1 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: What is the best perk you have in your job. 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: I don't really know what you guys do for a living. 3 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: Actually I do know you do everything for a living. 4 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: Some of you get free tickets, some of you have 5 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: a random client that can get you eighteen holes at 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: Augusta National. In my world, we have the EACFB twenty 7 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: five video game. Do you understand that it doesn't come 8 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: out for what another week? We can have something like that. 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: We just have this thing at the office. It's there now, 10 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: so I could traffick you guys in there under the 11 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: cloak of darkness, give you a fake ID badge, bring 12 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,959 Speaker 1: you up the elevator, charge five hundred dollars per head, 13 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: and probably make good money off this. However, it would 14 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: be questionable ethically, so instead you're just gonna have to 15 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: take my word. It's awesome, and we're actually gonna drop 16 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: some stuff from it tomorrow and the next day. So 17 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: just being a look out for that at Late Kick, Josh, 18 00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: if you're interested in that. If you're not interested in it, 19 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: who cans? Because we've got wall to wall college football. 20 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: It's the late Kick extra. It's a mail bag addition. 21 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: I don't know what else I can say other than 22 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: thank you. By the way, we are insane on the 23 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: charts right now, number one college football podcast in the world, 24 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: number one college football YouTube show in all of digital media. 25 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: That's because of you, guys. Because I'm just doing the 26 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: same show and more and more of your coming and 27 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: you are subscribing. That's all it takes. Just make sure 28 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: you subscribe and bring five of your friends and have 29 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: them do the same. Because if you like this kind 30 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: of college football show and you want it to elevate, 31 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: and you want it to get more access, and you 32 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: want us to have the doors open for us, they 33 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 1: kind of already are, but we kick them down just 34 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 1: by doing that. So I appreciate that so much from 35 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: you guys. So here's the deal with this specific pod. 36 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: This doesn't go on the YouTube channel. This is just 37 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: us here on the pod. I take as many questions 38 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: as I can in the next forty five or so minutes, 39 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: give you as many answers as I can. So let's 40 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: dive in here. First up, Chuck from Chesterfield, New Jersey. 41 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: You travel all over the country. What region of the 42 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: US has the best overall food and are there any 43 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: campus or stadium food experiences that stand out well. First, Chuck, 44 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: you should know that it's campi because that's the plural 45 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: of campus. Because the rule here at Peyton State is 46 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: if you just put the I with an accent mark 47 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 1: on the end of any word, that is the plural 48 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: form of that word Stati, campi, et cetera. I have 49 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: a kind of a double edged answer to this. So 50 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: we go to La sometimes we'll go to like usc 51 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: or we'll go out there for Elit eleven. You can 52 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: get whatever you want to eat in Los Angeles. You 53 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: could get Southern cuisine in Los Angeles because enough chefs 54 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: from the South have migrated out there. I go up 55 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 1: to New York sometimes to do work in CBS World 56 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: Headquarters in the studio up there. It's New York City, 57 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: it's Manhattan. You can get anything you want there. But 58 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: outside of like the big, big city enclaves. I grew 59 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: up in the Deep South, and so a lot of 60 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: my favorite places are going to be well off the 61 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: beaten path. You have to go down sometimes poorly paved 62 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: or unpaved roads to get there. And these are hole 63 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: in the wall places. Looks like a bomb shelter from 64 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: the outside after the bomb's gone off. But on the 65 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: inside it's awesome. Also, a lot of the barbecue places 66 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: I live in the South are still cash only outfits, 67 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: partly because they are known to launder money through there, 68 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: but also just because they are set in their ways, 69 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: and those ways happen to be good ways. It's not 70 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: always a good thing, but they're setting their ways there. 71 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: I will tell you this though, a place I went 72 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: to for the first time and won't be the last time. 73 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: If you're in Starkville two brothers. I had street barbecue 74 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: tacos there and it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. And then went straight 75 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: over to Mississippi State and worked out in the football 76 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: weight room right afterwards and felt and felt more energized 77 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: than ever. Thanks Shaun Williams and company for let me 78 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: work out in there. I still did use pre workout, 79 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: but probably didn't need it that day, so I don't know. 80 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm very simple. My palette is not all 81 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: that advanced. But I can be just as at home 82 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,839 Speaker 1: at Clearview Barbecue and Columbus, Georgia as I could one 83 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: of the finest sushi establishments in Manhattan Beach. I'm cool 84 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: with either. Next up, this is hateful this is hateful, 85 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: but we need to dive in because a lot of 86 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 1: you have been saying such things to me. Why do 87 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: you keep giving so much unproven love to the Aggies? 88 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: Why because Elko did well in a basketball conference. We 89 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: need to go on the record with this. You and I. 90 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: We argue a lot amongst ourselves here. It's all out 91 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: of love. Obviously, at the end of the day, we 92 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: shake hands and then we just go out to eat, 93 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: probably at one of the places I just mentioned. But 94 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 1: a lot of you do not believe in Texas A 95 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: and M. You guys disagree with me. So one of 96 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: the big arguments we have amongst ourselves sometimes is I 97 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: think the world of the potential of Texas A and M. 98 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: Notice what I didn't say. I didn't say I think 99 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: the world of their trophy case. I didn't say I 100 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: think the world of their resume, their accomplishments, because those 101 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: are very subpar to poor. I've always said, I think 102 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: the world of what that place could be in terms 103 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: of results, because everything that you need to win, in 104 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 1: my opinion, is there and has been there for a while. 105 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 1: They haven't hired properly, they haven't taken advantage of it. 106 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: I think there is emotion that gets involved in college 107 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: football and you can't think logically. To me, I don't 108 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: think about Texas A and M emotionally. I think about 109 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: them logically. Logic tells me if there are four or 110 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: five compartments that need to be check marked in order 111 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: to win. If that's what Georgia has or what Alabama 112 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: has or what Ohio State has, and those things exist 113 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: somewhere else, I think that place is equipped to win. Now. 114 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: The difference is maybe Texas A and M hasn't had 115 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 1: a Nick Saban come through, or a Kirby Smart come through, 116 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 1: or a Ryan Day come through. But I ask it 117 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: in an alternate fashion, what if I put Kirby Smart 118 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: at Texas A and M today? What would they be 119 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: in three years? I think you and I both know 120 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: there'd be a national championship contender, which would rent under 121 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: all of your counterpoints, moot, because you're trying to tell 122 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: me they're incapable, and I'm just telling you they're fully capable. 123 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 1: It hasn't been properly harnessed. And when I argue that 124 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: some people have their minds changed, but there's this other 125 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: group who just claims no Josh because if it was 126 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: possible there by now, someone would have done it. Someone. 127 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 1: If you claim that those infinite resources are there, all 128 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: the boxes are checked, blah blah blah, someone surely would 129 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: have taken advantage of that place. You'd think, so that 130 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: that's not automatic, not necessarily. And so I think Texas 131 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: A and m is still there in twenty twenty four 132 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: as one of these sleeping giants in college football. So, 133 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: Mike Elko, I'm a huge believer in you talk to 134 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 1: football people as much as you can. I am in 135 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: a position where I get to talk to folks on 136 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: the regular who really really know this sport, and they've 137 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 1: been around the block a long time, and they all 138 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: love Mike Elko. Mike Elko, they talk about as much 139 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: as Debor. Debor has gotten a whole lot more headline 140 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: causse the head to Alabama and you replaced Nick Saban, 141 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: and that's kind of muddy the water. It's kind of 142 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: put a cloud over the rest of the conference for 143 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: a little while, and it's put things like Mike Olicle 144 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: in Texas A and m Over on the side. And 145 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: a lot of people haven't talked about him. They will be, though, 146 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: And so I think he'll be a phenomenal higher and 147 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: I think he'll do phenomenal things at Texas A and 148 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: m SO. Look evaluation and development of the two things 149 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: that he specializes in, above and beyond just being a 150 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: Saturday tactician. And he did it at Duke. I don't 151 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: care what kind of conference it was. Over there, he 152 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: overachieved mightily relative to the expectation of where he was. 153 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: Which conference you do that in is irrelevant. If you 154 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: do that as a high school coach, it's irrelevant what 155 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: your level of competition is. It's measuring yourself against yourself 156 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: and what's been at Duke. If you're achieving way above 157 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: and beyond there, chances are it means you're made of 158 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: the right stuff. Well, then you go to a place 159 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: where you don't have to check ouder the couch cushions 160 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: for money for your football. You've got it. It's Texas 161 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: A and m SO. The checks will be written. They 162 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: won't get nos on anything else. I think they'll win there, 163 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: just my personal hunch. Next up is Big ten Duck 164 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: in Eugene, Oregon. If Ryan Day loses to Oregon October 165 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: twelfth in Autsin Stadium, does he are we serious with this. 166 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: Does he make it the rest of the season or 167 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: is the Michigan game still the game to determine that 168 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: nothing's wrong. I just had a moment of silence there. 169 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: You're telling me, Look, how do you feel about your program? 170 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: If you're an Oregon fan, you feel like your program's 171 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: top five program. Yeah, you feel like your team's a 172 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: top five team. Okay? How insulting? Then would it be 173 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: for the barometer to be if we can't go into 174 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 1: Oregon and win, fire our head coach. Hey, if you're 175 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: a top five team, nobody should be coming in there 176 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: and winning. So if Ryan Day loses to Oregon October twelfth, 177 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: the answer is he'll coach against whoever they play the 178 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,079 Speaker 1: next week. And let's just play this out to its 179 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: logical conclusion. Let's say he loses against Oregon and he 180 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: loses against Michigan and they're ten and two and they're 181 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: not in the Big Ten championship game. I guess you 182 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 1: know what they are? A playoff team. Yeah, that's probably 183 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: what you got there, a playoff team. So in the 184 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: worst case scenario as you presented it there, he's still 185 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: the head coach at Ohio State. I'm not playing the 186 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: win championship or bust game with Ohio State this year. 187 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: I know a lot of you are, but I'm not. 188 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: Next up from way down South Alexander and Mediane Columbia. Allegedly, 189 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,359 Speaker 1: he said, ear musk kids, he said, how much Colombian 190 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: bam bam did you ingest before making the prediction Florida 191 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: would not be inside the top ten in the SEC 192 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: over the next three years. None. I just used my eyes. Yeah, 193 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: here's what I did. The other day. I presented what 194 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: I thought would be the top fifteen college football programs overall, 195 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: not just SEC, because we are many things, but an 196 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: SEC homeeristic show is not one of them, as you 197 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: all know. So I talked about the top fifteen programs 198 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: over the next three years. I blended a rolling combination 199 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: of how good I think your record will be, how 200 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: good I think your talent acquisition will be from recruiting 201 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: in the portal, how wealthy you are, basically, how much 202 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: resource you have, and then synergy and culture of program. 203 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: I had fifteen at least higher than Florida. You cannot, 204 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: in good conscience tell me that you feel rock solid 205 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: about Florida's next three years when there is a shaky 206 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four coming up. I mean, if they don't 207 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: go above five hundred this year, what happens and they 208 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: are they're a four and a half win total team 209 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:50,439 Speaker 1: right now or five and a half. One of the two. 210 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: Either way, it's blow Bowl eligibility. I believe in Napier 211 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: by the way. I believe in what they're doing down there. 212 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: Their process is I believe in. But at the same time, 213 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:03,679 Speaker 1: it's a tough year for him this year. It's a 214 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,319 Speaker 1: tough schedule, and so what if they go six and six, 215 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: how does that set them up for the next three years? 216 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: And then you're telling me I should have them top fifteen, 217 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: top ten in your opinion, I don't see how we 218 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 1: do that. I don't honestly see how we do that. 219 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: I mean, if I were a Florida fan, I could 220 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,839 Speaker 1: find a way to do it, but I had to 221 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: be accountable to the other teams out there as well. 222 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: Next up, Josh Done in Monroe, Louisiana had a very 223 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: important question. No Monroe, Michigan anyway, He's got a very 224 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: important question. Will you be seeing Twisters in theaters? If so, 225 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: what's the go to movie theater snack? Well, yes, I 226 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: will be seeing it in theaters, and I have not 227 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: graced a movie theater in a long long time, but 228 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: I'm going tonight to see one. As we talk, you 229 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: and I here, I'm recording on Wednesday, So the lady 230 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:57,359 Speaker 1: and I are going tonight to see what's it called Horizon. 231 00:11:58,200 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 1: I'm not alone in the studio, so we're going to 232 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: see Horia and tonight. So I am going to find 233 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 1: out if the movie theater snack scene has changed since 234 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: the last time I went. I am a big believer 235 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: in sour jacks. Sara Jacks are a candy that are 236 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: kind of like sour Patch Kids, but they're not called 237 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: sour Patch kids. They're sour jacks, and to my knowledge, 238 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: I've only ever seen them in movie theaters. Now, I'm 239 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: very much a fan of the quintessential heavily buttered popcorn, 240 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: but sour jacks. To be honest with you, Back in Columbus, 241 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: growing up at Carmike Cinemas, I used to go over 242 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: there and see terrible movies just so I could get 243 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: the sour jacks. And it never occurred to me that 244 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: you could just go in the lobby by the candy 245 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 1: and not go to the movie. I thought one came 246 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: hand in hand with the other. But I am gonna 247 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 1: go see Twisters July nineteenth in theaters. It's the same 248 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: day that CFB twenty five is released. So between video 249 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: games and blockbuster movies coming out, what a big summer 250 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: this is in all of our lives. Some of you 251 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: are fifty eight and you may not play video games, 252 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: but you've lived a long time, and you know what's 253 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: important and what's not. You know when something really big 254 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: is happening. But I've got a massive high school, college 255 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: aged audience, and you may not know any better yet. 256 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: You may not know that you're in the good old 257 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: days until you've left them. One of the great lines 258 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: in the series finale of The Office was Andy Bernard saying, 259 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: I wish there was a way to know you're in 260 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: the good old days before you've left them. Well, friends, 261 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: we're kind of in the good old days right now. 262 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on in your personal life. 263 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: Maybe it's not been a good summer for you. Most 264 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: of you've had average summers, or so you think. But 265 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you if you're alive in an 266 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 1: era where EA sports CFB is returning, and you're alive 267 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: in an era where we are finally getting a sequel 268 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: to Twister a quarter century after the original came out. 269 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: And by the way, not too far down the road, 270 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 1: gladiat Or two is getting dropped in our lap. And 271 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: I think it's been well over twenty years since that 272 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: original was released, and it's about to be college football season. 273 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:02,560 Speaker 1: I think we have seven Saturdays ago. These are the 274 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: good old days. Someone needs to write a song. These 275 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: are the good old days. You're in them right now, 276 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: so enjoy. I don't know how long it lasts. Next 277 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: year's movies could suck. I don't know what next year's 278 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 1: video game is going to be like. But as for now, 279 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 1: these are the good old days. Speaking of the good 280 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: old days, you know, I am a big believer in family, 281 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: and my uncle Dennis is asking the next question. You 282 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: may know him as Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports. Are 283 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: we related not by blood, but I am very close 284 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: to him. So Dennis from Overland Park dropped in on 285 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: Twitter and said, who wins the Big twelve this year? 286 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: And why? Well, that answer is pretty clearly Iowa State. 287 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: And I don't even know how there is a viable 288 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: defense for any other team. This is Iowa State year. 289 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: I don't normally do predictions in July, and I'm not 290 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: doing any other predictions. But I'm just going ahead and 291 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: flat out telling you I'm picking Iowa State to win 292 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. And is that bias? Of course it is. 293 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: That's my constitutional right because it's my show. Best color 294 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: scheme in the world is red and yellow. I am 295 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: a stormchaser by hobby. They have a Tornado as a 296 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: mascot name. I think they could do better on the 297 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: branding and the logo, but that is a personal issue 298 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: between me and Iowa State Athletics and we will handle 299 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: that behind closed doors. But this is the year. I 300 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: Am not just going to make predictions and have them 301 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: fall flat and implode like a dying star during the season. 302 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: This is the year I make the prediction and Matt 303 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: Campbell and company deliver upon that. They're a veteran laden team. 304 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: They weren't far away at the end of last year. 305 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: They progressed. I'm not always the biggest believer in momentum 306 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: rolling from one year to another unless it suits my prediction, 307 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: in which case I will fully buy into momentum rolling 308 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: over from one year to another. I expect all of 309 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: you guys to support me on this. If I we 310 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 1: was state wins, I win, and if I win, you 311 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: kind of win, and in that way we all win. 312 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: So again, just blindly support me. That's all I've ever 313 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: asked of you. Next up, where are we going here? 314 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: This is dangerous. I didn't have one. I have to scroll. 315 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: Let's go with Joshua cool name there in North Platte, Nebraska. 316 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: What would have to happen to make this season similar 317 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: to two thousand and seven? I need chaos? Okay, here's 318 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: what I think you'd need. First off, for those of 319 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: you unfamiliar, go educate yourself on what the two thousand 320 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: and seven season was. Never seen anything like it before. 321 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: Some say we'll never see anything like it again, although 322 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 1: you can dream. I never closed the door on it. 323 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: I never say never. So here's what would have to happen. Okay. 324 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: First off, no elite teams. Georgia's defensive lines got to 325 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: be a little bit of a liability for them. Quinn 326 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: Ewers needs to not elevate his status to elite. He 327 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: just needs to be a pretty good quarterback. Therefore, Texas 328 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: is vulnerable offensive line needs to be just a chronic 329 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: issue for Ohio State Kaylin de Borr. In Alabama, maybe 330 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: Jalen Milroe doesn't quite evolve or elevate his game like 331 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: Pennix did, and maybe just Alabama's talent level is noticeably 332 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: down a slight notch and they can be beaten a 333 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: couple of times. And what has to happen is all 334 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: of like the top five or so teams you see 335 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 1: in the preseason, they all need to have warts. So 336 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: you need a bunch of competitive balance, parody, whatever you 337 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: want to call that. Then you never want to root 338 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: for injury, but of course you're going to have random 339 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: major injuries happen, and so that'll bring some other teams down, 340 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: maybe those teams, but some other teams down as well. 341 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: And when you want to get to the November slash 342 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,640 Speaker 1: December finish line, and you want to have just complete 343 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: demolition derby happening in the conference races, and then the 344 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: conference championship games happen, and then you fill out your 345 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: playoff field and you're just sorting through a bunch of 346 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: two and three loss teams and maybe some conference champions 347 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: have stolen auto bids, you know, maybe like a three 348 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: or a four loss team or something like that, although 349 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,880 Speaker 1: that's harder to do because we're not in divisional format anymore. 350 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: But that's what you need. You need the big boys 351 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 1: to have warts. That's what it comes down to. And 352 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:05,120 Speaker 1: then late in the year, injuries, wear and tear, those 353 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: things pile up and you just have a bunch of 354 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 1: pretty good teams. If you get a bunch of pretty 355 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: good to really good teams but no elite teams, then 356 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: that's how you get unpredictability. And that's how you could 357 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 1: really have a playoff where it's not just the one, two, 358 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 1: three fours and then everybody else. It really is something 359 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:25,399 Speaker 1: where the eleven seed randomly can be a three lost 360 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 1: Big ten team and they could go on a run. 361 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: That could happen. I mean, it could go down that way. 362 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: What you can't run from, though, is this got them. 363 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Even the haters have to acknowledge that 364 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: was pretty unexpected. Let's get back to the mailbag. Mike 365 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 1: is in Tuscaloosa. He said, is there a weekend in 366 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 1: which the yet to be named tour will attempt to 367 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: go to two games? Yes? I was looking at that yesterday. Actually, 368 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: I don't know which one it will be. So Mike 369 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 1: is talking about our tour this fall, and I know 370 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:57,400 Speaker 1: a lot of you are new. I mean, we get 371 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: like tens of thousands of new followers and listeners week. 372 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 1: So here's what we do. We have a dream scenario 373 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: here where we are a show that has grown to 374 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: the point where we can call our shot and we 375 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: can go to any game we want any week. So 376 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: I'm at a game every Saturday, usually the biggest one 377 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: in the country. I decide which one I'm going to 378 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,160 Speaker 1: go to the previous Sunday, so we get an entire 379 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: week to build up to that show. We're somewhere every Saturday. 380 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: We go there, normally fly out after the Thursday show, 381 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: so we fly to the city Friday where they're all day, 382 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 1: and we're at the game on the sidelines on Saturday. 383 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 1: Then we fly back and we do the show Sunday, 384 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: rinse repeat. So we we kind of fashion that after 385 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 1: a concert tour, we name the tour every year. Twenty 386 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 1: twenty one was the Renaissance Tour, twenty twenty two was 387 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: the Every Given Saturday Tour, twenty twenty three was the 388 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: Once Upon a Saturday Tour, twenty twenty four. Don't know yet. 389 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 1: I have not decided on a name. I'm still taking suggestions. 390 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 1: But when we do that, we'll be going to one 391 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: game a week at least that's the way it's worked 392 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 1: so far. But the dream, as you know, if you've 393 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: watched or listened for a while while, the dream is 394 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: to be able to pull off two games in the 395 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: same Saturday and longer time. Listeners and viewers will know 396 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 1: that I sabotaged us a couple of years ago because 397 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: we had it. We had it nailed. We were at 398 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 1: the Red River Shootout Texas, Oklahoma, eleven am Central time kickoff, 399 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: and that game is a classic, and that's the one 400 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 1: where Caleb Williams came in to replace Spencer Ratler and 401 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: Ou wins and it was a big time day there. 402 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: And we're also credentialed for Alabama at Texas A and 403 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,640 Speaker 1: M that night. So we leave the Cotton Bowl. It's 404 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 1: like three point thirty in the afternoon. We got plenty 405 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: of time and we could have gotten down to College 406 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: Station in time for the first quarter, and instead, I 407 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,959 Speaker 1: look at the spread. It was like a three touchdown spread, 408 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: and I decided to go to Nashville just fly home 409 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 1: and watch the game in the flight. And that's the 410 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 1: night that A and M upset Alabama as a three 411 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: plus touchdown underdog. That's the walk off field goal. They 412 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: storm the field in College Station, a night they'll remember forever, 413 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 1: and I am watching that go down on a flight. 414 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: I watched them storm the field like somewhere over Arkansas, 415 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: and I thought to myself, I will never live this down. 416 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,439 Speaker 1: I will never forgive myself for this, and I haven't. 417 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: The only way I can atone for that is we 418 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: got to flex our muscle this fall. We got to 419 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: get credential from multiple games. That's not the problem. The 420 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 1: problem is the logistics of the travel. So we got 421 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 1: to figure out a way to do that. I'm always 422 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 1: open to private aviation. I myself do not have my 423 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 1: own private jet, but some of you do. Some of 424 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 1: you have access, and so you know how to get 425 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: in touch with me at Lake Kick, Josh, Let's make 426 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: it happen. Otherwise, there are ways, I'll just put it 427 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,959 Speaker 1: that way. There are ways to do it, and I 428 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,479 Speaker 1: have looked at a few weeks and it technically can 429 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,120 Speaker 1: be pulled off. But I make no promises yet because 430 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: I don't want to disappoint you guys as much as 431 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: I disappointed myself two years ago. Colin from Clarksville, Tennessee 432 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: is next, he said. The last three national champs, Georgia, Georgia, 433 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: Michigan were all largely built through high school recruiting and 434 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: utilize the portal for a few key additions. If the 435 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty five season results are the same, 436 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: should all programs shift the majority of their focus back 437 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: to development and recruiting their own guys out of high school. 438 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: Could this reverse the portal frenzy that has overcome college football. 439 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: I think they should do it that way. Even if 440 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: Colorado wins the national title this year, I wouldn't care 441 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: if a total portal reliant team won it this year. 442 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: The way to win in this sport long term is 443 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: to build through high school recruiting. That is no different 444 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 1: now than it was twenty years ago. Just because the 445 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: transfer portal has given you the ability to do something 446 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:49,880 Speaker 1: that you used to not be able to do, don't 447 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: mean that has changed the formula for winning now. I 448 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 1: know that I have about fifteen or so folks who 449 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 1: listen to this, and they're going to hit me up 450 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 1: because they always hear what I don't say when I 451 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: say that. So I got a problem personally with Dabo 452 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 1: Swiney just deciding never to touch the portal because I 453 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 1: think it's a little bit of a dereliction of duty. 454 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 1: But I respect him going about it the way he 455 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: wants to. I just personally wish he would explore that option. Okay, 456 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 1: so people hear me say that, but then they also 457 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: hear me say what I just said, which is I 458 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 1: think you should build through high school recruiting, and they say, well, 459 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,199 Speaker 1: how can you say you think you should build through 460 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,120 Speaker 1: high school recruiting, but then get mad at Dabo when 461 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 1: he doesn't use the portal. Isn't he just doing what 462 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: you say you think you should do. He's not. He's not. 463 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 1: There's an important distinction here. I'm not saying don't use 464 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: the portal. Quite the opposite. I'm telling you you need 465 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,360 Speaker 1: to be using the portal. I'm telling you you don't 466 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: need to be leaning on the portal. Don't be relying 467 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: on the portal. You need to build your foundation needs 468 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:52,719 Speaker 1: to be built through evaluating your guys, bringing them out 469 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: out of high school and developing them and having them 470 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 1: spend multiple years in your system because you feel that's 471 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:03,199 Speaker 1: what's best for them. Then when you have holes on 472 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 1: your roster that you need filled on a very supplemental 473 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,959 Speaker 1: and very selective basis, you can scan the country, apply 474 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: the same factors and the same criteria, same critical traits, 475 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: and if players who fit those molds happen to be 476 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: in the transfer portal, you think you can get them 477 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,199 Speaker 1: out of the portal. Go get them. You ought to 478 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: do that. That is not what dabos when he's done. 479 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: But that's also not what some of these other programs 480 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: has done. Some of these other programs have undervalued high 481 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: school recruiting or underdelivered, underperformed, and they think that there's 482 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: a bailout via the portal. Someone will end up catching 483 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: lightning in a bottle and they will either go way 484 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 1: deep in the playoff or they'll win a title doing 485 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 1: it that way, and it will fool everyone into think 486 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: and that's the way to do it. I'm telling you, 487 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: Even if a team like that wins the title this year, 488 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,119 Speaker 1: I don't think it's the way to do it. I 489 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: would if Ole Miss, for example, a team that leaned 490 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 1: on the portal, they still built through high school, but 491 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,160 Speaker 1: they really leaned hard on the poor this year. If 492 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 1: they win the literal national title, I will still look 493 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 1: at programs that lean first and foremost on high school 494 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: recruiting and say that's the way to do it. There 495 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: is no blueprint. That's the way. Over there, that's the blueprint. 496 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: You may have seen an exception to the rule. That's 497 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 1: the rule. That's the blueprint. Chris, who I believe hails 498 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: from Moultrie, Georgia. Yes he does. This is his third 499 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: week in a row. Could be a record here, he said. 500 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 1: Let me see if I can get one for a 501 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: third week in a row. Well, check mark there, he asks. 502 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: This is curiosity from me. How much NFL do you consume? 503 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 1: Is it even possible for you two during the season 504 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 1: to consume any games? I don't watch hardly any NFL 505 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: aside from highlights. I can't. So Sunday's my busiest day. 506 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 1: It's my work day. It is sometimes a travel day 507 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 1: during the season. Sometimes we cannot get a flight back 508 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 1: Sunday or Saturday night. Sometimes we're at a Saturday night game, 509 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: so we can't travel until Sunday. And you got to understand, man, 510 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 1: that Sunday show we put together is a monster it 511 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: is a major production lift. And that's without scripting anything, 512 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: because I don't have any scripting. I don't even use 513 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: a teleprompter. I just go totally ad lib. But to 514 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: get elements together to make sure you've watched all the 515 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 1: games you need to watch, to make sure you've checked 516 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,479 Speaker 1: in on as many different sources and as many different 517 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: contacts as you have in the coaching world and everything 518 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: in between to get good feedback, it takes a long time. 519 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:30,479 Speaker 1: And so we are basically either on a plane or 520 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: on a plane and then locked in the office right 521 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: up until showtime, and I don't even know what's happening. 522 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 1: I may look at a scoreboard, we may have a 523 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: game on mute somewhere, but I largely don't know what's 524 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 1: happening in the NFL. And I knew that was gonna 525 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: happen when we started to format our shows the way 526 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 1: we do. But that's the trade off, because here's what 527 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,919 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do. I'm not gonna do what I 528 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: used to hate other people doing. I used to hate 529 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: that the general American sporting culture was you had to 530 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: wait until Monday to get college football reaction. I always 531 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 1: thought that was stupid. I love college football. I like 532 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: the NFL, but I don't love it like I do 533 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,199 Speaker 1: college football. And I always thought to myself, how in 534 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: the world does this game wrap itself up on Saturday, 535 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: and yet we have to wait through Sunday and all 536 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 1: the way until Monday before anyone may talk about it, 537 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: And then it gets drowned out by NFL coverage because 538 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: most of the people who were covering college also cover 539 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,400 Speaker 1: the NFL. Well, the way the media industry has evolved, 540 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,439 Speaker 1: we can get more specialized. Now you got folks like 541 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,360 Speaker 1: me who never talk NFL. I only talk college football. Well, 542 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: guess when I'm going to talk about it. I ain't 543 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 1: wait until Monday. 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I know 577 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: that's blasphemous, but how great would a game be in 578 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: New Orleans or Nashville. I wish this would happen. And 579 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: I grew up in Georgia. It's been in Atlanta most 580 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: of my life. It was in Birmingham to start off with, 581 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: but they moved it. I think in like ninety four 582 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: they moved it to Atlanta and it's been there ever since. 583 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 1: I think this is a good idea, but it's not 584 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 1: gonna happen. They just re upped the contract with Atlanta, 585 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: I think for an extended period of time. New stadium there. 586 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: Even though I like Mercedes Benz Stadium less than the 587 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: Georgia Dome, most people like the modernized stadium better. But yeah, 588 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: put that thing in New Orleans. I'd be happy. Of course, 589 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: i'd be happy if you put it in Nashville. You 590 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: can't put that thing in Nashville till they build a 591 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: new stadium up here. Though, I have no interest in 592 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: watching a conference championship game in the SEC be played 593 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: outdoors in December. I'm funny about that. I love weather, 594 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 1: love it, and I, like most of you, do, enjoy 595 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 1: watching the occasional football game be played in the elements, 596 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: pouring down rain, driving snow. But I don't like any 597 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: championship games being played in that setting. Now. I don't 598 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: know why that is, but I've always enjoyed. If you 599 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 1: tell me, I got a Wisconsin game kicking off at 600 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: noon in week eleven and the highest twenty six and 601 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: they expect three and a half inches of snow during 602 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: the game, I'm glued. But I don't want to see 603 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 1: the Big Ten Championship played in those conditions. I want 604 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: to see it play in a controlled environment, totally static environment, 605 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: element free Indianapolis playball, and I'm the same way with 606 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: the SEC. I want it to be played indoors because 607 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 1: I don't want elements to decide a conference championship game 608 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: or a national championship game. I'm okay with it in 609 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 1: the regular season, which is weird considering my stance that 610 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: I love the regular season above and beyond the postseason. 611 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 1: I know it's hypocritical. It is. You don't have to 612 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 1: guess it is. I'm not defending myself. This is just 613 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 1: the way I feel. But be that as it may. 614 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: Nashville in December is no place to be playing an 615 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: SEC championship game. Now. It would be once they build 616 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: the new venue, which is a few years down the 617 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 1: road still, but it's all a moot point because they're 618 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,719 Speaker 1: not moving that thing for the foreseeable future because the 619 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: SEC in Atlanta apparently have a very very good thing, 620 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 1: just a stable marriage. And good for them for making 621 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 1: it work this day and age next up, this is good. 622 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: This is good here, Travis from Lawrence, Kansas. I appreciate 623 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: your coverage of Kansas football. Can you join us for 624 00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: a game this fall and take a tour of our 625 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 1: new facilit I'd love to show you firsthand what's happening 626 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 1: at KU. Yeah, this is Travis Goff, athletic director at Kansas. 627 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 1: So I am accepting that invitation, and you know what, 628 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 1: we may not even need to wait to the season, 629 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 1: just between just between you and I and a worldwide audience. Here, 630 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: Travis may be able to get up there before the 631 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 1: season starts, because the season starts and live bullets start flying, 632 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: and we never know where we're going to be any 633 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 1: given week. But second week of August or something like that, 634 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: I know where I can be that week. But I appreciate 635 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: the invitation, and I didn't just say that the other day, 636 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: as word salad. I very very much believe in the 637 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,600 Speaker 1: steps that Kansas Athletics are taking, and I believe they 638 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 1: understand how they're positioning themselves for the future. Next up, 639 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: Zachary from Grove City, Ohio. Do you think Notre Dame 640 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: is in an unfavorable position being excluded from the first 641 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 1: round by if they go undefeated. Possibly he's talking about 642 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,000 Speaker 1: the new format now you can only get a buye 643 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 1: if you're a conference champ, and since they're not in 644 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: a conference, they could not have a first round buy 645 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: in the playoff. Even if they're twelve to zero and 646 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 1: win every game by fifty, Notre Dame is not allowed 647 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: to have a first round by. So yeah, that's a obviously, 648 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 1: that's a disadvantage on the surface, but then they would 649 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 1: tell you, yeah, but the tradeoff is we're guaranteed a 650 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 1: buy in conference championship weekend, which they're right about. They 651 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,320 Speaker 1: won't play in a conference title game because they're not 652 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: in a conference to begin with. The difference is there 653 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 1: are some teams that will have to play one less 654 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 1: playoff game to win it all. Notre Dame would have 655 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 1: to play the max number of playoff games. I think 656 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 1: they understand what they're doing. That's why I don't think 657 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: they're at a disadvantage. It may be unfavorable in a 658 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 1: given moment, but in the grand scheme of things, you 659 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 1: will to know what I'm more interested in. I don't 660 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: care about undefeated Notre Dame. What if there is a 661 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 1: ten to two Notre Dame and at the end of 662 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: the regular season they're like number nine or something like that, 663 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 1: or ten or eleven. Is there a chance that teams 664 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:10,439 Speaker 1: that go to their conference title games and lose get 665 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 1: knocked down below Notre Dame as Notre Dame sits at 666 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: home and does nothing, Because that'll be the big ripe. 667 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,880 Speaker 1: The big gripe would be, you know, if I'm a 668 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,839 Speaker 1: team that's sitting there with the six seed. If I'm 669 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,879 Speaker 1: Texas and I'm number six and I play number one 670 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: Georgia in the SEC title game and I lose and 671 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 1: I drop down to like number ten, or maybe I 672 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,400 Speaker 1: drop out of the playoff entirely, and Notre Dame was 673 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 1: number nine the whole time, and they just sit there. 674 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 1: I got punished for playing in a conference title game 675 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,080 Speaker 1: that Notre Dame doesn't play in. And this has always 676 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,360 Speaker 1: been an age old discussion, but it's gonna be really 677 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: ramped up, I think in the expanded playoff format, because 678 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:52,319 Speaker 1: there's a better chance statistically of that happening. So Notre Dame. 679 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: I don't think it's not unfavorable for them because they 680 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,400 Speaker 1: chose it, and so if it is unfavorable and I'm wrong, 681 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: they'll just choose different. I think they're okay with it, though. 682 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 1: Another Chris from Georgia. This one's from Calhoun, Georgia, home 683 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 1: of a mega gas station chain that will not be 684 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: named because they are not one of the final four 685 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,359 Speaker 1: in the gas station recruiting Wars. But nevertheless, Chris said, 686 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,279 Speaker 1: I truly want to know what is the relevance of 687 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: a blue blood team anymore? The culture of the game 688 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,279 Speaker 1: has changed so much and those who ride on the 689 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,920 Speaker 1: coattails of blue Blood is no longer relevant. Honestly, I 690 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 1: need to know what makes them relevant now. I think 691 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 1: there's some baked inequity you get. I do think if 692 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,839 Speaker 1: you're like Notre Dame, we were just talking about them, 693 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,160 Speaker 1: if you're Alabama, even if you're usc Us, he's not 694 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 1: particularly great right now. There is a brand recognition and 695 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 1: a brand awareness that was built through decades and decades 696 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 1: and decades of being good and mattering that I do 697 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,400 Speaker 1: think still carries weight. Now it may carry less weight, 698 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,359 Speaker 1: and different things may be higher on the priority list 699 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 1: these days. I do think it matters. I do think 700 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,239 Speaker 1: blue Blood status matters. And you know what else I 701 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 1: would say, if you're a believer in bias, where do 702 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 1: you think that comes from? If you believe that there 703 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,960 Speaker 1: is unfair bias and the tables are tilted towards certain brands, well, 704 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,359 Speaker 1: how do you think they get that tilt? They get 705 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,439 Speaker 1: it because they are blue Blood's most likely, and they're 706 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 1: blue Blood's meaning they've won a long time. They've built 707 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 1: massive interest, massive fan bases. Everyone knows when you talk 708 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,799 Speaker 1: about them, it's going to move the needle. Therefore they 709 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 1: want to talk about them more. Everyone knows if they're 710 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 1: in the playoff, the ratings are higher. Therefore they want 711 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,920 Speaker 1: more of them in the playoff. Well, you don't think 712 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,840 Speaker 1: that matters, It matters very much. Now you don't have 713 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,239 Speaker 1: to like that, but it matters very much. So I 714 00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,880 Speaker 1: don't know how to answer that quickly. And maybe it 715 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,040 Speaker 1: is changing and maybe being a blue blood matters less, 716 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,040 Speaker 1: but it absolutely still matters. It also matters to me 717 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,560 Speaker 1: that you guys listen to the end. Thank you so 718 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,279 Speaker 1: much for that. I have got a busy, busy couple 719 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 1: of weeks coming up. I mean, we've got so much 720 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,759 Speaker 1: stuff that we're working to finalize, some fairly sizable changes coming. 721 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,680 Speaker 1: They're all good changes, but fairly sizable change is coming. 722 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,839 Speaker 1: We're not going to screw anything up that works. Let 723 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,520 Speaker 1: me just promise you that. But you need to be 724 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,000 Speaker 1: following on the socials at late kick Josh, and just 725 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,280 Speaker 1: make sure if you haven't already, even if you think 726 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,440 Speaker 1: you have, go check and make sure you're subscribed to 727 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,400 Speaker 1: the pod and over on the YouTube channel, because that 728 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,160 Speaker 1: is what helps drive the engine for us. I got 729 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,120 Speaker 1: to send this over to Bradley the associate so he 730 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:29,920 Speaker 1: can edit it and get it sent out. Thank you 731 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,280 Speaker 1: so much. We will be live on the YouTube channel 732 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,560 Speaker 1: Thursday night, eight Eastern, seventh Central. Until then, Take care 733 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 1: and God bless. 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