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Speaker 1: twelve champ. But they shouldn't be below your radar. But

428
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Speaker 1: even if they are a little bit below your radar,

429
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Speaker 1: I want you to think about what all is on

430
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Speaker 1: the line this year for Oregon and then with Oregon

431
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Speaker 1: extending beyond Oregon, I'm not sure there's another team out

432
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Speaker 1: West that is going about assembling a talent roster like

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Speaker 1: they are. And I know USC is getting a lot

434
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Speaker 1: of spotlight, as they should. We've given them a lot

435
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Speaker 1: of spotlight. But overall, if you're a believer as I am,

436
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 1: that ultimately in postseason play later in November, conference championships,

437
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: postseason play, that line of scrimmage is still going to

438
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 1: determine things in depth. Quality, second line depth is ultimately

439
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: going to determine who ends up on the top of

440
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Speaker 1: the mountain. Oregon is doing as good a job at

441
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 1: assembling that kind of roster as anyone, including USC. Right

442
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,879
Speaker 1: now on the West coast. They are number nine overall

443
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 1: this cycle in combined recruiting, so that adds in the portal.

444
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 1: I had Jesse go look this up for me. Over

445
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: the past two cycles, they've added twenty three new prospects

446
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: in the front seven thirteen of those are four star

447
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 1: caliber or higher. I think they will excel at developing

448
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 1: those positions because of the identity of the coaching staff

449
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Speaker 1: out there, including the head coach, Dan Lanning, which brings

450
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Speaker 1: me to another point. Dan Lanning was a first year

451
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Speaker 1: head coach last year, among the very youngest in the

452
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Speaker 1: country by the way, and so their identity is still

453
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: very much evolving. What they want to be is not evolving.

454
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Speaker 1: They could tell you really really quick what they want

455
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,160
Speaker 1: to be, But the overall identity it shows on Saturday,

456
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 1: they show on Saturday. That's still a work in progress,

457
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,719
Speaker 1: as is the balance of power in the PAC twelve.

458
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Speaker 1: We had so many We had so many firsts last year,

459
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Speaker 1: Landing first year at Oregon, Lincoln Riley, first year at USC,

460
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Speaker 1: and so there was a lot of overturn and Kyle

461
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: Whittingham's just the steady solid rock doesn't ever move, wins

462
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:39,959
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve and then gets forgotten again. But this

463
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Speaker 1: team and the future of the PAC twelve kind of

464
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: go hand in hand. I'm not even talking about the

465
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Speaker 1: conference realignment stuff. I can't know how long Oregon's going

466
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Speaker 1: to be in the PAC twelve. Let's just assume for

467
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 1: a second they're there for a little while. We do

468
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Speaker 1: know something else. We do know USC and UCLA are

469
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: gone in about five minutes, so USC can be as

470
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Speaker 1: good as they want to. They're not going to be

471
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Speaker 1: in this conversation in another year. What does the PAC

472
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Speaker 1: twelve look like post the Southern California schools moving, And

473
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Speaker 1: for that matter, what does it look like this year

474
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Speaker 1: with them there? Because Oregon could very well win the

475
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Speaker 1: conference this year even with them there their losses. Like

476
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Speaker 1: I said, Washington three points, Oregon State four points. I

477
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Speaker 1: was perusing, if you will, some heismanods earlier today. And

478
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Speaker 1: as much as we just talked about recruiting and the

479
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Speaker 1: big time names that Oregon landed, if you talk to

480
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Speaker 1: the people at Oregon, they'll tell you the biggest recruiting

481
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Speaker 1: job they did, and the biggest recruiting win they had

482
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Speaker 1: is landing bo Nicks. What do you mean landing him?

483
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: He was already there. Yeah, they kept him there, could

484
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: have easily gone into the NFL Draft, and instead Bo

485
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 1: Nick stays. And I think some of you who call

486
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Speaker 1: yourselves hardcore college football fans, you sleep under casual covers,

487
00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 1: and those folks can identify themselves very quickly because those

488
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Speaker 1: folks would still have visions of Auburn b Nicks in

489
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: their mind. Last year. The guy I watched was a

490
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Speaker 1: far cry from the guy that I watched down at Auburn.

491
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: Totally different player, totally different fit. And by fit I

492
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: mean this being the right fit for him. He is

493
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,679
Speaker 1: the fifth best odds right now to win the Heisman

494
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Speaker 1: Trophy this year. I want you to take yourself back,

495
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 1: not very far, take yourself back to twenty one. Bo

496
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 1: Nicks is down at Auburn, and I want you to imagine,

497
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Speaker 1: unless it's that thread from the message board that gets

498
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Speaker 1: passed around every now and then, I want you to

499
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Speaker 1: imagine two years later. I don't tell you where he's at.

500
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Speaker 1: I just tell you Bo Nicks is right in the

501
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Speaker 1: thick of the Heisman conversation. If you know our sport,

502
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 1: that shouldn't surprise you. But we get shocked every year

503
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Speaker 1: by fifteen different things, and yet everyone allows themselves to

504
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: still be shocked. This is a team. It should be

505
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: taken seriously this year. But because of the two losses

506
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: last year that bumped him off the radar a little bit,

507
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: and because of that generic PAC twelve stance, I know

508
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Speaker 1: a lot of you have you're gonna dismiss him. That

509
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Speaker 1: generic PAC twelve stance sounds like this PAC twelve can't

510
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Speaker 1: win the playoff. Look, make the playoff. How about that

511
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: they can make the playoff. I don't necessarily need him

512
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Speaker 1: winning it. Make the playoff. Organ could be a playoff

513
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: team this year, and that shakes up a lot of things.

514
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: It would shake up a lot of things because they're

515
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Speaker 1: also showing you in a non Southern California way. Recruiting

516
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: hasn't fallen off out there. Y'all can talk all you

517
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Speaker 1: want to about Mario Christoval, and I trust me, I

518
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: get it all the time people do Mario is just

519
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: a recruiter. Okay, if that's the criticism you want to

520
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: throw at him, do that. But even if you're right.

521
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Speaker 1: That means if he's a great recruiter, he's a great recruiter, right,

522
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: and if a program loses him, recruiting should fall off. Right.

523
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Speaker 1: I think you're half right. He is a great recruiter.

524
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Speaker 1: But this program's recruiting hasn't really fun off, which means

525
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 1: they got some pretty good recruiters up there that they

526
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 1: plugged in to replace the outgoing staff. All those things

527
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: can be true. Another truth, another universal truth. If we

528
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: were in the late kick extra pod right now, that's

529
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 1: where I would have dropped the ad break out of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: It would have caught them like sting from the rafters.

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Speaker 1: It would have caught him. But this is where we

532
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: very ethically and very in front of your face, just

533
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: talk about academy sports outdoors for about forty five seconds.

534
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: We're a little bit longer, depending on to put the

535
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: mood I'm in. I know a lot of you have

536
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: been watching the Final four. I know a lot of

537
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: you watch the Women's National Championship today. I probably watched

538
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: more of the ladder than I have the former. It's

539
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: just me, But does that not inspire you? Sometimes? I

540
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: don't know if you're like this when I grew up.

541
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: I was big Braves fans still am, but I would

542
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: take a quarter now. I would kind of draw a

543
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: batter's box line into the carpet. Mom loved it, and

544
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: I would stand there and I would swing along with

545
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: the game. Hoops amongst us hasn't right. Well, here's the thing.

546
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: Once the game goes off, you got to eventually get

547
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,239
Speaker 1: outdoors and you got to play your own game. And

548
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: you can do that with the help of Academy Sports

549
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: and Outdoors. It is and I don't overstate this when

550
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: I say the best day in the history of weather

551
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: in Nashville today. The parks were full, downtown is packed,

552
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: and here we are, fourteen floors above it all. You

553
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: could have been golfing today. You could have been out

554
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: there throwing the frisbee. You know. One of our residents

555
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: down on the Bayou pointed out to me everything you

556
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: need for a crawfish boil can be purchased at Academy

557
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 1: Sports and Outdoors. And I think most of you who

558
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: have not graced their doors are saying what yes, I

559
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: try and tell you I tried to. The variety is

560
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: insane at Academy. So if you need to see it

561
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: for yourself, and trust me, you do go there or

562
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: go to Academy dot com. Either way this, I promise

563
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: you you'll be glad you did. Spring Games are here.

564
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: Spring Games finally upon us. I should tell you. I

565
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: don't think it's too early to tell you this. No,

566
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Speaker 1: it's not too early to tell you this. Okay, it's

567
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: gonna make sure we're actually doing what I'm going to say.

568
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Speaker 1: I'm not telling you where. I am not going to

569
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Speaker 1: tell you where, but we are not just sitting in

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Speaker 1: the studio this spring. And I promised you when we

571
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: got to one hundred and fifty thousand subs, I've not

572
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: forgotten this. I promised you a Peate State Speaker series,

573
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: and a Peate State Speaker series you're gonna get. Here's

574
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: what I think is boring, bringing folks in on zoom.

575
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: Anybody can do that. I don't feel the connectivity when

576
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: we do that. Sometimes we do it out of necessity,

577
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: but we've got management in our back pocket right now.

578
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: When we've got managements win in our sales. That means

579
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: the checkbook's open. And if the checkbook is open, we're

580
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: taking the show on the road. We're gonna be on

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00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: a campus next Tuesday. We're gonna be with a major

582
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: head coach next Tuesday. I'm even thinking about doing a

583
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: live show from someone's campus next Tuesday. Oops, will it be? Hoops?

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00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: Could it be? Well, here's a clue. We have mentioned

585
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: that program on the show in the past month. That's

586
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: all I can give you so far. It's not Michigan.

587
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: And the reason I know that is because they already

588
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: had their spring game. Colin, here's your endpoint. Michigan had

589
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: their spring game yesterday, really early spring game, April fool's

590
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 1: spring game, and now they're done, take vacation, do whatever

591
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: you want to get into summer conditioning. They are number

592
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: five in returning production this year. Okay, this is one

593
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: of my favorite things to do, watch the spring games.

594
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: But then also wrap that up in a bow with

595
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Speaker 1: all the whispers and intel and kind of buzz that

596
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,959
Speaker 1: we've gotten out of camp. The Michigan Insider is our

597
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,479
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven sports Michigan website. They do a

598
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: phenomenal job of covering this, second to none when it

599
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Speaker 1: comes to getting behind the curtain of Michigan athletics, and

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Speaker 1: so I assume that that board was very happy with

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Speaker 1: what they saw yesterday. Now Coram and Edwards, the two

602
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: running backs, they sat the scrimmage out, so you got

603
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: to see Ben Hall, who I think will be very serviceable,

604
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,959
Speaker 1: and a lot of folks are crying underrated when they

605
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: talk about him because of what they saw yesterday. But look,

606
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: tight ends are going to be really good there. I

607
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: am with some of the people who, when they look

608
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: at Michigan say, I really wish they had like a

609
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: true dynamic wide receiver one type player. I think they've

610
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: got good players, that's what they have. I think they've

611
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,719
Speaker 1: got good players there. They've got a bunch of folks.

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00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: Brad Power's friend of the program. I saw him say

613
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Speaker 1: this earlier today on Twitter. They've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: players who would be very good wide receiver two three

615
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: and fours on a national championship caliber team. But you

616
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: don't have that one. I could be wrong about that.

617
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: They could go get a guy out of the portal,

618
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: or one of these guys could dive into that. That's

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Speaker 1: what spring is for. That's why we're not putting periods

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Speaker 1: on the end of these sentences. In Spring, Here's what

621
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: I noticed about Michigan, and here's the feedback you get

622
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Speaker 1: from everybody who knows this game. They won the Joe

623
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: Moore Award last year. Offensive line was the best in

624
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Speaker 1: the country. They're not going anywhere. They lost a center

625
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: and a left tackle. Michigan is at a point now

626
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: culturally and developmentally and in terms of talent acquisition where

627
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: their offensive line is going to just look like it

628
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: carries over year to year. You're gonna get so mad

629
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: watching it as an opposing fan because you're gonna look

630
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: at your guys departing, either via graduation or the portal

631
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: or the draft, and then you have this pretty moderate

632
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: to a wild fluctuation in your production year in and

633
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: year out, and then you're gonna watch Michigan as long

634
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: as they're in the groove they're in right now, and

635
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: they're just gonna put out the same kind of really

636
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: good to dominant offensive line performance. They're gonna be great technicians.

637
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: They're rarely going to be the reason Michigan loses a game.

638
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: It's going to make you so mad. They went and

639
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: got multiple offensive linemen in the portal that is truly

640
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 1: positionally a destination program now for offensive line transfer talent,

641
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Speaker 1: which is something that's very underrated to watch about the

642
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: portal for broad strokes purposes. A lot of times we

643
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: talk about the portal and totality. Well, the fact is,

644
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: program by program, your needs are very different. Unless you're

645
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: doing the USC thing and you have to put together

646
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:29,919
Speaker 1: a team or Florida State and you have a ton

647
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: of holes to fill, you can be selective. Michigan is

648
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: a selective portaler, and so when they portal, they portal

649
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: offensive linemen if need be. And it doesn't even matter

650
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 1: if they were ranked eighteenth in the portal I don't

651
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: even remember off the top of my head what they

652
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: were ranked. They ranked pretty high. But even if they

653
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,760
Speaker 1: weren't ranked high, if they were ranked eighteenth inn portal rankings,

654
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: but they added those three offensive linemen, which were the

655
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: only three real necessities if you want to call them that,

656
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: they had a great portal class. So there's some nuance

657
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: and some subtext in the portal conversation. Defense overall is

658
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 1: elevated there. That's what stood out to me when I

659
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 1: watched some of their spring game. There's not a player

660
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: I'm pointing to, by the way, So it's just all

661
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: around their speed and their depth and their size and

662
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: their athleticism. All those things you say about SEC teams

663
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: all the time. I'm not trying to start a war

664
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: in the comments over how good Michigan would be in

665
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: the SEC. I'm just saying if I put if I

666
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: put LSU jerseys, you know, if I put Tennessee jerseys on, well,

667
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: Tennessee would trade with this defense and heartbeat. But you

668
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 1: get my point. If I put SEC jerseys on their

669
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: defense that fit in. They're really good. There's good. Let

670
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 1: me put it this way. There's good as Harball has

671
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: had this team, and I think they know this. This

672
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: Michigan team is going to be as good as any

673
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 1: Michigan team Harball has had. Now. I caught a fair

674
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: amount of flak this time last year because I said

675
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: I thought last year's team was going to be better

676
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: than the one the year before that had gone to

677
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: the playoff, And all anyone could focus on is well,

678
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: first off, there's an inevitable decline because they achieved at

679
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: a higher level than they had So there's got to

680
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: be a drop off, right, And what about this player

681
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: and what about replacing that player? The aggregation of everything

682
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: that program is is going to be able to more

683
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 1: than account for any individual losses. I don't know how

684
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: long this window lasts. I just know they're smack dab

685
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: in the middle of one right now and watching that

686
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: spring game. While spring games aren't the end all be all,

687
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: it's so obvious they've got quarterback, they've got running back,

688
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: whatever they are wide receiver. The other complimentary aspects of

689
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,839
Speaker 1: that offense are such that they are so so clear

690
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: about what they want to be and what they need

691
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: to do, and defensively they can take over games. I

692
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 1: would be so interested to see them get another shot

693
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: because I think that playoff hunger, you know, as you

694
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: start to look ahead now to the fall, that playoff

695
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: hunger is there to where there's no complacency up there.

696
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: They've won the Big Ten twice in a row. They

697
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: beat Ohio State twice in a row. Their season has

698
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: ended in crushing disappointment back to back years. Zero threat

699
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: of complacency, schedule as a joke again East Carolina UNLV

700
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: and Bowling Green. That's how they open. They can't really well,

701
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: I guess they could do something about that. It is

702
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: what it is. They've got plenty enough on the back

703
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: end at Penn State, at Maryland and Ohio State. That's

704
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: how they end their season, So a lot like this

705
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: time last year. You could just say it again, rinse

706
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: and repeat. Michigan doesn't have to really be all that

707
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: up to start the year. They should easily overpower opponents

708
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: and they can ease their way in however they need

709
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 1: to ease it in. But that's a really good looking team.

710
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: It's the kind of team where instead of looking at

711
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: it and panicking and asking, oh boy, we've got summer

712
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: workouts and then we've got four weeks of fall, how

713
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: much can we really overhaul? How much can we fix?

714
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: They just have tweaks and they just want to adjust

715
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: something fifteen percent over there, They're largely good to go.

716
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: They've largely got what they need in place. And it

717
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: is just stunning to me still that we're saying that

718
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: about Michigan after back to back years where the head

719
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: coach either just outright tried to leave or was rumored

720
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: to be exploring an exit via the NFL. Crazy how

721
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: they It's such a credit to Jim Harbaugh how he's

722
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: been able to maintain that they're watching us there we

723
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: go post it pop. They're watching us in New Albany, Mississippi.

724
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Conway, Arkansas, probably Conway,

725
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 1: South Carolina too, they're all watching this. Thank you so

726
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: much for that. Remember to do do me a little favor,

727
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: and I do mean little. There's nothing behind this. Take

728
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: that little finger of yours, hover over that thumbs up button,

729
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: click and you're done, unless you haven't subscribed, in which

730
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: case you need to subscribe to the channel and podcasts

731
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: as well. Then you're done. Thank you so much. Okay,

732
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: it's time, it's time. I made the mistake. But it

733
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: is my job to check the comments today and check

734
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: the check the inbox today. And if you're watching or

735
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: if you're listening on podcasts, bear with me while I

736
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: take a sip from the challice. You know what we've got.

737
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: Actually we got to go full Public's springwater jug for

738
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: this one. Oh you want someone I wish was a

739
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: sponsor Publics. I would eat a sub on set every night.

740
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: I already chug from their springwater jugs. Pub subs, grab

741
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: them while you can. And that chicken and wild rice

742
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: soup is like crack. It's unbelievable. If you've ever watched

743
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: Seinfeld reruns, I was like two minutes old when Seinfeld

744
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: was on so I didn't really watch it growing up,

745
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: but there is that Soup Nazi episode, which is one

746
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: of the most classic Seinfeld episodes. The way they make

747
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: the soup seem like it would taste in that episode

748
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: is the way the chicken and wild rice soup at

749
00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: Public's actually taste. Quote me on that, I'm not worried

750
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: because they already sell out of it every time, so

751
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: it's not like I'm going to create a run on

752
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: soup that doesn't already exist. It's inexplicable that Publics does

753
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: not sell that stuff every day. They sell the Chilian beans,

754
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 1: which is always full to the brim, by the way,

755
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: but they skimp on the chicken and wild rice. Anyway,

756
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: I look on Twitter today and what I'm about to

757
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: say has nothing to do with Publics. There's just a

758
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: little rabbit hole I went down. I get a tweet

759
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: from Paris, Kentucky, and the tweet reads as follows, I

760
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: see all of you stopped talking about Colorado, just another

761
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: flavor of the month member dismissed. What planet is this

762
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 1: tweet from? So to set the stage, I'm here on

763
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:50,760
Speaker 1: Earth minding my own business, and then somewhere someone sends

764
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: me a tweet that says, well, guess you forgot about Colorado.

765
00:40:54,520 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: Since when February have I missed games? What's happened? No

766
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: one's forgotten about Colorado. Also, since you mentioned it, I

767
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: do have a little news to break to you. It's

768
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: written on the bottom of the screen for those watching.

769
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: Colorado has sold out their spring game. And I do

770
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: mean sold out. They're making people pay for this thing

771
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: for the first time ever. It's going to be nationally

772
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: televised April twenty second. And so I had producer Jesse

773
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: do what he thought he'd never have to do today.

774
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 1: I walked in and I said, Jesse, how are you doing?

775
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:32,919
Speaker 1: How is your weekend? Go research some Colorado Spring game

776
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: attendance figures for me. And so he drug his knuckles

777
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: right back to his office and did just that. And

778
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: he came back and said, I got a stat, possibly

779
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: a padlock stat. If we've ever had a padlock stat

780
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: in spring. Here it is. So Colorado has sold this

781
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: game out. They expect forty five thousand in attendance at

782
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,720
Speaker 1: the spring game or April twenty second. Here's the padlock

783
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: stat paper pop for this one. Colorado expects to surpass

784
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: the aggregate total of their last nine spring games combined

785
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: with this year's spring game, and that was free. They

786
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 1: you figure, if you open the door to a stadium

787
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: and it's a random Wednesday, you figure you get a

788
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 1: thousand people and they're out of curiosity. They look, they

789
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: couldn't They put two tickets to the spring game on

790
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 1: people's doorsteps, and they woke up in the morning there

791
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,240
Speaker 1: was four there. It was impossible. You couldn't drag people

792
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: kicking and screaming to the Colorado Spring game or Colorada

793
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: football games for that matter. And now all of a

794
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: sudden they're sold out. Why is that? Well, I think

795
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious Deon Sanders has a little bit to

796
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: do with that. Twenty twenty two. Last year, in other words,

797
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: was the fifteenth time in seventeen years that Colorado had

798
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 1: a losing record, and last year they left no doubt.

799
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: They were one and eleven, And so I think a

800
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 1: lot of people are focused on how many games Deon

801
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: Sanders is going to win in year one. And I

802
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 1: said the other day, I guess I should have clarified,

803
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: but I said the other day, he's already winning, And

804
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,760
Speaker 1: then of course people shot back at me, Oh really,

805
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: What are you counting scrimmages? What are you counting this

806
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: and that? Yeah, yeah, I think spring games count in

807
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,399
Speaker 1: the records. So for the serious people in the room,

808
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about is this right here, The University

809
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 1: of Georgie is a machine. Right now, Kirby Smart doesn't

810
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,720
Speaker 1: have to sell his program to anyone. He has to recruit,

811
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 1: but when he recruits, they're largely selecting. He doesn't have

812
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: to sell the benefits of playing football for the University

813
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: of Georgia obviously anymore. Deon Sanders cannot use the Georgia model,

814
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: the Alabama model, the Ohio State model, the Clemson model

815
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: is no good in Boulder, Colorado. They've got to quite

816
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: literally invent Colorado football. Josh, Colorado football always existed, which

817
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 1: Colorado football not the one you want. He's got to

818
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: invent Colorado football for an entire generation of people who

819
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: weren't even close to being born the last time they

820
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,879
Speaker 1: were majorly relevant on the national scene. And to do that,

821
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: you got to brand, you got to promote, and you

822
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: got to get eyeballs on Colorado football. And you don't

823
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: do it by following convention. You don't do it by

824
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 1: taking the playbook of people who are already there because

825
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: they're acting in a way different than you have to act.

826
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: So Deon Sanders, just by the nature of who he is,

827
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: gets some attention. But then by landing that top ranked

828
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: portal class, you prove, well, we've gotten more people's attention,

829
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: and it gets fans attention that players attention has been gotten.

830
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: And then you have things like this. I can't even

831
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: begin to explain to you. We get research on this

832
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: all the time about how much how much me mentioning

833
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 1: a team on air is worth to them in terms

834
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: of marketing. Not to brag, but it has value. Do

835
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: you want to know what has infinitely more value is

836
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: getting a network to nationally televise your spring game and

837
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: selling it out a couple of weeks in advance to

838
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: where everyone me included talks about it. What I'm doing

839
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 1: right now is worth money to Colorado and us because

840
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Colorado matters nationally. It's a very much,

841
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: it's very much a mutually beneficial relationship. Dion and we

842
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, But I'm going to prepare you

843
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: for something. It's not prediction season, and even when it

844
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: is prediction season, I probably won't spend a lot of

845
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: time predicting a record for Colorado. But I told you,

846
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: just as sure as the sun will rise in the

847
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: morning a few weeks ago, I told you what was coming.

848
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: As soon as the upset started happening in March Madness,

849
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: I told you the conversation was going to shift to

850
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: what that that was proof that the playoff should be

851
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: expanded in college football? Big hiccup. So unfortunately I was right,

852
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be right again with what I'm about

853
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: to say. Prepare now, because the most nauseating conversation in

854
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three college football season will be the

855
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: I told you so crowd. Every time Colorado loses a game,

856
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 1: they won't wait until December. Every time they lose a game.

857
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,399
Speaker 1: A team that was one and eleven last year and

858
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: just put together an entirely new roster, everybody out there

859
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: in the hate Dion crowd, bashed Deon crowd will tell

860
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 1: you they told you so. Anytime that team loses. That

861
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: team could play at Oregon be a three touchdown dog,

862
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,359
Speaker 1: lose by six, and that crowd is going to say,

863
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: told you Dean to be a failure. Now, these people

864
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: are largely losers, or at least have a loser's mentality.

865
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 1: These are the people, though, who will look you square

866
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: in your eye. If formerly one in eleven Colorado goes

867
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: four and eight this year, they will tell you that's

868
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: proof that man's a failure. They will tell you, I

869
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 1: told you wouldn't make a bowl game, so it's so

870
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: intellectually bankrupt. You set a borderline unattainable, line in the sand,

871
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: and then the line in the sand is not achieved,

872
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: but several noteworthy things are and then casuals amongst you

873
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: just yell they told you so. Anyway, that's going to

874
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 1: happen this year. The only question is which side of

875
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: that are you on. That's all that you have to

876
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,839
Speaker 1: figure out. Because it's gonna happen this year. It's going

877
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: to be gross, it's gonna be well, it's gonna be nauseating,

878
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:41,439
Speaker 1: but it's gonna happen. I owe a second post it. Hey,

879
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: what do these towns have in common? These are real places.

880
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: Cotton Plant, Arkansas, Little Dixie, Arkansas, Brinkley, Arkansas. Well, I'll

881
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: tell you I was in all three of them the

882
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: other day, and we have gotten later in the show,

883
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: and I'm still gonna do the South Carolina Mood Tracker

884
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: just a second. But you guys have asked me and

885
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: asked me and asked me about this, and normally I

886
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: just put it in the social feeds and be done

887
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:11,919
Speaker 1: with it. But yeah, So for those unfamiliar, I cover

888
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: college football in the fall, I'm a storm chaser in

889
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: the spring. Really, I just do both double duty in

890
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: the spring. But sometimes we have to get flexible with

891
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: our broadcast schedule in spring because especially this spring, we've

892
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: got an extremely active pattern and I love chasing tornadoes,

893
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: love doing it. So the other day we set out

894
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: Friday and me and a buddy, we took the usual route,

895
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: take forty over to Memphis Highway sixty one, the Blues Highway,

896
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,879
Speaker 1: right down to Tunica, Mississippi, and then you get down

897
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,720
Speaker 1: to Lulu, Mississippi, you go over the Mississippi River into

898
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: West Helena, Arkansas, and then we're off to the races.

899
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: And saw two tornadoes Friday, and one of them ended up,

900
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: unfortunately being a killer tornado north of Memphis. We saw

901
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 1: that one generate, but that's not the story. So there

902
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 1: we are. We are booking it down a dirt road.

903
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: Obviously humans being by Van Halen is blaring in the background,

904
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: and we get to where we think a circulation is

905
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: about to cross in front of us. Now, mind you,

906
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: every other chaser in the vicinity is on a tornado

907
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: that we've already kind of turned loose towards Memphis. I

908
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: have no interest in chasing in Memphis. And so we

909
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: are all alone out on this country road and we're

910
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: seeing a circulation. We're seeing a lowering and a wall

911
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: clock come at us from like ten miles away. Great

912
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: visibility in this portion of the country, unlike the Ozarks

913
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 1: when you get in the Mississippi Delta and the Mississippi

914
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: River Delta region, great great vantage points. So we see

915
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:43,720
Speaker 1: it coming from ten miles away. But internet is sketchy,

916
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: as it tends to be in the brinkleys and cotton

917
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: plants and little Dixies of the world in Arkansas. And

918
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: so we have a radar scan that's about seven minutes old.

919
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: We pretty much think we've pinpointed where a circulation is

920
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: going to cross in front of us, and we miscalculated

921
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 1: by about an eight of a mile. And so friends,

922
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 1: instead of the circulation crossing an eighth of a mile

923
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: in front of us. We witnessed a tornado touchdown probably

924
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: about two or three hundred yards away from us. Yeah,

925
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: it was close enough we could measure in football fields

926
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: right across from us in a field power flashes had

927
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: like seven power poles just snap in front of us,

928
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 1: right down on the road. This one, which we saw touchdown,

929
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,280
Speaker 1: ends up going a long ways all the way across

930
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: the Mississippi into Tunica, where we could have just sat

931
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: the whole day, as it turns out, and on into

932
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: I think it was still warned when it came into Tennessee.

933
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: It was a wild time and that was probably just

934
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: an appetite wedd because Tuesday it's going down again, and

935
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: so I am going to get you a Late Kick

936
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: Extra podcast in the feed for Tuesday. I'll be on

937
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: the road. Maybe Missouri could be Missouri, we'll see, but

938
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: I'll be on the road and you can follow on

939
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 1: the socials at Late Kick. Josh still want to go

940
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: Ida Live for a tornado. Almost did it the other day,

941
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 1: but I had to reposition us at the very last minute.

942
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: So just keep following for that and stay tuned, I guess,

943
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: because we do plan on having a Late Cake Live Thursday.

944
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 1: But Tuesday, I will get you the Late Cake Extra pod.

945
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: We may just have to record it a little early, okay. Meanwhile,

946
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: mood Tracker time. This one was challenging for me. It's

947
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 1: challenging as you know, the mood trackers just the temperature

948
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 1: gauge of the fan base right well with South Carolina.

949
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:36,720
Speaker 1: As you would imagine, it's very easy to take one's

950
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: mind into the proverbial gutter when trying to set the

951
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,800
Speaker 1: mood for South Carolina. Given the mascot, so we avoid

952
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: all that. You know, when they go low, we go high.

953
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: So South Carolina, mood Tracker, what's the temperature of the

954
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 1: fan base here? How would you feel before I tell

955
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: you what I think the mood is for South Carolina?

956
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 1: How would you feel if everyone's doubting you and you

957
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: want what seven games the year before, and then they

958
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: doubted you even more? Then you wont eight games and

959
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: you unfortunately lost to Notre Dame in a classic Gator Bowl.

960
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 1: But ho up, we still want eight games, right and

961
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: we beat Clemson. I'll tell you where I have the mood.

962
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: And I did not go to the Big Spur today.

963
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: I did not need a cheat sheet from you guys.

964
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: I just wanted to guess your mood. You can tell

965
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: me if I'm right or not. I've got the South

966
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:25,439
Speaker 1: Carolina mood as break the glass. So there's this thing

967
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: that the general society will do to you, and there's

968
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: a thing the college football public will do to you

969
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,320
Speaker 1: if you're a non blue blood, non Tier one program,

970
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 1: if you let them, and that is they will tell

971
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: you where you belong, and they will try and place

972
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: you where they think you belong. And most people think

973
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 1: South Carolina belongs in the six win range, and so

974
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 1: they'll talk to you in those terms. They'll predict your games,

975
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 1: they'll predict your season in those terms, they'll give you

976
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 1: coverage proportionate to those terms. And yet they've done it

977
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 1: to you two years in a row, and you've overachieved

978
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:01,839
Speaker 1: too years in a row, which would lead me, if

979
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: I were a South Carolina fan, to say, maybe, just

980
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,800
Speaker 1: maybe I know more about my team in my program

981
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 1: than those people do. Unfortunately, that could even include me.

982
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,720
Speaker 1: And if that were the case, whatever ceiling you're putting

983
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: on me is obviously made a very breakable glass. So

984
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 1: I just be in the mood to break the ceiling.

985
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 1: Jane Beamer has my head coach has my team has,

986
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: Why not me seven wins the year before when you

987
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,919
Speaker 1: didn't think we were going bowling? Check eight wins last

988
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: year when you thought we may fall off from seven wins?

989
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 1: Check what about this year? Now? It's hard to just

990
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: keep going up and up and up. Immunity, But it's

991
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: not just games they've won, it's which ones they've won.

992
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,280
Speaker 1: They beat Clemson last year at Clemson, they beat they

993
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: skull drug Tennessee, they splattered Tennessee. Alabama wishes they could

994
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: say that LSU wishes they could say that they can't.

995
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: South Carolina can one of the most out of nowhere

996
00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 1: results in the country last year, and then they follow

997
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: it up on the road and they beat Clemson. Those

998
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: are huge wins, absolutely huge wins. And recruiting is definitely

999
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: trending in the right direction. Remember when it was Shane

1000
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: Beemer's first cycle, they finished eightieth or something like that,

1001
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 1: and everyone Saidie's in over his head, and then they

1002
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 1: finished twenty fourth, and then they finished sixteenth. So there's

1003
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: basically no result based category where you can show me

1004
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 1: a number and I don't see this obvious trend upline.

1005
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: But then we start to realize Okay, once people start

1006
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: to realize I just said realize like five times. But

1007
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 1: once people start to realize, oh, you're capable of things,

1008
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: what do they do? Sometimes they do it during the season.

1009
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: They definitely would do it out of season. They recalibrate

1010
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: their expectations. Let me tell you that's gonna happen in

1011
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:51,360
Speaker 1: mass with South Carolina. This is why you need to

1012
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: pay no attention ever to what outsiders say. Watch the

1013
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: show by all means, but I'm saying, don't ever let

1014
00:54:57,239 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: your mood be impacted by these people. They don't know.

1015
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: And so here's what it's gonna sound like. Let's say

1016
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: Casual Carl is over here. Casual Carl watches Shane Biemer

1017
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 1: get hired, and he says Beamer sucks, he's never gonna

1018
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: mount to anything, picks him to go four and eight.

1019
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: They win seven games. Casual Carl says it's a fluke.

1020
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: Casual Carl says, this team's gonna fall off. They're a

1021
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:25,799
Speaker 1: paper tiger. They win eight games. Casual Carl, then for

1022
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:29,800
Speaker 1: the third year, we'll say he better win nine games.

1023
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 1: You better keep going up. That's not gonna win the East.

1024
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: Eight games is not gonna win the East. That's gotta

1025
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: be better than that. You're recruiting top ten, top to fifteen,

1026
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 1: you better do better than that. That's how Casual Carl

1027
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: is gonna sound. Now. What cars Casual car will never

1028
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 1: do is say I was wrong about South Carolina, wasn't.

1029
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: I that's not in Casual Carl's DNA. In fact, I don't.

1030
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make that joke. We're live. You don't

1031
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: know how much discipline I just I just exerted there

1032
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: in avoiding a tasteless joke. The last thing we want

1033
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 1: to be in life is classless. If I learned anything

1034
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: from the women's National Championship game today, last thing we

1035
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: want to be is classless. The most overused term in sports, classless.

1036
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:18,279
Speaker 1: It's so overused. I can use the next most overused

1037
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: term and it's not even close to describe how wide

1038
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 1: the gap is between how frequently classless is used and

1039
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 1: then how many how many times, and it's not even

1040
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: close is used. If you didn't watch the game today,

1041
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: none of that means anything to you. So South Carolina,

1042
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: my mood would certainly be, yeah, I want to win

1043
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: every game we play, but I also understand this. There's

1044
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: this parallel lane with our football program right now, where

1045
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 1: no matter how much we've overachieved, there's a certain there

1046
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: is a certain portion of the college football public that

1047
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 1: thinks any success South Carolina is having as temporary, it's

1048
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,879
Speaker 1: a sugar high. It's the red bull effect, and they

1049
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: will fall off, and it doesn't matter how wrong they've been,

1050
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: they'll just continue to predict your demise. And if you

1051
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,879
Speaker 1: ever finally fall off, whether it's year three or year ten,

1052
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: they'll say, I told you so, blind squirrel, broken clock.

1053
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 1: You get the deal, So don't worry about it. Is

1054
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: my a piece of advice, and my b piece of

1055
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: advice is consider it a privilege when they put that

1056
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: ceiling on top of you, because you see, no matter

1057
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 1: how low or high the ceiling they put on top

1058
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 1: of you is, you've always got enough power to break it.

1059
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: What a preview magazine has no weight. People who talk

1060
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: in microphones for a living, they don't actually wield any

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00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,919
Speaker 1: power over you unless you let them. So sure they're

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Speaker 1: going to try and place you don't let them. South

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Speaker 1: Carolina probably doesn't need my advice on that because they've

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Speaker 1: done a really good job of already ignoring it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: big week coming up on multiple fronts. We are going

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Speaker 1: to be on the road next week, so two weeks

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Speaker 1: from now. So look, I know that calendar says oh season,

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Speaker 1: but that just means we need to be selling calendars

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Speaker 1: in the pet State store when we reopen it very soon.

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Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that. We are not backing off

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Speaker 1: an inch. So we will continue and continue and continue

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Speaker 1: to pump these shows out for you as long as

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Speaker 1: you're there and the numbers say you very much are

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Speaker 1: so thank you for that. In the meantime. For a

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Speaker 1: producer Jesse, for director Colin, I'm Josh Payton. Take care,

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Speaker 1: have a great start to your week, and God bless you.