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Speaker 4: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Bob aber.
Speaker 5: I got to come off the bench.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abart.
Speaker 5: Y'all welcome back to O T b uh.
Speaker 6: Of course it's Boxing day, which also means it's Jared
Letto's birthday.
Speaker 5: So shout out to Streeport Bogia, shout out.
Speaker 7: Jared Leto and there is a difference and they are
split by the red River.
Speaker 5: So he's basically from support. Nope, we'll been to our
number two of ot B.
Speaker 7: See, I don't have a dig like that for you
because you're like, I don't really know where I'm from.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6: I may uh just drift in a sea of being
wherever it's convenient.
Speaker 7: My favorite to be my favorite thing about like where
T Bob's from. We'll meet somebody out in the wild
and they'll be like, oh, yeah, yeah, I grew up
like twenty minutes away in Jones Creek and he's like,
I don't know where's that.
Speaker 5: Well, Jones Creek's actually is where I'm from. But John's Creek,
but yeah, yeah, I know where you're I just like.
Speaker 6: Marietta is like somewhere east or west of me exactly.
Speaker 7: Marriette is a great one because we have actually met
someone and it's right close and you're like, I have
no idea. I didn't know you're from, like John's Creek. Like,
actually I just threw out Jones Creek.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Charlie whitehst from john Screek.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my oldest sister, uh cheered for him and Chattahoochie
Juice back in the day way.
Speaker 5: Down you d Hoochie COUCHI something like that. I don't know.
Best storyteller I've ever been around, been an hour two
of o TV.
Speaker 6: We're just having a chill, little post Christmas show, you know,
everybody having some fun. Uh anybody, did Dake? Did you
watch It's a Wonderful Life? Or did you? Did you
screw it up another year? Unbelievable, unbelieve you know.
Speaker 8: Like a lot of these guys here don't like it's wonderful.
I think it sucks. You ever heard have you heard that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 9: Like Taylor? And uh, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's never watched.
Speaker 5: Taylor's never watched.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've watched It's a Wonderful Life and.
Speaker 5: You didn't like it?
Speaker 6: No, so you so you just don't Okay, I get it. No, fine, no, no, no,
for sure, you just don't like. You just don't understand
being a man, sure like an upstanding member of the
human race and looking out for your fellow man as
a man does with self sacrifice, empathy and putting others
above yourself.
Speaker 5: I can understand what you don't like.
Speaker 3: I mean that does sound like me?
Speaker 5: No do No? Done? Actually, I guess it kind of does.
Speaker 6: With how much credit give you for working today, but
the fact that you could do that and not appreciate
what George Bailey does is infuriating to me.
Speaker 5: I watched last night again.
Speaker 6: It's I tried watching that. Uh that t s a
movie last night. That thing is God with Jasons. It's
God off what I mean it was?
Speaker 3: It was what you predictable, It's fine.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. I thought it was way too
wordy and way too boring like I wanted. I wanted snappy,
quick action and end up falling asleep. We watched, I
felt about twenty minutes in.
Speaker 6: I felt like I woke up an hour later and
the exact same thing was having well.
Speaker 3: No no offense.
Speaker 2: Like spoiler alert for anybody's listening. I would have just
taken the case. If I'm tearing Edgerton, like, just just
hold on to it. He clearly wants it on the plane,
Just keep it. What's he gonna do?
Speaker 5: Uh, he's gonna kill you, He's gonna wasn't he gonna
kill us?
Speaker 2: He wasn't gonna kill the wife, because if he killed
the wife, he's not gonna do what you.
Speaker 3: Want him to do anymore. He was never gonna do that.
Speaker 5: Well, he was gonna kill his friend's family. Yeah.
Speaker 6: See that's why that's why you don't like It's a
wonderful life, right there, guys, That's what I'm freaking talking about. No,
I mean even Hunt came has come around and now
Hunt views it as watches every year.
Speaker 5: It's impossible.
Speaker 3: Does like have like this fetish for sad movies?
Speaker 5: Though it's not sad.
Speaker 3: It's not sad.
Speaker 6: It's literally the happiest ending of any movie that's ever
been had. Good But like No Man, no Man is poor,
Who has Friends one of the great No man could
be considered poor. Who has friends is one of the
greatest lines ever. So my big brother George, the richest
man in town. It's literally like you sit there and
you cannot help but be filled with happiness and cry
tears of joy as the Christmas spirit infuses you. In
that final scene, You're just crazy.
Speaker 2: This scene is great, but leading up to it, you're
just like, I don't know if I'm in a good
mood or I'm depressed, or like, I don't know how
to feel.
Speaker 6: The whole time watching it, you're in a good mood
because you're watching someone do something for the greater good.
Every one of George's sacrifices is positive because of the
effect that it has on everybody else around him. Right,
So that's why throughout that entire movie, Jimmy Stewart and
he does a very good job of this kind of
displaying the complicated, mixed emotions you can have. Like there's
no better example than when his brother comes home and
he's married and they're all celebrated, and he's obviously incredibly
happy for his brother, but he's dealing with the inner
turmoil of man. Everything's coming true for my brother. And
I'm still here running the building and loan and i
know it's right, and i know I'm helping people, but
it I'll be damned if I'm not feeling some type
of way. And then he goes over to Mary. It's
just it's just the best, man, Jake, I'm so disappointing.
You just watch it today, please. I watched entire seasons
of Ozark for you, and you won't watch the literal
greatest Christmas movie of all time that is right up
your alley, and that it's old school, it's full of grit,
it's full of the the kind of stoic idealism of
manhood and and what you're gonna watch carry on, that's disappointing.
Speaker 5: I'm upset with you now. I'm upset with you now
that I just considered that you watched carry On instead.
It all goes back to Ozark. I just love Jason Bateman.
I can't even help yourself.
Speaker 7: Shouldn't necessary roughness? Like one of his first movies that
he was in, Great football movie.
Speaker 6: I didn't finish Office Christmas Party because I started it
at like one thirty am when we finally got Christmas
Eve stuff done.
Speaker 5: But I was really enjoying Office.
Speaker 3: That is one of my favorite Chris stupid and fun.
Speaker 5: I want to watch the rest of it sometime. Yeah. Yeah,
it's good though, like good dumb. It's a really ridiculous plot. Right,
we're gonna rid of those sick parties that we can
land this deal which you'll save the company.
Speaker 6: But uh, just just just watch today we get the
kids together, back to the kids.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a tough sell. My kids wouldn't give me.
Speaker 6: A tough sell because it's black and white and people
get weird about black and white color.
Speaker 7: One of my favorite movies of all time, King Creole
Is is black and white exactly.
Speaker 9: I mean, no issue with black and white movies.
Speaker 5: Then, I mean I watched NICKI Knight.
Speaker 7: Most of those shows growing up were like Adobe Gillis
and all that was in black and.
Speaker 5: White exactly, So what is this weird line you've drawn
in the sand again?
Speaker 7: And honestly, like, I just when I get home, I
kind of do forget and I'm supposed to watch it.
You know, I did watch Frozen for the first time. Though,
you'd be proud of me there.
Speaker 5: Uh, okay, you know that's great. What did Harlowe think
about it? Though she sat there and watched it? That's cool.
What did you think? It's good?
Speaker 9: It's goint of good music. It was, Yeah, yeah, I like,
you know, I like ol Off.
Speaker 5: I like I did not like doing four hours of
media in that all Off costume. The other day we
did an hour and a half on Snaps and I
didn't take it off one time, an hour and a
half straight trying to read through the mesh of the
mask and talk in it. Uh, but we made it.
We did Aaron dress up as well.
Speaker 6: No, and then I went to uh and then I
went to Iverstein's afterwards and just realized, oh, I don't
have any clothes, so walked up in Iristines and know
you did, fust.
Speaker 5: I didn't wear the mask though I had the O
Line hat on that you gave me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but uh that was very funny, uh, because you
can't really tell what it is without the mask.
Speaker 5: It was very just odd looking.
Speaker 9: And look, I mean, you're you know, you're a big fella.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're a tall you're a tall fellaw Yeah, and.
Speaker 9: Walking in somewhere they probably thought you were there to
rob the place.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, shut out, shut out Galen.
Speaker 7: Right, I mean the six or four human walking in
and and off cost tights, in tights with no mask.
And if they really knew that those tights don't sit.
Speaker 6: Down to.
Speaker 5: Not a lot of support. Now, I threw them away.
I threw them away at the end of the day.
Speaker 6: I mean just dangling, just dangling, Texas Day, Brazil and
up in that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, Taylor, what was your favorite Christmas movie
you watch? Not that I trust your opinion anymore.
Speaker 2: I mean every year at Christmas vacation we watch it. Yeah,
days leading up to Christmas. Honestly, though didn't really watch
Christmas Story a ton yesterday.
Speaker 3: I mean probably had it on in the background.
Speaker 2: You finish Christmas Story or is it you that never
seen it. No, I've seen it a lot of times.
I just I feel like it's always one in the background.
Speaker 3: Darren Christmas. We didn't really have it on this year.
Speaker 8: I don't know if if the Christmas Story is overrated
or if I've just seen it wait too many times.
Speaker 2: I've just seen it way too many times. The first
time I saw it, I loved it. It's definitely not overrated.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 6: Or a good overrated test is watch it with somebody
for the first time.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: My wife had never seen him before somehow, and we
watch it this year and she was laughing the entire time.
Loved it.
Speaker 6: So I find I find that it's still it's still
very very good.
Speaker 5: I Uh.
Speaker 6: I was thinking about so. I was watching Christmas Vacation,
had it on the background. One flip it, but I
was you know, the scene when Clark is locked in
the attic and he's watching the.
Speaker 9: Old home movie probably the best scene in the movie. Actually.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really emotional core in a lot of ways,
because it's what everybody's chasing during the holiday season, those
memories that love, the nostalgia. Uh.
Speaker 5: But it did give me thinking.
Speaker 6: About how differently we view recording things nowadays, like how
precious is it for Clark to have those snippets to
watch back? And it was always the dad or you know,
it was always an adult recording everything and the family
being like kind of annoyed, like I know whatever you know,
and like doing like long form stuff, and and and
now we have so much of it that I find
that we probably take it for granted.
Speaker 5: Oh I don't have any And do we ever go
back and look at the old videos where they stored
cloud somewhere? Could you actually get to them? I don't
have if you wanted to, will be able to watch
them in thirty years?
Speaker 9: I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't have any home videos of myself growing up.
We I don't know if we do anymore.
Speaker 5: We used to have. We used to have a little
eight milimeter tapes that we still watch growing.
Speaker 9: Got some VHS tapes. I think we still have something.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if my mom digitized them or not.
Speaker 7: I mean I used to have some of my Sunset
Acres Indians football games taped, but I don't think I
had anything just like walking around opening presents or anything
like that.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: It's kind of weird to think of we capture. I've
got all of my kids cataloged in.
Speaker 5: The phone, you know, see, So that's good though, So
you do have your kids then lined up and good
to go, because yeah, I mean, yeah, I guess you're right.
I don't know. I remember watching home videos growing up.
I wonder if we still have them. But even then,
it's like, I wonder if my kids will have theirs,
or if they'll remember, or if all these videos I'm taking,
I'm thinking you were going to go back and appreciate,
but they're just heading into the ether, like everything else,
just into the digital cloud to be forgotten.
Speaker 7: I've got plenty of old photos of a young T
Bob on my phone, I'm sure sent through me to
me throughout that.
Speaker 5: And I'm talking about them videos.
Speaker 6: You see Clark and you see he sees his parents
and they're wave in and I hope that we can, uh,
I guess too. The other the other takeaway there is
like we've become so cynical about stuff being filmed. And
I'm at the forefront of this because kind of a
lot of what we got to do on social media
is for work.
Speaker 5: My sisters work in very social media spaces and so
when the family gets together. So I was like posing this,
doing that, do that, and it's like it's easy to
become cynical about it, but back in the day, it
was just about trying to capture these these memories that
you can look back fondly on. HM.
Speaker 8: My favorite thing to watch on Christmas is actually The Batman,
the Animated series. They had an episode called Christmas with
the Joker really good. Vaguely remember this Joker Basically, of course,
he breaks out of Arkham and he takes over a
really localodcasting.
Speaker 5: Stay way in never mind.
Speaker 6: Okay, what I'm thinking of when he takes over like
a funny house or maybe there's a phantom Ephods.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I haven't seen The Batman the Animated
series and years.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he takes over a local broadcasting station and basically
has his own like variety show kind of during Christmas
and kidnaps some people and it's a classic joker fair
pretty good stuff.
Speaker 9: Okay, I might have checked that out on like twenty minutes.
It's easy watch.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Batman the Animated Series remains a show very ahead
of its time yeap in so many ways. So Beck,
what was the best Chris movie you watched.
Speaker 9: I mean it's not. That's not a movie, but I
always love watching that one. That might be it.
Speaker 8: Honestly, I didn't watch really been honestly. I mean I
watched Christmas. The Christmas Story is always on, like on TV,
like the whole Christmas Day, and it's it's like on
the background for for our family. But I didn't really
watch anything else.
Speaker 9: I should. I should watch a Wonderful Life every year.
I don't know why I don't.
Speaker 5: It's crazy.
Speaker 9: I went Die Hard too and Home Alone too?
Speaker 5: Oh nice? Yeah? Hell yeah? Which which is a better sequel?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 5: Great question?
Speaker 9: Probably Home Alone?
Speaker 5: They're both guys. My wife did or Not is really good?
Speaker 6: My daughter cracked me up and watching Home one two
and she says, oh, Dad, it's just like the same thing.
Speaker 5: It's like, I guess any kind of you're not you're not,
You're not in New York.
Speaker 3: It's not the same.
Speaker 7: Did they put I'm trying to think if they put,
because you know one at one point they took Donald
Trump out of Home Alone Too, like that scene I
got on some streaming service, like they took that scene out.
Speaker 5: Uh, that's crazy.
Speaker 9: I don't know I've never seen that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I want to say that I watched it
and he was in it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 6: See the thing about that is taking out is just
inviting way more trouble.
Speaker 5: You're just creating controversy. Yeah, I might as well just
let sleeping dogs lie. I mean whatever. I mean, it's
now you're gonna go.
Speaker 7: There's like a lot of things and a lot of
movies and people that have been in movies that Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'm with you.
Speaker 7: Well, die Hard two is underrated though, but y'all know
my love of die Hard, and I actually think Diehard
three might be my favorite.
Speaker 5: Vengeance.
Speaker 9: Samuel Jackson in it, Samuel l really good. Have you
ever seen three? No, it's the best one. I've seen.
Speaker 2: The Iron Jeremy Irons and some one with I heard
too that Live for You Die Okay, Yeah, that's justin Long,
justin Long.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that one's good. That one's good. That was years
and years much better than that. This one I think
is the best one. What is I heard too about
They're in an airport? I don't think I've ever seen
it actually, and d C and terrorist take over the airport,
I don't think I've seen it.
Speaker 5: Another third one.
Speaker 7: You have Jeremy Irons great a really good actor. It's
in New York, set in New York, and he's stealing
gold from the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 5: He's stealing gold my fellows yea, from smoking a pack
cake bong the bleats. All right, we'll get back. More
to be.
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Speaker 1: Back to sports talk maybe off the bench.
Speaker 5: Heyea, we don't need Yeah, yeah, we're good. We're good.
Speaker 7: Welcome back in otvu Tata. So today we're watching a
little soccerrate as Boxing day. We got the Scottish Premier
League up right now because our free trial on USA
ran out during the Everton Man City match and none
of us wanted to put our log in into the
work TV H Taylor. Too many games for you is
why you don't like soccer? Okay, So like how many
games do you guys?
Speaker 5: Pluck?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean it's not that many. I mean they
and they take breaks. They have breaks, that's the thing.
They have breaks.
Speaker 9: In the city.
Speaker 7: I just feel like soccer's year around what thirty, yeah, thirty,
So you you know, you go and they take international breaks,
you take different breaks throughout it. I bet you're one
of the persons that you know, I don't understand soccer.
Speaker 5: You're one of those people.
Speaker 2: So I got into hockey a little bit more going
to the coat.
Speaker 3: Well, I was looking at it.
Speaker 2: The rules aren't super dissimilar as far as like off
sides like that type of thing.
Speaker 5: There's no rules in soccer. There's three.
Speaker 6: There's no rules in soccer. It's the easiest sport to
understand in the world.
Speaker 7: Don't be off sides, which don't cherry pick, don't touch
the ball with your hand yep, and don't be an
a hole.
Speaker 5: Those are the three rules of soccer. Like, they don't
even stop the clock.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's the American football has more rules than
any sport.
Speaker 5: Don't intuitive sport in the world.
Speaker 6: It's insane how big it's gotten, considering there is not
a pick up and play sport less friendly than American football.
Speaker 2: I get that they don't stop the clock, which is like,
really cool. I don't understand we're adding five minutes, we're
adding this why they keep up.
Speaker 7: With it when when it's out of play or when
somebody is sitting on the ground, you know, because of
injury or a fowl.
Speaker 9: You know, they ad that time all the time.
Speaker 8: That that that normally they would stop the clock in
football or basketball. They just keep track of that and
then add it to the ends. They don't have to play. No,
so this amount of time.
Speaker 9: Yes, well, it's tried to encourage you not to sit
there and try.
Speaker 5: To waste it. That just but it is not one
to one.
Speaker 9: It's not like they're like, oh, it's up for eighteens,
right exactly.
Speaker 6: So in that way, I feel like you see American
and European culture reflected in the two major sports. In football,
we have everything you know, spelled out to a te
perfectly time to the tenth of a second. Least in theory,
this is exactly how it has to be done. The
worlds are very clear, and in.
Speaker 5: Europe it's a bit more like, eh, yeahs teven minutes, right,
he's been laid down for a while, like they did
that like a couple of times. It feels like three.
I'm kind of let's get out of here, dude.
Speaker 6: You know, it's been a quick three minutes, don't stop
the clock, only a couple of rules. It's it's deeply
funny to me how those differences can be, uh, and
even down to the commercials. You know, America and much
more capitalistic commercial society, and well, watch a football game
versus a football game, and you'll see the commercial difference
of your.
Speaker 7: You're probably an hour and forty five.
Speaker 5: Minutes total time, yeah, watching, Yeah, soccer.
Speaker 8: Halftime is like fifteen minutes, I think, and there's any
commercials during that. But other than that, there's no there's
no commercials during the whole game. Yeah, it's actually yeah,
it's like the games don't take nearly as long. It's
actually kind of nic it's really nice.
Speaker 6: Well, the funniest part about it is the fans of
each say the other is boring. American football fans say
soccer is boring. Soccer fans say American football sport.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like I'm both.
Speaker 6: And I see, I see, I see where both are
coming from. How you could how you could land with
that opinion on both?
Speaker 8: So my opinion is if if they had if they
kept score and soccer differently like it's soccer, if they
gave them seven points.
Speaker 3: For a goal.
Speaker 8: I think there would be a lot more Americans that
would actually watch it because everybody all you hear all
most Americans say, oh, they only it's always one zero
or two zero.
Speaker 9: What if it was fourteen zero? That happens in football sometimes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I mean I think touchdowns are still scored
at a slightly higher clip.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but to your point, the gap is not that large.
Speaker 8: It's not as large as it seems, just because they
don't give as many points.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no real difference between two to one.
Speaker 9: And like, it's not.
Speaker 5: Taylor ain't gonna like soccer the guys. That's all right,
all right, I don't think so. How's your hockey journey
coming though?
Speaker 3: It's all right coming around?
Speaker 5: What do you watch?
Speaker 2: NHL went it to one every now and not. I'll
watch like every game, but I catch some of.
Speaker 3: The center the centers.
Speaker 6: If you're gonna get in a new sport, almost invariably,
the best way to do it is to adopt a team.
Speaker 3: Do you have a team?
Speaker 5: Predators? Why?
Speaker 2: I love the city of Nashville. I've been a couple
of times. They love their hockey team out there.
Speaker 5: Really, you name me three Preds?
Speaker 3: No, the early stages.
Speaker 5: Can you name me one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Josie the defenseman. Okay, his first same is long.
I know how to say it. He's a defenseman, Long Josie.
No like his first names?
Speaker 5: Oh, okay, Long Josie is a good that's a country name.
Bo does all that long.
Speaker 7: One of the channels on this thing that they've put
in here instead of having cable is the PAC twelve network.
Speaker 5: YEA twelve okay exists? Yeah? Do you want to know
all the latest on wazoo in Oregon? Sea? Actually? Does
other sports love the PAC twelve or now? No? No?
Speaker 7: I mean they're getting seven new teams, but not yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: The only reason I know the A CEC network exists
is because of I got E J two.
Speaker 5: To be fair, I like the.
Speaker 2: Giants Roman, but I don't think that's I don't know
who it is, but it's a big man.
Speaker 5: Eric McLean.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's his name, Taylor Revan Josie.
Speaker 3: But I don't I don't believe that's his full name it.
Speaker 7: Is I'm looking at His name is Taylor and you
didn't know his first name.
Speaker 3: His name is not.
Speaker 8: His name is Roman. Joe Seler. He's Swist hockey uh
Stein captain. Yeah, and I haven't gotten into hockey since.
Speaker 7: I mean I was like growing up, loved it, like
that ninety four Rangers team that won the Stanley Cup
and Mark Messier leech Richter.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I went through probably two years of really loving it.
And you know, because when you get in a new
sports as a kid, you probably are front runner. I
was real into those Avalanche teams with oh yeah, Joe Sack.
Speaker 5: And you Forsburg and Patrick Wah and the goal Yeah,
thirty three Wsburg was my favorite.
Speaker 6: Patrick Wah, Rob Blake greet Fitzman coming over from San Jose.
Maybe after like twenty years winning a cup. Also, video
games get you in the set into hockey. NHL ninety
four it's one of the most famous video games of
all time, not sports games, one of the most famous
video because that was at a time when you didn't
have a ton of games, and so like if you
had a Super Nintendo, it didn't matter if you liked
sports or not, you were gonna get the sports games.
NHL ninety four transcended.
Speaker 9: It was like Techmobile too, like everybody had techmobive.
Speaker 6: Yes, everybody loved NHL ninety four. It's up there with
you know, some of the greatest games, not swhear games
of all time. Also, NHL had a nice run when
I was in college. You know, FIFA started to become
king around O.
Speaker 5: Five oh six.
Speaker 6: NHL is still kind of around and then in NHL
nine is when it started to take off, and then
it kind of.
Speaker 5: Lost its way.
Speaker 8: Apparently we used to play NHL Hits, which was like
the Blitz and f Blitz, but it was for hockey.
Speaker 6: So my favorite arcade style NHL game will remain Wayne
Gretzky's three D Hockey on the sixty four, which was
I think it was three v three, same deal it was.
I think it actually predated Blitz, but it's more it's.
Speaker 5: It's more in the I mean, but what predates them
all is NBA JAM.
Speaker 9: Yeah, hits didn't start until like one, maybe oh two.
Speaker 5: I think we liked NBA Jam. Is that the first
real arcadi sports?
Speaker 9: I think so like that.
Speaker 6: I used to like NBA Showtime quite a bit, which yeah,
now two was three on three, but you know that
that was not as big at all.
Speaker 9: But that's how.
Speaker 5: Blitz is my number one Wayne Gretzky three D Hockey
than NBA jam. But but I know for a lot
of people, NBA jams at the top of the list
of playing arcades back in the day.
Speaker 9: That's how we got into hockey.
Speaker 8: That we played NHL Hits O three on the GameCube
and uhh yeah the New Jersey Devils for our team
because they were really good that time. Had a lot
of good players, uh mart one of the best goaltenders
of all time?
Speaker 5: Best ever? Who is the who is the main vet?
Speaker 7: Scott Stevens, Scott Stevens, Stevens, Scotty Yankee third basement for
the Yeah got him Stevens.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you go, go go, look up a YouTube video
of Scott Stevens best hits. That dude used to lay
people out in hockey. They can get Stevens way. You
know my John Krug videos.
Speaker 9: Got the John Cruck video?
Speaker 5: Ready?
Speaker 7: Like break, go ahead, go ahead? Okay, yeah, just to
reset it. We're talking about great sports nicknames.
Speaker 5: The Big Unit.
Speaker 7: This is Randy Johnson facing off against John Crook in
an All Star game when john wasn't really interested in it.
Speaker 5: Johnny Cruck stanning himself off.
Speaker 7: Johnson has had pitches clocked that as much as one
hundred and two miles per hour in Major League play.
Speaker 9: Now that this ball obviously just getting away from him.
Speaker 5: But watch the reaction of John Kruk.
Speaker 9: Would you say he is heart is palpitating a bit.
Speaker 7: When the second half resumes on Thursday, look at the
next step.
Speaker 1: I don't blame.
Speaker 5: John one bit on his right leg. He fall not
again at the breaking he wants no partner Randy Johnson. No,
listen this kind of response.
Speaker 9: I don't think so.
Speaker 5: You knew that was Carl john had no chance.
Speaker 9: Then Johnson works a one two three.
Speaker 5: Oh, that that is fan tastic.
Speaker 9: Have you ever seen somebody in the corner of a
batting box like now.
Speaker 6: And falling away basically trying to hit fadeaways. That's how
Malaso used to bat His batting step was back. Yeah
before they uh before before they fixed it. Uh, shout out,
crooky God. All Star games used to be fun.
Speaker 5: Huh. Used to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 7: When they used to actually like where their uniform you know,
one's home, ones away?
Speaker 5: What league? The string in the NBA?
Speaker 9: Like, I don't. I don't want all the same uniform.
I wanted to be chaotic a little bit.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, today's day and age I think All Star games
were just done for him as a whole in all sports.
Speaker 7: God, they used to be like NBA All Star Week
and used to be awesome. I know, slam dunk contest,
three point contests never was. The Pro Bowl was never
and it was like proble was pretty tight growing up. Dude,
I used to love the Pro Bowl growing up. But well, guys,
you did play hard in that game.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Shoot, the one time my old man made a Pro Bowl,
they won seventeen to three, and he threw the two
touchdowns to Chris Carter. Maybe it was Andre, right, No,
I think it was Chris Carter. Speaking of good nicknames, Andre,
But can you imagine.
Speaker 5: A Pro Bowl at seventeen to three guys getting lit up? Yup,
it's crazy, it's crazy. All right, we'll get back more to.
Speaker 4: Keep off the Bench. Welcome in to the best morning sports.
This show around Off the Bench with Esther and t Bob.
Speaker 5: Burgundy killing on the just. That's definitely not flute, but
uh yeah, it's just I wouldn't expect.
Speaker 1: You to know.
Speaker 7: Okay, it's not a saxophone. No, it's a just Yeah,
Gay plays drums a couple of times. Thinks he can
tell us what instrument?
Speaker 5: Oh, good vinyl for Christmas sona jazz flute. Next thing,
you know, and we got an app.
Speaker 9: That's that's karma for me. I guess yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 5: Hey, what do we uh? What was the other video
we're gonna play?
Speaker 9: We just played Kruky Scott Stevens.
Speaker 5: Yeah, give me a Scott Stevens greatest hits here. Gona
watch Scott Stevens do some freaking carnage.
Speaker 9: Man, he's pulled it up.
Speaker 5: Give them a second New Jersey Devils shout out to.
Speaker 8: Him, Scott Stevens. Scott Niedermeyer was also on that teamneter.
Speaker 5: Meyer got played on while yeah he did.
Speaker 9: He played for the Penguins for a bit.
Speaker 5: Best Penguin ever, Go.
Speaker 9: Sydney.
Speaker 8: Sidney's got up there. But probably you might still have
I think you still probably has him though.
Speaker 5: Guinea Malkin not the flex guys, not to flex. No,
it's ma it's gotta be or a crossby all right,
here's Scott Stevens's greatest hits. Look at this classic NHL action,
Oh tailop who edited this? Is that just a flash
of the desktop there? Look at this old foota Jude.
Speaker 8: Oh my god, laying people out. Then HL used to
be hard to Like the NFL the kind of softened
up a little bit. And this was back when they.
Speaker 5: Were you know, turns out head injuries or a hell
of a thing they are. I still can't, I still cannot.
Speaker 6: Grasp why in the Clemson Texas game that block was
a penalty on the pick six. I mean yeah, like
he like declared, you know, he hit the guy good,
but like the sinner had a very real chance of
making the play.
Speaker 8: Watch the dude's stick on the guy's hockey stick just
flew into the crowd. He got hit so hard you
just couldn't hold onto it.
Speaker 6: Steven, since you so hard that your body, Oh my god,
your body just spontaneously combusts.
Speaker 8: There is one, there is one, really the most famous
hit he had it. It's probably gonna be number one
on here, we'll see, but he had one on this
on the actually a really good player.
Speaker 5: He's going under the chin forearm shiver, bang, brothers a
knockout shot right there.
Speaker 9: Oh that guys out.
Speaker 6: I mean the forum shiver is literally illegal in football.
Well Man used to always tell me about it. I
got a penalty in twenty eleven for it that that
Miles used as the uh try to get hup and
he fell down being knocked out on the ice. Bad
place to be knocked out, you know. I mean, you're
just bad luck all around. How the hell are you
supposed to stand up? He almosto got his own player
on that one.
Speaker 5: Dude, Hey, collateral damage Brown, it is what it is?
Speaker 9: Oh, this is it? This is the one.
Speaker 5: That ice way too hard? Oh my, I don't like that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's really he was a really good player.
Speaker 5: He gave him the two hands.
Speaker 7: Oh no, oh when I hit see, I thought that
was me number one for sure. Somebody hits me like that.
We're gonna have to We're gonna settle this in the
locker room.
Speaker 6: Yeah, next week, when you can think of, when you're
aware of what day it is and where you are
and what planet you're on.
Speaker 5: We're gonna fight.
Speaker 9: That was one of Eric Lindross's seventeen concussions. Yeah, man, yeah,
the worst. That was number one for sure. I don't
know why that was number one.
Speaker 5: Did you ever give you my little forum shiver Jake
forum to the helmet. I was more of a head butter.
Yeah me too, me too. I used to leave with
the head a lot.
Speaker 7: If I saw somebody like coming from the side, like
I kind of like talk it to the side and
like getyone.
Speaker 5: Yeah up and end.
Speaker 7: It's probably why I can't jump on a trampoline anymore. Yeah, yeah,
I think we're I think you were not here yet.
When we're talking about that on Friday, I was like,
I can't do trampoline parks.
Speaker 5: I'll pass out. That sucks.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we were because we were talking abou how much
you enjoy trampling parks.
Speaker 5: I don't think that Scott Stevens can do trampoline parks either,
probably not. Or if Scott Stevens victims.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta
it's off the bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in OTV.
Speaker 9: Hetay.
Speaker 5: What's the Thursday nine game? Seahawks Bears?
Speaker 2: Seahawks Bears. But I don't know if the NFL is
punishing us. I don't know when they decided to have
this game at Thursday, but this is an awful one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I know they can flex because they ruined
our family trip to go watch the Chargers and Broncos
on a Sunday. They flexed it all the way up
to Thursday, so I know it can be done. So
they had multiple weeks to look at this deal.
Speaker 3: I mean, you have an eight and seven Seahawks team
that's beats all hell.
Speaker 2: You have a four and eleven Bears team that has
lost nine games in a row.
Speaker 3: They started four and two, They've lost nine games in
a row.
Speaker 9: This is this is not this is not They could
flex this.
Speaker 5: You want to screw?
Speaker 8: Can you bet on a team to finish last in
their division? Because if there were odds for the San
Francisco forty nine ers to finish last, then sc west.
Speaker 9: I wonder what those odds would have been.
Speaker 5: Probably somewhere some sicco would take that bet.
Speaker 3: Here's a crazy stat for you guys.
Speaker 2: If they missed the playoffs for twenty two straight years,
these forty nine ers will either miss the playoffs or make.
Speaker 3: The NFC Championship game.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I meaning when they're good, they're good, and when they're bad,
they are bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they make the playoffs, they go to the NFC
Championship or they're out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they were bad. When I was in the NFL,
singletary was the coach. They had talent, they had dudes.
Speaker 5: They were bad, and.
Speaker 3: That was Alex Smith, right, Yeah, because I don't think
he's right. Yeah, I don't think he had went to
the Chiefs until left.
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, because their quarterbacks the Chiefs when I was
playing was Brodie Croyle, Tyler thig.
Speaker 3: Pick, Damon Hewart was probably was one of them.
Speaker 9: Matching.
Speaker 5: Go from that to Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 7: They could have flexed the Denver at Cincinnati game that's
going to be a Saturday game.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 7: I'm sure there's things, you know, built around that game
with it being on the NFL network, and it was maybe.
Speaker 9: That's what it was.
Speaker 7: They didn't want to touch what they had on their
NFL Network because that's a massive game, and so that's
why they don't want to give that up to prime video.
That makes sense if you look at the Sunday slate,
there's not a game green Bay Minnesota.
Speaker 5: That one that one certainly would have played.
Speaker 7: Atlanta and Washington is Sunday night, so green Bay Minnesota
really the only option. But still, yeah, kind of a
Thursday night dud here unless you just want to watch
the game and just remind everybody that our take that
Jayden Daniels was the best quarterback in the draft last
year over Caleb Williams was right.
Speaker 3: What a surprise.
Speaker 8: I'm shocked, I will say though, I think I think
the Bears are a far worse organization in terms of especially.
Speaker 5: With that in the Manders.
Speaker 8: The Commanders were, they were, but I think with their
new ownership and it seems like they've got a new
lease on life.
Speaker 5: Look, I tell people this all the time.
Speaker 7: The Commanders earned the number two pick, the Bears were
gifted the number one pick. That Bears actually the roster
on paper is much better than eight and nine last year.
Speaker 3: Yes, they have, they have. They have doubled their.
Speaker 7: A historically bad franchise and I know they got new ownership,
but still.
Speaker 3: Like no, and that's all we heard.
Speaker 5: When Caleb Williams just leave at their stadium, it's a dump.
Speaker 2: No rookie quarterback taking one overall us had any of
these weapons. He's got a solid offensive line, he's got
playmakers on every level. That's all we heard coming into
the season. Hadn't worked out.
Speaker 9: Bo Nicks has been great.
Speaker 8: Jay Dale's definitely played. I mean he's he's been the
rookie of the year by far. It has been pretty good.
Speaker 7: Caleb's game is just it's hard. He's very talented, but
it doesn't translate as well. You can't play chaotic in
the NFL and be successful unless you names Patrick Mahomes
or Michael Vick. Even even vic like Mahomes is one
of one. It's my kind of Yeah, everybody's trying to
find the next Patrick Mahomes. There's not the next Patrick Mahomes.
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