Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. Let's go.
Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Hen'sday, Hester and Hester got a pieta pa.
Speaker 1: You're locked in to Off the Bench.
Speaker 2: We described control the.
Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: You welcome in Hoday Off the Bench Live from the
Raising Kane Studio. Oh my god, I just realized something.
I got to put Cane in her seat.
Speaker 4: God so many immediately, says Kane on maternity leave.
Speaker 3: Uh, you guys are quick. You guys are funny. Good morning, everybody,
Happy Friday. Basically, the weekend started a lot of people.
Everybody driving to work today. It's Friday.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you who the weekend started for already. Starbucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh, when you were about to say how you do it?
I was about to say irritated.
Speaker 3: Oh no, you didn't get you didn't get a coffee
this morning?
Speaker 5: Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 4: I placed the order on the Starbucks app for the
one downtown because it's close, right, Okay, I do this
regularly were I'll place the order on the app and
then I just go pick it up. Because it's fast
way and you get points and then eventually you get
free coffee.
Speaker 5: So I place my order. I'd go there. Tell me
why they were closed. Ah, this isn't the first time
this has happened to me.
Speaker 3: Okay, and you've already paid for it.
Speaker 5: I already paid for it.
Speaker 4: But there's a kid in there, and I'm like, well,
was he just like waiting for a second to open it?
So then he sees me and he comes out and
I was like, or he goes, we're closed because our
shift lead isn't here, And I was like, your shift lead,
maybe fire them.
Speaker 5: You're the lead and you're not at your job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, next man up?
Speaker 5: What you want to say? Something so bad?
Speaker 2: Why do you need a shift lead there right to
make someone's call that I ordered online?
Speaker 5: You don't even have to take money from me. You
already took my money.
Speaker 4: Just make my co just I get a black coffee,
Just pour the black coffee in there and then so if.
Speaker 2: You know how to do it, why does it matter
who's there.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, already paid for it, like I ordered
it on the app, and he was just like.
Speaker 5: I was like, well, he was like, you guys, you
have to call Starbucks corporate.
Speaker 2: M Starbucks corporate.
Speaker 3: Some companies were led by individuals who didn't play any sports,
and it shows.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jordan's what's his last name?
Speaker 2: Why can't Starbucks Jordan Schultz Schultz, he's the owner.
Speaker 5: Of his dumb dad is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well they didn't. They didn't play sports at all.
Next man up right, Okay, sometimes your leaders are out.
Speaker 2: Not there. You're the shift lead, now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do exactly. You are the shift lead. Go
brew coffee and put it in a cup and give
it to this person that paid for it already.
Speaker 5: I literally paid for it.
Speaker 3: I've done that before at a Starbucks.
Speaker 5: I was so mad.
Speaker 3: It was my local Starbucks and I did the same
thing and I got I got a coffee and a sandwich.
So this was like a double digital. Yeah, this is
a double digit. I don't know why you went complicated.
I think I gotta get a sandwich over now, and
especially when you leave the house early. But I'd left
the house set, like in the five o'clock hour, thinking
the coffee shops open at five, and I think they
usually do. Yeah, well, this one, the Starbucks was not open.
Speaker 5: This ale years, but it still it still hurts in
such a good mood.
Speaker 4: I was like, it's Friday going in New York tomorrow. Yeah,
Champagne Shenanigans is going to make a one time only return.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 5: I was hyped up.
Speaker 4: And then I get to Starbucks and that kid, to
no fault of his own, ruined by morning.
Speaker 3: It was it was he's not born a leader.
Speaker 2: I mean it was his fault. He could have made
the coffee if he really wanted to.
Speaker 5: He could have.
Speaker 4: But I do blame it on the shift lead because
you are the lead, and.
Speaker 5: Why are you not at your job? Fire them, get
him out of here. Starbucks Downtown later nerds lead.
Speaker 3: Sorry, they might have had a like a dream like
I did again last night. It's happened again this morning.
I was running from an alarm, running down the street
of the downtown city, running from an alarm.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're like, are you just like.
Speaker 2: Breaking into buildings in your sleep?
Speaker 3: Now? I was running, This is alarm is coming to
get me. Oh the alarms come up? I thought you
were you had broke in alarm set? No, I didn't
set an alarm. I'm not no being ease for me,
and uh yeah that's what I was. The alarm was
part of my dream. That's a scary situation because you're
not waking up. It's a part of you. At that point.
Then you gotta yell at yourself. You're telling yourself, make
you gotta wake up, you gotta wake up. You gotta
stop running, right, you gotta stop runn You gotta face it.
Speaker 5: And that's the worst feeling.
Speaker 3: That's the worst feeling. So I woke up about twenty
minutes late today, so I didn't get as much prep work. So,
believe it or not, we've actually I've actually came early
this week and have been prepping for these shows. Well,
there's a little bit less this today, so get ready.
Speaker 5: It's okay, we're gonna have a great time. M Tripod's lit.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna brush off the Starbucks situation.
Speaker 3: Well you need to, so do you not? You don't
have any coffee?
Speaker 5: You No?
Speaker 2: I just door dashed them out some gourmet one's downstairs.
Speaker 4: I can't do that downstairs coffee this ptally.
Speaker 3: Jake just texted, I said the first person up to day,
and I don't know if he meant it feels up
like him interviewing or first present up like in measurements
or maybe the interview on the podium, mister Garrettnsmeyer, let's go,
let's go, let's go, g Nurse. It is crazy to
kind of think that, uh, after Monsor de Layne gets picked,
that nuts could potentially be the second l s U
player taken. I think it might be AJ Halsey, but
the rumors are that he has helped himself so much
at the Senior Bowl that and he is still highly
thought up enough that he might still be the second,
second or third LSU player taken off the board it
comes draft time.
Speaker 2: I would love for that. If AJ Hawsey runs a
four or five, he's going to go in the side round. Yeah,
that's his thing, right, Like he's a thick dude, Like
he's a big bodied safety. If he could run into
four or fives, it's gonna be hard not to draft.
Speaker 1: Yah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's he's kind of the a. J. Halsey is
one of these guys of gms and teams. Let's not
overthink the position. Let's not overthink the measurables on this one. Like,
I get that there's some measurables and there's some things
that people can do athletically to just differentiate themselves from
other people, like they're just a little built, a little
bit different. AJ Halston is just a really good football player.
Turn on the tape and watch it. Let's not overthink
his what his broad jump is or how you know,
how flexible is back that you see him like rolling
backwards yesterday and putting their like feet behind their head
like trying to touch the ground, Like like, don't overthink
those dumb drills that they're doing. Flexibility. Just turn on
the tape. It's kind of like the linebacker from Texas Tech. Yeah, yeah,
that's another one. It just has like it has it
all written all over him that people are going to
overthink that pick. Yeah, he's got it, Like I can
foresee the future here. He's going to be like he's
going to drop to like the second round, and he's
going to be defensive Rookie of the Year and he's
going to have this incredible rookie season and he's going
to drop to like the second or third round just
because people want to overthink this thing. So AJ Halsey
has that feel to me. Just take him. He needs
to go in the second round. He's a second round player.
I think he makes an immediate impact, and not only
like at the safety position, but they are so like
you have fifty three people on a roster, there's only
so many players. It's not college where you can have
a dedicated first and second team defense, dedicated first and
second team offense. So you have all these dedicated special
teams guys. He's going to make an immediate impact on
special teams as well. And it's a it's kind of
a it's kind of the unsexy, like un unsung thing
in the NFL, but a lot of people make make clubs,
make teams because of their special team efforts. So, uh,
he's gonna make an immediate impact whatever team he goes to.
So don't overthink it. If he drops past the second round.
I don't care if he goes and runs at four
to six. If he drops past the second round, it's
a big mistake by anybody, and somebody's gonna get real
lucky in the third round to get him with their
third pick of the draft. So looking forward to see
how it plays out.
Speaker 2: You were talking about the flexibility thing of them laying
on their back with their feet over their head. Now
I want you to think about how bad of a
position you're in on the football field. If you're actually
in that spot, you're completely out of the player.
Speaker 3: Why do they do that?
Speaker 2: I know what you're talking about. I saw a couple
of highlights of it yesterday. I'm like, if you're doing
that on the football field, you're a terrible player.
Speaker 3: Why do they do that? It's so funny because they're
just making them do a bunch of like dumb things
their body.
Speaker 2: It's made the kid's pe class stretch because you ran
out of things for him to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's what that looks like. Take this jump up
for me so many times? You jump up in ten minutes, right,
we'll be back. No cheating, no cheating, we'll be back.
We trust you, honor code. Uh yeah, they just kind
of make them do all this flexibility and I don't know,
I don't know what it really does besides just makes
you do things and they're like, oh, well, he can't
do that very well. He must be unflexible. He's got
an unflexible lower back, he's got inflexible hamstrings. I don't know,
I don't know what it does, but it's dumb, and.
Speaker 2: You're drafting based on combine and measurables alone. We'll talk
about a guy a little bit later who requested a
trade yesterday, who was picked in the top five because
he's big and never produced on any level of football.
When you have an AJ Halsey, like you said, just
turn on the tape, Like he doesn't even need to
participate in the combine at this point.
Speaker 3: No, he doesn't. But like what if a guy like
him does go out and run a four to four
Now you're talking maybe late first round or I don't know.
He is kind of an imosition to me though, like
you can't really hurt yourself and whatever you do, in
my opinion, once you got that run like a four eight,
four nine, but you can't really hurt yourself. You can
only help yourself. Maybe maybe it's that kind of that
that's the way I view it, at least from just
being a pure football player. But we will see. It
is interesting. I don't know if is Jake going. Has
he said anything about joining the show today. I'm just
gonna assume no, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It was the one to ask yesterday, was it?
Speaker 5: Yes? Really?
Speaker 3: Yes? Take those mid segments that call me now obviously
we're chopping it up about sports in life and in politics.
Speaker 4: We probably had some in the studio line, and I'm like,
I don't answer that because yes, like I told you,
I don't answer that because I'm always scared it is
going to be some idiot like yelling at me. I'm
not answering the studio the text.
Speaker 2: He's like, Wow, y'all couldn't even bother to answer the phone.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 5: When have you ever seen me like answer that?
Speaker 3: We did it once this week. Yeah, that's true, the
first time I've seen it since I've been on the show.
Speaker 5: I think, and I took a deep breath before I
did it.
Speaker 3: How do you even get this the I don't know
studio number.
Speaker 2: I mean, Jake knows it because it's cold, but I
don't know they memorized it from Game Day because we
use the studio from Game Day.
Speaker 3: Maybe mm hmm. Hey, do y'all think.
Speaker 2: Sir J.
Speaker 3: Johnson's gonna listen to us? I think he's gonna give
somebody the green light today. I'm three and o.
Speaker 2: First inning, first account home run.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a home run. The camera's gonna pandu him.
He's that's for you.
Speaker 2: He's gonna just point to the camera and knows you're
locked in.
Speaker 3: Yep. So if he does, if somebody gets to go
ahead on three and now it's a dinger this week,
you can basically give us the credit for it.
Speaker 5: I mean we told him to give them the green light.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Lander, we got the five check from you.
Awful because of no coffee. Horrible, I mean, completely understandable today.
How you doing?
Speaker 2: Ah good? My uh o, TB stint on this Friday
will be cut of tad short, so we're gonna fail
out of here about nine thirty this morning we have
our twenty week anatomy scam. Right razor woman's about ten
fifteen and shout out to Cassie. I told her. I
was like, Kassie, you do not have to come in.
I can get there by a round and her in
moscowa like credit to them. They're like, no, no, you
go take care of it. So she's coming in. I
actually made her push it back thirty minutes. I was like,
I don't need you to come here at nine o'clock.
It's right down the road, so shut out to her.
She's gonna bail me out today.
Speaker 3: But uh oh, looking forward to Cassie takes Yeah.
Speaker 5: She has so many of them.
Speaker 2: She's gonna years out now because the last thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: That's her show. Blud Gee, shut up, Cassie. Stop talking.
Speaker 5: She talks almost as much as Kane.
Speaker 3: Every time Jake's out and I pass her and she's
at her desk, I'm like, hey, I need need a
co host tomorrow. Are you ready? I think she actually
gets nervous. Yeah, just a little bit.
Speaker 2: When I say that, it's like you asking her. That
is like you interviewing Kim Milke.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's exactly.
Speaker 2: It's very sweat.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Kim Olky. We will we will certainly recap
what was a fantastic game last night at the p
mat she versus Tennessee. I will certainly recap that it
was senior night. Let's see what else we got there.
We got champagne. Do you actually drink champagne?
Speaker 5: Yeah? She brings a bottle champagne.
Speaker 3: We drink.
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean you don't have to, yeah, but I
probably will indulge. No, it's the whole hour.
Speaker 3: I do have a hybrid rockstar workout today.
Speaker 4: Well, so I asked her, I said, do you want
to do like high Rocks? Do you want to sign
up for high rocks. Can I interest you in that?
And she's like, I just don't think I have enough
rockstar in me.
Speaker 5: And I was like, but you are. You're a hybrid
one at that.
Speaker 3: I mean, not everybody's got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 3: We got a great show, though. I got lots of
good too, a lot of sports, a lot of I mean,
if you're lucky, we'll get back into politics USA. We'll
see when we come back. We will talk about the
LSU women's basketball team right here, off the bench.
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LSU Women's basketball Friend of the show Kim Ulkie, Well,
they won last night versus Tennessee in the PMAC, the
last game of the last home game of the season
Senior Night and LSU recognizing three seniors Amiya, Jordan, Fla j. Johnson,
and Izy Besselman last night. So and they get the victory.
Started out a little slow, third quarter started popping off
and then they win the game eighty nine to seventy three.
Las Full Wiley had eighteen points. Mikayla Williams twenty points,
ten rebounds, and she hit a little milestone last night.
It's Mikayla Williams fifteen hundred career points in her junior year,
seventeenth player in team history to do that. Pretty impressive what.
Speaker 2: She's been a stud since the time she stepped foot
on campus. Like I don't mean Alandra. We've been high
on her for for quite a while, just because she's
one of those people, Matt that could just kind of
do everything on the basketball court. Like when you watch her,
not one part of her game stands out, but there's
really nothing she can't do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that shows. Twenty points, ten rebounds last night
on on Senior Night and another another little ma Son
Kimmelki becomes the first coach in SEC history to win
twenty five plus games in each of her first five
seasons with a team pretty decent. Can can you all
remind me how LSU women's basketball was right before b
kim Olki got here.
Speaker 2: It was a lot like the mess.
Speaker 4: Team now, yes, but maybe worse.
Speaker 3: Are you serious? I know it's bad.
Speaker 5: It was bad. I tell people all the time.
Speaker 4: Y'all don't know the trenches that I went through when
I used to produce LSU women's basketball. When Nicky Fargas
was the coach, nobody cared. You could hear a pin
drop in the p mac. They weren't good.
Speaker 2: Matt you've ever seen Major League when he's the guy
Harry Doyle on the broadcast is trying to make it
sound like there's crowd and they're like, Hi, way to go.
That was Patrick cryed for like three years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was bad. I like it. I like it. Well,
good for them? Uh, what a great what a great win,
What a great accomplishment for of course, twenty five plus
wins and her first five seasons. Certainly Mikayla Williams with
what she's done, but the whole team playing awesome, and
what a great way to send out three seniors as well.
On a senior night you always want to I was
not fortunate enough to win the game my senior day.
Speaker 5: Dang that sucks.
Speaker 3: I know, beat took him, took him three year.
Speaker 2: You came out on the top of the end of
the year.
Speaker 3: We did.
Speaker 2: It's all the batter we did.
Speaker 3: That senior night we didn't. And then I did read
the story of pretty emotional senior night, especially for one
of the one of the seniors, Izzy Besselman, who last
year got diagnosed with a with dysautonomia, which is a
nervous system disorder that causes that normally high heart rates,
high heart rates, excuse me. So she has been sidelined
since that, and I think it's a former Uh, it's
a batonyge girl went to Episcopal High School, walked on
de lsu. But great story and multi finds the way
we're put in a position of course from the with
the score and everything, but finds a way gets her
in that last minute, so she gets back, gets back
in her game, ends her career with this with this condition,
and that affects one out of I read one out
of seventy million people have this have this condition, which
she was diagnosed with last year. High heart rates. Obviously
she deals you know that can't play basketball. He can't, couldn't,
couldn't do that at a high level. So it's, uh,
what a great what a great thing for Kim Molky
to do to honor her and be able to get in.
So a really good, feel good story coming out of
the game yesterday. But congratulations absolutely to the women's basketball team.
They will finish the regular season Sunday at Mississippi State.
Get ready for and I think yesterday that would clinch
the double by the double bye. And can you explain
with the double by means.
Speaker 2: So the top four teams, think about like the college
football playoff, the top four teams get a bye. The
top four teams in the SEC tournament get a double buy.
So basically you're automatically in the quarterfinals. Two wins get
you there. And I mean that's big on tournament seeding
as well. So I mean, at this point, if LOSH
you can go in there, get a'll win in the tournament,
they get to the semifinals, like you're looking at it,
top four to five seeded team.
Speaker 3: So that's my question. So LSU women number six in
the country, I know the seeding when you get to
the Big Dance when you get to the show doesn't
really go by rankings, right, So like if I'm looking
at it, they're number six, there's going to be four
number one seeds. There's going to be four number like
they should be a number two seed. But like, I'm
also a fool when it comes to this stuff. So
how does the like, is there any formulation formula that
they use?
Speaker 2: I mean, you heard in basketball all the time, you
got Ken Palm rankings, you have all this. They look
at one wins, which is like top fifty. The rankings.
Speaker 3: The rankings don't look at that.
Speaker 2: I mean no, not really, because rankings are just like
they're like how good you? Yeah, right, like football rankings, yes,
not necessarily your strength of schedule. They look at all
of that.
Speaker 3: So I mean.
Speaker 4: It's you know how we complain all the time about
the college football playoff not having like a numerical system
that they.
Speaker 2: Go, right, that's yeah, but like that's the difference.
Speaker 4: Like the rankings are like ap voter stuff, and then
the kin palm has like actual metrics to it.
Speaker 3: Right, But like if football at least are close, like
we can argue over eleven through thirty, yeah he should
be eleven instead of thirteen, Like you can argue that,
but I feel like, sometimes, what was LSU see that
last year women's basketball team believe it was three or four, right,
and they were top ten team like that math didn't
really add up to me. Three of the year they
won it too, So I guess, like so I would
think that the Rakings that the ap Uses if they
you know, educated themselves on the quad one stuff two.
I don't really know what that means. But I'm not trying.
I'm not voting. I'm not voting anyway. Congratulations most women's
basketball team. They keep crushing and what a uh, what
a embarrassment of riches we have as LSU fans. And
like we said, five years, she's has twenty five plus
victories in each of her first five seasons. Since she
has kind of become the head basketball coach for your
Lady Tigers and the first person in SEC history to
do that. And to think how immediately she changed it
from where it was to where it is, it's fantastic.
So that's why we love her, that's why she's awesome,
and that's why she's the god.
Speaker 2: I just checked the season before Kim Molki got there.
The women's basketball team won nine games. Okay, they were
nine and thirteen overall nine his first Molgi's first year
twenty six and six, then thirty four and two and
won the national championship.
Speaker 3: So nine and thirteen.
Speaker 2: That m's been like SEC play though, No, they were
that was that was an overall Their conference tracker was
six and eight. That was twenty twenty and twenty twenty one,
so it was COVID shortaned.
Speaker 3: Okay, that makes sense. So yeah, I read that too,
and they got me fact checking myself. I was like
nine thirteen.
Speaker 2: They started, they started twenty two games, they started twenty five.
They started later because because of COVID in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Gotcham All right, well, congratulations was basketball. I'll crush it,
keep crushing it, and good luck in the postseason. We
look forward to having coach Molchi on the show next
week as they enter the SEC tournament and get ready
with the big dance coming up here obviously in March.
All right, stick with us, got a great show ahead,
a lot to get to stick with those here right here.
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Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven Champs Purple and Gold to the core.
This is Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn Baton
Rougees go to for all things Louisiana sports. It feel
like Atlanta, it feels like it feels like mine.
Speaker 3: Many feel like, all right, welcome back in here. Off
the bench Friday morning. It feels like Friday too. I'm excited,
excited to sleep in for like six forty five, sixty five,
seven fifteen maybe tops. It's gonna be great. It's kind
of wild. My uh my kids. Remember being a child
and I was like, weekend, I'm gonna sleep late, like
the child slip to like nine ten, right, weekends, my
kids are having six thirty. Now my younger, like my
youngest little himy, she she's a sleeper.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But like yesterday my son had a project, dude, and
he had it was like an extra credit, like they've
booked fair this weekend, and so he had this drawing
he could do and for like extra credit or like
a you know, book fair credit or something like that.
And it was a little competition and he did the
drawing and he was coloring it the night before and
he's like, hey, Deck, can you when you leave so
I can finish my color and I'm like, yeah, absolutely,
but yeah, loo come out with five forty five. He
has popped right up, feet on the ground. What the
got the colored pencils out? Started ripping it.
Speaker 5: I want whatever he's on, seriously, just life.
Speaker 3: And it's like shook him and I said, hey, buddy,
I'm about to leave eyes popped open. It is unbelievable.
Parents said to like forcibly shake me, to give me up.
Speaker 4: As a child, same, I was like the hardest sleeper
and never wanted to wake up.
Speaker 3: Good for them. I always wanted to be an early person.
Just couldn't do it how you are. But even like today,
like like as I live now and wake up at
you know, five fifteen, five thirty, I still catch a
second wind at like nine thirty at night every single night.
I can't beat it. I can't shake it. Just a
night out normally I'm out.
Speaker 2: Dude. Last night I could not go to sleep, but
I think I went to sleep, like twelve thirty one
o'clock class night, just laying in bed, just tossing and turning.
Speaker 3: So frustrating because mid afternoon, late afternoon, I'm like, oh,
I'm tired. I'm exhausted. I need some sleep. I wish
I could take a nap, but I can't because I'm
a human adult with responsibilities. But then it's time to
go to bed, I'm like, eh, I don't want to.
Energy's like, dang, why do I es rush? I think
that's called being an adult?
Speaker 2: Oh dude, Like so Victoria, you know, being pregnant, She's
gonna get up in the middle of the night and
go to the bathroom and all that, and then that
wakes me up, and then I can't go back to
like that. They don't tell you the struggles that the
men go through. I think that's under talked about. I
don't think that's talking.
Speaker 3: I'm use your next words wise obviously.
Speaker 2: Kidding, But like I told I was so I didn't know.
I didn't actually know she was getting up. Like I
told her last night. I was like, yeah, it's been weird.
I've been waking up at like three thirty four o'clock
in the morning, like right before my alarm goes off.
It's like it's feeling like every day this week. She's
like look around like like four fifteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like yeah, She's like, yea, I've gotten up
Ey night to go to the bathroom. I was like, Okay,
that's what it is. Gotta tell her it's not gonna
get much easier. Oh, I know she's she's always like, oh,
she's gotten to the to the point now to where
like no positions comfortable. I mean, she's like right there.
And I told her, I'm like, I hate to be
the barer of bad news. It's not gonna get better.
Speaker 3: The mom's out there. They hit like a superhuman stride.
It's unbelievable what I saw my wife like, from the
sleep deprivation to like all the things that happens and
goes on with the pregnancy and then the baby stage
and all that stuff. It's like some superhuman stuff happening,
and uh, pretty impressive. And thank god because I like,
I'm not tough enough for that. I'm no shot, would
have been a terrible brother.
Speaker 2: You'd been punches mom, oh, punch the monkey.
Speaker 3: God. I forgot to put Cane down there again. I
gotta said an alarm.
Speaker 2: She's gonna still your spotlight all week.
Speaker 3: Show's been so electric and nobody's noticed because Kane whatever, Kane.
We we were talking all right, we were talking about
last segment women's basketball, Kim Okie getting her h winning
on Senior Night. A lot of milestones hit yesterday, so
congratulations to that. But one highlight that I really found
fascinating and awesome and hilarious and Kim is so awesome.
The one highlight that I saw that I found very
very funny and because it's got a little pop culture
reference as well. Okay, can you play the clip from
last night? Yeah, Taylor, So there she is in the
handshake line, in the handshake line.
Speaker 5: I just saw it. I just watch it this morning.
Speaker 3: Okay. So she's standard, standard handshake, standard handshake, and then
one person in the line.
Speaker 2: We can run a bag, handshake him up.
Speaker 3: So if you're watching on YouTube, you see it. But
if you're just listening, she's walking. There's like there's eight
nine people in the handshake line. Standard you know, hand out,
nice grip, white guy handshake, and there's one person in
the line and complete like casual, what's up? Dabs him up, bro,
hug all the good stuff. And if y'all think you've
seen that before, this is not the first time this
has happened. This has actually happened on a political stage.
On Comedy Central, Ian Roberts's Peter Tensio as Jerome Smith.
Come on, you know this. Keith Williamson, nice.
Speaker 2: To Mary Mardberry, j Martel.
Speaker 3: Robins, come on, come on, come on. Kim Make did
the key in phill Obama skit last night and that's
one hundred accurate. Holy cow, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Wait, someone else has done that before.
Speaker 3: It's kind of recently too. I can't remember who it was.
Speaker 5: Sean Payton it was.
Speaker 2: It was an NFL coach for sure. It may it
may have been.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. It was like laying in bed last
night scrolling and I was just giggling laughing. I was like,
oh my god, this is absolutely incredible, and it's like
to a t what that skin is?
Speaker 5: It was him?
Speaker 3: It was. I think that kim Oki might have done
it better than the ship. Actually it was.
Speaker 2: It was smooth.
Speaker 3: It was so smooth and so uh highlighted. It's so good.
Good for her. That's why she's the best. Es why
she is the absolute best. I've had so much key
and pill like hitting my timeline recently too. I've seen
that skip like eight times this week.
Speaker 5: They're iconic.
Speaker 3: They are right iconic.
Speaker 2: We got Sean, what up?
Speaker 5: What up?
Speaker 6: Bro?
Speaker 4: What up?
Speaker 5: Tapping them up? Hello, good sir, think of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, boom boom boom, secret handshake, secret handshake.
Speaker 6: Hey, thanks for a white guy. Hello sir, thanks for
showing up. Hello sir. How are you look? Nice uniform,
nice firm grip there, Look me in the eye. It's
something you gotta teach.
Speaker 2: Handshake with people.
Speaker 3: Handshake, you gotta teach it. I'm still teaching it. Kids
aren't learning right now. You don't want the you don't want,
you don't want the lamp hand like that.
Speaker 4: Like top dog people with the handshake. You gotta let
them know you're the one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're the autpha. Yeah, they're the beta. Yes, you're
the hammer, they're the nail. Uh. Yeah. So I think
the natural handshake, especially for her. If you're teaching a kid,
it's they kind of like look away. They stick their
arm out there, like I don't want to do this thing.
Dad's telling me.
Speaker 2: I can play video games though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you gotta teach him to look him in
the eye. Nice from handshake. And it's harder to teach
than I thought it would be. But the ultimate sign
of respect, But the ultimate ultimate sign of respect is
what Kim Molkie just did, so respect to her. Yeah,
you guys are funny and the chat man. If you're
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rule change one of your trial rule allow players that
are disqualified for targeting to play in the next game,
no matter which half of football it comes. Obviously, they're
really dumb targeted rules. Now, if you're you got to
miss a half of football, whatever it is. If you're
in the second second half of football, you have to
miss the next one, even if it's a year removed.
We saw that this year with LSU, So that is
the proposed rule. I think it is absolutely a rule
that should be changed now. If a player gets flagged
for a second targeting, then they can miss a half
of football, and if they get and if they get
called for a third targeting, then they can miss in
a complete game. So I think we all think that
those rules are really dumb. Think that the targeting rules
affects every single team in some way. And hopefully this
rule passes and one year trial. I think that one
year trial will probably go pretty well. We need to
of course mention this as well as Louisiana and of
course myself being a former LSU Tiger athlete. LSU morns
a loss this week. Devonte Lee, former wide receiver for LSU,
who also transferred to Louisiana Tech, has passed away. I
know this news kind of came out yesterday, but being
myself as part of a family, part of the LSU family,
certainly wanted to mention it here as well. This began
multiple years ago. He was he played at LSU. I
think he was part of the twenty nineteen team as well.
He began experience of your back pain and then that
this was months after transferring. Then he was diagnosed with
I think osteosarcoma, which is some sort of a form
of bone cancer, had a couple of surgeries, ten weeks
of chemotherapy, seven weeks of radiation, and it was pronounced
cancer free. And I don't think we know the exact
cause of death. I think some speculation it could have
been cancer again, but nonetheless we certainly more in the
loss of DeVante Lee. We celebrate his life. And there's
no easy way to say that, no easy way, but
I just wanted my condolences to him. I will love
the LSU family, and it's something that always is going
to affect. When it affects one of us, it affects everyone.
So we pray for him, We pray for him and
his family and stick with us right here from off
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