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CWS Betting Odds, Jay Johnson Joins from Omaha · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: All start to Yota presents Off the Bench with Jacob
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  Speaker 1: Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Mercedes
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  Speaker 1: ben So Baton Rouge Studio starts.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back again. It is our number two
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  Speaker 3: of OTV.
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  Speaker 4: Here on one of four five ESPN Baton Rouge. Let's
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  Speaker 4: go ahead and play the sounder because it's time for
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  Speaker 4: a little munchies.
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  Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalyze your taste buds and leave this
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  Speaker 1: segment hungry. This is Monkey's with Executive chef Michael Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: I love that you a man.
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was hour three. I was getting ahead
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  Speaker 5: of myself audible.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 4: Look, look being an hour too is a little bit
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  Speaker 4: different obviously. So chef, thank you so much for moving
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  Speaker 4: the schedule around. We appreciate you, know you being flexible here.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you. So yeah, no problem, uh chef?
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  Speaker 4: Right now, you got the football team summer workouts, and
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  Speaker 4: I don't think there was ever a time that I
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  Speaker 4: could throw down some food more than summer workouts, because
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  Speaker 4: my god, you're using a lot of energy out there.
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  Speaker 3: What is this time like at the nutrition.
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  Speaker 4: Center because you know, there's there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: that aren't even on campus technically, certainly like the baseball
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  Speaker 4: team now as we know they're they're in Omaha, So
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  Speaker 4: what's the foot traffic like? But what is that food
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  Speaker 4: consumption like here in the summer?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, actually, breakfast is really busy during the summer because
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  Speaker 6: a lot of times we make football so you know,
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  Speaker 6: in order to give them time for the day to
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  Speaker 6: do other things, we might make breakfast mandatory so that
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  Speaker 6: we know that they're getting their meal in and getting
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  Speaker 6: energy up and getting nutrition in because you know, to
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  Speaker 6: to to some people, you know, when you get super
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  Speaker 6: hot and super exhausted, they don't want to eat right,
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  Speaker 6: and so we want to get the food into them
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  Speaker 6: earlier and in the day.
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  Speaker 7: And so.
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  Speaker 6: Like right now we're probably seeing one hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 6: five people for breakfast and that's that's that's like two
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  Speaker 6: thirds of what we normally see. And usually you know,
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  Speaker 6: like summer can be slow. Yeah, you know, like in
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  Speaker 6: twenty twenty one, summer was kind of slow for us.
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  Speaker 6: But it really depends on you know, postseason play for
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  Speaker 6: baseball depends on track and field. What they're doing there's
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  Speaker 6: because they're still there. They were still you know, compeeding
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  Speaker 6: not so long ago, and sometimes they have like postseason
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  Speaker 6: competitions as well. Yeah, you know, so it I mean,
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  Speaker 6: we're we're pretty busy. Lunch, you know, stays pretty much
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  Speaker 6: the same throughout the year. Dinner will dive off a
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  Speaker 6: little bit just because you know, like once once stuff
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  Speaker 6: gets done and taken care of lifting and everything else.
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  Speaker 6: I think athletes like to, you know, have a little
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  Speaker 6: bit of time to themselves and that's fine. So breakfast
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  Speaker 6: is pretty busy this time of year.
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  Speaker 3: Hashtag munchies.
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  Speaker 4: I finally got an air fryer, wondered if there was
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  Speaker 4: a way to do okra. I made pickles with my
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  Speaker 4: first load from the garden, but I don't need six
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  Speaker 4: jars of pickle okra.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so they wanting to know how to fry it
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  Speaker 6: in there or I think it's.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I would assume. I mean it's Louisiana.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Okra's going in a pot with something else.
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  Speaker 4: But if we're going to eat just okra, that thing's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be fried.
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  Speaker 6: One thing you gotta make sure that you're doing when
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  Speaker 6: you're air frying anything. It's making sure that you're getting
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  Speaker 6: the bread crumb or the flour, you know, saturated with
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  Speaker 6: oil and a deep fry. The difference is is that
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  Speaker 6: you're submerging it in oil, and so it's going to
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  Speaker 6: get the saturation. But what's unhealthy about it is you're
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  Speaker 6: submerging it in the oil, and that oil starts replacing
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  Speaker 6: liquid and cooking into the texture or the skin or
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  Speaker 6: the you know, like if it's a fruit or not
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  Speaker 6: a fruit, but a vegetable or a big piece of
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  Speaker 6: protein that actually will cook.
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  Speaker 3: You can fry a fruit.
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  Speaker 6: Tomatoes, yeah, bananas, So so I'm like, yeah, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 6: I love fried green tomatoes and dashed I just came
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  Speaker 6: from my garden actually, man, yeah, yeah, so they are fry.
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  Speaker 6: I think a lot of people kind of fear away
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  Speaker 6: from that saturation of the flour or the or the
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  Speaker 6: bread crumb on the outside, right, But in reality, if
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  Speaker 6: you wanted to brown up properly and not turn you know,
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  Speaker 6: like kind of dry looking, and you really need to
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  Speaker 6: make sure that you're getting a good saturation of it.
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  Speaker 3: On there, hashtag munchies.
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  Speaker 4: My wife wants to cook fried steak fingers, tonight, what
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  Speaker 4: is chefs recommended cut of steak for that dish? And
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  Speaker 4: this way, this one to me is near and dear
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  Speaker 4: to my heart because my grandmother used to make steak
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  Speaker 4: fingers and my god, I mean just I don't I
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  Speaker 4: don't even know what you used for the breading on there,
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  Speaker 4: but I would go through like seven or eight of
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  Speaker 4: those things.
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  Speaker 3: It is like a core childhood memory for me.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, yeah, I think for me, what we
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  Speaker 6: usually do for steak fingers is we'll take cube beef
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  Speaker 6: like the same thing that you did make out of
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  Speaker 6: a out out of a chicken fried steak, because it's
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  Speaker 6: already been tender eyed. Because because you're deep frying it
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  Speaker 6: and it's a high intense heat, those muscle tissues tense
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  Speaker 6: up really quickly and can be tough. And so you know,
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  Speaker 6: if you're not using if you're not using chicken fried
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  Speaker 6: steak and good quality chicken fried steak, I would say,
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  Speaker 6: you know, like a flank steak or a skirt steak
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  Speaker 6: sliced on a bias, so that you're cutting some of
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  Speaker 6: that breaking through some of that connective tissue. We've talked
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  Speaker 6: about that before, like if you have a if you
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  Speaker 6: have a tougher cut. When you slice it at an angle,
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  Speaker 6: you're reducing the amount of connective tissue that's actually holding
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  Speaker 6: on onto the protein that's directly above it, right, and
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  Speaker 6: so it mouthfeel and uh and and texturally it loosens
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  Speaker 6: it up a bit. Yep, I would I would say
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  Speaker 6: if you don't have either one of those, maybe at
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  Speaker 6: chuck A chuck can be kind of tough, but you
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  Speaker 6: can tenderize that with a with a mallet or something
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  Speaker 6: and then get a pretty good product out of it.
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  Speaker 6: You know, if you go too soft with tenderloin, you're
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  Speaker 6: wasting your money on a tenderloin. Yeah, my god, I
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  Speaker 6: do like steak.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, man, I'm like about to text my mom. Mom,
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  Speaker 4: do you have Nana's old steak finger recipe? You can
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  Speaker 4: send us down here.
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  Speaker 6: Are you guys dipping? Are you guys dipping fans with
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  Speaker 6: steak fingers or you know, like getting gravy or red.
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  Speaker 4: Soft gravy for sure?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean for sure. So uh that might be
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  Speaker 4: on the menu tonight, so uh. Shout out to Scott
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  Speaker 4: for asking a question and shout out to chef for
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  Speaker 4: a great answer. As always, hashtag cheese. What's on Chef's
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  Speaker 4: Father's Day menu?
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  Speaker 6: You know, this is so funny. I'm I totally forgot,
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  Speaker 6: that's the thing. Yeah, you know Father's Day. I always
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  Speaker 6: let my kids kind of decide and we usually end
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  Speaker 6: up having a meal at the house and and my
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  Speaker 6: kids like to cook with me on on on Father's Day.
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  Speaker 6: So it's it's it's funny because somebody to ask me
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  Speaker 6: what I was doing for Father's Day yesterday is like,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know when when is Father's Day? You know,
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  Speaker 6: I usually I learned today.
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  Speaker 4: Children, I learned today because I forgot, So yeah, that
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  Speaker 4: feels right. I mean a great meal at the house,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, allow of them because like you know,
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  Speaker 4: Father's Day, so they can make you.
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  Speaker 3: They can make you happy.
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  Speaker 6: That's right. And and spending time with them, that's trick.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 6: Like I do have some fresh snapper that I call
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  Speaker 6: it caught over the weekend, So imagine that's going to
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  Speaker 6: get eaten at some point over the weekend, and it
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  Speaker 6: seems like Father's Day would be a perfectly good day
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  Speaker 6: to do it.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, you know, I don't I don't know like what
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  Speaker 4: your schedule is, but you know, speaking of fish, I
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  Speaker 4: think some still Head out. You know, Flynn's new, Like
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  Speaker 4: he's not here right now. You know, he's celebrating his
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  Speaker 4: fortieth birthday. He'll be back next week, so you know,
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  Speaker 4: sooner rather than later. I mean, I think we need
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  Speaker 4: to introduce him to the in studio version of Chef
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  Speaker 4: Michael Johnson.
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  Speaker 6: That would be awesome, man, I would love to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my guy, that fish. Oh my god, I think
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  Speaker 3: about that often, Jeff.
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  Speaker 6: That was incredible.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we could we could run that back.
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  Speaker 4: That's how good. Like, I know you could do so many,
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  Speaker 4: but that was so good. Like I almost want Flynn
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  Speaker 4: to experience what we experienced last year.
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  Speaker 6: Still had it so divergent, you know, like you can
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  Speaker 6: put a lot of stuff with him. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 6: one of the fishes that I really enjoy eating by
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  Speaker 6: itself too, you know, like you can't say that about
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  Speaker 6: all fish, no, but but I do enjoy just grilling
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  Speaker 6: a piece of stillhead and mediant.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: I'm very intrigued with your answer on this one because
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  Speaker 4: I know we've talked about meal prep before and you
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  Speaker 4: lose some of the nutrients. But we have one hashtag munchies.
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  Speaker 4: If you had to meal prep for weight loss specific
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  Speaker 4: what would you make.
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  Speaker 6: Way loss? I have to be careful of what kind
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  Speaker 6: of uh, what kind of direction I give to that
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  Speaker 6: because every human body is a little bit different, right,
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, it depends on your activity.
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  Speaker 4: What your activity like, I guess maybe, like you know,
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  Speaker 4: like what would be healthy? I guess for anybody almost
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  Speaker 4: Like you know what I'm saying, like what food do
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  Speaker 4: you know? Like, no matter what, because you're that's a
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  Speaker 4: great answer, because you're right. Yeah, Like I'm like when
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  Speaker 4: I'm eating healthy, like things work for me don't work
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  Speaker 4: for my wife like vice versas.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, in a general sense, in order to lose weight,
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  Speaker 6: what you're trying to do is exceed calorie burn compared
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  Speaker 6: to when compared to calorie intake, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 6: So one of the things that you really can do
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  Speaker 6: easily is reduce your portion sizes. You know, like a
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  Speaker 6: lot of people think that fats are bad for the
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  Speaker 6: human body, but if you're burning them off quickly and easily,
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  Speaker 6: you know, they don't optimize and you don't have to
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  Speaker 6: worry about it as much. So and carbs, you know,
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  Speaker 6: carbs are good for loading. If you're putting up a
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  Speaker 6: whole lot of energy in the and the you know,
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  Speaker 6: like you're gonna burn it off the same thing. You know,
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  Speaker 6: like protein, I would say four ounces in the middle
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  Speaker 6: of the day somewhere in there, depending on your body size.
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  Speaker 6: That you know, lots of fruits and vegetables in your diet. Man, carbs.
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  Speaker 6: Carbs are not as necessary. They're they're necessary to have burned,
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  Speaker 6: don't get me wrong, but fruits and fruits and vegetables,
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  Speaker 6: and you can get carb heavy fruits, carb heavy vegetables
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  Speaker 6: and get that out of them as well. Corn, for instance,
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  Speaker 6: is a starch heavy vegetable that you can get carbs
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  Speaker 6: out of that, so you're not absolutely missing carbs and
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  Speaker 6: stuff like just potato and rice. Get a back off
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  Speaker 6: on that, I think a little bit. But you know, protein,
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  Speaker 6: proteins and vedges. And if you're working out, it's even
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  Speaker 6: different because then you have to worry about recovery as well.
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  Speaker 6: But if you're talking about a midday lunch, you know,
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  Speaker 6: like taking it with you in the morning to eat
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  Speaker 6: lunch to the middle of the day, backing off on
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  Speaker 6: the portion sizes a little bit, so that the calories
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  Speaker 6: because you have to get you know, like if we're
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  Speaker 6: just talking about your average Joe that goes and has
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  Speaker 6: an an office job. For instance, you know, if they're
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  Speaker 6: sitting at their desk a lot that day, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and they're putting in four thousand calories and a lunch meal,
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  Speaker 6: not only you know, like, yeah, we can back that
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  Speaker 6: down a bit and you know, and and maybe not
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  Speaker 6: take that midday snooze or nap that you're always fighting.
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  Speaker 4: Off, right, Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. Hashtag munchies. Why
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  Speaker 4: are fall off the bone ribs considered overcooked?
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  Speaker 6: Well, so technically what you're doing there is I think
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  Speaker 6: it depends on what creature, but connective tissues don't start
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  Speaker 6: falling apart. And so there's two things that will break
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  Speaker 6: down connective tissue an extended amount of time or extreme heat.
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  Speaker 6: So you don't want to cook over extreme heat because
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  Speaker 6: that's going to burn, right, So spended amount of time
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  Speaker 6: is going to loosen those connective tissues up. And you
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  Speaker 6: know that if you consider what the color, uh, well,
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  Speaker 6: and not only that, you know, like you're also leaching
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  Speaker 6: nutrient out of out of the protein as well. In
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  Speaker 6: a raw piece of meat, you have the optimum amount,
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  Speaker 6: you know, like that's that's as much nutrient as that
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  Speaker 6: steak it's ever going to have available for you. And
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  Speaker 6: when you cook it over a long amount of time,
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  Speaker 6: you're having this leech that drips out. Now, if you
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  Speaker 6: serve it with a sauce that is made from the drippings,
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  Speaker 6: you can add some of that back in. But if yeah,
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  Speaker 6: you know, technically you are over cooking it. So that's
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  Speaker 6: why you see a lot of sauces and gravies go
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  Speaker 6: back into a stew like that, not just to keep
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  Speaker 6: pre prevent them from drying out, but it's to add
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  Speaker 6: nutrient back.
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  Speaker 4: In hashtag munchies, what is proper hot dog dressing etiquette?
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  Speaker 6: Oh man, this is that's a that's a you know,
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  Speaker 6: I'm a huge fan of the Chicago Dog, but I've
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  Speaker 6: also eaten you know, like I have kind of a
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  Speaker 6: They have this place in Vancouver. It's called a Jappa
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  Speaker 6: Dog and they put like kim chi and Benito flakes
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  Speaker 6: and and with Sobby mayonnaise on it, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: like it was when I was in Vancouver, it was
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  Speaker 6: absolutely fantastic. And you know, like if I go to, uh,
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  Speaker 6: you know, certain places and they have this mad chili dog,
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  Speaker 6: that's you know, like chili cheese, gut bomb. But if
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  Speaker 6: they're doing it really right, I think it's man, I
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  Speaker 6: just started telling me off of a chili dog, you know.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's wherever you're at if they're doing it
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  Speaker 6: best right. And I have a love a relationship with
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  Speaker 6: hot dogs because I served them and cooked them for
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  Speaker 6: so long, and it's still like Pavlov's dog if I
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  Speaker 6: smell a hot dog, you know, the opening of a
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  Speaker 6: of a case of a hot dog, like I'm like,
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  Speaker 6: I gotta have one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know exactly what you mean there, Chef.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I'll see if we can get at least
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  Speaker 4: one more. All right, perfect one? I think to end
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  Speaker 4: on hashtag munchies, would you do the nine.
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  Speaker 3: To nine to nine challenge? I don't know what that is,
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  Speaker 3: a landra, would you care to share with chef what
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  Speaker 3: that is?
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  Speaker 2: The nine nine to nine challenge is you go to
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  Speaker 2: a baseball game and each inning you drink a beer
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  Speaker 2: and you eat a hot dog, so you end up
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  Speaker 2: drinking nine beers and nine hot dogs in nine innings.
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  Speaker 6: Can I do it? Or if I want to do it?
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  Speaker 3: Or could you could? Could you do it? Because I could?
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  Speaker 6: I mean the hot Dogs would be oppressed. But I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I do think I could do it. I guess it
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  Speaker 6: depends because I've seen I've been to baseball games that
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  Speaker 6: we're two and a half hours long, and I've been
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  Speaker 6: to ease baseball games that were, like, you know, five
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  Speaker 6: hours long. So I would much prefer it be a
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  Speaker 6: dragging on baseball game to give me a little time
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  Speaker 6: with it. The nine Beers, I know that I could.
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  Speaker 6: I could put back nine hot Dogs, you know, like
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  Speaker 6: as long as they're not you know, stuff stuff full
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  Speaker 6: of stuff poppings by. I don't know that would be
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  Speaker 6: I think I can probably get her done. Just to
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  Speaker 6: be honest with you, if it was a challenge and
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  Speaker 6: there was money on it, I'm not going to go
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  Speaker 6: do that just for.
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  Speaker 1: S and G.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like if I had to put up like
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  Speaker 4: someone like, you know, hey, you got to put this
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  Speaker 4: person up for this challenge, and if they get it done,
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  Speaker 4: you win a great prize. But if they don't get
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  Speaker 4: it done, like it's doomsday, I do think I would
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  Speaker 4: put up our boy, t Bob.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I could see that he'd be a first.
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  Speaker 3: He'd be a first team draft choice.
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  Speaker 6: I can see Ta Bob going Kobeashi Diffeney's hot dog
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  Speaker 6: in the beer and just like crushing it.
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  Speaker 4: Man, I mean he's in Chicago, now, yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 4: so like he's he's in the perfect spot to be
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  Speaker 4: able to see if he could get that done.
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  Speaker 6: Oh man, could you imagine having to eat nine Chicago
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  Speaker 6: dolls back to back?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that is not something I no, that is not
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  Speaker 4: something I don't think anybody would want to try to
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  Speaker 4: knock down.
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  Speaker 3: Chef. We can't thank you enough.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for being flexible, thanks for moving up the time here,
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  Speaker 4: great questions in the chat as always, and fantastic answers
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  Speaker 4: from Chef. So we'll catch up again next week.
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• 16:26
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  Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves, it's off the
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• 18:05
  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back again OTB here on this Thursday morning,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: taking a look at the latest odds to go win
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: the national championship at the College World Series Arkansas plus
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: two hundred, LSU plus two twenty five, and then you
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: have a dip and it goes plus six hundred for
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Coastal Carolina, plus six fifty for Oregon State, plus eight
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: hundred for UCLA, and then another drop plus fourteen hundred
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: for Arizona, plus sixteen hundred for Louisville, and plus thirty
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: five hundred for Murray State. So I mean, obviously the
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: two favorites as we know, are playing each other in
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: round number one. If I was to take LSU and
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Arkansas off the board and I said, okay, I'm giving
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: you one hundred dollars and you can go play whatever
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: team you want. Now, that's not just to say, you know,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: go play the team with the third best odd It's
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: like if you won't like to maybe get a little
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: out there and get a little juice, get a little value.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: If I gave you one hundred dollars to bet on
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: any team outside of Arkansas and l s U, who
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: would it be? U? C?
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: L A Coastal for you?
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: You see, LA, what's nine hundred? They looked really good
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: in the Super Regional. I mean they've won a lot
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: of games this year. Like, that's a that's a team
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: that's a little sneaky. I think Coastal is better, but
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: like u C.
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: L A has I mean LA those Coastals. Uh, I'm
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: still but I mean it's pretty good.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I don't I don't hate that one for UCLA.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: They do get to play Murray State, that is the
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: four seed. Now if they win, they got to play
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: the winner of l s U Arkansas. And if that's LSU,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: you're going against Anthony Ianton, So you know, tough matchup
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: for them.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I'm going to Arizona. Yeah, that's another what they like.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: They just beat maybe the hottest team in the country
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: after getting eighteen to two in the first game in
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Chapel Hill, fourteen hundred feels like incredible odds. I'm shocked
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: that they're that far behind UCLA. And they get to
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: open up against the Louisville who, outside of Murray State,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: second worst side to win. Yeah, it feels like a
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: decent matchup for them as well.
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: That's true.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I put my one hundred dollars.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: The path isn't badres either, because like it's all about
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: the path, right, because at least amount of games you
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: lose at least number of arms you have to use.
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: Like I don't I don't hate that either.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Like I and I love Coastal Uh, but they face
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: or Coastal Oregon State, it's gonna be a heavyweight out. Yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: that's gonna be one of the like everybody's talking about
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: LSU and Arkansas and I get it. But that game
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: right there, that's quality baseball. That is going to be
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: I think just a full nine inning slugfast Yeah, like
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: they're gonna there's gonna be some counterpunching in that.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: So the pitching is that's gonna be like a good
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: pitching matchup Oregon State and uh Coastal Carolina, especially if
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Oregon States Dax Whitney's going out there. Coastal Carolina has
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: like three legit starters on their team and their team
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: e er A is three twenty six. Now, like they're hitting,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: they're good hitters. They got a team batting average of
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: two eighty nine. But it's not what I don't think
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: it's what got them here. Like they're pitching is really
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: like what I'm looking at and what has me confident
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: in them. But I mean, yeah, that Oregon State matchup
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: is gonna be a tough one for them, But I
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: just feel really good about them, and that I mean
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I feel great about LSU, like I have a really
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: really good feeling about but something about Coastal they feel
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: hot to me.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, Coastal is like one of those teams that
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: I think if you're just kind of a common like
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: you only pay attention during the postseason, casual college baseball fan,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: like you're still thinking like mid major, mid major, mid major, yeah,
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: when in fact, the Sun Belt's a really good baseball conference.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: I think we all know that certainly here. But also
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: like when you've had a run and you've gone and
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: you've won a national championship, yeah, like that just gives
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: you the ultimate belief. And it doesn't matter that none
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: of those players were obviously there the last time they
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: did it, but the fact that you have done it
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: in your program history, like, well why not us? We've
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: won fifty three games. Yeah, so yeah, coast was not
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: a bad play here.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Either.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Also, like, sorry, no, go ahead, they have since they
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: won in twenty sixteen, right, six Yeah, twenty sixteen.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: They was that long ago already, right.
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: There was.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: A gap between like in twenty seventeen, they didn't make
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: it to the tournament, and then they made it twenty eighteen,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, didn't make it for two years, and then
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: since twenty twenty two, they've made the tournament every season
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: since then. So but the last like actual College World
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Series appearance that they had was in twenty sixteen, so
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: they would always lose like in the regional. But still like,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: that's a program that is pretty I mean, you're making
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: it into the postseason pretty much every season.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: It's pretty solid.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I did mention it it is I think
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: I had that it's Louisville, Oregon State, Arizona, Coastal. Right, Yeah, yeah,
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: I said that backwards a little bit earlier, but even
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: more so for Coastal in that one. Yeah, I was
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: thinking that the way the bracket matched up. But either way,
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: like I'm that portion of the bracket that is going
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: to be, like I fully expect it, like Coastal and
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Oregon State to have some type of a battle at
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: some point there in Omaha.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Well, if you remember, like back in twenty sixteen, the
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: Coastal team they play a lot like they did this
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: year because that team like didn't have a ton of
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: power hitters on it. They could just all get on base.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: They've only hit like sixty sixty five home runs last year.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Like not bad, not great. They're just teams that get
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: on base. They're good on the base pass, they got
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: good pitching. This is exactly how they were in sixteen.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: That the top portion up there is.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: It's not going to be as easy as people are
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: making like Bracket one is not going to be. I
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: know everybody's talking about bracket too because LSU and Arkansas
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: are in there. But going like whoever goes through there,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: you're gonna have to go through Coastal or Oregon State,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: even if it's one of the other teams that we're
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: talking about like each other. It's gonna be tough. It
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: is not going to be just because all these top
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: seeds got knocked out. Everybody thinks they know exactly how
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: it's going to play out there.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: But look at that schedule.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: It is Coastal Carolina Game one versus Arizona. That is
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: going to be the first game. I believe that's a
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: noon first pitch here locally Central time. You've got Oregon
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: State and Louisville. That's gonna be the nightcap and then
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: of course Game three is going to be the early game.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be CLA and Murray State and then Arkansas
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: and LSU. So a lot to break down, a lot
• 25:05
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• 25:10
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• 25:15
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• 25:17
  Speaker 3: We will see.
• 25:18
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• 25:22
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• 25:24
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  Speaker 3: Still trying to get with her cat.
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  Speaker 4: J Johnson a new in the thirty minute reminder didn't
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  Speaker 4: get answered.
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  Speaker 3: We might be in some trouble. We might have an issue.
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  Speaker 4: It's okay. We've still got time. We've got an hour
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  Speaker 4: and a half left. You know, we got some guests
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  Speaker 4: coming up. But if it's like you move stuff around,
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: we can move stuff around if it's you know, even
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  Speaker 4: if it's at nine fifteen, and we keep it tight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: keep our guests tight, even if it's at nine forty five.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see if we can get with coach.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not double calling though, No, no, I'm not double
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: calling j Johnson.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: Well he's in Omaha. I would do it if he wasn't.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is what happens, you know, when you try
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: to overprepare, like on Tuesday or like hey two days
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: from now, you know we're gonna link back up or
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: we go it's like, yeah, you know, send them in
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: the thirty minute reminder.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: It's like maybe, you know, maybe we just.
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  Speaker 4: Fly by the seat of our pants like Tabab did
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: and texting five minutes before. Right, It's okay, we'll find
• 28:23
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• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I am confident in that again.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Coastal Carolina, Arizona, Oregon State, Louisville, Ucla, Murray State, Arkansas,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: and LSU.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: And I was sitting there thinking.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: The like we always talk about, like how important it
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: is to win the first game. That's for everybody, I
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: guess the obvious statement. And for Arkansas and LSU to
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: win that first game because of how you know, important
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: it would be for their pitching matchup in game number
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: eight of the College World Series, which would be the
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: winner's bracket. But look, it's baseball, so who knows what happens.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: But like if I had to say, like a must
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: win game as much as Arkansas LSU would have to
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: be UCLA Murray State, yeah I do. Only I don't
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: think either one of those teams wants to face Arkansas
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: or LSU in the loser's bracket, knowing who they would
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: put on the mound compared to who they would be
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: able to throw out there, like that feels as must
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: win as possible, certainly, you know, if you want to
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: keep the Cinderella season alive from Murray State.
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: I'm trying to look at I'm trying to pull out
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: the bracket.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: I just printed it off, so because the one I
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: was looking at was busted a little bit earlier, so
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: I just went ahead and printed that thing off.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Little old school. Sometimes technology can fail.
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: I don't love the way that brackets look on computers.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Well, no, here's the thing. Here's the problem with the
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: NCAA's website. Right, it's got so on the like on
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: their actual website, Like when you look at it gets
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: confusion because it has Oregon State.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: And Coastals next to each other.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Arizona Louisville next to each other, right, which those
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: teams aren't playing each other in the first round. But
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: then it has Arkansas and LSUE next to each other
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: they're playing and UCLA Murray State they're playing, right, and
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: so this has got to be like twice like I'll
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: start talking about like, oh yeah, that's that's their mess
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: up on their website, their official NCAA website. So it
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: does get kind of confusing. That's why I look, kids,
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: don't hate on the old people. Just go print it
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: off for you so you don't have to worry about technology.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Can't wait for Coastal Oregon State though, if that does.
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: Happen, that's gonna be a really good matchup.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Is the winner of Like the winner of that is
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: going to be in the championship series. Yeah, I fully
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: fully believe that, like the winner of if they meet
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: up whoever wins that first game.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I truly believe they're going to be in the champions Well.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: You know, it's funny, like everyone's talking about the bottom
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: part of the bracket, and I get it, but it's
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: always oh LSU Arkansas, the two juggernauts of the sport.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Top part of that bracket might be the more competitive
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: bracket in my opinion, like Coastal Arizona, Oregon State, Louisville,
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: like all four of those teams, they're good, Like they're
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: better than they're getting credit for. Also, yeah, I mean,
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: the longer you can stay in that winner's bracket, the
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: better you are off. And I agree, I like, I
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: like Oregon State, Coastal Carolina. But I don't know, man,
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: that's a competitive side of the bracket. That's a part
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: that a lot of people aren't talking about.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: No, they're not because you got the headliner, you have
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: LSU Arkansas. And again like even that's not just here,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: that's like series six M. When we're breaking it all down,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: like LSU Arkansas, everybody won't talk about it.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Nobody who comes on, they're like, all right, let's start
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: there with that game. And I get it.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: I understand it, Like you're talking about two aces like
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: massive programs and rivals and like the whole Like I
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: get all of it, but I'm sure Bracket one's actually
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: probably enjoying all that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Bracket one does have some heavy hitters there.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Murray State is the fourth four seed to get to
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: this point, to get to the College World Series.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: I think ORL.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Roberts was the last one, right three? When else you
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: won it all? Do we know the only four seed
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: to ever win it? Yeah, thousand and eight, so the
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: year before LA Shoot wins it in nine. So yeah,
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: they entered the NCAA Tournament as a four seed in
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: the regional and then they went.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I believe it was Georgia.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: I think they beat Georgia in the in the College
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: World Series finals, so they remained the only four seed
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: ever to win it.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: So I believe they were the very last team. I
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: believe they were the very last team in the tournament,
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: like the the last seed.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: So again, like we talked about with Coastal, they've seen
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: their team go do it. If you're Murray State, how
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: many times do you think their coach after he gets
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: done mowing the grass has talked to his team about
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Fresno State going to win it as a four seed.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: So's he's always good to like if you're trying to
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: motivate your team, motivate your program to be able to
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: have like, hey, this has happened before, it can't happen again.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: So again that Murray State UCLA game that is going
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: to be game number three.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: That will be Saturday at noon.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: So all right, we are going to catch up with
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: the head coach of the LSU Fighting Tigers boots on
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: the ground there in Omaha.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Coach, we truly always.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Appreciate your time, but certainly while you're trying to get
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: ready for the College World Series. And so thanks for
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: hopping on. And how was traveling yesterday? How's it been
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: so far?
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: It's always the best travel day of the year, that's
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: for sure. Got here and got over to the stadium
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: and took that in for a minute, and then well
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: the right to practice, so kind of back to business
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: as usual and looking forward to a good day to day.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: So, coach, you have had players that have been there
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: before and they've been in that moment, But what was
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: it like for the players like you watching them walk
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: into that stadium for the first time, because that's one
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: of the great things about college baseball is everybody knows
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: where the championship is going to be played, and so
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: you know that it's in the back of your mind
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: and you can visualize yourself there. It's not like football
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: and basketball where it rotates, you know, to different cities,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: different venues. What was it like for you to kind
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: of see those guys for the first time that hadn't
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: been there before.
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's pretty awesome. And there's eight players you know
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: that were on that team in twenty twenty three and
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: everybody else it's their first time, and you know, they've
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: worked hard. And I said this a few times last week,
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: like this team deserved to be here, whether we won
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: two games or not last weekend. And so for me,
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: if there was any kind of pressure, that was it.
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: I felt like this team earned their way to Omaha
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: by how they did everything, you know, on a daily
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: basis through the fall, winter, early spring and then obviously
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: this season. So it was pretty awesome, you know, just
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: staying on the dugout step, watch them walk out there,
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: walk a lap around the field on a warning track,
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: take pictures, and you know, and then also we talked about,
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: you know, you know, take it in and see yourself here,
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: because this is where it's on. It's back to baseball
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: on Saturday.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: And we all know how it's going to go down.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: On Saturday.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: You got the primetime game against a team that you
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: know very well and coach. One of the things I
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: always am intrigued by is the way that you prepare
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: for your opponent. I really like you take like a
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: football coach approach, like you're always watching tape like nothing
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: is going to be you know, not looked at and
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: not evaluated in your process getting ready for your game
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: plan there, and you know this team incredibly well, Like
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: you just played this Arkansas team a month ago, so
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: when you're preparing for this game, you have that to
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: lean on.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: But like, is there like a fine line of Okay, let's.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Don't lean on that experience too much even though it
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: was just four weeks ago. Like, let's also make sure
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: that we're watching the regional the super regional and taking
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: that information just as much as we take our series
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: against them.
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure. And I kind of have a rule
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: when you play a team a second time or play
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: them in the postseason, is like start over and do
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: it like you haven't played them before. And you know,
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: young people change a lot today, you know, let alone
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: four weeks ago. And then the other factor is that game.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: Those games were played at our stadium, you know, and
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: that's a different animal. And I know that obviously because
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: with the support we get. The other part is when
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: we go on the road, things are much tougher.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: Like that's just the reality of it.
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: So you know, there's some things that I did go
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: back and watch that series, at least from our pitching,
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: so they're hitting, you know, to look at some things,
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: but really really focused.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: On their last four games that they've played.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, coach, and we've talked about kind of the you
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: know what the pitching matchups probably are are going to
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: look like.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: And when you're a hitter and you're going back and.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: Let's say that it is you know, Zachary's going to
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: be on the mound for Arkansas, Like how would like
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: how do you study film as a hitter? Like I'm
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: always curious like that, Like, Okay, well he got me
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: out with that pitch last time, and like, in my
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: mind's going to go back to that pitch, but maybe
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: he's going to think that I'm thinking that he's gonna
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: throw a different pitch, like at the mind games of
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: being in the batter's box, it gets a pitcher like that,
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: a very talented pitcher. Like, how do you tell your
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: guys to maybe look at film when they're watching that
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: of a guy that they faced before who is a
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: really talented pitcher.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you know, familiarity is good on that side.
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: I mean because when something comes out of his hand,
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: maybe recognize it a little bit sooner. And that's where
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: the advantage lies. I mean as far as did not
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: pitches and guessing. If you start guessing against the guy
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: of zach Rude or Kate Anderson's caliber, like, you're gonna
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: have a hard time. Like you're gonna end up with
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: twenty five. You're gonna end up in.
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: Like the worst blackjack odds.
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: Casino in Vegas or something like that. So it's just
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: about seeing the ball, eliminating pitches, you know, getting your
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: pitch to hit, taking balls, you know, bat on with
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: two strikes, you know, make it hard on him and
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: it's a tough place. Four runs too. Like That's that's
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: another element of this game. It's very intriguing with two
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: really good, good pictures going. So I think the other focuses.
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: We've got to be ready to win a close game.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, speaking of a close game, I think
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: there's obviously some pictures that's all season long you've brought
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: in in those situations to close out a game. But
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: if we go back a week, you didn't have to
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: use those pictures. Zach Cowan Case and Evans like coach,
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: if I would have told you you would have swept
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: the series in a super regional and neither one of
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: those guys has to toe the rubber, I mean, I
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: would assume you would be pretty surprised, surprised.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: Happy, you know, and for you know, maybe that meant
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: that the scores were, you know, kind of what they
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: were where we had a little breathing room. The other thing, too,
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: is that that's an interesting deal to manage because you
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: have to protect yourself of a third game as well.
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: Now we had a real plan with how we were
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: going to use those guys in game two. Hey, Cooper
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: Williams came in and did a great job to help,
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: you know, really really close the gap between Anthony and
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: the end of the game. And I mean they just
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: Chase was throwing like one hundred and twenty miles an
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: hour and like they weren't seeing it.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: So we just kind of rode that out so coach,
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: I mean Chase shores like electric City when he came in,
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: like you could feel it in the stadium. Like I
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: always say this, like if you could bottle up that
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: energy and sell it, you can name your price on it.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: I mean it was incredible and you could feel it
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: throughout the stadium. And I mean he's already a large human.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: He looked like he was eight foot tall out there
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: on the mound. And I was joking yesterday, like in
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: youth baseball, try to get him a throw stracks, like, hey,
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: fingers in the mid, fingers in the mid. I'm like,
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: I think he actually could put his fingers in the mid.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, he looks so intimidating out there. And that's
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: a player that you and I have talked about, right,
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: He's coming back from a major injury, and so a
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: lot of times it's like we got the meat heead
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: mindset of Okay, he's back, so he needs to be
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: where he was before he got injured. It's just not
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: that easy, right, And that's just a player that we
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: can see each and every time he goes out there
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: gaining more confidence, more belief that you know, his arm
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: is where it's supposed to be, coach, because I mean
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: he came in and the confidence that he had it
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: was incredible.
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, one thing we talk a lot about is with
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: the players is use your experience well. And he had
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: a tough outing in the regional and you know, he
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: used that well. Like I could tell all week he
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: was locked in and ready to go. And you know,
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: there was there was one way you know that that
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: performance was going to go whenever I gave him the ball,
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: whether it was earlier in the game or at the
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: end of the game like that. And you know, like
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: I said, I kind of had a plan laid out
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: of how we're going to use those other guys you mentioned,
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: and then it was like, now that's that's let's let
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: big man finish this out. And I'm happy for him
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: and proud of him because he's a big part of this.
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: Like that's one of the first big recruits that we
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: got when I got the job here. And you know,
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: he's persevered to that injury. You know, he was a
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: great team guy even though he was hurt. When we
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: won the national championship, he worked hard in his rehab.
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: You know, he cares about succeeding to the team a lot,
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: and that was a great way, great way for a
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: super reasonal and finish up with him on the mountain.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Catching up with LSU head baseball coach Jay Johnson here
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: on OTB coach. One of the things about Omaha is
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: you don't know how long you're going to be there,
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: and you know how it goes because y'all went all
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: the way obviously just a couple of years ago, you
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: won the whole thing, you played the maximum amount of
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: games as a coach. Though, when you don't know that situation,
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: how do you make sure that your team and everybody
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: around the team stays in the moment and doesn't worry
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: about how long you're going to be there or start
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: to look ahead to what possibly could happen.
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: Well, I think you know, it's kind of how we
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: train him on a yearly basis, if you will, like
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: you know this pitch this game. This game's a Game
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: seven of the World Series or part of the fifty
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: six game playoff, and the quality of the teams here
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: catch your attention, and so I don't think that's really
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: necessarily a thing, and that's certainly the case with the
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: first game, and really excited about that. But every team
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: here is a championship team. So and then you know,
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: I always feel like things wherever I can. And you
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: know that movie at Hoosier's, you know where Gene Hackman,
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: you know he's talking about tournament play like you can't
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: talk about the next step. So you've climbed the one
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: in front of you, right, Like all those things are
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: really real. We've we've talked a lot about like, man,
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: there's a lot of cool things that come along with
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: here being here, and I want you to enjoy those
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: and have the maturity and self discipline to switch the twitch,
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: the mindset, you know when it's under prepared and it's
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: time to execute. And I have full trust in our
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: team to be able.
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: To do that.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Can't wait to watch a coach. I mean, it is
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: going to be in prime time. It's going to be.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: Against teams that know each other, it's going to be
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: teams from the best conference in college baseball, and it's
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: got star power all over the place, and it is
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: going to be an electric, electric environment, as you well know.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: So coach, we can't thank you enough.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, all season long, but certainly in Omaha getting
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: ready for a national championship run.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Thanks for hopping on.
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: With us, all right every day?
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: All right, you as well.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: Jay Johnson, lsuhead baseball coach, good enough to join us
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: here every single Thursday during.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: Baseball season, even when his team is in Omaha.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: All Right, we will take a break kind of recap
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: some of what Jay said there to close out our
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  Speaker 4: number two of OTB.
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  Speaker 4: Uh loved all his answers like I always do. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that is Jay Johnson. And that is the highest compliment
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