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Speaker 1: So we're not going to have a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: conference realignment talk. This is the lay Kick Extra podcast

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Speaker 1: for this Tuesday, March fourteenth year of our lower twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. I'm happy to have you with us. One

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Speaker 1: brief favor I would ask is keep your eyes on

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Speaker 1: the road, keep your focus on the set you're doing

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Speaker 1: right now. But after you get done with those things,

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Speaker 1: subscribe to the podfeed. That's about it. That's our list

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Speaker 1: of requests. So let's dive right in. This is a

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Speaker 1: out the call to action on Mondays and unload that thing.

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday's first question sent to us by Darren and

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Speaker 1: it says, since the upcoming changes to the SEC scheduling

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Speaker 1: will increase the difficulty of the regular season. How do

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Speaker 1: championship from Millan, Georgia. It's a great unknown to me, Darren.

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Speaker 1: That's what I've wondered about. It's what I've speculated about

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Speaker 1: beefing up the schedule that in and of itself is

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Speaker 1: so what do we do? Well, we add a conference game, right,

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Speaker 1: You increase the nine conference games. But what Darren's asking

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Speaker 1: right now, it's usually the deepest conference in the country.

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Speaker 1: It's always a year by year thing. But on average,

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Speaker 1: unspoken in feriority that residents of Georgia tried to cast

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Speaker 1: upon residents of Alabama, and then for a long time,

429
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 1: residents of Alabama said, we dominate you in football, though,

430
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,439
Speaker 1: look at our trophy case, look how dusty yours is,

431
00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,119
Speaker 1: and yet you didn't never hardly get to solve it

432
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 1: on the field. So seven rolls around and Georgia goes

433
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 1: into Tuscaloosa beats him in overtime. That Saban's first year

434
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,120
Speaker 1: eight rolls around and that was the Blackout game where

435
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,200
Speaker 1: Saban and Alabama just bodybaged Georgia and Athens. And that's

436
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,840
Speaker 1: really where the Alabama machine started to take off. So

437
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 1: they played again in twenty twelve SEC Championship game Instant

438
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 1: Classic twenty fifteen. I was at most of these games.

439
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 1: Was a very very rainy game and a very very

440
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 1: ugly game for Georgia and Athens. Twenty seventeen's the next

441
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,640
Speaker 1: time they played, and by that point I've gone from

442
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 1: just an innocent Georgia youth watching on television hoping I

443
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 1: could one day afford a ticket to being in the

444
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 1: esteemed college football media, and that meant I got to

445
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,040
Speaker 1: stand on the sideline and watch it all on. The

446
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 1: year is twenty seventeen. Jalen Hurts has taken Alabama to

447
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 1: the brink of a championship and Georgia in Kirby Smart's

448
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 1: second year is in the way the game is placed,

449
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:13,879
Speaker 1: out of all the cities it could be in in

450
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,160
Speaker 1: the United States, in Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.

451
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 1: If you were to ask me to script something ten

452
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 1: years prior, as just a normal fan down in the South,

453
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 1: I couldn't have done it any better than that. Oh,

454
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 1: except the game goes to overtime, and that's where we

455
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 1: pick it up. We can roll the video now twit

456
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 1: to DeVante Smith. Happens second twenty six, Alabama wins the title,

457
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 1: happens right in front of me. I grabbed the eye

458
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 1: Josh instinctively. I just jump in the dogpile. That's what's

459
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,400
Speaker 1: happening right now. I'm walking you through it if you're

460
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: listening on podcasts. There's no professionalism on my part here.

461
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,160
Speaker 1: There's just a kid who grew up in the South,

462
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: who loves college football and who just saw undoubtedly the

463
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: biggest play I'll ever see in my life in person

464
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 1: or on TV, and it's ten yards from me. I

465
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: just jump in the dog pile with the Alabama players,

466
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: and fortunately the eye Josh was rolling the entire time. Now,

467
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: you got to understand I am what I'm still, relative

468
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: to a lot of the folks who cover the sport,

469
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: very young when this is happening. Relative to a lot

470
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: of folks who cover the sport. I'm very young now,

471
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 1: but yet I'm realizing real time it's not going to

472
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: get better than this. Doesn't matter if you cover it

473
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 1: another fifty years, probably not gonna get better than this.

474
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,679
Speaker 1: So you got to soak it in. Soak it in,

475
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:32,920
Speaker 1: soak it in. DeVante Smith probably our show's love affair

476
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 1: with Davante Smith really probably started that night. Let's be real,

477
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: we ended up winning in the Heisman. We take what

478
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 1: would you say, Colin, We should take at least thirty

479
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,199
Speaker 1: percent credit for that Heisman. We don't take credit for

480
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: the win that night. But that was a magical, memorable night.

481
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,479
Speaker 1: I also just remembered, let me see, let me make

482
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:55,360
Speaker 1: sure I have my games right. So no, no, never mind,

483
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: that was the next year. I'm gonna tell you the story,

484
00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 1: but hold on just a second so that I don't

485
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: know how to describe it to you. Sure it would

486
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: be nice to have words, but I can't really describe

487
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: what that is like to you. It doesn't matter if

488
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: you're a Washington fan. Just imagine standing there, knowing you've

489
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: witnessed history, and you have a vantage point the top

490
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: zero point zero zero zero one percent of people on

491
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: the planet had what was there like three or four

492
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: non non Alabama players or staffers around, and you have

493
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,919
Speaker 1: an ESPN camera guy, you have some photogs around and me,

494
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: I'm in there. That's it. That's about it. So how

495
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 1: in the world, out of all the folks who grew

496
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: up wanting to do that, how in the world do

497
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: I end up in that moment? I'm not sure, but uh,

498
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: thankful every day that it happened that way. So now

499
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 1: let me tell you what happened the next year. And

500
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,880
Speaker 1: I've got to pretty sufficiently throw someone under the bus

501
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 1: in the process. Our friends down in New Orleans, maybe

502
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: you would know a young lady by the name of

503
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 1: Brooke Kirchoffer Brooklyn to me, brook to you. We covered

504
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 1: the SEC championship game the very next year. It's in

505
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: the same building, same teams, rinse and repeat, and you'll

506
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: probably remember that that game was in the final stages,

507
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: like really really late, and Bama won that one too,

508
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: and it was a it was like a Hail Mary

509
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,360
Speaker 1: and you know what, it may have been the national

510
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: title game. Forget which game it was. The point is,

511
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: I'm already out on the field. If you're not on

512
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: the field during the game, they make you wait in

513
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: the tunnel like you're in media. They make you wait

514
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: down the tunnel. It's a pretty ridiculous rule. Not sure

515
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 1: what the purpose is, but they make you wait in

516
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: the tunnel. You're not seeing what's happening. The final five

517
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,199
Speaker 1: minutes of the game. You're all assembled, you're herded like

518
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 1: cattle into a tunnel, but you can't see. So think

519
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: about the situation. It's second in twenty six, so that

520
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: they know the sack happened on first down. Then it's

521
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 1: second in twenty six. You're thinking, there's a huge roar.

522
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: It's far more likely Georgia just to turn over and

523
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 1: won the game. If all you could do is hear

524
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: the crowd, you wouldn't know. And so then as soon

525
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 1: as the play happens, pandemonium and the cattle are unleashed,

526
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: and so all the media run out onto the field,

527
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 1: but they don't know who won because there's red confetti

528
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: falling either way, So no one knows who won. So

529
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: our girl Brook runs up to the closest Georgia player

530
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: she can find, and it's Rodrigo Blankenship, hot Rod to

531
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: those familiar, and she starts asking him what does this

532
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 1: moment feel like? And luckily Rodrigo Blankenship, the kicker for Georgia,

533
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 1: is a much classier individual than most, and so he

534
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: simply said no, no, not right now, and then all

535
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: of a sudden, about that time, she looks up at

536
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 1: the ribbon board and realizes that says Alabama just won

537
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 1: the national championship. That says Alabama just won the title.

538
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: What just happened? Is that white and red instead of

539
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 1: black and red falling from the sky? Oh? No, yes.

540
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: She ran up to a Georgia player after they had

541
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: just lost the biggest game of their life and asked, hey,

542
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: how does this feel? And luckily it was Rodrigo Blankenship.

543
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 1: So anyway, fifty percent chance she'll listen to this. I'm

544
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 1: not going to tip her off, but either way, she

545
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: survived and she's doing great work. Now, all right, we continue.

546
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: That's just an easter egg. For those who know me best,

547
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: Leif hit us up and said, based on where conference

548
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: realignment is heading, would it make sense to rename the conferences?

549
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: What would you name them? Leif? I promised people at

550
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: the beginning I wasn't going to talk about this, and

551
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: yet I am also responsible for adding this question in

552
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: so I apologize in advance for those of you who

553
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: took my word for it. I'll get through this one

554
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: really quickly. We should not be renaming conferences, don't. I

555
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: don't know if people realize what's happening. We are rapidly

556
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: approaching this point of no return in college football, where

557
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: we get another ten years down the road and one

558
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: hundred percent of the sport has changed. There is nothing

559
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: that looks the same as it did in twenty ten.

560
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: And college football should never totally invert itself over a

561
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: given twenty year period. That should take like fifty or

562
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: seventy five years, and yet we are very much in

563
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,479
Speaker 1: the process of doing that with a lot of the

564
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: internals with college football. I just want the exterior, just

565
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: for just for exterior's sake, to stay the same for

566
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,719
Speaker 1: a little while. I love that about our sport. I

567
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: love that it doesn't continue to reinvent itself at every turn.

568
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: It's good. Progress is good if the change you're making

569
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: is actual progress, which is something we can debate about

570
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: the sport another time. But that's okay. But look, the

571
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: Big Ten's got it figured out. The Big ten a

572
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: long time ago added more teams than just ten. So

573
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: what did they do? They just spell ten big ten

574
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: because there is a lot more that is woven into

575
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: the brand value of that name. Than a number. The

576
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: SEC doesn't even happen. I guess the SEC figured it out.

577
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: They're the ones who don't even have a number in

578
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: their name. But the Big Ten, I don't even think

579
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: of Big ten as big and a number. I think

580
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: of Big ten like I think of kel Logg's, like

581
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: I think of NASCAR, like any brand out there, it's

582
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: just a brand. Now, acc Big ten. Now you go

583
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: out West, or you go to the Big twelve, and

584
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: they got a different number of schools every other day.

585
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: It seems like just park it on something. I would

586
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: not mind if the Pac ten had remained the Pac ten.

587
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: In fact, I would don't change it now, but I

588
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: would love if they just stayed there Pac ten, Big ten,

589
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: Big twelve are Big eight back in the day. Or

590
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: how about this, no big anything. Let's just call it

591
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: the Southwest Conference and have whoever we want in it

592
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: because geography doesn't matter, does it? I don't think it does.

593
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: The Big Ten's coast to coast, Brett you ormark out

594
00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: there in the Big Twelve's trying to go coast to coast.

595
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: Southwest Conference is a lot cooler name with a lot

596
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: better history than the Big twelve. So no leaf. I

597
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want to change that because

598
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. No One at this point who

599
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: is watching our sport is getting confused by what the

600
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: name of a conference is. Now. I think some newbies

601
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: come into the table. If you were to have a

602
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: cousin who's just been a European soccer fan his whole life,

603
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: and you say, hey, will you try college football and

604
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: he says, yeah, explain it to me. Okay, buddy, follow

605
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: me here. So you got the Big Twelve, yeah, uh huh,

606
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: which had ten teams last year. Yeah, but now they

607
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: just added four. So the Big twelve has fourteen teams, really,

608
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: and they could expand further and add two or three

609
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: or four more out of what we call the four

610
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: Corners region, and that would give them sixteen or eighteen.

611
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,719
Speaker 1: You don't say, but Texas and ou are leaving, so

612
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: that would bring us down to what sixteen? Uh huh,

613
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: unless they don't add any of the four Corner schools,

614
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: in which case they just be the Big twelve twelve

615
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: teams in the Big Twelve. He has already run back

616
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: to Europe at that point. So you got to ease

617
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: folks into this. This is not a conversation for the

618
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: faint of heart. This is not a day one conversation.

619
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: If you're trying to convert people into our sport, teach

620
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: them about traditions, show them Howard's Rock, teach them who

621
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: Ralphie is on day one. Don't try and explain the

622
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: intricacies of how the Big Twelve got named the Big

623
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: Twelve and how no matter how many teams are in

624
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: the league, there will be the same number in the

625
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: name and that's just how you're supposed to know it.

626
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: Don't start there. It will only serve to confuse the masses. Joshua,

627
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: of all people, comes to us with our next question.

628
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: He said, do you think LSU will win a national

629
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: title in the next five years? From Frankfort, Kentucky. And

630
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: my answer is approximately yeah, why not? I think LSU

631
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: will win a title in the next five years. Shame

632
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: on you, josh Brian Kelly has no shown the ability

633
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: to win a title. Actually I think he has. It's

634
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: just that showing the ability to win a title to

635
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: showing me. Let me rephrase, showing me that you have

636
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: the ability to win a title doesn't always include having

637
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: won a title. So in fact, I've never grasped that logic.

638
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: To prove that you're capable of winning something, you have

639
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: to have won it. That means there's no skill in it.

640
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Can you imagine claiming to speak authoritatively

641
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: enough on a subject yet saying I'm not gonna say

642
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: anything's possible until it actually happens. I was joking when

643
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: I gave that quote the other day. You know the

644
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: old mem Hey, nothing is possible, nothing happens until it

645
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: does happen. That was a joke. That shouldn't be your

646
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: real philosophy on life. Lincoln Riley Hatton won one. I

647
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: think he's capable of winning one. Brian Kelly Hatn won one.

648
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: Think he's capable. Jim Harbaugh or not? Jim Harpy? Why not?

649
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: Jim Harball? Yeah, Dido Ryan Day, Dido who knows? Hoops knows?

650
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: But since the question was the next five years, Yeah,

651
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: I think they will now walk through what it takes.

652
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: What does it take It takes being pretty good at quarterback,

653
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: and I think they will be that. I think they're

654
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: going to recruit fairly well to very well at that

655
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: position now in the future. Don't think it's gonna be

656
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: what holds them back line of scrimmage talent. They will

657
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: be very very good there. Dave also shown the propensity

658
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: the first two cycles to leverage the portal. That's not

659
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: something Brian Kelly was really going to be able to

660
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: do at Notre Dame. He's doing it there. And the

661
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: other thing that will get in the way of people

662
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: latching onto this is either the crowd that says he

663
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: can't win one because he's always choked in the playoff

664
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: and let me just I'll beat on that in a

665
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: second immunity. But the other part will be, well, what

666
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: about Nick Saban? What about Alabama? Tell himbout the Teamy

667
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: beat in year one? You talking about that Alabama, They're

668
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: very good. You're not telling me anything about Alabama. I

669
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: don't know, and I don't say on this show all

670
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: the time, But I'm just gonna maybe tell you something

671
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: about LSU. You don't know. They're gonna be pretty good too.

672
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: For a long time. You know, there have been teams

673
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: win titles during the Alabama run. There have been SEC

674
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: teams win national titles in the Alabama run. One of

675
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: them is the team we're talking about right now. So

676
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: it's not that it's impossible it's hard to do, but

677
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: it's not that it's impossible. Now, let's go back to

678
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: this thing that some like to throw at me about

679
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly. Usually it's the same crowd that said he's

680
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: not gonna win at LSU because he doesn't have the

681
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 1: right accent. Those same folks would tell you he choked

682
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: at Notre Dame. Notre Dame was overrated. Brian Kelly's overrated.

683
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: I don't have a clue what that means. Frankly, I've

684
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: never understood it. I know what you're trying to say.

685
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: If you claim Brian Kelly was overrated, Notre Dame was overrated,

686
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: I know what you're trying to say. What you're trying

687
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: to say is they get talked to a lot and

688
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: they don't win as much as they should given how

689
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: much people talk about them. That's not being overrated overrated.

690
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: There is a metric tied to this. There is a

691
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 1: quantitative approach to being overrated. You're rated somewhere and then

692
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,280
Speaker 1: you don't achieve at that level, and you may say, yeah, Josh,

693
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: that's right. Notre Dame. They're always highly rated and they

694
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,760
Speaker 1: always fall flat when it comes to the playoff. That's

695
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: the key triple knee slap when it comes to the playoff.

696
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: That's right. Notre Dame has lost. Now I want you

697
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: to walk down this road with me. I think some

698
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: of you I already understand where I'm going here. Don't worry,

699
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: it won't take long. Who's Notre Dame lost to that?

700
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: They've been higher rated than crickets exactly. They lost to

701
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: Clemson in the playoff. They weren't favored against them. They

702
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: shouldn't have won against Clemson. If they won, it would

703
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: be an upset. They were supposed to lose based on

704
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: where they were rated to who else? Alabama in the playoff.

705
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: Were they favored against Bama? Absolutely not. Before that, before

706
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 1: the playoff they played Bama in the title game. Were

707
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: they favored against Bama? No, So if they won, it

708
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: would have been an upset. They lost, which is what

709
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: they were supposed to do given where they were rated.

710
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 1: The fact is Notre Dame never dropped any of those

711
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: big games that they were rated in. They weren't favored

712
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: in those games. So theoretically Notre Dame could be like

713
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: the second or third best team in the country. Just

714
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: theoretically you could be number two or number three one

715
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 1: hundred times in a row. And if you play number

716
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: one and lose one hundred times in a row, it

717
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you were overrated. It means the ratings worked

718
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: out exactly how they should have worked out. But that's

719
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: not how a lot of folks interpret ratings. A lot

720
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: of folks think if you're rated anywhere close to high,

721
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: you get a few shots at the top dog, and

722
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: if you don't take them down, you were overrated. That's

723
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: not how ratings work. If you're favored. If you're number

724
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: one and you're favored and you're losing, then you were overrated.

725
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: You can lose indefinitely as an underdog. You're never overrated.

726
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: You're only overrated now. I will say this, if you're

727
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 1: a three point dog and you're losing by forty every time, yes, yes,

728
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: even then you were a little bit overrated. But that

729
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily the case with Notre Dame. So I don't

730
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: think he was overrated there. Brian Kelly, I don't think

731
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: he's overrated now, and I think a lot of folks

732
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: may have finally taken notice of him because he won

733
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: the West in year one at LSU. But even if

734
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: that was a mirage. Even if they would have gone

735
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: eight and four last year, I'd still think the same thing.

736
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: And what I'm trying to tell you is there is

737
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: nothing about my belief in Brian Kelly that stems from

738
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: this past year. You could have had me frozen and

739
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: not even know what happened this past year. I could

740
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: come out of my freeze and you could tell me

741
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 1: they went six and six and I'd say, yeah, he's

742
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: still gonna win. They're gonna be fine. Yeah, I'll say,

743
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: come in the next five years. You just don't know.

744
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: It's anyone who tells me they can't win as long

745
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 1: as sabans in Alabama? How do you know that? How

746
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,439
Speaker 1: do you even know what the next week is gonna bring?

747
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: Bama goes down there this past year, and remember BAMA

748
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: is on thin ice with hot blades at that point,

749
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 1: They've already lost to Tennessee. There's no margin for error.

750
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 1: And yet just like boom, just like that, Alabama loses,

751
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: and for all intents and purposes, there's season's over and

752
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly's got the water Gatoray dumped on him. And

753
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 1: the thing about it is the folks who are trying

754
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: to tell me they know what's gonna happen over the

755
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 1: next five years. They couldn't even tell me what was

756
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,959
Speaker 1: gonna happen that afternoon. It's hard to see that stuff coming,

757
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: Like it's hard to see this coming. Got him solid

758
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: nine at least on the Sneaky ad toss scale. And

759
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: we come back with one of the more pressing questions

760
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: of our time here from Instagram, where does Forrest Gump

761
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: rak in your all time movies? Now? If the question

762
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: ended there, it would be pretty straightforward, but a point

763
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 1: was made that I have never thought of, and I've

764
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: seen Forrestcump a lot. The question was, where does Forestcump

765
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: rank in your all time movies? It has college football,

766
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: Fleetwood Mac, and Ping Pong, And that hit me like

767
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: a ton of bricks. It just slapped me in the face.

768
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 1: I never thought about it that way. Now. Truthfully, Forrest

769
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: Gump was already in my top ten all time. I

770
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: think it's one of the greatest movies of our generation. However,

771
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: I may have bumped it up a run or two

772
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: after hearing it explain to me like that Fleetwood Mac

773
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: go your own ways in the montage when he's running

774
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 1: across the country. In fact, there are several bangers in

775
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: the montage when he's running across the country against the

776
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 1: wind is in there as well. So you got that,

777
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: You've got ping pong. I mean we still frequently make

778
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: Forestcump references anytime you're on the pong table to this day.

779
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,800
Speaker 1: And there's college football, I mean, Forrest Gump. Does Bryant

780
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: really rise to prominence at Alabama? Does he fulfill the

781
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: comeback in the seventies if he doesn't have Forrest Gump

782
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: returning kicks and punts for him? And I also want

783
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: you to understand how superb the coverage units were at

784
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: Alabama because he did not run a straight line to

785
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: the end zone. The one touchdown you get to see

786
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: him score against I believe it was too lane. He

787
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: runs fifty yards and then runs parallel to the fifty

788
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: yard line all the way across the field and then

789
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: ninety degree angles back down the sideline and there is

790
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,720
Speaker 1: not a block in the back, there's not a holding flag,

791
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: there is no laundry on the field, and then he

792
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: just bo Jackson's up the tunnel before Bo Jackson did it. Hello,

793
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: Hello Ip theft will save that for another day. Well,

794
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: let me tell you what I did. Let me save

795
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: that for another day. But Forrest Gump's a really good movie.

796
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: Now here's my beef, not with Forrest Gump, but with

797
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 1: the way it's portrayed, because it's the same beef I

798
00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: have with Twister. You know, my proclivity and my love

799
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: for storm Chasing and the movie Twister. Don't even care

800
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,720
Speaker 1: about the scientific relevance. I just I love the culture

801
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: that it presents. So here's my problem. Twister is like

802
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: a dead serious movie ninety five percent of the time.

803
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: Forrest Gump is a dead serious movie a lot of

804
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: the time, but it has a ton of comedy woven

805
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: into it. And yet, if you hadn't seen those movies

806
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: and you had only been exposed to it just in

807
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: general pop culture, when you think of Forrest Gump, you

808
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: think of young Jenny yelling Run Forest Run, which is

809
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: kind of joky in the movie. It's not necessarily that way,

810
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: but if you just hear it out of context, it's

811
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: almost like a joke. And if you've never seen Forrest Gump,

812
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 1: you think, oh, it's that kind of movie, it's not

813
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: at all indicative of the way the rest of the

814
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: movie is. And with Twister, you can tell I'm gritting

815
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: my teeth. I have my fist clinched as I'm talking

816
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 1: about this with Twister. If you've never seen it, what

817
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: do you think of? You know, good and will what

818
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: you think of you think of that cow flying through

819
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 1: the air. Now, I have seen livestock damage in real

820
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: life post tornado. The cows have no skin on them

821
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: because they've been sand blasted, because that's what debris is.

822
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: That's what part of a condensation funnel is. It's just

823
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 1: a bunch of dirt moving really really really fast. Picture

824
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: being on the beach and the wind kicks up and

825
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: you feel yourself being sand blasted, and then times that

826
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: by like a million, And that's what a cow experiences.

827
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: That's what livestock experience in the tornado. It is ugly, ugly.

828
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: So Twister got it wrong there. That's not what it's

829
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: like when those cows are ingested into a tornado. And secondly,

830
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: it's like this lighthearted throwaway scene that Hollywood looked at

831
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,720
Speaker 1: the finished product of and said, we like the movie,

832
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: but let's throw a cow in there just to hollywood

833
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 1: it up. Well, that ends up being the one aspect

834
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,280
Speaker 1: of the movie that people who haven't seen it. Latch onto, uh,

835
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 1: I gotta go, Julia. We Got Cows. That's not Twister,

836
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: just like Run Forest Runt is not Forrest Gump. And

837
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: here's one more little piece of trivia for you as

838
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: we move on. You want to talk about world's colliding.

839
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:15,240
Speaker 1: The lady who's in the back seat in Twister, Melissa

840
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:20,399
Speaker 1: Bill Paxton's fiance at the time, Jamie Gertz is her name.

841
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: Anyone want to venture a guest as to where she

842
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 1: is nowadays? Anyone out there, anyone try part owner of

843
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks and then realize, I'm not joking with

844
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 1: you that lady Melissa. I gotta go, Billy. I wouldn't

845
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: even know where to start. Well, I tell you where

846
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:44,919
Speaker 1: she went. She left Bill Paxton, and she left the

847
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: crew before they went to Aunt Meg's house, and she

848
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 1: just went and married a billionaire. And she's the part

849
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: owner of the Atlanta Hawks. Now that's a real story,

850
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 1: that's real life. So there's a lot that can be

851
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: loved about Forrest Gump and Twister. You don't have to

852
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: fall into the the casual traps of We Got Cows

853
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: and Run Forest Run. I if we accomplish nothing else

854
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: today again, no fall weddings and watch Twister and forrest

855
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: com don't even care what to order. Next up, question

856
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 1: would you suggest all right, well, let me start that over. Question,

857
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: what would you suggest teams do to improve attendance and

858
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,840
Speaker 1: the end stadium experience? This is a great question, and

859
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 1: it's so easy, but I think there are many different answers.

860
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: So I know a lot of you who listen to

861
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: this go to games, either your season ticket holders or

862
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: you just fork over the money every week with a

863
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: scalper or what have you. And you're one of us

864
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: if you do that. So what could be done to

865
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: enhance the d stadium experience? Because I know another portion

866
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 1: of you used to go to games and you don't

867
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 1: anymore because you love staying at home so you can

868
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: watch all of them, or you got tired of fighting

869
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: traffic or whatever cost got too high. Well, that circles

870
00:45:58,120 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: right back around to a few of the changes that

871
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: could be made. Ticket prices should not be as high

872
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,720
Speaker 1: as they are to these football games, point blank, they shouldn't.

873
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: Concession prices should not be as high as they are.

874
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: Is it going to cut into your profit margin as

875
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 1: a university? Yes, deal with it. You are printing money

876
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: in a lot of these conferences deal with it next up.

877
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: As far as the end stadium experience goes, I'm in

878
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: a game every week now. I'm fortunate enough to where

879
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,240
Speaker 1: even if the stadium doesn't have a good Wi Fi signal,

880
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: normally the network has our own internet on the field,

881
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: so I don't have to rely on stadium WiFi. That

882
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: is a privileged life, by the way, I will readily

883
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: grant you. It's nice to be able to shoot video

884
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,760
Speaker 1: and instantly post it to Instagram or Twitter or whatever.

885
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: Most of you can't do that if you're in Section

886
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,320
Speaker 1: three twenty eight. So yes, yes, I'm putt my privilege

887
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: on the table there. But I don't care about that

888
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: as much as I care about knowing what's going on

889
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 1: else where in the country. So I'm at filling the blank.

890
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,760
Speaker 1: I don't want to throw any university under the bus.

891
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: But if I'm at a game in the SEC and

892
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:12,240
Speaker 1: Michigan's playing Michigan State in the Big Ten, I should

893
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: be frequently updated. On that score. I should not have

894
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: to try and check my phone, which may or may

895
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 1: not have signal. I shouldn't have to wait once per

896
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,399
Speaker 1: quarter as you roll a score that may or may

897
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: not be updated on the ribbon board. I shouldn't have

898
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: to do that. I should be continuously updated on what's

899
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: going on everywhere. You're asking me, by the way, just

900
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: be real now. You're asking me to give up a

901
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: Saturday of being immersed in fifteen games to go and

902
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: contribute to your in stadium environment and to scream my

903
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: lungs out. And I'm happy to do it. But what

904
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: you're asking me to do is detach myself from the

905
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: rest of the country. You're essentially asking me to go

906
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: live on another planet for six hours and fight traffic

907
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:58,240
Speaker 1: to and from and deal with overpriced everything, including parking.

908
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 1: I didn't even throw parking in there, so I have

909
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: everything but a front porch and a cane I can

910
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: wave in my hand right now as I just yell

911
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: out into the clouds. But the lowering of the price is,

912
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: and the enhancement of the end stadium experience when it

913
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: comes to keeping you up to date with scores that

914
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,399
Speaker 1: are going on, that is not too much to ask.

915
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: Even if you can't lower prices, my goodness, if I'm

916
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,359
Speaker 1: at your university and I don't know what the Penn State,

917
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,800
Speaker 1: Ohio State score is if I'm having to wait twenty

918
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 1: and thirty minutes at a time, that's a problem with

919
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: a capital P. Fix it. Fix it before I get

920
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,720
Speaker 1: elected college football commissioner and force you to fix it.

921
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 1: It's as close to a threat as I'll come this morning.

922
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: All right, Next up, that was I think a very

923
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: fruitful question. I think we got a lot of mileage

924
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: out of that one. Justin hit us up and said,

925
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: do you have any storm chasing stories from your hometown? Josh? Well,

926
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: Josh is not my hometown, but Forts and Georgia is. Yes,

927
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,839
Speaker 1: two of them. Yeah, one I just thought of right now.

928
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: I had actually forgotten about this. I was coaching a

929
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: baseball team, little league team. We were called the Magazoos,

930
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: by the way, because the guy who had run the

931
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 1: league since I was able to walk was named John Magazoo.

932
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: So we named our team the Magazu's. You had like

933
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: the Reds and the Braves and the Cardinals, and we

934
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: were the Magazoos. Not the best color scheme, not the

935
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 1: best team, but yes, the best name in the league. Anyway,

936
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: the season comes and goes. Can't even remember what our

937
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: record was, but we go up to Moultrie Park, in Hamilton,

938
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: Georgia to take our team photos, and this is when

939
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: Hurricane Ivan was coming through the southeast. Now, Hurricane Ivan

940
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: devastated the Gulf Coast and it was still a tropical

941
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: storm even when it made it as far north as

942
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: where we were in central Georgia, a couple one hundred

943
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: miles inland. So Hurricane Ivan was a monster. It just

944
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 1: reshaped like Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, I mean, a

945
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: bunch of those vacation homes not there. You can still

946
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: see the scar from Hurricane Ivan to day. And this

947
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: was in the mid two thousands, like five six or

948
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: something like that. So anyway, we go up to Moultrie Park.

949
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: We're taking our team photo and it's not raining at

950
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: the moment. It's overcast. Clouds are moving by real fast

951
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 1: because a tropical storm is moving through. We have our

952
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: back to like a portion of pine mountain, like a

953
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: there's a there's a dip in the topography there and

954
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: then there's a big mountain in the background. It's really picturesque.

955
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: That's why we were taking team photos up there. And

956
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, your boy here, mister stormchaser, totally oblivious.

957
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, one of our dads says, is

958
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: that tornado And we turn around. There's tornado right behind us.

959
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: A very very quick spin up tornado happens a lot

960
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: with onshore moving tropical systems, and we had to run.

961
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:47,800
Speaker 1: We had to run for it because it was coming

962
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: for the building. It was coming across Highway one sixteen.

963
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: It was coming right towards the building we were at.

964
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 1: So we had to run down a rain soaked hill

965
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 1: and one of our party did not make it. I

966
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: don't mean she got killed, I mean she down that

967
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: hill soaked in mud. We had to take shelter in

968
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,799
Speaker 1: a dugout at Moultrie Park, except that I waited for

969
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 1: the tornado to pass. It's like an EF zero tornado,

970
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: but really close, like could throw You could hit a

971
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 1: golf ball and easily have just had that thing go

972
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: into a tornado. So after it passes, I run back

973
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: up the hill and watch it go over Moultrie Park,

974
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: tear some of the tarp off the fencing, throws the

975
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: garbage barrels all over the place, tore some of the

976
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: fencing up in general on the A ball field, in

977
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 1: the B ball field. So that was the first one.

978
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 1: The second one. This one was a little bit more intense,

979
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: was there was a system moving through I want to

980
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 1: say this would have been about seven. I am brand new,

981
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: I am in my infancy of storm chasing, and so

982
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: I am over at a buddy's house in midtown, Columbus,

983
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: and just into Lee County, Alabama, there is a very

984
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,399
Speaker 1: very clearly defined hook echo on something that I think

985
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 1: is going to get tornado warned. It does, and so

986
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: we hop in our car, which I would never advise

987
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: you to do, because it's going to move a little

988
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: bit north of where we are. So we go up

989
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: I one eighty five and we get off of one

990
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 1: eighty five and then we get onto what would be

991
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: called J. R. Allen Parkway. They've had a bunch of

992
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 1: names for it there, and we get off at the

993
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: Bradley Park exit, which means everything to you if you

994
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: live in Columbus, and nothing to you if you don't

995
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: point being it's right on the Chattahoochee River. As we

996
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: are on that exit, you can see power flashes across

997
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: the river in Phoenix City. What ends up being an

998
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 1: e F two tornado is crossing the river in front

999
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: of us. So not only have. We partly by skill

1000
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: and partly by luck, pinpointed the exact place that tornado

1001
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,439
Speaker 1: is going to cross the river. We are in the path,

1002
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: so we have to gun it. Run. A couple of

1003
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: red lights didn't matter because no one was out there,

1004
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: and we run into a store that is competing with

1005
00:52:57,680 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors, So I'm not gonna say their name,

1006
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: but one of Academy's competitors took us in and we

1007
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: the rest of them hid in the back and I

1008
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: watched it. It went behind the store so I couldn't see it,

1009
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: but it picked up a bunch of the buggies from

1010
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: a target store and threw them into everyone's cars. Luckily

1011
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: I wasn't driving, it wasn't my car, so my car

1012
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: was safe dozens of miles away. But those buggies got

1013
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: turned into weapons. So anyway, tornado passes, we get right

1014
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: back in the truck, which has a dent in the

1015
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 1: passenger's door, and we tailed the tornado. We're coming in

1016
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: behind it, and it did a ton of damage in

1017
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: North Columbus, a ton of damage. And we were the

1018
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: first on the scene. And that was the first time

1019
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: that I had ever come in before first responders had

1020
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: been on the scene of a tornado. And it's the

1021
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: craziest thing. Three things that stand out. Number one, total silence.

1022
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:52,760
Speaker 1: Number two, no light. Everything's out, So if it's nighttime,

1023
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:56,360
Speaker 1: which it was, there's no light. Even the emergencies aren't

1024
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 1: on and there's no there's no flashing blue lights because

1025
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: no first responders are there yet. And the third thing,

1026
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: and I've experienced this several times thereafter, especially in the

1027
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: South where there's a lot of pine trees, is the

1028
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 1: smell of pine after a tornado has just come through

1029
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: is so thick it will clog your nose, it will

1030
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: clog your nostrils. It's like if you were to go

1031
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: at a gas station, the thickness of the smell of

1032
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: gasoline is such that it'll temporarily clog your nasal passages.

1033
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: The pine is so thick in the air aw so

1034
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: many trees have been snapped that the smell almost overtakes

1035
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: your nasal passages. It's wild and now I've experienced it

1036
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: several times. It's like the biggest car air freshener in

1037
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: the world is just dangling above wherever the tornado just

1038
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:45,840
Speaker 1: came through. So there are a couple of stories there

1039
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:47,879
Speaker 1: from Columbus Georgia, A couple of more that I could

1040
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: tell some other time. But this is a college football

1041
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: podcast after all. All right, let's move it on here.

1042
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: Rhett just wants to get right to the heart of

1043
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: the issue. He asks, could Florida State legitimately win a

1044
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: national championship? This seas I wish you would have said,

1045
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,760
Speaker 1: compete for a championship? Read it makes it so much easier.

1046
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: Let that be a lesson to the rest of you compete.

1047
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: Can they compete for one? I don't think they can

1048
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 1: win one this year, but I think they can be

1049
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: right in the mix. The reason I don't think they

1050
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: can compete for one is because there is a level

1051
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 1: that you have to be at. There's a level your

1052
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: roster has to be at. There's a level and depth

1053
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:26,879
Speaker 1: along the lines of scrimmage you have to be at.

1054
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: And there's a level of difference maker you have to

1055
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,800
Speaker 1: have not only a quarterback, but usually out wide unless

1056
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: you just have a transcendent defense like Georgia has had.

1057
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: That I don't think they have yet. Now, what I

1058
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: don't want to do is make you think I'm saying

1059
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 1: because they won't win a title this year seven and five. No,

1060
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 1: there's a there's an area between, a big area actually

1061
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:51,359
Speaker 1: between those two points of reference where I think they

1062
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: will comfortably land. And it may very well be that

1063
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: we get to November and they could be undefeated, they

1064
00:55:57,560 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: could be a one lost team, they could be in

1065
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 1: the thick of the play off race, and who knows,

1066
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 1: Who's knows. There've been years before where we've seen teams

1067
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: going runs. Look the twenty nineteen LSU team. I'm not

1068
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: making the comparison, so rest easy, but the twenty nineteen

1069
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: LSU team, everybody wants to reinvent history and that like

1070
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: everyone knew how special that team was coming into twenty nineteen. No,

1071
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:28,359
Speaker 1: you didn't know. I didn't know. They didn't. That team

1072
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: evolved over time, so no one was ready to say

1073
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,879
Speaker 1: LSU is a national championship contender. Well then they were.

1074
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: So maybe Florida State flips the script. Maybe they're the

1075
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 1: exception to the rule. Maybe they're just better than we

1076
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 1: know about and if that were to happen, Okay, I

1077
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 1: will tell you this right now. It's a welcome and

1078
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: refreshing site to look at the ACC preseason national title

1079
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: odds and see Clemson in Florida State with the same

1080
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: odds because for a while it's been Clemson and then

1081
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:59,479
Speaker 1: like five levels and then whoever's number two, So Florida State,

1082
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: I think they can compete for when they can be

1083
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:03,839
Speaker 1: in the mix. What I'd be focused on is can

1084
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 1: they win the ACC because they hadn't done that. Can

1085
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: they play for an ACC championship because they hadn't been

1086
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: doing that? So one step at a time, as Jordan

1087
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 1: Sparks would say, But I think they're certainly on the

1088
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: right path. You know, I'm a big believer. I'm a

1089
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 1: big purchaser of Florida State stock right now. But that

1090
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 1: national championship picture, that's tough. It's tough to get to

1091
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,600
Speaker 1: that level, and I don't think they're there yet, But

1092
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: we'll see what the future holds next up or is

1093
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 1: that it? No? No? I thought that was it? My bad.

1094
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: I had another sheet in front of me and I

1095
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 1: overlooked it totally. Compton asked how many days in advance

1096
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: do you start planning the next episode of Late Kick

1097
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 1: and how much work goes into it. A ton of

1098
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 1: work goes into it, but there is not a start

1099
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 1: time for when we start working on a show, We're

1100
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 1: just always working on the next one as soon as

1101
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: we get done, I mean Sunday night. Actually, we'll go

1102
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: play some ping pong after it's over, and then I'll

1103
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: sit in here and start doing the Tuesday show. But

1104
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: we have to do it that way because we don't

1105
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: write any of the show. We don't use a teleprompter.

1106
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: There is zero percent of our show that scripted. What

1107
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: we do know is we know the topics we're going

1108
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,440
Speaker 1: to hit. And then what you have to do is

1109
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: you have to immerse yourself in the content. You have

1110
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 1: to immerse yourself. You have to so thoroughly vet what

1111
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: your opinions are on things, and you have to be

1112
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: on top of what's happening in the sport so that

1113
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: at any given point you don't have to be produced.

1114
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 1: And by the way, I don't advise people to do

1115
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 1: their show like this. Our show is pretty unique. I

1116
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 1: advise you to have good producers if you're in this

1117
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: line of work, and I advise you to use that prompter.

1118
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: I advise you to use all the elements you possibly can.

1119
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 1: I don't like doing it that way. This is my

1120
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: personal preference, but it's like it's like watching someone who

1121
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: drums and who does not drum crosshanded. Well, no one

1122
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 1: would train you to do it any other way. But

1123
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: yet some people are comfortable. I actually am a drummer

1124
00:58:57,720 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: and I do not drum cross handed. I'm just more

1125
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 1: comfortable using my left hand as the high hat and

1126
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 1: my right hand is the snare and I'm not left

1127
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:08,640
Speaker 1: handed BELTI how about that, I'm not left handed, So anyway,

1128
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 1: it takes a very long time. There's a ton of

1129
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 1: due diligence that goes into putting a show together. But

1130
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: here is the blessing that I've been afforded by this company.

1131
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: I am not a generalist, and that means I just

1132
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:24,640
Speaker 1: focus on one sport. So if you're a college football

1133
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: fan and you can put coherent sentences together, and you

1134
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 1: think you have half decent communication skills, shouldn't you be

1135
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 1: able to do what we do. Of course, you should

1136
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: be able to do what we do, especially if people

1137
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: give you the platform and the resources. So we're not heroes.

1138
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: We're just putting on a college football show and we're

1139
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 1: very very glad that you like it. But the answer is,

1140
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: it takes a ton of work. I'd rather be I'd

1141
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:50,240
Speaker 1: rather be putting in sixty or seventy hours a week

1142
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: doing this, especially in the seasons, more than seventy. I'd

1143
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 1: rather be putting that much work in doing this than

1144
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 1: putting forty in doing something I don't love. I'll tell

1145
00:59:57,840 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 1: you that because I've done both, and I would never

1146
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 1: want to go back. All Right, The last question is

1147
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 1: a very very important question. And the thing about you

1148
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 1: listening to this is I'm recording this on Tuesday morning.

1149
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: As soon as I get done recording this, I have

1150
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: a showdown with management in ping pong, and by the

1151
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 1: time you hear my voice, you will that matchup will

1152
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 1: have already happened. I wonder if I won. Huh who knows?

1153
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 1: But Ryan hit me up and said, when did you

1154
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 1: start playing ping pong? And what about it do you

1155
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: enjoy the most? Well, dominating my inferiors is what I

1156
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,920
Speaker 1: enjoy the most, Ryan, And in this office, that can

1157
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 1: include your bosses, because there is a rule. We play

1158
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: jungle style. Jungle style means there are no rules and

1159
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 1: you can talk trash. Doesn't matter if it's one of

1160
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: your direct reports. It doesn't matter if it's a superior

1161
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 1: or a superior or a subordinate. You can just anything goes.

1162
01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 1: So that's the fun part. When did I start playing

1163
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:01,440
Speaker 1: ping pong? I started playing ping pong at a place

1164
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 1: called Pine Mountain Bible Camp back when I was a youth,

1165
01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 1: but I didn't own a table, and we played on

1166
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: sawmill tables. They were not regulation size. In fact, the

1167
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: edges were rounded, they weren't even corner edges. And I'd

1168
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: never played ping pong before before that day and that week,

1169
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: so we got in some trouble at camp that week.

1170
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: As I recall, I'm not sure a statute of limitations

1171
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: is up even now on that, so I won't go

1172
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 1: down that road. But I think that that was the

1173
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: first time I ever played. It's a very very fun game,

1174
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 1: very fun, inexpensive, especially if management can pull a few

1175
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: strings and go pick you up some equipment. And that's

1176
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 1: the story. That's the ping pong story. So yeah, wish

1177
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: me luck retroactively. Your support is what is driving me.

1178
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 1: I'm doing this for all of us. I know some

1179
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 1: of you are at a job at this very moment

1180
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: that you don't like and you cannot do to your boss.

1181
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:57,320
Speaker 1: You cannot do to your management what I can do

1182
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 1: to our management. So I encourage you to heartily live

1183
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 1: vicariously through me. It's a dangerous proposition sometimes, but this

1184
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 1: time you're free and easy to do it as you please.

1185
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Make sure you are subscribed to

1186
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 1: this podcast. That's what I need you to do. Subscribe

1187
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: to it, follow it, whatever you do, do it, and

1188
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 1: then the end you don't need to do anything else.

1189
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:22,479
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for producing Jesse for director Colin.

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01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm Josh Paton. We will see you Thursday night on

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01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 1: Late Kick Live. Until they take care, Godless