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Hour Three | Coach Jay Johnson Joins, Munchies & Ask the Bench · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the bench. We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Say Hester and Hester got it futa fa from.
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  Speaker 1: Carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each other
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  Speaker 1: on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's pot control for the years.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine Studio, it's off the.
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  Speaker 2: Bench, all right, Welcome back in our number three of
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  Speaker 2: OTV here Live from the Raising Knees Studio.
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  Speaker 3: Always a pleasure to catch up with our next guest.
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  Speaker 2: Head baseball coach for the LSU Tigers, Jay Johnson joins
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  Speaker 2: us now coach.
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  Speaker 3: We always appreciate the time.
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  Speaker 4: Hope you're well, Yeah, good morning, how you guys doing.
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  Speaker 2: Doing fantastic, Looking forward to the series coming up starting
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow there in Athens. But before we get there, coach
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  Speaker 2: winners of the last five games, it's been a little
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  Speaker 2: bit different of a lineup, a younger lineup. But what
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  Speaker 2: has the last five games kind of shown you this team, Because,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, it's been some different people. It's been
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  Speaker 2: some people getting an opportunity, maybe really for the first time,
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  Speaker 2: and they've kind of answered the call.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we've had some injuries, have had to
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  Speaker 4: shuffle the deck a little bit. Some young players have improved.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's something you don't see, you know, while
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  Speaker 4: you're not seeing them in the game. But from fall
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  Speaker 4: baseball beginning of the year, side work, you know, live
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  Speaker 4: at bats, thing with pitchers against pitchers that hadn't thrown
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  Speaker 4: very much. And you know, guys like Jack Record, William
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  Speaker 4: Patrick improved.
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  Speaker 5: You know, just as the season's going along.
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  Speaker 4: Mason bron Omarcerna had gotten a lot of playing time
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  Speaker 4: and have improved with that playing time. And those guys
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  Speaker 4: have given us a jolt. And I would say offensively,
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  Speaker 4: we've had a good, really good stretch of like nine
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  Speaker 4: games in a row. We didn't have the pitching that
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  Speaker 4: to match it per se and at Mississippi State, but
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  Speaker 4: offensively found an identity a little bit and scoring in
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  Speaker 4: a lot of different ways and competing hard in the games.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what we'll continue to do and need to
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  Speaker 4: this week and obviously playing against a great team.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Kris, so a couple of weeks where the games
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  Speaker 6: that certainly didn't turn out the way you hope for
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  Speaker 6: or y'all work towards. But but the team's playing well.
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  Speaker 6: It seems to be the lineup, it's hitting well. But
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  Speaker 6: let's talk about the pitching a little bit, I know,
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  Speaker 6: unfortunate injuries there on the pitching staff. Are we getting
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  Speaker 6: healthier on the mound.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, we'll we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: We're feeling good about the direction we're headed there. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's this time of year. You know, it's one
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  Speaker 4: of those things like the offense tends to come around
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  Speaker 4: when the weather gets warm, Pitchers get a little tired,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, obviously we have some guys that we
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  Speaker 4: believe are really good, you know, pro prospects, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and will be key contributors to next year's season as well.
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  Speaker 4: So we're being really diligent about this, not trying to
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  Speaker 4: play any kind of mind games, you know, relative to case.
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  Speaker 5: Ending through a bullpen.
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  Speaker 4: Yesterdaypen went great, but now it's more like how does
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  Speaker 4: his body and arm respond to the intensity of the
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  Speaker 4: throwing that he did, you know, for twenty to twenty
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  Speaker 4: five pitches and then deciding, you know, we're in the
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  Speaker 4: clear and feel good about it and getting them out
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  Speaker 4: there or not. So that's obviously a big part of
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  Speaker 4: our team, big part of the series this weekend. But
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  Speaker 4: we're going to be smart about that as well.
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  Speaker 2: And coach like even going back to the last series
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  Speaker 2: in conference play against South Carolina, Like, what does the
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  Speaker 2: performance of those pitchers in that series mean to being
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  Speaker 2: able to only have a couple of guys run out
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  Speaker 2: there and not have to go, you know, really really
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  Speaker 2: deep in multiple games. And you mentioned the Mississippi State
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  Speaker 2: series and you're right, like you're trying to find the
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  Speaker 2: right tools for success there, but in the South Carolina series,
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  Speaker 2: it's a little bit of the opposite where just a
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  Speaker 2: couple of guys ran out there, did their job, handled
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  Speaker 2: their business, and you didn't have to throw a lot
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  Speaker 2: of arms at them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think if you're looking forward and coach Bertman
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  Speaker 4: kind of used to this model of like you have
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  Speaker 4: eight pictures. You know, you might have sixteen or eighteen
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  Speaker 4: or nineteen on the roster, but you have eight pictures.
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  Speaker 4: And this is kind of what he was referring to.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, those guys did a great job last week.
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  Speaker 4: And if you look at our team last year, there
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  Speaker 4: was a lot of let's say, you know, cad to
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  Speaker 4: Zach and Anthony da Cason or vice versa, right, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and then you know you're trying to cut up Sunday
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  Speaker 4: and Tuesday a little bit and that was a good
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  Speaker 4: formula for that team. You know, when we played our
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  Speaker 4: best in twenty four, it was a lot of Holman
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  Speaker 4: and jumped to let's say Herring and maybe Gidry, and
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  Speaker 4: so you know, I like it that way. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we haven't gotten some consistency out of some guys to know,
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  Speaker 4: you know, who do you give the ball to for
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  Speaker 4: like a nine out stretch and a close game. The
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  Speaker 4: other thing we've done a better job of for two
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  Speaker 4: weeks is we've played with the lead, and we hadn't
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  Speaker 4: done that, you know, really a lot until the past
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  Speaker 4: two weeks. So that gives you a little more freedom
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  Speaker 4: and flexibility. But you know, me up for the six
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  Speaker 4: or seven pitcher a weekend plan every weekend that usually
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  Speaker 4: means things are going pretty good.
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  Speaker 7: That's a pretty pretty good plan.
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  Speaker 6: Cause y'all had this past Saturday play played great and
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  Speaker 6: I think I think you even said that this is
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  Speaker 6: the best baseball we played all season, and you know it.
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  Speaker 6: Of course it wasn't against the highest ranked opponent, but
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  Speaker 6: you saw something with the team and I was just
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  Speaker 6: kind of wondering, like at the time, and it is
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  Speaker 6: in the season, kind of back against the wall a
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  Speaker 6: little bit, your guy, your your teams know exactly what
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  Speaker 6: they have to do right now. It's like either do
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  Speaker 6: it or don't do it. Do you think that has
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  Speaker 6: helped them kind of step up?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 4: I think I've said this and it's it's sometimes hard
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  Speaker 4: at the place like LSU for young players, but they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna get better as they go along. And I think
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  Speaker 4: we've had some of that. And part of that is
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  Speaker 4: mindset and mentality and you know, kind of just shift
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  Speaker 4: the focus a little bit to you know, how we play,
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  Speaker 4: which it's always kind of like been my but like
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  Speaker 4: packaging it a little different for them. You know, we've
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  Speaker 4: done a lot of video and we've had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of good success over the nine games offensively of like hey,
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  Speaker 4: this is what it looks like, and really positively reinforcing
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  Speaker 4: that before we even start the next day, like yesterday
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  Speaker 4: before practice, like there's a lot of good at bats
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  Speaker 4: and a lot of good situational play in the game
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  Speaker 4: against Tu Lane. I think that's maybe helped, you know
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  Speaker 4: a little bit, you know, bring more clarity to the
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  Speaker 4: message or the mission or whatever you want to call
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  Speaker 4: it for this team, and you know, and just kind
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  Speaker 4: of recently, it's like, you know who's the most dangerous soldier,
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  Speaker 4: It's the ones not afraid to be killed. And like,
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  Speaker 4: we've literally been through a lot of adversity when you
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  Speaker 4: talk about injuries, tough close losses. You know, we've been
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  Speaker 4: awesome in close games here. We haven't this year. So like,
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  Speaker 4: let's not let that suffering or pain go to waste.
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  Speaker 4: It's like she just hardened you a little bit and
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  Speaker 4: go in guns plays and there's nothing to be afraid of.
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  Speaker 4: And you know we're not supposed to win, you know
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  Speaker 4: these next two frank on paper and where things are at.
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  Speaker 4: So like, let's go in there, let's play great baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Let's put ourselves in position to win, and then play
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  Speaker 4: with the psychological freedom to just get after it and
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  Speaker 4: make the pitch and make the play and take the
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  Speaker 4: bat that we need to to put us over the home.
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  Speaker 2: Catching up with Jay Johnson, head baseball coach for the
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  Speaker 2: LSU Tigers here on OTB, and you know, coach one
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  Speaker 2: of those players. At least it certainly looks like Kate
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Beattie has gone out there, not just recently, but
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  Speaker 2: really for the totality of the season.
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  Speaker 3: And I can remember whenever he.
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  Speaker 2: Like officially official to LSU and he's not going to
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  Speaker 2: pro baseball, And how excited you were. We had you
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  Speaker 2: on the show right after that and you talked about
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  Speaker 2: all the things that you envisioned him doing in an
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  Speaker 2: LSU uniform and coach.
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  Speaker 3: It sure looks like he's doing most of those things
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm proud of him. He's a good player,
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  Speaker 4: this good team guy, cares about the team, all of
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  Speaker 4: those types of things. So he's playing exceptional. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's that's where that's where he's at. And I can't
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  Speaker 4: say enough good things about Kate. And it's more than
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  Speaker 4: just the numbers to me, Like, I mean, how about
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  Speaker 4: the way he's caught the last.
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  Speaker 5: Few games and just the.
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  Speaker 4: Throwing people out. He looks like Matt Flynn hit the
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  Speaker 4: steam route you on the second base or backpicking a
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  Speaker 4: guy at first.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like he's he's.
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  Speaker 4: Doing a great job and you know, really obviously happy
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  Speaker 4: he's progressing the way that he is, and he's one
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  Speaker 4: of the best hitters in the SEC right now, and
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  Speaker 4: I think statistically it bears out.
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  Speaker 6: So gouch, what does uh you talk about the young guys?
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  Speaker 6: Are they kind of making an impact and kind of
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  Speaker 6: growing and getting better and really kind of stepping up. Well,
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  Speaker 6: you got Mason bron who has certainly stepped up and
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  Speaker 6: been a force batting leadoff for you.
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  Speaker 7: What is he kind of brought to the table for
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  Speaker 7: your team.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a really good player too. You know. You
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  Speaker 5: know when I think.
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  Speaker 4: About who'd you get through the draft, and we've certainly
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  Speaker 4: gotten punched in the gut, especially last year. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: we made a really strong effort to keep Mason because
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  Speaker 4: I knew he was a good hitter. But I'll say
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  Speaker 4: what's impressed me the most is just the day to
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  Speaker 4: day work. It doesn't matter if he has four out
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  Speaker 4: of five quality at bats or has a tough day,
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  Speaker 4: and it's involved hard at people. You know before practice
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  Speaker 4: the next day is gonna be in the cage. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's really improved defensively at first base. And this thing
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  Speaker 4: is about maturity as much as it is about anything else.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what I see. And yeah, I think he's
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  Speaker 4: I see a lot of maturity in Mason. He's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be a great player here for the next few years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And coach, when you have a young player and
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  Speaker 2: this is like any sports, certainly at the level that
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  Speaker 2: LSU baseball plays, but when you have a freshman and
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  Speaker 2: somebody that is as far as like own base percentage,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the top on the team and it's not
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  Speaker 2: even really close, and just being able to put at
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  Speaker 2: the top of the lineup, and it's so much more
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  Speaker 2: than the physical tools, like the mental tools that it
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  Speaker 2: takes to be a freshman lead your team on own
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  Speaker 2: base percentage, be the first guy the table set right
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  Speaker 2: there at the front, like that's something that you saw
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  Speaker 2: in him and that he would be able to handle
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  Speaker 2: it mentally as much as the physical.
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  Speaker 3: Part of it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt about it. And that's always going to
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  Speaker 4: be the separator. And football is a little more of
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  Speaker 4: a in your face like physical toughness here. But I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure you guys played with guys that were just really sharp.
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  Speaker 4: You knew what you could count on every day, and
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  Speaker 4: good teammates, good players, and just the model of consistency,
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  Speaker 4: and that's what we're after for our team. And you
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  Speaker 4: start to do that player by player, And if you
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  Speaker 4: ask me, a thing that has breathed a lot of
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  Speaker 4: optimism into our team is you got young guys that
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  Speaker 4: are understanding that and playing like that, and so you're
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  Speaker 4: getting the most out of a Mason or an Omar
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  Speaker 4: or Jack Rickert.
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  Speaker 5: William Patrick.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned Kade, you know, still only a sophomore, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and then you know, you pair those guys with you know, Derek,
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  Speaker 4: you know, playing playing to his capability, right, and Steven
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  Speaker 4: playing to his capability. You know, there's your answer for
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  Speaker 4: you know why we're scoring eight or nine now instead
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  Speaker 4: of four or five.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, coach Stephen Mylm's been obviously just so incredible on
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  Speaker 6: defense all year long, but it also like at the plate,
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  Speaker 6: it seems like this is his time of the year,
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  Speaker 6: like him getting better and being a little bit more
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  Speaker 6: productive at the plate of recent I only have to like,
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  Speaker 6: I can imagine that, especially like the new guys, the
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  Speaker 6: young guys, they're like, okay, yeah, we saw this last
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  Speaker 6: year on the national championship run.
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  Speaker 7: I got to think that seeing Stevens.
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  Speaker 6: Step up and be productive not only on defense but
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  Speaker 6: at the plate now a little bit more has got
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  Speaker 6: to motivate those new guys and those young guys a
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  Speaker 6: little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they nobody here has any lack of
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  Speaker 4: faith in him, and he's earned everybody's trust, you know,
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  Speaker 4: within our program, I would say, you know, the leadership
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  Speaker 4: thing has really elevated. You know, that's not he's let's
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  Speaker 4: just play who is talking, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: Or his fancy shoes. He likes the shoes, you know
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  Speaker 5: what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: But he's not a real outspoken guy. And you know
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  Speaker 4: he's he's done a good job with the young players
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  Speaker 4: as well, so he's respected by everybody. And for me,
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  Speaker 4: I said this a couple of weeks ago. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if it was to you, guys or not to me.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's actually swung the bat better this year
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  Speaker 4: than he did last year. He was hitting into a
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  Speaker 4: lot of tough luck early in the season, and now
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of like baseball is starting to come around
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  Speaker 4: and reward him accordingly.
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  Speaker 5: If that makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, and certainly has been one of the
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  Speaker 2: guys kind of list for kind of some of the
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  Speaker 2: offensive runs scored. As you mentioned there, coach, guys know,
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  Speaker 2: but Jay Johnson here on OTB coach with the series
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  Speaker 2: coming up against Georgia, going to Athens, one of better
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  Speaker 2: baseball teams in the country, I think we all know that.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, you and Wes Johnson. Certainly y'all shared
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  Speaker 2: a dugout together. He was on the staff in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, so you know each other very well. When
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  Speaker 2: you have, you know, a situation where we have a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with the coach, he's been on the staff, you
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  Speaker 2: know each other. How hard is it to just try
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  Speaker 2: to play your game and not case ghosts because you're like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I know what Wes would do in this situation here,
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  Speaker 2: or well, Wes might know what I would do in
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  Speaker 2: this situation here. When you have you know, the familiar relationship,
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  Speaker 2: is it something you try to stay away from because
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  Speaker 2: in football, coach we talk about it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, look, we're chasing ghosts, We're watching things that
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  Speaker 2: probably won't even happen.
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  Speaker 3: We're thinking too much into this. How do you handle
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  Speaker 3: it in baseball?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a really good question.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a unique situation with the SEC schedule,
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  Speaker 4: Like we haven't played the last couple of years since
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  Speaker 4: he's been gone, other than we played him in the
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  Speaker 4: SEC tournament in twenty four and that one was pretty
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  Speaker 4: simple gaue jump, you know it dominated And they'll be
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  Speaker 4: doing the same thing for the Oakland or sacrament or
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  Speaker 4: Las Vegas Hitgies or whatever they're called here pretty soon.
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  Speaker 4: Like no, I think I'm obviously appreciative to what he
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  Speaker 4: did here.
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  Speaker 5: You know, pitching coach on the national championship team.
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  Speaker 4: They've done a great job recruiting and evaluating, you know,
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  Speaker 4: out of the portal. He's smart baseball guy. And they're
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  Speaker 4: playing hard, and they're playing a lot of confidence, and
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  Speaker 4: they have talent. I've done more on their offensive players
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  Speaker 4: so far, and that's kind of they're staple of their
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  Speaker 4: team right now as they hit a lot of homers
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  Speaker 4: and that's going to be a part of the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's like the ability to take a punch
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  Speaker 4: and and move forward and minimize and all those types
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  Speaker 4: of things. But you know what, baseball is a little
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  Speaker 4: different in that regard. Yeah, sure you got maybe the
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  Speaker 4: trick play on offense or the pitching tendency of you know,
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  Speaker 4: they had to do this, but it doesn't come up,
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  Speaker 4: I would think as much as in football.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, the game, you know, in.
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  Speaker 4: Its truest form hasn't changed as much as maybe a
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  Speaker 4: football or a basketball, and it's it's always about the
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  Speaker 4: players on the field, and right you know, and being
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  Speaker 4: in the right frame of mind. And that's what weird
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  Speaker 4: challenges is our team and our frame of mind, and
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  Speaker 4: and it's it's actually, you know, there is some some
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  Speaker 4: freedom in like, hey man, this is an opportunity, you know,
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  Speaker 4: And we've narrowly missed some really good opportunities this year
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  Speaker 4: that would have completely changed where we were sitting today.
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  Speaker 4: But we have one in front of us. The best
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  Speaker 4: thing about Georgia right now is they have a great
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  Speaker 4: record and we're playing on a road and that may
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  Speaker 4: sound counterintuitive to just winning, but if you do get
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  Speaker 4: on top, that changes things in a hurry.
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  Speaker 6: Coach, I've talked to you about this before, but as
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  Speaker 6: as the head coach, you are most of the time
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  Speaker 6: baseball coach, but like a part time psychologist too, So
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  Speaker 6: I'm curious as to your approach in the messaging to
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  Speaker 6: your team going into this weekend and the remainder of
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  Speaker 6: the regular season, because like when I played football, my
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  Speaker 6: coach was careful not to use certain words like don't
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: throw an interception on this play, like he would say,
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: you know, let's have all security here, like it was
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: a way to message it to where you didn't think
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: about the obvious thing in front of us. What is
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: your messaging knowing that there's probably a win total that
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: you need to get to the next two weekends, Like what,
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: how are you laying that out for your team? Or
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: is it just kind of like an obvious, understood, unspoken thing.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'll try to say kind of do
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: it and it actually rears its head more on Tuesdays,
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: believe it or not. Like, but I think you guys
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: would appreciate this as athletes. It's like the team that
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: plays the best that day is going to win.
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  Speaker 5: Again.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: I think baseball is different football, where you know, if football,
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: big fast people beat little fast people all the time,
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: you know, like here, it's not the case. The picture
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: determines a lot of it. So I've literally tried to
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: double down on the process of winning and how we
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: play because it kind of takes some pressure off them,
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: and playing at this place, there's already enough of it.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: Like these guys want to.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Win, they want to play good. They you know, don't
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: like maybe where we are in totality, but you know,
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: they've been able to hang in there where we're playing
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: important baseball with six games left, and I've just tried
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: to use the fact that we're still alive to build
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: some confidence and guys that haven't been down this road.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: And then you're always teaching for the future as well,
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: and you know, win or lose, you know, whether we're
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: in the postseason or not, there's some there's a lot
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: of value in you know, kind of this this struggle
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: that we've gone through. And you know, I'm I'm I'm
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: okay with that. And if we use that correctly. You know,
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: nobody wants to not you know, be in the postseason,
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: but we can use this to make us better. And
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: I think this team's doing that in the best way
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: it can. But now it's only about like you said,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: like like it's the like the messaging, it's the most
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: effective soldiers, the one is not afraid.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: To be killed.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Well, really, what do we have to be afraid of
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: right now? Like literally nothing? Like we've lost one run games,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: We've been walked off on the road three times.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: In SEC play, you know what I mean.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: We've been down seven to nothing, you know, tied at
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: seven to seven, had our best hitter at the plate
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: and then ended up.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Losing, you know, eight to seven.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: You know, like we're we've been through the fire, and
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: you know sometimes that hardens you.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: And right now.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: It's like, hey, let's go for it. And that's kind
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: of the messaging, is like attacking this opportunity and you know,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: bigger picture and all that, there's there's time for that
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: at a later time.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it, coach last one. And we
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: always appreciate for your time. I've got to ask you,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: and I know you're in the heat of the season
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: sometimes it's hard to I hustle this. But Kate Anderson
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: point three seventy r A, Anthony Hyinsen point four to
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: four e RA. The things that they're doing at a
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: professional level are video game numbers that might not even
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: do it justice. Do you have a chance to maybe
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: like just check in on them every now and again
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: and just shake your head at oh my god, look
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: at what they're doing at the professional level.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, for sure. And I mean, yeah, those guys
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: made me look smart a lot, right, Yeah, you know,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: like I'm just not surprised at all, is what I
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: would say. But having a front row seat to how
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: those guys do what they do, and it's more than talent,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Like there's a lot of talented players at that level.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: It's the discipline. You know, those guys are always going
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: to do what they're supposed to do. There's the ability
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: to just focus on what they can control and what matters.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: And we're just talking about maturity of mental strength at
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: this level. Like those guys have it, and I mean
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: they whatever it is, they have it. Like it's almost
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: like when they're in a minor league. It's like, hey, man,
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: just give me that call when you make the big
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: leagues and we'll be there to support you, because like
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: that's a foregone conclusion.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: And like with Anthony in.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: The draft last year, I was just like, and somebody's
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: really missing something. And the Red Sox got to be
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: licking their chops and you know, the former assistant GM
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: and the Mariners you know, had texted me after they
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: met with Kate. It was very shortly after the College
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: World Series and like, this guy's not going to be
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: available with the third pick. Somebody's going to take him, right,
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: but man, what an impressive dude. And then he immediately
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: after the pick and I don't remember the teams, he's like, man,
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: I can't believe these guys screwed this up. Like they're
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: just through the moon. Most both organizations are through the
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: moon moon for those guys, and they absolutely should be.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. Coach, we went along with you.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: We certainly appreciate your time. Enjoy this weekend, best of
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: luck this weekend, and we'll catch up again with you
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: next week.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: All right, thanks, guys, have a good day.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: All right you as well.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Jay Johnson, head baseball coach for LSU Tigers, and we
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: kept him twenty minutes. Appreciate that coach. A big deal though,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: huge deal came out of that interview. Oh yeah, he
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: knows my name. I thought you said the really good
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: question that I know, well, the good question you got, No,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: really good question, he said, really good question. But he
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: knows my name. YEA not a big deal. Yeah, well
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: not all the coaches did. That's fair.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: See see you got.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: I got it now.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw, guys, you're not nowhere else going with
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: it or not. I was like, yeah, of course he
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: knows you.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: You're not.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: I'm not come to him. You're flynning.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, big day for me. It's gonna be a good day.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: You have a little pep in your step.
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: Pep in my step. Now, baby, we'll do some push ups.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I still Kate Anderson has a point three it's.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Unbelieves five games right, and Anthony Iinson has a point
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: four to.
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: Four r A kid's pitched five? Now, didn't he did?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: He believe both? I believe. I just had kids pulled up.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just had a new I think it was
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: last night. I had a new alert hit me.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Kate Anderson has started five games, pitched twenty four and
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the third, only giving up thirteen hits, only one urned run,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: only walked for it, has struck out thirty eight his
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: batting average against his one fifty seven. For Anthony Iinson,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: he's pitched five games, point forty four a twenty and
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: a third, struck out thirty four.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: Decent, pretty okay.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: And that's in like that's not like in like the
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Florida League. That's not like in High A.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: That's in Double A for a lot of times, that's
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: where like your best young players are.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: It's remarkable.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: So I think, what now they're both of them, I
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: think are top five prospects.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: I think that's if they're not, I don't trust the list.
• 22:31
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  Speaker 7: How's it.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that's going to be when the next
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  Speaker 6: News drops, it's gonna keep I don't think it's going
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  Speaker 9: Have a couple of texts from when we were talking
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it might be.
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  Speaker 9: And then somebody said, didn't realize we were a soap
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  Speaker 9: Matt even told you why people in the locker room
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's not the kind of stuff you get everywhere people.
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  Speaker 9: But yeah, we like we like to be gossipy, like.
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  Speaker 3: Chef.
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  Speaker 7: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Brother? How are you doing good?
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  Speaker 8: I'm living well, brother, blessed.
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  Speaker 3: Chef.
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  Speaker 2: Typically like once a month, I feel like we catch
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  Speaker 2: you where you're on a boat and you're fishing with somebody,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't feel like we've had that in a minute.
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  Speaker 3: You are you okay?
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  Speaker 8: I know, man, it's been a while. You know, it's
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  Speaker 8: just been a busy life for me here. But I
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  Speaker 8: do have something scheduled for the end of the month.
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  Speaker 7: So hunting fishing, which one fishing?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, snapper season just opened up, So I'm
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  Speaker 8: I'm you know, salivating to get off shore and go
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  Speaker 8: chase some snapper.
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  Speaker 6: There you go, Chef, Hey, I'm fired up that you
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: got me the introduction. I'm fired up for next week.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: I'm not going down to New Orleans with a bunch
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: of other chefs, the performance the performance Dieticians, and the
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: Performance Chef's Summit conference next week. I'm fired up. Tell me,
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  Speaker 6: I never knew this existed for the performance chefs. Tell
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  Speaker 6: me kind of about they what y'all did. Y'all you'll
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  Speaker 6: get together once a year and just kind of talk
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  Speaker 6: about what works, what doesn't work.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, this is actually the first time we've done it.
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  Speaker 8: So when when doctor Frakes was here, he was he
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  Speaker 8: was a coach, Kelly's dietitian. He had, He's a PhD.
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  Speaker 8: Super brilliant guy. He got me engaged in this, in
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: this community of performance chefs, and it's it's really we
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: kind of started from the ground up. It's it's not
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: my design, but I've been a part of it and
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  Speaker 8: I'm on the board of directors. So it's just kind
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: of a co op of chefs, if you will, or
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  Speaker 8: a guild of chefs. They're all performance chefs who are
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: helping define what a performance chef is, helping kind of
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  Speaker 8: navigate what that means. You know. They also help businesses
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  Speaker 8: like LSU or companies that are looking for performance chefs
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  Speaker 8: locate performance chefs. But this is our first time to
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  Speaker 8: do it, and it's it's going to be in New Orleans,
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  Speaker 8: and it's paralleling the National Aeticians Meetings, which is also
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  Speaker 8: in New Orleans. So it's you know, I'm really excited
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  Speaker 8: about it. I'm helping organize and I'm helping supply the
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: you know, some of the labor for the food, labor
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  Speaker 8: for the dinner. So some of my chefs are going
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  Speaker 8: to go down there and work with NOKI, which is
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  Speaker 8: the New Orleans Culinary Institute. So I'm really excited about it. Man.
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  Speaker 8: And I don't know if you know this or not,
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  Speaker 8: but you know who Royce Gracy is.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I do for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So Royce Gracie is coming as one of the speakers
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: as well. And you know, like USC one, right, yeah,
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: Like this guy is a legend. He reshaped you know,
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: like modern mar mixed martial arts. So yeah, I'm just
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  Speaker 8: you know, it's gonna be some cool people there. Deon
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: Sanders chefs that's from Colorado is going to be there.
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: There's some chefs from Australia and UK. They are going
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: to be there. So it's just a group of minds
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: that are kind of like minded and but come from
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: different walks of life that we're getting together to kind of,
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: you know, have conversation about anything and everything. This business
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: oriented around being a performance chef.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: I'm excited about it because I've been to the Dietitians
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: meeting in the last couple of years with my business,
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: so this kind of butts up to it and like, look,
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: yeah y'all, y'all ask me to be on a panel
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: for a little Q and A, so I would drop
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: a lot of knowledge out here. You definitely need to
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: hear from this old washed up football player.
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: Well, I talked you up, man, I talked with you before, brother,
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: So no, I have every ounce of confidence that you're
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: going to be able to hold your own up.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: So sure, God bless you, chef.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: That's a lot of confidence in a person that well,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I'll see how it goes.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: We shall see how it goes, all right? Hashtag munchies.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Do you make your own sausa and if so, what
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: do you put in question?
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: I do and I don't, you know, like it depends
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: on how much of a crunch I'm in. Like if
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: it's at the house, I might buy it, but here
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: at the nutrition center, it just kind of depends, you know.
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: Like if I'm making my own sauce, it's not going
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: to be a cook It's gonna be like a salsa
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: crew today. And I like putting all kinds of chili
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: peppers in it, and you know, like sweet onions instead
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: of just regular onions, you know, like roma tomatoes instead
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: of instead of red tomatoes. Or it's kind of it's
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: gonna be bougie sauces. It's gonna be you know, Yeah,
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: but I do like to put some smoked chilis in there.
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: A good homemade sauce if you do it right. It's
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: hard to do it right, but do it right, it's
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: it's pretty legit.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right.
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: Hashtag mystie chef. I'm always interested in what I can
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: do from the garden to the kitchen. Do you have
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: anything out of the ordinary in mind for okra.
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: Okra man okra is a tough one because you know,
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: like people, I don't, I don't know. It's it's kind
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: of a weird deal, you know, like if it's eaten fresh,
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: it's very stalky and fibrous and and you know has
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: you know, like that gelatinous liquid that comes out of it.
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: I don't, you know, like pickled okra is the thing
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: that comes to mind to me that I think, you know,
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: once you run out of frying it and staw saying
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: it and stewed okra tomatoes or whatever, you know, all
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: your traditionals. I really really love to pickle okra like
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: a spice, really spiced pickle okra. Okra's you know, like
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: outside the box. Nothing's coming to me out of my mind.
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: But you know, I'll get off the phone here and
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: then an hour I'll be like, oh, you know what.
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: Speaking of that? So you did text us last week.
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: We had a question for you last week that Yeah,
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: it was it was an out of the ordinary question
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: because we talked about soue v'd. But you text us
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: later You're like, hey, I got like five or six
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: great ideas of different ways to use a soue v
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: outside of just like proteins and veggies.
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: So first of all, this happens to me all the time,
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: you know, like coming up with ideas in the moments,
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: you know, like sometimes I get it and sometimes I don't,
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: but almost always when I'm when i'm when I'm not
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: within a couple of hours, I'm like, I can't believe
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: I didn't think about that. But yeah, so cold cold brew.
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: Some one of the best cold brew coffees I've ever
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: done was soue vie. You can control the heat, which
• 36:00
  Speaker 8: controls how much bitter it comes out of coffee. You
• 36:02
  Speaker 8: put you grind your coffee grinds and put them into
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: a vacuum steel bag with a small amount of water,
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: and then you put them into your souv machine and
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: you cook it or heat it and it extracts the
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: coffee out of the beans and then you you know,
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: put it through a strainer or a filter, and you
• 36:23
  Speaker 8: know what you're what you're doing is you're making this
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: extremely uh you know, like compounded coffee and then you
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: can put like syrup water in with it, and whether
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: you like the hot or cold that matter or not,
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: you can but it goes really well cold. But yeah,
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: cold brew coffee through the SUV machine, which is neperature.
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: And so how how how does that specific heat control
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: the bitterness of the coffee.
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: Because I think above one hundred and sixty degrees some
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: and I'm not certain of the temperatures off the top
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: of my head, but above a certain like if you
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: steep something for too long under intense heat, it's going
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: to it's going to pull the bitterers out. But at
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: a lower temperature, with a with you know, a longer
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: amount of time, it's going to slowly pull that coffee
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: out without pulling the bitter out with it. If it
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: gets too hot, it will go bitter and tease.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: The same way.
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: This applies to tea as well. So it's you know,
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: like one hundred and thirty degrees one hundred and forty
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: degrees somewhere in there. You know, you're pulling it out
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: nice and slow and low, and you're not going to
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: get the bitter out. And when you put the syrup
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: water in with it, you know, to fit it out
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: to what a normal cup of coffee would be, you know,
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: you're adding the sugar into it. Some people put the
• 37:36
  Speaker 8: sugar in with the in with the steep. I don't
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: prefer to. I like to control the sugar later, you know,
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: through the through. It's it's kind of like making moonshine, right,
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: Like you make it strong and then you send it
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: out with water and then you have your coffee and
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: coldbra coffee is exceptional that way.
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: I feel like.
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: Low and slow is almost the right answer for all
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: cooking questions, but a shot to hear that it's the
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: right answer for.
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: Coffee as well.
• 38:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I think it's not. It's not every answer,
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: but I think it's the best answer most of the time. Right,
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: Like flow and low is just it's almost always going
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: to be better. You take your time. You know, you're
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: paying attention to details when you're when you're rushing through something,
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: regardless of what it is, it's almost inevitable that you're
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: going to make errors and mistakes, and you know it
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: almost always presents you know, like a sub subpower product.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: So you know, I got one here hashtag munchies. How
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: do you know when to pick potatoes and onions from
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: the garden?
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: Potatoes and onions? I think there's a time frame there,
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: you know, Like my gardening skills for potatoes date back
• 38:47
  Speaker 8: to when I was a child, and I don't have
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: any potatoes in the ground, But you know, I think
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: one is firmness, you know, like you need to check
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: firmness and size. I think a lot of it's common sense,
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: but there is a growing period, right like guy, like
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: a gestation period, if you will, for potatoes and onions,
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: that it needs to be a certain firmness and softness both.
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: But I'm not I'm not a I'm not a master gardener,
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: so I don't have all those questions hashtag munchies.
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: Do you ever make butter chicken? The Indian dish I
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: have before?
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: It's it's been a while, you know. When I lived
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: in Seattle and we were kind of saturated with all
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: those ethnic foods around us, there was a need to write,
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: and I just we don't have as much of the
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: calling for it down here. But I do love butter
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: chicken for sure. I like Indian food as a whole.
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: Just to be honest with you, you know, like I
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: I did business with an Indian guy in uh in Seattle,
• 39:43
  Speaker 8: and so much so that he invited me to his
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: daughter's wedding. And I have a traditional I have a
• 39:48
  Speaker 8: traditional Indian wedding outfit.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Ye chef hashtag munchies. What is your seasoning choice for
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: whole baked or a kissery chicken?
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: I mean, it kind of depends on if I'm at
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: the house, you know, Like I don't keep the pantry
• 40:07
  Speaker 8: of spices at my house that I do at work.
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: And just be known, the shoemaker's kids don't have any shoes, right,
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: so I don't. I don't cook as much at home
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: as I do here. But you know, I like a
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: little bit of lemon or citrus or or even orange
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: piss and my spice mixed with with chicken. It tolerates
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: it really well. Certainly is going to be brined. I
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: like to brine my chicken. You guys know that garlic
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: and chili powder. I like paprika in there too. It's
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: it's it's like a smoke paprika onion powder. Just kind
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: of your your yours typical things. But I'll tell you
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: this too, if if you can get your hands on
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: some black garlic, it's it's kind of a it's fermented garlic, right,
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: and it's oh man, it's it's kind of a it's tart. Yeah,
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: oh man, looks I'm salivating talking about it. That's how
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: I feel. That's how strongly I feel about it, like
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: it's absolutely right now.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard of garlic, all.
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: Right, black garlic. It's acceptful.
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: But we waited this song for you to bring up
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: black garland for eight years.
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: You can. You can exchange lemon for black garlic easily
• 41:16
  Speaker 8: because it kind of offers the same.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Parkness, right Like I don't want I want black garlic.
• 41:21
  Speaker 8: You should.
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: It's better.
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: It's it's a it's a a better product, for sure.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: And I'm looking that up right now, Chef. I'm hungry
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: as always. We appreciate you, We love your brother. We
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: we'll catch up again with you next week.
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: See you next week, chef.
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 3: But take care of Jeff.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Johnson, one of our absolute favorites, good enough to
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  Speaker 2: join us every single week.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: And I am looking up black.
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  Speaker 2: Regular garlic that has been aged under controlled heat and
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  Speaker 3: That is so tough. I mean favorite cartoon. I mean,
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