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Hour Three | LSU vs. McNeese, Munchies &… Mumps?! · Off The Bench

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Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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Speaker 2: Hands to Hester and Hester.
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Speaker 3: Yep, got it. Five out of five.
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Speaker 1: From carrying each other to a natty to carrying each
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Speaker 1: other on the air.
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Speaker 4: Flynn is back to throw for the end zone foul.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in. Now we're number three of
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Speaker 3: McNeese this weekend. Now they're a 50-point favorite. We know that.
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Speaker 3: We know that this game is going to be what
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Speaker 3: this game is. So instead of doing a full breakdown
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Speaker 3: of what the opponent looks like, like we normally would do,
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Speaker 3: we'll just kind of tell you what we're looking for
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Speaker 3: from the Tigers. Now, the lineup is probably going to
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Speaker 3: look a little bit different because you've had some devastating injuries.
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Speaker 3: You're banged up a little bit. And so this is
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Speaker 3: a game that you can treat a little bit different.
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Speaker 3: It's not disrespect to your opponent. It's kind of where
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Speaker 3: you're at and what you have the ability to do
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Speaker 3: right now. Quarterback. It's going to be a big one.
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Speaker 3: Is Landon Clark going to start this game? Where is
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Speaker 3: Sam Levitt right now? Is he going to play a
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Speaker 3: couple of series? Is he not going to play at all?
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Speaker 3: The linebacker position, you've lost number one and number four
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Speaker 3: of the guys in the rotation. So right now you
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Speaker 3: have number two and number three, number five and number six.
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Speaker 5: You're thin there. Those other guys, they're core four war daddies.
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Speaker 3: You take them off special teams now knowing you might
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Speaker 3: need them down the road.
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Speaker 5: Those are things that we're paying attention to in this game.
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Speaker 3: I think some of the defensive back depth that you're
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Speaker 3: trying to create in this game as well.
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Speaker 5: All of those are things. Trying to find an RB, too.
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Speaker 5: Dylan Jones is your number one guy.
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Speaker 3: I know we put out the video of Harlem Berry,
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Speaker 3: and I was excited to see him have some success.
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Speaker 3: We also saw some plays where he needs to continue
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Speaker 3: to go fast, stop thinking, play. You're a heck of
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Speaker 3: a football player. Jones is your number one running back.
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Speaker 3: That's not even a question. but you're trying to find
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Speaker 3: a number two right now. This is a great opportunity
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Speaker 3: for Harlem Berry, Stacey Gage, and for Caden Durham to
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Speaker 3: go out there and get carries with the first-team offensive line,
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Speaker 3: I would assume. So there is a lot of things
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Speaker 3: that you can find to try to watch for in
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Speaker 3: this game.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and Atlanta Clark, I want to see a lot
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Speaker 6: from him at the quarterback position. I want to see
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Speaker 6: how he goes in there and can operate in offense.
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Speaker 6: I mean, this is a– just like you said, absolute
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Speaker 6: zero disrespect to the opponent, but you– You want to
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Speaker 6: put your starters in there for as little time as possible.
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Speaker 6: Like you say, one in four linebackers. I want to
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Speaker 6: get TJ Daughtery out of the game quickly because he
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Speaker 6: has been so dynamic. You need him. You have to
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Speaker 6: rely on him for the duration of this season. He
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Speaker 6: has been so good. I think he is one of
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Speaker 6: the top linebackers in the country, not just from a
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Speaker 6: skill set, but from his football IQ that he's shown,
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Speaker 6: from his athletic ability, the way he can He could
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Speaker 6: put his head in there. He does everything very, very well. So, look,
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Speaker 6: it's a game that we've certainly talked about. I don't
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Speaker 6: enjoy these games. I don't think the players really enjoy
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Speaker 6: these games, but you got a job to do. And
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Speaker 6: you have to go and you have to try to
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Speaker 6: do your best to treat this game just like any
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Speaker 6: other game. You got a gauntlet ahead of you after
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Speaker 6: this week, but you have to focus in. on doing
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Speaker 6: your job, attention to detail. The coaches have a hard
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Speaker 6: job this week. This is a hard week for the
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Speaker 6: coaches because not only do they have to spend the
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Speaker 6: same amount of hours building a game plan, doing their
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Speaker 6: film work, they still have to go through the steps,
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Speaker 6: just like if they were about to play Ole Miss,
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Speaker 6: just like if they're about to play Alabama. You have
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Speaker 6: to go through all those steps. Watch every single cut-up. Now,
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Speaker 6: if you look at the– The.
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Speaker 3: Good thing is you do have so many coaches on
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Speaker 3: this staff that you can go ahead and plan probably ahead, right?
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Speaker 5: I'm not trying to be funny.
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Speaker 6: You can plan for a couple seasons.
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Speaker 3: You can plan ahead for your next opponent in Kentucky, right?
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Speaker 5: Because you have enough where you're still showing respect.
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Speaker 6: But you are not changing what you do. There's always
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Speaker 6: people looking ahead. You've got guys breaking down one week
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Speaker 6: ahead every single week. But you're not changing. Just because
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Speaker 6: it's McNeese, it's not like, hey, Blake Baker, why don't
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Speaker 6: you go ahead and focus on Kentucky this week or whatever.
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Speaker 6: You're keeping the same process going. Everything's the same. You
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Speaker 6: have to. Yes, you've got to show respect, but you're
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Speaker 6: sitting there as an offensive coordinator, a defensive coordinator, position coach,
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Speaker 6: whatever it is, and you're having to watch the same
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Speaker 6: amount of film on McNeese as you did last week
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Speaker 6: for Texas A & M. And you go through McNeese's schedule.
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Speaker 6: First game of the season, lost to Stephen F. Austin, 38-27.
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Speaker 6: They beat Texas Wesleyan, 52-0. Tarleton State beat them. 27-24,
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Speaker 6: UT Rio Grande, Rio Grande, 27-10. Are you from Texas?
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Speaker 6: I know. I know, I am. It's been a while
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Speaker 6: since I've read that before. Then they beat East Texas
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Speaker 6: A & M last week, 27-24. So these are, like,
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Speaker 6: you have to go and watch this film just like
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Speaker 6: it's an SEC opponent. And it's tough. It's a challenge.
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Speaker 6: It really is. And it's no disrespect, again, like, It
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Speaker 6: is what it is. It is what it is. They're
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Speaker 6: in a different league. They shouldn't be playing.
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Speaker 3: It's an SEC team versus an FCS team. So the
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Speaker 3: positions that we're looking at, I think you get an
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Speaker 3: opportunity for Ty Singleton and Zach Weeks to be in
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Speaker 3: the middle of your defense for a majority of this game.
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Speaker 5: That's a good thing.
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Speaker 3: Fahim Delane is going to play a lot of snaps
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Speaker 3: in this game. It's a good thing to create depth
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Speaker 3: there in the defensive backfield. Other names that we've talked
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Speaker 3: about this week. We've already talked about the running backs,
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Speaker 3: those guys getting an opportunity.
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Speaker 5: What about receivers? There's a lot of those guys that
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Speaker 5: we haven't seen a lot from.
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Speaker 3: And I know they rotate a bit, but it's been
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Speaker 3: Jackson Harris, it's been Trey Wilson, it's been Winston Watkins.
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Speaker 3: That's who it's been. You're going to get some other
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Speaker 3: guys in there. Corey Barber's probably going to get a
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Speaker 3: lot of run. Jace Brown needs to get some confidence.
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Speaker 3: Trey Brown, he needs to get some confidence. Get those
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Speaker 3: guys going a little bit. If he's really going to
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Speaker 3: be a tight end, okay, let's see what you got.
7:37
Speaker 3: Let's see what you can do. You've been a receiver.
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Speaker 3: We need you to play a little tight end. We
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Speaker 3: need you to be an F in this offense. Let's
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Speaker 3: see if you can get that done. Zach Grace doesn't
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Speaker 3: have a career catch yet. Give him a catch. Give
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Speaker 3: him a touch.
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Speaker 6: Give him a couple.
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Speaker 3: Because he's going to be out there. Let's just throw
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Speaker 3: it to him. Let him run a quick out. Throw
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Speaker 3: it to him. There's things in this game that can
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Speaker 3: benefit you as you go down the road because of
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Speaker 3: the situation that you're currently in.
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Speaker 6: Let me ask you. Experience this Saturday. Does it make
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Speaker 6: you better? I do.
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Speaker 3: I'm always in the belief, man, if you're doing something
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Speaker 3: in a uniform in Tiger Stadium or wherever you play
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Speaker 3: the game against another team, that helps you. I know
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Speaker 3: it's not going to be the same speed, the same strength.
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Speaker 3: I know all of that. But if you haven't done
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Speaker 3: it and you're getting to do it with live bullets,
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Speaker 3: I'm never going to say that doesn't matter. I think
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Speaker 3: preseason experience matters. I think scrimmaging matters.
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Speaker 5: That's why we do it. That's why people scrimmage.
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Speaker 3: You do it to get better, to get reps, to
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Speaker 3: see what it looks like. And is it going to
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Speaker 3: be like it's going to be in Lexington in two weeks?
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 3: But I'm more talking from a running back's perspective because
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Speaker 3: that's all I know.
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Speaker 5: Getting carries and live bullets, I don't care.
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Speaker 3: Who you're playing against.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 6: I think for certain positions.
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Speaker 3: You're seeing the vision. You're getting hit. You haven't had
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Speaker 3: ball security. And pass protection, you've got to do, read
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Speaker 3: your keys. Now, is it going to be easier in
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Speaker 3: this one?
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Speaker 5: Maybe it is. But still, just going through, reading your keys.
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Speaker 3: If a backside safety comes and you go across the formation,
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Speaker 3: you pick him up. Those are things that you can
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Speaker 3: use today that are going to pay off tomorrow. I
9:33
Speaker 3: don't know about you. I don't know your position. It
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Speaker 3: sounds like you don't think that they help.
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Speaker 6: I'm trying to put my finger on it the best
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Speaker 6: way because I know a certain position it does. Anytime
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Speaker 6: you're doing something, you're getting better. Anytime you're practicing something. Now,
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Speaker 6: trying to like find a comparison to another sport. Like
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Speaker 6: if you're a, if you're a professional baseball player and
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Speaker 6: you want to work on your hitting, does it help?
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Speaker 6: Does it help you as a hitter to hit against
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Speaker 6: a pitcher? That's not in your league. I don't know. Well,
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Speaker 6: I would say no. It doesn't help you get better
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Speaker 6: in your league. So, for my position, I hated these games.
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Speaker 6: I never got better because I mentally couldn't get out
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Speaker 6: there and get that same competitive attitude.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but also, like, when we were in those games
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Speaker 3: together and I moved from fullback to running back, you
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Speaker 3: came off the sideline.
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Speaker 5: The game was already decided. Like, that probably plays into
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Speaker 5: it as well.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: We didn't get a chance to start these games at
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Speaker 3: our positions. I'm trying to think. I don't think we
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Speaker 3: played one of these in 07. Maybe we did, and
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Speaker 3: I forgot. I don't remember them.
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Speaker 5: But I think that probably has something to do with
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Speaker 5: it as well.
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Speaker 3: And there's going to be guys that are in that
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Speaker 3: same situation. Like if Longstreet comes into the game, he's
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Speaker 3: probably going to feel like you did.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I hated it. I didn't hate it.
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Speaker 7: That's a strong word. I'm looking up if we had
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Speaker 7: one of these freaking purple jersey games. Do we know
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Speaker 7: if we're wearing purple?
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Speaker 6: We better.
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Speaker 3: Let's see. We went at Mississippi State, Virginia Tech at home,
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Speaker 3: Middle Tennessee, which you didn't play in that game, right?
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Speaker 6: Did not. Coming off a high ankle.
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Speaker 5: Number 12, South Carolina at Tulane.
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Speaker 3: Number 9, Florida. Number 17, Kentucky. Number 17, Auburn. Number 17, Alabama.
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Speaker 3: Number 17 team three weeks in a row. Louisiana Tech,
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Speaker 3: at Ole Miss, Arkansas, number 14, Tennessee, number one, Ohio State.
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Speaker 5: So, we didn't have one of those games when you
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Speaker 5: were the starter. And the one that we did, you
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Speaker 5: didn't play in.
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Speaker 6: I mean, you wouldn't consider La Tech doing that?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 5: Consider them FCS teams?
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Speaker 6: No, I just– No. No.
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Speaker 3: No. No. No.
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Speaker 5: I mean, Tulane had Matt Forte. Yeah, they gave us
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Speaker 5: some fight, too.
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Speaker 6: They gave us some fight. Anyway, I don't like going
12:31
Speaker 6: into a game where their biggest concern is don't get
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Speaker 6: people injured, which is what I think about. I assume
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Speaker 6: that's what a lot of LSU fans think about as well.
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Speaker 3: The year before, in 2006... ULL, Arizona, Tulane, and Fresno State.
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Speaker 5: Fresno State games suck. We won 38-6.
13:02
Speaker 3: It was rainy.
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Speaker 6: That was a bad game. Yucky.
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Speaker 3: I didn't like that one.
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Speaker 6: 2005, we did North Texas.
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Speaker 5: We had App State 2-0-5, right? Or was that 0-4?
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Speaker 6: I don't know. I know North Texas has got three toads.
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Speaker 5: App State was still FCS when we played them. We
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Speaker 5: won like 21-0. We didn't pull away.
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Speaker 6: 05?
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Speaker 3: Maybe it was. Maybe. It was 11 a.m.? No, it
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Speaker 3: was night. The 11 a.m. was 08.
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Speaker 6: That's right.
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Speaker 3: That's when we were gone. I remember watching it in
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Speaker 3: my condo in San Diego.
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Speaker 6: It was early. What do you do as a running
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Speaker 6: backs coach this week? To get your guys mentally right.
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Speaker 6: Are you?
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Speaker 3: It's easy.
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Speaker 6: So the running back screw it is.
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Speaker 5: Kevin has the easiest job of any position.
13:50
Speaker 6: You're right. The running back screw it is.
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Speaker 3: He's got the easiest one.
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Speaker 6: 0-5.
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Speaker 3: 0-5. What was the score?
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Speaker 1: 21-0?
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Speaker 3: 24. Oh.
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Speaker 1: 24-0.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, because you probably got two running backs that are pissed. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: You're challenging the hell out of those two guys this week.
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Speaker 3: Oh, you want to go on the field? Go prove it.
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Speaker 5: They challenged Harlem a little bit last week.
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Speaker 3: And again... It wasn't the cleanest game. I know the stats,
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Speaker 3: and I know the long run. He knows he can
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Speaker 3: be better. And it's good that he had that long run.
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Speaker 3: He can build off that. I'd love to see Harlem
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Speaker 3: get some confidence back. And he knows he's got to
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Speaker 3: do a little bit more. He's got to be more sudden.
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Speaker 6: Okay, all right. Okay, so you're about to play a
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Speaker 6: team that just lost to Texas A & M, right?
14:42
Speaker 6: So how much confidence can you build? If you have
14:45
Speaker 6: a good game at a running back. I'm sorry, they
14:48
Speaker 6: beat East Texas A & M 27-24. Yeah, because we
14:51
Speaker 6: made the joke. Texas A & M hates to see
14:53
Speaker 6: a Louisiana team come last week. I mean, maybe you
14:59
Speaker 6: and I are different.
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Speaker 3: If I went out there and I got 10 carries
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Speaker 3: for 95 yards and two tuds, I'm feeling pretty good
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Speaker 3: at Fred's after the game.
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Speaker 4: For sure.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I got that.
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Speaker 3: And I'm pretty confident about, okay, I'm back. I'm now
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Speaker 3: in their sight line. They now, when they see me,
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Speaker 3: they view me in.
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Speaker 5: A different way. Like, that's how I would feel. And
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Speaker 5: I don't think I ever had.
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Speaker 3: A good purple jersey game, if I'm being honest.
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Speaker 6: Well, you had a long run in the purple jersey.
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Speaker 5: Oh, that means the one. But, like, I don't remember
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Speaker 5: Middle Tennessee.
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Speaker 3: Like, I don't remember it, but I'm saying I know
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Speaker 3: for me when I was hungry for carries, I didn't
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Speaker 3: care how I got fed.
15:40
Speaker 5: I just needed to eat.
15:41
Speaker 6: You needed to eat.
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Speaker 3: You know what I mean? And I think Harlan Berry
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Speaker 3: and Caden Durham should be like that. Stacey Gage should
15:46
Speaker 3: be like that too. They're clearly opening up who's behind
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Speaker 3: Dylan Jones right now. We saw Harlan Berry be the
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Speaker 3: two when it's been Stacey Gage. So they're opening that up.
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Speaker 3: They're trying to give you five carries a game potentially,
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Speaker 3: but you got to go take them. I think receiver.
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Speaker 3: I think you can get a lot of favor in
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Speaker 3: this game as a receiver. You got enough of them.
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Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Like, You want to– all right.
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Speaker 3: You want to get in that rotation? They like to
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Speaker 3: rotate receivers.
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Speaker 6: Love it.
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Speaker 3: They haven't been able to as much because you haven't
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Speaker 3: shown up. So, I don't know. Go score 80.
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Speaker 6: Go Tigers.
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Speaker 3: Go Tigers.
16:29
Speaker 6: Running clock? I do love running clock. I know. I
16:34
Speaker 6: do too. A couple weeks ago. All right. Y'all said
16:37
Speaker 6: something that blew my mind. Which is the game that
16:39
Speaker 6: coaches got together? The Miami?
16:41
Speaker 3: Miami?
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Speaker 5: It was a college football game. College football game.
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Speaker 3: I think it was Miami, Florida A & M.
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Speaker 4: Because they were up like 65 to nothing in like
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Speaker 4: the third quarter.
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Speaker 3: It was Miami, FAMU. They got together and had.
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Speaker 6: I didn't even know that was possible.
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Speaker 3: I didn't either. They shortened the quarter.
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Speaker 4: Here in Louisiana, I think it's 42 points.
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Speaker 3: I know. Livonia and U High were 44 to nothing
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Speaker 3: in half, and they ran the clock the whole time.
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Speaker 6: I think if you get to like the 42. All right.
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Speaker 6: I feel like that happens a lot in Louisiana high school,
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Speaker 6: just because of how the.
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Speaker 3: Schedules are.
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Speaker 4: It was 77-0 after the third quarter. They did a
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Speaker 4: running clock, and then it was 77-7 final.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's get to your munchie questions with our guy,
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Speaker 3: Chef Michael Johnson.
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Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalize your taste buds and leave this
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Speaker 1: segment hungry. This is Munchies with Executive Chef Michael Johnson.
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Speaker 4: Let's eat.
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Speaker 3: Chef, what's going on, brother?
20:36
Speaker 6: How we doing?
20:37
Speaker 3: How we living this week?
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Speaker 2: I'm living. How are y'all?
20:39
Speaker 3: Oh, man, hold up now. That feels like we got
20:41
Speaker 3: to unpack some of that.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think that these six-hour days have caught up with me,
20:47
Speaker 2: either that or the ragweed one or the other, but
20:49
Speaker 2: I'm struggling a little bit right now.
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Speaker 1: All right.
20:53
Speaker 2: But I'm here.
20:54
Speaker 3: Hey, that's all that matters. That is all that matters.
20:57
Speaker 6: Food is fuel, Chef.
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Speaker 2: That's right. Well, I've got some lemon ginger tea and...
21:01
Speaker 2: And a positive spirit.
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Speaker 3: There you go.
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Speaker 6: Spirit as well. There you go.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 3: So hashtag munchies, love, marry, kill. Gold leaf, micro greens, caviar.
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Speaker 2: Say that again.
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Speaker 3: All right. So you got a love one, you got
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Speaker 3: a marry one, and you got to get rid of one.
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Speaker 3: Gold leaf, micro greens, caviar.
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Speaker 6: Oh, man.
21:27
Speaker 2: I'm leaving gold leaf.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 6: Keep that.
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Speaker 2: It's not good for the body. It's a precious metal,
21:32
Speaker 2: and it'll build up. It's not good for you. Oh,
21:34
Speaker 2: all right. Michael Green's loved one. Give me my options.
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Speaker 3: You got a loved one. You got to marry one. Oh, man.
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Speaker 2: I love Michael Green's. I think I'll marry the latter. Caviar. Okay. Caviar.
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Speaker 2: Caviar's quite tasty.
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Speaker 3: Fair enough. There you go.
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Speaker 2: Have you had caviar before, like real beluga caviar?
21:54
Speaker 3: You know, they didn't have that in Sunset Acres growing up.
21:57
Speaker 3: I'm going to be honest with you, Chef.
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Speaker 6: What's up?
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Speaker 2: It's quite bougie, but, man, there is something about it.
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Speaker 2: Fair enough. I don't know.
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Speaker 6: What's your favorite way to caviar?
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Speaker 2: Well, you're supposed to do it on a spoon made
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Speaker 2: of bone or oyster or something like that, or pearled,
22:14
Speaker 2: so that it doesn't react, and serve with creme fraiche,
22:18
Speaker 2: something of that nature.
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Speaker 3: Obviously.
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Speaker 2: The creme fraiche kind of offers this. this acidic, sour
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Speaker 2: contrast to the salty, buttery caviar. It's a moment of contrast.
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Speaker 2: It depends on how you eat your oysters, but when
22:35
Speaker 2: you eat an oyster, at least the salty, bright ones
22:38
Speaker 2: from the coast, you're supposed to press it against the
22:40
Speaker 2: roof of your mouth and work it around so you
22:43
Speaker 2: can capture the whole essence of the oyster. Caviar is
22:47
Speaker 2: kind of the same way. You're not supposed to chew
22:49
Speaker 2: it and just swallow it. You're supposed to press them
22:51
Speaker 2: to the roof of your mouth and And, uh, there's
22:54
Speaker 2: like this burst of flavor that comes in your mouth and, uh,
22:57
Speaker 2: you know, like it's meant to be savored. So I
22:59
Speaker 2: think that that's something worth, worth marrying.
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Speaker 6: Never had, never had that instruction before. Yeah. All right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Chef, we had a lot of, uh, we've had a
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Speaker 6: lot of talk this week here on the show about
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Speaker 6: different types of milk types of milk. What kind of
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Speaker 6: milk do y'all serve over there at the performance center?
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Speaker 2: 1% because skim is too thin and whole is too fatty.
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Speaker 6: Any like almond milks, coconut milks?
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Speaker 2: Oh, gosh, yeah. I mean, there's one of every type
23:32
Speaker 2: of soy. And honestly, we use oat milk a little bit.
23:37
Speaker 2: At first, I didn't like oat milk, but it's grown
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Speaker 2: on me. The flavor profile and the texture of it
23:43
Speaker 2: is something that I've learned to enjoy because I was
23:47
Speaker 2: told by a doctor a long time ago, milk, milk
23:49
Speaker 2: is meant for babies and calves.
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Speaker 3: And Jake.
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Speaker 2: And Jake. And so I do limit the amount of
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Speaker 2: milk because I like cheese and I can't have too
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Speaker 2: much dairy in the life. It's pretty fatty for you.
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Speaker 2: So I opt out of milk and go with cheese
24:07
Speaker 2: because I can't imagine a life without cheese, to be
24:10
Speaker 2: honest with you.
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Speaker 6: If you had to rank consumption-wise from the team, Which
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Speaker 6: type of milk gets consumed the most and which type
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Speaker 6: gets consumed the least?
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Speaker 2: Well, like in the fueling stations, we do serve whole
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Speaker 2: milk there. And I would say the whole milk is
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Speaker 2: probably the largest consumer. We prefer to cook with 1%
24:30
Speaker 2: because typically we're adding in fats on top of that.
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Speaker 2: And so if you're fat on top of fat, it's compounding, right?
24:37
Speaker 3: Yeah. Hashtag munchies. Can chef take down a mountain lion?
24:43
Speaker 2: Uh, not today.
24:44
Speaker 3: Not today. Ask me tomorrow.
24:48
Speaker 2: You almost just defeated me right there, man. You know, like, uh,
24:52
Speaker 2: I would give her hell on a normal day when
24:54
Speaker 2: I was feeling bigger, but yeah.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, you're an outdoorsman. I got faith in you, Jeff.
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Speaker 2: I've been in the woods before and felt like, uh,
25:03
Speaker 2: you know, when I lived in Washington, I was in
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Speaker 2: the woods a couple of times and felt like something
25:07
Speaker 2: was watching me and had that, had that kind of, Okay,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to have to fight for it today.
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Speaker 3: You hear that purr.
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Speaker 6: It changes things.
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Speaker 2: It does, brother.
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Speaker 6: Hashtag munchies. What's the best okra-based recipe you've come across?
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Speaker 2: I just like smothered okra. Okra and tomatoes. I like
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Speaker 2: them fresh and cooked like that. I don't know. Frozen
25:30
Speaker 2: okra has its place, but I like it fresh. I
25:34
Speaker 2: like to blanch it to kill some of the.
25:40
Speaker 2: Viscous liquid that comes out of it, if you will,
25:42
Speaker 2: because it can be a little overwhelming. So if you
25:46
Speaker 2: blanch it in hot water, it'll pull some of that
25:48
Speaker 2: out and then you can just do it. But it
25:49
Speaker 2: doesn't turn out quite as slimy. And I like good tomatoes.
25:53
Speaker 2: I like San Marzano tomatoes because it's low acidity and
25:57
Speaker 2: they just kind of melt into it rather than jump
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Speaker 2: in and splash and overtake the dish. They're kind of
26:03
Speaker 2: subtle in that way.
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Speaker 3: Hashtag munchies is there a certain dish you all prepare
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Speaker 3: that the athletes insist on being served all the time
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Speaker 3: i guess kind.
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Speaker 2: Of a staple yeah i mean it's it's what you
26:20
Speaker 2: exactly expect to be at lsu it's crossfish etouffee you
26:24
Speaker 2: know shrimp creole stuff like that um we serve gumbo
26:27
Speaker 2: every monday in the middle of the summer even so
26:29
Speaker 2: you know like it's those louisiana staples um And we
26:34
Speaker 2: don't have a problem with those because we cook them
26:35
Speaker 2: in a healthier manner with stocks and stuff and replace
26:38
Speaker 2: this fat with that fat.
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Speaker 3: Is there one, Chef, is there one where, like, this
26:44
Speaker 3: sport really loves it, this sport not as much?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe the shrimp creole. Everybody loves crawfish, as you
26:53
Speaker 2: say here. We have a guy, his name is Silas.
26:55
Speaker 2: He's one of my chefs, and he's been with me
26:57
Speaker 2: since he was what we call the helper. Like, he
26:59
Speaker 2: helped put things up in the storage room. That's how...
27:03
Speaker 2: far he's coming. He's the supervisor now. I've got to
27:05
Speaker 2: give a shout out to him because he makes some
27:07
Speaker 2: of the best etouffee I've ever had. And people, you know,
27:10
Speaker 2: like at lunchtime flock to the flock to the PNC.
27:14
Speaker 2: If we have etouffee on, it's going to be a
27:16
Speaker 2: busy day. So shrimp creoles a little bit. You know,
27:20
Speaker 2: not everybody feels the same way about shrimp. It seems
27:23
Speaker 2: like the crawfish go over just a little bit better.
27:27
Speaker 2: And maybe it's because of the recipe. And then Like
27:30
Speaker 2: we'll do a gator sauce pecan. There's some people that
27:32
Speaker 2: really love gator, and there's people that love gator. So
27:35
Speaker 2: that's one of those dishes I think that some of
27:39
Speaker 2: the sports that have a lot of Louisianans in them
27:42
Speaker 2: will come and flock to that. But some of the
27:43
Speaker 2: sports that have a lot of international kids or less
27:46
Speaker 2: adventurous kids or, you know, Midwestern kids perhaps, they kind
27:51
Speaker 2: of shy away from the gator.
27:53
Speaker 6: Hashtag munchies. Best way to cook soft-shell crab other than frying?
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Speaker 2: Gosh, that's the only way I know how to do it, brother.
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Speaker 6: That might be one way for that one.
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Speaker 2: I think that's the best way. I do like to
28:06
Speaker 2: pan-ay it. Just put it in a screaming hot pan
28:08
Speaker 2: and dust it with a little flour and pan-ay it
28:11
Speaker 2: so that you're not completely battering it. You're not deep-frying
28:15
Speaker 2: it so it's not picking up all the oil. You're
28:19
Speaker 2: just screaming hot pan and sautéing it.
28:21
Speaker 6: Do you do some just fried food days, like fried chicken.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
28:30
Speaker 6: Absolutely. These are just like mental wellness days, huh?
28:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. It's a little give is what it is.
28:36
Speaker 2: You know, we have to build trust, build relationships. And
28:38
Speaker 2: so we give a little. And so Monday nights is
28:41
Speaker 2: our deep fried day. And then Wednesday lunch, we do
28:44
Speaker 2: a deep fried day. And they're positioned with purpose because
28:47
Speaker 2: Monday is kind of an in-between day for most sports.
28:51
Speaker 2: And it's also one of our busiest days. So we
28:53
Speaker 2: capture most of our athletes on Monday night when they're
28:55
Speaker 2: not in direct competition. They're not, you know, they're not,
29:00
Speaker 2: you know, directly transitioning to a, to a competition. And
29:03
Speaker 2: so we, um, usually do it on, on Monday nights.
29:06
Speaker 2: And if it's anything from fried trout and speckled trout and,
29:10
Speaker 2: and deep fried chicken to, you know, catfish and stuff
29:15
Speaker 2: like that, but we, we definitely do it. Um, we
29:17
Speaker 2: just do it in moderation.
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Speaker 6: I hadn't done a fish fry in so long. I know.
29:21
Speaker 3: I love that. Yeah. Catfish. Uh, chef, uh, They want
29:26
Speaker 3: to know if you ever wear the really tall chef
29:28
Speaker 3: hat in the kitchen.
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Speaker 2: I used to. As a matter of fact, LSU is
29:32
Speaker 2: the first place that I have not worn a tall
29:34
Speaker 2: chef hat. Even at the stadiums, when I was working
29:36
Speaker 2: at the stadiums, I wore a tall chef hat. And
29:39
Speaker 2: it's one of those things, you know, like when somebody
29:41
Speaker 2: walks into the kitchen, they need to know who's in charge.
29:44
Speaker 2: And the chef hat automatically identifies that. You know, if
29:46
Speaker 2: you can see this hat, you kind of, because there's
29:49
Speaker 2: a lot of white jackets in a professional kitchen. And
29:52
Speaker 2: so here we do it a little bit more discreetly.
29:57
Speaker 2: I guess you'd say where we wear baseball caps and
30:00
Speaker 2: kind of sport-oriented hats, and we delineate the different alignments
30:08
Speaker 2: of the hierarchy, if you will, with the different colored
30:11
Speaker 2: chef jackets. So a white jacket means a chef in charge,
30:14
Speaker 2: a green jacket means a supervisor or hourly chef, and
30:17
Speaker 2: then a purple or gray jacket means that they're a
30:20
Speaker 2: cooking chef or an hourly chef or whatever.
30:24
Speaker 6: Have you ever had a chef that works for you?
30:26
Speaker 6: Have you ever had them sidelined due to injury on
30:28
Speaker 6: the job?
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Speaker 2: Multiple times. Yeah. And I don't know if we can
30:33
Speaker 2: talk about some of them on the radio, honestly. I mean,
30:36
Speaker 2: I was sidelined one time at a restaurant here in
30:39
Speaker 2: Baton Rouge. Somebody dropped a stockpot and it hit the
30:42
Speaker 2: floor and bounced on me. And this is why you
30:45
Speaker 2: wear loose fitting clothes because that stockpot full of hot water,
30:48
Speaker 2: you know, from the waist down covered me and um,
30:52
Speaker 2: before I knew what was going on, I was standing,
30:54
Speaker 2: you know, in my underwear on the hotline with a
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Speaker 2: couple of, with a couple of aprons wrapped around me because, um, yeah,
31:02
Speaker 2: I had to get, I had to get out of
31:03
Speaker 2: those pants in a hurry. And, um, that's also a
31:06
Speaker 2: good reason why chefs need to wear leather top shoes
31:09
Speaker 2: instead of soft, soft top shoes, which are comfortable, but
31:13
Speaker 2: if a nice falls on them or hot liquid falls
31:15
Speaker 2: on them, it goes straight through. So That's why we
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Speaker 2: suggest people wear loose-fitting clothes so you can get out
31:20
Speaker 2: of them quickly and it doesn't go directly to your skin,
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Speaker 2: and leather shoes so that it protects your feet from
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Speaker 2: falling or burning objects.
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Speaker 3: No Smediums in the kitchen.
31:31
Speaker 2: No jeggings either.
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Speaker 3: All right, there he is, Chef Michael Johnson. Good enough
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Speaker 3: to join us every single week to answer your munchie questions. Chef,
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Speaker 3: we appreciate the time.
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Speaker 6: As always, brother.
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Speaker 2: Take care, guys.
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Speaker 3: Raising Cane Studio. I don't know if you've seen this story,
34:03
Speaker 3: but it feels very OTB. San Diego State football team
34:07
Speaker 3: is dealing with mumps outbreak.
34:09
Speaker 6: Really?
34:10
Speaker 3: Apparently, they're trying to get ready for their Pac-12 opener
34:13
Speaker 3: against Texas State. Yes, both those teams are now in
34:15
Speaker 3: the Pac-12. And they have 14 cases on their football team.
34:29
Speaker 8: Does it say, like, if they traveled somewhere? Is there
34:32
Speaker 8: a patient zero?
34:34
Speaker 6: I know.
34:35
Speaker 3: It's what I'm trying to read right now because it
34:37
Speaker 3: says it started, obviously, on the football team and hasn't
34:43
Speaker 3: gone to other sports, which is what their worry was.
34:46
Speaker 5: They've got 14 cases.
34:47
Speaker 8: On the football team.
34:49
Speaker 6: What is mumps? I don't even know. It's a contagious
34:51
Speaker 6: viral infection that causes painful swelling of the salivary glands,
34:54
Speaker 6: particularly the Glands located between the ear and the jaw.
34:58
Speaker 6: So there's actually a very funny episode. This is the
35:00
Speaker 6: second day in a row I've brought this show up.
35:01
Speaker 6: There's a very funny episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine where the
35:04
Speaker 6: two main characters get mumps and they have to quarantine together.
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Speaker 8: Wait, I remember.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 6: And they get mad at each other and they poke
35:11
Speaker 6: each other's mumps. And apparently it's very painful. The gland
35:16
Speaker 6: gets swollen right there. Painful swollen cheeks and jaw. Trouble chewing.
35:22
Speaker 2: Chewing.
35:22
Speaker 6: Swallowing talking fever and headache muscle aches fatigue loss of
35:26
Speaker 6: appetite that doesn't sound like a good way to get
35:29
Speaker 6: ready for a football game.
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Speaker 4: They hadn't been anywhere crazy because i was wondering if
35:37
Speaker 4: they had like you know traveled to maybe hawaii or
35:40
Speaker 4: something because they're in that area but they hadn't.
35:44
Speaker 3: Uh it says now the university is offering students a
35:47
Speaker 3: free mmr booster.
35:50
Speaker 6: So Mumps usually goes away on its own.
35:52
Speaker 8: This feels like it's like a big pharma. They made
35:55
Speaker 8: the mumps outbreak happen in San Diego.
35:57
Speaker 6: This is a Wuhan sitch.
35:58
Speaker 8: Yeah, and they were like, y'all, we got to give
36:00
Speaker 8: y'all these injections.
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Speaker 6: Where's Fauci?
36:05
Speaker 8: Pleading the fist somewhere.
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Speaker 6: He's got these.
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Speaker 8: Got him.
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Speaker 6: Got him.
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Speaker 2: Bang.
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Speaker 6: He's got that canister of mumps.
36:16
Speaker 3: It says that.
36:17
Speaker 6: He's just throwing the mumps. He's just tossing the mumps.
36:20
Speaker 6: Take the mumps.
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Speaker 8: That's very Halloween. He's like in a lab. Mumps.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to get them.
36:27
Speaker 8: I'm going to get San Diego.
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Speaker 6: State University football. That's how you hit the headlines right there.
36:33
Speaker 6: He knows nothing about football. He's like, San Diego, big city.
36:35
Speaker 6: I'm sure they like this university. I'm sure this is
36:38
Speaker 6: going to be a big deal. This will be a
36:39
Speaker 6: big deal.
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Speaker 4: This will catch everybody's attention.
36:42
Speaker 6: Oh, big mumps out there just trying to sell vaccines.
36:46
Speaker 8: Oh, big mumps.
36:47
Speaker 6: Oh, big mumps.
36:49
Speaker 3: It also says that their coach, Sean Lewis, can't say
36:52
Speaker 3: which players actually have the mumps because of federal law.
36:59
Speaker 5: Wow.
36:59
Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 8: Okay.
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Speaker 6: According to the episode of Brooklyn at Night, you could tell.
37:04
Speaker 6: You'll be able to tell just by looking at them.
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Speaker 4: You could just look and be like, I think that
37:07
Speaker 4: guy's got it.
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Speaker 6: That guy's got it. Chin strap won't fit.
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Speaker 4: So, wait, are they playing or not?
37:19
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, you can't play if 14
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Speaker 3: players have mumps. If it's contagious.
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Speaker 6: They don't have 11 more?
37:28
Speaker 4: Well, the good news is, Matt, if you're looking for
37:30
Speaker 4: a 930 central kickoff.
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Speaker 5: They have three dozen people, it said on their injury report.
37:36
Speaker 6: Let's take the under.
37:37
Speaker 8: Who are they playing?
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Speaker 5: Texas State.
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Speaker 8: He's actually pretty good. You did say that. The Pac-12 opener,
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Speaker 8: Texas State.
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Speaker 6: I bet that line's down right now.
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Speaker 8: San Marcos, famously close to the Pacific.
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Speaker 6: Obviously.
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Speaker 8: So 14 people on that team didn't have that vaccine.
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Speaker 3: Right. Yep.
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Speaker 6: Spread them.
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Speaker 3: Texas State.
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Speaker 6: 14 and a half. I'm betting against the mumps.
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Speaker 3: 14 and a half?
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Speaker 8: I don't know. I'm saying because it's spread to 14 people.
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Speaker 6: Let's see.
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Speaker 8: That joke had too many layers to it.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Texas State, seven and a half point favorite.
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Speaker 8: Hammering it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's not that big of a spread for.
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Speaker 5: Well, the spread's actually pretty big.
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Speaker 3: It's 14 people.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that one worked better than mine. You're welcome for
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Speaker 8: setting you up on that.
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Speaker 5: Appreciate you putting it on the tee for me.
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Speaker 6: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Texas State. Go Aztecs. Matt, can you tell me which.
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Speaker 5: Hall of Fame running back played for San Diego State?
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Speaker 6: Yep, sure can.
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Speaker 5: He's from Louisiana.
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Speaker 6: Marshall Falk. Yep. Look at you, man. Boom.
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Speaker 4: Would you have got it without.
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Speaker 6: The– I was going to say Marshall Falk, no matter what.
39:10
Speaker 6: I actually didn't know.
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Speaker 3: Why Marshall Falk, though? You just didn't know where he went,
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Speaker 3: and you're like, that's what.
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Speaker 6: Hall of Fame running back? That's the first Hall of
39:18
Speaker 6: Fame running back that popped in my mind.
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Speaker 3: Look at there.
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Speaker 6: Shout out.
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Speaker 3: Shout out to Southern. Who now is the head coach
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Speaker 3: at Southern? Are they hydrated?
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Speaker 6: They're not. Whoa.
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Speaker 8: You got to get them hydrated.
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Speaker 6: You got to get them.
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Speaker 1: Them.
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Speaker 6: They have been in the past differently. These universities have
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Speaker 6: some turnover now. They got changeover, especially like.
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Speaker 3: In the nutrition area, trainer area.
39:41
Speaker 6: Of course, the coaches, but like nutritionists, man, they move
39:45
Speaker 6: around a lot. It's hard to keep up with. It's
39:48
Speaker 6: great for actually business because like it, If you're on
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Speaker 6: one team, then they go to different teams and they
39:52
Speaker 6: bring it. But sometimes you do lose certain colleges.
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Speaker 3: All right. Let's go ahead and step away. When we
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Speaker 3: Hashtag ask the bench. How much do you think you
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Speaker 3: can bench press right now? And what's the max you've
43:43
Speaker 3: done before? The max I've done before.
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Speaker 8: Are we talking about reps or are you talking about
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Speaker 8: like a max?
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Speaker 3: One rep max. 435 I think is the most I've
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Speaker 3: ever done. Like one rep max.
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Speaker 5: Probably 315 right now if I'm being honest.
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Speaker 6: I think 315 was the most I ever did. I
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Speaker 6: was never a big bench press guy.
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Speaker 5: What's that benching?
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Speaker 6: I was never real strong at the bench press.
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Speaker 4: You got long arms too and that'll hurt you.
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Speaker 6: I didn't want to get my pecs too big because
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Speaker 6: I was a thrower. I was more explosive. I could
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Speaker 6: power clean more than I could bench usually. I like
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Speaker 6: the quick twitch.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, what about right now?
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Speaker 6: 225?
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Speaker 3: I could probably 275, 285.
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Speaker 6: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: You've been working out.
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Speaker 6: I've been doing push-ups at least. I don't know, 50
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Speaker 6: at least a day.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 8: I'm only repping.
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Speaker 3: Are you doing bar or dumbbell bench?
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Speaker 8: Bar with 25s. But that's reps. I don't know. Maybe 115.
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Speaker 3: I think you can get 135.
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Speaker 5: I don't think so. I think you can.
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Speaker 3: I got faith in you.
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Speaker 8: Maybe if I tried. With the right music?
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Speaker 6: Yeah. The right environment.
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Speaker 8: Smelling salts?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 6: People yelling at you?
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Speaker 3: Yes, you can do it.
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Speaker 5: People slapping you. That's what they do when you max.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, my upper body's not all that.
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Speaker 6: Say, what's your bitch? What's your bitch? Max don't know.
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Speaker 4: I mean, normally when I'm at the gym, I do
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Speaker 4: three reps of 185, but I mean, I don't know
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Speaker 4: the max.
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Speaker 6: So, I mean, I don't know. People still do one
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Speaker 6: rep maxes. What would that be?
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Speaker 8: I would like to.
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Speaker 4: 230, I guess, one rep?
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Speaker 3: I don't know. What is that?
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Speaker 5: I think we've turned soft and people have gotten away
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Speaker 5: from it.
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Speaker 6: Let's do the six rep max.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I haven't done a one rep max since
45:21
Speaker 4: literally high school.
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Speaker 6: I mean, how do you build a team if you
45:23
Speaker 6: don't do one rep maxes and get everybody around you
45:25
Speaker 6: cursing and yelling at you?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I bet you Coach Savage does them.
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Speaker 3: Just from that conversation.
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Speaker 4: I mean, the one rep max makes sense. It's literally
45:33
Speaker 4: your max.
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Speaker 3: We were a big dumbbell bench team in San Diego.
45:38
Speaker 5: Huge dumbbell bench team.
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Speaker 3: Shoulder mobility.
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Speaker 6: I don't think I bench pressed with a bar after
45:46
Speaker 6: college once until a couple years ago. I started doing
45:49
Speaker 6: it again every now and then.
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Speaker 6: All the California ones.
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Speaker 4: Flew into Cleveland and it sucked. I guess I'll go there.
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Speaker 5: I've been to Cleveland plenty. I would say Oakland.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 6: I mean, why would you visit there, though? I guess
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Speaker 6: the flavor.
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Speaker 8: I haven't really been many places.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: Most of those California cities stink. There's poop on the ground.
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Speaker 8: I went to Philadelphia once, and it was whatever.
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Speaker 6: It was all right.
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Speaker 8: The Bell was kind of cool, I guess.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: At least not bad.
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Speaker 8: Budokan's a good place to be.
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Speaker 3: Favorite pop artist or band? Real quick.
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Speaker 8: Harry Styles.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Taylor, hurry.
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