Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Say Hester and Hester got it far.
Speaker 1: From carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each
other on.
Speaker 3: The air well, there's drop control.
Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine studio.
Speaker 3: It's off the bench, all right, welcome back in our
number three of O t B.
Speaker 4: A lot of things going on right now in studio.
Speaker 5: All the stars aligning, the planets aligning, whatever is a
lining for Will Wade to come back to l s U.
And this thing's happening fast and furious.
Speaker 4: I would be.
Speaker 6: We go a little bit better now than we did
ten minutes ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're feeling good
about it again.
Speaker 5: April first, that's the date we kept throwing out there
because the buyout would go down. But look, I think
in these situations we've seen this play out a ton
because the person that you're trying to bring there like hey,
enough is enough, Like this is too much, Like I'm
coming or I'm not. You got a portal opening up
on April to seventh, and so I would be shocked
and like this isn't anything I have. This is just
dealing with these situations numerous amount of times that that's
a five.
Speaker 4: Million dollar buyout.
Speaker 5: It goes down to three on April the first probably
gonna hear it settle for four if that does happen.
And so I wouldn't be shocked because everybody's like, all right,
if this is gonna happen, let's just rip the band
aid off, let's make it happen.
Speaker 4: Let's let another million. Yeah, at this point, at this point,
and honestly, what is like, what is it?
Speaker 5: So that's where that's at, and we're going to continue
to monitor that and oftentimes we don't get a chance
to do that. We enjoy a full of news here
in the morning.
Speaker 7: Adrenaline high right.
Speaker 8: Now, you have it. You have a soft smile.
Speaker 4: Well we can't. Yeah, yeah, big god, I feel like
I've taken my vibe answer.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 9: It's but one of the best rodeo game is giving
me life too.
Speaker 7: This is fun.
Speaker 4: This is fun, this game. Who has the next question?
Speaker 7: Matt? All right, and we've got a caller, So.
Speaker 6: We got to give away these tickets guys we're throwing
off please, these are softballs, all right.
Speaker 9: So we've got color number three. I don't know what
color number it.
Speaker 4: Is, color number whatever you're on the air.
Speaker 7: What's your name? Also? Are you on both? This sounds terrible?
Speaker 8: Hey, how are we doing? All right?
Speaker 6: You're ready to play some little eight seconds of fame
here for some amazing radio tickets you read to roll?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 8: I ask you this question.
Speaker 6: I'm going to say, go and you got eight seconds
to answer this question correctly. Okay, Jacob and I on
this show, we've broken down a lot of last season
L s U football. What is the name of the
one basic running play in football that L s U
did not run one time last season?
Speaker 8: Go?
Speaker 10: That's the only thing they ran?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 9: Well, somebody else a chance, somebody else gets a chance.
Speaker 7: Here we go. What do you all right?
Speaker 4: We got to give these away?
Speaker 7: Please? All right? Yeah, we got what's hey? Yes, I'm scared.
Speaker 4: Here we go.
Speaker 7: Come on, Scott, I believe in you.
Speaker 10: Where did Nick even coach before he got to l
a shoe?
Speaker 9: Okay, I'm gonna put you on hold and then I'm
gonna get your info and then you won six tickets
to Honda Rodeo April ten through the twelve VIP tickets.
Speaker 8: Congratulations.
Speaker 5: I think Taylor was like, all right, we're done.
Speaker 10: I was gonna throw any easier one. But I was like,
we'll just do that. Let's just get that knock it out.
Speaker 7: All right, we're gonna do this again.
Speaker 9: We're gonna be giving out these tickets.
Speaker 4: We're gonna do it again.
Speaker 7: We're gonna do it.
Speaker 10: Okay, wait, we were getting on one pair, No one
thing six?
Speaker 7: Well, No, it's it's we have more tickets to get
out you. Yes, but for today it was six tickets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, got you.
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Speaker 9: Hold on, Scott, I don't know why I got scared
when they were like a landra.
Speaker 7: I thought I was about to get cussed out.
Speaker 4: I thought you were. I thought they yeah, something was
about to happen.
Speaker 7: I know that was scary.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw.
Speaker 5: I saw all the bad decisions you've ever made go
through your head, like which one was about to come out?
Speaker 8: It called the called the office catch.
Speaker 5: All right again thirty four minutes ago on three. Yeah,
n C State head coach will wait expected to leave
for el at shoot, turn it up coming.
Speaker 4: That way?
Speaker 11: Wait ah the thing, Yes, no madum, fugive mistakes.
Speaker 7: I'm coming, I'm coming. Tell the little coming.
Speaker 8: Let's go. All right.
Speaker 4: So again, this is thirty four minutes ago.
Speaker 5: That is a report from on three, and we've talked
about it all morning. This is something that has not
really been a secret. It's been talked about, but it
is getting closer and closer, and those stars are aligning
and it's going to happen sooner rather than later. That
April first date feels like it is so far in
the distance you will never get there because well there's
some pressure from both sides, and so you're starting to
see that, you're starting to see the dominoes fall.
Speaker 4: Whatever you want to use to say it.
Speaker 5: And we'll wade one oh five and fifty one in
his career at LSU.
Speaker 6: We take, we take. Hey, we are so back, baby.
I told we were talking about it before the show.
We're either going to care or we're not not gonna care.
It's gonna be a little lane. Yeah, well guess what
we got a little lane. Yeah here, now we are.
We're in baby, you're I think the things If will
Wait is in fact back to l Shue that brought
him here. He was at NC State. What's their mascot?
Speaker 7: Wolf pack?
Speaker 4: Fact? What did he hear us do? Al?
Speaker 8: Wow, good week.
Speaker 5: You know I'm at the wolf pack, but there's other wolves.
I think I need to be closer to this wolf pack.
Speaker 8: Wolf pack. Come on, will join the wolf pack over here?
This one once a week during the season, give us
a good question or two. Wouldn't hurt you, wouldn't kill
you if you said a good question every now and then.
Wolve's coming on. Oh, he'll be there. We fact, we
were out.
Speaker 4: This is what Gohadan yoused it.
Speaker 8: I didn't.
Speaker 6: Yeah, go ahead and step away from I'm just excited
about will Waite.
Speaker 4: Tell y'all what do we talk about earlier?
Speaker 5: Like, if you have an athletic department, You've got Will Wade,
you got Kim Moulkey, you got Lane Kiff, and you
got Jay Johnson, I mean other other coaches. So if
you're a coaching other sport, like trust me when I say,
like you're doing what you're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 4: As well. What do we talk about often?
Speaker 5: You really had one program that didn't have what everybody
else in the athletic department had, and we could go
to all the Olympic sports, we could go to basically
every sport, basically every sport on campus was where they
needed to be or they were over that line.
Speaker 4: Now football has got to get back to that.
Speaker 5: But you've won championships, you still got the buzz, you
got lin Koff, and YadA, YadA, YadA, y'all know that
you had one. So now this puts everybody on their
front foot. There's nobody on their hills right now. And
now it comes with a lot of expectation. It comes
with a lot of dollars and cents. But this is
who you want to be, which I can appreciate as
an alum. Doing everything you can it tried to be
the best that you possibly can. And if LSU wasn't
the villain already, which they were, we are now fully
we're Darth Vader, and that's okay. I don't really care
about anybody else. I don't even have to pretend anymore.
I don't do college radio anymore. I do NFL. I
don't even have to act like it anymore. There's all
l s U for me. Everybody else sucks.
Speaker 4: I don't care period.
Speaker 5: Tigers are good. That's all I care about. Yeah, I
don't care about nobody else. If you hate us, that's great.
All the things we're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 8: So let's see what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: Give me all the black hats.
Speaker 6: Don't write any checks that your as skin cash. Well
we're cashing them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: So that's that's the thing, right, Like Jay just mentioned said,
done give it one thing missing as far as like
elite coaches that energize fan bases, there was one piece
missing to that puzzle. Will wait is that final piece, Like, look,
whatever you think of Will Wade as a coach, I
don't know why you wouldn't like him as a coach.
You want to hell of a lot of games here,
But Will Wade's going to bring excitement back to the
p MAC.
Speaker 8: And for someone that.
Speaker 10: Watches every game and it's watched his team lose a
lot every game the last three years, if nothing else
is going to be exciting, If nothing else, it's gonna
be like you can walk in that.
Speaker 8: P MAC and be like gonna be butts in the seats.
There's gonna be butting the seats. Maybe not.
Speaker 10: They all gonna be standing up Will Wade's first game,
he's gonna he's gonna bring the energy here, man, And they're.
Speaker 3: Gonna be playing breaking Yeah.
Speaker 8: They're not gonna be playing neck. They'll be playing breaking.
Speaker 7: The Yeah, break your freaking neck.
Speaker 5: Honestly, we all had a heart attack because it was
it was a hard, hard hard Tyler was listening like,
please do it.
Speaker 4: Please. I still don't think Taylers Chick even knows or
remembers that he did that.
Speaker 7: But one, oh man, I can't wait. I can't wait.
Speaker 9: I can't wait for like the people that have like
just been like it's impossible, he's not Why would he
come back? Why would he do that? All right, you're
about to cope so hard. Bro, You're about to cope
so hard.
Speaker 8: Get your popcorn.
Speaker 10: Imagine like Lane Kiffin's year one sports well, yeah he
played California girls out of the well.
Speaker 9: Wade's getting one, Kid's gonna get one, and like l
s U was just winning Natty's next season, all of them.
Speaker 10: I also think that the SEC might get a little
bit easier next year in the basketball front, I don't
know why. I don't know why NATO's wouldn't take the
U n C job. I think, well, I think NATO
should take the U n C.
Speaker 8: Job for that too.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's some guys up for it. But I mean,
if you're offered, I don't know why you wouldn't take it.
To the SEC. We'll see, maybe he does stay, it
might be a little bit easier. But yeah, I mean
Lank kivid you know when his when he got here,
I mean that that that blew up right, like everybody
met him at the airport and all this.
Speaker 8: Well, wait, it's gonna be similar.
Speaker 10: I mean, think about the people that have been begging
for this guy to come back for four years now,
like it's it's gonna be big done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was people that.
Speaker 5: Watched LSU basketball, that spent money to go to LSU basketball,
that didn't miss LSU basketball because.
Speaker 4: Of Will Wade.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and those people weren't there before they left. After
those people are going to come back.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So I mean we had a student section when Will
Wade was here, Crawfish pod and everything.
Speaker 10: You didn't have to bribe them with a free T shirts.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and say please stay in the whole game and.
Speaker 10: Say you can't get them till the third quarter. Now,
I mean because that happens.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it is a good move, but you shouldn't
have to make it.
Speaker 8: No T shirt like a free one.
Speaker 7: If it's free, it's me.
Speaker 4: But they're so like stiff some of them are.
Speaker 5: If you get like a fifty fifty a free hat,
no way, I can't free hats either.
Speaker 4: One of these heads.
Speaker 6: Free shirt now. Yeah, sometimes they got that cotton poly
blend very rarely, but if you do, a lot of
them are like you're right, a lot of them are
one hundred and ten percent.
Speaker 10: You find that's your favorite shirt, You find that perfect.
You're wearing it all the time.
Speaker 8: It hits.
Speaker 7: What the birds are singing, shining.
Speaker 6: Yeah, giving away tickets will wade. I don't even know
what else happened. Who cares, like Monchi says about our
team's performance. I want to bottle this feeling up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I want to bottle this up too, Come man,
that's perfect song.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was able.
Speaker 5: I was able to be in the Mass and Square
Garden when Carmelo Anthony got traded to the Knicks. He
was going back there and they played that song.
Speaker 8: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: There's incredible.
Speaker 8: So we'll give you some chills.
Speaker 4: If you got some, you're really coming home.
Speaker 8: Somebody's actually coming home. You're playing for a reason, goose bumps.
Speaker 5: All right, let's go ahead and take a break, regroup,
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Speaker 1: Com from the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off
the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 5: All right, welcome back, he and OTV here live from
the Raising Kanes Studio.
Speaker 4: Always excited to catch up.
Speaker 5: Where the next guest every single Thursday here on OTV,
the head baseball coach of your LSU Tigers, Jay Johnson,
joins us.
Speaker 4: Now, coach, we always appreciate Tom, hope you're doing well,
doing great. How are you guys doing fantastic?
Speaker 5: Always, like I said, excited to talk a little LSU
baseball with you, and like we always talk about, coach.
You just faced the number of seven team in the
country last weekend. Going to face another ranked team coming
up this weekend. But this one is a completely different
team now, a team you know very well, but they
got a little bit of a different style with them,
and so you know, Kentucky kind of brings some different
challenges Yeah, no.
Speaker 2: Doubt Nick is one of the best coaches in the country,
if not the best, in my opinion. He's done a
great job there, you know, basketball school, and yeah got
him to Omaha's a baseball program played in the Super
Regional here agains stuff a few years ago. They have
a good niche do a good job evaluating players in
the portal, and good coaching staff. So they this is
kind of one of these years. They feel like it's
their year or two. So good challenge. Old team looking
forward to it, like I feel like this will be
another good test. Obviously, there's certain things in the series
we need to do well to be successful, and we'll
have the team lined up to do that.
Speaker 6: Coach A little bit off track of just strictly baseball
ont here's kind of athletics in general. So I don't
expect you for you to kind of know this, but
a lot's kind of been happened in this morning on
the LSU athletic world from some maybe maybe only a
coaching front and some other sports. What does it mean
for you to be at a school that cares so
much and gives you all the you know, the resources
that it does to be successful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I say this all the time. You know,
I had a great job at Arizona. I mean, if
you ask me young J Johnson baseball coach, growing up
with a profession, what was probably my dream job, I
would have said the University of Arizona, and that would
have been one thousand percent true. And you know, when
this deal came up and how it came up, it
was like, okay, if I don't do this, like this
is probably it. You know, I'm still relatively young, forty
four at the time, like I'm probably you know, just
living my career out at Arizona, which would have been great,
would have been happy. We'd been to Omaha a couple
of times. But I would just view this as the
pinnacle of college baseball, you know, other sports aside. You know,
I remember obviously watching you guys and Sugar Bowl win
in a national championship and kind of a random deal,
like I love college football. I went to the Oklahoma
LSUS to my final game in twenty nineteen. That was
my Christmas present for my wife, and we went there
and I looked out on the field and saw Joe
Burrow and those guys running around and the size of
the teams and go and I isn't going to be
good for the Sooners and so like, yeah, I just
it was like a one of one type deal. Coach
Bertman obviously you know legend, you know. So I love it,
and you know, Scott was great to be here. A
verge is great, you know obviously, you know we're in
an exciting time right now with you know, women's basketball
try to get back to the final four and they're
starting to spring football and so it's it's it's truly awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and coach you and I have talked about this before.
I mean, you're you're exactly right, and it's like one
of those jobs like you never think it's going to happen.
Then when it does, even if you're incredibly happy, like
you go and you accept it, if you're willing to
accept that challenge of like of what it is, and
you know it's sometimes difficult, like it's not for everybody,
and so that is something that we've talked about, Like
you have to understand like what that means when you
take a job like this, Every single weekend is going
to be a packed stadium. It's going to be a
packed house and the thing We've also talked about, you know, LSU,
regardless of the record, you're gonna get everybody's best shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. And you know, I get asked about
that all the time from my friends out west, because
people don't really care all that much about college baseball
out there. Some great teams and great programs and certainly
great players, but there's just not the interest level. And
I always talk about it all the time, Like, you know,
the best part of this job is, like I'll just say,
a game we lost last Friday night, It's like we
have the basis loaded in the seventh inning and crowds
going crazy and behind the team and.
Speaker 12: All of that stuff.
Speaker 2: Like you don't don't get that very many places, maybe
like four or five in the entire country, And you know,
to get people that care about like what you're doing
is awesome, you know. And as far as the challenge part,
like I'm pretty simple, Like to me, it all comes
back to just like executing, you know, executing recruiting well,
executing player development well, executing game fundamental as well. And
you know, for the most part, we've done a good
job of that hit a little bit of a speed
bump with it. Here recently. But you know the good
part is, you know you have so many of these
good teams that you're gonna play, it's like you can
make up the ground. And that's what we're looking for
a good opportunity this weekend.
Speaker 8: OK.
Speaker 6: I know, you know about great expectations and exceeding those expectations,
And somebody that came into the season this year with
a lot of expectations was Case and Evans, and you know,
kind of toss up whether he was kind of feeling
the pressure or kind of stepping into that role the
right way, but certainly last week he had an amazing
out And what did that mean for your team and
your staff to see him go out there and execute
the way that y'all probably believe that he could.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a dude, like and like I did this
for my own like to put it in perspective for
maybe everybody else, But like, he's pitched in twenty four
games here I think over last year and this year,
and we won twenty one of those twenty four games.
Like that's remarkable. And you know, these guys do come
here to develop too, Like if they were a finished product,
then they wouldn't get here and we've certainly lost plenty
of guys in the draft, you know, out of high school,
particularly the last couple of years. You know, getting casing
through that was a big deal, you know, able to
extend and the regional final last year against Little Rock,
you know, one of the best pitch games, you know,
I've ever had a player pitch, and obviously in Omaha
against UCLA. And then there's still a different deal in
doing that every week. And you know, I believe it
was our job to get him lined up correctly. And
you know, as we've been able to see him more
in this role, like we've done a better job of
helping him be lined up correctly. And I think last
Thursday was the byproduct of that. Now this Kentucky team
will provide like a little bit of a different challenge
for that. But I have full confidence in him, Like
that's start, you know, our guy, like you know, think
about you know, you guys as players and the great
football players that have come through the program, whether it's
been like the Honey Badger, you know whoever, Like he's
that for LSU baseball and I wouldn't wouldn't rather have
anybody else out there on Fridays catch up.
Speaker 5: With LSU had baseball coach Jay Johnson here on OTV.
Coaches stayed with the rotation, and look, you know, we're
never going to ask you to give us anything. It's
going to give the other team an advantage. So we
don't need names here. But when you do have a
starter that's going to be out for a little bit,
it's not like the MLB ranks where you can go
down to the miners. You bring somebody up for a
couple of spots, starts, and they send them back when
you're guys ready to go. So when you have to
find somebody to help you out get through a couple
of weeks, whatever the situation might be, what is that
conversation with kind of the rest of your staff, Because
it's not as easy as hey, let's go down the miners.
This guy's ready to go, he can give us something.
Because in college baseball, you've got three guys and you
hope they stay healthy. Sometimes it doesn't work out. So
when you have that situation, kind of what is the
thought process with you and your staff?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know we have been knock on wood
pretty fortunate here for the last couple of years. Since
twenty four, since Kochievsky has been here, We've been able
to keep those guys pretty healthy, and hopefully that's a
trend that continues. Get a little speed bump here with Cooper,
you know, and he's given us, you know, twelve to
fifteen outs on the weekend and kept us in all
six games, and he's pitched, but you know, he's obviously
not going to be available here for a few weeks,
so we're still working through that. I mean, not rocket science.
Case is going to start tomorrow and then William's going
to start one of the games either Saturday or Sunday,
and really proud of his development. And then we have
the pieces to like overcome this, you know, Like when
I look at our pitching staff, it's about lining them
up correctly because they have the talent to execute.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 2: On the position player side, we need a couple guys
to like step up and and you know and play good,
you know, and I think there's more questions on that
side of the ball, But on the pitching side, we
can overcome this.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 2: When you talk about you know, guys like Sharon Gidri, Rizzy,
Ethan ploggs, Anti Garcia, Cooper Williams, Marcus Pauz Rick and
Zion Theopolis through two good gay or two good innings,
you know. The other night, benj Font note like we
can overcome this, and you know it takes a little planning,
you know, and that's okay. You know, like I said,
when you're the coach the University of Nevada, not at LSU,
you're doing this every Tuesday of your life, so and
usually every Sunday of your life. So it's actually not
that foreign to me.
Speaker 8: Guys.
Speaker 6: Let's talk a little bit about the gloves and on
the defensive side of the ball. So there's probably been
some moments where you'd like for them to play a
little bit better, and you talked about the improvements. You go,
you're playing a really good Kentucky team, maybe like to
play a little small ball.
Speaker 8: How do you think the matchups?
Speaker 6: What's those conversations like with your defensive players going into
a series like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're actually as soon as I hang up with you, guys,
we're having a staff meeting and making sure practice is
really aligned to you know, take care of all that
they do. You know, I watched the last five games
that they played series against oul Miss game against Murray
State last night, and you know, you got to get
the leadoff guy off bait because they could present a
lot of problems. The good news is, you know, at
least in terms of Case and William, those guys field
their position pretty well, which is really important. They've thrown strikes,
which is important. And then on defense, you know, it's
like we're still kind of working that out. You know,
Trad Carraway has done a nice job. We moved them
over to second base from third base and several games
and that's actually helped us tighten up the defense. John's
made some plays over at third and so we it's
just part of the deal. And you know, it's it's tough, man.
It's like it's just always go back to football. Like
I'm sure you know LSU wasn't too pumped when you
guys left for the NFL draft, going like, hey, we
got this guy and this guy you know, plugging him
in and defensively like Michael braswell third, Danny at second,
like those guys were unbelievable, you know, and Jared at first,
like that's the best infield in school history. So you know,
I expected a little bit of a challenge with this,
and we we just got to keep getting them better.
Speaker 5: Hey, coach, we always appreciate your time. I appreciate you
hopping on with us. I'm putting this out in front
of you. It's down the road. But on May the fourteenth,
when the Gators come to town, if you need a
couple of old meatheads that are Gator haters to get
the crowd ready to go before the game, you just
let us to know and we'll be.
Speaker 4: There for you.
Speaker 2: Hey, two tickets under j Johnson count on it.
Speaker 8: I will call let's go.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. Hey, coach, we can't thank you enough. We always
look forward to the conversation. We'll see at the box
this weekend.
Speaker 2: Guys, sounds great.
Speaker 4: Have a good day, all right, you as well?
Speaker 5: Jay Johnson, LSU head baseball coach, good enough to join
us every single week here on OTV. I mean they
can be pretty good tickets probably right, Oh yeah, don'll go.
Hey and Mango, if you're listening, can we get a
couple of jerseys, one that has fifteen on it, one
that has eighteen. We don't want our names on them,
we want Gator hater on the back. If you could
get that done. And we'll make sure we get the
crowd ready. Oh yeah, Jay Flynn family of five, Hester
family of thirty.
Speaker 7: Okay, but wolf pack, y'all just abandoning the wolf pack.
Speaker 5: That's crazy, huh, he said, Hester family of thirty are
in the okay.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it's a section. We'll take a section. It's
a whole section. Yeah, that's a tough part.
Speaker 10: Section right mound home plate.
Speaker 4: I mean I see empty seats there sometimes.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're always there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like it'll be a packed house, but like where
those people are. What are you doing?
Speaker 8: You'll spend a lot for those thick or they nobody
spent a lot.
Speaker 4: I think they did. They just like the feel like
probably like company seats.
Speaker 7: Yeah, probably they're the champion club ones.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because like the stadium will be packed in the outfield,
down the.
Speaker 9: Line, well, because those are like I know, we were
watching the game the other day and you want to
be with the people.
Speaker 8: I want to send those seats, you.
Speaker 7: Know where I want to sit, you know whose seats?
I like Georgia where they have like the kind underneath. Yes,
I love those.
Speaker 5: I remember watching an LSU game and they're obviously playing
Georgia and Kirby Smart was back there like stuff in
his face and you could see him on the broadcast,
like Kirby was talking to somebody and eating and you
could see him through what you're talking about.
Speaker 10: I'd like to just just hang out on top of
the dugout let walk across it.
Speaker 4: I mean, is that not what Jay just said we
could do?
Speaker 8: That's what I heard.
Speaker 4: I heard.
Speaker 8: Opposing dug outs.
Speaker 10: You can jump up them a little bit.
Speaker 5: If we throw it, like, we just want to throw
the first pitch to that, right, I know we've talked
about that in the past against Florida.
Speaker 4: We're towing the rubber though when we do it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we're not stepping to the front of the mound.
Speaker 4: No no, and.
Speaker 5: I'm probably gonna miss, but it's gonna be high, it
ain't gonna be low.
Speaker 8: I'm with that circle change.
Speaker 4: That's just because that's all you got left.
Speaker 5: All right, We'll take a break more O TV when
we come back here live from the raising Knes.
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Speaker 5: Chef, what's up, brother, How we're doing, how we're living
doing fantastic? Always our pleasure. Glad to have you on.
And uh, I'm actually gonna start with one for me
and not the chat. And we've talked a little bit
about this before. But when you're trying to do the
right thing when it comes to eating, when you're trying
to you know, change some things in your life and
make sure that you're staying on top of it. They
make it really difficult. They make it difficult because eating
healthy is far more expensive than when you eat like trash.
What would you recommend if somebody's trying to maybe change
the way they eat, trying to eat a little bit
more clean and maybe some ways where it's still going
to cost more, but it's not going to leave you.
Speaker 4: In the hole.
Speaker 12: I think start with smuggles, you know what I mean,
Like maybe maybe start with instead of buying canned or
frozen veggies, just start with fresh veggies. And that's expensive
enough as it is, to be honest with you, you know,
like I don't going full on organic is even worse. Right, Like,
if you're trying to go from commodities to organic, that's
an expensive move. You can also jake, you know, to
start buying local and so for instance, a tomato that
was harvested from a commercial place or a tomato that
you get from the farmer's market. A tomato that was
harvested from the commercial place was picked while it was
still green, so it has it fully nutritionally developed, and
it's set on a shelf until they're ready to sell it,
and then they ethylene gass it so that ethylene gas
will turn it red and make it look like it's
a ripe tomato that it's been ye ripe, but it
doesn't actually have the full nutritional value that it's supposed to.
Whereas if you go to a farmer's market, those tomatoes
stay until they're ripe. The farmer picks it when it's
fully developed and it has more nutritional value to it. So,
you know, small things like that, you know, and it's
educating yourself too, you know, like where you get your
stuff from is important, So I don't know, that's if
I would start with small goals, you know, just educating
yourself on where to find the healthiest foods because you're
you know, you took the words out of my mouth.
It's an expensive turn man. Food is expensive, brother, you know,
Like I could go on all day rant and rave
about how you know, like fast food is one of
those things do like you can eliminate fast food from
your diet. And I think it too is it's how
you shop, right, like the way they design grocery stores
that's meant to hold you in place and sell you
things that you don't want right, And there's actually a
psychology to the grocery store that you're supposed to only
shop outside of the grocery store, whether fruits and vegetables
and fresh meats are and don't get sucked into the
middle of the grocery store where all these sweets and
sugars and all that stuff is.
Speaker 6: But they're so shiny and they look so delicious.
Speaker 12: Great, yeah, yeah, chef.
Speaker 6: So you're you're cooking for athletes every single day, multiple
a lot of people, a lot of people that want
to take care of their body. So you're cooking good,
clean food all the time. But when an athlete comes
lu sure, they're adults and they can make their own
choices as well. When it comes to the types of food,
Like how many different diet fads have you had to
individualize or make like a keto carnivore?
Speaker 8: What are mos? Like you've done everything?
Speaker 6: Does it have to be like approved by the dietitian
or they're adults, they can just decide to do that.
Speaker 12: Well, it's definitely something that the dietitians struggle with, you know,
because it is and there's there's a thousand of them
out there, and you know, the more time you spend
on social media, the more that that show up, right,
And so yes, they they deal with it more than
I do. We our job is the food science side
of things to make sure that the food is healthy
and prepared and ready and and and has lots of
options for them because you have different types of food
types to the dietitians that really face the brunts of that,
the fads of trying to convince them. But you know,
eighteen to twenty five year old mind is impressionable, but
oftentimes also is set in its own ways, right, And
so it is really about an education being, you know,
if they are student athletes, not just athletes, and so
we are trying to teach them, you know. And there
are very open minded human beings and there are narrow
minded human beings, and that doesn't you know, and that's
just the breath of the world, not just in the
student athlete world, but that percentage also moves into student athletes, right.
So we have some that come in that have food jags.
We have some that come in that are you know,
mom and dad fed them anything they wanted to. And
then there's kids where mom and dad fed them only
what they wanted, right, And the ones that have only
been fed what they want tend to be a little
bit more particular about what they're eating, not necessarily in
a good way. So there's when you're dealing with human beings. Brother,
you know, like you never know what you're going to get.
So it's most certainly the most rewarding side of the job,
and it's also the most challenging side of the job.
Speaker 6: Okay, what's the most eye rolling diet fad out there
that you've got to cook for?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 12: Man, I don't know, you know, like I think they
all make they I mean they do. The keto diet
doesn't make sense to me at all because ultimately, if
you put putting your body into kytosis and you you know,
like there is a negative reaction to that, and it's
going to rebound as a matter of fact, you know,
like most of those bad diets, there's going to be
a rebound if it you know, you know, if at
some point you know it's a diet should be a
way of life, not a not a short term goal, right,
and and if you're looking at it from a short
term perspective, you know, and when I say short term,
even a few months, you know, like if you stop
doing that, if you start to stop that altering of
your lifestyle and go back to the way that you
were eating, there is a rebound effect. And you know,
whether it's a twenty one day fast or a six
month diet, you know, if you don't maintain it, it's
there is going to be a rebound and oft times
you find an even greater gain of weight. So you know,
you really do have to focus on changing your lifestyle
and making good decisions. And that's where the education side
of it is, and it's a difficult, it can be
a difficult go.
Speaker 4: Chef.
Speaker 5: I do want to go back to my first question
because you mentioned, like you know what some stores will
do and what they'll put on their products to make
them look like they're fresh, and you mentioned kind of
some different options for our listeners and for me as well,
like here in the Baton Rouge area, like where is
somewhere maybe that is convenient to do what you're talking
about in shop local make sure you're getting the right stuff.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, they have the bread of redstick Fire
farmers Market downtown on Saturdays and then they have it
on Thursdays at Pennington And I've been it a dozen times,
and there's some great food there. You can buy local meats,
you can buy really good foods. You can buy you know,
herbs and spices and stuff. But you know, I'm I
mean even knowing the difference between grocery stores, and I
don't really want to call out any grocery stores, but
I would say the local grocery stores are going to
have more local foods for you than the bigger name
chains that that don't know haven't said that. You know,
there's the whole Foods of the world. That is what
it is exactly that it's organic and whole foods, but
it's also expensive, you know, like I can't afford to
get it whole foods, you know. So yeah, I really
love the farmers markets. You can go down there. You're
walking around and just you know, enjoying the people who
are there. You're building relationships while you're there. You know,
you're you're talking to the person who's growing it so
you can get information about it. You know, those are
things that you that are lacking when you walk into
the big box companies of the world and you know
you're there's nobody around to talk to about about the food.
So That is one of the things about whole foods
I do enjoy is you can always find somebody talk
about what the food is that you're purchasing, whatever it is,
and they can give you information about it.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 5: There, he is Chef Michael Johnson good enough to join
us every single week here on O t B Chef.
Speaker 4: We always appreciate it and we always look forward to
next week.
Speaker 12: Thanks guys.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like I'm.
Speaker 4: Trying to eat healthy out here. Like make it make
it more affordable maybe, yeah, well, you know, make it.
Speaker 8: Money, make it make it easier too.
Speaker 6: It's cheaper because you can process it a lot of longer,
I know.
Speaker 5: But like they wonder why people don't do it because
it's not easy.
Speaker 4: Look, you gotta.
Speaker 8: Get his way to do it.
Speaker 4: But people out there balling on a budget.
Speaker 8: It's organic thing. That's that's a tough one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wroll organic, just really organic.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like a lot a lot of times, the food
industry makes up a lot of buzz words.
Speaker 8: Yeah they do.
Speaker 6: Been to those food shows where the scientists are there
that make up those words.
Speaker 5: That's right, all right, We got to take a break
more OTB to wrap it up. When we come back
here live from the Resikain studio.
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Speaker 5: Right, you know the news of the game, and this
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it for a couple of days. Not a great kept
secret in college athletics, but it is that alignment is
getting closer and closer and closer, and it is close
to being official, so you know, it's nice to get
some news here during the morning show. Is that the
word of Murphy, Sam and Jody. I bet you didn't
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the most used were someone said it in the chat
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