Speaker 1: Were number three of Off the Bench Live from the
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Speaker 2: Start to it you ot TO presents Off the Bench
with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: Yo, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 3: Welcome in our three of OTB and we might be
the luckiest show on air today because we get joined
once again by the head coach of your LSU baseball team,
a team that is locked in right now, undefeated in
the midweek, kicking ass on the weekends, fresh off their
third SEC sweep of this season, getting it done on
the road in a top ten battle. Coach Jay Johnson,
what's going on, man? Thank you so much for.
Speaker 4: Joining us again.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 6: How you guys doing doing great?
Speaker 3: I never got to officially talk to her, but I
was informed that your wife was in the crowd at
the Golden Gala that me and Jake m Seeds last Friday.
Speaker 6: Very good time.
Speaker 3: Apologize for me there, because I did start just on
the stage telling her how much.
Speaker 6: I loved you and everything.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if that got back to you,
but thank her for being a good sport about it.
Speaker 4: We were trying to find out the score up date.
Speaker 6: Yes, we were trying to get a score update. That
is true.
Speaker 3: That is true, and then we're very pleased, like we
have been most times this season. So before you look
forward to coach, let's take a look back last weekend
and it starts with Kate Anderson. One of the more
legendary performances we've ever seen in a Tiger uniform, A
regular season game that will stand the test of time.
They will always be remembered, complete games, shutout, one hundred
and thirty pitches, and if you could, could you take
us into the decision making process right because I started
doing it, like after the seventh inning. I kept tweeting
his stats and being like, Okay, that's his night, Like wow,
what a great performance. What is the process between you
and him of deciding to give him the opportunity to
continue to go back out there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So in the sixth inning, actually in the sixth
we got Zach Cowen up, and so he was going
and basically had anybody got on base in the seventh,
eighth or ninth, he was going in the game like
literally one runner on base, and so in the sixth
the leadoff double, he's going and then literally the inning
was over like six pitches later. And then it's like, okay,
we're gonna we're gonna send him back out if we
could shorten the load for Zack. And the seventh, I mean,
he just blew their doors off. I think that was
the inning. Maybe he struck out the side yep. And
then so it's just like, okay, anybody on base, like
he's coming in. And then in the eighth like same
kind of thing, and so and then by the ninth
it was like, okay, if I try to take him
out of the game right now, that he's gonna like
murder me. So and then it was you know, it
was one, two three and that editing. So all the
credits to Kaid excellent performance. We had Zach ready to go.
It's just nobody got on base. And I mean that
game was the definition of getting stronger as you go.
And I'm proud of him for that because you know,
if he asked me, one thing to keep building, you know,
for him to improve, was to increase his durability, and
he's done that as we've gone along in the season.
Speaker 3: Well, it's crazy too because like you look back, I mean,
it's surviving that first inning like he did. He's got
fifty eight pitches through the third. You would have never
guessed what was coming down the tracks. And it's it's
it's it's great to hear that confirmed because I definitely
felt that tightrope that he was on. Right, anybody reaches
and he's out. And the play that I keep thinking
about is that defensive play he made and what essentially
turned into a swinging butt throwing it up to his hand,
firing a fastball over the first I mean, is it
too much to say like that, That's one of the
more athletic and impressive plays I've seen out of a
picture just from a pure defensive perspective.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, he's such a good athlete. He could
if I let him, he could easily work his way
into our position player mix, I mean as an outfielder
and as a hitter. And yeah, maybe we'll do that
to get him to come back next year.
Speaker 7: Coach, you only use five pitchers over the weekend in
a three game sweep, I'm not sure that I've ever
seen that watching college baseball literally ever have you ever
been a part of anything like that where you go
out there you only have to use five arms and
also win every game.
Speaker 6: To think.
Speaker 5: So Bill Francis or Sid said, I guess that happened
here in two thousand and five.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 8: So when he said that, I was laughing and I was.
Speaker 5: Like, wow, I was the head coach at point moment, Nazarene.
Speaker 7: And a lot of things have changed great campus.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah it is. Yeah, a lot of things have changed.
And no, I just tell you how unique that is.
I will tell you after a complete game on Friday
or Game one, that scenario was totally plausible when you
guys Zach in case and you know, on the back
end of the game, I mean, they're essentially like two
more starters. So yeah, yeah, well you get that one
really good performance, then it's for this team. It's you
could see it happening again. It's just really hard to
throw a complete game, which makes what kid did more amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially in today's game. But then there's been just
continued growth out of everybody. I mean, einsin Is feels
like someone who just continues to get better. And and
and better on this level. I mean when that breaking
balls hitting like it was last last Friday, it's just
it's it's a sight to behold, and then you look
into it, it's a weird thing where so only five
guys get to pitch on the wen, so you have
to almost look to the midweek to kind of start
to continue to develop guys and get guys who are
going to be relied upon U down the stretch. And
was that part of the logic and kind of switching
up how you approached William Schmidt there getting him in
coming out of the pin in a in a high
leverage situation, closing out that game, Like is that is
that kind of laying track for the for the future there.
Speaker 8: Well, yes and no.
Speaker 5: You know, we'll start with Connor Ware Like I think
he's a super important part of our pitching staff, and
he threw one important inning against Mississippi State. He got
a th Reese and Hunter Hinz out. Those guys are
really good hitters, and it kind of got lost because
it was in that seventeen to nine melee game, you
know what I mean? Yeah, that inning was important and
keeping us you know, keeping the game under control and
then we didn't use him in the midweek. I can't
remember why. And then it just didn't work out because
of how this series played out, and it's like, hey,
we got to get this guy on the mound and
get him because he's going to be important in the
week ind this weekend. And then he did a great job,
Like I mean he got three innings on like thirty
six pitches or thirty five pitches or something like that.
So we hit exactly what we wanted to do there.
We wanted to get Jayden Nupack in the ball game,
and I really wanted to get Cooper Williams and Maverick
Rizzy in the game.
Speaker 8: It just kind of.
Speaker 5: Worked out the way that it did. And then in
regards to william I mean there's two things going on there,
like we want to keep his pitch count up, you
know for the postseason, you know, if you need that
third fourth starter, you know type thing. And then at
the same time, you're right like it's coming again where
he's in the game in an SEC game.
Speaker 8: At the end of the game and.
Speaker 5: He has the pitches to you know, get strikeouts and
weak contact and all of that. So doing it at
the end of the game, you know, helps that. And
he made an interesting observation of like the first time
in college where up coming to the game where we've
been losing. Yeah, you know, and I know it's amazing,
and you know, he did a great job, did a
great job of handling that situation and it was really
dominant and the dugouts were kind of a different spot
there at Nichols and you're kind of looking us straight out.
I mean, everything was good for him the other night.
Speaker 6: Coach.
Speaker 7: One of the things I love since you've been here
at LSU is you're going out there every time this
team plays.
Speaker 4: You want to win MIDWEK game, weekend. It does not matter.
You're going for the victory there.
Speaker 7: And we saw that on the road this week and
the midweek game against an end state opponent. But I
got to ask you, did you ever think that a
rally would get started after bar Jones was waiting outside
of the porta potty and it became a rally potty
And now everybody's talking about the viral picture of him
fully uniformed up with the helmet on, ready to go
to the restroom.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what was great about that the Nichols fans.
I'm probably sure as soon as they saw him standing
out there, we're like, no, go ahead, Jared ahead, yea,
over that guy, you know what he needs to get
done outside the port. Yeah, that was that was quite
a scene. I told coach harry A, We're gonna have
to get that a little closer.
Speaker 3: The dugout.
Speaker 4: Hey, he can't fit in.
Speaker 6: I don't even know how that's possible.
Speaker 5: Look, he answered, more classic, he's wearing his helmet.
Speaker 4: That's the picture.
Speaker 3: I mean, it does answer the age old question does
a bear crap in the woods?
Speaker 4: Apparently he does, just in a.
Speaker 6: Coach.
Speaker 3: Another thing before we look forward is look this lineup
right now in terms of quality at bats one through nine.
Everybody's so disciplined, working counts, not striking out. It's really impressive.
I mean, I even think back to last Thursday where
I thought there was a wonderful kind of mirror image
where the top of the lineup combines to create one
of the runs, a bo them of the lineup combines
to create the others. So this is all to say
the lineup is the offense is absolutely locked in right now,
and and and and There's been a few situations though
where like it seems like you're almost putting your thumb
on the scale, uh to to practice some manufacturing of runs.
And maybe practice isn't fair, right, because even to get
zigles the other night, you want to you want to
go ahead and ensure that you're adding a run. But
when you have guys that can hit it so well,
get on base so much, sometimes people see these butt
players are like, oh, what's going on there? But do
you feel that, like you're so complete everywhere else that
you also want that portion of the game to be
available when it matters down the stretch here and on
the weekends.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think really it's just about making sure first off,
you're trying to win the game, and yeah, with that rally,
and then you know that the that play is actually
designed to score two runs and if the bunt goes down,
we score two runs on the play and the game's
over over at that point, and that's always the first priority.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: Secondly, Jake is a good bunner. He did not get
that one down, and you know that's part of it,
you know, executing executing the play. But really the root
of it is, it doesn't matter what the conditions are.
Night game day game win, blowing the wind, blowing out
small field, big field, all of those things. We want
to be, you know, prepared to win. I mean I
think you know, it can get lost in like twenty three.
Like obviously everybody knows Trey Morgan was able to defend
the bun, you know, that's part of it. Then in
the elimination game against Tennessee, we're only up one zero.
You know, Gavin Dugas is, you know, hits eighteen homers.
He lays down a perfect drag bunt with you know,
Morgan on second and they throw it away and now
it's two zero, you know, two run leads. So it's
always kind of been a part of like what we do.
We just missed that one, and you know, we just
we want to be able to win any type of game.
That's really all it comes down to, coach.
Speaker 7: Obviously, the transfer portal is a great deal. It's been
great for Lshue baseball, shoe football. But I think there's
a story on your team somebody that didn't go in
the portal, that sat around and waited his turn. That's
Ethan Frye, who is playing really really well right now,
had a big night down there. In Thibodeau on Tuesday night.
Continues to just play baseball the right way. Love watching
him get out of the box. He hits it on
the ground, he's trying to beat out everything, just plays
the game. It feels like the right way and very easily.
Could somebody like him have gone in the portal, tried
to go somewhere else. He's a hell of a player,
would have played somewhere else, but he waited his turn
here at LSU. So as good as the portal is,
and it's been good to all of us sitting here.
How cool is it to see him stick around wait
for his turn, and then once he gets his opportunity,
play as well as he has.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's awesome. And if you know Ethan,
it's not a surprise. Like the guys, like the highest
character guy you could have on a team, and very
mature for whatever. He is twenty one years old and
you know the only reason he didn't play the fresh
he's on like one of the top five teams of
all time. I mean, he helped right there with those
guys like in inner squads, and I want to say
I gave him a start or two like early in
the season in a midweek and really believed he was
going to be a good player. You know, last year,
you know, roster wise, just post draft, like we were
just a little too right handed, so he was kind
of in and out at the beginning, and then he
right when I was about ready to turn him loose,
kind of like we had this year, he got hurt
and that really limited our ability to set the lineup
properly with the pieces. But to Ethan's credit, he toughed
it out. Man that edged shoulder surgery after the season,
and so he played all of last year essentially from
conference play on with a shoulder that needed a repair.
Speaker 8: And then this year, like he.
Speaker 5: Just kind of stayed with it, didn't maybe have the
best like lead up into the season it he normally has.
So it was kind of like in and out. But
I've always believed it, and I was like, hey, man,
you're playing its lefties. Keep going, your role is going
to expand, And that's exactly what's happened. And it just
is a great human being on top of you know,
in my opinion, one of our best players.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean, look, you know, you get opportunity,
you make most of it. You create more opportunity. He's
doing that right now, Coach. One of the fun quirts
about this weekend against staying on the road, feels like
this is a very extended road trip. But heading over
to Auburn and Friday night going to be Kate Anderson
versus Sam Dutton. Kind of kind of interesting there, right,
A a a former ally now on the other side,
what do you think that's going to be like lining
up across from Dutton?
Speaker 5: You know, we've actually had guys on teams that we've
played that were here last year, but they didn't really
play Like this is the first time. Well, I guess
at Louisiana Tech Debordel he homered against.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, a couple of Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5: So like this is like the sixth time. I mean,
maybe this one may seem like a little bit more
because he's started pitcher on the weekend. Like I love Sam.
He's a national champion, a very good competitor, throws a
ton of strike and you know, he had some life
situations too, like he I believe he just got married
or he's going to get to one.
Speaker 8: Of the two.
Speaker 5: His brother I believe is on the team at Auburn.
He was coaching first base in the game the other night,
so I think there was some like family dynamics getting
back home, kind of getting his life started, you know. Yeah,
probably wanted a bigger role or role he thought he
might have a better chance getting He's had a great season.
He's changed a little bit of his pitch mix a
little bit, which I kind of watched for the first
time last night. But you know, you'll never hear me
say anything bad about Sam Dutton, Like I said, National champion,
good teammate, and you know, not Friday, but every other day.
I hope he's successful.
Speaker 3: So coach, hitting the road again to Auburn this weekend.
Y'all been very very good on the road. You've been
very good I guess everywhere thus far this year to
be fair. But but are you are you looking forward
to to getting back home after this weekend?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean I always love playing here, there's no
doubt about that. I think what I've learned, you know,
over my career and definitely in the SEC, is you
can't look at all the games. You have to look
at these games. And I really haven't even let my
mind go to, hey.
Speaker 8: What's next?
Speaker 5: Yeah, this weekend and I know, super boring.
Speaker 3: I do know.
Speaker 5: We have an extended kind of home stands coming up, yeah,
which I'm happy about. You know, the two in a
row thing is a good challenge, but you know, with
these guys, it hasn't mattered. Are we playing at midnight?
Is it twenty eight degrees of twenty five out a
mile hour winds? I mean, are we running down the
line to the porta potti in the middle of the inning?
I mean, they just kind of stay with it matter what.
Speaker 3: There you go, Coach J Johnson hitting the road to
take on Auburn this week in. Auburn's are very good
at home thus far this year, but this Tiger team
has been very good as well. Coach, thank you so
much for waking up those making some time for us
and uh and giving us such great insight. As always,
the best basket of bluck this weekend, it's J Johnson there.
He is the legend himself.
Speaker 6: Man. Love to see it, love to see it.
Speaker 3: And this team is resilient no matter what's they've been
confronted with. I mean, it's thirty one and three right
right now. I didn't want to I was doubting myself,
so I didn't want to say it during the interview,
but thirty one and three guys simply fantastic decent.
Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 6: Well inch him next year.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with Hester Anti Bob.
Speaker 3: Welcome back, Oh Gimi, It's Thursday, which means it's time
for a brand new edition of Bunchies.
Speaker 6: We have a munchie sounder. It's all good. We don't
have to do it, Jordan.
Speaker 3: If you don't want to, get ready.
Speaker 2: To danalyze your taste buds and leave this segment hungry.
This is Monchies with executive Chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 6: Chef, what up, brother? How are we doing today?
Speaker 8: I'm good man, We all.
Speaker 6: Do well.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Chef. I'm sitting here talking to Geordan. Okay, wow,
disasters start here. Just just just turned it out, just
turned down a little bit. You're not to live, uh, Chef,
I'm sorry? How are you doing well. Okay, we're doing
well as well.
Speaker 6: It's it's yeah, it's it's cold in here. I think
my brain is breaking.
Speaker 3: Hashtag munchies. I'm grilling a large sirloin and ribbi this afternoon, chef,
Can you give me any new tips to amp up
my steak grilling?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, like if you're using a I don
remember I used to. I used to with the owner.
I used to work at Policts and it turned into
Primo's Steakhouse, and the owners would come in and they
would order forty ounce steaks. Good god, you know, Like
I mean, I don't know if you can envision what
that looks like, but it's basically you know, like uh,
I don't know, six inches by six inches by like
eight or twelve inches, you know, like it is a
hunk of meat, and so that that you know, like
you can't put that over a high high heat and
expect the inside of it to cook evenly as the
outside does, you know. And so uh and and one
of my favorite days that I've ever had, like I
took the center cut of a of a of a striplin,
took the ends off of it, you know, and basically
took the barrel and trust it up into something kind
of similar and it was probably eighty ounce. It was
probably double that size and grilled, grilled it over an
open fire, and it takes a lot of finesse, you know,
like you you don't want to cook over directly over
the heat, you know, you you gotta you gotta pull
it off a direct heat and give it indirect heat
and take your time with it right so you're you know,
it's almost like roasting it in an oven versus grilling it. Now,
if you're just talking about a big thick you know,
like two or three fingers thick ribbi, you know, still
you're gonna want to turn the heat down a little
bit because unless you're wanting it rare black and blue
or Pittsburgh stal or whatever. You know, you gotta you
gotta back the heat down a little bit. And the
rule of thumb for like uh uh, that's what steak
when grilling is. I put it, you know, like the
average steak if you go to buy the if you
go to the store and buy a stripline or a ravi,
I grill it for like two minutes a time, two
minutes at a time and turn it over two minutes
on that side and then turn it over again and
put your hash marks on it. You know, you kind
of turn it caddy caddy wampus or diagonal. And one
of the one of the big mistakes that most people
do is they'll put a steak on the grill and
you know, like put the mark side down markets and
then turn it what I mean is rotated, you know,
and and cook that side for ano for too long.
And what happens is when you turn that stake over,
it it like it kind of uh, it tenses up
to the point where it wraps up like a baseball glove,
you know. And so you want to turn your steak
over every two minutes. And what that does is allows
the cooking side to kind of relax and cool while
the other while the cool side, it's kind of like
turning your pillow over, right, you know, like the cREL
side of the same thing. You know, like you're you're
wanting to turn the side that was on the grill
over so that it's cooling and relaxing a little bit,
and put the cool side down so that it's beginning
to cook. And then you know, next time you turn
it over, you want to you want to turn it over,
but you want to turn it diagonal so you can
get those those perfect diamonds on there.
Speaker 3: Right, Chef, I love this question for Bobby Nikens. He
says hashtag munchies. How much of chef's job is administration
versus actually cooking?
Speaker 8: Oh god, it's I mean it, I mean ninety nine percent.
I don't really cook as much too much anymore, to
be honest with you. You know, like I deal with people,
I deal with administration, I deal with vendors, I deal
with athletes. You know, like at this point in my career,
you know, it's more of it. It is more of
a director's role of you know, I'm teaching. I'm teaching
chefs how to become chefs. Yeah, and you know, like
I have a chef underneath me that you know obviously
he wants my job, you know what I mean, Like,
I mean, everybody does, right, and so you're trying to
you're trying to teach those people how to become how
to get to where you are, right and so, uh,
I mean it's a pretty significant task. I mean if
there's between vendors and you know, like I also do
what I call uh you know, like kind of like
mister mister Robinson or uh, she forgets the name of
the show, but Robin Robins' neighborhood or whatever.
Speaker 4: Y yeah, yeah, Rogers, rogersigh mitge Rogers.
Speaker 8: There you go. So, you know, like I go out
to the people that I do business with, and and
it's kind of a nose in, hands out approach of
you know, seeing and knowing what they do so that
I feel good about the people that I'm doing business
with because I like to I like to do business
with sustainable people. So it's not just work in the kitchen.
It's working in the environment, it's working in the community.
It's worked with athletes, you know. And I work for
two different businesses too, both both L s U and Chartwells,
and so you know, like there's a lot there's a
lot of correspondence that goes on there between two companies
of trying to manage you know, the motivations of both companies.
So it is it's a lot of brain work, right
and and a lot less physical cooking. And it's definitely
you know, like there's days where I am like the
hell with this. I'm going in the kitchen and I'm
cooking because you know what I mean, Like, yeah, right,
I mean you.
Speaker 3: Enter as a chef, you exit as a as a CEO.
Speaker 4: It's a weird thing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And that's kind of why, you know, like I
insist on cooking for my kids and my family because
that's that's the time and the opportunity that I get
to cook for people and show them. And don't get
me wrong, there's definitely times where I cook here, you know, like,
and it's in the key moments where it matters the most.
But on a day to day basis, if I'm doing
the cooking, I'm not doing the teaching, right, And the
teaching part it's not one it's not a one man show.
It's a team. It's a team effort. And so you know, like,
I'm not taking I'm not taking credit for the entire kitchen.
I give credit to my team and what they're accomplishing
and want to see them flourish and growing chefs is
just as important to me as being a chef.
Speaker 4: Hashtag munchies. What belongs in a proper cheese steak?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: Man, Well, I do like onions. I'm not too fond
of bell peppers. Really, no, not on a cheese steak, man,
you know, like I like bell peppers sweat down when
they get soggy and mushy. Now I would I could
put like a fresh slice of chili or a jalapeno
on there, what you know, if it's fresh, But I don't.
I don't like bell peppers cooked down to where there's
soft and mushy on a cheese steak. I do like
spicy peppers, like a chili on theo though, definitely like
some sweet bidelia onions or something of that nature, sweat
caramelized onions in there. Man, I got me the cheese
sauces where it's that like, I like a white cheese
sauce in it, and you know, you gotta have something
to stick in there. I like a pickle, like like
with with my cheese steak. Is the fat, the fat
from the beef and the fat, you know, like the
thick coating from the cheese. You know, you you need
something to cut through that. And the bread has to
be perfect too, right, Like you gotta have a bread
that will substantiate that the all the grease and the
cheese and the yes oos an out, you know, like
a nice French batard. Something that's gonna absorb but still
hold together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it has to.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Maintaining bread integrity. Yeah, oh the key to any
sandwich or burger. Nothing's worth than when you have have
the bread breaking apart. Actually awful. Yeah, hassag munchies. It's
already seasoned and marinated. But I'm about to hang some
venison for he says Bill Tong. I don't know if
it is that right. I'm about to hang some venezon
for Biltong. Any additional advice or experience.
Speaker 8: I think Billtong is like a like an African style
jerky or something about.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah that makes sense if you're talking about seeing
a man hanging it.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. I you know, like I'm not
super experienced at it. To be honest with you, I
used to make turkey with my old man back in
the day. I would just say, you know, take your
time with it. I also, you know, for me, it
starts with the cut, you know, like which cut it is,
making sure there's a little fattiness in there. Still, if
you used to lean of a cut, I think that it.
You know, it just gets a little too tough for me.
And I'm not super I'm not super experienced with the
actual flavors of of that particular process. But I believe
that's what he's talking about.
Speaker 4: Chef. Obviously, the Master's going on right now.
Speaker 7: A lot of us talked about, you know, what we
have on our master's menu, if we did, in fact
win the masters. If you were making your own menu,
would you do it with things like only you enjoy?
Would you go with a theme? Because we all did
it a little bit differently, how would you set up
your master's menu?
Speaker 8: Yes, that's an interesting question, Jake. You know when we
talked about this the other day, we didn't talk about
who was going to be sitting at the table with me, right, Yeah,
I think that's important, you know, I mean, it really is.
If it's just for me and I'm scourging and I'm
to be a glutton, you know that that that menu
is gonna look a little bit different than right. But
you know, me and a bunch of friends, and I
know that they don't like as Cargo or Fatty Petty's
faul Roth, you know, like, because I just like food
and and I can enjoy any kind of food in company,
you know, So I think that the company is almost
equally as important as the food. In in some circumstances
and the conversation, you know, like I it's just one
of those moments in life that you really enjoy sharing,
you know, like the glory of the wind. And I
think there's also something to be said about being selfless
with it, you know, like I'm not a glory hound.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 8: Having the talent to win is wonderful, but you know,
I think that there's something also to be said about
being humble and you know, sharing them, sharing that that
winner's meal doesn't have to be about you. It could
be about the people that you're that you're eating it with.
So I think the menu is is kind of in
context with who you're sitting with.
Speaker 3: Hashtag munchies. Manny wants to know your take on a
pimento cheese sandwich as it is.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I could eat one, you know, like
I feel like it needs to be toasted with lots
of butter, you know, and and there's that cheese has
to because pimento cheese if it's you know, like if
you're putting cheddar in it, or if it has a
lot of cheddar in it, it gets oily. You got
to catch it at just the right temperature, because if
it gets too melted, it's just it turns to like
mealy uh, you know, like unappetizing kind of a texture.
But if you're taking the cheese and you're just warming it,
just so like put your bread down, lots of butter
on the side, brown that side and with the raw
side up, you know, like you want to both sides
butter and when the when the toasted side comes up,
that's when you go on with the pimento cheese spread,
so it's kind of warming and then push them together.
But you don't want to I don't. I don't want
themento cheese spread hot. I want it warm and you know,
like warm and sauce but still a little bit you know,
like in in common contact with itself, you know, not
like melted and pulling away and getting it in mealyan.
Speaker 3: Buttering both sides of the I mean toasting up both
sides of the bread.
Speaker 6: That that's the key there. I don't do that on
my sandwich. Oh I need to do that more often, dude.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that's game changer.
Speaker 3: Chef Michael Johnson, executive chef for LSU Athletics. You know him,
you love him, We love him as well. Thank you
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Ex Sorta gets off the bench with hester antibot thing
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Speaker 4: Gee my mind down the hall to explain it. I'm
try you need to sit down this man's sake.
Speaker 3: Wow, see this girl. Oh, this sweater feels so good
forgot I am Handy's barley corn, just the way.
Speaker 6: Sweater parrots barley corn.
Speaker 8: Ges.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people have accused me of
stealing Handy's incredible l shoe sweater, and this is true.
I didn't steal it, but during Sprinkly, I just found it,
so I will return it to hands.
Speaker 4: So you did steal it?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I stole the I stole the hell out
of it. It's so cool my original plan.
Speaker 4: And he did give me.
Speaker 3: He did give me the go ahead for this because
Tyrant hit me up like where'd you get that?
Speaker 6: And it's funny. I mean, I've been trying to talk
to there and can never get whatever.
Speaker 3: Tyrant hit me up like where'd you get that? And
so I was trying to get him to uh donate
money to Hogs of the Cause, and I was like,
I'll give it to you, and I got left on red.
Speaker 6: Were you were you? Honestly You're like I stole something
from some guy I work with?
Speaker 3: No, like I asked Handy like yeah yeah, I said
like no this guys, but blah for good cause, like
you know, you money, and I got left on red.
Speaker 6: So and then I just kept the sweating.
Speaker 3: But the reason why I haven't thought I lost it, well,
no potential charity, you know. But I wasn't just going
to sell that thing to anybody the whole. The only
reason I felt comfortable asking Handy was because Tyron I
thought wanted to buy it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels like the spring cleaning is going well though.
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their way.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 6: They got you.
Speaker 3: So we figured out why it's so freezing Rivers just
did the thermostat was on sixty three.
Speaker 6: That seems high.
Speaker 3: Sixty three You mean the ace like like too much ac?
Speaker 6: No, like I thought the temperature would have been lower.
Speaker 4: Oh oh yeah, you guys, sixty three cold.
Speaker 6: Then, And here as well fined into this thing about.
Speaker 7: How cold like you got your house at sixty three
you'd be shivering walking in.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and uh do another t A NFL
Story of the Day Day.
Speaker 2: It's time for Tata's NFL Story of the Day day.
Your daily dose of NFL news from Taylor Sharp.
Speaker 1: Just came across the wire yesterday afternoon. Tea Bababer's favorite
NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys, have added to their offensive
line by signing former LSU star side Charles the NFL.
He announced that earlier a few months ago, and uh
Cowboys brought him in. He worked out for him last week,
had a favorable impression. Uh just twenty five years old still,
if you remember, he started eighteen of the thirty five
games in Washington over four seasons. He was signed by
the Titans last year as a free agent, was on
track to earn that starting spot, but in training camp,
for whatever reason, he just abruptly decided that he was
going to retire. There are apparently a lot of personal
things going on. But yeah, said Charles, returning to the
NFL with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Love to see it, uh Man twenty nineteen line man
absolutely crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so all I'm hanging around, I know, still playing man.
Speaker 3: William Anthony says, yeah, someone would have been a dead
person in my house growing up. Thermose had stayed at
seventy four, and it better not move. Seventy four is
a little hot.
Speaker 4: Now we're fighting. I'm a challenged dad, Like, we're gonna
have to fight. I'm gonna lose.
Speaker 6: What did Joey keep it on?
Speaker 4: He likes the cold?
Speaker 6: How cold though?
Speaker 4: Sixty eight?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, that's my reasonable cutoff. I'm used to it now.
I'm seventy guy. Oh, I'm like seventy two.
Speaker 7: Seventy seventy two is getting a little warm. Seventy for
me at seventy during the day. Sixty eight woman go
to bed. Gul Hou says, my house is sixty four
at night.
Speaker 6: My bedroom ceiling fan is on high jack frost, good God.
But he wakes up with a cold every morning, I
mean every morning.
Speaker 3: I do remember though, when I first got here and
knowing that we were in like dorms where we weren't
paying the.
Speaker 4: Bell, we used to crank.
Speaker 3: We would drank that thing down to where you'd be
in full sweats and blankets on the inside, and then
you'd hit outside.
Speaker 6: And this could not have been healthy.
Speaker 3: Because it would feel I mean, you would literally be
walking into a forty degree temperature change just just like
a wall of like a furnace. It was like the
outside was a giant furnace.
Speaker 9: That what you're talking about. Well, we didn't have control
over the dorms, like it was just cold all the time.
So when you walked out like middle August September, really
you felt like a popsicle. You just felt like a
defrosting from the night.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 6: A snake shedding its skin.
Speaker 7: That's good for Sadik though, Uh yeah, Man Long like
you hang around and he had some stuff going on
and we don't know what that was, but it sounds
like you got it figured out. And a quality player
that now gets an opportunity. You've got him.
Speaker 4: You've got ed Ingram, You've got Lloyd Cushionberry, you've got
Damian Lewis.
Speaker 7: You've got Austin Deculus, Anthony Bradford, who's kind of the
swing guy in that year, all still playing in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Either practice squad or active roster.
Speaker 3: It's kind of crazy to think about being so good
at football too, that you can retire her in camp,
come back, and then immediately get signed.
Speaker 6: He's got he's got a chance to start on that line.
They lost two starters from a year ago on an
old line that wasn't good.
Speaker 3: Lances growing up, my dad had the acy at seventy eight.
Speaker 6: Oh my good.
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Speaker 2: How quickly will this segment leave the rails? It's off
the bench with Hester.
Speaker 5: And T Bob.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to OTV.
Speaker 4: Time to ask the bench.
Speaker 6: You got like this song? I heard this song in
a long time. Nobody is that got you? Oh man,
I've heard this in a long time.
Speaker 3: Wow, ask the bench, how can I appeal a life
sentence to Horny Jail for all these Tay Sleigh first traps?
Speaker 6: Asks my robot son TeaBot.
Speaker 3: It is funny because now when I see Haley band
list pictures, I always kind of have to zoom in
and be like, is that Taylor's face.
Speaker 6: Or Haley's face?
Speaker 3: Why he's zooming in, bro because I don't want to
feel a warming in my loins only to realize then
that it's Taylor's face. The misdirection.
Speaker 10: I'm not prepared for the hot chicker switch, and he
goes and becomes like the stripper or whatever in her body,
and at the end the earrings change you back in
the face, like slowly changed.
Speaker 6: Do you not remember the hot chick that?
Speaker 3: Well, Rob Snider, I think is coming to Baton Rouge
and I see the billboard.
Speaker 4: Saying that, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Rob has to asked the bench, how many times have
you missed a connecting flight?
Speaker 4: I think like once, like where it just like you
didn't you couldn't get there.
Speaker 6: It was just like delays and whatnot.
Speaker 3: I've had probably three where I've been in a dead
sprint all the way through like the Dallas Airport and
barely made it on.
Speaker 7: I think I've only had one. I had a work
assignment for serious. I don't remember where I was coming
back from. It might have been like a draft situation.
I don't know, but I I could see them shutting
the door and like yelling and they still wouldn't And
it's okay. I'm a limo driver, man, it costs me
like a lot of money that I have to like
get another fly because I was like, I'm not staying
in Dallas tonight.
Speaker 4: I hadn't been home and forever. It's like one of
those week long assignments.
Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm getting home tonight, and so like I
think I flew somewhere else and drove it was it
was a mess.
Speaker 6: You had trouble getting home from the Nadi? Yeah, well right,
because all the snowdowns to hill escape.
Speaker 4: That that was something that I hope nobody ever has
to go through.
Speaker 7: It took you like a week until UH ask them
everywhere I was. It was snow snowed in snow doubt, whatever.
Speaker 4: You want to call it.
Speaker 7: And like I had the clothes on my body and
a toothbrush and tooth based and deodorant, and that's like
all I based because my bags.
Speaker 6: Were Panda Express.
Speaker 4: All we had, and that made that made me feel
better for thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: Is there a station policy not to reveal the reasons
for an on air suspension?
Speaker 6: Cough a Landra, she's all hungover this morning, very hungover.
Uh No, she's being a poodle dude.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: Ready already she gave you crap for it, so yeah,
way back she did she did.
Speaker 3: No, she deal with a poodle hashtag ask the bench, Sorry,
shi who beats who? Two thousand or three versus two
thousand and seven? No, bis like like tea, Yeah, obviously.
Speaker 6: Three.
Speaker 4: Probably offensive line. We had a better quarterback.
Speaker 6: Obviously, I think the offensive seven.
Speaker 7: Defensive their defensive line, like with spears, he'll Kyle Williams.
Speaker 3: Then again that another Glenn.
Speaker 7: Dorsey might be the best defensive player like in college
out of the group, and Rick is in Jackson was
on that team.
Speaker 3: So like, I don't know, man, I don't think I
can actually pick a winner there to be honest, two
different teams for sure, maybe Bush comes to shove. I'll
go three, just kidding seven because they had two time
Scout team players.
Speaker 6: The week. All right, guys, we
Speaker 3: Love you and we'll see tomorrow Friday, let's have ourselves
a weekend off the bench.