Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn. Hester and Hester got ittle fat from
carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each other
on the air Control.
Speaker 2: Live from the Raising Knees Studio.
Speaker 3: It's Off the Bench, Yo, welcome back to Off the
Bench our number three football Friday. You're doing you're doing
this thing. Some said it couldn't be done. Some said
there's no chance. Some people doubted us. It's like getting
your first start. It's like getting a first start and
almost winning. I think you're willing, dude, but you got this.
Some people said, I don't know. I don't know if
these guys can even wake up early enough to show
up consistently. Wow, did that check so far? At least
grown ups. We're doing grown up stuff right now. I
got a grown up back injury from moving Christmas trees
out of the attic. And some people they keep telling
me it's because you're forty. No, it's not. I don't
believe that. There's young people all over the place that
hurt their backs. It's not just because I'm forty. No,
it just happens. He didn't stretch, I didn't stretch good enough.
It was a heavy, heavy ass Christmas tree, and it
was any kind of a weird spot. I was having
to like, so you're big, your big fake Christmas tree guy.
So for a long time I was a purist, Like
even when we had a house in Seattle when I
was playing for the Seahawks that was actually on this
little hill and right behind our house at the top
of the hill was a nursery and actually grew their
own Christmas trees that might have been. It was such
a nostalgic thing, goes great. We loved it. We loved
going there, getting the getting the saw, cutting it down, ourselves,
doing that whole deal, packing it up. I think my
relationship with the real trees began to sour that year, though,
because when we did we put the we put the
Christmas tree up, and it came from a farm, came
from the outdoors, straight from there. Chopped it down, put
it there ourselves with my mits, right, my hands, my bear,
my man stuff. I did that cut this tree down.
We were decorating it for like Clark Griswold, but with
the right size tree. But a couple of a couple
of days later we started knowing noticing that the tree
was infested with big black spiders and they were in
our homes. They had invaded our home. And these weren't
just small, white, little little guys. I don't know what
type it was in northwestern northwest spiders. They were harmless,
they weren't poisonous. But we had spiders in our house everywhere,
and it was brutal. So that kind of started souring
our relationship a little bit. And we were also you know,
Lacey and I were up there and we were we
were being adults really for the first time we had
a house. Uh we we when you when you're adult,
you have to do things by washing drives. You gotta do.
We bought our first vacuum. Who knew. We went to
a vacuum store. We got sold on this vacuum. They're like, oh,
look at this vacuum. The thing about this vacuum is
you'll never have to buy another one. And that's the
salesman's pitch right there. You don't ever have to buy it.
It's a lot you're always going to buy another one.
So we got there, We got this branded vacuum, spent
too much money on it, whatever, but you and know
what we'll never have to buy one again. That's what
it is. So it's a deal. Well, it turns out
you can't vacuum up Christmas needles, so when you move
the Christmas tree out, tell you that it clogged up
the whole thing. Vacuum dead. Now we had to send
it to get it. We took it in, it got refurbished,
they had to fix it a lot, but it was
never the same. Yeah. Guess what do you think? I
still have that vacuum.
Speaker 4: No, no, you didn't buy an take it with you
from Seattle.
Speaker 3: I think I've actually about two to three more vacuum
since then. I think we buy a vacuum out every
year and a half. It was mesked that salesman. I mean,
you got me hand in the air. I got guy.
But that started souring the relationship a little bit. And
then I think with the I just the you know,
respect to all the tree farmers out there. I don't
want to take your business away. I don't want to
hurt your business. I hope you sell a billion Christmas trees.
But for the Flynn family, the quality of these fake
trees have gotten so good. The lights are already built in.
You don't have to stringing anymore. They are built in.
They can change colors, they can flash, they can dance,
they can do all these different things. It's good stuff.
So just you know, I choose, I choose the ease.
Speaker 4: See, I still buy the real tree. And I'm not
sure if it's anything other than if I had a
fake tree.
Speaker 3: My wife woul already have it up. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4: She would put it up November first, and you know,
right after Halloween it is all full blown Christmas. And
to me, you are skipping Thanksgiving, you're skipping the fall.
You know, I like to enjoy November. So for me,
like if we get a real tree, you can't get
them too early.
Speaker 3: So you got it, that's true. So you you force
the forced, you force the way. Yeah, you force the weight.
Anything that is so now it is worth the weight.
Is that of saying it works and we get it.
You could have said it better, But Tea Pat in
the chat said, Flynn bought a vacuum that sucked pretty good.
That's what they're supposed to do. That's exactly what they're
supposed to do. Yeah man, So yeah, so and then
we was but we'll buy some We'll go get some
like real garland. Put it around, but still that once
it dries up because you can't like it with the
Christmas tree or the real Christmas tree, You're supposed to
put water at the bottom, right, keep it water. It's
what you do with plants because they you know, they
like water, they need it. But with the garland, you
can't really keep it watered. So the garland dries up,
in my opinion, really fast, and the needles get brown
and they fall off. We got fake garland, real trees. Okay,
so that we're fake everything. Now then we got multiple trees.
At this point, we've accumulated so like every now and then.
You know about my girls, they wanted a flocked Christmas
tree this year. They wanted the snow on it, so
we got a We got one of those. So yeah,
lots of Christmas. Christmas is going down at the Flint
House right now. Yeah, there's not a lot of Thanksgiving. No.
I mean you kind of can reuse some pumpkins and
some things. It's just I.
Speaker 4: Don't like one of my favorite and I love Christmas.
Christmas time. It's hunting season. It's yeah, it's cooler, not cold,
but I enjoy this time.
Speaker 3: Of year.
Speaker 4: But like my favorite time is like right after New
Year's when we put all the Christmas stuff up and
like the house is decluttered, like it feels like the
house really the house gains an extra you know, five
hundred square feet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when we're done with Christmas. Hmmm. I hear what
you're saying, Like, I don't think I agree with that.
I'm not a big clutter guy. I can't stand. I
get a lot of things in a room. I get it.
I just like when Christmas decorations go down, it does
make me a little sad because, like if you have
a Christmas tree on it like just provides a little
you get used to the lighting that it's prediding. Yeah,
the living rooms a little bit has the different nice glows.
Speaker 4: I enjoy it for a month, month and a half. Yeah,
but you're ready for it. I'm like, man, I'm ready
to have my rooms looking away.
Speaker 3: I like, how about your outdoor? Are you do you
string your own lights? Do you string you put up lights? Yeah?
Are you screwge? Like what do we do with the outside?
Speaker 4: So I'm I'm lower level roof. I'm not going up top.
I've lower level roof. Okay with with my knees. I
tried to get up on the roof and like my
knees start to buckle, and yeah, I get really uncomfortable.
You should not do that. No, So like I was
scared of getting down. So now it's just lower level roof.
I got one of those guns that you can put
the clip on the rights too, and I don't even
get on the ladder. I can sit there and it's
like a four foot pole and I can pull the
trigger and it releases the clip.
Speaker 3: Wait, it's just a clip that the lights go on.
So you got to the light on there.
Speaker 4: You got the clip that goes to your roof that
holds the light, and there's a gun that comes with
it where you put the clip in the gun. So
that way you got the lights in and you can
put it all the way up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you don't even need a ladder. No, you
just pull the trigger and it shoots the clip on
to where you want it. Then how you get the
light on it?
Speaker 4: You put the light on before you you put the
light on the clip clip on the gun holding the
lights and click, go down. Click as a game changer.
Someone showed me that about three years ago, and.
Speaker 3: I got rid of the When you said gun first,
I thought of the uh the Grinch, the Grinch.
Speaker 4: If someone has that one, I would I would buy it.
Speaker 3: That'd be pretty cool. But it sounds like we're getting
pretty close to that technology based on what you just
told me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a it's a stick that basically remember
the old call that you used to pick up stuff
when you were a kid, like a little shark head
and he had a little trigger. Same concept, except it
holds a clip and it really.
Speaker 3: Went to light. Yeah. What a world we live in.
Speaker 4: I mean it every time I do it, and I
spend all day Sunday putting all the lights up, and
then we get excited to go out there when it's
dark and we turn them on and I'm like that
looks like crap. Yeah, I'm never impressed with the lights.
And I see the people who pay for it. I'm like,
I just I can't spend thirty eight hundred bucks on
Christmas lights.
Speaker 3: You know, I think you can get a lot lot
more efficient than that. You can tighten that budget up. Yeah,
but it is it's, uh, there's a can venions factor involved.
But like if you're talking about this Christmas, like gun technology.
This is a game changer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just get You got to go buy them
now because if you wait till December, every home depot
lows they all sold out of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing. It's like, I'm starting to learn
this now. I don't think I don't feel like you
used to be like this. I tried to go buy
one of those giant skeletons for Halloween, like that's coming
out of the ground that would say, I think they
were getting at Costco or whatever. I tried to do
that like October one, and I told my wife. I
was like, hey, let's go to Costco s week, Let's
go get one of those big And she just laughed
at me, and she's like, hah, that's funny. That's cute
that you think you can get Halloween decorations thirty one
days before Halloween.
Speaker 4: Start trying to get candy the night of Yeah, yeah
I know. I say, hey, can you pick up some
candy on the way home?
Speaker 3: Like where? Yah? Yeah, good luck with that. So anyway,
that's intriguing. So real Christmas trees. Do you have you
ever done to cut your own cut your own Christmas tree?
Like when you're in Detroit or anything in Detroit.
Speaker 4: We had like one of them two foot faked ones
that it was me and will Heller. Yeah, we weren't
going to decorate too much. I think I spent in Detroit.
We played on Christmas Day against Miami, Okay, and so
we were down in Miami for Christmas, came back and
my mom came up there because she still wanted to
have Christmas friends.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was we did. There was one year,
I think it was that, probably the same year we
played Thanksgiving Day, probably against Detroit, Christmas Day and New
Year's Day. So it was like every single holiday we're
playing on that day.
Speaker 4: Well, you always had you had some good games against Detroit.
It was always fun sitting on the sideline trying to
be happy for you. Can't show that I'm happy for you,
cheering inside.
Speaker 3: Come on.
Speaker 4: My dad tells the story and it's still his favorite
story in the world when he came up there when
we were playing in Detroit. Yeah, in Detroit and me
and my dad would pick up you and Aaron and
what was it was it?
Speaker 3: Graham Harrollias Me, Graham and Aaron and the quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Aaron's trying to hide with his beanie covering
up and they're like, take your head off, sir, like,
so he's like, oh whatever. We get back over there
and then you know, nicest steakhouse that we could find
over there, hanging out and you know, Aaron gets a
bowl of spaghetti and meatballs.
Speaker 3: So we're sitting in the car blood.
Speaker 4: And then the check comes out and my dad's like,
I got it, and Aaron's like, no, no, I got it.
Speaker 3: He said, no, I got it.
Speaker 4: He did that just so you me was like, I
bought Aaron Rodgers and Matt Flinn my big dog.
Speaker 3: In my bottom.
Speaker 4: But his favorite part of the story is like, but
I got kind of lucky because they had to play
the next day, so they weren't drinking.
Speaker 3: If they were drinking, i'd probably made them pay. Yeah,
definitely made that pay. Yeah, that's so funny. Yeah, that
was we were staying so far out that that trip,
I don't know what you're saying, almost got stuck.
Speaker 4: There, remember, because that's when y'all were going to Minnesota
and the dome collaps.
Speaker 3: All's right, that's right, And so y'all.
Speaker 4: Were trying to figure out planes and then it got dangerous.
Now that we're thinking about, well, yeah, well are we
going to we all want to go out tonight and
we'll gonna be in town. We might as well go
do something.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah that when the Dome fell down,
they played at the University of Minnesota Field for the
remainder of the season, and we liked that because we
never we didn't end up playing.
Speaker 4: Maybe we were supposed to play their next I know
one of us was supposed to play their next.
Speaker 3: I can't remember if we had played them at the
Dome earlier in the year. I just can't remember how
all that worked out. But I remember watching those like
late December games when the Vikings were playing in Minnesota,
and it looked so brutal.
Speaker 4: Like I love the history of the Packers. There's nothing
I hate more than a cold football game.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh, that's that's a great question. So Jake and
I talked about this yesterday and we disagreed on it.
In your opinion in Richard the Dick Dixon opinion, what
is football weather? How it is right now?
Speaker 4: Like sixties, fifties, sixties, sixties.
Speaker 3: And sixties is good.
Speaker 4: I'm like, you know, growing up in the South, we
always felt like we beat teams early, especially when we
played somebody up north code.
Speaker 3: We had such brutal summers.
Speaker 4: But by the time you got into you know, late
October November when it started, when you could go out
there and wear like long sleeves at practice and you know,
it just was cool.
Speaker 3: It was perfect football. Yeah, okay, I think cold weather
and not like there's the lemons of green Bery.
Speaker 4: You didn't I remember when you first got there, how
much you complain about putting vaseline in your nostrils to
keep them from freezing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you had to keep the boggers from freezing,
so you had to put bas lane in your nostronge. Now, okay,
there's a limit, the limitation to that. But in my opinion,
football weather's like in the thirties. If I had to guess,
and I would say you could dip in the twenties
a little bit, but thirties, lower forties, that's probably to
me prime football, because cold weather football is usually football
that matters by every week matters, every game matters, and
so like it hurts more like the biggest games are
used like like even in high school, like if you
got to the state championship, your playoff games you had
never played for them South. I was from Texas, Like
you were in hot every single day. But like so,
cold weather to me signified the biggest games, and it does.
Got the playoff games, you have bowl games, you have
all these different things. It's always at the end of
the season where everything's coming together. You're playing in for
the most, it's the most on the line.
Speaker 4: High school didn't bother me because it didn't come off
the field, you know, so you never got cold once.
The coldest part was warm ups, and then once you
were you know, I played offense, defense. Special teams didn't
come off the field, so I never got cold. Right
when I got to college and you weren't playing both ways,
and then you have an offensive series and then if
they had a long offensive drive and you had to
go sit on a bench in the cold waiting to
get go back out there, right, we didn't. It's not
like in the NFL. We didn't all have no no,
we didn't have heat benches, we didn't have the big heaters,
we didn't have the jackets. I mean we just sat
there and froze our butts off of it. There was
a few heaters, and it was always the guys that
weren't playing that would sit there and the coach would
like get out of there.
Speaker 3: Oh no, that's wild. It's uh yeah, we believe certainly
been in some cold situations. But yeah, I think, like
but Jake was saying, hot, humid one hundred plus degrees
is football weather.
Speaker 4: It made you feel like a man, like going out
there and like.
Speaker 3: A sweaty man. You know. I was thinking about how.
Speaker 4: You know, our practice back then, and if I'm trying
to remember if it was seven of six, what was
the one when the coaches got in a fight, like
arguing and we ended up running like thirty something.
Speaker 3: That was before six? Before six? It could no, so
six because it was it was not Miles first year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so so six? Well, yeah, I know because I
was there and I wasn't second year. Yeah, because Jim
Jimbo wasn't here. No seven, that's right, that's right. So
it was six. That was the one. Like I remember
when you hear stories of like bad things happening and
kids getting overheated, like that was probably the scariest time
in football when I just remember like bodies getting drug
off the field and they didn't care. They're like, no,
y'all are still running and they're just dragging them off
the field. Moved the drill and they just kept going.
And then you know, everybody's dying trying to keep up.
And I remember getting to the practice being over and
there was no more ivs available. They were running, people
were sitting on the floor of the round, were tables,
There were people dragging guys into the shower just to
freaking getting cool down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, football is a wild time sometimes the practice because
like the drill, football is bigger than one individ person, right,
so things have to go. You can't just like unless
something crazy like a damor hamlin thing happens, like then
then things stop, like if just injuries. I remember, you know,
there's a guy broke his ankle and practice one time
at LSU and like literally the side of his foot
is touching his calf up like we just moved to
drill fifteen yards and so they can deal with it,
like we don't care. Yeah I can't. I good luck, bud,
good luck with that ankle. Yea.
Speaker 4: But yeah, especially when it was your bud, You're like, oh,
I want to go check on go. Yeah, we're not
practicing stuff, all right, Well you know, just football whole
war stories here. Sorry about that.
Speaker 3: If you don't like taking a trip down memory lane,
this might not be the hour for you. But we're
gonna keep it going. Here, we're gonna go to break.
When we come back, I'm gonna get Richard Taylor Alandra.
Let's start. Let's get into what's the ticket. Well, we'll
go around the country top twenty five games. Doesn't have
to be a top TELP matchup, but a top twenty
five team. We will start guessing and looking at who
the most expensive ticket in the country is, and the
most then the least expensive ticket. Right here we come
back on off the bench.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes you want to take you down from the locker
room to the airwaves. Gets off the bench with Jacob
Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Push your bet all right, welcome back here. I'm off
the bench. Let's see, it's nine twenty one here on
the football Friday. If you're just joining in, that is right.
That is not Jacob's Hester's voice that you hear. He
is out dealing with a little uh little tummy, little
tom tummy. She knew it was.
Speaker 4: Coming the whole house, out of the whole house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it spread. It's like wildfire. The same thing happens
in our house. When somebody gets it, you know, it
usually takes a couple of weeks to get through everybody.
I feel like I'm the last one usually. Yeah, I
can see that. I feel like I am too.
Speaker 4: And I'm also out of the house the most. Yeah,
you know, it finally catches up with her.
Speaker 3: So when they start, when the kids start getting sick,
Like you know, Lacey and I we're just walking, we're
whistling by the graveyard at that point, we just we
know it's waiting, just waiting, And.
Speaker 4: I feel bad for my wife once she gets sick.
I'm like, I gotta go do all this stuff. Oh no, sorry,
I can't help you.
Speaker 3: Sorry. Yeah, I want to tell you a little bit
about l su snacks. Richard having that little bag right there?
Are they good? LSU snacks? Heck yill there are they good?
Are you kidding me? Look at this's got the ls.
You got the tiger on the LSU snacks. We got
the the wind bar, pretty clever, right win bar, and
we got the win cookies fight right here. Then you
got the win. So every bite supports the LSU by
purchasing and enjoying and sharing win which is these win
bars win snacks. You are contributed, your contributed to support
for both the University of Louisiana as well as our
incredible LSU student athletes. So whether you're snacking to work,
whether you're on a road trip or just need a
little pick me up, LSU win snacks are the perfect choice.
So we appreciate your supporting and come to rouses and
get them. They're like like you can get these. I
think I walked by earlier. They're right by the cash
registers too, So like, do you want to support athletes,
you want to support l s U, Go pick up
some snacks. I'm gonna go buy them by checking a
little win bar, have a little clever name for you. Yeah,
we just buy them by the face gives them out
the customers. It's not like a snack on.
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly, I'm about to go expense that right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially if you like, got some people you work
with that might like Arkansas. Here's a win bar bud. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't work with any Arkansas fans. Got Like I said,
I got the family Arkansas fans. But they all are
big l Shues fans. Is what's funny. They're big Arkansas
fans and they're the only game that you against LSU
was when Arkansas is playing l s U every game.
The other game they're wearing LSU gear.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wow, just not this week. I think Helms is
coming in.
Speaker 4: I heard you He's coming on Friday, I believe. So
that's I probably won't see him.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know his whole wife and your family. Of course,
they're all Arkansas, Arkansas folks except for the except for
the Helms is.
Speaker 4: No Helms wears a little little maroon every once in
a while. Let's think about all.
Speaker 3: Let's see their pictures, all the dang maroon ish dark
red ish teams in the SEC. I just never really
like thought about it until this morning.
Speaker 4: All of them, miss Many State, Arkansas, South Carolina, Alabama.
Speaker 3: Texas A and MT.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a popular color for the popular color schools.
Speaker 3: I don't understand. I mean, you look around at other conferences,
you don't see that many. No, it's just in the SEC.
I mean tough color, tough color. Obviously it's not. I mean,
I mean that so many SEC teams.
Speaker 4: I just I feel like it's tough guys, tough people.
I mean, think about like so MISISPI. State has never
been really good in our era, but I always felt
like that was the game.
Speaker 3: I felt the most beat up after. Oh I just
broke a chair. Goodness, that wasn't my back. Let's try
to pop my back. You're awake, though, I'll just broke
a chair. People. What about these tickets? To me? I
think it's obvious all the ticket prices. Oh, we're gonna
go through. All right, let's do it. Let's play a
little guess the what is it? Call it? Guess the ticket,
Guess the price the ticket? Whatever we call it? Price
is right? What did you say? What's the ticket? What's
the ticket? What's the ticket? All right? Yeah, I'm I'm
dummy sometimes. All right, So what we're gonna do. We're
gonna start with the lowest ticket price in the country
around the scene. So it's got to have a top
twenty five team. Minute, So we're gonna go. I'm gonna
give you. I'm gonna give you six games, so in
your brain, you gotta remember, you gotta think a little bit, Richard.
All Right, So we're gonna go with Clemson at Louisville, Okay,
Minnesota at Oregon, South Florida at Navy, Arizona at Cincinnati,
Utah at Baylor, Michigan at Northwestern. Okay, I'm gonna read
him again, quicker, Clemson at Louisville, Minnesota at Oregon, South
Florida at Navy, Arizona at Cincy, Utah at Baylor, Michigan
at Northwestern. Let's rich I'm gonna give you a little
time to think about it. Let's kick it back over
to the studio. Let's go to laundro and tay Day.
Speaker 5: I kind of feel like it has to be Northwestern
because I don't feel like people really care about football
up there.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 6: I was in between that one and Navy, and she
went Northwestern, and I'll go Navy, South Florida.
Speaker 3: All right, Richard, That's where I was going Navy, South Florida. Navy,
South Florida. It's okay. This is one of those things
you don't have to be different. You can choose the
same because if you're right.
Speaker 4: Hope and Taylor was still stuck in traffic. He made
it back, all right, So here we go.
Speaker 3: The number six, all right, number six on this list,
the most out of those, at least out of the
out of this group. Michigan at Northwestern is actually I
kind of tricked you on that one. Is actually one
hundred and seventy nine dollars for that ticket. I thought
the same thing when I was looking at a launder
I was like, Northwestern, Yeah right, Michigan, okay, kind of garbage.
Connor stallions one hundred and seventy up for that one,
all right. The fifth most expensive or the least expensive,
South Florida at Navy. So nobody y'all got the most
expensive out of this. All of y'all did, all right.
The next one, the fourth is Clemson at Louisville at
forty five dollars apiece, and then Minnesota at Oregon thirty
four dollars. Get you into that game. And then Arizona
at Cincinnati twenty nine dollars and the cheapest of this
list this week Utah at Baylor, which is a little
surprised because it's at Baylor smaller stadium, so usually when
I do this game, I'm like thinking about the size
of the stadium. You know who the opponent is coming
in and Taylor, I know what you're thinking too, But
Miami's playing a home game. I didn't even put them
on the list because they win every single week. Is
the cheapest ticket North Carolina State at Miami. Do you
want to take a guest Richard at what it takes
to get get into the gates? Five dollars. That's a
little cheap seven dollars in the past has spent as
I think a six dollars ticket, But seven bucks, I
guess that ticket prices are up. North Carolina State's coming
into town, so yeah, seven dollars will get into that.
But from our game, Yeah, the number of the cheapest
ticket twenty two bucks for Utah State at Baylor, which
is surprising because Baylor's got a good little fan base.
Speaker 4: The reason why I guessed five is when I opened
up this laptop over here, I didn't get to cheap
because none of the games that.
Speaker 3: Were on here. As you said, I was pulled up.
Speaker 4: But it's disappointing, depressing and said that LSU Arkansas is a.
Speaker 3: Six dollar ticket.
Speaker 4: Yeah, LSU Arkansas in Baton Rouge six dollar ticket.
Speaker 3: So when you were.
Speaker 4: Trying to talk bad about the other one, I was like,
it's got to be cheaper than LSU and it's not
still more expensive than other shoes to see.
Speaker 3: I didn't even see that ticket price pop up because
obviously nobody's in the top twenty five in that game.
Is it really six six dollars to get into that
six Holy hell, that's embarrassing to get in to Death Valley?
And I got people still asking me for free tickets. Good,
go buy that ticket.
Speaker 4: I don't want to expense a six dollars ticket.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of receipt turning in right there. All right,
let's go over to the most expensive ticket in the
country this week in the top twenty five. All right,
let's start with South Carolina at Texas, A and m
Wisconsin at Indiana, Notre Dame at pitt Oklahoma. Traveling over
to Bama, Florida at Ole, Miss Texas at Georgia again,
South Carolina at A and m Wisconsin at Indiana, Notre
Dame at Pitt, Oklahoma at Bama, Florida at Ole, Miss,
Texas at Georgia. Richard, We're gonna start with you this time.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna Notre Dame or Pitt or Georgia Florida or
Georgia Texas.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Notre Dame Pitt because I think it's
the first time game day has been I think I
heard like twenty something years might bring in.
Speaker 3: The last pip.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of extra people into the game.
Speaker 3: Well fanfare, huh. All right, it's kick it back over
to the studio.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with Texas at Georgia.
Speaker 6: I was gonna try to be different, but I can't.
I'm also gonna go Texas at Georgia.
Speaker 3: All right, very good, All right. I went away from
that because we'd all through that. That'd have been like
electric radio for sure if you would have done it. Richard,
all right, let's go the sixth on the list. So
out of this group, the least expensive is Oklahoma at Bama,
which is it's forty one dollars to get into that game.
Forty one bucks football not cool. Anymore. I know that
especially with Bama. I know this is the size of
the stadium, but I mean that's the top twenty five
matchup right there. Oklahoma's eleven yes year coming out a
year number four in the country. That's forty one dollars
to get in the Bamagain, that one actually kind of
surprised me at this whole deal. All right. The next
one is Wisconsin at Indiana one hundred and five bucks.
We'll get you in to see the Badges taking on
Fernando Mendos Gang. Then the fourth one, I'm sorry Richard
Notre Dame at pitt You can get into that one
for one hundred and fifteen smack aoos. And then try
to be the third on the list. Florida at Old Miss.
One hundred and fifty seven dollars will get you a
ticket into that game. And then drum roll please, the
number two. It is like this is like a pageant.
It was like first runner up, Yeah, first run up,
first loser. South Carolina at Texas A and M one
hundred ninety four dollars will get you in to Kyle Field.
And then the most expensive ticket in the country. Week
twelve college football, you guessed it elandro Tte ding ding
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Speaker 4: So I didn't want to cheat. That ark is also
on the screen. Oh come on, what the Notre Dame
game wasn't So I was just gonna gamble and picked
the one.
Speaker 3: I didn't see the fighting arc Manning's headed on the road,
did jo Jah two hundred and thirty eight dollars. We'll
get you into that game, which is actually one of
the deeper most expensive prices of the week of the year.
I think the most expensive one was Oregon at Penn
State in the wide out early in the season. It
was four hundred and eleven dollars per ticket to get
in that one, and there's one hundred, like one hundred
and ten seats two one hundred and ten thousand seats
in that state. It makes some money. Yeah, I think
we did the math, like if you were going based
on that, and I know this is all resale values
and all that, it's not like the ticket value. I
get it, But if you just did that math, it
was like over one hundred million.
Speaker 4: Dollars just in tickets. I still think that. I mean,
you're kind of cheating. This game's kind of a lie.
It's gonna say six dollars, but by the time you
paid the fees and all the other bs on there,
it's like five hundred dollars a ticket.
Speaker 3: That's right. Well, there you have it. That is what's
the ticket right there. The most the least expensive game
in the country is North Carolina State at Miami number
seven at seven dollars. Excuse me. The most expensive Texas
at Georgia two hundred and thirty eight dollar bills dollar
dollar bills. All right, that'll wrap us up for this secon.
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Speaker 1: No lessons down, Tigers, turn talkers.
Speaker 2: This is off the bench, all.
Speaker 3: Right, welcome back in off the bench. We're finishing up here.
Hour three finished on the show what's up? Rivers?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: We got rivers?
Speaker 1: Join us a real rotating cast characters here.
Speaker 3: So Richard of course does the show with handy coming
up here at ten right here on one of four
or five ESPN. So he had to he had a bucket.
Speaker 2: He has like a real job or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he's got a real job. He sells, I guess,
And I guess he's got to go talk like real
sports with Hanny for a little bit.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that.
Speaker 3: I guess not a lot a ton of like just
crazy real sports being talked here today.
Speaker 1: But I mean, well, if you're hoping for it to happen, now, yeah, awesome,
really bad news for you. I know.
Speaker 3: So I know you were just listening, but we had
the what's the ticket? And I just saw someone in
the chat here. You're gonna find it Nelson in the chat.
So the cheapest ticket for LSU women's basketball versus two
Lane is eighty four dollars, which is twelve times more
expensive than the tickets to get into a Miami football
game this week.
Speaker 2: That's incredible, incredible?
Speaker 3: Is that good for us? Good?
Speaker 1: I mean U LSU Women's U LSU women's basketball, And
you keep doing your think Kim Molky is she is.
Speaker 2: Back in action.
Speaker 1: I saw her her sweater. She's back into her crazy outfits.
Speaker 3: I love the what's the what's the fun? Mike's name?
I forget the old Mike logo with the hat on.
I can't remember what his name is, but she had
that on her.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, I'm probably not the one to ask on
I'm not just s.
Speaker 2: Have walk, bully. Thank you.
Speaker 3: So you've been Missippi State a couple of times this year, right,
I have?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was there.
Speaker 1: I was there last weekend for the Georgia game, which
you know, was really something. It was something for about
seven minutes where Mississippi State led us to believe they
might show up. They do that every time. And then
my kids. I took my kids to the game. So
they've gotten to the age where I feel like I'm
comfortable about taking them to the games. But I feel
like kids are so spoiled now. I take my kids
of the game, they won't snacks. They're like, where's my tablet?
Which I don't bring, but like they're still asking for it.
I can remember so many times growing up where my
dad took me to football games.
Speaker 2: I didn't have a tablet.
Speaker 1: I was not allowed to leave, like I had to
sit there and just be there.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Well, anyways, so I take my kids back to the tailgate.
I guess around the end of the first quarter, and
from the time I left the state to the time
I made it back to the tailgate, everything had.
Speaker 3: Just fallen apart everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything.
Speaker 3: But you know, you get as a parent, like you
you get judged a lot. I feel like by an
older generation at restaurants or aut things like when you
have iPad. Yes, but like I remember, like our parents
would give us their generations up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like whatever it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where do you think crayon menus came from?
A distract?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 3: If our parents had.
Speaker 2: To take my magrata in peace, you know, if.
Speaker 3: They had access to iPads, you don't think Ruth and
Album Forever were giving me an iPad if I was
like misbehavior.
Speaker 2: I know, I try to think about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely feel like my parents would have,
but they didn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, gosh, I tell this story.
Speaker 1: I went to I was at the snow Bowl, which
was the Independence Bowl Missoot State, Texas A and m
I guess.
Speaker 2: I was going into eighth grade.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was like my eighth grade year,
but I was so mad about it. My dad makes
me go to this Bowl game in Shreveport, Louisiana, and
it's New Year's Eve. All my friends are doing something fun,
so I.
Speaker 2: Have to get this game.
Speaker 1: And I just remember him sitting me down before we
left for the game because it was cold, and him
being like, I don't care what you have to do,
layer it up, put whatever on you need to.
Speaker 2: We are not leaving this game. You are there.
Speaker 1: And you know what, we did not leave that game,
which was cool now in retrospect because we won, but uh,
there was there were times during that game where I
was like, I hate this.
Speaker 3: This is all tough it.
Speaker 2: Out, check it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, not sorry about you, just this is what
we do.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not as tough as my dad, because my
kids started complaining.
Speaker 2: And I was like, well, we're gonna leave. Now, we're
gonna leave.
Speaker 3: Now, Well that's all right. It's uh, it's just every
parent goes through it. There's no handbook for that. We
got to figure it out. Uh huh. You got to
toughen up your kids as much as they you know,
as you feel they can be tough enough.
Speaker 1: I will say I'm pretty proud of me and my husband.
We don't give my kids the tablet a lot unless
they know that, like I go to We don't have
a lot of family traditions, but one of my only
family traditions is that we go to Superior every Friday night.
There you go, and they know they get the tablet
at Superior.
Speaker 3: There you go. So I look forward to that. Yeah,
we limited. It's like a reward system in our situation.
So it's not there are like because of that. Sometimes
the access they have to information where you got. Of
course you gotta be careful with ye our kids are
way smarter.
Speaker 2: Than like, be real careful with YouTube, you.
Speaker 3: Know, even unless you're watching off the bench.
Speaker 2: And smashing, unless you are watching off the bench.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so I was in Starkville. I went to
the Georgia game. But before that, the night before I
went to something very interesting that I think I'm so
confused as to while as she has not done this,
but it was I went to an alumni baseball game
in the Mississippi State game.
Speaker 2: And so they.
Speaker 1: Brought Rafael Palmero and Will Clark back and it was
the Diamond Doll Classic, and so they both coached teams.
They drafted their teams of all former Mississippi State baseball players,
some who obviously like went on to play in the
professional league, some of them didn't.
Speaker 2: It was a good mix of bow. But they went
out there and.
Speaker 1: You were asking here, like was this like a softball game? No,
it was straight up base They played baseball. They aired
it on the SEC network. Plus every single dollar that
was brought in from the Diamond Dog Classic went to
the Bulldog Initiative, which is the NIL thing for Missoppi State,
and they like they auctioned off experiences and like batting
practice before SEC games or a suite or signed jerseys.
But anyways, all that money went to the NIL, like
the collective. And I just wonder why LSU is not
looking in to do especially for baseball.
Speaker 3: Especially if somebody's already got the blueprint for it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you think at this point in your life, as
a former professional athlete and football player at LSQ, that
you could go back on that field and just perform?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you think tackle football.
Speaker 2: It's a little different than baseball.
Speaker 3: Jake and I told the story a couple of weeks ago.
We did the We played a flag football game where
we had to run for speed because.
Speaker 1: We couldn't walk up the stairs the next day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we did it. We did, but there was
a grown human man chasing us, and we haven't been
chased by like a grown human in a while.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: These baseball players were not getting tackled so like, but
you know.
Speaker 2: They were some of these pictures.
Speaker 1: I know one of the pictures I mean was older
than me, or some of them might have. I know
that I ran into a former picture before I went
to the game and I was asking him. I was like, wait,
so you're not doing it, and he's like, no, you can.
You're not getting me out there. He was like, but
I did offer to do batting practice with some of
you know, the guys that are my age, like hittings
see if they wanted to like go out there, but man,
I just don't know that blink my body would perform.
Speaker 3: We gave that up.
Speaker 1: And you know what, though, to their credit to all
of these players, I mean, and again, the ages ranged
from I don't know, mid forties to like mid twenties,
and it's like these guys who haven't played in twenty
years pitching to Jake Mangum, you know.
Speaker 2: Who was fresh.
Speaker 1: He's fresh in the professional leagues.
Speaker 3: So I was very it seems like a really like
a no brainer idea, like give your give your fan
base an opportunity to go.
Speaker 1: Imagine I think I mean there were there were ten
thousand people at this game.
Speaker 2: Imagine if l SU did that right.
Speaker 3: And if you're listening l s U, you're like usually
raise money in those type of situations for like a
charitable cause whatever, But like, can you like and imagine
a fan base raising money to help buy Yeah, yeah,
that's it's pretty wild. We're living in that world. But
here we are.
Speaker 1: We are.
Speaker 2: We should get you out there.
Speaker 3: Look, I've screwed kind of this whole flow up. We
were supposed to be parking in Parlay, and we're gonna
do it next time. We're going to close the show
out with that. So we got a little carried away
in the Mississippi State fund raising baseball game, which is
awesome because they got you know, Will Clark, Ruffel Palma,
all those guys, all those guys. But you know, this
is this is our show. We're killing it. Jake left us.
Speaker 2: You're killing it. Before we go to break here, I
would like to give you some credit.
Speaker 1: You were a little fluster when you showed up the
strorning nervous, you were a little frantic.
Speaker 2: I'm so impressed you did great.
Speaker 3: Old gang has stepped up. Taylor showing up.
Speaker 2: Here with hands running systems.
Speaker 3: Landra has like killed it to like working like two
systems back there video and like everybody stepped up, Ribs,
you stepped up. Richard came in out of the room.
I sent him, sent him an S O S. So
everybody came up so big shout out to the whole
team here. I appreciate it certainly, and I think we
all appreciate Jake appreciate it. So uh yeah, everybody today
has been a part of the Fox Hall and stepped up.
Next man up situation. But yeah, all right, so we're
gonna come back in our last segment here of the day.
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Off the Bench.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in Off the Bench right here,
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just a little pop quiz here, because the last time
I came to help set out, you all talked about
this that song.
Speaker 2: That was playing on the way in there. Do you
know what that song was?
Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember what it was?
Speaker 2: One headlight?
Speaker 3: Okay, do you see that?
Speaker 2: Uh, the Wallflowers? Do you know who's the lead singers?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I don't remember this. I don't remember this.
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Speaker 5: It's just not I just don't believe that.
Speaker 3: Okay, we have to get to this because people got
to pay their bills next week. All right, So what
we're gonna do with Pontoon Parley. We'll see if we
have time for the party barge if not. If we
don't have time, we'll release it on the social media.
We'll tell everybody what it is. But all right, let's
kick it back to studio for our picks for the
pont parlay.
Speaker 5: All right, So my pick for the parlay this week.
I'm looking at TCU versus b YU. BYU the four
and a half point favorite there now TCU is five
and five against the spread, so like about a fifty
percent chance for them to get it or not. But
I think I'm gonna go with TCU to cover versus BYU.
My plus four and a half.
Speaker 6: Pit Panthers who playing really good football right now. They've
won five in a row, seven and two college game days.
Speaker 3: There. Are they going to beat Notre Dame?
Speaker 6: Probably not, but they are twelve and a half point
home underdogs. I'm gonna take PITT to cover the twelve
and a half at home against Notre Dame.
Speaker 5: I like that pick.
Speaker 2: I was looking at that one too.
Speaker 3: God, Taylor, that was gonna be mine. Hey, riffs, you
want to jump in on.
Speaker 2: I don't have any bets. I didn't know that this
is gonna be a thing.
Speaker 3: Today, all right, six and a half versus.
Speaker 1: Stop it stop Lolandre stop every time.
Speaker 3: Every time? All right? So what I'm gonna do. I'm
gonna go over to I'm gonna go to Miami. The
seven dollars ticket North Carolina State traveling to play Miami
Miami started out hot, one of the best teams in
the country. It was Carson Beck gonna be that now
thurther is he gonna be in the Heisman Race? No,
I don't think so. Fourteen and a half points spreader,
I'm gonna take North Carolina State, saiding at five and four. Okay,
I get it. Not great, but there's not gonna be
much juice in that stadium. I'm gonna take North Carolina
State plus four and a half. I'm sorry, fourteen and
a half excuse me versus Miami.
Speaker 1: I'm sure if Jake steps thrown up for long enough,
he'll sing all something.
Speaker 2: He'll get that fourth win in. Can you get get
fourth one in?
Speaker 3: Yeah? It's all right. So right now, it's gonna be
a three man pond two parlay. Actually, Leandra, you've been
the you've been the hottest this year on this. You
want to go for two? Yeah? She is.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: Let me look real quick, I have like thirty seconds.
Hang on, I'm not gonna do the Mississippi State one river.
Y'all can't hear her. But Rivers is, like I swear,
if you play Mississippi State, okay, I mean six and
a half is okay, Texas at Georgia. Georgia is a
six and a half point favorite, but the points is
forty nine and a half. I kind of am looking
at the over on that one. So over in Georgia
versus Texas. Yeah, over forty nine and a half.
Speaker 3: Points, all right. So to recap TCU against BYU plus
four and a half for TCU, Pitt versus Notre Dame
plus twelve and a half for PITT, North Carolina State
plus fourteen and a half at Miami, and then over
forty nine and a half Texas versus Georgia. We love
you guys off the bench, check us out. Go tig
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