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Hour Three | OTB Mailbag, Munchies & Jay Johnson Joins · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: The Bench. We have Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where.
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  Speaker 1: The plays get broken down and science gets denied The Bench.
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  Speaker 1: Our two of Off the Bench Live from the Raising
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  Speaker 1: Kine studio.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in our number three about TB reminder,
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  Speaker 3: little hashtag go to your mail bag. In this segment,
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  Speaker 3: while we're waiting on some of those questions to come in,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna catch up on the chat here. Flenda wants
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  Speaker 3: them to work out in the afternoon so they have
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  Speaker 3: to buy more of my high.
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  Speaker 4: There all the my huh, that's hot in the morning too,
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  Speaker 4: Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 3: I was waiting on the sales pitch.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah is good anytime any temperature, even more so when
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  Speaker 4: it's cold. That's a little chilling baton rooster today, how
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  Speaker 4: about that?
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  Speaker 3: So I had like a shorts and short sleep shirt,
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  Speaker 3: which I never do. I was like, I'm tired of
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  Speaker 3: being hot, and I go outside and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I at least gotta grab a.
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  Speaker 2: Hoodie something to see.
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  Speaker 4: I always check my watch, got the temperatures right there,
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  Speaker 4: and I look down expecting to see like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: sixty eight degrees right now, high eighty four nope, said
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  Speaker 4: fifty four.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's go ahead and get to some oh
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  Speaker 3: TB mail bag.
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  Speaker 5: I help this special delivery for the bench and look
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  Speaker 5: it is marked most urgent.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be writing to you the internet. What the is
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  Speaker 2: the internet?
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  Speaker 3: Hashtag oh to be mailbag? If the early bird gets
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  Speaker 3: the worm? Why do good things come to those who wait?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Good one. Worm's not always good. Wire's not always good.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 4: It just because it's a worm doesn't mean it's a
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  Speaker 4: good worms.
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  Speaker 8: True.
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  Speaker 3: It could just be a matter of survible because you
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  Speaker 3: haven't eaten, right, not good yep.
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  Speaker 7: I also think they mean two different things.
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  Speaker 6: The early bird gets the worm, like you take the initiative, right,
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  Speaker 6: mm hmm.
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  Speaker 7: Good things come to those who wait. Just be patient.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, take the initiative. Yeah, also be patient. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: No, but that's a great question.
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  Speaker 2: Do less.
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  Speaker 3: Hash I'd never thought about that. That's a greatreat question
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  Speaker 3: and blows the mind. Hashtag go to be mail bag?
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  Speaker 3: Are we there yet? No?
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  Speaker 2: No, we're not there? Cons never any self improvement?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, hashtag go to be mail bag. Did Matt put
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  Speaker 3: on his flashers this morning?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 3: But I bet he did last night.
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  Speaker 7: You probably did.
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  Speaker 2: Wherever he was, wherever he was going. He had a
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  Speaker 2: morning dawn.
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  Speaker 4: I don't feel like we get light light light rains
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  Speaker 4: or light thunderstorms anymore. Like thunderstorms used to be more prevalent,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a decade or two ago. Remember like as
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  Speaker 4: a child, there's thunderstorms all every summer, but like it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't sheets of rain as well, Like you'd get a
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  Speaker 4: moderate rain with a thunderstorm. Well, we got a thunderstorm today.
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  Speaker 4: Like me and my wife are fired up. We love
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  Speaker 4: sleeping in a thunder something.
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  Speaker 7: It's the best.
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  Speaker 4: It's the best. But like, does it gotta come down
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  Speaker 4: that hard? You know, it's all or nothing right now
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  Speaker 4: with the weather.
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  Speaker 9: Well that's the thing around here, Like it won't rain
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  Speaker 9: for a month and a half, then it'll pour every
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  Speaker 9: day for like six days.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, how does it go with last night?
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  Speaker 2: Then we get in the end, he gets.
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  Speaker 4: Fire ants coming out. I'll be walking around my yard
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  Speaker 4: spreading that firewood poison, fire ant poison whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I say, why are you poisoning your firewood?
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  Speaker 8: Shouldn't do that. Don't do that CAUs you're wood wet. Anyways,
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  Speaker 8: I don't like that at all. I was talking about
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  Speaker 8: building a fire us my gosh. Hashtag go to the mailbag.
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  Speaker 8: My family is planning a vacation this summer. Any Rex
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  Speaker 8: drivable from the north Shore nothing too pricey?
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  Speaker 6: Wait oh anyway, Okay, I'm gonna just go with what
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  Speaker 6: I know. San Antonio really is a great family spot.
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  Speaker 6: That's driving oh from the north Shore. I don't actually know,
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  Speaker 6: never mind.
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  Speaker 9: Or something.
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  Speaker 3: If you're yeah, yes, I love all. I love the
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  Speaker 3: paintandle I love the beaches there. It's always fine if
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to do something. Flake Martin a little bit different.
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  Speaker 3: I mean Biloxi, fair Hope. Fair Hope's going.
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  Speaker 2: Hotel. Yeah, and it's a it's a really nice family
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  Speaker 2: Actually that might be a good answer.
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  Speaker 3: I would say the Grand Hotel and fair Hope. That's
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  Speaker 3: a good spot. It's a little bit closer than Pensacola
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  Speaker 3: and some of the other spots. It's a little bit
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  Speaker 3: closer in gold Shore. So if you don't want to
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  Speaker 3: do that, which that's always a great time, let's go
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  Speaker 3: to the Grand Hotel Fairhoe.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna reopen blue bye you here at some point
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  Speaker 2: where you have them uh.
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  Speaker 3: Hashtag OTB mail bag Why are they called a part
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  Speaker 3: mints when they're connected in the same building? And why
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  Speaker 3: is it called a building when it's already built because
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  Speaker 3: a part?
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  Speaker 7: What are what these questions apart?
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  Speaker 2: Apart? They are apart?
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  Speaker 9: I got it, because a compartment is one, right, but
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  Speaker 9: they're separated by walls, different rooms, so they're apart from
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  Speaker 9: each other in the one compartment.
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  Speaker 2: They're apartments, all right.
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  Speaker 4: I like it a one building, different dwellings that are
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  Speaker 4: apart from each other, separated by a wall, sometimes a
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  Speaker 4: thin wall, mostly than you gotta get your rois a builder?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: What was the second part of that question? Why is
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  Speaker 2: it called buildings with they already built?
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  Speaker 3: They're already built.
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  Speaker 2: It should be built ins.
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  Speaker 7: Why is the riddler in our chat?
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  Speaker 9: Right?
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  Speaker 7: Now?
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  Speaker 4: That's a Again, it's too early to like think too deep?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I can't. I got nothing for you.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just say just switch the D with a T.
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  Speaker 2: Then it's buildings.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: While they're asking hashtag go to me mailbag. Do you
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  Speaker 3: only stay in hotels or will you stay in a motel?
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  Speaker 7: I will never in my life.
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  Speaker 2: I got a door on the outside, no situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a motel.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm not doing it.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean you would consider, like not all motels
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  Speaker 4: have to have the door on the outside, right.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that's what. Yeah, I mean maybe it's not.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it just like a long two story situation.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes there would be a hallway, Okay, motel would be
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  Speaker 4: door on the outside.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 7: That one thing about me, I'll pay for comfort.
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  Speaker 2: It's true. M last time I did a motel.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think I've ever stayed in a hotel.
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  Speaker 4: I think if I think I was driving from Batonies
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  Speaker 4: to Green Bay at some point, probably with my dog.
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  Speaker 3: I remember growing up, like going to like any All
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  Speaker 3: Star Baseball tournament, like the team would in the hotel.
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  Speaker 2: I remember being like maybe in the middle of nowhere Illinois.
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  Speaker 4: Illinois is a real long state from top to bottom
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  Speaker 4: in there a while, and like I was falling asleep.
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  Speaker 4: It was like three in the morning. I was like
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  Speaker 4: falling asleep. I was like, I gotta find so I can't.
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  Speaker 4: I is not safe in my first thing I found
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  Speaker 4: was a motel.
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  Speaker 2: That's such a good point.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 9: The MSA and the check gos Disney calls those resorts
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  Speaker 9: like all Star resort just motels what it is.
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  Speaker 3: There's a ludicrous song in there. But I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 3: get in trouble here for they keep one seeing it,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna move on.
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  Speaker 2: It'll turn a mow into a motel.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Hashtag OTB mailbag. Did Matt swap his winter
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  Speaker 3: flashers for spring flashers yet?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what that means your lights?
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  Speaker 7: I think everybody wants to know how you do you
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  Speaker 7: replace your flasher?
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  Speaker 2: Fluid hasher flight. I'm here for a check up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what do you need? Make sure my flashers are working?
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  Speaker 2: Like you actually use these? I mean you're the one,
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  Speaker 2: You're the one that's the safest.
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  Speaker 3: This is more of a comment than a question. Bloxi
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  Speaker 3: is basically Vegas for LP folks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, dang it is.
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  Speaker 3: Hot Springs, Arkansas was another one I was gonna throw
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  Speaker 3: out there too. That's a little bit of a drive
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  Speaker 3: from the north Shore.
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  Speaker 2: We did Hot Springs a couple of two years ago,
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  Speaker 2: had a great time.
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  Speaker 3: Let's it going. How far is that drive? Do you remember?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: It was six and six. I know I was about
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  Speaker 2: to say six or seven.
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  Speaker 3: Mm?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah the six seven done? Is it over? I hope, sir?
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  Speaker 2: This is a five thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's amazing how many times I use those two numbers concurrently,
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  Speaker 4: like it's it's incredible, it's used so much.
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  Speaker 3: Probably why I became a thing.
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  Speaker 2: Any place you go it is, it is what you
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  Speaker 2: make it.
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  Speaker 4: You can have a good time anywhere with the right people,
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  Speaker 4: right attitude, right mindset.
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  Speaker 3: The motel steven says, I used to draft to Chicago
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  Speaker 3: a lot, had a brother that lived there. I remember
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  Speaker 3: taking my cousin with me once and she got excited
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  Speaker 3: when we got to Illinois state line, thinking we were
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  Speaker 3: almost there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not it's a it's deep. It's a long boy,
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  Speaker 2: it's a long play.
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  Speaker 4: Always would time my drive to where whether I was
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  Speaker 4: driving from Green Bay to Batteries or Batteries to green Bay,
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  Speaker 4: a time to drive up to where I hit Chicago
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  Speaker 4: in the middle of the night. The Chicago traffic was
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  Speaker 4: a bear and get.
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  Speaker 3: It not for long think I moved to Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: It's true, but it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was it was rough, so usually by when I
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  Speaker 4: was going through Illinois, it was dark, middle of the night,
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  Speaker 4: so it was it was a long boy.
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  Speaker 3: Hashtag go to be mail bag. What's the first and
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  Speaker 3: last eight digits of your debit card?
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  Speaker 2: You don't want it. You don't want it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I ain't got no money. You're not gonna You're not.
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  Speaker 2: There's a zero in there.
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  Speaker 7: I just mike Houn's actually in the negatives right now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: See I just pulled out. I just pulled out a
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  Speaker 9: lot of money to spend it again, you don't want it.
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  Speaker 2: How is the car search going up? The people? Sure
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  Speaker 2: they're wondering.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, end of an era, guys, Big Red's gone.
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  Speaker 9: It's gone out the driveway yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big deal. It's to say good bye to
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  Speaker 2: be That.
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  Speaker 9: Truck has been part of my life pretty much more
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  Speaker 9: than any person I know.
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  Speaker 2: Gone out the door. I really thought it was gonna
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  Speaker 2: be Razors one day, and uh dude, I would have
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  Speaker 2: loved it.
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  Speaker 9: And I always told Victoria, I'm gonna drive this thing
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  Speaker 9: til the wheels fall off, and almost did.
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  Speaker 2: I almost did. So.
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  Speaker 9: Uh next week or so, we'll have the We got
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  Speaker 9: to get the truck, uh like delivered?
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  Speaker 2: So how you driving around right now?
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  Speaker 9: I'm just taking Victoria works from home, so like I could
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  Speaker 9: use her car for like a week.
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  Speaker 2: Not a not a big deal. No, I know, man,
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  Speaker 2: it's get rid of it.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody asked this earlier and I can't find it, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to give you an update. They're asking about
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  Speaker 3: Team Italy and where their players are actually from.
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  Speaker 7: They're all from America.
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  Speaker 3: Players born in the USA, twenty four of them. Players
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  Speaker 3: born in Italy, three Venezuela, two Canada.
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  Speaker 2: One Ah, pray you go.
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  Speaker 3: So Team Italy twenty four players born.
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  Speaker 2: They're not saying that spaghetti that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like it was solid espress.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I can't hide because that acts I get it. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: either been to Rome seeing the coliseum.
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  Speaker 3: I've been to Rome, Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: Counts sorry, been to Paris World traveler here, I've.
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  Speaker 7: Seen the Eiffel Tower in Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that I've done. I've never been.
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  Speaker 9: I've never been to Paris and run. I gotta catch
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  Speaker 9: up to y'all. I've the Facus side of the talents it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, find you gotta get out, you gotta see
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  Speaker 2: the world. Did some say that's the original?
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  Speaker 7: I don't even have a passport.
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  Speaker 3: You should give them.
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  Speaker 7: You should get one inspired No, I've never had one.
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  Speaker 3: Expire six years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't they good for like eight years? Or good ten years?
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  Speaker 3: You know how I got one because we played in London.
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  Speaker 2: I should just get it one.
• 14:25
  Speaker 6: Going to Mexico, we used to just have to be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: we're citizens, and then you passed we're from here, bra right.
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  Speaker 6: They would literally ask you, are you an American citizen
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  Speaker 6: and we'd be like, yes, sir, and.
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  Speaker 7: They would let us go.
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  Speaker 2: Watch.
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  Speaker 7: Oh they wouldn't let me back.
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  Speaker 3: That's the let me back.
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  Speaker 7: Make sure has never gone to passport.
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  Speaker 2: I think you'll just get a passport.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not going out the country.
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  Speaker 9: Anytime I got from our honeymoon, we went to a
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  Speaker 9: room and I'm I love having it because I'm like,
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  Speaker 9: I go anywhere in the next ten years. I'm already said,
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  Speaker 9: well like seven now.
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  Speaker 3: But the train ride from Venice to Rome was amazing,
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  Speaker 3: so beautiful. Easy says, can't had money, Easy say something
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  Speaker 3: for the rest of us, Bud.
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  Speaker 2: No, he's talking to Venice, Louisiana. It's a Georgia. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we took a train. We took a train. Train is
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  Speaker 2: from uh where was it? We took like a three
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  Speaker 2: hour train ride to Roam is awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the train rides that even in the northeast
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  Speaker 3: portion of our country, Like you can take a train
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  Speaker 3: up everywhere. It's such a great way to Like.
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  Speaker 4: The entire time I was on a train around, I
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  Speaker 4: just kept seeing Maximus Decimus Meridius walk into his house
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  Speaker 4: with his hand in the bushes are not.
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  Speaker 3: Recreated that I pretty much did. I think Maximus went
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  Speaker 3: to see you. All right, we'll take a break when
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  Speaker 3: we come back. We'll have some munchies with chef Michael
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  Speaker 2: What's sunshine?
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  Speaker 9: Who?
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  Speaker 2: This sadso's crazy? All rights work?
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  Speaker 3: That's cool.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in ot B. It is time
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  Speaker 3: Chef, what's going on? Brother? How are we doing?
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  Speaker 5: I'm good? Happy anniversary?
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  Speaker 2: Happy?
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  Speaker 5: You know, I don't know if I told you this
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  Speaker 5: last week either, but I turned fifty this weekend too.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Let's pick.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Happy by biggest your life.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: It's a big week.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: What are we doing to celebrate that that milestone?
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so, you know, honestly, I'm not big on birthdays,
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: but I did pull a string and got a gotta
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: see the commander's spouse on Saturday night.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: So nice.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: I've been commanders in like, I don't know, fifteen or
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: twenty years, and I met the chef down there the
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: other day. I was in New Orleans and she's incredible,
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: and I'm looking forward to spending the weekend in Orleans
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: this weekend.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Hey, you just made her and now you're calling her
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: a favor.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: That's right, Yeah, that's right.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I love that. Okay, I love this question as well.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Hashtag munchies. How sloppy was Joe to get a sandwich
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: named after him?
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: The best question? You know, he had to be pretty full. Yeah,
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: that's a great question. Yeah, you know, I mean I've
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: I've partaken of many a sloppy Joe and that song
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: has never crossed my mind. Man, And now I feel
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: like I've just been shorting myself, you know, by not
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: thinking deeper about the foods.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: So great question, No, chef, I know you can make
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: any time of like culinary delight. You can go fancy,
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: you can go.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Whatever it is.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Have you ever one of your athty tables? Have you
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: ever served a sloppy jew?
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, uh, I think we actually did at some point.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: I think, like during COVID we did. We were we
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: were kind of focusing on comfort foods, and I believe
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: it was like a special request, like somebody specifically requested it,
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: and if if, if that's the case, we will. But
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: I don't. I don't typically go out of my way
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: to serve fluppyjos, you know, like, uh, do you guys
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: remember the Adam Sandler song lunch Lady? You know, like
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: every time I see a sloppy Joe, that song comes
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: into my head and I have a little Harry warp
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: pop out of my face.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: I love it. What a What a great reference there,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: hashtag munchies. I'm only Daniel Fast for lent, which basically
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: means that I am a vegan without caffeine. Any good
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: vegan recipes that you enjoy?
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Daniel Fast every year between between Thanksgiving and Christmas and
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: being a chef going on the Daniel Fast between in
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: that specific time frame is extraordinarily difficult. So kudos to
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: whoever that person is. That's uh, it's taking that task on,
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: you know. For me, the Daniel Fast meant lots of
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: nuts and a variety of nuts because if you eat
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: too many almonds, like you can actually do yourself, uh,
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: it can actually have a bad impact on your on
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: your body. So variety is important, lots of different colors
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: for me. Also when it says fruits and vegetables, you know,
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: like I take that to the extraordinary. I eat a
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: lot of fruit and vegetables. You know, there's there was
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: no protein involved in it, and I drank fruit juice
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: as well. It's it's been a few months since I
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: did this, but I'm getting kind of PTSD from it
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: because I found out that I was diabetic coming off
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: the off the back end of it, because I went
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: from fasting to going back to my full bore self
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: and it's sent my body into like a panic, you know,
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: like it And so yeah, you got to be careful
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: doing fast, man, because you have to mentally prepare yourself
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: going into it. And you have to physically be careful
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: coming out of it that you don't, you know, like
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: go back to eating too much fat and too much
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: you know. I also was abstaining from alcohol, so that's
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: I only used olive oil off the bottle vocados, you know.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: And I was eating whole foods. I wasn't cooking them
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: too much. I was leading a lot of whole foods
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: because you get more nutrition out of it before it's cooked. Right,
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: So eating fresh avocados, fresh tomatoes, fresh stuff with balsamic
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: vinegar and and and olive oil, you know, nuts, copitas
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: are great, but you need to make sure that you're
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: eating fibrous foods because if you don't.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: So chef you were saying that no so vegan, no alcohol,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: no caffee. You all this is.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Voluntary, right, yeah, right, yeah, And it's looks walking around
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: a kitchen all of food. And actually, you know, my
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: job is to taste foods, right, So I have to
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: you know, I have to push that responsibility off to
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: other people and and and make them force them to
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: taste food. I mean, it's part. I mean, it's it's
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: we taste a lot of food in the day, brothers.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: So yeah, it's it's temptation everywhere, right, So uh yeah,
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of prayer involved in specifically because it's
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: the Daniel Fast. You do it for religious reasons and
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: spiritual reasons, and so yeah, it's it's a challenge, man,
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: It's it's it's you're you're you're suffering, you really are,
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: you know, like you're and it's sometimes people take it
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: to the extraordinary limits. And you have to be careful
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: of denying yourselves things, you know, like if you're not
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: eating enough. I was. I was tracking my calories and
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: tracking my output of of caloric output as well, so
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: that it doesn't say you have to starve yourself. It
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: says you are, you know, denying yourself of these fows
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: to to make yourself healthier. Right, And there is some
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: suffering that's involved in it, but you don't want to
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: put yourself into partiac arrest or or you know, like
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: something crazy diabetic coma, you know, so you have to
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: be careful doing it. And I talk to my doctor
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: about it every year before I do it too. Because
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: the Daniels Fast is twenty one days, right, and so
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: that's that's three weeks of really you know, like you
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: don't get used to it until day ten, which is
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: about halfway through, right, and and there's some fussiness behind it, man.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I kind of like when you were talking
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: earlier about it, do you say that you had a
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: diagnosis that came because of it?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Like that, like it made it clear because of this fast?
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Well, I was eating super healthy, super healthy, super healthy
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: for three weeks, and then when I stopped the fast,
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: you know, like it was at Christmas and I went
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: straight back to you know, eating prime rib and drinking bourbon,
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: and I just you know, my body was in this
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: loll Like I felt like I was in mud, you know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: like I wasn't hospital or anything, but it just I
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: went from having all this energy and feeling great to ooh,
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: you know and draggy. And it was because my blood
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: sugar was was having such ups and downs from it,
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: and you know, I didn't know that I was diabetica
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: stuff to that point. So that that was when I
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: found out. Was when I came out of the past.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Dang, you found it because of it, not yeah.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, not because of it, it was, but yeah, yeah, man,
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Like after that, it's like where do you go?
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: You go to the good question, Yeah, what does food
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: art mean to you?
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: Well, I think that you have different purposes for food, right,
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Like there's sustenance, there's socializing, and then there's art, right
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: and and art I think is you know, it's a gastronomy.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: It's putting science and and food together to make something
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: not just flavorful on the on the plate, with something
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: beautiful on the plate. Is you know, Luisiana is well
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: known for jambalayas and and and gumbos and stuff like that,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: but it's not necessarily artistic. If you go to if
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: you know, there's a there's a handful of restaurants that
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: I've been to that even looking at the plate, You're like,
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: how much did I just pay for that? And the
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: reason for it is is because the amount of labor
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: that goes into bringing the food and the and the
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: dish to that point is extraordinary. You know, like there's
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: hours of labor probably that goes into it from some
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: very high dollar chefs that you know, how to handle
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: the food that way. And so I've seen I've seen
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: that food on TV, you know, but very few restaurants
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: you see that. I mean, even at Commanders you can
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: get both. I think, you know, like you can get
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: some food art, but you can also get some comfort
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: food out of it, So I don't know, I tend
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: to go the other direction.
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: You know.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: Food art to me is also expression so it's you know,
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: artistic chefs that way, they they get their expressionism through
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: what the plate looks like. And then I think, you know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: for other chefs, the art of it is is taking
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: what's inside of you and putting it into your food, right,
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: and it's that's that's almost more thought food, but I
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: think it's still an expression, right, and expressionism is kind
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: of ties into art, so you know, it's interpretive. I think.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: All right, there he is our guy. Chef Michael Johnson,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: executive chef for LSU Athletics, joined us every single week
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: to answer your munchie question. Chef, we appreciate it. Happy birthday,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: happy anniversary, Happy Saint Patrick's Day, and we'll catch you
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: again next week.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Likewise, you guys think here all right, you as well?
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: All right, we will step away when we come back,
• 28:28
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• 28:30
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• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Blocked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven. You're
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: listening to Off the Bench, all right.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Welcome back in OTB here live from the Raisin Kines studio.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Always our pleasure to have our guy Jay Johnson join us,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: of course, head baseball coach for the LSU Fighting Tigers. Coach,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: we appreciate hopping on with us. Hope you're doing well,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: doing great. How are you guys doing fantastic? And like
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I said, glad to have you back on the show.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Obviously getting ready to head to Nashville to start the SEC.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Hard to believe coach already an SEC play.
• 30:40
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm excited hopping on the bus right now, heading
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: over to the airport and get over there practice today
• 30:45
  Speaker 11: and get it going with Vanderbilt, you know, ten weekends,
• 30:50
  Speaker 11: highest level of baseball at least in college baseball, and
• 30:53
  Speaker 11: excited for that challenge.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Coach. Whenever you're going into a situation where okay, the
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: non con is over it's play. And you've got a
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: ton of players on your team that obviously have been
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: through it and been through the fire at the SEC.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: But for the ones that haven't, be it a freshman
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: or be it somebody who came over through the transfer portal,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: is that a hey, before we do this, you know,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: maybe yesterday, the day before, whenever it is, let's have
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: a conversation. Make sure you're locked in because this is
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: about to be a ten week crime.
• 31:22
  Speaker 11: Yeah. I think the conversation was a little bit different
• 31:25
  Speaker 11: for our team the last couple you know, days, and
• 31:29
  Speaker 11: definitely last week of there's some steps like we need
• 31:33
  Speaker 11: to take, you know, to just have our own house
• 31:35
  Speaker 11: in order and understand that in baseball that you know,
• 31:40
  Speaker 11: there is some uncomfortable moments in a game, there can
• 31:45
  Speaker 11: be some frustration. If you let those things creep in
• 31:48
  Speaker 11: in the middle of trying to execute a game that's,
• 31:51
  Speaker 11: in my opinion, harder than any other, you have no
• 31:54
  Speaker 11: chance of success. And we lived in that a little
• 31:58
  Speaker 11: longer than we probably needed to. And now it's our
• 32:02
  Speaker 11: task to take that experience and turn it into you know,
• 32:07
  Speaker 11: I guess what I would call resilience and toughness. Learning
• 32:11
  Speaker 11: you know where we need to be better and then
• 32:13
  Speaker 11: applying that and you know, it's only been you know,
• 32:16
  Speaker 11: one opportunity since then.
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: But I thought our team did a good job of that.
• 32:20
  Speaker 10: On Tuesday night, we found.
• 32:22
  Speaker 11: Ourselves in a very similar position, but the response to
• 32:25
  Speaker 11: that was much higher level than what it had been
• 32:28
  Speaker 11: to this point in the season.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: So you've certainly had probably more coaching moments than you
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: wanted to up to this point of the season. But
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: what what is a couple of things that you've specifically
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: worked on with the team? Yeah, I know a lot
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: of the things you do is you know, you're it's
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: the psychology of the player. You got to learn how
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: to fight through adversity.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: But how do you do that?
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Like what what is the what is has a team
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: come together? Like how did they kind of flip a switch?
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: And how do you need what? What do you need
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: from them going into sec play?
• 32:59
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it's showing up, you know, mindful and
• 33:02
  Speaker 11: then tinful for what's required. And you know, like we
• 33:06
  Speaker 11: were here for six hours before we even played the
• 33:10
  Speaker 11: game the other day, and you could look at that
• 33:13
  Speaker 11: as a player and you've been through that deal where
• 33:15
  Speaker 11: you look at the practice plan and go like, man,
• 33:18
  Speaker 11: this is a lot and then we're going to be
• 33:19
  Speaker 11: here for a four hour game and you can make
• 33:22
  Speaker 11: a decision like you know, the stinks and I'm not
• 33:25
  Speaker 11: going to invest in it and the day's probably not
• 33:28
  Speaker 11: going to go very good. It's like, how do you
• 33:30
  Speaker 11: choose to look at what's ahead of you? And we
• 33:35
  Speaker 11: point blank needed to get better and the only way
• 33:37
  Speaker 11: I know how to do that is to spend time
• 33:39
  Speaker 11: on it.
• 33:39
  Speaker 10: So that's what we did Tuesday.
• 33:41
  Speaker 11: I think they made a good decision on Tuesday to
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: understand what and why we were doing and bring the
• 33:47
  Speaker 11: right frame of mind to that. And then you know,
• 33:50
  Speaker 11: it's one game, but they were rewarded for that, and
• 33:53
  Speaker 11: then there's another lesson of you know, last Friday night,
• 33:56
  Speaker 11: we probably played the best game that we've played all
• 33:59
  Speaker 11: season long, but that doesn't mean you've arrived. So it's
• 34:02
  Speaker 11: a daily decision to do that. So moving into a
• 34:05
  Speaker 11: road series or SEC play, you have to make another
• 34:09
  Speaker 11: decision of what is this about, Like what are we
• 34:12
  Speaker 11: going to do and accomplish this weekend? And if you
• 34:16
  Speaker 11: just kind of casually do it like hey, it's another
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: road trip or just another deal, and don't make a decision.
• 34:22
  Speaker 11: You're gonna get beat if you don't. If you do,
• 34:24
  Speaker 11: you're gonna give yourself the best chance to be successful. So,
• 34:28
  Speaker 11: like you said, it's a lot of psychologies. Some of
• 34:31
  Speaker 11: it's just pure baseball. You know of what we need
• 34:33
  Speaker 11: to do better, and we'll always attack those things. And
• 34:37
  Speaker 11: you get better at both of them, you're gonna play
• 34:39
  Speaker 11: a lot better and win more games.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Guys, nobether LSU had baseball coach Jay Johnson here on
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: OTB a coach. On Tuesday night, you were able to
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: put in a leader on this team in the middle
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: of the game that I know you've been waiting on.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: That's Chris Stanfield. He is you know, comes in as
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: a defensive replacement, gets in that bat on Tuesday. What
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: is mean to have a guy like that back? I
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: mean he feels like he is such a spark for
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: this team he was a year ago. And to slowly
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: work him back into the fold, Yeah.
• 35:09
  Speaker 10: It's a big deal. You know. Somebody said to me
• 35:14
  Speaker 10: when he got hurt and was going to miss some time, like, hey,
• 35:17
  Speaker 10: maybe this could be a good thing for us.
• 35:18
  Speaker 11: Get some other guys in there. I'm like, what are
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: you talking about? Like the guy was leading hitter on
• 35:24
  Speaker 11: the team and SEC play. Last year on a national
• 35:27
  Speaker 11: championship team, he led the SEC in doubles and he's
• 35:30
  Speaker 11: elite defensive outfielder and brings a lot of intangibles to
• 35:34
  Speaker 11: the table. And you know, this team probably needs and
• 35:38
  Speaker 11: needed his presence right more than even last year's team.
• 35:42
  Speaker 11: And he was one of the vital pieces of why
• 35:45
  Speaker 11: we have a championship trophy, a flag and rings, and
• 35:50
  Speaker 11: you know that happened. So I'm certainly happy to have
• 35:53
  Speaker 11: him back in the capacity that we do, and now
• 35:56
  Speaker 11: we just want to build it back to for where
• 35:58
  Speaker 11: he can can impact the game and impact winning, you know,
• 36:01
  Speaker 11: the way he did for us last year. And you
• 36:03
  Speaker 11: know even on opening day this year.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Guys, every team's got to have somebody or multiple people
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: step up when when the adversity strikes, when the backs
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: against the ball a little bit. Certainly Jake Brown has
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: done that in the bad in the lineup, he's bad
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: over four hundred right now, What is he kind of
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: meant to your team so far?
• 36:23
  Speaker 11: Well, he's the best player on the team right now,
• 36:25
  Speaker 11: there's no question about that.
• 36:27
  Speaker 10: And you know, I'm proud of his development here. You know,
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: over three years.
• 36:33
  Speaker 11: You know, he's a good example for the young players.
• 36:36
  Speaker 11: I mean, you know, part time players a freshman, closer
• 36:39
  Speaker 11: to a full time player as a sophomore, and as
• 36:42
  Speaker 11: talented as he is, you might look at it and
• 36:44
  Speaker 11: go like, why didn't he just play him all the time.
• 36:46
  Speaker 11: It's like, well, he was on the national championship team
• 36:49
  Speaker 11: and we had a way to do it that obviously
• 36:51
  Speaker 11: worked and was successful. But instead of what you know,
• 36:54
  Speaker 11: I would call, you know, take your ball and go
• 36:57
  Speaker 11: home or transfer any of that, he just kept working.
• 37:00
  Speaker 10: And because he's so talented and he kept working and.
• 37:03
  Speaker 11: Go back to that mindset piece. Now you're seeing all
• 37:06
  Speaker 11: the rewards of that for him, and he deserves all
• 37:09
  Speaker 11: the credit for that because of his mindset is talent
• 37:12
  Speaker 11: and his work ethic and the good great player for
• 37:16
  Speaker 11: us and a great example for his teammates.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, coach too is a great mustache. But Coach, we
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: talked about LSU baseball like if you go back and
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: you look at the history, and certainly since you've been
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: here as well, it's continued on all the great LSU
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: baseball teams, they always have that guy from Louisiana that
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: has dreamed of playing for the LSU Tigers since he
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: is six years old, since he started swinging a bat,
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: And they're always kind of those guys that are kind
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: of the life of the team you go to. You know,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: your Cade, Beloso's and Travinsky's. I mean, I could give
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: you one hundred names and you know them all obviously,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Like he is that guy. I think this year as well,
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: like somebody that has always wanted to be an LSU Tiger.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: And you mentioned it, there's times where maybe he could
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: have done something else, but playing in that stadium, playing
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: in that environment, putting that uniform on, and you can
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: tell it means something different to him.
• 38:05
  Speaker 11: Oh, there's no doubt about that. And I think, you know,
• 38:08
  Speaker 11: we're probably one of the programs that still has that
• 38:11
  Speaker 11: element to it and that you know, all the changes
• 38:15
  Speaker 11: in college athletics and it's a whole other conversation, but
• 38:19
  Speaker 11: you know, when you talk about him and his pride
• 38:23
  Speaker 11: in that and wanting to make this something that it's
• 38:26
  Speaker 11: always been and that he grew up idolizing and wanting
• 38:30
  Speaker 11: to be a part of, there's a lot of power
• 38:32
  Speaker 11: in that. You know, felt the same way about you know,
• 38:35
  Speaker 11: Kate last year. You know, Kate Anderson. You know, you
• 38:39
  Speaker 11: guys mentioned Kate Blosso, Davin Dugas. That's a very very
• 38:45
  Speaker 11: you know, real thing. You know, William Schmidt was committed
• 38:48
  Speaker 11: to Mississippi State until he wasn't because this is what
• 38:51
  Speaker 11: he always.
• 38:51
  Speaker 10: Wanted to do. And so it's been something that you know,
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: coming out here from.
• 38:56
  Speaker 11: The West, like, I appreciate about those guys and you know,
• 38:59
  Speaker 11: it is a big part of our you know, fabric
• 39:02
  Speaker 11: as a team program and part of our success as
• 39:04
  Speaker 11: it's as it's always been.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: Coach Jake Brown said, yeah, I think you said this
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: yesterday that Zion Theopolis wrote every down on the team
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: a note just telling like positive, positive encouragement and just
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: at the bottom he just said, believe it. That is
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: that's certainly like an incredible type of leadership. But I was,
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: did can you confirm that?
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Did?
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Was there a note written to all the players and
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: what they kind of do for the team.
• 39:31
  Speaker 10: Yeah, well it's massive.
• 39:33
  Speaker 11: You guys have been part of great teams and you know,
• 39:36
  Speaker 11: there's the coach, and you know, I always believe that
• 39:40
  Speaker 11: the coach has to set the course and is is
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: the leader. I would never put that responsibility off on
• 39:45
  Speaker 11: an assistant.
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: Coach or a player.
• 39:46
  Speaker 11: But you guys know the power of pure leadership and
• 39:51
  Speaker 11: when a player a peer steps up and does the
• 39:55
  Speaker 11: right thing, that can really really impact the team.
• 40:01
  Speaker 10: And it was amazing that that's what he.
• 40:04
  Speaker 11: Did, because you know, we started with a meeting on Tuesday,
• 40:08
  Speaker 11: and there was three or four layers to that meeting,
• 40:11
  Speaker 11: and I didn't know that Diane had done that. But
• 40:13
  Speaker 11: the first layer was a reminder of why this team
• 40:17
  Speaker 11: can be successful, you know, and you start hearing him
• 40:21
  Speaker 11: talk about that, like why we can be successful, and
• 40:24
  Speaker 11: it was almost like a collective sigh of relief of like,
• 40:29
  Speaker 11: oh yeah, like we have something we can can build
• 40:32
  Speaker 11: off of here as tough as it's been. Well, I
• 40:34
  Speaker 11: didn't know he had done that, you know, right before that, and.
• 40:38
  Speaker 10: So it was perfect timing. And he's a really good pitcher, and.
• 40:42
  Speaker 11: That's high level maturity. He's got like a thirty five
• 40:46
  Speaker 11: on the ACT, so the intelligence levels there and the
• 40:50
  Speaker 11: care level, you know, and he's I think he's going
• 40:53
  Speaker 11: to be a key part of our team from the mound,
• 40:56
  Speaker 11: just on the pitching contribution. But you know, that's that's
• 40:59
  Speaker 11: very uncommon nowadays, you know, because young players a lot
• 41:02
  Speaker 11: of times they'd rather be liked than respected, you know,
• 41:05
  Speaker 11: and it takes some balls to you know, do something
• 41:08
  Speaker 11: like that.
• 41:08
  Speaker 10: And I'm proud of him for that.
• 41:10
  Speaker 11: And I brought him in the office yesterday to talk
• 41:13
  Speaker 11: to him, and I think he thought he was like
• 41:15
  Speaker 11: in trouble or something like that, and I was just like,
• 41:17
  Speaker 11: I really wanted to validate that because I thought it
• 41:20
  Speaker 11: was awesome, so easy, easy player for everybody to get
• 41:24
  Speaker 11: behind and proud of him, and I think it was
• 41:28
  Speaker 11: it was much needed for some players on our team
• 41:30
  Speaker 11: that he stepped up and did that.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a hell of a comment.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: Belt like, especially this generation, people would be rather liked
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: than Yeah, I expect it exactly, great comment.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm right there with you, and for a young
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: player as well, coach, before we let you go in again,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: we certainly appreciate the time on the way to travel
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: to Nashville to take on Vanderbilt. So just maybe real quick,
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: just kind of a preview of Vanderbilt. I know they're
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: eleven and seven on this season, but it's Vanderbilt. It's
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: going to their place. We all know they have incredibly
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: talented players. Kind of give us maybe a rundown of
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: this team this year.
• 42:01
  Speaker 10: Yeah, plenty of talent.
• 42:03
  Speaker 11: I think they're second in the SEC and home runs.
• 42:07
  Speaker 10: You know, they have a new hitting coach this year
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: that is very.
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: Well thought of, so maybe a little bit better approach
• 42:14
  Speaker 11: at the plate, more physical players. They actually moved the
• 42:18
  Speaker 11: fences in at their stadium, so like they they're a
• 42:23
  Speaker 11: little more you know, I would say power reliance, and
• 42:27
  Speaker 11: they've been been a little bit more of a speed
• 42:30
  Speaker 11: base shrunning, disruption execution type team, which they still try
• 42:34
  Speaker 11: to do some of that, but they're taking a they're
• 42:38
  Speaker 11: taking a swing when they're in the box, maybe a
• 42:41
  Speaker 11: little more susceptible to striking out than in the past,
• 42:46
  Speaker 11: which you know, I think we have some pictures that
• 42:48
  Speaker 11: can take advantage of that part of it. Talented on
• 42:52
  Speaker 11: the mound. You know, they've gone through some some injuries.
• 42:55
  Speaker 11: You know, we just talked about Chris and you know
• 42:59
  Speaker 11: that impacts you team.
• 43:00
  Speaker 10: You know, they have a few guys on the mound.
• 43:02
  Speaker 11: That are out and.
• 43:05
  Speaker 10: You know, so that's part of what they're going through
• 43:07
  Speaker 10: right now.
• 43:08
  Speaker 11: But you know it's Coach Corbyn's probably the best coach
• 43:11
  Speaker 11: in college baseball since Skip and Augie Gurrito, so I'm
• 43:16
  Speaker 11: sure they're going to be ready to play. And we
• 43:18
  Speaker 11: haven't been here since my first year here, so I
• 43:20
  Speaker 11: think the team we're looking forward to to the series
• 43:22
  Speaker 11: and getting going.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely looking forward to watching it as well. Coach.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: Can't thank you enough for your time, save travels, best
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: of luck, and we'll catch up again with you next week.
• 43:31
  Speaker 10: All right, guys, have a great day.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: All right you as well. LSU had baseball coach Jay
• 43:35
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