Speaker 1: All start to it.
Speaker 2: You want to present some off the bench with Jacob
Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 1: Come off the pitch.
Speaker 2: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob aber.
Speaker 3: Yo.
Speaker 1: What's going on y'all? Welcome back to OGB here live
on Radio Row at the Super Bowl. Shout out to
the Mariage Hotel, Cino bat Rouge for having us out here.
Another great day here on radio Road. Things are heating up.
Super Bowls right around the corner. Can't wait for the game, Jakels,
super Bowl Radio be going. It's been going great.
Speaker 4: It's one of those shows ta that it's a lot
of work, but because there's so many moving parts and
you're throwing to interviews that are actually you know, taking
place live maybe across the set. You got guests kind
of coming in for six minutes, they leave, and then
somebody else comes in for five minutes. You don't even
get to say bye. It's like a transition to kind
of the next one. So it's like air traffic control.
And then you'll have a segment where you just kind
of you know, pick a topic and talk about the
game or whatever for ten to twelve minutes. So for
all that goes on, it does move fast because well
you don't have really time to take a deep breath.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: So yesterday you got to interview Moose Johnston. Yep, you
got to interview Jerome Bettis the Boss yeh. And Marshall
Falk Dude, Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4: It was, man, it's the best you talk about somebody
grew up and I was born in eighty five, so
growing up in the nineties. And I got all three
of those guys in one day and got to just
sit there and talk ball with all three of them.
It's gonna be tough. It is going to be tough
to beat that. And I got a chance to, you know,
have my LSU brethren as well. JD five yesterday, gonna
have myleak today. And I love my LSU brothers. Always
a pleasure to interview them. But like Moose Johnston's like,
he's probably like number three on the board of people
that I wanted to interview in my career.
Speaker 1: So I can go ahead and check that one on.
Hell yeah, I dude, buck list item accomplished. All right.
Before we get into the Brandon Ingram Trade, Jake, do
you have any more kind of Super Bowl fun facts
or storylines? I mean, yesterday we did a lot of
Patrick Mahomes hell unbelievable he's been We talked about just
well really all the elements of play kind of what's
been facing jail. It hurts the narratives. There are two
years ago, he's on the edge of the Super Bowl.
He drops that ball. It's the only mistake he made
all night, but that one mistake ends up being the difference.
Now he has a gance to finally be the bride
after always being the bridesmaids. What storylines and factoids have
you all been playing with?
Speaker 4: I think one of the ones that is fascinating when
you get into the debate of greatest of all time,
Well we have that with quarterbacks and Mahomes and Brady
and what can Mahomes do if he wins this Super Bowl?
The only quarterback to win three in a row. But
I also find it interesting for Andy Reid. True because
Andy Reid wins, he'll be of course the first coach
to win three in a row, but also it'll be
his fourth Super Bowl. So the only people that are
going to have four or more Super Bowls. Of course,
Chick had six, Chucknall had four as well. So for me, like,
is Andy Reid one b if he wins his Super Bowl? Yep,
I mean Chuch Nold like what he did he won
four and six years remarkable, But it's a different time
in the NFL. I would argue it's more difficult now
to win because of the parody of the salary cap
and all the ways you can acquire players.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I mean no free agency. If you draft right,
you were just set for life because you own the players.
Speaker 4: So I mean I think Andy Reid, if he wins
this one, he's putting hisself in rarefied air, Like that's
a conversation to me after having I don't want to
say struggles because he won so many games in Philly,
but he couldn't get over the hump. He went to
four straight NFC championship games. He only has super Bowls
in Kansas City. They could never figure it out in Philly.
Remember is Doug Peterson that figured it out in Philly.
Speaker 1: So it's a pretty cool redemption story.
Speaker 4: I think he belongs in the conversation with the Bill
Belichick because as great as Bill was, Bill did have
it over this twenty year run. Who's to say that
Andy Reid he's done right now. And sure he's got
a generational quarterback just like Tom Brady, but I mean.
Speaker 1: You kind of have to have that guy.
Speaker 4: Look, let's it's collaborative, dude, it's freaking football. Let's think
about our conversation on whatever day that was. I don't
even know what day today is, early in the week. Uh,
the ones the teams that have gone back to back,
Green Bay bart Starr, Miami had Bob Greasy, the Broncos
had Lway, the forty nine Ers had Joe Montana, the
Cowboys had Troy Aikman.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, the Niners also had Joe Montana into Steve Young. Yes,
the Steelers they had Terry Bradshaw.
Speaker 4: So all of these Diners, Ben Roethlisberger, Eli, you know,
had two. They're not back to back years. But my
point is, like, you you have to as a pet,
you have to have that kind of quarterback to be
able to do these things.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't put that against the coaches. My mouth,
Oh no, you can know that's such.
Speaker 4: Like every team that has won back to back Super
Bowls has had a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Well, that's probably got a gold jacket. And also, Jake,
there's been a lot out of Hall of Fame quarterbacks
that didn't win championships. So it's collaborative. At the end
of the day, these things are. It is fascinating to
think about the difference that a few years has made, Jake.
When it comes to Andy Reid, I had to consider
that because you're so right. I mean, pre Kansas City,
Andy Reid was viewed as a as a good coach,
but not a great coach, just was never going to
be able to win the big game, very good at
getting there. He was like he was like a more
evolved version of Marvin Lewis. He was good at getting
a step farther than Marvin was, but he was never
going to do it and looking at it and nobody
nobody thinks about anymore. I mean, he's he's viewed his
hands down, the best football mind in the entire world.
He was like Marv Levy a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yes, Bills to four straight Super Bowls, but had nothing
to show for it. So and we don't talk about
Marv Levy ever ever, like when we're talking about greatest coaches,
this man took his team to the Super Bowl four
straight years in a stacked AFC at the time, and
has nothing to show for its titles.
Speaker 1: So we don't even mention his name, We don't whisper
his name. God, that's so true. I mean, but those
are the stakes. I mean, you're talking about championships, and
that's what we always I mean, that's what we always about, right, immortality,
and it doesn't matter. Like, Okay, Nick Sirianni Jalen hurts,
you're the first Philadelphia quarterback coach due to make multiple
Super Bowls. That's awesome. Guess what, you don't win it, Ultimately,
it's gonna fall flat and fall short. Hey guys, look,
if I'm looking around this room right now, it seeing
a lot of boys. Okay, if you are suffering from ed,
if that is will of Us So no he's not.
Speaker 4: But if you are, I believe it's Trade McBride him
tied in for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Oh how do you know that? I don't know? I mean,
why do you know Trade mc bride's face like it
knowing about the existence of Trade McBride.
Speaker 4: In a crazy year and like only had one touchdown
though like crazy catches in yards, but like only found
the end zone once then again.
Speaker 1: To be fair, the Cardinals kind of I don't know.
The Cardinals feel like they had an invisibility cloak on
this year, like I'm not sure. Like like I forgot
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Orleans Pelicans were in the news as I was actually
with I was with dem Stowe last night. We we
we went to watch Joey Molnaro and Rachel Benetta do
stand up at a place called Sports Drink here, which
is a great little coffee club bar thing, really intimate,
really cool right there off the magazine. It's also kind
of the home of probably the most Pelicans fans ever.
And we were there when the news broke that brandon
Ingram had been traded to the Toronto Raptors that tried
the Pelican trade branding for Bruce Brown Kelly Olinick second
round pick. Dude, Kelly Olnick has killed all the Pelicans
multiple times. That said, and look, the move had to
be made, okay, and I plawd the move in the
way that you applaud something that had to be done,
even if it still sucks. But my this sucks. What
a wet fart Ending to the original vision that David
Griffin had for brandon Ingram, where he was going to
be the cornerstone upon which he rebuilt this New Orleans
Pelican franchise. I saw the most depressing pictures today of
brand ingram Zion was from the cover of Slam magazine.
It's brand ingram Zion Williamson, Drew Holliday and Lonzo Ball.
And that's the thing. All those players are like kind
of good. I guess Lonzo's going on to be heard,
but Drew's going on to be absolutely incredible. I mean,
you look at like Naji Marshall a d now and
now it's just so many good players have come through, left,
so many different combinations and it just never worked. Injuries
never worked. I mean, that is the sound that right
there is the sound that defines the David Griffin era
of the Pelicans. How about this brandon ingram Iion Williamson
and John Tay Murray never played a single game together.
Brandon ingram resigned Williamson. Both arrived in New Orleans in
twenty nineteen. Jake, they only played one hundred and fifty
four games together. They played five and a half seasons
together and played less than two full seasons on the
court at the same time. I mean, it just the
vision was just constantly beset by injuries, and I really
loved brandon Ingram. Again, my biggest scripe of them would
be a bit of a toughness situation in that, like
when he got hurt, maybe you know he'd has to
be like one hundred percent before he came back. But
he's a two a days all year round, like he's
a basketball like he works as It was very good
when he played, but ultimately it just ends and out.
I mean, I got two brand Newham jerseys at home man,
and ultimately it ends in Bruce Brown Kelly Olinick in
a one in two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Olynic's like a good player. I mean, but he
is what he is. He didn't get anybody that's gonna
change your team this year by any means. I don't
really know what the draft choices are going to be.
This was just a hey, we got to trade this
guy who's willing to give us something, and you wanted
a first round pick, so you got. I guess you
got that. So but in basketball, what does that really mean?
I mean, I've drafted all right to be top ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a huge just a guy, Yeah, it's it's
it's it's a huge gamble. So I don't know man,
what a sad ass era of the New Orleans Pelicans. Like,
I don't know how y'all feel out there, who who
about this team? But like I used to love this team.
I used to when I lived here. I remember going
to these games every single night, or as much as
I could with friends. I remember watching on TV every night.
I remember trying to convince people as they're battling for
a seeds that this team's worth watching. They're on the rise,
they're young, they're exciting. I remember the ad drama, then
with the subsequent almost ray of sunshine from Heavy and
when you get the first overall pick and here's Zion
and here's David Griffin, he's so equation. It's all gonna work,
and you actually have a team. I remember sweeping the
Blazers in the eighty air like, and these last three
to four years, really, the Zion era, half a decade
of just absolute trash, absolute garbage. I mean, I guess
you had. You did have the run against the Suns,
in which things are exciting for a little bit again.
Speaker 4: But yeah, but with that that roster, those players in
their prime, you don't have an excuse not to at
least make a true real run where you were like
a three seed and you make to the conference finals.
At least, that's a lot of wasted generational talent that
you either had on your roster or you traded away
to get the players that you brought back.
Speaker 1: And it's just there's no excuse. I just don't know.
The road looks so dark ahead, right because David Griffin's
got to be out. Unfortunately, although I believed in Willie
Green a lot of times, he's probably got to be
out to Yeah, like you can't make you can't let
Grift do another high, you can't let drift to another pick,
Like how quickly can you turn around? Can you turn around?
And then you look at the ownership group that it's
tied with and what they're doing with the New Orleans
Saints currently and how they've screwed up the Pelicans in
the past, and it's like, okay, well, how how do
you It's where is the hope? I guess? Is my point?
These last five years have been a literal dismantling of
my passion. Brick by brick and untee. Like the players care,
then like the owner's care. They're more worried about the
Saints where is the hope for the New Orleans.
Speaker 4: They're more worried about them, but we're worried about the
Saints and the Pelicans.
Speaker 1: Uh, little tired says. To be fair, they did win
forty nine games US yere, but the West is so
even didn't matter. That's true. But then I think you're right,
like that is a good point. I think my problem
there is just how awful they were in the playing games,
playing game where you had a chance to make something
of that season and you fell apart. I want, I
love the NBA. I want an NBA team to cheer for,
but it's just so tough man. And not only has
been that dismantling of passion, but during that whole time
you were on ballet sports where nobody could to see
you as impossible to watch. It's just that it's it's
literally one of the biggest organizational disasters in all of sports.
Like you want to make fun of the Washington Wizards,
you are the Wizards in front of the Cleveland Browns.
You are the Browns. That's you, And that's tough man.
Freaking bumps me out, man that I know I have.
I have nothing left for that team, and I used
to love them. I used to ride or die with them.
I dressed it's a wizard for the for the for
the virtual fan thing on during COVID. I was sitting
there in my wizard costume, talking to other people on Zoom,
watching the Kings embarrass them because of course every big
moment they seem to let you down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you did the the video where you're you know,
did the pop up from your back that you know
after chugging a beer You're excited. Charlie Brown pulled the
football from you again, though I guess Lucy would pull
the football. You're Charlie Brown this scenario. Sorry, I was
trying to give you and then you deserved call.
Speaker 1: Me Bob so again.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 1: The words that come to mind sad apathetic, pathetic and
what part? Yeah? I think I think the sound probably
did the heavy lifting there. You didn't have to, that's true. Yeah, God,
I love the either.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what's just look like like because Bruce Brown I
think he's injured, Because of course I think Olynic's injured
as well. I'm pretty sure they both just missed games
for the Raptors. That's that lookier on the Pelicans depth chart.
It does have day to day next to both of
them anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, I sound like it.
Speaker 4: So it's a people are looking over here, guys, we're
just talking about the Pelicans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for the local show. I know you aren't talking
Pelicans today, but we are. Jeremy Friar, how do you
think MAVs fans? Who? I mean? That is true? That like, yeah, sure,
but the MAVs have a title. They went to the
Western Conference.
Speaker 4: Finals and then won that and went to the finals
last year.
Speaker 1: It is still very bad. How did you replay that
so quickly? He's good? Okay, all right, whatever, God, what
a bummer of a segment, My bad. Guys. All right, you.
Speaker 4: Say this like for when I left here in about
ten minutes, like just yeah, let's get the let's talk
to some football next year.
Speaker 1: Let's see the vibes back up Super Bowls here, we're
on radio row. The Pelicans can't hurt you here, okay, guys,
don't worry about that. Also, they traded Tice for not
cash considerations for draft compensation. I don't understand on the
NBA works more OTB next off the bench. I'm just
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Speaker 2: Off the banch with Hester and t Bob Live from
Super Bowl fifty nine Radio Row in New Orleans, presented
by Low Bear's Casino Hotel Baton Brush.
Speaker 1: Yo, what's cod on you'l welcome back to O TV
Live here radio as you heard, visited by our friends
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Uh LSU Baseball is right around the corner and a
couple of pictures have been named all Americans. Lefty Kate Anderson,
Jake and Chase Shores and Righty Chase Shores have been
named twenty twenty five preseason All Americans by Baseball America. However,
in the coaches poll, LSU predicted to finish fourth in
the SEC. So very funny, very funny that that here
you have an LSU team that is top five and
basically every major poll, and yet in an imitation of football,
it's like, Okay, you're one of the top five team
of the entire country, but you're like six in the SEC.
LS you predicted a finished fourth despite being a top
five team in every single pole. Yeah, it's like that
every single year.
Speaker 4: But it is funny because LSU is number two in
a lot of polls as well. Right, they are the
top five in every poll, but I mean they're as
high as two, I think, in most polls, and so
to see them, you know, pick the finished fourth. Although
you finished fourth in the SEC, you'll be hosting. You'll
be host yes, yes, yeah, yeah, so like it wouldn't
be doomsday or anything. But I still have belief that
this baseball team will be challenging for the regular season
SEC title. You never know once you get to Hoover.
How that's going to play out. Everybody plays that tournament
a little bit different. But no, I think this is
a team that is going to be a top ten
team all season long. And maybe they go from two
to eight and up to four and then bounce back
to ten. Maybe who knows it is the SEC you'll
lose this series that maybe you shouldn't. But I mean
they have brought in enough players to have all the
depth at every single position, and certainly, I mean you
mentioned some of the pitchers there. I mean, Chase Shore,
somebody that you wish you had a year ago. So
I'm excited about it, like we all always, you know,
always are here. And I think the SEC is going
to be deep, just like it is in hoops, just
like it is in basketball. All right, sorry, women's and
men's basketball and football.
Speaker 1: So maybe well Hills just picks me and it's fourth.
Who's the top three? Text A and M picked to
win the regular season SEC title, Tennessee predicted to finish second,
Arkansas third, LSU fourth, and Florida fifth. God just rattling
off all those names. So excited for the quality of
this league. Cannot wait, Alandra, I'll allow you here a
bit of runway too. If you want to way in
on the prizezo americaids, you want to weigh in on
the baseball, or if you want to weigh in on
your Deer and Fox a very successful debut for your
Spurs last night at Landra. How are we feeling?
Speaker 6: Yeah, the vibes in San Antonio are super high. Deeron
Fox is living up to the hype that I thought
he was going to bring to San Antonio. I am
very excited.
Speaker 1: And I mean.
Speaker 6: Wimby had twenty four points last night as well, So
just a great duo out there. And Chris Paul is
good too. I'm just very excited about San Antonio Spurs
and also very very excited about this baseball season. About
a week away. And yeah, I mean Chase Shores, like
you said, very very ready to watch him pitch.
Speaker 1: It is a week way in't it. Maybe we almost
we opened them at Valentine's Day. Maybe let's go February
seventh or sixth, February sixth, right now, I can't wait.
Speaker 4: You were saying Valentine's Day, it was I was like,
team Noah, I know you're no, no, no, You're bad
with dates.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, relax, guys, Jake, I'm upset because
you're gonna miss the Chad Johnson conversation. Chad Johnson at
one forty two in the morning this morning tweeted, I've
ended up with a young lady in my bed and
I don't want her to be I don't want to
be rude. How do I ask her to politely leave
without her getting upset? So we'll talk about it more
later on the show. But you have a great day
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Speaker 2: Off the Band with Hester and t Bob live from
Super Bowl fifty nine Radio Row in New Orleans presented
by Low Bears, Casino Hotel, Baton Rouge.
Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on y'all? T Bob Baby here off
the bench, back here live at radio road. Shout out
to Labart's response to trip out here, and shout out
to our next guest, mister Mark Roemke, Senior vice president,
chief marketing Officer for New Orleans and Company. Also you
probably know him. It's a public addressing uncher at Saints
Holmes Games. He's also serving on the Super Bowl host
Committee and was recently appointed Honory Consul for Thailand in Louisiana.
I didn't know, why do we have an honorary council
for Thailand?
Speaker 7: Have you seen how many Thai restaurants we haven't?
Speaker 1: Okay, true, you know what, never mind, I stand corrected. Actually,
it's beautiful people.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of Thaie products coming back and forth,
and it's a beautiful country to represent here in the
United States.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, man, that's awesome, Mark, Thank you so much
for joining us. Of course. Okay, so there's a few
things that you said. That's yeah, it's perfect right there.
There's a few things that I want to hit on here.
First off, we were just talking off fair you said,
everything's gotten so much bigger this time around, right, and
there's so much where to be. Radio Row is huge.
But the NFL fan experience just opened up. If I'm
listening right now, and maybe I'm coming to this weekend
or looking for something to do over the next couple
of days, what are the times and what is the
experience entail?
Speaker 5: Yeah, the experience is really your way to get into
the NFL. It's like an amusement park in many ways.
You know, family and friends, come on down. Kids twelve
and under getting free today. It opens up at three
or fo three of them three o'clock to ten o'clock
today and tomorrow and then on Sunday, Saturday, ten to ten.
Speaker 7: Tickets are twenty dollars today and tomorrow and forty dollars.
Speaker 5: I'm excuse me, twenty dollars today and forty dollars tomorrow
and Saturday again. It's another way to enjoy all the
great things about the NFL. You can see all the
rings from the past games, the team helmets. You've got
the Bardi Trophy. You want to see the Lombardi Trophy.
You can run the forty yard dash if you want.
Lots of former players and folks are around where you
can get autographs, and again, it's just another opportunity to
experience what we are seeing here in New Orleans, which
is the NFL takeover.
Speaker 1: As they say, Yeah, it's like it's like Comic Con,
except in the comic book nerds, it's NFL nerds. Now
you mentioned the takeover, and that is the most fascinating
part about something like this to me is you know
where we're not a large city necessarily, you know, like
five hundred thousand maybe the city proper, what a million
in like greater metro area, and yet now there's a
couple half billion dollar yachts moored off the coast. There's
you know, like the most powerful people in the country,
the President, the former first Lady, like literally everybody is
descending upon this city. And as someone who is in
these rooms and dealing with, what kind of opportunity does
that create for the state in terms of forging connections,
you know, laying the groundwork for potential plans economic development,
Like how do y'all seek to leverage and make the
most of these opportunities?
Speaker 5: To your point, it's an amazing opportunity for the state
of Louisiana. And of course the city of New Orleans
to message that we're open for business.
Speaker 7: We're a great place to live, work and play.
Speaker 5: And the governor has taken all of his assets, working
with Susan bourgeois and using this opportunity to bring in
companies from around the country to say, hey, we're open
for business, we want you to be here. And so
they have made a major presence here in New Orleans
and they'll be hosting a number of events to show
off all the great things that are happening. It's just
not a sports story now, it's an opportunity for us
to speak to those who are making those decisions about
where they're going to invest their time and companies, and
we want them to know the Louisiana and wants them.
Speaker 1: And so what is that like? It kind of kind
of take me through that process a little bit and
then I want to get into the super Bowl selection process.
But but how how, how exactly does that work? Right?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, you're taking them, buy the dinner, you
showed it, the city you're talking about, Look here the
breaks we have planned, Like, like, how how do you
start that relationship? Then that eventually ends in uh, hopefully
you know, a deal being struck, a plant being built,
which we have. We've had some exciting news and in
those regards recently. But how does that work.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's an ongoing process.
Speaker 5: There's always a list of folks who are looking to
UH to invest and we want to be in that conversation.
UH working with Michael Hecht, with GNO Inc. UH Susan
Bourgeois with the Department of Economic Development, UH, the Governor's.
Speaker 7: Attention to this, making sure that you can get them here.
Speaker 5: You want them to be part of our guest list,
so to speak, and giving them an op to see
everything that's happening and to present to them those things
that are going on. Entergy as our founding partner, they
have a great economic development arm because they want to
bring business as well into Louisiana and help increase our
economy and the economic impact of this game. So it's
just not this week we are enveloping those messages. They're
going to be hearing it and then they go back
and make their decisions. So it's just not one touch point.
It has a continued touch point. And I'm excited about
what will come down the pike from this and.
Speaker 1: So I mean again, and a lot of this opportunity,
the ability to create these touch points is because of
the Super Bowl. So what's a member of the host committee?
What's the process like of winning these bids and then
planning to host the entire world basically for a week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're now into six plus years of planning once
we got the announcement that we were going to take this.
Initially it was going to be twenty twenty four, then
we moved to twenty twenty four. The good news is
that we've got a playbook that we've used several times over.
Jay Cicero, who is the president and CEO of the
Sports Foundation and the Host Committee, this is his fourth
Super Bowl. You've got all the background and experience that
someone like Doug Thornton has brought to the table, because
Doug was on deck prior to to Jay doing this
these types of events. You've got a committee structure, twenty
plus committees with responsibilities to work with the NFL to
produce what you see here and all around the city.
Speaker 7: And then what we'll do is hopefully do it all.
Speaker 5: Over again because we're eleventh tied with Miami, but we
certainly want to be twelve at some point, and so
when that happens, we will be ready because we've got
the game plan that has worked over and over and
over again.
Speaker 1: Well, and I mean, look, you see just anecdotally, you know,
there's so much media here and four players and everything,
and then you see them tweeting about like I mean,
I think I saw jose go like you know, a
haf in love New Orleans. Dude, I'll never leave it.
You're gonna have to drag me out of here. So yeah,
once you win the bid, you get them in here
and then you let the city kind of do the
work and the natural charms to where.
Speaker 5: Speaking of that, we've got seven thousand credentialed media from
around the world Tuesday night, and you may have participated.
Speaker 7: It was the media part.
Speaker 1: That looked insane. And I've been going back in the
afternoon and like get the kids from school and all
that stuff. It was great.
Speaker 7: It was next door at Marty Gross World.
Speaker 5: And again, the comments we're getting back and we're hearing
is that the media love being in New Orleans because
not only can they do their work tell their stories,
but they can enjoy the culture of the Louisiana and
New Orleans and so the food's good, the music's good,
and the location, as you know, we're so walkable.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, there is not a better stadium placement
in any NFL city. And I don't even need to
get particularly close.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're you know, got twenty six thousand hotel rooms
within a mile and a half of the season.
Speaker 1: Who I did not realize.
Speaker 5: You're easily walking from the French couart of the Warehouse
District from the riverfront down to Caesar super Dome. And again,
that's one of the assets that we can put out
there that we think that no other city can can own.
Speaker 1: And so we mentioned the NFL experience going down Now again,
kids twelve and hunderd get in for free twenty dollars
a day forty dollars tomorrow and Saturday. Open at three
pm today tomorrow and then one pm on Saturday.
Speaker 7: No opens up at ten am on oh.
Speaker 1: Today am on today. There we go, So go check
that out. But there's also a parade going out, because
what would a big Louisiana event be without a parade.
Tell me about the parade.
Speaker 5: This is the first time it's the host Committee Super
Bowl Parade. It'll be coming through the French Quarter down
to Canal Street then on to Saint Jose like a ride.
Speaker 1: Okay. I was kind of thinking maybe just like you know,
like something in the convention or like like okay, okay,
So we're doing a parade as.
Speaker 5: We have fourteen plus floats, We've got marching groups, great
bands like Sant Augustin High School at Marching one hundred
at the car Brother Martin High School. We've got the
six ten Stompers. It's gonna be our way of showing
these visitors one thousand of plus visitors in town what
Martin Gars is really like.
Speaker 1: Heck yeah, man, give them a little a nice, little
tasty preview.
Speaker 5: And Todd Graves, we all know Todd is raising canes.
Founder is the King, and.
Speaker 1: He's the is he what's his title with the host committee?
Speaker 7: He's the King?
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, super Bowl Martinborough Parade Host Committee parade. So
he'll be leading the parade down through the French Quarter
onto Saint Charles Avenue.
Speaker 1: Hell, yes, dude, we love to see it. On a
On a personal note, Mark, I gotta say I also
loved when I was, you know, googling around trying to
find exactly all your titles. You're a man of many titles.
Uh who I love your lake front.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You should the Times wonderful ride up. Go google it,
go check it out. Guys. I could live on that
third floor getaway. I would never leave ever again if
I was to every just mahogany and leather and tasteled decorae.
Speaker 5: Just well, you know, after six decades of collecting things,
you know, I had to put them somewhere.
Speaker 1: So this is something that I find especially prevalent in
New Orleans with people who are very good at interior design.
Is this curated chaos where it's a lot of different
things that I don't know how they're going to fit together,
but then when you place them in just the right way,
they do. I don't understand it, Like what's your process?
Speaker 5: Like, you know what, You've just given me a compliment
I've never received before. I guess luck at this point.
But as you know, that's a part of New Orleans,
the lakefront, that is it's sort of a secret. You know,
We've got some great food restaurants where next to Felix
is and next door to that is the Blue Crab
and Yep Landries and then of course it's just some
great sunsets and sunrises.
Speaker 1: I've been in a lake front of reading plenty of times.
A little brother used to coach at you and O,
and so I would go up. My favorite things to
do when I had my first kids these a little baby.
We'd drive up there, go watch and play basketball, hang out.
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5: My blood pressure drops when I pull up to yeah,
up to the home.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, But you know this is this is an.
Speaker 5: Exciting time for all of Louisiana and the impact that
is being felt not only in New Orleans but in
the region because there are people staying on the Gulf Coast,
there are people staying in Baton Rouge, Lafaya, North Shore,
and it's another way for us to roll out the
redist of red carpets.
Speaker 1: Mark Romick, Senior Vice President, Chief Martin Jefson, the World's
Company public addressing at Saints Game, member of the Super
Bowl Host Committee and Honorary consul for Thailand. Mark, thank
you so much, man, This is an absolute pleasure. Thank
you for everything you're doing for the state. Best of
luck with all the potential deals, and here's to hoping
that Louisiana can continue to rise and get some positive
economic momentum, which seems like I actually got right now guys,
So that's great a gain guy's fan experience. Pray this Saturday.
The city's going to be incredible. The fever pitch is coming.
Thank you so much, Mark, Thank you, sir. Take it
easy all right when we get back. We got more
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Low Bears Casino, Hotel, Baton Rouge.
Speaker 1: Hey, what's up? You'll welcome back to O T b
We are here live at radio at the super Bowl.
Shout out to the Bearge Hotel Casino for having us
on today. We have our kind of a girl Rivers
huey on here. Uh why were you so upset yesterday?
Speaker 8: I was so I'm so proud of T Bob. He
went on Mostly Sports with Brandon Walker and Mark Titus
Yun Show. He did a great job. You not listen people, Yeah,
it was very funny. And they got to a part
where t Bob was talking about how they were ranked
number seven mid market morning sports ship.
Speaker 1: Market local show very much at least one outlet bird
Sports Media.
Speaker 8: It's a mouthful and they were like, well, you know
what about number six? Can you come from number six?
And people, I was like, ah, you know, they have
a really cool dynamics. Two guys, one girl like and
they're like, ah, you can't beat it. Like he was like,
I mean, I guess we kind.
Speaker 1: Of have a girl. Yeah, yeah, you know That's what
I'm saying. And Aladra before you get that and see
you Okay, I know guys again though again again again
again again. I'm just talking about the traditional kind of setup,
right I I I do maintain that at Laudra you
were absolutely like a host of the show as well,
you and Taylor. Right, y'all's on air abilities are why
I love y'all uh so much. Uh. But it's not
like it's just not like it's not like the Murphy
Sham and Joe he set up as we talked about
it or the other thing. Okay, yep, that's what I
meant by kind of a girl.
Speaker 8: They have kind of a girl. So what what a
way to celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day
by celebrating their kind.
Speaker 1: Of a girl co host? In all seriousness, it was
National Women in Sports Day yesterday, and I got to say,
you and Landra have been absolutely killing it out here. Yeah,
you all been doing great work all right now speaking
of women, Chad john speaking of women. I do not
like this. I know it's not a good transition o
Joe Cinco. So maybe the best part about o Jo Cinco, right,
is that he has proven what guys like McAfee and
others haven't. I guess, you know, sensibly, what I'm trying
to prove sometimes as well is that you can be
a bit crazy, you can be a bit out there,
you can be yourself, you can be a bit rie bald,
you can be a bit crass, and if you're entertaining enough,
people still got to put you on. Right. I mean,
Chad Johnson lives a very honest life. I knew that
I loved Nightcap with him and Channon when I heard
them talking about eating booty and and and here we
talking about Live Live one uh talking about eating ass. Sorry.
The point of this is Chad Johnson lives a very
open public lifestyle. In fact, if you haven't seen it,
we can't play it because the audio there's a lot
of like Curtsey Got a Little tits. Go look up
the video of him and James Harrison on Nightcap yesterday.
Him and James Harrison.
Speaker 8: What about that fight?
Speaker 1: What was that Chad Johnson was saying he could beat
up James Harrison, which is insane. I mean, you are
challenging real life debo like straight killer, maybe the scariest
man who has existed in the NFL in our era.
It's video well where the watch weets can't play here,
but it's what It's February sixth today, right, here's a
tweet from o Jo Cinco at one two am.
Speaker 8: February six it's time to be tweeting.
Speaker 1: Uh well, I think I know what he was doing before,
because he says, quote, I've ended up with a young
lady in my bed, and I don't want to be rude.
How do I ask her to leave politely without her
getting upset? So I wanted to bring I have no
experience in this realm at all, so I wanted to
bring some female. No no, no, no, no, no eleventh fish, so
you bring your a girl? No no, no no, yes. Yes.
I'm not saying that you have random hooking up with
a celebrity in New Orleans in that hotel room experience.
Is what I'm saying is I just want a female
perspective on this as well. Is there a way at
one forty two am to get a person to leave
your bed and not be rude? Because I've thought about
it a lot and I don't think there is.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 8: I think your ship is saled.
Speaker 1: You just got a cuddle. But yeah, I think you do.
Speaker 8: I think you got it, But I think it like
like six seven ish, you can.
Speaker 1: Start to well, you wake up and you're like, I
got to go to work.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you start to sh the mouth, But I think
at I think you're committed.
Speaker 1: You're at least committed for a few more hours at
that point. I also brought there to me fair.
Speaker 8: It's two so you don't have that much longer.
Speaker 1: Alandra, you you said you thought the tweet was very
funny as well. What do you think is there a
way to get the woman out of your bed or
a man a person out of your bed? At one
forty two am without being rude.
Speaker 6: So I do think that the tweet is absolutely hilarious
because again, rough time to be tweeting at like one
thirty in the morning. But I don't know, like I
feel like maybe that should be something that you discussed beforehand.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I've never been in that situation. I feel like if
it was Ocho Cinco, Like if I was that girl
and I was in Ocho Cinco's okay, I would probably
just leave. Like I don't think you would have to
tell me to leave. I think I just would.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hell no, dude, he's probably in a fire ass
hotel room. Dude, that bed's probably so comfortable. We got
like two thousand thread count cheets. Ya get me out
of that bet, Like it's forty two you want me
to get my ass in at Ubert Nah, fam, I
don't even care. You want to cuddle good. I'll be
a little spooned, but I ain't leave it in the morning,
Like you better, look, you can get out of here,
you can go to work. I'm more than room service.
Speaker 8: I think there are some further questions, like what time
did they get to the room, Like I think if
you've not been there long and this happens, then you're gonna.
Speaker 1: Leave that long, you know. I mean, yes, I'm gonna guess.
Speaker 8: It sounds like not nine pm. No, you're probably I'm
state you know.
Speaker 1: So you're saying if you got there at one and
you got quickly down to it, that I think then
you have to leave forty two.
Speaker 8: Let's say you get there at one, like you leave.
Speaker 6: I saw a comment that said that you just say,
so what you're about to do?
Speaker 1: So what you're about to do? So that's that's what
also is gonna bring up. That is actually the funniest
part of all of this is, uh, the suggestion where
you asked, Hey, so what youre about to do? Don't
ask a question.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're in the bed, you're probably curled up, extend
the legs, kick her out the bed, roll over, going
with your night.
Speaker 1: This is a very easy solution. It's not hard.
Speaker 8: Also, this poor girl's gonna wake up today and see
this tweet all over the place.
Speaker 1: Hey man, Yeah, but no names are named. And also,
like like I said, Ojoe single lives a very honest
and open lifestyle, so like you know, I mean, maybe
she didn't know that, yeah, but but he looked good
yesterday though. Dude, he had his Balinciaga on. He's smoking
his stogy. Swag levels at an all time high. He
also tweeted, I fn loved this city. I'm never leaving.
Uh and and it's funny because she later tweeted, I
f and loved this guy, I'm never leaving and then.
Speaker 8: Staying no, they're getting married tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I don't think there's a way, but if
you know of a way, chat let me know. All right,
two hours of the books coming up next hour. We
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