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- 0:00Speaker 1: Oh my god, the rams just want to freaking everyol.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Betty is all over the place. I had a whiskey
- 0:16Speaker 1: and gender I'm being good. A few hours later. Morning, everybody.
- 0:24Speaker 1: It is currently eight am on post super Bowl Monday.
- 0:35Speaker 1: I feel like my body just got it by a truck.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Um And this is me co signing the petition that
- 0:47Speaker 1: there needs to be a national holiday after the super Bowl,
- 0:53Speaker 1: every city, every state. This needs to be mandated. Please,
- 0:59Speaker 1: But I'm going back to bed. Oh my goodness, I'm alive, everybody.
- 1:06Speaker 1: I made it. I am alive. It's Tuesday. I have
- 1:10Speaker 1: had many, many many hours of sleeps, and I'm feeling good.
- 1:14Speaker 1: I'm feeling rested. I'm now looking back on the madness
- 1:19Speaker 1: of super Bowl week that I just had. I've never
- 1:22Speaker 1: covered a super Bowl like this before. I'm in a
- 1:25Speaker 1: hotel room. I have fled to the mountains and am
- 1:30Speaker 1: just sleeping mostly all day and it's been lovely. But guys,
- 1:36Speaker 1: what a freaking week. Welcome to bench with Banetta. I'm
- 1:39Speaker 1: joined by Mohan and Junkyard Dog Holy Moses. So I'm
- 1:45Speaker 1: basically just gonna go through the week that was because
- 1:50Speaker 1: I didn't really get to talk to you guys. Basically
- 1:52Speaker 1: after we sat down a radio row, I was just
- 1:55Speaker 1: like a bad out of hell. I was on my
- 1:57Speaker 1: way to go get a spray tan and then I
- 2:00Speaker 1: basically just blacked out to get through the rest of
- 2:03Speaker 1: the week because I had something going on every single day.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Got to be on the red carpet for NFL Owners
- 2:11Speaker 1: first things first, which was very, very cool. I got
- 2:15Speaker 1: to see a lot of celebs come through, Russell Wilson,
- 2:17Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, got to talk to Gronk. I've never seen
- 2:21Speaker 1: a bigger hand in my life. I've never seen a
- 2:25Speaker 1: bigger hand in my life. I think it would actually
- 2:27Speaker 1: it would not just palm my face, it would wrap
- 2:29Speaker 1: around my head and he'd be able to close his
- 2:32Speaker 1: hand behind my head. It was the largest hand I've
- 2:36Speaker 1: ever seen. I gotta ask you guys something the NFL
- 2:40Speaker 1: Owners I've never covered before. I didn't really know what
- 2:44Speaker 1: the vibe was going to be. I got there and
- 2:48Speaker 1: it was so freaking hot, and I was wearing a corset.
- 2:52Speaker 1: And I know that you guys might not know what
- 2:53Speaker 1: that is or what it feels like, but it feels
- 2:56Speaker 1: like death is upon you any minute. Okay, you can
- 2:59Speaker 1: bear really breathe. They you literally have to brace yourself
- 3:03Speaker 1: for them to go to tug you into this thing
- 3:06Speaker 1: makes your bod look great though. So I was out
- 3:08Speaker 1: on the carpet. I was just like I might be
- 3:10Speaker 1: in like full pass out mode during this show. And Pete,
- 3:14Speaker 1: my partner, is texting me because you know he's coming
- 3:17Speaker 1: on the red carpet. We're gonna go to the show later.
- 3:19Speaker 1: It's gonna be real, real fun date night. And he
- 3:22Speaker 1: text me when should I When should I roll up?
- 3:24Speaker 1: When should I roll up? And I was like, I'm
- 3:25Speaker 1: done it too, so come it, come it too. It's
- 3:27Speaker 1: so hot you don't want to be out here. And
- 3:29Speaker 1: he's like, okay, I'll be there for two. So he
- 3:31Speaker 1: rolls up at the end of the eve before we
- 3:33Speaker 1: head in. He's got his little bit. He actually didn't
- 3:36Speaker 1: know how to tie his bow tie, so he left
- 3:38Speaker 1: it out and our wardrobe Silas had to tie his
- 3:41Speaker 1: bow tie for him, like a he's a little freaking child,
- 3:45Speaker 1: but he lived great. Once it was all tied up
- 3:48Speaker 1: and he's like, so, what, where's where's everybody? What's going on?
- 3:51Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, honey, the carpets, it's done.
- 3:54Speaker 1: I'm done, We're done where you get to go inside?
- 3:56Speaker 1: And he goes, what, what do you mean it's done?
- 4:00Speaker 1: And I was like, well, this I told you, like
- 4:01Speaker 1: this is when I'm wrapped, Like this is We're good,
- 4:04Speaker 1: everyone's already inside. He was so angry at me, guys,
- 4:09Speaker 1: and I know that I'm saying this from a laugh,
- 4:10Speaker 1: but like we got into a full ass fight because
- 4:13Speaker 1: he I was like, what did you want? He wanted
- 4:15Speaker 1: to come for the whole thing. He wanted to sit
- 4:16Speaker 1: off to the side and see Mac Jones roll up
- 4:19Speaker 1: and see Travis Kelcey. And I was like, what were
- 4:21Speaker 1: you gonna do? Just stare at them? And he goes, yes, yes,
- 4:25Speaker 1: I would have just stared at them and it would
- 4:27Speaker 1: have been the greatest day of my life. So I
- 4:29Speaker 1: gotta ask you, did I mess up? Did I mess
- 4:31Speaker 1: Did I mess up? Should I have just had him
- 4:34Speaker 1: there for the full day? Because in my mind I
- 4:36Speaker 1: was looking out for him. In his mind, I've never
- 4:39Speaker 1: betrayed him more. What do you guys think? Did I
- 4:42Speaker 1: mess up? I'm team Pete. I'm just gonna you're always
- 4:46Speaker 1: seeing Pete Mo. That's not fair. I had a job
- 4:49Speaker 1: to do. And also, who knows what bow tie is
- 4:53Speaker 1: gonna say. He's gonna go up to Mac Jones. There's
- 4:55Speaker 1: been so many times, you guys, that I have seen
- 4:58Speaker 1: him go up to a celebrity and just be the dorkiest.
- 5:02Speaker 1: He does work in sports, but like you know, Stephen Girard,
- 5:06Speaker 1: Liverpool legend, he absolutely embarrassed himself in front of this guy,
- 5:11Speaker 1: and it just taught me, Okay, Pete maybe shouldn't meet
- 5:14Speaker 1: his heroes. I an't had that in my head when
- 5:18Speaker 1: I was like, you know, we just come just come later,
- 5:20Speaker 1: just come late. Might some athletes might think it's endearing. Plus,
- 5:24Speaker 1: I'd rather if I were you, I'd rather deal with
- 5:27Speaker 1: him complaining that it's so hot than actually be in
- 5:31Speaker 1: this situation where you're taking away from his experience. I'm
- 5:34Speaker 1: just like being an observer. My goodness, Graver, are you on?
- 5:37Speaker 1: Are you on? Pize's? I do? I feel like this
- 5:39Speaker 1: is just a communication issue, Like he wanted to know
- 5:42Speaker 1: what time you were done. It wasn't like you were
- 5:44Speaker 1: gonna like where you're supposed to offer up like I'm
- 5:46Speaker 1: done at X, but for two or three hours before that,
- 5:50Speaker 1: I'm doing a red carpet show. Would you want to
- 5:52Speaker 1: come for I mean, I feel like if he wanted
- 5:53Speaker 1: to come to that part, he should have said, Oh,
- 5:55Speaker 1: that's what time you're done? Oh cool? Well, well what
- 5:57Speaker 1: about all the other red carpet stuff? Can I come?
- 5:59Speaker 1: I would love to see it? And then so I think,
- 6:04Speaker 1: I think Justin and I guy, did you guys have
- 6:06Speaker 1: a single conversation with me last week? Did you not
- 6:08Speaker 1: see how frazzled I was about every single moment of
- 6:11Speaker 1: the day that I had to get done. There was
- 6:13Speaker 1: just no way. Listen, I messed up. I messed up.
- 6:15Speaker 1: It's Valentine's I can say, I mess up. I'm sorry.
- 6:18Speaker 1: I'm sorry to my lover. Okay, next year, if you
- 6:21Speaker 1: see me on the Red carpet and there's just a
- 6:23Speaker 1: man behind me with a bow tie that looks like crap,
- 6:26Speaker 1: that's Pete And I'm being a good girlfriend by inviting
- 6:29Speaker 1: him to that. But I mean, he would have been
- 6:31Speaker 1: so sweaty. My date came to the Red carpet as well,
- 6:34Speaker 1: and I told her to come as late as possible.
- 6:36Speaker 1: Of course, she doesn't care about meeting football players, but
- 6:39Speaker 1: still like she was also wearing a corset. By the way,
- 6:41Speaker 1: that's where they differ. Oh, me and my girl, so
- 6:43Speaker 1: she knows the pain. Um, anyways, I messed up. I'll
- 6:46Speaker 1: own up to it. Sorry, goes out to Pete. So
- 6:49Speaker 1: that was NFL Owners. We go inside. I've never really,
- 6:53Speaker 1: be honest, I've never really like sat and watched NFL
- 6:55Speaker 1: Owners before. It's a great show. He did such a
- 6:58Speaker 1: fantastic job. Can I tell you little inside scoop that
- 7:00Speaker 1: we saw that probably the cameras didn't see um comeback
- 7:05Speaker 1: Player of the Year Dak Prescott Joe Burrow. To be honest,
- 7:10Speaker 1: I know that Joe Burrow is obviously in a Super Bowl,
- 7:13Speaker 1: but I thought that Dak was gonna win it. I
- 7:15Speaker 1: just his leg was, his ankle was sideways. Like I
- 7:19Speaker 1: know that the MCL and the ACL of it all
- 7:21Speaker 1: is absolutely atrocious as well, but like just these the
- 7:26Speaker 1: people have that image of him crying and getting carted off.
- 7:29Speaker 1: It just burned into the retinas. I for sure do.
- 7:33Speaker 1: And um, oh gosh, I don't even know if I
- 7:35Speaker 1: should be telling this story. We were watching. I was like,
- 7:38Speaker 1: let's watch Dak. Let's watch Dak when it gets announced,
- 7:40Speaker 1: because either way this is gonna be fascinating. And they
- 7:43Speaker 1: announced that Joe Burrow is comeback Player of the Year
- 7:46Speaker 1: and Dak, this is a podcast, You're not gonna be
- 7:48Speaker 1: able to see what I'm doing. But he went like
- 7:52Speaker 1: he was stunned that he did not win, and I
- 7:54Speaker 1: thought that was fascinating. I was like, no one can
- 7:56Speaker 1: see this. Only we can see this. This is so
- 7:59Speaker 1: ju see, So shout out to Dak. I feel like
- 8:03Speaker 1: I feel like maybe they should have tied, feel like
- 8:04Speaker 1: they should have both won and take the award with
- 8:08Speaker 1: him from that little podium thing at the know, he
- 8:11Speaker 1: just went right back down. And it did make me
- 8:15Speaker 1: think if you are up for an award that you
- 8:17Speaker 1: absolutely think like I'm a shoan to win this. It
- 8:20Speaker 1: would be very hard to not have a reaction, right,
- 8:24Speaker 1: Like I thought I'd be like, what the hell that's mine? Yeah,
- 8:29Speaker 1: I thought Dak was a shoe in and he was
- 8:31Speaker 1: hurt earlier in the year. Then Burrow and like I
- 8:34Speaker 1: don't know if he had a better year or not,
- 8:35Speaker 1: but like, I mean, John Burrows in the Super Bowl,
- 8:38Speaker 1: and ultimately I think that's what made it, you know,
- 8:41Speaker 1: that was the that was the nail on the coffin. Okay,
- 8:43Speaker 1: So that was honors. Um went to a party after
- 8:47Speaker 1: honor as Mount Laflor was just hanging out Ken confirm.
- 8:50Speaker 1: Eyebrows are beautiful. The eyebrows are beautiful. Drew Bledsoe was there.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Pete got to meet Drew Bledsoe. Okay, he was very
- 8:57Speaker 1: excited about that, mister Patriots fan, and didn't embarrass me.
- 9:01Speaker 1: So there you go. M saw a lot of selebs
- 9:03Speaker 1: just all week long. Saw Justin Biebs. Okay, So I'm
- 9:07Speaker 1: going to fast forward a little bit and then go back.
- 9:09Speaker 1: We tried to get on the field at Super Bowl
- 9:12Speaker 1: and were denied. I was with Peter Shreger and so
- 9:15Speaker 1: our credentials. We were allowed to get on the field,
- 9:18Speaker 1: but we were just there too late. So we were
- 9:21Speaker 1: like walking around the bowels of so Far on the
- 9:24Speaker 1: bottom floor, and that's where the locker rooms are, that's
- 9:27Speaker 1: where everyone's kind of that's where the VIP seats are,
- 9:30Speaker 1: so anybody who's anybody's going to be in the bowels
- 9:32Speaker 1: of this so Far. Saw Devin Booker walking to his seats,
- 9:38Speaker 1: and I don't think Shreigs knew who it was. And
- 9:40Speaker 1: he's like, who is that And I was like, that's
- 9:41Speaker 1: Devin Booker and he goes yo. Dev was like hey,
- 9:45Speaker 1: and I was like, thank god, what if that was
- 9:46Speaker 1: What if I said the wrong guy? I just looked
- 9:48Speaker 1: so dumb. It would have been my fault. Kendall Jenner
- 9:51Speaker 1: was with him, Justin Bieber was behind them. I'm sure
- 9:54Speaker 1: Haley Biebs was in the mix there. I saw Grounk
- 9:57Speaker 1: out at a party. I sound like Rabel at a party.
- 10:01Speaker 1: I gotta say, Okay, more secrets, more secrets. From benched
- 10:05Speaker 1: with Bonetta. There was a coach that was out and
- 10:09Speaker 1: about who had just bought a horse for fifty thousand dollars,
- 10:13Speaker 1: and him and his posse were holding a photo of
- 10:17Speaker 1: this horse around at this party, and I was just
- 10:20Speaker 1: telling everybody, we just bought a horse. So that was
- 10:23Speaker 1: absolutely ridiculous. I will withhold the name because I'm a professional,
- 10:26Speaker 1: but somebody bought a horse. I thought, if that was
- 10:28Speaker 1: kind of crazy? What else? What else? What else? And
- 10:31Speaker 1: then I just I had the Super Bowl, you guys
- 10:33Speaker 1: all day long. I woke woke up at four thirty
- 10:36Speaker 1: in the morning. We got shuttled to so far in
- 10:40Speaker 1: these fancy cars, went through so much security. Had to
- 10:44Speaker 1: dress up like Mooch first thing in the morning, which
- 10:46Speaker 1: was interesting. I had to get full hair and makeup done,
- 10:49Speaker 1: turned into a man, and then had about forty five
- 10:52Speaker 1: minutes to turn into a woman and go out and
- 10:55Speaker 1: be Rachel for I was with the Good Morning Football
- 10:57Speaker 1: Crews with Kyle Brandy, Ahole Hall, and Peter Schreger. That
- 11:00Speaker 1: was really fun. I was wearing a very expensive suit.
- 11:04Speaker 1: I've never worn more money on my body before, and
- 11:07Speaker 1: it felt like a g D snowsuit. It was eighty
- 11:12Speaker 1: six degrees out and I was in head to toe
- 11:15Speaker 1: heavy heavy suit was sequence. I was dying all day,
- 11:18Speaker 1: but it was just it was so much fun. And
- 11:21Speaker 1: then we went into the went into the big show.
- 11:24Speaker 1: I had great seats. Never sat at a super Bowl before.
- 11:29Speaker 1: What people might not know at home, which we were
- 11:33Speaker 1: talking about before we started recording this listen, we got
- 11:36Speaker 1: to go to the Super Bowl, Graver. We cannot complain
- 11:38Speaker 1: at all. Mohanna was stuck at home like a loser.
- 11:41Speaker 1: We can't complain. But if there was one thing that
- 11:44Speaker 1: we could complain about, I would have to say it
- 11:48Speaker 1: was the setup of the halftime show. I was so
- 11:52Speaker 1: I love Kendrick Lamar more than I love Pete. Don't
- 11:56Speaker 1: tell me I said that I loved Kendrick Lamar so much.
- 11:58Speaker 1: I was so excited for this halftime show. I had
- 12:00Speaker 1: a Drey phase, I had an Eminem phase, I had
- 12:03Speaker 1: a Mary J. Blige phase. Everybody I was just I
- 12:05Speaker 1: was so excited. I've never been more excited for halfime show.
- 12:09Speaker 1: We getting our seats were like grabbing a hot dog
- 12:11Speaker 1: and grabbing a drink to get there and like just
- 12:14Speaker 1: be able to chill. The entire set was facing in
- 12:20Speaker 1: the other way, so if you're at home, you probably
- 12:23Speaker 1: saw that it was this house with all these different rooms. Yeah,
- 12:25Speaker 1: we were sitting behind the house. We saw the back
- 12:29Speaker 1: of the house, so fifty cent coming down, didn't see that,
- 12:35Speaker 1: didn't see Eminem coming up. We only saw people on
- 12:39Speaker 1: top of the house and we saw Kendrick, which was
- 12:41Speaker 1: It's fine to me, but I was so surprised that
- 12:43Speaker 1: they didn't have some kind of three sixty Basically they
- 12:46Speaker 1: were alienating, like if there was seventy thousand people in
- 12:49Speaker 1: the stands, are alienating thirty five thousand of us. They
- 12:52Speaker 1: couldn't see what the hell was going on. So this
- 12:56Speaker 1: is my call for a three sixty degree stage, which
- 13:00Speaker 1: like they usually do, do they not? Isn't it usually?
- 13:02Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't a really rad set, and I
- 13:04Speaker 1: think that that was what I was most upset about
- 13:06Speaker 1: is that I wasn't able to see it. I still
- 13:08Speaker 1: haven't gone back and watched the full show, but the
- 13:10Speaker 1: half time show was stupid good. Yeah, did you guys
- 13:13Speaker 1: enjoy it? Did you like it? I thought it was
- 13:15Speaker 1: amazing being there for it. I was like singing along
- 13:19Speaker 1: all the lyrics, and the guys next to me were like, dang,
- 13:21Speaker 1: this guy knows all the words, and I was like,
- 13:23Speaker 1: of course was the surprise? That was a lot of
- 13:28Speaker 1: people were taking tipped off. I was tipped off on
- 13:32Speaker 1: that um happening. And you didn't tell the bench with
- 13:35Speaker 1: Benetta carew Wow. Sorry. Somebody was at so far for
- 13:39Speaker 1: the rehearsal and saw the whole show and came back
- 13:43Speaker 1: and told me and a couple other people, like what
- 13:46Speaker 1: the show was? It was crazy? But Mohan, what was it? Like?
- 13:49Speaker 1: I have with you, Rachel, I didn't haven't seen any
- 13:51Speaker 1: What were like, did you a loser at home? How
- 13:54Speaker 1: did it sound through the TV? And know that I
- 13:57Speaker 1: actually got to watch it, you know, look actually looking
- 14:00Speaker 1: at it, and I got to enjoy the commercials. So
- 14:03Speaker 1: you're saying that you're better than us. Okay, okay, yeah,
- 14:05Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta just put it out there. It
- 14:07Speaker 1: was great. That was the one thing that I really
- 14:08Speaker 1: missed was the commercials I was literally watching. I was
- 14:11Speaker 1: on Twitter, like trying to tweet about the game, and
- 14:13Speaker 1: I saw that there was a Sopranos commercial and that
- 14:16Speaker 1: It's crazy that I haven't talked about my love of
- 14:18Speaker 1: the Sopranos yet on this podcast. I am obsessed with
- 14:22Speaker 1: the Sopranos. So is Mohan junk Yard Dog, are you
- 14:24Speaker 1: Soprano fan? Yeah, I've seen the first thirteen episodes. I
- 14:30Speaker 1: don't know if is a fan. If that's actually psychotic
- 14:36Speaker 1: that you stopped watching after thirteen episodes, there's that might
- 14:40Speaker 1: be something wrong with you. Actually. Um, so I saw
- 14:44Speaker 1: that there was a Sopranos but we're going to talk
- 14:45Speaker 1: about that later. But I was trying to like watch
- 14:47Speaker 1: some of the commercials, you know. Yeah, super Bowl just
- 14:52Speaker 1: hilarious image. Um, but that was the one bomber about being,
- 14:56Speaker 1: you know, the cool kids in the crowd. A lot
- 14:59Speaker 1: of good memes come gonna came out of the halftime show,
- 15:04Speaker 1: hanging upside down Mary J. B at about about fifty,
- 15:10Speaker 1: Dick buckets. I'm joining Twitter is one of the greatest
- 15:13Speaker 1: developments of the last few weeks. And yeah, so who
- 15:17Speaker 1: said inflation hit fifty cent hard or something? So that's
- 15:21Speaker 1: a tough luck. You're upside down, the blood drains to
- 15:24Speaker 1: your head. I know. Um, okay, so that was my
- 15:27Speaker 1: that was my experience. Guys. There were so many just
- 15:29Speaker 1: incredible stories they came out of the Super Bowl. I'm
- 15:31Speaker 1: like still catching up on everything that happened. Um. First
- 15:35Speaker 1: things first, Cooper cop shout outs, MVP Rams won the
- 15:38Speaker 1: Super Bowl. The Hollywood sign has now been turned into
- 15:40Speaker 1: my favorite phrase. Whose house Rams House? It's ridiculous. Um,
- 15:45Speaker 1: but I don't know if I think that it's They
- 15:49Speaker 1: did it once in the stadium, by the way, I did,
- 15:51Speaker 1: I know. I was actually surprised. I didn't think that
- 15:52Speaker 1: they were allowed either. They also did a who did
- 15:55Speaker 1: they did? They did? They did a little best of
- 15:57Speaker 1: both worlds. By the way, the Rocks moment of silence,
- 16:01Speaker 1: like that was so sick when he this, I squealed.
- 16:09Speaker 1: How to hold a microphone while flexing their bicep better
- 16:12Speaker 1: than the Rock? Am I right? Um? But so many
- 16:16Speaker 1: there were so many great storylines that came out Cooper Cup.
- 16:20Speaker 1: Did you guys know I read this article about a
- 16:22Speaker 1: couple of months ago on ESPN. His wife picked up
- 16:27Speaker 1: several jobs to put Coop through college so that he
- 16:32Speaker 1: could focus on football. That is, like, it leads me
- 16:36Speaker 1: to something that I was really thinking about a lot
- 16:38Speaker 1: in the stands, you know, wags wives and girlfriends of
- 16:41Speaker 1: football players. They got it tough, they got it hard.
- 16:44Speaker 1: They basically have to dedicate their entire lives to supporting
- 16:47Speaker 1: these guys as well. And I can't imagine how difficult
- 16:51Speaker 1: it is to watch a Super Bowl because you're like,
- 16:53Speaker 1: this is either going to be the greatest night of
- 16:55Speaker 1: my life with my partner, or it's gonna be the worst.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Like it's you're either gonna be consoling your partner after
- 17:02Speaker 1: the worst day or holding their hair while they puke.
- 17:05Speaker 1: Because it's Sean mcvain, he's party eying his pants off. Um,
- 17:11Speaker 1: but I just thought that story was so incredible and
- 17:13Speaker 1: to see them with their kids on the on the
- 17:16Speaker 1: field just so happy, it was pretty pretty cool. And
- 17:18Speaker 1: then Van Jefferson literally had a kid, literally had a baby.
- 17:22Speaker 1: I think we've got some sound of somebody telling Van
- 17:24Speaker 1: Jefferson that he's having a kid. Can we roll that
- 17:32Speaker 1: right now? Oh my god, Yeah, mom's gonna have a baby.
- 17:41Speaker 1: Mom's gonna have your brother. Hospital you guys like psychotic.
- 17:55Speaker 1: That's gonna be so kid. It's so cool for those
- 17:58Speaker 1: kids to look back when they're a little bit older
- 18:00Speaker 1: and watch that, or even the baby that just came
- 18:05Speaker 1: out to watch that video back being like, Wow, my
- 18:07Speaker 1: dad was out a Super Bowl and found out that
- 18:09Speaker 1: little angel me was being born. That was so cool.
- 18:11Speaker 1: He rushed out, he got to the hospital and they
- 18:13Speaker 1: had a baby, and he gets a Super Bowl he
- 18:17Speaker 1: gets the ring. Is just insane. Do you think that
- 18:20Speaker 1: kid is going to go the rest of his life
- 18:21Speaker 1: being like, does my dad like his Super Bowl ring
- 18:24Speaker 1: more than me? On the same day? Like second fiddle.
- 18:26Speaker 1: You know, it's like when you have a like you're
- 18:28Speaker 1: born on a holiday. My niece was born on Valentine's Day,
- 18:31Speaker 1: So like I would understand, I would understand a lot
- 18:35Speaker 1: of people say, like, this is the greatest day of
- 18:37Speaker 1: my life except for the day my kid was born.
- 18:39Speaker 1: He doesn't have to say that. He can just say
- 18:41Speaker 1: this is the greatest day of my life. Man, he
- 18:42Speaker 1: doesn't have to say it. I think it's pretty cool.
- 18:45Speaker 1: As I was saying the wags of it all, Van
- 18:49Speaker 1: Jefferson's wife was she specifically said, no one tell him
- 18:54Speaker 1: until the game is done and then tell him to
- 18:57Speaker 1: come to the hospital. That's pretty cola, That's pretty incredible. Um,
- 19:02Speaker 1: although that would be insane if he left the Super
- 19:04Speaker 1: Bowl like midway through the game because he was having
- 19:06Speaker 1: a baby. Craziest, craziest I think week of my career.
- 19:11Speaker 1: I had so much faun shout outs to NFL Network
- 19:13Speaker 1: for just the most insane last six months. It's been
- 19:17Speaker 1: so cool. Nothing cooler than sitting on that stage that
- 19:21Speaker 1: was on a lake and looking at so fine being like,
- 19:24Speaker 1: holy crap, I'm covering super Bowl. That's just so wild.
- 19:29Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we're going to talk about the
- 19:30Speaker 1: best things that I saw or heard from the week.
- 19:33Speaker 1: There are a lot of them. I also got a
- 19:36Speaker 1: worst thing that I saw, and I think we can
- 19:38Speaker 1: all get on the same page on that. And then
- 19:41Speaker 1: we're also going to get some very very very very
- 19:43Speaker 1: early leans going about next year's Super Bowl champion based
- 20:02Speaker 1: all right time, four best things I saw, slash heard,
- 20:05Speaker 1: and also I got a real bad one guys that
- 20:07Speaker 1: I think it's you might vomit in your mouth when
- 20:10Speaker 1: I refresh your memory. Number one, let's let's roll this clip, okay,
- 20:16Speaker 1: and I will I will talk us through what's happening.
- 20:18Speaker 1: While we're both listening to this, all right, you might
- 20:24Speaker 1: be hearing some crowd noise. You might think that this
- 20:27Speaker 1: is Rams fans celebrating. It's not. It's Bengals fans welcoming
- 20:37Speaker 1: Zak Taylor and crew back home. Pretty unbelievable. It honestly
- 20:44Speaker 1: looks like they just want the super Bowl. That's cool.
- 20:46Speaker 1: Huh oh what could have been? Saw so many sad,
- 20:53Speaker 1: dejected Bengals fans outside of sobar Yo Bengals fans showed up.
- 20:56Speaker 1: There were so many Bengals fans at five for the
- 21:00Speaker 1: super Bowl. It was very, very impressive. That is a
- 21:03Speaker 1: far away to travel. So that was Number one. I
- 21:06Speaker 1: loved that. Number two. We were talking about this earlier
- 21:09Speaker 1: in the show. A Sopranos commercial has got to be
- 21:13Speaker 1: the best thing that I saw all week long, including
- 21:17Speaker 1: the game. Oh my god. Okay, if you're a Sopranos fan,
- 21:22Speaker 1: you know that opening scene. You know Tony is driving
- 21:25Speaker 1: into New Jersey. You see all these New Jersey landmarks
- 21:28Speaker 1: and you have this song Luca Boozmo man. So now
- 21:33Speaker 1: it's Meadow Soprano driving and what was it a Dodge
- 21:36Speaker 1: commercial or Ford or something like that. It was for
- 21:37Speaker 1: a car who cares? Um, you saw Meado doing the
- 21:41Speaker 1: exact same drive, and you see the people kept on tweeting,
- 21:45Speaker 1: Oh wow, Medo learned how to park. Finally, that was
- 21:48Speaker 1: pretty funny. And then she gets out and then it's
- 21:50Speaker 1: Aja soprano that she greets and they have a little hug.
- 21:55Speaker 1: Oh that really tugged, tugged at my heart strings. I
- 21:59Speaker 1: love the sopranos much. Um. Another weird sighting from the day,
- 22:04Speaker 1: Kanye in the stands. He's been very active on social media.
- 22:08Speaker 1: Are you guys following them right now? Yeah, let's see,
- 22:12Speaker 1: it's a little wild. He was in a full mask.
- 22:15Speaker 1: It was it was a hot day, you guys. He
- 22:17Speaker 1: was probably in his you know, classic snow boots, classic
- 22:20Speaker 1: Kanye look, full mask, sitting beside a b The place
- 22:23Speaker 1: went nuts. You didn't even they didn't even have to.
- 22:27Speaker 1: I don't even actually think that they put a name
- 22:30Speaker 1: tag every celebrity that popped up on the JumboTron, which
- 22:33Speaker 1: was so many, by the way, I don't think there's
- 22:34Speaker 1: ever been more celebrities out of Super Bowl. I really
- 22:36Speaker 1: don't think so. Um, they popped up name tags for everybody.
- 22:42Speaker 1: You know, we saw Doja Cat, we saw Lebron, we
- 22:46Speaker 1: saw you know, Charlie Larne, and then for A B
- 22:51Speaker 1: and Kanye, they're like, we're not like, we all know
- 22:54Speaker 1: that it's Kanye, but like there's a chance that it
- 22:56Speaker 1: might not be clinic because he's wearing a full ski mask.
- 22:58Speaker 1: We're just like not gonna put up his name. One
- 23:02Speaker 1: of the few people in SOFI wearing a mask. Good
- 23:04Speaker 1: job Kanye, Yeah, there you go. Yeah, a lot of them,
- 23:07Speaker 1: a lot of masks. I'm surprised that A B. I'm
- 23:11Speaker 1: surprised that they popped him up there. And then the
- 23:14Speaker 1: worst thing I saw absolutely hands down. Actually, I wonder
- 23:20Speaker 1: if they put this on TV. So all the commercial
- 23:22Speaker 1: breaks you're seeing all the celebs in the in the stands,
- 23:26Speaker 1: and that was actually really cool. Then they showed Shack.
- 23:31Speaker 1: Do you guys know what I'm talking about? Just why
- 23:37Speaker 1: why did we have to do that? Why did we
- 23:40Speaker 1: all have to endure that? Um, there was an audible uh,
- 23:46Speaker 1: like everybody in our section when he was I'm not
- 23:50Speaker 1: even going to describe what he did. If you want
- 23:52Speaker 1: google it, I recommend you don't. It's not easy to
- 23:56Speaker 1: find if you're curious. I'm sure I saw it all
- 23:58Speaker 1: over the internet too, but did not need to relive that.
- 24:01Speaker 1: I was nasty. Between that and on inside the NBA
- 24:04Speaker 1: they showed his foot the other day. Oh, just like
- 24:08Speaker 1: he's just fallen apart any of shacks extremities, tongue, body parts, no,
- 24:16Speaker 1: thank you, his feet are gnarly. Speaking of feet, I
- 24:20Speaker 1: can't feel um about five out of ten toes because
- 24:27Speaker 1: I wore so many heels this week, and if you
- 24:29Speaker 1: know anything about me, you know that this girl does
- 24:31Speaker 1: not wear heels. She wears sneakers. Um, so I've actually
- 24:34Speaker 1: permanently damaged my feet. So that's fun, um concerned. What
- 24:40Speaker 1: do you what do you think Shack's Wiki feet score
- 24:42Speaker 1: would be? Oh? Should we look? There's absolutely absolutely has
- 24:47Speaker 1: to have a Wiki feet profile. I know that. So
- 24:50Speaker 1: we were thinking. We got the tip that maybe we
- 24:52Speaker 1: were going to get Aaron Rodgers on the NFL Owners
- 24:54Speaker 1: Red carpet, and so I was like, okay, I was
- 24:56Speaker 1: trying to like plan some fun things to ask him,
- 25:00Speaker 1: and so of course I went to wiki feet dot com.
- 25:03Speaker 1: And uh, he's got a high rating. He's got a
- 25:06Speaker 1: four point seven. Is that absolutely disgusting that I know that? Yeah,
- 25:10Speaker 1: that's okay, Shack Shaquille O'Neil's feet Wiki feet men, okay,
- 25:15Speaker 1: m he's got a two one nine, two point one
- 25:19Speaker 1: nine out of five. That's rough. That's rough. That's higher
- 25:22Speaker 1: than I thought it would be. It's actually just got
- 25:24Speaker 1: so many photos of his feet. Listen, if you guys
- 25:26Speaker 1: are into weird stuff, go to Shack's Wiki feet like
- 25:29Speaker 1: his feet must be massive. Do you not get bonus
- 25:32Speaker 1: points for that? I don't know. Probably more surface are
- 25:36Speaker 1: to be gross. I don't know. This is whoever has
- 25:39Speaker 1: been doing this, whoever has been putting so much effort
- 25:42Speaker 1: into this, because he's got multiple pages. You guys have
- 25:45Speaker 1: photos of his feet, Um should seek help. I also
- 25:50Speaker 1: have a Wiki feet. I have a very strong rating.
- 25:52Speaker 1: Thank you very much. All right, enough for that. Let's
- 25:55Speaker 1: let's secure the bag. Let's make some way too early picks.
- 25:58Speaker 1: Shall we look at tonight? We're secure to Okay, So, um,
- 26:05Speaker 1: we were wrong about our super Bowl pick. That's okay.
- 26:08Speaker 1: It was close. It was a close game. It would
- 26:10Speaker 1: have been we would have looked real great because there
- 26:12Speaker 1: was a lot of people on the rams, uh for
- 26:14Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So congratulations to those people who were
- 26:17Speaker 1: we liking for super Bowl fifty seven. Also, I've seen
- 26:20Speaker 1: a lot of people justin Graver, how dare you put
- 26:23Speaker 1: Roman numerals in this rundown there? You're lucky that I've
- 26:26Speaker 1: said fifty six a million times this week, or else
- 26:29Speaker 1: it would have been what the hell number is that.
- 26:33Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of people argue this point, Mohan,
- 26:37Speaker 1: was this you whoever it was, don't I've seen actually
- 26:43Speaker 1: a lot of people argue this point this past week.
- 26:45Speaker 1: We need to we need to get just who are we? Well?
- 26:49Speaker 1: Type it so many times this week for like various
- 26:52Speaker 1: podcasts and whatever, and every single time I googled LVI
- 26:56Speaker 1: just to make sure that because like, what do we
- 26:59Speaker 1: don't even know? I wouldn't even know super Bowl fifty
- 27:01Speaker 1: seven is gonna be an Arizona next year. That'll be
- 27:04Speaker 1: super fun. Um. I gotta say, I saw all these
- 27:07Speaker 1: sad Bengals fans outside of so far and they were
- 27:09Speaker 1: just so bombed. Joe Burrow is so young, Jamar Chase
- 27:13Speaker 1: is so young, Joe Mixon is re energized. This defense
- 27:16Speaker 1: is good. Zach Taylor is young. Bengals are going to
- 27:19Speaker 1: be back in the Super Bowl next year and they're
- 27:20Speaker 1: gonna win it and Joe Burrow's gonna be the MVP.
- 27:22Speaker 1: How do we feel about that? Wow? The AFC is
- 27:24Speaker 1: just so stacked with Cornery, especially if Rogers goes to
- 27:28Speaker 1: the AFC Brownchers or something. I'm not worried about It's
- 27:31Speaker 1: gonna be healthy. It's gonna be tough for Burr to
- 27:33Speaker 1: get back, but I'm not worried about it. I'm not
- 27:35Speaker 1: worried about it. They own the AFC North, I'm not
- 27:38Speaker 1: worried about it. You guys see that outfit that he
- 27:39Speaker 1: walked in. Oh, he's gonna he's gonna put a print out.
- 27:43Speaker 1: There's there was nothing sadder than Joe Burrow walking out
- 27:47Speaker 1: with that outfit. That's a tough that's a tough look. Brouh.
- 27:53Speaker 1: He's gonna put that up on his Bolton board and
- 27:55Speaker 1: he's like, I'm never gonna be humiliated like this again.
- 27:57Speaker 1: I'm gonna win the Super Bowl next year. Engine Aaron Rodgers,
- 28:01Speaker 1: lots of people. He still has not made this decision.
- 28:05Speaker 1: He's still you know, putting the vibes out there. We
- 28:07Speaker 1: actually had Kim Jordan on the red carpet, who by
- 28:11Speaker 1: might be one of my favorite NFL players. He is
- 28:13Speaker 1: so great and whenever he decides to retire and do television,
- 28:16Speaker 1: he is going to be really, really good at it.
- 28:18Speaker 1: He was actually making a plea on the Honor's Red
- 28:21Speaker 1: carpet for Aaron Rodgers to join him in the Saints.
- 28:25Speaker 1: Let's take a listen. I'm looking forward to seeing who's
- 28:27Speaker 1: going to be the winner of Walter Paytonan the year.
- 28:29Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to see maybe my future quarterback probably
- 28:32Speaker 1: win MVP. I mean, I'm gonna keep courting this Aaron
- 28:36Speaker 1: Rodgers idea until somebody like, wow, okay, put it out there.
- 28:39Speaker 1: I like it. I'm just whatever, like you know right here.
- 28:43Speaker 1: As we all know, there comes a time when greats
- 28:46Speaker 1: have to leave. Sean Payton retired this year, but now
- 28:49Speaker 1: we've got Dennis Alan and yet we still have a
- 28:51Speaker 1: really high to OC. I can't offer you a head
- 28:53Speaker 1: coach anymore, but I can say you could probably come
- 28:55Speaker 1: in get your own office coordinator in there. I know
- 28:57Speaker 1: it's your guy, Davante Mike Thomasa with Cam Jordan. Cam
- 29:04Speaker 1: Jordan you are the best. Um, that would be pretty fun,
- 29:09Speaker 1: although I'd feel kind of bad for for our guy
- 29:12Speaker 1: Jamis Winston. Where this is a this is a Jamis
- 29:14Speaker 1: Winston household. Oh not not in on Jamis Winston lick
- 29:18Speaker 1: in the dubs. No, I mean, nobody inspires a team
- 29:22Speaker 1: like Damis Winston licking his fingers. So I gotta give
- 29:25Speaker 1: it to Listen. I'm hearing you're saying that with a
- 29:27Speaker 1: lot of sarcasm, but I actually agree with that sentiment.
- 29:30Speaker 1: I just want to see Cam Jordan in a super Bowl.
- 29:32Speaker 1: That would be so fun. Um, But what are the
- 29:34Speaker 1: what's the odds? So it's still I think he's tied
- 29:38Speaker 1: with the Denver Broncos to go back to the Packers, right,
- 29:41Speaker 1: that's like tied for first. Um. I could see him
- 29:45Speaker 1: going back to the Packers. Guys. And when he was
- 29:48Speaker 1: winning MVP, he had this whole shout out to Matt Laflori.
- 29:51Speaker 1: He's like, there's a reason why you know, you've only
- 29:53Speaker 1: been here for a couple of years and I've won
- 29:55Speaker 1: this last two years in a row. I think you're
- 29:58Speaker 1: a big reason why that has happened. So I think
- 30:00Speaker 1: that the drama and stuff is kind of in the past,
- 30:03Speaker 1: and I could see him just finishing out his career.
- 30:06Speaker 1: I don't think that he's got much longer. It seems
- 30:08Speaker 1: like he kind of wants to finish this out and
- 30:12Speaker 1: maybe they'll make a very strong run to the Super Bowl,
- 30:16Speaker 1: make share. He probably would have made kind of retired
- 30:18Speaker 1: if Brady didn't do it and Ben didn't do it
- 30:20Speaker 1: this year or so. Do you really see him as
- 30:23Speaker 1: a guy that wants that spotlight though, Like, I really
- 30:25Speaker 1: don't think he cares that much about that kind of stuff. Yeah,
- 30:28Speaker 1: he did say it in his in his acceptance speech,
- 30:30Speaker 1: something like it's been a great seventeen years in Green Bay.
- 30:34Speaker 1: It almost kind of sounded a little like it's been
- 30:36Speaker 1: a great seventeen years that's now over. I don't know,
- 30:39Speaker 1: I think he's going back to Green Bay, but it
- 30:42Speaker 1: sounded like he left the door open. Davantae Adams is
- 30:44Speaker 1: a free agent. They better sign him if they want
- 30:47Speaker 1: to keep right. I know, Jamont Addams is probably just
- 30:48Speaker 1: like waiting for Aaron Rodgers to make up his mind,
- 30:50Speaker 1: and he's like, I'm just gonna go where this guy goes. Yeah,
- 30:52Speaker 1: ye smart. Another guy who's um future is in the
- 30:57Speaker 1: balance is Jimmy G, who had a rough ending with
- 31:00Speaker 1: the forty nine ers kind of Cinderella run, and forty
- 31:04Speaker 1: nine ers are still the favorite for him to start
- 31:08Speaker 1: next year. Right there are number one on the list.
- 31:10Speaker 1: I just can't see that happening. I just I don't
- 31:13Speaker 1: want to be mean, but I feel like without Jimmy G,
- 31:16Speaker 1: the forty nine ers would have been in the super
- 31:17Speaker 1: Bowl if they had somebody that was a little bit stronger,
- 31:20Speaker 1: a little bit you know, less interception e. I think
- 31:24Speaker 1: that uh forty Niners could have made a real run
- 31:26Speaker 1: for it. And I'm excited thinking. I'm excited thinking about
- 31:29Speaker 1: the forty nine ers with a new fun quarterback to anyways,
- 31:32Speaker 1: think like that's gonna be scary that team. Yeah, they've
- 31:35Speaker 1: just got so much talent. And then so Jimmy. So
- 31:39Speaker 1: Jimmy's odds, So they're forty nine Ers are are number one.
- 31:42Speaker 1: Let's go all the way down to number seven and
- 31:45Speaker 1: that is the Cleveland Browns. They have the seventh best odds.
- 31:49Speaker 1: Mohan and I famously huge Cleveland Browns fans, Um Mohan.
- 31:55Speaker 1: Let's open first off, I am actually staying at the
- 31:57Speaker 1: resort that Baker Mayfield got married at is that creepy?
- 32:00Speaker 1: You're not staying there because he got married there, I
- 32:02Speaker 1: might actually be staying here because he got married. I'm
- 32:05Speaker 1: just I'm recreating his photos, but with me. So, Baker's
- 32:12Speaker 1: got one more a year on his contract, right, one
- 32:14Speaker 1: more year? Um, Jimmy G to the Browns. I just
- 32:17Speaker 1: feel like that would be again. I don't want to
- 32:20Speaker 1: be mean, it would kind of be subbing mediocre for
- 32:25Speaker 1: more mediocre. I know that Baker has been injured and
- 32:29Speaker 1: hopefully he'll look a lot better this year, but he
- 32:31Speaker 1: also has got the weight of his shoulders on him now.
- 32:33Speaker 1: He's gonna be so much pressure on him this year
- 32:37Speaker 1: to perform. What do you think though? All right, hear
- 32:39Speaker 1: me out on this. Yeah, I'm listening. Get Jimmy G.
- 32:42Speaker 1: Baker will be healthy, Baker will start, Jimmy G. Will
- 32:45Speaker 1: be his backup. Baker such a competitive guy, He's gonna
- 32:49Speaker 1: use it as fuel to actually play well. And if
- 32:52Speaker 1: he doesn't play well or get injured, Jimmy G's just
- 32:54Speaker 1: gonna come in there with a big smile on his
- 32:56Speaker 1: face and be ready to roll with the offense. Okay,
- 32:59Speaker 1: but Jim's got issues too. It's not like he's like
- 33:03Speaker 1: an outstanding you know, he's got a lot of issues
- 33:05Speaker 1: as well. I will say the one thing about Jimmy
- 33:08Speaker 1: g is everyone on the Patriots when he was there
- 33:10Speaker 1: and the forty nine ers all said they love Jimmy
- 33:13Speaker 1: as like a locker room guy, like they'll ride with
- 33:15Speaker 1: that guy. I do feel like they need a locker
- 33:18Speaker 1: room guy because I feel like this this team has
- 33:20Speaker 1: been really divided the last Yeah, just this past year.
- 33:24Speaker 1: Like before we were in the freaking playoffs, we were great,
- 33:26Speaker 1: everyone's best friends. Okay, well I hear you. Uh Bengals
- 33:35Speaker 1: Burrow MVP. Fuckhead guys. This is our show. Um, I'm
- 33:41Speaker 1: holding on to a bottle of wine and this is
- 33:43Speaker 1: just listen to this. I am officially on vacation. This
- 33:47Speaker 1: was my last thing that I had to do post
- 33:50Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I am gonna go enjoy this time. I
- 33:53Speaker 1: want to shout out these two, these incredible partners. For
- 33:56Speaker 1: the last few weeks doing this podcast has been so
- 33:59Speaker 1: much fun. We're going into the off season, baby, what
- 34:01Speaker 1: does that entail? To be honest with you, I have
- 34:04Speaker 1: no idea what we're gonna figure it out. I think
- 34:05Speaker 1: we're gonna do a lot of a lot of Okay,
- 34:09Speaker 1: these guys are ready to go on vacation too, so
- 34:11Speaker 1: I gotta go. Don't forget to subscribe to the show.
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- 34:17Speaker 1: about each week with your own eyes. I'm gonna go
- 34:19Speaker 1: drink some wine. Who