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Speaker 1: university and conference stance and by law that you're going

436
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Speaker 1: to be paid a revenue share of playing in this conference.

437
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,479
Speaker 1: And if you plan the SEC, you're in a more

438
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,320
Speaker 1: valuable conference than the ACC or the Big twelve.

439
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 2: Therefore you're gonna make a lot more.

440
00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,919
Speaker 1: It's always been the case that the better players on

441
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 1: average are going to those schools in those conferences, but

442
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,240
Speaker 1: it will never have the volume turned up to eleven

443
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,679
Speaker 1: like it will now, which brings me to my next point.

444
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,359
Speaker 1: I have many of you ask me every week do

445
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,159
Speaker 1: you think the SEC and the Big ten are ever

446
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,720
Speaker 1: going to break away? And I keep telling you guys privately,

447
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,160
Speaker 1: and I'll answer it publicly. They're doing it now. You

448
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 1: just don't realize it's happening because there's not some gigantic

449
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,439
Speaker 1: press release. There won't be breaking news that tomorrow at

450
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,640
Speaker 1: eleven am, Tony Petiti and Greg sink you will hold

451
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 1: a joint press conference where they announce we're out, ladies

452
00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, We're gone. They don't have to all they

453
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,359
Speaker 1: have to do if they want to break away is

454
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,399
Speaker 1: let this climate exist for three or four years, and

455
00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 1: the revenue disparity alone will so thoroughly de hatch them,

456
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,640
Speaker 1: not to mention their media rites, it will so thoroughly

457
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,840
Speaker 1: detach them from the rest of the sport that it

458
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 1: will already be unrecognizable. You look at them play, you

459
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 1: look at the others play, it will already be unrecognizable.

460
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:16,400
Speaker 1: They're already detaching themselves. So yes, it's happening now, maybe

461
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,679
Speaker 1: just not in the exact manner you pictured it in

462
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 1: your mind. So this doesn't answer everything. I do think

463
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 1: it's a step in from this point forward the right direction.

464
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,399
Speaker 1: Like I'm not crazy about the idea that we got here,

465
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 1: but having been.

466
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 2: Here for a little while, I'd much prefer this world.

467
00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 1: It won't be without figurative casualties, Like I've had the

468
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,680
Speaker 1: G five folks coming at me this week because I said,

469
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,000
Speaker 1: you guys should get in front of this and have

470
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,119
Speaker 1: your own playoff. You're not gonna be affiliated with this

471
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 1: thing unless it's purely out of the kindness of their hearts.

472
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 1: So you're either counting on the power for and really

473
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 1: the power too to look upon you with sympathy and

474
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,719
Speaker 1: continue to subsidize you, or you're done. You're gonna die

475
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 1: on the Viney don't have a great shot either way.

476
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 1: But at least if you take your fate into your

477
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 1: own hands and try and do your own thing, least

478
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:07,719
Speaker 1: you've got a shot.

479
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 2: That's how I think. But look, if you're a G

480
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 2: five fan, you disagree with me, fine, have it your

481
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 2: way like I don't.

482
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 1: That was its whole sidebar this week, where like UAB fans,

483
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 1: South Alabama fans coming at me saying why you want

484
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,640
Speaker 1: to relegate us. You're already relegated. There's nothing that changes that.

485
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 1: It's only going to be exclamated further and you'll only

486
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 1: be further detached in this new world. Your leaders understand that.

487
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: That's why they're floating these ideas out there. I'm just

488
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,120
Speaker 1: looking at the ideas and saying, we should have done

489
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 1: this a long time ago for competitive purposes.

490
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 2: We should have done this long before you.

491
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,359
Speaker 1: Came to this conclusion, just because you're not gonna make

492
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 1: enough money anymore. So if you guys will just make

493
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: me a billionaire, that's all you gotta do.

494
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 2: Just make me a billionaire. I'll subsidize the G five.

495
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: You think I hate them, I'd show you how much

496
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 1: I don't hate them. I'd go subsidize them where they

497
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 1: don't need to lean on these fools, where they can go.

498
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:03,120
Speaker 2: Do their own thing.

499
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: And by the way, one other person asked me, if

500
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: you ab were to break away now, if they were

501
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: to have their own playoff, then you'd never talk about them.

502
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: I never talk about them now, not because I don't

503
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 1: care about them, because you don't care about them. I

504
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 1: swear to you. I'd love to mix in G five

505
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,880
Speaker 1: segments every show. But if our mission statement is talk

506
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,160
Speaker 1: about what people care about, and we do G five

507
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: content and it completely craters.

508
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 2: That's a disingenuous approach to putting a show together for

509
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 2: an audience.

510
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 1: I'd be more likely to talk about you if you

511
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,280
Speaker 1: were in your own postseason system.

512
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 2: That would be entertaining and it would be watched and.

513
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 1: We could actually talk about it because you actually have

514
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,400
Speaker 1: a shot to win a title like that would be fun.

515
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 2: But I digress. I digress.

516
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: Have it your way, And I know that sounds like

517
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 1: it's a tangent. It's all tied into this because the

518
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: disparity that this world will create is something there's no

519
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 1: coming back from. That sucks, but that's a part of

520
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 1: this and the sooner folks that the better off. They'll

521
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: be moving forward, moving right along. So what's the latest

522
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 1: on the great gas station recruiting War of twenty twenty four?

523
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 1: You ask, what am I even talking about? Some of

524
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,919
Speaker 1: you may ask, Well, here's the deal. For a long time,

525
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: I've been on the road. We're on the road every

526
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 1: week pretty much in the spring and fall, so I

527
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 1: make a lot of stops at rest stops, gas stations,

528
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 1: et cetera. Now I'm in the South and BUCkies has

529
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: really proliferated the South, so I've been a BUCkies guy,

530
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 1: but BUCkies has not really been a JP store of

531
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 1: the love has not been reciprocating. So quick trip saw

532
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: an opportunity and when you see a chance, take it,

533
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,880
Speaker 1: as the great Steve wynn Wood once taught us, and

534
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 1: they live by that mantra. So here's what's been happening.

535
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: As of the past few weeks. I have entered into

536
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: kind of my own quasi recruitment and BUCkies has been

537
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 1: mia totally. In fact, BUCkies from a social media perspective,

538
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: reeks of the Super Bowl logo to me. At one

539
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: time they were edgy and really cool and fun, and

540
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: then they started to get too high profile, and then

541
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 1: the suits walked in the room and homogenized everything. And

542
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: now Bucky's Twitter's lame, like Bucky's on Socials lame. I

543
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 1: don't know what what happened to the store I Love Anyway,

544
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 1: Luckily this is not Russia, and we got multiple options

545
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: to choose from out there.

546
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 2: So Love's steps up.

547
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: And they're making some strides and then Quick Trip jumps

548
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: in and Bradley.

549
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 2: We got this footage. The other day.

550
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 1: I show up to the office and Quick Trip has

551
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: sent a wonderful care package. That thing was loaded with

552
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: pretty much every item they carried. There was a very

553
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: heartfelt card in there that, you know, said some things

554
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 1: that maybe I'll share with you one day. Not every

555
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 1: detail of my recruitment is for public consumption.

556
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:49,239
Speaker 2: Let me just say that.

557
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: And so that led to a crystal ball update because

558
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to align myself with one brand,

559
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 1: and once I'm there, I'm there, and this is recruiting season.

560
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 2: This is hot recordcruitment right now.

561
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,959
Speaker 1: I would argue one of the hottest recruitments in the country,

562
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: which led to a Crystal Ball update and the crystal

563
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,679
Speaker 1: Ball forecast as of Sunday night had shifted and it

564
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 1: had shifted back in the favor of Quick Trip. Now,

565
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: as for today, today's Tuesday, as we're talking, we've had

566
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 1: several other contenders toss their hat in the ring, as

567
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 1: any good recruitment has. We've seen several twists and turns.

568
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 1: As of eleven thirty Monday night, Pilot Flying Jay hit

569
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: us up and we had Weagles get involved a Tennessee staple.

570
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 1: We had them hop on the train. Are we too

571
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: late to join this party? Of course you're not. In fact,

572
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: I told them parkin Bucky Spot. They're not showing up anyway.

573
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: Parking Bucky Spot. We had cases Casey's the best breakfast

574
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: pizza this side of the moon. Not allegedly, that's just

575
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: a cold, hard fact. They've entered the chat. And so

576
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: here's the situation. I'm gonna shoot with you as straight

577
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 1: as I can. There are meetings scheduled this week. Official visits,

578
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: if you will, they're scheduled this week. I'm not going

579
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: to tell you how many. It's more than one. And

580
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 1: so when you when you hear it from me, it'll

581
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 1: be final, and until then, nothing's final. But here's the deal. Okay,

582
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,959
Speaker 1: here's the thing. This is the most consumed college football

583
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: show in digital media. And this is a temporary studio

584
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: because we're building a brand new studio right now, and

585
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: come fall, that thing's going to be immaculate. And I'm

586
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 1: going to commit to one of these brands once they

587
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 1: commit to me, and we will have a major partner

588
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: that is a gas station service station company and their

589
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: branding will be plastered all over those Florida ceiling LEDs.

590
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: And you have never seen a more loyal audience than

591
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: this audience. Is we could very well tip the scales

592
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: in the great gas station wars in this country right now,

593
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: and it's the only kind of war that's great. Gas

594
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: station wars are wonderful. And I am ready to dive

595
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: headfirst in and I am ready to, for lack of

596
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: a better term, weaponize our audience for good because you

597
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: have never seen loyalty. You've never seen brand loyalty like

598
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: you will see. You ask the folks at Academy Sports

599
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: and Outdoors about that brand loyalty. You want to know

600
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: about brand loyalty. You want to see proof of performance.

601
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: You ask those folks how loyal that old Pate State

602
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 1: Army is. So we are going to make a selection.

603
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: We're doing our due diligence, and we're having meetings this

604
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: week and I would guess by the end of business

605
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: today we'll have more meetings on the books.

606
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 2: But that's our update. Guys.

607
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: We got all or most of the major players in

608
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: the game, and the ones who don't want to be

609
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: in the game can just get run over in the future.

610
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: That's the way it is. That's the way it's got

611
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: to be. So that's an update on gas Station Wars

612
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: right now. I will say this, and this is a

613
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: message to Loves. Okay, Loves, they're getting to know the family.

614
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: Everyone else thus far has targeted me. And look, make

615
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: no mistake, I can be boughbed. Like mem said, forget

616
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: about all the fortune cookie cinemon out there, every man

617
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: has his price, and then Ted Dibiassi stole that line

618
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,719
Speaker 1: from her and used it on pro wrestling. But I

619
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: will notice if Loves continues to follow all the folks

620
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: in the stormchasing community, of which I am a part

621
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,719
Speaker 1: of on a part time basis. I noticed that that

622
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: didn't go without notice.

623
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 2: Loves.

624
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: That was a very That's like buying the Grandma flowers

625
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: on Valentine's Day.

626
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 2: I noticed it. I noticed it.

627
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: Let's move on and gas station wars are great. Scott

628
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: hit me and said, does the culture you saw on

629
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: your visit at Florida translate to Billy Napier being the

630
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: coach at Florida in five years?

631
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 2: It should? It should. There's no guarantee in this.

632
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: What Scott is talking about is we were down there

633
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: two weeks ago and we man We got his in depth.

634
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: We got as good a look at Florida's program as

635
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: any program we visited. Billy Napier made sure to show

636
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: us everything good and bad. Now he showed us everything.

637
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: I mean, guys, we had access to everything. We sat

638
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: We sat in with coaching staff, we sat in with

639
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: player personnel staff, full recruiting staff. We were taken into

640
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: Florida's war room. I'm talking about access to their big

641
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: board for recruiting everything. And that is a supreme amount

642
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: of trust that you have to have in someone. And

643
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, and I don't take that lightly. But

644
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: we saw it all. The reason I'm mentioning that is

645
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: we see some of that at the other places we go,

646
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 1: and we're around some places where they win a lot.

647
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: And I came back and I told you, Florida reeks

648
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: of a program that's had way more on field success

649
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: than they actually have thus far under Billy Napier. If

650
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: you were to walk with me through the halls of

651
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: Alabama or Ohio State or Georgia and then you went

652
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: to Florida, Florida doesn't feel that much different. It doesn't

653
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: look that much different because they've massively upgraded, I mean

654
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: massively over the past few years. But it also doesn't

655
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: feel different just from an operational standpoint. It feels the

656
00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: same as it does at those other places. But then

657
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: look at the records and they're struggling to even make

658
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: a bowl game so far through his first two years,

659
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: and you wonder, Wow, I expected one thing when I

660
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: came in here, I get a different thing.

661
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 2: That's how I felt.

662
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: I felt like I'd walk in there and it feels

663
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: like collectively everyone's trying to keep their head above water.

664
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 2: It doesn't feel that way at all.

665
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: There is such a detachment within the walls of that

666
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: place versus outside. When it comes to what the perspective

667
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: is of the future of Florida. Everyone outside thinks toughest

668
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: schedule in the country. They'll be sub five hundred again

669
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: this year, and that staff will be out the door internally,

670
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: like they fully expect to contend, and the schedule is

671
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: what it is this year. They expect to be a

672
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: much higher level operation this year, and then the year

673
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,479
Speaker 1: after and just any point moving forward.

674
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 2: They think they're going to be in the thick of

675
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 2: it every year.

676
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: And Napier put it to me like this, he said,

677
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: if you properly understand what we inherited, he said, I'm

678
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: not complaining we hadn't been good enough, et cetera, et cetera,

679
00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: but we feel like we inherited a construction site. We've

680
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: been working on a construction site for two years. He's

681
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: speaking figuratively, like we're having to overhaul this, and we're

682
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: having to overhaul that, and we're trying to also win

683
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: games on the fly. He said, this doesn't feel like

684
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: a construction site anymore. So from this point forward, this

685
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: is our program. Whatever you see us put on the field,

686
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: it's fully ours and we've always owned it, but we

687
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: really own this point moving forward. So what I say

688
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: is either my eyes and instincts were totally deceiving me.

689
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 2: Or Florida could be better than you think they'll be

690
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 2: this fall.

691
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: Now I have no idea what that means, because they

692
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: could be an eight and four team this year and

693
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: be one of the fifteen best teams in the country.

694
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: That's how tough their schedule is. Colin or Bradley, whoever's

695
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: punching in there, do me a favor and throw their

696
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: record up one more time for me, because I want

697
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: to emphasize one thing in particular, like they've got a

698
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: tough schedule throughout. They open at home with Miami. In fact,

699
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: they play Miami and Central Florida and Florida State on

700
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: the same year.

701
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 2: But the way they end the season, listen to this.

702
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: They played Georgia in Jacksonville, then they go to Texas

703
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: the next week, then they play LSU at home, then

704
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: Ole Miss at home, and then close the season at

705
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: Florida State.

706
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 2: Guys, there's no bye week baked in there.

707
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:22,800
Speaker 1: That is top five, top five, top ten, possible top five. Actually,

708
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: you're playing five consecutive teams that could be like top

709
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 1: five caliber. You're absolutely playing five teams that will be

710
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: top ten caliber this year. All in a row to

711
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: end the season. Oh and by the way, earlier in

712
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,280
Speaker 1: the year you went to Nieland Stadium, you had Miami

713
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: and A and M at home, and you've got a

714
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 1: trip to Starkville right before, you got UCF at home,

715
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: and Kentucky's in there as well. There is nothing Samford,

716
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: is it. They've got an FCS cream puff in Week two.

717
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 2: That's it.

718
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: Every other game's legit, every other game is losable. So

719
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: my point there is I could be right about this.

720
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: Napier could be right about what he says, and they

721
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: go eight and four this year. There's a world where

722
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 1: Florida goes eight four and they're the twelfth best team

723
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: in the country. That's legitimately possible with that schedule. Of course,

724
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: you are what you are, what your record says you are.

725
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: A crowd would come in and just shout nonsense words

726
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: at you, but that could very well happen. I have

727
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: no idea what to expect from them this fall, but

728
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: getting Graham Mertz back is a huge win for them,

729
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: a massive win.

730
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 2: So I've said this a few times. I'll say it

731
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 2: once more.

732
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: Don't be discounting teams that are good at quarterback They're good,

733
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: solid and foundationally said at quarterback. Next topic, this is

734
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: a very pressing topic, one of one of I would

735
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 1: say the more pressing topics of our time. Here Caleb

736
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: asked me how much money will you make on ski

737
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: ball at Dave and Busters when real betting is allowed

738
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: and released. I had to look it up, and he's right.

739
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: David Busters is about to allow you to start wagering

740
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: on their arcade games. And I just want to be

741
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: the bearer of bad news for anyone who thinks this

742
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:04,240
Speaker 1: is revolution lutionary. This was happening at Hollywood Connection in Columbus, Georgia.

743
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: It was happening at Diamond Gym's in Columbus, Georgia in

744
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: the nineties. There were entire underground betting pools in those arcades.

745
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: I learned the ins and outs, the intricacies of betting,

746
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: not from you know, watching Jimmy the Greek or anything

747
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: like that. I learned it through betting on arcade games.

748
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 1: That's where I learned about juice. That's why I learned

749
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: about movement of odds. That's why I learned about laying

750
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: points and getting points. It wasn't from sports. We would

751
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: go to the arcade and get dropped off, and we

752
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: would just be feral mall children, and we would bet

753
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: the money our parents gave us on arcade games. And

754
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about that little ratchet system that Florida

755
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: had going for a while where you bet money and

756
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: you get tickets in return.

757
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 2: Well, no, we're betting money. We're getting money.

758
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: So we'd shoot quarters or dice at school, we would

759
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: bet on the arcade games. Just a whole level of

760
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: youth debauchery in rural Georgia, the likes of which had

761
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: never been seen before or since. I'm sure they had

762
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: like children running moonshine during Prohibition. But besides that, this

763
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: was about as raw and gritty as it got as

764
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,720
Speaker 1: a child on the streets of forts and Georgia. No,

765
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: no small community was immune. And did I ever let

766
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: Mema know.

767
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 2: I did not.

768
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 1: That would have been a tough conversation. Well, I would

769
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: have gotten the switch. And Mema was a big believer

770
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 1: in making you pick your own switch off of the tree.

771
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: And if you didn't pick a sturdy enough switch, she

772
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 1: just tossed your switch in the garbage.

773
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 2: And go pull off another one.

774
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,879
Speaker 1: And if you don't know what switching is by the way,

775
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 1: some of you who lived a more coddled childhood look

776
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: it up.

777
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 2: It's tough.

778
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: It leaves a mark. But Mema also raised a very

779
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 1: solid child. I would view myself as a pretty solid

780
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: product of a relatively strict upbringing. But yeah, so David

781
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: Busters is gonna allow this and it will devolve into

782
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:01,760
Speaker 1: chaos pretty quickly.

783
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 2: But let's be real.

784
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: People are betting on everything now anyway. I really, for

785
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: many reasons, don't look forward to election seasons. But one

786
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: of the reasons I don't look forward to election seasons

787
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: is because people who normally don't talk about betting think

788
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: they're you know, getting an edge on the rest of

789
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: the room when they learn that these sports books offer

790
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: congressional odds presidential odds, and then they don't understand how

791
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: to follow it. They don't understand that those markets are

792
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 1: manipulated by lobbying dollars like all that happens. So anyway,

793
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 1: in a weird, twisted way, betting on some ski ball

794
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,120
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795
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: mouth over at David Buss is that maybe, like the

796
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,279
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797
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: the earth, there is also another strategy, and that's just

798
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 1: don't bet.

799
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 2: You could do that. It has worked a time or

800
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 2: two for people in the past.

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you one thing like a prop bet

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Speaker 1: that one. I did telegraph it with like ten seconds

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00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,839
Speaker 1: Am hit me and said, why is there such a

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00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: different narrative around ole Miss and Miami versus Colorado. Ole

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00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: Miss is considered a window program. They lean heavily on

834
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: the portal, but when Colorado upgrades or leans on the portal,

835
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: there are negative undertones and hit pieces from the national media. Well,

836
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: there are some surface based reasons and some reasons beneath

837
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: the surface. Some people in the national media don't like

838
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: Deon Sanders full stop. There are some people who don't

839
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: respect Colorado's approach, and they think it's a farce and

840
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 1: it's disrespectful to how rosters are supposed to be built.

841
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,720
Speaker 1: Don't I don't feel these ways like, I have no problem.

842
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: I love watching Dion and I love just kind of

843
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,439
Speaker 1: sitting back and seeing if it's gonna work. But I'm

844
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: not writing hit pieces. You asked, why are some of

845
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: those hit pieces out there? Well, some people don't like

846
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 1: what Colorado's doing, and there is a difference, by the

847
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: way in what Colorado's doing versus what Miami or ole

848
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: Miss are doing. Like ole Miss they have finished seventeenth,

849
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, twenty third, and twenty first in recruiting the

850
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: last four years. Colorado just finished one hundred and nineteenth.

851
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: So let's just be real now, that's not an apples

852
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: to apples comparison in roster construction. Like yes, by SEC standards,

853
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: ole Miss leans heavily on the portal. They're still trying

854
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: to build through recruiting. Miami absolutely tries to build through recruiting.

855
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: They're aggressive in the portal, but that's not even comparable

856
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: what they're doing in their approach versus Colorado. So I

857
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: also think there's a fair amount of just struggling to

858
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: adapt or struggling to ingest sort of the newness of

859
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: what you're allowed to do in college football. I think

860
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: Dion talks a lot. I think some people don't like that.

861
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: I am not speaking for myself there. I wish you'd

862
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: talk more. I got no problem with it. As long

863
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,959
Speaker 1: as you have to show up on Saturdays in the fall.

864
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: You can talk as much as you want to in

865
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: the winter, spring and summer. Mem And she was right,

866
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: always has been, and always will be. Now, what would

867
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: frustrate me is if Dion wasn't the head coach at

868
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: Colorado and he was just talking, Okay, that'd be a

869
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: different story.

870
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:44,359
Speaker 2: Dion's got a coach in the fall.

871
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: Those players, his son at quarterback, they've got to play

872
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: in the fall.

873
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 2: Having said that, I also think there's.

874
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,439
Speaker 1: A little bit of it that is it's just part

875
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: of part of it, Like it's part of the course,

876
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: it's part of the territory. If you're gonna be brash

877
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: and brazen and in your face, if you're going to

878
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: pioneer a different approach and not be shy about it,

879
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 1: but instead be very boastful about it or outspoken about it.

880
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: You know what's coming, you know what's coming.

881
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 2: Now.

882
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: Deon doesn't have weekly cry sessions, so that's not aimed

883
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: at him. But I do sometimes look in our inbox

884
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: when we do these mailbag shows, and I do see

885
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 1: some people who label themselves Colorado fans or Dion fans

886
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: and they complain about it.

887
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 2: There's no room to complain about that.

888
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: Again, that's not aimed at him or Colorado, but that

889
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: is aimed at a lot of people who complain in

890
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: the name of Colorado.

891
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 2: This is just part of it. Dude. You're gonna be

892
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 2: You're gonna be on the front lines for better or

893
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 2: for worse. It's gonna be part of it.

894
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: Now, this fall will go a long way and telling

895
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: the tale because this fall they got a tough schedule.

896
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: They are in the Big twelve, and they have talked

897
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: a lot, and they've been Deon's been pretty emphatic about

898
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: the guys walking out the door are largely the ones

899
00:43:59,320 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: they didn't need.

900
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 2: The ones coming in the door largely the ones they

901
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 2: do need.

902
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, you'll play twelve of them this

903
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: fall and we'll see if there's any noticeable improvement.

904
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 2: That's it.

905
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: That's the fairest way to go about this. Next up,

906
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 1: Alex asked a very important question from semi recent history.

907
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,320
Speaker 1: He said, what's the state official position nineteen ninety seven?

908
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: Brett Hart or Shawn Michaels. Most of you, I don't know.

909
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 1: Some of you have no idea about anything pro wrestling related,

910
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:30,879
Speaker 1: So don't worry.

911
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 2: This won't take long.

912
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: But even if you don't like pro wrestling at all,

913
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 1: there is one story that bled over into real real

914
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: life that I would encourage you to do some research on.

915
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 1: It's called the Montreal screw Job. It's the most infamous night,

916
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: I would argue in the history of pro wrestling as

917
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: a business, not as a TV show, as the business.

918
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 1: And it's just fascinating and you can get down a

919
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: rabbit hole really quick on it. But it was those

920
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: two in the ring, it was in Montreal, and there

921
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: was something that happened that wasn't scripted, shall we say so.

922
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:03,959
Speaker 1: I don't want to ruin it for you. I don't

923
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: spoiler alert things that aren't even thirty years old. And

924
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: I believe the same thing about the Matrix franchise as well,

925
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: but I'm taking Sean Michaels. I had much more respect

926
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: for the way Brett Hart treated the business back then

927
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: than I did Seawn Michaels. But Shawn Michaels I thought

928
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: was the best in the business. He's my favorite pro

929
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: wrestler of all time from a behind the scenes perspective,

930
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: probably not the easiest to deal with by his own

931
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: admission there, but in the ring, in big moments, there

932
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:32,280
Speaker 1: was no one better. So I'm taking Sean Michaels against

933
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: the world in any era, but especially nineteen ninety seven.

934
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:37,439
Speaker 1: Then the dude gets a back injury and he's gone

935
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: four years and comes back, and I thought did some

936
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: of his best work after a four year hiatus and

937
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: back surgery. Fascinating stuff. Anyway, we move on in this

938
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 1: college football centric pod. Austin hit me from Florida and said,

939
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 1: describe your perfect weekend. Well, this requires a paper pop

940
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: uncooperative paper we have here in the office right now,

941
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: Here's my perfect weekend. We start Red Rivers shootout eleven

942
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: am local time at the Cotton Bowl, Oklahoma versus Texas.

943
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 2: It's my favorite game to go to of the year.

944
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: So the perfect day is it's a tightly contested battle

945
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: in the first half, wall to wall sunshine halftime. As

946
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: you know, my tradition is to go up the ramp,

947
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: go out to the Texas State Fair play some games, win,

948
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: some flip a chick, prizes down a funnel, cake walk

949
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:27,280
Speaker 1: back into the stadium.

950
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 2: Second half starts. That's the prolific.

951
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: That's just the privilege of having a media credential, and

952
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: we see a classic. Okay, then the game ends and

953
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 1: we sprint up the tunnel to car service that's waiting

954
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,959
Speaker 1: for us, and we don't go to DFW, We don't

955
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: go to Love because you told me that this is

956
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 1: my perfect weekend. We car service to the nearest FBO

957
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 1: and we private jet our way to probably a night

958
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: game at LSU or like Neeland or somewhere like that.

959
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: Or we go West Coast and Oregon or USC are

960
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: playing in a prime time game and the three thirty

961
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: games you're watching on the plane on the way there,

962
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: and then we overnight it back to Nashville and we

963
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 1: have our show ready for Sunday.

964
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 2: That would be the perfect weekend.

965
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: And we thus far we have not pulled off the

966
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: two games in one day thing, and you know, it's

967
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: been sort of our white whale on the show and

968
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: there there. Now I will say this, I haven't shared

969
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 1: this with you guys. There have been several like charter

970
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: flight operations out there that have reached out to us

971
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: and they're willing to do business. And you know what,

972
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,919
Speaker 1: maybe it'll work this fall and I'm willing to work

973
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 1: on barter trade, et cetera. So I'm not saying that

974
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: we've just not gotten any correspondence there. But the schedule's

975
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: got to work out too. So we got to line

976
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: the games up. We've got to have an early kickoff,

977
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: and then we got to be able to get out

978
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: of there and we got to get to.

979
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 2: The night game.

980
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:55,879
Speaker 1: And it's doable. It's absolutely doable within reason. So that's

981
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: what we're looking for. Like fingers crossed again, we have

982
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: the quote unquote perfect Saturday this fall. Let's move on.

983
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,280
Speaker 1: Robert hit me and said, what goes into storm chasing

984
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,720
Speaker 1: one oh one? Feel free to compare and contrast with Twister.

985
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 1: If you watch Twister, which is one of the top

986
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: ten grossing movies of the nineties, it's one of my

987
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 1: favorite movies of all time. Don't pay attention so much

988
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: to how shot for shot real it is from an

989
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: atmospheric science standpoint, watch for how it displays the culture

990
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: of stormchasing. So, for example, I am a longtime stormchaser.

991
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,399
Speaker 1: I was out in Oklahoma a couple of nights ago

992
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: when you saw all that bad stuff happen. We were

993
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 1: right there in the thick of it. We were at

994
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: one point in like six tornado warnings in an hour.

995
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 2: It was wild.

996
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: The culture of storm chasing, the vibe, the energy, what

997
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: it's like out on the road is so perfectly captured

998
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: in Twister. I wouldn't change a thing about it, Like

999
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. The only thing that's changed is technology has

1000
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: fundamentally changed the game. Like, you're not the dude in

1001
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 1: success who back then played rabbit. You're not like pulling

1002
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,479
Speaker 1: out paper maps and driving through cornfields just wondering where

1003
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:06,879
Speaker 1: you are.

1004
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 2: It's not like that anymore.

1005
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: The other night we were we were less than a

1006
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: mile away from probably three different confirmed tornadoes at night

1007
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: in blinding rain. They're high precipitation supercells and hail cores

1008
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: along with them. And dude, if you've got the right

1009
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 1: technology on a smartphone and we've got a couple of

1010
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,840
Speaker 1: GPS products and two or three radar products on screens

1011
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: in our vehicle, and you're skilled enough, and you got

1012
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 1: the stones, you can put yourself really close proximity to

1013
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,879
Speaker 1: those things. They didn't have that back then, So don't

1014
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:38,280
Speaker 1: pay attention to it from that standpoint.

1015
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 2: But Twister, just.

1016
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: From like the way it's like what it's like to Stormchase,

1017
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:45,800
Speaker 1: couldn't have been better. And that's why a lot of

1018
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 1: us are really anxious for Twisters, the follow up to

1019
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: be released this summer. My advice would be, don't do it.

1020
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 1: That's one oh one, don't do it. We had a

1021
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: really problem. We got a really big problem with convergence,

1022
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: which means a lot of folks get out there and

1023
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: clog up the roads with their cars. And like, I know,

1024
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: it's hypocritical for me to say that because I'm out there, dude,

1025
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: I'm with a team.

1026
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 2: We're not all writing in our own cars. And the

1027
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:09,359
Speaker 2: other thing is.

1028
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: There are a lot of folks out there serving purposes

1029
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: perpi plural. Some people are working on grant money, some

1030
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 1: people are running pretty high level channels independently of their own.

1031
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: And it's not like the law sets them apart from others.

1032
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: But there's a big difference in those folks out there,

1033
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: or maybe they're working with bigger networks like Ryan Hall,

1034
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: for example, does wonderful job.

1035
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 2: There's a big difference in that and just going to

1036
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 2: see what you can see.

1037
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: So my advice would be don't do it, but if

1038
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: you do do it, you better educate yourself because it

1039
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: can go from zero to one hundred really quick. We

1040
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: were out in El Reno the other day and three

1041
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 1: veteran chasers lost their lives there several years ago. We

1042
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: stopped by the memorial, the twist X Memorial the other day,

1043
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,760
Speaker 1: first time I'd been there, and it is sombering because

1044
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: you look at the names there, and you know those

1045
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: dudes have forgotten more than you about storm chasing and

1046
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: they weren't immune to a catastrophe happening. So my advice

1047
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: is don't do it, but if you do do it.

1048
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: The reason I do it is I best described it

1049
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: the other day I was talking to someone I do

1050
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: business with, and I was also talking to Jake row

1051
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 1: from On three this morning about it.

1052
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,280
Speaker 2: I compared it to if you took ear.

1053
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: Muffs kids, if you took sex if you took being

1054
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: at the top of a roller coaster and having a

1055
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: gun to your head and you mixed those emotions and

1056
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: you poured it out. That type of adrenaline is what

1057
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: it's like being in the immediate vicinity of a tornado

1058
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: as its ongoing. I don't know how else to describe it. Sorry,

1059
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: very rudimentary here, but that's how I describe it, that

1060
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: storm chasing one oh one for you.

1061
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 2: We move on. What a pressing question here?

1062
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: Brandt asked, will we ever see Texas A and M

1063
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: back to being an SEC title contender?

1064
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1065
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: I think you will. This is a question that polarizes

1066
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: a lot of the audience. It did for Texas until

1067
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 1: very recently. When we talked this way about Texas. Until

1068
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 1: last year, people said Texas can't be a playoff team,

1069
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: Texas can't be this, can't be that. And we went

1070
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: over the age old difference in can't versus haven't, and

1071
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,800
Speaker 1: it was always haven't versus Texas. It was never can't

1072
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: and it's haven't. With Texas A and M two, Texas

1073
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:26,760
Speaker 1: A and M's got everything it takes to be a winner.

1074
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 2: Let me take a step further.

1075
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: Texas A and M has got every built in resource

1076
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,280
Speaker 1: it takes to be a national championship contender.

1077
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 2: Perennially, they just haven't been.

1078
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:39,439
Speaker 1: That only means the right guy could make history there,

1079
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: and maybe Mike Elko is that guy, whoever it is.

1080
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 1: Even if Mike Elko crashes and burns, I will not

1081
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: change my tune on this. You could hire fifteen wrong coaches,

1082
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Speaker 1: It doesn't change the fact that what it takes to

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00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 1: win is there. Just like if you've got a Lamborghini,

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00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 1: you got a Lamborghini, you keep putting ten year olds

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Speaker 1: in the driver's seat and it's not going to be

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00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: a high performance automobile. But it's not because there's something

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00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: wrong under the hood. You don't have the right person

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00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: with their hands on the wheel. A and M's the Lamborghini.

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00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: They've had ten year olds in the driver's seat and Jimbo,

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00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: you know what, Jimbo may have had his learners, but

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Speaker 1: by and large he wasn't equipped to ultimately take advantage

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Speaker 1: of all A and M has to offer. There's this

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00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: to me false notion out there that something is defective

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00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,399
Speaker 1: about an M and the evidence people give you as well,

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00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: if they really were what you claim, they'd be eventually

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Speaker 1: they would have.

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Speaker 2: Gotten it right.

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Speaker 1: Why why is that just assumed? And by the way,

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Speaker 1: A and M has not been the monster they are

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00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:39,399
Speaker 1: now forever. I think A and M post Manzelle, which

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00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: is only like a decade old, has been fundamentally different.

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00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: It's been a behem at the likes of which it

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00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 1: never was before. But it's its unrealized potential. At this point, they're.

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00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 2: Over underwent total. This year's eight and a half.

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00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 1: They're odds to win the SEC championship are plus two thousands.

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00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 1: They're plus two ninety to make the playoff, so you

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00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: know they've got a shot this year, But just long term,

1108
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,760
Speaker 1: will they ever be back to being SEC title contenders? Yeah,

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00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 1: I think they could do it as early as this year. Realistically,

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00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: they could do it as early as next year. There's

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00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: nothing standing in their way but them. That's all it's

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00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: ever been. Let's close it up with this good question here,

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00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: very good question Coach K. And great to hear that

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00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 1: he listens to the pod. By the way, Coach K

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00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 1: hit me and said, what are some underrated college football

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00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: podcasts that you would recommend?

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00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:29,280
Speaker 2: Currently?

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00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: I only listen to your show and cover three, and

1119
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: I love that each have their own style.

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00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Yeah, that's very intentional.

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00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 1: So like Canel and Bud and Chip and Fornelli over there,

1122
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 1: they've got a show that sounds totally different than this one.

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00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 2: I always encourage people to.

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00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: Listen to as many of them as you can, including

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00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:49,399
Speaker 1: ours for obvious reasons and theirs. But there are some

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00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 1: out there that I think are pretty high profile, like

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00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 1: Crane and the guys over there. People know about them,

1128
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: Paquel and Staples, people know about them, over and on

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00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 1: three solid verbal I've listened to for a long long time.

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00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: I've been a verballer for a long time, So like

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00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: those are examples of shows that I think the public

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00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,399
Speaker 1: is pretty aware of. But there are some I listen

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00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: to that I don't think are high profile enough. One

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00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: of them is like Blake Raffino and Joe Dillon. They

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00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: do a really good show. I think it's called Rafino

1136
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:22,359
Speaker 1: and Joe and it leans LSU, but they do some

1137
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 1: regional and national stuff, Like I think they have really

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00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: really good content. You're talking about guys who see it

1139
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: through a fans lens and a fans perspective and articulate

1140
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 1: it the way we try and articulate it on this show.

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00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 2: On this show, I try and make it sound no

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00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:37,879
Speaker 2: different than.

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00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: If you and me were at lunch together, just just

1144
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:43,280
Speaker 1: getting barbecue at Countries North and Columbus, Georgia or Clearview

1145
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: if they've opened back up down there. That's how I

1146
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,359
Speaker 1: want it to sound. Those guys do a good job

1147
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: of making it sound like that. Duke Phillips who just

1148
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: left from here and went over to on three. I

1149
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,839
Speaker 1: think he does a really good job, especially talking recruiting

1150
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: like in the Atlanta area and in the South. I

1151
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 1: think he does a really good job of that. I

1152
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: think our guys here, when you've got Cooper Petagna and

1153
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 1: Andrew Ivans on the twenty four to seven recruiting pod,

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00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: I would probably buy as much stock in those two

1155
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:14,319
Speaker 1: as a duo projecting over the next two to three

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00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: years of content creation as anyone I'm talking about. Those

1157
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:21,880
Speaker 1: dudes are really good, and I think Cooper in particular

1158
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: came into this world having never been in this world before.

1159
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,879
Speaker 1: You know, he had been behind the scenes in major programs.

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00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: He's about as driven as anyone I deal with in

1161
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: wanting to sharpen his skills and wanting to perfect his craft.

1162
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: And wanting to grow and scale something. And it's the

1163
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 1: same way we were when we brought this show here.

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00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: So I think they're really good and they've got really

1165
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: really good perspective on stuff. Ty Hayes does a show

1166
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: and has a channel called Around the Table, and I

1167
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,280
Speaker 1: think he's done a really good job little Bama centric,

1168
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: but also does some some regional and national stuff as well.

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00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: So those are a few I would encourage you guys

1170
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: to just go go support those channels, if for no

1171
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 1: other reason, then I know a lot of you get

1172
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:10,240
Speaker 1: fed up with what you're given nationally. I candidly started

1173
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 1: doing my show because I thought the national stuff sucked,

1174
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:15,359
Speaker 1: Like I didn't think there was anything out there that

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00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: was serving meat.

1176
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 2: It was all low hanging fruit.

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00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 1: It was the classic clickbait era on the Internet, and

1178
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: it was just nothingness, like they weren't telling me anything.

1179
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 1: It was like the cover of a preview magazine every day.

1180
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 2: There was no substance.

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00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 1: So we started this show to counter that cause I

1182
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 1: thought there's got to be more than just me out

1183
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 1: there who wants deeper, like more substantive meat on the

1184
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: bone college football content. We were right. We've got an army

1185
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: built here. Now, I would just encourage you, don't stop here,

1186
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 1: don't stop here, Go find those other shows, go listen

1187
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: to them. That's the best way to send a message

1188
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: to the industry that things should change. If you feel

1189
00:57:58,280 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 1: they should change, that's the best way to send them.

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Speaker 1: So those are something I listened to. That's not an

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00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:04,680
Speaker 1: exhaustive list. I'm sure I forgot a couple, but those

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00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 1: are just rattling off the top.

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00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 2: Of my head. And there you go. All right.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys listening. Make sure that you subscribe

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Speaker 1: to this. We are at a point again where we're

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Speaker 1: seeing big numbers. I think a lot of you think

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00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 1: you're subscribed to the podcast, but you're actually not. So

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Speaker 1: go check and if you are subscribed, thank you. Next time.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you bring three friends with you. That's how

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Speaker 1: we grow. That's how we've grown this audience. That's how

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Speaker 1: we'll continue to grow this audience. Keep the show free.

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Speaker 1: So from Bradley, the associate producer, Jessey, director Colin, I'm

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