Speaker 1: Let's go.
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Off the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and see Bob aber.
Speaker 4: Is I gotta come off the bench now.
Speaker 2: Here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 4: Yo, what's going on everyone? Happy Friday?
Speaker 3: Of you're having a great Friday. I know we're about
to Friday, April eleventh.
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Here on oh te b tea about Jake Alandra Taylor
hanging out with you today? How's everyone doing out there?
Hope you're having a great day. Seem pretty chill in
the way coming in this morning.
Speaker 4: Hopefully it says that way. You know, it's kind of crazy, man.
I don't want to jinx anything, but this whole week
it's been pretty chill. Come ahead. That's not consu any
of the changes made.
Speaker 3: Do you think we just had a lucky week where
like no dummies ran into each other on the interstate?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know either way.
Speaker 3: Knocking with that, it remains all morning for everybody doing
their morning commute. But if you do get stuck in traffic,
guess what we are here to.
Speaker 5: Hang out true with you. We should actually invite traffic.
Speaker 4: Invite traffic. Rating's up? Hell yeah, dude, I hope you
all get stuck in traffic. Actually changed my mind. Just
don't turn the dial.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, don't turn Same bat time, same bat channel.
I don't know if that reference plays at all anymore,
probably to our audience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, John, know what I'm talking about, Tanel Launder. When
I say that, I don't know.
Speaker 6: Kind of because Chris Blair says, like, same tiger time,
same tiger chances.
Speaker 4: Oh he does? Yeah, Okay, do you know what he's referencing?
Speaker 7: Then I'm assuming a Batman thing.
Speaker 4: You're nice work on the context. Excellent job.
Speaker 3: Nineteen sixties Adam West Batman. The every episode would end
in Tuna next week, same bat time, same bat channel.
Speaker 7: That makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4: How did the batmanman? What a what a wonky show?
Shout Adam West?
Speaker 3: Who'd have known that he would go on to be
the co Hog mayor and have a have you know,
a full I mean, I bet you he made infinitely
more money on Family Guy than anything else he did
in his life, which is very funny given you know,
you just do a little bit parts here.
Speaker 7: He was actually Adam West doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, let me double check me on that. I've
always just I've always just assumed. I don't know why
it wouldn't it be Adam West doing that.
Speaker 7: I just assumed because it was family guy, that it was.
I don't know.
Speaker 5: Speaking of Yeah, Adam West provided the voice of Adam
Adam West.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Seth McFarlane, He's doing the Naked Gun remake
with Lea, and the first trailer actually looked pretty funny.
Now I'm going to admit another blind spot here that's
going to make very y'all again. Mad I don't know,
I have some sort of Leslie Nielsen blind spot where
I have never seen airplane or any of the naked guns.
So I might need to catch up on my naked
guns to uh to so that I could compare the
modern one in the album.
Speaker 8: I'm halfway. I've seen airplane number of times, love it.
Never seen an airplane.
Speaker 4: It's the most inexcusable.
Speaker 3: I mean that that seems to be a comedy that
kind of defied that is the paragon of that genre. Yeah,
and I have not I have not seen it. I
know a lot of the jokes do pop culture. You know,
don't call me Shirley and all that, but I've never
seen it. Naked Gun is good. You played the clip
of Juice in the Cannon yesterday. The juice is in it. Yeah,
And so in the trailer for the new one, they
made juice Cannon, for whatever that's worth. He's in the
trailer for the for the Liam Neeson one, and it's
a good joke already that the Naked Gun fans are saying, like, like,
I guess the reaction with the people that love Naked
Gun has been like when I heard about a remake,
I was like, why this makes no sense, But then
they saw the trailer of the joke and they're like, oh, okay,
you know, maybe maybe Seth gets it. Maybe Seth gets it.
We'll see.
Speaker 4: I should watch those though. You should. You'd enjoy it.
Speaker 3: I just I mean, how I really know no Leslie
Nielsen at all, and that's like one of the greatest
comedic actors of all time.
Speaker 4: Hm. Anyway, they're right up your alley. You would enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: How's everyone doing today at Lodger? Are we feeling better? Girlfriend?
You sound great?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I feel a lot better.
Speaker 6: I was telling Jake and Taylor this morning that my
head still kind of hurts a little bit, but it's
probably because I didn't eat for two days and like
threw everything in my body up.
Speaker 7: But if I lost weight then it'll all be worth it.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, guys, that's not nobody listening to that.
That's not true.
Speaker 7: It's true, like get a stomach bug or something.
Speaker 4: No, no, that is bad.
Speaker 7: Maybe order. I'm sure you can get like a tapeworm
online somewhere.
Speaker 3: People were doing that in the past. Sure people have
done that in the past.
Speaker 4: Haven't they.
Speaker 7: I think so.
Speaker 6: But I went and got some got an ivy drip
and it brought me back to life. But yeah, I
feel much better today than I did yesterday and Wednesday.
Speaker 4: It's great to hear you know.
Speaker 3: While you were out Taylor, Jake there made a lot
of poodle jokes all something I said, don't do it, guys,
stop it right now.
Speaker 4: Okay, I had your back.
Speaker 6: If I went to the doctor then it was serious.
Like I didn't even go a few weeks.
Speaker 7: Ago when I was I don't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you didn't really extend that same grace to me,
did you.
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: Because I feel like you can power through like the
flu or like being sick, more than you can power
through throwing up everything.
Speaker 4: You didn't even have the flu, No, it.
Speaker 7: Was like a stomach bug or food poisoning or something.
Speaker 6: But if I was sitting here, I'd be like literally
leaving every two seconds to go.
Speaker 4: Throw up here, barking in the room anywhere. I'm just kidding. Oh,
I am pod, I am you.
Speaker 1: You kind of do get this one?
Speaker 4: You kind of do?
Speaker 1: You get to have this one?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 3: A karma as karma we got we gotta go both ways.
Speaker 4: This is what I'll say.
Speaker 3: Karma is a female poodle in this case. You know,
you came after me and the karma gods made you
throw everything up in your stomach.
Speaker 4: And that's again, that's not okay.
Speaker 7: That made me look a little thick. And I texted
it to.
Speaker 4: I thought, yeah, I thought the AI barbie looked great.
Speaker 7: It was a little thick in the legs.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, that's a good AI barbie.
Speaker 6: I was like, I need to go to the block
every single day.
Speaker 4: How are people making these things?
Speaker 7: I'll show you it's on chat GBT. There's like a
little prompt and everything.
Speaker 1: You just like upload pictures of yourself.
Speaker 4: They gave me.
Speaker 3: The little stubbiest hands imaginable, imaginable in it. Uh, just
basically balls with tinier balls to be the to be
the fingers.
Speaker 7: There are tiny dubs.
Speaker 3: Uh, Jake, what's up, dude?
Speaker 4: How you doing? I'm doing great? Looking forward to a
great weekend.
Speaker 5: Baseball field weekend of course in the Hester household, always
a good time. Shout out to the lug Nuts. Let's
go get some dubs. LSU baseball is gonna be fun
knowing that we're off for spring break. Next week's gonna
be fun and exciting.
Speaker 4: And get to spend last day we'll be here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I get to spend a bunch of family time,
wake up with the kids in the morning, which you
and I don't ever get to do. So looking forward
to that, honestly, Tay, what's up brother?
Speaker 4: How are you doing? You getting ready to host all
next week? How you feeling you? Locked in? Those takes
are a coming? Yeah?
Speaker 1: My am? I locked in?
Speaker 8: Yeah, let me explain someone ready, you man, Monday show's done,
It's done, it's ready. We'll have a we'll have a
little spring recap. We have l s U Auburn and
then we'll have some guests on, but like they're already booked.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta
it's off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 4: Yo. Welcome back to OTB.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about another top ten SEC series for these
LSU Tigers. I mean, really think about that. This will
be the second road top ten series in a row. Now, obviously,
you piece together one of the most legendary weekends we've
ever seen last weekend, Kate Anderson outdueling Kyson Witherspoon in
a nine in incomplete game apps shutout, absolute masterpiece. You
end up on using five pitchers for the entire weekend.
Just like the look, let's let's just again, I think
that entering this weekend, just prepare that it's not going
to go as smoothly, right, because how could it? Right
like that that weekend should unless you look, if it
does not, I mean, that'd be awesome, but that's kind
of gonna be you know, that's like the perfect weekend, right,
Normally you're gonna run into a bit more diversity. And
when you look at this Auburn team, they are a
scrappy bunch that is been in a ton of close
games and has one more of those close games then
they have lost. So this is going to be a challenge.
It's a weird thing, though, Jake, because here they sit
number eight in the country, but they're twenty three and ten,
they're six and six in the SEC, and when you
look at them statistically, nothing really jumps off the page.
I mean, they do bad over three hundred as a team,
Which where does that put them?
Speaker 4: That puts the.
Speaker 3: One two fourth fourth in the SEC. But that's probably
their best like ranking. Everything else is going to be
middle of the pack, like literally everything except for defensively,
them and LSU are right next to each other. The
one stat that I could find where they were a
bit of an outlier. And this is going to be
a key to watch, is they strike out the least
amount in the sec.
Speaker 4: They don't hit for a lot of power.
Speaker 3: They don't necessarily score a ton, but they don't strike
out and they hit for a high average. And so LSU,
on the other hand, the best at striking people out.
That's going to be a you know, a very strength
on strength matchup to watch and a potential barometer for
who's gonna win the series based on who wins that battle.
Speaker 4: But yeah, this is an Auburn team.
Speaker 3: They took two or three off of Vandy at home,
two of three off Kentucky on the road, then they
get swept by Georgia on the road before taking two
of three off of Bama at home. And again a
lot of those have been like rubber match Sunday games
that are close, and for three of those series they've
come out with those wins.
Speaker 4: So again, an Auburn team that you appear to be.
Speaker 3: And granted, what a nice change this year has been
from last year where every time you would do a
quick statistical overpass, it would be LSU who appeared to
be the lesser team on paper, right, like once again,
you are way better, You're way more superior on paper,
both individual stats and team stats. But the road, Auburn's
very good at home, and like I said, they're scrappy
and they just find ways to win.
Speaker 5: So if you're wondering, like why their record is what
it is and they still have the ranking that they
do well t Bob did a great job laying out,
you know, the SEC victories two times versus number thirteen Vanderbilt,
two against number twenty four Kentucky, two against number eight Alabama.
But it's also some of the non conference wins that
they've had. Number twenty four Troy, number eight Oregon State,
and number fifteen, number fifteen Georgia Tech. It just be
Georgia Tech this week, right, just this week. So they've
got some big wins in conference and out of conference,
and so they you know, they kind of deserve to
be where they're at considering who they've beat so far
this year. Now, the Georgia sweep that, you know, that's
one certainly that if your LSU you go back and
try to see what Georgia was able to do, how
much success they had, and what they had success with.
Speaker 4: And so at Georgia, whatever that's worth. It was at Georgia.
It's gonna be.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a tough series. It's not gonna be
we expect to go out there and sweep. It's not
one of those. And we've had some of those come
up this year. Uh, you know, Missouri, even Mississippi State
a little bit, were like, I think we had a
little bit of PTSD because we kind of called from
one last year and they didn't get it done against
Mississippi State.
Speaker 4: But this isn't that. This is going to be a fight.
Speaker 5: It is a top ten matchup on the road with
a team that you know this week, as you just mentioned,
you know, they beat a top fifteen team, they beat
a top eight Alabama team at home. They play really
well at home. So if you're able to go there,
take advantage of the things that you have an advantage
on them.
Speaker 4: Two of three would be a great weekend.
Speaker 3: Oh bro, what back to back top ten road series wins.
That is such a high bar. That is so hard
to do in the SEC. Yes, two of three if
you win this series, well, I mean, I don't know
quite what to say because this team appears to be
a championship potential team that is on that trajectory. This
feels like an Omaha team. And so I guess if
you were to go take two of three on the
road against another top ten team, second team in a row,
all that does is reinforce all of those feelings that
we already have.
Speaker 4: They're gonna have an opportunity to hit some barrels.
Speaker 5: I think tonight with Sam Dutton, and that's not that's
not the one shade at him. It's because they know him.
This coaching staff knows when he gets in trouble what
he wants to go to. True and also Jay Johnson
said it with us yesterday. One thing he was always
going to do is throw strikes. So he's going to
put it where you can put it in play. This team,
this LSU team has been so good at plate discipline,
hitch selection this year, hit NAPA. You know Sam Dutton again,
strike thrower. He's done great so far for all Auburn
on the weekends.
Speaker 4: He's got a great era all of that.
Speaker 5: But this LSU lineup's different than he's faced this year, right,
and the Georgia lineup would probably be the one that you, yeah,
that'd be the one and that's where Auburn struggled because
this pitching staff again, they're not gonna walk up a
ton of people, not gonna give a lot of free passes,
but they will throw it where you're going to put
it in play. And ls who's been so good at
pitch selection this year, certainly at the top of their
lineup that this could like if they play it like
I think they're going to, they could get Sam Dutton
in some trouble pretty early.
Speaker 3: I want to say, if LSU wins the first two,
I think they tie the twenty thirteen team for the
I don't know if it's the best started school history.
I think it is, but it'd be the best start
since twenty thirteen at least thirty thirty one and three
right now, I think that team started thirty three and three.
Such a tiny storyline to keep an eye on. And
it's funny because you're right, like, we've made a lot
of of Sam Dunton facing facing his old team. Uh,
but I forgot up until right before the show today.
This is also a homecoming for Chris Stanfield facing facing
his old team.
Speaker 4: So I guess it's just like a little trade.
Speaker 3: This is where we're gonna get to watch the ramifications
of a trade made between Auburn over the off season
Alburn and LSU.
Speaker 4: They got Sam Dunne, we got Chris Stanfield.
Speaker 3: Dutt't And it's funny because Jake, this is one of
the trades that worked out for both parties. Stanfield's hitting
a career high three twenty seven. It's been so damn
good at the at the bottom of that lineup, like
a double leadoff situation, turning it over. He's been fantastic speed.
Remember it was him and Louis Hernandez who combined to
create one of those crucial runs in the two zero
win last Friday. I know it was a Friday, you
know what I'm saying. Though, that might be the only
part about the Thursday series. It's annoying, actually.
Speaker 4: Is I always like to refer to game one as
Friday game to Saturday. That might be the only anyway.
Uh So it's worked.
Speaker 3: And then Sam Dunnan, obviously he's our Friday Night started,
like Jake said, has played very well, so tork to
over both parties. Both guys thriving where they're at currently,
but definitely little extra narrative floating in the air.
Speaker 5: Oh, Stanfield played a lot for all of them, by the
way too, like yeah, throughout his career. Uh, you go
back to you know, the national championship here for LSU
and like he faced Paul schemes.
Speaker 4: I mean, so he is.
Speaker 5: Wow, he was a player for them, like as soon
as he got to campus and so you know, a
lot of memories, a lot of probably strong relationships there.
But we all know, like when you go back to
the place you left, no matter how you left or
why you left, that's when you want to put your
best foot forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at Luca. But so I know I called
for Nico to be publicly shamed.
Speaker 4: Yesterday he said Tartan feathered, Yes.
Speaker 3: But then I realized what we witnessed was the modern
day equivalent of a Tartan feathering. That man had to
sit there and just take an entire stadium chanting, and
he should get fired. Alandra, what do you think about
this week in series? Any angles we haven't touched on.
Speaker 4: What are you on the lookout for?
Speaker 7: Well, Nico Harrison should get fired.
Speaker 4: We hold these truths to be self evident.
Speaker 7: No, I'm with y'all.
Speaker 6: It is going to be a good road test, and
if you take two of three, that's awesome.
Speaker 7: I'm not expecting a.
Speaker 6: Sweep at all, like we weren't versus OU, but they
still gave us one anyway.
Speaker 7: But like y'all mentioned, they are really good at home.
Speaker 6: They're fifteen and five at home, so three and five
in away games.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I'm excited about this series.
Speaker 6: And it's kind of like, Okay, like we said last week,
you're not going to use five pitchers every single weekend, right,
So somebody at this point from the pen needs to
step up, Like somebody has to emerge now, like we're
getting we're more than halfway through the season, we're getting
closer and closer to the postseason.
Speaker 7: So I'm very curious.
Speaker 6: To see how the bullpens vanaged and who emerges from
it and if there's anybody that does, because it needs
to happen.
Speaker 4: Is it kind of where is it? Schmidt?
Speaker 3: Both those guys went extended. When's last time we seen
DJ Primo? No, in terms of Lefty, he was, he
was in the mix.
Speaker 6: I think the last midweek I gets I think against
Louisiana text.
Speaker 7: The last time we saw DJ Primo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the game where they threw like seven pictures.
Speaker 3: So that's a very good point, though you are right
like that is still the biggest question mark is you
know you have four great pictures right now and then
Chase shores, you got somebody who's getting better and better
as it. So they started, we would who's the next
guy that's going to who's the next guy that's going
to join that club?
Speaker 4: Who do you all think it's going to be? Tete?
You got any idea?
Speaker 8: I would love for it to be Maverick Rizzy. I
don't know if it will huge size. I too would
love for it.
Speaker 4: If he's talked.
Speaker 8: About him so much and fall during their practices like
he's a big kid, he throws it hard.
Speaker 1: I would love for it to be him.
Speaker 8: I don't know if it's going to be just because
he hadn't got a lot of run lately. I love
DJ Primo. I think if you need more lefties out
of the pin like that's the guy.
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
Speaker 8: As far as like what we do know in this series,
I'll be interested to see how LSU is as far
as stealing bases. Auburn's starting a freshman catcher. They have
all year long. His name is Chase Freelik.
Speaker 3: That's funny because like when it comes to running like
ceiling Bay, I just I don't even think about it
with Lsu. I feel like it's never been something that
Jay's really done.
Speaker 8: I agree. But you guys remember Ike Irish. I'm sure
you all remember that name.
Speaker 2: He was.
Speaker 8: He started forty five games at catcher last year. He
got hurt for the season I started. He's their DNA.
He's their dh this year. But they're starting a freshman.
I mean he calls their pitches too. Was this something
Auburn's pitching coach and staff decided like a couple of
years ago, Like the freshman calls their pitches like they
put a lot on that guy's plate. That's that's what
I'm watching. Like Chase Fray look's been pretty good, but
I mean he's still a freshman. You're playing a top
five team, Like there's that's a.
Speaker 3: Lot bro Okay, So they're thereupon we have stumbled upon
something very interesting to me. You're going to have So
you're seeing the freshman's actually, call me exactly getting signals
you're gonna have a freshman calling a game against this
Jay Johnson lineup.
Speaker 1: He's called it. He's called uh plays all year That's insane.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's if he does it and he
calls a great game and he has these batters fulled
massive credit to this kid. Yeah, because that's like that,
this is raid boss type stuff that he's facing this weekend.
Speaker 8: Because because I was watching an Auburn game a couple
of weeks ago and they mentioned like, oh, yeah, you know,
they're they're letting him, let him call some pitches. And
then I'm driving on yesterday, Matt had a guy on
from Auburn. I don't remember his name, but he was like, no,
this coaching staff has done this the past two years,
like they let their catchers call the pitches. So and
that's something he's apparently done all year long.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, to t BOP's point, good luck, you're
you're facing the SEC's best lineup, you know, as far
as average, and not even close, aren't they, Like it's
almost twenty points ahead of Arkansas.
Speaker 4: Top three in the country. Yeah, they're beten three forty
five as a team on base percentage. I think they're
close to one or two or three in the country.
It's it's man and again, you know handle the bat
well and.
Speaker 5: I mean strikeouts are don't they have the least amount
or it's like second. I think Auburn leeds like you said,
and then's Lsu right, what Lee?
Speaker 3: I think LSU's maybe like third to least in strikeouts.
Speaker 5: I want to say, yeah, you're right because Kentucky, which yeah,
Alburn Kentucky Lsu. So like the whole point of bringing
that up is they don't swing a miss.
Speaker 4: No, No, it's I mean two.
Speaker 3: What was his name, Chase freylk Chase Frey, lick Okay
t Tay look at you stumbling upon something very interesting?
Use heard yesterday and I was like, second segment of
the show. Congratulations. Uh so that's gonna be about at
a watch for sure, I, for one, as someone who
grew up loving Tom Glavin, I'm just excited to watch
Kate Anderson pitch again. Anytime I see a great lefty starter,
I just feel like a little kid again.
Speaker 4: Was Tom your favorite Glavin? Uh?
Speaker 3: Tom was my favorite pitcher outside of my favorite pitcher,
damn near favorite player again, I think Chipper because he
was back from the left side so I barely edged
him out. But no, Tom's not my favorite club.
Speaker 4: He was. That would be his wife, Chris damn Son. Uh,
that's what I thought. I thought, is that the ball
that I got you signed back to name? Was it
Tom Glavis Tom Glavine? Hell yeah, dude, it was.
Speaker 3: I just can't wait to watch Kate Anderson pitch sight
who knows what he has and still.
Speaker 4: Still have that ball? By the way, really I do
is this signature faded? Very faded? Gotta be very faded.
Speaker 3: I mean that's O seven that's now damn near twenty
years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but still have it? Yeah, I know, I don't
even say that again. I still have it. I actually
saw it not that long ago.
Speaker 3: Nice, um, please keep you up talking about Okay, relax,
chat relax.
Speaker 4: Nobody brought anything up like that. Okay, if everybody's.
Speaker 3: Feeling lonely this weekend, remember to go to my guy
dot bro, my guy dot bro. Swipe right on your
next best rid. I'm just kidding, all right, So look
anything oh this is I did see an interesting stat
uh in chap where somebody said that Kevin Oklahoma was
fifteen and one at home before LSU showed up. I
did not realize that. I mean, this team is so
damn good. Here's to hoping that they can. Here's so
hoping that they can get it done again. I can't
wait to watch very Fun again.
Speaker 6: We said we didn't expect to sweep going in Oklahoma,
but they gave it to us.
Speaker 3: Anyway, all I need is a win tonight. Yeah, we're
putting the blinders on. Started off when tonight beat Sam Dutton,
prove that you won the trade, and then we'll go
from there.
Speaker 4: Heyday, looks like you want to tell you say something. No,
you're good, m You have.
Speaker 3: A smirk on your face, but you obviously are being
a bit reticent. Just say why. Okay, I'll question you
during the commercial break when we get back.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sort of.
It's off the bench it with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 4: What's heading y'all? Welcome back? But I know y'all one
of that. But I know y'all one of that that be.
Speaker 3: As so many of the chat brings up a question
about jeeps, here's my question about jeeps. Why do y'all
all put those rubber ducks in the front of your windshields?
I Am not trying to be an a hole, but yeah,
unfortunately there is a butt. I'm just saying this is
a butt without a hole. But I think it looks
so stupid. All these rubber ducks up there? And why
are you all doing it? Y'all are adults. Chances are
you when to slap a bunch of bumper stickers at everywhere,
all over the back? I mean maybe jeep owners would
be Actually, you have a high procliviita bumper stickers.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I just don't know. Is it a
community thing?
Speaker 3: Like when Harley's ride next to each other and they
flash each other the little the little like?
Speaker 4: What is it like the upside down peace sign looking thing?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I've seen somebody in a parking lot leaving a
rubber duck on like the hood of a Jeep.
Speaker 7: I looked it up.
Speaker 4: Oh, so it's like a duck exchange.
Speaker 7: Yes, there, Like I just looked it up.
Speaker 6: So jeep owners did it, started doing it as a
form of a random act of kindness. So jeep owners
just put ducks on each other's jeeps. Look, my dream
car has always been a Jeep. I would never put
it better, get ready, I would never put a duck.
Speaker 4: Well, you're not a part of the community.
Speaker 7: That's fine.
Speaker 1: This is not always been a thing though.
Speaker 4: Very Texas a and m feeling thing.
Speaker 8: Very I had a jeep all the way up till
twenty sixteen, Like nobody ever left me one.
Speaker 1: I never had one, So like this has not always
been a thing.
Speaker 4: I just like. Or maybe nobody liked you, you know, well, yeah,
probably that's true, I mean big true.
Speaker 7: Maybe nobody wanted to be a random act.
Speaker 4: Nobody wanted to duck you tailor they saw it conducable.
They were like that.
Speaker 8: Jeeps, that jeep's far superior to mine. The duck would
only ruin it. Let me not leave one.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to duck that girl in that jeep.
Speaker 7: I don't think this is true.
Speaker 6: I feel like I've seen it earlier than twenty twenty,
but it says it began in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 3: Interesting, I mean, to be fair, I feel like I've
seen it more in the last year than I've ever. Like,
I just became I just kind of came online, Like
I just like became super cognizant of it here recently,
as I thought maybe, like I thought maybe there were
maybe I saw it back in the day and I
just thought it was some individual. But now I'm just
seeing it everywhere every time I see a jeep.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they put it on each other's jeeps. The jeep community.
I mean, I like it sounds so dumb.
Speaker 4: I like the I like the kind of good hearted
notion behind it, but like it's so ugly. You know,
those things aren't cheap, like I love.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 4: I thought you're talking about the rubber ducks, like, I
don't know, I think they're probably no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5: You know I'm saying, like you're spending some money, yes, yes,
and then you put like this little cheap rubber duck
in the front of your dashboard and.
Speaker 4: You kind of lose a lot of them. Yeah, you
kind of lose all your juice with a jeep, a
lot of them.
Speaker 7: I mean maybe, like like ducks do not belong on there.
Speaker 3: It's like, I love neighbors doing stuff for neighbors, but
if the neighborhood's thing was to stick like cheesy signs
in the yard or something, I'm like.
Speaker 4: I don't know, guys, but maybe you just don't. I
just it's like, maybe we should move. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Uh. Mister Bigs says that I got a jeep room
of cup for a month, I got four ducks.
Speaker 4: I never put it on the dash That.
Speaker 3: Is true, though, if I had a jeep, I would
feel somewhat guilty. I would feel somewhat guilty about not
displaying the duck because somebody took that. I know, I know,
but still the principle of somebody took the time to
duck me, and here I am not in not acknowledging.
Speaker 1: That I'm throwing it away instantly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this away not even like maybe maybe I'd
duck it forward and I would duck somebody who already
had ducks on there, Like I would keep the ducks
in the trunk and then pass them on to other
people who obviously like the ducks. No, like, okay, a
soft member, this isn't.
Speaker 5: The only but this isn't the only thing where ducks
get passed out.
Speaker 4: And Katie reminded me just now.
Speaker 5: When we were on the cruise, people came up to
Harlow and gave her forty five rubber duckies. Yeah, and
Disney does that too, I'm telling you, Like every time
she passed, and like at first it was like, oh,
thank you, Katie was like thanks.
Speaker 4: The thing put him under the stroller.
Speaker 5: Everybody gave him to her on the strollers, So like,
what is it with rubber ducks?
Speaker 3: I also think that I mean, I don't know because
so that's that's what I'm thinking now, is like and
you know, they're not very biodegradable, like they probably last
like thousands of years, and yet we're producing billions of
tiny little rubber ducks. There are landfills filled with rubber ducks.
They have to be cheap because everybody just gives them
out for free. Again, even like like like Jake's talking
about the cruise, uh we said, old Ys and Disney,
the workers always got ducks on.
Speaker 4: Them to give the little kids. It was funny.
Speaker 5: It was like, you know, you give some that were
just kind of basic whatever, and then somebody would have one.
And it was during Mardi Gral break and somebody would
have one like Mardi Gral themeed and you could.
Speaker 4: Tell they were like.
Speaker 5: Handing it over, like are you impressed by this Marti
Gral themed duck?
Speaker 4: You know, like this isn't.
Speaker 3: A normal when I'm man out, Okay, So that is
I do like that anytime you're in some sort of
collection hobby, I do love a good rare.
Speaker 4: Piece, which you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Like when they handed it over Marti Gras ducks sat
there and they like waited for your response.
Speaker 4: Did you give it to him? I hope so that's
rude If you didn't, sure you're like, oh no way,
is that a Marti Grass dude? Thank you? Yeah? After
they turn her out?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Katie's much better at that than I am. She
can turn that on and oh my gosh, thank you
so much?
Speaker 4: Is so col Harlowe look cool? Nike well says it'll
change rubber ducks or tariff at one hundred and four percent?
Speaker 3: Damn it?
Speaker 4: What are the jeep ooters gonna do? The duck economy
is about to be ruined. It's about you be ducked.
Speaker 3: Can y'all play Friday for the next rejoin music? You
heard What's Friday?
Speaker 4: So how funny?
Speaker 3: Rebecca Black actually has a ton of juice again in
her career right now?
Speaker 7: Isn't she opening for Katy Perry?
Speaker 4: But I knew something online? And you did somebody?
Speaker 7: Okay, this is.
Speaker 4: What's a better name? Spacey Perry or Katie Spacey? I like.
Speaker 1: N space Ye.
Speaker 4: Wait what were you saying? Launder?
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 4: Katy Perry.
Speaker 6: Oh this is a little dark, but like somebody somebody yes,
commented on it was like, what if she died in
e t went number one on the charts because but
it's funny.
Speaker 5: Go out with a banger good on her? Dude, I
would love to I now the kids.
Speaker 3: I'd have to really weigh the uh you know, I'd
have to I'd want to be really educated what the
risks are.
Speaker 4: But like, if you're rich enough, I mean.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen the video of William Shatner coming
back from space and how mind blown he is? You
would you you would think that he had seen God.
It was so like such an overwhelming experience for him.
Speaker 7: Some Yeah, I mean I can't imagine.
Speaker 3: No, neither can I should I Rebecca Black though, apparently
she's getting big in the DJ scene.
Speaker 4: You ever heard of boiler Room.
Speaker 3: It's a place in London that's like you, It's like
a big place to go do a DJ set and
they put it on YouTube.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah blah. But she's got like a big
boiler Room video.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Annah. All right, when we get back, let's close that
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with Hester and t bomb.
Speaker 4: Oh, what's happening y'all?
Speaker 3: Welcome back to OTB team ib Jacoldra Taylor hanging out
with you and uh look y'all who know me know,
I have a pat for the theater.
Speaker 4: I have not once but twice now had my turn
to see Purple Party.
Speaker 3: Tad and the Batteries Ballet Theater's Nutcracker. It's a great
time every December you should go check it out. But
if you're looking for something to do this weekend, you
want a great time. Well, April twelfth and thirteenth, at
Saturday and Sunday at two pm, the Batteries Ballet Theater
is premiering a brand new, newly choreographed full length ballet,
Alice in Wonderland. All your favorite characters White Rabbit, Manhatter,
the march here at Queen of Hearts. Beautiful set design,
it's all going to be displayed speak. We have Melanie
Abear here to break it all down for us. Melanie,
what's going on?
Speaker 4: How are we doing today?
Speaker 9: Hey Tea Bob, we'll miss you on the stage for Alison.
We have a great show coming up and we always
appreciate your support.
Speaker 4: Very excited.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get the girls out there potentially on Saturday,
I believe. So where can people and people want or
first off, talk to me about the performance itself. So
this is this is a new performance, original choreography. What
are we talking about here with this Alis.
Speaker 4: In wonder Them.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so, you know, we do a youth ballet summer
program and a while back, Rebecca Acosta and Johnna Cox
had done a little thirty minute program and this is
the program that goes into area libraries and nursing homes
over the summer and it has such great feedback that
they decided to create a full storyline ballet and from
Alice in Wonderland. Of course, the costumes are beautiful. This
sets are gorgeous. They were designed by local professional Adrian
Bennett is a huge supporter of the ballet. And we
had a local pre professional ballerina dancing the role of
Alice Meg and Woe, but she actually had an injury recently,
and so we are flying someone in from Los Angeles
Balleoto and it turns out Meghan is going to be
able to dance the role of Alice on Saturday, and
then we have a professional, Sarah Herdi from Los Angeles
Ballet is going to dance the role of Alice on Sunday.
But Meghan is a Batner's Magnet high school student, and
so we have a beautiful cast as you said, the
White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, beautiful sets,
and then even after the show, Tea Bobs, the kids
can go meet the cast and take a picture upstairs
in Wonderland. This is all at the River Center Theater.
And if they were asking for a fifteen dollars donation
to do that, but the tickets to the actual show,
you know, we really keep the cost down. It's a nonprofit.
But the tickets to the show are thirty five to
fifty five dollars, so very affordable. Both shows are at
two o'clock Saturday, two o'clock Sunday, and it's just going
to be a little a magical experience. Choreographed by Rebecca
and JOHNA. Who, of course are our new artistic director.
So this is their first big production for the Batner's
Ballet Theater, Rebecca Acosta and John A.
Speaker 3: Cox and and they are the absolute best. The Baton
Rouge Ballet is the absolute best.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 3: Look, any great city supports the arts. And if you're
looking for something fun to do this weekend, and and
if you've never been and and seen a if you've
never seen the Nutcracker, anything in the Ballet does at
the Baton Rouge River Center Theater. You're gonna be kind
of blown away, like I like, like the production values
are so high. Uh, it's it's a beautiful afternoon to
spin with the kids. They're gonna be absolutely infused with it.
They're gonna come out on the other side spinning and
dancing around. You're gonna have so much fun. You go
to Wonderland afterwards. Uh, meet the characters, like Melanie was
talking about. So you go to Batonrougeballet dot org to
get those tickets. Baton Rouge Ballet dot org. You have
a great time, your kids have a great time. You
support local theaters, support creatives. It's awesome, Melanie. Anything else
that we have that we missed.
Speaker 9: No, Just as I said, Batmerspala dot org. You already
got that in and tomorrow and Sunday two o'clock both days,
and if you can hang out after then go ahead
and meet the cast and go up to Wonderland. But
you know the arts, see Bob. First of all, dance
is a sport and an art forum, as you well know.
So I appreciate it in a group. I appreciate you
always integrating it into your audience and bringing this to
life for the entire community, because it really keeps the
community vibrant. Arts are just crucial for every city, as
you mentioned, so thanks as always.
Speaker 3: I agree, and it's it's really it's it's oh look
and here we got the b roll up. You're seeing
some of the set design we can expect this weekend.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 3: And it's so much fun watching these these artists, both
the professional and the kids work and thrive and it's great.
Speaker 4: Man, look at this.
Speaker 9: Oh, I know the bee roll you're looking at Andrew
schappoishot dot for us this week during rehearsal. He does
a great job.
Speaker 4: Beful. Thank you so much, Malanie, you have an excellent day.
Speaker 3: Thanks to you.
Speaker 9: About to you this weekend.
Speaker 4: Hey, keep keep the plane, keep the plane. Uh, I've
got to see you. I'm excited. Look at that again, guys.
Speaker 3: I hope, I hope this video is giving you an
idea of the production values because this is you know,
this is like really nice. And again I think great
cities support the arts and so if you want to
be a part of that and have a really good
time and be entertained, go check it out. Saturday Sunday,
two pm. Alice in Wonderland at the Ballet. All Right,
thank y'all for allowing me to do that. A very
merry on birthday to you. You should need some mushrooms
go just kidding. Hour two of OTV coming up
Speaker 2: Next off the bench