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Speaker 1: I just keep listing things and they're all available Academy,

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Speaker 1: still get everything you need for your outdoor activities and beyond.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. Good question here, non football,

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Speaker 1: but good question. Jonathan in Antioch, Illinois. I'm a pastor

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Speaker 1: who preaches every Sunday. I love watching your show because

441
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,359
Speaker 1: you're a very gifted speaker, and it's entertaining listening both

442
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Speaker 1: to how you put things and how you say them.

443
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Speaker 1: How did you develop your public speaking skills. This is

444
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,879
Speaker 1: close to the most popular question that people ask me.

445
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: That it's non football. Slowly is how I developed it slowly.

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Speaker 1: Most people's biggest fear is public speaking. I had a

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Speaker 1: crippling fear of public speaking, growing up, terrified of it,

448
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Speaker 1: so I didn't grow up with some immunity to that.

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Speaker 1: My biggest fear is lightning. My second biggest fear for

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Speaker 1: a long time was public speaking. Still have it to

451
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Speaker 1: a degree, but I think maybe I'm more introverted than

452
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Speaker 1: I have a fear of public speaking now, so maybe

453
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Speaker 1: I'm misdiagnosing myself a little bit there. But I had

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Speaker 1: a crippling fear of public speaking for a long time. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what helped me there is not so much a class

456
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Speaker 1: or listening to a public speaker who you know, gave

457
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Speaker 1: me the right messages, although you can do that. What

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Speaker 1: helped me is I just realized one day that all

459
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Speaker 1: it is is a bunch of one on one conversations.

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Speaker 1: So the way I said it in my own mind is,

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Speaker 1: you know, I would work in the fabric warehouse in Columbus. Actually,

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Speaker 1: where I am right now, just a few blocks away

463
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Speaker 1: from us, is the warehouse where I used to work

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Speaker 1: and we would take a break about twelve thirty every day.

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Speaker 1: We would go over to Clearview Barbecue on River Road.

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Speaker 1: I've told that story many times, and we would eat

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Speaker 1: lunch anyway. It's like sometimes it's well one person with me,

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's five people with me. But I remember when

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about fear of public speaking. I remember

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Speaker 1: I thought to myself one day, why is it so

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Speaker 1: easy for me to talk at that lunch table and

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Speaker 1: yet I have this fear of public speaking? And the

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Speaker 1: answer was there is no answer. The only difference is

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Speaker 1: you know those people, I guess, so it's a little

475
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Speaker 1: bit different, you're a little more familiar with them. But really,

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Speaker 1: at the core, a fear of public speaking is just

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Speaker 1: fear of perception. It's just a fear of how people

478
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Speaker 1: are going to perceive you. But the way I thought

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Speaker 1: about it is number one, what does it really matter

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Speaker 1: what someone thinks about you? Really like, what risk of

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Speaker 1: life is there? What risk is there to you based

482
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Speaker 1: on what someone thinks? So I stopped value in that,

483
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Speaker 1: and that's public speaking. And beyond number two, this is

484
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Speaker 1: probably the most important part. What's the difference in you

485
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Speaker 1: talking to someone one on one at lunch or talking

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Speaker 1: to four people four on one at lunch, versus that it's

487
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Speaker 1: just people. It doesn't matter if there are ten people

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Speaker 1: or a million people in an auditorium or a cafeteria

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Speaker 1: or a huge arena. It's just people. So when you

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Speaker 1: break it down, if you don't get petrified of having

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Speaker 1: a one on one conversation, times that by ten thousand.

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Speaker 1: They're ten thousand people in this building, you're still having

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Speaker 1: ten thousand and one on one conversations. That's all that

494
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Speaker 1: boils down. There may be a little bit different lighting

495
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Speaker 1: on you, you may be holding a microphone in your hand,

496
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Speaker 1: but those are external factors. Those don't matter. Those are cosmetic.

497
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Speaker 1: It's just a bunch of one on one conversations. It's

498
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Speaker 1: just people. That's all it is. When I said that way,

499
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Speaker 1: when I said it that way to myself, he got

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Speaker 1: really easy. I'll be real with you, And I don't

501
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Speaker 1: know if that approach works on me, and it was

502
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Speaker 1: unique to me, but I used to be terrified of

503
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Speaker 1: this stuff and now it's nothing ill. I actually love it.

504
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Speaker 1: I actually look forward to it's kind of fun. So

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Speaker 1: that's what worked for me. Jonathan. I hope it works

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Speaker 1: for other people, because once you get past the fear

507
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Speaker 1: of public speaking, think about the opportunities that open up

508
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Speaker 1: to you, and think about the opportunities most people choke

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Speaker 1: off from ever being a possibility for themselves because of

510
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Speaker 1: the fear of public speaking. It's a big deal. A

511
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Speaker 1: lot of people deal with that. Next up, we will

512
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Speaker 1: go to a sip of coffee. First off, and secondly,

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Speaker 1: Matthew was in Dothan, Alabama. He said, I'm a Georgia fan.

514
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Speaker 1: I was curious as to your thoughts on the program.

515
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: I've seen some people say Georgia is falling off after

516
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Speaker 1: two playoff losses, but I don't see any real concerns

517
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Speaker 1: with the program other than a possible change up at

518
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. I got to answer this a couple of

519
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: different ways. Is the program falling off technically, yes, but

520
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 1: that's only because the altitude they were flying at was

521
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: unsustainable for anyone in the new era of college football. Translation,

522
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Speaker 1: the team Kirby put on the field in twenty twenty

523
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Speaker 1: one probably is not able to be replicated anymore. And

524
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Speaker 1: I know that's tough because that's only four years ago

525
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Speaker 1: or five years ago, I guess now. But you guys

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Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. They know at Georgia what

527
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about. So, yeah, Georgia was one of the

528
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Speaker 1: few programs that had to fall off, like Saban and

529
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: Alabama fell off. They had to fall off. It was

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Speaker 1: not possible to do anything other than fall off. So

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Speaker 1: in a way, yes, they have all in off in

532
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Speaker 1: a sense that, oh man, they're not what they once were.

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Speaker 1: They can't compete as much anymore, the sports passing them by.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying anyone said these words, maybe they did.

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Speaker 1: I'm just kind of suggesting this. I'm kind of offering

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Speaker 1: this up. No, I don't buy into that. I don't

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Speaker 1: buy into that at all. I think the skill in

538
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: this sport right now is to maintain a level, maintain

539
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: a cruising altitude that puts you within reach, that puts

540
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 1: you within reach where at that point health luck factors in.

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Speaker 1: But really, if you get quarterback figured out, and I

542
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: don't know that they've been special at quarterback in a

543
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: few years, like you know, Fernando Mendoza hasn't rolled through there.

544
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Speaker 1: But if you get quarterback figured out, like if you're

545
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Speaker 1: special there, if you have pretty good injury luck and

546
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: you're opportunistic, you executed a high level, you're really good

547
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: on game day as a staff. You're within reach of

548
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Speaker 1: winning a title, and you may do it like Indiana did.

549
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: You may get to the fifty yard line with a

550
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Speaker 1: minute to go and down six needing one score like

551
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: Miami didn't. You don't come through. But either way, both

552
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: of those teams put themselves within reach. Oregon does it

553
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Speaker 1: every year. They haven't won a title yet. Georgia won

554
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Speaker 1: two of them, so it's a little different perspective that

555
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Speaker 1: we look with we look at them with, But no,

556
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Speaker 1: I don't think they've fallen off at all. The change

557
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Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator like I don't know Schumann, I know

558
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: is interviewed for some head coaching jobs. He's Glenn Shuman's

559
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: a really good coach. You're also coaching for Kirby Smart.

560
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Speaker 1: I just think the last image you have in your

561
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: mind is of Trinidad Chamblis playing out of his mind,

562
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Speaker 1: and that's a performance that probably just beats most teams.

563
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Speaker 1: I don't really know that many teams have a defense

564
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Speaker 1: for that. So no, I don't think George's falling off it.

565
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Speaker 1: I think George is going to be just fine next

566
00:29:55,280 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: interesting question here, really interesting questions. So Ramone Ramon from Carlsbad, California.

567
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Speaker 1: I know you work closely with ESPN, but do you

568
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Speaker 1: think they're monopoly on the playoff is a net negative

569
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Speaker 1: for the structure and coverage of the sport. So I've

570
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Speaker 1: said this for a long time that I think college

571
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: football would be in its best position if every network

572
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: had a chunk of the playoff. Now, I don't negotiate

573
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: this stuff like true, I work with ESPN, Burt Magnus

574
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Speaker 1: and company do not allow me into the room to

575
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Speaker 1: negotiate the playoff deals. And I don't work at Fox

576
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Speaker 1: or NBC or CBS and put in their bids. I

577
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Speaker 1: don't have knowledge of any of that stuff. Eh. I

578
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: kind of do, but I'm not involved in it. I

579
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Speaker 1: do think one of the things the NFL benefits from

580
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Speaker 1: is that every network knows they have a chunk of

581
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. NBC has games, CBS and Fox have games,

582
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Speaker 1: ESPN does. ESPN's got the Super Bowl next year. The

583
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Speaker 1: reason that benefits you is because it's in every network's

584
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Speaker 1: best interest to heavily promote that product because they know

585
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: they've got a piece of it. Whereas in college Football Fox,

586
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: what's the motivation for them to promote the College Football Playoff?

587
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: They don't have a piece of it. Why would CBS

588
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: go above and beyond out of their way to promote

589
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: a product that they don't have a piece of? And

590
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: then ESPN, in turn has all the motivation in the

591
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Speaker 1: world because they own the whole thing. So it's not

592
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Speaker 1: a blame of ESPN, because if I'm running ESPN, you

593
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: better believe I'm trying everything in my power to completely

594
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Speaker 1: own the playoff because it's the most valuable commodity the

595
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Speaker 1: sport has to offer. So I don't really know that

596
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: there's blame to go around. Like, as much as people

597
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: want to demonize ESPN on this, Okay, why don't you

598
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: ever blame CBS for not being more aggressive? Why don't

599
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: you ever blame Fox for not being more aggressive? Like

600
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: do you really think that had you put a solid,

601
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: viable financial bid on the table, that the College Football

602
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: Playoff wouldn't have listened? You know? So there are a

603
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: lot of different angles you can take on that. My

604
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: point is in the abstract, removing all the context. Just

605
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: if we were building it right now from scratch, what

606
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: do I think is in the best interest of college football.

607
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: It's in the best interest for as many as many

608
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: seats to be at the college football playoff table as possible,

609
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: because I think it's a net positive for the promotion

610
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: of the sport. I think that's a fair take. I

611
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: think that's a fair take. Maybe I'll negotiate one of

612
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: those deals one day. It sounds like a better idea

613
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,959
Speaker 1: for a screenplay than a movie, or a movie than

614
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: a real life idea. But still I'd like to do it.

615
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Speaker 1: A very disrespectful question coming up here, but I got

616
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Speaker 1: to tackle this beaver from State College, PA. Actually Dave

617
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Speaker 1: from State College PA. Who has better hair? You or

618
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Speaker 1: producer Jesse? The answer is me. The answer is me

619
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Speaker 1: because Number One, I'm totally comfortable with whatever hair I have,

620
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Speaker 1: so that means I win first and foremost. Number two,

621
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Speaker 1: even if Jesse says, oh, okay, but I'm comfortable too, Yes,

622
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Speaker 1: but yours costs money to maintain. Every year, You foolishly

623
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Speaker 1: pay hundreds of dollars to maintain hair that no one

624
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Speaker 1: really cares about, and it takes time. Think about how

625
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: much time per year you have to spend drying your hair.

626
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Speaker 1: Do you know what my yearly budget for hair care

627
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:19,959
Speaker 1: is zero. I bought a buzzer three years ago, and

628
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: the only money I spend cutting my hair is the

629
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Speaker 1: money we spend on the electricity to charge that thing,

630
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Speaker 1: and I have to charge it like every three months maybe.

631
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Speaker 1: And then part two is I spend about three seconds

632
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Speaker 1: per day drying my hair. Because drying my hair consists

633
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: of running my hand through it two times and it's dry.

634
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: It's the most low maintenance, comfortable existence one can have.

635
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: I can't believe more people do not shave their hair.

636
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: I think it's because a lot of your confidence is

637
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: tied up in your hair, and I've just never had

638
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Speaker 1: confidence tied up in my hair, or really, I guess,

639
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: any kind of physical appearance. Although I work out, but

640
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: I work out to be in shape, so I don't know.

641
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: Maybe there's correlation there. I don't know anyway. Yeah, I've

642
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: always thought the joke is on other people, Like when

643
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: people try and make fun of you for not having hair,

644
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: I'm like, I laugh along with them, the jokes on them.

645
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: I wouldn't change it if I could. If you told

646
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: me I could have, who has the best hair, like,

647
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: I don't know who. An example would be of having

648
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: the best hair anyway, Whoever you fill in that blank

649
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: with it would not be Jesse, But whoever you fill

650
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: in the blank with of blank has the best hair

651
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: out there, I would likely look at them and say

652
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: good for them. I'm a stick with what I got.

653
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with this because I really value the

654
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: time saved and the money saved more than any kind

655
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: of look. It would be different if I were a

656
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: pro wrestler, I will grant you this, or if I

657
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 1: were a rock star, because I do think that it

658
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 1: helps the aura, It helps the vibe, it helps the aesthetic,

659
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: and especially in pro wrestling, because I mean, what you

660
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: can do if you have a ton of hair as

661
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,479
Speaker 1: a pro wrestler is make sure that stuff's in front

662
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: of your face and you can talk to your opponent

663
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: and the crowd can't see. And also think about the

664
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: added cell job it does. If you're taking a fake punch,

665
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: excuse me, a working punch and you jolt your hair

666
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: back or your head back and the hair flies backwards,

667
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: that's a good look. But at that point the hair

668
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: has a functional purpose. If the hair doesn't have a

669
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: functional purpose, the hair might as will not exist to me,

670
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: and that's my stance on it. I hope, I hope

671
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: I've given public speaking confidence and lack of hair confidence

672
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: to someone out there today. We will have done our

673
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: job if we can do that. What was the next question? Here? Four? Five, six,

674
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: here's a good one. Here's a good one. This gives

675
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: me a chance to right a wrong from the other day.

676
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: To a bearded fanned from Saint Amant, Louisiana, believe the

677
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 1: pronunciation is right? He says, Is it undeniable? Why Lane

678
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: Kevin left Oldness for LSU? Now his first year he

679
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: signed three five stars in his high school recruiting class. Also,

680
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: what is the floor and ceiling for LSU this season? Well,

681
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: Lane left Ole Miss for LSU because he wanted the

682
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: LSU job. If that's the reason he wanted the LSU job,

683
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: then yeah, it's undeniable. But if he didn't sign a

684
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: great recruiting class this year, it still would have been undeniable.

685
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: To me. It was his personal preference, So whether I

686
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: agree with it or not is irrelevant. Whether anyone else

687
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: agrees whether it or not is irrelevant. He did it

688
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 1: because he wanted to do it. So the follow up

689
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: is really the question here, what's the floor? And the

690
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: ceiling for LSU this year. So someone asked me. Colin

691
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: Calhert asked me the other day, he said, is there

692
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: any reason to believe that Lane's going to improve a

693
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: whole lot at LSU? All right? So what I said

694
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: is there's technically not evidence of it. That doesn't mean

695
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: it can't happen. The evidence would be, like, I'm looking

696
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: at what's happened. I'm looking at the example he's given.

697
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the product that he's produced. So how

698
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: many big games has Lane Kiffen won? Forget about championships?

699
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: He hadn't won one of those, but I even look

700
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: at how many big games has he won? All the

701
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: while acknowledging that doesn't mean he can't. I'm asking what

702
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: the big sample size is. Did he improve all miss? Yes, greatly.

703
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: They're probably playing at as high level as they ever

704
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 1: played in my lifetime. I acknowledge all that. And if

705
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: you want to make the argument that that will transfer

706
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: and then some to LSU, Okay, that's your opinion. That's fine.

707
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: It may come to fruition. I was simply saying, there

708
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: isn't this long established track record of him punching above

709
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: his weight and then winning a ton of games they're

710
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: not supposed to win, so that I think, now, with

711
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: better resources, he's just gonna kill it. I said that,

712
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: and some clown over on the LSU board, of course,

713
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: clipped it out of context and took it to the

714
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,280
Speaker 1: message boards. I know he said Lane. He says Lane's

715
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 1: not gonna win here. He said there's no evidence he's

716
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: gonna win at LSU, which, of course is the kind

717
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,280
Speaker 1: of foolishness you have to deal with in the modern

718
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:09,120
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719
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: when it's a slow time, takes something you say out

720
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,960
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721
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: then people on the message board don't bother going to

722
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: get in the full context, and they just believe, well,

723
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: this guy wouldn't have posted this if it wasn't true.

724
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: And so then Shay Dixon sends you a text, Hey,

725
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: you better take a look at this thread, and I

726
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: go over there and it's like four pages deep of

727
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: people bashing me for something I didn't say. So here's

728
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: what I am saying about Lane. I think he could

729
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: crush it at LSU. All I'm saying is if he

730
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 1: does crush it, he will have enhanced himself. He will

731
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,680
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732
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,880
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733
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734
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,480
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735
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,719
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736
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:54,719
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737
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,759
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Speaker 1: Let's get one more question in here, and then I

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Speaker 1: got to get this off of Jesse so he can

787
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Speaker 1: edit it. Film guy in Norman, Oklahomas Brooks Austin. No, No,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't live in Norman. No, he doesn't have a

789
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Speaker 1: I see. Now there's several of you out there. Well, Norman,

791
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's film guy said, did the SEC play themselves by

792
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: going to nine games. Given how beaten up a lot

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00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,279
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794
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: seems like this will actively work against him. It may,

795
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Speaker 1: it may, I know right now. There was this big fight.

796
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: The Big Ten wanted to go to twenty four playoff teams,

797
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: the SEC wanted no more than sixteen. And since they

798
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: couldn't agree, the SEC was like, hey man, we're okay

799
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Speaker 1: just having twelve. There are people out there saying, wait

800
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801
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Speaker 1: rankings on wins and losses, like they don't really care

802
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: how strong your schedule is, and so they said there

803
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 1: was gonna be all this incentive to schedule tougher. Therefore,

804
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: you guys in the SEC felt comfortable adding a ninth

805
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: conference game. But then when it really comes down to it,

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807
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: You are a mode which could hurt the SEC. And

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Speaker 1: if it's only going to be twelve teams, is going

809
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: to nine conference games going to keep some SEC teams

810
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: out of the playoff? Well the answer is yeah, it may,

811
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 1: big deal, do it anyway, That's what I say. It

812
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: could just be one of those one of those instances

813
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Speaker 1: where what's in the greater interest of college football may

814
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: cost you a playoff team every now and then, or

815
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 1: who knows, maybe the committee recalibrates its criteria and we

816
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: see a three loss team put in over a two

817
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: loss team, and we're explicitly told we put the three

818
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: loss team in because they challenged themselves with their schedule. Yeah,

819
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 1: it could be that, or it could be that the

820
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: SEC sees another year where like a Vandy or a

821
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: Texas is just on the outside looking in, and there's

822
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 1: a lot of arguing and debate about it. But in

823
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: the aggregate, we got a way better schedule, We got

824
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: a way better shelf of inventory because the league played

825
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: a ninth conference game. Now, I have never been one

826
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: of these people who sits there and just blindly accepts

827
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: this slop that's dealt out by other conferences. We played nine,

828
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 1: why didn't the SEC play nine? Well? Because the talent,

829
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: by and large is better dispersed down the chain in

830
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: the SEC, which means playing the tenth best team in

831
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: the SEC is a little bit tougher in terms of

832
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Speaker 1: the caliber of athlete you face than playing the tenth

833
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Speaker 1: best team in the Big ten. It's been that way

834
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Speaker 1: for a long time. Maybe it's not that way, maybe

835
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 1: it just changed, but it has been that way. So

836
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 1: I've never been one of these people who has said, oh,

837
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: it's not fair the SEC only plays eight, because I

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Speaker 1: candidly I thought some eight game SEC schedules in the

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00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: past have been tougher than many nine game league schedules elsewhere.

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00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: In fact, the weaker your conference is, the easier and

841
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: more manageable your ninth conference game is going to be.

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00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 1: So I've never been about that, but it is true

843
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: the SEC may have short turn back themselves into a

844
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: corner here. My advice don't relent, don't give up, because

845
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: I think you guys know at least someone has their

846
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: head screwed on straight and Birmingham right now, and they

847
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: know twenty fourteen playoff is stupid, and so we're either

848
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: gonna go to sixteen or we're gonna stick at twelve.

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