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and lean on by. So enjoy your time and enjoy
this run. But seriously, you're gonna look up, it's gonna
be Christmas and you're gonna lok coup. It's gonna be January.
What is the worst month objectively of the twelve?
Speaker 4: August?
Speaker 5: No football starting, But it's just like.
Speaker 4: Kind of the training camp start. Like August to me
is the Sunday of the months.
Speaker 3: I I I. Actually, you know a lot of it's
pretty strong out the gates because Jake is right, football
season is basically there. But you're also like, you know,
bending over backwards doing three hour conversations about practice reports
and except the accept.
Speaker 5: The more excited. Unfortunately.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, you're right right. It is hot as
hell today.
Speaker 5: It's January.
Speaker 3: I'm kinda I mean, that's you.
Speaker 4: Know, and just to you know, back in the swing
of things. Holidays, just the holidays.
Speaker 6: There's there's you know, not argument like a massive holiday.
Speaker 5: That's well, today's in there.
Speaker 3: December is Saturday, right, yeah, yeah, lead vies everybody.
Speaker 5: I think January's most Christmas.
Speaker 3: The last week of December is kind of like Sunday,
still a little bit of the weekend, but then here
come the scaries, and then you're into January, and that's Monday. Yeah, February,
Marty gra generally, so, yeah, February is awesome. But yeah,
so the point of that is with Monday on the way,
let's lock in and enjoy this December and be present
and not not try to just rush through the month
or hurry here and there to and fro to have
ourselves a very fun December. December's time, Uh, Taylor, what's
you keep looking at me?
Speaker 7: Oh no, I'm just filling out the room.
Speaker 8: I think I think May is the worst month personally, Okay.
Speaker 4: Why is that nothing?
Speaker 5: Nothing that you hate your mother too? Huh no, my
dad was.
Speaker 6: Going to man, Yeah, so you hate your mom, man
your dad?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, just I mean to be fair, I
don't think Mother's Day is enough to save them months day.
Speaker 5: It's not going to say birthday.
Speaker 3: No, everybody has birthdays. Cookie, What did you do? You
do anything? You're You're okay? I mean that's a big boy.
That's a big boy for sure.
Speaker 5: May's got SEC baseball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love well, I'm sure.
Speaker 7: I'm just thinking of my personal interest.
Speaker 8: Football is over completely because in February March Madness Tournament's over.
In early May, the NFL, I mean early April, April,
the NFL drafts over. In late April, football doesn't Yeah,
and then football doesn't really start again till late July
early August. So there is nothing going on for me
in the month of May.
Speaker 4: It's been like June is great because it's summertime and
you're having a good time.
Speaker 5: Hmm, all right, well may you get out of school though?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: What about in school anymore?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 7: So like, yeah, it's like May was my favorite month
in school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt so good. I felt so good to
get out, go enjoy nice little summer, and now you'll
Alice Cooper. Yeah, but then you become an adult and
you're like, wait, what we have to go to school
year round every like what horrible? Why don't we Why
didn't we evolve like the Europeans did, you know, and
get holiday and get like a get like a month
off every year just to uh, you know, actually enjoy
some of this earth.
Speaker 6: I don't know, man, I I I enjoy those months
when it's SEC baseball time.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, those are my favorites.
Speaker 3: I'd love it if I had a month off. It
could watch SEC baseball time sick, you could change professions.
I don't think anybody catching a month off.
Speaker 5: I'm saying if you're a teacher, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 3: The only problem being a teacher is a society. We've
just decided that we don't want to pay him anything
or show them any respect. You just want to show
our kids off on him and then uh not give them,
you know, not compensate them for it.
Speaker 5: Well that's not in every state, that's true, just the most. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, anyway, I hope that we all have a great December.
Let's go ahead and get today's show started, it's time
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workforce needs. Uh. So, when I was leaving here yesterday, Taylor,
you you you told me that Camoriot Pimpton headed entered
the transfer portal and you were you you were you
were surprised. Yes, am I, I don't want to put
words in your mouth. You seemed perplexed or.
Speaker 8: Not surprised at the l s U standpoint, a surprise
for the Pimpton standpoint of this, like he should be
in line for a decent amount of snaps next year
and Amazon.
Speaker 7: Taylor, you haven't, really you haven't.
Speaker 8: I mean as of right now, you have not signed
a tight end out of the transfer portal yet.
Speaker 7: So it's just a little it was just a little
odd to me.
Speaker 3: Uh. I didn't admit it now.
Speaker 8: I maybe would have expected it after the portal closed
and see what LSU did now it is a little weird.
Speaker 3: So this is what I would say, is that you
are correct, and that if you look at Pimpton's like,
let's just say that you're thinking transfer portal for things
like playing time, production, all that, right, And if you
look at Pimpton's story this year, then the timing is
a bit odd because yes, was he buried behind Mason
Taylor for much of the year, Yes, but he started
to come on at the end, obviously, right, culminating in
two really big catches in that final game, so easily
the best game that he had had yet. And to
your point, Mason Taylor announces he's going to the NFL.
The path to the field for Kamor and Pipton seemed
wide open, So why then did he do this? And
that's where what I realized when you told me this yesterday,
is like I was just like, yo, Okay, sure, because
like you cannot hit me with a player hitting the
portal right now, that will surprise me because of kind
of the greater economic forces at play, right even if
you don't and and look, this could be you know,
maybe Pimpton's like unhappy. Maybe maybe maybe it is that simple.
He's unhappy. He still wants to play more, he wants
to get out of here. Don't like it, Like it
could be a million reasons. But there is also the
reality that we're in this kind of a gold rush
right where, although it's up in the air as to
what will happen after the settlement, a lot of people
are planning as if collectives will be going away and
they have to spend all this money right now, there's
an argument you made that you should almost even if
you don't want to leave, you just hit the portal, negotiate,
see what's out there, and then maybe you end up
saying or maybe you end up going somewhere else. So
like if you're telling me a player hits the portal
right now, I'm just saying, yeah, okay, for sure. I
mean they're just trying to get in on the gold rush.
Of December twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6: This might have been he had a conversation with LSU
and didn't like what he heard. Yeah, it could be
any of that, because he could have heard that LSU
is going after multiple tight ends, multiple veteran tight ends.
They have a very signing class that includes a tight end.
Penton did have two catches in the Oklahoma game, but
also he was really poor in the run game this year,
and that might have been something they had a conversation
with him about. He's kind of stuck in no man's land.
He's not a why he's not an f So there
could be a thousand different reasons why this happened. Now,
if l U doesn't sign two veteran tight ends, then
that there, he's out the window.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: We had to wait and see because I believe that's
maybe a portion of it. You already had one on campus.
Looks like you might have another that's going to visit
that's in the.
Speaker 3: Portal who came on campus already.
Speaker 6: I mean didn't or at least set it up right,
uha that you telling us yesterday one has on campus
or at.
Speaker 5: Least scheduled to come. He's scheduled to come on campus.
Speaker 3: Ours no from UH from Arkansas oh okay, okay, okay,
and then what's and then Eli Stowers in the from Vanderbilt,
he's in the transfer portal as well. Right, I haven't
seen that. Okay, that that that that that's on me.
Speaker 6: I mean again, the Cousins Sharp that through the pass
is in the portal as well. Okay, he played at Southeastern,
So there's a ti to Louisiana. My point is there's
multiple tight ends that are veteran tight ends in the portal.
You've already been attached to a couple as far as
getting a visit, having a conversation, and so like, if
you don't bring in at least two of those players,
then you know, for me and the way I'm viewing this,
it's a different conversation. But I do think that's probably
a portion of it. You also have trade as Green,
that's kind of the wild card as well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so Pimpton in the portal, as Jake said,
though I think even before Pimpton was in the portal,
as Jake laid out earlier in the earlier in kind
of our roster evaluation, going after veteran tight ends was
going to be one of the premier goals of LSU,
and this just maybe puts extra emphasis on what they
were already going to do. There is a familiar name
in the portal, the place tight end that might want
to come home. Bes yep, I see you shaking your
head to He was once the highest was it the
highest rate of recruit or the highest rated tight end
high fight in.
Speaker 5: Of all time? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Rick Gilbert is back in the portal. Guys, what do
we think? No, he's leaving Nebraska. No second chances, flyer,
take a shot.
Speaker 5: I mean he's had you know, he said multiple chances.
Speaker 3: He said a lot of chances.
Speaker 6: I mean obviously the break into the vape shops there
was two of those. I mean, so it's not and
that's not even meb in fights. That's on the field
and off the field.
Speaker 3: He's struggling with some real mental mental health issues.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we had those conversations when he was here
as a player. I'll be honest with you, I wasn't
sure that he was in a position to play football
moving forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was kind of what I thought yesterday, or
when I thought as well. And then I saw that
yesterday his name hit the transfer portal. That would be
I mean again, I don't think it real else she's
going to realistically pursue it. But that would be an
incredible comeback tail if he could finally work through some
of his problems, be able to find success, you know, academically,
so he could be eligible and take advantage of that
unreal physical skill set that he has. And you know, again,
I don't think else he's gonna do it, but he's
in the port I hope that somebody. I don't. I
don't believe it will, but I hope he can. Hope
that some way he will find his way. Does else
you need to be looking at a quarterback out of
the portal? Yeah? You do, well, I've got another name
for you. Come on home the portal god himself, TJ.
Finley back in the portal. Guys, he's played for l
He started games at all these places too, LSU, Auburn, Texas, State, Western,
Kentucky and my man's is now going to a fifth
school in his sixth season. In toty thirty five only
a Richard junior still too, Jake, we can push this
thing seven. Yeah, he will be a red shirt junior
or the redchord unior will be playing his six season
twenties five, so I think that should be a senior year.
But either way, TJ. Finley could push this thing to
six schools unless he maybe wants to come back here
at EL.
Speaker 8: Sooo, I mean his first year was twenty twenty, which
didn't count YEP.
Speaker 7: Where does the sixty year come in play?
Speaker 3: I guess't red shirted this year because he only played
what like he might have read shired. I'm guessing because
I think I read that he only started like two
games for Western Kentucky, maybe three, and then I think
he got bingched. Remember he had like great numbers at
Texas State, the Tried Tournament Auburt he redshirted somewhere along
the line while still starting at least one game that year.
So if you talked about I mean we used to
talk about J. T. Daniels, I mean, how about TJ.
Finley's man cake due. He's got a lot of fun
jerseys up LSU, Auburn, Tech, State, Western Kentucky. Who's going
to be the fifth TJ. Finley jersey in the man Cave?
That's what I want to know at this point, does
he feel like.
Speaker 5: Let me say it's gonna be Louisiana Monroe.
Speaker 3: Oh hell yeah, right, I mean, uh, general Booty hitting
the portal. Booty was kind of whatever. He wasn't the
strength of that team. I'm not, no, I'm not I'm
not not gonna I'm not going to go that far.
Speaker 5: I'm right.
Speaker 3: You like to do is.
Speaker 9: Just trying to be nice with the Booty family. Yeah,
I mean, my boys, Booty was a little booty there.
You was right there for the running back. Was was
the key to ulm success. And he's in the portal
as well.
Speaker 5: Because visit to old myths. I think over the last.
Speaker 3: Couple of days, you know, it's lame. Darien Mensa of
course is in the portal visiting Duke yesterday. And like,
if Minsa was going to transfer, I wanted him to
go to one of the big dogs, right like, uh
like at least like you had nine wins on the season.
Duke's fine, Duke, I want him to go to one
of the big dogs.
Speaker 5: Duke Duke should.
Speaker 3: But well, obviously they they believe it's many DEAs there
right now. Yeah, they believe in Manny. What he's doing,
because we're on the street is Duke's offering Mensa a million,
and that's what that's what his representation wants. Uh As
we wanted that he's represented by Young Money, and they've
been saying, yeah, he's he's a seven figure player. And
as you said, mensa single mother raised him and his
two siblings at functure, salary grinding, grinding for these kids.
And now Mensa has an awesome opportunity to to to
to set his family up way earlier than you normally
could in the past. So I'm happy for him. On
a personal level, I would just like to see him
at uh at at at one of the bigger guys.
Speaker 6: What you're saying, if he leaves the Green Wave, you
don't want him to leave for Duke, it.
Speaker 3: Feels a little lateral. I know it's not you're going
to the ACC nine wins like you said, but from
a brand standpoint, it feels a little lateral because two
Lane's been awesome and I'm a little surprised that tu
Lane can't come up with a million dollars for him,
which sounds crazy, but maybe Jullian just doesn't cares. Once
we imagine that not not caring about football to the
point where you financially stress yourself out, and I mean
that's sounds insane.
Speaker 6: Think how much of these numbers have gone up this year. Yeah,
I mean so a million dollars would have been twice
the amount of the highest paid LSU player from last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Now, LSU definitely on the cheap side. But yeah, and
I'm hearing those numbers for players that you would know,
you would know, but like a fan of a team
in the SEC and a player that's out of the
SEC would have no idea who he was, like, and
you're hearing crazy numbers for players that, like the average
fan would have no idea who he is, where he is,
who he plays for, what position he plays, And you're
hearing like six fifty.
Speaker 3: It's because, Jake, I.
Speaker 5: Don't know why it is. I'm just saying it's.
Speaker 3: Well, it's it's it's because though it's proven to be
successful everywhere else, Right, look at all the teams that
had the best years out of the big boys, or
all the teams that spent the most. One of my
favorite quotes I've ever read Mike Duncan Storm Before the Storm. Okay,
little Roman history for you guys here the leis Pat
Cullis said quote, it's about precedents, right, Precedents do not
stop where they begin, But however narrow the path upon
which they enter, they create for themselves a highway whereon
they may wonder with the utmost latitude. And here's the key.
No one thinks a course is base for himself, which
has proven profitable to others. So maybe you were like, oh,
paint a kid. There's much that ridiculous. I don't want
to do that. That's crazy. And then you see somebody
else do it and they go to the playoff and
you're like, Okay, well, I guess I have to write.
Look at fran Brown and Syracuse. You think people thought
he was crazy When you pay Commic court eight hundred
k at Syracuse right or or or or all the
work that he did to get all that transfer portal class,
you know, no credit to fran Brown for creating that investment,
for rallying the boosters and making them believe. I mean,
my man just getting washed this off season. That's good.
That that don't that sounds bad If you don't know
the exact quote emerpherency there, Fran Brown just says he
doesn't take baths if he loses, wins washed all time.
Speaker 5: Quote.
Speaker 6: I think he I think he he bays, but he
doesn't use soap.
Speaker 3: Uh, that was unclear. It was it was unclear as
to whether or not water's evolve. Soap is definitely not
only winners get washed. But the point is, like, yeah,
even fran Brown at Syracuse right they invested their nine
to three. So yeah, it's if if the market seems
like it's shooting up, it's because the returns have shown
you that it should. Now you can also fall into
a disastrous spot, Jake. And that's if you had a
bad year this year, because then there is no belief
and nobody's gonna want to give you money. I look
at a school like Arkansas right now, which just seems
to be bleeding talent. There just doesn't seem like you
have to believe in the man in charge to spur investment. Honestly,
LSU's dealing with a little bit of this. I know
some people who you know, if you're not currently happy,
maybe you're not willing to give as much as you
potentially could or would if things were a bit different.
So it's just a fascinating time in which we live.
But this is all to say Primpton hits the Portal. Okay,
you know, I'm not surprised if anybody hits the portal.
It's just what it is nowadays, and you just have
to deal with it, and you have to go fine
answers in the portal, And honestly, it's not a bad thing,
like it's actually good that you can go and get
too veteran tight end to something that you could have
never done before, and you might have been in trouble
if you had him been able to All right, coming
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everybody's having a wonderful morning. Uh a few LSU players
that me may be having a wonderful morning.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: Seven guys named to all SEC teams yesterday. Congratulations to
all of them. Uh, let's see we got Will Campbell
and Wit Weeks both making the first team very well deserved.
Pretty insane to think about Weeks getting there, considering just
the complete lack of hype that he entered the season
with and the fact that he didn't play. I mean,
when did when did we become a full time starter
after Perkins got hurt?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: No kind of week two or three?
Speaker 1: Three?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was already by three pretty much.
Speaker 7: South Carolina game is the sure.
Speaker 6: Because I think, you know, I know, after the USC game,
everyone's like, yo, he got being there more?
Speaker 3: Well, No, I remember that. I thought it was like
I thought it was like the first month, we were
like he should play, and they were playing more and
more and more. But whatever. The point is like, for
at least a portion of the season he was playing
about thirty percent of snatch right, and now his first
team All SEC. That's awesome. Emery Jones getting second team,
Brayden Swinson getting second team again very well deserved. Aaron
Burrell named second team. Who is the first team? Kickoff specially,
That's what I'm thinking. That's crazy, not first team?
Speaker 5: My god? Uh.
Speaker 3: And then Mason Taylor coming in as your third team
tight end. That makes a lot of sense there. Mason Taylor.
Maybe not the most overwhelming stats, but like, especially if
you're a coach player whatever, like that's a guy that
you felt when you played LSU probably broke your you know,
he probably frustrated you in a couple of big with
a couple of big third downs that every game. Uh,
and Xavian Thomas named the third team return Specialists as well,
So shout out so seven guys. That is Uh, that's
a really cool atlade man. That's something you can carry
with you for the for the rest of your life
for sure.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's It's funny.
Speaker 6: There's not many things that like awards or trophies or
whatever that I really really care about because like it's
more about the experience in the actual trophy. Yeah, I'll
tell you what. That's second team Coaches All SEC. Yeah,
instead of a gun hanging up, I.
Speaker 3: Mean all you know, all jokes aside. Uh, it meant
a lot to me to be honorable mention on the
Coaches All SEC team, right because the coaches, you know,
they're like because that that means that they were you know,
having to kind of think about you in the in
the run up to that game. And that's that's a
good feeling Jackson Dart is your first team quarterback, Quinn
Years is your second team quarterback, and Leonora Sellers is
your third team quarterback. That makes a lot of sense there. Uh,
Luther Burdon ended up as a first team wide receiver.
Are you surprised to that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: The number, I mean, the numbers weren't there, like we
thought that got all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I haven't looked in a while, but
halfway through the season, Luther Burton had done really nothing
right right right first, well.
Speaker 5: Certainly not to what the you know, what we thought
he was going to do.
Speaker 3: I mean, he finish his seventeenth in the SEC and
yards sixty one catches for six hundred yards, the sixty
one catches his third touchdowns hit six eighth. I mean,
it was a it was an okay year. I don't know,
I don't know. I'm a bit surprised. Damn Andrew Armstrong
from Arkansas, Yep, I had a good year. Huh, had
a hell of a year and led the SEC eleven
hundred and forty yards. Only two one thousand yard receivers
in the SEC this year. Yeah, kind of inter I
mean we knew passing was down, that's a interesting little
quirk and it once again shows you what else you
had last year were you had two one thousand yeard
receivers on your team and now there's only two in
the entire conference.
Speaker 6: I love Luther Burdon, I do. I picked him preseason
Offense Player of the Year in the conference. But the
OIZ was the leading receiver on the team. Yeah, you know,
so it's a little surprising that Luther would get first
team All as you see. That's more off name recognition. Yeah,
and the expectation of what it was coming into the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it. Caden Durham shout out to
Caden Durham named to On three's True Freshman All American Team.
And Jake, what do you think the xpect What are
your expectations for Caden next year? Is he RB one?
Like this this entire offseason is painting him as RB
one and and him, look, are you expecting kind of
a breakout year?
Speaker 5: I don't think there's any question.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think if he was healthy this year,
he might would have had the year that you're talking about.
He had two dislocated toes and that really that's slow
him down. And he still played really really well. A
couple of those runs that he broke out and maybe
didn't finish in the end zone. Every LSU coach that
I talked with, they all said, to a man, if
he's healthy, finishes that.
Speaker 5: Oh the oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, at least three
that I can remember.
Speaker 6: That makes sense. I never thought about that. So it's
a player that I think was gritty this year. He
was tough as a as a freshman going into some
of the environments that he did. I'll lost South Carolina
and thriving gat like that. That's not easy to do.
And so yeah, I fully expect him to be RB one.
You've got a couple of really talented freshmen that are
coming behind him, so like they're you know, they're gonna
have their spots and they're gonna get some carries. You
know what happens with Caleb Jackson, that's going to be
something to pay attention to for your veteran running back.
Speaker 5: But no, he is the guy. He would be a
feature in this offense if I'm the coordinator.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and and I mean a freshman All American from
on three. So congratulations to Kyan Durham. That's another word
me very proud of and carry with you and for
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Speaker 1: Christmas Street and Christmas back to sports talk maybe off
the bench.
Speaker 3: No Luigi segment today is straight up any Italian discrimination.
Speaker 4: Well, I hate to break it to you, but it's
not Luigi.
Speaker 3: What.
Speaker 4: Luigi's not the guy who assassined eyebrows. It's not just
the eyebrows, that's right, it's everything, right, Sara tell me
he had all the evidence on him at McDonald's. That
doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: So okay, okay, so let's play with this for a
little bit. So I do know that you like and
I don't know if you're bere are you being tongue
in gk'd for real? Okay? Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
So why then did Luigi have all the evidence on
meta McDonald's.
Speaker 4: I'm saying why did he?
Speaker 5: But why did he?
Speaker 4: Because it was planet on him? He literally was saying
that way he was there, they were picking him up,
and he's like, I don't know how this all got here.
It was planet.
Speaker 7: They did it up about pocket. I didn't feel it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if that passes the sniff like
sometimes like it what's less likely? But like, seriously, he's Italian,
gross hair fast.
Speaker 4: There's no way that they grew back perfectly.
Speaker 3: That yes, I can shave his chest and it'd be beck.
Speaker 4: Also, Italians don't go look at his other pictures. He's
never shaved the un before.
Speaker 3: I So let's play with your reality being real for
a second. How pissed would you be if you were
just eating a McRib and you get arrested for assassinating
and major healthcare ceo. Yeah, I I just went to McDonald.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to McRib.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was at the gym this morning, like I
went to work. This is my lunch break.
Speaker 7: You're getting arrested. They're like, you're in big trouble. You're like, guys,
I know the mcrib's not for everybody, but let me alone.
Speaker 5: I love McRib.
Speaker 7: I've never had it.
Speaker 3: I think I appreciate its meaniness.
Speaker 5: I think it's not it's good. It's not like, yeah,
it's it's it's donald.
Speaker 3: It's it's pork meat just molded into the shape of
a rib but no bones. Obviously getting sued if you're
in the movie like a pork sandwich.
Speaker 4: Sure, you know the healthcare people were getting sued and
they dumped a bunch of stock and he was on
his way to a meeting. So like, how did Luigi,
this normal ass dude, know that he was going to
go and like go to this meeting at that time?
No his route? No, Like how did he know theory?
Speaker 3: Because Luigi was like a bit of a genius, right
val Victorian.
Speaker 8: She also, if you know where this guy works, just
wait till he leaves work one day, then you follow
him home every day.
Speaker 3: Family for six months, right, answer me this.
Speaker 4: You've never gone radio silent before on your family six.
Speaker 3: Months where people are like calming on my social media like, hey, man,
are you okay? We miss you?
Speaker 4: Like so what if you okay? So we all saw
the picture of the guy who was the suspect, right,
we all saw it before Luigi was arrested. We were like,
this is the suspect. It was already getting memed right,
you can't see anything, like it's just his eyes. And
then you're gonna tell me. So imagine you're the work
wreck McDonald, this normal ass dude smiling picture.
Speaker 3: You're going to be.
Speaker 4: Confident enough in recognizing Luigi that you're like, oh, I'm
gonna call the cops and this is the guy.
Speaker 8: Yeah, everybody in the world thinks they're a vigilante and
they don't mind the business.
Speaker 3: Accidentally, I think he accidentally got tripped up by maybe
a bit of a McDonald's. Karen. You know she loves
true crime, she watches every night, and this is finally
her happy. She knew it, she saw it, she took it. Well.
Speaker 4: God, that's the problem with the world right now.
Speaker 3: Ronald on the phone. Ronald's like, tell Luigi it was me.
Speaker 8: Every time something happens, somebody creates a conspiracy. Sometimes they happen,
but not every single time. I think this is a
classic tale of like people watch movies were crap like
this happened, so they think it actually happens in real life.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was two elderly customers at McDonald's talk exactly.
Everybody else's elderly are locked in everybody.
Speaker 4: I also saw a video of one of the witnesses
and he was like I just called and then I
left before it he even got arrested. I didn't know
he got arrested. Like this man is being eyes.
Speaker 3: I just think this is funny because every single boy
you've hit me with, it's just felt like no obvious.
This feels all like yeah, like even when You're like,
that doesn't look like him like I thought it looked exactly.
Speaker 4: I actually don't think it looks like him at all.
Speaker 3: He looks justice for Luigi.
Speaker 4: He's just he is. He was yelling at the news
yesterday they were trying to take him away, and he
was like, they think the American people are dumb, and
they do think we're dumb, and that's why they're pumping
Luigi up in front of us.
Speaker 3: But but that could maybe not be necessary that I'm
not guilty. You could be they think the American people
are dumb. That like they're gonna take the or they're
gonna be happy that. I don't know, because that's the
most fascinating part about the entire ordeal has been. And
I heard when he say this just a complete lack
of empathy and and even I kind of feel it's crazy.
It just showed, well, it is messed up, but it
also shows.
Speaker 4: You, like somebody's actual Oh it's Bill Bird.
Speaker 3: Talking about this. Yeah it is. It is fair, but
it also shows you, like how people feel about when
they have to deal with these companies they pay every
single month and then when you need them, they feel
you feel, is that their sole goal is to try
to screw you over, like you kind of reap what yourself.
And if you're the CEO of a company that is
negatively affecting portions of society, you're being very highly paid
for it. It's tough for the regular to go kill
somebody over it you and you and to take a
little punch shot at your insurch company right now. I mean,
I mean you don't want to chill out, guys, just kidding,
just kidding.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna kill someone over and then celebrate the desk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you ain't a real one like Luigi, Poor Mario. Dude.
Victoria is asking me about it.
Speaker 8: She's like, who who's crazy enough to just go to
Starbucks and get a coffee right before and then just
sit down in McDonald's with all the stuff on you?
Speaker 7: Like, who's crazy enough to kill someone in broad daylight?
Speaker 4: But if he's a genius like you, like he's a
valed victorian master's degree, all that you think he would
have this better thought out.
Speaker 3: Than valor master's degree makes you a yeah genius has
done a ton of stupid stuff of the years. Right,
that didn't that didn't preclude you from uh.
Speaker 4: Again, you just I'm pretty sure you're the one that
just called him the genius a couple of seconds ago.
Speaker 3: No exactly, I'm saying, but you asked. But you asked.
What was that response to how he could.
Speaker 4: Exactly he should have planned the like they would have
had it planned out.
Speaker 3: I think the Taylor's points him. No, I think the
Taylor's point if you are already going to kill someone
in broad daylight, we're maybe applying too much rational thought
to the process. Yea, where like I don't again, if
you are straight up assassinating a person for ideological reasons, yeah,
you're pretty far out there mentally already.
Speaker 4: But if he knew where all everything wasn't it obviously
was planned out?
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, you could still plan it out and be
the I mean they're not. They're not mutually exclusive, like
you know, like t BOMs saying. Everybody's like, well, how
could you be, you know, so wild to get caught? Well,
I mean you were wild enough to shoot this guy
in broad daylight in New York.
Speaker 4: Mario, maybe it was Mario. Y'all, just believe everything everybody
tells you.
Speaker 3: You're right. They call me Bob, Hey, we got there
at the same time. Nice job, dude. You knows, dude,
we'll see.
Speaker 6: I have no idea what you are talking about, only
only what yall told me and showed me the only
time it's ever come in front of.
Speaker 5: My face like that, Like I haven't seen anything.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, I don't know. It's uh, hence the shattered
monoculture that we live in right, Like it's crazy, Uh
what can be? I feel like it's everywhere for one
person and then not even come across another person's algorithm. Last,
the algorithmic gods have ruled our existence.
Speaker 6: I feel like like a real media because like I
have no idea and I feel like no, I feel
like it's just me, y'all all in it.
Speaker 5: There's nothing. I hadn't seen it. I hadn't seen it
at all outside of y'all showing gun.
Speaker 4: And silencer were three D printed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all this stuff about subsonic grounds and all that
stuff was actually.
Speaker 4: Not right, the sub sonic ground that and like the
gun that they thought that.
Speaker 3: It was, it wasn't. I mean it was just a
three D printed gun, yeah, which somebody was like, oh
my god, we're living in a crazy time. Like I
don't live in this have threed printed guns, isn't that?
And then later we started talking about World War One
and we're like, you know what, I might actually take
the three D printed guns time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because world War.
Speaker 3: One, you know, you just have somebody watched all quiet
on the Western Front and then he came back was like,
you know what, guys, maybe the three D printed guns
aren't that bad.
Speaker 4: Actually that's what gets me, and people are like, oh
the world is any I'm like, these have been worse. Yeah,
like they've been way worse, way way atomic two atomic
bombs just on a country.
Speaker 3: Like it's been very true, very true. All right, when
we get back, we can either do uh, we'll probably
talk to football. Maybe it'll save the Pelicans for a
bit later. Did not expect Niki way to go? Did
you derailed the show into a Luigi segment? I hope
you're happy. More OTB coming up.
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Speaker 3: Oh, well it was a me.
Speaker 10: Man, what all happened? What's just eating the macrib and
then this cops should down. Welcome back to OTV guys,
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Speaker 3: Carson Beck out And I don't know, Jake, that I've
ever seen something like this in my entire life, where
the cope from Georgia fans is so extreme that they
just last their They lost their quarterback that has started
the last two years for them and lost what three
games in two years, won a lot of the big ones,
just won the SEC Championship, they lose him, and everybody's like,
I think we're better with the kid that's played half
a game. I mean, like, I legitimately sincerely have Georgia
fans telling me they are better with Gunner Stockton than
Carson beck Is that not crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I would disagree with it.
Speaker 3: That's all.
Speaker 5: That's what fans do.
Speaker 6: Uh, Whenever you lose a player, you try to find
a way to feel better about it.
Speaker 3: But it's like players too. It's I feel like it's
like not just fans, I feel like it's analysts. Some
some analysts making this point seems freaking wild to me.
I would be panicking if I was a Georgia Bulldog fan. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And I know that Gunner came in into the SEC
Championship game. You got a little juice there. He did
play well, as far as a player coming into that situation. Now,
he didn't like set the world on fire for we're
just grading it off of like just a performance of
a quarterback. Now, the numbers weren't great. He had a
couple of plays that probably should have been returned for
a touchdown. If the player just turns around and blocks
and doesn't point to the end zone, like the player
didn't know where the end zone was, I wouldn't feel
better about it. No, I think this is this is
you know, fans, players trying to know give their guy
confidence feel better about it themselves. Now, the animals part
of it, I can't know. I can't get behind that.
Not Carson Beck's a really good football player. Uh, there's
been games where Carson Beck has has taken over and
you've you know, won games because of Carson Beck. He's
also thrown to maybe I'm sitting her looking. I mean,
is it the worst receiving room in the in like
the playoff?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: I mean maybe like Boys and State doesn't have great receivers.
Boys say and and and without. I mean even though
they did play well in the Big Top Championship. I
mean that's still I'd match him up. I mean, Georgia's
receivers right now, te they the drops that they've had
are just mind boggling that that's a that's a Georgia
receiver room.
Speaker 5: They have. Nobody that's getting any separation.
Speaker 6: Really, you've used your tight ends over the last four
weeks or so in your running backs.
Speaker 3: Maybe even worse is losing their punter, Brett Thorson Ray
guy finalist, one of the best punters in the entire country.
And when you think about a playoff games where you're
gonna play the best teams in the country and therefore
field position will be at a premium, losing a guy
who has been your guy catches the knee injury on
his non kicking like that for the year, which sucks
for him personally, but like, yeah, that's a major blow.
Like what a costly SEC championship. It's a bit if
they like, Okay, you won the SEC CHAMPIONSHIPGA in Georgia,
what did it cost everything? I think they're done. George
is cooked. I don't think they can win the Naty
straight up.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I don't. I don't. I don't think with
Carson Beck they could win the Natty.
Speaker 3: I could have given I could have gotten there with that.
Speaker 5: And I'm in the minority in that.
Speaker 6: And I said that on Friday or Saturday when we're
in Atlanta, and I got some pushback there.
Speaker 5: I just you don't have the weapons.
Speaker 3: You do not have our two Wow. Look, I mean
off the bench.