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Mississippi State Football 2025 Season Preview · Johnny's World

• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome back to a new episode of the Johnny's Bro Podcast.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_01: This is your host, BW, with my esteemed colleague Johnny.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: This is the 2025 football season preview of the Mississippi State Football.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_01: It is football time in the South.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: Johnny, how are we doing today?
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, hey, BW.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh uh, welcome back, uh listeners.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, it's the uh football season again.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: We hop on here, you know, sporadically through the year, whenever we have things we want to uh talk about or or our guests that we have on.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: But usually during the football season, we're on here weekly talking about Mississippi State, the uh game for the weekend coming up.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: We preview it and uh talk about uh you know things happening in town and and uh we get our pick and link started.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's a lot of fun uh during football season, keeps us interested by week by week on the games, even though the games the past couple years have not been that great.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's fun getting on here just talking about it, reliving some memories, talking to some guests, and uh a lot of fun.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: So uh football season, you know, whether whether you win or lose, it's always a fun time.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: So uh glad it's here.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it'll be here and uh I guess next week will be uh August 30th at Southern Miss is Missouri State's first game, and then we play on campus the following week.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: So uh so it's here, BW because you're back.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm ready.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well uh what we got together.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Let's tell the little stories what we did.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: We uh about three weeks ago, uh I drove up to Memphis and we hit up uh uh we hit up the steakhouse and uh we went to go see Creed at the FedEx Forum and talk about nostalgic, man.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: If you're uh uh about our age and listen to this podcast, then you would really have loved the concert because it was all about you know music played in the 90s, early 2000s when we were in high school and college.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: And uh it's the same band.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: The guy uh the lead singer is like he looks a little different.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: He's all jacked up now, muscles.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: But as far as no hair, shaved head, shaved head, doesn't have the long hair anymore.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but the voice is just like nostalgic.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Sounds just like the guy did in 1999.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: Really amazing, put on a great show, Daltree.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and uh and creed at FedEx Forum.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: So uh shout out to BW's uh father in law.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: We got to sit in the box again, which is awesome, which we always have done it for the past.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: With the uh come up there when LeBron was playing the Lakers, uh, were playing the Grizzlies.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: So uh awesome seats and got to see a great concert and good food.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: So it was really fun getting together, getting to do that.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: And I, you know, we were talking, like I had forgotten how many songs they have, because especially at the end, we kept saying, All right, is this the last song?
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: And we're like, Oh no, what about this one?
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh they just kept bringing them out.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_01: And uh they I mean they had some energy.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: He was saying some weird stuff.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he was talking about like this is a journey into your mind, just let yourself enjoy the journey while you're here tonight, you know.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: And then it's like playing some like crazy like rock song, you know.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: You you expect it to be like you know, widespread panic or some journey into your mind, but uh, anyways, I think he's a pretty interesting guy.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: We were looking him up on Wikipedia.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he's done some so got in some fights and done some some strange stuff, right?
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's definitely a throwback.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, uh talking about that.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he uh I think he's a big Christian guy now, but it's just like kind of weird how it like what you're just talking about.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: You you would think the music would be like mellow, you know, real laid back, the way he's talking about journey and faith and all that stuff, and then he just gets into rock, man.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just uh what is it, pyro?
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, man.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, unbelievable.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: The concert's awesome, but the show around it, the uh all the the um things that go around it to making the show is really, really cool.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, he's uh interesting guy, and uh, but yeah, they have such a good wide catalog of music, you know.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we thought you know, hire obviously is they're probably their one that people that don't listen to Creed, they know that's their song.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: And we thought, well, they'd end it with higher.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: Well, nope, they didn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like when they played that, we're like, what are they gonna play next?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then sure enough, like they pop into another one, another one, and we're like, gosh, I remember that.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: I was like some of those that they ended on, you know, hadn't heard in like 20 years.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: So it's uh it's pretty uh it was pretty cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, because you're like, man, what are we?
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: And then you hear it, like, oh wow, they do we do know that one, and they they did play that, so uh yeah, man, it was a it was a fun night, and uh got back and uh got uh got my dog back from training.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: Natty has been at uh a trainer out in Longview, Mississippi for the past eight weeks.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: And oh man, she was a wild dog.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: If you uh follow me on Facebook, you've probably seen my pictures of her growing up.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: I got her in February, and uh she was just getting uncontrollable, man.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: Just wild everywhere.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: And it's been uh you know since 2010 since I've had a puppy.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_00: So what is that 15 years now?
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, just forgot how much effort it went into uh raising a puppy.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: But Bo, man, Bo came out perfect, man.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't have to do any training with Bo.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: He was real mellow, laid-back dog.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: This dog is a wild girl, and uh so I sent her out to boot camp uh out in Longview, and she was there for eight weeks living in living in the woods.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: She'd never been out of the house.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I mean, obviously been out of the house, but never been like outside spending the night.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: And she spent eight weeks in in the woods training in the kennel.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: So uh got her back, and man, she's a totally different dog.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: She can heal, she sits, she stays, really, really amazing, worth every penny.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: And uh got her back Sunday and yesterday I opening at the vet called and got her fixed.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't supposed to get her fixed until September sometime, but uh of course I was worried about her going in the heat, didn't want to have to deal with all that stuff.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, even though I would have loved to uh to get puppies, but just you know, again, having a female dog on puppies is a whole lot of a lot of work, and I didn't have the place for it, and I didn't know if the breeder would do it because the breeder has her mom.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: And anyway, breeder mentioned earlier that it would be like two years before she would actually want her to breed her if she was gonna take the puppies.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: And man, I couldn't go through a heat cycle for two years, like in the house.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: So, anyway, I'd already decided we're gonna do it and uh got it, got it done yesterday, and she's recovering.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: She was out of it all last night, and today she's still kind of out of it.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but she'll be she'll be good to go.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I'm hoping that you know, uh, followed me along.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: You've probably seen me and Bo at the at the dog paddle.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's one of our favorite events in Starfleet every year with Humane Society at uh Moncree Park.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: There's a pool, uh dog pool party, pretty much what it is.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: Owners take the dogs, they swim.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: And uh me and Bo went to that every year.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: And um, yeah, so last year I took the neighbor's dog, Bailey, uh, which is pretty funny.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: And she didn't even like to get in the water and she loves the lake.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: I guess swimming pool is a little bit different.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: So so anyway, I'm I'm hoping that I can take Natty.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they said the healing process uh after being spayed is uh 14 days, so we're looking at 18 days before the before the pool party.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: So if she heals correctly, she'll be able to swim because she's never never swam before, so and she's real athletic, so I can tell she's gonna be a swimmer, but uh hopefully we can uh we can make it to the pool party and swim like all times.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: Well, speaking of dogs, Johnny, I mean we we've got this dog in our house that we've been fostering, and um we've been, you know, they they're calling him Scruffy, but I want to change the name.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: I it's I'm gonna start calling him Elijah more because it's like the 2019 egg bowl in my house.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like that dog keeps hiking his leg up on everything in the around the house.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: And so we finally had to buy a little diaper thing to put around him.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: So he quit doing it.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: So you like put it on there, he can't lift his leg in the house.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: You take it off, and if he goes outside, he goes, put it back on.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: So, but I'm gonna call him Elijah.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's what I'm gonna go with.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: That sounds about right.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what they told me I'd have to do if uh if Natty went at heat and put a diaper on her and everything, and I'll tell you that's a disaster waiting to happen.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, anyway.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the folks aren't here to listen listen to us uh talk talk about our our our dogs in heat, probably.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: So let's let's uh let's talk about uh why we're here in the first place and and then um we'll get into some football talk.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_01: So um as y'all know, this is we call this Johnny's World Podcast.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_01: If you've never listened to this before, Johnny is our co-host here.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_01: He suffers from cystic fibrosis, and uh the goal of this podcast is to raise some money and awareness about cystic fibrosis so we can donate to the cystic fibrosis foundation.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we do that through coffee products.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: We have uh our website called johnnypacker.net.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: You can go on there, you can order just about any kind of coffee you want on there.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: It is fresh roasted in New Albany, Mississippi at High Point Roaster.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: As soon as you order it, ships to your house within a week.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: You can get it whole bean, you can get it ground, you can get flavored, you can get unflavored, you can get blends, you can get regular, you can get whatever you want.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but every little thing that you you go on there helps us raise money for acid fibrosis.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: So if you like coffee, you have a friend that likes coffee, family member that likes coffee, johnnypacker.net, get on there and get some coffee.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, speaking of New Albany, when I came up to go to the concert with you, uh was a little early, so I made a quick trip through New Albany.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't been to New Albany, New Albany, and I went through, and man, it's a really cool town.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: The cool thing about it is, like you said, they they're locally uh in Mississippi that uh does the coffee at high point roasters in New Albany.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: So you're supporting, you're not only supporting uh the Citic Fibrosis Foundation, but you're supporting a local company here in the state of Mississippi.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: People like to do business locally uh rather than uh universal.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um and I mean it's good to do both, but you're you're helping people at home when you do that.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: So and like I said, that New Albany is a great town and uh really, really good to help support local.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: But a little bit about me, I know most of the people know about my story about cystic fibrosis.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'm 44 years old now.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: When I was born, life's getting was 15.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I have uh my expiration date has uh I've kicked it uh beyond um what I it was supposed to be.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: So every day is a gift, uh, not just for me, everybody.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody's living with something uh that could be struggling and just keep fighting, keep living.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's my motto after my context, just keep living every single day, uh, just keep fighting it because uh once you give up, man, it's hard with, especially with CF, you can't you can't get it back.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's a losing battle.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: So always stay on top of it.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: And that's just the way and attitude, attitude means so much uh when you're fighting something like that.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're yeah, I mean you're gonna get depressed, days are gonna be bad, you're gonna have bad days, but just keep pushing forward because there's light at the end of the tunnel.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: And thank God for tricapta.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: I talk about this all the time.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: People who listen to it, uh, this podcast know all about tricaptis.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: The miracle drug for cystic fibrosis came out in 2019.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: I moved back up to start one in 2019 because I was about to have to have a lung transplant.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: I was uh health was failing fast, and I was uh I was uh you have to live two hours from uh where you get your transplant and UAB is where they were doing it.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I was getting to be ready to be put on the list because my health was so bad, but they told me that this miracle drug would come out and would help you.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: And gosh, it has, man.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's uh it's not a cure by any means, but it knocked me off the transplant list and pulled my made my lung function raise up about uh 15 points, which you know that's that's a miracle as in itself.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: There was nothing before tricafta.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: I would do IB antibiotics, month-long stays in the hospital to try to clear this stuff up in my lungs, get off of it, it will come right back.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: And with tricafta, it goes in and it attacks the uh the chloride channel, which is what the cystic fibrosis is, and and the mucus gets clogged up um this this chloride channel, and uh this thing, tricapta, opens it up to where the mucus can flow freely like a normal person.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the only bad thing about it, I'm 44, like I said, which is a blessing, but also a curse because I have 44 years of lung damage that's irreversible.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: So uh you can't get what CF has done to my lungs for these past four decades, I can't recover that.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: There's no way.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: But the good thing about it is tricapta should keep it from deteriorating even more.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: So uh the kids born today have it easy, man.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like they'll get track get on tricapta immediately, and they are expected to live into their 60s.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just uh advancement in modern medicine is absolutely amazing.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that's why we do this podcast is to help because unfortunately, uh it's not for everybody with CF.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: There's 10% of the CF population that we fight for every day.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh they cannot take TriCAF for their back just like I was before I could get it, uh, doing IVs, doing all the stuff, just to start it, try to stay healthy.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: And uh they're not gonna stop raising money until uh everybody gets effective treatment.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: And uh they're working really hard to get these uh last 10%, and uh and that's what we raise money for.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so if you're listening to this podcast and uh we we'd encourage you to go go to uh johnnypacker.net, get uh get a bag of coffee, ships to your door.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: You can put it on an automatic and to where you don't have to keep remembering it'll automatically come to your door.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: You're you're looking with like less than 20 bucks a bag, so you're making a huge difference.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: We're you know, we used to sell the glasses for a couple hundred bucks.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_00: This is super affordable, and uh, and you're helping a great cause in the Citifibris Foundation because uh without without people donating money, we would not have truck app today.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_00: And uh like I said, our goal is to make sure everybody that 10% uh gets something.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: So you're playing it play it playing a big part on it.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: You might not think you buying a bag of coffee makes a difference, but it really does.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: So appreciate it.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just to add to that, too, I was in Kroger yesterday looking at coffee, and um, you know, you can't really get a good bag of coffee for less than$15 now if you drink good coffee.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you can get folders for less than$10, but anything else that's gonna be this high quality, freshly roasted, you know, single origin Colombian coffee, wherever you like it from, you're gonna spend 20 bucks and up most of the time.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: And that's about what our coffee is.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: And the nice thing about our coffee compared to that coffee at Kroger is it goes to the Sissi Bibrosa Foundation.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: That that profit margin we have in there, that's that's kind of built in to be able to donate to that.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, people are spending money on coffee.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: So if you get on our website and you're like, man, this seems kind of expensive, just go in the store and see how much it is.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: If you like good coffee, you're gonna pay for it.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: So we have we appreciate the support, especially our buddy Juan Valdez.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: He just ordered a a refill a week or so ago.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so he definitely is enjoying that coffee.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so y'all hop out there and check it out.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Juan Valdez and and uh Dr.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: Kevin Cossack, I believe those are our that they're they're loyal supporters and yeah, uh always getting the coffee.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, we love that if you if you would help help the cause and do that.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: And and uh like I always tell everybody, a win-win deal.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: You get you get coffee that tastes good and you're helping helping people that that desperately need need help.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: So um yeah, I thank you all for doing that.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: But but yeah, we also get on here and we talk about we're both graduates from Mississippi State and we uh we enjoy football season every year, and this is kind of a way, like I said earlier, just to keep keep us involved every week.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: And uh well we'll hop on here with a guest every now and then.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: But but in this particular episode, uh we've been doing this, I guess, 22, 23, four, like four years now, I think, as far as the preview.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: So uh it's funny to go back and listen, you know, in 2022, 23, 24 seasons, how we picked the record and then how how the season ended up being.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: So it's pretty pretty neat to see that.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: But we'll just go one by one, BW if you want to do that.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: Go through the schedule and see who you think what's gonna win, and then and then either either you go first or I'll go first, and then we'll compare the records.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I got it.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um, one other just housekeeping note is uh we're gonna try to add a little segment in this year.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, kind of update people on what's going on in Starkfield.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: There's always a lot of new developments happening.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like, you know, every time I'm in town, there's something new, there's somewhere new to eat, you know, there's there's a lot more to do than there used to be when we were in school.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: And uh Johnny lives there, so he's kind of firsthand, you know, seeing a lot of this stuff.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: And so um we'll kind of throw in a little segment for people that are wanting to visit town, want to go, you know, check out a new restaurant or something like that.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: We'll we'll be planning to talk about that some this season as well.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: So as well.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: So stay tuned for that too.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, speaking on that, the uh breaking news today.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: We'll go ahead and talk about people have been teasing it for about a week now.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: They said August 20th, a big announcement would be made, and sure enough, it has been made.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh there will be a new hotel, uh, 122-room hotel.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be um hotel uh Madeleon.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure I'm saying that wrong, but anyway, that's the name of the school's first fight song.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it's gonna be in the whole new uh development.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, if you're familiar with Mississippi State and Starbucks, you know about the Cotton District, it's been there for many, many years.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: Well, in between the Cotton District and the university, they're gonna make something called the Crossroads District, and they're gonna put this hotel there and and build everything around it.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, and you won't have to walk across Highway 12.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know, uh during game weeks, you have to fight the oncoming traffic to cross Highway 12 to get out of there.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna make this uh pretty cool land bridge type thing where where you can uh walk across.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: And it's gonna be really neat.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: They're doing so much stuff in Starville, uh uh Main Street.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's been going on a renovation for for a while now, where uh where they they're making the sidewalks out and and uh really, really neat.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um it's gonna be uh people who've come up that have not come up here.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: I know last year BW came up and we rode around.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: You couldn't believe all the developments uh in since the last time you were here.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just crazy every every year.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: But this this thing is uh is gonna be monumental and it's gonna be believe they I read the opening is in fall of 27, so in two more years, but um really big things happening around town.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I like to get on um uh a lot of people involved with the with with the project coming on, and we'll get them on and to talk a little bit about them and um you know for people to coming up for the for the weekends and we'll know uh where things are and and what what's when they see construction that what is that and then we'll fill you in so you'll know what's going on.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm excited to hear about that.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um well Johnny, let me tell you what I think about this season.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: So all right, you know, um it's it's kind of crazy this day and age.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: We're talking about this with the basketball team too, with the transfer portal.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you don't hardly know any of the people that are still on the team.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, who's really gonna be impact players?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: You you see all these different transfers coming in.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: They, you know, four-star this, four-star that, like this guy's gonna be great, whatever.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: Like nobody really knows until they get out there on the field.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we could be really good or we could be really bad.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so the the quarterback room is kind of the most interesting thing.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, uh shaping, does he stay healthy?
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, where where do we go from there after after that?
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: And and it's just it's it's just kind of there's not a good way to know um how we're gonna how we're gonna look this year.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm gonna be optimistic and I'm gonna um, you know, give it give us, we're gonna build on last year.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give Levy some credit um and and and feel good about it.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm calling this the year of the streak, Johnny.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um the reason I'm calling it that is because I believe we're gonna win our first five games in a row.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna start out on a five-game winning streak.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: But listen to this.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: Then we're gonna go on a six-game losing streak after that.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: And then we're gonna beat Ole Miss the last game of the year to go bowl eligible.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna be six and six at the end of the year.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: Six and six?
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, I really hope that happens, but uh I just don't see it happening.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: But that's well here, here.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: Let me let me break it down.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: Here, here we go.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: All right, so you know, so you got Southern Miss, that's a W.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um, even though it's at Southern, uh still Arizona State, it's at home, they're a different team.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: They, you know, they don't have Scatabo anymore, do they?
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, then we got an Alporta State, Northern Illinois.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: Those are Ws.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Tennessee, they don't have a quarterback.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: We hung with them a little while last year.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's at home, they're not as good as they were last year.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: They got embarrassed in the college football playoff.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: I think I think we have a chance to take that game from them.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um and that's beyond Ole Miss, Arizona State, those are really the only three that I see us capable of like winning, like as in an upset upset fashion.
• 20:52
  unknown: Right.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_01: So um, and and we can thank my student.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he's a big old Miss guy.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: He's also a Southern Miss guy.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: He's the one that that that um you know caught me on to that the the Tennessee game.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: He's the one that gave me that little tidbit.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: So cool.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's my prediction.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: Well, BW, I hate to be the W downer of the situation, but I'm just gonna call it like it is, like I see.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh uh yeah, Southern Miss, man.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: I think we uh we we go down to Hattiesburg and get the W.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: However, if we struggle against Southern Mist, things are gonna get nasty around here.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: People are gonna start caught saying fire and fire as they already do.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: And uh it's just it could get it could get really ugly if you if you that again needs to be a statement win.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: We need to come out with some offense.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: And Southern Miss is is better than they were last year.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: They they're they got a coach that used to coach in Mississippi State, and he brought a bunch of guys from Marshall down.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: So uh it will be will be interesting.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: I do think we'll put up more points.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: So I think our offense, our quarterback room, like you just talked about, shaping Kruman Hawk is a guy from Florida State, and Camaria Taylor, the freshman from Knoxville.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: We've got a three stud.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I wouldn't call them studs.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: Camario Taylor is an upcoming stud.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know about the other two guys.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: Shaping gets hurt a lot.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm predicting him to get hurt again this year.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: And then we're stuck with Croman Hawker Camario Taylor.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: But hopefully he doesn't.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: But running back, man, I'm really fired up about the running back room.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: This is the depth in the running back room, is the most depth Mississippi State's had probably since we were in college when we had Disinzo and Dante.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: These guys are really good.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: Devon Booth, he was able to come back for one more year.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: He's huge.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: He really made a push towards the end this last season and became really a breakout player.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: And then you got the guy Fluff Bothwell, Fluff is his name.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: He's supposed to be really good.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: And then Johnny Daniels is coming back.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I feel really comfortable comfortable with the running back room.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: I think we're going to be all right on offense.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's not going to be the issue.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: I think defense, again, just like last year.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we were we were the worst, probably the worst defense I've ever seen Mississippi State had.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: And we had a bad defense in 03.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I believe last year's defense was worse than that.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: So I think I read somewhere we were where we had like 10 sacks all season.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: Some players on some teams had 10 sacks.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: So uh, you know, defense has got to step up.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I just uh until I see it, I'm not gonna believe it.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I think that's where we're gonna struggle again this year.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: But if we can put up enough points in games to where the defense, because you know the defense can give up points, but we're just gonna have to score a lot.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: Offense is gonna have to hit on all cylinders.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, with that being said, I think we come out of Hattiesburg 1-0.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh BW, Arizona State.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I remember last year I was picking this.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: I think you can't remember if you picked your Ari Mona uh Arizona State last year to win or not.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: I I did not.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, but I had no idea that they had Scattabow last year.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: I remember watching that game and we were going into it.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: We're thinking, you know, it's a toss-up game.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: And then Scattabo runs all over us, and then they they're they're just freaking unbelievable all year.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: So uh they don't they're not gonna be as good as they were last year and no scatabow.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: However, I just don't think we pull it off.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's gonna be a tough game.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: I do think it'll be a close game.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh they're calling that we're gonna be breaking out uh black uniforms for that game, which is odd because it's gonna be September, it's gonna be hot.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: But uh I don't know what they're thinking, but the black uniforms do look good.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: But uniforms, as we all know, do not make a team win or lose.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: So I think we drop Arizona State.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: Alcorn State, easy W.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: Northern Illinois.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: I really hope that Levy uh focuses in on the guys.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: This is not a gimme game.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: Notre Dame.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: Notre Dame, who played for the national championship last year, lost to Northern Illinois in the regular season.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: So it can be done.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: Northern Illinois could could upset you.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: So uh I do think we get the win there, but they need to be on high upset alert on that game, and I'm sure they will.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, not to overlook, especially, you know, if we do like you said and beat Arizona State and we're rolling into 3-0 and 4-0 going into Tennessee, you could overlook Northern Illinois thinking Tennessee's coming, it's gonna be a big ordain, big game.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a tricky game, but I do think we'll uh do think we'll pull out the win.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: Tennessee, uh I love your prediction, man.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: I just can't go there with you.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: I just I just don't think we're gonna win.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think I don't think Tennessee's gonna be as good with Nico.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um whatever his name is, transfer transferring.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think they're gonna be as good as last year.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like they were a playoff team, but we did hang with them.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's gonna be a whiteout.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: They're inner uh they're honoring the 25-year uh 2000 snowball team.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh they're sure Coach Hare will be there.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: They're pulling out the uh interlockings, which everybody's been wanting.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: Uh for the Johnny, that's they're come on, Johnny.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's gonna be you're giving me you're giving it to me.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: I know, right?
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, all this stuff.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I can see it.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: If we're 4-0, I'm putting it, I'll put it this way, BW.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: If we're 4-0 going to that game, we're we're being in Tennessee.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: I will say that.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: But if we drive the state and lose, I think we lose to Tennessee.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: That's where I would.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I can see that.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: So a lot, lots of things in our favor uh for that Tennessee game as far as interlockings and Coach Cheryl, the team coming back, which is funny, BW.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: This might be the last year Coach Cheryl's teams gets honored because if you think 98 was two years ago that they won the West, and we honored them uh two years ago for those 25 years.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: Last year was the 99 team, which had all the comebacks 25 years.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: This year is the snowball team 25 years.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: And then you know what happened in 01 from then on out.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't have a good year until 2007 with Prune.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: So it'll be another, it'll be a while before you honor a 25-year team.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: So uh I do think uh I do think it's gonna be a big weekend in Starbucks, but that Arizona State game is crucial.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: If you get a win there, I think you beat Tennessee.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: But I am gonna say we lose to Arizona State, which means we lose to Tennessee.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh going on the road to uh Texas AM, uh that's a loss.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: Just no way.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: At Calfield, uh be a tough environment.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: You we just can't win that one.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: I don't see it.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: Florida, uh man, I'm going to that game.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: I uh going to Orlando that week.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: It'll be 20 years since I did an internship at Disney World.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_00: Pretty hard to believe.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna time that to where I can go to Gainesville for the game.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh been to Gainesville before many times, actually.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the first time I went was in 01.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: I went with the team.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: And man, we're we're gonna be 28 to nothing into the first quarter, and they had their keys out.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: I stayed uh I stayed up with one of the bus drivers.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's pretty funny.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, Florida, uh, I think they're gonna surprise a bunch of people this year.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, everybody's saying Napier, you know, he's out.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, if he does bad, he's out.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: But I think Florida, uh, I do think that their quarterback is elite quarterback, but I did read where he he could be banged up.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: But uh if he's a if he's full force, ready to go and healthy, uh, I don't think we have a chance.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: DJ Lagway, the guy's name, by the way.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh look for him to make some noise if he's healthy this year.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I give us a loss there.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: Texas, uh, they come to Mississippi State, you know, have a house open if McConaughey's listening.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: McConaughey's listening.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: He can come stay.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: Come stay.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: You didn't even come to the game last year, and I was in Austin.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: McConaughey wasn't even there.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: So uh anyway, I don't know.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: I doubt he comes to starble, but if he does, it'll be interesting.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: But uh Texas, Arch Manning.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: However, uh Peyton Manning's first start as a quarterback at Tennessee, 1994, on the road at Mississippi.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: I was at that game and we knocked off Peyton Manning and the Volunteers.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: It was a great day.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_00: Don't see it happening with Arch.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: I think Arch is gonna be the player of the year this year.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh in SEC, I think he's uh gonna be all just, I think uh, I mean, I've had to pick out I think Texas gonna win the Natty this year.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they're they're just loaded, and Arch is really good, so that's a loss.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Arkansas on the road.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Sam Pittman, I don't know if he'll still be the coach then.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they're ready to get rid of him.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: Cold beers are getting getting hot in Fayetteville right now, BW.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh jukebox is kind of quiet.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so Arkansas needs to turn up the jukebox and get some cold beers uh if they want to uh to keep their coach.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um that game is tough, BW.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we're we're looking at, let's see, we lost eight conference games last year.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_00: We missed 0-8.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: So if we lose to Tennessee, 0-9, AM 0-10, 0-11, Florida, 0-12.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: We'd have been on a 12-game conference losing streak going to Fayetteville.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, man, that's tough.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's really hard.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh motions, you know, you get down and uh you can let it let it get out of hand, even if it's Arkansas.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: But I think we break the streak of losing 12 conference games in a row.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and I think we beat Arkansas.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I think Sam Pittman gets fired.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_00: I think he gets fired.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, we've had uh we've had that happen in the past where you know we beat someone and they get you know creomed or mulllined or something like that.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I think Sam Pittman, if he's still the coach there and we beat him, I think he's fired the next day.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: But I do think we get a win there and break our conference streak, losing street.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Georgia Bulldogs and Rackham Willie come rolling in to start Vegas.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh nope, nope, gonna give that a loss.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: Georgia, Texas, they're just uh step above everybody else in the country.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that's a loss.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Missouri.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: We play on the road in Missouri, and uh that is a tough game, BW.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'd like for us to win this game.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'd really like to pick us to win this game, but Missouri, they come out of nowhere every year.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_00: They surprise people.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody thinks they're gonna be terrible, and they're always like right there, like they're not playoff bound, but they're not like not making a bowl.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: They're they're legit, like seven, eight, nine-game winning straight uh wins every year.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_00: Kind of weird.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: Last year they came to Davis Wade.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody thought the same thing that we would have a chance, and they beat us.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, being on the road, I just I don't see it happening.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: I think I think we dropped that one.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: And then the egg bowl, man.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's so hard to tell sitting here.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_00: We say this every year uh for a game, November 28th, uh peeking about that in August.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you could lose your quarterback, you could lose your running back, you could lose lineman, you could there's no telling what happens.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_00: So we're just strictly going out on a limb here and uh and saying saying this.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_00: And uh man, I I things might change, BW, but or call me a homer or all you want, but I think we take the egg back, man.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: I really do.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: I think uh I do think old miss is gonna be good, but I think we shocked some people, surprised people, people wanting Levy gone.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: He's out, you know.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: If he loses to Ole Miss, we've only been Arkansas one SEC game in in two years now.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: Get him out of here.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: And he surprised people, and we upset Ole Miss.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh keeps his job at going into year three.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's my prediction.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I don't know what will happen.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but how many wins is that in my givenness?
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh two, one, two, three, four.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: Is that five wins?
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um Southern Miss, Alcorn, Northern Illinois, Arkansas, and then yeah, so that's four.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's four wins.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_00: And old Miss, you know, I'm just wishful thinking saying five wins.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's still not enough to get get us to a bowl game, but I do think that's enough to hold on to his job.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if he if we do four wins, we lose four wins and we lose the egg ball, he's in big time trouble.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: Big time trouble.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: If we go three wins and don't win a conference game in two years, he's out.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: There's no, there's no there's no if, ands, or buts.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_00: I can't say people say give him time, give him time, give in this day and age in college football, there's no time.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: You have the transfer portal, you got NIL, you got all that stuff.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: There's no building on the future.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: So uh there's no excuse.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: If we go winless this year, Jeff Levy needs to be fired and we need a new coach.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: But um, I don't think we'll go winless.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: I do think we'll win win one or two conference games, but I don't think it's enough to get us to a bowl game.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, but yeah, you're the optimistic one.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_00: It looks like BW have us going to a ball game.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: So if we're going to a ball game, that's winning like that's like winning the national championship.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: All right, Johnny uh wager here, man.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_01: So um we knocked off Tennessee.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you come up here for a Grizzlies game, you take me to Combo Steakhouse.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that sounds like a deal.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: We we uh you know my record six and six, or your right, your record five and seven.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: We we need to throw something else onto that too.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll we'll have to figure that one out the season the season debate, but figure that out.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_01: Tennessee game.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Tennessee game, we'll uh we'll definitely put Combo Steakhouse on that one.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_00: Sounds good to me.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you got you have to take my student Trick McGee out with us too.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: He he uh he's he's gonna have to come since he's the one that told me about it, yeah.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: So told you about it, yeah.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_00: It is a uh it is a big uh big game.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, especially, but I I I still think Arizona State's the biggest game of the season, in my opinion.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he's not a conference game.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_00: It the emotions and everything on the season will ride on that game.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: Because if you win that game and you're sitting there 4-0 against Tennessee, yeah, man, like Vegas would be crazy to pick Tennessee to win because all the all the momentum will be Mississippi State's favor.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but if you drop, especially in a blowout fast in Arizona State, this thing could get ugly uh like it was last year.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully there's no Toledo game like last year on the schedule with these non-conference.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: Northern Illinois is the one I'm nervous about, uh non-conference wise, but uh outside of Arizona State.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: But I really think uh, and it won't know a lot after the Southern Miss game.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um as far as if we're if we come out and dominate them, then you know you're looking good coming in Arizona State.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: If you squeak by and get a win in Adiysburg, uh it's gonna be it's gonna be crazy.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_00: Now, God forbid you lose to Southern Miss in Adiysburg.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man Let's not even go there.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_01: Let's not even think about that.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's not in the season, the season's over with.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_00: So uh pretty crazy how fast things can uh turn in just week one or week two of a college football season.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_00: So uh looks like that's where we are this year.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you want to get in on our um, we do this every year.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'll set it up again.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't even know.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um we were doing it for like the winners each week or or each each uh well actually we just switched to each month.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: The person atop the standings at the end of each month got a bag, free bag of coffee for Johnny Packer.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_00: But man, it's hard to find these people because they sign up on Yahoo.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's what we do it on, and a lot of the email addresses are hidden or you can't get in contact with them or anything like that.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_00: So uh we weren't able to give some of them give some of them away last year because the winners had a hidden email address.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't know if we'll do that this year, but I mean I'll I'll still sign up the league.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: People more than welcome to sign in, and uh, and we might just come up with something at the end of the year if they have a legit email address.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: We can get it too.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_00: I think that would be cool.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_00: But uh it is fun to to week by week uh make picks and see how you get innings.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: So uh I'll get that together for us soon, like last year.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we'll look at that uh this week and we'll beginning of next show, we'll say we'll make an announcement about it and decide how we would do it.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_00: We won't do we won't do this week's games.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we'll start it for next week when when all the teams play.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_00: I think I think UNLV and Mullen play actually Saturday.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's week zero, but we'll skip these and uh start next the next week when all the big games start.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_00: But uh uh and then uh look for us to get back on here.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, every week we'll get back on previewing the each opponent, uh talking about you know memories we might have if we played that team uh in the past or anything like that.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_00: And every now and then we'll get a guest on.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we're looking at getting uh a national uh ESB and SEC guy that we've had before on uh next week to break down the SEC, the Southeastern Conference, uh, who he thinks is the front runner uh in the SEC.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I'd like to hear his take because like I said, BW uh uh before we even get to him, if he comes on, do you have a prediction?
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_00: Uh uh Texas and and LSU are my favorites uh this year in the in the SEC.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: What about you?
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I like it.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_01: I like LSU probably over Texas.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um I I think Arch is good, but he needs some experience.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_00: So I think Arch, uh Nelson Meyer at LSU and DJ Lagway at Florida.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_00: I think those three are gonna be the best quarterbacks in the league.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh like I said earlier, I think Florida's gonna be a turnaround, a surprise team in SEC.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_00: I think they're gonna they're gonna bounce back this year.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_00: If he's out based, it's gonna do really well.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_00: But I think uh I think I think Texas, LSU, Georgia, probably those three.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh everybody's counting out on Alabama.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_00: You can't ever count them out, but I just don't think they're never we'll never see Alabama, the Alabama that we were with Nick Saban.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you got uh what's we got roll tie wheelie coming to practice.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, come on, can you imagine Nick Saban letting that guy come to practice every day?
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, things have changed in Tuscaloosa, so not the same, which is good for us.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm glad I'm tired of seeing Alabama up top every year.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_00: And then and did you see this news about Auburn yesterday, BW?
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: Claiming Nattys from like the early 1900s.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I saw that.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, kind of weird, kind of weird.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_00: So uh I don't know.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_00: Some I heard someone talk about that yesterday about maybe that's their way of trying to turn the tension off of this year that they think this year is gonna be bad.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_00: So uh so I don't know.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it is odd, but we don't we don't play Venware Auburn um or real strange.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: But uh but yeah, it should be a great season.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: Look forward to it, even though um hopefully we can be competitive.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I can ask for with a team like we have.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: Just not get blown out in game.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm fine with losses.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh if you're if you're at playing hard and going down to the last snap and giving it your all, you know.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_00: I know there's no such thing as a moral victory, but uh there's a totally difference between giving it everything you can, coming up short against a team with more money, bigger players, you know, that you're not supposed to beat anyway, but you're hanging with them compared to just laying it out there and just getting smoked and rolled over.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_00: So anyway, if we can play competitively, I'm fine.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh dropping another losing season again.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_00: But uh we'll look things optimistically like your way and shoot for the six wins and try to get us bowls again.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_01: All right, Johnny.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we will be in touch and uh we'll talk to everybody next week.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate everybody listening.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_00: See y'all next week.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_00: Take care.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_00: All right, bye.