Speaker 1: Welcome Man.
Speaker 2: Hour number three, Thursday edition of Off the Bench. Tayler
Schopper with you in place of Jacob Pester and Team
bave a Bear. They will be back next week.
Speaker 1: So we're here here.
Speaker 2: We're here with you for one more hour today and
tomorrow as well. What a kind of recap hours one
and two Hour one. We're very LSU heavy. We led
recapping the LSU baseball game, complete turnaround from the eleven
to nine near loss that they had against North Dakota
State on Tuesday night. LSU run rules the Bison thirteen
to three and seven innings. Last night, did my position
preview for LSU spring practices that get started on Saturday.
We took a deep dive into the LSU dB position,
talked a little New Orleans Saints NFL Draft. In the
second hour, we were joined by rawlsh Jackson. He kind
of gave us a behind the scenes look of what
it's like at the NFL combine an hour number three,
We're gonna have some fun. We got big dealer, no
big deal coming up. LSU executive chef Michael Johnson is
in today at nine to fifteen, his normal spot for
that Munchie segment and then, of course we will close
the out as we do every day with ask the
bench right now, though, let's get it started with some
big deal or no big deal deal, no big.
Speaker 3: Deal, big deal, no big deal, big deal.
Speaker 1: No big deal, no big deal. I don't it's a
big deal, big dealer, no big deal. Okay.
Speaker 2: So at the Oscars on Sunday night, Adrian Brody won
Best Actor for his role in the movie The Brutalist. Okay, well,
conclave about electing a new pope and these guys were
stabbing each other in the back. Was up for it
as well. And Ralph Finney's I believe that's how you
say his last name. He's been in a ton of stuff.
He played Baltimore and Harry Potter. He's been in everything.
A lot of people thought he should have won.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Apparently, two reports came out that multiple Oscars voters said
they did not vote for him because he won an
Oscar for Best Actor in Schindler's List way back in
the day.
Speaker 1: There's only one problem.
Speaker 2: Ralph did not win the best Oscar for Best Actor
back in Schindler's List, so he may have gotten smub
for no reason.
Speaker 1: Big deal or no big deal.
Speaker 3: I think that's a big deal because Ralph honestly does
not get the love that he does.
Speaker 4: He is an incredible actor.
Speaker 3: And using the excuse that he already won one is
like such a stupid excuse.
Speaker 2: Like because first off, give it to the person who
deserves it, regardles to it.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't think I'm looking him up right now.
I don't think he's ever won in Austin is not,
so that's just messed up. And I never saw Adrian
Brodie's movie, what movie Brutalist?
Speaker 1: I've never seen it, do that.
Speaker 4: I saw some of Conclave, so.
Speaker 1: Conola's pretty good. Yeah, I started watching it the other day.
Speaker 3: Ralph, he has been snubbed his entire career, so I
feel bad for him.
Speaker 4: I think that's a huge deal.
Speaker 3: I think that the Oscars are just so stupid, like
all of the winners. I don't think anybody agreed even
on the internet with like any of them.
Speaker 4: So it's just what are y'all doing?
Speaker 2: So I checked he won a BAFTA Award for Best
Actor in Schindler's List. Yeah that's not an Oscar. So
first off, like a Landra said, give it to whoever
deserves it, regardless of if they've won zero, if they've won.
Speaker 4: Five, meritocracy is dead.
Speaker 2: Secondly, you didn't go check to make sure you were
right when you thought he won the Oscar for Best
Actor in himlos less right.
Speaker 1: What the hell are we doing here?
Speaker 2: So not only are you not voting honestly and merit based,
you don't even have your facts correct on who's won
an Oscar and who has it. Yeah, this is a
big deal for the Oscar's voting is a joke. We
talked about it on Monday. It's always kind of like
which movie is the most artsy and all this, Like,
I gotta be honest, the best film that wins every year,
I feel like it's never actually the best film, Like
the movie that everyone likes that everyone talks about, like
never actually wins for best Film.
Speaker 1: I think this is a big deal. Laundri you got one, Yeah,
I do, big deal?
Speaker 4: Are no big deal?
Speaker 3: The phones that was dropping bombs on he's auctioning them off,
so you can buy the phone that was Now it's
the twenty twenty one NBA Finals Suns versus Bucks credential.
Oh no, you can buy his credential for seven hundred
and fifty dollars. You can buy his credential to the
twenty twenty four NBA Finals for nine hundred dollars. You
can buy his draft credential when wim Min Yama was
drafted for nine hundred and.
Speaker 4: Twenty five dollars.
Speaker 3: His iPhone used for the farewell post and final NBA
Draft one thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars. iPhone used
for the twenty twenty three Draft lottery two thousand, seven
hundred dollars and the most No.
Speaker 4: Second most expensive one iPhone used.
Speaker 3: To break the news that the NBA suspended its season
due to COVID three thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Can you guess which wash bomb that he used the
phone for was the most expensive?
Speaker 4: I think it's a little.
Speaker 3: Surprising, but the most expensive For the most expensive washbomb
that he dropped.
Speaker 1: I'd be like five k Anthony Davis to the Lakers? Okay?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is it Anthony Davis to retrade team involving Kawhi, Leonard,
Paul George, Kevin, Duran Irving and Anthony Davis in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4: It's five thousand dollars for that iPhone?
Speaker 1: Okay, So this is fine.
Speaker 2: I get it that people want like sports memorabilia, but
like it's not who cares?
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess this is my point. Like it's
a cell phone.
Speaker 2: First off, like Woje great, Look, everybody loved the good
Wojes bombs and all that. He's not like that famous
right like fifteen years from now, people are going to
be back. Adrian Wojanowski us this to uh tweet out
the Anthony Davis trade, Like yeah, so.
Speaker 4: Let me actually care.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you what he's auctioning them off for.
As you know he is, or maybe you don't know,
he's now the general manager for his old alma mater, Saint.
Speaker 1: Bonaventry Universe, the Bonnies.
Speaker 4: So all the money is going to their nil fund.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to make me feel bad
and be like, oh, it's going to charity, it's going to.
Speaker 1: Some disease research.
Speaker 2: I'm paying five thousand dollars for a useless cell phone
used by Adrian Wodjenalski to help out the Saint Bonaventure
nil fund.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: This is a big deal that first off, he's pricing
it that much, and I know somebody out there is
gonna be like, oh five grand, what a steal. I'm
gonna buy that old fund. It's not worth anything. That
phone is never going to appreciate in value. Like ten
years from now, nobody's going to care what he tweeted
out about what trade. They're not even gonna remember who
broke the news ten years from now? What are you
gonna do with a credential to the NBA Finals?
Speaker 4: Right, it doesn't even have your name on it?
Speaker 3: Like me, I ken't like I kept my Super Bowl credential,
but it at least has my name on it, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But even that, like, you're not gonna sell it's not
worth I know.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying it, Like I'm agreeing with you,
but like it's what are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 1: Big deal that he felt this was a good idea
big deal.
Speaker 4: As for the nil fund, I think.
Speaker 1: Jordan, you got one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a big dealer, No big deal. So Travis Scott
was the Elimination Chamber or WWE and he, oh, well,
he's smacked Cody Rhoads pretty hard and raptured his ear
drum and gave him a black eye.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. Yes, it's supposed to be fake.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so big dealer, no big deal. Ruptured ear drum
and a black eye from a smack by Travis.
Speaker 3: I mean that sounds pretty painful. I would say that's
a big deal. Also, do you not know that it's
supposed to be fake and you're not supposed to really
slap the out of somebody?
Speaker 2: Also, like you're Travis Scott and you slap the Cody
Rhoads Like, okay, I get it, wrestling's fake. Cody Rhoades
could kick your ass, Like let's let's just point that
out right now, Like it's one thing for like a
wrestler to be like, oh, you know, I missed on
a move and I did this and somebody got hurt.
You're going to come into the ww as a guest
show your butt like that, slap somebody ruptured ear drum,
give him a black eye, and just walk off like
nothing happened, Like no, this is this is.
Speaker 1: A huge deal.
Speaker 2: Like it's stuff like this where you don't want to
bring celebrities.
Speaker 1: Back in it anymore, you know what I mean. It's
like a little too seriously, Like then bad Bunny, a.
Speaker 4: Great job doing it.
Speaker 1: Some people are able to handle it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, but like I can't imagine what Cody
wrote his thought, like he was like, there's here, no
way this is actually happening right now, Like you're Travis Scott,
you're a rapper, You're not in the w W. You're
a guest here, you w W wrestler, you could be
doing that. No, that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: Big deal, Yeah, a.
Speaker 4: Big deal and stupid.
Speaker 5: And my next you can go again. If you get
another will have to be Happy Gilmore too. We'll release
on Netflix July twenty fifth.
Speaker 2: Big deal or no deal, guys, this is going to
be one of the worst movies you ever watched. Mark No, no, no, no, no, no,
Mark my words. First off, Happy Gilmore and Shooter McGavin
are sixty years old right now. Are what is their
role going to be? Like I'm hoping it's not just
like one of those things where it's like, oh, well,
Happy he's the coach now and like happy guy.
Speaker 1: I don't want that.
Speaker 2: One I want is something like Shooter McGavin's golf went
down the toilet after.
Speaker 1: He lost the half bound and down kind of never recovered.
Speaker 2: Happy went on, Yeah, to have like a Tiger Woods
like super successful golf career, Shooter never got over it.
Shooter's insane now, and like Shooter needs that rematch. I'm
hoping it's something like that and not just like the
exact same movie. We do different people in it. Yeah,
something like that, at least something different. It may be
a miss, It will likely be a miss regardless, but
Netflix only, we at least need something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no big deal.
Speaker 3: I'm sick of sequel, sick of remakes, Like, come up
with something new, you know, especially.
Speaker 2: If it's a sequel twenty years, three years after the original.
Speaker 3: It's it's not gonna need it's it's not Did we
talk about Max Crosby already?
Speaker 1: Are you can mentioned it yet?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 4: A big deal or no big deal?
Speaker 3: Max Crosby staying with the Raiders on a record breaking
three year, one hundred and six point five million dollar deal.
I think it's a big deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: It completely resets the face of the Raiders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it completely resets the market for all these pass
rushers that are up for new contracts as well. Like
I just mentioned, Joey Bosa got cut, He's going to
be looking for a new deal. Is he going to
get the Matt Is he going to get the Max
Crosby deal now? No, but he's gonna get a lot
more than he was going to get before this deal.
Michah Parsons is up for a new contract. He has
to get paid. What's his deal going to look like?
Miles Garrett wants to be traded out of Cleveland and
his contract with them is almost up. Anyways, what's his
deal going to look like? Because honestly, like Miles Garrets
more accomplished than most of the other guys I just
mentioned as far as longevity and production in this league.
This is a huge deal in my opinion. I mean,
this completely resets the pass rusher market in a market
that was already getting the bag. Anyways, all right, one
more big dealer, new big deal for me, big dealer,
new big deal. Speaking of record breaking contracts, the Philadelphia
Eagles have given Saquon Barkley a two year, forty one
and a half million dollar deal, making him the highest
paid running back in NFL history.
Speaker 1: Big deal or no big deal.
Speaker 5: Very big deal, because this is kind of defeating a
narrative that running backs don't matter. I mean, and say,
let's call it what it Isuon deserves his bag, like
regardless of the fact the man came in, showed up,
almost broke the rushing yard record and got a Super
Bowl on top of that, reward him paid him. Shout
out Saquon, So I think it's a big deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, huge deal.
Speaker 3: Saquon is obviously one of the best running backs, if
not the best running back in the league right now.
So he needed to be paid, and the Giants ever
did it.
Speaker 4: So what someone else won't do, someone else will, So
big deal.
Speaker 1: Big deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely a big deal for me. Not only did
Saquon deserve it. Look, he had one of the most
dominating years we've ever seen in the NFL. He almost
broke the rushing record. He would have if they wouldn't
have taken him out that last game. He still hated
that they did that. They are lucky that they won
the Super Bowl. He goes, he wins the Super Bowl.
That offense is kind of based around him. Here's a
bigger deal than that, Saquon Barkley about twenty million a
year twenty one million a year, give or take. He
would he's the highest paid running back in the NFL history.
Speaker 1: He would be.
Speaker 2: The eighteenth highest paid wide receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Oh, wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: He would be right in front of Mike Evans.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: Damn, that's a bigger deal to me. Like, look, I
get it. You could say running backs are a dime
a dozen. We just talked about how deep the running
back classes. I totally understand that. But a guy like
Saquon Barkley, there's eighteen receivers in There are seventeen receivers
in the NFL that are making more money than no way.
I mean, come on, Saquon Seguon does more than just
run the ball. He catches the ball out of the backfield.
It's a lot like McCaffrey when McCaffrey got the big
deal that wound up working out until mccafrey got hurt
this past year. Like, Caffrey was great, they went to
the Super Bowl, they didn't win it, but I mean
he was still super productive for him to have the
running back market, I get that that he is now
reset the market and all that, it's still a little
too low. I mean, for the highest paid running back
in NFL history to be the eighteenth highest paid wide receiver, yeh,
is a little shocking to me.
Speaker 1: I just I don't. I don't like it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I get that it's a step in the
right direction, but I mean I'm still one of those
people to believe the running backs matter in this league. Now, look,
a lot of different things have to happen, right, You
have to have a quarterback. It's competent. Our teams are
going to key it on you. You have to have a
good running game. But like you could say that about
every position. The wide receivers are so dependent on how
good their quarterback gets. If you've got a quarterback that
ain't no good, you're not getting the ball anyways. Why
are you making all that money? If a quarterback doesn't
have a good offensive line in front of them, he's
not gonna have a whole heck of a lot of
time to throw the ball. They're making excuses to Caleb
Williams last year, saying his offensive line went better. They
just traded for Joe Toney. They're trying to shore up
that position. Like I get it, They're like, oh, well,
running backs are only as good as their offensive line.
I mean, he's kind of everybody always dependent on another position.
Like I get to the shelf, life's not long for
running backs in the NFL like it is other positions,
but they are still super impactful. That is a big
deal for me. Anybody else have one before you? Nope, nope,
all right, that'll do it for a big deal or
no big deal, and we get back.
Speaker 1: We'll have our Munchie segment.
Speaker 2: LSU executive Chef Michael Johnson hops on and get your
munchy's questions in the chat that's coming up.
Speaker 1: On the other side you're on, Off the bench, Off
the bench.
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Speaker 6: This is Monkey's with Executive chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 1: Jeff, how are you this morning?
Speaker 6: I'm good, Taylor, How I am doing well?
Speaker 2: Busy week. We're filling in for Jake and Ta Bob.
T Bob has been in Disney World for six days now.
I don't know how you're able to manage that with
three kids. Jake more relaxing. He's on a cruise. But
uh that that's tea Bob for you, Chef. A lot
of questions for you right now. The first one is
hashtag munchies. Chef, I have a venison neck from this
past season. I've seen some recipes for Stew's or roast.
But what would you suggest I do with it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think stewing and roasting is probably
the best.
Speaker 1: You said a neck, yeah, yeah, venison neck.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know there the neck is actually kind of
a sauce. You can also lay a flat like a flank.
Stay can grill it pretty quickly and get away with
it doing like you know, like flank style all grilled meats,
marinate it, puts some put some olive oil and cilantro
and lemon juice and garlic with it, and do some
tacos or something like that, because you can grill it
pretty quickly as well. You know, usually cut some meat
like that, you have to do one of two things.
Grill it very hot, very quickly so that it doesn't
get tough intense, or stew it down really slow so
that it loosens all the connective tissues. But I think
either one of those two things, you know, cooking it
like flank style and slicing it on the bias. So
you're so when you cut something on the bias and
what I mean is on the bias is at an angle, right,
So if you cut something straight up and down, the
connect the connective tissues are at one hundred percent. If
you if you cut it on the bias at like
a thirty to forty percent, depending on how sharply you
cut that, you're reducing the amount of connective tissues that
are stacked on top of each other, and so it
takes a tougher cut and makes it into a more
tender cut for the mouth. By the way, tebout being
at Disney World for a week, I'm surprised we haven't
heard about this in the news somehow.
Speaker 2: So okay, So it's it's it's funny. He just got
hired on to do a sports show with Jim Rome.
It's it's an hour and his first day was last Thursday,
the day before he left for Disney.
Speaker 1: But he's still having to do it.
Speaker 2: He didn't want to take the vacation right when he
got the new gig. So like he is pulling up
his laptop live streaming into whatever in full Disney entire
doing the Jim Rome Show live from Disney World.
Speaker 1: If you can imagine what that's.
Speaker 6: Like, Oh I can't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Hashtag munchies. What type of rice do you use in
your jumbalaya?
Speaker 6: So we use I only use one rice here really
or one one normal grain rice and we use it's
a it's actually a high protein rice for the athletes.
So it's Parish Rice is the name of the company.
But you know, so they have a they have a
type of rice that has a higher protein value than
normal rice does, and so you don't have to eat
as much rice to get the same amount of protein
into your body. It's a you know, just it's Louisiana
grown rice, and I really love it because of the
protein value that it adds to the diet. And it's
also a lower lower glycemic index rice, which means that
it's it's healthier for say like diabetes or people who
are super susceptible to blood sugars. So, you know, it's
just the one that we chose because it's right for
our community that we're serving here.
Speaker 2: Hashtag bunchiez we are doing any crawfish boil to kick
off our Sun's spring break this weekend. Does chef add
anything out of the norm to his boils?
Speaker 6: You know, somebody, somebody convinced me to drop a pineapple
down in a crawfish for a while back, and and uh,
it turned out really great. The pineapple itself like I
core the pineapple, leave the skin on, and you and
put it in, you know, probably after the first batch
of crawfish, and and just let that thing, simmon there
simmer in there for like ten or fifteen minutes, and
the spice from the boil gets into the sweetness of
the pineapple, and the sweetness of the pineapple doesn't impact
the boil as much. But man, that that sweet and
spicy contrast is something I really like. I've also not
with not with the pineapple, but I've also taken It's
called John John, so it's djo in hyphen dj o in,
and it's a black mushroom based and you use black
mushroom a lot in Caribbean style cooking. And so I've
put John John mushroom cubes down into a crawfish boil
before it that turns the water like muddy brown. But
the flavor that comes from it is what you might
consider umami. It's really I don't know, man, it's it's
just tasty, you know, Like it doesn't taste like mushrooms.
It taste it tastes umami. And I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 2: So it's funny you mentioned that, like I used to
hate Brussels sprouts always. I mean I feel like every
kid at one point did, but like I didn't like
them all the way through college. Went to a crawl
fish ball one time they dropped Brussels sprouts and they're
probably to this day the best thing I've had in there.
And now I eat Brussels sprouts all the time, so very.
Speaker 6: Very SIMI I would definitely do that. Yeah, definitely I
would do that. I like and a similar similar fashion
to me. You know, like when my mom was serving
me Brussels sprouts as a kid, I thought she hated,
Like what did I do wrong? Yeah, but I teary
Brussels brust up sprout up up now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hashtag munchies. What vegetables would be good to grow
in Louisiana once spring begins.
Speaker 6: Gosh, that's a good one, you know. On spring, I
mean you got so much stuff like in the wintertime
right now, a lot of a lot of stuff that
we like the grill is like cauliflower, Like we'll do
We'll take cauliflower and slice it into thick steaks and
roast that kind of like a like you do a
steak seared off on the grill. One of my favorite
things this time of year. We have a really great
mushroom partner that will take Lions Main. Lions mean mushrooms
that they they grow something that's I mean, it looks
like a softball, and you can take and press those
down and oil them, oil them really well, or butter
them very well. We don't use butter necessarily here, but
oil them very well and press that down on a
flat grill or a skillet or something and it absorbs
that butter in and get the nice brown color on it.
And Line's Main mushrooms are absolutely delicious. Not only that,
like Lion's Main, when you consume them enough, it helps
rebuild brain cell structure, so it has a health benefit
to it as well.
Speaker 2: It's funny you mentioned that about two or three weeks ago,
our own t bob Abear started pouring Lions Maine in
his morning coffee and he.
Speaker 1: Swears by it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's it's supposed to be the best thing
since sliced bread, you know, And we use them a
lot here. We buy mushrooms out of Saint Francis Bill
from this little, small kind of boutique place called Maggie's Mushrooms.
And I've been buying my mushrooms from them since I
got here because of the quality of the mushroom that
they have. And uh you know they they have mushroom
they have because they propagate their own mushrooms. They grow
them indoors. You know, they have them year round. This
time of year, as the as the weather's starting to develop,
you can get out and start hunting, you know, morels
and and Chantrelle's, which are fantastic. I mean at this
time of year if you can find morels and Chantrelle's,
you know, going into the spring and when it's cool
and moist. Uh man, that's that's definitely something I'll throw
in the in the in the pan as well.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that out because I always thought
T Bob was full of it when he started talking
about the Lions man, So now I'm gonna believe him
and give him a little bit more credit, all thanks
to you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's definitely science behind it, for sure.
Speaker 2: Hashtag Monchie's best way to cook prime rib sliders.
Speaker 6: Oh gosh, Well, you know, the sliders is kind of
a secondary thing to me. Is it's how you prepare
the prime rib, right, And I mean it's low and low.
And I also like to take some some rendered fat
and get a screaming hot and while the rib is
in the oven about every forty minutes forty five minutes,
ladle that screaming hot fat over the outside of the
rib and it helps, it helps crisp the skin on
the outside up so that it gives it a little
mouthfeel and and you know sliders. For me, it's that's
almost a day two thing, right because I'm gonna cut big,
big steak kind of person and enjoy it that way.
And then you know, like once the rib is almost
you know, like you've you've gotten your fill and you're
cooling it off, you know, put it in the refrigerator,
and then slice it thin like deli meat the next
day and and make like a like a prime rib
like a French dip Billy style, you know, slider that
you can dip and you know, like sliders. I'm probably
gonna put it on a piece of chabata something that
holds together well when you dip it in the pit
some aju, so that you know, it absorbs the liquid
and it doesn't absolutely fall apart. That to me is
is a day two prime rib. Sandwich.
Speaker 2: That kind of brings us right into the next when
somebody asks hashtag munch, he's best bun for Homegirl burgers?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I like Brioche buns the best. It has
the little egg in it. Of course, these days it's
probably gonna call it because your normalal Lake, Yeah, because
of the price of eggs. But I like a Brioche
bun for for for my burgers. They just have a sponginess,
you know, when they're when they're cold, they're firm, but
once you put them on the grill or or the
pan or whatever and heat them up a little bit,
they get nice spongy. But the they tolerate and absorb,
you know, the fats and the liquids that come out
of out of the burger, out of the pickles, you know,
the ketchup. All that stuff kind of absorbs in so
it's not so it's not as much squeezing out the
sides as it is being embraced inside of the sandwich,
you know, And that's you want all that flavor when
you're eating it.
Speaker 2: Hashtag mudgies, how do you make your shrimp or crawlfish stock.
Speaker 6: Very quickly? So shrimp and crawfish. Both are what you
would call a short stock, so little little oil in
the bottom of the pan, and you go in with
your mire plaw or your trinity as as you normally do.
You know, like the firmer things first, working from the
firm vegetables into the softer vegetables. Garlics going to go
in pretty late, and actually before you put your garlic
in is when you want to put your shells in,
and you're actually going to sautee your shells in the
oil and it's heating that it's heating those shells to
the point they're releasing their essential oils and a lot
of their flavor, and you're actually trying to kind of
brown and roast the shells in the bottom of a
safte pan. And you know, once you have your veggies,
and that's also another important thing that you need to
cook your veggies to a certain points that's where they're
not steaming as much. And sometimes people will actually start
with the shells first and then put their veggies in,
because if you put your shells in on top of
the veggies and they have a sauteed well enough and
they haven't lost enough liquid, you're actually going to steam
the shells, and that doesn't do the same thing. You're
wanting a dry heat, not a moistyat method when you're
cooking and so on, the methodology matters. You know, you're
trying to brown the shells. You're trying to release the
essential oils from the shells that are in there and
get them hot enough that they're actually roasting and developing
a color to them, and then build on top of that.
And because there's no gelatin inside of the shells, you
can simmer that for and most stocks you simmer for
a long period of time. You can actually turn a
shrimp or crawfish stock up to a not a rolling boil,
but you know, like a low boil to improve the
flavor of it, and you only need it. You only
need to cook it for about thirty minutes versus thirteen hours,
So you can make a strimp stock really quickly and
improve the flavor of a dish. Crows fish the same,
as a matter of fact, shellfish as a whole, because
you're not trying to cook the gelatin out of the
deepness of the bones or the knots or the knuckles
of the bones and such. You're just trying to impart
the flavor of the shell into the liquid, and that
can happen pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: Hashtag mudgies. Is chickpea pasta healthier than normal pasta?
Speaker 6: It's good for gluten free people, you know, I'd have
to look at the protein value of it, you know,
just comparison some flour or you know, it depends on
what kind of pasta. You know, this whole grain pasta
that's super healthy for you. I think, you know, healthier.
It's kind of a buzzword, right, you know, like if
you have glute if you have a group an allergy, yes,
it's healthier for you. You know. I think that you
have to look at the protein values and decide, you
know what, what what's important for you and your diet
to see it's healthier. It is healthy, yes, but healthier
than normal pasta. It depends on what kind of flour
you're using. It depends on your diet, what you're trying
to accomplish with your diet.
Speaker 2: Right, all right, Chell, before we get you out of here,
save this one for last, because I don't think we've
ever had this question asked if you were asked to
cook a meal for peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and
Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: What would you prepare?
Speaker 6: Well, we're gonna start with a little vodka, right, yeah, perfect, Yeah.
I think that's just gonna warm things up. And and uh,
you know, like sooe so sue things down a little bit.
That's a that's a fantastic question. And then I don't know,
I you know, I think that that's a gosh, that's
that's a that's a big question, honestly, because I think
that it has to have some some Russian foods in
there for sure, and and uh and I'm I'm I
don't know what to expect from Donald Trump. I try
to stay out of the politics as much as I can,
but it's all around you. And while I think there
are some good things that he's he's getting done, you know,
like what what to feed the president? I probably it's
probably going to be an all American stake and then
some some Russian sides or something or or uh you know,
uh you know, maybe maybe a comparison a few because
I'd be I'd be interested to see if you prepared
both Russian food and American food and put it on
the table, if the Russian uh you know, piece of
the table would actually tried the American for food and
vice versa of President Trump. So I think that's a
pretty uh loaded question, honestly, that that that's that's gonna
take a little bit more than a shot of bokat
to to sue. But I don't think that it would hurt.
Speaker 2: That was that was an excellent That was a perfect answer.
I appreciated, Uh, Chef Michael Johnson. Uh, I think we'll
end it on that one.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna get any better ones than
that right there. Look, thank you so much for hopping.
Speaker 6: On with us today.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, that was Chef Michael Johnson, l s U Executive
chef right there for our munchie segment.
Speaker 1: It's some interesting questions today.
Speaker 2: And also he says Lion's main actually does work, so
we gotta stop giving our guy tea boy a Bear
such a hard time.
Speaker 4: I didn't believe him.
Speaker 1: I didn't when he brother wise man, you and I
make eye contact.
Speaker 3: Mike, but he's like, T b was like, it rebuilds
brain cells, and dude, you're lying said so I'm like, okay,
I think I believe T Bob now, but I don't
think it's working on tea.
Speaker 1: It hadn't. I don't think it's been long enough. Has
it been long enough? There is a thing.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see what he is when he gets back. Now,
did he did he take off lion's mane for the trip?
Did he did he? Or did he continue to do it?
That'll that'll be the big question when he gets back.
Speaker 1: All right, Look, we're gonna take a quick time out.
We get back.
Speaker 2: Just a few more segments left on OTB. Stay tuned,
you're on off the bench, Off the bench. Welcome back
into off the bench. A little bit of a shorter
segment here we're gonna have. We went along with chef,
but it was just too good to pass up. Excellent
munchies questions today. Yesterday, Cody Benjamin of CBS Sports put
out an article listing one key free agent each NFL
team can least afford to lose.
Speaker 1: And look, when you go down the list, it's the
usual suspects, right.
Speaker 2: It's it's tackle Ronnie Stanley for the Baltimore Ravens. When
you go down to the Cincinnati Bingles, it's t Higgins,
who they have since franchise tag Jedrick Wills, the left
tackle of the Browns. It makes sense when you look
at the Cowboys OC and Diggy Zua, who they actually
just re signed to an eighty million dollar extension hours
before that franchise tag deadline. So it's it's the usual suspects.
When you go down to the New Orleans Saints, Cody
Benjamin list, pausing a debo, the cornerback as the most
important heat. He mentions, look, Chase Young would give them
a much needed long term promise on the edge, But
a deebo is arguably just as important as an experienced
twenty five year old cover man, and it makes a
lot of sense right Like, look, he mentions Chase Young.
When you go look at Chase Young. He played in
seventeen games this year. He had five and a half sacks.
He had thirty one tackles, eight tackles for a loss.
Speaker 1: Here's fine.
Speaker 2: He had a really solid season, and more importantly, he
was able to stay healthy for the most part. But
pausing a debo, what he means for this team is
cannot be measured. He's been in New Orleans for four years, okay.
He has two hundred and fifty four tackles at the
cornerback position, ten interceptions, oh and one hundred and fifty
return yards this past season three interceptions. He turned that
into sixty eight yards. You don't have Marshaw and Lattimore
walking through that door anymore. We've talked all week long,
you know, whether it's draft segments, free agent segments, whatnot,
about how the Saints pretty much need everything in the draft.
If you have one position that you feel okay about,
at least starter wise, it might be the cornerback position
with Pauls and a Deebo and Alonte Taylor now behind them,
it'll get a little iffy, but you have kool aid
McKinstry there as well. Without Pauls and a Debo, you're
putting a Lante Taylor on the outside, who has played
a lot more nickel in his NFL career so far
than on the outside, even though I don't think Alante
Taylor's going to have any problem doing that, and then
you throw kool aid mckinstrey in there into the fire.
What Pauls and a Deebo does is allows you to
put all three of those guys on the same field
at the same time. You can keep a Lante Taylor
in the nickel. If you don't re sign Pauls and
a Debo. Your need for corner shoots up, because sure
you still have McKinstry and Taylor, but you don't really
have anything behind them in terms of experienced players on
your roster and uh like, speaking of Paulsitive Debo and
the New Orleans Saints, I kept scrolling a little bit
further on this list. For the Philadelphia Eagles, he list
Zach Bond is the most important free agent to make
sure that you resign and look at is something we
have talked about at nauseum on this show other shows.
The fact that you let Zach Bond walk out of
that building for nothing is just mind blowing, to say
the least. I mean, this guy was a finalist for
NFL Defensive Player of the Year this year. He had
one hundred and fifty one tackles, three and a half
sacks in an interception at the middle linebacker position. I mean,
by all accounts, he was a one of the best
middle linebackers, if not the best, in the NFL. And
you let him walk out the door and you see
it because like, okay, for the Bengals it was t Higgins.
But the only reason it's not Trey Hendrickson is because
it's been announced that they're already going to give him
an extension. He's a high priority on that team. He's
another guy that you let walk out of your building.
So what does that mean for the Saints going forward?
Will they resign Chase Young as well? Will they resign
Pauls and a deebo? I think you have to resign
passing debo Chase Young. I'm good with one way or
the other. I think that if you hold on to him,
it'll give you a solid piece on the defensive line,
a place you need help. If not, you can grab
somebody in the draft. It's a pretty deep pass rusher draft.
I mean, look, Ross when he was joined US earlier
was talking about Schim Mahr Stewart right, He's looked really.
Speaker 1: Good in the combine.
Speaker 2: He's got all the measurable she just doesn't have maybe
the on field production. But that's a guy at two
hundred and ninety one pounds can play inside and outside
depending on the defensive scheme that Staley wants to run.
Walter Nolan from Ole Miss super productive guy in college.
Jack Sawyer off the edge from Ohio State is another
guy that'll be there rounds two, maybe even rounds three.
It's a deeper class. When you look at corner, you
got a lot of good top end guys like a
Will Johnson from Michigan. It's a bigger drop off after that.
I think resigning Pauls and A deebo I absolutely agree
with this article. It has to be the number one
priority for the New Orleans Saints in free agency.
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to take a quick time out.
Speaker 2: When we get back on the other side of this break,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back.
Speaker 2: In the final segment of a Thursday edition of Off
the Bench, Taylor shof We, the elandravill Rial, and Jordan
Kitchens in as well. All right, right now, I want
to do a little bit of ask the bench. First
one coming out of the gate, Ask the bench, Taylor,
rank your favorite Monster energy drink flavors. Okay, so there's
like a misconception that like, I only drink Monster. No,
that's not even my energy drink of choice. Yeah, yeah,
the Monster's not even my energy drink of choice. Ever,
I have an answer for this. The Monster Rehab tea lemonade.
Speaker 4: I love it, not the Rehab.
Speaker 2: I love the tea Rehab because it's, first off, it's
a little bit better for you didn't have all the
carbonation that the other ones have.
Speaker 1: But I love Arnold Palmer's. That's like, that's what Victoria
get like when.
Speaker 2: We go to when we go to canes, like I
love the sweet Tea cane, she loves the lemonade. I'm like, Okay,
we're just gonna we're gonna mix it.
Speaker 1: And uh, they.
Speaker 2: Got that one. They got a peach tea lemonade. They
have a strawberry tea lemonade. So like the Monster Rehab
tea lemonade is probably my answer. I like the the
green one that Jake got me in that pack. I
don't I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 1: Think of like.
Speaker 4: So much time on Monster, think of like.
Speaker 2: Sour melon powerade is kind of yeah, yeah, that's so,
that's that's actually what the Green one tastes like. Ask
the bench Laudra, will you be switching to the superior
diet Doctor Pepper even though it is not it's.
Speaker 3: Not it's actually Doctor Pepper zero is better than diet
Doctor Pepper.
Speaker 4: But I do love diet doctor Pepper.
Speaker 3: I love any sort of Doctor Pepper, unless it's like
the flavored ones.
Speaker 4: I don't really mess with those.
Speaker 3: But no, if I go back, if I go back
to doctor Pepper after lent, it'll be like a Doctor
Pepper zero.
Speaker 2: Regular odds that a laundra makes it without soda and
Cassie doesn't have Chick fil A?
Speaker 1: Who folds first?
Speaker 4: So I think Cassie will fold first? Absolutely.
Speaker 3: I actually am very strong during lant, like it's it's
gonna take a lot out of me for the Doctor Pepper,
but like I can make it forty days without, so
it's just forty days, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like I'm like, I just need to.
Speaker 2: Make it, Like it seems like a lot, but the
great you can actually days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I can do it well.
Speaker 3: And also the odds that I do it are pretty good.
Speaker 4: The odds that Cassie does it I don't know well.
Speaker 2: And also like all you gotta do is like if
you don't have a Doctor Pepper in your fridge at home,
you're kind of okay.
Speaker 1: You would have to go out of your way, right.
Cassie literally lives right across the street from a Chick.
Speaker 2: Fil A also damn. Also, your boy's gonna have Chick
fil A next week for lunch. We we have a
desk right next to each other. She's gonna smell. I
might even call her he want you want some Chick
fil A? Cassie will one hundred percent?
Speaker 1: Uh we'.
Speaker 2: K first hashtag ask the bench? Will Jordan give up
his hater mentality for LNT?
Speaker 5: No, because the Lord knows I'm not gonna do that.
He already knows that this is this No.
Speaker 1: I think they say, like, you're a hater, so where
you stop being?
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna do it for lit because the Lord
knows I'm gonna continue to hate. So that's just not
gonna happen. He just knows, like for days. Come on, man,
let's watch the Pelicans. I have to watch the Pelicans
for my job. There's no way I'm gonna be able
to give up hating for forty days. Come on, guys,
let's let's keep it real. Let's keep it in the ballpark.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised I didn't get that question. Well, I like
the quote unquote hater here.
Speaker 1: Well, Jordan was hating pretty hard earlier.
Speaker 2: Jordan is in a bad mood because again he has
to watch the Pelicans. Jordan, I saw an interesting stat
about the Pelicans. Yes yesterday, Alandra, tell me what team
this is. Okay, So in the last twenty three years,
both of these teams, Okay, the Pelicans have eight hundred
and sixty three wins. The other team has over one thousand. Okay,
the Pelicans have twenty three playoff wins, the other team
has over one hundred, and the other team has multiple
NBA championships the Pelicans have zero. What is the other
NBA franchise is in a.
Speaker 3: Twenty year period, ghost Spurs go, It's Lebron James.
Speaker 2: It's actually not even a franchise Lebron it is. It
is Lebron James. So here is there.
Speaker 4: Here's the breathing compiler.
Speaker 2: A thousand regular season wins for Lebron, forty eight for
the Pelicans, one hundred and eighty three playoff wins for Lebron.
Speaker 4: Two branchise.
Speaker 2: Well, I wanted to do it like that because it
sounds like something that a.
Speaker 1: Franchise strict question.
Speaker 5: One.
Speaker 2: That's pretty much gonna do it for a Thursday edition
of Off the Bench.
Speaker 4: Ere I think we have a minute left.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you think that's good. Let's get one more.
Speaker 4: You got another one? I don't think we have another one?
Speaker 2: All right, Well that's gonna do it. For a Thursday
edition of Off the Bench. Had a lot of fun
in hour number three That's a Big Deal or No
Big Deal munchies with chef Michael Johnson, and then kind
of played around the last two segments as well open
the show recapping LSU baseball.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: It was a complete one eighty from what we saw
on Tuesday night to what we saw last night. Continuing
our LSU football position breakdown, as the Tigers are just
one more day away from kicking off spring football practice,
which will happen this coming Saturday. I wanted to talk
to New Orleans Saints, had Ross Jackson hop on from
Saints Andluisiana Sports dot Net joining us to talk all
things NFL Draft, to combine what he thinks the Saints
should do, and of course we had to talk to
LSU women's basketball as well. Their SEC tournament run will
begin tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: MICHAELA.
Speaker 2: Williams up for a postseason award for one of the
best players in college basketball. That's going to do it
for a Thursday edition of TV. We'll be back, same time,
same place tomorrow. Here on one of four five ESPN
off the bench