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from the Raising Kane Studio.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in our number two Off the Bench.
The tripod is riding again. Glynn Landra take Tay in studio.
Jacob Hester is in California, the worst state in America.
Is there all week? Hopefully joining the show a little
bit later. Today, I'm sitting in a chair. Came the dog.
She doesn't give me anything though, thank you, though, it's
a good girl. Tomorrow one of the greatest sporting events ever.
It opens tomorrow, the Winter Olympics, I believe. I think
it's xx V. I think it's the twenty fifth Olympic Games.
Is this accurate? I didn't look it up. I'm just
trying to basing this on my knowledge of Roman numerals.
I think we're the twenty fifth Winter Olympics. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: If XXV is twenty five, Yes, because it says Winter
Olympics XXV will take place from like starting like February fifth.
Speaker 3: Yep, I think that's right. That makes sense every four years,
one hundred years. We nailed it, all right, Winter Olympics
coming at you, coming to us from Italy, it Dahlia.
I'm opening ceremonies will be will air tomorrow from Milan,
and I think they will be on about I think
it's one pm Local time is when they start with
a time difference there of course, but it's going to
air again tomorrow at seven pm on NBC as well.
I think you can catch it tomorrow afternoon on Peacock.
NBC has got a busy weekend. No right, NBC's host
is doing the Big Super Game.
Speaker 2: So that's what it's called, the Super Big Game, the.
Speaker 3: Super Big Game, Bowl, the big game that's playing the ball.
Big games play the ball. It's super big. So I
guess they're not going to show Olympics that day. You
would think Sunday evening would be a big Olympic day.
Open ceremonies tomorrow, so of course there's going to be
a performance. Usually there's some sort of cultural performance at
these opening ceremonies Paradi. Yes, I have heard that confirmed,
he's confirmed. Oh really, Undertelly Shelley, I just guess confirmed.
You nailed it, though.
Speaker 4: I'm so culturally aware.
Speaker 2: Who the hell is up?
Speaker 4: And come on?
Speaker 2: Never heard of this guy?
Speaker 3: Opera singer, Italian Italian? Wait, he performed, he performed somewhere recently.
Oh you know who it was? Somebody did a halftime performance?
Was it Thanksgiving this year? Was it was it Snoop
Dogg who did a performance, did a performance I think
ANDRELLI No, it was like during a halftime. So there's
two halftime performances this year in the NFL that were
amazing that like hard to like good luck beating that mister,
mister dust bunny. But I think Snoop Dogg was one
of them that was around Christmas, I think, and I
think performed, and I think he performed with his son
to his son's o opera sing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he brought up, He brought a bunch of people up.
Laney came up, this kid came up.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So he's fantastic. Sings porteor.
Speaker 2: M seems exciting.
Speaker 3: You know the song that Will Ferrell sings at the
end of Step Brothers at the Cat the Catlina White
makes her that that song.
Speaker 2: I just didn't know the name. So apparently I've seen
this guy a lot. I just didn't know his name.
Speaker 3: And you know who else is confirmed to be performing
at the opening ceremonies obvious Italian Mariah Carey will be
there as well.
Speaker 4: She's Italian, I know, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: She's actually American. She is actually American, but she be
performing well, she's fantastic, so I'm looking forward to that.
I actually always like watching the opening ceremonies. I like
everything about the Olympics. I don't really lost the closing
ceremonies though. So they have the Parade of Nations, then
they have like the lighting of the Olympic Flame at the.
Speaker 2: End favorite Winter Olympic event.
Speaker 3: Hmmm. This is tough for me. So when I grew
when I was when I was young, I wanted to
be a gold medal snowboarder. Uh mind you. At the time,
I didn't even skateboard, and I still to this day
never snowboarded, but I believe that I could do it.
Half Pipe is incredible love that. I really enjoy the curling.
I know that's weird. I enjoy watching the curling. It's
really good, like background noise when you're at your office.
That seems like something I could do that I love
so I like the stuff that you never never really watched.
And the figure skating is fantastic, downhill skiing, the moguls unbelievable.
I wonder what's your favorite.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm gonna be basic and go figure skating.
Speaker 3: Oh, the bob slide too.
Speaker 4: Bob sledding is fun.
Speaker 3: Bob SLID's super fun.
Speaker 4: But I do like the figure skating like it's it's fun.
Speaker 3: How like fast these sports that you never watch, right,
you have no familiar you don't know the rules, you
don't but you get it like they're pretty it's pretty
like you see what you get with a lot of
these sports. Like you watch bob sled and you watch,
you listen to the announcers, you watch like three or
four people run. Then all of a sudden, you're watching
these people run. You're like, no, they took that turn
too high. Yeah that note they're too low on that one.
I'll get in, Get in the get in the sled,
like you're obviously like these they're pretty simple sports. Like
what you see is what you get. There's no like
crazy rules you don't really know of like in you know, football, basketball,
base there's there's none of those rules and regulations. It's
like pretty simple. You see it, you do it, just
do it a lot better and powerful than the other team.
But it's fun. How like we all become experts on
these random ass sports really fast. Yeah, took that turn
too high? Nope, didn't do it.
Speaker 2: You're sitting on your couch eating chips.
Speaker 3: You're like, what an idiot? What a guy? David getting
his bob sled. Get the handle down, you dummy.
Speaker 2: I like this ski jump because the big ski jump. Okay,
so because I always wonder, like, like the video of
this guy, how you practice s up? How do you
practice stup?
Speaker 3: They could just do it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems like injuries during practice are pretty high
during That's another one.
Speaker 4: I like the speedskating.
Speaker 3: The speed and.
Speaker 2: That's really cool, Like what watch watch'all high? This skag
gets here in just a second, Like how do you?
How do you?
Speaker 3: How do you? That's another sport. You watch a couple
of them and then all of a sudden, like at
the takeoff, you're like, no, that I didn't. He didn't
push off at the right time. He doesn't have a
skis locked in. That's another one where you can just
judge it real fast.
Speaker 2: Like the uh what is it?
Speaker 3: The slalom where you're going in and out of the
uh huh? The downhill, the downhill speeds like the skiing
is it's the one.
Speaker 2: It's the it's the medley and it's so random, it's awesome.
It's like cross country skiing. But you get off, you
have to shoot the rifle at the target, then you
get back up. What is that one what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Love that one. I'll think of it.
Speaker 2: I like it because I'm like, who decided to put
that together?
Speaker 3: Yeah? This seems like a random grouping of events to do.
So America looking going for gold, looking to of course,
be the best. A couple of the individual favorites for
the USA favorites to win gold in their their their event.
Ilia malanin Malliman, Okay. Oh, he's a figure skater, widely
considered the overwhelming favorite for men's gold and figure skating.
Let's go, let's go. I'm excited about that. He is
the only skater to land a quadruple axle in competition
and he's been undefeated since late twenty twenty three. America, Yeah,
suck at Russia, Like Russia is always winning these things.
Speaker 2: China's good at it.
Speaker 3: China's good at it. Yep, that's right. They're they are
forced into those skates real early, forced to practice early.
Speaker 2: The Chinese U competitors. When they lose, I'm like.
Speaker 3: What happens to them? Well we see them again? Yeah,
I do too, Like, is that is that it for them?
Not a lot of joy when they win either? Yeah,
like it's they have Yeah, we'll put in a lot
of hard work, but like they didn't really have an option.
Speaker 2: They're punished. They're punished if they don't win too, like anytime.
Like I was watching a couple of years ago and
there was a female figure skater she like stumbled or whatever,
and I was like, yeah, where she going? Yeah, somebody
somebody follow her.
Speaker 3: Ye, Like we're basing all these comments off speculation too,
we don't really know. It's just how it feels. Sorry.
Speaker 5: It's a joke that goes around online about Chick fil
A where if they don't say my pleasure is like
take you out to the back and shoot you.
Speaker 2: That's still one of my favorite.
Speaker 5: You don't land a triple axle, you're getting take taken
to the what did they call it? One?
Speaker 4: Listen in the train station.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the train the train station, that's right. They got
a couple of those in Jenna, probably probably Olympic train stations. Look,
we don't want to speculate. No, sure, there's a lot
of nice people. But guess what, here's what we do.
We don't do that with our athletes. That's the good news.
We just persecute them on Twitter, right, that's it harmless though, really,
if you think about it, Coloe Kim snowboarding, close.
Speaker 4: Your eyes, get off the.
Speaker 3: Internets, closures, delete your account. Coloe Kim is I hope
I'm saying there. It's either Cloe Kim or Chloe Kim Again.
I'm sorry. We're not familiar with your with your these
sports normally, this is our one time to celebrate you,
and we're gonna do it our best snowboarding snowboards. Coloe
Kim chasing historic third consecutive gold and women's halfpipe, which
is one of the coolest events ever because they get
some big old air and a gold. I was almost
golden that still I could still do it. Obviously, she
has had a recent shoulder injury, but she remains the
heavy favorite. Launder's favorite sport here, Jordan Stoles speed skating
a strong favorite across the five hundred meters, thousand meters
and fifteen hundred meters.
Speaker 4: Then I do get pretty pretty into that.
Speaker 5: There was like one year for some reason, I was
so into the speed skating.
Speaker 3: That's cool. Yeah, Apollo, Yeah, mm hmm. Mikayla Schiffrin alpine skiing.
She's the winningest alpine skier ever and she's one of
the top contenders. Lindsay Vaughn. She's returning from retirement. She's
forty one years old. She doesn't have an ACL. She
just tore it like last week. Yeah, just like last.
Speaker 4: Week she had like braces one.
Speaker 3: She said, you know, I could compete in the Olympics
and probably one of the hardest things and go down
the steep mountains at the fastest speeds ever. I can
just do one.
Speaker 2: Forty one years old, one ACL still competing, notes Anthony
Davis Zion Zion. You watching Lindsay Vaughan this weekend, buddy, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. She had a pretty nasty crash recently. I saw
it and they had like we've seen all Like if
you've watched the Winter Olympic, you've seen people crash. I
think we saw the body Miller one year, like they
had to wrap them in like that orange. They wrap
him in like the orange fence that they have around
it so they can like a Christmas tore. They wrap
them like. Yeah, she had to do that like a
week or two ago. Guess what still gonna rip it,
give it hell? You know. I hope she finishes. I
mean I doubt you can think that she's gonna win
with one a cl that'd be pretty embarrassing for all
the other competitors out there, but that'd be sweet. Jesse
Diggins cross country scheme. She's the most decorated US caught
cross country skier ever. She's a podium threat. I don't
know if that means gold, she's a threat.
Speaker 2: I think that means top three on the podium.
Speaker 3: Top tree. Oh you know, it's also exciting to watch
in the Winter Olympics from last from last winter USA
versus Canadia. Hockey men's and women's. I think that's absolutely electric.
Speaker 2: Let's start today.
Speaker 3: I did look that out of the couple of things
start today, I did not see that hockey started today.
Speaker 2: Six nations, Ireland versus France, two o'clock today.
Speaker 3: Ireland, they're filling the hockey team apparently, So okay, bet
they're a threat.
Speaker 2: Be drunk out there.
Speaker 3: You got a feeling that this will come down to
America versus Canada in both the women's and the men's. Man,
I don't know if y'all. I remember watching US versus
Canada last time. It was the Kachuck Brothers. They just
dominating Canada's faces and fights early on, then they dominate them.
Speaker 2: When we were in Nashville a couple of weeks ago,
we just went to a Predators game. It was a
great time, and we sitting there with Victoria goes, this
is fun. Remember when we baught US Canada a couple
months ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that'll spoiler when it comes to when it
comes to when it comes to hockey. Let's see, we
got a girl with a mystique rowa great name skeleton.
She's not a skeleton. That's the event. She competes in
the skeleton.
Speaker 4: Which is I say, the names even cooler, which.
Speaker 3: Is one person it's on the Bob Slide track believes
the skeleton is you're on a sled head first.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's like the it's like the skinny one, right.
Speaker 3: Like you're a skinny your head first. I believe that skeleton.
She's a top contender for gold in the individual skeleton
and the inaugural mixed team event after winning gold in
the twenty twenty four Pan American Championships. Get out of here.
Speaker 2: There behind you, that's the skeleton. That guy looks like
iron Man. That's the skeleton. Well he is an iron
Man helmet. Yeah, that's pretty badass looking. I'd be terrifying,
by the way, but it would be fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Biathlon, I think is what you were looking for earlier,
where they do the cross country and they shoot.
Speaker 2: Whoever put that together was just good at all of
those things and wanted to win something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna make an event. Taylor to me, I'm
a hunter. I'm hunt in the snow. Ice dancing Madison
Chuck and Evan Bates raining world champions and a married couple.
Good for them seeking their first Olympic gold and ice
dancing different from figure skating. They just dance on ice,
but on ice skates. I have seen this. They just
don't do like the big jumps and the big tricks,
but they do choreograph movements you're.
Speaker 2: Seeing the movie Roll Bounce.
Speaker 3: Nope, they do.
Speaker 2: They do like the dancing, but it's roller skates.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's a good movie.
Speaker 2: Else in it. Yeah, I guarantee you. Jacob Beser has
seen Roll.
Speaker 3: Bounds bow Wow formerly known as Lil bow Wow. Yeah,
he's growing up there like Mike. Is that the movie?
Is it?
Speaker 2: That would be it?
Speaker 3: Whendy dropped what age did he dropped the lil.
Speaker 5: I would say, you gotta be like once you hit eighteen,
I feel to drop.
Speaker 2: Thet maybe even a little earlier. I would say size
has a lot to do with it too.
Speaker 3: I do want to know if the Winter Olympics is
kind of keeping pace with the Summer Olympics as far
as adding new events, adding different events. Of course, the
Summer Olympics adding flag football, break dancing, a couple of
different things that are popularized in the last Summer Olympics
and will continue to be more popular with the flag
football is certainly going to take an they bring back softball.
That's fantastic. Oh that's great. Yeah, I remember watching that
was good. Yeah. We we don't have this information answer,
We'll look it up. If the Winter Olympics keeping pace,
is there any other Olympic sports that you can add
to it? I think you're kind of like capped out
as stuff you can do in the snow.
Speaker 2: Somebody mentioned I they want to see drifting on ice,
tell you what I want to say it Like in Tokyo.
Speaker 5: They're adding a new one for this one, ski mountaineering,
which this actually sounds cool. You have to climb a
mountain either on skis or carrying skis.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean I'm assuming you guys, yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay, and now there's mixed team skeleton. Okay, so I
guess they used to just do ye.
Speaker 2: So this is more like a relay, like you finish
your teammate its to one, I guess.
Speaker 4: But the yeah, the key new one is ski mountaineering.
Speaker 3: Ski mountaineering.
Speaker 4: I'm into this one, all right.
Speaker 3: You just gotta I wonder, is that like one path
that you have to go, So it's just like an
endurance thing or like here's a mountain first, one of
the top wins plant your ski.
Speaker 2: Sounds like the mascot of like a really good mid
major basketball If they had their country's flag and they
had to plant it first at the top of the mountains.
Speaker 3: That would be sick.
Speaker 5: So it's a timed racing event that follows an established
trail through challenging winter alpine terrain while passing through a
series of checkpoints.
Speaker 4: So if your idea is way better.
Speaker 3: If they don't plant the flag at the top of
a mountain, their country's flag, they're missing a big opportunity.
Speaker 2: A lot like the biathlon. This seems like somebody tailored
it to something that they were just really good at.
Speaker 3: Assuming this has no.
Speaker 4: Guns in it, not that I can see for now.
Speaker 2: That's a missed opportunity. The miss opportunity they already got
them there. I'll say what I want to see. You
ever seen the show ice road truckers, Yeah, let's do that,
but competitively do like a you're not you're not an
eighteen wheeler of course, yeah, you doing it for your
country spride obviously.
Speaker 3: I like it. So you're like drifting and jack knife
in on purpose round cones and things like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you got to navigate a ice road course
in a big rig.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 2: If the Winter Olympics ever come here, but you have to.
That's an American sport. You gotta do it.
Speaker 3: They should probably put e sports into the Winter Olympics too,
because like a lot of people like from the South
that when it's called outside, they just sit at home
and play video games. I think they should. They could
do that as well, might break the spirit at the
Winter Olympics. So anyway, there you go, there's our there's
your off the bench version of your Winter Olympics preview
right there. There's probably really nothing else to learn. We
kind of nailed everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was actually a really good breakdown.
Speaker 3: Mariah Carey Andrea Bocelli highlighting the opening ceremonies, which is
going to be fantastic and again again coming from Milan, Milan,
it dah you the Winter Olympics open Serrea ceremonies. Smart.
If you want to watch it live, I think you
probably got to be on the Peacock app And that's
going to be at one pm local time. But they
will replay it, of course, they'll replay everything on prime
time on NBC for the next two weeks. And I
can't wait. It'll be on in the Flynn household and
we love us some Winter Olympics. What are you laughing at?
Speaker 4: So it's in Milan, does it not have to be snowing?
Speaker 3: Well, Northern Italy, so it's like spread all the events
are spread out in northern Italy. So there's mountain nowt.
Speaker 4: But the opening ceremony is ceremony.
Speaker 3: I mean Milan's up there.
Speaker 2: Well, didn't they have a couple of years ago? I'd
say a couple of years ago. Brother the spread ten
years ago? Now I lost shrug of time. They did
it in Sochi? And did they have to like bring
in snow because it wasn't good enough?
Speaker 3: Well, it kind of depends. Like a lot of the advent.
You got to think about our indoors on ice, right,
there's only so many that are in the mountains. So
the mount like sometimes you'll have Olympics that are based
around one city because all the indoor sports. But then
the specialized stuff they got to go. They'll travel a
couple hours away or whatever it is. They'll find some mountains.
Speaker 4: Makes sense.
Speaker 3: If you need any questions answered on Olympics, I got you.
I think I took a class at LSU. It was
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is something to celebrate, something to congratulate, of course. And
then also we're gonna look at Mario Davis. He is
up for Walter Payton Man of the Year, which is
a fantastic award usually goes to a long term vet
who has shown a career of giving back to the community,
doing great work within his community, and just being like
a really bright spot for that team, their community outreach,
just a something to hang your hat on. For the NFL,
So every team nominates somebody for the Walter Payton Man
of the Year, and I believe at the Super Bowl
all every single team, so all thirty two teams nominee
for the Walter Payton Man of the Year do show
up and get recognized at the Super Bowl. It's a
big initiative for the NFL, which is a great thing
because as professional athletes, you do have a responsibility, whether
you believe that or not, whether you take it or not,
you do have a responsibility to be a outstanding citizen,
to give back and be somebody that children and people
can look up to. So that's a great award. That'd
be a fantastic thing. And of course forever, if you
continue to play, you will get to wear that famous
patch on your jersey that has the Walter Payton Walter
Payton with a cape on and we all know what
that looks like. So good luck to tomorrow Davis certainly
would be well deserved. And then of course Tyler Shutkey
is up for Offensive Rookie of the Year. What a
season he had, What a close to the season. He
had most wins of any rookie quarterback this season. How
about that. Now, that's not like the biggest thing to
brag about, because not a lot of teams had victories
rookie quarterbacks. Cam Ward didn't have Jackson Dart didn't have
a lot, but it doesn't matter. He plays quarterback and
he's a rookie, and he had the most wins of
any rooky quarterback. But also to note, one of the
best third down and fourth quarter quarterbacks in the entire
NFL this year. So good luck to all of the
New Orleans Saints. And look, I'm trying to find it.
I lost it real quick. I know Ted Roe McMillan,
I know Jackson Dart Amika America. Is he up for it?
I believe that that is the finalist. There's one more.
I'm missing one.
Speaker 2: Dart, Buka, Traveon Henderson, Tetrolla McMillan, Tyler.
Speaker 3: Okay, And I believe Tedoroe McMillan is the favorite.
Speaker 2: He's going to win that award.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he will win that award. Now you can say
what you want, does he should chuck win it? This
or that? Tetarro had the stats to back it up,
and he made them probably the biggest impact. His team
was in the playoffs. You know, whether they should have
been or not, they were and he is going to,
you know, I would say deservedly win that award. I mean,
if you're a quarter of the court. It's a quarterback award.
It should be if you're a started quarterback. If Shuck
played the entire year, he would be it, but he
played half the year. Ttoro McMillan made an impact since
week one, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like you look at you look at
Tyler Shuck. Yeah, I mean peak for peak, he probably
does win it. Again, he didn't play the entire year,
and Tartoro McMillan started pretty much every game for this team.
He had a thousand yards as a rookie, had made
the playoffs. Like I don't I don't really know what
else you wont Like, I think Shuck probably should win it.
But again, only seven games as opposed to seventeen. Like that,
that's kind of tough.
Speaker 3: Was it seven? It was only seven they were wonning,
they were wonning eight when he took over one in nine.
Speaker 2: Who's eight?
Speaker 3: MVP, Drake May, Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2: Stafford, and uh the the NFL honors already. If you
go look at this list, they pretty much tell you
that it's Stafford, because what do they always do? The
guy that doesn't win MVP is up for Offensive Rookie
of the Year. Matthew Stafford's is not up for offensive Rookie,
our Offensive Player of the Year. He's not up for.
McCaffrey and Drake may are both up for it, Stafford's not.
So I mean that kind of that kind of tells
me right there that Staffords already repped this stat.
Speaker 3: That's the thing. If you don't win the MVP as
a quarterback, you're up for Offensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 2: They typically give it to someone like very rarely do
you see the m v P and the Offensive Player
of the Year be the same person. It's a lot
like Okay, remember remember back in the day. They don't
do it so much now, But there were two quarterbacks
battling for the Heisman, one of them winning to the Heisman.
All right, but this guy here, he got the Maxwell
at the Walter Camp.
Speaker 3: I'm not the same thing. They're trying to spread the
love a little bit. Everybody gets a little bit of
a trophy, a little bit of acknowledgement. Offensive Player of
the Year is probably going to go to I think
the favorite is Jackson Smith and the JIGBA for what
he's done. I think he's got He has over seventeen
hundred yards receiving, which is three times more than the
second leading receiver for the Seahawks and did a big catalyst.
And I know that a lot of these awards don't
go you're not supposed to be based in the playoffs,
but certainly it doesn't hurt in the voter's eyes.
Speaker 2: That's a two man raise between the Smith and Jigbun
and Drake May for sure. Like Puco was great, he
just whatn't is flashy is in Jigba. I mean, it
seemed like every week Jackson Smith made some incredible play,
like Bijeon was great, his team wasn't really good enough.
I'm not sure that's his fault, but it is what
it is. I mean, out of the five guys that
are up for this, Bjeon's is the only one that
didn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 3: It is always kind of funny to me that if
the MVP of the NFL is on offense, he's probably
by default the offensive player of the year as well.
Let me get it. You gotta spread the level a
little bit, all right, We'll keep talking a little bit
of these NFL Honors awards again. It'll be tonight if
you care to watch. If you want to watch, it'll
be eight pm local time, So go check it out.
Cheer on your saints. We got, like we said, we
got three. We're looking for Drew Brees to get in
the hall. It's Mario Davis, Walter Payton Man of the
Year and Tyler Shutt. You know, maybe there's a chance
it might be Tederoe McMillan, but you know, it'd be
fun to see Tyler Shuck's name called. Get a little
bit of recognition for the job well done at the
end of the year. All right, stick with us right here,
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Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven. Shamps Purple and Gold to the core.
This is off the Bench with Hester and Flynn, Matt
and Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 3: This is a fun song to air guitar too. Do
you think this is Will Levis's favorite song?
Speaker 4: Maybe because he's super into Mannise.
Speaker 5: I was gonna ask if this was gonna be your
hybrid rockstar song.
Speaker 3: It might be. I don't know about listening to music.
I've never worked out with like your buds in or
earphones really you.
Speaker 4: Worked out, you roll dog it probably with a speaker.
Speaker 3: Or something like a speaker, or it's just ambient noise,
not like you know, sound waves are filling the gym,
but nothing like connected to me, to my person.
Speaker 5: I was telling you because you were asking me about
the AirPod and I was like, no, I have like
the over the ear beats because the air pods when
I'm working out, they fall out o my.
Speaker 3: Ear, right, So is it kind of like this where
it wraps around your ear?
Speaker 5: They're like these okay, like over the over the ear
head like actual headphones use now.
Speaker 3: I've seen the commercials of like Lebron James practicing and
dunkin basketballs with either air pods or whatever buds in
that's a BS commercial.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they definitely fall out.
Speaker 3: Definitely fall out.
Speaker 2: I used the over the head not gonna be honest.
I see a lot more people using that nowadays, right,
the full headset.
Speaker 5: One time I left my my beats in my dad's
truck when I was back in Texas and he like
I was leaving for the airport, he I wasn't gonna
be able to get the headphones, and I was like, y'all,
I can't get on a plane with no headphones. So
my mom had the beat pods, like the AirPod.
Speaker 4: Looking things, and she never uses them.
Speaker 5: So she was like, just take these and then bring
them back whenever you come back or whatever. And then
so I use them once to go on a run,
and I about threw them away. They kept falling out
of my ear, and I don't know how people there's
people that run with air pods in their ears, and
I don't know.
Speaker 4: How they do it. It falls out my ear. It's horrible.
Speaker 3: They're just built like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're built different, built different.
Speaker 3: It's just different with their ear canal. I am convinced that.
You know, of course, everybody's ears are shaped a little
bit different. And I know they give you the different
size options of the the rubber part it goes into
the ear, but none of them really fit my ear
very well. They all kind of fall out. You have
small ears, must have small ears.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's what it is. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe they're oval and not circle. You've all what ear dysmorphia, Yeah,
so they are. They don't make ear air pods ear
inserts for my shaped ear, which I find disrespectful. These
fit pretty well though, but they do wrap around the ear.
It took a long time to find wired headphones. They
don't sell and make new why I like to. I
went to best Buy, I went to Walmart, I went
to all sorts of plays. I had to get these
on Amazon because they don't make them wired anymore, which
I found crazy. Tom Brady made some news The Goat
soon to be second ballot Hall of Famer Tom Brady.
He was asked, We talked about a little bit about
this yesterday. He was asked on a Let's Go podcast,
which I assumed was his podcast, because you know the
LFG thing, But I don't know if it is his podcast.
He might have been a guest on it. But he
was asked about who he's predicting, how he thinks going
to play out, and he said, quote, I don't have
a dog in this fight. I just hope for a
good game. And then he started talking about how the
Patriots have rebuilt and all this stuff. And so you know,
we were talking about yesterday that yeah, you do. You
certainly do have a dog in the fight. And it's
clear it's the one that you have a big statue
in front of their stadium. You won six Super Bowls
with You're their quarterback for like twenty years. You are
the face of their franchise. So yeah, it's the Patriots.
You should just like say that now, you don't have
to be like ultra aggressive about it. I think there's
a way to state it and keep your you know,
I think he's trying so hard because of his ties
to the Raiders, because his ties to television. He's trying
so hard to be neutral and not to be controversial
that he's starting to be controversial. And from what I'm
reading and hearing kind of on the on the radio
waves and on TV, Yesorday, it's like I think Patriots
fans are a little bit annoyed with Tom Brady, which is,
you know, pretty far cry from how they should feel
about Tom Brady. Now, I get it, there is some
ties and as of course, you do have to keep
your neutrality as a broadcaster. But I was thinking about that,
like everybody's making this, they making this a big deal. Well,
he works for Fox and he can't you know, he
can't support one team. Why not? Why is a broadcaster,
Why can't you at least have a little bit of
loyalty and one sidedness? He has no impact on the game.
I get referees.
Speaker 2: I never understood why Kirk Kerbstreet on College a game
day can't pick who he thinks is gonna win right
the game.
Speaker 3: Kind of dumb. Right, Yeah, you do want a neutral
voice in the booth for your national broadcast.
Speaker 5: I got to say, I mean, I feel like we
all think it's annoying when Greg McElroy is calling an
Alabama game, Like we've said that before, Like, oh, Greg
is so biased, Like we think that's annoying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think I think a lot of that
just is looking for a reason. I hate on Greg McElroy.
We're coming for you, Greg one. Five years from now,
five years will be number one.
Speaker 4: Wait, did y'all see Tom Brady's stories?
Speaker 2: This is the bigger this is the bigger news.
Speaker 5: On his Instagram story, he kept posting these really funny
selfies that everybody was like that. Everyone's like, he's definitely
trying to get his exes attention or he just got
a new crush, because they were saying that Alex Earl
and him were seeing together at a club or something
like that. So the the instagrams were very like baiting
like somebody and they're like I know Tom Brady's checking
his viewers every two seconds.
Speaker 4: Look at these. My god, he's like tired or what
do they say?
Speaker 2: So the first one says, okay, Major, move from the
couch back to the bed. This is what Sunday is
all about.
Speaker 4: This is what you do on a Sunday. Him just
laying on the couch.
Speaker 5: These are very like I want exta see these coded.
Speaker 3: This looks like college girl exactly. That was it their
sorority live laugh, love. Okay, Major moved from the couch
back to bed. This is what okay? All right? With
the emojis and everything. Yeah, that's an aggressive emoji.
Speaker 4: It's pretty aggressive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tongue out, winky face, little seductive tom one hundred.
Yeah he did that, did this one.
Speaker 5: And he's very clearly sucking his cheeks in in the
second picture too.
Speaker 3: Oh clearly. Not enough avocado toast in the world to
make your cheeks sink in that much. Hmm.
Speaker 5: This is really funny that he's posting like a teenage
girl trying to get her crush to watch her Instagram story.
Speaker 3: So I think there's a way to do it. And
of course, Taylor, you brought up an interesting point about
like why you would try to be as neutral as
possible in this question.
Speaker 2: Clay Kubiak his for future head coach, the OC for
the Sea Hulks. So kind of maybe maybe that's it.
We didn't bring that up yesterday. It is like the
the obvious reason why you we'ld be biased, But.
Speaker 3: Right, I mean maybe, yeah, maybe. So all right, we
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We'll be back. Close out now, number two right here,
off the bench.
Speaker 1: Off the bench, from the locker room to the airwaves.
Gets off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn Country.
Speaker 3: I'm going to eat a lot of peaches.
Speaker 1: Moving to the country.
Speaker 3: Falcome back here met off the bench, closing out our
number two with the with peaches by the of course,
incredible banned presidents of the United States of America. They
were put there by a man. In a fact, it's
a good song. This is fifth grade for me. I
do remember it now. Fifth grade. We were jamming to this.
We got a short segment here are bad. Doesn't matter
who's in the studio. Who's not in the studio. We
still cannot have clock integrity here, but we got a
big hour, number three coming at you. We got our
Munchie seven with chef Michael Johnson. We are going to
do a little big deal, no big deal. We're gonna
keep talking about these NFL honors. We got a couple
of different honors to talk about on defensive Player of
the Year, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year,
all coming up right here. Our number three off the bench,
off the bench,