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Jay Perry and Mississippi State Vs Alcorn State · Johnny's World

• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome back to a new episode of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_02: This is BW here with my co-host Johnny.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_02: We are on a victory week this week, Johnny.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_02: Hopefully another victory week this week.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_02: I called it, Johnny.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_02: I said we were going to do it.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: We did it.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: Didn't happen like I said it was going to happen, but it happened.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, indeed.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I give you props, man.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_03: You called it.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_03: I think I got to eat some crow, man.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_03: Didn't have any faith.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_03: Didn't think the dogs could do it.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_03: No faith at all, Johnny.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_03: Come on.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_03: No faith.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_03: We've been down that road too many times.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_03: And along with pretty much everybody who was watching that game, at the very end of the game, when when we that Arizona State had the ball at the goal line, everybody knew.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, that's why that's why I did not pick us a win.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_03: And the old Mississippi State, what we're so accustomed to is letting them score and then giving up and we lose.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_03: But it didn't happen, did not happen.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_03: So uh so so proud of them and and especially the defense who caught so much grief last year, Coleman Hutzler and them for being the worst defense in school history, pretty much.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_03: And they just without that goal line stand, it didn't give them the chance to uh for shaping the hit.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_03: Uh uh Brennan.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_03: So I mean, it's just that that was the play of the game, pretty much stopping them right there.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_03: And uh just really amazing that that happened.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_03: Uh unbelievable environment, atmosphere.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so excited.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_03: Just like you said, man, get to get to 4-0 to Tennessee and you never know what'll happen.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_03: So we're on the way right now.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I kind of got into trouble because um, you know, like we always expect Mississippi State to do Mississippi State.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_02: And and I always like I feel like I just like dull myself.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, all right, yeah, this is how it's gonna go.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_02: And like, um, but when we threw that first touchdown pass, shaping through that that, you know, that bomb, the first one, I I kind of went crazy.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_02: And then, of course, like when we won, I went really crazy.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_02: And, you know, my wife is like, What are you, you know, why are you so excited?
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I never see you get it this excited when you see me.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you know, why why are you so excited?
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_02: You never act like this.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_02: And and so I had to be like, look, this was a surprise, you know, we we've been so bad.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like, she doesn't really know about Mississippi State football.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_02: And and so I had to kind of play it down a little bit, but um, it was definitely loud in the house after after that happened.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_02: My daughter is a big Mississippi State fan.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, she really likes Blake Shaping.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um, she's asking me for a jersey.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um but she we were watching together.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_02: I was uh getting her ready for bed, and and I said, Look, you need to go to bed because we're about to lose, so don't worry about this.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_02: And um, so she was up in her room, and um when I saw it happen, you know, like I I paused it and I ran up there and and got her, had her come back down and watch it.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_02: So uh it was it was a good moment.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, yes, it was.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_03: It's just uh amazing that that happened, you know.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_03: It's so crazy that we came out 17 to nothing.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_03: Uh first half just absolutely dominated them up and down the field on both sides of the ball.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_03: And then to come out in the second half, and they just straight up rolled right over us, man.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_03: Just ran through us.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_03: It's just a tail of two halves and uh made me wonder, you know, in the first half, watching this game was like, is Arizona State just overrated?
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_03: Are they really supposed to be this high?
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_03: They're they're not content.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_03: And in the second half, they really showed that they were the 12th best team in the country, and they found our weakness and and just ran over us.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_03: But uh props to us.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_03: We we didn't give up.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, I'll talk about in our in our interview uh with Jay Perry later on in the show.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_03: If you listen to that, we talked about how you know the game atmosphere was unbelievable.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_03: These LED lights that they put in were awesome.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_03: Uh the whole everything about the game atmosphere, and we only had like 50,000 people there, um, which I think it holds over 60, so it wasn't one even close to being filled up, but man, it felt like the the atmosphere was the loudest game I've ever heard.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's just unbelievable.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_03: And uh and they played uh Don't Stop Believing.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_03: And I thought that was really cool because I I always loved that.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_03: We always have those memories of hearing Don't Stop Believing with Dan and Dak era, you know, all that stuff stuff, and then they kind of went away for it.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_03: But the way they put it in at that moment in time was perfect because it was right there with the goal line stand, put uh they piped that music in, everyone cheered along, and then lo and behold, don't stop believing came true.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_03: We we we didn't we did not stop believing in that moment, stopped them, and uh the rest is history.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_03: So uh then they stormed the field and just an amazing night at Davis Wade Stadium.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_03: Uh really hard to believe that BW we haven't stormed the field or taken a goalpost off.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_03: And I I thought it was uh 25 years ago when we were in college, our first game, yeah, when we beat Florida, but then I forgot we tore it down when we beat Florida with in Croom's year in 04.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_03: But still, it's been over it's been over 20 years since uh since we did that.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_03: Hard to believe we beat Auburn in 2014 and become the number one team in the country, and we didn't storm the field or tear down the goalposts or anything like that.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_03: But I remember that they had security guards wrapped around the entire field that day.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_03: They were not letting it like storm the field, but man, it was so well deserved, you know, out of all the stuff that's gone through in the past three years after Coach Leach died and just uh uh with the disaster with Zacharnett and just last year two and ten.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_03: It's just something that Mississippi State fans needed.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, you know, even though the Auburn game in 2014 is probably probably the biggest win in school history because it put to put us to number one, I would say that this win was the most needed win in school history because it's something that Mississippi State fans needed, something Jeff Levy needed.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_03: So it's just uh everybody can hop back on the bandwagon, you know.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but the thing about it is it's just one game, you know.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't find the season.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_03: We still could uh lose other games and not make it a bowl, but but at least for that one Saturday night in September, we we had something held our chest out about and be thankful.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_03: So uh uh the best thing about it, it gives you gets you to two and oh, and and he he you got Alcorn State this week.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_03: Uh hopefully take care of business with them.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Northern Illinois next week, don't overlook them.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_03: And then the Tennessee Balls will be coming to Starville after that.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_03: And like you said in the preseason prediction, where you had us going uh 5-0, so it's very possibility now uh after that Arizona State game, because we we talked about that Arizona State game, how that was the biggest game of the schedule.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_03: And I still think that, you know, the uh that that because if you lose that game, people fall off, especially the way we dominated the game 17-0.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_03: And then and then lo and behold, if you end up losing that, people were really gonna be mad.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_03: But the fact that we held on strong, got the win, I think uh I think the crowds would be really, really uh big for uh Tennessee if we if we take care of this in the next two weekends.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I agree.
• 7:00
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• 7:29
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• 8:50
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• 8:53
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• 8:55
  SPEAKER_02: And uh Johnny, so just uh to close out thoughts on the game.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_02: So you did not rush the field.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but our buddy John Pitts did with his son Samuel.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_02: He said he was out there.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_02: Don't know if you got any of the goalposts or not, but um it was it was an exciting night for sure.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was amazing, man.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_03: I was sitting in the stands and and it popped up on the jumbotron.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, two minutes, you can enter the field.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, Oh my god, holy cow, they're really doing it.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_03: But as the countdown went down from two minutes when it hit zero, man, everybody was just mad dash onto the field, jumping over the fence, running on.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_03: It was crazy.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_03: And then they they took the goal post down.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_03: They didn't do like back in the day where like they jump on the goal post and yeah, break it down.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_03: I think the staff members took it down, but they the people walked the fans walked out with it.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm sure they took it out to the junction or to the fraternity houses or something, but it was just a neat, neat thing to see.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_03: And the LED lights made it even better, man.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_03: Made, I mean, that that the it looked like a CM Maroon down there with the light shining down, and uh really, really cool.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_03: The LED lights were awesome.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_03: I know the sound system is still not good, but next year they're gonna uh do the they're taking it one year at a time.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_03: This year was the lights, next year the sound system.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_03: But once they get all that straightened out, it's gonna be awesome.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_03: And and uh the the light show smoke show they had it uh um really cool.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_03: They didn't have many advertisements like they used to do uh during timeouts.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_03: That was a that was really good.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_03: It was uh it's mainly just uh just the LED lights and the light shows during during timeouts and music and the and the uh the song uh sweet dreams goes along with it.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_03: Really cool.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, don't stop believing.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_03: So it was uh it was a great night to be back at uh Davis Wade being the first first ball game and get a big time win.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I remember when we went rushed the field when we were freshmen, had to jump over that like hedgerow or something like that.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_02: And that was the worst part.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_02: You got all scratched up from that, and then the student section now over there in the end zone, it's like they can come off down off that roof.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know how big of a hop that is to get down there, but uh didn't seem too bad for them.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they they man look like ants scattering onto the field, man, so fast.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_03: It was uh it was crazy.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_03: They were down there in split second and it were filled up uh down there.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_03: So but it was it was awesome.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, but yeah, well, like I said, we got we got Alcorn State coming in this weekend.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_03: BW, I think that's gonna be a blowout.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I mean we we blew out we were a two and ten football team last year.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_03: We we blew out the opening opponent last year.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_03: So I see no no reason why we can't take care of business uh big time against Alcorn, man.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_03: I'm thinking something, you know, 52, 10, something.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_03: We're just I think we scored 50 points.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_03: Um I think uh I think maybe Shapin plays the first quarter.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_03: Croman Hawk probably come in in the second or or in the third, and then we'll get a big dose of Kamario Taylor, I hope, at the end of the game.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_03: So we can see him uh perform.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_03: But I think this should be great, great time to get Awkward State after uh after a big win like that because you don't want you wouldn't want to have another SEC, yeah, an SEC opener right after that, uh kind of being a letdown, being on a high, because even if you are still on a high, you're better than Awkward State all around, and you should take care of business.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_03: So um really excited about that.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_03: And then, like I said, we got northern Illinois next week.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_03: So these two next weekends are are must-wins.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, and then Tennessee.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, we'll talk about that in a couple weeks.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, but what what are your thoughts on the Braves coming in?
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_03: I think I think we'll handle business.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I agree.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_02: I think, and if it goes like what you said, I like that, like the score.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I like being able to see a couple of the other quarterbacks that we have out there, keep shaping from getting hurt.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, 52-10 sounds good to me.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_02: I'd I'd that'd be an ideal game for me.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_02: If it's if it's you know, if it's 35 points, I'm 35 or less.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not too excited about that.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_02: But get above above 35.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm happy either way.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I think we played all corn one other time early in Dan Mollins' tenure, and that we we blew them out.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_03: And uh they always bring a good band like Jackson State, so that'll be cool.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_03: I hope they bring their band.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_03: Uh they they have a good one, but uh yeah, I think we we we take care of business and uh the Pickhums BW.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_03: Let me look at that while while we're talking about picking games and everything.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, let me tell you about that.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_02: So I made a I made the cardinal mistake that you said not to do for these people.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I don't know what's happening, but it quit it quit emailing me to remind me that I need to make my picks, and I'm literally like turning on the 11 a.m.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_02: game Saturday, and I'm like, ah, I didn't make my picks, and so it was too late to pick the 11 games, but I picked all the later games, and so I'm like in 15th place now.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh I don't know if I can catch up, and I'm not that far behind, but I don't know, but it it I looked at it the other day, it's pretty tight at the top.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_03: Um, yeah, mud bugs is still in first place with Reverend Bully right behind him.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_03: So Bud Bugs seems to be up there every year.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_03: Uh he does good picker, but uh yeah, man.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_03: You uh Juan Valdez is 14th, man.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's with me.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he's with you.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_03: Uh King's Kings and 13th.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_03: So our buddies King Juan and BW, uh, we're all neck and neck at the bottom down there.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_03: And David's dogs is bringing up the rear.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_03: I think David Dogs didn't even pick last week.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_02: So right, I think he messed up.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_03: So he joined the party late.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_03: But uh yeah, it'll be good.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh a whole week of whole uh ear picking uh and maybe can get back in if people forget and do all that and do all that.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_03: But uh uh any bit I didn't really watch.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't watch, I know I was looking forward to Michigan, Oklahoma last week.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't watch it at all, didn't even turn it on because I was at the at our game and it was the same time.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_03: There were other big games I was interested in this weekend.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_03: I think Georgia, Tennessee is gonna be a big one.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_03: It's believe it's the afternoon game.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_03: So kind of hope Tennessee wins that BW because if we can get Tennessee undefeated and us undefeated at the same time, that would be a made that would make it even better.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_03: It'd be great.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we need Tennessee to win.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_02: We do.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I guess.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know what to think about that.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_02: I picked Georgia to win that game, but yeah, honestly don't know a lot about Georgia this year.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_02: But with Kirby Smart, it's kind of like with Saban.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, they're they're gonna be the the floors can be pretty high for them.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, I think so too.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_03: Uh but yeah, that would be huge if Tennessee could win and then come in undefeated, us undefeated.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so we'll we'll see how that happens.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_03: And then and then L Shu Florida is uh Saturday night.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_03: That's all that's always a big game.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_03: But man, the the mighty Florida Gators are are are puny Florida Gators now.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_03: They look at South Florida.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_03: Uh you know, our our buddy Scott Strickland might be on the hot seat down there with Billy Napier.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_03: But again, everybody is Scott Strickland though is the basketball team won the national championship.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_03: So I think he's safe for a little bit.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_03: But Billy Napier, though, he is on.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, his seat's so hot, you could you could burn coals on it, man.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_03: So uh yeah, I don't I don't see.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_03: I thought, man, I picked it Florida in a preseason picks as a sleeper team in SEC this year.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, DJ Lagway.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_03: I thought they'd have a good year, but man, right.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_03: I looked at their schedule, and man, it's a murderous row coming up here soon.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_03: So when we when we go down to the swamp in October and play them, they could be sitting at one and five.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I mean, hey, we could that's a winnable game for us.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't think so.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, after what they did with South Florida, uh, you know, there's a chance we could win that one, but uh yeah, I think LC uh rolls them.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_03: Hey man, crazier things can happen.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_03: What if Florida goes down to Baton Ridge and wins in Tiger Stadium?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_03: That wouldn't surprise me at all, man, the way things go.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, but yeah, it'll be uh it'll be fun.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_03: Uh um just happy football's back.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_03: But same.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_03: I have to say this today is uh September the 11th as we record this podcast.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: We all know this was a uh sad day in the history of our country, and we'll always remember.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_03: But BW, I have to say this because me and you are both all in there together.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_03: Would you have thought 24 years ago that we'd be recording a podcast together?
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_03: That's pretty crazy.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_03: Reason why me and BW were sitting together side by side in class in geography class at Mississippi State University.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_03: Lewis was on Lewis Wasan as the professor when the word got out about 9-11.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know, BW, I can see it clear as day.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know about you can see it clear as day.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_03: There's a girl in the front row in front of us, off to the left.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_03: I can see it right now, said it out loud that there had been attack on America.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_03: And Wasson was like, What?
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_03: And we were like, What?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, how did she know?
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_03: Because that was really text messaging, no it, you know, no smartphones.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know how to I think you could text then.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_02: I'm pretty sure you could sometime around then.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, okay.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_03: Someone must have texted her.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_03: But I remember leaving that class and walking across the drill field, and people it were people were on buzzing about talking about what is it, what is what's going on.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_03: And I get to my next class, and it was in Allen Hall.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_03: We get in the class, and the teacher stop um like says everyone to put their heads down to pray.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, you know, in in public schools, you know, prayer is not loud, but in that situation, I mean, it was everyone did, and then she dismissed the class, and I was like, man, what in the world is going on?
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_03: And I get home and turn on the news, and then people's like, go, go, go get gas in your car.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_03: All the pumps were gonna run out of gas.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, dude, it was a crazy day, even here in Starville, right?
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, that's just hard to believe that that was uh 24 years ago because it really does seem like yesterday, because I can remember so much of that day vivid vividly.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, what about you, BW?
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, same.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_02: And I remember um being afraid to go more towards like the center of campus, like because I think that they didn't cancel classes officially, it was kind of up to the professor's class.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: And I I had a history class that afternoon, and it was like this this old guy with like a white, long white beard, and um he wanted to use that time to like debate about it or something.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_02: But I remember having to go to class, I don't know why I went, but I was worried, I was like, I need to stay away from these buses.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_02: What if somebody blows up one of these buses at the union?
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_02: Right, all this you just didn't have any idea what's gonna happen.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and but then at the same time, you know, we're in Starkville, Mississippi.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_02: Unless this is some kind of large-scale attack.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, that the last place anybody's gonna blow up is Starkville, Mississippi.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_02: But um, yeah, I I do remember it just like it was yesterday.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I remember the anthrax scare.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_03: That was another thing.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_03: Open the mailbox because anthrax might be there.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_03: You remember that?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was uh absolute crazy time.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but yeah, like you said, it you really weren't too worried about it because you're you're so far away from New York City or in Starbucks, Mississippi.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_03: But then uh, and there was a special, it airs every year around around 9-11.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_03: We Mississippi hosted the very first sporting event in America.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_03: Very first sport event.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_03: It was Mississippi State, South Carolina football game um that was supposed to be played that weekend and ended up being played on a Thursday night.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_03: So athletic sports, NF uh, NFL, major league baseball, everything was shut down.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_03: Everything.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_03: And the very first sporting event to come back was Mississippi State, South Carolina.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_03: So the entire nation was watching that game, and I can see the flag coming out, Cochrane's daughter singing the National Anthem.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I can remember that one guy in the stand saying, Go to hell, bin Laden, go to hell.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it was crazy.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_03: Now I was a little worried about that one because because, like I said, that was the first sporting event, that would be the prime time for something to happen.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, I was a little nervous about that.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_03: And then I went crazy wally.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_03: I went to New York City that at uh New Year's Eve for the dropping of the ball at Times Square, and people said told me I was nervous as anything about going.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_03: We'd already had that trip planned for the tax, and I didn't really want to go because I was scared so much.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_03: But people kept saying, you know, that's New York City and New Year's Eve is the safest place to be because everyone is expecting something to happen and everything's gonna be be uh there's gonna be cops everywhere.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_03: And sure enough, man, when the dropping of ball hit, man, I was so nervous anything, but everything worked out great.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_03: But uh man, it was just a scary time to be alive.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_03: And then 24 years later, we still deal with stuff every day, like the shooting yesterday that happened.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_03: And I mean, it's just uh it's crazy that the world we live in is is so crazy, but but uh it's it's hard to hard to uh put in the words.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_03: Uh 24 years, BW's 24 years that it's been that long ago when it seems like just yesterday.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_02: It really does.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_02: I know.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_02: Good times, good memories.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_03: But uh guys, uh uh also uh don't turn the podcast off.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_03: I interviewed uh my good friend Jay Perry.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Uh on uh he will be coming up.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I'll do an interview with him.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, if you're not familiar with Jay, he does the sideline reporting for Mississippi State Football.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, it's it's funny, BW.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_03: We've had you know, Jay, Neil, and Matt are the are the team.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Neil broadcasts the games, Matt does color commentary, and Jay's the sideline reporter.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_03: So now we've had all three on our podcast before.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_03: And growing up, when I was a kid, man, it was uh Jack Crystal, Jim Ellis, and John Carrera.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_03: Those are the three three that did it.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_03: Jack, obviously play by play, Jim Color, and John Carrera was the sideline reporter.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_03: I always got a kick out of uh listening to games as a kid when Jack Crystal would be like, Yeah, we're gonna go down the field to uh John Carrero.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_03: Uh it should have looked like holding.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_03: What was it, John?
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_03: And John Carrero would say, Yeah, Jack, it looked like it was holding back to you.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_03: It was like always the same thing.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_03: Whatever Jack said, John always agreed with him and said back to him.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_03: So uh so now Jay's down there doing it.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_03: He does a fantastic job.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_03: Jay's a great friend.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_03: And uh he also does uh Starful High games on uh Thursday night.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_03: He started back doing that this year.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_03: He's done it for a while at Starbucks High and um Oak Grove, I believe is who it was, uh had a shootout in the opening weekend, and uh Starple High won it with one second left to go in the game, a high score in a fair.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_03: So that was Jay's first game back in the booth.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_03: He he uh he's on the call with Robbie Falk, who is uh who's a friend of ours also uh Thunder and Lightning podcast.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_03: And uh so Robbie and Jay do Star Baha games, and that was an amazing, amazing game.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_03: And then Starbucks dropped a game uh at West Point last week.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_03: Uh West Point's always a uh big time college um high school football program in the state of Mississippi.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so star by is gonna be having a good year, I believe.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_03: Um Jay also does uh East Mississippi games at Scuba on Thursdays, so he does Thursdays, EMTC, Fridays, uh Star Baha and then Saturday, Mississippi State.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_03: So he's a busy guy and he has a law office in town uh and does that as well.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_03: So uh stay tuned to listen to him talk.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_03: We talk a little bit about the Arizona game, his perspective.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_03: He was on the field through the game um in the locker room, and and uh if and I had to ask him because Jay's been a part of um Coach Mullen's staff and Moorhead and Coach Leach's staff.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_03: And uh I had to ask him, you know, everyone wants to hear Mike Leach stories.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_03: I know you have a handful, and man, he told some great Mike Leach stories.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_03: So uh stay stay tuned and listen to that because you'll get a get a kick out of uh kick out of uh Coach Leach.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_03: And I couldn't help but think of Coach Leach uh VW on Saturday night when we won that game, man.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_03: I can only imagine how how happy he was.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_03: Uh because it's just something that uh we all needed as a as a fan base.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_03: Like I said, it's the most need the most need to win, I believe, in Mississippi State football history after uh his passing and what all went through.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_03: So uh I think that's why everyone stormed the if you win that game, uh I don't think people storm the field.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_03: You don't win it in in the way we we did it.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_03: Just the way we won the game and what has happened in the past couple of years, and with coach passing, I think all that emotion just all bowled up into one, and that's why we stormed the field.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_03: Uh and and it just all worked out um really really magical.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_03: So uh it was I know he was I know coach uh was smiling down from having on that one, but uh but yeah, stay tuned and listen to Jay.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_03: Does a great job, and we'll be back next week to to break down uh the uh the weekend and talk about the upcoming weekend, get ready for that Tennessee game in two weeks.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_02: Y'all stay tuned for Jay Perry.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_02: All right for listening.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_03: All right, welcome back to a brand new edition of the Johnny Squirrel Podcast.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_03: It's Johnny here.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I'm here doing interviews solo today.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_03: My my co-host is uh checking people's eyeballs again at at his uh at his clinic up in Collierville.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_03: So uh uh just me today.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_03: So uh really, really excited about having our having our show on today and having our guests.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_03: So uh uh looking forward to uh hearing what he has to say.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_03: Uh everyone who uh listens to uh Mississippi State uh football on the broadcast will know uh who we're talking about.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_03: If you listen to Starple High or watching live streams, you'll know who we're talking about.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_03: Uh or if you're just in Starble, you'll know who you're talking about.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_03: So uh Jay Perry, welcome to Johnny's World, my man.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_00: Hey John Clark, uh always a pleasure to talk to you, man.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you may know who I am.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that's a good thing, though.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: So that that you know, we'll we'll decide later whether that whether that's a good thing or not.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: Especially if you're coming to me professionally.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, maybe it is or not.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: No, but it's it's um great to be with you, my man.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, well, tell everybody uh what you do.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_03: I know I know you have you're you're on uh I know you do the sideline reporting, Mississippi Stand, Starbucks High Games, but tell us about your your real job, what you're what what you normally do, your your law law office.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I also do sidelines uh for East Mississippi on Thursday nights, although this week I'll be in the booth doing doing color.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, so I I practice my partner and I, Rod Ray.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_00: We have Ray and Perry offices in Starkville and in Columbus.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've known Rod a long time.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I practiced for 20 years when Coach Mullen hired me as director of player development.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I I held that role with Coach Mullen.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: I obviously didn't go to Florida with Dan.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: Coach Moorhead retained me.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: Coach Moorhead was let go.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_00: Coach Leach retained me.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I worked with Coach Leach all of his years as the head coach, then moved over as an associate athletic director in administration.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then about this time last year, maybe a little earlier, um, you know, it was it, I had a great run.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: I loved being in college athletics, particularly being in the building in football as director of player development.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_00: I I really did, but you know, it it was awesome.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: I enjoyed it, but it was time to get back to practice.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: So a year, year and a half ago is when I came over, came back to full-time practice, um, riding open our firm.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: All we do is personal injury, wrongful death, um, supremacy liability, and then criminal defense.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then that's all we do.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we don't we don't do any domestic work, we don't do any transactional work, contracts, we don't do any real estate, uh, things like that.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's just the personal injury, criminal defense.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: And it's been great.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: We're wide open.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_00: We've got offices, as I said, in Starbucks and Columbus, and uh it's been good.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's been great.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: I missed it.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: I missed the people, so I'm I'm glad to be back on this side.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I still, of course, get to do the broadcasting gigs where, you know, last week, like this week, I'll have a Thursday night game with East Mississippi, I'll have a Friday night game with Starful High, and then I'll have a Saturday game with Mississippi State.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: My ninth season on the sidelines with uh with the dogs.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_03: Well, uh yeah, you're you're a busy man, Jay.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_03: That's why I'm glad I got you on right now.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_03: Uh well, well, um talk a little about um now were you doing I I tuned in to the to the live stream with Starful High, I guess week week before last with that exciting finish with you and Robbie calling.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was crazy.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was crazy.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_00: That was a lot of fun.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think I heard fun.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_03: That was more fun than this past Friday night for Starble High.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, definitely.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_03: I I think I heard you say on the broadcast you had done Starkful High before and you'd come back.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I did I I did Starkful High for probably eight or nine years uh before.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: So I I I started Michael Wardlaw and I uh he was initially he was play by play.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: I was color for a couple of years.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_00: That would have been probably in the 07-08 range, then he moved and left.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: And so I started doing play-by-play.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I did play by play all the way up through the 2016 season.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: And then when I went to Mississippi State and was on staff in 2017, by NCAA rule, I couldn't even go.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't even, despite the fact that I went to school there, despite the fact that I played sports at Starbucks High, despite the fact that my kids were at Starbucks High, uh, I couldn't even go to any high school or junior college event that my kids were not involved in.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: So all three of my boys played baseball.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: One played beyond high school, um, the other two chose not to, but I could go to their games.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_00: But I could so I I went from being at every single Starbucks high game for eight, nine, 10 years to going to no games 17 through 24.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: And then now I'm back doing the live stream.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I won't go to do every game, of course, because anything that conflicts with Mississippi State, you know, I will be with Mississippi State.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I have my Starbucks on today.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: I actually just finished filming the coaching show.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: We we we usually film that on Wednesday mornings that we show in the the pregame broadcast on Fridays.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, so I'll do I'll do the majority.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'll do seven or eight Starbucks high games.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, when when State's on the road and we're flying out on Fridays, you know, I won't be able to do those games.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_03: Well, uh, like I said, we won't mention this past weekend, but the weekend before that, uh how exciting was that finish to be back in the booth and call that game.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, not bad.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: It was uh it was interesting because there were I think Starville High ran 81 offensive plays, which in in high school, anybody that knows much about high school football knows you know their 12-minute quarters.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_00: To run 81 plays is a stat that I don't know that I'll ever see again.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's it's a it's an incredible stat to run 81 plays.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it was a fun, exciting game.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: This past weekend, you know, you just got to tip your hat to Brett Morgan and West Point.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_00: That team's really, really good.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we didn't play particularly well.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh they did.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_00: They're really good.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: Brett does a phenomenal job.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, he took over for Chris Chambliss over there.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: Chris Chambliss won a bunch of state championships.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh a lot of people wondered, you know, would they miss a beat?
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: They didn't.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_00: They won the state championship last year.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: Brett won it in his first year, and uh that was their 13th state championship at West Point.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: So what you know what they're gonna do, and it's not a secret, but they're really, really good at it.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: And and they they earned the game Friday for sure.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: Start will be, let's say, East Mississippi will be at home to Northwest.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_00: So I'll be in Scuba this week.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: Storm Ohio will be at Meridian Friday, and of course, Mississippi State will come back, try to get to 3-0 against Alcorn State Saturday.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_03: Well, well, let's uh talk about uh about Mississippi State.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, Jay, this past weekend, storm in the field, beating Arizona's top-ranked team.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_03: What what was it like uh being on the sideline with all that?
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, it everyone talks about Jeff Levy, needs his signature win, needs something.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_03: I think he got it Saturday night.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_03: What what do you think?
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: I think the program's looking look, I think this is one of those things that I think more than anything, the fan base needed that win.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah you know, I mean, obviously Coach Levy, you know, wanted that win.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_00: Coach Levy wanted 12 wins last year.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_00: Every coach does, you know, and having been in the building, having been on staff, you know, I I see the grind that those guys, everybody in the building, it's not just the the countable coaches.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody in the building uh, you know, worked really, really hard.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: I think it I think it was a really big win for everybody, certainly for Jeff Levy, certainly for the players, from a morale boost, a confidence boost.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_00: But but I think the fan base needed that needed that win.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: The administration, the fans, the coaches, the players.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, look, everybody that called themselves a Mississippi State fan, employee, player, etc., needed that win.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: And it was a big time win, you know, and it's really interesting, and I think fitting.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I had a chance to visit briefly with Cameron Hutzler in the locker room after the game.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, it was it was a cool conversation because, yep, the offense scored 24 points.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, they got the 58-yarder shaping to Brendan Thompson to win it.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_00: All that's true.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: None of which would have been made possible but for the defense and the goal line stand.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: And Jeff Levy said that in the locker room.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: He said, That's what he said.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_00: That was the first thing that Lev said to the team in the locker room was he praised that defense.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_00: That was a 17-play, 95-yard drive that took almost nine minutes off the clock.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it was that so I thought it was fitting.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_00: We talk about who needed to win and you know, whatever, who it was bigger for.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_00: But I think it's appropriate, uh, very apropos, that Cameron Hutzler's defense.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: You hear Matt and Neil and I on the broadcast a lot of times talk about compliment football, you know, defense leading to offense, offense leading to defense, et cetera.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_00: And that exchange right there might be the best example that that any of the listeners can really take from it.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_00: It was a bow your back moment for the defense at the goal line.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: A touchdown there, everything changes, of course.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_01: It does.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: Everything changes.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: Here's what else changes.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know if I don't know if anybody saw Kenny Dillingham explaining why they made the call they did.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: And frankly, I understand why they did what they did.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_00: They're trying to call, we have no timeouts.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_00: They're trying to call the play that they think will win the game.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I think they probably had a mistake by the safety right there on that on that last play.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_00: They didn't expect to give up a touchdown, obviously.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_00: Kenny Dillingham and Arizona State knew they could give up a big play right there, but he felt like that was the best play to get a sack.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: A sack there and the game's over.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_00: So I understand that.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_00: So that was complimentary football.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it took the defense having an unbelievable stop.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, a big time, big time, big time stop that then led to the offense doing what it did.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that's just huge.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_00: And and and I and I I was I was happy, proud, excited, all the all the different words you would use for for Cameron Hutzler in that moment for sure.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, especially after after what we went through last season.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_03: I know Cameron Hutzler took a lot of the blame.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_03: Everyone always blamed the defense.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, this defense is so bad.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_03: So so props to him, and and what a what a moment for to have that goal on stand to get that off monkey off everybody's back about complaining about the defense.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_03: They stepped up and they what you just said and what he said, if they don't make that stop there, it's a totally different game.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_03: We don't win the game.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_03: So props to them.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was huge.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_00: It was.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: And you and you take a situation where in the first half, Arizona first four possessions punt, punt, punt, hunt, kick, turnover on downs, field goal going into the break.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's that's that's about as perfect a defensive half as you can play.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_00: And then in the second half, you come out, you go touchdown, punt, touchdown, field goal, and then of course the interception for Hunter Washington to fill the game.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_00: So it was definitely a tell of two halves.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, losing Will Winston hurt a lot, obviously, uh, will be without his services.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a that's a tall order for David Turner on the defensive line, and of course Cameron Hudson is the coordinator.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_00: That that's a tough, tough loss.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, a lot of a lot of credit goes to those defensive guys, the players and the coaches, because that was a big time stop for them.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_00: And then on the complimentary side, the offense does a great job of moving the ball, shaping.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_00: I I I talked to Blake, not specifically about the play, but you know, he sees that that corner is on the outside shoulder, significantly so of Brendan Thompson.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_00: I thought Matt and Neil did a fantastic job on the call.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, a lot of times his broadcasters, you you hear people say, don't step on the play-by-play guy, meaning, you know, let the play-by-play make the call.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_00: But I thought Matt, because Matt saw it.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_00: One, he played that position in this league for this team.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_00: Two, he's way up high.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_00: He saw it.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_00: He saw one, Brendan Thompson was open.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: And that's when you heard Matt almost just subtly say throw it.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: And then way before it's even caught and he's run, you hear Matt say touchdown.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I thought it was a great call, it was a great moment.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I thought Neil did a great job with with Lev in the in the post-game when he said, you know, this is one of those moments where people will remember where they were, and people that weren't there will say they were there, you know, things like that.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_00: I I have uh some people that that that I know that uh have gone back to Telgate.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry for them.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_00: A few people that are in the bathrooms, sorry for them.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_00: But I suspect as their memories fade with time, they will they will remember that they were in the stands, not elsewhere.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_00: So cool, cool moment.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: Look, a lot of football to play, though.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, a big win for sure.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_00: You match your win total of a year ago through the same number of games.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_00: But there's a lot of football left, right?
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_00: And and and and great time to be playing All Corn State, no disrespect to the Braves, but this is certainly a game you should be able to sleepwalk through and win.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_00: Then you'll get a Northern Illinois team in here that, you know, we have we have a few of their players, but you get Northern Illinois in here that I would expect will be as good, maybe better than North than uh Southern Mississippi in the first week.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_00: And Northern Illinois had a big win last year against the Power 4 team.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_00: But you're gonna be favored significantly in the next two games.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_00: And if you go into Tennessee, now Tennessee's got Georgia this weekend, but you go into Tennessee at 4-0, it's a flex window right now in terms of when that's gonna be played.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_00: You go into that Tennessee game 4-0, you should have another opportunity for an unbelievable crowd and a chance to get one at home.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_00: A game that at the beginning of the season, I think a lot of people wouldn't have necessarily said um was a super winnable game.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_00: But at this point, it'll be really interesting to see what the line is when we get to to that week.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um not to put the cart before the horse, but it'll be really interesting to see what the line is right there.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, so uh all you can ask is the opportunity to to to go one and oh the next week.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_00: And and right now you're you're two and oh and you got a shot to be three and oh.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_03: Um yeah, I just I I can't say enough things about the the I mean I've been coming Mississippi State football games since I was 11 years old, and and the stadium, even though we didn't have it packed all the way out, it was loud, man.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_03: It was loud.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_03: And yeah, cowbells talk a bit a little about the the environment, being on the field.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_03: Uh could you could you just send all the cowbells, hear all that and the light show added to it.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_03: Just it was amazing.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I want to start with the student section because and Marcus Hunter and I in the postgame, we actually gave the game ball to the student section, right?
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_00: It would have been easy to give to Brendan Thompson, it would have been easy to give to Blake Shapen, it would have been easy to give to Jeff Levy or Cameron Hutzler or Nick Mitchell or a host of other guys.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_00: Devon Booth were picking up the block.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean there's a ton of guys that could have gotten that.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_00: But the student section, and they did last year.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_00: Look, the student section, this is a two in ten football team that was not very competitive.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_00: And the students did a phenomenal job last year.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_00: Now, when the game was not competitive at the break, most of them left.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_00: But they came and and and and they were there this week, or this past week against Arizona State.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: I I typically I'll get there, I'll do pregame in the booth, then I'll come to the field, walk around on the field, talk to some guys, talk to some staff, walk on the the other sidelines, just kind of walk around and and go in the locker room, come back out, just kind of get a feel.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I look down at one point, it was about 550, give or take.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_00: So we're 40 minutes before a kid, really 45.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_00: I think we're in 635 kid, but and the student section is packed, it is completely full at that point.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_00: And you're like, wow, that's this is gonna be fun.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_00: And it was student section was unbelievable.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_00: The general crowd was unbelievable, it was really loud.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_00: We talked about, you know, what do you compare it to?
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm look, I grew up in stock.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: I've been going to games since I was four years old.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um obviously, obviously, some some games fairly recently, you know, the the 2014 Auburn game was that that that propelled us to number one really, really loud.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_00: That touchdown to bear to open things up was really loud.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_00: The Jonathan Banks pick six against T bo going into the break, really, really loud.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_00: Anthony Johnson against Alabama.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, even the 2000, what year was it?
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_00: 17 Alabama?
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, um, that was really loud.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_00: So there have been a bunch of games that were really loud.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_00: It it was extraordinarily loud um on Saturday.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, to the point that my my obviously I have wired headset that I use to broadcast with, I had to turn it up so loud.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: To be able to hear that, I mean, for for several hours after the game, my ears physically hurt because I had to have them up so loud.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_00: The light show was really cool.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the the ambiance was great, just the energy was great.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, do you win that game without that?
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, maybe not, but but whether you do or whether you don't, doesn't matter because you did win, and the environment could not have been better.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_00: It it really could not have been a better environment.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I love how you know while we always play Don't Stop Believing, we've done that for years under Dan Mullin, and then people are complaining here recently when we're like, for instance, last year we had a bad ear, we're getting beat, and they're playing and everything.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_03: And anyway, they switched it to Sweet Dreams, which is awesome.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_03: Love it, but I love how they played Don't Stop Believing in the moment where we needed it the most.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_03: Well, that was here.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_00: That was I've I've always been a fan for playing that, and and there are a lot of people for some reason.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_00: I think because Dan Mullen's the guy that brought that.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I think there are people that are I don't know.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I am Dan and I are friends.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_00: I still talk to Dan.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_00: He's done a great job in the early going at UNLV, by the way.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I I don't I guess I I guess I have a hard time understanding why people can't just appreciate what Dan Mullen did for Mississippi State and move on.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_00: He took, he took at the time what he thought was a great job at Florida, which by the way, I'd I would hate for Florida fans to be start comparing his record to Billy Napier's because it ain't close.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_00: Dan was much, much, much better.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but just be a pre- I mean, so I don't really care that he that is a signature Mississippi State deal.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_00: And especially at night when you can you can turn the lights off, which we've even done that before, the the super cool lights, but and you've got the phone lights up, and um it just it it's I like that.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's a fun, cool environment.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I thought game ops for the athletic department did a good job.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_00: I you know, if you notice there were less on-field presentations during the game.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_00: You still keep some, of course.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_00: Salute the heroes with the armed forces is the big one that that will never go away and it shouldn't.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_00: But there were less on-field deals.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um I like the don't stop believing.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's a cool deal.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_00: I like it.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_00: I hope we'll continue to use it in that spot where we did.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_03: Well, well, talk about this.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_03: I I I I have to I have to give out a shout-out to Coach Leach right now because I think I'm, I mean, I don't you know he would be proud of Mississippi State for that win.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_03: Well, we've gone through after losing Coach Leach, we've gone to the bottom, and we're slowly, it looks like we're taking a rise up.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_03: And I know he would be so proud.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_03: You work with Coach Leach.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_03: Talk a little about your relationship with Coach Leach and uh we miss him all so much.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_03: And you have a good story.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_03: We all want to hear Coach Leach's story.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_03: You have a good story with Coach.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, well, Coach Leach was, you know, uh of the ones I can probably tell on on air, um, there there are two that that stick out as as pretty funny.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, one, the coach Leach gets the job.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_00: He had not yet come to Starkville, but he calls me one night um before he'd even gotten here.
• 47:21
  SPEAKER_00: So so he had not been introduced or anything like that.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_00: And he calls me to ask me to stay on staff and offer me, you know, the same position and and et cetera.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, I told him that that I wanted to, and he said, I don't really care what your title is, you can make it up.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_00: He said, You can call yourself the king of football or maybe czar.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then he went on this tirade about, I want you to be the czar.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna have your business card say Jay Perry, czar of Mississippi.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_00: He just was a funny guy.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_00: And it, you know, 10 minutes later, we had moved on from that to talking about, you know, the War of 1812.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it just, I mean, I didn't know how it got there.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the other one was that first year, COVID year, which obviously was a tremendous, tremendous challenge.
• 48:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I guess two more funny stories.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_00: So that one, then then we go to Kentucky, you know, a game we think, you know, that we should win.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, anybody that knows Mississippi State football knows that that Kentucky game, the home team just seems to win every single time we play, uh, or have for at least the last 10, 11 years.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_00: We go up there, we get smacked around pretty good.
• 48:33
  SPEAKER_00: They run the ball all over us.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_00: I think we got a safe.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was just a bad day.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_00: So it was a night game.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_00: So we don't get home till I think I got back out to my house somewhere around 2:30 or so in the morning.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, I you're you're kind of still jacked up a little bit.
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_00: So I turn the TV on for a minute.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, my phone rings.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's like 3:08 a.m.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I see that it's Mike Leach.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, so I debate whether I'm gonna answer.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_00: I do answer it, and he starts in, what's our problem?
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_00: What are we doing?
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_00: Why are we doing this?
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we start talking.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_00: First thing he says, what are you doing?
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, Well, coach, I was getting ready to go to bed.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_00: Well, then he that that deterred him none.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_00: And so we just kept talking, kept talking.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_00: And at one point, I hear it get completely quiet.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I I'm thinking to myself, well, you coach is falling asleep.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_00: Well, no, he says, Hold on, Bubba, I'm taking notes.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm not kidding when I tell you, it's 6:48 a.m.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_00: We haven't stopped talking.
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_00: At 6:48, I say, Coach, I have to go.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_00: A guy has to get off the phone right now.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta be at the office at 9 in the morning.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I have to go.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_00: He laughed and said, Okay, Bubba, we'll pick it up later.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_00: We never talked about it again.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we we we never talked about it again.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_00: And so he he he was um he he was just a fun guy, super, super intelligent guy.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, we we were sitting there at practice one day, and uh a lot of people have told this story.
• 50:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm standing there with then athletic director John Cohen, and um so you know, Coach Leach obviously calls the place.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_00: So in in a football practice, you've got a practice script that you're gonna follow.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_00: And there'll be different periods.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_00: Now, Coach Leach didn't go by a clock up on the tower like a lot of people are on the lift, like a lot of people do.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna run the script until we get it right.
• 50:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so you go from, you know, you might have an individual period, special teams, then get into team.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_00: And in that team period, it's when you'll start out with like good versus good.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_00: So the number one offense versus number one defense.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, it takes the coach to call the play.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_00: Coach Leach, he turned over the defense to the defensive coordinator.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_00: He turned over the special teams to the special teams coordinator.
• 51:03
  SPEAKER_00: So during special teams, we look up and he's out on he's out there on the on the phone.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_00: I think this would have been probably in the maybe in the spring of 20, right before COVID, if I recall correctly.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um could have been in the fall, but nonetheless, he's on the phone.
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_00: Well, now special teams is over there.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's time to start team period.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_00: Well, he's still on the phone over there.
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_00: We're kind of like, holy crap, what is he doing?
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_00: Well, he comes over there, and um again, I'm standing by John, and I hear Coach.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Well, I'm gonna let you talk to our A D.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_00: I I think you'll like him.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, he's a lefty, but I think you're gonna really like him.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_00: And he hands the phone to John, and it's President Trump.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_00: And and so it just he's he's just out there in the field just having a conversation with the president.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_00: And and regardless of your feelings about the president, either way, yeah that's up to you.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_00: The fact that he's our football coach is on the field talking to the president of the United States, it's still a pretty interesting deal, um, regardless.
• 52:05
  SPEAKER_00: So he he he was uh a really smart guy, and and and you look at what he's done in and for the game of football, not just college football, because you see some of his concepts in the NFL now.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um I mean, look at guys, you know, probably the most popular quarterback in the NFL right now is probably Patrick Mahomes.
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that that's that's a Mike Leach guy.
• 52:39
  SPEAKER_00: And so it it just what he did for the game of college football, especially for Mississippi State, being on his staff.
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the other one that was funny one time.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I actually I guess this would have been um in 20.
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, in fact it was.
• 53:00
  SPEAKER_00: It was right before the first game.
• 53:02
  SPEAKER_00: I actually, you know, we we were getting tested for COVID, gosh, you know, 15 times a week, it felt like.
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_00: I actually got COVID right before the season.
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like I was gonna, that was back when you had to quarantine for 10 days and all this mess.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I actually, my first day back in the building was Friday before the first game on Saturday.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_00: So obviously I missed several staff meetings.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we were kind of trying to keep it quiet because back then, you know, we weren't being disciplined, so we just weren't necessarily telling everybody when somebody had COVID.
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_00: I just was not in the building for a week and a half.
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's so obviously I'm not sitting at the table during staff meetings.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_00: And so finally, about the third staff meeting that I'd missed, Coach Leach is like, Well, I mean, where's Jay?
• 53:46
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't seen Jay in a while.
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_00: And so Dave Emric, who was his chief of staff, said, uh, I he just he has some stuff he's not here.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, but where is he?
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, why is he where is he?
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_00: Dave's like, uh, coach, it's fine.
• 53:59
  SPEAKER_00: He's just, you know, he's not here right now.
• 54:01
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I know, but where, I mean, does he have COVID?
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_00: And Dave said, Yep, coach, he he does have COVID.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, did he get it at Rick's?
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, like, like I was some big Rick's attendee.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I at the time I probably had not been to Rick's in 15 years.
• 54:18
  SPEAKER_00: But that's hilarious.
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_00: Coach Leach thought that or wondered uh inquisitively about did I get COVID at Riggs?
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so Coach, in in heaven we miss you, I did not get COVID at Riggs.
• 54:30
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know where I got it, but it wasn't Riggs.
• 54:32
  SPEAKER_03: So oh my goodness, Jay.
• 54:35
  SPEAKER_03: That uh I can't imagine uh uh dealing with Coach Leach every day was I bet it was a different, different, different every day was uh was something different.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and he he his wife Sharon and then was was awesome or is awesome, and then Cody, uh his son, of course he got some daughters I didn't know as well.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_00: Cody was on staff um uh as a GA and then a fellow for a while.
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_00: And Cody's down in Louisiana coaching now.
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but but I I really enjoyed getting to know Cody and his family a little bit.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, if they they were the whole family, special family.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_00: Coach Leach was a was a special person.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I obviously I don't have the history with him that that some of his assistants did.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_00: That of all the staffs I've ever been a part of, which again was Dan, Joe, and Mike, and then Zach to a degree, although I'd move over to administration, but that that staff, I've never from Dave Emmerich, Brittany Thackeray, the on-field coaches, that staff was the closest staff I I've ever I've ever seen in athletics.
• 55:39
  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_03: That's awesome.
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_03: Well, well, Jay, uh, I can't think of anything else unless you want to add.
• 55:45
  SPEAKER_03: Just uh um everybody uh get back to Davis Wade, just talk about that.
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_03: We we need people, I know it's all corn, like we just said, no disrespect to him.
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_03: It should be a win, but we need to pack Davis Wade.
• 55:56
  SPEAKER_03: These these players feed off the fans, obviously, just like last week.
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_03: We need we need that emotions and energy, even this weekend.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_03: What did you say?
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, look, we you know, we don't we we we want to be the team and we want to be the place, we want to be the environment that when you because here's the deal you know, 25 years ago, this game wouldn't have been on TV, right?
• 56:17
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this it you would not have watched this anywhere.
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_00: But now every game's on TV.
• 56:22
  SPEAKER_00: You might be on the the plus once a season, but every game's on TV.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_00: And so I think it's another opportunity.
• 56:32
  SPEAKER_00: You only get 12 of them total, you only get six or seven, depending upon the situation of those at home.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_00: This is one of those seven opportunities to show the world what type of stadium we have, energy we have, environment we have, fans we have.
• 56:52
  SPEAKER_00: And so I think that it's a great, another great opportunity.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_00: You got a big time fun signature win against a ranked opponent.
• 57:01
  SPEAKER_00: But I think it's a great opportunity to show college football that that you know, we talk about in Coach Lee, excuse me, Coach Levy, we talked about the Starbucks versus everybody, right?
• 57:12
  SPEAKER_00: Which I love.
• 57:13
  SPEAKER_00: And that's always really been our mentality at Mississippi State forever.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_00: Our mentality's always been we're the blue-collar, hard worker, roll up our sleeves, fight you in a phone booth.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's always been Mississippi State, especially in football.
• 57:31
  SPEAKER_00: And that's a good thing.
• 57:32
  SPEAKER_00: Strawbull versus everybody might just be a cool way to characterize it, but this is a great opportunity, despite the opponent, to show college football this is what our new standard is, not only of play, but of of entertainment, of fans, and of environment.
• 57:55
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_03: I think all the Arizona State people and uh Kenny Dillingham, even all those comments that went through last week, I think they they realize that, hey, we got it going on here at Start One.
• 58:06
  SPEAKER_03: That's not just a place that doesn't have hotels or restaurants.
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_03: We're thriving in that environment at that game the other night.
• 58:12
  SPEAKER_03: They'll never forget that, I don't think, for the rest of their lives.
• 58:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I I don't think there's any question about that.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_00: I I would be shocked if they play in a louder environment this season.
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_03: Well, Jay, I I don't have anything else.
• 58:24
  SPEAKER_03: I know you're a busy man.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_03: And uh uh what what you got uh for those listening, if they want to uh tune in to you this weekend, you just told me beforehand you got start by uh East Mississippi and Mississippi State this weekend, right?
• 58:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so we're East Mississippi live stream and radio.
• 58:37
  SPEAKER_00: WSCA has radio.
• 58:39
  SPEAKER_00: The live stream is through the EMCC Athletics website.
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_00: Start behind, I think, is SHSjackets.com or the Roku app or Apple TV app, and then obviously Mississippi State on Saturday on the uh Learfield Bulldog Network.
• 58:53
  SPEAKER_03: So awesome.
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_03: All right, Jay.
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_03: Well have a great day.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for joining us, and uh hopefully we'll we'll talk again and and uh and and get another win this weekend.
• 59:02
  SPEAKER_00: All right, Jock Talk.
• 59:03
  SPEAKER_00: I enjoyed it, buddy.
• 59:04
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, Jay.
• 59:05
  SPEAKER_00: All right, bye.
• 59:05
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, man.
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_03: Hey guys, this is Johnny again.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_03: Uh back.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_03: I wanted to mention that we are in the final week of the pet mayor election.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_03: If you've been following me, you know all about it, and you heard about it last week on the podcast.
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_03: But Natty, my dog, is running for pet mayor of Starville.
• 59:25
  SPEAKER_03: So the way that works is in the pet mayor gets to serve for two years and they go around town at ribbon cuttings with the real mayor and just kind of gets to represent Starble in a fun way as being the pet mayor.
• 59:39
  SPEAKER_03: And the best part of it is the proceeds go to the Octavia County Humane Society.
• 59:44
  SPEAKER_03: As we had our guest on last week, Ryan from the Humane Society, talk about uh the dog paddle, which I went to, by the way, with Natty uh last weekend.
• 59:53
  SPEAKER_03: Last Saturday morning, I took Natty and she had never swam before.
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_03: So I jumped in, she jumped in right after me.
• 1:00:00
  SPEAKER_03: She did not like the water, she actually hated it.
• 1:00:03
  SPEAKER_03: She uh swam all the way over to the wall and just stayed on the wall and would not leave the wall the rest of the time.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_03: I tried to entice her by throwing a tennis ball to go get it, swim over there to it.
• 1:00:14
  SPEAKER_03: Nope, she was not leaving that wall.
• 1:00:16
  SPEAKER_03: So uh it's funny, Bo, my previous dog, we had been going to this event for years, and he was not a big swimmer as well.
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_03: But that last year he went, he swam and swam and didn't want to get out of the pool.
• 1:00:27
  SPEAKER_03: And maybe he thought, maybe he knew that was gonna be his last one.
• 1:00:30
  SPEAKER_03: So uh, but I had taken Bo out to the lake at Brinan Creek and got him used to swimming.
• 1:00:35
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so maybe that's why he liked it.
• 1:00:37
  SPEAKER_03: So hopefully I can work with Natty and get her out of the lake at Brinan Creek this year and next year when the pool party comes around, the dog paddles can be able to swim and like it.
• 1:00:45
  SPEAKER_03: But uh that's a big fundraiser, as you know, he listened last week to the Humane Society.
• 1:00:50
  SPEAKER_03: So um, but the pet pet mayor election is the same thing, the money.
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_03: It's five dollars to vote, and every vote you cast goes strictly directly to Dr.
• 1:01:02
  SPEAKER_03: Belcani Humane Society.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_03: And as we know, the Humane Society is um takes in pets and it's just a great organization.
• 1:01:09
  SPEAKER_03: And uh so you're doing a good cause.
• 1:01:12
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you know, we say that with the coffee at JohnnyPacker.net.
• 1:01:14
  SPEAKER_03: When you buy a bag of coffee, it goes to support people who suffer from acidic fiber like myself.
• 1:01:19
  SPEAKER_03: Well, in this case, when you go and vote for Daddy, my dog, uh, then that vote, that five dollars that you spend on that vote goes to the Humane Society.
• 1:01:28
  SPEAKER_03: So um go to uh I think it's starvable.org is the website, or just go to Google, type in Starval Pet Mayor, and you'll you'll click on the link and then you'll look and there'll there are five dogs up for pet mayor.
• 1:01:40
  SPEAKER_03: Scroll down until you see Natty Whalen Packer.
• 1:01:43
  SPEAKER_03: There's a picture of her as a cute little puppy, and then there's a little blank right there that says cast your vote, how many votes would you like?
• 1:01:50
  SPEAKER_03: And like I said, it's five dollars.
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_03: Put in the number of votes you like.
• 1:01:53
  SPEAKER_03: Hopefully you'll put in a bunch.
• 1:01:55
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, if you put in four, that's 20 bucks, so that's that's reasonable.
• 1:01:58
  SPEAKER_03: Uh cast your votes by going, put your next at the bottom, then they'll pull up and put your credit card info in, and boom, select, and you're in.
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_03: And they get that money.
• 1:02:07
  SPEAKER_03: And we'll we'll be getting a uh results total tomorrow, Friday.
• 1:02:11
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I guess when you're listening to this podcast today sometime, we'll get a results today and Sunday.
• 1:02:16
  SPEAKER_03: And Sunday will be our final results that we know because Monday at 7 p.m.
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_03: 7 p.m.
• 1:02:21
  SPEAKER_03: Monday, September 15th is the cutoff.
• 1:02:24
  SPEAKER_03: It's the last time to vote for my sweet natty girls.
• 1:02:27
  SPEAKER_03: So um you have till Monday at 7 p.m.
• 1:02:30
  SPEAKER_03: to vote.
• 1:02:30
  SPEAKER_03: So I can encourage you to do what I just said.
• 1:02:32
  SPEAKER_03: Google Starful Pet Mayor, scroll down, Natty Whalen Packer, put in her vote, goes the money goes to the Humane Society, or helping out a good cause.
• 1:02:41
  SPEAKER_03: And we were extremely appreciated.
• 1:02:43
  SPEAKER_03: And hopefully Natty will represent Starville, Mississippi in a great way, like I know she will.
• 1:02:48
  SPEAKER_03: She's a happy dog, and and she is trained.
• 1:02:51
  SPEAKER_03: She's been uh trained all summer and she is ready to go.
• 1:02:55
  SPEAKER_03: She heals on command.
• 1:02:57
  SPEAKER_03: She's a perfect dog.
• 1:02:58
  SPEAKER_03: So she would represent the city in a great way.
• 1:03:01
  SPEAKER_03: And I really look forward to hopefully winning this thing.
• 1:03:04
  SPEAKER_03: So, but I can't do it without y'all's help.
• 1:03:05
  SPEAKER_03: So, just like with a coffee, with us TF's, we need y'all's help.
• 1:03:09
  SPEAKER_03: Just like this, we need uh your votes, need your votes for Natty Girl.
• 1:03:13
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, like I said, it helps the Hockey Ball Humane Society.
• 1:03:16
  SPEAKER_03: So, thank y'all so much.
• 1:03:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh have a great, great day and great week.
• 1:03:20
  SPEAKER_03: And we'll cheer you on the Bullhawks at Victory, and we'll be back here next week to talk.
• 1:03:25
  SPEAKER_03: Until then, take care and just keep living.
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.