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Single Tree Nation Thanksgiving Special | Football, Gratitude & Good Times with Charlie & Derry · Single Tree Nation Show

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  welcome back to single tree nation guys
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  i'm your man charlie eblin and as always
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  we have our illustrious co-host mr dairy
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  wells with us today if you could be
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  a fly on the wall in our show
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  you would absolutely laugh all the time
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  yes
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  Look, today is a special day.
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  It's a special episode.
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  Day after Thanksgiving.
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  Happy belated Thanksgiving to the world.
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  Thanks for joining us this weekend,
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  whether you're watching on the show,
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  podcast platforms,
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  or you're listening on the radio on
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  Saturday.
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  We thank you for joining us today.
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  It's going to be a family's coming and
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  going.
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  Try to spark a little something,
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  something.
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  Yeah.
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  Get a little excitement going.
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  Play some single tree nation in your
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  house.
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  You know, put it on the loudspeakers.
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  That's right.
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  You know, put it in the kitchen.
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  LFG.
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  Let's do it.
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  You know, make it happen.
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  Somebody's going to have to explain what
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  LFG means to somebody.
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  Well, let's freaking go.
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  There you go.
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  Now you know.
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  Now you know.
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  I'm down.
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  And if you want to know how down
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  I am, go into your phone,
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  click up Giphy's, and just type in down.
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  That's how down I am today.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  You probably understand exactly how down I
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  am right now.
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  Absolutely.
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  Uh,
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  your corporate that into the show too
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  smoothly.
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  That was great.
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  Your kids, your wife,
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  possibly people at the restaurant,
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  at least your main people.
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  Yeah.
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  You pick guys, some others.
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  They know they're going to get brought up
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  on the show, right?
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  There's a potential.
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  Let me say it like that.
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  I think if you know me at all,
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  you're fair game.
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  And I would agree the same thing with
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  me,
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  my mom and my wife seemed shocked that
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  they come up on the show.
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  I'm like, do y'all understand?
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  Like y'all are integral parts of my life.
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  Yeah.
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  So glossed over here.
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  So I was talking to my dad,
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  I was talking to peppy.
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  Yeah.
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  And he said something,
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  we were talking about the show in some
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  fashion and he asked me how the show
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  was going.
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  I was like, oh, we're doing pretty good.
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  You know, things are,
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  things are moving along.
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  You know,
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  it's going to be a good year for
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  us.
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  See what happens.
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  He said, he said, well, you know, sorry,
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  you had me on the show.
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  Cause I know that hurts your ratings.
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  So a few days go by and it
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  just dawned on me that we had that
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  conversation and I went back and looked
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  and like how many people had seen his
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  show, how awful the ratings were.
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  And when I told him those numbers,
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  he was like, for real.
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  there's that many people yeah yeah i think
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  people that the guests that we have on
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  are genuinely shocked when we start saying
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  that whether it's likes impressions
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  whatever that that many people see it and
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  i don't know if it's uh if you
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  think oh it's just this podcast that some
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  guys asked me to be on like well
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  what i think is cool about our show
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  is how how
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  we are the same people here as we
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  are in the street.
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  Right.
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  So as humble,
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  we say that knowing we polish it just
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  so it's radio friendly, but yeah.
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  But other than that,
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  you're getting the same personality.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  And, and on a restaurant, right.
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  Yeah.
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  You know,
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  we work in the public and so,
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  so we're, we're used to those things,
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  but you know what I'm saying?
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  Like it just is a,
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  the the personality that like i don't sit
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  down this chair and all of a sudden
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  be like oh game face let's be that
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  guy i mean that's because that that would
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  be gross but well look um because our
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  show is is partnered with toast our
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  primary technology partner at the
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  restaurant and here on the show um
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  Toast has a thing about toast,
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  and we've talked about it prior.
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  So in that, what's your favorite toast,
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  Derry?
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  My favorite toast.
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  Your favorite toast.
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  We've talked about this a lot with our
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  guests.
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  My favorite toast isn't radio friendly.
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  But we hadn't talked about it with you.
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  I'm talking about the food.
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  i forget that look we've done this for
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  weeks now and i still forget like you
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  got one job this is what i like
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  i mean this is great do i need
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  to get the map quest out to read
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  directions yes you do you do um favorite
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  toast actual cheers to map quest oh man
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  no do you like sourdough do you like
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  grape do you like you know strawberry i
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  have found later in life when i was
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  growing up i i always thought that french
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  toast was everybody makes it out to be
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  so hard french toast yeah let me tell
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  you if you can beat an egg
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  and get a spoonful of sugar,
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  you can have French toast anytime you want
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  it.
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  Now, it may not be like, you know,
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  three-day-old brioche,
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  whatever definition French toast.
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  And by the way,
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  this isn't even my favorite.
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  I'm just saying people in my house like
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  it when I make it, and it's simple,
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  and I don't mind making it.
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  It's no harder than making pancakes now.
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  You put vanilla in it?
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  If I'm really trying to go that far.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  If it's just somebody requested it on
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  school morning, you don't get vanilla.
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  I got you.
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  But I'm just getting out the door then.
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  Well, you know,
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  there's multiple different layers of,
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  of first toast.
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  I'm talking about here's an egg.
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  Here's a nice spoonful of sugar.
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  Here's a good touch of cinnamon,
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  whip it all up,
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  dunk the bread into the pan with a
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  little bit of butter, flip it done.
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  Now,
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  are you frying it or are you baking
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  it?
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  Okay.
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  Can you bake French toast?
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  Oh, bro.
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  I got you.
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  All right.
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  That's not even my favorite.
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  I don't know why we're discussing this.
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  That's bougie.
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  Bougie.
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  So all that to say it's not your
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  favorite toast.
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  It's all that to say that people overdid
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  it for me.
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  I take you as like a pumpernickel guy.
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  I don't even know what pumpernickel is.
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  It's not true.
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  I do know what it is.
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  I don't think I've ever had it.
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  Okay.
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  I will tell you,
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  my favorite toast is just literally just
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  simple toast straight from the toaster.
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  White bread?
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  White bread.
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  Okay.
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  Thick cut, preferably.
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  Like, that's one of those things,
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  if I will splurge on bread, because, like,
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  it's not like you went from two-fifty to
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  three-fifty to get the next loaf, right?
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  But...
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  but get a thicker cut of that artisan
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  style bread kind of stuff.
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  Okay.
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  Toast it.
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  Now that's where my,
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  my problem is going to be.
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  I like my toast color.
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  Perfect.
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  And I will watch it.
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  I don't want it too light.
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  I want to actually be toast.
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  I don't like just dry bread,
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  but I don't want it burnt.
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  Does that make sense?
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  People eat dry bread every day.
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  i mean you can just leave it out
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  i told my students i showed my students
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  the the corner stuff in the croutons of
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  of what biscuits and gravy is uh and
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  they're kind of looking at me i said
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  you took flour and made it really wet
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  and put it on flour that you made
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  really dry
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  and they all kind of looked at me
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  i was like and there you have biscuits
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  great and blew their minds and then they
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  realized how much they enjoy it so but
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  anyhow
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  good thick toast well toasted a thin thin
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  layer of butter and strawberry nope man
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  are we doing is this daily or is
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  this special is this saturday morning am i
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  going to school what's your favorite man i
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  don't know favorite i don't care if it's
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  tuesday or sunday blackberry preserves is
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  where it's at man blackberries oh i get
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  down with the blackberry and that is yeah
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  that is so good call me old all
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  you want to no
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  Does blackberry make us old?
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  I've never seen a twelve-year-old eat
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  blackberry jam.
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  only thing to make it worse is if
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  it's apricot apricot has it's place I'm
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  not saying it doesn't but you ain't going
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  to see my middle schoolers eating it you
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  break out one of them little jars you
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  know what I'm talking about it's like
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  craft somebody's grandma made it and I
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  want the red and white gingham lid it's
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  blank it's just there oh man
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  yeah oh let's go yeah all day all
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  right so uh hey can i do mine
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  real quick is that rude no it's not
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  rude at all it better be good you
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  just jumped in though i know i i
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  feel pretty confident about this can you
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  flip the camera that you got over there
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  on you i'm the mystery voice from behind
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  the scenes i like that though even in
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  radio shows yes the producer is just a
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  guy all right so squirrel before you give
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  me your toast okay squirrel
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  I need you guys to do me a
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  favor.
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  DM me right now and tell me what
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  you think Trent looks like.
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  Yes.
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  Oh, that's a good one.
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  Do that.
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  Okay.
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  Squirrel.
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  I need to know what does Trent look
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  like?
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  Let's go.
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  Okay.
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  I want cultural background.
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  I want hair color.
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  Be explicit in your description.
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  Be specific.
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  Like,
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  what kind of shoes do you think he
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  would wear?
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  You know, all the things.
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  Okay.
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  Now, keep in mind, he is passionate about.
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  Nope.
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  Nuh-uh.
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  Don't dress it.
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  It's a voice.
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  It's a voice.
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  It's a voice.
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  You get a voice.
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  He is passionate about many things.
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  Yep.
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  You can watch the show and listen to
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  figure out what those are and describe him
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  to a tee.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Well, my favorite, this,
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  this came to me because this is like
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  one of my favorite things in the world.
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  It's putting pretty much everything that
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  comes on an all-star special on between
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  the toast that comes with it.
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  Without the waffle.
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  I was going to ask if the waffle
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  was out.
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  But everything else on the plate.
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  We got a bacon.
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  We got the hash browns.
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  We got the eggs between the Waffle House
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  toast.
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  And it's not always as crispy as you
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  might like a dairy.
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  Waffle House toast could be the thinnest
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  toast ever.
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  That is my favorite.
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  i don't know how they make toast that
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  thin well oh they super glue crumbs
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  together it's magical especially when you
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  put all that like in my mind you
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  have you you're ranking levels of
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  thickness of bread cut you know you've got
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  like extra things like texas toast you got
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  texas toast and then you got thick cut
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  and then you got regular cut and then
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  you got thin cut then you got waffles
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  cut and you're like oh okay no cut
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  right all right waffles cut is like a
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  step below government bread
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  but man it's good with all that stuff
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  right god they've got their southern
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  hibachi down perfect to where that that
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  hits just right i don't know why that's
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  the greatest depiction of all time holy
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  cow tell me it's wrong yes perfect it's
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  absolutely you're welcome man southern
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  hibachi baby i just hit all right i'm
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  gonna check out y'all y'all have a great
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  that's like the politically correct way of
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  wording red
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  no southern hibachi redneck griddle is
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  southern i'm telling you like blackstone
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  these guys they they missed the point on
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  being able to really drive that home
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  blacks don't call me we have your entire
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  marketing campaign yeah we do we are going
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  to blow you up the imagine oh my
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  lord that is amazing
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  yeah southern hibachi baby you just blew
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  my mind oh you're welcome perfect yeah
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  well good good uh blackstone we are still
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  accepting sponsorships for that's right we
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  are um we have uh some amazing new
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  marketing slogans for you um we need we
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  need a big big sponsor somebody like send
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  us
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  a big check with a big banner include
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  the banner with the check and the banner
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  will just go right here like we will
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  put you like everybody will see you and
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  like just throw that out there man if
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  you're looking to get some sponsorship out
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  there for twenty twenty six you're trying
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  to get your names for recognition we got
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  a blank wall we need we need folks
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  so come on folks give me a call
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  come on over come on over anyway um
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  you don't need me singing
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  whatsoever so it's the holiday weekend
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  though thanksgiving it's the holiday
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  weekend it's thanksgiving um and i am very
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  very thankful for quite a bit this year
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  uh one of the things that i'm thankful
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  for is this week i have had some
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  time
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  to be able to spend with my wife,
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  just me and my wife.
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  Not a lot of time, but some time.
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  It's been really, really good,
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  and I'm very thankful for being able to
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  do that because it's been such a busy
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  time for us with the restaurant,
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  with the show, all the things in life.
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  Two athletes.
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  One's broke his arm, well, his wrist,
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  and the other one hasn't stopped.
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  Right.
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  We had to email his coach the other
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  day because he went out of town to
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  go see his grandmother for Thanksgiving,
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  and they have practice all week.
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  But I'm thankful for that.
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  And I will say...
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  That has brought me to some questions
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  about restaurants and things and business
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  as well.
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  So before we get to that,
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  what is something that y'all are thankful
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  for that you haven't,
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  that you've noticed over the last few
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  weeks that seems to be coming to the
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  forefront?
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  Put me on the spot, man.
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  It's funny.
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  There's an irony here on the way over
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  here.
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  I was,
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  I was really trying to hammer down on,
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  on this week's Friday, feel good.
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  And sometimes they're off the cuff.
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  Sometimes I'm taking a quote that I
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  enjoyed that week somewhere,
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  but this week's like a,
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  like it was kind of churning my heart.
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  And so now you're sitting here bringing
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  this up and I am thankful.
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  for patience.
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  And that seems almost cliche,
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  but through our home buying and selling
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  process that's been going on now longer
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  than we anticipated or originally planned
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  between being a parent,
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  just the aspects of life,
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  I am thankful for patience that is
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  that i already had but also that's been
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  honed and learned and refined a little bit
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  because it has been there there have been
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  some late nights there look i i don't
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  know if it what it's been going on
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  like there have been some nights where i
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  get like three hours of sleep and i'm
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  just waiting yeah and and that's and and
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  my mind's going all these places and i'm
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  busy and i you know and patience is
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  that old saying patience is a virtue until
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  you really learn to hang on to it
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  and so this is going to come great
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  when friday feel good comes around
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  But like it is,
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  I'm thankful for patients right now,
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  but really just in general to see it
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  as a bigger scope.
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  Trent, that's fine.
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  That was really good.
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  Follow that up.
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  Walk off.
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  Mic drop.
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  Go voice.
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  Man.
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  Well, I can echo that.
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  Patience is a virtue.
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  Virtue is a desirable quality,
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  also known as moral excellence.
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  that's what they say did you Google that
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  or something like that it's it's instilled
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  in me it's instilled in me from a
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  uh hey don't worry about it what was
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  it called um a a devotional from uh
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  a YMCA camp I went to anyway all
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  right uh yeah I'll never forget that
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  patience is virtue and virtue is a
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  desirable quality also known as moral
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  excellence I'll never forget that
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  Anyway, man,
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  I'm grateful for the people in my life.
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  Obviously, I got a great circle around me.
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  I'm grateful for some help.
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  We've had some help here recently with
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  some new stuff coming down the line with
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  Spread the Positive.
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  That's huge.
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  um been begging praying for a team to
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  kind of you know just off offset um
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  you know unload anything um it's been a
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  one-man show in a lot of ways here
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  and uh i've really got some people that
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  see the vision that are really really
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  smart really really talented and um
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  it's been an exciting few weeks we sent
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  out the biggest proposal to date for stp
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  and got a call first of the week
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  uh in december to talk about that which
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  could be major so yeah just uh grateful
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  for opportunity grateful for the people in
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  my life uh grateful for this uh crazy
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  assignment god put on my heart and i'm
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  grateful for y'all man grateful for i mean
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  just to be able to do this is
• 18:44
  a really it's a really cool thing and
• 18:46
  i'm super grateful for it all
• 18:48
  It's awesome.
• 18:49
  I love it.
• 18:50
  I love it.
• 18:53
  I can do that.
• 18:56
  I've been known to pull on a heart
• 18:57
  string.
• 19:00
  So we are in the beginning stages,
• 19:02
  but I'm going to go ahead and start
• 19:03
  talking about it because that's who I am.
• 19:06
  Let's go.
• 19:08
  Last week of March.
• 19:11
  Minutes Wisely, our non-profit,
• 19:16
  gives back to veterans, first responders,
• 19:18
  Gold Star families, etc.
• 19:21
  Last week of March,
• 19:22
  we are going to do a crawfish boil.
• 19:24
  Let's go.
• 19:26
  At Williamson Farms.
• 19:27
  I'm in.
• 19:28
  Oh, snap.
• 19:29
  Harry Murphy.
• 19:29
  I'm in.
• 19:31
  Live music.
• 19:32
  Yep.
• 19:33
  A bar.
• 19:34
  Crawfish.
• 19:37
  Thirty-some-odd dollars for a ticket.
• 19:40
  Hang on, Paul.
• 19:41
  It's not live yet.
• 19:41
  I literally was just sitting there
• 19:42
  thinking, man,
• 19:42
  that's a fifty dollar ticket.
• 19:43
  And you're telling me it's only thirty?
• 19:45
  So if you.
• 19:45
  This place better be selling out.
• 19:47
  If you pre-order, they will be thirty,
• 19:51
  thirty or thirty five.
• 19:51
  I don't remember exactly.
• 19:52
  Still, that's.
• 19:55
  They will be fifty at the door.
• 19:56
  OK, good.
• 19:59
  I'm sure we'll do a silent auction of
• 20:01
  sorts.
• 20:02
  We'll get people involved.
• 20:03
  My beard is not up for auction this
• 20:05
  time.
• 20:05
  I'm sorry.
• 20:06
  Sam, my man, is already involved.
• 20:09
  Okay.
• 20:09
  I will hear you on getting yours lost
• 20:12
  again if you want to go that route.
• 20:13
  He will not be.
• 20:15
  He will not be.
• 20:16
  Well, I say that.
• 20:18
  I'm not going to put words in his
• 20:19
  mouth.
• 20:19
  But he is already involved as a sponsor
• 20:24
  of the event.
• 20:27
  But that's going to be pretty cool.
• 20:28
  We got that coming up in March.
• 20:29
  That'll be the first event from a Minutes
• 20:32
  Wisely deal.
• 20:34
  We are going to start promoting that hot
• 20:36
  and heavy now because we are wanting a
• 20:40
  big, big thing.
• 20:42
  The next event we will have will be
• 20:43
  in May.
• 20:46
  That is going to be the Barbecue Bash.
• 20:50
  That is going to be celebrating five years
• 20:53
  of Singletree.
• 20:55
  man congratulations yeah i'm well aware
• 20:58
  that we discussed when you hit your
• 20:59
  four-year mark it just seems like though
• 21:05
  that five years has flown by for that
• 21:07
  brother
• 21:09
  And I'm not even going to pretend like
• 21:11
  that.
• 21:11
  I know anything because I've never had to
• 21:14
  work behind your counter or answer a phone
• 21:17
  call concerning it or anything.
• 21:18
  But like,
• 21:18
  I just can't imagine how fast five years,
• 21:22
  like when you go from a food truck,
• 21:24
  looking to hang out at some spots to
• 21:27
  get in a regular spot to getting a.
• 21:31
  working in conjunction with, Hey,
• 21:33
  we're going to be at Charles place to
• 21:35
  a brick and mortar.
• 21:36
  Like it's crazy.
• 21:37
  If you step back and look,
• 21:38
  you talk about something be thankful for,
• 21:40
  like you,
• 21:41
  you step back and realize now that's not
• 21:43
  to say that you haven't put in the
• 21:44
  work.
• 21:44
  I don't want anybody to hear that.
• 21:46
  You haven't absolutely busted your tail in
• 21:48
  and done all that has been needed for
• 21:51
  that.
• 21:52
  I worked three hours a week and I
• 21:58
  drive a Bentley.
• 21:59
  Yeah.
• 22:03
  I got four boats.
• 22:06
  One's in my bathtub.
• 22:06
  It happens to the best of us.
• 22:12
  And I don't do anything.
• 22:12
  I sit here and run my mouth.
• 22:18
  Nothing.
• 22:18
  All the spare time you got.
• 22:19
  I've been so busy,
• 22:20
  my shoes have a hole in them,
• 22:22
  and I can't even go get a new
• 22:23
  pair.
• 22:24
  I ain't got the time to go get,
• 22:26
  look at that.
• 22:27
  I feel confident, though,
• 22:28
  that they probably have a size printed on
• 22:30
  them.
• 22:30
  You could just order those.
• 22:32
  Save yourself a minute.
• 22:33
  Maybe time to do it.
• 22:35
  It is what it is.
• 22:37
  No,
• 22:38
  I have a lot to be thankful for,
• 22:39
  man.
• 22:40
  I am blessed and highly favored.
• 22:41
  To be able to wake up every morning
• 22:43
  and make an impact in the community that
• 22:44
  I live in is just unreal.
• 22:46
  And to be able to not only do
• 22:48
  it for...
• 22:53
  a year or two,
• 22:54
  but to come up getting close to five
• 22:56
  is it's almost unreal.
• 22:59
  And the things that we have coming down
• 23:00
  the pipe for twenty twenty six with the
• 23:03
  radio.
• 23:05
  Coming down the pipe, the pipe.
• 23:07
  Yeah.
• 23:07
  Spell pipe.
• 23:09
  P.I.P.
• 23:11
  What?
• 23:12
  Coming down the pike pipe.
• 23:15
  P.I.K.E.
• 23:16
  If you want it to come down a
• 23:17
  pike, you can.
• 23:19
  Mine's coming down a pipe.
• 23:20
  No, pike.
• 23:21
  Nope, pipe.
• 23:22
  P-I-P-E.
• 23:23
  Nah, I gotta Google it.
• 23:25
  I'm pretty sure it's coming down the pike.
• 23:29
  I'm sure that's a saying,
• 23:30
  but just however you want to word it.
• 23:35
  I can't say pipe.
• 23:37
  you can i just the the oh look
• 23:40
  i said coming down off the google pike
• 23:43
  or pipe there we go the originally and
• 23:46
  etymology oh yeah uh-huh etymologically
• 23:51
  correct phrase is coming down the pike
• 23:54
  refers to an upcoming event on its way
• 23:56
  simpler to something coming down
• 23:58
  approaching from the turnpike
• 24:01
  Coming down the pipe is widely used and
• 24:03
  understood due to confusion with the
• 24:06
  phrase in the pipeline.
• 24:09
  So I stand corrected.
• 24:10
  So we're both wrong.
• 24:12
  We're both right.
• 24:13
  In a weird turn of,
• 24:15
  in a weird turn of events.
• 24:16
  Yes.
• 24:16
  I love it.
• 24:18
  See to Ching pipe.
• 24:22
  Let us know DM me and let me
• 24:24
  know whether you use pike or pipe.
• 24:28
  P-I-K-E or P-I-P-E?
• 24:35
  Yeah, no, listen.
• 24:36
  We are at...
• 24:40
  i've got a senior right now i can't
• 24:42
  wait till he graduates and he's no longer
• 24:44
  affiliated with school like so i can like
• 24:47
  reference him because like there's a
• 24:49
  beautiful nickname and there's there's
• 24:51
  wonderful things that this guy is he is
• 24:53
  a huge personality he's great we're all
• 24:56
  sitting there talking the other day and he
• 25:00
  uh uh
• 25:06
  was trying to reference the restaurant
• 25:09
  Blue Coast, as in Blue Coast Burritos.
• 25:12
  Yes.
• 25:14
  And he's like, man, I tell you,
• 25:17
  I don't know what was up Monday night.
• 25:18
  He goes,
• 25:19
  everybody was coming to Blue Coast.
• 25:22
  I said,
• 25:22
  did you just say like glucose like sugar?
• 25:25
  He goes, yeah,
• 25:26
  you know where you get your burritos.
• 25:28
  I said, Blue Coast?
• 25:29
  He said, yeah.
• 25:30
  I said, it's Blue Coast?
• 25:32
  I've been calling it Blue Coast for years.
• 25:38
  he never missed a beat he kept calling
• 25:40
  it glucose that's just what it is that's
• 25:44
  what it is man it's like coming down
• 25:47
  the pipe i've passed that place like three
• 25:49
  times in the past week and i just
• 25:51
  bust out laughing because there's glucose
• 25:54
  i need to sign that like glucose
• 25:58
  I like just calling it sugar.
• 25:59
  Don't be getting crazy.
• 26:04
  I think it's funny what people hear.
• 26:05
  Y'all want to go eat at that burrito
• 26:06
  shop, sugar?
• 26:07
  Yeah.
• 26:07
  It's funny what people hear when you say
• 26:12
  things that are,
• 26:13
  especially if it's misspoken.
• 26:15
  It's like, what?
• 26:18
  And I mean, I'm guilty of it too.
• 26:20
  And every now and then somebody will call
• 26:21
  you out on it.
• 26:21
  It's like, what?
• 26:22
  That's why when you said coming down the
• 26:24
  pipe, I was like, wait.
• 26:25
  Have you ever heard of the stating,
• 26:27
  according to Hull?
• 26:28
  Mm-mm.
• 26:30
  You have to look that one up.
• 26:32
  All right.
• 26:33
  My dad has said it for years.
• 26:35
  And the actual definition behind it,
• 26:39
  it's like, wow.
• 26:41
  Okay.
• 26:41
  Is it a naval thing?
• 26:42
  Yeah.
• 26:43
  No, I don't even remember it anymore.
• 26:47
  It's a whole.
• 26:48
  I'd have to look it up to get
• 26:49
  the whole thing.
• 26:50
  But I remember being blown away at the
• 26:54
  length of definition.
• 26:55
  That's not fun.
• 26:59
  Let's take a quick break,
• 27:00
  and then we can come back and play
• 27:04
  some more tennis.
• 27:09
  How long have we been going?
• 27:11
  um because I am way off here stop
• 27:17
  reset okay all right you ready yep welcome
• 27:22
  back to Singletree Nation guys I'm your
• 27:24
  man Charlie eblen as always we have our
• 27:27
  illustrious co-host Mr Derry Wells with us
• 27:31
  and we are having a good old boy
• 27:32
  time back from our break
• 27:37
  cammy's joining the show cammy is hanging
• 27:40
  out our production assistant best looking
• 27:44
  dog this side of the couch yeah such
• 27:48
  a sweetheart hi she's like what's going on
• 27:52
  what's up what are we doing
• 27:55
  If you've made it this far in the
• 27:56
  episode and you're just now realizing that
• 27:58
  there is a dog, this is Trent's dog.
• 28:00
  So if that changes your view of Trent,
• 28:04
  let Charlie know.
• 28:05
  Please do.
• 28:07
  That may have updated a lot of things.
• 28:10
  Oh, man.
• 28:11
  Just saying.
• 28:12
  Wow.
• 28:13
  i want to take a moment now that
• 28:16
  we we're past pulling at the heartstrings
• 28:18
  and hold on time hang on what you
• 28:20
  got you you can't do it i did
• 28:22
  hold on i know but if you that
• 28:24
  was mean if you were going to if
• 28:28
  if you were going to describe trent based
• 28:31
  off his dog
• 28:34
  i can't i know him i can't but
• 28:37
  close your eyes don't even close your eyes
• 28:39
  just look at cammy and go oh man
• 28:43
  there's there's some truth there i'm i'm
• 28:45
  not i'm not going to i'll dm you
• 28:52
  We are going to put a post up
• 28:54
  tomorrow.
• 28:54
  This is going to be a post and
• 28:57
  I'm going to DM you.
• 28:59
  Here's what I think Trent looks like based
• 29:01
  on his dog.
• 29:02
  What does Trent look like?
• 29:05
  This whole episode we just found our
• 29:08
  thumbnail.
• 29:09
  What does Trent look like?
• 29:14
  Speaking of what things look like though,
• 29:17
  this weekend is looking like a phenomenal
• 29:20
  weekend for college football.
• 29:22
  Some good football.
• 29:24
  It's rivalry weekend.
• 29:25
  Controversial football this weekend.
• 29:28
  This college football playoff is...
• 29:33
  You cannot in any way,
• 29:35
  shape or form to me justify about two,
• 29:39
  maybe three of the teams and where they
• 29:41
  are.
• 29:41
  You cannot, you cannot,
• 29:43
  you cannot in any way, shape or form.
• 29:46
  Okay.
• 29:46
  You got the rankings.
• 29:47
  No, I don't.
• 29:48
  Cause I'm going through it's it's it's
• 29:50
  rivalry weekend,
• 29:52
  but there are some huge rivalries that
• 29:54
  could have.
• 29:56
  college playoff football implications.
• 29:59
  All right, let's talk about them.
• 30:01
  So you got Texas.
• 30:04
  Let's take the top ten.
• 30:07
  Well, I don't have the top ten.
• 30:08
  I've just got them all sporadically just
• 30:10
  listed.
• 30:10
  I got you.
• 30:11
  Okay.
• 30:12
  What I'm saying is we take the top
• 30:14
  ten and let's do some controversial picks.
• 30:16
  So you got Ohio State, Michigan.
• 30:18
  Ohio State, Michigan.
• 30:19
  Which, first of all,
• 30:21
  as far as rivalry games,
• 30:23
  it is at Michigan.
• 30:25
  As far as rivalry games,
• 30:27
  and I'm going to go out and if
• 30:28
  you know me,
• 30:29
  I'm not surprising you or shocking you.
• 30:32
  I can't stand Ohio State and I can't
• 30:34
  stand Michigan.
• 30:35
  But if you want me to choose one,
• 30:37
  I will take him over OSU every time.
• 30:42
  I can't stand it.
• 30:43
  So you're not picking the team you think
• 30:45
  is going to win.
• 30:46
  You're picking the team you hate less.
• 30:48
  Yes.
• 30:48
  Correct.
• 30:49
  Got it.
• 30:49
  All right.
• 30:50
  But.
• 30:51
  this is like if if Michigan does this
• 30:55
  somehow because they're creeping up the
• 30:58
  the Rankings a little bit there.
• 31:00
  They're on the outside looking in right
• 31:01
  now, but they're creeping in two losses,
• 31:03
  right?
• 31:03
  I think so and then they're right but
• 31:06
  at fifteen right now if you can knock
• 31:09
  off number one It's just a big game
• 31:10
  for them.
• 31:11
  It makes it even more huge huge game.
• 31:14
  Yeah, and
• 31:14
  um then you got indiana at number two
• 31:17
  they should take care of business with
• 31:18
  purdue no no big deal there if they're
• 31:20
  truly number two they're good man indiana
• 31:25
  i know they haven't we made it to
• 31:27
  number two yeah if they're truly good
• 31:29
  enough to be number two i think they're
• 31:31
  at least three weeks ago they should be
• 31:33
  number one okay that's just my take well
• 31:36
  the we're not that's not what we're
• 31:37
  discussing before we get there sure how
• 31:39
  many ranked teams have they played
• 31:41
  Who, Indiana?
• 31:43
  Zero or one.
• 31:44
  I can't recall.
• 31:45
  Good point.
• 31:46
  And who was it that they played?
• 31:48
  The one ranked team that they played?
• 31:50
  I don't know.
• 31:51
  Penn State.
• 31:52
  Okay, great.
• 31:53
  Yeah.
• 31:54
  All right.
• 31:54
  And who's OSU played?
• 31:55
  Who's Ohio State played?
• 31:57
  Agreed.
• 31:58
  Right.
• 31:58
  I was just saying.
• 31:59
  Agreed wholeheartedly.
• 32:00
  Anyway.
• 32:00
  The only thing Ohio State has,
• 32:02
  the only thing that I think Ohio State
• 32:04
  has is history.
• 32:07
  What can you buy with history?
• 32:10
  What did Indiana do last year?
• 32:13
  I get it.
• 32:14
  What did Ohio State do?
• 32:15
  They won.
• 32:17
  But that's my point, right?
• 32:19
  So Ohio State has a little bit of
• 32:21
  history of being a great football team.
• 32:23
  They've played not this year,
• 32:25
  but in the past they've played.
• 32:27
  And I think Michigan has a shot.
• 32:30
  Playing Ohio State at home?
• 32:32
  Yeah.
• 32:33
  They got a shot.
• 32:34
  It's always a game.
• 32:36
  It's a tough game, right?
• 32:37
  Always.
• 32:37
  But it's just like Alabama and Auburn.
• 32:39
  It's the same thing.
• 32:41
  But Indiana hasn't played anybody worth a
• 32:44
  flip.
• 32:44
  I agree.
• 32:46
  You're right.
• 32:47
  And look,
• 32:48
  if you look at them on paper,
• 32:50
  they look great.
• 32:51
  But so does Tennessee.
• 32:52
  Right.
• 32:54
  With three losses.
• 32:55
  But at Texas A&M at Texas ought to
• 32:59
  be an incredible game.
• 33:01
  That's going to be crazy.
• 33:02
  Where is that?
• 33:03
  That depends on Texas.
• 33:05
  That depends on if Archie is trying to
• 33:07
  play from the dugout or actually on a
• 33:09
  football field.
• 33:10
  You're right.
• 33:10
  He was dead last week.
• 33:12
  Number four,
• 33:13
  Georgia is going to Georgia Tech.
• 33:17
  That's going to be a game.
• 33:19
  That's not a game.
• 33:20
  But Georgia Tech has looked really bad the
• 33:22
  last two weeks.
• 33:23
  They have.
• 33:24
  And I think Kirby Smart's got the ability
• 33:27
  to pick that apart.
• 33:28
  Oh, yeah, for sure.
• 33:29
  You got Texas Tech at West Virginia.
• 33:31
  Don't see any issue there.
• 33:34
  Excuse me.
• 33:37
  Who have they played?
• 33:38
  Oregon at Washington.
• 33:41
  Uh, then you've got,
• 33:43
  I'm having to scroll my list here.
• 33:44
  Kind of find who's at number seven.
• 33:47
  There you go.
• 33:48
  Mississippi state.
• 33:49
  Where is that one?
• 33:51
  That's at Mississippi state.
• 33:52
  That's tough.
• 33:53
  All right.
• 33:53
  It is tough.
• 33:54
  It is tough.
• 33:55
  It's tough to win there.
• 33:57
  LSU goes to number eight,
• 33:58
  Oklahoma problem with the Ole miss
• 34:00
  Mississippi state game.
• 34:01
  Yeah.
• 34:03
  It's one of Lane Kiffin's last games.
• 34:05
  That is, boy,
• 34:06
  did you read LSU's offer to him?
• 34:08
  Ninety-eight million.
• 34:10
  They brought the dump truck and said,
• 34:12
  take it all.
• 34:13
  Here's the problem.
• 34:14
  With twenty-five million towards your
• 34:16
  roster.
• 34:17
  Like, holy cow.
• 34:18
  Like, you go,
• 34:20
  he essentially became the Yankees.
• 34:22
  Yeah, exactly.
• 34:23
  Exactly.
• 34:24
  That's more than...
• 34:25
  But I do want to point out...
• 34:27
  That there are several games from this
• 34:30
  list that we've gone over,
• 34:32
  including Georgia-Georgia Tech,
• 34:34
  Texas A&M in Texas, Indiana at Purdue,
• 34:37
  and Arizona at Arizona State,
• 34:38
  even though they're in the top
• 34:40
  twenty-five, both of them.
• 34:41
  These are Friday night games.
• 34:43
  And then you roll into Saturday,
• 34:45
  and personally here at home.
• 34:47
  Those are all Fridays?
• 34:48
  Those four games are all Friday night.
• 34:51
  Wow.
• 34:51
  Or Friday afternoon, Friday night.
• 34:52
  That's crazy.
• 34:53
  Then you roll into,
• 34:54
  and I'm telling you right now, I think,
• 34:57
  and I hate to even say this out
• 34:58
  loud real strongly.
• 35:00
  Vanderbilt's going to come in with a chip
• 35:02
  on their shoulder at Tennessee.
• 35:05
  I think that's the game of the week.
• 35:07
  I think it could be the game of
• 35:08
  the week.
• 35:10
  I think that is.
• 35:11
  It's at Tennessee.
• 35:13
  My son scored tickets for that game.
• 35:16
  They're on about the fourth row right in
• 35:21
  the end zone, off the wall.
• 35:22
  Wow.
• 35:23
  I was like,
• 35:23
  I don't know how you did that this
• 35:25
  late in the year,
• 35:25
  but he got them and they're gone and
• 35:28
  I can't wait.
• 35:28
  I hope he better FaceTime me.
• 35:30
  Cause that's going to be incredible.
• 35:31
  Now here's, here's the question.
• 35:34
  You have the top seven teams in the
• 35:37
  nation are currently one loss or
• 35:42
  undefeated.
• 35:43
  Correct.
• 35:47
  Vanderbilt beats Tennessee.
• 35:51
  Michigan beats Ohio State.
• 35:56
  Where do you rank Vandy and Michigan?
• 35:59
  That's crazy.
• 36:00
  That's a great question.
• 36:01
  You're right.
• 36:03
  And that goes into here's what I'm going
• 36:05
  to throw out while I think the playoff
• 36:07
  committee isn't doing due diligence to
• 36:10
  what they should be doing.
• 36:11
  You've got Notre Dame in there.
• 36:13
  I believe they're number nine.
• 36:17
  Yeah, nine and two.
• 36:18
  At nine and two.
• 36:18
  And Oklahoma.
• 36:19
  But Notre Dame lost to Miami.
• 36:24
  And you've got Miami at thirteenth.
• 36:26
  Maybe get a wild card getting in.
• 36:29
  They're at twelve on this,
• 36:31
  but you got to see.
• 36:31
  Yeah, right.
• 36:32
  I'm just saying,
• 36:33
  depending on which one you're looking at.
• 36:34
  And then you've got, excuse me,
• 36:37
  you've got Notre Dame who doesn't play a
• 36:39
  conference.
• 36:40
  Yeah.
• 36:41
  You know, and so, like,
• 36:43
  you're not having to expose yourself as
• 36:45
  much.
• 36:46
  Yeah.
• 36:46
  And, like, I just,
• 36:48
  I'm not anti-Notre Dame.
• 36:50
  I am, but, like,
• 36:50
  I'm not going to let that sway my,
• 36:52
  but I just don't have them at nine.
• 36:53
  Especially when you have Vanderbilt at one
• 36:56
  loss.
• 36:57
  Yeah.
• 36:58
  They have two.
• 36:59
  Excuse me, two losses.
• 37:01
  Yeah.
• 37:02
  But who were their two losses?
• 37:03
  Who were Vanderbilt's two losses?
• 37:05
  Bama and Georgia?
• 37:07
  There you go.
• 37:08
  Or did they lose to Georgia?
• 37:11
  Vandy lost to... One second here.
• 37:15
  I know it was Bama.
• 37:16
  They lost to Alabama.
• 37:19
  And... No, they didn't play Georgia.
• 37:23
  Who did they play there?
• 37:29
  I'm getting there.
• 37:30
  Hold on.
• 37:38
  Who did they lose to?
• 37:42
  Let me click on them.
• 37:43
  Why is it not letting me see that?
• 37:51
  man yeah do clean this up because this
• 37:55
  is ridiculous because we're all sitting
• 37:57
  here on the internet can't do it oh
• 37:59
  texas texas okay texas texas and bama
• 38:03
  texas and alabama both both of them ranked
• 38:10
  I mean, Texas was number one.
• 38:12
  At the time, right.
• 38:14
  Because that was like first,
• 38:15
  second game of the season, wasn't it?
• 38:16
  Wasn't that early?
• 38:17
  Yeah, it was.
• 38:18
  What is Texas ranked right now?
• 38:19
  Texas is sixteenth and Alabama is tenth.
• 38:22
  Right.
• 38:23
  So your two losses are to, you know.
• 38:25
  Still top-fifteen teams.
• 38:28
  Somebody was trying to make a case for
• 38:30
  me the other day about Tennessee.
• 38:32
  You can't make a case for Tennessee.
• 38:33
  You can't.
• 38:34
  They lost three times.
• 38:35
  I don't care.
• 38:37
  Yeah, they lost to Georgia,
• 38:39
  and they lost to Alabama,
• 38:40
  and they lost to Oklahoma.
• 38:41
  but and they're all three really good
• 38:43
  teams cool and you had three top ten
• 38:46
  teams you lost to them but you you
• 38:47
  had a chance to beat all three of
• 38:49
  them all three of them and you didn't
• 38:50
  and so I'm sorry like I take off
• 38:52
  your orange colored glasses UT fan here
• 38:55
  and you still gotta acknowledge that I
• 38:57
  bleed orange but until we get better play
• 38:59
  calling we're not gonna win championships
• 39:02
  well that's debatable but is it you think
• 39:05
  it's on hyphal no I think it's on
• 39:07
  defense
• 39:08
  No,
• 39:08
  I think our defensive play calling is
• 39:10
  absolutely atrocious.
• 39:11
  Defensive play calling.
• 39:12
  There you go.
• 39:12
  Yeah.
• 39:15
  And then I think we make bad decisions.
• 39:19
  I think we go away from what's working.
• 39:22
  We can be running it up the gut
• 39:23
  and driving them.
• 39:23
  So many coaches do that in jail.
• 39:24
  And I don't know what that gives.
• 39:29
  There's a local high school coach one time
• 39:32
  that he was not afraid to...
• 39:35
  If it's working, you stay with it.
• 39:37
  And I was talking with him once,
• 39:39
  and he...
• 39:42
  There was briefly another high school
• 39:43
  coach here in Murfreesboro who was like,
• 39:46
  we're never going to punt.
• 39:46
  We're never going to do this.
• 39:48
  And the first coach that I'm talking
• 39:50
  about,
• 39:51
  and I don't want to call him out
• 39:52
  because I don't know that they would know
• 39:53
  that I'm sharing this story.
• 39:54
  He said,
• 39:55
  I dare him not to punt on me.
• 39:56
  He goes, I'll hang a hundred on him.
• 39:59
  like he was just like and sure enough
• 40:02
  they played and that coach punted and he's
• 40:04
  like dog all right i was like wow
• 40:10
  man that's whoo but uh look it's gonna
• 40:17
  be at the end of the day it's
• 40:18
  gonna be an extremely interesting weekend
• 40:21
  for college football
• 40:22
  yeah and and i was watching game day
• 40:25
  last week or the week before and nick
• 40:28
  saban actually made a great point and i'm
• 40:32
  not an alabama fan i'm a tennessee fan
• 40:34
  and but i you got to give it
• 40:36
  to nick saban for his ability to
• 40:38
  understand analytics and culture and
• 40:41
  football and the things that drive the
• 40:44
  sport
• 40:46
  He's been in it his whole life.
• 40:47
  He does an amazing job.
• 40:48
  But he made a point to where it
• 40:51
  doesn't matter whether we have twelve
• 40:52
  teams,
• 40:52
  sixteen teams or twenty four teams or how
• 40:54
  many other teams you want to put in
• 40:56
  the college playoff.
• 40:58
  At some point,
• 40:59
  you got to make the cutoff.
• 41:00
  Sure.
• 41:01
  Oh, I agree.
• 41:02
  I think twelve is the appropriate number.
• 41:03
  And you have.
• 41:05
  I think I think the number is fine.
• 41:07
  Mm hmm.
• 41:09
  My opinion, just my opinion,
• 41:11
  I think you have to take conference
• 41:12
  championships completely out of it.
• 41:14
  I think it needs to be based on
• 41:15
  a regular season, and that's it.
• 41:17
  It's like a detriment.
• 41:18
  It can be a detriment.
• 41:20
  To me, it's the top-twelfth period.
• 41:24
  There is no this, that, or the other,
• 41:26
  conference champion or whatever.
• 41:28
  Have the conference champion games,
• 41:30
  continue to do all of that.
• 41:31
  That is perfectly fine,
• 41:32
  but it doesn't have anything to do with
• 41:33
  the championship of the season.
• 41:35
  Because if you start adding in conference
• 41:39
  champions and that gets a buy or that
• 41:43
  gets this or that gets that, well,
• 41:45
  then there's bias.
• 41:46
  Because you have teams like Notre Dame who
• 41:48
  don't have a conference.
• 41:49
  Right.
• 41:50
  And are they good enough?
• 41:51
  They got two losses.
• 41:52
  Sure.
• 41:52
  We don't know if they're good enough.
• 41:53
  They may be.
• 41:54
  I don't know.
• 41:55
  But I think that, you know,
• 41:57
  now you're also when you take those power
• 42:00
  five conferences and those five highest
• 42:02
  ranked teams get a.
• 42:04
  get a slot that's your number one through
• 42:06
  five seed well what about the other teams
• 42:10
  right because you can have somebody win
• 42:12
  the ACC which doesn't take much this year
• 42:16
  which could be
• 42:18
  Pittsburgh or Miami or Georgia tech,
• 42:23
  right.
• 42:23
  Or maybe even, I thought I read somewhere.
• 42:25
  There's a potential,
• 42:26
  like the ACC could have like a five-way
• 42:28
  tie leading.
• 42:30
  Yeah.
• 42:30
  It's something weird like that, that,
• 42:32
  that could potentially throw the whole
• 42:34
  thing.
• 42:34
  And my home.
• 42:35
  Yeah.
• 42:35
  But think about, think about this.
• 42:37
  Think about Pittsburgh going into the
• 42:40
  playoff and Vandy not making it.
• 42:43
  That would be insane.
• 42:44
  Absolutely insane.
• 42:46
  Like, and I'm not a Vandy fan.
• 42:48
  I'm a Vandy fan because I'm from
• 42:49
  Nashville.
• 42:51
  Right.
• 42:52
  And I wish them well.
• 42:53
  And they're in the SEC.
• 42:54
  Right.
• 42:55
  And I want them to do well.
• 42:56
  But I mean, that's that's crazy.
• 42:59
  You can't you can't leave them out and,
• 43:02
  you know, put them in.
• 43:05
  I mean, technically,
• 43:06
  Georgia Tech has the same record as Vandy.
• 43:10
  yeah yeah same record but they don't have
• 43:13
  the same strength of schedule though i
• 43:14
  mean i'm just throwing that out there yeah
• 43:17
  and then but pittsburgh's actually ranked
• 43:20
  above them because they just beat them
• 43:21
  last week with three losses so make that
• 43:24
  make sense
• 43:25
  right yeah i mean i agree there's no
• 43:28
  perfect scenario i agree with that until
• 43:30
  you get somewhere i agree with the
• 43:32
  conference championship should not be a
• 43:33
  part of it that should not be like
• 43:34
  an automatic buy or whatever i will say
• 43:36
  this until you have a ten eleven twelve
• 43:40
  team that goes in and makes a run
• 43:43
  Twelve is going to look like the good
• 43:44
  number,
• 43:45
  and that actually hurts your case on the
• 43:48
  conference championship doesn't make it
• 43:50
  because whatever.
• 43:51
  I will say, though,
• 43:53
  if you just take your straight top twelve,
• 43:55
  forget conference championships.
• 43:57
  Let's say that the bracket has to be
• 43:59
  set before championship weekend.
• 44:03
  And then that way we know what it
• 44:04
  is going into it.
• 44:05
  Conference championship doesn't affect it
• 44:07
  where we're in.
• 44:08
  Right.
• 44:09
  Until you get that eleven or twelve team
• 44:12
  that makes a run and is either playing
• 44:14
  for the national championship or wins it.
• 44:18
  These people are like, well,
• 44:19
  we should go to sixteen or whatever
• 44:20
  savings.
• 44:21
  Right.
• 44:21
  You just got to have a cut off.
• 44:23
  i always thought that you could have put
• 44:25
  it at eight would have made a wonderful
• 44:29
  number and then you take two one and
• 44:32
  two get a buy but then everybody's gonna
• 44:34
  be what about ten eleven eight or nine
• 44:36
  and ten you didn't include the top ten
• 44:38
  i get it now i think that's why
• 44:39
  twelve works but until yeah like i'm i'm
• 44:43
  good with the number if i if i
• 44:44
  compare it to march madness
• 44:48
  Okay.
• 44:48
  And because you're like sixty four teams.
• 44:52
  Yep.
• 44:53
  And you've had a sixteen beat a one.
• 44:58
  You've had a fifteen beat a two numerous
• 45:00
  times.
• 45:02
  Like, it's not impossible.
• 45:03
  Basketball is a different sport.
• 45:04
  Yes.
• 45:05
  But I'm saying from the aspect of that's
• 45:08
  why that feels got to be so big.
• 45:09
  And I'm a hundred percent okay with that.
• 45:10
  I got no problem with it.
• 45:12
  And if you did away with conference
• 45:13
  championships altogether.
• 45:15
  You could do it.
• 45:15
  Yeah.
• 45:16
  Absolutely.
• 45:17
  If you got rid of all conference
• 45:18
  championships.
• 45:20
  Absolutely.
• 45:20
  And you just did a straight
• 45:22
  top-twenty-five bracket.
• 45:23
  And it's just a regular season champion,
• 45:25
  right?
• 45:27
  It's just a college football champion.
• 45:29
  No, I mean, well, for, like,
• 45:31
  who wins the conferences,
• 45:32
  it would just be – that's when it
• 45:35
  gets tricky, too.
• 45:36
  No,
• 45:36
  but you can play the conference
• 45:37
  championship,
• 45:37
  but you need to have the top-twelve set
• 45:40
  before that game,
• 45:41
  before that weekend takes place.
• 45:42
  Oh, okay.
• 45:42
  Yeah,
• 45:43
  that way you still get bragging rights for
• 45:45
  the conference, sure.
• 45:46
  No,
• 45:46
  you've got to have conference champions,
• 45:47
  but... I mean, it could be just...
• 45:49
  I'm saying the top-twelve bracket set
• 45:51
  before that.
• 45:51
  Yeah, I feel that.
• 45:53
  Look...
• 45:56
  We're going to solve all these problems.
• 45:58
  We're not experts.
• 45:58
  We are armchair quarterback the heck out
• 46:01
  of this right now.
• 46:02
  I'm a great armchair quarterback.
• 46:03
  What are you talking about?
• 46:05
  Man, I've never lost.
• 46:06
  I can sit right next to Tom Brady.
• 46:07
  That's right.
• 46:09
  Speaking of,
• 46:10
  did you see him throw in with A.J.
• 46:13
  Brown before the Dallas-Philly game the
• 46:15
  other night?
• 46:16
  No.
• 46:17
  Dude is in a suit.
• 46:20
  Some of the cleanest,
• 46:21
  sweetest loafers I've ever seen.
• 46:24
  And I I'm telling you right now,
• 46:26
  he could go out there and play.
• 46:28
  that play well,
• 46:30
  especially given the NFL's caliber of
• 46:33
  quarterback and kind of it's,
• 46:35
  it's up in the air right now,
• 46:36
  as far as just across the entire league,
• 46:38
  that man's still like,
• 46:39
  he just stepped back.
• 46:41
  I mean, just would zip.
• 46:43
  And I was like,
• 46:44
  and they're just out on the field playing
• 46:45
  around for the broadcast crew.
• 46:46
  And I was like, my word.
• 46:48
  So since we're talking about the NFL,
• 46:51
  since you brought it up,
• 46:54
  I saw an interview with Jesse Cole.
• 46:59
  from the Savannah Bananas.
• 47:01
  And they asked him what they thought the
• 47:06
  NFL could do to make it better.
• 47:10
  what the Titans could do to make it
• 47:13
  better.
• 47:15
  And some of the things that they do,
• 47:16
  like the players greet everybody,
• 47:18
  they come out from the stands and they'll
• 47:20
  come out from a hole.
• 47:21
  Yeah.
• 47:21
  Right.
• 47:23
  And it really shocked me that no one
• 47:27
  else in this world has thought about the
• 47:32
  NFL that way.
• 47:33
  Disrupting the NFL.
• 47:35
  Yeah the way they did baseball.
• 47:37
  Yeah And when you look at when you
• 47:40
  I don't know if you guys have been
• 47:42
  to a Titans game recently but I Love
• 47:47
  going to any professional sporting event
• 47:49
  like I'm not a hockey fan.
• 47:52
  I love going to hockey games and
• 47:54
  I'm not an NFL fan.
• 47:57
  I love going to Titans games, right?
• 48:00
  I love going to baseball games, all that.
• 48:02
  I don't have to be a fan.
• 48:03
  I love just being in that environment.
• 48:05
  It's just fun.
• 48:08
  And we went to a game,
• 48:09
  me and my son went to a game
• 48:11
  a couple months ago,
• 48:14
  and I'm looking around inside of Titan
• 48:16
  Stadium, and there is no one in there.
• 48:20
  It's half full.
• 48:23
  The NFL's, quote,
• 48:25
  issue is going to be it's all dependent
• 48:27
  on their product.
• 48:29
  And when you have a team that's like
• 48:30
  the Titans right now who has got one
• 48:33
  win on the season, at best,
• 48:36
  you might pick up one or two more
• 48:38
  somewhere.
• 48:39
  Here's my problem with that, Derry.
• 48:41
  And this is going to go full circle
• 48:43
  into restaurants.
• 48:47
  The product is important.
• 48:50
  but I'm not sure that we are defining
• 48:52
  the product correctly, the NFL,
• 48:56
  and especially the Titans.
• 48:59
  And I, and I,
• 49:00
  and I hope the Adams are listening.
• 49:04
  They are defining their product as a wind
• 49:06
  loss and they are defining their product
• 49:10
  as something that has to be a wind
• 49:12
  column to drive people into stands.
• 49:16
  And if they have to spend more money
• 49:18
  to drive people into stands, um,
• 49:21
  And I went to,
• 49:22
  and I'm gonna circle this around to a
• 49:24
  restaurant theme.
• 49:27
  I went to a restaurant last night.
• 49:32
  My tab was enormously large for what I
• 49:37
  had.
• 49:39
  And I didn't give two craps.
• 49:43
  And I left that one restaurant and went
• 49:45
  to another restaurant.
• 49:48
  and my my bill for three beverages three
• 49:54
  thrace for those of you who want to
• 49:56
  add in spanish did he just say thrice
• 50:00
  the spanish trace c the tab for those
• 50:06
  three drinks was sixty dollars oh my gosh
• 50:13
  no okay on top of that
• 50:19
  There was the income tax,
• 50:20
  or not the income tax, but the tax.
• 50:23
  Sales tax, alcohol tax.
• 50:24
  Alcohol tax was on there as well.
• 50:26
  And then there was a hospitality fee.
• 50:29
  No, there wasn't.
• 50:32
  No.
• 50:32
  If you're going to put a hospitality fee
• 50:34
  on there, you better wow my socks off.
• 50:38
  Here's my problem.
• 50:42
  And most of it is just the wording.
• 50:45
  Yes.
• 50:46
  I'm going to circle all this back
• 50:47
  together.
• 50:48
  But the problem is not the dollars.
• 50:52
  The problem to me is not the fees.
• 50:54
  The problem is the fact that now you
• 50:56
  are charging me for your people to be
• 50:59
  nice.
• 51:00
  Correct.
• 51:02
  That's crazy.
• 51:03
  Okay.
• 51:04
  That's crazy.
• 51:04
  And you put it on your receipt.
• 51:05
  You literally break it down.
• 51:07
  Can you be that stupid?
• 51:08
  Yeah, that's insane.
• 51:10
  And I'm sorry I said it out loud.
• 51:12
  Call me out if you want to.
• 51:14
  I'll take the backlash.
• 51:15
  But all of that put together,
• 51:20
  I don't know if the Titans,
• 51:23
  this restaurant that I went to, whatever,
• 51:27
  understand what their products are.
• 51:31
  The product is the experience you have
• 51:33
  when you walk into place.
• 51:36
  It ain't got crap to do.
• 51:38
  We went to a Savannah bananas game.
• 51:41
  Who won?
• 51:41
  Couldn't tell you.
• 51:43
  What do you mean?
• 51:44
  Just say it.
• 51:45
  Couldn't tell you.
• 51:46
  Why can't you tell me dairy?
• 51:48
  We went to the game because I was
• 51:49
  too busy having a blast and it was
• 51:51
  sold out to sixty thousand people.
• 51:53
  I mean,
• 51:53
  but was it because the bananas win?
• 51:57
  a great point no that's a great point
• 51:59
  you're making a great point and and here
• 52:01
  here is the the uh the downfall to
• 52:05
  the to the nfl as a league if
• 52:07
  you've got teams that are winning and
• 52:08
  doing the thing you don't have to sell
• 52:10
  it because fans are ravenous for their
• 52:13
  home team look at the historical look
• 52:17
  aspect and let me let me look at
• 52:19
  the historical aspect of a team like
• 52:22
  chicago
• 52:24
  who even in a couple of bum years
• 52:26
  still had people in the seats because
• 52:28
  we're Chicagoans and you don't mess with
• 52:30
  our Bears.
• 52:31
  Now you've got a team that's trying to
• 52:34
  turn the corner, love him or hate him,
• 52:36
  Caleb Williams, to start to play better.
• 52:38
  And that place is going crazy.
• 52:40
  The Titans have a phenomenal scenario set
• 52:44
  right in front of them.
• 52:46
  They're building an indoor stadium so that
• 52:49
  they can host the Super Bowl, of which...
• 52:53
  Oh, good.
• 52:54
  Dale has already said they will be ready.
• 52:56
  Nashville's a super bowl town.
• 52:58
  Just let them get it finished.
• 53:00
  You've got the,
• 53:01
  you've got almost one of the biggest party
• 53:03
  cities.
• 53:04
  Look at the NFL draft the year it
• 53:06
  came here.
• 53:06
  Holy cow.
• 53:08
  It was led.
• 53:09
  They closed down the block.
• 53:10
  They had the whole thing.
• 53:12
  The Titans miss the mark of knowing what
• 53:15
  their product is because all they can see
• 53:17
  is one and whatever right now.
• 53:20
  Yeah.
• 53:21
  You have one of the hottest flashes in
• 53:24
  the pan right now in cam ward,
• 53:26
  who I think personally has all the skills
• 53:30
  to be great.
• 53:31
  I hope you gave him the weapons,
• 53:32
  but that's a team issue.
• 53:35
  You could address so many things with him.
• 53:38
  And I don't know if the Titans are
• 53:40
  aware of this, you know,
• 53:41
  who drives a ton of their fan base
• 53:45
  kids.
• 53:46
  make players available to,
• 53:48
  I shouldn't say make offer players to be
• 53:51
  available to kids and watch a parent drop
• 53:54
  the money to see a smile on the
• 53:55
  kid's face.
• 53:55
  Oh yeah.
• 53:56
  And it doesn't have to be the top
• 53:58
  tier guy.
• 53:59
  It's the guy who is in Titans gear.
• 54:02
  Let me get a picture of someone open
• 54:05
  that up.
• 54:06
  You can even do it VIP-based stuff.
• 54:08
  But I don't think that's just based in
• 54:09
  Titans.
• 54:10
  I think that's the NFL.
• 54:11
  No,
• 54:12
  it's based on whoever's struggling right
• 54:14
  now.
• 54:15
  Because who's not having that problem are
• 54:19
  the teams that are sitting here at nine
• 54:20
  and three,
• 54:21
  or actually I think it's week eleven.
• 54:23
  So ten and one, that kind of stuff,
• 54:25
  those teams aren't struggling.
• 54:27
  You watched the Dallas Cowboys come back.
• 54:29
  Twenty one points on Philadelphia last
• 54:30
  week, which, by the way,
• 54:31
  was a phenomenal game.
• 54:33
  That fan base,
• 54:34
  none of them are going to have to
• 54:35
  worry.
• 54:35
  Look, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
• 54:37
  Here's the thing.
• 54:37
  They're missing their point, though,
• 54:39
  on what they could offer.
• 54:40
  The the.
• 54:43
  The sport is always going to have fans.
• 54:45
  Yes.
• 54:46
  Right.
• 54:47
  Baseball is always going to have fans.
• 54:49
  Football is always going to have fans.
• 54:50
  People are going to want the competitive
• 54:52
  side.
• 54:53
  You have that segment for sure.
• 54:55
  But but if you can drive the experience
• 54:59
  and it's what Jesse Cole was talking about
• 55:01
  in his interview,
• 55:03
  if you can drive the experience and have.
• 55:08
  There's no competition at Disney.
• 55:11
  You're right.
• 55:13
  Right.
• 55:13
  There's not a win loss in Disney.
• 55:15
  Right.
• 55:16
  But yet people will pay ten thousand
• 55:18
  dollars to go down there for five days.
• 55:23
  You're going to have fans that want to
• 55:24
  show up because it is a sport.
• 55:27
  Why not make it appealing to everyone and
• 55:29
  make that experience grow?
• 55:31
  And then those weekends when nobody is
• 55:34
  there, because here's the problem.
• 55:36
  You're getting ready to go into December
• 55:38
  in the NFL.
• 55:39
  If you've got a team that's one and
• 55:41
  ten, two and nine, whatever,
• 55:43
  you know what experience I have?
• 55:45
  A warm couch and cold beverages that are
• 55:47
  about to.
• 55:48
  where i can watch all the games at
• 55:49
  the same right i'm like so you better
• 55:52
  amp it up as far as just the
• 55:54
  the sport side of it i wouldn't go
• 55:56
  to an nfl game i'm sorry i'm sorry
• 55:59
  man no here's where i'm gonna disagree
• 56:01
  with you there those dudes when you watch
• 56:04
  someone that big become that athletic
• 56:06
  because you can never compensate for speed
• 56:10
  on the camera and it is magical to
• 56:13
  be part of that and see it's amazing
• 56:15
  I agree with you wholeheartedly.
• 56:17
  I don't think you're ever going to get
• 56:19
  rid of in person.
• 56:21
  Oh, you won't.
• 56:21
  But I'm saying you could make that a
• 56:23
  lot better and get through these slumps a
• 56:25
  lot easier.
• 56:26
  If there was things that were different,
• 56:29
  we could definitely make a big,
• 56:32
  big impact.
• 56:33
  That does, like, really spark some, like,
• 56:36
  what would Jesse Cole do with the NFL?
• 56:38
  I'd put that man in a room and
• 56:40
  take notes and change everything you can.
• 56:42
  Look, it's on the internet right now.
• 56:43
  I know.
• 56:44
  They can look it up.
• 56:45
  Because he tells them exactly what he
• 56:47
  would do.
• 56:49
  And it begins with the fan experience.
• 56:52
  I love it.
• 56:53
  You been to a Preds game?
• 56:56
  The Preds games are amazing.
• 56:57
  The moment you walk in the door,
• 56:58
  it's entertainment.
• 56:59
  Every time.
• 57:01
  I've been enough to see them lose.
• 57:03
  I've been enough to see them win.
• 57:04
  And you see it every time.
• 57:06
  It's still fun.
• 57:07
  It's always fun, even when they're bad.
• 57:08
  Short time,
• 57:09
  and I'm going to throw out this week's
• 57:11
  Mac or Beans.
• 57:13
  It is Thanksgiving.
• 57:15
  Thanksgiving ham or Thanksgiving turkey?
• 57:18
  I'm a turkey guy.
• 57:20
  I love ham, don't get me wrong.
• 57:22
  But ham, to me, is more Christmas.
• 57:24
  Sure.
• 57:26
  Same.
• 57:27
  That's fine.
• 57:27
  Okay, I am too.
• 57:27
  He said that's fine.
• 57:28
  Now, the other side of that,
• 57:33
  my side of mac and beans for you
• 57:34
  was smoked or fried turkey.
• 57:38
  Oh, man.
• 57:41
  I am still partial to the fried turkey.
• 57:44
  However,
• 57:46
  I will say I have smoked my own
• 57:49
  before.
• 57:50
  And if I can get folks to come
• 57:52
  around,
• 57:52
  here's the step that has to happen for
• 57:54
  that.
• 57:55
  You've got to brine.
• 57:56
  If you're trying to go straight from and
• 57:58
  inject and rut, no, you've got to brine.
• 58:00
  Give it that two-day soak,
• 58:01
  let it do its thing,
• 58:03
  and you'll be good to go.
• 58:05
  Are you ready for a Friday feel-good, man?
• 58:06
  Yes, sir.
• 58:07
  I am.
• 58:08
  back from what we said earlier and and
• 58:10
  what I've like I said I've been chewing
• 58:12
  on this one for a while about patience
• 58:15
  and that being what I was thankful for
• 58:18
  don't confuse patience with lack of doing
• 58:24
  They are not one in the same.
• 58:25
  Patience enables you to be calm.
• 58:28
  It is a deliberate response to challenges
• 58:32
  that allow for a pause between trigger and
• 58:35
  reaction.
• 58:36
  Make sure you're being patient and not
• 58:39
  being lazy.
• 58:40
  Y'all know what to do.
• 58:41
  Find somebody, you know,
• 58:41
  tell them you love them.
• 58:42
  Happy Thanksgiving.
• 58:43
  Dropping bars today.
• 58:45
  I'm telling you, man,
• 58:46
  you've been on fire all day.
• 58:47
  I've been, I've been trying.
• 58:50
  Can you try every time?
• 58:51
  Yeah.
• 59:02
  we love you i'm totally serious uh look
• 59:04
  guys we appreciate you joining us for this
• 59:06
  special edition of singletree nation
• 59:09
  thanksgiving episode
• 59:11
  uh i'm not sure we talked a lot
• 59:13
  about thanksgiving but uh we definitely
• 59:15
  solved the titans problems so i think we
• 59:19
  encompassed everything for this weekend
• 59:21
  except for black friday shopping yeah do
• 59:23
  your shopping online avoid the crowds and
• 59:25
  uh saturday shop local saturday so shop
• 59:28
  local he said it yes if you're listening
• 59:30
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• 59:32
  Go to Singletree BBQ on Saturday and eat.
• 59:35
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• 59:36
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• 59:37
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• 59:37
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• 59:41
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• 59:42
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• 59:44
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• 59:45
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• 59:48
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• 59:50
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• 59:52
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• 59:54
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• 59:56
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• 59:57
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• 59:58
  Like, share, subscribe.
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• 59:59
  And until next time, we'll see you then.
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• 1:00:01
  Bye bye.
• 1:00:02
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