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Hard Loss, Bigger Spotlight: State Football Has Changed · Johnny's World

• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to another episode of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: This is BW on a losing week podcast.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: First one of the year, Johnny.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: How are we feeling?
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, losing week is true.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_01: But hey, we're not out of the fight.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's the good thing.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: That's the positive thing about it.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's only one loss.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: And like we said on the podcast last week, one loss is not going to kill you.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we haven't beaten Bama in 20 years, so it wasn't anything surprising.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: It was kind of surprising though that it was a blowout, but I predicted a loss.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: I thought we'd lose by about 10, two touchdowns or so, but they just freaking blew us out, DW.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: And you were there.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_01: They did, yeah.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a man, you know, I'm a man of of uh I I'm a man of my word, and I don't like to to change my decisions about things, but I had a bad feeling about that game, but I couldn't I couldn't pick against us since I said we were gonna win.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: But I guess I should have known.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh but yeah, Johnny.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: So we left Memphis about 6 30 Saturday morning.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's raining, uh, it's cloudy, you know, it's like 75 degrees.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um look at the forecast for Starkville, like 40% chance of rain, something like that.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: So got the ponchos, got all the all the rain gear there, got a change of clothes, uh go, you know, get there, roll into Davis Wade Stadium, go out.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: The sun is bright, shining.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't have a hat, I don't have sunscreen, I don't have sunglasses.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: I look like a lobster, Johnny.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um I got killed out there.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: We were sitting on the upper level, which that was actually pretty nice.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: It was a great view.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: We were kind of on the fourth row on the upper deck on the 40-yard line.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: You could see everything.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: Was this on the west west side?
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: On the west side, yeah.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: So seats were great.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like if it wasn't so sunny and hot, it would have been would have been great.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: But I got cooked.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: We were out, I mean, stayed out there till halftime, and I mean I can feel it.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just like burning.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um and so we were there, it was uh my father-in-law, my daughter, and then uh my buddy Andy and his two boys.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: They're they're the Bama fans, and there was a pretty good bit of Bama fans on our side.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and there was definitely some on the east side you could hear them during the the cheers, but everybody was being nice, everybody was getting along, and you know, nobody nobody was rubbing in our face or anything like that.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: But at halftime, I said, I'm gonna go stand under this ramp.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: And so I went over there on the on the uh north side and stood under the the shade and could see the whole field and watched the whole most of the rest of it.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I had to get out of there in the fourth quarter um because they wanted to go back up to the seats, and I I'm like, I'm not going back up there, I'm getting cooked and we're getting drilled.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: And so um we left and uh we wanted to go eat at Obi's but got stuck in traffic, so ended up going back to Tupelo eating at Bulldog Burger and came back home.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: So about 6 30 got home, so it's 12 hours door to door, but didn't didn't really get to do a whole lot in in town.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, just that the 11 o'clock game, man, it kills us.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's hard to get it together.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I know.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: I hate you didn't go to uh you didn't get to go to Pickle Row.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: I know we had been talking about that.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, you're right.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: That 11 o'clock game's hard.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh what about the balconies?
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: Uh what's I've never been up there.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: Did you see that?
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, those those are pretty cool looking.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I I like those.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um what does it look like up there?
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, at first I was like, this is kind of dumb, but um it's so you can't really I don't know that you can even get to it from from where we were at.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like I think you have to there's a separate entrance or something, but okay.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um they they have it looks like they had kind of have a little covered area and they have fans up there, and it's a pretty good like space for them um to kind of move around and stuff like that.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: I would like I'd probably want to sit on the northern side one.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's closer to where you know it kind of bowls around the student section, like the view there.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it's not, you know, it's been a while since I sit up there.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's not it's not it's high up there, but it's not bad.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like you don't feel like you're looking down on anything like too crazy.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_01: So so does it look like I think they were originally planning it to look like a rigs out of the left field allowance.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: Does it kind of look like that?
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: Or kind of does, yeah.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but they're they don't have like grills up there, do they?
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: Or or I didn't see anything, but honestly, it was so bright and I didn't have sunglasses.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think that's what they're I couldn't tell.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: Originally was to try to make it like that, which kind of unique.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but it looks cool, man.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_01: I've just never been up there.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: I've always wondered from people sitting up there what it looks like.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, but yeah, man, you know, we thought it was gonna thought it was gonna rain and then just freaking just so hot and the sun right beaten down.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, but yeah, the game, you know, right off the get-go.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, I think we probably I know we had bad phone service uh the phone service has been terrible all year there, but uh I I would have probably texted man right off the bat after that I was like, oh, we know what's gonna happen, but yeah, I mean it you could tell right away, and uh it's just uh tough, tough loss.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: But man, I had speaking of Bama fans, I got a guy that was trying to start a fight behind me to be BW, and he was like a teenager probably, just talking smack, man, the entire game.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: And he had his uh well, he probably wasn't a teenager, he was probably early 20s.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_01: He had his girlfriend with him.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_01: I think he was a state fan, but it got to the point where like turned around and like, you know, you you never even been to Alabama, been on campus.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, Oh, yeah, I'm in the military, but I took online classes.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yeah, right, man.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he was talking smack, man, like the whole game in the middle of the state section.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: That's the thing they had a problem with.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like, be if he was with his Alabama fans and everything, but like in the middle of the state section, just being obnoxious and annoying.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, he was like, We're taking over the state.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_01: We're taking over the state.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: Let him know, let him know.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, taking over the state.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, What are you even talking about, man?
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it was crazy.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, at the end of the game, I came close, BW, I came close to saying something.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: But then I was like, you know what?
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna let it go and just and just walked off.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: But uh in the past, I've had I've had I've had stuff I've said to Bama fans after the game, I don't know, man, what it is Bama fans, but they seem to every time I'm around them that or they're in that situation, they always try to stir stuff up.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: I with me, I don't I don't get it.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: I have no idea.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, it was just uh unfortunate game.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, like we said last week, Keelon Russell, we said, you know, you always got these guys from Bama, they just come along and there's dominant.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: We don't know who they are at the beginning of the year, and by the end of the year, they're Heisman trophy candidates.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: And he's gonna he he he really showed out.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and the defense, um, I mean, Alabama's defense just uh even though Fluff Bothwell did not play, if he had played, I don't even think he would have been a factor because their defense was stopping the run so much.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, just it couldn't even run anywhere.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was like a brick wall they were running right into.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_01: But so that immediately stops the running game down.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: And then and then Camario, uh, you know, I mean, just the offensive line.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the Bama just had better players.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: It was really all it boils down to.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: And and just uh you could tell they were a night and day difference between the two teams.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I I've got a different perception on Bama now.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_01: I think they might make the playoffs, you know.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: I thought I thought they would, but um I'm feeling certain that they're one of the topper uh in the top echelon uh teams now.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: I still think Georgia, which is gonna be a huge game this week in BW, Georgia at Bama.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that'll be really a heavyweight battle.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: But I still think Georgia's the top dog in the SEC.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: But things could change this weekend uh in Bama.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, they're they're really good.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, everyone thought that we would be able to take it.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: Saban's gone, the dynasty's dead, but man, there's still Alabama.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I I'd heard this the other day.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: Someone told me that Mississippi State lost to Alabama in football from 1955 until 1980.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: Every year from 55 to 80.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we are almost at that stretch right now from 2007 to 2026.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I think we've got a few more years to match that streak, but I definitely see that same streak happening because I don't I don't know if they'll ever beat them in our life in my lifetime again.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's just uh it's just crazy how one team can be so dominant over the other.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, they they used to say that uh Mike Fleets talked about it that people were scared of the helmets, you know.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: Like immediately you lost the game immediately when you'll see Alabama on the on on the schedule.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh, we're gonna lose that game.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: And then you go into it with the losers mentality, and then it just and then it goes downhill from there.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_01: But I don't think that was the case with this team because we actually took a two-year break uh from playing again.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: We haven't played them in two years.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: And so a lot of the guys on this team has never had never even played Alabama.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't think that's the case on this case in this situation.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: I just think that that they were just a dominant team and and they proved uh proved us that that they're so much better.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: And and Camorio, I'm I love Camorio and the hype was awesome and everything, but um he's got he's got some work to do.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: I know after heard that he was banged up.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh yesterday I'm hearing uh something called turf toe.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_01: I've heard something say some people say it could be level three, which could be a possibly season ending or long, long, long um absence.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I hope that's not the case, man.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh that's gonna it, you know.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: Last week I said there were there were pretty much three game, three to four games on the schedule.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: They're automatic losses.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: I said last week, Alabama, LSU, Texas, automatic losses possibly old miss.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: And I said eight and four would be a good year.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: But man, if Camario is hurt, and we got this backup guy, Billy Puckett, who played at Jackson Prep as a walk-on, and he beat out the other two guys, transfer guys, and that played at like Vanderbilt and stuff.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: So I guess he's good.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, putting that guy, throw him into the fire tiger stadium next weekend, like I mean, that's that's that's that's a disaster waiting to happen.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: And these these games that that you know, Oklahoma and Bandy and Auburn that we think are automatic wins possibly with Camario.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: If you got this bucket guy in there and Camario's hurt, man, yeah, I could easily see five and seven or six and six, and which would just be an unfortunate situation with the momentum we've had at the beginning of the season, starting off four and oh being ranked, which the good thing is we did not fall in the rankings.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: I thought we dropped down to 20 24 or 25, but we stayed where we were.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so that was kind of promising.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: And the teams that we have beaten, Minnesota went on to beat Michigan.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: And then Missouri dominated Florida, which was very surprising.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: So that plays into our favor.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: So if we if Camaro gets back and we get back on the right track and we win the games and take care of business like we're supposed to, and we finish with like two, three losses, let's say three losses, they look they look back at those games that we lost and and and the teams that we beat.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's an ice outside chance you could get in to the playoffs.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: I don't see it happening, but it's it's it's on the table.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: So pretty much everything's in front of us.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: But the big, big, big major question is Kurt Kamario Taylor.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, our season rides and dies with that guy.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, if he's not up to full full capacity and where he can't play and be on his top game, we're in trouble.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_00: So um, it's so disappointing.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's just it's one of those things like we had no idea he was even hurt going into our game.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: And apparently he's been in a boot all week.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody said he had the flu.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: Who really knows about that?
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, same thing with Bothwell, he's not even on the injury report, um you know, doesn't play.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um so you so you don't have your team, your full team there.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just like, man, all these other teams, like they they stay healthy.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, Alabama stays healthy.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like how how Mississippi State, like the one year we have momentum, we have it, like, and then we get hurt.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, what like what in the world?
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, um, but I don't know.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it it does it does give you a little hope that Missouri looks really good.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, or unless it's kind of like what we what we thought maybe Ole Miss was not as good as they really were.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: So therefore Florida's not really that great, even just because they beat Ole Miss like that.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe Missouri's not that great because they could they beat Florida who's not that great.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: Who really knows?
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: But I think it is like the the tiers are are definitely Bama, Georgia.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: Don't really know about Tennessee, Texas.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um I still in an LSU.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um but I think we're you know five, six in there, um maybe if we're if we're healthy.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um don't know what's up with Block Bothwell, where he's at, yeah, you know, nothing.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I just hate all this.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why can't they just come up and be honest?
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I know, man.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: Just tell us what's wrong with them.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's crazy that I I that really bothers me.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: The injury reports and everything, availability.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: Just tell us what's wrong.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_01: They do it because of the opponents, obviously.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: They don't want they want to surprise them, but come on, man.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: Just tell us like fan base at this point pays millions of dollars for these players.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: They deserve to know uh what what their money's going towards, you know.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's just not so I don't think it's right to to hold back and not not explain what's going on and keep people wondering.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I don't know.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how they'll change that.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: But I guess we don't know till till you show up at the game.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: But um, I think they'll do everything they can to put him out there.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, can you imagine though, BW, if if Camario really was hurt and then they didn't say anything, and then Levy didn't play him, all the fan base would be just livid.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_01: Why didn't he play Kamario?
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: Why didn't he play so then so then he play him and he's hurt?
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: So it's kind of a no-win situation they're putting themselves in.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, I mean, they uh they'd at least uh this is stupid about holding back, not saying anything, just be honest and tell what's going on so we can know.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: But uh did Fluff even come in the game?
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_01: One one yard one carry for one yard.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I was yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: One carry for one yard.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: But he got banged up pretty bad last week at Missouri.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he came out, I remember, and then went back in.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm guessing he had he had uh dirt something with his ankle for that.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and I don't know if Camario at the end of the game, I actually uh left towards the end.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I saw it on TV that that he'd been taken out.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't was that uh I don't know if he was taken out as a precaution because he was already banged up and the game was out of hand, or did he get hurt again?
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I don't know the extension.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know about any of that stuff.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, there really was no uh situation, no reason to keep him in when they're when they're up 56 to 20 signings.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: No, it was way out of hand by them.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: Well the other thing too that there was a couple there was a couple times where it felt like we could have uh you know stayed in it, and maybe I don't think we would have won, but it would have been respectful.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: There's one of those plays, it was like we stopped them down there um third down, they were close to our end zone, and then uh we stopped them and we I think we got a sack, and then all of a sudden I don't I didn't see a flag at all.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: But they give them a first down for a uh some kind of penalty on us uh off sides.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: And then they then they catch it.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: They I mean just throw a touchdown like literally right after that.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: And it was like before you could even think about it, I didn't even see a flag.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: I thought we stopped him, thought we held them to the field goal, and then just they they caught it like you know, it was it felt like it was stuff like that all day.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, I agree.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: Just couldn't just couldn't get over the hump.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, and turnovers, man, you just can't turn the ball over.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: Team like Bama just can't do it, and uh, because they're gonna make you pay every time you turn the ball over.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, but yeah, it's just there's lots of opportunities to keep it respectable, and that but they just it just it just got out of hand.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: And uh um all you can do is uh flush it and move on for it.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_01: And thank goodness you got a bye week this week to at least heal up some of the players and everything before you play because next week is gonna be be rough again uh at Tiger Stadium.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_01: So um, but thank goodness for that that the that the bye week has come after this.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh BBW, I have to ask you, I saw uh I saw the uh Tiki guy myself uh before the game.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and he I didn't realize I didn't even know who it was.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: I was walking with my dog Natty to the uh set.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: We always when I had Bo, we'd always go out there to meet Tim Tebow every year.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: And so last year we missed Tim T Bow with Natty.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like I'm gonna go see if we can meet him uh this year uh with Natty.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: We get out there and on the way, a park at the cheese store, walk across the street.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: As we walk there, these these guys come up and Natty jumps up on them and uh start petting them, and she's they start petting Natty and start talking to him, and they tell me they're I didn't know who they were, and and they tell me that they're they go around to to different college football games every weekend and they have a tour bus and they uh all this sort of stuff.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I was thinking Camario's on there, his face is on the side.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I'm thinking, okay, okay.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, well, where is it?
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, it's parked at Camario Taylor's house.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, okay, whatever, dude.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: I don't believe you at all, man.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm leaving.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: And no, no, no, no, let me show you a picture.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: So he pulls up his phone, shows a picture of the bus with Camario's face on everything.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: And there it is parked in front of a house.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: Now, was it Camario's house?
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: But they were like, uh, I uh and and uh I told him that my mom was the house mother at Capstic House, and and they were like, Well, we want to come to the Fred House.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, Well, come on, let's go.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: They were like, uh, we'll come, we'll be up there at four o'clock.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, all right.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: So this was like maybe like 2:30 or so.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I'd gone out there with Naddie and like Chris Chans and Sam Purcell were getting interviewed by Paul Feinbaum.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: Hadn't seen Tim Tebow, but I was like, maybe he'll come out here a second.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it gets to be I had to run an errand in town, and I knew to get to the house at four, I had to leave around three.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_01: So I left.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: Tim Tebow uh had not gotten out there yet.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: So I left.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, maybe he's not here today.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: So I get to the house at four, I wait, I wait, wait.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: They don't show up.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: So I call them because they give me their number.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: I call them and leave a message like, hey man, we're here.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: I called the president of the fraternity.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, hey, look, bring your, they might bring their bus over and park it in front of the house.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: We'll get some publicity because they have like 386,000 followers.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, this is gonna be a pretty big deal.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: And uh man, they don't show up.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: So then later on, I look, and the time I'm sitting there waiting for them at the house, you know what they're doing?
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_01: They're tossing the football to Tim Tebow at SEC in in the junction.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you might be freaking kidding me.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I so I missed so Naddie got to meet miss Tim Tebow again for the second year, but we would have been there, but uh we left because of those guys.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: I was going to meet them, and lo and behold, they're beating Tim Tebow.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like literally tossing the ball to Tim Tebow and saying, What's your thoughts on Camario for Osman?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: And and I'm like, Oh my gosh.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: And and then I see where they're then that all their, I guess the algorithm's gone crazy now because uh I see all their stuff all the time.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: Now they were at like uh the Knoxaby High School game Friday night for Camario's brother, and then they were all on the field everywhere on Saturday, and then you said you saw them.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: So tell me about that, man.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: What whatever?
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, you know, they were in they were in Tuscaloosa passing out flyers to Alabama students, Camario for Heisman.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: Did you see that?
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: No, I did not see that.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: So they have all these flyers and it says Camaro for Heisman, and they were like going up to people in their cars and just handing it to them.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: They were walking around campus and everything.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: It was hilarious.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um and that's how I saw him.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: And so I was showing it to my daughter, and we were up there um waiting, waiting underneath the the ramp at halftime.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh gonna and they were over there like by where the press box is, and they were just getting a hot dog.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, Lila, that's that's the tiki guy right there.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I went up to him and I said, Hey man, can I have a flyer?
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: And uh he this like lit up and he like gave me a hug and like shook my hand.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, Oh man, I don't have any.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, send me a message on Instagram, I'll send you one.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, and he was like like grateful, man.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: He was like, Yeah, seemed like super, super happy.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: So, but it's funny, I there's all these college football influencers, and they're and it's like they all they all came to these games.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: I guess like that's like what they do now.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: Sounds like a fun job to me, but I mean it it's it's kind of cool that like you know, that's kind of like you know, game day is such a big deal and all that, like for our generation.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: But now it's like these guys, and and so I guess if they're showing up to our games, I mean it means it's it's it means it's something important.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: So and they were I saw them uh I saw them that Monday night, they were at the Saints Falcon game at the Superdome.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: And they were wrestling alligators.
• 20:34
  unknown: Yeah.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: And then uh then that Freddie, the Freddie guy, too.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um he came, um which I don't know, I don't really understand his story.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: Sounds like he he was from Germany and he came for uh for the World Cup, and then people kept telling to come back.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, I don't know how you like what he does is I mean, how he has money, like, but he's going all over the place.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: And did you see like he was in Jackson?
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, he was at Browerwood at the yeah, uh Chili Chili, yeah.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: And people are like, you know, retweeting, like, Freddie, get out of there, get out of there, get out of there, Freddie.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: And and so people are like, go to Starkville, you gotta go to Starkful.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: And and so he he went to Starkful, man.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, um, so it's kind of crazy, like at least we're relevant now in the college football world.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, he was in Briarwood Chili's.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: We were like, get out there.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: You can hear sirens in the background.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh my god, it's like get out, dude.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: But like, and then and I guess he didn't want his his face to be shown or something because he all has all these smiley faces, yeah.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_02: It's over him.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, but that's wild how that I didn't know who who he was or anything, but everybody was making a big deal about it and yeah uh everywhere.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, it's kind of weird.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and like like the tiki guys, like, how do they make money to have a bus and do that?
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't know what, but it seems like all these guys like do it on their own.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: They're all influencers now.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's just weird how they can, and I guess they give them uh access passes everywhere they go to yeah, promote their stuff.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: So pretty, pretty cool gig.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Do they have but man?
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: Speaking of people, BW, speaking of people, celebrity type people, we've got a band, Brandon Walker and Hardy.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh A talked about this yesterday on this thunder line.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: Every game that Brandon Walker and Hardy come together, we lose.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: Every game.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: Last year, the image of Brandon Walker in the on the end zone, the Texas game, where they catch a pass, right, touchdown pass, winning pass right in front of him.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: And then they come back again.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: And then they we lose.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: So they're the jinx.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: Hey Dad was like, they're the jinx, man.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: They need to, they need to come at separate times.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Like we can't ever have them both together at the same time because that seems to be what's happening.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but yeah, like I didn't go.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: I went to Hardy a couple years ago at Dude Noble, but uh, he was at the hump Friday night, and then he had a the uh state 1878, supposedly did a private event uh for the big donors uh Thursday night at Dr.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: Kingdom's house, and he was there.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so he had a big weekend there, and then Brandon Walker, uh I saw videos of him, but yeah, man, those guys don't need to be together.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's they're definitely the jinx, I feel like.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, twice this has happened.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, but we definitely need them uh because obviously we need Hardy's Hardy's money and everything for NIL, but but uh just separate times, never together, guys.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: I agree.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but yeah, it was it's kind of a wild weekend, man.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: Just uh unfortunate that we didn't get the get the win, but uh glad the rain held off and now we've got a bye week, so rest up and next weekend we'll travel travel down Batroid and and uh get the fight down there and see what happens.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I mean it like I was saying, it's nice to be relevant again.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's nice to be in the conversation and uh it makes it more fun.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um wish wish we could win.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but but at least Levy's got us to this point.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: And um hopefully next year maybe we take the next step if we can get a good transfer class and really really compete, be on that next level.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we'll see.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: But I'll try to enjoy enjoy it.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, which I can enjoy this year, man.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like you said, uh these guys, like that tiki guy.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I mean, promoting Camario for Heisman and getting influencers and uh people 386,000 followers, everybody, the algorithms are have been pretty much all for the football season, Camario Taylor, Mississippi State everywhere.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: So that's huge, like national attention.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: And uh that that's pretty cool stuff.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: But uh season definitely, even though we lost one game, it's not over.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, anybody would have paid for Mississippi State to be four and one in the bye week.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, no one would have expected that to happen like that.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: So that's a that's a uh a plus.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: And we just have to um have to build off.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: And but like you said, all depends on Camario Taylor.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: He's he's the man.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: If he's healthy, we got a chance.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: If he's not, we're in trouble.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: So it just depends on his health, and it sounds like we're not gonna know about it until the kickoff uh next weekend.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: But that's right.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: Hope for the best.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, if he's good to go, I like our chances in every game we play this year.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: Well, let's make one prediction for this week.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Alabama, Georgia game.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh kind of interesting.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: There's that hurricane.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, which side note, that hurricane's name is like Eastelo or something like that.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: There has never been a hurricane, Brandon.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: Why can we get some kind of name, Eastelo or some kind of thing like that?
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: Why can't we have Brandon?
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: Why we gotta have these weird names like that?
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, but yeah, there's a hurricane.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I was watching the weather this morning says maybe there's a chance that it by the time the game starts, it's passed through.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's okay.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: But either way, it's gonna be wet.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't know if they're gonna have to postpone or what they're gonna have to do, but um it's gonna weather's definitely gonna be a factor in this game.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um and I was leaning towards the tide.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um you know, if it's a game like we had the other day, you know, bright sunny, sunny day and all that, uh with Keelon throwing the ball like like he does.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um but if it's gonna be more of a ground game, uh, we couldn't bring down their running back uh for anything, but you know, Georgia, I mean, Georgia's not gonna have that same problem.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I lean a little bit more towards Georgia if the weather's a factor, but but I think the tide can pull it off if if you know if they're able to pass the ball some.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think so too.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, I think Georgia is kind of like no one's really talking about them because they're they haven't been tested yet.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_01: They haven't been tested yet.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_01: So this is gonna be a big their first test of the year.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I like Georgia.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: I think I think they're gonna be obviously I think they're in the playoffs, and I think they have the potential to win it, win the national championship.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I would have if I would have turned around and that Alabama guy talking smack, I would have said something to him and said Georgia's gonna whoop y'all's butt next week.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: But uh man, I just uh I think I and Bama also has a thing with Kirby Smart.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: They they seem to have his number a lot.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so I'm gonna roll with the tile on this one, man.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's crazy to say that, but uh, because uh Georgia's so good and everything.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: But I think Alabama, it's a home game for Bama, and and they're playing at really hot right now.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: And I think uh I think Alabama gets them, but then it could possibly uh be a rematch in the uh SCG Championship game.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um and Georgia could uh the so either that could win, uh it could swap up and the loser that this game could possibly win an SCG championship.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um I could definitely see a rematch uh if Texas or LSU uh falls off or something.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: But uh for right now, I think I think Alabama will take it.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: I think they're they're playing really good.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: But it's gonna be a heck of a game to watch.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like I said, the weather might be a factor into it, but uh I think uh they could be interesting.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, roll tied to the tide.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: Roll Todd Wheelie will be happy.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that video of him and Tanner Allen was pretty funny, man.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: Milk the cow.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: They were gonna milk the cow, they said.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: So they did.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: Man, they did.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: They sure did.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, but Georgia's a different animal than Mississippi State.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: So uh they like you said, they can they can stop the run where we couldn't.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: So um I I expect it'd be a be a be a good game.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully they get it played.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_01: That would be cool.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh to not have to postpone it.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, yeah, I think the tide takes it and then and then we'll hopefully get our guys rested and head down to head down to Baton Rouge next week and pick up.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_01: And you're heading down there?
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna go today?
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: Heading down Thursday, um, Thursday through Sunday.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I'm gonna go down there Friday.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um my mom are going and we're gonna go to the Cap Sig house on the campus at uh LSU.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: We went uh for her to meet, uh, I want her to meet the house mother there because we went to Florida last year and stopped at the Cap Sig house in Florida and met the house mother there.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: And lo and behold, the president of the Florida Cap Sigs last year, uh great uncle, I believe it's uncle or great uncle, I can't remember which one, um, is from Canton, Mississippi, and was in my mom's high school class, graduating class.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, man, there's you know, people everywhere, Mississippi connections everywhere.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: So uh um I'm gonna hit up the Capacit House at LFU, meet the house mom, see, see what that's like.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: Really looking forward to eating some uh eating some good food down there and uh trying out restaurants and all that sort of stuff.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then uh my relatives live uh outside of Baton Rouge.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: So uh they they moved into new house, my cousins they moved into uh a new house a couple years ago, I haven't seen.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna try to meet up with them maybe on Sunday, get their house and and see it.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so looking forward to going on down there.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_01: I always enjoy going down there and have a good time.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: So um lots of good eating going on down that way.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll see um see what happens.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully the weather's good for that weekend.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's all right.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: All right, Johnny.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_01: Well, uh next week and talk to you later.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: We'll preview that game next week.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: All right, man.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_01: Take care.