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Hour Three | Jay Johnson Joins, NBA Trivia & Munchies · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Say Hester and Hester got a fine little far from
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  Speaker 2: carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each other on.
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  Speaker 1: The air well, there's prop control for the.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the Raising Kine Studio.
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  Speaker 1: It's off the bench, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back in our number three of OTV here live
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  Speaker 3: from the Raising Caines Studio. Very excited for our next guest.
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  Speaker 3: We look forward to it every baseball season. Good enough
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  Speaker 3: to join us every single week here on OTV. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: it is your head baseball coach Jay Johnson, getting ready
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  Speaker 3: for opening weekend. Coach, we appreciate the time as always.
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  Speaker 3: Hope you're doing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, doing great?
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  Speaker 5: How are you guys doing fantastic? How could we not be?
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  Speaker 3: It is baseball season here in Baton Rouge, and so coach,
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  Speaker 3: right off the top, before we maybe get into some
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  Speaker 3: of the matchup like for you opening weekend, like kind
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  Speaker 3: of what are some of the feelings that you have,
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  Speaker 3: Like this is not your first time being a defending
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  Speaker 3: national champion and going into an opening weekend, So just
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  Speaker 3: describe all the work that you do in the fall,
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  Speaker 3: the work you do in January, and just what opening
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  Speaker 3: weekend means to you, I think it's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I think if you're not excited about it, it's probably
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  Speaker 4: time to not coach anymore. So very very excited. I
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  Speaker 4: think I'm excited for our players. As you mentioned, and
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  Speaker 4: you guys as former athletes, know the time that you
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  Speaker 4: put in away from you know, game day that nobody
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  Speaker 4: else sees, and the game day and the competition is
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  Speaker 4: the reward for all of that work, and so it's
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  Speaker 4: exciting for me. It's kind of simplistic of like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I want to see what we need to do to
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  Speaker 4: really get better. I think we're probably at a point
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  Speaker 4: where we need to play somebody else to know what
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  Speaker 4: we need to do to get better. And I mean
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  Speaker 4: like winning games. An opportunity to win a game, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's that's something that I look forward to that the
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  Speaker 4: competition is back.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, coach, I was thinking about the kind of your
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  Speaker 6: off season. I know there's like a relentless amount of
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  Speaker 6: work that's put in by your staff and the players,
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  Speaker 6: and I know it's a little bit different from like
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  Speaker 6: when Jake and I were in college with the nil
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  Speaker 6: and people coming in for the first time in transfers,
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  Speaker 6: but I remember The hardest off season I've ever experienced
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  Speaker 6: was after the two thousand and three National championship. Nick
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  Speaker 6: Saban was a coach, and it was basically a reminder
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  Speaker 6: to y'all that, hey, y'all are not the team from
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  Speaker 6: last year, and I'm going to send this message to
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  Speaker 6: y'all really early in our off season. Is there anything
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  Speaker 6: like that, like just from a mental standpoint, like, look,
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  Speaker 6: this is not the team, and is there a reset?
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  Speaker 6: Do you coach them a little bit harder in the
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  Speaker 6: offseason leading up?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I think it's a really good question. And you
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  Speaker 4: guys are ten to play for the greatest coach of
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  Speaker 4: all time in a sport that you know knows in
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  Speaker 4: his line and quoting him as the biggest threat to
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  Speaker 4: excellence is complacency. And it's very human nature to be
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  Speaker 4: complacent when things are going good, because nobody likes being uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 4: But it's in some of those uncomfortable times that we
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  Speaker 4: grow the most. And it's really hard to facilitate that
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  Speaker 4: when you're on the top of the mountain. And so,
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  Speaker 4: but today players are smart. They're really smart. Not saying
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  Speaker 4: you guys weren't smart, that's not what But you can't
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  Speaker 4: you can't fabricate it to the point where they know
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  Speaker 4: what's going on. And so, you know, we've had a
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  Speaker 4: lot of honest conversations about it and use it as
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  Speaker 4: kind of like setting our course of like what does
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  Speaker 4: this team need to do to be successful? And you
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  Speaker 4: stole a Kurt Signetti, you know, saying of stalking you know,
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  Speaker 4: that complacency element and you know, honoring the process of
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  Speaker 4: what it does take to be successful and you know,
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  Speaker 4: holding the standard and that doesn't mean wins or championships
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  Speaker 4: or omaha, just like holding the standard on a daily
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  Speaker 4: basis of what's required to win. And so we have
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  Speaker 4: talked about it in those regards. You know, you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: get You're gonna get everybody's best shot. Like that's really
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  Speaker 4: no different. That's the way that it is. And it's
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  Speaker 4: been a little thunderbolt during practice yesterday, you know, raising
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  Speaker 4: my voice that Milwaukee is going for the greatest win
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  Speaker 4: in the history of their program on Friday, Like that's
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  Speaker 4: what that's what's coming for us. So we have to
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  Speaker 4: be on top of our stuff to deserve to win
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  Speaker 4: that game. So it we're mindful of it and talk
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  Speaker 4: about it frequently.
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  Speaker 3: Catching up with else, you had baseball coach Jay Johnson
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  Speaker 3: here on OTB coach kind of going back to opening weekend.
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  Speaker 3: So you build for months toward that opening weekend with
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  Speaker 3: a very specific blueprint in mind. So when you have
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  Speaker 3: that blueprint and maybe it starts to get tested in
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  Speaker 3: real time, how do you balance like trusting the process
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  Speaker 3: versus reacting to what you're actually seeing on the field,
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  Speaker 3: Like do you have a certain timeline? Is it different
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  Speaker 3: every single year? Like because we all have a blueprint,
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  Speaker 3: but like you know, Mike Tyson said, everybody's got a plan,
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  Speaker 3: so they get punched in the mouth.
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  Speaker 5: So how do you always handle kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of the opening idea to what it ends up being
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  Speaker 3: even in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a good question.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's where like you can talk about being
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  Speaker 4: process oriented or you can be about it. And part
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  Speaker 4: of ours is, Hey, we're playing every game, like if
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  Speaker 4: we don't win, like all of our families are going
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  Speaker 4: to be taken, you know what I mean type deal,
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  Speaker 4: Like that's a competitive level that I want. But at
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  Speaker 4: the same time, while you're trying to do that, we
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  Speaker 4: need to figure out how we become our best And
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  Speaker 4: you know the line that I got from you know,
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  Speaker 4: one of my mentors, Rich Hill, he's now the head
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  Speaker 4: coach at the University of Hawaii. Yeah, who I worked
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  Speaker 4: for for eight years. Is like, hey, we never want
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  Speaker 4: to accept in winning what we wouldn't and losing, but
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  Speaker 4: can we win enough games early to position ourselves well
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  Speaker 4: while still working towards our best team? And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think that's something like, for instance, last year's team
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  Speaker 4: did a really really good job of and did a
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  Speaker 4: good job of finding ways to win, you know, when
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  Speaker 4: we didn't maybe play our best and then playing near
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  Speaker 4: our best often is the goal, Like you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: a John Wooden thing. You know, great teams play near
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  Speaker 4: their capability often. Yeah, and then not not validate yourself
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  Speaker 4: as crazy as it sounds, and I don't want everybody
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  Speaker 4: to think I fell and hit my head in the
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  Speaker 4: off season, but like not validate ourselves by winning or
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  Speaker 4: losing or what anybody says, but by a standard of
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  Speaker 4: how we play. And when you do that you can
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  Speaker 4: kind of keep getting that improvement and that that is
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  Speaker 4: really really important as we go along.
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  Speaker 6: Here, God, you got a lot of certainly a lot
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  Speaker 6: of turnover on the on the roster. You got new
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  Speaker 6: guys coming in. Is there any has there any been
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  Speaker 6: been a big like pleasant surprises to you from any
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  Speaker 6: anybody particular this offseason.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't I don't know if i'd call
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  Speaker 4: surprises because they don't want to build a fence around
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  Speaker 4: what I think, you know, anybody can or can't do.
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  Speaker 4: I would say I've been very pleased with the improvement
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  Speaker 4: of some of our freshmen since they've been here. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Mason Brown clearly far and away the best hitter on
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  Speaker 4: our team. You know, here in the preseason scrimmages. I
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  Speaker 4: knew he would would be a great hitter in college,
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  Speaker 4: but his maturity to slow things down and take quality
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  Speaker 4: at bats against really good pitching was impressive. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to get some early, early playing time and
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  Speaker 4: be a great player here. I think he's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: one of those staple, you know type players, kind of
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  Speaker 4: a blend of you know, Josh Pearson type body, Kate
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  Speaker 4: Beloso type impact with the bat at his best, really
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  Speaker 4: good strikes on discipline, you know, very you know, very
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  Speaker 4: j Johnson type offensive player, So very excited about him.
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  Speaker 4: On the pitching staff, there's a lot of guys, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to talk about. You know, I think looking at the bullpen,
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  Speaker 4: really excited to have you know, Gavin Gidrie back. I'm
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  Speaker 4: happy to have Devin Sheeran back, Like it's a great
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  Speaker 4: accomplishment to win a championship last year without those two guys,
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  Speaker 4: and they're gonna be key parts of this bullpen. Grant
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  Speaker 4: Fonto is another guy that only through seven innings last
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  Speaker 4: year who's throwing the ball really, really well. And so
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  Speaker 4: those guys, you know, along with Maverick Rizzy a name
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  Speaker 4: to know maybe that people aren't talking about a lot
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  Speaker 4: of Ethan Plogg, a really good lefty that we got
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  Speaker 4: from a JC, really good evaluating by Josh Simpson. It's
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  Speaker 4: one of the reasons I hired him. Is longtime scout
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  Speaker 4: for the Rangers. So I really like the back end
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  Speaker 4: of that bullpen. I think, you know, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: a little different model, Like we don't need seven or
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  Speaker 4: eight out of the Friday or Saturday starter because we
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  Speaker 4: could turn it over and match up for a good
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  Speaker 4: part of the game and feel good about our chances
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  Speaker 4: of getting zeros.
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  Speaker 3: Talking to LSU Baseball with head baseball coach Jay Johnson
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  Speaker 3: here on OTB coach Matt was talking about that all
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  Speaker 3: season that had after the national championship, and that's the
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  Speaker 3: year that I came in, and so like there's an
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  Speaker 3: expectation for LSU and you got to kind of learn
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  Speaker 3: the ways of LSU pretty quickly. But that was just
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  Speaker 3: for a freshman class. Now it's freshman class and it's
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  Speaker 3: transfer portal, and for LSU baseball it's way like even
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  Speaker 3: more so because of all the success that y'all have had.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, for God's sakes, there's something called the intimidator
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  Speaker 3: in right field to show the success for other teams,
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  Speaker 3: but the other team's not the only one that sees
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  Speaker 3: the intimidator. Like new players see that when they walk
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  Speaker 3: in as well. So for y'all, Like, how do y'all
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  Speaker 3: make sure that those players know the responsibility of LSU
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  Speaker 3: baseball but also allow them to be themselves and not
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  Speaker 3: make it too much of a thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I try to be really clear with them
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  Speaker 4: of like that's an accomplishment, that's what we're striving for here,
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  Speaker 4: like so much so like we don't even really talk
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  Speaker 4: about Omaha, and we don't even really talk about championships.
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  Speaker 4: Like I try to let them know what my expectations are,
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  Speaker 4: and that's to be the most prepared team on game
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  Speaker 4: day or is what we call undefeated at preparation, and
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  Speaker 4: then the expectation that they're going to give everything they
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  Speaker 4: can to execute their job and be very clear with
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  Speaker 4: them of what their job is. Like I have a
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  Speaker 4: five minute to ten minute meeting with every player on
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  Speaker 4: a roster this week, you know, between Monday and Tuesday,
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  Speaker 4: to try to help give them clarity. Because you guys
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  Speaker 4: have been there, It's like even if it's not exactly
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  Speaker 4: what you want to hear, if you know it's truthful
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  Speaker 4: and there's good communication and there's is a plan for you,
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  Speaker 4: like it's easier to buy into what you need to
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  Speaker 4: do as a team. But it's really hard. It's a
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  Speaker 4: big challenge here. But like prepared and execute your job
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  Speaker 4: with everything you got, like internally, those are those are
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  Speaker 4: the expectations.
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  Speaker 5: All right, coach.
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  Speaker 6: I know you're preparing your team's preparing for opening weekend here,
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  Speaker 6: and I know in February. I mean it's it's February
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  Speaker 6: twelfth right now, and I know February there's there's probably
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  Speaker 6: a balance you have there. There's a process in place
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  Speaker 6: for the whole season in mind and the whole end
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  Speaker 6: goals you want to get. There's probably like a little
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  Speaker 6: bit difference of coaching for results versus development right in February,
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  Speaker 6: and you kind of hit on that a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: But in your opinion, what is a good first month
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  Speaker 6: of baseball? What's a goal you would set for a
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  Speaker 6: good first month of baseball for your team?
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  Speaker 4: We win every game that we play, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: which is tough in our sport, and we're improving as
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  Speaker 4: we do that, and we're kind of figuring out what
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  Speaker 4: the blueprint is going to look like for you know,
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  Speaker 4: Championship Baseball, which might as well be the SEC because
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  Speaker 4: you look through our schedule and the quality of teams
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  Speaker 4: and players, Like I mean, I was thinking about like
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  Speaker 4: somebody like Ole Miss the other day, Like I think
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  Speaker 4: I saw they were ranked twenty fourth in the D
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  Speaker 4: one poll and I was like, wow, that's a big miss,
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  Speaker 4: Like they're a surefire national championship contender with the pitching
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  Speaker 4: rotation that they have and old position players and ability
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  Speaker 4: to match up and bullpen and new pitching coach there
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  Speaker 4: as of last year that does a good job. Like
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  Speaker 4: that's that's what's waiting So I think that goes back
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  Speaker 4: to the improvement and putting yourself in a position to
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  Speaker 4: where you can match up, because one win in our
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  Speaker 4: league is absolute gold. And so again, I know it
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  Speaker 4: sound like a boring coach speak, you know type deal,
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  Speaker 4: but win every game that we play and improve and
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  Speaker 4: find out our best teams. We're doing it.
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  Speaker 5: I've always loved that about you.
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  Speaker 3: Every game midweek, weekend, doesn't matter, go out there and
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  Speaker 3: win the game.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm all for that, coach.
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  Speaker 3: What about something maybe that you're going to be eye
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  Speaker 3: hustling this weekend. Maybe it doesn't show up in the
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  Speaker 3: box score, but something that you've been working this fall,
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  Speaker 3: something you'll been working in January. Some of these small
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  Speaker 3: little nuances, the nitty gritty of it, that you're going
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  Speaker 3: to be paying attention to, maybe more than anything else
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  Speaker 3: this weekend, to see if y'all get it done.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll start with tomorrow. Like, and I stole this
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  Speaker 4: from one of my peers in our league long before
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  Speaker 4: I was a coach. Here he said, like the problem
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  Speaker 4: with opening days everybody always tried to do too much right.
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  Speaker 4: And so it's a simple stick message of that, use
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  Speaker 4: our experience to not do that if that makes sense, like,
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  Speaker 4: and just focus on execution and mindset and so you know,
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  Speaker 4: we've you know, had good opening days over the course
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  Speaker 4: of my career, and I've always felt like that was
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  Speaker 4: a big, big part of that. And you know, emotional
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  Speaker 4: control is a big part of your success in baseball
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  Speaker 4: and in life. So I'm looking for emotional control and
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  Speaker 4: then just focused on executing and this will be good.
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  Speaker 4: These guys have a really old pitching staff that have
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  Speaker 4: some guys that were All Conference pitchers, preseason Picture of
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  Speaker 4: the Year type guys. So this will be a good,
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  Speaker 4: good start to this thing. And then you know, Monday
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  Speaker 4: playing Kent State Perennial Regional team thirty eight win team
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  Speaker 4: pick to win the MAC. Like really good, good opportunity there.
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  Speaker 4: So just excited to go on.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, coach, I know you looking back a little bit,
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  Speaker 6: you never are going to replace people and are else
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  Speaker 6: so that graduate and move on to the next level
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  Speaker 6: of their careers. But you certainly got to replace lineup spots.
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  Speaker 6: You certainly have to replace production levels or try to
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  Speaker 6: to replicate production level. So in the lineup this year,
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  Speaker 6: how are you going to try to how do you
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  Speaker 6: envision replacing the power production from Jared Jones gave you
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  Speaker 6: a year ago.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad you brought that up and more in
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  Speaker 4: a context of I think, you know, he's one of
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  Speaker 4: the most underappreciated players I think in the history of
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  Speaker 4: this program. I think he's third all time in home
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  Speaker 4: runs and won two national championships in three years. Like
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  Speaker 4: that's a pretty like all same career worthy resume from
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  Speaker 4: where I sit. So more it's like a credit to Jared.
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  Speaker 4: I think, you know, I don't want to sound too
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  Speaker 4: like the movie Moneyball, but like you know, you get
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  Speaker 4: three players to replace one, you know, type deal, and
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  Speaker 4: I think that and then the length of last year's lineup,
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  Speaker 4: where I think Luis Hernandez like hit nine homers, but
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  Speaker 4: if you go back and you start counting the big
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  Speaker 4: homers that he hit last year, they're they're pretty pronounced.
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  Speaker 4: And so I think just working towards the whole lineup
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  Speaker 4: being the best that they can be. You know, it's
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  Speaker 4: not fair, you know, to ask somebody to do that.
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  Speaker 4: It's not fair to ask somebody to try to replace
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  Speaker 4: you know, Kate Anderson or Anthony Ironson. I just need
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  Speaker 4: the guys on this team to be the best that
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  Speaker 4: they can be. And I think, collectively, and I thought
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  Speaker 4: last year's team did a great job of this, collectively,
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  Speaker 4: we can be even better than the sum of the parts,
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  Speaker 4: and that's what we're shooting for.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, there, he is head baseball coach for LSU
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  Speaker 3: fighting at Tigers, Jay Johnson. Remember Friday two pm Central Time,
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  Speaker 3: Saturday one pm Central Time. Also on Sunday one pm
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  Speaker 3: Central Time inside Alec Box Stadium, LSU versus Milwaukee coach.
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  Speaker 5: We can't thank you enough.
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  Speaker 3: We all look forward to being in the box and
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  Speaker 3: watching the Tigers play, and we look forward to our
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  Speaker 3: next conversations coming up.
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  Speaker 4: All right, sounds great, thanks guys.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Jay Johnson again, going to join us every
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  Speaker 3: single week here on ot B, and this is the
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  Speaker 3: coaching season we get Betterina Kim Malkey, Jay Johnson every
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  Speaker 3: single week here on the show, and again some of
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  Speaker 3: our favorite conversations. El Shoe base Baseball starts this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Else she's softball right now.
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  Speaker 3: They're starting last week and they are playing their second
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  Speaker 3: weekend right now, started on a Thursday here. They're going
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  Speaker 3: against Nebraska, so we'll update you on that as well. Pitcher,
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  Speaker 3: you were talking about no No, this one's timid. I
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  Speaker 3: think this is a freshman for Yeah, so Jordi from
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  Speaker 3: used to be Jordie Ball. She she's actually like a
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  Speaker 3: two way player.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 3: she let off, but she is not pitching. And right
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  Speaker 5: What seems this from? I think it's one there in
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  Speaker 8: Ask is like instead of playing can you just play
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  Speaker 8: the scene instead of playing the song?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, on YouTube, we can't get in trouble.
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  Speaker 8: So hey, the father in Laura I told you, yes,
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  Speaker 8: super smart to do a although they're late.
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  Speaker 6: The email said at eight am.
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  Speaker 3: Can I say how stupid it is that you would
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  Speaker 3: have a show on air and you're doing a fire alarm.
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  Speaker 3: They would never do that later in the day, like,
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  Speaker 3: how dumb is it that you're doing a fire alarm
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  Speaker 3: test in a building where you have a live show
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  Speaker 3: on in the middle of the show. That's the stupidest
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  Speaker 3: thing I've ever heard of. Thirty minutes because we have
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  Speaker 3: an hour when nobody's on air and then the next
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  Speaker 3: show's on remote.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I was like, you could actually do it anytime ten
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  Speaker 9: to one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a three hour window right there, bub man
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  Speaker 5: trying to have me crash out here today.
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  Speaker 10: Let's not crash out my I'll turn the music back
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  Speaker 10: up so you can.
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  Speaker 6: At least they didn't do while we were talking at M.
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  Speaker 5: I would have what do we do? Pedro mm hm,
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  Speaker 5: oh my god, it's miss.
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  Speaker 10: Davis all right, I think they're done.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe they were listening.
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  Speaker 6: I was kind of Heartbroke's where I was trying to
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  Speaker 6: look up to see what miss Davis was doing these days?
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: Uh huh, see where her acting career tugger. She was
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  Speaker 6: actually a Canadian born Hey wasn't from West Texas at all.
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  Speaker 10: Dang, that is heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 6: What's she doing though, didn't say really like what she
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  Speaker 6: doing tonight that you're trying to figure.
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  Speaker 9: Out, like not necessarily now now.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: But you know, cash year she's retired from dancing or teaching.
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  Speaker 5: Too many dollar dollar bills.
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: That's a nice car for a teacher salary.
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  Speaker 5: We got a game today.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Well, man, if anybody in the room can guess this
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  Speaker 3: next question that I'm about to ask coffee on me tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Morning, guess the answer. I guess the question. No, I
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  Speaker 5: guess the answer to the question the question. If you
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  Speaker 5: could guess the question I'm about to.
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  Speaker 3: Ask, well, yeah, like I guess the answer to the question.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was just kind of like insinuated. I
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: forget who my audience is, though, give me, without looking
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: down at your screens, give me right now, currently who
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: the top team in the NBA in the East and
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: the top team in the West.
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: So the West would be.
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: It's is the West the Cleveland Cavaliers, I mean, sorry,
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: the East, the Cleveland Cavalers.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna take give me your guess.
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: And then the West would be not the Spurs. But
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: they're up there.
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: The Spurs are like, what second or third?
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah, they're up there.
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: I'm saying this with like literally no knowledge of what's
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: happening in the NBA. Besides with the Spurs.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, go the Knicks. It's not bad.
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: I know it's not the Spurs. I'm say the Spurs, I'll.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: Go, I'll go Calves in the East, I'll go Houston
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: Rockets in the West.
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: Matthew, Uh Thunder okay, and Celtics okay.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Uh so for a laundry, she said, Nicks, they're actually
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: third in the East, so good guess.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: And Spurs are second in the West.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: You say Cleveland Cavaliers they're fourth in the East. And
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: you said the Rockets there fourth.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: In the in the West. Uh.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: There for Matthew, he said the Thunder in the West,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: they are actually number one. He said the Boston Celtics
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: in the East, they're actually number two. Maybe card game
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: might have gotten him a little like a probably.
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: I forgot matt was a big time he's big time basketball.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: But it is funny the team Nobody guessed the team
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: in the East like in any of their guesses there
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Detroit Pistons, So right, in thirteen.
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: Wow, Spurs beat the Warriors last night?
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: That they did right after a three well the Calves.
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: I was like, wait a minute, I feel like I
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: had just seen something on ESPN a couple of days
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: ago talking about like Detroit the surprise team. I just
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: forget about him.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: The second best record in the NBA Caid cutting here
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  Speaker 3: from Oklahoma State from the tops chrome breaks.
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: I know.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: I know that's how you know idiots sg A his
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  Speaker 5: rookie years with the Clippers.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I do know that because you and I were on
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: a break a couple of weeks ago, and I had
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: the Clippers the break before the case said that the
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: next one was SGA.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: Okay, they got they got. Tough guy Isaiah Stewart.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: He's suspended right now.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: What were the finger quotes?
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: He's a try hard, tough guy.
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: I think like anytime something goes wrong like Miles Bridges
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: and Isaiah Stewart's teammate got it too little scrum the
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: Big Dillo Shoven match, and Isaiah Stewart loses his mind,
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: runs onto the court, tries to fight people. Remember the
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: Remember the guy that ran under the court and tried
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: to fight Lebron A couple of years ago, same guy.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: He's an idiot, a big fellow.
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: He's a big fella.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: But also, like basketball is a lot of fake tough guys.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: He's not hold me back, hold me back.
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: I get everybody has their roles to play. He's not.
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: He's not good enough to be acting like that.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: He's just Detroit Pistons. And I knew nobody would get that,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: because I would not have gotten that either. Right now,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: in the East, it is the Piston, Celtics, Nicks, Calves, Raptors,
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: seventy six Ers, Magic and Heat, and then you've got
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: your playing spots with the Hornets and Hawks. In the West,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: it's the thunder Spurs, Nuggets, Rockets, Timberwolves, Lakers, Sons, Warriors,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: and then the Clippers and Trailblazers. Of all teams, the
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: New Orleans Pelicans are twenty seven and a half games
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: at a first place.
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: What's up a bud striking distance?
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Hey, couple of seventeen eighteen game win streaks are right
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: back in this thing.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: God, they're bad.
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: Lane went to the game last night. This is where
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: we turn it around.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Story time on sure.
• 25:32
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  Speaker 3: And all right, welcome back in it is OTB what
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  Speaker 2: Get ready to santalyze your taste buds and leave this
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  Speaker 5: Chef, what's going on?
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  Speaker 7: Brother?
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: How you doing? I'm good, How are you doing? Fantastic?
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Always glad to have you on the show.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Talk a little food here and get hungry with the
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: rest of our listeners, and we'll go ahead and get
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: right into it.
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  Speaker 5: Hashtag munchies.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: How do you come up with your menu each week
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: for the teams?
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so we actually come up with the menus three
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: weeks ahead of time, and we meet every actually, I'm sorry,
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: we come up with eight weeks of menus, right so,
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: and then and then every three weeks we sit and
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: scrutinize the menus and talk about if there's anything we
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: need to do to change over the next three weeks,
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: and if there was anything that we needed to evaluate
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: and come back with information on that that, we're not
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: waiting eight weeks for that information, right, So, and we're
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: we're actually talking about doing that more often, just to
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: you know, liven things up and get get feedback quickly,
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: more more quickly. But I mean it's a constant and
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: perpetual action, right, So it is you know, I have
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: one chef that puts the framework of the of the
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: menu together, and then the other chefs kind of look
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: through it and kind of poke at it a little
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: bit and and come up with suggestions. And then we
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: sit with the dieticians and let them poke through it
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: a little bit and allow them their their suggestions and such.
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: But realistically, it takes a team to get it done.
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: I mean, our menus change every ment, right. So you know,
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: if you're at a restaurant, you put a menu in place,
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: and you know, if there's restaurants that take weeks and
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: months to construct the perfect menu for their for their business,
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: right and we're constructing a new menu every meal, so
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: you know, it's burdensome, and so we we share the
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: labor amongst you know, like if one chef has been
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: doing it for a while, we'll we'll take and put
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: them on say scheduling, and let them do the scheduling
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: for a little while and then put another chef on
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: the on the on the menu. Because it is, uh,
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: it is burdensome. It's a lot of work, and so
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: we we do it as a shared group. And you know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: we need feedback from athletes, so we have uh deployed
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: you know, different mechanisms to allow them feedback as well.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: And and and also I go and meet them in
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: their arenas wherever they're participating or practicing or whatever and
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: talk to them on a pretty regular basis, depending on
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: who's in in season and who's not, who's available and
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: who's not, just to kind of show face, meet them
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: where they are and have the open discussion you know,
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: about the menus and to be honest with you you know,
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: for me, if I'm as the executive chef, when when
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: the athletes are sitting here eating, they're not going to
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: give me honest feedback. If I come and ask them
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: how the food is, you know what I mean, They're
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: gonna say, hey, yep, it's so great, you know, right,
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: So it's kind of intimidating, and so I prefer to
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: go to them and their confidence places where they're comfortable
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: with their team around them, and we get good feedback
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: that way.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Good, Chef, I'm sorry I was watching this game. Chef.
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: I want to ask you a little bit more personal question.
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: So this is a it's a big week for all
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: the hopeless romantics out there, maybe some people wanting to
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: procure a menu or a plate for a loved one
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: who they're trying to impress. What's the what's the perfect
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: Valentine's meal to make for a significant other?
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you know one. This comes from the
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: heart first of all. You know, like I'm a huge
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: fan of going out and getting you know, like if
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: I can find catch shrimp or catch some crabs, or
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: catch a fish, or you know, like even shoot a deer.
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: You know, like if I have a cow on my property,
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: which is kind of extraordinary, it's a bad example, but
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: you know, like the further the further I can delve into,
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: you know, like the procurements, even maybe the growth of
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: the of the product. You know, if it's some growing tomatoes,
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: which is a bad example too. Because they haven't come
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: up yet. But if it's something that you can grow
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: and it's something that you can put yourself into and
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: then produce it, you know, like it's it's a deeper
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: level of passion, if you will, I think it's it's
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: equitable instead of buying flowers from the place that you
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: know goes eight x on Valentine's Day. You know, like
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: those those roses cost twelve dollars last week and now
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: they're eighty five. I'm a I'm a huge fan of
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: going out and picking flowers or you know, like and
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: doing that more often, and and you know, like the
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: meal is going to come from the heart something that
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: I have, you know, not just gone out and bought
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: something that I have put a lot of time and
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: energy into procure.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Jeff, we also had another question kind of based off
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: my first question about when you put the menu together,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: what about somebody that has restrictions in their diet. Certainly,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: are you going to have some athletes that are going
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: to fall in that maybe they have something gluten doesn't
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: agree with them, whatever it might be lactose intolerant. So
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: when you have an athlete like that, what's that special consideration?
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: Look like, yeah, So we have an entire area of
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: the fourth Nutrition Center that is the dietary friendly Area.
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: We don't call it the allergen station, we don't call
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: it the gluten free station. We just call it the
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: dietary friendly area. And if there are special requirements, which
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: we do have some, we do have some silly ECX kids.
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: I mean, honestly, these days, you need to account for
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: probably anywhere between seven and ten percent of all human
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: beings in the United States, and stronger than that in
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: certain areas, are going to be some kind of dietary need,
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: right so we have to make accommodations for that.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: We do.
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: We we have on certain nights of the week, we
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: we prepare an entire meal this group gluten friendly so
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: that they can come in and you know, they don't
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: have to wait for us to prepare something. They can
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: they can get that that dish and take it right
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: to the table so that they're not waiting on us,
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: you know, because it's it's one thing for us to
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: be able to produce it. But when you walk in
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: the door and you're with your friends and then you
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: have to go ask for special foods and you have
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  Speaker 7: to wait for the chef to prepare it. By the
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: time you sit down and get your food, you know,
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: your friends are like, hey, we'll see u, you know,
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  Speaker 7: and so we we we take that into consideration many
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: you know, it's it's it's got to be thoughtful food.
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  Speaker 7: And so there's twice a week that we do that.
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  Speaker 7: We we pre prepare these foods and you know, put
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  Speaker 7: them into a secure area where it's not got not
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: not got any of those allergiens or gluten or whatever
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: it is, and and put a space in a white
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: jacket there or a sous chef or white jackets to
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: the people, you know, like the chefs in the kitchen
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  Speaker 7: that run the kitchen. And then we have gray jackets
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  Speaker 7: that are cooks and senior cooks as such. But we
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: usually hand that to a white jacket to handle. But yeah,
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  Speaker 7: we do prepare for that for sure.
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  Speaker 5: What color is your jacket, chef?
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: Oh, it's white. There, it's white with some gravy on
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  Speaker 7: it right now?
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: Well white or brown gravy? Yeah?
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: No, it's brown.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right?
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: Hashtag munchies. Has have you ever had a former athlete
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: come work for you?
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: I actually have a former athlete working here right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: he played football with us in twenty nineteen, and he
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: is going back to going back to school to get
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: a degree, and so he wanted to come over here
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  Speaker 7: and work with us, and I'm super super happy to
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: have him. He works at nights.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, probably some great place of work about saying, some
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: good work ethic as well.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: He learned being a part of a team, eat good well.
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  Speaker 7: And he appreciates me because he was here in twenty
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  Speaker 7: nineteen and while I'm trying to accomplish here, you know,
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  Speaker 7: and we appreciate him for what he's trying to accomplish
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  Speaker 7: with himself, you know, his life beyond football. And I
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: admire the hell out of that man.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no doubt about it. Chef.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: It is Mardi Gras season, as we all know here
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: in Louisiana. Uh, favorite Mardi Gral parade food. Like you know,
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: if you're out there and maybe need to be a
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: little versatile, you don't want to go in and out
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: of the house, you're on a prey ground.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Maybe your go to snack for Mardi Gras season.
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  Speaker 7: Uh, we call that a beer.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: So it's liquid, okay, liquid diet You're in.
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: It's the only answer to that question.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: That's a great I'm not even going to push you
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  Speaker 5: on that, and that's a great one.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: I can't even argue with that. Well done, Jeff, well done.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see, I'm scott rolling here.
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: You kind of already answered them about the dietary restrictions.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: What is your plans? Do you have to do? You?
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: Do you like to visit the praise?
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: Are you kind of like, uh, you know, there's some
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: parade heads out there that are like they'll just fight
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  Speaker 6: for a parking spot and make their way with the
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: lawn chair or.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Do you have plans? You have something you do every year?
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  Speaker 7: When I was younger, you know, I was in the
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: middle of canal every year, and that might be upright,
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: that might be you know, prone, laying down, you know,
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: like waiting for the next parade. And so I'm not
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: as much anymore.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: I'm celebrating my fiftieth birthday this year, and you know,
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: like I feel like it's kind of a younger man's
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: game in my mind. So I'll go to a parade.
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: My fiance is trying to get me since she's never been,
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: and so we're having this kind of household struggle of
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: whether we're going or not, you know, my life is
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: chaos enough without the parade routes and such, and so
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: I kind of enjoyed, you know, calm at my house,
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: and so going to a parade on the weekend is
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: just kind of extending what my normal looks like to
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: be working such, so I will go. I just don't.
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: I don't. I don't relish it the way that I
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: used to do. I mean, like, get there, all have.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: A good time.
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: It's the it's the idea of going through it in
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: the parking and the punk you know, like just the
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: rigmarole to find in a parking spot is enough to
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: turn me away.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: There he is Chef Michael Johnson, executive chef for LSU Athletics,
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: good enough to join us every week for your munchie questions. Chef,
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: we appreciate it, look forward to our conversations as always.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: Enjoy the rest of your week.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: Thanks guys.
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: Take care.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: Beer good answer there, I mean, drink your calories.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I'd say the chef who prepares food said, the
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: only food I need is a ice cold do Sekis.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: You wish that?
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: Like everybody just attacked whatever their job is and whatever
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: their passion was, Like chef attacks like being a chef,
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: the attention he does too, and the work ethic and
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: the thoughtfulness behind you know what, are you just talking
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: about curating a menu like it's right? Just thinking about
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: a menu, yep, and creating it just from out of poof,
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: out of the air.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: It's wild.
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: And all the different alterations you have to make that
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: for dietaria restrictions and allergies and stuff. It's and for
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: so many walks of life too, so many taste buds.
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: It's crazy.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: All right, we will step away and when we come back,
• 39:15
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  Speaker 3: Louisiana has had seven quarterbacks start fourteen Super Bowls, the
• 42:07
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  Speaker 5: They went nine to five. Can you name the seven?
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  Speaker 4: Four?
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, let's see Terry Bradshaw ye, Woodley yep, Stan Humphreys.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I forgot about what the chargers.
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  Speaker 5: So uh shout out to.
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  Speaker 3: Stan Humphries, Jake Delone man, I was gonna get there eventually,
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  Speaker 3: but it it would have taken me some time. Bro Bridge,
• 43:28
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  Speaker 3: broad Bridge? Mm hmm Jesse Jesse da Jes Yeah, Johnson
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  Speaker 3: Zena and Jesse Daniel.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. Great accent. One of the elite accents
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  Speaker 5: in our country is bro Bridge, Louisiana. Love those guys.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see pretty good football players, pretty good for good
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Jake just didn't have time before somebody shout it out
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  Speaker 5: As help me settle a debate.
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  Speaker 6: Are the classic Godzilla movies too scary for twenty month old?
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  Speaker 9: No, they're not gonna even know what they're watching.
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  Speaker 6: They're also walking around like Godzilla yesterday, so I don't
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  Speaker 6: think they're scared.
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  Speaker 10: That's adorable.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it was they got harlowed to
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: do this, but at some point she saw a zombie
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: something zombie. So she walks around the house and she'll
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: chase her brothers and she'll close her eyes and.
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: Goes zombies zomb with her arms out, chasing her brother s.
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: Haorded avoid zombies at Halloween though.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she loves Monster Mash too.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, well, well passed Halloween. She wants Monster Mash
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: played on Siri. Good for her. L s U's softball
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: down right now to Nebraska? Is it still one?
• 44:50
  Speaker 10: Because Sierra Daniel she.
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: Overthrew a ball to Nebraska.
• 44:55
  Speaker 10: It went over and yeah they scored on that.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: I will see if the Tigers can come back here
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: in clear Water real quick.
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: This just came across the wire. L s U. S
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: m U.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: They're gonna play a home and home coming up in
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: the next couple of years. That game for SMU moved
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: away from their stadium to Jerry's World. So when LSU
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: plays s m U in Dallas, going to be in
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: Jerry's World, not on campus. They're at SMU. That's great.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: I kind of wanted it to be on campus. Yeah,
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: would be fun. Smaller stadium be kind of cool. See
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: LSU fans packed that out in Dallas. Jay Johnson, we
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: love you, Jeff Michael john Think the House Rest in peace.
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: James Vanderbeek, see Mark Johnny Macks top the bench,