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Brandon Tritt's College Football Tour Part 2 · Tigs Bits Podcast

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Welcome to season 2. Mm thick, spins on the show this
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week, Brandon trip and I are going to discuss the completion
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of his remarkable college football Journey.
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If you listen to the last episode of you heard, Brandon
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talk about his experiences at the big house in Michigan
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Neyland Stadium. In Knoxville Tennessee, Happy
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Valley at Penn State and of course, death Valley at LSU.
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And when we last visited with him, we were basically at the
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halfway point of the journey, he still had visits to the
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University of Texas, the University of Oregon and the
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Ohio State left in the journey. And and from what I've heard,
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what I've heard, he actually even ended up at the SEC
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Championship with Georgia and LSU.
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So, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Show mr.
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Brandon Tritt branded. Thanks so much for coming, back
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onto Tigs B. How have you been since we last
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spoke? You know, it's been a wild
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Journey, these last few months have been going nonstop.
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Not, you know, I have to the football games.
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I've been doing a lot of traveling and I'm, I'm still
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traveling right now. So, do I know when we last
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talked? We kind of wrapped it up.
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I think that very next week, you were heading to the Texas TCU
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game if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, that's right.
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I went to Austin that weekend. I think I decided to go that
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game about three to four weeks prior.
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You know, I was looking at the lineup for games that week and I
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saw that when I'm like, you know what, I think that's going to be
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a big one, dude, how was that game?
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I mean, if I know the final score 9:43, but, TCU, was up,
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like, what 17 to 34 for most of the game.
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If I remember right? Honestly, males hard to watch
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because I was always pulling for Texas.
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There's a lot of people around me that were very happy.
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Oh, I can only imagine because it looked pretty bleak the the
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whole game, of course, Texas made a little comeback with what
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45 minutes left in the game to make it interesting.
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But the, but I agree the score score really didn't didn't
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indicate how poorly they played throughout the game and it was,
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it was ugly. Their defense played well, yeah,
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I mean, you got to give them that they holding TCU 217
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points. Was pretty pretty tough to do
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this season until they until they met Georgia.
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But yeah, it was a cold, cold weekend, an awesome.
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When I got there on Friday it was raining and it was around 40
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degrees and when I got to my apartment that the place I was
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saying it was like probably a half, a mile to a mile north of
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the stadium and I really wanted to get a video my drone flying
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over the stadium. But I was looking at the weather
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conditions. I'm like, man, this might not be
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a great idea because it was windy but I threw it up there
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anyway. And I I got a decent video.
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You can see all of those pictures and things on Tigs
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B.com, you can check it out. Tigs B.com brand new website for
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season 2. But you know, it's just for fun
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for me. I'm not trying to monetize any
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of that. I'm just having a good time.
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That's an understatement man. No doubt, I'm having a good
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time. Just watching you and and
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imagining being a 30 year old Tigs once again, because I know
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where I was at and I don't think the world could have handled me
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traveling. And going on to college football
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tour, things would have ended much differently than it is with
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me talking to you me. So all these videos that I take
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it, you know, football games, Instagram has this thing called
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story highlights and I prayed it like a college football story
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highlight and I find myself going through those and Watching
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them pretty often. You know it's just I really like
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reliving that sess and you know seeing those atmospheres and the
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band's. It's just what I love college
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football. You know.
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Absolutely. All of the pageantry the pump,
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the circumstance, all of that stuff is that's what makes
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college football, what it is, and what makes it so?
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So fun. What would you say?
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Are some unique things that you found at Texas.
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You know, something that's a little bit.
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It unusual that we if you remember, we going to Knoxville,
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we've gone to Michigan. We've gone to Penn State.
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We've gone to LSU. Now we're are in Austin.
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What's something? That's different that you run
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into there that you hadn't seen yet at any of the other place,
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there's a few things for one. Texas has like a carnival set up
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outside their Stadium. They have like a ferris wheel
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slides. I've never seen anything like
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it. It's right outside the stadium
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and then they also had a concert right before the game outside
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the stadium. It was a Third Eye Blind
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concert. Oh really?
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Yeah. And that's all for it.
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Was honestly, the concerts are like two hours before the game
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and it was right outside of the stadium.
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Cool. The tailgating is very different
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there I got. So as I was walking, you know,
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it's a game day in the mornings. I was Your campus and they had
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all these tents set up and they had names by each tent and they
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were all like tell Gates that were run by businesses.
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So it had a very corporate Fuel and and they don't get it, they
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don't get started very early for tailgating it's not like an LSU
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in the the Sun, the sun's up. There's people at LSU there, are
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they're out there. They're out there, they're out
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there already out there right now.
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I think, I think I send you this picture, but I'm one of the
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tents that I passed the Name of the tailgate was future SEC
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Champions. That's good for now.
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Like when was the last time you guys won the Big 12?
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I think it's been a while. Yeah, good luck coming into the
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SEC and all of a sudden winning that one, I did get invited to a
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tailgate and I showed up there around 1:00 and they were just
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setting up. So, I got there a little early.
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Yeah, I figured one clock was a good time, but thank you.
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Would think what I mean I'm I am.
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I'm absolutely. I get blasted if I am, not at
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the tailgate, if I'm there at 10:00, I'm already way way way
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too late. I mean, there they get on the
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microphone to let, everybody know that Tigs just showed up
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and then if it's at 1:00, I think I would be kicked out of
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the cage and tiger tailgate party.
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They would not allow me. You can't show up.
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I have to prequalify the week before the time that I'm going
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to be there, I have to tell them.
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Look, I'm I got a soccer game - Next Saturday, I'm not going to
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be there till about 11:00. You better be here at 11:00.
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You better be here at 11:00 because they're out there
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freaking 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning.
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So, yeah, 1:00 a.m. Yeah, I can't.
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I don't compute that. That doesn't make sense, 1:00
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your five and a half hours before kickoff, man.
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What are they doing? Eventually the tailgate got
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going around, 3:00 or so and it ended up being a good time.
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They had some really good food there.
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Honestly, I had some of the best chicken wings ever had in my
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life there. I am a I'm a chicken wing nut,
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dude, like, but I'm probably going to do a whole podcast on
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chicken wings. Some point in time.
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Honestly, I'm not really a chicken wing nut.
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So what we got to stop for a second, I gotta know what?
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What made? What made those chicken wings,
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so good. What was up with them?
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Well, so they're just very juicy than need any sauce whatsoever.
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It kind of tasted like, they were grind, maybe.
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Okay, yeah, guaranteed. And they were, they have lemon
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pepper, seasoning. Sitting on them.
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I love lemon pepper, man. They're really bad.
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You know the next time you guys play there I can send you to
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that tailgate. Yeah, one of the guys that runs
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that he does, a lot of the cooking exams, I haven't.
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He's a great guy. Yeah.
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Actually he took me over to his friends.
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Yeah. Like a big, huge new truck as
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used in barbecue competitions. It was like right across the
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law. Oh, he took me in there and he
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gave me a little tour of that. That was really cool.
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Just a bummer of a game for UT, which I mean, I'm gonna be
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honest with you. And then that were my feelings
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one bit at all. But but I know it's it has to be
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a lot more fun on this journey. I think it would be safe to say
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it's more fun to see the home team.
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Yeah yeah the fans are the fans are more fun to be around.
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Think that was my first time ever going to game day because
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when I was in college at FSU, you know, we had Gameday there
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several times, but I was always out partying the Friday night
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before. Or I never, I never cared to get
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up early enough to go, but game day was a lot of fun.
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You know, they had the Texas pan there and I'll say I think of
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all the places I've been, I think Texas man is my favorite
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man. They're good band.
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I like their fight song a lot as well.
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Yeah, they I do too. I do too.
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I mean, I'm going to hate on Texas because we've got a little
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bit of a. We have a natural rivalry to
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begin with and then and it's gonna get real quick and we
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already have some We already have had some battles over the
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years but but no, they're up. They're writing their text is
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man. There's a, I respect them and
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I've never been to a game in Austin.
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Of course, I've seen the stadium.
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I think I said that on our own, our last show.
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Would you think about the stadium?
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I know they've done a lot of renovations to it.
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So, so the stadium was very nice.
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It was definitely, definitely had the nicest, big screen that
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I've seen. It was just huge.
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Another thing that I noticed was the speaker system was by far,
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the loudest side seen anywhere. Are like a zombie.
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Where hurts your ears? They turn that sucker up all the
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way because I don't have crowd noise.
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Sorry. But it's true, they really
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don't. It's not.
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I mean it's not as not as loud from what I've heard.
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It's not as loud as other stadiums.
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Yeah, well one thing that was a little disappointing, was the
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end zone that has the the longhorn know what I'm talking
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about. Yeah.
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Yeah we could tunnel. Yeah, it's End Zone where they
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have the big screen but anyway they sell like a lot of sweets
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and Right up there. So I guess people have the
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option to, you know, hang out in the club or they can go their
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seat. So there is a being a lot of
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empty seats during the game. The people are inside and, you
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know, drinking or whatever, makes it not look full.
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That's disappointing, you know, for a big time game to see
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another thing that's unique about Texas, they sell liquor
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inside the stadium. Yeah, LSU doesn't settle it.
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You have to go in the sweets. They sell liquor in the Suites
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and in the clubs, but they don't at the vendors just sell, ya
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won't beer and you can get anything you want at Texas, you
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know? Just yeah.
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Regular Mission. Another thing that was unique
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was in the concourses. They have like, DJ's that play
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music. There's like, little little
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party out there and see it your signature that's different.
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I can see it, but I can see that being kind of cool.
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I and II, I'd like LSU to do that.
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Honestly, be kind of fun to just keep the keep the crowd hype
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like little, like, they needed more butter.
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By the way, have you ever seen the movie my All-American?
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I have. Oh, yeah.
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So I watched that movie a few years ago and I liked it a lot.
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And at the tailgate, I met this older man, that graduate from
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Texas and either the late 60s or the early 70s, and he actually
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went to school with Freddie Steinmark and it was just a
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really cool me and a guy like that, because he's been, he's
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traveled all over to go to Texas games.
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He was telling me about Texas, Arkansas game of the century.
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It's just really cool, you know, hearing hearing stories.
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He's from a guy like that, he's been to so many games over the
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years. What blows my mind is who you
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run into at college football games, one of the guys that I
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met the tailgate, he he took me into the Alumni Center as we
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before we went to the concert and when I was in there, this
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guy it's all myfsu hat. He came up to me, he showed me a
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picture of him playing golf with Nora belle-isle.
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I think this guy was a big Texas booster, but he told me that his
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best friend is a big FSU, booster and they play golf
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anymore. Also, that was pretty cool
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seeing that I was standing on this bridge and start walked
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right past me, by the way, did you see that video of him?
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I going off on that guy. That was that put his hand on
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them. Oh, I did see that.
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Yes, ideas crazy idea. The guy was just doing his job,
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just trying to, you know, hold them back.
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Well you know I mean hey I guess at least he's not drinking again
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but anyhow, that's a whole nother.
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I know. I don't want to get into that.
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I'll mess with Texas for for eternity and it looks like I'm
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going to get to, so I'm pumped about it.
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All right, so we leave Texas, Texas was fun.
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Where do we? Where do we go?
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Where do we go? Okay, so the next stop is Eugene
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for Oregon versus Utah. That was the the toughest place
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for me to get to from from South Florida.
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I had to fly to LA and then from there, I flied flew to Portland.
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And then from Portland, I got on the Amtrak and headed down south
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of Eugene. That was like an all-day travel.
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Then we you had said, you said in there in the in the last
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podcast that you you were going to have to what catch two
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flights or two trains or into his going to you, his Planes
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Trains and Automobiles basically, to just to get to U
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GF B, outlay than the flight to Portland and the Amtrak to
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Eugene. But it was fun, man.
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I enjoyed it. That was my I think that was my
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first time on an Amtrak train and it was pretty nice.
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I definitely do it again. That would be a pretty neat
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experience. So, how long was your training?
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I think it took about an hour and a half to two hours, that's
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not bad. I send you a picture of the
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place that I was saying and Eugene and I know you sent me a
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picture of your drone shot, which is, well, absolutely.
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That's one of my favorites got up for the sunrise and, you
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know, just the natural beauty behind the stadium, man.
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It is so beautiful. It's so green.
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It's just so so many beautiful green.
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I guess. They're evergreen trees and it's
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just so it's so beautiful. It really, really is and to see,
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I mean, I think it's, I think it's just a brilliant idea to
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get that drone shot, and it's even more remarkable that you're
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up that early. Because, as I said, you know, I
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mean, there's a lot of fun festivities travel lag.
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There's a lot of stuff. It would make it easy to skip,
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getting up at six in the morning, just to get that shot.
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But dude, it's worth it. I've never regretted getting up
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early, whether it's for, you know, why my drawing her Just
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going on different Adventure. I've never read it man.
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It's always been worth it play style Santa and Eugene is pretty
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funny because it was like little apartment right on top of a
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convenient store, like Mini Mart type place.
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So, you know, I didn't have to go very far for beer, which was
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nice. That's good.
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That's right. How are something to eat?
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Probably either is a One-Stop shop baby.
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But yeah, it was right on campus to, which is cool.
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And the campus, from what I saw was really pretty Is the stadium
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is their Stadium right? On the heart of Campus like like
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LSU's is. I know that Texas is is their
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Stadium right in the middle of the there's a up is a bit unique
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so they have the the Willamette River that runs through Eugene
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and south of the river. That's where the campus is and
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then just north of the river. They have all their athletic
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facilities and they have this pedestrian bridge that you walk
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across over the river and its really pretty.
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So everybody just wants from campus.
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Over the bridge to the stadium but so neat.
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I love that's it. That's one of the fun things
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about doing. This is seeing I would think
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would be seeing all of the unique ways that fans get to the
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stadium students get to the, you know, the campus and just
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because every place is different.
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And every place is is unique. I know there are a lot of
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similarities, I'm sure that you obscene throughout all of these,
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but I'm sure there's a lot of big, you know, a lot of big
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differences to little little things that differentiate.
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Schools from other places and then I'll get the game Oregon
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and Utah. I mean that's a of course or get
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what it organized. Just was it organ that it lost
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yet? Organ and lost the week.
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Prior to you going, because they were in the, they were in the
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top five, weren't they broke before they lost it, may been
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like between five and ten or something, but yeah.
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They, they lost to Washington and what?
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What looked like a an instant classic.
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Yeah, yeah. Alright.
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You get stuck in that score pretty often when I was at Texas
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and I was this point when they lost Lost.
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But it was still, you know, Big Time game.
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Eugene. It was a big time game.
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I watched it. Heck of a heck of a ballgame.
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It was a lot lower scoring. A lot lower scoring than I
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thought it was going to be. I thought that game was going to
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turn. I thought it was going to be a
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shootout and it was. Yeah, fairly low-scoring
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ballgame. Was it 22?
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Yeah meeting. I think.
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So like that. Yeah, that was, that was the
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coldest game. I've been to.
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That was cold. I was going to ask, how was, how
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was the weather? In the high 20s during the game.
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But who no thanks this. That was it was really cold,
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man. Like I could have used another
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layer for sure. Yeah man I think the coldest
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game I ever went to was at Notre.
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Dame LSU played Notre Dame back in the late 90s and it was 30 to
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33 degrees that day for the high which is not not.
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That's nothing for those folks but I was Cold.
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Yeah, Ward, a full-on jumpsuit thermal underwear, and that
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stuff, and they made fun of all the LSU people up there.
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I'll never forget that. So, I'm glad we stole their
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coach, and I don't want to get up to narrow down the next time
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in oils play up there because that's obviously like got to be
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near the top of every college football bucket list.
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I mean, it is for sure, you know, I'm glad that I went very
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fortunate LSU lost that A in a close game.
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They should have want honest honestly but it was really cool
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Nor today. Matt, a beautiful campus to see
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Touchdown Jesus and all that to get to go into that stadium in
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South Bend was cool but I'll never go back.
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Once was enough. Once was enough, it was, you
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know, I liken it to the to the equivalent of like going to.
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Yeah, if you're not and I am, I'm a Cubs fan.
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But if you're not accustomed, Cubs fan and you're not a Red
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Sox fan. It's the equivalent of going to
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Wrigley Field or go into Fenway. You gotta go, you gotta go see
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it. But I went to both of those this
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past summer and they were they were definitely worth it.
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Yeah, well, I agree, 100%. I've never been to Fenway, but
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I've been to Wrigley and being a Cubs fan.
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Of course, Fenway is on my bucket list.
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I have to go to Fenway. I'm a race fan and I saw them
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Play the Red Sox at Fenway on July 4th this past year.
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Oh, oh man. What you were thinking when they
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all were the American flag? Yeah, I actually have a raise,
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the American flag hat and I were that.
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I was just thinking, you know, what's more American than being
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at Fenway Park on July Fourth gate.
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Think of it gate, think of many things, van, that, that is
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pretty much. The most American thing.
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I could think that you could do. Honestly, let me tell you about
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the organ tailgating experience, so yeah.
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It's a bit similar to Texas and they don't get started until
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later and I didn't get invited to any tailgates for this one.
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So I kind of had improvise a little bit.
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I was watching these, organ tailgating videos on YouTube and
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I saw this bus. That looks really cool.
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I think I sent you a picture video.
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It's like, it's a school bus that was, you know, painted and
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turn into an Oregon Ducks bus. So I was, I was thinking to
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myself, alright, I gotta find this bus and when I got to the
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parking lot, where everyone tailgates, there was like nobody
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there, but I saw the bus went back to my car, right?
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I just walked over there. Right.
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You know, introduce myself and these guys were super friendly
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and they took me right in made me drinks.
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The bus was just decked out, man.
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It was a sight to see that. For each game, they have like a
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soft mascot animal and they hang it on a rope inside the bus.
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Hang it in effigy, it's always fun to do.
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I love doing that, I love it when I love it.
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Whenever I see that guilty guilty, I've hung a few mascots
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with rope, sorry, I have their, a drink special birthday was
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Utah uterus. What is in a Utah uterus?
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Was, it was poked and that's all I remember.
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But I may have had a few of those.
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That's okay. That's okay.
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Didn't it? Enhances the experience.
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Yeah. So I was I was there pretty
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early. So I haven't got these guys for
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a couple hours and then once things started to crank up a
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little bit I went to this other tailgate and the folks are
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really friendly. That's where I found the Oregon.
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Duck the mascot. That was one of my favorite
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pictures. I got during this whole you know
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eight weeks you know just putting on the Oregon Duck head
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and have myfsu. I mean that way how can it not
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be? It's so freaking fun man.
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The dog mascot actually. They they have him ride around
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all the tailgate Lots before the game so he's like in the back of
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this truck and he's just standing up waving to everybody
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and it's pretty cool. Sometimes he stops and you know,
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tailgates a little bit. I've never seen anything like
21:50
that. I was cool.
21:51
Cool. I would say I would say that the
21:54
organ duck mascot is probably. I think I would say that it's
22:00
the most universally known coolest-looking it's on the most
22:05
commercials, you know, mascot that there is.
22:09
If I love that mascot, I absolutely do.
22:12
I'd love to meet that mascot. Yeah.
22:15
You know how he he rides in on the motorcycle?
22:18
He leads the team out, right? Yes, yes.
22:20
Yes. Walking into The stadium.
22:21
I saw the motorcycle driving around and there's this.
22:24
Like there's people getting on the back, taking pics for the
22:26
guy, of course they were. And I've seen the duck LSU
22:30
played organ, was that 2011, they played in LSU one?
22:35
That was a, that was a, that was a thriller of a game that is
22:37
when they had Marcus Mariota and and all that was a good one.
22:41
Yeah man, Eugene Eugene sounds like fun.
22:44
The atmosphere, you know how organs always listed on one of
22:47
the loudest stadiums. We talked about that you were
22:50
interested to see. How loud is this place?
22:52
Going to be if it lives up to the hype, it was definitely
22:55
loud. But I don't think it's in the
22:56
same tier as, you know, like a Penn State LSU, Tennessee.
22:59
I think it's a notch or two below that.
23:02
I would think it would be. I mean, I know that it holds a
23:04
lot of people in that Stadium. I guess it's kind of, is it
23:07
built in a valley in a sense? Or is it kind of on the flat and
23:11
there's mountains? Its it is it is pretty flat the
23:16
mountains that you see are kind of off in the distance.
23:18
So I think yeah it's pretty flat but the way to Him is designed
23:22
it. Apparently helps hold sounding,
23:24
but it's a cool Stadium man, but very modern.
23:27
Haven't seen anything like it, really?
23:29
Yeah, I mean, it looks like, and I don't mean this in any
23:32
disrespectful way whatsoever. But it's I've all it looks like
23:36
a cute little stadium and I don't mean that I re, I mean, it
23:38
does, it's in a perfect little place in a nice little Valley.
23:42
And as the mountains around it, there's a river, and the river
23:45
not far from it. And it mean, it's just, it
23:49
looks, it looks like a nice. Place in the people, but the
23:52
crowd that always see, that's why I'm never really understood
23:56
why it gets that kind of attention for being loud because
24:00
the crowd looks always looks so laid-back it.
24:03
And from what I understand that and I've been to the Pacific
24:05
Northwest they are a lot more laid back up there, there chill.
24:11
So I've never really understood that, I believe it but I haven't
24:16
seen it or witness it myself and you can't really 100%.
24:21
Compare it when the week before, they kind of had, you know, they
24:25
had a little bit of that momentum knocked out of them for
24:28
sure, so I'm sure that didn't didn't help everything.
24:31
But still big game, they were still playing for, you know,
24:34
Pac-12 Championship versus. But another thing I want to
24:37
mention is that the tickets to this game were by far the
24:40
cheapest of any game that I went to.
24:42
Yeah, I was surprised by that because stadium was holds 40 K
24:45
less than any of the other stadiums.
24:47
I went to smaller Stadium cheapest ticket.
24:51
That doesn't, that doesn't add up.
24:52
Yeah, when I saw, when I saw some of the ticket prices, I was
24:55
wondering if it would be a sellout or not your ticket price
24:58
to get to Eugene, Oregon. I guarantee you was that she, he
25:02
gets Furious. Oh, yeah?
25:04
Yeah, no. The stadium was pretty full, but
25:05
that's just an interesting observation.
25:08
I notice, you know, maybe there's not as much demand to go
25:11
to Oregon football game as, you know.
25:13
Well, it's not surprising because, you know, the South and
25:17
big ten country, that's it's the deal.
25:20
And it's just the deal. So you've finish and Eugene do
25:25
travel straight to your next destination.
25:28
Do you go home? What do you had it?
25:29
What do you do next? I went home.
25:32
So the only time I didn't go home during this trip was when I
25:35
went up to Michigan after the Michigan game.
25:37
I spent a few nights in Detroit, and then spend a few nights in
25:40
Pittsburgh and then went to Penn State.
25:41
Yeah, so I had a direct flight from Fort Lauderdale, to
25:44
Columbus, Ohio. I was there for probably what
25:47
was the biggest game of the year?
25:48
Number 2, verse number 3. So you know, How I make these
25:51
posts and Facebook fan groups before the games, right?
25:55
Right. So, my Ohio state one was, it
25:57
didn't, it didn't turn out too well.
25:59
I mean, I made the same post that I post everywhere else.
26:02
I had like this one guy. He's like go back to Florida to
26:05
other people comment on it just like nobody engaged in it.
26:08
So there. Yeah, they weren't they weren't
26:10
the most hospitable for sure. I've partied hung out and been
26:14
around the Ohio State fans more than once.
26:18
I did want a jade you I knew this.
26:23
I knew this they're assholes. Period.
26:26
I did meet an older couple. Now actually walked inside the
26:29
stadium with them and they're like, they felt like my
26:31
grandparents but they are really nice.
26:32
They're trying to show me around and made sure I got in.
26:35
Okay, so that that was it, that was a good interaction.
26:38
Well, yeah, before that, I just, I went to the area where College
26:41
GameDay was and I just hung out there and I was saying right
26:45
near campus, so I was able to walk everywhere and as I was
26:48
walking a game day, you know, I saw a lot of the Rivalry sauce.
26:51
Like we walk past this bar and must have been like eight or
26:54
nine a.m. and the place is going crazy.
26:56
Like all these college kids were outside, you know, music was
26:59
blasting like I was walking right behind a group of Michigan
27:02
fans. And as we walked by the bar, all
27:04
these Ohio State kids like throwing up the birds shouting
27:07
at me. So that was the, that was a
27:09
question. There's no love lost between
27:12
those two programs as as we've all heard, but you can verify
27:17
this, they don't like each other and I actually saw the Again
27:20
buses come in and they were in very generic buses to their
27:25
being in these like plain white buses.
27:27
Because I guess it'd be kind of dumb to rolling with a Maize and
27:30
Blue Bus anyway. These are high State bans on do.
27:32
It was Michigan. So they all like came to the
27:34
road and they were all just throwing up birds at the buses.
27:38
I mean, that's, I don't have a brought then I don't have a
27:41
problem with that. Yeah, you can look back and
27:43
search search LSU and Google and the buses that come in to LSU.
27:47
There's, you know, there's been a couple of instances Has of
27:50
things that that way, maybe we aren't the proudest of, but but
27:54
yeah, I'm not, I'm not surprised to hear that.
27:58
You didn't get the most hospitable crowd the times, I've
28:01
seen them in New Orleans. I've just not been that
28:06
impressed, here's the deal. Ohio State, you're one of the
28:09
biggest programs in the country act like it.
28:13
Invite people in like one of us, you want to be us.
28:18
Come try, come try it. Nice to people see how it goes.
28:22
You've got to anywhere in the SEC.
28:25
You are treated like royalty. Am I wrong?
28:28
No, you're right and Tennis me, and Ellis.
28:30
You were awesome experiences for me.
28:32
I got treated very well. Oh exactly, exactly, don't kill
28:35
Florida. But you know I mean you know
28:38
that we will never approve of them and I've had a blast at
28:42
every single school that I've been to I even had fun at
28:45
Florida. The one time I've been I saying
28:48
claim that I'll never go again. I'd probably will not but I had
28:53
a good time up until the game Tebow's senior year just beat
28:57
us. So whatever, you know, I can
28:58
get, I can get past that, but I've had fun everywhere.
29:03
I have gone in the SEC. And I think that most people
29:06
have, and most people that I've talked to, that have come from
29:10
other places, come from other schools, just want to come see a
29:14
big SEC game, they don't care who wins kind of like, like you,
29:19
they have the time, Of their life because everybody rolls out
29:23
the red carpet and I know that other SEC schools also do that.
29:29
It just surprises. Me there isn't somebody.
29:31
In one of those fan groups that would be like, oh well you gotta
29:36
show this guy what we're all about because that's what you
29:40
got here. That's what you got in
29:42
Tennessee. That's what.
29:44
If you go next year to any other SEC schools, I promise you.
29:48
That's what you're going to get their people.
29:50
I want you to come. They want you to come, they want
29:52
you to experience. It is an experience, it's a fun
29:55
experience. What you've just told me makes
29:58
me have no desire to go see, Ohio, State and Michigan, and I
30:03
actually had it on the bucket list but you just confirmed what
30:07
I thought was the case, you know y'all have it, you can have it
30:11
will just win our national championships and keep beating
30:14
y'all's ass. Well, I still had a good time
30:17
there. I mean, I actually after the
30:19
game I found some Only Michigan fans is and I celebrate with
30:22
him. Oh, I bet you found plenty of
30:25
friendly Michigan fans after that, 11.
30:28
Yeah, I went to the same bar that we passed in the morning,
30:31
and there were many Ohio State fans there, but I was wearing a
30:34
house, a gear. And I came up to use missing
30:37
guys on my face. Congrats, I'm not.
30:38
Has it been just going to my hat?
30:42
Yeah, exactly. I'm not, I'm not with them.
30:44
I'm not with them. Well, it's good to Michigan.
30:48
Did the Michigan travel? Well, done.
30:50
They have a ton of folks, there, they had some folks, but it's an
30:54
interesting things. I noticed was a lot of Michigan
30:56
fans are our kind of scared to go to Ohio State, because I'm
31:00
in, you know, all these Facebook groups.
31:02
And I saw multiple talk about it in the Michigan group, and
31:05
they're like, no, we have never go to house, it's not see if
31:08
they are. I have friends of mine that are
31:10
outside of the SEC that say the same thing about LSU and I'm
31:14
like, are there they are in there actually a couple of
31:16
friends of mine that are Texas A&M fans And they've never been
31:21
to Baton Rouge and they say the same.
31:22
They're all. I'm scared to come to Baton
31:24
Rouge. It's like, come on.
31:25
That's, that's really not the case.
31:28
They have Florida fans aren't Alabama.
31:30
Fans aren't scared to come. Here's the reason to be scared.
31:35
Yeah. No.
31:35
There's no reason to be scared and I said the same thing about
31:38
how to say. I don't, I don't think it's
31:40
unsafe to go there as a Michigan fan.
31:41
I just, I think these guys have probably heard some bad stories
31:44
here and there, but that happens that a lot of, you know, big,
31:47
big robbery games. But yeah, the atmosphere was
31:50
Electrics. Obviously, I sent you that video
31:53
before. Kick-off, were everybody was
31:55
throwing up their shoes. I saw one guy that had a, like a
31:58
leg brace. And he was throwing that up on
32:01
there. Yeah, it was you just do it.
32:06
All you got to get in. I mean, how in the game, the
32:09
game was great and then it just got crazy in the fourth quarter.
32:13
Crazy for Michigan, not through. I was saying it was very, it was
32:17
very cool experience because you know, that was Michigan's first
32:20
time They're in 22, 23 years. So just to just to see that was
32:25
really cool. I have this video right after
32:27
they score a touchdown. I think was the fourth quarter
32:30
and it was in the end zone that I was in.
32:32
And I had this video, the band playing Hail to the victors and
32:34
the stadium is just really quiet.
32:37
Of course, it was, I did like Ohio State's band to that, that
32:41
song that they play. You know, we don't give a damn
32:43
about Michigan. It was pretty cool to see.
32:46
Now they they tailgate earlier they say, meow, Of course, it's
32:51
Michigan. So I would expect, you know,
32:53
that's their biggest game. I would think that they would be
32:56
out there, these guys, they play a more enduring games and, you
32:59
know, anybody else in the country, probably.
33:01
All right? Loudest crowd.
33:02
We've just broken down 77 games that you've been to all
33:07
different college campuses. What's the loudest stadium that
33:10
you went to on that do? Yeah, I know you want me to say
33:14
LSU, but now I want you to tell me what you want time is, I'm
33:17
being honest here. Once you get to a certain Level,
33:20
I think it's really hard to tell.
33:22
There's a few that are in the same tier and I would say, the
33:25
I'll say Penn State LSU in Tennessee are on the same tier
33:29
and, you know, I went to those games three weeks in a row, they
33:32
were all night Primetime games and they were all really loud.
33:35
And honestly, I can't tell you which one was louder, but I will
33:38
say, I had the most fun at the LSU game.
33:40
You baby him? Then we'll accept that?
33:43
Yeah yeah. Hi.
33:43
I'm a not I think that that's I think that's a fair assessment.
33:47
So as far as like sustained loudness I would I would say
33:50
LSU, just because of the game, you know, it was back and forth
33:54
to hold the whole time where's the?
33:56
Other two games, Tennessee and Penn State.
33:58
Those are blowouts tough comparison.
34:01
But as we know, I mean, LSU's lived up to the hype.
34:06
Yeah, I mean I wasn't, I was not concerned about that, but that's
34:10
good. So we would say, LSU pins, say
34:12
Tennessee and then what would you say that the quietest of
34:16
your to were, would be well, I want to say any of them are
34:22
quietly. I think probably working
34:24
because, you know, the Texas got loud too.
34:26
And you know, those speakers that I was telling you about.
34:29
They're just so so well. So I could NFL game in the back
34:32
in the day they used to have pump in.
34:34
They do do a good job at trying to get the crowd into it.
34:37
You know. They play this animation on the
34:40
scoreboard Bevo like every third down or something and it just
34:44
says Get Loud, right? I'm saying that I'm saying that
34:48
on TV. Yeah, it's fun.
34:50
Oh man. I mean just think about that.
34:53
Just sit back and I know that you I know that you have but
34:57
just think about what you just did in a year, just just there
35:02
and we're not done, we're not done but just where you did
35:06
those college campuses. What an amazing to or you'll
35:12
remember that for for the rest of your life and this will live
35:16
forever to document it. Oh yeah, yeah man.
35:19
It's yeah. Was, it was an amazing journey.
35:21
And, you know, I'm fortunate to be able to do all of that.
35:24
And, you know, I have some games next year that I want to get to
35:27
two. So, I'm not done.
35:29
So, we've gone to all of these places, but then, you get a
35:32
couple of little surprise nuggets here at the end and add
35:37
on a couple of trips to the, to completely end the college
35:42
football tour, where'd you go? So I went to Atlanta for the SEC
35:46
Championship and some of the guys that I met at Cajun tiger
35:49
and Add me to the game. So I was like, all right, you
35:51
know, why not, I might as well go see SEC Championship, right?
35:56
Why not why not? I'm proud.
35:59
I'm proud of LSU in the way that they, the way that they fought,
36:02
they never quit. And they, you know, not the best
36:05
not the best thing. But, hey, if you get beat by,
36:08
you get beat to the team that wins a national championship and
36:11
went undefeated. Then you can't really hang your
36:13
head too much and LSU wasn't supposed to be in the SEC
36:18
Championship in year. One of Ryan Kelly to begin with
36:21
yet. Here we are.
36:23
Another ten win season at LSU. So we'll take it.
36:27
And I wish I wish I wish the Tigers would have had a little
36:30
better showing for you and it looked like Georgia.
36:34
Pretty much had 90% of the stadium to, but that's okay.
36:40
I'm sure the 10% of the LSU fans showed up and my group, The
36:44
Cajun tiger tailgate crew, they brought it, no doubt, they
36:49
always bring it. So, the great thing about LSU
36:51
friends, you know, they're always gonna bring it, we did
36:54
get pretty excited whenever Nest came in and he just started
36:57
airing it out and he recognized got an arm.
37:00
He does, man. That's the thing.
37:02
He absolutely has a cannon and I like Jaden Daniels with his feet
37:07
and I don't know what happens, in Baton Rouge.
37:10
Next year, II do they both stay and compete for the job of any
37:16
do we have a two quarterback system?
37:18
Dare I say, I don't know. That's there's gonna be a lot of
37:22
talk in the offseason, to Baton Rouge, but it's a good problem.
37:25
I think it's a I think it's a good problem to have but man he
37:28
had a hell of a second half. I mean, just yeah.
37:30
That was we got really excited there for a few minutes.
37:34
Yeah, I know. Be too.
37:36
I did that. I did.
37:37
Yeah. And that's a game that, you
37:39
know, sometimes the national championship game, for instance,
37:43
second quarter. I shut it off and went on.
37:47
I didn't didn't keep watching it.
37:49
I just went on. And there are other stuff, watch
37:52
something on Netflix, not interested.
37:54
Yeah, but but I did, like, yeah, I mean, I think a lot of people
37:58
did, but the SEC Championship now granted, it's about 10 play
38:02
in it, but but I didn't quit on them and I kept watching it and
38:06
then the second half, I was glued to the TV, watching it.
38:10
Yeah. But they're so far behind they
38:12
have no chance of winning. But it's like, but what if, if
38:16
they could get a stopper, a turnover They can get back in
38:21
the game and they they started working their way, back there
38:24
it, but I'm proud of him. Proud of them for the way that
38:27
they they competed and played. But they got they got beat by
38:31
the best team in the country who's in?
38:33
No, no doubt about that. So man, think about this for a
38:36
second, Brandon you saw Michigan play.
38:40
You saw LSU and Alabama, play you saw, Georgia play, you saw
38:46
TCU play you saw Texas, you saw organ, you Utah, you saw
38:51
everybody just about that's in the top 10 or was in the top. 10
38:55
fell out, came back at whatever you saw, the entire college
38:59
football, national picture throughout this journey.
39:03
I think that's what's more amazing than anything is that.
39:05
It's not just going to these cool places and having bucket
39:09
list things go down, you actually followed the ebb and
39:12
flows of the college football season.
39:14
You didn't mean to do that. I did.
39:16
There's nobody that could have planned it out that way but man
39:19
you were Some crucial games and some crucial times was thinking
39:23
about that, you know, during bowl season.
39:25
I was thinking I was like, you know what, I saw all four
39:27
playoff teams play and I saw the Warrens Bowl champ.
39:31
I saw the Rose Bowl champ. I saw it Sugar Bowl, champ song
39:35
the Pac-12 champ. So yeah, looking back, you know,
39:39
it's pretty cool that I got to because I think that this was a
39:42
really fun college football season just in general.
39:45
I think it was there's a lot of cool story lines.
39:47
For example, like you notice he coming back Being relevant and
39:51
the national preacher, right? A Team like TCU making it to the
39:55
National Championship, you know, that's probably the most
39:58
unlikely team has made it there in my last time that I can think
40:03
of, oh, for sure, for sure, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt at
40:07
all. Do you think, do you think the
40:09
playoff committee got it, right? And that's the four teams that
40:13
it should have been? Yeah, definitely.
40:15
I mean, a lot of people, they like to look back and based on
40:18
the results so like, oh, you know, Alabama, I should have
40:20
been there, you should have been there, but I think they got it
40:23
right, this off, you know, the resume is going in prior to the
40:26
the playoffs because it's really not fair to, you know, watch
40:29
Georgia. Pulaski see you.
40:31
And be like OTC, you didn't deserve it the end.
40:33
Because right Alabama, they barely beat Texas and TCU beat
40:38
them pretty handily. I mean, and I don't know, man, I
40:42
just those two games. Alabama, played that they lost
40:44
those were tough losses but you can't lose.
40:47
I mean, that's, that's the bottom line.
40:49
They're wrong. That College GameDay for the
40:51
national championship and David, Pollock, and Nick Saban were
40:53
sitting next to each other. And David Polly started saying
40:56
like George's, like the clear Top Dog college football now and
41:00
they showed Saban. Same had this look on his face.
41:04
Yeah, it's all that and I don't know if I'm scared or if it's
41:09
just going to be, you know, because I think Georgia is, I
41:13
mean there is no, they are, they are currently the standard in
41:18
college football mean they won back-to-back.
41:19
Championships. They've lost what one game in
41:24
over two years. I mean that's like they say just
41:27
yeah, they're the standard. They have number one, recruiting
41:30
classes, they get stronger. They lost 15 or 16 kids last
41:34
year they still went undefeated. Yeah, they're the standard, but
41:38
I did see that and I can't stand David Pollock, man.
41:41
His motor never stops running. That's what they used to would
41:44
say on ESPN all the time. Back in back when he was
41:47
playing. I just never really been a never
41:52
really been a fan of his, but to see him as that to Saban and
41:56
Saban's look was like, boy, do you know, you know who you're
41:59
talking to? I mean, do not give Nick Saban
42:04
motivation. He does not need it.
42:06
Do not give Alabama rat poison. They do not need it.
42:10
Do not declare Alabama dead. They are not Dead period.
42:15
If y'all think that you crazy, you're crazy until Nick Saban
42:19
leaves. Bama.
42:20
They got a shot in any game that they play.
42:22
They got a shot to win the conference.
42:24
And I am not convinced that Alabama, is done not by a long
42:28
shot. I wish they were.
42:30
I wish they were, but they're not before I forget.
42:33
I want to mention. So I was, I was passing through
42:35
San Antonio. I spent a couple nights there.
42:37
I found out that they're having the Alamo Bowl pep rally.
42:40
One of the nights I was there and I'll say that was by far the
42:43
best pep rally I've ever seen and the bands on the boat and
42:47
just all the people there and I even I overheard this older
42:51
Washington fan. Say forget the Rose Bowl.
42:54
Let's I want to come here again. Was that the first time you've
42:58
been to San Antonio? Yeah.
43:00
That was my first time there. Okay.
43:02
In the river wall. Cool.
43:04
Oh yeah. It's so neat man.
43:05
So pretty well Brandon man. Thank you so much for coming on
43:09
the show twice. Now to tell your your incredible
43:14
story man of going to all of these just historical venues and
43:18
college football. To go all around the country.
43:21
Can't wait to. Have you back on to talk about
43:25
some of these trips that you've gone out going on outside of
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this college, football tour. Some of these places that you've
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been there? Just fantastic.
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Brandon, what is your Instagram handle?
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So, folks can go see that themselves.
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Of course, go to Tigs B.com. I will have some of this stuff
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uploaded on there as well, and watch the videos and tick-tocks.
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But where can they find you Brandon my Instagram?
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Though as Trip Man 92t RIT T-man 92.
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And yeah I just I post just travel stuff on there.
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All my college football stuff is on there.
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It's just, you know my interests everything that I'm interested I
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just you know, I'm currently going to a bunch of national
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parks, that's my focus. I've been said I've been seeing
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some of that. What is your rig that you use
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your drone? And what camera do you use to
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take these pictures? Because they're there.
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But I just I use an iPhone In camera and the phone cameras are
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really pretty awesome man. Like you can take pictures of
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stars with the night mode. It's unbelievable.
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You know, as I'm traveling, I meet a lot of people to do
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these, your outdoor things with, and I asked them to get picture
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me here and there and some of them turned out really good.
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So they do to you have really neat pictures, good, pictures of
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you, really cool pictures of just scenery of places that
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you've been. So I can't wait to Have you back
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on? Just just so we can talk about
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some of these places that you've traveled.
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I've got a lot of questions, like I said earlier, but will
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brand. I think that's a wrap, thanks
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for having me on again. I had a great time, you know.
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Look forward to catching up with you again and absolutely, man, I
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can't can't wait. Lots more coming.
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Folks. Lots more coming from mr.
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Brandon Tritt. He is he's a fun dude to
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interview and he has some good stuff to share fan.
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I can't wait till we do it again.