Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Hester and Hester.
Speaker 1: From carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each
other on the air live from the Mercedes Benz Baton
Rouge Studio.
Speaker 3: It's off the bench.
Speaker 4: How did you carry me? All you did was turn
around and hand the football off to me. I literally
carried the football.
Speaker 5: I had to tell you where to go. He never
knew what to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, every time we broke the Yeah, hey, the five
thirty pounds white running back didn't know where to go.
Speaker 3: That's why he was in there.
Speaker 6: Carried each other mutual.
Speaker 4: I mean I tacked out blitzing linebackers from you know
as what Weeks put it going straight through your face.
Speaker 5: Oh, he was trying to go to your face, but
he's trying to crush you.
Speaker 4: So I love someone who feeds wit Weeks and all
the Weeks brothers and all of the LSU football team.
I got chef Michael Johnson, executive chef over at LSU
joins us for your monkey's questions.
Speaker 3: Jeff, what's going on? Brother? How are we doing? Doing? Fantastic?
Looking forward to this segment, as we always do Uh.
Speaker 4: So this is gonna be the first time for Flynn,
so I'm actually excited for him. So, Flynn, before we
get our monkey's questions.
Speaker 5: Can I say this has been one of my favorite
segments that y'all do. Okay, we'll go crush it, and
I'm excited to be part of it now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, you know I was. I was going to say,
I have a really great picture when I first opened
this place up in twenty nineteen of me Jake Matt
Richard Dixon. Oh yeah, it's one of my favorite pictures
that I have of because I mean it was all new,
and you know, like I'm standing here with some of
my some of my face ls you guys, and so
it's to be a part of.
Speaker 4: It as well with Yeah, that's right, man, I did
forget about we do a show. I think we did
in the Corner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the corner. We did show in the Corner. Yeah, absolutely,
I need to go over there.
Speaker 5: Actually, this segment has been so good for so long.
I'm actually kind of like a little bit nervous about
this one.
Speaker 4: I don't want to find the segment chef Chef he's interviewed.
I mean, we've had baseball Hall of Famers, we've had
head coaches, we've had basically a little bit of everything.
Since this week, you know, had a ton of big guests.
That's the first time he said he's been nervous and
it's talking.
Speaker 3: To you chef. Food is a big deal to me.
Speaker 4: All Right, I'll start this thing off. Then I was
gonna let Flynn, but he's already talked too much. Hashtag munchies.
What is the best cut of meat for a meat head? Look,
I'm a meathead, So like what when you think like grit, mean, nasty, tough?
Speaker 3: What do you what are you cutting there? You know?
Speaker 7: I don't know why, but when you said me said
like that, I went to I don't know who was
the who is the singer? Was it a Lady Gaga
that went wrapped in Oh yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah for sure shoot in Awards show straight up
like a meat skirt.
Speaker 7: And I remember thinking to myself, like, man, that's gotta
be like flank or skirt stake. You know, you know
you can't do that with blay.
Speaker 3: You know that's true.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there you go. There's your answers.
Speaker 3: OK, fair enough, all right.
Speaker 5: Jeff, all right, hashtag munchies. Here what is and maybe
it's a restaurant setting, it's a catering centum. Maybe what
is the angriest that you've ever got at a customer?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 7: Man, that's a good one. I mean, you know, it's
usually that that like last minute, come in at the
at the at the break of cleaning up, you know.
And I used to be a much more temple, temperamental
human being than I am.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 7: I practiced my patience. But when I was in the
restaurant business, you know that that's walk in at ten
fifteen when you close it in and have high expectations,
you know, like, I don't even care if you come
in at ten fifteen, if you're just like, feed me
whatever you can. But when people come in and they
get particular about hey, and and it's always a well
done steak, oh my god, it's just brutal. I'll tell
you this. So this is kind of funny. We had
a we had a radio personality out of I think
he was out of Chicago, and he was, you know,
like he was he also was in Kansas City, Like
the radio was broadcast in Kansas City to man Man
Cow in the morning. I don't know if you ever
ever ever heard man cow in the morning or not,
but he was, Yeah, so he was. I was working
in Warrensburg, Missouri, and he was calling us out because
he was coming to Heroes, which was the name of
the restaurant, and he was like, you know, these guys
they think that they have the best food, but you
know they talk about they have the hottest wings, and
you know, I'm gonna go there and I'm gonna eat.
I'm gonna eat like thirty wings. And I had just
gotten back from New Orleans and I had picked up
this stuff called endorphin rush, and you know, like two
drops of this stuff in a and a wing sauce
turns it from you know, like tolerable to freaking out
and having you know, like and it literally an endorphin rush,
like it kicks in, you know, like you go panicky hot,
you're sweating like it's it's it was comparable to taking
pepper spray like it it's manufactured cap station, right. And
so instead of making us, instead of making the whole
table taste that, we dipped two of those wings and
this super super hot sauce and when we placed the
wings down, we put it right in front of him
with those two two wings front and center, right in
front of him, and it worked out perfectly, like the
first two wings that he grabbed for those two wings
dowst and sauce, and everybody else is eating the wings.
They're like, what are you freaking out about?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 7: Hot Nancy?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 7: So yeah, rather than getting angry, we got even.
Speaker 3: Right, that's good.
Speaker 5: Let me piggyback that on. That like a kind of
a stigma that restaurant goers have. I got a lot
of friends like this people. There's all these people that
are nervous. Like if you're going to a nice restaurant
and you get a steak or something that is not
cooked the way you you ask for, it's not even close,
like it's way under cooked or something like that. It's
how comfortable How comfortable or uncomfortable should people be by
just telling the waiter or waitress, hey man, you can
I send it back.
Speaker 7: You should never feel uncomfortable about it. I think you
should be polite about it, you know, because there's people
who there's people who you know, get really rude with
the wait staff and get really rude with the staff
and mistakes happen, right, but you should I mean, you're
exchanging your money for a product and that that restaurant
is responsible for providing the product that you of your expectation.
You know, I think that there's there's a mouthful and
expectation of you know, when you order a steak, I
don't I like to describe I have the center versus
calling it medium, rare or medium, because everybody's idea of
what medium, rare and medium is just a little bit different. Right,
So a lot of the companies now have have described
you know, the warm pink center, you know, cool cool, cool,
red center, so on and so forth. I'll go in
there and say I wanted one hundred and thirty five degrees,
bring it out one hundred and thirty five degrees, right
because I know where I like it. And there's it's
interesting because some of the weight staff are like these
particular does this guy? I just don't want a steak
over cooked? And but to your point, yeah, you shouldn't
specifically if it's you know, like it's it's understandable if
it's underdone, and you can take it up. But what's
really frustrating is when they take it over and you've
got to order a brand new steak and you know,
like that's an avoidable I would rather have an undercooked
steak rather than an overcook stak.
Speaker 4: Flynn, this is very important to the future of our relationship,
even though we've been friends for long, over twenty years.
Speaker 3: How do you take your steak?
Speaker 5: Look, I'm going to I'm kind of second guessing the
way I order this now because it seems a little uppity. Well,
I say medium rare plus.
Speaker 7: There you go. I like that?
Speaker 3: You like that?
Speaker 7: I do? I like that because you know, medium rare
plus is just at the edge of medium. That's actually
how I like my steak. And and you know, people
don't understand that there is a medium rare plus. It's
at the edge of going from medium rare to medium.
That's a medium rare plus. Now does everybody understand that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 7: But you know, like I do, I like like, I
like what you just said. There.
Speaker 5: I do get some weird looks from from the wait
staff sometimes on order that because they haven't heard that
plus term. So if you were to describe medium or
plus and a color, I guess.
Speaker 3: What would that be.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, it's somewhere between a warm red center and
a cool cool red center and a warm warm red center. Right,
like somewhere in between there you don't want I mean, yeah, well,
how do you are you a medium guy?
Speaker 4: Jake me, No, cut off the horns, wipe its nasty
ass and throw it on a plate.
Speaker 7: Well that's tolerable too, you know what I mean? Like,
I think anything below medium is okay. Medium well is
questionable and well done. It is like you're you're you
need to you need.
Speaker 3: To go, chef. You got a question that chef.
Speaker 4: I just I just like you. I've told you this before.
Just lean down and whisper heat to the steak and
then throw it on a plate.
Speaker 7: Now do you like Pittsburgh style?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's not bad. No, for sure, like you
know when in Rome, for sure. But man, I don't
want that thing like anywhere, even medium like is too
much for me. And I know, look, I know, I know,
no pun intended. I'm in rare air there, but yeah,
I don't want that thing done at all.
Speaker 7: Beef I will be fully rare like that. But and
I used to eat ram that way. But you know,
like there's certain red meats that I won't say because
lamb gets a little chewy. I used to eat duck
that way. But I've gotten even to the place where
I like the texture better on a medium, rare plus
whatever red what you know like red meat. Now, there
is something to be said about the nutrient value because
the meat has its you know, like optimal amount of
nutrient at raw. Right, you're cooking it specifically over a
super high heat. It's drawing nutrient out by the minute. Right,
So yeah, there's there's there's health benefit to it as well.
Speaker 3: I loving the chat.
Speaker 4: Chef Joey says, yep, going to rus Chris, and I'm
gonna confirm that center. I'm saying, gonna totally say one
hundred and thirty five degrees next time.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 4: That's gonna be. That's gonna be the way what I heard,
thirty five degrees. Please whip out a thermometer. It's gonna
be so good. That's gonna be like the ultimate ultimate
flex there, uh, Chef, so Lsu has got a super
regional coming up. We just had Jay Johnson on the
show right before you. And so if you incredible human,
if you were going to throw a tailgate at the
box for a super regional matchup, you know the box
is going to be turned up to an eleven. Everybody's
going to be excited. What are we throwing down at
the tilgate.
Speaker 7: For the team or.
Speaker 4: No, no, for the fans for the tailgate to get them
in the right mindset to go cheer on the Tigers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well it's got to be celebratory, right yeah, I think. Sorry,
I'm saying hello to some guys here.
Speaker 3: Hey morning, all good tell them we said good morning
as well.
Speaker 7: You know, I don't know, you know, like I'm kind
of a bougie guy at the at the baseball park
when I worked for the Sea or when I worked
for the Mariners and at the miner League stadium, Like
we had a we had a coffee rub ribbi that
we served there and it was on a swirl jewish
and pumper nickel rye and we we we uh we
put I'm on uh sorry, uh we we we were brother. Sorry,
I just whispered it. We would brush honey on the
bread here and also it was brown and then rubbed
you like that. The ribbi was rubbed with honey, It
had coffee in the it had spice and cayenne and
we actually put some cocoa powder in there, and you know,
like it was one of the best sandwiches that I've
ever executed at the baseball stadium, and I think Tiger
fans would love it, you know, you know, something hearty
to drink your beer with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 5: I got a question of the huddle. I'm gonna change it.
The question of the huddle was who's your like celebrity
chef crush? But I'm gonna change it, like, what is
one celebrity chef that you see on television that you
actually like, respect their skill and what they do. Because
I'm sure there's a lot of clowns out there that
are famous because of their TV personality. But from a
chef talking about a famous celebrity chef, who's who's an
actual person that's got the chops.
Speaker 7: Anthony Bourdain used to be my guy, you know, like
he just talked it real, he said it real. He was.
He was controversial in that manner, you know, he talked
about addiction and stuff in the kitchens. I love not
that just he was a foodie, but he was a
chef guy, you know, real chef, and he told it.
He told it just the way that it was. But
as far as people who were still in existence, the
Jacques de pan is my guy, Like he is a
true and tried, just through and through French chef that
doesn't screw around. He's not flamboyant. He's just a wonderful
human being and he loves to cook. He uses his hands,
you know, like and he takes time to explain. He
by far is you know, Landslide for me is one
of my favorites, you know on TV personality chefs.
Speaker 3: Chef.
Speaker 4: I actually just watched Ratituey with my daughter. It had
no business going that hard, by the way, incredible maybe, Yeah.
Speaker 7: The more time you watch it and the more you understand,
like it's.
Speaker 4: Incredible, Like I'm sitting there like the whole time like
a me wantech chef, oh text Like it was actually
like I don't know a kitchen like you do. Obviously,
it felt like how a kitchen is ran doing good?
Speaker 3: Great? Thanks?
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, a lot going on. Shouldn't be quiet groves
of people right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, chef, you were good. We appreciate your time
every single week. Chef Michael Johnson good enough to join
us for munchies, Chef, we look for or to every
single week.
Speaker 3: We'll catch up again soon.
Speaker 7: Take care of guys, I mean it's.
Speaker 3: Trying to feed the team. They're coming in from breakfast.
He's like dapping them up, Like what's those guys.
Speaker 5: These guys just don't know that he's currently on a
worldwide radio show.
Speaker 4: If they knew he was on the seventh ranked mid
market morning radio show, there's no way they would interrupt.
Speaker 3: It's no way. So uh right, it too. He's great.
By the way, it is a good movie.
Speaker 5: You're right though, Like I've only watched it one time.
I never had kids like watch like.
Speaker 4: I was the same way like I kind of it
was the same way like when my older boys.
Speaker 3: We never really watched it.
Speaker 4: So Harlowe actually like rat Rat, so she like liked
it and she was like, I'm like, yeah, we're gonna
watch this great.
Speaker 5: He does go hard right, thought about it that way,
But no business could cook.
Speaker 4: They could throw me. We're gonna throw it down with
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This is off the bench with Hester and Flynn, Matt
and Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana sports, Big Voice.
Speaker 3: Lady, don't ruin the song with that. I love gold
that liner, I don't do that. What are we doing?
Have we found the clipp it of gold member?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 4: That haven't found it yet, but we have linked up
with our guy, Mikey Matu, former LSU Tiger MLB player.
You can catch him as the host of micd up
as well. Mikey, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Brother? How we doing?
Speaker 8: What's happening? Guys, y'all doing?
Speaker 3: Doing fantastic?
Speaker 4: Before we get to LSU, though, I have to ask
you about this. So Paul Skeins has allowed only nineteen
earned runs in thirteen starts this year, but the Pirates
have lost eight of those games. Sir, you played at
the highest level in the big leagues. That is hard
to fathom. Have you ever seen something like that playout?
Speaker 8: I've never been a part of anything like that personally, Like,
I've never been you know, I think I can say
thank God that I've never been a.
Speaker 1: Part of that.
Speaker 8: That'd probably be out a fall on my shoulders as
an offensive guy. But yeah, uh man, that's a that's
a tough situation to being. I mean, he's doing out
there and he's doing his job every fifth day, and
he's doing it to at the highest level. And you know,
his offense can't scratch on one run across to even
give him the no decision. That's a that's a tough deal.
And I think I think in twenty eighteen, I want
to say that Jacob deGrom was ten and nine with
like a one point seven five yard eight. Yeah, and
that may be the only other time that I've seen
anything like this, But I think this has urged. I
mean I don't I don't think like at least he
had a winning record. Seem like Paul is gonna get
to that that winning record because he's either gonna lose
it or get the no decision. That's a tough tough
situation to be empired. I don't want to say sell
the team, but go spend some money off from off
the place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, It's like.
Speaker 5: Paul's got to say all the right things he's got
and he's going to but this is like one of
those situations where hey, agent, go make some noise, like.
Speaker 3: Under the blanket over here.
Speaker 8: Come on, listen, And if they do that, that is
a disaster for Pittsburgh. Like the I mean Pittsburgh fans
are russ And if they if they finally got a
guy they can they can get behind. If they if
they trade him out, they're not. They might as well
sell the team at that point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Pittsburgh fans like, if you love something, yeah,
let it go.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, let him go to a better situation.
Speaker 4: The trade packages I've seen, like they don't even come
close to like Paul Schemes, who I think is like generational.
But you know, I just I had to ask Mikey
that question because man, I just I can't remember something
like that where you've been so dominant but you've lost
like eight of those games because you can't score any run.
Speaker 8: So might if he goesg I mean, I don't even
know if that's gonna win the game.
Speaker 4: I know, dude, he went eight the other nine like
in I mean, held him the three hits in one
run and lost the game. Like, what are you doing?
It's it's it's a hard at it is. That's a
great way to put it. It is embarrassing. What's not embarrassing?
Speaker 3: Uh? The LSU Tigers, they find a way in the regional.
Speaker 4: So before we go to Super Regional talk, I do
want to kind of look back. Look, I understand that
you lost the game to Little Rock on Sunday, but
it's about how did you finish? And the game was close.
The game was tight. Little Rock had all the momentum.
But credit to LSU and credit to Jay Johnson for
switching the lineup around because if Ethan Fries not batting
second in that game, Mikey, I'm not sure we're talking
about LSU baseball and a Super regional right now. So
he pushed all the right buttons there in that game
seven in the regional.
Speaker 8: Correct, you know, it was a it was a you know,
pretty you know people people look at a Little Rock
and they you know, they say always they've got a
losing record and all this. Well, you know, playoff baseball
is different. And Little Rock was in the championship game
of the regional. It wasn't like they were just beating Alisher.
They beat you know, the other teams they had to
put they had to face in that regional. So they're
scrabby team and they are a really good team. And
uh yeah, I mean credit j for for making the
moves in the lineup and you know Eaton Fry they
issued the first game on Sunday, was you had opportunities
to score runs and you didn't have anybody come through
and you had you know they were able, they weren't
able to come through with with RBI based this and
Eathan Fry did that with the base of loaded double
and you know he had won four for four, then
you reach base six times and so that was a
huge moment. But for me that game, you have one
guy in your in your bullpen that you probably trust
to go long in the game, right and that that
guy was Caason Evans. He was your last guy. So
for him, for Caseon Evans to do that in that moment,
in that situation as a true freshman, I mean, that's
that's legendary stuff right there. And he went struck out
nine straight guys. He had twelve strikeouts, and I have
to have it moment, not like, hey, get us through three.
We got another guy behind you.
Speaker 7: I can go four, Like.
Speaker 8: I don't know, you're the only guy. I can get
us six innings right now if we got we have
to have it. And he does that, and so it
was also a pretty impressive feet by him. And you
know a bunch of other guys. Obviously Louis Hernandez is
the two homers catching four straight games. I mean, that's
what you gotta do to move on. And then those
guys did it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And.
Speaker 5: More about Case and Evans. As a hitter, Mikey, when
you are a team like Little Rock that was on
fire that weekend, like they're playing out of their mind.
They're hitting great, they're playing in the defense great, and
you are you kind of dinged up the starting pitcher
that's more of a traditional thrower. Then all of a sudden,
you got the true freshman run out there who's pitching fast.
His mechanics aren't real traditional as a hitter and as
a lineup, like, how like big of a difference mindset?
How how big of a change does that make to
your timing and and just everything that you're doing from
a hitting standpoint, Oh, it's you.
Speaker 8: I mean it's like as a as a hitter, as
a as a defender. You love when the pictures got
that type of tempo. As a hitter, you hate it
because you don't have time to get I mean, you
could look at some of the pictures looking backwards. You
know some of the batters looking backwards because he wasn't
able to throw until they made eye contact right like
he was getting the ball, he was going and his
the tempo was was pretty outraged. As a hitter, that
that really gets rushes you through what you're trying to do.
You know, we're hitters with creatures of habit, and they
have a routine in the box and they like to
take their time, and so when you get rushed, you know,
you it really really does affect your way you approach
that at that and you know he did that and
he worked quick. I mean there's a couple of moments
where you know, Luis is trying to saw him down
and she's just give me the damn ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh.
Speaker 8: You know, so like that is that is a you
know that that's his advantage. And you know, as like
I said, as a defender, you love that because you're
always in the in the moment in the game. But yeah,
I mean that that makes a huge difference, Mike.
Speaker 4: In game number three, they did start Zach Cowen and then
they went to case Evans like we're talking about, and look,
I can understand you know, making a case because Zach
had been a Friday night starter.
Speaker 3: He had success in the postseason a year ago.
Speaker 4: If they get to that situation again, right, and let's
say for whatever reason, game one, Game two doesn't go
your way, You're playing a game three.
Speaker 3: How do you think Jay will handle that?
Speaker 8: So, you know, it's gonna be interesting to see how
he goes. I really do think he still has a
lot of confidence in that count. Look, you know where everybody,
I mean, I talked about it too, is are they
going to be a little rusty not throwing for two weeks?
And what I saw from Zach was a little russ
you know, because he hadn't done that all year. He
hadn't walked a ton of guys. He had hit guys,
you know, wasn't like they were banging the ball over
the field off of him. It was just, you know,
he just wasn't as sharp. Now, obviously Cason was as
sharp as he's been all year. So I think if
they get in that situation, you know, I think that
if they have an opportunity to win that Friday or
Saturday and Sunday, you're gonna throw the guys to win
those two games, because in the Super jowing you to
win two games right, and you know, if one of
those games goes you know, hey, why and they're they're
not in it and they don't have a chance to
win it. You know, I think they're gonna hold off.
They're gonna hold case In off and you keep him
in that situation to be able to start on that
if necessary game. But they're not gonna stave him for
the if necessary game unless the game kind of dictates
them to do that. I think there's an opportunity for
them to win. They're gonna go out there and do
everything they can to win the game and try to
win the win that series in two.
Speaker 5: All right, Mikey, let's uh, let's flip the script. Let's
turn two, let's turn this week. Let's start to West
Virginia coming in.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 5: So we talked to Jay earlier. Obviously he's not gonna
give us anything. But if Mikey Matuk he's coaching this
coaching football team, he is coaching this baseball team.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't want me to coach a football dive.
Speaker 5: Who is Mikey putting on the mound? If this game
goes to the game three.
Speaker 8: Man, Honestly, who if if if it goes to a
Game three and you haven't thrown Cason. I think he
starts now if you do throw him on Saturday or Sunday.
You know, I'm honestly, I'm comfortable with that count on
the mountain start in the game. He has the experience,
he has the ability to do it. You know, he
can lead. He pitches off a location and off of
you know, mixing and matching and changing ve lows and
changing high level. And you know, West Virginia is a
really scrappy team. I mean, they don't have a ton
of homers, but they have a ton of doubles as
a team, and so they're gonna go out there and
they're gonna put together some of my bats. And to me,
I'm not worried about like was that count on the Maud?
Like that doesn't really scare me because you know, you're
not going to give up the big homer, and so
you just if you have a guy that can throw strike.
I like our defense trying to make plays and putting
these ability these guys fit the ball and play.
Speaker 4: And Mikey then we start talking about the lineup changes
as well. So yeah, game three, you saw, you know
what the rotation maybe looks like with Cowen and Evans
and how they finished that game. But we talked about
it earlier, like if Ethan Fri is not hitting second,
I don't know that you win that game, and then
Mylem's swinging it well, and you got Hernandez in the
eight hole. He hits two home runs. I really like
how they formatted that game three lineup. Bear Jones struggling
a little bit, you put him in the six hole,
hits a home run to kind of give you that
breathing room late in the game. I would fully expect
them to run out that same lineup on Saturday, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you're going to see very similar to
the lineup to be very so. I love Luis Hernandez
in the eight hole, not because he's an eight ol hitter,
but because he kind of gives you a little bit
thump in the bottom of the lineup. And you know,
I like I like Ethan Fry at the top and
in the second or third. I don't know if they're
gonna keep Barret Jones in the sixth hole, but if
they move him back up, I would like Fry either
for him or behind them, like I want, I need
them to go back to back. You know, I think
that gives that kid's Garrett a little bit of protection
and allows the other guy to kind of do some
of the things that they want to do. You know,
Dickinson likes to handle the bat a little bit. He
likes you know, Tobyville square around the front.
Speaker 3: He saits three.
Speaker 8: Thirty in the year, and I think that the wild
card honestly is mile and you know mileon. It was
the first time we've seen Milomb at an extended period
of time this year really get going, you know, even
as alts were hard outs, and uh, you know, to
see him do that and kind of get back in
the format that he was last year, I think that's
gonna be huge row shoots in the region, in the
Super Regional and then going to nom A hopefully.
Speaker 3: All right there. He is our guy.
Speaker 4: Mikey Matzek, former LSU Tiger, LSU legend MLB player.
Speaker 3: You can catch him on miked up as well. Him
and j Mitch do a fantastic stick job there. Mikey.
We always appreciate the time, sir, I appreciate you.
Speaker 8: I can't believe it. Let y'all hang out.
Speaker 3: Together and we get paid to hang out.
Speaker 8: You know what good for You'll thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. I told you last night. Man. We
got to get you in studio soon.
Speaker 8: Whenever, whenever, I'm ready, all right, figure it out.
Speaker 3: Appreciated Mikey.
Speaker 8: All right, boys, thank y'all.
Speaker 4: All right, great insight from Mikey Matuk there and so
many different options for j Johnson. Man, Yeah, great dude,
good baseball player, doing big things in the media game
as well. And he had a doctor's appointment and he's like,
I'm gonna find a way to figure it out to
join y'all.
Speaker 3: It's been nice. Like in the background they said.
Speaker 4: Uh, Mikey, Mikey, Mikey should ask him what kind of
doctor is it.
Speaker 3: I've been pretty personal though, Yeah, what's wrong? Like you like,
what's up? Did you get good news or bad?
Speaker 8: Dudes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope he's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah up, all right, Well full fool, I'll take it.
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But when shoe fits Moro two B, when we come.
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Speaker 9: Yo.
Speaker 10: This is wow.
Speaker 3: Well this girl one time, one time. Hey, you know
you've got the Lirics.
Speaker 1: I heard you saying good song Tigers turn talkers. This
is off the bench, and you know, I.
Speaker 3: Feel like we've had a nice four day run here
with the new O t B. Matt.
Speaker 4: You've done a great job, great questions, live read, You're
getting better.
Speaker 3: We're getting better people. But if you.
Speaker 4: Can't tell me who sings this song, it might all
crumble Lauren Hill with.
Speaker 3: Did you Thank you? Thank you? I'll be here all week.
Well done.
Speaker 5: You gotta get it off when I hear this song
and anything about the beds. Think about Sister Act two.
Oh my god, that's a great movie.
Speaker 3: Film, my, what a film. Incredible. Have we seen Sister
one or two? Across the table? Seen one? Okay, okay,
all right, all right, who's good?
Speaker 5: Though one's great? To see two is legendary.
Speaker 11: Got to see Broadway as well. We were in New
York and Raven Simone played the Whoope gold Burn was good?
Speaker 3: All right? You know what g o? Do you know me?
What a great movie singing? You know, I gotta pay
the I gotta singing.
Speaker 4: I got add something food on the table, probably not
gonna probably not gonna shock anybody. But I have tried
so many Broadway plays, multiple even like the Million Dollar,
which is like Elvis, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis
and Pearl Perkins like my jam like stuff that I
I came.
Speaker 3: I'm not into them.
Speaker 6: Have you seen Chicago?
Speaker 3: Uh No, I've seen Lion King Chicago.
Speaker 4: I've seen all the like whatever the big ones are
you know everything Hamilton, like we try to go. I've
not seen Hamilton. I've not seen Hamilton. I feel like
I have seen it because I've seen all the clips.
Yeah sure, but man, I want it to be like
this thing. I really really do.
Speaker 6: And I just I mean, I saw one last time
I was there. It's called Oh Mary. It was really good.
It was a little too.
Speaker 12: Much for me at some points, but it was it
was good though, like it was about Mary Todd Lincoln, Okay,
but it was funny again.
Speaker 4: This is look it's me. Yeah, not y'all play. I
seen Phantom good on you have before, not in not
like in New York.
Speaker 6: I think like if you see Phantom on Broadway.
Speaker 4: I saw that at the Strand Theater in Shreveport, Louis
And the shout out.
Speaker 3: To the streams.
Speaker 5: You saw the legit version.
Speaker 11: It's a actively great Yeah.
Speaker 5: Credit to you for like wanting to like I want
to like I do like I feel like that person
is like you're trying experiencing the cool things.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my title brain comprehend it is I just don't
like that cup of music.
Speaker 5: I know so that that kind of love.
Speaker 4: But I love like, look, I'm not gonna do movies
like I like Elvis movies, all of me singing in them.
Speaker 11: So we saw Jersey Boys last time, and that was
that was probably the best one I've seen. That was
the one that I really liked.
Speaker 5: Can I tell you that Amanda Flann would punch you
in the face.
Speaker 9: I know she Yeah, she's always been music in musical theater,
but she has lived in New York for years and years,
and she's a voice teacher, voice coach for Broadway.
Speaker 4: I know people on Broadway, but it's not me hating
on them, no, I know myself. Yeah, because you want to,
I want to. I want I woul experience what everybody else.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make it sound like you hate it. True,
I would do the same to you. Oh yeah, clearly.
Speaker 5: I mean you have no culture, uncultured swine. I love
musical theater always, but I kind of grew up with
my two older sisters, so they both did it like
in middle school, high school, and my sister did its
like after after high school, of course.
Speaker 3: But I was a dancer sign. I mean I grew
up you know, fan of the odds. Yeah, no, I
know that. I know that about your super culture.
Speaker 4: That's very worldly, the most cultured person you've ever met.
Speaker 3: From Tyler, Texas. You know, City of Roses.
Speaker 11: What the Nutcracker has an opening for particle party?
Speaker 3: Dad does?
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, unless I'm the lead ballerina guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's real, big QB one energy.
Speaker 5: A ballerinas, a.
Speaker 3: Guy having a shirt. This is grit on. You think
I know that?
Speaker 5: Well, I figured y'all might have talked about it with
T Bob.
Speaker 4: If he did, I would no offense when he started
talking about that.
Speaker 3: I mean I didn't know anything about it, so like
I wasn't hon Is that man ballerine? Is it all?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 6: Ballerino?
Speaker 5: Is a ballerina?
Speaker 3: Look, you knew that you're in.
Speaker 5: I kind of halfway said it as a joke.
Speaker 3: To start with.
Speaker 12: In French, a male ballet dancer can be called a
dance sour.
Speaker 5: I gotta tell you though, that the tights to me
are are a bit much like for the dudes.
Speaker 3: Look we just cover up the crotch. Is This is
a hell.
Speaker 4: Of an idea from Daniel says Jake should make his
own Broadway production following the story of a full back.
Speaker 3: Call it fourth and Goal. Now, if you had.
Speaker 4: A Broadway play that featured Mike Alstott, Moose Johnson, Lorenzo O'Neill,
and Tom Rathman in tights.
Speaker 3: I'm there. I don't care what they're wearing. No baby
cakes there, No.
Speaker 4: You make it about the West Coast offense full back? Yep,
that's interesting.
Speaker 3: So what's your what's.
Speaker 11: Your your whole plot though, like, what what's your problem
in the school?
Speaker 3: Too gritty to be pretty?
Speaker 5: I would say something like a Captain America type thing,
like you start out as scrawny little.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, get picked on. Yeah, you have all
these like depressing songs about it. I got pushed to
the ground.
Speaker 4: You gotta have a problem in it too, and like
the little bully, like always walk around with your benching.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you're not you know enough, wait, like
he's shaming you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, little dumb Mike, you all start over there stuff
you're in the locker.
Speaker 11: Or you could do something like a guy grew up
watching those. Not many people carry a full back anymore.
He's trying to make a name for himself bringing them.
He gets a spot at the end. I love that too.
Speaker 3: It's a good idea, Cole South says.
Speaker 4: Hester finally admitted he didn't pay attention to most of
what you've about. I paid attention. I paid attention. I
just didn't have to talk a lot. Which it took
me some getting used to that because you're full of it,
because I've always been over here. And then when I
sat over there, initially like I, you know, you go
to talk, and then so I just I learned my
way and T Bob did a great job, did a
fantastic job. I loved every minute of it.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you can't talk because I'm I'm not a talker.
Speaker 3: Hey, I do love this, Okay.
Speaker 4: So like typically in the radio profession, the radio world,
like as the lead, like when you're done talking, that
gives the other person an opportunity, right, And again, like
that was something like I had to kind of figure
out sitting in that chair.
Speaker 3: It's like, all right, when does tea Bob want me
to talk? Whatever? Whatever? But typically that's how it happens.
I do love that.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I'll finish talking and Flynn will just sit there
and look at me and he'll go, yep, yeah.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: Eborate on that when I got talking, that's that's when
you pick it up.
Speaker 3: Like I'm John Stockton, you're crawling Malone.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm just like, yeah, you need to finish that
point a little bit more. Jacob, you didn't. You didn't
land that plane an opportunity.
Speaker 3: On that All seven years we've done radio together, just
looks at me.
Speaker 5: It's kind of fun. I mean, one day we're gonna
get that chemistry, dude. If we don't, we're gonna be
hamming egging it.
Speaker 6: One day he was like, can I say something?
Speaker 3: Please do? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think that was segment one minute, one day one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I do like where this play is going though the
last fullback.
Speaker 3: I like that. Yeah, God, that could be like a let.
Speaker 4: Me let me get a credit writing a Broadway play.
Won't be able to tell me nothing.
Speaker 3: I thought you talked a lot.
Speaker 4: Now, That's why I said, like I yes, absolutely, and
we just go to like no doubt.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, we're all going to get our credit.
Speaker 4: But that's that's why I say, like the Big Voice
lady should say yappers, Like if you didn't watch me
before I went on O TV, and if you don't
listen to Off Campus, you probably I didn't know that
I am a yapper.
Speaker 3: I do like to talk. Do you enjoy it? I
don't really feel like you've always been like that though.
It's a learned.
Speaker 4: Like if you would have told me, like this is
what I picked as a profession, Like you're crazy.
Speaker 3: It's no way.
Speaker 5: It's a a j hit it when we had a
it's the same way.
Speaker 3: He wasn't a talk.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: I think AJ and I found this media world kind
of in the same way.
Speaker 5: So I make this commitment to all of our listeners
into the wolf Pack. I will get better at the
end of talk.
Speaker 3: I will.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, you're great at talking. The only time you
don't talk is when I passed.
Speaker 5: There's some awkward exchanges. You got to work until you
have to hear, you know what. Like in football, we
practiced the exchange we do.
Speaker 3: We do every day.
Speaker 5: We just center quarterback yeah, and quarterback running back yeah.
Handoffs yeah.
Speaker 12: I think you're doing great. You see more reps. You're
gonna do a lot better. But I think you're doing
really well.
Speaker 5: You can't replicate repetitions people exactly.
Speaker 3: It's very true.
Speaker 6: See even the aggressively have gotten better throughout the week.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'd be shocked if there hadn't been all
store fifty sales and all these lives from today.
Speaker 4: All right, well let's see how good you've gotten, because
we're gonna take our last break, finish the show like
we always do.
Speaker 3: Ask the bench, Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: Your next live is All Star.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, so look, apparently I got a little
bit of an issue.
Speaker 3: Ask the bench.
Speaker 4: When we come back to the bench, would you like
to tell the people Matt Flynn about All Star Toyota.
Speaker 3: Dot com Toyota tell the people about it. I mean,
tell them about it. It speaks for themselves.
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multiple options, multiple SUVs, midsis, full size van, multiple trucks,
multiple sedans, hybrid.
Speaker 3: You can go to the leasing route.
Speaker 5: Where can I tell you the leasing route? I called
Miss Lisa a couple of years ago after watching this show. Yeah,
because we had a flight book the whole family. We
were going. I think we were going to North Carolina.
Speaker 3: This feels like it's going to be a rental, not
a lease.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a real leased it for a couple
of days. Anyway, my little girl was sick and like
her head was all stopped up and she was like
she was three or four years old. I'm like, I'm
not putting on a plane, and so I called, rented
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Speaker 10: Your boy fan.
Speaker 3: We love rap music.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome again, o TV ass the bench. Uh,
the internet is like creeping crawling.
Speaker 5: I've been on the hot spot all morning.
Speaker 4: Okay, so do you have asked the bench questions? Because
my internet is just a quarreling.
Speaker 5: We got the sound like a hashtag situation.
Speaker 12: Yeah, oh my gosh, that's the best.
Speaker 5: I got one here. That's the bitch. I'll come here,
like twenty monitors but use cardboard cutouts for the sponsor display.
Speaker 6: Wait, what do you mean?
Speaker 4: So we have monitor, monitor, monitors, monitors.
Speaker 5: But these even cardboards. It's it's more premium than cardboard.
Mean those yeh, why it's not a digital budget, I
mean it's monitor.
Speaker 3: That's just a good question. But it's actually like a custom.
Speaker 12: But we switch we switch them out, but I guess
you could switch them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe more like a screen in the shape. That
would be like it'd be a one time by a
one time by.
Speaker 5: Uh, but it's better than cardboard.
Speaker 3: It's much more.
Speaker 4: Favorite football play while at l s U, like one
singular play I would say my favorite why I was
there was Flinda Bird.
Speaker 3: Against Auburn for a touchdown.
Speaker 4: The the mechanics of that play, Will Muschamp running a
defense that we couldn't believe he was running, Matt recognizing
it immediately and kind of changing up some of the
stuff in the back end, and then me and Sean
picked it up.
Speaker 3: You delivered a strike.
Speaker 5: We've we've that's over that whole place, and like we're
gonna do it more.
Speaker 3: But I mean, that would be probably that's my favorite.
Speaker 4: That'd be probably tops because if if you would have
had like a camera and us miked up like during
that whole process, Yep, it's almost like that's the only
way you would believe how I can played out ye stuff,
that would be that would be. But taking a knee
National Championship, my first touchdown, passing the peach Bowl to
Bluster Davis.
Speaker 3: I think it was volunteer and Go was in play.
Speaker 5: It was just like a man, yeah I'm here type
of flight moment, like I can yeah, I can do
this on a big stage. Like that's a good, good feeling.
You always believe you can do it, but actually go
and do.
Speaker 4: It my like for like I guess the play that
I carried the ball like the florist does the easy answer.
But SEC championship game we put in ISO that week
twenty ISO Tennessee talked so much trash to me the
year before, one player even asking me why I wasn't
playing at a service academy because I was a white
running back.
Speaker 3: Uh So the first play of that.
Speaker 4: Game, I wanted to set a tone, and a tone
was set and let's go. I told him, a grown
man's gonna be coming down these tracks all day long,
so get ready. Uh probably like individuals maybe like tech run. No,
I mean that I disrespect to the go dogs.
Speaker 5: What's this four seven?
Speaker 3: Uh? Look look up to that?
Speaker 4: Remember ran a faster forty between the two of us
at the Nike camp. I don't care what camp you go,
Nike Combine doesn't matter, but all right, we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I'll let your boys and girl.
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