January 16, 2023 • 30 mins
Rachel Bonnetta and company are back for a brand new episode of Benched with Bonnetta! To start, Rachel is joined by Kyle Brandt and they recap all the games from Wild Card Weekend (4:01). Then they share their worst audition stories (15:40).
After the break, Rachel shouts out some people who need a raise (22:08). Finally, Rachel tells you the best and worst thing she saw this week (25:30).
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
And when I woke up this morning, I was feeling
pretty dangerous. It's mc cock. They are what we thought
they were. Are we not about? Hello? You plenty to
win the gate. They want you to cook the dinner.
At least they ought to let your shot for some
of the groceries. And on the way up, we're gonna
buy a kneecap off playoffs. You're kidding me. I'm just
(00:25):
here so I won't get fine. How could he not
be romantic about football? Hello? Everybody, Welcome to bench. I
have to go to Vegas for twenty four hours and
about three hours, here's the question. Do I go out?
Do I go and have fun? Do I go? I
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have never in my life. There's some people in the world.
There's people that exist that go out and travel alone
and then they sit at a restaurant by themselves and
they order meals. I can't do it. I cannot do it.
I have a fear of talking to people in public.
I love chatting, but also I don't so I think
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I might just stay in my hotel room the entire time.
Like shuffle out, I have to go shoot stuff for
Pro Bowl, shuffle back in fly back to l A.
The most boring Las Vegas trip in the history of
Las Vegas. Um, here's what's going on in my life. People.
This is a controversy. This has caused some controversy online. UM,
I tried to Okay, you know what the real truth is.
(01:35):
It wasn't me. Somebody in my household tried to mount
a TV. You know, you know your girl can mount
a TV. No problems, Okay, no questions asked. I've built
a deck, I built a sauna, I built a hot tep.
You think I can't mount a TV? Honey, you got
something else coming. Um. This person was like, I want
let me do this thing for you. I'm gonna mount
to TV for you. Awesome, Sure, I go ahead. I
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was putting together some other piece of furniture. UM, I
will give them credit and say, my stud finders a
piece of absolute garbage. They put fifteen holes in my wall.
Can we put Can we pull up the photo for
those of you that are listening, just go to my
Twitter so that you can see this photo fifteen holes
in my dry wall to try and find the stud. Um.
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In their defense, you know simple thing that you know
about homes, studs are supposed to be sixteen inches apart. Okay,
this was sixteen and a half fift halls. Baball, get
out to day day and it was mounted too high.
They're gonna have to do it again. I'm never letting
anyone touch any tools, any dry wall, any anything in
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my home ever again, unless unless they're licensed or it's me. Okay,
forget about it, guys. We had a doozy of a
weekend of football. There was some fun games we were
going into this weekend. Stinkers on the docket, No, none,
None were stinkers. Maybe the second half of the Seattle
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uh forty Niners game was was a stinker, was a
stink fest. And maybe I'm just bitter because I really
wanted to see how to win Go gino go all.
The games were so fun, some insane comebacks, uh Bills, Dolphins, Bengals, Ravens, Giants, Vikings.
Jack's George here? Who would have thought? Just a quick reminder,
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we record these podcasts on Monday, so we're not able
to talk about Tom Brady. We're not able to talk
about the Cowboys imploding. You guys are gonna know more
than I will by the time you listen to this. Um. Okay,
coming up, on the show. We got a jam pack
show people, we got KB joining us. I'm gonna ask
him a very vulnerable question. He is gonna avoid it.
It's great. Um, I'm sure you're gonna be able to
hear how uh embarrassed I am through the podcast? Okay,
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last time, last I swear, last time I ever tried
to be vulnerable on this show. No chas, no way. Okay,
okaybe oh do you all right? Incoming? Kyle Brand one
of my favorite people to bench with Banetta. Now we
record these shows on Monday. Okay, so there's one game
that we're not going to be able to talk about
and react to. But I want to get your hot
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reactions from this week. I feel like if there were
this was probably the most wild of Super wild Card weekends.
Like it fit the title. How was your you know,
before we get into the games, just how is the
overall experience? You talked about making some wings, you talked
about making some baked potatoes. How did you did you
enjoy it? Was it nice? It's awesome? All I ever
(04:35):
want to do anymore? Right, So I's just sit on
my couch at home with my family. I don't want
to go to you know, we're just getting through Christmas
party season. It's exhausting. I'm this this old, cantankerous, screwed.
I just want to sit home and eat and drink.
So that's all I did. And you know, it's funny,
like when you look at the slate of these games.
We can say it now on Friday, you're like, oh,
this looks like crap games, Like we're hanging our hat
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on Jaguars charges and just hoping it's good. But like
we got all these backup quarterbacks and when we blow
out City, I gotta say it was pretty damn good.
Like I feel great about Super wild Card Weekend. It was.
It was so fun. We have game debut on Fridays
and we're previewing the weekend slate and I said, literally,
I was just like, oh my god, Miami Bills, if
too was there, that game is so fun. The a
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f C North battle between the Bengals and Ravens. If
Lamar was there, that game is blowing us out of
the water. Both of those teams, two of their absolute credit,
Like we are singing their praises today they came to play.
Let me ask you this, is there a team that
you're feeling better or worse about after this weekend. So
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only teams that are moving forward. We Gotts, we got
the Jags, the Bills, the Giants, and the Bengals. Is
there any of those teams remembers that maybe played a
certain way that you're like, oh, okay, so this is
what we're dealing with. These are the playoff teams that
we're dealing with this season. Well you probably get this sometimes, Rachel.
You see friends or whoever that they have nothing to
(06:02):
do with sports or don't even work sports adjacent like
you and I kinda do. And they'll be like, so,
who do you like in the games? Like who? And
who should I bet on? Or who should I start
my fantasy whatever? And someone was asking me, They're like
this is prior to the weekend. They're like, yeah, so
a f C. We we get it. It's it's Chiefs,
Bengals and Bills. Is there anybody else that you can
make a run? And I go, I know this sounds
a little weird, but Jacksonville is good and I'm telling
(06:25):
you they're good. And I went with the Jacks and
they're like, come on, the Jaguars they suck. I'm like,
I know why you're saying that, but it's just patently false.
They don't. They don't suck. They do many times, but
not this time. And then sharing off, they had the
third biggest comeback in an NFL history. So like, I'm
looking at Jags Chiefs and I'm like, could they I
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think they're like young, and I mean this in a
good way, young and dumb, and they're just like, why not,
Let's just be the Chiefs. Why who cares that we're
not supposed to? And that's the dangerous take. You know what.
I'm kind of with you because I feel like the
Chiefs of the Chiefs. Obviously you got Andy Read, you
got you got all, you got every single power house
in the NFL. Okay. But if you look at the
second half of their season, there were some games that
you were like, whoa, whoa, what's going on with the Chiefs?
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This game is way closer than I was expecting it
to be. I also love We're gonna talk about this
later on in the show. I love that Trevor Lawrence
went to a waffle house after the game to celebrate, Like,
could you be more wholesome in this moment? I like
that video a lot because most of the waffle House
videos I see involved someone like getting a chair throne
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of them. So I'm watching it. I'm like, please snow
and throw a chair at Trevor. Lawrence is a beautiful man,
and people are happy and they're well fed, and it's
a discount price. So I like, um, I thought for
a second that you were going to say the sneaky
fun team is perhaps the Giants, because I gotta bring
it up. You know, literally all of us are guilty. Okay.
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I literally changed my pick on Saturday to the Seahawks
last minute. And I gotta ride this wave, baby, I
gotta ride this wave of people calling me out being
like they're good. You said you change your pick of
the last second. No, look at you. First off, that
game was super fun in the first half. It was
very close. But I got to talk to you about
the Vikings. I gotta talk to you about Kirk Cousins.
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Are there any regrets? Are there any regrets at all
from this season? And how much love you showed that man.
No regrets, never any regrets. No regrets are a g
r E B s uh that no, no, no no.
Like the Vikings, it would be fun if there was
this storyline where like the Vikings sucked, then they just
blew it and Cousins through three interceptions. We can all
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have laughed. The Vikings were really good. Cousins was excellent
in this game. The Giants were just better. They lost
to a better team and a better quarterback. And when
they had fourth and eight, they threw like a six
inch pass and this season was over. And that's regrettable,
but I feel fine about it. They just they got
beat by a better team. It's okay, it happens. That's football.
And now the Giants are like, oh my god, the
Giants are kind of cool. And Daniel Jones was the
best quarterback in the league this week. Kind of sexy,
(08:53):
almost oh what do you sing the sport with Daniel Jones?
I never I would say that word in my life
about Daniel Jones. But Mr blow dried sidepart from Duke
with the Jan Sport backpack was like kind of hot
this weekend. He was so badass, like his body language,
in his face, it was just like he looked like
you know, everyone says like when he when he went
(09:14):
when Brian Dable goes to the Giants, Everyone's like, well,
Brian Dable can try to turn Daniel Jones into Josh
down and we're like, ha hai, you idiot is never
gonna be Josh Allen. Yesterday he looked more like Josh
youwen the Josh Allen like. He looked really really good
and it was cool and it was kind of hot. Wow.
I love it. I feel like every single team that
was supposed to move on did move on, like forty
nine is everyone kind of we want to see those
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guys to continue on, right, Bill's same thing, Bengals, same thing,
Giants Vikings. I was like, you know what, both teams
are kind of like quirky and fun. I don't care
who goes on. Let's change gears and talk about the
Ravens for a hot sex because, like credit to them,
they put the Bengals on their heels. Um. I want
to talk to you about Lamar Jackson. J K. Dobbins.
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He first came out and said, if we had Lamar,
we would have won, and then came back and said,
you know, Snoop played a great game that in and off.
What do you think is going on with Lamar? Do
you think that it is the actual knee issue and
that's what's holding them back. Do you think it's the
money thing? What do you think happens next season? Is
the real question here. Yeah, there's a fifty questions. Lamar
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is already first team all off season like that he's
going to be the one Listen. I think that if
he had a long term contract, I think he's out
there this weekend, right And I don't think that's I
don't think that's an insult to him. It's like it's
he's human being and he has to think about Listen,
I'm not doing this is not a hobby. I'm not
doing this for fun. This is my job and this
is my career. I think if he had a six
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year tunor and thirty million dollar contract, I think he's
playing against the Bengals. He doesn't for a bunch of reasons,
and so he isn't. So there's this whole put a
brace on it section of the media right now, this
is get out there and play. We were talking to
him according today Rachel, and he he doesn't usually play that.
I played the game card, but he kind of played
I played the game card. And he's like, we got
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people saying he should be a work and they wouldn't
get to their work if they had a head cold,
and I was like, damn, Jason, we haven't seen this
from you yet. People are really in their feelings, and
I think I think he's out there if he has
a long term contract, and I don't think that's a
slight on him. I think that makes him a human beings.
I think it's really cool to see, actually you really
see a divide, like there are other people like get
out there, Lamar. I've seen a ton of players go
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to bat for him and be like, you know what,
He's gonna wait it out and make sure that money
is guaranteed and all of those things. And I think
that that's been really cool to see. Is like it's
so easy for us to be like, of course we
want to see Lamar Jackson out there. The question is
do you think they would have won with Lamar out
there this weekend? I do, yeah, And like sala Herly
was good and he you know what it was. It
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was like if you turn on the game, you know
how like especially in New York City, you can go
to like the steps of a museum or something in
they're selling purses, but instead of Louis Vattan, It's like
like Louis Laton like that Tyler. I think it was
like he kind of like he ran really well at
times and he threw well. It wasn't quite Louis Batton,
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but it is significantly cheaper and it was available. It's
right there, So he was the Voie Laton of quarterbacks.
But if they had Louis, I think they probably went, yeah,
oh you got that Channel purse, you got that praw
dough prado? Is that what they're gold? Gold chain? Um? Okay,
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let's look forward to the divisional round. Obviously, like I said,
we record these episodes on Monday, so we don't know
what it's going to happen. In the Cowboys Bucks game,
which I'm very excited about by Rachel. I mean, don't
we Who are you picking in this game? I got
the Bucks. Yeah, I'm picking Tampa as well, and it's
such an insult to Dallas that we are. This is
like a mid ling at best Buccaneers team. But everyone's like, oh,
(12:42):
you gotta take Tampa. Why Well, because they're playing the Cowboys.
I just can't wait. I can't wait, and maybe the Cowboys.
I feel like you and I are on the same
page with the Cowboys and I feel like I've seen
I saw you do this whole thing on g MFB
at least one time this season. It's like the Cowboys
are gonna cowboy and I have and saying this basically
my entire career. The Cowboys just end up blowing it.
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Do we start talking differently about them? If they win
this game, just for just one, just one postseason game
that they win, does the does the conversation start to
change around this team? I think it does. They went
on the road and they beat Brady and McCarthy handles
his business and doesn't throw up spaghetti on himself. It's just, yeah,
I think we do. My My bottom line is this,
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every single year since I was in bleep in high school,
someone has said to me, this Cowboys team is different.
They're different. They're not different. It's just you're in the
cafeteria and you bring your tray and they put the
spoonful of slop and it's the Cowboys standard issue. It's
never different, And don't tell me it's different. Show me. Um.
So the conversation will change a little bit if they
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beat Tampa, But like I guess, at the same point,
you're beating a sub five wild card team should like
get to a title game you haven't done since nine.
I think it's more so like beating Tom Brady because
they've never been able to beat Tom Brady. That would
be a nice little slice of cake for them. Okay,
the divisional round games, We've got Jags at Chiefs. The
Chiefs are favored by eight and a half. We got
Giants at Eagles. The Eagles are favored by seven, Bengals
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at Bills, Bills favored by four. And then forty Niners
versus either Cowboys or the Bucks. Looking at that slate
right now, I think I know the answer to this.
But what is your What's the game that you're most
excited to see? Obviously, and I'll tell you what it's.
It's a duly Spiderman game, Rachel, It's it's it's the
same deal here. We have this superstar quarterback. We have
this head coach who's not a rock star but just
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totally gets it and knows how to run the program.
We also have like the heavy sentimental storyline with tomar
Hamlin and listen, I will tell you this. Before the
Bills games, and I've been there, they do their own
deal where you know in Seattle they have to raise
the twelve flag. Or in Kansas City you beat the drum.
They have someone who's down on the field and it's
like a Bill's great, It'll be Therman Thomas or and
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I talked to the stands and they say, no place
you'd rather be. I don't know this, but I strongly
suspect that DeMar Hamlin could do that on Sunday afternoon
at five o'clock. Like imagine, can you imagine? I have
goosebumps even just thinking about it. I know that is
gonna be. That is gonna be the most difficult place
to play ever. And I saw we saw Zach Taylor
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give the game ball to his like the local bar,
and he's like, I want to see as many of
you up in Buffalo. Is absolute possible. I don't even
think it matters, like, but Buffalo is gonna be the
most difficult place to play in like recent memory, no
matter what. But if that happens, off the absolute charts, Um,
I'm with you. That game, I'm I'm so excited for
(15:32):
uh Eagles Giants is kind of sneaky interesting to me
as well. That could go a little bit wonky. Um Okay,
enough about football. I've got a question. I saw something
on Twitter that I want to ask you about. For
those of you that don't know, Kyle Brandon is an
incredible actor. Uh, he's got a storied resume, long list, Kybe.
Somebody tweeted a picture of you, a young KB in
(15:53):
Law and Order and they were like is this you?
And you said, yep, That's how I got my sag card.
I want to know or worst audition story or best
whatever you want to share? And how long were you
in the acting? Game? For showed up to l A
in January of O two and I was in it
for I started working in sports in like December of
(16:15):
oh seven, so like five years? Did three and a
half years? On Days of Our Lives? Did a right
Guard commercial? Murdered? No, my character left town. That's a
different left town. I wasn't. My last scene was like
I had my bag over my shoulder and I'm walking
down the Jetway and I'm just like, you know, I'm
not leaving town. This town left me. It was just
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terrible line like that with a single tier that was
Days of Our Lives. I didn't. It was awesome, it
was unbelievable, But my worst audition story. I think was
my first audition, and at the time, this is two
thousand two, they were doing a TV version of Legally Blonde,
the Reese Witness when we have been a massive success,
and I got to go in. I got an audition
for like the male lead in it. They're probably seen
(16:57):
seventy thousand people in town, but I remember I walked
into this casting room and they were casting all the parts,
including the lead of the show, the part, and they
were like seven blonde women dressed all in pink, and
one of them even had a real Chihuahua that she
was bringing with her. That is commitment, Please help me.
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She didn't get it. No, it didn't bite me. I
I kept my distance, but they were fifteen other dudes
who just look exactly like me. And I went in
and I had practiced it sixty times in the mirror,
and I just butchered the whole thing. It was embarrassing
and bad, and the cast breaker was actually really nice,
but there was just no shot. I did committed a
couple of really bad fox pause, no call back. That
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was it. I auditioned from My first audition was for
a milk commercial and I had to like do my
little cart. I was in a grocery aisle and then
I had to stop and I had a double take
because there was a cow in the fridge. And then
I had to have a conversation with the cow about
like why I should have this kind of milk. I
didn't get it, So I don't know. You messed that
one out. You went right to the minor leagues. Like
(18:02):
commercial auditioning is a whole different deal. I've done it
too than theatrical auditioning or audition for shows or movies,
because way more people are involved. It's way more meat
marketing totally. So to speak with the cow, but I
was I've done a bunch of those two and those
are really tough. All right, Well they were missing out.
I could have been the face of milk. Okay, one
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question director pretend that they were the cow Rachel and
they would be like, so you're gonna walk in and
push the car, look at us and you see a cow,
and like that's all it was, you know what? And
I took a moment. There was like I have like
a kind of like mental image. There was like somebody
zooming in from Vancouver. There was a whole room of
people casting this. I was like, y'all are casting a
milk commercial. Okay, I've got bigger things coming my way.
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Y'all are zooming in for me to pretend talk to
a cow. So I'm not taking y'all's judgment. Okay, I
have one final question before we send you on your way, kbe,
and it's a it's a deep question. Okay. I saw
this online and I've been since asking everyone this question. Okay,
so just close your eyes up. Let me let me
put you in this place. Okay, you die, not in
(19:09):
a bad way, just just you know, you float off
into whatever. Um. You have the opportunity to come back
to Earth for thirty minutes. Here are the rules. You
can't see any friends, you can't see any family because
people can actually see you. Okay. You can walk around,
you can have conversations with people and if you saw
them it would freak them out. Trauma for life. Right,
thirty minutes back on planet Earth. You can have a meal,
(19:31):
you can sit on a bench somewhere. You can do
whatever you want, wherever you want. The only rule is
thirty minutes and you gotta go. Where are you going
and what are you doing? Um? I'm gonna go to
uh to your place, Rachel, and I'm gonna mount to
flat screen TV's you won't. I won't need all thirty minutes.
(19:52):
I just need six minutes and the rest of the
time I'll just sit out and and smoke or something.
Rachel's private life, no share. Okay, there was there was
a dead mounting a TV and I didn't do a
good job at it. Okay, all right? Is that your
final answer? You got a brand new TV. You thought
you were so cool? You're was it sixty seventy inches?
(20:15):
You go massive? Was a huge? It's a big one.
It's a big one. It's toughing the right thing. You
gotta jokes and I'm trying to have a nice moment here.
Get your jokes in. Kai went through the wall? Or
did you make it all crappy with the wires hanging down?
Did you do this properly? I'm gonna have somebody coming
and put an outlet in, but for now it's hanging
(20:36):
And also it's way to listen. I'll post the photo.
You guys can all have a good laugh. All right.
Last time, I try to be nice and vulnerable with
people on this podcasts. That's Okay, KB, get out of here.
We love having you. We'll see you next week after
the divisional round. Yeah, milk people, casting directors, suck it.
You missed the real talent. Sorry later. Oh my god,
(21:03):
I'm genuinely listen. I have been NonStop asking people this question,
and I've gotten such beautiful answers. If you ask me
the question. I grew up going to a lake every summer.
One of the best days of my life was two
summers ago. The lake was warm, it was beautiful out,
and I just floated by myself in the lake for
like an hour. I'd go back to that day. I'd
(21:24):
go back to that day and just float. That sounds nice.
And then a nice story that I just told you
learned something about me, learned that I grew up on
a lake. Okay, that's It's called sharing and caring. People
get hop in the d m S. I want to
know where are you going on planet Earth if you
can't see anybody that you love for thirty minutes after
you die? Coming up after the break, was it a
weird question? I think it was. Coming up after the break,
(21:47):
new segment alert called give them a race. People doing
their jobs and doing them well, all right, welcome to
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a new segment we are calling give them a raise.
I just want to highlight some good people doing some
good stuff around the league, and this week, honestly, it
might be the same people every single week, because I
want to do this segment all the time, because people
just knock it out of the park. And the people
that deserve a raise are social media managers, people that
are in charge of the twitters and Instagrams and TikTok's
(22:34):
and blah blah blah blah blah of NFL teams. I
thoroughly enjoy just how petty they can be all of
the bullying that it takes place. Bullying is not cool
unless you're two NFL teams doing it to each other. Okay,
So we're gonna go through a couple of tweets that
I saw this weekend for Super wild Card weekend. There
(22:55):
are some good ones, okay, and I will try to
describe them if you guys are listening on a podcast. Okay,
So let's see this first one. Okay. The Jacksonville Jaguars
tweeted they had us in the first half. I'm not
gonna lie, and the picture is Jags win and over
it is too like cell phone chargers and the chargers
(23:15):
are snapped, they're broken. Uh, but I love that they're like,
I'm not gonna lie, I'm n g L like you know,
It's it's just I just love when Twitter handles feel
like a real person, like this is obviously an NFL team,
but it's like and you can see in the Jacksonville
Jaguars display picture, who's that Trevor Lawrence like throwing up
the dudes? I love it. I love everything about it.
(23:35):
It's beautiful. Um, you deserve a race. What's next? Okay?
The Minnesota Vikings, The Minnesota Vikings. Okay, they tweeted, start
spreading the news and the picture is New York's favorite
team and it's Vikings players in in the city escape okay.
(23:59):
And then the Giants retweeted that with skull and the
L is capitalized. Li's we love to see it. We
absolutely love to see it. Okay. And then one of
my favorites, this is very creative, Bengals throw up the tweet. Okay.
The Bengals tweeted this after their win against the Ravens.
Quick read before we head to Buffalo, and then the
(24:21):
picture is um some books on a table and it
says Baltimore Ravens season short stories. I love it. Give
them all raises. These people are so creative. Um, and
you know I'm not saying don't get a raise. But
I was looking at Ford Nursed and the Bills had
(24:44):
a great one too. But we can't show it because
it's Megan Markle on what's that show called Who Wants
to Win Money? Dealer No Deal? It's Megan Markle opening
up her suitcase Dealer No Deal, and on the inside
of the suitcase was oh my god. And it just
says Bills went on the inside. So I love that
probably the most, but um, we'll get sued if we
show it. Sarah not gonna do that. Okay. By the way,
(25:08):
I'm watching the documentary Perry and Kind by Slayer. Okay,
you deserve all the raises, all the money. There you go,
che che Naing. Okay, coming up? Next, best thing I saw,
worst thing I saw. I don't quarter her. He's the best,
(25:34):
all right. We saw a lot of good things this weekend,
including some major comebacks, including some great football. But here
is what I loved. We talked about this earlier in
the show. I believe we have a picture of Trevor
Lawrence going to a waffle house after the win on
Saturday night. I love this. Just got sent this from Jacksonville.
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Trevor Lawrence celebrating the comeback win at the local waffle house.
No chairs, no brawls to be to be seen as
KB mentioned, Um, I love this. Like everyone else is
smoking cigars and dranking and travel, Lawrence strikes me as
the kind of guy against like chocolate chip offfles, maybe
a little root beer, has his has his little wife
(26:16):
by side. Just on this a wholesome evening. Um. I'm
really excited that they're going to continue on their fun.
They're scrappy Jacksonville, uh first playoff games in like six
years at home. Their mascot wears a speedo, which I
like and it also at the same time makes me uncomfortable.
(26:37):
You can feel both ways about something. That's what I think. Okay,
the next thing that I saw Zach Taylor going into
uh this bar called the Blind Pig and giving them
the game ball. Do we have the video? That is
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so fun? I mean, could you talk about two completely
different opposite ways of celebrating Zach Taylor go to the
Bengals goes to a bar and the player goes to
a waffle house. Um, that's amazing. I am so like,
I feel like we've been gifted this game Bengals Bills
the rematch. Uh like the emotions that have happened in
the last two weeks since that first game tomorrow, Hamlin
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seems to be getting better every single day. As Kyle said,
can you imagine him walking out in the field and
being like, I'm back. Oh my goodness. I really hope
he gets to play next season. But that game is
gonna be great. So so many emotions on both sides
to the Bengals. I had to see what happened as well, like,
oh my goodness, it's gonna be incredible. Okay, and then
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now to the worst thing that I saw. This is
interesting and I'm curious to see what people are thinking
about this. Aaron Donald briefly changed his Twitter bio. Okay,
so some people are on these things. Look at this,
he said, former NFL defensive aligneman for the Rams hashtag,
and then he quickly changed it. He changed it back
(28:17):
to you know, whatever whatever it was before. Former. What
does this mean? Does that mean he's retiring? I mean,
I kind of thought of Sean McVeigh was coming back,
Aaron Donald would be coming back. But maybe the Rams
are just too far away from what they were winning
the Super Bowl that Aaron's like, I gotta go, I'm
out of here. This is gonna make me so sad.
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The Rams showed us some glimpses of some magic with
Baker in those in those games, that big comeback game
on Thursday football. You got no Cooper Cup this year.
Matt Stafford was injured. Don't go out on this note,
Aaron Donald, we need more of you. Also, it's kind
of makes me sad that he did this during playoffs,
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Like I think he's sitting at home, probably so disappointed.
He was in a much different place this time last year.
Probably started appoting he's not playing in the playoffs. He started.
It's like, you know, if you break up with somebody
and you see them like out and about and you're like,
then you all of a suddenly post the thirst trap like,
oh I'm doing fine, I'm doing good. It's giving that,
(29:20):
it's giving that, it's giving. I'm onto bigger and better
things while he's watching other people do the bigger and
the better things. Um okay, guys, that is our show.
Come back on Friday as we preview the divisional round games.
Colleen Wolf, my girl is coming back. She had so
much fun last week. She was like, I need to
come back. I was like, yes, you do. Please come
on every single show and hang out with me all
(29:41):
the time. I bet you. Okay, people, I'm gonna ask
that question one more time and it's gonna be too colleens,
and Colleen's gonna answer it. Okay, am I gonna give
her heads up. No, in fact, they'll shake on it.
I will ask her on the spot and let's see
how she reacts. Okay, I would be vulnerable one more
time on the just just one more time, and that's
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come back on Friday and we will see you then.
I love you, I'll love you all.
And when I woke up this morning, I was feeling
pretty dangerous. It's mc cock. They are what we thought
they were. Are we not about? Hello? You plenty to
win the gate. They want you to cook the dinner.
At least they ought to let your shot for some
of the groceries. And on the way up, we're gonna
buy a kneecap off playoffs. You're kidding me. I'm just
(00:25):
here so I won't get fine. How could he not
be romantic about football? Hello? Everybody, Welcome to bench. I
have to go to Vegas for twenty four hours and
about three hours, here's the question. Do I go out?
Do I go and have fun? Do I go? I
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have never in my life. There's some people in the world.
There's people that exist that go out and travel alone
and then they sit at a restaurant by themselves and
they order meals. I can't do it. I cannot do it.
I have a fear of talking to people in public.
I love chatting, but also I don't so I think
(01:11):
I might just stay in my hotel room the entire time.
Like shuffle out, I have to go shoot stuff for
Pro Bowl, shuffle back in fly back to l A.
The most boring Las Vegas trip in the history of
Las Vegas. Um, here's what's going on in my life. People.
This is a controversy. This has caused some controversy online. UM,
I tried to Okay, you know what the real truth is.
(01:35):
It wasn't me. Somebody in my household tried to mount
a TV. You know, you know your girl can mount
a TV. No problems, Okay, no questions asked. I've built
a deck, I built a sauna, I built a hot tep.
You think I can't mount a TV? Honey, you got
something else coming. Um. This person was like, I want
let me do this thing for you. I'm gonna mount
to TV for you. Awesome, Sure, I go ahead. I
(01:56):
was putting together some other piece of furniture. UM, I
will give them credit and say, my stud finders a
piece of absolute garbage. They put fifteen holes in my wall.
Can we put Can we pull up the photo for
those of you that are listening, just go to my
Twitter so that you can see this photo fifteen holes
in my dry wall to try and find the stud. Um.
(02:23):
In their defense, you know simple thing that you know
about homes, studs are supposed to be sixteen inches apart. Okay,
this was sixteen and a half fift halls. Baball, get
out to day day and it was mounted too high.
They're gonna have to do it again. I'm never letting
anyone touch any tools, any dry wall, any anything in
(02:46):
my home ever again, unless unless they're licensed or it's me. Okay,
forget about it, guys. We had a doozy of a
weekend of football. There was some fun games we were
going into this weekend. Stinkers on the docket, No, none,
None were stinkers. Maybe the second half of the Seattle
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uh forty Niners game was was a stinker, was a
stink fest. And maybe I'm just bitter because I really
wanted to see how to win Go gino go all.
The games were so fun, some insane comebacks, uh Bills, Dolphins, Bengals, Ravens, Giants, Vikings.
Jack's George here? Who would have thought? Just a quick reminder,
(03:27):
we record these podcasts on Monday, so we're not able
to talk about Tom Brady. We're not able to talk
about the Cowboys imploding. You guys are gonna know more
than I will by the time you listen to this. Um. Okay,
coming up, on the show. We got a jam pack
show people, we got KB joining us. I'm gonna ask
him a very vulnerable question. He is gonna avoid it.
It's great. Um, I'm sure you're gonna be able to
hear how uh embarrassed I am through the podcast? Okay,
(03:52):
last time, last I swear, last time I ever tried
to be vulnerable on this show. No chas, no way. Okay,
okaybe oh do you all right? Incoming? Kyle Brand one
of my favorite people to bench with Banetta. Now we
record these shows on Monday. Okay, so there's one game
that we're not going to be able to talk about
and react to. But I want to get your hot
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reactions from this week. I feel like if there were
this was probably the most wild of Super wild Card weekends.
Like it fit the title. How was your you know,
before we get into the games, just how is the
overall experience? You talked about making some wings, you talked
about making some baked potatoes. How did you did you
enjoy it? Was it nice? It's awesome? All I ever
(04:35):
want to do anymore? Right, So I's just sit on
my couch at home with my family. I don't want
to go to you know, we're just getting through Christmas
party season. It's exhausting. I'm this this old, cantankerous, screwed.
I just want to sit home and eat and drink.
So that's all I did. And you know, it's funny,
like when you look at the slate of these games.
We can say it now on Friday, you're like, oh,
this looks like crap games, Like we're hanging our hat
(04:58):
on Jaguars charges and just hoping it's good. But like
we got all these backup quarterbacks and when we blow
out City, I gotta say it was pretty damn good.
Like I feel great about Super wild Card Weekend. It was.
It was so fun. We have game debut on Fridays
and we're previewing the weekend slate and I said, literally,
I was just like, oh my god, Miami Bills, if
too was there, that game is so fun. The a
(05:18):
f C North battle between the Bengals and Ravens. If
Lamar was there, that game is blowing us out of
the water. Both of those teams, two of their absolute credit,
Like we are singing their praises today they came to play.
Let me ask you this, is there a team that
you're feeling better or worse about after this weekend. So
(05:40):
only teams that are moving forward. We Gotts, we got
the Jags, the Bills, the Giants, and the Bengals. Is
there any of those teams remembers that maybe played a
certain way that you're like, oh, okay, so this is
what we're dealing with. These are the playoff teams that
we're dealing with this season. Well you probably get this sometimes, Rachel.
You see friends or whoever that they have nothing to
(06:02):
do with sports or don't even work sports adjacent like
you and I kinda do. And they'll be like, so,
who do you like in the games? Like who? And
who should I bet on? Or who should I start
my fantasy whatever? And someone was asking me, They're like
this is prior to the weekend. They're like, yeah, so
a f C. We we get it. It's it's Chiefs,
Bengals and Bills. Is there anybody else that you can
make a run? And I go, I know this sounds
a little weird, but Jacksonville is good and I'm telling
(06:25):
you they're good. And I went with the Jacks and
they're like, come on, the Jaguars they suck. I'm like,
I know why you're saying that, but it's just patently false.
They don't. They don't suck. They do many times, but
not this time. And then sharing off, they had the
third biggest comeback in an NFL history. So like, I'm
looking at Jags Chiefs and I'm like, could they I
(06:45):
think they're like young, and I mean this in a
good way, young and dumb, and they're just like, why not,
Let's just be the Chiefs. Why who cares that we're
not supposed to? And that's the dangerous take. You know what.
I'm kind of with you because I feel like the
Chiefs of the Chiefs. Obviously you got Andy Read, you
got you got all, you got every single power house
in the NFL. Okay. But if you look at the
second half of their season, there were some games that
you were like, whoa, whoa, what's going on with the Chiefs?
(07:07):
This game is way closer than I was expecting it
to be. I also love We're gonna talk about this
later on in the show. I love that Trevor Lawrence
went to a waffle house after the game to celebrate, Like,
could you be more wholesome in this moment? I like
that video a lot because most of the waffle House
videos I see involved someone like getting a chair throne
(07:29):
of them. So I'm watching it. I'm like, please snow
and throw a chair at Trevor. Lawrence is a beautiful man,
and people are happy and they're well fed, and it's
a discount price. So I like, um, I thought for
a second that you were going to say the sneaky
fun team is perhaps the Giants, because I gotta bring
it up. You know, literally all of us are guilty. Okay.
(07:49):
I literally changed my pick on Saturday to the Seahawks
last minute. And I gotta ride this wave, baby, I
gotta ride this wave of people calling me out being
like they're good. You said you change your pick of
the last second. No, look at you. First off, that
game was super fun in the first half. It was
very close. But I got to talk to you about
the Vikings. I gotta talk to you about Kirk Cousins.
(08:11):
Are there any regrets? Are there any regrets at all
from this season? And how much love you showed that man.
No regrets, never any regrets. No regrets are a g
r E B s uh that no, no, no no.
Like the Vikings, it would be fun if there was
this storyline where like the Vikings sucked, then they just
blew it and Cousins through three interceptions. We can all
(08:32):
have laughed. The Vikings were really good. Cousins was excellent
in this game. The Giants were just better. They lost
to a better team and a better quarterback. And when
they had fourth and eight, they threw like a six
inch pass and this season was over. And that's regrettable,
but I feel fine about it. They just they got
beat by a better team. It's okay, it happens. That's football.
And now the Giants are like, oh my god, the
Giants are kind of cool. And Daniel Jones was the
best quarterback in the league this week. Kind of sexy,
(08:53):
almost oh what do you sing the sport with Daniel Jones?
I never I would say that word in my life
about Daniel Jones. But Mr blow dried sidepart from Duke
with the Jan Sport backpack was like kind of hot
this weekend. He was so badass, like his body language,
in his face, it was just like he looked like
you know, everyone says like when he when he went
(09:14):
when Brian Dable goes to the Giants, Everyone's like, well,
Brian Dable can try to turn Daniel Jones into Josh
down and we're like, ha hai, you idiot is never
gonna be Josh Allen. Yesterday he looked more like Josh
youwen the Josh Allen like. He looked really really good
and it was cool and it was kind of hot. Wow.
I love it. I feel like every single team that
was supposed to move on did move on, like forty
nine is everyone kind of we want to see those
(09:35):
guys to continue on, right, Bill's same thing, Bengals, same thing,
Giants Vikings. I was like, you know what, both teams
are kind of like quirky and fun. I don't care
who goes on. Let's change gears and talk about the
Ravens for a hot sex because, like credit to them,
they put the Bengals on their heels. Um. I want
to talk to you about Lamar Jackson. J K. Dobbins.
(09:56):
He first came out and said, if we had Lamar,
we would have won, and then came back and said,
you know, Snoop played a great game that in and off.
What do you think is going on with Lamar? Do
you think that it is the actual knee issue and
that's what's holding them back. Do you think it's the
money thing? What do you think happens next season? Is
the real question here. Yeah, there's a fifty questions. Lamar
(10:18):
is already first team all off season like that he's
going to be the one Listen. I think that if
he had a long term contract, I think he's out
there this weekend, right And I don't think that's I
don't think that's an insult to him. It's like it's
he's human being and he has to think about Listen,
I'm not doing this is not a hobby. I'm not
doing this for fun. This is my job and this
is my career. I think if he had a six
(10:38):
year tunor and thirty million dollar contract, I think he's
playing against the Bengals. He doesn't for a bunch of reasons,
and so he isn't. So there's this whole put a
brace on it section of the media right now, this
is get out there and play. We were talking to
him according today Rachel, and he he doesn't usually play that.
I played the game card, but he kind of played
I played the game card. And he's like, we got
(10:59):
people saying he should be a work and they wouldn't
get to their work if they had a head cold,
and I was like, damn, Jason, we haven't seen this
from you yet. People are really in their feelings, and
I think I think he's out there if he has
a long term contract, and I don't think that's a
slight on him. I think that makes him a human beings.
I think it's really cool to see, actually you really
see a divide, like there are other people like get
out there, Lamar. I've seen a ton of players go
(11:19):
to bat for him and be like, you know what,
He's gonna wait it out and make sure that money
is guaranteed and all of those things. And I think
that that's been really cool to see. Is like it's
so easy for us to be like, of course we
want to see Lamar Jackson out there. The question is
do you think they would have won with Lamar out
there this weekend? I do, yeah, And like sala Herly
was good and he you know what it was. It
(11:39):
was like if you turn on the game, you know
how like especially in New York City, you can go
to like the steps of a museum or something in
they're selling purses, but instead of Louis Vattan, It's like
like Louis Laton like that Tyler. I think it was
like he kind of like he ran really well at
times and he threw well. It wasn't quite Louis Batton,
(12:00):
but it is significantly cheaper and it was available. It's
right there, So he was the Voie Laton of quarterbacks.
But if they had Louis, I think they probably went, yeah,
oh you got that Channel purse, you got that praw
dough prado? Is that what they're gold? Gold chain? Um? Okay,
(12:20):
let's look forward to the divisional round. Obviously, like I said,
we record these episodes on Monday, so we don't know
what it's going to happen. In the Cowboys Bucks game,
which I'm very excited about by Rachel. I mean, don't
we Who are you picking in this game? I got
the Bucks. Yeah, I'm picking Tampa as well, and it's
such an insult to Dallas that we are. This is
like a mid ling at best Buccaneers team. But everyone's like, oh,
(12:42):
you gotta take Tampa. Why Well, because they're playing the Cowboys.
I just can't wait. I can't wait, and maybe the Cowboys.
I feel like you and I are on the same
page with the Cowboys and I feel like I've seen
I saw you do this whole thing on g MFB
at least one time this season. It's like the Cowboys
are gonna cowboy and I have and saying this basically
my entire career. The Cowboys just end up blowing it.
(13:05):
Do we start talking differently about them? If they win
this game, just for just one, just one postseason game
that they win, does the does the conversation start to
change around this team? I think it does. They went
on the road and they beat Brady and McCarthy handles
his business and doesn't throw up spaghetti on himself. It's just, yeah,
I think we do. My My bottom line is this,
(13:25):
every single year since I was in bleep in high school,
someone has said to me, this Cowboys team is different.
They're different. They're not different. It's just you're in the
cafeteria and you bring your tray and they put the
spoonful of slop and it's the Cowboys standard issue. It's
never different, And don't tell me it's different. Show me. Um.
So the conversation will change a little bit if they
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beat Tampa, But like I guess, at the same point,
you're beating a sub five wild card team should like
get to a title game you haven't done since nine.
I think it's more so like beating Tom Brady because
they've never been able to beat Tom Brady. That would
be a nice little slice of cake for them. Okay,
the divisional round games, We've got Jags at Chiefs. The
Chiefs are favored by eight and a half. We got
Giants at Eagles. The Eagles are favored by seven, Bengals
(14:08):
at Bills, Bills favored by four. And then forty Niners
versus either Cowboys or the Bucks. Looking at that slate
right now, I think I know the answer to this.
But what is your What's the game that you're most
excited to see? Obviously, and I'll tell you what it's.
It's a duly Spiderman game, Rachel, It's it's it's the
same deal here. We have this superstar quarterback. We have
this head coach who's not a rock star but just
(14:30):
totally gets it and knows how to run the program.
We also have like the heavy sentimental storyline with tomar
Hamlin and listen, I will tell you this. Before the
Bills games, and I've been there, they do their own
deal where you know in Seattle they have to raise
the twelve flag. Or in Kansas City you beat the drum.
They have someone who's down on the field and it's
like a Bill's great, It'll be Therman Thomas or and
(14:51):
I talked to the stands and they say, no place
you'd rather be. I don't know this, but I strongly
suspect that DeMar Hamlin could do that on Sunday afternoon
at five o'clock. Like imagine, can you imagine? I have
goosebumps even just thinking about it. I know that is
gonna be. That is gonna be the most difficult place
to play ever. And I saw we saw Zach Taylor
(15:11):
give the game ball to his like the local bar,
and he's like, I want to see as many of
you up in Buffalo. Is absolute possible. I don't even
think it matters, like, but Buffalo is gonna be the
most difficult place to play in like recent memory, no
matter what. But if that happens, off the absolute charts, Um,
I'm with you. That game, I'm I'm so excited for
(15:32):
uh Eagles Giants is kind of sneaky interesting to me
as well. That could go a little bit wonky. Um Okay,
enough about football. I've got a question. I saw something
on Twitter that I want to ask you about. For
those of you that don't know, Kyle Brandon is an
incredible actor. Uh, he's got a storied resume, long list, Kybe.
Somebody tweeted a picture of you, a young KB in
(15:53):
Law and Order and they were like is this you?
And you said, yep, That's how I got my sag card.
I want to know or worst audition story or best
whatever you want to share? And how long were you
in the acting? Game? For showed up to l A
in January of O two and I was in it
for I started working in sports in like December of
(16:15):
oh seven, so like five years? Did three and a
half years? On Days of Our Lives? Did a right
Guard commercial? Murdered? No, my character left town. That's a
different left town. I wasn't. My last scene was like
I had my bag over my shoulder and I'm walking
down the Jetway and I'm just like, you know, I'm
not leaving town. This town left me. It was just
(16:36):
terrible line like that with a single tier that was
Days of Our Lives. I didn't. It was awesome, it
was unbelievable, But my worst audition story. I think was
my first audition, and at the time, this is two
thousand two, they were doing a TV version of Legally Blonde,
the Reese Witness when we have been a massive success,
and I got to go in. I got an audition
for like the male lead in it. They're probably seen
(16:57):
seventy thousand people in town, but I remember I walked
into this casting room and they were casting all the parts,
including the lead of the show, the part, and they
were like seven blonde women dressed all in pink, and
one of them even had a real Chihuahua that she
was bringing with her. That is commitment, Please help me.
(17:20):
She didn't get it. No, it didn't bite me. I
I kept my distance, but they were fifteen other dudes
who just look exactly like me. And I went in
and I had practiced it sixty times in the mirror,
and I just butchered the whole thing. It was embarrassing
and bad, and the cast breaker was actually really nice,
but there was just no shot. I did committed a
couple of really bad fox pause, no call back. That
(17:40):
was it. I auditioned from My first audition was for
a milk commercial and I had to like do my
little cart. I was in a grocery aisle and then
I had to stop and I had a double take
because there was a cow in the fridge. And then
I had to have a conversation with the cow about
like why I should have this kind of milk. I
didn't get it, So I don't know. You messed that
one out. You went right to the minor leagues. Like
(18:02):
commercial auditioning is a whole different deal. I've done it
too than theatrical auditioning or audition for shows or movies,
because way more people are involved. It's way more meat
marketing totally. So to speak with the cow, but I
was I've done a bunch of those two and those
are really tough. All right, Well they were missing out.
I could have been the face of milk. Okay, one
(18:23):
question director pretend that they were the cow Rachel and
they would be like, so you're gonna walk in and
push the car, look at us and you see a cow,
and like that's all it was, you know what? And
I took a moment. There was like I have like
a kind of like mental image. There was like somebody
zooming in from Vancouver. There was a whole room of
people casting this. I was like, y'all are casting a
milk commercial. Okay, I've got bigger things coming my way.
(18:46):
Y'all are zooming in for me to pretend talk to
a cow. So I'm not taking y'all's judgment. Okay, I
have one final question before we send you on your way, kbe,
and it's a it's a deep question. Okay. I saw
this online and I've been since asking everyone this question. Okay,
so just close your eyes up. Let me let me
put you in this place. Okay, you die, not in
(19:09):
a bad way, just just you know, you float off
into whatever. Um. You have the opportunity to come back
to Earth for thirty minutes. Here are the rules. You
can't see any friends, you can't see any family because
people can actually see you. Okay. You can walk around,
you can have conversations with people and if you saw
them it would freak them out. Trauma for life. Right,
thirty minutes back on planet Earth. You can have a meal,
(19:31):
you can sit on a bench somewhere. You can do
whatever you want, wherever you want. The only rule is
thirty minutes and you gotta go. Where are you going
and what are you doing? Um? I'm gonna go to
uh to your place, Rachel, and I'm gonna mount to
flat screen TV's you won't. I won't need all thirty minutes.
(19:52):
I just need six minutes and the rest of the
time I'll just sit out and and smoke or something.
Rachel's private life, no share. Okay, there was there was
a dead mounting a TV and I didn't do a
good job at it. Okay, all right? Is that your
final answer? You got a brand new TV. You thought
you were so cool? You're was it sixty seventy inches?
(20:15):
You go massive? Was a huge? It's a big one.
It's a big one. It's toughing the right thing. You
gotta jokes and I'm trying to have a nice moment here.
Get your jokes in. Kai went through the wall? Or
did you make it all crappy with the wires hanging down?
Did you do this properly? I'm gonna have somebody coming
and put an outlet in, but for now it's hanging
(20:36):
And also it's way to listen. I'll post the photo.
You guys can all have a good laugh. All right.
Last time, I try to be nice and vulnerable with
people on this podcasts. That's Okay, KB, get out of here.
We love having you. We'll see you next week after
the divisional round. Yeah, milk people, casting directors, suck it.
You missed the real talent. Sorry later. Oh my god,
(21:03):
I'm genuinely listen. I have been NonStop asking people this question,
and I've gotten such beautiful answers. If you ask me
the question. I grew up going to a lake every summer.
One of the best days of my life was two
summers ago. The lake was warm, it was beautiful out,
and I just floated by myself in the lake for
like an hour. I'd go back to that day. I'd
(21:24):
go back to that day and just float. That sounds nice.
And then a nice story that I just told you
learned something about me, learned that I grew up on
a lake. Okay, that's It's called sharing and caring. People
get hop in the d m S. I want to
know where are you going on planet Earth if you
can't see anybody that you love for thirty minutes after
you die? Coming up after the break, was it a
weird question? I think it was. Coming up after the break,
(21:47):
new segment alert called give them a race. People doing
their jobs and doing them well, all right, welcome to
(22:12):
a new segment we are calling give them a raise.
I just want to highlight some good people doing some
good stuff around the league, and this week, honestly, it
might be the same people every single week, because I
want to do this segment all the time, because people
just knock it out of the park. And the people
that deserve a raise are social media managers, people that
are in charge of the twitters and Instagrams and TikTok's
(22:34):
and blah blah blah blah blah of NFL teams. I
thoroughly enjoy just how petty they can be all of
the bullying that it takes place. Bullying is not cool
unless you're two NFL teams doing it to each other. Okay,
So we're gonna go through a couple of tweets that
I saw this weekend for Super wild Card weekend. There
(22:55):
are some good ones, okay, and I will try to
describe them if you guys are listening on a podcast. Okay,
So let's see this first one. Okay. The Jacksonville Jaguars
tweeted they had us in the first half. I'm not
gonna lie, and the picture is Jags win and over
it is too like cell phone chargers and the chargers
(23:15):
are snapped, they're broken. Uh, but I love that they're like,
I'm not gonna lie, I'm n g L like you know,
It's it's just I just love when Twitter handles feel
like a real person, like this is obviously an NFL team,
but it's like and you can see in the Jacksonville
Jaguars display picture, who's that Trevor Lawrence like throwing up
the dudes? I love it. I love everything about it.
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It's beautiful. Um, you deserve a race. What's next? Okay?
The Minnesota Vikings, The Minnesota Vikings. Okay, they tweeted, start
spreading the news and the picture is New York's favorite
team and it's Vikings players in in the city escape okay.
(23:59):
And then the Giants retweeted that with skull and the
L is capitalized. Li's we love to see it. We
absolutely love to see it. Okay. And then one of
my favorites, this is very creative, Bengals throw up the tweet. Okay.
The Bengals tweeted this after their win against the Ravens.
Quick read before we head to Buffalo, and then the
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picture is um some books on a table and it
says Baltimore Ravens season short stories. I love it. Give
them all raises. These people are so creative. Um, and
you know I'm not saying don't get a raise. But
I was looking at Ford Nursed and the Bills had
(24:44):
a great one too. But we can't show it because
it's Megan Markle on what's that show called Who Wants
to Win Money? Dealer No Deal? It's Megan Markle opening
up her suitcase Dealer No Deal, and on the inside
of the suitcase was oh my god. And it just
says Bills went on the inside. So I love that
probably the most, but um, we'll get sued if we
show it. Sarah not gonna do that. Okay. By the way,
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I'm watching the documentary Perry and Kind by Slayer. Okay,
you deserve all the raises, all the money. There you go,
che che Naing. Okay, coming up? Next, best thing I saw,
worst thing I saw. I don't quarter her. He's the best,
(25:34):
all right. We saw a lot of good things this weekend,
including some major comebacks, including some great football. But here
is what I loved. We talked about this earlier in
the show. I believe we have a picture of Trevor
Lawrence going to a waffle house after the win on
Saturday night. I love this. Just got sent this from Jacksonville.
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Trevor Lawrence celebrating the comeback win at the local waffle house.
No chairs, no brawls to be to be seen as
KB mentioned, Um, I love this. Like everyone else is
smoking cigars and dranking and travel, Lawrence strikes me as
the kind of guy against like chocolate chip offfles, maybe
a little root beer, has his has his little wife
(26:16):
by side. Just on this a wholesome evening. Um. I'm
really excited that they're going to continue on their fun.
They're scrappy Jacksonville, uh first playoff games in like six
years at home. Their mascot wears a speedo, which I
like and it also at the same time makes me uncomfortable.
(26:37):
You can feel both ways about something. That's what I think. Okay,
the next thing that I saw Zach Taylor going into
uh this bar called the Blind Pig and giving them
the game ball. Do we have the video? That is
(27:13):
so fun? I mean, could you talk about two completely
different opposite ways of celebrating Zach Taylor go to the
Bengals goes to a bar and the player goes to
a waffle house. Um, that's amazing. I am so like,
I feel like we've been gifted this game Bengals Bills
the rematch. Uh like the emotions that have happened in
the last two weeks since that first game tomorrow, Hamlin
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seems to be getting better every single day. As Kyle said,
can you imagine him walking out in the field and
being like, I'm back. Oh my goodness. I really hope
he gets to play next season. But that game is
gonna be great. So so many emotions on both sides
to the Bengals. I had to see what happened as well, like,
oh my goodness, it's gonna be incredible. Okay, and then
(27:55):
now to the worst thing that I saw. This is
interesting and I'm curious to see what people are thinking
about this. Aaron Donald briefly changed his Twitter bio. Okay,
so some people are on these things. Look at this,
he said, former NFL defensive aligneman for the Rams hashtag,
and then he quickly changed it. He changed it back
(28:17):
to you know, whatever whatever it was before. Former. What
does this mean? Does that mean he's retiring? I mean,
I kind of thought of Sean McVeigh was coming back,
Aaron Donald would be coming back. But maybe the Rams
are just too far away from what they were winning
the Super Bowl that Aaron's like, I gotta go, I'm
out of here. This is gonna make me so sad.
(28:39):
The Rams showed us some glimpses of some magic with
Baker in those in those games, that big comeback game
on Thursday football. You got no Cooper Cup this year.
Matt Stafford was injured. Don't go out on this note,
Aaron Donald, we need more of you. Also, it's kind
of makes me sad that he did this during playoffs,
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Like I think he's sitting at home, probably so disappointed.
He was in a much different place this time last year.
Probably started appoting he's not playing in the playoffs. He started.
It's like, you know, if you break up with somebody
and you see them like out and about and you're like,
then you all of a suddenly post the thirst trap like,
oh I'm doing fine, I'm doing good. It's giving that,
(29:20):
it's giving that, it's giving. I'm onto bigger and better
things while he's watching other people do the bigger and
the better things. Um okay, guys, that is our show.
Come back on Friday as we preview the divisional round games.
Colleen Wolf, my girl is coming back. She had so
much fun last week. She was like, I need to
come back. I was like, yes, you do. Please come
on every single show and hang out with me all
(29:41):
the time. I bet you. Okay, people, I'm gonna ask
that question one more time and it's gonna be too colleens,
and Colleen's gonna answer it. Okay, am I gonna give
her heads up. No, in fact, they'll shake on it.
I will ask her on the spot and let's see
how she reacts. Okay, I would be vulnerable one more
time on the just just one more time, and that's
(30:02):
come back on Friday and we will see you then.
I love you, I'll love you all.
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