Speaker 1: Let's all start to what you want to presents. Off
the Bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, off the.
Speaker 1: Bench with Jacob Hester and C Bob Amer Come now
here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: Yo, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Y'all?
Speaker 3: Welcome man our number three of O T B.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of four five ESPN and uh, well, this
will likely be an hour three that that you will
remember as there is some big news to get to
and it's felt like the show has been a little
weird today or maybe even weird as of late. If
you if you, if you thought that, I don't think
your instincts are are totally off. I'll go ahead and
just go ahead and say it here This Friday will
be my last show here on Off the Bench. I
know it's all very sudden, but that is what is
uh happened here. So I have been I have been
offered a job at Barstool Sports in the Chicago office,
and I'm very grateful to Dave and Dan for the
incredible opportunity and I'm going to chase it bringing my
family up to Chicago. I mean, there's plenty of time
we talked about that. But but first I want you
to talk about here and this team and what this
place has meant to me. And I wrote about it
in an article that'll be up on Louisiana Sports dot
Net here in a little bit. But it's really impossible
for me to say what Louisiana has meant to be.
But I want to start by talking about the people
in these room, Jake Elandra Taylor, because.
Speaker 3: I love you, guys, and.
Speaker 2: I truly believe, and I love all the weird, wonderful
iterations of off the bench and everything we've had here
over the years. I mean, I guess I started this
back in or not started this. I joined right It
was Claude and the Prince. Just show you how funny
life is. Coach O gets the job. Derek Panamski goes
with him as his right hand chief of staff, which
is just crazy to think about somebody jumping straight from
this seat to suddenly the right hand of LSU football.
And at that point, Jordy and the team over here,
you know, offered me a chance through the morning journal
was doing nights on WBL, and WBL gave me a
great start and it was a chance. They didn't deserve,
and I was very thankful, but I really wanted to
get out of nights. I wanted to start a family,
and so I cannot thank Jordy and Guarantee enough for
bringing me in at that time.
Speaker 3: And it was a rough beginning. I've told the stories.
Speaker 2: We mentioned it earlier today, crying in the closet, surrounded
by the smell of cat urine because nobody liked my jokes.
To be fair, I was out of pocket, you know.
I had to refine my own techniques and we had
to learn one another.
Speaker 3: But we did and things were good.
Speaker 2: And then Rivers came on, and I'm very grateful to
her for being one of my best friends as well
as you know, such a key contribute to the show
for so many years as well.
Speaker 3: And then Jordi got fired out of nowhere.
Speaker 2: One day, and it was intense. It was very scary.
It was during COVID, which is already annoying in a
lot of ways, and all of a sudden, I felt
very much alone, very much on an island, and I
had no idea what the show was going to do next.
And that was when Jake stepped up to the plate
and really rescued me. In a lot of ways, because
I mean, yeah, sure there were plenty of cophostops. We
could have made some stuff work, but the show would
have never been as good had Jake not agreed to
change up his entire life and his entire schedule income
work mornings with me here on OTB. And he graciously
allowed me to do this side of the equation, of
the hosting equation, even though he hosts a national show
every single day. And yeah again, just Jake, you really
saved me in a uh in a in a in
a tough spot there, and it took this show to
the next level, all the way to seventh the seventh
best mid market local morning sports talk show in the
entire country. And all the wonderful producers that we've had
through the years, I mean, it's been a a plethora
of faces started like James Harrelson back in the day,
chest Hair remember him. That's a blast from the past.
Musso spent some time here, of course, Nathan was great
for so long.
Speaker 3: Nathan and Rivers a.
Speaker 2: Very fun team there, Danny really excellent member of the
squad for a while there. Sammy Flavors sitting in that
chair for a bit as well, so much fun. And
then eventually we got to Tailor in the Lander, and
this is where all this gets really complicated and weird.
Is I truly believe that this is the best that
the show has ever been. And in Tailor and Laundry,
you have two people that really give a damn and
work their ass off and are very talented on air,
And so it bums me out to be It's it's
kind of a ironic and in some ways cruel twist
of fate that would happen here when I feel like
the show's finally achieving its peak potential in some ways.
But you know, the road goes ever on and on
right and where will go? I can't not say. I
just know where it's it's it's going.
Speaker 3: Next.
Speaker 2: And again I'm I'm it's weird because like I I
and again I wrote about this. I think that's probably
the best way if you wonder how I actually feel
about all this is to go to Louisiana Sports and
I'll be up in a little bit because I'm just
gonna be fumbled over my words. I didn't want to
write this. I just wanted to speak this from the heart.
But uh, I think the thing that I am feeling
most is overwhelmed, Like I feel all of the feelings,
and I feel them in the extreme. I am sad,
I am happy, I am nervous, I am excited, I'm scared,
I'm confident. But the thing I'm most am is is grateful.
Like I said, for the for the opportunities that were
given to me by so many employers through the years.
Speaker 3: I'm grateful for the.
Speaker 2: People in this room, and I'm so grateful to all
of you listening out there and uh who have spent
time with us here in the morning through the years.
I know, like you know, we live in the age
of the street. There's so many different entertainment options, so
many different things you could be doing in the morning,
and yet you decide to sit here and hang out
with us every morning, have fun.
Speaker 3: And I do not take that lightly.
Speaker 2: And that means a lot to me and all the
wonderful advertisers that have been with us through the years,
through thick and thin. They said, shout out Central Plumbing
goes all the way back to the Kalada and the
Prince days. All Star, I've been on here for years,
and even the new guys, anybody who chose Stars and
chosen to throw their lot in with us. I do
not take any of this lightly, and I'm very very
grateful to all of you. And I'm also very grateful
to Dave and Dan for bringing me in and giving
me this opportunity. And like I said, I'm going to
try to make the most out of it, but I'm
going to miss this place terribly. Man, I'm going to
miss this place terribly. It's where I grew up. Came
here at eighteen years old to play football.
Speaker 3: What else you little?
Speaker 2: Did I know that eighteen years later i'd have three kids.
Speaker 3: I absolutely adore you High.
Speaker 2: One of the saddest parts of leaving is leaving that behind.
I'm just very very grateful, And I would say this, guys,
it's going to be different, but it always is, but
the same way that, like I said when Jeordie left,
like look, it's not going to be the show that
it was, but it will be something new and it
will be something good. It's that exact same situation. And
if I've had one request, it would be this. It
is really hard.
Speaker 3: To do this.
Speaker 2: Job when something like this happens. It's a very vulnerable job.
You are putting yourself out there as a creator and
having it judged in real time by people, and as
you're figuring out new chemistries and new things and new
operating procedures and just how everybody fits. It's incredibly disheartening
when people are just in your mentions or in the
chat just saying mean things. Again, I don't want anybody
else to feel so overwhelmed that they're in the closet
crying on their birthday.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Granted, I think that made me stronger, right, and it
definitely hasn't nerd me to this sort of stuff in
the future. And that's probably gonna be good because I'm
going to hear it at barstool. The gaze of the
Internet is going to be talking crap. So it is
what it is, like, I don't care anymore, but I
guess I just I'm just really begging you to when
you do come, just be positive. Just be positive, because
it's gonna be awesome. The team's gonna remain and it's
gonna be great. And yeah, I'm just so grateful, so
grateful for all of you. I love you all very.
Speaker 5: Much and we're incredibly grateful for you.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It's it's one of those deals where you know, we never,
like none of us feel like every felt like we're
going to work, wake up every morning, get a chance
to come here or hang out, you know, just four
friends in here talking sometimes sports, sometimes different things. And
we we've you know, created something that I think is
pretty special. I think we all hate that it's that
part in that portion of it is certainly going away.
It's not like we're not going to talk. We're gonna
bug you all the time, but you know, we we
have something special here and it's something that I don't
want to go away, Like I always want to remember
the times that we had here going on like five years.
But more than anything, and I think Alandra and Taylor
and certainly I know you are going to speak to
We're happy for t Bob. We're out of t Bob.
T Bob deserves this opportunity. T Bob is one of
the most talented people I've ever been around, one of
the smartest people in this certain profession that I've ever
been around, but just.
Speaker 6: In general, one of the smartest people I've been around.
Speaker 5: I tell T Bob this all the time, but I
tell people this when T Bob's not around.
Speaker 3: T Bob's one of one, And I.
Speaker 5: Mean that's the biggest compliment that I can give anybody.
T Bob is going to be the same person here
in front of us and to you that he would
be in front of the Pope and not the new
pope who's got New Orleans size. But like any pope, right,
T Bob would be that person. He's genuine. You get
T Bob. You don't get something fake, You get something
that is always real. Barstool is incredibly lucky. But again,
like you deserve to be on that stage. We've got
a great platform here in a great stage we do,
and we've worked hard to get to number seven mid
market sports show and all of that, but you deserve
to be on Barstools.
Speaker 6: I can't wait for the content.
Speaker 5: I can't wait until we cool call you seven times
in a row to try to get you on the
show and you answer and no telling what you did
the night before, but we get a full recap of
what you did the night before. So sad that I
won't see my guy every single day in here, because
like I said, it just it never felt like work.
It felt like hanging out with your boy but more
than anything. And we'll get to what we're doing here
later on.
Speaker 6: This isn't about that. It's about T Bob right now.
Speaker 5: I'm incredibly happy for you because I've told you this
for a long time. You deserve something like this, and
you're gonna crush it. You're going to blow up at
barstool like you should. Just don't forget to always pick
LSU when you're there doing your your pick them segments.
Speaker 6: Don't forget take out for us.
Speaker 2: I yeah, man, you know, as I was writing the
kind of goodbye article or maybe see you later hopefully
it's more appropriate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my wife really just.
Speaker 2: Really reminded me of just like I don't know, it's crazy, man,
it's crazy to think, and it's something that people probably
don't understand outside looking in, but almost like commit like
your entire life being defined by a school. And I
think it's something that maybe other people can look down
on or kind of be a bit judgmental of. Uh,
but it's like the feeling of like living in a
small town next to your parents, right, it's a good thing.
It's a good feeling, and it's it's so I mean,
it's crazy. I'm just thinking about everything, like playing in
the stadium that my Grandpa used to live fifty years before,
and then getting to bring my daughters to that stadium
on like a tour, and you high getting to bring
them to football games.
Speaker 3: Get it. Continue to do that. I'll always be with
the Tigers and it will all always be F Alabama
and F Murphy Salm and Jody always and forever.
Speaker 6: Use your platform to let everybody know that we're the
better morning show.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I don't know if they have Murphy Salmon Jody in Chicago,
probably not.
Speaker 3: Probably do something freaking Taylor. This is the part where
you have to say something nice about me? You do
You have to say something nice?
Speaker 4: Something nice?
Speaker 3: Yes, ah, Man, I don't know we have that kind
of time.
Speaker 4: No, seriously, though, you know I try to come to
work and be the same person every day. But I
mean I deal with self doubt like everybody else. I
have come to you on multiple occasions. We have had
long talks just me and you, and you have never
one time.
Speaker 3: Steered me wrong.
Speaker 4: And I appreciate that You've been a mentor or a brother,
a co co host, co worker, everything I can ask for.
Speaker 3: Man, it's very.
Speaker 2: Kind, Thank you, and uh, I mean I mean it
like Elandra tod and I told you this Alandra the
other day. I think we texted about it, because having
these conversations in person can be very tough. But I
really really believe in you two, like I really really do.
And I was texting Brittany the same thing yesterday to
you know, keep kicking ass of you and take care
of you and everything, because like, y'all are going to
be great, and who knows, maybe the futures here maybe
tells her it doesn't matter. But but y'all, y'all care,
and you're talented and you care and that's so incredibly
where and you work hard.
Speaker 3: You work so hard. I'm sorry I never gave you
your dear to launch a segment launch it.
Speaker 2: So I guess, I mean, this is weird. I don't
know a Landro do you want to say? I didn't
want to feel like I'm skipping over you, But I
don't know if you want to say anything right now,
Like I know this is all very overwhelming.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I can Yeah, yeah, it's all good,
it's all good. It's all good.
Speaker 2: So I think here's here's what this is going to
be because this is a bit weird, Like this is
part of the reason why we kind of wrestled with
wind to announce this we're gonna do at the Indish today,
But then like I couldn't get it across the I
don't know, it was just weighing so heavily on me.
I feel like you needed to dive into it. But
these next two days, we're going to have a lot
of fun and we'll reminiss I'll probably force you all
to listen to some song of Purple and Gold one
more time, at least some sort of highlight package there
something or another. We can count down our favorite memories
and whatnot. We'll have a final Champagne Shenanigans on Friday,
and we'll have some fun with it again. I just
want you know, look, Louisiana is the place of my birth,
my children's birthplace that I was ridge place where I
will be buried eventually. But like I said, for now,
my road is going somewhere else for a bit. And
I'm and I'm grateful to everybody because again I didn't
I didn't like like, and I'm not I don't want
anybody say anything because I am not fishing for compliments
or anything like that here. I am just acknowledging the
privilege that I had over others. Like when I first
got my job at WWL, I did not deserve to
have my own morning show on three WL.
Speaker 3: I had no experience.
Speaker 2: I was doing Monday and Thursday nights here with Geordie
for two hours, four hours of radio week and all
of a sudden, I was given a three hour morning
show every single.
Speaker 3: Day, and it sounded like it. It was awful.
Speaker 2: But because I got that opportunity, it was able to
kickstart me and I've tried to make the most of it.
Speaker 3: But again, I'm just so.
Speaker 2: Grateful to God, to the people that were, you know,
made the actual decisions that I was given that opportunity,
because I really cannot imagine doing anything else at this point.
Like that is maybe the best thing that I could
ever say about this job, and how thankful I am
every single day to be in this seat. Is I've
had one day in my career in which I, uh
just absolutely did not want to come to work, hated it,
did not want to go, just did not feel like
doing the show, had nothing for it, actually hated, And
it was after Jordi got fired. It was in that
interim period and That's why when I talk about Jake
you saving me, I'm not exaggerating there Again, that was
the lowest point. That was the only time which I
was really out, and then you came on board and
everything clicked into place, and then we added Taylor and
Landri eventually and it was really taking off.
Speaker 3: So very grateful for.
Speaker 2: Everybody and everything. Now I think we just gotta, you know,
do the impossible pivot, just keep it moving, get some
comments in chat, maybe go down memory lane a bit.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, we can see.
Speaker 6: I want to go down memory lane. Uh, it would
have taken away from the moment, so I didn't do it.
Speaker 3: But when you told us, I wanted to be like.
Speaker 2: What Moscota had a bit where he wanted to fake
fire me and just show up at barstool, which again objectively,
would have been very very funny. But I have to,
you know, I we again, I want to spend these
last couple of days with the audience hanging out, because
that like, that's the craziest part about this.
Speaker 3: Is nowadays.
Speaker 2: At the beginning, when I was doing radio, even though
we had a text line, a lot of times it
felt like kind of speaking into the ether. And it
still does in some ways. And so again, huge thank
you to everybody who's ever stopped us in public and
said anything positive, because it's so validating and it's so
encouraging and it makes you feel so good.
Speaker 3: Like it just does. You can call it.
Speaker 2: Selfish, ego boost, whatever, it just makes you feel good.
So I do think everybody takes that time. But what's
crazy is because of this YouTube chat or the Huddle
what it was originally like, there are people that I
hang out with every single day, and I've met many
of them in person, and so I know them, but
I really know them just from hanging out online, and
they make me laugh so hard. All the characters in
the chat. I mean, Nookie's been here since the Huddle yep,
says Brian Burgess. The Daniels always cracking me up, Scott
Dice cracking me up. And I feel bad because there's
so many like Quillis has been here since the Huddle,
like Champ Champ's been here forever.
Speaker 3: I mean, the list goes on and on on and on.
Speaker 2: I don't want anybody feel about I'm sorry if if
I didn't mention you, because I could sit here and
just do an entire segment mentioning mentioning Huddler's names uh
and or YouTube chatters names that I feel like I've
got to know through the years. But it is not
lost to me that y'all stuck around through all the
commercials and hung out with us every single morning, and
how much fun it's been and how much juice and
energy you give us to try to make this.
Speaker 3: Show good and try to make the show funny.
Speaker 2: And that's really been the goal this entire time, is
just to to have fun.
Speaker 3: Yep, you're on your way to work. It's the ol
Blink within eighty two song.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 2: Work sucks, I know, So if we can make you
laugh a little bit on your way to work, that
is all we have ever tried to do. And maybe
throw a little leftist propaganda in there every now and then.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I've gone very long here.
Speaker 2: Let's go to break and then when we get back,
i'll see what I've not opened up the YouTube channel yet,
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome in to the best morning sports This show
around Off the Bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there it is the Viking.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's so crazy, dude, Joey Leblan's been here forever,
mister Pig, Greg lamont Avo, Marzawanian, another guy who used
to watch the post show show show that about ten
people watch on Facebook every day. That God, I know
there's probably still audio out there that's going to get
me fired from barstool one day.
Speaker 3: Um, don't tell people.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, you don't have to go far. It's
like Rome yesterday was texting me about like, oh so
I taught Jim Rome about docking.
Speaker 3: Oh all right, yeah heah, he's a change man the
same air and so no, no, not on air.
Speaker 2: So he made a docking joke to his son, and
his sons are like, whoa pop, how do you know that?
But you know they're kind of they're laugh b the way.
But he called me to tell me the story on
the phone because he didn't want to tell on the
mic because he's worried. He's like, you never know.
Speaker 3: And I was like, Jim, I got a lot of
bad tape out there.
Speaker 2: You know, like if anybody, if anybody wants to go,
if anybody wants to go search it ain't hard to find,
you know, so it just hard.
Speaker 3: Know, it just kind of is what it is.
Speaker 2: I'll hope that I can just kind of clown and
gesture my way out of it. If anybody tries to
cancel me, I'd say the next coast is big shoes
to fill. But we all it doesn't take much. It
decize twelve Daniel. Okay again, shut, that was good. That
was good.
Speaker 3: Make it it's great again. He's been in here forever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, T Bob actually did this feel the incredibly
right way you.
Speaker 3: Told me a long time ago.
Speaker 6: It's been a long process, a long process that we've.
Speaker 5: Kind of had harbor in and not go out there
and share. But I'm very thankful because Bob just didn't
just do this like Monday. So we have a plan. Yeah,
there's already a lot of things going on. You'll find
that plan out on Friday, what the plan is with
the show moving forward. But this was not unexpected, Like
I said, very gracious to T Bob immediately.
Speaker 6: As soon as he knew, I knew. And we've got
what we think is going to be a good plan
in place.
Speaker 3: I think so too. I think it's gonna be great planning.
I think you're all gonna known about this? Yeah, uh no.
Speaker 2: I I think Jake was the first person that I
told that this was potentially going to happen, and then
I would say, YouTube were the uh where the next two.
Speaker 3: Maybe outside of my uh of my wife. Again, it's
it's it's, it's it's, it's, it's it is.
Speaker 2: It is honestly the most bittersweet experience of my entire life,
because I am excited and I'm very grateful for the
opportunity that I'm being given, and I'm going to attack
it and I'm going to.
Speaker 3: Work my ass off.
Speaker 2: Like I may fail, but I'm not going to fail
because of lack of tribe. Like I'm gonna leave it
all on the field. And you know what, maybe I
get Jason Tatum. You know, maybe I catching achilles. But
I was thinking about Tatum yesterday. The whole reason why
his achilles popped is because he was pushing it to
the limit. Yeah, playoffs kicking ass forty plus, Like the
man went out on his shield.
Speaker 3: Say whatever else you want. And so I'm gonna try
to pop my I hope I don't pop my killers.
Speaker 2: I should have Sadko when But the point is metaphorically. Metaphorically,
I'm gonna try to pop my achilles by doing everything
I can to make that a success. And I'm excited, man,
I'm excited to hopefully get to cover some l s
U games and come back and I want to go
back to don one.
Speaker 3: God, I'm gonna miss Donejan Dude.
Speaker 6: Yeah you did say that multiple times. Whiskey and Wine
not being there. You gotta after LSU beats Alabama this year,
you gotta zoom.
Speaker 3: In, uh least. Oh yeah, I gotta figure out something, dude, Yeah,
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta. I need to be there.
Speaker 2: Actually, but I don't know. I don't know who, I
don't know what the what the future holds. They actually
I thought they so the articles not actually out yet.
I thought they were launching the article, and I said,
the article says drops at eleven. So all you're reading
right now in louisiing a sports on that is a
is a quote, but.
Speaker 3: Whatever, it doesn't matter, good quote.
Speaker 2: I was just thinking you all, same thing I said
here basically is how much I love y'all. Thank you
Matt for bringing me in on whiskey and wine, even
though it was my idea.
Speaker 3: Originally and him majority sold it.
Speaker 7: But.
Speaker 2: Then for bringing me back in because that was another low.
Speaker 3: Moment I needed that. I needed that. Oh, it's a
press release. I don't know what the hell I'm getting texted.
I don't know it's a press release.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I look forward to y'all get being able
to read the article later because I put a lot
of effort into it and I tried to really think
about how I felt. But whatever doesn't mean as much
as what I just told y'all how I really feel
about the soul. But mean, don Juan, dude, God, I
love don Juan. The environment that we created for that show.
I think about growing up in social studies and learning
about the American dream, right, the statue of liberty, give
me you're tired, you're hungry, you're sick, you're poor, the
melting pot that when you're a kid, you're sold in
the idea of America being. And how wonderful that melting
pot is. And I don't think there was a better
place in America where that dream was made manifest than
Don Juan's cigar bar during an LSU football game. And
I mean that with every fiber of my being. I mean, young, old, black, white,
rich poor boy girl did not matter.
Speaker 3: Did not matter.
Speaker 2: People from the most different and disparate of backgrounds, all
hanging out, all high five and all dapping each other up,
all riding and dying for four hours the roller coaster
that is an LSU Tiger football game, smoke swirling in
the air, and I loved every second of it. And
those some of the memories that I will chair the
most watching those games there. Dude, I never thought there's
this little random cigarbard Town Center would be a place
that means so much to me.
Speaker 7: So weirdly, how much I hate the smoke and Don
Juan whiskey and wine was like one of the first
things that I thought of, Like, man, every Saturday I
spent every Saturday during football season.
Speaker 3: And you killed it. Once you showed up, all the
technical problems stopped.
Speaker 6: That's wild.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know. It did high quality
work because again, very talented man.
Speaker 5: I only had a chance because of working games, only
a chance to go one, I know. But it was
it was very, very fun. We got the troll rivers
because LSU was beating hell out of Mississippi State.
Speaker 3: That was a good day. One day that was a
good day. Kick didn't have.
Speaker 5: To worry about anything like the rest of the time
because they got out on them pretty early.
Speaker 6: It's just like we we just get to hang it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that early kick early kick ones are always fun.
Speaker 2: It's a weird thing knowing you're about to get a
hammer drunk at eleven am, smoking cigars, showing up back
of the house, immediately having to strip down and throw
your clothes in the washer and hop in a shower,
otherwise you're kicked out of the bed.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Bro, I'm gonna think about I mean, I think about
Superior Fridays, Superior Friday afternoons. What a slice of heaven,
drinking marks, getting deep in the cups, talk with friends,
things big and small. Thinking about those beautiful Louisiana summer nights,
the spring.
Speaker 3: Days we just went through. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: Think my wife told me, man, you could take the
kid out of Louisiana, but you can't.
Speaker 3: Like, Louisiana will never leave me.
Speaker 2: It is my home, always in forever, all parts of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think when you get to Chicago is going
to be obviously still baseball season. I think you should
take a picture every time you walk by or around
Wrigley Field and just send it to Hunt.
Speaker 3: I wish you were here booth oh Man. Yeah, see,
I told you I was a Cups fan. I guess
you've been a die hard Cup fan ever since last year.
I've been a Cups fan. Man.
Speaker 6: No, I honestly, like you had no idea.
Speaker 5: None of us had any idea when you went on
that trip to Chicago to work was the stadium?
Speaker 3: A lot of it was stadium.
Speaker 2: A lot of people thought it was like of secret
barstool trip. It really was not. Now, I did end
up doing a barstool day because I knew Brand, I
knew Dan. I wanted to check out the offices, but like,
that was not the goal. I was there to work
for stadium, but stadium ended up folding.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I could tell you really enjoyed your trip
to the city though.
Speaker 6: To Chicago. Yeah, you had a great time.
Speaker 5: You came back, you told great stories, and so the
opportunity to move there for you probably made it easier
since you had that experience.
Speaker 6: I mean, you're there for a full week, and yeah,
it's cool. You know it's it's it's a great sports down.
Speaker 2: It's a great sports down, seems like a good place
to raise a continue to raise a family. And I
and I actually i'll say this for go to break.
I want to thank my children.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: Granted, the four and the two year old, you know
they're kind of down for whatever. Five and two year old,
but my seven year old, Alice, my oldest child. You know,
she's cognizant. Now, she's come online, she has friends, she
has a life here, and she has approached this thing
with just you know, keeping her chin up, being honest
with their feelings, not not trying to just lie to appeasement,
trying to be clear about that you didn't need to
do that, but like just really really proud of how
she has uh handled all of this.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll get to uh more to be winking about.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
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see kind of the clues that were maybe being littered
the roll off dumpster.
Speaker 3: Being rinted a few weeks ago. It wasn't just so
you guys.
Speaker 6: That was like confirmation for me was yeah, we were
talking to rangers.
Speaker 2: Practicing the gala, and it was so easy. I called
trash Rangers. Thirty minutes later, I had a ten yard
roll off dumpster being dropped off of my driveway.
Speaker 3: I'm actually doing it again today too. They're incredible.
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Go to trash rangers dot com. Trash rangers dot com.
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Bobby just said, there's three different sizes to choose from.
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Speaker 1: Back at it where sports talk meets pure chaos off
the bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 2: Shout out Carly. We've seen Carly. You know I have
literal children here.
Speaker 3: In the chat.
Speaker 2: Bilbo, T Baggins one of my favorites, set up bet
and even the guys that I yelled at in minstream
Mads yelled at you all the time. Heaven have print
and huff.
Speaker 3: Sylvain.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you all, uh even you Omar. The here's
in the chat right now. Hey. There's only one thing
that I need though, and it's the guzzler. Guzzler Ord,
you're a new friend, but a real friend. You could
show up in the chat. That would make me very
happy and shout out to my robot son Tebot, who.
I don't think anybody appreciates te Bot more than I do.
I just love all of the photoshops. I love all
the jokes. It's just actually fantastic.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the lows one now, the lows that
I know.
Speaker 2: Me cut me, yeah, show the picture attached to Danny
Dovito's greased up body with my German drinking hat on
my incel hat.
Speaker 3: I mean, just absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 8: And uh yeah, missus Marty gron.
Speaker 3: For sure, what time? What time?
Speaker 6: Like do you start every day at barstool?
Speaker 3: I don't know, no idea what the schedule is gonna be.
Speaker 6: Like, yeah, I wasn't kidding about calling you.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I agree that I don't know, Like
it's a weird thing. I don't know what this caud like.
I've been doing a morning show for almost a decade now. Yeah,
I don't know anything but waking up at like four
thirty am. True, like I can actually be able to
like help out in the morning with the kids, or
maybe I'll just do a morning show up there.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know. We'll see, We'll see again.
We're going tack it though, we go U tack it, don't.
Speaker 5: I don't want to say this because I don't want
it to act like seem like. I don't think that
people there now don't work hard, because they do. But
I do think that you have a work ethic that
is going to be unknown some like.
Speaker 3: Bro, you know how me and ready you know what
I mean?
Speaker 2: You mean you host multiple shows a day, every single day, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're built for this.
Speaker 6: If look, if our folks up there start half stuff
and just let them.
Speaker 2: Know you let me know, look at that, dude, shout
out Mitchell, NAP's good to see you.
Speaker 3: Look at that.
Speaker 2: Uh, the guzzler's here, so guzzle you from afar. I'll
always love you, Guzzler.
Speaker 6: You let me know.
Speaker 7: I people give you a hard time at barstool. I
ain't scared of anybody up there.
Speaker 2: And look, we're just gonna approach you with positivity and walk. Yeah,
I agree, but I for sure, Steve, I have even
own a winter coat. No, no, I have never lived
anywhere with win going to be.
Speaker 4: I'm sure summers are gonna be great, but come about
mid November, you're gonna be like, I don't know if
I should have done that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, White Christmas though, That's what I'm focusing on.
All right, Uh, let's break, we get back. We will
close out today's show more off the bench. Like I said, man,
a huge thank you to All Star Toyota, the main
sponsor of the show. That's why you see him behind
us on the panels every day. That's why we view
two All Star reads a day. Thank you to Aaron
Peaker and the team for all the time.
Speaker 3: Been the best. And there's a reason.
Speaker 2: Why I have not won, but two murdered out minis
that will be making the trip to Chicago, even the
old girl, it's got over one hundred thousand miles on her.
Speaker 3: Now, I gotta get that windshields fixed from but.
Speaker 2: But but I mean to do that before the drive
wrapp whatever doesn't matter.
Speaker 9: You're driving, I got it right. I gotta get there somehow.
You can, Oh, you can ship, you can transport anyway,
pack and pull with a lot of stuff and ship them.
Speaker 3: Think I'm driving.
Speaker 2: I don't know the point is what I do know
is that all Star is your answer. If you want
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the seventh ranked morning sports show in America.
Off the Bench and with the Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 2: Evan Venable, t, Pat Drunk, Vigo more names. Man, This
is Pat Fluid, Ryan brack name. Just go on and
on so again, guys, we will be on. I'll be
on the next two days and then I have to
go get a Traveler Chicago. Next week I'm gonna be
threading the needle of trying to, you know, sellhouse, buy house,
get moved. Huge thank for you with my wife because
it's crazy right now and she's been unbelievable working her
own job, her own business, while still trying to take
care of this family, get a moved and everything.
Speaker 3: Mac lindsay, shout out to you man.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I can't share what Caitlin said to me when I
asked her about it for the first time, but I
will share that it was very supportive of T Bob
and down to help in any way she can.
Speaker 2: And she's someone who's built her own business here for
the past ten years and now are no longer than that.
And now she's got to go to Man, she's got
to go start over in a big city.
Speaker 5: These last two OBI shows better be the otbist effort.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, we are going to, uh, Chris Landry, shout out
to you, man, Joe Leball, We are going to. Yeah,
we're gonna have some fun in the next couple of days.
Recap act a fool. Hopefully Friday come in celebrate another
Kate Anderson, Jim kick an ass. Zero sports talk the
next two days. The only sports talk that will likely
end up happening will be LSU baseball. Outside of that,
it's probably going.
Speaker 3: To be a bit tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah to find I'm sorry I never got to the
Asante Samuel topic.
Speaker 3: Taylor. I don't care.
Speaker 6: I kind of heard whatever. There you going, there's the talk.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Hey, look at Ray Baker, go South. Shout
out you, Pierce Lee, Matt c Ryan Smith, Roy Kent.
Oh god, I mean it's so crazy, man, I know
every sing one of you. Love everyone of you. All Right,
for today, that's it, guys, Thanks Tomorrow, Beck Friday, love
you again. Thank you to everyone. You all the absolute best,
See you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
Speaker 2: You're gonna grab a beer. Sounds pretty good, don't it?
Make it it a sekies. What's better? They'll you get
through anything in life than a delicious Mexican lagger. Cut
up some limes, grab some small, lube it up, sprinkle
it on jammer.
Speaker 3: In, slug it back and enjoy responsibly.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you wanna get ready to watch the Tigers
beat the Cocks this weekend. You want to grab a
couple of Secis to make that happen. My bad, you
know what I mean, Actually didn't mean too.
Speaker 3: It's not my fault. It's their mascot's fault.
Speaker 2: It's also not my fault that the Secies just happened
to be the best beer for baseball, for spring, for summertime,
for any time you want to drink the delicious beer.
Make sure this summer you're going for gofs with the
techi