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Hour Three | 2026 Senior Bowl Wrap-Up: NFL Head Coaching Moves & Final Practice Preview · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: We were talking about that.
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  Speaker 6: Weer three already, it is here, we are here, we are.
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  Speaker 5: We were talking about the Cleveland Browns, a little bit
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  Speaker 5: early mistake by the Lake, big mistake by the Lake.
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  Speaker 5: With our question since they got back into the NFL,
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  Speaker 5: remember they moved to Baltimore, but since they came back
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  Speaker 5: as a franchise in nineteen ninety nine, Chris Palmer was
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  Speaker 5: the head coach for a couple of seasons. He was
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  Speaker 5: in thirty two games, five and twenty seven. Then they
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  Speaker 5: go and hire Butch Davis. In fifty nine games, he
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  Speaker 5: was twenty four and thirty five. Terry Robiski shout out
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  Speaker 5: LSU In five games he was one four As the
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  Speaker 5: interim coach, Romeo Cronell in sixty four games, he was
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  Speaker 5: twenty four and forty. Eric Mangini in thirty two games,
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  Speaker 5: he was ten and twenty two. Pat Shermer in thirty
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  Speaker 5: two games, he was nine and twenty three. Rob Chudzinski
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  Speaker 5: shout out to chud my guy. In sixteen games, he
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  Speaker 5: was four and twelve. Though I don't remember this guy,
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  Speaker 5: Mike's something I don't even trying to pronounce that last name.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty two games, he was ten and twenty two, so
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 5: Hugh Jackson forty games, Matthew In forty games as the
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  Speaker 5: Browns head coach, Hugh Jackson was three thirty six and
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  Speaker 5: one winning percentage of point zero eight eight, three thirty
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  Speaker 5: six and one in forty games, three thirty six and one.
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  Speaker 1: That ain't good. Ain't good at all.
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  Speaker 5: You had Greg Williams, he was the I believe interim
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  Speaker 5: coach in eight games.
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  Speaker 1: Eight games, okay, okay? Greg?
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  Speaker 5: Greg was five and three. Freddy Kitchens takes over. They
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  Speaker 5: don't give the job to Greg Williams. Freddy Kitchens takes
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  Speaker 5: over in sixteen games he was six and ten. Kevin
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  Speaker 5: Stevanski in one hundred and one games, he was forty
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  Speaker 5: five and fifty six.
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  Speaker 1: How is that possible?
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  Speaker 7: I just looked on it. Then, they've had four winning
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  Speaker 7: seasons since what do you say? Nineteen nine nine since
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  Speaker 7: returning in nineteen ninety nine, four winning seasons two thousand
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  Speaker 7: and two they were nine and seven, two thousand and seven,
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  Speaker 7: ten and six. Twenty twenty that was Baker Mayfield eleven
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  Speaker 7: and five and then twenty twenty three, eleven and six.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the guy that I didn't, Mike Pettin.
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  Speaker 6: Like, do you who is that I've heard of that
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  Speaker 6: name of thing? Have you? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to Mike Patin.
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  Speaker 5: He was ten and twenty two and never heard of
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  Speaker 5: that fella that is?
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  Speaker 1: Are they the worst you've ever heard of a fella? Exactly?
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  Speaker 5: Are they the worst franchise in professional sports?
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  Speaker 7: I will I was talking to somebody. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 7: all I was talking about this with, or a solid
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  Speaker 7: debate on it, Like somebody said, maybe the Washington Wizards.
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  Speaker 1: We're up there as well.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and their uniforms are ugly too.
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  Speaker 6: They don't even look good when they're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: In all.
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  Speaker 6: And that's why we call it everybody the mistake, by.
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  Speaker 5: The way, clean USA Sports. I want to find this out.
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  Speaker 5: The Washington Wizards is bad, but like for some they
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  Speaker 5: had some okay times when they were the Washington Bullets,
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  Speaker 5: like way back in the day in the seventies. I
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  Speaker 5: think they lost in the finals a couple of times.
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  Speaker 5: All Right, So I've got the the most losing franchises
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  Speaker 5: in every major sport in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: In the NFL, it's the Arizona Cardinals.
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  Speaker 7: What since what it like probably should make it a
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  Speaker 7: little bit more towards the modern area.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I'm scoing you all time.
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  Speaker 5: They are the oldest team in the NFL, founded in
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  Speaker 5: eighteen ninety eight, the most total losses in NFL history,
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  Speaker 5: one championship in nineteen forty seven, but zero Super Bowl titles.
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals.
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  Speaker 5: Kadi's uncle played for them when they were the Saint
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  Speaker 5: Louis Cardinals, and they were bad then, they're bad now.
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  Speaker 1: They had some run with Kurt Warner.
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  Speaker 5: The Minnesota Timberwolves are actually the worst all time winning
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  Speaker 5: percentage in NBA history, only a handful of playoff series
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  Speaker 5: wins ever, So Timberwolves. The Pittsburgh Pirates in Major League Baseball. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that one kind of speaks for itself. Poor Paul Skiings
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  Speaker 5: the Arizona Coyotes in the NHL. Is that's even still
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  Speaker 5: a thing, So poor Arizona, Poor Phoenix. Yeah, bad sports,
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  Speaker 5: I guess.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's not like the Suns are good either.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Arizona gave it a couple of good quarterbacks, Hugh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Arizona's in.
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  Speaker 7: Like Arizona, So it's much better than Cleveland ever heard
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  Speaker 7: of Jadan Daniels in the Phoenix. Yeah, I've heard what
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  Speaker 7: Jadan Daniels. Yeah, what about him? It came from Arizona Sport.
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  Speaker 7: He's from California.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was playing sports in Arizona. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: is LSU's current quarterback Sam Levitt.
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  Speaker 6: Yep, so I said a couple quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Give me another Arizona State quarterback.
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  Speaker 7: Jake Plumber, Yes, Jack and the Snake when I used
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  Speaker 7: to play. So this is back in my high school.
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  Speaker 1: The only knowledge of any professional athletes you have that
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  Speaker 1: is from nineteen ninety four to nineteen ninety eight.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's about right. Yeah, that's about my I was
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  Speaker 7: hitting my streke right. As a sports fan, we used
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  Speaker 7: to play U NCAA game Breaker on PlayStation two. He
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  Speaker 7: was PlayStation one one or two back in early high school.
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  Speaker 7: And you could play with I'd play with the ninety
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  Speaker 7: six Arizona State team.
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  Speaker 6: You could play like the historical teams.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: That was probably the greatest football game ever created, College
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  Speaker 7: game Breaker.
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  Speaker 1: I remember it.
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  Speaker 6: Did you ever play?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: And we used to have little tournaments at a buddy's house.
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  Speaker 5: Also, your college from ninety four to ninety eight is
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  Speaker 5: because of video games.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Kinger junior baseball.
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  Speaker 7: Well, there's only one real baseball player in that one,
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  Speaker 7: Ken Griff Junior.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but everybody knew.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody knew Jay Univergar was Edgar, Otis Nixon was Otis Nixon,
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  Speaker 5: Ronan was Ryan Gant, Julio Franco was jul They used.
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  Speaker 7: Their name, image and likeness. There should be a term
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  Speaker 7: for that, and it should never anywo brown Suck?
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  Speaker 1: Would you ever be the head coach of the Cleveland Browns?
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  Speaker 6: God?
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  Speaker 1: I hate this for our guy, Todd Monkin.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure he's getting paid. Well yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 5: for sure, But I just gave you the list since
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  Speaker 5: they came back. I mean even before even the guy
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  Speaker 5: that we considered the greatest coach of all time, Bill
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  Speaker 5: Belichick in eighty games, he was thirty six and forty.
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  Speaker 7: Oh god, he is not the greatest coach of all time.
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  Speaker 7: He can't even make it the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 5: The last coach they've had with a winning record that
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  Speaker 5: was the full time head coach is Marty Schottenheimer nineteen
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  Speaker 5: eighty four to nineteen eighty eight and seventy one games.
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  Speaker 1: He was forty four and twenty seven.
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  Speaker 6: Oh was he a two time NFL Coach of the Year? Marty?
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  Speaker 1: Uh like Stefanski probably actually can't wait to see this
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  Speaker 1: the fan Ski versus Baker Beef.
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  Speaker 5: NFL Coach of the Year when he was with the
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  Speaker 5: Chargers in two thousand and four. Actually think he got
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  Speaker 5: he got fired in O six. So yeah, when he
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  Speaker 5: was with the Chargers in O four, he got ap
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  Speaker 5: NFL Coach of the Year, but he didn't do it
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  Speaker 5: with the Browns. No, he did not AFC Coach of
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  Speaker 5: the Year with the Browns. Okay, all right, so there
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  Speaker 5: you go, Mariy Schottenheimer. Last time the Browns had a
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  Speaker 5: winning and coach in the eighties. That's awful, Like, how
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  Speaker 5: are you a fan of the Cleveland Browns? And look,
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  Speaker 5: I know the Pelicans are a bad franchise.
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  Speaker 1: I get that.
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  Speaker 5: And the NBA is popular, it's not the NFL. NFL's
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  Speaker 5: by far the most popular sport. So you're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: more fans for NFL teams.
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  Speaker 1: When you send your payment in for season tickets to
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  Speaker 1: the Browns and you know you're gonna suck. That's gotta
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  Speaker 1: be a kick between the legs.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, for sure. And that's why I you know,
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  Speaker 7: it make when they have any glimmer of hope, it
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  Speaker 7: makes it fantastic for them. But usually that glimmer of
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  Speaker 7: pope turns into darkness pretty quick.
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  Speaker 6: So I don't know darkness.
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  Speaker 7: It's just what do we compare it to a couple
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  Speaker 7: of weeks ago, like losing organizations like the Browns. Is
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  Speaker 7: like that one building in town that's had about thirteen
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  Speaker 7: different restaurants and none of them work.
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  Speaker 6: It's just a building that.
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  Speaker 5: Has the bank and saying I've got the plan. I
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  Speaker 5: got to be the loan because I'll be the fourteenth
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  Speaker 5: in the last six.
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  Speaker 1: Months, but I'm gonna make it.
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  Speaker 7: And it's different people, it's different owners, it's different genres
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  Speaker 7: of food. It's different. It's different. Some of them are popular.
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  Speaker 7: Some of them can be cowsters that works everywhere like that.
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  Speaker 7: Things can be a chain, it can be a startup,
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  Speaker 7: whatever it is. And the only common denominator is the location,
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  Speaker 7: the foundation, the framework, the walls, that's the floor. It's
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  Speaker 7: the only common denominator. Everything else this is different, but
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  Speaker 7: nothing we all know it. Everybody's got that place in
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  Speaker 7: there wherever they grew up or in the place that
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  Speaker 7: they live. Everybody knows what I'm talking about. Doesn't matter
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  Speaker 7: what you do, it's just not gonna work. And a
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  Speaker 7: lot of sports franchises, for whatever reason, feel like that.
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  Speaker 6: The Browns, the Jets, the Raiders.
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  Speaker 7: It just feels that that's the feeling you get, no
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  Speaker 7: matter what happens, no matter who they bring in, no
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  Speaker 7: matter who's in charge, it just ain't gonna work. And
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  Speaker 7: until you prove us wrong, we're just gonna keep saying
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  Speaker 7: I told you so.
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  Speaker 5: It's like the spot that Mellow Mushroom once was in
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  Speaker 5: Baton Rouge.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a lot of things.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 7: No, there's a place any different things. There's that place
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  Speaker 7: on Perkins. It was at McAllister's at one point, oh
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  Speaker 7: Man the park.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that thing has been tacos.
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  Speaker 7: It's been seafood it is, but you're right, rock Paper
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  Speaker 7: Tacos one.
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  Speaker 6: We all know that spot.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a seafood places very popular down in
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  Speaker 5: this area, like in Gulf Shores.
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  Speaker 1: I can't think of the name of it right now,
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  Speaker 1: but it was that.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: The old CC's Coffee by the o G.
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  Speaker 5: Walk Ons, by our friends over at Pro Dreams, right
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  Speaker 5: down the end.
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  Speaker 1: Cap Coffee Shop by a University.
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  Speaker 5: Of seventy five different things since then, we all get it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're the Cleveland Browns.
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  Speaker 7: The Cleveland Brown Building is a Cleveland Brown I mean, rip,
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  Speaker 7: good for the honor you keep getting tenants.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, rip for Mellow Mushroom. What was very good Wednesday Nights.
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  Speaker 5: It's been seventeen different things.
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  Speaker 7: It's actually the highest grossing Melo mushroom in the whole country,
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  Speaker 7: was it?
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  Speaker 6: I didn't realize that it was a chain.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. At some point it probably was not
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  Speaker 1: the highest grossing.
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  Speaker 5: Right, But I mean, like, what happened because when we
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  Speaker 5: were in college Wednesday Nights popping to Mellow Mushroom.
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  Speaker 6: Popping open mic night, Yeah, a lot happened.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess that's true.
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  Speaker 5: I guess our other favorite establishment in college has shut
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  Speaker 5: down and had to come back since so.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you know what we were going to talk about.
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  Speaker 7: Let's stay in the AFC nor North and a new
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  Speaker 7: job has been filled with the Pittsburgh Steelers, my former
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  Speaker 7: coach for the Green Bay Packers and also former coach
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  Speaker 7: of the Dallas Cowboys. After another year or two off,
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  Speaker 7: I can't remember if he's been out for two. No,
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  Speaker 7: it's just one year, he takes the job with the
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  Speaker 7: Pittsburgh Steelers, and let me tell you, if you hadn't like,
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  Speaker 7: the press conference that he had was fantastic, Like he
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  Speaker 7: almost he couldn't even get through the first sentence without
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  Speaker 7: almost crying. So this guy is a Pittsburgh guy. We
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  Speaker 7: used to kind of like make fun of old Pittsburgh Mike.
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  Speaker 7: You know, he's always would talk about Pittsburgh, like in
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  Speaker 7: his in his talks and the speeches to us in
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  Speaker 7: Green Bay, Wisconsin, right, and he was at Pittsburgh through
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  Speaker 7: and through. Like if y'all think, like people from Texas
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  Speaker 7: are like proud to be from Texas and they always
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  Speaker 7: say it Pittsburgh. People from Pittsburgh are like that times
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  Speaker 7: ten like baden to let you know that you that
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  Speaker 7: they're when they're like the first time you meet him,
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  Speaker 7: they'll let you know five times that they're from Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 7: and they're Pittsburgh tough. So Mike McCarthy grew up a
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  Speaker 7: Pittsburgh Steelers fan. His family lives there. He worked at
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  Speaker 7: a little dive bar when he was growing up, and
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  Speaker 7: all that everything that he used to always preached us
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  Speaker 7: was about Pittsburgh. And so he gets the job. So
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  Speaker 7: congratulations of Mike McCarthy. I hope it works out. You
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  Speaker 7: never know, following like a legend like that. Mike Toma
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  Speaker 7: has been there for nineteen years, and he followed Bill
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  Speaker 7: Cower before that, like you're following.
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  Speaker 1: Three coaches in the last like ye forever right exactly.
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  Speaker 6: It's like quarterback for the Packers.
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  Speaker 1: They've had like three quarterbacks for like forty years or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: same situation longer.
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  Speaker 7: And so it's, uh, he takes out, so I wish
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  Speaker 7: him the best. He's really good at at coaching quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 7: coaching offenses. He took I thought he took Dak Prescott
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  Speaker 7: to a good level.
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  Speaker 6: His offense is great.
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  Speaker 7: Of course, coach Aaron Rodgers for a long time, so
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  Speaker 7: it'll be interesting to see how that all plays out.
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  Speaker 7: But he was asked about it, and he said, why
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  Speaker 7: wouldn't you want Aaron Rogers to be your quarterback?
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  Speaker 6: I get it.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of people don't feel the same way, but
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  Speaker 7: certainly there is a history relationship there. So it'll be
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  Speaker 7: interesting to see what that if Aaron Rodgers wants to
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  Speaker 7: continue playing football. But if he does, you gotta imagine
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  Speaker 7: that that is a connection that's going to come back together.
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  Speaker 7: It would be really cool for me from my seat,
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  Speaker 7: just having a relationship with both those guys and being
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  Speaker 7: with them for six years, it would be really cool
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  Speaker 7: for me to see them, you know, one last ride.
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  Speaker 1: So you can tell him and a lot to him.
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  Speaker 5: And we were talking with Scott Tolzi the other day
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  Speaker 5: and he's like, yeah, I mean even when we go
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  Speaker 5: play in Pittsburgh, like Mike enjoyed Pittsburgh and for sure
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  Speaker 5: like all the spots in Pittsburgh and where he grew up.
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  Speaker 5: And you're right, it is one of those cities in
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  Speaker 5: the country that if you're from there, you're incredibly proud
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  Speaker 5: of it and you make sure that you represent it
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  Speaker 5: whenever you can. And so that is a life long
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  Speaker 5: and dream. I mean, his parents has press conference, Like
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, It meant a lot.
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  Speaker 7: I told you not to send them in the front
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  Speaker 7: row because he was starting to cry, like his first
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  Speaker 7: line up.
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  Speaker 5: our guys chef Michael Johnson will join us here to
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  Speaker 5: answer your monkey questions on OTB.
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  Speaker 3: Off the Bench, Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn
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  Speaker 3: live from the twenty twenty six Panini Senior Bowl in
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  Speaker 3: Mobile presented by First American Banking Trust.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, and welcome, back in it is OTB.
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  Speaker 5: We are here at the Senior Bowl in the Mobile, Alabama,
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  Speaker 5: But of course that doesn't stop us from catching up
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  Speaker 5: with our guys, chef Michael Johnson to answer your monkey questions.
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  Speaker 5: So we are glad as always to have our guy on,
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  Speaker 5: Chef Michael Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, sir, I'm good, guys that they all bot.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're down here in Mobile. Hey, it's pretty cold
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  Speaker 5: down here. How's the weather up there over there wherever
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  Speaker 5: you're at in bad Rouge?
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  Speaker 8: It's pretty chilly, but it's better than what it has been,
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  Speaker 8: for sure. That's going out.
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  Speaker 1: We got any cold weather comfort foods going on?
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  Speaker 8: Jeff, Yeah, I've been eating a lot of soup at
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  Speaker 8: the house of the few days, that's for sure. I
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  Speaker 8: made some gumbo for my I made some red being
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  Speaker 8: gumbo for my daughter's graduation. My daughter graduated college or university.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, congratulations, Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 8: I'll make sure and pass it on to hers. I'm very,
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  Speaker 8: very proud of her, and but we had some we
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  Speaker 8: had I made a ton of red being gumbo for
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  Speaker 8: her graduation party and had some leftover. So we've been
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  Speaker 8: thawing some of that out and eating it, and you
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  Speaker 8: know it's the when you free something, it still continues
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  Speaker 8: to meld just mildly, right. And so I don't know,
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  Speaker 8: we've been I've probably had this conversation three or four
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  Speaker 8: times since last week about importance of melting its soup
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  Speaker 8: and letting it said, and man, there's something special about
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: how a soup forms you from the inside.
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  Speaker 1: Sheep is chili a soup?
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 6: Okay? All right?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know it's a fall like the stew family,
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  Speaker 1: like where is it fall? But we're going soup?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah? Well, I mean to me, I think the stew
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  Speaker 8: is almost a soup, you know what I mean. It's
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  Speaker 8: just kind of like thicker cut soup, bigger chunks. To me,
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  Speaker 8: I think the differentiator what differentiates it is the size
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  Speaker 8: of the stuff that's in it. To me, you know,
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  Speaker 8: like a stew is bigger chunks, and a soup you
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  Speaker 8: should be able to sit a little bit of everything
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  Speaker 8: on your spoon. So in my mind, that's what differentiates it.
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  Speaker 7: So when you make a chili, are you going like
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  Speaker 7: a ground beef situation or like a cube or a chop?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: You know, if I'm if I'm making my best chili
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  Speaker 8: that I have. It's gonna be a you know, like
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  Speaker 8: a small cube, you know, something that's like a half
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  Speaker 8: inch to quarter inch and it's needy, right, But if
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  Speaker 8: I'm just trying to throw it togret together because the
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  Speaker 8: kids are chomping on my heels and I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I got a let's say, I got a hashtag
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  Speaker 7: munchies here. Now I didn't even know, I don't even
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  Speaker 7: know if this was possible. But have you ever made
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  Speaker 7: cheese from scratch?
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  Speaker 1: I have?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, so you yeah, you use the rent it, which
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: is an enzyme that comes from a cow's stomach. And no,
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  Speaker 8: that's that's for fresh cheese. It's not. I don't know
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  Speaker 8: if it's for all cheese, but yeah, I have a
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  Speaker 8: few times.
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  Speaker 1: And I actually.
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  Speaker 8: Sent him to a cheese making class that he came
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  Speaker 8: back and we you know, farted around with it. And
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  Speaker 8: making cheese is a really interesting deal.
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  Speaker 1: Like what type of cheese can you can you make
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  Speaker 1: from scratch? Well?
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  Speaker 8: You know, like buffalo, like fresh buff buffalo mozzarella, you know,
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  Speaker 8: like you soak that in the rend it just overnight
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  Speaker 8: and and you can have a you can have it
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  Speaker 8: pretty quickly or oh gosh, what's the cheese with the
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  Speaker 8: soft metal. Uh, I'm brain farting here. I'm getting old. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: but yeah, fresh cheeses are the easiest and best in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 8: Mosrell is the one that comes to find.
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  Speaker 7: But yeah, I guess if you're making mozarella, you can
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  Speaker 7: do like you can make like barata, you can make
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  Speaker 7: like cheese.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, cheese.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's that's what I was trying to spit out.
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  Speaker 8: And I don't know if you guys have ever had
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  Speaker 8: cheese curves before.
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  Speaker 1: But you make those through way. He paid for a package,
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  Speaker 1: if you know.
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  Speaker 7: He's yeah, yeah, it's not a good cheese curd unless
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  Speaker 7: it squeaks when you eat it.
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  Speaker 8: Squeaky cheese, that's right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, wait, that's the thing. I guess, got a squeaks,
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  Speaker 6: have a squeaky cheese.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, yeah, that's right. When you when you chew on,
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: it's supposed to squeak. And up North and Canada, in
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Canadia they have potine, right, and so yeah, that's the
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: ultimate Canadian dish. So you know, cheese is a big,
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: big part of everybody's culture.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: I think poutine man so good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jacob doesn't know anything about he's West Coast guy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: nothing nothing. Chef Michael Johnson is our guests here trying
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  Speaker 1: to get your munchy questions. Decide to buy you forward,
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  Speaker 1: Chad chef. Right now.
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  Speaker 5: If somebody's starting the new year, New Year, knew me
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  Speaker 5: right and every year, that's kind of you know, when
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: the dyeing starts. It's when the getting back on track. Like,
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: what would be maybe the easiest tip for them to
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: try to stay on schedule to not just dive back
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  Speaker 5: into the fast food or the fatty foods. If you
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  Speaker 5: were trying to like create a plan that was easy
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  Speaker 5: to kind of follow inconvenient for them, what would be
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  Speaker 5: your advice?
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  Speaker 8: Be reasonable about it, you know what I mean. A
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: lot of people delve way too deep into a diet
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: and there's there's the recovery that comes from that, and
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: I think you have to be realistic about it and
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: set realistic goals. You know, like if you go and
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  Speaker 8: move remove all the sugar and all the fats and
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: all the unhealthy stuff from your life, all at the
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: same time, your your family is not going to life.
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  Speaker 8: So truth be known. I did a spiritual fast and
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: I usually I do it between November between Thanksgiving and
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  Speaker 8: Christmas and you know, like I did exactly that and
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  Speaker 8: removed all these unhealthy things, and you know, like I
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: got super fussy, and after about ten days I recovered
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  Speaker 8: from it, and you know, was was good. But uh,
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: truth be known, and I'm over sharing here. After I
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: did my fast, you know, there was there's a there's
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: a return to it. And once you come off the fast,
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: like you have this or or a diet for that matter,
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: there's this likelihood that you're going to return heavily to
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: your old ways of eating, which I did and I
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: found out the hard way that I'm actually a Type
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: two diabetic and so wow, uh, you know, like there
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: is a there is a danger to it, you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: and a real you know, like you have to be
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: careful what you're doing when you're eating, and so you know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: growing old is a part of life and I found
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: that helpful hard way. But you know it also you know,
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: there is a healthy way to eat and you know,
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: lots of fiber in your diet. I think, you know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: you have to be realistic about it and set goals
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: that are attainable without putting yourself in danger. And if
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: you're going to go on to a heavy diet, you
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: need to consulted to your doctor, you know, to make
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: sure that everything is in and check. You know, as
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: a younger person you probably won't have as much bounce back.
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: But the older, the older you get and the older
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: your body gets, you know, more likely it is that
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: you know something could come of it. So I think
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  Speaker 8: that you know, set set attainable goals.
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: It's always good to do some sort of like I've
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: always found it, like the most challenging like self discipline
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  Speaker 7: things to do is a diet. I think most people
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  Speaker 7: find that out. I think a lot of New Year's
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: diets are set and get broken pretty quick. But that's
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  Speaker 7: like one of the best things you use for this,
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  Speaker 7: Like it's a little disciplined challenge for yourself as you yeah,
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  Speaker 7: as you get older, whatever age you are, you can
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: eating is something that everybody loves to do, certainly, so
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  Speaker 7: it's hard to get hard to cut that.
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  Speaker 8: Out, I think, you know, like cutting soda out, you know,
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  Speaker 8: like even sugary foods. You know, like take it one
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  Speaker 8: step at a time and eliminate the things that you
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: are most important to you to get out of your
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: life and to me, I think that sugary foods obviously,
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  Speaker 8: but you know, you know, saturated fats, there's caffeine. There's
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: all kinds of stuff that we could take out of
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: our diet that could make us healthier. You know, you
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: just have to be realistic about it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: I got a really good question here a hashtag monchies.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: Is chef ever going to release a cookbook?
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: You know, I've been asked that a thousand times, and I,
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: you know, like I love to write, and I think
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: that before my life is over, I probably will. I
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: have some other things that I want to accomplish, you know,
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: I think they're more impactful for me and for a community,
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: you know, like I think it's quicker. Cookbooks seem to
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: kind of be like an uh, you know, a thing
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: of the past almost, and so I like sharing information
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  Speaker 8: for sure, But taking time to write the book is
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: that it's consuming, right, and so there's some other things
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: I think that I would like to accomplish. It kind
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: of meet the same goals of sharing, sharing food and recipes,
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  Speaker 8: but are are more realistic with time management.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: And this is his cookbook. He tells the people everything.
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  Speaker 6: All right exactly, that's right. Yeah, yeah, And I think.
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  Speaker 7: Chef You're like talking to you and just hearing your
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: stories and how you feel about food and the body
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: and just like the spiritual and the mental part of everything,
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  Speaker 7: because eating is a spiritual thing certainly, especially if you've
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  Speaker 7: had good food.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Like, like I enjoy.
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  Speaker 7: Hearing just not even just like the recipe part, but
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: just sharing the story about hey, like just what how
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: you feel about food and your journey with foods. But
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: it's pretty fantastic. That's why our listeners and certainly we'd
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: like to hear from you every single week.
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: Well, I appreciate that, and you know, like that's kind
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: of the way I want to share things. You know,
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: to me, it is spiritual, and I think it is
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: to a lot of people, and you know it's uh
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: to you inside. You know, when you shared it, it
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: feels good. And you know, like the way I cook,
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: when I cook for the people that I cooked for,
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: you know, it is something that you shared from inside.
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: And you know, I think that's why it's special that
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: Louisiana to get together. And we were haul counting this
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: past weekend and over in Delcolm and and you know,
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: what was started off as six people ended up being
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: like thirty people, and you know, crawfish and everything else
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: and you know, it's beautiful to get people around food
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: and to share stories and to listen and just enjoy life.
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  Speaker 1: Chef.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: Last one before we let you go go to king Cake?
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: How do we feel about king cake? Someone was asking
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: if you make your own? But I know baking is
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: not your favorite thing to do in the kitchen, So
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: do you make a king cake or do you have a.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Favorite spot that you always pick one up?
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: Now you know this? This year, so I've been kind
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: of pushing towards sourdough breads because they're easier digestible. And
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: I have started doing business with a company called Saint
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: Brudo Breads and they make sourdough Kingkake, and.
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  Speaker 6: I think pretty damn okay.
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah, And it's it's kind of non traditional, right, like
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: it's it's not one of your big brand names. But
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: I love the fact that it's sourdough and a digest
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: here and for me, it kind of meets me in
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: the middle for what I'm trying to accomplish with my
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: athletes and you know, what we're trying to do with
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: the best of you know, the Carnival or or or
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: Marty Graul or whatever. And so yeah, I don't know
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: that's the one for me this year.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what was the name of that one? Again?
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: Bruno?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: All right, I am writing that.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: Jeff, do you have a Do you have a sour
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: dough like mother?
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  Speaker 8: He keeps I don't. It's quite uh, you know, energetic
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: to put into it, So I trust other people. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Having said that, you know, I think that if I asked,
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: I have plenty of friends that had sourdough starters, that
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: it's actually easier if you take one of theirs and
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: can create. You know, instead of trying to start your
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: phone from scratch, if you could convince somebody to give
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: you a little piece of thing mother, uh, the starter,
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: the sourdough mother, then you know it actually helps foster
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: the growth of the of the bacteria.
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: So you know, just uhs Jacob, so confused.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Mother the hell is a mother?
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: This guy?
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: The mother is the starter, you know, like it, you know, like,
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: if you know what you're doing with the sour dough,
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: you can have a sour dough starter what you call
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: what you call starter. Once it gets up and living
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: and creates, you know, it's called a mother. It's it's
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: like uh uh you know this living creature. So to speak,
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: you like, it's full of all this uh bacteria that
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: live in there. And so when you have once your
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: starter has has grown to the place that it's living
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: in your wherever you keep it, it's uh, it's called
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: a mother.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Flinn. How the hell did you know about this?
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: Come smart?
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: No, I know that's not it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: M h.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: Just we used to have like starters to when I
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: was growing up on a couple of different breads, and
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: I don't know it's I thought it was pretty common knowledge.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: Job, well, I had money, I asked if we had
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: a mother Kane had money, Chef, Chef. We appreciate you
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  Speaker 5: every single week. Enjoy the rest of your week. We'll
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: catch up again soon.
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: You guys.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: Take care you as well I did, but grow up
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: a little bit, lad, turn you up here. You know
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: what the hell they're talking about.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I'd actually never heard of a sourdough mother before. Yeah,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: next time you talk about that. I've always.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: I've always wanted to get into sourdough baking and like
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: making the bread myself or whatever.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: But it all seems way.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Too complicated, Like I don't know what a starter is.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: I don't know why I need a starter. I don't
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: know why I need to feed the starter.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Like it's funny that makes mate sourdough bread is actually
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: really white bread.
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: Of you.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Fair enought the whole foods and picks them up.
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I feel like people Robertson's and Rouses or whatever,
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: the sour dough bread you make it up.
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  Speaker 7: You're not in your thirties yet that I think once
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: you get to that point, I think at that point
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: you're gonna get in the more of the sourdough game.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: So you see, I'm already kind of into it. Is
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: just so confusing to me that I like.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: I want to, but it's way to when I pull
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: up to Rouses and grab a sourdough loaf.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Well, you're in.
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: Like the half marathon. Well I feel like that. Like
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: that follows by the live laugh love sign.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'll ever be live laugh love. Nothing
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: about me says live laugh love.
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: That's good.
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: I saw the post the other day that said, you know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: you could tell somebody used to be a party animal
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: they run half marathons.
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: So I don't know is that true? Okay?
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: High school me was bad, Okay, so maybe so.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: It checks out a little bit.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Everybody's got it. Yeah, all right, sourdough mother got it.
• 31:47
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  Speaker 5: You think, Yeah, you get to have the county market.
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  Speaker 5: Shout out to the county market, all right. It didn't
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  Speaker 5: make sourdough though.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry.
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  Speaker 7: I think sourdough has became popular in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 6: I believe.
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  Speaker 5: Can y'all tell the meth gator story? We did a
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  Speaker 5: full episode two hours on meth gators one time.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was. I think it was a Florida
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  Speaker 1: man that.
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  Speaker 5: Somehow, some way in miss play misplaced on his myth
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  Speaker 5: and gators got into said math and it was creating
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  Speaker 1: Yes, hyper aggressive gators, yes, hyper aggressive.
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  Speaker 7: I pictured it kind of like a rabbit animal with
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  Speaker 7: like rabies, right, yeah, that's what rabbit means, but an
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  Speaker 7: animal with rabies going crazy looking for I mean, if
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  Speaker 7: you'all ever seen they made the movie, I don't know
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  Speaker 7: if it's bath based on the meth Gators. I think
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  Speaker 7: it was actually based on kind of like a true story.
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  Speaker 7: the plotline. But Cocaina Bears. Do you remember that that
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  Speaker 7: movie coming up? Mm hm, it was fantastic.
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  Speaker 6: What was it called.
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  Speaker 1: Cocaine Bears?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, Cocaine Bears. Okay, yes, yeah. I try to church
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  Speaker 7: it up with Cocaina not really knowing the rules around
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  Speaker 7: here a radio game. I mean, cocaine is not a
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  Speaker 6: Do drugs?
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, I can't have money. Yeah, if you
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: All right, I've never been in a place that wanted
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  Speaker 7: to be that was like such a big poser mobile
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  Speaker 7: wants to be New Orleans really bad. Yeah, they claimed
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  Speaker 7: the first Marty Gras.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's got the downtown, little strip's got a little
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  Speaker 5: New Orleans field.
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  Speaker 7: They about that start their parades, which respect you know what,
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  Speaker 7: it's uh, go go, you gotta you gotta just throw
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  Speaker 7: respect to the game, the Louisiana game, the Marti Gras game,
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  Speaker 7: but they claimed the first one.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. Like I always say, it's
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  Speaker 1: if you if you did it first? Cool man. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I love coming to Mobile once a year for four days.
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  Speaker 5: But when people say, Marty Graul, you don't you don't
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  Speaker 5: think Mobile Alabama think.
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  Speaker 7: Mobile is Well, it's been a cool little downtown area.
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  Speaker 7: It has been cold, so it's kind of like not
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  Speaker 7: like you kinda want to go walk around a whole lot.
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  Speaker 6: But it has been nice.
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  Speaker 7: It's been my first like extended stay in Mobile before
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  Speaker 7: I came to a convention one time a couple of
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  Speaker 7: years ago for the National Guard. But it's been very good.
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  Speaker 7: The Senior Ball has been fantastic. It's our last show. Hey,
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  Speaker 7: you're going to be gone a little bit next week. Huh,
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  Speaker 7: just like the whole week. Oh man, I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 7: I just got to get to the finish line. I
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  Speaker 7: have to get to Okay, So we're here. It is Thursday,
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  Speaker 7: January twenty ninth. I am off tomorrow because my god,
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  Speaker 7: I need to see my family. I'm going to see
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  Speaker 7: them tomorrow and I'm going to see them on Saturday
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  Speaker 7: and then I fly out on the first of February
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  Speaker 7: to go to San Francisco. I'm going to be there
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  Speaker 7: doing multiple shows, probably three shows a day, the second, third, fourth, fifth,
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  Speaker 7: and sixth, and then I fly back late that night.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's a red eye, and I get to
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  Speaker 5: Baton Rouge super late. I'll be off to seventh and eighth,
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  Speaker 5: and then that's the finish line. Just got to get
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  Speaker 5: to February the ninth. I just got to get to
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  Speaker 5: February the ninth, and then we do a week of
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  Speaker 5: shows and then we both are taking vacation for the
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  Speaker 5: week that the kids are out for Mardi Gras. So
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  Speaker 5: I have gone, you know, multiple rounds of the playoff.
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  Speaker 5: I did the National Championship, we do this here, what's
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  Speaker 5: that last? I don't even know what event we're at
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  Speaker 5: here at the Senior Bowl. Then we'll go to Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 5: and then I'm off until the Draft in April. But
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  Speaker 5: it's not like like I don't mind the work. I
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  Speaker 5: do two shows every single day. It's not the work,
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  Speaker 5: it's the being away from.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, being away from family stuff for sure. So almost
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  Speaker 7: to the finish line, Bud, I.
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  Speaker 1: Can see it will be I can see it now.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Super Bowl Radio is the most intense thing I do
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  Speaker 5: all year. It's three hours every day solo. Oh and
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  Speaker 5: it's it's a pop up channel on Serious XM, so
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  Speaker 5: it's my own channel for a week.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think give you an old patna I should.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: They like it because it's it's Guess Tavy, So I'm
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  Speaker 5: not gonna act I can buy myself. I'm probably buy
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  Speaker 5: myself other than three hours an hour of it per day.
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  Speaker 5: And there's no there's no laundress cause to throw anything
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  Speaker 5: off of ye. But look, it is what it is,
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  Speaker 5: is my third year doing and I love it's great energy.
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  Speaker 5: So we'll see and be great. You're gonna do like
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  Speaker 5: there's a little time time change.
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  Speaker 7: You're gonna be two hours behind us, certainly, so you'll
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  Speaker 7: have to wake up early even if you want to
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  Speaker 7: join us in that third hour. But be it'll be
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  Speaker 7: myself Laundra Tayte the tripod rolling all week next week
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  Speaker 7: from Baton Rouge and you'll join the show as much
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  Speaker 7: as you can. Be great to get insight, first hand
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  Speaker 7: experience from the radio row. They're super I know it's
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  Speaker 7: a popping place to be it's a place to be. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: and is that actually in San Francisco?
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  Speaker 5: I think the radio row is going to be in
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  Speaker 5: San Francisco. The game is in Santa Clara. But I
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  Speaker 5: don't go to the game. I have no desire to
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  Speaker 5: go to the game. I am going to be on
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  Speaker 5: the first bird smoking Friday when I finish up.
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  Speaker 6: Good for you, buddy, Wow, it'd be fun though. We
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  Speaker 6: fantas us.
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  Speaker 1: That shows that though five am.
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  Speaker 7: That's the reason that the that's whole show. We just
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  Speaker 7: couldn't Yeah, we just couldn't figure out the whole of
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  Speaker 7: the time change. So probably be a lot of the
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  Speaker 7: same next year because it will be LA next year,
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  Speaker 7: Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I hope we find a way to change the clock though,
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  Speaker 5: because LA is going to be a great time. LA
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  Speaker 5: does a good job hosting. I'm to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 5: San Francisco is not my favorite spot for any big game.
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  Speaker 5: It's just everything spread out on the convention Center is
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  Speaker 5: not nearly the same size as the other ones. Uh,
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  Speaker 5: So LA will be a better time Las Vegas for
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  Speaker 5: college LA for the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 6: So well.
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  Speaker 5: Chargers Packers, bucket, bucket for sure happening all right, we'll
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  Speaker 5: take our last break of the show. Put a bow
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  Speaker 1: Will we come back here on OTB.
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  Speaker 5: All Right, welcome back in In one final segment here
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  Speaker 5: on O t B, we just had Saints general manager
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  Speaker 5: Mickey Loomis walk by. He didn't he didn't want to
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  Speaker 5: do the ask Mickey segment though, I don't know why.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, hey, he's want to know. On his last draft.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, hey, can we go to it now? It's
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  Speaker 1: It has been done before. A little Lou.
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  Speaker 7: Brown said, but you know, recency biased. There's no GM
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  Speaker 5: Oh man, look at Mickey has always been like with
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  Speaker 5: when I've gone down to training camp or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe one day we can't have the ask Mickey segment,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think? Then he'll do it. Maybe we
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  Speaker 1: should just ask maybe yeah, maybe we'll filter the question.
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  Speaker 1: Filter just yeah, we'll filter this all right.
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  Speaker 6: What you're looking for today? Practice anything? Anything your mind?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be tire Montgomery again after that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: How could that be? That's the guy that I'm rooting for.
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  Speaker 5: So for the national if we're like outside of LSU guys,
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go him national team and then for the
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, if you're on the social media's as we post
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  Speaker 7: that interview, I'll go, y'all share it. Let's let's let
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