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Episode 49-Auburn Game Preview · Johnny's World

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SPEAKER_00: Coming to you live from the Johnny Packer Eyewear Studios in fabulous Dark Vegas, Mississippi, please welcome our co-host, the best iDoc this side of the Mississippi, BW.
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SPEAKER_00: And now welcome a true hero, a CF warrior whose favorite motto in life is just gave living.
0:27
SPEAKER_00: Here's Johnny.
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SPEAKER_02: Happy birthday, BW.
0:48
SPEAKER_01: That's right, Johnny.
0:49
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
0:50
SPEAKER_01: 41 years old now.
0:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
0:56
SPEAKER_02: I like this.
0:56
SPEAKER_02: I like this uh this part of the part of the year where all of our friends are the same age, man.
1:00
SPEAKER_02: I always get the jump start on everybody.
1:02
SPEAKER_02: I feel like I'm the older guy, but then everybody always catches up to me for a little bit.
1:06
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
1:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you got the big 42 coming up in February.
1:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I still never celebrated that 40th, man, the way I wanted to because of the COVID pandemic.
1:16
SPEAKER_02: So uh and so you know, I always want to have a big blowout, so maybe we'll just have to wait until like 45 or something.
1:22
SPEAKER_02: Who knows?
1:23
SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, I know we were talking last night.
1:25
SPEAKER_01: We're maybe we can find go to the grizzlies game at the end of February and go to the Como Steakhouse.
1:31
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, Como Steakhouse would be nice.
1:33
SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Como Steakhouse.
1:34
SPEAKER_02: If your listeners out from Como, y'all know what I'm talking about.
1:38
SPEAKER_02: If you don't, if you haven't heard of it, go check it out.
1:40
SPEAKER_02: Man, it's like the best steak in the world.
1:42
SPEAKER_02: So awesome.
1:43
SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
1:45
SPEAKER_02: So do you have uh you have good you have a good birthday?
1:47
SPEAKER_02: I heard you you said you're gonna have a ribeye for your birthday.
1:49
SPEAKER_02: One as good as Como, huh?
1:51
SPEAKER_01: No, we went to to Longhorn.
1:54
SPEAKER_01: Um, it's it's really the closest place to get a steak around here.
1:57
SPEAKER_01: And somebody had given me I probably had$200 worth of gift cards to Longhorn.
2:02
SPEAKER_01: Nice and um we just never think about going there.
2:06
SPEAKER_01: So we ordered it, and everybody got a steak.
2:09
SPEAKER_01: I got one, the wife got one, the kids got one, and sweet.
2:12
SPEAKER_01: Um it was I think it was pretty good, but wasn't as good as Como Steakhouse, that's for sure.
2:17
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
2:18
SPEAKER_02: So not many odds.
2:21
SPEAKER_01: So we did that, you know, birthday on a Wednesday, not not much going on.
2:25
SPEAKER_01: So worked half a day, got a haircut, went home, relaxed for a little while, and picked up dinner.
2:31
SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
2:33
SPEAKER_01: Well, uh, lots been happening in the Mississippi State world since we last spoke.
2:37
SPEAKER_01: We took took the week off last week for the bye week.
2:40
SPEAKER_01: So we we gotta catch up on a few things.
2:42
SPEAKER_02: Hey, one thing I did want to mention before we jump into this week's uh we took the uh about like I said, the bye week off week.
2:48
SPEAKER_02: We never mentioned when we had the our friend from uh Alabama on talking about attending the games.
2:54
SPEAKER_02: We really didn't talk about restaurants in the Tuscaloosa area like we like to talk about.
2:59
SPEAKER_02: Had to give a shout out to Dreamland.
3:01
SPEAKER_02: You know, that's our our place.
3:02
SPEAKER_02: I remember going with you when we were in college, man.
3:05
SPEAKER_02: And man, it I know it's I think it's one of those places people either love it or hate it.
3:10
SPEAKER_02: And man, I love that place.
3:11
SPEAKER_02: It's uh it's awesome.
3:12
SPEAKER_02: Uh matter of fact, I remember when I was hospitalized in 2019.
3:16
SPEAKER_02: Uh my mom and and Bo went by there and surprised me and picked up some ribs and took them to me in the hospital.
3:21
SPEAKER_02: And I ate the whole entire thing.
3:23
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it was just like so.
3:24
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, if we're in Tuscaloosa, y'all know what I'm talking about.
3:28
SPEAKER_01: It's one of those places for me.
3:29
SPEAKER_01: It's not really about the food, it's just the going there and the memories and the atmosphere.
3:34
SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, because I feel like we've been to the one in Birmingham too.
3:39
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's just not not the same.
3:41
SPEAKER_02: Uh that original one in Tuscaloosa, that's where it's at, man.
3:44
SPEAKER_02: You can tell that that's that's where it all started, and just a lot of memories and stuff.
3:49
SPEAKER_02: So it's just one of those places, man, that uh gotta make a stop by when uh but I did see where um hopefully we can get him on the program uh soon.
3:57
SPEAKER_02: Uh Titus Brown, former Bulldog, shout out to him.
4:00
SPEAKER_02: He has his own restaurant in Tuscaloosa.
4:02
SPEAKER_02: I want to get him on so we can talk about his restaurant and give him a shout out there.
4:06
SPEAKER_02: Saw where Steve and some people had eaten there.
4:08
SPEAKER_02: So I'm anxious to uh try out his place next time.
4:11
SPEAKER_02: I'm in Tuscaloosa.
4:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's pretty cool.
4:14
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, uh, but fast forward back to this week.
4:17
SPEAKER_02: Um, well, the bye week.
4:19
SPEAKER_02: Uh I guess the everyone knows the Halloween news.
4:22
SPEAKER_02: Uh I guess happened broke on Saturday morning about John Cohen leaving, and then it I get finalized Halloween day.
4:30
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, what are odds of that?
4:32
SPEAKER_02: You know, playing playing Auburn this weekend, and he's the AD at Auburn now.
4:36
SPEAKER_02: He's gonna be there in orange and blue.
4:37
SPEAKER_02: That's gotta be really weird.
4:40
SPEAKER_01: Some weird timing.
4:41
SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't really understand the timing on that.
4:43
SPEAKER_01: You know, why they had to do it this week.
4:46
SPEAKER_01: I don't know, they could have waited a week or two.
4:47
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I understand that they they want to get recruiting and get you know, get a face there or whatever, but man, could have couldn't be worse timing on that.
4:56
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh, yeah.
4:58
SPEAKER_02: Matt Wyatt, uh, I don't know if you've read his tweet.
5:00
SPEAKER_02: He I'm actually he's speaking tonight, I believe, at the quarterback club.
5:04
SPEAKER_02: So I'm anxious to hear what he has to say about it, but he kind of let it all out on Twitter and just let his frustrations be known, like what you just said, like why now?
5:11
SPEAKER_02: It's very, very disrespectful um to do it right now.
5:15
SPEAKER_02: I mean, why can't why can't you just wait?
5:17
SPEAKER_02: And it just affects everything, you know, not affects the the the coaches, the players, the fans, the whole fan base, you know, it's just bad timing to do that.
5:26
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I can and uh I'm hearing the NIL is a big issue of him leaving.
5:31
SPEAKER_02: Uh, obviously, Auburn has more money than Mississippi State, but um, I mean, that's a that's the second straight AD we've had that's been a state graduate and has Mississippi State ties to leave for another SEC school.
5:43
SPEAKER_02: And now we got our past three ADs as ADs at other SEC schools at Florida, Alabama, and now Auburn.
5:50
SPEAKER_02: I guess Mississippi State is ADU.
5:52
SPEAKER_02: You know, you always hear about the schools being running back you and all that.
5:54
SPEAKER_02: I guess we're athletic director you everybody wants to uh wants to leave.
5:58
SPEAKER_02: But I guess that's a good sign because you know that other SEC teams as SEC schools are wanting our our guys, so they're obviously doing their job to get um get other other big time jobs.
6:10
SPEAKER_02: So uh, but it'll be interesting to see.
6:12
SPEAKER_02: I see where they named uh uh Bracky Brett as an interim interim ad.
6:16
SPEAKER_02: And I know Brackie, he's a good guy.
6:18
SPEAKER_02: Uh his son uh is a friend of mine, Nick Brett.
6:20
SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Nick, and uh I think he's gonna do a good job.
6:23
SPEAKER_02: But I heard uh on another podcast they're talking about how they think that we should hire someone outside of the university, you know, past recent hours have been just promoting within the athletic department.
6:35
SPEAKER_02: And uh, I mean, if they don't give Brackie the uh full-time gig, um I think they should do that.
6:41
SPEAKER_02: I think they should go out to uh I'm I'm reading names like uh the AD at Wake Forest was uh high up on everybody's list.
6:49
SPEAKER_02: And yeah, uh the guys uh in our athletic department that came back, he was at um at state, then went to Wake Forest, and he's come back within the past year and worked right up under him.
7:00
SPEAKER_02: And he's a younger guy, and then everybody expects him one day to probably possibly be our future AD.
7:05
SPEAKER_02: Um, so that would be cool to bring the Wake Forest guy in since he knows since they've worked together, and then maybe he could, and I that's just my opinion on it.
7:13
SPEAKER_02: But I do think that that was right what that I heard him say about bringing someone outside of the university, and I think we just need new blood in there, you know.
7:21
SPEAKER_02: Um we'll see what happens.
7:23
SPEAKER_02: It's gonna be be interesting.
7:24
SPEAKER_02: I don't know when they'll make the call on that, but uh yeah, I think that's a good I get that put it, but the bottom line is I think it's a good thing.
7:33
SPEAKER_02: Uh I think like um Cohen, I think he did good things.
7:37
SPEAKER_02: I mean, one won the first national championship under him, uh, but I think he rubbed people rubbed people the wrong way.
7:43
SPEAKER_02: Uh with his family's political views or the way he could conducted stuff.
7:48
SPEAKER_02: I never had a problem with out there.
7:49
SPEAKER_02: He's a nice guy.
7:49
SPEAKER_02: I've heard him, I've had him speak at a few times at different events, and uh I always got along with him fine.
7:54
SPEAKER_02: But um a lot of the fan base did not like him.
7:57
SPEAKER_02: And uh so I mean I don't know what's gonna happen in the in the coming days, but wish him well at Auburn.
8:04
SPEAKER_02: Um, and hopefully we can get somebody in and um that'll be doing a good job.
8:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's funny.
8:11
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I've never been one to really focus on the negative stuff and kind of get into all that discussion, but I was surprised.
8:18
SPEAKER_01: I mean, just reading all the tweets and then the reply tweets, everybody says good riddance, good, glad he's gone, glad he's gone.
8:24
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I felt like that was the sentiment more than you know, people uh worried about him leaving and everything.
8:32
SPEAKER_01: So I guess that says something, but you know, um, I guess we'll see where we end up with that.
8:39
SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, I uh you know, I love Scott Strickland.
8:42
SPEAKER_02: I wish anything for him to come back because I think he he did a great job when we were when when we're when he was there, and um, but I don't know if he'll if he'll come back.
8:51
SPEAKER_02: But um I know we've had him on the show before and he he's he's just a great great guy in general.
8:56
SPEAKER_02: I think a lot of Scott.
8:57
SPEAKER_02: So I wish he'd come back, but look, um, I'm all for hiring someone um that's not been a part of the program and and just get new blood in there so and and move forward.
9:06
SPEAKER_02: That way we'll see what happens.
9:08
SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm I'm kind of worried too because I hate they you know they they went ahead and they fired their coach too.
9:15
SPEAKER_01: Um I wonder if they made Cohen do that, like right?
9:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I saw at 11, I saw at 1120, I think is when the tweet came in that that he accepted the job at Auburn, and then by 11:30 the coach was fired.
9:27
SPEAKER_02: So I was wondering the same thing.
9:28
SPEAKER_02: I was like, did Cohen get the job and immediately fire Harson, like immediately, or is this already set?
9:33
SPEAKER_02: I I guess we won't know, but yeah, that was uh that was kind of weird how that happened.
9:39
SPEAKER_01: But it seemed it it worries me though, because you know, kind of like Williams' big, big armor name and everything.
9:46
SPEAKER_01: I mean, the team could be completely a different team, completely more motivated.
9:51
SPEAKER_01: I I don't know what Harrison's deal was, but you know, it kind of worries me.
9:56
SPEAKER_01: Like I feel like we're not gonna be as prepared for them.
9:58
SPEAKER_01: It's not it's not the same team everybody else has played this year, right?
10:01
SPEAKER_01: And that never ends up working out well for us.
10:04
SPEAKER_01: And I felt pretty good about this game before and until till this news.
10:07
SPEAKER_01: So I I don't really know how I feel about it now.
10:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh yeah, Cadillac Williams.
10:13
SPEAKER_02: Uh that's that's interesting that he's gonna be the interim.
10:15
SPEAKER_02: I remember him when we were in college, just dominating him and running around, man.
10:18
SPEAKER_02: They did that 0-4 team finished undefeated, should have won the national championship if they had a chance to play for it.
10:23
SPEAKER_02: But uh, so that's cool that he's gonna be the interim AD.
10:26
SPEAKER_02: And Carson, I think he got a bad rap from the get-go.
10:28
SPEAKER_02: I mean, they wanted that guy out from from the very beginning.
10:31
SPEAKER_02: Um, so I don't know.
10:32
SPEAKER_02: I'm hearing Kiffins, Dion, Freeze, all these big time names.
10:36
SPEAKER_02: They gotta they gotta they gotta make a big hire, man, because it seems like the past few hires they've done uh have not been that great.
10:43
SPEAKER_02: So they're gonna go for big splay.
10:45
SPEAKER_02: I I think it'd be funny if they stole Kiffen away from Ole Miss because Kiffin's a heck of a coach and he's turned Ole Miss around.
10:51
SPEAKER_01: And and um, but so I was talking to somebody about Kiffen the other day.
10:56
SPEAKER_01: I think it's funny.
10:58
SPEAKER_01: Um it seems like a lot of people don't like like Kiffen either that are Ole Miss fans.
11:03
SPEAKER_01: And this guy was telling me that you know, you you put Kiffen.
11:07
SPEAKER_01: Um oh, my father-in-law was telling me this.
11:09
SPEAKER_01: He said you put Kiffin in a room with a bunch of girls and he's the life of the party, and he's talking to everybody, put Kiffin in a room with a bunch of boosters, nobody cares.
11:16
SPEAKER_01: He just a you know, brick on the wall, like won't say anything.
11:20
SPEAKER_01: So apparently he's rubbing people the wrong way there.
11:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, which I think is funny because I mean he's winning games.
11:27
SPEAKER_01: So what what more do they want from it?
11:29
SPEAKER_01: I mean, if the guy doesn't talk, you know, in front of people, that's one thing, but he's winning games, so I don't get it.
11:36
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's uh that that is that is very interesting.
11:39
SPEAKER_02: Um, but I don't know what what they're gonna do about it.
11:43
SPEAKER_02: You know, what I really would love would be uh be Hugh Freeze, that would be awesome.
11:47
SPEAKER_02: But I just saw he signed a long-term contract with uh with Liberty last week, so I don't know.
11:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's gonna be play uh Arkansas this week, yeah.
11:56
SPEAKER_02: Liberty in Arkansas, Sam Pittman.
11:58
SPEAKER_02: So that'll be interesting.
11:59
SPEAKER_02: And then Coach Prime did you see uh game day at Jackson State?
12:04
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, wow they they rock it.
12:07
SPEAKER_02: So it's crazy.
12:14
SPEAKER_02: See who they get.
12:15
SPEAKER_02: But as far as the game, like you said, it's I I immediately thought at the beginning of the year, well not beginning of the year, but just throughout the season, the way Auburn has been playing, we're just gonna absolutely blow them out.
12:26
SPEAKER_02: I was gonna pick a big blowout win, but gosh, now it's kind of changed my opinion on it, you know.
12:32
SPEAKER_02: So um I don't know.
12:35
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
12:36
SPEAKER_02: Like you said, it could play it could play that players could for Auburn could just give up since their season's already done with and just forget it, or then they could play really extra motivated.
12:46
SPEAKER_02: So uh I don't know, but we cannot afford to lose the game, that's for sure.
12:52
SPEAKER_02: We we expected us to go eight and four, so we're kind of right on what we thought.
12:56
SPEAKER_02: But um with Georgia coming up and and the whole mess, and you know, you can't you can't drop one drop this one.
13:03
SPEAKER_02: So we'll see.
13:04
SPEAKER_02: Uh see what happens.
13:06
SPEAKER_02: But you know, uh it's it's it's just gonna be we need it, we need a lot of a lot of fans to be there too, because um it's gonna be a night game and the atmosphere, you know, it's we feed off the play, uh the players feed off the the fans and all that stuff.
13:22
SPEAKER_02: So it needs to be be rocking and uh and get a win because you know I love Mike Leach and and I feel like all the hate, you know, the haters they they're just waiting for him to him to drop a game and just so they can go off on him and stuff.
13:36
SPEAKER_02: So uh he cannot lose to Auburn.
13:38
SPEAKER_02: Okay, it's just gonna be really bad if we lose this one.
13:40
SPEAKER_02: So they got to come out strong and and uh I think they need to start off strong and not not not let off the gas.
13:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I agree.
13:50
SPEAKER_01: And you know, uh I was looking at our pick'em earlier, making my picks, and uh I was checking the kind of seeing what other other people had picked, uh, and it give it gives you that percentage of of picks and everything.
14:04
SPEAKER_01: And I've never actually seen one this lopsided, but right now on Yahoo, um 96% of people have picked us to beat Auburn.
14:14
SPEAKER_01: Wow, yeah.
14:16
SPEAKER_01: So that's that's a lot.
14:18
SPEAKER_02: Um that is a whole lot, 96%.
14:21
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
14:22
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
14:24
SPEAKER_01: So maybe that's a good sign.
14:26
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
14:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
14:28
SPEAKER_02: Man, there's there's no telling.
14:30
SPEAKER_02: And Auburn's just always one of those teams.
14:33
SPEAKER_02: I think State's always had good, good, had success against Auburn.
14:37
SPEAKER_02: Like, look at last year playing at Auburn down by as many points as we were.
14:42
SPEAKER_02: I think it was the largest fourth quarter comeback in school history.
14:45
SPEAKER_02: So they uh they've hung with him.
14:48
SPEAKER_02: Gosh, our I can still vividly remember us.
14:50
SPEAKER_02: Uh we almost beat Cam Newton the year.
14:53
SPEAKER_02: Uh it was a Thursday night game, and and that was one of the only games where they I mean Cam dominated that year.
14:59
SPEAKER_02: They won the National Chiefs.
15:00
SPEAKER_02: We almost beat them.
15:01
SPEAKER_02: So we've always hung strong with Auburn uh throughout all the years.
15:05
SPEAKER_02: So uh who was it?
15:06
SPEAKER_01: So we had that game we were driving towards the end of the game, and somebody dropped a pass um for a first down.
15:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah that was gonna get us sit down in the red zone.
15:16
SPEAKER_02: I remember that.
15:16
SPEAKER_02: I can't remember who it was.
15:18
SPEAKER_01: Seems like it was like 17 to 14 game or something crazy like that.
15:22
SPEAKER_02: But yeah.
15:24
SPEAKER_01: Have you been to a game at Auburn?
15:26
SPEAKER_02: Uh yes, I've been to one, I've been to a state game at Auburn, then went to the Georgia game at Auburn.
15:31
SPEAKER_02: Uh I went in 03 with the team, uh, with Coach Cheryl.
15:36
SPEAKER_02: That was his last year.
15:37
SPEAKER_02: We played uh we played Auburn.
15:39
SPEAKER_02: It did not go well.
15:40
SPEAKER_02: We had that's when they had Cadillac and Ronnie Brown and Jace, uh, what was it, quarterback, Jason Campbell?
15:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh, they just dominated us right and left.
15:48
SPEAKER_02: But so I went with the team, so I didn't get to experience the the whole Auburn tailgating, the whole field, the campus, everything.
15:54
SPEAKER_02: Because we, you know, when you go with the team, we go to the hotel and and then they get up, go to the game, and we fly back.
15:59
SPEAKER_02: So in 2004, the next year, um, I went with a friend of mine uh who had uh some friends over there, and uh we went and they played Georgia that weekend.
16:10
SPEAKER_02: It was Auburn, Georgia, and um and that was 04.
16:14
SPEAKER_02: So that was the year Auburn finished undefeated, I believe.
16:17
SPEAKER_02: And um, and Georgia was good that year too, but Auburn just dominated them.
16:21
SPEAKER_02: And so um it was I liked it.
16:23
SPEAKER_02: I I kind of want to go, I've never been back, but I would like to go back sometime.
16:27
SPEAKER_02: Campus seemed seemed pretty cool, and um tumors corner and all that sort of stuff.
16:32
SPEAKER_02: Have you been before?
16:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's been forever.
16:34
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you remember in high school, I actually thought about going there and I had filled out an application and everything, and but I didn't know anybody going there.
16:43
SPEAKER_01: I have no idea why I decided I wanted to go there, but I visited there in the fall of our senior year, and it was after I broke my ankle.
16:51
SPEAKER_01: So I was on crutches and I went with Dan Smith and King, and I remember having to like hobble around the campus on my crutches um to go to the game.
17:00
SPEAKER_01: We had really good seats.
17:01
SPEAKER_01: It's a it's a cool stadium, it's a cool experience, nice campus.
17:05
SPEAKER_01: Uh the first time I ever ate it, Mellow Mushroom was there.
17:09
SPEAKER_01: They had one of those downtown and they saw Tumor's Corner.
17:12
SPEAKER_01: I saw Tumor's Corner rolled and all that stuff.
17:15
SPEAKER_01: So I really liked it.
17:16
SPEAKER_01: I decided not to go there because it was like six hours from home and didn't know anybody going there and just kind of decided it was it was too far.
17:24
SPEAKER_01: But uh I've always I've always liked them now.
17:27
SPEAKER_01: Now that we're kind of further removed from that, it's uh it doesn't seem like a job I'd be interested in taking Cohen.
17:33
SPEAKER_01: It seems like he's walking into a nightmare there with the with it.
17:37
SPEAKER_01: Sounds like there's a lot of infighting with the alumni base, and yeah, you know, you've got Alabama in the same state as you, so it wouldn't be something I'd want to take, but cool place to watch a game.
17:47
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, yeah, and then the uh this is some interesting things.
17:50
SPEAKER_02: You you know, uh the baseball coach there is Butch Thompson, who was uh Coe's pitching coach of state when when we played in Omaha in 2013 in the finals, and uh and he got the job at Auburn as a baseball coach, so they'll be reunited.
18:03
SPEAKER_02: And and man, they Auburn baseball is really turning around.
18:06
SPEAKER_02: I mean, they've been in the World Series recently, so they're doing good.
18:08
SPEAKER_02: And then obviously our basketball team of Bruce Pearl at Auburn is doing amazing things.
18:13
SPEAKER_02: And then this is a really odd uh story.
18:16
SPEAKER_02: Um, is you know, the women's basketball coach at Auburn is Johnny Harris, who was Vic's uh number one uh assistant coach, and she wanted the job at State, the head coaching job after Vic left, and Cohen did not hire her.
18:28
SPEAKER_02: Now Cohen is her boss at Auburn.
18:30
SPEAKER_02: That's weird how that goes around full circle.
18:33
SPEAKER_02: Um, kind of strange about that, but uh yeah, it's Auburn, Auburn seems like I've always thought Auburn and State were very similar, being acts uh agriculture, you know, and all that sort of stuff.
18:43
SPEAKER_02: But uh, but then the whole Cam Newton thing, and I feel like a lot of state fans hate Auburn now because of all that, how that went down, and and that they never did get punished for and obviously cheating and all that sort of stuff, but um so I don't know.
18:58
SPEAKER_02: And then I guess people really will hate Auburn now, or they might not with Cohen being over there.
19:02
SPEAKER_01: So um yeah, we've had some bad memories.
19:05
SPEAKER_01: We had had the Cam stuff and then the three to two game with oh my gosh, yeah, three to two, three to two.
19:11
SPEAKER_02: I cannot now forget that one.
19:12
SPEAKER_02: Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:15
SPEAKER_02: That was bad.
19:16
SPEAKER_01: So uh and I feel like it's always a swing game for us if we we play well against them because we usually play them earlier in the year, so it kind of gives us an idea about how we're playing and everything.
19:27
SPEAKER_02: Yep, yep.
19:28
SPEAKER_02: It's uh this can be an interesting game for sure.
19:31
SPEAKER_02: I hope all everybody out there is listening, uh, comes to the game.
19:34
SPEAKER_02: You know, we've got it's weird how the schedule played out this year with three three home games and then a break, and then we got three home games to finish the season with Auburn, Georgia, and East Tennessee State.
19:43
SPEAKER_02: So uh so hopefully uh we'll get a lot of people at the game and and uh like I said, the team can uh build off the momentum of the fans and and stick it to Cohen, stick it to Cohen in Auburn.
19:53
SPEAKER_01: That's right.
19:54
SPEAKER_01: Let's do it.
19:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we got you got some picks.
19:57
SPEAKER_02: You want to make a score pick prediction or talk about the Yahoo thing and all that?
20:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so um we've we've had somebody, Elite Mother, he's he's been on a winning streak lately in the polls there on the pick'em.
20:09
SPEAKER_01: Um so Elite Mother, if you're listening, we've been been trying to get in touch with you to send you some pre-coffee or something like that, but hadn't heard back.
20:16
SPEAKER_01: Uh we I know that our coffee was delivered, and I think we um somebody ordered a wine tumbler a couple weeks ago.
20:23
SPEAKER_01: I think that's that's since gotten there also.
20:26
SPEAKER_01: So uh we've we did out some good prizes.
20:28
SPEAKER_02: If you're listening and you and you've won and and you've got something from us, uh post it on uh Facebook or something and give us a shout-out, let us know that you got it.
20:36
SPEAKER_02: Uh, we're happy that you've been participating and playing, and hopefully you'll be in enjoying the the coffee and and because our our main goal is to spread awareness about CF.
20:46
SPEAKER_02: And that that's one way you can help us out by posting a picture of it and uh and just giving giving us a shout-out and letting let us know and share it with other people and they might want to buy it.
20:55
SPEAKER_02: You know, we did these classes, you know, and they were a couple hundred bucks, but the coffee is very affordable.
21:00
SPEAKER_02: People can get on there and buy it right away, jonypacker.com and uh and money goes to CF.
21:04
SPEAKER_02: So it's really cool deal.
21:05
SPEAKER_02: So um hopefully people will uh will hear about it and and participate.
21:10
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, we really appreciate everybody joining in the pick em league.
21:13
SPEAKER_02: It's been a lot of fun.
21:14
SPEAKER_02: Uh gosh, I I was I think uh Elite Mother was one, and then I think you were two, and I was three.
21:20
SPEAKER_02: And then man, I had a bad week last week.
21:22
SPEAKER_02: I think I dropped way on down there.
21:24
SPEAKER_02: Uh, so I gotta climb my way back up.
21:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm I'm in third now, but I'm um like four behind, four or five behind the second place, and there's one point between first and second place right now.
21:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you're you're not too far behind.
21:40
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you're you're eight out of the first you're eight points out of first.
21:43
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but uh you're only two behind me.
21:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's it it we can catch up.
21:48
SPEAKER_02: So that's the cool thing about it is we've had a lot of people, I know we've mentioned this before, that joined in, I guess they just wanted to join in, but they forgot to make picks and made picks all year.
21:56
SPEAKER_02: So they're out as far as the overall stand.
21:59
SPEAKER_02: Because you know, we like I said, we do the the weekly prizes, but also the season ending one.
22:04
SPEAKER_02: Uh it accumulates uh points.
22:06
SPEAKER_02: So uh if you've been picking all along and missed a week, you're you're probably in the running for the overall prize.
22:12
SPEAKER_02: But if you miss one week, you're you get you're behind on the overall.
22:15
SPEAKER_02: So uh so go in and put in your don't forget to put make the picks.
22:19
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
22:21
SPEAKER_01: Well, one thing I was gonna say too about the coffee is our um wholesaler just said they're discontinuing um the Columbia coffee, which was the Stark Vegas grind.
22:32
SPEAKER_01: Okay, and so if you like the Columbian coffee, it's one of my favorite ones.
22:36
SPEAKER_01: We're looking to add that.
22:37
SPEAKER_01: I'm actually going this weekend, they're having the Memphis Coffee Expo, and it's just a big coffee show.
22:43
SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna see if I can find um a roaster maybe that's a little bit more local that we can work with.
22:49
SPEAKER_01: So I'll I'll update that when I go to that, but y'all know if anything's changed on that.
22:54
SPEAKER_01: But for now, we still have um three or four varieties on there, but it's dwindled down a little bit because some of them have been discontinued and I haven't been able to replace them yet.
23:03
SPEAKER_01: So just keep an eye out for that.
23:04
SPEAKER_01: And if there's something you're interested in that you don't see up there, feel free to reach back out to us at johnnypackercorp at gmail.com and let me know what you're looking for and we can see if we can get a hold of it.
23:15
SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
23:15
SPEAKER_02: Well, VW, uh, give give us the score prediction.
23:18
SPEAKER_02: This is state order.
23:20
SPEAKER_01: Well, I think it's gonna be closer than um originally thought.
23:26
SPEAKER_01: I think we still win it.
23:27
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say 35-27.
23:30
SPEAKER_02: 35-27.
23:32
SPEAKER_02: All right.
23:33
SPEAKER_02: Well, I originally was gonna tell you 35-17 is what I predicted the score to be that we would win.
23:39
SPEAKER_02: But now I feel like what you just said, I feel like it's gonna be a little bit closer.
23:42
SPEAKER_02: I think Auburn's gonna come out playing with with uh, I guess, you know, have something to play for to prove to uh new getting a new coach and everything.
23:51
SPEAKER_02: And so I think it's gonna be a lot closer than the than the experts say the 96% on Yahoo.
23:56
SPEAKER_02: They're saying state's gonna win.
23:57
SPEAKER_02: Still think state's gonna win, but I'm gonna change my prediction from 35 to 17 to 35-32.
24:05
SPEAKER_02: I think it's gonna be a close one.
24:07
SPEAKER_02: I don't think it's gonna be state winning by a field goal at the end, if that's what y'all are thinking, that we're gonna win by three.
24:12
SPEAKER_02: No, we still got to get that fixed.
24:14
SPEAKER_02: Gosh, I hope it's fixed by now.
24:15
SPEAKER_02: I mean, this is ridiculous.
24:17
SPEAKER_02: Still think we're gonna drop a game.
24:18
SPEAKER_02: It might be this one, still think we're gonna drop a game by by missing a field goal at the end, unless our kicker has uh has gotten better.
24:25
SPEAKER_02: So um, I think we're gonna we're gonna win.
24:27
SPEAKER_02: I think it's gonna be about three points, it's gonna be a really close game.
24:31
SPEAKER_02: Hope we're right.
24:33
SPEAKER_02: I do too.
24:34
SPEAKER_02: Because uh it doesn't get easier from here with the Georgia Bulldogs rolling in town next weekend.
24:38
SPEAKER_02: So no, it does not got it, got, got to get a win if we want to go eight and four, gotta get a win this weekend.
24:45
SPEAKER_02: So uh so come on out, start Vegas.
24:48
SPEAKER_02: Uh football weather's here, times change is coming up pretty soon.
24:52
SPEAKER_02: Uh we're we're we're we're in the midst of everything with the football season and in the fall, winter's coming, and yep, then it'll be a new year.
25:00
SPEAKER_02: That's right.
25:02
SPEAKER_01: Well, we appreciate y'all listening.
25:04
SPEAKER_01: We'll talk to you soon, Johnny.
25:05
SPEAKER_02: All right, take care.
25:06
SPEAKER_02: See ya.
25:07
SPEAKER_02: All right, thanks.
25:08
SPEAKER_02: Bye.