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Speaker 1: This is the lay Kick Extra podcast. It's wall to

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Speaker 1: you will see. I just had him take me in

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Speaker 1: the film room. I wanted to know what he thought

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Speaker 1: about his quarterback and how he would explain his new offense.

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Speaker 1: And we literally we went in the film room. He

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Speaker 1: put about twenty or thirty plays up on the board,

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Speaker 1: you know, laser pen just like a film session, and

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Speaker 1: I told him break it down like I'm a fifth grader,

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Speaker 1: and so he put it in terms of everyone can understand.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I think makes a great play caller. Awareness

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Speaker 1: of your roster, awareness of what your player's capabilities are,

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Speaker 1: preparation not just Monday through Friday, but really in spring

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Speaker 1: and summer and fall and your install periods and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: Understanding how to stick with what works, I think is

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Speaker 1: a really really big deal. One of the biggest flaws

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Speaker 1: in especially a young play callers methodology is they think

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Speaker 1: just because something's on the play sheet, just because something's

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Speaker 1: in the game plan, they have to use it. You

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Speaker 1: see it every Saturday. You see guys not sticking with

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Speaker 1: what works because they overthink the room and they think, well,

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Speaker 1: we repped this place seven times this week, and it's

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Speaker 1: right here on my laminated play sheet, so I've got

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Speaker 1: to call it. No, you don't have to call it.

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Speaker 1: You do not have to use one hundred percent of

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Speaker 1: your arsenal. There's a lot of skill in keeping it simple.

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Speaker 1: Stupid kiss keep it simple. If something's working. If they

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Speaker 1: can't stop off tackle to the left, keep running off

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Speaker 1: tackle to the left until they stop it. This is

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Speaker 1: the most basic of principles, so basic even I can

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Speaker 1: understand it. So sticking with what works, that's the first thing.

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Speaker 1: The second thing is staying ahead of the game when

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Speaker 1: you don't have to think so much when you're in

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Speaker 1: a rhythm, like Steve Starkesian is one of the best

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Speaker 1: I've seen at this of being in a rhythm and

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Speaker 1: thinking seemingly at least thinking two, three, four plays ahead.

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Speaker 1: It's so obvious when a guy is just in his bag,

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Speaker 1: he's just in his groove, and I don't really know

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Speaker 1: how to explain how you get there. I think it

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Speaker 1: really helps where we are today. In terms of film study.

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Speaker 1: I had a coach tell me one day, because I

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Speaker 1: was talking to him about how much younger on average

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Speaker 1: head coaches are now when they're hiring, and he said, well,

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Speaker 1: that's just technology. And I said, what do you mean.

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Speaker 1: He said, well, think about it. I mean, back in

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Speaker 1: the day, like in nineteen eighty five, film was actual film,

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Speaker 1: and it's all about exposure in reps. That's all it's

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Speaker 1: about in football, just as much as in the brokerage business.

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Speaker 1: It's all about access to reps and therefore the knowledge

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Speaker 1: that you get off of experiencing mental reps or seeing

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Speaker 1: them at practice. He said, well, back in the day,

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Speaker 1: the reps as a coach that you would experien were

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Speaker 1: the reps you saw in practice and then the reps

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Speaker 1: you saw on film. But you could not go to

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Speaker 1: a grad assistant and say, I want every situation that

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Speaker 1: we've had here over the past four seasons on third

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Speaker 1: and three to third and seven on grass fields in

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Speaker 1: the month of October and have it provided to you

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Speaker 1: in the span of five minutes. Now you can expose

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Speaker 1: yourself to tens of thousands of more reps because of

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Speaker 1: technology than you used to experiencing. That's a big deal

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Speaker 1: because you get to advance quicker because you're acquiring knowledge

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Speaker 1: at a quicker rate than you would have a generation

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Speaker 1: to go well, I think you can also just evolve

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Speaker 1: as a play caller faster because you can experience so

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Speaker 1: much more Now. There are some lessons that you can't

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Speaker 1: microwave your way to. You cannot hit fast forward on

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Speaker 1: learning how to manage people, learning the psychological aspects of

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Speaker 1: being a coach. You can't rush that, but you can

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Speaker 1: you can fast track yourself in some of these some

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Speaker 1: of these lanes. And I think one of them is

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Speaker 1: you look around, some of the best play callers are

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Speaker 1: some of the youngest guys in our game. Now. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's any coincidence that that's coinciding with tremendous

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Speaker 1: advancements in the world of technology. It's really amazing what

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Speaker 1: you can do. I mean, I was sitting there with

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Speaker 1: Shandon Dawson the other day and he was pulling up

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Speaker 1: stuff from Houston. He came from Houston. He's pulling up

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Speaker 1: situations from Houston just boom, boom, boom. It's really amazing

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Speaker 1: to watch. So yeah, I think situational awareness, understanding that

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Speaker 1: you need to stick with what works, and being able

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Speaker 1: to see around the corner, knowing your personnel, knowing matchups,

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Speaker 1: knowing tendencies, and being able to recall that stuff without

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Speaker 1: needing to constantly look down at something and having a

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Speaker 1: feel the intangible of having a feel for the game.

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Speaker 1: I would say that's what makes a really good play caller.

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Speaker 1: But hey, above and beyond all that, good players is

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Speaker 1: what makes a good play caller because a lot of

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Speaker 1: what happens on a football field is after contact, and

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Speaker 1: there is no play design that involves a quick hitch

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Speaker 1: out in the flat or a quick you know, bubble

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Speaker 1: screen out here, and then your guy makes three guys miss.

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Speaker 1: That's not play design. That's designing a play to put

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Speaker 1: an athlete in space, and then that's the end of

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Speaker 1: the play design. And at that point it's up to

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Speaker 1: a superior athlete to do what he was recruited to do.

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Speaker 1: So get more of those and you'll look like a genius.

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Speaker 1: JB from Alexander City, Alabama. Oh my train hopping or

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Speaker 1: storm chasing one has to go. No, they don't. I disagree.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to participate in these ab scenarios. You

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Speaker 1: guys send me I take part in both of these.

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Speaker 1: It always occurs to me when we're talking about this

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Speaker 1: that somewhere out there someone is listening for the first time.

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Speaker 1: They have no clue what's going on. Well, here's what's

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Speaker 1: going on. I'm a simple guy. I do a few

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Speaker 1: weird things, and one of them is hopping freight trains

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Speaker 1: to specific as I would like to get. Although Alexander City,

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Speaker 1: Alabama is a very very familiar territory to me, especially

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Speaker 1: on the Norfolk Southern lines, if you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: And storm chasing is also something I do, I'm not

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Speaker 1: taking either of those away. I apologize. I know this

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Speaker 1: is a question and answer. You asked the question. I'm

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Speaker 1: supposed to give you the answer. I'm not giving you

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Speaker 1: an answer here. I'm not taking either of those away. Now.

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Speaker 1: If this were a life or death situation, I guess

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Speaker 1: I would have to take train hopping away only because

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Speaker 1: that is a thrill, that an adrenaline rush that you

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Speaker 1: experience it, but it is kind of the same one

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Speaker 1: every time. Whereas storm chasing, no two chases are the same,

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Speaker 1: and Bill the late Bill Paxton or Helen Hunt would

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Speaker 1: tell you the same thing, No two chases are the same.

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Speaker 1: So I guess if I'm power ranking my recreational activities

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Speaker 1: storm chasing one train, hopping one b but neither one

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Speaker 1: of them are going anywhere. Sorry. Next up, you thought

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Speaker 1: I was about to toss to the ad break, I

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Speaker 1: know some of you did. No, No, you're not going

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Speaker 1: to see it coming this time. I will. I will

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Speaker 1: take the crowbar, not to the shin. I'll take the

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Speaker 1: crowbar to the calves today. No one sees that coming.

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Speaker 1: William from Tallahassee, Florida asks what are your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: NFL stadiums versus college football stadiums. Would you rather go

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Speaker 1: to Jacksonville's new design or Maverick Stadium in Logan, Utah?

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Speaker 1: Why or why not? Now? Even if you haven't listened

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Speaker 1: to me before, but you just know what I'm about.

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Speaker 1: You know what this podcast is about. There's no question here.

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Speaker 1: One of the phrases I despise is and it's not

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Speaker 1: even close. But in this particular case, my answer is

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Speaker 1: give me the college football stadium, and it's not even close,

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Speaker 1: And I don't really care if it's one of the

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Speaker 1: more rundown, dumpy college football stadiums versus one of the newest,

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Speaker 1: most immaculate NFL stadiums. I like the where in hair

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Speaker 1: of college football stadiums. I like the antiquated old look

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Speaker 1: of college football stadiums. We're showing LSU right now. If

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Speaker 1: you were in the studio right now with me, you

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Speaker 1: could see we showed Bryant Denny Stadium. A lot of

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Speaker 1: these places I've been to like a dozen times. What's

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Speaker 1: funny is when you walk in some of these older stadiums.

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Speaker 1: Penn State's a good example, you can see the years

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Speaker 1: that the updates were made. You'll be walking through portions

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Speaker 1: of some of these venues and there's architecture that was

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Speaker 1: built in the nineteen forties, and then you walk ten

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Speaker 1: feet over and there's architecture that was built in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and three. And it's like a little erector set.

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Speaker 1: It's like a Lego set, just different parts were built

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Speaker 1: at different times. I love that. I've also told you

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Speaker 1: many times what I do when I get to a

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Speaker 1: venue I've never been to before is I'll get there

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Speaker 1: really early, because we can get in there early, sometimes

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Speaker 1: even the night before. I did this at Autin Stadium

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Speaker 1: last year in Oregon. I had them take me over

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Speaker 1: there the night before and I just I walked the

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Speaker 1: entire venue. Pretty old stadium, and I love going up

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Speaker 1: and down the tunnels. I love seeing the locker rooms.

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Speaker 1: I love seeing how hard it is on the opposing team.

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Speaker 1: It's great, it's wonderful. Half of those locker rooms aren't

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Speaker 1: even big enough for them to fit in. Home field

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Speaker 1: advantage is real in college football. I think there are

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Speaker 1: less amenities in a college football stadium, which is a

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Speaker 1: good thing. It forces you to focus on the game.

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Speaker 1: It also it filters out the wine and cheese crowd

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Speaker 1: a little bit. And in the NFL, they want to

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Speaker 1: attract that crowd because those folks pay more money. I

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Speaker 1: get it, I know what the name of the game is.

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Speaker 1: But you know, in Notre Dame Stadium, you're sitting on

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Speaker 1: a bleacher in the big house and arbor, you're sitting

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Speaker 1: on a bleacher unless you pay big, big money, and

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Speaker 1: even if you want to, there aren't a ton of

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Speaker 1: those kind of seats in there. I respect it because

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Speaker 1: that's my kind of folks. I mean, we are the

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Speaker 1: same in that sense. I would much rather sit in

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Speaker 1: a place where there's no backrest. Where I'm sitting and

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Speaker 1: I've only got like eighteen inches between me and a

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Speaker 1: little sticker that indicates where the next seat starts. I'd

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Speaker 1: rather sit in that kind of place if I know,

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Speaker 1: in turn, everyone else is going to be as rabid

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Speaker 1: and as passionate as me. What I don't want is

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Speaker 1: I don't want to pay a little bit less, or

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Speaker 1: I don't want to pay a little bit more and

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Speaker 1: have the cushiony chair back and have someone bringing food

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Speaker 1: to me and look over to my left and right,

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Speaker 1: and all I have is people just taking pictures of

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Speaker 1: themselves for three and a half hours, and they couldn't

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Speaker 1: even tell you that it's third down in three and

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Speaker 1: this conversion. Could you run out the clock? I'm not

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Speaker 1: interested in that scene. College football folks are into it,

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Speaker 1: and I think in many ways it's because the stadiums themselves.

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Speaker 1: You got to be a warrior, You got to be

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Speaker 1: kind of a trooper in your own right to put

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Speaker 1: yourself through that for three or four hours and to

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Speaker 1: not care about it, to actually embrace it. Whereas in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, I mean, if the Jacksonville Jaguars played in

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Speaker 1: the Swamp, the Jacksonville Jaguars would not sell nearly enough

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Speaker 1: tickets to pack that place because the NFL crowd is

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Speaker 1: not in that. It's one of the beautiful differences between

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Speaker 1: the NFL game and the college game. And I know

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Speaker 1: there's a big effort out there to push the college

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Speaker 1: game towards the NFL game. It's not a mystery why

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Speaker 1: the NFL game makes more money. NFL teams are worth

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Speaker 1: more than college football teams. I don't think that's a

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00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: problem calls NFL teams are worth more than everything. The

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00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: NFL is worth more than everything. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: beauty in understanding there's a maximization of your value when

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Speaker 1: maintaining your authenticity. There is a maximum amount of worth

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Speaker 1: that college football can have without sacrificing college football. And

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Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be apples to apples to the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And one of the great lines of demarcation between the

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Speaker 1: Sunday game and the Saturday game is I go to

642
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl in Dallas to watch OU Texas. There

643
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: are no suites. I told the story two years ago

644
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: when I was out there. I'm standing next to Mark

645
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: Cuban on the sideline. He's a billionaire. There's no suite

646
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: for him, so he's either going to sit in the

647
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: stands or stand on the field. But there is no

648
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: luxury suite. Mark, you mean can't bring thirty of his

649
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: friends over there to the Cotton Bowl. Why? Because the

650
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: stadium was built I think five minutes after the Civil

651
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: War ended. And that is exactly what it looks and

652
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: feels like. There's one tunnel in, there's one tunnel out.

653
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: Both teams share it. It's in the middle of a

654
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: state fair. Cowboys aren't going to do that, nor should they.

655
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: They need to play their game. We'll play our game,

656
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: and that's my platform, is College Football Commissioner. Ah, it

657
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: feels good to get that off my chest. Eden is

658
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: from Jonesboro, Arkansas. What is your favorite trophy game? Very simple, Eden,

659
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 1: it is Floyida Rosdale. I don't know that you guys

660
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: are intimately familiar with Floyd, but you should be, especially

661
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: in Arkansas because he's a pig. Florida Rosdale is to me,

662
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: the greatest trophy in all of sports, the greatest trophy

663
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 1: in college football. No, I didn't say football, college or

664
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: pro I said sports. I said, I'm talking Stanley Cup,

665
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,919
Speaker 1: I'm talking Heisman, all of them. You can respect those

666
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: trophies and I do, and the significance of those trophies

667
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: is infinitely greater. The Lombardi Trophy means more that Crystal

668
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 1: Football in college football, because I don't acknowledge the new

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00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: trophy that Crystal football in college football. Yes, it means

670
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: more than Floyd of Rosedale. But if you're just going

671
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: on aesthetics, I love that little pig. Love him. One

672
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: of my goals, and I know we got a big

673
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: audience and someone's gonna be able to help us out here.

674
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: One of my goals is to get a Floyd of

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00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: Rosedale for the set. We've got some Chili of Supremacy.

676
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: We've got some stars that I stole off Pat Foley's

677
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: desk when we were still down in Brentwood. We've got

678
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: a late kick helmet, we have got a personalized cow

679
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: bell that someone has sent us. I got to get

680
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: a Floyida of Rosedale and we will feature him on

681
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: the set somehow, someway, Colin. I know I'm making big

682
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 1: promises here that you're gonna have to come through for

683
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: or come through on for me, But I gotta get

684
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: a floida Rosdale. So anyone out there who can help

685
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: me out. That's Iowa Minnesota, by the way, And I

686
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: know it's for a kid from rural Georgia. You may wonder, like,

687
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: where did that come from? Well, open yourselves up a

688
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: little bit. Just experience the world outside your own backyard.

689
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: Think about what we have here. We have Iowa versus Minnesota,

690
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: and those teams have played forever and they go knockheads

691
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: for four quarters. And they're not playing for millions of dollars.

692
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: They're not playing for a job. There's no girl on

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00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: the line. It's just a statue of a pig. That's

694
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: exactly the way God intended this sport to be played.

695
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: It's wonderful. It doesn't matter if you don't get it.

696
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 1: You probably don't get that this is coming either, little

697
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: disrespectful to Floyda Rosedale to put him right next to

698
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: a surprise ad Toss, the little comic cosy ad Toss.

699
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: But I had to sneak it up on you somehow,

700
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: and I think think we succeeded there. But yeah, so

701
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: just to revisit, we got to get a Floida Rosdale.

702
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: I was not kidding about that. We got to get

703
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: a Florida Rosdale at Big ten Oh. Next up Unsalted

704
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 1: HOGI in Houston, Texas hits US up and says, what

705
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: would you prefer to watch over the course of five

706
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: years in college football? Would you rather a dynasty of

707
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: a couple of teams for them that are leagues above

708
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: the competition, or would you rather see parody where every

709
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: year there are four new teams claiming those top spots.

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00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: I'm not a sadist. Give all things equal, give me

711
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: the parody, give me two thousand and seven, Just give

712
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:51,240
Speaker 1: me a car wreck. I don't choose dynasty's over competitive balance.

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00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 1: Contrary to some semi popular belief out there some people

714
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: out there, because I read the comments and I see

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00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: you alleged this. You think that I want to see JR.

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00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: Go on a run where they win seven out of

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00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: nine titles. You think I've thoroughly enjoyed watching Alabama. While

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00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 1: I have enjoyed it, it's an enjoyment from a sense

719
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: of appreciating excellence. What I don't buy into is this

720
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: notion that I have favoritism for one over the other. No. No,

721
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: I would much rather seventeen programs be operating at that level.

722
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: What I don't believe in, and this is where you

723
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: separate me from some of the more casual minded who

724
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: follow or cover the sport is. I don't watch Georgia

725
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: do what they're doing and say we got to do

726
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 1: something about Georgia. I don't watch Nick Saban do what

727
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,399
Speaker 1: he's done and say something's got to be done about

728
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: Nick Saban. I look at the rest of the sport

729
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: instead and say, what are you going to do about

730
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: Nick Saban? What are you going to do about Georgia

731
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: back in the two thousands, what are you going to

732
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,280
Speaker 1: do about Pete Carroll at USC It's not their fault

733
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: for dominating. It's up to you to stop them. It's

734
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,240
Speaker 1: up to you to meet that standard, because you're probably

735
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 1: not gonna stop them, so it's up to you to

736
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: meet that standard. The perfect world is not where everyone's

737
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: average and therefore there's a ton of parody. The perfect

738
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 1: world is where you got a bunch of really good

739
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: to elite teams, and that's your parody. And that's the

740
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,760
Speaker 1: same way it should happen in life. That's how competition works.

741
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: You should have a bunch of people rising to meet

742
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: an elite standard rather than a bunch of outsiders going

743
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: full crab mentality and trying to pull the one crab

744
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: that starts climbing out of the bucket down so it

745
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: can just it can just waddle around with the rest

746
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: of the crabs at the bottom of the bucket. That's

747
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: not that's not what great college football is about. So

748
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: if there's a world where we get a whole bunch

749
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: of teams like LSU rises to that level again this year,

750
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: or Miami or Florida State or NC State rises to

751
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:58,399
Speaker 1: the level Clemson has been at, Texas is back, Oklahoma's back.

752
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: The half dozen teams on the West Coast in the

753
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: Pac twelve with over under preseason win totals of six

754
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: or eight and a half or higher, they all fulfill

755
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 1: on that. That would be wonderful. That's the kind of

756
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: parody parody with an it y on the end. By

757
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: the way, that's the kind of parody I want, and

758
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: I will. I will openly root for it, but I

759
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: will not look at excellence. I will not look at

760
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,760
Speaker 1: a dynasty and frown at it because no one else

761
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: rose up to stop it. That's why I think Dabbo

762
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: and Clemson deserve a ton of credit because they did

763
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the Bama run. They won

764
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,720
Speaker 1: themselves two titles against Alabama. That's why Kirby and Georgia

765
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,399
Speaker 1: deserve a ton of credit because they have risen up

766
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: right in the heart of the Alabama dynasty, and for

767
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: all we know, they've started one of their own that

768
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: should be celebrated. Let's go to the next question. It's

769
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: about to get personal. The next question does not have

770
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 1: to do with me. It's from Chris and he asks,

771
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: you mentioned your staff at Late Kick a lot. It

772
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: sounds like y'all are really close. Were these guys with

773
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: you during your independent days? No, they were not. Let

774
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: me tell you how it happened. I've told the story

775
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: several times of the way that we just built the show,

776
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: so you can find that in our archives. But when

777
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: I was down in Columbus and Shannon Terry called and

778
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: made the offer for me to bring myself and ultimately

779
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: the show up to twenty four to seven and CBS,

780
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: I got here and on the first day. Now director

781
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: Colin remembers this vividly. The first day I walked in,

782
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,800
Speaker 1: I had a meeting with Shannon and some of the

783
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: folks here, like Barton Simmons I think was in there.

784
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: He since moved on, and we were just talking about

785
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: vision and stuff, and Shannon to his credit, he said, hey, look,

786
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: we got some resources, like, we've got a studio, but

787
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 1: we don't have any shows, so you're here to do

788
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: what we ended up doing with Late Kate. But in

789
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: the meantime, can you go just shoot some videos today?

790
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: So I went over to their studio. This was done

791
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: in Brentwood, Tennessee. It's like ten minutes south of downtown

792
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: where we are now in the old office. And I

793
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 1: went down there, or went in there, and we recorded

794
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: some videos. Well, let me tell you who else was

795
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: in there. A guy by the name of director Colin

796
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 1: was in there. Direct Colin was being very much misused,

797
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: I would say, like his skills set was not being

798
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: harnessed at all. And since I had come from the

799
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,399
Speaker 1: world where I was around people in production, I knew

800
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: it immediately. So Colin is like me. He never talks

801
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: to anyone socially, very reclusive. We sat there and talked

802
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: for like an hour, and I pitched him my entire

803
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: vision and he was like picking up what I was

804
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: putting down, finishing my sentences, and so he and I

805
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: immediately started putting together mock drafts and we started doing

806
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: dry runs of what we thought this show should look

807
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,479
Speaker 1: like we had it down like nearly immediately. If you've

808
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: watched the show, you know we have not changed the

809
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: format since we started it. Everything from camera angles to blocking,

810
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 1: to segmentation, to the way we handle post production. We've

811
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: largely taken the same format for about four years, three

812
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: or three years now. And so then we get Downtown

813
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: post COVID, we start to open back up and producer

814
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:14,760
Speaker 1: Jesse comes into our lives because producer Jesse's up in Connecticut, woof,

815
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: and he's working for CBS Sports HQ up there. And

816
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: one day Jesse had to fill in producing the show.

817
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: I'd never met him. He was doing it remotely because

818
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: we were having to run the show through Connecticut. Sometimes

819
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 1: we have to do that. It's technical. I don't want

820
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: to bore you with it. Well, sometimes people would screw

821
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: it up. Jesse never did. Jesse nailed it every time,

822
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: so much so that it felt like you worked with us.

823
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: And so I started going to anyone I could and

824
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: getting in the ear of management saying, hey, there's this

825
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: little angel up there in Connecticut. I think you should

826
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: live in Nashville. I would love for him to come

827
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,359
Speaker 1: work for us. So then we got producer Jesse. Now

828
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: he's just blown up by producer Jesse. Stop. And then

829
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 1: Bradley the Associate was actually with me. He's the one

830
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: I knew back in my independent days. And Bradley the

831
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: Associate was behind the scenes down at WLTZ down in

832
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: Columbus when I was working there. And Bradley the Associate,

833
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: unbeknownst to ninety nine percent of you, actually appeared on

834
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:19,280
Speaker 1: air a few times down there. And that footage doesn't

835
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,959
Speaker 1: exist to my knowledge. It's been burned, but I would

836
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: pay good money if anyone down there could find it.

837
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, Bradley the Associate has been with us a

838
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: little over a year now. He's come up here and

839
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: it's a very very tight knit group. It's very closed circle.

840
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: Hard to get into it because we got the folks

841
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: we need, but at the same time, we're always looking

842
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,839
Speaker 1: for more. Like President Tyler, for example, has been doing

843
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 1: a great job with our shorts. He's in the other room.

844
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: I assume he's still in there. So yeah, we got

845
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 1: some other folks like Jamison handles the podcasting for us

846
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: a lot of nights. I'm using loose nicknames for a

847
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: lot of these people, by the way, because that's how

848
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: I call them around the office. So it is a

849
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: very close knit group. It's people you don't have to

850
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: be over the shoulder of, you know, the kind the

851
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: folks who you can trust to hand responsibility to and

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Speaker 1: they execute it at as high a level as the

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Speaker 1: standard is set at every time. Those folks don't screw

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Speaker 1: things up. And so yeah, when you find folks like that,

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Speaker 1: you take care of them and you keep them around

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Speaker 1: and you give them shout outs on air. That's what

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Speaker 1: we do. So in lieu of just having fourteen other

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Speaker 1: as it is or as it is. But yeah, we

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Speaker 1: got we got a really good crew here, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's pretty obvious in the product that we put out.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we just came off the road in Miami

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Speaker 1: all week and proceeded to do a seventy seven minute

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Speaker 1: show Sunday night, and it was the third best one

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Speaker 1: they don't drop the ball, and I try not to either.

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Speaker 1: It's very much, very much hit or miss in Miami.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, they do a really good job. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys for checking out the pod. Please make sure

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Speaker 1: you're subscribed to it. That's all I need to do.

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Speaker 1: Share it. Yes, that's wonderful. Our numbers are great though.

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Speaker 1: I just need you to subscribe to it. That's it.

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Speaker 1: And maybe get mom and dad too as well. So

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Speaker 1: for a direct com for producer Jesse for Bradley the associate,

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Pate. Take here. Have a great rest of

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Speaker 1: your day and God bless