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Hour Three | Pro Dreams, Munchies & Big Deal or No Big Deal · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents off the bench with Jacob Hester
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  Speaker 1: and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Hester and Hester got a fine.
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  Speaker 1: Of fun from carrying each other to and Natty, to
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  Speaker 1: carrying each other on the air to Live from Downtown
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  Speaker 1: Baton Rouge.
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  Speaker 3: It's off the bench.
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  Speaker 4: One Flynn And that third voice here is Trey of
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  Speaker 4: course owner here at pro Dreams pro dash Dreams dot
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  Speaker 4: com is the website.
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  Speaker 3: He good enough to let us come.
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  Speaker 4: Hang out and do the show here every home game
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  Speaker 4: on Thursdays during the football season, trail.
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  Speaker 5: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: How we're doing?
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Good morning, I've been good, Everything's good.
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  Speaker 4: How was How was the l s U Florida game?
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  Speaker 4: Because I was here in the shop that morning.
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  Speaker 5: Very cool?
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  Speaker 3: Uh College game day was on. You had people all
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  Speaker 3: around you.
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  Speaker 4: Set up the car off your bar for us, which
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  Speaker 4: was very very cool. So it was a great vibe
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  Speaker 4: in the store. How was setting up for one of
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  Speaker 4: those big time LSU Florida games.
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  Speaker 6: We are very blessed with our relationship with LSU. We
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  Speaker 6: have seven locations on campus. On a day likes last Saturday,
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  Speaker 6: so we were wide open with employees running around setting
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  Speaker 6: up locations and stands. And we did more sales in
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  Speaker 6: a four hour period than we did all last months.
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  Speaker 7: Where do you where do you pull from your talent
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  Speaker 7: pool for employees? I mean, I'm sure you kind of
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  Speaker 7: got to like beef it up a little bit for
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  Speaker 7: game days, but it's not like an everyday deal where
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  Speaker 7: your pulling the talent from LSU.
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  Speaker 5: So there you go.
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  Speaker 6: It's a very easy hiring process, uh politically, just you're hired.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, can you hey lift that box? Yeah, you got
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  Speaker 3: in the air.
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  Speaker 5: You're hired. Very easy, ready to go.
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  Speaker 4: I got sent us like a ton of pictures like
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  Speaker 4: over the weekend, people on social media that had bought something.
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  Speaker 3: Uh from one of the booths.
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  Speaker 4: Helmet with a certain inscription on it made its way
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  Speaker 4: from front. I think, hold on, sign this out. It
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  Speaker 4: is like the inventory in Trey's brain. Matt like he's
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  Speaker 4: you know, he's got it, like it's in there or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: And I was signing some stuff on Saturday and there
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  Speaker 4: was three guys came in from Colorado and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we want something, but we were on a plane. It's
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  Speaker 4: Ray's like going through all the different things in his head.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, oh, blah blah blah, blah, we got football,
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  Speaker 4: all right, we got three go get three in the
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  Speaker 4: back there, and it's like the inventory you have in
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  Speaker 4: your head is impressive.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I appreciate you saying that that was cool to
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  Speaker 6: have those guys around of town that never been to
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  Speaker 6: a game before and they heard us talking about this
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  Speaker 6: on the radio and they came and bought something.
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  Speaker 5: So advertising dollars are working. So how did he go with?
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  Speaker 7: So we saw the Florida, the ugly Florida helmet, a
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  Speaker 7: Tim Tebow slid? Did you get did you have a
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  Speaker 7: lot of Gator fans coming in and buying some Florida stuff?
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  Speaker 6: So we use a an artist, Becky Fall. She's probably
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  Speaker 6: the number one artist in New Orleans and Baton Rouge
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  Speaker 6: right now and she paints a big Gator.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: So that that was a very popular art item. So
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  Speaker 6: we did sell to a lot of Florida flans this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Nice. That's great.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, they're bringing dollars here to pro dreams like that's right.
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  Speaker 6: Get money is green, you should get care where it comes.
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  Speaker 4: Does she get Marco Wilson to sign him throwing a
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  Speaker 4: shoe and then sell that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if Florida fans or LSU fans would
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  Speaker 4: buy that. But LSU fans for sure, right, So how
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  Speaker 4: does it work?
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  Speaker 7: So they come in at at the tables around the
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  Speaker 7: stadium or in the shop here, and and they're from
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  Speaker 7: out of town. They they pick the items they want,
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  Speaker 7: whether it's the inventory is in your brain or whether
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  Speaker 7: it's sitting right here, and you ship and they they
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  Speaker 7: pay any you shipping.
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  Speaker 6: So we kind of have a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 6: We have options for all customers no matter what they're buying.
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  Speaker 6: They could either take it right then and there, they
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  Speaker 6: can get a ship to them or pick it up
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  Speaker 6: at our brand new retail location here at thirty nine
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  Speaker 6: to thirty Burbank driving Baton Rooms.
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  Speaker 4: Who are some of the current lshoe guys that y'all
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  Speaker 4: are working with because of them, when Matt and I
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  Speaker 4: were playing, like we had to wait, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 4: like don't you dare sign an autograph that you think
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  Speaker 4: is going to be sold? And the landscape changing in
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  Speaker 4: al it's great and players can come in and really
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  Speaker 4: this is like the true spirit of what NIL was
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  Speaker 4: supposed to be for sure was memorabilia and autograph signings
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  Speaker 4: and come hang out so like, what are you currently
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  Speaker 4: doing with Thilhee right now?
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  Speaker 6: Yesterday we had Barryon here in the store, we had
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  Speaker 6: Trey Dez here. They signed a couple of helmets and
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  Speaker 6: footballs and stuff. So we're really excited about the new
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  Speaker 6: class coming in and just some of the new talent.
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  Speaker 5: But it is cool to see specifically.
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  Speaker 6: Bary On yesterday was walking around looking at our Michael
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  Speaker 6: Jordan jersey and he was just in awe, like he
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  Speaker 6: just stared at it and it couldn't he couldn't get
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  Speaker 6: his brain passed, like that's twelve thousand dollars, Like he
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  Speaker 6: was in shell shock, and he just kept asking me,
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  Speaker 6: like someone's gonna buy that.
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  Speaker 5: Two hours later we sold it. Wow. Yeah that one
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  Speaker 5: right there. It's got the lights on it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's got a little led around it. So it's
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  Speaker 6: cool to see young players excited about memorabilia and just
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  Speaker 6: putting a little money in their pocket for something that
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  Speaker 6: they've built on the field.
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  Speaker 7: Oh for sure, he's probably staring at me like he's
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  Speaker 7: too young to realize. I mean, he knows who Michael
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  Speaker 7: Jordan is, probably wears the shoes and everything, but like
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  Speaker 7: people that got to see him play live and person.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he knows he might know Michael Jordan through the
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  Speaker 4: Lebron versus Michael debate. Yeah, exactly, and me and me
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  Speaker 4: and myself.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah the first one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Let me ask you, so when you were I'm curious,
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  Speaker 7: like in this whole like in il landscape, I'm so curious,
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  Speaker 7: like the fine details of like the business side of
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  Speaker 7: working with an athlete.
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  Speaker 5: So how do you get to these players?
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  Speaker 7: Do you have to call three people that connect to
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  Speaker 7: these players?
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  Speaker 5: Have agents? Do they have friends and family?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 5: How does all that get even started? So? How do
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  Speaker 5: I get to players? Is the secret? Sauce?
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  Speaker 6: Right, I'll tell the very first time I ever got
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  Speaker 6: to a player. I was so excited right after the
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  Speaker 6: Saints won the Super Bowl. Never met a real player,
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  Speaker 6: like a real professional anthlete at the time, and they
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  Speaker 6: made this huge advertisement that they were going to have
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  Speaker 6: this after party for the Saints at the hotel in Biloxi.
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  Speaker 6: So I walk into this after party and I'm so
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  Speaker 6: excited that I see Pierre Thomas walking and I the
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  Speaker 6: crowd was kind of not paying attention, so I ran
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  Speaker 6: after him. We flew through this door and I'd go
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  Speaker 6: to ask him for his autograph. I said, mister Pierre,
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  Speaker 6: can I have your autograph?
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  Speaker 5: Please? He said, can I finish using a restroom?
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  Speaker 6: No, my very friend of autographs that I was looking
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  Speaker 6: for tackled Pierre Thomas in the restroom and it just
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  Speaker 6: kind of went from there through Instagram, DMS, through social media,
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  Speaker 6: just reaching out to players and then either they handled
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  Speaker 6: me or they passed a lot of them, and especially
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  Speaker 6: the new guys as the parents or maybe you know,
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  Speaker 6: an agent. And then once you treat a customer or
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  Speaker 6: a client, well they kind of passed your name to
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  Speaker 6: the next guy and we go from there.
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  Speaker 5: I thought, you're about to have any the secret sauces.
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  Speaker 5: Wait outside the bathroom. Everybody's gotta go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah two bro, what is wrong with it?
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  Speaker 5: Just fell? Just how much time I have?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: But all right, next topic, Oh, some of the how
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  Speaker 4: the how you know some of the Saint stuff. Obviously
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  Speaker 4: it's like we were talking about it. You're looking for
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  Speaker 4: a face maybe face to the franchise right now it
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  Speaker 4: is look, I mean all the great stuff like Drew
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  Speaker 4: still sells really well, you got you got Manning, Ricky
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  Speaker 4: Jackson taking down close.
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  Speaker 6: But if if you're talking about Saints as a brand.
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  Speaker 6: You're selling ten to one l SU to Saint stuff, right,
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  Speaker 6: Oh wow, Yeah, it's that drastic tend to one.
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  Speaker 5: Tend to one is when the Saints are good?
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  Speaker 2: What is that number?
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  Speaker 6: It's still probably heavy? I mean three probably. I mean
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  Speaker 6: I don't know why, just them as a brand. I
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  Speaker 6: don't want to talk bad about the Saints because they're Saints,
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  Speaker 6: but yeah, Saints show no, yeah, good, it's it's tough
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  Speaker 6: if it's not, if it's not Drew.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I got a question just from like cause you know,
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  Speaker 7: we've talked about Tester and I kind like into the
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  Speaker 7: sports card world and there's like, like you sell the
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  Speaker 7: hype a lot in the sports car world before, like.
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  Speaker 5: That the hype of potential.
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  Speaker 7: Is that kind of the same in the member billy world,
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  Speaker 7: because like, was you sell the wave for sure?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: One of our biggest example was Mason Taylor when we
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  Speaker 6: beat Alabama in overtime. Yeah, we had a signing already
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  Speaker 6: lined up. It was just a stroke of luck that
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  Speaker 6: we had wow on Wednesday. So by Friday we had
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  Speaker 6: a next home game, we had product on the table
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  Speaker 6: of the photo of him diving in the end zone signed.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, we sold six thousand of them pictures of them.
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  Speaker 6: I mean it was a lot like it was crazy timing. O. Now,
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  Speaker 6: like I can't give I love Mason. He was awesome
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  Speaker 6: in great family lineage. But I can't sell a Mason
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  Speaker 6: Taylor autograph to save my life right now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know. So it's it's just timing time, just timing.
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  Speaker 5: Start getting saying that.
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  Speaker 4: That that Florida picture down there in the corner.
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  Speaker 6: Like timing of last week. I won't sell it one
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  Speaker 6: until next year.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: But if I, like in two thousand and seven, if I.
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  Speaker 3: Would have been a thing, we could have had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of them on yer Man.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, and we still have. We've done well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you know for sure, Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, when I was trying to check the
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  Speaker 4: couch cushions to see if we go to the movies.
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  Speaker 5: The one thing that I needed it.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you keep asking about the NIL situation, and
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  Speaker 6: the thing that I just keep going back to is
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  Speaker 6: a guy like both of y'all that by the time
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  Speaker 6: you got back to Baton Rouge, were you an accessible
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  Speaker 6: athlete that had already passed NFL.
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  Speaker 5: You had already passed.
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  Speaker 6: Now you're in retirement age, people still want it, but
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  Speaker 6: it's not as sure that guy on the field. So
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  Speaker 6: in the era of like a Dylan Cruz when he
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  Speaker 6: was hit a home run, I already had product on
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  Speaker 6: the table. They'd walk by and go, I want that
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  Speaker 6: jersey now because he just walked it.
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  Speaker 5: Off, you know. So it was that instant gratification in
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  Speaker 5: that instant that's.
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  Speaker 4: A great point any think about that because yeah, even okay,
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  Speaker 4: so like no matter what your career is at LSU,
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  Speaker 4: if it's a really good one, you go play professionally.
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  Speaker 4: And so when you go play professionally, like you know,
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  Speaker 4: you don't have the time, Like you just don't have
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  Speaker 4: that Like you can't come back to batteries for a
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  Speaker 4: signing and you can't really sign one hundred jerseys or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: So like back then, by the time you came back,
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  Speaker 4: I mean you're still it's still popular, but you lost
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  Speaker 4: that timing that we're talking about. But now that timing
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  Speaker 4: can go away because like if you know Nushmeyert, those
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  Speaker 4: for four hundred yards and four touchdowns, well you got product.
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  Speaker 3: In here right now or whoever you know, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I.
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  Speaker 6: Mean, he hadn't signed yet. No, but a guy, especially
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  Speaker 6: in baseball. He'll go play in Middle of Americans in
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  Speaker 6: the Cape Cod League for four years, chasing the dream,
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  Speaker 6: and he didn't want to come back to Baton Rouge
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  Speaker 6: for a couple thousand bucks and sign autographs Like that
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  Speaker 6: doesn't make sense. So and then on the second part
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  Speaker 6: of that, the nil has kind of hurt us a
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  Speaker 6: little bit because they're seeing the big revenue dollars for
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  Speaker 6: someone serving chicken out of a window for two hours
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  Speaker 6: that is worth thirty thousand.
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  Speaker 5: Dollars to them.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they have an infinite amount of inventory that they
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  Speaker 6: could use. They could put it on publics ad, they
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  Speaker 6: can put it on a shirt, they can put on
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  Speaker 6: a billboard. We have a finite number of inventory that
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  Speaker 6: we have to break that down for what that cost
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  Speaker 6: per athlete. So it's tough to ask an athlete to
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  Speaker 6: come here for X amount of dollars because we have
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  Speaker 6: to divide that by how many pieces we have for
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  Speaker 6: the fair market value for that item for a customer
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  Speaker 6: to walk through the door and pay for that autograph.
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  Speaker 6: So it is a tough memoraile. You ask for an
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  Speaker 6: ail right now, Okay, I guess it makes sense too.
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  Speaker 4: And then for you, I mean, look, you got to
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  Speaker 4: cost the helmet, you got to cost to the athlete
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  Speaker 4: that had to come in here.
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  Speaker 6: They say a lot with the new conversations of what
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  Speaker 6: is fair market value for that athlete's autograph that has
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  Speaker 6: to be divided by what's on the national market, what
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  Speaker 6: I can sell it on eBay for, what I can
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  Speaker 6: sell it in the store for, Like I can't ask
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  Speaker 6: a customer to pay one thousand dollars for a guy
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  Speaker 6: that's barely eve improved on the field yet.
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  Speaker 5: So we'll see. It's definitely a moving target.
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  Speaker 7: So I know one of your big things that y'all
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  Speaker 7: do here are the silent action. It's a different events,
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  Speaker 7: whether it's a charity event or a big group raising
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  Speaker 7: money or a corporate event, things like that.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all were doing one at the event we spoke at
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  Speaker 4: last Friday, I believe at like cook Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So what you got anythink cool plan, any any events
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  Speaker 7: co or that you just did that that stuck out
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  Speaker 7: to you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we have a big event tonight actually Thursday night
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  Speaker 6: that we're raising money for. We're a no risk opportunity
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  Speaker 6: to where we bring all the items that you see
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  Speaker 6: here in the store, set it all up we're a
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  Speaker 6: full service provider for an auction company. So it takes
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  Speaker 6: the risk out of a company throwing an auction or
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  Speaker 6: having to go buy items somewhere and having to resell
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  Speaker 6: them and hope they get more money for them.
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  Speaker 5: If your silent auction.
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  Speaker 6: This is probably an unpopular statement, but if you're a
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  Speaker 6: silent auction chair for a fundraiser and that's your main
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  Speaker 6: source of revenue, you've already lost like your real ad,
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  Speaker 6: your real dollars should come from ads or sponsorship or
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  Speaker 6: table sales or alcohol sales.
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  Speaker 5: Like. So we kind of took the guesswork out of
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  Speaker 5: out of auctions.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of times it'll ruin a relationship when
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  Speaker 6: you're a business owner and all you do is, man,
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  Speaker 6: they're calling again for that soap basket. Like, we're not
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  Speaker 6: gonna take that call, you know, so you have to
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  Speaker 6: basket no risks.
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  Speaker 7: So you'll come in there they call you and and
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  Speaker 7: it's really basically you're going in there and like you're
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  Speaker 7: you're setting everything up on your on your dime and
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  Speaker 7: then actually giving part of the proceeds back.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, whatever it sells. We use a unique bidding style.
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  Speaker 6: It's called every bid Wins That means every person that
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  Speaker 6: write their name down wins one of those items. So
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  Speaker 6: we can sell three, four five of those items instead
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  Speaker 6: of just one interest and the charity will raise three
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  Speaker 6: times as much and more. However many times you'll sell it,
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  Speaker 6: That's why I need to go. You have six hundred
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  Speaker 6: jerseys that one time.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so you have so you have like a starting
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  Speaker 4: bid and if you write your name down, you.
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  Speaker 5: Get the first one.
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  Speaker 6: If you're the first one to bid on it, you're
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  Speaker 6: taking that item home tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Oh cool.
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  Speaker 6: After that up, it goes up in twenty five dollars increments, right,
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  Speaker 6: and then so the next person will just have to
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  Speaker 6: ship them one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it encourages people to go be the first one.
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  Speaker 6: To be the first one because you pay the lowest
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  Speaker 6: price and you take it home tonight.
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  Speaker 7: Interesting. Yeah, wow, I've ever seen that before. I'd be right,
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  Speaker 7: I'd be like, it gets them every time.
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  Speaker 6: It gets them every time because they're like, oh, I
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  Speaker 6: want this, this and this.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It prevents a couple of things too. Throughout the night,
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  Speaker 6: you know how much money you're raising. Yeah too, it
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  Speaker 6: prevents the old line after an event that you see
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  Speaker 6: fifty people trying to check out and yeah, nobody wants
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  Speaker 6: to do that anymore. Yeah, yeah, I know it.
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  Speaker 7: Does it look like when they when the event starts,
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  Speaker 7: does it look like the shoppers at Target like on
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  Speaker 7: Black Friday? Like they're off the door like I'm trying
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  Speaker 7: to pull the door open.
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• 14:39
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• 14:42
  Speaker 6: Maybe we should change that.
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  Speaker 5: I'll wear that to the office.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Tray, we appreciate it, bro, We appreciate you having
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• 15:10
  Speaker 5: Thanks guys.
• 15:10
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  Speaker 4: us now, Chef, How you doing, sir, Glad to have
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: you back on as always.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I'm great, brother bilin Blest this morning.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: Man, how was the Gator?
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: I saw beautiful, beautiful pictures of Gator everywhere on social media,
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: and I know that you enjoyed some good old Gator
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: this last weekend.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I mean we smoked that thing, two of them. We
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: smoked the two smaller ones for five hours and we
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: consumed one and a half. And you know what was
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: the kids loved it first of all. You know, we
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: carted it out on the table and everybody was doing
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: and on over and I mean it tasted delicious, right,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: But I think I think the better part of it
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: was yesterday. I had some bits and pieces left over
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: that I pulled off the car and we made. I
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: made Gator sauce.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: To coant with the bakery.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: You know, I mean it was just another It's one
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: of those things that just he was given right, So
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: it was it was it was a good few daysier.
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: So so, Cheff, you kind of told us that like
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: during the games, at your game day, at your day
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: to kind of go home and chill, relax a little bit.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: What what are you cooking for yourself or your family? Like,
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: what what are you doing at the house getting ready?
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Are we kind of like snacking on dips all day
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: like a lot of people enjoy game day or are
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: you making like a big like long meal?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Not too many long meals. You know, my fiance likes
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: to cook, and so we cook in the kitchen together
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: a lot, and and you know, like dinner, there's lots
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: of pasa because my kids like pastas during the day.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: It's I think it's like, you know, fruits and vegetables.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I really love fruits and vegetables and eating them fresh, right,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: So I kind of snacker. You know, like in the
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: kitchen you're not allowed to sit down and eat too
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: terribly often because it takes you away from your time
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: a lot. So uh, you know, we it's it's a
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: lot of what we call eating over the trash cans,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: tasting foods and throwing spoons away and so it's it's
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: almost a healthier way of eating too. You know, your
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: blood sugar doesn't spike it heavily, so I'm constantly kind
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: of snacking and grazing, and so you know, it's yeah,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I do have a softness for cheese, but yeah, there's
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: lots of lots of kind of snacky foods, fruitualgebles.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Chef to go back to the Gator real quick, how
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: many players did you have to maybe like try to
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: talk in to try and said gator, Like, was there anybody,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: because you know, there's players from all over the country,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Like certainly the guys from Louisiana, they've they've probably had gator,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: they've certainly tried that before, maybe this around Mississippi and Texas.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: But from the guys that are from you know, the
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: West coast or up north or whatever, like, did you
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: have to do with some real selling to them?
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I think the ones that you have to do selling
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: to are kind of from the inner cities sometimes, And
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: to be to be honest with you, it's I don't
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: go and seek with trying to convince them. I first
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: go and seek with convincing my employees who are like,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: oh no, I'd never eat that because if I can
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: convince them to eat it and they like it, then
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: that I that I have a team of people who
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: are also saying, oh, no, you should try it. It's
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: actually really good. Like I don't eat that kind of stuff,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: But you know, chef knows what Chef knows what he's doing.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: And I've built trust with a couple of people I got.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I got a couple of kind of stubborn ones in
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: my kitchen that they don't like trying new stuff, but
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: they trust me enough to try stuff if I asked
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: them to. And it's usually a win, you know, very seldom,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: isn't it. Now I didn't like that, you know, it's
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: sometimes it's oh that's interesting. You know, I'm not in
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: love with it, but I would probably eat that again,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: or they've had a bad experience with it before. So
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: my first approach is to approach, you know, the ones
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: that and kind of test the waters with the more
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: with the more uh not with lack of better word, stubborn,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: uh you know, tasters in my kitchen and and kind
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: of work for them to do the same thing. And
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: that usually that usually works really well for me.
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: Chef, I hope you can help us, like settle a
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: great debate we have here between Hester and I. If
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: you close your eyes and just picture the perfect taco.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Oh is it?
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: Is it a tortilla or is it a hard shell taco?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: No, it's like a street taco, you know, like a
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: corn soft corn corn tortilla made from maize. You know,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: like I like street tacos. I like linguis. I like
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: tongue in my top, you know, tongue tacos. I like
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: pork belly tacos, and lots of lots of accoutre monts, right,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: like pickled pickled onions and cheese, and and probably five
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: different types of salsa. Right. But and and I like
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I like the double up the tortillas too, you know.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: And some people don't do this, but I'll take those
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: corn tortillas and put them on a flat grill and
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: toast them a little bit, just to warm them up
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: and give them a little bit of structure. Because people,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: when you steam them, they get a little too soft
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: and tear too easy for me. So I like to
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: put them on a grill and and toast them just
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: just real slightly. I think they hold together better that way.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: And I like the the you know, like the browning
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: that that that browning flavor. You know, it just adds
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: to the texture and the quality of the suit.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Thank you, chef.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: This uncultured swine that I have to sit next to
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: every single day thinks that a hard shell taco is
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: the only type of taco.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I didn't now.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I said, like, y'all are you were like baffled that
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: we have hard shell tacos. They're incredible, Okay, another heartshell
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: since I was like, Katie will take like a flower
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: tortilla and fry it up and like that's the taco
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: shell and it's incredible.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sound good, chef.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I was just saying there's other options where this guy
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: speaking in absolutes, like having a soft tortilla was the
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: only way you could have it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Truth being known, I've never met a tackle I
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: didn't like.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Thank you, chef. It's like it's like a piece of pizza.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: It's like I like pizza from here.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: I don't really like it.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, maybe, but I'm gonna eat it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's kind of the different pizza of calzo. Right,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Like somebody just tripped and fell.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: And no question about it.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Uh, chef, you know you told us about this kind
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: of get away just real quick from the food portion
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: of it, because I'm starving now.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: You told us like this team was was special as
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: far as like the meals they had together and the
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: time they spent together and just kind of some of
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: the conversations that.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: That you were hearing.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: And I think last week was like a great example
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: of that because you know, we you know, for playing
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: football too hard, gets kicked out of the football game
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: and then like Wes, his brother steps up and then
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: he goes down and then here comes another week's brothers
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: and Devon Key's played in credible so like those things
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: that you told us, like you're seeing it play out
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: in real time, like on the actual football field as well.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't say this before, but you just said
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: something that touches on it, and I think it's it's
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: to be said. There's I think three sets of brothers
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: on this team, man, And you know, like as a brother,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: you know, I know how much I care for my brother,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: even though we don't always agree on everything. You know,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: like with if my brother's on that football team, I'm
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: fighting tooth and nail. Like my brother and I may fight,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: but damn the man that gets right and that that
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: builds an even larger I think kind of a passion
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: towards what you're trying to do. And we've got three
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: sets of brothers on this team. That's that's pretty special, man.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: And you know, watching them interact and kind of pick
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: on each other a little bit but also protect each
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: other a little bit. As a human being, I think
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: that you have to appreciate.
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: That, Chef. We just came off a big week. It
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: was four a week. Now we're playing Southeastern, so we
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: kind of all know that's kind of a little bit
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: of a purple jersey game.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: But you're you're with these kids.
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: You see these kids every single day, and Jake and
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: I talk about how when we had the kind of
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: the purple jury, like the the the dip and I
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: guess competition if you will, the week was like you
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: had to rely on leadership. You had to like really
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: be cognizant of the fact that I got a prep
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: just like I did last week for the big game.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: So like, you get to spend every single week with
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: these guys and you've seen them all week, Like, so,
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: how are how do these guys, how does this team,
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: how does the culture react to these types of week.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Have you seen anything different?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: No, this ship doesn't steer differently. Brother. These kids stay focused, man.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: And that's the beautiful thing about it. Brother. You know,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: like there's no reaction or or unreaction. You know, they
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: come in, they eat the same that, you know what
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: I mean like it And that's what I love about
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: them is they're not reacting in that way. They're not
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: overreacting in any way, you know, like I media is
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: everywhere now and and I'm kind of baffled at the
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: fact that they can maintain that, to be honest with you,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: because it's to to be emotional as to be human.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: But I think they managed it exceptionally well. They're super
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: resilient and and you know they have a brotherhood of
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: teammates around them, you know, to support you know when
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: they're struggling, and you know, it's it's it's something pretty
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: special to watch, you know that.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Jeff, What we got on the menu today? Have we
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: already laid it? I don't think it's nine thirty. I'm
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: sure you've already had to feed a ton of people
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: already today.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: And yeah, chicken and offls for breakfast. We have salmon
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: for lunch. I'm trying to think what I've seen because
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I've been kind of in the office this morning a
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: little bit. But gosh, you just me, what's going on?
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: What's on the menu today? Actually that I don't know.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: I don't know, man.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: You know, they're doing really well with.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: It, so it's going great. Everything's going great there.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Look, Jeff, you look, you had a big assignment last
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: week with the Gator, so we'll give you a pass here.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: That was that was you know, that was the main thing.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: We had to make sure that we had Gator. This
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: is a show full of Gator haters, and the team
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: got to enjoy Gator.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: So you're good.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what it is is. I went on
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I went on a high fence ranch hunt with some
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: of the guys back six months ago, and and one
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: of the one of the videos was released today and
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: and uh it, I've been kind of really in that
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: because for the first for the first time, I cooked
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: heart and it was a gins Bach heart and it
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: was an extraordinary experience and I got to share that
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: with some really incredible people. And so you know, my
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: mind has kind of been with that heart this morning,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: because you know, when you kill a creature. I think
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: there's the spiritual side of it as well. That you know,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I consume as much as that of the animal as
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I can, and the heart more specifically, you know. And
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: so that was one of the that was one of
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: the times I one of the first times I cooked
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: heart for you know, like it was a wild game
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: heart and it was I was feeding some of the
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: guys that I worked with on a day to day
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: basis in the in the football team. So it was
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: a really special moment.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Man, all right there he is our guy.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Chef Michael Johnson joins us every single week, always gives
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: us just great insight, not only what's on the menu,
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: sometimes you know what's not on the menu because we're
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: trying to figure that out because we're worried about Florida.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: We had we had a lot of caters we have
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: to take care of last week, Chef, I mean, always
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: our pleasure to catch up with you.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: We appreciated every single week.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: I love that guy the best. He is the best.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: Although I saw that when you when you when you
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: kill an animal, you're supposed to eat the heart raw
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: still beating.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: I don't know you doing that.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: No, I know that when I first my first year,
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: my dad did put like blood on my chee.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Whatever.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, don't hate. Don't hate on fish sticks either.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: I'm not hating on fish delicious. Okay, I didn't hate on.
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: Fish I don't know, Okay, So this is what I said.
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: I just made this point in the chat.
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: Like hardshell tacos, they're kind of equivalent to fishticks to me, like,
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: sure they taste good and they taste fine, but at
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: some point in life.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: You gotta grow up to just grow up.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I don't want to grow up.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: I'm a toys the kid, and.
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: I grow up to be like like your age or anything,
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: but get past nine.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I still eat cereal every night.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: That's true with the cartoon character on the mark.
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: So the hard show Taco thing tracks like cereal is
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: great and I'll eat every now and then. I love
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: a fishtick. I love a chicken like I love an
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: animal shaped chicken nuggy may it's fine.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know your pallet was so mature.
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: But I'm not eating you know. It's not like my
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: go to, but I dabble. But at some point you
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: gotta grow up and just eat normal shaped chicken nuggets.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Some of you didn't grow up rednecks in the shows.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: That's okay. We're ball on a budget.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: We made the most of those fish sticks and they
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: were delicious.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: I ate so many fish that I like to dip
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: in mustard. Kind of weird.
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: What Yeah, but I look back at like when he
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: as an adult, you do you fish with a lot
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: of sauces and the same thing as mustard.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Frozen teqtos.
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: That's well done, Matsi Thirtino's pizza, well done. Oh yeah,
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: that was the best. Yeah, Totina, don't try to give
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: me another cheap pizza.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: That's the one, the one I want. Flavor, that's the
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: one I want. And hey we agree there you go.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Look at that, look at us. Would have thought, all right,
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: we will.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get you some.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Big dealer, no big deal when we come back here
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: on O TV.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Off the bench. You know what goes great with frozen pizzas?
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure too, lots of them.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I mean think about it. Elite combination, little.
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: Cold pizza, little do sequis, chilling at a tailgate.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you can get your do sequis and be
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: ready to go for the tailgate this weekend. Go for dose,
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: enjoy that ice chests full of dose, Sekis.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: It's gonna get you right for game day.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: You're gonna enjoy sitting there and watching all those games
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: that we talked about a little bit earlier. Right before
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: you head into Tiger Stadium. At the tailgate, it is
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: always a great time to go for douce.
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you ever likes as a man like you know,
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: packing the car up perfectly is awesome. But like another
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: great feeling is a beautifully packed ice chest, like when
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: you line it all up with the ice, put up
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: a good layer of ice and put another that's even
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: better when it's dose seconds when I say a beautiful
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: green bottle, beautiful green can with the two xes on it. Man,
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  Speaker 7: go for dose. We know we got another home game.
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  Speaker 7: We got to show up, We got to show out.
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  Speaker 7: Delete some beers do it responsibly.
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  Speaker 5: Go for dose. Stay thirsty with my.
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  Speaker 9: Friends waiting for you. Ass away from you.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Broke from the locker room to the airwaves.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: It's off the bench. Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn, Welcome
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: back in.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: It is OTB here live from pro Dreams on burbankprodash
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  Speaker 4: dreams dot com. Check out their shop and the memorabilia
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• 33:18
  Speaker 4: try and watch the Tigers play. All right, let's do
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: a little big deal, no big deal, and I know
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: that you know we're here, Our great producers are back
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: in the studio, so it's okay, we can still get
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: this done.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I'll go first, and Flynn can go.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: We'll turn ourselves down and then you all can answer
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: there back in studio. You don't have to worry about
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: the sounder here because you know what, we can't hear
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: it anyways. And so we'll go ahead and we'll get
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: this started and I'll start it off. Big deal or
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: no big deal. The NCAA eliminates this spring transfer portal window,
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: so college football is officially moving to a single off
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: season transfer portal window.
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: That's a big deal, certainly is. I guess this is
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: probably the Tennessee UCLA situation, kind of the knee jerk
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: reaction from that. But I'm sure that any anytime you
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: put restrictions on something, anytime you start to tighten up
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: the rules, I think coaches around the country breathe a
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: sigh relief because what they don't want is the wild,
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: wild West. And every year it gets a little bit
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: tighter and tighter, and I think that's what they want.
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: As long as a coach and an organization knows what
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: the rules are and they're clear and they're fair, then
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: they know how to work. And I think this kind
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: of helps that, Like they get their roster secured and
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: they know their roster is going to be their roster
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: at an earlier date, which helps coaches, what helps planning. Now,
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: it puts a little limitations on the player and his
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: options at some point of the year if things don't
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: go their way. But you know, I think the coaches
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: and organizations, but we're probably a big catalyst and getting
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: this push through.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: All right, Landra Tata.
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think this is a big deal. Yeah, for
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: all the reasons that Matt just said. I mean, it
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: has kind of just been the wild West in terms
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: of not only an IL but the transfer portal as well,
• 35:14
  Speaker 10: and just everybody was kind of allowed to do whatever
• 35:16
  Speaker 10: they wanted. So in terms of there being a role
• 35:21
  Speaker 10: in place, finally, even though there were some like, yeah,
• 35:25
  Speaker 10: this is a pretty big deal.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: All right, Well, I hate to go chalk, but yeah,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: big deal.
• 35:31
  Speaker 11: I think it's a big deal because I think it
• 35:34
  Speaker 11: kind of puts a control on things that. Frankly, I
• 35:37
  Speaker 11: think needed to be a little bit controlled. I understand
• 35:40
  Speaker 11: a lot of people said, oh, well, you know, this
• 35:42
  Speaker 11: gives more power to the players. Players kind of had
• 35:44
  Speaker 11: all the power. Now, whether you're four or against that
• 35:47
  Speaker 11: is entirely up to you. But like Matt said, it
• 35:50
  Speaker 11: helps you kind of plan out your roster a little
• 35:53
  Speaker 11: bit better. You know what you have at an earlier date.
• 35:56
  Speaker 11: I mean, look, you had the spring portal window, you
• 35:58
  Speaker 11: had the fall portal window. The players at Virginia Tech
• 36:02
  Speaker 11: and UCLA are able to enter the portal now that
• 36:04
  Speaker 11: their coaches are fired. I mean, it was a free
• 36:06
  Speaker 11: for all everywhere. This kind of controls stuff just a
• 36:10
  Speaker 11: little bit. So I think it's good for the game.
• 36:11
  Speaker 11: I think it's a big deal.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: All right, Matthew, what you got there, sir?
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: Big deal, No big deal. Chicago Bears head coach Ben
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: Johnson stated recently, after this past week they started Bears
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: that started owing two, that the practice habits of his
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: team has not yet been reflective of a championship caliber team.
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: Players not finishing going through the football, doing things that
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: are tight, that are that are taught at a high
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: school level.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: Is this a big deal? No big deal.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: That's not good. I think it's a big deal. That's
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: not good.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: That tells me you're far away, you aren't even close.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: You aren't in the realm of where you need to be.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: And that tells me that you know the person that
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: left you that obviously didn't have a great culture either.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: But the more troublesome thing is you've been there long
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: enough to create your own culture and try to implement
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: your own culture, and it hasn't stuck. Like the players
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: aren't taking buying what you're selling right now, it's a massive.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: Well, it's weak. It's weak too.
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: When I was looking at this, I thought to myself,
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: do I like him saying this publicly in a press conference?
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: And I think the answer for me is yes, because
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: as long as he said it to his team first,
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: like if as long as his team's not getting that
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: message through the media or watching it on TV in
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: like the team dining hall and hearing that from their
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: head coach, sending a message early of your expectation for
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: a team, sending it loud and clear, making no qualms
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: about the kind of kind of organization that you want
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: to run, and that they're not hitting those marks.
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you could see.
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: Frustration on him at the at the end of the
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: game this past weekend against the Lions too. So yeah,
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: to your point, I think it's okay because he's setting
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: a culture. He's telling what's it expected of them and
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: they're not hitting the mark and he's letting the world know.
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: So if you're a Caleb Williams and that's your team, man,
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: you better the message better be received loud and clear.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's nothing to guarantee that Caleb Williams is
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: going to be a b R C.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: And those flashes and he did improve from week one
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: to week.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Two his college had he had flashes in college.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: The flashes are great, but to be an NFL dude,
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: you've got to be consistent those flashes.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Like I'm trying to let me think.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Of a of a quarterback like okay.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Brock party like Brock Party.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Like the flashes aren't flashy, but the consistency is there.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: So like you got to be careful falling in love
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: with the flashes, as you know.
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: And I'm a big believer in Ben Johnson's offense. I
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: think he's really too. Detroitans were incredible last year. Their offense.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: I love, Love Love, but also to the point the
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: players that were running that offense have bought into Dan
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Campbell's mentality is for sure.
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: So that he's got to set that mentality too. And
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: Caleb oys is being asked to do things he's never
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: had to do before. So there is gonna be a
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: little bit of a wearing curve there. Wondre tey what
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: y'all think.
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: I think it's a big deal. You know, talking about
• 39:14
  Speaker 11: bad habits. Ben Johnson like all that. That was the
• 39:19
  Speaker 11: reason I didn't like Cayleb Williams coming into the NFL,
• 39:21
  Speaker 11: because I thought he had some bad habits. But you know,
• 39:24
  Speaker 11: we're talking about Caleb in all this. Go back and
• 39:28
  Speaker 11: look at Lincoln Riley. Everyone talks about Lincoln Riley as
• 39:32
  Speaker 11: kind of this QB guru, but look at the ones
• 39:35
  Speaker 11: that have succeeded in the NFL. Baker had a coach
• 39:38
  Speaker 11: before Lincoln Riley. Jalen Hurts had a coach before Lincoln Riley.
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: I mean he taught Caleb Williams, and I mean they
• 39:45
  Speaker 11: did good things together in college. Caleb kind of regressed
• 39:48
  Speaker 11: under Lincoln Riley from year one to year two, So
• 39:51
  Speaker 11: I mean it's kind of an indictment all the way
• 39:52
  Speaker 11: around on a lot of different people.
• 39:55
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it feels like a big deal because it's just
• 39:58
  Speaker 10: a bad culture a vibe over there because of that.
• 40:02
  Speaker 10: So that yeah, big deal.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, I think it's I think it's a
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: massive deal. They the Bears.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: I know it's early in his tenure, but they feel
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: like they got to change some things.
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: And when you're an NFL team, when you're an NFL
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: team and your team gets called out for effort by
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: your head coach.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: After when when high school gets thrown out there this
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: effort that is not good. That is not where you
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: want to be. And yeah, they a lot of people
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: think they might.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: Be the worst team in the NFL right now.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: It's bad shocker their defense and not the worst roster either.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: Who's gone her defense again. I think he's a naggy. Yeah,
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: he's got no cakes.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: No cakes, weak chin, mister Dennis Allen.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: All right, we'll take a break and when we come back,
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: we'll wrap it up like we do every single day,
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: answering your questions. Will ask the bench here to close
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  Speaker 4: Let's just do it early, Like how about like we
• 44:23
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• 44:25
  Speaker 3: I did that last weekend.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: It was left on. Okay, let's do it.
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• 44:31
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• 44:36
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking more Western Kentucky?
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: Okay, because more relaxed, more chill, more chill, guaranteed night game.
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