Speaker 1: Good morning at seven am here on Thursday December twenty
sixth today in bed Rouge, you can expect partly cloudy
skies with a high F seventy one. In our one
of today's show, we'll recap what we all did for Christmas,
recap the Christmas Day games Saints Packers as well, and.
Speaker 2: We'll talk some Thursday night football.
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Speaker 2: Starts down, all.
Speaker 3: Start to you to presents Off the Bench with Jacob
Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
bench with Jacob Hester and C Bob aber.
Speaker 4: I got to come off the pitch.
Speaker 3: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 5: YOA, what's going on everyone? I hope you all having
an excellent day. Whoever's awake with us here on this
Thursday's December twenty six, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6: Wo man, this is uh had Texas group.
Speaker 5: Last night as work was starting to uh you know,
wait on the other corner or just around the corner,
but worked a lot of holidays and holiday adjacent days
in this business.
Speaker 4: Uh, this was.
Speaker 6: A top three all time.
Speaker 5: Bad day to not take off, and it's it's not
even particularly close. And I feel like I started to
wake up to this last week when I start hearing that, Yeah,
like basically everybody's out the next two weeks because you
get christ Chris Day, you get news even Newsday. Really
just this is where my lack because I never think
ahead of time about anything, right, you know how I am,
like with vacations and everything, like where are you going?
Like I don't know, you know, we're going somewhere in
Florida or somewhere here somewhere there. Just I just don't
think ahead of time. I never planned at them and
just kind of do what comes and then Uh but yeah, man,
big value missed out here, right right? You could you
you could use six days and get a full two
weeks off, you know, or even just do today and
tomorrow and then you roll and then and then you
would have rolled.
Speaker 4: Into it's just.
Speaker 5: Christmas Day into the I mean, this is kind of
the ultimate Monday in a lot of ways.
Speaker 4: Right on a Thursday, and.
Speaker 5: I got a garage full of Christmas detritus, boxes and
new stuff, and I had to somehow fix and organize.
Gotta get that dead ass tree that I forgot to
continue water in like a week ago, is now just
brittle and crispy. Gonna think we're gonna burn it on
New Year. So that's gonna be fun. Yeah, pick up
the ornaments, like, oh jeez, but here we are. We're
gonna talk about sports, I guess. And I didn't watch
a single second of anything, literally didn't watch it.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, the TV mainly.
Speaker 5: For the kids all day, and plus I mean there
wasn't much to see in the thirty four to zero
beatdown or the thirty four to two beat out. Even
the Chiefs got their biggest win of the season by
nineteen points fifteen and one, and that's their biggest win.
So I don't know, Today's gonna be a weird show.
You can believe that, as I even left my laptop,
brought my life, brought my back back, opened it up Nola.
Yeah yeah, yeah, so we'll see, we'll see. But that said,
I am filled with the warmth of gratitude and love
and family and Christmas as it was a fantastic Christmas
holiday with the fam.
Speaker 4: What about you, Jake? Today does feel like, you know,
being here, it is what it is. It does feel
like we're here. I need stuff, But it does feel like, uh,
you know, in Major League. When they call Jake Taylor
to tell him he's been invited to spring training, He's like,
is that you, Tolbert.
Speaker 7: I'm hungover and my knees are killing me. It feels
a little bit like that.
Speaker 6: Actually, both those are true.
Speaker 5: I've eaten so bad that I've given myself knee problems.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 5: I think I'm swelling up my whole body with all
the salt intake because I can barely bend my left
knee right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So if I had to describe phils, that's kind
of how it feels today.
Speaker 5: So as dumb as we are, though we're not nearly
as dumb as Taylor all who loves to be And
this is a good thing for all you gen zers
out there, and this is why Taylor is going to
be very successful eventually. And I'm proud of him, but
do not envy him on a day like today. So
he said, this is a top three dumb day to
work all time. Taylor is doing this show, hosting Hunt show,
and then doing AFR.
Speaker 4: Oh I didn't as well?
Speaker 8: Yeah, video if you are, and you know, on a
show like today where prep is going to be at
a minimum anyway, he's basically pseudo hosting this show as
well and AFR.
Speaker 5: And so if you are listening to sports Talk Radio
today here and Baton Rouge, just know Taylor's along for
the ride for all eight on air hours, not to
mention all the behind the scenes work. They tell you,
what's up, man, how are you feeling today?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I was feeling good until the realization
of that sunk in.
Speaker 2: But no, I'm doing good. Look, Hunts Kid's birthday is today, yep.
And he was supposed to take off and didn't.
Speaker 1: And we were talking Monday and he's like, man, you know,
listen is gonna be mad. I thought her I was
gonna take off and I didn't. And you know, the
longer I was sitting there, I'm just I'm too nice
of a guy.
Speaker 2: I walked up to his.
Speaker 1: Office and I said, look, I'm here till six regard.
Let's just go just just take off.
Speaker 2: I'll do it. And he didn't.
Speaker 4: He didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1: To Hunt's credit, He's like, no, I'm not gonna do
that to me. I was like, just go, I'll handle it. So, uh, yeah,
we're in for the long haliday.
Speaker 7: Look, I just I tell Hunt, hey, that's just bad timing, Bud.
Speaker 5: I do like though, the go get her attitude. I
think that will bear fruit in the end. I mean
I remember, you know, and you know, kind of pre
kids or maybe at the beginning to have one or
nothing or whatever. It's like, you know, when AFR would
open up, I would almost always go to host that
try to get them hosting jobs. Maybe at the time,
like I feel like it was a it was a
different audience to get in front of. So uh, there's
something to be said for putting in those long days,
especially with your young enough and full of the vim
and vigor with which to do. So, Beck, what does
your day look like? Of course, Alandra is smart playing
out ahead. Is somebody who very efficiently has navigated these
two weeks off.
Speaker 9: Yes she has, I will say, though it wasn't super
far far out planned. But but anyways, yeah.
Speaker 5: Okay, so we can unpack that a little bit because
there's obviously a quite clear subtext in which Alandra did
this last minute.
Speaker 4: And you feel you feel as.
Speaker 5: If you got h you were you were a fish
just swimming along.
Speaker 4: There's a tasty worm, you take.
Speaker 5: A bite, and next thing you know, it's seven am
on December twenty sixth, and here you are.
Speaker 9: Well, I'll just say this, I'm I'm with I'm with Taylor,
uh in the fact that I'm just too nice of
a guy probably and uh, you know, I I saw
there was a need for for someone to the year,
so I decided that h I would say yes, hell.
Speaker 5: Yes, Beck, there we go. Dude again. Look at that
not one but two go getters providing hope for for
the cynical, old, jaded men who believe that nobody wants
to work anymore.
Speaker 4: So are you just doing this show today? What is
this show? I mean?
Speaker 9: And and I honestly probably will end up doing a
far because I don't even know if we have an
audi producer for that right now we do not as
a right.
Speaker 4: Now, where's Moose the bash Bros?
Speaker 2: Especially for Moscow. I'm filling in for Paul.
Speaker 4: Even the boss.
Speaker 7: Even the Boss is playing Hiky the bash Bros.
Speaker 6: Well, smart yeah. I mean, look again, man.
Speaker 5: It's I'm not I I fully I'm I'm I'm fully
uh supporting everybody taking off. You know that I am
a I'm a firm believer. We do not live to work,
We work to live. I'm more upset than my own
uh kind of disorganized. How I'm more upset than my
own chickens have come home to roost, you know, Like, Uh,
this is not somewhere you cannot I cannot look and
I cannot point any fingers if I do have four
fingers pointing back at me. There's only one place to
look here, and it's in the mirror, you know.
Speaker 4: But hey, we're gonna have some fun today. I'm sure. Look,
we're gonna find some fun today. Uh.
Speaker 10: And there there's a few things.
Speaker 5: To talk about, you know, what's funny, and like the
same way that like Gallows humor is like you're about
to die. But the absurdity of it all you you
you start to laugh because what else can be done?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: Just looking at the Saints box score and looking at
the players that are on an NFL football field for
your New Orleans Saints, and then understanding that the GM
is completely untouchable it's again, it's it's it's it's black humor,
the darkest of humors. You don't even have any portal
editions to talk about.
Speaker 7: Even the portal took a nap.
Speaker 4: Even the portals nappy.
Speaker 5: What yeah, uh, DJ Pinket's practicing.
Speaker 4: With the team. We have video. Was that the least
excited you've ever been for a New Orleans Saints Monday
night game? Because I didn't watch a second of it.
I think people, certainly our AHD and certainly a little
bit older, it just didn't happen.
Speaker 7: No, Like the Saints didn't get Monday night games. And
if they did, oh.
Speaker 4: I see where you saying, yeah, yeah right, if they
if they did, it was like, oh, oh my god,
get in front of the TV, have everything ready beforehand,
like you prepared for it, like it was a vacation.
And they played on Monday night this last Monday, and
it was background fodder. Yeah yeah, because that's how bad
they are, right it? And you knew that. I mean,
fourteen points spread in the NFL's that's.
Speaker 7: Like forty two in college.
Speaker 5: To your point as well, you're right, like Saints never
used to get that primetime stage. Then during the Breeze
Payton era because they were so dominant and so exciting,
and when it such a high clip, they became one
of the most featured primetime teams.
Speaker 4: And so I'm not sure.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know how many times can you
put a nail in the coffin right, how many times
can you shut the window or whatever? We all know
it's been showing. I'll know it's been dead. But symbolically,
maybe this was the final dirt being shoveled on the
Breeze Peyton era, as you have fallen so far as
to only be rivaled by that of Lucifer, the ultimate
fallen angel. The heights that you once occupied, those fluffy
clouds and golden gates, now replaced by flame, ash and
weeping and gnashing of teeth. But in this Christmas season,
who knows, perhaps there's hope for some sort of rebirth.
I don't know that I see it, but you can
look around the NFL and fortunes can change quickly, but
hard to have too much faith.
Speaker 4: Wasn't leadership The one thing that I think, this is
what you said. The one thing you wanted to see
was Ken J. Miller take his opportunity and to do
something with it. Yeah, he had eight carries for fifteen yards,
one point nine yards per rush, and that's with having
a ten yard run.
Speaker 7: He had eight for fifteen.
Speaker 5: I mean, so in the offensive line, you've got a
lot of draft capital invested. Unfortunately it's okay, but I
mean you have second round, first round, was Caesar recent first?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you get sick around McCoy, first round of Reeves,
first round and Pinning first round.
Speaker 4: Inkwanga. It's put a lot in there.
Speaker 5: It's and you know, honestly, they they've been better with
all this year. You kind of wish it'd be a
bit better that much put in there. But I mean, Jake,
you look everywhere else.
Speaker 4: You got a.
Speaker 5: Fifth round quarterback, third round running back. Fullbacks don't get
drafted your receiver. I don't know where your receivers were drafted,
but nobody knows, because.
Speaker 4: No, we don't want to. We don't know who the
receivers are. It's insane.
Speaker 6: The team that Mickey Loomis is fielding right now.
Speaker 4: The leading receiver for this one was Foster with two
catches for thirty three yards.
Speaker 6: When was Foster drafted, he's a fourth rounder.
Speaker 4: I believe for the Raiders. Uh, followed by Dante Pettis,
Juwan Johnson, Kevin Austin Jr. Fourth round, Yeah, Kendre Miller,
Jordan Mems, Cedric Wilson Junior, and then Mason Tipton had
a target. Might as well be May we hear so
much about Mason Tipton? I'm like, might as well?
Speaker 6: Hey, don't you hate on Timpton just from making the team?
Speaker 5: Should grinds the yikes?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's just a abandoned all hope ye who enter here?
All right, look, I I've done this, I said the tone.
I think we're off to a bit of an overly
negative start here. Okay, so let's talk when we get
back into some some kind of happy Christmas stories.
Speaker 4: What happened would you do?
Speaker 5: Let's see if we can invert this bird and uh
invert the frowns as well.
Speaker 6: Here and off the bench one O four or five
ESPN Off.
Speaker 3: The Bench, Welcome back to the best morning sports show around.
Speaker 5: Sorta.
Speaker 3: It's off the bench with Hester and Ta Bob.
Speaker 1: Is ready to take care of your left taking the
case after hours, you see the life.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around. Sorta.
It's off the bench with hesse.
Speaker 5: What's happening y'all? Welcome back here on O TV. Hope
every had a beautiful Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Christmas season.
Speaker 6: With the family.
Speaker 5: Brian vertsus Taylor is a straw that stirs the drink
known as Guarantee Media Listen.
Speaker 1: I told him he's been listening to Chris Blair's broadcast
too much, said straw stirring the drink back in studio.
Speaker 5: Ah, I don't often find that I make drinks that
need to be stirred, but I think it's uh mainly
a function of laziness as opposed to anything else, right,
Like the the craft of the cocktail I think is
a bit lost on this generation. I go hang out
with my wife's grandparents, old Nana and granddad, and you know,
they were those classic kind of seventies eighties couples or whatever.
Speaker 4: Jake.
Speaker 5: They have everybody over and they've got a full bar
laid out with all the vermouth and liqueurs and everything,
and they can make you a dirty Manhattan or a
or an upside down pineapple, you know, or a or
a fuzzy bee hole.
Speaker 4: I don't know what. I don't know cocktail names, but
they they like an old fashion. Yeah, but I'm talking
about being about that older generation.
Speaker 5: They used to go harder than just an old fashion,
and they could probably make a perfect old fashion, but
they'd be sitting down here like creating egg white concoctions
and whatnot. And I just dump liquor into a glass
and decide whether or not I want to go through
the hassle of putting one or two ice cubes in it.
Speaker 4: Perhaps. Yeah, did you ever check on your vehicle by
the way, Oh no, I forgot to do that. Yeah.
I came in today and I parked by tea and
his lights on the inside a row and I told
him his lights were on.
Speaker 7: He's like, yeah, cars pibably still running.
Speaker 6: I should go, I should look at it.
Speaker 4: No, I mean those Toyotas, they actually, if they're sitting
idle for a period of time, they'll turn themselves off.
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Speaker 6: I mean, what do you end up throwing for like
one eight? I mean it was solid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't need to with.
Speaker 4: Zero.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Jacobs and Wilson, do you think.
Speaker 5: Do you think running backs feel validated by all the
guys who are forced to go and find their fortune
elsewhere and are absolutely dominating.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean, say Barkley.
Speaker 5: Derek Henry, Josh Jacobs, all these guys that were awesome
and their own team said you're not good enough for
us to pay, and now the kicking House.
Speaker 4: Now I would say this, I do believe Jake.
Speaker 5: It's a weird position where maybe like even though the Giants,
I mean no, I don't know if I believe that,
I was gonna say, like, it makes more sense for
a contender if they have the money to be like, okay,
let's go in, because that can bring you to the
next level. Whereas if you are like the Giants or
the Raiders or the Titans, and you're so bad, maybe
like okay, just paying the running back isn't the way
to rebuild. But either way gotta feel validating for those
guys to be having the success that they.
Speaker 4: Are that's three of the four tough rushers in the
NFL right now. I mean Saquon's one, Henry's two, and
then Josh Jacobs is four and only by a couple
of yards. He's behind Kien Williams from the Rams. So yeah,
they feel justified. I mean their team basically, you know,
it's like, hey, running backs a dying position.
Speaker 7: We'll find somebody off the street.
Speaker 4: Basically not off the street, but a little bit. We'll
find somebody else. We'll be fine. We're not paying running backs.
And then Saquon is going to be in the MVP discussion.
Speaker 5: And the Giants are the ones that are especially dumb
because they chose to pay Daniel Jones. Like the other
guys at least aren't like paying a quarterback. They're just like, ah,
we're just in.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think Titans like, hey, we're rebuilding.
Speaker 4: We're not gonna you know, sing a lot of money
into one position right now. The Raiders are the Raiders,
so we can all laugh at them. But yeah, I
think the Saquon certainly hurts the most because not only
did you not pay you paid Daniel Jones, but he
also went to someone in your division and your owner
is on record, we have video evidence saying we can't
let this happen, and it happened.
Speaker 5: Oh just oh good for them though, good for running backs,
Good for running backs, and for whatever vestige of fullbacks
are left as well.
Speaker 4: Let's see. So for the Giants, you having to go
to thirtieth in rushing to find Tyrone Tracy Junior. For
the Titans, it's a little bit better. Tony Pollard's a
thousand yard rusher, so he's number eleven right now. And
for the Raiders, let me be scrolling a while here.
Hold on, I got to hit show more because they're
past fifty second. Oh fifty second, they're leading rusher.
Speaker 6: Well, Tony Pollard.
Speaker 4: Don't y'all need a running back? Taylor?
Speaker 2: Well, we had Tony Pollard. I wasn't sorry to see
him go, but yes, we do still need a running.
Speaker 7: Back taking back.
Speaker 4: He's Eleventh's a thousand yard rushing, a thousand yard rusher, dude,
Oh you got to you got Zeke though, Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 2: Did he have a touchdown? He had a touchdown on Sundays?
No shit, Uh we coo showed flashes.
Speaker 6: Okay, but whatever to Douce Vaughan, he's still there.
Speaker 2: They just don't use him.
Speaker 5: He's just not not big enough. Uh, Jake, how's Christmas?
Speaker 4: Dude? It was good. I mean we you know, typically
either travel or we have a house full of people.
Speaker 7: Just didn't work out this year. Had a couple of
people get sick.
Speaker 4: In the family, like right before and it's like a
whole deal and some went to Florida. Son didn't so
h you know, my side of the family, we do
Thanksgiving with them, and so Katie's family is typically Christmas time,
but uh no, we just we sat around.
Speaker 7: It was great family time.
Speaker 4: So that's not normal.
Speaker 5: No, oh, because that's my ideal Christmas is on the
actual even the day is to just be nuclear family. Maybe,
like my sister came in town because she's going to
spend it with and then my dad came over for
the day.
Speaker 4: So that was very fun.
Speaker 6: But I like, I like to be core nuclear family.
Speaker 4: Even when we were living in California, we always had somebody.
Uh hell, we were living in a extended state hotel
in Denver. I mean it was like a three bedroom deal,
but it was a hotel and we had family. Then
sits this something like that. Probably uh So, no, this
was the first time, but it was it was really
not like I didn't want, you know, family around, but
you know, we got a chance to sit around, watch.
Speaker 7: Movies, cook big meals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, watching football. Yeah. I wish the football is a
little bit better. But you know, at least it was on.
There's a big there's a big blind spot in sports
for Christmas Eve.
Speaker 7: Yeah, nobody, nobody, It was nothing on No.
Speaker 4: I mean there was one bold the Hawaii bull go
double ot.
Speaker 6: There was I didn't watch it again.
Speaker 4: There was five other times I think there was. Who won?
I think Santaose Stay the.
Speaker 5: Badass receiver dude put up crazy d opped it out there.
Uh but I tell you, I'm shaking his head. You know,
didn't opt out today, Taylor Shark.
Speaker 4: I think we played a game on Christmas Eve, so
it's not always been that way. But there was nothing
all like and I'm not talking about like NFL NFL
on Christmas it's a Tuesday, but like the NBA. Your
ratings are just really down right now, they're bad, and
you played four Christmas games, but you weren't going to
compete with the NFL. Why wouldn't Why wouldn't the NBA
or the NHL look at that and be like, hey,
let's go dominate that day where nothing else is on.
Speaker 2: South Florida won that game.
Speaker 5: Okay, whenever we whenever we get to whenever you get
the ratings for all the respective sports yesterday, I.
Speaker 6: Think it's going to be a really bad day for
the NBA.
Speaker 5: Because you even had Lebron and Steph have an old
school Curry Classic incredible duel up at the end, and
Lebron in the postgame talked made a comment about it.
You know, this is our day talking about the NFL
encroaching and it's not even going to be close. But
the thing is that it's not even a commentary on
the NBA. You gotta understand, when it comes to ratings,
nothing will ever beat to the NFL. It doesn't matter,
it doesn't matter another sport at least. I mean, we
got the numbers of the college football playoff games now,
and this was expected, none of this was unexpected, but
the NFL basically doubled a triple the two games they
went head to head with and then when they didn't
have an NFL game on college viewership went from eight
million and six million to about fourteen million for each game,
which again I would say, right in line with the
numbers that we had kind of estimated, laid out a
guest on and a good day for college.
Speaker 6: But but just just keep the.
Speaker 5: NFL's name out your mouth, probably right, yeah, because a
want to say, like, I'm a big fan of the NFL,
but this is our day. I mean it, it's it's.
Speaker 6: Whatever part of the day the NFL doesn't want is
your day.
Speaker 4: Well, I think the only thing the NBA ever beats
us in was player contracts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, smaller labor pool, more power, strongling, first weekly,
all those sorts of things.
Speaker 4: That was always, you know, most popular sport in the country,
not even close. And really the most second most popular
sport is the one that's the feeder system too, the
most popular sport. Yeah, and still like you know, the
contracts you got, you got guys that none of us
in this room have ever heard of, like the ninth
guy on the bench making like seven million a year.
Again though, oh, it's roster size is fifteen to fifty three.
Speaker 5: Yeah, twenty eight teams, right or is it thirty thirty
thirty thirty thirty in the NBA, Yes, thirty in the
NBA thirty two in the NFL and bigger rosters.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they just have power.
Speaker 7: Oh the time.
Speaker 4: That and the players Union for us wouldn't fight, like,
there's what I will give that to them. Same thing
major League Baseball. You're not getting anything over on the
Major League Baseball players Union just ain't happening. No, they
won't play. Not the case.
Speaker 7: But we got hey, no more to a days that
one time.
Speaker 5: The problem is you just got too many gritty scabs
in football, yep. Whereas baseball such like a high skill
sport that I don't care how gritty you are, you
just can't do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't get your way through baseball.
Speaker 5: You just can't hit a crazy slider that's coming in
a one hundred miles an hour from Randy Johnson because
you're the toughest. Some bit are ound just just not
how it works. Unfortunately.
Speaker 7: No, I wish it was. I wish it was. It's
not the Big Unit.
Speaker 5: Give me your favorite all time as we go to
break here, what's your favorite all time sports nickname?
Speaker 4: Because the Big Unit is up there, we need to
come back with that. I need some time to think.
My favorite Big Unit moment was when they were in
the All Star Game, and John Crux like, I'm not
getting in the box. You've never seen that where it's
Lefty on lefty and John Crux like sitting in the
corner of the batter's box.
Speaker 7: He's like, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 6: I gotta see that.
Speaker 4: He turns his helmet around backwards. Yeah, all right, let's
go to break.
Speaker 5: Give me the Kruky, give me Cruky versus the big
Unit coming back, and give me your favorite sports nicknames
as well.
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Speaker 3: More sports talk. What's some other stuff mixed in off
the bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 6: Lgbt Bob. That is a pretty good one.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to TV.
Speaker 5: Make Defense Gradients is the Sultan of Swat, the Titan
of Tear, the King of Crash, the Big Bambino.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I guess that's true.
Speaker 5: In terms of volume of nicknames, Baby Ruthie, Yeah, with
quite the array of nicknames. We got a lot of
good ones though, so I'm gonna read them off. Then
I'll give you my personal favorite. All right, all right,
thrill of course will Clark.
Speaker 6: The answer, I mean the answer, Alan I that's whole time.
Speaker 5: Uh the male Man, you know, yeah, because he always
delivers a personal favorite of mind that nobody mentioned but
nobody will really remember.
Speaker 4: Because it's kind of niche. But Stacy Agman old play
the Hawks.
Speaker 5: They called him the plastic Man, based on the superhero
and it could stretch, it could tort and all sorts
of crazy ways finish.
Speaker 4: I just mind.
Speaker 6: My old man was obsessed with the Plastic Man.
Speaker 4: Growing up.
Speaker 5: You used to always talk about, Uh, here's just an
unreal one, the big hurt Frank Thomas, let's go to
And the best part is you know who everybody is
when you say it, like Ironhead Broadway, Joe Cajun Cannon.
Speaker 7: Ye, I mean your dad's nickname is yes, Tier.
Speaker 4: Pistol, Pete Pistol.
Speaker 5: I think my personal three, just for my enjoyment again,
I'm gonna take Kje Cannon out of it, because that's
that's you know. I I'm I'm I'm too close to it.
But it would have to be Ironhead, the Mailman and the.
Speaker 4: Answer for me growing up. Those are always my favorite, dude.
Speaker 6: And then we already mentioned the Big Unit, which actually.
Speaker 4: I mean I love a good simple a train for
Mike Alstott. I mean it sits right in front of
me every single day. But I think my favorite is
the hick from French Lick. That is very very good.
That is true.
Speaker 6: A little uh shout out to the Uh.
Speaker 5: Well, he's not technically a Hoosier, but aren't all kind
of Indiana.
Speaker 4: Country folk called hoosiers?
Speaker 5: I mean I think so, Yeah, yeah, he's not any
because he's Indiana state, right, yeah he is.
Speaker 4: What are what are what is it? Sycamores or sycamore? Yeah,
the sycamore.
Speaker 6: Shout out to the sycamores.
Speaker 7: That's pretty good. That's a good one.
Speaker 5: The healthy ulsses get that now, sick uh more healthy ls.
It's really yeah, how's the reach?
Speaker 4: Give me your favorite one? Honey Badger.
Speaker 5: Honey Badger wouldn't make my It's a good nickname, but
it would not make my It would not make my top.
Speaker 2: Ter Old Dawkins Chocolate thunder. That's a good one.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh who they used to call doctor duncan Stein because
that's also uh, that's also an incredible one.
Speaker 2: I mean he wouldn't he wasn't a Hall of Ferrold player.
Speaker 4: Was doctor Duncan Stein?
Speaker 2: Yeah, doctor Duncan's another another nickname that always loved. He
wasn't Hall of Fame player or anything, but uh Shane
Victorina was an outfielder for the Phillies. He was Hawaiian
and they should call it the Flying Hawaiian when he
robbed home runs Flying Hawaiian. It's really good.
Speaker 5: Wait, what are we talking about? Who's our old fat friend?
That one all the world twos of the Giants they
call them like the Pandam. They just called him Pandam.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 7: White chocolate for Jason Williams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, another great one. And you can say white chocolate
in basketball and everybody knows you. Yeah? Did? How did
man City ge freaking penalty? O? Yes?
Speaker 11: So it is oi lads, it's Botxing day, which means
it's time to enjoy some Premier League foote. And right
now on the screen on cock we've got Manchester City
and Everton tied one one.
Speaker 4: As the boys in light.
Speaker 11: Blue lineup for PQUE, the crowd is on the ends
of their feet anxiously watching with patent breath.
Speaker 4: Will this tall blonde swee put them a hand? Know
what to say?
Speaker 10: But it's still in play? Heartbreak for Blue. Oh he's
all sorry. So the flag is up just like that.
Everton keeps a draw and the game continues save.
Speaker 7: By Jordan Pickford.
Speaker 9: I have Holland my fantasy team, and he's he's terrible.
Speaker 4: It's Holland, the giant blonde man who just missed. Jordan Pickford.
You've got the English keeper. Look at that, Look at you.
Speaker 2: You play fantasy soccer. God, that seems like a lot
of work.
Speaker 4: You're in nine fantasy football league and then two you're
the only person who knows the Saints receiving court.
Speaker 1: They only played once a week, though I feel like
soccer plays all.
Speaker 4: The time, sometimes twice.
Speaker 5: Probably it's probably, I mean, yeah, it's only like club
games that like, you're only playing e PR. Yeah, but
do like f A now the copter games don't count,
so just EPs league games.
Speaker 4: Yeah that makes sense. Did you like my voice? I
thought that was a really nice play about play there,
but wow he honestly.
Speaker 5: Nothing better than the loquacious abilities of good.
Speaker 4: Of good.
Speaker 7: The soccer commentators are the best Yeah, like they are.
Speaker 5: They're they're, they're, they're they're vocabulary, they're actually now they
paint the scene, and it's something that it's something that
old sports writers used to do. If you go read
classic like sports writers from like the thirties and forties,
and I find there's still a few left that kind
of do it right, Like Scott Rablay does a very
good job of some time of getting very rightly in
his breakdowns. Nick Underhill does a lot of great, very
interesting analogies, Like I loved his right up after Saints Packers,
where he's kind of just talking about the dismal gray
nature of the day, wet and cold and bleak in
what a kind of perfect way to encapsulate exactly how
the New Orleans Saints feel right now.
Speaker 4: So you see the lot I would say this.
Speaker 5: I know beat writers you tend to be more just
info info, info, But guys, there's something to be said
for painting the scene and painting the picture a little bit.
Speaker 9: Black mother.
Speaker 4: If we go back to nicknames right now, this ended
up kind of being the name that we know them by,
Like Tiger Woods name's not Tiger, his name's not Tiger Eldrick, right,
it is. Yeah, it's a nickname. It's a nickname. Or
is it like a t BO called tiger growing up?
I don't know, but his name is Eldrick. No, I
know that, but.
Speaker 5: I'm wondering, is this like a there's multiple levels to
a nickname. There's like a pure nickname, which when somebody
just made up to start calling your but he starts
calling you right, there's like I'm t Bob. Functionally, that
is my name, even though it's technically a nickname.
Speaker 4: Nobody. Apparently his dad gave him that nickname when he
was born. Okay, okay, so you know any played by
the dad knowing that Eldrick may have been tough to
achieve peak dominance with as a first name, because I
mean he falls into the category of you know, Magic Johnson,
Like we don't call him Irvin, Yes, magic? Yes? Now?
Was Magic always called magic?
Speaker 6: Or did that come about?
Speaker 1: That came out like after his play because he was
the way he was passing the ball. I think actually
some sports writer whatever said like his play was magic
and everybody just called him magic.
Speaker 4: So that's a true nickname.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was That was one of the things too,
Like people would there were a lot of nicknames came
from like sports writers coming up with it. They would
say something about a player and a story and then
people just call him that.
Speaker 4: That never happens anymore.
Speaker 6: Doctor j.
Speaker 5: I mean now, now, maybe it's like the Internet that
does it, because like honey, Patrick came out of the Internet.
Speaker 4: Right, Penny Hardaway not you know, Pennies. Yeah and for
any Yeah, his so his nickname Penny. So his grandmother
used to call him pretty, but she has such a
Southern accent that it sounded like penny no way.
Speaker 9: And so that's how he go. That's very Larry Johnson, grandmama.
That's a good one.
Speaker 4: All right. When we get back, let's close out our
number one of OGB off the bench.
Speaker 5: Uh no, guys, my actual name is Bobby, my real name,
Oh the kid for King Griffy Jr. That's pretty good,
Jack Rivals, Babe Ruth. Also with the volume, right, that's true.
Somebody said shack food, diesel Man steel got quite a few.
Speaker 2: What the big aristyle? That's my favorite one?
Speaker 6: Oh my god, all time?
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the ninth ranked morning sports show in America.
Speaker 5: Off the Bench, Welcome back to oh TV, the Minister
of Defense, Big Shot Bob.
Speaker 6: And of course the intimidator, Dale Earnhardt.
Speaker 5: I mean, because like NASCAR is a very alpha sport
and that it's it's it's one guy that hundreds of
people are relying on for their economy to work and
to be called the intimidator and to have a mustache
that thick and that oppressive is that's gonna that's gonna
score you very high in the all time Good Sports
Nicknames category.
Speaker 4: Dale, how's your part? How is your how's your Christmas?
Speaker 3: Bro?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 6: What'd you all get into?
Speaker 4: It was good?
Speaker 1: So, you know, we don't have a huge family, but
we spend a lot of time with the family that
we do have. Last night we went to my parents' house,
did a little gift exchange. So Victoria's parents every Christmas
morning get donuts.
Speaker 2: From mary Lee's.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know mary Lees was open on Christmas
comes out the entire city. But me news because I
waited twenty five minutes for donuts yesterday morning.
Speaker 4: But uh, yeah, we was talking.
Speaker 5: To I was talking to the Mary Lee's of a
Perkins and yeah, they we were just talking about how
it's just become a tradition for so many people because
he's talk about his father used to do it back
in the day, and so it came to about his christmasition.
To know, you know, I always a huge thank you
to everybody who had to work. I mean, here we
are complaining about working on twenty six, so many people
had to work service jobs on the twenty four, twenty
fifth whatever, so everybody else can have fun, and huge
thank you to everybody who did.
Speaker 2: So would we get what was the best gift?
Speaker 4: I got? New I got?
Speaker 6: I got AirPods.
Speaker 5: You know, I lost Mayor pods a couple of years ago,
and I kind of, you know, punished myself for two years.
Speaker 4: Not myself has been two years? New ones?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean you, I mean you lived in them
for a while.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's probably been about two years. And and
then you have a watch surprise something, so that was cool.
Speaker 2: What about you new pair of cowboy boots?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, very you know, not surprising.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're they're nice.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, Jake, I don't I don't get gifts. I
don't want I don't want gifts. I tell my wife,
do not get me anything. I want to make it
about you and the kiddos. So no gifts for me,
which is perfect, okay. Yeah? Beck? What about you? What
you would you get?
Speaker 9: I got some new vinyl? My wife got me U
led Zeppelin album.
Speaker 6: Nice sweet?
Speaker 7: I got a uh firearm.
Speaker 4: Stol just get a gun?
Speaker 9: Yeah, get Holy Taylor sharp it's Taylor. What did you
get bout It's a it's an old uh. It's an
old like uh Czechoslovakian.
Speaker 2: You got like a like an old one.
Speaker 4: It's antique.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's not antique, but it's from the eighties, so
it's kind of an old school a.
Speaker 4: Little uh little little uh little bliky.
Speaker 5: This sounds like you got a black market Eastern European.
Speaker 4: It's not black market.
Speaker 9: It's surplus serial number scratched odds, it's still got the
serial number.
Speaker 4: I don't worry. I don't.
Speaker 9: I don't think I believe you, but I'll sell you
a fixture. It's not a serial number one.
Speaker 4: Don't worry.
Speaker 6: They get they might need to contact your father. So
if you need to do some investigating.
Speaker 4: Here, it's okay. I don't worry about it. Jacob could
be getting into the.
Speaker 5: Uh gun smuggling market. It sounds like this is just
a little tip for him being for him delivering the
first package correctly.
Speaker 4: What do you do do you keyster the guns?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 9: I haven't even sticking a K four seven up there
now that I think that might be challenging. Maybe unless
you took it apart and like kinda and now you
could do that.
Speaker 4: Actually I did.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm lying a little bit because the air pods
are great. But the thing that I use the most,
that was the other present that I got that I
love is a big, bad ass kitchen knife, like one
of those like yeah, Viking level, like you know, you
probably see him when you see the guy outside ASMR
cooking with his.
Speaker 4: Dog like you know, like anything, heating oil on stones
and whatnot.
Speaker 5: It's not that it's uh now, the blade is sharp,
but I have like a I have like a knife
sharpener set up or whatever, so I can keep a
sharp blade. But the weight of this thing makes cutting
so good, so so good man. It just it kind
of just it just it just almost cuts itself with
how it comes.
Speaker 6: I saw.
Speaker 5: I used it all day because did a turkey Christmas
Eve into a turkey gumbo? Yeah, yesterday, and it was fantastic,
Oh so so good.
Speaker 4: I went present.
Speaker 7: I went gumbo during the playoffs.
Speaker 4: So we went chili for Christmas even nice yeah hell yeah.
Speaker 9: The crazy thing was it wasn't even cold on Christmas,
Like the gumbo was planned for my family and then
we ate it, but it was like hot, so it
was kind of weird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it is what it is. Yeah. The
last time it's been cold here, well it was freezing
last last year, it was it was like actually like thirty.
Speaker 6: It was awesome, It was incredible. Our two next
Speaker 3: Off the bench,