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But here now, nine o'clock on a Wednesday, we'll do
a little would you rather Wednesday? And so I'll start
this off just now, Gus, we did before before I
went to the last break, I literally said, I was.
Speaker 5: Thinking about the cards.
Speaker 2: Well that's not on me, you said, y'all got to
remind I did? I said, We've got would you rather?
Speaker 4: Wednesday? And we've also got deer Delandre coming up in
the next hour.
Speaker 5: I'll drifted it up.
Speaker 2: Would you rather never eat budan again? Or have to
give up crawfish for life?
Speaker 6: Never eat boot again because like crawfish, I put in
a lot of stuff, Like I.
Speaker 5: Guess it's an easy one. Yeah, I'm a good bo
I love him.
Speaker 7: I love Budan, but it's it's so good I'm eating crawfish.
I'm not giving up crawfish because of that Fay, because.
Speaker 2: Of I mean, look, here's here's why I think, as
much as I love Budan, absolutely do, you can't give
up crawlfish for life, because everybody loves a good crawfish boil.
Like there is like to be around the table, to
have a table full of crawfish and sitting there and
everybody's you got you gotta grab your beer like with
the palm in your hands, and you got to try
to drink it. Like it's just like a great experience
that never gets old. Like we can all go to
one hundred crawfish boils, right, but if we're with the
people that we want to be with hanging out, the
vibes are always mac don't hear.
Speaker 6: You come into contact with crawlfish a lot more, right,
Like that's.
Speaker 5: Now it's place we're not on bodhm. But it's great.
Speaker 4: Hard it's supposed to be hard. Guys, I'm going up.
I'm giving a boot in even though it hurts.
Speaker 5: Grawl fish more versatile.
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, you can.
Speaker 5: It's just a lot more things that That's what I'm saying,
that you would have to give up a lot more work.
Speaker 2: I'm not giving up just because of the the experience
of a crawfish spoil though, Like that's that was the
thing that put it over the top.
Speaker 4: You can be versaal with Boudan as.
Speaker 7: Well, get it, but like sitting down to like you're
good at your face.
Speaker 5: One of my favorite mealswfish pasta love.
Speaker 7: You'll do that someone can if someone has got the
time and the experience made a crawfish best.
Speaker 5: Oh, come I own, somebody hit me with it.
Speaker 8: I love both and I like I ate so much
crawfish this past crawfish season done no no, no no. I
love it like I would every time I would eat crawfish.
It would just leave me craving more crawfish. But I
also love bood am. I think I'm giving up crawfish.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the chat boot and you're giving up boot
am balls.
Speaker 3: Boot balls like it's tough.
Speaker 5: It's tough.
Speaker 3: That's probably the hardest. Would you rather here on.
Speaker 7: Off the bench, we asked the hard questions. If it
was easy, everybody would do it.
Speaker 2: Would you rather go to every L s U home
game for the rest of your life but never tailgate again?
Or tailgate every game but never get to go inside
Tiger Stadium again?
Speaker 5: Go to every game? This one's easy for me. I
don't not tailgator. I don't get it.
Speaker 7: It's a little extremely You can't you can't go into
Tiger Stadium ever.
Speaker 5: Again, that's a tough one. Yeah, I think finality.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some people out there right now that would
choose a tailgating option, Oh for sure.
Speaker 7: And that's what makes it great. Like you could always
just go party at the house, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then just go straight to the People love
tailgating and that's great.
Speaker 5: It's just clearly not for me.
Speaker 7: Just think about if you partied at your house and
you couldn't tailgate at all. So it means you can't
get there early, because I think walking around tailgates would
be considered kind of tail getting right or enjoy that experience?
Do you just go straight as soon as the kickoff
gets there? You're beating traffic. You get dropped off. You
can take an uber right there.
Speaker 3: True, Yeah, I'm I'm giving up tailgating.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't really ever get to, like we never really did. Obviously,
like we're playing, we didn't get to. But like I've
always done a pregame show or something like leading into
it and never had the ability to.
Speaker 5: But I think I saw you can't stand before he
called a game one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that UCLA game. I was sweating so bad, gosh.
I mean, I've never really had the opportunity. But like
Sports Properties has the white tent on top of the
p mac, I do love going in there hanging out
for a game, like if I can you little food, Yeah,
if the family likes it. But yeah, I gotta go
watch the ball, So give up tailgating.
Speaker 4: Surely you're ready?
Speaker 7: Surely, yeah, I do have one. I'm trying to think
it's good, but I'm just gonna say it anyway, all right,
would you rather have front row? It says front row
seats to your favorite sporting event? Obviously front row is
cool with some sports, but like in football, have the
seats in the house every sporting but never be able
to watch a game on TV ever, again. But you
can have the best seat in the house or be
able to instantly rewatch any past sporting event in history
in perfect detail, but you can never attend a live
game in person.
Speaker 4: I'll watch on TV. Yeah, watch it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll tink, I'll think you're I'll.
Speaker 4: Watch on TV.
Speaker 2: I mean, I love the experience of going to a game,
but I also love the experience, like you said, sitting
thirteen inches away from the TV, going back and forth,
and you know, watching it by myself because of the
things I want to say out loud.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Plus I get the best seat in the house. I
got paid for that travel, I got paid for that
playing there. It's gonna take a lot. I'd rather just look.
I think we're so football heavy right now. All I'm
thinking about is football. But on any other sport, I'm
taking the best seats because I don't really like I
don't watch hockey on TV, but I would love to
sit on the glass and I would do that every time.
Speaker 5: The other sports.
Speaker 6: There's a bigger gap as far as TV viewing and
in person view.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go into a hockey game is so fun watch
on TV. You're like, Yeah, But like football, I enjoy
on TV as well.
Speaker 7: I don't watch baseball TV, but like, if you offer
me seats behind behind catcher, absolutely absolutely, if you offer
me I've never watched Pelicans game on TV.
Speaker 5: If you offer me four seats, yeah, let's roll.
Speaker 7: If you offer me like the best seat in the
house for a football game, I'm like, oh, that's cool.
I'll do it a couple of times, but a lot
of games I just want to enjoy take it in
on my own, my own time.
Speaker 2: I don't get me wrong, Like I just I'd rather
go to the game for sure. Yeah, but I don't
want to give that TV. I can't give up the
TV option for the rest of my life. Like I
love having a good quad box up like on the
TV too, Like I'm watching four things at once.
Speaker 5: I got this whole TV that rolls.
Speaker 4: You have like a public school TV.
Speaker 5: Situation, it's like this one. It's like this TV. It's
got it's on wheels.
Speaker 4: Like the interactive whiteboard.
Speaker 5: No, no, it's like it's on I don't know.
Speaker 7: It's it's like a big it's kind of like Taylor's
big S monitor.
Speaker 4: It's like that size.
Speaker 5: Yeah, kind of like just rolled around, just roll it around.
Speaker 4: Just like the robot from Rocky. It just kind of
goes around the house.
Speaker 7: Kind all right, yeah, pretty much, you had it, all right,
It's I mean, a wheel was invented a long time ago.
It's not like super new technology. Me caveman, me will
a Landra.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Would you rather be the star of a bad team
or a role player on a dynasty?
Speaker 4: Role player in a dynasty star player team.
Speaker 5: I want to be the guy. I want to be
the guy, the guy.
Speaker 4: Look, sometimes you can't be the guy.
Speaker 5: Right, you want to do the two thumbs in the
name player.
Speaker 4: You're a big look at me guy.
Speaker 2: No, No, this is a problem. This is a problem.
Everybody wants to be a quarterback. Everybody wants to be
the point guard. Everybody wants to be the star pitcher. No,
the life the world needs fullbacks. Okay, they need the
role players. They need the too gritty to be pretty.
They need the people that will do the dirty work
so the stars can shine. Okay, so give me the dynasty,
give me Manu Ginobili being a role player for a dynasty.
Speaker 4: I don't have to be Tim Duncan.
Speaker 7: Because it depends on what the paycheck is. My howl's
small of a role in my playing.
Speaker 5: Ain't no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 6: Right, because if I can't win a championship on the
bad team, give me the bag.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you how much money you're making.
Speaker 2: So I saw stat You know, Sergie should be the
backup for Peyton Manning. Right in his NFL career, he
never started a game. I think he threw a total
of three passes maybe in his career. And he made
six million dollars in his career. All right, I did
not make six million dollars in my career. I may
I think a total well you can look it up public,
but it did not make six million dollars.
Speaker 4: So starter for six years.
Speaker 5: Well like.
Speaker 7: Genobeli probably made tens and tens, like probably close to
one hundred million.
Speaker 4: I'm saying he was a role player on that.
Speaker 5: I'll do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't have to be Timmy Duncan. I can
be Tony Kuk coach.
Speaker 7: I don't want to be a I can be wage
role player, though I can be Robert Rry. I'd rather
be that superstar player on a maximum contract.
Speaker 4: And not win anything then the guy that's on.
Speaker 5: A minimum wage contract.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking about professional app Yeah, but right, talking
about professional What if you're on minimum wage, but you're
a key piece to the championships, like you're the you're
a key role player.
Speaker 4: Like somebody's got blocked that ISO, might as well be me.
Speaker 5: Somebody's got paid for those kids to go to school.
Speaker 4: They don't have to in some places.
Speaker 5: That's a good point, smart, some places that you don't.
Speaker 4: Really actually have to you can just send them to
cool all right, laundry.
Speaker 6: Would you rather be able to fly or be able
to teleport? Teleport got too, right because they.
Speaker 5: Get the places quicker, but teleport you can just instantly
get there.
Speaker 2: Now we're talking about like teleporting, like are we Scott
back you and Pin on quantum leap and we don't
really know where we're.
Speaker 5: Going to be.
Speaker 4: We're talking about Jumper.
Speaker 7: You can you can go wherever you jump, Like what's
that one movie where he can teleport? But he's got
to be able to visually see where he's going and
he can look at the top of mountain and do that.
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 1: Not?
Speaker 2: Is that Jumper doesn't have to Jumper has to be
able to like kind of imagine where he was going.
Speaker 5: Right, I didn't really watch it. I guess he's teleporting
to a spot that he already Yeah there he knows. Yeah. Yeah.
Teleport sounds fun, sounds awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, flying, I mean you can run into a lot
of situations. What if there's a pilot not paying attention.
I don't pilot also, and he comes up on you.
Speaker 5: It's also cold up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, No matter how fast you are, you're not
gonna get there as fast as teleporting.
Speaker 5: What if? What what's the what if every time you
teleport you got a headache?
Speaker 4: Though they got I go. I mean I get it.
Speaker 2: Every time you block a limac you get a headache,
but they got medicine on the sidelines.
Speaker 5: They paid you for it.
Speaker 4: Though that's not great, but they paid me. Yes, go
back to a laundress. Hmmm.
Speaker 3: I think I'd rather teleport a way faster.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 7: You could do a lot of things too, Like you
could be you'd get so many places in the day.
Speaker 5: I like, I still I still got to learn how
to like control it and everything you hold on to. Somebody,
do they teleport with you? I don't see why not.
Speaker 2: All right, I've got one more here and again we
got deered Delaune or cone ups to go ahead and
get those questions inside the Bay four chat. Would you
rather and this is in South Louisiana, would you rather
live through a summer without air conditioning or or a
fall without college football?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 4: Repeat it, so in.
Speaker 2: South Louisiana, would you rather live a full summer without
air conditioning or a fall without college football?
Speaker 5: I could do without air conditioning. My truck at NEDAC
right now.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I could do no air conditioning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it went out, it went out. I know, I
gotta get it fixed.
Speaker 4: Do you seek your head out of the window like
ace Ventura?
Speaker 5: I took Victoria's going today because you are.
Speaker 4: So you left her without the AC.
Speaker 5: She walks from home and ship. I get off the work.
I don't care. I'm still packing summer summer without AC.
I cannot live in Louisiana without air conditioning. Can't do it.
I'm sorry. I give you up.
Speaker 7: College football still got a NFL on Sundays. Sorry, not
doing it. I hate the heat. I lived here, I
got it.
Speaker 5: I chose.
Speaker 2: He hates the heat so much he created a hydration company,
Drink my high dot com eat the heat.
Speaker 5: Right, it's only the greatest hidration product on the market.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you hate to heat some much.
Speaker 5: I know. Look I can't.
Speaker 8: I love college football, but what do you mean by that?
Like l s U doesn't play or like college football and.
Speaker 2: You enjoy cannot watch and enjoy fall?
Speaker 3: Start watching in November?
Speaker 2: No, no, you know what I'm saying here, because summer
doesn't technically summers. What the first day of summer's like?
June twenty first, it's hot here in Mayfa.
Speaker 5: Not loophole? Would you rather?
Speaker 4: Yeah? You don't do that. Don't deny the science here,
that's us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a tough one. I can't again.
Speaker 4: These things are supposed to be hard.
Speaker 3: Am I allowed to use faced men?
Speaker 4: Sexual illness?
Speaker 3: Are fans allowed?
Speaker 4: H yeah, yeah you can have fans.
Speaker 3: I'll do no A.
Speaker 5: This is this one's easy for me. This is yeah, Okay,
they're gonna push hot here.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I want be able to sleep all summer. I'd
be cranky.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but just think about what happens once you get
the fall, dude, football seasons.
Speaker 4: There, Daniel bash a fall without football?
Speaker 7: F this heat, no doubt, dude, been outside. Like, I know,
we love college football here, but y'all are lunatics.
Speaker 5: If you're taking an entire summer. I know, I get it.
Speaker 3: I guess ancestors did it.
Speaker 2: Uh, someone did look up the public record of our
career NFL earnings. Shout out to make defense right again.
Matt Flynn made six times more than I did.
Speaker 3: That's insane to play in the chat.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I told him he could look it up.
It's public information.
Speaker 5: I paid six times the.
Speaker 2: Texas I played in most smarker in California. You only
played a season.
Speaker 5: How bad we're How bud are Colorado?
Speaker 4: You didn't pay a lot in taxes? That would be fair,
not bad? Would Louisiana is actually high?
Speaker 5: See? Colorado seems like it could be high to me. I
don't know why.
Speaker 4: I guess because I think Colorado stays high. You know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Yes, I guess I think like there's expensive skier.
Speaker 3: What is it? Why can't I think of the altitude?
Why couldn't I think of that word?
Speaker 7: Because the altitude to your brain? How about that? Nobody
even thought that when you said, Hi, I've been talking
about Colorado. No, but I definitely thought I went to
the gun.
Speaker 4: The old Devil's let us to the.
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Speaker 2: All right, it is time for one of our favorite
segments of the week.
Speaker 4: A little Dear delandradra.
Speaker 3: It Kills.
Speaker 4: All right, do you have one ready to go? Because
I have one? Okay, good, Okay, here you go.
Speaker 3: Oh you mean I thought your question?
Speaker 4: Okay, awesome, I have one.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's one song that instantly makes you emotional and
what memory is attached to it?
Speaker 4: And Alandra, if you don't mind, I would like to
start this one on.
Speaker 3: Ok yeah, we can do that.
Speaker 4: Play the song.
Speaker 5: Mmm.
Speaker 4: When I first read this question, the first.
Speaker 2: Thing, I mean, the immediate thing that came into my brain,
my friend, not even close. I don't know why, but
this reminds me of the last scene where Paul Walker,
who actually wasn't even Paul Walker was his brother in
CGI and Vin Diesel are driving down the road and
there's a fork in the road and at the end
of it, after smiling at each other giving the head nod,
Paul goes to the left. I think he goes to
the left. Maybe it's been either way. The other stays straight.
Paul Walker had already passed away at that point. This
was a song that was playing. I'm not Look, there's
a lot of movies, there's a lot of different situations
in life that can, you know, bring up sad memories.
I know Fast and Furious probably isn't one for a
lot of people, but damn it, it was one for me.
Speaker 4: Paul Walker. This song emotional from the get go.
Speaker 5: It's funny one you exactly what?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was so crazy, like literally because okay, everybody,
I get it. We've all seen Fast and the Furious.
It's a little over the top. Everybody likes to to
clown it. I understand that that's still one of the
best endings of any movie I've ever seen, like the
end of Furious seven scene you're talking about right now.
Speaker 5: Totally get it.
Speaker 3: Hey, you want me to.
Speaker 4: Crazy, But this song is Paul Walker was my first thought.
Speaker 3: Moment, that's crazy.
Speaker 5: Do you all have Do you have one a song?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I had one ready to go. Wait, I just laughed
because this question. So it's a dear Delandra, how do
I get someone to match my freak.
Speaker 5: Dice?
Speaker 3: No, that is the goat in the chat.
Speaker 8: So this is the song that immediately, Yeah, tender.
Speaker 3: Makes me super emotional.
Speaker 8: We played this yesterday, I think, or maybe Monday, I
don't remember. This song makes me so emotional every time
that I listen to it, and it doesn't remind me
of like a specific moment in time, but the part
where she's like I step outside, I take a deep breath,
and I'm like, what's going on? I'm like, who can
can't relate to that? Like everybody's gone through stuff. And
then obviously when I was twenty five, I was like, yeah,
twenty five years, like we're all trying to get up
that great, big hill of hope.
Speaker 4: You know everybody has that moment.
Speaker 2: I guess you know the old Uh it's a meme
where Ben Afflex just like he's had a day, yeah,
and he's outside ripping the heater and he's just like
letting out big deep breath yet like it's been rough.
It's been a rough day. Sometimes you need to just
go outside and have a little woosa.
Speaker 5: He had got to have a little bend time.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I don't even particularly like I'm good right now, Like
I've didn't have a bad day or anything last week,
But for some reason, this song came up and came
on in my car at some point last week and
I felt my like eyes tearing up in my.
Speaker 3: Throat, nodding for somewhere I don't know why, but it did.
Speaker 8: So this is it also reminds me of my mom
and my sister because they love this song too. So
it just makes me emotional for somebody.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you missed your mom's sister all the time. Yeah,
I bout that.
Speaker 5: Do not sing the song too right now? Right? Dare
that anybody listen to it? Not sing this song?
Speaker 3: You can't. It's a great song, but it does make
me very emotional.
Speaker 4: All right. That's two good ones. Go like the rest
of the fellows in this round.
Speaker 5: Like my head liked to sent you one.
Speaker 7: So I was going through a couple of My immediate
one was like Lee Greenwood and like I always think
of like Proud to be an American. I was trying
to go patriotic. I was thinking because that immediately went
to that and I think about like Mel Gibson Theatre,
think about Mail Gibson runningway that flag in the battlefield
that it's incredible, a great ponytail. I was thought about
Shadow the Sun from Audio.
Speaker 4: Slaves Great Memories for your boy here too.
Speaker 7: Because it was my pregame. But this is the one
when you talk about emotions. If you want to watch
TV late night and you get a commercial happening and
you see a three legged dog running down the third
world country road and a couple of.
Speaker 5: Baby kittens with no eyes. Yeah, getting blind cats lapping
up some goat's milk.
Speaker 3: I can't do sad animals.
Speaker 5: And if you want to donate.
Speaker 7: To help the three legged no other animals around the world,
Sarah McLaughlin can help you with that. You got some
like can you watch that commercial without thinking?
Speaker 5: Like checking your pots? What kind of spare change you go?
Speaker 7: I have something I can I call in and give
you a quarter without giving you my credit card information.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. But those animals are sad.
Speaker 4: I can see the mutt right now. We don't know
what kind of dog he is, well, he doesn't know
what kind of dog is.
Speaker 2: He has no idea what his two parents are.
Speaker 8: And he looks so sad, begging you, falling off legs,
falling off all matted.
Speaker 5: Matted hair. I can barely see.
Speaker 3: Cataracts all in his eyes.
Speaker 5: Get that dog.
Speaker 4: Some says I changed the channel every time.
Speaker 5: I channel.
Speaker 7: As a kid, like, oh man, you'd have my parents
credit card info so fast.
Speaker 2: Jo always said, I make the dogs watch it so
they'll get spoiled.
Speaker 3: Is gonna go home and.
Speaker 6: Show I showed Frankie competition.
Speaker 4: God that that is such a going because.
Speaker 5: Shaking terrified dog.
Speaker 4: Oh god, every time.
Speaker 3: I can't do dog stuff like it makes me so sad.
Do you have a song or no?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, you don't have to play it. I'll
be quick.
Speaker 4: We'd like to play it though.
Speaker 6: The Boys a Fall by Kenny Chestney. So if anybody's
ever played football, like, you know the song I'm talking about,
and like it just kind of takes me back to school.
Speaker 5: But the reason why is because I was in about
eighth or.
Speaker 6: Ninth grade when the song first came out, and every
single year they would play it for the senior class
because it's always about like leaving school, play in your
last game, that type of thing. And I used always
see the seniors get emotion. I'm like, hey, guys, chill out,
like it's just a song, like whatever. And I watched
it for like four years, and then when it finally
became my time, like we're walking out there and they're
playing this song for senior night and then I walk
out and like my parents are tearing up and I'm like,
oh crap. So that You're like, you're trying super hard.
You like, the song's not gonna get me. I've had
four years to prepare for this. It's not gonna get me.
And what happens it gets you when you walk out
of the tunnel for the last time.
Speaker 5: It's just one of those songs. It's like, it's great
when you listen to but you're like, do it sound
like really sad?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: You sit back and think about it, right, but this
is this has always been one, so.
Speaker 3: This is is another sad? Can he chose blank?
Speaker 2: This is all right? So this is gonna sound like
timey tough. I promise you that it's not my intention.
I I can't imagine going through that. Like I, I
think we were both probably pretty fortunate that when we
played our last football game, we didn't know it was
our last football game.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Mine, you did, Okay, So I didn't know mine.
Speaker 2: So I was pretty sure at least I my last
time actually went against somebody else was Broncos versus Cardinals.
But I didn't know that it was going to be
my last football game. Like, I had no idea. Now,
I went to the Saints and decided to retire because
like in my heart, I was like I'm done, but
I didn't know like at that time when I'm playing
for the Broncos, this is the last time that I'll
ever do this. This is the last time I've done this
my entire life. I've worked everything, Every decision I've made
in my life has been towards trying to be the
best professional football player for yourself or your family, for
everybody around you.
Speaker 4: Right, And then all of a sudden, like that's gone.
Speaker 2: But like for Taite and like ninety nine point nine percent,
like that moment that he's talking about high school football,
that's it, and you know it's coming, and you like
you can see on the schedule, like when that's coming,
and I can imagine, ta I'll back you up on
this one.
Speaker 4: I can imagine that's a pretty emotional moment.
Speaker 6: Well, again, it came out when I was a freshman,
so like I knew this was coming for four years,
and like you're like, huh, right, it's coming. You're like, oh,
but I got all the time in the world. I
got all I mean, you're a senior and you're like,
this is my scene. By watched I've been taking a
knee in the end zone watching this for four to
five years now, but it's like, now I'm the one
lined up.
Speaker 5: It's tough for man.
Speaker 8: I kind of knew, kind of didn't know the last
time I was going to play softball because we went
to playoffs.
Speaker 4: So so it could have been another round.
Speaker 3: And the third round we came back, tied.
Speaker 8: It up and we ended up losing, but it was
it was still like we had a chance for another game.
Like so I kind of knew, kind of didn't know,
but I definitely cried after I stopped.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, like the one time I knew
I was never gonna play with the same teammates that
I had, and it was some of my favorite memories
growing up, and like I bawled like a baby. I
was fourteen years old. We were playing Shreveport All Stars
with our Street four Mariners team and we were all
going to separate high schools after that, Like you know,
four went to this high school, three went to this
high school, two went here.
Speaker 4: You know, we're spread out.
Speaker 2: I was like that was some of our core memories
and we lost in the state state championship game. I
remember being like, man, I'll never get to play those
fellows again.
Speaker 7: I know it's always at the end of the season.
My last I took my pads off. The last time
I was I was ninety nine, so sure it was
was the last game of the season with the Saints
at fifteen, and.
Speaker 5: You know it was.
Speaker 7: It was sitting there my locker, right next to Breeze
and I was, I was one of the last ones
out for sure. Like I sat there, I set my
pads on for a while. I wasn't like sad because
I was mentally, emotionally, spiritually like kind of ready, which
I was very fortunate to get to that point. Not
a lot of people get can't get to that point, right,
But yeah, I remember taking them off and setting the
shoulder pads down the locker room, give them a little
kiss on the shoulder pad, took them and off, unbuckle
the chin.
Speaker 4: Strap for the last time. Did you have I don't
think we've ever asked you this. Did you have calls
after that?
Speaker 5: We talked about it.
Speaker 7: It's a kind of a longer story, but the Yeah,
the Broncos the following year, that's a raining Super Bowl champs.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, wal Rock, Yeah, Sanchez was there.
That was the year that uh Simeon was a yeah, yeah,
I'll can tell the story.
Speaker 5: It's a little it's a little long story.
Speaker 4: When we come back.
Speaker 3: Hey, wait, I got one.
Speaker 8: I want to answer somebody asked so, just because I
feel like I kind of need to redeem myself here
a little bit.
Speaker 3: Let me find the.
Speaker 8: Song here it is so, Dear de Landra, would you
rather someone bring you to a tailgate for a date
on game day or pregame out of sports bar?
Speaker 3: Answer?
Speaker 8: Coward tailgating, And I guess I maybe poo poot on tailgating.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 3: I don't think, I really.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't hate tailgating. I would rather go to a
game more.
Speaker 8: And I also can't rally the way I used to
when I was younger, Like I can't drink all day
and then go sit in a stadium and watch football,
Like I just can't do it anymore.
Speaker 3: But I picked this song because it reminds me of tailgates.
If you're playing this at your tail gate, come by.
Speaker 8: I do a Tailgates series, Like, I'm okay with tailgating.
Speaker 3: But to answer the question, maybe tailgating just to see
if he.
Speaker 4: Can hang you know nothing. Tail game is great.
Speaker 3: Yeah I don't. I don't have anything too much against it, but.
Speaker 5: The true personality really stands out.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, I just had to redeem myself from that one.
Speaker 2: Instaid the boy four chat and by the way, great
interaction all day long. Appreciate y'all. Michael Donahue in the chat.
My last high school game was losing to a van
and join in the semi finals crowd like a baby
after that game, long drive back from North Louisiana, said Michael,
what year was that and who'd you play for ball?
I'd love to know that information. Put that inside the
buy you for chat. All right, when we come back,
we're gonna get a story that I promise he's probably
not as long as Flynn made it sound like it
was going to be and or as good. But while
he turned down the diver Broncos when we come back,
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Matthew Clayton Flynn, what did you tell the Denver Broncos
when they hollered at you?
Speaker 5: When they hollered at you? Boy?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Uh So twenty fifteen was my last year and we
were just talking about like hanging up the pads the
last time, hanging up the cleet. So I was like
ninety nine percent sure I was done. So I've entered
that off season. Well just like man, I'm done. I
just started, like I just had started the concept in
the head about my high my son, my newborn. My
firstborn was like six months old, so I got it's
like a kind of a new portion my life. I
was kind of I'd been through the ringer a lot
of different teams, and it kind of takes a lot
out of you.
Speaker 5: So I was kind of ready to be done.
Speaker 7: So I go into the off season still like throwing
and working out, but just pretty much like I'm done,
Like I don't really want to do it. I'm not
emotionally into it. I'm not spiritually there. And I think
the goal when you as you get into the NFL
and as you get like play more and more years,
your goal stops from like, hey, I need to make
the team. I need to be an NFL guy, Like
I want to get vested. It eventually starts be coming.
I want to go out my way. I want to
go out on my own terms instead of somebody else
dictating when the last time is, because it's usually not
many people will get to do that. Usually cut when
you don't know it, or you don't get re signed
and you want to be and and you fight at
workouts and your training and you're trying to get on
a team, you just can't do it. That's what usually happens.
But I get a call in training camp had just started.
My agent is a call from the Broncos, who had
won the Super Bowl the year before Peyton Manny and
then Peyton mann retired.
Speaker 5: They had.
Speaker 7: They had Mark Sanchez there who was not performing well
at the time. Then they had two rookies, Trevor Simeon
and Paxton Lynch.
Speaker 5: Oh my lord, I don't know if you he might
have been.
Speaker 7: Second year paston, but I'm pretty sure Simeon, who's still
playing shout up, was the first round. And so they
call and like, okay, we got we're going into preseason
game two. We want you to come in there and
we're gonna be you know, we might be releasing Sanchez
in a little while, so like we got the spot.
A veteran to come in could be a starter. We
just got to figure out. But we want you to
be on the team. And I'm like, okay, that's so
I'll tell my agent. I'm like, I really don't want
to do this. I don't want to do it. Give
me a couple of days and they're like, it's fine,
we're prepping for our preseason game whatever. So me and
my wife are talking, so we decide like, all right,
let's do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, if I decide to do something, I go all in.
So I'm like, all right, let's do it. So all right,
we got to be on a plane tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Got a flight.
Speaker 7: It's like a nine thirty, nine thirty am flight to Denver,
do a physical, do all that stuff, then we'll go.
Then we'll you know, cut mark or you know whatever.
Codever was Okay. So I get in the car and
I started driving to the airport, all packed up, ready
to go.
Speaker 5: Convince myself I'm doing this.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: My agent calls me. I'm I'm driving from St. Franciso.
I'm on Highway sixty one, halfway down sixty one. Agent
calls me. He's like, hey, the flight. They're pushing the flight.
Don't get on it. And he's like, they're they're having
second thoughts about this. They don't know if they want
to make the move with their current guys that they
were going to. They just got to they got to
talk through some stuff right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I go back home and I'm cussing, like oh mad.
Speaker 7: Like I'm sitting there like what I'm talking with my
wife and I'm sitting there like.
Speaker 5: At this point, I'm like crying.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm crying because it's like, man, my goal playing
professional football is like go out on my go out
my way, right, whether that's a good way or bad way,
it's the least your way. Yeah, And So I'm sitting
there crying, and you know, we're t I should have
just told him no, man, Yeah, So.
Speaker 5: I just told him.
Speaker 7: Well, like two hours later, he calls back. He says,
all right, it's back on. They've rebooked your flight three
thirty flight or whatever. Yeah, And I'm like I sit
there and I'm like, man, I'm like, hey, tell him,
I'm not interested, right, And I was like, I was like,
that was it. So my wife was there and we
just we looked at each other and we were like
we were like, all right, that's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So that was all.
Speaker 4: Take that. Hey, take that, John.
Speaker 5: It wasn't like, uh, it wasn't like a heart of let.
Speaker 4: Me hold on. Take that, John. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, bum you cussed him out.
Speaker 2: You's why you don't treat veteran players like that. Sure
you've won a Super Bowl two. Sure you one of
the best quarterbacks ever played. I don't care Take that, John.
Whatever we said no to you, pal, not the other
way around. Okay, you can rebook that flight all you want, John,
I ain't getting on it. Have fun with Mark Sanchez
and Trevor Simmy and good draft choice with Paxton Lynch.
Speaker 7: John super appreciative the exit row seat, not getting on
it though, Yeah, d reclient it probably book Spirit Airlines
John or leg room, but he didn't go back.
Speaker 2: John Elway, I do appreciate the freedom or you gave
me it Lways that one time.
Speaker 4: But outside of.
Speaker 7: That, Yeah, I was like, I was like, it's probably like,
probably a dumb decision. Just Oull said, note to the
raining super Bowl choice. We're pretty good the next year though.
It's true it makes you feel better. He could have
man back to back.
Speaker 4: Uh, I'm glad you got to go on your own term.
So it's a good feeling. I mean, whether it was
the right or wrong, it doesn't matter. It's a good feeling.
It is a good good feeling. John.
Speaker 2: Just Hey, if John, if you would have just kept
your word, you'd have had Flynn Yeah, bruh, not Paxton
Lynch bud.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Why do you.
Speaker 5: Why just because the football well doesn't mean you can
run a roster. Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 2: Stanford sucks, John, Yeah, bum.
Speaker 4: That's why they're underdogs too, Hawaii. John.
Speaker 5: It's probably his fault too about Stanford. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Want you go do something to your alma mater?
Speaker 5: John, Hey, again, really enjoyed watching you as a kid player.
Speaker 4: I was rooting for the Packers at the Super Bowl.
How about that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Did my boys though?
Speaker 4: He did well.
Speaker 2: On that note, we're gonna open some cards when we
come back. I'm taking a break somewhat on time, and
we're gonna actually get to some of your questions as well.
Ask the bench when we come back here one of
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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back you O t B one of
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Speaker 4: Open up that box of cards and tell the people.
Speaker 5: This beautiful box. We're the box. Opened the box?
Speaker 4: Well, got there his wife's head, Yeah, it's true. It
was his wife's head. Yeah, sorry, Brad, sorry about that, Gwyneth.
Speaker 3: Hopefully something better in that box.
Speaker 7: YEA true wedding in life, though, you know, I like
those animals on the Sarah McLaughlin commercial that's falling off.
All right, all right, we're gonna open these up, so
and I'll tell you what the cards are before we reveal.
Speaker 4: And we got you know, three minutes left here, Well.
Speaker 3: You do that?
Speaker 8: Have either of you gone back to a city where
you played for for non football reasons?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: San Diego is the greatest city a lot of Uh.
Speaker 3: San Diego GBT pointed out every single.
Speaker 2: San Diego's nickname is America's finest city, and I I
love San Diego.
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Speaker 4: That's an eight, oh boy, one of one.
Speaker 5: Eight, that's an eight.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, alright, Marvin Harrison junior for the Cardinals,
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Speaker 4: Well, we got their boat. I can't see oh.
Speaker 5: Nine, we got a nine. Got okay, we'll shut up
to the line.
Speaker 7: Rock Flowers uptowns out of the Donner's optic white Pandora,
so it's numbered to twenty.
Speaker 4: Five and Lows didn't even know it.
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Speaker 4: White Pandora goes a nine.
Speaker 7: Nine nine, So the nine pretty much does it. Nine
the value of the rock card. The ten would have
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Speaker 5: Car Tea.
Speaker 2: I'm only in the world and they're international and they're
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Speaker 7: Yeah, my nickname is Dragon true given.
Speaker 4: Uh that is also a nine? Is also a nine?
P s A. Do you know? Do you hate tens?
Speaker 5: Do you hate us?
Speaker 4: Do you hate the number ten?
Speaker 5: Do you not see value in what we need?
Speaker 4: Gesu and Pete? Alright, it's okay.
Speaker 7: Nine.
Speaker 4: It's not bad, is it?
Speaker 5: Okay, it's not bad. We shouldn't have done.
Speaker 4: It was just I kind of told you that from
the beginning.
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Speaker 5: If this isn't a ten.
Speaker 4: I'm glad somebody got a ten. My god always JD.
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Speaker 4: To Downtown didn't have edges maybe an easier ten, I
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