Speaker 1: Good morning. It's eight am here on Friday, February seventh.
Today in bed Roads, you can expect mostly sunny skies
with a high of eighty and an hour two of
today's show. We'll have Big Fave Marlon fav Right coming
up at the top of the hour. Then we'll talk
some New Orleans Saints and we'll continue our discussion about
NFL or Super Bowl fifty nine. You can follow us
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ESPN channel. Our number two of Off the Bench live
from Radio Row in New Orleans for Super Bowl fifty
nine starts now.
Speaker 2: It's all start to you want to present Off the
Bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and T
Bob Aberar.
Speaker 3: I gotta come off the pitch now.
Speaker 2: Here's Jacob Hester and T Bob A bear.
Speaker 3: Yo, yo, what's going on y'all?
Speaker 4: Look man, Radio Row OTB here live on Radio Little
Sleep Beer Radio today, which I mean, I guess you
could expect, right, I find in situations like this, for
some reason, Thursdays end up being like the big night Friday,
recovery night, and then you get back into it Saturday.
So I'll be interested to see if this starts to
pick up a little bit more, because yesterday this place
is absolutely insane. A little bit more sleepy today, but
we still got a very good hour plan for you
two hours later. But yeah, this coun be an hour shit.
By the way, Shout out to all of the state police,
the firemen, the security, the the the food and beverage employees.
There are so many people doing thankless jobs around the
city right now to keep everybody safe, to keep everybody fed,
to keep everybody happy, and New Orleans is absolutely shining.
I mean, I'm talking to so many people that have
come from all over the world, and everybody the common
refrain there, the cliche there seems to be that they
just are fully in love with this city.
Speaker 3: So shout out to him.
Speaker 4: One guy who's in love with the city is Chado Chosinko. Now,
yesterday we talked about o Josinko tweeting at two in
the morning that he's got a young lady in his bed.
How does he kick her out without being rude? Well, yesterday,
at one twenty seven pm in the afternoon, he tweets,
she's still in my room with a face palm emoji
and a video.
Speaker 3: Of the girl. It's his girl, it's his girl. I've
seen her before. It's his girl.
Speaker 4: So Chad Johnson expert level trolling got all of us
and my goddess girl's fine. Good on, Chad job. Some
guys just have it all. Can he McDonald's every single
meal in still of an apec. They can come out
of nowhere and get a podcast on the volume and
completely blow everybody out to the water, to the point
where you get poor Tea, Bob Aby, Aaron Aaron Murray
fired from the volume.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. I still love o Josinka though, But he got us.
He got us. It's been his girl in the room
the entire time. What are you gonna do? What are
you gonna do?
Speaker 4: I just talked about something pretty cool, guys and Hut
at the Harrison Valentine works at LS.
Speaker 3: He pointed this out, But.
Speaker 4: Paul Schemes and Jade and Daniels reigning Rookies of the Year,
you didn't talk about a strong brand move for the
Tigers and both the MLB and the NFL, right now,
where was the best player in the entire league of
their first year from LSU. Great recruiting pitch there from
the boys. We talked a lot of NFL honors in
our number one. We get some Hall of Fame talk
as well, kept up in big faith, but we talked
a lot of NFL honors. Josh Allen taking over and
taking home MVP over Lamar Jackson, Jane Daniels taking home
Rookie of the Year. I think the one I miss
Patrick Curtain second became Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 3: He was the first.
Speaker 4: Quarterback to win in five years. Who did Patrick Curtain
beat out?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 3: Trey Hendrickson.
Speaker 4: Trey Hendrickson finished second Individual Player of the Year. Voting
once again, these Saints are laughable with some of the
decisions that they have made. They've actually drafted better than
we thought. They just have not done any good job
of what you get them in house. Who do we
retain Elandra Taylor? If y'all have any NFL honors takes
to be the last time that we mentioned it today,
get your takes off.
Speaker 1: So I was gonna mention this for NFL Story of
the Day, but I have something else we can do
it here The biggest thing with NFL honors that I
noticed that a lot of people are talking about is
the fact that Eli Manning did not make the Hall
of Fame on that first ballot. And you know, there's
been a lot of discussion on why didn't Eli Manning
make the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: Guys he was snubbed.
Speaker 1: Listen Eli Manning's going to make the Hall of Fame,
and wanted to pull up a few things. It is
not as clear cut as you may think it is.
Eli Manning is a two time super Bowl champion Tom
Brady twice. You do that, you're in the Hall of Fame,
no question about it. To be a first ballot, though,
I kind of agree with.
Speaker 4: Do what, sorry what, especially doing it in New York,
Like that's that is undeniable with the Eli Manning.
Speaker 3: It's two super bowls.
Speaker 4: But it's like you said, contextually, it's two super Bowls
against the best quarterback of all time.
Speaker 3: You two owed him, and you.
Speaker 4: Did it as the head of the New York Football
Giants and like the biggest media market, the old school.
So yes, I agree with you, like you do that
and you're in the Hall no matter what the stats say.
But it does not guarantee you the rank of first ballot.
Speaker 1: No, it does and well and to your point, the
first super Bowl he won, some people say that's the
greatest New England Patriots team of all time, or maybe
the best team in NFL history. I mean, that's Randy Moss,
it's Tom Brady. But okay, he was Super Bowl MVP once,
two time Super Bowl champ, never has been an All Pro.
Zero All Pro selections, just four Pro Bowl selections. He's
eleventh all time in passing yard, he's eleventh all time
in interceptions, and he's eleventh all time and touchdown, so
he's he's kind of touchdown the interception right in the middle.
He's the Giants all time leader in basically every category,
but his career winning percentage is five hundred. He has
just as many wins as lost as the exact same number.
He's eleventh in passing yards, he's eleventh in passing touchdowns,
and no first team All pros. You're not a first
ballot Hall of Famer with that resume. A lot of
Eli Manning, big fan of the Manning family, You're not
a first ballot Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, I agree for all the reads
you said. You know what's funny, really like everything you
just said, if you wanted to encapsulate, if you wanted
to boil down Eli Manning's entire career to a micro
causm and encapsulate the entire thing. The Super Bowl with
the nine and seven Giants against the eighteen and O
Patriots does just that, right because on display is the
five hundred overall record, the kind of middling stats, but
when it mattered most on the biggest stage against the
best team, managed to get hot and find a way
to get it done. So Eli not making first ballot,
but did or will he will make the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Only regular season team to not win double digit games
and win the Super Bowl A Giants ski.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nine and seven dude, and again, and like what
a wonderful piece of I guess, irony, the.
Speaker 3: Whole life can be. You know, truth can be stranger
than fiction.
Speaker 4: Type of moment where here it is you have, uh,
the greatest team in NFL history on the verge of
eighteen and oh something that's never been done. The Miami
the seventy more Dolphins sitting there waiting, which Champagne wondering
if they're finally no longer going to be able to
pop it. And the only team ever to win this
zer role without double digit wins is the one who
beats him Like that is the NFL on display right
there that shows you why it was so incredible that
the pages are seventeen to no to begin with, and
why it's so hard or eighteen, but why it's so
hard to finish, said.
Speaker 3: Fight landra I.
Speaker 4: I don't want you to think I'm ignoring your takes
in the NFL Awards. I'm just guessing because you were
at Chris Stapleton last night that you don't. I mean,
do you have anything you want to say about the awards?
Speaker 6: No, because like you said, I was at Chris Stapleton,
so I didn't watch them. But yeah, shout out Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3: True come back to sha Borough. Always shout out Joe.
Speaker 6: So upset that he was there yesterday and I wasn't because,
like I said, I've said this before. If I ever
come across Joe Burrow, I am shooting my shot. No
questions asked, like I have to, uh do not come.
Speaker 4: That's what they would tell you. You know, you're not allowed.
You you're freaking you're freaking them out. You're freaking out, granted.
I mean, I don't know. I remember I didn't see
him yesterday either. I I saw him one I'm in college,
like at a right before like a press conference or something,
and even though I was an adult with a child
at the time, I was like intimidated and it was
such an emasculating bad feeling. You know, I'm an adult,
I'm a working professional, I have a family, and here's
this kid who's like twenty three, still in college, and
yet I feel like nervous around him. And so I've
kind of made in my life's goal never to be
around Joe Burrow again because it just made me.
Speaker 3: Feel too small, you know.
Speaker 4: So that's why I hang out with Taylor, because because
he makes me feel big.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fair, we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't hang out enough, t but we're gonna hang
out if you want. You don't you don't want to
hang out with me, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, to be fair, I don't hang out with anybody
except for John from.
Speaker 1: Ralse's twice a day asking him what he's doing and
just never get a response.
Speaker 4: If that was true, I would actually if someone was
hitting me up twice a day, to hang out.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not a mean person. I'm not a
mean person.
Speaker 4: Eventually, I'm just like, Bro, you gotta leave, you gotta
leave me the hell lo dude, I'm done.
Speaker 3: I'm done.
Speaker 4: Shut up, Shut up? All right, Big fave just showed
up here on radio Row. When we get back and
let's talk the Big Fame.
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Football seams. We catch up with my pot and a
big Faith. Hello somebody, what's up?
Speaker 3: Faith? Hello somebody, it's time to move our body.
Speaker 4: Let's go the ball and broadcaster himself a renaissance man,
does a little bit of everything. Catch him on the
inside the Church's podcast Faith. You got a party go
down this afternoon?
Speaker 3: What's going on? Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, man, we're gonna is thank guy for hip hop.
My homie Chase came down from from Philly to DJ
at the Spot. While usually do my podcast at Uptown
Sports Social, so at three, well from three thirty to
four thirty, that would be that. I'm gonna leave Chase
that because I gotta go MC the event Mike McKenzie
versus Team landon College.
Speaker 3: Oh let's go. Yes, you got a lot going on today? Yeah, yeah,
it's a pack day to day.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, man, So what's your what's your radio road
beIN like so far this week?
Speaker 3: What's it? The favorite thing? What you've been doing?
Speaker 4: You've been running around networking, trying to make stuff happen.
Speaker 7: What you've been doing. Yeah, that's been a cool part man.
I had a chance to catch up with Mario. I
did a little Spanish rivers. My first time throwing that.
A couple of my buddies from from From Well Sec
brothers right, Lewis Murphy, him and Roy had me on
there one on one podcast and then RP and meeting
all those guys over. So I've been interviewing throughout the
radio role, but today I think I might do a
little interviewing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go, baby. I Hey, So, as far as
the super Bowl itself goes, you were someone, of course
who's played a lot of football. You have a National
Champion ring, you have a Super Bowl ring as well.
Excuse me, Oh my god, why am I birthpeet?
Speaker 3: Excuse me? Coffee? Yeah, that is true.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I mean shine my dad. I went to
that Jaworski. I was my dad's plus one. I was
my dad's date at a at a cigar party last
night and basically I was just you know, running him drinks,
get him cigars as he was holding court. But the
point is, you know, I'm like, oh man, I'm gonna
be up early, so we're aunt eleven o'clock. I'm like,
all right, I'm gonna go to oh wait coming, you know,
I was like, all right, A right, cool.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: We didn't get out of there till twelve oh yeah.
Speaker 4: And and and the thing is the distance that we
had to go to get out was one hundred feet.
I mean I'm talking to one hundred feet and it
took us an hour. Yeah, you know, he's just chopping
it up, dude, he kept talking. So I'm the Yes,
I need the coffee. But you know a lot of football.
You watch a lot of football, you know the NFL.
What's your read on Chiefs Eagles?
Speaker 3: Where are we at? Well?
Speaker 7: I do think is going to be compared up front.
Philadelphia's offensive line is motivated, right. They thought that that
offensive line was going to take a decline when Jason
Kelsey had retired, but you know, they continue to get better.
That's one thing that that I'm looking for in this game.
Philly is really talented upfront on a defensive line. Bro
Smid you have I mean, it's just too much speed
and size of front. Did you see that play Baldy
broke it down when when Jalen Carter was reading the trap,
he like leaped over.
Speaker 3: Like the frontsh just left over.
Speaker 7: I'm looking forward to seeing that. So I think that's
going to be the ultimate big big dog matchup. Because
I mean, look how smooth it is for Saquan Right.
He is really making this look easy. Three touchdowns against
our little brother. Jayden Daniels shouts out the jam Right
Rookie of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year. I
saw him at the red call for him and Mom
Duce was out there that yeah. But I mean that's
what I think is going to be the differential in
the game.
Speaker 4: That trans So when you look at the defensive, I mean,
you got Jalen Carter, you got Jordan Daiz, he got
Chris Jones, and really fave Chris Jones is the unheralded
part of the Chiefs because every dynasty has to have
multiple Hall of famers, and we always talk about Mahomes
and Reid, we always talk about Travis Kelsey. Obviously that's
to come even more because you know Taylor Swift and everything,
and Chris.
Speaker 3: Jones gets talked about.
Speaker 4: But I mean, like, yeah, they're not here in their
third super Bowl in a row. They're not here in
their fifth and six years. They're not here trying to
become the first three peat champion NFL history of Chris
Jones isn't there, And so what makes him when you
watch him play, Like what makes him so consistently unblockable?
Speaker 7: I mean, I think he is the ultimate defensive lineman, right,
you could play him on the edge, on the interior.
His height, his side, his arm lenk, his athletic ability.
I mean, he's the cheat code for d lineman. You know,
Aaron Donald's exception to the rule with size and all that.
Speaker 3: Right, he was just like he was undersized, but it
was just all muscle.
Speaker 4: You see, ever, every single fiber of air Donald's DNA
is courted muscle, right exactly.
Speaker 7: But Chris, Okay, all these guys I just named, right,
I named Davis and Carter and the one that just
Nolan Smith Junior who ran a four to three at
the combine, Like, yeah, all those none of them Chris Jones.
Chris Jones is him out of all of them. But
you look at the dynamic of Phillies defense, I think
they have to age. And here's another thing. I get
the three P and it's like we're playing with Kansas
City and why would I do that? And that's the
employer that paid me the most money in the NFL.
That's what the most of nnedy real talk. But it's
Philly too. So here's the crazy part about the last
four games. Buffalo, Washington, Philly, and Kansas City were all
my former employers, so it was like, okay, I can
go go bit it's not gonna.
Speaker 4: Way, but your super Bowl ring is from the Saints, correct,
so this.
Speaker 7: Is and it's in our city somebody. So it's just
really that big fat ball.
Speaker 3: I'm loving it.
Speaker 7: Man coach and the coach Ree was in Philly when
I was there, so he was the head coach there.
Speaker 3: Dive.
Speaker 4: Oh god, the meme that makes the rounds at the
beginning of every single football season, big fave looking like
me on n C double A twenty five when somebody's
gonna score. You know they're gonna score, but you just
make your player dive anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, So what was it like? What was
it like playing for coach Reid? Then? Like what what? What?
What made him?
Speaker 4: I mean obviously in Philly's we talked about this yesterday.
It's interesting to think about reading Philly because at that
point everybody's like, oh, he's good, you know, maybe even great,
but can't get it done.
Speaker 3: Not gonna win a championship.
Speaker 4: You know, he can get close, but he'll never get
across that finish line. And now nobody even remembers those narratives,
obviously because what him mahomes have done. But what made
coach Ree so kind of special in your.
Speaker 7: Estimation, I think his personality really out all going throughout
the NFL having ten different head coaches, He's at the
top of the chain in terms of getting the locker
room together. Because think about it, you and I we
were the big dogs, big as a gorilla, right with
the big dogs, so we automatically the cool people in
the locker room.
Speaker 3: We're the ones running around.
Speaker 7: There, cracking jokes and doing all the fun stuff in
the locker room. We're not as serious on the line.
And that's the way Coach read like he was. He
was thirring now, but he didn't.
Speaker 3: He was. He was cool.
Speaker 7: So case in point right, that play that circulates around
the NFL every pre season, the trip to the sidelines,
he bob doom, Doom, doom. So this man's face was
bloodshot red when I was passing Coach, it was.
Speaker 4: So so he was blood y'all read not with anger.
He was laughing. He was trying out the cloud.
Speaker 7: Yet so Vic brooke the ice Vickers like that was
a good effort. He started crying, laughing, and then I
went viral after that, and it's like, I'm glad we
wear helmets and full because a lot of people don't
know that's me. A lot of people like you could
google worst tackle attempt.
Speaker 3: And it's me.
Speaker 4: But on hey, hey, it's better. My old man always
said this. It's better be a has been than it
never was.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: If you can have if you can have the fact
where you google worst tackle in NFL history and that's you,
that's something to be proud of. Bro.
Speaker 3: That means you made it.
Speaker 7: Some people made millions, other people made means shouts out
to j Cole.
Speaker 3: That's oh my god, favor.
Speaker 4: So it sounds like, though it sounds like you think
Philly's gonna get done.
Speaker 7: I think Philly gets it done because of all of
the above. Now you know, there's the Mahmes magic and
the Swifties are down here more than just the basic
NFL fans. Mean, the hell crowds are coming, so you
get it. And this is the skin of the teeth year, right.
I mean when they played in New Orleans, they badly
beat us. It played Joe Borroen. That was no controversy
in that game, Atlanta. It is a badly win like
it was ten games this year Kansas City finally got They.
Speaker 4: Won seventeen one possession game around an entire NFL season
that wor the one possession games they won seventeen in
a row.
Speaker 3: Te Vibe.
Speaker 7: Now there's two sides of that coin. One side is
body getting lucky they just bought and reps helping out
Da da da da. You have that side of the coin.
But then there's the other side of the coin where
coach Reed a veteran, he know what it is.
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahone's been there.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like, look as the Chiefs
gotten some breaks, sure, okay.
Speaker 3: But you don't win seventeen by accident. You know that.
That is situational football.
Speaker 4: That's being prepared for the moment, that stacking the small
wins at every point in the game that accumulate over
time and eventually become the margin.
Speaker 7: That part man my boy listening to us. Man one
of my clients is his son. He said this game
would be more competitive than the Kendrick versus Drake.
Speaker 3: I freaking hope. So did you see did you see Drake?
Speaker 4: Did you see Drake walking out of his concert the
other night with the he had a shirt riddled with
bullet holes and smoke coming out. I felt it felt
like to me, it was almost him waving the white
flag like I've had enough in the sport.
Speaker 7: He did, and listen, I'm to me, Drake's body of
work is still to me better. Yeah, but again for
the for the sport.
Speaker 3: But he got in the battle.
Speaker 4: And Kendrick had all of the Grammys singing along about
how Drake's a pedophile, like like I'm sorry, like you
know everything else, it doesn't matter, like that's you should
should have never gotten in the fight.
Speaker 3: It's like O Joe Sinko trying to fight James Harrison.
You saw that, bro. Bro.
Speaker 7: By the way, James Harrison called himself like hiding yesterday,
so he had these glad is on.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what was that, James, But you knew it
was me, dude.
Speaker 7: Don't everybody walk around here with shoulders like I can't
if you know me, I can't say you didn't see me.
Nobody else walks around like a gorilla like this, bro.
You know, it's just is what it is.
Speaker 4: James Harrison thought he James Harrison thought he could hide
with glasses.
Speaker 3: Yes, dude, you can't. Can't.
Speaker 7: He's funny, bro, But now you just it's just wow,
that's that debo energy. You have to pick your right
You do have to pick your right battle, so that
that is he didn't. You got Meek Mills, Yeah, you
know to push your t one was here and Drake
didn't really and he didn't pick the right battle.
Speaker 4: No, you went to battle with the lyricists who went
into therapy and is unlocked at even further level of
his lyrical ability.
Speaker 7: I want to win straight songs, Bro. I would have
challenged him for like hit records. That's what you do. Yeah,
it's not wrap battle.
Speaker 4: I see the probably just to so many skeletons, but yeah,
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Speaker 3: Tell everybody where they can find your ball, broadcaster.
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Speaker 3: Man, the catalog growing, thank God.
Speaker 4: Okay, So then as far as the halftime show goes,
you have grown up in New Orleans music. You love
New Orleans music, you know it top to bottom. What
are you hoping to see?
Speaker 3: Because it's weird, right.
Speaker 4: We got a West Coast guy headliner, but he knows
the history, he knows who has to show respect to.
Speaker 3: So what are you trying? What?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 3: What do you want to see come halftime?
Speaker 7: I want to see Lil Wayne come out with Kendrick.
Yeah that's I'm gonna just jump straight to it.
Speaker 3: Uh. I know he's He.
Speaker 7: Threw an announcement yesterday that he's they walked, Hey Wayne,
take these super Bowl tickets.
Speaker 3: Man, now working on my album Dog you have me. Oh.
Speaker 4: They put it out there trying to be like, I'm
not gonna be there whatever.
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna be there and focused on my album
in a studio right now. He does feel some type
of word by not doing it. But Kendrick Lamar is
a huge little Wayne fan. I know, so I do think.
I mean, he did announce that Scissor was gonna come
out with him. I think she's dope. That's gonna be cool.
She is, her voice is angelic. She's not a sword
for the eyes.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot that's angelic about Scissa. Hello, somebody, Hello,
Hello me in my room alone anyway?
Speaker 4: Sorry, Okay, so this is already confirmed.
Speaker 3: Who who else do you think needs to be up there?
Speaker 7: I mean I would go full culture John Batist.
Speaker 3: What he's doing confirmed? Is he confirmed?
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's confirmed, But I think he's doing something else.
I just think Kendrick is going to really because I
went to his show when he came here. Bro his
his shows off the chain. I'm not gonna lie. He
puts together a really nice show. But I think he's
going to incorporate a little bit of our culture. He's
going to do it, I hope.
Speaker 4: So fave you the man dog, thank you for having
the ball of broadcasts himself.
Speaker 3: Big fave.
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Speaker 2: Off the Bench with Hester and T Bob Live from
Super Bowl fifty nine Radio Row in New Orleans presented
by Low Bear's Casino Hotel Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3: What's happening, y'all? Welcome back to O TB.
Speaker 4: We are live from Radio Row, brought to you by
Lebert's Hotel Casino bat Rouge.
Speaker 3: Okay, guys, we gotta be quiet.
Speaker 4: Ah, it's Friday, which means it's champagne shenan agains. Okay,
I don't know, I doubt. I mean, look, I know
it's open container in New Orleans.
Speaker 3: All good to go.
Speaker 4: I don't know if. I don't know if we're allowed
to drink champagne in the inside the Covin Center. But
that's why this is great, that this is definitely not champagne.
This is liquid in a golden bottle. That's all that
it is. Okay, And so I'm going to pour some
have said liquid into this bottle and are going to
start to.
Speaker 3: Enjoy ourselves here on this Friday. Guys.
Speaker 4: Okay, so we get teab up new pair of pants. Okay,
screw you, bibo. I've literally worn like more pairs of
pants this week than I've ever worn in my entire life.
RIVS can confirm this when she gets on the mic.
I bought like a bunch of pants for this week.
Speaker 5: The yeah, no, he went shopping. He got like, yeah for.
Speaker 3: Super Bowl week.
Speaker 4: Tried to get get set up a little bit. So
I have a lot of pants, not to brag. I
have so many pants that I wore white pants one day.
Speaker 5: Uh and then, which is a bold move. Yeah for
anybody move.
Speaker 3: Uh and then and then I did a white I
did white pants with a.
Speaker 4: With crawfish, which is an even bolder move, and well,
is dumb because it turns out I got crawfish grease
and guts all over my white pants, and I was
sweating very badly.
Speaker 8: I called tea Bop that day and he answers the
phone and he was breathing so hard, and I was like,
what is happening right now?
Speaker 5: He's and how much.
Speaker 3: Crawfish do you?
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 3: It was it was two giant boxes I ordered.
Speaker 5: He's like, I'm sweating. I'm sweating.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, six seven pounds with the fix thins,
two sausages, four petats, two corns, okay, show some.
Speaker 8: Respect, a couple of things. So that same day T
Bob calls me. He invites me to buy your beer
garden to eat this crawfish with him.
Speaker 5: He's like, come hang out with us, like we're eating whatever.
Speaker 3: I freaking guy.
Speaker 8: I'm basically I'm driving back to Baton Rouge because I
got to go pick up my kids from school, and
I was like, I'm just gonna go do that.
Speaker 5: And so I get off the phone with.
Speaker 8: Them, and then I'm like about to get on the
interstate and I'm starting to feel a little fomo and
I'm like, ooh, but what if it's fun over there?
Speaker 5: So I give him a call back and I'm like, hey,
who's there? Like what he said? Come join us? Like
what's happening? He was like, no, no, no, it's just me.
Speaker 3: Nobody came. I was like, you called.
Speaker 5: Me because no one's there, and you're born. I was like,
I'm getting all the interstead.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Joey Molnaro's in town. I was trying
to show him. I was trying to. I was trying to,
you know, show him, show him New Orleans right, like
like you really show me? And I ended up bringing
but like Lucy's.
Speaker 3: Retired service bar. That was great. Yeah, he did a spot.
Speaker 4: Uh ross, you ever had a sports drink yeah, yeah, yeah,
him and Rachel Bennetta did a comedy.
Speaker 3: Show at Sports Drink and that's was really cool and
very cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah. Shout out to I think it's Andrew Stevens
runs It, who played Kevin McHale on Winning Time season two,
which Winning Time was really good. She's the one, but
I never ended up watching season two for for some reason.
Speaker 5: But I lost it in the chat by for chats
that what we call.
Speaker 3: By for YouTube chat.
Speaker 8: That's I don't I lost it. I don't know who
said it there. So they're calling security on us, Well,
jokes on you because we've been We're so tight.
Speaker 4: We're so tight with hello, nerd, you ain't getting me dog,
we are.
Speaker 3: I might as well have.
Speaker 8: A specifically came over here. He was like, these are
my last three. I wanted Jawl to have them. We
are good.
Speaker 4: I am one step away from a back the blue
bumper sticker.
Speaker 3: Okay, like you got there, strive like a.
Speaker 4: Black blue flag like I got like, get out of here,
done the sacond.
Speaker 5: Day, you got the hold, the we got the hold,
the Mayo, the new Mert.
Speaker 8: She brought it in for us and it's like this
like mushroom man like whatever got his like sheriff badge
next to it, which.
Speaker 4: By the way, I I do absolutely love this shirt.
This is what I feel like every year he kills
sports dot Com, slash Shop, great graphic designer that he has.
But look at this man hot stepping into Martin right
around the court. Shout out, by the way, guys Saturday,
if you are going to be in town Saturday. We
talked to Mark Romick about it yesterday. They're putting on
like a legit ass parade. When I heard there was
gonna be a Super Bowl parade, I thought like, okay,
like it's gonna be kind of gimmicky, maybe like a conventions. No, no, no,
They're throwing a full on Marty Grass parade, going all
downtown around Jackson Square.
Speaker 3: Throw ten am.
Speaker 4: I think I think it starts at ten am, but
it's gonna roll for a while. Uh So, if you're
gonna be in the city on Saturday, get your you know,
get your parade gear ready, okay, because it's it is
uh it's going down.
Speaker 3: Uh rivs.
Speaker 4: This is your uh this is my I mean, this
is a lot of our first years covering the this
year role.
Speaker 5: Being on reade, you know I've been to many.
Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, you've gotten to talk to a lot of
very cool people. Like I said, you and Landra have
been killing the kind of man on the street content.
Speaker 3: Uh, what's your experience been like so far?
Speaker 8: It's been so wonderful. I think the other types of
events like this. We go to, you know, every year,
Senior bowl and which is such a relaxed vibe Senior
Bowls kind of like and we've been going for so
long that it just feels like you're part of the
team there. And then we go to SEC Media Days,
which is so much fun.
Speaker 5: We love it.
Speaker 8: We have a great time every year. But it's just
it's a little it's not chill. It's a little more
buttoned up. Like if you want to interview someone, I've
got to go like approach the handler and like plead
my case and just hope that they like me and
then maybe they'll give me access to somebody. Here, we've
just got people walking around like some people have handlers.
Like yeah, Joe Burrow was here yesterday. He had like
eighteen people around here for the most part. Like Caim
Jordan walks by. I just kind of jogged up to
him and I'm so used to se see media days.
Like he was the first person that I really like
interviewed by myself.
Speaker 5: Walking around here or just all around here. He was
the first person I really saw, right.
Speaker 8: So I ran up to him and I'm so like
I have PTSD from from SEC media days, but I
was like, Hi, I'm Rivers Hughey, And I was trying
to give him like basically my credentials and like why
he should want to talk to me, and he's.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, come on, come just walk with me.
Speaker 8: And I was like, uh, okay, you know, and so
like that's everyone here has been so chill and like
willing to hang out with us and do videos and
sit down.
Speaker 5: Saw Robin Harper yesterday.
Speaker 8: I was like, Roman, can have like three minutes of
your time, and like he's someone that I know I'm
friends with, but I still value their time and I
know they're here for a reason. Yeah, I'm like, can
you give me like three minutes? He's like, I'll give
you as many minutes as you want. Like it's just
a fun vibe here, it really is.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's fun, it's it is more open. Uh.
Speaker 4: I gotta say, you've been very uh, you and Laudra both,
But I kind of knew a Landra.
Speaker 3: I've seen her do some of that work before. Uh
you have like kind of an on.
Speaker 4: Air reporter sort of feel, do I yeah, like like
when you're when you're doing the walk, it talks and
everything y'all have done.
Speaker 5: A Landra is incredible. She is watching her.
Speaker 8: So when I did my first few, it was like
with Cam and a couple of people where they were
like walking and I could not be in the video,
like I just had to film. And when I saw
a Landra and I was like, oh no, she's so
good at that, I was like, I don't know if
I can do that. But it's been Everyone we've talked
to has been so funny and wonderful and easy.
Speaker 5: So it's made what I'm doing a lot easier.
Speaker 4: Alandra says, going up to people and asking them to
do videos, it's really ballsy.
Speaker 3: I'm proud of myself for doing now. I mean, I
know she's like, but she's like awful at.
Speaker 4: Did Like you saw me at the even the Senior
Bowl media event, I was like cringing the entire time,
and I feel comfortable all I didn't want to go
for it.
Speaker 5: It's like it's hard.
Speaker 8: She has been incredible at it, like a funny story
about that.
Speaker 5: So everyone's been really chilling cool.
Speaker 8: But yesterday, Joe Burrow is doing an interview with USA Today,
who is like right across from us, and you know, I.
Speaker 5: Just I felt like I had to shoot our shot.
Speaker 8: You know, I knew, I already knew what they were
gonna say to me, but I still had to.
Speaker 5: So I'm walking up.
Speaker 8: It is a huge group of people, and I walk
up and they're just staring at me with just blank faces.
Speaker 5: And I was like, well, I got to do it.
And I'm like, hey, I know.
Speaker 8: And before I said hey, I know, and she's just
doing this already, She's like no, no, And I was like,
I hear you, But we are right there across and
we are a baton room station. If we were not
at baton room station, I would not even attempt this.
But our community values him so much and would love
love to see and hear him. So if you have
even a few minutes, we would love to sit down
with him. And she and then when I said all that,
she was like, I hear you, but like we're so behind.
We have to get to Bleacher Report or serious, we
just can't do it.
Speaker 5: And I was like, okay, and I'll walk over here.
And the first thing is Hunt just laughing at me.
Speaker 3: Hunt, what a how about? I don't think that anybody,
you know what, every.
Speaker 8: Now and then you do that and the person's like,
you know what, we do have a few minutes, yeah,
like you just have to try.
Speaker 3: Yes, I agree.
Speaker 4: I don't think though, that anybody has had a better
week than Jameis.
Speaker 5: Winston thriving in the city.
Speaker 4: Is Winston be bopping around the city for Fox? It
is unbelievable. Whether it's him doing an entire improv bit
where he's talking to this Beignet that he shaped into
a w and he's like playing the character of the
wbn A playing him. He's having an entire dialogue. Then
we see him driving a rickshaw through the fringe quarter
seeing not believe I.
Speaker 3: Can bike and stuff?
Speaker 4: I believe I can fly a second lining into Cafe Dumont.
I mean, Jameis Winston is thriving. The Fact that Dennis
Allen took Jameis Winston from us is the single worst thing.
And he's done a lot of bad It's the single
worst thing that he did as the head coach of
the New Orleans Tas. This entire week has just made
me wonder, what if he never tears his ACL? What
if Jamis never tears his ACL When the Saints I
believe we're five and two at the time, he had
fourteen touch to three picks. They were en route to
beating the Bucks that day James's old squad. Like, what
happens if that never happens? Because already, in a small
sample size of which you didn't get see much of him,
he became a.
Speaker 3: New Orleans legend. Who knows what could have been? Bring
him back, dude?
Speaker 8: Speaking of crazy football personalities, Yeah, did you see Cam
Newton walking around yesterday?
Speaker 3: Cam Newton or Jordan? No? I did not? How did
How did I miss it?
Speaker 5: What just happened?
Speaker 3: I'm sure he was.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm saying like I saw Cam Jordan riding in
a segway All yeah.
Speaker 5: No, Cam Newton.
Speaker 3: I was like WHOA.
Speaker 5: I was like, what's happening here?
Speaker 4: Why I expec Yeah, why I expressed, like surprise is
how could I not see Cam Newton? He's giant, he
was there. He dresses like a train conductor. Who's going
to the North Pole. It is insane.
Speaker 5: He was doing his hat thing.
Speaker 8: But then also, yes, to be fair, that could have
been confusing because Cam Jordan was here riding around on
an electric scooter for like an hour, like an hour,
and I think that's kind of hard to do because
at that time of day that he.
Speaker 5: Was doing it, he was getting it was packed in here.
Speaker 8: I don't know, I could barely walk and Cam's just
riding his electric secuter.
Speaker 5: He's going fast.
Speaker 4: So David and Joku was walking around all day just
in tiny shorts and no shirt.
Speaker 3: Is that a bit much? I thought?
Speaker 4: I thought it felt like a bit much. I mean
literally just it's like tiny and I love sexy shorts, Okay,
I really I wear them all the time. I wear
very skimpy bathing suits. Uh but at the you.
Speaker 3: Know, at the right in the right in the right,
in the right time, I don't know, it just felt
like a bit much.
Speaker 8: I know, there's just people walking around everywhere, and people
are like, oh did you see so and done?
Speaker 3: Like what where?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly right. How did miss Kim Jordan or Kim Newton?
That sucks all right?
Speaker 4: When we get back more Shenanigans and then coming up
in our number three. Uh, we still have m We
have Ed McCaffrey coming on, Johnny Vello from Draft Kings.
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Speaker 2: Off the Band with Hester and T Bob Live from
Super Bowl fifty nine Radio Row in New Orleans, presented
by Low Bears, Casino, Hotel, Baton Rouge.
Speaker 4: You and y'all, welcome back to OTB one of four
five ESPN live on radio. Roach had out of banish
for spotting a trip out here and right now we
have an ot B alumnus on the program.
Speaker 3: Mister Mario Hares Mario, what's up? Brother? Have we doing today? Man?
What's good?
Speaker 9: T Bob doing awesome? Miss y'all? Man with champagne flowing
and rivers and big Fave and King like, man, I
miss you guys. This is awesome. Glad to run into
the old crew man.
Speaker 4: So okay, you're here. This work work with Telemundo covering
the Big Game. What's been going on with you?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 9: We've been doing a ton of interviews, man, and it's
been fun. We've been doing some bilingual interviews. We interviewed
the guys calling the game for Telemundo on Sunday, so
that's a lot of fun. We interviewed Martin Grammatica in Spanish,
which was.
Speaker 4: Long, Let's go Yeah, Martin Gramatica, the legend I used
to freaking love him back that they do to him.
Celebrating every field goal as if it was a goal
in soccer was one of my favorite things growing up.
Speaker 9: It was awesome.
Speaker 4: And you can forget his little brother Bill celebrating so
hard that he tore his acl.
Speaker 9: Yeah, unfortunately, that's kind of what he's known for.
Speaker 3: But Martin.
Speaker 9: Martin's last season in the NFL was in New Orleans,
so he actually had some good New Orleans stories. So
I really enjoyed that commedy. I think, yes, last season eight,
that was I need.
Speaker 3: Not remember that.
Speaker 4: I remember he uh, I really remember him at Kansas State.
I don't know why, Tokay marn but look, man, uh
the Pelicans right like, you always loved them.
Speaker 3: More than anyone. You covered them intentionally.
Speaker 4: It's what's your take on the Ingram trade and really
the state of the franchise right now?
Speaker 9: Well, the Ingram trades depressing. You know, the Lakers didn't
do too much with Anthony Davis got the Bubble ring,
but they ended up with Luka Doncic, the Pelicans ended
up with the bag of chips. That being said, I'm
gonna remember bringing in Ingram's time in New Orleans very fondly.
We had some good times. In hindsight, they probably should
have traded him sooner, but not a very good trade. Honestly,
the Pelicans really have a lot of things to figure out,
and they better do it soon.
Speaker 3: I mean, so surely the Griffair is over.
Speaker 9: Probably, I mean you would think, but you know with
that organization how patient they usually are with stuff. And
you did at least get a first round pick back
for this Brandon Ingram trade, so maybe I've drafted well.
Speaker 4: I guess it's kind of the one thing of the
griff Air that you could say exactly.
Speaker 9: So they've shown that they could do that. But you
kind of need like a Saint's twenty seventeen draft level
draft if you're gonna get competitive soon. So got gotta
kind of be patient if you're a Pelicans fan, which
I know is frustrating, but that's kind of where we.
Speaker 4: Are right how depressed, Like, are you still a Pelicans fan?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yes, I'm still I'm still a Pelicans fan. And while
were running out of time, t Bob, I'm still an
ot I'm still a member of the OTB family in
my mind because, as you said, away forever, dude. Yeah,
alumnis and and I miss you guys, and I never
really got the opportunity to say goodbye, but always very
grateful to you and Jake and Danny and Taylor and
everybody associated with the show. And you guys were really
good friends to me.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 9: I learned a lot about football, a lot about radio,
and always appreciative to you guys, guys, And I won't
be too far away, man, so hopefully we can do
this some more.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, Mario, and uh yeah, Man, I mean you
were one of the ogs on OTV before you ever
worked in a a phyicial capacity.
Speaker 3: When we'd have you on there, Spanish.
Speaker 4: Highlights everything, it's uh, it's it's very cool, man. We
love all of our OTB alumnus. Shout out Mario, dude,
don't worry. I mean I was gonna say, don't worry.
The pel's get good, but.
Speaker 3: That's a line, all right. Our three of OTV coming
up next.