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Hour Two | Early Weekend Winners, Mental Health Spotlight & LSU Baseball · Off The Bench

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Speaker 1: Off the bench. We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where.
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Speaker 1: The plays get broken down and science gets denied.
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Speaker 2: To come off the bench.
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Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Raising
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back again, hour number two of O
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Speaker 3: dot com. All right, I'm going to imagine we've got
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Speaker 3: a lot here. A lot of good happened over the
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Speaker 3: last couple of days in sports, certainly for Team USA.
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Speaker 3: Let's get to some weekend winners.
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Speaker 2: That's how wit it has done, right.
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Speaker 4: We can't have anyone to freak out out there.
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Speaker 5: Okay, he's got a k bark apologer, got too far.
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Speaker 2: I'm by winning. I went here and I win there.
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Speaker 6: Now, what are you doing what it takes to win
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Speaker 6: a championship?
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Speaker 7: Wow?
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Speaker 2: Winning? Well, then I guess there's only one thing left
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Speaker 2: to do. What's that win the whole thing? All right?
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Speaker 3: My first weekend winter is the Hughes family. So on Wednesday,
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Speaker 3: when Hughes scores the ot goal to send the US
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Speaker 3: to the semi finals. On Thursday, Ellen Hughes wins gold
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Speaker 3: with the women's US hockey team, and on Friday, Jack
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Speaker 3: Hughes scores two goals to help send the US to
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Speaker 3: the finals. And then, of course we know how it
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Speaker 3: ended for the Hughes family there in overtime in Italy.
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Speaker 8: So pretty decent.
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Speaker 3: Pretty decent run for the Hughes family there when it
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Speaker 3: comes to achievements only ice in Italy. You got some brothers,
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Speaker 3: you got a sister. Pretty good jeans there for the
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Speaker 3: old Hughes family.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't.
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Speaker 9: Then their mother played for women's team, coached as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, assuming their father played.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think you mentioned it earlier too, Taylor father coached.
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Speaker 2: I believe that right. Yeah, he coached on NHL.
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Speaker 7: He was in Toronto for a little bit and all that.
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Speaker 9: So they like hockey in that family, that is what
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Speaker 9: you're saying. Yeah, and they're pretty good at it. They're
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Speaker 9: pretty decent. Golden medal's coming home.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and they're decently impactful.
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Speaker 9: I think in those games fantastic. Well, let's stick on
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Speaker 9: the ice, let's stick with hockey for my first week
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Speaker 9: in winter. I'm just gonna give this one er to
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Speaker 9: the whole US men's hockey team, not just what they
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Speaker 9: did during the game is certainly I'm giving it to
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Speaker 9: what they did after the game. American hockey player Johnny
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Speaker 9: Goudro Kodro good dr good Drow.
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Speaker 2: You're saying it like a Louisian. I know I wanted
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Speaker 2: to say, go true.
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Speaker 9: I passed away last year due to getting hit on
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Speaker 9: a bicycle actually for a drunk driver. Well after the game,
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Speaker 9: Zach Warinski and Dylan Larkin had the idea that they
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Speaker 9: would go and bring their family onto the ice. And
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Speaker 9: so they went out and they got the children, brought
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Speaker 9: them on there and honored the late Johnny good drew
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Speaker 9: and took this team picture, which is awesome. So that
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Speaker 9: right there, we'll bring a tier to a glass eye,
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Speaker 9: no doubt honoring therefore a lot of them, a lot
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Speaker 9: of the players on the team, their former teammate certainly
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Speaker 9: a guy that would have been on the team potentially.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 9: And so they shared the moment, shared the spotlight in
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Speaker 9: just getting these gold medals. They thought of the bigger picture,
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Speaker 9: thought of family and uh we can learn from them.
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Speaker 10: Uh yeah, that's super Uh probably like the most emotional
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Speaker 10: moment of the weekend. Like winning great obviously also super emotional.
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Speaker 10: But to bring like your teammates kids out, hold up
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Speaker 10: his jersey and just super sad, tragic weight like young
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Speaker 10: his brother was there too and they both passed away.
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Speaker 11: It's just terrible.
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Speaker 9: They said they wanted to bring the whole family out there,
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Speaker 9: but they couldn't the gate.
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Speaker 2: This a little bit difficult.
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Speaker 10: To get the ku chuck. That's how you say it,
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Speaker 10: jump Ku chuck. Brothers class acts.
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Speaker 3: Love them those guys and who was the other guys
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Speaker 3: would fight anybody that you in front of them to,
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Speaker 3: I don't care.
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Speaker 9: Come on Olympics. Let's let's let fights happen in the Olympics.
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Speaker 10: So we were thinking about this on Friday. Do the
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Speaker 10: women hockey teams do they fight too? They get down?
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Speaker 7: I like it after.
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Speaker 2: Very much. You got to practice that because it's not
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Speaker 2: like a regular fight.
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Speaker 11: This is I'm grabbing a jersey and I'm.
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Speaker 2: You got to tie your jersey to.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, with the punch, that's gonna be hard to do. Probably,
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Speaker 11: I gotta practice that a lot.
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Speaker 9: I mean I wonder how much time for some of
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Speaker 9: those guys that spent on the ice fighting technique.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, like I would take some boxing classes experience.
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Speaker 3: If you're gonna be enforcer, you gotta go out there
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Speaker 3: like you better have something that's right.
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Speaker 9: But like with regular boots on in a street fight,
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Speaker 9: it's a lot different. It's a lot of different strategy there. Yeah,
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Speaker 9: it might not be great there. If you can get
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Speaker 9: the time in between the Jersey Pool and the punch.
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Speaker 9: You got something like the old past rush move, the
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Speaker 9: push pull.
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Speaker 10: I've got a couple of weekend losers and maybe just
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Speaker 10: like losers.
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Speaker 11: Uh Hunter Hess, do y'all remember him?
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Speaker 10: He's like when he's a freestyle skier that came out
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Speaker 10: and said he had quote mixed emotions about representing the
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Speaker 10: United States during the Olympics, which.
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Speaker 11: Whatever, dude, Like, you're literally at.
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Speaker 10: The pinnacle of where a lot of people want to
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Speaker 10: be and you're just gonna criticize whatever. Ended up finishing
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Speaker 10: tenth in the event. And then there were a couple
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Speaker 10: other people that also were critical. A couple other people
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Speaker 10: that represent America in the Olympics and are critical of America.
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Speaker 11: Amber Glynn she was a figure skater.
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Speaker 10: She finished outside of the medals so did not medal,
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Speaker 10: So anybody. Jesse Diggins, she also was a cross country
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Speaker 10: skier that also criticized America. She earned a bronze medal,
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Speaker 10: so third. Anybody that was criticizing America and saying that
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Speaker 10: they felt mixed emotions about representing them ended up doing terribly.
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Speaker 2: That's wild.
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Speaker 9: At least they did represent America and like that. The
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Speaker 9: one skier the half I think the half pipe skier
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Speaker 9: island go or yeah, with the China she took he
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Speaker 9: took a payday to go and compete for China. On
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Speaker 9: the other hand, women's figure skater, Oh god, I'm baking
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Speaker 9: our name. Lou Alyssa, Lou Alyssa Lou she did the opposite.
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Speaker 9: She did not yeat the pay day. That's a fantastic story.
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Speaker 9: She would definitely be a winner. Yes, and then the
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Speaker 9: island loser.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, loser.
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Speaker 2: Go live in China.
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Speaker 7: SHOT's great there, Yeah, we can winner for me. I
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Speaker 7: gotta stick with what Jake did with the with the hockey,
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Speaker 7: but all the all the comparisons in the lines that
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Speaker 7: match up. Like when I turned on the TV yesterday,
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Speaker 7: So the big graphic forty six years to the day
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Speaker 7: of the nineteen eighty miracle on ice team when they
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Speaker 7: defeated the Soviet Union. How fitting was that?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
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Speaker 7: The US women beat Canada two to one in overtime
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Speaker 7: to win gold. The men did the exact same thing,
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Speaker 7: and Jake mentioned the Hughes family. I want to mention
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Speaker 7: brock Nelson here real quick. So Rock Nelson wins gold
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Speaker 7: on the team yesterday, his uncle or his I should say,
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Speaker 7: his great uncle was on the nineteen fifty six US
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Speaker 7: hockey team, his other great uncle won the gold in
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Speaker 7: nineteen sixty, and his uncle Dave Christian was on the
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Speaker 7: nineteen eighty Miracle on Ice hockey team. So every single
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Speaker 7: gold medal that the US has ever won in hockey,
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Speaker 7: someone in brock Nelson's family has been on that roster.
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Speaker 7: So that is a really cool thing to see from them.
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Speaker 7: That is a hockey family if I have ever seen one.
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Speaker 7: So shout out to brock Nelson and the Christian family.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was incredible, and again like for it to
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Speaker 3: be to the day that like Placid happen, it's even
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Speaker 3: more incredible. And you know, last thing on hockey, the
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Speaker 3: White House tweeting out the eagle on top of the goose.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's fantastic, pretty good quote tweet.
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Speaker 9: They're quote tweeting justin right, I think true saying you
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Speaker 9: can't take our.
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Speaker 2: Country and you're not going to take our game.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm not gonna take our country and not take
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Speaker 9: our sport. Sorry. Great's Paul Diagel.
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Speaker 3: You know we love pettin us here on OTV uh
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Speaker 3: wee can winner for me. So I'm gonna go to
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Speaker 3: LSU women's basketball beating Missouri a bazillion to fifty five.
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Speaker 3: It was oneay to fifty five. LSU basketball just dominated
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Speaker 3: the game. So like that in itself, that's an impressive
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Speaker 3: win the way they did it, but even more impressive.
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Speaker 3: And I haven't had a chance to be here last
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Speaker 3: week obviously we were out the Old Miss victory for
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Speaker 3: LSU women's basketball on the road. That was as impressive
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Speaker 3: as a victory as you will see.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: Ole Miss is a good basketball team. They're a top
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Speaker 3: twenty basketball team. Right, it's not the fact that you
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Speaker 3: got to win against them, it's the fact that you
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Speaker 3: outscored them twenty four to seven in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 3: You did not allow a field goal in the fourth quarter,
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Speaker 3: the entire quarter. You shut them down. You locked them
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Speaker 3: up on defense, your stars shine bright on offense. And
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Speaker 3: you went out there and you stole that game. Because
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Speaker 3: Ole Miss had a big lead, right, it looked like
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Speaker 3: they were going to pull away a couple of different times.
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Speaker 8: You didn't allow them to pull away.
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Speaker 3: You stayed in the game, you took their best shots,
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Speaker 3: you were still standing tall. And then you became the aggressor.
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Speaker 3: You started counterpunching out of your corner and then you
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Speaker 3: beat them and again outscoring them twenty four to seven
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Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 8: I thought it was an incredible game.
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Speaker 3: One of those games that you can kind of look
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Speaker 3: back on and depending on where LSU season ends up,
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Speaker 3: and say that was one of the defining moments of
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Speaker 3: their season.
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Speaker 8: Again, this is an old Miss team that.
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Speaker 3: Twenty one and eight on the year now, but at
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Speaker 3: that time, you know, I think they were twenty one
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Speaker 3: and six going into that game, and so that was
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Speaker 3: a good team.
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Speaker 8: I was a team that at that time was.
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Speaker 3: Eight and four in the league, just like you were
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Speaker 3: eight and four in the league at the same record.
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Speaker 3: So to go on the road, to be down multiple times,
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Speaker 3: and you don't think ole Miss after what's happened over
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Speaker 3: the last couple of months between LSU and ole Miss
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Speaker 3: won in that game. That's the biggest crowd that they've had,
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Speaker 3: I believe ever, I think it's the biggest crowd they've
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Speaker 3: ever had for a women's basket Stephen A. Smith took
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Speaker 3: a private jet to Oxford to go watch the game.
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Speaker 3: Coachio called out the fans and so they showed up
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Speaker 3: and uh, and then you know there was some bitterness
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Speaker 3: to LSU after Lshue was victorious there. But what a
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Speaker 3: game it was for LSU women's basketball. They get the
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Speaker 3: dubs seventy eight to seventy week in winter, all right,
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Speaker 3: I got one last week in winter. We are going
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Speaker 3: to stick with the Olympics.
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Speaker 8: I didn't want to play at the Jack Hughes.
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Speaker 2: Too, Taylor, do you have a message? He's flowing it up.
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Speaker 9: Okay, So my last week in winter is going to
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Speaker 9: be one of the best to ever do it, and certainly,
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Speaker 9: in my opinion, the best to do it now. Mike Tarika,
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Speaker 9: his voice and the way he interacts with interviews and
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Speaker 9: the way he can just sit there and wax poetically
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Speaker 9: about all sports and in detail about everything, the best
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Speaker 9: to do it. And he had a fantastic sign off
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Speaker 9: to the Olympics last night.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna play right here.
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Speaker 6: Because of a drought that almost lasted a half century,
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Speaker 6: those teams are revered, they are held on to forever.
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Speaker 6: And what happened today doesn't take away from the greatness
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Speaker 6: of those teams or the meeting that those teams have
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Speaker 6: in US hockey. But what you saw today was the
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Speaker 6: build of a generation, inspired perhaps by that team that
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Speaker 6: lost in twenty ten in Vancouver to the Sydney Crosby
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Speaker 6: golden goal in overtime, or the team where tj Oshan
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Speaker 6: all those shootout goals in twenty fourteen. That's when these
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Speaker 6: guys were doing what you're doing. Watch it on TV,
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Speaker 6: and they were young and they were living the dream.
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Speaker 6: So for all the young people out there, not just
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Speaker 6: the hockey, but all the Olympics you've watched, those dreams
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Speaker 6: are formed. Now, go chase him and go get him
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Speaker 6: because our country loves sports and it brings us together
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Speaker 6: unlike anything else. And if you didn't know that, if
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Speaker 6: you haven't been watching the last two weeks, you saw
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Speaker 6: it in tm USA hockey winning the goal over there
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Speaker 6: are trivel Canada here in Milan to wrap up these
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Speaker 6: twenty fifth Olympic winner games.
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Speaker 9: Greatest to do it right there? That was awesome. What
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Speaker 9: a great sign. I don't know if it's ad libbed,
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Speaker 9: I don't know if it's scripted. I don't know what
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Speaker 9: it is. It doesn't really matter. Something tells me that
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Speaker 9: he just shot from the hip a little bit. Yeah,
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Speaker 9: that's that's There's no there's no ums in there. There's
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Speaker 9: no hums. There's no nothing. It's just youre better.
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Speaker 11: We can winner Winnard Skinner. Okay, getting a lot of
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Speaker 7: You want to talk about a guy setting himself up
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Speaker 7: I have a weekend loser, the standing weekend loser for me.
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Speaker 7: It just it was in the news. Reason at least
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Speaker 7: someoneted to bring it up. Pete Peter's standing weekend loser
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Speaker 7: They handled it with class. They didn't need to acknowledge
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Speaker 2: So they're trying to free bird.
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Speaker 7: Yes, to tie it all back in. Yes, nice, like
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Speaker 7: that's that's you. That's a standing weekend loser. Do we
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Speaker 7: know who funds this group? Who has this much free
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Speaker 7: time on our hand to go stand outside of buildings
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Speaker 7: and harass others?
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Speaker 2: I don't know if they need much funding to do that. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: they're losers.
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Speaker 8: I didn't even see that story, and I gotta go
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Speaker 8: look it up.
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Speaker 2: Love a chicken tendy? Yeah, I love it tendy.
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Speaker 7: You mean to tell me none, none of them, None
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Speaker 7: of the people out there eat chicken at all. I
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Speaker 7: find that hard to believe.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's really hard to believe. A lot of people
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Speaker 9: in this world.
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Speaker 2: You see them.
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Speaker 7: You just got too much free time on your hands,
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Speaker 7: nothing better.
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Speaker 8: To do, all right, any more weekend winners or a loser?
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Speaker 8: Once going twice? So all right, we'll come back.
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Speaker 3: Uh, let's talk a little NFL draft, let's talk a
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Speaker 3: little combine. I'm headed there tonight, looking forward to being there,
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Speaker 3: checking out all the potential newest New Orleans Saints and
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Speaker 12: All right, welcome back in ot be here on this
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Speaker 3: Of course for watching us on YouTube. You see we've
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Speaker 3: I think we're having some microphone issues there, like hey,
20:09
Speaker 3: here we go, there, here we go.
20:11
Speaker 13: Yeah. So an evening basically spent with our community. Got
20:15
Speaker 13: a lot of guests that are going to be there.
20:18
Speaker 13: Our newest guest this year is John Foster is going
20:20
Speaker 13: to be singing us some music. Yeah, but really wanted
20:24
Speaker 13: to get together a bunch of people who I felt
20:27
Speaker 13: would be impactful in the community to be able to
20:29
Speaker 13: share their stories about mental health and their experiences with
20:32
Speaker 13: mental health, just to be able to normalize those conversations.
20:36
Speaker 3: And Jordan and I know we had you on a
20:39
Speaker 3: year ago, kind of just remind our listeners kind of
20:41
Speaker 3: how you got involved with Seeds of Hope.
20:43
Speaker 14: Sure, so playing Seeds of Hope is Rain Will Bring
20:47
Speaker 14: Flowers our It's our signature event. Rain Will Bring Flowers
20:52
Speaker 14: is a youth suicide prevention nonprofit that was stood up
20:56
Speaker 14: in response to the loss of my son Owen. We
20:59
Speaker 14: lost going back in April twenty twenty three. And you know,
21:03
Speaker 14: whenever I speak, I just always share that Owen was
21:06
Speaker 14: wildly popular, you know, he was never bullied, he excelled
21:09
Speaker 14: in athletics, he was starting on both sides of the
21:12
Speaker 14: ball at Saint Michael High School as a sophomore. He
21:15
Speaker 14: did okay in school, and he came from a home
21:18
Speaker 14: where he was loved and supported in every way, a
21:21
Speaker 14: home with resources, and a home grounded in faith. And
21:25
Speaker 14: so I just say that so that your readers understand that,
21:28
Speaker 14: you know, if a kid like Owen could fall victims
21:30
Speaker 14: of suicide, then I feel like all of our youth
21:33
Speaker 14: are at is at risk. And that was really the
21:36
Speaker 14: genesis of the foundation and also the creation of Planning
21:40
Speaker 14: Seeds of Hope.
21:44
Speaker 9: The challenges of mental health and iOS Shelley, you deal
21:48
Speaker 9: with it a lot. I'm over at LSU that for
21:51
Speaker 9: not just not just people and athletes in college, but
21:57
Speaker 9: kids of all ages that can fall victim or suffer
22:01
Speaker 9: from mental health. So it's such a great thing that
22:05
Speaker 9: you're doing to start. And I want to know how
22:08
Speaker 9: did l s U kind of get involved with the
22:10
Speaker 9: Plannet Seeds of Hopes. I see it's you, It's Joe
22:13
Speaker 9: Burrow Foundation, the l clubs involved with it, that's LSU Athletics.
22:16
Speaker 9: Where did where was the kind of the chemistry that
22:19
Speaker 9: brought everything together here.
22:21
Speaker 3: Yeah.
22:21
Speaker 13: Random phone call. Yeah, I've been known to take a
22:25
Speaker 13: couple of random phone calls a year. And literally I
22:28
Speaker 13: think he was someone had recommended that he reach out
22:30
Speaker 13: to me.
22:30
Speaker 2: I think he.
22:32
Speaker 14: And okay, all right, Dan Born.
22:35
Speaker 13: There we go. Yeah. I think that you know, probably
22:41
Speaker 13: had a reputation of being interested in this space obviously
22:44
Speaker 13: and had you know, gone back to get additional counseling degree.
22:48
Speaker 13: And I'm motivated by the loss that we've had with
22:52
Speaker 13: at LSU football had a couple student athletes that we
22:56
Speaker 13: lost that I was working with at the time. I've
22:59
Speaker 13: always kind of carried the torch for them and.
23:01
Speaker 11: The work that I've done.
23:03
Speaker 13: And when I got the phone call and heard the story,
23:07
Speaker 13: I you know, immediately kind of figured we needed to
23:09
Speaker 13: be on board this.
23:10
Speaker 7: This is a kid who liked LSU.
23:12
Speaker 13: I mean, it really kind of came down to Jordan
23:15
Speaker 13: being persistent, although I don't think even needed to be
23:17
Speaker 13: that persistent. Came to the office, we talked, and his
23:20
Speaker 13: son's story was exactly like the story that I've had
23:23
Speaker 13: in the training room ten thousand times. I mean, parents
23:26
Speaker 13: don't really know what's going on. Kids don't really know
23:28
Speaker 13: what's going on in their own heads. It's kind of scary.
23:31
Speaker 13: And for me, it was just going to be an
23:34
Speaker 13: opportunity to be able to, you know, share experiences, which
23:36
Speaker 13: I think is really important.
23:39
Speaker 3: And this is an event that's going to be actually tomorrow.
23:43
Speaker 3: It's going to be six pm inside of the PMACS,
23:46
Speaker 3: going to be hosted by Ryan Clark, Clyde Edwards. G
23:49
Speaker 3: Lair is going to be a part of it John
23:50
Speaker 3: Foster is going to be a part of it as well.
23:51
Speaker 3: So Shelley, how can if someone wants to attend this event,
23:54
Speaker 3: is it too late? Can they go ahead? Can they
23:56
Speaker 3: still get tickets? Can they still be a part of it?
23:58
Speaker 13: Yeah, hindred percent. So no tickets necess So there's a
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Speaker 13: place where you can sign up, but if you can't
24:01
Speaker 13: get to your computer, it's not a problem. We would
24:04
Speaker 13: encourage anyone and everyone. If you're sitting around and saying
24:07
Speaker 13: that's not me, I don't really need to go to
24:08
Speaker 13: this thing, and you're sitting around tomorrow night, you need
24:10
Speaker 13: to get in your car, walk over if you're on
24:12
Speaker 13: the campus and come. It's free food for twenty five
24:16
Speaker 13: hundred people, it's free t shirts for two thousand people.
24:19
Speaker 15: It's top class.
24:22
Speaker 13: People that are going to be there in terms of
24:24
Speaker 13: performing and hosting. It's always been a really incredible inspirational event.
24:29
Speaker 13: I've really had never never heard anyone leave say gee,
24:32
Speaker 13: that was a really downer I was a Debbie downer
24:34
Speaker 13: kind of place. And this is an inspirational night and
24:36
Speaker 13: it really will allow conversations to happen within families and teams.
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Speaker 9: And if I'm assuming that if you can't make it,
24:44
Speaker 9: I'm assuming there's.
24:44
Speaker 2: A place that they can go to kind of get involved.
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Speaker 14: Absolutely absolutely, if you're unable to make it, which I
24:51
Speaker 14: strongly encourage that you do, you can always go to
24:55
Speaker 14: rain Will Bring Flowers dot org to stay in touch
24:57
Speaker 14: with our mission and the impact that we're having in
24:59
Speaker 14: the community.
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Speaker 3: Jordan, what does it mean for you to see like
25:03
Speaker 3: Shelley and LSU kind of you know, get behind all
25:06
Speaker 3: of this and now you're gonna have an event inside
25:08
Speaker 3: the PMAC to bring awareness with somebody hosting it like
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Speaker 3: a Ryan Clark who's on the national scene, Clyde Edwards Deeler,
25:14
Speaker 3: who's you know, Clyde very publicly has been through you know,
25:17
Speaker 3: his own struggles obviously, and to have them there supporting
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Speaker 3: this event.
25:21
Speaker 14: It's it's amazing. I mean, it really is amazing, and
25:24
Speaker 14: it truly takes a village. And you know, I always
25:27
Speaker 14: speak with my wife Lisa about, you know, where we
25:31
Speaker 14: would be, uh or where we wouldn't be without LSU
25:35
Speaker 14: Athletics and and Shelley. You know, Shelley has the connections
25:39
Speaker 14: with these high profile athletes that make this event a possibility.
25:45
Speaker 14: And you know, having Jon Foster here to to to
25:50
Speaker 14: sing a couple of songs and do the national anthem.
25:53
Speaker 14: Things are just coming together through a lot of hard
25:56
Speaker 14: work and relationships with with Elsh Athletics.
26:00
Speaker 3: And you know, Matt and I both obviously, like I said,
26:03
Speaker 3: Shelley's certainly been a big part of our lives and
26:06
Speaker 3: certainly once we got to l s U because and
26:09
Speaker 3: I think, Matt go back me up on this.
26:10
Speaker 2: When you when you.
26:11
Speaker 3: Get to campus, you think you got to figure it
26:13
Speaker 3: out and then you realize, oh, I left home by myself.
26:17
Speaker 3: I don't really know anybody. I got to be good
26:19
Speaker 3: at football or whatever sport you're playing. I've got to
26:22
Speaker 3: do a lot of things. And people like Shelley and
26:24
Speaker 3: Jack and Bear at the time obviously big parts of
26:27
Speaker 3: real world hits you real Yes, big parts of our transition,
26:31
Speaker 3: because there was a lot of times where it's like,
26:33
Speaker 3: oh man, can I do this?
26:35
Speaker 8: What am I doing? A lot of questions into your head.
26:40
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was a it's certainly any transition, like we said,
26:43
Speaker 9: not just for college athletes or yeah, all kids at
26:47
Speaker 9: all ages, and there's so much that people deal with.
26:50
Speaker 9: So organizations like yourself and Shelley and LSU. It's awesome
26:54
Speaker 9: that yell are all involved, and yeah, we hope that
26:58
Speaker 9: then is a crazy success Tomara. And again for all
27:02
Speaker 9: of those that can't get involved and can't attend tomorrow,
27:05
Speaker 9: you can go to rain Will Bring Flowers dot org
27:09
Speaker 9: just to see about the organization and get involved yourself.
27:11
Speaker 3: So yeah, and again planning Seeds of Hope talking about
27:15
Speaker 3: mental health. It's gonna be hosted by Ryan Clark. It's
27:17
Speaker 3: going to be tomorrow six pm inside the PMAX. So
27:20
Speaker 3: you'll have RC there, You'll have Clyde there, John Foster.
27:24
Speaker 3: If you don't know who that is, go check out
27:25
Speaker 3: American Idol. He was incredible during his season of American Idol.
27:29
Speaker 3: Thank you all for coming in. Shelley always, thank you
27:32
Speaker 3: for everything you do for us. Jordan, We appreciate your
27:34
Speaker 3: time as always as well, and certainly we'll continue to
27:37
Speaker 3: raise awareness for the event coming up.
27:39
Speaker 2: Thanks absolutely, thank you.
27:40
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Speaker 1: Com two thousand and seven. Sham, Purple and Gold to
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Speaker 1: the core. This is off the Bench with Hester and Flynn,
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Speaker 1: Matt and Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana sports.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in ot B here on this
29:17
Speaker 3: Monday morning, busy Monday morning here in the Raising Cane studio.
29:23
Speaker 3: No rest for the weary there, Flynn, coming back to vacation,
29:26
Speaker 3: My guy, you gotta be ready to go work mode.
29:28
Speaker 8: We're not on the slopes anymore, Bud, and not.
29:31
Speaker 2: On the slopes anymore. You're leaving me tomorrow too. That
29:34
Speaker 2: I am that.
29:35
Speaker 3: I am got to go to Indiye for the week.
29:36
Speaker 3: I'm going to join you here and there. Yeah, I
29:39
Speaker 3: don't know if it's gonna be.
29:41
Speaker 8: I did twice. Hey, you could have been to the
29:44
Speaker 8: super Bowl. You didn't want to go, just said.
29:47
Speaker 2: Super Bowl it's not accurate.
29:49
Speaker 3: A little bit though, a little bit, a little bit
29:51
Speaker 3: in the morning exactly, a little bit sort of don't
29:55
Speaker 3: I don't know where he's coming.
29:56
Speaker 2: Up with us.
29:57
Speaker 10: I think there's like a middle ground here that we
29:59
Speaker 10: can buy. I think it's like the schedule. But also
30:02
Speaker 10: you didn't want to go.
30:03
Speaker 2: So that's true.
30:05
Speaker 8: I love God, loves California.
30:06
Speaker 11: You could have really made the schedule work.
30:08
Speaker 2: Loves California.
30:11
Speaker 3: Anyways, Will Helmer's our guests here in studio Louisiana. Load
30:15
Speaker 3: have got some big things going on as always, course
30:18
Speaker 3: form elsity baseball player, so here to talk some baseball
30:21
Speaker 3: as well. But I saw my man boots on the
30:23
Speaker 3: ground at Marti Gral. Oh buddy, how'd that go? Fantastic?
30:26
Speaker 3: Couldn't have been better.
30:27
Speaker 15: I love me some Marti Gral from New Orleans.
30:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, so obviously hit New Orleans and then we went
30:32
Speaker 5: down to Thibodeau. Oh man, I've never been to Thibodeaux
30:35
Speaker 5: from Sunday and Thibodeau is just a little different. I'm
30:38
Speaker 5: telling you what, Urt is good. I'm telling you what
30:41
Speaker 5: everybody walks down. Have you done that before?
30:43
Speaker 8: Is that your first?
30:43
Speaker 5: That's my first time first Thibodeaum, Marti Gral and then
30:45
Speaker 5: I hit you know, did some culture stuff, Church Point, Unice,
30:48
Speaker 5: my MoU Yeah, all that, you know, section of the Louisiana.
30:53
Speaker 15: So it's cool to see all the different cultures.
30:54
Speaker 2: So what stuck out is that you have a highlight.
30:56
Speaker 15: From oh, Thibodeau Sunday, and.
31:00
Speaker 2: So what makes it? What makes it? So you were
31:01
Speaker 2: in New Orleans where it was the heart of everything,
31:03
Speaker 2: but then you go what you've been to I'm sure
31:04
Speaker 2: a hundred.
31:05
Speaker 15: Times been to New Orleans, Marty Gral, my whole life.
31:07
Speaker 5: So you know, you do Friday, you have like Hermes
31:09
Speaker 5: Crew Day Ta and then Saturdays and Demmian and so
31:12
Speaker 5: I hadn't been to Thibodeaux. It's just a little different,
31:16
Speaker 5: you know. It just feels different than you got two
31:18
Speaker 5: day parades back to back. And then it seems like
31:21
Speaker 5: the entire town of Thibodeau walks downtown and hits the
31:25
Speaker 5: three Bars, Pepper's Pizza, all of them. And so it's
31:29
Speaker 5: cool to see. And so I had a great time. Obviously,
31:32
Speaker 5: had some drinks, had some yellow shots, yeah.
31:35
Speaker 3: Which I mean if anybody is a yell at you
31:38
Speaker 3: after the World Series, can you imagine being younger, would
31:42
Speaker 3: you say three days of Marti Gras in a row?
31:44
Speaker 5: Four days and Friday, Saturday, Sunday break Tuesday.
31:50
Speaker 2: If I get four hours in.
31:55
Speaker 8: If I'm not mistaken, well you ran into Lane Kiffin.
31:58
Speaker 2: I did.
31:59
Speaker 8: There's pretty offer my guy, though, so I could have.
32:03
Speaker 15: Hopped on the float. Last second decision decided not to.
32:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's little floats rolling away and he's like, yeah, yeah,
32:11
Speaker 5: it didn't work out, but awesome guy.
32:13
Speaker 15: Man.
32:13
Speaker 5: He feels like he's really embracing the culture, which is
32:16
Speaker 5: cool to see. But you have like you have to.
32:18
Speaker 15: Yeah, if you're gonna wait in here as we've seen, yeah,
32:20
Speaker 15: people haven't.
32:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.
32:22
Speaker 15: You know you gotta embrace it.
32:23
Speaker 9: No better way than from a top of a float.
32:25
Speaker 9: Yeah right, it's pretty embracement.
32:27
Speaker 2: I think. I'm no, I'm right there with you. Absolutely.
32:30
Speaker 8: Uh So what else y'all got going on? Louisiana load?
32:33
Speaker 8: I mean, I mean, mudy girl.
32:34
Speaker 3: Obviously a big portion of it, just because I mean,
32:36
Speaker 3: the entire state does it. But like you said, the
32:38
Speaker 3: entire state does it a little bit differently. I mean
32:40
Speaker 3: everybody North South, everybody does it. So I'm sure that
32:42
Speaker 3: was a lot of fun. What else you got coming
32:44
Speaker 3: down the pipeline.
32:45
Speaker 5: Baseball season is a big thing, So we're gonna start
32:47
Speaker 5: doing some tailgates over at alex Box, doing all kinds
32:50
Speaker 5: of different stuff and just keep you know, exploring the state.
32:52
Speaker 5: Festivals are coming up a lot of different stuff. We
32:55
Speaker 5: also just started a new podcast, Losing Unloaded podcast myself
32:58
Speaker 5: and with Jordi. Yeah, and so he's been great, obviously
33:03
Speaker 5: a fan. I love Jordy and uh so we started,
33:06
Speaker 5: you know, have a guest on every Thursday, blow it Up,
33:09
Speaker 5: kind of just starting it small, hoping to blow it up.
33:12
Speaker 8: You just had Verge, just.
33:15
Speaker 15: Doug Thompson. Yeah, We're gonna, you know, keep having guests
33:17
Speaker 15: every week.
33:18
Speaker 5: Hopefully we can get some guys, you know through our
33:20
Speaker 5: connection with Gordon and.
33:22
Speaker 3: If I know, if I know anything about well Gordon
33:25
Speaker 3: one am I guy Jordy too. But Jordy, if Jordi
33:28
Speaker 3: gets somebody in his cross areas, they're coming on the show.
33:30
Speaker 15: They're coming. You know. We had Ben McDonald, like, you know, this.
33:32
Speaker 5: Is just the first couple of weeks, so uh I
33:35
Speaker 5: was exciting looking looking to keep going with it.
33:38
Speaker 9: So give me a highlight of like the Louisiana Loaded,
33:41
Speaker 9: Like what's You've been done a lot of stuff in
33:43
Speaker 9: Louisiana this past year, so like give it's like a
33:46
Speaker 9: top three things that you've actually got to experience through
33:50
Speaker 9: through the show and that you haven't done before.
33:53
Speaker 15: Man, that's tough. Wasn't wasn't prepared for that.
33:56
Speaker 8: Marty Girl was obviously, He's never prepared.
34:00
Speaker 5: Just kind of how it rolls, obviously, like Marty gral
34:05
Speaker 5: like Church Point, Marty Gral I had never done that.
34:07
Speaker 5: And to see the different culture of up Louisiana through
34:10
Speaker 5: that was awesome.
34:11
Speaker 2: Omaha.
34:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, being able to you know, that was when we
34:15
Speaker 5: first started Louisiana Load was was Omaha. I was up
34:17
Speaker 5: in Omaha for two weeks straight, you know, buying Jella shots,
34:21
Speaker 5: doing all that and then just you know, seeing all
34:23
Speaker 5: the different This is a broad answer, but I've been
34:26
Speaker 5: all over the state truth board, you know, Lake Charles,
34:28
Speaker 5: New Orleans, Covington, wherever you can kind of think of
34:32
Speaker 5: seeing all the different cultures, like not even just through culture,
34:35
Speaker 5: but like through food, through bars, through drinking. It's different
34:39
Speaker 5: in every area. And so to be able to kind
34:41
Speaker 5: of experience that on a different level than before as
34:44
Speaker 5: is pretty cool, really is pretty cool.
34:46
Speaker 3: Catching up with Will Helmer's here in the Raising Kines studio,
34:50
Speaker 3: he mentioned baseball season a big part of Louisiana loaded
34:53
Speaker 3: there and baseball is off to a pretty good start there.
34:55
Speaker 15: Eight.
34:56
Speaker 3: To note on the season we were talking before you
34:58
Speaker 3: jumped on, if you were one of the lucky ones
35:00
Speaker 3: that didn't have a stream that crashed over the weekend,
35:03
Speaker 3: you could have watched some really good baseball there as well.
35:05
Speaker 3: I don't think that anybody was lucky, because I think
35:07
Speaker 3: it crashed for everyone but LSU eight. No, and I
35:10
Speaker 3: mean Will obviously, like you've been a part championship teams,
35:12
Speaker 3: you know how hard it is to run it back,
35:15
Speaker 3: to bring back a squad this championship caliber. But this team,
35:18
Speaker 3: after winning it last year, losing so many key pieces,
35:21
Speaker 3: they look like right now and look there's still a
35:23
Speaker 3: long way to go, but they look like they're building
35:25
Speaker 3: that foundation to be able to compete for a championship.
35:29
Speaker 5: I mean it's it's impressive on kind of every facet
35:32
Speaker 5: right now, from the mound offensively, like they have every
35:35
Speaker 5: piece of the puzzle to go do it again. Yeah,
35:38
Speaker 5: you know, with baseball, it's kind of a lot of
35:39
Speaker 5: it's when you get hot. Yeah, You've seen that over
35:41
Speaker 5: the years with like Ole Miss and twenty twenty two, Like, yeah,
35:44
Speaker 5: you just get hot at the right time, right, and
35:45
Speaker 5: that's part of it. And they're obviously hot right now,
35:48
Speaker 5: and it's the biggest thing. And I you know, we've
35:51
Speaker 5: I've learned over the years of playing and even watching
35:54
Speaker 5: for the past couple of years now, is it's still early.
35:57
Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, it's super early.
35:58
Speaker 5: And they they've played some inferior opponents, you know for
36:01
Speaker 5: the most part, and but they showed out on every
36:04
Speaker 5: level that they can do it in the sec too.
36:06
Speaker 15: Yeah, the bats are there.
36:08
Speaker 5: There's not a single person in that lineup that has
36:10
Speaker 5: played so far that can't hurt you. You know, there's
36:13
Speaker 5: you know, whether it's Dardar or Carraway. And then you
36:16
Speaker 5: have you know, Curry Ol Brown, You're right at the top,
36:20
Speaker 5: which is like scary. So they have a lot of
36:22
Speaker 5: guys who can hurt you offensively, which is always something
36:25
Speaker 5: that you know, Jay's had in his lineups, whether it's
36:27
Speaker 5: the long ball or he's gonna come score like do
36:30
Speaker 5: a double squeeze, you know, bunt and score two runners.
36:33
Speaker 15: You know, just crazy stuff like that.
36:34
Speaker 5: So he's always going to score runs, always going to
36:36
Speaker 5: be good offensively, but from the mound portion of it,
36:40
Speaker 5: like two, Kochieski has done a great job of developing
36:44
Speaker 5: guys like I think we've seen you know Schmid on Sunday,
36:47
Speaker 5: was that's his best performance at LSU.
36:50
Speaker 8: I was going to ask you about him.
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Speaker 3: Okay, So a young guy whose expectations through the roof
36:55
Speaker 3: was supposed to go to the draft. He wanted to
36:56
Speaker 3: play for LSU, and so like a media people are like, oh, well,
36:59
Speaker 3: you got be awesome from day one. And look in sports,
37:02
Speaker 3: it's tough, Like a lot of freshmen play in baseball.
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Speaker 8: I get that, but it's still going to be incredibly tough.
37:07
Speaker 3: So from him, like you saw him last year and
37:10
Speaker 3: you see the flashes, but you know it wasn't consistent
37:12
Speaker 3: enough to be a weekend guy. Like what is that
37:14
Speaker 3: transition like in baseball from freshman year expectations to a
37:17
Speaker 3: sophomore year. He could probably take like at least a
37:20
Speaker 3: deep breath, and now we're starting to see all the
37:22
Speaker 3: things that we thought he would be.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and Schmid Williams got all the talent in the world.
37:27
Speaker 5: There was never a doubt about that when he you know,
37:29
Speaker 5: came from Catholic Like, he's got all the stuff, like
37:32
Speaker 5: he's a big league pitcher. Stuff wise, it's always a
37:35
Speaker 5: matter of if you can figure it out. And LSU
37:38
Speaker 5: is not an easy place to figure it out, true,
37:40
Speaker 5: you know, as a freshman, like coming into that environment
37:43
Speaker 5: and Alex box with you know, ten thousand strong or
37:46
Speaker 5: more is a tough place to learn how to be
37:48
Speaker 5: a college pitcher. Yeah, and so to take that stride
37:51
Speaker 5: from you know, being a freshman, you know, and he struggle.
37:54
Speaker 5: He struggled a lot as a freshman. You know, he
37:55
Speaker 5: couldn't get the ball over the plate as much. And
37:57
Speaker 5: and so we're kind of starting to see him maybe
37:59
Speaker 5: take the mold into that sophomore year of kind of like,
38:03
Speaker 5: well maybe he the stuff still there, the same stuff,
38:06
Speaker 5: but maybe it from a mental side of it, maybe
38:08
Speaker 5: he can take that next step and really, you know,
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Speaker 5: improve it and be a Saturday Sunday Sunday guy who
38:14
Speaker 5: knows And at the end of the season, like, you know,
38:17
Speaker 5: one of the best parts that I've seen from this
38:19
Speaker 5: team so far, as they got three guys over the
38:22
Speaker 5: weekend who went five plus innings Yeah, that's rare, you know,
38:25
Speaker 5: to throw just two guys on a Sunday. Yeah, is
38:28
Speaker 5: pretty cool, you know, and it's awesome, you know, to
38:31
Speaker 5: see that for sure.
38:32
Speaker 9: Tell me from a from a player perspective, what is
38:34
Speaker 9: February baseball like?
38:37
Speaker 2: Mentally?
38:38
Speaker 9: Just because you know, you know the coaches are constantly evaluating.
38:41
Speaker 9: You know that you're not an sec play You know
38:43
Speaker 9: that you're not you know, this is not win or
38:46
Speaker 9: win or go home whatever it is. You got to
38:49
Speaker 9: get hot at the right times, just like you said.
38:52
Speaker 9: But as a player, you know you're constantly being evaluated.
38:55
Speaker 9: You know that the lineup's not you know, it's it's
38:57
Speaker 9: not written in stone. You know that the pitching rotation
39:01
Speaker 9: is not written in stone.
39:02
Speaker 1: Like.
39:02
Speaker 9: So mentally, how do you approach practice in each game
39:06
Speaker 9: as a player in February?
39:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, so as an LSU player, I can't speak for
39:10
Speaker 5: other programs and about as a player of Jay Johnson,
39:17
Speaker 5: it's no different than it is in Omaha.
39:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know right now, which is cool.
39:21
Speaker 5: And you know one of Jay's things is it's a
39:24
Speaker 5: fifty six game playoff, so every game matters, every game
39:27
Speaker 5: is a playoff.
39:27
Speaker 3: Which actually I love that about Jay because well, you know,
39:31
Speaker 3: I mean so many people are like, oh, midweek games,
39:33
Speaker 3: it don't really matter. In like past coaches like we're
39:37
Speaker 3: trying stuff here and there. I'm like, no, the hell
39:38
Speaker 3: would we put on a uniform if we put out
39:41
Speaker 3: a lineup card, like, let's go win.
39:43
Speaker 15: The game exactly.
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Speaker 5: It all doesn't matter until you get no hit by
39:46
Speaker 5: Nichols on a Tuesday, Yes happens, Yeah, and you lose
39:49
Speaker 5: the Southern yeah or whatever as an LSU team, and
39:51
Speaker 5: then it's like what are y'all doing?
39:53
Speaker 15: Man? Right, and everybody hates you, you know.
39:55
Speaker 5: So, so having that mentality of you know, in training
39:59
Speaker 5: and practice in the m of like everything is a
40:02
Speaker 5: playoff game. Every game is a playoff game, even whether
40:05
Speaker 5: it's February or or June, you know. And so being
40:08
Speaker 5: a player of Jay Johnson, if you're gonna play, that's
40:11
Speaker 5: gonna be your mentality. And so you know, he's got
40:14
Speaker 5: a squad right now that you can kind of tell, uh,
40:17
Speaker 5: they believe in each other a little bit, and they
40:19
Speaker 5: kind of got some good chemistry right now, and it's
40:23
Speaker 5: almost easy for them. Yeah, it looks like they're just
40:25
Speaker 5: having fun. You know, it's just kids playing playing playing
40:28
Speaker 5: in the sand, you know, And so that's really cool
40:31
Speaker 5: to see and for us, like we have a for Gordon,
40:34
Speaker 5: we have you know, we've got eleven and il guys
40:37
Speaker 5: for baseball. And we took him to dinner a few
40:39
Speaker 5: weeks ago and just at the dinner table too, like
40:42
Speaker 5: these guys are just different.
40:43
Speaker 2: They get along.
40:44
Speaker 5: They're just you know, cracking jokes, you know whatever. And
40:46
Speaker 5: so to see that is really you know, special, you know,
40:50
Speaker 5: and it's the makings of a good team.
40:52
Speaker 2: Is Jay A yeah, he seems pretty intense. Is he
40:56
Speaker 2: a yeller?
40:56
Speaker 9: Is that how he expresses his intensity or is it
40:59
Speaker 9: just like when he speaks, everyone shuts up and for
41:02
Speaker 9: the moment he yells.
41:04
Speaker 8: You whisper a sweet.
41:06
Speaker 9: You know, there's coach We've had coaches that, like say,
41:09
Speaker 9: was a yeller, right, That's how he got his point across.
41:12
Speaker 2: Was yelling? He did, but he didn't have to well.
41:14
Speaker 8: You know, I mean, Jay takes a lot of his
41:16
Speaker 8: coaching from saving right.
41:17
Speaker 9: But there's also coaches that were very intense, like in
41:20
Speaker 9: you just didn't mess around with him, but they didn't
41:22
Speaker 9: have to yell to get that point across.
41:26
Speaker 15: Jay's got both. So he takes Skip versus yea Skip.
41:30
Speaker 5: I'm sure you've heard some stories of like, you know,
41:32
Speaker 5: you go out to the mound and Skip goes it's
41:35
Speaker 5: it's you know, it's it's not your fault, it's mine you.
41:40
Speaker 5: So you know, there's some of that in Jay and
41:42
Speaker 5: there's also some yellow. So it's fun either way. He's
41:48
Speaker 5: he can do both. I've heard him get on some people.
41:50
Speaker 5: I've got some great stories that you know, we probably
41:53
Speaker 5: can't say on air, But he does both.
41:56
Speaker 15: You know, that's what a good coach.
41:58
Speaker 8: He knows how to get best player in college baseball.
42:01
Speaker 15: Yeah, exactly.
42:02
Speaker 8: I don't know which one would be worse.
42:03
Speaker 3: Skipt telling you it's my fault for recruiting you are
42:07
Speaker 3: Jimbo saying I wish your parents never met.
42:09
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean both of them good.
42:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah tough.
42:17
Speaker 9: I think I actually kind of like the the underhanded like, oh,
42:21
Speaker 9: it's my my fault for recruiting you, evaluating that.
42:25
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42:27
Speaker 2: that was the guy that he told that. Will.
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