Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive Hansday.
Hester and Hester got it five out of pa your
locks in to off the Bench? Who control the live
from the Raising Caines Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Yo, oh my god, hi ba wow Yo. It was
an awful waterfall.
Speaker 3: I know your mike was throwing me off at Jake's
mike on and so of yours.
Speaker 2: Oh well that makes sense. You had Kinne's mike, Cane's mike. Yeah.
I really couldn't hear myself either.
Speaker 3: Sorry, so as well again.
Speaker 4: Oh no, we can't do it again. It's one one take.
It's a one take you.
Speaker 3: We're off to a great start.
Speaker 4: Uh, we are off to a great start because I'm
feeling great today. I woke up bright eyed, bushy tailed.
It's one of those days. I woke it so it
was a good wake up this morning. I woke up, well,
it was Tuesday, so I always feel good if I
wake up in the middle of the night. Is this
happened a couple of times. I woke up and I
thought it was time to get up for the show.
Laying over, tapped the old watch over the phone and
it was like three fifteen. So I was like, oh, baby,
got two more hours of this one hundred and twenty
more minutes.
Speaker 2: So I was excited.
Speaker 4: So when that happens, I usually wake up pretty tie.
I didn't go to bed till like midnight either. Anyway,
How are y'all doing. Let's get a little vibe check.
Speaker 2: How are you? I'm feeling great this morning. How are
you all doing?
Speaker 3: I also feel great? Right I y'all know, I had
like a little injury I was trying to recover from,
and then I was training, So I haven't lifted a
lot in the past like two months. Got a lift
in yesterday, okay, with heavy I feel amazing.
Speaker 4: What So when you go lifting, are we doing like
are we phoned back to the sports days or we're
doing some like Olympic type lifting.
Speaker 2: There's some country club workouts? What are we doing?
Speaker 3: So there's some hand cleans in there, all right? And
then we did some elevated squats. Shout out to the block.
That's where I go, They're awesome.
Speaker 4: You have to like, you have to be at the
right type of gym to do like a power clean yes,
or people look at you weird, Yes for sure.
Speaker 3: Right. So my trainer she also does like CrossFit. Okay,
so she's a she's a han cleaner.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: A lot of people don't like a lot of noise,
Like a lot of people don't like a lot of noise,
I say, noise in the gym, but like people like
slamming weights down. Yeah, dropping weights you give a lot
of funny looks.
Speaker 3: True. Everybody's like minded at that gym.
Speaker 4: Though, especially like when you're lifting and there's people like
over forty there, I can say that now I'm forty.
You gotta be careful with the noise you make with
a wave. So the ones you like the noise complaint?
Can you rack those weights a little quire like.
Speaker 3: The lunk alarm or something like that or what do
they call it? Yeah, the lunk alarm at Planet Fitness,
which if you're saying, this is a judgment free zone, okay,
So at Planet Fitness they have like the lunk alarm.
I don't I don't know if it's ever been used
or if it's just for decoration.
Speaker 2: It's a okay, So.
Speaker 3: If you slammation, right, So like if you slam your
weights down, you're a lunk or something like that. But
if you're a judgment free zone, that feels pretty judgmental.
Speaker 2: Yeah, judgment can go one direction, right, they can't come
back the other. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I go to Planet Fitness and dnim they kidding
they have the lunk alarm.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think it works like it's up there.
But yeah, like I don't, No one man's it.
Speaker 5: No, it wouldn't even it wouldn't even waits. I heard
some dudes like screaming at each other the other day.
Some old dudes got in a fight over something and
it never went off, and they're pretty loud.
Speaker 2: So the word is lunk.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, Okay, that's what it says on the
wall underneath it.
Speaker 2: Do you get a lunk warning first before the alarm
goes off?
Speaker 3: Such a lunk? Yeah, bro, I am just which they
don't even have free weights really Planet Fitness, So I
don't know if you can slams there.
Speaker 5: People kind of say that it's always kind of a
like a misconception of my mine does doesn't.
Speaker 3: Talk one that have the smith machines?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean mine is like a whole section in
the back.
Speaker 3: That's just free weights, well like dumb bells.
Speaker 2: Both, they both.
Speaker 3: I've only seen the Smith machines there.
Speaker 4: The Smith machines is like the barbelle. You can do
squats and bench, but it's on the rack so it
doesn't move out of the rack.
Speaker 2: It's like a safety deal. Yours has like free like
we'll have a squat without us both.
Speaker 5: But yeah, they have like a couple of racks in
the back. It's like just rack bar whatever you want
want to They.
Speaker 2: Got like three or four up in the back. Interesting, so.
Speaker 6: Feel great, So you feel great, incredible and your injury
feels good.
Speaker 2: Yeah you're so back. Are we going to train for
another half marathon?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Not till November though. So I got a tin
K I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2: First K you're gonna do.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do the Crescent City tin k because everyone
says that was super fun?
Speaker 2: Is that is that? But that's is that shorter than
a half marathon?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Six miles?
Speaker 2: Okay, it's about half of what you did.
Speaker 3: You did a little less than half.
Speaker 2: You do you have like any desire at all to
go full marathon?
Speaker 3: There is a desire to see if I can do it,
but I don't.
Speaker 2: Like it's not well, you can do it, just so
how much pain do you want to go through? Volunteer?
Speaker 3: It's just like it seems so boring, Like I couldn't
imagine doing double what I did because I just feel
like I would have got so bored.
Speaker 4: It's twenty six kilometers twenty six point two miles miles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, dude, yeah, I'd get bored with six miles. I'd
be run even if I was in shape enough to
do it, which I'm not. Even if I was, i'd
be like, I.
Speaker 3: Can't ohent on my first run since like the half yesterday,
I felt terrible.
Speaker 2: Did you share your what you're my time? No? Okay,
you know, not asking you to do that.
Speaker 3: I don't think I want to.
Speaker 4: But what is like an average marathon two.
Speaker 3: And a half for a marathon, oh marathon, Yeah, that's
like five six.
Speaker 4: That people just do it as like a goal. But
in some people take like eight hours to do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think there's people that take like eight hours.
Speaker 4: It take me a full day. Yeah, I'd stop, get
some lunch.
Speaker 3: There is like a part of me that feels like
can you do it? Like do you want to test
that and see if you can do it. Yeah, and
I want to, but also, like the same time, I
don't have a desire too. It's in the back of
my mind though, don't be surprised if I end up
doing one.
Speaker 2: So the next half marathon November, where's it at in
New Orleans? The New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're bringing their marathon back.
Speaker 2: You look at sponsoring that thing. You should hydrate the folks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Well, I uh a quick update on
my training Hyrid rock Star high Rocks. It's right into
March into March High Rocks in Houston. Been training a
little bit. We were doing like once a week in December.
We went to two weeks in January or I'm sorry,
two times a week in January, but then I was out.
I didn't do anything in Mobile last week. I just
kind of sat there and talked to a microphone. Yeah
for a long time. Now we're going to go three
days a week now. Did one yesterday. So my partner
Andrew Chacone over there, know who runs the Red Stick
Health and Fitness over there.
Speaker 2: And like that. Yeah, you related to Pablo Shakun.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 2: I'll ask him.
Speaker 4: Sure, will the Millers, No big deal is it quote
where the millers at me?
Speaker 5: All right, that's the that's the name he gives in
like the drug smuggling This that's his nickname.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I've ever heard anyone quote that
movie except for No Regirds.
Speaker 3: But are the you guys are getting paid part two people?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're we got the training going, We're working it.
Speaker 3: You're about to a hybrid rockstar.
Speaker 4: Every time I go work out, I'm like, man, this
is absolutely on voluntary. I'm doing this to myself, like
I'm about to a throw up every single time I workout.
Speaker 3: Don't you feel amazing?
Speaker 2: I do feel great. I feel great right now.
Speaker 3: It's probably a little my high and you feel so good.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 4: Started wearing I started wearing sleeveless shirts to work out.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm ever going back, stood, I mean,
my god shirt to work out. Save something for the rest.
Speaker 3: Of us with Like, I'll agree with Taylor. I am sick.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I'm not running disgusting.
Speaker 4: Like the high rock stuff is like when I when
I did it, I was like, yeah, okay, like I
gotta I gotta lift weights, I gotta get stronger.
Speaker 2: For this thing. Not really.
Speaker 4: It's just a running competition with just stuff in the middle,
just like things to do in the middle of running basically,
And I don't run for distance.
Speaker 2: Basically.
Speaker 4: I never ran past one hundred and ten yards because
we'd do like one tens in the summer. That was
about as far as I go. You never needed to,
never needed to. It's about as far as my body
would go.
Speaker 2: Those cankles, yeah, these cankles. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I like to run fast. I like to do sprints
for a distance. I remember, like in when I was
in middle school, have to go like run a mile
or something. I came in last. Every time. You just
couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, same, All that matters is that you knocked it out.
You knocked it out, knocked it out.
Speaker 3: I just still can't get over that. High Rocks is
hybrid vibra rockstar.
Speaker 2: I think that's really cool. I like it.
Speaker 5: Hybrid rock star. Who doesn't want to be a hybrid rockstar?
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2: But I don't know what it means either.
Speaker 3: It means you can run and do other activities.
Speaker 5: Rockstar, like imagine introducing yourself to someone hide, what's up Dragon?
Speaker 4: Flynn, Dragon Rockstar, Hyber Rockstar completed it like finished.
Speaker 2: Whatever their title is is not going to top that.
Speaker 3: No, King of Hydration, King King.
Speaker 4: Hydration, that is my self given title at my hi,
my CEO, King of Hydration, Dragon Flynn, Hybrid Rockstar.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be like, oh, I'm gonna need a new
business card. You are, you can fit all that it does.
Speaker 4: Maybe you kind of want to do an air guitar,
like after you finish it, when you're done. Oh, like
Hybrid rock Star makes me do.
Speaker 5: When you're done, though, as you're crossing the finish line.
Speaker 3: I do need a picture of you just hitting the
air guitar.
Speaker 4: I like to slap the base a little bit more
than just I'm not an ax man slapping the base. Well,
there's a big game this weekend. Wee yes, some would
say it's super big.
Speaker 3: Would they say it's the big game?
Speaker 2: They play it in a stadium. It's like a bowl.
They take a stadium like a bowl.
Speaker 4: Before to this weekend, they've done it fifty nine times
before this. They do it every year every single year
around this time before Valentine's Day. Usually they play this game.
It's called the Super Bowl and it says weekend. Seattle Seahawks,
New England Patriots, NFC, AFC. There's a little bit of
talk about for the super Bowl this week. They had
media day yesterday.
Speaker 3: This super Bowl is not doing it for me. I have.
Speaker 2: That's not like the super Bowl, they said.
Speaker 4: So they had media day yesterday and I was trying
to listen to it a little bit yesterday.
Speaker 2: They said zero things.
Speaker 3: There's like, not really any storylines that interests me either.
Speaker 2: They just because they're both likable teams.
Speaker 5: Actually the other way, this is the worst case scenario
for me growing up. These were my two least favorite teams.
Speaker 2: Really. Yeah, okay, so you did didn't like the Dynasty.
Speaker 5: Patriots they won all the time. Never been a Robbert
Craft fan. Couldn't tell you why I didn't like Seattle.
Just didn't because Russell, Yeah, he's very unlikeable. Must be it,
Which is weird because growing up I love showing Alexander.
But I was never just never big on the Seahawks.
Speaker 4: Well, I think we can all agree that Marshall Lynch
is very likable.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm just here.
Speaker 4: But the run it it was against the Saints, so
that's true. Maybe you didn't like it because.
Speaker 3: He's not really a Saints fan.
Speaker 2: Oh that's true. I mean I'm way more Saints fan
than Sea. What they do to the Cowboys and they
don't play a ton like just.
Speaker 4: What always shocks me is like when people if the
playing field is level. It always shocks me that people
don't like dynasties because there's so many people that don't
like the Chiefs, so many people that don't didn't like
the Patriots. If it's a level now, I get like
the Dodgers hate because that's it's not a level playing
field at that point. But like, if it's a level
playing field, I think greatness is really awesome to witness,
like dot like doing something that's really hard and making
it look easy. Like people didn't like, I mean not
a lot, but like I heard people don't like didn't
like Tiger Woods being so dominant forever, Scotti Scheffler being
and like, I think it's pretty awesome. Yeah, it's pretty
bad to watch somebody, especially it's a sport.
Speaker 5: Even if it's a sport you don't watch, it's bigger, right,
Like it gives you a reason to tune in.
Speaker 2: Rather, I'm not a big golfer play a ton of golf.
Speaker 5: But I'll tell you what, if Tiger Woods has a
chance to win on Sunday, I'm tuning in.
Speaker 2: No doubt, even if he's near in the top twenty. Yeah,
like if I'm checking it.
Speaker 3: Out, I respected the people on the Dynasty are likable.
Speaker 2: You know what I guess?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess the Patriots had a little bit like
US versus the world mentality.
Speaker 3: I ever really disliked the Patriots. I never was like, oh,
I love the Patriots, but I didn't have the same
hate for Tom Brady or the Patriots that everybody else did.
Speaker 2: What's they're more likable than the Chiefs? What's not likable
about the Chiefs?
Speaker 3: Travis Kelcey Homes b there. I don't like Kelsey, Patrick
Mahomes is like pretty unlikeable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't like my homes but I'm trying to
put my finger on So why wouldn't you like Travis
Kelsey or Mahomes from like like they haven't really done
anything bad.
Speaker 2: Mahomes is a pretty stand up guy.
Speaker 3: His brother is, his dad is a mess too, His.
Speaker 2: Dad's a mess.
Speaker 5: And wife is she I heard she got okay, So
that's that's a little iffy, right, because like I used
to think that too, but he's like his wife or whatever.
Speaker 2: But like what she done, That's what I'm saying, Like,
what have the Chiefs done too?
Speaker 3: Kickers? Stuff? That one time you're.
Speaker 2: Talking about Justin Tucker just.
Speaker 3: Maybe justified trying to Justin Tucker?
Speaker 2: Was it? I'll tell you just Tucker was definitely in
the that situation. Okay, all right? Was it? They were
into the field, he was kicking one too. Yeah, it
was not getting out of the way. It's like the
whole team was there.
Speaker 3: And then it was just can't we all agree that
Travis Kelsey just gives off bad vibes?
Speaker 5: He does, he does. I'm not a Kelsey. I get it,
Like I you're not the only ones that think that.
I just I enjoy watching the Chiefs dominate because I
think it's really impressive and they have it like you
try to put your finger on it. You just are
just You're just gonna say, I just don't like him
cause I don't like him, right, they haven't really done anything.
Speaker 2: Andy Reid's super likable.
Speaker 3: I didn't really care about the Warriors either, because Steph
Curry was kind of likable.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the Warriors. Look, maybe it's a.
Speaker 3: Big I'm big I think with the Spurs dynasty, Like
obviously that is the biggest thing in my life is
when the Spurs were running the NBA. But I didn't
care for the Warriors, Like it didn't bother me.
Speaker 5: No, I hate every dinasty that ain't mine. Maybe it's
like a maybe it's just like being competitive or whatever.
If it's not my team and you're good, I hate you.
It doesn't matter that.
Speaker 4: I think we're proving that point. It doesn't matter if
you're likable or not what you do. But I'm just
saying I think that it could be appreciated if people
are on a level playing field. People that dominate, especially
the people that do it. I mean, I guess you
could say, like the right way would be doing it,
not the wrong way. Don't be a prick about it.
I don't think the Chiefs for that. Of course we
hate Bama for their dynasty, but I think that people
did like that.
Speaker 2: But you don't respect, no, not at all, respect Bamas.
Man sports is so fun.
Speaker 5: Respected Saban hypo. I hate how much I love Nick Saban.
Speaker 4: Now, I just he has well, look, he has done
a lot to improve his Louisiana relationship, certainly, I know, but.
Speaker 2: It almost feels like he's going out in his way. Yeah,
just like you. But it's I remember when.
Speaker 4: I can't remember when it was when he after this,
certainly after a three national championship. Like we as a players,
we saw one side of Nick Saban and one side
was all you're going to see and it was not
a beautiful side. It was very tough and rough and
coach you really hard. But we understood that he was
a great coach at the time.
Speaker 2: But I remember that.
Speaker 4: I can't remember if it was after three, but he
started getting more in the media's eye, of course, and
we saw him smile on camera one time, like on TV,
and we were like, that's what he looks like when
he smiles, Like did his pr person that they have
to like practice this in the mirror forever because it
looked like it just was creaking. His cheeks were just
like creaking and he hadn't done it so long. But
now he smiles all the time. Yeah, it's got a
new I feel like Pat McAfee's his bestie.
Speaker 3: I love that. M h. It's a great.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The dynamic of them on game day unlike good
unlikely to Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it all right, Well, look we have
a we got a great show for you, the Tripod
riding again all week. Jake is in in San Francisco
at the super Bowl. He'll be live on his afternoon
show all week long. He's I think he's doing two
shows a day right now from media row there. But
we are hopeful that he can join in, probably going
to be the third hour because he is two hours behind.
It is five twenty am there in San Francisco, So
we're going to see if he can jump on for
a segment, two segments, what how however much he wants.
But I'm sure he's got a lot of tidbits, a
lot of information, a lot of cool things. I'm sure
some cool interviews. Wonder if he's interviewing SpongeBob again, that'd
be sweet. But we're trying to get him on our three.
We got a great show for you. We're just going
to talk super Bowl talk, LSU talk, whatever the heck
we want. We're gonna have a mail Bags segment in
the eight o'clock hour as well, So stick with us
all morning, watch us listen on radio. I hope you're
having a great day and we'll be ride back off
the bench.
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Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 2: See the stone set in your eyes.
Speaker 1: See the thorn twisting your side.
Speaker 2: Oh waits for you. Slide of hand and to stiffy.
I'm feeling this right now head of.
Speaker 1: Me, looks me.
Speaker 6: Ways.
Speaker 2: It is ahead of their time.
Speaker 3: They are so ahead of their.
Speaker 2: Time, ahead of their time. They still making music.
Speaker 3: I don't know. They were recently at the sphere, I think,
but I don't know if they did any new stuff.
Speaker 4: They're the ones that invaded all of our privacy, yeah,
and downloaded their album onto everybody's phone without.
Speaker 3: So as far as I know, that might be the
most recent word. I don't know though, the song nineteen
eighty seven.
Speaker 4: If they got sued. Can't download on my phone, take
up my storage.
Speaker 6: It's very limited, Yeah, very especially when by the smallest iPhone.
Speaker 5: See calling Look guys, I only bought the eighth Yeah, okay,
one hundred bucks less? Yeah, I mean, come on, three less.
I think that was the original smallest.
Speaker 2: Wasn't it only fit two ring tones on it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: You don't see a lot of a lot of people
using music as a ring tone anymore. Back when you
had to like illegal, I guess it was illegally when
you had to do like the work around, when you
had to do the workaround to like download it onto,
like I guess it was before iPhone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody was using music. I wish we could get
back to the music. Ring tones they were great, or
the ring back they were good. What's the ring deck?
Speaker 3: Like you'd call somebody and there it wouldn't be like
a tone, it'd be a song plane.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Okay, I didn't know that had a name.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure his ring back like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we should bring back musical ring tones.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 4: I don't even remember the last time I heard somebody
with a musical ring tone.
Speaker 2: I never heard an old guy like classic you can.
Speaker 3: Work hereman, Yeah, he has ring tones like songs.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you remember any song that you used to have
as a ring tone?
Speaker 1: Me?
Speaker 3: No, I don't remember. Oh, so do you remember when well,
I don't know what they were called. Like young money
was a thing, so like Lil Wayne Drake, Nicki Minaj,
like it was like a whole group, right, he had
a song called Roger that I used to be my
ring tone.
Speaker 2: Roger that Okay, I had a like I had a
Nickelback song on there one time.
Speaker 4: It wasn't like Let's go, it was no matter which one.
People people people live in Paris perked up.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't I don't know if I
don't know if Nickelbacks is popular in the LP as
I make it out to be.
Speaker 2: And I love it.
Speaker 4: I mean I love it. I think it was rock Star,
So can we bring it back? Is everybody down for that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll make one my ringtone right now.
Speaker 2: By the end of the week, we'll have a new ringtone.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Rock Star was my uh MySpace profile song for a
good minute.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, what was my Space profiles? You have
the the profile song that you could make your own background. Yeah,
and it was like play a video and you felt
like a coder. Mm hm you were like, I'm an
Internet hacker.
Speaker 4: That's yeah. Who was what was the what was the
name of the band that was the alter Was it
alter Bridge? Chris Chris Cornell saying it was after.
Speaker 6: I'm blanking on it, not Audio Slave, sound Garden, no
Audio Yeah, ok, yeah, something else and yeah.
Speaker 4: I said alter Bridge. It was not alter Bridge Audio
slav original one. Yeah, I had an audio slave song.
That's my MySpace video.
Speaker 2: Londer.
Speaker 3: You're too young, No, I had my Space. I was
too young to have a MySpace, but I don't.
Speaker 2: It was pretty friends with Tom. Yeah you had to.
You had to be friends with Tom. What would that
guy's doing them? We should look it up.
Speaker 3: I don't remember what my song was though, it's probably
some emo.
Speaker 2: So sure we got three hours, we can wake up
with Tom's.
Speaker 3: Tom like sold my space is like traveling the world
being a photographer or.
Speaker 2: Something like that. Well, there's a lot of fun little
prop bets this week.
Speaker 3: The octopus one.
Speaker 2: The octopus one we learned about a football.
Speaker 3: Octopus was the gatorade one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So what I what I'd like to do today
is I found this Like it's like a little kind
of a super Bowl party kind of a prop sheet.
It gives you a list of twenty one twenty two questions.
So throughout the show, I want to go and go
through this with y'all and ask a couple of questions,
you know, throughout the show, and we're gonna fill out
our own and see and when we come back next week,
we're gonna see who gets the OTB turnover chain based
on these prop Betsy.
Speaker 2: Alrighty, so there is.
Speaker 4: Let's see how many there's twenty three and when there's
gonna be a tiebreaker total points score tiebreaker. So I'm
gonna ask you the first three or four right now?
All right, we're gonna go around the room. Okay, and
so again I'm but check this out right, keeping track
so it's official.
Speaker 2: See this, man, I'll tell you what you you can't
count on that? What can you count on? Nothing?
Speaker 4: Little pen and paper, old school baby?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Question number one, length of the National anthem? Okay, we
talked yesterday Charlie Puth. Puth, you could say this fan,
you probably really chucky that one up a bit over
under one hundred and twenty and a half seconds to
sing the national anthem, So a little over two minutes, yeah,
so I was looking at it. So I think in
the eighties Neil Diamond did one in like sixty eight
seconds or something like that. Alicia Keys, I think took
like nearly three and a half or four minutes. Yes,
she was, she was hitting some runs. I'll go under
you're gonna go under one hundred and twenty, and I.
Speaker 2: Was I was gonna go over.
Speaker 5: But look, I tell you our girl, Cassie told me
she is adamant Charlie Poot's gonna go under. So I'll
take your advice. Cassie will go under. Is she Charlie
Puth fan? No, she was saying on Friday. No, No,
he's gonna go under him. Its like him, So I said, okay, yeah,
I've never heard of him, but I can see Cassie
is like in Charlie Pie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, going off of what you said about Alicia Keys,
I'm gonna go with the under because she feels kind
of dramatic, and I don't think Charlie is going to
do all that.
Speaker 5: You don't think I'm gonna I'm gonna take the coward's
way out, and if I lose, I'm just gonna blame.
Speaker 4: But if you're like a guy like Charlie Pieth, not
a lot of people have heard of you.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's popular. I've never heard of him.
Speaker 4: So I'm I'm a person too, So there's got to
be people like me out there.
Speaker 2: I matter.
Speaker 4: This is a I matter, This is an opportunity for
him to show the world.
Speaker 2: His vocal range.
Speaker 4: So I think he's gonna I think he's going to
take this opportunity where all eyes on him, because let's
say I did I think last year viewership averaged one
hundred and twenty seven point seven million people average of
watching the Super Bowl, so nearly one hundred and thirty
million people gonna be watching him. I think he's gonna
soak it in this chance. This is his opportunity to shine.
Speaker 2: It's first time I'm ever performing. According to Matt.
Speaker 4: Ever, this is the first time singing. He won a
he won a competition and he gets to sing, so
he's gonna go over one hundred percent. All right, Next question,
I don't want any pop up ads screen.
Speaker 2: All right. Results of the coin toss heads are tails? Tails?
Speaker 3: Heads?
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm going tails because obviously it never fails. Team
to win the coin toss Seahawks or Patriots.
Speaker 2: Who's Who's home Seahawks? I don't know. Actually, good question.
Speaker 5: The home team should be the Seahawks and they were
the one seed. Patriots get to call it. I'll say
Patriots win, So launder your Seahawks tailor. Man, I hate
to side with Taylor on both the coin toss props.
But I feel like I just like the team that
normally calls it wins. It just kind of seems some way.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, whatever pops first.
Speaker 4: Well, then another thing like the heads or tails when
you got the coin. So a lot of times they'll
use something that's not a heads and a tails.
Speaker 2: They'll use like team they represents this.
Speaker 4: This is the Super Bowl logo. Okay, fair enough, they
probably do that for Vegas. I'm gonna go with the
Patriots on this one just because of America. Uh all right,
last one for this segment. Will any player be shown
crying during the national anthem? And we actually you have
to have a tier on this one. Yes, a visible tier.
Speaker 5: And I'll go further. I say, Mike Verbel crush during
the national anthem. He actually does seem like a tough
Criyer is like tough guy, but went through a log
I let go about Tennessee. He's back in the big
for the Patriots.
Speaker 2: I think was hated during that dynasty that everybody hated.
Speaker 4: There's always a player, Okay, so does the My question
on this is if you are Vegas and you are
the one saying yep, this hits or not. Does it
have to be a moving tier, like a tier that
you see streaking or can it play like a clear tier? Well,
like like you've seen that clear like you've had you
have to see water.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's got to at least bubble in a.
Speaker 3: Corner like at least tier up. But I think one
of them is gonna sob maybe our guy, yeah, well Campbell.
Speaker 4: But what if like they are crying but they hide
the tier. I want to know, like if you're making that.
Speaker 3: Separative definition of crying, yes.
Speaker 2: Now you've got to make the it's a judgment call
at that point.
Speaker 3: I mean I feel like if you cry and you
wipe the tear away, you're still crying.
Speaker 2: Oh for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but at that point you have water from your
eye moving and you move you moved it with your hand.
Yeah all right, Okay, So we got that's the first four.
But throughout the show, we're gonna do this. We're gonna
fill out twenty three questions and this is gonna be
a little competition. So I would encourage you. They have
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All right, a lot to get to on this show.
We'll actually break down the football portion for the Super
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and I think it's uh speaking of dynasties, it's got
the Patriots Patriot fans a little upset. He quoted yesterday
when he was asked about who do you want to
see when? What's your prediction for the game, he said, quote,
I don't really have a dog in this fight.
Speaker 2: I just hope it's a good game. So I wanted
to ask y'all, as Patriot haters and dynasty haters, because
you want everything to be equal in sports.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's what I said, just kidding. I
think it was just the Chiefs that I have it
out for for some time.
Speaker 4: Well, how do we feel about this? So tom Brady
coming out and saying I don't have a dog in
this fight, I would beg to differ myself. I would say,
you do have a dog in this fight, and that
dog is the Patriots.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about this?
Speaker 3: I feel like it's very tom Brady.
Speaker 4: You know, is this like the Raider executive talk coming
out or the TV broadcaster talk.
Speaker 3: Coming out Tom Brady, It's kind of very pr like
I don't really have a dog in this fight. Yes
you do. You played for the Patriots, you created the
dynasty over there.
Speaker 4: You actually have a very large statue with a small head,
right a statue.
Speaker 3: I can understand Patriots fans being upset by that, but
it'd be like you have no dog in the LSU
versus whoever.
Speaker 4: LSU's playing National Championship and Joe Burrow coming out and saying.
Speaker 2: I don't really have a dog in this fight? Yeah
you do?
Speaker 3: You do that?
Speaker 2: You do?
Speaker 3: So I know, at a get it sounds like Tom
Brady is somebody that doesn't have loyalty to anybody.
Speaker 1: But.
Speaker 2: Tom's a company guys.
Speaker 5: So Tom Brady's not calling the super Bowl this year
because it's on NBC, but network rotation.
Speaker 2: He did it last year.
Speaker 5: Whenever Fox gets the super Bowl in his contract, tom
Brady calls it for Fox. So maybe it's something like
that where he's like, I called last year's super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to show what he buysself.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe maybe it's that type of thing, like he's
not doing it this year, but he does get it.
Speaker 2: He is a team guy.
Speaker 4: He shown that, like like they were born with, like
the Patriots forever under Belichick, where team first. Don't say
anything to the media, don't give him nothing, don't show
your personality, I don't do anything.
Speaker 2: So that's his training. But he came out of that
shell when he went to Tampa Bay. You saw that
he was. He's still a nerd, but like he's kind
of a cool nerd.
Speaker 3: Like he likes to party, like that time one super
wasted after.
Speaker 2: Yeah, throwing the trophy from boat to boat.
Speaker 5: When he's walking out of the event, some one's like
holding his arm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he probably is such a life weight because he
takes care of him so much that he had like
two beers.
Speaker 4: Ay know, we were sitting next to them at the
Kentucky Derby one year the Patriots or they just won
a Super Bowl. I can't remember what what year, what
they were getting after a pretty good I mean.
Speaker 5: I could see I mean, we know, Gronks, I could
see Edelman getting after it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, I mean this isn't super surprising. If Tom Brady again,
I think he's trying to tow the company line. Not
that he needs to. He's Tom Brady. He can pretty
much do it. He can do whatever he wants. But
that's just who Tom Brady is. He's not a controverty.
You know, he'll never say anything controversial in the media
or anything like that.
Speaker 2: So I mean it's it's not that surprising.
Speaker 5: Would I be mad if I was a Patriots fan, Yeah, sure,
But I want Patriots fans to remember that, Uh, not
only did that guy bring you six super Bowls, but
he brought you six super Bowls because when other quarterbacks
were taking record number of contract dollars, tom Brady consistently
took less money to have more talent him. So yeah,
I just forget that. My opinion is is tom Brady
does what he wants right. He's part owner minority owner
of the Raiders. He sits in there press box with
their coaches during a game. He's not supposed to do
any of that. Yeah, but he's a broadcaster. But no
one cares, like the people ask players were asked. Recently,
there was an article written about like, hey, do you
care that Tom Brady has an ownership stake and a team,
but yet he's interviewing the day before the game because
he's broadcasting it, And they're like, no, I don't Care's
Tom Brady and he can do what he wants. He's
known to be the goat for a reason, so would
that come special privileges? He has the right.
Speaker 4: To be a fan of the Patriots because of what
they did. I didn't like the kind of the nonchalant
response about I don't have a dog in the fight,
because yeah, yeah, you do. Maybe if you were there
for a handful of years and won one Super Bowl, maybe,
and then you were somewhere else for a long time.
But no, you were there for twenty years, won a
bunch of rings, So you know, I don't know. That's
like one of the things that I one of the
few things that Tom Brady has done that I did.
Speaker 2: Not like, support your team, be loyal again. I feel
like you've you asked.
Speaker 4: Imagine Lsu playing and asking Jacob Ester and he said,
I don't have a dog in this fight.
Speaker 2: Yeah you do, Tom Brady.
Speaker 4: You played there, you created the dynasty, and you're the
greatest of all time.
Speaker 5: The Patriots are playing the Buccaneers, right, I mean, this
is exactly.
Speaker 2: It's very hard. You got a dog in this fight.
So just speak up and do.
Speaker 4: You can do whatever you want, very pr I don't
think anybody's gonna be like, you can't say that, you
can't say that you're on TV, right, I can't say
that you're a minority owner of the Raiders to not
be controversial. He was controversial. Controversial, So Tom Brady, get
a fixed man. God supports your team. You do have
a dog in the fight. It's Patriots cheer, mom. You
have a statue there with the Patriots. All right, we'll
be back. I had a really funny question yesterday that
was asked to Mike Rabel, head coach of the Patriots,
and lets you know what that is. When we get
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back here off the bench, closing out
our number one talking everything super Bowl. Saw they had
media day yesterday and the Super Bowl is like this.
When we were there, it was like a really cool
like combination of people. So you have all these media
from all over the world, people that have never covered
football before, people from all different countries, speaking different languages.
They come and they get the opportunity to speak and
ask questions, and a lot of them are really basic
questions because they're just not football people and they're the
people that they're talking to or writing articles for doing it.
Broadcasts for all over the world aren't don't necessarily know
the game, they don't really know what questions asked. They're
kind of like me when when asking questions sometimes you
got to figure it out and you're asking some really
basic questions. But he got asked yesterday which came across
to people that follow football every single day, and he
got asked yesterday during media day and when he was
at the stage, quote, is this a must win game
for the Patriots?
Speaker 2: Question Mark.
Speaker 4: Well, Mike Vaibel, being the consummate professional that he is,
he just paused a moment, looked at it, and he
was like, yes, I've viewed every game in the playoffs
as a must win game. So how would you have
handled this question? If you're playing the super Bowl? Is
this a must win game for your team? Taylor?
Speaker 2: I would have said, are you kidding me?
Speaker 5: Man? Look where we're at, you know, like, it's San
fran We're playing the Seahawks.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is a must win. We work all year
for it. Are you an idiot? And Andre? Is this
a must win game for you? The super Bowl?
Speaker 3: I would say it's a must win.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's Actually he handled it really well, so you know,
you think about it. It's the guys, guys from all
over the country, so all over the world. So it's like,
you know what, we'll give you a pass on that one.
But yes, it's the super Bowl. So yep, definitely a
must win. We're gonna wrap up our number one here.
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