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• Off The bench - Host (00:01) Hey, how you doing? Good. Back at it for another week. Another episode. Who do we have? Week 21 now? 21. 21. Who would have thought? Who would have thought? Whole season. think we're in the same boat of not really realizing how much this would be and that we would actually make it through a first year. It's a commitment, Yeah. Like a full commitment. It's the consistency, Because like we were saying, like a lot of podcasts burn out early because they're just trying to like go from zero to a hundred and a heartbeat instantly. And you can't do that. No, just like everything else. You got it's all consistency. Oh, it's true. You got to slowly the slow build. You're not going to get that crazy success overnight. Personally, I thought we were. My biggest goal back then was like back in September was to at least last 10 episodes. because usually that's the threshold for when most episodes cancel out. And this is episode 21. Well, thanks for not telling me. Hey, well, I tried to start a podcast with somebody else. OK. And it never got off the roll or off the block, is what you could say. And then obviously you got the great opportunity with Clubhouse to do a gig here. And you can't pass it up. can't pass it up as well as I'm not telling you that you know I think we're only gonna last this much and then we'll see where it goes you I know you're just like we're doing this forever and I'm like alright fine yeah so that was the expectation and that's how I was kind of set it up yeah I think that's probably about the extent that I thought about it too you asked me I was like ah okay yeah let's do it I'm free Mondays yeah you made sure you were free Mondays yeah so plus I hope you move see yeah well Help Me Move Startup Podcast. It's pretty much the same thing. ⁓ so you know what I'm thinking of calling our audience moving forward? The Bench Mob. Bench Mob? The Bench Mob. So to all you guys who are paying attention to our podcast. Bench Mob, we gotta get, that needs a shirt. I like that. That needs a shirt. ⁓ you know what I'm thinking? The Bench Mob. So we'll be getting you guys some Bench Mob t-shirts designed by Milky Way Apparel. I'm Malcolm the milkman Scott the visionary home and this is episode 21 Let's get it Alright, so a few things. I would love to talk about before I can really get into anything is Something that just happened this weekend Okay, let's hear it Derek Rose Chicago just retired his Jersey. I saw that I Love it for a few aspects and I hate it from others ⁓ One, they still need to retire Dennis Rodman's jersey. That's in the back They really should. Is Scottie Pippen's number retired? Yeah. So Jordan, Scottie, and now Derek Rose there's a... Those are the only three... There's a few others, ⁓ like GM and so forth. But they still haven't retired ⁓ Phil Jackson yet or whatever, but you can't really retire a coach. Retire what, a clipboard? So, but they retired and like, the reason why like, seeing that retirement kind of brought my childhood back, because growing up, I was- Makes you feel old. Yes. But it was always like, I wasn't, I was too young to appreciate Jordan. Yeah. But, Derrick Rose going to Chicago Bulls was like, my generation's hope to see our first MJ. because of how explosive he was. was electric. He was electric. He was a point guard, so he would always touch the ball, but he was ridiculous, fearless, born and raised in Chicago. So it was that homegrown. I feel like that makes it mean even more. The biggest problem is injuries took his toll. here's my own. This is my own hot take This is no one else. I believe if Derrick Rose did not get injured during his career, we would not be having the talks like we do about LeBron and MJ. It would have been Derrick Rose and MJ. You think so? That's like, because he was selfless, he was electric, and he had a whole city on his back. That's true. Like, he wasn't as arrogant as, for example, Westbrook. Westbrook, who... The games are very, very similar. ⁓ But you take that in consideration, you move forward. Derrick Rose was that guy. So seeing that his jersey got retired was amazing. It's true. His style isn't a style that's sustainable, unfortunately. Unfortunately. Because unless like it now with Ja Morant and Westbrook. Yeah, you can't because I would say John Morant is closer to Derrick Rose than even Westbrook is. I agree. Because Ja Morant is the same high flying, fearless. Obviously, he has his own issues off the court. But when it comes to that high flying, I want to be with the city attitude. I mean, guess Derek Rose is probably even more since he was born and raised in Chicago. But I don't know. I think it's really cool seeing those he's retired. The one thing I'll definitely say is greatness isn't always about how long you stay on top. ⁓ Sometimes it's about ⁓ refusing to disappear i think that's a perfect quote for Derrick Rose because when he left chicago he had to change his game he obviously situations happen but it it would is it is what it is you can't you can't be injured and any sport whether soccer football so forth you can't beat it but it's just adjusting to overcome it because sometimes it's becoming that role player yes so for him to do that and then being on Minnesota and dropping, I believe he dropped a 40-point piece on one of those games. I remember that. And it was just like he still got it. It was like more for, it seemed like it was more for him, more so than it was for the team. But Derrick Rose was definitely like my childhood Jordan that got injured and I never got the opportunity to see the full potential, but we did see the full potential, if you know what I mean. Yeah. Because Derrick Rose as a glimpses. Yeah, Derrick Rose as a leader. Yeah. So yeah, I had to do a huge shout out for like my childhood hero before. Yeah, that's big. That's big. So. But what it just happened recently. Sunday. Sunday. Two things just happened. We got finalists. Yeah. We do. It's official. It is the Patriots and the Seahawks. It's 2014 all over again. I was just about to say. Doesn't that sound familiar? I was like, I had to double check how it like. That wasn't even that long ago. So that being said, let's just do one thing. We could talk promotions all we want right now, but I think we have a special guest that we can bring on right now who can do us a little justice. Yeah, let's get him out here. Welcome on! you doing? The milkman and the visionary in the flesh. How you doing, sir? You get the throne. Wow, thank you. feel little weird. I thought I was going to have sit on your faces there first. Nah, no, no, no. We got you covered. Whatever you're into. Thanks for having me, boy. Well, thank you. Thank you. No. So you're doing a huge promotion, obviously, for people who don't know. Taz and Jim, this is one half of it. Yeah, yeah. I'm Jim from FM96. This is the important part. Well... The one who's here. I'm the most important. You're more important to us. That's for sure. 100%. Yeah, me and Malcolm go way back. We were in a charity boxing match. to end homelessness, way back. Malcolm, the main event, kick some serious ass, put on a clinic. Were you there? Did you see it? I did. Yeah, it was wild. I appreciate it. Well, he's getting in the ring this year. No way. Yeah. So Malcolm likes to sign me up for things. Like this podcast. Like this podcast. But he's... He did Punch Out MS last year. And then he's doing it again this year. And then this time he roped me into it by basically talking to me and saying, hey, would you be interested in this? I'd be like, really, I don't have time to be training for a fight because I'd really like to win and I want to give it everything I have. And then he asked me one more time and I said, all right, fine. So now I'm training as much as possible. ⁓ even Malcolm's done it three times. ⁓ Yeah. I'm loving the experience so far. ⁓ It's a lot of learning. Yeah. Like I don't know where you were at when you first started if you'd ever boxed before. Which I think they want. Yes. It's probably a lot easier because you don't have bad habits. Like you don't have good habits but you don't have bad habits either. Yeah. It's cool though learning something completely fresh. you do get kind of obsessed with it and not that I don't stand out on a serious, like a very advanced level, but I understand it on such a more advanced level than I did. And I was already a fan. But you learn like a little bit and now like it's the sweet science for a reason. Like I understand it. So much more than I did. Anyway, you're gonna love it. Yeah, well you find, like even now I'm like. I already know more than the average person. Yeah, yeah. Makes you feel better walking down the street too, right? Yeah. Little safe, little Not all of us are your size, I still, I just count. That's what they teach you. he gives you something, I don't want to control. So like, do you have any pointers for him for getting into his first fight? After like, from your experience of getting into the ring for the first time? I mean, yeah, put in the full effort and like do the cardio. Other than that like just listen your coaches man, like they know better than I but I Big mistake. I feel like I did is I didn't when we were backstage They're like be calm like, know what your heart rate going crazy and burning out, which is true But I felt like my first round I was too calm Okay, I told a friend who did it the year after my goal crazy the first round. Like just go out there, like they tell you be calm, but just go nuts. And so that is my advice. Like, yes, you want to be calm. Do the opposite of what your coach says. Until that bell rings, be calm. And then once it is, it's not fun anymore. Like it's on. Get in there. Yeah. Yeah. You got to not take it lightly. Yeah. You can have fun before and after, but like once that bell goes, you're going be disappointed in yourself if you're requiring on all of a sudden with shoulders right away. The rounds were so short. Yes. You only have so much time to really land some punches. So get in there and Because is it one or two minute rounds? Ours will be three. Three? Damn. All right. Yeah. Yeah. That's news to me. Maybe you want to conserve your energy. Yeah, ours is actually regulation. Three three minute rounds. All right. Hey. Now I know what I signed up for. Now that I'm a month in. It's only three rounds. Yeah, it'll be fine. You might finish him. That's the plan. I feel for you. think you will. So I gotta lose some weight so I can get under that 200 though. Yeah, you don't want to fight. I don't want to be in that heavyweight division. Would you fight again though? Man, you know what I would, I really liked it. But I have a bad shoulder, it actually popped out during the fight. No it didn't. Yeah, yeah. So I had to pop it back in and after that I stopped the boxing pit. I wish I did it when I was younger. That's the thing. I get you. Anybody who's ever thinking of doing it, go do it. It's once in a lifetime in my opinion. Perfect. So with your part of FM96 and you guys teamed up with Clubhouse for the Super Bowl party, how did that all start? just been working with the factory ever since they switched over. This whole facility is amazing. The Hard Rock Cafe and all the work we've watched it kind of from the ground up. as they transition from catalogs, like reporting it on the news that was happening and the grand opening. So they've been big supporters of our radio station. We've been big supporters of them. And the clubhouse is just an awesome place to be. Like I've done comedy shows here. I come here with my friends, double dates here. It's just a great spot. So we just always kind of working with them. And I think they approached Taz and I, and we've done it a couple of times now, and it's always a blast. To give you some details, it's February 8th, Super Bowl this year. It starts at 3:30. Come by yourself or get a table whatever buy some tickets go to FM 96.com or the Corpus website We're doing trivia. We're doing games to give away like jerseys legit jerseys legit swag from Bud Light love it. Okay. What edges plural? Well, Rich, let me just say, I might get a little heavy-set, but you know what we do have like the major, the big grand prize is the winner, like we're doing a grand prize draw at the end of the night, and the winner of the draw is winning a trip to the winning Teens City for a weekend. like we're talking hotel stay. It's insane. Travel down there all this stuff. It's awesome. So damn sure you know so much better if Seattle wins. Yeah, yeah, technically it's bossy. Yeah. But yeah, so you gotta be there though. It's a blast. They got the buffet like it's just an awesome time So actually, you know what I came down here for a reason guys I came down In the flash because we are doing trivia. We're like giving away a lot of stuff Oh, and we are doing like wings with the buffet. Okay sauce Oh man. Oh boy. Oh lord. Okay. Are we as a team or is this like... Okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay. Pressure's on. I'm going to start easy with just a yes or no, but one can't say yes, one can't say no. Has a Super Bowl ever gone into overtime? Yeah. Yeah. are correct. Yes, it's happened twice. Okay. Super Bowl 51 Patriots and Falcons. Yep. Obviously. And then Super Bowl 58 Chiefs and 49ers. Yeah, I remember that one too. for one. This one's a little bit tricky. What is the tallest, what is the height of the tallest player to ever play in the Super Bowl? I don't need his name. I just need his height and not a half inch. need it just to the closest. Has to be alignment. Obviously it's alignment. Has to be alignment. It's going to be like, give me the height. It's the, I'm thinking either six eight or six nine. Has to be six nine, but like. trying to like I'm thinking like six nine three fifty pounds height and weight ⁓ fair but I will I do have a picture of them and I will give you an answer but roughly is weight six we're saying six nine six nine three hundred pounds nine boom you did it yeah he's He's probably 300 pounds, but only because he's so damn tall. know, he's not that sick. He's a big boy. In fact, his nickname was, his name is Ed Jones, but his nickname was too tall. Sixth place this event for the Dallas Cowboys. So the quarterback couldn't throw past him. he's always throwing on the mid side. swatting everything. Super Bowl 12. Oh, damn. was a time ago. Okay. Another obscure one. Good prop bet here. Who sang the longest national anthem in Super Bowl history? ⁓ this is tough. This is tough. Longest? can't name three people that have sung it. I know. I'll say. I'm thinking like, I'll say, like, I'll say they played the piano while they're doing it. That's the hint. OK, I'm ⁓ saying that. It's either that it can't be Elton John. It could be Alicia Keys. ⁓ yeah, that could be like I'm thinking Alicia Keys Elton John May no not John Legend Ooh. Lady Gaga maybe. I'll tell you how long it was. How many bad adults? That's really not, don't know how long should it Two minutes 35 seconds. The average length, one minute 50 seconds. So it has to be black. They're on the notes. So I'm going to, you know what? I'm saying John Legend or Alicia Keys. You pick. I'm leaning Alicia Keys. Alicia Keys is the answer. Wow. Okay. Pretty good. Okay. Three for three. I feel like you guys are going to get this here. That one. I'm going to skip over that one. That one's okay. So how much Okay, so I'm gonna... This is a multiple choice. Okay, how much are the refs paid for ⁓ officiating a Super Bowl? I'm gonna give them multiple choice. Is it rough average $40,000, average $400,000, or average $4 million? Which team is paying them? Kansas City, a little like. Can we get those options again? Okay, yeah. It's all four. 40,000, 400,000, or four million. 40,000. It's probably 40. It is 40. In between 30 and 50,000, I thought it'd be higher than that. Wouldn't it be higher so they're less likely to be bribed or anything? You'd think that. You'd think that. We actually had an episode about gambling, and I think that's part of the reason why the refs are gambling is because they don't get paid enough. $40,000 to do your job for one day. Mind you, it is like the job that's like the most important job in probably America for a day. It's like they go, ⁓ the prime minister gets paid, let's say, $250,000, $300,000. Well, that's still good money. But... Yeah. A guy who runs... ⁓ A grocery store makes that and he doesn't have the fate of the, sorry, I'm getting sidetracked. Yeah, no, no, no. I'm on you with this. It's true. I get you. get you. The more they make, the less bribe they are. Okay, so this one, this one's tricky. This is the final one and it's a four-parter. Four teams have the dubious distinction of never making it to the Super Bowl. Four teams. You got to get all four. Bengals? Nope. No, Bengals didn't make Bengals didn't make it. Bills? Bill's made it. No, no, Bill's made it. This has never appeared. Jacksonville. Jacksonville. Cardinals. Yep, no. Okay, continue. Just hit me with three that you're confident in when you're Jags, Colonel, ⁓ Titans, Lions. Lions have never been to a circle? Yeah, Lions have never been to a circle. They hosted, but they've never been to circle. Yeah. So it has to be, Lions. You guys have made it. My guys have made it. Obviously. Titans have made it. Patriots obviously we're seeing them again see also made it so it has to be yeah, that's me those Cardinals no Jags Cardinals Who did you just say? Lions lions that were one with those Jags Cardinals lions two of those are right the Lions and the Jags Cardinal the lowly Cleveland Browns right? Yeah, because because the Houston Texans became a team in the 2000s yeah, they're new so they they're new so they don't have enough history Kurt Warner, thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. This is amazing. I love my hot sauce. All right Okay, that's good. That means it's like It's for breakfast. You put on your eggs. It's appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks for having me, boys. Appreciate So do you have any Super Bowl predictions? Guys, I'm the last guy. Like, I'm a casual fan. I'm a Bills fan. My name is Jim Kelly. It was was thrust upon me in my fandom. Is that who you're named after? I think my mom once said we saw it in the newspaper and thought it was like a good name, but I don't know if she was honest, but I feel like she cursed me in a certain way. But I still love Jim Kelly and I'm honored to be named after him. But no, think it's going to be the Seahawks. ⁓ Just because I feel like they've had a harder road through the Super Infinitely harder. Yes. I don't know. The New England Patriots kind of snuck their way in there, kind of. I want, I kind of, I feel like. the Patriots are gonna win because I think it's been too long since they've the bad boys of the league. They hate the team. years. Yeah, so it'll only been eight years. Yeah, the pattern repeats itself. you know, so. They're second graders that haven't seen them win anything. They're so spoiled, man. They're so spoiled. But you know, it's probably the outcome that's gonna make me the most mad is probably gonna be the outcome. that's probably it. But I hope the Seahawks win. It's usually how it goes. No man, we'll greatly appreciate you. Thank you for taking the time to join us today. for coming. Good luck in the boxing match, Hey, I'm gonna try my best. Thank you boys, see you later. Cheers. That was sweet. Damn, that's cool. I love that we got some hot sauce. I like that we actually got them right. I'm kind of mad that I... For some reason, I assumed the Browns had been... We have high expectations for the Browns, especially... You know what? That's embarrassing. You know what? The Browns just keep getting given stuff, right? Yeah. Speaking of given stuff... Talk about it. Talk about it. Man. If anyone's planning on watching the Pro Bowl, I'm not. You'll get to watch Shedeur Sanders. It's going to be a flag football game. amazing Pro Bowl quarterback that he is getting the backup over, and he's going to be the backup because it's Drake made Josh Allen and Herbert. Yep. They made it. So he's going to be in over. I realized that Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson were injured for a chunk of the year. uh, Shedeur Sanders is not good. I wouldn't say not good. They could have put in Trevor Lawrence, they could have put in... Even Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, cause that, you know what, that would be... You said it last week. That would have been like a send-off. You said it last week, maybe he doesn't deserve, like LeBron not deserving to be in it. That might be on the same level. True. But does Shedeur Sanders just deserve to be in I realize it has a lot to do with fan voting. And somehow he has a lot of fans. Yep. Even though they're just fans of him and not of football. It's a popularity contest. Correct. But, uh, I don't know. Did you see all the the Pro Bowl starters though? Like the AFC versus NFC? I didn't pay attention. I haven't got to that point yet. Man, the NFC, their receivers, it's like Justin Jefferson, Puka, JSN with like Amon Ra right behind them. What? And then you go over to the AFC and it's like It's Jamar Chase, Nico Collins. I can't even remember who the other two are, but it's not. It's like, ⁓ I'm gonna look it up real quick. it pull it up, pull it up. We got Neiko Collin, or Jamar Chase, Neiko Collins, Zay Flowers, and Cortland Sutton. So like on the other side you got hookah, JSN. nevermind. Jefferson isn't in it. you not get the votes? Hickens ⁓ over him. then Amon Ra. ⁓ But yeah, just like, just looking at that, that just goes to show you how much it's flipped to the NSC being way better than the AFC. You're not wrong. And like. It's the same thing, like you look at the list of quarterbacks that the Patriots... Everybody take a second to look up the list of quarterbacks that the Patriots beat this year. And it is pathetic. Yes, I saw the... So one of the memes, there's a slideshow of who the Patriots had to beat this year. And it's like a lot of A lot of And a lot of not-good teams. then they... They lost to Geno Smith. Also, I think it's hilarious that the Seahawks get rid of Geno Smith. And DK McCaff. DK McCaff. But they get rid of Geno Smith. Geno Smith earns them the number one pick in the drafts. They pick up Sam Darnold, who earns them a spot in the Super Bowl. It's... Like, that's how much I... Good, like, not... a good quarterback versus not good. It's mostly like Geno's just in bad situations. He was great last year for Seattle. Yeah, because he had an amazing situation. And then goes to the Raiders. And unfortunately, that's the situation. It's just a mess right now. But man. Yeah. But like, man, this weekend was ridiculous. Those games. Those games are exactly what you want of NFC, of championship games. If you're trying to be a fan of a sport, this weekend was a great, it was all in one day. It all on Sunday, you two games and you saw football weather, you saw... And it wasn't even super, it didn't go super late either. True, true. But like you got a regular game, you got three games in one technically, right? Because the first half... the Patriots and Broncos game, was one game. And then once you got to the fourth quarter. No, you got to the third quarter and start it. It was like a blizzard without like that's football weather because like because the third quarter, no one could they couldn't move the ball. The Patriots had a really long sustained drive. Yes. There was like eight minutes, but like you can't throw the one direction. You literally couldn't throw the ball. Yes. And even just watching the broadcast, was so hard to see what was going on. For us watching it, they had the lines. If those lines aren't there, you have no idea where anything is. It's absolutely a blur. Like imagine being a football player and you're like, all right, let's just play this game freezing and blind. Full contact. Yes. But no, honestly, it was pretty amazing to watch. obviously Patriots and Broncos played. That was a 10-7 game. So very defensive because of the weather and because Broncos had to play a backup quarterback. Yep. And obviously he's not at the full strength like everyone else. Obviously you can't be. There's a reason you're a backup quarterback and not a star. And he showed it. He definitely showed it. But they made some calls like opting to not take the points. Well, that's that's analytics. It is. But at the same time. You would think they would know the weather, like somebody would know the weather is coming or like have some sort of idea. But even then they had the opportunity to go up two scores and they decided to know we want to go up 14 instead of 10. If they had just gone up 10, it would have been totally different game. Different story. It would have been totally different going into it. That's what happens. That's what happens when, you know, people will take analytics like the Bible, some coaches do. Analytics are like, the end of the day, it's just, it's like chat, GPT, it's like AI. But it's it's stats. It's stats driven and you can't, you can't be like, well we hit this 95 % of the time. Okay. But the other team is trying their absolute hardest to stop you. Sure you hit it 95 % of the time, but who were you playing all year? Exactly. Exactly. What were those situations? Was it in a championship game? Was the weather a factor? Because it's not necessarily telling you. It's telling you exactly every situation with the right wind, the weight of the ball. No, everything's totally different every single play. It's subjective. It's subjective. And that's the biggest problem with some coaches that are only following, like Dane Campbell, who always goes for a fourth. Alright, like I don't think he does analytics though. I get it because like, we're like related to like boxing. If you set up your job and you hit him with a job and keep hitting them job in the body four times in a row, the person is going to think that you're going to go for a job and then you fake the job and you hit him with a hook. Yeah, that makes sense because you have the analytics like, oh, he's blocky, he's blocky, he's blocking. I'm going to use my feeling and trick them in. Cause he's automatically gonna assume that I'm gonna go for the job. That's what they should be doing with analytics. You can use it as a tool, but then when you really need it, get them off guard. That's how you like, you play the play action. If you run the ball too much, teams cheat. Then you hit them with the play action because they cheated. That's how you're supposed to use analytics to help you in those moments. And I don't think coaches are using it. I think they're using it as like an AI tool. Honestly, To an extent, I feel like they're using it as an excuse to go for it. Because they all want to go for it. They're just using It's more exciting when they go for it. Don't get me wrong. You and I, we applaud them when they go for it and works. And then we say these things. Yeah. Right? Now, don't get me wrong. We're not ESPN. We're not analyzing. Even like, there's been a lot of times this year where teams have gone for it on fourth down, risking it. Just... Like early in the game. But like obviously in like the Ram Seahawks game when it's going back and forth, both teams are running up and down the field. No one's stopping anybody. It makes more sense to go for it. True. But it's very early on in the game. The defense isn't tired yet. You don't have a sense of how the game is going to play out. Like if you told them, hey, If you just kick this field goal, you'll be tied with them in the end of the game. Each team will only score 10 points in the whole game. But on the flip side, if you look at the other games and you're like, there was almost 60 points scored versus 20. See, but here's the other thing. And this is what I loved about the Patriots and the Broncos game is Mike Vrabel trusted his team. And you can see he trusted the team because he was just like, they're trusting the defense. They're like, you know what? We don't have to try any harder on offense. We'll let them try to score. And they're playing. Don't lose the ball. Yeah. Just run the ball, throw it out of bounds, do it and let the defense do it. And then, you know, trusting your team, trusting. You know, not using analytics, but knowing like whether was a huge factor where, you know, yeah, the advantage was on Broncos. because they're throwing with the win. Where the Patriots were throwing against the win and the Blizzard was going towards the Patriots. Well, is that in the fourth quarter? think there was like four or five minutes left and the Patriots, instead of trying to actually march it down the field, they're like, no, let's waste time. We're just going to run it three times, then kick it. They ran it three times. They burned two minutes off the clock. Yep. And then they only, they gained one yard running it three times. Everyone knew what they were going to do. They could have taken a knee if they wanted to. Then they kicked it immediately after they trusted their defense. How were they rewarded? Interception. Trust the process. Yeah. 76ers. But then the flip side is we're talking about the Rams and Seahawks game. That was just a shootout. There was a point where there was no defense. But did you see the that fumble, the muff punt? Yeah, he got taken out of the game after that. He did. And then they put in Kyron Williams and he was told, literally told, don't even try to run it back, just catch the ball. Yeah, because that's how they how it happens. They try and get ahead of themselves, especially because the Seahawks, they're their kicker. is so good. When you have a really good kicker who can place it like that, give it a funny spin, make it hard for you to handle, like that's huge. What did they lose by? Four points? It was only four, yeah. What did the Seahawks get that drive? A touchdown on the next play? ⁓ It was so close too. was honestly a great game to watch. Absolutely fantastic to watch both games to see who was going to the Super Bowl. I have one sheet that's almost correct. But if New England wins, I win. I saw that. The problem is with that is I'm actually kind of want the Seahawks to win. I just didn't think the Seahawks were good enough to win the Super Bowl. I had the Rams. ⁓ Fair. I like Mike McDonald or Mike McDonald. He's a great coach. I just, looking at Mike Rabel, I think he's a better coach, especially how Drake May is MVP quality and how like resurgent that whole team is as a collective. I can't believe they went from three and 14 to 14 and three. Or I guess 16 and three now. like it's ridiculous for what, what the, and this is coming from an Eagles fan. it's a ridiculous thing with the patriots that you know i feel a lot about for a lot of coaches in the nfl is now a lot of them are not see after what just happened from both aspects yet rate because look at cf the seahawks yet juneau smith last year you got the relevant but you were this good sam donald who was seeing ghosts is now in the super bowl and you're sure it was the patriots you seeing those again he was He was. was the Patriots. Obviously, these are the Jets. They're their own style of training. Here's the crazy thing is he was the third pick in the 2018 draft. That's the same draft as Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Josh Rosen, who's a Bucks and Baker Mayfield. Out of all those quarterbacks, the one to make it to a Super Bowl as a starter. As a starter. That is ridiculous. Technically, he's Technically he's already been to a Super Yeah, with San Francisco. But this is the first one he's actually starting. That is ridiculous out of all those, like Josh Allen, Superman, know, Michael Vick 2.0 and Lamar Jackson. Crazy. Baker Meafield, well that's Baker. But it took Sam Donald five teams in eight years to get there. And all the other people we just talking about, know, except for Baker, they're on the same team. Except and Josh Rosen, who's retired now. yeah, I guess he is too. Yeah. But it's just crazy because like I think it's really funny for the Jets because they're like, ⁓ either Sam Darnold gets a Super Bowl and we drafted him or the Patriots get a Super Bowl and we hate them. Yeah, it just just sucks for Jets fans, but that's just football for them. That's just football. That's a reality. So until they can get smarter, but... Yeah, we'll see. So obviously, you know, we're talking about that. Who do you think is going to It's hard to say. I think the Seahawks are going to take it. I'm going to trust on the defense of New England. See, the Seahawks have a better defense. And they've been playing harder competition all year. OK, so the Patriots rode to the Super Bowl. They've played great defenses. They just haven't played great offenses. And how have they played against these great defenses? Awkwardly. They've beat them, yes. Awkwardly all the... But when they played the Chargers, that was a very low scoring game. They played the... They just played the Broncos, very low scoring game. They played the Texans. Low scoring game. They just do enough though. They just do enough. The Seahawks, they can win both ways. That's true. They can win in the shootout, 100%. They can win in a shootout. They can also win by not letting you do anything. True. San Francisco's defense was injured. Offensive defense. We can talk about that. know, Rams, very high powered, octane offense. Defense is good. What I wouldn't say is as good as New England. They are statistically better than New England. OK. I personally view New England's defense better than the Rams. feel like it's different because like I because when I look at New England, I also look it's like they're buying into like the New England Patriots defense style. So like they have that extra edge where like Rams defense is good. Seahawks defense. Sorry. I'm talking about the Rams ⁓ defense. the Rams defense is OK. That's what I mean. Like the Seahawks played that defense. and that was okay. But the Rams are also the best offensive team in the league. Best offense? Yes. Their defense is lacking. That's why it was a high shootout game. You know what mean? But for Seahawks to play New England, they're going to have to play a great defense with a good offense as well. Not as good as the Rams, but a good offense. This is what I'm getting at. So what's your prediction for the Super Bowl then? ⁓ I think it's going to be 33-23. I'm thinking... I'm thinking 27-17. I think we're going to have a lot more points this year compared to usual. You think so? Yeah. Because usually it's under 30 points or under 50. Yeah. So I think we're going to get a lot of offense. I don't think we're going to get like a, you know, a New England Falcons kind of thing. Not a giant comeback? No, I don't think it be a giant comeback. I think it's going to be fourth quarter heavy. Yeah, I think it... I don't know. I think it's gonna be low in the first half, high in the back end. I think it's gonna take a comeback from the Patriots to win. I still say the If they can win, they're gonna need a comeback. I think right now all they're doing is playing the Jets Patriots game when he said he saw Ghost and see what they disguised and what they were doing. Don't get me wrong, Sam Donnell is... That was so long ago. Understandable, but there's always tendencies. Sometimes you have to look into someone's past before you can look into their future. ⁓ he was playing... He actually played really smart in the last game. He literally had a career game. was career high for... Yo, shout out to Boo Boo. Shout out to the tight end who got the touchdown for Seahawks. Boo Boo. Like he was throwing to people that he didn't think he was gonna throw to. Exactly, they're distributing. Yeah, because obviously the main two are JSN and Cooper Cup. Yeah. Right? But then Sheed had that one amazing reception, but he doesn't usually get an opportunity to throw to him. And then obviously Boo Boo with the catch in the end zone, that was huge. ⁓ So like you have those two. But three touchdowns. was like a... That was like the most yards in a championship game in like years. I would say this, if there was more time on the clock. there was a little bit more time on the clock, Rams would have won that game. Probably. But that's hindsight. that's control on the clock. That was control on the clock and that Puka catch was great, but he didn't get out of bounds enough. Exactly. And I was like, oh, are we going to see Mr. Fourth Quarter again? But. They ran out of time. They ran out of time. It was great to see. was fun. I they did go for it at one point and didn't get it on a full... If you're a Rams fan, losing that game wouldn't hurt that much. Like it does. You're not going to the Super Bowl, but like you put it all on the field. Yeah. As a Rams fan, you should be proud. Yeah. Right. So. Hey, the Rams and Stafford are... They've had... two receivers that have gone over 2,000 yards between the regular and postseason, Cooper Cup and hookah. So, this is crazy. We got the Super Bowl coming up. Obviously, we're going to be here. Yeah, I'm pumped. So there's so many things like I know Jim mentioned some of the stuff we're to what they got going on for Super Bowl, but we're going to be doing a few things. We're like, we're going to be here. have a bunch of prizes that we'll have on Super Bowl as well. Yeah. So pretty exciting. ⁓ my goal is to have this episode uploaded tomorrow. ⁓ That being said, I also plan on having ⁓ the links on my website so you can buy your tickets. ⁓ sick. So they can come to us. They can Gotta link our Punch Out stuff too. Yep. Yep. So all that's coming up as well. So basically we're just trying to grow. We're trying to expand and we can't do it without you guys. So we really appreciate it. We need your help to grow. Yeah, we got more coming. I have an idea for something that we should do. We can talk. We can talk off air. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good idea. like it. like it. I have a few other things. Every single day I go on social media right now, I'm seeing this whole thing about salary cap and baseball. And how it's ridiculous and doesn't exist. No, no, no. How the owners want to bring in a salary cap now because of the Tucker deal with the Dodgers. It's too late. OK. How would you even put in a salary cap at this point? OK, so this is my take. And this is what I think baseball needs to do moving forward is if you don't want to invest the money into the team that you bought. Don't buy it. Don't buy it. Because like as fans, we're talking about all these teams and it's not just baseball. It's not just, you know, hockey. But some of the money is starting to get a little ridiculous. Let me finish. OK. For you and I. The equivalent of owning a sports team is like buying Pokemon cards or buying... For some of them. Or like buying Pokemon cards or buying, you know, hockey cards or baseball cards or football cards. That's these owners' toys. That's a hobby. That's like a flex for them, right? But yeah, but for some of them. Understandable. There's different types of owners. Understandable. So what I'm saying though is like, obviously they get a... Dividends on it because they get the shares and all that what the Dodgers are doing is they're taking their profits and putting it back into the team Yeah, because those owners don't need the money. It's because there's other owners that are That this is all they have so this is how they need to make their money, okay? Correct, but look at it from this perspective. Some is a hobby some is a business some is yes But to buy a team you have to be wealthy. you have to be very wealthy. So you and your team are buying a toy that one could be a write-off for some. You know what mean? Some it's like their gala, like they have a business and be like, let's go, you know what, let's go to the football game. I own the team. Like that's a flex. You know what mean? So they can do things like that. Here's. what I'm saying about what the Dodgers are doing compared to like the small market is. You put a salary cap in, it does not fix the small market teams. Because at the end of the day, you put a salary cap and you make the level playing field level. Now you're only asking the players to take a play cut. Yeah. Right? You're telling the players, oh, you're too good or I'm willing to pay you more. It does not fix the issue. But it does level the playing field for people that for the teams that can't afford to pay Shohei Otani $700 million or pay $100 million to, you know what I mean? I understand that, but it doesn't give Shohei Otani the opportunity to go there. That's what I mean. A luxury tax, forcing a heavier luxury tax is smarter. Right? Because here, if the Dodgers are willing to spend X amount of dollars on signing Tucker, signing Shoei Atani and blah, blah, Yeah, but that's just buying championships. Understandable. But the luxury tax should then go to the teams that are not willing to spend the money so then they can get that money to put into their team. That would see that would make sense. I don't know what they do with the luxury tax. If it went to the teams that are under the luxury tax, it's basically profit share. So whatever the Dodgers make in profits to return back into the league, which then goes to the lower team. then use that money to sign better players, to bring people in so that they can get those TV contracts. Because all I'm looking right now is the Dodgers are being active and are trying to... ⁓ they are. They're trying to make a better team, but they're trying to be a better team at the same time finding people who fit with their team. And unfortunately, the ones that fit with their team cost a lot more money. and they're paying them ahead of time instead of before. They're paying ahead of time instead of after. But all these other teams are not trying to that. some of these guys wanted to stay on these teams, but they're like, well, you're not worth this much. It's true. It's like when someone comes over to you with a new job offer and you're just like, no, I really like the situation where I'm in. And then someone says, okay, well, I'll give you double what you're getting paid right now. And you're like, well, I guess I'm going. But what I'm saying is also when you take that in consideration and you look at that, you can fix hockey because Look what's happening. All these great players end up going to places that they don't have to pay taxes. Okay, well, there's that, but hockey has done a lot better of a job than a lot of other sports, 100 % of keeping things even. Yeah, there's a level of parity. Obviously, like there's some poverty franchises that will just never get off the ground. But like you see teams do the cycle. They go up at the top, then all their players want money. So they all go to other places. they get back to the bottom, start building up again. So that's the way a salary cap is supposed to work. Whereas baseball is just like, oh well. There's a soft cap, that's what you have to spend, but there's no hard cap. Exactly. Instead of doing the hard cap, do a luxury cap. If you are spending way more on your revenues, it's a lot higher compared to you have to X amount of dollars or X amount of shares, you to send back to the league. See, it would make sense for it to go to. the other teams that can't. Like how we always make the, like, people make the Like if you want to buy a championship, go for it, but you're also paying the other teams for the championship. subsidize the other teams you can't get there. Yeah. But with a luxury tax like that, it has to be to the point where you're using that money and not profiting on that money. Yeah. Right? Because some of these owners can just take that money and just be like, well, I don't care. I think it should go directly to an account that is for player spending. Like this is your budget for over the salary cap now. Well like in soccer there's no salary cap. In Premier League there's no salary cap. Like that's how I envision. Oh because that's why they have like all these oil money teams. But what, I don't know how you say that. Because you have to pay the team and then you pay the players. Yeah. But I think a lot of sports would actually benefit if... we start focusing on a luxury tax instead of like a hard cap, a luxury tax. then teams that like, unfortunately there's going to be some like players that want to play on the West Coast. It's like they want to play where they're from. Either where they're from or where it's warmer. I think when it comes down to it, like when it even just in regular taxes, if you are rich, you end up with everything and you're gonna end up paying less tax because you have a better tax guy. Like your accountant is probably better because you're paying them more. It's true. And that's gonna result in you being able to do a whole lot more things. You're not wrong. Like they'll always be able to wiggle things around and it's like in the NFL. You have teams that are really like, like the Eagles. You look at their team and you're like, how do they even afford this? But it's because they have an owner that wants to win and they do a lot more guaranteed money so they can get, so it doesn't hit the cap as bad. And they don't have to draft for the top end of it, so they don't have to pay the extra incentives. They trade a lot, they get rid of things. So then the budget can come down so they can pay more in the back end. Yeah. But it's just. they have a better accountant and GM than other teams. Right now what I'm saying is that Dodgers are smarter than everyone else and they're being punished for being smart. And rich. But like there's also a lot of other rich teams in the league. Dodgers aren't the only rich team. No, but they're the ones that are the most money. They're not the only filthy rich team that owns a baseball team. Because I look at the Mets, I look at the Yankees. Well, yeah. Their owners are actually probably richer There's a reason why these teams are the teams that are in the finals every year. You know what I mean? Like, I look at that and just like... Some owners want to spend money and some don't. Don't blame the owners that want to spend money and win championships at the same time. Yeah. What do mean even the Jays? Like, they were like up there in top... They tried. Yeah. They tried. But like, if the Jays can continue this, it's only a matter time before the Jays become the next Dodgers because the Jays has a full country behind them. They can get revenue in TV deals and leverage it in a way that they can benefit more than any other team in the States. the whole country into boosters. The opportunity for the Jays to be exactly like the Dodgers are huge. That's the same thing with college football or college sports now. Now that they can pay players, you look at these teams and you're like, ⁓ Indiana won or These teams that are winning are the teams that have long history, they have a ton of graduates that just want to see their school win. So the reason why I'm bringing this up is because I'm paying attention to college sports a lot more and watching how, because right now Duke University is suing their quarterback because he's trying to go into the transfer portal and they're suing him so he doesn't go so they can keep him for their long term. It's the whole money concept. And it's just like, you opened up the concept to pay players. Oh, they paid him for one year and then he was like, all right, I'm to go to the transfer portal because but they're not he's not on the contract. He just enrolled to the school so he can do whatever he wants. Yeah. So the schools try to sue him to keep him there. So I look at that and it's like, well, you give him money. He's going to go where he's either going to play, have a better opportunity to get drafted. or get more money. Because it's all just one year contracts. Yeah, because you only agree to stay on the team for one year, then you can put yourself in the portal. Like it's smart. But it's kind of insane the way they set it up. It shows the small attention span. Yeah, ⁓ 100%. And it's just people throw, like them throwing money around. Yeah. So I look at that and it's like, that would fix almost baseball to a degree. Obviously it's... their contracts, but having that opportunity like in college. Imagine if all sports ever no multi-year contracts. Imagine how many players would be sitting out. The NBA would be screwed. yeah. The NBA would be screwed. because the NBA would only work off of that concept because you have your markets, like you have the Knicks, you have the- Because you're like, no, we got you locked in for five years, so now we can build around The Lakers have Donchik right now. That's the future. That's their showtime person. Like they had LeBron, like they had Kobe, like they had Magic, like they had all the past players. They find the best player and he becomes- Laker because that's what draws people to the NBA Lakers being successful Knicks At one point it was the Knicks the Knicks won the cup this year And then they fired their coaches recently ⁓ Well, you know, mean that's weird Shows you how much that cup means it doesn't mean it's an incentive for them for the bottom players I still enjoy the the courts they use the courts are amazing. The courts are sick courts are There was a couple of them that were way too bright. I think we talked about that in one of the episodes. But when your face is glowing from the ground up, it's probably too bright. All right. So just I know we've gone a little off topic. So, Maaz will slowly sway back to the end. What did you do this weekend? AKA Sunday, during the day. AKA? ⁓ man, I went to that Knights game. Tell me about it. So my parents are big Knights fans. Shout out to your parents. Shout out to my parents. Was this a Christmas gift for them? Yeah, so I got it for them for Christmas. Okay, where were you sitting? We were sitting in the seats that we had that you got for us the one time. Okay, okay. Because you know, London's a big small place and it pays to know people. It's true. And being able to take them to a game. where they're huge fans, they have never sat that close to anything in their life. We're sitting behind the away goalie touching the glass. tell me their reaction, like how was it? It's so much faster. Like they were just amazed the entire time. Like my dad's a huge fan. He collects all, he gets all the cards every year. I think he's got, I don't he's years back now. But he gets all those every year. He saves all that. Knows all the stats, knows all the trades, which is hard to follow the OHL sometimes. it's very hard. But... He was telling me all these things about the different players. And it was just a really cool experience. If anyone gets a chance to go check out a Knights game, they're awesome. I didn't say the score, so we're sitting behind the away net, which is the best place to sit at a Knights game because the Knights are great. end of the first period, they were up 3-1. End of the second period they were up 8-2 Damn end of the game. They were up 10-2. Whoo Now wizard chance like we want eight. yeah want nine. Yeah, we want ten. Yeah, okay yeah, that was great. That's always a great experience. Yeah here we want 11. It's hilarious That's yeah, that's that's like but I know like between that like This week has been a crazy week. Obviously sports and everything, but like the weather. Yep. Like I know it shut down a lot of things for a lot of people. Like there's lots of flights grounded out of Toronto. One of my clients was supposed to fly to Vancouver and they shut him down. He tried to fly on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and they even grounded it today. So we had to pivot and do a few other things. But yeah, I, well, my boss showed up to Cathy Ann. I was trying to go to Aruba. Flight canceled. Not rebookable, just canceled. that sucks. So yeah, so they're also pivoting. Yeah, because they just canceled so that everything's lost. No, they got a large chunk of everything back. ⁓ But still, still brutal. That's fair, yeah. Damn. Okay. But yeah, weather's ruined. Like, I thought honestly, like, if we had a head, imagine if the NSC or the AFC championship games, it would fit was in Buffalo or if it was in, I... It had been like that. If it was in Boston. It would have been like the Canadian Premier League Championship game where like it was a complete blizzard. ⁓ It was a blizzard and... should have been canceled. Yeah. Of how bad it was. If they knew Denver was going to look like that halfway through the game, they probably would have postponed it. Actually, they probably wouldn't have. They probably wouldn't. They would have changed the time earlier. Yeah. Because like a game is only three hours. What are the chances that at halftime it's just like, and Blizzard. But it wasn't like at halftime. It was like Blizzard halfway through the third. Yeah. And it just creeps out and all of sudden, but like if you had just started the game at one instead of three, there would have been basically no snow. agree. I agree. Last point then. How you enjoying boxing this week? Man, I'm liking it. I know for like this was like last week was like the first week of like really getting in. And. I know I said I want to go all in. There was six classes. There's a noon, a five and a seven on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I was at the five and the seven both days. Oh damn. Back to back classes. Well, not back to back. There's a little gap. But it's nice. But it's good. Because this week was a lot of basics and stuff. And I said, was like, no, I want to get this down because this is the base. You got to have a strong base before you start moving forward on it. And I don't know, as a white guy with no rhythm, it takes me a minute to get things down like that. How's your footwork then? It's sketchy sometimes. I mean, like my feet can move. Like I've played soccer for years. I can do a lot of fancy things with my feet. But like, it's the... The... Doing it, like the repetition. Yep. That takes a lot to get down. Like even just like swinging the noodle at the other guy. Yeah. Tell me about it. I know. ⁓ huh. They're like, I'm so bad at that. Like, left, right, swi... Nope. Nope. ⁓ Keep messing it up. Yeah, it's ⁓ but hey the fourth class was a lot better than the first class So that's all the matter progress. Maybe I'll take it to like the other classes I go to yeah because You went to what you see you had to four classes. Yeah, total last week. I only did three Two at the one gym one at the other and man. Yeah My trajectory is a little bit different compared to yours. Well, yeah Right? I'm not learning. I'm trying to, well, I'm always You're trying to get back into shape. Trying to get back into shape on top of getting that muscle memory change my style. Okay, yeah. Right? I'm trying to revamp what I've learned from my past two and have a whole different, like, first fight, I was reckless. I was having fun. Did it. Second fight, I was calculated. Didn't get to do everything I wanted to do. Yeah. Third fight. I want to be calculated and last the full fight, but be able to like tire my opponent to the point where like I don't have to throw as much. See right now I'm just like, I got to do enough to impress the coaches enough to for them to be like. need all the card. Yeah. Yeah. You're right now you're fighting to get on the card. Yeah. So I got to prove it. You will. will. Put in the hours. You'll see it. I think they're already starting to see it. So that's good. We'll be sparring next week. ⁓ boy, I get some head gear. It'll be a little bit longer, but yeah. I do have to get that though. We can talk. But other than that, anything else? I don't know, I'm just excited. Excited for everything coming up. Can't wait for I know obviously like this week is gonna be... Our low period. We'll have an episode next week, but it's gonna be different. It'll be different. We'll talk a little bit more about like Super Bowl predictions, but... Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited for everything that we got coming. I'm excited for the Super Bowl. I can't wait to wake up tomorrow. I want to some... Put a little Taz and Jim on my eggs. That sounds so wrong. Pause. It's hot sauce. But... Yeah. I thought it was funny. He was like pulling hot sauce out of his pants. No, that was pretty sweet. No, that was good. but yeah all right well that's it for me yeah I think we should wrap it up showed out to Jim Jim thanks for coming on Jim from 96 we appreciate you FM 96 Clubhouse always a huge huge shout out to club house for giving this opportunity to us shout out to all of our what do we call them now mobs the bench mob the bench mob showed out to ⁓ our loyal listeners in was it Singapore Yes. You're listening from Singapore or from a VPN that says Singapore. Thank you. Shout out to you all. That is the most obscure country on our list of places that have listened to us. Yep. Honestly, like you said earlier, you know, this is our 21st episode. 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