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Speaker 1: Man, Welcome in Lake Kickings Live. It is Sunday Night,

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Speaker 1: March twenty seventh. You o a lord twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: jam Pack.

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Speaker 2: I have loved these shows, these QNA shows we've been doing.

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Speaker 2: We've got one tonight that's like nine or ten questions deep.

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Speaker 2: We are high at top a lively downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Weather's great outside. I think the show will be equally

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Speaker 2: as great inside tonight.

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Speaker 1: And the NCAA tournament, how about that March madness?

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Speaker 2: You know what, Imagine a world where your final four

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Speaker 2: doesn't consist of any cinderellas, of any underdogs.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't be my sport, couldn't be college football.

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Speaker 2: We had Cincinnati, who you got, Nova, Duke, North Carolina,

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Speaker 2: Kansas heard of them before them. But I'm not here

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Speaker 2: to give you bad faith straw Man arguments about why

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Speaker 2: college football's postseason is better. I'm not here to do

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Speaker 2: that because we have more important things to discuss Tonight.

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Speaker 1: There is a huge.

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Speaker 2: Recruiting splack that was made since the last time you

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Speaker 2: and I spoke.

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Speaker 1: We will discuss.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk a lot about what's more likely in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. I've got some really interestingly worded questions

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Speaker 2: about things ranging from whether the major stadiums are going

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Speaker 2: to be a thing of the past, to you know,

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Speaker 2: our annual plea for a Saturday night national championship game

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Speaker 2: instead of Monday.

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Speaker 1: We got a lot of college football to discuss.

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Speaker 2: As is usually the case when I open up the mailbag,

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Speaker 2: you guys just spanned the entire continent of college football.

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Speaker 2: The other night, I did an international shout out I

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Speaker 2: think it was Cape Town, South Africa, and I mentioned, hey,

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Speaker 2: that's cool, we got some international listeners. Well, I had

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Speaker 2: no idea, So then I go and I look at

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Speaker 2: the dms and the emails, and boy, we got some

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Speaker 2: international shout outs tonight. I mean I heard from two

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Speaker 2: of you from Turkey the other day, Istanbul and Ismir

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Speaker 2: Turkey checking in. Hong Kong's in the house, okay, now

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Speaker 2: with Japan's here Athens, Georgia, and Greece as it turns out,

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Speaker 2: and Lisbon, Portugal also draper Utah. If you're interested in

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Speaker 2: so so thank you wherever you're watching, thank you so much. Hey,

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Speaker 2: there's a really interesting conspiracy starting to circulate around this show.

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Speaker 2: And as we dive in tonight, I just want to

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Speaker 2: ask you out there, which camper you in. Are you

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Speaker 2: of the opinion that director Colin and producer Jesse are

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Speaker 2: in fact, living.

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Speaker 1: Breathing human beings or did we make them up?

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Speaker 2: If we made them up, which apparently an alarmingly growing

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Speaker 2: number of you believe we have. By we, I guess,

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Speaker 2: I mean me? Then, who's got their hands on the

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Speaker 2: wheel right now? Who's really running this thing? Just something

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Speaker 2: to think about. All right, let's dive in here tonight.

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Speaker 2: We've got a lot to get to. Thank you so much,

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Speaker 2: and make sure you're subscribed to the channel as we

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Speaker 2: open things with a very, very hard to pronounce a name.

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Speaker 2: So this is why we're choosing this question to lead

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Speaker 2: the show off. Late King volunteer commenter hit us and said,

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Speaker 2: what are your thoughts on Tennessee landing Nico Ia Malaveya?

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Speaker 1: Nope, that's not it close.

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Speaker 2: They got Nico big time five star quarterback, and we've

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Speaker 2: got a lot of time to learn the pronunciation.

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Speaker 1: What are the thoughts here though on them getting him?

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Speaker 1: This is a guy.

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Speaker 2: You've probably heard the name already, maybe you haven't tried

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Speaker 2: to pronounce it. This is a huge deal. I don't

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Speaker 2: want to gloss over how big this is. Because we're

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Speaker 2: committed to Tennessee. So that's part A before I get

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Speaker 2: to the whole nil tag that's associated with this. Let's

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Speaker 2: Well that's happening, and as is usually the case, when

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Speaker 2: the beauty for a Tennessee fan. But then, if you

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Speaker 2: here's how you would make it sound. Well, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: Would be my first question. The second question.

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Speaker 2: Is is that not the way the game.

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Speaker 1: Is played now? The answer is yes, it's rhetorical. That

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Speaker 2: So there are some details and facts and figures floating

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Speaker 2: It's structured very similarly to how I think most of

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Speaker 2: the major NIL deals will be structured moving forward. I

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Speaker 2: think they'll probably balloon in nature a little bit more so.

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Speaker 1: But I don't. I think it'll just grow like a

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Speaker 2: Reportedly, and I want to say reportedly, about three hundred

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Speaker 2: So it's no different than a celebrity in that sense

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Speaker 2: that just doesn't feel like college football.

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Speaker 1: Where does it end.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna see kids though, that end up signing these

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Speaker 2: As for right now, this kid's gonna end up being

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Speaker 2: It's not like I don't know what I'm saying, five five,

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Speaker 1: That's big time. I just think it's a big time staff.

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Speaker 2: I think the staff was put together to have immediate

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Speaker 2: Little Rock, they could do that. This staff is fully

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Speaker 2: And that was the priority and the emphasis that Mario

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Speaker 2: Let's see what they do on the field. That's where

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Speaker 1: That's fair.

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Speaker 2: It's also reasonable, though, to understand, in the grand scheme

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Speaker 2: Around half a decade, that's that's Kirby Smart, like, that's

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Speaker 1: And so I think it's really fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of times you got to recalibrate

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Speaker 1: You don't just throw them out.

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Speaker 2: Like I know this may be a shock to some people.

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Speaker 1: All that stuff.

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Speaker 2: I know what I value, but I really want it

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Speaker 1: He's great at this stuff.

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Speaker 2: I ask him for legal advice all the time. I

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Speaker 1: You're just gonna word it.

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Speaker 1: And here's what we came up with. By we, I

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Speaker 2: Even I'm telling you, winning football games has got to

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Speaker 2: But I'm nine to three and I've played three top

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Speaker 2: Playoff Committee rankings and then we ask, all right, how

438
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Speaker 2: many games have you played against the top twenty five

439
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Speaker 2: as current lead defined and that's how we're going to

440
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Speaker 2: determine your strength of schedule.

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Speaker 1: I don't care about that.

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Speaker 2: Don't care because there are a lot of factors that

443
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Speaker 2: have probably come into play during the season that have

444
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Speaker 2: adjusted the value that would have been on a game

445
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Speaker 2: that you and I played the second week of September. Famously,

446
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Speaker 2: we have seen games pitting top ten, top fifteen caliber

447
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Speaker 2: teams in week one, Week two, Week three.

448
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Speaker 1: One team beats the other team.

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Speaker 2: The other team incurs a lot of injury down the stretch,

450
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Speaker 2: and then they get all discombobulated and sideways and they

451
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Speaker 2: go off the rails and they got four or five losses,

452
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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, people want to tell you

453
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Speaker 2: what your eyeball saw on week three, that high level

454
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Speaker 2: competitive game. It wasn't really what you thought it was,

455
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Speaker 2: because look, this team's a five loss team. So that

456
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Speaker 2: in week three was a win against a five loss team.

457
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Speaker 1: No, it wasn't. And so you know my theory on

458
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Speaker 1: this I and we can go down the rabbit hole

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Speaker 1: again if we want to. I want a way to determine.

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Speaker 2: The value of a game, whether it's a win or

461
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Speaker 2: a close loss. I want that value in that day

462
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Speaker 2: and the only way you're adjusting that. Aside from the

463
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Speaker 2: rare exception to the rule, the only way I would

464
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Speaker 2: permit you to adjust that is if you inflated the

465
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Speaker 2: value of a win. I don't have any problem if

466
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Speaker 2: I beat a team thirty to twenty seven in week

467
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Speaker 2: two and then that team goes on to have a

468
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Speaker 2: run of their own and I got criticized for barely

469
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Speaker 2: beating them in week two, but by week nine you're

470
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Speaker 2: saying that win actually was a whole lot better than

471
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Speaker 2: we thought it was.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with.

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Speaker 2: That, because teams don't deceptively get a whole lot better

474
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Speaker 2: unless it's legit. Teams deceptively get a whole lot worse

475
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Speaker 2: all the time, and it shouldn't take away from the

476
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Speaker 2: value you have from winning or playing against them months ago.

477
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Speaker 2: So I want record properly defined, I want opponent adjusted

478
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Speaker 2: rating in there. I want a true strength of schedule.

479
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Speaker 2: And here's why you have to have all these. You

480
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Speaker 2: have to be able to distinguish between teams like twenty

481
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Speaker 2: twenty Alabama twenty twenty Ohio State. Those were teams that

482
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Speaker 2: dominated a bunch of other teams. Then you had a

483
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Speaker 2: team like twenty twenty Brigham Young that dominated a bunch

484
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Speaker 2: of not good teams, and then you had a team

485
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Speaker 2: like twenty twenty Notre Dame that barely beat some good teams.

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Speaker 1: So there are different calibers of teams there.

487
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Speaker 2: I have to be able to properly define and I

488
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Speaker 2: have to be able to properly interpret. And since this

489
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Speaker 2: is not the NFL never will be, no matter how

490
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Speaker 2: much you guys want it to be, we will not

491
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Speaker 2: ever play equal schedules. That doesn't mean you have to

492
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Speaker 2: turn the sport upside down. It does mean, though that

493
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Speaker 2: we have to go about determining our postseason a little

494
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Speaker 2: bit differently. I think we handled that well, especially for

495
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Speaker 2: thoughts that weren't authentically ours.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so about three weeks ago, I was seated right

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Speaker 1: here and I.

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Speaker 2: Had an email from one of you, like you guys

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Speaker 2: normally do, and you sent me a receipt from your

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Speaker 2: visit to Academy Sports and Outdoors and you said, I

501
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Speaker 2: bought a tent, but that's.

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Speaker 1: Not what I want to tell you. I want to

503
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Speaker 1: tell you about this.

504
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Speaker 2: And then you sent me a picture of many tenths

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Speaker 2: at Academy Sports and Outdoors and I said, wait a second,

506
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Speaker 2: because I had never seen him. I said, you mean

507
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Speaker 2: to tell me that you bought a full size tent,

508
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Speaker 2: but they've they've got like scaled versions of those tents

509
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Speaker 2: there for you to look at. And he said, yeah,

510
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Speaker 2: like you didn't think it was a big deal.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was cool. And since we have a

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Speaker 1: partnership with Academy.

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Speaker 2: The next day I hit up Nick, our sales guy

514
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Speaker 2: attached to us like Vellacrow, and I said, Nick, I

515
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Speaker 2: need you to get in touch with Mayer and over

516
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Speaker 2: at Academy, and I want to know if we can

517
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Speaker 2: get some of those I want a mini tent for

518
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Speaker 2: the set. And they did not send me one mini tent.

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Speaker 2: That's the bad news. The good news is they sent

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Speaker 2: us three. And we have a nameless, faceless production executive

521
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Speaker 2: Minion in the house tonight and he's going to bring

522
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Speaker 2: as soon as I clear a spot off one of

523
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Speaker 2: the many tents out here. I think one is one

524
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Speaker 2: of the most amazing things I've ever seen. If you're

525
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Speaker 2: listening on podcasts, you just need to understand this is

526
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Speaker 2: a full Magell intent.

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Speaker 1: I don't pretend to know the.

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Speaker 2: Ins and outs of these things, but much like Vana White,

529
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Speaker 2: I can kind of run my hand over it. It's

530
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Speaker 2: got kind of a mixture of a wheel of fortune

531
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Speaker 2: feel with a price's right feel in the studio right now.

532
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Speaker 2: But it's springtime, and I think, why listen to me

533
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Speaker 2: talk about what you can get from academy sports and

534
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Speaker 2: outdoors when you can just see what you can get

535
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Speaker 2: from academy sports and outdoors. And if I'm being real

536
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Speaker 2: with you, I know it's scaled. This tent looks nicer

537
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Speaker 2: than the first apartment that I stayed in. It certainly

538
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Speaker 2: looks nicer than what our office looked like up until

539
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Speaker 2: about what last week. Yeah, so this is a beautiful tent.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the price tag is on this.

541
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Speaker 2: I know the mini tent was free for us. And look,

542
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Speaker 2: we are blessed hashtag blessed beyond measure here. But this

543
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Speaker 2: right here would fit perfectly in any national park or

544
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Speaker 2: maybe in your backyard or down through the woods at

545
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Speaker 2: the end of the cul de Sac.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you live your life.

547
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Speaker 2: I don't know where you live, but I'm just saying,

548
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Speaker 2: this is a sturdy mini tent.

549
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Speaker 1: I got to imagine the parent version of this tent.

550
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Speaker 2: This is the child tent the parent version of this

551
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Speaker 2: tent's got to look pretty good too. But whether it

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Speaker 2: be softball, we hope to be playing that soon here,

553
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Speaker 2: whether it be baseball, whether it be football, soccer, all

554
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Speaker 2: kinds of stuff going on outside, or you just want

555
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Speaker 2: to hit up a camping trip Academy sport and outdoors. Okay,

556
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Speaker 2: so now we snap the fingers twice. Production menion comes

557
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Speaker 2: back in, takes the tent, and that's that our first

558
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Speaker 2: ever prop that we've used on the show. We rehearsed

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Speaker 2: that and it went about as well as I think

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Speaker 2: it could have gone. Before I move on, though, I

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Speaker 2: got to tell you at a long conversation with Nick

562
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Speaker 2: actually yesterday, two shout outs for Nick, and what you

563
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Speaker 2: guys do with Academy is really incredible. What our audience

564
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Speaker 2: does with Academy is really incredible. There are a lot

565
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Speaker 2: of metrics in our industry wherein partners try and measure

566
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Speaker 2: what the value of a partnership has meant to them,

567
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Speaker 2: and whatever those metrics normally are, ours is always like

568
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Speaker 2: way way way through the roof, because we have had

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Speaker 2: our audience take Academy and just weave them into the

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Speaker 2: fabric of the show. I can't do that. I can

571
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Speaker 2: just tell you what I would love for you to do,

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Speaker 2: But you guys have done that because it's not really

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Speaker 2: a show.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot more community.

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Speaker 2: So you've latched onto that and we all benefit because

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Speaker 2: of it. Not just because we get mini tenths, let's

577
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Speaker 2: be real, that's nice, but because it lets us do

578
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Speaker 2: whatever we want to. You don't have to pay for

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Speaker 2: this show, you know, we don't have to put it

580
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Speaker 2: on Patreon. We don't have to do any of that

581
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Speaker 2: because Academy's there for us, because you've been there for Academy.

582
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Speaker 2: So I appreciate you guys for that. Okay, now we

583
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Speaker 2: move on. Can't stop looking at the mini tent? Now,

584
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Speaker 2: all right, we move on. Here here's a question from

585
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Speaker 2: official Ohio State DG. He said, for twenty twenty two,

586
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Speaker 2: is Texas back more likely?

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Speaker 1: Or is Sark gone more likely? Now? To me, this

588
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Speaker 1: didn't take long to answer.

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Speaker 2: Like I was trying to envision a scenario where Sark

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Speaker 2: was gone outside of scandal.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know how that would happen.

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Speaker 2: I mean Texas could bomb this year and go let's

593
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Speaker 2: say five and seven, that was what they were I

594
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Speaker 2: think last year five and seven.

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Speaker 1: Again, I don't think he'd be fire.

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Speaker 2: He'd certainly be in a lot of you know, trouble,

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Speaker 2: if you want to call it, that, he'd be under

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Speaker 2: a lot of pressure. I don't think he'd be gone,

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Speaker 2: especially when you factor in percentage wise, what the odds

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Speaker 2: are that they're back this year, and by back, I

601
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Speaker 2: think we're talking about Big twelve championship contention.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a much greater chance of that.

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Speaker 2: Let's remember what's happening there. You've got the number one

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Speaker 2: quarterback in America from two recruiting cycles ago. Now you've

605
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Speaker 2: got him on campus. I presumably he'll be your starter.

606
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Speaker 2: Maybe that means a lot this year. Maybe it doesn't,

607
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Speaker 2: but it certainly doesn't mean nothing. They recruited very well

608
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Speaker 2: along the lines of scrimmage this past recruiting cycle. They've

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Speaker 2: gotten a ton of influx of talent from the transfer portal.

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Speaker 2: How all that gels remains to be seen. Yes, we

611
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Speaker 2: all understand that, but there are reasons to be a

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Speaker 2: lot more optimistic this year than there were last year.

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Speaker 2: So certainly you could have it just not come together.

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Speaker 2: We could end up finding out that this staff wasn't

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Speaker 2: what we thought it would be. It's way too early

616
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Speaker 2: to know either way, I think. But then thirdly, you

617
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Speaker 2: could take all that and you could take them a

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Speaker 2: negative of potential scenarios. I think there are far more

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Speaker 2: likely pads where Texas is a nine or ten win

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Speaker 2: team than they are a five win team this upcoming year. Now,

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Speaker 2: keep in mind they open with ul Monroe, but they've

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Speaker 2: got Alabama in there in Week two. Now, that Alabama

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Speaker 2: game could go a number of different ways. That could

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Speaker 2: be a forty nine to thirteen drubbing, or it could

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Speaker 2: be a thirty eight to thirty one loss. I mean,

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Speaker 2: of course they could pull the upset, but even if

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Speaker 2: they lose to Alabama, there are different ways they could

628
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Speaker 2: lose that game, which goes back to one of the

629
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Speaker 2: big lies in football. You are what your record says,

630
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Speaker 2: you are not all the time, and you know a

631
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Speaker 2: win is a win, a loss is a loss.

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Speaker 1: That's not always the case either.

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Speaker 2: So that Week two in college football with Texas hosting Alabama,

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Speaker 2: we'll learn a lot there. But I'll also tell you

635
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Speaker 2: this now, probably whenever that Bo Davis ran happened Week ten,

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Speaker 2: Week eleven last year, remember how they're there were two camps,

637
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Speaker 2: but really Camp one was pretty small and Camp two

638
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Speaker 2: was pretty large. Camp one was all, this is just

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Speaker 2: indicative of a bigger mess at Texas.

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Speaker 1: But that wasn't breaking news. That was already there.

641
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Speaker 2: You had brought in a new staff to try and

642
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Speaker 2: rectify that, and they didn't have pixie dust, so it

643
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 2: didn't happen overnight. But what you saw for the first

644
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Speaker 2: time is you saw someone with that Longhorn logo on

645
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Speaker 2: his chest calling out that mess during a season, and

646
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Speaker 2: because someone had a cell phone roll, you got to

647
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Speaker 2: witness it. Camp two, which was disproportionately larger than Camp one,

648
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Speaker 2: didn't laugh at it, and Camp two didn't criticize it.

649
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Speaker 2: Camp two said, well, good for Bo Davis. First off,

650
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Speaker 2: that guy's been at Alabama, he's been around championship teams.

651
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Speaker 2: He knows what it looks like, and he knows what

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Speaker 2: he's seeing right now is not that. And then I

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Speaker 2: loved the following week how Sark didn't apologize for it.

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Speaker 2: If anything, he endorsed it because everything that was said

655
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Speaker 2: was true. And from that point I bookmarked that. I

656
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 2: talk about it a lot on the show. Still I

657
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 2: bookmarked that moment because I said, all right, well, those

658
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 2: are the words. We certainly heard the right words said there,

659
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 2: and I don't doubt he felt them, and I don't

660
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 2: doubt that staff feels them. Let's see how much of

661
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 2: the roster they can turn over. Well, then we got

662
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 2: into that season and they overturned a big chunk of it,

663
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: and they did bring in a top five recruiting class.

664
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 2: So everything that you would want to have happen from

665
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 2: that point moving forward so far has happened right even

666
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 2: above and beyond your expectation, because you ended up getting

667
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 2: Quinn Yewers too.

668
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: Just got to understand time does march on, but it

669
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: doesn't always march on at the pace you wanted to

670
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: march on at. So if Texas is a seven or eight.

671
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 2: Win team this year, that doesn't mean it's throwaway time.

672
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: Hopefully we don't have to worry about that.

673
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 2: But if you see progress, if you see little saplings

674
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 2: sprouting up, sometimes that's what it looks like. Sometimes that's

675
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 2: what growth as a program looks like. But I think

676
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 2: there is answer to the question, A fur more likely

677
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 2: chance that we're looking at Texas at the December twenty

678
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 2: twenty mark and saying, hey, I kind of think they're back,

679
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 2: then we are saying, Wow, who's Texas about the hires

680
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 2: their next head coach. Now that I've campaigned for Sark,

681
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 2: let's talk about something I think we.

682
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: All agree on.

683
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 2: Flow grown Gator asks, Well, let me rephrase. Flow grown

684
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 2: Gator says, I'm of the opinion that the national Championship

685
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 2: Game should be held on Saturday, not Monday. Any chance

686
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 2: that change will ever happen? The answer here is, in

687
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 2: all likelihood no, up until you elect me Commissioner of

688
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 2: College Football and I hit you with the executive order

689
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 2: which everyone has to abide by. Even TV networks have

690
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: to abide by an EO from the Commissioner's office.

691
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: But up until that point.

692
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 2: And that could be weeks down the road. Up until

693
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 2: that point, No, this thing's not moving off Monday night.

694
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 2: The college basketball National Championship Game is not moving off

695
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:55,239
Speaker 2: Monday night. Virtually no one likes this, well, virtually no

696
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 2: one in our world likes it. By our world, I

697
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 2: don't mean the broadcast world. Forget about that. I don't

698
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 2: work for CBS. Right now, I am you. We don't

699
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,719
Speaker 2: like it. College football fans don't like it. No one

700
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 2: likes the title game being on a Monday night. Your

701
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 2: entire sport is built on a Saturday platform, and it's

702
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 2: built on campuses, and then all of a sudden, you've

703
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 2: got a postseason structure that takes the most important games

704
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 2: and they throw them in lifeless NFL venues and they

705
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 2: put them on weird dates, and then it culminates with

706
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 2: a Monday night game that's not over until after midnight

707
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 2: on the East Coast, and everyone's thinking, now I got

708
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 2: to go to work in the morning, How stupid is this?

709
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 2: And so the answer here would clearly be to move

710
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 2: this to Saturday.

711
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: But I need you to be aware of something.

712
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 2: Just as soon as you and I start talking amongst

713
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 2: ourselves about how great a Saturday National Championship game would

714
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 2: be and how there's a super majority consensus opinion on

715
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 2: this that we want this, you've got to beware of

716
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 2: the intellectual casual. They lurk amongst us, And the intellectual

717
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 2: casual is the one with a very very tightly tied

718
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 2: bow tie or a very snug sweater vest. And they've

719
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: probably got the glasses on, even if they aren't prescription frames,

720
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 2: just to wear them around you, and they're gonna sit

721
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 2: you down and they're gonna tell you ahem. You know,

722
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 2: we can't have this for reasons you don't quite understand,

723
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 2: and go take a shower you probably haven't today, and

724
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 2: when you come back, I'll explain to you why Monday

725
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,239
Speaker 2: night is prime television real estate and Saturday night is

726
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 2: a dead zone and it would not make financial sense

727
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 2: to put the title game there. They explain these things

728
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 2: to you like you don't know that, like pretty standard

729
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 2: operating procedure to understand that game's got to be there

730
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 2: for a reason. Even if you've never worked in a

731
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 2: high rise in Manhattan, and you've never broken down quarterlies

732
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 2: and you've never looked at rintrack numbers and Nielsen numbers.

733
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 2: Everyone knows in sub shape, form or fashion, there's got

734
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 2: to be a financial, in business related reason why that

735
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 2: game's on a Monday night.

736
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: We all get that. Just don't care.

737
00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 2: And secondly, I have grown to really question a lot

738
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 2: of this logic. And by that I mean I work

739
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 2: in this business. I can have this, I can have

740
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,720
Speaker 2: this dumbed down to me all the time and explain

741
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 2: to me.

742
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: But here's what I know, and here's what you know.

743
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 2: Good and well, you know your viewership habits have changed

744
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 2: over the last fifteen years, and there is a lot

745
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 2: of very very grandfathered in logic about TV windows and

746
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 2: which nights work and which nights don't work that I

747
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 2: think is obsolete. Now here's what I know. When you

748
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 2: have an event, they'll find your event. So then the

749
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,879
Speaker 2: intellectual casual will come back in the room and say,

750
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 2: uh uh, we're not looking to just appeal to the

751
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:40,240
Speaker 2: diehard college football fan. We're looking to appeal to well,

752
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 2: the casuals amongst us. If you have an event and

753
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 2: it is valuable and it is wanted by the public,

754
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 2: I'm going to reiterate, in the modern digital media age,

755
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,760
Speaker 2: they will go find it wherever it is and whenever

756
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 2: it is. So in the future, no, this is probably

757
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 2: not going to because I don't think that there is

758
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 2: a very smart conversation that's been had about this for

759
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 2: a long time. But I'm telling you, if we move

760
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 2: that game to Saturday, you and I would be happy,

761
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,439
Speaker 2: and the sport wouldn't suffer at all, and the game

762
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 2: wouldn't suffer at all, and the you know, the dollars

763
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 2: you make off of it wouldn't suffer at all, or

764
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 2: if they did, it would be negligible. But no one

765
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 2: likes Monday night National Championship Games.

766
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 1: Nobody does.

767
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 2: Have you ever met someone who says to you, you know,

768
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 2: what I really love about this sport is that we

769
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 2: get to have.

770
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: The title games on Monday night. No one likes that.

771
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: No one moving on.

772
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 2: I'm passionate about it. We do it an annual plea

773
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 2: for that. It always goes unheard, but that's okay. We

774
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 2: do an annual plea about that. They're watching us tonight

775
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 2: in Draper, Utah. I mentioned that earlier, but I did

776
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 2: not tell you Rocky Mountain theme here. They're watching us

777
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 2: in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Uh well, actually this is not

778
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 2: Rocky Mountain themed at all, because they're watching us in

779
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 2: Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And got it on good authority. Shout

780
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 2: out number two. If they're watching us in Russellville, Arkansas.

781
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 2: Thank you wherever you are watching or listening, and whenever

782
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,879
Speaker 2: you do it, I know a lot of you won't

783
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 2: be listening into this until Monday afternoon or Monday evening.

784
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: Thank you. Subscribe to the pod, subscribe to the YouTube channel.

785
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 2: That's all I ask. Everything we ask you to do

786
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 2: is free razorback shenanigans.

787
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: Is that the name.

788
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 2: I'm seeing, Yeah, razorback Shenanigans with a fascinating question here.

789
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 2: I had to get help from the fictitious director Colin

790
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 2: and fictitious producer Jesse. Today on this, he said, what

791
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 2: will be the next implementation of technology in college football?

792
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 2: I'll give you what I thought about first, and then

793
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 2: I'll give you what they thought about.

794
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: What they thought about is very common. It's right in

795
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: front of your face.

796
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 2: I should have thought about it earlier, but I was

797
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 2: thinking along different lines. I was thinking about virtual reality,

798
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,439
Speaker 2: and it's already being used a lot, but I also

799
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 2: thought about lucid dreaming. Now this is out there, so

800
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to follow me on this. But I

801
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: know the US military discovered long ago that the best

802
00:36:55,640 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 2: way to mentally train elite fighters is to control how

803
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 2: they sleep and to control what they dream when they sleep.

804
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 2: Sometimes this was done a little sketch aplete, but if

805
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 2: you can control a lucid dream cycle, then you can

806
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 2: control how someone is sleeping. And also, it turns out

807
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 2: science has shown us that the way you handle yourself

808
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 2: when you're lucid dreaming, that's that really really deep sleep

809
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 2: where you feel like you weigh about five hundred pounds,

810
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 2: and you're so aware in the dream as if it's

811
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 2: real life. The way you handle yourself in that state

812
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 2: of sleep is largely the way that you would make

813
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 2: your decisions if it were real life. So in a

814
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 2: militaristic sense, why put you out on the battlefield when

815
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 2: we can simulate it here and we get the same

816
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 2: result without any casualties.

817
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: Well, in college football, the states aren't quite that high,

818
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: But I wonder if there's a day that comes not

819
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: where we can replace the physicality of practice.

820
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 2: We'll never replace that. You've got to have your body

821
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 2: physically ready. But I wonder if there ever comes a

822
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 2: smarter way to mentally prepare guys and coaches too. I'm

823
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 2: a believer younger head coaches exist now than ever have

824
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 2: before because of the technological advances in this game that

825
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 2: allow you to expose yourself to thousands to tens to

826
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of observed repetitions of all sorts of

827
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 2: things that you normally would have had to coach a

828
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 2: lifetime to experience. I mean what Kirby Smart's mid forties now,

829
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 2: and that guy's probably seen more with his eyes. He

830
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 2: has been exposed to more than some coaches that a

831
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 2: generation ago were sixty seventy years old, just cause technologies

832
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 2: allowed him to do that well. I wonder as players

833
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 2: and coaches in the future, I wonder if what you're

834
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 2: doing when you're asleep becomes part of that. Also wonder

835
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 2: about virtual reality and how you can simulate mentally the

836
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 2: repetition that you get in a football sense without having

837
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 2: to risk injury. There cannot ever be a day where

838
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 2: you replace pure physicality.

839
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: I understand that. I'm talking about supplementing that. Now.

840
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 2: As for direct Colin and producer Jesse, they said, what

841
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 2: about end game technology? And this is the obvious one.

842
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 2: I've screamed this from the mountaintops and then I forgot

843
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: about it when one of you asked the question, how

844
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 2: we don't have microchips and footballs and lasers shot across

845
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 2: the field to pick up true spotting of balls in

846
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two is nuts to me.

847
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: Think about the moon landing.

848
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 2: Think about the all the incredible advances that we've made

849
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 2: as a society. Some of these things happened fifty plus

850
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 2: years ago, and we cannot even get a true spot

851
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 2: of a football in twenty twenty two, and the entire

852
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 2: setting is controlled. This is not the moon, This is

853
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 2: not Bruce Willis on the asteroid where everything's unpredictable. We

854
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 2: control the setting, We control the broadcast, We control the field,

855
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 2: We control the parameters, everything, the dimensions we created, We

856
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 2: made the game. How do we not have microchip technology

857
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 2: in footballs? I don't mean one chip, I mean go

858
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 2: through the seams of the football, So on every part

859
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 2: of that ball there is a micro crow chip ability

860
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 2: to where it corresponds with a laser that is shot

861
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 2: across the field to determine a true spot.

862
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: How many times in a college.

863
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 2: Football game and NFL for that matter, on Saturdays and

864
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 2: Sundays do you watch a third and short and you're

865
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 2: sitting there waiting with baited breath to wonder if a

866
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 2: guy made it?

867
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,800
Speaker 1: And you're watching and you realize there's a sixty seven.

868
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,280
Speaker 2: Year old linesman who's running out here, and my fate,

869
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 2: whether it be this betting ticket I have or this

870
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 2: team I've rooted for all year, and my fingernails have

871
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 2: been chewed to the numb our, fate rests on where

872
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 2: he thinks this.

873
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: Ball is supposed to be.

874
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 2: And it gets even worse tenfold when you get down

875
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 2: near the goal line, and inevitably, if you got a

876
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 2: goal to go and you got half a yard between

877
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 2: you and the end zone, no one's going five wide

878
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 2: if they have any sense about themselves, and inevitably you're

879
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 2: gonna have a c just a massive humanity.

880
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 1: They're on the goal line. No one knows.

881
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,840
Speaker 2: Where to spot that ball. We've watched this happen in

882
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 2: ball season this past year. If you're watching right now,

883
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 2: this was not rule to touchdown on pure insanity, and

884
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 2: think about how easy this could be rectified, especially at

885
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 2: the goal line. If you don't want to microchip and

886
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 2: laser the whole field, at least have laser technology at

887
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 2: the goal line. At least have a strip that's run

888
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 2: across the front of the goal line that corresponds with

889
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 2: the microchip and the football to where we know. As

890
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,760
Speaker 2: long as you can watch visually and know where forward

891
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 2: progress was stopped, we know where the football was. We'll

892
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,439
Speaker 2: never have to guess where the football was. Instead, we've

893
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 2: got just ridiculousness that's so unnecessary.

894
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: There's some stuff in this game we can't take out.

895
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: The occasional injury.

896
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 2: We could legislate all we want to we cannot take

897
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 2: injuries totally out of the game. Poor spots that change

898
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 2: the outcomes of games. We can take that out of

899
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 2: the game tomorrow. And yet anytime you bring this up,

900
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 2: I think we have super majority consensus agreement on this too,

901
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:53,240
Speaker 2: and yet we never.

902
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: Hear anything about it. When When does the rules committee?

903
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: When do they ever propose stuff to rectify this? They don't.

904
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: I don't know.

905
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 2: Again, that's one of my many executive orders on day

906
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 2: one in office as your college football commissioner. I've got

907
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 2: something special to show you here. So let's take a

908
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 2: look at the question. First, we developed a rule on

909
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 2: the show last week, and well darned if they weren't

910
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: paying attention to East Lansing, Michigan. They call me, Rojo asks,

911
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 2: are you really that confident that Michigan State can make

912
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 2: the playoff under Meltucker? The Big Ten East is already

913
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 2: stacked hashtag pate State. Well, I've made some comments that

914
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 2: are pretty strong about Michigan State as of late, and

915
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 2: I said, I thought there were some things happening up there.

916
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 2: I thought the program may be on a trajectory that

917
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 2: we haven't seen before. And if that's the case, and

918
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 2: it continues, then it's at least reasonable to wonder if

919
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 2: they're capable of doing things we haven't seen before.

920
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: Michigan State's made the playoff.

921
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 2: They made it the second year, I think, in twenty fifteen,

922
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 2: but certainly in.

923
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: This era, the era of the super Team and.

924
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 2: The era of the have and the have not, we

925
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 2: rarely have seen a program cross that bridge. And I'm

926
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 2: looking and I'm thinking, maybe those ingredients exist at Michigan

927
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 2: State to do something irregular. Now, I vocalized all that,

928
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 2: and then we made a rule last week on the

929
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 2: show that if Late Kick appears in your spring hype

930
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 2: video or any hype video that you put out, if

931
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 2: you put us in your videos, we are putting you

932
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 2: on this show, and we're playing the entire video. Well, there,

933
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 2: I am walking out of the gym the other day

934
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 2: and my dms blow up, and it's one after another

935
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 2: of you from Michigan and the surrounding area saying, take

936
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 2: a look at what our creative services department did, And

937
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 2: why tell you what they did when we can just

938
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 2: roll it ourselves.

939
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:40,959
Speaker 1: Take a look.

940
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 2: I can tell my answer here is going to be

941
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 2: different than yours. My answer is yes, I think Michigan

942
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 2: State can win a.

943
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: National championship in the next decade.

944
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 2: I think that because I think that there are things

945
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 2: that are going to happen there under Meltucker that are

946
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 2: irregu in historic nature.

947
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 1: I was on the field when they beat Michigan. That

948
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: was about so much more than beating Michigan.

949
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 2: That was about announcing to the world, with all the

950
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 2: pregame shows in town and the spotlight on East Lansing,

951
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 2: that this is a place where you can come, not

952
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,800
Speaker 2: just as a backup option, but as a premier option.

953
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 2: You got offers from Ohio State come here anyway, You

954
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 2: got to offers from Clemsing in Alabama, think about coming

955
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 2: here anyway. Because we've got a pretty special thing going

956
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 2: on up here, and it's only just begun.

957
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: We're not interested in just winning games. We want to

958
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 1: be great. We want to compete for championships.

959
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 2: But if we want to compete for championships, we gotta make.

960
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: A commitment every day to getting that much better. And

961
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: then we get that much better by having great teammates,

962
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: a great team leaders. Tell um.

963
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 2: Talk, fill me all, you.

964
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:19,280
Speaker 1: Gotta get more, all gotta get bumped. Everybody's looking downstairs.

965
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 2: I did everything that I could do for you go back.

966
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna reiterate that now.

967
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter if people think Michigan State is or

968
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 2: is it capable of filling the blank. If you know

969
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 2: you're capable of it, that's all that matters. And so

970
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 2: Mel Tucker, I'll tell you this, he is recruiting with

971
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 2: an energy at Michigan State. I've never seen anyone recruit

972
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 2: with there.

973
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: Rules of rules.

974
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 2: You put us in the high video, We're gonna play it.

975
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 2: Thank you to h our friends at Michigan State. And

976
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 2: that's a number that is that is ballooning as we speak.

977
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 2: Got to go up there for the first time this

978
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 2: past year. Will not my last time going up there.

979
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: Do I believe all that?

980
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't say it on the show if I

981
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 2: didn't believe it. So notice what was said and what

982
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 2: wasn't said. That wasn't a specific year for a prediction.

983
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 2: It's not a twenty twenty two prediction. It's a very

984
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 2: generic observation. But what's happening up there. What's happening up

985
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 2: there is there are a lot of kids that are

986
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 2: looking at Michigan State right now that normally wouldn't have

987
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 2: looked at them. When I was up there on campus,

988
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 2: there was just a different energy about the place. And

989
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 2: the thing about it is, sure, I'm an outsider, but

990
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 2: I know from listening to folks who have been there

991
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 2: a long time observationally, and when they echo that same sentiment,

992
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 2: you realize, this may be my first time here, but

993
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 2: I'm not so stupid as to not realize I'm witnessing

994
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 2: something special right along with these folks who have been

995
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 2: here for a long time. And the thing about it

996
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 2: is they know it. You know, lifers, Michigan State lifers.

997
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,439
Speaker 2: They know what has been and even under the best

998
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 2: of circumstances, they know what their program hasn't hasn't been

999
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,760
Speaker 2: capable of, And all of a sudden, it just feels

1000
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 2: like this seal has been broken. And you don't know what.

1001
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:55,240
Speaker 1: The future holds.

1002
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 2: You don't know what the records will end up being

1003
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 2: and what the accomplishments will be. But man, it's hard

1004
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 2: not to feel good about the direction of Michigan State

1005
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 2: football right now. And when you don't pretend, when you

1006
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 2: pretend like you don't have limitations, or you just eliminate

1007
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 2: them entirely, forget about what history says we are and

1008
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 2: aren't capable of. You know, forget about what the rest

1009
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 2: of college football says we are and aren't capable of.

1010
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 2: They did a lot of stuff last year they weren't

1011
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 2: supposed to be capable of doing. And that's at the

1012
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 2: very infancy of this program, in this tenure in the staff.

1013
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 2: So I think they're capable of whatever they want to

1014
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,240
Speaker 2: be capable of in the future.

1015
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: I'm really excited.

1016
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 2: It's one of my programs I've got circled, so I'm

1017
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 2: really excited to watch them. But yes, so I don't

1018
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 2: think that'll be the last hype video that we appear in.

1019
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 2: Just know, those are the rules you put us in

1020
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 2: the hype video.

1021
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: We're putting you on the show. We appreciate that.

1022
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 2: We had one more question, I think Colin or Jesse,

1023
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 2: I think one more Yeah, So just a dude hit

1024
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 2: us up and said, please describe what twenty four hours

1025
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,320
Speaker 2: in the life of a stormchaser is like intense windy

1026
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 2: to quote the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. I got one

1027
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 2: of these coming up Wednesday again. So across the fingers

1028
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 2: there's our generic Nado video that we shot on the eye.

1029
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 2: Josh from oh Man Billingsley, Alabama a couple years ago.

1030
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 2: It starts really early. Normally you're on the road, starts

1031
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 2: really early. You got to look at model guidance in

1032
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,359
Speaker 2: the high res solutions are coming out by that time,

1033
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 2: so you got a really good idea of day of setup,

1034
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 2: and so you're trying to isolate. Like the other day,

1035
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 2: I started the day in Tuscaloosa, drove down the Meridian,

1036
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 2: met up with our chase team from Arkansas. I going

1037
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:25,839
Speaker 2: to tell you a lot more about them, probably going

1038
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 2: to ask you to subscribe to their channel later this

1039
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 2: week more on that. If you want to watch me

1040
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 2: live streamed while I'm chasing tornadoes, we can do that.

1041
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 2: And then you just try and stay up to the minute,

1042
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 2: and you try and coordinate. You've got to position yourself.

1043
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 2: You don't want to go chase one rogue cell like

1044
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 2: we almost got caught doing the other day and miss

1045
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 2: three or four more that spin up to your south.

1046
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 2: So it's somewhat of a guessing game. You try and

1047
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 2: be as guided in that guessing as possible. But also

1048
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 2: if you chase in the area of the country that

1049
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 2: we chase in, which largely is the southeast, it is treacherous.

1050
00:48:58,520 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: It's not like the great planes.

1051
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 2: It's not like being able to chase in Wichita or

1052
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 2: Broken Arrow or anywhere in like Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska where

1053
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,280
Speaker 2: you can see seven miles on any direction on the horizon.

1054
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: It is a crapshoot.

1055
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 2: In Mississippi, where I'll be probably again this Wednesday, Alabama,

1056
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 2: especially western portions of Alabama.

1057
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: I've chased in Georgia. You get in those areas, especially

1058
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:26,240
Speaker 1: like south and southwest Mississippi, pine trees all over the place.

1059
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: It's tough, so you gotta be very careful also because

1060
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: you don't want to get yourself down in a situation

1061
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,720
Speaker 1: where you cannot maneuver if you want to. No dirt roads,

1062
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: especially down in this area, none of that.

1063
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 2: So it all builds up to what you hope will

1064
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 2: be prime firing hours, and normally that's mid to late afternoon.

1065
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:46,839
Speaker 1: Not all the time looks like probably the setup.

1066
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 2: We've got this week, but it goes by so fast

1067
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 2: you lose track of time. It's kind of like doing

1068
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 2: something you love if you've really been if you've been

1069
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 2: locked in a book before, or you've been at a

1070
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 2: sporting event, before you realize it's the theory of relativity.

1071
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 2: You know, an hour can feel like a minute, a

1072
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 2: minute can feel like an hour. Well, when you're chasing

1073
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 2: tornadoes and you love it if you're not terrified, if

1074
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 2: you love it like I do, those hours just feel

1075
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 2: like minutes and you look up and it's like it's

1076
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 2: four o'clock already.

1077
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: How did that happen?

1078
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, then you're racing against daylight,

1079
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:20,800
Speaker 2: and normally that action will fire right as you're losing sunlight,

1080
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 2: and so you got to roll the dice sometimes and

1081
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 2: you may only have one more cell that you can

1082
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 2: chase with the daylight that's left, and then those nocturnal

1083
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 2: tornadoes kick in and I.

1084
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,360
Speaker 1: Leave that normally for somebody else. But we got a

1085
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: big week coming up.

1086
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,439
Speaker 2: I mean it's spring, so it's go time for us

1087
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 2: looking at targeting Mississippi this week probably again TBD on that.

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Speaker 1: Our schedule though, has stayed the same. And I said

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00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: on Twitter today and I'm going to reiterate this.

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00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 2: I know it's March and a lot of folks have

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00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 2: flat out quit out there and they'll be back probably

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00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 2: around SEC media days. But I feel like this question

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00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,359
Speaker 2: and answer format that you guys have helped us with

1094
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 2: over the past few weeks. We've done it during March Madness.

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00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 2: I've loved it. We've got such variety of content. Director

1096
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 2: Colin Fictitious though he may be even made new thumbnails

1097
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:10,320
Speaker 2: if you've looked on the YouTube channel.

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Speaker 1: So I've loved this.

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00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 2: I do not ever plan on abandoning going hard in

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00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 2: the paint in the spring basketball pod there, because you

1101
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 2: guys are still here. As long as you're still here,

1102
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 2: what you're telling me is you don't want us to

1103
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 2: have an off season, so we don't have one, and

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00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 2: we got something. Obviously, we got plenty to talk about

1105
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 2: all year. It's fifty one after so we've gone nearly

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00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,280
Speaker 2: an hour tonight. So I appreciate you guys being tuned

1107
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 2: in because if you weren't here, we wouldn't do it,

1108
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 2: So I appreciate it.

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00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: Make sure you're subscribed, subscribe to.

1110
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 2: The pod Spotify. Our numbers are already through the roof Apple.

1111
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 2: If you haven't already do it, and if you have

1112
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 2: already done it, make sure you swipe five friends phones

1113
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 2: and do it on theirs, and do it on the

1114
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,359
Speaker 2: YouTube channel too. So look, this conspiracy continues to grow.

1115
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 2: I mean I asked you guys today on Twitter. I said,

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00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 2: I've never named it conspiracy theory before. So to remind

1117
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:04,799
Speaker 2: some of you what's going on. If you're new here,

1118
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:08,799
Speaker 2: Director Colin is a hard working, best director of the business.

1119
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:10,919
Speaker 1: He's behind the scenes right now. He's like literally through

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00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:15,720
Speaker 1: this wall and producer Jesse's over there. Or are they.

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00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:18,799
Speaker 2: Cause their faces have never been seen. And some of

1122
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 2: you don't believe in theater of the imagination. Some of

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00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:23,760
Speaker 2: you just flat out think they don't exist.

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00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I used to think it was one or two of you,

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00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 2: and I used to think you were joking. Not all

1127
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 2: of you. Are Some of you dead seriously think that

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00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 2: they're not real. They could walk on air right now

1129
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,799
Speaker 2: if they wanted to, but why they don't owe that

1130
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,319
Speaker 2: to you. And so we have one of those good

1131
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 2: old fashioned March college football show conspiracies that we have

1132
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 2: to name. Some people said it should be the lone

1133
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 2: Streamer theory. Some people said it should be calling on.

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00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 2: There are a lot of conspiracy theory names that are

1135
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 2: floating around out there. I need a good one, though,

1136
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 2: because I can tell you they're not marching on camera

1137
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 2: anytime soon. They are not going to give you this

1138
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:02,879
Speaker 2: out faction, and so in lieu of that, we got

1139
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 2: a conspiracy. And no one loves a good conspiracy as

1140
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,919
Speaker 2: much as me, aside from possibly my sister, and so

1141
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 2: she may be the one that comes up with a

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00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 2: name for this. But in light of this new information,

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00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 2: we got to have a name. For those of you

1144
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:16,840
Speaker 2: out there whoops.

1145
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: Believe that Colin is not real, Jesse is not real.

1146
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: I cannot confirm more than nine.

1147
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 2: I can thank you for watching it, and I can

1148
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 2: tell you lay Kick Extra podcast will be back in

1149
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 2: its normal slot of Wednesday morning this week, and Lake

1150
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 2: Kicklive will be back in its normal slot of Thursday

1151
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 2: evening this week. And until them, how do you guys,

1152
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 2: have a great start for your week, Take care, appreciate

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Speaker 2: you watching me, and God bless