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Speaker 5: Welcome in our number three here on a Thursday edition
of Off the Bench. Taylor, Sharp, Luonder, villar Real, Cassie
Spizzally all hanging out with you here this morning.
Speaker 4: I don't even want to.
Speaker 5: Know what you guys were talking about in the chat.
I Uh, I opened up the chat in uh, it's
on a launder comment and I'm assuming it was Scott
Dice that that made the original comment. So we're just
gonna we're gonna blow right past it.
Speaker 4: No need, no need. Yeah, touching tip.
Speaker 5: I opened the YouTube chat trying to be you know, interactive,
and I see touching tips is crazy. Then I scroll
back up Scott Dice, screw that, We'll go touching tips together.
I just just I don't want to know, but uh,
wild stuff goes on in that YouTube jetting me a
fun place, it can be a very scary place if
the right people are in there. Look, we got one
more hour left with you here on the show next
segment nine fifteen. Every Thursday, Chef Michael Johnson will join
us for our munchie segments. Go ahead and get those
questions in the chat right now. We'll kind of get
ahead of that. I got a few ready for Chef,
but throw out anything you want to ask Chef Johnson.
We'll maybe do a little Olympic update at nine thirty.
Norway dominating this thing right now. Fortune only US is
in third though, so they're they're hanging in there for
the most part right now.
Speaker 4: Though.
Speaker 5: Look it's nine am, it's Thursday, and Uhlandra's got a
one that she said we're gonna be surprised by, so
she's gonna go first on this.
Speaker 4: It's time for a big deal or no big.
Speaker 5: Deal, big deal, no big deal, big deal, no big deal,
big deal, no big deal, no big deal, a big deal?
Speaker 4: What you got?
Speaker 6: Okay? So big deal or no big deal?
Speaker 2: Selling pizza with iguana meat as a topping.
Speaker 4: Huge deal?
Speaker 2: Who the hell is doing that in Florida? Surprise surprise.
So it's called Bucks Coal Fire Pizza. It's in North
Palm Beach and they went viral recently because they are
selling pizza they're selling iguana pizza, like not just hey,
you get a pepperoni pizza? Can I get any iguana pizza?
And it's because of the cold weather. During the cold
there's like a bunch of iguanas that just like fall
out of trees and stuff like that because the cold
paralyzes them.
Speaker 6: So they're an invasive species.
Speaker 2: So they've been like gathering up all the iguanas and
using them as pizza toppings. Even bigger dealer, no big deal.
They're not the first to do this. So there's a
guy also in.
Speaker 6: Florida due to the.
Speaker 2: Uh, due to the falling out of the trees iguanas.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: There's a guy that made iguana meat tacos and he
went viral for that as well.
Speaker 4: So I mean.
Speaker 5: I've heard of like duk tacos and all that, So
like I get that, but.
Speaker 6: I mean that feels pretty normal. I don't know if
I could get behind that.
Speaker 4: This is a huge deal. I'm looking it up right now.
Speaker 2: Since they're invasive, they can be captured and killed humanely
without a permit in because they're invasive and they're just
like falling out of trees.
Speaker 6: But the ones that are falling out of trees aren't dead.
They're still alive.
Speaker 2: They're just paralyzed because they're cold blooded, and so.
Speaker 7: They're like.
Speaker 2: So Also, apparently, according to this guy, they do have
the nickname Chicken of the Trees because they're delicious. So
so rather than let them go to waste, they're gonna
make them into tacos.
Speaker 5: I'm assuming these have to be big iguanas, right, like.
Speaker 6: Like actual real iguana, right.
Speaker 5: Because like me, you got the little small ones, but
he would take like so many to get any meat
out of that. I'm assuming these are the These are
the big iguanas.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me put this in the dock so Cassie
can pull it up. There's a picture of the man
outside of the pizza shop and he's holding a bunch
of iguanas.
Speaker 6: So if you look in the article you'll find it.
Speaker 4: So it says here.
Speaker 5: Many who have tried iguana meat say it's a nick
picture of chicken and fish. That doesn't sound bad flavor wise, However,
think about that texture for a second. Fish is a
heck of a lot softer than chicken. This just seems
like it would be like pasty chicken. I know, I
don't know if I could deal with that texture. I
mean it does say it's a it's a pretty mild flavor.
Speaker 6: Look at this picture.
Speaker 2: Look at this he's holding them outside of the pizza shop.
Speaker 4: That's a twenty five pound iguana. That iguana's twenty five pounds.
Speaker 2: Also literally holding them outside of the pizza shop.
Speaker 4: That guy. Could you imagine driving down the road and
see it that, I'd be like, durgn, they got a
fresh patch of water.
Speaker 5: We gotta go get that guy looks like the type
they would chop up in iguana and serve them on pizza.
I mean that that guy seemed like the type to
do that. And the fact that they're not the first
ones to do it, and it was so popular originally
that they followed this trend.
Speaker 4: That's awful.
Speaker 2: So he says, my buddy hit me up and was like,
just imagine this guy. My buddy hit me up and
was like, how do you feel about me bringing in
some iguana meat and making iguana pizza?
Speaker 6: I said absolutely, I.
Speaker 5: Mean yeah, I mean obviously, right, Okay, does it say
like how many they have sold?
Speaker 4: Like are these populars and just something they're so it.
Speaker 2: Did say that it's highly sought after apparently, and that
they've gotten many calls about questions about trying to order
some iguana pizza, so apparently it is highly sought after.
Speaker 6: I don't know exactly.
Speaker 2: How many people actually ordered it. It doesn't say in
this article maybe you can try to find it, but
in this one it doesn't say. It's just wild to
me that this guy was like, yeah, let's do it,
let's put iguanas on the pizza.
Speaker 6: I don't think I can. Like iguanas are kind of cute.
Speaker 5: I think the creepy lizards are creepy, like all those
like they're basically crawling snakes, like they create me out
a little bit. Okay, well, look I found a different one.
Speaker 6: There's a snake outside my house this morning.
Speaker 4: You stump it into the ground.
Speaker 2: I kind of wanted to pick it up because it
was little and Rob, you know Rob, the one.
Speaker 6: That I'm like obsessed with right now from the Traders.
Oh yeah, ye, snake catcher.
Speaker 2: So maybe if I would have caught in sent him
a picture, he would have been like, oh.
Speaker 4: I'm ready. I like that.
Speaker 5: I was going to have this boring Generic Chiefs cleared
up forty three million dollars in cap space no screw
that Luandra has inspired me. Hawaii residents have been so
sick of early crowing that they could actually be allowed
to kill wild chickens in their area. So apparently this
has been an issue for years in Hawaii. They they
spent millions of dollars, like the government, they spent millions
of dollars capturing wild chickens who have been accused of
aggressive pecking.
Speaker 4: And they they crow really loud and apparently as early
as three am.
Speaker 5: So, uh, Hawaii may actually be allowed again, like no
permits or whatever. But you could shoot away these wild
chickens in the middle of his day and it would
not be illegal. So, uh, big deal or no big
deal killing chickens because they crow too early.
Speaker 6: If you're gonna eat them, I don't think it's that
big of a deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like, yeah, if you're gonna eat them,
I don't think it's that big of a deal. Also,
I don't like to be woken up before I'm supposed
to wake up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's apparently so. So they're invasive a lot like
the iguanas it says, Uh it's a big deal. They're
multiplying rapidly, and uh, it's Uh, it's killing some like
chickens that they're own because these are feral chickens. So yeah,
not a big deal because I'm good with it. But also, like,
why do we have so many invasive creatures right now?
Speaker 6: Yeah, like nutria, aren't they invasive?
Speaker 5: So nutrient in New Orleans, yeah, actually has a big problem. Yeah,
I mean I remember I was watching a cop show
in New Orleans. I don't remember which one of it was,
just that particular episode was in New Orleans and they
actually sent like one of the sheriff's departments out there
to like shoot some nutrient near one of the levees
because because they're so invasive and like that's that's a
thing that the police department had to go do at
one time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, real quick, I'm sorry, I'm I need to
go back to this guy that made the iguana tacos, okay,
because I'm reading a little bit more about it and
I'm watching kind of the video that he made about
the iguana tacos, and this guy might be a bigger
deal than the pizza thing, because I feel like he
grabbed this iguana out of the tree, so.
Speaker 5: This one was not falling at it he's just he's
just capturing live at killing.
Speaker 2: Them bound this iguana and then he put like a
bunch of iguana eggs.
Speaker 6: In the meal with the iguana.
Speaker 4: That seems like you would be it's like unorthodoxic. It
seems like a be questionable, like non koshit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that that doesn't seem like it's his.
Speaker 2: The comments were like, sorry, you lost me at blending
twenty iguana eggs in a blinder to dip their mother's
body into.
Speaker 6: And they said, twenty one souls in one meal is
crazy Jesus.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a little bit different than pizza.
Speaker 6: I can't do it.
Speaker 5: You have to look up a pic of this iguana pizza.
I gotta tell you that, the more I think about it,
the more I'm kind of into it. I mean, I
don't I don't want to try it, but I'm also
an overly curious person.
Speaker 4: Is this it? Is this?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I'm eating this. I'm eating this.
Speaker 5: It looks like a sausage pizza, Like were eating this?
No question, Like, I'll at least do you sell it
by the slice? I'm going I'm getting a slice. No,
I mean, how much could the iguana pizza beat Now,
if they're charging a premium because it's wild game, then
I'm out. I'm not paying premium for an iguana pizza.
But look, if it's three or four bucks of slice,
I'll go and I'll try a slice. No big deal,
we'll try some iguana. Cassie, good luck following those.
Speaker 6: But I don't follow that, Okay, Well, wow, I'm sorry.
That's very disappointing. I know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I'll throw out one more a lot tamer than the
iguana pizzas and the killing of wild chickens. The Kansas
City Chiefs have restructured Patrick Mahomes's deal for the third time,
well for the third time in three seasons. They have
cleared up forty four million dollars in cap space. I
think this is kind of a big deal because entering
the offseason they were fifty seven million dollars over the
cap and still needed to make some financial moves. But
they have reworked his deal, and again, he was initially
set to count for seventy eight point two million dollars
against the cap. It you dropped to around fifty seven.
So yeah, they've cleared up forty four million dollars worth
of cap space. For a team that's got a lot
of aging stars, you need a lot of weapons. I
talked about Travis Etn a little bit earlier. Right now,
the Kansas City Chiefs are the favorite to land him.
Speaker 4: I think this is.
Speaker 5: A big deal because once Patrick Mahomes is back late
in the season and he's ready to go, if you
can keep your head above water, if you're the Chiefs
make some big time signings due to all this cap space,
and Patrick Mahomes is back fully healthy, ready to go,
and you're there in playoff contention.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: I don't think they'll be in playoff contention without Patrick Mahomes,
but if they are, I mean, look out, there's a
chance you could add multiple weapons or the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 4: I do think that is a pretty big deal.
Speaker 5: Does anybody have any other off the wall, sporty sports,
ad Jason or any otherwise big deal or no big deals?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: All right, Well, I think that's a good way to
end it, because you're not gonna top Iguana Pizza and
Taco's of course in the state of Florida.
Speaker 4: All right, we will take a quick time out.
Speaker 5: On the other side, we may not be talking to
Iguana Pizza but we do have munchies coming up with
Chef Michael Johnson next here on Off the bench, Off
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got a few segments left. We do it every Thursday
around this time. It's time for our Monchy segment with
LSU Executive Chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalize your taste buds and leave this
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Speaker 4: Chef Johnson, how you doing this morning?
Speaker 9: Really well?
Speaker 4: How are you doing well?
Speaker 5: Okay, look, Marty grawl just happened. You've been kingk guy.
I mean, what's the what's the go to King cake order?
Speaker 9: You know? So, I'm because for for dietary purposes, we
buy a lot of sourdough bread, and so this past
year we actually bought some sourdough King Cake King Cake
from a place here in Baton Rouge, Saint Bruno Breads,
And I'm a big fan of it. You know, it's
it's it's something new and interesting, and I just I
have developed a love and a passion for sour dough bread.
It's easier digestible, and you know, like people who even
some siliacs, people who have minor siliacs are able to
eat sourdough because it's because the way the bread is
fermented or the way that it's risen, because it's it's
not with it's not done in the same practices as
quick rising and geese. It's I don't know, I love
sourdough bread and sardo kincake is not going to be
the exception to that rule.
Speaker 5: So chef last segment, we were talking about a pizza
place in Florida that, due to iguanas being like super
invasive in the state of Florida, they're actually capturing them
and using iguana pizza.
Speaker 4: Have you ever eaten iguana?
Speaker 9: I have not. I know a couple of people that
hunt iguana's there. And I'm gonna tell you right now,
you know, like you put me in front of an iguana,
you know, like I'm down to go and I'm down
to eat, you know, like I'll put it on a pizza,
I'll put it on. I think deep fried iguana po
boys sounds good, you know, like to me, it kind
of in my mind it's it's like alligator or chicken,
you know, something somewhere into between there. And I would
be deeply surprised if it was, you know, different than that.
But I'm I'm down to try it, so you're you're
right on.
Speaker 5: I googled, like what what is the consistency, like what
does it taste like? And most people say a mixture
of chicken and fish.
Speaker 4: I mean gator. You're you're right there with it. Okay.
Speaker 5: That kind of leads to the next one. What is
the most exotic animal you've ever eaten?
Speaker 9: Gosh, it's weird. I don't know, man, I've eaten some
weird stuff, man, you know, like uh, you know, like
I've eaten balute eggs before, which are underdeveloped, duck embryos,
I've eaten, you know, like some weird snails I've eaten.
I've eaten python before, you know, like it was baked
by it's on and rattlesnak I've eaten before. I mean,
to be honest with you, I had I had a
neighbor that killed a snake in his garden and he
cooked it up and we tried eating it together. And
I don't know what that was. I don't know if
that's exotic or just weird weird, but yeah, I'm you know, like,
I'm a pretty open minded person when it comes to
trying food, and you know, it's uh it, It'd be
hard pressed for me not to try. Like, I love
ethnic foods and going into street market and stuff and
trying new things.
Speaker 5: So we uh, I live out in Walker Chef and
out and done them. A few years back, they had
an exotic game cookoff and you can get tickets for it,
and I don't remember how, one way or the other,
I got a ticket to it and my dad went
I had a black Bear chili that stood to me
because it was phenomenal. It was it was one of
the best things I had actually ever had. That that
was probably the most exotic I had. I mean, everything
else was you know elk all that. I mean, it
wasn't super exotic, but the black Bear chili was actually
really really good. Chef This one right here hashtag Munchie's
best bread to use when making a French toast.
Speaker 9: You know, I like something nice and firm man. And
if if you're if you're just using like normal bread loaf,
I'm gonna go with the Briosiha has the egg and
it has you know, it's eggy, and it's firm, and
it tolerates the stress of getting wet and then you know,
moved around and flopped around. And I think you know,
any an even state people think this is crazy, but
stale bread actually works quite well because once you soak it,
it kind of softens it up a bit. I've made
French toast with French loaves before. I don't know. I
think it's part of it is kind of a personal decision,
you know. But if it's if you're looking for traditional
French toast, something that everybody can recognize when they look
at it, it's probably gonna be a like a thick coat,
a thick cut Texas toasts, you know, like thickness brioche loaf.
Speaker 4: Hashtag munchies.
Speaker 5: What is the best way to eat eggs or your
preferred way to eat eggs over eazy scramble yet kind of.
Speaker 9: I mean there's a million ways to eat eggs if
you ask me, you know, like one of my favorite
eggs things that edible is hollandaise sauce, and it's so
unhealthy for you, right, uh, But I don't know, you know,
like I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty open at like hard
Bold eggs. At some point in my life I went
cool hand luke on Easter and ate like twenty five
hardbolled eggs and gave myself a real oral stomach ache
doing it adultly, just trying to go cool hand luke
on Hardbold egg Here's.
Speaker 4: Here's a good one for you.
Speaker 5: And I don't know if you've ever been asked this
one before hashtag Manchi's most famous person you have ever
cooked for? And what did you cook for them?
Speaker 9: Quite a few, man, you know, like I cooked for
Paul Allen. I've cooked for the Bushes, you know, both
both presidents. I cooked for hmmm, like the Apprince of
Saudi Arabia during the Olympics. You know, I think at
the Olympics was you know, like we had we had
dignitaries from all over the world there, we had a
we had a suite at that building that we were
cooking in BC place, and like four thousand dignitaries from
all over the world, and you know, we did like
pickled pork belly and uh and compressed melon. You so
you take watermelon and you put we put miran in
the bag and then vacuum filled it and it it
compressed the miran into the watermelon and it turned kind
of translucent and it you know, it was just beautiful
and the pickled pork belly was incredible. We did. I
remember that during opening ceremonies, we had an athlete's family
came in late and they had a couple of young
kids with them, and I did this uh braised pork
dish with greens. And we were in Vancouver, right and
this isn't tooy ten and the father, you know, like
he we had actually closed the kitchen and they were
telling him, no, the food's done, because I mean, we
were feeding thousands and thousands of people and they were
asking for special circumstances. And they came back and I
was like, yeah, I'll do it, and so I made him.
I made embrace pork with greens. And the father came
back and said, I don't know what you just cooked
for my kids, but they ate every last drop of it.
And my kids are the pickiest eaties eaters everywhere so
it you know, like it was at a very important deal,
but it was for some children that you know, like
it weren't the most important in the world, but they
were the most important people in my world in that moment.
And the father took it upon himself to come back
and say thank you. And I think those were some
of the most important meals, you know, like it it's
not it's not who puts on the pants, but you know,
it's the fact that they put pants on the same way.
And everybody deserves the same opportunity to eat food, you know.
And so I don't know.
Speaker 5: This one hears from me because I, uh, we're having
a We're having our first crawl fish boil of the
year my family is on Saturday, and you know, everybody
drops all their own unique things in a boil, like
my brother in law does hold dill pickles, while my
wife's side of the family drops hot dogs in there.
Like for you, what are your favorites to drop in
the boil? But also like maybe the craziest thing you've
seen dropped in a crawl fish boil.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I've seen just about everything. It's from us, you know,
any kind of vegetables and some fruit too, you know,
like I've put I've put blood oranges in, I've put
that summas in, I've put pineapple in, I've put here's
here's where some people get lost as mushrooms. And my
my buddy Parker and I, he's the guy that has
to place up in Manny. He and I we when
we boil crawfish together, we take it what's called John
John and a spell that dj o in and hyping
dj o in and it's a black mushroom bass that
you know. We we like to put that mushroom base
into the boil and it turns it like mud water.
And but that mushroom and base adds a kind of
an oomammy savory flavor to the to the boil. That
is just incredible, man. And it's not gonna be for everybody.
Some people are already thumbering their nose to it and
thinking that's awful. But for me, you know, like I
love mushrooms and it has a very deep kind of
earthy flavor that I think that goes well with with crawfish.
And when we boil crawfish, the whole family comes down,
you know. They they flock down there because they know
that you know it's going to be done, right, So.
Speaker 5: Chef, do you do you participate in LANT? If you do,
is there anything specific that you gave up this year?
Speaker 9: I do not, but I do. Then what I mean
is that I have five hundred eight athletes that many
of them do participate in LANT, and so we practice
PLANT here by, you know, accommodating menus and such, and
so I'm a I'm a man of God for sure,
but I don't practice LANT. And that doesn't mean that
we don't have a you know, one hundred people around
us and more that that do. So we we definitely
accommodate for lent.
Speaker 4: Sure, Chef.
Speaker 5: Somebody asking the chat, have you ever had a recipe
stolen from you? I don't know if you have, but
my question would be, like, for you, most unique thing
that like you've created, like something that was kind of
out of the box you wanted to drive it turned
out to be pretty good.
Speaker 9: Yeah. The first thing that comes to mind is the
coffee rub that I just thank Me and the same guy, Parker,
we worked together at a at a baseball stadium, a
minor league baseball stadium in Kansas City, and we were
trying to come up with something that really grabbed attention,
and we ended up doing this coffee rub ribbi sandwich.
It was a coffee rub. We drizzled honey on the
on the ribbi and seared that so that so the
honey caramelized and put the rub on it so it
stuck really well, and then grilled it and the coffee
rub just took off. By the way. We also put
it on uh swirl jewish and pumper nickel r with
some fried sweet data fries on it. So the sandwich
was just sick and it's sold like gangbusters. And so
we've taken that to a couple of different places that
we worked. And yes, I have had people take steal
my recipes. And here's the thing is that I'll share
the recipe if you ask.
Speaker 10: Well, if you take it.
Speaker 9: Without asking, you're not going to get the right recipe
because Parker and I purposely have adjusted things in the
recipes that are wrong that we know are wrong, so
that if you take the recipe and steal it, it's
not going to taste it's not going to taste right.
So you know, if you ask me about it, I'll
give you the right recipe. But if you're going to
take without asking your You're going to get a foul taste.
Speaker 5: Well, and the good thing is chef like the fact
that it's going to be a foul TATIONE. They're only
going to try it once, so you really want to
story about it one time. I'll one more for you
before I let you go. It's a baseball season. Everyone's
fired up about the Tigers.
Speaker 9: Love it.
Speaker 4: Everyone's going to be out there at the box.
Speaker 5: What is your go to like must have ballpark food
because everybody's got something a little different.
Speaker 9: I absolutely am an idiot for Chicago dog. I love it.
It's like a salad on a hot dog, man, And
I don't know if it's there. I'll walk around a
ballpark until I find it. Man, I love a Chicago dog.
But you know, I've worked in baseball for so long
that we've had so many other types of food, garlic
fries and other stuff. You know, Like, I'm a fan
of baseball food. Just to be honest with you, I
love the experience of the park, and I love the
ballparks that take it beyond the hot dog too, that
have you know, really high class food. I love going
to the parks that have that kind of stuff. But
if it's you know, if it's what you're asking me,
you know, like my favorite thing to go to is
definitely a Chicago dog.
Speaker 4: Chef, how do you think the Tigers are going to
do this year?
Speaker 9: I think they're gonna do great. Man. I love Jay,
I love his team. I love you guys. You know,
I've got to hang out with a couple of guys
and he just, man, he's got it. You know, the
energy's there, He's I mean, Jake, there's it's the culture
of LSU, right, Like they're just bought into the program
and he's one thousand percent invested in what he's trying
to accomplish teaching those guys. Josh Jordan is another great guy.
I love the whole baseball team, man, and I love
watching him play. And they enjoy the game, you know,
and it is a game for them, and you know
we're rooting for them to season through.
Speaker 10: For sure, all right.
Speaker 5: Chef Michael Johnson joins us every Thursday for our Manchie segment. Chef,
thanks for the time this morning.
Speaker 9: Take care, guys.
Speaker 4: That was LSU.
Speaker 5: Executive Chef Michael Johnson. One thing I learned from that
interview Chef Johnson will eat just about anything. I mean,
when I asked, what's the most exotic thing he's ever reading? Like,
for me, I have an answer right across the bat.
That was the toughest question chef was asked. He had
to think about it. He's like, oh, I mean, I've
eaten so many things, I mean, more exotic things than not.
Speaker 4: That was wild.
Speaker 5: That was an incredible answer. Like, of course, Chef Johnson
had some elaborate answer on one of the most exotic
things he ever reade was all right, just there's two
more segments to go here on a Thursday edition of OTB.
We'll step away. We got more coming up next. You're
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Speaker 5: Welcome back in Thursday edition of Off the Bench Tayler
Tropy with the Elandra Villarrial Cassie Smizzali along for you
as well. About twenty minutes to go here on this
Thursday morning, guys, this will be an hunter of Matt Flynn.
Got a little Olympic update for you. We hadn't done
it all week, We'll do it. We'll do a quick
little segment because uh I found out where the biathlon
came from. No, it wasn't some hunter that just was
good at skiing and shooting.
Speaker 4: How about this. It was a military.
Speaker 5: Training exercise for European countries, Norwegian, Swedish military, Russian military.
It combined skiing and shooting for border defense. And then
there was a whole nineteen twelve manual for the Russian
military explaining how it worked. That was a foundational document
for putting this sport into the Olympics. Apparently, Russia, Germany, Norway,
all these countries were big into putting it into the Olympics.
And speaking of the Olympics, at Norway, guys, they're dominating
this thing. Norway has sixteen gold medals, eight silver, ten bronze.
They have thirty four total. Now the US is sitting
right there at twenty four, just seven total. As far
as gold go, there's this one guy for Norway. Let's
try out to butcher. This guy's name Yohanna's host lov
Clay Bows. Yeah, I'm sure that's right. He now has
five gold medals in this Olympics, ten gold medals total.
And it made me realize one thing, Michael Phelps is incredible.
This guy has ten gold medals and it's second all
time to Michael Phelps's twenty three that's insane. Like when
you look at some of the great athletes of all
time across all sports, like Tom Brady for football, like
everybody says, oh, they're my goat of whatever. Like there's
the debate between Michael Jordan and Lebron James for basketball.
You could a number of players in baseball, right, Like
baseball is kind of the most wide open one. Tennis
you got Federer, you got an a Doll, you got Djokovic.
Is there a more dominant athlete in American history than
Michael Phelps? I mean, look at what this gout twenty
three twenty three Olympic gold medals. This saw Norwegian cross
country skier just got second with ten.
Speaker 4: That's incredible.
Speaker 5: I mean, like there's not an equal to Michael Phelps anywhere.
His first Olympics e went eight for eight, eight eight events,
eight gold medals.
Speaker 4: Like that's why I'm.
Speaker 5: Not as locked into the Winter Olympics as I was
the Summer. Michael Phelps made the Summer Olympics watchable. Like
if you were to make a mount rushmore of all
athletes ever in the US, like for me, the easiest
one would be Michael Phillips. He goes up there number one,
Like Phelps is up there, tom Brady's up there.
Speaker 4: The next too are up for debate.
Speaker 5: Like a lot of people will say Michael Jordan's the
greatest basketball player they ever lived. You'll have a lot
of people from our generation say it's Lebron James. The
generation after me, you'll probably have a different name. I
don't think there's any debate with Tom Brady, but there's
some people that say, oh, you know, if you get
Patrick Mahomes enough time, he'll pass Tom Brady. Patrick Mahomes
is not passing Tom Brady. But that's beside the point.
No one's passing Michael Phelps ever in anything like to me, like, yes,
he's the most decorated Olympian in history, no question. Twenty
eight total medals, twenty three goals. You see the picture
right there on the back screen, Like how.
Speaker 4: Much weight is that?
Speaker 5: Look at all those medals like that that's incredible, Like
that is fit, in my opinion, the most dominant athlete
maybe ever. Like I was looking at these Olympics and
they were comparing and they were like, oh, yeah for
the Winter Olympics, or this guy second all time behind
only Michael Phelps.
Speaker 4: I'm like Michael Phelps.
Speaker 5: Has thirteen more than this guy who's second all time
in gold medals.
Speaker 4: Like a lot of people talk about Mark Spitz.
Speaker 5: He won nine Olympic gold medals, Sure, but he won
seven and one back in nineteen seventy two and then
he won two gold medals in the next Olympics.
Speaker 4: Phelps did it across three and he was incredible.
Speaker 5: I mean he did it two thousand and four to
twenty sixteen, and like we're we're never gonna see that.
Like I remember, I was, oh man, I was a
sophomore in college. I guess twenty sixteen would have been
his last Olympics. And like it was appointment viewing, like
I don't get locked into the Olympics. And I was like,
I gotta make sure whatever night of the week, it's there,
it's the two hundred meters whatever, whatever Phelps is in it,
I gotta go. Because you just knew history was going
to be made. Like we need an athlete like that
in the Olympics. You haven't seen one since then, Like
you're saying Bolt was kind of that guy, But I
mean it, it's not the same as a Michael Phelps.
Speaker 4: Look as far as the Olympics. Go of this Olympics.
Speaker 5: Like I mentioned US and third right now twenty four
total medals, Norway in first thirty four, and Italy twenty six.
Speaker 4: The home country always has an advantage. It seems like
they don't have to travel or anything.
Speaker 5: US men's hockey team they won yesterday against Sweden in
the quarter final rounds two to one at overtime. That's
a really good team. I am ready for the four
nations face off. Last year was the first time I
had watched it. I was like locked into the TV,
and I'm not even a big hockey guy, but I
wanted to give you a little bit of.
Speaker 4: An Olympic update there.
Speaker 5: I know, look, there's so much going on in the
world of sports, unless you baseball underway.
Speaker 4: I was like, look's let's give the Olympics a little
bit of love.
Speaker 5: Here. A lot going on there, so you know, we'll
keep you updated on that. We'll see how the US
men's hockey team does as well. All right, we're gonna
wrap it up when we come back next I just
wanted to get a little short segment there out of
the way, but get your questions in the chat. Meilandra
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Speaker 1: Tornado flu around Tiger's turn talkers. This is Off the Bench.
Speaker 10: He usually does rain in southern California, much like Arizona.
Mac asked dump shades. But Buddy, Bob and I'm thinking
about you.
Speaker 4: Welcome back.
Speaker 5: In final segment Here on a Thursday edition of Off
the Bench, Taylor Sharp's sitting in for Jacob Vester and
Matt Flynn, Landravillar Reale, Kessie's Fazzali hanging out with you
as well. We got to ask the bench right now.
I got the first one. This is for Kessie and Laundrum.
Ask the bench. Would you rather eat iguana pizza or
iguana tacos?
Speaker 6: Neither period.
Speaker 4: Neither a good options.
Speaker 6: I can't. I can't pick one because I wouldn't eat it.
Speaker 5: No, I'd say pizza. The melted cheese on pizza hides
a lot of things. You kind of you gotta drench
that thing in red sauce coated with some melted cheese.
Speaker 4: I think you'd be fine.
Speaker 5: Like tacos. The meat, I feel like the meat is
a lot more prevalent in tacos than it is on
a pizza. I feel like you could hide it better
with the pizza and then you don't.
Speaker 4: Know what you're eating half the time. Just cover it
with the cheese on top.
Speaker 5: I think we'll be fine, all right. Ask the bench, Landra,
you can lead this one favorite San Antonio Spur of
all time?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I didn't know where you were gonna go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Manu Genobili is my favor.
Speaker 6: Okay, underappreciated, Yeah.
Speaker 5: For sure, because like he was everybody kind of viewed
him as the three.
Speaker 4: In that team behind Duncan and Tony Parker.
Speaker 5: But yeah, Genobili, I mean, super consistent for such a
long time. Something the other day was like athletes you
forgot played for a certain team. I completely forgot that
Tony Parker ended his career with the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 4: Like they're only there's showed like an athlete. It's like,
do you remember this.
Speaker 5: I'm like completely forgot, completely forgot that Tony Parker played there.
Asked the bench, if you could party with one current
or former olympian, who would it be?
Speaker 4: Sean White?
Speaker 5: Probably we're talking about him the other day. Yeah, short
King Sean White. I mean, I don't know how much
Phelps partied. He kind of seemed like he was serious
all the time. Ryan Lockey, you always talk about him
in the in the Breakout.
Speaker 4: Didn't Ryan Lockey? Did you get in trouble for like trashing?
I guess that, yeah.
Speaker 2: And he was like trying to say that he was
in Brazil the real Visionaro Olympics, and I think they
were like trashing.
Speaker 6: Like first reports.
Speaker 2: Came out that him and someone else they were raw
that gunpoint by people that were dressed as police, but
they were actual police that were like, hey, stop peeing
all over the side of the bathroom and like vandalizing
this place. And then I guess they bribed them to
like get out of it. And yeah, that's what happened.
So he had like a whole scandal.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's what.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was his That was his last Olympics.
Speaker 6: Yes, twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: I vaguely remember him having like a reality show or
being on one.
Speaker 6: He was Okay, he was.
Speaker 5: I don't know what it was, but I remember that
as well. Yes, he definitely had one. I remember the
law ladies loved them some Ryan Lockedy.
Speaker 2: I loved Ryan Locke.
Speaker 4: We then remember once he his last Olympics, he would
like bleach blonde, yeah, which I mean.
Speaker 5: Wasn't wasn't a great look. I remember a lot of
people were, we're really mad about that. Yeah he went
bleach blonde.
Speaker 6: He must have been crashing out over something.
Speaker 4: You must I mean that. Yeah.
Speaker 5: That was the same Olympics with the the gas station
bathroom incidents. So uh went off the deep end there
a little asked the.
Speaker 6: Bench doesn't look good right now, and I was like.
Speaker 4: I mean, is he just retired now? Like what does
he do?
Speaker 5: I don't know what he does, asked the bench. Go
to Taco Bell order This is easy for me. I
know you're well.
Speaker 4: Also, the freaking guys, I don't know.
Speaker 6: They don't have him anymore. They're already gone.
Speaker 4: They're already gone.
Speaker 6: Looks terrible, alright, he looks bad. I think Ryan looks hard.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I tried to order one the other day and I
didn't see it on the menu.
Speaker 4: That's Ryan, like Jackson Siegel. It does like, right, that's
not Ryan lockedy.
Speaker 6: He looks terrible.
Speaker 5: That looks like Jason Siegel and saving Sarah forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Speaker 2: I'm chaking my answer. I want to party with Ryan Lockedy.
Obviously he partied really hard.
Speaker 4: He did.
Speaker 5: He aged fifty years and since we've seen him eight
years ago or whatever it was to the platinum.
Speaker 2: But look what he used to look like, even with
platinum blow on hair.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that handsome man. That's not Ryan Lockedy.
Speaker 6: Look at the hair, like that's a handsome man.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, for sure, Like the hair is terrible, but yeah,
like the eyes don't even look the same.
Speaker 6: Don't do drugs, kids, We need a.
Speaker 4: Wellness check on Ryan Lockety.
Speaker 5: That's not him. That's somebody pretending to be Ryan Lockedy.
I texted the laundro a couple of weeks ago. It's like, hey,
I don't know if I should be mad at you
or thank you. Because she told me that the case
of rito was back at Taco Bell. I went and
got four within like a two and a half week period,
because they're incredible and apparently they're already gone.
Speaker 4: I hate the limited I hate the limited items.
Speaker 5: Like every year they're like, oh, we're gonna bring this back,
but we're really gonna have it for like three We
just keep it on the damn menu.
Speaker 2: Keep well the case of rito is so good? Why
is why is it not? It used to be a permanent.
Speaker 5: And it's stuff you already have on the menu. You
already have rice, you already have the chicken, the beef,
you already have the hot sauce and the cheese. Like,
why why not just keep it? It's not like you
have to keep stuff stocked that you don't already have.
Speaker 2: So Ryan Lockey is kind of a mess. I just
looked him up four hours ago. Ryan Lochtey's ex Slams
Olympic swimmer, says she hopes he quote becomes the father
our kids deserve unquote.
Speaker 6: Okay, this dude was going through something.
Speaker 5: He's a mad But I gotta tell you, maybe the
answer of partying it is really looks.
Speaker 6: Really good or looked.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now he just looks like a middle aged actor.
Speaker 6: H Wow.
Speaker 5: That that's that's insane. That that's pretty sure. That's not
that's not.
Speaker 4: Easy.
Speaker 5: In the chat said nobody wants to party with Tanya Hardy.
I don't know what's on about Tommy and I know.
Speaker 7: The whole.
Speaker 5: The whole scandal of the you know, being involved in
the breaking of the other figure skater's ankle.
Speaker 4: And all that. I know that scandal like.
Speaker 5: But like does party hard Like obviously it's a controversial figure, right,
Like that's that's an awful thing to do. But it's
Tanya Hardy party hard I don't know, Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what was the skater? Did she?
Speaker 7: Did?
Speaker 2: She?
Speaker 6: Nancy?
Speaker 4: Nancy Karroen And that's the one.
Speaker 2: So wait real quick, this is just really funny to me.
I mean it's not funny, but like, okay, he's a mess.
Ryan's response to his ex wife, he told the Daily
Mail quote, She's the one that wanted this divorce in
the first place, and now she's playing this pity part.
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, much in Love is Blind right now, that's
straight out of the Love is Blind episode. Uh, we'll
we'll have an update on that tomorrow. We'll have an
update on that tomorrow. It's it's it's incredible. It is
getting back to where it was a few years ago
when I fell in love with Love is Blind. It's
like all the women on there are just unstable. All
the guys on there are just full of themselves and
their idiots, so like shocker, none of them work out.
But just an incredible show. You want to feel better
about your self. Go watch Love Is Blind for about
a half hour. You'll be like, things aren't so bad.
My decision making is not quite as poor as I
thought it was. All Right, that's going to do it.
For a Thursday edition of Off the Bench. Tomorrow, we're
talking a lot of LSU baseball. They got a series
coming up over the weekend planning a number of other
big time college baseball programs.
Speaker 4: We'll talk that, we'll continue to talk LSU.
Speaker 5: We'll talk from New Orleans Saints LSU GYMASA coach Jay Johnson,
Jay Clark joining us tomorrow's stay tuned Friday edition of
Off the Bench.
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