1 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: And just like that, we're back another edition of the 2 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: Late Kick Extra podcast. It is Tuesday. It is September 3 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: twenty eighth, three of Our Lord twenty twenty one. I 4 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: got about an eighth of a tank remaining when it 5 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 1: comes to voice, I barely have a horse right now. 6 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,319 Speaker 1: You notice I'm speaking a little bit lower, a little 7 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: bit softer, mouths, a little bit closer to the microphone. 8 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna make it all the way. 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: I already feel like I'm bare crawling to the finish line. 10 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: But we cannot miss an episode right now for reasons 11 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: I'm about to tell you about in just a second. 12 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna try and make it. If I stop 13 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: at any time, if the voice cracks, if I begin whispering, 14 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: don't make it awkward. Just go with it. You and 15 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: I will make it together. For those of you unfamiliar 16 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,840 Speaker 1: and judging by the spreadsheet that our buddy Lance Glenn 17 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: sends me every Monday morning, that means a few thousand 18 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: of you, week by week. This is the Late Kick 19 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: Extra podcast, not to be confused with Late Kick Life. 20 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: We do an exclusive mail bag twice a week on 21 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 1: Tuesday morning and Thursday morning. You can't find this anywhere else. 22 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: It is podcast only, and it is you asking, and 23 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: it is me responding as best I can. Joshpat seven 24 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: zero six at gmail dot com. That's one way to 25 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: get at me. The more frequently trafficked ways are on 26 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram, in the DMS at late Kick Josh, 27 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: and also lately I've just been tweeting out twenty minutes 28 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: before I start recording. Hey, I'm about to start recording. 29 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: Drop your questions here, and that's where I've been getting 30 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: a lot of I'm also the podcast review section. I 31 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: get them from there too, But thank you so much 32 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: so I told you I was about to tell you 33 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: why we can't miss a show. Every Monday, I get 34 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: a new traffic report, I get YouTube traffic, I get 35 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: podcast traffic. Our numbers are mind boggling. Right now. We 36 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: have low range, mid range, and high end estimates for 37 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: what we can achieve every single month. And it's September 38 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: twenty seventh. As of two days ago, we had already 39 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: hit above the top end of the projections for YouTube 40 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: and for podcast, and as you know podcast, although you 41 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: happen to be listening to it right now, this is 42 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: not even the main channel that we put Latekick on 43 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: YouTube is the main platform over on the twenty four 44 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: to seven Sports YouTube channel. That's the main way that 45 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: Late Kick has always been consumed podcast. As you've noticed, 46 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: we've been taken a lot more serious lately. Do you 47 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: know that we are a top fifteen football podcast on 48 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: Planet Earth. That's NFL and college guys. This hasn't even 49 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: existed but a year and a half, and this isn't 50 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: our primary source. We are also now top seventy in 51 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: all of sports podcasts. Mind boggling. We put zero dollars 52 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: into marketing this again, let me remind you, this is 53 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: on you. This is absolutely on you. I was doing 54 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: an interview today and I was talking about that very thing. 55 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: Our audience, if they could be put in the hands 56 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: of a marketing firm, that marketing firm would pay millions 57 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: and millions of dollars to have you guys, because you 58 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: market you own the show, because it is your show, 59 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: and you treat it like it is. You spread the word. 60 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: It's incredible. I get tagged hundreds of time times a 61 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: day in tweets or post on Instagram about you guys, 62 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: spreading the word about the show, not to mention we've 63 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: just been littering the background of College Game Day and 64 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: SEC Nation with all sorts of late Kick and Peate 65 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: State paraphernalia. I've already had like a dozen of you 66 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: send me pictures of the posters that you're taking to 67 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: this weekend's broadcast. And by the way, as we debuted 68 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: on Late Cack Live Sunday night, Peate State chalices or 69 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: chali of supremacy are on the line. I got them 70 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: custom made. Those get sent to anyone that gets our 71 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: brand in any national spotlight. That has been fun to 72 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: watch because you know, I'm on the road. I'm going 73 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: to tell you a story about this past weekend's road 74 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: trip in just a second. But I'm on the road, 75 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: and I'm always in a hotel room and I'm normally 76 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: getting ready to go to whatever stadium were at that week, 77 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: and for three weeks in a row, this is how 78 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: it's happened. My phone has blown up and it's been 79 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: you guys sending me pictures, notifying me as you should, 80 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: because otherwise I'll never see it of our posters making 81 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: it on air. We were on Sports Center last week 82 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: Game Day, SEC Nation, and so thank you for that. 83 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I appreciate it. I tell you 84 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: every week, but that's been really fun. I have a 85 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: sneaking suspicion this weekend is going to deliver to the 86 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: degree that even we haven't seen yet. So let's get 87 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: ready for that and let's dive into the mailbag. We 88 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: got a lot of good stuff here. First up is David, 89 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 1: one of our appendectomy patients that we discussed recently. So 90 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: he says, first off, he wants to let all of 91 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: you know he's on the mend. So David is on 92 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: that road to recovery minus and appendix. But he's still ticking. 93 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 1: He says, I actually think Ole Miss and Bama are 94 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: pretty even heading into Saturday. But does the Florida game 95 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: give Bama a leg up in the battle tested department? Uh? Yeah, 96 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 1: I would say that. I wouldn't argue with that. It 97 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: always helps. I get bet if you listen to that 98 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: coaching staff, they breed the sigh of relief. But someone 99 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: like Nick Saban is secretly happy that that kind of 100 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: stuff happens. Now, you don't want to lose, but if 101 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: he can have one of those early season struggle wins, 102 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: it's great because what it does is. It's like a 103 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: figurative hand reaching out and grabbing you by the shirt 104 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: and twisting it, holding you up against a wall, and 105 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: it just kind of shakes you. It rattles you a 106 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: little bit, and then you've got the team's attention. Did 107 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: you notice You probably didn't. If you're not a Bama fan, 108 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: you probably didn't watch this past weekend's game. They were 109 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: on fire against Southern Miss. They really clicked, they really executed, 110 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: and for that matter, the Bama crowd was on fire too, 111 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 1: because Nick Saban made a few comments during the week 112 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 1: about how loud the swamp had been and how it's 113 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: inexcusable for them to go on the road and experience 114 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: that not experience at home. So Bama played Southern Miss. 115 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: They were favored by forty five and this shows you 116 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: how they treat football at Alabama. Southern Miss has procedural 117 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,720 Speaker 1: penalties on the opening drive due to crowd noise. Again, 118 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: forty five point favorite places jam packed. I got one 119 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: hundred thousand folks in there. Crowd's insane. And also afterwards, 120 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: Nick Saban said something that oftentimes you don't hear when 121 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: you're favored by that much, and that is we performed 122 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: at a very high level. We were sharp, and you 123 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: think to yourself, well, of course you were, you were 124 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: playing an inferior opponent. No, no, no, it's the opposite. Most 125 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: of the time. Most of the time you end up 126 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 1: running the score up, but you're very inefficient and ineffective 127 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: and not sharp and unfocused while you're doing it. You 128 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: just have superior athleticism over four quarters. It works out 129 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: that way. I think one of the tailtale signs that 130 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: there were positive impacts for Alabama from that Florida game. Ironically, 131 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: we're found in the Southern Miss game, which no one watched. 132 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: Will everyone will be watching along with us because I'll 133 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: be down there Saturday. You will see it. If that's true, 134 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: you will see it on display when they play Ole 135 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: Miss next up. A lot of you ask Sunday about 136 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: trip to Dallas and the Arkansas, Texas A and M game. 137 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 1: I gave you a little bit of feedback on it 138 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: on Sunday, but I always like to take these Tuesday pods, 139 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 1: take a couple of minutes and just expound on some 140 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 1: things that happened behind the scenes you didn't get to see. 141 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: Let me tell you the first thing that happened. So 142 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: I am staying in a hotel thankfully right next to 143 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: AT and T Stadium. Normally, it's not like that. I 144 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,239 Speaker 1: could have walked if I wanted to. We were that close, 145 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: so I did not have to get up early or 146 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: anything like that. I got in Friday and the game 147 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: was three point thirty Eastern time, kickoff two thirty local time. 148 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: But I did have a ten am local time live 149 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: hit for CBS Sports HQ. So I'm over there, I'm 150 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: inside the stadium and we do the live hit and 151 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: then we got five hours really until kickoff and a 152 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: couple of hours until teams arrive. So myself and Dane 153 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: Clevin aka Big Game Dame, my camera guy. He says, 154 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: let's go over to Texas Live. Texas Live, for those 155 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: of you unfamiliar, is this huge establishment that's between where 156 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: the Cowboys play and where the Rangers play. It's all 157 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: in the same area there. So we go over there. 158 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: They opened the gates at eleven. We go in, we eat, 159 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: and I don't even drink. You guys know that about me. 160 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: I don't drink, and yet waitress walks up, she got 161 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: a shot in her hand. It is not even noon yet, 162 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: got a shot in her hand for each of us, 163 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: puts it down on the table and says, two gentlemen 164 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: wanted me to give this to you. They said, it's 165 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: courtesy of something called the Roman Noodle Express. That's how 166 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: she pronounced it. I don't even know who it was. 167 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: I don't even know which of you guys were in there, 168 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: because there were hundreds of people in this place. I'm 169 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: over there, drinking my water on the rocks, eating my cheeseburger, 170 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, there it is eleven thirty 171 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: eight am. Someone buys your boy a shot because of 172 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: the Rama Noodle Express, and then the ram Noodle Express 173 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: proceeds to go two and four. I don't know if 174 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: it was a good omen or a bad omen that 175 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: caused that to happen. We will rebuild, though, and we're 176 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: still above five hundred on the year. We'll be fine there. 177 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: So I met several of you in there. I met 178 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: several of you outside the stadium. I don't know if 179 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: it was in the hundreds or just a ton of dozens. 180 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: If that's proper, Even if it's not, that's fine. But 181 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 1: then I got in the stadium and we so I 182 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: love to see team arrivals love it. I always record it. 183 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: I always put it in the Instagram story at late Kick, Josh. 184 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: If you want access, if you want some stuff you're 185 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: not going to see on TV, make sure you're following 186 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: me on Instagram and keeping up with that Instagram story. 187 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: I probably put anywhere between twenty and forty pieces of 188 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: video that I'm shooting, so it's first hand. I'm shooting it. 189 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: It's all from the eye, Josh, throughout any given day 190 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: when I'm on the road on a Saturday, and so 191 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:59,599 Speaker 1: I get there and I remembered something about at and 192 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: T State once I was there. This place is so huge. 193 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: It looks fake when you're outside of it. When you 194 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: first put your eyes on it, it looks fake. It's 195 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 1: really incredible. It's like a spaceship. And so you go 196 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 1: in and you realize it was built out in the 197 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: middle of nowhere. Really not that there's nothing around it. 198 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: It's not like tumbleweeds blowing through the parking lot. But 199 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 1: it's not downtown. It's a little ways outside. It's an Arlington, 200 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: and so there's a lot of room. Jerry Jones picked 201 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: the place with a lot of room, and he built 202 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: a very very big kind of cathedral venue for all 203 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: sorts of different things. But this place, everything about it's big. 204 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: It's Texas, of course, so everything about it's big. But 205 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: one of the most unique features of AT and T 206 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: Stadium is every other stadium I've been to, when teams arrive, 207 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: the buses pull up outside the stadium. In some cases 208 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: in college towns, they pull up way away from the 209 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: stadium and you do some form of a team walk 210 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: to the stadium. Even at some of the bigger NFL venues, 211 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: like when you go to the SEC Championship game, whether 212 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,959 Speaker 1: it's Georgia Dome or whether it's Mercedes Benz Stadium. Now 213 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Georgia Dome. You know my long held 214 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: affection for that building. It will not go away. But 215 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: most of the time, when you're arriving, you pull up outside, 216 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: you walk in some freight elevator or freight garage, and 217 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: you're in there. That is not the way it works 218 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: at AT and T Stadium. This place was built so big 219 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: that the tunnels are big enough to drive buses through 220 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:19,959 Speaker 1: and drive full eighteen wheelers through. So what happens when 221 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: you arrive there as media, you get your credentials and everything, 222 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,679 Speaker 1: and you walk down that same tunnel that they drive 223 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: all the freight into the building. They do all the 224 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: load ends there. They also let the buses come in 225 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: there and when teams arrive. I showed some of this 226 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: video the other day. Instead of pulling up outside and 227 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: then players get out and they walk into the stadium, 228 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: those buses drive down that tunnel underground inside the stadium 229 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: and then they drive around a corner. This is all 230 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 1: happening in the building. To give you an idea of 231 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: how much space there is. Five huge charter buses pull 232 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: down in there, they go around a corner, and then 233 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: they drive all the way down the tunnel, like sixty 234 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: or seventy yards. It's almost the length of the field. 235 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,839 Speaker 1: They drive you right up to your locker room, and 236 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: that's the entrance that you make at at and T Stadium. 237 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: Is so fascinating though, to see, because it's like what 238 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: would normally be a little tunnel is as big as 239 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: a roadway. You can walk the entirety all the way 240 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: around the lower levels down there in the kind of 241 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:17,319 Speaker 1: the bowels of the building. You can walk all the 242 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: way around it. You could drive eighteen wheelers all the 243 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: way around the perimeter of the field if you wanted to. 244 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: And the other unique feature. Keep in mind there is 245 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: still a ton of space that's opened even after you're 246 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: driving buses around. They also can do all the load 247 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: in inside the building. I've always loved this stuff, like 248 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: concert tours, pro wrestling or football. The production it's just 249 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: mind boggling. If you guys could see what it takes 250 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: to get that stuff on TV live, the amount of 251 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 1: people it takes to get I think CBS had a 252 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: crew of ninety people work in the game the other day. 253 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 1: It's insane. It's amazing. That's not counting temporary folks. That's 254 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: just the employed people there. And then you've got an 255 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: army of tempts there, and so man, it's it's crazy. 256 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: So what happens is normally, if you're in a college town, 257 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: if you're at Jordenhare Stadium, for example, you probably, if 258 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: you've walked around that stadium before, you'll see the production 259 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: trucks outside because there's certainly no room to drive them 260 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 1: in anywhere. At at and T Stadium, I counted thirteen 261 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: luxury buses and production trucks parked down inside the garage. 262 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 1: It's just a massive, wide open area. It's right off 263 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: the field. In fact, if they open that garage door, 264 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: you could see this from the field if you were there. 265 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: All that's in there. It's just a huge structure, and 266 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 1: so that I always love to check out. That's fascinating. 267 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: There is not another building that I've been in that 268 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: has that kind of feature where you can fit everything 269 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: over a dozen huge tractor trailers and buses and still 270 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: have room to bring five more through there no problem. 271 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: They also have a parking lot inside the building. They 272 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: got a parking lot outside the Cowboys locker room. I 273 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: would imagine players drive their cars into the stadium because 274 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: there are tons of open parking spots that aren't even 275 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: being used. There's like three rows of parking right outside 276 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: the Cowboys locker room. So I don't know, maybe that 277 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 1: doesn't stand out to anyone else, but that is a 278 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: couple of the features that stood out to me on 279 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: this lovely weekend. We'll be in Tuscaloosias Saturday. I'm sure 280 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: to have a number of things to talk to you 281 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,079 Speaker 1: about from that one. Zach up Next, Can I get 282 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 1: a fellow Harris County alumni shout out on late kick extra? Yes? Zach, 283 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: here is your shout out from one Harris County High 284 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 1: School alumni to another one, or I guess alumnus. This 285 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: always confused me, by the way, the whole alumni alumnus, 286 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: because I always thought alumni, even though it's plural, described 287 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,199 Speaker 1: one person. I always refer to myself as an alumni, 288 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,679 Speaker 1: and then alumnus gets told to me, and so now 289 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: I just call myself an alum. I just abbreviate it. 290 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: That's the most fool proof way to go through life. 291 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: Abbreviate words you don't really know the proper usage for. 292 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: And then if you really want to trigger the grammar 293 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: Nazis out there for any kind of plural, just throw 294 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: an eye on the end of it. When Facebook statuses 295 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: started being said, I just started calling them stati Facebook stati. 296 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: When we made the chalice of supremacy, and I have 297 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: several of them, instead of chalices of supremacy, those are 298 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: just chali of supremacy, and people get people get disproportionately 299 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: angered about it. They'll start laughing. But then let's say no, no, 300 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: but you know, you know it's really status is right, No, 301 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: it's stati. No, bro, it's status is I think I'm 302 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: gonna go with Stati no idiot status is this is 303 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: what I shouldn't do because I'm already losing my voice. 304 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: But people will get disproportionately triggered because of that, and 305 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: you will make the grammar Nazis out themselves. I encourage it. 306 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: I encourage that kind of behavior. We move right along 307 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: on this Tuesday morning, even though I'm secretly recording. On 308 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: Monday night, Parker had a question. He said, is this 309 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,359 Speaker 1: year evidence that twenty nineteen LSU and twenty twenty Alabama 310 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: were anomalies instead of the expectations for what the number 311 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: one and number two teams every year should be. I 312 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: think it's too early to assume that now. I think 313 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: the answer is yes, but I'm not ready to definitively 314 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: say that. Definitively say that is the way it should 315 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: have come out of my mouth. Here's what Parker's asking. 316 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen LSU was a historic team, twenty twenty Alabama 317 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: was a historic team, and twenty eighteen Clemson in the 318 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: title game had a historic performance, and so the expectation 319 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: got shifted. So why everyone's so surprised at how much 320 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: parity there is even at the top of the sport 321 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: right now this year because they got used to that, 322 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: they thought that was the new normal. And I don't 323 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: think that it's reasonable to just expect a superpower team 324 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: every single year in college football. I just think we 325 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: had them for a couple of years there, and maybe 326 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: that was the way it was, and maybe we have 327 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: reverted back to normal. The reason I think I'm hesitant 328 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: to say it that way is because this year, as 329 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: much as I love touting this as a renaissance season. 330 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: Notice I've been saying those two works together, renaissance season 331 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: because I don't know if this extends past this season. 332 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: I hope it does. I've never believed we have to 333 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 1: expand a playoff to get the kind of thing we're 334 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: getting this year. Case in point, we don't have an 335 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: expanded playoff, and we're getting it this year. But if 336 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: you wanted to play Devil's advocate and you wanted to argue, 337 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: but Josh, that could be because of the super senior rule, 338 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: and by and large, everyone's roster is more experienced this year. 339 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: Therefore that disproportionately helps defenses. And also it just so 340 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: happens that we don't have a superstar quarterback in the 341 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: sport yet this year, and so it's brought everyone closer 342 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 1: to the pack. I would say that's reasonable. We'll see 343 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: if it carries over. We'll see how that translates twenty 344 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: twenty two and beyond. Having said that, I do not 345 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: believe that it's going to be more normal to have 346 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: a twenty nineteen or twenty twenty Lsubama than it will 347 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: be to have a season like this. I think this 348 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: season is a higher percentage example of what normal will 349 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: be in college football moving forward than having one of 350 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: those superpower teams emerge. Now, that doesn't mean there won't 351 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: be tiers. There's a tier in college football right now, 352 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: and it's two teams deep. It's Bama and it's Georgia. 353 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: So there's still a Tier one in college football this year. 354 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: The difference is you've seen both of those teams push 355 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 1: to within one possession at the end of a game already, 356 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: and we're not out of September yet they look vulnerable. 357 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: They do look beatable. You also know that inevitably, if 358 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: they continue on that kind of course, they'll have to 359 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 1: play each other, and I think you'd have confidence one 360 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: knocks the other out. I don't have that confidence. I 361 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,439 Speaker 1: think they'd both be in into what I don't know. 362 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to talk about that thing at the 363 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: end of the year before September ends. Oh, voice barely 364 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 1: hanging on. Let's see if we can make it. Steven. 365 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: Next up, Stephen said, if you had a secret betting 366 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 1: show on Friday night, why would it theoretically be bad 367 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 1: if the boss is found out? Stephen, I'm glad you 368 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: asked this in purely hypothetical terms, because there is absolutely 369 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,199 Speaker 1: no way, as we all know, that I've been hosting 370 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: a super secret late Friday night Instagram live only gambling chat. 371 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: There's no way that's been happening. But if I did 372 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: do that, then the reason why we would want to 373 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 1: keep it off the radar and do it after management 374 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: goes to bad is because theoretically, if you work for 375 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: a company that, let's say mandated you only reference let's 376 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: say one sportsbook entity out there in your coverage, then 377 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:02,919 Speaker 1: maybe you'd want to wait until later and do it 378 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: on your own social media platform so that you could 379 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: kind of circumvent that rule. Maybe they'd want to slap 380 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 1: some branding on it, Maybe they want to ratchet it 381 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 1: up and have a certain format and put a production 382 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: crew on it instead of doing it really really sketch 383 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: afflee out of a hotel Yeah, sketch afflee out of 384 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: a hotel room, bad lighting. Where are our elements at? 385 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: This doesn't meet our broadcast standards? And Stephen, that's the 386 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 1: kind of thing you would hear in feedback. That's the 387 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: kind of thing you would get in a Monday morning 388 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 1: Quality control report QCR for an abbreviation. And so instead 389 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: of all that, we just keep it off the radar. Again, hypothetically, 390 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: if we were to be doing that sort of thing, 391 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 1: which of course doesn't sound like me at all, we 392 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 1: continue Mason up next. Who do you think gives Auburn 393 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,680 Speaker 1: the best chance to win going forward? TJ Finley or 394 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 1: Bo Nicks. I have no clue. I do not know. 395 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: I watched the end of that game the other day. 396 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: Auburn was playing Georgia State. They got pushed to the 397 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 1: very limit in Jordenhair Stadium. It was a bad game 398 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 1: for him, no two ways about that. Bo Nicks got pulled. TJ. 399 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 1: Finley came in, He's the transfer from LSU. They won. 400 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 1: I didn't think TJ. Finley lit the world on fire. 401 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 1: I do not think there's gonna be oh man, I 402 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: mean it's really going. The voice is really going. Don't 403 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: edit it out, though, Jordan. They need to hear the struggle. 404 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 1: I do not think there's gonna be some quantum leap 405 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 1: or noticeable upgrade regardless of who's in at quarterback for Auburn. 406 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: I just think there is a cap on this team 407 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: production wise this year. Offensively, that's probably close to being reached, 408 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: regardless of which quarterbacks him. Now, that doesn't have to 409 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: be the case going forward. But Brian Harson's play in 410 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,959 Speaker 1: the hand he was dealt right now. I will say this, 411 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: whether he's right or wrong, I'm not here to judge 412 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 1: right now because he knows way more about his team 413 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: than I do. But I will tell you he made 414 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 1: a staff move this week. He fired his wide receivers coach. 415 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: A lot of people have had a lot to say 416 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: about that. I have not been one of them, as 417 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 1: you've noticed. I think there's a little bit more to 418 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,719 Speaker 1: every situation like that. Then you say, on the surface, 419 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: sometimes it's okay to talk about sometimes it's not. Sometimes 420 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:04,879 Speaker 1: it's best to just keep your mouth shut because you 421 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: don't see the whole picture well I'm the guy who's 422 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,439 Speaker 1: gonna keep his mouth shut, But I will tell you 423 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 1: I don't think that that move was made strictly because 424 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 1: of poor on field performance. I don't think that happened 425 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: a month into year one. I don't think Brian Harson 426 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: made a move simply because unit was underperforming. I don't 427 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 1: think that was the case solely and so, but what 428 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: I was gonna say is he made the move, and 429 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,159 Speaker 1: he also made the quarterback move, and it doesn't it 430 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: doesn't appear he really cares what anyone thinks about it. Now, 431 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 1: I applaud that because that's the way I would coach, 432 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:37,400 Speaker 1: That's the way we would handle it at Peyte State 433 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: Pete State material hashtag. But I also don't know if 434 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be fired a couple of months in or 435 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: a couple of years in, because maybe my way wouldn't 436 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 1: be the best way. But I do not like seeing 437 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 1: coaches second guests themselves once they get negative feedback on 438 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 1: a reaction, because that means the determining factor is not 439 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: your decision making. You're making a decision and then allowing 440 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 1: the determining factor being what the reaction is. If you're 441 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: doing that, you have no business being on the field. 442 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: You can be in the stands. You can buy a 443 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 1: ticket just like everyone else. Next up, Clayton, I'm glad 444 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: someone asked about this. Clayton said, were you offended by 445 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 1: coach Christaball's interaction with Chris Hudson during the Arizona game? 446 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: A lot of you know what this is about. I'm 447 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: gonna be as careful as I can not to get 448 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 1: worked up. I don't have the voice to get worked 449 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 1: up right now. But what happened was Chris Hudson, wide 450 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,439 Speaker 1: receiver at Oregon. He caught a ball, I think it 451 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 1: was the first down spun it gets a fifteen yarder, unsportsmanlike, 452 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 1: and then gets absolutely lit into by Mario Christaball. Now 453 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: that's what happened. I'm gonna tell you what I think 454 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: about it right after this. So Clayton wants to know 455 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 1: what I thought about Mario Christaball ripping into a receiver 456 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: who cost his team a fifteen yard penalty. I had 457 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: no problem with it, of course, because I've been in 458 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 1: a locker room before, because I had good parenting growing up, 459 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: like I loved it, and what stood out to me 460 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 1: above and beyond anything else, and this is usually the 461 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: case in the situation like this, Chris Hudson his eyes 462 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: on Mario Cristabaal the entire time, I mean, stares him 463 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 1: in the eye like a man the entire time and 464 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 1: takes it. And I guarantee, if I had Chris Hudson 465 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: on this podcast right now, he would be the least 466 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: offended of anyone. He'd tell you I screwed up. I 467 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: brought embarrassment. Therefore I deserve to be embarrassed. But that's 468 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: not how it works when you got folks out there 469 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 1: looking to go uner attention by being offended for someone else. 470 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: And I gotta be careful here, But that's not how 471 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 1: it works. See, in someone's mind, who is perpetually looking 472 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,159 Speaker 1: to be offended for someone else, even if that person 473 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,479 Speaker 1: is not offended in the slightest, they think in terms 474 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: of sound bites and snapshots, and so the snapshot and 475 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: the SoundBite here does not start with the play in 476 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: their mind, it starts like you press play on that moment, 477 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: and it starts with Mario Cristaball throwing his headset and 478 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: screaming at a kid. And that is void of any context, 479 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 1: of course. And so I heard I won't mention the name. 480 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: I was very aggravated by it, though the person working 481 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 1: color commentary for ESPN or whichever broadcast it was made 482 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 1: the comment that this is a little bit overboard. Now, 483 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,439 Speaker 1: we don't want to embarrass the kid. No, you absolutely do. 484 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: You absolutely do, because anyone who was coached the right 485 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 1: way growing up was taught I will never embarrass you 486 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: unless you embarrass me and embarrass this team. If you 487 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 1: embarrass that team and you embarrass me, there is no 488 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:27,880 Speaker 1: limit to what I will do to you in front 489 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: of everyone, because at that point you deserve it. And 490 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: so that's exactly what Chris Hudson did. He brought about 491 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: a fifteen yard penalty in a game that was competitive 492 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: at that time, and he got shoot out because of it. 493 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 1: At that point, when you've done that, you don't have 494 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: the right to not be embarrassed or not be humiliated. 495 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,679 Speaker 1: It's not the worst thing in the world. Some of 496 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: the best teaching lessons ever are when you get made 497 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 1: to look like a fool in front of a lot 498 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,399 Speaker 1: of people, because you know what it makes you do 499 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: in the future. It corrects behavior, and it makes you 500 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: think twice about doing something stupid. You know, how much 501 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 1: injury physical or emotionally that Chris Hudson suffered Saturday. N A, 502 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: you know how many lessons he learned at least one 503 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 1: big one. And then afterwards, what just leads me to 504 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: not even take it seriously anymore is that same color 505 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 1: commentator goes on Twitter and starts bringing race into it 506 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: and saying, well, it made me uncomfortable to watch it 507 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 1: because of racial overtones. At that point, again, you have 508 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,160 Speaker 1: branded yourself foolish and I cannot take you seriously. For 509 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: that to be the first thing that entered anyone's mind 510 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 1: watching that exchange is beyond me. I don't even know 511 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: how you think like that, but yet people do. Okay, 512 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,439 Speaker 1: So now let me tell you how Mario Christabal handled 513 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: it today. He had a press conference today today is Monday. 514 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: As i'm recording, you're listening on Tuesday, and Mario was asked, 515 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 1: here's the question. I'm just going to read the transcript. Question. 516 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: We haven't seen you get so angry on the sideline 517 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 1: at least, I can't think of a time where you 518 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: were the way you were on Saturday. I'm wondering if 519 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: you've looked at the tape and if that's something you 520 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 1: wish you would have done differently. What's your perspective overall 521 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: about reprimanding a player on the sideline in general? That's 522 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 1: the question, fair enough. Here's Mario Christo Baul's response. My 523 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: perspective is that Chris and I have a real relationship 524 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: and a real agreement with accountability standards. That was a 525 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 1: big play. It hurt the team. It required a strong 526 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: and intense verbal message that re established our accountability standards. 527 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: For clarity on that, I think that was achieved. I 528 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: respect Chris, he respects me, We respect the process. We 529 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: cannot hurt the team. I trust him obviously. We want 530 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 1: to get him back into the game with a clear 531 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: mind and to attack the opportunity and to go with 532 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: the game. And that's what we did, and that's what 533 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: I did. That's what a leader sounds like. That's why 534 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,679 Speaker 1: he's down there leading, and that's why other people who 535 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: happen to maybe wear a headset would not be offered 536 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 1: that kind of position. I respect this industry, I respect 537 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: the people in those positions, those broadcast positions. But I'm 538 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 1: telling you it was garbage. I really thought it was garbage. 539 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 1: The insinuation that was made afterwards. I just disagreed with 540 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: the opinion during the game, But then when you take 541 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 1: to social media afterwards and you throw that kind of 542 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 1: stuff out there, that's garbage. And I'm telling you that 543 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: man is also an Oregon game or scheduled too this Saturday, 544 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: and that's garbage if that's allowed to happen. So hope, 545 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: I haven't been unclear. That's how I feel about that. 546 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 1: I know we have some of his coworkers that listen 547 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: to this podcast. I respect them. I mean, I have 548 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 1: a load of respect for people who do that job. 549 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 1: I don't have any respect for the things that came 550 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: out of that broadcaster's mouth and then subsequently on a 551 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: social media channels over the last couple of days. Let's 552 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: roll on with Dan. Dan said, best quarterback in college 553 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: football so far. I think it's Bryce Young, But we 554 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: can look past Bryce Young for a second. I mean, 555 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 1: that's my short answer. There are some quarterbacks out there 556 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 1: doing some things that are maybe not totally on the radar. 557 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: Talia Tounguovailoa to his brother at Maryland. They're undefeated right now, 558 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,399 Speaker 1: they play a huge game. Do not overlook this Friday. 559 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: I know a lot of you go to high school 560 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 1: football games. Keep an eye on Iowa at Maryland. Both 561 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: of those teams are undefeated. It's a conference game. It 562 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,919 Speaker 1: is really big for the Big Ten. But that's also 563 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: a staple of the kind of game you get in 564 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: a renaissance season. You got to all kind of match 565 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: up that you did not think you would have a 566 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: spotlight on that all of a sudden you find yourself 567 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,880 Speaker 1: a month in the season putting a spotlight on that's 568 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 1: a Friday game, that's before this Saturday. And while I'm 569 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 1: at it, this next two week period is insanity. It's 570 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 1: pure insanity. Imagine being booked for a wedding in any 571 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: Saturday in fall, but especially these next two Saturdays. Couldn't 572 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 1: be me, couldn't be us. Hopefully you were included in us. 573 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 1: Could not be us. I tweeted this out earlier today. 574 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: I'm about to read you in. I'm gonna hopefully do 575 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: it in one breath. All of the games I'm about 576 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: to list are happening in the next what eleven days 577 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: or so? The next two Saturdays. Here we go Arkansas 578 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: at Georgia, Ole Miss at Alabama, Cincinnati at Notre Dame, 579 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,680 Speaker 1: Michigan at Wisconsin, Baylor at Oklahoma State two undefeateds Texas 580 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 1: at TCU, Florida at Kentucky, Auburn at LSU, Oklahoma at 581 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: Kansas State, A and M hosting Alabama Red River Shootout, Oklahoma, Texas, 582 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 1: Penn State at Iowa, lash You at Kentucky, Georgia at Auburn, 583 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:07,959 Speaker 1: Notre Dame at VATECH, Arkansas at Ole Miss. Think about 584 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: how great the sport is when you only have to 585 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: list the marquee games over a two week period. And 586 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,239 Speaker 1: I have very very big lung capacity. By the way, 587 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: I can hold my breath over two minutes, and even 588 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,359 Speaker 1: I barely got all that out in one breath. What 589 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 1: a great sport, What a great sport. And some of 590 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,159 Speaker 1: you have committed yourself to weddings. I just I don't know. 591 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: I don't know. We've gone down this road several times. 592 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. I don't have the voice 593 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: nor the heart to do it right now. I just 594 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: don't get it. Make it make sense to me. And 595 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: then I had someone tell me I'm already booked in 596 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: a wedding for week three of next year. Huh oh. 597 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: I feel bad. I mean, I feel like I need 598 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: to send sympathy cars, not Chawli of supremacy, because that 599 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 1: is anything but supreme. Maybe Chawli of shame. I don't know. 600 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: I got lost there because the other name I was 601 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: gonna mention is Tanner. Mordecai is doing really good things 602 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: at SMU right now. And here's what's even greater. If 603 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: you google Tanner Mordecai's name and you look at the 604 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: most recent news. As of five days ago, the Waco Tribune, 605 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 1: Harold put out a headline that says, and I quote, 606 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: Hail Mary full of grace. Mordecai can chuck it past 607 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: your face. That's all the scouting reports you need. People 608 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 1: check out an SMU game. Tarna Mordecai, SMU undefeated right now. 609 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: They've had a great start to the twenty twenty one season. 610 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,479 Speaker 1: They've also got a jersey combination. I don't know if 611 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 1: they wear it every game, but they've got a jersey 612 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 1: combination whereas you know, they're located in Dallas, and they 613 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: put Dallas across the chest in script and like cursive script, 614 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: and it just looks great. I'm not for a lot 615 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 1: of the newer jersey combinations. You can call me whatever 616 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: you want. To like. I think Penn State's Jersey's awesome, 617 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 1: so that lets you know where I stand on Jersey combinations. 618 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: But SMU's Dallas script across the chest that looks really good. 619 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: It also looks good that they're winning. So good on 620 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: Sunny Dike's, good on SMU, and good on us for 621 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 1: making it through this thing. I still got a voice. 622 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: I don't know how much longer it's going to last. 623 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tap out right now. Thank you so much 624 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 1: for listening. For producer Jordan about to take the hand off, 625 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: cut this thing up and get it ready for you 626 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: in the wee hours of the morning. Thank you to 627 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: him to make sure you're leaving five star reviews. That's 628 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: the only request following on Twitter of course, on Instagram 629 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: at Late kick Job. But the five star reviews and 630 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: Apple podcast. I think that's part of the reason why 631 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: we have rocketed up, along with just raw download numbers. 632 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: So let's keep that going. Keep the train rolling. Management 633 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 1: loves it, the high level mustaches. They're over the moon 634 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: excited about it. So thank you for that. Until next time, 635 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: have yourselves a great Tuesday, and God bless