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Speaker 2: It is Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: It is September twenty First, off the top of my head,

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Speaker 1: now that I'm speaking to you, I think that means

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Speaker 1: best time of the year. Think about all the overlap.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we got the fall foliage if you're into

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball headed towards Pennant races, NFL's cranked up.

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Speaker 1: I don't get to watch it because Sunday is the

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Speaker 1: busiest day of the week for yours. Truly, what a

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Speaker 1: time to be alive. Hey, what a weekend. So many

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Speaker 1: a mail bag Tuesday and Thursday for those of you

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Speaker 1: We get to kind of stretch our legs a little bit,

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Speaker 1: Lake Kick Live. But a memorable weekend, guys, memorable. A

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Speaker 2: As I can. And boy, that was a man. That

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Speaker 1: and that's sleeping in big time for me.

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Speaker 2: So I woke up at.

437
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Speaker 1: Nine am, knowing I had a full day and knowing

438
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Speaker 1: it was going to be very sketchy if I could

439
00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,320
Speaker 1: ever get some sleep. So I drove over to State College,

440
00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,960
Speaker 1: met up with a great camera guy that CBS hooked

441
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Speaker 1: me up with, Brian, been in the business a long time,

442
00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,600
Speaker 1: great dude, and boy, he had an experience the next

443
00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,119
Speaker 1: day too, I'll tell you about in just a second.

444
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Speaker 1: So anyway, I drive over to State College, giving myself

445
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Speaker 1: plenty of time.

446
00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,160
Speaker 2: So I got over there several hours early.

447
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Speaker 1: I normally like to get in the stadium if I'm

448
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Speaker 1: going to a night game, so I can watch the

449
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Speaker 1: three thirty games. Anyway, So we get over there, I

450
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Speaker 1: get in. I watched the Alabama game basically the entire

451
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Speaker 1: second half, just sitting alone in Beaver Stadium, and know

452
00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,479
Speaker 1: itselfs kind of surreal. It's a really good setting, it's

453
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Speaker 1: a really good seat. Out of one hundred and ten thousand,

454
00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,439
Speaker 1: just go pick one. And so then obviously time marches

455
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Speaker 1: on one of my favorite Tracy Lawrence songs of all time,

456
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Speaker 1: and it's time for team arrivals.

457
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Speaker 2: I get down the tunnel.

458
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Speaker 1: I went and saw that saw the herd of students

459
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Speaker 1: masquerading as wilderbeasts come through there. As I talked about

460
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Speaker 1: on the show last night on Late Kick Live, the

461
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Speaker 1: game happens, the aftermath happens.

462
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Speaker 2: No one wanted to leave for a long time.

463
00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,800
Speaker 1: Covered James Franklin's postgame press conference, talk to a lot

464
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Speaker 1: of people. Both of our Penn State guys, Tyler, Donna

465
00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,640
Speaker 1: Hughes Sean Fitz had lengthy conversations on the field with them.

466
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Speaker 1: Those guys do a great job over at Lyons twenty

467
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Speaker 1: four to seven. If you want to check that out,

468
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Speaker 1: I would strongly, strongly encourage you to a lot of

469
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Speaker 1: great Penn State content over there. And so then here's

470
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Speaker 1: the question you have, When do you leave? And what

471
00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,280
Speaker 1: is the motivation to leave? So this is where it

472
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Speaker 1: gets a little hairy. So it's well after midnight. We're

473
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Speaker 1: going on Eastern time at the moment, and I've got

474
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Speaker 1: a flight that boards at six forty five A. Pittsburgh

475
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,360
Speaker 1: is a little over two hours away. Traffic is a nightmare.

476
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Speaker 1: So I get out of that stadium about one thirty

477
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,960
Speaker 1: am Eastern Standard time, and I get out in lot

478
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Speaker 1: thirty one there and it is a standstill. So I

479
00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 1: sat there, probably didn't move fifteen yards in thirty minutes.

480
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 1: And then I just decided to get wild and I

481
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 1: got out of line and I just drove over to

482
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Speaker 1: where I thought I saw a road.

483
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Speaker 2: I kid you not.

484
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Speaker 1: I've never been to Pennsylvania before, much less a penn

485
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,600
Speaker 1: State game, obviously all these people have. And I never

486
00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,880
Speaker 1: hit my brakes again. I don't know how I got

487
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Speaker 1: out of there. I couldnot retrace my steps if I

488
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,359
Speaker 1: tried to, but I got out of there in like

489
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Speaker 1: five minutes. I'm on the interstate, and I'm at eighty

490
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Speaker 1: miles an hour. I'm on the way back to Pittsburgh.

491
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Speaker 1: So I finally get back to Pittsburgh about four am.

492
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Speaker 1: I immediately start putting the show together. I have consumed

493
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Speaker 1: copious amounts of caffeine on this drive, so I'm not

494
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Speaker 1: even remotely tired at the moment. So I put a

495
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Speaker 1: lot of the show together. I tried to start watching

496
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Speaker 1: replays of some condensed games. One of the beauties of

497
00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 1: working inside this business, as you can have people cut

498
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,680
Speaker 1: condensed games up for you and send them to you

499
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 1: in a private file so you can have them to watch.

500
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 1: Those are life savers. If some of you want to

501
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 1: get in on that, by the way, email me. I

502
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 1: could always use more editors.

503
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 2: And you get to watch the game while you're doing it,

504
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 2: so you learn something too.

505
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 1: Anyway, So I got a couple of games watched, and

506
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Speaker 1: then I head over to the airport, dropped the renal

507
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Speaker 1: car off and Tessay's a nightmare because it's so early

508
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,120
Speaker 1: at the airport that majority of their workers aren't there yet.

509
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,159
Speaker 1: Did not think I was going to clear security and

510
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Speaker 1: get to the gate in time. I made it with

511
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 1: about five minutes to spare. We still have not slept,

512
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: by the way, and so we get.

513
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Speaker 2: On the plane. Oh beautiful, Thank you so much.

514
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 1: Southwest NonStop service from Pittsburgh to Nashville Sunday morning.

515
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 2: Get into Nashville. It is about eight thirty eight to

516
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Speaker 2: forty five.

517
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Speaker 1: When I finally get into the apartment, finish putting the

518
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,800
Speaker 1: show together, which is a chore. It is a big

519
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:48,880
Speaker 1: lift on a Sunday.

520
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:49,680
Speaker 2: I don't complain.

521
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,640
Speaker 1: I love it, but because I insist on producing all

522
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 1: my shows, that means I got a lot to do

523
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 1: also you got to watch the games. I had a

524
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Speaker 1: lot of games that I could not have watched on

525
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,679
Speaker 1: Saturday for obvious reasons. And so you're trying to do

526
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 1: all that. You're trying to accumulate your elements. Keep in mind,

527
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 1: Point Spreads lines are being released on Sunday, So I've

528
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: got our model being run. This is all happening simultaneous.

529
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 1: I've got our model being run, so I get our

530
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: model data, it spits out all of its projections to me.

531
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Speaker 1: Then Circa World opens for the Point Spreads, and then

532
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Speaker 1: shortly thereafter a lot of the books open up, and

533
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,439
Speaker 1: so I'm trying to get our ram and Noudle Express

534
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Speaker 1: picks out.

535
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Speaker 2: We had four of them, by the way on Sunday afternoon.

536
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Speaker 1: Then I got to get over to the actual studio

537
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 1: and we've got to put the show together, and I've

538
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 1: got to accumulate all my thoughts make sure we hit everything.

539
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 2: I've got to get the video.

540
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Speaker 1: From the animator one of you by the way, for

541
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 1: our Renaissance tour location. I've got to get that submitted

542
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: to either Stamford, Connecticut or Fort Lauderdale, Florida to get

543
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: loaded in ross inceptions run down.

544
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Speaker 2: So we can show it on air.

545
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Speaker 1: And I'm doing all this obviously, Wesley, as you have surmised,

546
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: on no sleep, and so we do the show.

547
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Speaker 2: I was proud of the show we did Sunday night.

548
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: I don't think I screwed up one name, and that's

549
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,160
Speaker 1: a miracle even when I'm fully rested, much less when

550
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 1: I don't have any rest. Afterwards, I recorded a podcast,

551
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: I did an appearance for this upcoming week, and also

552
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: did some social cutups and whatnot. Got in bed probably

553
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,919
Speaker 1: around midnight, and I ran the math. That means it

554
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: was about twenty four to thirty six, about forty hours

555
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 1: consecutive with no sleep. And yet, as I was telling

556
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: you earlier, the same buddy that I used as the

557
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: sounding board for how I should handle Instagram, I was

558
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 1: talking to him about that and I said, you know,

559
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: make no mistake, it was nice when my head finally

560
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: hit the pillow. But you got to understand something, man,

561
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 1: as so many of you would agree with if you

562
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 1: were in the same exact position I'm in. This is

563
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 1: dream job stuff. This is quite literally hand picking a

564
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 1: game that you want to go to from anywhere in

565
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 1: the country and then having your company send you there.

566
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,479
Speaker 1: And getting to stand on the sideline for it, and

567
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 1: then coming back home and they pay you.

568
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Speaker 2: To talk about it. I'll stay up a couple of

569
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Speaker 2: days for that.

570
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 1: Man. God made spring and summer to sleep. During fall

571
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: is no time to sleep. There's too much going on.

572
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: We wait all year for this, do we not? So? Absolutely?

573
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 1: If you've got to stay awake, you just stay awake.

574
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,719
Speaker 1: This is not actually work. This is just a hobby

575
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: that I happened to be paid to get to do.

576
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,160
Speaker 1: It's not work. If we're working down in a coal

577
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: mine somewhere. Forty hours consecutive is pretty tough chore. This

578
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 1: is just college football, man, This is fun. This is

579
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that ten years ago, if I

580
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: had the financial means, I would throw every last dime

581
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 1: I had into a road trip where I also didn't

582
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Speaker 1: sleep that allowed me to go to Penn State in Auburn,

583
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Speaker 1: because I know those things just don't happen all that often.

584
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 1: College football, as we talked about so many times on

585
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 1: this podcast, it is about memories, regular season memories. In

586
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 1: most cases, they're encapsulated, they're enshrined. Think about this, because

587
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,400
Speaker 1: I know good andwell in a crowd of that size

588
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: just an ocean of people. Not even to see an

589
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 1: ocean of people. There had to be several hundreds or

590
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: thousands who experienced their first ever game.

591
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,679
Speaker 2: Maybe it was a ten year old kid. Let's just

592
00:25:59,680 --> 00:25:59,919
Speaker 2: say it.

593
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 1: AD takes his ten year old kid to his first

594
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 1: Penn State game. If that kid lives out his average

595
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: or her average life expectancy, they're getting into what their seventies,

596
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 1: and so they have six decades. They have over half

597
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: a century left of life to live. They'll think about

598
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: that night as long as they live, as long as

599
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: they have their mental faculties about them. When you start

600
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: talking about favorite memories, that's one of them.

601
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 2: Consider being a part of that.

602
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 1: Consider being able to do that and then do it

603
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 1: every week, and you tell me that you're about to

604
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: complain about not having some sleep, No complaints, no complaints whatsoever.

605
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 1: Absolutely love doing it. I would turn the volume up

606
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 1: even more if I could. And I just realized that

607
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: I completely forgot the ad break. So let's go to

608
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Speaker 1: it right now, be right back, and just like that,

609
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: I'm back. Dakota had a really good question. He said,

610
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: I've been an Oregon fan of my whole life. I'm

611
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 1: curious as to what your take on us is right now.

612
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 2: Definite ascension mode. That's a kind of a caliber or

613
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 2: a category.

614
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 1: That we place programs in. Sometimes they are rising. Oregon

615
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: is rising. I was curious as to how they would

616
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: perform against Stonybrook, of all teams last week. What I

617
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: didn't want to do is I didn't want to be

618
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: standing in Beaver Stadium and look up at the scoreboard

619
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, some random score pops up

620
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: and it says Oregon twenty three, stony Brook twenty early

621
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. That kind of stuff happens sometimes, especially when

622
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Speaker 1: you're coming off what they were coming off of, which

623
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: was a big time win on the road at Ohio State.

624
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't a perfect game. It wasn't a

625
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: flawless game. Anthony Brown got hurt. Ty Thompson got in

626
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 1: could be a blessing in disguise, not the injury, obviously,

627
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: but being able to get him some game reps. But

628
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: they took care of business, they pulled away. That's the

629
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: important part. Oregon is a team right now that I

630
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 1: think is realizing what it is capable of. That locker room,

631
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to taste it, and they definitely did

632
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: on the road at Ohio State. It's like the old

633
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: Roger Banister four minutes mile thing. No one at least

634
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: on record had run a sub four minute mile, and

635
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: then Roger Banister ran one. Well, since then, thousands and

636
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: thousands of people have run sub four minute miles. So

637
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 1: the question always was, well, were they not capable of

638
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: it until Roger Banister did it or did they just

639
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: have to see that it was possible to then realize, oh,

640
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: I could do that too. Sometimes that exists and then

641
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: manifest itself in a locker room, in a team environment,

642
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: a team setting, where you just have to do something

643
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: to know that it.

644
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 2: Could be done.

645
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: Well, all of a sudden, Oregon goes into Columbus, Ohio

646
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: and they beat Ohio State in the shoe, and they

647
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: have to have looked in the mirror and said, well,

648
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: if we're capable of that, what else are we capable of? Well,

649
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: they were always capable of it, as the point, but

650
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: that's in the past. Now if they realize it and

651
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: they're in ascension mode, and this is clearly the best

652
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: roster Marios had there, you never know what they're capable of.

653
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 2: Cause also keep something else in mind. This is not

654
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Speaker 2: just in a vacuum.

655
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Speaker 1: This Oregon team is also existing in the same year

656
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Speaker 1: where we do see.

657
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Speaker 2: Flaws with all the other teams. There is no juggernaut

658
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Speaker 2: out there.

659
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Speaker 1: What's the team right now you're looking at and saying

660
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: Oregon would never have a shot against them. Oregon would

661
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Speaker 1: have at least a puncher's chance at any of these

662
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: teams right now, including Alabama, They wouldn't have a good

663
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,959
Speaker 1: shot that have a puncher's chance at him, just because

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Speaker 1: those teams are not the caliber with Alabama for example,

665
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Speaker 1: even that we saw last year. So it's really a

666
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Speaker 1: good time. It's a good year for this to be

667
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,239
Speaker 1: happening for Oregon. I think they're going to end up

668
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Speaker 1: getting a taste of the postseason. I think they're going

669
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Speaker 1: to get that taste, and what they do with it

670
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Speaker 1: remains to be seen. But keep in mind, this version

671
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Speaker 1: of Oregon, the Mario Cristobaul organ they have not been

672
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Speaker 1: there yet, and so you know, the PAC twelve championship

673
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: situation even last year was kind of weird. But this year, yeah,

674
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Speaker 1: it's set up very well for Oregon.

675
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Speaker 2: Right now.

676
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Speaker 1: It's about consistency. The tightrope keeps getting higher and higher,

677
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Speaker 1: you can't afford to fall the lady you get in

678
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Speaker 1: the season. You know all the old cliches, so I'm

679
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Speaker 1: looking forward to watching them. I'm going to have Mark

680
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Speaker 1: take us home here because Mark asked a question that

681
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Speaker 1: kind of went in line with the second to last question.

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Speaker 1: Mark was at the Florida Alabama game, and so here's

683
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Speaker 1: what he said. I think a lot of you are

684
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Speaker 1: going to be able to identify with this. He said,

685
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Speaker 1: have you ever had a time when a game atmosphere

686
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Speaker 1: was so good that it affected you up to a

687
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Speaker 1: day or two afterwards. I had that experience in Gainesville

688
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. I'm in Alabama grad. I made the day

689
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Speaker 1: trip out of it since I live in Florida.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: From the time I got out of the swamp, I

692
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Speaker 1: just had a feeling of appreciation and awe for what

693
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Speaker 1: I saw and experienced, especially the whole Tom Petty won't

694
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Speaker 1: back down performance from the crowd between the third and

695
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Speaker 1: fourth quarters.

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Speaker 2: That is awesome.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I've seen that from field level. I've

698
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Speaker 1: got a video of that on my Instagram. That's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 1: He continues. It was still there on the drive home,

700
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Speaker 1: and I've thought about it the whole day today, And

701
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: the only thing I've had like that was the twenty

702
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Speaker 1: thirteen home game against LSU at night when I was

703
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Speaker 1: in the student section. Yes, yes, this happens to me,

704
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: and yes, I guarantee you. If you're fortunate enough to

705
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Speaker 1: have attended some games and you're listening right now, maybe

706
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Speaker 1: you're driving around Frankfort, Kentucky, or even Philadelphia, Mississippi, home

707
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: to one of the most picturesque EF five tornadoes you

708
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Speaker 1: will ever see, incredibly violent. I would encourage you find

709
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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia, Mississippi EF five tornado on YouTube.

710
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Speaker 2: It was racing, screaming.

711
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: It was on April twenty seventh, one of the most

712
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Speaker 1: catastrophic days in Southern US history. But man, what a

713
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Speaker 1: just from a purely atmospheric scientific standpoint, what a picturesque site. Anyway,

714
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Speaker 1: maybe you're driving around and you're thinking about a game

715
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: that you have been to, I guarantee you. For example,

716
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Speaker 1: if you live in Philadelphia and you were there the

717
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: day at Ole, miss that you guys beat Alabama and

718
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: then proceeded to carry the goalpost out of the stadium

719
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Speaker 1: and down the road, I would say that that date

720
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: has probably stuck with you had to have stuck with

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Speaker 1: you several days or maybe even weeks and months and

722
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Speaker 1: years after you experienced it. Mark, I'm telling you, Man,

723
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: this last weekend, this is not recentcy biased. This last

724
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Speaker 1: weekend for me was that I remember going into the

725
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Speaker 1: year when we were trying to map out.

726
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Speaker 2: Our travel schedule.

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Speaker 1: This day was always going to be tough because we

728
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Speaker 1: have Bama going to Florida. As you well know, that

729
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: doesn't happen very often. And then we also had the

730
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Speaker 1: Auburn Penn State whiteout situation, and for a kid like

731
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Speaker 1: me from the Deep South, I've never been able to

732
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Speaker 1: experience that, and I certainly don't see our teams go

733
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Speaker 1: up to the north very often. I grew up forty

734
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Speaker 1: five minutes from Auburn. Last time they went to the

735
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Speaker 1: Big Tennles in nineteen thirty one. So I know, trying

736
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Speaker 1: to figure out which environment, which memory, is going to

737
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: be better to have experienced. It turns out there wasn't

738
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: a wrong choice last Saturday, because I don't think anyone

739
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: who was in attendance down in Gainesville says Man, I

740
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: wish I wouldn't here today. That was a waste of time.

741
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: That was a classic. It was a great place to be.

742
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: So was Penn State. But I think you and I

743
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: are in the same boat, Mark, because I'm telling you

744
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: right now I have had trouble shifting gears, which I

745
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: normally never have problem doing. I've had a little bit

746
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: of trouble shifting gears to this week. Now. That's about

747
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: to change in earnest later tonight because it is Prediction

748
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: night on Lake Kick Live. So by the time the

749
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: sun goes down, or at least the clock strikes midnight

750
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, we will have predicted Arkansas versus Texas A

751
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: and M, among other games. And so obviously it's time

752
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: to turn the page. But yes, brother, I have experienced that.

753
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: That National championship game in twenty seventeen, the Alabama over

754
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: Georgia game. I've told you this story before. I lived

755
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: an hour south of Atlanta where the game was. I

756
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: did not leave that building. I did not leave Mercedes

757
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: Benz Stadium until the sun was rising the next morning.

758
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: That was the second and twenty sixth game the Alabama

759
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: walk off for a national championship, and I'm standing on

760
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: the field for it. That was just euphoria. It wouldn't

761
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: have mattered who was playing the teams were totally irrelevant.

762
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: It was the experience. It was the moment so unbelievable.

763
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: I mean that one's stuck with me for a long time.

764
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Speaker 1: I was talking about that and watching replays of that

765
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: for days and days and days afterwards. I've been doing

766
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: the same thing with this Auburn Penn State game. I'll

767
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: tell you one thing I regret is I've been able

768
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: to experience a lot of really cool stuff that I've

769
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: forgotten just because you forget stuff. I mean, any normal

770
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: person forgets things if you're not like a rain Man type.

771
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: And so what I wish is that from the very

772
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Speaker 1: beginning when I started to get to go to games,

773
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Speaker 1: I wish I would have kept a thoughts log like

774
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:22,800
Speaker 1: I do now. My flight home consists of me literally

775
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: writing down everything I can remember about the previous day,

776
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: about the trip so that I can reference it, you know,

777
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: when it comes February or March, and I want to

778
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: have some storytelling type segments. I want to be able

779
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: to remember every single detail of a trip that I

780
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: took in week two or week nine.

781
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 2: And I do that now.

782
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: I haven't always done that, but it's so funny how

783
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: vivid it makes the memory. This obviously works for more

784
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 1: than just football. It is so important to write down

785
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: details about your memories and your day to day activities.

786
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: It's so crazy what it does to better sculpt and

787
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: round out your overall memory, because if you remember something

788
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: about one day five years ago, then chances are you

789
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: also remember or something that bookended.

790
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 2: It before or after, and it just gives you.

791
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: A more complete recollection. And I don't know I started

792
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: doing that. I wish I would have always done it.

793
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: So the reason I'm saying that mark is cause there

794
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: are probably three or four other games that I experienced

795
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: incredible things at, like the Tennessee. I'll tell you what

796
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: I just thought of. It was in twenty sixteen Tennessee

797
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: at Georgia. Josh Dobbs hits Juwan Jennings in the end zone,

798
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: Hail Mary, no time left. Georgia had just scored a

799
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: go ahead touchdown with less than thirty seconds to go

800
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: in the game, and then Tennessee answers back with a

801
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: Hail Mary. And I was right there. It happened right

802
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: in front of me. I got some of the best

803
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,479
Speaker 1: cell phone footage ever for that game. That was one

804
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: of those games that up until I started talking and

805
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 1: responding to this question. I hadn't thought about it in

806
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: quite a while. I had not thought about that. I mean,

807
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: that should be burned in your memory, and it is.

808
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: But I had to be able to recall it. So

809
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: now I just recalled it. Had I written things down

810
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: that day, man, I'd be able to tell you every

811
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: detail of that afternoon light the back of my hand.

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Speaker 2: So we're rectifying that now.

813
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: I say all that to say, yes, Mark, I have

814
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: experienced that, and I hope to experience much more of that.

815
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,399
Speaker 1: The one of many fortunate aspects of what I get

816
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: to do now is you get to put yourself in

817
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: position to have that, and then you guys get to

818
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: benefit because I get to tell you all about it,

819
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 1: including some stuff you didn't see and some things you

820
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: didn't even know happened before, during and afterwards, which makes

821
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: the all access segments we do during the downtime a

822
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: lot of fun. All right, I got to get this

823
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: sent to producer Jordan. I really appreciate you guys supporting

824
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: the show and supporting the brand. Three of you god

825
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: on National TV Saturday. Three of you, two of you

826
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 1: got on SEC Nation, one of you got on College

827
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: Game Day. That makes four and two weeks, and I

828
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: want to remind you I am almost ready. I'm so

829
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: close to being ready to tell you what you're going

830
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: to get. It's going to be unique. There's nothing else

831
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: out there like it. I can tell you that if

832
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: you get this program, you get the brand, you get

833
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: peyt State or Late Kick, if you get us national

834
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: exposure of any kind, you are going to get something.

835
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 2: I am again ready.

836
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: To tell you what it is yet, because it's being

837
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: built a day. Multiples are being built. But already we

838
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 1: got four heroes with hardware coming their way. We'll see

839
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: if we make it three weeks in a row this Saturday,

840
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: but either way, man, I appreciate it.

841
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 2: It so it's so awesome to see that. So thank

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00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 2: you so much again for producer Jordan. I'm Josh Paint.

843
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 2: Have yourselves a great rest of your day, and God

844
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 2: bless