Speaker 1: It's nasko.
Speaker 2: I'll start to it. You to present some off the
bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 4: Aber I gotta come off the pitch.
Speaker 2: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob aber.
Speaker 5: Yo.
Speaker 3: What's going on y'all?
Speaker 6: Welcome man to our number two of oh TB Massive
Weekend in the Boot this weekend over today. The box
is a few hours away, but tem minus twelve hours
until we get to the biggest event of the weekend,
and that's number one verse number two in the PMCK,
the best venue in all of college.
Speaker 3: Gymnastics, the defended national.
Speaker 6: Champion LSU Tigers taking on the Oklahoma Sooners. And we
got LSU Jim Natalis head coach Jake Clark here on
OTV to talk about it.
Speaker 3: Coach Clark, what's going on, man? How we feeling here?
Speaker 4: Match day?
Speaker 3: Meat Day?
Speaker 4: Excuse me?
Speaker 5: Well, well, I just woke up, so I'm just I
mean meat days, I get a little more sleep. I'm
usually out the door before seven am, but today I
get to uh, I get to chill a little bit
here at the house and before I go in so
it's it's a great day, man. It's gonna be exciting
for our fans, It's exciting for the sport. Anytime you
have a one versus two matchup, it's it's always uh,
it's always something that that we relish and are glad
to be able to have and host on our campus.
Speaker 6: Well and coach, y'all been dominant in the PMAC a
thirteen meet wind streak. In fact, the last home loss
was against Oklahoma.
Speaker 5: Over how long you've been in this business, you know
better than to say things like this, bro.
Speaker 6: No no no, no, no, no, no, no no, not when
you're the champ.
Speaker 3: Coach, Not when you're the champ.
Speaker 5: Y'all.
Speaker 3: Look y'all, y'all done, y'all done, gone and did it? Okay?
Speaker 6: It is what it is. We gonna let we were
gonna let the We're gonna let the fl up and
speak for itself here all rightater tonight, So what's your
what's your what's your meat day routine?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: You get a little more sleep?
Speaker 6: How do you especially because this is a late one
eight pm tonight, it's going to be on ESPN two,
how do you manage your energy levels and the team's
energy levels to be ready to go when when when
it begins.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll get together a little bit after lunch. Can
we do a little walk through in the facility in
the PMAC, can kind of go through our our mental
sets and I get them, get them off by themselves
and let them get quiet and kind of go through
things from a visualization standpoint. So much of our sport
at this stage of the game is mental, and uh
so I just try to get them as early as
possible during the day and get their mind on what
they're doing. Uh. You know, they'll go to class this
morning and then and then after that it's it's an
all day long deal. So we'll do our walkthrough, we
go back to the to our practice facility, have a
have a team lunch, and and then they begin the
process of just kind of getting ready and we'll have
a we'll have a team meeting about four fifteen. Uh
start warm ups about uh I don't know, for an
eight o'clock and eat what times? It start about about
five forty five. And and it's it's a long day.
I mean, it's it's just a it's a long day.
But the idea is to try to try to get
them early, get them a little bit drawn down, and
get them a little bit you know, start get them
thinking about what it is that they're about to do.
Speaker 7: Coach, every time that we catch up with you, you know,
you're facing a ranked squad. That's just that's what it is,
no matter when we talk to you. You're facing a
ring squad because that's what the schedule kind of looks like.
And so obviously your team's going to be ready to go.
But you also you have experience with this Oklahoma team
from January the eleventh, and so, like in our sport,
like we would go back and we would watch the
tape and try to pick up tendencies and different things.
How is it for you, like does that play into
your prep for this meet at all? Knowing that you
know this team, well, you've already faced them here in
the early portion of the season.
Speaker 5: Now we we really, I mean honestly due we cannot
get get focused on on what another team does. I mean,
as I've said to y'all before, there is no defense,
and so it's really it's really about how have we
gotten better? How what can we do to improve a
week over week? Uh and continue to you know, just
just get closer to where it is we want to
be and we and we're getting there. You know. Some
of that's a little bit about health. We're getting haily
healthier as we go. We're getting kJ healthier as we go.
But a lot of it is just about approach. It's
just about where we are mentally and and and and
uh and being able to not allow outside things to
creep in. You know. That's a big key for us,
is not to as great as this is for the
fans and and and for the sport. You know, when
these kinds of matchups happen, the reality is is that
every week we compete, we're competing against Oklahoma because of
the way our system is, and it's set up centered
around scoring and and uh and and all those those
kinds of things. So it's we you know, we we've
got to stay, you know, just really focused on our
own process, not get not get in the weeds about
who is on the floor with us on a particular night.
We know who that is, and certainly certainly the kids
know it and and uh and it's exciting and I'm
not going to deny that. But at the same time,
as far as what we do it really can't be
about that. It's just got to be about what we do.
Speaker 6: So you mentioned Haley, you mentioned kJ trying to get healthy.
We know about Aliyah, like we know about all the
returning talent that you're bringing to bear this year, but
there's been some new names that have emerged thus far.
What's been the most exciting or maybe who or whom
I'm multiple who's been the most exciting girls thus far
to kind of emerge this season and start to make
a name for themselves.
Speaker 5: Well, I think this freshman class in general is doing
is doing an amazing job. But obviously to me, caylen
Chio is has has kind of exploded onto the scene
the way that most fresh and draw it up in
their head when they signed somewhere that you know, this
is how I want it to go. Her season has
gone a lot that way, and she's been sec Freshman
of the Week four or five times now and uh
and just doing just doing a great job. She's she's
such a great competitor, a very serious minded competitor, perfectionist
at every level, and and just a joy to coach
because you know she's that kid, you know, she's got
an edge to her that that uh that you want.
It's it's a it's a little bit nasty, and that's
that's that's what coach is like. You know, it's one
thing to have a kid that works hard. It's another
thing that had a kid that competes hard and and
she's she's just she's that kid. They're all doing a
great job. And I think, you know, Khalia Lincoln will
probably do two events for us tonight. She's incredibly explosive athlete,
maybe the most explosive athlete I've ever been around in
my thirty five years of doing this. Like these ice
has been doing a great job for us. And if
we ever get Zoe's Miller healthy, you know, we'll see
great things out of her too. She's an incredibly experienced
and wonderfully talented kid. So we've got a great group
of young young kids that are contributing in so many ways.
But I think probably right now, Cheo gets most of
the headlines.
Speaker 3: Coach.
Speaker 7: We were talking with Jay Johnson the other day and
asking this question, I'd love to hear your answer you
speaking on freshmen there, when do you know if freshman
is ready or how do you know in your sport?
Because I asked him. You know, you walk into the
box and there's all these fans and can they hear us? Well,
same situation for you. I mean you walk into the
p MAC and there's thirteen thousand people there and they're screaming,
and it's one of the best environments in the sport.
Speaker 4: Like, how do you know that.
Speaker 7: They're ready to compete at that level with that pressure,
with that kind of crowd.
Speaker 5: You don't until you do it. You know. It's it's
that you can see it in practice, and and certainly
it's encouraging when you have somebody like the way that
Cheo has gone about her business, But you don't know
until they get out there, until they get into that
andronment and see exactly what they're gonna do. I mean,
it can go the opposite way too. You canna have
a kid that that's not not always great in practice,
but you give them a shot and they they're gamers
and they I think Kennedy Edney, you know a few
years back, you know, telling Dedi that you know, we
couldn't get her to perform in practice, and I finally
told Dedie, we got to let her go. Let's just
see what we get and and man does she show
up when the lights came on? So you just you
never you never really know, and so you know, I
think it's it's a little bit of a crap shoot
at the beginning, but you know, at this point, we
kind of know what we've got. I don't think Cho
is really a freshman anymore. She's she's on the all
around in every single meet because we've that's been the
necessity just from the health standpoint of our team, and
she's handled it like a like a season vet. So
I'm i'm uh, I'm thrilled with how she's doing. And
I think that the mindset is good and it really
bodes well for the future for the leadership of what
we're doing, because, like as I mentioned, she's got an
edge to her and and when I say that, it's
a positive thing. If not, she's not a barker. She
doesn't talk down to people, but she knows how to
say things in the right way in addition to doing
things in the right way, and that that's going to
be important for us in the future.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and g O claiming three more titles on the
road last weekend that went over Alabama up to nine
on the season. Already the sar you mentioned all the
Freshmen of the Week awards. Uh, So here you are
to Finny National Champs, still writing second, absolutely incredible. But
there's Oklahoma, right yeah, the the the you know, maybe
the overall greatest modern program or whatever. Like it's weird
that you could have everybody back of the team. You
could be that Ifhitney Champs and you kind of enter
this meet at home as the underdog. Uh do you
address that with your with your team at all or
do you think I mean, they're obviously cognizan cognizant of it.
Do you think they feel like like they have something
to prove tonight?
Speaker 5: You know, I guess the from what I say to them,
And no, I mean we know that that's the eight
hundred pound guerilla in the room. We know they've won
six of the last ten championships. And I think we
still have a little bit of a mentality of of
you know, we are the underdog, and you know Oklahoma,
Oklahoma took themselves out of it last year, and and
and and so, not that that diminishes anything that we've accomplished,
but at the same time, it helps us keep the
mindset of we're chasing something, and I think that's healthy
for us right now. We never we don't want to
get into the position right now of taking things for granted.
And so I don't I don't believe that it that
it really amounts to a whole heck of a lot,
because it's not part of our conversation, as I mentioned earlier.
But I do know that they know who's on the floor,
and they know they know who the gold standard has
been for the last decade, and that's not a secret
to anybody that's been following this thing. So so I
think that you know, we we we try to stay
in that Hunter mentality regardless, and certainly being number two
helps us do that well.
Speaker 3: Coach, I can't I can't wait to watch it.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately can't be there in person, but it will definitely
be on at the house ESPN two eight pm tonight.
But go pack out the PMAC. I mean, I know
the crowd is gonna be insane.
Speaker 5: Then I got tickets for you. Why are you not coming? Then?
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 6: I just my daughter's there and they get it's a
little too late for them. Damn the TV gods. But
we're gonna be back. We're gonna be back in that building, coach,
I promise you. I promise you. Also, I'm looking back.
Speaker 5: Not a very parish attitude, I know, I know true.
Speaker 3: I don't damn it.
Speaker 5: Let's get after it.
Speaker 3: Come on, I know I tried. I wanted to be
in there, but I will be. I will.
Speaker 6: I cannot wait. It's one of my most favorite live Sporty.
Speaker 5: You're never calling me again now because I call you
out on the air. Never.
Speaker 6: No, I love it, No what no, coach, I I
love it, man, absolutely. I mean, I'm trying to get we'll.
Speaker 3: Talk to you.
Speaker 5: But well, here's the thing, all your listeners, I hope
there's eighty two thousand people in the p MAC tonight.
I got that's he that's a ridiculous no. But I really,
I really hope that we you know, we set the record.
Let's let's let's standing room only this thing tonight. Let's
have a great time in there, and and uh and
and really do what Louisiana does when it comes to
these kinds of amazing matchups.
Speaker 6: Guys, it is going to be or if you've never been,
it is electric e electric.
Speaker 3: It's it's just an amazing environment.
Speaker 6: It's fast paced, quick moving, family friendly, uh even not
family friend.
Speaker 3: You and you can drink beers. It's awesome.
Speaker 6: Okay, get into the PMAC tonight. Pack it out, Coach
J Clark. Best of luck tonight, kick ass one B
two in the nation. Thank you so much, man.
Speaker 5: Thanks guys, appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 4: Thanks coach man.
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Speaker 3: What from welcome back to OTB.
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and Alex, what's up y'all? Sorry to New Orleans? God,
how many times do we hear New Orleans?
Speaker 4: Aren't you all anymore? Why aren't you all anymore?
Speaker 6: I'm like, bro, that's all all week last, way above
my pay grade. I don't know that's that's drama amongst
the suits.
Speaker 3: But uh yeah, it sucks.
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we will probably sometime soon.
Speaker 3: All right, so I want to talk to.
Speaker 6: Ell list you baseball, but we left out I think
a Key Caldmore storyline that we haven't able to address yet.
We mentioned Chase Hazlet, son of Jim Hasle, You mentioned
Herbie Moore, brother of Kellen Moore. We have not yet
mentioned on today's show Doug Nussmeyer, father of Garrett Nussmeyer.
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Are you happy you caused me to fully crash it? Okay,
I'm gonna end it here. I'm gonna end it here,
and I apologize. It's not even on you. It's this
probably comes from the fact that I've done daily radio
for twelve years, hosted a daily show Money through Friday,
and admittedly we missed the mark with the OVID of
today show, and then it got a bit defensive, and
then that turned into full controlling some other stuff that
has nothing to do with you all made me angry.
And while I entered the show in a very good mood,
you all immediately put me into an awful mood and
I took it out of it, and so for that,
I apologize for that.
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Speaker 8: I still don't think we missed the market.
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in detail on.
Speaker 4: Every show here for three weeks.
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third stories on it.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I crashed out. Okay, you freaking it made
me angry. You can't get angry in an outfit like that.
I know I was in such a good mood. I
was in such a good mood. Killed the workout of
all this morning. Valentine's donuts already lined up for the kids.
I'm just you know, I'm dressing in my Sunday's finest,
looking forward to getting some hibachi after carpool.
Speaker 4: I will say. And then I got the person who
probably sees T Bob first in the morning. Didn't say
any profane language to me this morning, did not flip
me off when he passed me. Like Dave was in
a good mood this morning. Is it a great mood?
Speaker 3: He did say.
Speaker 4: I would fill an apology, but it was it was
halfway joking, like Tim Bub was in a good mood today.
You guys did this.
Speaker 9: I put him in a bad mood. I didn't mean to.
Speaker 6: But it's okay now because I am actually really looking
forward opening day and shout out to kgnomic screw because
we gon't be at you here in a few hours.
And again all sarcasm and everything else aside. The thing
I am most excited for today is Kate Anderson slide
l native who who hunt had a great ride up
on Louisiana Sports dot net where there's a Kate Anderson
quote where he's asked about like, you know, your first
time ever going to the box, And think about this,
he grew up in such an LSU baseball family he
doesn't even remember the first time he was at the
box because he was that young.
Speaker 3: I mean, when do you start for me memories?
Speaker 6: Like said, I feel like second grade is when I
maybe have an inkling of a memory.
Speaker 3: I got nothing but before then.
Speaker 7: Yeah, around that time for sure, and they're all like
sports memory even like second grade is really really light.
Like the only thing I remember about second grade I
remember going to the Wrinkling.
Speaker 6: Brothers circus for my birthday. That might be my only
second grade memory. First grade, I ain't got nothing. Yeah
you got you got you?
Speaker 1: How I remember like before kindergarten?
Speaker 3: What but you also have what are you a mensa?
Speaker 7: Well you also have to remember like in their lifetime,
everything is documented.
Speaker 1: That's fair.
Speaker 7: Camera phones on camera phones, Yeah, that's the other thing, Like,
are also going to jar a memory for them where
I got I don't have.
Speaker 4: A lot of pictures of me as a youth, That's true,
Like a lot.
Speaker 6: Of my memory memories of me as a kid or
from like old home videos, and I didn't even have those.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I just like honestly have kind of a weirdly
really good memory.
Speaker 1: So I think I just I don't know.
Speaker 3: I engage in a lot, I've engaged a lot lot more.
Speaker 1: Hits to the head than I did.
Speaker 6: I've engaged in with a lot of chemicals in my
life hits to the head. The reasons why I don't
have a good memory could be many.
Speaker 4: I remember everything basically from preschool on. I mean, I
remember Miss Priscilla, a second Baptist in Dunham Springs, my
preschool teacher.
Speaker 7: I remember my teacher's names. I remember I get you,
I can get you, third grade mister Pugh.
Speaker 4: I remember Jared and Tristan throwing blocks in the back
of the classroom. They used to get in trouble in
preschool every day. I mean, that's just it. But really
preschool one.
Speaker 6: Actually, I have one first grade memory, and I believe
this girl's name was Lauren. But she tricked me into
letting her give me a kiss because she said she
had some sort of pog to trade me.
Speaker 3: Pog Yeah, like you remember the old.
Speaker 9: Uh POGs that used to play somewhere else.
Speaker 6: And and I don't know exactly how she did it,
but I do remember like leaning my head back and
then she gave me like a kiss in the cheek
or the forehead or something, and I was absolutely disgusted.
It's probably why I remember, because I.
Speaker 1: Was just like, oh, coodies, Yeah.
Speaker 7: This isn't a pog, what's going on here? That's what
brought you to your emo phase?
Speaker 6: Uh? No, that would have been that. That happened all
around six, righte. That's what I did sort of care
about women. Yeah. Anyway, the point of this is that
Kate Anderson was so young the first time that he
was in the box that he doesn't even remember it.
And now he is taking the mound as the Friday
night starter for the LSU.
Speaker 3: Tigers on the season over.
Speaker 6: That's pretty sick, Like that is impossible not to get
goosebumps for that man. Thinking about what that must feel like,
especially after he didn't have like a like just a
five star freshman come in dominate immediately.
Speaker 4: No, like he had to really earn his way here.
Speaker 7: I think my first time, well first time at the
box was we took BP when we were thirteen fourteen,
stayed all stars. We got a chance to hit on
the field, So that was but a game. It was
LSU versus two lane and it was early two thousands
and Michael Aubrey from my hometown from Shreveport, shout out.
I think he went College Player of the Year that year,
but he hit for.
Speaker 3: A cycle.
Speaker 7: For TWU lane, So that's definitely a core memory for me.
He had a big day that day.
Speaker 6: Side note, two Lanes Marty gart uniforms are pretty fire.
Two lanes Baseball Marti uniforms of jelse this I did.
I like the hat, They're very cool.
Speaker 4: They're very cool.
Speaker 3: Liked the hat.
Speaker 4: Somebody get us a hat for Jake.
Speaker 6: Jake has a hat collection that is unrivaled by maybe
anybody in the Southeast, and he needs that added to
the crew. But yeah, I mean, Kate Anderson, That's what
I'm most looking forward to. What are you guys most
looking forward tonight.
Speaker 7: I talked about it with Jay the other day and
it was kind of my answer when Hunt was doing
the station survey. I think there's a couple of players,
but I want to see Jake Brown. I don't feel
like it's a player that we've talked a lot about
and I really think at the end of the year
you could start to see him thrive. And I mean
we're talking about a massive recruit when you know he
decided to go to LSU, and so this is somebody
that I think can be a five tool player.
Speaker 4: We saw the power at the end of last year.
Speaker 7: And it's a little bit off the beaten path because
I know Shores is probably the answer that everybody else gave.
But I want to see, like the young outfielders last
year that you could see really start to make their
stride at the very end of the season, and some
I mean like Larson, like in the middle of the
season when they needed.
Speaker 4: Somebody to step up, like he was that guy.
Speaker 7: And so for me, it's probably those two players, uh,
the guys that were freshman last year that you could
certainly see what they were going to be and how
do they go into their sophomore year and improve off
what they did as freshmen.
Speaker 8: Elandra, I'm just excited for all of it, to be honest.
Speaker 1: Like, I know that's a Mary Jen I was getting
there okay.
Speaker 8: Whenever I answered Hunt Station survey that's the same thing
that I said. But mostly the newcomers, because as I've
said before, Jay is really good at developing players and
picking out people that they come into this program and
just get taken into another level and we're kind of
diamonds in the rough and he finds them and he
makes them into great players. So I'm excited to see
that with Daniel Dickinson and yeah, just the whole entire season.
I'm just very excited for it.
Speaker 4: Tate, what are you looking forward to most?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: How about not a player but a position group. I'm
gonna watch a catcher this week. I mean, nobody has
really separated themselves. I mean Hernandez came in, he had
a lot of hype around him.
Speaker 5: Kate.
Speaker 4: Aaron Beattie was a highly recruited guy Blaze priest through
back after spending two years at community college.
Speaker 3: Like, we know my guy wants to make it for
the Tigers.
Speaker 4: It makes me Jay like early in the year a
lot of times, like have a different catcher each day.
I mean, I really want to see And that's something
we'll look at the first three or four weeks of
the season, like which one of those guys can separate themselves,
whether it's offensively defensively, because Jay's made it work a
number of ways. Right, Sometimes we'll have a catcher where
he's like, hey, that's my guy. Other times, you know
who'll have to tinker with it a little bit based
on the matchup, offensive defense, whatever. That's That's one of
the things I like about Jay the most, how he
handles his catcher. So that's what I'm gonna be watching.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean for me, it's like, you know, you're
gonna get offensive production out of that position this year
because the Bats are bringing to bear.
Speaker 4: All the questions of catcher have to be on the
defensive side of the equation.
Speaker 6: I know teams don't run as much anymore, but when
teams want to run, will you be able to stop them?
Speaker 3: What year was it? Was it last year when you.
Speaker 4: Going to throw anybody out?
Speaker 6: Or was that like to there was some time in
the past few I can't remember where it was, just
first Okay, okay, okay, maybe all of yeah, because I
mean I guess once, yeah, we do not know the
actual lineup yet, correct, Because that's another big question to
me is who is who's going to beat lead Off?
It was something that gave him trouble for a vast
majority of last season before. Was it Braswell who eventually
you ended up landing on and winning that job and
did quite well?
Speaker 3: Is it is it him again? Is it mylam?
Speaker 6: And then as far as the lineup goes, who can
provide protection to Bear Jones? Because you know, you have
a superstar and Bear. If you are going to be
a championship team, though, you're going to have some power
behind him which is going to make teams pay if
they just want to completely try to ignore the Bear
and the you know, the bear in the room. So
will that be Daniel Dickinson, Jake you mentioned Jake Brown.
Maybe maybe he gets into that role eventually. I mean,
Pearson's always been a clutch hit or maybe not the
biggest power hitter. So maybe Hernandez Climbs will We'll wait,
We'll wait and see. But I mean those are all
elements that that I think, you know, these are going
to be our first steps in these and what you
see this week and everybody no means at all the
final answers no. But just like Obi Wan tells Luke,
you know.
Speaker 3: Easily a first steps maybe.
Speaker 4: Says into a larger world.
Speaker 6: I don't know, but either way, that's what's going down
today at two pm in the.
Speaker 3: Bush chat What are you most excited for?
Speaker 6: This is kind of crazy from Kevin Uh, he says
the old Box wasn't even a thing when next.
Speaker 3: Year's recruiting class was born.
Speaker 6: I feel like that Matt Damon saving Private Ryan Gift,
I just aged twenty years opened.
Speaker 7: Wait uh yeah, because it was the first year of
the NATTI. Yeah, my entire career, we had the old Box.
Yeah when I was playing.
Speaker 4: Okay, so yeah, you're like pretty much mine.
Speaker 6: It was all the new Box, which is a big
deal at the time, only maybe get passed up in
some ways a bit. But yeah, that's wow. Can we
still call it the new box?
Speaker 4: River Bridge? With that new Bridge, I know.
Speaker 6: This thing's about to be eighteen years old, this thing's
about to be able to legally buy tobacco products.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we can still call it the
new Box.
Speaker 6: That box got a little dusty boat.
Speaker 4: Eve though.
Speaker 6: I was talking to tailor the other day and he
would not shut up about seventeen year old box. It
was like, what are you talking about right now? I mean,
I think you're gonna in trouble. Come to find out
he was talking about Alick Box the entire Yeah, yeah,
it's crazy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Look, sometimes you gotta worry about toysa. I know,
I know, I know, shout out to you. You go
into the box today.
Speaker 3: I am not.
Speaker 4: It's we got we got a little early Valentine's a dinner.
But hopefully I'll be their Sunday.
Speaker 7: You know, this man's gonna celebrate every single holiday as
he should. They do not yet have children, and so
they have the freedom to go and do as they please.
Speaker 3: Well, it's it's true. You can't buy tobacco products till
twenty one.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 9: I have no idea.
Speaker 6: I better not be able to die for my country
and not buy a zin. That's sanity, I think.
Speaker 1: In Louisiana, that's what it is.
Speaker 3: That's insanity.
Speaker 9: It used to be eighteen, right, I think, yes, it's
always been a teen.
Speaker 3: He used to clown Alabama for being.
Speaker 4: Nineteen still eighteen and then like a big tobacco like that.
Speaker 1: You used to have to use a fake to buy swishers.
Speaker 4: That's sweet.
Speaker 6: That's so crazy, dude, that'll make no sense to me.
Uh whatever, that's that's my book.
Speaker 1: So old box or new box.
Speaker 7: I like old box. There's something to be said for
twenty one to buy tobacco products.
Speaker 1: And the lottery.
Speaker 6: But there's somebody to be said for knowing a place, intimately,
knowing all the contours and the nooks and crannies and
what the best views are, the best sites, the best sounds.
Like everybody thinks you want the new flashyt thing, even
though again the new box is the gold box now.
But like when you really know it through and through,
that's when you achieve self actualization. Yeah, that's when you
really achieve happiness, satisfaction, contentment. There it is, that's the word.
I was like word contentment.
Speaker 3: On this Valentine's Day, Maybe all be content with both
the new and old boxes in our lives. We're back, baby,
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Off the Bench with Esther and t Bob.
Speaker 10: I was stupid, I was polish. I was like, I
could not that would ever be with never imagine a question?
Speaker 3: Why is her wax gross? To you?
Speaker 4: Your wax is gross? Why is gross the colors gross?
I mean you think the human ears gross? Why are
boogers gross? Te Bob, I don't know, I mean, why
does anything gross?
Speaker 6: Boogers are gross? Because I saw my guy Austin in
second grade. He didn't know I was watching him, and
he took the biggest booger out of his nose I've
ever seen in my life, and he just placed that
thing on his tongue and he might do that. I
was like, like, what what speaking of? I was probably
like fourth or fifth grade now that I really think
about it. But I'll never forget.
Speaker 3: I mean I can.
Speaker 4: That's that's worse.
Speaker 6: I can see the size of the booger still on
his pointer fingers. It covered up the entire top nock
insane and he's stuck.
Speaker 3: I don't find your actually that gross.
Speaker 4: Though, I think it's it's you wanna.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna really embarrass my wife here. Oh it's going
be mad at me, book, because it's probably gonna get
back to her. But was so back in high school
as you know, we're experimenting and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh no, I don't like where this
is going.
Speaker 4: I do you have to finish this?
Speaker 3: She used to make out my ear all the time.
Speaker 4: Okay, I thought you were going to say something way worse.
Speaker 3: But I mean, like, like, really, get in that thing.
Y'all ever had your ear lick?
Speaker 4: Uh? Anybody ever had their ear lick?
Speaker 3: Intimately?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: Okay, not my dogs.
Speaker 3: I had a dog growing.
Speaker 4: I'll probably once, but not intimately.
Speaker 6: It's interesting you got you got a surprising amount of
nerve endings in your ear.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll say that the next question. How was it?
That's what I'm saying it was. It was great.
Speaker 3: I think now though, to y'all's point in the earwax,
that sounds a little crazy. I don't know if i'd
feel comfortable with that.
Speaker 6: They got a look at these headphones every day and
see the ear wax in them, like you should?
Speaker 3: Maybe you were tip every day?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 7: I just have a lot of ear wax, like I
clean my ears every day. No, I never used after
every shower.
Speaker 3: Oh really you know me? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, no, no, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't you tip scare me.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 6: My wife likes to cut tip my ears, and I
swear she's gonna burst my ear drum every time.
Speaker 3: Do you all use yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, y'all use youtubs regularly? Do I use them
every day?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: But probably three three times a week. Probably every other
day I hit.
Speaker 1: I hit my ears with the Q tip like after
every time I get.
Speaker 3: Out the show me too, Yeah I do.
Speaker 6: I do every other day typically, Avo says, licking ears
like the samest thing we do.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, dude, I remember a girl junior high.
Speaker 6: Uh told me to close my eyes and started licking
my eyeballs through my eyelids.
Speaker 3: That that was pretty crazy.
Speaker 4: That's weird. How was that that?
Speaker 6: It felt surprisingly good as well? But then again, it's
probably just like you know.
Speaker 4: You were in junior high and anything felt good. Yeah, yeah, gotcha, ye.
Speaker 7: Joey said, Jake's getting more pretty than gritty. No I am,
but I am very clean freak. Yeah, not the prettiness
of it. Jake's got it, you know, I got I
got too much. You gotta surprise you got you have
a How do how do I frame this? It doesn't
take away from your grit, But there's a lot of
print in there. There's a lot of you have a
very distinct style. Whenever you go on work trips, you
have very well thought out outfits. You Like you said,
you are fastidious. So it's a great word, it is
so yeah, I mean you use Q tips after every shower.
Speaker 4: Ye have a clean freak. Yeah, Jake's credit.
Speaker 3: I mean you you won't even use a public toilet, no,
not to sit on it.
Speaker 4: Jake, Jake's big on grit. He can answer this better
than me. I always looked at grit, not what you're wearing,
what you look like. I looked at grit is like
a mentality, not necessarily like how you dress, what you do,
like Grit's of mentality.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no again I said it didn't take
away from the grid, but I think many would be
surprised the amount of pretty that is that is in
there as well.
Speaker 7: Uh, you know what I watched yesterday, you know, real
quick before we move on so serious ex input out
like Valentine's cards, like you know, for every show like
and then.
Speaker 4: They're saying and.
Speaker 7: Gosh, Danny Canell's was something like, I think of you
as the SEC because I'm never not thinking about you
like that was Canal's and so like every kind of
show got one where I'm like, okay, well I wanted
what off Campus got.
Speaker 3: They probably EJ.
Speaker 7: I mean, of course I look at EJ and it
says you're gritty and pretty, and I was like, oh,
it's gonna be me or EJ. No, it took Marcus Freeman.
Put Marcus Freeman on there. It's very sweet. Just left us.
Speaker 3: No EJ.
Speaker 4: No, Hess, I.
Speaker 3: Don't get no, it's just too it's to y'all from Freeman.
Speaker 4: Right. Well, every show look as you see like has.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, Danny, are you the SEC because I can't
stop thinking, okay, I mean that's really right, and I'm like, well, look,
if I'm going to get replaced, I guess Marcus Freeman
does kind of fit the category.
Speaker 4: And he did really like the saying.
Speaker 9: When I said it during the National Championship.
Speaker 6: He loved it that I thought you were saying that
they made that card like from Freeman too.
Speaker 9: No, No, they're passing it out as if they are Freeman.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, I guess pretty end gritty. I get it's quarterback.
He doesn't get to say that. E J doesn't get
say too gritty, be pretty. It is the quarterback. Quarterbacks
can't just full stop camp. Uh No, you can be
a badass, you know.
Speaker 6: Jerry Glanville said Cannon was tougher than a waffle house steak,
but he's still a quarterback at the end of the day.
Speaker 4: Quarterbacks can't be gritty, is what you're saying. They they
can be gritty. They can be gritty.
Speaker 6: They can't be too gritty to be pretty though, because
they are too pretty and they're still getting the glory.
Speaker 5: Bro.
Speaker 6: They don't even get hit during practice. Come on, now,
they don't even get hit during practice from the time
they're what ten years old on?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like get hit.
Speaker 7: Saban opened up JaMarcus and Flynn one time, but that
was about it and.
Speaker 3: What it lasts for one one one period?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, No, grittiest quarterback of all time.
Speaker 6: I mean, look again, I I will I will say, uh,
the Cannon.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: But outside of that, I'm gonna go with John Lynch
played quarterback at Stanford. That's pretty good. I mean, that's
gonna be tough to be one of the hardest safeties
in the league.
Speaker 9: Yeah, John Lynch, I don't know that I can beat that.
Speaker 4: At honestly.
Speaker 6: Now NFL quarterback Stabler gotta be up there. Brett far
like find me the new age one that applies. So
I'm kind of leaning towards your boy.
Speaker 4: I didn't want to say it because you'd be like.
Speaker 3: But Baker.
Speaker 6: Does Baker have the most great Johnny starting quarterback. He's
obviously one of the boys. And Josh Allen's got a
lot too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, true Cam was when he played true that that's
pretty reason. Yeah Cam couldn't buy a call that man
took shot cam Cam was up there. But yeah, now Baker,
Josh Allen one.
Speaker 3: Who was putting his life on the lines.
Speaker 6: No I know, but he but he is literally like
one concussion away from death. Every time he's like belly Bob,
it just comes to Yeah. So I think Alan and
Baker probably the leaders in the clubhouse.
Speaker 4: Pretty damn pretty.
Speaker 6: But he's also very pretty. Yeah, he's beautiful. He's much
better looking to both.
Speaker 4: Baker also very pretty.
Speaker 8: But like I feel like Joe's pretty gritty and I'm
just saying that.
Speaker 4: He is gritty, but he's way too pretty.
Speaker 1: He's very pretty.
Speaker 4: He was also like the Bengals are getting him killed,
so they make him run a little bit less like
it's not his fault. Like probably a little bit more
gritty or here at L s U. But again that's
his fault.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 9: College quarterback Riley Leonard.
Speaker 4: Yeahfully exuberant grit.
Speaker 3: You know, it looks like I thought.
Speaker 7: He was going to die after the eighteen like and
I actually toss him Like I was talking off the
record with Den Brock at the Senior Bowl and like
he was like, yeah, I might have gone a step
too far in that opening drive with him, I was like, look,
you scored, yeah yeah, but I mean you put together,
you know, regardless of the rest of the game win.
Speaker 6: That was one of the most legendary zone may drives
I've ever seen in a college football game. Full stop, he.
Speaker 4: Don't he don't have the numbers is Riley Leonard. But
Diego Pobby is gritty as well. He is is a
hard nose runner. Man. I love the way Diego POBBYA
plays football.
Speaker 8: I said it earlier, but like Haynes King really impressed
me in that Georgia game.
Speaker 6: He was giving yeah, yes, yes, yes, one of the
all time grip performed.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean.
Speaker 6: Again, if this was in ga A football is his
wear and tear was all red.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like could he even walk? The next day?
Speaker 6: It was what I was like, God, why did Georgia
Tech win that game? Dude, They're never I don't think
they're ever going to be there again.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong, but damn.
Speaker 7: God, that that was like the grit ball between Vanderbilt
and Georgia Tech bole season.
Speaker 3: Van I was talking about Georgia. I wanted Georgia to
beat Georgia.
Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you're talking about I'm saying,
like we're talking about these quarterbacks. They played each other
in bowl season. It was like, I'm in Drago style.
Speaker 8: If you don't beat Vanderbilt test LSU, Yeah, go Tigers.
Speaker 6: They did and Oklahoma Yeah, sorry about it. Bama, I think.
Speaker 4: And both beat Bama because.
Speaker 3: We won all the common opponents.
Speaker 7: Yeah no, I know, yeah, I know so many people
that are mad probably won't see it again because old
people yelling at the clouds. I don't think the alternate
uniforms will be in abundance this next year.
Speaker 9: Really, Yeah, that's what I've heard.
Speaker 4: Comment says. The disrespect to Taysom Hill is real. Right now, we're.
Speaker 3: Talking about current get out of here, all right, let's
go to break. Let me get back.
Speaker 6: Close that out too, off the bench. Yes, and Ronnie
Locke getting his finger amputated is the most pretty thing,
oh yeah in football history.
Speaker 4: Take it off.
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Speaker 1: It's what wait this is hold on, just come back.
Speaker 3: I don't know what going on.
Speaker 7: Sorry, was just excited given up dates.
Speaker 4: The problem is nobody trusts me with the clock. I'm
not looking at the clock. A Landra played the hour rejoined,
so I'm like, okay, it's nine am, let's go, and
I stopped. I'm like it's eight fifty two. So you
thought it was me? And then I looked at the
clock had just stopped, and I was like no, no, no, no, no,
this is we're early thought.
Speaker 6: I was like, doc, yeah, Henry walked in here with
our So next hour we're kicking a note. Rich Champagne
is today we got to talk about rivers a little
bit here because we get back.
Speaker 3: From Super Bowl week. Ain't been in the office all week,
disappears quote sick, and now she's going to start for
today for many weekend.
Speaker 7: Major questions, five days of work, major questions, going to
be in the dude all week in for baseball.
Speaker 3: Well, she's claiming that she's doing all the uploading and.
Speaker 6: Editing from Louisiana Sports on it from home, and you know,
technically they have.
Speaker 3: Been uploading a lot of great stuff. But I got questions.
Speaker 4: I thought she was sick.
Speaker 3: She well, she has been sick a week long.
Speaker 4: She's got better for the weekend series.
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
Speaker 7: It's amazing that the opening day drip, that you're getting
those ivs.
Speaker 4: It's just magical.
Speaker 1: It's see right, real quick.
Speaker 7: I mean, if anybody can have a steroid shot, it's baseball, right.
Speaker 6: But jokes on her because I mentioned doctor barm here
and we're going to open next hour, uh doing, We're
going to figure out our our our natural how do
I say this? What we naturally crave in our wines.
Doc has created a a thing called a Veno Taster,
and basically it is a it is a kit where
we well, we'll go through it.
Speaker 3: I've never done them for I'm excited.
Speaker 6: But by the end of it, we should have an
idea of what to look for, what we enjoy, and
what to look for when.
Speaker 1: You're can I do it too?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, we got enough, That's what I'm saying.
Right now, you can feel more confident already.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 7: So jokes bottle on the way home, do you want
to go to.
Speaker 3: But you miss out on the Vino test.
Speaker 1: Yeah, stop by rouses hell.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So okay, that's gonna be next hour, a lot
of Shenanigans. Maybe we'll touch on uh, maybe we'll even
touch on baseball some more again now that we're done trolling, y'all.
Or maybe we'll just play more Kellen Moore.
Speaker 3: So no, I'm just kidding. We're not gonna do that.
Speaker 6: Maybe, and I won't miss I won't mention that Chase
has its Jim's hazlet son is he anymore?
Speaker 1: Wait? Did you know Kellen Moore has a brother? He's
the O at Missouri.
Speaker 6: I think it's not less Doug and Garrett Smyer. Yeah,
a lot of connection. Yeah what about Brandon Sale and
Deuce Daley? Nobody ever talks about that one ever? Uh?
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