man, okay, an arborist to come over and measure my tree, and it's they're an ant a leaf on it right now. You get a good look at it at the old girl. But I always do think when high winds kick that the crunch might happen. Yeah. Does anyone else deal with that? Like I really am concerned because it's old. Yeah, it's a thing. Tree rules are wild though, too, because if your tree lands in someone else's yard, it's it's
on them. I don't that thing. I don't trust you one. No, I don't either. No. I have friends in the tree biz who say the family remote their thing unless they're sponsors on the air. I have friends in the tree business. I do. No, you don't. They go and trim trees and stuff. Amazing stories of copperheads and uh man, there's a video of a possum that fell one time. It's hilarious. You know, you complain sometimes that people don't take you seriously. This, Yeah,
this could contribute to that thought. Well, how about people have a little faith in Kevio and just take him seriously here and there. We can't just ask for that that all the time. You do it like all week you've been claiming that you're right all the time. It's amazing. You know what now that there's no leaves on that bitch, Yeah, I can get what I did in summer, which is get my golf shooter out and and
check the yardage. That's the closest I got. Yeah, you could do that, but I couldn't do it in the summer because there's leaves and it's you know, it's just like when you're in a golf course. You're in the trees anyway, and you can picking up bushes and the wrong. Yeah thing, you can't zap it onto the onto the flagstick. Range find that thing. That'll be good, cause that'll help us here. But I can't stand right at the base of it and look up and range find it.
Because there's branches, so I have to stand in an angle and then I don't know, you got to figure out that formula. Yeah, and then I just give up. I'm getting my trim today. Yeah, yep, because not only it's not mainly it's not because of the wind. And I've been I put this off for a couple of three years because that was about
the last time that I had it done. But in my front yard to old huge live oaks, and you know, they retain their foliage through the winter, the monsoon season, and with a big freeze coming up, I just don't want any precipitation because that's what happens is you get the ice that freezes on your branches and weighs them down. That's how trees end up, you know, splitting in half is because they can't, you know, carry all that undue weight that they take on from all the ice that's in there.
It's not necessarily the wind so much, which win big wind. Yeah, it'll uproot a damn tree, But I want to avoid that. If there is any precipitation this weekend, I just don't want those suckers, man, You're smart, falling down. And I've got a big ass pecan tree in the backyard. I don't know if it's too I don't know if it's eighty five feet, but it's as tall. And that thing is stripped down of all of its leaves finally, and they're gonna knock that thing down quite
a bit too. But that's an expensive endeavor. I don't want to write that. Show. Well, you got to, man, I know you gotta do it. You got to do it. So the reason I wanted to do this for MIT is the most important thing in the world, is because we got to get ahead of this. Today you're gonna get a bit of a mild day. Sixty four is gonna be the high today. Tomorrow the high is gonna be sixty seven. Dud golf tomorrow swimming swimming. The
wind's gonna make golf crappy tomorrow. I was looking at that and not roll through. The point is maybe for an amateur, this is what you all need to know. Weather. Saturday high forty six should be good. Sunday high thirty nine, fifteen to twenty five miles per hour wind, thirty percent
chance of showers and sleep. Sunday night. Monday morning high of twenty eight low of fifteen thirty percent chance of a light winter mix on MLK Day on Monday, and then Tuesday thirty three degrees thirteen is the low, and then Wednesday you're back to forty eight. Guys, we've got to make sure that our pipes don't burst. And you gotta go get those faucet condoms. So you got to go to the store. So you have faucets, a water faucets on the outside of your house for a hose, yep, two spicketts.
I have two spickets as well, one in the front, one on the back, and you gotta go cover them up because it could damage your pipes that way. I can't just drip it. I wouldn't do that outside. Then you're just gonna have a freaking hockey rinks in your front yard. It's the little it looks like, almost like a cinderblock, is what it looks like. But styrofoam, now, I hate styrofoam. The sound of it STI fuming together. It's the fingernails on a chalkboard for me. I
can't take it. What about starfoam peanuts? Oh yeah, dumb, yeah, I hate that too. I hate it. But you gotta go gotta like go today or tomorrow to your home depot, your low's. Maybe you got a mom and pop shop. Even better yet, support local business, and you gotta go get your faucet condoms. Is that what it's called? What's it called? It's not FoST door, spickett wrap. How do you spell spickot s p I c k e T s p g o t y bigot cover. Okay, there you go, auto field. Spigott doesn't sound
like it's a word we should be able to say. Right, there's in there. It's like spiggott is like the worst word. I know. You're close to the six bad thing. Get out of here, you who Seriously, it's like every every racist slur combined in one word. That means a water foss. It means a nice thing to hoose your guarden. Yeah, necessary thing we have. Okay, I've never had one of these in my life. I've been here for twenty some odd years. There are are you
seeing what it is now? I kind of it looks like, yeah, like giant candle shaped kind of a yeah, okay, I see it might have already wrapped you have. I've got the old school with a foam that goes all the way around it up to the top with the duct tape and pull the pull the states on there all year. But if you pull the cord to tighten it and make it suck to the house. Huh. So when you're covering your your faucet, how do you make it stay on? You know what I'm saying. Look, it's just like that. No,
you don't have the outdoor foam faucet cover. No, what do you have? Then the pipes are just wrapped. They're inside, not the pipe. I'm talking about the fawcets. Pipes are fine. Stop saying faucets that's an inside thing. Okay, spigots racist, okay, dump that the pipes. I'm not talking about the pipes. The pipes are fine as long as you, you know, leave the water dripping and open your cabinets and open your cabinets so the heat, yeah, of your house hits those you open the
cabinet doors absolutely good. Yeah, yeah, the ones that you like in your kitchen, the kitchen cabinet underneath your seat, open that up, really. Yeah. Have your shower on just a little drip jip and then your sinks a little drip drip. You have to this on Friday, probably Saturday and Sunday night, and maybe Monday night. Friday you had deeper freezes than this. I have never once had a problem. I had a problem Christmas Eve. Never Christmas Eve twenty twenty two. Yeah, first, it was
not a pipe burst, by I feared that. But as we've discussed in the past, my laundry situation is out in my garage just a ten bucket, yeah, pretty much a washing board. And so basically I didn't do anything to prevent the washing machine to stay warm. You know, it's just out there in the cold, and it froze and it leaked, and water had gone all the way down my driveway into the street, and basically the washing machine was broken forever. A Ukrainian guy came over and tried to fix
it, and he did a terrible job. But good for him because he had escaped Russia at the time. I mean, he had escaped Ukraine and really gotten out of the war before the invasion, before the invasion. Vibe. Well, he left because he knew what was happening. He knew it was turning up, so he got out. It's a horrible job anyway, I ended up craigslisting myself a pretty good wash machine for you know, fifty
bucks or seventy five bucks or something, and it's been fine. The point is, I have space heater situation, and I can't really be out of town or anything on the nights when it freezes, because I gonna monder that space. You can't just leave a space heater on, but I have do overnight. I leave my space heater on to warm up and keep the my washing machine in the back of it and all those cords warm. The way
you describe freeze, the way you describe your home situation. I imagine going to Kevio's house and it's just a larger version of where the UNI bomber lived. It's like Ted Kaczynski's cabin, but it's in Richardson. You know, I don't get royalties, you know, I don't like you don't own popular bars in the metroplex, you know bar singular U. Yeah, I guess these days. You don't have a dish Your dishwasher is broken? Yeah, I never judged, never, No, I never. Yeah, I guess,
but it's from the house I bought. Do you keep your cold storage in your basement? I mean cold storage. I have a freezer. You do have a freezer, okay, of my refrigerator. And when you like wash your when you wash your dishes, you know, after a nice meal, because you hand wash your dishes. Does the pump ever stick when you're you're pulling water from the well? Yeah? How's your well? I don't
have a well yet the pump? Does your toilet have like the hanging tank with a chain and we have to go outside into the hole they have it. It's all fun. The doo dooo hut forty yards from the back door, you guys with a crescent moon carved into the door. Okay, and I get it. Look, you guys are old geezers. You guys don't know what it's like to be me. You know. You guys go out to your days of being twenty four years old like me, and you would know, you know, I was forty. No, dude, you're really
old. I So, well, let's all get ready for the winter freeze. Yeah, we're all gonna have to deal with this is a relatable topic. Yeah, I think Monday, you know, I think a lot of people probably don't have to go to work on Monday on MLK Day, So that's that's gonna be the tough driving day. Yeah, that's gonna be a bit twenty eight high, thirty percent chance of a one. I'd seen ten to twenty percent chance ramped up to thirty. I bet by the end of
the week they're talking forty to fifty. It goes up when you get closer. Usually, what if it's frozen over on Monday and we have to do the show from home on our computers. Not an option coming up here? What if it? What if it's the only option. We've done it. We did it last year, year after day off. What do you mean? No, Actually we did it with like twenty minutes. Notice. Yeah, oh, y'all did it? I came up. It did the morning. Joe, would you live like a mile from here? Not at the
time though, Where were you at the time? Well, I guess I did. Yeah you did. If you need it all, come pick everyone up in my jeep Wrangler. Yeah. I'm built for this because I'm a horsman. Let's go your two wheel drive jeep. I'll come get everybody. You have, four wheld, Big Michael, come and rescue you all. Yeah, I do the Rubicon. Yeah, with all my colored little duckies in the window. Let's see birthdays. Okay, time, Yeah, we
got something. Let's talk about the dead people first. Jim Croache would have been eighty one. Yeah, he was still trying to put time inside of a bottle. It's bad. He would have been held Liro bath baddest man in the whole damn tap. Better than old King Cole Meta, the hand of Jogo. No, that's great. Hell old we had that voice. That's great. Would he talk to you? How old would you have been? I'm bad? Oh my god, he's not going to answer. Eighty
one? I sing it though only eighty one. I need to know what song he's Yeah, you die at thirty? Do we know how train was involved? Lucky that I'm a Jim Crochey historian. No, I'm lucky that your computer's open and you can look it up. Are you guys saying train? I knew that he died at a young, young, young age. Turns out that he was sucked out of a door plug. Shut up. Croachy and five others were killed when they chartered a Beachcraft E eighteen. It
crashed into a tree during takeoffs. Geez, why is that funny? Beachcraft? Constructed by air tractor. No air tractor in Texas, very reliable, uch thirty air tractor. How do you hit? Comedian George Stevens also and he's he's he died. They were fined to Sherman from Natatochis to perform a concert Austin College. Man Austin College. Not great, right there, that's the real day. The music died. Oh, fog reduced the vision of
the pilot. Yep, but the pilot suffered from coronary artery disease. Call, there's a lot there, Okay. The Scarecrow Wizard of Oz would have been one hundred and twenty. What does that mean? Ray Boulger? Oh what did he not have you? No, Scarecrow didn't have a brain. He was a dumb dumb didn't have a brain. Right then, man needed a hearty he was hardless. I I just saw Wicked recently, so I'm
up on this stuff. They were all in there too. They're all here, all the stars, a Wizard of Oz, but in a different way, in a different way called the perspective of the Wicked Witch. Yeah. Interesting, Yeah, she actually had a soft spot in her heart for him. The Wicked Witch had some good ideas as she had. Some people will say that maybe evil people had some good ideas, right. I'm not one of those people, but I think she was that Time Magazine's Woman of the
Year year. Daddy Mac is forty five. That's Chris from Cris Cross Crisscross, Chris Smith. They wore their pants backwards cross colors and their shirts. Jermaine Clement is fifty. Flight of the Concourds. I've seen them live and they are so good. I can only imagine they are because that concert on YouTube is great. Yeah, so f not what I expected at all, but I know that's probably right up my alley. I've seen none of it. The first the first season is one of the funniest seasons of television I've
ever seen. Second season is not good, but the first season is incredible. It's all me and my knucklehead friends could talk about. It was every time they dropped one of those on HBO for a week, it like had borat type. Yeah, viral capabilities before that was a big thing. That is a blind spot for me as a guy who liked their music. How did I know watch the TV show? Dude, it's out there because it came out when I was nine. Is that incredible? In that season?
Is that where Benskin's open thing comes from? Two guys who started at the bottom, they steal at the bottom the bottom hard way ended up at the bottom. Uh. Sean Colvin sixty eight, Danny, you were talking about him in the hall the other day. I always thought that was a girl, Sean Colvin? Is that? Is that a girl or a dude? Girl's name Sean hot Sean Johnson is the only one I can think of gymnasts, Sean young, Sean Covin was a woman. Oh, I thought it?
I thought Sean it? And Sean Green the slugger. Yeah. Pat Bennetzar seventy one, still doing it? What's her? Hit? Love is a battlefield is one of the worst songs of old. Want to say, hit me with your mothers. Love a battlefield? People at war right now? And love is not a battlefield. Sex is war. No, that's sex. It's not sex as okay. Sex as war should be the newar song. And love is a battlefield hot, sex is war. Sex is a violent act of criminals. Love is a battlefield. No, you're just
disagreeing on the husband leading his shoes out. It's not a battlefield. We don't have to argue all the time. God, man, I think women like to argue. Do you think you think that George fo it's seventy five, all right, he has a grill, He has twelve kids. How much money? Sons? And all five sons are named George Junior? How much damn er money did he make off of that freaking grill? Too much more than he may as a boxer. It had to have been. Oh
yeah, like exponentially. He's a Houston Man, right, I don't know. I watched Big George Foreman, the movie kind of about his life. Yeah, but I only saw the first three quarters because I was on a plane and it cut off Marshall, Texas. So now he's got ties to the I mean obviously Texas, But yeah, a lot of you know, you're a jerk if you name your five sons George Junior. Let them have some individuality and live a life. Everyone's gonna think they're the same person all
the time. And think about that bits with your kids. Donald Fagan's seventy six, Oh big birthday, Stela Dian damn Donald Fagan? Why could I take the day off? Yeah? Sure? And in my in a victim of one of the most most heinous rumors you could spread, Rod Stewart's seventy nine a day. And no, he did not have to have his stomach pumped because he was gurgling too much. And as I was told by a good friend of mine, he wouldn't have had to have his stomach pump because
you can have as much as you want and it won't affect you. Yah My Yama, Yama, yah my Yama yama, God of nutt. Kyrie Irving weighs in on the last night's fumble for the MAVs of the AAC. Plus, I found another concern for the Cowboys heading into this week's game. Oh next to ninety seven one, the free