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Unlocking the Secrets of Technical Sparring and Celebrating Black History Month · Off the Bench - London

• Off The Bench - Host (00:39) What's up? How are we doing? Good and yourself? I'm fantastic. I am so much better now than I was the other day. ⁓ so? I am way less sore. ⁓ So the boxing kicking in, ⁓ Well, yeah, because I'm dumb and keep going back and doing as much as I can. So on the last episode, we did talk about sparring. And I think on Thursday, did you do a little technical sparring? Yeah, yeah, so I wasn't expecting to do it. It was more of a suggestion. Well, when I did the five o'clock class, I went home, I ate a little bit, made sense to me, went back. I was like, oh, wait, I'll spend the rest of my energy on the seven o'clock class. Makes sense, right? Total. And then technical sparring starts at eight o'clock and Al Cedis is running it and he looks at me and goes, hey, you got a mouth guard? I'm like, sure do. Damn. Okay. So it was a very long day. Yeah. So you did the five o'clock, you did the seven o'clock. I showed up for the seven o'clock. Yeah. And then it was technical sparring after. since this is your first time ever doing technical sparring. was an experience. Let the bench mob know what your first experience of it was. Well, ⁓ it's... Or should we preference what technical sparring is for them first? Yeah, so technical sparring is basically sparring. So you're fighting but not going full on. But technical sparring is working on specific things. Yes. So there's limitations to a degree. it's like one round. be just jabs. Just be jabs. The second round could be like your one-twos or like a double jab or three, ⁓ like a combo that you have to execute every single time. So that's what technical sparring is. It's like limitation to sparring, but you're still getting the opportunity to hit somebody. Yeah. Or get hit. So for your first time technical sparring with those restrictions in general, what did you think? Well, honestly, it was a little overwhelming for the sheer fact that I was exhausted going into it. That was perfect. And had zero idea what I was getting into. Perfect. But I think doing that is going to hammer home a lot of these little lessons. And it's making me already like... Because I've started looking things up, all of my feeds are all full of boxing things now. Yep. Your algorithm is now changed. Yeah, it's trained to boxing training. Yep. Which is kind of neat. I love it. But there's a lot of footwork things. And even things that I noticed during the sparring, you're like, OK, this doesn't work. I need to set this up. I need to protect this better. I need to work on defense. That's number one. think when I was at Boomers, which I still am, the first two months... I'm not punching to knock the other guy out, so I should expect to be hit back. I think... Okay, before I go into my statement, I'll ask this question. You did the five o'clock, you did the seven o'clock, and then you go into technical sparring. Did you see the benefit of doing that day all at once? Like, do you think it was like too much for you? No, I think it was good because... Do you think due to the fact that you know you need to have defense, you might want to train harder in your other classes? Yeah. So in a situation when you get into the ring, you're focusing on your defense. You're not necessarily focusing on the offense, even though it plays hand to hand. I think getting into those situations when your body is exhausted can be really good because it gives you that like, okay, you have to do this. It's not an option. I think like when I was training or have been training in the past, the one thing that really took home for me was the concept that unfortunately you can be tired. Your opponent may not be tired. Yeah. Unfortunately, if you're getting punched, you have to punch back or you have to block or counter or you have to move your feet to get out of the way so you can catch your breath and then come back in. But unfortunately, training like the way you did helps you understand that now the importance of how hard you need to train in class. Yeah. And that's my perspective. Yeah. So. So I lose. onto a new week this week, so I'm excited. Well, I mean, did you notice? Because you did the Tuesday 5 o'clock class with me, same time. We worked with each other a little bit. And then we worked together on the Thursday class at five, or at seven. Seven, okay. Did you notice much of a difference? There was a huge difference. And the one thing I'll say is your confidence looked a lot better. on the Thursday class. Yeah. Obviously, we're all rookies. It's repetition. We're all rookies. And obviously, you're understanding it. I think when I'm working with you, I'm changing the way I work with you to a degree to the point where it's not a common rhythm. I'm changing the rhythm constantly with you. So you understand that it's not going to be rhythmic. It's not. See, the bonus is I have terrible rhythm. So everyone has a beat to their like your heart is beating. That's a rhythm. I hope so. I was boom boom boom. There's some in there. I thought it wasn't going to. So color doesn't mean anything when it comes to a natural rhythm. Everyone has it. Speaking of color. Nice segue. I know. Happy Black History Month. Bench mobs and everyone around. Yeah. Cheers to that. I think. Glad to be included. Well, I guess gingers are now a part of the... I'm not even a ginger. I know. How is that even a thing? Like I realize the pictures look like... mean it looks... My beard has more of red tinge than my hair does. And the lighting also helps with the... But the one thing I'll say is... Black History Month is near and dear, obviously. ⁓ I think It's near and dear. I think the... biggest issue i have a block is remodeled as people don't understand what block is three it's not necessarily about history from your past it's also the president and the future ⁓ one of the just celebrating black excellence in general hundred-cent ⁓ and like going to you know a story you know might be owned by a block person what is greatly appreciated saying hi to a block person and just being crying in general is saying i don't do that I'm just preferencing in general for a lot of people that Black History Month is not focusing only on Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, or Rosa Parks. There are more aspects to it. It's also Oprah. There's tons of celebrities that you can celebrate. Michelle Obama. There's celebrities. There's tons of celebrities, but there's also tons of regular people. Celebrate each other. Even in your local community. That's what it is. It's 100 %- Celebrate the people in your community. 100%. Like, you know, if you know that there is a podcast like us, obviously it's you and I. Yeah. You only have to watch half of the podcast as well. Fair. Or like, there's other podcasts out there in London, Ontario that are like, the only other one that I know is the Mitchell Report unLeash. Yeah. You know, he is a black entrepreneur podcaster, you know, there's a photographer that I know, Tyrone Berry, he's a photographer, he's based out of BC. There's- you know, Ox and Bo, the barber shop, you know, if you want to get a nice cut, you know, go celebrate them this month. Obviously we have two football players since we're like a sports podcast, the twins, they are half black. Ironically, last name's Brown though. Yes. But they are, yes. Doesn't mean if you're light skin, doesn't mean if you're dark skin, you know, black is black. like, I will say this, like Trevor Noah said, You never really want to piss off a black guy because the last time someone pissed off a real black guy, he took a country down with a light skin, Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Having Trevor Noah do the Grammys, I didn't really watch. I just saw some of the highlights and some of the jokes. It's hilarious. And it was like good casting. I saw him say, what did he say? Potato because someone bet on it. Oh, okay. So you know how people, I forget the the platform it's on, but people bet... Kaleeli? Kalauli or something like I don't know, one of those platforms that people bet on random stuff. There's gonna be a lot of that coming up this week for Super for sure, for sure. But someone bet a bunch of money that he would say potato during his set, and then he just said it so that person would get money. That's amazing. Is it because he caught wind of it? That's so funny. I like that. But yeah, I think the biggest thing when it comes to... Black History Month is it's not just the month it's every day. Yeah, and you know Even if it's going out for cuisine that you may not like or may not know about you may actually like it It's just opening up your ideology to what's more out there and it's like black people are not just from Africa There's the Caribbean. There's like we're all over like The culture is pretty much everywhere that it was hot. Yeah. The culture is alive and you can people can learn a lot and grow your world. Yeah. And you know, maybe your next athlete that you might like might be a black person and you might honestly odds are especially when like the Super Bowl is predominantly black players for quarterbacks where we're slowly getting back. Well, not this year, but getting there. Yeah, you know what I mean? So it's just like we already celebrate a sport that dominates it. The NBA for Valentine's Day, always Valentine's weekend is the NBA All-Star, predominately black people. And it's always great to see culture come in those aspects, but also respect the ones that in your local community. Even I can say this, and this is my closing segment to black history, is In London, there was a boy band that was actually pretty huge called the McCauley Boys. They've all grown up now. Their background is Grenadian, right? So a lot of people don't know what Grenada is. It's above Trinidad and like, Karaku is like another island off of it. How are your families from? My dad's from Grenada. So that's how I ended up getting your mom's Trinidad in. ⁓ See, I knew that. What I'm saying is London had a real good boy band that a lot of people don't pay attention to. That is black history. And that doesn't always have to be on a negative aspect. That's a positive aspect. Yeah. You know, and now they've all grown up, some in the music business, some have been a teacher, a principal, an advocate for black history in high schools, in the Catholic board. Once a lawyer. There's so much that they have done in their local community. that I think people need to understand that black history is not just about celebrities. Because you might be sitting next to a celebrity, not, you know what I mean, you might actually be sitting next to a celebrity not knowing their previous past. It's true. That's all I'm gonna say. And hey, the goal is to get some pretty sweet guests on here. That's my goal. That's the goal. I would love to get one of the McCauley boys on here in the next couple of weeks because he's a great advocate. That'd be pretty sweet. Maybe I'll get him on a Zoom meeting or something like that or do it on Riverside. you know, because they know what next week we got all. Well, we got Super Bowl coming up this week, obviously. That's a that's going to be a big one. Yeah. We'll have lots to talk about there. But tons. Definitely. We week after for sure. Sure. Gives us some time to line things up. Sure. We'll talk. I know we're like I know we did go into the. to the concept of Black History Month and I wanted to do that take. know, there's also more to Black history. It's like, you know, we can kind of talk about like the greatest of all time are slowly turning into being a lot of Black individuals. ⁓ 100%. Tiger Woods. Serena Williams. This is true. It's because they're just like no offense to everyone, but they're better athletes. Sorry. It's genetics. Part of it, I think, also has to do with they're putting in the work because they're coming for it. Sometimes they're coming from a harder time, so they're putting in that effort. it is all like everything you have in life comes from effort. And sometimes having nothing and striving for greatness. Off The Bench - Host (15:05) So, so last week after Derek Rose's jersey got retired. Yep. You were talking about how Derrick Rose, if he hadn't been injured, he would have been in the goat conversation. Correct. Do you know why Michael Jordan is the GOAT? Fill me in. It's for the weirdest reason ever. Obviously he's an incredible basketball player, the greatest of all time. But it's all LL Cool J's fault. How is it all LL J's fault? So... Yeah, there we go. So, LL Cool J... made a song in 2000 that is G-O-A-T greatest of all time talking about himself as a rapper. Of course he And that song became popular and that came out in 2000. What did the Bulls just finished doing? Having their massive dynasty so everyone's thinking who is the best of everything? First person to come to mind, Michael Jordan. Otherwise, if the song had to come out in the 60s, it would have been Wilt Chamberlain. It's true. If it had to come out a little bit after that, it probably would have been Bill Russell. Or a little bit after Abdul Jabbar. Yeah, Karim Abdul Jabbar. Or Magic Johnson. It's just perfect timing, which cemented him as the first goat. Well, I guess second goat if LL Cool J is the first goat. That's interesting. There's a real hot take for you, but it's true. Like he's the one that came up with that phrase. Damn. Like I saw this and I was like, that's crazy. But like then I started, you start thinking about it you're like, wait, so that's 2000. Cause when did they win their last ring? 98? So two years later. This song comes out and people are like, oh, who's the best of this? Who's the best of this? OK. He's top of mind. He was at the peak of his powers. I guess you're right. I like that. like that. OK. I. LeBron may be able to surpass him with his longevity. LeBron is a goat. He is a goat. 100 % he's a goat. There's no denying it. He is a goat. denying it. But. and j is the original because of the time line i've ⁓ Greatest of all time unfortunately it comes down to eras exactly great becomes an eras does look like that came out when and it was and jay's era You're not wrong. You're not wrong. That is 100 % true. I can't wait to catch a whole bunch of heat for that. I like that. I like that. You know, you know who's also a goat but can't be named as a goat anymore? Bill Belichick. That made me made me laugh so hard because that alone turns the Hall of Fame into a joke. 100%. There is no question about it. OK, so like what do you have to do? to be a first ballot Hall of Famer as a coach. What do you have to do? What does it take? Because you... Yes, date younger, that's what he needs to do. Needs to be a 53 year age gap. Yeah, that is intense. So for those who don't know, and I don't know how you don't know if you don't know, is... You don't know, don't know. And if you don't know, you're gonna know, because we're gonna let you We're gonna let you know. Bill Balachek is not our first ballot Hall of Fame. He's been out of the league. and he had an opportunity to be into the Hall of Fame this coming year. Yeah. Couldn't be first ballot. And he couldn't get enough votes. Due to the fact that a few people are using Spy Game to Flakegate as the reason why. Well, there's the guy that was, I can't remember his name, but the one that was leading the charge on not voting for him was like a Bills owner, like an old Bills owner. then when... When he was asked about he's like, I don't know who I voted for Nice nice, but like How do you like I realized nobody liked him? He was a dickhead but at the same time if you don't if He can't go in the Hall of Fame He has plays in the Hall of Fame It's true, but if he's not in the Hall of Fame Nobody in the Hall of Fame. Nothing's valid even his tree like his coaching tree of amazing coaches after him. Exactly. You can't even put Andy Reid in the Hall of Famer. Because he's not a first ballot Hall of Famer, Andy Reid can't possibly be. Well, he can because he... But it just depends who's getting it at the same time. is no deflate gate. There's no gate next to Andy Reid. They're using gates as the... It's just weird. Because when you look at it, we They're up more gates. We all agree in football right now, the greatest of all time is Tom Brady. Yeah, imagine how good Tom Brady would have been if he had a Hall of Fame coach. For majority of that time, Bill Belichick was his coach. Yeah. And it was the Belichick's way on how they were so successful. Well, plus he also got a playoff victory for the Browns. That's that alone. That alone. That alone. I'm sorry. Mind you, the Browns have two Pro Bowl quarterbacks. Hall of Famers. That's, that's. Yeah, I don't know. So I know we can keep going. ⁓ But for those who are actually watching, ⁓ I think we should do a contest. you know what else? We'll add our intro after. We'll figure it out. We'll probably start at the beginning. Yeah, we'll do some creative editing. Yeah, that's the power of technology. Especially when we cut out for half of it. We'll just sub that and it's all good. Yeah, we'll make it work. But for those who are watching and wondering who won the... Knights tickets with the $50 gift card to Tasting Room for this Friday. So I love doing these contests. So do I. I mean for starters, we were talking about it last week, going to Nights Games is awesome. Sure. But Tasting Room, fantastic vibe. And just being able to be like, so someone's getting a $50 gift card and tickets to a Nights Game. That's perfect day night. 100%. Yeah. So I can't, can't knock that at all. So that being said, our winner, our winner is K C Thompson. We'll reach out to you on Instagram. will reach out to you on Instagram to get you the tickets and the gift card. So we're pretty excited about that. And then we also have some other news. Yeah. We want to hit them with the plot twist. Oh yeah, yeah, just a little bit. So, unfortunately we had some, what, a difficulty with tickets. Would you say difficulty? Well yeah, we had too many of them. That's true, that's true. I don't think that's a negative. What are we gonna do with all these tickets? I think we might have another winner. So I guess we got one more winner. Yes. We two more tickets. And I believe the name is Will B. Willie B? Willie B. Willoughby is the second winner. Unfortunately, you're not getting the gift card, but you are getting two tickets to the Knights game as well. Yeah, there you go. So congratulations to the two winners, the grand prize winner and our second place winner. Yeah. Who knew we didn't add a second place? Great. Yeah, just happen. Things just happen. We We just have magic fingers. Well, unless it comes to... Well, I mean, you do when it comes to making IT stuff work, but technical difficulties sometimes. But hey, sometimes we're here. We're giving stuff away. Sure. And I think with what's the game Friday? This Friday? That's right. It's be a sick game. before Super Bowl. So you get to watch some good hockey. Yeah, sports weekend for these guys. You know, you know what? Like, I think like that's a perfect segue. We're going to talk about, you know, giving stuff away, giving some crazy things. You know what? It's just like the concept of Being able to like watch sports live or at a bar or a competitor at It's just a better atmosphere. You get like... Like when you go to a game, everyone knows going to sports games can be super expensive. it's all about the atmosphere because you're in there with a bunch of other people that are in the same headspace as you and everyone's intently watching the same thing and like... You can't just go to a game and not pay attention. I agree. Like you have to pay attention. And even if you're not paying attention, the crowd will tell you. It's true. And then if something big happens, everyone starts jumping up and down, cheering, and you weren't paying attention, you're the one on your phone. You're like, what just happened? You're right. The energy of being able to watch it a bar, watch it live. is that everyone is on the same path. We're all there supporting the team in front of us. And like it's common energy. You have those opportunities where you get to do the wave at a live event. you know, the cleanup, you don't have to deal with the cleanup when you're at home. when you're at home you have to deal with the cleanup. When you're at a bar you don't have to deal with that. You get served. So it makes like, I do agree watching sports outside is great because you can always get distracted when you're at home, whether it's... you know, your dog needs to go out or you know, you're cooking or you're doing something. Do all get in that phase at home when you're just comfortable and you're like, you're watching, but you're not really watching. You're more comfortable. So you just might be pulling your phone out and watching TikToks instead of, you could be watching our reels and we would appreciate that. But can subscribe. But it is better when you can have everyone around you that's in the same mindset, locked in. ⁓ And that's what we like to do. We like to go out to places to watch the game. One, we're supporting local. Two, even when you're going to the washroom, next thing you know, you hear the whole place cheer up loud. you try to finish your business real, real quick. And then you rush upstairs being like, what did I miss? What did I miss? Let's go! Like X, Y, and Z just happened. Blah, blah, Yo, you missed it. you can technically rewind it, but like you gotta see it live. It kind of reminds me of the, you know, when you're a kid and you had like cable, you couldn't rewind anything. like the commercial comes on, you go get a snack or go to the bathroom or whatever. And then your siblings watching the game, watching the same show or your family's watching the same show, your buddies are watching it. And then everyone just yells, it's back, it's back. And then people are like hurling furniture. It's like, it's like the fear of missing out and you never want to be the one missing out. Yeah. I mean, I feel like that's kind of what drives a lot of that's what sports is all about. A lot of people to watch sports because you're like, I want to see it live. Like, you know, the best parts of the game, will be highlights. It's true, sure. But you just want to experience the whole thing. It's true. You know, now there is some situations where you can't watch it live or you can't watch it at a bar. Like this Saturday, I did have a little bit of a Rural Rumble party for WWE. It was actually in ⁓ Saudi Arabia. Right. yeah. So obviously it was like a two o'clock thing. You know, I'm not going to the bar at two o'clock to watch, you know, WWE. Not a lot of places are going to advertise that opportunity. Who won? ⁓ Roman Reigns actually did, but it wasn't as impactful. A lot because like we were just like, was he like the last one in and then kind of he was like, it was the last five. ⁓ It just didn't pop the same way. Yeah. I think if we were in a room where there was more Roman Reigns fans out there, it would have hit more. ⁓ A lot of us in our small circle were like sad because AJ Styles retired and lost his match and like being in a room where people appreciate you wrestling would have enjoyed like, you know, we all would be like, yo, remember that match that, you know, AJ Styles had back in TNA or blah, blah, and it didn't hit the same way. like sometimes watching at home, you lose a lot of those impactful things. Like for me, watching the Super Bowl, if I was watching the last Super Bowl of what's his name, Tom Brady in Seattle in 2014, when Seattle, all they had to do was run the ball. Oh, man, that was, you know, run the ball and they would have won the Super Bowl. What do you think they're going to do this year? They're going to run the ball. They actually might throw it. Yeah, right. The point I'm making is when you're in a room with people who, you know, are either on one side or the other. those moments, it harder because you can see someone being happy and you can be frustrated. And it's like, it's not just one person. It could be 20, it could be 40, could be 50. On one side, and then you see all the other de-stressed people on the other side, same thing, 20, 40, 50. And it's just, it's so much different when you're in an environment of people. who are interested in an outcome, whether it's on your side or not. Yeah, well, it just makes like the emotion level is just there. That's all that matters, right? Yeah. And that's why we watch sports. To get those, to get the full spec, that's how guys get the full spectrum of emotions. Women, if you want to understand that's a little bit better. For us, emotions comes through sports. It's the up and downs of sports. You want to see us happy, you want to see us sad? Just watch us watch your favorite sports We just started gambling league on the bachelor. We almost did that one year. Really? Yeah. Yeah, we were going to organize a fantasy bachelor league. That would have been cool. Because some of the guys I worked with got stuck watching it and then continued watching it because it was just on. You know, you're like. You sit down, watch it, like you're, someone's watching your show and they're like four or five episodes in and you sit down because you're just like, it's just on. And they're like, huh, what's, what's happening here? I don't know. Fill me in. And then they give you a little rundown and then you're just like, okay, now I'm locked in. And now I'm like. Why do I, why am I so invested in this? It's the emotions. Now if you started gambling on top of that. It's funny that you say that. It's funny, cause like. Why are you thinking about organizing one now? No, no, no, no, I'm just saying. Like it's just on. You're just gonna watch it cause it's on. And like this weekend, you know, yes, we had the Royal Rumble on Saturday, but Sunday and Monday, there's no football. But for some reason there is a Pro Bowl tomorrow. that might just be on and we might be in like soccer. Is that on? That's on tomorrow. Yeah. Why is it on a Tuesday? Well, it's in San Francisco. It doesn't mean anything. It's not in Honolulu. Yeah, but it could be they could have made it Sunday and then more people would would watch because they're used to watching football on Sundays. It's true. Now it's but like NFL, if you're listening, we know you're listening because you try to cancel us one time. Yes. The question I have really is why? Are you going to watch it? Like, hey, there's a bunch of bangles in it. That's hilarious. Don't know how that happened. don't understand the NFL. I never will. We're not a big clamor like them. Yeah. The list of players like because I get it because of injuries and then people are scared of getting injured or they're like. there actually were injured a lot of the year and just didn't like Josh Allen had like a broken bone in his foot too. Josh Allen's out, Bonix is out, Lamar Jackson's out, Trevor Lawrence was injured or he opted out. But like it just goes down the line. And I know I was complaining about this last week how Sidra Sanders is a Pro Bowl quarterback. Joe Flacco is. Joe Flacco made the list. Joe Burroughs playing now. But I think the real insult is he got in before either of them. That is, yeah, that's a little sad. But I think they just like took more time to say yes. I think the art of the pro Also I think because T Higgins got in as well. Zay Flowers is out for receiving. and then T Higgins took his spot. So now you have to bring in Joe Burrow. So now it's Jamar Chase, T Higgins, Joe Burrow, Joe Flacco. That's ridiculous. And the Browns. What a mess of an organization. have the all time sack leader. Yep. In a season who did it this year. They had a two time coach of the year. They had they started the year with two Pro Bowl quarterbacks. And they fired their coach and went five and twelve. Like what a mess. And yet they're yeah. ⁓ I don't get it. I would never get it. It is what it is. But yeah, the Pro Bowl, I know they do all their games and everything. Like dodgeball and the obstacle course. football. Is that was that this weekend? I honestly I think it's actually on Tuesday. It's all on Tuesday. I think that I guess it's all on the Pro Bowl is the flag football. I know the flag football. I guess they don't have to get ready for anything else because it used to be like three days, wasn't it? It used to be like Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Obstacle course and all that and skills challenge and all that. Yeah, it'd be like competition games against each other then a bunch of skill games. then I still think you know what would make the Pro Bowl way more interesting? If it was after the Super Bowl? Maybe. No, I think the Super Bowl, it kind of caps the year though. Okay, okay, okay. I'm done. I'm done. It has to be after because Unfortunately, your best players are not in it because they're in the Super Bowl. That's true. You know what mean? If you are like, there's no way that the two teams in the Super Bowl are not in the Pro Bowl and can't play in the Pro Bowl. like that. Here's a crazy idea. Do it midseason. Or, here's an even crazier idea, do it instead of a pre-season game. ⁓ So you have the first game is the Pro Bowl The first game of preseason is the Pro Bowl and actually wait No, no, no, I'm playing it cuz no one wants to get injured exactly. Yeah, has to be after Yeah, I don't know. See, that's the problem. Like the scheduling is here. Here's my take is Pro Bowl. What happens after the Super Bowl? Right. Take this in. Whoever is the Pro Bowl MVP, that city gets the Super Bowl. so then we don't know who to win. Each player is going to try their hardest because they want to win the Super Bowl for their city. Then you're going to get athletes actually trying, but then you end up with like, we're just going to have it in Kansas City again. It just can't be right. The voting. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The fan voting is done. Yeah, it's based off of. either skills challenge or something that leads the Super Bowl is going to be in this winning city due to the fact that it's the Pro Bowl. Yeah, that'd be interesting. Or it comes down to the Pro Bowl section off to AFC divisions and it's a flag football team for each section and whoever wins, one of the four teams has to draw to be in the Super Bowl. Something like that. It gets fans intrigued. because now people want to know when the Super Bowl is going to be the next year. We already know the date of the next year. It's going to be on Valentine's Day next year. Yeah, that's going to mess with so many people. So people can start booking and if they know the city a year in advance, they can really book their hotels. True. Now you're talking about an economic boost. People are able to plan. Some people are obviously not going to plan and people are going to watch because we want to know what the Super Bowl is going to be. That's, I think that's cool. That's a cool idea. Right? So then the chances of Buffalo having a Super Bowl, Detroit having a Super Bowl, you know, Seattle, some of those like New England with the weather, Chicago with the weather, you know, they have an opportunity now to have a Super Bowl. Yeah. Right? Because now it's wide open. And then maybe Jerry Jones will actually care about his team. True. Here's a crazy idea for the Pro Bowl, though. that I think would be amazing. Instead of doing all the, like they can still do their flag football shenanigans, because they want to play, do that or whatever. no one would get hurt doing this, unless they go too hard maybe. But have all the guys that make the Pro Bowl do the combine. I would like that. Because all these guys, do, they get their 40 time. They get their... Oh, so then that way we still know who's the fastest receiver in Exactly. That way we know who's X1Z. That way we know, yeah. And it would be interesting because you're like, this is the pro, these are the best of the best. It gives... Let's see what numbers they can put up. Because they haven't put up numbers since... College. And then that way people who are trying to get into it have a goal to achieve. Yeah. Because, ⁓ I'm trying to be alignment. Well, if I can get close to that number, I know I'm good. Yeah. And it'll raise the bar for college. I like that. OK. And I feel like a lot of people would probably watch that to be like to see Justin Jefferson running or Jamar Chase. running against CD Lamb in the 40. Or like doing all those things. And then they could be like, these are the numbers from my Pro Bowl season. When I made the Pro Bowl, I could run a whatever 40. Does that make sense? that total sense. Then if, let's say you've got, I don't know, Jemar Chase, for example, has made the Pro Bowl how many times? He would put up new numbers every year. So you'd see, is he getting faster, is he getting slower? Is he getting more technical? Yeah. Okay. I think it'd just be like changing And then you get all those players that are like, I want to go to the Pro Bowl because I want to show off my numbers. I've been working hard all year. I want to go there and show off, not just play some ridiculous games. that. that. like that. OK. And it's all because NFL, these players, it is 100 % all about bragging rights. That's all it is. Winning a Super Bowl is about breaking rights. Winning MVP, breaking rights. Being a triple crown, breaking rights. Soc leader, breaking rights. And now imagine, oh I have the fastest 40 time at the Pro Bowl. Come beat me next year. Yeah. I'll see you in the Pro Bowl. Yeah. Get there first. Yeah. It's like, okay. NFI, I know you're listening. Right. think that's a brilliant idea. That's fantastic. I'm just over here with hot takes today. One thing I'll say, though, is I can't wait to watch you pull a clubhouse. Man, this place is going to be packed. It's going to be insane. FM96 Host Day. So get your tickets. We'll be here. We'll be here. We have our booth. Come join us. BenchBob, come join us. Tickets are live. If you have any questions, just message Off The Bench on Instagram. We'll definitely work our way and our magic on you to get you in. Yeah, we got to bring lots of here. earlier, are $100. But you get so much and there's so many prizes. It's insane the amount of stuff they're giving away. And the opportunity to like win a fridge or, you know. they're giving away multiple, like, Actual like the ones that we were giving away all year. Yeah, they're giving away a couple of those I Don't know how many are The foods all gonna be included. There's gonna be a big buffet. Yeah I'm gonna make a whole bunch of promises right now, but I don't really know about I'm just kidding They're giving away a car everybody. I'm just kidding. Yeah But I know yeah that that fridge they're giving away they're gonna be doing some but even even some contest like trivia they're going to be doing a field goal contest. I'm just saying people are going to have to be able to book a few days off to go into the Super Bowl winning city for the parade. Yeah. That's the big one. That's the big one. I almost forgot about that. That's all I care about is being able to have the opportunity to go to the Super Bowl winning city and experience because we always joke about you know being able to do that you know with Toronto. You want to go to the parade. It's sick. Everyone's happy. Everyone's cheering. It's the atmosphere that we're talking about. It's like watching a game live, but you're watching a parade of players who just put everything on the line to win a trophy and they're celebrating with everybody. Whether you're a fan or not, you're just there to celebrate. Yeah. And it could be in Seattle or in Boston, in New England. Yeah. I mean, as far as like, personally, I would much rather go to Seattle. Seattle. But it'd be better weather there. True, Boston would be very cold. But either way, I think it's insane. Yeah, it's either East Coast or West Coast. Yeah. No matter how you look at it. Crazy. Yeah. So definitely try to join us. Yeah, join us. I don't think you can win if you're not here. So like I said, message me on Instagram. If you need links, it'll also be on the website at milkywayapparel.cair.com. It'll be there tomorrow once this episode gets launched. Yeah, it's gonna be wild. It's gonna be a wild party. So that being said, you got any closing remarks? ⁓ there was something else I wanted to ramble about. ⁓ Can't remember what it was. Give me 30 seconds. You know I've always got something to go off on. ⁓ I'm also really bad at writing notes if anyone was wondering. ⁓ No, I feel like we better actually cover everything I wrote down. Look at us go. Crazy. With that being said. But I am... I'm prepared. But I'm really excited to get back into boxing this week. So am I. So, you can tell me that this is dumb or not. I'm sorry? Because I have Amazon and things are way too easy to order. I got these band things. so I can put them on my ankles so I can only move my feet so far apart. I like it. So when I'm like, like doing some work at home, I can like walk and it literally like drags my foot back. I would have to say I think that would be good though. Because it's like, so like if you step, so I step one way, my other foot just automatically follows. So you're understanding your base. Yeah. So I'm just like, it's forcing me to stay in that base. And it also you can't cross your feet because if you cross your feet it'll fall off So you have to keep your feet wider apart That's thing that a lot of people don't realize is the crossing of the feet Yeah, and like a lot of the things I've seen now I Was a lot of like moving heel toe not just toe because when you move Go a little bit more heel toe You can get that, get more power. You can get the, you can go heel, toe, pivot on the toe. I don't know, maybe I've just been watching a lot of these videos lately. So we'll see my progress this week. All right, well on that note. But yeah, cheers to another one. We're to be doing, we'll be back for Super Bowl. We'll be here, come join us. Episode 23? Yes, that's a wrap. That's a LeBron and MJ episode. We could have saved the Goat debate for that. ⁓ it'll come up again. I I just needed to get everyone thinking about that because I think that is a ridiculous thing. That's the reason. But I can't wait to catch you for it. All right. Peace.