Speaker 1: All start to it.
Speaker 2: You to present some off the bench.
Speaker 3: This is what we have been waiting for.
Speaker 4: The hype is over.
Speaker 2: Off the bench if the pitch now Here's Jacob.
Speaker 1: Hester, Yo, and welcome back again our number three of OTB.
Here on this Thursday morning, I'm gonna talk some LSU
baseball with our guy, Haunt Palmer. Of course Hunt's going
to be following us here on one O four five.
Speaker 3: I heard you heard about the bet again yesterday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Cassie brought it up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So it's not a baseball segment this is it's.
Speaker 1: A baseball segment. It's a baseball segment, but there's interest.
As Alandra said on the bet now, I don't know
if that's true to We're talking like almost half a decade,
probably over I.
Speaker 3: Think that was when did they hire I don't even know.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty one feels like, oh no, this was way
pre cod nineteen.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You're right because I was living at my house in Riverbene,
So you're right, it's definitely pre look either way, that's
even worse for you. By the way, doesn't help your case.
It hurts your case. We're all going to be at
SEC Media days. That's true, all right, so OTV wait
a second, your show, your show and AFR. Now, I'm
not going to go as far to invite Moscona to
this steak dinner, but I think me and Flynn are
entitled to a steak dinner.
Speaker 3: Now, why on interest.
Speaker 5: Earth is Matt Flynn entitled to.
Speaker 3: Any of the interest? I don't think so.
Speaker 5: Maybe two for you, but Flynn is entitled to nothing.
That doesn't make any sense. My new partner, I was
a little like those dinners at SEC Media day can
grow by the hour and all of a sudden you
can be at the table with like fourteen people. Oh yeah,
we don't.
Speaker 3: Need that happen. No, no, no, it could be.
Speaker 5: Second of all, I mean I can look up spoke track.
We're not getting this guy it a steak dinner based
on a less miles.
Speaker 1: Well, that's part of it is because like you know,
you're going to be buying someone that made thirty million
dollars in his career a steak dinner.
Speaker 3: No, not gonna you can look up. It's not as impressive.
Speaker 1: I can promise you that, all right, But I can
get one at SEC Media to day.
Speaker 3: We can go.
Speaker 5: We'll rule it out.
Speaker 1: We can go out to dinner, talk about Shreveport and
how great it is city.
Speaker 5: Adream there in just a number of hours, I guess
if I do math or that's six hours, I'll behead
of there.
Speaker 3: What do you wait? What are you doing for the
show tomorrow?
Speaker 5: You're not doing the show tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Who's doing your show?
Speaker 5: Muso?
Speaker 3: All right? What are you going to Streetport for golf tournament? Oh?
Southern Trace? Who's golf tournament?
Speaker 5: It's the member guest for Southern Trace. Okay, I'm looking
forward to it.
Speaker 3: All right, you play that every year I do. What's
your best finish?
Speaker 5: We won our flight one year, okay, a little bit
of a choke in the playoff, seven iron left water.
That's the end of that. Yeah, but we want a flight.
Speaker 1: How's that course now? Upgraded?
Speaker 5: Look at the fantastic they have they have the last
four years. I thought it rained in like a week
up there they were. They were fighting the rain in
a big way for a while there and in April.
But think Caaul is good.
Speaker 1: I thought, I remember seeing old Timmy be talk about
they upgrade the course and have a lot and Timmy
b likes to put his lefty swing up on the.
Speaker 3: Instagram in Twitter and Twitter.
Speaker 1: Yeah he likes golf, he does, and he got time
to play. Uh, speaking of time to play, LSU's had
some time to hang out, not play, I mean just
rest and uh, you know, probably a good thing and
probably like chomping at the bits at this point to
get a game in.
Speaker 3: They're gonna play the winner of Auburn in Texas.
Speaker 1: A and M both teams that you kind of owe
a little bit, you know, you lost the series to
both got swept by one. What do you think though
LSU's like mindset is And we just caught up with Jay,
and you know Jay, he wants to win every single game.
But what do you think like the mindset is going
to be for them knowing that they're going to be
hosting postseason baseball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, They're gonna definitely host next weekend, and I believe
they will host the following weekend unless it just absolutely
goes to trash over the next three days they lose
and a bunch of other teams winning. But I think
everything's okay at this point. I think Kate Anderson will
start tomorrow and I think he'll throw seventy seventy five pitches,
assuming that, like he talked to you about, there's no
thirty seven pitch inning that you've got to get out
of at some point. And I think he wants to
get Zach Collen back out there. I think he wants
to see Jayden Newt, and I think he would like
to win the game and get Anthony Hyans another start
as well and stop him at seventy five pitches. I
think that you can certainly hurt yourself by overextending, but
unless you has put themselves in a position where they
could only play three games, you're not going to overextend
yourself in three games, especially three inconsequential games. So it's
a great spot to be in. Like last year, they
played Tuesday to Sunday, and I'm not here to tell
you that Christian Little got hurt because of that, but
he certainly got hurt during that. And I could also
make the argument that he could have helped. In Chapel Hill,
you might have been one pitcher short. So they're not
in that position this year. It's a good spot to
be in and go out there and play a little
bit free. You'd like to see Anderson throw it well,
you'd like to see maybe a little bit of shores
in newt because they've kind of been guys you can
trust the last two weeks and kind of see where
the chips fall. My ideal scenario is eighteen innings on Friday,
come back Saturday, get the guys you need. Yeah, just
get head on home on the bus on Sunday. That's
what I would like to see.
Speaker 1: All right, And I'm with you, like there's some pitchers
that i'd like to see as well, but like Cooper
Williams is somebody that I want to see, and I
know he had one pitch he'd like back against South Carolina,
but also he did strike out two in that inning.
He does feel like hunt that he is making a
case to be included in high leverage situations.
Speaker 5: Or low leverage situations, which like those happen in a region. Yeah,
somebody's got to pitch it when you're up six runs
at some point, and so making sure that that's not
Zach Cowen and that's not just like just running the
rope out. It's hey, we got a six run lead,
don't let it get to three. So it's a region
is a collection of ales is gonna go Friday to
potentially Monday, and you're gonna have to use a lot
of arms, and we've seen that over the years. And
you don't want to have to ask Gage Jump to
come back at the end. You don't want to have
to ask Jared Poche to start on Friday and then
come back against Rice and save the day on Monday
with seven innings. Like you'd like to make it a
easier on yourself than that. So I'm with you with
Cooper Williams. I think he's looked very good. And at
the same time, Connor ware has had massive control issues.
So if you're looking for a lefty like I don't
know that Cooper Williams has it. You surped that role
from him, and that's yeah, I get another guy you'd
like to get a look at over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Right now, if you are playing in a regional and
let's say, for whatever reason.
Speaker 5: You and know you and I might win the South.
He's talking about ful four seed.
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm just going mind if you split, like
for whatever reason, like you split in the postseason and
you had to go to a third starter, Like who
would that be right now?
Speaker 5: Depends on who has pitched previously. But I think probably Evans. Yeah,
I mean, I would have no problem with Jayden k
Newt go out there. But right now, you feel like
he's probably limited to three to four innings, Like he
got to the end of that rope in South Carolina
and gave up the big triple in the big single.
But maybe he can extend a little bit more than that.
Evans showed you six innings against Tennessee a month ago,
so that's certainly certainly an option.
Speaker 3: So you like Chase Shores out of the pen right
now with the way he's pitching, I do.
Speaker 5: I think that's the guy that hasted into a little
bit of a groove there. I don't think he would
balk at the notion that he needed to start a game,
But yeah, he's right now looks like he can kind
of let it rip for three innings and that looks
really good.
Speaker 1: It feels like he's way more comfortable with his arm
right now, and that's tough, like coming off the surgery
that he had, and it's a long roadback, I mean,
a very long roadback for him. And I'm not saying
he was playing cautious, but it does feel like he's
just ripping it now it is.
Speaker 5: It's hard to fathom a guy that literally throws one
hundred miles an hour most of the time sits about
ninety eight has that much run on his fastball and
can throw a decent Slider's not a great slider, but
a decent slider. We were sitting there at the end
of April and his batting average against in the SEC
was over three hundredth Yeah, that's almost impossible. And so
I think for him, maybe shorter spurts more fastballs and
just kind of maybe aim over the middle of the
plate and let that fastball run and see what they
can do. And the other part of this, and Jay
mentioned it in your segment, and I'm going to write
a story on this and it'll be something I talk
about on my show A Bunch next week. Next weekend
does not look like the week the ten weeks prior,
because you're not playing Arkansas, you're not playing Tennessee, you're
not playing some of these teams. Is just have elite
level talent, right. Your game next Friday is not gonna
look like that. Your game Sunday night, even if you
have to go on a Monday like, you're gonna be
facing guys that throw eighty seven miles an hour. It's
just it's a It is a different level of baseball
because all the mid majors that are really good go
play in the SEC. All the guys from the West
now are flying over and playing in the SEC. So
you have played far more difficult competition. The only reason
you lost in the region last year is because you
put yourself in such a bad position. You had to
go play the best non SEC team on the road.
You beat them once and you could have beaatet them
a second.
Speaker 3: I mean you were pitches away.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's it just it's gonna look different next week,
and that's something we got to keep in mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now it's a good point.
Speaker 1: You started to mention maybe you and O they've got
a match up with Houston Christian coming up in the
Southland Conference Championship Series, and neither one of those teams
will supposed to be there.
Speaker 5: South of Howst was good this year.
Speaker 3: It was you and O. I believe the eight seed.
Speaker 1: Houston Christian was a six seed, so a lot of
us thought maybe other teams would be there. And it's
one of the things where those tickets are going to
get punched and get a bit stolen from somebody.
Speaker 3: But you think maybe UNO has a leg up.
Speaker 5: I think if U and O wins, they're probably coming
to Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3: Do you think maybe Houston Christian wins, they go to Texas.
Speaker 5: Probably Austin, that would be my guess. You know, you
never know. I mean Northwestern State went to Corvallis with
LSU one year and LSU's hosted Utah Valley, Utah Valley
that I think it was a Utah Valley that came
in here. Northeastern came in here one year as well,
which Northeast is really good, and maybe a two seed
this year shout out to Yeah, I uh and look,
I'd take it as my two seed. I know they
won a lot of games, but that's not a team
that's gonna gonna throw up much. Rather them as a
two seed than like Oklahoma, who can't come here, but
you got Kyson Witherspoon stanning you down. The Sno' not
gonna look like that, but you and O I think
would be likely to come here. Like we've seen too
late in the past. We've seen the Southeastern in the past,
We've seen ULM in the past, who've seen ull in
the past. It's just that kind of sends to work
itself out.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, like, what was the latest The
latest one was Arizona is a two seed, Miami's a
three on D one baseball. Miami got just housed by
Cal twelve to two the other day. So now they're
they're kind of, you know, watching and making sure they
don't get their bids stolen. But like Arizona to LSU,
it makes all sense in the world because of the
juicy storyline.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then Coastal was on the other side, and
Coastal obviously has been the baton rouge puncher taken and
they beat Jay Johnson that year in the final, So
there's overlying storylines there. Yeah. I'll be candid like this,
and you know how I'm wired. You're not wired the
same way. Just keep the SEC teams out of here.
Give me somebody it might be a little bit starstruck.
You can tell me about Stonybrook and Coastal all you want.
That's a pretty small sample considering the last thirty years.
I'll take my chances with somebody who's never seen anything
like this, and all the SEC teams have for now
eleven weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a little bit, if it's not un
od like to your point, I'm looking here and I'm like,
there's not that typical Louisiana baseball year where you have
Louisian Tech, who's a really good team, who's going to
make the postseason. You mentioned like the South and conference
champions typically out of Louisiana, US typically always in the postseason,
two lanes typically in the postseason, Like there might only
be one team from Louisiana.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, Southeastern had a good year, but they
didn't get it done when they had to. It's forty
miles outside of Louisiana. But Lamar had a great forty
win season, and obviously with Will Davis waties here, they
didn't get it done in the Southland Tournament. And so
McNeese had an awesome season and they didn't get it
done in the Southland Tournament. So those teams are gonna
come up just a little bit short. So it'll be interesting.
I'll watch the selection show and I'll grind it and
I'll figure out what the path looks like. But it's
you know, I think LSU is in really good shape
right now. I'll have my eye on Florida State tomorrow.
I'll have my eye on Hawaii this week, which today,
which is ridiculous, and I'll have my idea on Oregon
as well. We'll see kind of how things go.
Speaker 1: Explain to our audience to the Hawaii.
Speaker 5: It's overkill, but that's literally my job to analyze this
whole thing. And right now, Oregon State's RPI is ahead
of LSU's. It's six. Their quadrant run record is decent,
it's ten, it's and nine. If Hawaii falls out of
the top sixty and their sixtieth, they lose three wins
and their quad one record goes to under five hundred.
I don't think they're to be feeler clear. I don't
think their case is worth a flip right now. I
feel bad for them, been on the road to their conference,
left them. Yeah, I feel bad about that. They did
a great job trying to put a schedule together, but
they lost all four games to Oregon that they played.
And I don't count a three out of four agans
to why he is doing all that much. But there,
their RPI is good, and right now their quad one
record is comparable, even though a little less than a lsu.
If Hawaii loses today or tomorrow today, then all of
a sudden they lose those quad one wins. And I
it's very difficult for me to find eight teams to
put ahead of Allas. I think Els she's in five.
Speaker 1: Why Big West Tournament, right.
Speaker 5: Big West Tournament? They lost it. They beat the Gauchos.
You see Santa Barbara last night.
Speaker 3: We need to face the Eaters.
Speaker 5: You see you see Ervine today.
Speaker 3: That's right. That's the best team in the.
Speaker 5: Big West, that is, and they play them today.
Speaker 1: So if you're someone of our age, which I'm a man,
I'm forty, I've said a fourteen times all right today,
Big West Baseball used to be like some really good
teams cow.
Speaker 5: Stage at Largach like it. It makes the ten weeks
that we watched the SEC so compelling because Anthony Iinsen
is here, because Tommy White does come here, and that
your heard and Gage Jump do come here, and it
makes it very compelling Jacob Barry comes here. I do
miss that presence out there and going to Omaha and
seeing something different. I mean, unless you get to Omaha,
they're probably playing Arkansas and Tennessee. The first two days
like that's just how it's probably gonna go. That bores
me a little, true, but that just is what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean us growing up, you were going to
see one of those teams out there.
Speaker 5: And Stanford's not as good right now, and UCLA is
not what they once were. And I think Oregon State's
going to die on the vine because the.
Speaker 1: CIA will host a regional but it would be one
of the thirteen to fourteen range somewhere around there. All right, Hunt,
you're the man. We appreciate you hopping on with this.
Me and Matt Flenn's steak dinner confirmed right here in Atlanta.
Know if that was for SEC media days, I truly
appreciate you reaching out and paying for a man who
made thirty million dollars in his NFL career A nice
day dinner in the city where players play.
Speaker 5: Wuffle House got a great stake. We'll hit sho up.
Speaker 1: Don't temp me with a good time, chef Michael Johnson
when we come back here on OTV.
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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back again, OTB. It is Thursday at
nine fifteen, so you know what that means. It is
time for some month cheese questions of with our guys.
Chef Michael Johnson, LSU Executive Chef Chef, always a pleasure.
Hope you're doing well. Today is also R and B Thursday.
As you know, what is your go to R and
B artistes? Man?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean you got to have one.
Speaker 3: You're a chef. I mean.
Speaker 4: It's been a while since I listen to R and B.
I mean I listened to everything, honestly, but nothing striking
my mind right now. I apologize.
Speaker 3: I just go usher. I mean, if you go Usher,
you're not going to be you know, you're not going
to go wrong.
Speaker 4: You don't believe it or not. My first concert I
went to was Boys the Men.
Speaker 3: Wait are you serious? Yeah, okay, so this is funny.
Speaker 1: The first concert that I ever went to was New
Kids on the block and you know who opened for
them boys.
Speaker 3: The men.
Speaker 4: No, you're right, that's that's that's that was it. It
was Boison men opening for you're right, Yeah, that was
the thing.
Speaker 3: See, I knew it.
Speaker 1: I knew it. I mean that's why we're boys. Look,
I mean going out there, new kids on the block
with little boys to men. I can appreciate that. Uh, Chef.
Before we get to Munchie's question, so Hunt Palmer owes
me a steak dinner. He lost a bet, right, and
it was I think it was twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen,
and the bet was that if Kansas won a big
twelve game under less miles any game, he owed me
a steak dinner. Well they did, they won one, they
beat Texas Tech, and we continue to bring it up
time and time again. I feel like like in the
world of food, like that means something like that is
a bet, like a nice steak dinner. How can you
renig on a bet like that when it's been this
long and you see this person every single day?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I can't talk because I've actually renigged
on a bet before some one of my best friends. Yeah,
but our bet was over food, my buddy, I bet
I couldn't eat five. It was like a garon of
cottage cheese and a quart of milking. I drank the
quart of milking and had like three BCEs. It's cheese left.
I looked at him, and it's one hundred bucks right.
And I looked at him. I was like, I got
to stop eating. He's like, I knew you couldn't do it.
I was like, no, I could do it. But if
I eat the three, I just caught his cheese, I'm
never going to be able to eat it again. And
so and so I decided I was going to quit.
And he's still he still fusses at me about that.
Speaker 3: I should he should look at that bet yef if
I'm a little I get it.
Speaker 4: I know I'm shamed about it. Man, And and you
you should. You should get your bet. And and I
probably will make good on my bet before wife is over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you won't. Hashtag munchies. What is your
preferred cut of steak?
Speaker 4: Oh? You know, I'm actually a strip one guy. I
like that. I like the texture of the sirloin and
the strip one. I like the marbling of it. It's
not too fatty. You know, it's it's it's like a
marriage between the ribbi and the and the fla to me,
you know, like it's it's got the firm texture but
not too much that.
Speaker 3: Hashtag munchies.
Speaker 1: Give me some crock pot recipes please, I have Mississippi
as my number one right now.
Speaker 4: Deer roast is actually one of my favorite things to
cook in a pot. Roast that's slow and low. I've
said it before, but I'd take a knife and you
make like little uh hollows with the point of a knife,
and you stuff garlic slippers in there. Let it cook
nice and slow, and it imparts the garlic flavor on them.
And sometimes I'll even blacken it before I go in
there and steer it off. So it's technically it's called
a braize when you do it that way. Instead of
just throwing it in the pot and letting it cook,
you you put it in a pan and steer it
off and then put it in a pot let it cook.
But deer deer roast are one of my favorite things
to cook in there. I mean any large you know,
like uh tops, thurlowering bottom, round stuff like that. Those
are all good things that have a lot of connective
tissues that require a lot of times to cook down
are always gonna work well. Chicken thighs, we are really good.
And I've been in a roast in a cross pot offies.
Let them sit in there, I do. I just sear
those off as well, just to put a little color
on them. A matter of fact, if I'm if I'm
cooking something in liquid, I'm probably going to see it first,
just because I like the caramelized color and flavor on
it before you put it in the liquid.
Speaker 1: Chef, I haven't, like, there's not a dish that I've
had that is involved deer that's been bad. Like, and
I've tried a lot of different ones, a lot of
different types, a lot of different like just straight up
deer and in something mixed in whatever it is, Like,
I still yet to find something I don't enjoy.
Speaker 4: So somebody just introduced me to Day's deer burritos the
other day, and I'm I'm surprised that, you know like it.
Speaker 3: They were.
Speaker 4: They were delicious, you know, and then my son actually
ate three to my to my two, and you know,
so I was like, Okay, well this is gonna work.
So kudos to them. They make. They do make a
good deer.
Speaker 3: Product, all right.
Speaker 1: Hashtag munchies. What are some Bavarian dishes I can make?
Speaker 4: Bavarian? Yeah, you know, like, uh, I like, I like schnitzel.
Speaker 1: Besides that, Sorry I missed that partides yeah.
Speaker 5: Sorry.
Speaker 4: Most of most of the Bavarian dishes that I'm familiar
with are like, you know, some kind of sausage or
or or you know, I like the y or I like, uh,
the warm potato salad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like.
Speaker 4: I like German krout, you know, like and I like
the red crowd instead of the instead of like the
traditional you know, like white sour crowd. They have a
red crow. Could. I've not spent a lot of time
in Germany. I mean most of most of the most
of the Bavarian things that I'm familiar with our pastries
instead of instead of actually food language. Yeah, I do
have a little bit of a sweet tooth. I keep
hitting most time. But German pastries and Bavarian pastries are delicious. Man,
they do them right.
Speaker 1: Hashtag munchies. Favorite chef or restaurant.
Speaker 4: Movie mm hmm, the one. There's there's two actually, and
you're gonna laugh at me because of the first one
because it's gratitude he.
Speaker 3: Chef. I literally watched Ratitude with my daughter last night.
Speaker 4: God yeah, I love Ratitude. It does it portrays the
traditional kitchen, the French kitchen with the you know, exceptionally accurately.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: The other one is the one the menu where yeah, yeah, yeah,
I kind of like how they poke at all the
different types of foodies out there a little bit, you
know that they think that, you know, that the restaurant
belongs to them, must suppose, and I don't know. It's
kind of a poke back, you know, And I like that.
But also I like the ending where he acknowledges, you know,
the young lady and gives her the burger. Beat her
gives her gives her life because uh, you know, she
she pays attention to the details and and you know,
back asked for a burger. And sometimes it just it
is just about how you get your start, you know.
I mean that's I mean, I started my way up.
I hate to admit this on radio right now, but
the first one of the first jobs that I had
in the kitchen was actually at a taco bell.
Speaker 3: And a taco bell my nothing's better.
Speaker 4: Well, especially when you're sixteen years old, right right, yeah,
I uh yeah, that was real. And I've never gone
back to fast food because it's my experience.
Speaker 3: Right, so all you need to say, right, yeah, easy
for me not.
Speaker 4: To eat fast food because of my experience.
Speaker 1: They're all, oh yeah, I think we all probably know
that movie still continue to do it for some unknown
reason hashtag munchies. If you were to start your own
food competition show, what would the challenges be?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Who would you get to be the judges?
Speaker 4: That's a good one, man. I always like, you know,
like iron Chef style, and I think you've got to
have some really high class judges from around and the chefs.
I mean, it would be kind of cool to do
it instead of in sort of instead of world cuisine
have one focus. And I don't know, maybe this happens
and I just don't watch TV, but specifically on the
regions of the United States or the or the Americas
that that are like Southwest and Cajun Creole, you know,
like Northeast. I mean, you would probably wouldn't have too
many Midwestern competitions there, but the I don't know, I
think you have to have somebody who really knows food
well A well renowned chef. I think, you know, like
Ja Jacques Papan comes to mind because he just understands
food very well. I kind of like the idea of
having somebody famous there, you know, just because it it
attracts people right among people you know, kind of pay
attention to that. I think I think it would be
kind of neat to have somebody young there, like it's
not a out but you know, like it's a teen
or something, because you know, kids have different taste, but
they do than adults do. So it's somewhere or a
mixture of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is like, Okay, I don't want to put one
in your brain. I'll ask you the broad question. You
mentioned regions here in this country, which one do you
think is the hardest to replicate? Like of different regions
southwest and here in Louisiana Northeast, whatever, like, which one
do you think was the most difficult to make it
feel authentic?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know about authenticity, but I think
because so many people in Louisiana in particular, you know,
like they have such varying ideas of what one particular dishes, right,
Like gumbo has a broad spectrum of flavors and textures
across Louisiana. I think, you know, like the South to
the South in particular, Louisiana has to be one of
the more complicated ones because just when you think you
have the recipe down, you know, you have somebody that
comes in says, that's not how we do it. From
where I'm from, I means even crawfish, you know, like
I mean, there's there's there's.
Speaker 1: A there's crawfish. Right, yeah, yeah, right, you know, yeah, yeah,
for sure definitely does just that. Definitely now does in Chicago.
So yeah, it's a great answer. I'm right there with
you because you can have seventeen different answers from seventeen
different people in Louisiana.
Speaker 4: You know, go ahead, Well, I want to go back
to your Q, your question about the about the cooking competition,
because this is something that always has bothered me. I
think the competition have you seen have you seen the
competition that's about sword making. It's like uh yea yeah,
forged fortune fire there you go. So I think it
would be kind of neat to have the competition change
like that, where you have a couple of quick competitions,
but the last competition you can take as much time
as you want. Yeah, you know, because it's reminiscent of
the restaurant to have these old crap moments where you
have to throw something together. But look, chefs, you're not
going to get the top quality food out of them
unless you let them fully prepare the dish, and really
wonderful dishes aren't prepared in thirty minutes or aren't prepared
in one hour. You know, like if you take barbecue,
for instance, you know that's a three day process if
you're doing it right. I think, you know, smoking or
brazing or even preparing foods, you know, like brining it,
resting it, seasoning it. I think that that would probably
be a piece of it and allow the competition to
take some time.
Speaker 1: That's actually really well said, because I didn't even thought
about that. There are certain foods that, yeah, they're just
better with time and you're rushing.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's actually a good point.
Speaker 1: Hey, maybe, like I've had TV shows I've tried to
pitch before about don't don't call it a comeback with
old football players, maybe we can pitch this one as
well and just put them all together.
Speaker 3: So there we go.
Speaker 4: I mean a football player. An athlete on the judging
panel will make sense, you know, I mean everybody put
him on there, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, maybe he'll wear his true three X shirt
that they shouldn't set in that exhal All right, last
one here, chef hashtag munchies. What is the strangest theme
you've ever been directed to cater toward?
Speaker 4: Seem so?
Speaker 1: I guess maybe if you've been catering something, Hey, here's
the vibe of the party, here's what we kind of want.
Speaker 4: Gosh, I've I've catered a lot of different things, man,
I mean I've catered for mitzvahs and and and you know,
like I I can't think of I don't know if
I catered an electric music party one time, which was
pretty exactly like these people are not eating food. So
that that was I admired. So Paul Allen when he
was alive, you know, he would have these electric music
nights at at one of the facilities that he owned,
and it was meant to give the city kids kind
of comfort and a play to go to. It's you know,
like they they knew what was going on there. It
was open. It was openly allowed for them to do
what they needed to as long as it was you know,
like within you know, like they couldn't leave the building.
And if you know, like they were going to the
bathroom to do something, you know, like it was allowed,
but you couldn't come in and out. And I don't
know they weren't. They weren't using drugs right in front
of you, but you knew that everybody there was on drugs,
you know what I mean. But they also had paramedics
there and they had you know, like it was it
was a controlled environment. Yeah, so I could I guess
I could respect what it was to some degree, but
having food there just did not to me, you know.
So yeah, that was probably one of the oddest things
that catered to Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that feels like that.
Speaker 1: That one certainly should be up in the conversation. Chef,
you're the man. We appreciate. We look forward to it
every single Thursday. Enjoyed the long weekend, and we'll catch
up again with you next week.
Speaker 4: Take care, Jake.
Speaker 1: All right, Chef Michael John some executive chef there for
LSU Athletics. All right, when we come back, there is
some news involving a Saints quarterback, one that's actually still
on the roster, some injury news when we come.
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four five ESPN Baton Rouge. As we know, the New
Orleans Saints quarterback competition is really starting to heat up.
It is now a three man race. As Derek Carr
retires from the Saints clears the picture a little bit.
So Tyler Shuck, Spencer Rattler, Jake Haynes going to be
in that quarterback battle. All very young quarterbacks, third year,
second year, rookie players. And we're wondering, you know, would
they bring in a veteran quarterback. Would it be Aaron
Rodgers or maybe even like a journeyman somebody else that's
played maybe eight to ten years and they've started a
handful of games, maybe even more of a career backup,
but just to have a veteran presence in that room.
It doesn't look like the Saints are going to do that.
It looks like they're going to roll with these three
quarterbacks in an open competition. But one of the quarterbacks
is injured and it is quarterback Jake Hayner. So Adam
Schefter put it out there a little bit earlier in
the tweet, reads like this, Saints quarterback Jake Hayner, part
of a three way competition to become the team starting quarterback,
suffered an oblique strain at the end of Wednesday's practice
and is now expected to miss a couple of weeks.
Hayn likely will miss the remainder of OTAs, but is
expected to be ready for the start of training camp. Now,
I do feel like this is important because Jay caner,
he's got starts.
Speaker 3: They did draft him in the fourth round.
Speaker 1: Remember they drafted him ahead of you know where they
drafted Spencer rather not in the same draft. But one's
a fourth round pick, one's a fifth round pick. But
this is Look, this is a time where you want
to put your best foot forward. You want to be
in the quarterback competition. You want to be throwing with
your receivers, with your tight ends, with your running backs.
Because just because you're not in New Orleans does not
mean you're not going to get together like these quarterbacks
and they're all going to maybe be in different spots,
but like they'll invite you out to their hometown or
they'll invite you to a campus or they'll stay in
the city, and you'll go out there and you'll throw
even when the team's not all together. And that's where
like organically, like you start to maybe separate yourself from
some of the other quarterbacks if you can create that
relationship with your receivers like Peyton used to. Peyton Manning
used to have everybody at Duke and you go to Duke,
or you'd go to Manning Passing Academy in Tipodeau and
you go out there and you run route for Peyton
Manning and like he wanted to create kind of that chemistry. Now,
Peyton Manny wasn't in a quarterback competition obviously, but I'm
giving you an example of what goes on even when
you're not there in New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Like leading in to training camp.
Speaker 1: And so Jay Cayner to me, was always number three
in this battle already, and it's going to be between
Spencer Rattler and Tyler Shuck. Jay Cayner is somebody that
I think maybe still makes the roster, but I didn't
really know where he fit in in the quarterback competition,
and now this certainly is going to put him behind
the eight ball. And so now we turn our attention
as most of us already did, but certainly now with
this injury, even more so to Spencer Rattler and Tyler Shuck.
And I can tell you, look, I actually I talked
with Tyler Shuck yesterday. I was supposed to record an
interview with him. It was six point thirty and he
like reached out. He's like, oh my gosh, I am
so sorry. I am actually still in the quarterback room.
We are still watching tape, like in it was six
twenty five at night, and during OTAs that doesn't happen
right OTA is typically you're done like two o'clock maybe
three at the latest, and then you go back home
and you get back up there early the next morning.
But it's not like these long days like it is
during the season during training camp. But that's what they're doing,
that's what's going on right now. He's like, look, I
got this meeting. I got that meeting, and I'm like,
my guy, I have been through this. I understand. But
it's been refreshing, like kind of having conversations with him
because like Tyler Shuck's ready to go, Like all jokes aside,
this is somebody who's incredibly mature. We know he's going
to turn twenty six when the season starts, but this
is somebody he's married, like he's been settled down.
Speaker 3: He is all focused on ball all the time.
Speaker 1: Every time I've talked with Tyler Shuck, he has been
doing something in a meeting room, throwing session on the side,
whatever it might be. So when you look at his frame,
which is different than anybody else in this competition, right,
he's every bit of six'. Five he's got the strong,
arm he's got the leadership, qualities but he's also got some. Speed,
right ran a very impressive forty at THE Nfl. Combine
when you look at how he's preparing to be the,
Starter i'm not saying That Spencer rattler's not Like Spencer.
Raler to me is somebody that completely humbled, himself like
in the best way. Possible we all saw The netflix
show and as a seventeen year, old, look we all be,
idiots and for seventeen on a, CAMERA i KNOW i would.
Be if you say you, wouldn't you're lying to. Yourself we're, seventeen,
right And i've been a part of those reality. Shows, hey, producers, like,
hey do, this so you're, seventeen so you go do.
IT i don't base my you, know judgment On Spencer
raler off that, show but getting to Know Spencer rattler
at The Senior bowl and following him like this is
somebody humbled himself matured throughout the entire. Process like you
talk With Shane beemer and like he can't say enough
great things About Spencer ratler and who he. Is so,
Like Spencer ratler's in this, Competition BUT i bring up
all the things That Tyler shuck's doing right now BECAUSE
i do think he's the most talented of the quarterback.
ROOM i think if he doesn't go through those injuries
that he went through in, college we know Who Tyler shuck.
Is i'm, saying like we like household name type stuff
before THIS nfl draft because a lot of people, say,
well it feels like he's like just now came onto the,
Scene like we don't really. Know it's like a one hit,
wonder a one year sample. Size it's because he went
through some major, injuries and injuries are a concern for
him because he has been through multiple and multiple different.
Places but if he was, healthy because when he was,
healthy he played, really really. Well so now this to,
me it was already turning itself into a two quarterback,
battle And Jake caner was on the outside looking. In
now that he's injured, oblique that's one of those ones
where if you rush it back one, throw you're right
back to ground. Zero SO i think he's.
Speaker 3: OUT i do. IT i know it's.
Speaker 1: Early we're sitting here may the twenty. Second i'm kind
of calling it, LIKE i think that he was all right,
there but now at this, injury it truly does feel
like it is a two person quarterback. Race AND i
would Say Tyler shuck does have right now elite On Spencer.
Ratler even Though Spencer ratler started games last. Year he
threw for thirteen hundred plus, yards he threw for four,
scores did have the five, Interceptions but it's not enough
of a sample SIZE i think to, say, well he's got,
starts he's a.
Speaker 3: Veteran he's not a. VETERAN i, mean he's a second year.
Speaker 1: Player so at the end of the, day you Selected
Tyler shuck fortieth, overall the highest quarterback you've taken since Arch.
Speaker 3: Manning Archie.
Speaker 1: Manning we all know that, Right so now to a
two person, RACE i think you'll start to really see
him hone in on who the guy is going to
be moving. Forward cannot wait to see What Kellen moore,
like what this offense is going to look?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Like what is going to be the identity of this?
Offense you look at the, weapons you look at the.
Pieces what is going to be the calling card for?
Them Is Keller moore is somebody That he's had different.
Quarterbacks he's Had Dak, prescott he's had certainly Justin herbert
there In la almost said San diego almost do that
every time he Had Jalen hurts In. Philly, Right all
different quarterbacks, now all very capable like mobile type. Quarterbacks
AND i Know herbert doesn't get a lot of credit
for what he can do with his, legs but check
out the.
Speaker 3: Stats we know What hurts can.
Speaker 1: Do we know Like Dak prescott the same way like
we know he's athletic enough to be able to make
a play with his.
Speaker 3: Legs both these.
Speaker 1: Quarterbacks Spencer ratler And Tyler, SHUCK i think can give
you That Tyler shuck is the more athletic. Quarterback, again
check out the tail of the. Tape check out what
he did at THE Nfl. Combine so for like for
all those reasons that laid out, there the, frame the,
maturity the athletic, ability the bigger. ARM i do Think
Tyler shuck's going to be your starting quarterback whenever we
get to the end Of. August and now because of
this injury, AGAIN i already felt strongly that it was
going to be a two man, race but NOW i
can almost guarantee it's going to be a two main
race With Jay canter going to be out for the
rest of the off season and try to get ready
for training camp there for The.
Speaker 3: Saints all, right.
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