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Episode 66-South Carolina · Johnny's World

0:25
SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Dunnies World Podcast.
0:27
SPEAKER_01: This is BW here.
0:29
SPEAKER_01: Got Johnny with me today.
0:30
SPEAKER_01: How are we doing today, Johnny?
0:33
SPEAKER_00: Uh, well, feeling like a Monday, but it's really a Wednesday.
0:37
SPEAKER_00: So uh we'll see what happens uh through the week.
0:41
SPEAKER_00: I do have to say, man, uh I just got off my shift at uh working at one man stream at Disney.
0:47
SPEAKER_00: Now how's optometry school going for you, Brandon?
0:50
SPEAKER_00: Is it going all right?
0:50
SPEAKER_00: Because I feel like I'm in 2005.
0:52
SPEAKER_00: Are we in the fall of 2005?
0:54
SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at the schedule right.
0:55
SPEAKER_00: Crew is our coach, right?
0:56
SPEAKER_00: We're yeah, that's what I think.
1:00
SPEAKER_00: Saturday, I thought uh we were back in time uh 2005, follow-bow five, but uh crew-esque.
1:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was very crew-esque.
1:09
SPEAKER_01: It's funny because I saw uh somebody had shared some picture the other day, and it was that three to two uh game with Auburn.
1:17
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if that was the anniversary of it or what, but somebody shared that.
1:21
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
1:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, pretty rough week last week for sure.
1:28
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was bad.
1:29
SPEAKER_00: Uh uh, we don't have to tell anybody, you know, everybody watched the game, know exactly what we're talking about.
1:35
SPEAKER_00: It was absolutely terrible.
1:37
SPEAKER_00: But hey, look, going into it, we knew we were gonna lose.
1:39
SPEAKER_00: That's number one.
1:40
SPEAKER_00: We knew we were gonna lose.
1:41
SPEAKER_00: Number two, we knew we're gonna get blown out.
1:43
SPEAKER_00: At least I thought we were gonna get blown out, which we did get blown out.
1:46
SPEAKER_00: But the the scary part of all of it is uh just coming out there and just looking like you don't know what the heck you're doing.
1:53
SPEAKER_00: That's the scary part.
1:54
SPEAKER_00: And it's week three, you know.
1:56
SPEAKER_00: I was if that had happened week one, you know, you know, just uh hey, that's that's the um working off the kinks of a new season, but hey man, we're we're three weeks into the season, shouldn't be shouldn't be doing that.
2:09
SPEAKER_00: And it was just an absolutely horrific performance all around.
2:14
SPEAKER_00: It was really hot, miserable.
2:15
SPEAKER_00: I left the game early.
2:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'll say I never leave ball games early.
2:18
SPEAKER_00: I left the ballgame early.
2:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, it was just absolutely terrible.
2:22
SPEAKER_00: I didn't want to see that anymore.
2:24
SPEAKER_00: And I don't feel comfortable, confident on the rest of the season.
2:28
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be uh looks like it's gonna be a rough ride.
2:31
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be totally different than our picks in their preseason.
2:35
SPEAKER_01: You know, Johnny, the the thing that bothered me the most is I I'm not 100% ready to jump off the bandwagon here yet, but the thing that concerned me the most was Will Rogers.
2:46
SPEAKER_01: Um of those throws, I mean, I mean, he wasn't getting the protection that he needed.
2:52
SPEAKER_01: But I mean, he's the guy.
2:54
SPEAKER_01: I mean, he how how do you go from completing you know 98% of his passes or whatever he would do in some of these games last year to to I mean he's just he's just not accurate.
3:05
SPEAKER_01: And I don't know what's going on.
3:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's Mike Leach.
3:09
SPEAKER_00: That's what's going on, I believe, uh not being here because uh just look at the past three years, how successful Will was with Mike Leach with the air raid.
3:18
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Mike Leach made Will Rogers look like a superstar, and and all I mean, well, I love Will to death, but he's an average quarterback and he made him look like a star.
3:28
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he's uh he's he's gonna be from now probably till forever in our record books for the leading passer in school history, and it's only because of the air raid of Mike Leach, and you take that away and Will just struggles, and it shouldn't be like that.
3:44
SPEAKER_00: I just don't understand.
3:45
SPEAKER_00: I know when Zach Garnett got the job, I know he was he said he was gonna keep um running the air raid, and I I I just don't get it.
3:54
SPEAKER_00: I like as like you said, the O-line for LSU is I mean, the O-line for us couldn't couldn't hang with the LSU D line, and that's understandable, they're better all around, but and not getting much pressure.
4:05
SPEAKER_00: But man, just let him run.
4:07
SPEAKER_00: I mean, don't let oh, don't let him run, let him pass.
4:10
SPEAKER_00: Everyone was bitching and complaining last year about not uh not running the ball, run the ball, run the ball, run the ball.
4:16
SPEAKER_00: And you know, we uh we started running the ball, but don't just abandon the pass.
4:20
SPEAKER_00: Gosh, that's what Will Rogers.
4:22
SPEAKER_00: I said this on the podcast last week.
4:24
SPEAKER_00: Will Rogers is a passing quarterback, and uh just because Arnett doesn't know he was the defensive coordinator, and maybe he didn't know about the offense, and Mike Leeds running the air raid and everything, and I mean he's got to know Will Rogers will know the air raid, he's been an air-raid quarterback since he was in high school.
4:41
SPEAKER_00: That's all he's known.
4:42
SPEAKER_00: Let Will get out there and let him do it, you know.
4:45
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he can he knows the system.
4:47
SPEAKER_00: There's no reason to not run the air raid, and that's just the way I feel about it.
4:52
SPEAKER_00: I saw a long post about people uh uh complaining about Mike Leach in the past few years about running the ball that he didn't know what he's doing, air raid's not gonna work, blah blah blah.
5:01
SPEAKER_00: Well, look where we are now.
5:03
SPEAKER_00: Mike Leach was right, and the air raid was working.
5:06
SPEAKER_00: Obviously, every year he was here.
5:08
SPEAKER_00: We were uh proving nine wins last year, and uh, you're gonna abandon it and run the ball.
5:14
SPEAKER_00: And I mean, it's just a disaster.
5:16
SPEAKER_00: I don't Zach Barnett appears to be over his head.
5:19
SPEAKER_00: Um I don't know, but yeah, I feel like Will's out of sync, and I feel like it's Mike Leach.
5:26
SPEAKER_00: Uh we just we we're missing him, and uh I don't know what the answer is.
5:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, maybe he like you said, he's out of sync and he needs to get some more passes in there so he can get into the rhythm.
5:38
SPEAKER_01: Maybe he's a a rhythm guy, so I guess we'll see.
5:42
SPEAKER_01: I'm not I'm not jumping off the Arnett bandwagon yet, though.
5:44
SPEAKER_01: I I yeah I'm gonna give him a little bit more time.
5:47
SPEAKER_01: And yeah, I I probably won't jump off the whole year because I mean he doesn't have his players, I guess, yet for whatever he's trying to do, and maybe Will's not what he's trying to do, and maybe next year he has a a quarterback that's different.
6:02
SPEAKER_01: So maybe maybe that makes a difference.
6:05
SPEAKER_01: So we'll see.
6:05
SPEAKER_00: Well, I don't I don't understand why we have this other guy, Mike Wright, that everybody's calling for, and he just throws him in there for one play, doesn't even get a whole series.
6:13
SPEAKER_00: He gets in one play and then comes out and doesn't do anything.
6:16
SPEAKER_00: I if you're gonna have that guy, at least do something with him, let him play a series or let him get.
6:21
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's I don't understand the point of having him in there if we're just gonna throw him out there for one play, it doesn't make sense.
6:27
SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, it's like the Saints with with Tayson Hill.
6:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it got to where you know when he's coming in, he's running the ball.
6:35
SPEAKER_01: Right.
6:35
SPEAKER_01: It's like let let him let him play a little bit, make some throws, like do some stuff where you don't think he's just gonna run it every time.
6:43
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
6:44
SPEAKER_00: So I I I just don't know.
6:46
SPEAKER_00: My my whole problem with Arnett, I love the guy.
6:48
SPEAKER_00: I think he's an awesome guy.
6:50
SPEAKER_00: Uh I I'm not jumping off the bandwagon yet either, but I will at the end of the season if we go four and eight and don't make a bowl game.
6:58
SPEAKER_00: Um, because there's really no excuse, man.
7:01
SPEAKER_00: We have, I think I read where at 19 of 22 starters back.
7:04
SPEAKER_00: So if that's the case and that's the correct number, I mean, we're a veteran football team.
7:09
SPEAKER_00: There's no ray reason to regress.
7:11
SPEAKER_00: We have all these veterans on the team coming back, veteran quarterback leader.
7:15
SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's no reason to not make a bowl game.
7:18
SPEAKER_00: And and and if that's the issue, we're we're in big time trouble.
7:21
SPEAKER_00: So uh we'll see what happens against uh against South Carolina, but I don't feel confident about it.
7:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
7:31
SPEAKER_01: Well, uh, you mentioned earlier you had something to say about one of our fans.
7:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
7:37
SPEAKER_01: Do you want to talk about that?
7:39
SPEAKER_00: Let me clear this up real quick.
7:40
SPEAKER_00: Clear this up.
7:41
SPEAKER_00: So I had someone reach out to me on Twitter and and and tell me they were disappointed that I uh that I seemed happy that that LSU won the game and that they were complaining about me not being true maroon.
7:52
SPEAKER_00: That they said I remember you during uh during the baseball season, you were so thrilled that LSU won the national championship.
8:00
SPEAKER_00: And uh, but man, here's the thing.
8:02
SPEAKER_00: Number one is yeah, I was happy.
8:04
SPEAKER_00: I almost I picked the score 42 to 13, and the correct score was 41 to 14, I believe.
8:11
SPEAKER_00: I was off by literally one point.
8:13
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I'm gonna be happy about that.
8:14
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna show everybody that I'm gonna be thrilled that uh I knew we were gonna get I knew we're gonna get blown out.
8:19
SPEAKER_00: I picked we're gonna get blown out.
8:20
SPEAKER_00: Uh we were obviously not the better team that showed that.
8:23
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I was happy about that.
8:24
SPEAKER_00: The only thing that I'm mad about is I didn't go to the casino and bet money on it.
8:27
SPEAKER_00: But if I had done that, it would have been the score correctly.
8:31
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, uh yeah, I was happy about that.
8:33
SPEAKER_00: And and uh, but my issue with that is yeah, I'm I'm everybody knows I'm bulldog through and through, but you can have you can cheer for other teams.
8:41
SPEAKER_00: Gosh, when I lived in Orlando in the fall of 05, I was a gator fan.
8:45
SPEAKER_00: I went down, I went up to the uh to Gainesville Florida Gator fan uh games, and I mean uh you can cheer for other teams.
8:52
SPEAKER_00: I like LSU every every game of the year I'll pull for LSU except for one when I'm playing state, and uh that's just the way it is.
9:00
SPEAKER_00: And like I told her, I said I call it like I see it.
9:02
SPEAKER_00: I knew we were gonna get blown out.
9:03
SPEAKER_00: I picked the score, I was happy about the score that I picked that ended up being that, and I was mad that the game obviously turned out like it did.
9:11
SPEAKER_00: But um, but yeah, my whole point of saying all this ran about it is that you can be fans of other teams.
9:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you can pull for that one team like Mississippi State.
9:20
SPEAKER_00: And some people like literally pull for Mississippi State, that's it.
9:22
SPEAKER_00: They don't think of anybody, they don't cheer for anybody else.
9:24
SPEAKER_00: Hey, hey, that's fine, that's your thing, cool.
9:27
SPEAKER_00: But I cheer for teams I like, I cheer for players I like, I like LSU, I like Florida, I like uh, I mean, there's certain teams I like and players, and I'm gonna pull for those other teams, so that's just the way it is.
9:37
SPEAKER_00: And um, I told her, you know, uh when uh um I'm a big uh Mid League baseball fan.
9:45
SPEAKER_00: And uh my former co-worker is a Dowhard baseball fan, but a Dow Hard Atlanta Braves fan.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: He is the type of Atlanta Braves fan as these uh this fan that talked to me about it, this Mississippi State fan.
9:56
SPEAKER_00: He lives, dies Atlanta Braves baseball.
9:59
SPEAKER_00: That's all he cares about.
10:00
SPEAKER_00: Doesn't uh cheer for anybody else.
10:02
SPEAKER_00: And man, I'm the same way in MLB.
10:04
SPEAKER_00: I like the certain teams, the places that I've gone before.
10:07
SPEAKER_00: Um, I I'm literally probably the only one of only people out there that like I like the Yankees, and guess what?
10:12
SPEAKER_00: I like the Red Sox too.
10:14
SPEAKER_00: So I mean that's crazy.
10:15
SPEAKER_00: You know, people say you can't do that.
10:16
SPEAKER_00: You can't do who uh who says you can't do that.
10:19
SPEAKER_00: You can do you can do whatever you want, cheer for whoever you want, and uh so yeah, I I just that's just the way I am with it.
10:25
SPEAKER_00: Some people are like that, they cheer for that one team, but it's okay.
10:28
SPEAKER_00: You can cheer for other teams, and yeah, I cheer for LSU when they're not playing state, but obviously I cheered for state the other day, but I knew going into it, so I picked LSU.
10:37
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I was happy.
10:38
SPEAKER_00: I was happy about the score being exactly almost what I was, but I was upset about the game.
10:43
SPEAKER_00: So that's my little rant on it.
10:44
SPEAKER_00: And so if you're out there listening, you can cheer for whoever you want.
10:47
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I believe Mississippi State through and through, but I have other teams I cheer for also, and other players too.
10:53
SPEAKER_00: What's your take on it, Waller?
10:55
SPEAKER_00: I used to I know you like the Saints.
10:56
SPEAKER_00: What's your take on this?
10:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right.
10:58
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I used to I used to get real upset, you know, when Ole Miss would would beat us and we would lose to Ole Miss.
11:06
SPEAKER_01: And I mean, I you know, I I couldn't stand him for when I was in school there for a long time afterwards.
11:12
SPEAKER_01: And I never really felt that way about other teams, but Ole Miss, it was like man.
11:17
SPEAKER_01: And then when I started working up here in Memphis, I had this guy named Tom Taylor.
11:22
SPEAKER_01: He passed away about six months ago, and he was a diehard Ole Miss fan.
11:28
SPEAKER_01: And he would call me bully and I'd call him rubber.
11:33
SPEAKER_01: And he came in here and he was just the nicest guy you'll ever meet.
11:38
SPEAKER_01: And and he he just loved Ole Miss.
11:41
SPEAKER_01: He went to all the games and and everything, and and we would sit and talk for 45 minutes about it.
11:47
SPEAKER_01: And I said, you know, like I want Mr.
11:50
SPEAKER_01: Tom Taylor to be happy, like and I could just see him sitting there watching his Ole Miss game and his recliner when they won.
11:56
SPEAKER_01: And that's what I care about.
11:58
SPEAKER_01: Like people that I like, right?
11:59
SPEAKER_01: If that's your team, like I I want you to be happy.
12:02
SPEAKER_01: I want us to win too, but you know, I'm not I just I had to get rid of the hate after yes, after that.
12:09
SPEAKER_01: And and it makes you know, I wouldn't be in a bad mood.
12:11
SPEAKER_01: Like, I mean, I'm still in a bad mood when we lose to them, but it doesn't like I would be mad for like a month, you know.
12:17
SPEAKER_01: I'd be like, I can't bear to to stand this, you know.
12:20
SPEAKER_01: And now I'm like, all right, you know, whatever.
12:22
SPEAKER_01: Um, I still want them to lose sometimes, but I'm you know, I'm happy for them when other teams win.
12:29
SPEAKER_01: There's still certain teams that I just don't like that I want to lose.
12:32
SPEAKER_01: I don't like when teams keep winning over and over and over again.
12:35
SPEAKER_01: I like things to be you know fair and mixed up.
12:38
SPEAKER_01: And like I I used to like Georgia.
12:41
SPEAKER_01: Now I'm kind of like, I don't really care about Georgia because I'm tired of them winning.
12:43
SPEAKER_01: Same way about Bam.
12:45
SPEAKER_01: Like it's fine.
12:46
SPEAKER_01: Win one and then lose for the next four or five years.
12:48
SPEAKER_01: But when they start these dynasties, that's when I start not liking them.
12:52
SPEAKER_01: That's that's pretty much where I fall.
12:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, people are really gonna hate me saying this, but I'm gonna say it anyway.
12:59
SPEAKER_00: I'm a fan of Lane Kiffin.
13:00
SPEAKER_00: Yep, said it, said it.
13:01
SPEAKER_00: There it is.
13:02
SPEAKER_00: That doesn't do it, doesn't mean I'm gonna vote for Ole Miss to win, but I like Lane Kiffin.
13:06
SPEAKER_00: I don't know, I don't know Lane at all, but I just I've always liked him.
13:10
SPEAKER_00: And he's he's old Miss's coach.
13:12
SPEAKER_00: So I don't get nah I I hated Hugh Freeze.
13:15
SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you that right now.
13:16
SPEAKER_00: I hated Hugh Freeze.
13:17
SPEAKER_00: I thought he was a despicable human being.
13:19
SPEAKER_00: I don't know him personally, but I didn't so I I had pleasure out of seeing Ole Miss lose when Hugh Freeze was there.
13:25
SPEAKER_00: I would rather Ole Miss lose than Mississippi State win when Hugh Freeze was the coach there.
13:30
SPEAKER_00: But now it feels like when Lane Kiffin took the job and Mike Leach came in, they kind of like got all that toxic rivalry between Freeze and Mullen out, and it was more of a friendly deal, which uh which made it made it more interesting, you know.
13:44
SPEAKER_00: Uh it's just a game, man.
13:46
SPEAKER_00: People like like that got so wrapped up in today, and I I'm fall I'm I'm fault at it too with Ole Miss, uh the toxic stuff and Hugh Freeze and all that.
13:55
SPEAKER_00: It was just bad.
13:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, but now you know when when Coach Leech and Lane Kiffin and their friends and they come into the league and and SEC and it just made made it more fun and made it more uh pleasant.
14:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're they're your rival and you want to beat them.
14:11
SPEAKER_00: They want to beat you, but at the end of the day, it's a game and you you cheer for people you like, you know.
14:16
SPEAKER_00: Uh now this weekend, Alabama, um, Ole Miss, yeah, I would pick Alabama.
14:22
SPEAKER_00: I hope Alabama wins, but guess what?
14:23
SPEAKER_00: If if Ole Miss and Lane um win the game, I'm happy for Lane, you know.
14:28
SPEAKER_00: Um that's a that's a huge win.
14:30
SPEAKER_00: So I'm not gonna be upset with it, but uh, I don't know if that's a sign of maturity or or just I think it's more I think it's more of the coaching of who it is, and and that Lane is a is a decent guy compared to yeah, he likes to take jabs on Twitter at us and everything.
14:45
SPEAKER_00: I get that people are gonna say, yeah, he takes jabs at us all the time, but it's all in good fun.
14:50
SPEAKER_00: It's all in good fun.
14:51
SPEAKER_00: And and uh, but the whole freeze thing that really got under my skin about how he was this one way perceived, and then it turns out he's another way.
14:59
SPEAKER_00: Just I didn't like that.
15:00
SPEAKER_00: That's the definition of a hypocrite.
15:01
SPEAKER_00: And and I'm happy he's at Auburn and now kind of we'll cheer against Auburn.
15:06
SPEAKER_00: Uh but but uh yeah, you you just have those players and coaches that you cheer for.
15:12
SPEAKER_00: But like you just said, that when it when you meet someone that's uh that's a fan, you you you cheer for them because you want them to see see them happy, and that's that's a cool thing.
15:21
SPEAKER_00: I know he was probably thrilled when uh when old miss won the you know that really was tough seeing Ole Miss win the national championship right after us the next year.
15:29
SPEAKER_00: It's like give us give us at least a couple a decade or so of being the only one, and the next year they end up winning it.
15:35
SPEAKER_00: But then you think like what you just said, you think of him sitting in his recliner watching the game being happy, and it makes you think like, oh well, I'm happy for him.
15:42
SPEAKER_00: So so uh yeah, that's just the way that's just the way it is and the way it works.
15:47
SPEAKER_00: But like I said, at the end of the day, it's just a game, no reason.
15:50
SPEAKER_00: People I saw on Twitter the other day at the Dolphins Patriots game that uh Patriots and Dolphins fan got in a fight.
15:57
SPEAKER_00: The guy hit his hand and he's dead.
15:59
SPEAKER_00: He killed him.
16:00
SPEAKER_01: He died, yeah.
16:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it died over a freaking football game.
16:03
SPEAKER_00: Are you kidding me?
16:04
SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
16:05
SPEAKER_00: And that guy's gonna be charged with murder and the guy's dead.
16:07
SPEAKER_00: It's like, come on, people.
16:09
SPEAKER_00: There's more than life than getting upset over stupid football games.
16:13
SPEAKER_00: So um that's just crazy.
16:15
SPEAKER_00: Uh people take it too far this day and time.
16:17
SPEAKER_00: So at the end of the day, it's just wins and losses, and yeah, we want our teams to win, but you know what?
16:23
SPEAKER_00: If we lose, the sun's gonna rise tomorrow, hopefully, and it's a new day and new week, and live to fight on.
16:30
SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah.
16:33
SPEAKER_00: Maybe we're getting BW, maybe we're just getting older, man.
16:35
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's just like could be yeah, maturity.
16:39
SPEAKER_01: I was thinking last week when we were talking to Coach Mullen, and you know, a lot of people were mad at him for leaving and everything, which I understand.
16:47
SPEAKER_01: But listening to him to y'all talking about how much time they spent at the children's hospital and all the stuff they did down there, I mean how how can you not like the guy when he's doing something like that?
17:00
SPEAKER_00: Right.
17:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there are people still that they're upset with him, Scott Strickland and uh all these people who who left, but you know what?
17:09
SPEAKER_00: They that's in their right.
17:11
SPEAKER_00: I mean they can leave.
17:12
SPEAKER_00: And look, if you're in that situation and uh and someone comes along and offers you more money, you're probably gonna take it.
17:18
SPEAKER_00: You're probably is you're doing the best to support your family, and you're gonna take it.
17:22
SPEAKER_00: And I realize I get that about about Scott Strickland being a being an alum.
17:26
SPEAKER_00: Dan was not an alum estate, and that makes it harder for people to accept, but but um yeah, they're just doing doing you're just they're looking out for themselves and and to better their family and stuff, and and and getting high and working the way up the ladder.
17:40
SPEAKER_00: That's what it's all about, and uh that's exactly what they were doing.
17:43
SPEAKER_00: So you you really can't hate people like that and fault people, but man, there's still gonna be people uh nonstop, but probably till the day they die will resent Dan Mullen and leaving and Scott Strickle leaving and stuff like that.
17:55
SPEAKER_00: But uh, but man, they're just human beings and they're just doing doing what's best for them.
18:00
SPEAKER_00: And probably if you're in that situation, you'd probably feel the same way.
18:03
SPEAKER_00: And and uh yeah, Coach Mullen, you know, he he gets a bad rap of like, oh, he's such a jerk, he's such a jerk, but man, he's a really nice guy.
18:09
SPEAKER_00: If you all listened to the podcast last week, you'll you'll you'll kind of see what we're talking about.
18:14
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I I first hand I saw it at the children's hospital.
18:17
SPEAKER_00: They came every year, visited with all the kids, Meg and his wife.
18:21
SPEAKER_00: They did so much good for Mississippi, for the state of Mississippi, and for that children's hospital, um, helping donate money and time, and and uh, and that's what it's all about, man.
18:31
SPEAKER_00: You know, you win football games, lose football games, but what you do um to the community and you make a lifelong impression on people.
18:40
SPEAKER_00: Um, and they did that.
18:41
SPEAKER_00: They did that.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: There are a lot of kids that they uh they put a smile on their face by by bringing the uh team to come visit.
18:48
SPEAKER_00: So uh commend and coach said that last week, and I'll say it again.
18:51
SPEAKER_00: And uh I'm a I'm a Dan Mullen fan.
18:53
SPEAKER_00: So I kind of wish he'd come back.
18:55
SPEAKER_00: That would be cool.
18:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
18:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, everybody was ready to run him off, you know, just like how it always is.
19:00
SPEAKER_00: You win and you lose, and people are running ready to run it off, and then he leaves.
19:04
SPEAKER_00: And uh and now everybody I've seen on the message board, people want him back.
19:09
SPEAKER_00: Come on back, come on back.
19:10
SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
19:12
SPEAKER_00: I guess you just don't really know how good you have it until they're until they're gone.
19:16
SPEAKER_00: But unfortunately, in Coach Leach's situation, that was out of our control.
19:20
SPEAKER_00: Uh his good lord called him home, which is still uh heartbreaking and and and tough.
19:26
SPEAKER_00: And that means I'm sure that that's a lot.
19:29
SPEAKER_00: I'm sure Will Rogers, I mean, you can't just get over that one day.
19:33
SPEAKER_00: I'm sure that still eats at him, man.
19:35
SPEAKER_00: And and uh, because I mean they were they were not only coaches, I mean, uh he was his friend, and and he taught him, taught him so much and all about the air raid and stuff.
19:45
SPEAKER_00: And I know emotionally, you know, that he's getting on the field without his leader there with him, I know that probably adds up to it too.
19:51
SPEAKER_00: It's just a tough situation.
19:53
SPEAKER_00: And I feel like um Dr.
19:55
SPEAKER_00: Akeenum at Mississippi State did um uh because I've been reading that this week saying, well, we should have used a national search, and but the timing of Coach Leach's death happened in the middle of the uh December recruiting period.
20:08
SPEAKER_00: And if you were gonna go out and get a new coach with a new system that you already have players locked in, we're gonna lose those recruits.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: So you kind of had to go with what we already have.
20:18
SPEAKER_00: And I'd heard Coach Leach um had said, you know, if something happens to his health, I don't know if this true or not, but I just heard it happened to his health.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: He wanted Zach Ornette to replace him.
20:30
SPEAKER_00: So it kind of made sense to promote Arnett to head coach at the time.
20:34
SPEAKER_00: And I didn't know whether they were gonna do an interim deal and let him do a little trial thing, or because that's what it feels like.
20:40
SPEAKER_00: It feels like it's an interim job, but it's really not, it's his job.
20:43
SPEAKER_00: But um, they kind of made the best of the situation.
20:46
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'd read this week Coach Primes is everywhere, all over turn on the TV, Deon, Deon, Dion.
20:53
SPEAKER_00: Man, I'm a big Dion fan.
20:54
SPEAKER_00: I love I love that guy and uh love what he's doing.
20:57
SPEAKER_00: And I feel like I wish, man, I would give anything for him to be our coach, but I think I read where he got the job a week before Coach Leach passed.
21:06
SPEAKER_00: But if that had happened, then that would have been cool to reach out to him because man, he is.
21:11
SPEAKER_00: I read yesterday or saw on TV where he has these like stylish sunglasses, and uh he was selling them for 60, 70 dollars a pair, and they sold 70,000 uh sunglasses in like one day.
21:25
SPEAKER_00: Like they made over 30 million dollars.
21:27
SPEAKER_00: The guy's got it, man.
21:28
SPEAKER_00: So if you did you stay up the other night and watch the Colorado, Colorado State game.
21:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
21:33
SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, wow, that was the they got it older and and nothing rhymes to talk college football.
21:40
SPEAKER_00: So um, but I and but like I said, in our situation, I feel like we did the best we could with uh with Ornette and with the recruiting class, and and uh we're just gonna have to make the best of it.
21:53
SPEAKER_00: Like I said, we're not off the Ornette bandwagon, we'll we'll uh we'll ride it until the egg bowl, see what happens.
21:59
SPEAKER_00: But I just feel like if we can't get to a ball game, we're we're we might have to make a change, but that's a long way from right now.
22:05
SPEAKER_00: We still have a lot of games to play.
22:07
SPEAKER_00: But with that going, let's make our predictions.
22:09
SPEAKER_00: Uh what do you think the score is going to be gonna be?
22:12
SPEAKER_01: Well, I've had to adjust um my expectations for the offense.
22:18
SPEAKER_01: So I'm so used to you know throwing out 40 points or and more over there, and now I think I'm gonna have to reel that back in.
22:26
SPEAKER_01: And I and and I I feel like we're probably gonna lose.
22:32
SPEAKER_01: Um I think it's gonna be close, but I'm gonna say 21-17.
22:38
SPEAKER_00: 21-17.
22:40
SPEAKER_01: 21-17.
22:42
SPEAKER_00: I can see that.
22:43
SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, at the beginning of the season, I believe you picked this to be a loss.
22:48
SPEAKER_00: I think you said we're gonna lose three games in a row.
22:50
SPEAKER_00: LSU did not have Bama, yeah.
22:52
SPEAKER_00: And I was on the other end of it, and I picked this as a win.
22:55
SPEAKER_00: I said we'd lose to LSU, beat Carolina, and lose to Bama.
22:59
SPEAKER_00: But after what I witnessed on Saturday and everything I've been seeing, uh picking a loss again, and the haters can come at me and say, uh, I'm not true, Marie.
23:10
SPEAKER_00: Nope, I'm just calling it like I see it.
23:12
SPEAKER_00: I I picked, I wanted us to win.
23:14
SPEAKER_00: I picked us to win earlier the season.
23:15
SPEAKER_00: I'm going with a loss now, and I think it's gonna be another blowout.
23:19
SPEAKER_00: I hope you're I hope you're right where it's close, but uh I just don't see us putting up any points, which is so hard to believe because like what you just said, we've been putting up 40 points a game past few years with Coach Leach, and and that's an issue right there.
23:32
SPEAKER_00: I mean, like I said, we've got the same players, everything we should be putting up a lot of points, and uh just don't see that happening again this weekend on the road.
23:40
SPEAKER_00: SEZ games are hard to win on the road to begin with, and then what we've been putting on the field recently is uh is ugly.
23:48
SPEAKER_00: So um I'm gonna say uh I'm gonna say uh 31 to 13 is my prediction.
23:54
SPEAKER_00: I think Carolina's gonna come out on top.
23:57
SPEAKER_00: So uh I don't know.
23:59
SPEAKER_00: Take it to the bank, take it to the golden moon.
24:00
SPEAKER_00: Put it on.
24:01
SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to because the moment I do that, I'll lose.
24:03
SPEAKER_00: But uh you might want to run with it with our with our way our predictions goes.
24:07
SPEAKER_00: But uh talking about the uh predictions, what about the uh the little leak we have going on the pick'em thing?
24:12
SPEAKER_00: I see you're you're sitting at the top, number one.
24:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:16
SPEAKER_00: You really are gonna get one.
24:17
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna get myself some coffee at the end of this month if it stays like this.
24:21
SPEAKER_01: But no, I mean it's really tight.
24:23
SPEAKER_01: And um I was I was talking about all those tiebreakers that we've been having to put in at the end of the the deals, and those things are always like a toss-up for me.
24:33
SPEAKER_01: I I don't even know.
24:34
SPEAKER_01: It's like who's gonna score the least amount of points?
24:36
SPEAKER_01: I don't even know.
24:37
SPEAKER_01: Um but somehow I'm getting them right because it's uh it's a four-way tie at the top, and I am winning right now.
24:47
SPEAKER_01: I'm assuming because of the tiebreakers.
24:49
SPEAKER_01: Um it's me, Juan, uh BD's dirty dogs, and Mississippi Texan in first.
24:56
SPEAKER_01: But then um, you know, coming coming in close in second there.
25:00
SPEAKER_01: We've got a got a log jam at second.
25:03
SPEAKER_01: I mean, we've got, let's see, you're in there, Lane's perfect picks, doggy style, bobcats, fearless J.
25:10
SPEAKER_01: And then Don King is in third by himself, and then it kind of tails off after that.
25:14
SPEAKER_01: Some of these folks, the one I've got an eye on is Elite Mother.
25:18
SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think he missed a week.
25:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, but he's he's usually pretty good.
25:23
SPEAKER_01: And so I feel like if somebody starts tailing off, Elite Mother is gonna start trickling his way up the board.
25:29
SPEAKER_01: But as of now, the coffee's going to me.
25:32
SPEAKER_01: So we'll see what happens.
25:34
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, Elite Mother won it won a few weeks last year.
25:37
SPEAKER_00: I do remember that, but yeah, you're right.
25:38
SPEAKER_00: He missed the first uh few games and then he picked and then he picked it up, but uh he might work his way up the board.
25:44
SPEAKER_00: There's still there's still a couple people that haven't picked the game yet.
25:47
SPEAKER_00: They signed up for the league but never picked the game, so they're kind of out of out of the race, it looks like.
25:52
SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, it's pretty cool.
25:53
SPEAKER_00: It's a way to uh keep up with the games, and I like the competition coming on because it's so close.
25:57
SPEAKER_00: Everybody's kind of logged in there.
25:59
SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, those tiebreakers are uh I guess that separates you how you how you um move up.
26:06
SPEAKER_00: So you've been obviously doing good on the tiebreakers.
26:08
SPEAKER_00: And um but yeah, it's fun.
26:11
SPEAKER_00: So if you're out there and you're you're in the league and listening, jump in on it and make picks uh before they lock.
26:17
SPEAKER_00: And and uh I guess when did you say you send off the coffee at the end of each month?
26:22
SPEAKER_00: So we have a yeah.
26:23
SPEAKER_01: So I'll probably do it at the end of it.
26:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the end of next week.
26:28
SPEAKER_01: So it'll actually end up being five five games because September has five games in it.
26:34
SPEAKER_01: So we'll we'll give it this week and next week.
26:37
SPEAKER_00: Cool.
26:37
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, get your picks in the next two weeks, and who's ever on top who's number one at the end of the month, you'll get a you'll get a bag of coffee from jonypacker.net.
26:46
SPEAKER_00: Uh any updates on johnnypacker.net?
26:48
SPEAKER_01: I know uh that's what I was gonna say just get on johnnypacker.net and order some coffee.
26:56
SPEAKER_01: It's it's that time of year.
26:58
SPEAKER_01: Cool mornings.
27:00
SPEAKER_01: Sit out there with that hot cup of Johnny coffee, Johnny Packer coffee in the morning.
27:05
SPEAKER_01: Just relax, enjoy it, get ready for get ready for the game every weekend.
27:10
SPEAKER_01: It's the way to do it.
27:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I had a uh the the West Memphis uh CF uh foundation uh chapter of the CF Foundation who we went and they awarded us that award last year.
27:22
SPEAKER_00: They had a a webinar uh that I I I tuned into last night.
27:27
SPEAKER_01: And it was the West Tennessee Society.
27:30
SPEAKER_00: Yep, West Tennessee, yep.
27:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
27:33
SPEAKER_00: So they had a little webinar last night.
27:35
SPEAKER_00: I signed in, and and there's gonna be one on October the 5th is the final one.
27:39
SPEAKER_00: I'm actually to sign in on the one last night, it was about the drug pipeline, which is kind of what I wanted to hear about the new uh different phases of the drugs, how they're coming along, the pipeline.
27:49
SPEAKER_00: There's a pipeline, it's like if you look at it, they have like different phases, like phase one, phase two, phase three, and then it gets FDA approved.
27:56
SPEAKER_00: And you can look to see where they're going.
27:58
SPEAKER_00: I think phase one is like when they do it with animal, do the testing on with animals, and then and then it opens up to people can try out and all that sort of stuff to the clinical trials, and then and then it at the end of phase three goes to the FDA, then FDA approves it, then it's available.
28:13
SPEAKER_00: But this whole process can take years and years and years, and uh, so I was really wanted to hear what um what they said about the um uh nonsense mutation, kind of what I talked about last week about the don't have a drug and that and then I have a copy of a nonsense mutation that will benefit me.
28:33
SPEAKER_00: And um, I asked the question and they said that tune in October 5th.
28:36
SPEAKER_00: So they said that October 5th will be about gene therapy and new uh resources, uh new about the drugs and stuff like that.
28:44
SPEAKER_00: This was more of like they kind of showed stuff that we already knew, like when the whole how TriCAFTA got to where it was approved, so it was kind of stuff like that.
28:53
SPEAKER_00: So so I'm looking forward to the hearing on on October 5th about that because that's that's gonna be the game changer.
28:59
SPEAKER_00: Um, like I said, my doctor told me in my visit last week that it could be 10 years.
29:03
SPEAKER_00: I really hope that's not true.
29:05
SPEAKER_00: But the way that it works to get these drugs out takes takes a long, long time.
29:11
SPEAKER_00: And um so, but like I say, every week I say this uh the way we speed up this stuff is through money.
29:18
SPEAKER_00: Money rules the world, especially when it comes to to drugs and groundbreaking drugs for for people with uh terminal illnesses.
29:25
SPEAKER_00: And and uh so just buying a bag of coffee or helping with the cost, 20 bucks.
29:31
SPEAKER_00: You know, you're you're making a big time call, making a big difference.
29:34
SPEAKER_00: You might not think it, but uh in the long picture, it adds up, and uh, we can thank you more.
29:40
SPEAKER_00: So if you'll just please just get Johnnypacker.net, buy you some coffee, buy some for your friends, family, co-workers, um, and know you're making a difference in the lives of CCF patients like myself.
29:51
SPEAKER_00: So uh can't make you know.
29:53
SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
29:54
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
29:55
SPEAKER_01: All right.
29:55
SPEAKER_01: Well, hopefully we're having a more positive conversation next week.
29:58
SPEAKER_01: Uh hopefully we're both wrong, but we'll see what happens.
30:02
SPEAKER_00: We got we got a good guest coming up next week.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: So we do.
30:05
SPEAKER_00: I don't I noticed uh some people don't listen to our podcast as much as we do when we have guests.
30:10
SPEAKER_00: I think we do a good job, BW.
30:11
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what's why people're experts.
30:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know.
30:14
SPEAKER_00: They're like, oh, we're not gonna tune in unless there's a guest.
30:17
SPEAKER_00: But uh you'll be pleased to hear we do have a guest coming up next week who's a former dog, and uh I know y'all uh appreciate it.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: Um, he was on the last team to beat Alabama, and we'll be playing Alabama next week.
30:29
SPEAKER_00: So I thought that would be a good time to get him on.
30:32
SPEAKER_00: Uh hard to believe that was in 2007, BW.
30:35
SPEAKER_00: Sylvester Kroom, the last guy to beat University of Alabama, which is hard.
30:39
SPEAKER_01: Well, I don't want to think about that.
30:41
SPEAKER_00: Long time.
30:41
SPEAKER_00: Oh, speaking of Kroom, I have to give a shout out to our buddy uh Booby Dixon.
30:45
SPEAKER_00: I saw him at a game and talked to him.
30:47
SPEAKER_00: Uh him and and J Rock, Jarius Norwood, were were there.
30:51
SPEAKER_00: Uh that was pretty cool.
30:52
SPEAKER_00: Again to see the two of them uh being honored, running back goats, Mississippi State, and Eric Moles was there.
30:58
SPEAKER_00: They had a they had all the goats there, uh they're um getting honored.
31:02
SPEAKER_00: And and uh that's cool about bringing the guys back like that.
31:05
SPEAKER_00: And and um because they're they're all fan favorites, and and I'm really looking forward.
31:10
SPEAKER_00: I can't wait for that Kentucky game this year because we're gonna be honoring the the 98 team, that the only team to win the West.
31:15
SPEAKER_00: So uh looking forward to that.
31:17
SPEAKER_00: So um yeah, so a lot, a lot of stuff to look forward to, and uh hopefully we can we can get some wins here and there.
31:22
SPEAKER_00: And because we don't want our bowl streak to end, man.
31:25
SPEAKER_00: We don't have it's so hard to believe because we had all those years of not making it to bowl games, and then we make a bowl game, and then we've got this long streak coming on.
31:34
SPEAKER_00: So um hey, what do we got?
31:36
SPEAKER_00: We got two wins, we gotta get four uh four more.
31:39
SPEAKER_00: Go with six to go to the bowl.
31:41
SPEAKER_00: So you got you got the Central Michigan, you got Southern Miss.
31:44
SPEAKER_00: I would think those two are for sure.
31:46
SPEAKER_00: That's four wins.
31:46
SPEAKER_00: So you gotta sneak up and beat two people.
31:48
SPEAKER_00: So surely we can we can do that somewhere along the way.
31:52
SPEAKER_01: Well, you reminded me, Johnny.
31:53
SPEAKER_01: So if if you gotten this far on the show, you're probably a pretty big fan of the of our podcasts.
31:57
SPEAKER_01: So maybe y'all can help us out here.
31:59
SPEAKER_01: We did get Booby Dixon, said he would come on the show last year, and we tried to get him interviewing.
32:06
SPEAKER_01: I think he no-showed on us a couple times, and then he finally shoo showed up and then he said he didn't know how to work Zoom on the phone.
32:15
SPEAKER_01: And and Johnny, you were just like, you just push the button, you know, just push a button, and he couldn't ever figure out how to work it.
32:21
SPEAKER_01: So if anybody wants to teach Booby how to use Zoom and uh come on the podcast again, help us out.
32:28
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Booby uh he he couldn't figure it out.
32:30
SPEAKER_00: We had him.
32:31
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm talking to the guy just like this, and I'm like, you just download the app and get on there.
32:36
SPEAKER_00: He couldn't figure it out how to do it, and uh so I don't know, but he's actually uh it might be hard to get him now.
32:42
SPEAKER_00: He's actually moving to to California.
32:44
SPEAKER_00: He was actually I saw him packing up the U-Haul today, heading heading out west.
32:48
SPEAKER_00: His brother lives out there, and he's uh he's moving out there.
32:50
SPEAKER_00: So he told me this this was gonna be the last time he was gonna be in the SIP in quite a while.
32:54
SPEAKER_00: So uh we might be out of luck on that.
32:57
SPEAKER_01: But uh well, Zoom works across state lines, Johnny.
33:00
SPEAKER_01: So that's true.
33:01
SPEAKER_01: It does.
33:02
SPEAKER_01: I I don't know.
33:03
SPEAKER_01: I I don't know.
33:04
SPEAKER_01: I feel like he's always posting all these videos on Instagram.
33:07
SPEAKER_01: He knows how to work a phone, so I don't know, booby.
33:10
SPEAKER_02: I don't know, booby.
33:12
SPEAKER_02: Yep, yep, yep.
33:13
SPEAKER_01: So all right.
33:14
SPEAKER_01: Well, thank y'all for listening.
33:16
SPEAKER_01: Johnnypacker.net.
33:17
SPEAKER_01: Get some coffee.
33:19
SPEAKER_01: We'll talk to you next week.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: See y'all.
33:21
SPEAKER_00: Hellstate and good dogs.
33:23
SPEAKER_00: Hellstate.