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Speaker 3: You walk ahead o TV. Here old this Tuesday morning,
Jake Flynn, Alandra Tayte, all here with you live in studio,
the Raising Canes Studio, and well, probably hear the glee
in Matt Flynn's voice. He's got his Winter Olympics on
Oho Bear in studio.
Speaker 4: We put it on the big screen too, instead of
me having to watch it on the whole iPad.
Speaker 5: Nothing like throwing squirrels in front of the diagnosed squirrels.
Speaker 2: Here are all show long, Taylor, you did this right.
Speaker 4: We'll say no when watching the women's combined Slalom's right now.
Speaker 2: Babe, US probably gonna dominate too? Is that USA? I
don't think that is a lot of lime green for
it to be USA.
Speaker 4: It's probably one of the other countries America is fighting
right now, Okay.
Speaker 6: All of them?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was telling my do anything outside of America.
I was talking to my kids the other day and
I was like, yeah, USA is as one does. We're competing,
we're going against these other countries. And they're like, what,
like we're fighting them? Come well, no, no, no, the
geopolitical scene's fine right now. Nothing to see here. It's
the Olympics. No, everybody, everybody relaxs. We're playing them in
sport anyway. Combine slalom's on. Fired up for I was like, yeah,
it's the morning time there in Italy. They a lot
of the skiing obviously has got to be done during
the days. I'm sure it's on. So this is we're
watching it live right now.
Speaker 6: Who's wearing lime green? What country is that?
Speaker 2: Oh? That was a lot of lime green?
Speaker 4: Well, I think you know, it's just that was the
That was the shin guards. Okay, they're real bright.
Speaker 5: I will say one Winter Olympic sport that I fully
fully get behind is hockey. Okay, like, if Team USA
is playing, I'll be locked in, certainly.
Speaker 2: If they're playing those Canadians, those damn dirty Canadians, Team America.
Speaker 4: Try to tell us, well, did you watch yesterday then
USA women's hockey? I did not dominated where do you
find like, uh, like where you can find it? This
is me asking you where you find your little Olympic schedule?
Speaker 2: They opened can yesterday.
Speaker 4: US women's hockey team beat in Switzerland five to nothing. Dang,
neil fuck didn't hit the net one time for Switzerland.
Sorry about it? When when does the men's that's a
good question. I got to take a look at the schedule,
which I don't have pulled up right now.
Speaker 2: Radio.
Speaker 4: If I was just sitting here searching around, I figured
you had it a lot to follow right now. Certainly,
big day yesterday in the Olympic world. It's a big
day every day. It's a big day for curling.
Speaker 7: Slovakia and Finland go toe to toe tomorrow in the
prelims for ice hockey.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me.
Speaker 6: See America though Latvia. Okay, we faced Latvia first.
Speaker 7: We got that February twelve.
Speaker 2: It would be Latians.
Speaker 5: That's like playing directional school you and football. Right, Yeah,
we got yea, we got. I mean, how big are
they not?
Speaker 2: Very? Not enough to have a good.
Speaker 4: So yesterday, of course Winter Olympics, being held in Milan, Italy,
US USA faced off against the home team Italy. Mixed
curling actually defending gold medalist Italy in the mix. This
is the semi finals, so this is historic in the
mixed in the mixed team event. That's one man, one
one woman. Figured the curling uh usas never medaled in
this event. Well, yesterday they made it to a medal round.
They were in the semifinals versus defending gold champions upset alert,
US wins in dramatic fashion, heads to the gold medal
match versus I believe the Swiss.
Speaker 2: Oh we got that?
Speaker 6: Yeah for which one? Sorry, I was trying to read
about love curling.
Speaker 5: The Swiss just sitting there in the middle of the fence,
not picking a side on anything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it is. Oh, here, it is there,
it is. That was the winning shot. Something about him
raising his broom to celebrate his weapon, his weapon makes
that really funny. It's his weapons celebrating in the Olympics
later raising his broom later Italy and he tosses.
Speaker 2: I don't need that broom.
Speaker 4: Have fun sweeping for the bronze US.
Speaker 8: I was watching that a little bit last night, Matt. Yeah,
this confusing part. The male and female payer for the US.
Both of them's first name is Corey they're just spelled differently.
Speaker 2: Yes, there it is. Watch this. Oh you turn it,
watch it curve, watch it curl. Baby, that's good stuff
if you're just listening to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess you like to pick up Yeah, you
sweep to pick up speed and to help the curl
that's curling in pal right in the kisser.
Speaker 2: Boom. See that. He knew it too. Oh yeah, he
knew it. She knew it. We all knew it. She's
been dreaming of that shot our whole life right there.
All right, they secure another medal? Does look like ellen?
Speaker 4: So the metal count for the United States, we have
two golds as of through yesterday, two golds. But just
now history, we made history. We got a silver medal,
historic moment for US cross country skiing. Congratulations, Congratulations to
our guy friend of the show. I'm sure Ben Ogden, Oh, Benjamin. Yeah,
he claimed silver and the Men's Sprint Classic, his first
Olympic medal and first medal for the US male cross
country skiers since nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: It's fifty years, buddy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that math together, well math, I didn't put together
this fifty is on a multiple four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to remember what year.
Speaker 6: Was something happened, geopolitical stuff happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah, fifty, I mean I don't know. That's tough.
Speaker 4: In last fifty and last fifty, right, like what happened? Yeah,
since seventy six? Where Vietnam's before that? Yeah, good question question,
No bad questions.
Speaker 5: COVID Daniel Basham inside the Boy four chat, Jake thinks
running is better than aggressive mopping.
Speaker 2: Silly. It is aggressive silly, silly me.
Speaker 7: So I'm trying to look into Latvia. We definitely got them,
We got them. Yeah, they didn't qualify for the first
time until nineteen thirty six, and then since nineteen thirty
six they did not qualify again until two thousand and two.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 6: And in that time they finished.
Speaker 7: Last twice, and then they the last time in twenty
twenty two it was eleventh place.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, that's all we got that we got
that probably beat them up.
Speaker 6: Have never finished better than eighth.
Speaker 2: This might be a football score. I want to do.
Speaker 4: Give a big I know we're a little late for
a weekend loser, okay, but a big just Olympic loser
right now to.
Speaker 2: The team.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you're going to call it a
construction team, a metal forging team, engineering team, whoever it
is in Italy that designed the medals. The medal the
one thing that these athletes since a kid, have been
fighting to her whole life, the right, whether it's the gold, silver, bronze.
You see people like they wait there like they win
a bronze medal and they cry because it's their life's
journey and that they came in third place.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 4: Some they'll have forever. Well, whoever constructed the medals this year,
terrible job. They cheaped out on them. Let's say Breezy
Johnson for the USA one gold in the downhill skiing.
She was jumping up and celebrating, like fifteen minutes after
she got it, jumping and celebrating and it fell off
her fell off the ribbon. Oh no, it couldn't fix it.
There was one girl that had a silver medal and
it split in half.
Speaker 2: What yep?
Speaker 6: Yeah, what the Olympics.
Speaker 4: This is the Olympics, So now they's a trophy.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: So the Italian folks there that are I guess in
charge of the Olympics, our hosting or whatever, said we
will get it fixed. Like I don't know what that
means I think one person they just gave her another
one that's not like engraved for the event or anything.
So it's kind of a yanky little situation. There we go.
She's like, I don't know what I do this thing.
It's shiny still look it up, and there's like no
way to put him back on. One of the female
athletes was quoted as saying, well, my dad's in constructions.
I just figured he could do something with it.
Speaker 5: It's all the same the last summer, was it? The
last summer Olympics? That like they just were like.
Speaker 8: So the gold was rubbing operating basically after like two days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can we be doing here? There?
Speaker 4: Used to be like actual real medals, like with all
the money being put together for like the nil world
with college athletics. Let's pull up some money throughout the
world and let's just buy these athletes.
Speaker 2: Some good medals. Get it fixed.
Speaker 4: You got like Italy, I know you got a lot
of jobs when you're hosting the Olympics. I know it's
a big deal. You probably get a lot of government
funding for it. I would assume to spruce up your arenas,
spruce up your whatever the buildings are that you're hosting
any sort of game because you want to your country
wants to present. Well, well, the metal makers, you got
one job, make a metal that it doesn't fall off the
ribbon fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: It's bad luck for Italy.
Speaker 4: Terrible look, terrible look girl for Canada. Was flying down
the mountain. I'm telling you, Oh, she just set the pace.
I was watching the men's downhill yesterday. Those suckers are
going seventy five miles an hour downhill.
Speaker 2: Does your a cl hurt watching that like it does mine?
Speaker 5: Oh my god? How are you turning that quick? Stabilizing yourself?
Speaker 2: Like? And I'm going skiing next week.
Speaker 4: I'll probably hit fifty five sixty tops.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, made me say a bad word. Get out
of here. I'll be looking like Lindsay vonn.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the one, yeah saying the one that she crashed.
She looked like a yard cell going down the hill.
With all the year, I'll be pinwheeling down that mountain. Yeah,
all right. Outside of the Matt watching the Olympics, Landra,
how was the rest of your day yesterday?
Speaker 6: It was good.
Speaker 7: I was telling you, Matt this morning that I went
home and I watched bad Bunnies halftime show like three
more times, and that's how we got on the Lady
Gaga thing. He'd never heard die with a smile before.
This is a great song.
Speaker 2: It's a really good song.
Speaker 6: And it started to become like a wedding song too.
Speaker 2: God, I had like I have aged out of wedding age.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think I will.
Speaker 2: Hit it.
Speaker 6: I think because you or you're like, I've only been to.
Speaker 5: A few Yeah, get ready, I mean there was Yeah,
there's like a ten.
Speaker 2: Year window right now.
Speaker 6: Everybody's having to thirty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where you're going to go, you're going to at
least a year.
Speaker 8: Think last spring March April May, I was in a
wedding three doms on a spring.
Speaker 5: See, once you become a man, Mike Gundies age, those
slowed down. Then wait until your children. Then it's going
to pick up at some point. Yeah, they'll pick up children.
Speaker 6: Parties and then another wedding.
Speaker 4: Just get ready to get a little bit louder now.
I really do think that that's kind of gone away.
Speaker 2: A little bit louder now, A little bit louder now.
Speaker 5: A Landre We told, we told you when we were
in Nashville for the Vandy game. They tried that and
it died real quick.
Speaker 4: Abart a Art, Well, if you are in a I
don't know if I want to hang out with a
group of people that don't like to.
Speaker 7: But was it a Halloween party or something at the
knock Knock Museum. I don't actually remember what it was,
but it was some event at the knock Knock Museum
and they played Shout.
Speaker 6: Nobody cared, Well, you were at knock Knock.
Speaker 2: We're judging the spot.
Speaker 6: I mean, they weren't kids. It was an adult event.
Speaker 7: And then also they were all dancing before they played shout?
Speaker 2: So did it clear the dance floor?
Speaker 6: Clear the ooh?
Speaker 4: Again? Not not a not a group of people I
want to be around, Tata. How about yourself, sir?
Speaker 5: Did you go home and sit in front of a
TV and yell at the Olympics?
Speaker 2: I didn't yell at the Olympics. I had it on
in the background.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a little background fod, Yeah, a little background fodder.
Watching Uh eleven sixty three on Netflix.
Speaker 2: It's awesome, Kennedy dy Yeah.
Speaker 8: So it's it's based off a Stephen King, but basically
James Franco has to go back in time. Okay, stop
the assassination. Okay, yeah, it's it's pretty good to you
do it finish. I haven't finished it yet.
Speaker 2: I think it's if James Franco is in and it
ain't New Bud it just came out. I think it's
no way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we saw the commercial for it recently.
Speaker 2: I think it's eight episodes and I think I finished sixth.
Speaker 6: On this Jane Franco making It Comeback, This is accurate.
Speaker 4: We watched this trailer recently. Who My Wife and I
came out in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: No.
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series premiere on Hulu February Fix.
Speaker 2: I was about to get it with James Franco Making
It come Back. I watched it.
Speaker 6: I was like, wait, I feel like I have known this.
Speaker 2: All right? Any good? Yeah, it's very good. All right,
I like it. I wonder if he stops Lee Harvey Ball.
I don't know.
Speaker 5: You got to tune in to find out that was.
Speaker 4: Wild that Harvey He's not the one that shot. I mean,
I'm with you. Maybe the fact that we've never gotten
in to that on this show, it's just very shocking.
Certainly back when we did this when the the lights
were out, if you will, because it was dark, you know,
the dark the nighttime radio. True, it feels like we
would have done a full two hour episode on this.
Maybe who we will in the mornings, I don't know.
We'll see where we go. We can deep it, so
we will go to break, we'll come back. We'll get
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Speaker 5: All right, So Matt Flynn's favorite podcaster, Derek Carr, I'm
this number one listener potentially coming back to the NFL.
And of course the New Orleans Saints are the team
that hold his rights. He would still be under contract
with them. He's on their retired list, and so if
he does decide in fact to play again, it wouldn't
be where the New Orleans Saints. That's the obvious statement.
The Saints have better quarterbacks on their roster.
Speaker 2: What let's just joke.
Speaker 5: I was about to say, police tell me everything. So
they wouldn't move him for an asset. Now, it wouldn't
be a you know one that you would get a
first or second round pick or anything, but anything at this
point for Derek Carr right would be value. There's teams
out there, the Minnesota Vikings, I know one that's been
talked about that potentially could would maybe sort of kind
of want to add Derek Carr.
Speaker 2: This is good news for the Saints.
Speaker 5: There's somebody that's sitting there that you don't want, somebody
else might want him. You hold his rights, you might
can move him. And for a roster like the New
Orleans Saints, adding any piece to the draft you feel
like at certain positions is going to help you moving forward.
So I didn't think i'd say this, but I hope
Derek Carr comes back to the NFL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, So. I heard this yesterday.
Speaker 4: They were talking about it, and because I think his
brother David was speaking on it about I don't I
don't think Derek has ever said anything, but I think
his brother David had said it, like he's open to it,
he's feeling good, he's thrown unrestricted, blah blah blah. Well,
I mean, if you look at his career stats, they're
they're not terrible, they're pretty good. I think there is
a tradable certainly a tradable asset there. And when I
was thinking about it, I was like, look, you're going
to trade him, and you're going to, you know, get
whatever you can for him, certainly, but I think and
and and this is without me probably knowing all the
knowledge of the ins and outs of his contract and
how it was restructured when he decided to retire or
not play anymore. But like I think the Saints probably
would owe it to him to say where.
Speaker 2: Do you like, this is your options, like where do
you want to go?
Speaker 5: Because if you traded him anywhere, he could just say, good, yeah,
I must stay retire.
Speaker 4: He gave up a lot of money he didn't have
to because he wasn't planning for sure, and so it's
like hate Derek, Like, we can get a six by
trading you here, but these people are gonna give us
a seven, Like which.
Speaker 2: One do you want to go to?
Speaker 4: Like we'll set Like I think it's one of the
situations where you do right by whatever he would like
to do. He didn't do anything bad too New Orleans,
but that's you know, not play well. So yeah, this
is this is this is a good situation. You got
potentially two tradable quarterbacks right now, which is fantastic and
at a time where I mean just think about midway
through the season, we were like what assets to the
Saints have to trade at all? Now you just are
found your quarterback and now you got a you got
a couple now, so it's a great situation to be in.
So I agree with you. I hope that Derek Carr
comes to plays now. Where would he be good at?
Where could we see you? You brought up the Vikings.
I don't think that sounds right to me. I don't
feel doesn't feel right to me. I feel I feel
like this is more of a Cardinals move.
Speaker 5: I know the Vikings has been you know, a rumor
if he did come back the Cardinals, Sure he'd want
to go there. Cardinals, you would have Kyler Murray and
Jacoby Brissett. I think under contract. Jacoby Brissett actually played
pretty well last year in place of Kyler Murray.
Speaker 2: Maybe the Miami Dolphins. First team that came to mind.
Speaker 8: Miami Dolphins, they're itching to move off with Tua, and
you got a new coaching staff coming in.
Speaker 4: Well, they're the Cardinals are moving from Kyler and Jacoby
is not their answer? Yeah, But I mean, is Derek
Carr an upgrade over Jacoby Brissett right now? At this point,
I have no idea. Career stats probably say yes, well yeah,
career stats for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Giving back to the Raiders, Yeah, y'all gonna have them
take it. He go, Tom, tell me, Yeah, who's a
character arc that is going to be a thing.
Speaker 5: And again for the Saints, like his salaries off your
books already because he retired with you. I think it's
thirty million, right, so anything you can get for him
is laying yet at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is like finding money in the couch kussion
right now. Yeah, and like money that folds and not
jingle Jangles.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Now you're gonna be limited as far as the teams
that are gonna be trying to because I'm sitting here
and you're looking at it's like, okay, obviously Buffalo, New England, No,
Dallas Giants, Eagles Commanders, no, Like there's easy nos for
Derek Carr. But if you're looking at the Miami Dolphins,
if you're looking, I mean the Jets just they need
to hit reset, but they certainly need a quarterback. Like
what's Pittsburgh going to do? Like is Aaron Rodgers coming back?
That's gonna be another part of the conversation. So like
it's probably about Hey, what about the Colts, right, I
mean it's Riley Leonard, Anthony Richardson because Daniel Jones gonna
be a free agent. Phillips said the whole time, like, Hey,
I'm coming back for like these three games.
Speaker 2: That's it. I'm done. You know what's a wild thing
to think about.
Speaker 5: Is Derek car Derek Carr doing a podcast with his
brother David this year.
Speaker 4: That's a wild thing to think. Is Derek Carr this year? Fact,
this just popped in my head. Is Derek Carr this
year a Super Bowl quarterback? If he was a quarterback
for the Texans, Like, do the Texans make the uper?
Do they make the Super Bowl? Got a better shot
because c J. Stroud was historically just awful a lot
this year.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know about Car the limitations. He never
made bone headed interceptions like ce Stroud did this year.
Speaker 4: And I just kind of feeling like if the Texans
are the ones playing the Broncos in the snow, that
that Texans defense would have feasted pretty hard. Yeah, it's
an interesting thump.
Speaker 5: I mean you could have that, I think with a
couple of teams, because Derek Carr does not but not
a couple of He's not gonna get He's not going
to go out there and be the reason I don't
think you win games but if he's the quarterback of
the Falcons, no, this year, like what like does the
Falcon season look different? I'm trying to think of teams
that were like right there at the playoffs, didn't make
the postseason, like when he put them over the top.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that was my point with the Texans, Like
I think the Texans were good enough to go to
the super Bowl for sure.
Speaker 2: No, they don't think they were good. I don't think
anybody is good enough to beat the Seahawks.
Speaker 4: But they were good enough with a coat, like just
somewhat respectable quarterback play. They didn't even have to be good. Yeah,
it just has to be decent, just has to be
not terrible. It just has to be not terrible.
Speaker 2: And CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud was terrible, legitimately the worst quarterback in the playoffs. Yeah,
and I don't think it was particularly close, which is
crazy to say. You say that two years ago, you're like,
oh my god, you put CJ. Stroud on the best
defense in the NFL. Right, good lord, Yeah you got something.
So for the New Orleans Saints, you sit in a
good position. If nothing comes of this, it's fine.
Speaker 5: You saved thirty million dollars if something does happen, it's
great because you get an asset that you weren't counting on.
So the Saints really in a win win situation. And
the third part of that, that's a win win Derek
Carr is not going to be your quarterback. So you've
got Tyler Shuck, you've got Spencer Ratler, You've got a
healthy quarterback room. You can very easily move on from him.
Now it's about finding a team that wants to take
on Derek Carr. Give you something for Derek Carr and
one that he agrees on. So you got some work
to do. But again, it's a win win situation for
the Saints.
Speaker 4: In the chat, Daniel Daniel Blunt says, man, it took
our money and bought a stupid car and made it
dang YouTube channel. Well, like, he did take a lot
of money, but it's not I mean he also saved
also saved you thirty by just like saying, nah, didn't
have to do that.
Speaker 2: So he saves you thirty.
Speaker 8: If you trade him somewhere else, you could potentially get
a second round pick or something like that.
Speaker 2: Like you actually he ain't get a second round pick,
but depending on who it is, right, depending on how
desperate they are.
Speaker 5: No, you can get a you can get I think
you get multiple Day three picks.
Speaker 4: Who's got the bigger trade value at quarterback in that
quarterback room? Cars Rattler, Rattlers out for years, contract for
over forty thous Yeah, for.
Speaker 2: Sure, but he's had injuries the last couple of years.
Speaker 5: I mean, Spencer Ratler still finished what top twenty five
and what quarterback rating or QBR are one of those
two like at the end of.
Speaker 2: The year, and Ratler moves a lot better than Derek
car And to be better, I agree with you. I'll
just you know posing I think.
Speaker 6: The Raiders feels like a like go back to the Raiders.
Speaker 5: Yeah, as somebody that roots for a team in that
division go back to the Raiders.
Speaker 6: No, there's no he was already with him.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's no way Tom Brady like it there
Cars game.
Speaker 5: He can draft Mendoza and then a Bridge quarterback to Mendoza.
Speaker 4: I see, I see we're going with this. Yeah, and
Geno bridge quarterback. Yeah, the bridge crumbled.
Speaker 2: You can have two bridges, Matt.
Speaker 6: That is a good points the Mississippi River in case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Derek could be the new bridge.
Speaker 6: I guess.
Speaker 2: That's the worst, literally the worst bridge in America.
Speaker 4: Why it is it's like that, like from an engineering standpoint,
the one's.
Speaker 6: Like straight up, yeah, it's literally decrepit.
Speaker 4: Really yeah, that's fun. It's right the worst. So if
you're driving now and.
Speaker 5: You're hold that literally right now, travels I did not
know that. Not gonna do all the investigating.
Speaker 6: Like the government literally said that bridge, this bridge is
not what's up bridges?
Speaker 2: Cool? All right, good thing. Nobody drives on that. Yeah,
good thing. I've never been on stop traffic on top
of it to the top of a ferry. They were
putting weight on it. You want to do that? All right? Well,
if you're on that bridge just kidding, well, let's just
play it.
Speaker 6: No, I'd be worried.
Speaker 2: Then you'll said, I think you got an F grade.
Oh that's cool, all right. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So that's the latest with Derek Carr and the New
Orleans Saints, And when Nick Underhill joins us at nine am,
obviously he'll have all the latest there and probably some
of the teams that might be interested in Derek Carr.
Speaker 2: So looking forward to our conversation.
Speaker 5: As always with Nick Underhill, we will step away more
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Speaker 2: This with the police or without the police? With the police,
right yep, yeah.
Speaker 6: Police.
Speaker 4: Or we got USA going down this mountain right now. No,
I thought you were about to, like talking about stinging
the police. I'm thought, I'm thinking about America dominating the world.
I also just got an education on bridge engineering as.
Speaker 2: Well at the right. Yeah, won't you give those facts
that you were throwing out there? Do we want to
hear them? I think we should.
Speaker 5: I think we got to keep our listeners, okay, alive
and well there in the Late Charles area, Okay. The
attend Calcashu River Bridge Lake Charles consistently ranked among the
most dangerous and structurally deficient bridges in the US open
in nineteen fifty two. The seventy plus year old bridge
was designed for thirty seven thousand vehicles daily, but now
carries eighty to ninety thousand. The bridge has received extremely
low National Bridge Inventory Sufficiency ratings the NBI obviously reports
ranging from nine point nine to six point six. And
you would probably think, oh out of ten, right, nah,
six point six out of one hundred? No, mmm, no, yep.
Speaker 4: Actually deficient features features rusting beams, crumbling rivets, dangerous steep grades,
no shoulders.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're fixing it them so that as a
plan in place.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the plan is now how long
this plan will take, but I mean, can you imagine,
like how do you like just make a new bridge
right there?
Speaker 5: You just got to start like building it next next
d you can't. Yeah, you can't two lane that deal
that that'd be a nightmare for everybody there.
Speaker 2: It's just immediate, Like you gotta start.
Speaker 4: Building an easy situation now that just because it has
a bad rating, it doesn't mean like it's going to
collapse or anything.
Speaker 5: It's just so it's not good, buddy, when you're talking
about a six point six out of one hundred, I
don't drive that way unless I'm going to Houston, and
I don't go to Houston very often.
Speaker 2: It's not a fun drive.
Speaker 5: But when something's made for thirty seven thousand, you said,
and it's got like ninety thousand.
Speaker 4: Seventy years ago tripling. Now, Taylor, you had a little
experience with these bridge ratings as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a.
Speaker 8: Bridge back in the day and Walker it was a
four out of one hundred. We had that thing for
like ten years too.
Speaker 2: That's fine. School bus used to go girls like every day.
Oh yeah, fixed it up.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Well, yeah, it's been fixed like a six or seven. Now,
I don't know, it's better than four. The big doubled it.
It's probably an eight.
Speaker 2: Yep they had lifted up and I want to La
Charles's steep as hell too. This one wasn't very big.
I mean it was probably a little bit longer than
this room. Like it wasn't.
Speaker 5: We we have a bridge like that connecting Shreeve board
in Bosure, the Jimmy Davis Bridge, And like they didn't
even really try to hide it with like a code
of pain either.
Speaker 2: It's like she's gonna be rusted. This just what's gonna be.
Speaker 5: So they finally started this last time I got now,
last time I was home. I guess it would have
been maybe around Christmas time. They started to build a
brand new bridge next to it. They're like, hey, because
that one that one has like there's some rare bird
or something that made its home on the bridge, and
like they can't tear it down because of that. So
they're building, yes, And so they're building one like next
to it, and they're going to like enclose that bridge
kind of like enclose pieces of it and make it
like a natural park or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: If you're listening in Treeporter Bosure. Again, I had lived
there in a very long time. Now I think I
have that right. I think I have that.
Speaker 4: Gotta be an eagle. We'll do some research on the
old They're not like endangered by any means. What kind
of bird could it have been? Is it a Dodo?
They're coming back?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: That Dodo birds in this studio that I'm sitting right here.
Speaker 4: Okay, I was gonna blame fled, blame yourself, fair enough, Loga,
you missed the the stat that the electoral bridge is
a six point six out of one hundred rating.
Speaker 6: That makes sense, Yeah, it really does.
Speaker 2: Good thing is not steep though.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good thing is not super high up.
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like if you're rated that low,
like you you're inoperab.
Speaker 6: But also, wouldn't you just fall into some water?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like, if you're rated that, I think that's a
that they're not properly ranked.
Speaker 6: You just fall into water.
Speaker 4: Any failing grade, but like a six point six out
of one hundred, you got your making it. If you
fall into water from that high bridge, you're.
Speaker 6: Wondering is it super shallow or something?
Speaker 5: Now, I just think the impact would hitting water from
certain heights is like hitting concrete.
Speaker 2: I guess so you even MythBuster. Yeah, I used to
click at or ticket though.
Speaker 6: Who's gonna myth bust MythBusters.
Speaker 2: Licked her ticket. You're gonna be buckled and.
Speaker 6: What's got.
Speaker 2: Ye, it's gonna do anything for you. She'd probably prefer
not to be buckled in. If you go into the water.
Mm hmm, you should get out quicker.
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure Joe Biden like went to the bridge
and did like a press conference by the bridge and
was like, this bridge is.
Speaker 2: Terrible, Like Charles, why how long could that speech actually take?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 2: Like I mean with probably does bridge sucks? You can't
really get words out later, not really gonna take any questions.
This bridge sucks. You leaves crushed it. Fist buffs, Jill.
Speaker 6: Bump jill. Sobuddy, he was there in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: Uh, I mean, I know we're sitting here throwing stones, but.
Speaker 4: Bill Wilkinson Bridge, it's it's like right there, yeah, but
it knows that Mississippi River Bridge, the New Bridge for
like forty years have.
Speaker 2: Been called the New Bridge.
Speaker 5: Pretty longer than that, probably more like sixty years at
this point Uh, that was probably not like one we
should be acting.
Speaker 9: Like that, and.
Speaker 6: That one also for sure probably. Yeah.
Speaker 4: They all bridges, older bridges, and again we're not saying
it's probably I don't feel good, like on the Pazu
train bridge and that's like the longest one we have.
Speaker 2: But like if you're one hundred oh, you would think
that like.
Speaker 5: Nothing but water. And actually if you fell into that one,
then elid year theory, you'd be okay, Yeah, you'd be
able to get out.
Speaker 6: I feel like you're you're close enough.
Speaker 2: To the water. Yeah, might hurt, you'd be okay.
Speaker 6: That was always my thing. In Corpus, there's like a
really high long bridge in Corpus. That'd be so scared.
Speaker 2: You'll have bridges in Tyler probably, oh yeah, a lot
of bridges.
Speaker 6: The old Tyler Bridge.
Speaker 5: Yeah, old Tyler Bridge, tallest building and Tyler. If you
jumped off top of the only thing you do is
sprain your ankle. And on that note, we'll take a
break more OTB when we come back off the bench.
Speaker 2: If you didn't land on your feet.
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to off the Bench.
Speaker 2: All right, Matthew, you want to give us a little
update here, bug.
Speaker 4: That's right, USA all the way, UH secured the bronze
medal and women's combined slalom salms. The one where they
put the uh like the shin guards on the shin
pads and they put the pads over their hands because
they're like going in and out of the the UH.
I don't know what they are. They're just going left
and right and uh yeah, secured third place. It's a
big deal.
Speaker 2: They were. They were pretty fired up about it.
Speaker 4: They secured third and I think another American team came
a fourth place, so check mark add another medal to
the metal count for the US. Of course, securing the
bronze medal. I didn't catch the screen flashback to quick
didn't catch their names, so I'm sure their family's listening,
so I'll just announcing the names.
Speaker 2: But USA all the way, all right, Gordon Bombay, absolutely jeez.
Speaker 5: When we come back in the next hour, I wish
man Elandra blank Space Villa Real is going to give
you a baseball preview as we head into opening weekend.
A lot of new names, a lot of old names,
a lot of familiar names, a little bit of a
mixture on this team. But the one thing that stays
the same is Jay Johnson is the goat, current goat,
and he'll tell you he's like, oh, Skip's goat. He
wouldn't tell you he's a current goat. I'll tell you
he's the current goat. And it's always exciting with j Johnson.
And even though you lose a lot of pieces, like
we talked about, you bring a lot back from that
championship team. And nobody does the portal better than Jay Johnson.
So looking forward to it. Great weather too so far
this week hopefully is it going to stay the same?
Speaker 8: Stumpy a f There's a chance they played two on Friday.
Speaker 2: Guys really got some rain coming in.
Speaker 6: Oh Jay loves a delay.
Speaker 2: Man is not going to start a game if you
get delayed. At least. I was more talking about the temperature.
It is a temperature.
Speaker 5: Because yesterday we picked up the kids from school and
I was like, oh, man, if the box is.
Speaker 6: Like this this weekend, literally perfect weather, it'd be great.
That's perfect baseball weather.
Speaker 2: I don't need no rain. Get out of here.
Speaker 5: So to start off the next hour again, Alida are
going to give you a full breakdown of what's coming up.
Speaker 2: This weekend. Who to look out for.
Speaker 5: What are some names they are going to be new
that you're going to know certainly by the end of
the year as household names. So that's coming back when
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