Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn and Hester and Hester at a pie
from carrying each other to a natty to carrying each
other on the air Control Live from the Mercedes Benz
Baton Rouge studio.
Speaker 2: It's off the bench, all right, welcome back here in
hour number three, oh TB one of four five esp
and Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3: See if everybody's a big deal with no big deal, no.
Speaker 4: Big deal, big deal, no big deal, big deal, no
big deal, no big deal, a big deal.
Speaker 3: The laundry just flex and gave me the middle finger
at the same time, right there, Yeah, well done.
Speaker 5: We have a video portion. Didn't see that part of it.
Speaker 6: We haven't done that in years.
Speaker 5: That doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: We can bring it back if you want to have it.
We just haven't done it in years, Taylor.
Speaker 3: I mean, gosh, our man Craig Shilling spent a lot
of time putting that together back in the day.
Speaker 6: I have it on the dusk Stop if you want to.
You just haven't played it in a while.
Speaker 5: Okay, well you know, maybe next time.
Speaker 6: We do this segment every week thus weeks.
Speaker 3: Ready, Uh, it's on the rundown.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that you never still in that kind.
Speaker 3: I wish this was a bit like I promise you listeners,
that is not this man refuses to open the rundown.
Have you done it yet, I'll just forget Okay, Well,
big deal or no big deal even changing the name
of this segment back in the day, like seven years ago.
All right, so we thought we knew that Julian Satan
was going to be the Ohio State starting quarterback. I
think we all just assumed that was going to be
at sure it was a air quote competition, but not
really well. Talking with my guy Bobby Carpenter yesterday and
also hearing Ryan Day talk, apparently this quarterback battle is
going to go down to the wire. Apparently they're not
going to name a starter until the last couple of
days of training camp. They open up with the number
one team in the country, the Texas Longhorns.
Speaker 5: Big dealer, No big deal, sir, Mmmm.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a big deal. Any time you're going to push,
if you're actually going to push the decision, like a
lot of coaches will say, that has a lot of
coach speak.
Speaker 5: To That's why I asked Bobby. I was like, hey,
Bro's like he's.
Speaker 6: For real, Like that is a big deal. The ranting
national champions, Like you got some of the those talented
players in the country and you have a huge game
with a you know, whether it's properly ranked, but a
lot of people saying the top team at least coming
in coming into your house. Lee Corso's last game and
game day, it's gonna be a big deal. It's going
to be so like if you're not deciding on a
quarterback all the things we've talked about with like the
Saints quarterback, like you got it used to one one
snap count one guy, Like there's chemistry that has to
be done. I hate when quarterback competition's dragon. I especially
hate two quarterback systems. So hopefully he's not going to
commit to that. If he can't make a decision, make
a decision, big a quarterback, make the right decision, they'll
screw it up, Ladra.
Speaker 5: Big deal, No big deal.
Speaker 8: I think it's kind of a big deal that this
close to the season, what we're like three weeks out,
two weeks two, three weeks out, Yeah we are.
Speaker 3: I mean you're going to have the game in twenty
three days. Ireland twenty three days for.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what I'm saying, because they're they're.
Speaker 5: Doing a week zero.
Speaker 3: I'm saying the week zero game start in sixteen days
yeah for that game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're twenty three weeks.
Speaker 8: Okay, So yeah, I think that this close to the
season starting, and then, like y'all said, you're facing Texas,
who is the number one ranked team in the preseason polls.
Right now, it's kind of concerning that you don't have
a breakaway quarterback right now.
Speaker 5: I agree, and that the.
Speaker 8: Race is this close because they have their like Texas
has their definitive quarterback.
Speaker 5: They definitely Yeah, Jordan think that's a big deal Arch.
Speaker 7: Meaning big deal, Yeah, because you you want your starter
at this point the season. But I'll say this, this
is not some indictment on Julian saying Lincoln keen Holes
can play football. If anybody knows anything about this guy,
I think this is going to be no big deal
in the long run because it's gonna make these two
guys better. Lincoln keen Holes, he can play. I love
what Julian saying can do. Julian Sayan is gonna win
this competition, Like it's it just that that that's what
it's going to be. But yeah, it's kind of a
big deal that because if nothing else, like Matt talked
about with Jay Kaneer entering the competition, you want as
many first team reps as you can get. That's a
big deal for me. But no big deal because I
think both guys are actually pretty good.
Speaker 6: Hey, you say it's going to make both guys better
if it's going to make the offense not as good, Yeah, yeah,
it doesn't matter like it one got better, It one
got way better instead of both guys a little better.
It's my thoughts. Big deal, no big deal. Take it
to the NFL. Someone that most people around here do
not like hate the Falcons. I want to say, no big,
big deal, no big deal. Kirk Cousins then Uggins been
outspoken on the Netflix documentary QB about you know, how
he felt blindsided with the Penis draft and not playing
and has kind of been you know for him, which
is kind of a reserved not gonna like speak opinion
too much, especially like derogatory, kind of been outspoken about
being disappointed with the backup role and how everything played
out with Penis. They signed him to one hundred million
dollars and then they draft a guy number eight overall.
But what the big deal? No big deal? Part to
me is he's still on the roster and after publicly
stating his disappointment, and now you're on a group of
men who are trying to follow another person at quarterback
and build a franchise around him. So kirk Cousins still
on the roster for the foul big deal, no big deal, So.
Speaker 3: He's going to handle it about as well as you
possibly can't handle that.
Speaker 6: I thrue.
Speaker 3: I think we know that about Kirk Cousins. Uh, if
you don't find the right trade partner, if you don't
feel like you're getting valued, do you really want to
just release him and just pay this money to this quarterback.
Speaker 5: And not have his veteran leadership there.
Speaker 3: That's a tough deal. And also, like I think Michael
Pennix is awesome. He was my second favorite quarterback behind
Jayden in that cap off, I do too, And so
I think he's going to be the guy. But it
is like the ultimate kind of security blanket.
Speaker 5: If he's not or if he did go.
Speaker 3: Down, you do have somebody that has certainly had big
moments in the league. If I'm the Falcons because I
think Kurt's going to handle it right. At the end
of the day, I think he should be on this rock.
Speaker 6: Big deal deal. Yeah, I'll give my opinion, then we'll
kick it over. But I'll give like a contrarian opinion
to this because I think that if you're trying to
start fresh, there's always going to be whether how how
well he handles it, how much of the people there's
alway gonna be a little bit of a dark cloud
with that situation until he just like clean clear the
slate completely. That's individually based. Like I remember when I
was in Seattle and I didn't start I was a
dark cloud for multiple weeks. I was not happy. Everybody
knew it. They knew it, now I didn't. I mean
maybe I tried to. No, I didn't. I eventually tried too.
You still tell, right, So I get it, like he's
he's he's gonna have that disappointment, but you're right, he
is going to handle it the best. But I do
think it's a big deal when you have a guy
that you invested an eighth pick, an eighth overall pick
on who you're saying he is your guy. The team
looked like they had a poll slash year when Kirk
Cousins got pinched for him and then you got this guy.
It's like, there's this got a contract, all this stuff.
I say, try to move him or cut bait with him,
let him go, you know, do his thing, big y LDRA.
I kind of think it's no big deal.
Speaker 5: Just because I don't really care boom.
Speaker 6: About the fact is good, answer is fair. So it's weird.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna say big deal for all the reasons Jake mentioned.
It's a big deal that you have a quarterback that
has started what ten years in this league. Michael Pennock
showed promise last year, but he still only played four games, Like,
we still really don't know. We think he's going to
be good, but if he's not, Kirk's an insurance policy.
And I do agree about the black cloud thing. But
if Kirk Cousins is the guy I think he is,
he's going to handle this like a pro, at least
inside the locker room.
Speaker 6: So I think it's a.
Speaker 7: Big deal because you probably got the best quarterback situation
in the league right now in terms of starter and backup.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with that you do have one of
the top but I think, yeah, you do have one
of the top like situations for sure. I just think
for God to like feel that it's his he actually
owns the keys of this car, and he doesn't have
someone sitting in the front seat right and like jump
into the driver's seat. I think, sometimes you gotta gotta
cut bait and I could, I know, and I get it,
like Kirk's probably gonna be awesome and be awesome of
the situation. I just think in that situation it could
go downhill or maybe not downhills a word for it.
Speaker 8: But I think both of them have a good head
on their shoulders though for sure.
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, everybody's a competitor. Yeah,
and Kirk, like you, what you can't hide is Kirk's experience.
And like in the back of everybody's mind, if Pennis
thows a couple of picks, they're like, we got Kirk.
Look he did that seven years ago when he was
you know what the commanders are like whoever, it was like,
we've seen him do these things. Pinnix is struggling little bit.
Penix is gonna struggle at times. He's in yer being
a starter. There's gonna be ups and downs. I just
think the back of everybody's mind, if you just get
rid of that option, then it's like, all right, everybody behind,
let's hold the rope for Pennis.
Speaker 7: Well to your point, what's probably stings the most for Kirk.
Remember he was not traded. He chose the Atlanta Falcon Right. Now,
look at what the vita and what everybody saying, Oh
it's Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 6: Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 7: Doesn't matter whose quarterback is, They're gonna be good regardless.
He could have stayed at Minnesota. He gave up everything
to go back to Atlanta.
Speaker 6: So that's why I bring up the document because in
the documentary he states if I would have known they
were not he said, the organization misled me. If I
would have known they were taking Panix, I would not
have signed here.
Speaker 5: Ye fair, I get it.
Speaker 6: But you can't take those words. And I get that,
like that's a completely normal thing. If everybody would feel
that way. I'm just saying those words are out there
in the ether.
Speaker 3: So all right, ta, all right, Wait the laundry E
didn't go yet. You're so long on Flynns, my God,
say something of the rest of it.
Speaker 6: I want some Falcons headlines.
Speaker 8: So that was a good that was a good big dealer,
no big deal, big dealer, no big deal show Tani
yesterday went both sides of the ball. Uh pitched four innings,
one earned run, eight strikeouts. But at the plate, so
you get eight strikeouts and four innings one earned run,
but they're got the plate. My man goes yard for
his one thousandth career hit.
Speaker 5: He's got a thousand in the big leagues already.
Speaker 8: Yes, I feel like that in and of itself is
a big deal.
Speaker 3: But like to go.
Speaker 8: Yard for the thousandth hit, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: Everything RB I, by the way, everything and anything that
he does is a big deal.
Speaker 6: Eight k isn't a homer.
Speaker 5: And then like the nicest.
Speaker 3: Human being, it seems like when he goes to the
plate for.
Speaker 8: Thee look, everybody's got their later under the bus.
Speaker 6: But he's probably real good at gambling. He's just hiding it.
He probably does.
Speaker 3: Like it's like he tips his cap to the opposing manager,
like when he steps into the box as a sign
of respect. I don't know, man, I just I think
it's a cool story that we've never seen anybody really
like modern day yeah, and he's doing it and not
just doing it, but he's dominating. He can dominate him
now and he can certainly dominate in the batter's box.
Speaker 6: That is.
Speaker 5: Anything he does is a huge deal.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's funny. Just like the things that he does
is so incredible. Like if if anybody else did one
of the things that he does, it'd be like, Wow,
this guy's amazing. Could be Is he a Hall of Famer?
I don't know, but like he does it so much,
like we have to question is it a big deal anymore?
Speaker 5: I get what you're saying, but yeah, it's still is
it is?
Speaker 6: Absolutely Yeah, I get we're just so used to It's
like Alabama when they were winning it.
Speaker 5: Even though it's like the most impressiveness.
Speaker 8: Has been in the MLB since twenty eighteen, already has
one thousand.
Speaker 5: It's crazy. And with injuries.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he was injured like all last season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, cool, before we got a big deal or
no big deal. So New England and Washington had their
joint practice yesterday and there was a big brawl on
the field and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel
jumped into the pile of players. Yes that's what we're
trying to build, and it starts with the head coach.
It's intensity and bringing it every day and taking no
crap when we're out on the field. It's the mentality
that I want, so big deal or no big deal.
The head coach getting into it with the players in
the scrum.
Speaker 3: Okay, so it's a huge deal that he has their
back and he's in the foxhole. That is incredible. I
say no big deal because it's rapes it like if
it was any other coach, you'd be a big deal
on both rages. Tried to fight you after every play,
Like I played against him when he was in Kansas City.
I think maybe one to New England, but mostly Kansas City,
and he would just like create drama in his own head.
I think it's like do I didn't even say, like,
what are you talking about? I didn't say anything. He's
trying to fight you. That's who he is. You don't
lose that just because you got to whistle around your neck. Now,
that is not shocking at all. I would have loved
to play for Rames.
Speaker 6: So he who would use tackling fuel. Is that what
you're saying?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: And walk around it's kind of like that. Same for
water Boy, and he's like, no, no, what you just
He's just thinking things in his head, like what did
he did he go after dan Quinn? It doesn't say
dan Quinn. Dan's at old to be mixing it up.
Speaker 3: Dam would mix it up, though, he would. You don't
wear backwards that unless you mean business, you know. Colin Cowherd,
what a yeah for that?
Speaker 6: By the way, So yeah, so big deal because that's awesome.
And I love like, I gotta lead, I gotta get
into the frame because that's what we're trying to build there,
which highlights what we talked about yesterday. You getting some yeah,
fight each other, like a fight, a fight something joy.
Speaker 5: So give me the boy, You'll be fine. You'll be
fine five minutes afterwards.
Speaker 6: That's the line, coach. I'm sure he got some.
Speaker 7: Might Vrabel ten career receptions, all touchdowns.
Speaker 5: At player. Man, he was a really he had he
had these arms that like just.
Speaker 3: You you couldn't find your way into blocking him because
he would just extend those long ass arms that he had,
and he was a monster. He'd be pretty cool to
have a dose skis or two with as well. I
think he'd go for dose with us. I saw him
with our fellows will Compton, their version of Tata busting boys.
I bet they can delete some dose Sekis. I bet
they've gone for dose a couple of times or two.
You should go for dose. That's a great time to
go for dose. It's about to be tailgating dose time.
So when you set the tailgate, make sure you have
an ice chest full, ice cold thanky.
Speaker 6: Don't go for in, go for ghost those seconds. Thank
cold ice cold Mexican lagger. Have it in your fridge
at home. I like to keep a little icy mug
in the freezer. Pop it out, cut a line open.
There's nothing better, nothing more fresh, especially in summer. Getting ready, man,
we're getting ready for tailgate, and that is perfect beard
deleting time. So drink responsibly, go for dose. Drink those
secies all right.
Speaker 3: When we come back, it is time for munchies with
chef Michael Johnson. Go ahead and get those munchy questions
in the BUYU for chat. We'll get to as many
as we can because you know, last week, I'm not
sure that we asked one question because we just went
off with our own munchie questions. This week, we're gonna
ask you your bunchie questions and we'll do it right here.
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What we do watching screen is getting high. You keep
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Speaker 5: Let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalyze your taste buds and leave this
segment hungry. This is Monkey's with Executive Chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 5: Chef, what's going on? Brother?
Speaker 3: I am sure you are drinking out of a fire
hose right now. With training camp and trying to make
sure everybody is fed and ready to go. People losing
eleven pounds in one practice and Chef's got to make
sure they gain it all back, and.
Speaker 5: So we do appreciate the time as always.
Speaker 9: Sir, Absolutely no problem.
Speaker 5: Guess hashtag munchies.
Speaker 3: Do you ever attend cooking classes like at Redstick Spice
And would you ever consider having your own cooking classes?
Speaker 9: Uh? You know the cooking classes that I do are
actually with the athletes. So yeah, so we we we
do like teaching kitchens. I did roll with basketball not
too long ago, and I mean we try to do
them with each sport or at least give them an
opportunity to so that, you know, it's it's kind of
an educative life lesson for them as well. And it
also helps me build rapport and relationship with the athletes,
you know, specifically the younger ones that are coming in
that you know, are that the upper classmen you know,
have been with us for four years and so that
it's the relationships for there, so for transfers and freshmen
and even some sophomores. You know, it offers us opportunity
to food brings people together, right, So it's just just
one of those things.
Speaker 6: Cheat hashtag munchies here. What is the worst experience with
fire you've ever had in the kitchen?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 9: Well, there's been a few where I start, you know,
I had during Amazon. You know, we we used to
do Amazon and we were using these corn the devices
that you put the food in were actually made out
of like corn shucks, and they caught fire. I mean,
there was like fifty thousand people in the in the
in the stadium that day because it was it was
a it was a catering event and one of our
stands cots, you know, like it was. It was a
big deal. I mean there was smoke rolling out of
the out of the stand, out of the you know,
the concession stand, and it got quite hairy. During a
baseball game one time, we had a fire kitch on
fire and it's set the antle system off. And I
don't know if you know what ANSEL is, but it's
it's it's it's a pressurized tank, you know, like if
you if you look at a fire extinguisher, it is
much like a fire extinguisher, but on a larger scale,
and it's it's piped or plumbed into these nozzles that
sit over top of the devices that you're cooking in, right,
And so it tripped the ANSEL system. And the crazy
part was is the antle system failed and so we
had we had to shut the building down because we
had to shut the stand down because of that. And
then the next day we had to shut the building
down because they were like, what the heck ansel isn't working.
If we have a fire like that, there's there's a
you know, the fire marshal is usually the health department
and people, you know, health department can shut down a restaurant,
but the fire marshal is the one that can shut
it down quickest. So yeah, we we've we've I've had
a few uh hairy days with fire in the kitchen.
Speaker 6: Before you hashtags ahead, I was.
Speaker 9: Just gonna say, the thing about a fire in the
kitchen is you have to be the one that has
a calm mind and not freaking out right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be great at that hashtag munchies. Does chef
have an Alabama white sauce recipe?
Speaker 9: We I do, but we don't use it too terribly often.
You know, it's like mayonnaise forward, and we try not
to we we try not to serve that too terribly much.
You know, it's it's not super healthy for you.
Speaker 6: But yeah, people, yeah, it's a good.
Speaker 3: People don't realize how much of a punch that sauces
can pack, Like you can get in some real trouble,
real fast with sauces and dressing.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, man, the connoments are you gotta You've got to
check economis, man. I mean there's there's some fat stuff
in there, and only that a lot of a lot
of the stuff that comes commercial from the stores. Uh,
that's got stabilizers and preservatives in it, and that's the
stuff that we're trying to keep out of the human body.
Speaker 6: Hi seg bunchies ask chef what his favorite fish is
to grill, So I'm assuming, like a outside grilling, what's
your favorite fish?
Speaker 9: Well, not to be as smart Alec, but it's the
one that I just caught you. And I mean that,
you know, like flavor wise though, gosh, that's that's it's
gonna be tough because I like, you know, grouper triple tails,
delicious fish, you know, on the grill, it's gonna be
something firm, you know, like snapper, grouper, tilefish, triple tails,
something like that.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 9: I love the deep fry speckled trout and those softer fish.
I mean, even tuna, you know, like I like to
slap tuna on the grill real quickly and then and
give it a sere But I mean, honestly, you guys know,
I fish, and so it really the piece of fish
that I love the most is the one that's just caught,
that's fresh. And you know, fishing, you can't really control
what you can target. Try to target the fish. But yeah,
I mean I rarely have I found a fish I
didn't like, the you know, chef.
Speaker 3: Kind of going back to sauces, and I'm with you
on that, Like when you catch the fish, it just
taste better going back to sauces though, because we had
some questions inside the chat as well, maybe about some
sauces that you use there with the players, knowing that
you've got to be careful about, you know, what is
truly in these sauces as far as fat content, the
calories and all that stuff.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so it's a good question, you know. Like we,
for instance, we did something on green mes the other
day just to kind of brighten it up and make
it taste a little bit different and making a more
vibrant dish. We took olive oil and a little bit
of butter so that the olive oil tastes like butter,
and then we making emulsion with that with like a
vegetable stock or a chicken stock or a flavorful liquid
by putting xanthin gum into the oil and it stabilizes
the mixture together. You can finds anthem gun. But but
what happens is you kind of it's it's almost like
making a vinaigrette, right, and you get the flavor from
the butter, you get the flavor from the stock kind
of blended together. It's it's almost like a balute if
you will. Uh, and it's I don't know it. It's
just a really vibrant, flavorful sauce. We use a lot
of vinegar, balsamic and white vinegars.
Speaker 6: We used.
Speaker 9: We're all tons of really high end olive oils, you know,
Like we get into the varietals of the olives, of
the olives, not just bolling buying extra virgin olive oil.
Like we get into picules and our bichinas and coja
blanca and stuff like that, because specific varietals have higher polyphenols,
and so we we have to pay attention to that.
It's not just cheap, every day, run of the mill
mixed blend olive oil. Like we we look at the
specific i tools of the of the olives.
Speaker 6: Jeff, you're talking about zanthon ga, you cant got like
food sciencey on that guy excited from being like my
background the food and beverage world. It's like that that
that's pretty cool that you go into that much deep thought,
just like normal dressings and sauces and things like that.
But the hashtag bunches. Can you taste the difference? So
when you're fishing, you talked about fresh fish? Can you
taste the difference when you immediately clean a fish or
stick it in the ice chest for a couple hours
and clean it later. Is there is there a difference
of getting it cut and bled out and everything like
right there?
Speaker 9: Yeah, well you said the word there bled out right
Like there are fish that you can you know, like
a larger species of fish if the bloodline's not thick,
I think that you can put it in the ice
chest and get a similar taste. But it is the
bleeding out like it. I think it's always better to
bleed the fish out immediately so that you don't have
to worry about that because the bleeding out process, for
people who don't understand it, fish urinate through the bloodstream
through a lot of fish do at least through their
through their skin and the bloodline runs up against the
side of the skin and it permeates out of the skin.
And so if you don't believe the fish and leave
the blood in the fish when and you don't know,
Also you need to clean the blood line out of
it just to be safe. But you know, if you
bite into that when you're cooking it, it tastes like
uratic acid, which translates into urine if you will, you know,
like it can it can, it can? It can taste
really bad, right, And so yeah, I think there is
something for the for the purests, you know. I do
think that there is a you know, flight differences there
and not so slight when you are you know, likely
leaving the blood line in and not being careful about that.
Speaker 3: Hashtag munchies do chef use milk solids from clarifying butter
to flavor sauces so there is less.
Speaker 9: Fat I guess we have in the past. I mean, honestly,
we don't cook with a whole lot of butter. We
cook with a lot of oils. You healthier oils, You
can do that, But there's a process to it, and
it's you know what I mean, Like for me, it's
why do we go to the length of doing that
when there's other things that are better that serve the
same purpose.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there is flavor in it for sure, and they
have their value, but we we kind of avoid it
by not using butter. I mean, we use very little
butter there. We you know, like that there are times
where butter is necessary. Sometimes I just have to put
butter in mashed potatoes because it's the right thing to do.
But by and large, if we're cooking with it, you know,
like sauteing or something, we'll use we use like we
have a saute blend oil that has rice Rice brand
oil in it. It has some canola, has a little
olive oil in there for flavor, but it's been blended
and constructed for high heats purposes and it's you know,
like the tolerance of it is up five hundred degrees
to be in a saute pan. If we're mixing oil
into a salad, you know, we're going to use extra
virgin olive oil. If we're you know, putting it on chicken.
To put it in an oven, we use a blend
that's a fifty to fifty blend of olive oil and
canola oil or so so, I mean the food at
the nutrition center is what I call thoughtful food. You know,
Matt said it a minute ago. You know, there's there's
a thought process that goes into it, that dives deeper
into each thing that we do, right, and some people
some people get that and some people don't. But for us,
it's what makes the difference in the kitchen and in
the food.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, uh, just like to expand on the whole
using the oil, it was like, what's the I know,
there's a like a I don't know if it's popular,
it's just recently I figure there's kind of a war
against like seed oils out there. Do you know anything
about this? Like what's the health concerns and what's the
all time?
Speaker 5: Does he know anything about this?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 9: I mean honestly, I haven't pee too terribly much attention
because I never really bought into the seed oil process,
you know, because seed oils are so expensive in order
to get it. I think it has something to do
with GMOs and and like you know, like what's actually
in the plant itself that it's passing through into the
seed and it gets stored into the body fats and
it's not healthy stuff necessarily like it's not it's not
necessarily the oil, but it's stuff that the oil carries
with it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I never really got into seed oils though, because you know,
like for a for a small butter, for a small
bottle of seed oil, you can buy six olive oils.
You know that, you it. I never just bought into it.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 9: I go with what I feel is best and what
my research has said. And you know, plus I'm an Italian,
so I love all of uh you know, I mean
you can go avocado oil and stuff like that, which
is healthy, but it's super expensive and and for me
running you know, I am running a business, so you know,
it's cost prohibitive to you know, feed five hundred people.
You know, grape seed oil it's you know, it's it's
it's it's just not going to happen, right, I have
to I have to be smart about my money. So
I never really got into it. And so they can
say what they want about the seeds. It does with
it kind of matter not to me.
Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 1: Com from players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU
football like only champions can.
Speaker 3: Definitely let this breathe give me, give me fifteen seconds
of people.
Speaker 9: United your body.
Speaker 6: You've found somebody who makes you change you wait like
hanging Wich You who should you act like?
Speaker 5: You ready?
Speaker 4: Even you don't really know hit everything in.
Speaker 5: Your past, won't let it go. I've been there, Doney,
all right, I'm sure if you got the nit the
version had to call in that one. I think you did.
I don't know either way. Welcome back in what a hit?
Such the words?
Speaker 3: Uh the New Orleans Saints are out west, out there
in SOCl the land of Flynn.
Speaker 6: Gross, you've never.
Speaker 3: Been like you only know Oakland, Oakland, California. Ain't even
as like Orange County and San Diego.
Speaker 6: I hate it.
Speaker 3: Wow, Boo left Coast Diego, home of Camp Pendleton, home
of Mira mar top Gun never heard of it used
to be not anymore, but still it was. I guess
you don't Cornado where the Navy train.
Speaker 6: Every single sounds like a terry person family supporter out there.
But the rest of California except for Napa. Love the wine.
That's a good time.
Speaker 5: God, I love the wine. Who are you and what'd
you do with my quarterback?
Speaker 6: Wait? Are you saying be gritty to drink wine? No,
but the way you just said, the way you have
ever done a Napatra and Napa trip is like really fun.
Speaker 3: That's my dream, like going to a Napa trip.
Speaker 6: Nothing. I'm just saying, like you you're weird. It's a
weird thing, you know.
Speaker 3: I'm saying like I'm sitting here talking about the military.
I'm we're talking about Camp Pendleton and Mira mar I'm
sitting here trying to lift up our troops and you're
over there talking about, Yeah, the wine's graat in Napa.
Speaker 6: First of all, I was talking about what probably most
people feel here in Louisiana is that California stinks. And
then you brought this, like into this whole military situation,
which I said, I all love it. That's a great
part of the only good part of California. And then
I said, except you know, the wine part that's good
all right, let's don't you put that evil on me.
Just you put that slanderous word.
Speaker 5: What did you put that on me?
Speaker 3: Ricky, Bobby exactly think you said it. I just reported
the news, but no, I.
Speaker 6: Didn't say it. We want to think all our story.
Speaker 5: Just stop. You've already the juice is already out of
the container.
Speaker 3: But what OTV loves the troops? Yeah, this was supposed
to be a Saint segment. It's right there, like behind me,
a Saint segment. Taylor's just fuming over there because I
know he needs.
Speaker 9: It all right.
Speaker 8: You got two minutes ago.
Speaker 6: I know he needs it all right.
Speaker 3: When the Saints get back from Southern California, I want
to know who the starting quarterback is going to be.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 3: That you are in a position right now where you
need to have a quarterback name so the the fellas,
the troops can rally around said quarterback. I just think
it's different than college football, and Matt, maybe you disagree
with me. You've been in quarterback battles. I have not,
so I don't know, but I'm just telling you from
a position player, I want to know who my guy
is going to be. And I think if you play
this preseason game and there's there's signs pointing to Schuck
or Ratler, whoever. I think it's gonna be Raller. I
think we all do. Why wait? Why wait? If the
reports are true from the people that we respect, checking
Mount Louisiana Sports done net, Ratler's been the better quarterback.
And if he goes out against the Chargers, who scoring
defense last year was top in the league, and he
plays well, why wait naming the starting quarterback?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I mean, I understand your point, but frankly, nobody's
opinion matters except for one person's opinion. And it's hard
to make a decision when you go into a training
camp with a true quarterback battle, and you mean it
as a head coach, you say it is an open competition.
You can't make a decision before at least one game. Now,
you couldn't have a really good idea. And then I
think in the first game, if he proves everybody right
and what he's done the first two weeks, his body
of work that he's done so far in training camp,
if that shows up in game one of preseason, then
I think it's a different conversation. But you can't have
that you can't make that decision if it was truly
open after just two weeks of practice, especially two weeks
of pritice, whereas three people rotating. Now, if it was
just two people and there was a clear, clear difference
between one and two, yeah, but with a third, there's
just you know, those a third less reps for both
those guys. So I think you can't make that decision
if it was a true open competition, which it is,
until you at least see it with the uniform on.
And I agree with that decision. But I agree with
you what your statement in your stands, like you you
have to know like this this is the NFL. You
can't wait until August thirtieth to make a decision. Yeah,
I guess it. Like like all the teammates, all the
teammates want somebody to rally behind, like they want a team.
They want to interlock arms and walk forward. Yeah, they
don't want to keep changing those people that are interlocking arts.
They want to like have one established group.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, that's my point is if if it's clear,
which it seems like it's been.
Speaker 6: Seems like but it still has so if it continues
to be.
Speaker 3: Clear, that look, if Ratler goes out there and he
doesn't play well, and shut lights it up, stay open,
stay open. Then you give yourself maybe another week. But
you I feel like you wasted time. Giving Jake Hayner
one reps for two days of training camp feels like
wasted reps.
Speaker 5: So I feel like you're already behind the eight ball.
Speaker 3: So if Spencer Ratler goes out there, plays well against
the Chargers, naming the starter, if he struggles and Shuck
plays well, keep it open, and you can keep it
open for another week, but you you've kind of shown
that you're you know, you've gone from three to two.
If Rattler goes out there and plays well, again, he's
been the leader in the clubhouse. Just name the starter,
allow the team to rally around him and move forward
Spencer Rattler and keep Tyler Schuck ready, continue to develop him,
and if Ratley doesn't play well in the season, maybe
you make that change. But as somebody that's you know,
in that huddle, in that backfield, I want to start
to hear the voice, not just another voice.
Speaker 6: I'll play a little devil's advocate, just on my experience
when I was in Seattle first.
Speaker 5: Two weeks all the time.
Speaker 6: I take that I was the best quarterback first two
weeks of Seattle training camp. I didn't like show out
great in the first preseason game I was there for.
I only played like ten or fifteen plays the first
preseason game. Russell played really well and he continued to
play well in the games. Then it just like, but
that was so you can't like completely Basically you got
to see it in the game.
Speaker 5: And we've got a game, not tonight, not the.
Speaker 6: It was yesterday, Sunday, Sunday.
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for you to defend yourself.
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