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Hour Three | Munchies, Lane Kiffin Year One Expectations & Jay Johnson Joins · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Say Hester and Hester got it, fiet a pat.
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  Speaker 1: From carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each
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  Speaker 1: other on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Were there's crop control for the.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine studio.
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  Speaker 2: It's off the bench all right, welcome back again our
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  Speaker 2: number three of O t V.
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  Speaker 3: I'm about to have our guys chef Michael Johnson, So
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  Speaker 3: go ahead and get those munchy.
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  Speaker 2: Questions inside the chat. I guess you can look.
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  Speaker 3: You can text munchy questions to two five five as well,
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  Speaker 3: multiple ways to get your munchy questions in.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna have chef right now. We're gonna have coach.
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  Speaker 3: Jay Johnson join us at nine thirty, so jam packed
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  Speaker 3: hour number three. Let's go ahead and get to our guy,
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  Speaker 3: chef Michael Johnson to answer your monkey questions.
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  Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalyze your taste buds and leave this
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  Speaker 1: segment hungry. This is Monkey's with Executive Chef Michael Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: Chef, How we doing? How we living? Brother man?
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  Speaker 5: I'm great.
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  Speaker 3: How are you guys doing fantastic? Well, I mean we're
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  Speaker 3: doing good to tripod. Flynn's got a tummy ache. He's
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  Speaker 3: not here today.
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  Speaker 5: Oh that's too bad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a little tummy ache.
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  Speaker 4: Not here today.
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  Speaker 3: He's got the you know, like when you're sick and
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  Speaker 3: you got the covers pulled all the way up to
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  Speaker 3: your chin and you're sitting there, you got a rag
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  Speaker 3: on your head, thermometer in your mouth.
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  Speaker 6: That's him today, Little Tierra.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah that too. You heild it exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Chef, I want to ask you this before
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  Speaker 3: before we get started crawfish season. All right, crawfish going
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  Speaker 3: all over the place. A lot of good spots around
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  Speaker 3: town there, but I don't think we've ever asked you this,
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  Speaker 3: which is wild. We're I was passing by one yesterday
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  Speaker 3: and my ten year old son goes, hey, Dad, like,
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  Speaker 3: where's the best crawfish in Louisiana?
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  Speaker 4: Like, where's the best place.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sitting there thinking, like, you know what, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: but I know who's going to know, and I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to ask him tomorrow. So, Chef, I'm going to put
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  Speaker 3: you on the spot, maybe the most important question you
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  Speaker 3: can be asking in Louisiana of your time here in
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  Speaker 3: the Great State. The best crawfish, the best crawfish spot?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll just start by saying that this is a
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  Speaker 5: highly debated subject and there is, without a doubt some
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  Speaker 5: people who are going to disagree with me. I think,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the best crawfish that I've had, and I'll
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  Speaker 5: just leave it at my opinion versus everybody else's have
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  Speaker 5: come from the Spillway. I you know, I think that
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  Speaker 5: they grow differently there. I don't know, you know, it's opinionated, man.
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  Speaker 5: You know, like farm crawfish are are rather the I
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  Speaker 5: don't know that there's there's differences in them, right, I
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  Speaker 5: think that the spillway crawfish have a little bit more
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  Speaker 5: natural settings. But I also buy, you know, farm crawfish
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  Speaker 5: from from rice farms that are absolutely delicious and they
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  Speaker 5: grow really well, you know what I mean. So it's
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  Speaker 5: a tough question to answer, man, because you know, it
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  Speaker 5: depends on the energy of the people that are farming them,
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  Speaker 5: I think, and how much care and attention to putting
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  Speaker 5: into them. Because farm there are farmers out there who
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  Speaker 5: pay attention to it, that are are very good at
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  Speaker 5: what they do and and know how to treat the ground.
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  Speaker 5: Because the crawfish live off the ground and off the soil,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and what's in the soil and so that
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  Speaker 5: the quality of the soil matters, and so yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we it's funny, like we used to have
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  Speaker 3: a little crawfish. We had like a little creek that
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  Speaker 3: ran behind our house in San Diego, and we used
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  Speaker 3: to have a little crawfish out there.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I gotta be honest with you, Chef, I had
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  Speaker 3: no idea that was even a possibility.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, man, you know you got crawfish out here.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, oh no, yeah, actually, right there in the
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  Speaker 3: creek behind your house, there's crawfish.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well it's in San Diego. They are either crawdads
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  Speaker 5: or crazy fish.
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  Speaker 4: That's true too.
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  Speaker 3: But you know me, I was about to say that
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  Speaker 3: that's right. I was not about to change my ways.
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  Speaker 4: That was not I grew up.
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  Speaker 5: I grew up in the creeks of Missouri, and we
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  Speaker 5: used to have big, big blue crawfish up there. Oh
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  Speaker 5: you called them crawdads. Yeah, and it's a different species yet,
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  Speaker 5: that's right.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Hashtag Munchie's best side to go with the.
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  Speaker 5: Steak, baked potato with mashed potato. Got you know, like
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  Speaker 5: for me, it's a potato. I know, we're in the
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  Speaker 5: land of rice down here. But if it's if it's
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  Speaker 5: a steak, it's going to be a potato for me. Now,
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  Speaker 5: if you're talking about starch versus bdge bige, I absolutely
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  Speaker 5: love grilled asparagus with a little olive oil, a squeeze
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  Speaker 5: of lemon juice, a little sprinkle with Kosha salt, maybe
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  Speaker 5: some cracked black pepper, you know, just blanched, grilled and delivered.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, hashtag munchies, no question, Just a thanks for the
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  Speaker 3: advice last week on sticking a bag of ice in
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  Speaker 3: the gumbo to cool it down quickly worked out great
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  Speaker 3: this past weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome, that sounds good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's always the hacks.
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  Speaker 3: It's always the hacks that I find fascinating that Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, lived for a long time and didn't even
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  Speaker 3: know that you can.
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  Speaker 5: Necessity is the mother of invention, brother, you know what
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  Speaker 5: I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that is true.
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  Speaker 3: Hashtag munchies. What is the best food to slow cook?
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  Speaker 3: I guess I'm assuming it means like, what's the best
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  Speaker 3: one if you give it its time and it's proper
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  Speaker 3: technique to cook and maybe it gets better as the
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  Speaker 3: time goes well.
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  Speaker 5: By nature, things that need to be slow cooked are are,
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  Speaker 5: you know, like muscle tissues that have a lot of
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  Speaker 5: connective tissue in it, a lot of elastin in it.
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  Speaker 5: So you have two types of bat. You have collagen
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  Speaker 5: that melts away and it's soft and tastes good, and
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  Speaker 5: then you have elastin it a last and when it cooks,
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  Speaker 5: when it heats up it, it tends to get tough
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  Speaker 5: first and will shrivel. Thus the elastin it's kind of elastic.
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  Speaker 5: But after a while that will give way. And so
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  Speaker 5: you know, those those cuts of meats that are more
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  Speaker 5: used on the creature's body, like the shoulders and the rumps,
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  Speaker 5: and those those pieces on the closer to the ends,
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  Speaker 5: if you will, those are going to be the pieces
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  Speaker 5: that benefit greatest from because the connective tissue is greater there.
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  Speaker 5: And if you if you slow cook something like a
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  Speaker 5: beef tenderloin, you know it's going to turn the mush
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  Speaker 5: because it's you know what I mean, that's not no hey,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there's go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: What about okay? What about one?
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  Speaker 3: I don't mean to cut you off there, but my
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  Speaker 3: brain squirrel like one like chili. Like I've always heard
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  Speaker 3: people be like, hey, you want to slow cook this
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  Speaker 3: chili that.
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  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, that.
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  Speaker 3: One's a little different because it's not the things that
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about there. It's like a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: same ingredients maybe that you wouldn't want to cook for
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  Speaker 3: a long time.
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  Speaker 4: Why do people always stay with chili?
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  Speaker 5: So I think with chili, it is kind of the
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  Speaker 5: same with soups, right, Like it's not just the slow
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  Speaker 5: cooking process, it's the amount of time that it spins together,
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  Speaker 5: if that makes sense. Like the flavor, like the flavors
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  Speaker 5: melding together. You know, like theoretically it's well won if
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  Speaker 5: you're if you're using beans in your chili that are dry,
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  Speaker 5: you got to take time to cook those, right So
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  Speaker 5: there in is one of those things. You know, if
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  Speaker 5: you're using ground beef, it doesn't really it's not to
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  Speaker 5: tenderize the ground beef obviously. It really is about you know,
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  Speaker 5: letting those those flavors melt together. And you know, if
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  Speaker 5: you're serving it immediately, you absolutely need to slow cook
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  Speaker 5: it and long cook it because the longer it's in
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  Speaker 5: the pot and the pan underheat, you know, the more
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  Speaker 5: this flavor is gonna meld together. But you can also
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  Speaker 5: cool it and put it in the in the refrigerator
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  Speaker 5: overnight and it will you know, like overnight soup, overnight
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  Speaker 5: chili is gonna taste better on day two than day one.
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  Speaker 5: There's no scene other butts about it. That is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: like that is gastronomically true, if you.
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  Speaker 4: Will hashtag munchies.
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  Speaker 3: Is beefloin top surloin with cap off a good cut.
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  Speaker 5: Of steak beef surloin cap off? Yeah, I mean in
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  Speaker 5: it's not the worst cut of steak, you know what
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  Speaker 5: I mean? Like, it depends on your flate, on your
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  Speaker 5: favor for texture, really, you know, so surloin, almost any
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  Speaker 5: type of surloin is going to have a relatively firm texture,
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  Speaker 5: but you can grill it over an open flame, like
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  Speaker 5: you can play a ribbi or a or a tenderloin.
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  Speaker 5: So the strip loin is technically a part of a surloin.
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  Speaker 5: It's called the short loin. So stain cuts as a
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  Speaker 5: whole are going to be somewhere in between the toughest
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  Speaker 5: of cuts and the most tender of cuts. So it's
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  Speaker 5: it's midway, and you know, like it it really is
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  Speaker 5: about the texture. You want to look for the marbling.
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  Speaker 5: If you're looking for a tasty steak. You know, you
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  Speaker 5: need to make sure that it has marbling in there, right,
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  Speaker 5: But if you're just looking for a good clean protein,
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  Speaker 5: the surtll looin is going to offer a mixture of
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  Speaker 5: both of those things, right, Like the ribbi has a
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  Speaker 5: lot of fat, tinderlin doesn't have much. A curtloin is
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  Speaker 5: going to be somewhere in the middle or should.
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  Speaker 4: Be hashtag munchies.
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  Speaker 3: Is it safe to put a can of green beans
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  Speaker 3: with holes punched in it into a crawfish boil when
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  Speaker 3: all the cans have a plastic liner.
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  Speaker 5: I don't put metal in Some would. I wouldn't put
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  Speaker 5: metal into my craw fish boil. I would. I would
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  Speaker 5: fear that it's going to, you know, distaste it. If
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  Speaker 5: you're going to one, I think I would prefer cook
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  Speaker 5: fresh green beans in it versus canned just out of preference.
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  Speaker 5: I don't like canned.
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  Speaker 6: Foods as a whole.
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  Speaker 5: I would buy frozen green beans to canned green beans.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm not putting anything metal into my into my
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  Speaker 5: boil because you know, like they oftentimes those those the
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  Speaker 5: vegetables that are being canned, you know, like they have
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  Speaker 5: nutrition to them, but they're least nutrient quality of all things,
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  Speaker 5: but also it tends to be it tends to leave
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  Speaker 5: a metallic flavor, right. And I just have this philosophy
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  Speaker 5: of don't put things into your food you don't want
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  Speaker 5: to taste, right, are you? Is it safe? You know,
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  Speaker 5: like I think it's safe. Is it necessary? I think
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  Speaker 5: that there's better ways of going about it.
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  Speaker 3: How about this one, chef I think you'll appreciate this
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  Speaker 3: one did a rump roast in the crock pot and
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  Speaker 3: didn't realize the little plastic paper thing on the bottom
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  Speaker 3: stuck to the roast. Yep, eight hours of slow cooked plastic.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, I feel like that's probably happened as so
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  Speaker 3: many people.
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  Speaker 5: Oh man, we're laughing with you. Not actually be fault,
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  Speaker 5: you know. I I remember I had a I had
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  Speaker 5: a You know, when you eat something or you have
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  Speaker 5: it you share like a flavor, it takes you back
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  Speaker 5: to a memory sometimes. And I was eating a sandwich
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  Speaker 5: the other day and it failed to pull the paper
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  Speaker 5: properly from between the slices of cheese, and I put
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  Speaker 5: it on my sandwich and wasn't even paying attention, you know,
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  Speaker 5: like there was one piece of cheese that had paper
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  Speaker 5: on the bottom side.
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  Speaker 7: Of it.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't see it. So when I've been into my sandwich,
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  Speaker 5: I was like, damn, there's something tough in here, right,
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  Speaker 5: So I it took me back to when I was
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  Speaker 5: a father and having children, and I did the base
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  Speaker 5: like I made a sandwich with my eyes closed. Somehow.
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  Speaker 5: I was up, you know, feeding my daughter when she
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  Speaker 5: was like two. And yeah, so we've we've all been there.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: Chefer's still a father, by the way. But I also
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  Speaker 3: totally understand what you're saying when those late night feedings
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  Speaker 3: and you're getting up and yeah, you're you don't really
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  Speaker 3: know what happened.
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  Speaker 4: You just be trying to find something, and yeah, sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't work out all right, hashtag munchies. Let's see,
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  Speaker 2: no ask one about that.
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  Speaker 3: What's the last fresh fish the chef has caught and
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  Speaker 3: made for himself?
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  Speaker 5: Ooh gosh, last time I was fishing, I think redfish.
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  Speaker 4: Say, it can't be that long ago. I know how
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  Speaker 4: much you put a lot on the water.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, I've been doing a decent amount of fishing, so
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to decide. I had some catfish, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I love catfish. I think the last time I was fishing,
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  Speaker 5: I was both fishing with my brother and be a
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  Speaker 5: red fish nice.
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  Speaker 3: You know what this might be like the redneck part
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  Speaker 3: of me coming out. It might be the three one
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  Speaker 3: eight coming out of me. But like, there's great fish
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  Speaker 3: all throughout the golf, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll eat almost all of it. I love fish, one
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite things.
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  Speaker 3: But by god, a thin cut piece of fried catfish, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's so hard to beat.
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  Speaker 5: It is, it's it's it's just you know, like I
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  Speaker 5: prefer it then cut over like over like the whole.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I like that crispiness and it Yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of like, yeah, all right, we got to end
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  Speaker 2: on that one.
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  Speaker 4: Can't go any farther down the road after that, bad boy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest with you.
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  Speaker 5: Do you take tartar sauce with your catfish?
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  Speaker 4: I do? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What's your favorite side with cat Like I'm like a
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  Speaker 3: child when it comes to catfish, Like, I'd love like
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  Speaker 3: some catfish and French fries.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta be honest with you.
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  Speaker 5: The French fries are it, you know, like in state
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  Speaker 5: cut fries. Even more so than that, I'll tell you
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  Speaker 5: what what is not going to be eaten with my catfish.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why anybody ever decided that the coal
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  Speaker 5: flaw was a proper food, but I mean, like just people.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, chef not a fan of.
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  Speaker 5: No, not at all. I mean circumstances, but yeah, it
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  Speaker 5: just seems like one of those you know, fillers that
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  Speaker 5: isn't necessary for me.
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  Speaker 3: All right, All right, now that we know that, I
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  Speaker 3: think that's like one of the few things that you've
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  Speaker 3: ever said.
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  Speaker 4: That you just don't like.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I eat most foods and I'll eat just not
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Chef, we appreciate you every single week. We
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  Speaker 3: look forward to it every single week. Enjoy the rest
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  Speaker 3: of your week. We'll catch up next week.
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  Speaker 5: Take care, jack.
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  Speaker 4: Man. I love coleslaw. I don't know about y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm the guy that can getting.
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  Speaker 9: A cane depends on the place most of the time.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a cl I'm going bread, coleslaw, tindy cane, sauce,
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  Speaker 3: French fry, roll that thing up, basically make it a sandwich.
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  Speaker 10: That's what I do.
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  Speaker 2: I love coleslaw.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not anti. I'm not part of the anti cos
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  Speaker 10: me neither.
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  Speaker 4: I love it. Like I'm a pull pork barbecue sandwich.
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  Speaker 9: I do love that.
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  Speaker 3: Like you imagine if you know Elandre and I big
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  Speaker 3: BUCkies fans. You imagine if they had coal and that
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  Speaker 3: pull pork sandwich, I.
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  Speaker 10: Would actually be really good.
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  Speaker 11: I also like to put potato salad like all my
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  Speaker 11: brisket sandwiches.
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  Speaker 9: Do they do?
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  Speaker 4: They do that?
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  Speaker 12: They have yellow yell are given good suggestions. I'm going
• 15:12
  Speaker 12: to BUCkies this weekend because we're going to the beach.
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  Speaker 12: Do they have potato salad and or coolestal? They do
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  Speaker 12: have potato salad, but we're trying that.
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  Speaker 4: I bet they have those.
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  Speaker 9: I will report back.
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  Speaker 10: I've never seen cold. They probably do have it. I've
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  Speaker 10: never seen it, but I know I've seen potato salad.
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  Speaker 2: Their favorite thing of BUCkies the.
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  Speaker 11: Brisket, the chopped beef sandwich. But I love the chips
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  Speaker 11: that they made.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like those honey glazed pecans.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll go a little bit different.
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  Speaker 12: In their bakery section, you can get like the cookies individual,
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  Speaker 12: but if you look close, you can get a six
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  Speaker 12: pack for like six bucks. Their chocolate chip cookies Elite.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, chot the BUCkies.
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  Speaker 3: Well stop three times, I don't I don't eat four
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  Speaker 3: out of the six whenever me and Victoria get them.
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  Speaker 9: That's totally not true.
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  Speaker 11: But I wonder, all right, I wonder if Matt stopped
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  Speaker 11: on his way back, because remember he drove before us
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  Speaker 11: on the way back.
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  Speaker 7: He ran.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, ran a car. I know we stopped.
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  Speaker 1: New from the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off
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  Speaker 1: the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes you want to take you down.
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: Sometime I want to get you brush your hair back
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  Speaker 8: from your rise, but take you down and let the.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Welcome back in OTV.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Here a lot from the Raising Canes studio. You're gonna
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: be back out on the practice field today. Offense found
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: its way back after a rough Saturday to win the day.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: It sounded like on Tuesday, heyday, we're going out there.
• 18:53
  Speaker 12: Uh no, actually probably out there right now. They don't
• 18:57
  Speaker 12: really like when you show up late, the.
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: Kind of let all them at one time.
• 19:01
  Speaker 12: Yeah, so like during the week, Like that's why I
• 19:03
  Speaker 12: went Saturday.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: But I think you'll get to stay the whole practice.
• 19:06
  Speaker 9: Now though, Yeah, yesterday, they're not.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Mine now probably like maybe before when you had like
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: forty five minute viewing.
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah, something like that.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: All right, you know who's supposed to go today, but
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: somebody sick?
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Matt Flynn, Me and Matt, Matt and I, Me and
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Matt Clayton, and I see.
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: If JaMarcus is still in town, go with him instead.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you might bust in your mouth.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: You know what?
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: Apparently does that?
• 19:35
  Speaker 10: Maybe don't do that, he said it not me.
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: You maybe skip that. Maybe maybe maybe don't send that text?
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: He did, shout out Jay Russ. So I guess we're
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: not going the whole point. Do we think Matthew's gonna
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: be here tomorrow?
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think he'll. I think he'll pull it together.
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: I mean, he said he was gonna beat it faster
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: than anybody's ever beat it.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: He basically tried to pull the hardball line an enthusiasm
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: unknown to mankind, but it got him. I'm gonna beat
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: this way faster than any other human. How'd that turn out?
• 20:20
  Speaker 12: I thought it was funny because he sent that text
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: and then like an hour later that I really don't
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: feel good you feel worse now than when you sent that.
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: I appreciate that he tried to be like, no, I'm
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: gonna beat this.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, do you if he's like it's
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: lip service at this point? You know, you could just
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: be like, hey, man, I'm down and now like I
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: ain't gonna be there. Like then I probably would have like, okay,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: probably playing a little bit different because he didn't like guests.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I like guests.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: So when he said like he was going to beat
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: it with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind, I was like, oh,
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: he's going to be here, but then it beat him up.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fine, all right.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Brad Crawford over at CBS Sports put out an article
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: the best case and worst case scenarios for each team
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: in the top twenty five.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: And we don't care about the other twenty four teams.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: We care about the LSU Tigers, and for this article,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: it says the best case scenario would be eleven to
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: one overall, eight and one in conference play. The write
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: up says, well, the bad news the only SEC elite
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: not only in gibbons first year schedule at LSU is Georgia.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: The good news the Tigers just spent more on talent
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: than they ever have previously, and have assured this coaching
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: staff that production is coming across all position groups. Kiffin
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: has preached patients this all season, but let's face it,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: failing to reach the CFP in year number one will
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: not meet expectations, all right, So put that in the
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: back of your memory bank. Worst case scenario eight and
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: four overall six and three in league play. The old
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: miss faithful would pay anything to see this happen, but truthfully,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: the Tigers roster looks relatively full proof.
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: Overall.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: LSU could still recover from an opening lost to Clemson
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: during conference non conference action, but not if new quarterback
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Sam Levitt has his confidence rattled in the face of
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: enormous pressure as this portal cycle's top ranked player. All right,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: so let's talk about both scenarios. Best case eleven to one,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: worst case eight and four. If the worst case scenario
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: happened eight and four, six and three in league play,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: what does that look like?
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: Who'd you lose to? Would be my question.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: You can well, if it's.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Eight and four to six and three and league play
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: you lost to Clemson, Yeah, that's the obvious one. So
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: let's say eight and four, you lose to Clemson, you
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: lose to Texas, you lose to.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Alabama and A and M.
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: It's not great.
• 22:52
  Speaker 12: I don't eighty four Lane cannot he cannot lose that
• 22:58
  Speaker 12: September nineteenth game in can't lose that game.
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's that's the one. Like I wouldn't have thought
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: a must win game.
• 23:08
  Speaker 12: What happened three three games into a guy's ten uere
• 23:13
  Speaker 12: he can't lose that all this game, also losing to
• 23:19
  Speaker 12: an M four, to losing to A and M M,
• 23:23
  Speaker 12: Texas in Death Valley and Clemson.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I was just trying to think of the toughestame schedule.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, worst case scenario to me, after everything you've you've
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: put into this team. The absolute worst that would be
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: somewhat okay, would be nine and three and seven and
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: two in league play. Seven and two in league plays
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: still gives you a chance, So it gives you an opportunity.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Nobody signed up for eight and four. Nobody that can
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: here from somewhere else. Are nobody that donated to this
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: place to be above what they were? And again, and
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: the article says it, you're playing the who's who, but
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: nobody cares right, wrong or indifferent nobody cares. So that
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: might be the worst case scenario, which again you're not
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: even that you'd have more wins than you had a
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: year ago. But I don't think anybody here is gonna
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: be okay with that, and I know they're not going
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: to be and the coaches aren't going to be okay
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: with that.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: It is going to be.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: One of those seasons where nobody cares who you play,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: at least I don't think so, like when you look
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: at their schedule, and again the article points it out,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: but people are not going to care. They're gonna know
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: how much you spend on this roster. They're gonna know
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: how much you spend on the coaches. They're gonna know
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: that you blew it up and tried to hit reset,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: which you did. They're not gonna care that you have
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Clemson coming to town. You go to Oxford, A and
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: M comes to town, Alabama comes to town. You gotta
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: go play and jur and here too. That place is
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: never easy. If they they are, they could be terrible
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: and it's going to be a very difficult environment. Texas
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: comes to town, You got to go to Tennessee. Nobody
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: is going to care, just not going to.
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: You just got rid of aiding four.
• 25:21
  Speaker 12: You paid fifty four million dollars to make aid and
• 25:24
  Speaker 12: four go away. Can't go eaighting four.
• 25:31
  Speaker 11: But he told y'all like, hey guys, it's gonna take
• 25:35
  Speaker 11: some time. He got out in front of it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: He did, But that doesn't matter.
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: No, I actually agree with y'all, but like, no, I agree,
• 25:41
  Speaker 11: you know that. But yeah, and Lane Kurt Signetti did it.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: So you're number one playoffs, you're number two Natty.
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: At Indiana, and we're giving you all of the resources
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: that you need to make it happen here.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: So I can make the argument that the their bottom
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: floors ten and two to be Yeah, to feel good.
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: About it, No, I'm good about it.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: So all right, just an interesting article.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: And again I think they think a lot of LSU
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: and that's why they put the best case scenario as
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: a one lost team that's absolutely in the College Football Playoff.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: But it also points out the schedule. Nobody cares about
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: the schedule. That's just the way it is. That's the
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: way it's going to be, and that's why we're all excited.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Though.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: We're all excited because of that potential and what we
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: think in the expectation of how it's going to play out.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: All right, we will take a break.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Jay Johnson, else you have baseball coach will join us
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: when we come back here on OTB.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Off the Bench two thousand and seven Champs, Purple and
• 26:47
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• 26:53
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  Speaker 7: To find that well, we've been.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Welcome back in OTV here live from the Raising Kanes Studio.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Always enjoy our Thursday catchups with LSU head baseball coach
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Jay Johnson, who joins us now.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Coach, We always appreciate the time. Hope you're doing well.
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: Good. How are you doing this morning?
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Doing fantastic. I always look forward to our conversations. Got
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: a big series this weekend obviously inside of the box,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: and I know you're looking forward to that. But kind
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: of going back over the last couple of games, Coach,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: I know was good to get back into the win
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: column on Tuesday against Northwestern State. You get a victory
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: there four to two, and probably really enjoyed what you
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: saw on the mound.
• 27:37
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I thought it was a very well pitched game.
• 27:39
  Speaker 13: We use nine pitchers in the game. I thought everybody
• 27:42
  Speaker 13: did their job and I think much more in line
• 27:46
  Speaker 13: with what those guys are capable of doing. And good team,
• 27:49
  Speaker 13: you know, teams first place in the Southern Conference at
• 27:52
  Speaker 13: this point, and is good. We were able to get
• 27:55
  Speaker 13: you know, some of our better guys in there, and
• 27:57
  Speaker 13: they delivered. And if you keep them to two, it's
• 28:00
  Speaker 13: gonna give you a good chance to win anytime you play.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: And coach, obviously we talked about it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, going back to the weekend in Oxford,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: then you played the good but then Cookman toom Cookman
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: team going back to last Tuesday and just get to
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: get a win there. But going back, like and looking
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: at the series on the road in Oxford, right, that
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: first game is like if a couple of things happen
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: your way, kind of flip it there, you fight hard
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: to scratch back and tie the game up. Like when
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: you have a situation like that, how difficult is it
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: to try to cut that one game, not allow that
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: one game to become two games, three games, whatever that
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: situation might be. Because you know, it's good going into
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: this series with a victory, But how hard is it
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: when you have a game like that on Friday, where
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: you fight hard, you tie it up, and then a
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: couple of things don't go your way. A ball doesn't
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: leave the infield right, you're trying to make play after play,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: it just doesn't go your way. To try to cut
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: that and get back to your winning ways, yeah, I.
• 28:51
  Speaker 13: Think I look at it in a couple different lights,
• 28:55
  Speaker 13: and specifically in that game. You know, we came out
• 28:58
  Speaker 13: in the first inning, two veteran players. Chris runs a
• 29:00
  Speaker 13: good at bat against Hunter, Ellie gets on base, Jake
• 29:03
  Speaker 13: gets excuse me, it's a home run. We're uphead two
• 29:05
  Speaker 13: to nothing. And then we had a couple guys on
• 29:08
  Speaker 13: in that inning, and then we had guys on in
• 29:10
  Speaker 13: the second inning as well, against a good pitcher like that.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: You got to break through and.
• 29:14
  Speaker 13: Score when you have chances. We had another, you know
• 29:17
  Speaker 13: situation where we had multiple runners on and you know,
• 29:21
  Speaker 13: that's Hunter ally, it's a good picture. He's veteran, and
• 29:23
  Speaker 13: he finds a way to get strikes and outs you
• 29:25
  Speaker 13: know where he needs to and he did that, and yeah,
• 29:28
  Speaker 13: we fought back. It is three to three, and you
• 29:30
  Speaker 13: just you have to handle the ball in the infield,
• 29:32
  Speaker 13: which is you know, probably one of.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: The big flaws.
• 29:34
  Speaker 13: Not probably is one of the big flaws of our team.
• 29:36
  Speaker 13: And you're not going to beat a good team on
• 29:38
  Speaker 13: the road, you know, making mistakes. It'd be like, you know,
• 29:42
  Speaker 13: fumbling near your own goal line three times, like that's
• 29:45
  Speaker 13: what the eighth inning was that night, and you're not
• 29:48
  Speaker 13: not going to overcome that the almost too good a team,
• 29:50
  Speaker 13: like really good pitching staff. So you know, I mean
• 29:53
  Speaker 13: that one was pretty self explanatory. And then game two,
• 29:56
  Speaker 13: I mean it's a bad loss, twelve of the two,
• 29:59
  Speaker 13: but against Townsend, who is one of the best pitchers
• 30:02
  Speaker 13: in the league, who score one in the first, and
• 30:04
  Speaker 13: you know, we left two more guys on in the first,
• 30:06
  Speaker 13: we scored in the second, left a couple more guys
• 30:09
  Speaker 13: on in the second. If that game is four to
• 30:11
  Speaker 13: zero instead of two zero, there's a different dynamic to
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: how the.
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: Game is played.
• 30:16
  Speaker 13: So I think it's just casting into where you know,
• 30:19
  Speaker 13: we can get our better pitching in the game. And
• 30:23
  Speaker 13: you know, I didn't see it as much as anything
• 30:25
  Speaker 13: as one game at a time, like guys are you know,
• 30:28
  Speaker 13: competing or trying hard.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: In some ways, it's just as simple as you can't
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: make airs in the nfield. You can't walk people and.
• 30:35
  Speaker 13: Somebody needs to get to out hit at some point,
• 30:37
  Speaker 13: and like, to me, that's that's how I look at it.
• 30:40
  Speaker 13: It's not anything other than we need to play or.
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: Be a better baseball.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Team, right, And coach I, I've known you a long time,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: now know you well enough to know, like it is
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: hard sometimes to find moral victories because like we know
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: what it is and we know what you expect. But
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: even on the last game to fight back and you
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: fall short, we all know that, but still like to
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: see the fight and try to get back into it.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: And then like also to see you know, obviously didn't
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: go the way that you wanted on the mound to
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: start the game, but to see Garcia and Sheer and
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: come in and what they were able to do, you
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: can probably take some Okay, well I had confidence in
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: those players already, but it continues to grow.
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: Yeah, no doubt.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: I think you know.
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: The one thing we can do is we can come
• 31:23
  Speaker 13: back from a large deficit on a Sunday as you
• 31:25
  Speaker 13: get to like lower in the other team's pitching staff,
• 31:28
  Speaker 13: Like we handle that caliber of pitching pretty well, and
• 31:32
  Speaker 13: they we haven't won as much as we want to.
• 31:35
  Speaker 13: These guys do still pride in competing in their performance,
• 31:39
  Speaker 13: and they showed that, and you know, we had to
• 31:42
  Speaker 13: make some switches to try to get back in the game. Again,
• 31:45
  Speaker 13: it left us a little vulnerable on defense, and we
• 31:47
  Speaker 13: didn't make a play in the bottom of the seventh
• 31:50
  Speaker 13: inning that would have retired the leadoff guy. And then again,
• 31:53
  Speaker 13: this is.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: About putting more pressure on our opponent.
• 31:57
  Speaker 13: And in that environment, it's a very there's a very
• 31:59
  Speaker 13: good team. Their crowd was awesome, like it was full.
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: You know, we allowed them to have the momentum or
• 32:07
  Speaker 13: play the games.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: The way they wanted to.
• 32:08
  Speaker 13: And even in that, you know, you had two games
• 32:11
  Speaker 13: that we were winnable with six outs to go, and
• 32:14
  Speaker 13: so we we just need we need to play better
• 32:16
  Speaker 13: to be over the hump in those games. You know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 13: the starting pitching on Friday and Saturday was no fine,
• 32:22
  Speaker 13: no problem, doing a good job and matching, you know,
• 32:25
  Speaker 13: two really good pitchers offensively, just taking advantage of the
• 32:29
  Speaker 13: opportunities that we'd created for ourselves a little better. And
• 32:32
  Speaker 13: then we have to handle the ball, and you know
• 32:33
  Speaker 13: it's between you know, some skill stuff and you know
• 32:37
  Speaker 13: some you know, I.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: Guess you would call it injuries.
• 32:40
  Speaker 13: We're just we're not as good as you know, first base,
• 32:43
  Speaker 13: second base, and as we need to be, and that
• 32:46
  Speaker 13: really hurt us. With the amount of really good left
• 32:48
  Speaker 13: handed hitters that Ole Miss has catching.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: Up with LuSE.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: You had baseball coach Jay Johnson here on O TV
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: and coach, I know a lot of people would look
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: at Texas and M coming to town and oh Man,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: number nine team in the country, but knowing you like
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I do, that's an opportunity for your baseball team.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: It's a great thing about the SEC.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: You can have a weekend that you want back, but
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: the next weekend is going to be another opportunity to
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: play a great team. And this time, this one's going
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: to be in the box. I'm sure the crowd is
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: going to be at capacity. I'm sure it's going to
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: be turned up to eleven. It just typically is whenever
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: LSU and Texas A and M get together. So a
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: great opportunity for your team starting on Friday night.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no doubt. And it's good to be home.
• 33:27
  Speaker 13: Like we've been on a road two weeks in a row,
• 33:28
  Speaker 13: which you know most teams probably have one of those
• 33:31
  Speaker 13: throughout the schedule.
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: But it feels like we haven't played a SEC home
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: game in a month, and so we're excited to be back.
• 33:39
  Speaker 13: Crowd is always great here and they're a great team.
• 33:42
  Speaker 13: You know, I kind of look at it like this
• 33:44
  Speaker 13: is their time, you know it. It's Grohovac and Surrell.
• 33:47
  Speaker 13: Those guys have been there for three years. They were
• 33:49
  Speaker 13: both a little bit beat up last year, which was
• 33:51
  Speaker 13: part of their struggles. But you know they're going to
• 33:54
  Speaker 13: be high draft picks. You know, I got one of
• 33:55
  Speaker 13: the best transfer hitters in kope En, and they got
• 33:59
  Speaker 13: some good young players that are really talented, and so
• 34:02
  Speaker 13: it's a good lineup. Pitching wise, they kind of rely
• 34:05
  Speaker 13: on six guys, so you got to get into that bullpen,
• 34:09
  Speaker 13: you know, and see if you can have them get
• 34:11
  Speaker 13: outs with guys they don't necessarily want to get outs with.
• 34:14
  Speaker 13: But they're they're well coached and playing very confident right now.
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: So we're gonna have to play our best to win.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: And coach obviously you know this is going to be,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: you know, one of those deals where you know, until
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: you get fully healthy. On Friday and Saturday, you knew
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: he was going to take the bump and trying to
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: get to game number three.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: I know that you said, you know, you.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Cooper could potentially maybe kind of sort of get it
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: inning over the weekend.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Is that something that's just going to have to be.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Hey, we'll let him throw a bullpen, see how he
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: feels or kind of where you're at with that right now.
• 34:48
  Speaker 13: Well, he threw, he threw on Tuesday, He threw a full,
• 34:54
  Speaker 13: full bullpen, full till one hundred percent. You know, felt
• 34:59
  Speaker 13: fine yesterday. You know, today's kind of interesting. And then
• 35:02
  Speaker 13: how he progresses into the weekend, if he's available like
• 35:06
  Speaker 13: to give us something, We'll put him on the active
• 35:09
  Speaker 13: roster and I'll put him in the game. And obviously,
• 35:12
  Speaker 13: any any inning that we can pick up over an
• 35:16
  Speaker 13: sec weekend or two would be very valuable. And we
• 35:21
  Speaker 13: like him obviously and believe in him, and you know,
• 35:23
  Speaker 13: he's got a lot of motivation to get back to
• 35:24
  Speaker 13: Like pro baseball is not interested in signing six foot
• 35:28
  Speaker 13: right handers with its arm issues, so he needs to
• 35:31
  Speaker 13: for you know, if he wants to.
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: Play pro baseball, he needs to get it back out
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: there too.
• 35:34
  Speaker 13: And he's tough and competitive and wants to do it.
• 35:37
  Speaker 13: So as soon as we can get him going, we're
• 35:39
  Speaker 13: going to get him going and then we'll probably have
• 35:42
  Speaker 13: to build it from there. I don't think we're going
• 35:43
  Speaker 13: back to four or five innings.
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: Right out of the shoot.
• 35:46
  Speaker 13: That would be irresponsible and we won't do that. But
• 35:49
  Speaker 13: could he be a solution, Absolutely, And if you could
• 35:52
  Speaker 13: start pairing him in there, and you know, Marco's pause
• 35:55
  Speaker 13: is really coming along, like I think he's our next
• 35:58
  Speaker 13: really good pitcher here, which is.
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: Great to see.
• 36:01
  Speaker 13: You mentioned Devin did a great job. You know, Garcia,
• 36:05
  Speaker 13: he's got some potential. So and Zach obviously you know
• 36:08
  Speaker 13: what you're gonna get.
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: Maybe we can condense what we're asking Kidri to do.
• 36:11
  Speaker 13: He's a little better in those shorter stints than when
• 36:13
  Speaker 13: we have to extend him. So I think there's makings
• 36:16
  Speaker 13: of a good staff where we can collect out and
• 36:19
  Speaker 13: you know, your bullpen is going to be the number
• 36:21
  Speaker 13: one factor and if whether you can win close games
• 36:23
  Speaker 13: or not. So anything we can get back from him
• 36:25
  Speaker 13: will help us tremendously.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: And coach I always, you know, want to mention Zach
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: and you did there. I mean, what he gives you
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I have to imagine as a coach to be able
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: to the other night he starts, he starts a game,
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: and then there's been times where he's come in like
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: the fifth inning and doesn't give the ball to anybody else.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: He's closed games, he's done a little bit of everything,
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: and he's certainly like he has found his mojo back,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: and he's kind of pitching to the gap that we've
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: seen him not only here at LSU, but Wafford as well. Like,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: what kind of you know, piece is that to have
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: for you to know that you can throw Zach in
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: there in any situation. He's that player that doesn't seem
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: like if it's a star, if it's a close whatever,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: he's the same guy on the mound.
• 37:04
  Speaker 13: Yeah, he's a stud, just stud human being, stud pitcher,
• 37:07
  Speaker 13: stud competitor, and I'm proud of him. You know, the
• 37:10
  Speaker 13: season didn't get off to a good start, but I
• 37:13
  Speaker 13: give him all the credit for getting himself back on
• 37:15
  Speaker 13: the rails and and going and that's really helped our
• 37:18
  Speaker 13: team a lot. And just a guy like we're lucky
• 37:22
  Speaker 13: to have here. And he's going to figure obviously a
• 37:25
  Speaker 13: big part into the rest of the season. And obviously
• 37:28
  Speaker 13: we know what he did last year, and you know,
• 37:31
  Speaker 13: just we're wanting to get off to a good start
• 37:32
  Speaker 13: on Tuesday, Like you know, forget all the dat's rankings,
• 37:37
  Speaker 13: postseason all that, we just we needed to win a game,
• 37:40
  Speaker 13: you know, like that's it was as simple as that.
• 37:42
  Speaker 13: And so to be able to roll him out there
• 37:44
  Speaker 13: for a couple innings and not just get a couple
• 37:46
  Speaker 13: of pretty good clean innings, but to do it in
• 37:49
  Speaker 13: a manageable pitch count so he could do whatever we
• 37:51
  Speaker 13: need him to do tomorrow. You know, he's just reliable
• 37:55
  Speaker 13: and you know that's that's what I love about him.
• 37:57
  Speaker 13: And you know, just wish I could coach him forever.
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you that much.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: So, oh, no doubt about that. And coach, I don't
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: want you to give anything away. You can tell me
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: go fly a kite if you don't want to answer this.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: But when you have a guy like that, like what
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: is that conversation? Maybe over the weekend, because you know
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: how valuable he can be in different situations you mentioned
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: like you need to win, you start that guy, and
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: so you know you could see him on a weekend
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: get a spot start there, but being so valuable in
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: so many different places, Like when does that conversation start
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: for how you're going to use him or is it
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: like within the game, Hey, we got to go to
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Zach here, like we can't wait, we can't save him,
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: like we need him right now.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: What are those conversations.
• 38:34
  Speaker 13: Like, Yeah, it depends on the setup for the game,
• 38:37
  Speaker 13: you know, because obviously I have a lot of confidence
• 38:39
  Speaker 13: in Devin too. You know, who are they pitching after?
• 38:42
  Speaker 13: What makes sense? And I just think, you know, he's
• 38:44
  Speaker 13: pitched so well for the first four week had pitched
• 38:48
  Speaker 13: so well for the first four weekends of SEC play.
• 38:50
  Speaker 13: It was like, hey, TI, game on a road, full
• 38:52
  Speaker 13: house again, really good environment, Like just you know how
• 38:57
  Speaker 13: he's going to handle it. And I mean, frankly didn't
• 39:00
  Speaker 13: help him on defense. I mean, we didn't step on
• 39:02
  Speaker 13: the bag at second base, Like they probably don't even
• 39:04
  Speaker 13: score on that editing if we just step on the
• 39:05
  Speaker 13: bag at second base, and even if we don't turn
• 39:07
  Speaker 13: a double play, get the lead runner and get the
• 39:11
  Speaker 13: force out right there and we contact. He had a
• 39:15
  Speaker 13: clean first inning, which was the seventh after case, and
• 39:19
  Speaker 13: so I just felt like in that series, that was
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: the time to go to him. The other times, it's
• 39:25
  Speaker 13: like you got a lead and you get the other
• 39:27
  Speaker 13: team trying to chase you a little bit. That's kind
• 39:29
  Speaker 13: of his sweet spot, you know, is when you have
• 39:31
  Speaker 13: a three or four run lead and you know he
• 39:33
  Speaker 13: can really take over from there. So I think he
• 39:35
  Speaker 13: knows that, but you don't want to expand it, you know,
• 39:37
  Speaker 13: start at him. He doesn't need starting experience. If I
• 39:40
  Speaker 13: just asked him to do it, he'd be able to
• 39:41
  Speaker 13: do it. Just sign But it depends on the weekend.
• 39:44
  Speaker 13: We're kind of finalizing how we're formulating that. But it's like,
• 39:48
  Speaker 13: if we have a chance to win, there's a good
• 39:49
  Speaker 13: chance you'll see him in the game.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: All right, great answer.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: You didn't tell me go flyck height, so I appreciate
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: you giving me the answer there. I'll just find a
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: fascinating guy like that. They can do so many different
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: things for you, and like you said, like the demeanor
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: is always going to be the same on the mound.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what level of baseball that it could
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: be nine to you, twelve U, whatever you college pros.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: When you have a guy like that is certainly a
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: luxury to have coach. We can't thank you enough. We
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: always look forward to it every single week. The best
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: of the luck in the box this week and will
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: certainly be out there rooting the Tiger zone.
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: All right, see you soon.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Thanks all right, Jay Johnson. Else, you have baseball coach
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• 40:25
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• 40:28
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  Speaker 4: How many games else you're gonna win this weekend?
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  Speaker 9: Three?
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  Speaker 10: Come on, I want to talk about the defense and
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