Speaker 1: All start to you to presents.
Speaker 2: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, off the bench with Jacob
Hester and Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: I got to come off the bitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to ot B pretty crazy and Jack whole score. Yes, yeah,
weird commercial break. Uh, welcome in, T Bob, Jake. I
love the Taylor's Shepherd hanging out with you today. I
hope you're having a great day. Were talking to a
ton of els. You obviously a lot to get to. Right,
signing day in the books, I think tomorrow wanted, Well,
you're gonna be out tomorrow, right, you're going to the
SC Championship. Yes, tomorrow starts my Uh, we're not gonna
see Jake Franko.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, SEC Championship game, Army Navy first Round playoff,
Cotton Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl National Championship.
Speaker 3: So you too, bring it again. We're gonna talk a
lot of Championship weekend tomorrow. We got three L's or
three Louisiana school's playing on Championship week and we got
the big games to get to uh as well. But Yeah,
that was fun. This is a good first two hours,
Like if you want to really, it's almost like a
state of the LSU roster, which I guess we never
did a full wrap up on. Again, I actually feel
pretty bullish about I am. I am pretty bullish about it.
Am I a sucker? Potentially? You know, I've always been
accused of being gullible, so uh, maybe I am. But
top ten class, well spread positionally, really strong class in
the trenches especially, which makes me happy money to spend
messages being sent to the donors publicly. Yeah, I feel
pretty good overall.
Speaker 4: And you get like a final reaction kind of look
at it once we know also like what everybody's done
in the transfer portal. Yes, well like used to certainly,
Like when it was just February, it was like, okay,
well let's react right now because this is your team.
This is who you You don't you don't have a
chance to add anybody else.
Speaker 3: You are who you are.
Speaker 4: Well, now, with the early signing period, you still have
a chance to sign high school players, like Taylor said,
there's a quarterback out there. Potentially you could continue to recruit,
and then the transfer portal just changes everything and so
you know, so far, so good. I do agree with you,
and now we got to see what you do in
the portal.
Speaker 3: Oh that's cool, all right, let's uh, let's go ahead
and do a little uh big deal or new big deal,
big deal, no big deal, big deal, no big deal,
big deal, no bigdale, no big deal, no big deal.
All right, who would start?
Speaker 4: I don't want to start today, that's weird, but having
the music you've always started, I mean I I.
Speaker 3: Could start, big dealer, no big deal. I played Dungeon
Dragons last night. It was great. First time getting together
the night Shift crew in like two years, which is
crazy because we played that campaign for three years. Basically, Uh,
first time in a couple of years, getting together like
an old glove, just so much fun. But we're doing
a one shot. I thought it would be a Christmas
themed one shot, and Taylor came up with a great
idea for my wizard. I named him Theodore Malton ted
from uh, you know, jingle all the Way Safe the
End of the Tree, and uh, nobody got it the
entire time. I'm doing this voice and I'm acting smarmy
like upper middle class, you know, and nobody got it
at all. We get it. I was like, guys, I
was ted, okay, sorry about what part are you asking?
Is a big deal or no big deal? That you
still played Dungeons and Dragons big dealer, no big deal
that nobody got my that my character is supposed to
be ted from a big deal. That's a very specific
it's Christmas time.
Speaker 4: Nobody sounds like Phil Hartman, right, I mean definitely hurt.
He had his own sounds. So it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: I think it's a big deal. Thank you, and you
do it pretty well. It was very fun though it
was I gotta say that was so much fun. D
and D is the best, absolute best shut out. What
was that hat you were wearing? What's that called? That's
my dumble Doore hat. I got that at Madam Malkin's
rope shop a couple of years ago. It looks really
good with Harry Potter ropes. But it, uh, it's my
hat when I wear when I want to do something whimsical,
you know, Marty Graw Disney, I would just wear it around.
It's I think it's in the vein of like a
traditional smoking hat, like you pair that with a smoking jacket.
Because I was looking at up some like like Victorian
costumes not long ago, and the smoking Jackets had hats
like that pair to the little tassel on top. I
love that hat. Big dealer, No big deal.
Speaker 4: Oklahoma quarterback Jackson Arnold is entering the transfer portal.
Speaker 5: I didn't even know that a big deal. You know,
this is something that happened yesterday afternoon. What does this
mean for Brent Vinnables Because you ditched Dylan Gabriel last
year and all the reports were, hey, we want to
roll with Jackson Arnold. You actually replaced him in that
Tennessee game. You ultimately go back to him. Now he's
in the portal. Bad vibes in Norman.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very bad vibes.
Speaker 6: I agree, it's dling Gabriels out here.
Speaker 3: And you know when they did the Venables extension, I
said at the time contingent on the buyout, I don't
think this is a bad deal because it was like
a one million dollar raised ten wins season. That makes
sense me. The buiot is forty four mil Wellich actually
is probably for the best. I don't be cause again
I don't think sometimes we just rely on like fire
Firefarman like that's not always going to fix it. Right,
look at Napier in Florida. Right, maybe that looks all
of a sudden like it's head in the right direction.
But but it is an awkward time in Norman. And
that's a very big deal that Arnold's in there, because
not only is he a talent that people will want,
but more so because you know, like Taylor said, the
Gabriel saga, and now Arnold's gone, and that's why you
push Gabriel out. Bad, bad bad.
Speaker 6: All right, I'm gonna give you all the do you
want like a sports big deal or no big deal?
Or do you want just a life one?
Speaker 3: Life one?
Speaker 6: Okay, since the holidays are coming up, big deal or
no big deal? Charging your family two hundred dollars per
head for Christmas dinner? Like if you're the one hosting
Christmas dinner. There's a lady that is there's this lady.
She's hosting Christmas dinner and she's charging her family two
hundred dollars for per per person.
Speaker 3: No, this is to come to Christmas? Person?
Speaker 5: Is she cooking for la Yans? And what are we
doing here?
Speaker 3: This is insane, This is insane.
Speaker 6: And she said that she's going to kick them out
whenever she's ready for them to leave.
Speaker 5: Well, like, if you're the host, I would think have
everybody bring a certain dish, your fan, a person.
Speaker 3: Your family, just work together. If it's a money issue,
pull your money together. If it's like uh yeah, or
like get somebody else to bring dishes. Like no, that's
that's that's so type A and insane. And like especially
the line about making them leave when when when you
know she she says that it's done. Yeah, it's like
a funny video. Uh maybe just then I saw yesterday
about like the la that was like the worst person
to host a party, host a party and it's like,
is like you want to play some borg? No, it's
just she was like, no, we should play some games.
The music's too out. Who changed music? No, that's that's horrible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, big dealer, No big deal. When asked
yesterday about possibly leaving USC, Lincoln Ray goes, Nope, this
is the place I want to be. I am a
USC trojan. I will be here as long as I
want to be. And you know, gusm Alson left UCF
to be the offensive coordinator at Florida State a few
days ago. You CEF actually reached out to Lincoln Riley,
but also like Lincoln Riley on shakey ground here record
wise at USC But Lincoln Rallley says, I'm not going
anywhere a big deal or no big deal.
Speaker 3: Why would he go? Why would he go anywhere?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean depending on what UCF was offering him,
I guess, But it kind of feels like the same job.
Speaker 3: To be fair, there's no buyout if he leaves. If
he leaves for another school, they want to fire him.
It's ninety plus million dollars. So like, I don't know, man,
unless the vibes are just god awful and you hate
it there, you may get ten million a year. You
have ultimate job security, you know. I just don't get
why he doesn't recruit California. So I was reading some
really good football I don't know either, I was.
Speaker 5: Reading something not long ago. More and more California kids
are like getting away from football, like they're down. High
football participation in California is down like thirty three percent
that it was like just like four or five years ago.
But also he's trying to go get guys from the
state of Georgia. You're not getting guys from the state
of Georgia as long as Kirby Smart's there. That's one
of his biggest downfalls. Recruit the guys that you can get, those.
Speaker 3: Are your people, Jake, get him under control, dude out
of here, quitting football, sad.
Speaker 4: I would like to see the breakdown of like the
areas of California.
Speaker 3: As well, and what those numbers look like, because I.
Speaker 4: Know San Diego has high high level high school football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Powaway Rancho Bernardo.
Speaker 5: But I mean I would imagine the vibes gotta be
low around us, see right, His record's worse every year,
three eight and five, six and six.
Speaker 3: Players care.
Speaker 4: Lincoln Riley in his coaching career has never had a
season where the cod season was better than the past season,
not one.
Speaker 6: Also, it's usc like, I don't know, do they care?
I don't know, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: No, I agree with you. I'm saying I don't know.
Speaker 5: Like at one point they did. How's it now?
Speaker 3: Players are all making money? Yeah, killing l.
Speaker 6: A the only reason why jackiem Sewart went there.
Speaker 3: Again. You're gonna pay me two million dollars out of
high school.
Speaker 6: I'm probably two million dollars in California though, versus one
point five million.
Speaker 4: I can tell you from somewhat of an experience, it's
not a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not a lot.
Speaker 4: Not like you think you're going to pay that sun
tax right off the top.
Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's a lot.
Speaker 3: Big deal or no big deal. Record ratings for Clean
Old Fashioned Hate Georgia Tech Georgia averaged eight and a
half million viewers, best Black Friday audience on any network
since twenty eleven. The peak for this rivalry eleven and
a half million. Texas Texas A and M averaged nine
and a half million viewers, largest audience of the lone
Star Showdown on record. Week fourteen's most watched primetime game
peaked at ten to six. Actually, so its peak was
lower than that, A Clean Old fashion eight and then
poor Little Alabama Auburn seven point four million peaked at
eight point six. Yeah, I no, I cared about that one. Yeah. No,
it's a big deal. But it is cool to see
the George Horde Tech game have that many people on it,
because that was one of the best games of all time.
Speaker 4: Now, I love George Tech as a program. I love
where their school is located. I love probably. God, I
think it's a great little spot, man. I think you
can recruit if you find the right combination. There's been times,
and you know, last fifteen years, they've played for conference
championship games. They won a national championship in our lifetime.
Well maybe not y'all, but me and T Bob, I
think it's cool spot. And I think they got a
guy they really cares because he played there.
Speaker 3: They're only up and up. I uh man, I just
feel I feel like this was their year to be Georgia.
I mean they it was a one score game last year.
No I know, I know, I know, I know. I
know it's two years in row. Now they've they made
it good. But god, they had him. I had him.
They had him, had him like six times, like in
ot Suddenly, when all you need is two yards, just
gonna throw it every time.
Speaker 6: I'm not that person either. But there were some favorable
calls and no calls to that game.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean again, I I think when we did
our reaction, I waited until like twenty minutes to engine
it because I didn't want that to be the lead
because Georgia had the opportunities. But the was it a
e I on fourth down. Uh, that was all.
Speaker 6: There's also a targeting call that they missed, like that
was definitely target if we're going to be.
Speaker 3: Calling it like that. Oh the fumble. Yeah, but also
if you ever get me advocating for Dan Jackson's hit
to be targeting, then put me out to pasture because
I lost my way because that play was so tight,
like your team has to have a turnover and you
meet the guy in the hole and just break him.
And you knew Haines King's body if it was in
C double A, it was all red. The wear and
tear was all red. Off. Fumble was coming ball. Haines King,
the Portals success story. He we We thought he sucked.
We thought he was soft and flashy. Is weird. Emotion
is not good, which is why like you just needed
to run him real quick. So is he done though?
He is right? Everybody come back.
Speaker 4: Really if Saint Ryan has eligibility, okay, big dealer, no
big deal. This one's really for t Bob. There's nine
candidates out there for the West Virginia job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, give it.
Speaker 4: Hit me Rich Rod who's at Jacksonville State, Jamie Chadwell
at Liberty, Oh, Shannon Dawson, Miami offensive coordinator, Marshall head
coach Charles Huff UNLV head coach Barry otom Bill Clark,
who used to be the UA B coach, had to
retire for health reasons.
Speaker 3: Now he's all good to go.
Speaker 4: Ryan Silverfield at Memphis, Tyson Helton at Western Kentucky, and Jimbo.
Speaker 3: Fisher co host of off campus at this point. So
my problem with rich Rod is, I know there's temptation
to go back there because I was the Golden era,
But rich Rod's whole deal was he was way ahead
of the games. Schrammatically, right, Yeah, he was. He's not anymore.
I'm not going Rich Rott. Who we're playing in a
conference championship game this weekend? Are they? Jacksonville State? Okay? CUSA, Okay,
never mind. I mean credit to him, I didn't know that.
But like the guy that I keep thinking about is
being ahead of the curve here recently would be Jamie Chadwell.
I think if you want to go an offensive guy,
Jamie Chadwells would seem to make a lot of sense
where Chadwell. Would Chadwell take that job? Yeah? I don't know, right,
Could they offer more than Liberty.
Speaker 5: You know, somebody's gonna be knocking around his door.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would. I would go Bill Clark. Barry Odom
is a really solid play. I'm a little I mean,
you know it, but if you are like a good
defensive guy, I think he'll be able to win. I mean,
unlb uh, why would you like Bill Clark?
Speaker 5: Look that that UA B program. I mean, think about it.
They didn't have that program for two years. He came back,
he instantly turned it around. They were a competitive team.
I mean they were winning nine games every single year.
Look what that program has done since he stepped away.
I mean he built it from Brian Vincent the job,
Yeah they did. I really like Bill Clark. He knows
how to build a program.
Speaker 3: And I mean West.
Speaker 5: Virginia right now, that's a program that struggling. I've seen
him build up a program before. So I like Bill Clark.
Speaker 3: I would go Jamie Chadwell and Barry Odom grip. I
would go Jimbo and Barry Odom. You think Jimbo for real?
I do you think he still got it? Y'all? I
mean we don't have time in this, in this, in
this conversation. I feel like that I just feel like
the game might have passed them by a little bit,
kind of like well I said, kind of Bridge Rod,
But I guess I'm wrong. Rif ridg Rod's in a
conference championship.
Speaker 4: I just think that when you look at what he's done,
and you know in his career, and look he was
forty five and twenty five at A and M.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people act like that flipped.
I mean, sometimes it's because the end was so disastrous, right,
the beginning is actually a consistent climb where it looked
like they were going to get it done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was the losing season in twenty two
that really did him in because even his last year
they had a winning season.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, I still think we're talking about a coach
if he if he got back in the game, he
would be the only the third head coach that would
be currently coaching with a national championships. Just not many
out there now. Are the best days? Are the best
days ahead of him? Maybe not, But I still think
it's a coach that would bring some flash to your program. Uh,
He's from there, so I mean there's a pride about
how you know, the.
Speaker 3: Job that he would want to do there.
Speaker 4: I think you could have things and get players to
West Virginia that none of the other coaches on that
list would bring.
Speaker 3: Can he use his own money for an eye out?
I don't think you can't, but there's a lot of it.
Could you?
Speaker 7: Uh is?
Speaker 3: Hey? Would he do it? Have you talked to him?
I don't know. God, I mean I did Tuesday. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. I know you all do show
together every week. I don't know. I don't know if you.
I think he is really enjoying for the motivating now.
Speaker 4: But like and people are gonna like no, no, Like
that's he was. He was so fired up because he
got to go hunting with his old friends during things
given that he hadn't done in forty years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, don't go back to coaching, dude, Just be
like damn mull and just go enjoy life. Chris Peterson,
let's go enjoy life soon. But if you get back
win games to Western remire, let's go.
Speaker 4: I mean if he's look, if he is the head
coach of West Virginia, I'm just saying, I've got to
set up like we can do a live show from
the hell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the dress me up like Davy Crockett, let me,
let me, let me run out there. He'd probably let
you monkeys that'd be sick.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
Speaker 2: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 7: She see me.
Speaker 3: What out of y'all? Welcome back. It's time for some
munchies with our guys. Chef Migo Jouncing, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Get ready to santalyze your taste buds and leave this
segment hungry. This is Monkey's with executive chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 3: Uh, Chef, what's up? Brother? How was how was sing? Savvy? Man?
Speaker 8: It was good?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, like like like that was great? It was great.
So I gotta say, Chef.
Speaker 8: You know, in all, in truth and honesty, I've been
on it. I've been fasting for a spiritual reasons. And
uh so I I splurged over Thanksgiving, and uh you know,
I got fat and was happy, and I took a
nice long nap. And when you haven't had you know,
a whole muscle meat in like three weeks, it was.
It was every ounce of the naps that I was
looking for.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 8: I even missed part of the of the Lions football game,
which or you know, two of my guys around my
fantasy tea on there, and I was like, you know what,
I'm just gonna go ahead and take a nap right now.
Speaker 3: Thankshaving football is top tier background noise during that time, Chef,
I gotta say thank you. Uh, finally made a good
stock and oh really yeah yeah? And you know what
the key was, even when you were talking about all
that juice and everything that gathers, like if you get
like retis the gas at the bottom, that's all flavor.
Yeah yeah, So kind of a happy accident situation. I had,
like the neck and carcass and all that stuff. It's
a tributes or whatever. It's all in like a pot
and uh, you know, I'm I'm I'm making the onions
building the base of the root or of of the
uh of of the of the stock that we talked about,
and I just dumped in the pot with aving. I
didn't realize so my family didn't want to do the
turkey grave. You don't know why, but I didn't realize
I had all the drippings of the pan poured right
there into the stock, yea. And I was like, oh man,
that I just ruined, this is gonna be way too greasy,
and at first they thought I did, but the next
day really worked on like skimming it, like separating the fat,
and my god, dude, it's the best turkey gum but
I've ever made.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's awesome, can't you? Yeah, proud of you man. Yeah,
in retrospect, you know, it was along with my fast
on certain foods, I was also fasting from wine so
to speak, and alcohol really, and so I had three
glasses of wine on Thanksgiving Day, which I hadn't had
alcohol in almost a month. And after three glasses of wine,
I'm I'm my turkey is beautiful like I had. I
I basiced my turkey with coconut oil instead of butter.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 8: And I've never done that before and it was next level,
like brown beautiful. And then I took some maple sugar
and sprinkled it on there just you know, like an
hour before it came out that it like caramelized and
sweetened the skin. And I'm so proud of myself with
this beautiful turkey coming out of the oven. And but
I was, you know, like I had three four glasses
of wine in me and I like stumble and dropped
the turkey into the oven. It drops onto the oven door,
it started to roll like I caught the turkey to
permit it hitting the floor, but all all of the
juices went into the oven.
Speaker 3: Oh no, a disaster, dude.
Speaker 8: Yeah it was. You know, That's why I was just
kind of being quiet about things. It was. It was
a double edged sword man.
Speaker 3: Fire though. Hashtag mounchis postle i or jumpli.
Speaker 8: Jumbala all day long. You know, I'm an Italian. I
love pasta, but I'm a I'm a jambalaye guy. And
that's kind of weird because you know, like in my
in my hierarchy starches it it's usually potatoes, pasta, and rice,
but when it comes down to the liya's it's it's dumbalaya.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hashtag monkeys. What are some things to look for when
buying the best short ribs? Uh?
Speaker 8: Well, it starts with the vendor and where you're getting
them from, you know what I mean, Like you have
to know where they're getting their stuff from. Talk to
the people behind the tots of the people behind the
the counter or whatever, and make those inquiries, you know,
like where's your beef come from you know, that kind
of stuff matters.
Speaker 4: Hashtag monchies, ham or turkey for Christmas dinner.
Speaker 8: That's tough, man. I you know, I'm probably just gonna
go with turkey. I eat cam, but I'm not you know,
like I I like ham on a standand which you know,
like I'm not a big I'm not a huge carved
ham guy. And that's coming from the guy who has
three hams in the oven as we speak right now. Yeah, yeah,
I saw.
Speaker 3: You smuggling some hams in here. Hashtag munchies. What's the
craziest dish you've ever made with leftovers?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 8: Man? You know, so it's it's not really a singular dish,
but and I shout out to my old man for
this because he has what's called cowboy hash and my
old man, you know, like, it really is a dish
that never has has definition, right, and so it's it
is anything and everything that you wanted to be. So
one of the best things I think with leftovers is
like crawfish boiled potato salad, right like taking taking Oh god,
it's next level. Or you know, like after Turkey Day,
I had corn and I have mushrooms left over, and
I had turkey left over, and I had you know,
like a sweet onion and the refrigerator, and so I
made a killer soup out of it. You know, like
it was almost the stew it was so thick. And
I put even put some of the mashed potatoes into
the into the chicken stock that I used to you know,
meld it together, and it kind of thickened the soup
up a little bit. So you know, I don't know,
I think again, it's just that approach of building the
flavors and understanding how those flavors work together, and you know,
like the difference in dry heat and moist heat. You know,
like if you just put everything into a pot of water,
it's not going to build the flavor the same as
we talked before as it does when you saute it
and build those you know, get the caramelization colors on there.
You know, even even when you when I was building
that leftovers, like I put, I put the mushrooms in
and saut them and then pull them out, and then
put the turkey in with the butter and got that
turkey brown on several sides, you know, kind of like
a braid. And you know, even though it's been cooked
and it's coming off the bird, you can still get
brown off it by sartaying it again. And it's yeah,
I'm valivating right now thinking about that.
Speaker 7: Super Yeah.
Speaker 3: How did you learn, chef to kind of be willing
to to play around a little bit in the kitchen?
Cause I find so often that when when when you cooker,
when people cook, it's like very stressed out and has
to be this way, right, And like I try to
remind myself of Bob Ross all the time, right, like
they've got to be open in some happy accidents and
trying to try to try to adjust around.
Speaker 8: It's interesting you say Bob Ross, because I love watching
Bob Ross, and in college, man, Bob Ross and I
spent a lot of time together. But no, you know,
I think you know, you watch people do things their
way in the kitchen. You know, you grow up as
you come up in the kitchen, you see people do
it their way, and you want to have your own way, right,
and so you you kind of develop this willingness to
try new things and you know, explore and and and
play with flavors a little bit. And some people are
very uh strict to the guidelines you know and and
you know, if Mantrashana Sauce has made this this, this,
you know, with with uh these ingredients, it it never
deviates from that. But but you know, like I have
learned and and and this is there's a few things
that I am not this way with. But sorry, no,
you're good. You learn to The conductor sees me too.
I think he's true. So anyway, you know, you learn
to play with the flavors, and you learn to deviate
when it makes sense, you know, And and I think
it makes the most sense sometimes when everybody else is saying, no,
don't do it. You know, I watched this special on
the men who who impacted the United States, and it's
the you know, not to compare myself with with you know,
the steel barons or the or the oil barons of
the world, but you know, as I'm watching it and
listening to it, you know, they have all these CEOs
and leaders of the world that have managed their way
up into you know, big business positions, and all of
them kind of say the same thing. You have to
know when to take risks, and you have to know
when to push and challenge and and you know, it's
very much the same with food. You know, like if
everybody's saying no, you can't do that, that's a perfectly
good opportunity to prove people wrong. And I'm a stubborn,
persistent human being, you know what I mean, And so
when people people say you can't do that, I think,
you know, that's when you take the time to understand it.
You know, I dwell on things a lot and put
a lot of thought into, you know, my craft, and
I'm very cerebral in that way. When I'm cooking food,
you know, I kind of tune out all the noise
around me and focus on what's in front of me.
And you know that, I think is where creativity lives.
Speaker 3: Sevn Jax, sit your mind. I can't remeber worry came
across his coat the other day, but it's from David Bowie,
and he says, always go a little further into the
water than you feel you're capable of being in. Go
a little bit out of your depth, and when you
don't feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom,
you're just about in the right place to do something exciting.
That's right, pretty much exactly lining up with what you
were just talking about.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you gotta be a little uncomfortable, right, Like you
got to push yourself there. And I think that every
sports coach that I ever had did that for me.
And I think my dad did that for me. I think,
you know, like my friends, the really close friends who
love me do that for me, you know what I mean.
And that's what we should do for others, is to
you know, like I definitely do that for my kids,
you know, I think that's the I think that's part
of parenting is to you know, take your kids to
the deep end of the pool and give them confidence,
you know, and teach them how to you know, lift
their feet off the bottom and get put them make
themselves a little uncomfortable, because I do believe that, I
do believe that you have to push yourself and find
discomfort and or in order to find success.
Speaker 3: Hashtag munchies. Is there anything that you're ocd about with food?
Speaker 7: Like food touching, not food touching, because I marry stuff together,
you know, like I'll now there are things that I
don't like that, you know, like I don't want my
waffle syrup to get into my mac and cheese necessarily,
you know what I mean, Like this, and I actually
those two I might try even I don't.
Speaker 8: Know, but you know, like yeah right, I don't know,
you know, like gumbo, I always make my gumbo with
the baked root or or a certain color roof at
very least, you know, And and I don't ever put
liquid smoke in it. Like it's funny because I can
be very loosey goosey about certain dishes with the creativity,
as I was just saying and pushing the envelope on
what the definition of a matrashana is. But then there's
things that I'm I get stuck on, like gumbo has
to be just though, you know, like I cooked my
burgers just so. Pizza sauce has to be just so
because there's reasons for it, you know, Like I want
my pizza sauce to be raw. I don't want it
to be cooked before it goes on the pizza. I
want it to be chunky with chunks of tomato and
a little loose here so it kind of cooks into
the crust here, you know, and bits and pieces. So
there's there's there's reason behind it, but there's also chaos
in it sometimes, if that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, I I I yes, I completely understand it.
It's like, you know, it's like it's like, like you said,
it's like Bob rost some painting. Yeah, there's a reason
behind it, but there's also room to play around the
edge and maybe you make a mistaken is something great?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Last one here hashtag munchies. Is uh maple syrup a
good Where was it? I want to? I know Brian
loves this uh segment. By the way, somebody also saying
chef that they used the the chicken feet in their
stock and he came out fantastic. Okay. Is maple syrup
a good replacement for corn syrup in a pecan pie?
Speaker 8: Absolutely?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, now true, like great, a maple syrup
for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, because you gotta you gotta watch your maple
syrups some some some pancake syrups or some of those
styrups that are are labeled that way. You gotta read that,
read the back of it to make sure that it is,
you know, like it comes from a tree in corn stock.
Just there's a lot of there's a lot of styrups
out there parading around as this is that when they're
actually made from corn syrup. And yeah, read your labels.
Speaker 3: Jeff, Michael Johnson the man. Thank you so much, Jeff,
We love you. Glad you had a Hey, at least
turkey didn't hit the ground, you know, Executive chef rolls
you as letting to you the man later bok All right,
more O TV when we get back top the bench.
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Speaker 9: Commas, Happy, Happy Monday.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around.
Speaker 1: Sorta. It's off the bench with Hester and t Bop.
Speaker 9: When the snow is bestay on the trees outside and
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Speaker 3: Okay, what's happening y'all? Welcome back Merry Christmas to all
the Kendre Miller fans out there. He is a former
Oral Sate second round pick, says Kendre. He says a
third round pick. Kendre Miller says he's ready to let
the dog out the leash. Really get out there, bark
a little bit this Sunday, Please, Love of God, Kendre Miller,
do anything, bark lick yap, just run. I don't care
do anything. The interesting part of the Kendrea Miller story, Jake,
is that the divide between him and Dennis Allen goes
a bit deeper than we originally knew. Apparently Miller didn't
even want to go on IR like he didn't think
the injury was worth going on IR four. It was
more just Alan being like, I am mad that you're
injured again, and so whatever, We're just gonna take you
off the team. Basically, here's a Miller. I had to say. Quote,
ever since I got here, I could tell he's always
trusted and everybody hears not stupid. They see what I
can do whatever grudge or if there was a grudge
with any Oh by the way, sorry, he's talking about
Darren Rizzy here. One of the first things Darrenrizzy did
when he got the job was to go to Miller
to try to you know, clean slate, clean things up. Yeah,
ever since I got here, I could tell he's always trusted.
Talking about Rizzy and everybody here's not stupid. They see
what I can do. Whatever grudge now reference to Dollan, right,
or if there was a grudge with anybody else. He
was like, scratch that, it doesn't matter. He was like,
you've got a clean slate, all right, Kendra, that's all
well and good. But now it's up for you to
prove that that's the case, because right now where we sit,
it does not look like the Saints have an exciting
young piece on this team who knows that chrys Olave's
football future holds. I love how Avin Kambara is playing
at this level, but again, that is just a fight
against time at this point, Like, nothing would make me
happier than if you had one young player emerge as
a that you felt like you could maybe build around.
And I have no faith that that is Ken Dre Miller.
But if you're gonna put it out there that it
was basically, you know, the coach not liking you that
was the problem, then you got to go prove that.
You got to go prove that. Yeah, you absolutely have
to go prove it.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that doesn't typically happen in the NFL,
like we see that at other levels where it's like ah, man,
this coach he's just he's not playing me, he doesn't
like me, whatever, whatever, that's not the NFL. The NFL, man,
is what have you done for me lately? You got
to win games. You got to put whoever out there
that you have available. You don't have other players to
really choose from, and so it has been kind of
a wild situation. But now there's no excuses for you.
If you're Kendre Miller. This is kind of like a
proven deal because look, your third round pick. Third round
picks get like a year, maybe two, depending on you
know what you've shown in the year one if it's
an injury or something.
Speaker 3: But you don't get like three, right, so you don't
get that opportunity. You don't get that chance.
Speaker 4: And you've got fifty two rushing yards this year, all right,
now you've only had nine carries. So sure, but if
you're going to say all of that, you've got to
go prove it, and you got to prove it in
whatever they ask you to do it running the football,
catching the football, pass protecting. They want you to be
a war daddy, but you're a third round pick, fella,
You've got to go down there and cover some kicks
as well. Yeah, like you got to do all of that,
and so okay, now, is your time if you want
to prove that it was Dennis Allen that was a fault,
which he's at fault for a lot of things. So
maybe that plays. You have to go show it now
because this is as a third round pick, this is
your last opportunity.
Speaker 3: Cool sub story going to this week. And so Darren
Rizzy is a New Jersey native, grew up right next
to the Giants stadium, massive Giants fan, and now he
will be a head coach in those hallid hall, hallowed
halls for an NFL team. He talked about how he's like, yeah, man,
look I got to put my own lessons and I'm
always talking to the team. I'm going to myself. I'm
going to be put to the test this week and
I'm not getting too geeked up going back home as
the head coach of an NFL team to take on
the Giants. So a very cool story there. But here's
to hoping that Kendre Miller can find his way and
do anything again. Bark bye, but I don't care. Bite,
bark whatever, lick, do something, get off the leash, Kindre.
We'll see all right. Closing on the show is a
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Speaker 2: How quickly will this segment leave the rails? It's off
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Speaker 10: I mean, I knew we had something in the past
and I saw just this. You know, it was never
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whole mood here. I agree a laundra's time schedule, not
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Speaker 4: I've only cried during two movies ever, and It's a
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Speaker 5: No, I've known actual people who have went through sad
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others have gone through.
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He wants to know if you're still mad at Milundu.
Speaker 6: I mean, I wasn't ever really mad at anybody.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know the best way to make somebody mad
is tell them they're they're mad and they don't feel
like and then they get mad and it becomes a
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Speaker 6: I just like, really don't enjoy people telling me how
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, maybe this just going turn down a
little bit, and you know what, Look we're gonna go
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