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How was Texas well-prepared for move to SEC? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Speaking of a hit. This Jerry Jones conversation apparently has
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  turned out to be quite the topic of the conversation.
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  He brought it up at the start of the program,
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  cam about the local newscast playing Jerry's sounding off on
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  his radio hosts there on one oh five to three
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  the Fan, and you asked the question after Jerry said,
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  and the quote, this is not your job. Your job
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  isn't to let me go over all the reasons that
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  I did something that I'm sorry that I did it.
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  That's not your job. I'll get somebody ouse to answer
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  these questions. Well, then later, as you pointed out, he
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  said to Diana Rassini the Athletic, if I'm going to
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  be grilled, I don't need it to be by the
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  guys I'm paying. So it kind of all had us
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  quizzically thinking about all this kind of stuff. And I've
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  reasoned that maybe what he's talking about is them buying
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  the airtime. I want to fight through the fan, and
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  that was part of the deal. Mike Doosey is longtime
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  sports anchor in the Dallas Forward Benterplex on the Fox affiliate,
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  and last night, in the commentary on his show, he
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  said this quote. The fan hosts were asking those questions
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  in a much more courteous way than cowboy fans would
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  be asking if they ever had a chance to sit
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  down one on one with you, saying this to Jerry
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  and let you know what they really think about the
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  way you've put this roster together. Deucy went on to say, Now,
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  this is very similar to the things I said yesterday, Cam,
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  if you remember, Deucy went on to say, he has admired.
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  I didn't say admire, but he has admired the way
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  Jerry usually takes criticism in a good natured way. I
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  did say that yesterday, but that this was different.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I said.
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  Speaker 1: I got a different vibe out of him out about
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  that quote. This little display this morning, that was ugly.
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  That was a billionaire bully pod because he wasn't hearing
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  exactly what he wanted to hear. Jerry, don't blame the messengers.
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  Point the finger of blame at those who deserve it,
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  your players, your coaches, and yourself. That's where that reach.
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  Speaker 2: Brother.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so said that about there. Now, whether Jerry really
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  pays any attention to it, probably not. But anyway, let's
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  hear from long worns head coach Steve Circasian Stark on
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  the SEC teleconference this morning with some comments. First of all,
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  his opening thoughts in this SEC teleconference conference call, It's
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  a great data.
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  Speaker 3: Bill, obviously a great opportunity for us this week, getting
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  ready to play a marquee game Gains University at Georgia,
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  a program that we really feel like has set the
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  standard in college football here over the past you know, shoot,
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  almost a decade now, I mean, Coach Smart's done a
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  great job.
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  Speaker 2: We know it's gonna be a heck of a challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Should be a great environment here at DKR and looking
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  forward to the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right. Then he was asked what allowed his
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  program to be so well prepared for this transition into
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  the SEC because we've been here two you know, Ssex
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  he's different. They're going to find out it's gonna be different.
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  Blah blah blah. And here they are rolling along right now,
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  not only sitting on top of the SEC, but on
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  top of the national polls right now.
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  Speaker 2: So it was asked what.
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  Speaker 1: It's allowed his program to be so well prepared for
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  this transition into the Southeastern Conference.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, when we took the job, here, you know,
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  four years ago, really looked at hey, why are we
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  taking the job. And you don't come to Texas just
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  to be a head coach. You come to Texas to
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  compete for championships. And we felt like, okay, if we
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  want to try to win a national championship in the
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  old model somewhere there, you were going to have to
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  beat Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, maybe Notre Dame. Those
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  were kind of the four teams that were kind of
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  rotating the college Football Playoff, and so to do that was, Okay,
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  what type of team do we need to have to
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  make that happen? And we felt like we got to
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  get bigger up front at the line of scrim jump
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  both sides of the ball, and we need to get
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  faster on the perimeter, and that that's what it was
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  going to take to beat those teams in the playoff.
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  And then so when we got notified that we were
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  going to the SEC, that that formula for building the
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  team really didn't have to change at that point because
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  you know, we had already been building the team that
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  way to try to beat the best teams out of
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  the SEC. And so to make that happen, and we
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  felt like we got to get bigger up front at
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  the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball,
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  and we need to get faster on the perimeter, and
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  that that's what it was going to take to beat
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  those teams in the playoff. And then so when we
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  got notified that we were going to the SEC, that
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  that formula for building the team really didn't have to
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  change at that point because we had already been building
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  the team that way to try to beat the best
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  teams out of the SEC. And so it just kind
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  of re affirmed what we're what we were doing needed.
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  Speaker 1: To be done.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's been the process, you know, along with
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  I think, you know, building our culture. You know, it's
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  one thing to have really talented players or big, big people,
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  but I think, you know, I've said this all along.
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  I think I think culture beats talent, and that was
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  something we had to hang.
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  Speaker 3: Our hat on early while we were here.
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  Speaker 2: But I think culture and talent together is really dangerous,
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  and I think that that's that's kind of what we've
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  become as a program now now.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, sure that the word came down that
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  he was going that that Texas was going to go
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  into the Southeastern Conference. Georgia was sitting on top of
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  the college football world as the national champions. So Sark
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  was asked at that time was he trying to mirror
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  what his friend Kirby Smart had built and was doing
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  at Georgia as Sark was building his program.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the ins and outs the inner workings
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  of of Georgia. I mean, clearly, you know, Kirby has
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  done a tremendous job. You know what what they've been
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  able to dude from a consistency standpoint, the number of wins,
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  the championship appearances in the SEC Championship, the national championship appearances,
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  the back to back national titles. You know that that
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  level of consistency doesn't happen by chance. You know, he's
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  recruited really good players, he does a heck of a
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  job coaching. He's had coaches come and go, He's you know,
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  he's brought in new coaches that have done a really
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  good job. And so you know, they're obviously ahead of
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  the curve of where we are from where they where
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  they started and where we are today. But again, I
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  think a lot of the stuff is, you know, Kirby
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  and I's backgrounds with Coach Saban, and you know, if
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  you you're at Alabama, whether it's for a short time
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  or a long time, there's a lot of lessons to
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  be learned. Not everybody's going to be Nick Saban, but
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  there's a lot of lessons to be learned, and there's
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  a there's some method to the madness of of how
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  he goes about his business. And I think we both
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  probably took some some pretty good notes of trying to
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  build a build a program and an organization that could
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  be sustainable and not just one year have a really
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  good year and then be down for a couple but
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  be sustainable to where you're competitive and your compete for
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  championships year in and year out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and he has pointed us out. We mentioned it earlier,
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  he said at the news conference on Monday. Kirby Smart
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  said it in his news conference on Monday that the
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  two are good friends and that they get together as
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  part of a coach's retreat thing at the end of
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  air year, so they know each other. Of course, obviously
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  they've both been former assistants under Nick Saban, so they
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  are friends. So he was asked a captain obvious question
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  what makes Sark and Kirby Smart such good friends.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're both average golfers. I don't know. I honestly,
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  I really think it's more of a personality connection than
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  it is just you know, hey we like this or
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  like that. You know, we both played, you know, we
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  then we both got you know, weren't good enough to
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  kind of have real careers professionally, and we both started
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  coaching when we were young. And you know, we both
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  have sons at play and both work for coach Saban,
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  and so there's just kind of and then I think,
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  like you said, there's a personality trade that that makes sense.
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  You know, we're both highly competitive, but yet we like
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  to have fun. We both can joke, we can have
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  a good time, and and so again, I don't know
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  if it's like just specifically that hey, you know, we
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  both like you know, the specific color or something. We
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  just I just think we get along and that sometimes
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  is the best kind of friendship to have.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So we're gonna hear more from Sark coming up
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  the next segment. He's got a few more things to
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  uh to say about this this matchup, so we'll we'll
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  get to that coming up. And also remind you that
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  Long Worn Weekly with Coach Sark is coming up ninety
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  minutes from now the show taping, So if you wanted
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  to come out the Pluckers and a lot of people
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  ask me if they say, hey, what's the day of
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  the week that you do that, I'd like to come
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  out there and see, And it's Wednesday is when we
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  record the show and we do it from six to
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  seven pm at Pluckers. It's at the West Campus location.
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  It's at twenty two twenty two Rio Grand and there's
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  a parking I know it's a kind of a congested
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  area over there West Campus, but if you go up
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  Rio Grand, or come down twenty third and go up
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  or twenty first and then go up a Rio Grand
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  from there, there's a parking garage there that you can access.
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  Just pass Pluckers coming going north on the street. What's
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  the only way you can go. That's one way. It
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  would be on your left, So it's there. We record
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  the show from six to seven on Wednesdays. So we're
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  going to record the show tonight at six and then
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  it'll air tomorrow night at seven. Also, you can see
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  the televised version of it because it is it is
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  recorded for television by Vivo Productions and aired on KBVO
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  Channel fifty one, and it airs on Friday nights. I
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  believe at nine o'clock is when you would see the
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  televised version of that, But if you want to be
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  there for the taping, it's six o'clock this evening. We'll
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