Speaker 1: Good morning, bat at ten Rugs. It is Thursday, nine
a m. Sixty eight degrees outside Harley, cloudy, and our
number three of ot B we're gonna have on l
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Speaker 4: Welcome now number three Thursday edition of Off the Bench.
Taylor Trumper with you filling in for Jacob Pesser and
Team Babbart normally in the producer chair, but we're filling
in for these guys one more day. Right now, we
want to go out to the phone lines. Bring in
LSU head baseball coach Jay Johnson. Coach, We know you're
a busy guy. Got that Thursday Friday Saturday series. We
much appreciate the time. How are you this morning?
Speaker 5: Doing great?
Speaker 6: How are you doing well?
Speaker 4: We're filling in for Jake and T Bob all week long.
But look, the company gave us off on a Friday,
so you guys will be busy, but we'll be able
to tune into you. Coach, I want to kind of
start with all the news that everyone has been talking
about all week long, and it's it's the injury to
Gavin Gidrey. You announced that you will be shut down
for twenty twenty five. They become like, what ultimately went
into that decision to just go ahead and call it
for twenty five.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we tried a lot of things. Gavin tried a
lot of things. We did like three or four different
rounds of treatment in medicine, which would kind of, you
know what I would call, I guess, mask the injury
or mask the pain of the injury, but was not,
you know, solving the problem. So we needed to have
a small procedure so instead of just continuing to kick
it down the road, it was just it was kind
of time. We gave a great effort. He gave a
great effort, really try to pitch this year, just it
was not in the cards.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's it's unfortunate, but again, Coach, like
I get it. The Weekend series last week didn't go
how you guys wanted it to. But bright spot was
actually your bullpen. I mean you threw eight bullpen arms,
gave up a total of two runs. I mean, what
have you made from that out of that bullpen performance
here in the recent weeks?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think we have one of the
best pitching staffs in the country and you can back
that up statistically, and you know, they've held their own
very well in SEC play, you know, including against the
good Auburn team. You know, it's it's it's tough to
take a good arm ofster team like Gavin, but I
mean we haven't had him for thirty eight games and
you know, to win thirty two of those. And I
think the exciting part of it is the emergence that
has been created by you know, several guys that through
last weekend and through Tuesday. You know, Maverick Riddy, Cooper Williams,
Jacob Myers, Connor where Connor Bingch. You know, all those
guys through well last weekend and they through well Tuesday.
And you know you have those guys to that cow
in Case and Evans, and it's making them a really
good staff and proud of those guys and just wanted
to keep going.
Speaker 4: Coach, sticking with your pitching staff. Look, obviously it's the SEC.
You're bringing in another top twenty five opponents to the
box this weekend in Alabama. But as far as Kate
Anderson goes dominant against Oklahoma, we know about the complete
game shutout last week. You know, maybe not quite his
best up, but what do you expect from Caid this tonight?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's he's an eighth and he's had had a
great season and giving us a chance in every game
that he's pitched. Actually, last Friday was our first loss
on a Friday in the entire season, and that's direct
correlation to Cad and his performance. And excited to get
him back out of the Mounta tonight.
Speaker 4: As far as your batting goes on, you know, you
played a really good mcnee's team that, like, I don't
think people realize how good of a team that was.
They were top thirty RPI, they were like in their
best start in school history through thirty two games, and
you guys performed really well coming off that series loss
against Auburn.
Speaker 6: But you know, we saw a few changes in the lineup.
Speaker 4: I mean, Daniel Dickinson had moved up to that leadoff spot, Like,
is that somewhere where maybe he could stick or was
that just an experimental thing for the midweek?
Speaker 5: Well he could. It wasn't really experimental. It was more
like McNeice in their Wednesday or Tuesday game has been
throwing like a new pitcher every inning, and so I
just wanted to set it up so we could match
up best. You know, we could set up where the
pinchitting spots would need to be, but not have to
do that too early in the game. And so there
was a little little bit of that. And you know,
when you get good players, you know, it's not so
much about the order that you hit the men, but
how they execute their playing and up and down the lineup.
We executed really well and we're back in a really
good character on Tuesday and you know, excited to see
them didn't do that tonight as well.
Speaker 4: Speaking a good hitters coach, Eat the Fry is a
guy that's been on this team for multiple years now,
but I mean he is just on a tayor here lately. Offensively,
what have you made out of him recently?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a really good player. I think, you know,
he talk about twenty twenty three when he's a freshman,
he was coming into you know, one of the best
offenses and probably College of Baseball history, and so they're
just there wasn't a lot of a bat last year.
You know, he was kind of platooning or in and
out of the order. I guess as of what I
would say, And right about the time I was about
to turn him loose and play him every day, he
got hurt and then he kind of chiefed it out
and you know, competed with a you know, a shoulder
he ultimately had have surgery on. And then this year
it was just it kind of feels like it's it's
his time. And again, good offense, so we put tune
in a little bit early, but he's taking really good
at bats. I think his example is two full number one.
You keep working, you're going to improve, gonna get better,
And he keeps the right attitude about it and making
about the team, and you're always ready when your numbers
called on.
Speaker 4: And that's what I think he ethan code shifting away
from your lineup, your pitching staff on to Alabama because look,
I get it, they've lost their last two series, but
they performed really well so far in the SEC. You
look at their top three batters, Kate Snell, Justin Lebron,
who we all know about, and then Richie Bonalana, Like
all three of those guys are batting over three thirty.
What kind of challenges are they going to present to
your pitching staff?
Speaker 5: Yeah, really good challenges. Leadoff guys, a tough out, good
competitor to run, handles a bat.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 5: Justin Lebron is one of the best players in the
country right now. I think he has like fifteen more
meersion real shortstop, like you're going to see him play
that position in the Major League. So you know, one
of the better individual players slash opponents like we'll play
this year. You know, that's how good a player he is.
And then now is a veteran hitter. You know, it's
had a lot of SEC at bats, and you know
they they make those guys go, and you know they
do a good job with their offense, and there'll be
another big test. And that's just the way that it is.
I mean, the only way I can explain it is,
you know, the thirty game season and the SEC are
playing ten super regionals, and that's there's another super reasonal
at the box this.
Speaker 4: Weekend coach, as far as the Alabama staff goes, like
going against your lineup again, it's the SEC it's never easy,
But uh, what do you what do you want to
see from your bats? Because, like you mentioned, like your
pitching staff was good over all, the bats maybe not
where you wanted them against Auburn, Like, how do you
how do you change that this weekend?
Speaker 5: Well, again, like for thirty four games, we've probably been
one of the three best offensive teams in the country.
And again you're on the road and a super regional
type caliber team like that. You know that it's going
to happen as much as Jay Johnson doesn't want it
to happen. We went back to work this week. We
had a good day on Monday, you know, kind of recrystallizing,
you know, part of our hitting plan, you know, both mentally,
visually physically, and then did the same thing Tuesday prior
to the game and Tuesday was good and good day yesterday.
And I just want to play in character. And it
doesn't mean we're going to score two in every inning,
you know when you're playing these caliber of teams. But
we have good players that are really committed to playing
the game the right way and over time, I trust
that to win out. You know, we need to be
a little more in character as far as getting our
pitch to hit, having good plate discipline, you know, being
on time, moving the ball with runners on base, and
then sticking with it. You know, I mean, when you
hit the ball hard and it doesn't go your way,
you get it. You just got to stay with it
and just look into that mental toughness that these guys
have exhibited through the through most of this season.
Speaker 4: Could Jay Johnson joining us right now? Uls you had
baseball coach? Coach, I know you're a busy man, so
I'm not gonna keep you long. Just one more for you,
Like last week you went against Sam Dutton on Friday night.
He's a guy that used to be on your staff
and Brady Neil on the roster for Alabama. Like, regardless
of position or how much this guy is going to
play in the game, Like, what's it like going up
against the former player?
Speaker 5: You know, it's honestly just kind of got normalized as
the place we're in college baseball at least now. I mean,
you know, Aiden Moffatt with the Texas Micah Bucknam was
a Dallas Baptist. Those guys didn't play, you know, in
the in the series, but it just kind of feel
like the way it is. And you know, we had
a few more players leave after last year, so it's
it's a little more prevalent this year probably than it's
ever gonna be. But don't don't don't really look at
it any differently, you know, I mean, those guys played
on our team. Certainly respect them, you know, they were
part of a national championship team, and so it's really just,
you know, you prepare just like you would for any
other player.
Speaker 4: Cold to j Johnson, LSU baseball coach, coach, thanks for
hopping on with us, and best of luck to you
this weekend.
Speaker 5: All right, thank you, have a good day.
Speaker 4: Absolutely there was LSU baseball coach Jay Johnson. All right,
we're going to take a quick time out when we
get back, Chef Michael Johnson. Everyone's favorite segment of the week.
I know I'm about to get a lot more hungry.
It's munchies that's coming up next year. On the other side,
one off the Bench, Off.
Speaker 2: The bench, welcome back to more sports talk. What's some
other stuff mixed in Off the Bench with hester at Bob.
Speaker 4: Welcome back in Thursday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor
Sharp's sitting in the host chair for Jacobs and Tea
Baby Bear. They will be back next week and we
are off tomorrow for Good Friday.
Speaker 6: But we do it every Thursday.
Speaker 4: At nine fifteen, it's time for our Munchy segment with
LSU Executive Chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 2: Get ready to tantalyize your taste buds and leave this
segment hungry. This is Monkey's with Executive Chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 6: Coach you Johnson? How are you this morning?
Speaker 7: I'm good? Yeah?
Speaker 6: How a we all we are doing well.
Speaker 4: Look, it's a it's a unique version of Monchies with
the holiday weekend coming up, so we'll dive right into it.
Hashtag munchies, Eastern food plans for chef.
Speaker 6: What you got?
Speaker 7: I'm actually my kids are at the beach with their
mama this weekend. Okay, probably gonna be I don't know.
Grilling steaks are something simple for myself, and you know,
I have a You're gonna judge me because of this,
but my dog eats really well, you know, like if
it's just him and me, he eats pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a chef's dog eating well, I'm sure shot. Look
as far as okay, I mentioned Eastern food plans, like
you know, Thanksgiving, at Christmas we have the traditional turkey dressing,
sweet potato all this, Like what do you consider like
traditional Easter food?
Speaker 7: Is there any I don't know? You know, I think
at my grandma's house, you know, I remember eating amelot,
But I could see where rabbit would be. It would
be something you know, to put on the Easter list.
But I don't know, maybe that's sacriligious. I don't know.
Speaker 4: As far as Easter goes, I mean, crawl fish boils
are a big thing. I mean, well, first off, how
do I how do I pace myself?
Speaker 6: Chef?
Speaker 4: I personally will be at two crawl fish bowls this Sunday.
We're gonna have a noon and a four o'clock. Like,
is there is there a game plan that I need
to follow?
Speaker 6: What do I do?
Speaker 7: Oh? Man, I would not eat too much for breakfast,
you know, like you gotta you gotta get everything out
of that. Man, I'm kind of jealous. Stacking up Easter,
Stacking up Easter crossfish bulls is pretty impressive it.
Speaker 4: Came together last minute. I found out about this last night, so.
Speaker 7: You know, you psychologically you got to go into this,
you know, like if the if the boil at the
first one, you know, like is wonderful, you know, do
you risk not eating enough of those to go to
a second one and they're not as good? You know
what I mean? And and and if you go to
the first one, I don't know, man, you know, like
I think you have to plan this out right, Like
if the if the if the crawfish first crawfish boil
is really good, I think you got to take advantage
of it and just eat light at the second one,
and if they're really good, you know, then you take
some home because not everybody's gonna eat or I don't know,
you know, like I when I go to my brother's
crawfish boil, somebody always takes crawfish home because there's always
way too many.
Speaker 4: So as far as the crawfish boil itself goes, like
is there something unique you put into your boil that
like maybe other people don't.
Speaker 6: I know, everybody's kind of got their own thing I put.
Speaker 7: I like to put this. It's spelled dj O in
dj O in it's called John John and it's a
it's a black mushroom base that is, it's oumammy if
you will, and it'll turn the water brown.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 7: But I've I've come to really enjoy it, man. It's
it's a really savory umami flavor. I don't do it
every time, but when I when I hang out with
my my, my buddy Parker, we we have really come
to enjoy that, really enjoy the flavor of it in
the water. I also like and this is not with
the John John in the water, but I've well, you know,
pineapples in the in the water before and I liked
the flavor of the pane, you know, the sweetness of
the pineapple with the spice of the water in the pineapple.
That was good.
Speaker 4: Hashtag monchiez. It is the last Friday of the Lent season.
So in honor of that, what is chef's favorite foods?
Speaker 7: Gosh, that's tough, man, I mean it My seafood thing
is is it's it's one of whatever suppressed in front
of me, right, like if it's if we just if
we just got some really good and that's gonna be
what I wanted, you know, Like I really love to go,
you know, like fishing myself and catch fish, and that
that would be the dish. You know, Like I like
catching fish, eating it super fresh, whether it's sack, you know,
and my favorite seafood, you know, like fresh water is
gonna be sacle a. I like, uh, speckled trout, and
then offshore, I eat redfish, but I prefer speckled trout fresh,
and then if I go offshore, it's you know, we
fish for snapper most of the time, so you know, fresh,
There's something really special about fresh snapper, fresh grouper. So
it just it kind of depends on what I have
in front of me. Now, if you lay all those
in front of me and make me make a decision,
my god, that's gonna be tough, you know, because I
don't know. Saclee is just something that I really love.
I like fishing for them. I like, I like catching them.
I like stacking them up and cleaning them. So I
could see myself eating sacale on Friday, all right.
Speaker 4: Well, obviously shaving the chat the the Eastern crawfish questions
were rolling in, so we'll just kind of stick with
that hashtag margies.
Speaker 6: Do you have a preferred like uh, seasoning boil brand.
Speaker 7: Either Louisiana or or Yeah. I usually I use Louisiana
to be honest with you, And I don't like the
I don't like the liquid I've been for no of
no real reason. I just I like to use the
black bold zat arands sometimes. But you know, like fresh lemons,
squeezing fresh lemons in little extra salt, and I use
Kasher salt. I use Kasher salt instead of eyed eyed salt. Yeah.
You know, boiling crawfish is such a volatile subject because
everybody has their own methodology and it's the right way, right,
So yeah, it's it's I like, what's up, brother? How
are you sorry?
Speaker 6: A good uh?
Speaker 7: Yeah? So spice wise, I like I like that that
black uh the black container that's that's got extra spice
and bolt in it. And I'll add my own salt.
Speaker 6: Hashtag munchies.
Speaker 4: What's a good alternative to skirt steak if you can't
seem to find it in stores?
Speaker 7: Flank steak is going to work pretty well. And even still,
you know, like you can use tri tip and slice
it so it's kind of nice and center it pulls apart.
Now if you're using try tip, you need to understand it,
and and and on any of those skirt flank or
try tip because of the amount of connective tissues it's
in them. You want to cut the meat on a bias.
And because if you cut it straight up and down,
you're you're you're multiplying the amount of connective tissue. And
when you cut it on a bias, you're you're dividing
the amount of connective tissue by it by up to
a third. And so it's you know, like the textually,
you know, the meat is a lot more tender. Also,
when you're slicing a try tip, there's actually three muscle
groups that come into connection there. So you're wanting to
make sure that you're slicing on a bias across the grain,
not with the grain, because if anytime you cut with
the grain, it's gonna turn out tough, especially with that
that texture of meat.
Speaker 4: Hashtag munchies. What is the best kind of roast to
do in a crock pot?
Speaker 7: Oh? Man, that's you know, I'm a chuck guy. I
think I think I'm just a chuck guy. You know,
Like I like the texture of it. Plus, you know,
if you pick up the whole chuck. You cut the
eye of the chuck out and and assuming they're leaving
it in there, uh, and use that for a steak.
At a different point, somebody in the.
Speaker 4: Chat ass my wife bought ground turkey meat. What is
a good dish you could use with this?
Speaker 7: We blend ground turkey with ground pork and do and
do like breakfast stuff like breakfast tacos. We put we
put ground turkey into and we we use ground turkey
to cut into ground beef a lot. We even use
we using we even use we even use ground turkey
to cut into like a uh meat though or something
like that. It's really great to mix in with something
not everybody loves the flavor of ground turkey, so putting
ground beef into it adds more familiar and comfortable flavor
to it.
Speaker 6: So you just make them together, is what you're saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, yeah, hashtag Manchi's I got some fresh chariso sausage.
Speaker 6: What should I do with it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: I love it, man, I love chreeso. I like to
put terso into like a into like a Queso dish, uh,
with salsa and cilantro. I don't I mean off the
top of my you know, I like I like street
tacos with chrisom or you can even melt teriso into
like mac and cheese and it's delicious.
Speaker 4: Hashtag manchis sticking with the Easter theme. Why do we
do doubled eggs on Easter Sunday?
Speaker 7: Because our grandmas did it. It's the right thing to do.
I think that's it, you know, Like I I go
cool hand Luke on Easter Sunday and I'll eat fifty
horrible eggs. Man, That's just one of those things that
I love.
Speaker 4: So how do you how do you do your deviled eggs?
I mean everybody does it a little bit different, Like
my mother does it different, my wife, My wife does
it different than my sister.
Speaker 6: Like what is your technique on that?
Speaker 7: So I like to take candied jalapanos and chop them
into the relish and it makes it spicier, and make
sure I use like a Plockman's yellow yellow mustard. Some
people like preole mustard, but when it comes down to
doing hard boiled eggs, I like to use yellow mustard.
I kind of like the spice behind it. I like
the spice behind the candied jalapanos and the candy and
the Jalapanos sweetened it up a little bit, so you know,
mix that in with your egg yolks and mayonnaise and
a little bit of mustard and the relish of course. Yeah.
I like bread and butter pickles, bread and butter relish too.
It's it's uh, I like that sweetness of it.
Speaker 6: Hashtag munchies. What is your favorite Easter candy?
Speaker 7: That's a good one, man. I don't know, you know,
like it used to be cadberries, but I think I've
graduated beyond that.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 7: I don't know. Sometimes I'm just into the marshmallow bunnies. Man.
Speaker 6: But are you are you a Peeps fan?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah for sure?
Speaker 4: Okay, am I alone on this. I think the yellow
peeps taste tastes better than.
Speaker 7: The pinkuines probably so, man, I mean you kind of
get it. Maybe maybe it's just that thing where you
put something, you know, like if it's yellow, it tastes lemony,
you know, Like I'm not sure, but I do like
the yellow ones.
Speaker 4: Yeah a hashtag bunchies. This one comes from me, chef.
I kind of consider myself a grilled cheese connoisseur, mainly
because well it's the only thing I can cook without
having the smoke alarm go off. What is your go
to cheeses like to use on the grilled cheese?
Speaker 7: Oh man, that's you know, like I like Gudha, I
like Grewere. I mean, there's probably a dozen of them
that I really like, but Guda and grew Yere too,
that I that I really love. Monster. There's another one.
I really like, Munster. If it's if it's soft in
the pack. You know, Cheddar really is not good for
grilled cheese sandwiches, and you know, even a Maria and cheese,
you know, like that soft and doey, the way that
it's arguable whether American cheese is actually cheese. But yeah,
I like I like that that kind of soft, smoky
Gouda and grey are and mustard a lot.
Speaker 6: All Right, I'm gonna have to try it. I've been.
Speaker 4: I've been on the uh the Cheddar provolone kick, So
we're gonna We're gonna have to.
Speaker 6: Look, i'ma have to fancy it up a little bit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I don't like provolone. Now, I'll prob
Cheddars just gets a little too greasy for me.
Speaker 4: It does, it does. But look when you're where I'm from,
chef in the small town. Like the greasier the better,
you know, But I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have
to fancy it up a little bit. Somebody in the
chat ask of all, like the dishes you've seen from
any famous chefs, which one do you most want to try?
Speaker 7: I don't you know, that's a that's a tough question
because I've I've experienced a lot of those. I think,
you know, like Jacques caapan Is. You know, he's he's
a traditional French chef, and he just he has an
execution that I really appreciate. You know, at the stance,
he may not be the best chef in the world,
but my gosh, he's just he has extremely clean French techniques,
and I love the way he approaches things, and and
you know, like I think that probably anything that he
prepares I'm going to fall in love with.
Speaker 4: So jaquapan is my guy, pashdag Monchi's most overrated type
of pizza.
Speaker 7: Meat lovers, you know, I think there's I just think
there's you know, so many. We used to do a
frigging of a fig and preshudo sandwich and we would
cover it with a arugula, and I like pizza like that.
I like it. I like it with new, fresh toppings
on it, not you know, like throwing throwing tons of
meat on it and cheese on it.
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 7: You know, Like I don't think that that's the way
pizza is supposed to be. I think pizza is not
not super fatty, but super refreshing. You know when I
if I eat pizza and I feel like I need
to take a nap, you know, like I don't. I
don't like that feeling. And I like to see the
sauce through the cheese. You know. Everybody likes the pile
so much cheese on it that it's it coats the
palate and you can't taste the sauce, you know, Like
I like the sauce of pizza, and I like I
like fresh ingredients on pizza.
Speaker 4: All right, last one for you here is chef Like,
do you have a go to chicken salad recipe?
Speaker 7: I like to put pecans or walnuts in my chicken salad.
I like to put grapes in my chicken salad. Not
necessarily sweetened the sauce up, but I do like I
do like the texture of grapes in the salad or
even pine nuts in the in the chicken salad, and
super chunky, you know, not like whipped to where it's
you know, like grainy, and and I like big chunks,
and I kind of you fold the chicken and the
and the and the mayonnaise or aoli or whatever you're
using as your base together instead of you know, like
plowing it through a mixer and tearing the chicken aparts
where it looks like hair or something of that nature.
I like the chicken to be big and chunky, and
it kind of matched the texture of everything else with
the with the pecan halves and and uh, you know,
like grapeaves and stuff like that and big. You know, no,
I will say this, I don't like huge chunks of celery.
I like slivered celery because it's a little bit overpowering.
So you know, if you if you sliver that that
the uh the celery stock, you know, like, I think
it's already sizeably appropriate, but it's sextually you know, more
sound to be able to eat and crunch and not
be overwhelming.
Speaker 6: All right, chef, we'll let you go. I know you're
a busy guy.
Speaker 4: Look have a great Easter weekend with just you and
your dog. Don't overfeed the dog, okay, like feed it, well,
don't overfeed it.
Speaker 6: But have a great weekend.
Speaker 7: We're gonna take a nap together.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thanks for happing on. That was LSU executive chef
Michael Johnson. All Right, we're going to take a quick
time out. Look, I promise you a non sports segment.
We're going to get into that. We're gonna do our
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not the Easter money himself might be a little overrated.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sort
of hits, Off the Bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 4: Welcome back in Thursday edition of Off the Bench nine thirty.
Here we got two segments left. Look, we're gonna get
into all the fun stuff. We're gonna get into the
Eastern Candy. We're gonna rank our top five all of us,
we're gonna argue about it, and we're gonna close this
thing out with ask the bench. But I have to
mention this big news out of college football today. ESPN
College Game Day announced that Lee Corso will retire from
the College of game Day set in August, ending a
career with a show that began all the way back
in nineteen forty seven. This is he's been on college
a game day for nearly forty years. It's going to
be Week one of college football this upcoming season. We
don't know where the game is going to be at.
I was wondering if it was going to be LSU Clemson,
and that's a possibility. I think it's going to be Texas,
Ohio State. If you remember, the head gear started all
the way back in October of nineteen ninety five. It
was a game at Ohio State, and what does he do.
He puts on the Buckeye head gear. Since then, Lee
Corso four hundred and thirty selections. And honestly, I know
a lot of people are like, oh, well, it's fine
if Lee picks against us. You know, we want him
to pick the head gear. But like, he's wrong all
the time. Lee Corso went to eighty six and one
forty four. It is four hundred and thirty head gear selections. Look,
he's put on the full Notre Dame fighting Irish uniform.
He's wore hellimets, he's brought up the dogs there. He
is right there on screen picking the La shoehead gear
with Matthew McConaughey when LSU played Texas in Austin in
twenty nineteen.
Speaker 6: And this is one of those.
Speaker 4: Things, guys, that you knew was coming for quite some time.
You just never wanted to see it end. Me personally,
I know everybody has a favorite Lee Corso moment minus
obviously all the games he called at LSU. You know
whether he picked for you, whether he picked against you.
There was a moment when Georgia was on college game
Day he said that dog's ugly.
Speaker 6: Let me get out of here.
Speaker 4: We've seen the that sidental profanity dropped on the air
like whatever. Everyone loves Lee Corso. I decided that I
wanted to get into the sports and media business when
I was about eleven years old, and the reason for
that is because me and my dad used to watch
college game Day every single morning, and Lee Corso was
a big part of that for a number of years.
He is instrumental and the reason that I am sitting
here today. He has been one of my idols from
the time I was too years old. Guys, what are
your favorite Lee Corso memories? Like I could, I could
do a three hour show on just Lee Corso. This
is a guy that has meant that much to me.
But like Jordan, Cassie, like you don't.
Speaker 6: You don't even have.
Speaker 4: To be a big fan of sports. Everyone knows Lee Corso,
everyone loves Lee Corso. Is there a moment in your
mind that sticks out to you.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say I have a favorite moment, but I
always love when he picked the Oregon Ducks and he
put the organ head on. I just like the interaction
with a Puddles. I'm pretty sure that's the mascot, the orgon.
I just like every time it was him in Puddles.
It was always comical. So I always like that a lot. Cassie,
got it, you.
Speaker 6: Don't have one.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, it's fine, there's too many to think of.
I mean, I obviously go back to LSU because I
grew up a massive LSU fan, Like College Game Day
again is the reason that I got into this industry,
and Lee Corso. He'll be ninety years old August seventh.
This is he has been doing the show for over
forty years. Everyone remembers the stroke that he suffered back
in two thousand and nine, and you know he held
the number two pencil ever since then because of that.
It was just kind of like a nervous habit for him.
He did that him at kirk Kirbstreet. The relationship between
those two that have blossomed over the years, like it's
it's less friend and it's almost more father son now.
I mean those two are incredibly close. I remember a
few years ago I was talking about this with my
dad and he's like, hey, you know, Lee looks really bad,
like it it might be time for him to hang
it up.
Speaker 6: And my thing was, I get it. I understand.
Speaker 4: If you're ESPN though, you can't let him go, like
you gotta let Lee Corso go till he has nothing left.
And I guess that's finally what he decided. And again,
ninety years old, coming up here in August. I imagine
the game he is going to be at his Texas
at Ohio State because Ohio State was the.
Speaker 6: Very first head gear he put on.
Speaker 4: I imagine it will be the very last head gear that
Lee Corso puts on again. Guys, I could I could
go on about Lee Corso for three hours.
Speaker 6: What he's meant to me, the impact he had on me.
Speaker 4: Is a eight, nine, ten year old who fell in
love with the sport of football and decided, Hey, I
want to be I want to be Lee Corso. I
want to be up there on the college game day set.
I remember when you know they brought Pat McAfee up.
You could kind of tell it it's time then, right,
because Pat's the flamboy in personality, I mean, lover hate
Pat McAfee, that's what he is. That's kind of the
only guy that could come close to a Lee course So,
make no mistake about it. You cannot replace a Lee Corso.
That is not going to happen. It's impossible. You say
nobody's irreplaceable. In my eyes, Lee Corso is irreplaceable.
Speaker 8: That is.
Speaker 6: It's it's sad news because you hate to see him go.
Speaker 4: But also, like you saw the highlight reel the Cassie played,
I'm breaking down all these moments for you. You go
look back on over forty years on one show, like
Lee Corso built College Game Day from the ground up.
I mean, you've seen Chris Fowler be the host of it,
Rehees Davis now Desmond Howard joined a little bit later.
Kirk Kirbstreet's been there for most of the time, but
like the one constant on this show has been Lee Corse.
Speaker 6: And look, if you're.
Speaker 4: Watching College Game Day, like you're not a fool, you
notice that his travel has been limited the past few years.
When he's on the show, he's only on there about
fifteen to twenty minutes. I mean, the guy's getting old.
He's ninety years old coming up here in August.
Speaker 6: What a run.
Speaker 4: I can't think of someone that has been more influential
to me in terms of college football than a guy
like Lee Corso. College Game Day will not be the
same without him. I still enjoyed the format. I like
Nick Saban on there. I enjoy Pat McAfee on there.
I think those two do a great job with a
lot of their back and forth. But College Game Day
will never be the same without the legend himself, mister
Lee Corso. All right, let's get into it, guys. We
talked about it. Impossible segue there. I mean again, like
I I've been I've been trying not to get emotional
up here. I mean, Lee Corso, just a guy I
have looked up to for Pall seventy five or my life.
Speaker 6: All Right, I'm gonna let you guys go first.
Speaker 4: We're gonna talk about our top five favorite Easter candy Guys.
I don't want to spoil anything. I think we pretty
much already know. I'm going to have the best list
out of the three of us. I mean, it's pretty obvious.
So we'll go ahead and save the best for last.
Jordan Cassi, whoever wants to go first, you'll go ahead
and knock it out. Give me your give me your
your opening at to top five, and then I'll give
you the real top five.
Speaker 10: All right, I'll go first. I think my top five
is the best.
Speaker 6: Well, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 4: Tell you what actually if you're if you're in the
YouTube chat, let us know me, Jordan Cassie, who had
the best top five Easter candy list?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 10: Number one, I have kit Cats. I don't I don't
know what about it. It's just the crunch, it's perfect.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I like kit Cats. Then number two, I've got Twigs, okay,
Twix or one of my favorites. Then number three I
have Eminem's, but specifically I need the Easter Eminem's. I
don't know what about it, but they taste different, and
I need the Easter Eminem's. They're different. Number four I
have Hershey's Kisses. I know they're kind of like Plaine,
but that's just what my mom would always throw on
her Easter baskets, and.
Speaker 3: Regular ones are like it's a different kind of Hershey kiss.
Speaker 10: I think it's just the regular ones. I mean maybe
they have like they got.
Speaker 3: Cookies and cream Hershy kisses.
Speaker 10: No, no, no, it's just it's just the regular ones.
But I think they've got like pastel wrappings just to
make it kind of like Easter color, like the.
Speaker 3: Pink and green ones. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 10: And then number five just playing Starbards, so they're not
I think my only like Easter themed one is the
Eminem's that all the other ones are just like candies,
but those are all the ones that my mom would
always put in my Easter basket. And there's kind of
the ones that I already have.
Speaker 3: Okay, lame, it's not lame, lame.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start it off number one. You know, let's
start from bottom up. Let's start at number five. So
number five, I have Twigs as an Easter candy. For
like twigs, you know, you can't go wrong with twigs.
Caramel chocolate can't go wrong. Well that Snickers, you know,
that's a constant. That's like Coca Cola, Like, you can't
go wrong with Snickers. It's an American classic. Now we're
starting to get a little weird. Number three I have
sweet Tarts, but the specific Easter version, the Chicks and
Bunnies one sweet Tarts delicious if you like sweethearts, you
know what I'm talking about. Number two spot a little controversial.
Sour Patch Kid Bunnies. I'm a big sour Patch kid person,
and sour Patch Kid Bunnies just get you in that
Easter feeling. You know, it makes you feel like, oh,
the Easter bunny actually cares about me. But the Easter
bunny really cared about me. He will give me my
Number One spot Reese's peanut butter eggs, you know, not
the peanut butter cups. You need to get the egg
ones and be careful though, because it will melt and
you might sit on it, and you will have a
chocolate stain on the back of your pocket. Not saying
that has happened to me or whatnot, but just be
careful with those Reese's peanut butter egg cups.
Speaker 4: Okay, sure, the Reese's eggs cups is number one, number
one O. No, look there, they're certainly in my top five.
But look, let me let me go. Also, first of
I want to mention this. I'm a must, Gorona, just
send me this interesting little nugget that luck I am
certainly passionate about.
Speaker 6: Lee Courser. I did not know this.
Speaker 4: I talked about the yellow pencil that he became so
synonymous with.
Speaker 6: It's due to his.
Speaker 4: Off season roll as the director of business development for Dixon.
Speaker 6: To Conderrogo, I actually did not know that.
Speaker 4: To Leek Corso, uh director of business development there for
some of those number two pencils. That makes a lot
of sense as well. All right, my top five and
the real top five guys, the one that did everyone's
been waiting for, right, Okay, this is the correct top five.
Number five is going to be the chocolate Bunny. Now
there's a very distinction the hollow chocolate bunny, the hollow
chocolate bunny better than the solid. You can break off
an ear. You can break off a piece here a
lot easier to eat. The hollow chocolate bunny.
Speaker 1: Number five is the is the ones field that's like
with chocolate, like putting or whatnot.
Speaker 8: Not.
Speaker 6: There is a bunny filled with chocolate pudding. Are you
kidding right now?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 3: Man, it's America. You know we got fat stuff in
my top five room. We got fat stuff everywhere.
Speaker 4: Man, No, I'm just talking the hollow nothing in the
middle of the those I don't know who makes it.
Speaker 10: It's in that it's too difficult to eat.
Speaker 4: The hollow on is not the you literally punch a
hole in the side of it, break off pep. No,
it'll tell you, Okay, go to the story about ya
tall yellow box hollow bunny. I don't know the brand.
I have no idea. Probably number four it's the gold
brick Egg. I got a little bit of peanuts in it,
not too much. I do like the gold brick egg.
Number three the starburst jelly beans. I hate jelly beans.
I love starburs. These are the best jelly beans on Earth.
I only have them during the Eastern time. Starburs and
jelly beans number three, number two. It has to be
the recess peanut butter egg. Think alike, it has to
be the Reason's petup butter egg and so so Okay,
me and Matt Moscono will actually agree on our love
for cadberry egg. However, Matt likes the catberry egg with
no cream. I'm going catberry cream egg. Okay, I like
the one with the with the cream filling. They also
make a caramel cadberry egg with caramel. On's both great
and well, it's weird. Hated catberry creameggs when I was
a kid, absolutely hated them. I would open them up,
take the bipe, spitting it out. But like the taste
a bunth have changed over the years, right Like, Okay,
I used to hate sweet potato growing up.
Speaker 6: Now I freaking love sweet but.
Speaker 3: Tedd I gotta get to that point, Mattie.
Speaker 4: I'll eat a loaded sweet you go to like Texas
Roadhouse or something, get the loaded sweet potato.
Speaker 6: Oh there's there's not a better side.
Speaker 4: It's got the brown centnament, it's got the sugar, it's
got the marshmallow.
Speaker 1: See that what throws me off about the sweet potatoes
because it's sweet, and I'd be like wow, like sweet sweet.
Speaker 4: Potato, cass Rolls, sweet Potato pie. Hated all of it
growing up, Love it now. I love the Cadbury creameg
hated it grown up. So again, we'll recap Cassie's top
five Starburst, Hershey's Kiss Easter, Rimminem's TwixT Kid Cat It's
Jordan's Top five Twig Snickers, Sweet Tarts, Chicks and Bunnies,
Sour Patch Kid Bunnies, and number one Receves Peanut Butter Eggs.
And then my list is going to be from five
to one Chocolate Bunny, Gold Break Egg, Starbars, Jellybeans, Reces
Peanut butter egg and the Cadbury kreamegg. Let us know
who of us three had the best top five. I
mean even though we already know guys, I mean we
already know me. What the No, it's not the correct answer.
All right, Look, we're gonna.
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Speaker 2: How quickly will this segment leave the rails. It's Off
the Bench with Hester and t.
Speaker 4: Bob please nearly as quickly as it normally does, but
it still might. One more segment left here on a
Thursday edition of Off the Bench. We're off tomorrow, so
we're gonna have a little three day weekend lad back
to our normal programming on Monday morning. We'll get to
the ask the Bench questions in the chat here in
just a second. But I got one for you guys,
ask the Bench. Where does the Easter Bunny rank among
holiday characters? So you got like Santa Easter Bunny, Uncle
Sam tooth Fairy even though that's not even a holiday,
or like Cupid.
Speaker 3: Money, so I can't put Uncle Sam on mine.
Speaker 6: Okay, Jordan being rebellious.
Speaker 10: Over here, Yeah, I think the Easter Bunny has got.
Speaker 4: To be to the Easter bunnies clearly too right of
course to send us the goat, send us on the
coke bottle.
Speaker 6: I mean, what are we doing here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's kind of hard not to say
Easter bunnies.
Speaker 6: Too, because like Uncle Sam, I'm like whatever.
Speaker 4: Like Cupid's scooping cubid stupid, He's not even the best
fictional archer, like Catnus Everdeen's way better than him cheoting
the bone air. Robinhood will beat the crap out of
Cupid chewting and bone air, like Cupid is not even
good at anything. The tooth Fairy is weird. That's just
a weird concept. You mean to tell me someone, a
normal sized person that could come in and shrink down
to about four inches, get under the pillow, grab a tooth.
They have like an affinity for teeth, and then leave
your money underneath it. No Easter Bunny, clearly number two.
I don't think there's a question about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm about to say, I'm trying to think other
than because I'm like, two Fairies really doesn't have a holid,
you know.
Speaker 3: It's more of like a I don't know they bring
you money, Yeah I do. Growing up, you did like
the two Fairy, though.
Speaker 1: It gets your little dollar, maybe dollar fifty, maybe two
dependent if your parents feel like it, you know. But
but but still believing that the two Fairy was real.
What was a was a real thrill, like, oh my gosh,
like two fairies coming to night.
Speaker 6: There's one for Cassie. Yes, ask the bench, Cassie.
Speaker 4: If you had to pick one Chick fil A breakfast
or the lunch and dinner, lunch and dinner.
Speaker 10: Mainly just because I'm not a breakfast person. They have
really good breakfast. I'm just not a breakfast person.
Speaker 6: Chick fil A's breakfast separated.
Speaker 10: It's good.
Speaker 6: Sorry, it's it's oevrated.
Speaker 3: It's a little controversy. I know it's a little controversy.
Speaker 4: I know Chick fil a breakfast is fine, But you
mean to tell me that it's again a rival.
Speaker 6: No, it don't touch McDonald's.
Speaker 3: Oh no not, It's just like Pinnacle Pinnacle.
Speaker 6: I love Chick fil A breakfast.
Speaker 1: Chick fil A breakfast is a little too small for me,
like the little little chicken biscuit bites, like come on, man,
chicken minis like you need about six of those? Like
nah man, Chick fil A breakfast and dinner, I mean
dinner and lunch though classic can't go wrong.
Speaker 6: Ask the bench.
Speaker 4: My wife broke my l Shue coffee mug. Is that
grounds for divorce?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 6: Just break something she likes? I mean, that's that's that's
very simple.
Speaker 4: You don't the divorce is a step too far, right,
Like I feel like you're getting divorced over a coffee
mug like no offense easy eighty two. Marriage is probably
on shaky ground to begin with. Anyways, I don't know
what accidentally misplaced her favorite earrings or something. I feel
like there's a lot better ways of getting back at
someone for breaking your.
Speaker 3: LSG Just lead a toilet set up.
Speaker 4: See that works, ass the bench favorite part of Easter,
the Eastern Service, the crawfish boiler, the Easter egg hunt.
Speaker 6: I think it's all of it.
Speaker 4: I think it's the Easter experience, right, Like you dressed
up in the in the nice colors, you go to church,
you do the Easter Service. Everyone knows what the sermon's
going to be about, but everyone loves it every single year.
Then you go get the crawfish boil, and after your
hands are all grimy and nasty, you go do the
Easter egg hunt and you're fighting for these eggs that
hold hold no monetary value, but you'll love it. Anyways,
it's all the Easter experience. All of it is great.
All right, that's going to do it. For a Thursday
edition of OTB, guys, we had an absolute blast filling
and for Jake and Ta Bop this week. Hope you guys,
enjoyed it as well. They will be back next week.
We are off tomorrow, nice little three day weekend, but
we're back Monday.
Speaker 6: For a full five day week.
Speaker 4: To stay tuned, catch us Monday here on off the bench,
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