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Speaker 1: have pictures of them with Ugga up on their walls.

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Speaker 1: When I would go to their house, and I would

430
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 1: have I like a hot dog in my hand or

431
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,119
Speaker 1: something like. That's as close as I got to a

432
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Speaker 1: picture with a famous dog. So anyway, fast forward, and

433
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,159
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I, out of all those people,

434
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,320
Speaker 1: end up in a business that puts me in direct

435
00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 1: contact with Uga. So anyway, this is where we go

436
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,200
Speaker 1: to Tiger Stadium. So we're down there, it's three thirty games,

437
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 1: really hot. I'm in a room that is reserved postgame

438
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 1: for the visitors press conference, but during the game, because

439
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 1: these stadiums are old and there aren't just limitless amounts

440
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 1: of locker rooms during the game, a lot of times

441
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 1: those postgame media rooms are used for cheerleaders to have

442
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,440
Speaker 1: like a kind of a side locker room. The officials

443
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,280
Speaker 1: will sometimes be in there, but also the mascots will

444
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,879
Speaker 1: be in there. So I am the only person in

445
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: the room. I'm just sitting on the floor. I'm watching

446
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 1: games on my laptop. The mascot team brings Ugga in,

447
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 1: the actual bulldog, and he sits there and so I

448
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 1: kid you not, for about fifteen twenty minutes before this game,

449
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: most surreal experience, if I really stopped and thought about

450
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 1: it for a second, it was me sitting on the

451
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 1: floor and it was that bulldog sitting next to me

452
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Speaker 1: on the floor. And then his handler was in there,

453
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,080
Speaker 1: and I just thought to myself, if I were to

454
00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 1: rewind ten years and then I would show myself that somehow,

455
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,919
Speaker 1: some way, ten years from now, this will be you,

456
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 1: and you will not have snuck into this room. Some

457
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 1: entity will be paying you to be there. I would

458
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 1: have thought to myself, well, what planet is that happening on?

459
00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 1: Certainly not Earth, certainly not lifetime. So that was the

460
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 1: first story and I always remember that. And then the

461
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 1: second story came from this past year when I was

462
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 1: at the Red River Shootout not to be called anything

463
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: else on this program, and Oklahoma Texas are just having

464
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,880
Speaker 1: a wild back and forth game, like over one hundred

465
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,919
Speaker 1: combined points, highest point total in serious history. And so

466
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 1: most of the game I was in the Oklahoma end

467
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: zone because at the Cotton Bowl they have a single tunnel,

468
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 1: and so the media room not going to go as

469
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,399
Speaker 1: first called a suite because the Cotton Bowl was built

470
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 1: just after the Revolutionary War, I think, so the media

471
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 1: room is in the Oklahoma end zone. Therefore I have

472
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:36,879
Speaker 1: no reason to go all the way down to the

473
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Speaker 1: Texas in zone. And it's pretty close quarters on the

474
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,399
Speaker 1: sideline there too, so it's not the easiest thing to

475
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 1: get back and forth. Well, I'm in the Oklahoma en

476
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,879
Speaker 1: zone most of the game. Bevo is not in that

477
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: end zone. He's in the Texas end zone. So later

478
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 1: in the game, as Texas is about to try and

479
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 1: drive to retake the lead or to tie the game,

480
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 1: I decide, you know what, I'm going to go down

481
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: there because I thought the game may end down there,

482
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,679
Speaker 1: not a lot of time left. Texas has got the ball,

483
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 1: they're about to try and go on a drive. So

484
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: I get down to the Texas in zone. Now, as

485
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: it turns out, they went and scored in like three

486
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 1: or four plays, and Xavier Worthies going off true freshman

487
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,120
Speaker 1: over two hundred and fifty yards receiving that day, he

488
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: catches a touchdown pass and that place goes crazy, and

489
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: you know, you got the cannon firing and everyone's losing

490
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: their mind. So I've got the eye Josh in my hand,

491
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to do like the panoramic, you know,

492
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 1: turn all the way around. And as I turned, I

493
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: was face to face with Bevo, very large animal, huge horns.

494
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,360
Speaker 1: As far as the eye can see either direction. He's

495
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: right in front of me, and as everyone else is

496
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:43,160
Speaker 1: going crazy. The judgxtaposition is this guy is not moving,

497
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 1: He's just standing there. He's not even moving a muscle.

498
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 1: I don't think he blinked. He was totally unfazed by

499
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: the chaos around him. So I had a newfound respect

500
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,120
Speaker 1: for him. And I was also very close to him.

501
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 1: Probably could have gotten a little head swipe or two

502
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: and no one would have seen me. But that's the

503
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: first time I'd seen Bevo in person. That was fun,

504
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,199
Speaker 1: even though nothing really happened. Then. The third story is

505
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: also from earlier this year, and it was in Knoxville, Tennessee.

506
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 1: It was when Ole Miss was in town. A lot

507
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: of you remember this because the trash rain down on

508
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 1: the field and Lane Kiffin, Odell Beckham the water bottle.

509
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: But that's why I remember it too. I won't lie.

510
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: But there's another thing that happened. Smokey, who I've been

511
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,400
Speaker 1: around a few times, is the Tennessee mascot. Now, when

512
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 1: it's a little more chilly outside as it was that night,

513
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 1: I think the temperatures were in the forties by the

514
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 1: time the game ended, Smokey takes off his normal little

515
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: checkered outfit. Colin. I don't know what you guys call that.

516
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: I call it a checkered outfit. And he put on

517
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 1: a full blanket, little fleece blanket. I don't think it

518
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: was one of those knockoffs they sell it flea markets

519
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: around the South where they're illegally using the licensing of

520
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: the team. I think it was authentic. I think it

521
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: was a university issued fleece blanket for Smokey, so he's

522
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 1: wrapped in it now A lot of times. As I said,

523
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 1: in these games, this is not the NFL. It's not

524
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 1: a sanitized environment, so you find yourself in some pretty

525
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: interesting situations, like you'll be standing next to those mascots

526
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: a lot. At Auburn, you'll be next to a bald

527
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 1: eagle before you even know it. Well. At Tennessee this

528
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: past year, I am during a commercial break, I think,

529
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: or maybe between plays, you know, I squatted like a

530
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: catcher stance, just to you know, save wearing tear on

531
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: the knees, and because I'm tired, Smokey's next to me,

532
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 1: and I didn't realize it because I'm so focused. But

533
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 1: it's dipped into the mid forties, it's kind of cold,

534
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: and I did not have a jacket on. I mean,

535
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: I was wearing a T shirt like I'm wearing right now.

536
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: I was a little bit cold too. But when I

537
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: got down to that catcher stance, I was like eye

538
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: to eye with Smoky, who was just sitting next to me,

539
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,360
Speaker 1: very quiet, very reserved. But I kind of glanced over

540
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: and he's he's shivering a little bit. He's a little cold.

541
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: You know, he's not unaffected. And so, as I told

542
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: Jesse earlier today, I don't know why I did it,

543
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: because I know he cannot understand English, and I know

544
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: that no one was filming me, so I wasn't doing

545
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,479
Speaker 1: it for show. But I just looked at him, and

546
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: he looked at me, and we're both kind of shaking,

547
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 1: and I said me too, buddy, straight face. He didn't

548
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: say anything back, and I stood right back up and

549
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,880
Speaker 1: the game went on and it ended the way it ended.

550
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: But in that moment, I felt like we connected. So

551
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: I talked to Smoky, he's cold, I'm cold. We're both shivering.

552
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,360
Speaker 1: Ready to get out of there, me too, buddy. I'll

553
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: never forget that, and I doubt that he will either.

554
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: So those are three mascot stories I have. I haven't

555
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: been around when some of the crazy things have happened,

556
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 1: you know, like Bevo and Uga. We just talked about

557
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 1: both of them. They actually got into it almost at

558
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: the Sugar Bowl. It would have been a very quick fight.

559
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: But yeah, we're showing footage of it. If you're watching

560
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: the video like this right here. Nah, I wasn't around

561
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: for that. That would have been a sight to behold.

562
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,959
Speaker 1: Get out of their buddy, Yeah, get out for the best.

563
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 1: So mascots live mascots. It's unpredictable, but it's an element

564
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 1: I love about college football. And the element that I

565
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 1: really love in addition to just the mascots on this

566
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: particular program is my ability to do what I'm about

567
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: to do before you even know it's coming. We'll be

568
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 1: right back. Got him, Got him. I hate to do

569
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: it to you, guys, but I have to do it

570
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: to you. We're back. My vow to you. We will

571
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: not do it again the rest of the show. Adam.

572
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 1: Next up, Adam asks top five jerseys in college football.

573
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: I responded to him, I'm sure this won't be controversial

574
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 1: at all, So there's no winning on this, you know,

575
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: anything that people care about. If I put out a ranking,

576
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: it's inevitable that someone will disagree on it. So I'm

577
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: just going to throw my principle out there, my theory

578
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 1: out there. First. A lot of you guys love the

579
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 1: uniform thing, like this is where Oregon and I don't

580
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: get along. When I look at Oregon's uniforms, I do

581
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: think they look sharp. But when I'm ranking my favorite uniforms,

582
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: you got to understand, I'm a tradition guy. I'm a

583
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: pageantry guy. I love that about this sport. You can

584
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: watch a game from nineteen seventy eight and watch a

585
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: game from twenty twenty two, and there's some things that

586
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: haven't changed. A lot of things have changed, most of

587
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: the time for the better, sometimes for the worst. But

588
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: I do like some of those threads of tradition to

589
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: hold the together, and uniforms are part of that. And

590
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: so for that reason, some of the uniforms that some

591
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: of you guys think are boring, I revere I love them.

592
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: So this is going to sound either great to you

593
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: or it's going to sound ridiculous to you. My favorite

594
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: uniform in college football is Alabama because it is the

595
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: same every single year, and it also represents historic tradition.

596
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: To me, the most high profile program in college football,

597
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,719
Speaker 1: both now and historically. I for the record, am a

598
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: bigger fan of their road whites than I am of

599
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: the Crimson. Believe they call them the icy Whites. I

600
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: love the white on white. The white on white color

601
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: scheme is hard to mess up. You talk to the

602
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: players there, Most of the players love the road unis

603
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: more than the home unions. But the Crimson. You can't

604
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: go wrong with the Crimson either. Second uniform I love

605
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: is even more bland than the first, and that is

606
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: Penn State. I like Penn State because of the same

607
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: reasons I like Alabama a lot of history, and it

608
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: also looks the same now as it did when our

609
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: forefathers played at Penn State well back in the day.

610
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: Don't check the history books on that, so Penn State

611
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: road home. Either way, I think they both look good.

612
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: I'm always a white on white guy. Penn State's got

613
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: the white helmet too, so the white on white on

614
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: white love that cause grass stains show up so much

615
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: better on the white on white. Third uniform, which I

616
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: gave serious consideration to putting number one, is USC. Always

617
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: loved USC, and I remember when I was a youth,

618
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: shall we say down in the State of Georgia. You know,

619
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: it was almost wrong to watch PAC twelve football where

620
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: I grew up. You know, people would look at you funny,

621
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: they would ask, kind of what's wrong. It's like if

622
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: I got caught watching USC versus Arizona State. It was

623
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: almost a ken to getting caught watching late night cinemax,

624
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean. But I watched it anyway.

625
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: I snuck it VHS tape. Maybe go to your friend's house. Maybe.

626
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:58,479
Speaker 1: But USC's uniforms are awesome, and much as is the

627
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: case with the first two schools, they look the same today,

628
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: road or home, either way, they look the same today

629
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: as they always have. Those colors really really pop. Even

630
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: back in the day, those colors popped, even back in

631
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: the Sam Cunningham days. Those colors pop. So you give

632
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: me USC. I don't care if you make them number one.

633
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: I would not argue very strongly against you if you

634
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: made them number one. Number four for me is Michigan,

635
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of you out there think

636
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: the Michigan uniform is the best. Anytime someone's talking helmet design,

637
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: a lot of people throw Michigan up there as the

638
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: best helmet design. I think it's a really good helmet,

639
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: But I just like the uniform overall. And the thing

640
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: about it is it's a uniform where the color scheme

641
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Speaker 1: stays the same. But unlike the first two schools there

642
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Speaker 1: in USC, I guess kind of too, Michigan has played

643
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: around some like occasionally they'll have a different design. I'm

644
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: a fan of keeping it the same. So they're traditional

645
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: homes and traditional roads. Those are the ones I like.

646
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,959
Speaker 1: At number four and then number five. It's a program

647
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Speaker 1: I don't get to see in person all too often

648
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: a couple of times. But Notre Dame, Notre Dame, this

649
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: is the one where the helmet really does it for me.

650
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: Notre Dame sometimes will give some different color combinations, but

651
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: to me, disproportionately, for Notre Dame, it's the helmet that

652
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: really appeals to me. So I went Bama, I went

653
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: Penn State, I went USC, I went Michigan, I went

654
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame. There are several others that were kind of

655
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Speaker 1: off the beaten path, like UCLA. I love the Clemson

656
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: Tiger Paul I love, I love the Virginia Tech logo

657
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: on the helmet. UCLA is a very classic look. The

658
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: ole miss powder blues I love Tennessee, love them. So

659
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: now we're quickly going down a road here where I'm

660
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: not going to mention a program and get in a

661
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: lot of trouble. Texas, Great Oklahoma, Great Nebraska. Love Nebraska's uniforms.

662
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: And then Iowa State for sentimental reasons, I like to

663
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Speaker 1: Iowa State. It's got the Hulk Hogan color scheme. Like,

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Speaker 1: who's going to argue against that? Not in w O Hogan.

665
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: I'm talking about red and yellow American hero Hogan of

666
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Speaker 1: the eighties. So those are some uniform commons I like.

667
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: I know the comment section will look like a Christmas tree.

668
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: They'll just be lit up right now. And that's fine.

669
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Speaker 1: That's why we do these videos. But Bama, Penn State, USC, Michigan,

670
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. If you display tradition, then I'm all about it.

671
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Speaker 1: Speaking of someone we just kind of referenced just passingly

672
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Speaker 1: in the end there. Georgia Sports next up asks what

673
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Speaker 1: is your view on Dabo Swiney and the success he's

674
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Speaker 1: had at Clemson. Obviously he had a part, now listen

675
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: to this wording. Obviously he had a part in their

676
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: two national championships. But I'm a believer that Venables, Deshaun Watson,

677
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,479
Speaker 1: and Trevor Lawrence are the only reason he's viewed as

678
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: such a great coach. In my opinion, Clemson is on

679
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: its way down. You know, a lot of things can

680
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: be true here simultaneously. Now I'm a believer that Clemson,

681
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: along with Texas, is one of the two most interesting

682
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: programs to watch in America this year. Because the way

683
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: you ended that statement, I don't know definitively yet you

684
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: say you think they're on the way down. We're going

685
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: to go a long way and finding that out this year.

686
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: But look, this entire premise of Dabos Swinny is only

687
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Speaker 1: a product of the assistant coaches he surrounded himself with

688
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,439
Speaker 1: and the players that he recruited. Well, that's all any

689
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: head coach is a product of. I don't know if

690
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: you guys noticed this. Nick Saban won't racking up national

691
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: championships at Michigan State. He didn't do it until he

692
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: got to the South and then he loaded up a

693
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Speaker 1: coaching staff at LSU that was insane. Kirby's down there,

694
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: who Jimbo Fisher's down there, Kirk Farns is down there.

695
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: All those future pro and college head coaches are down there,

696
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: must champs down there, and he locked down the state

697
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 1: of Louisiana. When you got a bunch of Marcus Spears

698
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: on your team, yeah, it makes you a whole lot

699
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: more likely to win. So do we say it about

700
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Speaker 1: any other coaches? What I'm asking? Do we say that

701
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: about Nick Saban? Like when has Nick Saban won a

702
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: national title where he didn't have a great staff and

703
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: didn't have great players? So yes, I mean, the fact

704
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,439
Speaker 1: of the matter is, sure Davoswenny's a product of having

705
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: really great players, and sure he's a product of benefiting

706
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 1: from really great coaches who implemented the culture that attracted

707
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: all that. You know, because that's a head coach's ultimate job.

708
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: An assistant coach's job is to coach. A head coach's

709
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: job is to coach, but it's also to implement, it's

710
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: to cast vision, it's to lead, it's to steer the ship.

711
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: That's what he's doing, and he's done a really good

712
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: job of it. You know, if his career were to

713
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: end today, Dablos Wwhenny's a Hall of Famer, You know that, right,

714
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 1: Daboswinny has won two national championships and resurrected a program

715
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Speaker 1: in Clemson and took it to heights it has never

716
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Speaker 1: before seen. And also, let's please not overlook this. Who

717
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Speaker 1: did he go through to win the national championships? He

718
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: didn't do it like you know, somebody maybe one hundred

719
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: years from now would think he did it. When you're

720
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Speaker 1: looking back on the Bama dynasty and it stretches from

721
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Speaker 1: the late two thousands to whenever Nick Saban hangs them up.

722
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Speaker 1: If someone else won a national championship in that time period,

723
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: you'll think, oh, that must have happened when Bama had

724
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: a down year. They went through Bama two times to

725
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: do it, so they didn't have an easy path. I mean,

726
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: the teams they were beating included Alabama en route to

727
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Speaker 1: winning multiple national championships. No one else has done it.

728
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Speaker 1: Did he do it with great players? Yeah? You wake

729
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: me up when someone does it without great players. Did

730
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Speaker 1: he do it with a great staff? Yeah? Did oh

731
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Speaker 1: wake me up when someone doesn't do it with the

732
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Speaker 1: great staff. Now here's the follow up question. And here's

733
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Speaker 1: what I wonder that the million dollar question around Clemson

734
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Speaker 1: is pertaining to what I think was part of the

735
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Speaker 1: issue this past year. I just felt like they were stale.

736
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Speaker 1: I've talked about this before. I felt like one of

737
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Speaker 1: the problems that's been creeping up on Clemson, which I

738
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Speaker 1: call a consequence of success, is a staleness that exists

739
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: because you have it so right. You've got the formula

740
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: so perfected in your mind that there's no need to

741
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Speaker 1: bring anything else from the outside. D Dabo has has rarely,

742
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: if ever, gone to the poor. He does not go

743
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: outside for hires. They promote from within. That's wonderful, that's

744
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,879
Speaker 1: indicative of a great culture. But here's the risk you run.

745
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: The risk you run is you go from you know,

746
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: being a body of water, because we only talk metaphors

747
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: around here, with a bunch of rivers feeding into it.

748
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: Therefore you've got the main source of water, but there

749
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: is freshness coming in from different directions. You go from

750
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: that to just becoming stagnant. It's just a pond and

751
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,280
Speaker 1: there is no fresh water flowing into it. Well it Clemson,

752
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: you know, they've been isolated up there, and they kept

753
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: the internal internal for so long. Nothing new has really

754
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 1: made its way into Clemson in quite a while. Well,

755
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: when they had Venables leave to go to Oklahoma, and

756
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: they had Tony Elliott leave to go to Virginia. You remember,

757
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: if you were watching the show, I talked at great

758
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: length about how I thought it was. It was really

759
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: a crossroad moment for Dabbo. People overused that a lot,

760
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 1: but it was a true crossroad moment because I thought

761
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 1: it was time for him to maybe buck a typical

762
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: trend and go outside for hires. Well they didn't. They

763
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: promoted from within a couple of guys who have never

764
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: had coordinator experience, and he said he made the decision

765
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: without too much forethought. He said, it took a few

766
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: seconds for me to figure that out. I think was paraphrasing,

767
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: but that was one of his loose quotes. He said,

768
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: I knew what I was going to do immediately. Okay, Look,

769
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: guy knows his program and knows his personnel better than me.

770
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: That's the million dollar question for me. Though. If they're

771
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: on their way down, I think what I just talked

772
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 1: about will end up being a contributing factor, more so

773
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,240
Speaker 1: than losing any one coach, or more so than losing

774
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: any one player, because if you've got the culture right,

775
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: you can attract new commodities in the way of players

776
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: and coaches, and when I say commodity Dabos when he's

777
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: a commodity too. I'm a commodity here. We're all commodities

778
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: to some extent, but one of them has to be

779
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: the leader. Dabo's the leader. So yeah, I don't know

780
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: if they're on their way down, but it's one of

781
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: the most interesting programs to watch this year because of

782
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: those elements in play. Next up a very what should

783
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: I call this? A very complex question because there are

784
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: a lot of places I haven't been. So here's the question.

785
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: The big Z. Next up asks what are three stadiums

786
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: you've never been to that you most want to go to?

787
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: Arkansas is clearly number one. I've talked about this before.

788
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: Arkansas is a place where it always seems like when

789
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: they have a big game there, there's always a game

790
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: that's a little bit bigger somewhere else. I e this

791
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: past year, I think it was Week two, Jesse. I

792
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,879
Speaker 1: think I want to say week two when Texas goes

793
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: to Arkansas. And remember that was that same day where

794
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: Oregon was at Ohio State. I went to Iowa Iowa

795
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: State because that was the biggest game in that series history,

796
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: and I have a rooting interest there I'm not too

797
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: ashamed to admit. So of course I watched the game,

798
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 1: and I look at the scene there, the environment, and

799
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 1: I say, man, I wish I would have been at Arkansas,

800
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: but I couldn't have been there. Well, here's the other thing.

801
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: I've never been there. I have not been up there

802
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: for so much as an FCS game. I've never been there.

803
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,240
Speaker 1: So we have got to get to a game at Arkansas.

804
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: I consider it a personal failure. I have not only

805
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: let you down, I've let myself down by not being

806
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: at Arkansas. So we're looking at the schedule this year.

807
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: We're going to make it happen. We are going to

808
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: make it happen. I don't make many promises here, and

809
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: that means you don't have to live up to anything.

810
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 1: We're gonna make that happen. So Arkansas, Cincinnati's in their

811
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: week one. They've they've of course got several big games

812
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Speaker 1: cause they're playing in the SEC. They go to Brigham Young.

813
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: Isn't that right? I think we said they go to

814
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: Brigham Young. They play them some which way. So yeah,

815
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna figure out a way to go

816
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: to Kansas. Okay, then the next one is a little

817
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: bit further west, and it's Oklahoma. I've also not been

818
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: to a game at Oklahoma. The Oklahoma games I have

819
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: been to have all either been neutral site in terms

820
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: of playoff or they've been neutral site in terms of

821
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Speaker 1: Red River. So I have not been to a game

822
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Speaker 1: in Norman, and it's a place. It's one I have

823
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 1: had circled. I thought for all the world the Iowa

824
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: State game was going to be won this past year.

825
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 1: It just didn't play out that way. There ended up

826
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: being bigger games. So Oklahoma always a place and see

827
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: Oklahoma steps up, they play big out of conference games.

828
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: So even if it's not big twelve action that has

829
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: drawn me there in the past, we got the out

830
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: of conference potential going for us. And also they're about

831
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: to head to the SEC. So I mean, we could

832
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: be watching Florida at Oklahoma in a couple of years.

833
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: We could be watching like Alabama at Oklahoma in a

834
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: couple of years. Let's make sure we get to Oklahoma.

835
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: And then, thirdly, West Virginia is another place I've really

836
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: longed to go to. West Virginia is a place where

837
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: I feel like I would fit in West Virginia culture

838
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: just kind of feels like sort of the culture that

839
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: I was raised in a lot more so then you know,

840
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: maybe some of the other places I actually go to

841
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: more often. I love I Love Take Me Home Country Roads.

842
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: I know every word to it, so I would be

843
00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: right at home in the postgame scene there. I've never

844
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: lit a couch on fire, but I'm not saying I'm

845
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: opposed to lighting furniture on fire. Certainly if the situation

846
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: is right and the elements are conducive, Yeah, let's light

847
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: some furniture on fire. Why not? So West Virginia always

848
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: looking for a reason to get up there Oklahoma and Arkansas.

849
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a virtual to do list for

850
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,720
Speaker 1: our upcoming twenty twenty two yet to be named tour

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Speaker 1: this fall. Speaking of fall, it's a wonderful season. It's

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Speaker 1: the season we all look forward to because well, college

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Speaker 1: football is coming. But there is a question here. There's

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Speaker 1: a very important question here. So I'm going to read

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Speaker 1: it and then I'm going to respond. Question, if your

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Speaker 1: soon to be wife really wants a fall wedding, is

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Speaker 1: a good compromise having it the saturday that our team

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Speaker 1: has a bye. Now I'm going to assume some things

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Speaker 1: here I'm going to assume that when you say our team,

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Speaker 1: you and the wife or the future missus have the

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Speaker 1: same rooting interest. Okay, we've established that. Now I'm against

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Speaker 1: fall weddings on Saturdays at all costs because unless you're eloping,

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Speaker 1: I assume inviting people to this wedding, most people are

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Speaker 1: going to be from varied backgrounds, and they're going to

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Speaker 1: have very different rooting interests. And so just because you

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Speaker 1: and the missus pull for Team X, doesn't mean that

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Speaker 1: half of the congregation may not be checking their phones

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Speaker 1: because they're pulling for team why. So, Look, it's your

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Speaker 1: personal life. I always offer this caveat you live your

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Speaker 1: life the way you want to live your life. But

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Speaker 1: if you want my advice, spring is a wonderful time

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Speaker 1: to have weddings. I also really wish that our culture

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Speaker 1: would popularize weekday weddings. You do everything else on weekdays.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why a perfectly good Saturday in the

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Speaker 1: fall has to be reserved for this all about the

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Speaker 1: institution of marriage. I just the wedding infrastructure in this

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Speaker 1: country not the biggest fan of for reasons that I

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Speaker 1: won't get into. But let's think this through. Now, if

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Speaker 1: weekday is out of the question. I understand this is

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Speaker 1: a much bigger deal to her, probably than to you

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Speaker 1: if weekdays out of the question and spring is out

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Speaker 1: of the question, and we truly are insisting on going

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Speaker 1: through with this thing in the fall, Yes, do it

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Speaker 1: on the most advantageous bye week you can find. There's

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Speaker 1: not going to be a perfect compromise if you're inviting

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Speaker 1: people to this thing. Which brings me to my final point,

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Speaker 1: and that is the people you're inviting. The trade off

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Speaker 1: for me telling you it's your life, feel free to

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Speaker 1: have a wedding on a fall Saturday. The trade off

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Speaker 1: for me acquiescing there is you have to acquiesce. And

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Speaker 1: you have to understand this point. Don't assume that your

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Speaker 1: life is as important to everyone else as it is

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Speaker 1: to you. I'm gonna be blunt. I'm telling you because

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Speaker 1: your buddies want to tell you, but they're unwilling to

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Speaker 1: tell you. You're gonna have some people who are going to

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Speaker 1: rain check this thing. You're gonna have some people who

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Speaker 1: are going to shoot you a ghost. They're going to RSVP.

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Speaker 1: You're going to get the food ordered, You're gonna get

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Speaker 1: their place at the table, and they're going to no show,

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Speaker 1: and it's going to be because of allergies or some

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Speaker 1: COVID variant that no one one's ever heard of and

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Speaker 1: no one ever will hear of. They're going to be

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Speaker 1: a million different excuses, but they're going to no show you.

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Speaker 1: And the reality is they just don't care about your

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Speaker 1: wedding as much as you do. But what they do

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Speaker 1: care about is they do care about Michigan versus Michigan State.

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Speaker 1: And so I am humbly but firmly begging you to

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Speaker 1: not go down the route that has ruined many a

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Speaker 1: friendship and relationship in the past. Don't go down the

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Speaker 1: route of texting your body or worse of all, looking

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Speaker 1: them in the eye face to face and saying, well,

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Speaker 1: I guess you're telling me that Michigan State football is

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Speaker 1: more important than our friendship. Don't do that. Don't do that,

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Speaker 1: cause that's not what they're telling you. They're telling you

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Speaker 1: Michigan State football is more important than your wedding, not

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Speaker 1: your marriage. Your wedding, the wedding and the marriage are

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Speaker 1: two different things. You're already married before you actually have

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Speaker 1: the wedding. So let's all be real here. This is

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Speaker 1: a ceremony, and yes, if they won't tell you, I will.

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Speaker 1: Some of your friends absolutely do value one of those

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Speaker 1: twelve saturdays in the fall more than your wedding. And

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Speaker 1: if that's too much to hay, then that's too much

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Speaker 1: to handle. But there is compromise that has to be

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Speaker 1: had on both sides of the respective aisle here. If

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Speaker 1: we're going to insist on going through with a fall wedding,

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Speaker 1: which I would outlaw wholesale via executive order if I

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Speaker 1: were either president or a college football commissioner. Either way,

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Speaker 1: they're outlawed, so enjoy them while you can. But if

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Speaker 1: we're going to follow through on this ridiculous fall wedding

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Speaker 1: concept on a Saturday and not acknowledge the weekday wedding

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Speaker 1: or even the Friday or Sunday wedding potential or spring

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Speaker 1: summer wedding potential, and we're going to invite people, just

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Speaker 1: understand that with every action there is an equal and

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Speaker 1: in some cases an uglier opposite reaction. And if we're

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Speaker 1: comfortable with that, if we're good, everyone's good, everyone's good. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're all shaking our head. Yes, then there you go.

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Speaker 1: Wedding bells for all, or maybe not. We'll see. Keep

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Speaker 1: me updated though, always interested. We had a big fight

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Speaker 1: last year. The reason I'm hesitant to talk about this,

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Speaker 1: we had a big fight. We're one of our listeners.

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Speaker 1: He knows who he is. I hope he's still a listener.

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Speaker 1: He told me he was an predicament where one of

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Speaker 1: his friends was getting married, and I think that he

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Speaker 1: was invited to the way he was in the wedding.

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Speaker 1: That's what it was. He was in the wedding and

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Speaker 1: it was a fall Saturday, and so the mistake has

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Speaker 1: been made a million times before. This was just a

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Speaker 1: million and one. And he asked me for advice, and

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Speaker 1: I asked him, can I read this on air? He

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Speaker 1: said yes, I used real names. He gave me permission.

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Speaker 1: Then he took the clip where I said roughly what

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Speaker 1: I just said, and he sent it to his buddy

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Speaker 1: who was getting married. And then his buddy just goes

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Speaker 1: crazy via text and drops the I guess you're saying

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Speaker 1: football is more important than our friendship line, and then

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Speaker 1: the aforementioned question asker screenshots the back and forth and

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Speaker 1: sends it to me and then shows me a friendship

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Speaker 1: just crumbling right before our eyes because of our podcast,

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Speaker 1: But I don't think it was because of our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I take no blame for this. It is not our responsibility.

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Speaker 1: We were just a variable. The actual cause of all

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Speaker 1: this was and always will be, sadday weddings in the fall.

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Speaker 1: Very few good things come from them. Maybe a good

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Speaker 1: picture or two, But just think of all the people

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Speaker 1: Saturdays that you are raining on. That's all I ask.

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Speaker 1: That's all I ask. Spring is such a wonderful time

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Speaker 1: of year to get married. Or Wednesday in November. Maybe

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Speaker 1: a little bit more bleak, maybe looks like the lyrics

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Speaker 1: to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald outside, but still

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Speaker 1: it's better than missing the third and fourth quarter of

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Speaker 1: Ohio State, Penn State. For Okay, we got to get

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Speaker 1: out of here. Thank you so much for listening. Make sure,

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Speaker 1: and I emphasize this strongly because it's helping us out

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Speaker 1: even as I speak, make sure you are subscribed. Wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your pots, make sure you're subscribed. And if

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Speaker 1: you are on YouTube, make sure you're subscribed there. Those

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Speaker 1: things help us out greatly this time of year. And

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Speaker 1: with that in mind, let's dip out. Have yourselves a

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Speaker 1: great early start to your weekend. For direct Colin from

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Speaker 1: producer Jesse and our production executives. I'm Josh Pate. Take care.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you Sunday night. Until then, couple weeks