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last couple of days in sports, certainly for Team USA.
Let's get to some weekend winners.
Speaker 2: That's how wit it has done, right.
Speaker 4: We can't have anyone to freak out out there.
Speaker 5: Okay, he's got a k bark apologer, got too far.
Speaker 2: I'm by winning. I went here and I win there.
Speaker 6: Now, what are you doing what it takes to win
a championship?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 2: Winning? Well, then I guess there's only one thing left
to do. What's that win the whole thing? All right?
Speaker 3: My first weekend winter is the Hughes family. So on Wednesday,
when Hughes scores the ot goal to send the US
to the semi finals. On Thursday, Ellen Hughes wins gold
with the women's US hockey team, and on Friday, Jack
Hughes scores two goals to help send the US to
the finals. And then, of course we know how it
ended for the Hughes family there in overtime in Italy.
Speaker 8: So pretty decent.
Speaker 3: Pretty decent run for the Hughes family there when it
comes to achievements only ice in Italy. You got some brothers,
you got a sister. Pretty good jeans there for the
old Hughes family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 9: Then their mother played for women's team, coached as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, assuming their father played.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think you mentioned it earlier too, Taylor father coached.
Speaker 2: I believe that right. Yeah, he coached on NHL.
Speaker 7: He was in Toronto for a little bit and all that.
Speaker 9: So they like hockey in that family, that is what
you're saying. Yeah, and they're pretty good at it. They're
pretty decent. Golden medal's coming home.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and they're decently impactful.
Speaker 9: I think in those games fantastic. Well, let's stick on
the ice, let's stick with hockey for my first week
in winter. I'm just gonna give this one er to
the whole US men's hockey team, not just what they
did during the game is certainly I'm giving it to
what they did after the game. American hockey player Johnny
Goudro Kodro good dr good Drow.
Speaker 2: You're saying it like a Louisian. I know I wanted
to say, go true.
Speaker 9: I passed away last year due to getting hit on
a bicycle actually for a drunk driver. Well after the game,
Zach Warinski and Dylan Larkin had the idea that they
would go and bring their family onto the ice. And
so they went out and they got the children, brought
them on there and honored the late Johnny good drew
and took this team picture, which is awesome. So that
right there, we'll bring a tier to a glass eye,
no doubt honoring therefore a lot of them, a lot
of the players on the team, their former teammate certainly
a guy that would have been on the team potentially.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 9: And so they shared the moment, shared the spotlight in
just getting these gold medals. They thought of the bigger picture,
thought of family and uh we can learn from them.
Speaker 10: Uh yeah, that's super Uh probably like the most emotional
moment of the weekend. Like winning great obviously also super emotional.
But to bring like your teammates kids out, hold up
his jersey and just super sad, tragic weight like young
his brother was there too and they both passed away.
Speaker 11: It's just terrible.
Speaker 9: They said they wanted to bring the whole family out there,
but they couldn't the gate.
Speaker 2: This a little bit difficult.
Speaker 10: To get the ku chuck. That's how you say it,
jump Ku chuck. Brothers class acts.
Speaker 3: Love them those guys and who was the other guys
would fight anybody that you in front of them to,
I don't care.
Speaker 9: Come on Olympics. Let's let's let fights happen in the Olympics.
Speaker 10: So we were thinking about this on Friday. Do the
women hockey teams do they fight too? They get down?
Speaker 7: I like it after.
Speaker 2: Very much. You got to practice that because it's not
like a regular fight.
Speaker 11: This is I'm grabbing a jersey and I'm.
Speaker 2: You got to tie your jersey to.
Speaker 11: Yeah, with the punch, that's gonna be hard to do. Probably,
I gotta practice that a lot.
Speaker 9: I mean I wonder how much time for some of
those guys that spent on the ice fighting technique.
Speaker 11: Yeah, like I would take some boxing classes experience.
Speaker 3: If you're gonna be enforcer, you gotta go out there
like you better have something that's right.
Speaker 9: But like with regular boots on in a street fight,
it's a lot different. It's a lot of different strategy there. Yeah,
it might not be great there. If you can get
the time in between the Jersey Pool and the punch.
You got something like the old past rush move, the
push pull.
Speaker 10: I've got a couple of weekend losers and maybe just
like losers.
Speaker 11: Uh Hunter Hess, do y'all remember him?
Speaker 10: He's like when he's a freestyle skier that came out
and said he had quote mixed emotions about representing the
United States during the Olympics, which.
Speaker 11: Whatever, dude, Like, you're literally at.
Speaker 10: The pinnacle of where a lot of people want to
be and you're just gonna criticize whatever. Ended up finishing
tenth in the event. And then there were a couple
other people that also were critical. A couple other people
that represent America in the Olympics and are critical of America.
Speaker 11: Amber Glynn she was a figure skater.
Speaker 10: She finished outside of the medals so did not medal,
So anybody. Jesse Diggins, she also was a cross country
skier that also criticized America. She earned a bronze medal,
so third. Anybody that was criticizing America and saying that
they felt mixed emotions about representing them ended up doing terribly.
Speaker 2: That's wild.
Speaker 9: At least they did represent America and like that. The
one skier the half I think the half pipe skier
island go or yeah, with the China she took he
took a payday to go and compete for China. On
the other hand, women's figure skater, Oh god, I'm baking
our name. Lou Alyssa, Lou Alyssa Lou she did the opposite.
She did not yeat the pay day. That's a fantastic story.
She would definitely be a winner. Yes, and then the
island loser.
Speaker 11: Yeah, loser.
Speaker 2: Go live in China.
Speaker 7: SHOT's great there, Yeah, we can winner for me. I
gotta stick with what Jake did with the with the hockey,
but all the all the comparisons in the lines that
match up. Like when I turned on the TV yesterday,
So the big graphic forty six years to the day
of the nineteen eighty miracle on ice team when they
defeated the Soviet Union. How fitting was that?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 7: The US women beat Canada two to one in overtime
to win gold. The men did the exact same thing,
and Jake mentioned the Hughes family. I want to mention
brock Nelson here real quick. So Rock Nelson wins gold
on the team yesterday, his uncle or his I should say,
his great uncle was on the nineteen fifty six US
hockey team, his other great uncle won the gold in
nineteen sixty, and his uncle Dave Christian was on the
nineteen eighty Miracle on Ice hockey team. So every single
gold medal that the US has ever won in hockey,
someone in brock Nelson's family has been on that roster.
So that is a really cool thing to see from them.
That is a hockey family if I have ever seen one.
So shout out to brock Nelson and the Christian family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was incredible, and again like for it to
be to the day that like Placid happen, it's even
more incredible. And you know, last thing on hockey, the
White House tweeting out the eagle on top of the goose.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's fantastic, pretty good quote tweet.
Speaker 9: They're quote tweeting justin right, I think true saying you
can't take our.
Speaker 2: Country and you're not going to take our game.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm not gonna take our country and not take
our sport. Sorry. Great's Paul Diagel.
Speaker 3: You know we love pettin us here on OTV uh
wee can winner for me. So I'm gonna go to
LSU women's basketball beating Missouri a bazillion to fifty five.
It was oneay to fifty five. LSU basketball just dominated
the game. So like that in itself, that's an impressive
win the way they did it, but even more impressive.
And I haven't had a chance to be here last
week obviously we were out the Old Miss victory for
LSU women's basketball on the road. That was as impressive
as a victory as you will see.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Ole Miss is a good basketball team. They're a top
twenty basketball team. Right, it's not the fact that you
got to win against them, it's the fact that you
outscored them twenty four to seven in the fourth quarter.
You did not allow a field goal in the fourth quarter,
the entire quarter. You shut them down. You locked them
up on defense, your stars shine bright on offense. And
you went out there and you stole that game. Because
Ole Miss had a big lead, right, it looked like
they were going to pull away a couple of different times.
Speaker 8: You didn't allow them to pull away.
Speaker 3: You stayed in the game, you took their best shots,
you were still standing tall. And then you became the aggressor.
You started counterpunching out of your corner and then you
beat them and again outscoring them twenty four to seven
in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 8: I thought it was an incredible game.
Speaker 3: One of those games that you can kind of look
back on and depending on where LSU season ends up,
and say that was one of the defining moments of
their season.
Speaker 8: Again, this is an old Miss team that.
Speaker 3: Twenty one and eight on the year now, but at
that time, you know, I think they were twenty one
and six going into that game, and so that was
a good team.
Speaker 8: I was a team that at that time was.
Speaker 3: Eight and four in the league, just like you were
eight and four in the league at the same record.
So to go on the road, to be down multiple times,
and you don't think ole Miss after what's happened over
the last couple of months between LSU and ole Miss
won in that game. That's the biggest crowd that they've had,
I believe ever, I think it's the biggest crowd they've
ever had for a women's basket Stephen A. Smith took
a private jet to Oxford to go watch the game.
Coachio called out the fans and so they showed up
and uh, and then you know there was some bitterness
to LSU after Lshue was victorious there. But what a
game it was for LSU women's basketball. They get the
dubs seventy eight to seventy week in winter, all right,
I got one last week in winter. We are going
to stick with the Olympics.
Speaker 8: I didn't want to play at the Jack Hughes.
Speaker 2: Too, Taylor, do you have a message? He's flowing it up.
Speaker 9: Okay, So my last week in winter is going to
be one of the best to ever do it, and certainly,
in my opinion, the best to do it now. Mike Tarika,
his voice and the way he interacts with interviews and
the way he can just sit there and wax poetically
about all sports and in detail about everything, the best
to do it. And he had a fantastic sign off
to the Olympics last night.
Speaker 2: We're gonna play right here.
Speaker 6: Because of a drought that almost lasted a half century,
those teams are revered, they are held on to forever.
And what happened today doesn't take away from the greatness
of those teams or the meeting that those teams have
in US hockey. But what you saw today was the
build of a generation, inspired perhaps by that team that
lost in twenty ten in Vancouver to the Sydney Crosby
golden goal in overtime, or the team where tj Oshan
all those shootout goals in twenty fourteen. That's when these
guys were doing what you're doing. Watch it on TV,
and they were young and they were living the dream.
So for all the young people out there, not just
the hockey, but all the Olympics you've watched, those dreams
are formed. Now, go chase him and go get him
because our country loves sports and it brings us together
unlike anything else. And if you didn't know that, if
you haven't been watching the last two weeks, you saw
it in tm USA hockey winning the goal over there
are trivel Canada here in Milan to wrap up these
twenty fifth Olympic winner games.
Speaker 9: Greatest to do it right there? That was awesome. What
a great sign. I don't know if it's ad libbed,
I don't know if it's scripted. I don't know what
it is. It doesn't really matter. Something tells me that
he just shot from the hip a little bit. Yeah,
that's that's There's no there's no ums in there. There's
no hums. There's no nothing. It's just youre better.
Speaker 11: We can winner Winnard Skinner. Okay, getting a lot of
run on Free Bird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's true. Fun. Hey Siri, play free Bird,
Hey Siriah play League Greenwood? Please? Uh Lee Greenwood getting
some burns Greenwood? Oh yeah.
Speaker 7: You want to talk about a guy setting himself up
for life off of one song? Lee Greenwood? Is that guy?
I have a weekend loser, the standing weekend loser for me.
It just it was in the news. Reason at least
someoneted to bring it up. Pete Peter's standing weekend loser
for me. This is not just because we love Raisin Kaines.
I mean, obviously our studio sponsor, we love Canes. We
see in a company they were outside of raising canes
in Seattle, Santa Ana, California, Portage, Michigan. Common theme in
those cities. Pet supporters were exposing the terror of slaughter houses. Guys,
because every Chicken combos starts with a life take and
Peter go poundsand who are you who funds Peta? I
see Peta all the time. Come out and attack these
big companies like who the hell are you?
Speaker 2: And canes?
Speaker 7: They handled it with class. They didn't need to acknowledge
it on about their day. They did their thing, like,
shout out to you. That's a first class company, Peter.
You can go pound hand.
Speaker 2: So they're trying to free bird.
Speaker 7: Yes, to tie it all back in. Yes, nice, like
that's that's you. That's a standing weekend loser. Do we
know who funds this group? Who has this much free
time on our hand to go stand outside of buildings
and harass others?
Speaker 2: I don't know if they need much funding to do that. Yeah,
they're losers.
Speaker 8: I didn't even see that story, and I gotta go
look it up.
Speaker 2: Love a chicken tendy? Yeah, I love it tendy.
Speaker 7: You mean to tell me none, none of them, None
of the people out there eat chicken at all. I
find that hard to believe.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's really hard to believe. A lot of people
in this world.
Speaker 2: You see them.
Speaker 7: You just got too much free time on your hands,
nothing better.
Speaker 8: To do, all right, any more weekend winners or a loser?
Once going twice? So all right, we'll come back.
Speaker 3: Uh, let's talk a little NFL draft, let's talk a
little combine. I'm headed there tonight, looking forward to being there,
checking out all the potential newest New Orleans Saints and
we'll break it all down when we come.
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Speaker 12: All right, welcome back in ot be here on this
Monday morning.
Speaker 3: Of course for watching us on YouTube. You see we've
got some guests here. Shelley Maull next with us, Jordan
Tabor with us as well. Got the Seeds of Hope
event coming up of course for me and Florence's mama, Shelley,
because she took.
Speaker 2: Care of us for a long long time.
Speaker 8: Anything that we had.
Speaker 3: During our LSU football days, Shelley took care of and
so it's always good to see Shelley.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I appreciate you coming on. And Jordan, good to
see you again.
Speaker 3: And I know Seeds of Hope is something I believe
third year correct, all right, so third year of Seeds
of Hope coming up here and tell us a little
bit about the event. I know, Shelley, you and I
have been talking about it. You got some incredible panelists
that are coming to this event this year.
Speaker 11: Yeah, basically.
Speaker 2: Pretty chee.
Speaker 3: I think we're having some microphone issues there, like hey,
here we go, there, here we go.
Speaker 13: Yeah. So an evening basically spent with our community. Got
a lot of guests that are going to be there.
Our newest guest this year is John Foster is going
to be singing us some music. Yeah, but really wanted
to get together a bunch of people who I felt
would be impactful in the community to be able to
share their stories about mental health and their experiences with
mental health, just to be able to normalize those conversations.
Speaker 3: And Jordan and I know we had you on a
year ago, kind of just remind our listeners kind of
how you got involved with Seeds of Hope.
Speaker 14: Sure, so playing Seeds of Hope is Rain Will Bring
Flowers our It's our signature event. Rain Will Bring Flowers
is a youth suicide prevention nonprofit that was stood up
in response to the loss of my son Owen. We
lost going back in April twenty twenty three. And you know,
whenever I speak, I just always share that Owen was
wildly popular, you know, he was never bullied, he excelled
in athletics, he was starting on both sides of the
ball at Saint Michael High School as a sophomore. He
did okay in school, and he came from a home
where he was loved and supported in every way, a
home with resources, and a home grounded in faith. And
so I just say that so that your readers understand that,
you know, if a kid like Owen could fall victims
of suicide, then I feel like all of our youth
are at is at risk. And that was really the
genesis of the foundation and also the creation of Planning
Seeds of Hope.
Speaker 9: The challenges of mental health and iOS Shelley, you deal
with it a lot. I'm over at LSU that for
not just not just people and athletes in college, but
kids of all ages that can fall victim or suffer
from mental health. So it's such a great thing that
you're doing to start. And I want to know how
did l s U kind of get involved with the
Plannet Seeds of Hopes. I see it's you, It's Joe
Burrow Foundation, the l clubs involved with it, that's LSU Athletics.
Where did where was the kind of the chemistry that
brought everything together here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Random phone call. Yeah, I've been known to take a
couple of random phone calls a year. And literally I
think he was someone had recommended that he reach out
to me.
Speaker 2: I think he.
Speaker 14: And okay, all right, Dan Born.
Speaker 13: There we go. Yeah. I think that you know, probably
had a reputation of being interested in this space obviously
and had you know, gone back to get additional counseling degree.
And I'm motivated by the loss that we've had with
at LSU football had a couple student athletes that we
lost that I was working with at the time. I've
always kind of carried the torch for them and.
Speaker 11: The work that I've done.
Speaker 13: And when I got the phone call and heard the story,
I you know, immediately kind of figured we needed to
be on board this.
Speaker 7: This is a kid who liked LSU.
Speaker 13: I mean, it really kind of came down to Jordan
being persistent, although I don't think even needed to be
that persistent. Came to the office, we talked, and his
son's story was exactly like the story that I've had
in the training room ten thousand times. I mean, parents
don't really know what's going on. Kids don't really know
what's going on in their own heads. It's kind of scary.
And for me, it was just going to be an
opportunity to be able to, you know, share experiences, which
I think is really important.
Speaker 3: And this is an event that's going to be actually tomorrow.
It's going to be six pm inside of the PMACS,
going to be hosted by Ryan Clark, Clyde Edwards. G
Lair is going to be a part of it John
Foster is going to be a part of it as well.
So Shelley, how can if someone wants to attend this event,
is it too late? Can they go ahead? Can they
still get tickets? Can they still be a part of it?
Speaker 13: Yeah, hindred percent. So no tickets necess So there's a
place where you can sign up, but if you can't
get to your computer, it's not a problem. We would
encourage anyone and everyone. If you're sitting around and saying
that's not me, I don't really need to go to
this thing, and you're sitting around tomorrow night, you need
to get in your car, walk over if you're on
the campus and come. It's free food for twenty five
hundred people, it's free t shirts for two thousand people.
Speaker 15: It's top class.
Speaker 13: People that are going to be there in terms of
performing and hosting. It's always been a really incredible inspirational event.
I've really had never never heard anyone leave say gee,
that was a really downer I was a Debbie downer
kind of place. And this is an inspirational night and
it really will allow conversations to happen within families and teams.
Speaker 9: And if I'm assuming that if you can't make it,
I'm assuming there's.
Speaker 2: A place that they can go to kind of get involved.
Speaker 14: Absolutely absolutely, if you're unable to make it, which I
strongly encourage that you do, you can always go to
rain Will Bring Flowers dot org to stay in touch
with our mission and the impact that we're having in
the community.
Speaker 3: Jordan, what does it mean for you to see like
Shelley and LSU kind of you know, get behind all
of this and now you're gonna have an event inside
the PMAC to bring awareness with somebody hosting it like
a Ryan Clark who's on the national scene, Clyde Edwards Deeler,
who's you know, Clyde very publicly has been through you know,
his own struggles obviously, and to have them there supporting
this event.
Speaker 14: It's it's amazing. I mean, it really is amazing, and
it truly takes a village. And you know, I always
speak with my wife Lisa about, you know, where we
would be, uh or where we wouldn't be without LSU
Athletics and and Shelley. You know, Shelley has the connections
with these high profile athletes that make this event a possibility.
And you know, having Jon Foster here to to to
sing a couple of songs and do the national anthem.
Things are just coming together through a lot of hard
work and relationships with with Elsh Athletics.
Speaker 3: And you know, Matt and I both obviously, like I said,
Shelley's certainly been a big part of our lives and
certainly once we got to l s U because and
I think, Matt go back me up on this.
Speaker 2: When you when you.
Speaker 3: Get to campus, you think you got to figure it
out and then you realize, oh, I left home by myself.
I don't really know anybody. I got to be good
at football or whatever sport you're playing. I've got to
do a lot of things. And people like Shelley and
Jack and Bear at the time obviously big parts of
real world hits you real Yes, big parts of our transition,
because there was a lot of times where it's like,
oh man, can I do this?
Speaker 8: What am I doing? A lot of questions into your head.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was a it's certainly any transition, like we said,
not just for college athletes or yeah, all kids at
all ages, and there's so much that people deal with.
So organizations like yourself and Shelley and LSU. It's awesome
that yell are all involved, and yeah, we hope that
then is a crazy success Tomara. And again for all
of those that can't get involved and can't attend tomorrow,
you can go to rain Will Bring Flowers dot org
just to see about the organization and get involved yourself.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and again planning Seeds of Hope talking about
mental health. It's gonna be hosted by Ryan Clark. It's
going to be tomorrow six pm inside the PMAX. So
you'll have RC there, You'll have Clyde there, John Foster.
If you don't know who that is, go check out
American Idol. He was incredible during his season of American Idol.
Thank you all for coming in. Shelley always, thank you
for everything you do for us. Jordan, We appreciate your
time as always as well, and certainly we'll continue to
raise awareness for the event coming up.
Speaker 2: Thanks absolutely, thank you.
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Monday morning, busy Monday morning here in the Raising Cane studio.
No rest for the weary there, Flynn, coming back to vacation,
My guy, you gotta be ready to go work mode.
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in the morning exactly, a little bit sort of don't
I don't know where he's coming.
Speaker 2: Up with us.
Speaker 10: I think there's like a middle ground here that we
can buy. I think it's like the schedule. But also
you didn't want to go.
Speaker 2: So that's true.
Speaker 8: I love God, loves California.
Speaker 11: You could have really made the schedule work.
Speaker 2: Loves California.
Speaker 3: Anyways, Will Helmer's our guests here in studio Louisiana. Load
have got some big things going on as always, course
form elsity baseball player, so here to talk some baseball
as well. But I saw my man boots on the
ground at Marti Gral. Oh buddy, how'd that go? Fantastic?
Couldn't have been better.
Speaker 15: I love me some Marti Gral from New Orleans.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so obviously hit New Orleans and then we went
down to Thibodeau. Oh man, I've never been to Thibodeaux
from Sunday and Thibodeau is just a little different. I'm
telling you what, Urt is good. I'm telling you what
everybody walks down. Have you done that before?
Speaker 8: Is that your first?
Speaker 5: That's my first time first Thibodeaum, Marti Gral and then
I hit you know, did some culture stuff, Church Point, Unice,
my MoU Yeah, all that, you know, section of the Louisiana.
Speaker 15: So it's cool to see all the different cultures.
Speaker 2: So what stuck out is that you have a highlight.
Speaker 15: From oh, Thibodeau Sunday, and.
Speaker 2: So what makes it? What makes it? So you were
in New Orleans where it was the heart of everything,
but then you go what you've been to I'm sure
a hundred.
Speaker 15: Times been to New Orleans, Marty Gral, my whole life.
Speaker 5: So you know, you do Friday, you have like Hermes
Crew Day Ta and then Saturdays and Demmian and so
I hadn't been to Thibodeaux. It's just a little different,
you know. It just feels different than you got two
day parades back to back. And then it seems like
the entire town of Thibodeau walks downtown and hits the
three Bars, Pepper's Pizza, all of them. And so it's
cool to see. And so I had a great time. Obviously,
had some drinks, had some yellow shots, yeah.
Speaker 3: Which I mean if anybody is a yell at you
after the World Series, can you imagine being younger, would
you say three days of Marti Gras in a row?
Speaker 5: Four days and Friday, Saturday, Sunday break Tuesday.
Speaker 2: If I get four hours in.
Speaker 8: If I'm not mistaken, well you ran into Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 8: There's pretty offer my guy, though, so I could have.
Speaker 15: Hopped on the float. Last second decision decided not to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's little floats rolling away and he's like, yeah, yeah,
it didn't work out, but awesome guy.
Speaker 15: Man.
Speaker 5: He feels like he's really embracing the culture, which is
cool to see. But you have like you have to.
Speaker 15: Yeah, if you're gonna wait in here as we've seen, yeah,
people haven't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 15: You know you gotta embrace it.
Speaker 9: No better way than from a top of a float.
Yeah right, it's pretty embracement.
Speaker 2: I think. I'm no, I'm right there with you. Absolutely.
Speaker 8: Uh So what else y'all got going on? Louisiana load?
I mean, I mean, mudy girl.
Speaker 3: Obviously a big portion of it, just because I mean,
the entire state does it. But like you said, the
entire state does it a little bit differently. I mean
everybody North South, everybody does it. So I'm sure that
was a lot of fun. What else you got coming
down the pipeline.
Speaker 5: Baseball season is a big thing, So we're gonna start
doing some tailgates over at alex Box, doing all kinds
of different stuff and just keep you know, exploring the state.
Festivals are coming up a lot of different stuff. We
also just started a new podcast, Losing Unloaded podcast myself
and with Jordi. Yeah, and so he's been great, obviously
a fan. I love Jordy and uh so we started,
you know, have a guest on every Thursday, blow it Up,
kind of just starting it small, hoping to blow it up.
Speaker 8: You just had Verge, just.
Speaker 15: Doug Thompson. Yeah, We're gonna, you know, keep having guests
every week.
Speaker 5: Hopefully we can get some guys, you know through our
connection with Gordon and.
Speaker 3: If I know, if I know anything about well Gordon
one am I guy Jordy too. But Jordy, if Jordi
gets somebody in his cross areas, they're coming on the show.
Speaker 15: They're coming. You know. We had Ben McDonald, like, you know, this.
Speaker 5: Is just the first couple of weeks, so uh I
was exciting looking looking to keep going with it.
Speaker 9: So give me a highlight of like the Louisiana Loaded,
Like what's You've been done a lot of stuff in
Louisiana this past year, so like give it's like a
top three things that you've actually got to experience through
through the show and that you haven't done before.
Speaker 15: Man, that's tough. Wasn't wasn't prepared for that.
Speaker 8: Marty Girl was obviously, He's never prepared.
Speaker 5: Just kind of how it rolls, obviously, like Marty gral
like Church Point, Marty Gral I had never done that.
And to see the different culture of up Louisiana through
that was awesome.
Speaker 2: Omaha.
Speaker 5: Yeah, being able to you know, that was when we
first started Louisiana Load was was Omaha. I was up
in Omaha for two weeks straight, you know, buying Jella shots,
doing all that and then just you know, seeing all
the different This is a broad answer, but I've been
all over the state truth board, you know, Lake Charles,
New Orleans, Covington, wherever you can kind of think of
seeing all the different cultures, like not even just through culture,
but like through food, through bars, through drinking. It's different
in every area. And so to be able to kind
of experience that on a different level than before as
is pretty cool, really is pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Catching up with Will Helmer's here in the Raising Kines studio,
he mentioned baseball season a big part of Louisiana loaded
there and baseball is off to a pretty good start there.
Speaker 15: Eight.
Speaker 3: To note on the season we were talking before you
jumped on, if you were one of the lucky ones
that didn't have a stream that crashed over the weekend,
you could have watched some really good baseball there as well.
I don't think that anybody was lucky, because I think
it crashed for everyone but LSU eight. No, and I
mean Will obviously, like you've been a part championship teams,
you know how hard it is to run it back,
to bring back a squad this championship caliber. But this team,
after winning it last year, losing so many key pieces,
they look like right now and look there's still a
long way to go, but they look like they're building
that foundation to be able to compete for a championship.
Speaker 5: I mean it's it's impressive on kind of every facet
right now, from the mound offensively, like they have every
piece of the puzzle to go do it again. Yeah,
you know, with baseball, it's kind of a lot of
it's when you get hot. Yeah, You've seen that over
the years with like Ole Miss and twenty twenty two, Like, yeah,
you just get hot at the right time, right, and
that's part of it. And they're obviously hot right now,
and it's the biggest thing. And I you know, we've
I've learned over the years of playing and even watching
for the past couple of years now, is it's still early.
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, it's super early.
Speaker 5: And they they've played some inferior opponents, you know for
the most part, and but they showed out on every
level that they can do it in the sec too.
Speaker 15: Yeah, the bats are there.
Speaker 5: There's not a single person in that lineup that has
played so far that can't hurt you. You know, there's
you know, whether it's Dardar or Carraway. And then you
have you know, Curry Ol Brown, You're right at the top,
which is like scary. So they have a lot of
guys who can hurt you offensively, which is always something
that you know, Jay's had in his lineups, whether it's
the long ball or he's gonna come score like do
a double squeeze, you know, bunt and score two runners.
Speaker 15: You know, just crazy stuff like that.
Speaker 5: So he's always going to score runs, always going to
be good offensively, but from the mound portion of it,
like two, Kochieski has done a great job of developing
guys like I think we've seen you know Schmid on Sunday,
was that's his best performance at LSU.
Speaker 8: I was going to ask you about him.
Speaker 3: Okay, So a young guy whose expectations through the roof
was supposed to go to the draft. He wanted to
play for LSU, and so like a media people are like, oh, well,
you got be awesome from day one. And look in sports,
it's tough, Like a lot of freshmen play in baseball.
Speaker 8: I get that, but it's still going to be incredibly tough.
Speaker 3: So from him, like you saw him last year and
you see the flashes, but you know it wasn't consistent
enough to be a weekend guy. Like what is that
transition like in baseball from freshman year expectations to a
sophomore year. He could probably take like at least a
deep breath, and now we're starting to see all the
things that we thought he would be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Schmid Williams got all the talent in the world.
There was never a doubt about that when he you know,
came from Catholic Like, he's got all the stuff, like
he's a big league pitcher. Stuff wise, it's always a
matter of if you can figure it out. And LSU
is not an easy place to figure it out, true,
you know, as a freshman, like coming into that environment
and Alex box with you know, ten thousand strong or
more is a tough place to learn how to be
a college pitcher. Yeah, and so to take that stride
from you know, being a freshman, you know, and he struggle.
He struggled a lot as a freshman. You know, he
couldn't get the ball over the plate as much. And
and so we're kind of starting to see him maybe
take the mold into that sophomore year of kind of like,
well maybe he the stuff still there, the same stuff,
but maybe it from a mental side of it, maybe
he can take that next step and really, you know,
improve it and be a Saturday Sunday Sunday guy who
knows And at the end of the season, like, you know,
one of the best parts that I've seen from this
team so far, as they got three guys over the
weekend who went five plus innings Yeah, that's rare, you know,
to throw just two guys on a Sunday. Yeah, is
pretty cool, you know, and it's awesome, you know, to
see that for sure.
Speaker 9: Tell me from a from a player perspective, what is
February baseball like?
Speaker 2: Mentally?
Speaker 9: Just because you know, you know the coaches are constantly evaluating.
You know that you're not an sec play You know
that you're not you know, this is not win or
win or go home whatever it is. You got to
get hot at the right times, just like you said.
But as a player, you know you're constantly being evaluated.
You know that the lineup's not you know, it's it's
not written in stone. You know that the pitching rotation
is not written in stone.
Speaker 1: Like.
Speaker 9: So mentally, how do you approach practice in each game
as a player in February?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so as an LSU player, I can't speak for
other programs and about as a player of Jay Johnson,
it's no different than it is in Omaha.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know right now, which is cool.
Speaker 5: And you know one of Jay's things is it's a
fifty six game playoff, so every game matters, every game
is a playoff.
Speaker 3: Which actually I love that about Jay because well, you know,
I mean so many people are like, oh, midweek games,
it don't really matter. In like past coaches like we're
trying stuff here and there. I'm like, no, the hell
would we put on a uniform if we put out
a lineup card, like, let's go win.
Speaker 15: The game exactly.
Speaker 5: It all doesn't matter until you get no hit by
Nichols on a Tuesday, Yes happens, Yeah, and you lose
the Southern yeah or whatever as an LSU team, and
then it's like what are y'all doing?
Speaker 15: Man? Right, and everybody hates you, you know.
Speaker 5: So, so having that mentality of you know, in training
and practice in the m of like everything is a
playoff game. Every game is a playoff game, even whether
it's February or or June, you know. And so being
a player of Jay Johnson, if you're gonna play, that's
gonna be your mentality. And so you know, he's got
a squad right now that you can kind of tell, uh,
they believe in each other a little bit, and they
kind of got some good chemistry right now, and it's
almost easy for them. Yeah, it looks like they're just
having fun. You know, it's just kids playing playing playing
in the sand, you know, And so that's really cool
to see and for us, like we have a for Gordon,
we have you know, we've got eleven and il guys
for baseball. And we took him to dinner a few
weeks ago and just at the dinner table too, like
these guys are just different.
Speaker 2: They get along.
Speaker 5: They're just you know, cracking jokes, you know whatever. And
so to see that is really you know, special, you know,
and it's the makings of a good team.
Speaker 2: Is Jay A yeah, he seems pretty intense. Is he
a yeller?
Speaker 9: Is that how he expresses his intensity or is it
just like when he speaks, everyone shuts up and for
the moment he yells.
Speaker 8: You whisper a sweet.
Speaker 9: You know, there's coach We've had coaches that, like say,
was a yeller, right, That's how he got his point across.
Speaker 2: Was yelling? He did, but he didn't have to well.
Speaker 8: You know, I mean, Jay takes a lot of his
coaching from saving right.
Speaker 9: But there's also coaches that were very intense, like in
you just didn't mess around with him, but they didn't
have to yell to get that point across.
Speaker 15: Jay's got both. So he takes Skip versus yea Skip.
Speaker 5: I'm sure you've heard some stories of like, you know,
you go out to the mound and Skip goes it's
it's you know, it's it's not your fault, it's mine you.
So you know, there's some of that in Jay and
there's also some yellow. So it's fun either way. He's
he can do both. I've heard him get on some people.
I've got some great stories that you know, we probably
can't say on air, But he does both.
Speaker 15: You know, that's what a good coach.
Speaker 8: He knows how to get best player in college baseball.
Speaker 15: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 8: I don't know which one would be worse.
Speaker 3: Skipt telling you it's my fault for recruiting you are
Jimbo saying I wish your parents never met.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean both of them good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah tough.
Speaker 9: I think I actually kind of like the the underhanded like, oh,
it's my my fault for recruiting you, evaluating that.
Speaker 2: I think he told that to Ronnie rant. I think
that was the guy that he told that. Will.
Speaker 8: We appreciate the time man. Will is good enough to
be here with this.
Speaker 3: Thanks to Gordon mccurn injury Attorneys, The G Team Louisiana Loda.
Speaker 2: They got the.
Speaker 3: Podcast on Thursdays, right Thursdays with Jordy Colada, our guy Jeordi,
so look forward to that every Thursday as well. Will
we appreciate it, man, thanks for having me. Absolutely, will
have Itrid's good enough to join us here on O TB.
Will take a break more on the other side from the.
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