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Speaker 1: Good morning, bat at ten Rugs. It is Thursday, nine

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a m. Sixty eight degrees outside Harley, cloudy, and our

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number three of ot B we're gonna have on l

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s U Baseball Coach Jay Johnson, Chef Michael Johnson. Later

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now we are in our favorite Easter Handies conspiracies. Stay

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tuned for that. Our number three of OTB starts.

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Speaker 2: Now I'll start to you to presents. Off the Bench

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with Jacob Hester and T. Bob Abert. Off the Bench

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with Jacob Hester and C Bob aber.

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Speaker 3: I gotta come off the bench.

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Speaker 2: Now here's Jacob Hester and T. Bob Abart.

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Speaker 4: Welcome now number three Thursday edition of Off the Bench.

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Taylor Trumper with you filling in for Jacob Pesser and

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Team Babbart normally in the producer chair, but we're filling

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in for these guys one more day. Right now, we

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want to go out to the phone lines. Bring in

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LSU head baseball coach Jay Johnson. Coach, We know you're

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a busy guy. Got that Thursday Friday Saturday series. We

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much appreciate the time. How are you this morning?

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Speaker 5: Doing great?

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Speaker 6: How are you doing well?

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Speaker 4: We're filling in for Jake and T Bob all week long.

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But look, the company gave us off on a Friday,

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so you guys will be busy, but we'll be able

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to tune into you. Coach, I want to kind of

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start with all the news that everyone has been talking

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about all week long, and it's it's the injury to

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Gavin Gidrey. You announced that you will be shut down

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for twenty twenty five. They become like, what ultimately went

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into that decision to just go ahead and call it

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for twenty five.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we tried a lot of things. Gavin tried a

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lot of things. We did like three or four different

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rounds of treatment in medicine, which would kind of, you

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know what I would call, I guess, mask the injury

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or mask the pain of the injury, but was not,

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you know, solving the problem. So we needed to have

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a small procedure so instead of just continuing to kick

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it down the road, it was just it was kind

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of time. We gave a great effort. He gave a

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great effort, really try to pitch this year, just it

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was not in the cards.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's it's unfortunate, but again, Coach, like

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I get it. The Weekend series last week didn't go

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how you guys wanted it to. But bright spot was

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actually your bullpen. I mean you threw eight bullpen arms,

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gave up a total of two runs. I mean, what

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have you made from that out of that bullpen performance

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here in the recent weeks?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think we have one of the

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best pitching staffs in the country and you can back

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that up statistically, and you know, they've held their own

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very well in SEC play, you know, including against the

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good Auburn team. You know, it's it's it's tough to

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take a good arm ofster team like Gavin, but I

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mean we haven't had him for thirty eight games and

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you know, to win thirty two of those. And I

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think the exciting part of it is the emergence that

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has been created by you know, several guys that through

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last weekend and through Tuesday. You know, Maverick Riddy, Cooper Williams,

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Jacob Myers, Connor where Connor Bingch. You know, all those

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guys through well last weekend and they through well Tuesday.

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And you know you have those guys to that cow

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in Case and Evans, and it's making them a really

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good staff and proud of those guys and just wanted

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to keep going.

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Speaker 4: Coach, sticking with your pitching staff. Look, obviously it's the SEC.

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You're bringing in another top twenty five opponents to the

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box this weekend in Alabama. But as far as Kate

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Anderson goes dominant against Oklahoma, we know about the complete

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game shutout last week. You know, maybe not quite his

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best up, but what do you expect from Caid this tonight?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's he's an eighth and he's had had a

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great season and giving us a chance in every game

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that he's pitched. Actually, last Friday was our first loss

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on a Friday in the entire season, and that's direct

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correlation to Cad and his performance. And excited to get

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him back out of the Mounta tonight.

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Speaker 4: As far as your batting goes on, you know, you

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played a really good mcnee's team that, like, I don't

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think people realize how good of a team that was.

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They were top thirty RPI, they were like in their

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best start in school history through thirty two games, and

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you guys performed really well coming off that series loss

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against Auburn.

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Speaker 6: But you know, we saw a few changes in the lineup.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Daniel Dickinson had moved up to that leadoff spot, Like,

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is that somewhere where maybe he could stick or was

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that just an experimental thing for the midweek?

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Speaker 5: Well he could. It wasn't really experimental. It was more

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like McNeice in their Wednesday or Tuesday game has been

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throwing like a new pitcher every inning, and so I

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just wanted to set it up so we could match

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up best. You know, we could set up where the

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pinchitting spots would need to be, but not have to

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do that too early in the game. And so there

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was a little little bit of that. And you know,

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when you get good players, you know, it's not so

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much about the order that you hit the men, but

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how they execute their playing and up and down the lineup.

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good character on Tuesday and you know, excited to see

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them didn't do that tonight as well.

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Speaker 4: Speaking a good hitters coach, Eat the Fry is a

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guy that's been on this team for multiple years now,

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but I mean he is just on a tayor here lately. Offensively,

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what have you made out of him recently?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a really good player. I think, you know,

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he talk about twenty twenty three when he's a freshman,

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he was coming into you know, one of the best

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offenses and probably College of Baseball history, and so they're

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just there wasn't a lot of a bat last year.

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out of the order. I guess as of what I

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would say, And right about the time I was about

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to turn him loose and play him every day, he

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got hurt and then he kind of chiefed it out

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and you know, competed with a you know, a shoulder

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he ultimately had have surgery on. And then this year

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it was just it kind of feels like it's it's

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his time. And again, good offense, so we put tune

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in a little bit early, but he's taking really good

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at bats. I think his example is two full number one.

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You keep working, you're going to improve, gonna get better,

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And he keeps the right attitude about it and making

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about the team, and you're always ready when your numbers

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Speaker 4: And that's what I think he ethan code shifting away

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from your lineup, your pitching staff on to Alabama because look,

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I get it, they've lost their last two series, but

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they performed really well so far in the SEC. You

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look at their top three batters, Kate Snell, Justin Lebron,

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who we all know about, and then Richie Bonalana, Like

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all three of those guys are batting over three thirty.

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What kind of challenges are they going to present to

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your pitching staff?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, really good challenges. Leadoff guys, a tough out, good

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competitor to run, handles a bat.

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Speaker 5: Justin Lebron is one of the best players in the

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country right now. I think he has like fifteen more

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meersion real shortstop, like you're going to see him play

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that position in the Major League. So you know, one

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of the better individual players slash opponents like we'll play

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this year. You know, that's how good a player he is.

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had a lot of SEC at bats, and you know

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they they make those guys go, and you know they

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do a good job with their offense, and there'll be

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another big test. And that's just the way that it is.

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I mean, the only way I can explain it is,

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you know, the thirty game season and the SEC are

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playing ten super regionals, and that's there's another super reasonal

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Speaker 4: Weekend coach, as far as the Alabama staff goes, like

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going against your lineup again, it's the SEC it's never easy,

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see from your bats? Because, like you mentioned, like your

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pitching staff was good over all, the bats maybe not

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where you wanted them against Auburn, Like, how do you

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how do you change that this weekend?

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Speaker 5: Well, again, like for thirty four games, we've probably been

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one of the three best offensive teams in the country.

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type caliber team like that. You know that it's going

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to happen as much as Jay Johnson doesn't want it

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to happen. We went back to work this week. We

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had a good day on Monday, you know, kind of recrystallizing,

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you know, part of our hitting plan, you know, both mentally,

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visually physically, and then did the same thing Tuesday prior

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to the game and Tuesday was good and good day yesterday.

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And I just want to play in character. And it

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doesn't mean we're going to score two in every inning,

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you know when you're playing these caliber of teams. But

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we have good players that are really committed to playing

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the game the right way and over time, I trust

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that to win out. You know, we need to be

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a little more in character as far as getting our

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pitch to hit, having good plate discipline, you know, being

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on time, moving the ball with runners on base, and

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then sticking with it. You know, I mean, when you

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hit the ball hard and it doesn't go your way,

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you get it. You just got to stay with it

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and just look into that mental toughness that these guys

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have exhibited through the through most of this season.

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Speaker 4: Could Jay Johnson joining us right now? Uls you had

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baseball coach? Coach, I know you're a busy man, so

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I'm not gonna keep you long. Just one more for you,

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Like last week you went against Sam Dutton on Friday night.

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He's a guy that used to be on your staff

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and Brady Neil on the roster for Alabama. Like, regardless

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of position or how much this guy is going to

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play in the game, Like, what's it like going up

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against the former player?

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Speaker 5: You know, it's honestly just kind of got normalized as

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the place we're in college baseball at least now. I mean,

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you know, Aiden Moffatt with the Texas Micah Bucknam was

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a Dallas Baptist. Those guys didn't play, you know, in

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the in the series, but it just kind of feel

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like the way it is. And you know, we had

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a few more players leave after last year, so it's

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it's a little more prevalent this year probably than it's

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ever gonna be. But don't don't don't really look at

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it any differently, you know, I mean, those guys played

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on our team. Certainly respect them, you know, they were

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part of a national championship team, and so it's really just,

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you know, you prepare just like you would for any

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Speaker 4: Cold to j Johnson, LSU baseball coach, coach, thanks for

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hopping on with us, and best of luck to you

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this weekend.

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Speaker 5: All right, thank you, have a good day.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely there was LSU baseball coach Jay Johnson. All right,

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we're going to take a quick time out when we

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get back, Chef Michael Johnson. Everyone's favorite segment of the week.

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I know I'm about to get a lot more hungry.

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It's munchies that's coming up next year. On the other side,

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Speaker 2: The bench, welcome back to more sports talk. What's some

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other stuff mixed in Off the Bench with hester at Bob.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back in Thursday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor

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Sharp's sitting in the host chair for Jacobs and Tea

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Baby Bear. They will be back next week and we

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are off tomorrow for Good Friday.

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Speaker 6: But we do it every Thursday.

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Speaker 4: At nine fifteen, it's time for our Munchy segment with

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LSU Executive Chef Michael Johnson.

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Speaker 2: Get ready to tantalyize your taste buds and leave this

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segment hungry. This is Monkey's with Executive Chef Michael Johnson.

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Speaker 6: Coach you Johnson? How are you this morning?

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Speaker 7: I'm good? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: How a we all we are doing well.

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Speaker 4: Look, it's a it's a unique version of Monchies with

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the holiday weekend coming up, so we'll dive right into it.

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Hashtag munchies, Eastern food plans for chef.

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Speaker 6: What you got?

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Speaker 7: I'm actually my kids are at the beach with their

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mama this weekend. Okay, probably gonna be I don't know.

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but my dog eats really well, you know, like if

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it's just him and me, he eats pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a chef's dog eating well, I'm sure shot. Look

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as far as okay, I mentioned Eastern food plans, like

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you know, Thanksgiving, at Christmas we have the traditional turkey dressing,

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sweet potato all this, Like what do you consider like

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traditional Easter food?

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Speaker 7: Is there any I don't know? You know, I think

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at my grandma's house, you know, I remember eating amelot,

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be something you know, to put on the Easter list.

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But I don't know, maybe that's sacriligious. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: As far as Easter goes, I mean, crawl fish boils

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are a big thing. I mean, well, first off, how

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do I how do I pace myself?

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Speaker 6: Chef?

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Speaker 4: I personally will be at two crawl fish bowls this Sunday.

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We're gonna have a noon and a four o'clock. Like,

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is there is there a game plan that I need

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to follow?

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Speaker 6: What do I do?

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Speaker 7: Oh? Man, I would not eat too much for breakfast,

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you know, like you gotta you gotta get everything out

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of that. Man, I'm kind of jealous. Stacking up Easter,

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Speaker 4: Came together last minute. I found out about this last night, so.

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Speaker 7: You know, you psychologically you got to go into this,

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you know, like if the if the boil at the

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first one, you know, like is wonderful, you know, do

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you risk not eating enough of those to go to

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a second one and they're not as good? You know

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what I mean? And and and if you go to

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the first one, I don't know, man, you know, like

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is really good, I think you got to take advantage

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of it and just eat light at the second one,

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and if they're really good, you know, then you take

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some home because not everybody's gonna eat or I don't know,

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you know, like I when I go to my brother's

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crawfish boil, somebody always takes crawfish home because there's always

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way too many.

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Speaker 4: So as far as the crawfish boil itself goes, like

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is there something unique you put into your boil that

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like maybe other people don't.

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Speaker 6: I know, everybody's kind of got their own thing I put.

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Speaker 7: I like to put this. It's spelled dj O in

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dj O in it's called John John and it's a

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it's a black mushroom base that is, it's oumammy if

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you will, and it'll turn the water brown.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 7: But I've I've come to really enjoy it, man. It's

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it's a really savory umami flavor. I don't do it

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every time, but when I when I hang out with

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my my, my buddy Parker, we we have really come

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to enjoy that, really enjoy the flavor of it in

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the water. I also like and this is not with

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the John John in the water, but I've well, you know,

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pineapples in the in the water before and I liked

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the flavor of the pane, you know, the sweetness of

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the pineapple with the spice of the water in the pineapple.

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That was good.

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Speaker 4: Hashtag monchiez. It is the last Friday of the Lent season.

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So in honor of that, what is chef's favorite foods?

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Speaker 7: Gosh, that's tough, man, I mean it My seafood thing

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is is it's it's one of whatever suppressed in front

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of me, right, like if it's if we just if

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we just got some really good and that's gonna be

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what I wanted, you know, Like I really love to go,

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you know, like fishing myself and catch fish, and that

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that would be the dish. You know, Like I like

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catching fish, eating it super fresh, whether it's sack, you know,

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and my favorite seafood, you know, like fresh water is

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gonna be sacle a. I like, uh, speckled trout, and

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then offshore, I eat redfish, but I prefer speckled trout fresh,

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and then if I go offshore, it's you know, we

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fish for snapper most of the time, so you know, fresh,

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it just it kind of depends on what I have

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in front of me. Now, if you lay all those

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in front of me and make me make a decision,

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my god, that's gonna be tough, you know, because I

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don't know. Saclee is just something that I really love.

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I like fishing for them. I like, I like catching them.

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I like stacking them up and cleaning them. So I

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could see myself eating sacale on Friday, all right.

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Speaker 4: Well, obviously shaving the chat the the Eastern crawfish questions

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were rolling in, so we'll just kind of stick with

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that hashtag margies.

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Speaker 6: Do you have a preferred like uh, seasoning boil brand.

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Speaker 7: Either Louisiana or or Yeah. I usually I use Louisiana

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to be honest with you, And I don't like the

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no real reason. I just I like to use the

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black bold zat arands sometimes. But you know, like fresh lemons,

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squeezing fresh lemons in little extra salt, and I use

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Kasher salt. I use Kasher salt instead of eyed eyed salt. Yeah.

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everybody has their own methodology and it's the right way, right,

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So yeah, it's it's I like, what's up, brother? How

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are you sorry?

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Speaker 6: A good uh?

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Speaker 7: Yeah? So spice wise, I like I like that that

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black uh the black container that's that's got extra spice

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and bolt in it. And I'll add my own salt.

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Speaker 6: Hashtag munchies.

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Speaker 4: What's a good alternative to skirt steak if you can't

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seem to find it in stores?

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Speaker 7: Flank steak is going to work pretty well. And even still,

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you know, like you can use tri tip and slice

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it so it's kind of nice and center it pulls apart.

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and and and on any of those skirt flank or

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try tip because of the amount of connective tissues it's

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in them. You want to cut the meat on a bias.

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you're you're you're multiplying the amount of connective tissue. And

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when you cut it on a bias, you're you're dividing

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the amount of connective tissue by it by up to

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a third. And so it's you know, like the textually,

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you know, the meat is a lot more tender. Also,

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when you're slicing a try tip, there's actually three muscle

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groups that come into connection there. So you're wanting to

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make sure that you're slicing on a bias across the grain,

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not with the grain, because if anytime you cut with

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the grain, it's gonna turn out tough, especially with that

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that texture of meat.

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Speaker 4: Hashtag munchies. What is the best kind of roast to

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do in a crock pot?

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Speaker 7: Oh? Man, that's you know, I'm a chuck guy. I

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think I think I'm just a chuck guy. You know,

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Like I like the texture of it. Plus, you know,

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if you pick up the whole chuck. You cut the

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eye of the chuck out and and assuming they're leaving

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it in there, uh, and use that for a steak.

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At a different point, somebody in the.

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Speaker 4: Chat ass my wife bought ground turkey meat. What is

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a good dish you could use with this?

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Speaker 7: We blend ground turkey with ground pork and do and

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do like breakfast stuff like breakfast tacos. We put we

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put ground turkey into and we we use ground turkey

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to cut into ground beef a lot. We even use

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we using we even use we even use ground turkey

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to cut into like a uh meat though or something

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like that. It's really great to mix in with something

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not everybody loves the flavor of ground turkey, so putting

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ground beef into it adds more familiar and comfortable flavor

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to it.

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Speaker 6: So you just make them together, is what you're saying.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, yeah, hashtag Manchi's I got some fresh chariso sausage.

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Speaker 6: What should I do with it?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 7: I love it, man, I love chreeso. I like to

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put terso into like a into like a Queso dish, uh,

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with salsa and cilantro. I don't I mean off the

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top of my you know, I like I like street

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tacos with chrisom or you can even melt teriso into

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like mac and cheese and it's delicious.

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Speaker 4: Hashtag manchis sticking with the Easter theme. Why do we

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do doubled eggs on Easter Sunday?

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Speaker 7: Because our grandmas did it. It's the right thing to do.

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I think that's it, you know, Like I I go

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cool hand Luke on Easter Sunday and I'll eat fifty

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horrible eggs. Man, That's just one of those things that

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I love.

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Speaker 4: So how do you how do you do your deviled eggs?

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I mean everybody does it a little bit different, Like

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my mother does it different, my wife, My wife does

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it different than my sister.

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Speaker 6: Like what is your technique on that?

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Speaker 7: So I like to take candied jalapanos and chop them

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into the relish and it makes it spicier, and make

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sure I use like a Plockman's yellow yellow mustard. Some

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people like preole mustard, but when it comes down to

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doing hard boiled eggs, I like to use yellow mustard.

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I kind of like the spice behind it. I like

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the spice behind the candied jalapanos and the candy and

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the Jalapanos sweetened it up a little bit, so you know,

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mix that in with your egg yolks and mayonnaise and

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a little bit of mustard and the relish of course. Yeah.

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It's it's uh, I like that sweetness of it.

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Speaker 6: Hashtag munchies. What is your favorite Easter candy?

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Speaker 7: That's a good one, man. I don't know, you know,

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like it used to be cadberries, but I think I've

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graduated beyond that.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 7: I don't know. Sometimes I'm just into the marshmallow bunnies. Man.

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Speaker 6: But are you are you a Peeps fan?

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Speaker 7: Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah for sure?

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Speaker 4: Okay, am I alone on this. I think the yellow

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peeps taste tastes better than.

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Speaker 7: The pinkuines probably so, man, I mean you kind of

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get it. Maybe maybe it's just that thing where you

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put something, you know, like if it's yellow, it tastes lemony,

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you know, Like I'm not sure, but I do like

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the yellow ones.

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Speaker 4: Yeah a hashtag bunchies. This one comes from me, chef.

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I kind of consider myself a grilled cheese connoisseur, mainly

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because well it's the only thing I can cook without

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having the smoke alarm go off. What is your go

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to cheeses like to use on the grilled cheese?

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Speaker 7: Oh man, that's you know, like I like Gudha, I

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like Grewere. I mean, there's probably a dozen of them

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that I really like, but Guda and grew Yere too,

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that I that I really love. Monster. There's another one.

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I really like, Munster. If it's if it's soft in

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the pack. You know, Cheddar really is not good for

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grilled cheese sandwiches, and you know, even a Maria and cheese,

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you know, like that soft and doey, the way that

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it's arguable whether American cheese is actually cheese. But yeah,

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I like I like that that kind of soft, smoky

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Gouda and grey are and mustard a lot.

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Speaker 6: All Right, I'm gonna have to try it. I've been.

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Speaker 4: I've been on the uh the Cheddar provolone kick, So

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we're gonna We're gonna have to.

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Speaker 6: Look, i'ma have to fancy it up a little bit.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I don't like provolone. Now, I'll prob

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Cheddars just gets a little too greasy for me.

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Speaker 4: It does, it does. But look when you're where I'm from,

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chef in the small town. Like the greasier the better,

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you know, But I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have

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to fancy it up a little bit. Somebody in the

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chat ask of all, like the dishes you've seen from

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any famous chefs, which one do you most want to try?

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Speaker 7: I don't you know, that's a that's a tough question

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because I've I've experienced a lot of those. I think,

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you know, like Jacques caapan Is. You know, he's he's

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a traditional French chef, and he just he has an

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execution that I really appreciate. You know, at the stance,

471
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he may not be the best chef in the world,

472
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but my gosh, he's just he has extremely clean French techniques,

473
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and I love the way he approaches things, and and

474
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you know, like I think that probably anything that he

475
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prepares I'm going to fall in love with.

476
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Speaker 4: So jaquapan is my guy, pashdag Monchi's most overrated type

477
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,000
of pizza.

478
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Speaker 7: Meat lovers, you know, I think there's I just think

479
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there's you know, so many. We used to do a

480
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frigging of a fig and preshudo sandwich and we would

481
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,599
cover it with a arugula, and I like pizza like that.

482
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,880
I like it. I like it with new, fresh toppings

483
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on it, not you know, like throwing throwing tons of

484
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meat on it and cheese on it.

485
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Speaker 5: Is it?

486
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Speaker 7: You know, Like I don't think that that's the way

487
00:23:40,759 --> 00:23:42,880
pizza is supposed to be. I think pizza is not

488
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,759
not super fatty, but super refreshing. You know when I

489
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if I eat pizza and I feel like I need

490
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to take a nap, you know, like I don't. I

491
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don't like that feeling. And I like to see the

492
00:23:51,559 --> 00:23:55,240
sauce through the cheese. You know. Everybody likes the pile

493
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,799
so much cheese on it that it's it coats the

494
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palate and you can't taste the sauce, you know, Like

495
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I like the sauce of pizza, and I like I

496
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like fresh ingredients on pizza.

497
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Speaker 4: All right, last one for you here is chef Like,

498
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do you have a go to chicken salad recipe?

499
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Speaker 7: I like to put pecans or walnuts in my chicken salad.

500
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I like to put grapes in my chicken salad. Not

501
00:24:18,279 --> 00:24:21,160
necessarily sweetened the sauce up, but I do like I

502
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,119
do like the texture of grapes in the salad or

503
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,039
even pine nuts in the in the chicken salad, and

504
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,960
super chunky, you know, not like whipped to where it's

505
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,400
you know, like grainy, and and I like big chunks,

506
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and I kind of you fold the chicken and the

507
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,079
and the and the mayonnaise or aoli or whatever you're

508
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,079
using as your base together instead of you know, like

509
00:24:44,319 --> 00:24:47,559
plowing it through a mixer and tearing the chicken aparts

510
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where it looks like hair or something of that nature.

511
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I like the chicken to be big and chunky, and

512
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it kind of matched the texture of everything else with

513
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the with the pecan halves and and uh, you know,

514
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,400
like grapeaves and stuff like that and big. You know, no,

515
00:25:01,519 --> 00:25:03,759
I will say this, I don't like huge chunks of celery.

516
00:25:03,839 --> 00:25:08,240
I like slivered celery because it's a little bit overpowering.

517
00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:11,000
So you know, if you if you sliver that that

518
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,640
the uh the celery stock, you know, like, I think

519
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:20,559
it's already sizeably appropriate, but it's sextually you know, more

520
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,519
sound to be able to eat and crunch and not

521
00:25:22,599 --> 00:25:23,319
be overwhelming.

522
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Speaker 6: All right, chef, we'll let you go. I know you're

523
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a busy guy.

524
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Speaker 4: Look have a great Easter weekend with just you and

525
00:25:30,519 --> 00:25:33,240
your dog. Don't overfeed the dog, okay, like feed it, well,

526
00:25:33,279 --> 00:25:34,039
don't overfeed it.

527
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Speaker 6: But have a great weekend.

528
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Speaker 7: We're gonna take a nap together.

529
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, thanks for happing on. That was LSU executive chef

530
00:25:42,599 --> 00:25:44,599
Michael Johnson. All Right, we're going to take a quick

531
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time out. Look, I promise you a non sports segment.

532
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We're going to get into that. We're gonna do our

533
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favorite easter candies. We're going to talk about whether or

534
00:25:52,559 --> 00:25:55,240
not the Easter money himself might be a little overrated.

535
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But uh, there was a little bit of breaking news

536
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right before we had Chef one. I'm not gonna get

537
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into it right now to wanted to leave that time

538
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to chef. We are going to get into it. It

539
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is some big news out of college football that's coming

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sort

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of hits, Off the Bench with Hester and T Bob.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back in Thursday edition of Off the Bench nine thirty.

566
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Here we got two segments left. Look, we're gonna get

567
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into all the fun stuff. We're gonna get into the

568
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Eastern Candy. We're gonna rank our top five all of us,

569
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we're gonna argue about it, and we're gonna close this

570
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,319
thing out with ask the bench. But I have to

571
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:58,160
mention this big news out of college football today. ESPN

572
00:27:58,279 --> 00:28:02,440
College Game Day announced that Lee Corso will retire from

573
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,880
the College of game Day set in August, ending a

574
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career with a show that began all the way back

575
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,200
in nineteen forty seven. This is he's been on college

576
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,759
a game day for nearly forty years. It's going to

577
00:28:13,759 --> 00:28:18,440
be Week one of college football this upcoming season. We

578
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:19,880
don't know where the game is going to be at.

579
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,480
I was wondering if it was going to be LSU Clemson,

580
00:28:23,279 --> 00:28:26,039
and that's a possibility. I think it's going to be Texas,

581
00:28:26,039 --> 00:28:29,119
Ohio State. If you remember, the head gear started all

582
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,240
the way back in October of nineteen ninety five. It

583
00:28:32,319 --> 00:28:34,759
was a game at Ohio State, and what does he do.

584
00:28:34,839 --> 00:28:37,599
He puts on the Buckeye head gear. Since then, Lee

585
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,359
Corso four hundred and thirty selections. And honestly, I know

586
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:42,920
a lot of people are like, oh, well, it's fine

587
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,119
if Lee picks against us. You know, we want him

588
00:28:45,119 --> 00:28:46,599
to pick the head gear. But like, he's wrong all

589
00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:48,519
the time. Lee Corso went to eighty six and one

590
00:28:48,599 --> 00:28:52,160
forty four. It is four hundred and thirty head gear selections. Look,

591
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,119
he's put on the full Notre Dame fighting Irish uniform.

592
00:28:55,119 --> 00:28:57,599
He's wore hellimets, he's brought up the dogs there. He

593
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,680
is right there on screen picking the La shoehead gear

594
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,359
with Matthew McConaughey when LSU played Texas in Austin in

595
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:05,160
twenty nineteen.

596
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,119
Speaker 6: And this is one of those.

597
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 4: Things, guys, that you knew was coming for quite some time.

598
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,000
You just never wanted to see it end. Me personally,

599
00:29:15,559 --> 00:29:18,680
I know everybody has a favorite Lee Corso moment minus

600
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,440
obviously all the games he called at LSU. You know

601
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,720
whether he picked for you, whether he picked against you.

602
00:29:25,799 --> 00:29:28,920
There was a moment when Georgia was on college game

603
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,519
Day he said that dog's ugly.

604
00:29:30,599 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 6: Let me get out of here.

605
00:29:31,319 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 4: We've seen the that sidental profanity dropped on the air

606
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:40,759
like whatever. Everyone loves Lee Corso. I decided that I

607
00:29:40,799 --> 00:29:42,960
wanted to get into the sports and media business when

608
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,200
I was about eleven years old, and the reason for

609
00:29:46,279 --> 00:29:49,000
that is because me and my dad used to watch

610
00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:52,039
college game Day every single morning, and Lee Corso was

611
00:29:52,079 --> 00:29:53,920
a big part of that for a number of years.

612
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,640
He is instrumental and the reason that I am sitting

613
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,079
here today. He has been one of my idols from

614
00:29:59,119 --> 00:30:01,400
the time I was too years old. Guys, what are

615
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,160
your favorite Lee Corso memories? Like I could, I could

616
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,640
do a three hour show on just Lee Corso. This

617
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,119
is a guy that has meant that much to me.

618
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,680
But like Jordan, Cassie, like you don't.

619
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Speaker 6: You don't even have.

620
00:30:11,319 --> 00:30:14,359
Speaker 4: To be a big fan of sports. Everyone knows Lee Corso,

621
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,319
everyone loves Lee Corso. Is there a moment in your

622
00:30:17,359 --> 00:30:18,359
mind that sticks out to you.

623
00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:21,279
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say I have a favorite moment, but I

624
00:30:21,279 --> 00:30:23,000
always love when he picked the Oregon Ducks and he

625
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,000
put the organ head on. I just like the interaction

626
00:30:25,079 --> 00:30:27,400
with a Puddles. I'm pretty sure that's the mascot, the orgon.

627
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,480
I just like every time it was him in Puddles.

628
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:33,119
It was always comical. So I always like that a lot. Cassie,

629
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:33,559
got it, you.

630
00:30:33,559 --> 00:30:34,039
Speaker 6: Don't have one.

631
00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:36,359
Speaker 4: I mean, look, it's fine, there's too many to think of.

632
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:40,160
I mean, I obviously go back to LSU because I

633
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,599
grew up a massive LSU fan, Like College Game Day

634
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,799
again is the reason that I got into this industry,

635
00:30:45,839 --> 00:30:48,759
and Lee Corso. He'll be ninety years old August seventh.

636
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,119
This is he has been doing the show for over

637
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,640
forty years. Everyone remembers the stroke that he suffered back

638
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,400
in two thousand and nine, and you know he held

639
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,359
the number two pencil ever since then because of that.

640
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,200
It was just kind of like a nervous habit for him.

641
00:31:03,559 --> 00:31:06,519
He did that him at kirk Kirbstreet. The relationship between

642
00:31:06,519 --> 00:31:08,599
those two that have blossomed over the years, like it's

643
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,559
it's less friend and it's almost more father son now.

644
00:31:11,559 --> 00:31:14,279
I mean those two are incredibly close. I remember a

645
00:31:14,319 --> 00:31:16,079
few years ago I was talking about this with my

646
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,160
dad and he's like, hey, you know, Lee looks really bad,

647
00:31:18,319 --> 00:31:19,920
like it it might be time for him to hang

648
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:20,279
it up.

649
00:31:20,599 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 6: And my thing was, I get it. I understand.

650
00:31:23,519 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 4: If you're ESPN though, you can't let him go, like

651
00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:30,880
you gotta let Lee Corso go till he has nothing left.

652
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,920
And I guess that's finally what he decided. And again,

653
00:31:35,039 --> 00:31:38,880
ninety years old, coming up here in August. I imagine

654
00:31:39,319 --> 00:31:41,480
the game he is going to be at his Texas

655
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,319
at Ohio State because Ohio State was the.

656
00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 6: Very first head gear he put on.

657
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 4: I imagine it will be the very last head gear that

658
00:31:48,039 --> 00:31:50,319
Lee Corso puts on again. Guys, I could I could

659
00:31:50,319 --> 00:31:54,400
go on about Lee Corso for three hours.

660
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 6: What he's meant to me, the impact he had on me.

661
00:31:57,079 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 4: Is a eight, nine, ten year old who fell in

662
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,400
love with the sport of football and decided, Hey, I

663
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,480
want to be I want to be Lee Corso. I

664
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,079
want to be up there on the college game day set.

665
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,559
I remember when you know they brought Pat McAfee up.

666
00:32:09,839 --> 00:32:11,480
You could kind of tell it it's time then, right,

667
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,880
because Pat's the flamboy in personality, I mean, lover hate

668
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,400
Pat McAfee, that's what he is. That's kind of the

669
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,880
only guy that could come close to a Lee course So,

670
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,960
make no mistake about it. You cannot replace a Lee Corso.

671
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,519
That is not going to happen. It's impossible. You say

672
00:32:25,559 --> 00:32:29,720
nobody's irreplaceable. In my eyes, Lee Corso is irreplaceable.

673
00:32:30,119 --> 00:32:30,519
Speaker 8: That is.

674
00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 6: It's it's sad news because you hate to see him go.

675
00:32:36,079 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 4: But also, like you saw the highlight reel the Cassie played,

676
00:32:39,799 --> 00:32:42,359
I'm breaking down all these moments for you. You go

677
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,640
look back on over forty years on one show, like

678
00:32:45,799 --> 00:32:49,200
Lee Corso built College Game Day from the ground up.

679
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,079
I mean, you've seen Chris Fowler be the host of it,

680
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,759
Rehees Davis now Desmond Howard joined a little bit later.

681
00:32:54,839 --> 00:32:56,680
Kirk Kirbstreet's been there for most of the time, but

682
00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:00,000
like the one constant on this show has been Lee Corse.

683
00:33:00,559 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 6: And look, if you're.

684
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,119
Speaker 4: Watching College Game Day, like you're not a fool, you

685
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,039
notice that his travel has been limited the past few years.

686
00:33:07,079 --> 00:33:08,839
When he's on the show, he's only on there about

687
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,160
fifteen to twenty minutes. I mean, the guy's getting old.

688
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,200
He's ninety years old coming up here in August.

689
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:15,599
Speaker 6: What a run.

690
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 4: I can't think of someone that has been more influential

691
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,640
to me in terms of college football than a guy

692
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:29,759
like Lee Corso. College Game Day will not be the

693
00:33:29,759 --> 00:33:32,799
same without him. I still enjoyed the format. I like

694
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,720
Nick Saban on there. I enjoy Pat McAfee on there.

695
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,920
I think those two do a great job with a

696
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,799
lot of their back and forth. But College Game Day

697
00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:43,920
will never be the same without the legend himself, mister

698
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,440
Lee Corso. All right, let's get into it, guys. We

699
00:33:46,559 --> 00:33:50,960
talked about it. Impossible segue there. I mean again, like

700
00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:54,079
I I've been I've been trying not to get emotional

701
00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:57,279
up here. I mean, Lee Corso, just a guy I

702
00:33:57,319 --> 00:34:00,799
have looked up to for Pall seventy five or my life.

703
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 6: All Right, I'm gonna let you guys go first.

704
00:34:05,079 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 4: We're gonna talk about our top five favorite Easter candy Guys.

705
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I don't want to spoil anything. I think we pretty

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much already know. I'm going to have the best list

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out of the three of us. I mean, it's pretty obvious.

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So we'll go ahead and save the best for last.

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Jordan Cassi, whoever wants to go first, you'll go ahead

710
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and knock it out. Give me your give me your

711
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,480
your opening at to top five, and then I'll give

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you the real top five.

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Speaker 10: All right, I'll go first. I think my top five

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is the best.

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Speaker 6: Well, we'll see, we'll see.

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Speaker 4: Tell you what actually if you're if you're in the

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YouTube chat, let us know me, Jordan Cassie, who had

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00:34:36,519 --> 00:34:38,000
the best top five Easter candy list?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 10: Number one, I have kit Cats. I don't I don't

721
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,159
know what about it. It's just the crunch, it's perfect.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 10: I like kit Cats. Then number two, I've got Twigs, okay,

724
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Twix or one of my favorites. Then number three I

725
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have Eminem's, but specifically I need the Easter Eminem's. I

726
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don't know what about it, but they taste different, and

727
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I need the Easter Eminem's. They're different. Number four I

728
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have Hershey's Kisses. I know they're kind of like Plaine,

729
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but that's just what my mom would always throw on

730
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her Easter baskets, and.

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Speaker 3: Regular ones are like it's a different kind of Hershey kiss.

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Speaker 10: I think it's just the regular ones. I mean maybe

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they have like they got.

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Speaker 3: Cookies and cream Hershy kisses.

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Speaker 10: No, no, no, it's just it's just the regular ones.

736
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But I think they've got like pastel wrappings just to

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make it kind of like Easter color, like the.

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Speaker 3: Pink and green ones. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 10: And then number five just playing Starbards, so they're not

740
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I think my only like Easter themed one is the

741
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Eminem's that all the other ones are just like candies,

742
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,519
but those are all the ones that my mom would

743
00:35:39,519 --> 00:35:41,840
always put in my Easter basket. And there's kind of

744
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:42,639
the ones that I already have.

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Speaker 3: Okay, lame, it's not lame, lame.

746
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,639
Speaker 1: We're gonna start it off number one. You know, let's

747
00:35:49,639 --> 00:35:51,440
start from bottom up. Let's start at number five. So

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number five, I have Twigs as an Easter candy. For

749
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,639
like twigs, you know, you can't go wrong with twigs.

750
00:35:57,079 --> 00:36:00,920
Caramel chocolate can't go wrong. Well that Snickers, you know,

751
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,639
that's a constant. That's like Coca Cola, Like, you can't

752
00:36:04,639 --> 00:36:07,840
go wrong with Snickers. It's an American classic. Now we're

753
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,639
starting to get a little weird. Number three I have

754
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,559
sweet Tarts, but the specific Easter version, the Chicks and

755
00:36:14,599 --> 00:36:18,000
Bunnies one sweet Tarts delicious if you like sweethearts, you

756
00:36:18,119 --> 00:36:22,719
know what I'm talking about. Number two spot a little controversial.

757
00:36:23,079 --> 00:36:27,559
Sour Patch Kid Bunnies. I'm a big sour Patch kid person,

758
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and sour Patch Kid Bunnies just get you in that

759
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,639
Easter feeling. You know, it makes you feel like, oh,

760
00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:35,280
the Easter bunny actually cares about me. But the Easter

761
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,639
bunny really cared about me. He will give me my

762
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Number One spot Reese's peanut butter eggs, you know, not

763
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the peanut butter cups. You need to get the egg

764
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,239
ones and be careful though, because it will melt and

765
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:48,840
you might sit on it, and you will have a

766
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,079
chocolate stain on the back of your pocket. Not saying

767
00:36:51,079 --> 00:36:53,280
that has happened to me or whatnot, but just be

768
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,679
careful with those Reese's peanut butter egg cups.

769
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Speaker 4: Okay, sure, the Reese's eggs cups is number one, number

770
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one O. No, look there, they're certainly in my top five.

771
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But look, let me let me go. Also, first of

772
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I want to mention this. I'm a must, Gorona, just

773
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,559
send me this interesting little nugget that luck I am

774
00:37:09,599 --> 00:37:10,519
certainly passionate about.

775
00:37:10,559 --> 00:37:11,679
Speaker 6: Lee Courser. I did not know this.

776
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 4: I talked about the yellow pencil that he became so

777
00:37:15,079 --> 00:37:15,840
synonymous with.

778
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 6: It's due to his.

779
00:37:17,519 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 4: Off season roll as the director of business development for Dixon.

780
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,079
Speaker 6: To Conderrogo, I actually did not know that.

781
00:37:23,119 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 4: To Leek Corso, uh director of business development there for

782
00:37:26,519 --> 00:37:28,599
some of those number two pencils. That makes a lot

783
00:37:28,599 --> 00:37:32,639
of sense as well. All right, my top five and

784
00:37:32,679 --> 00:37:36,840
the real top five guys, the one that did everyone's

785
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,519
been waiting for, right, Okay, this is the correct top five.

786
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,079
Number five is going to be the chocolate Bunny. Now

787
00:37:44,199 --> 00:37:48,280
there's a very distinction the hollow chocolate bunny, the hollow

788
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,079
chocolate bunny better than the solid. You can break off

789
00:37:51,079 --> 00:37:52,880
an ear. You can break off a piece here a

790
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,320
lot easier to eat. The hollow chocolate bunny.

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Speaker 1: Number five is the is the ones field that's like

792
00:37:58,079 --> 00:37:59,599
with chocolate, like putting or whatnot.

793
00:38:00,199 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 8: Not.

794
00:38:01,199 --> 00:38:04,039
Speaker 6: There is a bunny filled with chocolate pudding. Are you

795
00:38:04,159 --> 00:38:05,000
kidding right now?

796
00:38:05,119 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 7: Hey?

797
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:06,679
Speaker 3: Man, it's America. You know we got fat stuff in

798
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,159
my top five room. We got fat stuff everywhere.

799
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Speaker 4: Man, No, I'm just talking the hollow nothing in the

800
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middle of the those I don't know who makes it.

801
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 10: It's in that it's too difficult to eat.

802
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,039
Speaker 4: The hollow on is not the you literally punch a

803
00:38:22,039 --> 00:38:26,480
hole in the side of it, break off pep. No,

804
00:38:26,519 --> 00:38:29,039
it'll tell you, Okay, go to the story about ya

805
00:38:29,159 --> 00:38:33,119
tall yellow box hollow bunny. I don't know the brand.

806
00:38:33,159 --> 00:38:39,039
I have no idea. Probably number four it's the gold

807
00:38:39,079 --> 00:38:41,719
brick Egg. I got a little bit of peanuts in it,

808
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,239
not too much. I do like the gold brick egg.

809
00:38:45,079 --> 00:38:49,360
Number three the starburst jelly beans. I hate jelly beans.

810
00:38:49,639 --> 00:38:52,280
I love starburs. These are the best jelly beans on Earth.

811
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I only have them during the Eastern time. Starburs and

812
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,320
jelly beans number three, number two. It has to be

813
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,159
the recess peanut butter egg. Think alike, it has to

814
00:39:01,199 --> 00:39:04,480
be the Reason's petup butter egg and so so Okay,

815
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,480
me and Matt Moscono will actually agree on our love

816
00:39:07,519 --> 00:39:10,760
for cadberry egg. However, Matt likes the catberry egg with

817
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,880
no cream. I'm going catberry cream egg. Okay, I like

818
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:15,760
the one with the with the cream filling. They also

819
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,920
make a caramel cadberry egg with caramel. On's both great

820
00:39:19,039 --> 00:39:21,880
and well, it's weird. Hated catberry creameggs when I was

821
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,159
a kid, absolutely hated them. I would open them up,

822
00:39:24,199 --> 00:39:26,159
take the bipe, spitting it out. But like the taste

823
00:39:26,159 --> 00:39:28,119
a bunth have changed over the years, right Like, Okay,

824
00:39:28,159 --> 00:39:29,719
I used to hate sweet potato growing up.

825
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Speaker 6: Now I freaking love sweet but.

826
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Speaker 3: Tedd I gotta get to that point, Mattie.

827
00:39:33,159 --> 00:39:35,760
Speaker 4: I'll eat a loaded sweet you go to like Texas

828
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,800
Roadhouse or something, get the loaded sweet potato.

829
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 6: Oh there's there's not a better side.

830
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 4: It's got the brown centnament, it's got the sugar, it's

831
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:43,039
got the marshmallow.

832
00:39:43,119 --> 00:39:45,159
Speaker 1: See that what throws me off about the sweet potatoes

833
00:39:45,159 --> 00:39:47,760
because it's sweet, and I'd be like wow, like sweet sweet.

834
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,800
Speaker 4: Potato, cass Rolls, sweet Potato pie. Hated all of it

835
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,440
growing up, Love it now. I love the Cadbury creameg

836
00:39:52,519 --> 00:39:55,760
hated it grown up. So again, we'll recap Cassie's top

837
00:39:55,800 --> 00:40:00,119
five Starburst, Hershey's Kiss Easter, Rimminem's TwixT Kid Cat It's

838
00:40:00,199 --> 00:40:03,920
Jordan's Top five Twig Snickers, Sweet Tarts, Chicks and Bunnies,

839
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,440
Sour Patch Kid Bunnies, and number one Receves Peanut Butter Eggs.

840
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,800
And then my list is going to be from five

841
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,719
to one Chocolate Bunny, Gold Break Egg, Starbars, Jellybeans, Reces

842
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,199
Peanut butter egg and the Cadbury kreamegg. Let us know

843
00:40:16,519 --> 00:40:19,079
who of us three had the best top five. I

844
00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:21,239
mean even though we already know guys, I mean we

845
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:25,119
already know me. What the No, it's not the correct answer.

846
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All right, Look, we're gonna.

847
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Speaker 6: Take a time out. We get back.

848
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Speaker 4: We're closing this thing out with a master bench. Get

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you ask the bench questions in on the other side

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off the bench.

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Speaker 2: How quickly will this segment leave the rails. It's Off

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the Bench with Hester and t.

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Speaker 4: Bob please nearly as quickly as it normally does, but

902
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it still might. One more segment left here on a

903
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Thursday edition of Off the Bench. We're off tomorrow, so

904
00:42:58,039 --> 00:43:00,559
we're gonna have a little three day weekend lad back

905
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to our normal programming on Monday morning. We'll get to

906
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the ask the Bench questions in the chat here in

907
00:43:04,679 --> 00:43:06,199
just a second. But I got one for you guys,

908
00:43:06,599 --> 00:43:09,760
ask the Bench. Where does the Easter Bunny rank among

909
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,400
holiday characters? So you got like Santa Easter Bunny, Uncle

910
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,000
Sam tooth Fairy even though that's not even a holiday,

911
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:16,599
or like Cupid.

912
00:43:17,519 --> 00:43:19,119
Speaker 3: Money, so I can't put Uncle Sam on mine.

913
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:21,760
Speaker 6: Okay, Jordan being rebellious.

914
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,599
Speaker 10: Over here, Yeah, I think the Easter Bunny has got.

915
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 4: To be to the Easter bunnies clearly too right of

916
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,360
course to send us the goat, send us on the

917
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:29,920
coke bottle.

918
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 6: I mean, what are we doing here?

919
00:43:31,079 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's kind of hard not to say

920
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:34,280
Easter bunnies.

921
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,559
Speaker 6: Too, because like Uncle Sam, I'm like whatever.

922
00:43:37,639 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 4: Like Cupid's scooping cubid stupid, He's not even the best

923
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:45,599
fictional archer, like Catnus Everdeen's way better than him cheoting

924
00:43:45,639 --> 00:43:48,159
the bone air. Robinhood will beat the crap out of

925
00:43:48,199 --> 00:43:50,320
Cupid chewting and bone air, like Cupid is not even

926
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,920
good at anything. The tooth Fairy is weird. That's just

927
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,880
a weird concept. You mean to tell me someone, a

928
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:57,760
normal sized person that could come in and shrink down

929
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,000
to about four inches, get under the pillow, grab a tooth.

930
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,280
They have like an affinity for teeth, and then leave

931
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,639
your money underneath it. No Easter Bunny, clearly number two.

932
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,360
I don't think there's a question about.

933
00:44:08,639 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm about to say, I'm trying to think other

934
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,719
than because I'm like, two Fairies really doesn't have a holid,

935
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:12,880
you know.

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Speaker 3: It's more of like a I don't know they bring

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you money, Yeah I do. Growing up, you did like

938
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the two Fairy, though.

939
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Speaker 1: It gets your little dollar, maybe dollar fifty, maybe two

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dependent if your parents feel like it, you know. But

941
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but but still believing that the two Fairy was real.

942
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What was a was a real thrill, like, oh my gosh,

943
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like two fairies coming to night.

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Speaker 6: There's one for Cassie. Yes, ask the bench, Cassie.

945
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Speaker 4: If you had to pick one Chick fil A breakfast

946
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or the lunch and dinner, lunch and dinner.

947
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Speaker 10: Mainly just because I'm not a breakfast person. They have

948
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really good breakfast. I'm just not a breakfast person.

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Speaker 6: Chick fil A's breakfast separated.

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Speaker 10: It's good.

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Speaker 6: Sorry, it's it's oevrated.

952
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Speaker 3: It's a little controversy. I know it's a little controversy.

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Speaker 4: I know Chick fil a breakfast is fine, But you

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mean to tell me that it's again a rival.

955
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Speaker 6: No, it don't touch McDonald's.

956
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Speaker 3: Oh no not, It's just like Pinnacle Pinnacle.

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Speaker 6: I love Chick fil A breakfast.

958
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Speaker 1: Chick fil A breakfast is a little too small for me,

959
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like the little little chicken biscuit bites, like come on, man,

960
00:45:12,639 --> 00:45:15,159
chicken minis like you need about six of those? Like

961
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,599
nah man, Chick fil A breakfast and dinner, I mean

962
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dinner and lunch though classic can't go wrong.

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Speaker 6: Ask the bench.

964
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Speaker 4: My wife broke my l Shue coffee mug. Is that

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grounds for divorce?

966
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Speaker 8: Now?

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Speaker 6: Just break something she likes? I mean, that's that's that's

968
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very simple.

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Speaker 4: You don't the divorce is a step too far, right,

970
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Like I feel like you're getting divorced over a coffee

971
00:45:33,559 --> 00:45:37,320
mug like no offense easy eighty two. Marriage is probably

972
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on shaky ground to begin with. Anyways, I don't know

973
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what accidentally misplaced her favorite earrings or something. I feel

974
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like there's a lot better ways of getting back at

975
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someone for breaking your.

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Speaker 3: LSG Just lead a toilet set up.

977
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Speaker 4: See that works, ass the bench favorite part of Easter,

978
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the Eastern Service, the crawfish boiler, the Easter egg hunt.

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Speaker 6: I think it's all of it.

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Speaker 4: I think it's the Easter experience, right, Like you dressed

981
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,079
up in the in the nice colors, you go to church,

982
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you do the Easter Service. Everyone knows what the sermon's

983
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going to be about, but everyone loves it every single year.

984
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Then you go get the crawfish boil, and after your

985
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hands are all grimy and nasty, you go do the

986
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Easter egg hunt and you're fighting for these eggs that

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hold hold no monetary value, but you'll love it. Anyways,

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it's all the Easter experience. All of it is great.

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All right, that's going to do it. For a Thursday

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edition of OTB, guys, we had an absolute blast filling

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and for Jake and Ta Bop this week. Hope you guys,

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enjoyed it as well. They will be back next week.

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We are off tomorrow, nice little three day weekend, but

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we're back Monday.

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Speaker 6: For a full five day week.

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Speaker 4: To stay tuned, catch us Monday here on off the bench,

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one of four five ESPN Ben Ridge off the bench