Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Hester and Hester got it from.
Speaker 1: Carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each other
on the air live from the Raising Kine studio. It's
off the bench.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hey, Hey, what's up buddy?
Speaker 4: No our number three hour number three already, Thomases when
you're having fun right here?
Speaker 5: It does, Derek that it does rolling through it always.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's Trey. Hi.
Speaker 5: Hi, he's the owner here, pro Dreams, pro Dash Dreams
dot com.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 6: When they say the camera adds ten pounds, they need
to adjust that statement, it's more like thirty.
Speaker 3: It's okay. Do you know? It does it every day?
I'm fat, fit a guy.
Speaker 5: It feels like it's been forever since we've been here.
We had, you know, road games and a bye week,
and so I'm sure you're excited trade to get a
nice little home game and maybe get back out there
boots on the ground.
Speaker 3: Maybe early, yeah, early, that's right.
Speaker 4: So when do you have to start setting up everything
for four?
Speaker 3: While a four am? Four A m wow. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So we set up on campus on game day for
all the football games, we have six locations that we
set up and throughout the stadium, And it's going to
be a little bit of an adjustment coming in this
early because it usually takes four.
Speaker 3: To five hours to set all the different locations.
Speaker 6: Plus we want to be like rareing and ready to
go when they open up Tiger one over there at
eight o'clock.
Speaker 3: So I got you. Yeah, so yeah, you gotta you
gotta let me ask you this.
Speaker 4: So in a game like this, so you've been doing
this a while, but in early games, is there certainly
less time before the game to be a vendor and
selling things and do to make those sales and make
those connections. But I'm sure it's still pretty hot and
heavy for a little bit. But after the game, is
there any usually any traffic will all be set up
after the game.
Speaker 6: We do, so we set up throughout the whole game,
and then we have a location right outside of gate
tw okay, great, all right outside the suite. So we
do kind of the same amount of sales as as
I would say, like a non SEC game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's still good. Yeah, how has the season?
Speaker 4: The trajectory of this season, now, you know, the expectations
being extremely high before the season, the output and the
production and the wins just not coming like we thought
they would. How does that has that impacted anything? But
like I hadn't really noticed somebody. The tailgate and the
fan fare, everything else has been pretty great. Besides, like
you know, people leaving a little bit early.
Speaker 6: People are buying stuff from ten years ago players, you know, Yeah,
it doesn't affect really what's selling today now. If we
go on a ten year run of this. I mean,
I'm like, right, I don't have a future in TV,
that's for sure, So I don't know the something else
to do. But fans are really loyal to yeah, you
know some of the bigger names in the past that
they're still buying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's and you you know, you you want to
have the big names within the season kind of step up,
and then obviously you get something from from those guys
as well. And gosh, it's like every you know, every
star for this team either didn't have the season that
we thought or they were injured. Yeah, you know, it's tough.
It's one of those years where it's like snake bitten,
to say the least.
Speaker 6: So this week I wanted to bring something a little different.
I appreciate the relationship with you and I have built
over the years with memorabilia, and one of the things
that makes pro Dream special is the ability to go
out and source an item or find a product. So
if you don't see something on our website, just reach
out to me. That's kind of how I built this
business from the ground up, with never telling someone no,
never never allowing like, oh I can't find that or I.
Speaker 3: Don't have it.
Speaker 6: I don't want them going to competitors, so always like
set myself up for being different and saying I can
go find that item, no matter what it is. So
you had mentioned something a couple weeks ago, and not
to just give it away, but I'll give you the
short version of this is for you, okay, for all
the oh yeah, business relationships and stuff we've done over
the years.
Speaker 3: And do we have a drum roll booking talent. Hell
no way.
Speaker 5: Jim Taylor side, let's freaking go awesome.
Speaker 3: Oh dude, this is this is man oh man. So
if you weren't.
Speaker 5: Listening, I just said I want something from Jim Taylor,
A huge fan. We were able to have a relationship
in flynt West two during two thousand and seven season.
Speaker 3: He would come around.
Speaker 5: He was always in the training room, locker room talking
with us, and we're like, dude, that's Jim Flipping Taylor, right,
that is a legend.
Speaker 3: I mean you see it here.
Speaker 5: Hall of famer, but like one of the great running backs, right,
I mean what team Green Bay Packers, the Packer of course,
the LSU Tigers. And I always appreciated what he, you know,
would say to us, and you know, the friendship that
we were able to have.
Speaker 3: Incredible wife as well.
Speaker 5: I mean I got a chance to meet her and
know her, and uh, man, it meant a lot to
me to have that relationship with somebody that grew up
loving LSU and just you know football in general. And
so man, this is awesome. This is incredible. This is uh,
this is something that we'll have a special place in
the Hester studio there.
Speaker 3: This is incredible. Yeah, man, I appreciate this.
Speaker 6: Fully certified by JSA, so I didn't sign it myself.
Speaker 3: That's great. So I remember, incredible.
Speaker 4: My memories of Jim Taylor were coming around certainly all
the time in practice. Did him talking to us when
we getting ankles taped? And yeah, like you know, we'd
go sit like Jack's office after practice, take the pads off,
and just like sit there and decompress for blata blah.
Speaker 3: But like coming out of.
Speaker 4: You know, I know nothing about Green Bay except for
like Brett Favre coming out of Texas.
Speaker 3: And so I go to.
Speaker 4: I'm here at LSU and I'm like, all right, They're like,
you know who that is now, like Jim Taylor. I'm like,
all right, I don't really know who that is, Like
you got to tell me, but I remember like Jimbo
Fisher gehing me the whole, like the admiration just oozing
out of Like the conversation I was having with our
coaches about who Jim flipping Taylor was. It was like incredible.
So totally that's awesome. That's that's a really cool deal.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: He was like one of the first football players my
dad ever like taught me about.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It's like hey, you know, because I was obviously wasn't
allowed with any but he's like, hey, this is this
is what it looks like. This is if you're gonna
play this position. Ye, this is the guy that you
need to try to be like. And so like I
got you like meeting him, Like see, I did know
as soon as he came into the locker room and
you start to hear Hayes.
Speaker 3: Jim Taylor's like, like.
Speaker 5: He's here in person, and he still looked like he
could play like in his seventies.
Speaker 3: He was like, I was like, why are you in
better shape than me? But that shouldn't be the case exactly.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: And he was always ab to shake his hand. You'd
always talked to him, and he had always wore the
Super Bowl won ring.
Speaker 3: Yep, did you guys for enjoy?
Speaker 6: Recently they put it out I guess in the media
or whatever you put out things at that The coaches
now the current after BK left, have reopened the doors
to pass players. Yea, because that been something special to
you that you feel like you missed out on recently.
Speaker 4: So like I take a little different. He called it
the game, but certainly I could speak from like I
talked to a lot of players. Yes, that was always
the thing, and whether it was metaphorically closed or not,
it was certainly difficult and it didn't have like the
warm wealth you like, you didn't think like even like
when I would go to a practice, it would be
I have to get like a I have to call
get a visitor's guest pass.
Speaker 3: I remember, I was.
Speaker 4: Like, you know, once I had a credential, I was
like guest of Joe Sloan or a guest of whatever
coach or whatever it was. You know, I had to
have you. I had to you weren't your own person there, Yeah, exactly,
which is fine, like if you want to do like
to each their own. It's just it's different now, right,
And it was different then.
Speaker 5: Oh and again this is different for me, I guess
because I'm a different situation.
Speaker 3: But like I will say, this place is unique because
we all.
Speaker 5: Moved back here, right, Like you know, where b K
was coming from, it was probably like I'm sure a
lot of people don't find their way back to South Bend, Indiana,
and nobody's from there either, no Toadame's a program that
nobody's from there. So like they didn't you know, grow
up around the facility or grow up you know, in
the area, and so they didn't move back there, I guess.
But like for the most part, were either from here
or we moved back here. So there's a lot of
former players that no matter where their NFL career you know,
took them and where they played, like they all end
the up back here, and there's a there's a lot
of us that are around here, and I do remember that,
you know, some people like that.
Speaker 3: And I ended up back here. Yeah, you're saft. We
found that out today.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, A lot tougher in the cold in New
York found that out today too.
Speaker 3: Oh I guess, I guess that's really the question.
Speaker 5: I guess, are you more gritty if you're playing in
ten degree weather or a hundred degree weather with humidity?
Speaker 4: To be pretty unless it's below fifty apparently for you?
Speaker 5: Hey, hey, check out the negative seven game I played
in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Were there sleeves? No? No sleeve? Did you have sleeves on? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Exactly, had to have the pouch form. They probably didn't
let you wear because it would cross fumbles. Oh yeah,
the reps got to keep these these did it's warm?
Speaker 6: I did wanted to do a special. The specials have
been working out recently weekly. Boy, that pun was not intended,
but we already nailed at that.
Speaker 3: We go with it.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, God, yeah, minute, we are going to sell
a week's football. I have four or five of them.
I've been doing this a long time. But we did
make a kind of a critical mistake on these footballs.
Uh that we were moving so fast. We did six
hundred autos times three, which is oh wow, eight eighteen
hundred autographs in almost an hour. It was unbelievable, and
we had so much help and it was a lot
of fans.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 6: But they grabbed the paint pen on a white panel football,
and paint doesn't dry. It doesn't dry on a white
panel football. You always got to go sharpie on a
white panel.
Speaker 3: So that is.
Speaker 6: A wet weeks autocraft football that we're going to sell
for one hundred and twenty five bucks. It's normally a
two fifty at some auctions, three hundred dollars ball signed
by all.
Speaker 3: How would you store it so once it's blown up?
Speaker 6: As you called me out on air a few minutes
ago about you archaic pump over there, kic, you just
can't touch it. And they're sold as is where is.
I'm not going to ship them because they would get
smudged with whatever you put on them. If you put
them in a box, like, they're going to get smudged,
so in years it would still be wet.
Speaker 3: I don't know that answer. I haven't had that one.
You tried a hair dryer.
Speaker 6: There's nothing you can put on it that I think
wouldn't eventually smear it.
Speaker 3: They look decent now, yeah, but it didn't look bad
at it. It doesn't look bad.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: They are clean now.
Speaker 6: But if you do try to touch it or wipe it,
it will it will smudge. So that's why I'm just
trying to get rid of them. We transport a lot
of stuff, obviously back.
Speaker 4: Out front to the stadium and tell that little discount price.
But you know, you buy it, you can take it home.
Put it in a put it in a case, a case.
Speaker 3: And you brought it home. You bring it home.
Speaker 6: Don't let it ride along in the back seat, put
it on your shelf. It's fine. Yeah, okay, three weeks
brothers run all three weeks. Fully certified by Beckett. Great deal.
Speaker 3: Carry it like this when you're walking around. You know
ball security cool Yeah, security, yeah, high and tight.
Speaker 4: Don't touch it tight.
Speaker 5: Oh man, I can't thank you enough for this, Jim Taylor,
ball man, this is awesome.
Speaker 3: I just remember how cool it was seeing that Super
Bowl one. Real.
Speaker 4: They were a lot more logical to wear around back then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a big just.
Speaker 4: Look like a standard ring that you could actually wear.
I did you see the baseball team's rings. I saw
them after their no ceremony the other day. They had
uh at the L Club tailgate and the PMAC before
the game the other day they all had them. So
I got to see one. Hold one. It is gigantic.
It is a size of my palm. Yeah, it's huge.
You can't wear those, no, but they're awesome. They're like, yeah, yeah,
grant natties, but I got I have a super Bowl.
I can't wear My super Bowl is so big. Then
they're like four times you like, do you.
Speaker 5: Have that displayed or do you have it like in
a safe. It's in a safe, Like that's at one point,
so I understand why you have it in a safe.
Speaker 4: But it's like you can't even like enjoy that. I know,
so I have it. One time I brought it to
a conference. It was a military conference and people want
to say so I brought it outside to show some
people and uh, and so great did that. And about
six months later I was looking through my backpack and
it was just loose rolling around in my backpack. Yeah,
have my That conference has my natty ring into my
backpack for a while for the same reason. It's like, boy,
but you're right, though, It's like, but I don't feel
but I should display my national championship ring although valuable
to me, right, your ring that was in your backpack
actually valuable.
Speaker 3: So I don't know the rules.
Speaker 4: This day management back and then you couldn't pay players,
So all national championship rings for players was cubic circonium
be a certain price it was. It had to be
five hundred dollars or less or whatever. So it's real gold,
but it wasn't interest. It wasn't real jewels. Like the
Super Bowl ring I think is valued at like forty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: It's like it's like real diamonds. But college rings is
more like whose ring it is, and that's where the value.
Speaker 4: I don't know this for sure, but I think the
coaches might have been real. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think it would be, but I think they were.
Though I think you're right. I think all the.
Speaker 4: Players in football, in college football, I guess it's probably.
Speaker 3: Still the same way, Beau.
Speaker 4: That's a lot of money's a lot of money, but
it's all qubic zirconium diamonds.
Speaker 6: One misconception or whatever that a lot of fans think.
I feel like is when players win national championships and
win even the Super Bowl, besides the ring, that's all
you get. Like even the baseball players, they get like
a trophy that's like this big.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta, we gotta, we got a crystal ball
miniature one.
Speaker 6: Yeah sure, yeah, yeah look like this big. I guess
and maybe that was just my perception when you win
the big one, like oh, everybody gets a trophy like
that to put on a shelf and man gave and
I mean, I've sold our replica trophy that you can
find at protest streams dot com, signed by Drew Brees.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: But I've sold that two players because they wanted that
exact replica, very cool trophy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Same thing with the National Championship baseball trophy, Like I've
given that to players and.
Speaker 3: You know you don't get yeah, you don't get like
any actual crystal ball.
Speaker 5: Sure, I think the first time I well, outside of
like the night we won the National Championship, the only
other crystal ball I've ever even held, so we were
doing the twenty nineteen uh parade that was in the
p MAC and it led to the p MAC and
I was that found out the night before Thanks forty,
and so I'm him seeing that, and I remember sitting
down and they had the crystal ball out because you
get a crystal ball and you get the playoff.
Speaker 3: Trophy, so you hadn't touched it since then.
Speaker 5: I hadn't touched the crystal ball since then, and Coacho
like had it and he's like, uh, hester hold this
hated me, like the crystal ball. And I'm just sitting
there sitting in my chair just like holding the twenty
nineteen crystal ball, and I was like, I want one
of these.
Speaker 6: Is there a photo of you holding it up traditionally
or you?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, like the yeah no seven yeah yeah, he
one of you, one of both of I was.
Speaker 3: Actually someone reached out to me a long time ago.
I asked.
Speaker 4: I said he had one of the trophies and he
was trying to offered for me to buy it, and
I was like, I tried to sack checking it to
see if it was real or not.
Speaker 5: Like a crystal ball, it was like a yeah, it
was a trophy, like a life size, real size.
Speaker 3: I would have gone hatshies with you you can put
in the studio. Yeah, that'd be awesome to have.
Speaker 4: But I think the last time I held it was
during the twenty seventeen the reunion.
Speaker 3: I think you did have it.
Speaker 4: I have it to carry on the field, and then
Miles came my hand, Miles and yeah, yeah that's sure,
because they were real like, don't drop this, okay, y'are sure?
Speaker 3: I was just gonna drop it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, speaking of hotter cold, that day was hotter than hot.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It had some sweaty palms that day.
Speaker 6: God, give me about ten minutes, chat, I see some
questions about how to purchase some stuff on here.
Speaker 3: Give me about ten minutes.
Speaker 6: I'll have it uploaded onto our site, wetprodas streams dot
com with the updated price of twenty five.
Speaker 5: Yeah, me and Matt, we'll sign some footballs with a
paint pin that won't try to.
Speaker 3: No one really cared now for nothing. I don't know.
Speaker 5: The day you signed that jersey upside down went pretty quick. Yeah,
hold them all well, Setty quick there, but hold them
all all right, Trag.
Speaker 3: You the man. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5: We enjoy hanging out here every Thursday home game. During
the football season. Enjoy that four am wake up call
to get set up.
Speaker 6: We have one show left. Are we pledging for all
the listeners out there that you're going to be in
the Zach Morris Saved by the Belgium?
Speaker 3: I should I also see that new wild Thing Jersey
up there too. Oh that was our question.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, So when Charlie Sheen, who played rig Vaughan,
signs that, does he sign Rick Vaughan or Charlie.
Speaker 3: Sheen sign his character? That'd be awesome though if he did,
I bet he's got a rig Von autograph. I bet
he's practiced it.
Speaker 4: Does anybody ever sign their character that they played instead
of the actor's name.
Speaker 5: Like if if the guy from Rudy sean name Sean Austin, Yeah,
I'd like him signed.
Speaker 3: Rudy. Rudy signed Rudy. Rudy is a real like, let's
do a fictional Rudy. Let's say, let's let's go like
Star Wars.
Speaker 4: People that play they gotta play Luke Skywalker, he sign
his name Luke Skywalker, Mark Mark Hamlin.
Speaker 3: Look at us Star Wars.
Speaker 6: Who played the first flavor we got to go the
first bow of I don't know I don't know Jeremy Bullock, Sure, yep,
that guy, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: It's an interesting story. On Twitter yesterday, Michael PENNOCKX, quarterback
of the Falcons. He said in a press conference that, uh,
he has nobody to rely on on the sidelines when
it comes off on the sideline, you know, because usually
a young quarterback, there's somebody that you lean on. Even
an old veteran quarterback, you're gonna lean on somebody, whether
it's a backup. Yeah, whether it's a quarterback coach, whether
it's a head coach, O, c. Whatever, is somebody to
lean on to bounce ideas off of. And that's a problem.
Isn't Kirk Cousins on the team. Kirk Kaggins is on
the team. I don't know what, Like, it seems a
strange comment to make.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because Kirk Cousins feels like he would be a
pretty good backup too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he feels like a guy. So this is a
weird shot to take. I don't know, I just found
it interesting. I didn't really have like if he's if
it's true, I feel for him, But I don't feel
like it's true. I feel like he's just coming up
with something like why what does that mean?
Speaker 5: I mean, that's why that's why backup quarterbacks make so
much money. That's why backup quarterbacks get paid way more
than us starters sometimes because yeah, if you have to play,
but also like what you give to your starter, I
mean that quarterback leans in most cases. That's why most cases,
I mean that's like.
Speaker 4: The first person they're going to, Yeah, and that's why
they starting quarterback usually has a lot of say on
who the backup is. Yeah, it's not just about because yeah,
you got a prep for a quarterback going down, but
you're not. Like sometimes it's about getting your quarterback ready.
And that's why that was one of the frustrations out
of like Aaron had in Green Bay. He didn't have
a lot of say in personnel, like he yeah, he
wanted me to stay there, right, and he didn't have
that power he wanted Georgia to say, Like a lot
of things went into that relationship dissolving towards the end.
Not to say that he was completely innocent of everything,
but like there was a lot like he was not
given the power that a lot of quarterbacks were.
Speaker 3: But that is the reason.
Speaker 4: So you got a young quarterback in Panick saying that, Okay,
I got this veteran that's played forever and Kirk Cousins.
It's like, is it a shot at the coaching staff
or shot at him or shot it yourself? Like or
is it an excuse for yourself? I don't know, a
little stinky over there in Atlanta.
Speaker 5: Yeah that is, And that's their faint next opponent going
to be obviously bye week this week, and then they're
playing the Falcons who have not played great. So hey,
keep that drama going. Let's go keep it up and
just keep it all up a little win streak here.
John's trying to think like even like so even even
if you have like a rookie backup quarterback. So when
I was in Denver, Brock Oswader was our was our backup,
like he would have gone in the game if Peyton
got hurt. But Caleb Hainey was there because Caleb was
like a veteran player, and that's who Peyton kind of
bounced ideas off of and they went, they went back
and forth. Bears, Oh yeah, that's right from Texas. He
actually played against US in the NFC Championship game. I believe,
did he Yeah, the Bears won the Super Bowl. Yeah,
they got to the championship. He's from right outside of Dallas. Gosh,
helped me out here. Starts than f right outside of Dallas.
Speaker 3: No, not for good call floor flip. Mmmm. Let me
know when you're from the area you're supposed to know.
There's about a thousand.
Speaker 5: It's like before you get to Dallas, not like once
you get to Dallas. Like you're driving from Tyler to Dallas.
Speaker 3: Yep, and it's before then. Franklin. Nope, Friendsville, Friends with
Lornie Floornie, Warney Town.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sounds right. Do you not know where you're from?
I do, like the jack Rabbits or something. It's not Frisco. No,
it's not Frisco. It's Forny. It's Forny, Texas. Fornye, that's it.
Speaker 4: They went on oka like a six year win streak
in football.
Speaker 5: Okay, there you go. Okay, I'm not crazy. I just
added an extra l.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Actually, I don't know if I would have been able
to pick him out on the map though. Where it's
at forty Texas.
Speaker 5: It's between Tyler Dallas, not a big accident, don't think,
is it right?
Speaker 3: By Canton? Little trade days like that First.
Speaker 4: Mondays, that's what it's called.
Speaker 3: The first Monday of every single month. They have this huge,
huge flea.
Speaker 4: Market yep, everything and people come from all over. They
bring trailers. My gosh, No, I've been fifteen times in
my life. You've been more than me. Actually we didn't
go a lot, oh we did, but the times we went,
it was a day.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were coming home with some kind of an animal,
a dog, a rabbit, some of thing so much so
many animals have a day. Yeah, a dog and an
antique dresser. So we were coming home probably Billie knives. Yeah,
I'm not from East Texas. You can go fly kite bud.
I'm from Louisiana. So when my license says, next time
you go recruit a high school player in tree board,
telling me from Texas, see how that goes for you?
Speaker 3: Or from southern Arkansas, same.
Speaker 5: Thing is closer to Mississippi by one mile than sree
Fort is to Arkansas. So are you west Mississippi summer?
Asking the question, I don't. I don't know if anybody's
ever asked that question.
Speaker 3: So why is the southern Arkansas then a little defensive.
Speaker 4: At least, you don't really get that defensive unless you
got something to hide.
Speaker 5: Really, at least give me, hey, at least give me
Texas if you're gonna at least get Texas Arkansas so
much people, Oh, it's from southern Arkansas. Okay, then you're
you're from West Mississippi. Sorry, that's the way those rules are.
If you're closer and that's where you're from.
Speaker 3: SEPs daisies. He did you know the golden boot weighs
two thousand pounds? It looks like it that seems.
Speaker 4: A little heavy. It's two hundred by the way, two hundred. Yeah,
there's a type fee on that. Artist you thought this?
Speaker 3: You no way? Okay, yeah, you're right. Two.
Speaker 5: You thought that the walk ons that run over there
to grab that trophy were just hauling up two thousand pounds.
Speaker 3: No, you're right, two hundred. That's on me. Oh my god,
But what I do?
Speaker 4: I do remember ten thousand dollars worth of gold in
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Speaker 5: Fifty six thousand, go south. I haven't been holding in
that fact. I say it all the time. People just
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is Arkansas. Look I've been I've been in these three
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You know, I didn't even know it was a thing
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I'm very proud of where I'm from. Fifty cents taken
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Speaker 3: Place up must be cheap. Well is it for sale?
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Speaker 2: So?
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Speaker 3: It is our guy.
Speaker 5: Chef, Michael Johnson, LSU Executive Chef joins us for your
munchie question, Chef.
Speaker 3: What's going on? Brother? How we doing? How we living?
Speaker 2: I'm living brother, bless?
Speaker 7: How are you guys doing?
Speaker 5: Fantastic? You know, this might not be football weather. It
is a so not everybody, but it is gumbo weather.
It is that time of year. This is my favorite
food time of year. I think because you get a chance,
uh to bring out the hits if you will, that
you kind of maybe have to shelf during the heat.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, I've been thinking about turkey for like
the past three hundred and fifteen days. It just keeps
getting stronger and stronger.
Speaker 3: You know, Uh, we got any ham there too, or
just turkey.
Speaker 2: You know, Jacob, I mean this is I love you, brother,
but this is the one thing, you know, like ham
is is a it's an inferior product of turkey. And
when it comes to Thankgiving, man, I mean, I like,
am I eating on the sandwiches all day long? But
man it does to Thanksgiving. Brother, It's just all.
Speaker 4: Right, all right, all right, Hey, turkey's got one day
to shine.
Speaker 3: All yeah, I like both. I both will be on
my plate.
Speaker 5: I can promise you that I will have both. All right,
we'll give us give us the turkey. What I mean,
I know it's not just you know, a butterball turkey,
So give us the turkey. What you're looking for in
your Thanksgiving turkey?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what what I do? I look for heritage breached turkeys.
And they're a little leaner but a little bit smaller.
But man, that that the meat and flavor of them
is is superior as far as I'm concerned. And when
it comes to cooking a turkey, brother, you know, like
speed is not something that's good. You want to take
your time, you know, like slow and low, and it
prevents that lean meat from drying out. It protects the
moisture from staying in you based at every thirty minutes.
I like to you know, I like to Brian my turkey,
So you know, it really is in the process, and
when you focus on the process, the outcome it just is. Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like a like a football team, focus on the
process when you're cooking that turkey, chef. So, I know,
a lot's determined about how many people you're serving, how
many people are going to be sitting around that Thanksgiving
dinner table. But what's your do you have like a
perfect size range for a turkey that's gives you, like
the most tender juice is type.
Speaker 2: Of meat I mean, you know, like it depends on
how big your family is, obviously, but I mean thirty
to thirty five pounds is a really good size turkey.
You can get too small. It really can't overcook quickly, right,
you know, like twenty five unless you're looking at something
that's you know, like it easily.
Speaker 3: Can dry out.
Speaker 2: I like a nice big pump turkey, yes.
Speaker 4: Not a good not enough based in time if you
get too small a turkey.
Speaker 7: Yeah right, yeah, all right, So I will tell you this,
if you're if you're looking at stuff a turkey, a
smaller turkey is better because when you put your stuffing
in the turkey, it will it cooks through the turkey faster, and.
Speaker 2: He's the stuffing up and not eating your stuffing in
the one hundred and sixty five can make you sick, right,
So you want to make it so a smaller turkey
benefits when it comes to actually stuffing the turkey.
Speaker 4: So, Chef, I had this one when I was growing up.
I had like this, like this dream scenario situation because
you watch all these movies and they serve the beautiful
turkey in the middle of the table when the family's
sitting around. So I wanted my parents to do that
one time. I wanted them to slice it at the
at the dinner table, and they agreed because you know,
I was very persistent about it.
Speaker 3: You see it on the movies?
Speaker 4: Is that a but they realized there was quickly that
was an unrealistic thing. You gotta slice it before you
get to the table.
Speaker 3: Or am I wrong?
Speaker 4: Do you have a different way of serving your turkey
that might be a little different.
Speaker 2: Well, I like electric snipe, So I'm going to slice
it in the in the kitchen where the outlet is. Otherwise,
you know, you got this awkward cord across the table
and across the glasses and gravy dishes and all kinds
of stuff. So you know, I think that you can
have like one side of it carved so that it
looks as prepared and edible, and you can keep one
side of pretty and golden so that you have that
picturesque side. And you know, the reality of it is
when it comes time down to it, you know, like
you've been waiting for that turkey to cook all day
and then everybody you know, like not been eating waiting
for it. I think the picturesque moment escapes quickly when
you have a crowd full of hungry children and family members.
Speaker 4: You know, slice, yeah, before form, all.
Speaker 5: Right, chef hashtag munchies. Is sweet potato castle roll a
side or a dessert?
Speaker 2: That's a good one, man?
Speaker 3: Oh man?
Speaker 2: You know, I think it's a side because I like
pumpkin pie as a dessert, and you know, like you've
got to have a boast, right, So I don't know.
I think either one is interchangeable. But sweet potatoes I
think will go as aside for me today.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, somebody made up their own name
for this monch he's and said hashtag grill the chef,
better to brine the turkey or to inject it Briant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a Brian guy. If you I mean, it
doesn't really take that big that much time an injection.
You can actually do both if you like. Right, there's
some old stuff, but I'm a Brian guy. I don't
want my truk you to dry out. And injection is
typically just trying to part flavor in it, not necessarily
trying to prevent it from drying out. So I'm definitely
a Brian guy.
Speaker 4: All right, Let's see, Yeah, let's see hashtag much he's
the best way to do Merlaton dressing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, militar I like I used. I looked. I
used to make this militan dressing. A Jamaican guy taught
me how to make it. And it was crab and
shrimp sauteed with nir pau and then you have breadcrumbs
in rather in somewhere in there you put your militon.
But the important thing is you need to either cook
your militon ahead of time and a liquid to kind
of soften it up, or you need to cook it
in the saute for a good amount of time and
let it simmer down with some liquid to soften it up.
Because it is a very firm, hard squash. And so
what I like to do is boil them ahead of
time or simmer them ahead of time and a flavorful liquid.
And then after you saut age your shrimp, your crab,
your mirpaw, you put the militon in and cook it
down a little bit more and a breadcrumb or cracker crumb,
and then put that into a castle dish and bake
it with some cheese on top. And that's the best
thing I've ever had as far as I know.
Speaker 3: It's all hashtag munchies.
Speaker 5: Where the after you get a thirty five pound turkey from?
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know where to find a twenty five
pound turkey where I accept my turkeys. They're all big
like that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, how things got muscles?
Speaker 4: That's right, So chef, once you get done, all right, Thanksgiving,
the meals cleared, the table's cleared. Now we got a big,
big ass turkey carcass. Are you freezing that? We're making
a stock with it? What we're doing with kind of
the leftovers the carcass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm always going to simmer it in a stock
and put some their fly on there and then let
it simmer down, and you know any needs that slept
over is gonna fall off, and you can use that
for a for a stock.
Speaker 4: Or your base for a gumbo, for sure, Chef, I
have like there's where I'm from.
Speaker 3: Where I'm from, Tyler, Texas.
Speaker 4: I got Greenberg turkey as he speaks, smoke turkeys, and
so we usually get run every year. And I'll take
that carcass and I'll make it like a smoked turkey
stock and it makes the best gumbo.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so bad.
Speaker 2: Right now I'm salivating right now, smoked turkey. I have
gumbo brain.
Speaker 5: I know, I know, Chef, I know this is like
sacrilegious to say, but you know, if you don't have
time to make your own gumbo just because you know,
a proper gumbo takes a lotlettle bit of time there
and you're like, I'm craving it is there is there
anywhere in town that you're like, Okay, this will do.
It's not it's not my gumbo. It's not the one
that you homemade. But this is certainly in a panch
you can give you that you know can fulfill that
craving if you will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the closest thing I would do is
maybe buy a homemade root or a pre made route,
you know what I mean. Like I, when it comes
to gumbo, brother, I'm always going to do it myself.
Speaker 3: I know, I know I can't.
Speaker 2: I Mean, there's plenty of place around town that make
good gumbo, but when it comes to me at my household,
like I it's one of those dishes that I'm sharing
it with my family and I absolutely want to put
my heart soul into it, and so I've actually never
done that. I Mean, there's loads of places around that
have good gumbo, but when it comes to serving it
at the house, I'm just you know, like I might
skip the step of making the roof. That's that's not
really I mean, it's never happened, but if I was
going to, I might, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Take of answering Jake's dumb question, I'll say that the.
Speaker 5: Way I presented it, I mean I knew I'm saying,
But like, if you want to go like I want
a gumbo right now.
Speaker 4: If he had somewhere, you know, maybe one time I've
ordered a gumbo at a restaurant, like I just don't.
I Mean, it's just not the same, right, It's not
the same, like you like, there's something romantic about making
a gumbo for sure, for sure, but like when you want.
Speaker 2: It, I've gone to Mike Anderson's around the corner from
my house and eating gumbo for sure, you know, like
I'm not above it. I'm just saying, you know, like
if it's for Thanksgiving or day after Thanksgiving, I'm not
going anywhere except for the refrigerator to get gumbo.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, all right, I know what I'm doing this weekend.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about your question overer about the sweet
state of Castle, because I'm kind of conflicted in this
because in theory, you know, I might have sweet. It
could be both really because you know, after the initial meal,
realistically that desserts, right, and I might eat sweet patata
castrole after I ate pumpkin pie even, you know, because
there's a there's a tail off of eating food that
goes through the day that I mean, even even a
little turkey sandwich like at midnight Mike considered dessert, you know,
because it's after the meals. An argument could be made
that it's both dessert and a side.
Speaker 3: Yeah, woked up? All right, Well, I'm going to eat
it either way, Chef.
Speaker 5: We appreciate you as always, brother, Enjoy your day and
we'll catch up again soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take care.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 5: That was our guys chef, Michael Johnson, executive chef over
there at LSU answering your munchie questions.
Speaker 3: Well, he did not respect your hand take. I knew that.
Speaker 5: I know he's not He's he's a turkey, Turkey turkey,
I am so yeah, it'skind one day.
Speaker 3: Give me a honey ham though. I'll take that any day.
You can do that. At Christmas you can do it.
I can do it them Thanksgiving to and Thanksgiving you can. Yeah. Look,
I can have two stars on the plate. Kobe.
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two and a half. Well, statistically speak, it would take
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Speaker 5: It would take two and a half because you've not
scored more than twenty five.
Speaker 3: But we're due. That's the thing.
Speaker 5: Can as we're watching the twenty twenty three game, can
we just do what they just did?
Speaker 3: Jayde Daniels to Milik Neighbors. Closer game than I remember.
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Speaker 4: I'm I'm looking forward to seeing Van Buren play a
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back into a rhythm back of Tiger Stadium. Maybe playing
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Speaker 3: Hey, he's gotta spark with Tyler shuck. We didn't think
it would happen.
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