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Speaker 1: Lake Kick Extra podcast. It's now Tuesday morning, November ninth.

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Speaker 1: You're over Lord twenty twenty one. Could this end up

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Speaker 1: being the best extra episode we've ever done? Well, judging

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Speaker 1: a few minutes. Let's dive right into the mail bag

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Speaker 1: at Late Kick Josh on Twitter, at Late Kickjosh on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: That's how you can submit questions. I put the call

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Speaker 1: Russ is going to kick us off. Russ says, hey,

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Speaker 1: the announcement. Yeah, we only have twelve person vans left.

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Speaker 1: Twelve person vans all we have left. Thank you. And

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Speaker 1: that was how my week started, and so I get

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Speaker 1: up to the front of the line. It's about four

430
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Speaker 1: hours twenty minutes to four and a half hours that

431
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Speaker 1: I've stood in line, only to be told despite having

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Speaker 1: a reservation that was made several days to over a

433
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Speaker 1: week in advance, we don't have what you ordered. You

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Speaker 1: can either take a van or you could walk to

435
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Speaker 1: College Station. That'd be fun. Get you a little cardio

436
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Speaker 1: in And so I have to take the same thing

437
00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,320
Speaker 1: they transport prison inmates in that kind of van. I

438
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Speaker 1: put a picture of it up on Twitter. I ended

439
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Speaker 1: up nicknaming her Bessie, and I took Bessie and we

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00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,159
Speaker 1: took ourselves over to the hotel. We got checked in

441
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Speaker 1: about one forty five or two o'clock, and I have

442
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,840
Speaker 1: to at that point decide, am I gonna drive back

443
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Speaker 1: over at the crack of dawn to this airport to

444
00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,600
Speaker 1: try and exchange this van for a car, or alternate

445
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Speaker 1: point of view, am I gonna take this van two

446
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Speaker 1: hours to College Station and drive in gridlock game day

447
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Speaker 1: traffic in a van. Well, friends. The second part of

448
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Speaker 1: that story comes a little bit later to be continued.

449
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Speaker 1: It gets worse, trust me, it gets much worse. We

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Speaker 1: continue with the mailbag. Speaking of Stanford, Shawn said, I

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Speaker 1: got a question. Can you just talk about Stanford and

452
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Speaker 1: David Shawn? What's happened there? Sean. I just think the

453
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Speaker 1: games passed them by a little bit, not the game

454
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Speaker 1: of football, but the way the game is working. I

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Speaker 1: just think it passed them by in a sense that

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Speaker 1: if you think about what gave Stanford and David Shaw

457
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Speaker 1: on edge, and to be clear, they were massive overachievers.

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Speaker 1: I mean, to be honest, they still are. It's just

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Speaker 1: what Stanford was able to do for a little while

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Speaker 1: was like in another galaxy relative to what they're supposed

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Speaker 1: to be able to do. If you had any idea

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Speaker 1: how hard it is to recruit at Stanford's they don't

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Speaker 1: even play the same game. They're not even playing the

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Speaker 1: same game as USC or Oregon. It's not even close.

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Speaker 1: Like Stanford's the one that should be running their mouths

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Speaker 1: like Washington was this past week about academic prowess. Who

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Speaker 1: should be talking like that, not Jimmy Lake and Washington.

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Speaker 1: So what happened for a while is the PAC twelve

469
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Speaker 1: was ay run around you league, and David Shaw built

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Speaker 1: Stanford off the heels of Jim Harbaugh. Obviously, those guys

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Speaker 1: built Stanford to run through you. I mean they had

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Speaker 1: a model that in a system, offensive system that was

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Speaker 1: very basic, but it was so beautiful in its simplicity,

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Speaker 1: in that everyone had to build defenses out there to

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Speaker 1: try and stop the Organs of the world. Well, the

476
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Speaker 1: problem is when you've got undersized defensive linemen and undersized

477
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Speaker 1: linebackers and you recruit one hundred dbs per cycle because

478
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Speaker 1: you have to run around, and all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: someone lines up and they got nine offensive linemen on

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Speaker 1: the field, and then you just got to full back

481
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Speaker 1: in your face every play, and all of a sudden

482
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Speaker 1: they're bowling, bawling their way down the field. You can't

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Speaker 1: really do much to stop it. And they just played

484
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Speaker 1: low margin for era or low error period football, and

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Speaker 1: that's how they did it. Well, now everyone out there

486
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Speaker 1: is smart to that, and everyone's been able to adjust

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Speaker 1: their recruiting and personnel strategy for that. Teams like Oregon

488
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Speaker 1: are doing something more similar to that, not exactly that,

489
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Speaker 1: but more similar to that now. And so Stanford lost

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Speaker 1: the edge they once had, and it was not last forever,

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Speaker 1: But Sean, I think that's the long and short of it.

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Speaker 1: Cad is up next. He said, do you think Texas

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Speaker 1: has a culture issue much like Florida? Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: think Texas has a toughness about itself that it needs

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Speaker 1: to sustain any kind of excellence in the Big Twelve

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Speaker 1: or in college football. Recruiting is always what everyone focuses on.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't have four stars and five stars

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Speaker 1: with a requisite toughness level doesn't really matter. That just

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Speaker 1: means you're gonna get embarrassed and then be called an

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Speaker 1: underachiever because you're losing the teams that are quote less

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Speaker 1: talented than you unquote I mean Iowa State. It's a

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Speaker 1: perfect example. Watch them play Texas. Who's the tougher team,

503
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Speaker 1: Who's the more talented team? The answer to each question

504
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Speaker 1: is different. So yeah, they've had a They have had

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Speaker 1: a cultural issue at Texas for a while. It's toughness.

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Speaker 1: That's as easy and as complex as it gets. It's

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Speaker 1: easy to say. It's a lot more complex to try

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Speaker 1: and instill a culture of toughness. It takes a while.

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Speaker 1: That's why you're watching Sark right now, and he's dealing

510
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Speaker 1: with all kind of what I think is ridiculous criticism.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't had time to change a culture there. That

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Speaker 1: takes a little while. Sometimes you gotta wait for some

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Speaker 1: guys to leave, and you got to get your guys

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Speaker 1: in there, and you got to make sure that you're

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Speaker 1: building culture with the new layers that you add on.

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Speaker 1: But you don't just get to overturn a program overnight, guys.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, the culture issue is the toughness issue. Next

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Speaker 1: question is David He said, can Alabama's defense become elite

519
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Speaker 1: enough to bail out a poor offense and lead them

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Speaker 1: to win a national championship? No? Now credit their defense

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Speaker 1: this last weekend. They won them the game. But no,

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Speaker 1: Alabama's defense does not have the top end potential to

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Speaker 1: win them a national championship. Offense is going to have

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Speaker 1: to do it. And I'm very very curious this week,

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Speaker 1: just as I kind of was last week and I

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Speaker 1: didn't see it. I'm curious this week what Alabama does

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Speaker 1: against New Mexico State. Not the outcome of the game, obviously,

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Speaker 1: but this is the last tune up they will have

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Speaker 1: after this to give you an idea of what Bama's

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Speaker 1: schedule is. They got Arkansas at home, which is not

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Speaker 1: a game they can mess around with they go to

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Speaker 1: Auburn for the Iron Bowl, certainly not a game they

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Speaker 1: can mess around with. They can lose either one of them,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, with the way they're playing

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Speaker 1: right now, and then if they win both of those,

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Speaker 1: then they are or assured a trip to Atlanta for

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Speaker 1: the SEC Championship game. Here's what I'm watching right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm watching their offensive line be very poor, especially having

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Speaker 1: to move pieces around on the right side. Center as

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Speaker 1: a result this week was very, very poor, and they've

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Speaker 1: got to get dal Court back. I mean, that's their

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Speaker 1: best shot obviously to have their starting center. But that's

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Speaker 1: not what I'm watching. What I'm looking at is I

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Speaker 1: cannot believe that they brought in the freshman receiving class

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Speaker 1: they have with Christian Leary and Jacory Brooks and a

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Speaker 1: Ji Haul Jojo Earl, and none of those guys have

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Speaker 1: made a huge impact. I cannot believe that this is

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Speaker 1: a program, whether it be Calvin Ridley or a Maury

549
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Speaker 1: Cooper in recent history, Nick Saban, when he's recruited those

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Speaker 1: game changers at receiver, he's gotten them on the field,

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Speaker 1: and so I'm wondering what the deal is because out

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Speaker 1: of four of them. I mean, Jojo Earl has seen

553
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Speaker 1: a little bit of playing time, but by and large

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Speaker 1: it's been non existence from that entire class. I do

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Speaker 1: not believe they busted on that class. It's what I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you. So I don't also believe that every single

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Speaker 1: one of them must be so mentally inferior that they

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Speaker 1: can't grasp the system and can't get on the field.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think they're all trouble makers or anything

560
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Speaker 1: like that. I just think they've done a poor job

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Speaker 1: of getting those guys ready to play. It is on

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Speaker 1: the player at the end of the day. I get

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Speaker 1: that there's got to be an assumed responsibility. But that's

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Speaker 1: why I'm saying four one of them could be like that.

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Speaker 1: One of them could just be a washout, you know,

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Speaker 1: character concerns, but not all four of them. There's just

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Speaker 1: no way you're selling me on that. So the reason

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Speaker 1: I said that is because I wonder if they don't

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Speaker 1: watch that film and say, we've got to have more

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Speaker 1: difference makers on the field. Slade Bolden, God bless him,

571
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Speaker 1: is not a difference maker. John Metchi is at his

572
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Speaker 1: best when he has those kind of complimentary pieces around him.

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Speaker 1: They've got Jamison Williams there, who was the transfer from

574
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Speaker 1: Ohio State that have more losses than they do right

575
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Speaker 1: now if he was not on that team. They've got

576
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Speaker 1: to have more speed and more versatility at wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: It stands to reason you should be that way when

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Speaker 1: you lose Jalen Waddle and Jerry Judy and Ruggs and

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Speaker 1: DeVante Smith over a two year period, it should be

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Speaker 1: that way. Obviously, I think Jalil Billingsley has been a

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Speaker 1: big disappointment for them at tight end. He should have

582
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Speaker 1: been a much bigger integral part of this offense this year,

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Speaker 1: and it just sounds like he hasn't fulfilled his end

584
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: of the bargain and hasn't been able to make them

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Speaker 1: trust him in big moments. He's had some drops, He's

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Speaker 1: had some miscues in big moments, and so I think

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Speaker 1: the only answer to what you're asking here, David, of

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Speaker 1: what needs to go to another level in order for

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Speaker 1: them to win a title. I think the receiver position

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Speaker 1: has to have more dependability and more pieces. They have

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Speaker 1: to have more players. That is the biggest hinge point,

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Speaker 1: because once you can do that, then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you can't key in on one guy and you loosen

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Speaker 1: up a defense and you make him think a little

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Speaker 1: bit more. You've also got the versatility of having to

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Speaker 1: worry about the quarterback run because unlike in Columbus, Ohio,

597
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the quarterback is willing to run and

598
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Speaker 1: get some tough yards. So no, I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: the defense that'll bail him out. Having said that, I

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Speaker 1: think now is as good a time as any to

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Speaker 1: let you know I am ready to announce my Heisman

602
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Speaker 1: endorsement this year. I've watched long enough, I've observed, I've

603
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Speaker 1: studied law enough, and I've come to the conclusion that

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Speaker 1: I am endorsing Will Anderson for Heisman this year. I

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Speaker 1: am endorsing a defensive player. Will Anderson is a machine.

606
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Speaker 1: I think Will Anderson for Alabama is the best player

607
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Speaker 1: in college football right now. He is single handedly impacting

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Speaker 1: games unlike any other single college football player out there

609
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 1: is to me right now, if you have not watched him,

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Speaker 1: please take some time to watch him. And if you

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Speaker 1: haven't looked at his numbers, please take some time to

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00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: do that. He's putting up some numbers. Even at the

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Speaker 1: University of Alabama defensively that are generational, that are true standout.

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Speaker 1: He's a true sophomore, so they got one more year

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00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: of him there. But Will Anderson is my Heisman endorsement

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Speaker 1: this year and from this point forward, just as I

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Speaker 1: did with DeVante Smith last year, I will fight for

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Speaker 1: Will Anderson as if he were my own child. And

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Speaker 1: that's just the way it's going to be. And that's

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Speaker 1: a big announcement. Obviously, it's big endorsement on the show.

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Speaker 1: So let's take a couple of seconds, let's regroup, and

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Speaker 1: then we'll wrap up with a couple more questions and

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Speaker 1: the exciting slash horrific conclusion to this week's travel debacle.

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Speaker 1: Stay with me, all right. Keenan had a question that

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00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: a lot of you were wondering about. Thoughts on Jimmy

626
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Speaker 1: Lake hitting one of his players in the face mask.

627
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 1: Keenan is talking obviously about the Washington head coach Jimmy Lake.

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Speaker 1: They had a confrontation on the field slash on the

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Speaker 1: sideline between players this past week in the Oregon game,

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Speaker 1: and then one of them was about to get a

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Speaker 1: flag or maybe he got flagged, and Jimmy Lake was

632
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 1: irate because a guy lost his composure, and so as

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00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: the player is being pushed back towards the sideline, Jimmy

634
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: Lake slaps him in the helmet and pushes him. And

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Speaker 1: the reason I haven't really touched on this is because

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Speaker 1: my opinion is a big minority opinion. I have a

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00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: strong opinion on this, but most of you will not

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00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: agree with it. I had zero problem with it, zero

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00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: problem whatsoever. I looked at this, and I've always looked

640
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: at this the same way. I think to myself, if

641
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: that player were to have picked a ball off, or

642
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: that player were to have thrown a touchdown pass, and

643
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: it was dramatic, and it was in the fourth quarter,

644
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: and he came over to the sideline, what would happen.

645
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: Jimmy Lake and or several other coaches and players would

646
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: slap him on the helmet harder than Jimmy Lake did

647
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: the other night, and they would do it in a

648
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: celebratory mood, and no one would think anything of it.

649
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: The reason I say that is, obviously, we're not punishing

650
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: Jimmy Lake for the actual pain or injury he inflicted

651
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: on the player. We're punishing him for the optics of it.

652
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: You can't hit a player you can't hit a player well, No,

653
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: you can't strike a player with a closed fist when

654
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: his helmet's off and bloody his nose. No, you can't

655
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: do what Woody Hayes did and throw a forearm shiver

656
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: to an opposing player. No, you clearly can't do that.

657
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: What Jimmy Lake did, though, will slap a player in

658
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: the back of the helmet. Let me stress the word

659
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: helmet helmet. You think Jimmy Lake knew his helmet was

660
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: on when he slapped him, and that was probably one

661
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: of the reasons he felt okay to slap him in

662
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: the back of the head. I think so. And he

663
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: shoved him a little bit too. And look, I know

664
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: a lot of you have a problem with this. I

665
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: think a majority of you think it was wrong and

666
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: think he should be punished. I don't. It's the way

667
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: that I prefer to be coached. It's the way that

668
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: I was coached. I had to coach kick me one time.

669
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: Never told you guys this. I had a coach kick

670
00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: me one time. He ended up being one of my

671
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: favorite coach. Which. As ever, now, I am not advocating

672
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: for the kicking of players. I'm just explaining to you.

673
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: That's the way that a lot of us got coached.

674
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: And you know, here's the thing about it. You know

675
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: a coach is doing it out of love. When you

676
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: know the coach is doing it and he also has

677
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: your best intention and the team's best intentions in mind,

678
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: you don't take it the same way that a viewer

679
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: at home takes him. Which is why. And I have

680
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 1: no knowledge of what happened afterwards. Grant me that I

681
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: have no knowledge. If I were that player and Jimmy

682
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: Lake was my coach, I would make it a point

683
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: since I knew I was in the wrong, I would

684
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: make it a point to find the nearest microphone or

685
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: to go to my social accounts, and I would say,

686
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 1: don't do anything to him. I'm the one who screwed up.

687
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: I have no problem with what he did to me.

688
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: That's what I would do. That's me. That's on me.

689
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: I don't know what this player did, whether he did

690
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: that or not, but no, I don't have any problem

691
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: with what Jimmy Lake did. I would not have suspended him.

692
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: I don't like that he got suspended. If Washington were

693
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: undefeated and in the throes of a PAC twelve title race,

694
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: I don't think he would have been suspended. So let's

695
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 1: also not be ignorant to the fact that, yes, there

696
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: are more factors in play here than just whether Jimmy

697
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: Lake did something he wasn't supposed to do. No, that's

698
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: not the case. So I don't have a problem with it.

699
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: I know most of you did, and it's a principal issue.

700
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: Some of you think that, with no exceptions, a coach

701
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: should never put his hands on players. I don't feel

702
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: that way. I feel like when it's egregious, you'll know

703
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: it when you see it, and I don't think this

704
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: was egregious. Here's a really, really good two parter. Matt said,

705
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: favorite railroad to ride, most underrated storm you ever chased?

706
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: While to knock these both out really quick, Matt favorite

707
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: railroad to ride. That would be the CSX Lineville Subdivision.

708
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: That would be between Birmingham and Manchester, Georgia. And that's

709
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: about as specific as I can get there for obvious reasons.

710
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: Second thing he asked was the most underrated storm I

711
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: ever chased. Here's a sad, sad story for you. So

712
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: a few years ago, me and the storm chasing team

713
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: we got an active day in the state of Alabama,

714
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: and so we gird up our loins and we load

715
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: up the car and we head up to just north

716
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: of Lagrange, Georgia. That's where we think that kind of

717
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: the battle zone is going to be that day. It

718
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: should be noted our meeting point that day was Opelika, Alabama.

719
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: Keep Opalikah in mind, it's about to be very important.

720
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: So we drive all the way up to north of

721
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: Lagrange and you know, it's back roads up there once

722
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 1: you get up north of Lagrange, because we're not on

723
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: the interstate. And so the storms start popping. Here's the problem.

724
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: The ones that are popping near us, they just don't

725
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: have the critical dynamics in place. We do not have

726
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: the rotation, we don't have anything that we're looking for.

727
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: But boy, the ones to the south do. And there

728
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: it goes tornado, Warren storm and what County Alabama? Lee County, Alabama.

729
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: Guess what's in Lee County? Opealaikah. Guess what happened in Opelika? Touchdown?

730
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: I believe it was an EF one touchdown and we're

731
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: watching it. The webcams were live, the news tower cameras

732
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: caught it, and we're watching it. So here's here's the

733
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: real fun part of that. We were working in local news.

734
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: I was with one of our meteorologists. I'm working in

735
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: local news too, and sometimes I had to come in

736
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: because I was a news anchor at that time, and

737
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: I had to do the breaking stuff too. It was

738
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: a seat so we technically weren't going to be on air,

739
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: but we had to be on call. So we're out

740
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: in the field that day, chasing. Well, we're on the

741
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: wrong storm. The storm that's probably like two miles away

742
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: from where we parked our cars produce as a tornado. Well,

743
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: then we have to kick into emergency coverage duty. So

744
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: I kid you not. Here's the scene. It is pouring

745
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: down rain. We are stopped by a train in Lagrange.

746
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: One of the most magical moments of my life. We

747
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: are in the middle of tornado coverage as a freight

748
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: train stops us, which kind of blends this question together.

749
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: By the way, and so it is pouring down rain,

750
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: we're stopped by a train. We're trying to get down

751
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: to Opalaika. Meanwhile, the meteorologist is on air doing live coverage,

752
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: but we can't get on air yet because there's a

753
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: brand new Master control operator running the station because it's

754
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: a Saturday. We'll call him Bradley because that's his name.

755
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: So Bradley is having to be walked through step by

756
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: step how to get a breaking weather alert graphic on air,

757
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: how to get the lower third crawl on air, you

758
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: know that red tornado warning crawl, and also how to

759
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: actually put the weather map on air so that our

760
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: mediaorologists can talk over it via phone as it's pouring

761
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: down rain. So all this is happening as we go

762
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: down eighty five trying to get back to Opalaika, hoping

763
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: that this tornado is still on the ground when we

764
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: get there. That was probably one of the most crushing

765
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: failures of our storm chasing career, because when we get

766
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: back down there, we have to go through tornado damage

767
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: to get to our car. That is insult to injury

768
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: to know that you drove like three hundred miles round

769
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: trip all through backwoods in Georgia and you could have

770
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: just sat in the parking lot that you met up

771
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: in and had a great view. That was a little

772
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: bit too much to stomach that day. And since I'm

773
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: already in a bad mood from that answer, let me

774
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: just go ahead and wrap it up with this part two,

775
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: the exciting conclusion to this week's nightmare travel scenario. So

776
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: once I get to the hotel, after we've gotten out

777
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: of the Austin Airport longest year of my life, we

778
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: head up to College Station the next morning, and I

779
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: did decide to keep the van, so here we go.

780
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: We are driving at all of about sixty five or

781
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: sixty six miles an hour. That's as fast as that

782
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: van will go, doesn't matter. I didn't have a tailwind,

783
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 1: which was all that could have helped me at that point.

784
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: So I finally get to College Station shockingly easy. To

785
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: get in there, had to run one red light because

786
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: it was not working. But other than that, for a

787
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: stadium that seats about one hundred and ten thousand people,

788
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: traffic has really never been totally horrific when I've gone

789
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: to Texas A and M games. Maybe it's because I

790
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: get there earlier, but it's never been terrible. So I

791
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: get there, I get in, I meet up with our

792
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: academy representatives, I do our pregame stuff like everything's good.

793
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: The experience was great. Man. I posted a whole lot

794
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: of video on Twitter, posted a whole lot more on

795
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: Instagram at late kick, Josh. You got to check that

796
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: Instagram story. It's also on the Instagram page right now

797
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: as a highlight reel, so you can go back and

798
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 1: watch it if you missed it, because that's only up

799
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: for twenty four hours. And I had a blast. Man,

800
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: I met so many people. I just wish that you

801
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: guys could be on the field in some of these venues.

802
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Oh, it's so amazing. And it was great

803
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: weather too. And the thing about it is if you

804
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,280
Speaker 1: go over to the shady side of the field at

805
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: some stadiums and you look look at how hard the

806
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: colors pop in late fall sunshine, it really plays a

807
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: trick on your eyes because it looks like a painting.

808
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: But it's not a painting. It's real life. That's really

809
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: what that place looks like. You cannot see it because

810
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: it doesn't come through on TV, and even with the

811
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: best camera technology, I don't really think photos do it

812
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: justice either. But if you could stand there and look

813
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: at it, boy, it's amazing. I find myself as I

814
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: told you the other day, I tweeted it out. Actually

815
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: I said, this is a job. I took a picture

816
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: of my vantage point Hey, this is a job basically. Lol. Okay,

817
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: so the game's great. Game was phenomenal. I met a

818
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: lot of you on the field, met a lot more

819
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: of you kind of walking around there. Talked to some

820
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: Texas Sandem staffers after the game. Every time we go

821
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,240
Speaker 1: to a game, there are people and staffers and players

822
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: in a lot of cases from both teams that let

823
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: us know. Hey. I know I can't comment publicly, but

824
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: I love the show, so that always happens, and so

825
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 1: I know you guys are out there. Thank you for that.

826
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: I will meet some of you in the future I

827
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: haven't met yet. Thank you in advance. Anyway, I'm in

828
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: no hurry to leave. Normally, what I'll do is as

829
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 1: I did this time. I go to Jimbo's press conference

830
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: and then I take my laptop. I go sit out

831
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: in an empty stadium and I watch about a half

832
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: of the next round of games. I'm letting traffic die down,

833
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: so I leave about probably an hour and a half,

834
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: two hours after the game's over. Get on the road,

835
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: no problem, Traffic is fine. I'm listening to Kentucky, Tennessee

836
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: and LSU Alabama on the radio on the way back.

837
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: So that was a very, very white knuckle trip for

838
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 1: reasons that didn't relate to the van. The van performed admirably.

839
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: Bessie was a huge hit in college station. Everyone loved her.

840
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,760
Speaker 1: Several of you asked about her, so she was great. Bessie,

841
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,800
Speaker 1: as it turned out, was the least of my concerns.

842
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: Get back to the hotel. We're good. I got a

843
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: seven am flight out of Austin in the morning. You think, oh,

844
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: morning trip. Get an airport, no problem, get the rental car,

845
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 1: check back in, breeze through security, get on our flight,

846
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 1: probably end up getting a couple of hours nap before

847
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: I have to go back to work in Nashville. Yeah. Well,

848
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: I did get to the airport early, and I did

849
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 1: get the rental car checked in. When I walk into

850
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 1: Austin Airport, there it is again, just as sure as

851
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: it was there during my budget car rental crisis. When

852
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Speaker 1: I got there, the line, the line, But this time

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Speaker 1: it's for TSA security And so I get in. But

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00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: you're thinking to yourself, I'm here an hour and a

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00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: half early. Yeah, this is gonna suck. But I mean,

856
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: I'll get to the terminal no problem. When I tell

857
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 1: you there was one security gate operational for that entire airport.

858
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: I'm telling you there was one security gate operational for

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Speaker 1: that entire airport. This is why competition is beautiful, guys.

860
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: This is why competition in the market is a great thing,

861
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: because the inferior products and the inferior people get weeded out.

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00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,240
Speaker 1: That's the way it's supposed to work. Like Ron Swanson

863
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Speaker 1: said on Parks and rec the free market is beautiful.

864
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: It's a jungle, and when something is weak, it dies

865
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Speaker 1: and something else takes its place. But that's not how

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Speaker 1: the government works. TSA has no competition, so it doesn't

867
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Speaker 1: matter how slow they move, it doesn't matter how late

868
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Speaker 1: they show up for work, or how and effective they are.

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Speaker 1: They're always going to be the only game in town.

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Speaker 1: And that's exactly how they carried themselves. At Austin Bergstrom

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Speaker 1: International Airport the other day. It took an hour fifteen

872
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Speaker 1: minutes at about six to six thirty in the morning

873
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Speaker 1: to get through security. Here's the next thing you need

874
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Speaker 1: to know. Despite the fact that it's one government agency

875
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: airport to airport, they have wildly different policies. Some places

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Speaker 1: have you put a laptop and cell phone in a bin.

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00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 1: Others say Oh, you can keep it in the book bag.

878
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,479
Speaker 1: I have a camera with me. Some of them say,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to put the camera out anymore. I

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00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: had a TSA agent specifically tell me that two weeks ago. Hey,

881
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: our new policy is you don't have to have the

882
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: camera out anymore. You just leave it in your suitcase.

883
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: Well guess what I listened stupidly, I listened to the

884
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Speaker 1: government official and I left my camera in the suitcase.

885
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: It's worked fine until this go round. And so I

886
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 1: finally get up to security, finally get through, finally go

887
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Speaker 1: through the screening process. I have got five minutes until

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00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: they close the gate. And so guess what happens. My

889
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 1: bag gets pulled. And guess why it got pulled because sir,

890
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: do you have a camera in here? Well, you got

891
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: to take that camera out. You got to have that

892
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: camera separate. And so I could either fight with the guy,

893
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Speaker 1: and that would have been round two of me versus

894
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: TSA in as many weeks I won. Last week. I

895
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Speaker 1: didn't want to take my chances, so I said, do

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Speaker 1: whatever you have to do. You know, I'm trying to

897
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Speaker 1: use my hand to motion that I'm in a hurry,

898
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: But this guy works for Tsa. They don't even know

899
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Speaker 1: what the word hurry means. So in a very sloth

900
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: like manner, he pulls out the camera. He looks at it. Okay,

901
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: I can confirm this as a camera, and he runs

902
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: it back through the conveyor belt. Shockingly, it is just

903
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: a camera, and so he moses his way back over

904
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 1: nonchalantly puts it back in my bag. Here you go.

905
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: I am at the last gate in the terminal, so

906
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: for the first time in my life, I had to

907
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 1: run through the airport. I have a seven o'clock flight.

908
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 1: I get to the gate at six fifty eight. Doors

909
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 1: are already closed, seals are already locked. I can't get

910
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: on the flight. Doesn't matter, can't get on the flight.

911
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: I am. I rate for about three minutes, and then

912
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Speaker 1: I realized, wait. When I was booking here, there were

913
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Speaker 1: a couple other American flights out of here in the morning,

914
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Speaker 1: and there are a couple of Southwest flights. So I

915
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: immediately start pulling them up and looking all sold out.

916
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Speaker 1: Can't get on any of them. I asked the lady

917
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Speaker 1: to rebook me. She said, I can get you out

918
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Speaker 1: here atour o'clock in the afternoon. No, boy, no, lady,

919
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: haven't you ever heard of Late Kick Live? It comes

920
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: on at seven tonight. I got to get out of here.

921
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: Can you just give me a voucher? Well, no, sir,

922
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: I can't refund it because you missed your flight. And

923
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: I look at her the same way Ben Stiller looked

924
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: at that lady and meet the parents, and basically my

925
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: eyes said, I have no time right now, but you

926
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: got yours coming one day. I will deal with you later.

927
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: So I had to rebook. I got on Southwest out

928
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Speaker 1: of Austin at noon with a connection in New Orleans,

929
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: and I got in finally about an hour or so

930
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: before the show was going to go on the air.

931
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: I drive straight from the airport to the studio. I've

932
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: got airplane all over me. I've got no preparation. And

933
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: I didn't want to tell anyone about it ahead of

934
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 1: time because I wanted to just see. I wanted to

935
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: challenge myself, how good a show can we do? Well?

936
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: I grade the shows after I do them. Sunday Night

937
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: was about a C plus effort, but when you graded

938
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: on the no preparation been in the air all day curve,

939
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: it was a solid B plus effort and that's what happened.

940
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: It ended up that even though I got stuck in

941
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: a prison van to drive across Texas after a four

942
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 1: plus hour wait in line, you shouldn't complain because the

943
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: trip back was even worse. So I learned my lesson.

944
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: But here's what else I learned. And this is where

945
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: you guys come through. We have a really big national

946
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: audience now, so when I complain about things, whereas it

947
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: used to just be an echo chamber and no one

948
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: hears me. I complained about this, not really on a

949
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: broad scale. I just kind of referenced it once or

950
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: twice over the course of the weekend. Well, it turns

951
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: out that we have people in the airline industry that

952
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: listen to the show. We have people in the car

953
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 1: rental industry that listen to the show. So I'm headed

954
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: to Waco this weekend. We're going to Oklahoma, Baylor. I've

955
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: already been hooked up. One of you guys in Dallas

956
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: hooked me up. I'm flying into Dallas and gonna fly

957
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: out of Dallas. But man, it pays to have an

958
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: audience like we have with Late Kick, because as soon

959
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: as there's an issue that one of you can address,

960
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: you jump into action, and one of you jumped into action,

961
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: and so thank you for that. There will eventually come

962
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: a time because every one of you has a different

963
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: set of skills and talents. All I do is sit

964
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 1: here and talk. You guys are out in the real

965
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: world doing real things. There will come a day where

966
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: there's a need for the collective to use your services.

967
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: So just be on guard. Just be on guard. That's

968
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,919
Speaker 1: how our community has to work. And of course there's

969
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: always a free Academy gift card in the offing if

970
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: you are able to do that, or if you just

971
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,439
Speaker 1: bump into me on the street somewhere and I happen

972
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: to have them on me. So thank you for man

973
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: making the podcast a huge success. I'm looking at the

974
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: charts now. I don't want to brag, but if I

975
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: did want to brag, I'd tell you we're in the

976
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: top fifty for all of sports and in the top

977
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:20,800
Speaker 1: ten for all of football. That's what I tell you

978
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 1: if I wanted to brag on us. But we don't

979
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: brag around here. We just keep our nose down, keep

980
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: our eyes on the process, and that's the bottom line.

981
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: Coas Stone cold set, So do me one favor. Be

982
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: sure you're giving us the five star reviews, and be

983
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: sure you're sharing it. Just screenshot it if you're listening

984
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: to it. But when you do it, tag me, Tag

985
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 1: me on Twitter, tag me on Instagram. That is our

986
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: marketing department. As I've told you many times, you run promotion,

987
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 1: you run marketing. We're not spending a dime on it.

988
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: I'm not even trying. I'm not even asking management for

989
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: an advertising budget. I don't think we need it. We

990
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,359
Speaker 1: got here just us, so let's continue to do it

991
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: just us. Shall we thank you for helping out there.

992
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for all that you do. Let

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Speaker 1: me get this to producer Jordan Hill Tonight's Lake Kick

994
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Speaker 1: Live eight eastern, seventh Central on the twenty four to

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Speaker 1: seven Sports YouTube channel. Have a great rest of your

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Speaker 1: day and God bless