Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents off the bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Say Hester and Hester.
Speaker 1: From carrying each other to a natty to carrying each
other on the air Control Live from the Mercedes Benz
of Baton Rouge Studio.
Speaker 3: It's off the bench, all right, Welcome back in oh
t b Our number three here on this Thursday morning
as we celebrate America.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited the birthday of our nation.
Speaker 5: I love July fourth and I love America. What are
you laughing about? You love's? I love lamp? What I
love lamb?
Speaker 4: It's a man? Yeah, okay, you said, I don't even
take it all right? Yeah, because we'll see seven squirrels
if I say that.
Speaker 5: I know. I love a lot of things, Buddy.
Speaker 6: Green Bay Packers, love God, love my family, loving America,
love football and baseball. Now I love the Tour de France.
Even though that's not American. I say a couple Americans
in it.
Speaker 5: WoT.
Speaker 4: I'll let you talk about that later on.
Speaker 6: There was like, like I want to say, nine years
ago I took a trip to Ireland with my dad
and one of my brothers had and can I tell
you Irish people in Ireland love America. At the time
I was playing was obviously I was playing. I was
signed with the Patriots. They loved me because I was
with the Patriots at the time.
Speaker 5: It was. It was the wildest thing.
Speaker 6: And we were there during July fourth and they had
in Killarney, Ireland, southwest from part of the island, they
have like the biggest Fourth of July parade celebration I've
ever seen. That's a little like, all right, that's a
little bit there, but like it was.
Speaker 5: They do. They love it because but they hate England
the US because we meet them.
Speaker 7: They treat Fourth of July the way we treat too.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 7: I feel like no one in Mexico cares about well.
Speaker 4: About what you're saying.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you.
Speaker 6: In the middle of Killarney, Ireland was a huge like
float statue of Liberty, tons of vocal Sam's running around.
Speaker 5: It was awesome.
Speaker 8: How it is Ireland.
Speaker 5: It's amazing.
Speaker 8: Everybody I know that's been there's like, that's one of
my favorite places I've done.
Speaker 5: It was amazing.
Speaker 6: Car had a driving other side of the road, which
took some getting used to, especially at the roundabouts.
Speaker 4: Should we go cover the Iowa State Kansas State game
in August.
Speaker 7: YEP, I don't see why not.
Speaker 4: How do we sell that to the brass.
Speaker 8: I'd rather do that than match up a lot of
eyeballs Avery.
Speaker 9: Avery Johnson, Hey, guys, you want to take one of
four or five ESPN National.
Speaker 5: International International are global?
Speaker 4: Right, Let's go global.
Speaker 7: Let's go global Global.
Speaker 6: I'm sure the show will be super great. Well, we'd
be doing it the morning show like it like at noon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be set to wake up early and
sleep in a little bit more energy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's just move there so we can sleep light
every day.
Speaker 8: Stadium like, that's a that's a good football atmosphere, despite
that it's a soccer stadium, like they don't normally play
football in it. But I'm saying, like the crowd has
been a legend, can still be great. No, I'm saying
they don't do the Chargers.
Speaker 4: Playing at the Home Depot Center.
Speaker 5: That wouldn't great.
Speaker 6: They have Irish Irish football there. Yeah, it's nothing like
our football or like soccer. Right, it's like its own rules.
It's only only in Ireland. So we we got tickets
to one of them and it was electric dude. It
was County Carry versus County Cork and Kilarney.
Speaker 5: It was electric.
Speaker 6: There was a star player there for County Cork I believe,
I can't remember.
Speaker 5: His name was the Gooch. It was a start. Everybody
knew the Gooch.
Speaker 7: Isn't that that's the neighborhood that guy lived in, the
tom Brady the Tennessee.
Speaker 4: That's the name he goes by.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure sure it's short for something, maybe
Gunther or something.
Speaker 8: No, his name is colemb Cooper where they was an
Irish Gaelic footballer for UH County Carry.
Speaker 5: I got the opportunity to meet the Gooch.
Speaker 8: Why he's called the Gooch, I don't know, but I
mean his name is colemb Cooper.
Speaker 7: Remember something different?
Speaker 4: Continue on until I say something I shouldn't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'm at the.
Speaker 4: Pub that.
Speaker 5: You have a highlight clips of UH Gaelic football. That
was amazing though, So I did some him. We uh
we shared a guinness.
Speaker 7: Did you split the g?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 9: I don't so it's like a trend for something like
you chug a guinness until you split the g.
Speaker 4: On the glass?
Speaker 7: You know how there's a g on the glass.
Speaker 5: When you drink. When you drink a beer with the
you go past the g you finished, You finished the beer.
Speaker 8: Here's cold. The Cooper highlights.
Speaker 7: Look at this seems very angry there it is. I
thought you weren't allowed to use your hands.
Speaker 5: So this is Irish Irish football.
Speaker 7: It's different from soccer.
Speaker 4: A combination of rugby and soccer.
Speaker 5: It's a combination of rugby.
Speaker 9: Ultimately, why the polos, gentlemen, it's classics stribbling.
Speaker 7: So it's like basketball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, soccer, I'm telling you. But they got a gold
look above gold what ye yeah, that's why people are there.
Speaker 5: My god, it was, I'm telling you it was. We
barely got tickets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the car he was a score.
Speaker 7: He gouches, he scored.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yep. God, space between you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I almost said to them, I'm pretty sure it could
have got.
Speaker 7: Me fire canceled.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure you said the space between.
Speaker 8: It's always like, what position does this guy play?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 5: He's a bit of between or between at the bottom.
Speaker 4: Oh my god. We have to move on from We
have to because I just said I want to pop
off and I'm going in my head.
Speaker 8: Well, and like you were talking like Gayla, you were
saying Gaelic football. I'm thinking of like style got.
Speaker 5: He's a slim dude.
Speaker 6: I know there were some big hits. Was decleating people
out there. Okay, buddy, Yeah, I'm good. I told you.
Speaker 5: It means something different. I know, I know, maybe it doesn't.
Who knows, I know.
Speaker 8: I mean maybe.
Speaker 9: Now, apparently there was a doll that was called the
Gooch and.
Speaker 7: Over here like this that dog.
Speaker 8: I got to look up the Guca dog. I have
to know what this looks like.
Speaker 5: All right, all right?
Speaker 4: How the how? How the drink the guinness?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 4: I feel like if you got like that, like, I'm
pretty sure he eliminated those as well.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you something. I made all Americans proud
that night. So you hung out with the goot, I
mean just for okay, split a brew split a brew
split a g.
Speaker 5: Good lord splitcher.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm. Well, I don't know. Irish soccer was a thing.
Speaker 6: That's the thing, so whatever. I think the fame has
been contained to a small little island.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but now.
Speaker 8: Because he's getting popular, time to unleash the Gooch.
Speaker 5: You see, if I can get a sports card of
the gooch.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, so here look here it is it was.
There was a there was a doll in there nothing
not the not the card. There's a dollar in the
eighties called the Gucci Doll, better nickname than gooj and
it had red hair.
Speaker 5: And this is it. He does have red hair.
Speaker 9: He is very pale, good Irish boy sad, Yeah, Irish lad.
Speaker 5: Okay, do you like inness?
Speaker 4: Yeah? It tastes different over there than it does here.
Speaker 5: I don't love it here. I don't either, but it
goes down so smooth when you're there. What is it
the nitrogen? I think it's like a nitrogen keg.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Really good there I had in a
pub when we played the Saints over there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, instead of using CO two that we use here,
I think they used like nitrogen specifically for that went.
Speaker 4: Down smooth, real quick.
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Speaker 7: Well you like not a floater?
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's right here.
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t b let's go ahead and get to a little munchies.
Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalize your taste buds and leave this
segment hungry. This is Monkeys with executive chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 4: Chef, what's going on? How we doing? Brother? How we living?
Speaker 10: I'm good brother?
Speaker 4: How are you fantastic? How can we not be? Tomorrow
is America's birthday? And on that note, hashtag munchies. What
is on Chef's Fourth of July menu?
Speaker 10: I'm actually going to Tolito Band and I'm gonna. Yeah,
I'm gonna try to catch me some cat fris. Fresh
fish is always better, but I do have a little
brisket lined up. My my buddy. There's a big crew
of people that are going, so we're gonna We're gonna
barbecue tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yes, SI for that hashtag munchies. Do you make your
own tortillas?
Speaker 10: I have before. You got to find the right quality ingredients.
You know, there's definitely a difference in it when you
can get it done and and you know, it's kind
of one of those romantic things too, like when you
do it by hand, I think it's a superior product.
But I don't do it all the time. Know, there's
something something convenient about the speed of life. You know,
when I'm trying to feed my children, I don't. I
don't hand make tortillas.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we my wife and I one time we bought
like a tortilla press because we were like, man, we're
gonna do it ourselves. We love homemade tortillas. And we
did it once and we're like, yep, we'll never do that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but you know, for the for the you know
price per pound, you know what I mean, Like I mean,
it takes it takes some time to get all those
things pressed out. You have to have a small army
to do it in an efficient amount of time. And
so yeah, and that's only like one one tenth of
the of the dish that you're preparing, right, So yeah,
hashtag is better.
Speaker 4: No doubt. Hashtag munchies. What can you do with leftover
cooked burger patties besides make another burger?
Speaker 10: Uh? You know, we'd like to put it into like
a red sauce or something, to make a bolognaise, or
put it into a stuffing or dirty rice or something
like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, dirty rice, JEF.
Speaker 6: So a big part of the Fourth of July is
firing up the grill. Some people like to low and slow.
Let's get some let's get some smoke on some meat.
My question is if you're cooking like some ribs or brisket,
and I'm sure, it's different for every meat. For you
by what kind of wood are we going with? And
then my question, like I was told one time, like
soak the wood for a couple hourshigher to the to it.
Speaker 10: Yes, all that, so I have I actually have a
specific temperature that I like. And if you're smoking on
a pellet grill, it's it's difficult to maintain that if
you're smoking in like an oven with a controllable And
the reason for pellet grills is because a lot of
times it doesn't go down to one hundred and eighty
seven degrees, But that's that's the that's the temperature that
I like to smoke smoke at. Well, you can go
to one ninety if you if you don't go down
that low. But so the lower you smoke, the more
profuge and profound the smoke is, and it creates a
deeper saturation. Right once you get up into the two
hundred and twenty range, you're getting a really light smoking.
You're really more so cooking than you are smoking. So
I like to smoke low and lower in the range.
As far as soaking the wood, if you're using sticks
of wood, yes, absolutely overnight is fine. You want to
You want to allow that moisture to absorb in because
you don't want the wood to catch fire, which is,
you know, like you dry wood out to catch the
set fire. If you're putting it into a fireplace, you dry,
you wet the wood and soak it. And you need
to wait now because it's want to float, right, So
it needs to be saturated enough that when you put
it here a fire or near the briquets or near
the fire source, it's smoldering, which creates the smoke versus
catches catches fire. And it's definitely important as far as
the types of wood. I like to do a blend
of woods depending on white meat or red meat. Red
meat I like to put you know, like a pecan
in there, and well let me let me rephrase that.
If I'm smoking pork or chicken, I like to blend
it with like a cherry or an apple or a peach,
with a heavier, more denser wood like pecan or hickory.
I really like the flavor of hickory and pecan. And
then for you know, like red meat, just a just
a straight hickory something like that you can use like
white oak. But I really for the other two flavors.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hashtag munchies. What's your barbecue sauce recipe?
Speaker 10: So I'm going to get judged over this. I like
molasses space. You know, the barbecue is a is a
is a buzzword, right, Like if you're from Texas, you
got But being from the Kansas City area, I do
like the molasses based sauces. And what I really love
to do is Kcy Masterpiece makes a delicious sauce that
I use as a base to go different directions. Right,
So like I love making this raspberry halipen, you know,
barbecue for pork and you you know, like if I'm
in a pinch and I don't have time to make
the sauces, I mean most people don't. Most people don't
start with the molasses and the ketchup and make their
own barbecue. You can and it's it's it's you know,
like it's feasible. But you know, when it's busy on
the fourth of July and you're just trying to make
a good sauce, I'll take a Ksey Masterpiece and like
for a for a brisket, I really love to take
whole pepper corns toast them off. Then when then crack
them and put them back into the pan, burn some
bourbon or or whiskey off while in the pan with them,
and then put that into the barbecue sauce and make
a whiskey or a bourbon pepper glaze with a barbecue
for uh, for a pork bud or something like that.
I really love fruity stuff. You know this raspberry jalapeno
and you can you can use fresh alipannos. You can
use raspberry jam if you're in a pinch, but raspberry
and jalapeno go. It's definitely well together. And you make
a sauce out of that and then blend that into
your barbecue sauce, so you're kind of sweetening it, sweetening
it up a bit, brightening it up, brightening it with
a little bit of fruitiness, and then spicing it with
with the jalapenos. Right, and uh, there's there's a lot
of going.
Speaker 5: On in there, chef. Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead, No, oh, no,
you're good. This was a.
Speaker 6: Completely different subject to your question. But I remember Fourth
of July like growing up, like the best sound ever
playing outside as a kid was hearing that like homemade
ice cream maker just churning, like in the in the
wooden bucket.
Speaker 5: You got the ice on it, you got the ice.
Speaker 6: Cream salt poured over, you got the towel like to
keep it all insulated. And we would always do like
just a standard like vanilla ice cream or maybe a
peach ice cream. But do you have any like any
secret sauce to a good homemade ice cream, maybe something
that's not real traditional.
Speaker 10: Well, I'm old enough brother that the sound of the
ice cream maker was the kids pissing and moaning.
Speaker 4: When my grandma had one.
Speaker 10: It was one of the ones you turned and didn't
have the electric motor yet. But do you know that
that peach, you know, like fresh fresh berries in the summertime,
you know, like strawberry or or you know, I have
a particular fondness for really sweet peaches or nectarines. I
think you hit it on the nose there, like cook
that down into a syrup and added in. The sugar
is what's matterful to the ice cream so that it
doesn't freeze up into a hard mass. The sugar is
what offers the fat substance to the ice cream that
keeps its you know, like soft and churning. So you know,
when you're putting something into it, you need to make
sure that it's sweet and has sugar content. So if
you're using peaches, you kind of make a peach syrup
and get the flavor out of the peaches purring it down.
You can use the pulp in it that Not everybody
loves that texture, you know, like pulp and ice cream.
Some people like the smoothness of ice cream, so you
would just make a syrup out of it. But I mean,
you have my mouth watering when you said peaches. You know,
like I love fresh summertime peaches.
Speaker 4: Man, Jeff, what's the go I know? Like you know,
we talk about often, like you're not out there trying
to bake your cake or anything, but what is your
go to dessert for the Fourth of July? Like do
you have because earlier we were talking about it. We
had to apple pie, We had banana pudding. Is mine
in a lawn dress? What we went with? What's your
favorite Fourth July? I desert?
Speaker 10: You know you're gonna I just like fresh fruit. Honestly,
I like the sweetness of fresh fruit, especially when it's
in season, you know, like a white nectorine or a
white peach. When it's in season. The sweetness of that
is more satisfying to me than any other, you know,
like baked baked sweetes. I have a fondness for crimber
lay and I don't care what time to the year is.
Like if you put a crimberle in front of me
on fourth of July, I'm gonna eat it. But I'm
probably not gonna make it on fourth of July because
it's quite labor intensive and and not not. And I'm
gonna put an asterisk to kind of behind apple pie
because I don't I would never turn down a piece
of apple pie. And I do think that it goes
with the holiday. You know, it's it's it is an
American dish, And yeah, I do like apple pie.
Speaker 6: Chef are chips an appropriate option to put inside of
a burger to add a little crutch?
Speaker 10: I mean, I love changes. You know this contrast, if
I told you if somebody yes, the quick answer is yes,
And like I think, you know, like very crispy chips.
You can't get those soggy things, the ruffles, Like it's
got to be a proper kettle kettle fried chip where
it has a lot of texture. But as a kid
growing up like I thought I was the smartest guy ever.
First time I put chips on burger and was like,
oh my god, you know yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, cheeseburger. I got cheetos.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4: Actually sounds pretty delicious there, chef. If you're doing ribs
the right way and you want to fall off the bone,
how do you make that happen?
Speaker 10: You know, there's a couple of ways to do it.
And you said it earlier, slow and low. You know,
in some circumstances, people will actually simmer their bones and
like a flavorful broth, and I say simmer, not boil like.
They sometimes will poast them in a flavorful broth to
speed the process of the cookup. If you're not smoking
them right, because if you're just trying to get them
to fall off the bone, you can simmer them in
a flavorful frost and then barbecue them, sauce them and
put them on the pit and cook them until they
fall off. The key feature here is is that you
need to cook them long enough that the connective tissue
is falling falling apart, and it needs to reach at
least one hundred and eighty degrees So in temperatures of
done this one hundred eighty degrees as well beyond well done. Right,
So at that point, if you cook it to that
temperature too fast, everything tenses up and gets real hard
and it draws the moisture out of the meat too quickly.
So that's why you have to go slow and low,
because there's two things that will loosen connective tissues. Time
and temperature. Time being the better of the two because
you know it's going to get to that one hundred
and eighty degree temperature, but you're taking your time to
get there so that the muscle tissues don't sense up too quickly.
The other one is, like I said, bring it to
one hundred and eighty degrees quickly, it's going to get
firm and tint and chewy, and the moisture will draw
out of it, which means it's going to be dry
as well. So you can choose your path, but one
of them is better than the other.
Speaker 6: Chef, you used to drive me crazy. You used to
watch like the cooking shows, and there were some barbecue
shows where when they were cooking ribs, if the meat
was falling off the bone, they got deducted points. They
wanted like a beautiful rib would bite to it. I
was like, you guys are crazy, These judges are idiots,
Like falling off.
Speaker 5: The bone is the best.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it's kind of like gumbo, right, Like
it depends on people have their own ideas of what
barbecue is, and you know, it depends on how they
were raised and the way their parents prepared it. And
that's the right way, right, Like the way grandma did
it is the right way to me. You know, Like
food is all about enjoyment. It's kind of like wine,
you know, like I don't care if you're a salmonie
or not. If it doesn't taste good, it's not good wine. Right,
thing goes with food. If you enjoy it, who cares
how you got there with it? You know what I mean.
It's it's you have You have traditionally trained chefs that
that that I think have their philosophies. But then you
have home trained cooks that grandma taught that. You know,
like you can get the same product and have their
two completely different processes and one that just doesn't make
any sense to a trained chef's mind, but there is
some sensibility and science behind it, and Grandma may not
be able to explain it to you. But you know,
as long as the product gets there and everybody enjoys it,
who cares.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Chef, you're the best. We
appreciate you every single week. Enjoy your holiday, sir.
Speaker 5: And catfish yes, book, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 10: I appreciate that it travels.
Speaker 4: And a lot of fishing on old Teleda Ben where
I did not catch a catfish, so best of luck,
weren't a great angler. That's yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 6: But I need to get my I need to get
my kids out fishing, like I just don't know.
Speaker 5: Really where did it take them? Right now?
Speaker 4: Come my backyard? Yeah all right, that's like fun kid
fishing because like chances are you throw it out there.
Speaker 6: You got a lake like in my neighborhood kind of
kind of by my house. But I don't like, not
on the lake, so I don't technically have permission to
go do that.
Speaker 9: Oh.
Speaker 4: I mean we have like we'll have like teenagers that
will just walk in our backyard with their fishing pole
and I'm like, I don't care. Yeah, I mean, we're
all throwing them back anyway, and nobody's keeping these fish.
Speaker 6: So no one's keeping those golf course marshmouth pass.
Speaker 4: I mean we we have a five pound bass in there,
which is if you're a bass fisherman, you know that's
a big one. Uh. They did, they got a car
they have They caught what would have been the state
record carp in there. But obviously you know it doesn't
count if it's in a like a private lake situation.
So it's good, kid fished, right, throw it out there,
catch it, throw it back.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 6: Catfish like hot dogs too, just like I used to
go fishing with hot dogs. Cut them up, put them
out a little hook as a kid, kind of like
we's a troublehook.
Speaker 5: Kind of cheating a little bit. See catch the fire
out of them.
Speaker 4: Cafe, You ain't cheating, You ain't trying bot agree though.
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get your most memorable Fourth of July moment. So I'm
giving you all time. That's four minutes, Flinn, like a
time when you're growing up or whatever that you've got
to give me. Don't give me that face. I'm giving
you four minutes when we come back OTB.
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Speaker 1: All my life from players to legends. Hester and Flynn
breakdown l s U Football like only champions.
Speaker 4: Can thank my lucky starts to be living here today.
Speaker 11: Thus the fact still stands for freedom. Then they can't
take that away. And I'm bound to be an American where.
Speaker 2: These die O free and I won't get.
Speaker 7: The men who died who gave that bite to me?
Speaker 3: And I glad his hand up next to you And
then persuase, no doubt.
Speaker 4: Did y'all used to play this like in school, like
on Fridays we.
Speaker 8: Had to wed to see it for an end of
the year program when I was in Like that's great.
Speaker 6: Like I'm thinking my music class. Yeah, they gave all
the kids, like the little tambourine.
Speaker 8: You did it for like Veterans Day when I was
in the first grade or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like any like patriotic holiday, like they'd play it
over the speakers like the intercom system of the entire school,
the whole.
Speaker 6: Of hope they're still doing that today, unfortunately.
Speaker 5: Chance.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm surprised they haven't taken like the Pledge of
Allegiance out of school.
Speaker 8: Probably some of I know at least tried. I don't
know if they have.
Speaker 6: A lot of people took the under God part, yeah,
which is let's not get started on that because it's
just gonna piss us all off. Let's just celebrate America,
America under God, under God.
Speaker 7: Wait, did you do the Texas Pledge of Allegiance?
Speaker 5: We did not do the Texas Pledge.
Speaker 9: We used to have like the Texas Pledge of Allegiance
and it was like, I pledge allegiance to.
Speaker 4: The Wait see what it was, Texas.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it was every time you would do the
I don't remember.
Speaker 9: It, and then you would do the Texas one after
honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas
wed state under God, won and indivisible. It's literally the
Pledge of Allegiance, but like shortened in Texas.
Speaker 7: Is there a Louisiana.
Speaker 6: Pledge of the Well, the Texas state flag is the
only like state flag that's allowed legally to be flown
at the same level as the American flag because it
has had its But that's part of it. I don't
I don't necessarily agree with it, but you know it
was just well, well fun fact cod bit there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, So because of the look that you
gave me when I said, like your favorite Fourth of
July moment, we don't have to do that. I'll give
you some of the big moments in sports on the
fourth of July, going all the way back to nineteen
thirty nine, Lou Garrick's Luckiest Man speech. So after being
diagnosed with als, Yankees legend Loud Garrett delivered his iconic
farewell at Yankee Stadium in which one of the lines
that has really lived on and I think every sports
fan knows it today, I consider myself the luckiest man
on the face of the earth. That was on the
fourth of July nineteen thirty nine. In nineteen eighty four,
the Mets and Braves had a game in which the
two teams battled through nineteen innings in over eight hours,
ending at three point fifty five am on July the fifth,
and included two rain delays in a stadium fireworks show
at midnight, they still had almost four hours LSU special
Actually yeah, right at four hours after the fireworks show.
Speaker 8: Pretty American, yep, who won that game?
Speaker 4: If the Braves won, it's a good story if they did,
and it's a bad story. Taylor probably like this one.
In twenty fifteen, uh. The NASCAR Coke zero four hundred
at Daytona, often run around the fourth of July. This
race has delivered incredible finishes and tributes to American troops
like Dale Earnhard Junior's emotional twenty fifteen win.
Speaker 8: Hell yeah, you know what they say, raise Hill and Praisdale.
Speaker 4: They do say that Nathan's hot dogs getting contest.
Speaker 5: What's your favorite? They learn? Hard bumper sticker.
Speaker 4: I don't know you ever.
Speaker 5: Do you ever like number three of the wings on
it or something?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, My favorite one was like God needed a
driver number three? Hell yeah, hell yeah America.
Speaker 4: I actually was watching that race when it happened. Okay,
you had a little small NASCAR fandom in me back then, Yeah,
I did.
Speaker 7: I did when I was a kid because my dad
loved my brother.
Speaker 4: Did my brother like Rusty Wallace.
Speaker 7: My dad loved Russy Wallace. He had like the little cars,
the Miller.
Speaker 5: My older brother was a huge NASCAR fan. He was
a fan of. His favorite driver was Dick Trickle.
Speaker 4: Cole Trickle is the one in Days of Thunder. Dick
Trickle is an actual race.
Speaker 5: This man just google a picture of him.
Speaker 6: Athlete athlete Okay, I'm gonna go faster and live, Go
faster and live, Go faster and live.
Speaker 4: It wasn't now I didn't have the most wins. But
after after Daytona, you know, the whole Days of Thunder
and like all that, you know, really really just took
off in America. Cole Trickle was the character Tom Cruise plays,
so Dick Trickle was obviously going to get some fame
off of that. Did y'all know that they're trying to
even possibly make another Days of Thunder And even one
of the storylines might be Brad Pitt's character from F
one and Tom Cruise's character in Days of Thunder coming
together and living in the same universe.
Speaker 5: Boom might be seeing F one tonight.
Speaker 8: I'm kind of excited.
Speaker 4: It's awesome. Two and a half hours. It's a lone boy.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm all right.
Speaker 4: Get the large popcorn, large soda. You're gonna need it.
Speaker 5: You got another July fourth?
Speaker 4: Uh, let's see, Oh I got one. We all remember
this one. Nineteen ten, Oh my god, Jack Johnson versus
James Jeffries a historic heavyweight title about dubbed the Fight
of the Century. Yeah, nineteen ten boxing.
Speaker 5: Then Will Farrell use that as a name once.
Speaker 4: Jack Johnson dominated Jeffries.
Speaker 5: By Jack Johnson right here talking about his fist.
Speaker 8: I mean, and we weren't around in nineteen ten. But
like the name Jack Johnson, like it's a big name
in Bo.
Speaker 4: That's an awesome name plate by Jack Johnson.
Speaker 6: Good song twenty eleven, July fourth, America's birthday. Let's go
across the pund because I'm gonna tell you why a
man named Tyler Ferrar bicyclist professional on July fourth, first
American to ever win a stage victory in the Tour
de France.
Speaker 7: Does sound American?
Speaker 4: Wait? Lance Armstrong never did that.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. So.
Speaker 6: Frenchies hate Americans, Okay, especially they do not like them
coming over.
Speaker 4: To their Frenchies don't like American. And we've saved him
a couple of times. They probably should be thinking the.
Speaker 5: Celeberty away a few months ago.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like.
Speaker 8: Try to come take it?
Speaker 5: Yeah you try. Yeah.
Speaker 6: One first American to ever win a stage victory on
July fourth, and they do not like Americans coming over
there and winning at their sport. They hated Lance Armstrong
hated them, but yeah, shout out Tyler Farrar.
Speaker 7: Suck at France.
Speaker 5: Shout out Tali.
Speaker 8: That's actually a really good story because like God, I
bet they cried. It's a hoard over that, ye shout
out Tyler.
Speaker 4: All right, France, next time, next time you who to who?
We ain't gonna answer. Bo're gonna follow on deaf ears
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Speaker 9: Oh, I did play this already played again. I forget sometimes.
Speaker 8: It was the first break. This is the last break.
Speaker 7: You're going try to play the national and in the background.
Speaker 6: I think, But if we play it, don't we have
to like the Fergie version.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna be ask the bench.
Speaker 6: But I had a question, what, in all your years
playing football, what was the best rendition of the pregame
national anthem you were ever on.
Speaker 4: The Oh my gosh, what is that guy's name? I'm
so embarrassed. I can't remember it because my love for
R and B. I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 6: I got a couple why do you while you do that?
I got a couple that stood out to me. The
first one was, uh, this was probably the worst or
the most famous one in the twenty ten Super Bowl,
Christina Aguilera messing up the words.
Speaker 5: So we were there.
Speaker 6: Black Eyed Peace played halftime, but yeah, Christina Aguilair messed
up the words. There was one in Chicago, Uh, Kobe
calay Is I think that's her name. She played one
that was really cool. If you're gonna if you're gonna
do like a different rendition of it, like a little
put An artist take on it, you better be really good.
Speaker 5: And hers was really good.
Speaker 6: But the best was the guy that does it for
the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team. He's like famous for it.
He's this big guy and he just like he has
a cadence and he's like kind of like opera. But
kind of yells it, but it's amazing. He came in
and played it during the Uh he did it during
the NFCU It wasn't the NFC championship game. I don't
think it was a playoff game. The year we went
to the super Bowl in Soldier Field and it was cold.
Speaker 5: And it was awesome.
Speaker 7: Yeah, hell yeah, I love that.
Speaker 5: I think he does it in every Chicago black Hawk game.
Speaker 7: The best one I've heard is the Chris Stapleton one.
Speaker 4: What about like you've seen live? Do you remember any tough?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I know, I don't.
Speaker 4: We had an R and B artist. There was a
Chargers fan, Frankie j He sang the national anthem a
one time in the old Q nasty and did a
really nice job. And at that time he had a
little bit before then, but he had a couple of
a couple of hits.
Speaker 9: This is why I know he's like a Spanish Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know some.
Speaker 7: Of his songs.
Speaker 4: So Frankie Jake, you go yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: He has this like okay, so he's part of just
like I know for it.
Speaker 9: So he was like on Kings, which is Semila's brothers band.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Okay, Hey, I would like this guy.
Speaker 6: I think it would be a great change of pace
for college football. Put the players on the field for
the national anthem.
Speaker 8: There because they do it and then the band goes,
they line up and run out.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 6: Playing in the NFL, I loved being on the on
the field because there was always somebody singing in someone different.
Speaker 5: It was great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I h The most iconic for me, like
this isn't the national anthem, but just on the field performance.
I've said this a thousand times because it will never
leave my memory. When we went and played Pittsburgh in
the playoffs and you know, they they had sticks because
Renegade's their famous song that they played to get fired up,
and they had sticks on the field singing Renegade in
the snow, and one of them had their shirt off
and was like waving the terrible towel.
Speaker 7: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: Oh mama, I mean, and I'm like, well, boys, it
was a good season, right. That's the year they won
the Super Bowl too. They beat the Cardinals a rookie year.
Is the last game or I don't know, but I
was like, oh, we are in trouble.
Speaker 8: Probably my favorite Super Bowl still that game.
Speaker 4: Was elite Antonio Holmes touchdown.
Speaker 8: Homes, Jerome Harrison.
Speaker 6: I was rooting hard Harrison, like returning.
Speaker 4: I was rooting hard for the Cardinals. I was better
because we got beat You know, you know how that is,
like I don't want Yeah, early said was it's always
been a big Warner guy.
Speaker 5: Did you like the Great Super Bowl? You watch the movie? Yeah?
I didn't watch it because the clips it looked so terrible.
Speaker 4: It was as cheesy as you can imagine.
Speaker 8: Did I still get it was a football movie?
Speaker 5: Yes? I did. Didn't people like give it good ratings.
Speaker 4: Though I don't know. I don't know about that. I did.
Speaker 5: I the clips looks so brutal.
Speaker 4: They the clips were those.
Speaker 8: Like most football movies aren't long.
Speaker 5: It was most the same.
Speaker 4: Good story, socking grocery as well know. It then turned
into a Hall of Famer. His son is a quarterback
at right.
Speaker 8: Yes, Charlie.
Speaker 6: He was on the field during the game, like before
the game and how you had going warm up before pregame.
He was out because he was calling the game, and uh,
I was talking with him on the field and he said, Hey,
what's your number?
Speaker 5: I want to hit you up? Blah, blah blah, I.
Speaker 6: Give my number and I walk off and I don't
remember what name he said, but he called me another name.
Speaker 5: Definitely definitely didn't know it was me Warner.
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Speaker 5: Why hell? I I'm just.
Speaker 8: What I'm down with the fifty cowl on the side.
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Speaker 4: Man? Like, if I and if I know, if I
know what I'm doing, I'm going fighter jet. I know
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna throw an extra option. I'm going drone.
Speaker 7: Oh I don't want to be.
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