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Dan Patrick on What He Looks for When Interviewing Athletes + Coach Sam Pittman Discusses Dealing with the New Age of College Football & the NIL + Show Introductions + Bobby’s Weird Estate Sale Purchases · 25 Whistles with Bobby Bones (A Football Podcast)

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Speaker 1: This is a podcast called twenty five whist Stocking Fine Ball,
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Speaker 1: and they wear the whistle. Yes, but what did you
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Speaker 1: expect it's a podcast called five whistles whatever, everybody, we
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Speaker 1: we actually are wearing whistles, and we'll get to that
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Speaker 1: in a second. But whoever has the best show today
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Speaker 1: get to blow the whistle at the end. It's the
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Speaker 1: it's the reward for winning, doing the best job. If
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Speaker 1: you overplay, though, we'll take your whistle away for next game.
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Speaker 1: That's quite the reward, thinks the big one. It's the
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Speaker 1: only one person gets to blow the whistle at the end.
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Speaker 1: What's happening, everybody. So what we're gonna do here is
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do our warm ups, just like in a game,
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Speaker 1: and give you a warm up question. We'll go around
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Speaker 1: the room, we'll introduce you. This is how we get
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Speaker 1: to know each other. So we'll go around there and
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Speaker 1: first up the question will be who's your favorite football
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Speaker 1: player as a kid. So think about that for a second.
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Speaker 1: Your favorite player as a kid. First up, Adam Hambrick.
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Speaker 1: Adam your favorite football player as a child. Emmett Smith cowboy.
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Speaker 1: I grew up a Cowboys fan. Yeah that you know
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Speaker 1: the de Other's Cowboys get the traditional TV coverage in Arkansas,
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Speaker 1: and that's who was on and that's who my dad
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Speaker 1: was a fan of, and so I was. I got
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Speaker 1: duped into being a Cowboys fan when they were winning
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Speaker 1: all those Super Bowls and the nineties Eddie Joe Montana.
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Speaker 1: So before I was there a Cowboys you hear me.
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Speaker 1: Before I was a Cowboys fan, I was the Ford
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Speaker 1: Niners fan obviously because Joe Montana and Jared Rice and
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Speaker 1: all those dudes were just dominating. And then once Joe
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Speaker 1: Montana went to the Chiefs retired, blah bla blah, I
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Speaker 1: was like, I need a team, and so my mom
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Speaker 1: was really into the Cowboys. Obviously, I'm from South Texas.
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Speaker 1: Let's go Cowboys and we started winning. That's my team now.
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Speaker 1: But you can't really change teams. Well, you're not, as
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Speaker 1: I literally thought you were a much like deeper Cowboys fan. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I feel borderland trade Listen, you can't trade teams. Listen.
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Speaker 1: When you're a kid, you like who you like and
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Speaker 1: at that time, it's just whoever is winning it. I
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Speaker 1: don't have a team, like, can you imagine I can't
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Speaker 1: imagine me a Ford Niners fans still like that. That's ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: I'm not from California, Texas, but I'm surprised you just
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Speaker 1: weren't as a kid. I guess that's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Are there any die hard Texans fans? I mean, like
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Speaker 1: unless you like live there and you're like soup, you know,
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Speaker 1: that would be I remember as a kid kid maybe
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Speaker 1: a Texans fan because they grew up there. I remember
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Speaker 1: as a kid there were a lot of Oilers, like
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Speaker 1: it was split Cowboys. Oilers and Cowboys weren't I mean,
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Speaker 1: stop back. Those were great days for them. But I
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Speaker 1: think there were more Oilers fans when Texans took over.
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Speaker 1: I mean I didn't know anybody kick off Kevin. Your
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Speaker 1: favorite football players a kid as a kid? Um, Well,
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Speaker 1: either one would be Tom Brady, but he's still playing,
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Speaker 1: so I'll go with Randy Moss. That's crazy. Do you
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Speaker 1: have such a beer and big muscles? How old are
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Speaker 1: you at a young age? No? You do not do
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Speaker 1: that's all. Yeah, like the oil fields for like twenty years.
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Speaker 1: Is that a good thing? That's a good thing. That's
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Speaker 1: a good thing. He's like see Kwan Barkley as a kid,
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Speaker 1: It's like Joe Burrow. Maybe Mike d favorite football player
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Speaker 1: as a kid Troy Aikman. Okay, that's a good one.
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Speaker 1: How old are you, Mike? There we go. There's like
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Speaker 1: a generation difference though on your favorite players. Though, I
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Speaker 1: guess Tom Brady the first part of Tom Brady, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like the earlier. But like I said, the first player
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Speaker 1: I remember liking was Randy Moss. Dear god, we have
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Speaker 1: three Cowboys fans here. It's a Cowboys show. Welcome to
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys Club. Mine is boomerssayasin because when I was
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Speaker 1: a kid, he was the only left handed quarterback that
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Speaker 1: I really like, and in the Forts were winning, so
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Speaker 1: I didn't go with Steve Young and Joe Montana was
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Speaker 1: hit early in my early days. And then when Steve
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Speaker 1: Young became the quarterback and he was left handed, I
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Speaker 1: don't like a winner. I like somebody that's a loser
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Speaker 1: that becomes a winner. So I was a big Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: Bengals fan, remember watching them be by the forty niners
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Speaker 1: and being so sad. I cried. It was it was awful.
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Speaker 1: But Boomersia said he was my inspiration until like seventh
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Speaker 1: grade when I wasn't quarterback anymore, and he also went
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Speaker 1: to the Jets, and there's a whole weird thing. So,
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Speaker 1: but I don't have a team. I don't have an
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Speaker 1: NFL team. I like a lot of the NFL teams.
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Speaker 1: I hate a few NFL teams, mostly just the Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: But and I don't even have no reason. But I
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Speaker 1: don't even hate him as much. I hated a winner,
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Speaker 1: So I hated the Cowboys all throughout the you know,
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Speaker 1: mid to late nineties. We should love us now, well, yes,
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Speaker 1: you're a big losers, but you guys are so annoying.
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Speaker 1: So you say annoying, I say, we're very hopeful. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a passion, hope because every start of the year
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Speaker 1: we're like, this is it. I can appreciate that. I
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Speaker 1: don't I like that about you, but I can respect
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Speaker 1: and also hate the passion. Hey, is it too late
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Speaker 1: for you to come up with a favorite NFL team?
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Speaker 1: Like I have a couple of friends that play, and
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Speaker 1: that makes it weird. Wish we should take some tweets
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Speaker 1: and like get people to to for their teams. I
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Speaker 1: don't give a crap. I'm good watching. I'll watch Fantasy.
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Speaker 1: I'll root for the Titans because they're close and some
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Speaker 1: people over there follow Arkansas players like Tryline Brooks with
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Speaker 1: the Titans. I'll keep up with that, so okay. Second question,
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Speaker 1: name a dumb sports mascot? All right, name a dumb
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Speaker 1: sports mascot. Question. Eddie says he's in go Blue Devil. Okay,
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Speaker 1: the dude, Blue div man? What is that? High school
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Speaker 1: was red devil's I get it when you picture the devil,
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Speaker 1: it's red, right, But what's a blue devil's colors? Like
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Speaker 1: the ice a devil? Is that his? Like, I just
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Speaker 1: don't get it. His twin brother, that's the good devil.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point. Kick off, Kevin, let's go with
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Speaker 1: the Philly fanatic. I think it's just random to me.
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Speaker 1: His look. You know, that's an interesting thing too, because
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Speaker 1: when the mascot doesn't actually like Stanford, But what is it?
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Speaker 1: They have a tree and they have Christmas trade year round.
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Speaker 1: That wasn't my answer. Oh that's like, but yeah, Toledo.
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Speaker 1: You know Toledo's mascot are the Rockets Rockets? Um, so
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Speaker 1: I hate the Toledo Rockets. First of all, I hate
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Speaker 1: hate because we went and Brad Paisley asked Eddie and
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Speaker 1: I to go play a show. After Arkansas played Toledo.
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Speaker 1: It was a more memorial stadium, and so we're supposed
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Speaker 1: to kill him and Eddie now are like absolutely so
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Speaker 1: somebody an opener. Eddie and I had the regging idiots
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Speaker 1: and Brad Paisley right after the game. We're supposed to win.
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Speaker 1: We lost the game to Toledo. They beat us, and
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Speaker 1: we were miserable. I was I didn't want to do
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Speaker 1: as awful. So I hate the Rockets. I mean, Toledo's
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Speaker 1: cool and fine. I was really worried that night that
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Speaker 1: you weren't gonna go on my boycott. Straight up, Mike
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Speaker 1: d named dumb sports mascot. I can't even think of wood,
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Speaker 1: not a single dumb mascot. If I thought some of
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Speaker 1: would razorback. No, somebody gets fired the first ever hear
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Speaker 1: from them again. Uh, Adam hambroke a dumb sports mascot.
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Speaker 1: Why is Alabama the Elephants? I still don't understand it.
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Speaker 1: I've been it's been explained to me multiple times, but
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Speaker 1: I still don't get it to care. I think a
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Speaker 1: war eagle similar meaning what's a war eagle? I like
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Speaker 1: the eagle, but I like a piece eagle like the
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Speaker 1: American eagle. Yeah, I mean yeah, I forget to pick
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Speaker 1: the kind of eagle. Okay, we're all stretching out. We
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Speaker 1: got one more. Would your why life or Kevin? I
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Speaker 1: don't think you have a you're married? Sorry? No, you
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Speaker 1: have a girlfriend? No, I don't. Would your wife or
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Speaker 1: have you ever had a hypothetical? Have you ever had
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Speaker 1: a girlfriend? What's the last time? The last serious one
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Speaker 1: was probably four years ago. Okay, let's just act like
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Speaker 1: you're still together. Okay, perfect. Would your wife rather you
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Speaker 1: be generally a good athlete or would you rather you
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Speaker 1: generally have good fashion sense? If it was just naturally
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Speaker 1: in you? Mike d fashion sense? My wife gets on
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Speaker 1: me all the time that I dressed like crap Adam
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Speaker 1: hambrig Oh, definitely fashion sense. Yeah, Kevin athlete for sure, Eddie,
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Speaker 1: I mean I don't dress well. My wife never says anything,
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Speaker 1: and she loves that. My boys are athletes, like my
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Speaker 1: little kids are really good athletes, and she loves that.
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Speaker 1: So I think she would like for her husband to
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Speaker 1: be an athlete. Yeah, I'm gonna go with athlete to
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Speaker 1: My wife is extremely athletic. It's annoying. She's so gifted.
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Speaker 1: Athlete athletically, and so I think she would like that
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Speaker 1: for kid time for the kid to Dear God, if
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Speaker 1: it gets my athletic ability, not hers. She can kill me.
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Speaker 1: And I was a pretty good athlete, but she's you know,
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Speaker 1: um and she can handle the fashion stuff for me. Out.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday I went to dinner and I walked down all
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Speaker 1: my clothes a landing on in the bed. I didn't
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Speaker 1: put them out. She picked him out for me. That's nice. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: she kills that. Um. So all right, twenty five whistles.
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Speaker 1: Here's why we're named this draft. Kings was like, hey,
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Speaker 1: let's I want you to do a show and I said, okay.
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Speaker 1: We talked about it for a long time and I said,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to commit to a show for all year.
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Speaker 1: I don't know who's gonna do it with me. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if we have the capat. I said, let's
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Speaker 1: load to a sports show and we'll do it till
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. They were like, great, I'll do one
8:41
Speaker 1: a week, which we're doing here. We'll probably do a
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Speaker 1: little more than one week occasionally. But I said, I'll
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Speaker 1: do twenty five and then we're retiring. And so that's
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Speaker 1: why it's twenty five whistles will build the whistle to
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Speaker 1: into each show, episodes over and then we're good. Episode two.
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Speaker 1: That's it. Dan Patrick coming up in a little bits.
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Speaker 1: As I look back at my favorite interviews ever and
8:58
Speaker 1: like the coolest ones. I put Steven Tyler up there,
9:01
Speaker 1: half Aurady with John Mayer, and I put Dan Patrick
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Speaker 1: because I'm just a massive Dan Patrick fan. You guys
9:06
Speaker 1: thought it was cool, right it was? It was awesome.
9:09
Speaker 1: So Dan Patrick coming up. And obviously the first episode,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have Sam Pittman, the Arkansas football head coach.
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Speaker 1: We don't really talk about Arkansas football, meaning we don't
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Speaker 1: get in. It's mostly like being an SEC coach, being
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Speaker 1: famous now in a town, all of that. So we
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Speaker 1: talked with Sam Pittman a little bit. I was worried
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Speaker 1: that when you book Sam Pittman, I'm like, here we go,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be an Arkansas podcast. It easily could
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Speaker 1: have been, but I didn't make it that I It
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Speaker 1: was could have been any SEC head coach, but I
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Speaker 1: just felt like I needed to go Pittman because that's
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Speaker 1: my guy, and I knew I could get on. I
9:38
Speaker 1: just texted him, honestly. So next week and we get
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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks coach to play quarterback for it. Dal Logins
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Speaker 1: coming on the polic All right, here's what we're gonna do.
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Speaker 1: This is a little game we're gonna play for the
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Speaker 1: twenty five episodes that we do. You don't have to play,
9:52
Speaker 1: but if you don't get in today, you can't play
9:53
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. Oh my gosh. Right, So
9:56
Speaker 1: we're gonna play who Wins It All? It's so for
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Speaker 1: one dollar. For one dollar, you can buy a team
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Speaker 1: in college football. You can somebody else can buy the
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Speaker 1: same team for one dollar. You can buy a team
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Right now, you go who wins it All?
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Speaker 1: Put a dollar in on it, and you can keep
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Speaker 1: that one dollar. And now if you change your pick
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Speaker 1: at any time, you gotta double your dollar bet to
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Speaker 1: two dollars. You can change and pick another team. So
10:23
Speaker 1: that being the case, we'll have to shut it down
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Speaker 1: at one point. Obviously, what figure out when that is?
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's new Year. Maybe it's because I just made
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Speaker 1: the scheme up last night. So I don't want you
10:32
Speaker 1: guys to go beautiful mind to figure out how to
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Speaker 1: actually beat the system. So we're gonna play who Wins
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Speaker 1: it all. Nobody got a heads up. But for one dollar,
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Speaker 1: you get to pick a team and each one dollar college,
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Speaker 1: one dollar NFL, and we'll keep up with it. Um,
10:44
Speaker 1: does everybody want in for a dollar? Anyone? It would
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Speaker 1: be dumb. Yes, Let's play who wins it all? And
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Speaker 1: we'll check every week if we wants to change your mind?
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Speaker 1: Who wins it all? In college football? Okay? Now, remember,
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Speaker 1: if you pick a big team, someone else might pick
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Speaker 1: it with you. You just can't come in on a
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Speaker 1: team that's already picked a week after or later. So
11:09
Speaker 1: if you pick Alabama right now and you have been
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Speaker 1: up changing your mind to go to somebody else, I
11:14
Speaker 1: can then go to Alabama. But if you have it,
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Speaker 1: I can't take Alabama later because we got to split
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Speaker 1: the money up in a weird way. Also, I'm making
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Speaker 1: up the rules as I go. Right now, Okay, let's
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Speaker 1: play who wins it all? Adam Hambrike college football? Who
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Speaker 1: wins it all? Oh man, I'm gonna it's hard to
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Speaker 1: argue against Alabama. I'm gonna argue against Alabama though, and
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Speaker 1: take Ohio State just big. We can't. We can't just
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Speaker 1: have Alabama win it every year, you guys, well, I
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Speaker 1: mean they didn't. I know, um, Eddie, give me a
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Speaker 1: dollar for Alabama? Okay, I mean why not was guaranteed money?
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Speaker 1: Man kick off? Kevin roll tied, I'm going Obama. Okay,
11:53
Speaker 1: we've got two Obamas. Mike d I'm going with Georgia.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, you know what. First week, I'm also gonna go.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I do want, but I just want
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Speaker 1: to be different. I don't want to go three deep
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Speaker 1: on Alabama. We should have all written it down before,
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Speaker 1: but I thought if I could read it read you
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Speaker 1: just came up with it. I know, but I'm just
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Speaker 1: coming up with the game as we go here. But yesterday,
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Speaker 1: he means, like an hour ago, I'm gonna go with Alabama.
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Speaker 1: After all that thought, I still go to Aabama. Help. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So there we go. That's that's NFL. That money is
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Speaker 1: at one pot in FL. Ready. Ye let's go around
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Speaker 1: the room, pick your team and it'll cost you one
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Speaker 1: dollar to get in. Mike, do you get to go first?
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Speaker 1: I'm going with the Bucks kick off? Kevin, see you
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Speaker 1: want to go to the Bucks to Yeah, let's go
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Speaker 1: with the Bucks camp by Adam, I'm going Bengals. Okay, yep,
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Speaker 1: Eddie a bunch of idiots. It's a dollar. Give me
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Speaker 1: the cowboys. Give me the cowboys. In week five, I'll
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Speaker 1: probably change another dollar. I didn't say when they started
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Speaker 1: out over I'm gonna go with packers so that you know,
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Speaker 1: you guys can't hop on the packers. So I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: sit on the packers for a little bit. I'll go
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Speaker 1: with the packers to win at all. Just we should
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Speaker 1: have like a jar and have actual dollar bills. We
13:12
Speaker 1: should put it somewhere when people steal from here. But
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Speaker 1: it's only again, it's like five bucks, so it's like
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Speaker 1: a big deal. But everybody has there, Yes, everybody. Everybody
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Speaker 1: has two dollars. Yes, So just so I'm clear on
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Speaker 1: the rules. Can once we pick a team, we can't
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Speaker 1: and then we change from that team, we can't come
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Speaker 1: back to that team. You can if nobody else is
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Speaker 1: on it. If no one else is it, but like
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Speaker 1: Alabama's already been packed, Alabama's on, so it's long if
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Speaker 1: if one of you Alabamas or me move off of it,
13:37
Speaker 1: as long as somebody's still on it, it's not open
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Speaker 1: to take. If everybody moves off, somebody else can get
13:41
Speaker 1: back on. But if I were to get in a
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Speaker 1: week four, then the money is all weirdly split up
13:45
Speaker 1: and we've got to do percentages. You got it. And
13:48
Speaker 1: if I that's the rules and I don't, I have
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Speaker 1: to look back what I said. Okay, so we all
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Speaker 1: have our teams here. I do want to talk about
13:56
Speaker 1: Draft Kings for a second, because they're awesome and they're
13:58
Speaker 1: the reason that I'm doing this, and I've been with
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Speaker 1: Draft Kings for a long time as in not just spokesperson,
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Speaker 1: I'm not just spokesperson. I'm also a client. Um. So
14:06
Speaker 1: when we're talking about the futures, the Bills are the
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Speaker 1: favorite at plus six hundred, so they nobody picked the
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Speaker 1: Bills or the betting favorite. The Bucks are at seven
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Speaker 1: plus seven hundred, the Chiefs plus thousands, the Packers of
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Speaker 1: plus a thousand, and the Rams of plus twelve hundred.
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Speaker 1: So those are your top five teams right now if
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Speaker 1: you're gonna bet. But even picking a favorite this early,
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Speaker 1: because I'm not a big favorite guy to bet, but
14:27
Speaker 1: even picking a favorite, the odds are long enough that
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Speaker 1: this early there's still some pretty good money there. You've
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Speaker 1: got Buffalo at plus six hundred, Eddie. If I bet
14:35
Speaker 1: if I've got a hundred bucks on Buffalo the plus
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Speaker 1: six hundred, how much money will I make? Uh? Five dollars?
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Speaker 1: I mean right, because it would not not counting your
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Speaker 1: one eddie. If I bet a hundred bucks, yeah, you're
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Speaker 1: all you're almost right. I mean if it's you're not counting.
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Speaker 1: If I bet a hundred bucks Buffalo plus six hundred,
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Speaker 1: that is how much money? But so it's seven. But
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Speaker 1: it's the one the back exactly. You got it. We've
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Speaker 1: all made our picks. But Draft Kings is awesome. It's
15:03
Speaker 1: easy to use. You get your money quick back. It's
15:05
Speaker 1: not like some people that we know that go through
15:08
Speaker 1: odd foreign places and that's a whole situation. Yeah, don't
15:12
Speaker 1: don't be that guy. Oh yeah, I appreciate Draft Kings
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Speaker 1: and being a part of it. Here, Uh, let's do this.
15:17
Speaker 1: I think this is intrick. We already kind of got
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Speaker 1: on a little bit. But we're gonna do identify your
15:21
Speaker 1: team in the first episode, so you know, bias the
15:23
Speaker 1: whole season. Some people say, crap, you know that they
15:26
Speaker 1: have a bias. Um, I'll go first. I don't have
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Speaker 1: an NFL team, but in the Arkansas player on bias
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Speaker 1: four and I'm a massive Arkansas Razorbacks fan. Um, but
15:34
Speaker 1: I'm not biased there either, just at a bias alert.
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Speaker 1: I don't have a college team. I went to sam
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Speaker 1: Houston State. I mean, they're decent at the division, wonderful,
15:46
Speaker 1: but you're not like following them every week? No, no no, no no.
15:48
Speaker 1: But on ESPN Plus they do play some of their games,
15:50
Speaker 1: and I scan it on a Saturday and they're playing,
15:52
Speaker 1: I'll watch it. I guess my point with this is
15:55
Speaker 1: if you hear us talking about a team in a
15:56
Speaker 1: segment here, so I guess Samson stays rocking for some
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Speaker 1: reason if they're coming up. But uh so, no college team,
16:03
Speaker 1: but also, your NFL team is the Dallas Cowboys. Kick
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Speaker 1: off Kevin. Uh no allegiance to a collegiate team. I'm
16:09
Speaker 1: like you or I have teams that I don't like
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Speaker 1: and then teams that I kind of root for for
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Speaker 1: whatever reason. So that's a bias, Like who do you
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Speaker 1: not like? Because I don't like Notre Dame. See I
16:17
Speaker 1: grew up watching them, but I'm not a huge fan.
16:19
Speaker 1: I don't like Ohuse State, I don't like I might
16:21
Speaker 1: not want to hear this Oklahoma, I didn't like Oklahomia
16:24
Speaker 1: until I had to, but now I do. I can't
16:27
Speaker 1: hate them anymore. But the state's another one. I don't
16:29
Speaker 1: like Texas, USC. I like Texas, I don't like USC. Uh.
16:34
Speaker 1: That's pretty much it for the most part. NFL, you
16:37
Speaker 1: have a New England had on, Yes, Patriots fan. My
16:40
Speaker 1: dad from back East Rhode Island. So I grew up
16:42
Speaker 1: in California, but dad's from I've never met anybody from
16:44
Speaker 1: Rhodel Kevin's a whole like Mystery. Yeah, Mighty Texas, the Cowboys. Okay,
16:52
Speaker 1: I don't hate people from Texas or even individual Longhorns,
16:55
Speaker 1: just all of them put the brand on like markets on.
17:00
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to hate the long Horns. Adam hambric massive
17:03
Speaker 1: Razorback fan. This is part of the reason why me
17:06
Speaker 1: and Bobby your friends, um and uh. Yeah. I grew
17:09
Speaker 1: up in Arkansas, but a lot of my growing up
17:12
Speaker 1: was in Mississippi. So I was like the only Arkansas
17:14
Speaker 1: Razorback fan within like two hundred miles, and so I
17:17
Speaker 1: just like, you know, I just like clung onto that
17:20
Speaker 1: as a kid, the Razorbacks and Cowboys. Razorbacks and Cowboys,
17:23
Speaker 1: but also since moving to Nashville. It was kind of
17:26
Speaker 1: made made space in my heart for the Titans. And
17:29
Speaker 1: so it's canna have multiple teams, can have multiple teams.
17:31
Speaker 1: You can't have a one A one B. That's different
17:33
Speaker 1: conferences though, because now different conferences, you can't have two teams.
17:38
Speaker 1: You can root along for two teams, but you can't
17:40
Speaker 1: have two teams. You have one team or no teams.
17:44
Speaker 1: Is that is that if you have three teams, you
17:46
Speaker 1: have no teams. You have two quarterbacks, you have no quarterbacks.
17:48
Speaker 1: That's like having multiple favorite teams. Um, okay, so this
17:52
Speaker 1: is our first episode and we're today. We're gonna start
17:54
Speaker 1: and I've introduced you to Kevin. Now I horribly named
17:57
Speaker 1: him kick Off Kevin because I was just like, we
17:58
Speaker 1: gotta call you something. So it's a terrible name. I said,
18:01
Speaker 1: you can change it, but we didn't. And so in
18:03
Speaker 1: the theme of naming you horribly, I've named your segment horribly.
18:08
Speaker 1: So this segment is called kick Off Kevin's five question
18:11
Speaker 1: tittle tattle That makes no sense whatsoever, But this is
18:18
Speaker 1: five question tittle tattle where and here's the rules And
18:21
Speaker 1: went up to this every time. But Kevin will come
18:23
Speaker 1: and he'll bring me five questions about NFL and n
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Speaker 1: C double A. I will answer it, and if you
18:27
Speaker 1: disagree with me, this is your first shot at the whistle.
18:29
Speaker 1: If I finish and you disagree, blow the whistle and
18:33
Speaker 1: I will come to you and you can say your part.
18:35
Speaker 1: I like it. Okay, I've we're seen. I made this
18:38
Speaker 1: up to and I can't. I can't disagree. Correct, you
18:41
Speaker 1: are in this. You are the reporter. You cannot disagree.
18:44
Speaker 1: If later we bring it up again, that's fine. But
18:46
Speaker 1: you have to be absolutely impartial. Okay, I say the
18:49
Speaker 1: question and I shut my mouth like a good reporter.
18:51
Speaker 1: Is okay. First question and the tittle tattle Kevin Alright,
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Speaker 1: which offseason quarterback in the collegiate world transfer will result
18:58
Speaker 1: real result in the most wins for their respective program.
19:01
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams going to USC, Quinn eer Is going to Texas,
19:05
Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel to oh you, or Jackson Dart down to
19:08
Speaker 1: old Miss Jackson Dart's interesting. I mean all those guys
19:11
Speaker 1: are kind of leaving the same place. It's like it's
19:14
Speaker 1: like justin Fields and Borough and when you know State Georgia,
19:17
Speaker 1: they all kind of just shifted a little bit. But
19:18
Speaker 1: that's happening here a little bit darts interesting because that
19:23
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin's system is ready to win a little bit
19:27
Speaker 1: they have. I think they have a pretty decent shot
19:29
Speaker 1: to be competitive in the SEC West. Um the kind
19:33
Speaker 1: of Oklahomas from UCF. They are good and they play
19:36
Speaker 1: in a conference it's not that good, So that's a factor.
19:40
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams awesome. I watched him a lot because I
19:42
Speaker 1: watched a lot of the games of my my wife
19:45
Speaker 1: last year. And when he came in, he took over
19:47
Speaker 1: for Spencer Rattler. It was the win over Texas when
19:51
Speaker 1: they came back. They want to he took over the
19:54
Speaker 1: whole game. Uh, that's pretty awesome. And who's who's the
19:57
Speaker 1: other option? You game hasn't pay And he hasn't even
20:00
Speaker 1: won the job. He's going to be the quarterback, but
20:02
Speaker 1: he hasn't officially won the job yet, at least as
20:04
Speaker 1: we're recording this. Uh, he's the kid from Ohiouse State.
20:07
Speaker 1: He got a million bucks I designing pieced out, which
20:10
Speaker 1: is gonna be interesting to with Manning coming in Arch
20:12
Speaker 1: Manning next year in to Texas. Now, if he doesn't play,
20:15
Speaker 1: which they're saying he's not going to freshman year. That
20:17
Speaker 1: kind of works out because you also have this year
20:19
Speaker 1: and next year and then maybe he goes pro. That
20:22
Speaker 1: way you can sit for a year spent a Rattlers
20:24
Speaker 1: another option in South Carolina. I thought about him, but
20:26
Speaker 1: he kind of had a down year last year, so yeah,
20:28
Speaker 1: by then you're getting getting replaced, yeah, and leaving. He
20:33
Speaker 1: was the odds on favorite to be the first round
20:35
Speaker 1: draft pick this year, though at one point last year.
20:38
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with but from your options, give me
20:42
Speaker 1: your options one more time. Just the quarterbacks. Since Caleb
20:45
Speaker 1: Williams winning yours in Texas, Dylan Gabriel to ou, I'm
20:48
Speaker 1: gonna go Gabriel. Gabriel is a good quarterback from ucf
20:52
Speaker 1: UM and I think, oh you, of all those programs
20:54
Speaker 1: has the best shot to actually win a lot of
20:57
Speaker 1: games when that confer rents and possibly be in the playoff.
21:03
Speaker 1: So that's my answer there, All right? Who who blew
21:06
Speaker 1: the whistle? Me? Adam? Blew the whistle? All right, Adam?
21:09
Speaker 1: Because Kayla Williams, he's got a way easier road man.
21:12
Speaker 1: The Pack twelve is is just not as good as
21:16
Speaker 1: the Big twelve. And I can't I can't think of
21:20
Speaker 1: more than three teams that should beat usc UM and
21:24
Speaker 1: so I think they're gonna at least win nine nine games.
21:26
Speaker 1: They have to win nine games. I think Oklahoma wins
21:29
Speaker 1: ten or eleven. They might. I don't know it's gonna
21:32
Speaker 1: beat them Texas. Listen, Tech, I know Tech, he's gonna
21:35
Speaker 1: first place vote. Texas is always just a craft shoot.
21:38
Speaker 1: And then they still have to get by Bailey. They
21:40
Speaker 1: had to give by Oklahoma State, and and I don't
21:42
Speaker 1: know that they can win those in her first year
21:44
Speaker 1: head coach. Those are all like really good programs right now,
21:46
Speaker 1: I would now, I don't agree, but Ventables has been
21:49
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma, so it's not like that's all new to him.
21:51
Speaker 1: He was defence coordinated there for a long time. Um,
21:54
Speaker 1: I'm still going to Oklahoma. You blew your whistle. Now
21:57
Speaker 1: you're you're off the show. Anybody feel all right? That's
22:01
Speaker 1: my answer. That's number one? Give me two, all right?
22:03
Speaker 1: Do you think Ram's quarterback Matt Stafford's sore elbow will
22:06
Speaker 1: be the downfall of l A's chance as repeating as
22:08
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions? I mean downfall? No, I think it's
22:11
Speaker 1: gonna be something they have to watch. And I think
22:14
Speaker 1: they'll have to play a little different because of that.
22:16
Speaker 1: I think they'll probably not be able to run their
22:19
Speaker 1: offense as freely as they possibly would want to, even
22:21
Speaker 1: if he's feeling pretty good. I think they just gotta
22:24
Speaker 1: They have to monitor it and take care of it,
22:26
Speaker 1: even if it's not killing at Tendonitis sucks. And I
22:29
Speaker 1: never even had it at a level like that, but
22:31
Speaker 1: I had it, and it was for four months. Had
22:33
Speaker 1: it worked on dry needled, I had. I did everything
22:36
Speaker 1: to it. Um so downfall. No, and their defense is
22:40
Speaker 1: so good that they could actually keep them in it
22:45
Speaker 1: or not mine. They could actually still win a whole
22:47
Speaker 1: lot of freaking games. So No, and I think Stafford
22:50
Speaker 1: will probably be fine at the end of it. It's
22:53
Speaker 1: not like it's throwing elbow. It's that he's coming off
22:57
Speaker 1: reconstructive surgery. So I'm gonna go They're still in it.
23:00
Speaker 1: They still have a chance, alright. Next one, Okay, old
23:02
Speaker 1: faces and new places for the wide receivers. This year,
23:04
Speaker 1: will they have open or under their two thousand twenty
23:07
Speaker 1: one totals will start with Tyreek Hill with receiving yards
23:09
Speaker 1: in one had one thousand, two hundred thirty nine two
23:13
Speaker 1: is the quarterback, and I know, like people hate too
23:14
Speaker 1: and they say you can't throw. I've been watching the
23:16
Speaker 1: Dolphins practice videos and I'm only seen the ones Dolphins
23:19
Speaker 1: ones want me to see. They were looking pretty good.
23:25
Speaker 1: That like Tyrek just runs fast. Everybody. He was it
23:29
Speaker 1: on Instagram, it was on Twitter. Actually, I'm gonna go
23:33
Speaker 1: with under only because it is to it and not
23:38
Speaker 1: my homes. Uh, they're gonna really, I mean, waddle is
23:41
Speaker 1: so good. Here's the thing about Miami though, They've got
23:44
Speaker 1: a couple elite wide receivers where the Chiefs didn't. She's
23:50
Speaker 1: had a great tight end. But I don't feel like
23:52
Speaker 1: they could open it. Why don't can fly to Like
23:55
Speaker 1: you got two of the fastest guys in the NFL.
23:56
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna go under because of the quarterback, not
24:00
Speaker 1: because I think I like to. Uh, but two is
24:02
Speaker 1: not my homes So I'm gonna go under. Give another one,
24:05
Speaker 1: all right? A. J. Brown twenty one or two one
24:08
Speaker 1: touchdown has had five over under five this year with
24:10
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I think he has more. I think his
24:13
Speaker 1: quarterback situation is slightly improved. I don't think that he's
24:18
Speaker 1: going to a quarterback that's going to change his life.
24:20
Speaker 1: I think he's got money that will change his life now,
24:23
Speaker 1: which is the Titans didn't want to pay him. But
24:25
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say more because I think he's gonna be
24:28
Speaker 1: more of a focus in that offense where Tannehill they
24:31
Speaker 1: threw a bit and he was They tried to make
24:32
Speaker 1: him the focus. They try to make Julio the focus
24:34
Speaker 1: whenever he was not hurt, but he was also hurt
24:36
Speaker 1: a little bit. So I'm gonna go he's gonna have
24:37
Speaker 1: more in Philadelphia, Okay, and Davanta Adams to twoptions had
24:43
Speaker 1: over under hundred twenty three this year under just because
24:48
Speaker 1: Renfroze there, uh, that system he will get he would
24:52
Speaker 1: get a lot of balls. But um, you know between
24:56
Speaker 1: renfro uh Davante Adam Uh, the tied end in in
25:02
Speaker 1: Vegas is really good. Waller last year came out and
25:05
Speaker 1: kind of came out of nowhere as far as the
25:07
Speaker 1: production he had. So I'm gonna go with still no,
25:10
Speaker 1: but I think they have a lot more options and
25:12
Speaker 1: I think he'll he will perform wonderfully, just won't get
25:15
Speaker 1: as many catches. All right. Next question, Alright, former pit
25:19
Speaker 1: wide receiver Jordan Addison, who transferred the USC this off season,
25:22
Speaker 1: recently said I definitely felt like I got drugged through
25:25
Speaker 1: the mud with the media after catching scrutiny from leaving
25:28
Speaker 1: Pit to go to USC. Is this new era of
25:30
Speaker 1: college football free agency bad or good for the game.
25:33
Speaker 1: If you worked at a business, Eddie, let's say you
25:37
Speaker 1: work at a business, Let's let's call it Eddie's Cattle Company. Love,
25:41
Speaker 1: it's where do you work at your own company? But
25:43
Speaker 1: I and Eddie's Cattle Company made ten bucks a year
25:47
Speaker 1: and that was what everybody made. And my company makes
25:50
Speaker 1: ten dollars a year. Just follow me along. I'm keeping
25:51
Speaker 1: the numbers. Lowers killing and Eddie's cattle Eddie's Cattle Company
25:56
Speaker 1: the next year made twenty bucks for a whole year.
25:57
Speaker 1: You like doubled, right, Hey, yeah, that you do. It's
26:01
Speaker 1: Eddie Cattle Company's growing in popularity. You just you've signed
26:04
Speaker 1: uh different little deals for your cattle to go to
26:06
Speaker 1: certain places. Now, now five years later, Eddie Cattle Company
26:10
Speaker 1: has gone from ten bucks a year to a thousand dollars.
26:13
Speaker 1: Let's go. You're there's so much money coming into the
26:16
Speaker 1: cattle company. Now, do you think that the people that
26:19
Speaker 1: are doing the work to make that money, deserve to
26:21
Speaker 1: be paid more. You're asking me, as the owner of
26:25
Speaker 1: my Eddie's cattle comp asking you, as a person sitting
26:27
Speaker 1: right here. Do you think that the people that are
26:29
Speaker 1: actually making the doing the work should be paid a
26:31
Speaker 1: little more for the job that they're doing this making
26:32
Speaker 1: more money. Treat your people right, Yes, they will work
26:35
Speaker 1: harder for you. So this is a macro perspective of that. Yes,
26:39
Speaker 1: he's been dragged through the mud. That's not that's not
26:41
Speaker 1: him though he's basically a free agent. He let that
26:43
Speaker 1: be known. People were bidding for him. Um, players should
26:47
Speaker 1: make money because the n C Double A is college
26:50
Speaker 1: football is crocro NFL been killing it for a while.
26:53
Speaker 1: They're making so much money in college football, the TV deals.
26:55
Speaker 1: You've had to have a billion dollar Big ten deal,
26:58
Speaker 1: a bit with a b billion dollar and so. But
27:02
Speaker 1: the only people who shouldn't get paid to the people
27:04
Speaker 1: that are actually doing the work. So I'm a big
27:09
Speaker 1: We should pay people for what they're doing. And I
27:11
Speaker 1: understand people are going with this. College football like what
27:13
Speaker 1: he used to be. The only other thing that I
27:16
Speaker 1: could compare it to was the It was controversial when
27:19
Speaker 1: they started to give athletes scholarships because even back then
27:23
Speaker 1: they were like, wait, you're gonna pay, You're gonna pay
27:25
Speaker 1: for their college to play. They should just play the
27:27
Speaker 1: sport for love of the game. It's the same thing.
27:30
Speaker 1: It's just more money and you and more people know
27:32
Speaker 1: about it now because of social media. You're you're paying
27:34
Speaker 1: them with a free education. Then college of ball didn't
27:37
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of money, but now it's killing And
27:40
Speaker 1: so he was dragged with the mud. He deserves it,
27:42
Speaker 1: but he also deserves what he gets on the other
27:44
Speaker 1: side of the good stuff too. So that's the name
27:47
Speaker 1: of the game. You're public, you're making money, you get dragged.
27:51
Speaker 1: I get dragged with the mud all time. Do I
27:52
Speaker 1: deserve it? Sometimes? Uh? But I'm a big and I
27:57
Speaker 1: L fan. I think profit revenue sharing will be a
28:01
Speaker 1: thing with players. I think players should be paid. And
28:04
Speaker 1: your question was is it fair for him? You do
28:07
Speaker 1: you think it's good or bad for the game? It's good.
28:09
Speaker 1: It's good. They'll figure it out. It's wild west right now.
28:11
Speaker 1: It's a little too wild, but you gotta go full
28:13
Speaker 1: while west before you can shut it down a little bit. True,
28:15
Speaker 1: all right, right, next question, how is this the fifth
28:17
Speaker 1: title town or fourth. This is the last one, fifth
28:19
Speaker 1: and final one. The last three champions in college football
28:21
Speaker 1: have come from the SEC, and Alabama is the favorite. Again,
28:24
Speaker 1: if picking today, are you choosing the SEC or the field?
28:28
Speaker 1: Come January? He is probably gonna have one in it.
28:31
Speaker 1: So I'm just doing odds here, not about Alabama or Georgia.
28:34
Speaker 1: But if the SEC has this person in the championship game,
28:36
Speaker 1: that's still fifty fifty. I'm gonna go SEC. I'm big
28:39
Speaker 1: SEC homer. But if I'm just doing probabilities, I would
28:43
Speaker 1: still go SEC. New you said Alabama and Georgia and
28:46
Speaker 1: that's it versus the field. Maybe I feel a little
28:48
Speaker 1: different about that because I feel like somebody could squeak
28:50
Speaker 1: up and probably surprise one of those two teams on
28:52
Speaker 1: one of the sides. Possibly surprise those are my two
28:56
Speaker 1: words I'm using. I don't think they will, but the
28:59
Speaker 1: SEC is tough, so I would take the SEC for sure.
29:03
Speaker 1: All right, Hey, kick off Kevin. Terrible name, tittle tattle,
29:06
Speaker 1: terrible name for a segment, but not bad. What the
29:08
Speaker 1: whole segment? Adam blue whistle and he has big balls
29:11
Speaker 1: and he's done though. Yeah, yeah, I was like, um,
29:15
Speaker 1: so Dan Patrick, love him, Dan Patrick Radio Show, Dan Patrick, ESPN,
29:20
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Sun and Night Football. I was honored. It
29:23
Speaker 1: was amazing. And here's my interview with Dan Patrick. Whoa Dan,
29:27
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. I'm big, just massive fan,
29:30
Speaker 1: just a massive, massive fans. So you know when they
29:33
Speaker 1: said you would actually spend a few minutes with me,
29:34
Speaker 1: I I was shocked first of all, and it elated.
29:38
Speaker 1: So just humble thank you before we start, great, great,
29:41
Speaker 1: Glad to Glad to hill. You know, whenever I'm doing
29:45
Speaker 1: an interview, and in one capacity or the other, I
29:47
Speaker 1: do them all the day, all the time, either on
29:49
Speaker 1: the radio show or on a TV show. But I
29:52
Speaker 1: it starts to just be a wheel and you're just
29:55
Speaker 1: doing them as they come, and you rarely get excited.
29:58
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're a little more up one because you know
30:00
Speaker 1: the value of a bit. At this point in your career,
30:03
Speaker 1: do you still get pumped about interviews and with who? Especially?
30:07
Speaker 1: I think if you have somebody who's gonna be honest
30:09
Speaker 1: with you, because you want to make sure you're not
30:11
Speaker 1: wasting the time of your audience. And I always want
30:14
Speaker 1: to make sure if I have somebody on maybe you
30:17
Speaker 1: don't know who they are, but I'm gonna bring out
30:18
Speaker 1: something in them that you would be interested in. I
30:20
Speaker 1: like the challenge of doing that. But it's the person
30:23
Speaker 1: who's going to be honest or most honest that I
30:26
Speaker 1: find interesting. It's the person who tries to dodge what
30:29
Speaker 1: you're asking, doesn't give you much, wants to be very vanilla.
30:33
Speaker 1: Then that's where it gets really tedious. Give me an
30:36
Speaker 1: example of somebody who's great that you know, all right,
30:38
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it, and they're gonna be awesome. Charles
30:40
Speaker 1: Barkley is always great. Reggie Miller is always great. I
30:44
Speaker 1: find that if you know my guests know if they
30:47
Speaker 1: come on the show that this is what we're asking
30:50
Speaker 1: them to do, don't come on the show unless you're
30:54
Speaker 1: ready to really give something, reveals something. But it's up
30:57
Speaker 1: to me sometimes to kind of extract um that from
31:02
Speaker 1: these guys. They get interviewed more than anybody. When you
31:04
Speaker 1: think about it, athletes are interviewed more than anybody. You
31:07
Speaker 1: know where they are, you know every day at practice, um,
31:11
Speaker 1: you know, before a game, after a game. With the NBA,
31:14
Speaker 1: you have to have an approach that is refreshing to
31:17
Speaker 1: them and their competitors. And I find I got to
31:20
Speaker 1: compete with you to get an answer out of you.
31:23
Speaker 1: John McEnroe said you gotta work harder to get a
31:26
Speaker 1: better answer out of me, and he was right. This
31:28
Speaker 1: was early in my career, and I never forgot that
31:32
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta work harder to get a better answer
31:34
Speaker 1: out of somebody. Do you feel like you're a better
31:36
Speaker 1: interviewee because you interview so many people? Because you know,
31:41
Speaker 1: what I'll do is all critique your questions while you're
31:45
Speaker 1: asking them, and it's not fair to you. But I've
31:49
Speaker 1: given so much thought to interviewing. When I was at ESPN,
31:53
Speaker 1: I did a seminar that was five days, eight hours
31:57
Speaker 1: each day on interviewing. It was the best thing that
32:01
Speaker 1: ever happened to me in my career. But it's the
32:04
Speaker 1: worst thing when you start to listen to radio or
32:06
Speaker 1: you listen to somebody on TV doing interviews, because you're
32:10
Speaker 1: listening for the things that they're not doing what you
32:14
Speaker 1: were told to do to bring out a good interview.
32:16
Speaker 1: Open ended questions, short question, You know that first question,
32:21
Speaker 1: What are you setting up for the next question? For
32:23
Speaker 1: your last question? What are you trying to get at?
32:25
Speaker 1: Like there's this strategy to it. And I wouldn't have
32:28
Speaker 1: known this until I took this class. It was a
32:32
Speaker 1: guy named John Swatsky out of Canada. It was the
32:35
Speaker 1: master of the Interview, and I was fascinated by it. Uh.
32:39
Speaker 1: I don't know who else, if anybody else was at ESPN.
32:42
Speaker 1: They they were mad at me because I wanted to
32:45
Speaker 1: bring this guy in to teach us how to interview,
32:47
Speaker 1: because I saw an article and people are like kicking
32:50
Speaker 1: and screaming going to this seminar, and they didn't realize
32:54
Speaker 1: that I'm the reason why they were going there because
32:55
Speaker 1: I wanted this guy to come in and help us.
32:57
Speaker 1: You know, when you talk about the ESPN stuff, and
33:00
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of questions about that, and
33:01
Speaker 1: I still don't, but it makes me think about, you know,
33:04
Speaker 1: my whole lifetime of watching you on esp and even
33:06
Speaker 1: Rock and Roll Jeopardy, which I was a big Jeopardy
33:08
Speaker 1: guys and a music guy obviously, and then you know,
33:11
Speaker 1: watching on Sunday nights and I would come home from
33:13
Speaker 1: the radio show and watch your radio show, you and
33:16
Speaker 1: all the dan Ads, like just a massive fan. But
33:19
Speaker 1: you know, I've started to realize that I, as a
33:21
Speaker 1: public figure, people think they know me at times more
33:23
Speaker 1: than they actually do, and they'll come up and so,
33:27
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that I'm most curious about.
33:28
Speaker 1: It's like if you go to your house and I
33:31
Speaker 1: feel like I know, yeah, but I obviously don't on
33:32
Speaker 1: a personal level, Like in your house, what is your
33:35
Speaker 1: favorite picture in your house? Which if I just asked
33:38
Speaker 1: that question, what is it, Who's in it. I'm a
33:40
Speaker 1: big fan of the artist Wolf Khan. He passed away.
33:45
Speaker 1: I think he was just over the age of ninety.
33:48
Speaker 1: And you can't be in a bad mood when you
33:49
Speaker 1: look at a painting of Wolf Khan. Now pictures, Uh,
33:53
Speaker 1: there's a picture of my daughter in the library where
33:56
Speaker 1: she's in Galway and she's in a mud puddle and
34:03
Speaker 1: she's probably eleven years of age, and she's got mudd
34:06
Speaker 1: all over her. She's thrown mud in the air and
34:08
Speaker 1: she got the biggest smile and it's one of those
34:11
Speaker 1: moments that you just go that person is having a
34:14
Speaker 1: great day. So I tend to gravitate towards you feel
34:19
Speaker 1: better after you you see that picture and you see
34:21
Speaker 1: a painting from Wolf Kan. What about if I ask
34:24
Speaker 1: about sports, what personal sports picture do you have either
34:27
Speaker 1: you're somewhere with someone that you look at and it's
34:30
Speaker 1: not it doesn't mean as much because obviously that's your daughter,
34:34
Speaker 1: but it's like, man, that was a great moment, either
34:36
Speaker 1: in sports life or my life. I was in a
34:38
Speaker 1: boxing ring. It was fight night in Arizona, and I
34:43
Speaker 1: was the host and we were honoring Mohammed Ali and
34:47
Speaker 1: we were going to give him this ring. And Mohammed
34:51
Speaker 1: Ali is standing next to me waiting for me to
34:54
Speaker 1: give him this ring, and I'm describing to the audience
34:58
Speaker 1: what this ring signifies. I'm going to hand this to
35:01
Speaker 1: Mohammed Ali. And you know that this was probably a
35:06
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, but you know Parkinson's, the onset of
35:10
Speaker 1: Parkinson had started there. And I just remember in the moment,
35:15
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I'm gonna give a ring to Mohammed Ali,
35:20
Speaker 1: and I sort of fanboyd that. I was like, I
35:23
Speaker 1: gotta get this out of my head, because I sometimes
35:25
Speaker 1: that's the problem. I have too many things I'm thinking
35:28
Speaker 1: of when I'm doing something that I shouldn't be thinking about.
35:31
Speaker 1: But that moment where I look and I go, who
35:34
Speaker 1: would have thought that a kid came from a small
35:36
Speaker 1: town in Ohio. Is there with Mohammad Ali, honoring Mohammed Ali,
35:41
Speaker 1: and I'm it's never lost on me where I came
35:44
Speaker 1: from and growing up in a big family, that I
35:48
Speaker 1: came a long way, but that you can come from
35:52
Speaker 1: a small town where you never would have thought you've
35:54
Speaker 1: gotten there. So it brings out a lot of different
35:57
Speaker 1: thoughts memories there of you're still this kid who was
36:01
Speaker 1: from Mason, Ohio, but you got here. Don't forget where
36:04
Speaker 1: you came from from Mountain Pine, Arkansas, population seven uh
36:10
Speaker 1: So similar instances, you know, growing up and there wasn't
36:14
Speaker 1: a lot of resource where I came from. So how
36:17
Speaker 1: what showed you and who showed you that there was
36:21
Speaker 1: actually a path to greater even though you couldn't quite
36:24
Speaker 1: define greater. I think I was too naive or stupid
36:28
Speaker 1: to let reality sink in and that you can't do this.
36:32
Speaker 1: I didn't have a plan B So when people said, oh,
36:35
Speaker 1: if you weren't going to be a sports canister, what
36:37
Speaker 1: would you be? And I'd been like, I don't, I
36:38
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm guessing bartender. But I didn't know. And
36:43
Speaker 1: I had been rejected in quite a few places. I
36:47
Speaker 1: lost a job, local job in Dayton, Ohio, and I
36:51
Speaker 1: was distraught. So I'm I'm twenty six seven. I don't
36:56
Speaker 1: have a full time job in sports, and that's old
36:59
Speaker 1: in this business to get started, and I thought I'm
37:03
Speaker 1: never gonna get in. I was doing morning drive radio
37:06
Speaker 1: rock and roll station, and I thought, this is what
37:09
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be doing. And the next girlfriend said, just
37:13
Speaker 1: come down to Atlanta. I said, time, I don't want
37:15
Speaker 1: to go to Atlanta. She goes, no, just come down
37:17
Speaker 1: your CNN's hiring. I go, I just I lost out
37:20
Speaker 1: on a job in Dayton, Ohio. I'm not going to
37:21
Speaker 1: get a job at CNN. So I go down there
37:25
Speaker 1: lo and behold. I go in there, last dam in Atlanta.
37:29
Speaker 1: Give him my resume. Tape guy says, when can you start?
37:33
Speaker 1: So if I don't go to Atlanta, I'm not here.
37:38
Speaker 1: I mean I'm somewhere, but I'm not here because CNN
37:42
Speaker 1: I was there for five years and after that I
37:45
Speaker 1: went to ESPN for eighteen. So I always tell people
37:50
Speaker 1: right place, right time, but you better be right about
37:53
Speaker 1: what you have to know, like you have to know
37:56
Speaker 1: it if you get that opportunity. And I'm sure that
37:58
Speaker 1: at some point somebody wanted to see if you knew
38:01
Speaker 1: exactly what you needed to know, and you did, or
38:06
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be seated there. Like we get those moments,
38:08
Speaker 1: but be ready for the moment, and that was something
38:11
Speaker 1: that stayed with me, stays with me. I tell that
38:13
Speaker 1: to my kids all the time. Be prepared, be overprepared.
38:17
Speaker 1: Even if you don't get it. You'll still show that
38:20
Speaker 1: that person you you showed them respect by being prepared.
38:23
Speaker 1: You mentioned eighteen years at ESPN, and I worked on
38:27
Speaker 1: American Idol for four seasons, and I would talk to
38:28
Speaker 1: some of the old contestants from back when Idol was
38:31
Speaker 1: so big, and but they said they didn't know it,
38:33
Speaker 1: they couldn't feel it because they were in it now.
38:36
Speaker 1: ESPN was a culture, especially for me, Was that situation
38:40
Speaker 1: similar because you guys weren't changing culture. Did you know
38:43
Speaker 1: it and could you feel it then? Or was it
38:46
Speaker 1: its own bubble? We were cordoned off, absolutely, and I
38:50
Speaker 1: think that's by design by management. They didn't want us
38:54
Speaker 1: to be bigger than those four letters. Not that we
38:58
Speaker 1: could be, but they didn't want us coloring outside the lines.
39:02
Speaker 1: Management even told me on one occasion, we don't want
39:05
Speaker 1: another Chris Berman, because Berman is the most important person
39:10
Speaker 1: in the history of ESPN. But he was sort of,
39:14
Speaker 1: you know, a hot air balloon that was higher than
39:16
Speaker 1: everybody else but still tethered. And they didn't want that.
39:20
Speaker 1: They didn't want that to happen to me or Keith
39:22
Speaker 1: Oberman or Stewart Scott or whoever you want to throw
39:25
Speaker 1: in there. So they didn't want you to be a personality.
39:30
Speaker 1: Um So I think that that was kind of eye
39:33
Speaker 1: opening that we were getting honored. Mentioned. Uh, people came
39:40
Speaker 1: up to us when we saw them when we were
39:42
Speaker 1: out of events, but we weren't in New York or
39:45
Speaker 1: l A. We're in Bristol, Connecticut. We didn't run into anybody.
39:48
Speaker 1: But when we did, then you heard the impact that
39:52
Speaker 1: we were having. And you kind of juxtaposed that too
39:57
Speaker 1: management that we never knew our ratings. They never told us.
40:01
Speaker 1: They didn't. They don't want to empower you and say,
40:04
Speaker 1: you guys are really kicking ass here. It was like, yeah,
40:07
Speaker 1: you guys, solid and improving, you know, kind of doing
40:10
Speaker 1: a good job there. You're like, damn, I thought I
40:12
Speaker 1: thought we were good. But that was that was eye
40:16
Speaker 1: opening there that management wanted to kind of keep us
40:19
Speaker 1: under their thumb. Final question about the ESPN days and
40:23
Speaker 1: as far as when who is would you say as
40:25
Speaker 1: your BFF now from those days, if you had to
40:28
Speaker 1: pick one, oh, I would say that I correspond with
40:32
Speaker 1: Rich Eyes and more than anybody else. The people I
40:36
Speaker 1: really enjoyed were producers, associate producers, the makeup people, camera people.
40:45
Speaker 1: Those are the people I always enjoyed being around. Nobody
40:47
Speaker 1: wants to be around talent because all we do is
40:50
Speaker 1: talk about ourselves. I wanted to be around the people
40:54
Speaker 1: who were just normal or as normal as possible in
40:57
Speaker 1: our business. And those are the people I'm still in
41:00
Speaker 1: touch with, uh more the producers than the talent there,
41:05
Speaker 1: but probably Rich Eyes. Where does conference realignment end or
41:09
Speaker 1: where is it in five years? From where you sit
41:13
Speaker 1: right now, I still think we're headed towards an a
41:16
Speaker 1: f C NFC model with college football, where we just say,
41:19
Speaker 1: let's let's pull back the curtain, let's not kill anybody.
41:22
Speaker 1: This is big time business, have revenue sharing, UM gonna
41:27
Speaker 1: treat them like their professionals, which they are. And I
41:31
Speaker 1: think you might have thirty teams in the NFC version,
41:35
Speaker 1: and thirty has sixty teams. Let's say a sixteen team
41:39
Speaker 1: playoff and you know, you might have relegation where maybe
41:44
Speaker 1: the sixty team drops out with the team that won
41:48
Speaker 1: the national championship in one double A or or something
41:51
Speaker 1: that creates excitement at the top and the bottom. But
41:55
Speaker 1: I do think we're headed towards let's just have the
41:59
Speaker 1: fifty or six sixty best college football teams actually compete
42:03
Speaker 1: for a national championship and then you have everybody else
42:06
Speaker 1: after that with the fluidity of realignment or even in
42:09
Speaker 1: I L, like let's do five years in the future.
42:12
Speaker 1: There what's different about the n i L structure in
42:15
Speaker 1: five years If you're just playing psychic then is today? Well,
42:18
Speaker 1: the coaches have to embrace this. You know, when Kirby's
42:22
Speaker 1: Smart at Georgia signs a ten million dollar a year contract,
42:25
Speaker 1: but then bemoans the fact that we're paying these players
42:30
Speaker 1: a hundred thousand dollars or two hundred thousand dollars, I
42:33
Speaker 1: have a dose in reality here. Now you're getting paid
42:37
Speaker 1: and you don't want them to get paid. Your job
42:40
Speaker 1: is tougher because of name, image and like plaining simple
42:43
Speaker 1: these coaches. I don't care if it's Nick Saban, Kirby Smart,
42:46
Speaker 1: whoever it is. This makes your you know, the transfer portal, name, image,
42:50
Speaker 1: and likeness makes it difficult. But when the source says
42:53
Speaker 1: to me, you know, the going rate for a running
42:55
Speaker 1: back is this price, the going rate for a quarterback
42:59
Speaker 1: is this, and the going rate for a wide It's
43:01
Speaker 1: almost like you have a list, like a menu where
43:04
Speaker 1: you go how much is the stake? It's this, um,
43:09
Speaker 1: you know, how much is that? It's that. That's where
43:12
Speaker 1: we're headed with all. We're already there. So I think
43:15
Speaker 1: embracing name, image and likeness, maybe you kind of put
43:19
Speaker 1: them all under the same umbrella. Maybe you're you're paying them.
43:23
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a salary cap that you have. I got.
43:27
Speaker 1: You can't say that won't happen because look at where
43:30
Speaker 1: we are now. Who would have thought Texas and Oklahoma
43:33
Speaker 1: would be in the sec U, C l A, and
43:35
Speaker 1: USC going to the Big ten. See, you can't say, well,
43:38
Speaker 1: I don't ever happen, because in college football it could happen.
43:42
Speaker 1: And I think, as we move forward with this, how
43:45
Speaker 1: much are the players involved in this? Do we come
43:48
Speaker 1: up with legislation that limits this? I mean, you still
43:52
Speaker 1: have to declare this is income here, so it's got
43:56
Speaker 1: to be above board. And I think that that kind
43:59
Speaker 1: of takes a way the if you take away name,
44:02
Speaker 1: image and likeness Bobby, you're going to have back to
44:05
Speaker 1: the old days of cheating. This is just above board.
44:07
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, what'd you give him a hundreds thousand dollars? Okay?
44:11
Speaker 1: Whereas before would be like do you hear what Eric
44:13
Speaker 1: Dickerson got at s m U. Gave him a trans
44:17
Speaker 1: am and they gave his mom a house. You know
44:20
Speaker 1: that That was always the kind of whispers behind all
44:24
Speaker 1: of the Now it's above board, Like Zion Williamson, I
44:26
Speaker 1: don't know what he got a duke, but he got
44:29
Speaker 1: something rights, yeah, yeah, but you know, these guys get money.
44:37
Speaker 1: It may not be from the school, the coach, but
44:39
Speaker 1: the shoe company. So it's here, it's been here now
44:43
Speaker 1: at least it's above board. But five years down the road,
44:47
Speaker 1: I don't know what the gold salary is going to be.
44:50
Speaker 1: But a a star quarterback, you know he's gonna get
44:55
Speaker 1: a NFL like they're making more money when you factor
44:58
Speaker 1: that in. Alabama's quarterback Heisman Trophy winner made more than
45:03
Speaker 1: the previous quarterback at Alabama, Jalen Hurts playing in the NFL,
45:09
Speaker 1: so he makes more money at Alabama ben Jalen Hurts
45:12
Speaker 1: does in the NFL. Crazy, but that's the reality we
45:16
Speaker 1: have right now. And the fact that it's snuck up
45:18
Speaker 1: on all these chancellors and presidents and athletic directors is
45:22
Speaker 1: like mind boggling because it was there to see the
45:25
Speaker 1: final three questions. Okay, talking about quarterbacks, you mentioned Arch,
45:29
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of not a lot of Arch
45:32
Speaker 1: not just tape, but not a lot of Arch data.
45:34
Speaker 1: He's not competing against other quarterbacks at that high school level.
45:38
Speaker 1: He's not going to camps where what do you see
45:41
Speaker 1: happening with Arch Manning. Well, that's a lot of hype.
45:44
Speaker 1: You know, Bryce Harper lived up to it. Lebron James
45:47
Speaker 1: lived up to it. There there have been players who
45:50
Speaker 1: live up to the hype. But as far as an
45:53
Speaker 1: NFL quarterback hype, boy, this is up there. I mean,
45:56
Speaker 1: this is bigger than Eli or even Pete the hype
46:01
Speaker 1: living up to you know, Archie Manning at Old Miss
46:04
Speaker 1: when he was up for the Heisman Trophy. I just wonder,
46:07
Speaker 1: can you be good enough where people go? Man, he's
46:10
Speaker 1: everything we thought he was going to be, Like Tiger
46:13
Speaker 1: Woods was everything we thought he was going to be
46:15
Speaker 1: and then some Serena Williams everything we thought, and then some.
46:19
Speaker 1: I don't know if Arch, because it's based off of
46:22
Speaker 1: the people around you. He's relying on that. Bryce Harper
46:26
Speaker 1: goes to the plate, it's Bryce Harper. Lebron James can
46:29
Speaker 1: have the ball in his hands. Tiger has a club
46:32
Speaker 1: in his hand, you know, Serena has her tennis racket.
46:35
Speaker 1: Arch is gonna have to how good's his offensive line,
46:39
Speaker 1: how's goods his wide receivers like those? Is his defense?
46:42
Speaker 1: Any good to stop anybody? Those are the things that
46:45
Speaker 1: you have to factor in it. And I wonder if
46:47
Speaker 1: you'll be able to live up to that hype. I
46:49
Speaker 1: doubt it because that hype is so much, so big.
46:52
Speaker 1: You mentioned the word source. How hard is it to
46:55
Speaker 1: have a source that's telling you something but you can't
46:57
Speaker 1: say it. You almost have to act like you don't
46:58
Speaker 1: know it. For the most part, I don't want to
47:00
Speaker 1: know if I can't use it. I say that too,
47:03
Speaker 1: And I'm fortunate having been in this business for almost
47:06
Speaker 1: forty years. You meet people that you trust because you
47:09
Speaker 1: can go back to them or they'll come. They'll they'll
47:12
Speaker 1: let you know if you're right or wrong on something.
47:14
Speaker 1: But I don't want to know something that I can't
47:18
Speaker 1: even hint at because then I'm not being Then it's
47:21
Speaker 1: gossipy and I don't want to do that. But it
47:23
Speaker 1: is a tough situation to be in. Sometimes if somebody goes, hey,
47:27
Speaker 1: you can't use it, I'll don't. Then don't tell me
47:29
Speaker 1: because I don't want to know. But when they're like,
47:32
Speaker 1: you didn't get it from me, which is different, but
47:36
Speaker 1: sources can be tricky. Last question, and this has really
47:40
Speaker 1: been a treat for me, way more for so for
47:42
Speaker 1: you because I'm sure you've rated this and given it
47:45
Speaker 1: a low grade what you do. And as soon as
47:47
Speaker 1: you said that, I was like, god, dang, And now
47:48
Speaker 1: I am going to actually feel like I be a
47:50
Speaker 1: critique during the interview. I didn't feel like that going in.
47:52
Speaker 1: But final question is, uh, you know I'm about to
47:55
Speaker 1: go through a big contract negotiation here with a right
48:00
Speaker 1: so and it's it's it's it's quite the monster. I'm
48:03
Speaker 1: not gonna lie to you. What's what's the what am I?
48:06
Speaker 1: What am I not knowing to ask for? What is
48:08
Speaker 1: it you don't have? I don't know. I'm pretty good dance, Yes,
48:12
Speaker 1: I always look at it this way. I love for
48:15
Speaker 1: fifteen years being at ESPN, and I could have gotten
48:18
Speaker 1: jobs outside of it, but I loved what I was doing.
48:21
Speaker 1: But you can't tell them that you love it so
48:23
Speaker 1: much that you don't factor in what you're worth outside
48:27
Speaker 1: of what you're doing. If that makes sense that, hey,
48:31
Speaker 1: on the open market, what would I be worth? Take
48:33
Speaker 1: care of me here? And I always took less, but
48:37
Speaker 1: I didn't have any I didn't want to do anything else.
48:39
Speaker 1: So do what you love. And it's really hard to
48:43
Speaker 1: find that because if you let money be the carrot
48:46
Speaker 1: that's in front of you, you'll always chase it and
48:50
Speaker 1: you'll never be satisfied. But if you have people you
48:53
Speaker 1: like you got, you know, they make sure that the
48:56
Speaker 1: people who are surrounding you are good people people. I
49:01
Speaker 1: love seeing my guys every single day. We just laugh.
49:05
Speaker 1: I mean, you're serious when you need to be, but
49:07
Speaker 1: we have fun. I enjoy them. And it's twenty years
49:11
Speaker 1: for some of these guys. But I think that's the
49:14
Speaker 1: moment you know that you've got to kind of go.
49:17
Speaker 1: And if you say to your wife, what do you think?
49:20
Speaker 1: Because sometimes it's my wife is the smartest person and
49:23
Speaker 1: you know, you get somebody on the outside kind of
49:25
Speaker 1: looking at all this because we get too close to
49:28
Speaker 1: the sun and you don't want to be Icarus here
49:30
Speaker 1: and you know, go down in flame. So do what
49:34
Speaker 1: you love as long as you can do it, or
49:37
Speaker 1: you can just take a shipload of money and then
49:38
Speaker 1: running with it. But yeah, I was hoping for like airplane.
49:41
Speaker 1: That's I'm just massive fan, just massive, And thank you
49:47
Speaker 1: for your time, and um, you know that's all. And
49:50
Speaker 1: I know you've got a busy day head, so thank
49:51
Speaker 1: you very much. And one day, hopefully I hope I
49:54
Speaker 1: can touch you soon. I would Uh yeah, I hope
49:57
Speaker 1: we crossed pants. Congratulations on all your success. And I
50:01
Speaker 1: think that it's not my accident, you know, but I
50:04
Speaker 1: think that that's important as you move move forward, don't
50:07
Speaker 1: forget the kid from a small town in Arkansas, because
50:11
Speaker 1: stay in humble, because this business will bite you in
50:14
Speaker 1: the ask quickly. Thank you, Dan, have a good day.
50:16
Speaker 1: Thank you, Bobby. Alright. Awesome to have Dan Patrick on
50:23
Speaker 1: you guys. Follow us at twenty five whistles Instagram. We
50:26
Speaker 1: got like five pictures up. I hate going to Instagram
50:28
Speaker 1: page whe they don't have the even the thing covered,
50:30
Speaker 1: it's still white under some of the pictures. I feel
50:32
Speaker 1: like such a loser, Like who would follow that? And
50:33
Speaker 1: I'm like, please follow us? Uh. So that's up a
50:36
Speaker 1: story I will share with you guys, and you can
50:38
Speaker 1: tell me if I'm a weirdo or not. And I
50:40
Speaker 1: want to pull up exactly what I got here. But
50:43
Speaker 1: there was an estate sale from a former Arkansas and Adam,
50:49
Speaker 1: you're almost eliminated from this because of your bias. There
50:51
Speaker 1: was an estate sale from a former Arkansas UH sportscaster,
50:55
Speaker 1: like probably the most famous in my life. He died
50:58
Speaker 1: years ago in a car car wreck, Paul Eels. He died,
51:01
Speaker 1: and so his like his wife, his family, they auctioned
51:05
Speaker 1: off a bunch of his stuff, and so I just
51:09
Speaker 1: told about it. So I went over to it. How
51:12
Speaker 1: about all kinds of stuff? Oh my gosh, Mike, did
51:15
Speaker 1: you just laugh at that? I bought all kinds of
51:20
Speaker 1: stuff like Paul Eel's estate sale? Um, what do you mean?
51:24
Speaker 1: How how much stuff did you buy? Well? I bought
51:27
Speaker 1: like a couple in the box still Arkansas razorback cheerleader barbies.
51:32
Speaker 1: Are you serious? Like, what are you gonna do with that?
51:34
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I was like, one, it's Paul Els,
51:37
Speaker 1: what are you doing? I don't know? And for that
51:40
Speaker 1: somebody started biding against me, and so I started getting
51:41
Speaker 1: competitive bucks on theres two barbies. I'm not saying Granny
51:47
Speaker 1: and Sheridan is piste. So that happened. I bought like
51:50
Speaker 1: some old cool Here we go, let's see what I
51:53
Speaker 1: got here. Please log into your account below. Hopefully it'll
51:56
Speaker 1: just show me what all I bought and this will
51:57
Speaker 1: be easy. I bought like some old signs stuff by
52:00
Speaker 1: old body that's super cool to anybody but me. Um, Like,
52:05
Speaker 1: I bought a Houston Nuts signed football. He was fired
52:08
Speaker 1: to the coach that, yeah, I bought some old sweatshirts.
52:11
Speaker 1: They're like extra two x large. Will you wear them
52:14
Speaker 1: night gowns? Yeah? There you go. Yeah, so I bought
52:17
Speaker 1: like seven things. Is it weird that I went through
52:19
Speaker 1: a Sportscasters a state sale and bought a bunch of
52:23
Speaker 1: razorback stuff? Kick off, Kevin, No, I mean some of
52:27
Speaker 1: the stuff that you bought, for sure, like the barbie's
52:29
Speaker 1: maybe a little weird questionable, But going or buying stuff
52:33
Speaker 1: from the state sale, No, I mean that's something that
52:35
Speaker 1: you as you said, your childhood growing up. He was
52:38
Speaker 1: a big impact in your childhood and your big sports fan,
52:41
Speaker 1: big Arkansas fans, so totally normal. I bought the football
52:44
Speaker 1: Fever package a buch of sign crap. I bought the
52:46
Speaker 1: forty minutes nineties sweatshirts. Forty minutes at hell, they were
52:50
Speaker 1: extra extra large. I'm not gonna wear that. I don't
52:53
Speaker 1: know what that means. It's forty minutes. Hell. Nolan Richardson's
52:56
Speaker 1: basketball they play, they full corp pressed the whole time.
52:58
Speaker 1: The whole game. They would just run people off the court. Yeah,
53:02
Speaker 1: it makes her a good story. Else, he died. I
53:06
Speaker 1: bought it. I should get it in the next few days.
53:08
Speaker 1: And I think it's pretty cool. Most importantly, what does
53:10
Speaker 1: your wife think about all this? And tell her? Well,
53:15
Speaker 1: I didn't tell her to already bought it all and
53:16
Speaker 1: it was already on the way because I did tell her.
53:20
Speaker 1: But in her response was why what are you gonna
53:22
Speaker 1: do with it? And I was like, I just want
53:24
Speaker 1: to have it, and she was like okay, and so
53:28
Speaker 1: I I had and she said, look, if I didn't
53:31
Speaker 1: know you were so responsible with the money, I would go,
53:35
Speaker 1: why are you buying that? You just wasted money. She was,
53:37
Speaker 1: I know you're responsible, but I also know you're extra rabbid,
53:41
Speaker 1: and that's just what I deal with every day. So
53:43
Speaker 1: I will bring it in and let you guys know.
53:44
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you touch some of it. Okay, cool,
53:46
Speaker 1: I want to touch the barbies. One final one here
53:50
Speaker 1: Costco selling individual game football tickets in South Carolina where
53:53
Speaker 1: you can go through Costco and they have boxes and
53:54
Speaker 1: it's like buy individual game tickets, which I was pretty
53:56
Speaker 1: legit because it's like, hey, buy individual game tickets. Usually
54:00
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't know if you have a casual fan,
54:02
Speaker 1: I can get my phone out of there. But you're
54:04
Speaker 1: going through the inner package at Costco and you're in
54:06
Speaker 1: South Carolina and you're like, oh, I like to go
54:07
Speaker 1: to this game. It's tangible, you can buy it. That's
54:10
Speaker 1: pretty cool. People were giving him crap I thought was brilliant.
54:12
Speaker 1: So if you're in South Carolina, would go a game,
54:13
Speaker 1: card game and they may actually be pretty good this year.
54:17
Speaker 1: We shall see. They played well last year. At the
54:20
Speaker 1: end of the year. They have a good coach, we'll
54:22
Speaker 1: see Spencer rollers and a really good quarterback. Regardless of
54:26
Speaker 1: what happened, he's still a really good quarterback. We'll see
54:29
Speaker 1: what happens in that system. Um. So those are those two.
54:32
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to the Sam Pittman interview. Now, we
54:34
Speaker 1: didn't talk a lot about Arkansas specifically, but he is
54:36
Speaker 1: the head football coach in the University of Arkansas and
54:39
Speaker 1: it's awesome to have him on. So here it is
54:40
Speaker 1: my interview with Sam Pittman, coach. How are you man,
54:43
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. Hey, I've been good. You know, I've
54:46
Speaker 1: been trying to catch some practice reports. Like at this
54:48
Speaker 1: point before the season starts, as you guys are in camp,
54:51
Speaker 1: are you more nervous excited? Are you always thinking football now?
54:56
Speaker 1: Is there a switch that flips on? Yeah, I'm really
54:58
Speaker 1: excited about, um, the progress of guys from spring bolder.
55:04
Speaker 1: Now I'm really excited to see the new guys, you know,
55:07
Speaker 1: the ones that weren't here. Uh there was only four
55:10
Speaker 1: of them. But you know, the guys that weren't here, Uh,
55:12
Speaker 1: see them participate, see how good they are, see them grow.
55:16
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's a big time excitement around Fatteville and
55:20
Speaker 1: certainly in our building and through our players about you know,
55:24
Speaker 1: the season. I'm not gonna ask you to name anybody,
55:26
Speaker 1: but it's always coming out of high school into college. Heck,
55:29
Speaker 1: just as a student, it's overwhelming much less you're seventeen
55:34
Speaker 1: than you go eighteen years old and now you're you know,
55:36
Speaker 1: competing for a spot against year olds. Any of these
55:40
Speaker 1: freshmen in your time that come in, they're very had
55:43
Speaker 1: heralded and they get there and they're like, I don't
55:45
Speaker 1: know what's happening. Like these guys are all bigger and faster. Yeah,
55:49
Speaker 1: it happens all the time. But you know, you can
55:51
Speaker 1: wear yourself out anxiety wise. The first day we went
55:54
Speaker 1: out to practice, there's a hundred fifteen heatd index. It's
55:58
Speaker 1: a hot out there. But you combine that with a
56:02
Speaker 1: new guy that has anxiety, Uh, they're all over the place.
56:06
Speaker 1: The next day it was one twelve heat into x
56:09
Speaker 1: but they were much better. Uh, you know, so anxiety.
56:12
Speaker 1: That's a little bit Bobby about going over into the
56:15
Speaker 1: stadium on a Saturday. You're gonna have a lot of
56:18
Speaker 1: anxiety if you're not prepared or you don't know. Uh.
56:23
Speaker 1: If you are prepared and you know and and you've
56:26
Speaker 1: taken the I hope we win to I know we're
56:29
Speaker 1: gonna win because I'm prepared in this. I think you
56:32
Speaker 1: play a lot better. So these kids that come in,
56:34
Speaker 1: we didn't put a whole lot of value into day one, uh,
56:38
Speaker 1: Day two, a little bit more, Day three, and of
56:40
Speaker 1: course the day will be our fourth practice. If a
56:43
Speaker 1: hundred four star freshman come in, let's play with me here,
56:46
Speaker 1: a hundred four star freshman come in, how many of
56:48
Speaker 1: them will actually have the one be physically and mentally
56:52
Speaker 1: ready to play game one in our league? Ten? Maybe
56:57
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe fifteen, not not more than that.
57:00
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think now play play start play probably ten
57:05
Speaker 1: play play probably uh you know, some type of special
57:09
Speaker 1: team or something like that, maybe thirty five or forty.
57:13
Speaker 1: In your history of coaching, and it could be at
57:15
Speaker 1: any level. Can you remember a freshman that came in
57:18
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, this guy's immediately ready to play,
57:20
Speaker 1: and then he immediately played and was awesome. Andrew Thomas.
57:23
Speaker 1: Andrew Thomas was a tackle out of Georgia who I
57:28
Speaker 1: knew he was going to start in our top five
57:31
Speaker 1: fast early. Um, not necessarily office high school take Bobby,
57:35
Speaker 1: but when he got to campus, Uh, he started at
57:38
Speaker 1: right tackle, first game of the year, played three years,
57:42
Speaker 1: fourth pick in the draft. Yeah, that one. I that
57:45
Speaker 1: when I knew. What is the coolest thing about being
57:48
Speaker 1: a D one coach? That a head coach that you
57:51
Speaker 1: did not know meaning you've coached a lot of places
57:54
Speaker 1: for a lot of time and done a lot of
57:55
Speaker 1: great things, but you still didn't know blank Whenever you
57:58
Speaker 1: became the head coach. Andy Reckon saw how awesome going
58:02
Speaker 1: into the locker room is after you beat somebody that named,
58:06
Speaker 1: somebody's got a name, somebody's got a good football team.
58:09
Speaker 1: How many employees that there is in the building. You
58:12
Speaker 1: know that those things were surprising to me. But the
58:16
Speaker 1: awesome part of it was going in and seeing the
58:18
Speaker 1: kid's face after you win a big game. It's incredible, priceless,
58:22
Speaker 1: can put a value on it, It's really cool. So
58:25
Speaker 1: for me, as I was, you know, rising up whatever ranks,
58:29
Speaker 1: I started to learn that the higher I got, it
58:31
Speaker 1: really was I wasn't doing all the little things as much.
58:33
Speaker 1: I was kind of uh doing big things and watching
58:37
Speaker 1: over people that I trusted to do the little things, um,
58:41
Speaker 1: not less important things, but just more of the things.
58:45
Speaker 1: Was that an adjustment for you being the head coach
58:47
Speaker 1: is not being so super involved daily in schemes and
58:51
Speaker 1: game plans. I trade our coach is exactly like I
58:54
Speaker 1: wanted to be treated as an assistant. You know, I've
58:57
Speaker 1: got a title. When I was assisted, I wanted to,
59:01
Speaker 1: uh make sure that I did what I was supposed
59:04
Speaker 1: to do. I wanted to coach to think I was
59:05
Speaker 1: the best coach, best recruiter on his staff, most loyal guy.
59:09
Speaker 1: So I treat those guys like that until you know
59:12
Speaker 1: possible they give me a reason not to. But I
59:16
Speaker 1: loved my staff. I've got a really good staff, and
59:19
Speaker 1: and I I visit with him. You know, you can
59:23
Speaker 1: really have anxiety over if somebody doesn't talk to you.
59:28
Speaker 1: You know, uh, well, what's he think of me? Am
59:30
Speaker 1: I doing a good job. I let him know. Uh.
59:34
Speaker 1: Visit with the guys all the time. I want them
59:35
Speaker 1: to be as comfortable as they possibly can be, because
59:38
Speaker 1: I want them to to coach out of confidence and
59:42
Speaker 1: not out of nervousness, if that makes sense. When you
59:45
Speaker 1: go into a season like this season, where you've had
59:48
Speaker 1: two seasons in a row where you know there's been
59:51
Speaker 1: a different feeling about the team, obviously you're one. You're
59:54
Speaker 1: the first time head coach. Not a lot of expectation. Um,
59:58
Speaker 1: and you know it was a weirder year anyway with
1:00:01
Speaker 1: with COVID and last year, Uh, we overperformed a lot
1:00:05
Speaker 1: of folks expectation. Now here we are, we're going into
1:00:08
Speaker 1: it again and there are now real expectations put on you,
1:00:11
Speaker 1: put on the razorbacks, put on the state of Arkansas.
1:00:14
Speaker 1: Like do you still have to find like dig through
1:00:16
Speaker 1: and find somebody disrespecting you to go look at this
1:00:19
Speaker 1: they still don't think or do you just reposition on
1:00:22
Speaker 1: how to motivate these kids? Well, you know our expectations
1:00:27
Speaker 1: and I'm not lying here, not stretching the truth at all.
1:00:30
Speaker 1: Our expectations have been high ever since we walked in
1:00:34
Speaker 1: the building. I mean they really had. And uh so
1:00:38
Speaker 1: that that's been a big deal for us. Uh. If
1:00:42
Speaker 1: I see, Bobby, honestly, if I see uh ranking that
1:00:45
Speaker 1: has us ranked fifteen and one that has us not ranked,
1:00:49
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to the team about the not ranked point.
1:00:52
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not I am I'm I We're underdog,
1:00:55
Speaker 1: you know, a blue chip, hard working group of guys,
1:01:00
Speaker 1: and I want to I'm gonna find every reason for
1:01:03
Speaker 1: us to stay that way in the public eye and
1:01:06
Speaker 1: and until I guess until you've got ranked number one,
1:01:09
Speaker 1: you know, you you would have that ability to put
1:01:12
Speaker 1: a chip on the guy's shoulder, and that's that's I
1:01:15
Speaker 1: like to do that. I think that's who we are
1:01:16
Speaker 1: and we thrive on that. Has fame been weird for you? Yeah?
1:01:23
Speaker 1: It really as I get um um um. A lot
1:01:27
Speaker 1: of times you may or may not feel the same way.
1:01:31
Speaker 1: But a lot of times people come up they want
1:01:33
Speaker 1: to touch you, autograph pictures, whatever that is, and I'm
1:01:39
Speaker 1: almost every time I'm going, I wonder why they want
1:01:42
Speaker 1: to do that, you know. But I also know that
1:01:45
Speaker 1: when I want to meet somebody that I either walk
1:01:48
Speaker 1: away going, man, that guy's a jerk, or man that
1:01:52
Speaker 1: he's really what I thought he would be. And I
1:01:54
Speaker 1: always wanted to walk away from me with the feeling that, hey,
1:01:58
Speaker 1: this is what who I thought this guy would be.
1:02:00
Speaker 1: I mean, in Arkansas, you are wildly famous because the
1:02:03
Speaker 1: team is in an upper trajectory and we feel like
1:02:06
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen for a long time. Obviously, we love
1:02:07
Speaker 1: you very much, um. But with that, there is everybody
1:02:11
Speaker 1: watching you everywhere you go. Now, what's cool about the
1:02:14
Speaker 1: level of fame that you have at least I think
1:02:16
Speaker 1: is you could probably go to uh San Diego and
1:02:19
Speaker 1: everybody's pretty chill, and you get to live more of
1:02:21
Speaker 1: a normal vacation life, if because nobody's hassling Coach Pittman
1:02:24
Speaker 1: from the razorback. Is that true? Yeah, that's true. I mean, um,
1:02:28
Speaker 1: here in the state though, you know, I have a
1:02:31
Speaker 1: home on Lake Hamilton's and I can get away somewhat,
1:02:34
Speaker 1: but not not much. Of course, when we put the
1:02:37
Speaker 1: hall out there on the lake kind of told where
1:02:40
Speaker 1: we lived, you know. But um, I'm very very grateful
1:02:44
Speaker 1: for that, I really am. I never get discouraged or
1:02:48
Speaker 1: frustrated with people coming up and saying hello, because I'm
1:02:53
Speaker 1: very honored that they want to meet me or be
1:02:56
Speaker 1: around me or whatever that case. Maybe how often do
1:02:59
Speaker 1: you eat then you find out someone's already paid your tab? Man,
1:03:01
Speaker 1: It's happened quite a bit, you know, I mean it
1:03:05
Speaker 1: really has. And and some people aren't even at the
1:03:08
Speaker 1: restaurant that you know, somebody will call and say, Coach Pittman,
1:03:12
Speaker 1: Jamie's here and there. They hadn't even been at the restaurant.
1:03:16
Speaker 1: They paid for it, which, by the way, is awesome.
1:03:19
Speaker 1: Which other head coach in the SEC, would you say,
1:03:21
Speaker 1: as your your BFF, if you had to pick one,
1:03:23
Speaker 1: Kirby Kirby Smart, you know, that's that's the guy that
1:03:28
Speaker 1: has really taught me a lot when I was there.
1:03:32
Speaker 1: He's little to me as I am him, but he's
1:03:37
Speaker 1: a guy that that would be my my friend, my
1:03:41
Speaker 1: best friend in in coaching, is there a text thread
1:03:45
Speaker 1: of like the cool SEC coaches and leave a couple
1:03:48
Speaker 1: of guys out that's what I do. That's so awesome,
1:03:52
Speaker 1: you know you probably you know, hopefully I'm not the
1:03:54
Speaker 1: one they want to leave out of it, but uh yeah,
1:03:57
Speaker 1: that is awesome. There there are days when you know,
1:04:00
Speaker 1: if you had that text fread though, you'd add a
1:04:02
Speaker 1: guy back into, take another guy, add this guy, take
1:04:05
Speaker 1: another guy out. But uh no, there's not one of those.
1:04:08
Speaker 1: But certainly I think everybody at some point in time
1:04:12
Speaker 1: would take a guy out and leave him out for
1:04:15
Speaker 1: a while. Is it true that if your buddies with somebody,
1:04:18
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you have a lot of let a
1:04:20
Speaker 1: peer coaches in the SEC, that you guys will not
1:04:23
Speaker 1: communicate the week over the week before if you're playing
1:04:25
Speaker 1: each other or or you find either way there's a
1:04:27
Speaker 1: lot of truth to that. You know, Um, you know
1:04:30
Speaker 1: Meil Tucker was at at Georgia, Shane was at Georgia. Um,
1:04:35
Speaker 1: Dan Lanning was at Georgia. You know, I think if
1:04:38
Speaker 1: we played, of course we play shipped Beemer's team to
1:04:41
Speaker 1: South Carolina. But I don't think it makes a whole
1:04:44
Speaker 1: lot of difference. Uh. You know what, it depends on
1:04:47
Speaker 1: how close you are. If you're real close to him,
1:04:49
Speaker 1: you probably don't mind talking to him. If you send
1:04:51
Speaker 1: me close to him, then you probably you probably won't
1:04:55
Speaker 1: talk to him the week of the game. Have you
1:04:57
Speaker 1: ever played Madden? Because I wonder if you played Madden,
1:04:59
Speaker 1: and let's that you didn't actually use the controller, but
1:05:01
Speaker 1: you just like someone played for you, but you told
1:05:04
Speaker 1: him what plays the call, what defense is to run.
1:05:06
Speaker 1: Do you think you can watch somebody play Madden and
1:05:07
Speaker 1: dominate them just based off of what you do as
1:05:10
Speaker 1: a head coach? No? I mean, now, Barry Might and
1:05:14
Speaker 1: Kendall Might. It's got Fountain Might on the punt when
1:05:17
Speaker 1: they need the punt. But I wouldn't know. If it
1:05:20
Speaker 1: was coaching old line, I'd probably okay and all that,
1:05:24
Speaker 1: but no, I wouldn't be able to do that that
1:05:27
Speaker 1: would be the worst video game ever coaching old line.
1:05:29
Speaker 1: I don't think, man, that it wouldn't sell. Many would have.
1:05:33
Speaker 1: How often are the state troopers with you when you're
1:05:35
Speaker 1: traveling around the state. Is that just game day or
1:05:37
Speaker 1: is that all the time? Well, they take me to
1:05:39
Speaker 1: the catfish hole on Wednesday nights, and uh, I don't
1:05:43
Speaker 1: know why there's it's not dangerous as the catfish old
1:05:46
Speaker 1: I can promise you. Uh. But then there with me
1:05:49
Speaker 1: on Friday and all through all through until we get
1:05:53
Speaker 1: back home after the game more uh, you know, traveling
1:05:57
Speaker 1: back on a road game. So I've I've met your
1:06:00
Speaker 1: lovely wife a couple of times and thank you, and
1:06:03
Speaker 1: you've met my wife and you know at yeah, yeah
1:06:11
Speaker 1: you did, thank you, thank you. I take that a compliment,
1:06:13
Speaker 1: thank you. It's okay. Um. So I guess my with
1:06:19
Speaker 1: my wife, I am constantly trying to make sure and
1:06:23
Speaker 1: I do not do a good job of it of
1:06:25
Speaker 1: having balance, meaning I have to remember to try to
1:06:31
Speaker 1: foe even though she's so supportive. I have to remember
1:06:32
Speaker 1: to focus and make sure that I'm not just using
1:06:35
Speaker 1: my my opic view of only my life and my careers.
1:06:38
Speaker 1: When it's football season, is there a different understanding in
1:06:42
Speaker 1: your relationship. Yeah, it has been for thirty six years.
1:06:46
Speaker 1: The only thing. But what I've done for a long
1:06:48
Speaker 1: long time is Jamie and I going to date night
1:06:51
Speaker 1: every Thursday during the season, and we kind of look
1:06:55
Speaker 1: forward to that now because since I've gotten a head
1:06:58
Speaker 1: coaching job, Wednesday night is all so she goes with
1:07:01
Speaker 1: me to the Catfish Hole. But Thursday night we do something.
1:07:05
Speaker 1: It may be at home, but it's it's considered a
1:07:08
Speaker 1: day night, or maybe we get a private room somewhere
1:07:11
Speaker 1: and go go out on Thursday night. But um, I
1:07:15
Speaker 1: try to include her and as much as I possibly
1:07:17
Speaker 1: can because she's so important to me. But she's also
1:07:21
Speaker 1: important to how I feel and my daily you know,
1:07:24
Speaker 1: the way I walk and talking things of that nature.
1:07:27
Speaker 1: She helps him with all that has for thirty six years.
1:07:30
Speaker 1: I hope I'm good at I'm conscious to be good
1:07:33
Speaker 1: at that coach. Final four questions I have here for you,
1:07:35
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna start with the n I l um,
1:07:38
Speaker 1: do you feel like it's advantageous to you that you
1:07:40
Speaker 1: started to be a head coach right as this was happening,
1:07:42
Speaker 1: and you weren't someone who's been head coaching that had
1:07:43
Speaker 1: to completely adjust whenever, like being born at the same
1:07:47
Speaker 1: time this was born. Do you feel like that was
1:07:49
Speaker 1: good for you. I don't think it hurt me. You know,
1:07:52
Speaker 1: you know change. Guys have been doing something and you
1:07:55
Speaker 1: just said it basically, guys have been doing something for
1:07:58
Speaker 1: a long time. You know, you either fight change or
1:08:02
Speaker 1: you go with change and try to find out how
1:08:05
Speaker 1: you can make it to your advantage. I'm a guy
1:08:08
Speaker 1: that when change happens, I'm trying to make an advantage
1:08:11
Speaker 1: out of it and not be grapping about the change.
1:08:15
Speaker 1: It might be harder if I was a head coach
1:08:17
Speaker 1: for twenty years and I liked what I had, But um,
1:08:20
Speaker 1: right now, the rules a rule, and then you try
1:08:23
Speaker 1: to go see how it can be advantageous to your program.
1:08:26
Speaker 1: And that's how I feel about it. Do you feel
1:08:28
Speaker 1: like players are acting different because the n I l
1:08:30
Speaker 1: I think they're thinking different. Um, I don't know acting,
1:08:34
Speaker 1: but they are thinking different because you know, recruiting and
1:08:39
Speaker 1: also your own team. Uh, you have a lot more
1:08:42
Speaker 1: conversations about the name image lightness than the math class
1:08:47
Speaker 1: or the you know, you miss study table, things of
1:08:50
Speaker 1: that nature. They want to talk about N I l
1:08:52
Speaker 1: and I want to talk about graduation more. Let's talk
1:08:55
Speaker 1: about parents. Um. And right, you're talking about graduation. I'm
1:08:59
Speaker 1: sure that's a big part in ruting. We're talking to
1:09:00
Speaker 1: the parents of the grandparents or whomever the central figures are. Um.
1:09:04
Speaker 1: I get a lot of parents that asked me like, Hey,
1:09:06
Speaker 1: I got a kid that's really good at football. How
1:09:08
Speaker 1: do I get a coach to see a tape if
1:09:10
Speaker 1: they can't get to a camp or they can't get
1:09:12
Speaker 1: to some of the things like how does someone highlight
1:09:16
Speaker 1: their kid if they think their kid is really good? Well,
1:09:19
Speaker 1: first of all, I think that's the head coaches job,
1:09:22
Speaker 1: you know, their school. Uh. The other thing, there's not
1:09:25
Speaker 1: a social media how about that that's the answer. Get
1:09:30
Speaker 1: it out on Twitter, get it out on the Instagram, TikTok,
1:09:33
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. Um. But for right now, with
1:09:37
Speaker 1: huddle the way it is and our coaches being able
1:09:40
Speaker 1: to go out twice in the spring, Uh, you know,
1:09:43
Speaker 1: there's not many unturned stones in recruiting. But how they
1:09:48
Speaker 1: can do that is if they can't get to camp
1:09:51
Speaker 1: is get tape and have have the coach promote them
1:09:55
Speaker 1: and have themselves promote them on on Twitter, on on
1:09:58
Speaker 1: social media. Yeah, I feel like I usually missed there.
1:10:00
Speaker 1: I didn't get to the camps, so I feel like
1:10:01
Speaker 1: I was really just kind of That's why it happened.
1:10:03
Speaker 1: And what social media was that's right now barely my space,
1:10:07
Speaker 1: you know? Do it off that? All right? Two final
1:10:09
Speaker 1: questions for you? Uh, favorite TV show, movie and song
1:10:13
Speaker 1: ever in your whole life? You got movie? TV show
1:10:17
Speaker 1: forst gun would be movie? Uh? Uh what? What? What
1:10:22
Speaker 1: was TV TV show ever? Oh? Man Gilligan's Island loved
1:10:32
Speaker 1: Merryan and and uh I figured in the skipper. Really
1:10:38
Speaker 1: I like Gilligan. I kept thinking he's going to get
1:10:40
Speaker 1: off the island too, man. They never did. And then, Uh,
1:10:45
Speaker 1: favorite song I'm gonna go currently, I like country on
1:10:50
Speaker 1: Uh Brian by look Brian right now. I mean I
1:10:54
Speaker 1: like it. It's got a lot of good cool meaning
1:10:56
Speaker 1: to it. Hit one wants to hit you in the heart.
1:10:59
Speaker 1: I like those kind of stungs. All right. Last one
1:11:02
Speaker 1: for your coach. I appreciate your time, but my wife
1:11:04
Speaker 1: being from Oklahoma, we we just spent the last four
1:11:08
Speaker 1: days over in Oklahoma and your Tulsa and um so,
1:11:11
Speaker 1: I I never liked the Sooners, but I'm having to
1:11:15
Speaker 1: adjust to not hating the Sooners, and that is an adjustment. Um.
1:11:19
Speaker 1: And so I am actually very excited about them being
1:11:22
Speaker 1: in the conference because that's just more games that I
1:11:24
Speaker 1: get to go to. So I is when they're probably in?
1:11:30
Speaker 1: Do you I'm I'm not gonna ask you to speculate
1:11:32
Speaker 1: a year or anything, but do you think it'll be
1:11:33
Speaker 1: sooner than that? Right now we're told, Bobby, they'll come in. Um.
1:11:40
Speaker 1: Do I think there's a possibility of it? Yes? I do, UM,
1:11:45
Speaker 1: But right now, I think the SEC is pretty steadfast
1:11:49
Speaker 1: at you know, financially. Um. You know, they're gonna be
1:11:54
Speaker 1: a big pay buy out by Texas and Oklahoma and
1:11:58
Speaker 1: I'm assuming if they're willing to do that, and then
1:12:01
Speaker 1: it might uh speed up a little bit. But right
1:12:03
Speaker 1: now we're told, coach, love you good luck. Uh. You know,
1:12:08
Speaker 1: this is a national show, so I'm not supposed to
1:12:10
Speaker 1: be biased, but I'm the most biased person in my
1:12:12
Speaker 1: whole life. I've at Arkansas helmet on my desk here.
1:12:15
Speaker 1: I mean that's on camera. So uh, let's get them.
1:12:18
Speaker 1: I'll see you soon. And thanks for your time, Coach
1:12:20
Speaker 1: go Hog. Appreciate the interview, Bobby, thanks you for your
1:12:23
Speaker 1: time go up? All right, ending thoughts? Everybody has one
1:12:31
Speaker 1: sports taken o't how trivial it is. Is your chance
1:12:33
Speaker 1: to say your opinion and funny, predictive, serious, It doesn't
1:12:38
Speaker 1: have to be long. Um, we'll start with Adam Hambrick,
1:12:41
Speaker 1: Adam of the new guy here to the room. What
1:12:43
Speaker 1: is your ending thoughts? Oh man, it lots being made
1:12:46
Speaker 1: on this coaches poll right now? And h is the
1:12:48
Speaker 1: SEC having a down year? I'm gonna go with no.
1:12:51
Speaker 1: Why what's being made of the coaches pool? Uh? There's
1:12:53
Speaker 1: only five SEC teams ranked in the coaches poll, and
1:12:58
Speaker 1: I think that's you know, that's a opportunity for a
1:13:00
Speaker 1: lot of conferences, say the SEC is not as good either,
1:13:03
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be as good. Um, a couple first
1:13:04
Speaker 1: year head coaches and all that stuff. Um, but what
1:13:07
Speaker 1: I think people are missing is like there might be
1:13:09
Speaker 1: a first year head coach at Florida, Um, but Florida
1:13:12
Speaker 1: is still Florida is still gonna be loaded with talent. Uh.
1:13:15
Speaker 1: Tennessee has a has a fantastic quarterback, hen and Hooker,
1:13:19
Speaker 1: UM and L s U like L s US have
1:13:21
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly and they all they always have talent. They
1:13:25
Speaker 1: probably will. I mean, they haven't went six and six
1:13:27
Speaker 1: this first year. Bryan Kelly is a great coach. This
1:13:29
Speaker 1: year they'll suck. But but there's still when you have
1:13:31
Speaker 1: athletes on the field, like you never know what's gonna
1:13:34
Speaker 1: happen in a given a weekend. I think they're all
1:13:35
Speaker 1: those question marks and there's still all the talent l
1:13:37
Speaker 1: s U are in Florida and these other teams that
1:13:40
Speaker 1: aren't in the poll, Like, there's still gonna be opportunity
1:13:43
Speaker 1: for a lot of chaos and a lot of like, uh,
1:13:46
Speaker 1: you know, these teams are still gonna have high ceilings
1:13:49
Speaker 1: that maybe they could maybe they could reach, but they're
1:13:51
Speaker 1: also be probably inconsistent all that stuff. But I think
1:13:54
Speaker 1: everything outside of Alabama and Georgia, obviously, everything is gonna
1:13:58
Speaker 1: be competitive every week in a gonna be a really
1:14:00
Speaker 1: fun year to watch. And then you have teams like
1:14:03
Speaker 1: my Razorbacks coming on. Uh, they're gonna be tough, hard nosed,
1:14:07
Speaker 1: blue collar kind of teams. You got old miss Who's
1:14:09
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna win football games. Kentucky's gonna win football
1:14:12
Speaker 1: games in South Carolina coming on, all that way below
1:14:15
Speaker 1: Alabama and Georgia all the way down to maybe Vanderbilt
1:14:18
Speaker 1: in a Missouri. That middle is gonna be a really tough,
1:14:21
Speaker 1: tough road to home this year. I think it's gonna
1:14:22
Speaker 1: be as tough as it always is. So no, I
1:14:25
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be a down here in the SEC.
1:14:26
Speaker 1: I think Kentucky can beat Georgia. I think they. I
1:14:28
Speaker 1: think they can. I don't think they wouldn't, But I
1:14:30
Speaker 1: think Kentucky can beat Georgia. I think Tennessee could possibly
1:14:34
Speaker 1: if the whole freaking world turns exactly right, they'd have
1:14:37
Speaker 1: a shot at it. But I think that's a bit
1:14:40
Speaker 1: of an unfair headline. When I saw an article too,
1:14:42
Speaker 1: like I see down only five teams like teamine all
1:14:45
Speaker 1: I SEC teams like a vote votes getting um so
1:14:50
Speaker 1: uh and Christmas comes slow for kids, water is wet
1:14:54
Speaker 1: and the SCS overrated that no, no, no, no, no,
1:14:57
Speaker 1: what what universal truths that people say yes not Uh,
1:15:05
Speaker 1: let's go to Eddie. Give me your ending thought or
1:15:07
Speaker 1: you're not gonna like this. And especially since two people
1:15:09
Speaker 1: picked the Bucks to win the whole thing this year,
1:15:11
Speaker 1: Look the Bucks. This is and I'm not being funny.
1:15:14
Speaker 1: The Bucks will start this season, oh and four, and
1:15:17
Speaker 1: it's gonna shock the world. There's oh my gosh, tom
1:15:19
Speaker 1: Brady are their first four games, their first four games
1:15:22
Speaker 1: to start with the Cowboys. That's that's the lost is
1:15:25
Speaker 1: an automatical and a shocker. They're gonna play the Saints.
1:15:29
Speaker 1: They're gonna lose that one too, and then they go.
1:15:31
Speaker 1: I think they have a better shot to lose that
1:15:32
Speaker 1: one though than the first. I think because the Saints
1:15:34
Speaker 1: have owned them the last couple of years. Too stupid, stupid,
1:15:38
Speaker 1: you don't blow it all stupid takes go ahead, and
1:15:42
Speaker 1: then week three they play the Packers, will lose that
1:15:45
Speaker 1: week before they play the Chiefs. I'm telling you, Owen four,
1:15:47
Speaker 1: their first win will be against the Falcons, and it's
1:15:50
Speaker 1: gonna have the NFL going, oh my gosh, what's going
1:15:52
Speaker 1: on with Tom Brady? This is crazy. I can see
1:15:55
Speaker 1: one in three, probably probably for asking me too into
1:15:59
Speaker 1: I ain't Green Bay is gonna be interesting to Seattle.
1:16:00
Speaker 1: Zard's the number one ride receiver that they hope he is.
1:16:02
Speaker 1: I think to see who the guy in Kansas City is.
1:16:05
Speaker 1: It's gonna catch balls on the outside from the homes.
1:16:07
Speaker 1: Is gonna be fine. Somebody. It's gonna be somebody. My
1:16:10
Speaker 1: homes is too good for their not to be somebody.
1:16:11
Speaker 1: It's like when Peyton Manning, it didn't matter who. It
1:16:14
Speaker 1: didn't matter if it was Eric Decker, it didn't matter.
1:16:16
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning made somebody a fantasy star because he just
1:16:19
Speaker 1: had some UM. So that would be interesting. But I
1:16:22
Speaker 1: think they could be two and two or three and one. Yeah.
1:16:23
Speaker 1: I mean, I like how you're certain that they will us.
1:16:26
Speaker 1: I'm not starting anything something. Uh, let's go to kick off, Kevin,
1:16:33
Speaker 1: your final ending thought, kickoff, Kevin. Alright. Clemson had what
1:16:37
Speaker 1: people called a down year last year. They still went
1:16:39
Speaker 1: ten and three. UM quarterback dj ui Ungo Leile. I'm
1:16:42
Speaker 1: pretty sure I said that right, and you killed that.
1:16:45
Speaker 1: That wasn't bad. Yeah, and uh, he was one of
1:16:47
Speaker 1: the favorites coming in to win the Heisman. He had
1:16:48
Speaker 1: a down year as well. I think had ten interceptions
1:16:51
Speaker 1: and only nine touchdowns. But I think they bounced back
1:16:54
Speaker 1: this year because a CEC is getting pretty weak, especially
1:16:56
Speaker 1: with Sam Hartman up for weak four is and I
1:16:59
Speaker 1: say he is the best sleeper bet for your money.
1:17:02
Speaker 1: He's at plus right now. Wow, So if you put
1:17:06
Speaker 1: your mind I actually put twenty bucks on him this morning.
1:17:09
Speaker 1: That'll pay me nine hundred if you win, so do
1:17:11
Speaker 1: it for me. That's interesting about Clemson because yes, everyway
1:17:15
Speaker 1: says they had a bad year down here, but they
1:17:16
Speaker 1: lost them early, but they were over in everybody's mind.
1:17:19
Speaker 1: They really played well for most of the year after that,
1:17:23
Speaker 1: they did have a down hear Clemson standards. Also, they're
1:17:25
Speaker 1: not gonna they don't mess with the n I l Really,
1:17:28
Speaker 1: that's a weird thing. They're not big, they don't do
1:17:30
Speaker 1: it at all. Yeah, they're just like they're probably who knows,
1:17:38
Speaker 1: but I think I think that's actually a great pick
1:17:41
Speaker 1: on that. Plus, yeah, I mean that's he's rich. Those tattoos, Mike,
1:17:55
Speaker 1: what you got? Final one? I think the fate of
1:17:56
Speaker 1: the Razorbacks depends on what you do with the stuff
1:17:59
Speaker 1: you got from the estates, meaning that if you take
1:18:03
Speaker 1: it and actually do something with it, they'll be great.
1:18:05
Speaker 1: If not, it's gonna be a bad season. They're all
1:18:07
Speaker 1: gonna sit in your room, right What about to do?
1:18:10
Speaker 1: Why did you buy it? I'm not gonna do anything
1:18:12
Speaker 1: with it. I don't anybody else to have it. I
1:18:13
Speaker 1: wanted to I wanted to be taking care of very much.
1:18:17
Speaker 1: So all right, uh, and then my final take is
1:18:20
Speaker 1: going to be I think that if Old Miss finish
1:18:25
Speaker 1: his second in the West, and I hate to say that,
1:18:28
Speaker 1: I think Lane Kiffin is a real candidate for Coach
1:18:29
Speaker 1: of the Year because the media loves them, and if
1:18:32
Speaker 1: Old Miss can be competitive with Alabama, I don't think
1:18:36
Speaker 1: they'll win the West. But if Old Miss, I think
1:18:39
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin has a real shot because of their fat
1:18:41
Speaker 1: infatuation with him, and he's on TikTok. Now he's kind
1:18:43
Speaker 1: of killing on TikTok a little bit, he is. I
1:18:46
Speaker 1: think that all kind of plays into it. I think
1:18:48
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin doesn't happen with the national championship, but if
1:18:51
Speaker 1: he can win ten games, he could be the coach
1:18:53
Speaker 1: of the Year this year. Um, so we're gonna end
1:18:56
Speaker 1: this show. But before we do the whistle we I
1:18:58
Speaker 1: wanted to end on skinners simple man, just because I
1:19:01
Speaker 1: like that intro. We can't because lightness and issues, but
1:19:04
Speaker 1: might count a version called what Mike complicated dude. It
1:19:08
Speaker 1: sounds kind of like it, but not really do we
1:19:09
Speaker 1: have access to it? You know, it's sounds like a a
1:19:11
Speaker 1: complicated dude. Okay, here we go. This is what when
1:19:13
Speaker 1: I do my final thing here, Mike's gonna play complicated
1:19:16
Speaker 1: dude from now on. Go ahead, it does sound good? Yeah, yeah, hey, thanks.
1:19:21
Speaker 1: This is our first episode. The credits will come up
1:19:24
Speaker 1: in a second, and usually I'll do my ending thought
1:19:26
Speaker 1: over this. But I know, I get to choose we
1:19:28
Speaker 1: had the best show, the first first day, best show,
1:19:30
Speaker 1: and they get to blow the whistle and that'll be
1:19:32
Speaker 1: the first whistle out. Um, Mike didn't have a mascot.
1:19:36
Speaker 1: Is a tough game to play, so he's on a stretch,
1:19:38
Speaker 1: so he's out. Uh, Kevin, solid job today. You still end? Thanks.
1:19:44
Speaker 1: I kind of kicked out him out of a segments
1:19:46
Speaker 1: got a little too Arkansas way, So sometimes things happen.
1:19:49
Speaker 1: It's Adam, you're gonna be eliminated from this, uh, Eddie, Yeah,
1:19:53
Speaker 1: you're looking at great. Great by the way, go listen
1:19:55
Speaker 1: to the Sore Losers on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays on
1:19:58
Speaker 1: they're on the Nashville podcast Snetwork with us. They're like
1:20:01
Speaker 1: our cousins, except it's like a crossover episode. You're like
1:20:05
Speaker 1: Arkle on full House. Eddie. Yeah, I just pop in sometimes.
1:20:07
Speaker 1: Yeah full House. Yeah, pretty good. Episode, Eddie also setting
1:20:13
Speaker 1: up the studio for the first thank you. I'm getting
1:20:14
Speaker 1: my whistle ready. Yeah, but in the end, I give
1:20:17
Speaker 1: it to me. I performed the best. Yeah yeah, I'll
1:20:24
Speaker 1: tell you what. We'll put it to a vote between
1:20:26
Speaker 1: three that didn't win. Mike wa is it Eddie or Kevin.
1:20:28
Speaker 1: I'm going with Eddie, Adam, I'm gonna go Kevin. I'm
1:20:38
Speaker 1: gonna go with Kevin too. First time on Kevin's be
1:20:43
Speaker 1: a big part of this show. This is our first
1:20:45
Speaker 1: whistle twenty four more to go, Kevin. You blow the
1:20:46
Speaker 1: whistle and we're out of here. Another Cowboys Lost for
1:20:48
Speaker 1: Yet theme song written by me, Bobby Bones and performed
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