1 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:11,800 Speaker 1: And welcome in Lake Kick on the air. 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 2: It is Tuesday night, December twenty first year of Our Lord, 3 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, first. 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 1: Day of winter. 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 2: We are training headlong through bowl season. We got Christmas 6 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 2: coming up. 7 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:21,479 Speaker 1: I'm on the road. 8 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 2: I'm actually even though I'm in the studio right now 9 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 2: at home down in Georgia. Because we put together a 10 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 2: very special treat. The PA's have been hard at work. 11 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 2: Producer Jesse Collin. I've even done some digging. We've been 12 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 2: hard at work doing what you guys have asked for 13 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 2: For quite a while. We have never put together best 14 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 2: of shows. We have never dug through the archives because 15 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 2: we got here and immediately had to start ground running. 16 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 2: It was a skeleton crew, so we really never had 17 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 2: time to compile it. Well, now we have, and so 18 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 2: what we're gonna do tonight, and we're gonna do it 19 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 2: Thursday night too. We're gonna bring you some stuff that 20 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 2: even I had forgotten about, some of the stuffs from 21 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: this year on the Renaissance Tour, some stuffs from a 22 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 2: couple of years ago, but it's all really good stuff. 23 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: We just basically went and found our most popular stories, 24 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 2: our most popular segments, and the reason why I want 25 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 2: to do this right now ahead of the playoffs instead 26 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 2: of waiting till the end of the season, because I 27 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 2: know we have a ton of new viewers. We got 28 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 2: some folks, and credit to you and thank you for 29 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,479 Speaker 2: this that are brand new just within the last few months. 30 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 2: Our our audience keeps increasing five percent per month. So 31 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: some of you have never heard these stories. In fact, 32 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 2: a lot of you statistically have never heard these stories. 33 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 2: So here's what I wanted to do tonight. Let's just 34 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 2: dive in. We called this year the Renaissance Tour for 35 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 2: a reason because when we went on the road, we 36 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 2: knew that we're going to have full stadiums again, and 37 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 2: we're going to have a recharged college football again, and 38 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 2: it was going to be a lot. 39 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: Like we missed it back in the day. 40 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 2: Renaissance thus being spoken about, and it was the Renaissance 41 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 2: Tour because we were in a different. 42 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:44,839 Speaker 1: City every week. 43 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 2: About week eight or week nine, I make my way 44 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 2: out to Waco, Texas. This game ends in Oklahoma being 45 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 2: upset by Baylor. Now you probably remember that, but there 46 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 2: was also a very interesting story that went right along 47 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 2: with that. So we're going to play a couple of 48 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 2: stories here back to back. One is from this season. 49 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 2: One is from the twenty seventeen college football and National 50 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 2: Championship game. Some things that you don't see if you 51 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 2: just turn on the game, but if you're associated with 52 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 2: the show, you get to see because we like to 53 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 2: peel the curtain back as often as we can, So 54 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 2: take a listen. 55 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 1: I am not. 56 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 2: A big memorabilia guy. I just don't collect a lot 57 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 2: of things, and that goes up to an including today. 58 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 2: But I have something I didn't really realize that I had. 59 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: It didn't never look at it as memorabilia until I 60 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 2: was rummaging around through my stuff last time I was 61 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 2: at home in Columbus and I realized, you know what, 62 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 2: I need to talk about this. So we haven't done 63 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 2: an all access story in about a month, and a 64 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 2: lot of you hit me up, a couple of you 65 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 2: in particular, every week and say when is the next 66 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 2: all Access story? Well, it's tonight right now. As a 67 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,839 Speaker 2: matter of fact, the all Access stories are just that's 68 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: exactly what they are, behind the scenes stories from covering games. 69 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 2: So let me take you back to twenty seventeen. I'm 70 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 2: in Columbus, Georgia. I'm working at WLTZNBA, that is the 71 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 2: local NBC affiliate there. It was a golden era, to 72 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 2: say the least, to be covering college football in that market. 73 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,839 Speaker 2: You're covering Georgia, you're covering Auburn, and you're covering Alabama 74 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 2: and the Cougar's club football team. So Cougar's to the side. 75 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 2: You're talking about Georgia, Bama and Auburn. And think about 76 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 2: what twenty seventeen did. When I say golden era. You 77 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 2: have the Gus Malson fiasco so proper whatever you want 78 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 2: to call it, and you have them go to LSU 79 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 2: and lose, and everyone thinks he's going to be fired. 80 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 2: And then they come back home five weeks later and 81 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 2: he beats number one Georgia and he beats number one Alabama, 82 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 2: and so all of this is happening right in our backyard. 83 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 2: Auburn goes to Atlanta, but not before Malzon and his 84 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 2: representation push Auburn up against the wall and say give 85 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 2: us a new deal, and they verbally agree to it. 86 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 2: And then they go get beat in the SEC championship 87 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 2: game where Georgia atones for their loss, and so Georgia's 88 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 2: going to the playoffs and Alabama gets to go to 89 00:03:55,960 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 2: the playoffs too, best case scenario for anyone who is 90 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 2: covering college football in Columbus Georgia. So half of the 91 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 2: college football playoff is made up of teams that we cover. 92 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 2: So Georgia goes out to the Rose Bowl, they win 93 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 2: that classic in overtime. I'm sitting in the press box 94 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 2: in the New Orleans super Dome. I'm watching that game 95 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,359 Speaker 2: because we've got Bama versus Clemson in the Sugar Bowl, 96 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 2: a rematch of last year's title game. Alabama wins that one, 97 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 2: which sets up the absolute dream scenario you could work 98 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 2: in Columbus Georgia five hundred years. How often are you 99 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 2: going to have two of your local teams playing a 100 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 2: national championship game in your backyard in Atlanta, Georgia. You 101 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 2: got Auburn, you got over there, who has had an 102 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 2: incredible season and ups and downs all over the place. 103 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 2: Then you got Georgia and Alabama go to the playoff 104 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 2: and they're playing in the national championship game in Atlanta. 105 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 2: So easily, the high water mark of my admittedly fairly 106 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 2: young career was that season and then that night that 107 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 2: that doesn't have anything to do with memorabilia. Here's where 108 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 2: the whole memorabilia angle comes into question. We're standing on 109 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 2: the sideline, it's overtime to it gets sacked the second 110 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 2: and like Ackworth Georgia to go and then second and 111 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 2: twenty six happens and Devonte Smith catches the ball right 112 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: across the field for me, and so it's chaos. It's 113 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 2: total bedlam. Your mind can't process fully what's happening. And 114 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 2: so we're on the field. This is actually Colin is 115 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 2: rolling the footage that I just pulled out the iPhone 116 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 2: and started shooting. It didn't even have a camera in 117 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 2: my hand at the moment, and so all this is 118 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,840 Speaker 2: happening just absolute mayhem. And it's that way. It's like 119 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 2: when you're riding a roller coaster and you're going down 120 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 2: the first big hill. It's kind of that feeling, but 121 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,799 Speaker 2: it's for about ten minutes and you just don't really 122 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 2: know what to do and you're trying to absorb it 123 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 2: and you're trying to take it all in. And so 124 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: I also got buddies back home that if I go 125 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 2: to these games, they ask, hey, like, if my team wins, 126 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 2: can you get me some confetti? Can you get me 127 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 2: some of those newspapers, you know, the commemorative newspapers they 128 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 2: pass around. You can never get the t shirts of 129 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 2: the hats. So I'm walking around knowing full well that 130 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 2: I got a high tail it to the Georgia locker 131 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 2: room because I have to gather sound. I gotta get 132 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 2: into both of them because we cover both teams. So 133 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:07,919 Speaker 2: I'm looking for newspapers and I can't find any, but 134 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 2: I see something else on the ground. I pick it 135 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 2: up and I'm putting it in my backpack and I'll 136 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 2: just sort it out later. So I go into the 137 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 2: Georgia locker room. Some of the most impressive stuff you'll 138 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 2: ever see. Those guys just having their absolute heart ripped 139 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 2: out of the chest, manning up, looking you dead in 140 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 2: your eyes, and doing as many interview minutes as you 141 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 2: need them to do. So it was impressive just on 142 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 2: the surface, being in the Georgia locker room and being 143 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 2: around a lot of guys that I don't think people 144 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,799 Speaker 2: appreciated how hard it was going to be to replace. 145 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 2: To be honest with you, you just assume we're recruiting five 146 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 2: star guys, so it'll be easy. No, no, I would 147 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 2: argue you still hadn't replaced some of those guys. But anyway, 148 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 2: so then we get back over to the Bama locker room, 149 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 2: we get sound out of the Alabama locker room press 150 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 2: conferences and whatnot. Two hours go by. I only have 151 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 2: like an hour's drive home, so we didn't leave there 152 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 2: until way late in the night. And we're doing stand 153 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 2: up stuff on the field afterwards. So I dig in 154 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 2: my bag to find something and I remember, Oh, there's 155 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 2: this thing that I picked up on the field. Let 156 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 2: me see what that was. It's the playsheet for Brian Dabele, 157 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 2: who is the current offensive coordinator at Alabama, and it 158 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 2: is the offensive playshet front and back, including that very 159 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 2: memorable Seattle play. There are many audibles on the back 160 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 2: of this thing for the second and twenty six game 161 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 2: winning National Championship winning touchdown from Tongoailoa to DeVante Smith. Now, 162 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 2: I asked some dude who is big in the memorabilia 163 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 2: world months later, Hey, you know what I got? And 164 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 2: I told him and he I think he may actually 165 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 2: be a Bama guy. He had to sit down for 166 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 2: a second start fanning himself essentially, and gives me some 167 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 2: number that to be honest with you, I don't believe, 168 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 2: but he gives me some number that that would be worth. 169 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 2: Now you will have to pry this out of my 170 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 2: cold dead hands. I'm not giving this thing away. I'm 171 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 2: not selling it. In fact, if anyone at the University 172 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 2: valid Bama or wherever Brian Davile is today is watching, 173 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 2: it's probably about the safest hands that it could possibly be. 174 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 2: But I didn't even look at it as memorabilia. You know, 175 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 2: to me, memorabilia is like a signed helmet or a 176 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 2: signed football, maybe a bag of confetti. You know, I 177 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 2: remember the first first time we went to a championship 178 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 2: game Clemson. It wasn't the first one, but when Clemson 179 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 2: first won their title game, guys offering me money to 180 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 2: get him bags of confetti. That's garbage, you know that, right, 181 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 2: That's just cut up garbage paper that's colored. But nonetheless 182 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 2: it was important. So you never know what kind of 183 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 2: price someone puts on something. But here's what I can 184 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 2: promise you. There is only one of these play sheets 185 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,319 Speaker 2: out there, and there's only one time you were ever 186 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 2: gonna walk someone off second and twenty six in the 187 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 2: National Championship game, and that is the sheet that the 188 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 2: play came off of listening to that Lamina and it 189 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 2: sits right here in my hand. And I was fanning 190 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,719 Speaker 2: myself in the control room beforehand, because it makes a 191 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 2: good substitute as a fan. But yeah, that's my best 192 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 2: piece of memorabilia, and in a lot of ways, one 193 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 2: of the only pieces of memorabilia. I got that. And 194 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 2: I got a box full of like dozens and dozens 195 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: of credentials from games with the final scores written on 196 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 2: the back of them. That is the extent of my 197 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: memorabilia collection. This weekend was both one of the greatest 198 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 2: weekends in college football that I've experienced and one of 199 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 2: the worst weekends in terms of travel. I could not 200 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 2: get a rental car because Dallas was out the entire 201 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 2: city of Dallas it might as well be. 202 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 1: An island you can't get off of. Right now, I. 203 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 2: Know people who are still stuck there. So there are 204 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 2: no rental cars in Dallas. Oh, well, man has faced 205 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 2: tougher challenges. So I flew into Austin, beautiful city, right. 206 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 2: So I flew in Friday, and I'm going to drive 207 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 2: up to Dallas Friday night, like this is fine, Colin, Right, 208 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 2: So there I am puttering along a little bit faster 209 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 2: than I should have been going, but certainly within the 210 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 2: realm of what those cars can handle. And there goes 211 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 2: the entire side wall of my tire. When I say 212 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 2: the tire blue, I do not mean I ran over 213 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 2: a nail. I mean these the entire side wall of 214 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 2: the tire bleu to the point where there's a whole 215 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:05,599 Speaker 2: big enough in it you can stick your arm in. 216 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:07,959 Speaker 2: I don't even care how much you work out your 217 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 2: arm would go in the hole on the side of 218 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 2: that tire. I am on I thirty five North. It 219 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 2: is Waco, Texas. It is the middle of the night, 220 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,719 Speaker 2: and there's not a light to be found. I don't 221 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 2: know if you know this about Waco, but it gets 222 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,839 Speaker 2: really dark there at night, suspiciously dark, I would say, 223 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 2: darker maybe than it should have been. And so there 224 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 2: I am. I got a suitcase on the side of 225 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 2: my thirty five. The eye Josh is propped up on 226 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 2: the suitcase with the flashlight on, and I am changing 227 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 2: a rental car tire. Now I got lucky because there 228 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 2: was a spare tire in the rental car. A lot 229 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:42,079 Speaker 2: of times, as you guys know who travel a lot, 230 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 2: they don't normally have rentals with spare tires, so I 231 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 2: get it changed, but I didn't end up having it 232 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 2: in the worst because, as I told you, Southwest has 233 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,079 Speaker 2: like a quarter to half of its flights canceled right now. 234 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: So last night, I am in the Southwest. 235 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 2: Terminal at Dallas Love There are lights, two people in 236 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:02,319 Speaker 2: the security line to get in the airport. It was 237 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 2: a ghost town. It was very weird because it's easy 238 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 2: to get in. I go in like two seconds, but 239 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 2: then you get in the terminal and it's wall to wall. 240 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 2: There are people in there that are asleep on the ground, 241 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,439 Speaker 2: and I figure I didn't see any thunderstorms. 242 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: Maybe there's bad weather somewhere. No, no bad weather. 243 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 2: There are some extenuating circumstances. And that's as far as 244 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 2: I'll go because someone's going to politicize this. But there's 245 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 2: some things happening in the aviation world right now that 246 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,199 Speaker 2: have caused a lot of people to not show up 247 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 2: for work. There were two flights that got out of 248 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 2: that place last night. One of them went to New 249 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 2: Orleans and the other one came to Nashville, Tennessee, And 250 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 2: so I waved goodbye as I took off from Dallas 251 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 2: to several people I know still there as we speak tonight, 252 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 2: they're still there. Won't get out of there, at least 253 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 2: until tomorrow. I talked to a couple who deserve a 254 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 2: ton of praise. Number one cause they're getting married on 255 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 2: a Sunday in the fall. And number two they were 256 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 2: at serious risk of not making it to their own wedding, 257 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 2: and so I hope they made it. 258 00:11:58,080 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: Was talking to the guy and the girl last night. 259 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: I hope they made it. 260 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 2: But either way, bless you, we're not scheduling a Saturday wedding. 261 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 2: Can you imagine there are people out there suffering, guys, 262 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 2: And by suffering, I mean there were people at weddings 263 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 2: yesterday when all. 264 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: This stuff was going on in college football. 265 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 2: So if you got to witness it, consider yourself among 266 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 2: the blessed and the wives. 267 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:19,680 Speaker 1: All good stuff. 268 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I can't help but smile when I'm 269 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 2: listening to those stories. But I also can't help but 270 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 2: smile because had you told me, let's say, back in 271 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, when you told me back then, as I'm 272 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 2: holding an iPhone in my hand to record footage, and 273 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 2: when we've got a total bubble gum and paper clip 274 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 2: operation going on down in Columbus. And even that is 275 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 2: grandizing things a little bit too much. If you told 276 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 2: me we would have a partner like Academy Sports and 277 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 2: Outdoors on board, at that point, I would have told 278 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 2: you you're crazy. But yet we have a full partnership 279 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 2: with Academy and it is right here at Christmas time. 280 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 2: So again I want to just get this out of 281 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 2: the way. 282 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: If you need anything forget about tail gaining or just 283 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: your fan gear. 284 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 2: It goes well beyond that walk up and down the 285 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 2: aisles at an academy. If you scroll up and down 286 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 2: the screen on academy dot com, you have everything you're 287 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 2: looking for. If you live a minimalist lifestyle like me, 288 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 2: you have more than everything you could possibly look for. 289 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 2: But also, and especially this time of year, we're grateful 290 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 2: because we don't have to We don't have to beg 291 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 2: for financing, we don't have to beg for resources. We 292 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 2: don't ever walk in here and worry if the lights 293 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 2: are going to be on. Outside in the hallway it's 294 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 2: a different story, But in the studio lights are always on. 295 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 2: It is because of our friends at Academy Sports and Outdoors. 296 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 2: They take care of us. So we just humbly ask 297 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 2: around this time every show that you show your appreciation 298 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 2: as we do, and you take care of them. Get 299 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 2: fifteen dollars you want to drop on a shirt, Get 300 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 2: like one hundred dollars you. 301 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: Want to drop on a grill, anything in between. 302 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 2: I really appreciate that, and I appreciate when you guys 303 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 2: show me the receipts and you email me. I used 304 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 2: to shop here, but now shop at Academy. I love 305 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 2: that stuff. I just forward it right onto them and 306 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,559 Speaker 2: they love that too. So thank you so much, Academy 307 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 2: Sports and Outdoors for all of your as I've been 308 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:58,199 Speaker 2: calling it now, life needs both football, basketball, your backyard whatever. 309 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 2: Academy takes care of us. Thank you so much for 310 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 2: taking care of them. So we wanted to get to 311 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 2: another story here. This is one from also that twenty 312 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 2: seventeen season. This is well before I'm at twenty four 313 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 2: to seven sports. It's well before I've ever been on 314 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 2: CBS Sports. But it's when we were first putting together 315 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 2: the concept of what Lake Kick ended up becoming, and 316 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 2: we're first going to games every week. 317 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: Now. 318 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 2: Back then, boy, it was tough we had to execute youing, 319 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 2: using very creative measures. 320 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: To get credential to some games. 321 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 2: But we finally got to go to a Notre Dame 322 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 2: game because Georgia played up there in twenty seventeen, so 323 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 2: we had an excuse to go. Never been able to go. 324 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 2: Total bucket list moment. But this was not, as I 325 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 2: said the CBS days, This is not where you just 326 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 2: call up Adam Stinker say hey, we need a couple 327 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 2: of nights in a hotel. Okay, Rich Carlton, Yeah sounds good. 328 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 2: First class delta, Okay, that's fine. 329 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: This was not that. 330 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 2: This was We didn't even have a seat on a 331 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 2: crop Duster airplane. We couldn't even afford rental cars. We 332 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 2: had to take our own cars. We couldn't even expense 333 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 2: the gas. But the memory was worth it in our minds. 334 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 2: So me and a couple of buddies who also happened 335 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 2: to work at the news station at the time down 336 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 2: there in Columbus, Georgia, we gear up after a Friday 337 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 2: night of shooting high school football and we are headed 338 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 2: to South Bend, Indiana, which to us was essentially the 339 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 2: North Pole, to go to the Georgia Notre Dame game. 340 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 2: There is no rest, there is no sleep. It is 341 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 2: a great story and I hope you enjoy it. I 342 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 2: was working in the local news world down in Columbus, Georgia. 343 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 2: It was twenty seventeen, and I was doing high school 344 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 2: sports on Fridays. I was a news anchor down there. 345 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 2: Was the sports director at WLTZ, and so I'm doing 346 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 2: high school football on Fridays. I cover college football on Saturdays. 347 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 2: Then we do what would become Late Kick. At the time, 348 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 2: we called it Football Nightly down South, and we're doing 349 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 2: that on Sundays, same time we do this show now 350 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 2: eight eastern, seventh Central. So let me hit you with 351 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 2: this little itinerary. I want you to think this one 352 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 2: out loud with me. September. What was it colin the 353 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 2: twentieth at the twenty first it was week three of 354 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 2: the twenty seventeen season. Georgia has a road trip to 355 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 2: Notre Dame. Now we're lucky and Columbus because we could 356 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 2: reasonably get credential to Georgia games, Auburn games and Alabama games, 357 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 2: Florida State games and Florida games, and Clemson games and 358 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 2: South Carolina games. We're just right there where we could 359 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 2: justifiably apply to all of them, and we got credential 360 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 2: to all those. So it is a perfect spot to be. 361 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 2: So we get approved for the Notre Dame game Georgia 362 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 2: at Notre Dame. Once in a lifetime trip. It hardly 363 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 2: ever happens those out of conference games. Remember everyone's scheduling 364 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 2: big out of conference now. They hadn't been doing it 365 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 2: for a long time down south, and so we get credential. 366 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 2: Here's the problem. The problem is I have to be 367 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 2: back by Sunday. I mean that game's a seven thirty 368 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 2: pm Eastern time kickoff in South Bend, Indiana. Got to 369 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 2: be back twenty four hours later. It's a twelve hour 370 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 2: trip each way. How are we going to pull it off? 371 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 2: So I ask one of the mediorologists there henceforth to 372 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 2: be named There, and another PA, henceforth to be named Minyon. 373 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 2: I ask them, if you can come and help split 374 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 2: the driving duty. I'll get you credentialed. So they say yes, 375 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,879 Speaker 2: and I get in credentialed. So here we go. We 376 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,719 Speaker 2: are doing high school football on Friday night. We anchor it. 377 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 2: We get off air at eleven thirty four and thirty seconds. 378 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 2: That's the exact time we got off air when we 379 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 2: were doing high school football. Go home, get about one 380 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 2: or two hours of sleep, maybe max, and then we 381 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,239 Speaker 2: load up the equipment. And here we are taken off 382 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,639 Speaker 2: from Columbus, Georgia, which for those unfamiliar, is about an 383 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 2: hour south of Atlanta, and we're taking off to go 384 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:30,439 Speaker 2: to South Bend, Indiana. No rest, no stops, no hotel, 385 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 2: no nothing. It's twelve hour roughly a twelve hour straight shot, 386 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 2: and that's going from Columbus through Birmingham, through Nashville, through Louisville, 387 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 2: through Indianapolis to South Bend. It's like sixty five most 388 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 2: of the way until you get to Indiana, and so 389 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 2: you got some game day traffic with stretch it. So 390 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 2: let's call it a thirteen hour trip. We got there 391 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 2: at about five pm. Game kicks off in two and 392 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 2: a half hours, and so we get in Notre Dame Stadium, 393 00:17:57,359 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 2: which in and of itself is just an experience. You 394 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 2: get to go see touchdown Jesus. You get to go 395 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 2: and see all the things that you've only seen on 396 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 2: TV if you grew up in rural Georgia. So that 397 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 2: was awesome. So then I pull out the Eye Josh, 398 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 2: not this one. This one's new, but the old eye, Josh. 399 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 2: I'm in Notre Dame Stadium. If you don't remember this, 400 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 2: half of the state of Georgia made this trip, every 401 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 2: one of them wearing red. So I told Jesse this morning, 402 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:22,719 Speaker 2: Welcome back Jesse, by the way, not to be confused 403 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 2: with Welcome back Cotter. That would probably be a better show. 404 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 2: Welcome Back Jesse would be an even better movie. And 405 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 2: I said, Jesse, I got some Eyejosh footage. Can you 406 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 2: roll it? He said, you send it, I'll roll it. 407 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 2: So he's got some. So the first piece of footage 408 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 2: I want to show you I sneak up in Notre 409 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 2: Dame Stadium. I go up into the second level and 410 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 2: the scene was crazy. There was like a mob scene 411 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 2: outside as Georgia's team arrives. There's wall to wall red. 412 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 2: This is not a home game in Athens, mind you. 413 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 2: And this is not some rando side entrance for the 414 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 2: visiting team. This is just the main entrance at Notre 415 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 2: Dame Stadium. And you can see a splattering of green 416 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,160 Speaker 2: and maybe a splattering of blue out there, but by 417 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 2: and large, it was just and it was a crazy 418 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 2: scene outside. So what I wanted to do is get 419 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 2: there early, soak as much of it in as possible. 420 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,199 Speaker 2: But remember how this game went so again, once in 421 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 2: a lifetime opportunity for us, and you hope to see 422 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 2: a close game. This is Jake From's first start quarterback 423 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 2: for Georgia. Goes down week before Jake From inserted as 424 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,719 Speaker 2: a true freshman. His first start is on the road 425 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 2: at Notre Dame. Georgia ends up winning the thing twenty 426 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 2: to nineteen. And every time there's a commercial break, you 427 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 2: do what I'm doing right now. If you're watching on YouTube, 428 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 2: you try and capture as much of the scene as 429 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 2: you can. Postgame, you're trying to capture as much of 430 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 2: the scene as you can. No one was in a 431 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 2: hurry to leave this field after this game, as you 432 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 2: can see again if you're watching on YouTube, dude standing 433 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 2: outside just walking around the end zone, going down to 434 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 2: the student section, going down to their visitors section. But 435 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 2: you know what it was like, And I thought about 436 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 2: this several times. I remember some of my thoughts during 437 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 2: the game. When I was a kid and I was 438 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 2: growing up, there were like really old VHS tapes of 439 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,399 Speaker 2: like old Georgia games or old Bama games, several of 440 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 2: Bryant's games in the sixties and the seventies, and you'd 441 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:09,719 Speaker 2: watch them and these are people who in some cases 442 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 2: have long since passed away before I've been born. Obviously, 443 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,360 Speaker 2: the games are in another era. But I watched it 444 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 2: like if USC were to come into Legion Field and 445 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 2: Birmingham Sam Cunningham in tow and you're watching that game. 446 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 2: That doesn't even feel like it's the same reality you're living. 447 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 2: This is another world. I felt during that game like 448 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 2: I was kind of in a VHS. Not in a 449 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 2: literal sense, but I felt like I'm part of something 450 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 2: right in this moment. There I am on TV in 451 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 2: the orange shirt. I'm on the field taking part in 452 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 2: something this moment that people who are my age at 453 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 2: the moment will show kids thirty forty years from now. Hey, 454 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 2: this is when Georgia went to Notre Dame. This was 455 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 2: a rare thing, and so I felt that. So we 456 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 2: were in no hurry to leave. So after the game, 457 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:56,439 Speaker 2: we go to Brian Kelly's press conference, we go to 458 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 2: Kirby Smart's press conference. But then when we get done, 459 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 2: as is usually the case, I'm never in a hurry 460 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 2: to leave. The stadium because I don't like sitting in 461 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 2: gridlock traffic. So what I like to do a lot, 462 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 2: and this is a pattern I do every time, but 463 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 2: especially at Notre Dame. What I did is I just 464 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 2: go back out in the crowd. I go up in 465 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 2: the bleachers. I take a couple of laptops with me 466 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 2: and the eye Josh in this case, and I just sit. 467 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 2: And that's exactly what I did. This shot right here 468 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 2: is an empty Notre Dame stadium. What other walk of 469 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 2: life could you find yourself in this very position at 470 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 2: that very moment. That's what I'm thinking as I'm shooting this. 471 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 2: And so sit there, watch some games wrap up. You're 472 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 2: watching highlight footage from the day, trying to start to 473 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 2: get your show put together for the next night because 474 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,679 Speaker 2: of what comes next. So you mose your way back 475 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 2: to your car. We got out of there about one 476 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,959 Speaker 2: or one thirty straight shot all the way back. The 477 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:52,360 Speaker 2: meteorologist and I bear and I we switch places. Menyon, 478 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 2: who is probably not out of high school at this point, 479 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 2: sleeps the whole way twelve hours, sleeps the whole way 480 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 2: curled up like I'm not going to use that terminology. 481 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 2: He's curled up like something in the back, and he 482 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 2: just sleeps the whole way. So we get back about lunchtime, 483 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 2: little after lunchtime in Columbus, and there is no time 484 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 2: to sleep because we got to stack the show. We've 485 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 2: got to have a certain standard mat too, so we 486 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 2: stack that show. We do the show on Sunday night, 487 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 2: and then I go into complete recluse mode. I hibernate 488 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 2: all a Monday. It was like Sunday happened, Tuesday happened. 489 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 2: Monday just a rumor. Don't really even know that anything 490 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 2: occurred that day. But it was a very fun trip. 491 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 2: And so like I'm thinking, it's only three or four 492 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 2: years ago now, but I still look back on it, 493 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 2: still talk about it all the time. I mean, the 494 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 2: buddies I'm discussing right now will probably light up my 495 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 2: phone before I even get off air. But I would 496 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 2: encourage you guys. So now that obviously we've got things 497 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 2: opening back up a little bit, I have a lot 498 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,400 Speaker 2: of folks ask me, should I take this trip, should 499 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 2: I take that trip? I don't know what your finances are, 500 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 2: I don't know what your schedule is. I'm saying, if 501 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 2: you could even reasonably swing some of this stuff. Always 502 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,160 Speaker 2: buy the memory. The memory is what's worth its weight 503 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 2: in gold. Because we had to fit the bill for 504 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 2: some of this stuff, even though I was working in media. 505 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 2: That was not exactly a trip that the station was 506 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 2: ready to fund. Fully. Now it's its own separate story 507 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 2: that we can't tell on air, statute of limitations and all. 508 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 2: But I don't regret for a second paying for any 509 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,719 Speaker 2: of it. What I very very much am happy we 510 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 2: did is you got the memory to take home with you. 511 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 2: So if you are a fan of a program this year, 512 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 2: if you're an LSU fan and you guys are playing 513 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 2: at UCLA, go if you can go, go, I mean 514 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 2: if local ordinances allow you to go. I mean, if 515 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 2: you're one of these teams that gets to play like Oregon, 516 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 2: go into Ohio Stadium, Go into Ohio State, Go, go 517 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 2: see the horseshoe. You don't ever know if you're going 518 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 2: to be able to do that. Again, I always encourage it. 519 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 2: And if you can find a couple of quarters to 520 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 2: rub together to pay for gas, make it happen. And 521 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 2: I would also tell you this, you never know what 522 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 2: kind of benevolent souls may be out there. Then you 523 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,360 Speaker 2: immediate social circle who are well enough off financially, who 524 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 2: themselves regret not taking more trips when they were younger, 525 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 2: and they may step up and they may say, handshake. 526 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 2: It's not because you're a four star recruit. That's because 527 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 2: I want you to be able to take this trip, 528 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 2: spend that money. Wisely, that was an experience. I mean, 529 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 2: I had only my experiences down south as sort of 530 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,439 Speaker 2: a cross comparison of what to expect when I went 531 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 2: up north for a game for the first time. They delivered. 532 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 2: Notre Dame took care of us. I really appreciate it. 533 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 2: It's still one of my favorite road trips, even now 534 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 2: where we're going to the biggest games every week, that 535 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 2: Notre Dame hosting Georgia afternoon, that still stands out. 536 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,880 Speaker 1: Really appreciated. I think I told you in the story. 537 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 2: I just kind of sat in the stadium for a 538 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 2: little while afterwards, still got it on my iPhone, just 539 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 2: sitting there. Didn't know if I was ever going to 540 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 2: be able to go there again. The future was very uncertain. 541 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 2: My contract was coming up. I didn't know what was 542 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 2: going to happen, so that was really fun. I also 543 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 2: had the guys pull this out of the archives. There 544 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 2: wasn't really as much dust on this because it's only 545 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 2: from about last August late August. As a matter of fact, 546 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 2: the season is approaching. Here comes to the Renaissance season. 547 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 2: I think we went to Charlotte for Week one, but 548 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 2: it's so funny how little we knew, And even at 549 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 2: the time, knowing how little we knew, we did a 550 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 2: little pontificating. 551 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: You know how rarely I use that word about what we. 552 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,360 Speaker 2: Could expect in week one and how much unexpected there 553 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 2: was coming at us in week one, or we still 554 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 2: had no idea. 555 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: Take a listen. 556 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to seeing the length and size of 557 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 2: Clemson's wide receiver corps. All those guys are six', three six.' 558 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 2: four i'm, getting very very excited about the potential of. 559 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 2: That offense i'm looking forward to seeing Them, against georgia 560 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 2: especially against a, younger secondary maybe a more. Unproven secondary 561 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 2: and looking in after a half, of football are we 562 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 2: Looking at clemson, and, saying doe they look like. Twenty 563 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,959 Speaker 2: eighteen who's going to? Stop them we always come out 564 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 2: of week one saying that about someone who was in 565 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 2: a tight point, spread game and they end up blowing 566 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 2: it open, and saying who's going to? Beat them i'm 567 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing if that Is The. Clemson tigers 568 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 2: i'm looking forward To Seeing dearreck king get. Another shot 569 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 2: we saw him laying on the field wincing in pain 570 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 2: in a. BOWL game i don't think anyone at that 571 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,120 Speaker 2: moment Looked at week One against alabama, and, said oh he'll. 572 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 2: Be ready he'll be good to go. By then and 573 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 2: so he's worked his, Tail Off derreck, king has and 574 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 2: he's gotten himself in position where he's got the full 575 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 2: trust and confidence of his entire coaching staff. And offense 576 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,400 Speaker 2: and so they're going to get to Play. Against alabama 577 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,159 Speaker 2: if they, beat him it's the biggest story in the 578 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 2: early portion of. College football if, they lose but, it's 579 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 2: competitive you Still Got derrick king And The miami hurricanes 580 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 2: with a chance to turn that division race IN the 581 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 2: acc on. Its ear i'm looking forward to. SEEING that 582 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 2: i absolutely cannot wait To See north carolina potentially be 583 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 2: able to TURN the acc in its entirety on. Its 584 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 2: ear Everyone Expects north carolina to be good. This year 585 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 2: everyone expects a solid effort out. Of him everyone's got 586 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 2: him ranked somewhere between eight. And eighteen, let's say but 587 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,120 Speaker 2: no one's predicting them to WIN, the acce but they 588 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 2: got a shot to. Do it they're going to be 589 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,639 Speaker 2: in the conversation for the. First time they've got obviously the, 590 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 2: offensive prowess but for the first time theoretically they have 591 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 2: the rotational and depth aspect of their defensive front that 592 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 2: you need to compete in games like that in settings. 593 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 2: LIKE that i cannot wait To Watch north carolina. THIS 594 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 2: year i cannot wait to Walk, through well HOW should i? 595 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 2: Put there, You know i'll just. SAY it i cannot 596 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 2: wait to walk through home tailgate atmospheres this year and 597 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 2: count how many DIFFERENT smells i can recognize when you GO. 598 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 2: To lsu. It's crazy it's like a rainforest. Of smell 599 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 2: when you go to some of these big, time venues 600 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 2: the smells outside are almost enough to fill you up 601 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,400 Speaker 2: even though you actually haven't put any food in. Your 602 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 2: mouth and one of the added benefits is when we 603 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 2: walk through, tailgate ATMOSPHERES like i WALK, THROUGH lsu i 604 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 2: get ten different meals put in. My face you could 605 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 2: eat forever, down there and they don't even have to, 606 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 2: know you but when they, recognize you that's all. THE 607 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 2: better i was talking to some of our Friends At 608 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 2: north carolina the day and, they said just let, us know, 609 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 2: you know just let us know when you'll be. In 610 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 2: town don't have to worry about. Anything else just let 611 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 2: us know when you'll. Be here here's the parking lot we, 612 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 2: tailgate in here's what time we. Get there all the 613 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,880 Speaker 2: pertinent details will be sent from our people to. Your 614 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,360 Speaker 2: people it is so great walking through those. Tailgate atmospheres, 615 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,120 Speaker 2: the smells, the sights, the sounds. The music oh and by, 616 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 2: the way the actual scene itself. BEING back i can't 617 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,679 Speaker 2: wait to. SEE that i cannot wait to see stadiums 618 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,920 Speaker 2: start to. Fill up if you do the time lapse 619 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,679 Speaker 2: and you normally watch them, fill up and we all 620 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 2: got used to seeing full stadiums and then you didn't 621 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 2: get them. Last, YEAR man i can't wait to watch 622 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,919 Speaker 2: that time laps happen in real time of stadiums filling. 623 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 2: Back up if you could ever stand on the field 624 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 2: at a Venue Like tiger stadium that we're watching, right 625 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 2: now if you could be on the venue when those 626 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 2: places start to fill up and then teams come out 627 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 2: of the tunnel for, warm ups that's when you get 628 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 2: your first sense of what kind of crowd you have 629 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 2: on your hands, that day because you'd get a little 630 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 2: bit of a roar that is sustained for a second 631 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 2: when the home team comes out for. Warm ups and 632 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 2: so if it's a yawn and a, you know a little, 633 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 2: golf clap this is going to be. A sleeper but sometimes. 634 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 2: It's NOT and i think this year a lot of 635 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 2: times it won't be watching that stadium, full up past twenty, 636 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 2: five percent past, fifty percent past seventy, five percent and 637 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 2: finally seeing a full. House again cannot wait. FOR that 638 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 2: i can't wait to be standing in a tunnel or 639 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 2: standing outside a gate and for the first time to 640 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 2: hear off in the distance the faint sound of a, 641 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 2: police siren and then two, police sirens and then ten, 642 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 2: of them because that's the sound of. State troopers and 643 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 2: behind them are about five or six. Charter buses and 644 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 2: You got alabama, pulling in or You GOT texas A, 645 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 2: and m YOU got usc. Pulling in that scene, is 646 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 2: awesome and it's made even more awesome when you've got 647 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 2: a sea of humanity that has to part for those 648 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 2: state troopers and those buses to. Come through but from 649 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 2: our point. Of view that is the last calm before. 650 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,239 Speaker 2: The storm once those sirens, get louder you know that 651 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 2: it's going to be, sensory overload pedal all the way 652 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 2: to the floor for the next seven or eight hours 653 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 2: until they turn the lights out in, that stadium long 654 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 2: after the, games ended long after the press conference, has 655 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 2: ended long after the last food has been taken out 656 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 2: of the press box before you got back up there 657 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 2: in TIME that i cannot wait. TO see i can't 658 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 2: wait to be driving down the interstate and see lines 659 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 2: of cars for miles and miles traffic at college. Football 660 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 2: games i'm going to try and keep this promise is 661 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 2: SOMETHING that i will not be complaining about, this Year 662 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 2: because i'll tell you what was. VERY eerie i DIDN'T 663 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 2: even i chose not to go to games last year 664 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 2: because we didn't have access to. The players, first off 665 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 2: we couldn't have, field access, second off, and thirdly it was. 666 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 2: JUST weird i was talking to some of our team 667 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 2: site guys who cover the games. EVERY week i think 668 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 2: It Was travis Ryer For obama online who told me 669 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 2: he went TO The lsu bama game and left his 670 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 2: hotel and just drove through town and it was a 671 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 2: game Day In Baton rouge bama, in town and, he 672 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 2: said you wouldn't have even known there was a football 673 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 2: game happening until you got right up to the stadium 674 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 2: because it was it was, that uncrowded. Relatively speaking no more. 675 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 2: Of that give me, the crowds give me, the traffic 676 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 2: give me, the gridlock give me the. Horn honking you 677 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 2: give me all that if it means we get all that, 678 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 2: Atmosphere back you give me. ALL that i can't wait 679 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 2: to be on the interstate and start betting over under 680 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 2: amount of car tags and amount of Window flags i'm going. 681 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 2: To see you don't have to wait to get to, 682 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 2: game day or wait to get to, the gate or 683 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 2: wait for kickoff to start getting some action. On stuff, 684 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 2: you absolutely if you're anywhere in the vicinity of a 685 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 2: major college, football game are going to see car flags 686 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 2: all over. The place and one of My favorite hallmark 687 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 2: traditions on the road is to have some action on 688 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 2: how many car flags of certain teams we're going. TO see, 689 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 2: I mean i've made a lot of money. That way 690 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 2: i've lost my fair share of money. That way and 691 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 2: if you want some prop bets on whether you can 692 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 2: hit the over under on amounts of profanity you're going 693 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 2: to see on. Bumper stickers that's always a. PLUS too 694 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,840 Speaker 2: i cannot wait to see the increase level of experience 695 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 2: on these rosters in college football this year and what 696 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 2: it means we put out. THE numbers i think It 697 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 2: Was bill conley that put him out as part OF 698 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 2: his smp plus release the. Other day whatever the average 699 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,479 Speaker 2: returning experience number is for a college football team at, 700 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 2: this level it's around sixty. Four percent he put out the, 701 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 2: conference averages and all of them are way way above. 702 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 2: Sixty four the closest home was. Sixty eight some of 703 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 2: them are in the seventies, and eighties some of them 704 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 2: have their entire teams. Virtually returning what does? THAT mean 705 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 2: i got. MY theory i think it means lower. SCORING 706 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 2: games i think it means a higher level of football. 707 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,000 Speaker 2: Being PLAYED and i just think it means lower margin 708 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 2: for error for the top. Rated teams but it could. 709 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 2: Mean anything it could mean that it's a net benefit 710 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 2: to no one and the cream rises just as it. 711 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 2: Always has, BUT nonetheless i can't wait to see how that. 712 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 2: PLAYS out i can't Wait for week one to where 713 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 2: we see what kind of insane upset gets. THROWN out, 714 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 2: I mean, i remember you know last year it wasn't a, 715 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 2: huge upset But watching louisiana just Go Into ames iowa 716 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 2: And Handle iowa state The Eventual fiesta Bold Champion. Iowa 717 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 2: state but there have been some much crazier upsets. Than that, 718 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 2: you know the app State over michigan's of. The world is? 719 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 2: That coming you got a lot, of experience so you 720 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 2: got a lot of staffs out there who have been 721 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 2: able to tinker with this and specialize game. Plan that 722 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 2: how many or if we even, have one where's that huge? 723 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 2: Upset coming i've never met someone that possesses the skill 724 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 2: to find me. That upset i've met a lot of 725 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 2: folks who lose their you, know what just like they 726 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 2: Do in, march madness trying to find where that's sixteen 727 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 2: or fifteen over a one or. Two is but no 728 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 2: one's got any skill in actually finding me. The upset 729 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,240 Speaker 2: i'll put it out. There, now actually you guys want 730 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,200 Speaker 2: to tell me where the biggest Upset in america's come in? 731 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 2: Week one if you tell, ME accurately i may have 732 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 2: a little something. For you so then after all those 733 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 2: upsets comes the inevitable knee, jerk reaction and we've always 734 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 2: stuck to the adage more games are lost than one in, 735 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 2: week one and a lot of people had to learn 736 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 2: that lesson the hard way with their wallets. This year 737 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 2: but that was. Really fun we knew we were in for. 738 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 2: IT though, i mean if you didn't Think a renaissance 739 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 2: season was on deck, before, that boy you watch those 740 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,399 Speaker 2: upsets happen and it didn't. Stop, there obviously this show 741 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 2: has to, stop here but we will continue this entire 742 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,239 Speaker 2: theme Again, on thursday and if you guys, like this 743 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 2: we got barrels and barrels of content we can unload 744 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 2: on you sometime in. The spring, you know in the 745 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,840 Speaker 2: rare event that we TAKE the v word vacation. AROUND 746 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,759 Speaker 2: here i kind of forgot what, that is but if 747 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 2: we ever, do that we got a lot of, this 748 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,040 Speaker 2: Stuff so i'll be interested to get your. COMMENTS below 749 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,719 Speaker 2: i appreciate you guys watching. THE show a lot of 750 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,320 Speaker 2: this is really good for. ROAD trips i know a 751 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 2: lot of you guys listen via podcast and leave us 752 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 2: a five star review. Of there even if you don't 753 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 2: head over there and leave us a five, star review 754 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 2: it really helps Us out. 755 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:46,920 Speaker 1: This is great road trip. 756 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 2: Type listening long. 757 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:49,319 Speaker 1: Form road trip. 758 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 2: TYPE listening I know i like it from the OTHER 759 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 2: shows i, listened TO so i thought we'd put some 760 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 2: in the can for. 761 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 1: You here appreciate you guys. 762 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,680 Speaker 2: So much appreciate our pas along With producer Jesse direct 763 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 2: colin for getting. This together until, Next Time I'm. Josh 764 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 2: pate thanks so much, For watching have a great the 765 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:05,840 Speaker 2: rest of, your Evening and god pleas