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Speaker 1: football conference this year, as far as I'm concerned, it'll

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Speaker 1: be the most competitively balanced. It's the conference where inil

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Speaker 1: salaries dwarf other salaries the least. It's the conference it's

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Speaker 1: where the least shady recruiting happens. It's the conference where

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Speaker 1: coaches stay put per capita more so than any other conference.

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Speaker 1: So if we claim that that's what we want, if

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Speaker 1: we claim the lack of those things is what's muddying

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Speaker 1: up the college football waters right now. Well, if the

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Speaker 1: Big Twelve is looking at you saying, hey, come over here,

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Speaker 1: we got a good product that's absent a lot of that,

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Speaker 1: I'm going. Y'all can come with me or not, I'm going.

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Speaker 1: So I love the Big Twelve. Let's move to this

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Speaker 1: next question. Huh. Texas Hill Country from Dripping Springs, Texas said,

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Speaker 1: what team do you believe has the best opportunity to

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Speaker 1: write the script of the best storyline this year by

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Speaker 1: having a successful season and it all coming together. I

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Speaker 1: don't have one. I have like three or four Florida

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Speaker 1: State is right at the top of my mind when

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about who could put together, who could sort

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Speaker 1: of weave the tapestry of a story book season this year,

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Speaker 1: it's Mike Norvel and Florida State. If you watched what

447
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Speaker 1: they did last year, they never lost a football game,

448
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,440
Speaker 1: and then they don't make the playoff, and then he's

449
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 1: rumored for other jobs, and he signs the long term extension.

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Speaker 1: So basically he plants his spear. He says, I'm Florida State, Tallahassee, Florida.

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Speaker 1: That's where I want to be. It's where I'm gonna be.

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Speaker 1: And then they run it back this year with questions

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Speaker 1: about all these departing players and all this lack of

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Speaker 1: proven productivity on their current starting twenty two. If they

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Speaker 1: do it this year, that's a program that's winning instead

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Speaker 1: of just individual team in twenty twenty three. So you

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Speaker 1: got that, you got Norvel just going middle finger to everyone.

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Speaker 1: You got Florida State going middle finger to the world,

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Speaker 1: kind of me included, and I would embrace it. Well,

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Speaker 1: that would be a really really good story. They're over

461
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Speaker 1: undo win totals nine and a half. This year. They

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Speaker 1: opened with Georgia Tech in Dublin, Ireland in week zero,

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Speaker 1: so I think that would fit description. I also think

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Speaker 1: Iowa State would fit the description. Is there homerrism here? Yes,

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Speaker 1: unquestionably there is Homerism here. But I want you to

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Speaker 1: follow me for a second. So you know, I'm Big

467
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Speaker 1: twelve this year, and you know that I love Iowa State.

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Speaker 1: I love everything about the program. We were up there

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Speaker 1: in the last month, sat down with a lot of

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Speaker 1: the staff, loved those guys. Rock Obeck is just a

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Speaker 1: story that I want you to follow. The quarterback there

472
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Speaker 1: was good last year. I think you'll be really good

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Speaker 1: this year. They are extremely excited about him. But also

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Speaker 1: what they're excited about is he had options to leave

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Speaker 1: and did not. And I'm privy to some of those details,

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Speaker 1: and it took loving Iowa State University to turn down

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Speaker 1: some of those opportunities, and he did. He's well rooted,

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Speaker 1: good family structure, football family, and I think Iowa State's

479
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Speaker 1: been written off by a lot of people. I think

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Speaker 1: the talk around Matt Campbell is, oh, his window has closed,

481
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Speaker 1: his window has passed, and it's just a fundamental misunderstanding

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Speaker 1: of what Iowa State football is. Iowa State football is

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Speaker 1: not win nine or ten games every other year or

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Speaker 1: you're gone. It's not that Iowa State football has been

485
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Speaker 1: in the past. Oh wow, we made a bowl game.

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Speaker 1: Good for us. That's been Iowa State. And so all

487
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you got a guy now who comes

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Speaker 1: along where he only wins six or seven games, and

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Speaker 1: it's a problem. It's not a problem. That's Iowa State football.

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Speaker 1: That's the way it's In fact, that's not the way

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Speaker 1: it's always been. That's better than what it's always been.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, I take Iowa State because I think anyone

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Speaker 1: could win that Big twelve this year. I would also

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Speaker 1: encourage you to look down the road of Fairmount, it's

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Speaker 1: in Fayetteville. What about, oh, the University of Arkansas. What

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Speaker 1: if Arkansas just defied everything about conventional wisdom and Bobby

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Speaker 1: Petrino walked in there and Sam Pittman and the Hogs

498
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Speaker 1: made a little run this year, they don't have to

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Speaker 1: go to Atlanta. But what if in week eleven or

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Speaker 1: week twelve, we were looking at them saying Arkansas could

501
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Speaker 1: sneak in there. There is a nine or ten seed. Wow,

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Speaker 1: they're not gonna make the conference title game. But who

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Speaker 1: They've really overachieved this year. There were four wins last year.

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Speaker 1: They've overdoubled it. And could Arkansas be a sneaky playoff team?

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Speaker 1: That would be wild. But if it happened, you know

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Speaker 1: what that would mean, right, If it happened, that would

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Speaker 1: mean kJ Jefferson left and they got better at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: It would mean Bobby Petrino came in and they got

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Speaker 1: better offensively. And if there's kind of a revival that

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Speaker 1: coincides with Bobby Patrino returning to Arkansas, that is storybook.

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Speaker 1: So that qualifies. I think Notre Dame qualifies if Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame were to break the old ceiling that we talked

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Speaker 1: about the other night. We talked about how there's this

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Speaker 1: feeling amongst the college football public. And I know my audience,

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Speaker 1: I know many of you feel this way. You feel

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Speaker 1: like Notre Dame can be really good, but that's it.

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Speaker 1: They can only be really good. They could never be

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Speaker 1: great anymore. They can't win a national title anymore. Well,

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Speaker 1: what if they forget the national title? What if they

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Speaker 1: go to the playoff this year and win two games?

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Speaker 1: What if they do that? I think that's a really

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Speaker 1: good run. Now, certainly if they win the national title.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're dealing with a superstar head coach and

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Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman. You're dealing with redefining what Notre Dame football

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Speaker 1: is in the modern era of college football. Oh, by

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Speaker 1: the way, it's Notre Dame. So yeah, that would qualify.

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Speaker 1: And I'll give you one more. I think if Florida

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Speaker 1: made a run this year, it would shock everyone cause

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Speaker 1: not only not only is Florida's over run to win

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Speaker 1: total five and a half, not only is Billy Napier

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Speaker 1: perceived to be under a lot of pressure and I

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Speaker 1: think he is so perceptions probably reality there. Not only

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Speaker 1: are they probably facing the toughest schedule in the country

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Speaker 1: this year. All of those things are working together, and

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Speaker 1: you're going into the preseason and it's like the talking

536
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Speaker 1: point is already people have figured out what's going to

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Speaker 1: happen this year with the Gators. Well, what if the

538
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Speaker 1: opposite were to happen? What if they beat Miami in

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Speaker 1: Week one and then A and M comes in there

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Speaker 1: two weeks later and they clip them, and then they

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Speaker 1: go to Mississippi State and they've started four and oh

542
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Speaker 1: and then you look and you say, but is that

543
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Speaker 1: hollow like, was Miami really that good a and M's

544
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: got a new coach? Was was it really? And then

545
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Speaker 1: they they go to Kneeland in a couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: it's a dog fight in the fourth quarter, win or

547
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Speaker 1: lose that game. If they're playing Tennessee in week one, two, three, four, five, six,

548
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 1: and they still got a goosegg in a lost column,

549
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Speaker 1: Florida's already overachieved, and all of a sudden, then people

550
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Speaker 1: start to look in kind of like Neil Brown at

551
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Speaker 1: West Virginia last year, say well, he's not on the

552
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: hot seat anymore. Actually, we're gonna have to start whispering

553
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: his name and some of the coach of the year conversation.

554
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: That would be a storybook run. And then of course,

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Speaker 1: if Florida got in the back half of the season,

556
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Speaker 1: not only would you have them surprising everyone, but that

557
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: would mean Graham Mertz has upped his level of play

558
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Speaker 1: even more. And he was already a really good quarterback

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Speaker 1: last year. So Florida State I could put Miami in

560
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Speaker 1: there too. All the Florida schools could do it, Iowa State, Arkansas,

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Those are the ones that I would look at.

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Speaker 1: Next question is business related. Hmmm, let's see. Aiden asked me,

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Speaker 1: are you still partnered with Academy. I haven't seen ads

564
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Speaker 1: on the pod lately. Go Braves from Braves Country. At

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Speaker 1: the moment, we are not Now. I am Academy through

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Speaker 1: and through. What's happening right now is not uncommon there is.

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Speaker 1: This is their business. There's just a lot going on

568
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Speaker 1: over there. It's nothing bad, it's all good. But there

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Speaker 1: is a reassessment period that kind of goes on when

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Speaker 1: you have some changes, and our deal with them is

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Speaker 1: probably not unlike many other deals, and that you just

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Speaker 1: kind of you kind of reassess everything. Now we've done

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Speaker 1: really good and deliverables on our end, so there's no animosity.

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Speaker 1: Like I talk to those guys. We're talking to them

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Speaker 1: right now. We're working on something right now, and I

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Speaker 1: think we'll have something. But if you're asking me, which

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Speaker 1: a number of you have, where's Academy been, Well, we

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Speaker 1: can't just just put things on the air. To put

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Speaker 1: things on the air, because well it's unethical related to

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Speaker 1: our other partners. So I don't think you've seen the

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Speaker 1: last of Academy here strictly business related, nothing personal, nothing

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Speaker 1: bad's happen. It is wild that our audience is so

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Speaker 1: loyal that when you don't hear branding of a partner

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Speaker 1: on the show, you start to ask me about it.

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Speaker 1: And the reason I put it in the pod today

586
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Speaker 1: is cause hundreds of you have sent me that every

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Speaker 1: show in the live chat, people are asking about Academy,

588
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Speaker 1: not only because you know they're missing, you know exactly

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Speaker 1: where in the show they used to go, So stay

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Speaker 1: tuned on that. I appreciate the questions. I actually I

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Speaker 1: forward a lot of them to our buddies over to

592
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Speaker 1: Academy and saying hello, hello guys. You notice in this

593
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Speaker 1: they miss you, I miss you, we miss you. So

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Speaker 1: I think all will be well on that front. And

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Speaker 1: it's April, so you know, a little bit of time

596
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Speaker 1: before the season gets here moving along. Who else talks

597
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Speaker 1: about their business just out in the open like that.

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Speaker 1: We are family after all. Maxim Mayor from Vancouver, Washington said,

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Speaker 1: do you think the NFL will get involved to save

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Speaker 1: college football as it's their developmental league? Well, they sure should,

601
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: They absolutely should. I don't know why the NFL hasn't

602
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: been forced to take a more proactive approach to helping

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Speaker 1: college football. To me, the audacity of sitting there having

604
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Speaker 1: a free developmental system and a free multi billion dollar

605
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: marketing system that just pumps players into your league and

606
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: not lifting a finger to help them is beyond me.

607
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: In fact, college football still has the tiptoe around the NFL,

608
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Speaker 1: and it shouldn't be that way. We're sitting here playing

609
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Speaker 1: championship games on a Monday night. Why so we don't

610
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Speaker 1: step on the NFL's toes. Like at some point someone

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Speaker 1: in the college football room should have the stones to say,

612
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Speaker 1: you know, we give and give and give to the NFL.

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Speaker 1: What's the n doing for us? And those folks would

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00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: of course be stunned because no one ever pushes back

615
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: on the NFL. Or they're the one hundred pound elephant.

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Speaker 1: It's one hundred pounds. Need a bigger metric underd ton

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Speaker 1: elephant in the room, Like no one ever pushes back

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Speaker 1: on the NFL. Hey, what would happen? What would the

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Speaker 1: NFL take away from you? In other words, if they

620
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: got mad at you, what are they going to take away?

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Speaker 1: By the way, this is not European rugby your college football,

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00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: so you've got a pretty firm standing as well. You

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Speaker 1: don't match the NFL dollar for dollar or eyeball for eyeball,

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00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: nobody does, but you could stand alone pretty effectively. I

625
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: think a lot of the folks that make decisions in

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Speaker 1: college football fancy themselves as working in the NFL one

627
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Speaker 1: day anyway, so they don't want to rock that boat. You,

628
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Speaker 1: of course, have the television networks who have their one

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Speaker 1: foot in one one foot in the other, and they

630
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Speaker 1: don't want to rock that boat. I know it's far

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Speaker 1: more complicated and complex to untangled than just saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: you guys, help us out or you're on your own.

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Speaker 1: I know that, but I sure do wish that the

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Speaker 1: NFL would lift more than a finger every now and

635
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Speaker 1: then to help. Now. I say that, but at the

636
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Speaker 1: same time, as mem I always told me, be careful

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Speaker 1: what you're asking for, you might get it. Well, what

638
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Speaker 1: would the NFL helping college football look like, because I

639
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: guarantee you one of the first conditions of the NFL

640
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: I'm speaking of them monolithically, of the NFL helping college

641
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: football would be, well, if we're gonna help you, you're

642
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: gonna do things our way. All due respect, I'd prefer

643
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: we do things the college football way, and by the way,

644
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: the college football way isn't this garbage? You see right now,

645
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: the college football way is getting the folks responsible for

646
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: that mess out of the room and putting college football

647
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: people in charge of college football. And once upon a

648
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: time that was the case. It was never a perfect sport,

649
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: but that was the case. So I would love the

650
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: good aspects of the NFL helping us out without allowing

651
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: them to be centralized decision makers. I guess, oh boy,

652
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: very important question here. Dare I say one of the

653
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: easiest questions that we've ever had. Davis from Georgia hit

654
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: me up and said, what is your go to meal

655
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,280
Speaker 1: combo at the public's deli? That would be a whole

656
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: ultimate sub on white bread with boar's head meat. And

657
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: I want one thin layer of mayonnaise. I never eat

658
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,280
Speaker 1: it otherwise. And I also want spicy mustard. I would

659
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: like banana peppers. I would like the sliced baby portobella mushrooms.

660
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: You have to ask for them because due to like

661
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: a lasteria outbreak back in the day, they can't keep

662
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 1: them out in the deli anymore. But those ladies love

663
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: you and they will pull them out. They will bend

664
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: over and they will look in a compartment in the

665
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: bat they'll pull them out for you. They'll put those

666
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: on there for you. You need salt and pepper, oil and vinegar,

667
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: and then you need to let the oil in vinegars

668
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: soak in the bread for about five to ten minutes

669
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: and you're good to go. It's so delicious. And then

670
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: if you so desire, you could walk yourself a few

671
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: steps over to the soup section at the Public's Deli,

672
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 1: and the chicken and wild rice soup is basically a drug.

673
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,720
Speaker 1: It's not on the drug aisle, but it's basically a drug.

674
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,760
Speaker 1: You should need it. You should be required to present

675
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,439
Speaker 1: a prescription to load up on that chicken and wild

676
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,919
Speaker 1: rice soup. And if you get in there and you're

677
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: fortunate enough to have some left instead of just you know,

678
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: the bottom of the container, you are a blessed person.

679
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: We are a blessed people for having Public's Deli in

680
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: our lives. More after this got him, got him and her,

681
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: everyone listening got you there. See, everybody thinks the sneak

682
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: ad toss is gonna be right between a question, but

683
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: sometimes if you could boose it on the end of

684
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: a question, especially if it's related to food, none of

685
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: you were paying attention. None of you had your guard up.

686
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: While I'm talking about the intricacies of my public's DELI

687
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: go to order. Boom ad toss got them, every single

688
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: one of you. Let that be a lesson to not anticipate,

689
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: just go with it. A lot of you pride yourself

690
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: on anticipating when the ad toss is coming, and you

691
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: can tell because I'm talking through my gritted teeth. I

692
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: take it personal. I take it extremely personal, and I retaliate.

693
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 1: I lash out, and I just lashed out via a

694
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: Kamakazi ad toss. We move on here. If you're new

695
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: to the pod, ignore everything you just heard because I

696
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: secretly love every one of you. Next up from Austin, Texas,

697
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: we got a question that says, next biggest change to

698
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: happen in college football that you know of. So I

699
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: think a lot of it is on the surface. I

700
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: certainly think this whole ACC drama with Florida State and

701
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: other schools, some are known, some aren't known, that want

702
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: to get out from there, no one really kind of

703
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 1: has a firm idea of how that's going to shake out.

704
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:01,280
Speaker 1: Conference realignment. I don't think is done. I'm not crazy

705
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: about that. I think also, the entire landscape is about

706
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: to be significantly altered in the coming few weeks in

707
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: college football with how the portal's about to look. Now,

708
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: there are conflicting thoughts on this. There are some thoughts

709
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: out there that it's gonna kind of fizzle. There's some

710
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: conflicting thoughts. Some people are looking at the portal and

711
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 1: they've got their ear to the ground too, and they're thinking, oh,

712
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: this is going to be really overhyped, but it's going

713
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: to underdeliver. And hey, i'd love for that to be

714
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: the case. By the way, when I tell you it's

715
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: about to be wild out there, it's not because I'm

716
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: hoping for it. I'd prefer to be wrong on this,

717
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 1: but I can't ignore the intel I've gotten, and that's

718
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: talking straight to coaches and straight to staffers. They all

719
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: expect there to be a lot of movement, and unlike

720
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 1: sometimes where it's like backups, second and third tier guys

721
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: that are moving on for really just trying to get

722
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: playing time. I think you could see some starters on

723
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: the move post just bonkers that that's even a thing.

724
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: So I'd say those things are really at the forefront.

725
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: Now there's a lot of movement behind the scenes about

726
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: how the SEC and the Big Ten working together is

727
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: gonna impact the future of college athletics. I think that's

728
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 1: a big thing. Certainly the court cases, namely House versus

729
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: in CAA out on the West Coast, that's a big thing.

730
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of boring to talk about on

731
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: a college football podcast, but that's a big thing. I mean,

732
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: that's a monumental thing that's gonna impact the sport. So

733
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,760
Speaker 1: just some of those things, and you notice how nebulous

734
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: all that was. Because I'm not gonna sit here and

735
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: pretend to know how that's gonna turn out. I think

736
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: some other people are pretending to know. Emphasis on pretending

737
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 1: to know how that's gonna turn out. You can't know

738
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: because the decision makers don't know. Someone's gonna guess right.

739
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 1: Someone guesses the lottery right every night in states all

740
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: across the country. They weren't working on guided information, or

741
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: if they were, it was illegal. So yeah, that's that.

742
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: Next up is a very interesting and timely question. JT

743
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: hit me up from Lexington, or actually John hit me

744
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 1: up from Lexington, Kentucky, and said, what's the college football

745
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: equivalent of John Calipari leaving Kentucky for Arkansas. And this

746
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: is finalizing itself right as we're recording. In fact, when

747
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 1: we did the ad toss a second ago, I stopped

748
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 1: Number one to take lunch orders, and Number two the

749
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: staff walked in and they informed me John Calipari just

750
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: put out a video. So we watched his departure video

751
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: kind of had some hostage vibes to it, but he

752
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: talked in a very slow, very slow tempo and said, Hey,

753
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: I'm out of here. We need something new at Kentucky

754
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 1: and he's going to head to Arkansas. That's the report

755
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,879
Speaker 1: at least. So what would be the equivalent of that?

756
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: I think it would be Dabos Sweney leaving Clemson for

757
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: fill in the blank, maybe like NC State or Virginia

758
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: Tech or somewhere like that. Because the way that I

759
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: equate this is, at one time time cal would have

760
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: been ranked number one or very close to number one

761
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: in head coach power rankings in college basketball. He wouldn't

762
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: be there now. Dabo. At one point some people put

763
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 1: him above Saban, And if they didn't put him above Saban,

764
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: they had him one a or close second to Nick Saban. Well,

765
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have him up there right now. He's not

766
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: fallen off a cliff, but they wouldn't have him up there.

767
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: So he's maybe passed the apex or the perceived apex

768
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 1: of his career, but still a really big name. That's

769
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,879
Speaker 1: John Calipari. Passed the apex of his career, but still

770
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: a really big name, and who knows. He could do

771
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: big things at Arkansas, but he leaves an established blue

772
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 1: blood program for Arkansas. Now, basketball is a different beast

773
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: than college football is today, and Clemson's not a traditional

774
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: blue blood program. But if Dabo were to leave there voluntarily,

775
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,879
Speaker 1: by the way, and go to like NC State or

776
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: go to Virginia Tech School in his conference, I think

777
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: that would be the closest perception wise, I think that

778
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 1: would be the closest. So that whole story's wild. Man.

779
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: I saw that news the other night, and it's just

780
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: it's the beauty of college athletics. You have never seen

781
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: it all ever, you have never seen it never gets boring.

782
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: It can be messed up sometimes, but it's never going

783
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 1: to be boring. Next up, boy, a pressing question here.

784
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: Dave and Vegas said, Hey, I know you watched wrestle

785
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: Mannia forty. What did you think of it? I thought

786
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: they did a really good job with it, Dave. I

787
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: did not watch the entire event. It's a two night event.

788
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: I did not watch the entire event. I did go

789
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,240
Speaker 1: on Belchie's podcast. Chris Belcher here has his own wrestling podcast.

790
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,359
Speaker 1: I went on that the other day, and that's the

791
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 1: first wrestling pod I've ever appeared on. Those of you

792
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: who know me well know, like many of you, I

793
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: grew up watching pro wrestling, and then I phased it

794
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 1: out as I thought the product deteriorated, and I have

795
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: not watched pro wrestling consistently in over a decade, but

796
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: I check in on it from time to time. I'll

797
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: tell you the other night, man, I got the I

798
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: got the feels a little bit. It was the first

799
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: time watching that main event on Sunday night. It was

800
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: the first time that I felt the kind of things

801
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: that I would have felt as a child. And that

802
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: is when you're doing it at it at the very best.

803
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: That's when you are doing sports entertainment at the very best.

804
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,760
Speaker 1: Now I'm sitting there watching it with someone who shall

805
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 1: remain nameless, and she keeps asking, but but it is

806
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 1: fake right, like it's it's not it's not real. She's

807
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: she's she's trying our girl, Savannah is trying to have

808
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: me explain to her. But but but it's not an

809
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: authentic sporting event. Why are people crying? Why are people

810
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: so emotional? If the outcome was predetermined? And I gave

811
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: her the classic if you know, you know, and if

812
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: you don't, you don't. That's our respectful adult responds to

813
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: another respectful adult. When they're genuinely inquisitive about something, you

814
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 1: just look at them and you say you wouldn't get it.

815
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: You wouldn't get it, pal, But I did try to

816
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: explain it. I thought it was really good and if

817
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: you watched it, you know what I'm talking about. And

818
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 1: if you don't, I'm not gonna waste your time on

819
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,399
Speaker 1: it because it's a college football podcast. But I thought

820
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: it was very, very well presented, and I feel like

821
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of new ground has been cultivated,

822
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: and I hope so, because I think pro wrestling, when

823
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: it's done right, is an awesome art form to watch.

824
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: Love it, love everything about it. And I was sucked

825
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: into it as a kid, and then I walked away

826
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: from it as a young adult. I have no qualms

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00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: about walking back to it, but it's got to be

828
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: legit because I got other things going on, so I

829
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 1: am sure they're listening to every minute of this. It's

830
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: gotta be legit. Can't just be a one night thing.

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