Hey, Fighting Tigers,

All right, welcome back to another edition of Hey Fighten podcast.

As always, Cody Wersham, Digital Media Reporter for LSU Athletics.

Joined today by Coach Blake Baker, LSU Linebackers coach. Welcome to the show. Good to have you on. How has been getting settled back in Louisiana? I know your family, you played here. Your family's from here. So the last couple months, taking the job, getting settled. How's that process been? It's been a lot of fun. It's been, you know, been it's been a lot of fun it's been

you know lsu's done a phenomenal job it's been seamless as far as the uh just the overall move

um really never been taken care of like that in my career before so so special shout out to

lSU and the administration here and um you know just with so many family and friends here, it's, uh, it keeps us busy. You know, usually, uh, when you're thousands of miles away from family, it's, you get kind of settled in quicker because you don't have some of the people aren't bothering you. That's what you're trying to say. No, it's not bothering. It's good to see everybody again. uh yeah it feels like every every weekend there's

there's somebody that we haven't seen in a while to go see or a birthday party or something so it's

been it's been a lot of fun i know my wife she is absolutely in heaven okay so that's where i was

going to start because as you said in your press conference your introductory press conference

happy wife happy life uh Your wife played soccer here,

all SEC soccer player here, and she's from Mandeville, correct? Correct. So her reaction,

the second you told her, hey, I'm going to coach linebackers at LSU was. Well, usually I have to ask

the question. It's never so much, hey, I'm going to. It hey what do you think you know and uh really I didn't

have a choice after that you know and this is where we wanted to be but once I told her this was an

opportunity um you know on the table for us it was it was a no-brainer she was she was overwhelmed

um so we started off with a mortgage rate I'm not going to ask you specifically where you're living, but have y'all spent time in the North Shore? Are you all settling in in Baton Rouge? What's kind of been y'all's dance there? Yeah, we're down off Nicholson here in Baton Rouge. So spent a couple weekends in Mandeville, but a lot of times her mom likes to come up here and be around the kids.

So majority of our time has been here in Baton Rouge. Okay. We'll get the football in a second, but

you know, everyone during COVID had their, I guess you would call it a COVID purchase or like

a stir crazy thing that we did. We bought a pop-up camper in the Worsham House. Again, my wife driving the decision-making there. We've been camping in Mandeville like crazy. I mean, we've been out at Fountain Blue State Park. Oh, that's where Roslin grew up. Her dad was a park ranger there. Oh, really? Yeah, they lived right off of like 100 yards from Lake Pontchartrain. Wow, okay. So now I've got an inside scoop.

We got married there, as a matter of fact. Oh, wow. Where are those, the oak alleys? Yeah, those big oaks right there. Beautiful right there. That's awesome. Yeah, we've been spent a lot of time out there and I was going to ask you if they were like any secret spots that we should check out like around town not to give free advertising here but we love McLean's Pizzeria. We've been hitting up McLeans for very, very good pizza. And then it was called Bops. I think it's called Moomoo's now. Oh yeah. Bops. Oh yeah. Yeah, that's put on a couple of the dad pounds. I've had been fighting off a little bit. Any other spots I should know about in the area? Manneville seafood has

really good crawfish. Um, anywhere really on the lakefront. Yeah. Uh, you know, there's a bunch of beautiful restaurants and just good scenery, obviously. So any of those and, uh, you know, that's really all I can think of off the top of my head. Yeah, last time we were there, my wife was like, hey, why don't we move here?

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