Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents off the bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn. Say Hester and Hester got it far
from carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each other.
Speaker 2: On the air, there's Crop Control.
Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge studio. It's
off the bench.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back.
Speaker 4: He and I number three O T B one oh
four five esp hen Baton Rouge. You got chef Michael
Johnson about fifteen minutes from now. Of course we've got
to get to all of your Munchie questions and sid
to buy you four chat.
Speaker 5: So yeah, we're gonna have Monchies today.
Speaker 3: I don't worry.
Speaker 4: We are going to have Monchie's going to have it
at nine fifteen. Fire, just straight fire in the chat.
Did they interview Jay Johnson today? We did at eight
o'clock and we went till eight twenty five. If that
tells you anything there, Fire, I was trying to make
him late for Peter Burns at eight thirty.
Speaker 3: Almost got there. You don't listen to all three hours?
Speaker 5: That's disappointing.
Speaker 3: Wow, Well, foxhol.
Speaker 4: On the Twitter Verse the old Twitter machine from Joe
Morgan at j S Morgan forty four, who has a
Southeastern Louisiana Lion as his profile picture.
Speaker 5: Shout out to Tayjay, Jake, and Matt.
Speaker 4: Have you all ever touched on any personal and funny
baseball high school stories. I've told a story before, the
only real baseball story I happened. And I played freshman
sophomore junior year. I didn't play my senior year because
coach Sabans like pick a sport bud.
Speaker 5: But my sophomore year, we're in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: We're at home Shreveport of angel Catholic of Baton Rouge
comes to us, and I never, like, I didn't really
know about Catholic. We have played them once moscona senior
year where we sent them home. We only played them once,
but they were a good baseball program for sure. They
had a shortstop that ended up signing with LSU that year.
He's a hell of a high school baseball player. But
we were getting crushed.
Speaker 5: I crushed. It's like as a second or third round.
Speaker 4: I think it was second round maybe of the playoffs,
and I mean it's like eleven to nothing or twelve
to nothing.
Speaker 5: Last inning. If they get us out, we're done. I
come up.
Speaker 4: I get a single and I'm on first base, and
I was frustrated by the game. I game didn't play
left field. Didn't like that either, so I decided I
was going to still second.
Speaker 5: Still second. Coach is not very happy. He's like, what
are you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm like, still second, Like it's like we're down twelve runs,
like your run doesn't really matter. But I'm like now
looking back and I'm like, hey, probably right next fitch
still third, okay, and uh after that, like they hit
like a groundball, I think to the third baseman and
like he didn't want me to go. I'm like, I'm
going score. We got crushed, like ended up being a
lot too little. But our football head coach was at
the game right, and I had played defense. I mean
I played noseguard, right, I played on the D line.
Speaker 5: And it's funny.
Speaker 4: He's like, uh, like I knew you could, like you know,
move back in like back in the day, misical we
had your running back stuff.
Speaker 5: He's like, I know you can move like that.
Speaker 4: He's like, I think this spring, which was like that
same time, It's like, I think we want to try
to put you some some running back stuff again. It
was based off him being at the high school playoff game.
We're getting crushed.
Speaker 3: I was mad, But say, uh, which grade?
Speaker 4: I was a sophomore, going to be going into my
junior year, so sophomore spring.
Speaker 3: So you were only when football? You were only playing.
Speaker 4: Linebacker in DLA. Yeah, but he was at the games
like hey, and he was an offensive coach. He's like,
they're gonna try some running back stuff.
Speaker 6: So how long had you been playing football leading up
to that point? Like padded football?
Speaker 5: Oh forever?
Speaker 6: Because we start Yeah, we started in seventh grade. That's
when our officials started. But like so forever though, you
didn't start playing running back till sophomore year.
Speaker 4: No, so like growing up youth football, I played running back, okay, Like,
and when I got to evangel I was it was
more like projected to be a linebacker because we didn't
run the ball.
Speaker 5: We were five wide. We're opening up. That was the offense.
Speaker 4: We didn't even have a running back really, but you know,
we're gonna have some new stuff. My actual, my father
in law was going to be the offensive coordinator and
he was going to run more of like a pro
style offense, and so we were gonna make the switch,
and so based off me being dumb and stealing in
a game that I should never have been doing, that
really kind of started the process of me kind of
playing both ways. And then eventually finally we played Longview
first game of the year that year, and it was
like a special package situation, like running back, but it's
hotter than hot as you can. You know, East Texas
first game of the year, we're in Longview. We had
like three guys go down with cramps PREMI high, pre
my high days.
Speaker 5: That PDA light.
Speaker 4: Didn't work as ish and so they're like, okay, cool Hester,
get back there and we're going to direct snap you
the football and run zone.
Speaker 5: They did it.
Speaker 4: I ran for like two to twenty that day and
they never moved back, just because of a high school
baseball game where the co was there and I sold
a couple of a couple of bases.
Speaker 5: You high school baseball.
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking about that story. It's incredible.
Speaker 6: So if it wasn't for that baseball game, you would
have kept on playing defense. I'm sure it would have
come to light eventually. I mean, I can move a
little bit, but that's awesome, you know.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I just I think that that baseball
game was big for me. But if it doesn't happen,
I'm probably playing linebacker in the group of five.
Speaker 3: You might have just stuck with Texas at that point.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't Texas. Texas was running back days no or not.
There not have been a Texas offer either. If I
was playing linebacker, it.
Speaker 5: Would have been.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: It'd been probably a two lane Greenway situation. Me and
Blake Baker right there in the middle of that defense
holding it down.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 6: Uh. So I didn't play baseball in high school. Leading
up to that point, baseball is all I did. I
didn't start playing football like tackle football. I mean I
did one like pee wee year in third grade, but
I didn't really start playing until seventh grade.
Speaker 3: So I was baseball guy. I loved over played played.
Speaker 6: This is like when people actually played like old school,
like in the Little League instead of travel ball. But
we traveled in this fall sometimes. But that was my
sport man all up until eighth grade. Was my last
year to play baseball because at the time I was
a quarterback in eighth grade for my team. We were
going into high school and so there's a big high school,
big five A, big school five A. So there's a
you know, there's varsity, JV, and then there's freshmen. They
had three different teams and so I was like the
first person they ever asked to as a freshmanvie on
the JV team. And so I was like, all right,
I'm giving up everything. I got shot at this thing.
And so the guy that I was competing Glance, he
was a freshman quarterback. And anyway, long story, I chose
football because I was kind of burned out on baseball.
So I did it so much and football was new
and fresh to me.
Speaker 3: But I do have this. I can't remember if I was.
Speaker 6: Fifth or sixth grade, but I think y'all know my
family was I grew a Baylor Bear fan. My dad
played quarterback there, my siblings, my siblings were that I
grew up going to every Bailey Big Chip and Joanne
guy big Chip and Joeanne. Oh this is pre Chip
and Joanne. So this is like the real deal Baylor
Bear fan here. I would go to like the old
old Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco for every home game
through the tailgate.
Speaker 3: Like loved Baylor growing up.
Speaker 6: So my dad was really involved with like the alumni
they had like in East Texas Alumni Association, like the
Euster Club all that stuff. So we were always really involved.
I always got to go into the locker room to
do different really like cool things for kids to be.
Speaker 3: Able to go do and see that other people didn't
get to do.
Speaker 6: But my dad became really good friends with an assistant
coaching I think he was the running backs coach at
the time, Trooper Taylor.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you ever ran into it. You're
awesome dude. So he was.
Speaker 6: He was either there for like an alumni golf tournament
or recruiting. Anyway, he was in town, and so him
and my dad were hanging out. I had a game
that night, and I loved Trooper. He was like high energy,
he was like he would play like he was just
a good dude man. And so I'm going to the
game and I'm talking to Trooper at the house and
he's like, Hey, tell you what, give you fifty bucks
if you throw a perfect game. Because I was pitching
that day, I was like, all right, cool, that's fun. Yeah,
eighteen up, eighteen down. He sit him down, perfect game,
and uh he.
Speaker 3: Didn't pay me. Oh what I got stud up. Troop
didn't pay you, Troop, you didn't pay me. Wow, Let's
fast forward to junior year of high school.
Speaker 5: He's at A and M.
Speaker 3: By the way, is he he.
Speaker 5: Is at A and M.
Speaker 3: So still fighting the good fight.
Speaker 5: So let's at fifty bucks.
Speaker 4: He better get ready because this year, when the Tigers
take on the Aggies pre game, I'm going straight to
him and telling him, he owes Matt Flan fifty bucks.
Speaker 6: Well, we gotta let's finish the story. We're going to
fast forward to junior I think I was junior year
of high school. I think Trooper at two Lane.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was there from nineteen ninety nine to two
thousand and three.
Speaker 3: Yep, so he was. He was at two Lane recruiting me.
So he comes in.
Speaker 6: He came in, I believe he was with a coach
from Georgia Tech. We go out to we have this,
like you know, past relationship. I'm like, true, I don't
know if you remember this, but you told me when
I was like twelve through a perfect game, you give
me fifty bucks. Yeah, never paid up. He was like,
I know. They took a fifty out of his pocket,
set it on the table.
Speaker 5: So he didn't hand it to you, So there's no
recruiting violation.
Speaker 3: There wasn't a recruiting violation because he owed that to me.
Speaker 5: He just he dropped fifty dollars out of his wallet.
Speaker 3: That was to be.
Speaker 6: That was out of an abundance of precaution. He did
it that way because he owed me that money. There,
we had a deal in play. We had a gentleman's deal.
Eighteen up, sit him down.
Speaker 3: See you.
Speaker 6: Paul Skeen's esque out there throwing circles, change ups, two seams,
four seams.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: I cannot Yeah, I cannot believe you had a recruiting
violation from two lane.
Speaker 5: You didn't report it. Back in the day US.
Speaker 4: One seventeen, Jake and Matt I played little league with
Will Arnold. I was at second base and he was
at first. The biggest and easiest target to ever throw at.
Will could mash a baseball. That's no surprising there. I
bet that bat looked like a god dang toothpick in
his hand.
Speaker 6: My god, you imagine squeezing that bat, metal bat and
it comes out with like finger intentions on it. Yeah,
as a strong human being, I wonder if he could
scoop it first, how the hands were.
Speaker 4: Pretty good badaceous let us know, and it's okay, we
won't tell Will about it. You don't have to be worried.
Could he scoop it first? It's going to chop it
up about the old baseball stories at football sometimes favorite
softball story.
Speaker 2: Wait, were we talking like just in general or like
an embarrassing one.
Speaker 5: Or whatever you want to do?
Speaker 2: Okay, So the first game, the first high school, well, okay, anyway,
the first high school that I went to because I
have so many, but we weren't the team was. We
made it to like the first round of playoffs or whatever.
And then the new high school that I went to,
it was an actual, like real good to so yeah,
and we made it to the third round and that
was at the time like the best moment of my life.
And I think it was by is district by district,
so whatever comes after that, I forget what it was.
So we made it to that and then we got
beat by I think it was Smithson Valley that beat us,
and then that was fun. But one that is kind
of like, I guess embarrassing. I don't really know. I've
definitely pulled a Jake Brown steiling second before where I
like slip, and luckily it was like a head first slip,
so I kind of dove into the bag, played it
off real smooth. But one time I was warming up
one of our pictures and I didn't have like the
gear on because I was like, nah, I'm good, like
I don't need the gear. We have like a drop
ball in softball, which is basically like an off speed
pitch or whatever. Hers dropped a little too much, had
to pick it. When I went to pick it, it
like like popped up, hit me in the head and
cracked my eyebrow open and I had to get six stitches.
I still have the scar right here, but I remember
my coach was like, oh, yeah, she's bleeding, and I
thought my eye was bleeding. So I started freaking out
because I thought like blood was coming out my actual eye,
but it was and then I looked in the mirror
and it was my eyebrow and I was like, oh,
I'm good, like it's fine, and then yeah, I don't know,
just a lot of good times playing, but I was
over it by the time I got to college, and
I get any like D one big school offers, so
and I wanted to go to a big school, so
I was just done after that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and when you know, you certainly know at any
baseball stories.
Speaker 7: Yes, sixth grade, I ran track for my school, but
our junior high didn't have a baseball team, so we
just played like you know, rec league whatever it was,
junior high ball. And had a track meet at Saint
Thomas Aquanas out there in Hammond in sixth grade. It
was big because they're like, oh, you get to run
on the eighth grade track team. I'm like, all right, cool,
like first meet of the year. Well, we also had
a like a beginning of the season tournament like for baseball,
so it was kind of like you know, a pre
one in the regular tournament, in your postseason tournament, and
I forgot that they had overlapped. Luckily left my bat
bag in my mom's vehicle. Ran the track meet at Hammond,
had to speed over got there this is championship game
of like the preseason tournament, got there right before the
game started, made it in time.
Speaker 8: Don won the game, but uh, kind of kind of close.
Speaker 5: Did you have to hit in your track uniform?
Speaker 8: No, I had the uniform I had with me. I
didn't I don't have to hit That should.
Speaker 5: Be pretty funny.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: All right, we are going to step away and when
we come back, we do it every single Thursday.
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Speaker 9: The pictures, bringing me out the dog. Yeah, I can
see you, Crystal clean.
Speaker 1: See every from players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown
l s U Football like only champions can starting.
Speaker 5: H got this all right, all right, I hate it?
All right.
Speaker 4: It is now time to get to our guy. Chef
Michael Johnson, answer your monkey's questions.
Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalize your taste buds and leave this
segment hungry. This is Monkey's with executive Chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 5: Chef, how are we doing, brother? How we living?
Speaker 10: I'm wonderful man, Chris Jackson says, to tell both of
you guys, hello.
Speaker 5: Oh shout out.
Speaker 4: Chris Jackson was telling Chris Jackson stories the other day
on the radio where he would have to shed his
football uniform and leave a trail of it behind as
he ran across the street to the old Alick Box
Stadium to go play third base for the Tigers.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Chris Jackson.
Speaker 10: We have respect for that blueberries, that's right. Yeah, we
buy blueberry from him and his wife. They've got a
little blue very orchard. I don't I don't know if
he called an orchard or what you call a blueberry patch.
Speaker 5: But well if you don't know, held on, no chef, They've.
Speaker 10: Got some good blueberries, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: I love that great athlete.
Speaker 4: Hash And I'll say that about kickers punters very often,
but it's very true Jacks and no question about it.
Speaker 5: Hashtag munchies.
Speaker 4: If chef could be on one cooking competition show, which
one would he want.
Speaker 3: To be on?
Speaker 10: It would have to be Iron Chef Man. It's the
one that I had the most respect for. Like I
I don't know, there's there's one episode that has always
stuck out of my mind, and Bobby's play jumped up
on the on the I think he was he was
going up against the Japanese chef and he jumped up
on his cutting board and was celebrating, and the Japanese
chef shamed him for jumping on the cutting board because
the cutting board is a sacred surface where we prepare
our food and nobody should ever ever you know, tread
on that sacred ground, and it's just one of those
things like he took the high road, he you know,
and I love that about it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 10: It's the Japanese Chef was all those chefs honestly, the
ones that you battled against were kind of humble guys.
They you know, like, I don't know that for me
to win against or to compete against that level of chef,
I think it is h I don't know, it's it's
more romantic if you will, you know, like, yeah.
Speaker 3: Chef, I kid you not. When I was in middle school,
this was before like the.
Speaker 6: Food Network got popular popular kind of like in the
like the mid two thousands when it got popular.
Speaker 3: This was like late nineties.
Speaker 6: I used to watch the grainy like old school Iron Chef. Yeah,
the Japanese version of it was like dubbed over and
with the with the American yeah, you know, the English,
and one episode stuck out to me where the secret
ingredient was shark.
Speaker 3: Then I was like, oh my.
Speaker 6: God, this is incredible, Like middle school, seven grade me
watching Iron Chef.
Speaker 10: So you guys, probably neither one will remember this show,
but my you know, when I was a kid and
this is in you know, like late seventies, maybe seventy
nine eighty, so that's how old I am. They used
to have this show on called Yan Can Cook. And
I remember you have to google it because it's not
you know, like you have to find it on YouTube.
I think, but Yan can't cook. This guy he would
wield a cleaver without looking at his food, and he
could like and it was one of those things where I,
as a child, I was like, oh my god, this
is incredible. So as a young chef, I decided, you know,
this is something that I want to figure out how
to do. And you know now where I am, and
even even like in the nineties when I was coming
up and I kind of hit being a chef before
the wave of Food Network hit. So I hit the
professional kitchen at a good time because I had experienced
before the commune he started getting flooded with you know,
all these kids that wanted to be chefs, not understanding
what it really meant.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Yan Can Cook. I took from that, you know,
I learned how to cut with my eyes closed. That
it really is about. Feel kind of like those Jean
Claude Maan Damn movies where you close your eyes. Yeah,
hell yeah, you let the force of the spirit move
your knife.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's go love that. Any kind of John clauw,
Jean Claus.
Speaker 3: John Clyde references are welcome on this show.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, they are all right.
Speaker 4: So Chef, we had on Jay Johnson earlier and he
said the team at four o'clock today was going to Flemmings.
Speaker 5: They were going to enjoy his steak dinner.
Speaker 4: And then he goes, well, the players are I'm going
to actually be in here watching the little coastal Caroline.
He's like, I hope Barrt Jones brings me a little
doggie bag back to the hotel. So we thought, okay, well,
we're gonna send him something like we're going to find out,
you know, through the proper channels where to get it
to him, but we're gonna send him something. So should
we send him something like the team is eating? Should
we send him Flemmings, like a nice steak and potato
and salad?
Speaker 5: Like that feels like the right move, right absolutely?
Speaker 10: And I Jay's an eater, you know what I mean,
Like he's he's a very you know when he comes
to eating. I think he and the team as well,
like they're simple eaters, you know, like they just like
steak and potatoes, nothing too fancy. I mean they really
are that way. It's protein and carbs and such and
so and and I mean Flemmings does a good job.
I actually was a chef at the Flemings for quite
a while here here in Baton Rouge, back in the day.
Actually when when Hurricane Katrina hit, I worked at Flemings. Yeah, yeah,
I'm sure I did.
Speaker 4: Now now, chef I was definitely bawling on a budget.
I would get the chicken. I wouldn't get the steak.
You boy couldn't.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, we did a good job. I meant that.
I mean I was the grill guy back then. I mean,
if you eat the steak of that plimbing or the
chicken for that matter, I was the guy that's cooking.
Speaker 6: How about that scheffer Gett asked in the chat here,
have you ever cooked on or do you cook on
a flat top grill? It's it's kind of popular right now,
the Blackstone flattops, which kind of like sparred. A question
to me, I'm thinking about getting a new grill, and
I'm like, man, the flattop seems kind of sexy right now,
it's kind of versatile.
Speaker 3: What's your experience with that?
Speaker 6: What would you recommend to a homeowner as far as
like a regular standard gas grill.
Speaker 3: Or a flat top.
Speaker 10: Well, I like gas because he heats up quickly, but
blackstones are gas. And I love the versatility of having
a flat top. Like you can saute vegetables, you can
cook fish, you can cook a burger. I mean that
you can cook case it is, you can roll a
hot dog on it. I mean, you can do so
much more with a flat grill than you can just
about anything else. I mean it it is buying are
the most versatile piece of cooking equipment in the kitchen. Now,
you're not going to get the grill marks right, But
what you can do is you can get a blackstone
to put on top of your grill, or even a
piece of metal, you know, if that's your thing. But
I am a fan of blackstones. I think that they're
I think that they're great. And if I mean, if
you're going super fancy, you can, you know, get a
commercial grade griddle. But I don't you know, like blackstones
fit the bill. They do it very.
Speaker 5: Well, do y'all know? Ben McDonald's choice there flat top.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, ooh, nice one.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying I was going to go with the
flat top.
Speaker 6: Chef, Have you ever made an onion volcano on a
flat top before?
Speaker 10: I have not not quite as fancy as any of
the sushi chefs that that do. You know, like I
can't throw the egg up in the air and land
it in my hat. That's that's going to go awry.
But yeah, I've made anything. They'll catch on fire too,
you know, like you put the alcohol in there and
let it blow, and you know, like I'm knives and
fire I thing.
Speaker 4: Man, you know, chef, I'm assuming this is with a
coastal Carolina thought process. The best way to prepare a fancy.
Speaker 10: Rooster blowing a little bit.
Speaker 5: Fancy rooster. That's that's that's really really good, all right.
Speaker 4: The chat's also uh wanting to know, So Alandra is
about to go on a long road trip to oh
my ball, all right, about to get in a car
head up that way? What should the snacks be on
said road trip to make sure that she's doing it
the right way?
Speaker 10: Cool man, you guys, I'm gonna be judged by everyone
here right now. But beef tricky is my roadsnack right
like it go yeah, And and I'm kind of a
ruffles guy on the road. I don't know why, but okay,
some somehow I always end up with like sour cream
and onion or or like triple cheddars bag of ruffles.
And and because when I drive, man, I mean I'm
I stopped for some of those guys. It's like, no,
we're not stopping food.
Speaker 5: Kids.
Speaker 10: We stop for food when we stop for fuel, and
that's still five hours away. So when I stopped for fuel,
I send the kids into the gas station to get
you know, like snacks. So it's ruffles or pringles, uh,
you know, a Coca Cola to to keep the energy up.
I can't do Red Bull anymore because you know, like
then I'm gonna be the one that's that's blinding into
in two hours that I have to you know, pull
over and go peece. So it's my my my performance
nutrition chef goes solid out the window. Uh and and
you know you throw you throw the the that it
completely to the wind and you got to go with
what works. And I think beef jerkey, ruffles and a
Coca Colas is my my my.
Speaker 3: Go to Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do
on a road trip. It's surviving. Oh, get us out
there to get there, man, throw a.
Speaker 6: Little short like a short can of French onion dip too.
That's got the little silver top you got to peel back. Yes,
that's pretty elite as well.
Speaker 4: Wait, so fringe onion yep, yep in the car while
you're doing it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well done.
Speaker 6: You've got if you got a nice little nice console
in the middle next to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty late.
Speaker 10: When I moved, when I moved to Seattle. So I'm
literally my my dad is in a twenty six foot
box truck pulling my wife's ex wife's vehicle behind it.
I'm in my pickup, it's extended cab Chevy with my kids,
my ex at you know wife at the time, all
three of my kids in the back seat, and we
made the mistake of stopping at this truck stop and
I bought the kid's pizza. One of them was like,
oh no, this doesn't smell it and slung an off
the window. The oldest, you know, like was starving, and
so she jammed it down and I mean this is
I mean, this is I'm not exaggerating whatsoever. Within thirty minutes,
she created what can only be called pink mysts and
viewed this pizza into the back of my feet and
my head. Uh So it was such volume and like
pressure that there was a silhouette of my head on
the windshield. No right, and so.
Speaker 5: Went on.
Speaker 10: It was like negative twenty degree out in Nebraska.
Speaker 3: We were in.
Speaker 10: We were in and so you know, like we're trying
to clean up the truck and it's freezing and you know,
like the wind is blowing and my dad is driving
the truck behind us, asking what the hell's going on.
It was. It was a snap foo and that's the
only way you can describe it. So we get cleaned up,
we get on the road, and day two we stayed
in Wyoming and the truck had the heater running, and
you know, somewhere midday and everything started warming up and
you started smelling the smell again. My ex wife reached
down the crack of her seat to like feel as
something was down there. When she withdrew her hands from
said crack, it was it was all covered again, and
so you know, like dust, Oh yeah, it was. It
was a chain reaction. Too, like there was there was
several bodies in the truck that we screamed across the
highway into the ditch, and like there was two or
three people in the ditch, Yeah, evacuating. Asking that question,
whatever you do on your road trip, I would steer clear.
Speaker 5: Of pizza, Yeah, I would not.
Speaker 4: Pink dust is never something that I want to think
about ever ever. Again, Chef, we appreciate it.
Speaker 5: You're the man.
Speaker 4: We look forward to it every single week. We'll catch
up again with you next week and tell Christian I said, hello.
Speaker 10: I sure will. Thanks.
Speaker 5: Are there your.
Speaker 4: Chef Michael Johnson answering your munchies questions?
Speaker 5: And I wish I would not have asked that.
Speaker 6: Man, we've all been there with kids though. Good lord,
you hear the jack style most time. Most of the
time during that segment, we leave it hungry. Yeah this
time not today.
Speaker 3: Not.
Speaker 4: I mean, he had me like ruffles and I was like, okay,
Like I don't have ruffles very often.
Speaker 5: I don't eat potato chips like that.
Speaker 4: But like you brought in the French onion dip, I'm like,
that seems like a lot of work, but if it's
you know, doable, like I could get behind. Certainly, if
you're a passenger princess, you can get that done.
Speaker 3: Like if they can too.
Speaker 6: It'll depending on the configuration of your cup holder situation.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they have like that.
Speaker 5: That's real fat. By the way that you've done this.
Speaker 6: I mean, man's got to do it. It's it's survival
out there on the road trip. Gotta survive.
Speaker 4: Usually go with coffee and a beef jerky. You're going
with French onion dip and ruffles.
Speaker 6: I appreciate that, must it's it's a luxury. I'm not
going to say it happens every time. Most of the time.
Like my wife's in the passers scene and she kind
of holds it, you know, I get a little skippeted.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, now you got Lacey having to hold your frinch.
We're both after wow, Lacey, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: You gotta do that.
Speaker 2: I'm for sure going beef jerky like that is my
road trip.
Speaker 4: All versions of beef yeah, not real bias.
Speaker 6: Like ask has inflation hit anything as hard as beef jerky.
Speaker 4: Milk and eggs from boy, But beef jerky is something
the boys like it as well.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you know a lot of that.
Speaker 7: So the gas station, it's like twelve dollars for a
small bag and you get like five pieces of That's
what I'm saying. In the bags like get like a
few pieces.
Speaker 6: You get like you get more of the little moisture
bag bags in there than you do the beef jerkey moisture.
Speaker 4: So like, you know, you're getting old whenever you complain
about stuff like that, But we do. Like yesterday, you
know the Quest chips to Pocka.
Speaker 5: They're really good carbs.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, rotein taco right.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, high protein. Yeah, So.
Speaker 4: Making a like a homemade taco salad was gonna crunch
them up in the taco salad. I opened the bag
and I swear to God, up the bag eighty percent air,
twenty percent chip, and I just started complaining to myself.
Speaker 5: Nobody was in the room. I'm like, how can you
do this as a company? How can you sell this?
Speaker 4: How can you put this on the shelf? There's eighty
percent air, twenty percent chip, And y'all know they're four
dollars a bag. It ain't a lay, it ain't a
free though. It's expensive.
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Speaker 5: I was that mad back in.
Speaker 3: My day tagging chips. It was almost to the top.
Speaker 4: It's like fifty to fifty at least at least pissed.
Speaker 5: Me right off on that note, we'll take a break.
More TV coming your.
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Speaker 4: Quest four dollars for a small bag of chips.
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This is off the Bench with Hester and Flynn Baton,
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Speaker 3: I've enjoyed the music today, I know that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, it takes a lot for me to
get away from my R and B Thursday, but today
that they just felt like the vibe. So Alan has
been crushing it as always. Uh, Katie Harlowe watching the show.
They want to throw funions into the road trip snack.
I can definitely crush a bag of funions.
Speaker 2: Funions are great.
Speaker 5: Now. You can't whisper it.
Speaker 4: You can't whisper to anybody after eating funions because it's
a situation.
Speaker 7: But for hours, Yeah, like an don't know if I
love it in a small car where like everybody, well, look.
Speaker 5: That's just the price you got to pay if you're
on a road trip and I'm driving house.
Speaker 3: Rules when I have had a funion.
Speaker 5: And hell, hold be eating a funion right now over.
Speaker 6: A decade, but I can still taste it, and you
can smell it. I can still smell it.
Speaker 8: Huh.
Speaker 6: But I remember we used that was like funions were
like currency back school. Yeah, oh my god, defending machine.
Who knows how much money was spent fifty cents at
a time for a bag of funions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you open it up.
Speaker 6: You got that, You get the two funions that look
interlocked with each other.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, wow, I mean wow.
Speaker 2: I love onions and a sandwich.
Speaker 5: Onions. That makes a lot of It's so good.
Speaker 2: It is so good.
Speaker 4: You know what, I bet that's fire a burger. Yeah,
I bet a burgers on There's.
Speaker 8: A lot of times you'll do like a salted onion.
Speaker 2: Instead of flaming hot onions are so good to.
Speaker 7: Cassie two days ago. Something I'd never seen before, funions.
But it was sold in like a Pringles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have a lot of wal Greens.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're they're not shaped like pringles, They're just smaller Marlowe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I thought I thought that family only ate
bananas and peanut butter.
Speaker 8: Cassie only ates Chick fil A, Okay, girl has that
every day?
Speaker 5: All right, well, I mean among us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, flaming hot Funion Yeah, they're so good. And there's many.
Speaker 6: I found out about this like two days ago that
would be good on a sound the mini onions.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They also sell likes huff balls, yeah.
Speaker 2: The same Yeah, and they have darrito in the same
thing too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I used to be obsessed with putting Funians in
my sandwich.
Speaker 5: Okay, in the sandwich. It makes all the sense in
the world. Yeah, to do that.
Speaker 6: I want to ask people out there, and if you're
in the chat, let me know if you've ever heard
of this. There was this There was this chip when
I was a kid, this is probably fourth grade, fifth grade,
called Pizzeria. They were the greatest chips, and all of
a sudden they just disappeared. And I've been searching for
pictures of them, people that knew about them. I've never
met one person that knows what I'm talking about. They
were called Pizzeria. I don't know if it was like
a Tyler Brookshire's exclusive.
Speaker 3: But I used to sit and eat a whole bag
of the thing.
Speaker 2: You see them, yeahizz I just googled them.
Speaker 5: Yeah see right now, bring the pizzeria back.
Speaker 2: I never had the privilege of a pizzeria. Yeah, I
guess I haven't.
Speaker 4: What was the biggest playground current and see that you
could trade back in the day you said funions was yours.
For me, it was flavored tutsi rolls, the orange, the lime,
I think there was a cherry one. The vanilla didn't
really go well, like you're gonna trade two or three
vanillas to get something back. But the flavored tutsi rolls,
if you had a bag of those things, you could
trade them for whatever you wanted on the playground.
Speaker 11: Sorry almost comment in the chat he said, if there's
a flaming hot version of anything a Latina woman, we'll
find it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I love any flaming hotzler elf didn't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I bet I bet you could find those some way.
Speaker 4: Now, they're not going to be fresh, but if you
want like nostalage you have see in the bag.
Speaker 6: I want to eat them. There was so on the playground.
I was like an early early entrepreneur on the.
Speaker 4: Playground now and later. This is a great call, and
that's that's a big one too.
Speaker 6: Used to make, if y'all ever made, take a piece
of paper and you fold it in the way it
makes like a finger, like a whole finger claw.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you look like Freddy Krueger.
Speaker 6: So no one knew how to do it except for
your boy here or whatever before.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, this was actually you make it. You fold
the paper, fold the papers. Yeah, we're off for a second.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I saw a squirrel, so I would sell these
things quarter of claw. But if you want a whole hand,
whole hand for a dollar, talking about a deal, wholesale pricing,
bolt pricing.
Speaker 3: Us. I was raking in the money. I made probably
six bucks one.
Speaker 2: Day, did y'all ever? I don't know if this was
just likely, But like the duck tape wallets, yeah, okay,
you sold people sold those back in the day, duck
tape wallets.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 7: Girls when I was in school, made like sun person Yeah,
like you would. You would take the empty Caprice sun
packs and chips. Yeah yeah, anything.
Speaker 2: Super weird yeah, weird time.
Speaker 4: All right, huh we made we made hackey sacks bro.
Speaker 8: That was Louis Vaton out in LP.
Speaker 5: No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Someone brought up combos in the chat.
Speaker 5: Combos are good, but.
Speaker 2: They have like the cracker of the pretzel on which one.
Speaker 5: I like the pretzel?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, hours.
Speaker 4: Nobody will eliminate a barrel of almond butter pretzels like
almond butter field your.
Speaker 6: Boy almond butter Yeah interesting, yeah, school.
Speaker 4: I know it's got a little bit of it's got
a little bit different taste, and you can you can
eat more of them.
Speaker 5: I don't know why I can, but.
Speaker 3: I can't just mentally. You think it's healthier, Well, it.
Speaker 4: Is healthier if you're looking for certain health benefits from it.
I mean, depending on what you're trying to get out
of it.
Speaker 3: Matthew, you're going for quantity.
Speaker 4: You don't have a jawser size if you're not worried
about you know what's going into your body.
Speaker 5: God, jawser size.
Speaker 6: I'll look the picture in the group Chasse set the
picture of the jawser size the most ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Like how number five was like confidence the benefits?
Speaker 7: Seriously, it's not you have to have a jawl, a
good jawl line to have confidence. Find me someone with
a good jawl line that doesn't have it though, that's
jaw line with no confidence huge confidence.
Speaker 3: Hu, that's a you know, really good point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, seriously, find me somebody with a good
jewel line that is self conscious. There's not there's it
doesn't exist.
Speaker 5: Yeah, take that, you bum.
Speaker 3: What actor has the best jall or anything.
Speaker 5: We'll look it up and we'll tell you to close
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back, getting O t B. Let's finish
it up like we do every single day. Getting to
your questions inside to buy you four chat as a
bench the landra and rivers taking a motor home or
a pool behind r V trailer and will they have
a CBE radio?
Speaker 2: Unfortunately we couldn't get an r V.
Speaker 11: All of the rentals are already rented out, which makes sense.
Speaker 2: It's the middle of June, so we're just going in
rivers car. I don't know what CB radio means.
Speaker 5: CB radio like uh ask the bench.
Speaker 4: Does Flynn dance as much in the club as he
shows when the bump music is playing?
Speaker 5: Second part?
Speaker 4: Does Hester not move in the club the same way
he does when the bump music is playing? I actually
I've never well, I don't know. I have to think
about it. I know for me, I love getting out there,
like if it was T Bob and I. We're gonna
be out there. My wife loves to dance as well,
so it's something I know she enjoys. And so get
a drink in the hand, hit the dance floor, act
like an idiot and know you're gonna get judged.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm kind of the king of like just dancing
in place like you get to beat.
Speaker 3: That's what music's for. It makes you feel good.
Speaker 6: People catch me a lot of times just dancing at
random places with no music playing.
Speaker 3: But there's songs on in here, people, there are songs on.
Speaker 4: There's always something going on up there. Ask the bench,
stack your three favorite springles.
Speaker 7: Cheese one, the pizza original and sour cream and barbecue
and pizza.
Speaker 2: Okay, I really only eat the cheese one.
Speaker 5: Barbecue so good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna step back to my youths here sour
cream on top cheese, and then I think they got
they got salt and vinegar now I believe. Yeah, I
like salt vinegar in each chip.
Speaker 5: They are good.
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