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The Story Behind One of the SEC’s Most Talked-About Voices · Tigs Bits Podcast

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  I y'all, today's guest is someone I've been following for
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  a long time. And funny enough, for the
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  longest time I thought he was Chris Phillips.
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  That was the catcher for LSU in the early 2000s.
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  Turns out totally different dude.
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  But he's probably more famous in the SEC these days anyhow.
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  Actually met him at a tailgate during the LSU Tennessee
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  baseball series. He rolled up with Blake Ruffino
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  from AYS, tried Crawfish for the first time and we've been
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  chatting ever since. I knew then that this guy is
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  legit and a cool dude and I just wanted to have him on the show.
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  I think he is going to be the perfect voice for our college
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  football preview show. I can't think of anyone any
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  better whatsoever. He's the founder and the voice
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  behind SEC Unfiltered, one of the most opinionated, consistent
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  and flat out entertaining brands in college sports media today.
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  And we're going to get his full story from how he built it, the
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  grind behind the growth, the rewards and the challenges.
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  And then of course, we're going to break down this wild SEC
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  football season that is coming ahead.
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  But before we dive in, if you're watching this on YouTube, if
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  you're listening on Spotify or Apple podcast, hit that like
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  button, follow, share it. Let's keep this thing rocking
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  and rolling. Let's get into it, man.
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  Chris, thank you so much for coming on and talking a little
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  ball and just kind of letting everybody get to know you a
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  little bit better. Just even outside of sports.
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  How are you, brother? Yeah, what's going on, man?
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  I'm doing well. I appreciate you having me.
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  It's exciting times. You and I got to pass the time
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  in a fun way. Following LSU obviously through
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  the post season and into Omaha in the College World Series and
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  got to hang out and party with all the LSU fan base really for
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  quite a while watching the Tigers in the national
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  championship. So yeah, it was a fun summer
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  man. But obviously the calendar, once
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  we get to about July 4th and we get past that, that's when I
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  really flip into football mode. And you know, it never cuts off.
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  But that's when you really feel like you can kind of feel the
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  winds changing like, hey, it's just around the corner.
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  We get to media days and then it's really on, right?
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  We know fall camps around the corner and and kick off.
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  See if you know it. Exactly, man, it's it's hard to
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  believe that it is here because it felt like for months you
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  thank God for LSU baseball on my end and for the SEC for that
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  matter, that the College World Series happened and that that
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  extended the fandom, if you will, from from for everybody to
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  keep going to where we just have about a month and a half before
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  everything is here. And then now here we are boot
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  has hit leather. They are hitting each other.
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  People are falling out. All of the good stuff that
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  starts to happen. Coaches are on the hot seat.
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  It's fun. This is like.
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  Yeah, people, people are freaking out over 15 second
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  practice clips. They're freaking out over every
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  little. But, you know, I've actually
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  liked it, man. I mean, I think this was, you
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  know, we're all talking about the season.
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  As we look back, though, this was from my vantage point, one
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  of the most unique offseasons I've ever experienced is not
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  just a fan of the sport, but you know, obviously we have a unique
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  vantage point doing what we do in content and seeing numbers
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  and analytics. And, you know, I think this was
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  the first time we really truly did have an offseason in college
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  football because of, you know, the offseason.
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  Let's call it for what it is, man.
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  It's it's deplorable in a lot of ways.
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  Like it gets nauseating talking about portal and NIL and
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  conference realignment, expansion and playoff.
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  And it just we've never talked about football, the game itself
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  less than we do now in the offseason.
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  We we've never spent less time talking about.
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  That's why like spring football felt so everybody was just so
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  apathetic about it. The spring games, you know, I
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  went to to Alabama spring game and it was like a joke.
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  I mean, it was just nobody was there.
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  Nobody really cared. It's, you know, it's whatever.
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  So but I kind of liked it. Everybody was so invested into
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  basketball and baseball because of that.
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  And it's it's made the offseason for football almost feel shorter
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  because we actually invested all of ourselves into baseball.
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  Before you know it, you're like, oh, man, it's it's July.
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  Like we got a lot of for us, we got a lot of content to get out
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  and a lot of stuff we want to do.
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  And so, yeah, an interesting offseason, no doubt.
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  But I'm like I said, man, I'm just really glad like we can see
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  the light at the end of the tunnel.
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  We're talking about actual football on the field.
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  Like you mentioned, it's set up for people are on the edge of
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  their seats, no doubt across the league.
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  No doubt dude, no doubt. Well, let's rewind it for a
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  minute and we'll jump into all of that and breakdown what you
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  think's going to happen, what you've been seeing and and all
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  of that fun stuff. But let's go back to when you
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  were growing up. Were you always obsessed with
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  SEC football? Yeah, so the origin story for
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  me, I'm born and raised from the state of South Carolina.
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  Parents still live there, family still lives there.
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  North Augusta, shout out to them.
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  Right across the river from the Augusta, GA, where the Masters
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  is, for those that are wondering.
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  But yeah, born and raised in South Carolina.
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  It was my grandfather that really got me into it.
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  I was probably 11 or 12 when it really quit clicked.
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  You know, I grew up playing sports, golf and baseball, the
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  two primaries. So I was focused on that.
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  You know, I didn't really grow up in a family that like went to
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  games every week or anything like that.
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  My grandfather again, was was die hard, very heavily invested
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  and he was a South Carolina fan. So I was born and raised a fan
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  of the Gamecocks and I was about 12 years old.
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  It was like end of O2, beginning of O3 where it like really, I
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  mean, I had watched before, but you know, there comes that
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  moment when it really clicks of like how big this is, how life
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  or death this is. And yeah, I just, I just ate it
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  up, man. I mean, again, I was a sports
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  kid, you know, I played sports, I loved sports and it just so it
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  was very easy for me to gravitate towards it and and
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  become obsessed with it. And I mean, I did.
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  I mean, I, you know, obviously loved baseball because I played
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  it. Who doesn't love college
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  football? I absolutely loved football from
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  the jump. I played that through middle
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  school, but loved it as a fan, obviously.
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  And so, yeah, once it gets in your blood, man, it's stuck
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  forever. And that was that was kind of.
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  And I mean, I always too, like I was born and raised a South
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  Carolina fan, but I just I loved college football as a whole.
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  I mean, it's just intoxicating. Like, I remember growing up and
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  watching the you know, when when I remember the whole Nick Saban
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  going to Alabama thing. I remember watching USC, Texas
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  in 2005. Like I played the NCAA video
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  game, like, you know, there were just so many moments like that
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  in my child. I remember watching Larry
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  Fitzgerald at it, like some of these legends, right?
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  So definitely loved the game early on.
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  And that just kind of led to man, his life progressed.
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  You know, I went to Newberry College in Newberry, SC played
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  baseball there, a little D2 school.
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  And so I continue to be a sports guy.
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  And, you know, after that, we all in your 20s, you're just
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  trying to figure out, you know, what's the next step?
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  Who am I and where am I going? What's what's my purpose or my
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  calling or, or what have you? What's my role in society gonna
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  be? And, you know, struggle with
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  that for a little bit. Got in the corporate world, had
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  to do the whole nine to five thing and was very unfulfilled,
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  unhappy admittedly, and didn't love it, right?
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  Cuz you go from pursuing this thing that was baseball for me
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  and waking up every day and your whole life is centered around
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  pursuing something you're passionate about and it is a
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  dream of yours. And to go from that to what felt
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  like to me, just going through the motions, it just, it just
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  didn't, you didn't fulfill me. You know what I mean?
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  It just it, it was, I couldn't accept that as like this is my
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  destiny, this is my path. So, you know, my grandfather was
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  an entrepreneur. My dad majored in business and
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  worked for him for a while. It's like I knew I wanted to be
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  an entrepreneur, just didn't know what it was.
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  And lo and behold, it was just kind of under my nose the whole
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  time. You know, I was AI was a
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  consumer first. I mean, dude, I remember
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  listening, I'm probably dating myself for some people that are
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  listening, but like I remember listening to podcasts where they
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  really started to pop off in like the early twenty 10s.
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  I mean, I was on social media really early back in like O8O9,
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  like Twitter, you know, Facebook, everything.
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  Like I, I, I found it fascinating the whole
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  self-expression side of things like knew I wanted to be in
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  sports somehow cuz I did love talking about it.
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  Obviously. I mean, I'm a yapper.
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  I can ramble and ramble about it, you know, love the IT, it's
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  crazy. I'll give you kind of a side
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  note story, which is so funny. Just goes to show how how funny
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  life is. I remember being in high school
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  just making this for my grandfather.
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  I made like a but keys to the game and key players I made
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  like, I don't know, if you were in school, you'd make like
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  pamphlets. I made a pamphlet about a game,
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  a certain game that South Carolina was playing and I had
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  like key players, keys to the game.
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  It just, it makes you laugh because I'm like, I still do
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  that stuff like that, right? Exactly, that's what I was
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  thinking. I was like.
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  Yeah, just like doing it a while now.
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  Yeah, it just like follows you like it's, it's just like
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  ingrained in you. So, but anyways, just to shorten
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  up a very, very, very long story, I was a consumer first.
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  You know, I, I wanted to, I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur,
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  but as you know, man, like in the podcast game, the media
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  game, it's just very hard to start.
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  I think that's emotional struggle.
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  And thankfully I stumbled across at entity December of 2016
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  called Armchair All Americans. They were a smaller entity, but
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  they had like team pages and they were looking for a South
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  Carolina contributor. And so I jumped on with them
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  January 2017 and just, and it was, I mean, dude, we started
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  from zero, literally zero across the board, but I didn't care.
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  It gave me an outlet to do something I really, really
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  enjoyed. And, and then started doing the
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  podcast side of things April of 2017 under that same entity.
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  And dude, from there on, man, I just, I just ran with it.
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  I took it and ran with it. November of 2018, I got the LLCI
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  saw the vision very, very early August of 2019.
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  That quickly I moved to Columbia, SC full time to pursue
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  it full time From there grew scaled, took a lot of risks, had
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  a lot of successes, learned a lot of lessons along the way.
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  And I always had in the back of my mind when I started, you
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  know, I have entrepreneurial goals, right?
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  So I I just knew that hey, like covering one team is great, but
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  to have the opportunity to go where I want to go listen, like
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  you start doing it. Is it all about the views?
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  Is it all about the numbers? Is it all about the money?
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  No, but if you're going to bust your rear end as hard as we do
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  on a day in, day out basis, like we want to, I want to maximize
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  every ounce of what I've got in me.
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  I want to achieve everything I can.
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  So I always had that idea of doing it and the stars sort of
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  aligned and I saw the opportunity and made the
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  decision and we rebranded and relaunched in December of 2023
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  to SEC unfiltered. So you know, last year, it's
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  crazy to think it was our first full year.
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  And so, I mean, I still look at it, it's, it's interesting, man,
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  because it's like SEC unfiltered is still in its infancy.
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  When you really think about it, even with our immense growth and
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  again, the successes we've had, because I mean, the moment that
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  we did that rebrand and you know, it, it was just a game
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  changer. It's the best decision I ever
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  made in my entire life. I mean, we've, the way we've
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  scaled what I mean, just in the, and here's the thing too, man,
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  it's not even just that, but like the opportunities it's
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  given me from a standpoint I'm, I'm having more fun than I've
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  ever had before. I've, I've made the greatest
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  relationships I ever had in my entire life.
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  It's just open the door to so many opportunities.
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  And I've met so many awesome people.
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  I've seen so many awesome places, obviously, that I
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  wouldn't have gotten to see before, you know, with the tour
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  last year. And then, I mean, heck, even,
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  you know, last year was the first time I went to Omaha.
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  This year was the first time I was there for the full 2 weeks.
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  So like, you know, we'll, we'll do the tour again.
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  It's, it's, you know, we're, I mean, just another side note,
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  like we're all over the latest SEC football documentary on
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  Netflix. Like, I don't think that would
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  have probably ever happened either.
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  So yeah, it's cool, man. The journey's been been really
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  wild. And again, I'm, I'm obviously
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  leaving out a bunch of key parts there because it's hard to
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  summarize a what 8 year journey in like 5 minutes.
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  But Nah, man, it's been, it's, it's been such a blessing and
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  the most rewarding journey of my entire life and really grateful
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  where we are, but really excited where we're going.
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  Well brother, I mean you answered like 6 of my questions
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  that I had coming up right in there.
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  That's about the most concise origin story answer that I've
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  ever had on this show, so great job.
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  I don't think that was the first time you've told that.
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  No, I've been asked before I, you know, it's I will say this
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  too. The one thing I would say on
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  that journey is because of the follow up question I get a lot
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  is about my fandom and I, I won't go too deep into detail,
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  but I'll just say this. When, when you go throughout the
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  when you go throughout the journey, and cuz I mean,
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  everybody who watches us knows like I'm as unbiased as it gets
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  and I really truly am like I have no, I have no biases at
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  all. Except for the SEC except.
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  For the SEC of course. If it's an SEC team playing
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  versus any other conference, you're all in on that team.
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  I would just say that when you, when you again, this is not to
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  get into too great a detail and, and many people probably won't
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  understand, but some people will.
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  When you go throughout the journey and you deal with things
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  on a business scope, and especially when, and you
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  probably know this, when you're dealing with one team, one
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  university, you find out really quickly.
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  There is a separation between business and fandom.
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  And so it it, it, it'll put things in perspective really
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  quickly. So admittedly, you know, when I
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  made that transition, like I'm, I'm not some like closet South
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  Carolina Homer that's like actually hates everybody in the
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  SEC. I'm, I'm truly, truly, genuinely
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  as unbiased as it gets. I, I just, I just want the SEC
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  to do well. And you know, I kind of, I take
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  the mantra, ma'am, you show us love, We'll show you love, which
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  is why people are accusing me of being an LSU fan, for example.
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  But I'm like, hey, we go down there and we hang out with LSU
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  people. I mean, they, they shower us
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  with love and they show us a great time.
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  And so, yeah, like, I'm going to rock an LSU shirt at the
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  college. Sure, number one.
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  Number one, they're not even playing another SEC team at #2 I
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  mean, dude, like, I mean, they, they took care of us, the old 2.
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  Weeks. Yeah, I mean, that's the way it
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  works. Yeah, we, we show, you know, I
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  got love for every school in the SEC.
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  We show love to people who show us love.
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  And, and again, man, it's, it's been the most rewarding thing
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  because I, I think the mistake people make, or at least, you
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  know, again, I'm speaking from probably the most unique vantage
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  point you're going to hear. But what I love so much about
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  that, being unbiased is like when I go on the tour, I'm not
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  comparing any place to another place.
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  You can just go and appreciate all of them for what they are.
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  Like, there's no like, I think that's a good way to do it.
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  Like, like, for example, love LSU fans to death.
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  They can't go to Tuscaloosa and tell me how great it is.
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  Like they just, they just, they, they, they physically can't like
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  they just, they cannot do that. A Tennessee fan can't go to
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  Athens and admit how awesome it is.
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  Correct. You know what I mean?
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  Like it's just so like it, it's it's really nice and rewarding
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  to be able to kind of the fandom side is great.
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  Don't get me wrong. That's how we all get into it.
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  But if you can just like take a step back and just appreciate
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  the game for what it is and the traditions and the the.
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  Pageantry. Yeah, just.
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  Everything that makes college football special, man, an SEC
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  football special. It's it, it's incredible.
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  So like I said, man, I'm, I'm having, I'm having the most fun
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  I've ever had in my entire career.
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  I'm, I'm more fulfilled than I've ever been in my entire
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  career. I'm surrounded by great team of
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  folks as well that are, that are working with me.
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  And it's just, it's a blessing, dude.
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  So I'm, I'm excited for what's to come, man.
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  Because that's The funny thing about the journey is it's, you
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  know, you can only plan so much, but there's stuff that happens
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  along the way that you just didn't even see coming.
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  It's a greater blessing than you could ever dreamed of.
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  That's part of the fun of it too, is and and I wanted to to
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  get there kind of like with what is your schedule like for that?
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  Like this this fall coming up. I know you're going to be going
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  to some different campuses and going to some different games,
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  but do you kind of keep the back end open a little bit for play,
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  you know, potential playoff matchups or this?
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  Yeah, it's a tent like so. I've got a tentative schedule
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  right now for the entire season, but you'll notice I only drop
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  them week by week. Like I feel really good about
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  where we're going the first like 3 or 4 weeks of the season,
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  right? Because those are like it take
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  just something outrageous for like you know, for example, I'll
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  just go and play spoiler. I'm pretty confident Georgia
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  Bama still going to be a pretty good game by week 4, you know
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  what I mean? So I would think so, you know
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  that that's a pretty good opportunity for, you know, an
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  Athens trip. So we're going to obviously
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  Texas, Ohio State week one. That's that's a given.
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  You are going to that. Going to that one, I thought
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  about LSU, Clemson, man. And I don't get me wrong, I
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  think there's a good chance it could end up being a better
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  game, but I've never been to the shoe before.
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  I've been to Clemson enough times.
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  And I also thought about this, admittedly, I was like, hey, if
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  I I follow LSU down to Clemson, that they really are so going to
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  start thinking I'm an LSU fan. That's true.
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  You know so. It really Maybe he is biased.
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  He's just hung out with them for the last several.
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  Months. Yeah, Yeah, exactly.
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  So I yeah, never seen this. Yeah.
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  Never seen the shoe. And it's, it's a it's a College
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  Football Playoff rematch, obviously.
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  But yes, to answer your question, yeah.
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  I mean, I've got a tentative schedule because you want to
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  have somewhat of a rough idea where you might.
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  Because here's the biggest part about the planning of it.
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  I don't repeat anywhere. So once I go to like Death
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  Valley, I'm I won't go back, you know, like I won't go back to
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  Baton Rouge. Like for example, last year I
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  went to LSU, Ole Miss rushed the field, great game.
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  Couple weeks later, Bama comes to town and I got people being
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  like, you need to come back down to Baton Rouge.
• 17:20
  Like you're you're, you're good juju.
• 17:22
  Like come on. And I'm like, I'm not going to
• 17:24
  repeat. Plus that weekend I went to Ole
• 17:26
  Miss Georgia, and it worked out pretty well.
• 17:29
  But yeah, so we, yeah, I, I keep a lot of flexibility in the
• 17:32
  schedule because you make a good point.
• 17:33
  Like by like week 9 or 10, you know, you never know, some games
• 17:38
  you thought were going to be good maybe.
• 17:39
  Yeah. And some games you didn't know
• 17:40
  were going to be so good got a lot more on the line than you
• 17:43
  expect. So I, I don't know that I, you
• 17:45
  know, some weeks I do go to the best game of the week, but I, I
• 17:48
  try to go to a really, really intriguing game every single
• 17:52
  week. And there's only four places I
• 17:53
  haven't been to this point, Mizzou, Oklahoma, Kentucky and
• 17:57
  Mississippi State. I feel really good.
• 18:00
  I'm going to get to Mizzou. I really want to get to Como.
• 18:03
  I can tell you 110% I'm getting to Norman.
• 18:05
  So wink wink, think week. 2. And Kentucky, I'm probably going
• 18:11
  to save for basketball season because I don't think they're
• 18:13
  going to be very good. And Mississippi State that might
• 18:16
  be a save for baseball season, but I'm, I'm, I'm thinking may
• 18:20
  I, I don't know. I it's probably going to be a
• 18:22
  save for baseball season. I you know, I hate it, but.
• 18:26
  It's. Just tough, tough to go watch
• 18:27
  Jeff Levy and the boys right now.
• 18:29
  So yeah, yeah, it's going to be struggling.
• 18:31
  Yeah. It's going to be a great season,
• 18:32
  man. I'm I'm stoked.
• 18:33
  It'll be 15 straight weeks again.
• 18:34
  We'll I say, we'll, I say we'll end it in Atlanta at the SEC
• 18:38
  title. But the thing that's going to be
• 18:41
  different about this season, the SEC Unfiltered tour is going to
• 18:44
  be on steroids because I'm planning on, I'm planning on at
• 18:48
  least going to one of those. I mean, I, I would assume
• 18:50
  somebody, I would hope somebody's going to host a home
• 18:53
  playoff game from the SEC. We will be at that one.
• 18:57
  And I'm also planning on going to one of these playoff games.
• 18:59
  And it's like a neutral site. So like we didn't do that last
• 19:01
  year. I am planning on the on the tour
• 19:03
  going beyond just the regular season in the SEC title and you
• 19:08
  know, hopefully it's ending in the national championship.
• 19:10
  Man, I, you know, I'd love to, I've never been to a natty
• 19:12
  obviously, and, but certainly would be really cool for us, a
• 19:16
  cool way to end it, but got to get there.
• 19:18
  So that's, it's going to be a fun season, man.
• 19:20
  And I, I can tell you this though, Baton Rouge is, is on
• 19:23
  the schedule. It will not come off the
• 19:25
  schedule. Baton Rouge will be a yearly
• 19:27
  visit for me. And I'll tell you just because
• 19:29
  we're on this show, the the game I'm targeting is the LSU A&M
• 19:33
  game. So like I said, that one, that
• 19:36
  one like I feel pretty confident that that's still going to be a
• 19:40
  good game at that point, I'd like to.
• 19:42
  Think so? It could be a very.
• 19:44
  Meaningful game, even if even if A&M is not great, as long as LSU
• 19:49
  is, you know what I mean? Like it's just Baton Rouge is a
• 19:51
  non negotiable for me. I have to get to everything.
• 19:54
  I just I will not go through a football season, maybe never
• 19:58
  again, where I don't go to Baton Rouge at some.
• 20:00
  Point Well, I think it would be a mistake if you didn't come to
• 20:03
  Baton Rouge at least once per season because you know, as you
• 20:06
  know, it's a fun, fun, fun. I got to.
• 20:09
  Run it back at that bingo bus man.
• 20:11
  I miss those those frozen vodka slushies.
• 20:13
  I miss the I miss the the liquor dispenser on the bus.
• 20:18
  I I miss it man. I miss Baton Rouge.
• 20:19
  I dude I was on with Mikey Matuk and and those guys on his.
• 20:24
  Show might be up on. Friday and I, I, I was like,
• 20:26
  man, I really miss you guys, man.
• 20:27
  So I don't we we miss you. Yeah, Baton Rouge gets in your
• 20:32
  blood and it's it's impossible to shake, man.
• 20:34
  It's just, it's unlike anywhere else.
• 20:36
  I tell you what I do want to do. On a side note, by the way,
• 20:41
  never really spent any time in New Orleans, so I'd like to.
• 20:44
  Go Yeah, dude. Throw that, I've never done the
• 20:46
  Bourbon Street thing. So you've not okay?
• 20:49
  Never will anybody listen to this.
• 20:51
  I think we all need to go and meet.
• 20:54
  I don't know, Billy. Down in NOLA.
• 20:56
  Yeah. I don't know if that's like
• 20:56
  during a football season thing or we should save that for like
• 21:00
  Mardi Gras and baseball season, but yeah, I think you should do
• 21:03
  that at some point. Yeah.
• 21:04
  So just why not vote? Why not vote?
• 21:07
  But yeah, you make a good point. A lot of people that will come
• 21:10
  in, especially from opposing teams and stuff, they'll go to
• 21:13
  New Orleans and then they'll drive up on game day to go to
• 21:15
  the game and then go bats to New Orleans.
• 21:18
  Scary play right there, because. I think that's a that's a scary
• 21:21
  play. You got to have a driver #1.
• 21:23
  You know, I'll tell you this, last season I didn't go to New
• 21:26
  Orleans, but I tell you last season I went to obviously Baton
• 21:29
  Rouge for LSU, Ole Miss, and I'd never been to Baton Rouge
• 21:32
  before. That was your first Death Valley
• 21:35
  experience. It was, it was a damn good one.
• 21:37
  I mean, dude, think about this. That was my first Death Valley
• 21:39
  experience. And then my first Alex Box
• 21:41
  experience was Bear Jones walk off against Tennessee on Friday
• 21:44
  night. Yeah, I'm like this place, we
• 21:46
  talk about voodoo. I was like, this place is just
• 21:49
  dripping with voodoo. But yeah, I got down there, you
• 21:53
  know, last fall and and my sister was actually living down
• 21:56
  there at the time. And I got a buddy who I'll
• 21:58
  probably end up staying with again who lives down there.
• 22:01
  Got got in on Thursday, had a low key night went to I believe
• 22:03
  it's Ben 77. Shout out to them.
• 22:06
  Really good restaurant. Right across the street from me,
• 22:08
  brother. Yeah, literally went 500 yards
• 22:11
  from me. Yeah, went there for dinner on
• 22:12
  Thursday night, and then Friday is when the real shenanigans
• 22:15
  began. And I mean, dude, I hit the
• 22:18
  spots, went to Ivar's, went to Uncle Earl's, ended up at
• 22:21
  Laberge Casino. My friend, my friend, I'm not
• 22:26
  joking. I did not end up going to sleep
• 22:28
  until like 8:00 AM on game day, on game day.
• 22:33
  So I get, I get home, I get back to where I'm staying, my, my
• 22:37
  sister and, and you know, everybody I'm staying with, like
• 22:41
  they're all getting ready to go to the tailgate.
• 22:44
  They're getting ready. I'm like, and I walk in, I'm
• 22:46
  like, I got to take a quick nap. So I, I literally pass out for
• 22:52
  like 2 hours, wake up at like 10:30 and I'm like, OK, like we,
• 22:57
  we got to go. I can't, can't sleep through the
• 22:58
  day. Like we're here on a mission.
• 23:00
  So I, I went, I went to the tailgate, did the whole
• 23:03
  festivities, did the game off like 2 1/2 hours of sleep.
• 23:07
  So I, I was, I was welcomed to Baton Rouge and yeah, I was in,
• 23:11
  I was in rare form. So that's how you do it.
• 23:13
  I mean, that's that's how you're supposed to do it.
• 23:15
  Yeah, next football or this football season, I I will not be
• 23:19
  at Laberge at those wee hours of the night.
• 23:21
  But but yeah, no, it was, it was a great time, man.
• 23:26
  And, and I can't wait to get back.
• 23:28
  Like I said, what's so cool was like, you know, yourself and so
• 23:30
  many others, it's cool to like go back this time around and be
• 23:33
  like, man, we have so many relationships now.
• 23:34
  Yeah, you've got a bunch of friends who got a, you've got a
• 23:36
  bunch of tailgates to come and visit.
• 23:38
  Dude. Exactly, man.
• 23:39
  We've got so many people we can go see and dude, it's going to
• 23:43
  be awesome. So I'm I'm can't wait.
• 23:45
  You mentioned the the Netflix thing.
• 23:47
  I haven't had a chance to watch it.
• 23:49
  I plan on maybe starting that tonight.
• 23:51
  You guys are are in. There Yeah there's a yeah
• 23:53
  starting really starting episode 3 there's there's a pretty good
• 23:58
  yeah. I mean I, I, I mean I'll tell
• 23:59
  you this we, we've been in talks with the producers and whatever
• 24:03
  for the last like 6 months. I mean I've, I've known, you
• 24:05
  know, or maybe not sick maybe like 3 months, but but a while
• 24:08
  right last 3-4 months. So I mean I knew they were using
• 24:11
  our content and they sent us over the final, you know, copy
• 24:15
  or whatever with all of our content I mean they do they use
• 24:17
  99 seconds of our content, whether it be video audio.
• 24:21
  So I mean, it's, yeah, it's, I mean, it's really cool, you
• 24:24
  know, like, and that's what I'm talking about is, yeah, that's
• 24:26
  what I'm talking about. It's like I said, like there's
• 24:29
  just things that happen along the journey that you just you
• 24:33
  can't plan for. I always say the joy is in the
• 24:35
  journey. And I truly do believe that, you
• 24:37
  know, luck is a real thing, but you make your own luck, I think
• 24:41
  by how hard you work and, and your attitude and, and the way
• 24:44
  you attack each and every single day.
• 24:45
  And like you run into luck, you know, when you when you bust
• 24:48
  your tail. So like that, like for example,
• 24:50
  like that type of stuff, you know, like I never could have
• 24:53
  planned like, Oh yeah, guys, let's let's make sure we really
• 24:55
  do well in this video or this this podcast today, because you
• 24:58
  know, there might be a Netflix documentary who wants to use it?
• 25:01
  Like you don't think about that. But it is a cool reminder that
• 25:06
  people are always watching. You know, I think sometimes you
• 25:09
  can lose perspective of like, because we're so attached in
• 25:12
  numbers like you and I and some of the other creators at times
• 25:15
  you like, but like it, your stuff is so much more I think
• 25:20
  high impact than you realize it is.
• 25:22
  It's so much more you don't like, you don't realize who's
• 25:25
  all out there listening. You know who, who it's who's
• 25:28
  who's engaging with it, who's interacting with it, who's
• 25:30
  coming in contact with it. So, yeah, you, you cut on that,
• 25:35
  that Netflix documentary, like I said, starting episode #3 and
• 25:38
  I'm going to go through and kind of put together a collage of all
• 25:41
  the, the spots that we've we've, that we're in because it's, you
• 25:44
  know, admittedly, I think it's, it's pretty cool.
• 25:45
  I mean, I, I've kept my clip watching it, but I'm like, this
• 25:48
  is, you know, if I showed this to five years ago me or goodness
• 25:52
  gracious, 10 years ago me, I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't have
• 25:54
  believed it, you know what I mean?
• 25:55
  So it's, it's really, really neat, man.
• 25:58
  We, we got a couple cameo spots video wise, a lot of audio.
• 26:02
  They used a lot of audio as far as like overlays on setting the
• 26:05
  scene for games. And it's just neat, man.
• 26:08
  It's, it's really, really neat. So it's like I said, I it's it's
• 26:12
  a blessing because it's a cool reminder not just to my guys,
• 26:15
  but myself as well. Like don't ever go into a piece
• 26:18
  of content. Like, I mean, it's listen, it's
• 26:20
  human nature. Like, are you fired up every
• 26:22
  single day? I mean, we all have our days
• 26:24
  where you're like, sure, all right, you know, let's but
• 26:27
  really try to keep perspective of how cool it is, what you're
• 26:30
  doing and again, how, how impactful it is what you're
• 26:33
  doing and how fortunate we are to do it.
• 26:36
  And the fact that, man, every time you cut on that mic and you
• 26:39
  cut on that camera, you have an opportunity to make an impact
• 26:41
  and, and make a splash. And you just never know.
• 26:45
  You just, you just never know how it may be who's watching and
• 26:49
  who may want to do something with it or whatever, you know
• 26:51
  what I mean? So I mean, it's, I believe in do
• 26:54
  your best as one of like the core values of life.
• 26:56
  And again, it's another example why you why you should.
• 26:59
  And it's not about just doing your best when you feel your
• 27:02
  best, It's about doing the very best you got, even on those days
• 27:05
  when if you got 80% to give, just give, give that 80%, give
• 27:09
  it all. That's it.
• 27:10
  You know what I mean? Like that's, that's what
• 27:11
  separates people is like, can you show up on the days when you
• 27:14
  don't feel like it still do your very best And that's all you can
• 27:18
  do at the end of the day. You know, if you do that, you
• 27:20
  can't hang your head or I mean, there's, there's segments of
• 27:23
  content we do that. Like, I don't, I don't feel like
• 27:25
  that was like my A+ plus effort, but I gave, I gave it all I had.
• 27:30
  And that's right. The end consumer may not even
• 27:32
  realize that, right? It's like I, I had somebody tell
• 27:34
  me like it's like the master pianist when he's playing, he'll
• 27:39
  miss a note and we won't even realize it, but he knows, you
• 27:42
  know what? I.
• 27:42
  Mean he knows it and it drives him crazy.
• 27:44
  Yeah, he just he understands it. He knows it.
• 27:46
  But like to the end consumer, they don't they don't know or
• 27:49
  realize or maybe they don't even care.
• 27:51
  So, but that's, that's what, you know, I think that's the thing
• 27:54
  that that separates the top level performers from just being
• 27:58
  average is like, it's that constant strive for perfection,
• 28:01
  even though it's, you know, we obviously know it's unattainable
• 28:04
  realistically. So it's just that it's that
• 28:06
  continuing to hone in on the craft and working on mastering
• 28:09
  your craft. That's that's really what
• 28:10
  separates you, I think. I love it, man.
• 28:12
  No, you. That's very, very well said.
• 28:14
  I can think of of times where I've made a show I didn't.
• 28:18
  I was like, I gave it. I wasn't 100% that night, but I
• 28:22
  gave it what I had. And I'm like, that sucked.
• 28:25
  And then it's the next day I get a message from somebody or
• 28:29
  something about, you know, like I, I, I'm really so happy you
• 28:32
  talked about this or that or whatever.
• 28:35
  And I'm like, wow, somebody did watch this.
• 28:38
  I just at times when I turn this on and I'm recording, I'm like,
• 28:42
  ain't nobody going to see this. And I'm like, oh wait.
• 28:45
  You, you'd be surprised, man. You, you'd be surprised.
• 28:49
  It really, it's really cool, man, the opportunity we had.
• 28:52
  And I mean, that's why I like, I love making so much content
• 28:55
  because it's like, hey, even if you have a piece of content that
• 28:59
  you feel like wanting your best, there's always the next one.
• 29:01
  You're only you got the next thing you're.
• 29:02
  Only as good as your last one. You know what?
• 29:04
  I. Mean that's exactly right.
• 29:06
  I try to attack it all like an athlete, man.
• 29:08
  I mean, I was AI, was a college athlete.
• 29:10
  And like, it's so much of the journey, whether it's
• 29:12
  entrepreneurship or, you know, media or just whatever else in
• 29:16
  life, you can relate it back to being an athlete, you know, like
• 29:19
  the grind and, and the 10,000 hours or 10,000 iterations, the,
• 29:24
  the pursuit of mastery, like all of that.
• 29:26
  So. Exactly what what position did
• 29:29
  you play in baseball? I was a pitcher, so I always
• 29:33
  liked having the ball in my hand and having all the attention on
• 29:36
  me, so that probably explains a lot when it comes to this.
• 29:40
  I think everybody who does something like we're doing has a
• 29:43
  little bit of attention seeking in the I know I do.
• 29:47
  Well, I mean, think about it, it takes like a certain, I mean,
• 29:49
  I'm a, you know, listen, I, I favor stoicism and I think that
• 29:54
  mastering the ego and separating yourself, I mean, I can go down
• 29:57
  this whole rabbit hole about, but you have to have some level
• 30:01
  of ego to say, Hey, I'm going to get behind a mic and a camera
• 30:05
  and people should listen to me. Like what I have to say is
• 30:08
  important. You have to have some level of
• 30:10
  that. I mean, it's it teeters on
• 30:12
  confidence and a slight bit of ego, but you have to have some
• 30:15
  because if you truly had none, you just.
• 30:19
  Well, it would just fall flat. Yeah, if you.
• 30:21
  Fall you have to have. Either you just wouldn't do it
• 30:24
  or it fall flat. So yeah, yeah.
• 30:27
  But I mean, it's, it's truly a journey, man.
• 30:29
  If you go back and look at some of my early shows, I'm like,
• 30:31
  yeah, dude, I saw, I saw it. I mean, I didn't have, I didn't
• 30:34
  have my cadence, I didn't have my voice.
• 30:38
  Yeah, you just get, you get better as you go, man.
• 30:40
  So. The more you do, it's the 10,000
• 30:42
  hours, like you said, the more you practice.
• 30:44
  It's kind of the way that I always look at every single show
• 30:46
  that I record, whether I have a guest or if I'm doing it solo or
• 30:49
  whatever. It's practice.
• 30:51
  It's just practice. It's just another time for me to
• 30:54
  get better because I'm obviously going to edit this and put it
• 30:58
  out. So I'm going to watch it back.
• 31:01
  And watching it back is just, frankly, it's just gotten me
• 31:04
  better. Or at least I think I'm better,
• 31:07
  but I know I'm better. You can see show last show I did
• 31:10
  versus 1st 5 or 15 shows that I did.
• 31:15
  And it's like, Oh yeah, this is night and day different.
• 31:18
  Everything I've everything's different from whenever it first
• 31:20
  started, but it evolves. And I think that's that's kind
• 31:24
  of the whole take away is that it's ever evolving and
• 31:27
  continuously growing. And part of the fun of it is
• 31:31
  that you don't really know what direction it's go.
• 31:34
  You kind of know the the path, but that path kind of gets wide
• 31:38
  the further out you go. And you may end up over here,
• 31:41
  you may end up over there and you don't, you don't know.
• 31:43
  That's the journey is the fun. That's the fun part for me.
• 31:46
  It kind of sounds like that's been the fun part for you as
• 31:48
  well. Yeah, it's, it's never complete,
• 31:50
  like you said. Like for example, New Year's has
• 31:52
  become one of my favorite holidays because every year
• 31:55
  I'll, you know, we crunch numbers and we'll look back on
• 31:57
  the year that was and yeah, celebrate our successes.
• 32:00
  But it's fun because like I remember after I, I, I, I'll
• 32:04
  give you an example. Started in January 2017, had
• 32:07
  essentially 0 followers on Twitter.
• 32:10
  It took me a year to hit 1000 followers.
• 32:13
  And I remember when I hit my thousandth follower, like how
• 32:17
  pumped I was. I lived and went and got a
• 32:18
  bottle of Andre, bottle of champagne to celebrate.
• 32:21
  Like that was such a big deal to hit 1000 followers.
• 32:26
  And so then like you Fast forward another year from
• 32:29
  January 2018 to January 2019 went from 1000 to 4000.
• 32:34
  So it's like you get to that point.
• 32:35
  You're like, man, I really thought I did something having
• 32:37
  1000. Now look where we're at.
• 32:39
  You do that every year though, you know what I mean?
• 32:41
  Like every year you it's cool to like look back and you're like,
• 32:45
  man, like look how I leveled compound interest, right?
• 32:48
  You're like, look at the lessons I learned.
• 32:50
  Like look how I levelled up. Like I really thought I was
• 32:52
  doing something then now look at me now.
• 32:54
  Like you get to just continuously, like just improve
• 32:59
  and build and grow and, and look back and like you have so much
• 33:03
  perspective cuz you're like, and it, I think it helps you not
• 33:07
  lose perspective. Also like look like being like,
• 33:10
  man, I was at this spot, now I'm here.
• 33:11
  But yeah, man, it's, it's, I always say again, the joys and
• 33:15
  the journey, like you said, it's, it's never complete.
• 33:17
  That's the beautiful part. Like everybody asked me like,
• 33:19
  what's your end goal? And I'm like, if I ever reach a
• 33:21
  point where I'm like, this is the end, I will quit and do
• 33:25
  something else. Right, exactly.
• 33:26
  If the end goal was like, let's say, yeah, my end goal is to hit
• 33:29
  100,000 followers, that's that once I get there.
• 33:33
  Then what? I'll be happy.
• 33:34
  Yeah, then it's then what you know, I the scary thing is like
• 33:37
  when people put an end goal, like they put a just such a hard
• 33:41
  definition on that it's they find you find out once you get
• 33:46
  to that place and you make it all about that, you don't feel
• 33:48
  any different than you did before.
• 33:50
  You know, it's like, well, darn. I mean, now you like you said,
• 33:54
  now what you know, So no, it's why, like I said, it's why I
• 33:57
  always say the joys and the journey you got to enjoy every
• 34:00
  step of the way. Certainly I am.
• 34:01
  And you know, I, I love to evolve.
• 34:04
  I love the constant reinvention and, you know, tinkering with
• 34:07
  things and changing things up a little bit, trying new things.
• 34:10
  And I feel confident we have so much of that left.
• 34:14
  Like I, I, I, I used to say I feel like I'm only 1% of the way
• 34:19
  truly. I feel like I'm just starting.
• 34:21
  I made me feel like I'm a little bit further than that now.
• 34:23
  I got to admit I, I don't say that quite as much as I used to,
• 34:26
  but I still feel like I'm very like, I don't look at it and be
• 34:29
  like, man, I'm on the back 9 of this thing.
• 34:31
  Like I'm not even close. Like I still feel like I'm like,
• 34:33
  we just started. I mean, the SCC unfiltered just
• 34:36
  started in my mind. So it's yeah, it's really cool,
• 34:40
  man. Because again, you'll stop
• 34:41
  yourself and you're like, you think about where you were, say,
• 34:44
  five years ago, and you're like, man, where am I going to be in
• 34:46
  five years? That's yeah.
• 34:49
  And there's obviously no rush because I want to experience it
• 34:52
  all, but it's really kind of wild to think about.
• 34:56
  It is, dude. It is.
• 34:57
  And congratulations on where you're at now and, and how
• 35:01
  you've grown. I think I started following you
• 35:04
  obviously before SEC unfiltered because I'd like I said at the
• 35:08
  at the top of the show, I really thought that you were Chris
• 35:10
  Phillips, the, the, the catcher from the from the early 2000s
• 35:15
  with LSU. And then it didn't take long for
• 35:18
  me to be like, I don't, I don't think that's Philly.
• 35:21
  I don't. And then I then I finally saw
• 35:23
  like you talking, I went, yeah, that's definitely not him.
• 35:27
  That's not the. That guy's a legend though,
• 35:29
  hopefully. He is a legend, dude.
• 35:30
  He's a cool dude too. He's from Shreveport.
• 35:33
  He was a pretty good ball player.
• 35:35
  I don't, I, I had friends who were good friends with him.
• 35:38
  I I've, I hadn't talked to him in years, but but yeah, there
• 35:41
  are two Chris Phillips out in this world and both of them are
• 35:44
  kick ass and cool. So there is that.
• 35:47
  There is that dude. Let's talk a little ball.
• 35:51
  Let's jump in. I've got a few questions for
• 35:54
  you. That's let's get your expertise
• 35:57
  on the SEC and I'm going to kind of start at the top with it.
• 36:03
  Who who are your four SEC teams? Who are your top four SEC teams
• 36:10
  heading into the season right now?
• 36:13
  Yeah, I'm going to go pretty boring with this one as of right
• 36:16
  now. So a little disclaimer here
• 36:18
  actually starting, I guess tomorrow pretty crazy tomorrow
• 36:23
  I'm going to start dropping game by game predictions for every
• 36:26
  single team. So like here's what's
• 36:27
  interesting about that. You asked me like a month ago,
• 36:31
  right? And I and I, I dropped my
• 36:32
  predicted order and finish at SCC media days.
• 36:34
  But you know, it's been a month and like when you actually sit
• 36:38
  down and you pick every single game and you're like, oh, I, I
• 36:41
  don't know, I feel a little bit differently than you know, you
• 36:43
  never know. But like, this is the these are
• 36:45
  the four I feel really confident in.
• 36:47
  And again, it's boring. But Alabama, Texas, Georgia,
• 36:51
  LSU, right. And my predicted order of finish
• 36:54
  I dropped at SEC media days. I had Bama in Texas in the SEC
• 36:58
  title, Texas winning it at Georgia 3, LSU four.
• 37:03
  I think any combo of those four are going to be in Atlanta, that
• 37:08
  could be in Atlanta are going to be in Atlanta.
• 37:10
  If anybody outside of that top 4 ends up in the SEC title, I'd be
• 37:13
  really surprised. It's so interesting because
• 37:17
  right now it's like you can talk yourself into and out of so many
• 37:22
  teams, right? Like, look at all this hype
• 37:24
  Oklahoma's catching over the last like, week or two.
• 37:27
  Like, I mean, video surfaces of John Metier throwing a football
• 37:30
  in slow motion. It's like they're going to the
• 37:32
  playoffs that. Look at that, look at that.
• 37:36
  You know, people have taught themselves in and out of Florida
• 37:39
  because of the DJ Lagway situation.
• 37:41
  People have taught themselves in and out of South Carolina
• 37:44
  because of on one hand you have Lenora Sellers.
• 37:47
  On the other hand, you lost a lot from last year, especially
• 37:49
  on defense. Ole Miss kind of same thing.
• 37:52
  Schedules really workable. I think Austin Simmons is going
• 37:56
  to be a really good player. Lost a lot on defense.
• 37:58
  Missouri. I mean, Eli drink what's all he
• 38:00
  does every year is it or at least the last couple years is
• 38:04
  do more with less. And I mean, my God, their
• 38:06
  schedule's a joke. You know, like they should win
• 38:08
  at least eight games with the schedule, you know, so God
• 38:11
  forbid could they get into 10. So.
• 38:13
  But I I think those top four I mentioned, I feel pretty
• 38:17
  confident in. You know, I think Texas is just
• 38:20
  so talented across the board. I do think Arch is going to be a
• 38:23
  good player. Georgia, yeah.
• 38:25
  I mean, I ain't putting Kirby Smart outside the top four.
• 38:28
  I'd be just lunacy. I mean, the fact I don't have
• 38:30
  the SEC title might be kind of crazy.
• 38:33
  You look at their roster. They are.
• 38:36
  They don't have the household names, but man, they're so deep.
• 38:38
  Like, they're just so much talent in that group.
• 38:41
  Kirby Smart's highest blue chip ratio ever on a roster.
• 38:45
  I mean, which is wild to think about.
• 38:47
  That is wild. Gunner Stockton's a big pick to
• 38:49
  click for them. Obviously, they got to get back
• 38:52
  to running the football, I think is probably their biggest
• 38:54
  question. But George is going to be there.
• 38:56
  Yeah, LSU obviously with with nuts and all the weapons they
• 39:01
  added in the portal. And I think the defense should
• 39:03
  take a step forward. A lot of unknowns obviously in
• 39:05
  the back end of the defense, but lots of talent, but the defense
• 39:08
  I think is a hole under Blake Baker year 2 should take a step
• 39:11
  offensive lines a huge question mark obviously, but I mean I
• 39:16
  don't want to say can they be worse because they probably can,
• 39:19
  but I don't know if they can be much worse running the football.
• 39:21
  I mean that that's that's their big question.
• 39:23
  Can they run the football generator running game?
• 39:26
  Because if they can, if they have balance, I think Garrett
• 39:29
  Nussmeyer will have a big year. I really do.
• 39:30
  I I, you know, I was hard on us, but if you look back at the
• 39:33
  stats, I mean, his attempts per game were pretty, pretty crazy.
• 39:38
  And you think about like, so why did he throw so many pigs?
• 39:42
  Well, I mean, he's throwing it more than most people.
• 39:44
  And, you know, I think at some point you're like, Hey, the game
• 39:47
  is all on me to go win and, you know, lead to some bad
• 39:50
  decisions, really bad decisions. But you have the, you know,
• 39:53
  arguably the best quarterback returning and the one team I
• 39:56
  didn't talk about Alabama, I'm very high on I I think Bama.
• 40:00
  You know, it comes down to quarterback.
• 40:01
  If quarterback clicks, they're loaded.
• 40:03
  I think Bama's just straight up loaded across the board.
• 40:07
  They. Scare me because I think they're
• 40:09
  flying under the radar a little bit right now and I don't like
• 40:12
  an Alabama team that's flying. Under the radar, you know, they
• 40:16
  again, they do have they have something to prove from the
• 40:19
  standpoint of like was losing to teams that were less talented
• 40:24
  than you and that you had no excuse losing to.
• 40:26
  Was that just like a year 1 Kaitlyn Duboor thing, right?
• 40:30
  Or is that a bad trend that starts to follow them right?
• 40:34
  Like how do you explain losing to Vandy?
• 40:36
  How do you explain losing that game to Oklahoma?
• 40:41
  You know that that like those those two are just are just mind
• 40:46
  boggling. Even 10.
• 40:47
  I mean, Tennessee on the road makes a lot more sense.
• 40:49
  I was at that game. I get it, like Neelan's crazy
• 40:52
  that Tennessee defense was was relentless.
• 40:54
  But those two to Vandy in Oklahoma, like, I wonder, yeah.
• 40:58
  I wonder like does that follow them into this year or does Bama
• 41:03
  get back to being like, hey, when they play somebody who's
• 41:06
  quote UN quote inferior to them, they # them.
• 41:09
  And I mean, I. And again, they've they've got
• 41:11
  the roster. I, you know, I think Bama's Pam
• 41:15
  is going to be a college ball playoff team.
• 41:16
  I, I just, if they're not something the quarterback
• 41:19
  position, I think really went S really went South.
• 41:22
  So, but that being said, man, I mean, what's the likelihood all
• 41:25
  four of those teams pop the same exact way?
• 41:27
  We like that. We all think they're going to.
• 41:29
  That's that's the big thing. So I, that's a long winded
• 41:33
  answer to say those are my top 4, but I'm expecting chaos.
• 41:38
  I I really. Think it's.
• 41:40
  Going to be I, I think it's going to be a chaotic year
• 41:43
  again. Some upset, some crazy things
• 41:46
  like in Oklahoma, Alabama, that was that was probably.
• 41:49
  That. Was my craziest.
• 41:50
  I think it'll start week 1. Listen, I think, Oh yeah, I
• 41:53
  mean, well, I mean you got LSU Clemson.
• 41:55
  Granted, that wouldn't be an upset if either way, but way
• 41:58
  really And then like it's kind of a pick em in in Columbus as
• 42:02
  well. But I mean, dude, Auburn,
• 42:04
  Baylor, heck, I don't think don't sleep on that South
• 42:06
  Carolina, Virginia Tech game. Tennessee, Syracuse could get
• 42:10
  weird Bama, Florida State could get weird.
• 42:12
  I mean, I, I just again, it ain't going to go chalk, man.
• 42:15
  It ain't. It ain't going to.
• 42:16
  Go chalk. Not a chance.
• 42:19
  How many How many SEC teams do you think makes the playoffs?
• 42:25
  Right now I'm going with those top 4I.
• 42:28
  I think the we'll have 211 win teams and 210 win teams.
• 42:33
  I, I don't think anybody goes undefeated.
• 42:35
  I just, I, I think those days are pretty much over.
• 42:38
  Yeah, just because this, you know, the, the the league is so
• 42:42
  tough top to bottom. It's it's so deep and there's
• 42:46
  just so much parity. So like even Texas is gonna lose
• 42:49
  to somebody. LSU, obviously they're they're
• 42:51
  gonna lose to somebody. Yeah, Georgia what?
• 42:53
  Etcetera, etcetera. No, nobody's going undefeated.
• 42:55
  So, but I got 4I I think every year until the other changes
• 43:00
  happen. Like I I got way over zealous
• 43:03
  last year. I said 5 would get in and it's
• 43:05
  like, you know, you know, I I think we're probably closer to
• 43:11
  like 3 or 4 every year we'll get in.
• 43:12
  I think that's kind of where we sit the number.
• 43:14
  So I I think it will be 4 and I think we're probably going to
• 43:19
  have a similar situation as last year.
• 43:21
  There's going to be some nine and three team or multiple nine
• 43:24
  and three teams that's probably going to get left out.
• 43:27
  Yeah, I mean, but that's the tough thing to predict because
• 43:30
  like, if it's in Oklahoma, nine and three with their schedule,
• 43:33
  do they get in at large bid? If it's Florida at 9:00 and 3:00
• 43:36
  with their schedule, do they get in at large bid?
• 43:39
  South Carolina, same thing. So, you know, but I think 4 is
• 43:43
  probably the right number and I think there's top 4.
• 43:45
  But again, what scares me about saying all this, it just feels
• 43:49
  too simple. Like it it did just because like
• 43:52
  you look at them and I'm like, this is Tier 1, then there's a
• 43:54
  gap, then the next year, right? Is it really that simple?
• 43:59
  Like I, I just, it never is. No, and it won't be.
• 44:02
  It never is that simple. Yeah, no, yeah, no, they got to
• 44:06
  play the game and then that's when the, like you said, the
• 44:09
  chaos happens. Who do you think is Who do you
• 44:13
  think's the most underrated team in the SEC?
• 44:18
  That's a really good question because like you said, you can
• 44:20
  talk yourself in and out of so many of them.
• 44:23
  The team that probably I'm going to end up buying stock on and
• 44:27
  my, for example, like my predictions are probably going
• 44:31
  to going to be a little bit better than I expected on them.
• 44:35
  The team that's probably underrated is Oklahoma.
• 44:41
  I do think John Metier is going to be a really fun player.
• 44:43
  Jay Notts a hell of a running back.
• 44:45
  If they can block, they're going to be a problem.
• 44:49
  I mean, really truly that Dionne Burks I still think can be one
• 44:52
  of the SEC's very best wide receivers.
• 44:55
  And then defensively, it's Brent Venables, man.
• 44:57
  Like our Mason Thomas is super underrated, one of the best pass
• 45:01
  rushers in the entire conference.
• 45:03
  They did lose Bowman and Stutzman, but I, I think they've
• 45:05
  got enough pieces back on defense.
• 45:07
  And again, I trust Brent Venables on with that side of
• 45:09
  the football schedule's brutal, but I think they could get the
• 45:14
  nine wins. It's I'll tell you this, though,
• 45:16
  I say they're underrated. It's the expectations in Norman.
• 45:20
  They're wild, man. I mean, I, I talked to a guy, I
• 45:22
  talked to my buddy Tyler Mccomas, who works for the ref
• 45:25
  down in Norman, the radio station, dude, he's telling me
• 45:28
  that eight and four might get Brent Venables fired.
• 45:32
  And I'm like 8 and 4. Feels like a pretty solid year.
• 45:36
  But dude, Oklahoma is just not used to what they're dealing
• 45:41
  with, You know what I mean? This is a program that like
• 45:45
  winning less than double digit games is just yeah, it's
• 45:51
  sacrilegious for them. So, you know, the offensive
• 45:55
  lines, the pick to click. I'll tell you the other one,
• 45:57
  though, because Oklahoma was a sexy pick.
• 46:02
  I think that Ole Miss can end up being a little bit underrated,
• 46:05
  which I say that. But you know what's so weird
• 46:08
  about them? Nobody's talking about them yet.
• 46:11
  They were picked to finish like 7th by the media.
• 46:14
  So it's not like they were picked to finish that far off
• 46:17
  from a playoff discussion, right?
• 46:19
  But nobody's talking about them as a dark horse.
• 46:21
  I think them and Mizzou, they ended up being underrated.
• 46:25
  Just Mizzou is, I'll tell you this, Mizzou is perpetually
• 46:28
  underrated. They are because nobody wants to
• 46:31
  give Mizzou any credit whatsoever.
• 46:36
  Well, and I will say this too, though, we should be discussing
• 46:40
  them as a college ball playoff dark horse because there's
• 46:42
  again, their schedule is just so conducive to it.
• 46:45
  I mean it's do they don't leave Como till October 18th.
• 46:49
  Wow. Holy cow, they don't.
• 46:51
  Leave Columbia, MO till October 18th.
• 46:54
  Wow, I didn't know that. That's insane.
• 46:56
  Yeah. So they're first for them.
• 46:57
  They're first. They must have.
• 46:58
  Games are at home. The back end though, sounds like
• 47:01
  they have a hell of a lot of it's going to be tough.
• 47:04
  Yeah. I mean, yeah, they do.
• 47:07
  I mean, but they they miss some of the biggest.
• 47:10
  You know, they don't play a Texas, I don't believe they play
• 47:14
  a Tennessee. Yeah.
• 47:15
  So like in a schedule, they don't play an LSU, obviously.
• 47:19
  I mean, they're starting October 18th, they're at Auburn, at
• 47:23
  Vandy, and their other two Rd. games are at Oklahoma and at
• 47:26
  Arkansas. I mean.
• 47:29
  Yeah, I mean. You'll take that you'll.
• 47:32
  Take I wish we. Oklahoma Beach off.
• 47:34
  But I mean, yeah, Arkansas and Vandy, you go on the road to and
• 47:38
  then I mean, it's like, who knows what Auburn is?
• 47:40
  Who knows what Oklahoma is? You know what I mean?
• 47:44
  And you get A&M at home, BAM at home.
• 47:47
  South Carolina's at home, you know, and your other one,
• 47:53
  Mississippi State, U Mass. Louisiana, Kansas and Central
• 47:57
  Arkansas, Yeah. I mean, give me that schedule
• 48:02
  for LSU. That schedule is a dream, dude.
• 48:05
  That schedule's a dream. So you have to kind of.
• 48:08
  But Mizzou and Ole Miss both, I think there's kind of a, there's
• 48:12
  an overcorrection may be happening by the media and, and
• 48:15
  just folks who watch and cover the sport because it's like, I
• 48:19
  think everybody looked at last year's like, all right, this is
• 48:21
  your opportunity to prove yourself.
• 48:23
  And they didn't. Neither one of them made the
• 48:25
  playoffs. Everybody's like, all right, we
• 48:26
  got to overcorrect. Be like, these teams are going
• 48:28
  to suck. Like they have no shot.
• 48:30
  Don't even mention them in the playoff discussion.
• 48:33
  It'd be the most lame Kiffin thing ever if Ole Miss made the
• 48:35
  playoff this year. Do 100%.
• 48:38
  So 100% if Ole Miss gets the defense, if they're average on
• 48:42
  defense. Hey, listen, I've talked to a
• 48:45
  lot of LSU people that are worried about that, that road
• 48:47
  trip to Oxford. They're worried about that game.
• 48:50
  It ain't never easy. No, I mean, I'm, I'm worried
• 48:52
  about it too. I mean a lot of trash talking, a
• 48:56
  lot of not a lot of love lost. Between the old Magnolia Bowl.
• 48:59
  Yeah, the old Magnolia Bowl, always a thorn in our side and I
• 49:04
  believe we're always a thorn in theirs as well.
• 49:06
  So that makes it fun. You kind of you kind of brought
• 49:10
  up Oklahoma and and eight and four putting their coach in the
• 49:14
  hot seat who's in trouble if they don't win early besides
• 49:19
  Oklahoma, because I think I think that's obviously the given
• 49:23
  answer is if they don't win, he gone, they're not going to.
• 49:26
  Tolerate it that that Week 2 game against Michigan is vital
• 49:31
  for them. Hugh Freeze at Auburn, if they
• 49:36
  lose to Baylor week one, that seat is going.
• 49:40
  You'll be able to see the Flames from wherever you are in SEC
• 49:43
  country. That seat will be so hot.
• 49:45
  And then it's what's what's ironic is a couple weeks later
• 49:49
  they play each other. They they they play in like week
• 49:52
  5. So I mean, I think the loser of
• 49:55
  that game is probably going to get fired.
• 49:57
  Like like, like it's even whether it's mid season,
• 49:59
  season's in. I don't think the loser of that
• 50:03
  game makes it really truly both are looking at it as a must win.
• 50:07
  They are they both are. Who else needs to win early?
• 50:10
  I mean, probably a probably a Sam Pittman.
• 50:13
  Yeah. I, I'd probably say he needs to
• 50:15
  win early to have any, to have any shot at them having a
• 50:18
  successful season. I mean, I six and six are worse.
• 50:21
  I think he's probably gone 7:00 and 5:00 or better.
• 50:24
  They probably bring him back now.
• 50:29
  Does Pittman want to go out on his own terms and retire?
• 50:32
  I think that's a whole other, you know, factor in this, right?
• 50:35
  Those are the three, though, that are on the hottest season.
• 50:38
  I mean, listen, like you could throw Billy Napier in there,
• 50:40
  too. There's just a lot of
• 50:42
  competitive pressure at Florida. I forget they.
• 50:46
  Get I sure didn't they I didn't think he was going to survive
• 50:48
  last year and he. And that's what I'm saying.
• 50:51
  And better though every week, you know, the more the.
• 50:53
  More we think we know, the less we realize we actually do know.
• 50:58
  So Florida, Yeah, Florida early. You got, I mean, Long Island,
• 51:03
  South Florida at LSU. I don't know if you're a Gators
• 51:07
  fan, realistically, you can't be like pounding the table like
• 51:10
  Billy Neighbors got to win that game.
• 51:11
  It's like, you know, I mean, come on, It's a tough place to
• 51:13
  play. That's a tough one.
• 51:15
  But the next week at Miami, they they want that.
• 51:19
  One. They want that one.
• 51:20
  You need to win that if you're Billy.
• 51:22
  You got to win the state of Florida.
• 51:23
  You do and, and, and you know, Miami with Carson Beck, who
• 51:26
  knows? But after they crushed you last
• 51:29
  year and, and here's the thing I say it's at Miami.
• 51:33
  You and I both know they they don't have a home field.
• 51:35
  No, they do not. There'd be as many Gators in
• 51:37
  there, if not 100%, as they're arcanes.
• 51:39
  So yeah, you, if you're Napier, you got to win that one.
• 51:42
  But those top three, I think those top three of of Venables,
• 51:48
  Freeze and Pittman, those are the seeds that are just flat out
• 51:53
  scorching. Yeah, that makes sense.
• 51:55
  I and and this kind of goes a long line in the line of that
• 51:59
  question. What fan base, and it may be one
• 52:02
  of these three, What fan base is going to completely meltdown by
• 52:06
  Week 4? That's a great question.
• 52:11
  I I mean, it obviously depends The fan base it is going to
• 52:18
  completely meltdown by week 4 is going to be Auburn.
• 52:26
  Yeah, I think it's going to be Auburn.
• 52:28
  They're just not in a real good position right now to begin well
• 52:31
  because they they have the offseason they've had.
• 52:34
  And they have so much talent if they go out there and trip up
• 52:36
  and lose the Baylor Week 1. It's.
• 52:40
  It'll be hard to come back from that.
• 52:42
  I mean he will get. Back in his stretcher, back up
• 52:45
  in the press box. Yeah, because you said, you said
• 52:49
  by week 4. So if they lose the Baylor week
• 52:51
  1 Ball State South Alabama weeks two and three and then get
• 52:55
  Oklahoma week 4, they lose that one and it won't be easy to win
• 53:00
  that one. No, they're if they're sitting
• 53:02
  there two and two, buddy say yeah, no, it it'll be full panic
• 53:07
  mode. Social media be filled with fire
• 53:10
  hue freeze. You know you'll see coaching hot
• 53:13
  board. Yo, yeah, it it will be full on
• 53:16
  panic on the planes. Now over here is the LSU guy.
• 53:21
  I have no problems with that whatsoever.
• 53:23
  I mean, listen, it could, it could be, it could be LSU.
• 53:26
  If they lose to Clemson, they get.
• 53:27
  Upset before. There it is.
• 53:29
  I wanted somebody to officially say it because.
• 53:32
  It will. Oh it listen if if LSU starts
• 53:34
  one and two, oh, it'll be full. Panic mode full. 100% meltdown
• 53:40
  mode 100% I mean I, I as a fan, I love the LSU Clemson match up
• 53:48
  just because like hell yeah, the battle of the death valleys, all
• 53:51
  that good stuff. But at the same time it kind of
• 53:54
  sucks for the loser in that game.
• 53:56
  It doesn't matter who it is it's going to suck for the loser has
• 53:59
  an uphill battle for the rest of the season.
• 54:02
  I think Clemson can overcome a loss to LSUA little bit easier
• 54:06
  than LSU can overcome a loss to Clemson, you know, as far as the
• 54:10
  the hole they have to dig out of for the rest of the season.
• 54:13
  I mean, it's not like Clemson, let's just be honest, Clemson
• 54:17
  plays an ACC schedule. LSU does not.
• 54:20
  So I mean, there's that just then and of in and of itself.
• 54:24
  But yeah, I mean, I agree with that.
• 54:26
  You know, enough about the rumblings here in Baton Rouge
• 54:29
  and people. I mean, I, I, I don't know a
• 54:33
  stat, but popularity wise, Brian Kelly's still maybe 60% popular
• 54:39
  here. Maybe if that.
• 54:41
  There's still a lot of people that are not sold on him.
• 54:45
  I think this is the biggest season for Brian Kelly while
• 54:48
  he's been here. This is his team.
• 54:50
  This is all the kids that he is brought in.
• 54:53
  He has it the way he wants it. It looks like they're having fun
• 54:57
  and the energy's there and that camaraderie and the things you
• 55:00
  want to see, it looks like it's all there.
• 55:04
  And it looks like, and dare I say it looks like the Brian
• 55:09
  Kelly teams that were at Notre Dame, right?
• 55:14
  So we just got to hope that Notre Dame Brian needs to be
• 55:19
  here the whole season and then also find a way to extend that
• 55:22
  into the postseason. That's what I mean.
• 55:24
  Listen for all the for all the great things they've done in
• 55:26
  Baton Rouge off the field and roster building and culture and
• 55:31
  it's all great. You and I both know it comes
• 55:33
  down to wins and losses. I mean.
• 55:34
  It's 100%. They they have to make the
• 55:36
  playoff this year. I don't think they have to win a
• 55:39
  national championship because that's achieving that is harder
• 55:42
  than it's ever been. But we've kind of gone from in
• 55:45
  college football, we've gone from a championship robust
• 55:49
  mentality to now it's playoff robust.
• 55:52
  Like you just at minimum you have to make at a place like
• 55:55
  LSU, you were expected on a yearly basis to make the
• 55:59
  playoff. Whether that's 100% or not.
• 56:01
  You are like I'd say over the course of a decade.
• 56:04
  I like to kind of zoom out. How do you, how do you quantify
• 56:07
  it over a decade? I think at LSU you're
• 56:10
  realistically like, if you took the most realistic LSU fan, I'd
• 56:14
  probably still say like 8 out of 10 years minimum.
• 56:17
  Like you need to be making the playoff way more often than
• 56:21
  you're not. Like if you're, if you're
• 56:22
  anything below 8 out of 10, like maybe you could get away with
• 56:26
  seven, maybe you start getting in a six and like 50%.
• 56:30
  Success. That ain't going to work.
• 56:31
  You're. Not going to make it.
• 56:32
  You're just you're not going to make it, man.
• 56:33
  So, yeah, I mean, it's and I understand it.
• 56:37
  I mean, there's programs where that that expectation makes
• 56:39
  sense. Alabama, Georgia, Texas, LSUI
• 56:45
  think Oklahoma thinks they should be in that that
• 56:47
  conversation. Yeah, I think.
• 56:48
  You know, but like Ohio State, Penn State, Oregon, I mean,
• 56:54
  Clemson makes sense to be honest with you being in the conference
• 56:57
  they're in. If Florida State got back to
• 57:00
  being we know Florida State football probably should be, you
• 57:03
  know, like there's certain programs where like those
• 57:05
  expectations. That's it's dude.
• 57:07
  It's kind of like in college baseball, like there there's
• 57:10
  programs that expect to and it's far more unrealistic than making
• 57:13
  the playoff, but they expect to make it to Omaha here.
• 57:16
  Here's a better example. There's a, there's a bunch of
• 57:18
  there's programs that expect to be hosting a regional every
• 57:21
  single year. LSU is one of them.
• 57:24
  Like they don't host a regional. They had a bad year.
• 57:26
  They had a terrible. Year.
• 57:27
  It ain't happened too often in the last 2530 years either.
• 57:31
  Like like last year when that, you know, this past season, but
• 57:33
  last year, like when they had to go to Chapel Hill for a
• 57:35
  regional, I mean, they had a bad season, bad season for LSU
• 57:38
  baseball. So Yep, LSU football is the same
• 57:40
  way. I think you look at it, hey, you
• 57:43
  know, anything less than making the playoff is less than 10.
• 57:45
  And two, anything less than 10 and 2 is a bad year.
• 57:48
  And I was told by somebody at LSU, I'll repeat what they said,
• 57:52
  nine and three at LSU get you fired.
• 57:55
  You go nine and three enough, ask Les Miles, you get fired.
• 58:00
  That's it. You just you can't survive down
• 58:02
  there going 9 and 3. And especially again, do I think
• 58:06
  BK gets fired if they don't make the playoff this year?
• 58:10
  I mean, if it got bad enough, maybe.
• 58:12
  But I know his buyouts crazy and they've they've invested so much
• 58:18
  in him. But man, after all that these
• 58:21
  people have poured into, hey, you want a roster?
• 58:25
  We got you a roster. That's it.
• 58:26
  Well, portal guys, we got portal guys.
• 58:28
  Like you're out here saying you got the best roster you've ever
• 58:30
  had since you've been at LSU. You know, after like in the
• 58:34
  offseason, you're like, Hey, I expect to be talking to y'all at
• 58:36
  the national championship or whatever he said and everybody
• 58:39
  let him off the hook for the judge being year three comment
• 58:42
  because the product in year 3 wasn't all that great, right.
• 58:45
  So really put up or shut up time.
• 58:48
  Now it's it's it's it's put up or shut up.
• 58:52
  But what I think is fascinating, since we're talking LSU is this
• 58:54
  week one game. I feel like everybody's going to
• 58:56
  pick Clemson to win because it's at Clemson and because LSU can't
• 59:01
  win a season opener and it's just like it's so obvious to
• 59:05
  pick Clemson. What happens when it's very
• 59:08
  obvious? Sometimes the opposite happens.
• 59:10
  So like, I'm kind of like I'm kind of sitting here and it's
• 59:14
  it's about matchups for sure. Like the thing that scares me
• 59:16
  the most is, is LSU's offensive line ready to go in a hostile
• 59:19
  environment, go up against maybe the best front 7 in college
• 59:22
  football. But I'm kind of like, I'm like,
• 59:26
  do I want to, you know, you, you want to zig when everybody zags?
• 59:32
  You know what I mean? Do I want to zig when everybody
• 59:33
  zags? You go with that because, I
• 59:36
  mean, it's, they're only a four, what, 4 point underdog.
• 59:40
  But I feel like, I mean, I could be wrong, maybe maybe I'm wrong,
• 59:42
  but I, I don't think many people are going to be giving LSU a
• 59:44
  chance to be honest. With you, no, I think I, I think
• 59:47
  you're right. I think that that that there are
• 59:49
  there are, there are more questions and what Clemson is
• 59:53
  bringing back is, you know, they they have a veteran team.
• 59:57
  I like a veteran team. I'll be honest with you, I'm not
• 1:00:00
  totally sold on Clemson either. I mean like my question with
• 1:00:04
  Clemson. When did we all decide they were
• 1:00:07
  elite again? You know what I mean?
• 1:00:09
  Like, when, when did we all come together and be like, Yep,
• 1:00:11
  Clemson's elite again? Because it's like this time last
• 1:00:14
  year, we were questioning Dabo and people were still high on
• 1:00:18
  them for sure. But like, we weren't thinking
• 1:00:20
  about them as like national title contender.
• 1:00:22
  And all they did when they played the SEC was get smacked.
• 1:00:26
  I mean, Georgia put them in a body bag.
• 1:00:29
  You know they they, they lose to South Carolina, their archrival
• 1:00:32
  on their home field. Yes.
• 1:00:35
  And then they, you know, get mollywopped by Texas.
• 1:00:38
  So I mean, like, you know, I mean, and I think that's another
• 1:00:42
  thing. I know you and I both know Blake
• 1:00:44
  Ruffino really well. And I I he he mentioned this
• 1:00:47
  when I talked to him about it and I think he made a great
• 1:00:49
  point. That's another, I think there's
• 1:00:50
  a sense of pride for LSU. Like, hey, man, you can't be
• 1:00:54
  that SEC team that Clemson goes out there and beats up on and
• 1:00:57
  just it's not a good look. You know, it's like, OK, so
• 1:01:01
  Georgia, South Carolina and Texas can beat them, but LSU is
• 1:01:04
  the one that for whatever reason, can't beat them.
• 1:01:07
  So yeah, it's LSU's got to get this this, this season opener
• 1:01:11
  monkey off their back. They, they just, they do like I
• 1:01:14
  think if it's so many years, I think if it's going to be a
• 1:01:16
  yeah, if it's going to be a special season.
• 1:01:19
  Got to win. I think they've got to be
• 1:01:20
  Clemson. I just I do.
• 1:01:23
  It sets the tone, you know, I mean, they win that game.
• 1:01:26
  They they would, I would think, be in the top three pretty much
• 1:01:30
  the next week, maybe top five for sure, But it doesn't matter
• 1:01:33
  about polls until the end of the season.
• 1:01:35
  But the momentum is there to move forward.
• 1:01:39
  And then once you get the Gators come in, take care of business
• 1:01:42
  there. Now we're cooking, you know, now
• 1:01:44
  we're cooking, so let's go have fun.
• 1:01:46
  So I agree totally. And at the same time, as a fan
• 1:01:50
  makes me nervous as hell because here, here we go again.
• 1:01:55
  Is the whole season on game one? Not totally, but yeah, kind of.
• 1:02:00
  That's the way I feel about. I'm a little anxious already,
• 1:02:02
  just like I'm already kind of want to start pacing.
• 1:02:05
  I'm already getting nervous about kickoff with. 3 or 4.
• 1:02:08
  Well, I'm just. Away.
• 1:02:08
  You know, I don't. I don't love a noon kickoff.
• 1:02:11
  I try to avoid them at all cost, to be honest with you.
• 1:02:13
  But I am glad Texas, Ohio State is at noon, so that way I can
• 1:02:19
  watch that game that night. I am.
• 1:02:20
  That's true. Yeah.
• 1:02:21
  Yeah. You probably going to be in some
• 1:02:23
  bar in Columbus just. For sure.
• 1:02:25
  Watching that ball game yeah, so I I'm excited man.
• 1:02:29
  I've heard good things about Columbus, but hopefully we're
• 1:02:31
  we're watching the watching LSU, Clemson after a Texas dub, so.
• 1:02:35
  That would be fun. That would be fun.
• 1:02:37
  Yeah. That's a that's a definitely a
• 1:02:38
  bucket list stadium. So I look forward to seeing what
• 1:02:41
  all you all the. Yeah, we'll, we'll be, we'll be
• 1:02:43
  vlogging again, man. It'll be we've, we've upgraded
• 1:02:47
  the camera since last year. It'll be the same one that I had
• 1:02:49
  when I was at LSU this spring at Omaha.
• 1:02:52
  Yeah, it'll be, it'll be awesome, man.
• 1:02:53
  I'm I'm taking it though. It's a bad ass little camera
• 1:02:56
  dude. That little, that little Omni
• 1:02:57
  pocket man, it does the job, yeah.
• 1:03:00
  It is. Well, that kind of that kind of
• 1:03:03
  wraps up our little SEC preview. Well, one more question.
• 1:03:08
  One more question is who's your dark horse?
• 1:03:12
  SEC or not, who's your dark horse to make to potentially
• 1:03:17
  make a run nationally, make the playoffs, and maybe make it make
• 1:03:20
  a splash outside of the SEC? Outside of the SEC, that's see,
• 1:03:25
  that's a good question. It's funny you ask me this
• 1:03:32
  because actually next week we're going to drop.
• 1:03:34
  I'm going to drop my 12 team playoff.
• 1:03:36
  Predictions. But don't worry, this show won't
• 1:03:38
  come out for. About no, I mean, I don't.
• 1:03:41
  Yeah, I know. It's fine.
• 1:03:42
  It's fine. I dark horse outside of the SECI
• 1:03:47
  like Georgia Tech. OK.
• 1:03:50
  I like Haynes King a lot, man. I just maybe I'm falling in love
• 1:03:53
  with the quarterback, but maybe Georgia Tech can make some
• 1:03:56
  noise. I mean, it's like you said, it's
• 1:03:57
  the ACC. It's so wide open.
• 1:03:59
  So yeah, yeah, I like Georgia Tech a lot.
• 1:04:03
  I think if there's a team that's going to come out of the ACC in
• 1:04:05
  surprise, I think it's Brent Keys program.
• 1:04:08
  Nice. There you go.
• 1:04:09
  There you have it, folks. The dark horse.
• 1:04:13
  Georgia Tech. I like it, dude.
• 1:04:15
  I like it. They, you know, back when you
• 1:04:17
  were a kid and you were getting into football in the early
• 1:04:20
  2000s, I was at Peach Bowls and things like that in Atlanta
• 1:04:27
  playing the Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech.
• 1:04:30
  And they had, they had some good teams in those years.
• 1:04:33
  And yeah, it would be nice to see those fine folks there get
• 1:04:39
  back, get back into the elite glory of college football.
• 1:04:43
  Yeah, funny enough, my earliest memories of LSU football.
• 1:04:47
  Matt Flynn, Glenn Dorsey, When they win the title, they won the
• 1:04:53
  title in O3, right? Yeah.
• 1:04:55
  Yeah. Winning the title in O3.
• 1:04:56
  Nick Saban. And that was with Matt Mock and
• 1:05:00
  yeah, Maddie Mock and then O sevens with with Flynn.
• 1:05:03
  That's right. Yeah.
• 1:05:03
  Maddie Mock at quarterback. That's right, Yeah.
• 1:05:05
  Who was the running back in O3 again?
• 1:05:08
  Was it LA? Brandon Toefield?
• 1:05:11
  I could. Be maybe they I just remember
• 1:05:13
  they had a, they had a. Toefield may have been O 7, I
• 1:05:16
  can't remember. We've had some good ones.
• 1:05:18
  Yeah, and then obviously, you know, you, you get in like the
• 1:05:20
  Jacob Hester era and the honey badger and, and yeah, just so
• 1:05:24
  many dudes. Dudes straight up dudes, no
• 1:05:28
  doubt. Well, well, that brings us to
• 1:05:31
  the final segment of the show. My favorite part of the show.
• 1:05:34
  It's time for the Tigs blitz. Quick takes just real quick.
• 1:05:38
  Don't think no time to think. Just give me your the first
• 1:05:41
  thing that comes to the top of your mind.
• 1:05:44
  And there's no, there's no, no incriminating ones in this week.
• 1:05:48
  So unfortunately for me in the audience, no, there's some good
• 1:05:51
  ones. Crawfish or BBQ.
• 1:05:54
  Oh, BBQ. I mean, I figured you would say
• 1:05:57
  that knowing that the first time that you had crawfish, I
• 1:06:00
  witnessed it. Yeah.
• 1:06:03
  And honestly, I probably go with BBQ too.
• 1:06:06
  To lead off of that, though. And the most controversial take
• 1:06:10
  Where is the best barbecue in the South?
• 1:06:14
  Oh, damn, that is a good question.
• 1:06:19
  The best barbecue I've ever had was in Texas.
• 1:06:21
  That's not even the South, but that's the bet.
• 1:06:23
  Yeah, but it's it's different, though.
• 1:06:26
  I mean, Carolina. Listen, shout out to Carolina,
• 1:06:29
  the Carolinas. I'll, I'll show some love to the
• 1:06:31
  hometown, the home city, home state, the Carolinas.
• 1:06:34
  Our BBQ is phenomenal. It is the pulled pork and the
• 1:06:38
  sow and all that so. That, and that's the thing, too.
• 1:06:41
  So best barbecue Carolinas the brisket in Texas is just.
• 1:06:46
  Unreal. I agree 100% on that.
• 1:06:48
  Yeah, there is no better brisket in the world than you will get
• 1:06:52
  in Texas. That's just.
• 1:06:53
  That's just they don't mess around, man.
• 1:06:55
  No, they don't. Mess around.
• 1:06:57
  They take pride in everything they do in Texas, but brisket is
• 1:07:01
  up at the top of the mountain of what they take pride in there
• 1:07:04
  too. And I thank God they do because
• 1:07:06
  I love it. It's my favorite.
• 1:07:08
  It's my favorite thing to eat. Favorite stadium food that's not
• 1:07:14
  popcorn or hot dogs? I'll be honest with you, I don't
• 1:07:19
  eat a ton of stadium food either.
• 1:07:24
  I mean, probably a burger, to be honest, if I'm getting anything,
• 1:07:28
  Yeah, yeah, probably. If it's not going to be a hot
• 1:07:31
  dog, probably a burger. I'm not a big concession guy.
• 1:07:34
  I'm. Not either.
• 1:07:36
  That's the thing. I'm I'm really.
• 1:07:37
  I want to watch the game. Yeah, I'm, I'm not, I'm not a
• 1:07:39
  concession guy. My son is, I just give him the
• 1:07:43
  debit card and like go get whatever you want.
• 1:07:44
  Give me a water. My favorite concession item in a
• 1:07:47
  stadium is a beer. That's for sure.
• 1:07:48
  There you go, a beer that that's the right answer.
• 1:07:51
  That is the right answer. What's your go to tailgate
• 1:07:55
  drink? See this one probably a cold
• 1:08:01
  beer, but this one varies. Man, I I hate to be like not I'm
• 1:08:05
  not I feel like I'm not playing this game by the rules.
• 1:08:07
  But if I'm at an LSU tailgate, probably a bourbon and coke of
• 1:08:11
  some sort. Yeah, yeah, that's that's
• 1:08:14
  probably typically like whiskey Coke, vodka soda will also just
• 1:08:19
  depends on time of year. I'm kind of all but like a cold
• 1:08:22
  beer on a hot, hot, hot college tailgate.
• 1:08:25
  Hot day is undefeated, man. But I listen, I'm equal
• 1:08:28
  opportunity when it comes to alcohol.
• 1:08:29
  So whatever you got. And then you go to some places,
• 1:08:32
  they got a signature drink. So like Alabama, they got the
• 1:08:34
  yellow hammer. So yeah, very true.
• 1:08:36
  I mean, it just kind of depends. I'm whatever's available,
• 1:08:40
  whatever is available. Whatever is available.
• 1:08:43
  Yeah. Who has the best uniforms in the
• 1:08:46
  SEC? LSU, that's the right answer.
• 1:08:52
  LSU or Florida is really Florida's really close behind
• 1:08:57
  them. I I could it's 1A1B for me.
• 1:08:59
  But yeah, LSU's are iconic. They are.
• 1:09:03
  They are man, and so are so are Florida's.
• 1:09:05
  There's no, not a Florida guy, but I love the Gator.
• 1:09:10
  You know, I think it's the one of the coolest logos in sports.
• 1:09:14
  So there you go, Florida. That's about it.
• 1:09:16
  That's about all you're going to get.
• 1:09:17
  For the nicest thing you'll get, it's.
• 1:09:19
  About the nicest thing you're going to get from me.
• 1:09:22
  What's your favorite non SEC college football tradition?
• 1:09:29
  Non SEC probably. Enter Sam and Virginia Tech.
• 1:09:34
  Pretty damn cool. It's just so awesome.
• 1:09:37
  That's like a bucket list. I want to go to see the
• 1:09:40
  entrance. That's how you know it's
• 1:09:42
  special. They didn't do like I went, it
• 1:09:44
  was Nick Saban after 2003. So I guess that was 2004.
• 1:09:50
  We went to Blacksburg, did not have a very good experience in
• 1:09:53
  Blacksburg, but I don't think that they were, I don't.
• 1:09:57
  They may have been coming out to Enter Sandman, but I I'm pretty
• 1:10:00
  sure I would have remembered it if it had grown to where it's at
• 1:10:03
  now. But where it's at now is
• 1:10:06
  insanity. I'm sure you saw Metallica
• 1:10:08
  actually played Lane Stadium and the place just lost their mind
• 1:10:14
  which that to me this is blasphemy.
• 1:10:16
  Hot take here. I was at Garth Brooks here in
• 1:10:20
  Baton Rouge and Death Valley playing calling Baton Rouge
• 1:10:24
  awesome. But just even talking about it
• 1:10:27
  gives me goosebumps thinking about being in Lane Stadium and
• 1:10:30
  Metallica doing that. And just like, wow, that would
• 1:10:33
  have been my. That would have been my top.
• 1:10:35
  I know George Strait played Texas A&M still give me
• 1:10:39
  Metallica any night, anywhere, pretty much.
• 1:10:43
  But unbelievable. Unbelievable.
• 1:10:46
  Yeah, I agree. That's a good.
• 1:10:48
  That's a great take. Yeah.
• 1:10:51
  Let's see, what's the most memorable moment from an SEC
• 1:10:58
  game that you have attended. I mean, I got to go to that Bama
• 1:11:04
  Georgia game last year. Ryan Williams turns into
• 1:11:06
  Superman, puts the tide ahead, they win.
• 1:11:09
  I I just, that was, that was nuts.
• 1:11:12
  There were so many from last season alone, that one, I mean,
• 1:11:17
  rushing the field 4 times pick any one of them, you know, the
• 1:11:21
  2024 season as a whole. But no, that, that Ryan Williams
• 1:11:24
  play was like the fact I got it on video too because Georgia had
• 1:11:29
  just scored. I'm like, hey, you know, let's
• 1:11:31
  just see, you know, here I'm like, you know, Bama's got a
• 1:11:33
  shot to respond. Let's see what they do.
• 1:11:37
  First play. I mean, first play.
• 1:11:40
  So that that that Bama, Georgia game was one of the best college
• 1:11:44
  ball games I've ever seen. That was a hell of a ball game.
• 1:11:46
  It really, really was. I'm still a little embarrassed
• 1:11:50
  that we rushed the field for beating Ole Miss, but I'll.
• 1:11:54
  I've heard that. I, you know, listen, I, I loved
• 1:11:57
  it from the content perspective, sure, I get it.
• 1:12:00
  I get it. LSU feels like they're kind of
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  above. I understand that.
• 1:12:03
  Yeah, yeah, especially. For Ole Miss, especially for Ole
• 1:12:06
  Miss, who they feel like is again so beneath them.
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  I think it was that that was the first night that the the true
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  lighting system was in. It was just as you know, you
• 1:12:15
  were there. It was just a party all day in
• 1:12:18
  the stadium. It was a party that night.
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  And I think that the kids. Yeah, well, rushing, rushing the
• 1:12:24
  field too became like the hot thing to do last season, right?
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  So I, I, I, if I can just get 1 field rush in this year, I'd be
• 1:12:33
  pretty ecstatic. I, I, yeah, I'm not, I'm not
• 1:12:35
  banking on a bunch of those, but just just give me one or two.
• 1:12:39
  I that's I need it. Got to have it.
• 1:12:42
  That juices, that juices, awesome.
• 1:12:45
  It's just the best feeling in the world though, to win a big
• 1:12:48
  game like that and to have the crowd going nuts.
• 1:12:50
  I love the lights and all the stadiums now.
• 1:12:52
  It just adds to it. Some of the old timers hate it,
• 1:12:56
  but whatever, they can get over it.
• 1:13:00
  What's your favorite SEC stadium?
• 1:13:04
  Favorite just stadium like building is Kyle Field.
• 1:13:08
  Yeah, it's it's the best one in the league in my opinion.
• 1:13:11
  It's again, this is not this is not factoring in atmosphere to
• 1:13:15
  none of just the building itself.
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  But I will say this Kyle Field's the best.
• 1:13:21
  Maybe my favorite is the swamp. It's the most unique stadium.
• 1:13:25
  I think in the like just the the painting with the orange and
• 1:13:29
  Welcome to the Swamp. The configuration it's a really.
• 1:13:33
  Cool. Yeah.
• 1:13:33
  It's it's a really cool stadium. It's a really cool stadium.
• 1:13:38
  I think I know the answer here, but I gotta ask this question
• 1:13:41
  anyhow. Best tailgate scene in the SEC.
• 1:13:47
  Well, you think you know the answer.
• 1:13:51
  There's a lot of different directions I could go here with
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  this. The overall just best tailgating
• 1:13:57
  scene in the SEC, dude, that that's hard to pick.
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  I mean that that really the, the, the, the tailgate that won
• 1:14:07
  best tailgate last year was Morris Hall at in Athens
• 1:14:10
  specifically a tip they they did it up.
• 1:14:15
  And look, I nothing but props to Georgia because anytime they
• 1:14:18
  come here or we've gone there, those cats bring it.
• 1:14:21
  I always call them I mean, it's I call them the redneck LSU
• 1:14:24
  fans. Yeah, there's a lot of
• 1:14:26
  similarities in the over the topness.
• 1:14:30
  It's. So easy to go the Grove an Ole
• 1:14:33
  Miss. I didn't really see the best of
• 1:14:35
  the grow to be honest, because it was a rainy day at Georgia
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  game. I mean, they're tailgating sick
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  though. But man, I mean, LSU has got to
• 1:14:44
  be in the convo man 100%. Yeah.
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  I I mean, listen to everybody out there.
• 1:14:50
  Just know that we're going to do SEC tour superlatives, SECU tour
• 1:14:54
  superlatives again end of season and I'll I'll we'll hand out
• 1:14:57
  awards like best tailgate, best stadium, loudest environment.
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  So just. That's fine, just.
• 1:15:02
  Just know what's on the line when we come, no?
• 1:15:05
  Pressure bring your A game. I mean, it's, I mean LSULSU rose
• 1:15:11
  a bunch of spots after Omaha alone.
• 1:15:14
  So yeah, yeah, I mean, LSU is they're right.
• 1:15:18
  I don't know if I really answered your question, but.
• 1:15:21
  Yeah, you answered it well enough.
• 1:15:23
  That's the best overall, I think the coolest and best and just
• 1:15:26
  most unique tailgating. I will still say right now is
• 1:15:29
  old Miss I. Where else is there?
• 1:15:31
  Where else are there chandeliers?
• 1:15:33
  I mean whether you love it or hate it, it is just the most
• 1:15:36
  like I've. Had a blast.
• 1:15:38
  I've had a blast in the ground. They take more pride in
• 1:15:40
  tailgating. They do the damn game at times.
• 1:15:42
  100%. It's it's about again.
• 1:15:44
  They never lose a tailgate. Yeah, so the tailgating and Ole
• 1:15:47
  Miss is pretty, pretty next level.
• 1:15:49
  It is, I mean, and it is everywhere.
• 1:15:52
  You you mentioned earlier in the show about, you know, you can't
• 1:15:55
  take an LSU guy to Tuscaloosa and they brag on it.
• 1:15:59
  I'm going to let you know that my favorite road trip that I
• 1:16:01
  ever go on in the SEC, the following the Tigers Tuscaloosa.
• 1:16:06
  I have the most fun there. For whatever reason, I'm sick.
• 1:16:10
  Man, it's fun, dude. It's it's awesome.
• 1:16:14
  It's a good. Set up by the stadium.
• 1:16:16
  It's, yeah, convenient, you know, really they're they, their
• 1:16:21
  expectation to win is so high that they already looked down
• 1:16:24
  upon you before you ever show up.
• 1:16:26
  Coming from a fans, from a, an opposing team's perspective.
• 1:16:30
  And everybody's just cool. I, I, I mean, you know, you
• 1:16:33
  every, every place has their idiots, but I've, I've honestly
• 1:16:37
  never had a bad time in Tuscaloosa.
• 1:16:40
  Also have a winning record there, but that's beside the
• 1:16:42
  point. Favorite all time SEC player?
• 1:16:55
  Tim Tebow, it's a good one. Yeah, he's a legend.
• 1:16:59
  Yeah, he's just guys, a legend. Played the game the right way.
• 1:17:02
  Model, model dude, model citizen, if you will.
• 1:17:05
  So just a great guy. Tebow's I feel like just like
• 1:17:09
  the GOAT of the SEC. He should be.
• 1:17:11
  He's definitely on the Mount Rushmore of the SEC and I think
• 1:17:15
  he should be the current ambassador of the SEC.
• 1:17:18
  Why would you not want him to be?
• 1:17:20
  He's just, he's, he's everything you want.
• 1:17:22
  Good dude got it all and was 1 fun dude to watch play.
• 1:17:28
  I've I've been to the swamp one time.
• 1:17:30
  It was his senior season. That's all I have to say about.
• 1:17:33
  That yeah it. Was not my time at the swamp.
• 1:17:38
  Probably, there's no doubt about it.
• 1:17:40
  Was not as fun as your time at the swamp.
• 1:17:43
  Guaranteed we did not win that game.
• 1:17:46
  They got their ass. Beat Florida got killed when I
• 1:17:49
  went last year, so I'm I'm the return trip hopefully will be
• 1:17:53
  redemption. I'll get to see the swamp in its
• 1:17:54
  glory. Yeah, the Swamp in its glory
• 1:17:57
  that night when LSU played them, it was a night game.
• 1:18:00
  It was jet engine. It lived up to as loud as
• 1:18:05
  everybody always said it was. 100% agree.
• 1:18:08
  The two loudest stadiums I've ever been in, LSU and Florida,
• 1:18:14
  Easily. Easily.
• 1:18:17
  Last question, I have so many, I'm going to pick the the best
• 1:18:23
  one. All right, this is 1.
• 1:18:25
  If you went back to went back to college, what SEC?
• 1:18:30
  What SEC school would you pick and attend strictly for the
• 1:18:34
  party scene? Oh, that's a good one.
• 1:18:39
  Strictly for the party scene, probably Georgia.
• 1:18:47
  Their bar scene's undefeated. If it was just about the
• 1:18:50
  partying, Georgia the the bar scene again.
• 1:18:53
  It's just that Athens to me is the best collar sound in the
• 1:18:56
  country. It's just Athens is just insane.
• 1:19:00
  Yeah, it's it's a cool endless, endless, endless bars.
• 1:19:04
  In good music, yeah, All of it, everywhere, no doubt.
• 1:19:08
  I think that's a great answer. Obviously we know where I think.
• 1:19:11
  My other my other answer would have been Tuscaloosa.
• 1:19:14
  I don't, I don't win Alabama. There you go.
• 1:19:16
  It'd be it'd be a great party scene just because you're
• 1:19:17
  kicking everybody's ass in football.
• 1:19:19
  You're great. And there's a lot of fun bars
• 1:19:21
  down there too. That's all located.
• 1:19:23
  It's I think it's all in location, like Baton Rouge is
• 1:19:26
  great, but it's so spread out as you know, you know, you've got
• 1:19:29
  to go over here to go do that. You got to go to the liberge
• 1:19:32
  over here to do that. You've got to, you know, it's
• 1:19:34
  not all just compacted just right around the stadium like it
• 1:19:38
  is at some other places. So that totally makes sense,
• 1:19:42
  man, That makes sense. Well, well, Chris, this was a
• 1:19:45
  lot of fun, dude. It was a lot of fun getting to
• 1:19:47
  getting to know more about you and your takes on the SEC
• 1:19:51
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• 1:19:55
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• 1:19:59
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• 1:20:02
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• 1:20:06
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• 1:20:08
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