Speaker 1: All start Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: Well the plays get broken down and Science gets denied
to come off the bench. Hour two of Off the
Bench Live from the Mercedes Benz So Baton Rouge Studio starts. Now.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. Yeah it is oh TV one
four five ESPN Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3: Trying to get in with our boy, Bobby Carpenter, my
colleague over at Serious XM. We're gonna try to do
video there. Not quite in yet. Oh he is in.
Oh Bobby, see are we doing?
Speaker 2: Coach E Taylor?
Speaker 3: You were ye of Little Faith. Bobby c is ready
to go. You're not a professor of finance like Bobby
Carpenter at the Ohio State University and not be able
to figure out how to get on video and the
videos in the distance. I need to see this, Oh yeah, Bobby,
Oh yeah. In the weight room, let's go just like
we love our Bobby Carpenter.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: What's the workout? I mean you got the weighted vest on?
Speaker 2: I love this?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Coach, I mean it's Wednesday, that's my like d
load like lighter day. So do a little little elliptical,
little inclined walk, double up the vest, get about twenty
pounds on there, and get like a nice thirteen degree
incline hit down at about a level three and a
half for about twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: You know, double up the vest. That's a strong move.
Speaker 4: Well, it took them a weight weight out of them.
And so, like I was doing some stuff, they're doing,
pull up, send them. So say, I think you light
them up to about ten or twelve pounds. So you know,
I mean, listen, I'm getting older. Like you've got to
be rigid with your routine. There's no room for error
with that. And so you get it. Man, you're forty.
You're man, you're forty now, so it's time to go.
Speaker 2: We are. Yeah, we're a whole bunch of forty year olds.
Speaker 3: There. Are you gonna jump in today with the Buckeyes?
I mean, are they already done working out? Because I mean,
I know you can do whatever they're doing.
Speaker 4: They got team meeting and so I that's why it's
started to a little quieter. And honestly, the best thing
I have to use these I got my counter stallions on.
These medaglasses are pretty elite and it's amazing. I can
hear you really clear, and you can probably hear me
without much ambient noise. They're playing music now. They're cleaning
things up with that. A team meeting at nine, so
they're they're making their way out of here. So I've
got this whole room to myself.
Speaker 2: Ooh yeah, the meda glass.
Speaker 5: Wait, is that where there? It's got the speaker and
the microphone. Is that where how you're communicating?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, dude, it comes right through here. It's amazing.
I was driving in my jeep with them, like top off,
open air, fifty miles an hour. My brother goes, I
can hear you playing this day? I said, perfect? And
these are going to do my new go tos for
all my interviews, everything we got going on. And then
I mean, also you can hit the little camera over
here on the side if you want to film somebody's
place from the sideline.
Speaker 2: Not only that, like you look really sweet with them too.
Speaker 4: About that. I mean, I'm trying my best, like you
can what looks so sweet?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean those must have been pretty expensive. I mean
you can't have money, must be slinging some hvags there
in Columbus.
Speaker 4: Well, you know what the best type of best type
of gift, it's free ninety nine. Hester. So these were
a complements of Joe Burrow playing at his golf adding
down there in Cincinnati. So you're LSU boy taking care
of me.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a pretty good golf gift there, gift pretty good.
Speaker 4: It's elite. Man. I looked at us like you kidding me?
Like are we just trying these out? She's like, no,
pick what pair you want? I said, oh, hell yeah,
like like you could get normal ray bands or you
could get the metas. I'm like, dude, I'm taking the
met his hands down. I would never buy these for myself.
And then actually turned out to be pretty sweet.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I love that, Bob.
Speaker 3: I got to ask you because I know that, you know,
us doing shows together, you certainly started to dive into
some college baseball that you didn't really do before, Like
how did we take in the College World Series?
Speaker 4: It was pretty good, man, Like, you know, you get
all the way down to the end and you've got
college you got Charleston there Toastal Carolina rolling against your Tigers,
and me, I know that you were kind of like
slow playing at all tournament. Hester thinking like I don't
want to go too big in on them, but end
up being the classic college baseball this year. And you
love the intensity, you love the games going back and forth,
you get coaches getting ejected. I mean, it's it was
a lot of fun due Bobby so uh.
Speaker 5: If you were watching the National Championship Series with LSU
and Coastal, I have to think there's a part of you, like,
I know, you're your boys with Haster, you do the
show with them, LSU Gay, but there has to be
a part of you cheering for Coastal because of the
absolute units they're coaches and assistant coaches.
Speaker 2: Where they were juiced. Man, they were jacked.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely. I mean you look at some of the
teams that get in, and I mean this year was
very diverse, like you had teams from all across the country.
I mean, poor PAC twelve. I mean you have three
teams from what the former practice PAC twelve was comprised
of now still Oregon State, but then you've got UCLA
in there in Arizona, and it's unfortunate, like you couldn't
make the conference last a little longer to be able
to see that success. But I mean, listen, man like LSU.
You guys cheerful, but it's like cheering for the Yankees
like you can unless you're a fan of them. You know,
I'm a tangential fan of Husser, so I'd like to
see him win. But cheering for the Chanta Clears. You know,
we're picking one of the teams that slides in there.
That's a little more under the radar.
Speaker 3: All right, Bobby, we do have football season on the horizon,
not quite fully football season yet, although our all Meatthead
team in the field Still Magazine that is now out.
And so if you want to check out the All
Meathead Team, Bobby EJ and I put that together in
the field Still Magazine.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: Buck, guy's got a big one right off the top.
I mean, you got arch Manning, somebody you and I
have talked so much about in the past, right, and
so you've got him come into town. You've got this
Marquee matchup, a rematch of the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 2: Like how we feeling.
Speaker 4: I'm feeling pretty good about it. You know, both teams
gonna be replacing quarterbacks. They both of them lost a lot.
I know you love those kicks and it's eleven am.
Speaker 3: Nothing like a brunch marquee games.
Speaker 4: Get a little eggs gone, and that'll be fun for everybody.
Uh yeah, I'm excited about it. I think it's gonna
be a really good game and the best part like
this and this is the good and bad, you know,
college football, like that game. Now you can play it.
If you lose it, it doesn't eliminate you from the
college playoff. Yeah, but you can still sign up playing
and I can have great game. Hopefully, like I said,
hopefully Ohio State wins. You know, they're playing a lot
on defense, so is Texas, and so I think you'll
see a game. There'll probably be some offensive mistakes when
you're breaking in a new quarterback in a situation like
that where there's a lot of pressure. I think it'll
prive you the team like ultimately can come down like
who can turn the ball over less on offense because
both the defenses will be geared up and it's easy
to replace guys on that side of the ball. And
then obviously with Texas and Jeri Smith on the other side,
like how do you slow them down? And I saw
one of the ratings this year where they said Texas
has the best secondary returning Ohio State the best receivers,
so it'll be fun hopefully to get that matchup going
back and forth.
Speaker 3: Would you prefer that to be a night game?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 3: I know you love I know you love the early risers.
Speaker 4: Get out of here.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: They fought for it, they did, and I get why
Texas didn't want to do it. I mean, but I
think that that's Sunday night and so you guys have
played there. I mean, that's Sunday night on the or
Labor Day weekend is a great, great time slot. Everybody's
off on Monday. You're staying alone. There's no NFL, and
I feel like that game should have been there. It
should have built some more flexibility into the schedule. That's
that's the reality. And you know, quote the Madmen, but
that's what the money scored. So that's what Fox wants
to do. I know, Ross Nork they've been working really
hard at trying to get some flexibility with this, and
the problem was I don't think when hier State was
as involved as they should have been early on because
they've been carrying the water at that big noon time slot,
which I know we joke about it has like I'm
good with like you know your non conference you know
mid major schools being in noon, but let's put the
big ones at three point thirty and a couple of
them at night.
Speaker 5: All right, Boddy, off season has passed. Now we're in
the summer leading up to the season, like coming off
the national championship. How are the vibes there? How is
the expectations? You know, college there's always going to be
expectations when you and you're turning over so many spots
on the roster every year. So that's the nature of
the beast of college football. But how are those expectations
up there in Columbus and just kind of the vibes
going into the season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they're high as always, like, and that's
the thing you win on. It's like, all right, you
take your deep breath and then if you get smoked
in recruiting or like the spring game looks bad, all
of a sudden, people are back on you again. And
that's that's the nature of the beast. And that's the
beauty of college football. That's what we love about it.
I Mean I think we were like, di'd be okay
if a higher state doesn't win a national championship in Columbus.
But I don't think they'd be okay if they missed
the playoff. I don't think they be okay if they
made the playoff and got blasted in the first round.
So I think there's a pretty solid expectation to say, hey,
you know, you're one of the big schools and the
big brands in the sport. But the way it's currently comprised,
like you should be playing that second weekend of college football.
Let's they get to the sixteen game. I think, you know,
a Lobos be a little bit different, but you should
be making that second weekend either by a bye or
having a home game and being able.
Speaker 2: To win out all right.
Speaker 3: So you know, I've talked so many times about Ryan
Day and the pressure that he had, and I was
always like, this guy just continues to win games, Like
be patient, he'll win one.
Speaker 2: Well, he does win one.
Speaker 3: So like, now to that conversation, it's not going to
be the Ryan Day conversation going into the season. Who
takes that over though, Who takes over that pressure of hey,
you've been good, you've been even great at times, but
we need you to be elite.
Speaker 4: Well, I think James Franklin in the Big Ten. We
got a bunch of guys coming back, and they've got
a schedule that sets up nicely. So the last time
they got to play Ohio State on a yearly basis
here moving forward and it's in Columbus, So this will
be his final shot. I think he's won and nine
against the Buck guys. And I talked to our guy,
Bill Bender, and then we talked about various platforms. The
Bill was saying he has some unbelievable stat where James
Franklin has never lost to an unranked team. But he's
like I want to say, like nine and eighteen or
like five and five and seventeen against ranked opponents, and
so like that's the other side of it. Like one
thing to always win the games are supposed to win,
but people want to see you win some of those
big ones too. So I would say James Franklin and
even your guy bk a little bit. I mean, he
was really good at Notre Dame and he had you
and Iris who in the VCS Championship. They were always
really close. He's been an LSU and I told him,
like he's a heck of a football coach and he's
got a Heisman Trophy winner. And now let's say, all right,
you've got a lot coming back. He invested a lot
in this, You've got a returning quarterback, and people say
it's really good. Now it might be good timing. It
might be time to win a season opener Hester, I mean,
what we got. It's a tiger battle here, but we
got to find a way to get undone.
Speaker 5: You just talked a little bit about like the preseason
expectations going into the season, and I would draw a
lot of comparisons program wise between the people down here
in LSU and Ohio State. There's always a lot of expectations.
The fan base expects you to do a lot of things.
It's almost like win a championship or bus kind of.
But after a national championship going into the season, what
would the fan base collectively say yes, that it was
a successful season.
Speaker 4: I take a said, I think if you got to
get to the playoff, and my high State since two
thousand has only won less than ten games I believe
three times, and one of those years was the interview
with Luke Thickle, and so winning ten games is a prerequisite.
But you've got to get that done. Don't get embarrassed,
and you do win the Michigan game, and that's something
that they've talked about a lot around here. I know
Ryan is pressed in a lot as well, So they've
got to find a way to get that done for
you and that one that kind of alleviates some of
the issues maybe you haven't in that rivalry in that
series as well. But yeah, it's the same thing every year.
They don't care. Nobody cares how many guys you've lost.
No one cares about the injuries. No one cares like, yeah,
we won a national championship, that's great, but that's the expectation.
And so I mean, I mean, you guys are part
of a program that's similar to High State that's won
three over the last quarter century with three different coaches,
which is incredibly rare. So the next guy up, like,
you've got to win one to get that monkey off
your back. And Ryan was experiencing that and now you've
got VK's kind of feeling a little bit too. But
that's that's it. Like nobody cares that you owl in
last year. We'll give you maybe a year reprieve, but
then you better be back in the hunt that following season.
Speaker 3: Uh, Bob, we got a lot of questions for you
coming inside of our chat there, and one is they
want to know what you had for breakfast today getting
ready for the workout.
Speaker 4: So the thing is, I do morning radio like you guys.
We started six here Eastern, so I haven't eaten yet.
I usually I don't really eat breakfast much anymore on
smer vacation, but I love breakfast food. So what I
typically do is I have breakfast for lunch. So that's uh,
that's the solution right there, is to be able to
take the delicious eggs. I love a good egg scramble
whatever we have before. Here's some chicken, some sausage, some
hamburg whatever type of meat. Throw it in there, threw
some veggies in, get about five or six eggs, scramble
that bad boy up and then swallow that down. That's
usually what lunch is.
Speaker 3: Asked, Bobby, should you have pulled your punches against Apollo.
Speaker 4: Creed well, I mean Rocky Show thrown the cowl?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I heard you were on this When Jake said
you're coming on today, obviously I pick up my phone
immediately text aj like, hey give me some give me
some scoop, give me something to ask, and of course
he was up. He was doing his elliptical and kettlebell swings.
He was like, he's like, all right, well let me
think here. Why don't you ask him to bring up
the time you put a cup of something in Schleg's
locker and oh, this is great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fine, And this is what we do and
talk about this stuff all the time. It's uh, it's
always fun. And so I mean people look at us,
like where I start telling these stories, I'm like, you
know what twenty years is over? Statue limitations is up.
I mean, it's like full disclosure. Like it's when I
see this stuff happening across college football, Like I always
kind of just you gotta give me a little more
context because we used to we used to pee on
different dudes in the shower and everything, and so then
sometimes you would take that a little bit further. And
at one point, you know, like this little gatorade cup
that I had right here the cloud, you guys know
what they are, the classic gatorade cups on the sideline. Yeah,
and I forget what one of the guys did to me,
and I will be funny. And so we had lockers
that would kind of flip up, and they had locks
on them, but if you kind of hit underneath, you
could pop the lock and we'd open it. So no
one was really actually locking stuff. And I maybe may
or may not have slipped like a six maybe a
downs cagatory cup of urine and Schlags's locker, and when
he went to pop it open, kind of went on
his face and I thought I would just kind of
like fall into his chest, but he hit it so
hard and so maybe even got in his mouth, so
it was not good. But in all fairness, then the
next day he gets me back because you know, back
in the day, everyone's wearing cargo khakis. Yeah, and you
know I had him hanging to my locker. After the workout,
I go to put him on, so we've done the
It was in spring ball we practice lifted everything showered,
and I mean, I don't know about you guys. I
very rarely showered at my apartment in college because you
just always shower at the facility when you go before
you leave. And I remember I put my put my
pull my cargo shorts up. What the heck is in there?
Sometime I pie I reached down in the cargo pocket
and there's a cup and I had spilt it, and
then I could just see like my pants getting wet,
and he had put a cup of pee in the side.
So I had to drive home with those pea pants
on and then had to shower out the house again,
which was terrible.
Speaker 3: Oh that's what makes you a beautiful meathead in our
favorite meat had Bob.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the time, sir.
Speaker 3: Thanks for stopping the workout to give us a few minutes,
and I'm sure we'll catch up again soon.
Speaker 4: Brother. Hey, great to hear you. Listen, miss t Bob.
But Flinner is doing a great job. He's filling in
more than admirably. And I know, Flynn like it's gonna
take you some time. I'm gonna sit down with you.
We'll watch all the Lord of the Rings, read some
talking watch some Star Wars, and we'll get you on
T Bob's level before too long.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I'm asking the questions that people just
don't want to ask about cups of PEPs.
Speaker 4: You're in well because you did the research. I give
you credit. AJ and I's relationship. By the way you
can tell your boy age. We were at a lacrosse
turn a couple of weeks ago, and our boys, our
kids are roughly the same age, so we see each
other a lot of this. And I'm watching him or
I didn't see Courtney was like, my wife's like, is
that agy walking over there? Like one hundred yards? Was like, man,
it kind of looks like him, but a dude's got
like a bad limp. It looks like he's walking like
with my dad crab fifty yards was like that is
age I walk over. I mean his back is hurting
so bad. He's one of them like deals were kind
of hunched. He's kind of like swinging that side leg,
you know, as he's walking through like carrying his chair.
And I was like, what is going on with you?
And he's like do my back's locked up and it's
never done this. He's like, the only good news is
he's like, my knee hurts less because I think all
the pain's just located in my back. So it was, Uh,
it was a sobering hot when you're forty forty two
years old watching your kids play that, you know, that's
what you gotta deal with.
Speaker 2: Oh that's great, that's fantastic. Bob.
Speaker 3: We love you brother. We appreciate hopping on with us again.
We'll catch up again with you soon, all right, Thanks guys,
one see you Bobby. See the best part about that
story about Aj is AJ told us the view from
the other side when he came on with us about
seeing Bobby with his chair and his cooler full of
a hell beverages walking across the lacrossefield.
Speaker 2: So we got both views of each of them.
Speaker 3: A J judging Bobby, Bobby judging Aj absolutely.
Speaker 5: And that's that's how you tell you dream it up,
good friendships, old teammates, And yeah, I kind of wanted
to slip this story in there to make Bobby feel
a little bit better about his peepee story. We did
have a teammate names will go unnamed. We're talking l
shu lu that in the old locker room we have
we did most of our locker room in the stadium.
We had a teammate go into the sauna which was
connected to the locker room and peed on the coals.
Speaker 2: And can I tell you that it was like a
imagine what burnt peacemells.
Speaker 5: Like a urine cloud in the entire locker room. They
had to evacuate the locker room wash, everything basically fumigated.
Speaker 2: So well, go just toys, peop boys.
Speaker 3: I mean, I still to this day, like, what made
you think this was fun? This was a good idea
because you know, water the rocks heats it up more steam. No, no,
let's just go urin you look, we won't say names.
He did play offensive line just to make you you know, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, that's probably not I mean it was either offensive
line or linebacker. Not a shock.
Speaker 5: But you know, it's just one of those things where
at the time it seems like a good idea for
some reason.
Speaker 2: Obviously it's a terrible idea, but you know, kids do
the darnedest things.
Speaker 3: We appreciate Bob like he really was, Like that wasn't
a bit like He's like, hey, I'm working out, but
I'll stop and I'll I'll join you all from the weight.
Speaker 2: Room, the medic the glasses.
Speaker 3: Maybe Joe Burrow giving those in his golf tournament swag.
Did you that's pretty that's pretty clutch.
Speaker 5: I must have I had to move like five years
ago I got the invitation, must have got just lost
in the mail.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't get on those. You're a big golfer
though known golfer.
Speaker 5: I'm glad he said it was medaglasses because I was like, Bobby, what,
like what you got the glasses on?
Speaker 4: For?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I thought Bobby went on a bender? Well for sure, Yeah,
that's why I thought he had goss.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine just seeing and forty year old Bobby
in the Ohio State weight room just on an elliptical
with dark glasses on?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I don't as a current player at Ohio State,
Like I don't know how I would feel about a
forty two year old doing the conditioning test with us
and passing it, like how I do feel about herself? Yeah,
I guess it's encouraging, like, Okay, well this this old
master can do it.
Speaker 2: Surely we can too, all Right.
Speaker 5: When I used to come back when I was playing
in the league, come back and work out with a team,
they probably felt real good about themselves.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was awful at it.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you remember and I know the clock whatever,
I don't care. Do you remember the first year that
Lron Landry, who's a freak, came back and he'd been
in the NFL. Tells you the difference in NFL training
and college training. He came back to run one tens
with us, and Laurron's a freak. Like probably still to
this day. I bet he looks the exact same. He
ran about four or five one tens and he's like, nah,
y'all got it.
Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm it's strictly voluntary. Yeah, no, no more.
Speaker 5: The same way it's if you spend one year in
a different climate, it's hard to come back.
Speaker 3: It's like this was on the indoor. Okay, never mind,
you you should have been there. I mean we always
ran the one tens together.
Speaker 2: For sure. I mean obviously, yeah, I don't ever remember.
Speaker 3: The best part was he was like the indoor five
and he's just well, it was like the weather, like
we just couldn't go outside.
Speaker 5: I just remember coming back after being in Green Bay
for a year and trying to run the one tens outside.
It's like, no, coach, sorry, Moffatt, I can't. I probably
I probably got like six or eight in, but then.
Speaker 3: I realized in my head, oh yeah, I don't have
to do that.
Speaker 2: Doing this myself, yeah, like I chose to do this.
Yeah right.
Speaker 3: It's like at the White House visit when we're like, oh,
we're not on this team anymore.
Speaker 2: We don't have curfew, what do we I'm gonna go
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Then you can do it too.
Speaker 7: That was just such a weird way to do it.
Speaker 2: Break. I'll figure it out.
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discussing random centers.
Speaker 3: Well, we played with we were talking about the center position.
You don't want a giant. Now, you got to be
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Speaker 5: Two in the NFL and there's no one over Well,
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when it's really hot and sweaty as.
Speaker 2: A center, walking up there with a wide but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I mean, inevitably they're gonna have swamp ass.
Speaker 5: You don't have swamp ass, and it stinks and it's
not great, and it's certainly sweaty. But what the wider
it is, like the harder it is to find the center,
Like hard to find where the Good Lord split you.
And so it's like that's where they're gonna snap the ball.
They're taught to snap it, you know, right in a
certain bull's eye.
Speaker 2: Ye uh, and it's uh, it's hard to find it.
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Speaker 2: It sucker.
Speaker 5: The back of my right hand was just kin. It's
a situation, y'all get it. I don't need to go
to any more details. But we were talking about centers.
You're talking about ab normally large ones, and I brought
up the name Max Hunger did and it's a little.
Speaker 2: I got traded for Hey, he got traded.
Speaker 5: Yeah for who from the Seahawks of the Saints for who?
Jim Green?
Speaker 3: Yeah's expl guy, big sports guy, old guy.
Speaker 2: Uh So, Max Hunger. I was up there in Seattle
with Max. Awesome. Awesome dude.
Speaker 5: It's crazy because he was like six five sixty six,
big guy, three hundred plus and he just looks rugged, right,
So he's got this big beard early kind of like
has like didn't really like clean up the neck either,
so it's kind of you know, he was just like
a if he had an axe in his hand, like
walking around, you'd be like, yeah, that checks out, like
that's normal. But then but he's from Hawaii. So when
you talk to him like what's up, man, and you
think he's gonna be like, oh, he's like dude, what's
up man? And I'm like, wow, I didn't expect that
voice coming from that guy. But uh, super like an
awesome dude. We had the story that connected just real
early on. So when I was in middle school, high school,
like I wasn't like the most athletic person running wise,
like I would never like the fastest. I was kind
of like a yeah, I had big fat ankles whatever.
I would ever like straight line fast agility Like I was.
I was a good athlete. I could throw, I could
I could do things. Like I wanted to improve my speed.
We had this training camp, like this speed camp in Tyler,
Texas growing up called SAQ sack so Speed Agility Quickness,
and it was run by a guy named Tim Powers right,
so he was like a speed gurer. He had been
all over the world trained blah blah blah. He started
the speed camp and let me tell you, I went
to the speed camp for years and I worked with him.
He was my personal trainer. Like early on in high school,
especially like when I got beat out as a sophomore, Like,
I worked with him every day trying to improve my speed,
be it better athlete.
Speaker 2: And I attribute him with a lot.
Speaker 5: Of success that I had in high school, which led
me to come to LSU and blah blah blah. So
he had a big impact on me. But when I
left went to LSU, I remember him reaching out to
me and saying, hey, you know, I'm leaving Tyler, leaving.
Speaker 2: Everything behind him moving to Hawaii because he had been
in Hawaii. I think was military stuff. I don't know
what it was.
Speaker 5: So anyway, ten years later, I hadn't thought about him
in a long time, long time. When I get to
Seattle and Max is there, he's like, dude, what's up, bro?
And we start talking about it. He's like, man, I
have known about you since early high school days. He's
like the person that helped me get a scholarship an
organ It was ten powers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was my personal trainer. He's telling me the story.
Speaker 5: Texas to Hawaii, Hawaii, right, So me and Max were
kind of like kindred spirits there, so we were we
were close when I was in Seattle, and then of
course I finished my career with the Saints, and he
was with the Saints that year, and so it was
it was a good deal. Anyway, there's a little flashback
name there.
Speaker 2: It's a great name, it's a great player.
Speaker 3: Certainly Saints needed a center and they went and got
one of the best ones.
Speaker 5: And Daniel Bashroom said, tankle Flynn, Relax, they're strong, dude.
Speaker 3: So your knee goes down to your ankle with no difference.
Speaker 2: Not that big of a deal. You can see the
cat you can said. That was a clear there's a
there's a thing there.
Speaker 3: This isn't a T Bob situation where you got hoofs.
We can see right, you got fat cankles.
Speaker 2: It's okay, they're.
Speaker 5: Strong ankles and they're there's a clear movement hill to
my calf.
Speaker 3: Okay, if you say so, perfect, all right, when we
come back here on OTB a little would you rather Wednesday?
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Speaker 6: I had no choice but to hear you.
Speaker 3: You stayed in your.
Speaker 7: Case diamond again. I felt a bad e treetman like
I'm a princess.
Speaker 1: I'm not from the locker room to the airwaves. Gets
off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: My day was.
Speaker 2: You've already wanted me over.
Speaker 7: It's fine, don't.
Speaker 3: Be along, buy fue Welcome back in OTB. Wednesday morning.
Let's get to a little would you rather Wednesday?
Speaker 2: First? One from me?
Speaker 3: Would you rather play Tennessee baseball in a series away
in Knoxville, sweep them and then also play them in
the National Championship Series in the College World Series and
sweep them, or beat Alabama in an SEC championship game
in football?
Speaker 8: Do we win the national championship in football that year?
Speaker 4: Two?
Speaker 8: You do Alabama football?
Speaker 2: Actually? Former, don't. It's too easy. That's too easy. You don't,
But you win an SEC CHAMPI.
Speaker 9: Okay, because I'm saying like baseball's one two of the
last threeball.
Speaker 3: So you sweep Tennessee on the road in Knoxville, and
you sweep them in Omaha, or you beat Alabama for
an SEC football championship the former, okay.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Because I just they think that they are the.
Speaker 6: Standard and the pinnacle of college baseball, and they think
that they made college baseball relevant, and that's just not
true at all. So I love any opportunity that we
get to humble them.
Speaker 8: So the Alabama went like, you win for the SEC Championship.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Tough because I can't take how successful baseball's been out
of my mind because I like, I agree with the
Landra like I want to be like all that run
that y'all had was cute, it was good, and you
are a good baseball program. But we are the golden
standard of college baseball and we've won two to the
last three. We've won eight overall, you've won a title
one singular, So that part of it. I want to
be petty with a Landra there. But football needs a
little uh, a little both and a little love. They
need a little title in their life.
Speaker 5: Yep, yeah, the I know because baseball is so so hot.
Now I'm gonna I'm gonna say Alabama in the in
the football game, right even though Alabama is not the
same right now, like I would like to. I love
this question. A couple of years ago. A Saban's still there, right,
you'd like to beat him in the SEC Championship. But
I'm gonna say that for one reason because if we
beat Tennessee in the National Championship Series, that means they
made it to the National Championship Series. Which means they
still can claim like a good program. Of course not
the gold standard, but like they still got a little
juice coming off of that, even though it would suck
to lose to US obviously be swept for the season,
but that still would mean that they had a pretty
damn good year.
Speaker 6: So can't you say the same for the SEC championship
or No, I just don't really care about Bama that
much to care enough to be.
Speaker 2: I think don't either.
Speaker 9: Like, if there's a regular season Bama, sure you're beating
Bama for the SEC Championship. Also, you win the SEC,
you're a number one seed in that college football playoff.
Speaker 8: Everything's set up for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's just kind of where the l SU
football has been, you know, not been in the place.
Speaker 8: The need they need help.
Speaker 2: I mean we can if we do that, we can
still beat somebody else in the national championships. In baseball, it's tough,
but I.
Speaker 3: Go Alabama just because of the success of the two programs,
although I would enjoy giving the two the do d
X signed to Tennessee baseball. You know, two words for
you situation, So all right, Flynn, you got one.
Speaker 2: Yep, got it?
Speaker 5: Not sports related, would you rather spend an entire weekend
in a completely blackout dark room or a room that
has really like bright stadium lights that never go off.
Speaker 7: Your entire life for a weekend for a weekend.
Speaker 5: Right, let's just say bright lights that never not like
soothing light.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: I think bright lights because I can't. I don't want
to do darkness like the retreat that your boy did
not for me to do it. I like sleeping completely
dark like a hotel.
Speaker 2: Love it. Let's blackout curtain.
Speaker 3: We're gonna put the clothespin on the curtain to make
sure it doesn't open up because I'm gonna sleep. I
enjoy that, but I ain't trying to do darkness like
buried alive would be the worst way to go, and
that would give me a buried alive type feel a
little bit. I can close my eyes even in bright
bright light and find a way to sleep somehow.
Speaker 2: I think like if I just get on my you.
Speaker 3: Know, my stomach or something, bury my head bright light.
Speaker 9: Also, think about how long it's going to take your
eyes to adjust once you get that light. Yep, if
you've been in darkness for like three days, seems awful.
Speaker 2: I mean it would work the opposite way as well.
Speaker 6: Okay, so I have the option of spending three days
in total darkness or three days in stadium bright lights
that don't turn off.
Speaker 7: That's okay.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with darkness because then I could just
sleep for like three days straight, like just catch up
on rest. Yeah, and I hate No, I don't think.
Speaker 2: I could do it the bright light.
Speaker 7: Yeah no, I don't think I can. I don't think
i'd be able to sleep if you close your eyes,
it's still yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the sleep deprivation threat, Yeah, you got that threat
on it. I mean maybe you can't. Maybe maybe two.
Speaker 6: Days of being or what are the stipulations behind straight?
Speaker 2: I think we're raw dogging this.
Speaker 6: Like just raw dog like you're just in a dark
room for three days or a bright room for three days,
no books, no phones, nothing.
Speaker 7: I'm still taking darkness, I think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think when I said the question and
wrote it down, I was leaning towards darkness. But now
I'm leaning more towards light because I think after it's
three days. I think after two days, sleep deprivation will
just like probably force.
Speaker 2: You to sleep a little bit. It will be miserable.
Speaker 5: But then I started thinking, like in the darkness, this
is what I thought about, Like when Aaron went into
his darkness retreat. It's like when you got to go
number two, how do you know when you're done cleaning up?
Speaker 8: So that's the thing, That's what I'm saying. Like, at
least with the lights, I can walk around, I can
see things, like I know what I'm doing. It's pitch black,
like it's a yes for like three days.
Speaker 2: Then you go after that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I'm good on that.
Speaker 2: How man for getting.
Speaker 6: Detailed like you were in this studio and it's just
pitch black, Yep, I can do it.
Speaker 2: Good thought provoker, give me the light.
Speaker 3: Would you rather have Shack's free throw percentage or Tony
Romo's playoff Luck?
Speaker 8: Wait, what was the h Shack's playoff percentage? You want
four rings?
Speaker 2: Yeah? But he won four rings? Didn't say your Shack. Yeah,
it just says.
Speaker 5: You better go tourn rob because you ain't making the
league with that without Shack's height and ability which a
free throw.
Speaker 9: It's true if I don't have check'sy like if I'm
mean and Tony Romo is actually doing okay for himself.
Speaker 3: True, A lot of money I don't know.
Speaker 2: Jim.
Speaker 5: A lot of opinions out there. I've given him mine.
I do not like him on the on the call.
Speaker 2: I don't know they're going to ringo here. I think
it's going to the right.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 8: I don't either.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think he's gonna throw it here. He just checked.
It's a straight man of man pressed. Oh we shocker, shocker.
I love a quarterback.
Speaker 3: You can hear the hot mic going, Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, Jim,
I think it's going to the left.
Speaker 2: How did he guess all those plays?
Speaker 4: Is incredible.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 3: It's funny how many people like that, because Katie hates
it when I do it, She's.
Speaker 2: Like, we get it. Cool.
Speaker 3: You heard the call and you know what that means.
Speaker 9: So that that's the point though, Like glend knows the call.
That's why, that's why he doesn't like it, right, Yeah,
I mean, why just all I don't like Tony Ramos.
Speaker 8: I'm going I'm going check.
Speaker 5: I thought you did some When was who was the
last Cowboys quarterback you liked?
Speaker 2: In my lifetime?
Speaker 8: There might not be one Cooper rush God, Cooper rush Man.
Speaker 2: Who who is the guy in the early two.
Speaker 9: Thousand, Quincy Carter two thousand. He was only there like
what two years, A.
Speaker 2: Couple of games. It had been great. Matt hadn't been great.
Speaker 5: It hadn't been I told you I grew up a man,
like when I met Troy Aikman for the first time,
because I grew up in the nineties. I grew up
in Super Bowl parties like every year and my rookie year,
I'm on a like before the game, before pregame, just
like warming up, blah blah blah. And I got to
meet Troy Aigman. I was like a pretty cool moment
for me. And then he called a couple of games
that I started, which was which was awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's a good person to have a cold
pop with.
Speaker 2: It looks like he was.
Speaker 3: He was at Nors retirement party we had a couple
of years ago, and just it was it was very cool.
Speaker 8: I believe has his own beer.
Speaker 6: He does eight or something like that.
Speaker 7: It's actually really good.
Speaker 6: So they have it at my grandpa at Long Branch
and it's actually really good. It's like low calorie, low carb,
and it's a very light like pills and are kind
of thing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's really good though. Eight elite light beer.
Speaker 2: All right, it's so good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, ninety calories, two point eight carbs.
Speaker 2: So it's a health fit.
Speaker 8: It's a healthy beer.
Speaker 2: It's a healthy it is.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but it tastes great.
Speaker 2: Not as good as do skis true.
Speaker 6: Nothing tastes as good as doll sekis a championship de
secies fire.
Speaker 3: Would you rather party with the one Miami Hurricane team
for one night or take a weekend trip to Vegas
with Dennis Rodman and no rules?
Speaker 7: I hate Vegas, Somago party Miami.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I played against some of those cats in
the NFL. They were They were fun too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to d J.
Speaker 3: Williams was my teammate in Denver. I guys, Yeah, the
guy was a good, fun human.
Speaker 8: Beings like Dennis Rodbin's weird.
Speaker 2: You don't know what you I.
Speaker 5: Love to have a good time as much as the
next you know. I love to have a cold pop,
have fun, share a few laughs with some friends. But
like a trip with Dennis Rodman and his prime to
Vegas would terrifying.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna I wouldn't go to Vegas, but I'd
go somewhere else with Dennis Rodman.
Speaker 5: I saw Dennis Robin on the sidewalk in Chicago one time,
just like sitting there having a little wine, having some.
Speaker 2: Standard brown, got it standard the standard dollar, I get it.
Speaker 3: Definitely going with the robmin for the weekend, said Scott Dice.
Speaker 2: Yeah that mean, can you imagine the like, Hey, the
old woman, He's gonna be fun.
Speaker 3: If you're going to Miami too, and you're all up
there with with Ed Reed and the crew, Regie like, yeah,
you're doing.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I mean, but in partying it with the
group is way more fun. The group you'd have in
Vegas would be like Rodman and a bunch of people
who paid to be there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I don't want that. I don't want
that either. I want to be like with a group
group from a bros.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll take a break in about twelve minutes
from now.
Speaker 2: We've got Josh Pate.
Speaker 3: Set to join us a little college I'll forget about
that little college football.
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Speaker 3: What I've given you all.
Speaker 1: From players to legends Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football
like only champions can.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back here TV here on this Wednesday morning,
just you know, having great storytime during the break, great
great story time, getting all the ins and outs of
the wild T Bob aver in Omaha, and I am
so happy for my guy that he had that experience
and so many people were excited to see him. I
know that made his heart grow three sizes, you know,
having people come up to him. He got a chance
to talk like baseball with him and just vibe out
with Tiger fans. T Bob loves that, and it felt
like he got to do it all three four days
he was there, whatever hover long you got were there.
Speaker 6: It was the entire time, like I'm telling you, the
entire time that we were with him, people were stopping
him and we So I was telling y' all that
we all went to dinner after the the championship. Yep,
it was me, Rivers and T Bob and then we
were we had dinner, and then we were sitting at
the bar after dinner at the hotel or whatever, and
this one group kept like not bother him, but talking
to him and like asking him for pictures and stuff.
Speaker 7: Right, and one of them kept telling me.
Speaker 6: And Rivers like, oh, y'all know, y'all are hanging out
with like the coolest guy ever.
Speaker 7: Right. He told us that like twice and wet.
Speaker 6: And may Rivers were like, all right, relax, like he's
we like him just fine, but like we're probably the
cooler ones here. But yeah, it was it was like
traveling with Elvis.
Speaker 7: It was crazy.
Speaker 6: Every two seconds somebody was stopping him. But yeah, I mean,
y'all know how he is. He is an incredibly like
engaging person and wants to like really care and hear
what you have to say.
Speaker 7: So it was a lot of talking.
Speaker 3: He was going to stop and talk to you every
every single.
Speaker 2: One of them.
Speaker 4: Ye.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was exhausted.
Speaker 5: So was there a moment where he looked at his
eyes and you said, this is this is too much?
Speaker 7: Probably like toward the end of the night.
Speaker 6: I think he was starting to get talked out. Yeah,
like the end of Sunday night. Yeah, I think it
is the end of Sunday night that.
Speaker 2: To get to him.
Speaker 7: Yeah. No, seriously, we were eating, people were coming up
to us while we were eating.
Speaker 6: The only one that was acceptable to do that was
Ben McDonald.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can come on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cover Ben, Yeah, we love him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that Bob had never met Ben yeh
until that moment because we used to have been on
weekly on the show two baseball seasons ago maybe, and
it felt like they knew each other, Like I didn't
know they never met each other.
Speaker 7: It was so funny. We were all like, we've all
talked to you on the phone before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet t.
Speaker 8: Bob like tried to keep his cool.
Speaker 6: Feeling his arms and he's like, you're so solid.
Speaker 8: He's gonna do something weird.
Speaker 3: I love it though, pretty bashful boy. All right, when
we come back in our number three, we are going
to kick it off with Josh Pate.
Speaker 2: Talk a little college football.
Speaker 3: L s U Clemson, Ohio State in Texas, so many
different marquee matchups.
Speaker 2: Maybe Florida State in Alabama. Probably not. We'll see Go
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