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Launch Day! Buckeye Insiders Is About To Go Live! · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, July eighth. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Tom Olworthy ball State game in fifty nine days,
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Speaker 1: the menu and make a reservation. Today. All right, we
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Speaker 1: are going to add one more date to that countdown
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Speaker 1: that we start the show with the website Buckeyeinsiders dot com.
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Speaker 1: It is going to be launching today Wednesday, July eighth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, at noon Eastern, give or take. When
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Speaker 1: you hear the tornado siren, that will be your signal
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Speaker 1: to go to their computer, race to the computer and
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Speaker 1: sign up at Buckeye Insiders dot com. Today I'm joined
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Speaker 1: by Tony Gerdaman coincidentally of Buckeye Insiders dot com. Tony,
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Speaker 1: it has been a minute. We've been working on this
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Speaker 1: for a little while. Hellelujah, the day is here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and thank you to the state of Ohio for
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Speaker 2: honoring the launch with the sirens. It was that was
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Speaker 2: the most difficult thing to coordinate, you know, just that
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Speaker 2: amount of eighty eight counties. That's a lot all of
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Speaker 2: the towns in those counties. But thank you to first responders.
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Speaker 1: And the sirens and the fireworks over the weekend were
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Speaker 1: a nice touch. Were like, you hold it for Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: They said, no, we'll have the sirens the fireworks. Wait
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Speaker 1: happened the weekend before. We said, fair enough, that's fine.
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Speaker 1: We're in a celebratory mood too. And I guess let's
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Speaker 1: start with who all is going to be part of
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Speaker 1: Buckeye Insiders dot com. Because it is you, it is me.
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Speaker 1: But we have a really really fun group and some
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Speaker 1: folks that I think a lot of people are going
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Speaker 1: to know and who I think mostly love.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and certainly some people that you do know.
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Speaker 2: For the people who are familiar with the x's and o's,
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Speaker 2: you'll know Ross Fulton. He is back with us. Ross
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Speaker 2: Fulton knows doing the x's and o's, breaking things down
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Speaker 2: with Tom Allat on the Buckeye Tomorrow Morning podcast, doing this,
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Speaker 2: doing the breakdowns, video breakdowns of opponents and future oponents,
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Speaker 2: past opponents, and things like that. He's not the only
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Speaker 2: x's and o's scheme insider we're calling them. That's Michael Pettitt.
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Speaker 2: He's been around, we've worked with him before, and he
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Speaker 2: should be familiar to most of you as well. He
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Speaker 2: does a lot of similar things, breaking things down, making us,
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Speaker 2: as Tom says, a smarter football person, smarter football fan.
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Speaker 2: Those two guys are gonna set the level for what
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Speaker 2: we want to do in the x's and o's and
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Speaker 2: scheme and making people smarter. Juck Maletty, it will be
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Speaker 2: our recruiting insider. You guys know him from previous stops
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Speaker 2: and he's he's been doing YouTube for a while and
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Speaker 2: has built up a very large following. Talks with recruits,
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Speaker 2: talks with parents, talks with coaches, and he can talk
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Speaker 2: and he's going to be around constantly. He and I
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Speaker 2: started a podcast recently called The Time and Change Will
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Speaker 2: Shirley Show where we discussed the past, present, and future
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Speaker 2: of Ohio State football and various different topics. So he's around. Tom.
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Speaker 2: One of our oldest friends, Marcus Hartman from such places
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Speaker 2: as Buckeye Sports bulletin the Dayton Daily News. He will
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Speaker 2: be with us. He will be our basketball insider, covering
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Speaker 2: men's and women's basketball and certainly football as well. And
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Speaker 2: he's always got some strong opinions and he's informed, and
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Speaker 2: he is we've traveled with him, we've never gotten to
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Speaker 2: work with them, although I consider a lot of us
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Speaker 2: on the beach kind of co workers by proxy, but
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Speaker 2: going to be good to finally get to work with
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Speaker 2: Marcus on a regular basis.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of the staffing decisions that we made
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Speaker 1: were made based on conversations we've had with members of
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Speaker 1: other sites that we've worked at, people who we just
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Speaker 1: interact with on YouTube, been in on social media, where
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Speaker 1: it's like, you know, we're not doing this for us,
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Speaker 1: we're doing this for you. What do you want? What
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Speaker 1: are you looking for out of a website? And we
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Speaker 1: got a lot of positive feedback on the on the
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Speaker 1: recruiting stuff, obviously, and Juck does a phenomenal job with that.
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Speaker 1: He has a really really dedicated following on YouTube already,
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Speaker 1: and this is the first time he's been a part
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Speaker 1: of a site like this in terms of being like
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Speaker 1: a real, like main core writer. So we think he's
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Speaker 1: going to be doing a phenomenal job on that front.
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Speaker 1: But the scheme stuff, we get a lot of positive
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Speaker 1: feedback on that on YouTube, and there are always questions
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Speaker 1: thereways people asking questions in the YouTube comments and you
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Speaker 1: can have some comments some conversation there, but a lot
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Speaker 1: of that is much better is just let's have a
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Speaker 1: scheme chat day when our two scheme insiders will be
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Speaker 1: there and you want to ask questions, They'll answer your questions.
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Speaker 1: You want to ask follow up questions. To answer your
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Speaker 1: follow up questions, they'll have you and we can have
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Speaker 1: shows that tie in with all those kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: We got all sorts of fun stuff planned with those
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Speaker 1: two guys, incorporating them a little more into pre and
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Speaker 1: postgame coverage this fall. There's a lot of stuff coming
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Speaker 1: on that front. And then basketball. We constantly have people
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Speaker 1: saying why don't you cover more basketball? Why why do
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Speaker 1: you not? And the answer is because football is a
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Speaker 1: kind of full time, all consuming, three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: five day a year thing in Columbus, Ohio, and so
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Speaker 1: that chews up a lot of time and we just
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Speaker 1: frankly find ourselves not getting over to basketball stuff quite
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Speaker 1: as often as we'd like to, And so we said,
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Speaker 1: you know, we wanted to work with Marcus. Marcus covers
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Speaker 1: basketball quite a bit, and we said, you know, we
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Speaker 1: might be able to solve two things at once here
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Speaker 1: and we could maybe make this work. And we were
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Speaker 1: delighted to have him say yes to that. And we
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Speaker 1: have I think you and I and he have already
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Speaker 1: been over for three basketball practices and another media availability,
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Speaker 1: and so we've already covered more basketball this year than
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Speaker 1: we did for the vast majority of last year. So
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Speaker 1: and this is also looking like it's going to be
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Speaker 1: a really really interesting basketball team where you've got to
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Speaker 1: murray buying them back. You've got John Mobley back, you
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Speaker 1: brought in some intriguing transfers, You've brought in a couple
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Speaker 1: five star freshmen. It's like, baby, you may have a
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Speaker 1: Stugo in there. So that's going to be potentially a
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Speaker 1: really really interesting uh season for the for the for
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Speaker 1: the men's basketball team, women's basketball team as well, And
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Speaker 1: we're going to have much much deeper coverage there. But
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Speaker 1: you know, that's that's kind of the coverage side of things.
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Speaker 1: But I think one of the things that we have
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Speaker 1: found over the years is really the heart of all
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Speaker 1: of these sites is the community. And we had a
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Speaker 1: lot of people at our last stop who were talking
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Speaker 1: about the fact that, you know, the boy it was
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Speaker 1: it was a really fun community and it was and
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Speaker 1: it was something people really just enjoyed being a part
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Speaker 1: of and people were respectful and it was and we're
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Speaker 1: trying to take that and we're trying to do way
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Speaker 1: more of that kind of community building and community sort
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Speaker 1: of focus at this new site.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, very much so. And I think for the people
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Speaker 2: that were with us, they saw the work that we
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Speaker 2: put in with the community and being there on a
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Speaker 2: daily basis and the interaction and the feedback, and you
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Speaker 2: just you become friends with all of these different people,
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Speaker 2: and it's something that it's a rewarding thing for one thing,
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Speaker 2: but also you also want to reward people for being
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Speaker 2: around it. And we've got various different plans that we
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Speaker 2: want to do, whether it's you know, giveaways, contest things
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Speaker 2: like that where we're just thanks, thanks for being with us,
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Speaker 2: thanks for entrusting us, thanks for hanging out, Thanks for
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Speaker 2: making my day a little bit easier. Like two thirty man,
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to like I'm falling asleep at my desk
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Speaker 2: and if there's somebody there on the message board to
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Speaker 2: talk to, that's great and I appreciate that. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think the community aspect and I thought we did
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Speaker 2: a really really good job. We had and I'm not
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Speaker 2: just saying me and you like we the community did
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Speaker 2: a really good job of maintaining decorum and a turbulent
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Speaker 2: time known as a college football season and also as
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Speaker 2: a college football off season and as a signing day
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Speaker 2: where there's many reasons to be upset. But I think
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Speaker 2: for the most part, things went pretty well and that's
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Speaker 2: a good baseline. But then, like you said, we want
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Speaker 2: to improve upon that, and I think we will.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you can sort of take that online community
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Speaker 1: and turn it into a real life community, and that's
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Speaker 1: something that we found over the years quite a bit
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Speaker 1: where we'll go travel. When we were at Big ten
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Speaker 1: Media Days last year out Las Vegas, we had member
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Speaker 1: had dinner with a member when we were flying back
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Speaker 1: from Oregon. We had in twenty twenty four, we had
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Speaker 1: a member come up to us at the airport. It
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, let's go grab lunch. Let's sure,
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Speaker 1: why not, and we have we had lunch with a
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Speaker 1: member out in Washington last year. Like, but what we
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Speaker 1: want to do is we want to do way more
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Speaker 1: of that stuff. And that's one of the things that
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Speaker 1: we're really trying to incorporate here is more live events
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Speaker 1: and sort of trying to be intentional with that and
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Speaker 1: what does that look like? And the answer is, well,
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Speaker 1: that's kind of up to you, because one of the
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Speaker 1: things we're gonna be asking our members to do that
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Speaker 1: this first week. This is a little bit of an
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Speaker 1: incentive to sign up during this first week is fill
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Speaker 1: out a survey like what do you want? Like, again,
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Speaker 1: this is not for us, This is not a website
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Speaker 1: for us. This is a website for you. So you
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Speaker 1: want to tell us, Hey, I want you to cover
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Speaker 1: more women's hockey. Okay, well that's fine. If enough people
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Speaker 1: want us to cover more women's hockey, I'm all for
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Speaker 1: covering more women's hockey. You want us to cover more
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Speaker 1: baseball or softball? Like, yeah, sure, great, Like tell us
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Speaker 1: what you want, we'll cover more of it. But also,
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Speaker 1: what do you want to do? Do you guys want
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Speaker 1: to go have a tailgate party before certain home games
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Speaker 1: this year and the lot next to the stadium, you know,
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Speaker 1: guess what we can probably do that. You want to
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Speaker 1: have a get together at one of the away games
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Speaker 1: this year, great, like tell us which way games you'll
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Speaker 1: be at and we'll do that. What do you what
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Speaker 1: kind of prizes do you want? What do you what
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Speaker 1: kind of this? The whole theme here is community and
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Speaker 1: continuing to build that community, because one of the things
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Speaker 1: that I've noticed is when you know people in real life,
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Speaker 1: you're a lot more civil to them online. That's one
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Speaker 1: of those things where we as a society, and we're
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Speaker 1: not going to solve all of society's ills here at
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Speaker 1: this website, but maybe some of them.
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Speaker 2: You can.
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Speaker 1: You can be just looking at your phone and yelling
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Speaker 1: at people online, and that's certainly one way to go
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Speaker 1: through life. But you can, you know, make friends online
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Speaker 1: and then meet them in real life and do fun
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Speaker 1: stuff with them and enjoy shared experiences like Hey, you're
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Speaker 1: an Ohio State football fan. I'm an Ohio State football fan.
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Speaker 2: Hooray.
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Speaker 1: Let's go experience an Ohio State football game together, or
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Speaker 1: a tailgate party, or go to top golf or go to
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Speaker 1: a Toledo Mudhens game. I don't care again, you tell
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Speaker 1: us what do you want to do? You tell us
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Speaker 1: and we can. We can and make a lot of
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Speaker 1: that stuff happen. So that's all going to be part
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Speaker 1: of a process. We have a lot of different ideas,
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Speaker 1: but I think right now we are very much in
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Speaker 1: a listening mode. A you tell us what you want
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Speaker 1: to do, and we can probably make it happen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. What I don't want to do is do a
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Speaker 2: bunch of stuff that I think people want and they don't.
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Speaker 2: You know, That's that's kind of some waste and effort.
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Speaker 1: So if no, don't vote for Tony's clarinet concert, no
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Speaker 1: matter how hard he tries to push you into it.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's how I was going to solve one of
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Speaker 2: society's ills. But now you've already said no to that.
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Speaker 2: But you know what, just hear me. Just play the
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Speaker 2: demo tape. Would you just listen to it and see
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Speaker 2: if that changes your mind.
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Speaker 1: His album is called Never Had One Lesson.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, the community all of that, Yes, let us know
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Speaker 2: what you want, because frankly, I want to know in
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Speaker 2: terms of where should we put our resources. That's one
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Speaker 2: of the main things is where should the resources go?
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Speaker 2: How much focus should we be doing on something or
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Speaker 2: like I had never thought of this, This is a
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Speaker 2: great idea. How do other people feel about it? This
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Speaker 2: is your opportunity to complain to the manager before you've
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Speaker 2: even gotten served, basically, and don't you want to do that?
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Speaker 2: And again? And then you know, we're talking about all
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Speaker 2: of these different things that people can do. We're fine
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Speaker 2: with the introverts as well. If you just want to read,
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Speaker 2: if you just want to listen and watch and you know, lurk,
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Speaker 2: that's all fine as well. But I think as you
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Speaker 2: go there's the interaction is always great, whether it's just
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Speaker 2: online or it's in person, or it's however, we're willing
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Speaker 2: to meet you wherever, figuratively but sometimes also literally.
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Speaker 1: And if you would like to be a part of
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Speaker 1: this site, we would love to have you there. Membership
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Speaker 1: eleven ninety nine per month. If you want to do
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Speaker 1: the monthly right month, try out for month, try out
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Speaker 1: for a month, like we think you're probably gonna enjoy it.
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Speaker 1: And that first month is going to include big ten
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Speaker 1: media days. We're going to try and do some kind
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Speaker 1: of an in person event in that first month as well.
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Speaker 1: And then if you want to sign up for an
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Speaker 1: annual subscription, you kind of know us already you know
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Speaker 1: what you're getting, and you'd say, I'm in for a year.
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Speaker 1: That's one nineteen ninety nine a year, and so you
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Speaker 1: can do the math that's you get two months free
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Speaker 1: just by signing up for the annual membership instead of
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Speaker 1: the annual instead of the monthly. So anything else before
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Speaker 1: we wrap things up and people start setting their countdowns, like,
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Speaker 1: go ahead, set your watch just in case you don't
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Speaker 1: hear the siren. Set an alarm on your phone for
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Speaker 1: like like eleven fifty eight, so that you know, if
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Speaker 1: you are one of those people that really wants to
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Speaker 1: complain to the manager, you can get in line early
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Speaker 1: enough and get the user named Karen like it may
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Speaker 1: that is a possibility that you can still get that
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Speaker 1: that is still available the last time I checked. So
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Speaker 1: anything else that you want to add.
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Speaker 2: I would say, this is a launch, and sometimes there
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Speaker 2: can be issues with a bunch of people coming in
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Speaker 2: all at once, so please please be patient. Don't don't
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Speaker 2: start with aggression, just maybe start with understanding that eventually
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Speaker 2: leads to aggression. But I'll say things should be fine,
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Speaker 2: but bear with us if they're not. We're all excited
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Speaker 2: about this and we want to make it right. And
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Speaker 2: so if if there are some hiccups along the way,
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Speaker 2: please you know, we know that we're going to try
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Speaker 2: to make it right. We're gonna do everything we can
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Speaker 2: to do that because we're going to have all of
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Speaker 2: the hands behind the scenes are going to be on
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Speaker 2: deck waiting to go.
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Speaker 1: And if you have any issues, you can email Tom
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Speaker 1: at Buckeye Insiders dot com or Tony at Buckeye Insiders
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Speaker 1: dot com. Just shoot us an email. We will help
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Speaker 1: walk you through whatever whatever the issue is. If you
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Speaker 1: have questions, we're happy to answer questions. You name it,
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Speaker 1: We're there. We're there for you. We'll be there for
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Speaker 1: you at Buckeye Insiders dot com starting Wednesday at noon.
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Speaker 1: That will do it for today. Thank you guys all
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Speaker 1: for joining us. Have a great day. We'll see you
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Speaker 1: on the website and then we'll see you tomorrow,