Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn as.
Speaker 2: Hester and Hester got a pot a pot.
Speaker 1: From carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each other.
Speaker 3: On the air Stop Control.
Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Caine studio, it's off the bench.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hey, what's up our three? Yes, the third hour
was the third hour of three hours. Three hours.
Speaker 2: There's one, there's two, and then there's three. And that's
where we're at.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I do have something to say, something to
talk about. I don't know if where you're going with this,
but I was we were driving in the yard the
other day. We were leaving the house. We're driving in
your yard. That's kind of well, driving down our driveway
doing donuts in your yard, all right, it's kind of odd.
Sorry misspoke. Probably the last time I was driving on
the driveway, whole family in and we looked to the
left and over yard and I'll see this mound of dirt.
I'm like, okay, kind of looks like a cross fish chimney.
But I was like, what is it?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: What could be making this in the middle of the yard.
I'm like, okay, what is that? Is it like some
beetles making It's we go over there, we inspect it,
and it's sure enough, it's this big. It's probably about
twelve inches tall, this little cylinder, cylinder of dirt mud, yeah,
with a hole in the middle. So something's made. That's
some creature has made this. And I know what, like
a chimney, like a crawfish chimney. Looks like, yeah, like
this looks a lot like it. So I take a picture,
throw it in chat GPT and sure enough it says
crawfish chimney. I'm like, all right, I get what it
looks like. I get what you think it is. But
this is in the middle of the yard. I don't
live on water. There's no like lake, there's nothing here,
so like it. So I started doing my research, is like,
what is it? Well, yeah, in South Louisiana, crawfish apparently
just live like in the dirt everywhere, just crawlfish. So
it wasn't beatles it was it was it was actual crawlfish, Okay.
And so there's a certain type of crawlfish lives like
can live like one one three feet down in the
bed and yeah, I guess like we do get some rain.
This kind of it was kind of near like a
runoff area. It's certainly not near a lake, certainly not
near a crawfish pond. So it's got crawfish just hanging
out in my yard. And I know this is like
the time of the year. After doing some research, this
is the time of the year season. I tell you
got did you find that picture? This is it? Right?
Or unbelievable?
Speaker 6: This is like a crawfish apartment. That's a crawfish howlsing.
Speaker 4: Look at that thing, that's a crawfish castle. Like, look
at this thing. And it's in the middle of my yard.
You'd be careful driving through your yard. Knock that over. Yeah,
no donuts there, but like loay at that unbelievable. Oh man.
So it really just got me curious. Was like South Louisiana.
I figured the crawfish had to live, like buy you
in a lake, in a crawfish pond, in a creek. Nope,
just by the clovers right there, got a lot of
weeds in my yard.
Speaker 2: Taylor's shaking his head. You don't even know what kind
of clover that is. Probably did you catch him.
Speaker 6: It's a it's a it's a three leaf.
Speaker 4: I can see it. No I should I mean, but like,
I don't know what kind of crawfish lives in dirt.
It's it the same kind of crawfish we boil. I
don't know. It's a weird situation, though. I found it
strange that just at any moment, apparently crawfish should just
be in the dirt under you. I didn't know that.
I didn't know that either.
Speaker 2: I mean, I thought it had to be a body
of water type situation. I'm gonna be honest with you,
so I would have done the same thing you did.
I would have asked my good friend, what is this?
Speaker 4: I would ask my good because I was like, surely
it's not a crawfish chimney. I've seen those, and I
know it's like the time of the year for those
to start happening. And you see these popping up wild
situation here in Louisiana. How did they be on earthquakes?
Speaker 2: That's pretty impressive engineering there, if I'm being honest. Yeah,
as a there's a hole that go straight down into
the ground. I don't know if they're making fires.
Speaker 4: What did you do with it? But what's the purpose
is knock it over?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I was impressed you lit on fire, because like one
day it was like down here, and the next day it
was like here in the top of it was like
you could tell it was like mud. It was like
a little bit wet, it was dry, and then it
got a little taller every day. It gotta be more
than use them. That was their mortar. It was the mud. Yeah, yeah,
that's what I'm smart animals. Yeah, it's not rocks, its mud,
mud bugs, if you will. But what's it for? That's
the good that's the deeper question. What do they use
this for? They just if they want to get out,
they don't need a chimney.
Speaker 6: Scrawl out the hole in the ground.
Speaker 4: Scrawl the hole the ground. You don't need all that.
Speaker 6: They got to dig the hole first in the ground
and then build that from the.
Speaker 2: Ground, right, Daniel Bashim said, So Flynn just thought they
were ironically called mud bug.
Speaker 4: No, well, I figure out, like there's mud, I get it.
They like bury themselves in the mud in a body
of water. I didn't know they lived in the dirt
all over my yard, not near a lake. These things
are these things are incredible. What an incredible species? Iron
not ironically Okay, I got it, but like, yeah, they
bury themselves in the mud, like in water, not in
my dirt. Get out of my dirt.
Speaker 2: When is discovered mudbugs breaking news. All right, guys, relaxed.
I knew it was a Cravis chimney when I drove
by it. I knew it looked like one. Like, there's
no way that one is. It's gotta be some sort
of beetle.
Speaker 4: Oh Man. Anyway, my mind is blown, and I hope
yours this too.
Speaker 6: I feel shocked.
Speaker 4: I feel shocked. Do you have that video that Flynn
sitt in the group? Chat?
Speaker 6: Yes for one second?
Speaker 4: Sound yeah, We're gonna watch them know, we're gonna watch
it together on air.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Lou Holtz unfortunately did pass away yesterday. National champion head
coach at Notre Dame. I was the coach of the
Jets from one year and like famously said, you know,
guy put me on the starters for college football and
not professional football South Carolina, Arkansas. Just college football legend obviously,
and you know, been a lot of places college football.
Speaker 4: Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people that are either
right at my age or certainly younger, they remember Lou
Holtz for being on ESPN with Reyes Davis and Mark
may right, he had he had the final show there,
they would kind of close out the college football day.
Speaker 4: So rest in peace.
Speaker 2: Lou Holtz obviously, as I said, a legend in college
football and passed away. Yes, I believe it at eighty nine.
They are eighty nine years old yesterday. So skip Holts
obviously spent a long time in Louisiana, was Louisiana Tech's
head coach for a very very long time, and so
different parts of this state, certainly Lou Holtz is you know,
been a part of and certainly had relationships here. So
and the last coach to Lee Notre Dame to a
national chamber, that's right, probaly the last coach ever will
all right, So this is something that Flynn wanted us
to play. He was shocked that we didn't know what
this was.
Speaker 4: I was. I was so shocked. I was like, man,
I still I've watched it a billion times at a
billion different places, Lou Holtz's magic trick with the newspaper,
and like I'm talking about it, like everybody knows what
I'm talking about in the Fox Hall, but nobody like,
what are you talking about? So I had to send
him the video, and I just thought this was common
knowledge for everybody. I saw him do it everywhere. He
was a motivational speaker who would go and he would
do this trick with the newspaper. He teared up and
he did. I saw him dude on Game. I saw
him dude on like all these different TV shows. That
was like what I outside of Winter National Championship with
Notre Dame. That's kind of what I associate with him
all the time when I think about him. Oh, the newspaper, newspaper,
magic trick, Not y'all, not at all. First time here
and here we go, let's do it together.
Speaker 7: It's like any other newspaper. You have front page for
people want to read the news, you have the comics
for people can't read, and you have the editorial page
where people can't think. But you can't let people tarry up.
You can't let people destroy you. You can't let people
say you aren't going to be great. Don't ever let
anybody tell you you can't do something. My personal belief,
is there any obstacle it's going to keep me from
being successful? Difficult? You're down gone right. That's why so
few people achieve success. Don't let people carry up, don't
let people carry down. Don't let people cause you to
lose the faith and confide you have in yourself. Because
if you really have a strong faith and a strong blow,
how do you do that?
Speaker 4: How do you do that? Oh? Jake looked down when
he did that. The hope for.
Speaker 8: People that weren't watching.
Speaker 2: He was tearing the newspaper up, and then at the
end it was all put back together, tearing it.
Speaker 4: Up, talking and like in my head, I've put this
in my head like a billion times, Like, how's he
do it? He's got one like folded up while he's
tearing it, But then at that point you would have
torn up paper on the ground when you're hiding it.
I don't know. It's incredible.
Speaker 2: It's a great trick with a great message, don't let
people tear you up? In said the Baldy four chat.
I love the flow of this segment. Mudbugs lout diyes
lou newspaper magic trick. Really third hours when we when
we come to life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's our hour.
Speaker 6: I wanted to really just to warm up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is the last sixty minutes to get
the obligatory sports talk out there. You know what I mean,
never seen it, never seen a newspaper. Good mess out
a lot, great message and it's an impressive trick. Mhm.
Speaker 6: That makes sense that Daniel Bagham said, Uh, I bet
he hid the real newspaper behind his A year whoa,
I must have been at who the old penny behind
the ear?
Speaker 4: Whoa?
Speaker 6: Oh you so you can't get hide a newspaper because it's.
Speaker 4: Big too soon? Our people hopes a legend. I really
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We have these butts were pushing the cough mike. What
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Speaker 6: If you want early dismissal, we'll push it now.
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I don't know if we really want to see what
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red button on the desk. It's gonna sit in there
the earthquake, that's right, it's going to cause an earthquake.
Might have been our fault.
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Yesterday I saw this come across the wire and I said, well, man,
if this this is not an OTB segment. This comes
from Logan Paul, the quote, not a single football player
could beat me in a boxing match.
Speaker 4: I would throttle Miles Garrett. Any football player one million dollars.
You come to the gym, we put on boxing gloves.
We see how it goes. Not a single one. I
will throw hands with any of you m efforts.
Speaker 6: I actually kind of agree with him. Boxing is more
of like a technical thing than a strength thing. I
know people give him crap.
Speaker 4: Like he's not bad, but see, way it's important here.
Speaker 6: Logan Paul.
Speaker 4: It doesn't look small.
Speaker 6: No, See, he's got to be over two hundred. He ways,
this is two twenty.
Speaker 4: He's not twenty. Let's combine two of nine.
Speaker 2: It depends on how long you give Okay, because he's
been you know, he does to the wrestling, does the Bible,
and it's all stems because Tom Brady was giving him
a hard time about being a a wrestler and wrestling
being you know, being soft compared to football players.
Speaker 5: In six to two, he was one eighty nine for
the Mayweather fight obviously.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but yeah, like I guess his walk around weighs
around two of five two twenty.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I asked that question because do you remember they
all show Shaq.
Speaker 6: Versus Love Shak versus.
Speaker 2: Him and Oscar de la Hoya one time did one
and look Oscar de la Hoya was tattooing him, but
it didn't didn't hurt you face him, you know, because
we're talking about size s difference. Now Oscar was again
just hit him seven times before Shack could pick his
hands up. But that's why I asked kind of the
weight question, was Oscar fishnets?
Speaker 3: I think about how.
Speaker 6: Many hits to the head these NFL players get and
don't really care. Like I'm kind of with you, I
kind of feel like that'd be the outcome, Like Miles
Garrett's pushing three hundred pounds, Like even Chase Young at
the Saints, I mean, Chase Shong's sixty six. There's there's
some big guys that you may be more technically sound
than I'm, like, how much you your punch is actually
going to hurt them?
Speaker 2: I tell you what, I give the Paul Brothers a
lot of credit because they make people care about their
fights and what they're.
Speaker 4: Doing make people care about people shouldn't care. Yeah, I
mean he's got of course a lot of people tweeting
back at him as on Bell who has head boxing experience.
Speaker 6: If they have boxing experience, then like it's a thing.
Speaker 4: But I don't think it's like somebody that has never
boxed before they got our own. Brandon Voko also, I
would beat the brakes off of you.
Speaker 2: Is always out there and there's some people out there
like I'd like to see Aaron Donald fight him. I
like to see him fight anybody somebody that not saying
he's a good fighter, but like try, I don't think
you're gonna hurt him.
Speaker 4: And I think even if you block his punches, I
think his punches are going to go through your your
fists to his face.
Speaker 6: Somebody chets that. Fred Warner, it's another good one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be pretty good. Yes, if he's a good fighter,
I don't know. I mean, if you're passing a million dollars, is.
Speaker 2: It to win or just if I if I I
would do I come in there and get knocked out
for a million, you're not going to get the fight.
Speaker 4: Talking like that. You gotta be strong.
Speaker 2: Yet match your face, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 4: He's also that owner of like a really crappy hydration
company too. Wait logan, Yeah, which one is it? I'm
not even gonna give it the time of day. Everybody
knows what it is, but it's really crappy. It doesn't
even have a sodium minute. What are you losing your sweat?
I don't know which one it is. It's funny.
Speaker 6: I won't bring up the name either. I know what
you're talking about. I wouldn't even consider that a hydration company. Yeah,
I've had it.
Speaker 4: Well, what world does it live in? It lives in
the sports stream they have, Yeah, and it's everywhere. I
think it's the main hydration company for UFC. And it
really pisses me off. Oh so it's the one that
starts with the P, the one that starts with the P.
And it really pisses me off because it is not
a good hydration product. Well, it's objectively.
Speaker 6: Energy drinks too.
Speaker 4: Well, it's the same thing. It's the same brand, but
they have an energy like version of it. They actually
got in trouble with it early on. But it's a
bad hydration product. It is. Sorry, I'm not afraid to
talk bad about competitors. It's got all of tassium. Well
you don't. Hey, when you played Little league baseball in
your hat had like all those salts things on it.
You think that was fasting?
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 4: So three behind and I digress.
Speaker 2: Somebody I said, Max Crosby would destroy him. Hey, look
at that. We're gonna find him. I mean, Max been
in the streets. We're gonna find our way to a
Max to be a conversation right now.
Speaker 4: Okay, I did hear it? Let me let me preface
this with Sam Max Crosby. I was with Defante Adams
last spring. Ye, who of course was teammates with Max
Crosby for a little while.
Speaker 2: He said, Max Crosby is probably, if not the one
of the greatest athletes I've ever been around.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: An athlete, not just saying best of his position, right,
just full blown athlete.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: He is possibly available in a trade.
Speaker 2: We talked about True McDuffie with the Rams gave up
to get him.
Speaker 4: What would you give up for Max Crosby?
Speaker 2: What the team is an edge rusher who is relentless
in his effort. I mean they can be a four
win team at the end of the season. The guys
try and everything he's got. I think Max Crosby or
Trey Hendrickson will be a Dallas cowboy.
Speaker 4: I'd rather have Max Crosby than Tube. I just said
the trade him for the Cowboys. I think that one.
I think one of those two guys will be a cowboy.
Speaker 6: I think I think Hendrickson's more likely. I don't think
the Cowboys are an edge rusher away from making a run.
Speaker 4: That's what Jerry said.
Speaker 6: I know, but Jerry says a lot of crap.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: You know, if you go to trade for Crosby, you're
gonna have to trade a lot for him. To me,
that's a he's our final piece. Let's go get him
and make a run. I don't know if that's the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: I don't think he. I don't think Max Crosby's like
Max Saints.
Speaker 2: Max had ten sacks last year, so you know, I
mean games you played fifteen? Yeah, fifteen games, because I remember
they shut him down. He's like, why y'a doing this?
Don't I want to play?
Speaker 4: He's a dog. I shut him down. He is an
absolute doge.
Speaker 2: So you guy that had ten sacks, maxro I love him.
I don't know like they're asking for like two ones.
He ain't getting two ones. Not at this point.
Speaker 6: You get it one into two, I would think, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're just going like based off production.
Speaker 2: Man, it's like Cam Jordan had ten and a half,
Chase Chase Young had ten. So I know the Saints
are in that market, but it's like you gonna have
Chase Young.
Speaker 4: It's like, be careful. We talked about like some like
you just started talking about like what would it take
to get trades? We were talking about it one of
the breaks. I think we talked about the Saints last.
It's like, if you could figure out a way to work,
can I know you've got to have two to tango,
like you got to have a green party of course,
But like we're talking about the Saints trading down at
what they could do and like do we take receiver
here or there? Well, if you could figure out a
way to turn that eighth pick overall into a J Brown,
do you do it? Like trade back now then trade
that first round or you got plus the second round?
Do you get as well to trade back? Can you
make that trade for a guy like AJ Brown? Would
you would you take a J? Brown? Over Trying to
go like real young and getting a couple of guys.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm just always cautious when it comes to trading
for a guy that the last two spots that he's
been in have ended with him needing to be traded,
and I'm giving enough real assets for that, right, wrong
or indifferent.
Speaker 4: His fault, your fault, whoever's fault.
Speaker 2: The last two spots that he's been in, the Titans
and now the Eagles, it's kind of ended with him
saying I need to go somewhere else. And that would
make me nervous giving up some real assets because let's
say I give up those assets and his level of
play goes down. And so when he asked for the
trade from my team, I don't get the value because
the play is not the same.
Speaker 6: He's a depreciating asset.
Speaker 4: You like that.
Speaker 6: It's good term.
Speaker 2: That's a very good term, very business look at you.
So that's where I would have the biggest caution is
why does this keep happening to the same player. It's
a fair question.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can plain the first one on the
Titans organization, but you certainly can't blame.
Speaker 2: And again, AJ Brown just had he had Let's see
seventy eight catches one thousand and three yards.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs, who just got released yesterday and is free,
had eighty five catches for one thy thirteen yards. So
there's production that was better than aj Brown. Yeah that
doesn't cost me an asset.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but anytime the Eagles need to play, they just
touch Bush. I don't know if you can blame him
on that, and I I would understand. I can. I
can support his frustration in that offense as a clear
number one receiver, a guy that wants to be effective.
Speaker 2: It was never a fuel naming by yards because DeVante
Smith that more.
Speaker 4: But I hear what you're saying, so it got But
I think you want receivers like that that want to
impact the game every single game. The great ones are
like that. They want the ball that's a receiver. So
you can't like blame him for wanting that. And I
think their offense was not good last year. There was
at least Orne, so we made that. We made that
connection during the season, Like he's got the connection. He
had a much better season when Kellen Moore was the
offensive coordinator, so there is some sort of connection there.
Speaker 2: But still it's fun to speculate. I would be cautious
there good player.
Speaker 4: Would you take him with the eight overall pick? If
A J. Brown was available, then you could take him.
Would you take him? And that's the question I'm asking.
It's rhetorical.
Speaker 2: When I can sign Stephan Diggs that had better production,
When I could sign Wandel Robinson who had better production
last year.
Speaker 4: To answer the question, and I still have a number
eight pick. No, you don't think he's better right now
in his career than Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 2: I mean stats tell me Stephan Diggs had a better year.
S that's it for losers.
Speaker 4: We all know that.
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You're listening to Off the Bench, No Man.
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Speaker 2: All Right, Welcome back in ot B here live from
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Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalyze your taste buds and leave this
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Speaker 4: What's going on? Brother? How we doing? How we living?
Speaker 5: I'm good?
Speaker 4: How are you guys doing?
Speaker 2: Fantastic? Have you had crawfish yet this crawfish season? Because
Matt has him in his yard if you needed something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have a few of my ard too. I
have not. And actually we're having my son turned sixteen
this weekend and so our next Tuesday rather, but we're
celebrating this weekend and we always celebrate with a crawfish ball,
so it is to come.
Speaker 4: What's in the crawfish boil? Like, what's our favorite fixings?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean so my brother likes mushrooms in the crawfish bowl,
which I'm a fan of myself, but me too. We
also put this John, I don't think we talked about
this before. It's it's called John John. It's dj o
in dj o in and it's black mushroom little tablets
that you put in there, and it's kind of an
oo mommy flavor, if you will, and it's earthy and
I really love that. John John and the boil and yeah,
I'm salivating thinking about it. Then it's good. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So so how many tablets do you put like in
a in the pot?
Speaker 5: Two or three? You know, you don't you don't want
to go overboard with it. It just is I'm not
much looking to you know, like just color of the
tails or anything. It just it just adds like a
depth of flavor to it that it's it's not salty,
it's it's it's too mommy. You have to experience it
to understand that. I mean, there is salt in the
tablets to preserve them, but it's like a it's like
a stock tablet if you will, you know, it's it's
like little cubes. But they're they're delicious.
Speaker 4: Uh, Chef. We talked about it earlier at the show.
I was I had my mind blown this year. I
had a crawfish chimney in my front yard and I
do not live near a body of water. Yeah, and
I was just blown away that there's just crawfish just
living up in the dirt everywhere. And I'm assuming that
you're aware of this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have them. I have them in my yard too.
I have a pond in my yard, So it's not
it's not as extraordinary. But I mean, if you have
a ditch or a waterway anywhere, a crawfish can find
its way. Man, And honestly, you know, like you or
me or whoever, there's so many people boiling crawfish these
days that you know that there's always a crawfish escape.
You know, there's always a crawfish escape. And shoot, I've
I mean, I've taken crawfish and put them in my
pond before after after a boil, we had, you know,
had three sacks and only need to two sacks and
didn't want to waste them, so put them in the pond,
you know, for the for the fish. So I can't
be the only redneck that does that, So I assume
you know somebody else that has done that as well.
And yeah, it's not terribly surprising to me.
Speaker 2: Hashtag munchies. I need a new chef knife. What brand
does chef recommend?
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you're you know, I mean, it depends on budget, right,
Like if you're assuming this is you know, kind of
for the home person, the home chef, so to speak.
There's a company called misen Or Meson M I S. E.
N that makes exceptional knives for the dollar figure that
they charge. They're affordable, they stay sharp, they're they're kind
of a combination of metal made between German steel and
Japanese steel, which makes its German steel is hardy, it's
a working steel, right. Japanese stale is super hard and
super sharp, but it's it chips really easily, and so
it kind of combines to the two different types of
metals and it is affordable.
Speaker 4: Am I Yeah, yeah, I just looked it up. I
might be in the market for a knife now.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Talking about it.
Speaker 5: So as you look at that knife, you know, there's
it has what you call it trimmed or a flat
or a removed bolster at the at the back edge
of the blade, like Wollostoff for instance, has a heavy
bolster there. It's quite thick and it runs all the
way down to the bottom of the knife to where
the blade is and it can actually prevent you know,
clean cuts, and it also is heavy and so you know,
when you work with a knife in your hand all
day long, that makes a difference, right, And so with
that trim bolster, it makes nice clean cuts cuts. It's
a little bit lighter in your hands, that's you know,
if you're working with a knife in your hand all day,
you can get tender nitis from running the knife, from
gripping it right. And so you know that how how
the knife handle is built is important. And the tang,
so that's that's the blood, the piece of metal that
extends from the blade into the handle, that's called the
tang and it has a full tang so that it
helps with the weight of the knife in your hands.
Speaker 4: Is there any like one design and I know there's
different types of knives, is there if somebody's in the
market and wanted to spend the best bang for the
red they wanted to spend their money on one knife
that was like the best all around type. Not the
brain just kind kind of told the brand, but like
the shape, the size, I don't know, like what the
different names are of all these top knives. What would
it be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have a utility knife that I use a lot,
and it's probably six inches long. It's only about an
inch wide, you know, from from blade to the backbone
or spine, and you can do a lot of stuff
with it. You can use it like a chef's knife
if you need to. You can use it as a
boning knife if you need to. You can use it
as a pairing knife if you handle it cooked correctly,
cut tomatoes and such. Brother, how are you sorry about that?
Ryan Terrio just wants by me its.
Speaker 4: Hey yelling him for us? Say we called him a
big dummy.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna do that anyway. Yeah, it's a utility knife,
and it's you know, about six inches six sense blade,
and it's just pretty versatile. Right Like if for a
chef's knife you have that thick, thicker blade, it's really
difficult to do detail work. And if it's too small
as a blade, it's not big enough to do the
heavy duty work. So utility knife kind of meets in
the middle. And if you're looking for something to get
more than one job done, that's that's your baby, right,
there's got.
Speaker 4: A nice tang.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So this is kind of in the
same line of questioning hashtag Munchie's best brand of pots
and pans that can be bought off the shelf.
Speaker 5: Yeah, made in off the shelf. I ordered my stuff online.
I don't know anything off the shelf, you know, I
don't remember the last time I went to the store
or but made In makes exceptional products. I bought something
for my daughter when she graduated from high school and
moved out on her own, and they they're made by chefs,
they were created by chefs, and they are really great quality.
They're not like, you know, if you have the money,
there's other pots and pans out there that have like
copper core that are extremely expensive, but they're super efficient.
All Clad, for instance, makes some of the best pops
and pans that you can buy. But you're gonna you know,
like it's it's an investment. Man. You're talking about seven
or eight thousand dollars for a set, right so made
in you can get that for you can get that
same set for a thousand dollars or under, depending on
how many pans you're looking for. You know, like you
can get a four pan set for like five hundred
dollars and that's high quality stainless steel, that's you know,
riveted together or and you know, it just has the
stuff that you look for in quality. When you when
you hold it, it feels substantial and it's it's it's
got hef to it, it's and it's even it cooks
really evenly.
Speaker 4: Hi seg Munchies we got a two parter here. I
have leftover crawfish from a boil this weekend. It was
on Saturday. Are they still good if they've been in
the fridge here on Thursday? And then second part she says,
what should I do with them? Now? I guess I
asked the question, like, what is your favorite part of
crawfish es and what do you like to do after
the boil?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Saturday to Thursday's pushing it. If you're gonna eat them,
you you should eat them today five days at the
limit of you know, like really, if you're going to
hold on to them for any amount of time, you
need to freeze them. My favorite thing to do with
crawfish tails that are left over, you know, And I
like to take the potatoes and I like to take
the sausage and the mushrooms and and everything that's in
it and make a crawfish potato salad. And it's, you know,
like put a little mayonnaise in there, smash the potatoes.
I mean, you're just making potato salad, but you're doing
it with the spice and flavor of a crawfish boil.
And I'm salivating again. If it's like Pavlov's dolways start
thinking about this stuff. Yeah, uh, if you've not had
if you've not done that before, man, you're you're missing out.
It's it's it's good. And you don't have to cook
the crawfish any further, right, So that's that's what I
don't want to do. You boil the crawfish tails already
to your still room or what you cook them, and
so cooking them further, drying them or put them in
a soup or whatever, they're just going to continue to
cook and they're going to continue to fall apart. So
what you're making is is a cold salad, right right, Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 4: Got the tails in. It's got the tails in the
cold salad.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 4: So if you're going to prep for that, would you
throw in like an extra sack or two of potatoes
in the boil during it?
Speaker 5: Just I mean, you definitely want to have some potatoes
left over for it, you know what I mean? Or
if you don't, you can boil some potatoes the next
day and boil so that they have that that same flavor, right,
same flavor profile. But yeah, if you if you boil
extra potatoes and garlic you know you want that boiled
garlic in there. You just use the excess of stuff
of that stuff and make your potato salad out of it.
Speaker 2: Crawfish potato salad. My mustard or mayonnaise based there.
Speaker 5: I think mustard with a little creole, mayonnaise with a
little creole in it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like yeah, yeah, all right, well I move,
I'm starving.
Speaker 4: Chef.
Speaker 2: We love you, We thank you, we appreciate you every
single week. Thanks propping on with us.
Speaker 5: Hey, hey, just real quick, so do you know what
next week is?
Speaker 4: Checks to watch? No, and sat Patty's is coming up.
Speaker 5: That's true. But mid March, and you know, I think
it was I don't remember mid March. It was like
thirteenth or fourteenth or sixteenth, six years ago we started munchies.
Speaker 4: Oh let's go.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah, anniversary coming up?
Speaker 4: Yeah, should we do something special?
Speaker 2: I think we should, Chef. I think I mean, in
honor of the anniversary. I think you should come in
and work can make us one of those incredible dishes
that you've done before.
Speaker 5: My kids exactly, he's got.
Speaker 2: A sixteenth birthday to prepare for. All right, we'll do
something special. Chef, I appreciate the reminder.
Speaker 5: Of course, yeah, you guys take care all right as well.
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