Speaker 1: What's happening, y'all? Welcome here, No TB hour, no model, trash,
hair on off the bench. Oh, everybody's having a great day.
Uh it is Friday. I'm officially we're done. Okay, guys,
we're yeah, we're done.
Speaker 2: We're done.
Speaker 3: That's not a better day. If this mic was crack.
Speaker 2: Over this bottle of champagne. What's going on the mic?
Speaker 4: It's suffering from a tad bit of.
Speaker 3: That stuff. Is not something you want to overuse, I
told him.
Speaker 2: Not something I feel like I breathed it in. I
feel like I have.
Speaker 3: Like your hair later is going to be sticky.
Speaker 2: When he wash you just wash it in like condition
it then and you can. But if you if you're
not planning on doing it anytime soon.
Speaker 3: Right now, you have to wash your hair like soon.
Speaker 2: I washed my hair.
Speaker 5: Use that stuff whenever you know you're gonna like be
like for like I used that kind of stuff for
like events.
Speaker 2: Really, I don't understand how it works. So it's a powder.
Speaker 5: Yep, you're hitting into the science of it. No, one,
we don't know the science.
Speaker 2: Look what it's called. I showed Jake and he was
like called great table went out schwing chewing swing showing
shout out, what is that? Wayne World? Wines World? Yeah, jeez, God,
I don't know.
Speaker 3: What to do here. I feel like I've been drinking
lions mean you keep blinking.
Speaker 6: Uh, no, I have been, but not even lions Man
can combat the brain fog. Which that was probably the
craziest part of it. Was the entire three days. It
just felt like my head like somebody had taken liquid
and just poured it into my brain. Like everything just
felt so tight and compressed, and it couldn't form a thought.
Speaker 3: You did not look great on I guess it was Monday.
Speaker 2: No, it was Tuesday. That's when I was starting to
feel bad.
Speaker 3: Was it Tuesday that when I came in your office?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was like I'd gotten some stuff done and
the show was over, and I, uh, normally t Bob
after the show, he like puts his stuff in the office.
Speaker 3: And then comes by my office and makes coffee.
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, did he leave without like
saying anything whatever, it's fine, just use me for my coffee.
And I like went in and his door was shut,
so I was like, he for real left and I
kind of like did a little knock nothing and I
opened it and then I look in and t Bob's
like on his tiny couch.
Speaker 2: Tiny couch.
Speaker 6: I cannot he was sleeping.
Speaker 2: I've never seen him that bad.
Speaker 7: And I've seen him come in this studio after being
out at Harris till like four am in New Orleans
and then come do this show and be better than
he was on Tuesday.
Speaker 8: He was in that one morning and he was like, guys,
I'm I'm I'm heading that way. He got here like
five minutes for the show and he was like, guys,
we were at the pool at the same Francisville Inn
or whatever until like three A and he's like, I
did not go to sleep last night.
Speaker 4: He's like, I'm just driving.
Speaker 2: Probably three shows where I've come in no sleep, but well.
Speaker 5: And the last part is I actually didn't. I didn't
realize you weren't feeling well. So like i'd seen Jake
leave and you had been like kind of walking up
and down the hall seeming like you were in a
bad mood.
Speaker 3: And so I asked it. I was like, what's going
on with tea Bob? And he's like, oh, I couldn't
find his wallet or something.
Speaker 5: I thought having a bad day like you were pouting
about your wallet.
Speaker 6: I was like, well I was, yes, No, no, I was, though,
so it was it was weird. So I I was
feeling god awful, but I thought it was because like
I had only slept like two hours the night before
because kids were climbing out of bed and everything, and
I had woken up just in a sour mood. I
couldn't find anything. I went and worked out. I thought
that'd make me feel better.
Speaker 2: It didn't.
Speaker 6: And then like, yeah, I was like running late, couldn't
find anything, blah blah blah, and so yes.
Speaker 2: It was a bad mood.
Speaker 6: And then uh, eventually, finally at the very end of
the day, I was like, you know what, I think
I actually may be sick. And that's when I texted
you and said I'm not coming in on Wednesday. And
then good, I'm glad that I actually was, though, because
I was feeling guilty on Wednesday, even though I still
felt bad because like, I don't know, you know, you
never know if you're actually sick or not until you
until you get it confirmed by the doctor.
Speaker 3: There was always a really good chance that you weren't.
Speaker 8: Saying he called me Tuesday, it's the morning it's the
last thing baby.
Speaker 2: Fair for the most, fair for most.
Speaker 7: I will say fair, universal truth, but I will say
t Bob's usually really strong willed.
Speaker 2: When he's sick, He'll still come in here. Yeah. I
never I never skipped this job.
Speaker 3: I'm not afraid to spread germs.
Speaker 2: What do we do it?
Speaker 8: That part too, I can tell something was up. So
he calls me Tuesday morning. He's like, hey, man, I'm
sorry to do this. Can you come let me in downstairs? Like,
oh yeah, it's not the big of a deal.
Speaker 2: Go all the way down.
Speaker 8: So I let him in and he walks in. He goes, sorry,
I don't have my wallet. It's not going well, and
he's like and then he then he looks and he goes,
I'm just gonna take the elevator. He just like sadly
did not yell, He did not insult me. Something bad
has happened, and just walked off. And I was like,
oh my god.
Speaker 5: Yea feeling though to like break off with someone who's
about to go up the steps.
Speaker 6: And then I didn't have the uh the energy. Today
is the first day where I kind of felt human again.
Even though during this workout.
Speaker 2: Your wallet because you didn't call me this morning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 7: He always finds it. Yeah, he really does. He loses
it a lot.
Speaker 6: Caitln had it and just kept having it and he
didn't get it back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I do understand that.
Speaker 5: Like sometimes it's probably the reverse thing, like I'll go
somewhere and I don't want to take my purse, and
so I'll give Kevin my I D for example, Yeah,
and he'll keep it in his wallet.
Speaker 2: But then for like two weeks, Yeah, just because you
keep forgetting need it until I need it, Yes.
Speaker 6: And then you forget that you need it when you
don't need it, and until you never get it back.
Speaker 2: It's kind of one of those.
Speaker 3: This is a really we sound all of us. We're
all like struggle.
Speaker 6: It's not great. It's not great. Apparently it's going around.
I will say though, shout out to I should have
remembered the pill name, the fluorinae. It's something like florin
you know, of course it's something with Z and flu
in it.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't covered by insurance. Uh. It was a
little prices one hundred bus I is that it Google
that sounds that sounds that helps with glue? Okay, yeah,
that sounds right. So it was like one hundred bucks.
It was one pill.
Speaker 6: And I am now about uh when I took it
on Wednesday. Yeah, I mean pretty much like it got
me at least back. I don't feel great, but it
got me back to being functional in twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Of steroids shot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a steroid shot girly.
Speaker 2: One thing about me.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go get a steroids Yeah.
Speaker 3: Every time I go in there, Like, how do you
feel about shots?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: I feel great?
Speaker 2: Yeah, trying to get better?
Speaker 3: What can we do here?
Speaker 2: What's the fastest way you can get If I could
get one once a week, I would if I could.
Speaker 5: It makes you feel great and then the only the
only bad thing is like I don't know however, many
hours later, you just start sweating, like you just like
steroid shots just get you sweating. I remember the last one.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: Seriously I had to go coach.
Speaker 5: Like a like a kindergarten basketball or practice, and I'm
like running around the court. There's kindergarteners. I'm just trying
to wrangle and I am sweating. I look like someone
who is like needing their next.
Speaker 2: River.
Speaker 8: Sticks her coat off. She's like Bruce Pearl and who
else Buzz Williams he can.
Speaker 2: And he goes three piece. Buzz know thyself, dude, what
do you do?
Speaker 3: Crazy?
Speaker 2: And you're sweating like you stole something?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but isn't that decision show life?
Speaker 2: But isn't that?
Speaker 6: Isn't that like Buzz being like, look how hard I work?
You know, like, look I like this, this this.
Speaker 2: Ish matters to me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but you that you you can tell the guy
that always like in football, made the coaches. I think
he was working harder, Like, never liked that guy.
Speaker 2: You didn't either. Do you remember, though, how proud you
were growing up the first time where you had a
workout where you had like sweat, like show up on
your chair, on your grade, your great teacher. It's a
very real thing. Yeah.
Speaker 5: For me, that was actually in fifth grade when we
started having to run that mile or what.
Speaker 3: I think T Bob and I were talking about it.
Speaker 5: But the way that my school did it, so we
had pee like once a week, we had to go
in our jeans and our regular clothes to pe like
we didn't change the uniforms.
Speaker 3: We were in public school, I mean.
Speaker 2: In middle school, public school. I did to.
Speaker 3: Literally saying they would have had to purchase those.
Speaker 7: The short shorts were like cardivoard.
Speaker 2: Until changed. I'm talking middle school change.
Speaker 5: So the point is is I'm out there in pee,
you know, in Starkville, Mississippi, towards the end of the year.
Speaker 3: It's so hot, I'm wearing jeans. They're making me run
a mile.
Speaker 5: But the way that it worked is every single kid,
every time they went to pee, had to run until
they did it in eight minutes. Every time you went
to pee, you had to run until you could do
it in eight minutes. If you did not do it,
if you finished it in over eight minutes, you got
you had to sit down and you couldn't play in pee, and.
Speaker 2: Then eight minutes. It is kind of booking it. That's what.
Speaker 3: Raiders.
Speaker 2: I don't know, that's what I remember, make any sense.
Speaker 5: So I was running that mile quite a lot in
the fifth grade in my jeans, and then I had
to go back to class and I smelled like one
of those puppy dogs you let outside.
Speaker 3: And like runs around too hard. You know when that smell.
Speaker 5: I'm talking a lot, like every one of us smelled
like that, And I'm sure that teacher was like, what
is going on. That's like visceral memory of just being
sweaty in public in front of people.
Speaker 6: I just remember during those presidential fitness months that you'd
have to run a mile in the earlier that you
got done, you got to go play. And I was
such a slow runner that I would just slowly but
surely have to watch everybody else get to play around
me longer.
Speaker 2: At that point, shebby, but was still just.
Speaker 6: Like breathing heavy, barely making jogging around the gym.
Speaker 5: I wish someone had given me cardboard shorts. I would
have definitely preferred that.
Speaker 2: When did I start? When do you start changing? For Peteer?
Speaker 4: We started, like you talking about like a uniform.
Speaker 2: Yeah, junior for me, probably junior high.
Speaker 5: After sixth grade, we didn't have to take it was
like a thing you had to choose, Like it was
like a class who chose.
Speaker 2: And started doing football.
Speaker 3: Right, So that's about like.
Speaker 5: So like you had cheerleading or you had basketball or
football or whatever.
Speaker 3: So I stopped doing p in sixth grade. People started
changing then.
Speaker 8: I don't know for us, our morning workout like football
class was like our pe.
Speaker 2: What's the best pe game?
Speaker 3: Four square?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I agree, dodgeball.
Speaker 5: But I feel like four square you could have a
lot of four square happening at once if you.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just feel like your four.
Speaker 6: Balls fun, Yeah, was so underrated, Like that's an actual yes,
tether ball is very very fun as well.
Speaker 7: Have you all ever heard Ronnie Rance tell his story
about running for l s U baseball?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, so jumbo.
Speaker 7: So skip was big about I think it was like
three miles two miles some some mile kind of run
and Ronnie talks about like he could never get it done,
like he just he couldn't do it, and it was
around l shu's campus, and so he would like go
and write, run to the dairy on campus and like
get ice cream and then like fall back in line
with the guys as they were as they were coming
on their second lap or whatever.
Speaker 2: No, because he was really good to write, like if
you can play really good, then I mean I can
see Ronnie being really slide doing that.
Speaker 3: So it never find out that he was doing that
apparently a last.
Speaker 8: Two years in high school track, So I was a
sprinter and I was like, why do we have to
run a half mile warm up? Because they made a
stake two whole lives for our warm up before practice, Well,
we would run like on the track at the football stadium.
So we would get all the way down the first
hundred meter, I would take the right, go under the
bleachers to the bathrooms that are right under there, and
then join everybody else. So I did like one lap.
I would join in on the last lap and then finish.
I would have been scared. Two years we did that,
never got caught.
Speaker 2: Never got caught in two years.
Speaker 4: For me, it was like me and like three or four.
Speaker 3: If you pose, then you start to feel a little
more confident.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no way though, but that's also how you get caught. Right.
So what's the old saying, what's the only way to
keep a secret? I don't know what.
Speaker 4: It's like if two people are making sure that.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's there's something all lines of Basically, yeah, the
only way to keep secret is to kill anybody else
who knows.
Speaker 4: So it's funny.
Speaker 8: My best friend did not run track with me as
a junior, but his senior year he joined the team
and like me and the other guy told him, we're
like okay, but like this is how we do the warming. Like,
if you're joining the team, you've gotta do the warm
up training.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we recruited.
Speaker 3: Hey, cool man, he's a secret if one of them
is dead.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I don't know why. I never share it
with anyone.
Speaker 3: Me laughed so hard.
Speaker 5: Tailor the kind of kid that do not freeze during
freeze tag.
Speaker 2: Well, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 4: Games?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 7: I got I have to tell one more. Okay, you
weren't you weren't here yet. The guy's name is Lavelle Hawkins.
Speaker 2: I've heard of.
Speaker 7: Lavell ended up going to cal being an All Conference
player playing in the NFL for like seven eight years,
but he signed with LSU out of California. Well, he
came on his visit during the fall, so the weather
wasn't bad, you know, it wasn't true like South Louisiana
heat or whatever.
Speaker 2: So we're running our one ten tests inside the stadium
that's where we used to do it with Moffatt. And
he's running and he's complaining. He I mean, he's sweating.
Speaker 7: He's from California, Like he's like, what in the hell
did I get myself into? So, like we're not even
to the teen yet, and he just runs his one
ten into the locker room.
Speaker 2: Never stops. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: He goes under the still a goal post, just goes
into the locker room and whatever.
Speaker 2: So we finish our tests and then we go back in.
Speaker 7: He showered up and got like a duffel bag, and
all he says is it is too hot.
Speaker 2: Fam, I ain't built for this. I'm going home.
Speaker 7: What got on a flight, went back to California. We
never heard from him again, went to Juco, went to
cal was all packed twelve.
Speaker 2: Played in the NFL for ever six years, played six
years and he was like, yeah.
Speaker 7: I talked to him later on, like in the NFL
we laugh about it, and he's like, yeah, Jimbo lied
to me. He said it was like this all the
time here. He said it wasn't he never got.
Speaker 2: Yeah, He's like, it never really got that hot. He
lied to me.
Speaker 7: Can you imagine you're coming to like fall Baton Rouge
and all of a sudden you're in Tiger Stadium, the
hottest place on Earth, running one tens and you just quit.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 6: I just can't imagine to having the balls just be
like I'm out, Like.
Speaker 2: It was so good and I'm going home. You know.
My parents brought all my stuff into the dorm and
everything else. But we never we never saw him again.
Speaker 7: You can ask Flynn about it.
Speaker 6: So nope, all right, guys, when we get back more
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I discovered something new every time. So they have a
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I think I had some shrimp egg rolls or shrimp rangoons.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look at that welcome back.
Speaker 6: This is the last hour here on Friday, and off
the bench Champagne Shananigans rolling along.
Speaker 2: Have you all seen all the studio ghibli memes making
every everybody turning everything into studio ghibli?
Speaker 5: Do you all knowferent language ghibli?
Speaker 2: I guess maybe as well.
Speaker 4: I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2: You know, literally nothing spirited away.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, wait, you.
Speaker 2: Haven't even seen the the have you seen? Okay?
Speaker 6: So then have you been confused why there's so many
animated pictures, like animated ver I'm.
Speaker 5: Never gonna anything that's on the internet. I'm just like,
that's just something people are doing.
Speaker 2: Have you seen it though? Yeah? I just saw one
of you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's one of you Oh really yeah, teapot. Oh
the that thing. There's another one he did. He did
your picture of you in the Mississippi State T shirt.
Uh is it in the animated it's on it's on Twitter.
Speaker 4: He like, no, it's not. I just looked.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know. I it's not the same thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait, so tailor not even your chronically online I'm
so proud of it. I'm always behind.
Speaker 3: I never heard of the line, and I have never
heard of this.
Speaker 6: No, I'm saying you haven't seen any like pictures like this,
like making the rounds the last couple of days.
Speaker 2: It's literally everything.
Speaker 3: It's just but.
Speaker 5: Animated all the time. I don't know, like what's related
to each other?
Speaker 2: Posted once? That's where I saw it. Yes, okay, right,
so all that stuff. So it's a lot of build up.
Speaker 3: How where's the story going?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Really cool, No, I'm kind of I'm
kind of shocked.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, I don't want to call y'all
on culture.
Speaker 5: This is where this is where I disagree. I've gotten
to a point because I am chronically online, so I
do see a lot of things. I think I'm better
able now to to know where I should be allocating
my mental capacity and where I should not. And I
think that probably I saw those and was like, that's
not where I'm going to allocate.
Speaker 2: Uh you.
Speaker 5: Just I think that there's some other dumb things that
could really go in my brain better.
Speaker 6: Well, anyway, Studio Ghibli is like, yes, this type stuff.
Speaker 4: That's the famous.
Speaker 6: So I don't know why it's become a It's but
that's not it's not technically just animely that is firmly
Studio Ghibli. It's like, I don't know why it's become
a thing lately.
Speaker 3: To take all the video Ghibli a person a thing.
Speaker 6: It's a studio started by Hilmazaki back in the day.
It's been very famous for a lot of years. You ever,
do you remember, uh, spirited Away winning like Best Foreign
Film at the Oscars back in the day. You ever
seen Ponyo if your kids ever seen Ponya spirited away
house moving castle.
Speaker 4: I remember this meme the little girl looking with the
fire behind.
Speaker 2: It cars my neighbor Totoro one of the greatest movies ever.
Speaker 3: You're hitting just.
Speaker 5: Striking anyway, I'm sorry, is incredible and.
Speaker 3: I'll commit to some of that I'll check it out.
Speaker 2: So I just figured. I just figured.
Speaker 6: That, yes, so that's all in the Ghibli form whatever.
Speaker 2: I just figured because it was so.
Speaker 6: Prevalent online that maybe you would have been like, oh,
what's the studio Ghibli thing. And one of the best
studio ghiblet movies, Princess Monoke, is actually in Imax this
weekend being re released in theaters.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I have since Tuesday, which is when I started, not
like an appropriate time like Monday or the week before.
Since Tuesday have been writing that article that I published yesterday.
So for two straight days that's what I was done.
Speaker 2: With interwove people.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I don't know why. Tuesday was the day
I decided. I was like, this is a good idea.
Let's see how many interviews I can schedule in two days.
It really was more of a like I said, Monday
job or maybe last Wednesday job, but uh nope. And
so once I had committed to wanting to do it though,
I was like, I'm gonna do this, and I even didn't.
There was like three people left that I did not interview,
which I'm like, don't you worry.
Speaker 3: I'll find a way to talk to you.
Speaker 5: So like Jonathan papal Von Ben McDonald and then Andy Canazero.
I was supposed to talk to them all yesterday. But
the problem is Andy he is he's a scout. No,
he's a scout for the Dodgers now uh oh really
or he's like in a coach slash scout position but
funny enough. So I was planning to talk to them yesterday,
have this thing published by today. I was talking to
Doug Thompson and you know, we're just finishing up our conversations,
like yeah, he was like, you know, let me ask
him these questions to skip. I was like, great, if
you could get them to me by Friday morning, they'll
be perfect, then I can get it all.
Speaker 3: So I was like, if I'm trying to get it
out before the series starts, he was like, He's like,
I got some bad news for you. And I was
like what. She was like, series starts on Thursday, and.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, which happens very rarely.
Speaker 5: I was like when he was like, since never, like,
but this series TV broadcaster, there.
Speaker 2: Are a couple of last season.
Speaker 3: Don't think about our series being I like it.
Speaker 5: So I'm like this is when like this is Wednesday,
I'm on the phone with Dougie and he and he
breaks the news to me, and then I'm like panic mode.
And so then I ended up not getting to talk
to a couple, which we had so many quotes like
I got a steroid shot, I was sweating, and so
I was like, well, really, of those three, I really
wanted Canna zero because I talked about the twenty seventeen
season and so I really wanted his insight and just yes, he.
Speaker 3: Was at LSU.
Speaker 5: He was there, but then specifically that that season, a
lot of people like Dykman mentioned him and and Brent
mentioned him, and so like I wanted to talk to him,
but I couldn't. And then how Gond's from here? He's
from here, and then he went to Mississippi State. Yeah,
so that would have been That's a cool, like story.
Plus McDonald's you know, he's just all sec guy. He's
just everyone loves him.
Speaker 3: New people want to I always.
Speaker 2: Wonder how Ben does all the work that he.
Speaker 3: Does, Like he's he's at Oriole. He's like the Oriole
stuff right now, Like Baltimore.
Speaker 6: One thing he did spring training, the next he's calling
l s US like like wherever they're at neck, like maybe.
Speaker 2: The dog does he just I mean, I guess does it? Well,
I guess it's like.
Speaker 6: The baseball if you're a professional baseball player, maybe that's
just a lifestyle.
Speaker 2: You don't know, any different than just traveling and seven.
Speaker 5: But well, but but you know what I was so
impressed with, Like again, I started doing this on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: I started reaching out to all these people.
Speaker 5: Some of them who are still and working and like,
and opening day was yesterday, and every single one of them,
every person who I reached out to, got back to
me and was like, yes, absolutely, and like, I know
y'all have stuff going on.
Speaker 3: And I even said that.
Speaker 5: I was like, hey, if you don't have time for
a call, like I could email you these questions.
Speaker 3: Not a big deal.
Speaker 5: Everybody was so excited to be involved, and I had
such a good time.
Speaker 3: There was so much that.
Speaker 5: People told me that I didn't include in the story
just because it wasn't applicable and like it would have
just been a monster of information. But I could tell
everybody I talked to really enjoyed it as well, Like
they were getting to sit there and talk about these
memories and so like I talked to Doug, and he
was like, Hey, do you want me to ask if
these questions? And I was like, oh my gosh, yes,
But like I was like, I thought about reaching out
to him, but I know that this is just a
really tough time for him, and I don't want to
bother him. This is silly, Like I want him to
have his time. And he was like, well, here's the deal.
I'm taking him lunch today. How about I show him
some of these questions just see if.
Speaker 3: He has any thoughts.
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, that would be amazing, Like
whatever you think, you gauge and let me know.
Speaker 3: So he goes. He calls me afterwards. He was like,
I have to thank you.
Speaker 5: He was like, because I sat down and I showed
him the questions and I told him some of my answers.
He was like and for the next hour, I know,
he was like for the next hour, SKIP sat there
and he talked. He answered all your questions, and then
he talked about all these other stories and like he
started talking about Mississippi State players and games that he
wasn't even a part of. He could remember who, which
pictures were switched out, and who was batting in what
order From like the eighties, you know, And and then
he even talked about like so this was included in
my story, but not something.
Speaker 3: That I asked or whatever.
Speaker 5: He talked about how when he was in Miami he
actually recruited Palmero because he was big in Miami, and
you know, obviously Miami was a huge baseball place in
the seventies. And so then he comes to LSU and
how Maria had gone Mississippi State.
Speaker 3: But he talks about how if he could have gotten.
Speaker 5: To LSU one year earlier, he would have also recruited
Will Clark and he could have potentially had both of
them at LSU.
Speaker 3: So like that was a cool story.
Speaker 5: And then Doug Thompson tells a story about how he
was being recruited heavily by both polk and and Skip
and like he's from Biloxi, Doug Thompson as, and so
he was he was going to Mississippi.
Speaker 3: State, like he had decided.
Speaker 5: And you know, there towards the end of recruitment, Ron
calls him and he's like, look, look, Doug, like you
are our missing piece, Like we want to go to Omaha.
We think that you are the missing piece. And so
Doug's like, okay, okay, I'm in. So he gets home
and he has this voicemail from Skip Bertman and he
said it LSU had not really recruited him up until
this point. Somehow he got swept under the rug or
they just hadn't paid attention, but they they started reaching
out to him, and he had a voicemail from Skip
and it was like, hey, look I heard Polk told
you that you're the missing piece to.
Speaker 3: Go into Omaha. We're going to Omaha with or without.
Speaker 2: You, you know.
Speaker 5: And so Doug was like him in and then you know,
the rest is history.
Speaker 2: We have that iconic pick of dog.
Speaker 3: I know, but like I just.
Speaker 6: Hit him with the big dog talking either way, do
you want to be a part of it?
Speaker 5: I talked to him and Aary for a really long time,
and we talked about l s U and Mississippi State,
but he also talked about growing up.
Speaker 3: I don't think I got on the phone with him.
Speaker 5: I got on the phone with him, and I don't
even think I had asked I don't think I asked
him a question yet.
Speaker 3: And he was like, well, it starts in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 2: What are we doing seven? His dad?
Speaker 3: You know his dad was a coach. Did you know that?
So he coached in Miami.
Speaker 5: So but he told me he came to and maybe
you'll know this, but he came to LSU to play
and the coach was the football equipment manager. He was like,
and he was like, and that's not a joke. People
think I'm joking. That's people did not care about baseball,
he said. So I actually transferred back to play juco
so that I could have a better baseball experience. Like
and so his ad was in Miami at the same
time that Polk was coaching in Miami, and Bertman was
coaching in Miami. So it was just like a huge
just like a circle of everyone.
Speaker 2: But I so, I mean.
Speaker 6: Again, and as the article gets into you you look
at where SEC baseball is now, where everybody's investing, everybody's
got stadiums, and they're paying their players, and there's a
ton of fans that go and they're all right, there's
the story.
Speaker 5: There's a story that Skip told And I didn't get
it from Skips, so I didn't want to get it wrong,
so I just kind of alluded to it.
Speaker 3: But Skip said there was a time in the eighties where.
Speaker 5: The series was just so big, and at the time
it was really still in Mississippi State and LSU as
far as like SEC baseball, and so they were selling
their stadiums out So then it was a series, the
Mississippi State LSU series.
Speaker 3: In Baton Rouge, and you just couldn't buy a ticket.
Speaker 5: There were no tickets and it wasn't like Mississipi State
where you could just stand in the outfield at that point, yes,
you know, so like you had to have a ticket.
And so they started letting people on the field of play,
like people were standing behind the line on the field.
They were just letting people in. And of course the
fire Marshal's like, uh, hello, no, thank you, this is
not And I don't know if it was Skip or
someone else from LSU that was like dealing with it,
but they like shut the fire marshal down and let
it happen.
Speaker 2: But like, I, how about you go down there.
Speaker 5: It was a really cool week talking to all these people.
And then like Dykeman had some really cool stories. I
remember that twenty seventeen series being in the outfield. I
was actually with his sister in the outfield. She was
with us, and at one point he runs over. He
sent me the picture he has it.
Speaker 2: He it was the last weekend of duty.
Speaker 3: No last week the old dude.
Speaker 5: So he runs over to his sister in right field
and she feeds him something over the fence. Someone got
a really cool photo of that, and then he like
ran back. But he had some cool stories like I
don't know, I just I really enjoyed it, and so
I got also a lot of the story is that
were off the record that I'll be taking with me.
But they were all very cool stories. So I appreciate
everyone who helped me with that. If you'd like to
read it.
Speaker 3: Sports that Net, let's go. Yeah. But it was really
cool and I thought, you know, the.
Speaker 6: Rivalry that built the sec L s U versus Mississippi
State Baseball. I also loved the UH.
Speaker 2: And we talked about earlier in the show, but Ron
Pope being thrown out at Arkansas for arguing balls and
strikes and the umpire telling him to go where you know,
go where I can't see you, and so he went
and stood on home plate. There was a really good
documentary that the SEC Network put out about like the
Ron Polk wal Marrow Will the Thrill, like that.
Speaker 3: Era of your lightning.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it was so good.
Speaker 3: Can you imaginate document can you imagine if Will Clark
and Palmaro had ended up in l s U. Crazy well. Also,
Manary was.
Speaker 5: Offered a job at Mississippi State before he came to
l s U after Pat McMahon at Mississippi Date he
was at Notre Dame, he.
Speaker 2: Was offered coach.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. He was offered the.
Speaker 5: Job and his family, like his family was very settled
where he was. His son was a senior in high
school and was very good at football, and so he
wanted to He was like, I just want this chance
to watch my son play football. And I'm comfortable in
my job. He's like, there will be other chances. He's like,
but I always think about that, like what if. But
then like a year or two later he comes to
l s U. So it wasn't that big of avideal.
Speaker 2: But now he's in South Carolina.
Speaker 5: But can you I know, I know when I'm into
the phone calls like, so, how are things in South Carolina?
Speaker 3: He was like, well, they'd be a lot better if
we were good.
Speaker 2: They got I think l SU closes with South Carolina
this year don't they. Yeah, at South Carolina, that's gonna
be great.
Speaker 6: I love and guys, do not take my impression of
coaches anything disrespectful, because he was honestly the most pleasant coach,
the most pleasant coach ever covered in my entire life.
Speaker 2: He's awesome.
Speaker 3: He would have talked to me for two.
Speaker 4: Freaking amazing.
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Speaker 3: Back from the break where the sports talk.
Speaker 5: Gets real kind of off the bench and with Hester
and T Bob.
Speaker 2: Was handing y'all. Welcome back to O T b.
Speaker 6: I hope everybody's having a great day to day Friday,
rolling right along.
Speaker 2: It's been a long week. Glad to be here. A
lot to look forwar to tonight.
Speaker 6: LSU Women in Action gets in c State. We got
more men sweet sixteen. We got softball kicking off their
series in the burm a top ten matchup. We got
baseball continuing their series against Mimsissippi State.
Speaker 2: Am I missing it? Yeah tonight?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What else do we have? Oh?
Speaker 6: Gymnastics does the NCAA tournament begin? I don't think it's
starting out yet Saturday.
Speaker 2: Looked that up.
Speaker 5: Because I want to get that that hasn't gotten any
sort of press release, and I feel like that when.
Speaker 2: Still just like you're a sports fan.
Speaker 7: It's kind of cool because it's the Teal Walk April
third for gymnastics.
Speaker 2: I'm going to the burm tomorrow night. Go drink some
beers out there. Hopefully the weather holds up. Well, we'll
see what the case is.
Speaker 4: Speaking of gymnastics, about someone Biles taking.
Speaker 2: A little visit.
Speaker 3: She was, she was at the game last She was.
Speaker 4: At the game last night, the baseball game last night.
Speaker 2: No, but.
Speaker 4: She went. She went and visited with the gymnastics team earlier.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I got goosebumps. It's freaking crazy.
Speaker 5: She posted picture. She posted a picture of Mike. She's like,
they got a hole tiger out here.
Speaker 2: Biles is rock.
Speaker 5: She's good friends with who. She's good friends with one
of the girls on the gymnastics team. Right, No, she
somebody else.
Speaker 3: Together who she posted it's somebody.
Speaker 5: I mean, like, it's not somebody that because I don't
know a lot about gymnastics. It's not somebody that I'm
just like, oh that person.
Speaker 2: But Gili the murderer.
Speaker 6: No, I mean it's probably it's probably one of the
older like she's awesome, like she's a killer.
Speaker 3: She posed a picture with her, but it was a
Connor McLean.
Speaker 2: Vida No way, dude, goats on. I mean some moan Biles.
We imagine the defending national champions that just won the
STEC championship that looked like they're gonna win another surprise,
so much greatness in one picture.
Speaker 4: It was a surprise.
Speaker 5: She last night like her friend whichever the friend is
the girl I think to the left and so love her, yes,
and so she she came here as a surprise. But
her friend, I guess they share locations with each other,
saw her like forty five minutes out, was like, what
are you doing?
Speaker 3: Oh wow, just like showed up.
Speaker 6: So that's uh, I mean, I imagine that is a
lifestyle where uh, it's so it can be so individual
and so pressure filled that but also like uh kind
of a smaller community. So yeah, I could see like somebody,
you know, she ends up being smoke Biles, but this
other girl that you know ends up going to els
you and still being very good herself. But yeah, I
can see them kind of coming up at the same time, uh,
the same, Like, there's only.
Speaker 5: A few places in the country where you can really
train during off season.
Speaker 2: Which you can actually take.
Speaker 3: I don't think people owns a training facility now.
Speaker 2: I don't think people know this though.
Speaker 6: You can take your kids buy it's the facilities by
the LSHU Gymnastics. So oh marjorite, Okay, uh you can,
you can. You can take your kids buy the LSU
practice facilities and everything. Go and go check them out.
It's a great time. It's very cool. It's very over
the top.
Speaker 2: Wow, look at that, dude.
Speaker 6: We have one of the greatest Olympians in human history
rocking the purple and gold, I mean, lay out the
red carpet, do what ever. You can.
Speaker 5: Instagram to her wearing that same tape tank top like
they went and got it for and she's like in
it too.
Speaker 3: So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: So when does the tournament start? Okay?
Speaker 6: Okay, so we got a week off, okay, okay, big time,
get fully healthy, get ready to go.
Speaker 2: And then I was thinking.
Speaker 3: I was, I was, I was, uh, what were you thinking?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I'm gonna say this and shower, but
I literally genuinely was I was showering, and I was
thinking about gymnastics, and I was thinking about what exactly
exactly right whatever, But I was thinking about what a
terrifying sport it is in that uh literally like and
this is right after they won the SEC championship that
had the one like failure is just always lurking around
the corner waiting to grab you, like one mistake, like
you're like, like, think about how they won the Natty
last year. Sierra Ballard on the beam. I think about
this all the time. Can you imagine what was going
through Ballard's head before that routine, knowing if she falls
off the beam this little six inch whatever, that if
she makes one mistake, that her whole team will lose
a national championship.
Speaker 3: She could just like break her that.
Speaker 2: That the school.
Speaker 3: That's what I would be thinking about.
Speaker 2: It, not even like getting hurt, like what if she
just like like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But that's like it in any sport.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's.
Speaker 3: I think it's like you could.
Speaker 5: I'm sure there are instances in football you can think
of or like when you're up to bat again.
Speaker 6: Failure is a part of any sport, for sure, But
in baseball, failure is the norm.
Speaker 2: You have to learn how to accept that you're trying
to succeed. You fail. Forget Baseball's a game defined by failure.
You find success.
Speaker 3: There's something, but I'm just trying that.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking about those very small, specific instances where you
can mess up and like it does matter.
Speaker 6: You can make mistakes in football, left tackles kind of
like that a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, any tackle.
Speaker 7: But we always talk about I throw the ball forty
times in this game, I win thirty eight if my
forty reps, you get to the quarterback twice and your
player of the week, and I'm cut.
Speaker 3: Every time you do.
Speaker 4: It's still what Bill Campbell's saying.
Speaker 8: He goes, if I get, if I get one sack game,
I'm a first round pick. But if I get if
I lose one of my forty reps every game, I'm
working at Amazon.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You said that way too fast to be Will
camp Yeah. Well, I and it's not just gymnastics, it's
any judgment sport.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but like I guess there aren't a lot of
ski What are the other judgment sports like skiing, like
some sort of.
Speaker 2: Like figure skating and you're skating.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there and a lot of that is kind of
just like I don't want to say the word is
that I'm not it's not personal preference as far as
the judges go.
Speaker 2: But some of it is just like what they can
be a little subjective.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, so like the ha's frustrating, but like.
Speaker 2: It's just I guess I was just thinking, like, here
these girls are mistakes.
Speaker 5: Y'all are making football players baseball players. Those are not
subjective mistakes, like you're just making them. Yeah, the ones
that like figure skaters and gymnasts are making sometimes those
are just like depends on who's judging it.
Speaker 6: But here these girls are, and you know they've all
they've already beaten Oklahoma twice, been damn near perfect, they've
been incredible, and yet it could all be for naught
if one of them slips and falls while trying to
catch a bar.
Speaker 2: Yes, it steps out of bounds or so it's insane.
It's something I think. Okay, anyway, we gotta go. Sorry
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Speaker 5: Look, there's an ask the bench question here that thanks
to a second question that I have. One is is
Rivers willing to sabotage Murphy Salmon Chody show by by
giving them bad recipe that will make everyone who needs
to have the runs? One don't know any recipes, but two,
you listen to Murphy, Sam and Jody, then they called
you out when.
Speaker 3: You weren't here.
Speaker 4: Wait, she also thought that it was a fake show.
Speaker 6: I knew it wasn't a fake show, but like my wife,
Murphy Salmon Jody, Like, I.
Speaker 5: Listened to y'all because it's a sports station. But there
is no other radio station that.
Speaker 2: Caitlyn listens to M s J honestly during Christmas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did you just call it M s J? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Is it really part of their audience?
Speaker 2: You wouldn't get that big of a leap to call
it M S.
Speaker 4: Name. Like, you gotta be cool to know.
Speaker 6: I did trigger I did trigger them one time when
I got in the car and I put on uh
when I was like running to go do something one
of the.
Speaker 2: Kids when he leaves in the middle.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I laughed, perposely put it on then and texted
the group like, Godmersham, Jody, you are talking about.
Speaker 8: I get I get my traffic from there, And I'm like,
we got three morning shows.
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where your traffic report is on your phone.
Speaker 6: No, no, but no, and in all honesty, no, my wife,
Kayla kaylen gterally listens to to.
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and Jesus she has been listening us a.
Speaker 3: Little Yeah, mess, Jay, are you kidding me?
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I don't hate the player, hate the game, dude, you know,
no go tig the bench.