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Hour One | Hoops Frustrations, Baseball vs. Nicholls & Leap Year Logic · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive Hamsday.
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  Speaker 1: Hester and Hester got it five out a far. Your
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  Speaker 1: locks in to off the bench were brack to troll
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  Speaker 1: for the Live from the Raisin Caine Studio. Here's Jacob
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  Speaker 1: Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome in on this Wednesday How we do win? Everybody?
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  Speaker 3: Taylor Sharp here with you on Off the Bench, filling
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  Speaker 3: in for Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn here in the
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  Speaker 3: Raisin Caines Studio on this Wednesday Morning. Every Wednesday show
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  Speaker 3: We got a lot to cover. We had an LSU
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  Speaker 3: men's basketball game last night, we had an LSU softball
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  Speaker 3: game last night. We got baseball tonight. We got a
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  Speaker 3: weekend series coming up as well. I mean, there is
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  Speaker 3: a ton to get to. Three guests on today's show.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Steven Etherige actually will be in studio in his
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  Speaker 3: normal eight am slot. Then LHI Beach volleyball coach Russell
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  Speaker 3: Brock He's gonna hop on with us at eight fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: Their season officially begins on Friday and then Devin snow,
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  Speaker 3: I know he's normally in our Monday spot, the craziness
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  Speaker 3: of Marty Garral out there in New Orleans. Devin will
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  Speaker 3: join us at nine point fifteen today again. Taylor trop
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  Speaker 3: here with the at Lane Villarrial Braxton Risuto along for
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  Speaker 3: the ride as well.
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  Speaker 4: Guys, how we.
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  Speaker 3: Doing this morning, Alandra? First day of lent? How we
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  Speaker 3: doing with no caffee?
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  Speaker 5: I decided yesterday that I wasn't gonna set myself up
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  Speaker 5: for failure because I knew, like, again, I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: New York next week. I keep getting targeted so hard
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  Speaker 5: on my algorithm for like places to check out while
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  Speaker 5: I'm there, of course, and there's like all these coffee
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  Speaker 5: shops that look so good. So I'm like, I'm not
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  Speaker 5: gonna set myself up because I know that I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: like try until next week and then next week's gonna
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  Speaker 5: come around and I'm gonna get a coffee and then
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna feel worse about myself than if I like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, like, I'm gonna feel bad about myself if
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  Speaker 5: I if you don't reach you caffeine and then I
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  Speaker 5: drink caffeine next weekend.
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  Speaker 3: You've ever seen on Dodgeball Vince Vaughan and says, uh,
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  Speaker 3: if you have a goal, you might not reach it,
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  Speaker 3: but if you don't have one, you're never disappointed. Right
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  Speaker 3: exactly exactly. That's exactly where I'm at, Braction. You're not
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  Speaker 3: you're not doing later you know.
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  Speaker 4: Oh it's ash Wednesday is getting the Ashes.
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  Speaker 5: So Brittany and I usually walk across the street to
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  Speaker 5: Saint ag.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, like right there, Yeah, it's the one. Is that
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  Speaker 3: the one that's like kind of behind Sonic, Like, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 3: that's a big church.
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  Speaker 5: It's bigger than like because I'd never been there before.
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  Speaker 5: It's not the one I usually go to. But Brittany
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  Speaker 5: and I go, like because it's right across the street,
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  Speaker 5: so we'll probably go after this and just go get.
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  Speaker 4: The real quick.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, it's bigger than I thought.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the thing with ashes, Like it doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: to be like your church. You can just kind of
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  Speaker 3: go yeah whenever, Okay, it's cool.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they do like drive through.
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  Speaker 4: You stick your head out the window.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if they still do it, but I've
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  Speaker 5: like heard about maybe it was like a COVID thing
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  Speaker 5: they started doing.
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  Speaker 3: But I never did it that way, as drive through
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  Speaker 3: ashes is is an interesting thought. Okay, so that brings
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  Speaker 3: me right into this. My dad told me up in
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  Speaker 3: Alexandria when he was growing up, they had a drive
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  Speaker 3: through funeral home. Okay, and basically, like it's exactly how
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  Speaker 3: you think. Yeah, an open casket. There was a window
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  Speaker 3: you could drive up at. Like basically, if you wanted
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  Speaker 3: to pay your respect, you couldn't make it to the
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  Speaker 3: funeral or the wake or whatever. They had like a
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  Speaker 3: drive through funeral home with a little casket viewing area
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  Speaker 3: and you can just fig your head out the window
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  Speaker 3: wave give them the piece rolling out. I mean, right,
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  Speaker 3: but that's that's I'll have to I'll have to get
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  Speaker 3: the name of it from him my alt text a
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  Speaker 3: little bit later and see what the name is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he said there was a drive through funeral home.
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  Speaker 4: That that's old people's stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Right in COVID.
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  Speaker 7: I know, my cousin graduated, uh in, and so since
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  Speaker 7: Covid happened, they had a drive their graduation.
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  Speaker 4: A drive through graduation. They just in diploma through the room. Everything. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I saw a picture the other day, So.
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  Speaker 3: So you were talking about ashes like the Catholic I
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  Speaker 3: think it's the Catholic church that does the holy water
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  Speaker 3: on the baby, right they to.
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  Speaker 4: Get baptized, right, Yeah, remember they were doing the square guns.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they had.
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  Speaker 3: I saw this picture the other day. It said it said,
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  Speaker 3: throwback to one of the craziest times of our life.
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  Speaker 3: It's like priest has the mask on, parents have the
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  Speaker 3: mask on. He literally has like a squirt gun shooting
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  Speaker 3: the baby with the with the squirre gun. And that's
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  Speaker 3: how they that's how they blessed them. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: what are what are we doing?
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  Speaker 5: What an insane time?
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna tell our kids about that one day and
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  Speaker 3: like they're not gonna believe this, but that didn't happen.
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  Speaker 4: But ye know it.
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  Speaker 5: I know it sounds dumb, but it did.
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  Speaker 3: And when you learn about it in class, they're going
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  Speaker 3: to leave out all the craziest like that's that is
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  Speaker 3: something that.
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  Speaker 4: Happen. Last night.
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  Speaker 3: LSU basketball, Well, they played a game if any of
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  Speaker 3: you are still interested, but they were in Austin taking
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  Speaker 3: on the Texas Longhorns, and Texas was on a four
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  Speaker 3: game winning street coming into this game. They were turning
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  Speaker 3: in the right direction and the game started out well
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  Speaker 3: for year LSU Tigers. I mean, they had an eleven
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  Speaker 3: to seven lead early in that ball game, and then
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  Speaker 3: then it was kind of back and forth. But what
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  Speaker 3: always seems to happen with this team happened once again.
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  Speaker 3: This team cannot make shots down low. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen anything like it. They shot thirty two
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  Speaker 3: of sixty two, so they were fifty two percent from
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  Speaker 3: the field for the game. We'll get into the second
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  Speaker 3: half a little bit later, and they were good from
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  Speaker 3: the line as well, sixteen to nineteen.
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  Speaker 4: That's not what hurt them.
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  Speaker 3: Points in the paint again, thirty eight thirty six, But
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  Speaker 3: a lot of that was in the second half. They
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  Speaker 3: went on a drought where I mean they were missing
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  Speaker 3: shots point blank at the rim, clanking them off the
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  Speaker 3: back iron, clanking them off the side of the rim,
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  Speaker 3: off the backboard, and you name it. They weren't making shots,
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  Speaker 3: and Texas's lead extended and extended and extended. It snowballed
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  Speaker 3: on them, and Texas wound up having a fifteen point
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  Speaker 3: lead going into the halftime break. Well, your LSU Tigers
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  Speaker 3: stormed back. They lose this game eighty eight to eighty five.
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  Speaker 3: Like you know, LSU does not play good defense. You're
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  Speaker 3: gonna have to outscore teams to win games. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they scored fifty two, but they outscored Texas fifty two
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  Speaker 3: to forty in that second half, and they had opportunities
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  Speaker 3: down the stretch to win that game. They just couldn't
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  Speaker 3: do it because once again Matt McMahon squad finds a
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  Speaker 3: way to dig themselves into a big, double digit first
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  Speaker 3: half deficit. I don't know why. It's like this every
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  Speaker 3: single game. Most of the time they just come out cold.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't the case yesterday, man I mentioned early in that game,
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  Speaker 3: LSU had an eleven to seven lead, and it was
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  Speaker 3: kind of a back and forth game and Texas slow down.
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  Speaker 3: They were methodical, they made their shots, and LSU looked
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  Speaker 3: really hurried on the offensive end. They were forcing things
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  Speaker 3: that weren't there, and they were missing shots right there
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  Speaker 3: at the rim. It's kind of the same old song
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  Speaker 3: and dance with this team, because, like if you look
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  Speaker 3: at the box score, everything else was It was not bad.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Markel Sutton finished with twenty one points, six
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  Speaker 3: of ten shooting. Max McKinnon. He didn't get the start,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean he came in within the first couple
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  Speaker 3: of minutes. He played thirty three minutes, so that was
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  Speaker 3: a de factor started for him. Twenty seven points eleven
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  Speaker 3: of seventeen shooting. You tell me you get twenty seven
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  Speaker 3: from Max McKinnon, twenty one from Markel Sudden. Despite the
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  Speaker 3: fact that ls who's been awful this year, I would
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  Speaker 3: have said, hey, they probably had a pretty decent shot
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  Speaker 3: at winning that game. But again, the double digit deficit
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  Speaker 3: in the first half, it's it's every game with this team.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there was, and if it's not that, it's
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  Speaker 3: another Remember the Kentucky game a few weeks back.
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  Speaker 4: LSU was blowing out Katuki.
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  Speaker 3: You had a sixteen point lead in the first half,
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  Speaker 3: You still had a double digit lead in the second
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  Speaker 3: going into halftime, and then down the stretch.
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  Speaker 4: What happened.
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  Speaker 3: You could not make your easy open shots. Tucky comes
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  Speaker 3: all the way back and wins that game. It's basically
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  Speaker 3: the same thing here. Just flip it first half to
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  Speaker 3: second half. Because you did such a good job in
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  Speaker 3: the second half of this ball game. Look, we'll lay
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  Speaker 3: it out again. You outshot Texas from the free throw line.
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  Speaker 3: Now you got to do a better job of not
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  Speaker 3: fouling defensively, Texas took thirty four free throw attempts and
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  Speaker 3: you took nineteen. I mean they were twenty three of
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  Speaker 3: thirty four, but they made more than you attempted. That's
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  Speaker 3: one of the things you look at in a basketball game.
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  Speaker 3: They always say, all these experts on TV always say,
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  Speaker 3: make more free throws than your opponent attempts. They did that,
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  Speaker 3: and they were at home. That gave him a big
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  Speaker 3: advantage because they were only sixty eight percent from the line.
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  Speaker 3: But didn't Matt. But of course LSU was going to
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  Speaker 3: get out rebounded. I mean, this team is soft down low.
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  Speaker 3: But even the rebounding advantage wasn't that much for Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty four rebounds for Texas, twenty seven for l shoot.
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  Speaker 3: Offensive rebounds were about even seven for the Tigers, eight
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  Speaker 3: for the Longhorns. And Texas turned the ball over more
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  Speaker 3: than you. You've done a good job. Last Saturday against Tennessee,
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  Speaker 3: LSU turned the ball over three times, turned it over
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  Speaker 3: five times last night. It's only eight times in a
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  Speaker 3: two game period. That's really good for a basketball team.
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  Speaker 3: That's not very good. It's just you keep digging yourself
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  Speaker 3: into these first half holes. I mean, your largest lead
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  Speaker 3: was four. That was early in the game. Texas's largest
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  Speaker 3: lead was seventeen. That was with about four minutes to
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  Speaker 3: go before the first half ended. But there were some positives,
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  Speaker 3: and it's hard to find positives for a team that's
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  Speaker 3: two and eleven in the SEC.
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  Speaker 4: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: But Jalen Reese, who I have been a little critical
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  Speaker 3: love earlier in the season, it just you seemed like
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  Speaker 3: you he was hesitant to shoot the ball. He wasn't
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  Speaker 3: putting up a ton of points offensively. Jalen Reese has
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  Speaker 3: had back to back good games and he was four
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  Speaker 3: for twelve last night.
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  Speaker 4: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: The shooting percentage wasn't great, but he was two for
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  Speaker 3: four from three. He made all four of his free throws,
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  Speaker 3: hit fourteen points. You combined now with his twenty point
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  Speaker 3: outing on Saturday, that is thirty four points for Jalen
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  Speaker 3: ree and a total of one turnover. He turned it
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  Speaker 3: over one time last night, did not turn it over
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  Speaker 3: at all against the Balls on Saturday. This is a
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  Speaker 3: guy that has been thrust into the starting lineup due
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  Speaker 3: to injuries to DJ Thomas. Even Max McKinnon's been banged up,
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  Speaker 3: and as a freshman Jalen Reees, he's really answered the
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  Speaker 3: belt these last couple of weeks. Now it hasn't resulted
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  Speaker 3: in wins. Those are going to be really hard to
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  Speaker 3: come by for this team. But Jalen Reese has actually
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  Speaker 3: stepped up in a ton of really nice job. You
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  Speaker 3: knew you were gonna get scoring for Max McKinnon an
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  Speaker 3: out of conference. You thought Markel Sudden was going to
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  Speaker 3: be that next big gut. He had a good game
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  Speaker 3: last night. But Markel Sutten's been hidden this once you
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  Speaker 3: got out into SEC play. But Jalen Reese is is
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  Speaker 3: really impressed. And it's the minutes he's playing too. He
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  Speaker 3: played all forty minutes against Tennessee. He played thirty seven
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  Speaker 3: of the forty last night. They are relying on him
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  Speaker 3: a lot here in SEC play due to these injuries,
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  Speaker 3: and honestly, like in a season that's lost. Look, you're
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  Speaker 3: fourteen and twelve, you're two and eleven in the SEC.
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  Speaker 3: You're trying to find a bright spot, hold out some
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  Speaker 3: sort of hope. It might be Jalen Reeves. He's playing
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  Speaker 3: pretty well right now. We'll see if he can keep
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  Speaker 3: that going. I LSU does take one number twenty five
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  Speaker 3: Alabama in the p MAC five pm on Saturday. Again,
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  Speaker 3: another really tough game for LSU. We'll see what they
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  Speaker 3: can do. All right, We'll take a quick time out
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back in Wednesday edition of Off the Bench.
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  Speaker 3: Taylor Sharp here with the Elandra Villa Riale Braxton Risuto
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  Speaker 3: here as well.
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  Speaker 4: LSU versus Nichols today.
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  Speaker 3: Actually one o'clock first pitch here on a Wednesday, a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of an earlier time for a midweek game.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get into all that, but first let's go ahead
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you're LSU Tigers taking on the Nickels State Colonels
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  Speaker 3: today alec Box Stadium, their fifth game over a six
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  Speaker 3: day period. Biggest question for everyone tonight, who's going to
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  Speaker 3: get the start on the mound because again, fifth game
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  Speaker 3: in six days. There's a few options out there, and
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  Speaker 3: it's want to put to some guys that did not
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  Speaker 3: play at all over the weekend. Reagan Ricken has a
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  Speaker 3: chance to start this game. Look, he was I think
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  Speaker 3: the forty sixth overall player by Perfect Game as far
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  Speaker 3: as the top one hundred freshman go coming into the season,
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  Speaker 3: number fourth ranks high school right handed pitcher in the
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  Speaker 3: state of California, thirteenth overall in the nation. This is
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  Speaker 3: a guy that had a lot of hype coming into
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  Speaker 3: the season, and again we haven't seen him yet on
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  Speaker 3: the weekend. Reagan Ricken certainly a possibility out there for tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Another one who we didn't see over the weekend, kind
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  Speaker 3: of surprising. We haven't seen him yet. Maybe it's for
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  Speaker 3: this moment. Zion Theopolis, he was the number one right
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  Speaker 3: handed pitcher in all of Ohio last year, came in.
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  Speaker 3: He participated in fall ball and he actually threw the
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  Speaker 3: ball really well. According to Hunt MOUs So, anybody that
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  Speaker 3: was out there at fall Baseball scrimmage said that Zion
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  Speaker 3: Theopolis actually threw the ball really really well. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you look at what he did in high school He
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  Speaker 3: was a twenty three and three mark as a starter
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  Speaker 3: in high school, one forty e two hundred and forty
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  Speaker 3: five strikeouts at just one hundred and sixty four innings.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: So this is a guy that's thrown a lot in
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: high school. He started a lot of games, and he
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: had a lot of success doing it. So that's certainly
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: an option to start for you here on this Wednesday.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: There's also Connor Binge has not pitched yet. Now, I
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: don't know if Connor Bingche starts this game, but didn't
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: see him over the weekend, and we saw him in
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: a lot of different spots last year. He was a
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: setup guy that used him in the back of the
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: bullpen on a lot of midweek games. We even saw
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: him in some weekend Actually, he played in sixteen games
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: a year ago. So I don't know if Binge necessarily starts,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: but I do think we see Connor Binge at some point,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: and I think you have to see Connor Binge because
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: there's a chance that he's a pretty significant part of
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: your rotation going forward to here in twenty twenty six.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: My preference is Cooper Williams. Now, I don't need Cooper
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Williams going for five six innings in this game, because
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: you'll probably need him on the weekend. But I just
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: want him to get the feel of starting here in
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six in case that actually has to happen
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: on the weekends. Look, I think Caseon Evans is going
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: to be able to be a Friday night guy, but
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: there's a chance he's not. He tried this with Zachkess
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: after zach Hess's good freshman year, and it didn't work
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: out for it. Zach Hess was a lot better as
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: that back Indo the bullpen guy, than he was a starter.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: You ultimately made that switch and your team was better
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: for it. Maybe that happens to case of Evans again.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: We saw him a little bit starting last year and
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: I thought he did a fine job. I think he'll
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: be good there. But look, Cooper Williams was up for
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: a starting rotation as well. It was the four guys.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: It was Evans, Cooper, Moore, Williams, Schmida, Cooper Williams. Those
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: are the guys you heard. And honestly, if you want
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: a left handed arms starting your weekend rotation, Cooper Williams
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: is probably that guy.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Maybe get him a start.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: I mean he went two and two thirds innings over
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: the weekend, gave up one hit, one run, five k's,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: no Waltz, so he was solid his first time out.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Is that a guy you could put him there, give
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: him two to three innings, be fine by Saturday if
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: you need him. The good news is you have so
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: many arms still available. I mean I just rattled off
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: three or four of them there. But we haven't seen
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Danny Lochenmeyer yet. Now locker Meyer is not going to
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: start this game, but look at what he did in
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: relief last year at North Dakota State. I mean a
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: two thirty seven eer do a lot of big time
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: innings for the boys in a year ago. Santiago Garcia
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: is available. Landra mentioned him the other day. Is like
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: a guy that we were excited to see who maybe
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: didn't quite live up to the hype and opening weekend,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: and he's available. He didn't throw very much over the weekend,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: and it'd be nice to get him a bounce back
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: spot against a Nickels team that will get into doesn't
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: hit the ball particularly well. And hell's that Cowen. That
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Cowen threw in one inning over the weekend and he
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: wasn't good. Now, concern levels probably not there for a
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: guy like Zach Cowen, because well, you know what he
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: can do, but get him out there, put him in
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: there for an inning or two, get him out build
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: that confidence back up a little bit.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Going into this weekend.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: You'll see a number of guys the good news is
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: you should have success against Nichols. I don't ever want
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: to short change anybody, but they struggled pretty mightily against
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Tennessee over the weekend. He had won sixty four as
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: a team, and a lot of people are gonna push
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: back and say, yeah, well Tennessee has one of the
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: best pitching staffs in the country. Yeah, LSU probably should
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: as well. It's kind of the quality pitching that Nichols
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: is going to see today. It's pretty much what you
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: saw over the weekend against Tennessee. In there's three games
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: against Tennessee ten to nothing, five to one, twelve to two.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: So was it super competitive. I mean, they put up
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: a total of three runs in three games. Also, it'll
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: be their sixth game in five days as well, and
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: I just don't see them having the pitching depth of
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: a team like LSU. I mean, again, they struggled over
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: the weekend with their starters. There're go many runs they
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: gave up, Like five to one wasn't bad on Saturday,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: but you gave up a ten spot on Friday.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: You give up twelve over the weekend, and those.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Were supposed to be your front line, top of the
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: rotation guys, and you got crushed by Tennessee Again. Tennessee's
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: a really good team, but you're at the bottom of
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: your bullpen. Like I think LSU is gonna have a
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: lot of success here, and it's a great opportunity to
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: get some guys in there that one haven't pitched yet
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: or two struggled in opening weekend to get some confidence
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: back Landre, I'll come to you here real quick. Like
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of options. I mean a lot of
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: names were just thrown out there, but I mean it
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: didn't have to be somebody that goes five innings. But
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: who do you want to see start today?
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: So I agree that I would like to see Cooper
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Williams only because I'm not convinced that William Schmidt has
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: the Sunday spot locked in. He might, but I don't know.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: It depends, So I would like to see a little
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: more of Cooper Williams, and I would like to see
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: him not coming out of the pen and just starting.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: But yeah, you mentioned lock in myyers that how you
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: say it, Yeah, Danny, And yeah, he was a reliever
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: last season, but you know Jay will move people around,
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: so he he's another option. He's somebody that I would
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: like to see just in general. He was at North
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Dakota State. I know it's not the same type of competition,
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: but he did pretty well there. I think he was
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: number twenty one in the top one hundred transfers in
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: the transfer portal. So I would like to see him
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: in general. But I know he threw some this weekend,
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: not too much, but I would like to see Cooper
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Williams get the start. I thought he would get it
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: maybe on Monday, even though he threw Yeah, I guess not.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: But yeah, that's my opinion on that.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: I'm with you and like for lock and Meyer start
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: relief whatever, we got to see him because it's another
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: lefty in the bullpen right like right now, you know
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: you have Cooper Williams as a lefty. DJ Primo has
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: been on the roster for a number of years, but
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: he's been kind of hid and miss. Yeah, and he
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: brought in a few transfers, but like Danny lock and Meyer,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: like look as far as the transfer pictures go, Like,
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: I know people love Santiago Garcia and rightfully so, but
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Danny lock and Meyer had a two point three seven
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: ERA a year ago and threw a lot of innings
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: for North Dakota State.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: He's what six three two twenty. I mean, that's a
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: guy that.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: As a left he coming out of the pen, he
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: could play high leverage moments where you played high leverage
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: moments a year ago.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: So yeah, like a two point thirty seven ERA and
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: thirty eight innings. Like again, I know in the competition
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: at North Dakota State it's not the same, but that's
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: pretty good. Fifty six strike fifty six strikeouts in eighteen walks.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: And I don't know, Like I guess I didn't hear
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: too much about Santiago Garcia. I just whenever he came out,
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: loved the name, I mean the game, and he didn't
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: look great. I know it was his first outing, but
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: he didn't look great on what was it, Saturday Sundays?
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: No Sunday Sunday.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: But yeah, maybe throw him out there or see if
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: he can get his confidence up, you know, get some rhythm.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: I know that been on the call was talking about
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: how sometimes it's just about getting out there and getting
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: reps and finding your footing.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: So Sidieoger see a fun fact high school teammates which sleeping.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I mean that's you know, there's familiarity there. But yeah,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I mean Garcia transferring in. But yeah, I mean a lefty,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: another lefty out of the bullpen, because it's weird to say, like,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: you have a lot of options as far as left
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: handers out of the bullpen, but almost all of them
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: are question marks outside of Cooper Williams. Because again DJ
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Primo has been here and you've been waiting for him
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: to make that next step, but he hasn't done that yet.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Like he's been hitting this he said some good outings,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: he's had some bad. I mean Cooper Williams is that
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: one guy. Like sure Lochenmeier was good last year, you
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: haven't seen him in an LSU uniform. Like for Santiago
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Garcia last year at Oregon, I mean he was he
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: had three and oh mark but a four point two
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: zero era A. He threw thirty innings with four saves
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: at forty strikeouts, only nineteen walks. I mean that that's
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: right up there with a Danny Lockenmeyer. So another guy
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: that could really make an impact for this team off
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: the mound. I mean, there's so many options. And again
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I hate to pile onto Nickels, but he won sixty
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: four over the weekend. Now are your pitchers tonight?
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: You know he also run rule?
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Does last year they did? They don't ask for a
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: run today?
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Wait, I will Can we get a run roll from LSU?
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Can LSU run roll?
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: Nickel?
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: There you go? Because last year you didn't specify us.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Did Gavin pitch Monday?
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Gavin did pitch Monday?
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: He did?
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, and so Gavin's pitch twice, so he's we're
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: probably not gonna see Gavin Gidry.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Here's my plus. I mean, we know what he can do.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: They really just wanted to see if Gavin Guidry was
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: fully healthy for his injury.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: And like knock on wood, I feel like, yeah, I
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: feel like Jay's just trying to see what he's got
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: right now. So I think we'll see the people that
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: we haven't seen yet. Absolutely, and then and then he
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: looks like he's in a rhythm.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he looks great, like he didn't miss I am.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I am perfectly okay with not seeing Gavin Gidry again
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: until the weekend.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Like that that guy keep him right was.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: The exact like the talking the like he's fresh, but
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: doesn't say like that year off did not affect him
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: at all. I mean, I'm sure it did, but like
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean, it doesn't look no right.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: And it had really been closer to eighteen months because
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, he didn't throw all last year, but he
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: missed the back half of the year before that. Like Gavin,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: he almost looks better than he did before the injury.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, is as wild as the things that is
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: to say Gavin looks really good. But yeah, I mean
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: guys like or See you can get back out there.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: I'm okay with seeing Cowvien for an inning if you
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: want to build his confidence back up, like going into
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: the weekend. But I mean as far is like, you're
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: not going to see Evans Schmidt, Cooper Moore and Gavin Gidriy.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, those are the guys you're not going to see.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Outside of that, it's kind of fair game for whatever
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Jay Johnson wants to do. And uh again, I think
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: they'll have a lot of success against the Nichol's lineup
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: that really struggled.
• 26:14
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• 30:02
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  Speaker 3: It was ninety one sixty two, so a blowout loss,
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  Speaker 3: and Jerome Tang went up there and said that, he said,
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• 30:34
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  Speaker 3: I've seen a lot of people come out in defense
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• 31:02
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• 31:12
  Speaker 3: just an out for Kansas State. And I was thinking, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: Tang had been fired. The Kansas State was firing Jerome
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  Speaker 3: Tang for calls.
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  Speaker 4: He said. The basis for the cause.
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  Speaker 3: that brings public disrepute, embarrassment, and ridicule to Kansas State.
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  Speaker 3: So they essentially fire Jerome Tang for calling out his
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: players in a press conference, saying well, you know, most
• 31:54
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• 31:55
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• 31:59
  Speaker 3: in the transfer portal. That's all fine. When a coach
• 32:03
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• 32:07
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• 32:09
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  Speaker 4: He's ridiculed for it.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I just I've kind of an issue with that because
• 32:14
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• 32:19
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• 32:21
  Speaker 3: no power. Sure, that's fine, you're not gonna hear much
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: of an argument from me on that. But now it
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: just kind of seems like the players have all the
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: power and nobody else can really say otherwise or they
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: get in trouble for it.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Don't you kind of have the same problem.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Shouldn't there be more of a checks and balance this
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: system going on here in college athletics? There's not A
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: player can enter the portal whenever they want, and you know,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: a coach can leave a school whenever they want.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: But when a coach gets mad about it and calls
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: out his team, you fire the guy for it.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Now I get that Kansas State's probably looking for a
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: way out because they didn't like the way the program
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: was going. They didn't like the direction of things. I
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: just mentioned that they had been declining as a basketball
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: team for I mean three straight years. Now you went
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: twenty four and ten. You hadn't gotten back to twenty
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: wins since then.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: He's in year four.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: But I don't see why these coaches are taking so
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: much criticism for criticizing their players. Their jobs are on
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: the line too, and those coaches have families. They got
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: to win games. If not, they're out the door. So
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: as a coach, if you think you've done everything you
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: can to get your team prepared and your players aren't
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: showing up, they're not doing what they're supposed to, you
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: gotta let everybody know, like, hey, it's not on me.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: I deserve to be here. I've done my job. I
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: mean my players to go out and do theirs. Also,
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: players are paid nowadays, guys. I mean you heard Andy
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Kennedy say, you have players on this team that are
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: making more money than most people in this room. You
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: want to make money, you want to be treated like
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: a professional. This is what apps professional coaches call out
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: their players all the time. They get criticism for too,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: which I think is dumb. But I just I don't
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: really think Andy Kennedy, Jerom Tang, whoever else gets criticized
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: for this. I don't really think they're off base here.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: You want to be treated like an adult, like a professional.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: You want to make money doing this, okay, but you're
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: gonna be held to a higher standard. You're going to
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: be called out in press conferences. Your coach is going
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: to criticize you even more because it's essentially your job
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: to do this. If you're not doing good at your job,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: you're gonna get called out for it. Just like that
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: head coaches, if you're not performing on the court, it
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: all falls back on him. I don't really know why
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: this is a discussion. I just think it's it's a
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: little silly. Like when you look at this, you're like, okay,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: this is where college athletes have gone. And you hear
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: the you know, the old head say, oh well, you
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: know the soft generation. I mean, when you look at
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: something like this, yeah, yeah, it's andsure, like what Andy
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Kennedy said is is fun. And you know Andy Kennedy
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: as of right now is still employed. But I don't know,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, unless I'm completely off pace here, and again
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: they go back to Jerome Tang's record twenty six and ten,
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: nineteen and five, sixteen, and seven, ten, and fifteen, so.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: They were trending in the wrong direction.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Now, he had had a winning record overall, but I mean,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: you get four straight years on the decline, hasn't made
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: the tournaments in Jyer one. I just think it kind
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: of sets a bad precedent to fire the guy right
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: after those comments. I mean it was four days after
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: he made the comments Wednesday night after the game. They
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: fired him on Sunday, So, I mean, what are we
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: doing here?
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Can no coach speak their mind anymore? I mean, can.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: A coach has to show up? But in all this work,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: take all the blame with the loss, and he can't
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: call out his own players. I mean, it's not like
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: he was yelling at at opposing player or throwing something
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: on the court like it's it's not that now again,
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Kansas State says anything that or Pete Pete Dmile tweeted
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: anything that brings public disrepute, embarrassment, and ridicule to Kansas State.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: I'm sure as this story moves along, you'll hear more
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: and more, y'a always do. It's not just gonna be
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: one thing that they let your own tank for. I
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: get that there's gonna be more under the surface.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: It just.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: From the outside. That's what you see right now. As
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: the story changes, people's opinions will change. I get that,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: mind will, But I just think it's even before he
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: was fired, Like whether he was fired for this or not,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: he took a lot of flak for for calling out
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: of me. National ESPN was playing and I listened to
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: National ESPN driving in every morning. They were to talking
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: about your Rome Tane calling out the team again. Andy
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Kennedy called out his team. That made national news. Just
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: I guess if you want to fire the guy, if
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: he did something else wrong, fine, I'm all for that,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: whether it's off the court. On the court, he did
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: something wrong, get him out of there. But I don't
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: know coach is catching flak for calling out their players
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: who aren't performing. I just I don't really see what
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: the point of that is. All Right, we're going to
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: take a quick time out and we get back. We're
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: going to wrap up our number one busy hours two
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: and three. So in hour two straight up eight o'clock,
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Doctor Stephen Etheridge will be in for his normal weekly segment.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: We'll have him in the studio. I'll let you beach
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: volleyball coach Russell Brock will join us. Their season officially
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: begins on Friday. We'll get a quick preview from him.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Then in hour number three, Devin Snow, who normally joins
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: us on Monday, will join us Wednesday today nine point fifteen.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: We'll get his breakdown. He got a lot of Marty
• 37:58
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• 38:00
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  Speaker 3: This is this is a Taylor Ass song. If I've
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  Speaker 3: ever heard one one hundred percent. So we had a awakening.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: In the break, Alandra asked if it was a leap
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: year this year.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: We were informed that it was not. No, why do
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: we have leap years?
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know, but I think your theory if we
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: just take one of the days off of thirty one?
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Well, because you got like so like, there's there's some
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: months that have thirty days, some months that have thirty one.
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: That's Matt's best friend.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: In a normal year, February has twenty eight days.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Right, you just pluck two of the thirty one months,
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: stick them right there in February. We got thirty months
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: in February. Keep it wrong.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: And I don't really understand that. That's stupid. I don't
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: like it.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, I do have an update on the drive through
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: funeral home. Yeah, by the way, my text for my
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: dad there was a I've through funeral home in Alexandria.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: It was a converted bank so they would stand the
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: casket up okay, facing the drive through window and people
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: could go by and pay your respects without ever having
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: to get out of the car. So drive through funeral
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: home in Alexandria that I had that ride that was
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: an actual thing.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: So I that's crazy, by the way. But I'm asking
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: Matt's friend about the leap year, right, and I said,
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: why can't you just take one out of the months
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: that have thirty one days?
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: You can't. They're gonna say you can't.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: You can't, said, honestly, we could. There's nothing about physics
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: or astronomy that requires February to be weird. Also, it's
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: just history, history locked it in. I'm not out to Caesar.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: I'm not part of the Julian calendar.
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: Oh that it is.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: I'm not a math whiz here.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: But if every four years you got an extra day
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: in February and that three hundred and sixty six days, Yeah,
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: and we have three hundred six five days a year,
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: you're not taking one away from another.
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: So it's because the Earth orbit. Wait, hold on, I
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: can't do this in real time. But there's a reason
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: why it's every four years. It's because of the way
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: that the Earth orbits and like, we would still have yeah,
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: we would still have three hundred and sixty five days,
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: it wouldn't be three hundred and sixty six.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: This seems way dude, Like, who came up with this
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: seems dumb. Let's just have February like all the other
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: months and move on.
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: It's stupid.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: I think, though, like this could be completely wrong.
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: This is pretty sure talking about though. When I was
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: talking about Ben and Lynn and I was like, is
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: this some people feel listening to otbs because.
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: We do this well?
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: When you brought up the question here in the break,
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know anything about leap years. No,
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: as a matter of fact, I know I know less
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: than nothing about leap years. But I mean you, uh, like,
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: if you're born on February twenty ninth on a leap year, yeah,
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure you're twenty four.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: Have a birthday? Pretty right? You're only four when you're actually.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: Like yeah, Like on Modern Family, Cam's birthday was on
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: a leap year, and so he would always like his
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: p one name for you is his fortieth birthday. He's like,
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: I'm turning ten years old. He had like this ten
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: year old birthday party.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: That's actually hilarious.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: I think like, if you're twenty one eighteen, that type
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: of thing, I think you are supposed to celebrate at
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: March first, Okay, I think I would do the twenty eighth.
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: I don't think it would matter. I would have twenty
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: eight too, just a February.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: But I think I think it's if they it total
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: number that I think it's March first. I'm not one
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: hundred percent on that.
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: But see, we.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: Shouldn't have to have this discussion because February should only
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: have I mean, February should be thirty days like like
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: everybody else. What is in March, March is thirty one,
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: July thirty one. Pull them, pull those days, slot them
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: into February. Boom, be done with it.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: The the drive through funeral home made me think of
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: some of the other stuff that we did during COVID,
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: because that had COVID to me written all over it.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: We talked about the UH baptized and the babies with
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: the square guns. Do you all remember when they came
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: out and said, well, you can't have Thanksgiving like you
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: can do it, but we just want all your family
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: members over zoom. I can, I'll call in over zoom.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: And then the dots at the grocery store I had
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: just looked at. I remember the dots at the grocery
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: store and like me, I didn't mean anything by it.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: I wasn't trying to be malicious, like I had the
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: mask one because I had too to go into the store.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: I vividly remember this. I was at Walmart, and walker
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: I uh stared at the checkout line. I don't even
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: know what I'm picking up, like a few things. I'm
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: just standing there, mind of my business. The older gentleman
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: in front of me turned around and goes, sir, sir,
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: I need you to back up, please, And I was
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: like what, and like I wasn't right up on the
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: guy and he goes, your dot.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: You have to be on your dot. You're not on
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: your dot. So I literally took like two steps back
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: and stood.
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: On my dogs, like when we used to like go
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: into the restaurant with the masks on and then you
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: say down and take your mask, but you had to.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: You had to put it back on, like stand up, immediately,
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: put it on and leave.
• 45:06
  Speaker 7: I got a funny one. I think it was my
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: cousin's birthday. His birthday is in April, and we obviously
• 45:11
  Speaker 7: couldn't have a birthday party, so.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: We sounds like when it was just happening right.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: It was like my sister got married March fourteenth, and
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: that was like one of the last weddings they had
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty.
• 45:22
  Speaker 7: But basically we, I guess lapped around like his house
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: in the neighborhood and like drove by and told him
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: happy birthday.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, the like when people were doing like the
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: drive by, the drive by happy birthdays or the drive
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: by graduations, like you.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: Were saying, anyways, thank goodness for past that. Hopefully that
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: doesn't happen again. Pretty fun hour one there. We uh,
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: we got a little semi education on a on a
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: leap year. I'm sure Landra like she dove into it,
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: but it's a I like, it's it's it's Matt Flent's buddy.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: We're not sure how accurate that even is. Coming up
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: an hour number two, Doctor Stephen Ethridge in the studio
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: for his normal Wednesday spot, LSU beach volleyball coach Russell
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Brock at eight fifteen. Then in the nine o'clock hour,
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: we'll talk to LSU football, We'll talk some Saints. Devin
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: snow aka hold the Mayo. He joins us for his
• 46:13
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• 46:15
  Speaker 3: He was a busy guy out there in New Orleans
• 46:18
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• 46:21
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