Speaker 1: When I woke up this morning, I was feeling pretty
Speaker 1: dangerous or on a Cincinnati it's my team, it's quarter
Speaker 1: they are well we thought they were, and we got
Speaker 1: about hello, you play to win the day. They want
Speaker 1: you to cook the dinner. At least they ought to
Speaker 1: let your shout for some of the grocery. And on
Speaker 1: the way up, we're gonna buy a kneecap all kid playoffs.
Speaker 1: I'm just here so I won't get fine. How could
Speaker 1: he not be romantic about football? Welcome to the Bench
Speaker 1: with Bonetta Podcast. Another week we are back in studio.
Speaker 1: Ladies and chins. This is so exciting. Uh, big guests today.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we landed them. Okay, so you
Speaker 1: know how on atn you guys have that Connie Fox music? Right? Yes?
Speaker 1: What should we have for Mark Sessler? I feel like
Speaker 1: maybe like a Gasolina moment, like just something absolutely unhinged
Speaker 1: dow rude? Sandstorm? Great? What do you think how we
Speaker 1: can afford the rights to Sandstorm? I'll check with the
Speaker 1: music department. I have a feeling I know what they're
Speaker 1: going to say. We've attempted things like that. They're gonna
Speaker 1: say no, But I'll check. Ye Welcome to the pod,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler. Also joining us is Mohan, my trusty sidekick,
Speaker 1: who had just about perhaps the most awkward greeting I
Speaker 1: have ever witnessed in my life. And being friends of Mohan,
Speaker 1: you see a couple of those people, let me tell
Speaker 1: you is he but that one, that one rides to
Speaker 1: the top of the list. What happened? Can you break
Speaker 1: it down? From us? There was a lovely new producer here.
Speaker 1: Her name is Madison. She's joining our show. She's joining
Speaker 1: game debut came over from ESPN. Shout out to Madison.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's what her name is, right, I
Speaker 1: think that checks out. So Madison was in here before
Speaker 1: we started recording, and Rachel was talking to Madison for
Speaker 1: a while, for like five minutes. Yeah. I was just
Speaker 1: like sitting here looking at both of them. We had
Speaker 1: passed to the point. But I just say, when you're
Speaker 1: with someone and you know that person just introduced them immediately,
Speaker 1: so there's no awkward You're saying it's my fault. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. And then she was like leaving
Speaker 1: the room and she was like saying goodbye, and I
Speaker 1: to me, Yeah, everyone in here, and I look up
Speaker 1: and we make eye contact for a second, and then
Speaker 1: she turned towards the door, and I was like, and
Speaker 1: then Iowa was already halfway introduced, already halfway through the
Speaker 1: high up, and then she stopped and then she came
Speaker 1: over and then now I'm getting ross. But the thing
Speaker 1: is like she seen that bad? Well no, but it
Speaker 1: was minutes after, you know, we met you and I
Speaker 1: and I thought that i'd because I'd seen you on
Speaker 1: social clips on Twitter, and so I was like, I think,
Speaker 1: I think I know. Mohun's like I think, oh, we
Speaker 1: met online, which is an I thought my opener was
Speaker 1: equally creepy the first things I ever said. That's a
Speaker 1: normal thing for people who are online these days. But
Speaker 1: actually this is interesting. Okay, so you had the awkward
Speaker 1: greeting with Madison, you had you forgot there was something
Speaker 1: going on here with Mark, and then our lovely producer
Speaker 1: Sean came in and you were like, Hi, I'm mo on,
Speaker 1: Sean goes. I've several time I'd rather reintroduce myself big time.
Speaker 1: I'd rather reintroduce myself than now introduce myself. Okay, Hollywood,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, I think you're navigating this the
Speaker 1: best you can. Yeah, I'm doing them as a good
Speaker 1: friend of yours. I am going to make sure that
Speaker 1: never happens again. I'm going to introduce you right off
Speaker 1: the bat. I'm gonna not let you talk. The only
Speaker 1: thing that you have to say is Hi, how are
Speaker 1: you to shakes up? That's fine, and you got to
Speaker 1: meet me halfway and acknowledge that I'm here and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at Carrie. I'll carry you the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: Um okay, not to like totally take a left turn,
Speaker 1: but like just life being an NFL football fan is
Speaker 1: just taking a lot of left turns these days. Um.
Speaker 1: So today it is Thursday. It came out that Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson is going to actually be suspended for eleven games
Speaker 1: find five million dollars, and he is agreeing to undergo
Speaker 1: a professional evaluation after a settlement. I wanted to learn
Speaker 1: more about what that part means. Um Schefter tweeted. Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson has to comply with an evaluation and treatment recommendations
Speaker 1: of a third party behavioral expert to be reinstated. It
Speaker 1: sounds like he's got to pass some kind of test
Speaker 1: to come back and play week eleven. Just so happens
Speaker 1: to be the Browns playing the Texans, which is quite interesting.
Speaker 1: But next week thirteen, thank you very much, he suspended
Speaker 1: for eleven weeks. That ends up being week thirteen. I
Speaker 1: didn't know how that math chicks that I can, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Um, but here we go. This is
Speaker 1: the trifecta. Sitting at this table, we are all former
Speaker 1: Browns fans. We didn't mean for this to happen. We
Speaker 1: just wanted you on the on the show because we're
Speaker 1: big fans. Well kiss met, I mean in a weird way,
Speaker 1: not a friendlier good way, but just did its happen? Um,
Speaker 1: But let's I mean, let's just talk about this. I
Speaker 1: know we're all so tired of talking about this, and
Speaker 1: I don't want this to be the majority of the
Speaker 1: show because we have a lot of fun things planned.
Speaker 1: But like, what are your thoughts on eleven games, him
Speaker 1: coming back and playing the Texans? Just give me like
Speaker 1: an overall, Well, it's too it's not enough. I mean,
Speaker 1: just based on what we know and what the NFL wanted,
Speaker 1: it's just simply I mean, I think indefinite. I would
Speaker 1: have even indefinite even if it was one season. Why
Speaker 1: is one season enough based on just this whole experience. UM,
Speaker 1: it was a settlement, and so I wasn't surprised that
Speaker 1: it came somewhere I thought would be twelve because I
Speaker 1: didn't think they would want the optics of Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: returning to play the Texans. I thought that they would
Speaker 1: try to, like anything that they could to avoid something
Speaker 1: that was reporting that that was something that the NFL
Speaker 1: did not want. So I've been part of the settlement
Speaker 1: is like probably both sides are never that happy with
Speaker 1: with it. UM. The thing for me because watching these
Speaker 1: press conferences today and we were talking before, like the
Speaker 1: Browns over historically have had some pretty um problematic press County.
Speaker 1: You were a Browns fan for how long I mean
Speaker 1: going back to like nineteen eighty six offence, Yes, and
Speaker 1: especially under this um this ownership group, there have been
Speaker 1: some that the team has just been bad. So it's
Speaker 1: been a lot of negativity. This felt to me like
Speaker 1: they live in a different reality because first hearing Deshaun Watson, UM,
Speaker 1: who really I've never gotten a hint of UM, some
Speaker 1: of his statements about accountability about I want to, you know, apologize.
Speaker 1: I will use the word triggered over and over. I
Speaker 1: hate that said. I think that's just so off base
Speaker 1: and like um for me. I there was a lot
Speaker 1: of talk from the Haslems about a second chance. Second
Speaker 1: chances are important. We've all had second chances in life.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've messed things up and sometimes gotten like
Speaker 1: a third chance. But like part of it is you
Speaker 1: need to learn through that and show that you there's
Speaker 1: something about you that should create a second chance. Whoever
Speaker 1: you offended, whatever is you did. And I just don't
Speaker 1: see that from Deshaun Watson and the Browns. I feel
Speaker 1: like have completely, in a very cynical way, glossed over
Speaker 1: where Deshaun Watson is in this process and where the
Speaker 1: whole where are the victims are Because because the pr battle,
Speaker 1: probably the way that things work, you get a year
Speaker 1: from now and if this season even people don't want
Speaker 1: to talk about it anymore, they want to focus on
Speaker 1: the football, and suddenly you have a star quarterback. I
Speaker 1: just think that's all this was about, and I really
Speaker 1: don't buy any of the verbiage around it on any point.
Speaker 1: I will say a few things about that, Usually people
Speaker 1: getting a second chance doesn't come along with two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty million dollars, right, I mean, I mean like
Speaker 1: a second chance is like, oh, I totally little white line,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't trust me anymore, Like let me earn
Speaker 1: your trust back. It doesn't add up to me. And
Speaker 1: I was just thinking, like, you know, when all of
Speaker 1: this stuff was still coming out, like early, early, and
Speaker 1: I hadn't muted as many people on my Twitter as
Speaker 1: I have. Now, you know, a lot of people were
Speaker 1: being like, he's a top tier quarterback, He's a top
Speaker 1: five quarterback in the league. You have by the time
Speaker 1: he plays, you will have not seen him play football
Speaker 1: for two years or whatever the time ends up being
Speaker 1: almost two years. Like who knows what his body is
Speaker 1: going to be like, who knows what he is athletically
Speaker 1: going to look like or what he is going to
Speaker 1: look like with this team jelling with those guys. Also,
Speaker 1: we saw the preseason game of these Jacksonville Jags fans
Speaker 1: saying you sick, you know, bleep, what is that He's
Speaker 1: going to go into the most hostile environment in every
Speaker 1: single stadium that he goes in. That's just the fans.
Speaker 1: Then what happens to the guys on the other side
Speaker 1: of the field. They're looking for they're always looking for
Speaker 1: a reason to get mad at somebody and like take
Speaker 1: that extra like oomph to take that quarterback down or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now Deshahn Watson's got the biggest target on his back
Speaker 1: and assionable. You don't know what he's going to look
Speaker 1: like athletically, you don't know what he's gonna look like
Speaker 1: on this team. It just seems like the biggest gamble
Speaker 1: with so much money on the line, and and and
Speaker 1: not even that, like you're a reputation, Like you've lost
Speaker 1: so much credibility, in so much respect from so many fans.
Speaker 1: It's just literally, I know it's been weeks, and like,
Speaker 1: to be honest, you two were the first people I
Speaker 1: talk to you and my girlfriend Rushana, who's also a
Speaker 1: huge fan, I remember texting you and I think I
Speaker 1: just said like I'm so sorry because you have so
Speaker 1: much more history. And I think I called you and
Speaker 1: was like in tears, like all day. It's just so
Speaker 1: no matter how much time passes, I just still cannot
Speaker 1: believe that this has happened. I think about, like, what
Speaker 1: why you became a Browns fan and why they were
Speaker 1: there was a there was finally a turn. You've been
Speaker 1: a fan for a while and like it's it's um,
Speaker 1: like Rachel, like it's like they all every bit of
Speaker 1: good energy that kind of called pulled you towards them
Speaker 1: is gone and they're now the villains and it's like
Speaker 1: it's just, um, it's hard up for There's this one
Speaker 1: quote by Jimmy Hasselm in the middle of this press
Speaker 1: conference because you know that you know these guys, these owners, like, uh,
Speaker 1: they they don't see the world the way we do.
Speaker 1: And he stopped everyone down and said, it's important to
Speaker 1: remember to Shaun Watson is twenty six years old, okay,
Speaker 1: and he's a hell of an NFL quarterback. That's that
Speaker 1: was the tone that was admitting. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: like just remind you guys all that, like we got
Speaker 1: this great asset and it's going to be okay. It's
Speaker 1: like that's why I think, like people this the three
Speaker 1: of us are jumping ship because and not all Browns
Speaker 1: fans are no. I know, I know that we played
Speaker 1: this this like audio clip on our show a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and I'm sure you thought, like of
Speaker 1: Browns fans just like welcoming the sewn with like open
Speaker 1: arms and and what was really sad and actually like
Speaker 1: quite scary about it was there was a lot of
Speaker 1: young boys in the group like just chanting to Shawn's name,
Speaker 1: and it's like, is this who you want to be
Speaker 1: your hero? Like, oh my god, if I had a son,
Speaker 1: Well you have kids, Yeah, how would you feel if
Speaker 1: one of your kids? I'm sure you raise them as
Speaker 1: like Browns fans or would want I actually didn't, just
Speaker 1: because um, we live in LA and such a different experience.
Speaker 1: But but I it's funny because they tracked the league
Speaker 1: just like through osmosis, and they both knew kind of
Speaker 1: what he was in general and what he represented, and
Speaker 1: they were they were not They were not into that
Speaker 1: on any level, and so they'll go in a different
Speaker 1: direction for sure. Um, okay, well, I don't want this
Speaker 1: whole show to be about this garbage. I want us
Speaker 1: all to just like somehow move forward, and I will say,
Speaker 1: are you gonna watch week one? You have to? It
Speaker 1: was just confirmed that Baker Mayfield's gonna be starting. I
Speaker 1: mean you, well, we all gonna watch this. I mean
Speaker 1: that is that is like a scheduling tick that turned
Speaker 1: into the most attractive concept around. Oh my goodness, like,
Speaker 1: I kind of want to go to the game. I
Speaker 1: wish it was in Cleveland. I wish it was That's
Speaker 1: the one thing that I wish was a little bit different.
Speaker 1: But I think that, you know what, I don't. The
Speaker 1: more that I think about it, I don't because it
Speaker 1: would be really frustrating as a fan, because, um, I
Speaker 1: think that there there is a lot of Browns fans
Speaker 1: that stuck around and then are going to, like, you know,
Speaker 1: support that team. I think it'd be a little bit
Speaker 1: of a bummer. Yeah, but to see Baker come into
Speaker 1: that stage m and do what he does, Yeah, if
Speaker 1: it went well for him, it would be well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, his whole history is like the underdog. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show everyone. Yeah, are you okay? So we're gonna
Speaker 1: get We're gonna We're gonna kick off quite a few
Speaker 1: teams on the bench, the Bachelorette, the bench with Bachelorette.
Speaker 1: I still can't say that, even after weeks, I'm we're
Speaker 1: kicking off more than a few teams. Um. I know
Speaker 1: that you've kind of been going through a similar process
Speaker 1: of trying to find your team. We were just talking
Speaker 1: about this before we got started. What is your you know,
Speaker 1: are you Are you going to make a decision before
Speaker 1: game one? Are you going to feel it out? Are
Speaker 1: you gonna wait six months? Like what's the what's the vibe?
Speaker 1: I kind of because the thing is like I fell
Speaker 1: in love with the Browns growing up in the East Coast.
Speaker 1: I couldn't control it. It just took over me. And
Speaker 1: that's like back when you don't, do you remember the
Speaker 1: first thing that made you love them? I do? Because
Speaker 1: so I had a friend I was in middle school,
Speaker 1: UM and a friend from Cleveland who became like my
Speaker 1: best friend moved into town and I was a Cowboys
Speaker 1: fan for like three months. I was in Jets Giants territory,
Speaker 1: and I decided it was not into either of those teams,
Speaker 1: even though one of them was like the Bill Parcell's
Speaker 1: Giants about to win a Super Bowl. But he, my friend,
Speaker 1: was like, listen, these Browns are on Monday Night Football
Speaker 1: tonight against the Dan Marino Dolphins. And I was playing
Speaker 1: Pop Warner at the time. And I went back home
Speaker 1: with a bunch of guys and we had like a
Speaker 1: Monday night's sleepover because there was some sort of holiday,
Speaker 1: and I just watched Bernie Kozar and Kevin Mack and
Speaker 1: like Ernest Biner and Webster Slaughter destroy the Dolphins, and
Speaker 1: I was like it was just like when you fall
Speaker 1: in love with anything or anyone, Like it just hit
Speaker 1: me in the heart. And suddenly I was like I
Speaker 1: knew the names of like every player's wife and like
Speaker 1: what they're doing, Like I've subscribed to this like Brown's
Speaker 1: news illustrated article that would show like news letter that
Speaker 1: would sho up six days late in my house. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was like I was all in and so I
Speaker 1: do remember all that and like I kind of can't
Speaker 1: you can't manufacture then it's never gonna happen again. So
Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to fit into my life. And
Speaker 1: so right now where I sit, the Chargers are very
Speaker 1: attractive for a lot of reasons because I don't have
Speaker 1: to wait for them to get a quarterback too. It's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't have a problem this point. I
Speaker 1: don't need to jump onto a sinking ship with a
Speaker 1: nice story. I'd done that, but I don't have anyone else,
Speaker 1: and I kind of'm just gonna let it ride. Yeah,
Speaker 1: see what the like, I don't have to have it
Speaker 1: by coast Country. Let's ride is that the Broncos like
Speaker 1: were the Cleveland's like soul killers back in the day.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna see, do you do you have
Speaker 1: a plan of a team that you want to support.
Speaker 1: Part of me is if Watson got the year and
Speaker 1: the Browns got Jimmy g kind of might would have
Speaker 1: like extended one more year. But now that's not the window.
Speaker 1: I think I'm just gonna go into the season and
Speaker 1: just be like an NFL fan and just oh, you're
Speaker 1: romblow with the NFL. Yeah, yeah, in the crowd. But
Speaker 1: I do like the Chargers are wishy washy, like oh,
Speaker 1: you can't even like like confidence true of me. The
Speaker 1: Chargers are like the little brother in in la Uh.
Speaker 1: That's why I really like the Chargers. It gives a
Speaker 1: little bit of an essence of what I loved about
Speaker 1: the Browns is like the little brother that gets picked on.
Speaker 1: I am, I'm the youngest of four. I know that vibe.
Speaker 1: I love that little scrappy like mentality. But then I
Speaker 1: went to Chargers camp and I asked all these players, like,
Speaker 1: what what how does it feel to me like the
Speaker 1: younger brother, and all of them were like, the Rams
Speaker 1: are really good and like really happy to share a
Speaker 1: city with them, and I'm like, that's disgusting, backbone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you need to be you need to be a little angrier,
Speaker 1: a little bit more motivated to overtake that ramsam Um okay,
Speaker 1: So Mark, before we go to break, there is something
Speaker 1: that I want to do. I think that you are
Speaker 1: so funny. You make me laugh all the time, and
Speaker 1: you were the most straight You're an absolute straight man.
Speaker 1: Like I don't think I've seen you giggle once. It
Speaker 1: depends because like Dan will make me laugh. Legitimately you're
Speaker 1: on our show. But anyways, I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: your your quick opinions about a couple of things that
Speaker 1: don't really have anything to do with football. And you
Speaker 1: can be as cynical about them as you want, you
Speaker 1: can get amped up about them, and I just want
Speaker 1: to know your overall thoughts. Sure, we just want people
Speaker 1: on this podcast to get to know you a little
Speaker 1: bit better and see the Mark that I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: go um okay, So just make a couple of comments
Speaker 1: on each of these things, will go through them quick. Okay.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on ayahuasca? I mean I would
Speaker 1: do it? Would you? Actually? Is that a real statement.
Speaker 1: I would, but I would not do it. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: like do it. You know, what's what's gotta happen, like
Speaker 1: not in my house with like my kids like running
Speaker 1: around like I would have to be kind of like
Speaker 1: in a in a on a deep journey where you're
Speaker 1: surrounded by safety, I mean safe people, because I think
Speaker 1: whenever you venture into those worlds, not that I would know,
Speaker 1: like you like, they have a major impact on what's
Speaker 1: happening to you psychological. I mean Aaron Rodgers talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, the experience. I kind of like he annoys
Speaker 1: me in many ways, Um, but not in that way. Um.
Speaker 1: Does it annoy you that he has a bust of
Speaker 1: Nick Cage in his locker? Did you see that, like
Speaker 1: like a like a statue? I did. I kind of
Speaker 1: like the thing that made me think because it was
Speaker 1: sent anonymously with no message, sent you a Nick Cage sculpture?
Speaker 1: Would you keep it and put it on this way? Well,
Speaker 1: I would like to have a locker first of all,
Speaker 1: then I could put it somewhere. But I think, like
Speaker 1: like all these private detectives that are um tracking down
Speaker 1: really important things like Watergate two point over it I'd
Speaker 1: be like, you need to have gums that are searching
Speaker 1: for these types of who where where did that statuette
Speaker 1: come from? But I but now we know? So okay,
Speaker 1: so Ayawaska, you're in. Yes, would you do it with
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers or would you be too freaked out? I
Speaker 1: totally would because I can spend the rest of your
Speaker 1: life saying that you could. I did I want to
Speaker 1: go with Aaron Rodgers? No one would believe you're like Okay,
Speaker 1: Um thoughts on TikTok. I watch it sometimes, but like
Speaker 1: I actually have a secret TikTok cameld on, hold on,
Speaker 1: this is breaking math, but I don't even remember what
Speaker 1: the name of it is, Like you don't even know
Speaker 1: how to look it, just so like I have it
Speaker 1: on my phone and so you go in and um,
Speaker 1: like just so I can observe other things, but I'm
Speaker 1: not doing my own. I feel like you would excel
Speaker 1: at it. I feel like you would excel at like
Speaker 1: the green screen, and like you making opinions about things.
Speaker 1: I feel like I would watch those. I'm not against it.
Speaker 1: It's just like I almost, um, you know, It's like
Speaker 1: I just haven't done it yet, but once I do,
Speaker 1: then the floodgates would open. Yeah you know, um, okay,
Speaker 1: I know this is a little bit of an old
Speaker 1: news uh situation. We've definitely moved past this, I have not.
Speaker 1: I still think about it every single day. What do
Speaker 1: you think about Zak Wilson, Well, I mean, what the extracurriculars.
Speaker 1: I think I think that odd. We live in a
Speaker 1: very judgmental world. Love. Yeah, I think actually there are
Speaker 1: no boundaries and like I kind of have no problem
Speaker 1: with what he did. Um unless and less I mean
Speaker 1: unless like less unless I'm like like hurt a bunch
Speaker 1: of other people or something. I'm not saying that, but
Speaker 1: but if all parties were like kind of cool that
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't know, like at this point, I
Speaker 1: think that me of five years ago would have been
Speaker 1: like I don't know about that, but it's like it's love.
Speaker 1: Love is love, it is What do you think about
Speaker 1: the locker room? Like absolutely? Do you think that that
Speaker 1: is actually going to make them more tight knit this
Speaker 1: season because they know that he's like, Okay, this this
Speaker 1: guy's the alpha. I think it makes him like much more,
Speaker 1: Like he's so cool looking and he looks like a
Speaker 1: little boy and like he's kind of creepy about it,
Speaker 1: it isn't. He kind of strikes me as it's one
Speaker 1: of the first quarterbacks where I'm like, well, these guys
Speaker 1: are like way way young. Yeah, and but but they
Speaker 1: don't look always young to me. They look like just
Speaker 1: men and like he to me, looks like a boy.
Speaker 1: I know, so I would probably get it. There's so
Speaker 1: many times where I'll look up a player and I'll
Speaker 1: be like, he's twenty one, he looks like he could
Speaker 1: be forty five, you know what I mean? These are
Speaker 1: they're just like so bulk up um. Okay, speaking of
Speaker 1: bulked up, what do you think about the She Hulk.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I am up in Hollywood for a
Speaker 1: little bit right now, and right down the street from
Speaker 1: where I am staying, ragmut Well, it's no, it just
Speaker 1: happens to be. Right, there's a car on fire in
Speaker 1: front of your own town. No, there's not. But the
Speaker 1: She Hulk premiere was occurring just a couple days ago,
Speaker 1: and there's all these billboards, you know, with her like
Speaker 1: one eight seven seven number. It's a little jarring to me.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, I wouldn't realize it. I thought it
Speaker 1: was just like someone in like someone actually offering a service.
Speaker 1: Then I then I could plug didn't realize. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that is a normal thing outside
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles. Los Angeles you see so many like
Speaker 1: four year consideration, you see so many movie billboards because
Speaker 1: it's a movie down. So I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys listening have these in your wherever you're living, there
Speaker 1: are full like call now if you're in a car
Speaker 1: accident or whatever. It says one eight hundred. She hulk
Speaker 1: and it's Tatiana Muslani, who is an incredible actress. But
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this earlier. She's not super recognizable.
Speaker 1: She's just like, I don't know what she's been at exactly.
Speaker 1: She's kind of just like plane James and she because
Speaker 1: I'm a plane Jay Canadian. Uh, And she looks it's
Speaker 1: just I'm sorry, I'm I'm not a Marvel person. She
Speaker 1: just looks a bit too ridiculous for me to get
Speaker 1: into it. A cgi looks a little it's yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I mean, it's through me. I also
Speaker 1: had not now now I know about it. When I
Speaker 1: first saw it was like I would call that number, man,
Speaker 1: if you had gotten into a fender bender at that point,
Speaker 1: and then billboard was there. Would you ever seems on
Speaker 1: it because like there's a lot of there was suddenly
Speaker 1: a lot of signage, so it seemed like her industry
Speaker 1: was booming. Oh, she was really picking up what's the
Speaker 1: what is the lawyer that is all over La wearing
Speaker 1: like Lakers stuff called Jacob called Jacob, one hunter called Jacob.
Speaker 1: Ye okay, you heard it here for first guys, Maybe
Speaker 1: we can get a called Jacob sponsorship on this on
Speaker 1: the show or one hundred maybe those sponsors. At the
Speaker 1: very least, she can beat the person up. I think
Speaker 1: she could. She could, Oh she could revenge category. You
Speaker 1: could throw a car. Yeah, maybe you too, because it
Speaker 1: seems like part of as you lose control of all sensibility,
Speaker 1: are you she hu? No? No, I mean she might
Speaker 1: if you hired her, she might. If she if she's
Speaker 1: so income, so much raid, she might just throw you
Speaker 1: as well. So oh, like she could control it. I
Speaker 1: also love that she's just wearing like a chic little
Speaker 1: business suit on top of and she's just green and jacked.
Speaker 1: There's a lot happening. I have problems with it, folks,
Speaker 1: I have problems with it. All Right, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: to break, but after that we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: the best and worst thing that we saw it. There's
Speaker 1: a lot there's a lot of bad stuff, so don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere based all right, it is time in the
Speaker 1: show to talk about the best and worst things that
Speaker 1: we saw on social media. Maybe you guys saw an
Speaker 1: early screening of she Hulk and that was the worst thing.
Speaker 1: So I don't mean to be people come for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was on the break. There was some yelling. There
Speaker 1: was some yelling from Sean. Sean's had a rough day.
Speaker 1: Mom didn't even remember who he was. Oh, had to
Speaker 1: be reintroduced. We love you, Sean Shan. You're a favorite
Speaker 1: on this podcast. Mark. I'm new to this, but I
Speaker 1: understand that you're battling some prs. Play the victim. We
Speaker 1: clearly needs his own representative slanderd today. Okay, so here
Speaker 1: are some of the best things that I saw today. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think it was announced today that Baker is starting
Speaker 1: week one against the Browns, which we have already talked about.
Speaker 1: I am so excited, and you know what, all I
Speaker 1: loved this and was also a bit confused by this
Speaker 1: I think it was NFL that posted like Baker and
Speaker 1: blue or some one Instagram posted like Baker looks good
Speaker 1: in blue, and then our guy, oh b J commented
Speaker 1: under it and said go shine with that with the
Speaker 1: icon or the like the avatar. That like threw me
Speaker 1: a little bit. What was the hold on? I didn't
Speaker 1: see the I wasn't like an icy face or something.
Speaker 1: But um, because with with with Oto Beckham, I never
Speaker 1: know what's happening, like what he's attempt what he's actually saying,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to Baker, So I was like,
Speaker 1: is this like a is he anti Baker? But then
Speaker 1: he's very clearly trying to show some support. I think
Speaker 1: I don't think it was a supportive thing, but it
Speaker 1: was a little bit shocked because I felt like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it was a little bit weird between them
Speaker 1: because the last we heard is they were having beef
Speaker 1: and there yeah, other bones players run, Temo's dead, Dad's
Speaker 1: got involved. There's terrible energy. So like suddenly there's a
Speaker 1: massive you know one eight maybe OBJ had a kid
Speaker 1: want a super Bowl. It was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rise above it. I don't I don't need
Speaker 1: to be petty anymore involved. So that's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things. Is there anything good that you guys are
Speaker 1: you want to go straight bad? There's a lot of
Speaker 1: bad things this week. Uh you got well, I have bad.
Speaker 1: I mean this is this is not, this is not.
Speaker 1: We've talked about some bad stuff. Um. As I mentioned,
Speaker 1: I've been up on in Hollywood and like I was
Speaker 1: walking down the Walk of Fame thing where all the
Speaker 1: people are dressed up. Yes, but there was this like, um,
Speaker 1: you know, like the stupid Stormtroopers that are all black
Speaker 1: because they're trying to like sell more Summing or other.
Speaker 1: But like, um, this stormtrooper guy, it was like seven
Speaker 1: foot five. It's like you're all meant to be the
Speaker 1: same height. It's like there's like a probably seven hundred
Speaker 1: people that want to do this job and they hired
Speaker 1: this guy to this and like meanwhile, there's someone meant
Speaker 1: to be Michael Jordan and he was like five nine.
Speaker 1: So it's like we some weird thing happened, Like Will
Speaker 1: Farrell and el Yeah, not a huge issue. None of
Speaker 1: them are blending him. Okay, I like it. I like it.
Speaker 1: What do you got moo? I haven't been here for
Speaker 1: a couple like a couple of nice and uh, I
Speaker 1: noticed the other week you posted on Twitter. Uh, you
Speaker 1: eating string cheese, but you didn't pull like you didn't
Speaker 1: the string out right right, which for me, it's there's
Speaker 1: a few things that we can do as adults that
Speaker 1: preserve us as children. String cheese, just like biting it off,
Speaker 1: I think doesn't do that. I'm strongly with you. And
Speaker 1: it's called string cheese because you cheese string. Well, it's
Speaker 1: actually cheese. How did you what were you? How did
Speaker 1: you eat it? Well? Okay? First, first of carries? Okay,
Speaker 1: there were two issues fit with us. Okay. People took
Speaker 1: issue with the fact that I called it a cheese string.
Speaker 1: It's a cheese stick or string cheese. You don't even
Speaker 1: know it's cheese. String is what we call it in
Speaker 1: my country, Okay. Um, And I just I was in
Speaker 1: a I was driving. First off, you were parked. I
Speaker 1: was behind the wheel. Okay, I didn't know who was watching.
Speaker 1: There could have been a comp beside me. So you
Speaker 1: eat it like normal like you? Yeah? But do they
Speaker 1: when in your country? Um? Did they? Did you? Were
Speaker 1: you taught to eat it differently? I'm sorry, I don't
Speaker 1: eat food like a child anymore. Okay, I'm thirty years old.
Speaker 1: So you're saying animal crackers, you don't bite off all
Speaker 1: the limbs. And then if you think I'm still eating
Speaker 1: animal cracker, you don't break in half and like eat
Speaker 1: the like lucky charms, eat all the oats first, and
Speaker 1: then all the marshmallows are there last. You guys need
Speaker 1: to grow up and maybe well, are the children in
Speaker 1: the children's aisle the children in us glow still? Yeah? Huh,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening now. You were saying, I
Speaker 1: need to find my inner child, I need to reconnect
Speaker 1: with that. You're Peter pant Um. Guys. I'm not upset
Speaker 1: about this. I was in a rash and I was
Speaker 1: just eating a cheese string quickly. And then you try
Speaker 1: to line and say you're driving. Are you the kind
Speaker 1: of person that makes a little hula skirt out of yours?
Speaker 1: And it's like that's excessive. Something in your face helps
Speaker 1: me that I also haven't had a string cheese and
Speaker 1: a long time. Uh, guys, I have another slanderous movie
Speaker 1: movie take I saw Nope, didn't like it. Graver. We
Speaker 1: talked about this before it was shot so beautifully it is.
Speaker 1: It was like gorgeous and that was really cool. But
Speaker 1: watching it, I was just like, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on. Honestly, there's a part in the movie where
Speaker 1: see you guys know what's about aliens? Have you seen this?
Speaker 1: I have not, but it was like the next on
Speaker 1: my list, and I'm very intrigued by what you're saying.
Speaker 1: So people have been so divided on this movie. There's
Speaker 1: friends that I've talked to you that loved it. You've
Speaker 1: not seen it yet either, right, it seems a little
Speaker 1: too scary on the scary spectrum. Oh yeah, there's something
Speaker 1: that you need to know about mohun Is. He gets
Speaker 1: skilled like it was always scared us was awesome spectrum
Speaker 1: of Rosemary's Baby not one for you. What's the scariest
Speaker 1: movie you've everytheen Paranorma Activity was really scary. No, I
Speaker 1: just remember that feeling of being scared. I'm like, why
Speaker 1: would I ever want to do that? She likes hearing movies.
Speaker 1: I do, But I will say that that paranormal activity
Speaker 1: because there's a second one too, like it goes yeah
Speaker 1: kind of like it wasn't like I'm sitting there, I
Speaker 1: can't handle it. But like I have already have terrible
Speaker 1: dreams all the time, and it was definitely like feeding those,
Speaker 1: like like suddenly elements of that, we're like bleeding into
Speaker 1: the dream. So No, I had a dream this week
Speaker 1: we were getting way off base and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: football stuff. I had a dream that, Um, I went
Speaker 1: to an island with Woody Harrelson and we were dating.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it. Not good like this for like
Speaker 1: today's Woody Harrelson, not today today's Woody Harrelson. Took me
Speaker 1: to an island and Owen Wilson was there and we
Speaker 1: hung out with him. That was that was a benefit
Speaker 1: of dating Woody Harold. That's better. Um, okay, let's kick
Speaker 1: off some team, shall we. Yes, let's get to the
Speaker 1: benched bachelorette. We've got five teams to say audios to. Uh,
Speaker 1: here's who's on the list. Okay, I'll ready through the Bills, Chargers, Colts, Dolphins,
Speaker 1: the Jets. The only reason the Jets are still here
Speaker 1: is because they're Dan. Okay, and maybe we need to
Speaker 1: pay him a quick phone call. Um, Lions, Panthers, Raiders, Um,
Speaker 1: you're still looking for a team? You said, Chargers are
Speaker 1: up there? Yes, Um, how do you feel with the Bills?
Speaker 1: I always enjoyed the Bills because like they to me
Speaker 1: felt a lot like the Browns way back when, and
Speaker 1: they went through their dark times. Right now, it's a
Speaker 1: little too bandwagony for me. It feels like you're coming
Speaker 1: into the top that doesn't really feel like legit. It
Speaker 1: can only get work. I mean, let's say, you know,
Speaker 1: assuming they're gonna win a super Bowl at some point,
Speaker 1: but it probably can only get worse. Um, I agree
Speaker 1: with you. Okay, let's kick off a team. First things first,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say good bye to the Colts. Mattie Ice,
Speaker 1: thank god, right, I don't get any indianais from you,
Speaker 1: like you have to go to Indianapolis girl, winter in
Speaker 1: the Combine. It was fun nice. They all have all
Speaker 1: those cool underground tunnels, ate a lot of good food. Um.
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry. Jonathan Tylor was the only reason why
Speaker 1: this team was still in it because I like him.
Speaker 1: He's really exciting. But Mattie Ice and just I'm just
Speaker 1: not drawn to that team. Cults are nowhere near your
Speaker 1: list is the face of thing. No. I just it's
Speaker 1: too um. I it's no disrespect to their fans or
Speaker 1: then it's just too boring for me. I get, it's
Speaker 1: just the vibe. I get it's just a little why
Speaker 1: it's just all boring. Going to be there for a
Speaker 1: couple more years, right, and it's exactly um, next team
Speaker 1: to go Miami. You got I thought you liked to Uh,
Speaker 1: it's I do like to Uh. I really really like him.
Speaker 1: I think he was so smart. I think he's talented.
Speaker 1: I think he's very He's just the way that he speaks,
Speaker 1: you can tell that he's a leader. I feel like
Speaker 1: everyone in the world is putting the most pressure on
Speaker 1: him to be like Patrick Mahomes this year, like Tyree
Speaker 1: Gill's not setting him up for success. No, And so
Speaker 1: you have to think about you know this, this is
Speaker 1: a relationship that you are getting into. Can you see
Speaker 1: yourself with this team in five years? Who knows who
Speaker 1: the quarterback will be? Any quarterbacks is going to be.
Speaker 1: That's true, But like there are some teams on your list.
Speaker 1: Doesn't it feel like Rachel could probably just do this
Speaker 1: exercise again though if she's displeased with the results, you know,
Speaker 1: a candy calendar year from now. That's true, But I
Speaker 1: actually love that you're looking for a long term right
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, um, benched in Paradise is what the next year? Okay,
Speaker 1: so the Colts are gone, the Dolphins are gone. The
Speaker 1: next team to leave are the Raiders. I really like
Speaker 1: the Raiders. I hate Las Vegas. There's no way I
Speaker 1: am going to a stadium that has a club in it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be affiliated with that. I know
Speaker 1: that you loved Ard Sandstorm and that's probably your vibe,
Speaker 1: but no, in Vegas is not. Um. I love them
Speaker 1: when they were in Oakland, Like I went up and
Speaker 1: did a story in their last home game, and like
Speaker 1: their tailgate would be a reason to be a Raiders
Speaker 1: fan to begin a brutal though it was wild. But
Speaker 1: I'm with you when you're picking a mate or something
Speaker 1: like if you don't like, like you don't their stadium,
Speaker 1: is there your home and you don't like how it looks.
Speaker 1: The whole thing, the whole vibe, the whole situation where
Speaker 1: they live, the city they live in. It's good. I
Speaker 1: went to an A's game once and I was like,
Speaker 1: well that you could feel that there was like a
Speaker 1: lot of history there, but I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: feel safe being here. I feel like it's about to collapse.
Speaker 1: Uh listen. The Raiders went through so much last year.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a really tight knit team.
Speaker 1: I really love the addition of the Monday Adams. I
Speaker 1: feel like this team could really go places this year
Speaker 1: without all the drama because they did that last year
Speaker 1: with the drama. So I'm really excited about them. But
Speaker 1: they're not for me. Okay, this one's tough to do
Speaker 1: because I feel like there's a lot of excitement surrounding
Speaker 1: this team right now because they're on hard knocks. But
Speaker 1: the Lions, Wow, I'm surprised. I know, I'm surprised. I
Speaker 1: know literally in the beginning of this, when we started this,
Speaker 1: the Lions were in the top three for sure. We've
Speaker 1: talked about this like when we weren't recording. I just
Speaker 1: liked so much much about them. Dan Campbell is so fun.
Speaker 1: He's my favorite coach in the NFL, just like a
Speaker 1: child in a man's body. But there's nothing tying me
Speaker 1: to that team. I don't have any kind of ties
Speaker 1: to Detroit, and to his point, three years now, it
Speaker 1: might just be Detroit, not any not what you'd like
Speaker 1: about it. Right now. Dan Campbell could be Dan Campbell
Speaker 1: could be could be gone if they have another rough season, Like,
Speaker 1: how how long are they going to keep him on?
Speaker 1: For Jared Goff? You can't pick every time I see
Speaker 1: Goff on Hard Knocks on Link, which is like every
Speaker 1: other year. You can't pick another Hard Knocks team too,
Speaker 1: So you're right. I feel like this is too close
Speaker 1: to home. It's too close to home. Then for this
Speaker 1: next one, I want to try and make a phone call.
Speaker 1: Is that is that possible, Graver or do you think
Speaker 1: if I put it on um speaker you'll be able
Speaker 1: to hear it. We can try, but you gotta be
Speaker 1: able to hear that sounds okay? Yeah, what if he
Speaker 1: doesn't pick up, I'm gonna leave him a woicemail? What
Speaker 1: is he possibly doing at two forty five Thursday ignoring
Speaker 1: your call? But if he also doesn't have your Yes,
Speaker 1: we've texted before. I just ye, Daniel, it's Banetta. You
Speaker 1: are you are currently on the Bench with Banetta podcast
Speaker 1: with Mark Sessler. Oh my god, I have some why
Speaker 1: I have some news for you, you know, the Bench
Speaker 1: with Banetta Bachelorette that I'm doing. Yes, I am aware
Speaker 1: of it. Yes, so many former guests of the program.
Speaker 1: I do recall, so you remember in Vegas when you
Speaker 1: told me to keep the Jets around. Yes, it felt
Speaker 1: good about it, felt I felt great about the pitch.
Speaker 1: Then wavering a little bit now, but yes, if you
Speaker 1: remember that, well, I'm so sorry, my friend. Your time
Speaker 1: has come. The Jets are gone. They're die. You felt
Speaker 1: the business necessitated a call to me. I wanted to
Speaker 1: hear the page in your voice when I said that
Speaker 1: you thought it was a good idea to inflict more
Speaker 1: pain jets? Friend, Are you well? I actually really just
Speaker 1: wanted to see I wanted you to hear that I
Speaker 1: kept them this long, which is those was weeks, weeks
Speaker 1: and weeks ago months that you pitched them and they
Speaker 1: made it this far. Let me say this. Let me
Speaker 1: say this, just so you know. There's very dramatic music
Speaker 1: playing right now. Let me say this. You will regret
Speaker 1: this decision. In fact, come December, you're gonna have me
Speaker 1: on the show and there will be an apology. You're
Speaker 1: going to ask to come back to the Jets. Okay,
Speaker 1: I will. I will do that. I will agree to
Speaker 1: that if you agree to still come on the show
Speaker 1: and listen to us play this back. If things aren't
Speaker 1: going so hot in December? Oh you're looking for a
Speaker 1: double gotcha on me? Now? What is this show? Sorry, buddy,
Speaker 1: but I just wanted to leave, all right. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you letting me know and say hi to market hill toodles.
Speaker 1: I don't think that pretty well. What is he coming
Speaker 1: on to celebrate in December? I think he was saying,
Speaker 1: if the Jets are doing well, she's got it? Which
Speaker 1: is I mean? So what is he like exactly? Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco goes, you know, what are we talking about games
Speaker 1: with him? Yeah? What are we talking about here? So
Speaker 1: that means, ladies and gentlemen that the last three teams
Speaker 1: left still standing are the Buffalo Bills, the Los Angeles Chatges,
Speaker 1: and the Panthers. The Panthers, guys, I love Baker. He
Speaker 1: was a big part of the reason why I was
Speaker 1: a fan of the Browns. So you haven't don't know
Speaker 1: if he balls out. You haven't out if he left
Speaker 1: the team or were dispatched or benjan What are we
Speaker 1: what are we talking about here? I could fall in
Speaker 1: love with the rest of the team this year. I
Speaker 1: could get know everybody and then I'm in it. You know,
Speaker 1: if Baker leaves. I guess if he gets benched, that's
Speaker 1: pretty appropriate because that's the name of our podcast. Why
Speaker 1: did you have to do Listen? If things go south,
Speaker 1: there's always the Bench in Paradise next year. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: Mark Saser, thank you so much for joining the show today.
Speaker 1: This it has been so fun. Thank you to all
Speaker 1: of you. I had fun. I had a great time.
Speaker 1: Will you come back in December if the Jets are
Speaker 1: bout so that we can just sit here and make
Speaker 1: fun of Dan. Yes, that is a an old trope
Speaker 1: with Dan, and I like, I think he's worn out
Speaker 1: of things I've had to say about them, but I
Speaker 1: would because it'd be a fresh way to do it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we can like pop some champagne and he
Speaker 1: doesn't get any and we just stay here that it's
Speaker 1: just a full thirty months of laugh and now I'm sold. Okay,
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