Speaker 1: All start to you to present some off the bench
with Jacob Hester and T.
Speaker 2: Bob Abert.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, off the bench with Jacob
Hester and T Bob Aybert to come off the pitch. Now,
here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: What hading y'all? Welcome back? Oh t B.
Speaker 4: Shout out to the Human Jukebox killed it, Harry Cotta
killed it. Lauren Tagel, Trombone Shorty, the DZ, The DZ.
I've never heard of her, to be fair, I was
listening to some of her music this morning.
Speaker 3: Fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, uh just great, great, great pregame performances all around.
Uh hour two of the show today, I want to
talk a bit about New Orleans and whether or not
the Super Bowl was a success for the city. We
talked to plenty of the gay there now and one
you go rewind to go check that out. Kellen Moore,
particularly to be the next head coach of the New
Orleans Saints. Think it's a possible not to feel better
about him after winning a super Bowl. No matter where
your baseline was at with him, your fan, not a fan,
you still feel better than you did. And he enters
the New Orleans job with a lot of momentum, which
makes you very happy. But let's talk about the city, guys,
because we spent a lot of time in the city.
Speaker 3: Well except for you Tail unfortunately. Thank you for holding
down back here.
Speaker 4: Even though I did, you know, I tried to get
to that the comedy just wasn't really into it. He
was like, it feels like I think I'm gonna show
up and be like, oh, this is cool, then.
Speaker 3: Just want to leave. I tried to get him to
go to pretty much never mind.
Speaker 5: I think we all did.
Speaker 3: Uh but whatever, So how do we feel, guys?
Speaker 4: How do we feel that as as the entire world
turned their gaze to our wonderful port city right there
the Gulf of America, how do we feel that?
Speaker 3: How do you feel that the city did? I thought
it was incredible.
Speaker 6: I was gonna talk about it in weekend winters, but
I mean, let's just go ahead and get that out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it deserves its own segment.
Speaker 6: The city was incredibly clean. I thought the city was
incredibly safe. I thought that it showed you exactly why
it should host every major event, because nobody holds an
event like New Orleans. Nobody knows how to party like
New Orleans, the hotels, the bars, the restaurants, the walkability, walkability,
single thing about the city. I think it had its
best foot forward. And I didn't hear one person complain no,
And in fact, I got mad at one guy. We're
walking over to Media Row one day and there was
like a couple of pieces of trash by a trash can,
and he stops.
Speaker 3: He's taking a picture.
Speaker 6: He's just like filth And I was like, I said,
oh what, yeah, I said, oh, because it was this guy.
Three people he had a credentiable I'm like, oh, because
three people missed a trash can.
Speaker 3: I was like, have you not seen the rest of
this city? You nerd?
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh. I like, you came here to do
exactly what you're doing. It's like, why would you even
take a picture of that. It's just like it's dirty.
I'm like, cause there's three things. So you were talking
to this guy?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know me?
Speaker 6: I yeah, confrontations somewhere I thrive And I'm like that,
that's ridiculous. It was like six thirty in the morning, too,
like nobody's had or whatever time we walked. Oh yeah,
six thirty, Like, nobody's really had a chance to clean
that up either. My guy's three pieces of trash by
a trash can.
Speaker 3: What a joke, dude, So like, unless you.
Speaker 6: Were that guy looking for a reason, everybody that I
talked to was blown away. All my colleagues at Serious XM,
all the people that you and I both know, just
like in the media world, everybody was highly highly impressed.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, and just go look at like the
anecdotal evidence to famous people's social medias. Everybody is just
glazing the city. I mean, Chad Johnson never wants to
leave again, cardival Tune about how incredible the food is.
And there's just a couple of examples amongst countless examples.
And and again something I mean being in the city.
You could feel it. You could feel it. And the
weather was perfect, you know, over this time of year,
and everybody was walking around in such great moods, and
there were so many cool, little hidden events going on
all throughout the city. Like oh, like what was like
the Teddy swim story? He was was he? Oh, he
was at Lafitte's blacksmith shop, listening to the piano, and
all of a sudden he gets inspired to just stand
up and start performing. And that's like one of like
a million stories like that took place over the weekend.
Speaker 3: And then and then shout out to.
Speaker 4: Man, why do I keep forgetting the official name of
the organization? We talked to Mark Roming, the host committee.
Shout out to the host committee, because not only with
all the events, like you think about the lighting of
the Saint Louis Cathedral, the opening night the NFL honors,
that the singer, the parade that the host committee put on,
the renovating to be like all that was fantastic, But
then also we talked to Mark Romeg. I was surprised
about this, Jake. I didn't realize this wasn't part of
the course. But this idea of okay, we've got some
of the world's leaders here, let's pitch them on Louisiana.
Speaker 3: They behind the scenes.
Speaker 4: Outside of the public eye, they had events going on
basically saying, hey, we are open for business and here's
why we're attractive. And I just assumed upon hearing that
that that is something that they do at every super
Bowl in every city, and that's not actually the case.
Like this is something that is a bit unprecedented and
then again you go into the pregame performances everything else.
It was just a it's really an A plus man,
like an A plus plus. Granted you could you can
have another one and and and maybe something happens like
the lights go on the supernome right like like like
I don't know if you'll ever attain the heights of
what was showed off this week again, but man, this
was executed to perfection and you really put your well,
it's a representative of of of what the city is
in today's true. But at the same time, you dress
up to go to a nice dinner, right, at a
certain point, you have to try to look better than
you are when when when the occasion calls for it.
And then I think the hope is that you try
to move more in that direction over time. And so
it's not to say that like the problems city are
going or anything like that, but I'll be damned if
it then it presents itself in the best possible light,
and especially when it comes to like the economic impact.
Speaker 3: Can imagine how big it is.
Speaker 4: You spend a lot of money, but you got to
spend to make yeah, and it brought a lot of
money in I talked to one club owner. Guys, it's
gonna blow your mind. How much do you think a
table was going for Saturday night at Club Oh?
Speaker 3: I told you, yeah, I wouldn't even know. I wouldn't
even know what to guess this. Guess just guess the number,
Just guess the number. Where are we talking about? Club?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Just a club right?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 3: And what night? Saturday night? Saturday night? Rick Ross performance? Okay,
eight grand? Okay, pretty good, tea.
Speaker 8: Twenty grand, one hundred grand. I was gonna guess one hundred,
one hundred grand.
Speaker 3: For a freaking table.
Speaker 4: So again that's anecdotal, but just giving you an idea
of the money that's being spent at these events. And
so yeah, look, I I don't know, like it feels
like the NFL kind of cooled on New Orleans for
a while there. And I know that realistically the rotation
has to expand because teams are constantly building brand new
stadiums with basically the kind of tacit.
Speaker 3: Agreement, but it also doesn't need to well that's what.
Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like, well, you still do kind of have
a core rotation though, and like this, what I'll say,
you should.
Speaker 3: Never go more than half a decade without coming back.
Speaker 4: So maybe that's like one of every six, like a
half like six, Like I'll even give you six years
if you don't want to do five twenty percent, but
it need it.
Speaker 3: It cannot be the decade that you just experienced. It's
too good.
Speaker 4: The city's too walkable, no driving anywhere. You're just out
and about and having a great time the entire time.
Speaker 3: And I would just keep it to cities like that.
Speaker 6: And I interviewed the host committee chair for next year
in Santa Clara, and I'm sure it's going to be nice.
Speaker 3: But it is not walkable. It is so spread out.
Speaker 6: I mean, the stadium isn't even really close to San Francisco. Like,
so you're gonna have events in San Francisco, the game's
going to be in Santa Clara, and you're gonna have
like events spread out amongst like all those kind of
cities in between as well.
Speaker 3: Like Las Vegas was.
Speaker 6: Great last year because Vegas is very easy to get around.
Speaker 3: Yeah. True, right now it's maybe not walkable.
Speaker 4: Now the hellscape of a city that will suck your
soul out, ring you dry, and bury you in the desert.
Speaker 6: But yes, yes, but you can get around pretty quick.
New Orleans falls into that category. There are cities that
kind of fall into that, and when you have these
cities that are so spread out, it is very difficult.
Speaker 3: Like same thing for Miami.
Speaker 6: Like Miami's a great host city because you know, you
can always count on the weather, different things. There's great events,
but nothing's really close. I would even say, like Atlanta's
going to be and it's too damn.
Speaker 4: Expensive, which I mean, I guess if you go to
super of people in character bas rich for like Miami's
just crazy, yeah, crazy from a price standpoint.
Speaker 3: Now I was.
Speaker 6: You know, Houston's got its challenges too, and I know
a lot of people enjoy the city of Houston. I
do like enjoy going there, but even it is kind
of spread out from what you do. So New Orleans
needs to be in the core rotation. I think every
five years it needs to have a Super Bowl. And
if you get mad about that, sorry about it, because
not everywhere it's set up to host an event. Sure
everywhere is a little bit different, and I think like
the final four in National Championship Games, like it might
not be the sexiest city, but like India's easy to
get around San Antonio for the Final four is easy
to get around. They know how to host that event,
and I think.
Speaker 3: Sean Payton actually nailed it.
Speaker 4: Sean Payton speaking at the Steve Gleason Golf Tournament No
White Flag Tournament the other day where he talked about.
Speaker 3: The bones of the super Dome.
Speaker 4: That, yeah, there's all these other stadiums that are newer
and have.
Speaker 3: More flaccy ecoutrement and.
Speaker 4: The latest and greatest technology, but it's the bones of
the Superdome how's originally constructed. And he goes on to
talk about how I know all these other multipurpose stadiums
from the seventies are all gone nowadays, but the Superdome
remains because the bones are so solid where it's made,
how it's made, the ability to innovate within the space,
top tier, top tier. So take a bow everybody on
that host committee, everybody who worked the city, I mean
topped about it, from the highs of the high to
the people grinding cleaning up the streets, to all of
the incredible first responders that we saw throughout the weeknbit,
state troopers, firemen, medical personnel, whoever. Because everybody came together
and for a week. It was magic. The city was magic.
In the entire world got to see.
Speaker 3: I think J.
Speaker 6: Cicero was the head of the committee, had a chance
to interview him, and you can just tell like everything
that they wanted to do got done.
Speaker 3: And that is not easy.
Speaker 6: And so shout out to J. Cicero in the Team
three one greater Jay Cicero. Hell, but they did a
fantastic job. And everything that they wanted to make sure
that everybody knew about the city, they got that done,
and that is certainly not easy to do. Certainly also
after tragedy and you know, a terror attack this year,
sure like this this young year had you know, obviously
an incident in New Orleans, a terror attack, and so like,
even with that surrounding the city, they still did a
fantastic job. If you went to the game, let me
know how security was, because that was There was some
interesting rumblings on Radio Row about how basically like the
Secret Service are like Okay, look in if hell you
have hundreds of people, will we're bringing in three hundred more, Like.
Speaker 3: We're gonna and we're gonna, they're gonna go through all
of it. We don't care. People are late whatever, I
how is, how have you heard anything?
Speaker 6: So the head of security for this game, she was
the first ever female police chief in DC, held that
title for over a decade and it has done six inaugurations,
damn six.
Speaker 3: She's headed six.
Speaker 6: Inaugurations and so it's pretty well equipped to be able
to handle this. But still, like she even mentioned some
different challenges and she's like, absolutely, the President being here
kind of changes the mass, she said, but we had
that plan in place in case that did happen. I
was like, because I've been to a college game this
year George Bama where he decided to come and it
was not great. She's like, yeah, college stadium different than
a professional stadium, she said. Now, this being a dome
and this, you know, being such a large venue with
so many different entry points, it is challenging.
Speaker 3: But you know, we've got a plan in place.
Speaker 6: I'm like, look, you've done six inaugurations, You've probably got
a pretty decent plan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and in decent indeed, as uh, they nailed it
top to bottom. So again, just a huge thank you
man to everybody who made this week so special because
it goes down as one of the better weeks really
ever for the city, which is a hell of a
thing to say about a a city as historic as
New Orleans already is all.
Speaker 3: Right, I think we maybe move on from the super
Bowl just.
Speaker 4: For a little bit here, as we've got some basketball
stuff to get over to.
Speaker 3: I guess we all even talk commercials and whatnot. Keep
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with Hester and T Bomb.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to O TB.
Speaker 4: Jake. Your boy Bobby Carpenter is saying he made this up,
and I'm not here to argue, but it's a hell
of a trademark. If he did nothing. Cools a hot
seat like a gatorade.
Speaker 3: Bath, it's pretty damn good. He did make that up.
He said it on the Pat McAfee show.
Speaker 4: Okay, so he's about Ryan day because Adam Schefter last
night tweeting the man the once in the hot seat
takes the ultimate shower to cool off, you know, with
a video of Nick Sirianni getting his own Geterbeth. Now,
I'm not accusing of raps shift to take like whatever,
Like that's a that's a I could see people independently
arriving there.
Speaker 3: But I love that saying.
Speaker 4: I've never thought of that, So that's gonna be added
to my own lexicon. I think, uh, there was an
L Shoe Tiger on the field last night, not playing,
as Garrett Nussmeyer was down there at the Super Bowl
with his father, Doug Nasmeyer, current quarterbacks coach for the
Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 3: Meaning, Jake, you.
Speaker 4: Might have Doug Nussmeyer as the offensive coordinator potentially for
the New Orleans Saints as his son is leading an
LSU team. Where I had this conversation probably a thousand times.
Speaker 3: This last week. It is playoffs are bust for the
Tigers next season.
Speaker 4: But that's crazy, man, how much so much Nutsmeyer influence
going to be in South Louisiana. Who knows, maybe maybe
he ends up winning the Natty at LSU, going to
Saints and winning Super Bowl?
Speaker 3: Hey, how about it?
Speaker 6: That was Yeah, that was a question that we got
pretty often this week, was about LSU and like, what's
the feeling, what's the vibes down there?
Speaker 3: And I think you said it, and I just kind
of followed suit with you.
Speaker 6: It's like, yeah, if you don't, if you don't make
the playoffs, like it gets real chaotic.
Speaker 3: I'm just never gonna believe that you can't if you
don't make it this year.
Speaker 4: And it's not say that you can't, but I'm never
gonna give you the benefit of that again. And I'm
not even saying you should be fired because again that
just comes down to like financials and whatnot. But like,
there's so much investment in the staff, so much investment
in the roster, so many shrewd moods be made you.
You appear to have patched up all the holes you've
given you, You've been given all the ingredients. Now you
have to go fall through. So yes, that's where my
head is that with your twenty thwenty five l SHU Tigers,
if you do not make the playoff this year and
contend for a championship, then I don't care what you
do in the offseason.
Speaker 3: I will no longer say that I expect you to
h and you will. You will. You will have to
prove us wrong if you want to do that in
the future.
Speaker 4: But then I guess, like that wasn't really the point
of all this that just kind of came about as
I was reminiscing on last week. The point is, you're
gonna have a heavy Nu Smier influence in South Louisiana
football coming out next year. Ls USE baseball's coming back
this We're gonna say the vibes are good. Yeah, guys,
how are we feeling? Open and week? Finally here, I
saw a lot of memes being tweeted out as soon
as a game ended about it's finally baseball season time,
and well, the LSU men's baseball team entering one of
the most exciting years that I can remember as well,
Here's to hoping that we don't have to go through
the six weeks of insane stress, bad breaks, and close
losses before scrapping out of finish.
Speaker 3: Here's to hoping that they can kind.
Speaker 4: Of assume that title of being the top five team
in the entire country from the beginning this time around.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it would definitely, you know, be something
that everybody's kind of ready to get behind. Not that
they don't always around LSU baseball, but you know, with
football not making the twelve team playoff, with men's basketball
right now just not playing well not finishing the other night,
which I know we'll get to at some point. You know,
outside of women's basketball, who looks like they are going
to make another deep run And we'll see where softball
ends up. But with the expectation, I think a lot
of people are wanting to get.
Speaker 3: Behind a nice run.
Speaker 6: They're wanting to get behind a championship run, and this
baseball team certainly has the pieces to do so we
know it takes a lot. We have seen teams that
have been ranked the top five in the preseason around here.
Speaker 3: Before and they have not ended well.
Speaker 6: This one feels like it's built a little bit different,
and I think everybody is looking for something to be
able to grasp onto and make that kind of run.
Speaker 3: Yeah it I agree, I would man, oh man, oh man.
Speaker 4: Now it is a little bit of that tease situation
where the out of conference schedule is such that.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be watching.
Speaker 4: I don't know how much excitement there's going to be,
But like when I tell you, I am counting down
the second till conference play, till that first SEC weekend
in which all your hopes and dreams once again lie
on taken two or three. Can you find a way
to finish ahead two out of the Friday Saturday Sunday rot.
It's one of my favorite rhythms in all of sports.
Is the SEC baseball season a laundry. You're probably the
biggest SEC baseball fan on the show LSU Baseball.
Speaker 3: How how we feel about opening week?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm really excited, and it's honestly more exciting that
it's not a night game. It's like a it's first
pitch is at two o'clock on Friday.
Speaker 3: Oh let's go. Yeah, less time to wait for.
Speaker 5: The first pitch. And yeah, I'm just super excited.
Speaker 9: Hopefully we see Chase Shores out there to start off
the season. But you're right, non conference is fun, but
once you get into that SEC play, there is nothing
like it. My nerves get super shot and it is like,
oh my gosh, so let's take two of three.
Speaker 5: I love a clean sweet.
Speaker 9: But yeah, it just I'm very, very excited and nerves.
It really is like last year we talked about how
it's an SEC acc dominant sport.
Speaker 5: And it's the same way it is this season as well.
So just I'm ready. I'm very ready.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it brings like a sort of I don't know,
like nerves to me that I don't know. It really
does feel like my life is hanging on every single pitch.
Speaker 4: It's it's the best feeling ever, and it's one that
I did not really experience truly as an adult until
the Jay Johnson Natty Run yeah a few years ago.
And once you have sucked from that cup, yeah, once
you have, once you have tasted that tension, yeah, and
that adrenaline and that anxiety. Ooh, it is like a
drug that you continue to chase to try to feel
once again. And we're getting close.
Speaker 9: So I keep telling people, you know, they're like, oh man,
I'm so sad football season's over.
Speaker 5: What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 5: What do I watch on the weekends?
Speaker 9: I'm like, y'all do not understand how exciting college baseball
as a whole hole is, like not even just l SU.
Like I can put any college baseball game on on
the weekend and I'm locked in because it's all so good.
Speaker 4: Like the competition is, especially in the SFC, it's like
it's like you have like a it's almost like that
like this sounds I don't know if people are gonna
think that sounds good or not, but it is because
it is so intimate.
Speaker 3: It's almost like some.
Speaker 4: Like Super aa U League or whatever, or like some
super league invitational where there's not a ton of teams
but all the teams are very high quality. Take do
they have or do they have like a whip around channel?
Like does ESPN have any sort.
Speaker 5: Of like red zone type thing?
Speaker 8: That would be.
Speaker 3: Really nice for someone like me maybe doesn't want to
lazily yeah, or regionals?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but okay, but maybe not for SEC week in
week to week. Oh, that'd be that'd be pretty great
if they.
Speaker 8: Did, actually, wouldn't hate.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: How are you feeling about opening week?
Speaker 8: What do they say about you on your wedding day?
Good luck?
Speaker 3: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Friday and Saturday, possibly rainy skies. Of course it would
be opening weekend of LSU baseball.
Speaker 8: You're obviously going to have rain. But hey, we'll see.
Speaker 7: That rain is a good omen for the Tigers the
rest of the year.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 7: Uh, Hunt sent out that thing about who are you
most excited for? It's gonna be Chase Shorges, right, I
mean for two years we had heard, hey, this guy's special,
like he could be one of the best pitchers ever.
Speaker 8: It's time to see it.
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like we saw a little bit
of it against Tennessee and then he gets hurt one
hundred percent.
Speaker 7: But I'm excited to see that this pitching staff should
be very, very deep, which is something less you had
problems with last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't any rain.
Speaker 6: It's also opening season for the EU lug Nuts, so
you know, I don't I don't need rain Friday season
ug Nuts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's It's a lot of baseball, bat baseball.
Speaker 9: I'm excited to see all the new transfers, like Daniel
Dickinson is one that I'm excited to see just because
there's a lot of hype around him too in the
off season. So I all the newcomers, Derek Curial, Action,
Yallow Creel, little Luis Hernandez.
Speaker 4: But let's not lose sight of you know, like can
Monster pick up where he left off? Like the level
of play that Steven Mylin was at at the by
the end of last season was overwhelming, and it's a
really high bar to just say, hey, new season, go
do that again, but do it even better.
Speaker 3: Like kind of the same thing with Bear Jones.
Speaker 4: He had such an impressive jump from freshman year to
year number two in terms of staying good where he
was good, getting better where he wasn't. Can he do
a similar jump this year, and if he does, then
he's like a legitimate Golden Spikes kids.
Speaker 8: How witching positions as well, I was not going to
play second this year.
Speaker 5: I think, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 9: But like the because Jay Johnson takes a lot of
pride in developing players, like that's something that he always
talks about. So that but the trick is, like Taylor said,
he is going to switch positions and shortstop, well it's
called shortstop. Usually have somebody that's a little taller playing
that position. But I mean it, I have faith in
Monster Milo.
Speaker 4: Yes, I will not doubt Steve Milom. Uh yeah. I
mean we call j Johnson development god for a reason.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's also why when he brings in transfers it's a
little more exciting than when others do, because we've seen
him have this ability to unlock guy's potentials and and
and cause him to take a tick up.
Speaker 3: With their with their level of play.
Speaker 5: I mean, Tommy Tanks, Paul Skins just two glaring examples
of that.
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: And here's the hoping that we have many, many more
to be celebrating after this year. All right, when we
get back here on O TV, let's get some of
the basketball that happened over the weekend. A great win,
a big loss, and uh it's some adventures in the
city faurday nights.
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Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: If a time.
Speaker 5: On his lies, most is.
Speaker 6: Getting clear.
Speaker 2: The past is.
Speaker 5: Man, life does to go. Not everybody's got but do
us in life?
Speaker 3: I've already played it.
Speaker 4: Oh god, okay, dude, what I was mouthing at you
and you kept nodding at me that you.
Speaker 5: That you were I was like the head banging. I
wasn't naughty. I wasn't even looking.
Speaker 4: At you, okay the whole time, Like, okay, I guess
she just wants to get to the drop here.
Speaker 3: Seems you really vibeing that's cool. I'm waiting.
Speaker 5: I mean, but I was waiting for you to say
something every time.
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guy tailor shut up.
Speaker 8: What happened on Friday?
Speaker 7: Because you had your headset on Jordan hits the stab
all this and you were like, helo.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't have my headset on. I think I
was talking to who's at McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know I was.
Speaker 4: I was was, you know, a little champagne was hanging
out at miccaffrey.
Speaker 3: I was living life, living large. Man. What happened to
those protein bites? Forgot them?
Speaker 5: You ate them all?
Speaker 3: All right? I had a few of them. They're quite good.
Speaker 6: It looks like our station here finished thirteenth in the
Barrett Sports Media mid market Stations.
Speaker 9: Let's go hell yeah, dude, okay, I don't love that
we're celebrating a thirteenth ranking, but nowhere to go but up.
Speaker 6: Baby, I mean we were number seven, Yeah.
Speaker 3: We are, that was number six.
Speaker 5: I need to get her to redo the the rejoin.
Speaker 4: That's true, that's right, that's right. I'm just gonna have
we moved up, slowly but surely.
Speaker 3: Let me is this station last year?
Speaker 5: I have no idea.
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Speaker 4: The point we had that we haven't talked to it yet.
We've talked around it, we haven't talked about it. Is
Zach Bond by the way coming up with a pick
in yesterday's game just.
Speaker 3: And led the Eagles and tackles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just really drive home and not to be to
the fact you got Chauncey Gardner Johnson back in the
building in which he used to play again driving home
the Saints front.
Speaker 3: Offs in aptitude.
Speaker 4: But uh, Scott tweeted out, quote, it's at least irksome.
The Eagles produced one of the best defenses in modern
memory when starting two Saints cast offs who were required
for almost nothing, and the Saints first round draft pick
as uh, yeah, don't forget that they gave that to
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Speaker 3: We'll still have some gold baseball games. Don't worry, uh
you think? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Possibly Sunday okay?
Speaker 3: Uh shut up? Taylor?
Speaker 8: So no like the highest fifty seven on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Okay okay uh so.
Speaker 4: LSU basketball the men's basketball team over the weekend, suffering
a absolutely brutal defeat as they lose at the buzzer.
They're playing Old Miss and the pmac Ole Miss ring
twenty fifth. LSU in desperate need of an sec win. Well,
with three minutes ago, it's all so good. LSU's up
seventy to fifty nine. Well, the game would finish on
a thirteen to oh Old Miss run, culminating in a
tipping with point one seconds left after an offensive foul
in the possession to which LSU could have won the game,
and Ole miss walks off with the buzzer beater win.
Speaker 3: How many losses that in a row in conference?
Speaker 8: Now in a row?
Speaker 3: Seven one to nine overs.
Speaker 8: Because they started h and three then they won one,
so six.
Speaker 4: Six and again went down in probably the saddest way possible.
Speaker 3: Anything to say here goes uh.
Speaker 7: So you mentioned they were up by ten with three
minutes and fourteen seconds left over the final three minutes
and fourteen seconds, LSU attempted one shot. It was a
block Cam Carter free throw, a layup attempt.
Speaker 3: They attempted one shot attempted.
Speaker 8: Were they showing every possession turning the ball over? But
what do they always say too?
Speaker 7: But like good teams find a way to win, bad
teams find a way to lose.
Speaker 3: Yeh.
Speaker 7: LSU is mesmerizing in the fact that they continue to
find different ways to lose basketball games.
Speaker 8: They outshot all this for the majority of the game.
Speaker 7: They held on to ball the majority of the game,
and there were the games on the line to just
they utter collapse. It's like they were like, we didn't
expect to be up by ten. We have no idea what.
Speaker 10: To do well, Jake anything on the men before we
move on to the good team, or you wilunder anybody.
I mean, you don't have to, Like you really don't
have to, know, you don't have Yeah, that's what I'm saying,
nobody has to.
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure wealize everybody.
Speaker 6: Like I was excited, I'm like, oh my gosh, they
need this so bad and this can maybe give them
some life to finish strong. And now it's going to
probably do the complete opposite. Yeah, you're going to go
the complete opposite way. And after starting out the non
conference so much better than you did a year ago,
We're like, well, you were so bad in the non
conference and then you were five hundred in the SEC
last year.
Speaker 3: This is gonna be it's gonna be pretty good. You
might have, you.
Speaker 6: Know, I don't know, six hundred percent in the SEC.
Like that's what I like hoped.
Speaker 3: No, not close. And look, you know a.
Speaker 4: Lot of people will go after bing Man and whatnot.
I mean I realistically this is like you know, you know,
when you think about like like think about a city
like New Orleans trying to support a third professional franchise,
I just you just don't have the population for it.
And and realistically speaking, and that same way, is it
possible with everything else that you put money into?
Speaker 3: It? Els you? Is it possible even for men's basketball
to be good. They've been good in the past.
Speaker 4: No, No, I know, but I'm talking about the contexts
where else Sho's at Now? You got full of investment
in football, obviously, you always have that. Kim Moulki is
demands and rightfully so receives a lot of investment as well.
And she creates it for herself, right she's one out
there beating the streets, politicking, no talking to donors, like
making the money happen.
Speaker 3: You have Jay Johnson again, another national.
Speaker 4: You have your winning coach in a sport that is
I'm probably LSU fan's second favorite two football.
Speaker 3: It's just I don't Jake.
Speaker 6: Clark want to Nattie and they fill out oh yeah,
true every single meet.
Speaker 3: I just don't think there's enough oxygen in the room.
Speaker 9: Well, no one's gonna want to invest in a team
that's losing all the time.
Speaker 3: No, And I mean it's hard to.
Speaker 9: Get to get bought into a team that's just not good.
Speaker 3: But there in lies the vicious cycle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because in basketball right now, even more so than
football that we don't talk about as much because we
talk so much football here and so little men's basketball.
But like you think football's pay to win, basketball is
even more so. It's less players, more money per player,
and LSU's just bringing a shoe string budget.
Speaker 3: To the equation.
Speaker 4: And you know what, frankly, I don't want it to change.
You're telling me you're gonna have to take away the
money from women's whether you're telling me you got to
take the away of the money from baseball or football, like, no,
Like I think I'd rather be good at those other things.
Speaker 7: I think what you're asking is, like long terms, you
have a successful program. It's like we've seen flashes, right
you mean like long terms.
Speaker 4: I mean a long term success within the context of
all the other sports and where they're at at LSU
right now. No, there's just not a lot of resources
to go around.
Speaker 7: Me and me and Mario used to have this conversation
all the time. He's a big basketball fan.
Speaker 8: He's like Taylor.
Speaker 7: It's embarrassing that like Alabama and Auburn can put together
these these incredible basketball teams that we can't and I
always say, stop comparing LSU basketball to other basketball teams.
Compare LSU baseball to the other basketball teams. Other teams
don't invest in baseball like LSU. You have to sacrifice somewhere,
like Alabama great and basketball great in football, look their
baseball program. I mean it's very similar. You're not going
to have three dominant sports anymore. You got to kind
of pick and choose which ones you have.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So unless you just have like all the moneyes well, yes, yeah,
like if A Texas in.
Speaker 3: Texas, they just keep paying.
Speaker 4: They can just pay everything, you know, and and and
you're seeing that.
Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons why A and M is
at least like okay in every sport. Now, on the
other side of the.
Speaker 4: Question, there's the LSU women who deserve investment, get investment,
and reward said investment as all they do is win
and definitely shadowed on the Super Bowl again, just absolute
brutally bad scheduling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the p MAC was rocking. Did you watch
the game? No?
Speaker 6: I got over the in the third quarter, Like I
was in another room and the game was on. I
was like, what is that? Literally, the crowd over the
announcers so LSU played host to Tennessee.
Speaker 4: The first game in Noxle was an absolute classic, finished
with that incredible Calen Gilbert left hand, and the p
MAC game's not at this point either as LSU wins
eighty two to seventy seven, and once again KG goes
off twenty three points seven to fifteen from the field
three or four from three coach Mokey squad.
Speaker 3: All they do is win.
Speaker 6: I mean over eleven thousand people in a ten and
then some four Super Bowl Sunday and.
Speaker 3: At three pm with the game starting and what like
five point thirty.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that is pretty incredible. And again on the broadcast,
I mean you could feel the p MAC. And now
I'm talking about the third quarter, so I'm not even
talking about like the fourth quarter, Like you had moments
in the third where LSU is there and they made
a buzzer well they thought was a buzzer beater and
ended up not being good, but I mean it erupted
whenever that went in to in the third quarter, and
it never really died down. And now LSU the only
team in the SEC that only has one loss overall,
and now three teams tied at first with LSU Texas
and South Carolina. After South Carolina loses Texas over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Oh, South Carolina dropped the Texas a week and I
didn't realize.
Speaker 6: Okay, I mean Taylor, what was like fifty seven straight
some regular games.
Speaker 3: Maybe they had won.
Speaker 7: The most important thing about this is the fact that
Kaylen Gilbert led you in score worry, Like, we can
go ahead and call her the Tennessee Killer because she
dominated him last time as well. But well, people don't realize,
Like if you're watching women's basketball, they've been winning these games,
but they've been winning them defensively.
Speaker 8: Here's why.
Speaker 7: After the Tennessee game, the first one, Kaylen Gilbert was
eight for fifty four, shooting off the bench eight for
fifty four since the last game she played against Tennessee.
That's why you're kind of struggling because she didn't have
anybody scoring off the bench like a Kayln Gilbert. She
puts twenty three points up. That was the biggest thing,
because can she get out of her shooting swamp.
Speaker 8: You look where LSU scored.
Speaker 7: I mean they scored in the mid eighties, Like that
made all the difference in the world.
Speaker 4: Shout out to the LSU women getting it done. Unfortunate
for the LSU men as I don't know how they
end up getting it done.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta
Hits Off the Bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 3: Welcome back, guys to Off the Bench.
Speaker 4: Having a great day here on OTV. I hope you're
having a wonderful Monday as well, as you said, very blessed,
very excited to be back here in the studio after
a couple of weeks away. Super fun, great career memories.
But my god, as I get older, which I am
older now I'm thirty six. Now after yesterday, guys, you
just starting to crave routine. Had a great birthday week,
and thank you to everyone for all the birthday wishes.
I've pretty much ignored everyone that reached out thus far,
but I'll try to get back, you know, say thank you.
I took in my birthday on Saturday as as one
should by grinding at the gold Mine till two am.
What a time, What a time. I went to this party, Jake,
that my agent works for this thing athletes. First I
was like, ooh, athletes for super Bowl party. Oh, this
is probably gonna be pretty cool. It's like it's like
my ultimate non favorite scene. A bunch of people posturing,
trying to feel cool. No one dancing, everybody just talking
and kind of like a little hesitant to get outside themselves.
Uh so like you know the whole time, Like I
got this, I got this the whole time, try and
try and try and and then sure enough, dude, who
was there for me in my time and need when
I when I when I needed to go to go
be be you know, be be free and and and
and express my exaltation through the power of dance. The
place who always is, the place where it doesn't matter
how old you are, Jake, you are not judged.
Speaker 3: And that's the goal Mine. Yeah, shout out to you,
goal Mine. I love you for that.
Speaker 4: It's it's the one place where you can go dance
on the dance floor. And like we had an even
older couple grinding right next to us, and none of
the young people were judging us, and I had a
lot of flaming. Doctor Pepper's just really brought the night
together in a in a perfect way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think I've been there since right before
the twenty nineteen l Shue Clemson game.
Speaker 3: Have been a few years for me. It's the last
time that I've been to the gold mine.
Speaker 6: But good spot. You're right, no judgment there. No, it's
a mix of young and old.
Speaker 4: Shout out my guy, Dave. Dude spinning the tracks. Uh
Saturday night. I mean when I tell you we were
grinding dude, me and the wife, I mean my quads
and hammies are still sore. I'm talking about dropping it
lower than you've ever seen, full sigon, squat balls.
Speaker 3: On the ground, getting it for hours. You just here
like Moffatts squaw getting it. Just take aggressive fun. God,
it was good. It's been too long.
Speaker 9: I've never heard somebody say they danced so hard their
balls were on the ground, But.
Speaker 4: That's what it was though, you know, it's sometimes the
level of effort you got to put in. Yeah, I've
been grinding with my wife like that since my brother's wedding.
It's been too long, you know, it's like sometimes you've
been in a relationship as long as we have them.
Thirty six now after yesterday, sir, dating when I was sixteen,
that's twenty years.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 4: I turned thirty six at the gold Mine pretty much
almost didn't think about that.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean that's the way to keep you know,
keep the marriage alive. Some good old school nuts to butts.
Speaker 3: You know, it was very fun.
Speaker 5: Now was this your brother's real wedding or the fake wedding?
Speaker 4: The fake wedding that I appreciated, the fake wedding that
I officiated every night they had a bar on site
that every night would just turned into a degenerate grind fest.
Speaker 3: For others or just for you. No, no, no, no, there
were more. There were there were others grindings. Well there
are the grinding gold mine as well. Yeah, we said
one of the couple.
Speaker 4: Although I do create a bit of a halo around me,
so I do a lot of you know, movement.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think I freaked people out a little
bit sometimes.
Speaker 10: Trying to uh, you know, they don't want to get hit,
I mean, which is fine, that's cool.
Speaker 6: I have seen T Bob in that element before he's
telling them lies.
Speaker 3: Didn't get as sweaty as I thought I would, for
whatever that's worth.
Speaker 4: Felt great the next day though. There's nothing better than
just dancing your butt off to really kill a hangover,
Like you can't be hungover because you've you've already.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you sweated all out.
Speaker 4: Feel incredible, So shout out gold Mind, thank you for
making my birthday so special.
Speaker 3: And my kids. I guess yesterday kids
Speaker 4: I way too many cheese versts off the bench.