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Speaker 2: All start to you to presents Off the Bench with
Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yea, yea yay.
Speaker 2: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 4: I gotta come off the bench.
Speaker 2: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 5: Yo, what's going on? Y'all? Welcome in no TV Thursday,
Febuery twifty twenty five. I wish it was Thursday. What
I say Thursday? What is Tuesday? I gladly pay you
Tuesday for a Thursday today. It took wuaite too long
to come out. Hey, look it's Tuesday. Whatever. We got
a great shoe plan for you today as always, talk
to coach Kim Mulk. We got a guy Nick Underhill
on bringing you the Saints coverage. We got a lot
to get to both the local and national bridals, a
lot of different stories, Elsha Baseball back in action last night.
I'm t Bobby is Jake. We got Taylor Sharp and
Jordan Kitchens here today. Jordan, how was how was meeting
the Rock with Dev? I want your side of the perspective.
We've got Dev's story yesterday. If you missed a devn
Snow meeting the Rock in person, Yes, getting to have
a lot of one on one interaction a really great
moment of the weekend. But Jordan, who lives in New
Orleans and commutes over here and does some work with
Dev as well, producing you were there? So how was it?
Speaker 3: I it was really surreal because if you would have
told me a million times that that's how my Friday
was going to turn out, I would say, Joe Liant
and there was just no way.
Speaker 5: It seems like that's the common refrain as if you
missed the setup for the story. Apparently everybody's just kind
of chilling. It's Friday night, getting ready for bed pails. Actually,
well night improved. Yeah, you're a good man, you're a
good many. But but yeah. Then then an email was
blasted out out of nowhere saying, hey, the Rocks holding
a press conference, so whoever could get there was given
some pretty intimate access to one of the most famous
people on the entire planets. So you you were going
to watch the Pelicans and then all of a sudden
you find yourself in the SMOOTHI King Center, not watching
the Pelicans, but watching Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm not a big I wasn't never
a big wrestling guy growing up. So that was my
first time ever seeing like wrestling live, and you know,
being in that environment, I was like, oh no, this's
pretty lit. But you know it's really I really enjoyed
seeing the kids who had this kid next to he's like,
don't get him County. He was just like super Cody
rolls a.
Speaker 5: Wait, So I didn't even realize this because that's how
to touch him with wrestling. SmackDown was here or something
SmackDown Ah, okay, smacking yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: So basically it was just to announce that, you know,
wrestle Mania was coming up to twenty twenty six, I
didn't know wrestle Mannian was like the wrestling super Bowl.
Speaker 5: You didn't even know that.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't know.
Speaker 5: No, No, you were really walking blind into this rocking raction.
And in my mind, so you've been in this bunch
of a sports fan and this much online and you
never knew that WrestleMania was like the super Bowl or
the five hundred or anything like that.
Speaker 3: It's just not wasn't my thing. Was never my thing
growing I never went through a wrestling phase. I ain't
gonna say I didn't go through a wrestling phase. Like
my dad tried to put me on the old school
guys like the you know, Junkyard Dog and you know
Jake the Snake and guys like that, so the Ultimate Warrior.
So like I had that little phase of trying to
get into it. But at the time, you know, it
was like, oh, wrestling is faking all this. So I
was like I was going up around that time where
it was like, oh, wrestling's faking, you know, like the
John Cena era, you know, it's kind of fell off
and came back on and all that. So I was
a fish out of water. But we walk in. There
took us forever to even get in because they sent
us on those on the wild is Goose Chase, like, oh,
you gotta go here, you gotta talk to this person,
you gotta do this and that. We finally get in
and dah, I swear to guy, I told this to
Tailor yesterday. The rocks chain had to be worth a
million dollars. Like you can see his chain glistening in
the stands. Was up there, I was, you can.
Speaker 5: Know, but you know the Jalen Hurts chain that I'm
talking about.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, just yes, justin Jefferson. Yes, his money's up
there with the athlete's money. So the rock chain was
looking you needed yeah, you needed shades to look at
the rock chain. That's how crazy it was. But so
we finally the lady come gets us. Okay, we're gonna
bring you guys down side for the press Congress. We're walking.
That's the first shot of the video that Death posted.
It's like we're on the floor right, we're walking. I'm
recording all that.
Speaker 5: Dude.
Speaker 3: We get to the back where you know the wrestlers
are coming out. Whatever security grips the soul out of
my shoulder.
Speaker 5: Taps.
Speaker 3: He's like, hey, my man, I'm gonna need to delete
that right now. I just saw your record. I was
just like, I got your boss and no props. I
deleted that thing so fast.
Speaker 5: We go in there, well you know what's funny, Then yes,
you delete it. But I guarantee they didn't make you
go into resear Oh.
Speaker 3: That's why I just said, yeah, you got a boss
right now.
Speaker 5: You have no idea that that's not actually deleted. You
can recover that in a second, easily, easily, but you
got to play it off like you try to boss it. Whatever.
I deleted it.
Speaker 3: I'll go in there and I'm like, yo, death security
just held me up over there. The videos deleted. You
need to go grab that because the footage is elite.
So don't act, you know, don't be surprised. But dude,
just hand me up at the door. It is like,
delete that right now. Like you're not coming here without
deleting this. So we get in there. It's open seats.
We're like a fish out of water. We're just scanning
the you know, we're scanning there. We see some big
wigs in there. I'm like, damn, you know I got
do you get.
Speaker 5: The big wigs in the local media world, just people
I see on the news.
Speaker 3: I can't tell your games, but like the people that
I'm seeing on TV, I can said of those guys.
Speaker 5: Like big Wings, a bunch of local the local news,
the local.
Speaker 3: Guys in there. But you know they got suits on
and all that were in thererief in there.
Speaker 6: No, it was like this, do you're the first one
I thought of, like what he's talking about?
Speaker 3: You know people, maybe he might have been black guy.
Speaker 5: Is the best that you've gone for your local New Orleans?
Speaker 3: It was this black guy. Yeah, he was cool though.
Speaker 5: He was cool though, LBJ, that's the coolest man in
New or anyway.
Speaker 3: So we get in there open seats that was like, yo,
were grabbing them in the front. Smart Yeah, scared, Yeah,
not exactly. And it really showed me the whole night
how people be like if you just act like you
belong and just keep it cool, you could do whatever
you want. We're just walking anywhere in there.
Speaker 5: So where does this rank among your favorite professional experiences
that you've ever had in this business?
Speaker 3: It's it's definitely top three. Eden Crawfis with Lena Finette
on the Block was definitely up there and that was
from super Bowl week. Yeah, that was definitely. That was
another Friday that was pretty wild. It's it's definitely top
three because the Rock show and he was so intimate
with us, so.
Speaker 5: I was once again doing my daily uh eavesdropping from
the bathroom. Jake, oh god, and Jordan was flabbergasted that
the rock uh would just drink tequila straight. Could not
wrap his head around No.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I could run.
Speaker 5: This is the man that when I went on hold
the Mayo's podcast. This is the man who thought he
could out drink me and he couldn't even fathom the
Rock drinking tequila straight. Son, I drink a double meski
every quarter before whiskey and wine. Okay, Jordan, have you
ever try stepping me again? You're gonna end up in
the bathroom, head in toilet.
Speaker 3: We got to run that. We got to run that back. No,
you called me on a bad day about.
Speaker 4: I don't know your ability.
Speaker 3: I was sick that day.
Speaker 6: But if there's one thing that I'm always gonna go
with with T Bob, it's being able to put him down.
Speaker 5: The only person that I'm intimidated by drinking wise is
that dude, Ronnie Deutsch, you can chug a beer in
like half a second. I've never seen anything like it.
He's all over the internet now.
Speaker 4: Would be a good challenge for you.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, no, I mean shirt because we're amateurs, this
Deutsch guy. Nobody's beating this Deutsche guy. We're like high
high rank amateurs.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I could do like a beer drinking pro am, like
a beer chugging pro am. But but I'm not. But
I'm not. No, you would not. You drink five. You
drink like four or five beers, and we're like, whoa.
Speaker 6: Cold drinks four or five beers on a Friday as
a warm up?
Speaker 4: Son as before he goes, you know, it hangs out.
Speaker 5: It's a light jog in the park. It's not even
a jog, it's a it's a fast walk. While listening
to a podcast, he.
Speaker 3: Beat The beers are pretty strong though, a strong in
the regular beer. I'm gonna put put that.
Speaker 6: I'm very happy for you anytime anybody brings up the
alcohol content.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly exactly. They've they've done told themselves. Uh, guys,
before you get out of this first segment, I would
also like to offer a big rest in peace to Hooters.
Hooters obviously gone. I don't know about individual store closings,
but the national Hooters company is declared bankruptcy. Oh man,
the sad sign that I used to be, I know.
Speaker 6: I mean they were also proud OTV sponsors when I
first got here. I wasn't on this show, but I
remember you being greatly connected to Hooters.
Speaker 5: Were used. Tell my girl Asia in here. Every Friday
we would do picks on Facebook. Acts ended up losing
the pick competition to her, and that when I was
very big, I had to put on a full Hooters costume.
I here in the studio. We need to find that
picture actually to pay correct a uh tea bot probably
does for sure, somewhere my robot son from Twitter. But yeah, man, Hooters,
you know, just a just a genius concept. What if
what if you could eat a little you know, he
eat some good kind of bar food, you have some
tasty wings, just some grub, well, just getting a little horny,
nothing too crazy, nothing too crazy, just a little cleavage,
maybe a little cheek, something like that. Some hoes panteos,
I mean, That's what I'm talking about, and just combined
with food. And look, I gotta be honest, it worked
for a long long time, It really did. I think
I take it in my old man old age, Jake,
I take it as a sign of our degeneration as
a society, right because no longer does a little Cleveland
hose do it now in old fans everything, it's like,
it's more more more. Used to be a big deal
to go to Hooters. Used to be a kid go
to Hooters. I'll be thinking about that for six months
was a reward, maybe a year. Never forget butterflies in
the tummy. Yeah, now it doesn't even compare to an
average person's like Instagram feed. You know, we have gone
degenerate as a society in a country and all of
you sick, sick people out there, you unfortunately, as a byproduct,
killed Hooters. I hope you're happy.
Speaker 6: They You know, they tried to have an airline as well,
like about twenty years ago.
Speaker 5: Again, if you're like, well the food in the cleavage works,
I mean airline, and Cliff you're thinking like, okay, how
can we lose?
Speaker 7: But you know Lass, like you know.
Speaker 5: On wings, you know, earn your wings. Here's your pilot patch.
Speaker 3: The real question what happens with twin Peaks. Did they
like run them out of business or does Twin Peaks
dominate the market.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know. It's it's tough to
I would not feel great about the health of TP either.
Right now, potentially.
Speaker 6: I don't think I've been to a Hooters since probably
two thousand and one or two. Lord, we were going,
uh we left Shreveport. We're hanging out with some of
our friends that played at West Monroe and there was
one like as soon as you got into West Monroe,
that's funny, and we all kind.
Speaker 4: Of were hanging out there, and then that probably two three.
Speaker 5: I think I did Hooters remotes for about four years,
so I can tell you about the demographics, the the
like I get to like the Denim Hooters popping off
absolutely pat to the gills.
Speaker 7: I went to the Dinim Hooter in late December.
Speaker 5: There you go, there you go, one of the best.
I think they even had like two calendar girls maybe
uh last.
Speaker 7: Ye, there's a weight on Saturdays at the.
Speaker 6: Like you got to go put your name down at
Hooters and spread you put your name down at Hooters,
you walk across the street kill time at bass Pro,
and then when they call you you sprint across.
Speaker 5: That's America. That's what America was supposed to be. You know,
that's the four only fans. Because see, we beat the
crowd and we got there. We got there like noon.
You get there about two o'clock in the afternoon. You're
too late, guys smart What So Hooters didn't popping off?
Seegan Hooters? Unfortunately? I just watched slowly but surely bleed out.
It was like watching somebody get old and move into
hospice care. It's been done.
Speaker 4: I've been doing it.
Speaker 5: I will say the the ind between. But old faithful,
old sturdy out there amongst the storm. Uh that that?
And I hope I'm not wrong here because I haven't
been there in a minute. But that Hooters right there
off of College, next to Clicks. Oh yeah, you useduld
go there in college all the time. Uh still they
still yeah, still there? I mean I would think so
it feels like it that little area feels like the
original area because it's so hard.
Speaker 4: I'm like, who drew this up?
Speaker 6: So you know what, though ripped to some legends, I
bet Hooters doesn't hate kids like George's.
Speaker 5: Uh no, I bet Hooters can run around Hooters kids,
you can run around do whatever you want.
Speaker 4: I bet you can.
Speaker 6: You had a fast walk, I bet you don't get
yelled at?
Speaker 5: How did that?
Speaker 4: If you can play good? I feel great about it. Okay,
really good about it.
Speaker 5: I don't know if what maybe maybe maybe whatever we
can I wanna yeah, I want to hear. I'll never forget.
One time we were in college and it was it
was me my future wife girlfriend at the time, uh,
my roommates, and a couple other girls and we were
on the way to the movies and the Hooters came up,
and my wife just starts talking about how uh gross
Hooters is, and you know, saying some unkind things about
the women who work at Hooters. As you know, you're
a young person, you you little judgmental, little fiery say
some some messed up things, maybe talking about some of
the promiscuity of some of the employees. And after she
goes in this whole rant, quietly from the back, we
hear one of the girls like, I work at Hooters.
Oh no, And immediately, I mean the kid's like, well,
you know, I mean nothing, you know, not like I mean,
I'm not like you, not like you. I'm not talking
about you. I'm talking to some of the other one
the other.
Speaker 6: Once that happens, you've got to just take it.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: You can't fix it.
Speaker 6: You're only going to be at the beginning of like
a trying I know. But you just gotta take it.
You just gotta be like that's on me, Chess.
Speaker 5: No, not you, I'm talking about you know all the
other we just met you. I can't even say not
you with any sort of legitimacy. Not you, I'm talking
about them. Yeah. I remember the one fun thing I
did trying to make the Saint Louis rams. Uh was
was it Crawford? Pa? What was the big fight that
maybe Crawford.
Speaker 6: No, I would have been Crawford. Well, yeah, that's that's
like twelve. That's like twelve, that's Pacquil.
Speaker 7: Was it paq de la Hoyle?
Speaker 4: Or is that a little bit a little bit ahead
of that, a little bit earlier?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I remember why I was watching a
giant boxing match there doing some gambling at Hooters, and
then Marquez. I thought I had lost the bet because
how the fight went. The guy that I gambled and
this is like, you know, just some guy we're betting
with at the bar. I thought I had lost the
bet because the guy that I had bet on looked
like he got his ass kicked. And then so I
gave the guy the money and then they actually announced
the result. The judges stunned everyone. My guy won. I
was very excited. I went looking for the guy to
collect the money, the three hundred and eight dollars signing
bonus that I got, and he was nowhere to be found,
nowhere to be found. As soon as the actual result
was an excuse that right there collected money. As soon
as they announced the result, they went against the crowd
thought my man disappeared quicker than Hooters.
Speaker 6: Corporal who did codo fight where he was beating the
hell out of him.
Speaker 5: Is a very controversial result.
Speaker 4: It might have been a mini pac Yao Juan Menuel Marquez.
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: They had a twenty twelve fight.
Speaker 5: The point is, for a long time, Hooters was a
very magical place, and now the regression of our morals
and ethics have led to Hooters no longer being relevant
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with Hester Anti Bob.
Speaker 5: With Handing, y'all, welcome back to otb uh So I
got some I got some big news, guys. That still
the the the the the contract does yet to be
sign signed. But we're starting Thursday and testing today, so
I'll let you know if you want to support your boy. Uh.
Every day now five to six pm you can catch
me co hosting with Jim Rome on the last hour
of the Jim Rome Show. So that is going to
start on Thursday. It's going to Uh it's it's I
don't know. I think it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 6: Our boy is going to be with Jim Rome, no
matter if you're my age. I don't know. Jordan didn't
know a lot of wrestlers. I got questions about him
over there. T Bobs like, Jim Rome is a standard
in this profession, Like he is somebody that no matter
how old you are, if you're into sports radio, either
behind the mic or listening, he's like, whatever Tier one is,
you can't have it without Jim Rome. That is awesome.
Cannot wait.
Speaker 5: It's I'm excited. I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: I feel a little bit like I'm trying to make
the NFL again though, because here early on because the
last just because there's been another code for like a year,
and I guess you know, they kind of ended up
wanting to go a different direction. I don't know who
it was, but they're hesitant to sign another long term contract.
So it's gonna be month to month at first. So
I'm saying this with a little bit of vulnerability because
who knows, Maybe I'm on there for a month and
I'm out. It's going to be crazy. Is it starts Thursday,
It's ill get Thursday Friday doing here in studio. That'd
be nice when I'm used to my little office next door.
But then at a time when my literal job is
on the line every show in a four week window,
I've got to do every show from Disney next week
off the back foot somehow, making sure there's no tech problems.
That I'm funny, entertaining after a day of fighting stroller
traffic in Little Louisiana that is Disney World during Marty
Gras week. So wish me luck. It's going to be
thank you for the congrats. Not too many congrats. So
let's wait. We can. We can save the congratulations for now,
for if it goes long term. For now we'll say
good luck. We'll say good luck. But I'm excited, bit
of both. I'm very excited. I wish that once I
get to know them, one day, maybe like Halloween or something,
even though I really would love to do that the
first show like this, but I think it'd be too aggressive.
Way to come out, but come out like with a
with a fake go tea, like maybe like cover up
these sides of my beard. It's like looking like Jim Rome,
like Jim what's up? Super glad to be here, been
a big fan long time, being excited to plinyly getting
goos for the best and just.
Speaker 4: Do a rom impression dog time listener, first time.
Speaker 5: Zip Coast.
Speaker 6: I thought, see, I thought when you said Halloween, I
thought you're gonna go with like a Jim Everett costume.
Speaker 5: Uh No, but that does seem that when I've told
people the news, that does seem to be the first.
Speaker 4: I mean the Saints quarterback, you know, you know and
think or two about that.
Speaker 5: The the the first thing that people want me to
ask about it. So we'll see, guys, we'll see might
have to start doing some Dodger talk.
Speaker 4: I was about to say, like, what's the what's the setup?
So it's not obviously just college.
Speaker 5: The last hour of the show, uh And I think
they want to inject a little madness into it a bit.
So I don't know if you're the guy for I
think I'm gonna have a hand in and planning that hour.
So I've been sitting in for the last couple of
weeks basically fake hours of what I would do every day, right,
and so uh yeah, we'll see we'll see I think, uh,
they probably.
Speaker 6: Want to put like some new age kind of sports ish,
sports adjacent type stess.
Speaker 5: But the thing is everything is still pretty supportive that
I'm sending them right like something weird. It's like, I
don't know, like you got to find the line. Also,
Jim strikes me as very sports forward.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you can still be sports ish on a
sports topic and just see a squirrel like we do often.
Speaker 5: And I mean we'll probably start a bit more conservative
read the room, and then if I feel like it's
not going well, then it might just be time to
send it, you know, and and we just go out
either in a blaze of like I don't want.
Speaker 6: To go out half step no no no no no.
Speaker 5: So maybe don't fully se end right off the bat,
maybe not like wizard costume immediately, but if you feel
like it has to be done, get it out of
the closet. I'm gonna make Jim talk about them host
and pante hoose yeah uh and Hooters. That that's that
that that's kind of I guess going to be the
empire point maybe responsible for the fall of Roman Empire.
Yeah true. How do we listen or watch I gotta,
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta actually learn that as well.
Speaker 6: So I like, I don't know if this is, but
I can tell you so in Mobile we had the house,
serious sex had the house and we were all staying in.
Me and Dennis were the only ones there. And on
direct TV, like, there is a gym room channel.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's that's what this is all in pursuit of
is is. Yes, there's he's got a he's got a
channel both audio and visually. In the last hour specifically,
I think is maybe not like traditional radio theever that
I'm on. It might be just uh on the new
visual channels. But I'll get I'll get more of those details.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because that was I think initially when you kind
of mentioned it to me, and I'm like, oh, I
bet this is going to be where T Bob lives
on this.
Speaker 4: I mean obviously it's his channel.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. So well, uh, we'll see you guys. Wish
me luck. I hope it goes well. I'm very excited.
It could be a big break potentially, but who knows.
Speaker 4: Who knows either, You're gonna crush it. It's be great,
thanks man, I hope.
Speaker 5: So what time five or six five or six Central
is when it's gonna be. I mean, I'll just get
us all day. Yeah, they can literally get us all day.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Now now I'm only doing snaps
two days a week in the off season, We're only
doing Tuesday Thursday. So that's like super chill and very
easy right now. But yeah, it's gonna be kind of
a I'm gonna be doing the uh the uh the
uh carpool, bringing everybody back home and then immediately turning
around and come back up here because I don't have
an office at the house. That's what I need this
to work. So I can get a house with an office. Yeah,
in my life will be significantly easier. So we got
to pull this one off. We'll see, We'll see, we'll see. Uh.
The other thing is I'm not dumb. No, I'm not
leaving no TV. This is just whatever. This is just
side side hustles. Uh. But uh, I don't think I'm
hosting anything Room's hosting.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: I assume I think it'd be way more interesting if
Because that's the old Levatarden Stu got story. Is that
originally because Stu was the radio guy, Leeds was the
writer yeah. They They tried to do it at first
where Stu Gotts was the host and Lebs with the coots.
That's what everybody thought, and it just wasn't working. And
then they kind of inverted it and that's what the
magic happened. I would love to kind of uncomfortably be
able to pushing prod gym down these avenues.
Speaker 4: But yeah, m I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 6: But cause you're the ones gonna get, you know, outside
of the lines a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so if you're leading, you can do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, so we'll see, we'll see if I can
exert some influence anyway.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't if I was hosting, I don't
know that we'd get to do you sit when you pee.
Speaker 4: Talk like we did the other day. I don't know
the gym can get you there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't think I'm gonna
have to just hit him with that like a like
a submarine attack, you know, like a T boat instead
of a U boat. Get it done. Daniel Blunt's advice
I always give people to Bob is always remembered to
be yourself out loud that we ever in I can
hear you. Uh, fair, fair, fair, that is one thing
I'm going to try to be. For better or for worse.
We'll see and let you if you catch all right now,
by high quality streaming camera, Mike, I actually do have
that in my office.
Speaker 6: He's got a really nice anytime I do, but Bilbo
watch and he doesn't think in the building.
Speaker 4: I get him to set it up for me.
Speaker 5: Anyway. Thank you for all the kind wishes, and hey guys,
we're in this together here, still hoping that it goes well.
Uh all right, let's do this then when we get
back next superstar in college football. Now we can get
into actual baseball stuff and whatnot. I mean, I've got it.
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I've got some stuff. I kind of have a random
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and how much I hate the robit reviews. Packers are
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Speaker 9: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sort of.
Speaker 2: It's off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 4: I heard this song in a minute, I've heard this song.
Speaker 5: This is the last time I rolled into Hooters. Damn.
I used to love this song. We don't turn down?
He turned down?
Speaker 4: Good thing.
Speaker 6: Hut.
Speaker 5: Look, he says two thousand and five, Jim Roach was
a standing used to love the smack Off. There's a
segment called smack Off.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be fine. I'm good to go. Uh, Taylor,
you told me something that I found and I haven't
given you my opinion on yet. And I told you
to save it for an air because, uh, I'm kind
of amazed by it. You said you almost died last night.
Speaker 7: Yeah, dude, so I'm lucky, you know, uh for you
or me?
Speaker 5: Uh for me? Yeah, fingers crossed.
Speaker 1: I uh were sitting there, you know, the table watching
love is blind as any married man would do.
Speaker 5: You keep saying that you like it. It's okay, Yeah
it fell the whole season.
Speaker 4: Yeah That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like own it, great shine.
Speaker 7: And you know we had red beans and rice corn bread.
Speaker 4: It was the listous Monday.
Speaker 1: And I guess I got a little too excited with
the corn bread, so allot too big of a piece guys,
I like could not breathe.
Speaker 5: So okay, so so uh in all serious is glad
you're okay. Choking on food's got to be the worst
way to die, and it's scary when you start to choke.
But what I'm my main takeaway here.
Speaker 4: You're so lucky at seven thirty eight.
Speaker 5: My main takeaway here is I don't want to be
sm You ever made that corn bread? No, it was
super solid. Should not be able to choke? You shouldn't.
You should corn bread is correctly made. You should not
be able to choke.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things where it's like it went
down and like it just went down the wrong way,
like it wasn't it wasn't stuck, and I don't know,
it just it went down the wrong way. And I
had had a bad, bad reaction to you guy. It's
almost dying about the call Casside be like oh tb.
Speaker 5: Hang up? So you could you breathe at all? Where
you completely cut off.
Speaker 1: Not breathe a little bit, Like I literally had to
go to the bathroom and like throw up.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, like damn talking eyes water and all.
Speaker 7: No, it was it was, it was serious.
Speaker 3: That's crazy. I just can't believe the corn bread doing that, man,
you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, now, I guess to be fair, Papa's biscuit.
You can see it because it could come kind of
a gummy almost like like like a yes, yes, like
a concrete mix basically, but still normally you get a
little more moisteness in the corner. I'm surprised. I'm a
bit surprised. God, you if you had died watching Love
is Blind choking on corn break, God, that's sad, it is.
I mean that there's there's no justice in that. Your
death kind of becomes a joke in a lot of ways.
Like it's hard, it's hard to feel like there's any
cosmic meaning to anything.
Speaker 1: Oh, guys, trouble. If I was in serious trouble, I
would have like written down to Victoria. I'd be like,
tell people I died this way. Yeah, that was a
bobcat in the backyard to shut.
Speaker 5: Yeah you have to shoot to shoot me and hide.
Speaker 1: No offense, Victoria, Like you're you have to go to
jail for murder, like this is this, that's what happened.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Oh man, chats and you got your throat coat
status reversed.
Speaker 1: Jokes that you know, I never know to be that
didn't know I had that status, was not did not
know I was not highly regarded in that area.
Speaker 3: Experts, you can give it, I'll give it back.
Speaker 5: That's fine. Speaking of being highly regarded, who could be
the next who will be the next college football superstars?
So two four seven put out a list of fifteen
players that they think are going to be the next
college football superstars for twenty twenty five. I've got DJ
Lagway on there because of of course, they do Cam Coleman,
a guy who kind of went under the radar at
Auburn last year fresh wide receiver. But who is I mean,
was right behind or right up there with Jeremiah Smith
and Brian Williams. Is Cam Coleman. They have Spencer Final,
the Utah offense tackle who's awesome, but no, not Storry
isn't off the lineman, Peter Woods Clemson d line. Of course,
more Peter woodsconsin here. You keep hearing about him. All American.
They got an album edge you know to Anthony Hills
and Terren Perkins from Ole, miss the cornerback from Miami,
kJ Bolden from Georgia. No LSU players. That's crazy and
so if you had to choose, especially because I do
think l She's gonna be a playoff team next year.
If you had to choose who should be on this list,
who's your answer? All right?
Speaker 4: What is the headline again? Like, how are they praising.
Speaker 5: College football's next wave of superstars in twenty twenty five?
Let me see exactly what it's college toeball's next wave
of superstars and twenty five fifty players said to emerge.
Speaker 6: So you think they're taken into account that Neus Myers
already emerged.
Speaker 5: I think potentially, yes, I think Nus maybe would not
qualify as much for this. Now, these other guys had
good years too, right, like Terry Perkins and Turn Perkins
for Ole Miss had a great year. Certainly, you know
DJ Lagway on a lower level they got an arch
man on this list of well, because of course they do.
But uh but yeah, I feel like I feel like, yeah,
probably probably Nuts is already enough of a no quantity.
Speaker 6: If I was throwing a name out there that I
think is a no name to us here at LSHU
and maybe throughout the SEC, but not nationally yet, but
it will be at the end of the year, would
be whit Weeks.
Speaker 5: Gotta be gotta be whit Weeks. To me, there's two
obvious ones, and this is only from knowing this team intimately.
Well Wit Actually, Wit could have ended You could argue
that Witt objectively should have ended up on this list
anyway regardless. And then the other guy, I'd say would
be Trade s. Green. Yeah. Uh, he looks like he
is set to really turn some heads. And next season yeah,
and another jump for sure. But I mean wit Weeks,
I mean last season one hundred and twenty and this
is without starting every game.
Speaker 6: Lead the SEC one hundred tackles.
Speaker 5: He's close. I mean I can't imagine many people more
than one hundred and twenty five. Yeah, ten TFLs, three
and f SAX, two fourths, fumbles, three passwakups, one pick.
It's actually an insane stat line. It's an All American
stat line.
Speaker 3: Well, he was first team on SEC.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then how about this. I didn't realize this, but
he had three different games in which he had seventeen
or more tackles and it was old Miss Alabama and Oklahoma,
so big games against the best teams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you wont two of them.
Speaker 5: He had two forced fumbles and four and a half
tiffles in those games as well. Like, yeah, I think
I think with Weeks now, granted, the injury kind of
makes you a little it kind of throws a wrench
into a lot of this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's already I mean, he's already you know,
out there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the broken fibula is actually the easiest injury to
ever recover from. I have no long term effects from
the broken fibula. It's just a bow, no ligament damage.
It's not bad to Jake's point, But I mean, I guess, yeah,
I guess. The bigger thing is these stats are so
crazy that it's just hard to think about doing better
than this. But in theory, it's got a better secondary
behind him, a better D line in front of him,
Like he should potentially even put up better numbers. Although
maybe are you like trying to focus on more I'm
not sure, But wit Weeks I think should be the answer,
and I think really will have an opportunity to be
an All American by years.
Speaker 4: In Oh, I think so as well.
Speaker 6: He is somebody that you go back and you think
about the plays that he made, like the Arkansas game.
That's that's not a normal linebacker play where he's rushing
and pops it up in the air to himself and
then goes out there and you know, can make a
play on the football. Like the athletic ability with the aggression.
It's a rare combination. It's what we used to talk
about with Devin White. It was the same thing.
Speaker 4: It's like, true, you're typically not that aggressive.
Speaker 6: If you're that athletic, you're either one or the other,
Like you're aggressive and you're limited athletically, or you know,
you're kind of the athletic guy who's a little timid,
doesn't really want to get into the fray and he's
the combination that you always look for.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then know, you really started to hit something
with like keys pairing with him to last year. By
the end of the year, Charles Ross still having a
name that people on this l SHOOT defense and plus
you could be talking about LSU defense that is maybe
good again for the first time in a while. It'll
be the face of it. Yeah, West Weeks there as well,
So yeah, it would be my answer for UH breakout.
Speaker 4: It was third in tackles in the SEC last year.
Speaker 5: UH.
Speaker 6: There was Isaac Smith and Stone Blatant both from Mississippi State.
And this isn't me trying to be funnier with our shade,
but they were probably on the field more, Yeah, for
more opportunities. Stone blatant, but solo tackles.
Speaker 5: That's a that's an n C double A for four
years into the dynasty.
Speaker 4: Name and you better be a dude.
Speaker 3: If you na Stone, I'm off your name.
Speaker 5: Stone blatant.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Witt was by far over both of the them.
Solo tackles led the SEC in solo tackle yeamh.
Speaker 5: And that's again with not really playing at the beginning
of the year, not playing full time. It's insane that
game seventeen or more.
Speaker 3: I hate when LSU has these giant marquee matchups week
one because when you check the week one game to like,
I don't know, week ten, it's vastly different than the
guys on the field.
Speaker 5: No, I mean, well, LSU has a problem with and yeah,
they got to during camp, they got to evaluate better.
I don't know what the hell is going on during.
Speaker 8: You know, you know what I'm talking about, and some
of that is always going to be true, But I
don't know, Jake, I think we agree that LSU seems
to be the extreme end of it, where there's just
a huge disconnect between what they think they have and
what they actually have at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 6: I think it's a little bit of just take the
leap if you think that younger player or somebody that's
maybe not even young but hasn't got their opportunity should
be playing, don't go with the safe route.
Speaker 5: I think some of.
Speaker 6: That will help LSU if it's like, hey, look, I
know we've got these these solid, solid linebackers, but we
remember what what weeks was last year, Like, let's go
ahead and just roll him out there one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: He's not coming out of the game.
Speaker 5: Remember you got to.
Speaker 4: See I mean, he played, but he didn't play.
Speaker 6: The entire game by any means, right, And I think
when you have a dynamic playmaker in today's college football,
because it wasn't the case when T Bob and I
were playing, like there was really really good players that
red shirted when we were in school, Like that just happened.
Speaker 4: That doesn't happen anymore.
Speaker 6: And if you're not going to red shirt that player
and you think he can be a game changer, just
know you're going to have to live probably with a
mental mistake or two, but his athletic ability and the
playmaking ability is going to outweigh that mental mistake or
too compared to somebody that plays it safe and can't
make the play.
Speaker 5: So again, another offseason of waiting in a massive matchup
against a national championship Calvert Clinton team. All right, wrapping
up our one.
Speaker 9: Next off the bench, Welcome back to the best morning
sports show around sorta.
Speaker 2: It's off the Bench with Hester.
Speaker 5: And Tivob all right, So for the last couple of
minutes here, because we started going long on with weeks, which,
to be fair, I am long on wit weeks, and
like finance terms, doesn't mean that you like believe in
them long term as an investment. I am. I'm long
on wit weeks. What I'm short on are robot ups.
And have y'all seen the new official MLB strike zone
how it works? No?
Speaker 4: I saw John Boy talk about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a video I saw as well. So to
allow for a sojourn into professional baseball, here for a minute,
the new strike zone is seven where like, so, okay,
if you're six' three or, whatever the bottom of the
zone starts at seventeen percent of your height and the
top of the zone ends at fifty three and a
half percent of your. Height and it's very funny because
now you have very defined visual representations of the difference
in strike, zones like you can compare al two VA's
and judges and judges is significantly. LARGER i guess to
me a few things. Here, first it seems crazy that
a strike zone could change so much player to, player
and yet you're seeking to be so exact and and
that and, That like with that in, mind that just
reinforces WHY i hate this idea of robot i'ms so,
much so much like part of playing baseball is the human.
Element it's managing the human. Element it's a picture and
the hitter, knowing, okay this guy's zone tonight is allowing
this off the edge and then playing off of. That,
now like every other facet of, life you just have
some rob overlord sitting there behind you with the ultimate say,
like can't we maintain our our agency in, anything not
even the freaking strike. Zone now you've got a computer
started at seventeen percent into a fifty three and a,
half and then IF i call, ball it says strike
and he's.
Speaker 7: RIGHT i created.
Speaker 5: Him i'm a. Human. Dammit why are we just bending
over prostrate for These roman? Overlords sad pathetic framing pitches.
Gone these are skills eliminating for the we're losing. Recipes
our two next off the.
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