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Episode Date: November 14, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Coming at you live from the couple Chevrolet GMC studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul, on 937 The Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. Welcome to one-on-one. I'm in a mood. I'm in a mood. 402, 464-5-6-8-5 is the Sarder Hammond. If you want to be a part of what we are doing, if you want to be a part of the conversation,
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Starting point is 00:01:01 So in order to set the table, we must, in fact, set the stage. The autumn wind is a pirate Blustering in from sea With a rollicking song he sweeps along Swaggering voicelessly His face is weather-beaten He wears a hooded sash With a silver hat about his head
Starting point is 00:01:31 And a bristling Rack moustaph He growls as he storms the country a villain big and bow and the trees all shake and quiver and fake as he robs them of their goal the autumn then is a raider pillaging just for fun
Starting point is 00:01:51 he'll knock you round and upside down and laugh when he's conquered and won there's something about that there is just something about that that warms the heart and settles the feet toes, 10 toes down, as they like to say, standing on business. Let's welcome the coach, Barry Thompson, perfect.
Starting point is 00:02:27 You know, Tammy. BT, are you with me? Bouncing around. Yeah, I mean, we've got Barry Thompson. Barry Thompson, I don't know if you can hear us. Give me a thumbs up or. We got to get him into. Okay.
Starting point is 00:02:41 He might be having some audio issues. Yeah, he's over there. No words. Which is a bummer. I thought we're worried about it. He's over there clicking buttons. We've given him his promo and his, deal and Barry's trying to find his way.
Starting point is 00:02:52 There's a couple of things. So Harrison, I'm going to ask you to find that clip. And when we come back, so on the break, the rejoin, we're going to play that thing. Okay, we can do that. So does that give you enough time? Oh, yeah, especially if during the break, I can definitely find it. Where do you, I can, I guess I can send it to you on Instagram. I'm not sure I can text it to you or not.
Starting point is 00:03:15 That would be rude while I'm working is to actually text you to. this thing, but I'm going to do it anyway because that's how we get down. I'll email it to you. That's what I'll do. Yeah, easy enough. Lots to talk about. And here in Nebraska, there are a couple of things in play. That when you bring in a new offensive coordinator, people respond in various ways. And Barry and I have talked about it. We've been in,
Starting point is 00:03:46 we've been in these spaces where we've asked to switch gears or change hats, maybe change the label on the nameplate, right? The name plate on the door. There's a team that I was with that I literally, Harrison, I literally was just going to be an honorary captain for this team. And it was for a game where they were playing the best team in the country, literally the best team in the country. and I'm on the sideline and I'm watching this thing play out
Starting point is 00:04:20 and I am just screaming in my head that there are ways to help this team. And finally at halftime, they're down. I want to say it was 28-0. And I just, you know, the coach just kind of looked around and he looked at me and he goes, coach, what do you see? And I just went, you're doing too much.
Starting point is 00:04:43 You've got too many players coming. coming in and out. You've got too many schemes that you're trying to put into play. You're not doing anything well. You're just doing everything. Story of my life for the everything I love, but keep going. But you know them, right? You know those situations where you go, you're just trying to do too much. And you miss the layout. And I said, okay, and it says, are you willing to help? And I said, listen, I don't want to step on any toes. But, but I see some things. things that will make you more competitive right away. And so they were open to the changes.
Starting point is 00:05:23 And we narrowed kind of the depth chart a little bit. We narrowed some of the concepts. And I said, here's where they're attacking you. We can fix that. There's a leak that we can fix. Now, what often happens is if you cover one leak, another one pops, and you're continually covering leaks until, you get it under control.
Starting point is 00:05:48 And how quickly you adapt is going to be the story of Nebraska's week, offensively. What does Coach Hoverson see that he can change quickly and simply for this Nebraska offense? And are they willing to listen? Are they willing to adapt?
Starting point is 00:06:13 Are they willing to accept? and then are they willing to execute to actually John Facenta? Yeah, the textor, yeah. The late Greek John Fasenda is the voice of Autumn Wind is a reader. And that's kind of the standard set for folks who sit in front of a microphone. And great content, as a matter of fact. But there's a big thing for Nebraska that new offensive coordinator, and what happens with new offensive coaches and coordinators.
Starting point is 00:06:50 Remember, you're not talking about just a quarterbacks coach. You're not just talking about a running backs coach, a new running backs coach or a new receivers coach. You're talking about the boss of all of those group leaders. So guess what? Everything that's been taught is fluid now. Whatever line techniques, whatever line verbiage you use, whatever player personnel that you choose to use in an offensive line,
Starting point is 00:07:16 the offensive coordinator can now say, hey, listen, we're going to do some things, and it might not be the right personnel on the field. Maybe the personnel out there can't do the thing that we need to do. Maybe he sees a blind spot. And that's the job of the new offensive coordinator. Identify blind spots, make them known, fix them, heal them if he can.
Starting point is 00:07:36 Sometimes it's with a new scheme. Sometimes with it's a different mentality. and sometimes it's with a new player. And players know when a new coordinator comes in that, hey, it's like blazing saddles. There's a new sheriff in town. And there may be somebody else required to do the thing. Now, if you're not getting release from your receivers, you're either going to re-coach them or stop asking him to get that sort of release,
Starting point is 00:08:10 or you're going to find somebody who can get those releases. Not getting big plays. I'm either going to call schemes that set up are prone to big plays. I'm either going to teach them how to attack the ball, ball tracking skills, getting hands on the ball, tucking the ball away, getting yards after catch, a whole nother skill set.
Starting point is 00:08:33 Or I'm going to find somebody who can do those things. Line play. You know what? the type of blocking required may require a different lineman or different protection calls from the new offensive coordinator, new verbiage for center, maybe new cadence if there's a new quarterback of Dylan can't go, Harburg's there, and you have a whole new group of offensive players that will work off a different cadence, different speed, a different, different, different octave.
Starting point is 00:09:11 And remember you're on the road in Memorial Coliseum, a little bit different. A little bit different. So there are a lot of moving parts to bringing in a new coordinator. And then who buys it? Does everybody buy in? Do the starting receivers believe that the new coordinator is going to come in and give them all the best chance for one, success, two, for their career?
Starting point is 00:09:41 Because now you have a new guy calling plays who will determine who the star of the game is going to be. And we miss that part a lot, that the offensive coordinator gets to choose who the star player is offensively. Who's getting fed? And that's a thing. If you're a skill position, if you're a playmaker and your number's not called, look, and I can speak personal experience, there are times that I'm like, man, I'm over here wide open. What do you wait for? Like hook a brother up.
Starting point is 00:10:11 And then you get a new voice that comes in and goes, hey, man, let's give DP to ball. And after that, I had a different level of success. The story being told, biggest game that Barry and I played together, to that point, I wasn't utilized that way. And the veteran players ahead of me who had earned their spots, I didn't say they weren't talented, they were just different kind of talent. And we're in a slugfest. against the best team we're going to face that year.
Starting point is 00:10:44 And things aren't happening offensively. And our running backs coach at the time was Reggie Harrison, who played for the Steelers, block punts and Super Bowl against Dallas, one of our high school's greatest players ever. And he's just whispering at me, stay connected, stay connected, stay, don't get, don't be upset, stay connected. We're going to need you, stay connected.
Starting point is 00:11:06 I'm like, y'all need me, man, I'm just here. But I hear Barry talking to the, head coach and talking to the coordinator. And he's like, Barry, what do you need? He's, I need that dude. And we go out and make some plays. And it, it wasn't a slight to the guys that didn't make plays. But with new leadership and new vision and new talent on the field, there are new opportunities.
Starting point is 00:11:34 And the Huskers have an opportunity. So let's bring him in, uh, and, and ask him some questions. BT, what's happening, baby? Oh, he still might be having issues with Barry Thompson. not being able to hear us. Oh, well, he'll keep working. He will keep working. I'll have to probably make a phone call during the break.
Starting point is 00:11:54 Well, here's the thing. We'll go to 20 and then we'll take a break and we'll work all this out. Plus, we'll take care of the other thing as well. But I just want to say that, that there are players who at skill positions and starters who all have a different uneasiness and a different level of anxiety. this week. Because some people are going to get an opportunity. Some people who are in positions of control
Starting point is 00:12:24 have to make plays early Saturday against USC or things change for them. And the play calls, the eight to 15 plays on the play call sheet, one will tell us what Dana's new philosophy is going to be. The things that he thinks, he can teach best quickest for the most efficiency that they can learn the verbiage, know what he's asking them to do,
Starting point is 00:12:55 right? Because he doesn't know their verbiage. He doesn't know their play call sheet. But he's looked at film and he's talked to people and he can ask Satterfield, hey, here's what I'm trying to attack. What do you have? Hey, man, there's a soft spot, uh, outer third, 12 yards.
Starting point is 00:13:13 What do we got? Hey, I, I think we have an advantage. running behind Scott here. Let's get him a fullback in. Let's change the personnel. And let's just run the ball and see what we can we can vibe. All of those are in play. And you'll find out in the first eight to 12 plays that Nebraska has offensive.
Starting point is 00:13:34 Who are they going to be? Because you have a new play call, a new GPS. A lot of the other coaches are still there. And they have their preferences. and if it works, those preferences are on it. But if they get off to a slow start offensively, I fully expect the new coordinator to go, okay, we tried it, you're away.
Starting point is 00:13:59 Now we've got to try it, mine. And it's a real thing. So we'll take an early break here. We'll come back. We'll get Barry Thompson all organized and all set up. More one-on-one here on the ticket. You're listening to One-on-One with DP. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 93-7.
Starting point is 00:14:16 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Welcome back to it. You know, we're setting the tone, setting the standard and there's stuff going to, Harrison, do you catch that thing? I sent you? Yeah, we got it ready. Here's the thing. There's a thing going on, and I want to make Barry small. So go ahead and go ahead and play that thing for it. There's a thing called
Starting point is 00:15:11 the W&L swing. which we're using to celebrate Barry Thompson because our alma mater, yeah, right? Our alma mater, for the first time in, I want to say it's 60 years, maybe 70, are 10 and 0. 10 and O. Barry Thompson, am I wrong?
Starting point is 00:15:38 What's the number? You got to unmute yourself there first, Barry Thompson. He has muted his. computer. Barry Thompson, if you can hear us to get an unmute. I got you. I got you. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:15:54 There's a little of trouble today. And it's on my end, by the way. But to get to the W&L swing, it's been since 1956. And that was the team, think about how much Virginia's change, that was voted national state champion. So that's the one state championship in football that they had. This is a hundred-year anniversary of the school, and for this team to pop up following a nine-and-one season, a regular season, and, you know, to finish a regular season 10-0. And, you know, D.P. You have a great audience, so you'll indulge me a little bit with this whole thing.
Starting point is 00:16:38 And last year, I was at a school called Westfield. And W&L, because of their season last year, hosted a first round playoff game against Westfield. And when I take the field, it's all business. I didn't really care who was over there. I just wanted Westfield to win. But when I left the field, I saw those. I'm going to get a little emotion. I saw the seniors there, you know, all huddled together.
Starting point is 00:17:06 And it, man. Okay, I had a little pang. And when I'm driving home on 66, like 40, right? I'm heading back and I just turned to a puddle. And the reason for it was that in our area, there is a real thing about the inside of the Beltway schools and the outside of the Beltway schools. And I remember when we were there,
Starting point is 00:17:30 the outside of the Beltway schools were gaining a lot of traction, and we were able to put together my senior year, a decent season. one in which had us ranked in the top 15, the National Washington Post. We'd gotten off to a great start. Didn't finish so good, but we ended up well. But I was proud of that season because I knew how hard it was what we did. So when I left that field last year, my emotions were attached to what I saw. Spin it forward, change at Westfield.
Starting point is 00:18:01 Coach Shapiro calls me again. I said, okay, well, here's what I can do. I thought that my biggest role would be helping the quarterbacks off the field really understand. Their offense really understand their defense that they were facing, how to make decisions, because they had a great system. And lo and a whole, this goes forward to a 10-0 season with a quarterback who had never been a starter before in the 100th year of this school. Now, we're into the regional playoffs.
Starting point is 00:18:32 So we are our first round game this year is against our arch rival Yorktown. And of course, playing somebody the second time is, you know, and I always guaranteed. But as far as the bracket sets up, it sets up that if we handle our business on our side this week and next week, and there's just a probable thing that happens on the other side, it's possible that at the regional church, championship game will be not only hosted at W&L,
Starting point is 00:19:06 but the opponent could be Westfield High School. Man, oh man. I mean, to make it local relative, that imagine Lincoln High got on a run, on a heater, and went for the first time in, I don't know how many years it would have been for Lincoln High to go 10 and O. And then to be the host. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:32 Right. Lincoln would go bananas. Arlington, Virginia is going bananas because Yorktown. So imagine that Lincoln goes 10 and 0 for the first time. And in the first round of the playoffs, somehow Lincoln Northwest or Lincoln East has also qualified and is going to come in to Lincoln. Hey, by the way, the way you said it, I don't know, but I know. Yeah, like they don't like each other. Yeah, we don't. So it's Sandra Bullock versus Katie Curt. Yeah. And for the older people, it's Warren Beatty and Shirley McLean.
Starting point is 00:20:15 And for the political people, it's James R. Schlesinger. Arlington has a unique ability to kind of collect these people, and they wind up in these public schools in Arlington, which is really a great thing. And the best thing about all those people that we just mentioned, whether it's Warren Beatty or Shirley Maclean or Sandra Bullock or James R. Emily Schlesinger or a thousand, probably 100 other people, D.P. Derek Pearson is when you're there, no, hey, hey, hey, listen, let's keep you straight. When you're there, they're just your schoolmates. And they're people you kind of gravitate to. And you're not really sure why other than they're good people.
Starting point is 00:20:57 and then you leave Arlington and you go, oh my God, I went to school with Derek Pearson. Oh my gosh, we went to school with Emily Sessinger. Oh my gosh, we, some of us are still friends with Sandra Bullock. You know, those types of things. So these young guys are in the midst of a history book.
Starting point is 00:21:16 They don't know if they're just going about their lives. They're being teenagers. But the track record says, you know, it might be a long time before W.L. follows up an undefeated team. Well, people are going to be talking about this year's team. Yes. For the next 50, 70 years.
Starting point is 00:21:31 Yes. And we didn't know when we were there what we were doing that night against West Springfield. We didn't know what he's going to follow. We're just in the fight. And you want to be a part of it. I mean, this is a town in a community where on any given night on a Friday night, I mean, there's three NFL dudes on the field and two, two WWE world champions, Dave Patista and Mark Canterbury are playing tackle at Arlington County,
Starting point is 00:21:58 and you have to remember, hey, man, this isn't normal. Hey, hey, hey, jump in the house. You know, like it seems like the world kind of attracts when we start talking about this, connections to Lincoln. Elijah Hughes is a defensive tackle at USC who played at W&O. And we're probably being the rotation when you see him on Saturday. Yeah, he's, yeah. So his people reached out.
Starting point is 00:22:22 And, you know, they asked you, was I going to be there? going to be in New York instead, handling some other business. But it's a big weekend. And Barry, it left up everything for me because you've been the coordinator, the new coordinator. You've been the new
Starting point is 00:22:37 man. And you have to put it in the context that you're the new magician that has to come in and make chicken salad out of chicken poop. But that's always, that's, we've been blessed. We've been in those situations.
Starting point is 00:22:53 And I know where you're headed, but let me be clear on this situation. Be clear. Let me be a thousand percent clear. They had run off a nine and one season last year. Yeah. And when Coach Shapir approached me, you know, he wanted me in a traditional coaching role. And I said, no. I said, whatever you're doing, you know, offensively, it's working.
Starting point is 00:23:14 Jonathan Boswani was around 2,800 yards. And I don't know where he was touchdown wise. He's in the high 20s. Yeah. I said, you don't need me there. for that. I said, I think where I can provide value is I can do some work with your quarterbacks that you can't do. Let me do that work. And all of it has taken place, except for this week off the field. This week was the first time that I've attended any practices.
Starting point is 00:23:41 But let me catch you, Barry, because this is the perfect point. Yeah. This is identical to what's happened here in Lincoln. Because listen, you brought in a consultant. Right. Right. To identify blind spots. Right. To move some of the minutia, remove it. Right. And then from that connection, you go in the most critical moment.
Starting point is 00:24:08 Nope, I need you to have a louder, more consistent voice to help us have success in a way that we want. You're going to help their quarterback do some things that their natural coaches can't do. and it's not a slight to them. No. It is just added value. Right. And this is where Nebraska is. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:29 It was, in my case, it was, everything was set up on the field. It was just that one thing that quarterbacks can't get enough of, which is the understanding of everything that they're doing it and everything that they're seeing. And so that propped him up so that it made it easy to kind of, you know, have him do this and have them do that. It didn't have anything to do with play design, although, So, you know, I talked about a couple things. I would whisper to the O.C., hey, you know what? You know, with the personnel that we have, if we kind of get in this group against this team,
Starting point is 00:25:00 it's going to force him to cover us this that way. But let's bring it back to Nebraska. He's been made the offensive coordinator. And I know you talked about him at Infanitam. I heard a little bit of you and Jay talking about him. There are about eight basic air raid concepts. You know, you could probably go into a game with about maybe 10. to 15 basic concepts that you could get your players to understand.
Starting point is 00:25:27 And that is usually enough. You know, you don't throw 30 different past concepts in a game. You have some that you really like. And then you could just have a tagging system to handle the other things that you may occur. Right. So the concept stays the same, but you may alter something. Like, let's take a little basic air raid concept, which is why. Y cross. You're in a two by two formation. The guy in the left runs a vertical. The guy number two
Starting point is 00:25:57 runs out at a speed out of 10 to 12 yards from the slot on the backside. He runs a wide cross. He's under the first guy up and over the mic, and then he crosses the field. And so the normal read is you look to your left. If you can throw the out, you throw it. Now, if some reason they take away the out, you come and look at the cross. sometimes the out can be canceled. And so you're playing for the cross and then you're playing for some backside kind of a curl sit or post sit and maybe with a swing, right? And so that concept could be tagged. Maybe you're expecting pressure. So instead of it being a 10-yard route, you can tag it.
Starting point is 00:26:40 And I think they call it 95 or 92 or quick. That could be a four-yard route, right? A little simple thing. Or maybe you've got a protection issue and you keep the back end. You know you're going to play to the backside so you do something different. But the basic concept is understood. I would think that he would have started with a basic teaching concept. When you watch him run his four verticals, there is a concept in the verticals where at a certain point,
Starting point is 00:27:09 I'm going to stop running. I'm going to turn, right, because it makes no sense if I keep running. And that may be a concept that he worked over and over and over again. he could probably go into a game with his four vertical concepts because there's so many different variations to how they run verticals. So it'll be interesting to see what they come out with. And then I heard you and Jake kind of going over, you know, you're a defense coordinator on the USC side,
Starting point is 00:27:34 so you're familiar with the RA concepts, but you haven't seen these guys do the air raid concepts before. But they're not very difficult concepts to understand. I thought the biggest thing in listening before was something that Jay said. And this brings what we talked about last time. This is the ninth week of the season. You know?
Starting point is 00:27:55 And if you're a young man in that position, you may have already checked out. Jay talked about, I really want to see the energy. I want to see how people move, right? And the way I heard that was there may be some cats that aren't buying into this stuff. That's not what I came here for.
Starting point is 00:28:13 That's not what I was told. That's not how I'm going to be used. you know and so there's that part of we think of it as fans hey you got a solution to what you're doing everybody buys in but these guys are humans some of them with careers at stake and it after buying in it doesn't include them you may not see the buyin that you want so i'm with jay on watching the energy of how these guys go about their business barry what's the greatest friction for a coordinator, a new coordinator, right? Because different levels of talent on the depth chart.
Starting point is 00:28:52 You don't know who does what well particularly can't know. You're going to have to rely on people to tell you what guy to use in certain situations and those are conversations that are happening this week. But on the other side, is the friction getting folks to execute or getting them to understand the verbiage? Because the verbiage, there's been a whole language been learned. Yeah, that's an interesting thing. I once worked with a coach that he had this way of, he used a very successful coach, and he had these weird names for things, like from my perspective coming in.
Starting point is 00:29:23 You know, like I knew other things were called like Tiger or, you know, whatever, Trey, but he didn't use those. He used words like pro king and con king. And when we went to put new things in, he was amenable to it, but he was very particular about how we worded the language. And it was kind of like tedious kind of. up. And at one point, I said, why are we going through this much trouble? Somebody else would just call it Hank. Why don't we just do that? And he said to me two things. One is that he didn't want to confuse this player. So the players, they only knew the language that they knew. But he said, the most important things is I call the plays. And it hit me like a ton of bricks. So you can have a goofy language or maybe seems goofy to you. Like I always say, you could say Greenright X-Shift, the Viper-Right, 32-X-Ex. X-Dick-Lookie, and you go, wait a second, why don't we do something simpler?
Starting point is 00:30:18 But the play caller, when they say Greenright X-Ship, their bike, right, 3-82-X-Dick-Lookie, they have a picture in their mind. And that's what's important. So some of it is the players catching up. Now, that said, these concepts are not alien concepts. You know, Dylan knows what the Y crosses. everybody on that team knows what the Y stick is. These are air raid concepts, right?
Starting point is 00:30:46 So it's not alien, it's just what you call them. So if you narrow down what you're going to call and you have a week of repetition and running them through, yeah, there's going to be a little bit of translation, but when they hear their word goofy, they're going to say, yeah, that's Y Stick. They can go out and run while I stick all day. So that process can be narrowed down.
Starting point is 00:31:08 I think the bigger thing is, is if you're changing how the quarterback looks at things, right? So are these simple reads that are in line with him? I'll exaggerate to make a point. Let's say the concept like Hank, NFL concept, it's curl flat, curl flat, a guy over the ball. You see that concept run three or four times in every NFL game. Whether you call it California or Carolina or Hank,
Starting point is 00:31:36 it doesn't really matter what you call it. But if you had a quarterback that he was drilled into his head to read that concept from short to deep, you may have a little issue if you're telling, hey, I need you to read deep to short. Right now you're changing things on it, changing footwork on them, changing how he processes on it. Not an insurmountable hurdle, but a thing that changes things for the quarterback. So there is some merging there. And who knows, maybe Dylan ran air raid in high school. I don't know what his background.
Starting point is 00:32:10 I would think that he's familiar. And before we go to break, I'll ask you this one final thing. I'm going to take you to the movie Wedding Crashers. And there's a scene at the, they're at the compound, and they're going to play football. They're going to play football. And they're not playing at Memorial Coliseum. They're not. But there's going to be chaos and noise.
Starting point is 00:32:35 and there's going to be some friction. And he looks over and he goes, Hot route. Hot route. Right. My favorite response is, I don't know what that is. I don't know what that is. Hey, hey, look, 20 seconds for a big.
Starting point is 00:32:51 That happens at all levels. There was a little girls, a little girls basketball game, a house club. And every time they came down the court, the coach was yelling, 936, 372. And the third time he called out the. these numbers. The little girl stopped right in from. She let the ball go. She goes, I don't know what that is. Like we literally, Barry and I were taking over an office. We literally had a meeting in my living room over how we were going to call when chaos happened, how we were going to communicate to less experienced players and quarterbacks receivers, what we wanted them to run. And I said,
Starting point is 00:33:31 if we come up with simple verbiage, let's just from left to right, right to left numbers to let folks know with a color that was hot. We'd call white and didn't mean anything. Blue didn't mean anything. Called red, whatever numbers followed from left to right or right to left.
Starting point is 00:33:47 Those are the routes that we want to run. Quarterback knew what we were looking for. And why? Because he had already given us look, say, hey, coach, I don't like what we call. And that's what it was. But I think Nebraska is going to have that at issue. It's going to be a big part of the.
Starting point is 00:34:01 the game on Saturday. I think the same thing for USC with a new quarterback, different style of quarterback as well, but this is why they play the games. And I'm looking forward to it. B2, we come back. We'll find out what you're cooking. Very on one on one here on the ticket. You're listening to one on one with DP, sponsored by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul on 937 the ticket and the ticket FM.com. Oh, The hour goes fast when you're having fun. Barry Thompson, the coach. Also the cook.
Starting point is 00:34:41 So we ask him, kind sir, what's the coach cooking? You might be in the kitchen right now. He's in the stream, but he must be, had to get the seasoning ready or something. Yeah, he had to go and get the recipe. So he knows what he's talking about. You know, he's got two minutes. Oh, okay, wait.
Starting point is 00:34:59 He's switched up on us. All right. I had to switch. I've had so much trouble tonight. You got to make it. This is unbelievable. Make the word. Okay.
Starting point is 00:35:08 So we're cooking charo beans. Okay. We're cooking charo beans. They're also called cowboy beans. There's two types of cowboys in Mexican lore vokeros, which are the cowboys on the ranch and so forth. And then there are the charos who are kind of dressed up and they have a sombrero. These chato beans, there's a lot of recipes out there. Go find them.
Starting point is 00:35:32 Cook it however you want. But there's. One technique I really recommend, one, is first it's got to be pinto beans. Don't mess around. Get the pinto beans. Two, cook the beans separately because there's a sofrido essentially that you make. That involves bacon and sausage and onions and garlic and Roma tomatoes and cumin and cilantro. So while the beans are cooking, you take your smoky bacon, you take your smoky bacon, you take
Starting point is 00:36:03 the chorizo and you cook it up in a pan and when it starts to get dry and put stuff on the pan that fawn that's when you want to add your onions in you cook that down to that fawn releases it it flavors the onions and then you maybe three or four close of minced garlic let it go for 30 seconds add some cumin get that ready for the next stage which are the roma tomatoes put those in there it'll add some moisture the fom will get up and flavor all of that stuff and then probably about a quarter of a cup of tomato sauce and let that mix in and a handful of cilantro. Now, when your beans are halfway done, take two jalapenos, just whole jalapenos and just put them in the pot. Let them finish. It won't kill, you know, won't freak out. It's just going to
Starting point is 00:36:50 get those ready. When your beans are about 90% done, that's sofrida that we work with, dump all of that into the beans. It's like a flavor bomb. Now, at that point, you can just stop and you will really and enjoy yourself. Some people call those party beans because they have a big party and they make a big pot of this stuff. But you can go the extra step. Take it up to a whole other level.
Starting point is 00:37:16 And you can make what's called frihole's brittos or brachos style. So while the beans are cooking, take a piece of steak. It doesn't have to be a big piece. Just a little piece of steak. Cook it, get it ready, have that ready aside when it cools.
Starting point is 00:37:30 You're going to take that piece of steak and mince it up. dice it, mince it, mince it up. Get some avocado slices. Get those ready. Get that casso fray store, cohita cheese. Get that ready and get some limes ready. Now you've got that bowl of beans with the bacon and the sausage and the onions and the tomatoes and the tomato sauce.
Starting point is 00:37:54 And now you take the cohita cheese and you sprinkle that on top. You take a little bit of that minced beef steak. You put that on top. You put those little avocado slices to the side. You squeeze your little line. You can take that jalapeno that's whole. You can slice that up if you want some heat, add a little hot sauce.
Starting point is 00:38:13 Yeah, but let's go. Chono Beans. Sounds like a winner. We're going to cut that up and put it on social media, Barry. We're going to do that. BT. Thank you, brother, and beat Yorktown. Ha-ha. Bye-bye. That's Barry Thompson.
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