Super Bowl Recap & Mets Re-Sign Pete Alonso

Talkin' Jake is back to recap his trip to the Super Bowl in New Orleans as well as the game itself and breaks down what went into Pete Alonso returning to the New York Mets in free agency 

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:50 It's Baseball Season
1:25 Pete Alonso Goes Back to the Mets
16:00 Alex Bregman Cubs Rumors
16:50 The Dodgers
18:45 Eagles Beat Chiefs in the Super Bowl
23:00 Penn State May Be Back Back Tangent
25:25 Back to the Super Bowl
28:00 Kendrick Lamar's Halftime Show 
32:30 The Chiefs Could Not Come Back 
35:40 Gambling, Sirianni
45:20 Good For Saquon Barkley and Jalen Hurts
50:55 My Trip to New Orleans!
1:05:00 Tom Brady as a Broadcaster 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hellone. Welcome to Waken Jake, Myself, Jake's Story, Ellie, Big
Baby David. As we officially get into baseball season. We
missed the Alonso signing last week, so we'll touch up
on that. A couple smaller ones happened. Keek back to
the Dodgers shocker, and a little Super Bowl recap. I
was down in New Orleans, so I can walk you

(00:22):
through some of the fun stuff that we were involved in,
along with the dismantling of your Kansas City Chiefs. Congrats
to the Birds. Where I'll be giving myself some credit
this episode, and then there will be moments where I
give myself zero credit this episode. Stay tuned, time stamp
it below. I guess let's let's check off some baseball quick.

(00:46):
It's officially baseball season. The football season is done. Everyone
gets their their tweets off. It's ready to go, pitchers
and catchers reporting. It's also Valentine's Day this week. Get
ready people, Thursday fourteenth?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
What's today? Today? Is Monday?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
So I think yes, Thursday, Friday, ten eleven twelve. I
got I got myself too, so prepare for that as needed.
Let's do pet Alonso's back to the Mets. This will
be one of the examples of myself not giving myself credit.

(01:28):
I thought Pete was going to get the contract, and
it's a little bit of I don't want to say
credit to new new age front offices because I still
think Pete's really good. But I thought the Pee Alonzo
home runs were going to speak volumes. I thought the

(01:48):
phrase I ended up saying here and on Talking Baseball
a lot was that if you are a front office,
it's very rare that a free agent hits the market
and you can say that guy is going to give
me thirty five homers. There's a good chance he could
give me forty homers, depending if you had your first
base spot open or a DH spot, which pretty much

(02:13):
every team could get Pete Alonso in their lineup. I
think part of the problem for Pete I think he
showed his hands a little bit. I think he wanted
to be a New York Met. Pete likes being a Met.
It's the most exciting time to ever be a Met.
They added Won Soto, they made a nice postseason run
last year. The Mets are sexy baby, and I'll give

(02:36):
a partial assist to Trevor Ploof who stated he said
he knew Pete was done when Pete. Early on in
Pete's free agency, I think they were talking about those
opt in, opt out contracts and he's like, the only
team I'd consider doing that for is the Mets. Well,
that's a sign that you'd want to be a Met Man.

(02:57):
That's kind of some negotiating leverage out out the door there.
So that was tough for Pete. What the final numbers
land at.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I believe the final is a two year, fifty four
million dollar deal with an opt out in the in
the years between, right, I think he's getting thirty mili
thirty million for this season's salary. I don't know how
much of like a you know, a buyout on the
option there is. I don't know what's what he's literally,

(03:29):
I mean he's it's a team, it's a player option
to technically it's all guaranteed to him.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
And I mean there were other goals here. They originally
want to set the first base record that I think
was thirty two million. They don't get there. And yeah,
I mean at a certain point you have to decide, Okay,
what are you really going for? You're going for the
years or where do you want to play? He wanted
to be in New York met He wanted to cash
in on the biggest number possible. And Pete Alonso still

(03:56):
believes in himself and I think he should. I think
Pete Alonso's power still played. I know he had a
weird year last year. Is always funny checking in with
Jolly Olive because you know, clutch is a weird thing
in baseball, in any sport that okay?

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Or are you clutch?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Is it opportunity driven in a sport like baseball, where
you know, if Pete hit two forty last year, to
have a clutch hit against a good reliever late, is
that timing? Is it bad luck that Pete didn't? I
think he didn't have a go ahead homer or RBI
since April until the playoffs. So Pete had he played

(04:39):
every game last year, matters to me. Thirty four homers,
eighty eight rbi and like I said, offense being down
last year hurt the look of Pete's numbers. Pete in
twenty twenty three had an eight to twenty one OPS
five h four, slugging forty six home runs and three

(05:01):
He had a He had the same OPS plus one
twenty three, So I think those numbers were daunting. Pete's
war has gone down the past three seasons, and yeah,
I mean people were freaking out. And maybe they're right,
and maybe this is where we are. I don't say

(05:22):
Novice fans, that's rude to everyone. But they're saying Pete's
body isn't going to age. Well, I don't know. I
don't know how we judge that. Sometimes that's that feels
unfair to me. Maybe they're right, But Pete Alonso the
last four years thirty seven homers, forty homers, forty six

(05:44):
and thirty four. So I think Pete got hurt by
the first base market. We saw Nathaniel Lowe traded for
a lefty reliever in his thirties. Wasn't super familiar with him,
didn't have like a bang up year last year either.

(06:05):
Let me get that because that one that one tends
to I don't want to say it makes me mad.
But Nathaniel, who had a one twenty oh ps plus
last year similar war to Pete, making less money, got
traded for Robert Garcia. You're lefty from the Nationals. He's
twenty eight. Excuse me, I don't take my age off
and he has a lot of control. Seventy two games.

(06:28):
Last year he had a four to to two.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
So hasn't taken the next step yet.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
I'm sure it's coming. I believe Robert Wow, Robert Garcia,
U C Davis guy Okay, didn't have that California boy.
Sure that. Yeah, we saw the Christian Walker market come
and go. You know, better player offense and defense is

(06:55):
what the numbers would tell you are similar player offensively,
better defensively, likes every first base charge.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
He's the best defensive first baseman by any metric you're
gonna find.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
The numbers were obsessed with him. Paul Goldschmidt looking for
a one year, low risk deal, you know, Carlos Santana,
Carlos Santana.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
There were options out there. Of course Pete's.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Better, but right, I mean, it's just it's a risk
reward of teams are teams are more timid to give
out the big contract unless you are a guy guy.
And I guess that becomes a conversation where I think,
almost I feel like Pete's persona almost might have hurt
him a little bit in this where front officers were like,

(07:45):
you know, that's not what we pay for. We pay
for what's on the field. Pete now has two years
to have a great season. I'm still on it. I
think for these we saw Matt Chapman, we saw Snell
cashing on these opt out opportunity deals. I think Pete's

(08:07):
got more in there. It should be a better, better
team this year. He should have some motivation and there's
some more help. There's a little more help. There should
be some more ducks on the pond.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Seems like he'll get another opportunity to do stuff in
the playoffs. Can help or hurt.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, I don't know. I think teams are so if.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
You don't I feel like, if you don't get it
done or early, it's not like in the offseason. People throw
out the playoffs stuff the longer you wait. I've got
some stats, okay.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Pete Alonso sixteen postseason games twenty twenty two for three,
and then they had thirteen games last year two seventy
eight four twenty nine A one dot ops well out
of pistol Pete Alonso. So I think, I don't know.

(09:01):
It's it's interesting that postseason I don't think teams super
value because it's still the whole body of work and
all the numbers they're putting into their system. Pete played
one hundred and sixty two games. They're gonna value that
over the thirteen games I said he played last year.
I do think it's funny if you if you put

(09:22):
in those thirteen games and Pete played one hundred and
seventy five games last year, his numbers on the whole
look pretty damn good. And it's probably like a close
to a one thirty opis plus, Like it's if we did.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
His twenty twenty four stats all right, might have to
that's probably a bump up.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
It might have to get. Yeah, the analytics department going
on that adult Pete Alonso just turned thirty. He goes
back to the Mets, and I it's it's gonna be
a funny relationship to see the Yankee fans got to
see when Judge was in the final year of his
contract and he went on to break the Ale home

(10:03):
run record.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
That was pretty wild.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
We also got to see Soto just have an amazing
contract year and then enter the bidding table the right way.
Pete's got two years to be good. And I think
the bigger thing for me is, like Pete last year
was bad for Pete, and again it was a one
twenty three oh ps plus that I think if no

(10:26):
team ever gives him the five year deal, I think
he'll be able to string this thing along. And maybe
what Pete need to come to grips with is how
much do you want to be a Met if they're
going to treat you like this? And our guy, Joe's
McFly already thinks Flattie is going to be a Met
next year.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
I don't know if that's true.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Could be.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Seems like the way the Mets structured this contract, my
guess would be they want to be able to make
a push.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Could be, and maybe that's why they didn't have full
interest in Pete. I think Pete Alonso is going to
do his thing, because that's all that his baseball card
would tell you that. I think he's going to get
a payday. I don't know if it's from the Mets
or someone else. And maybe this is you know, when
you enter free agency a you don't know how it's

(11:13):
really going to go. And like I said, Pete, I
think he kind of blew his negotiating leverage just a
little bit. That maybe he always wanted the Mets and
he knew Cohen has the wallet, so he thought he'd
go shopping around and he'd come back and hey, match
this and we're good. Doesn't seem like that happen, Uncle
Stevie In the Mets front office, they won this game

(11:34):
of chicken that I think for Pete it's go out there,
do your thing again, and then you probably have to
be actually at grips with leaving the Mets. And if
you have a great season, you do have the owner
that has the deepest pockets. Now that if Pete goes
out there and puts up a forty spot, tough for

(11:55):
me to picture the Mets just letting him walk. I mean,
Laddie would be a great Mets fans would be able
to figure that out. But it's just a it's a
weird mindset. I know Yankee fans and I probably had
some very defensive rants when DJ Lemayhew was bawling out
and hit free agency. It was like, we can't let
this guy go. He's an essential part of the team.

(12:19):
We're the Yankees, right, your guys, you have someone playing
good for the Yankees, you keep that guy.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's what we do.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
It's ended up in a not so great spot, and
maybe that's what the Mets are trying to be smarter than.
But it will be very interesting to see where Pete
lands the ship this year. If he has a really
strong year, it's gonna be an interesting one for the
Mets fan base. I had it wrong. I thought Pete
was gonna get paid paid. Maybe he needed one or

(12:48):
two more teams involved. I feel like we haven't had
a lot of aftermath, like, oh, the Angels offered one
hundred and ten, or we haven't.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
There hasn't been the like what was the other offer out?

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, not a lot of good gossip there. And I
don't know it's one of those should should the Seattle
Mariners have been involved?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (13:10):
But yeah, I think Pete's Pete's value ended up in
just a slightly odd spot that you know, the the
Texas Rangers added Jake Berger where they're like, hey, we
can get thirty homers from that spot. We don't have
to pay him as much money. They allowed them to
move Nathanielo who was trained for a lefty reliever. So

(13:32):
who's apparently from California we just found out. So, uh,
maybe the market wasn't there. Maybe Pete is declining maybe
maybe all the nerds and geeks have this right, and
we're going to look up and it'll be Pete Alonzo
twenty five home run season. And it feels like the
wheels are falling off at age thirty and Pete is
literally built to hit homers.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Feels like there's a verge version of him that even
with an overall step back skill set or something, that
still produces homers for a long time.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, and hey, he's happened quick. He's just got a
couple of his couple of his buzzwords were just a
little off when you look at the page, the war
going down. Strikeouts were slightly up this year that it
scared people away a little bit. But I guess I
I think Pete still has twenty twenty two, I mean

(14:30):
even twenty twenty three pet which that was a weird year,
but he hit more homers to a lower batting average.
But we're coming off. You know, he was MVP eight,
MVP seventeen, which isn't really anything, and then last year
he was still an All Star. I think Pete's gonna
still do his thing, get the contract, and it's gonna

(14:51):
be funny to look at all the opt in opt
outs in a couple of years because Cody Bellinger's got
a massive year coming up that if he has a
good Yankee season, I mean wat shout that he will
hit free agency the right way. And whenever I see that,
the people also always bring up Korea. Which when does
his really get funky in twenty twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
I think he has four more straight up years and
then it comes highly Funkyrea got a contract, yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Or I guess his original signing with the Twins.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, that was one of these that was so yeah
nine column right, got it, got paid paid after people
were tween at me Korea like in a bad way. Yeah,
that was a good Okay, I'm gonna start adding him
to the list like Canada. Among the mega deals, he
signed one of the more team friendly ones, but he
is guaranteed whatever MONEI dollar where.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
A couple of teams told them you can't play with us.
So that leaves Bregman. We've done Pete n. Bregman for
a while. There's some Cubs rumors rolling around Bregman which
seemed to have some realness to him. This contract seemed
like a bad sign for Bregman, and I just you

(16:10):
wonder where he's really at, Where does he want to be?
Is he willing to go anywhere? And what's still on
the table? Because teams are.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Cancer starting this week, the.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Trucks are going. If you're If you follow whoever you
follow on your team's Instagram or Twitter, they probably posted
the picture like team trucks leaving.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
To like today's some pictures and catchers officially reported today,
Yankees report days tomorrow. Pretty wild. We are here.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Let's see what else the baseball world has for us.
There's there's a bunch of little ones, the Padres, Connor, Joe,
Jason Hayward, Key k is back to the Dodgers. Uh.
Just a note on the Dodgers they currently and again

(17:05):
I went on a little High Song Kim thing last week.
High Song Kim is the only player on the Dodgers'
offense currently that has options now that KEYK has signed.
So I don't know. I'm just so interested to see
who he is as a ballplayer. The fact that Dodgers
are in on him feels like a really good sign.

(17:28):
And it's just hey man, there's a cool factor to
the Dodgers that it's like, Okay, you're turning on Dodgers Baseball.
How long have we seen Max Muntcy the only place
we've seen Will Smith, Niggy Roe still riding it out,
Chris Taylor and Key k are still there. Obviously, that's

(17:49):
ignoring the cool stuff of having Mookie Betts, Sho Heo
Tani and Freddie Freeman, Tay Oscar coming back that. I
don't know, it's just it's very interesting. You Ually, there's
flexible parts of team's roster. The only guy in their
bullpen currently with an option is Vesia it Deserves, who
was amazing for them last year. Injuries are going to happen.

(18:10):
This all changes very quickly, but it will be an
interesting part of the dynamic. If everyone stays healthy and
guys are playing bad, there's not a lot of there's
not a lot of go down to Triple A for
a week.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
And last year that they had Paxton, who was pitching
reasonably well from all things considered, dfade midway through the season.
So they've they've had the difficult thoughts with some proven
guys before.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
And maybe it doesn't even matter because it didn't matter
last year.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
They could do whatever they want.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
I want to talk super Bowl because I was down
in New Orleans myself justin Pennock Kyle on socials. I guess,
let's we can do some game quick, because the game
kind of was quick. And then for the for the
True and Jakers were subscribed to the YouTube, like maybe

(19:03):
you just are I can walk into some of the
behind the scenes and some of the some of the
fun highlights and all that. If you haven't heard, Eagles
won pretty handily. It was there was a possibility of this.
And this is where I didn't give myself credit before

(19:25):
for Pete Alonso not signing what I assumed would be
the bigger contract that a team would would convince themselves about.
I flipped. I want to say it was week nine
to ten something like that of the NFL season. I
was on the Ravens train. I just loved the way
that they were dominating games.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
I flipped.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
I went to the other Birds, go Birds, and the
Eagles got it done. A crazy season going back to
you know, were they two and two? And they lost
the game in Brazil and then the whole thing just
felt weird. They were supposed to lose to the Saints.

(20:07):
Excuse me, they won in Brazil. They lost to the Falcons.
They were about to lose to the Saints. They got
bailed out in that game, and then they lost to
the Buccaneers, and I guess before I do the zoom out,
let's let's get the game done quick, because that's kind
of kind of how it happened. Although that first drive

(20:32):
the Eagles look like they're starting to home and play
Eagles football, and then the offensive pass interference on fourth
down kind of crazy. The broadcast was doing. They didn't
love the call Tom Brady. Interesting day for Tom. Maybe
we'll end up there as well. But you know, he
Tom Brady calling the Super Bowl. This was a big

(20:54):
one for him, and he came out and he very
aggressively was like, oh, you know, you gotta let the
players decide it.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I don't like that call.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
They checked with Pereira. It was like a hand to
the face, which, again, football happens fast, and when you're
watching it on replay, the replay tends to make it
look worse. With all the Chiefs referee storylines. To have
that happen first drive, it was a little tough. It

(21:23):
was a little tough. There was a decent little makeup
call early on as the Chiefs were about to have
the Eagles stopped again and they called a was it unsportsmanlike?

Speaker 2 (21:39):
We got necessary roughness on that?

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Like jump ball, unnecessary unnecessary roughness on McDuffie. Yeah, he's
going for the ball and their helmets hit.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
It just not happened. It happened late again, like a
replay slow mo, it looks too late. But I think
in everybody watching real time was like, I don't think
that was anything. Everyone was shocked. That was.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
I think that one was more shocking. When you saw
the flag come out against aj Brown, it was kind
of a ooh, like I don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
And he saw the reaping like oh that is that
is like the rule of the two.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Hey, this is the Super Bowl. Let's not go down
like this. That that didn't have to be called. That
was the more nervous part there. That one was like, wait,
that's that's a penalty.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
The fact that balanced things out in the game at
that point was still it was still zero zero was
like okay, just kind of I knowe Shelfy replied to
my tweet and he was like, yeah, I I obviously
hated the first one. Now that it's done, like, let's
let's not play that game all night. And luckily that
storyline went away. But part of that was because the

(22:50):
Eagles took flight. John Dotson, big night for Penn State. Uh,
mark this down. If you're just a random jake says
some stuff.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
And you like that.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Uh, Penn State, I think is gonna have a full rise.
Like I know they were in the College Football Playoff.
Like I think Penn State is going to be back
in a big way. Big Ten is back, Saquon is
king of the world. John Dotson get a little love
in that one of the top three picks in the

(23:24):
draft is going to be out of Penn State Abdul Carter.
Uh So, Penn State's been like.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Dormant for a little bit.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
And I don't I don't want to say a laughing
stock they because they haven't been a laughing stock. They've
just been They've been in the mix while being out
of the mix. No one has confused Penn State with Bama,
Ohio State, the big boys of football. I think Penn
State's going to be back. James Franklin, love him or

(23:53):
hate him, he uh, I mean he made Vanderbilt an
exciting football program for a little bit. It's been doing
solid things at Penn State. I just I think the
Penn State wave is coming. You got Saquon representing on
the pro level. You're about to have a top pick
college football playoff. They would have been basically in every
college football playoff it was twelve teams. I think Penn State,

(24:14):
we are is back anyways, John Dotson Penn State with
the catch down to the one tush push. Eagles are
in and there's something about the tush push that sets
a tone, and I think the the Chiefs talked about
it that it was, yeah, it's just like a bad time.

(24:36):
I think Chris Jones said, it's like it just kind
of sucks. And then he comes out of the first
tush push and his neck is clearly all jacked up.
From there, Eagles are driving in that the Chiefs are
doing nothing. They got a first down on the first

(24:56):
pass the first play of them have the football, and
then they did it the rest of the second half.
I mean, they had nothing, nothing. The O line was
getting crushed. I mean, you've you've heard by this point
the Eagles didn't blitz at all. It was Mahomes career
high in sacks that this game came down to the
big uglies. The Eagles defense was awesome. Trying to think

(25:21):
what else is out there? There was a moment of
like the Eagles were driving again to go up two scores.
Hurtz throws an interception that he didn't have to throw,
and it was kind of like the Mahomes Reid factor
that I want to circle to in a minute on
the Jake wrong and right meter that I don't know.
There's there's something about seeing those guys and knowing today's

(25:43):
NFL and twenty eight to three Tom Brady's in the
booth that there was a little bit for a while
that it was like, I don't I don't know what
can we rule out because this looks like an ass
kicking And it was the Cooper dejen picked six that
felt like icing on the cake to make it seventeen

(26:03):
nothing when Kansas City hadn't done anything. You know, that
can feel dramatic too, because if the Chiefs came down
and they scored the next driver they were getting the
ball out of halftime that it was like, I don't
know if they can make it seventeen to seven, and
then if they can score coming out of half and
now it's seventeen fourteen, and now the Eagles are playing
tight Super Bowl, et cetera. No Mahomes throws another interception,

(26:29):
back to back interceptions on back to back passes from Mahomes.
They had another drive in between, but it was three
three rushes in a sack or two rushes in a
sack that Yeah, it's seventeen nothing and you just gave
the Eagles the ball in the fourteen yard line. Aj
Brown wide open, twenty four to nothing. Just appear ass kicking.

(26:55):
Same with Kendrick Lamar at halftime.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Man, uh it was good.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
I man, the internet slash Twitter is in such a
rough space that I understood what everyone was saying. Kendrick's.
Kendrick's halftime show was good. I think the whole thing
for a halftime show is it's it's supposed to be
this otherworldly thing. And who have some of the recent

(27:25):
ones been people?

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I think people liked Rihanna a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Rihanna crushed uh Lady Gaga a few years before that
was like really good thing. Performers by Weekend was twenty
twenty one, but that was a weird COVID one. Yeah, Weekend,
Like I didn't hate I mean every hey, we set
a certain standard that it's like, well, super Bowl halftime show,

(27:52):
Kendrick was great. I thought a obviously, the build up,
the build up to the final song HM Not Like
Us was pretty incredible. The Serena Williams drop it's like Wow,
Sam Jackson, Yeah, Uncle Sam is the opener that was

(28:12):
pretty crazy. So let's see, it was Usher last year
with Usher, you're getting the dancing, you're gonna you're getting
more bops.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Like Kendrick, he has songs he could have gone to
that were more of that, like some some especially older
stuff Like there were some people like, well he doesn't
have hits, he does right, and he showed he skewed
more recent with his selection, like I think.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
For half as as far as halftime shows go. So
the one that I jumped to Shakira and j Lo, Yes,
I mean that was that was the super Bowl halftime
show for me. Like those electric, we're dancing hit songs
like putting on a show for me. That's that's what
I think of when I think of super Bowl halftime show,

(29:01):
seeing if any other ones jump out, Beyonce, God Stirking,
Old Quick, the Who in twenty ten that I thought
Kendrick was good I understand the people being like on
the Super Bowl concert performance level slightly different it was.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
It was like incredible art.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, not just a different it was a different approach.
And I mean the way he built up and went
into Not Like Us was just that's uh, that's all time.
That's all time.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
But unfortunately the people who like don't like it, like
the built like the issue with the genre like rap.
If you're not into it, I don't think lends itself
as well to like enjoying it in a live setting
as much as like more pop and Yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
It's just like I've tweeted something about it that I
I was laughing that Tom Brady and Snoop Dogg kept
doing the stop hate commercials and then the halftime show
is built around not Like Us, which, yes, for everyone
commenting on the tweet, hating a pedophiles different than racism.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
It was. I will say there was a couple of
people I was talking talking with our social guy Kyle
on the trip and he's like, dude, you gotta get
back into Twitter more and I was like, dude, I.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
I'd like to, but it's also brutal like it.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Go check out the replies on that because there's a
lot of people that understand the joke that I'm making,
and even there was a couple of comments that they
were like and it kind of brought a smile to
my face. I was like, Jay, these are the tweets
from Jake. I like, like, we're being silly, We're having fun.
It's just crazy how how people roll with it, Like
the the arguments that are now going on in there. Okay,

(30:52):
here's no I'm not even gonna read them. You can
go read them if you want, like fun back and
forth Sunday this tweet and dead this tweet starts. Then
go back to suit Anne Pal like what are that
has no business here? We're trying to have fun watching
the super Bowl, and yeah, there's a lot of people

(31:14):
and the world's kind of fueled by hate, which made
me made me a little unhappy with not.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Like us, because I was like, why do people love this?

Speaker 1 (31:24):
And I think a chunk of it is is because
Drake is just getting rotted.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
It's a guy everybody knows, getting absolutely on the most
national stage.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Drake is just getting destroyed. And so it's a great song.
I mean, when that for a reason, that's worth while
when that little right, yeah, everyone's I don't know. So
that was good and it actually was good Internet for
a little bit. Like I saw the tweets that was

(31:55):
like there's like a stock image of a of like
a white family on a couch and they're all saying
like a minor like, so, I don't know. The the
Internet was doing some some good stuff there. Serena my god,
one of my first crushes out there killing it, crip

(32:16):
walking literally on Drake's grave. So uh well yeah, Compton
represented so and then yeah, second half, people, you're trying
to talk yourself into twenty four nothing, twenty seven nothing,
reading mahomes it was nothing.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
I kept finding myself saying like, well, twenty eight to
three to come back started with like two minutes left
in the third.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Right, Yeah, no, I mean the the phrase I kept
using this week and with the Eagles was it felt
like they could hand the ball off every time. Impressively
they could not. The Chiefs run defense came to play
Saquon twenty five for fifty seven. Wow, And again a

(33:04):
lot of that comes with the Chiefs clearly made a
commitment to that. That opened up stuff in the passing game.
Seventeen of twenty two from Hertz DeVante Smith with the
big highlight one kind of the game sealer, the slim
reaper in the back of the end zone. Aj Brown
getting his touchdown after kind of getting furious on the

(33:28):
sideline while they were still dominating. His book comes back out.
Eagles defense really good. They made the Chiefs one dimensional,
eleven carries for forty nine yards. They're just like, wasn't
time to even run the ball, barely time to pass
the ball save you're Worthy ends up having a massive
game and Mahomes had a couple. Mahomes had a couple

(33:50):
Mahomes throws that first touchdown actually both touchdowns so Worthy
were kind of insane. I mean that second one, the
deep ball worthyes, flying, He's one of the fastest players
in the league. And this is my I think I've
busted this out before and it's not rocket science, but

(34:13):
there's a Super Bowl theory that guys are just performing
at their maximum level. There's there's no next week to
play for. It's not you know, even in even in
the AFC NFC championship games, like you're putting it all
out there, but you're you're kind of not you don't
you want to play in the super Bowl the next game.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Like there's at least a party that's like, well, I
don't want to get hurt.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
This is it, this is the super Bowl. Like that,
I think the highlights are the highlights are the highlights
that guys are playing at a faster level, like everything
is more to the extreme. Watchad Xavier Worthy touchdown again
and maybe I'll do the video on this. You hear
him hit the ground and it sounds like he got
hit by another player because he is full tilt, a

(35:01):
guy that runs a four to two, one of the
fastest guys in the league, full till till. The way
he hits the ground is hard just because it is
it is maximum. Almost none of this matters. The Eagles
dominated Hurts was great on the ground and through the air.

(35:22):
It was a blowout and I think it was funny
this week the Chiefs were the favorites in Vegas minus
one and a half points, so not by a lot,
essentially a pick them. And I mentioned I'm giving myself credit,
not giving myself credit. I hadn't bet on the game

(35:42):
because I was down in New Orleans. Well, I had
a a which something I could have googled very easily.
I didn't know if sports gambling was legal in New
Orleans yet it is.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
So.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
But before that, which again I did not google, I
was like, oh, shoot, do I have to get my
Super Bowl bets off before the Super Bowl? Like before
I fly down there on Friday morning? And then I
was like, I land at four thirty, which is more
than enough time to get your bets in for the
six thirty Super Bowl. So I'd been debating, and I

(36:16):
was in New Orleans, and I tweeted out before the game,
and there was just something to it that it Mahomes
and the chiefs Andy Reid really started convincing me. The
two weeks off made me think Kelsey was going to
have something special up his sleeve, because we'd seen him,

(36:37):
and we've seen older tight ends do this in recent
years where it's like, Okay, you know we're running out
of gas in the tank. That's let's save it for
later in the years. I even think Mark Andrews did
it this year. I think that's why he got off
to a slow start, and then as he got in
more game shape and ready to go, he started bawling out.

(36:58):
The Eagles almost lost to the Rams. The Eagles were
a Jalen Carter. You know, Jalen Carter got that sack.
It was a missed assignment by the Rams front, Like
the Rams kind of had him dead to rights. That

(37:21):
would have ended the Eagles season. And what would we be
saying about, Sirianni.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
They didn't.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
They rolled on the Commanders fifty five to twenty three.
They rolled on the Chiefs forty to twenty two, which
is not as close as this game was that leading up,
I thought everyone thought it was going to be a
close game. I you know, even the Chiefs. The Chiefs
had one loss when they were playing their guys this year,

(37:48):
and it feels like the Chiefs play a close brand
of football between both these teams, just moving.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
The ball the right way.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
The Eagles are nasty on the D line and the
O line. The no Blitz stat that we already talked
about their offensive line and just how big those boys
are and how they can dominate a game. Some of
Hurt's dropbacks were comical. There was no rush because a
they were scared of Jalen Hurts breaking out and running,

(38:20):
but b also just those big bodies that clearly the
D line on the Chiefs was like, we need to
contain Jalen Hurts is running that. Jalen Hurts was back
there just chilling, which allowed them to open up the
passing game and dominate on every front. But yes, right
before the game, I did talk myself and the Chiefs

(38:41):
because I was doing Spagnolo and he's gonna be one
of the first, the first coordinator in the Hall of Fame.
Andy Reid legend could have an argument for one of
the best coaches ever, has an argument for one of
the best coaches ever.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
If they got the three peat, we'd have.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
An argument for the best coach ever. Mahomes still Patrick Mahomes,
he's twenty eight years old, that if he was gonna
get it done, he was gonna be on pace ahead
of Brady right Kelsey for one game, Chris Jones for
one game. And even like you saw that early Hurts

(39:18):
interception and Hurts had another pass that was just like
ugly early on that, You're like, Okay, if the Chiefs
can make more of this happen.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
They could not.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
And I think I've I've talked about on here a
little bit. Sirianni wasn't the biggest Sirianni guy. It's abrasive,
it's aggressive as a paison. He's got the Italian flag
on his hat, kind of in your face. He's got
his own guy, Big Dom. That that whole storyline is crazy.

(39:51):
And in the back of every Sirianni interview there's Big Dom.
Seems like he knows where the camera is. They made
him like an actual assistant coach this year so he
could wear the headset when he's like not a coach.
And I think even that that gentle BBD giggle you
might have just heard, maybe it's just getting old and soft.

(40:17):
With the Eagles getting it done and winning, it made
every storyline kind of awesome to me, Like, Sirianni, we've
done that whole thing before. And going back to there's
there's the guy he was, you know, I flip over
to NFL Network after the game because Chris Rose obviously

(40:40):
and yeah, uh like their interview in Sirianni and Big
Dom is just right behind him in the camera shot
they did. He was the same thing with the post
Super Bowl on the field interview, right behind him his
Big don I realize he's his guy, but it's almost
it's a weird sometimes when you haven't seen something before

(41:00):
you just say weird.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
I don't like that.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
No coach has had their personal bodyguard just guy. But
he's literally the definition of guy m And every time
you hear someone talk about Big Dom, they say is
a cool dude, and they say he does a ton
of stuff. Like they say, if they need a bus
to go somewhere, it's like a Big Dom, we need
a bus.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
To go somewhere.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
I don't know all the ins and outs of it,
but winning cures everything. And now, Sirianni.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
For what's that to a quick google? What does Big
Dom do right? And senior advisor to the general manager,
chief security officer and game day operations expert.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
It's all made up. I'll tell you. Big Dom does
a lot of stuff that all those titles are made
up the guy. He's the guy. And that's it that
when you're winning, it all gets covered up. That's Sirianni
for is quirks or intensity or whatever it is? You know.

(42:04):
Going back to the two and two Eagles that were
almost one in three, Sirianni was viewed as the two
the week spot. The two week spots were Sirianni and Hurts.
The Jalen Hurts story has become I mean, if you
really zoom out or zoom in, it's one of the
cooler sports stories. He he was benched in college for Tua.

(42:29):
He again, it's new age college football, so like Jalen
Hurts transferred to Oklahoma and balled out there, so it's yeah,
benching is something. But he sat behind to it for
actually a season before that, and then Tua got hurt
in the SEC championship game and Hurts came in and

(42:49):
helped lead Bam on that drive. So he's got like
all the boxes you want. Never mind the fact he's hot,
that's fine, but he's got everything. He's he's call calm,
cool and composed. He's seen the highs and lows at
every level. People coming out didn't know if he'd be
able to be a quarterback at the NFL level. You know,

(43:11):
he squats so much. Uh that yeah, I was. It
was funny and I Jalen Milroe the quarterback out of Bama.
This year, it's been funny to hear people debate about
him in this year's NFL draft because some of his
some of his games were ugly in college, but he
does ooze talent and I Jalen Hurts put in the work,

(43:33):
and I think that's the that's the going away message
for whatever you're about Jalen Hurts. If he came out
of college and he did the same amount of work
as everyone else, he wouldned to have won a Super Bowl.
He wanted to have the keys to the Chiefs right now.
I mean, the the other thing that I had forgotten
was he got drafted when they had Carson Wentz and

(43:55):
they thought Carson Wentz was good. Like people were critical
of the Eagles drafting Hurts because they're like, what are
you doing. You have Carson Wentz, You're invested in Carson Wentz,
why would you go and do this? Well, whatever the
Eagles are doing front office wise, your team needs to
look into that. Because Zach Bond being one of the
best players in the sport this year, a one year,

(44:17):
three million dollar free agent from the Saints who was
like playing the wrong position. The Jalen Hurts story is
now like all time cool. You gotta respect it and
love it. Sirianni, it all felt bad when you're not winning.
They won. Now, what Sirianni does seems pretty badass, right.

(44:42):
The Saquon man it was it was really cool his
postgame interview because I think they I think he said
it on the post game, but he was like to grow,
who you think about this, Saquon, Who's you know, top

(45:02):
of the sports millions of dollars? You know, borderline Hall
of famoush trajectory, Like, you know, some more work to
be done, but an argument for best running back in
the game. Like that's that's pretty nuts. That's what That's
all you can really dream about. He was leaving the

(45:23):
New York market. You know, Michael Strahan has been on
TV forever now and he continues to be on TV.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Looks great.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
By the way, if Michael Strahan had been a Tampa
Bay Buck or even at Denver Bronco, he wouldn't be
on Good Morning America. You want to be everywhere. Like
there's sometimes when the New York effect can be real.
And if you're Saquon Barkley, like you're leaving the New
York Giants, you're the star of that team. I know

(45:53):
they stunk, but no one blamed you for it. He
left to go to the Eagles, So he left New
York to go to their second most hated team.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Depends on the year it depends on the year.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
I think Cowboys all in are more all encompassing.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Hate, all else equal, whichever one if they're equally good
teams in this moment the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
The Cowboys haven't been as as good as the Eagles
that I think if the Cowboys were, I think that
hate would be fine. That he left to the Eagles
knowing that you're gonna ostracize a chunk of your fan base.
Now everything's landed great, like real Giants fans are like, no,
the Giants are idiots, Saquon good Giants idiots. And they

(46:47):
said something about he didn't say like his brand ors
or or anything like that, but he almost said like
it would be better for his career to leave the Giants.
And in a way, that's scary because the only way
to do that really is to go to or win
the Super Bowl. And he did that in the first year.

(47:10):
Like super Bowls are forever forever, and he did that,
and he's kind of I won't say he's changed football,
but I'll tell you a lot of teams are going
to be looking at the running back position. They're going
to be looking at their O line. You know, football
football went way into passing like there's I remember even
like I've seen some appenic in Dalton's clips and like

(47:32):
football had this whole thing like teams don't pass on
first down enough and all that, like a play to
your team's weapons. Your team's good at X, do X
win the game? And how do we get there? And
what pieces do you have to get there? So hopefully
it's huge for the running back position, although Saquan is

(47:54):
a different animal. I mean seeing the way he again
he didn't have a great game, but the couple runs
he did have and finish off, we're pretty cool. And
for Jalen Hurts, like you know he ran.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
For seventy four.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
He's in the middle of all those tush pushes that
Chris Jones, one of the baddest dudes in the league,
doesn't like being in and he's just he's so accurate
when he needs it that yes he's not. I think
that's the thing that's thrown off football and the NFL
at chunk is that it was you need the pocket

(48:29):
quarterback to throw thirty times and that's how you win
the big games and all of that. This team doesn't
do that, and yet they win and they're dominant, they're nasty,
and all of that being said, the defense was gross,
and I think that was the final thing that tipped
me over the edge. Last second, Vic Vangio, former Broncos
head coach, legendary coordinator, I think Greedha Mahomes were eight

(48:53):
and zero against him. That again, when when you're in
the sports betting lane, it's kind of like, okay, what
what am I gonna wake up and regret? The least
It's like, Okay, if Mahomes and Reid eat the same
defensive coordinator nine straight times, or if I bet against

(49:14):
that and the Chiefs win, I'm gonna feel like a fool.
A couple other notes, The town was Philly. New Orleans
was ninety percent Philly. It's kind of crazy in hindsight.
And maybe did they know? Did they just travel better?
Did Chiefs fans know? Because we knew there was a

(49:35):
chance this was a blowout for Philly, like we did.
You did the way they can dominate. But everyone assumed
because it's a Super Bowl, and you gave Read two
weeks to prepare that this was going to be close,
and if it was going to be close, late herts
and Sirianni versus Read and mahomes up until yesterday, wasn't

(49:58):
a discussion. They did it. They did it. They dominated
in on Hurts, trying to get in on Sirianni and
Big Dom. I mean, I could end up hating them
by before next year because Big Dom knew where the
camera was last night. That's all I'll say.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
I have Big Doms Wikipedia up, and I didn't notice
this before. And as I glanced back over, Wikipedia doesn't
have a birth date for Big Dom. It says born
nineteen seventy eight or nineteen seventy nine. Yes, some like
you just gotta go. You gotta go back some time

(50:42):
for individuals feature on Wikipedia that we don't have exactly
what you're there for. That's that. That's that.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Let me I'll walk you guys through our trip A
little bit went down. Flew down to New Orleans on Friday,
Friday morning, early seven am. Flight, so you know you're
leaving for the airport five fi point fifteen ish, goes
I'll say it goes okay, sneaky bad flight. Flight took

(51:13):
an extra half hour just because like airport traffic and stuff,
no Wi Fi, no TV.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Oh, we're raw up there.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
So that was tough, you know, I had a couple
of podcasts, was going through Simmons, NBA Trade Deadline and
that stuff. So whatever, played some online chess for the computer.
But you also end up in that crazy cycle where
you feel like a mental patient because you're like, well,
maybe the Wi fi works now, So every ten minutes
we try to log into the Wi fi.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Didn't work, it's down today.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Whole flight.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
How long is that flight? I don't have a good gauge,
so again in my head, I would just sort of assume,
like the same as when we go to Tampa. But so.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
I think it's supposed to be a little over three,
maybe close to three thirty, but I think it was
closer to four because again we extra time to get
in there, and I four hour flights like a totally
different animal. Like two fifteen hour two fifteen flight compared

(52:18):
to a four hour flight are completely different. No TV,
no movie, don't I didn't bring a book, so just
podcasting an intermittent chess. So that was kind of tough.
I'm gonna be honest, that lasts like an hour of that.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
It's just grind.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Hey, let me walk onto the way fin now.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
Nope.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Ubers and lists were so crazy couldn't get one, had
to taxi. Hate taxis, feel like they're normally scam this
was not. They had a locked in price from the
airport to Orleans, so.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
That was massive.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Eate a meal, go down to Bourbon Street and it's
organized chaos. We're doing some men on the Street stuff
and yeah it's Eagle Green good and you know, it's
a little crazy. It's the afternoon man on the street stuff.
Not my strength. But we figured you walk Bourbon Street
enough times, you're gonna get the characters. And you know,

(53:17):
we were like, you know, we'll get the one or
two baseball people to recognize us.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
We could tap into them. But we didn't really have a.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Game because there is no game plan. That's the secret
with man on the Street.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
You just need to talk to people.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
So we just walked up and down Bourbon like four times,
which was exhausting. Got some of the stuff we needed,
reset good seafood, dinner, went out on Bourbon Street. But
we're all exhausted. This is now nine to thirty PM.
Watch Yukon lose to Saint John's feeling that twenty two turnovers. Disgusting, disgusting,

(53:56):
Go back out. Bourbon is packed We kind of don't
know where to be year where we want to be,
and like Yon Crew is coming out. It's a long
travel day. Went into a country bar to try to
make Panic happy. Wasn't the place you wanted to be.
We got out of there. Pados Patio's is one of
the famous places down there. We went there. That was nice,

(54:19):
good indoor outdoor vibes there. They have a piano bar
there is two packed, but they have an absolute legend
that plays on a serving tray.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
You just have to see it to believe it. So
that was good.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Panic was getting some some love from football people down there.
That was pretty cool to see. And then you know,
fight or Flight. It's a long day. We have to
be at the parade at nine am the next morning,
which means, you know, you're waking up seven thirty eight.
We don't really know what the parade is. DraftKings didn't

(54:53):
tell us too much about it, going to be part
of the parade, ready to go at a p raid
at nine am. So after a travel day, we're all
looking at each other like, hey, let's call this. We
leave eleven thirty midnight something like that. In the uber home,
get a call from Chris Rose, where are you guys
out with? Out with my wife and my niece? Okay,

(55:15):
Chris Rose probably wouldn't met up with any anyways, worked
out that we were still in the uber.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
So next day, wake up, head to parade. We're nervous.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
We don't know how to check in. Nobody's ever really
been in a parade, and we didn't know. Like DraftKings,
we knew they had to they cause they were like, yeah,
we'll get two of you on the float. We had three,
and then that became a thing that it wasn't an
easy ticket to get a hold of. So we didn't

(55:46):
know if there was gonna be other DraftKings people there, influencers,
famous people, or if it was just gonna be like
DraftKings employees that.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Got like a cool perk at the job. Turn out
it was a mix.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
We walk on the float, Big Andrew Whitworth is on there,
Chad O Cho Sinko is on there, and Rob Riggle
is on there. So we're looking around like okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
So what do we do? Do we say hi? Do
you not say hi? You don't want to be weird? Whatever?

Speaker 1 (56:16):
I just thought I'm gonna go for Whitworth because trev
went to Vegas with like Whitworth and the Staffords like
a year ago.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
I was about to say, Whitworth's like at least tangentially
part of that crew.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
R yeah, and they like, you know, I think we
had the picture up on Talking Baseball or or somewhere,
and you know, it was a nice pick. It's trev Whitworth,
the Staffords and like Trevin you know, trevn Stafford now
or guy guys that I was like, you know, there's
some Whitworth ripple effect here, right walk up to Whitworth's
one of the biggest humans you've ever seen, you know,

(56:50):
slim down, looks good, but just a big frame. It's like, oh,
John Bay Media, we do baseball stuff. You're Trevor Plouff.
He's kind of boys asat for now. And he just
gave me like okay, He's like all right, So that's
that's not gonna lead to any follow ups.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
That's bad.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Leaving the Whitworth conversation, Panis saw it as his window
to go in panic bowls.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Me over on the way to Whitworth.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
My foot got stuck under like something I basically go
down is a tough scene. Panic apologized to me after,
but it was like, Okay, we're probably out on Whitworth today.
I don't think it's happening. We're on like the empty flow,
not moving for a while. Parade's supposed to start at ten,
it's like ten thirty.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
We haven't moved.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
Ocho's kind of in the front, you know, just casual. Hey,
how are you is? We're back there with Rober Wriggle,
kind of hanging out. He was cool, not a ton
of not a ton of back and forth, but he
was cool. And then the parade started and it was
kind of nervous. You're like, okay, are we throwing beads?
Are you's hitting people? Do you need to like? What
are the rules of engagement here? Is this parade gonna

(57:55):
be a mess? Is it gonna be fun? Like? What
is it gonna be a shit show? Uh? It was
a blast. It was a blast. You throw it first
couple of beads and I was like, okay, people signed
up for this. And there's a couple turns where people
were going crazy. It was crazy to see how excited
people were for Rob Wriggle, and you know, got got
some love myself loved the podcast. There was a my

(58:18):
favorite moment. There was a Mets I mean once he
got into a rhythm, like you had a game plan
and if people were calling for him, you're kind of
trying to shoot. I mean two hours, I was just
tossing beats NonStop, non I didn't. I took one break
to post something on social media because I was like
I should, But that was it. There was this his
bro in like a Mets jersey that was like Rob Wriggles.

(58:42):
He took out his phone, he was all excited. I
was like, I'm gonna crack. This kid cracked it, dropped
it right in the bucket. He turns, he looks at me,
He's like jump by. So I was like, that was
That was a perfect situation. It was crazy. I mean,
New Orleans knows how to do a parade, and yeah,
we were kings for a little bit, just hucking beads,
kind of no rules. You're making people's day, like just

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that feeling of being in the crowd and someone's like
yeah and then you hit them with the beads. You're
a great part of our society. So that was good.
That was But again, that was just two hours locked in.
We get off the float, get lunch at the closest place,
just because like our brains weren't working yet. Chris Rose

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was in the area, met up with him, walked around
with him a little bit, and his wife Michelle. Great
to see them, and then yeah, we had to go
back to Bourbon Street to kind of finish off some
of the shorts we were recording. Bourbon Street had multiplied
and become pure chaos, just pure chaos, and we weren't there,

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like we we had come down from the parade like eight, lunch,
come down that.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Now we're back in Bourbon Street.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
It's hot, it's eighty, it's steamy out, people are drunk,
it's all football fans from all over its Bourbon Street.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
That that was a bad time.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
I kind of had a dip where it's like, oh
my god, like we gotta let's film a couple things
and get out of here because we have to go
to the Captain Morgan party in a couple hours.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
So we did that. We go, we reset.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Me and Panic are panicking a little bit because we
planned outfits with jackets and we just got cooked by
the sun. Captain Morgan Party starts at seven, so the
sun would be down, but it's Bourbon Street. Temperature came
down enough that we were good, and then went to
the Captain Morgan party. T Pains supposed to be playing
makes sense now, but they only had Captain Morgan drinks,

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so you're like, okay, we're gonna gonna be having Captain Morgan.
We found a safe place to establish ourselves, a little
second floor table vip ish area that was like, all right,
let's get some space, let's get comfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
We did.

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
That place was when we got there, place was kind
of empty, starts getting packed, packed, happy, we had our
side table, but it's good to have a home base.
And then yeah, it starts getting close to T Pain
time and it's packed and he was playing on the
first floor, so we could we could kind of poke
our heads and get it get in there. But if
you really want to see T Pain you had to

(01:01:13):
you had a wrestle. We didn't do a ton of wrestling,
but we were there. We had a good time. Towards
the end of T. Paine, there's four floors. The top
two floors you couldn't see T. Pain. We went up there,
there's just space. We had an area and then basically
same thing that got that got packed and we were like,

(01:01:33):
all right, we've been We've been at this Captain Morgan
party for four and a half hours. Uh So we
went back on Bourbon Street, walked around half crazy, half
not crazy. Everyone's on a different timeline, especially with Super Bowl,
Like you know, some people are getting their nights started
at midnight. Some people have been dead zombies for four hours,
like full mix that. We walked around a little bit,

(01:01:58):
nothing super calling our name and we we had to
fly out the next day. Pennic's not a drinker, so
you know that's however many hours we were on Bourbon
Street of him being sober, that's a tough that's a
tough ass for anyone, not putting the blame on him
because we were. We were coming up against it too.
But yeah, the city was on one. It's a city

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that's normally on one. The super Bowl an absolute chaos multiplier,
and uh yeah, I think the city, the city has
some different dynamics between its waterfront and the French Quarter. That.
Uh again, the afternoon on Bourbon Street that was brutal.
Everything else was okay, even that Saturday night, because I

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think there was enough different events spread out that. It's like,
there's there's a reason that they were having their eleventh
Super Bowl in New Orleans eleventh or twelfth. So yeah,
it was cool to see. Kind of would have been
fun to go to the game. I that was an
interesting question Jess asked me when I got home. She

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was like, where a lot of people going to the games?
And I guess I was like, if they were. If
I met someone who was a Phillies fan or an
Eagles fan, they were going to the game. So yeah,
I think it becomes an equation because there are all
these like work companies and stuff that go that I
think by the time tickets get sorted, it's like if

(01:03:26):
you're a if you're a fan of that team, you
figure it out. Like if you're an Eagles fan that
works for DraftKings, I think you however, you probably however
you have to land. Well, if you work for DraftKings
and you're not an Eagles fan, you're like, well, I
don't have to go. It'd be sick if a ticket
is offered, but if not. So that's kind of how

(01:03:47):
that sorted out. Okay, flight home, I'm trying to think
what other other goods love Greg Olsen was in the airport,
didn't say Hi, had a little hip wiggle to his
walk that it was like, wow, you probably got hit
by the strongest men in the world for like a decade.
Good looking guy also thinned out trying to think what else. No,

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it was a it was a good trip.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
It was.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
It was kind of grindy, just because like we're on
Bourbon Street having to do work. It's kind of the
opposite for everyone else. It's a weird feeling. It's a
man on the street just not my strength.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
It's a little inherently draining and it's a different like
for you personally, it's a different environment than the who
you've done for travel for this job.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Yes, so yeah, it was a good trip. Well, uh,
I think super Bowl maybe uh, semi regular thing maybe
every year. I don't know, maybe depend on the city,
Maybe depends on the teams. And yeah, Tom Brady on
the broadcast, I said, I was gonna circle around Tom.
It was okay. I think everyone everyone likes to land

(01:04:58):
in area that's not okay. There was a part of
where he was bringing everything back to him and it
was like easy Tom, Like they were talking about losing
the Super Bowl and he's like, that's a feeling I feel.
Three times. It's like, we know, man, so losing the
Super Bowl seems bad. I agree. He Yeah, football is

(01:05:20):
in the books and it will be. I mean, NFL
always finds a way between draft, free agency, quarterback storylines. Sure,
you get a lot of Rogers coming up for us,
a lot of baseball, a lot of baseball. Uh, we'll
see where basketball rears. It's ugly head the next few weeks.

(01:05:42):
Anthony Davis out our madness. Before you know it, that'll
be fun. Golf's going. But yeah, we'll be locked in.
We've got our tier lists that have been rolling out.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
Do we have this week's is already scheduled? Yea, back
on the grind of recording those this week.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
People like those. I like doing those as well. Kind
of lets us know and maybe, uh maybe we'll mix
in a couple other ones. It's it's kind of like
the off seasons over Alex Bregman. There's some Jose Kintana's
out there and things like that. But it's and we've
got teams are reporting, We've.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Got videos of Max Free pitching to Spencer Jones, So whoa,
that's the good stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Let's get ready to sink our teeth into baseball season.
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