Speaker 1: Merry Christmas from Off the Bench presented by All Star Toyota.
Join Jacob Hester and t Bob Aberry as we spread
some holidays year and talk all things sports live from
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Christmas party started, King.
Speaker 2: Boys, Lady, it's sexy little minx welcome in an hour
two about TV. Hmm, this is a shot from my wife.
I heard some tennis shoes actual, like new tennis shoes
she has.
Speaker 3: If they were Bobby's?
Speaker 2: No, And I saw your shoes came in and I
was like, WTF when I think I thought it was Alice's.
How's an owner size twelve?
Speaker 3: She at least gave you Alice and not Cuba.
Speaker 2: How's an owner size twelve?
Speaker 3: Mm?
Speaker 2: Hmm, come on, now, come on now.
Speaker 3: I think the box was so small she thought they
were Alice's?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 4: No? Not?
Speaker 2: All I minutesot the box else is present? I didn't
open it.
Speaker 5: Tell Marianna if.
Speaker 2: Ah, what a hoo like boone boone? I love it
so much. What's happening to guys? Our one books, our
two coming up? And let's uh okay, so we are
going to try to do the impossible here. Uh, we're
going to try to set a twelve movie Christmas playoff bracket.
This maybe the hardest thing that we've ever attempted to
do here. We'll try to take into account things like
strength of schedule, you know, wins over quality, opponents, losses,
time periods, eras. It's next two impossible. But we're going
to try our best here, and we're not gonna spend
because because we could spend three hours debating and talk
about this stuff. I think this first round, we go
round the room, we do a couple of rounds of nominations,
we can talk about a bit, and then we can
get away for a bit, and then we kind of
flow in and out over the next few days and
we'll see this thing as well once we set the
twelve Uh. But I think you'll know what my first
one's going to be, right? What do you'll think it is?
What your first one's going to be? Express? It's a
wonderful world? Are you trying to? I mean, is that
a is that? Are you? Are you my wife? Is
that a purposeful shot? It's a wonderful life? Yeah, it's
a wonderful world, is what you said? That's like her
texting me about my shoes being Ali's shoes. You trying
to take a shot right now. That's the worst part
is I don't even think you were trying, doesn't it's
so disrespectful. One of the greatest movies we've ever seen. Yeah,
a Louis Armstrom song. Oh Man, good Louis. Yeah, it's okay,
it's what my louis.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a pretty a good Louis.
Speaker 7: I think if you let off the gasoline, see.
Speaker 2: Them blue for me and you and I think you
manse okay there, what a wonderful.
Speaker 3: No, he's not getting there. You kidding me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was pretty good. That's pretty good. That's pretty good.
Thank you. That's pretty good. So it's a wonderful life.
Wonderful life mine with a bullet, Jake, what's yours?
Speaker 3: Die Hard?
Speaker 2: Over Christmas vacation? We're talking number one with a bullet.
I'm not saying Diard's on the twelfeen bracket. You're going
die hard said die Hard? Okay, okay, I thought you're
gonna go Christi vacation, Eliza? Where you at home alone?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Do you care? One? Or two? Three? Or four? Home alone? One?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's like the first one I always watch.
Speaker 2: It's incredible. Yeah, I really sit down and rewatch. You know, generally,
with a lot of these movies that you know and
you kind of know backwards and forwards, you find that
you watch the beginning a lot and you kind of
watch the end a lot, but sometimes you miss the middle.
Speaker 3: I watched Diehard yesterday.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, dude. You know who you know who looks
like not Hans Kruber, but the blonde bad guy from
die Hard? Ye JD. Pickel from On three. He looks
exactly like the bad guy from die Hard, especially in
his Baylor team picture that he keeps tweeting at when
people could accuse him of like not liking the Big twelve.
But but I thought it was Cornell he played a
Baylor at some point were now I am Baylor. But
but he's like, actually, just look it up, give me
give me a JD. Pickel so you can see what
I'm talking about. Okay, So, so home alone, though, I
sat down and like really watched with the kids, and
there's a lot of funny stuff in the middle there
that I forgot. I gotta be honest, I had forgotten
about John Candy the poker King of the Midwest. Absolutely hilarious,
very meta as well, because I'm pretty sure at that
point playing Trains and Automobile was was already classic, right, yes,
and then so here he comes saving the day and
in kind of similar fashion, and yeah, the Wet bandits
bit just with Marv just turning on the sinks in
the houses. That's okay, that's yes, okay, Actually that one's
pretty good as well. I was to his team picture.
But look like that is if you put big glasses
on that guy, that is, and give him a submachine gun.
He works for Hans Grueber.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with a little bit of an Eastern European accident.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, exactly. He works for Hans Gruber, and he's
freaking out the tech nerds because he's cutting through the
pipes and the wires too quick. All right, So we
have It's wonderful life, die hard home alone, tay Te.
What's yours? Christmas vacation? Okay, Christmas vacation? Okay, a solid
first four. Let's do one more round of nominations and
then we will move on. For now.
Speaker 3: I think Christmas story has to be in there. Where
did you go Vacation? Okay, okay, And what was yours?
Just now?
Speaker 2: Christmas Story? You know what that as a kid you
always told you supposed to love and as a kid
I thought it was all right. But I'll be damned
if you don't watch Christmas Story as an adult and
just really appreciate it. And and the further we get
in time, uh, it really also starts to become almost
like time travel in a way, you know, to to
to just a different amount. It's how I feel about
It's a wonderful life as well. It's like time travel watching
these movies.
Speaker 3: M I'm gonna go elf.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an excellent answer. Love elf. Elf has to
be in it to me as well, Elandra, What about you?
Speaker 7: How the Grinch Stole Christmas? The live action one?
Speaker 2: Okay, So Ron Howard's that's gonna be tough decide. I mean,
we're not gonna put the new animated one in there, obviously,
even though it is awesome. But what about the o
G animating? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I love it, but me too, I like the live
action one better.
Speaker 2: Okay, So Ron Howard's overall okay, I think I think
I'm actually there with you so much of it.
Speaker 7: Carrey's performance Jim Carrey just so great.
Speaker 2: Unreal. Also that the I mean, anytime you create a
song that then enters the Christmas pantheon, that's a strong
resume bullet point going into the playoff. And it did that. Yeah,
well okay, well that that's what. But no, I'm talking
about where Oh.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, and she's so cute.
Speaker 2: Never forget. In the original animated version, guys, the voice
of uh, you know, the voice that sings the Grinch
is the same voice as Tony the Tiger. And he
has the most aristocratic name of all time, Ravenscroft. It's
a really good name. Hello, Hello, my name is Thor Ravenscroft.
All right, tite you last round? You wait? You went
Christmas story right, yeah we have. It's one of a
life home alone, Cristory, Cristification, Diehard, elf Ron Howard's Grinch. Oh,
jingle all the way, Jingle all the way. I'll be
interested to see. I I too a jingle all the way.
Speaker 3: Fan boy, big yeah, big fan.
Speaker 2: I think it'll make it, but I'll be I'll be
interested to see. I mean, you know, it's tough to
get away from Philly Hart Finnbad. A lot of old
school beloved people and Honold, after all, you're my favorite customer.
I love making Arnold the uh well, I guess at
the time it felt funny to make him the super
successful businessman. And then he became the governor, so you
know what I love about that.
Speaker 6: Me and Victoria just watched this a week ago, and uh,
Arnold Schwarzenegger's in the uh turbotman cashume at the end
of the movie and he looks all jacked and everything,
and his wife's like, oh, Howard, Now look at Victoria.
Speaker 2: I'm like, she's married to Arnold. She didn't know he
was that moment. That's actually such a good that I
you didn't know this.
Speaker 3: Like all these competitions for bodybuilding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was where have you been hiding that? I
gotta say too. That's Minneapolis, right, Yes, yes, pretty city.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I've never been. I would love to spend some time
in Minneapolis. America is huge. I went again. I did
stop in Mall America in early high school. We road tripped,
so you have been. Well, it was like it was like.
Speaker 3: He's a liar because I mean details sometimes, I mean
I mean as.
Speaker 2: An adult guy. Okay. And secondly, it was on a
like road trip to Canada. We stopped for like an
hour all of America and it was it was crazy,
you know, big no sales, tech, whatever, But then we
rolled through. I didn't really get to spend any time
in Minneapolis. I would like to see with the Minneapolis suburbs.
But you've been, I guess technically.
Speaker 6: Yes, like one of the main things in Minneapolis is
known for as well, like the Mall of America's.
Speaker 3: Because I do get what you're saying, like, I've only
been there to play the Vikings and it was like
a quick trip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm I'm not never I didn't see
anything in Minneapolis. I did Inner Mall America, though, and
I saw the roller coaster. I don't think I wrote it.
I do remember me was mind blown. No, I would
have too. I loved the roller coasters. I don't know
why we did it, maybe one't time, but I do
remember being mind blown. There's a roller coaster inside.
Speaker 3: Of them all mighty ducks. That's where that's set, right, Yes, okay, Minneapolis, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Back the roll standards. I've never been in Nashville.
Speaker 2: See there you Scott.
Speaker 6: Scott Dice makes a good point, he said, Tom I
forgot where Minneapolis was.
Speaker 2: In Minnesota. It's a very good pointy chef.
Speaker 3: You think you're so funny, right, I don't know remember,
Oh my god?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, like Idaho's the handle or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: No, no, I don't. Actually I learned this. I learned this.
The opposite Boise is west of like l A. I
think something. Is that true? Boissy it's west of something ridiculous.
It was a fun geographical fact that one of my
friends told me the other day. See if I can
find it in our group text here. Oh it's no,
it's further west in Las Vegas. How about that? I
bet you didn't know that.
Speaker 3: It's not that hard to imagine it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're kind of they're kind of just to put
out whatever. I guess we got a bunch of Luigi's
in here. Valedictorians.
Speaker 3: Huh No, I just I think wherever you went to
school just didn't care about maps.
Speaker 2: West of Las Vegas. Crazy.
Speaker 5: We went over this.
Speaker 8: If you are like Silverspoon, you don't need a no geography.
We've established this the other day.
Speaker 2: I don't think I mean, do you think anybody needs
to know geography?
Speaker 5: I think it's helpful. To know where stuff is.
Speaker 2: Yes, in an age of cell phones, why I could
just put in my phone and find what you think?
Because you know where Boise is that you're just going
to navigate there?
Speaker 3: I could maybe.
Speaker 5: How I'll get on it.
Speaker 2: This is this is this is not me.
Speaker 3: This is not rhetorical. Let me try to be fine.
Did you not ever have to sit in the front
seat with one of your parents on a road trip
and get the highlighter out.
Speaker 2: On a map?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: No, map quest.
Speaker 2: Was talking before maps. I wasn't. I wasn't the oldest sibling.
Uh but no, yeah you yeah, you know, yeah you
used to have to, Like we used.
Speaker 3: To go to now Dollywood. I can remember vividly, like
stopping before we left street Forward at the gas station
getting a map highlighter, you know, going over with my
mom and dad like, hey, we're gonna go.
Speaker 2: I remember highlight the round. Yeah. Absolutely, But like things
get made irrelevant, right copy you know, facts machines, Yeah,
they were tight for a minute.
Speaker 3: Ripe Man's rate is creation.
Speaker 2: I mean it's incredible.
Speaker 5: Book Like, it's just I don't get it.
Speaker 3: Phone books never understand.
Speaker 2: Ef facts, what like what what are you are you?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Phone books don't exist because they're rerelevant. Okay, geographical knowledge
is irrelevant for ninety nine point nine percent of society. Okay, Okay,
I want you to come up with one good use
case for where knowing where Boise is going to do you?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 8: What if I'm trying to get to Boise there's no
maps around, and I don't have a phone service.
Speaker 2: Why I don't know. And also I don't think you
could get to Boise just because you know where it is. Generally,
I don't think probably could just follow the interstates.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: But I mean, I guess the team you can do that,
go to boys.
Speaker 7: Whether it was I guess I'll figure it out from there.
Speaker 3: I bet you go through the the Indian Turnpike in Oklahoma,
then you kind of go up to Nebraska. You could
probably get to Omaha. Yeah, and then gosh, what's the
interstate you take west?
Speaker 2: I was just looking at my phone. I can tell you.
Just give you like one second.
Speaker 3: I've had. I've had to make a drive very similar
to Denver from tree for do.
Speaker 2: You have wait until the robots take it down all
the cell towers exactly. Guys tend to guess what. Your
geographical knowledge ain't saving you. We're cooked already.
Speaker 3: Actually, if they take down the cell towers, didn't Actually,
that's when it comes in.
Speaker 2: You would need the geographical yeah, because our problems are
so much larger than that being able to help us
out if the robots are rebelling, we're cooked already, guys.
Speaker 5: But we can get further away from again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't too. I'm just gonna run in the
opposite direction of the robots.
Speaker 5: You know, I have no idea where you're going.
Speaker 2: Uh. Sun rises in the east, sets in the west.
Moss grows on the north sides of trees. Okay, not
that hard, thank you. How about that?
Speaker 6: Tea belp can figure all that out. But didn't take
the time to learn where any of these states are.
Speaker 2: Now, because directional knowledge much more more important than geographical
knowledge objectively.
Speaker 7: Okay, hey, I.
Speaker 3: Need you the robot the robots have taken over. I
need you to head to.
Speaker 2: Memphis, Tennessee. That's where that's where everybody's safe.
Speaker 5: There's no robots in Memphis.
Speaker 2: Well, and the problem is bos Like Okay, robots in Memphis.
For some random reason, a landline just right in the
middle okay because the Pyramid, Yes, pyramid, the bass Pro
in Memphis.
Speaker 3: The ornament that's already there, and you know Graceley, and
I'm sure he's got some stuff going on as well.
You know, Elvis is really dead. I don't know, so yeah, okay,
we'll just go northeast.
Speaker 2: Okay, until you see that's the thing. T BOM's like, well,
it rises in the east. I know that's east. True,
he just doesn't know what states are on the east issue. Yeah,
but you know, a general direction. And then I'm gonna
meet up with other survivors and like, hey, y'all had
to Memphis. Y'all going to Best Pro, Like, yeah, come on,
and I'm good again. Best Pro Memphis has to be Ran.
Speaker 5: Smith and the chest out. I just got to find
some moss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, guys, don't worry. We're gonna be fine. I just
need to find some tree moss and we're going to
be good to go. Okay, don't worry about it. Did
y'all see the Navigator The Best Navigator? H Did y'all
see the twenty eight years Later? Yeah? Trailer? That look
pretty good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, speaking of Memphis, I love me some Killian Murphy.
Speaker 2: Do you have to even know how to use a compass. Yeah,
I went to boy Scouts. You learned the tree moss thing.
I mean not untrue to be fair, Yeah, tell him
n Quillis all right, Uh, when.
Speaker 5: We get back, his name is night quilla Is. I'm
not giving credit to that.
Speaker 2: Hey, first off, show some respect to Key and Peel. Okay,
Will still is one of the all time great names
with the all time great skits, all time great show,
great player, great player, East West, All American game. Shout
out Nquilla, n Quilla.
Speaker 3: The thing also is we knew the same things that
T Bob knew though, but we also know where things
are moss.
Speaker 2: Oh my, uh you know that frogs always hops out? Yeah,
definitely not true. All right, Yeah, it's a good one though.
It's good. It's a good bit.
Speaker 3: Uh, like if you were to go on like flying
b something with ducks that we were maybe believe something.
Speaker 2: Trust migratory powers in this age of global warming, though,
you know you can't do it, guys, all the all
the all the migration power, because otherwise that was right
there with you. But all the migration patterns have been
thrown off. It's tough think about it. A lot of
times ducks aren't even making a Lucian anymore. Even stuck
art certain struggle a little bit stuck. All right, when
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Speaker 2: Media, Let's look at the show, dirty freaking cut. What's
going on y'all? Welcome back? Oh TB. White. Christmas got
to be on there for sure, this little new man.
And then what version of Scrooge gets on the less guy?
Is it finny or sorry? Of Christmas? Carol? There is Scrooge,
you're Benjie George scott'scuse Carol? Muppet Christmas? Carrol's a family
favored as well. Somebody's making a very good joke. I
saw a good meme the other day where it's like,
you know, they're talking to Mike, the directors talking to
Michael Kaine. He's like, you know, it's it's like a
mom movie. It's gonna be fun. Hen Mike Kaine's like,
I'm about to play this serious as a as a graver.
I've scripped I can't remember what they said, Bliss. It
is funny though, how Michael Kaine plays it like he
brings all of Michael Caine to that movie, despite the
fact that he's acting alongside Gonzo and everybody else. Elan
get it, uh. Speaking of Italian representation, the New Orleans
Saints getting a little bit stronger as they sign Ben
Denucci denuc to the team.
Speaker 3: Of course, Derek Carr out for the foreseeable future, not
on IR as we said yesterday, so maybe a potential
return coming.
Speaker 2: We'll see. For now, I'm safe, but you know, it's
it's a lot of football left to be played. Taylor.
I'm so thankful that at this time of the Danucci
signing we have a resident Ben d Nucci expert, as
he started multiple games for your Dallas Cowboys. What can
you tell us about Nocci?
Speaker 6: Super athletic dude, if you ever watched him at James Madison,
really good there as well. They drafted him in the
seventh round. Yeah, he started two games for the Cowboys. Now,
you know, it was kind of up and down, but
he was a seventh round rookie. You had to kind
of throw him in there before he was ready, So
you know, take that with a grain of salt. But
I mean he's he's a guy that's got some talent.
I liked him when I saw him in preseason and
a few times i'd seen.
Speaker 2: Him as you know, what's crazy, Jake is bind Nucci
actually better than Jay Hayner and Spencer Ratler, Like there's
a real argument to be made, right, I mean Rattler
then it hasn't really done anything yet. He's a rookie.
I mean, of course trying to throw to the guys
that he's trying to throw to Hain. Nothing impressive there,
like to Taylor's I mean to Danucia. How many wins
does he have? What's his record? I don't think he
gotta win with Dallas. I will check that. Damn he
played like two games. But like there's even if he
is maybe like better, there's no way that he could
come in. He's not this. I mean, this is just
a death play, correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think so. I mean because you have
investments in both the players that we're talking about, Spencer
Rattler and Hater both draft choices a fourth and the
fifth round or Hainter fourth, Spencer Raler fifth, and so yeah,
you don't just put Danucci in the game. He's played
three games in his career, so you know, even Spencer
Ratler now has more experience than Danucci.
Speaker 2: Does.
Speaker 3: I think this is just a death piece.
Speaker 4: This is.
Speaker 3: I hate to say it, like it was just a
body in the regular season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, shout at Danucia though you know this
game checks are gonna feel Heck yeah they are.
Speaker 3: Now he's only you know, does he have the same
agent as I.
Speaker 6: Don't know what's his name, Sean Stellata, Jean Stellado.
Speaker 3: The fact that you know Tommy DeVito's agency.
Speaker 2: Stillado was hot for a new cycle. He had a
mean cycle.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 6: Uh, I think it was gonna be a Musso we're
talking about this when DeVito became the starter like two
weeks ago. So I was looking this up like two
weeks ago because I coudn't remember his name.
Speaker 2: I actually heard that Stillado is gonna be representing Luigi
in court as his defense. He's gotta shut That's gonna
be great. Brad's Attico guy says, or you can just
skip talking about the Saints no, guys, no stop it. Okay,
the New Orleans Saints are taking it on Jayden Daniels
in the Dome on Sunday. That's cool. I mean whatever, Okay,
you're a little down on the team. I get it,
I get it. I feel you. Right, there's no hope
you're gonna have Jay Cayner and Spencer Rattler throwing to
Austin Pettis and mvs and who knows, at least there's
Kamaron kidrim Miller. I suppose here. Look, I get it,
But what I'm still there is if, if, if you
are a true sicko, there is appreciation to be had.
You know, we mentioned a lot on the LSU front
that felt like this defensive staff was squeezing blood from
the stones. What Kobiak is doing with this offense right now,
I can't act that is true squeezing blood from the stones.
What the wrizzler is doing with trying to rally this
team and get them to lock in against other NFL teams,
like I think they're really doing some heavy lifting, and
and is it is it really hard to watch? Yes?
What now three and one? And come on, it's pretty
that's that's impressive. I don't think they have too much
of a chance Sunday against the Colonies, but it's in
the Dome. You never know, And even if you hate
the Saints, you gotta be excited to watch Jade ball
in person, potentially right or against your teams. So I'm
looking forward to Sunday. Okay, you're not gonna get me
down on this New Orleans Saints team that scrapping and
fighting and trying to find a way. And for all
the talk of draft pick, I understand that. I understand that,
like last week, if you lose, you're actually probably in
a pretty good spot to get a top five pick,
especially with car getting injured. But for all that talk,
what if you get a top five pick and they
suck and then you're married to that awful cycle where
you have a rookie corp. You know, if you have
a young quarterback that keeps sucking and every week's handwringing
and conversation about to be move on ball? Do you
want to go through it like the Bears went? Like
you know, there's plenty of teams that you can point to,
so it's some guarantee of success if you lose your
way into the top five. How about this? I mean,
you keep grinding and you go win, and you go
and beat the Comedies and you move to four and
one despite having a true bad news bears of an
offense out there. How about that who that baby the
day after the eighteenth birthday of the hood that nation.
You think you catch me wanting them to lose to
the Commies, No chance, couldn't be me. Let's go Janer,
Jay Hayner.
Speaker 3: Jake Haner against Jayden Daniels. That's gonna be that's the matchup.
Speaker 2: Well, if Jake played in Jayden's system, what's to say
he would have been a Heisman winner everything because he
played in Kaylen de Bor's system, who had a Heisman
finalist as well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the same year. It is a weird spot to
be in because you're too good to get a top
draft pick, but you're too bad to make the playoffs.
Like you're in that that in between graveyard that a
lot of NFL teams live right now. Good, but it
has looked much better as of late. You mentioned it
winning three or four and actually like against a chance
against the Rams team that just.
Speaker 2: Went and beat the Bills.
Speaker 3: Yeah, beating badly too so here in the down the stretch,
the few games you have, you have two two difficult
games and the Commanders and Packers, and you have I
think two winnable games even though you know the Bucks. Look,
the Bucks are seven and six. Let's not act like
they've got eleven wins. So I mean, you have a
real possibility of maybe finishing seven and nine, and that
that is not something that you're ever going to make
a flag or make a banner or make a plaque about.
But seven and nine, considering you lost what seven games.
Speaker 2: In a row at one time, Well, do you think
eight to nine or seven and ten now that we're
in there, oh yeah, New Age seventeen games schedule, it's
still mess with mind and we're about to go to eighteen.
So I was I was meaning eight wins, okay, So
like eight nine, I mean that those losing records, that
would actually be crazy. If you go eight to nine
with a seven game losing streak in the middle of
the season, that that'd be very impressive.
Speaker 3: Like what's your goal if you if you're the New
Orleans Saints, you know, I think it's now, I think.
Speaker 2: It's just show pride and try to win every Sunday.
We see where and you're probably bad enough where it's
not gonna happen. But hey, who gives a damn go fight?
Go fight where they would be right now.
Speaker 3: Like I said, you're you're probably not high enough to
get a quarterback right now, they would be picking ten.
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get back, let's let's look at Rod Walker's twenty five
numbers that have kind of summed up the Pelican season
thus far. Keep buck, you're on No TV.
Speaker 3: Off the Bench.
Speaker 1: At LAMB to the ship, Welcome in to the best
morning sports. This show around Off the Bench with Hester and.
Speaker 2: T Bob, Jake Will Big an MLB side quest, real
quick Matt see says Jake, DG. Max Freeds a Yankee.
Now I surprise the Braves and encounter I did.
Speaker 3: Biggest deal I believe for a left handed picture in
Major League Baseball history.
Speaker 2: Damn Son.
Speaker 5: Well, they weren' going to counter it was a pretty.
Speaker 3: Big and the Braves have money.
Speaker 2: They don't have Yankee money.
Speaker 3: Yankee met Dodger Philly money.
Speaker 7: It's also kind of like he's thirty one and it's
an eight year contract.
Speaker 2: So uh so, what you say, Yeah, that's how all
these baseball contracts are all right? To Landra hit me
with some sad music. As we pull some of the
numbers from Rod Walker's twenty five numbers, he says, to
capture the high lights and the low lights for the
first twenty five games of the Pelicans season, I have
only kept the low lights. Zero the number of games
the three players on the roster who have been All
Stars have played together this season. One the amount of
games it took for the first start to get injured
in miss significant time of course, to Jon say Murray
breaking his hand in the first game. One the number
of games the Pelicans have won this season when trailing
at the end of the first quarter. So if they're
losing at the end of first, pack it up. I
left the positive in here. Six double doubles, yes, MESI,
how about that? Okay, strong case for the All Rokie team.
Six games lost on the second night of a back
to back, haven't won on a second night eight. The
number of games the Pelicans are behind the tenth place
Sons and the Western Conference guys for like a month
into the season. Two nine The link of the Pelicans'
longest losing streak this year. Ten the points scored in
the first quarter against the Knicks, a season low. Twelve
consecutive road losses. The only win away from the Smoothie
Kigsitter came in the first game of the season against Portland.
First road trip fourteen. The losses by double digits fourteen.
The number of players to start a game this season
seventeen different starting lineups used by head coach Willie Green. Eighteen.
The number of times the Pelicans have trailed going into
the fourth quarter. They've won just one of those games.
Nineteen games Zion Williamson has missed dealing with a hamstring injury.
Twenty five The amount of games that the only Pelican
to play in every game has played. Do you know
who it was? I've never even heard of this name,
Jeremiah Roberts Earl.
Speaker 3: That's the Lester earl Son.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Jeremiah roberts Earl, the only Pelican to
play in every game this season.
Speaker 3: You remember Lester Earl play basketball, ill Isshoe Kansas, No
I no, no, no, it's his son keep.
Speaker 2: One hundred and five points per game, breaking dead last
in the league. And then finally, one hundred and fifteen
total games missed by the eight players considered to be
the best on the roster Zion, Ingram, Murray, Jones, McCullum, Murphy, Alvarado,
Hawkins won one hundred and fifteen games missed and we're
twenty five games in the year. It's a disaster, guys,
stadiums trash. Zion doesn't care to play. It's an absolute disaster.
What was the most recent update on Zion? Just like, oh,
he's still out, not feeling like Zion. I don't know
what to do, guys. I don't know what to do, guys.
I've just held out for so long, so long, and
I've tried to believe for so long, and here we are.
I mean, Alvo said, coming, yeah, I was right that
you go back to the Johnson Murray injury too. Broke
his hand going for a triple double with under a
minute having a comfortable lead, Zao says, this is someone
who's a diehard Pelicans fan. Can we not have a
Pelican segment. I couldn't be less interested in this team
even if I've tried, I know. And that's the brutal part, right,
is that the Pelican, finally this year, seem to have
broken the fan base into apathy. Gone is anger, gone
his passion, and all you're left with is apathy.
Speaker 3: He has the second worst record in all the NBA,
behind the maybe least interesting franchise in all of professional sports,
the Wizards. The Washington Wizards, well I didn't even know
they were last, So just the least interesting franchise and
all professional sports kind of told the story there, all right,
Uh more, OTB coming up next, Off.
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Speaker 2: Off the Bench, Oh excellent music, Landra, Welcome back to OTB,
and right now it is my distinct pleasure to be
joined by one of my favorite people. This is Johnna Cox.
This is the director of The Nutcracker, A Tale from
the Bayou, put on by the Ben Rouge Ballet Theater.
Of of course, you may know me as Purple Party Dad.
Was really kind of the talk of the theater trail
last season. Very excited to be reprising my role as
Purple Party Dad once again this weekend, John, what's going on?
How are we doing today?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm doing great. I am super happy to be here.
I'm super happy to be We moved into theater last night. Oh,
we had our first rehearsal with all the kids, with
our company dancers, and the sets are hung, the lights
are ready to go. We're setting up our pyrotechnics and
just getting all the special effects ready. So yeah, it's showtime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as long as I don't slide across that line,
the pyrotechnics still go off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got that line.
Speaker 9: You cannot cry?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sorry, got a little theater talk, look real quick
before we get into kind of the history of the play.
If you're looking for something to do this weekend, we
had Saturday showings at two and six, Sunday showings at
two and six as well. It is It is the
best way to set the Christmas mood with the family.
See some beautiful original choreography. Of course, Share Matthews and
Molly Buckman created this what in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 9: I think, so it's been at least thirty years. Wow,
So yeah, it's a beautiful production. They had this concept
of doing a traditional Nutcracker with the Tchaikowsky score but
having a little Louisiana flavor to it. So the opening
scene is a swamp scene with the uncle Drossalmeyer coming
in on a pi ro. I mean, what other what
other Nutcracker in the world has Drassmeyer coming in on
a perra?
Speaker 2: They don't and uh and and and I mean Drawsmeyer
is god, what a well, it's kind of weird and
our maybe to our modern minds. But he's great. I know,
I don't mean the actor. I mean now now, because
I'm not talking about Letard's great. The character of Drawsmeyer
is an odd, odd bird, a bit of a rap
scallion if you will.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Look, the Baton Rouge Symphony plays the music live.
It's beautiful, over three hundred cast members. The production values
are actually kind of insane. So if you want, if
you're looking for something to do this week and into
the river Center Theater, go ahead and get your tickets.
Make sure you get your tickets through Batonrouge Ballet dot org. Uh,
because if you go on some of these ticket resale sites,
the prices can get bumped up, right, like what's the
price that you know would not be correct if you're
seeing it right.
Speaker 9: So our ticket self between thirty five and ninety dollars.
So if you get if you google Nutcracker and Baton Resion,
you're on a site that's selling them for two hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Get off of that site.
Speaker 9: You to call our Ballet office seven sixty six eight
three seven nine. You can order your tickets directly over
the phone, go through ticketmaster dot com, or you can
just go ahead and drive yourself downtown and come to
the River Center Theater box office.
Speaker 2: There you go and just buy the tickets on the spot. Again. Guy,
it's going to put you in the Christmas mood. It's
got the excellent dancers at the Baton Rouge Ballet Litter Throat,
but also some guest dancers coming in from out of town.
Speaker 9: Yes, we have our guest dancers that are dancing the
principal rolls of the snow King and Queen and also
the sugar Plump Fairy and the Cavalier are from the
Dance Theatre of Harlem. We are super excited to have
Lindsay Donald and Elias Ray come into town. They're going
to be amazing.
Speaker 2: So you though this is yours So last year was
a bit of a transitional year where you were taking over.
Would the technical title be director creative director?
Speaker 9: So I'm now the co artistic director.
Speaker 2: Okay, the co artistic director. But as I said, Molly
and Charon doing this for years and years and years,
now this is your first year where you are it's
been all you. How has that been? Yes? As far,
it's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 9: It is a lot of pressure. So I work with
a wonderful co artistic director, Rebecca Acosta, and we share this.
It's a wonderful burden of producing the Nutcracker, but it
is so so well worth it. Molly and Sharon have
really been mentoring us and training us for years to
take over, so we feel very well prepared.
Speaker 2: What's it like trying to get hundreds of kids who
are at that age where they're a little lock and
you know, you got boys that you're trying to get
out there and dance the girls. Uh, what's the key
to directing these kids?
Speaker 9: And I feel like it's consistency and trying to be motivating,
but also a little bit got a little a little
bit on the street side. Things move in, you know,
I have to do the party the party scene rehearsal
has about fifty people in the studio at the same time.
And yeah, I have to do it with the microphone.
So I have got my little karaoke machine with my microphone,
so I can my voice carries over every don't.
Speaker 2: Let you on to fool you too, Okay, very bubbly,
very happy. But you're playing around, okay, if you're if
you're messing around a little too much. Uh she gonna
get Geno asked, let let you know, as a great
director should.
Speaker 3: What Uh?
Speaker 2: Okay? So Saturday, two, Saturday at six, Sunday at two
Sunday at six, get your tickets now, bat Rouge Ballet Theater.
I'm so excited. I got to tell you, John, I
cannot believe when I got the text last year to come,
you know, asking if I wanted to be a part
of theing. Melanie said it to me. It came out
of nowhere and it was literally the text that I
had been waiting on my entire life. I loved The
Nutcracker growing up. I remember going to see it on
a field trip and being just flabbergasted. There were kids
on stage at the Fox Theater and just like daydreaming
about it, and well, it has just been one of
the most fulfilling things in my entire life. And it's
like what I look forward to every single Sunday. Awesome
in the fall. It is the best. So thank you
for that. And tomorrow be on the lookout on the news. Yes,
so we're gonna be all over the local news tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Yes, between five am and seven am. We will be
on the local TV station, So tune in.
Speaker 2: Heck youah, and guys, come out this weekend. Okay, it's
gonna be a ton of fun. Bring the family. Did
I leave anything out?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 9: So there is a lot going on downtown this weekend,
so please be sure to make extra time. There's plenty
of parking downtown, but you're gonna be dealing with a
lot of traffic, so just you want to plan for that.
The Rever Center is a cashless venue and also they
have a clear bag policy.
Speaker 2: And if if you've never been cashless venues, I remember
that guys too, because you're trying to park or catch
it doesn't work. But yeah, guys, if you've never been before,
it's just stunning. It's beautiful. You bring the kids, you
dress up the whole family. You're gonna have a great time.
You're gonna be leaving on cloud nine. Your daughter's sons
are gonna be dancing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and don't forget we do have some snow in
the audience. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh uh, it's gonna be magical this weekend at the
river Cerator, John, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: My pleasure.
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