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- 0:01Speaker 1: When I woke up this morning, I was feeling pretty
- 0:03Speaker 1: dangerous or on a Cincinnati it's my team, it's Corbet.
- 0:07Speaker 1: They are who we thought they were, and we got
- 0:10Speaker 1: about Hello, you play to win the gate. They want
- 0:14Speaker 1: you to cook the dinner pleast, they ought to let
- 0:16Speaker 1: your shout for some of the grocery. And on the
- 0:17Speaker 1: way up, we're gonna buy a kneecap all playoffs. I'm
- 0:21Speaker 1: just here so I won't get fine. How could he
- 0:23Speaker 1: not be a romantic about football after Hello? Everybody? Welcome
- 0:29Speaker 1: to the Bench with Vanetta Podcast. My name is Rachel Vanetta,
- 0:33Speaker 1: and this is my pun as. This is Mohan. This
- 0:37Speaker 1: is a junkyard dog. I still like that nickname. I'm
- 0:41Speaker 1: gonna try and get that to stick. Um, thanks for
- 0:44Speaker 1: joining us for episode two. Baby Oh, we got some
- 0:48Speaker 1: club beats happening in the background. Guys, A lot has
- 0:53Speaker 1: happened since the last time that we spoke. Um. I
- 0:57Speaker 1: am currently in COVID jail. I was exposed to COVID
- 1:03Speaker 1: from my lovely partner in crime. My boyfriend tested positive
- 1:07Speaker 1: last week, So every single day I've just been on
- 1:10Speaker 1: a am I am I not kind of slippery slope.
- 1:16Speaker 1: Listen I feel like I feel like I'm fine, but
- 1:19Speaker 1: I also feel like it's like a placebo thing now
- 1:21Speaker 1: that it's like, oh, I'm for sure, I'm for sure sick.
- 1:23Speaker 1: I'm absolutely sick. But then I tested it. I keep
- 1:25Speaker 1: on testing negative, so I'm in COVID jail. It's pretty boring.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Um just ordered a bunch of like groceries. And you
- 1:33Speaker 1: know what else is also making it poring is that
- 1:36Speaker 1: I am on a clens. I am on a cleans.
- 1:41Speaker 1: I haven't had booze, I haven't had wheat, I haven't
- 1:44Speaker 1: had cheese, I haven't had soy, I haven't had any
- 1:49Speaker 1: kind of dairy product for a week. Now, tell me
- 1:52Speaker 1: you feel sorry for me. I'm looking good though, I'm
- 1:55Speaker 1: pretty good. My skin's flawless. It sounds like coul thirty.
- 1:58Speaker 1: What are you doing? What is this I have? I
- 2:00Speaker 1: don't know what it's called the death cleans, I don't
- 2:02Speaker 1: know what it's called called renew life. And I just
- 2:04Speaker 1: have to take these things and drink this water and
- 2:07Speaker 1: it sucks. But I gotta say healthy people are doing
- 2:11Speaker 1: it right, guys. I feel pretty incredible, Like I feel
- 2:13Speaker 1: like I can run a marathon despite the fact that
- 2:15Speaker 1: I might have COVID. Um, so that's going on. You
- 2:18Speaker 1: know what sucks is watching incredible football when you can't eat,
- 2:21Speaker 1: Like we're trying to be creative and like getting stuff
- 2:24Speaker 1: from the health food store that's like vegan caso. No, no,
- 2:31Speaker 1: you should you can't. It should be illegal. It's fine,
- 2:35Speaker 1: but then it also tastes like cardboard. I've had the
- 2:39Speaker 1: cashew cheese isn't too bad. If anyone's had that, it's
- 2:43Speaker 1: really not that bad. Why would you ever in your life?
- 2:47Speaker 1: Why it's explain to me why you have this. There's
- 2:50Speaker 1: a restaurant, Grassis Madre, and it's all vegan, and I
- 2:54Speaker 1: think the cheese they use. Dude, I've actually eaten there
- 2:58Speaker 1: before too. They've foiled us. No, I think that there's
- 3:00Speaker 1: actually so many great tubs to do. It's like I
- 3:02Speaker 1: could perhaps go vegan. Um. I've tried it before when
- 3:06Speaker 1: I was like on a traveling kick for for work,
- 3:09Speaker 1: and like the only thing you can eat vegan at
- 3:12Speaker 1: the airport is like like oatmeal from Starbucks, and I
- 3:16Speaker 1: was withering away and just hated my life. Um. And
- 3:21Speaker 1: so I also something that happened in the lust last week. Guys,
- 3:23Speaker 1: I went viral yeah, I have never listened. If you
- 3:29Speaker 1: guys have been following my journey, you know that I
- 3:31Speaker 1: make stupid stuff so often. You know, I make dumb
- 3:33Speaker 1: videos all the time. I've never had something go crazy
- 3:37Speaker 1: like that before. I got so many messages from so
- 3:41Speaker 1: many people. My boyfriend was just like showing me random
- 3:45Speaker 1: accounts that had reposted it. He's like, this isn't you're
- 3:50Speaker 1: talking about the Cooper Cup. They know what I'm dying amount.
- 3:54Speaker 1: I remade this hilarious Cooper Cup, the very insane answer
- 4:01Speaker 1: that he gave one of our NFL Network reporters, Bridget
- 4:05Speaker 1: after a game a couple of weeks ago, and it
- 4:07Speaker 1: blew up. It's still blowing up. I think that I
- 4:09Speaker 1: might have to do more, you guys. Unfortunately, I think
- 4:12Speaker 1: I know what I'm gonna do too, so I'm gonna
- 4:14Speaker 1: have to start so long. So oh, the makeup was oh,
- 4:20Speaker 1: I wasn't even wearing any makeup. I was just wear
- 4:25Speaker 1: that glued it to my skin. I glued it to
- 4:27Speaker 1: my skin and I golfed with Mohan right afterwards. Mohan
- 4:30Speaker 1: and I golfed every single week. He is way better
- 4:33Speaker 1: than I am, and he just started, which is very annoying. Um.
- 4:36Speaker 1: But I was still peeling off like my facial hair
- 4:39Speaker 1: glue while we were golfing. It was disgusting and it
- 4:42Speaker 1: like rips your skin. But worth it because I creepily
- 4:46Speaker 1: looked like couper cup. Even his wife was like, this
- 4:49Speaker 1: is She just responded with this is disturbing. It wasn't
- 4:52Speaker 1: like ha ha, this is great. She goes, this is
- 4:55Speaker 1: messed up. I don't like it. Uh. So that happened,
- 4:57Speaker 1: so COVID jail cleanse. I went viral um. And also
- 5:01Speaker 1: something outside of work life. My brother lives in like
- 5:06Speaker 1: this farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, Ontario, and he
- 5:10Speaker 1: found a extra room in his house that was covered up.
- 5:16Speaker 1: He's been living there for years, you guys. He found
- 5:19Speaker 1: this creepy cellar in his basement. Then he just discovered, Yeah,
- 5:24Speaker 1: he was painting his floor and like pulled out a
- 5:26Speaker 1: cabinet because he was putting in a dishwasher, and he's like,
- 5:29Speaker 1: what is this hatch? And he opened it up and
- 5:32Speaker 1: it was just a cellar down below his house and
- 5:36Speaker 1: there was a ladder inside of it. This parasite. Oh,
- 5:42Speaker 1: it is parasite, guys. I think I would leave the
- 5:45Speaker 1: house and maybe lighted on fire and never looked back
- 5:47Speaker 1: and continue to live in this house. Two of my
- 5:52Speaker 1: brothers went down into the cellar and my brother makes wine,
- 5:56Speaker 1: so of course he like looked down and he's like,
- 5:58Speaker 1: oh now it's gonna be us this like crazy wine cellar.
- 6:01Speaker 1: But I was My first question was did you find
- 6:03Speaker 1: any scratch marks on the walls? Somebody's definitely been living
- 6:08Speaker 1: down there. All guys. I don't think i'd be able
- 6:11Speaker 1: to survive in that house anymore. So anyways, that's been
- 6:14Speaker 1: my week. It's been a very productive week, a very
- 6:16Speaker 1: crazy week, and of course we had football. Oh my god.
- 6:19Speaker 1: I felt like coming out of last weekend, gosh, I
- 6:23Speaker 1: really didn't think that we deserved anything better than that.
- 6:25Speaker 1: But we got two more really great games. We know
- 6:28Speaker 1: who is going to be in the Super Bowl, which
- 6:31Speaker 1: we're gonna get to you in a second. But I
- 6:32Speaker 1: think the most pressing news was that we also had
- 6:35Speaker 1: a Tom Brady retirement announcement that soon after got revoked.
- 6:41Speaker 1: And as we were going live on this podcast, we
- 6:44Speaker 1: were actually listening to the very first time that Tom
- 6:48Speaker 1: Brady spoke to the media. He went on his Let's
- 6:52Speaker 1: go Sirius XM show that gets turned into a podcast
- 6:56Speaker 1: with Jim Gray. It's on the Mad Dog Sports Radio.
- 6:59Speaker 1: I think that it is so classy that Tom Brady
- 7:02Speaker 1: came into this and was like not absolutely fuming because
- 7:07Speaker 1: I apparently he's out of the country right now. The
- 7:11Speaker 1: talks are that he's somewhere in Europe. He is decompressing
- 7:15Speaker 1: after a crazy season, after a heartbreaking loss, I'm sure,
- 7:20Speaker 1: and then he has Adam Schefter and people tweeting that
- 7:25Speaker 1: he is retiring. He just talked about his phone was
- 7:28Speaker 1: blowing up. I guys, I gotta say I would be
- 7:32Speaker 1: so pissed. I was kind of pissed for Tom Brady
- 7:35Speaker 1: just sitting there and watching all of this news come through.
- 7:38Speaker 1: If I were him, I would have had every single
- 7:40Speaker 1: person that I was even breathing in the same room
- 7:43Speaker 1: as signed an NDA. Would you guys not like, would
- 7:45Speaker 1: you guys be pissed right now? I'd be so angry
- 7:47Speaker 1: if I were him. Someone somewhere is fired. I feel
- 7:51Speaker 1: like Brady runs such as such a food tight circle
- 7:56Speaker 1: like him and Lebron like nothing ever, you know, really leaks,
- 7:59Speaker 1: like they never get in trouble, and for someone to
- 8:02Speaker 1: like betrays trust, I feel like I just think of
- 8:06Speaker 1: every Mafia movie ever, like someone is in the back
- 8:09Speaker 1: of a yeah, oh, someone is definitely back in the
- 8:14Speaker 1: back of the truck. Somebody is definitely in a trunk
- 8:17Speaker 1: right now. I here's the thing. If I were in
- 8:21Speaker 1: that circle exactly, I would I would feel like I'm
- 8:24Speaker 1: not messing with Tony Soprano. No chance, I'm not saying anything.
- 8:28Speaker 1: I'm not telling my boyfriend, I'm not telling my dog.
- 8:30Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything. Because also, like I think, the
- 8:34Speaker 1: one thing that I noticed this week, everybody loves Tom Brady.
- 8:38Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you're a Falcons fan. My friend
- 8:42Speaker 1: Sarah Tiana is a huge Falcons fan. She was at
- 8:45Speaker 1: that Super Bowl that the Patriots came back and won.
- 8:48Speaker 1: She loves Tom Brady. No one can hate well. Tom
- 8:52Speaker 1: Brady has made a big turnaround in his likability over
- 8:56Speaker 1: the last I think so as soon as he left
- 8:59Speaker 1: the Patriots, I was on the Tom Brady dandwagon for sure.
- 9:02Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, but I was just like,
- 9:03Speaker 1: if he's gonna leave, like that makes him, I don't know,
- 9:06Speaker 1: so much more cooler in my opinion, because oh my god,
- 9:08Speaker 1: he's gonna go and win a super Bowl with a
- 9:09Speaker 1: whole other team. He doesn't need Bill Belichick. But I
- 9:13Speaker 1: just it baffles me because so many people love him.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Why would you not want him to have this moment
- 9:18Speaker 1: like it truly is a historic moment to have the
- 9:20Speaker 1: greatest NFL player. It's gonna be the same with like
- 9:23Speaker 1: lebron James. It's gonna be the same with like Christiano
- 9:25Speaker 1: Ronaldo and Leo Messi. When these guys retire, it is
- 9:27Speaker 1: going to be a moment in history that we tell
- 9:30Speaker 1: our kids about. And you kind of just took that
- 9:31Speaker 1: away from all of us. I know that you have
- 9:32Speaker 1: a job to do, but I don't know. It's it's
- 9:35Speaker 1: a little bit tricky. People want to be the first,
- 9:37Speaker 1: Just like he said, people want to be the first
- 9:40Speaker 1: to say, you know, oh, Tom Brady is retiring, But
- 9:44Speaker 1: I don't know, you already have nine million followers. Yeah,
- 9:47Speaker 1: why do you have to break like let him have this,
- 9:49Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So that kind of sucked.
- 9:52Speaker 1: So that was obviously a huge talking point for everybody
- 9:54Speaker 1: this week. And then obviously mayhem happened this week. Can
- 10:00Speaker 1: we know who's going to the Super Bowl? Baby? It's
- 10:02Speaker 1: gonna be the Bengals and it's going to be the
- 10:04Speaker 1: Rams Super Bowl fifty six at Sofi Stadium. I want
- 10:09Speaker 1: to talk about the Super Bowl because your girls got tickets.
- 10:12Speaker 1: She is gonna be there at Sofi Stadium, and guys,
- 10:17Speaker 1: I'm a little bit worried. Your girls A little bit
- 10:19Speaker 1: worried because she went to the game with the Rams
- 10:23Speaker 1: in the Cardinals a couple of weeks ago that was
- 10:26Speaker 1: coming off a very spectacular week in a football Your
- 10:29Speaker 1: girl was a little hungover while she was at this game.
- 10:31Speaker 1: And I went full old man and was like, it's
- 10:35Speaker 1: too loud in here. I got last minute tickets. I
- 10:40Speaker 1: was at the very tippity top of Sofi, like literally
- 10:43Speaker 1: three seats from the end of time, and I was
- 10:48Speaker 1: sitting there and I was trying to have a whiskey
- 10:51Speaker 1: ginger to make myself feel better, and I was like, guys,
- 10:54Speaker 1: I don't know if I can sit through this whole game.
- 10:56Speaker 1: I don't know whose house. Ram's house. Absolutely true that
- 11:00Speaker 1: it was just screamed into my ear at an insane decibel.
- 11:05Speaker 1: Oh how Darius. So I'm just a little bit concerned.
- 11:11Speaker 1: As soon as the Rams one, I immediately started thinking
- 11:13Speaker 1: about logistics, like Okay. That means there's gonna be a
- 11:16Speaker 1: lot of Rams fans there. That means it's gonna be
- 11:18Speaker 1: really loud. How am I going to park? So I
- 11:20Speaker 1: think that this is this is my plan. I'm gonna
- 11:23Speaker 1: sleep at work. I don't know where, but I'm going
- 11:26Speaker 1: to find a way. Please if this stays between the
- 11:31Speaker 1: three of us, okay, I don't want security finding out
- 11:34Speaker 1: about this. I'm gonna sleep in the walk around Okay,
- 11:36Speaker 1: nobody has access to that. And I'm gonna wear earplugs
- 11:40Speaker 1: and another thing that I really want to try. So
- 11:44Speaker 1: this is very interesting. A seismologist with the Guinness Book
- 11:48Speaker 1: of World Records came two Arrowhead, Okay, after being in Seattle.
- 11:53Speaker 1: Seattle had the loudest stadium. It is apparently insane. I've
- 11:57Speaker 1: never been there. The fans go kuckoo bananas. Then they
- 12:00Speaker 1: went to Arrowhead to see if the Chiefs could break
- 12:04Speaker 1: a record that was one hundred and thirty six point
- 12:07Speaker 1: five decibels. That is very very loud. The Chiefs broke
- 12:11Speaker 1: that with one hundred and forty two point two decibels,
- 12:16Speaker 1: which is the equivalent to the sound of a jet engine. Okay,
- 12:22Speaker 1: and I genuinely think at so Far with the Rams
- 12:27Speaker 1: at the super Bowl that they could perhaps break this.
- 12:32Speaker 1: And I kind of want to find a seismologist machine.
- 12:35Speaker 1: I don't think that that's a real thing, a decibel recorder,
- 12:39Speaker 1: and I want to smuggle it into so Far and
- 12:41Speaker 1: record the decibels to see if they could possibly beat
- 12:46Speaker 1: Arrowhead during the Super Bowl. What do you guys think?
- 12:49Speaker 1: I would be surprised if they could, because just typically speaking,
- 12:53Speaker 1: a Super Bowl crowd is not your rowdiest, loudest fan always.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Here's the thing, A typical super Bowl crowd is not
- 13:03Speaker 1: the home team. True. I think the Bucks had a
- 13:06Speaker 1: home team, and then when it was the last time,
- 13:08Speaker 1: that first ever exactly so we only have one another
- 13:13Speaker 1: one to compare it to. We get two years in
- 13:16Speaker 1: a row now. But I just I was watching the
- 13:19Speaker 1: obviously watching the game and just seeing how messed up
- 13:22Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers got from the sound. It made
- 13:23Speaker 1: me think of it's like almost not fair, even though
- 13:27Speaker 1: there was a plenty of forty nine Ers fans there, Like,
- 13:30Speaker 1: the Rams have such an edge because they have to
- 13:31Speaker 1: play in that atmosphere all the time, and even Matt
- 13:33Speaker 1: Stafford has said it's very difficult to communicate there, so
- 13:36Speaker 1: I mean, learn sign language, do whatever you gotta do.
- 13:39Speaker 1: But um, so, yeah, I just feel like that could
- 13:42Speaker 1: be a major factor. I am going to try and
- 13:45Speaker 1: record the decibels and see, I'm also going to wear
- 13:49Speaker 1: your plugs and I'm also not going to be hungover,
- 13:51Speaker 1: so I think I'll be in a better better position.
- 13:59Speaker 1: That's another thing, is like everyone's just chanting that constantly.
- 14:04Speaker 1: It's gonna be great, It's gonna be great. I wonder
- 14:06Speaker 1: I wonder if they're able to do that at a
- 14:09Speaker 1: home game for a Super Bowl. I feel like that's
- 14:11Speaker 1: not going to be allowed. And I don't even think
- 14:13Speaker 1: that the first down thing is going to be allowed either, Like,
- 14:15Speaker 1: I think it's kind of got to be very even.
- 14:18Speaker 1: Did they fire the cannons in Tampa Bay last year
- 14:21Speaker 1: or that was like they weren't allowed to, right, that's
- 14:23Speaker 1: a good question. I don't think that they were allowed to.
- 14:25Speaker 1: I think you've kind of got to make it as
- 14:27Speaker 1: much of even advantage to both teams, because that wouldn't
- 14:31Speaker 1: be right now, that wouldn't be fair. Also, what do
- 14:35Speaker 1: you guys think about having the Super Bowl in like
- 14:42Speaker 1: somebody's home stadium every single year? Like obviously so much
- 14:45Speaker 1: logistics go into the super Bowl. But I think it's
- 14:49Speaker 1: kind of special to have a home super Bowl and
- 14:51Speaker 1: if this is only the second time we've ever had it,
- 14:53Speaker 1: like that's pretty crazy. I would be great for the fans,
- 14:56Speaker 1: like if like last year, Tampa Bay, the year before,
- 14:59Speaker 1: Miami obviously they didn't make it in this year at LA,
- 15:01Speaker 1: Like these are places people want to like go to, right,
- 15:04Speaker 1: That's what I mean. It's it's that it's that way
- 15:06Speaker 1: for every other sport, for basketball, for baseball, Like I
- 15:10Speaker 1: think the football is kind of the only ones that
- 15:12Speaker 1: do that. And it's like cities erupped in and it's
- 15:16Speaker 1: so much more fun when you're like the Los Angeles
- 15:19Speaker 1: is going bonkers right now because they have the super Bowl.
- 15:21Speaker 1: And I understand it's like infrastructure and like some cities
- 15:26Speaker 1: maybe aren't, you know, Paul Brown Stadium, I don't know
- 15:28Speaker 1: if they're ready for a super Bowl to be hosted there,
- 15:32Speaker 1: but I just think you got two weeks to get ready.
- 15:34Speaker 1: I say get ready, maybe even maybe even tack on
- 15:38Speaker 1: a third week. I don't know, but I think it's
- 15:41Speaker 1: pretty special when a home team gets to host the
- 15:44Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Um, all right, guys, it was a crazy
- 15:47Speaker 1: week of football. A lot of people sent me a
- 15:50Speaker 1: whole lot of messages about how they are feelings. So
- 15:53Speaker 1: coming up, I open my DM. DMS now open. This
- 16:06Speaker 1: is safe space. Tell me your deepest, darkest secrets. Dms
- 16:12Speaker 1: now open. The dms have opened, and you guys have
- 16:19Speaker 1: sent me some weird things yet again, so let's listen
- 16:22Speaker 1: to them. I really enjoy doing this because I actually
- 16:24Speaker 1: get some really amazing messages, and not all of them
- 16:26Speaker 1: make it here, so I try and post a lot
- 16:28Speaker 1: on my Instagram. But like, people were messaging me being
- 16:31Speaker 1: like I'm sober of three years tomorrow, like and I
- 16:35Speaker 1: proposed to my girlfriend of nine years yesterday. Like it's
- 16:38Speaker 1: really quite lovely to open the communication lines. And then
- 16:42Speaker 1: of course it's like I will you marry me? I
- 16:44Speaker 1: think that we would be really good together. I'm gonna
- 16:46Speaker 1: treat you red, not give you COVID like your boyfriend did.
- 16:50Speaker 1: So there's also those as well. All right, let's hear
- 16:53Speaker 1: the first one. If the Rams win, there will be
- 16:57Speaker 1: an asterisk because la pay dak for all these stars,
- 17:01Speaker 1: Von Miller, ob j Stafford Ramsey. And this is why
- 17:08Speaker 1: I kind of like the Bengals. This like the Bengals
- 17:11Speaker 1: are just such a fun story. I understand to get
- 17:14Speaker 1: all of these players, you have to be very smart
- 17:16Speaker 1: with your money that you are spending, so like across
- 17:20Speaker 1: the board, the coaching staff, the GM, every owners, all
- 17:24Speaker 1: of that with the Rams obviously did a really great job.
- 17:28Speaker 1: But like I said before, it's like a Manchester City
- 17:31Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with soccer. Manchester City just has
- 17:33Speaker 1: all of this money and just spends all of it
- 17:37Speaker 1: on all of these shiny players and are always winning,
- 17:41Speaker 1: and it just makes it really really boring. That's not
- 17:44Speaker 1: sports to me. But of course the Rams have some
- 17:48Speaker 1: pretty incredible stories, like the fact that OBJ like Mohan
- 17:52Speaker 1: it pains me to see him so happy and thriving.
- 17:55Speaker 1: But they've turned around a lot of great players. Ob J.
- 18:00Speaker 1: Matt Stafford just came from the Lions and now is
- 18:02Speaker 1: in a super Bowl. Like just hearing him and Kelly
- 18:04Speaker 1: Stafford till their story. So no, I wouldn't say it's
- 18:10Speaker 1: an ask asterisk. I think that von Miller was in
- 18:14Speaker 1: Denver Broncos weren't doing anything this year. I just think
- 18:17Speaker 1: that they were really smart and pulled together an incredible
- 18:19Speaker 1: team and now they're in a super Bowl. Go Bengals, though,
- 18:23Speaker 1: what do we got next? So Brady was definitely going
- 18:28Speaker 1: to retire, but now that it got spoiled before he
- 18:31Speaker 1: was able to make the announcement himself, He's going to
- 18:34Speaker 1: play this season and win another Super Bowl, isn't he? Yeah?
- 18:39Speaker 1: I think so. He was staying on this radio show
- 18:43Speaker 1: about how he doesn't really get affected by all of
- 18:46Speaker 1: this crap, and I kind of believe him, but I
- 18:50Speaker 1: kind of don't want to believe him because that's such
- 18:52Speaker 1: a great storyline to go into this. Like we were
- 18:55Speaker 1: talking about how his retirement video is going to be great,
- 18:57Speaker 1: but you know what's he going to be even better?
- 18:59Speaker 1: His like LFG, I'm coming back and we're all gonna
- 19:03Speaker 1: be like yeas because then we get to watch Brady. Yeah,
- 19:08Speaker 1: exactly right. We're just never Yeah, I'm not going anywhere.
- 19:14Speaker 1: We're never gonna see anything like this again, unless Patrick
- 19:19Speaker 1: Mahomes starts treating his body like like only eating avocada
- 19:22Speaker 1: right now, And maybe he will, and maybe we will
- 19:24Speaker 1: get to see something like that, but we're never going
- 19:26Speaker 1: to experience something like this, so why not enjoy it
- 19:29Speaker 1: for one more year? Maybe he says, this is my
- 19:33Speaker 1: last year. Maybe he goes into that year and be like,
- 19:37Speaker 1: this is my you know, so we have like kind
- 19:40Speaker 1: of a big bend esque farewell to her every single time.
- 19:43Speaker 1: He's going to the stadium for the last time. And
- 19:46Speaker 1: I think that that could be really really special. And
- 19:48Speaker 1: then I'm sure he's gonna just you know, kill a
- 19:51Speaker 1: bunch of records. But does he does he do it
- 19:53Speaker 1: with the Bucks or do you think he goes somewhere else,
- 19:55Speaker 1: like go do it with the Bucks? That'd be a mess.
- 19:58Speaker 1: If he went to another team, that would be insane.
- 20:00Speaker 1: I don't know. I wouldn't kind of like I'd be here.
- 20:03Speaker 1: I'd be here for it. I'd be here for all
- 20:05Speaker 1: of the off season drama because Blue would have something
- 20:07Speaker 1: to talk about. But um, that would be a little
- 20:10Speaker 1: whacko and like Gronk follows him. Yeah, he's got his crew.
- 20:15Speaker 1: Oh my god. Brady on the forty nine Ers would
- 20:17Speaker 1: totally win the Super Bowl. Yeah, that's where he's always
- 20:20Speaker 1: wanted to be. His parents live there. I would love
- 20:23Speaker 1: to see Tom Brady on the forty nine ers. Forty
- 20:24Speaker 1: Niners would actually be very very very very very good
- 20:27Speaker 1: if that happened, and we'll win the super Bowl for sure.
- 20:30Speaker 1: If you're Tom Brady, are you kind of looking at
- 20:31Speaker 1: all the teams? I mean, like, what is my best bet? Yeah?
- 20:34Speaker 1: If this is my last year, what is my best bet? Okay?
- 20:37Speaker 1: Well if that, if that happens, you heard it here
- 20:40Speaker 1: first on the Bench podcast, Brady to the forty nine ers.
- 20:43Speaker 1: We're probably not the first ones to say it, but
- 20:45Speaker 1: let's just say that we are. What's next. I've added
- 20:52Speaker 1: at least half the pictures to your weekie feet page. Okay,
- 20:56Speaker 1: sir ma'am, we need to talk because guys, there are
- 21:01Speaker 1: so many photos on my Wiki feet page. Okay, I'm
- 21:05Speaker 1: gonna do a live let me check in on my score.
- 21:09Speaker 1: Could youmach just like one of my favorite like one
- 21:10Speaker 1: of my favorites pages. Let me just quickly or it's
- 21:13Speaker 1: like the home screen when I like open my Safari.
- 21:18Speaker 1: Why does this page exist? Oh? Guys, I don't know
- 21:23Speaker 1: what it is. In the last few years, I don't
- 21:25Speaker 1: know if it's like a trend, but people have really
- 21:29Speaker 1: been loving feet. Gosh, they even have my birthday. Oh
- 21:34Speaker 1: my god, I'm most size ten. Okay, what am I at?
- 21:39Speaker 1: What am I at? I am like a four point
- 21:42Speaker 1: eight stars. I would call that out of five in parentheses.
- 21:47Speaker 1: Beautiful feet you they really do have? Oh, they have
- 21:52Speaker 1: screen grabs from my Instagram stories like this is a
- 21:57Speaker 1: person that's dedicated two weird. That's a bad look for mankind.
- 22:01Speaker 1: Like if aliens came to Earth and they happen to
- 22:05Speaker 1: hop on someone's computer and the first sight there was
- 22:07Speaker 1: Wiki feet with your profile, like, it's not a good representation.
- 22:11Speaker 1: Oh my god, mohun, what if I told you that
- 22:13Speaker 1: you're on my Wiki feet page like my feet? Yeah,
- 22:17Speaker 1: a bus in big bear. I don't think I was.
- 22:21Speaker 1: What's my rating? I better be a four point eight
- 22:27Speaker 1: or higher. Listen, let me just tell you there's enough
- 22:30Speaker 1: content on there. You guys don't have to thank you
- 22:33Speaker 1: for taking an interest in my titsies. But you guys
- 22:35Speaker 1: don't have to keep on doing this. Um, your girl
- 22:38Speaker 1: is happy with a four point eight. I'm satisfied with that,
- 22:42Speaker 1: And feeder grows like I just don't. I genuinely do
- 22:47Speaker 1: not get it. Do you guys have a foot thing?
- 22:48Speaker 1: You can fess up if you like. So are these people?
- 22:52Speaker 1: Mohan is really hasty to answer that question. Actually that
- 22:54Speaker 1: was a really quick answer. No, this is a safe space.
- 22:58Speaker 1: So these people that upload to this website, they go,
- 23:01Speaker 1: They're the ones that go on flights and sit next
- 23:03Speaker 1: to people and hope that they take their shoes and
- 23:05Speaker 1: socks off. That is this the type of people. I
- 23:09Speaker 1: do take my shoes off on flights. I do. I
- 23:11Speaker 1: am one of those people. I don't think my socks
- 23:13Speaker 1: off no cereal. Yeah, but your socks still sell like hot.
- 23:18Speaker 1: I don't know. That's Justin. Justin's agreeing with me. Justin's
- 23:22Speaker 1: nodding his head. I don't take my shoes off on
- 23:24Speaker 1: every flight, but I've not never done it either. Yeah,
- 23:28Speaker 1: my socks smell like my show. The opportunity presents itself.
- 23:32Speaker 1: It's not great. Well that's disgusting. Maybe you're maybe you
- 23:34Speaker 1: need to change your shoes. I don't. I have very
- 23:36Speaker 1: nice smelling feet. Oh maybe that'll give me more points. Everybody,
- 23:39Speaker 1: it's write it down. I do have a nice smelling beat.
- 23:44Speaker 1: It seems like a good place to m's close close
- 23:48Speaker 1: close them up, Close them up. This is fun. This
- 23:51Speaker 1: is like my favorite part of this podcast, so I'm
- 23:52Speaker 1: definitely gonna keep on doing this. Coming up, we are
- 23:54Speaker 1: going to get into an early Super Bowl pick and
- 23:57Speaker 1: talk about how I did last week, which it was
- 23:59Speaker 1: pretty pretty just okay, Actually, do Cony look up to
- 24:11Speaker 1: a Neighborhou's sake, Secure the bag. Secure the bag, which
- 24:16Speaker 1: is exactly what I did not know last week. Um,
- 24:20Speaker 1: I came in hot listen. It's so tough because you're
- 24:22Speaker 1: asking us to make these decisions about games that are
- 24:27Speaker 1: like seven days away. The lines change, people are in,
- 24:31Speaker 1: people are out. So I made some bold choices last
- 24:36Speaker 1: week on the show. Let's let's listen. I'm on the
- 24:40Speaker 1: forty nine ers. You might think that the Rams have
- 24:42Speaker 1: a better team, but you just can't ignore that there's
- 24:44Speaker 1: something special going on with this forty nine team. So
- 24:46Speaker 1: I'm on the forty nine ers. And then, guys, I'm
- 24:49Speaker 1: going Chiefs. I'm going Chiefs to win the super Bowl.
- 24:51Speaker 1: At this point one ala befall Kiku. Hello, my name
- 24:56Speaker 1: is PR Representative, and I'm here today to represent Miss Benetta,
- 25:01Speaker 1: and I just wanted all of you to know that
- 25:03Speaker 1: despite what is put out online, despite what is put
- 25:07Speaker 1: out online today, Miss Benetta is actually going to be
- 25:10Speaker 1: changing her Pick four Championships Sunday. She is She was
- 25:14Speaker 1: on the Chiefs, okay, and she she thought long and
- 25:16Speaker 1: hard about it and has decided to go with Joey
- 25:20Speaker 1: B and the Bengals. She is going with the Bengals.
- 25:23Speaker 1: Please change your notes accordingly, despite what you were reading
- 25:26Speaker 1: on the line. I saved myself from an oen to weekend.
- 25:30Speaker 1: At the very last second, I decided. I was saying,
- 25:34Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna go with what I want
- 25:35Speaker 1: to see. I want to see a Bengals forty nine
- 25:37Speaker 1: or super Bowl. So I went all underdogs, and thankfully
- 25:40Speaker 1: I did because I would have been Owen two and
- 25:42Speaker 1: now I'm one in one, babe, So that feels good. Guys,
- 25:46Speaker 1: Let's make some picks for the super Bowl. We got Bengals.
- 25:49Speaker 1: Rams are minus four. This is major favorite versus an underdog,
- 25:57Speaker 1: Like to a t, in every single way, you've got
- 26:00Speaker 1: the Rams. Who are you know a lot of people
- 26:02Speaker 1: are like, oh, they're just a super team. If you
- 26:04Speaker 1: follow soccer, they're like, you know, the Manchester City. They
- 26:08Speaker 1: went out and got Matt Stafford, they went out and
- 26:10Speaker 1: bought OBJ, they went and got von Miller. They have
- 26:12Speaker 1: created this super team because they spent the money to
- 26:15Speaker 1: do so. And then you've got the underdogs. I was
- 26:19Speaker 1: just looking up. I was looking up something else. Which
- 26:21Speaker 1: I'm going to get to you in a second, But
- 26:23Speaker 1: in this article that I was looking at, it said
- 26:26Speaker 1: that the Bengals stadium, the Paul Brown Stadium, is the
- 26:30Speaker 1: cheapest football experience that you can have in the NFL
- 26:34Speaker 1: for a family of four, compared compared to all other stadiums,
- 26:38Speaker 1: it is the cheapest. Who have a family of four,
- 26:40Speaker 1: go park tickets for the game, food, everything across the board.
- 26:45Speaker 1: Like it really does seem like, you know, just gritty
- 26:50Speaker 1: coming from nowhere, injuries, fighting your way to the top
- 26:55Speaker 1: two rams or sparkly. They're in Los Angeles and that
- 26:57Speaker 1: is what we have for the super Bowl, And I
- 26:59Speaker 1: honestly think this is I wasn't into it at first.
- 27:02Speaker 1: I really I chose the forty nine ers to make
- 27:04Speaker 1: it into the super Bowl. But I'm pretty happy that
- 27:06Speaker 1: this is happening now. So Joe Burrow, he is exactly
- 27:10Speaker 1: who we thought he was, you guys from LSU. He
- 27:13Speaker 1: comes in, We were so excited to watch him in
- 27:15Speaker 1: that first season, he gets injured. This is his like
- 27:18Speaker 1: first season back and healthy and good, and he makes
- 27:20Speaker 1: it to a freaking super Bowl. I believe he might
- 27:24Speaker 1: be the first guy to um win a college Championship,
- 27:28Speaker 1: win a Heisman, and win a super Bowl in his
- 27:33Speaker 1: first he would be the first. Is that true? He
- 27:36Speaker 1: would be the first player to ever win all three things,
- 27:39Speaker 1: and he would have done it, and he would have
- 27:42Speaker 1: done it in three years. That's what it was. That's yeah, stupid.
- 27:45Speaker 1: And then on the other side, something else that I heard.
- 27:48Speaker 1: ESPN senior writer Seth Wickersham tweeted Sean mcvay's thirty six.
- 27:52Speaker 1: He's had a winning season every single year. He has
- 27:55Speaker 1: beaten Bruce Arians, Pete Carroll, Kyle Shannon, Sean Payton in
- 27:58Speaker 1: the playoffs, has reached two Super Bowls with two different
- 28:03Speaker 1: quarterbacks in Jared Goffin at Stafford's good, but he's good.
- 28:08Speaker 1: Both of these teams were just absolutely They've got such
- 28:11Speaker 1: an incredible story. It's amazing. So I'm going Bengals. I
- 28:15Speaker 1: think it's such a fun story. Joe Burrow is starting
- 28:18Speaker 1: like who knows, maybe in a couple of years we're
- 28:20Speaker 1: gonna be like Patrick Mahomes versus Joe Burrow. Who is
- 28:22Speaker 1: the next goat? Who is it gonna be? He is
- 28:26Speaker 1: who we thought he was. We just had to wait
- 28:29Speaker 1: a little while after his acl healed up to see it,
- 28:34Speaker 1: and now we are getting to see it, and I
- 28:35Speaker 1: just like the story so much better. Jamar Chase, Joe Mixon,
- 28:39Speaker 1: this defense, lou Anna Rumo, the defensive coordinator. He's figured
- 28:42Speaker 1: out some stuff the last few weeks making Patrick Mahomes
- 28:47Speaker 1: look like not Patrick Mahomes. And that whole second half
- 28:50Speaker 1: of that game on Sunday, when I was insane to
- 28:54Speaker 1: see absolutely insane that the since defense has just completed
- 29:00Speaker 1: letely shut down Mahomes in the second half, because it
- 29:02Speaker 1: was the same story week seventeen, just a few weeks ago, exactly,
- 29:05Speaker 1: I felt like the man had a malfunction. I was like,
- 29:07Speaker 1: what is going on? And when leading by fifteen or
- 29:13Speaker 1: more and Burrow did it, which is insane. That's so amazing. Um,
- 29:19Speaker 1: So this is gonna be just such a I feel
- 29:22Speaker 1: like the last few Super Bowls have kind of been like,
- 29:28Speaker 1: I think this one's actually gonna be really fun and
- 29:30Speaker 1: really close, and I'm going for the Bengals. Like Rachel
- 29:35Speaker 1: you brought up earlier, like the rams of a good
- 29:37Speaker 1: story of like changing all these players and getting all
- 29:39Speaker 1: the right pieces. But remember the Bengals are two and fourteen.
- 29:43Speaker 1: You know, before Burrow was drafted and that's sick. Which
- 29:47Speaker 1: two and fourteen was the worst record in the lead.
- 29:50Speaker 1: Now they're in the in the Super Bowl. So as
- 29:52Speaker 1: a Browns fan, Rachel, I'm just telling you, as a
- 29:55Speaker 1: Browns fan, we should be rooting for the Bengals because
- 29:58Speaker 1: we got to root for this m chises that can
- 30:00Speaker 1: turn it around and get to the Super Bowls. I
- 30:03Speaker 1: think then if if listen, if the band all rising,
- 30:07Speaker 1: rising boats rise, all ships, sinking boats, what's the thing?
- 30:11Speaker 1: What is the thing? Rising boats rising, rising, rising tide raises,
- 30:16Speaker 1: all boats, all boats? Yeah, there you go, something like that. Right, Um,
- 30:20Speaker 1: the AFC North, we're gonna have to be good now
- 30:23Speaker 1: because we have to be who knows who's going to
- 30:25Speaker 1: be the quarterback for the Steelers next year, Lamar Jackson,
- 30:28Speaker 1: the Ravens, they're not going to be, you know, decimated
- 30:30Speaker 1: with COVID and injuries. The Browns have to be good.
- 30:33Speaker 1: So I think that this is actually a good thing
- 30:34Speaker 1: for us, that the Bengals have reached the Super Bowl
- 30:37Speaker 1: and they might win the whole damn thing. So that's
- 30:40Speaker 1: why I'm choosing the Bengals. Uhun whose house day are
- 30:48Speaker 1: in your house? Junkyard Junkyard Dog, who are you going with?
- 30:53Speaker 1: I'm also a Bengals fan. This this next two weeks,
- 30:56Speaker 1: this is a pro Bengals podcast, and I actually think
- 30:58Speaker 1: like you'll find people who are rooting for Matthew Stafford
- 31:01Speaker 1: because the Rams are a great story. But aren't most people.
- 31:05Speaker 1: It's like most people are rooting for the Bengals. They
- 31:08Speaker 1: feel like a team of destiny this year, so they
- 31:10Speaker 1: feel like a little bit of a Cinderella story, which
- 31:12Speaker 1: is why I think a lot of people were on
- 31:14Speaker 1: the forty nine ers as well. But go Bengals, go
- 31:17Speaker 1: all right, we are going to move on to best things.
- 31:20Speaker 1: I saw slash heard around the league this weekend based
- 31:26Speaker 1: there are so many good things, so many great stories.
- 31:29Speaker 1: I loved this. Joe Burrow sent a DM to this
- 31:31Speaker 1: guy named Dave Burke way back in the day, and
- 31:33Speaker 1: this is what it said. On December eighteenth, twenty thirteen,
- 31:37Speaker 1: ninety five PM. I was wondering if there were any
- 31:40Speaker 1: specific camps I should go to to help get my
- 31:42Speaker 1: name out there because I'm not really getting any attention.
- 31:45Speaker 1: Doesn't I just give you like so much hope for life?
- 31:49Speaker 1: It's amazing, all right? Another great thing that we all
- 31:52Speaker 1: saw and heard, or at least I hope that you
- 31:54Speaker 1: got to experience. This was during the AFC Conference Championship
- 31:59Speaker 1: Bengals Chiefs was halftime. Poor CBS. This their setup was
- 32:04Speaker 1: literally right next to the world's largest and loudest speaker.
- 32:10Speaker 1: Take a listen in seventeen numbers. Huh what? Sorry? Can
- 32:29Speaker 1: you turn can you turn it down? Please? Who did
- 32:34Speaker 1: this talk about? We already talked about one person getting fired.
- 32:37Speaker 1: Whoever leaped the Brady News person Number two to get
- 32:40Speaker 1: fired this weekend was the guy who was in charge
- 32:41Speaker 1: of the volume. I would be livid. These guys probably
- 32:46Speaker 1: got their notes ready, they were all ready. The worst
- 32:49Speaker 1: part about this was that it was the Appleby's song,
- 32:52Speaker 1: which need I remind you was nominated for a Grammy
- 32:56Speaker 1: this year. People, you don't even need to say anything.
- 33:03Speaker 1: Let me just read you a little snippet of this song. Yeah,
- 33:07Speaker 1: we fancy like Applebee's on a date night, Got that
- 33:09Speaker 1: Bourbon Street steak with the Oreo shake, Get some whip
- 33:12Speaker 1: cream on the top to two straws. One check, girl,
- 33:16Speaker 1: I got you nominated for a Grammy, nominated for a
- 33:20Speaker 1: damn Grammy. You know this just gives me hope. This
- 33:24Speaker 1: gives me hope that kickers are people too, could maybe
- 33:26Speaker 1: make it one day they could. This was just so
- 33:32Speaker 1: I just laughed the entire time. I have no idea
- 33:34Speaker 1: any analysis that they gave us. They were laughing to
- 33:37Speaker 1: kind of seemed like they're being good sports about it.
- 33:40Speaker 1: Another thing that I saw Evan McPherson, this kicker that
- 33:44Speaker 1: we have all just fallen in love with. This is
- 33:45Speaker 1: his first year, right, he's still a rookie. The man
- 33:49Speaker 1: has some confidence. Before last weekend, before he even kicked
- 33:53Speaker 1: the ball to win the game, he was just like,
- 33:55Speaker 1: we're going to the AFC Championship, Like, what an insane person?
- 34:00Speaker 1: Before this game, he first off, he trademarked his name
- 34:07Speaker 1: into what was it, Magic Mac money Man, Big Money Mac.
- 34:13Speaker 1: That's amazing. And the Bengals have sold out of Evan
- 34:15Speaker 1: McPherson jerseys and definitely, what does that even mean? Insane?
- 34:21Speaker 1: The man is on one. And then finally, this was
- 34:24Speaker 1: definitely the best thing that I heard all weekend. Joe Burrow,
- 34:27Speaker 1: take it away. They're definitely real. I think I make
- 34:33Speaker 1: too much money to have fake ones, so you know
- 34:35Speaker 1: these are real. I'm sorry, what was the second question?
- 34:40Speaker 1: If anybody else, if any other quarterback in the NFL
- 34:42Speaker 1: said that, I'd be like, Wow, what a loser? Like
- 34:44Speaker 1: I hate you now going for rights loser. You can
- 34:48Speaker 1: tell he likete, you can tell he's just such a
- 34:51Speaker 1: little baby boy, and he like immediately you could tell
- 34:54Speaker 1: that he's like, oh, I just sounded so stupid. How
- 34:57Speaker 1: is he supposed to answer that question? Like if somebody said,
- 35:00Speaker 1: are those diamonds real? Yeah they are, I'm a millionaire loser.
- 35:05Speaker 1: Come up with a better question. If anybody else said that,
- 35:08Speaker 1: we'd be out on them. This just kind of makes
- 35:10Speaker 1: me fall in love with Joe Burrow even more. A Mohan,
- 35:12Speaker 1: you're out on I feel like you didn't love this? No, yeah,
- 35:16Speaker 1: but you make a good point. He's just like a kid.
- 35:19Speaker 1: His Twitter banner is SpongeBob, like his Super Smash Bros
- 35:23Speaker 1: and his bio on Twitter, and he's just like sitting
- 35:26Speaker 1: there on his way to the super Bowl, dressed up
- 35:28Speaker 1: like the Rock and he just has to tell people
- 35:31Speaker 1: that his diamonds terrible style. His style is progressively getting worse,
- 35:36Speaker 1: and he's about to win a super Bowl. Maybe might
- 35:39Speaker 1: even be Super Bowl MVP. People who knows. Guys, Thank
- 35:43Speaker 1: you so much for listening to this podcast. Again. We
- 35:46Speaker 1: are on episode two. We are going to keep it going.
- 35:48Speaker 1: Next week we're going to talk about the Super Bowl
- 35:51Speaker 1: even more. Who knows, maybe Tom Brady will have retired
- 35:54Speaker 1: by then. Thank you, guys, Mohan and Junkyard Dog for
- 35:57Speaker 1: helping me put this together. Don't forget to subscribe to
- 35:59Speaker 1: the show, follow us on Instagram and Twitter. I benched
- 36:02Speaker 1: Underscore Pod to see the videos and clips we talk
- 36:04Speaker 1: about each week with your own eyes, and we will
- 36:08Speaker 1: see you in seven days. By bad whoo, I killed
- 36:17Speaker 1: a mosquito on my microphone in the middle of that.
- 36:21Speaker 1: Why do I even have mosquitos in my house? Why
- 36:23Speaker 1: is there mosquito in Los Angeles