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Tuesday Edition of the Drive - Hour Three · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: W.R.K.S. Pickett's Jackson. Where is it?
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  Speaker 2: Time!
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  Speaker 1: Time to take a ride.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we're back with Jake Wimberly on the Afternoon Drive.
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  Speaker 1: It's live, it's local, and it's on ESPN 105.9 The
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  Speaker 1: Zone and online at thezone1059.
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  Speaker 2: Com.
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  Speaker 4: Get an appetizer meal. Get ready for football this weekend
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  Speaker 4: at Capital Grill in Jackson.
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  Speaker 3: Go to CapitalGrillInJackson.com.
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  Speaker 4: Michael Katz joined us, Hour 1, talking about everything going
• 0:53
  Speaker 4: on in Oxford, Ole Miss, LSU. Coming up this weekend,
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  Speaker 4: Ben Troop, Hour 2, talking Florida, Auburn, and the rest
• 1:00
  Speaker 4: of the SEC slate. Mississippi State, Kamario Taylor headed to
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  Speaker 4: South Carolina to take on Lenore Sellers and the Gamecocks.
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  Speaker 4: And our three is wide open. Let me get these texts,
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  Speaker 4: and I want to go to something Ross Jellinger said.
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  Speaker 3: Real C. Collins, I have begged Real C. Jr. to
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  Speaker 3: sell his two tickets for that game.
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  Speaker 4: They could either be worthless afterwards or incredibly expensive after
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  Speaker 4: one or the other. It's a money game at this point.
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  Speaker 4: Ole Miss could stand to benefit a lot if they
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  Speaker 4: can pull this off, but they can.
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  Speaker 3: Also lose it. All LSU has nothing to lose. I
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  Speaker 3: disagree about that.
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  Speaker 4: LSU has everything to lose. You got all the money
• 1:43
  Speaker 4: tied into Kiffin. You got all the money, not just Kiffin.
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  Speaker 4: And granted, each sport is individualized. All the money they
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  Speaker 4: put into Kim Mulkey. All the money they put into
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  Speaker 4: Will Wade. The governor of Louisiana. They've made this whole spectacle.
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  Speaker 4: LSU needs to win.
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  Speaker 3: Do they not?
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  Speaker 4: It's egg on your face if you go up there
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  Speaker 4: and if it's seasoned craters. And equally so, and somebody's
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  Speaker 4: got to win. Ole Miss stands to lose a lot, too.
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  Speaker 4: Let me see if I can get some updated ticket
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  Speaker 4: prices on this, courtesy of StubHub.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see here. LSU Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 4: Let's say me and B, we're going to get the
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  Speaker 4: Fista and get two tickets and take the pig. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we're still sitting around.
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  Speaker 3: $ 629 is your cheapest.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I did find one for $ 418.
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  Speaker 3: $ 629. $ 873 per ticket. $ 726.
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  Speaker 5: $ 606.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you're spending a fortune. You're spending a fortune
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  Speaker 4: if you go up there. You know, if you're looking
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  Speaker 4: for third-party. So, yes, Real C. C. Junior, y'all can
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  Speaker 4: make some money on this. You could probably get closer
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  Speaker 4: to Friday. You could probably get somewhere around $ 1, 000 a ticket.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you think? Somebody would pay it. About $ 1, 000 a ticket.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and Real C says he's been asking him to
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  Speaker 6: sell his tickets. Two tickets.
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  Speaker 2: Two.
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  Speaker 6: So let's look at that baseline average $ 600. This kid
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  Speaker 6: can make $ 1, 200 if he sold those. That's real money
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  Speaker 6: for anybody. And if I remember right, Real C's kid
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  Speaker 6: is around a college-age kid. So especially, I'd sell those, man.
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  Speaker 3: No, I would too.
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  Speaker 2: I would.
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  Speaker 4: Smitty, what would happen if Lane walked in and did
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  Speaker 4: a Triple H with a bottle of vodka? It'd be
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  Speaker 4: so epic, for real. If LSU could put up 100 points,
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  Speaker 4: he says that coach would do it. Seriously, 42-21 with
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  Speaker 4: the Tigers on top.
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  Speaker 2: 42-21.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think it's that lopsided? I don't.
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  Speaker 6: It depends on what Sam Levitt we're getting. I think
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  Speaker 6: a large chunk of this depends on Sam Levitt.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 6: I am absolutely with you. Your two deciding factors were
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  Speaker 6: Trinidad's a better quarterback and home field. Yes, I absolutely
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  Speaker 6: believe Trinidad is a better quarterback. Sam Levitt, but if
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  Speaker 6: we can see a Sam Levitt from two years ago,
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  Speaker 6: I don't think we will. But I could see it
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  Speaker 6: getting three touchdowns. In that scenario.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but we're acting like... I just don't think it will, though.
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  Speaker 3: We're acting like Ole Miss is a bad football team.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 4: So you think LSU... If that were the case, that
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  Speaker 4: means Trinidad-Chamberlain is going to get just stonewalled.
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  Speaker 3: For three quarters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Well, stonewalled.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 6: Just shut completely down? No, he'll have his moments. It'll
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  Speaker 6: be nice moments. He's not going to go out there
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  Speaker 6: and throw for 32 yards or anything.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right.
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  Speaker 4: And Jason gives you the W-E-A-U-X Ric Flair woo. All right,
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  Speaker 4: so Texas 601-885-3776. Ross Dallendrup's in here reading through this.
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  Speaker 4: Some reading material on college athletic spending from Senator Maria Cantwell.
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  Speaker 4: All right, first off, let me say everything, and this
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  Speaker 4: is a short read, so bear with me. Everything on
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  Speaker 4: this is real. But, well, let me just read it.
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  Speaker 4: Unsustainable growth in spending for sports amplifies broader financial pressure
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  Speaker 4: on colleges and universities. This is what they're discussing. This
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  Speaker 4: is her pitch, why we need this bill. College sports
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  Speaker 4: spending spiral. American colleges and universities are already under extraordinary
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  Speaker 4: financial strain confronting rising operating costs, enrollment challenges, deferred maintenance,
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  Speaker 4: and growing pressure to keep tuition affordable.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, it's not affordable.
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  Speaker 4: Yet, even as institutions make difficult choices about academic programs,
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  Speaker 4: faculty and staff, and student services, many are committing ever-larger
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  Speaker 4: sums to an increasingly expensive college football arms race. According
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  Speaker 4: to a July 2026 government Accountability Office report 94% of
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  Speaker 4: all Division I athletic programs now spend more than they
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  Speaker 4: generate in athletics revenue in academic year 2023 and 2024,
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  Speaker 4: resulting in campus deficits that must be covered through institutional subsidies,
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  Speaker 4: student fees, public support, or resources that could otherwise strengthen
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  Speaker 4: the academic mission. Even the top sports schools with major
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  Speaker 4: media deals now rely on university subsidies to or mandatory
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  Speaker 4: student fees. According to the Knight Newhouse College Athletics Database,
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  Speaker 4: only 14 of 53 publicly reported Power 4 athletic departments
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  Speaker 4: generated enough revenue to cover expenses in 24 and 25.
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  Speaker 4: And even those 14 schools depend significantly on donor money
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  Speaker 4: to stay afloat. Meanwhile, since 2023, colleges have eliminated more
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  Speaker 4: than 100 women's and Olympic sports programs. This has especially
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  Speaker 4: stark consequences for of a system in which escalating football
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  Speaker 4: expenditures can crowd out opportunities for other student athletes. This
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  Speaker 4: report examines how unsustainable athletics spending is amplifying the broader
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  Speaker 4: fiscal pressure facing higher education and why policymakers and university
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  Speaker 4: leaders are calling for federal legislation that can provide greater transparency, accountability,
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  Speaker 4: and financial discipline in college sports.
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  Speaker 3: And she lists out the $ 120. 3 million.
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  Speaker 4: That's the median report athletics debt amount for Power 4 colleges, $ 519. 9
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  Speaker 4: million increase in institutional government support 2015 versus 2025 across
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  Speaker 4: 53 Power 4 schools and publicly available data. 87% is
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  Speaker 4: the big number she points to of non-Power 4 schools
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  Speaker 4: had mandatory student athletic fees in 23 and 24.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Everything she's saying here is correct. It's out
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  Speaker 3: of control. upside down.
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  Speaker 4: But why wouldn't we just fix this the right way
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  Speaker 4: why do we have to have the government which is
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  Speaker 4: not going to fix it she lists in here legislation
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  Speaker 4: that can provide transparency accountability and financial discipline there is
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  Speaker 4: nothing in dc across any spectrum right now in 2026
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  Speaker 4: that is providing transparency, accountability, or financial discipline. And they
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  Speaker 4: haven't for 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, seems like.
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  Speaker 4: Why are we still led to believe this is what
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  Speaker 4: needs to fix it? You could fix it so fast.
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  Speaker 4: So fast. Salary cap, commissioner, players union.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: We can't make them employees, though. But we're going upside
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  Speaker 3: down and we're sinking. We need something. Well, there it is. No,
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  Speaker 3: we don't want that.
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  Speaker 4: LSU by double digits. Ole Miss secondary couldn't stop Toledo.
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  Speaker 3: Or no, Tupelo. And probably Toledo, too. Now, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Are we.
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  Speaker 4: Look.
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  Speaker 3: For all that we're making out of LSU's dominance over Clemson.
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  Speaker 3: And look, Clemson's bad. They're not good. Can we say that?
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  Speaker 3: They're not good. They're not good at all. As a
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  Speaker 3: matter of fact, let's look.
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  Speaker 6: Wait, Jake, I'm sorry. I got to break in here
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  Speaker 6: because I don't know if you saw it, but there's
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  Speaker 6: a man on the phone who has beef with you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: I did not see this.
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  Speaker 4: Let me go over here and look. Oh, let's go
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  Speaker 4: to Real C. I've kept him waiting way too long.
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  Speaker 4: Real C, happy Tuesday, brother. What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how happy it is after sitting on
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  Speaker 2: hold for 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry about that. Come on, bro.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a straight Chris Brooks move.
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: Sorry about that.
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: At least Chris Brooks would have given me naming rights
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: for the hair scope.
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: We can still work on that.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: Well, I did coin the phrase.
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  Speaker 1: You did.
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  Speaker 2: If you can think back far enough.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you did.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: Look, I sent you my text that you read and
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: you disagreed with me. My text I sent was one
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: of those stupid voice text things that I did in
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: my truck as I was driving because I was being
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: a responsible driver on the highways and byways on my
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: way home from the salt mine. So that's good. My
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  Speaker 2: point that I was making about how Ole Miss has
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  Speaker 2: so much to lose is valid, and I'll give you
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  Speaker 2: my case for that. What has every single Ole Miss
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: fan said about Kiffin's departure outside of the, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's a sleazy human being, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But basically, we don't need him. We're fine with all that, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: They won't have that if they lose.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, you're correct.
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  Speaker 2: Let's be honest. And, again, I'm not hating. He built
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  Speaker 2: that program in the last six years. Every bit of
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  Speaker 2: success they had was a result of him. Now, that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that they can't turn around and do it again.
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  Speaker 2: I have no doubt that they have that ability to
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  Speaker 2: do so. But in the current day and time, that
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  Speaker 2: team he will play against Saturday will be his team
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  Speaker 2: that he built, coached by him. Someone he hired. They
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  Speaker 2: have more to lose if they were to lose. LSU
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  Speaker 2: loses that ball game? Okay, first year here, he's thrown
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  Speaker 2: his team together, yada, yada, yada, all the things. He'll
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  Speaker 2: have a clean sheet to work with, you know, post-game.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be okay. He's got nothing to lose. And he's
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: going to make this grand spectacle of it all. which
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: I personally think he's not a great human being at all,
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: but I've argued, I will argue to death that he's
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: probably a football savant. The guy obviously is one of
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  Speaker 2: the greatest game callers in the game today. And as
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  Speaker 2: far as a coach, I don't know, but he can
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  Speaker 2: sure put a program together. Yeah. But I think that
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  Speaker 2: I think what could be lost is much more lopsided
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  Speaker 2: against Ole Miss. No.
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  Speaker 4: And look, I've said this before, um, If Ole Miss
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  Speaker 4: takes the L Saturday, regardless of what happens, but if
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  Speaker 4: they take the L, they've got to wake up and
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  Speaker 4: get ready to go to Florida on Sunday. Like, start
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  Speaker 4: getting ready. You know, game prep, film study, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Will they be energized enough to go to Florida, or
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  Speaker 4: will this game beat them twice? Because they put so
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  Speaker 4: much into this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: They've got everything they've got into this weekend. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, so, I mean, if they win it, then, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's great. And then, you know, do they get ready
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  Speaker 4: for Florida? But if they lose, will LSU beat them twice,
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  Speaker 4: meaning next week as well?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. My fear is this. I mean, and I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to say who I hope wins or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: There's no point in that. My fear is the letdown,
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: you know, because you get these hyperbolic games that, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's all you're hearing about. You've got– reporters asking Ole
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  Speaker 2: Miss players if LSU tried to get them to come
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  Speaker 2: in the portal, do they regret not going or staying
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. Leave all the garbage, the absolute media sensationalizing
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  Speaker 2: of this thing. Whenever we see that in the past,
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  Speaker 2: we usually see pretty cruddy ballgame.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, hopefully it'll live up. And, I mean, it would
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  Speaker 2: be the odd outlier if it does. And I hope
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  Speaker 2: it does, because I'd love to see a great football game.
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  Speaker 2: I think it'd be awesome for those two to just
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: go at it and beat the heck out of each
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  Speaker 2: other all freaking night long. But I don't think that's
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: going to happen. History has proven against it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I really don't know if one of the two teams
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  Speaker 2: is prepared for what's going to happen. And that'd be
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  Speaker 2: really interesting to see the result of it. But I
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: don't think it's going to be quite the game people
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  Speaker 2: are hoping it's going to be. And I'm one of
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  Speaker 2: the people hoping it's going to be.
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  Speaker 3: No, I am too. I hope we get a four
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  Speaker 3: quarter ball game and it comes down to the end.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be, that'd be fun to watch. That'd be
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: fun to watch. I do peer in on your periscopes,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: your hair scopes. I just don't say anything. I'm sneaky
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  Speaker 2: like a ninja nowadays. I don't ever call you anymore either.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: That's all right. Pick the phone up every now and then.
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  Speaker 3: It's good to hear your voice.
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  Speaker 2: Still around.
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  Speaker 3: My man. See ya.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Peace.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: He's looking.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Real C just, look, man. Real C just got
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  Speaker 6: real space ghosty creepy.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he did.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he said he's just sitting there lying in wait.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: Real C doesn't sleep. He waits.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: But he went real deep with that voice. I'm not really,
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  Speaker 6: I don't say anything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Just hanging out watching.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: What just happened here?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Space Coast does that. He'll sneak up
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  Speaker 3: on you. He will. You got to watch out for him. Yeah, look,
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  Speaker 3: we're making a lot about....
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: White Denzel said, you know, talking about this Ole Miss secondary.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Clemson is not any... You realize Clemson beat Georgia Southern
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  Speaker 4: over the weekend 22-7?
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  Speaker 3: Georgia Southern. By the way, do you have Disney Plus
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: or Hulu?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Are you watching this Chad Powers thing?
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: No, I haven't. I haven't gotten into that.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: My wife got me to dip off into this. It's actually, man,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: the star power in this thing is huge. From Herbstreet, Corso,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, all the SEC Network guys. Eli Manning's got
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: a cameo in it.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: It's not bad. It's pretty funny.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: I think I'm three or four episodes into this thing.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: I didn't think I would like it, but it's pretty comical.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: And it's got a football. Obviously, it's football-driven, so you
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: might want to check it out.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. It's neat, but in a good neat.
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  Speaker 2: Neat.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Let's see.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's not pretend that LSU just beat Clemson of 2018. So,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: you know, we'll see.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Ready, Teddy. I love this bet.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: And he sends a snapshot of the bet builder, and
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: he's got $ 100 to win $ 215. He's taken Ole Miss
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: to cover minus four.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Check that. Potential payout, $ 315. On the bet. Look, it's
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: a good bet. It's a good bet.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I had somebody ask me about moving LSU to minus
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: five today. I think that's a good bet. I mean, again,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I think Ole Miss wins the football game for two reasons.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Home field advantage, Trinidad-Chambers. Possibly Nick Joe. All these new
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: texters today, they can text when the subject is laid
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: out on a platter, easy like Ole Miss versus LSU.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: They will disappear next week because they can't handle a
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: directional school week. Joe's saying, hey, look, The traditional Texters
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: put the work in every week.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Show up to work every week is what he's saying.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Joe's very territorial over the Tex line.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: He is.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Miko, Lacey has a knee issue that they're being quiet
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: about with. I think LSU stomps a mud hole in
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss, 42-17.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Wow. LSU, 42-17.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: So we've had a couple scores given on this game,
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: and it lopsided in favor of LSU.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Jason in Flagstaff, man, all I'm going to say is this.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: If Ole Miss girls are like they were when I
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: was that age and used to go to Oxford in
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: my Army uniform, the horsemen are going to need their
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: own horsemen.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: There's that.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Pug, something to think about. What non-Power Force schools could
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: beat Clemson today? My nine-year-old says that Montana State would
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: beat them easily. Clemson ain't what they were a decade ago,
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: that's for sure. Look, your nine-year-old may be right, Pug.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, Clemson is not good. So let's not pretend
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: LSU that we saw in week one, and look, that's
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: a good LSU football team you're going to see Saturday
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: in Oxford. But that's not a good Clemson team they beat.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: That's not.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: And I know LSU was disinterested and checked out against
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Louisiana Tech, but Sam Levitt didn't look his best either.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Got another prediction here, unnamed texter, LSU 48, Ole Miss 17.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin knowledge of Trinidad tendencies, likes, dislikes, and subtle
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: faults will be the difference. He knows the kid better
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: than the folks want to admit. It will not be close.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: There is that angle. How much stock do you put
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: into– Lane Kiffin knowing Trinidad Chambliss. But let me flip
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: the coin. How much stock do we put into Pete
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Golding knowing Lane Kiffin? I mean, that works both ways.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Because don't think for a minute Pete Golding has probably,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: who already knows Lane Kiffin, he worked with Lane Kiffin
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: for years, has broken down film of Lane Kiffin.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: He knows his tendencies. He knows what he likes to do.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: He knows what he likes to do as far as
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: play calling, especially when you start talking about scripted plays
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: and coming out the gate. So, yeah, it's going to
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: be a heck of a chess match between the headset
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: for sure.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Rebel Greg.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: What would Lane's record be if we didn't have NIL
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: and the Grove Collective? The Grove Collective went and got
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: the players and signed them. People outside of Ole Miss
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: don't want to admit this. Saying this is Lane's team,
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss, is just a loser's excuse.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Some of this is Lane's team, and then some of
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: it is Pete Golding's team. And yes, we will never
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: know what Lane's record will be outside of NIL and
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: the Grove Collective. Now, I will say this. When he
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: was at FAU, totally different animal, he was good. That's
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: the reason he got the Ole Miss job. Comes from Alabama,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: coached well at Alabama, as an assistant under Saban, rehabilitates
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: himself there, goes on and gets the FAU job, does
• 22:01
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  Speaker 4: Monte Carlo simulation. That's a 10,000 iteration model on this game.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Don't you like that name, Monte Carlo? And it gives
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: LSU a 58.7% chance to win and Ole Miss a 41.3%
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: chance to win. And through 10,000 iterations in this model,
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  Speaker 4: it predicts LSU will win 31-28. Which, if you go
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  Speaker 4: on the bet builder and you look at the line, set...
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  Speaker 4: for this ball game, LSU minus three. So the Monte
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Carlo simulation has LSU winning by three, and the Vegas
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: line is at three.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be that kind of ball game.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I think it's a touchdown, a little less ball game.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: I know a lot of you are thinking, look, it
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: could be a blowout.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: You know, I mean, that's the thing.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: If LSU punches Ole Miss in the mouth, and they
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: jump up, say, 14-3, does.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Ole Miss cave? I don't think so. But what does
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: that look like? Or if Ole Miss can get up
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: and stay up, what does that look like? Mr. DX,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I like Real C. He is a savant. Yes, he is.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Nick, Pete Golding has coached three games against Power 4 schools.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: His defense has allowed 34 points per game in those games.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Do with that as you will, or what you will.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: If you go back, now let's be fair. Let's be
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: fair in this to Pete Golding and to Ole Miss.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: They gave up nine points, which is not a power
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: four game, against Charlotte. They gave up 38 against Louisville.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: That's a nine-win, back-to-back, nine-win team against Louisville and the ACC.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: They gave up 31 to Miami. That's a national runner-up.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: And they gave up 34 to Georgia, who won the SEC.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: So you're talking about Georgia, Miami, Louisville. Three really good teams.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: If you use Nick's.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Data set here, we'll call it that, of a three-game
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: window for Pete Golding. And look, let's go back even
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: further than that. Let's go back prior. The Tulane game,
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: which was a group or six game last year, Golding's
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: defense gave up 10. Against Mississippi State, they gave up 19.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: That's a power four program. Against Florida, they gave up 24.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Against South Carolina, they gave up 14. Oklahoma, 26.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: So that means Ole Miss is going to have to
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: score in the high 30s to win this game. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: it could be.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: It could be a 38-31 type ball game. Glenn on
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: the text line. Jake, not sure if anyone has mentioned it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: But Holly Roe is the person that got ESPN announcer
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: and Ole Miss alum Ron Franklin fired. Oh, no.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Is that right? Is she the one that got Ron
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Franklin fired?
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: So I totally forgot about this. So apparently the incident
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: with– incident. Incident, hard air quotes. The thing with Holly Roe. 2005,
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: because I vaguely remember that, but God, I can't believe
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: that was 21 years ago. But he didn't get fired
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: until he made a whole different remark to a different
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: female who he worked with in 2011. So there was
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: an incident with Holly Roe, but that apparently wasn't the
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: last straw.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Do you remember what he said to Holly Roe?
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: He called her sweetheart. On the air? I can't remember
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: what the conversation was. But yeah, he dropped a sweetheart.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: She got offended.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: So, you know, and I thought Ron Franklin, I've said this,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: one of my favorite announcers of all time. I mean,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Ron Franklin was SEC football at night on ESPN for
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: a long time. That deep, baritone voice, just delivery was great.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: He just, he was great. Yeah, he says, quote, Holly,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: it's not giving up. It was during a Notre Dame-Purdue ballgame.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Holly Rowe praised Purdue defensive coordinator Brock Spack for still
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: using timeouts and coaching his defense while down big. Rowe
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: said something like, if the coaches give up, what does
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: that say about the players? Ron Franklin answered, Holly, it's
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: not giving up. It's 49-21, sweetheart. And she lost her
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: mind over it. That was mark one, and then it
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: was somebody else that got him ultimately canned for a
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: similar comment, wasn't it?
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Something like that. So, good recall there, Glenn.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Ellis.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Lane is about to find out why they never scheduled
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: meaningful night games at the vault.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: DX. Can you run MSU versus South Carolina? Yes.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: I'll do that here in just a second. I'll run
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: the Monte Carlo simulation on Mississippi State, South Carolina.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: J-Rock. So, hang around, DX. That may be next segment,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: but I'll do that during the break. J-Rock.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: I think the teams are pretty close, but I always
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: take the better quarterback when that's the case and that's Trinidad.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: I'm with J-Rock on this. That's why I'm riding with
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss on this game because of Trinidad Chambliss. And
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: I think he is a better performer week in and
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: week out. He's more consistent than his counterpart, Nick. If
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: LSU is who we think they are, then they are
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: comparable to those same three teams. Nick talking about Georgia, Miami,
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: and Louisville. Look, I think LSU is a good football team.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: I think they're a college football playoff caliber team. I
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: don't think that they're unbeatable, though, and I don't see
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: them doing what they did to Clemson.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm wrong.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they go in there and wear
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss out. Is there any case, though, that Ole
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Miss wears them out? We've had a lot of predictions
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: today for LSU to wear Ole Miss out, but a
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: case where Ole Miss flips that and then they just
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: score a touchdown, they take the ball open and drive,
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: they go down their score.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: They pick Leavitt off, short field, score. Fumble on the
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: next play, Ole Miss scores. 21-0 Rebels. I don't know.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: I didn't think we'd see Texas... Do what they did
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: the other night. I mean, Texas was in a hole,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: in a big hole. You said you didn't watch for
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: the last three minutes? I mean, literally first play of
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: the game. Swing pass to the run back out of
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: the backfield. Wide receiver misses a block. DB comes up.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Boom.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Hits him. Ball comes out. Great play by the DB.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: A couple series later, throw the deep ball. It's a catch. Nope.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Ball comes out of his hands. Up in the air.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Picked off by Ohio State. They go down the score.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: They're up 14-0 or whatever it was. So you just
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: don't know.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Ugly mustard.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: LSU will give Ole Miss at least one loss, if
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: not this week, the next. So, yeah, that's back to
• 31:08
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  Speaker 4: So I ran a Monte Carlo 10,000 iteration model on
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: Mississippi State and South Carolina during the break. South Carolina 61.5%
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: chance to win, Mississippi State 38.5%. The collective score output,
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: the cluster, South Carolina 32, Mississippi State 27. But now
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: there is a nugget in here that Kamario Taylor is
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: going to give Mississippi State a chance to win this ballgame.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: So I do think, and if you look at Vegas' line,
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: that's a, Five-point ballgame, Vegas is three and a half.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: You know, State, if they can put the clamps on
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Lenore Sellers, then, and we'll say, and likely the other
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: way too, I mean, South Carolina is going to try
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: to disrupt and, you know, confuse Kamario Taylor. So I
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: think it's a great matchup, State-South Carolina. I think that's
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: a four-quarter ballgame. I think Ole Miss-LSU personally is a
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: four-quarter ballgame. I don't see them being a blowout, but
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: a lot of people think this LSU team is going
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: to come in here and blow Ole Miss out. Bama Bulldog.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Retention of players since NIL. The team that retains the
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: most experience team usually wins, not better athletes. Just asking
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: an obvious question. How many dudes that have been together
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: for three to four years together or three to four
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: years together has to make a huge difference? If they're
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: friends on top of being good athletes, the teams that
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: stay together win together. Retention is all I'm saying. They
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: just play better together in the NIL era.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Of course. Absolutely.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: And if you're going to go that direction, it's Ole
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Miss in this game. Just because you've got players that
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: have played together.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: And that is true. I mean, look at Kurt Cignetti
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: at Indiana. This doesn't get brought up enough.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: When he came over from James Madison, JMU, he brought
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: two handfuls of players that have played there together.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: They come over.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: They play a couple years together. And essentially, you've got
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: a group of guys that were there three years together,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: some of them four. You could look at several other,
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: but that's what you're seeing at Georgia, Ohio State, Texas, Oregon,
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: even though they were in the crapper this weekend, is
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: they're going out and subsidizing their high school talent, keeping
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: them there, letting some guys go, bringing some guys in
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: the transfer portal, but the majority of their money is
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: to retain players, to develop and have is, you know,
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: develop that chemistry just to what Bama.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Bulldog is saying. So, all right, let me see if
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: we've got some other notes in here. I think I
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: do have a stack of notes. We just haven't had
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: a chance to get to them. Beavis kept us on
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: this Lane Kiffin thing all day. Let's see. And the
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Holly Rowe thing.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: All right, 14 million viewers tuned in to ABC for
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: the Ohio State-Texas game over the weekend. Most watched regular
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: season game in 10 years. You think Ole Miss-LSU clips that?
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: $ 10 million on the.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be real close. Yeah, on
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: the television set this weekend. Alabama, Kentucky had a $ 7. 3
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: million at the highest peak. Arizona State, Texas A & M, $ 2. 5 million. Oregon,
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma State, $ 2. 1 million. Tennessee, Georgia Tech, $ 1. 8 million. Also,
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: let's see. We told you about Lane Kiffin and the
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Four Horsemen. Florida State's firing of Athletics Director Michael Alford
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: may be the start of a major athletic overhaul, reports
• 36:19
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• 36:23
  Speaker 4: potentially with two leaders instead of a traditional athletics director.
• 36:27
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• 36:30
  Speaker 4: seen BYU take this step where they rip the football
• 36:32
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• 36:35
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• 36:39
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• 36:42
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• 36:44
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• 36:46
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• 36:48
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• 36:53
  Speaker 4: more on 25 of the 32 NFL franchises, highlighting just
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: how difficult it is to put a price tag on
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: a pro football franchise. And just for a little snippet
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: of this, the collective valuation, for instance, of the Cowboys,
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: which is still the most valued team in the NFL,
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  Speaker 4: almost $ 16 billion. Way more than what we've heard. The Rams,
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: second on that list, $ 13. 06 billion with a B. All right,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: let's see here before I move on. Also, a minority
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: investor in the Braves, we're talking Atlanta Braves baseball real quick,
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: has sent a letter to the team's board urging it
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: to sell the franchise. Citing record-setting franchise prices and uncertainty
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: around the upcoming lockout that's probably going to happen, the
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Braves were most recently valued at $ 3. 35 billion by Forbes,
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: seventh among MLB franchises. So will we see a sell-off
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: of the Atlanta Braves? And if you're a Delaware football fan,
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: we could get you this T-shirt and rip the arms
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  Speaker 4: out of it. Delaware is taking on Coastal Carolina.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Carolina. Yes, I said Carolina. What are they, the Chanteliers? Chanticleers.
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  Speaker 3: So they're taking them on this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: And Saturday, the back of this t-shirt, Saturday, September 19th,
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: 11 a.m., 1130 a.m., one day only, the cock fit
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  Speaker 4: in the tub.
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 4: The cock fight in the tub. They're both chickens and roosters.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: So you want one of these shirts? Delaware State?
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  Speaker 6: In the tub. Is there a picture?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, no.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. It's just what it says.
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  Speaker 6: What are we talking about, a tub?
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I guess they're calling their football field the tub, maybe.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, I didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know anything about there. Yeah. Cockfight in the tub. Nah,
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  Speaker 3: I'll pass. So no Delaware State swag. We'll pass on that.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Let's see here. Unnamed texture. Tommy Bibbs. Is there any?
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Who's Tommy Bibbs to watch the state game over again?
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: I would say I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Who's Tommy?
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  Speaker 6: I think that's the texter.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Is there any way to watch the State game ever again?
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: I would assume you could go to YouTube. Don't those
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: games normally get uploaded to YouTube? Somebody's going to post
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: it up there?
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: I'm sure it's there.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: I'd try YouTube if you want to go try to
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: watch State versus Minnesota. It's probably out there. If not,
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: you'll get a ton of highlights. A lot of highlights. Also,
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: speaking of Mississippi State, they put this out on their
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: football X-Feed today. National Player of the Week, Kamario Taylor.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Kamario Taylor.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: The sky's the limit for this young man.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: Again, Mississippi State has not seen a talent like this
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: since Nick Fitzgerald or Dak Prescott at quarterback. There's been
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: some good ones. Will Rogers was a good quarterback. I
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: don't care what any of y'all say. But when you
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: talk about iconic move-the-needle guys, Kamario Taylor, first one since Prescott,
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: and Nick Fitzgerald. And I'm sure, look, as he goes
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: up in stardom, if he continues to go up, will
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: Mississippi State fans fight each other over who's better, Kamario
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: Taylor or Dak Prescott?
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: They will. Someone already said it the other day. Texted
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: in to Matt.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was Nick.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: Already talking after two weeks. I hate to say this, Matt,
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: but he's better than 15.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's already started.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I almost got fired over Brandon a
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: couple years ago for making a similar comparison at the
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: high school level.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: What'd you do?
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: I made the comparison.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: I said, you know, I think Tyson Robinson's probably a
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: better high school back than Jarius Norwood was. And son,
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: you would have thought I cussed the city of Brandon
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: and loved Jarius Norwood. He was iconic at Brandon, but
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: it was two totally different eras.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: And I was talking about the overall package of what
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Tyson Robinson, who's headed to Michigan, has to offer. I
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: literally thought I was going to get run out of
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: there for saying that. Like, you can't say stuff like that.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? Like, so, well, that happened
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: in Starkville.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: If Kamario Taylor starts getting more run than 15 does.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: Some people will want to fight you.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no doubt. Ugly Mustard. Would be a one-sided fight.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Delaware is the Blue Hens. There you go.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: And let's see. Did we miss anything? We got any
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers news today? Have they manifested anything this week?
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: No.
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: Nothing from Aaron Rodgers except talking about his old fiancés.
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: Nothing on-field-wise, though.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: So there's a new AI photo of Holly Rhodes, Steve Sarkeesian,
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: kissing it.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Kissing during that time. That's out there. See, it is
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: also pointless.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: AI.
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: Why does it exist?
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: I don't think Arch Manning has anything to worry about
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: on losing any of his deals, does he?
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: No, I don't think so.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's see here. And don't we have a Thursday night?
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: Who's playing in the NFL this week? Thursday night. Is
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: there a Thursday night game?
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's going to be a good one. Lions-Bills, and
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: it's the first game at the Bills' new stadium.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Ooh, yeah.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: Buffalo, a four-and-a-half-point favorite. Thursday night football, 7-15. That's going
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: to be a total of 53. Yeah, that should be
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: a really good game. Really good game. And the Saints
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: travel to Baltimore. They're an eight-point dog. They're going to
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: quickly be 0-2, aren't they?
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. Yep, who dat? Quickly 0-2. And
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: just kind of looking through some of these.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: My Miami Dolphins travel to your San Francisco 49ers, 13-and-a-half.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: That might as well be 25 in the college ranks.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: That's a big NFL line, 13-and-a-half. Yeah, San Francisco will
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: do with them as they wish. And will the Cowboys
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: go 0-2? They are a small three-and-a-half point favorite against
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: the Commanders this weekend.
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: Commanders, I was surprised the way they hung in with
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: the Eagles the other day, but I rarely have faith
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: in the Commanders to do anything. I've downright lost a
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: lot of faith in Jayden Daniels. So I think the
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: Cowboys will win.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: DX says he bet Pearl wouldn't treat me that way.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: What do you think? What way?
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: The way people wanted to throw me out of there
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: a few years ago, making that Tyson Robinson better than
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: Jarius Norwood come in.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: But wait, DX, why did you spell it with a U?
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, he did.
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: It sounded positive, but then I saw you spell Pearl
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: with a U.
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: So you went negative.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: Somebody says the Giants got 28 yards and a TD
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: running the same play four times in a row.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, they did.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: Hey, thanks to Michael Katz. Thanks to Ben Troop. You
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: guys have been awesome today. We'll get back into it tomorrow. Remember,
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: ketchup is king. Bacon's a delicacy. Aloha means goodbye. Be
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: a man of increase. We have reached the crescendo on
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: a Tuesday.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: See you tomorrow.