Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Say Hester and Hester got it finett a five.
Speaker 1: From carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each
other on the air.
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Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Caine Studio.
Speaker 3: It's off the Bench, all right, welcome back in our
number three here on Off the Bench Live from the
Raising Cane Studio. Time flies when you're having some fun.
I can't believe it's already in the third hour. Flynn
Alandra Tate in studio came the dog on the down
instead of word all week pretty much an awful co host.
We got the Super Big Game coming up this weekend.
Some call the Super Bowl, some call it the Big Game,
depending on how you're using it in a phrase and
what airwaves you're using. Taylor, you kind of like brought
the house down yesterday with some fantastic fun facts and
some ways to really get some deep thought into the
outcome of this game. Of course, we talked about God's
locks with the Pope, the new Pope sending the Seahawks
every time there's a new Pope sending the Seahawks. We
talked about teams that travel West always winning if they're
playing teams that are traveling east? What else was there?
What am I missing? Drake May's last name, Drake May's
last night. There's never been there's never been a quarterback
to win a Super Bowl with four letters or less
in his last name. And there's also never been a
quarterback with the initials d M in the Super Bowl,
which your.
Speaker 4: First name and last name end in the same letter.
Speaker 3: That's here, that's right. So now you've got a lot
to live up to here. But did you do some
deep dives? Did you scour the internet? Did you find
the end of the internet? These are better?
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 3: Don't that's that you don't do that. That's a that's
a rooky mistake. You don't do that. Don't build it
up too much.
Speaker 4: They'll be there'll be a give and take, you know something.
But I think it's better. It's a deeper it's a
deeper die for sure. Look the first one. We'll give
the Patriots a little bit of love here. This actually
came from CBS.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: It's the tenth Super Bowl rematch in NFL history. The
winner of the first meeting six and three in the
second meeting. So advantage of New England on that one.
That's the boring one. Let's get that out of the way, okay.
And also these came from me, like I I I
scoured the globes and the interweb.
Speaker 3: Yesterday to do that. From Walker right here, okay.
Speaker 4: So the then actually shout out to Jake Pastor his
comment about Dan Marino losing the Super Bowl in the
Bay Area. I started thinking, Hey, are there any other similarities.
There's a lot. So Jake kind of had that idea
in my head. I want to do some digging. So
Dan Marino lost the Super Bowl obviously initials DM in
the Bay Area. Now it wasn't in San Francisco, but
it was right there was a Stanford Stadium in Santa Clara.
Who did he lose that game to the San Francisco
forty nine ers where this game is taking place. Dan
Marino Drake May obviously both DM. Initial wise, Dan Marino
made the Super Bowl in his second season when he
was just twenty three years old. Drake May is in
his second year and he is also twenty three years old.
He will be twenty four in August. Dan Marino squad
fourteen regular season wins New England Patriots fourteen and three
in the regular season under Drake May. This year is
sure other similarity and this is the one you're really
gonna love. Okay, Well, so, first off, the Seahawks and
Niners who Marino lost to the Niners both one seeds.
Speaker 3: Okay in the NFC coming.
Speaker 4: Into that game, Damn Marino lost to San Francisco forty
nine Ers quarterback Joe Montana. If you combine his first
and last names, that is a total of ten letters.
Oh boy, Sam Donald, ten letters first and last name.
Speaker 3: I like that one. That one's a good one. So
DM's not good in the Bay Area versus ten letter
quarterback names. You didn't write a column on this. This
needs to be national names now.
Speaker 4: But Joe Montana ten letters, Sam Donald ten letters both
the one seed and then the Marina Drake May comparisons
are off the charts.
Speaker 3: They're off the charts both in the AFC East as well.
So Seahawks, right, All signs, all signs that you have
told us in the last two days do point to
the Seahawks winning, which is probably all those reasons are
probably why they're four and that point favorite currently.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean the pope gives them two points. Anyways,
I mean, that's that's the biggest one of all, just
them making it there. But no, I mean, look, Marino
twenty three years old, Drake May twenty three, second season
from both of them, both twenty three years old in
their letters, both in the same division. I mean, it's
just both playing this game in the Bay Area and
Marino actually lost to the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's.
Speaker 4: It's a lot.
Speaker 3: Pope Leo is from Chicago, right, Yes, first American pope
gotta think he's a Bears fan, which.
Speaker 4: I know he's a White Sox fan for baseball, He's
got to be a Bears fan, which means he's probably
a Caleb william Was fan, which means he probably is
not a Drake mayfan because they're in the same draft class,
and he probably wants Callab Williams to be the best
quarterback out of that draft class.
Speaker 3: So I would say he's probably rooting against him against
the Patriots. I would imagine it's like when uh man,
you gotta think, so you gotta think the Pope wants
the Seahawks to win.
Speaker 4: The Steelers Ravens game winner went to the playoffs, remember,
and the Steelers had the uh the priests come in
and bless the end zone, which is where the Ravens
missed it. A lot of things lined up this year.
I mean that happened.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like, how do you feel about this?
There's a lot of Pope correlation here. Yeah, yeah, you're
not lockdown, You're not buying this whole initial thing.
Speaker 5: I honestly didn't hear what the fun fact. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: You got a lot to do. You got a lot
of Budds bush back, there a lot.
Speaker 5: Of I mean, I I'm Catholic, so I'm obviously going
with the Pope's team. Like it's the Seahawks. He's telling like,
look at the signs. Sometimes you don't want to see
the signs.
Speaker 3: They're unbelievable and undeniable. So let's not deny it. Their
four and a half point favorites for a reason. I
wonder if anybody at media Row is talking about these things.
Speaker 5: Probably not.
Speaker 4: No, Yeah, you're not getting this gun info. And I
know what you're gonna say. No one cares as much.
No one in media Row has this kind of time
on their hands. Guys, That's exactly what it boils down to.
Speaker 3: Good for the ESPN team at unsportsman like that show,
the show that, of course has aired on on one
of four five here before that we start. They are
usually on the East Coast, so they start at They're
not like a six am East Coast, so they start
at like five am Central time. Well, they had their
show going today.
Speaker 5: On Media Row. On Media Row, I bet it was
quiet as hell?
Speaker 3: What Tom?
Speaker 4: Because his thirt six R Tom?
Speaker 3: What have about? I think it would have been four
am their time. They must have started. Maybe they started
an hour later, but they were on and I got
in my cart like five forty five this morning, and
they're usually they usually start at five pm Central, which
would be I guess that. Yeah, there'd be three am
West Coast, so I don't know. They started at four
or five am this morning West Coast. So shout out
to them. Now. They all sounded pretty pretty tired, pretty bad. Yeah,
but they got there, they woke up.
Speaker 5: I just there's nobody in the I doubt there's anybody
in the convention center at five.
Speaker 3: There's probably like so there's.
Speaker 5: Shows, and probably no reason to do your show from
there if there's nobody there. That was the whole reason
why Off the Bench didn't go because we would have
had to we couldn't work it out with Jake's schedule,
and we would have had to be there at five
in the morning. There's literally no point in doing that.
So yeah, shout out to them.
Speaker 3: I guess. I guess they have like other obligations they got,
like I'm sure they have an ESPN like super Bowl party.
They got a network. It's probably part of their con track,
which is great. But how much can you network when
you got to go to bed at like seven because
you got your show starts at three.
Speaker 4: It's so funny. When I was getting out of the truck,
I had on Sportsman like on in the background, and
as I'm getting out it's about six am, They're like,
Damian Woody joining us. Next, I'm like, why the hell
is Damian Woody in that convention center? And no doubt
he's not doing a show.
Speaker 3: No, he came there specifically because he had a contractual
obligation to be there at that time. Because my god,
what did you so? Yeah, I wouldn't. I wasn't like
too sad we weren't at the show starting at five am.
You're right there, there's no one there to interview, no point.
That's the reason you're there is to go and interview,
and those people get interviewed, they want to be interviewed
because they're all like selling some sort of random product.
Speaker 5: Yeah, or even to have some sort of like background noise.
I'm sure it just sounded like they were echoing.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so map bad news. Moscowna stole one of our
interviews yesterday. What yep, five to fifteen segment, Jacob pastor.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: Jake went on the show, and you know what it
was used me. It was a full ten minute segment.
Speaker 3: You know what. I texted Jake a little while ago.
Guess what. Guess what I responded with, Uh, crickets nothing nothing.
Speaker 4: He went on with the map.
Speaker 3: He's given us as much content today as Caine the
Dog is. King's cute, though Cae is cute. I'm saving
the our official Super Bowl predictions. That's gonna be tomorrow.
We are going to do tomorrow. We're going to do
a prop bet pontoon parlay. Now, this isn't the prop
bet that we've been doing all week, like the random ones.
These are like the actual like receiving yards, turnovers, passing yards, touchdowns.
So I want everybody to study up a little bit.
We are going to do a Pontoo parlay tomorrow as
well as well as our Super Bowl predictions or excuse me,
super big Game. Bowl.
Speaker 4: Gotta tell you, it's gonna be hard to not pick
the Seahawks after all these all these connections.
Speaker 5: You just gotta look at the godlocks.
Speaker 3: God looks well the Seahawks are. The Seahawks on paper,
are the better team. They're a really good team. Uh,
there's no weaknesses. They have a fantastic defense. How are
they going to How is the Patriots going to attack
that defense? Now? Patriots defense? Of course, there's no slouches themselves.
The Seahawks have proven all year that they can win
these defensive matchups. Sam Darnold doesn't like have to be
a world beater to win games because he has such
a good They've won some tight, low scoring games that
they are completely capable of playing that well. The same
can be said for the Patriots as well. I think
it's a I think it's the more the closer I'm
getting to it. I don't know if it's Because'm getting
closer to the game. The more the closer I'm getting
to the game, the more excited I am about the matchup.
I know there's we've talked about it all week. There's
not as much juice to this game as we would
certainly like, but we've but the closer I'm getting, I
am getting excited. We set up. We're gonna be hosting
a little bit of super Bowl party at the house too.
Speaker 4: It's just gonna be me and Victoria. But I'm gonna
play the uh, what'd you call it? The super Bowl
Squares game?
Speaker 3: Super Bowl Squares.
Speaker 4: I've never done it, really, and I think I think
I think me and Victoria gonna do it this year.
Speaker 3: I think. So it's one hundred squares to fill out,
though Bud is one hundred squares.
Speaker 4: They're like an abbreviated like twenty.
Speaker 3: No, because like you gotta go. You gotta go to
your columns and your rows all zero through nine horizontally
on the on the columns, then on the rose zero
through nine. I think it was like fine, and then
one side is like the Seahawks, so I'll be the Patriots.
So you take the last number of the score for that,
and then you you see which sell it's on, and
that person wins the first quarter, pot second quarter, pot,
third quarter, fourth quarter, in the game, it's a great game.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm gonna have to print this out when I
get home and work on this today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be tough. It'll two person squares game. It'll
be tough because it's usually like you put a dollar
in for a square or whatever whatever dollar amount you
want to do. Or maybe it's not a dollar, man,
maybe it's maybe it's a beer, maybe it's whatever, some
sort of anti for each square.
Speaker 4: You know what we may do, We may we may
uh may alter it a little bit, make our own
thinking like blank bingo cards. She gets one, I get one,
Let's fill them out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can do it well that type of thing. Yeah,
I gave you a prop bet twenty three questions you
could do with her. That'd be a fun one true
because like people that don't like watch a lot of ball,
they just they're there for the entertainment. They're not gonna
like care about is it seven and a half receptions
for this player. They're gonna care about the color Gatorade
national anth everybody can get into the link to the
national anthem. Celebrities on commercials. I think they like that anyway.
Moral of the story is the closer we get to
this game as little juice as we kind of had
towards the beginning of the week. I'm getting more excited
about the matchup the more we talk about it. Drake
May has a shoulder injury. They're saying as well, nobody
really knows what that is. But I got a hard
time believing that's anything too serious. I'm reading something right now.
I haven't read this yet. The second youngest quarterback to
start a Super Bowl Drake Man? Is that right? Well,
in fact check it. But we're going to come back.
We are going to do Do we have Munchie's next
segment or is that nine to thirty? Yeah, all right,
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executive chef to the stars over there, to the athletes
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves. It's Off the
Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Girl, all right, welcome back here off the bench our
number three Thursday morning. So you know what that means.
One of our favorite segments all week, certainly one of
our most favorite conversations all week. How much you said?
With chef Michael Johnson. We got him right here joining
the show. Chef, How we doing?
Speaker 2: I'm great? How are you guys?
Speaker 3: We are doing fantastic. Jake is actually in San Francisco
right now. I'll join enjoying media rows. You just got
me today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's cool.
Speaker 3: So what's going on? How we doing this week?
Speaker 2: Oh man? Enjoying the weather?
Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah? You done any You shot anything this week?
Doing any Huh?
Speaker 2: Went holl coutting last weekend. But I've been I've been
enjoying the warmth of my home this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah. There.
Speaker 2: I tolerate the thirties, but when it gets down into
the twenties, I get a little you know, my knee
sees up.
Speaker 3: No more hiking around, No, we're stalking out there. Well, chef,
we got uh we got the super Bowl this weekend?
Are you you you do you get excited for the
Super Bowl, like the game itself, or is it just
more kind of the act, the thought of it's the
final football game of the year, to congregate with some
friends and family and just le's having a little good
little time.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm I'm, I'm. You know, like I absolutely get
excited about it when the Chiefs renting because that's my team.
But uh yeah, I'd like to watch the Super Bowl,
and especially because you know, I say the Chiefs for
my team. But now since I've been here at LSU
and we've graduated and and and had so many guys
draft and go to the pros, it's really difficult not
to cheer for other teams. And you know, like there's
teams that I absolutely loathe, and I have somebody that's
worked that plays for that team, and so you know,
like I'll play for I'll cheer for him. You know
they're on defense. A cheer for the linebacker, you know whatever.
But you know, we got five guys playing for the
Pats this weekend. And you know, I worked for the
I worked for the Seahawks for three years, so you
know that's a that's a tough split for me. Man.
I you know, I have a a real emotional spot
for working for the Seahawks. But you know, we we
have five plays for the Pats and so that's that's
a tough thing to hear against, right, So I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to bring that up, Becau as you did. You had,
you know a few years with working for the Seahawks
and working up there in Seattle, which, like Seattle is
a fantastic culinary spot too, with all the fresh seafood
and like different types of seafood, certainly than we get
down here in the Gulf. I had so many like
cool things up there that I've never even heard of
down here. So how was that experience, like, well, do
you have like any memorable experience like specifically that was
sea like around the Seahawks where there was during a
game with players or anything like that.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, they treated me really well. You know,
I only left the Seahawks to move down here to
be closer to my kids that had been you know,
unfortunate circumstance of divorce, and so you know, I had
been looking to move down here and so God found
me this job, and I'm grateful for LSU. But the
Seahawks treated me amazingly well, and one of my favorite
things you know, to tout about, I guess is when
I got to the Seahawks, were they were ranked twenty
eight out of thirty two teams in the Voice of
the So the Voice of the Fans survey is they
send out emails to all of their season ticket holders
and get feedback as to the food and the culture
of the building and so on and so forth. So
when they brought me over there, I resigned from the
Mariners and went over to the Seahawks. We were ranked
twenty eighth out of thirty two, and before the season
was over, we were ranked third. And so you know
that it was a change of culture. It was in
supportive of Seahawks, right, Like they that's what they were
looking for. They wanted a culture shift in the building.
And we went from hot dogs and beer to you know,
pork belly bond me and just developed all these really
cool We kind of brought a taste of Seattle into
the building, right and in doing so, I got to
socialize with all these shifts. And you know inside in Seattle,
and we had a street market there that was we
it was in the stadium that we brought you know,
street tacos in and and ty ty curry and and
stuff like that. And so we were trying to create
a cross section of Seattle in the building, and in
doing that, I built all these relationships with chefs. And man,
there's not too many places I can walk into in
Seattle and not know the chef and then be like, oh,
you know, like, hey, dude, great to see you. Here's
here's to see you know, We're going to take care
of you, you know. And it's never like I'm never
expecting anything, and they're always you know, they get upset
if I don't say that I'm there right like you're
supposed to let me know when you come. So your
dining experience is great. So I don't know that there
was a deep amount of camaraderie amongst the culinarians there,
and it's just something I think is really beautiful.
Speaker 3: Do you think that, like Seattle is not from like
a bougie standpoint, but like one of the more foody
cities that doesn't really get talked about in.
Speaker 2: That Absolutely, you know, the food to table culture up
there is incredible and and and the camaraderie amongst it
is incredible. You know that they're they're very much in
touch with the environment, which I applaud. You know, it's
not just reaping and and and and taking. You know,
there's a there's a thoughtfulness to the to the people
who bring you the food. There's a thoughtfulness to the
process that it takes to bring the food to you,
be the fishermen or the or the appleformers or you know,
I mean, and and the beer and the and the
wine and the cider and all that ties into it
as well. You know, it's uh, I don't know, the
food scene up there is really strong and and you
know it's not to compare it to the oil as
the Orleans is incredible and wonderful, just in a different way.
Speaker 3: Right. Yeah, you can get lost in that food. The
famous food market of there, you can get lost in that.
Speaker 2: You know what I love about Seattle though, is it
has a very rich, authentic culture from uh, you know,
ethnic foods. The taie curry that there is is you know,
like it's superb, and the and the you know, the
Japanese sushi is run by Japanese people, and it's you know, like, uh,
this guy Sheiro that I worked with, he was incredible, man,
I mean one of my favorite dining experiences ever happened
in his restaurant, right. And so it's not just the
mom and pop and the and the you know, comfort
foods that that flourish up there. They have some really
great ethnic foods that are super authentic and uh, you know,
it's enjoyable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no one knows. No one's gonna know what I
what I mean when I say this, but you'll know
what I mean when when you first taste a Copper
River salmon.
Speaker 2: You know, it's my guys, it is too you know.
And people think that I'm bougie because of this, but
I don't. I don't eat Atlantic salmon. I don't like
Atlantic salmon. I like the Pacific salmon, and Copper River
salmon is even you know, like that's the salmon of
salmon's if you will, you know, like it's clean water,
fresh cold, clean water, and man, it's it's beautiful. And
even the Columbia River salmon, you know. Uh. And and
I kind of people think I'm weird about this, but
I love I love steelhead trout. And part of the
reason I love steelhead trout is because it is a
it's a it's a you know, elusive creature to fish, right,
and so I mean, if you've ever been fishing for
a steelhead on a small river, you know, like they
it's super clear water up there that they can see
you coming. They don't bite, They don't feed the same
way fish down here doof out of aggression or territorialism,
you know, like they they bat it with their head
and it's super frustrating.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: You have to have you have to know what's going on,
and it'll take you years to perfect, you know, even
catching a fish. And so eating a steelhead every time
I eat when, I'm like, yeah, here we go one
for me?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, uh all right, So, speaking of fish, we
got some questions here in the chat hashtag montries. We're
doing a fish fry for the Super Bowl. What's seasoning
does chef prefer in his fry batter?
Speaker 2: You know? Usually I just kind of make my own
with garlic stuff. I have relationships with with Tony Seafood
and and Tony Sasuaries, you know, so I don't ever
shy away from either one of those places. But it's
gonna be a Louisiana seasoning, you know, like I don't know,
it's it's difficult for me to get away from Tony's
just because it's it's familiar and it's everywhere right. But
I love the people at Louisiana Fish right too. So
I think either one of those is an easy one.
But I also like making my own. I like it spicy.
I like it, you know, kind of kind of different.
I put, you know, like powdered black garlic in my stuff.
Sometimes I just play around with it. Man. Even when
I find something I like, I might tweak it next
time because I might like it even better. So I
just encourage people to, you know, if it works and
the kids are eating it and you enjoy it, do it,
you know great, write it down and share it with
your kids, like your grandma did.
Speaker 3: There you go right on a note card and like
the measurements mean nothing. We have one. We have one
recipe from my grandmother and it says, it's just a
hunk of butter. Yeah, huk a hunk of butter.
Speaker 2: Baby, there's not a hunk too big.
Speaker 3: There's not a hunk too man. That's right, munchies. What's
on Chef's Super Bowl menu for.
Speaker 2: Sunday, Oh man, relaxation is number one. Yeah. I usually
I usually go for the easy beings. Man, I'm a
fan of I'm a fan of wings in football. And
call me simple or whatever. Man, it's a matter or not,
you know, Like I just I like wings, man, and
I might even I might even throw some in the fridge.
I don't know if you know that about me, Matt.
You know, like I like cold fried chickens.
Speaker 3: Colds amazing, cold wing cold grilled wings are incredible. Grilled
for sure.
Speaker 2: No, And I don't like a bread either, Like I
like cold you know, like cold fried naked wings. Yep.
Speaker 3: I like nothing better than like a smoked or grilled wing.
And then after it is then toss it in a
little buffalo sauce and so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: You got something there. And we actually do a sweet
tea Brian on our wings here before we smoke them.
And it's incredible, you know. You you basically make sweet
tea and salt the heck out of it so that
it's a brine, and you put a ton of sugar
in it. You have like you have two to one
salt sugar, and then you brew your sweet tea and
you soak them overnight and and then smoke them. And
I'll tell you what, brother, Yeah, it's something that will
make you.
Speaker 3: Validate speaking of the language with wings right there. Hey, Jeff,
So a couple of years ago for a Super Bowl party,
we had some friends come over and enjoy the game.
But we always like to do some sort of like
you know, theme or something. For this one specific one,
we did a butter tasting. So all butter is a
little bit different. So we were trying to figure out
which store bought butter was the absolute best. So we
had like the same pieces of bread. We had all
these blind taste tests of butter, and so I wanted
to ask you, like, do you make your own butter
or do you have like a preferred butter that you buy.
I'm sure there's like a everyday cooking butter, but then
there's like this butter when you got this nice piece
of sourdough bread, you got some sort of something you
want to like spice it up a little bit.
Speaker 2: So I always use on salts of butter. I don't
like to use salted butter. So whatever it is, it's
almost it's almost certainly going to be an unsalted butter.
And I you know, like price per pounds, I don't
know if you've ever had those rolls of Amish butter.
But I absolutely love it.
Speaker 3: Man. It's it's exactly.
Speaker 2: It's you know, like it might it might be twenty
dollars for that big role, but it's like three pounds
of butter, and you know, like it's it's not an
it might be twenty bucks, but it's good butter man.
And you know, like you have to pay attention to
you have to appreciate that the must have their process right.
And I don't know, there's there's Plu grub that's that's
pretty good, and there's the Irish butter, and you know,
like I know that European cream style butters are really
good and all of them have the pros and cons.
But if it's me buying, I almost feel for that Amish,
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Speaker 3: It's a hunk of but it's a wholesale option right there. Yes,
I say, I'll tell you there was bolts from ours.
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And we also had like the we had all sorts
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got plue gri in my refrigerator right now.
Speaker 5: Brothers.
Speaker 2: The place that used to sell the Amige butter doesn't
sell it anymore, but.
Speaker 3: You gotta settle for the plu gris.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, I got it.
Speaker 3: Well, Chef, we can't thank you enough for the time.
We hope you have a great weekend, get that rest,
get you a little nap for Super Bowl. We enjoy
some commercials, and I hope somebody cooks you wings this weekend.
Speaker 2: To brother, that's a good idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, So I appreciate We talk to you
next week. Are there there he is, Chef Michael Johnson.
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I know we kind of got off on the the
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up there like, it's a pretty cool deal up there.
The seafood up there is fantastic, So I got to
imagine that he might be subtly pulling for the Seahawks
just because of food. Anyway, we're gonna close out the
show we.
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Speaker 5: Do the Seahawks.
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just tweeted this out. Saints quarterback Tyler Shuck has officially
been named the twenty twenty five Pepsi zero Sugar NFL
Rookie of the Year. That's right, you heard it. I
said it fast. Pepsi zero Sugar ranked him NFL Rookie
of the Year. Now, of course that's not the NFL
Honors Rookie of the Year award that we will hear tonight,
but it is some sort of recognition for his efforts.
You know, the Pepsi zero Sugar, it's a quarterback award.
We all know that every single year. You can count
on it like clockwork. Are we excited? Is this like
give us hope for tonight? What do you think it
might be a son of things to come? Maybe?
Speaker 5: I mean, there's been a lot of talk around him
to the end of the season. I feel like the
odds are pretty in his favor. I know there's a
there's other rookies out there, but Tyler Shuck.
Speaker 3: The stats are there, so you think him over tep McMillan, I.
Speaker 4: Think he should. I think the only thing holding him
back is maybe people say he hasn't played the whole season,
but based on what we saw, yeah right, I.
Speaker 3: Mean McMillan had over a thousand yards.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's the thing team wins to the playoffs.
He contributed in every game a thousand yards. It's hard
to argue.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying he's gonna get it, but I mean,
the there's an argument. He just won the Pepsi zero one,
which is.
Speaker 3: Huge and the best of huge PEPs zero sugar, And
the biggest argument for him is just because we want him.
Speaker 5: To yeah, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 3: Just want him to Yeah, he thinks that you think
this this award right here helps him, like helps his
card value any and they aren't card people, but people
look at it. I think it's a big day for
you some tep McMillan cards. Though it's a win win
for me really for from like a sports cards standpoint,
I should want the Patriots to win as well. We've
got some big boy drinking cards been holden. Does anybody
drink pepsi? No?
Speaker 5: But I have a question. Do you always use your
finger to read?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I was just doing it here was I was van
of White. I thought it was great. I even panned
back to you. I had the full tweet pulled up.
I was like, we gotta go back. Folks have to
see this.
Speaker 3: Orleans look at this. Of course I know, yeah, it's
not even an L there. No, just got the shape
of Louisiana, which.
Speaker 5: Could be an L.
Speaker 3: I drink dikoke, I don't drink. I don't drink.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I'm a doctor pepper person.
Speaker 4: There's only there's only one place I'll drink pepsi at
a Stocco belt, because that's that's the guy.
Speaker 5: Doctor pepper there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get doctor Pepper.
Speaker 3: Well, I got we got mad. We stopped the BUCkies
Oh yeah, mobile because they don't have coke in there,
which is.
Speaker 4: Weird because BUCkies is Southern.
Speaker 3: Like pepsi.
Speaker 4: Pepsi is super popular in the Northern States, but down here,
like that's that's kind of weird.
Speaker 3: And you could you could buy it in the refrigerator section.
They can or bottle, but the fountain nothing like it
doesn't quite slap as much as it does a convenience
store fountain.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what they did have at the fountain
that Jake almost got that. I almost also got.
Speaker 3: What the big red Oh it's right.
Speaker 5: I was like, this big red sounds so good. But
it was also eleven o'clock at.
Speaker 3: Night Fairy Texas of you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had just.
Speaker 5: Got a coffee, so I was like, let me not
put more sugar than I need to in my body.
Speaker 4: They also do like a Bucky like bu lot of
I got that.
Speaker 3: It's just like dy cola, but it's a pepsi. It's
a pepsi. I mean there's they got about seven hundred
and fifty thing is to choose from. Yeah, and none
of them, not one diet, coke, not one get out
of here that none of us like pepsi.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's a bad open.
Speaker 3: Maybe this isn't bad.
Speaker 4: I was saying, maybe it's a good sign, but it is.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's not out here winning the coke zero.
Speaker 3: Can I say it? Can I say Pepsi's kind of trash?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think you can say it. I mean, I think
I think that's a popular opinion that cancel culture.
Speaker 3: Though I don't want to get canceled.
Speaker 5: But I mean it's pretty pepsi heads out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's I think you're the vast majority,
don't hear.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it's trash. Yeah, I can only imagine that
pepsi zero sugar.
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably not any good at all.
Speaker 3: What's the difference between all those like that, like zero
and diet diet and then another one. It's basically the
same thing. Is it's just like a different artificial sweetener.
Some of them got splendor, some of them got splendor.
Speaker 5: We actually, no, I think one.
Speaker 3: Has its aspertain they're super lows. Yeah, some other kind
of loss or tame good things upon her. So congratulations,
we think to Tyler, shuck, Now that we've diagnosed this
whole Pepsi situation. We think it might be a bad
sign for tonight. We all on that kind of same page.
I don't know. I don't know. Well, we're gonna see,
we're gonna cheer him on, We're gonna hope that he wins.
But I do have a feeling it is going to
go to Temman Bellan. Let me see this before we
go to break Coach of the Year. This is going
to be a highly contested one. I think Vrabel is
the odds on favorite to win as of now. But
I don't think there's any other award tonight that has
as many people that probably have a like a really
good claim to this award. That's the toughest one.
Speaker 4: Like you look at that list of five, you could
make an argument for all, Like a lot of these
are you know, two man races. But I mean you
look at that Liam Cohen, Ben Johnson, Mike McDonald, Kyle Shanahan,
Mike Frabel, finally one that doesn't belong there.
Speaker 3: And you like you have been on the Duval train.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Rabel leading the Patriots.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not supposed to be about post season, right,
but it should kind of be.
Speaker 4: It is though it is though. I mean, it's it's
two days before the Super Bowl, that's when they do
these awards. It is like, I love what Liam Cohen did.
I mean, he did something that literally no other coach
had ever done. Rabel, though, I mean after not even
being a head coach of last year, coming in in
his first season, I think I think it's got to
be Mike Frabel. Ben Johnson has a great claim to
it as well.
Speaker 3: But I think any other any other years, I think
Ben Johnson wins. You could say the same thing about
Liam Cohen, say this same thing about Kyle Shanahan in
San Francisco. They've all done outstanding, outstanding jobs this year.
But again, I do think there is some playoff by US.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: I know that the vote does get cut off well before,
just not I don't know exactly when that is, but anyway,
it'll probably be Mike Rabel and rightfully deserve. But you
can also say there's a handful of guys that deserve that.
So NFL you're in a good spot with some young coaches.
Some people did some really amazing things. I mean, hell,
you made the Jaguars good pretty decent. All right, We'll
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