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Speaker 1: say what college football is doing that? Yeah, college football

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Speaker 1: the show off tonight. Headline Defense is back. Did you

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Speaker 1: to a defensive minded coach. And I don't care where

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Speaker 1: one question with them, And just overall, what's the program

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Speaker 1: going to look like? And staying in the Magnolia state

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Speaker 1: for those of you who have been tuned out a

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Speaker 1: I got some news for you. Spencer Sanders is not

435
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Speaker 1: the starting quarterback in Stillwater, Oklahoma anymore, and he may

436
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Speaker 1: not be a starting quarterback in Oxford. That's the question.

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Speaker 1: How legitimate is this quarterback battle? There are some people

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Speaker 1: out there who would tell you the moment he's that

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Speaker 1: that he's the starter. And then you got other folks

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Speaker 1: on some chapstick, and then I'm gonna tell you how

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Speaker 1: the Longhorn Network pretty much ruined college football. Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Step one, very tasty. We spilled the choice liquid in

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Speaker 1: the chalice earlier on the floor over here, So Bradley

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Speaker 1: how to take care of that after the show? Step

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Speaker 1: two complete? All right? Step three. If I asked you

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Speaker 1: to change one moment in the history of this sport

498
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Speaker 1: to have maximum impact on the sport, where would you go.

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Speaker 1: It's time to talk about the Longhorn Network. It's time

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Speaker 1: to ask how much do you remember about twenty ten

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton's leading Auburn to a national championship. That's what

502
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Speaker 1: was happening on the field, But behind the curtain there

503
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,199
Speaker 1: was a guy by the name of Larry Scott He

504
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Speaker 1: was then the commissioner of the PAC twelve, or you

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Speaker 1: might have known it as the PAC ten at the time,

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Speaker 1: but he didn't like that number. He didn't even like

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Speaker 1: twelve or fourteen. Larry Scott had a vision, and his

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Speaker 1: vision was to take it to sixteen. These days, that's

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Speaker 1: not a big deal to us, right we call those

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Speaker 1: super conferences, But back then, no one had spoken the

511
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Speaker 1: words super conference, and Larry Scott wanted to be first

512
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Speaker 1: at the table. Imagine that. Imagine a visionary in the

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Speaker 1: pack now the PAC twelve. Imagine the West Coast leading

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Speaker 1: the way in college football. Again. We have a massive

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Speaker 1: college audience, and I think you guys are listening to

516
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Speaker 1: me and saying that had never happened. Once upon a time.

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Speaker 1: It was kind of the way it was, and it

518
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Speaker 1: almost really took hold because they were this close to

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Speaker 1: getting Oklahoma and Texas and in the process Colorado and

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State and Texas Tech and Texas A and M

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Speaker 1: to join the PAC sixteen as it would have been. Now.

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Speaker 1: A lot of you remember something happened back then, but

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Speaker 1: do you remember exactly how this happened? Depending on who

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Speaker 1: you believe, this was within an hour of happening. It

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Speaker 1: was done. In fact, Larry Scott had already made the rounds.

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Speaker 1: He had been to most of the other universities you

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Speaker 1: see listed on your screen right now. Again it was Texas, OU,

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, Colorado who ended up going anyway A and

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Speaker 1: M Texas Tech. Those were all big twelve programs at

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Speaker 1: the time, and Larry Scott said, we got them all.

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Speaker 1: There was one hanging Chad. There was a one hold up,

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Speaker 1: as is usually the case, the program dragging their feet

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Speaker 1: because of the most divaish reasons, imaginable horns up University

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Speaker 1: of Texas, and Larry Scott thought he had him locked down,

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Speaker 1: and unbeknownst to him, he didn't, because there was a

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Speaker 1: network in the Great Northeast named ESPN who was coming

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Speaker 1: in a side door that Larry Scott didn't even know

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Speaker 1: existed and offering something called the long Horn Network. Everyone's

539
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: heard of that now. No one heard of a major

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00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: network partnering with a university to create a standalone entity

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Speaker 1: just to serve their needs. ESPN comes in and says,

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Speaker 1: we will give you three hundred mili over twenty years.

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00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: Stats in Info ran the numbers. They're getting fifteen million

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Speaker 1: a year for twenty years to have their own network.

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Speaker 1: Why did that have anything to do with the PAC twelve. Well,

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Speaker 1: the PAC twelve was in the middle of building their

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Speaker 1: own conference network. It was a non starter. You're not

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Speaker 1: coming here and having your own network. We can't have that.

549
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Speaker 1: We're trying to build our own Guess what Texas did.

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Speaker 1: They asked the whole thing, and they stayed in the

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Speaker 1: Big twelve. My question to you tonight is what would

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Speaker 1: have happened? We know what did happen. What did happen

553
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: is the PAC twelve had to hit the emergency backup

554
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Speaker 1: plan button, which was very underwhelming to say the least.

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Speaker 1: God bless Utah and Colorado. They had much bigger aspirations

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Speaker 1: out there. You didn't get a Pack sixteen, you got

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Speaker 1: a Pack twelve, and then the future was what the

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Speaker 1: future ended up being. Oh here's here's the richest part

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Speaker 1: of it all. So, as you know, ninety five percent

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Speaker 1: of college administrative types are incapable of telling you the truth.

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Speaker 1: And in true fashion, Delos Dodds, who was then, I

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Speaker 1: think either the was he the president or the ad Jesse.

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Speaker 1: He was high up at Texas. They asked him. They're Dodds,

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Speaker 1: why not go to the PAC sixteen? Why not be

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Speaker 1: part of the first super conference? And you know what

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Speaker 1: he said, I can't make those kids travel like that.

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Speaker 1: I can't tax their bodies like that. I mean, how

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Speaker 1: irresponsible would it be of us to make the baseball

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Speaker 1: team travel from Lubbock, Texas to Pullman, Washington the best

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Speaker 1: interest of the kids? That was what was at the

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Speaker 1: forefront of Delos Dodd's decision making as the ad There

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Speaker 1: now a side note, if you do want to acknowledge,

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Speaker 1: there were also three hundred million reasons for them not

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Speaker 1: to go. Maybe that was on the back burner, but

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Speaker 1: I have to take him at his word. When the

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Speaker 1: women's basketball team at Baylor and their travel schedule, that

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Speaker 1: was really what made that whole Pack sixteen merger fall through.

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Speaker 1: Of course it was. I mean Hoomst would push against that,

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Speaker 1: Hoomst would suggest anything otherwise. Not I. A and M

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Speaker 1: got shook after this, and not shook out of fear,

581
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Speaker 1: shook out out of being irate about what was happening.

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Speaker 1: To be clear, what was happening is they're in state

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Speaker 1: neighbor that they already perceived to get every benefit of

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Speaker 1: the doubt was also being given their own network by

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Speaker 1: a television partner that they were all supposed to be

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Speaker 1: in bed with. So A and M said bye, we're

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Speaker 1: going to the SEC Peace and they went and they

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Speaker 1: had immediate success. There was a kidnamed Johnny Manzel that

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Speaker 1: came through there really really quickly and put A and

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Speaker 1: M on the map in the SEC. Missouri also, if

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Speaker 1: you're keeping score at home, ends up going to the SEC.

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00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: Texas and OU as it turns out, they also end

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Speaker 1: up in the SEC just a little over a decade later,

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Speaker 1: and so the Big Ten in the SEC, they ended

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Speaker 1: up becoming the super conferences. But what if Texas had

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Speaker 1: gone to the PAC twelve? What if the PAC sixteen

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Speaker 1: had happened? Do you realize what we're talking about there.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the SEC would have found a way

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Speaker 1: to survive. They were doing fine. The Big Ten would

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Speaker 1: have survived. They're doing fine, and I don't doubt that

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Speaker 1: they would have watched the PAC sixteen becoming a super

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Speaker 1: conference and saying to themselves, we got to do the

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Speaker 1: same thing. The Big twelve would have been swallowed up.

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Speaker 1: Big twelve would be essentially what the Mountain West is

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Speaker 1: right now to you the Big Twelve would have gone

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Speaker 1: the way of the Big East. I have no doubt

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Speaker 1: about that. The Kansas States, the Kansases of the world,

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Speaker 1: the Iowa States, they would have been sol at least

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Speaker 1: when it comes to football. I mean, the Big East

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Speaker 1: found a way to survive when it comes to basketball,

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Speaker 1: or at least somewhat survived. But I don't think the

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Speaker 1: Big Twelve would be what it is today. Certainly, if

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Speaker 1: Texas know, you would have left. The other really multimillion

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Speaker 1: dollar question in my mind is what would the ACC

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Speaker 1: have done? Because see, if the Big Ten and the SEC,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we're looking around at viable partners

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Speaker 1: for super conferencing themselves. SEC is not looking at, oh

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Speaker 1: you in Texas. I'll tell you who they're looking at.

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Speaker 1: They're looking at the Clemsons of the world, the FSUs

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Speaker 1: of the world, the Miami's of the world. Any Miami

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Speaker 1: is a sneaky good fit in the Big Ten. Actually,

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Speaker 1: and so what would happen to the ACC. I can't

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Speaker 1: guarantee of the ACC wouldn't have been poached and pillaged.

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Speaker 1: All sorts of things would have happened. But here's what

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00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't have happened. The PAC twelve would not have become

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Speaker 1: an afterthought when it comes to things like the college

627
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Speaker 1: football playoff picture, because that eventually would have come along.

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Speaker 1: They wouldn't be an afterthought when it comes to media

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Speaker 1: rights because a conference featuring the California schools and Texas

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Speaker 1: and Oklahoma would have fetched premium dollars in the open

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Speaker 1: media rights market. The PAC twelve would have been at

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Speaker 1: the forefront. They would have been an engine, not a caboose,

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Speaker 1: and I've hopped both of them. You'd much rather be

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Speaker 1: in the engine than the caboose. Several Big twelve schools, though,

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Speaker 1: would have been left out in the cold the Longhorn Network. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: here's where you can decide for yourself. I think it's

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Speaker 1: been a net negative on the sport. I would have

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Speaker 1: loved to have seen the PAC twelve take their turn

639
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Speaker 1: leading the sport for a little while. That's why I'm

640
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: still rooting for something, some prayer, some hail Mary, or

641
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: a miracle out there to happen where they get their

642
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: meteorites situation figured out so we don't have to watch them.

643
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: Just in terms of like college football plate tectonics detach

644
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: themselves and drift off into the Pacific. I don't want

645
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: to see that packed well paint. I can't see that happen,

646
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: but it could happen, and something's got to be done. Well,

647
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: something almost was done. I got a credit Larry scott

648
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: Ford try and dude did approximately nothing else right out there,

649
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: but at least he gave it the good old fashioned

650
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: college try there for a little while they're watching us

651
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: in Alexandria, Ohio, Mobile Alabama, and Anderson, South Carolina. Thank

652
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: you so much. We had several questions submitted in the

653
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: Late Kick inbox earlier today, which reminds me every question

654
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: I don't get to on the show tonight. Scratch that,

655
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: not every question. A lot of the questions I don't

656
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: get to on the show tonight, don't worry. You'll hear

657
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: them on Tuesday because that's when the Late Kick Extra

658
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: podcast drops. I appreciate you guys more than you can

659
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: possibly know being on the YouTube channel, and this is

660
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: where you have to be to get like ninety percent

661
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: of our content. But that leaves the question, what about

662
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: the other ten percent that can be found exclusively in

663
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: the podcast feed. You can go the Spotify route, you

664
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: can go the Apple podcast feed route. I don't really care,

665
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,439
Speaker 1: because we make the same amount of money either way.

666
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,240
Speaker 1: And by we I mean the high level mustaches several

667
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:39,919
Speaker 1: floors above us right now. But don't worry. We've held

668
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: our own against management lately. I'll talk about that later on.

669
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of myself I can't see straight. I

670
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: am fighting for all of us though. Okay, I understand

671
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: that not everybody out there who's about to drive to

672
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: a nine to five they may or may not like

673
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: tomorrow can stand up to management and physically dominate them

674
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: in certain context. But I can, and I did, and

675
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you about it later. In the meantime,

676
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: we got a question about spring games. This is a

677
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: good one from Hilliard, Ohio. Would you rather see a

678
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: spring game between two schools or would you rather keep

679
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,919
Speaker 1: spring practice as it is? I, when I am college

680
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: football commissioner, will give you the option. As for me

681
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: and my people at pet State, we want to play

682
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: someone else in the spring. I'm tired of scrimmaging myself.

683
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 1: I want to play someone else in the spring. Now,

684
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: I will guarantee you two things. Number One, anyone who

685
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: is forward thinking enough about this sport is going to

686
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: understand what I'm about to say is a good idea,

687
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: and the rest of them are going to come in

688
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: the comments and claim I said something I didn't say.

689
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: So let me just go ahead and recap what I'm

690
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 1: not saying before I say what I'm actually going to say.

691
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: I am not saying anyone or any program should be

692
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: forced to play a game for their spring game. I

693
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 1: am saying, as I will when I'm president one day.

694
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,760
Speaker 1: I want you to have as many choices in life,

695
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: and I want you to be able to exercise your

696
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 1: choice to kind of live however you want to live.

697
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to largely stay out of the way, and

698
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: when i'm College Football Commissioner, which will probably come before

699
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:18,399
Speaker 1: the presidency, don't probably probably could be some overlap there though,

700
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 1: depending on my schedule. I want you to have the option.

701
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: What we're talking about here, if you're unfamiliar, is for

702
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: about a million and one years, college teams have practiced

703
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: for four weeks in the spring, and then they've had

704
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: some version of a spring game, and it's it kind

705
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 1: of is what it is. It's kind of an event,

706
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: but it's really not what I would love for you

707
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: to have the option to do. And what I would

708
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: love for you to have incentive to do is to

709
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: schedule a team if you want to. If you find

710
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: a dance partner and play an actual football game. You

711
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: may modify it. You may have running clocks, you may

712
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: have ten minute quarter. I don't care what you do.

713
00:37:55,440 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: But here's the incentivized part that I talked about. There

714
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: is a huge benefit here when it comes to providing

715
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 1: our television partners with inventory. You think CBS and Fox

716
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: and ESPN wouldn't wet themselves if I came to them

717
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: and said, Hello, this is Texas A and M on

718
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: the line. We're gonna play UTSA instead of having a

719
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 1: spring game. What do you guys think What they would

720
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: think is after they put the phone down and you

721
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: heard screaming and celebration in the background, is they would

722
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: pick it back up and say, when do you want

723
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: our crew there? It's inventory. That's all it's about, is

724
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: inventory in the TV game. So the networks, I think

725
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: would be so overjoyed at that proposition. They'd partially fund it.

726
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: I think that they would bankroll a portion of the

727
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: idea or subsidize. To use another term that you're more

728
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: familiar with, I think that absolutely love to fit the

729
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: bill for some of that stuff in exchange for being

730
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,919
Speaker 1: able to sell ads against a spring game versus ads

731
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: against a real game. That's part one. You give the

732
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: television partners more inventory. You know what else, You give

733
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: the fans something to look forward to instead of just

734
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: kind of taking for granted. Man, they can come, they

735
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: don't come. Who cares? This is the entertainment business. I

736
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,800
Speaker 1: know sometimes people forget that. Even some of our audience

737
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: pushes back on that, which I quite frankly don't expect,

738
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: because you guys should be keenly aware this is an

739
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: entertainment game. I took some shots from lacrosse fans the

740
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: other day because I said, this isn't lacrosse. But it's

741
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: not lacrosse. This is not a hating on a lacrosse

742
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: segment or a bashed fest against lacrosse. I'm just saying,

743
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: if you look at the crowds at a lacrosse match

744
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: versus the crowds at a college football game, one of

745
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,280
Speaker 1: them is bigger than the other. For a reason, Americans

746
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: find football more entertaining than lacrosse. If you're coaching the

747
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: game and if you're playing in the game or if

748
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: you're administrating around the game, it stands to reason it's

749
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: in your best interest to provide those people with as

750
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 1: entertaining a product as you can. Now. Certainly that happens

751
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: in the fall, why not give yourself the option to

752
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: let it happen in the spring as well. I think

753
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: it gets your players some really really good work in

754
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: the spring. Also, you know, if you want to talk

755
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: about what it does to your roster, it gets you

756
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: some really good work and it's not friendly fire in

757
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: the spring game. There's a third benefit I think here,

758
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: and that is it maintains individual flexibility. You know, so

759
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: if you watch your rival down the road doing it

760
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 1: and they get all the recruiting benefit, it's a great

761
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 1: recruiting tool. By the way, did I mention great recruiting tool.

762
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: It's a great idea for the fans, it's a great

763
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 1: idea for the TV partner. But you know what, if

764
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 1: you watch all that and you say we want nothing

765
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 1: to do with it, then guess what, you don't have

766
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 1: to have anything to do with it. You may miss

767
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: out on a little payday, You may miss out on

768
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,720
Speaker 1: landing some kids, you may miss out on well making

769
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: everything from gates and concessions and the like to the

770
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: TV money that comes along with it. But if you

771
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: don't want to do it, you don't want to do it,

772
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 1: that's fine. You get the individual flexibility. I also need

773
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: to remind you of something else. Some people are faking

774
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: it when they say this. Some people are genuine when

775
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: they say this. Either way, when you say what I'm

776
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:18,280
Speaker 1: about to remind you of, and that is FCS teams

777
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: need to get that paycheck, don't they. This is where

778
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: you get them the paycheck. I'm not talking about Georgia

779
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,800
Speaker 1: scheduling Michigan for a spring game. I'm talking about Georgia

780
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 1: scheduling Western Michigan for a spring game. I'm talking about

781
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: Ohio State scheduling Kent State for a spring game. When

782
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: we're moving into the future and you see schedules change

783
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: because we have a twelve team playoff and fewer and

784
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 1: fewer programs are scheduling FCS competition, that's a good thing.

785
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: I don't need to see Clemson versus Citadel I don't

786
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: need to see that, but I'd be happy to see

787
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: it in the spring. That's where you take care of that.

788
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: You pay them what you'd pay them, or you partner

789
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: with a TV network, and you you pay him eight

790
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to come and get some good work in,

791
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: get good exposure, get a good experience for your roster.

792
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: So I don't have to watch you favored by fifty

793
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: and a half against them in week eleven. Now, no

794
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 1: one wants to see that. That don't work for anyone

795
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: in the fall. Why don't we do it in the spring?

796
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 1: So yes, absolutely, I think that should be a thing.

797
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: And if you don't want to partake in it, don't

798
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 1: partake in it. We'll be fine either way. Next up,

799
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,919
Speaker 1: speaking of scheduling, we got a scheduling question. I think

800
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: next really started to fall in love with a new microphone.

801
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: Cause with the new mic, I don't have to lean

802
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: into it. I can look over here, I can look

803
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: down poor posture, I can look up and the MIC

804
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: picks it up either way. Thank you. Jalen Hurts. Jalen

805
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: Hurts won us this microphone in the NFC Championship game

806
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 1: and he doesn't even know it. Zach hit us up

807
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: with this question. With the addition of OHU and Texas,

808
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: the SEC is likely moving to three permanent opponents. What

809
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: rivalries do you think will be maintained yearly and which

810
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: ones will have to be played every other year. Zach

811
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: is right, and we are quickly about to move to

812
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: a format in the SEC, or at least it is

813
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,280
Speaker 1: thought that we're moving to a format that is three

814
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: six six, And all that means is you're gonna play

815
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 1: nine conference games a year. That's the first thing it means.

816
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: The second thing is three six six just stands for

817
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,959
Speaker 1: the first number is you play those teams every year.

818
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 1: Those are three permanent rivals. And then the six six

819
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: means you play half a dozen teams one year, and

820
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: the half dozen you don't play that year, you'll play

821
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 1: them the next year. So in some shape, form or fashion,

822
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: you're playing every team in the conference every twenty four months.

823
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: You will have played the entire conference over a rolling

824
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: two year period. But that three numbers what people are

825
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,919
Speaker 1: focused on, because that means you're gonna play those teams

826
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: every year. And as you can imagine, this sit and

827
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:02,320
Speaker 1: pro ball, not everyone's created equal. Down here, God bless Vanderbilt.

828
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: We could throw a rock and hit their campus right now.

829
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: I think you'd probably rather draw them as an annual

830
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: opponent than say, LSU. So who's gonna play Who hoomst

831
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 1: is gonna play hooms? Here been many theories. I saw

832
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: Brad Crawford the other day get the work out of

833
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: the way so we didn't have to compile our own

834
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 1: list here, and I'm I'm just gonna work off of

835
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: what he suggested because I scanned it. It's on twenty

836
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: four to seven sports dot Com. I scanned it and

837
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: it was Brad saying, here's where we pretty much think

838
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: the SEC is gonna land on this whole scheduling format.

839
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: If he's right, it sucks to be Auburn, and if

840
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: he's right, it is a great day to be Arkansas.

841
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: And if he's right, I got some thoughts. So with Auburn,

842
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 1: this is brutal, just brutal. Something's never changed. You got death,

843
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: you got taxes, and you got Auburn being the toughest

844
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: job in the SEC. So, according to Bradford, and I

845
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: have no reason to doubt that this is the way

846
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: the sea will go. Auburn's three permanent opponents we Bama,

847
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: Georgia and LSU, which is just an a that's a

848
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: splattering any given year, that's a splattering. Mind you, they're

849
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: still drawing other teams. They're still going to randomly play Tennessee, Texas,

850
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: A and M, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, all those all those

851
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: fins are still out just offshore. Those are the three

852
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 1: you're having to deal with in your boat every year.

853
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: But at least the good news is Auburn doesn't lose

854
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: any permanent rival I don't know that they celebrate that,

855
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: but that is I would. I would lay behind Greg

856
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: Sankey's car in the SEC office parking lot in Birmingham

857
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: if I were Hugh Freeze before I let this be permanent.

858
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: That is brutal. As for Texas A and M, this

859
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: is where we do lose a couple of rivalries. So

860
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: Brad projected Texas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi State are the three

861
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: permanents for Texas A and M. Now that means you

862
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: lose the A and M Arkansas matchup. That means you

863
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: lose A and M LSU, which had become a feisty

864
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 1: little rivalry lately. If I get A and M in

865
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 1: Texas back, especially if you play it the day after

866
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving or even on Thanksgiving, for all I care, that

867
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 1: is good news. We cannot just take, take, take and

868
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: not have to give anything. But those are two rivalries

869
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: you would lose. The Alabama side of the coin, you

870
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: actually don't lose anything. Brad had Alabama play in Tennessee, Auburn,

871
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: and LSU, and if I were to pick out their

872
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:38,720
Speaker 1: three biggest rivalries in the SEC, Bama's biggest three rivalries

873
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: or Auburn and Tennessee and LSU, and so you don't

874
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:46,840
Speaker 1: really lose anything. Now, on the flip side, everybody views

875
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,280
Speaker 1: Bama as a rival like all Arkansas or Ole miss

876
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: or Mississippi's they view Alabama as a rival. If you

877
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 1: live in Saint Paul, Minnesota, you don't think of Mississippi

878
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 1: State Alabama as a rivalry. So with yeah, if you've

879
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 1: got Tennessee, Auburn, LSU, that's good. As for Arkansas, there

880
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,760
Speaker 1: has been a I'm not gonna call it a conspiracy theory.

881
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna call it a theory. It's just been

882
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: a fact the SEC has backhanded the University of Arkansas

883
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: at every given opportunity. And if the projections we're looking

884
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,399
Speaker 1: at on our screen right now are true, this would

885
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: be a much welcome turning of the page. When it

886
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: comes to relations between Birmingham and Fayetteville. Because if Arkansas's

887
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: three permanent opponents in this new format are Texas, Mississippi State,

888
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: and Missouri, Arkansas cashed in. That means you don't get

889
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: A and M every year. That means you don't get

890
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 1: Bama every year or LSU every year. That's a good thing.

891
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 1: So hold on, go full Wilson Phillips mode up there,

892
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: hold on for one more year, Georgia. I can accept

893
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: what Brad is suggesting here. There's one omission. So Florida, Auburn,

894
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: and South Carolina. Those are the three that Brad projects.

895
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: I would love to have Georgia Tennessee every year. I

896
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: know I can't have everything I want, but I would

897
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: love to have Georgia Tennessee every year. Be that as

898
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,439
Speaker 1: it may. I do get to keep the Deep South,

899
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: oldest rivalry there. I do get to keep obviously Florida Georgia,

900
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: so I'm okay with that. And Tennessee. Also, there's a

901
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: lot of conversation around which three teams Tennessee is gonna play.

902
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: Bama is going to be one of them. It won't

903
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: move forward an inch if you're not playing Bama Tennessee.

904
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 1: So you've got Bama Tennessee, Tennessee, Florida, and Tennessee Vandy. Again,

905
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: I need to reiterate this is not official. This is

906
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: Brad Crawford's projection that I pretty much agree with. That

907
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,439
Speaker 1: means we don't have Tennessee Georgia every year. That means

908
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: we don't have Tennessee Kentucky every year. Now I saw

909
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: some Tennessee fans, of course I did, arguing, Oh no,

910
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 1: We've got to play in Kentucky every year, Tennessee Kentucky.

911
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 1: That's what color football revolves around. They wanted to trade

912
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: out Bama. They wanted to play Kentucky every year instead

913
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:11,399
Speaker 1: of Bama. How brave, how brave from my brethren over

914
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: there in East Tennessee. Credit you guys for stepping up.

915
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 1: Give us big blue keep Crimson, give us big blue

916
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: football basketball in this economy, in any economy, I bet

917
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: you guys did want it. You're not gonna get that.

918
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to play Bama LSU. There are two rivalries.

919
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: According to Brown, If this word of pass that they're

920
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: gonna have to give up LSU playing Auburn, Ole, Miss

921
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:35,879
Speaker 1: and Bama every year, that means I don't get LSU

922
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: Florida every year. That means I don't get LSU, Texas,

923
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: A and M every year. I'm not crazy about it. Look,

924
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: here's what's happening, whether they want to admit it or not.

925
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,359
Speaker 1: The SEC League office is taking their conference and they're

926
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: pretty much splitting it. You got the top eight in

927
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 1: the bottom eight, and everyone knows that exists. You just

928
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: can't say it out loud. Some programs are perennially better

929
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: than other programs. We've never decided a scheduling model where

930
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: we admitted that upfront. Now it could be that that's irrelevant,

931
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 1: or it could be that ESPN walks in the room

932
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: because I don't really think their voice has been fully

933
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: weighted here yet. And ESPN could walk in the room

934
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: and say, we're giving you seventy eight trillion dollars roughly

935
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:25,439
Speaker 1: for the rights to broadcast your games exclusively at least

936
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: at the A tier. We want a say in how

937
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 1: you format that schedule. Because while people at Missouri or

938
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: people at South Carolina may be focused on competitive balance,

939
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:41,720
Speaker 1: we're not. We want entertainment. We want value. That's the balance.

940
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: We want to strike value. And so you need to

941
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: tell your top eight teams in the conference to suck

942
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 1: it up. They're going to play each other a little

943
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:52,879
Speaker 1: bit more than they're going to play the bottom eight.

944
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: Does that sound fair? No? Not necessarily. Is anyone going

945
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: to cry crocodile tear years that the University of Georgia

946
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: has to play a tougher schedule? Probably not. Will we

947
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: be better off for it well in terms of entertainment, yes,

948
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: I just think it's a little bit of a slippery

949
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: slope if we decide to walk up to the stone

950
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: in front of us and etch eight teams names in

951
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: one category and eight in the other category. I know

952
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: you guys don't think that this league could invert itself,

953
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: and in some cases you're right. I don't necessarily think

954
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: George is going anywhere for a while. I don't know

955
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: what to make of Florida in the future. I don't

956
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: know what to make of South Carolina in the future.

957
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: I have no clue whether Tennessee's here to stay or not.

958
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: I am just saying it. Could you need to leave

959
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: yourself some wiggle room would be my advice. I'm sure

960
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: they haven't thought of that already. Let's move it on.

961
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: Just a fascinating question here from one Jimothy Dunaway, who

962
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: you can see tomorrow morning and each and every morning

963
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: on Next Round Live, which is a program that I

964
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: appear on semi frequently and you can find it on

965
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: their YouTube channel. Those guys do a great job Next

966
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 1: Round Live. If you want something you know, if you

967
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,800
Speaker 1: drive to work and after you listen to our replay.

968
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:14,240
Speaker 1: If you're kind of trying to fill the void between

969
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: nine am and lunch, check out their channel Next Round Live.

970
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: Like it's a healthy mixture. It's not solely focused on

971
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: college football. They'll talk a ton of basketball over the

972
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: next few months. You won't find that here, So if

973
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: you need that fix, that's where I suggest you go. Anyway,

974
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: jim Dunaway, friend of the program, hit us up and said,

975
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: if you had to fast forward or rewind on college football,

976
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: would you fast forward through the next two years and

977
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: just get to the expanded playoff or rewind back to

978
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: the Ron Franklin Mike Gottfried ESPN Saturday Night era with

979
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 1: no guarantee that history would repeat itself. I spent the

980
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,919
Speaker 1: majority of my afternoon thinking about this. Famously, I don't

981
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: listen to music at the gym, so this is what

982
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: dominated my mind. You know, Colin's listening to Lincoln Park

983
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: at the gym. As Colin does, I'm sitting here thinking

984
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,360
Speaker 1: about Jim Dunaway giving me the fast forward rewind button

985
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: like in the movie Click with Adam sandler sneaky emotional

986
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: scene in that movie. By the way, no spoiler alerts.

987
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: I don't think there's an easy answer for this. I

988
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: think some of you stereotype me, and you just assume

989
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: I'm rewind at all costs. Well, that's not always true.

990
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,720
Speaker 1: That's not true in college football, it's not true in life.

991
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: There are things that I enjoyed about the past that

992
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: I would love that I would much prefer to the

993
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: present music film, but you know, I don't necessarily want

994
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: to go backwards. When it comes to nutrition and medicine.

995
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: There are a lot of really good things we got today.

996
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things that I've just assume

997
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 1: hit the rewind button on. So in college football it's

998
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 1: the same way. But what I'm ultra curious on. I'll

999
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: get to the postseason thing at the end, because I

1000
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 1: think you know where I'm going on that. But what

1001
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 1: I'm interested on is some of the end between and

1002
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 1: where you guys land on this, because truthfully, I think

1003
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 1: we could do like a three hour telethon and we

1004
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: can just take calls and raise money for a great cause,

1005
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: the Jesse Foundation, for example. We could just take calls

1006
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 1: on this and we would probably get so many bits

1007
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: of feedback that I didn't think about. But what I

1008
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 1: thought about is the style of game. I don't know

1009
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: what I want to hit. Do I want to hit

1010
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 1: fast forward to rewind. I think some parts of our

1011
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: game today are very exciting. I also told you earlier

1012
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: in the show. I enjoy a good seventeen to thirteen

1013
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 1: defensive slugfest. I don't know what I want to go

1014
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: back to or go forward to. I think it's very

1015
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: much a case by case thing. When it comes to

1016
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,319
Speaker 1: technology and what it's done for sports and what it's

1017
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: done for college football, we have never presented broadcast television

1018
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 1: like we're presenting it now. When it comes to college football.

1019
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 1: The live presentation is unbelievable. It is mind boggling. When

1020
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: you go back and watch tapes of games from the

1021
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:01,320
Speaker 1: early two thousands, and it looks like it's nineteen forty five.

1022
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: It's in. What high definition television has done is mind

1023
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,359
Speaker 1: blowing and I don't have time to explain frame rates

1024
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: to you, as Bradley Well knows. But it's mind blowing.

1025
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:15,839
Speaker 1: So that's a great thing. It's a great thing presentation,

1026
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 1: broadcast what technology has allowed us to do. In terms

1027
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: of replay, do I really want to go back and

1028
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: watch teams get five downs in route to winning a championship? No? No,

1029
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch that. Having said that, if

1030
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: I go back in time, I can get Keith Jackson back,

1031
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 1: I can get Ron Franklin back, I can get Mike

1032
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: Godfrey back. I don't know. I was talking to producer

1033
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 1: Jesse earlier about this. I don't know that even if

1034
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 1: you do your best, if you're Brad Nessler or Gus

1035
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 1: Johnson or Chris Fowler, I'm a huge Sean McDonough guy.

1036
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 1: Joe tessitour massive fent. I don't think those guys have

1037
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: any prayer of ever living up to the legend of

1038
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: Keith Jackson, only because once Keith Jackson's career was over,

1039
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 1: it started to become romanticized. Truthfully, Keith Jackson was being

1040
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 1: romanticized long before his career was over. But I mean

1041
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:15,800
Speaker 1: a lot of the newer generation, your biggest impression of

1042
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:19,840
Speaker 1: Keith Jackson was the five Rose Bowl Texas and USCS

1043
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 1: his last game, and that was the tail end of

1044
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: a decade's long career that guy called world series, he

1045
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,399
Speaker 1: called national championships, called everything under the sun, and he's

1046
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: the soundtrack for your parents and your grandparents generation of

1047
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: college football. In anything that you watch in archival form

1048
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 1: that features a big game from the history of the sport,

1049
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: it probably has him as the narration, as the backdrop

1050
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: is the play by play. My point is he's been

1051
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: romanticized rightfully so to the point where no one would

1052
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:54,439
Speaker 1: allow Keith Jackson to be bypassed. What I was trying

1053
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: to say there is kind of a side point. My

1054
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: point is Keith Jackson really was that good. It's not

1055
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: that thing that people do with Babe Ruth where they

1056
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: say no modern hitter could compare to Babe Ruth. Yeah

1057
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: they could, Yeah they could. Now, Babe Ruth didn't have

1058
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 1: the access to advanced strength, the conditioning, and technology nutrition

1059
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 1: that the modern player has, which is why comparing eras

1060
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: is pointless. But yeah, they absolutely could measure up to Babruth.

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Speaker 1: Today's play by play guy. Can they measure up to

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Speaker 1: Keith Jackson, I don't think you'll be given a chance

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00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: to because just like Babe Ruth got five percent better

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00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 1: every year after he retired and then passed on, Keith

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00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 1: Jackson gets five percent better every year. The greatest have

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00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: a tendency to do that. Have you ever noticed that

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00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: the greatest Sandy kofex throw one hundred and twenty seven

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Speaker 1: miles an hour Today, Keith Jackson gets better and better

1069
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 1: and better, and the guy hadn't call the games at

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00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: so five And it's magical to watch. But if I

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00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: went back in time, if I get to rewind, I

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Speaker 1: get some of those classic broadcast pairings, and I wouldn't

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00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: be against that. But there is one thing that has

1074
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: rubbed me the wrong way for a long time. And

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Speaker 1: I know Google says I'm fifty three years old because

1076
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: it's confusing me with the Outer Bank Sky Season three

1077
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 1: drop in next month. By the way, I am not

1078
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:11,479
Speaker 1: fifty three years old, but I'm about to sound fifty

1079
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: three years old. For a second. Cell phones have had

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Speaker 1: a detrimental impact on live sporting experiences and what I

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00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: mean by that, And this is where I would not hit.

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00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 1: This is where I love to hit Rewind I just

1083
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: told you technology has done good things for sports than

1084
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 1: they have, but the price we've paid is for some reason,

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00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 1: at sporting events, people don't lose themselves in the moment anymore,

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Speaker 1: at least a lot of people don't. They feel the

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00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 1: need to capture the moment, which is ironic because in

1088
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: looking at their screen, they miss the actual moment, so

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00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,919
Speaker 1: the only memory they have is of looking at their

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00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 1: phone's screen as the phone captured the moment. When Lebron

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00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 1: broke the scoring record the other day, it was one

1092
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 1: of the most iconic shots that I've ever seen photographic shots,

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00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: because you had an entire arena full of people who

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00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 1: have spent their parents' life savings to be court side

1095
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: of that game, and they're all going like that as

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00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: Lebron hits the shot, and Phil Knight, the founder of Nike,

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Speaker 1: is sitting on a front row with his arms crossed

1098
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: just watching. He's the only person who gets what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: When you're at sporting events, they're not as loud as

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Speaker 1: they were a generation ago, because a lot of times

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00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 1: when people are going like this and they're recording something,

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Speaker 1: they don't want to make noise because it ruins the shot,

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00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: and I've just I've got some news for you. One

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00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 1: hundred percent of the time the game that you're attending

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00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: will be on broadcast television, a replay will be available,

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00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: and those cameras pretty much twenty four of them or

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00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 1: sixteen if it's a B level broadcast, are going to

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00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: have captured a better shot than you captured. And section

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Speaker 1: two twenty eight. I would love for people to put

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Speaker 1: phone down and get lost in the moment again, because

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Speaker 1: the n stadium atmosphere suffers because of it. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying it's not still loud. I'm just saying if I

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Speaker 1: could rewind before people really cared about capturing it themselves.

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Speaker 1: You know, the flash bulb era, Give me that era.

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01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 1: I miss the flash bulb era. You can pinpoint this,

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01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 1: by the way, and it's not just college football. You

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01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: go back to the mid two thousands and you can

1118
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:33,440
Speaker 1: pinpoint some of the last great events that happened before

1119
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 1: the cell phone reinvented how people attended sporting events. And

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Speaker 1: it's a little nostalgic. I always go back to Wrestle

1121
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: Manty eighteen personally, but you can look at the O

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Speaker 1: five rose bulb. Basically, it's the flash bulb ratio. The

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Speaker 1: fewer flash bulbs you see in big moments, that means

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Speaker 1: the more cell phones are out, and it had to happen.

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Speaker 1: I know, But I guess my answer is, Jim, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I think there's about a sixty percent part

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Speaker 1: of me that wants to rewind, but there is a

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Speaker 1: solid forty percent part of me who understands there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of good that's come now as it comes to

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Speaker 1: the format of the sport. Of course, I don't want

1131
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:12,840
Speaker 1: to go to the expanded playoff. I'm not relitigating that.

1132
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Speaker 1: I've made you a promise several weeks in a row.

1133
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 1: Now I'm not going to debate the playoff expansion thing anymore.

1134
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: But of course I want to go back in talk.

1135
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,560
Speaker 1: Of course, I'd love to go back to where people

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01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: fought themselves and fought polsters over who gets rewarded the

1137
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Speaker 1: national championship. But as I've explained to you, it's not

1138
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Speaker 1: because I think that was a fool proof way of

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Speaker 1: deciding a national champion. It's because in college football, I

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01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: just don't care about the end of the season as

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01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 1: much I care about Saturdays in the fall, the experience

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Speaker 1: and bowl season and if I get a national championship game,

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01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: that's great. I don't feel that way about any other sport,

1144
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 1: just college football. So when you argue with me, well,

1145
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:57,000
Speaker 1: the NFL and NBA and Major League, Yes, and I

1146
01:01:57,040 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: watch those sports, and I love watching the Super Bowl,

1147
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 1: love watching the World Series. Don't think it has any

1148
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: relevance when it comes to comparing it to college football.

1149
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: So that's me and you can be you and we'll

1150
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: be fine. Next question is this, Brad Powers question? Is it? Yes,

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01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: it's time. I have some video coming up for you,

1152
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:18,600
Speaker 1: if you'll do me the honor of liking the video

1153
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 1: and subscribing to the channel. Okay, Brad Powers, big friend

1154
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: of the program hit us up from Millbury, Ohio. He said,

1155
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Speaker 1: how long do you think the Ping Pong streak lasts?

1156
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: It's a good question, Brad. What streak is he talking about?

1157
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 1: A lot of you follow me on Instagram and Twitter,

1158
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:40,640
Speaker 1: and you know that there has been I think one

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01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:46,080
Speaker 1: of the more impressive story arcs in any form of

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01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 1: entertainment in the year of our lower twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: and twenty three, and it's been happening right here in

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Speaker 1: our office. Little bit of backstory, I celebrated the day

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Speaker 1: that we got a ping pong table at twenty four

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Speaker 1: seven Sports, and I think it's been very good for

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Speaker 1: office morale, for team camaraderie. We've seen some people come

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01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: out of their shell. We've seen other people get put

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01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:11,680
Speaker 1: in a shell. We've seen a couple of folks get

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Speaker 1: put in a body bag lately. One of them is

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Speaker 1: a form of management around here. So here's what happened.

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01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 1: What happened is I let my guard down. I'm one

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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety four and four in this office. Two

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01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 1: of those losses came to producer Jesse. They have asterisk

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Speaker 1: next to them because I was foolish enough to play

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01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,480
Speaker 1: Jesse right after I worked out legs. It's an excuse,

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01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: but it's valid. The other two came against HR and management.

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Speaker 1: But the one against management hurt more so than the

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Speaker 1: other three losses for obvious reasons. If you understand the

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Speaker 1: Austin McMahon dynamic from the late nineties, you understand how

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01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:53,880
Speaker 1: Late Kick interacts with management around this office. And there

1180
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 1: is no better test of our metal than when we

1181
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:01,960
Speaker 1: face our superiors in an atholetic competition. And you guys

1182
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 1: don't get to do that you don't get to arm

1183
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 1: wrestle your boss, you don't get to play your boss

1184
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: in athletic competition. But we work at a sports company

1185
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 1: and so people question your manhood if you won't step up,

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01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 1: and that includes management. And so I faced management a

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Speaker 1: few times and I had won. I had to impressed

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Speaker 1: a little street going. But then January thirtieth, twenty twenty

1189
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:26,560
Speaker 1: three happened. And if you're listening on podcasts, I will

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Speaker 1: explain it to you. But if you're watching on YouTube,

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01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 1: director Colin regrettably has the video. It's cathartic for me

1192
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: to watch this. So that's me, that's management, it's game point.

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01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:40,960
Speaker 1: Bradley's lurking in the background, and there it is. I

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01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:44,640
Speaker 1: have gone down for the first time in my career

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Speaker 1: to management, and the people I thought were my friends

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Speaker 1: are clapping. The people I thought were matt Ili, the

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Speaker 1: people I thought were on my side and the fight

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Speaker 1: against that entity management are gleeful at watching me. So

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Speaker 1: I'm laying on the ground right now. It was at

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Speaker 1: this moment that all out war was declared in this office,

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01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:10,200
Speaker 1: and I have gone seventy three and oh since then.

1202
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: But it gets better. Brad Powers you don't even know

1203
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,840
Speaker 1: this yet because I haven't told the world on this program.

1204
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 1: But i'll tell you right now. Management hit me up

1205
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:23,240
Speaker 1: the other day and Management said, what you're doing on Friday?

1206
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 1: It's normally Friday is a pretty light day around here.

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01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 1: I'm either traveling in the fall or I'm off the

1208
01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:33,440
Speaker 1: grid in the winter and spring. And I said, well, Management,

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01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 1: I'm doing whatever you need me to do. I'm not

1210
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 1: really that subjective. I just knew what he wanted. He

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01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 1: wanted to come in here. He felt himself a little bit,

1212
01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 1: got himself his own paddle in there. We got a

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Speaker 1: new set of balls, and he wanted to come in here,

1214
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Speaker 1: and he wanted to have the office to ourselves and

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Speaker 1: engage in a good old fashioned best of whatever. Eleven

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01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 1: games later, I was eleven and zero, and Management had

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01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 1: tucktail and headed back down south of Nashville, where Management

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01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:09,160
Speaker 1: resides in those kinds of neighborhoods. He had punched his

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01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:12,800
Speaker 1: gate code in and he had gone in, hidden behind

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Speaker 1: those walls and fortresses they tend to live in. I

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01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:17,720
Speaker 1: went back up to the slums I stay in, and

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Speaker 1: so I went back, and I was very proud of

1223
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Speaker 1: myself Brad Powers, I'm telling you this, I will not

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Speaker 1: lose to management again. It's not gonna happen. I got

1225
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Speaker 1: the wake up call I needed, so you can lay

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Speaker 1: whatever odds you need to the days of management honoring

1227
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Speaker 1: himself around this office when it comes to ping pong

1228
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 1: are over. I say that to you as sure as

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Speaker 1: Maximus told it to commitists in the movie Gladiator, which

1230
01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 1: has been one of the premier sources of motivation for

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Speaker 1: me lately. Colin, I don't think we need to clip

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Speaker 1: that for YouTube. Next up, let's go back to August

1233
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 1: or May. As it turns out, we got some bold

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Speaker 1: predictions to revisit and a mixed of predictions here. Very interesting.

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Speaker 1: When I looked at these five tonight, I asked you

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01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:05,960
Speaker 1: to give me these. What would you bet your money

1237
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 1: on if we asked you to bet your money and

1238
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 1: you came and a lot of you crashed and burned,

1239
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 1: but you went hard in the paint, and I'll give

1240
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 1: you that. The first one is about Dylan Gabriel. Oklahoma

1241
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 1: quarterback Travis said, Dylan Gabriel will be a Heisman finalist. Well,

1242
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: he was hurt, so we always rule it out if

1243
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: injury is involved. But even if injury wasn't involved, I

1244
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 1: don't quite think that was the trajectory that Dylan Gabriel

1245
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:34,040
Speaker 1: was on. Had good stats, but it takes a different

1246
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:38,040
Speaker 1: level of production to be Heisman worthy. I went back

1247
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:41,000
Speaker 1: and looked though in the preseason, and this was not

1248
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Speaker 1: the boldest of predictions. In fact, I put an eight

1249
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 1: on it only cause he said he's not gonna win it.

1250
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 1: He said he's going to be a finalist. Dylan Gabriel

1251
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Speaker 1: was only number seven in the preseason odds to win

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Speaker 1: the Heisman, So this was not a far fetched, extra

1253
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Speaker 1: bold prediction. It had enough boldness for me to put

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Speaker 1: an eight on it. But Dylan Gabriel falls well short.

1255
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 1: Management is texting me, I mean the audacity. It's at

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01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 1: least they watch next up, Kansas beats Texas again. It's

1257
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Speaker 1: the again that really gets me. Because Travis gave us

1258
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Speaker 1: two predictions, so his second prediction was Kansas beats Texas

1259
01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 1: Comma again. Can you feel the love out of other

1260
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:27,520
Speaker 1: Big twelve fan bases for Texas? I sure can. Kansas

1261
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:29,679
Speaker 1: was on a roll earlier in the year. Their over

1262
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 1: underwent totals two and a half. They started five and zero.

1263
01:08:33,200 --> 01:08:36,280
Speaker 1: Things went downhill pretty quickly after that. Now, Texas stumbled

1264
01:08:36,320 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 1: a little bit out of the gate when viewers got hurt.

1265
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:40,599
Speaker 1: They almost beat Bama, but they did and they lost

1266
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 1: to Texas Tech. But Texas rebounded and by the time

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Speaker 1: they played Kansas, it was a tale of two seasons

1268
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:51,360
Speaker 1: for both programs, and it showed Kansas was in the

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Speaker 1: process of losing seven of their last eight and that

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Speaker 1: included a game against Texas fifty five to fourteen. Texas

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Speaker 1: ran the ball for four hundred and twenty seven yards.

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Speaker 1: I metric system medicuates to roughly half a mile, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that didn't happen. I put a nine on the boldness scale.

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Speaker 1: I had faith in Texas. The model we all know

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Speaker 1: famously had faith in Texas. The model would favor Texas

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Speaker 1: by three and a half against the Chiefs that they

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Speaker 1: played next week. But yeah, the model, at least for

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Speaker 1: one afternoon, was right when it comes to Texas. Next up,

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Speaker 1: let's head over to Knoxville. Prediction Tennessee upsets LSU and

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Speaker 1: goes undefeated heading into Tuscaloosa. Well, they played the game

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Speaker 1: in Knoxville, but the prediction still stands. Tennessee's going to

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Speaker 1: be undefeated when they play Alabama. Now, I think there's

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Speaker 1: some revisionist history that happens with the way Tennessee Season

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Speaker 1: played out. See a lot of folks look back at

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Speaker 1: Tennessee season and they say, this isn't bold. Of course

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Speaker 1: they were going to be undefeated. Who did they play?

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Speaker 1: Pitt not a big deal? Florida terrible. Well, that's not

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Speaker 1: how you felt in the preseason. In the preseason, that

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Speaker 1: Pit game was like a field goal point spread, and

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Speaker 1: it was an overtime game, by the way, so that

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Speaker 1: was close. The Florida game was not as close as

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Speaker 1: the final score indicated, but Florida was ranked at the

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Speaker 1: time they played them, so that was a ten point spread.

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Speaker 1: But I was there the every given Saturday tour. Was there.

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Speaker 1: That's how big that game was perceived to be. And

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Speaker 1: so they beat Florida thirty eight thirty three. Then they

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Speaker 1: go to LSU, a game we were supposed to be

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Speaker 1: at before. And it does me no joy to utter

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Speaker 1: this sentence, even though it sounds a little bougie. Before

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Speaker 1: we had private plane issues and we didn't get down there.

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Speaker 1: It's a good thing we didn't get down there. It

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Speaker 1: would have been a waste of a morning, LSU got

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Speaker 1: boat raced by Tennessee, so we had all that happen,

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Speaker 1: and Tennessee does indeed face Alabama undefeated, and even after

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Speaker 1: they faced Alabama, they were still undefeated. Friends, I put

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Speaker 1: a six and a half on this. I didn't think

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Speaker 1: it was that bold. I did think Tennessee was going

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Speaker 1: to be undefeated when they faced Alabama. So score one

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Speaker 1: for all of us here. Next up we go all

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Speaker 1: the way to the West coast. Oregon's gonna win the

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Speaker 1: Pac twelve. Huh, Jeff said, Oregon under first year coach

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01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:11,479
Speaker 1: Dan Landing wins the PAC twelve over Lincoln Riley and

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Speaker 1: sc I put a five on this. It wasn't that bold.

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Speaker 1: If you looked at the preseason odds, it was Southern Cal,

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Speaker 1: it was Utah, it was Oregon. I think a little

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Speaker 1: ways down the list Ucla. But Oregon, even during the season,

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Speaker 1: felt like they were trending this way. We went out

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Speaker 1: there for the UCLA game and they beat UCLA pretty handily.

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Speaker 1: I might candidly I thought they were on the way

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Speaker 1: to win in the Pac twelve, and then Bo Nicks

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01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 1: got hurt and I didn't think he was going to

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Speaker 1: play against Utah. He did, they ended up beating Utah,

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Speaker 1: so ironically, Oregon beats the PAC twelve champ. But the

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Speaker 1: problem is they lost to Washington. They lost to Oregon

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Speaker 1: State by combined seven points, by the way, but they

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Speaker 1: count as losses, and so it ends up being Utah

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Speaker 1: against USC, and it's Utah again that beats USC. So

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Speaker 1: Oregon does not come through. But don't worry, They'll be

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Speaker 1: in the picture every year for the foreseeable future. Now,

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Speaker 1: the last one we had a lot of internal debate about. Today.

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Speaker 1: You tell me if you think this was bold. Nebraska

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Speaker 1: wins the Big Ten West. I'm gonna ignore the last part.

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Speaker 1: If you're watching on YouTube, you see what it says,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you on podcast it says, don't sleep on

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Speaker 1: Scott Frost. Scott Frost got put to sleep. So let's

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Speaker 1: forget about that last part. But the first part, Nebraska

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Speaker 1: wins the Big Ten West. I only put a four

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Speaker 1: on that. I did not think it was bold at all.

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Speaker 1: And my reason, even though Nebraska was a tire fire

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Speaker 1: this year, I don't think I was wrong. There was

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Speaker 1: no bold prediction to be made about whopst was gonna

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Speaker 1: win the Big Ten West. Because the odds were all

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Speaker 1: over the place. Nebraska was actually well, Wisconsin was. So

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Speaker 1: think about this. Wisconsin was favored to win the Big

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Speaker 1: Ten West. Their coach was fired three quarters of the

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Speaker 1: way through the season, so the favorite is nowhere to

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Speaker 1: be found. Nebraska was second in the odds on market

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Speaker 1: to win the West, and then you had Iowa. You

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Speaker 1: didn't have a solid favorite. As my point, Wisconsin was

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Speaker 1: plus one thousand to win the Big Ten. Nebraska plus

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Speaker 1: eighteen hundred, Iowa plus twenty five hundred Perdue plus twenty

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Speaker 1: eight hundred Minnesota plus three thousand. That's the way it looked.

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Speaker 1: So I put a four on it, and I equated

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Speaker 1: it to you walking up to me and having a

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Speaker 1: little fish bowl and there are ten pieces of wadded

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Speaker 1: up paper in there, and I'd draw one out and

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Speaker 1: someone predicts, hey, I think you drew out the number six.

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Speaker 1: Is it a bold prediction? No, Every prediction you could

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Speaker 1: make about the number I drew out of the fish

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Speaker 1: bowl is equally as bold. Just like if I said

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin's gonna win it, Iowa's gonna win it, Nebraska's it's

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Speaker 1: all the same. They were all the same. It was

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Speaker 1: just a pool of average affity in the Big Ten West,

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Speaker 1: and Purdue ended up winning a thing and it wasn't

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Speaker 1: decided until last week. It was not Nebraska, though, but

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Speaker 1: I stand by that four. I stand by it wholeheartedly.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys watching. We have an appearance coming up

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Speaker 1: this week. Now. You know I don't do many of these,

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01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:28,120
Speaker 1: but our acquaintance Brandon Walker hit us up over at

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Speaker 1: Barstool Sports, which was sold to Penn Entertainment Fly I

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Speaker 1: don't know half the money in the US the other

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Speaker 1: day and said we want you on the show. So

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01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:43,599
Speaker 1: I've cleared some time. I think it airs Wednesday, and

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Speaker 1: we'll be on the show. I don't know what's going

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Speaker 1: to happen. We are intentionally not speaking to each other

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01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:52,840
Speaker 1: before the appearance, and it'll be what it'll be, but

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Speaker 1: I can tell you this, in college football fashion, this

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01:14:57,040 --> 01:14:59,160
Speaker 1: will be a home and home. So while I go

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01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:02,879
Speaker 1: there now, he will be coming here. The difference, friends,

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01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:07,080
Speaker 1: is I'm going to go there electronically, He's coming here

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01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 1: in person. I'll make sure of it. Thank you so

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01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:12,680
Speaker 1: much for watching. Make sure you're following on all the

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01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:16,120
Speaker 1: social channels because there's going to be really, really good

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01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:19,479
Speaker 1: college football and non college football related content coming up soon,

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Speaker 1: So at Late Kick Josh is where you can find

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Speaker 1: me on Instagram and Twitter until Thursday Night Live and

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Speaker 1: Tuesday for the Late Kick Extra podcast. Have yourselves a

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01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 1: great start to your week for producer Jesse. For director

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Speaker 1: of Colin, I'm Josh Bait. Take care, have a great

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Speaker 1: week in God bless