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Speaker 1: the Late Kick Extra podcast. It is Tuesday morning, August thirty,

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Speaker 1: first year of Our Lord, twenty twenty one. Jacks absolutely,

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Speaker 1: Jack costs. It is a game week. Everybody plays at

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Speaker 1: a really good conversation there. But it's time to dive

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Speaker 1: into the mail bag. But my goodness, what a week

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Speaker 1: big announcement. It's coming. But I warned you about this

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Speaker 1: for like two months. I said, stuff's coming. Oh, it's coming,

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Speaker 1: trust me, it's coming, And a lot of you said

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Speaker 1: on Twitter last night if you're following me there at

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Speaker 1: Late Kick Josh. By the way, numbers growing rapidly. We

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Speaker 1: have signed a major advertising partnership with Academy Sports and Outdoors,

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Speaker 1: Russ is first up. I forgot about this one. Russ

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Speaker 1: to call for someone's ouster. I never call for people's jobs.

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Speaker 1: I never do it. I hate doing that, but it

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Speaker 1: does become apparent eventually if it's time to make a change.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it becomes obvious to everyone. I do not

432
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Speaker 1: think they've reached that point at Michigan. I think they

433
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Speaker 1: are rapidly approaching that point, if not already there at Nebraska.

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Speaker 1: But again to Christopher's question, I think the maximum potential

435
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Speaker 1: is annual contention for the Big Ten championship. That's what

436
00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,359
Speaker 1: I think the maximum potential is, because that's what I

437
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Speaker 1: think the right head coach there would do. I mean, guys,

438
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 1: the formula is not that hard to figure out. It

439
00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,119
Speaker 1: is infinitely harder to execute. You got to recruit, you

440
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,320
Speaker 1: got to develop, and then you got to execute. That's

441
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Speaker 1: what you have to do. You got to sell the program.

442
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Speaker 1: The bigger the brand, the less you have to sell it.

443
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Speaker 1: But Michigan, I think is a big brand that has

444
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Speaker 1: to be resold because you've got a generation of kids now,

445
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Speaker 1: and when we're talking generation, it's only about ten year increments.

446
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Speaker 1: And you got a generation now of recruits that have

447
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 1: not seen Michigan contend on the national level. So you

448
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,199
Speaker 1: got to remind him it's possible, and so that's how

449
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,280
Speaker 1: you sell the program. But that doesn't take long because

450
00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 1: that brand means a whole lot. That Michigan brand still

451
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Speaker 1: means a whole lot. So what you have to do, well,

452
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Speaker 1: you've got to recruit, which the right coach there could do.

453
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Speaker 1: I get so tired. I've listened to some national voices

454
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks starts spouting off this

455
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Speaker 1: anecdotal nonsense about well, you know, Michigan's a little bit

456
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Speaker 1: more rigid, it's different culture. We're talking about getting twenty

457
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Speaker 1: five kids per year to buy in. You don't have

458
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Speaker 1: to get one hundred kids per year. You're not recruiting

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Speaker 1: your entire roster every year. If you don't think with

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Speaker 1: the right coach there and the right recruiting apparatus in place,

461
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Speaker 1: the right things prioritized, the right people invested, that you

462
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Speaker 1: can't get twenty five high caliber athletes per year to

463
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Speaker 1: come play for the University of Michigan and the sport

464
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Speaker 1: of football. You're crazy. All this stuff is excuse making.

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Speaker 1: It's anecdotal and it's excuse making. Now here's the other

466
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Speaker 1: part to this. The reason I have not said anything

467
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Speaker 1: about Harbaugh and needing to get him out of there.

468
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Speaker 1: I think it's still very possible that the current lineup

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Speaker 1: in that coaches room and the current lineup on this

470
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Speaker 1: roster is trending in the right direction. We don't know it.

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Speaker 1: We got to see twenty twenty one. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: Michigan were to struggle against the Western Michigan Broncos in

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Speaker 1: week one and fall to Washington in week two, then

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Speaker 1: that feeling I'm having quickly goes out the window. We

475
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Speaker 1: are teetering, and that's how quickly things can change. I'm

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Speaker 1: normally the one that tells you have your opinions move

477
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Speaker 1: at the speed of honey, not the speed of water.

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Speaker 1: But there are some teetering exceptions to where, whether you

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Speaker 1: like it or not, Jim Harbaugh and his staff have

480
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Speaker 1: put themselves in position to where one or two football

481
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Speaker 1: games will determine the future the program, in the future

482
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Speaker 1: of the staff there. But yes, their maximum potential is

483
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Speaker 1: absolutely contending for the Big ten. I don't listen very

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Speaker 1: long to someone who says otherwise. Okay, several of you

485
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Speaker 1: asked me if I have a thought on the Bishop

486
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Speaker 1: Sycamore situation. Many of you know what this is about.

487
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Speaker 1: Some of you may not. IMG Academy is a school

488
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Speaker 1: down in Florida. I mean it's a specialized place. A

489
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Speaker 1: lot of big time four and five star athletes go there.

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Speaker 1: You know, half of signing day is spent talking about

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Speaker 1: kids from IMG. You know about IMG. You don't know

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Speaker 1: about Bishop Sycamore, cause no one does. But they raised

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Speaker 1: their hands and they said, oh, well, play IMG anyway.

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Speaker 1: It was a travesty. It was a splattering, as we

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Speaker 1: like to call it. Never should have been scheduled. But

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Speaker 1: the blame can fall in a million different laps. I've

497
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Speaker 1: heard all your questions. What I can tell you right

498
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Speaker 1: now is I, as we speak, as we record here

499
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Speaker 1: late on this Monday night, I'm texting back and forth

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Speaker 1: with somebody who is involved intimately with the situation, and

501
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Speaker 1: eventually I hope to get this story told. Not right now,

502
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: it's still too raw, it's still too fresh, but one

503
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Speaker 1: of these days I am hoping that we get the

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Speaker 1: full story. Because what I'm being told right now is

505
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Speaker 1: that mega thread that's floating around on the Internet where

506
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Speaker 1: the whole story is told. Some parts of that are fabricated,

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Speaker 1: but other parts that aren't even publicly known are even wilder.

508
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Speaker 1: Than the parts that are out there that aren't true.

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Speaker 1: And so yeah, it sounds like we need to go

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Speaker 1: down that road, but I'm not going to do it

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Speaker 1: right now. My thoughts are it's insane that a team

512
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Speaker 1: was basically made up. My second thoughts are pet State

513
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Speaker 1: does not have an opponent for Week one yet, So

514
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Speaker 1: any place, anywhere, anytime, we're like the new Boise. All right,

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Speaker 1: let me head over to my corner. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: tap out for about what is this thirty seconds for

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Speaker 1: a minute, I don't know, but I will tap back

518
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Speaker 1: in right after this, and with that we are back.

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Speaker 1: Let's dive right back in the mail bag. Mitchell, on

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Speaker 1: a busy, busy Thursday, as you're listening, which week one

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Speaker 1: domino would alter this year's national title race the most

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Speaker 1: should it fall? Most agree the loser of Clemson Georgia

523
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Speaker 1: could still make the playoff if they win or win

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Speaker 1: out at least, so its impact could be minimal in

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Speaker 1: relation to other games. I thought about this for a second.

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Speaker 1: You could go Miami over Alabama. That would be huge.

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Speaker 1: I think Minnesota over Ohio State would be a little bigger.

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Speaker 1: So here's what I'm thinking with Alabama. If they fall,

529
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Speaker 1: you still have multiple other teams Georgia depending on what

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Speaker 1: they do in Week one, you could have Georgia there.

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Speaker 1: Bama would still be in the mix, but you could

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Speaker 1: have LSU depending on how they look in Week one.

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Speaker 1: Certainly Texas A and M. Early in the season any

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Speaker 1: given year, this one being no different, you have a

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Speaker 1: number of SEC teams that you think could win a

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Speaker 1: national championship. But Ohio State is the standard bearer in

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Speaker 1: the Big Ten right now, and if they look vulnerable

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Speaker 1: in Week one, right off the top of your head,

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Speaker 1: there is not another program you look at up there

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Speaker 1: and you say, Okay, well, if Ohio State doesn't make it,

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Speaker 1: that'll be because fill in the blank overtook them, and

542
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Speaker 1: we certainly know if that happens, they're going to make

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Speaker 1: the playoff. Who do you say that about. Would it

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Speaker 1: be Wisconsin maybe, but most of you won't believe that

545
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,159
Speaker 1: until you see it. Could it be Penn State? Didtoh

546
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 1: most of you wouldn't believe that until you saw it.

547
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Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is, if Minnesota were to beat

548
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Speaker 1: Ohio State, that puts them already on thin ice with

549
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Speaker 1: hot blades before the Saturday of Week one has even

550
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: gotten here because they play on Thursday, and all of

551
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Speaker 1: a sudden. The reason I say that game is because

552
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: you could come out of Week one and you could

553
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Speaker 1: be saying, WHOA, what if the Big Ten doesn't have

554
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Speaker 1: a playoff caliber team this year? Think about what that

555
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Speaker 1: would do. All of a sudden, you have that conversation

556
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Speaker 1: of could the Pac twelve put one out? I mean

557
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 1: you already have that, but then it raps up a

558
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,919
Speaker 1: little bit more. I start getting into that could a

559
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: conference give us two teams in the playoff sort of conversation,

560
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: which obviously is meaningless in September, but that was the question.

561
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Speaker 1: And the other thing would be for the G five's

562
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Speaker 1: it could be Cincinnati or it could be another program

563
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Speaker 1: out there. You start talking about that. So I would

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Speaker 1: go with Minnesota over Ohio State. I think that would

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Speaker 1: be the biggest singular domino that could fall. And I

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Speaker 1: think that would be even bigger than obviously either Clems

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Speaker 1: or Georgia. Like you said, I think it would be

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Speaker 1: bigger than Miami over Alabama. I'm trying to think. I mean,

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Speaker 1: none of the others are really realistic. Oklahoma's not fall

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Speaker 1: into Tulane. I don't think that's happening. I mean, that

571
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Speaker 1: would be big, but I don't think that's happening. There

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Speaker 1: would be one that would be really detrimental to my purposes.

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Speaker 1: That would be Northern Iowa taking down Iowa State. I

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Speaker 1: don't even want to say that out loud. Forget I

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Speaker 1: said anything. We're moving on, No, we're not. Actually, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna address this. So I put out my playoff predictions.

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Speaker 1: Most of you saw that, and I had in order

578
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Speaker 1: Clemson number one, Ohio State number two, Alabama number three,

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Speaker 1: Iowa State number four, and I had Clemson versus Alabama

580
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Speaker 1: in the title game, and I had Clemson winning the

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Speaker 1: national title. And of course, the same crowd that gets

582
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Speaker 1: so tired of the monotony and get so tired of

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Speaker 1: the same three or four teams making it freaks out

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Speaker 1: when I put a team from outside the elite class

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Speaker 1: in the playoff. I put Iowa State in there. I

586
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Speaker 1: really need to specify. Most of you know, but if

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Speaker 1: you're new to the program, I don't care about playoff predictions.

588
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: Just don't invest time in them. I was sitting at

589
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Speaker 1: my desk that very day and had not even arrived

590
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Speaker 1: at my playoff picks. What I value is the week

591
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Speaker 1: to week when we are going into week one, when

592
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Speaker 1: we're going into week four, I want to get that

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Speaker 1: Saturday right. There is really no formula out there with

594
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Speaker 1: any kind of skill behind predicting that far in advance.

595
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just get lucky and you end up guessing right.

596
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Speaker 1: But think about this. What if I were to say

597
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Speaker 1: I think Bama's going to win the national title this year,

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Speaker 1: and if you ask me why, I said, because I

599
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Speaker 1: think they got a locked and loaded defense ready to go.

600
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Speaker 1: But then they have three different games where their defense

601
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: allows thirty points or more, but they just outscore everyone

602
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: and they win the title. Was I right because I

603
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: picked Bama to win the title and they won the title,

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Speaker 1: But all of my logic behind it was horrific. I

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00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: picked them because of defense, and they gave up a

606
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: ton of points, but they just won anyway. So sometimes

607
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: you get lucky and you pick it right. Just like

608
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: someone picked the winning lottery numbers last night, they didn't

609
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Speaker 1: have any skill behind predicting them. Now, there's a little

610
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: bit more skill behind predicting college football than the lottery, obviously,

611
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Speaker 1: but I don't get into that. So I had some

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00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: fun with it for once. In my life and I

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00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: put in Iowa State, and you would have thought it

614
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: was a capital offense. Some of you had like emotional

615
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: reactions to it, like I dished your grandma and the

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Speaker 1: grocery line. It's Iowa State. It's the number six team

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Speaker 1: in the country. I didn't pick Catola Community College to

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Speaker 1: use a Harris County, Georgia reference. It's Iowa State. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a long shot, but it

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be the most preposterous thing in the world if

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Speaker 1: they were to win the Big Twelve, which would require

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Speaker 1: beating a team that they beat once last year and

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Speaker 1: took to within one possession being minus in the turnover

624
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: battle in the Big Twelve championship game. Like, it wouldn't

625
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Speaker 1: be the craziest thing in the world, is all I'm saying. So,

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Speaker 1: maybe they'll make it, maybe they won't. I won't lose

627
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: a minute of sleep if they don't. But let me

628
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Speaker 1: tell you, hear me loud and clear, you shouldn't be

629
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Speaker 1: shook over this. Kevin Costner should be shook because if

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Speaker 1: Iowa State does make the playoff, and I'm the only

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Speaker 1: one out here who predicted it, I'm the new Kevin

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Speaker 1: Costner in the state of Iowa. I deserve it. Point,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Costner's had a good run. Field of Dreams is

634
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Speaker 1: my favorite movie of all time. But eventually all good

635
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: runs must come to an end. And if Iowa State

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Speaker 1: makes the playoff and I called it and I got

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Speaker 1: the receipts, move over, Kevin. That's the new motto on

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Speaker 1: the show. Move over Kevin. This is actually great. I'm

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Speaker 1: recording and submissions are still coming in based off the

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Speaker 1: tweet I sent out and something I think it's really

641
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Speaker 1: important for all of us to answer at some point

642
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: in our lives. Dan Rubinstein, co host of the Solid

643
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: Verbal podcast, tits us up and says, what is the

644
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: most appropriate response when someone says I love you but

645
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: you don't feel the same way. And I had to

646
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: ask do we have a cell phone in our hand

647
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: when this is going on? He says, we do not

648
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: have a cell phone. So there goes the fake phone call.

649
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: What do we do when someone drops the illy on

650
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: you and you're not ready to reciprocate and you're not

651
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: gonna lie because we're just too big a people for that. Oh,

652
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: it could be a mess, and we don't have any

653
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: technology to bail us out. I did what any responsible

654
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: adult would do. I googled how to deal with an

655
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: ill timed I love you, and I came across the

656
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: most horrifically misguided pieces of literature that I've ever seen

657
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: on the Internet or elsewhere. Eleven cute things to say

658
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: when you can't say I love you back yet. This

659
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: is from the fine Folks, and I'm sure they're wonderful people,

660
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: but boy, they've never had a car Keyed before. This

661
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: is from your Tango dot com. I have no good

662
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,959
Speaker 1: answer for you, but I can tell you they have

663
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: bad answers. First option, I'm not ready to say that back,

664
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: but I do know that you're important to me, car Keyed. Secondly,

665
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to have you in my life. Slapped. Thirdly,

666
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: I've never felt like this before, so I'm just trying

667
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: to understand it. Knee straight to the groin. Four. You

668
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: make me so happy. I appreciate you so much. Here

669
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: comes her dad thirty minutes later. Five express your feelings

670
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: with a kiss. You're in a holding cell to your

671
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: cousin bails you out the next morning. Six. I think

672
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: I'm beginning to feel the same, which I would argue

673
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: is like hitting a deer not fast enough to kill it,

674
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: like back home. This happens all the time in Harris County, Georgia,

675
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: and there are some people who will wound an animal

676
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: and say, oh good, I didn't kill it and just

677
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: drive away thinking that they've contributed positively to nature. No,

678
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: that's worse actually than just eighty miles an hour and

679
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: never even saw it coming. Yeah, I think I feel

680
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: the same way. I think I'm headed there. We all

681
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: know where that ends. Car Keith. Seven, that means so

682
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: much to me. Bunny in the pot within forty eight hours. Eight,

683
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: I really care about you, You really care about cheesecake.

684
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: They're looking for a little bit more than that. And

685
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: if you don't give it to them again, eyes gouged,

686
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: car Keet, something bad's gonna happen. None of these options

687
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: are the right option. There is a sizeable chunk of

688
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 1: our society that thinks in terms of a Taylor Swift

689
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: song now and so rationale and logic have gone out

690
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: the window. And if you're not ready, this could be

691
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: a true turning point decision in some of your lives.

692
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: So I think, after a lot of internal debate, I

693
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: think what needs to happen is somewhere on this like

694
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: the second or third date. This is better than anything

695
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: your tango dot com gave you, but it's not fool proof.

696
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: I think you need to work out some sort of system,

697
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: much like a third base coach would have with his batter,

698
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: and you need to have a set of established signals

699
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: that you established well before either of you could have

700
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: developed that feeling for each other. And there's that agreement

701
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: that maybe turning the cheek is the indicator, and then

702
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: touched the forehead twice in the nose, And if both

703
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: of you give that sign back to each other and

704
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 1: then you both clap okay, that means we're both ready

705
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: and so down the road for five months, whenever we're

706
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: ready to cross that bridge, we'll cross it together instead

707
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: of the alternative, which is one of us dragging the

708
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: other halfway across the bridge and then getting thrown over

709
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: into the icy depths below. No one wants that good,

710
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: really deep, hard hitting subject matter there though, speaking of

711
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: the solid verbal I said this about a month ago

712
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: on Twitter. This is a true story. It's the only

713
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: college football podcast that I have consecutively listened to pretty

714
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: much episodically since I started listening to podcasts, and this

715
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: was several years ago. Those guys ANATAI were doing this

716
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: stuff well before I ever even purchased a microphone. I mean,

717
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: I was doing talk radio down in Columbus. But those

718
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: guys were part of what inspired me, long term, vision wise,

719
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: to try and get into this field, because I knew

720
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,720
Speaker 1: that they were doing something they owned, and it's blown

721
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 1: up since then and they've signed big deals and I'm

722
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 1: really happy for them. But ironically, what got me into

723
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: their show was having to make periodic car rides from

724
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: Columbus up to just north of Atlanta to visit a

725
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: girlfriend who, ironically I used to say, I love you too,

726
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: and don't anymore. But I did find a long term

727
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: love in the Solid Verbal podcast. And we don't give

728
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: those shout outs here lightly, but I'm a big fan

729
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: of their work. Long time listener, long time verballer, as

730
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: they would say. But it's a funny place we're in.

731
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 1: To kind of wrap it up, I promised you this story,

732
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 1: and thankfully I remembered. It's a funny place we're in

733
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 1: right now. That was a little cottage industry for a while.

734
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: The whole what I call the alternate media or new

735
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: media landscape for college football, and it was just a

736
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: land of giants, you know, the traditionals that you've grown

737
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: up watching, that I grew up watching, and that was

738
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: where you were going to go to get your college

739
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: football and elsewhere. There was no other way to have

740
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: national reach with any kind of independent product. I mean,

741
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: there was just really no way to saturate the market

742
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: with it. And then along comes the ability to stream live,

743
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: and along comes podcasting, and then all of a sudden,

744
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: the landscape shifts. And I noticed it very rapidly when

745
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: I was working in local news down to Columbus, but

746
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: wanted to really do this the whole time. And when

747
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: I found YouTube Live, when I found Facebook Live, that

748
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: was a game changer. I knew it immediately. I've told

749
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: this story. That was one of those light bulb moments,

750
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: because all of a sudden, the two necessities that you

751
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: ever had needed to go national truly with a product,

752
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: they were taken away in one fell swoop. They were

753
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: taken away overhead and distribution. All of a sudden, your

754
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: cell phone was the overhead, the equipment you needed. You

755
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 1: could have a studio anywhere, and then distribution as long

756
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: as you had Internet access was taken care of. You

757
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: didn't need may your syndication deals anymore. So you didn't

758
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: need millions and millions and millions worth of backing. And

759
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,280
Speaker 1: that has led to this and it's evolutionary, it's still growing.

760
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: But I want you to think about something. I want

761
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,439
Speaker 1: you to look around you. Look at what those guys

762
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: at Solid Verbal have done. You ask them their story.

763
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure they've told it before, about what their recording

764
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: situation used to be versus what it is now. I'm

765
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: drawing a paycheck from CBS, from ViacomCBS. I started this

766
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: independent channel three or four years ago. This's not been

767
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: that long. R. J. Young draws a paycheck from Fox.

768
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: Now they've noticed, because what's happened is you've made them notice.

769
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: You've made the long time traditional what I call legacy

770
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: media companies notice that what they were offering you in

771
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: some cases was no longer good enough, and you went

772
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: and you found an alternative. And it gives folks like

773
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: us so much leverage. We even have creative control to

774
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: be able to talk like I'm talking right now. That's rare,

775
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: in fact, it's unprecedented in our industry, and only now

776
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: are we getting the freedom to be able to have

777
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: jobs at this level because you've made it possible. And

778
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 1: with that in mind, let me tell you what happened

779
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 1: the other day and this whole Academy Sports deal, how

780
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: it came about. I am a salaried employee here. I

781
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: don't have to sell advertising. We never have to have

782
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: an advertisement dime spin on our show. They just make

783
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: money on it a different way here, and I already

784
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: know how much I'm gonna make. That's kind of how

785
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: a salary works. But about a month and a half ago,

786
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: if you were watching, I just randomly blurted something out.

787
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I gave it some forethought. I

788
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: didn't just blurt it out, but I said, you know,

789
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: we've never had advertising on the show. We've never had

790
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: a key sponsor, but I know we have so much

791
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: new traction. I'm just going to throw it out there.

792
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: If you are a national or big time regional brand

793
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: and you think the partnership would be right for us,

794
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: If you think you would fit in on this show,

795
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: hit me up. I give out my personal email, as

796
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,240
Speaker 1: you guys know, Josh pat seven zero six at gmail

797
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: dot com to tell you how unconventional this happened. And

798
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 1: before the next morning, Academy Sports had hit us up.

799
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: Some others had hit us up too full disclosure. We

800
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:05,839
Speaker 1: declined some. I made the decision. I declined what would

801
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: have been some pretty sizable numbers because it was not

802
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: a brand that fit our brand. It wasn't so I'm

803
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: not ever going to even put it on the show.

804
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: Good brands just not brands that really fit with what

805
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: we do here Academy does. And so we worked a deal.

806
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: I mean I sat there right in on the meetings

807
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: with our integrated marketing team, and we put together a deal.

808
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 1: And as of tonight, if you're listening on Tuesday, they

809
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: will become the first ever major sponsorship partner that we

810
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: have on Late Kick Academy Sports and Outdoors. That happened

811
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: because of you, because one of you was directly associated

812
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 1: with Academy and hooked us up with their executives, who

813
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: signed off very quickly on a major deal after really

814
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: they had already worked out their budget and so they

815
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: had to rework some things. But that's pretty incredible because

816
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: that is not how that works normally. There's an ad

817
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: agency and all kind of integrated marketing folks, and it's

818
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: just a spider web. And what did we do. We

819
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: put out a call to action and a big time

820
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: company and we got it done. Boom, just like that.

821
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: You guys got that done. This is the whole point.

822
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: It wasn't me at all, because they wouldn't have even

823
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: known what this show was if you wouldn't have gotten

824
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 1: it on the radar. So I thank you all the time,

825
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: and I'm thanking you again. And because of that, we

826
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: continue to be able to build layer after layer after

827
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: layer onto the onion. Now that sucks. How about more

828
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: and more scoops onto the ice cream cone. Let's just

829
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,240
Speaker 1: see how high we can stack it, because it's really fun.

830
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,439
Speaker 1: I mean, it's your show. It's really fun. I'm having

831
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: fun with you. It's your show. It's all I ever

832
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,439
Speaker 1: wanted to be. And we're taking it on the road.

833
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,760
Speaker 1: This Fault Late Kick Renaissance Tour starts this Saturday. Actually

834
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: I'll be in Charlotte now a full disclosure because a

835
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: lot of you have asked me, And then I'm going

836
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 1: to get out of here because we're already like forty

837
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: minutes deep. And I promised Jordan I wouldn't go longer

838
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: than thirty today. What we're doing with the Renaissance Tours

839
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: up to you, So get this. I mean, here's how

840
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: blessed I am. I just get to choose where I

841
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: want to be every Saturday, and then the company pays

842
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 1: for it. So I go to the biggest game pretty

843
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: much in the country every Saturday. But it doesn't always

844
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,959
Speaker 1: have to be biggest in terms of what the Marquis says.

845
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: I could choose a different game and you guys are

846
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: going to help me out with that. But also as

847
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: it relates to what the Renaissance Tour is all about

848
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,919
Speaker 1: right now, Oh, it just consists of me going into

849
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,919
Speaker 1: a city and you know, if you see me, well

850
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: you see me. But there's no huge event, there's no

851
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: planned event. But that's right now. What we can eventually

852
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,760
Speaker 1: grow it into is up to you. It can eventually

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Speaker 1: to get back here to Nashville to do the show.

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Speaker 1: But you never know what that could turn into, and

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Speaker 1: so that's up to you. That will evolve that's one

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Speaker 1: of our new projects that we're going to work on together.

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Speaker 1: But that can evolve, just like whatever we do with

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Speaker 1: that Peate State idea, that Peate State Freight's logo, whatever

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Speaker 1: because that's how I like the show to operate. I

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Speaker 1: just kind of toss some stuff out there every now

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Speaker 1: And so we're going to crowd a couple of these ideas.

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Speaker 1: We'll see where they go. All right. We got to

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Speaker 1: send this off to producer Jordan. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for listening. Make sure you're following on those social channels

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be some stuff starting with this Georgia Clemson

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Speaker 1: that you're gonna have to be following there in order

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Speaker 1: If it's nothing more than just say I listen to

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Speaker 1: the podcast today, tag me in it, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for that, because that is great, great, great marketing. It's invaluable,

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Speaker 1: it's organic, it's grassroots, and it helps the show much

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Speaker 1: more than actually spending money marketing could ever do. So.

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Speaker 1: For producer Jordan, I'm Josh Bait until tonight. Have a

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Speaker 1: great rest of your Tuesday, and God bless