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Episode 44-Bowling Green Preview · Johnny's World

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Coming to you live from the Johnny Packer Eyewear Studios in fabulous Dark Vegas, Mississippi, please welcome our co-host, the best iDoc this side of the Mississippi, BW.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: And now, welcome a true hero, a CF warrior whose favorite motto in life is just keep living.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Here's Johnny.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, welcome back to a brand new episode of the Johnny Scroll Podcast.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_02: Johnny here, along with uh co-host BW.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_01: What's up, BW?
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Hey Johnny.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_01: Man, you had an interesting guest last week on the podcast, and sounds like you had a pretty good good adventure in Baton Roos.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: I'm interested to hear more about that.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I didn't run into Scooter when I was down there.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_02: I guess he, you know, he told us he didn't go to the games much, so he was probably on the bayou, probably hunting gators and stuff, and probably listen to it or something.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_02: But hope our hope our viewers enjoy listening to Scooter Boudreaux because he's he's quite the character, and hope hopefully we can get him back on here one of these days.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, he sounds like he's a welcome to be wants to come on in time.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_02: So uh yeah, yeah, it was an entertaining weekend minus the game.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_02: Um, like I said on the podcast last week, I've been down there numerous times.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_02: So um, if you've never been to a game at LSU uh at night, you know, you need to go.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, whether your team's playing, whether it's state playing or whoever, just go to a game, experience it, man.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_02: Just be in there.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_02: I'll tell you what, if you're if you're there in the fourth quarter, when they start uh saying that the sun has made its home on the western sky, and it's now Saturday night in Death Valley, dun, dun, dun, dun dun, man, you'll get like if your hair doesn't stand up on the back of your neck when you hear that, man, you're you're not you're not a human.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's the best atmosphere.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_02: Hands down college football, and um it's got to be a night game.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_02: You gotta go for a night game.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's just something about it.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, you know, even though there were some seats in the upper deck that were not, it wasn't filled out like it usually is.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_02: I guess it's because LSU uh fans are not on board all the way yet with Brian Kelly and stuff.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_02: I guess that could be it.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_02: But uh, but there was a good good amount of crowd, I'm saying.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, there's probably 90,000, I think it was over 100,000.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_02: So it was still a good good amount of crowd.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh but uh but yeah, we don't really have to hash in the game.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_02: If you watch it, you know exactly what happened.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_02: But we had going into it, you know, we all thought we had a chance.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_02: So I was a two, I think we're two-point favorites, but but my prediction on the podcast last week came about right.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_02: I said 2117 LSU.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_02: I just felt like state is just all these years they've gone down there with good teams.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_02: You can think back to the early Jackie Cheryl years, 94, 98, like I talked about last week on the podcast, 2000.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_02: We've always had these better teams that go down there, and it's something like psychological, it's gotta be.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_02: When you get in that environment and play at night, there's just something about it, and and uh we just can't do it.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_02: And it's just it's just you know, just I don't know how I don't know what it is.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_02: Um, when we're the better team and we're favored, and and we just get down there and and choke.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_02: And that's uh that's exactly what happened, you know.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_02: We had we had the momentum going in in the first half.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_02: I felt like we we were in control for the game, and uh, but missing that first uh extra point, you know, that's just no excuse, man.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_02: I saw Coach Cheryl, he he rarely post on Facebook, but he posted on Facebook the other day about how special teams is so important.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_02: And when he was a coach up here, that's what he hardballed.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_02: He was a special teams coach himself, as uh special teams make and break.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_02: Whether you have good offense and defense, special teams takes one error in special teams uh it can turn the thing around.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_02: And we didn't have just one, we had two massive well, one the extra point.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I was scared we're gonna lose 17 to 16, and that was gonna be the point.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_02: That was excuse me, that was gonna be the the disaster of it, but it didn't turn out that way.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_02: But it turns out we had an even bigger special teams error was Austin Williams, who is a six-year player, a veteran guy.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_02: And and I just watched this a while ago.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_02: I wanted to see it because I could I mean from my seat, you know, I saw it, but I wanted to see it on TV.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_02: And uh he should just let the punk go into the end zone when I watched it.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_02: It was like it was going if he did not touch it, the ball would have gone into the end zone.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but you know what what can you say about it now?
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_02: And and you know, you wish you had someone like Tulu or someone back there who uh has return punts.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not sure why Austin Williams was in that position to do it, but he should have known better.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, but who am I to say?
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, he's the one that's an athlete on the field, and I'm not, but um, but looking on it, it's just like gosh, well that when that happened at that moment, when when when that happened and the nowcered on the TV goes, Muff, Muff, he muffed the punt.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_02: He muffed the punt, man.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_02: And when that happened and LSU got the ball, I knew it was over.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_02: I knew even though we still had the lead, I knew it was over.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_02: And that's exactly what happened.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_02: What I was talking about, the psychological thing.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_02: When you get down in a situation like that, it just seems like the momentum shifts, and the crowd get the crowd was dead the first half when we were beating them, you know, they were dead.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_02: And it just takes one thing to what to arouse the crowd there, and and that's it, exactly what happened.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_02: And and uh, and it just seems like uh and Will, you know, he's such a great quarterback, but man, I feel like the I think I feel like the teams are gonna find out when you rush, Will, you know, he can't run.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_02: So um that's the issue right there is he put pressure on him and uh and we and and he gets in trouble and can't scramble.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_02: And so uh they're gonna have to address that to get get find a way to get protection and get him to get the ball out quicker or something because um I feel like team we could have a really rough year ahead if that happens with the teams uh rushing the quarterback and and we can't we don't have a mobile quarterback.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_02: So uh a lot of a lot of uh issues to be corrected after this weekend, and you know, but it's not it's not uh do or die, you know.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_02: The there's still a long season ahead.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_02: As I mentioned last week in the podcast, we lost down there in 1998 and it and it and it we ended up winning.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna say by any means we're gonna win the West, but we won the West that year after that, and it turned our season around.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_02: So uh there's still hope.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not giving up.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, a lot of people are like, fire Mike Leach, fire.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, come on now.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you know, people are always quick to say that, you know, but you know, you just gotta gotta hold hold on.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I thought about I I ride and die with Mike Leach.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_02: That's who I wanted to be our coach all along, and I'm I'm on board with it till the long haul.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_02: I was real adamant about Joe Moorhead.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_02: I was that same way these people are Mike Fleach about Joe Moorhead when he was our coach because I thought he was a terrible coach.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, but Mike Fleach is a proven winner everywhere he's been.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_02: So um I I still have faith in him, and I think it's gonna get it turned around.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_02: And um, but it's just so like I said, it's just so hard to hard to win there.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_02: But I did see some fights, I saw some interesting stuff, some state fans talking trash to LSU fans.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_02: I was like thinking in my mind, you do not do that, you know, you don't do that.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_02: They were we were up 13 to 7 and they were pointing to the LSU fans saying scoreboard, scoreboard.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, you idiots and LSU fans are turning red, just wanted to come over there.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_02: And security came up, and you know, it's just uh, but hey man, that that that adds to the atmosphere of being down there is cool, you know, seeing that in person and stuff.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_02: But uh overall it was a fun trip.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_02: Uh got to uh eat some good food, stay with my uh cousin down there.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_02: I hadn't seen him in a long time, so um, it was it was a lot of fun.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_02: And on the way home, I got stopped to see the uh Leonard Skinner monument.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_02: I posted a picture of that on Facebook, and um I'd never I'd I'd call and I'd go to Louisiana all the time, and I never have stopped by there.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_02: I've seen the sign so many times, and I was like, you know what, I'm gonna stop and see it today.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_02: And uh stopped and it was really cool.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_02: And then I went and watched the documentary on Netflix called If I Leave Here Tomorrow about the plane crash.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_02: And so I learned all about I thought everyone that died in the plane crash, but it only four people, I believe, uh died.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so there are a lot of they were surviving people on the plane, but it was literally literally in the woods uh in uh Magnolia, Mississippi.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_02: So um it was that's kind of getting off topic, but it was a if if you're ever in that area, I I suggest you go check it out.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_02: It's a pretty cool thing.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_02: So uh so anyway, we're uh if I had any advice for the football team, I say just what he say, flush and move on to the next one.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_02: And we got Moland Green coming to town this weekend and a good good opponent to get a win and uh and move on from there.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I listened to the Nick Fitzgerald podcast, his new podcast.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: What's the name of it?
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_02: Um uh has been and ever was right, right, right, right.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I thought what he said was was good, obviously coming from a former player about playing down there, and he just he said, you know, it's it's like top five, top three, hardest place to play, especially at nighttime.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: He said, you know, it's not that's not a joke.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: He said that's that's intimidating as anything, and playing down there.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: And I just feel like we we had a couple opportunities that we didn't capitalize on, especially in the first half, and to to really kind of put it away.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: And uh listening to Matt White, I like to listen to the radio broadcast too.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_01: And on that fourth and one, where we tried to run it and they just stuffed us.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, they you know, they said Rogers made that call at the line, and he said he'll probably go back and they'll tell him, you know, that's not really our what we normally do, fourth and one.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like you're they're stacking the box, you're trying to find somebody man to man and just find somebody that's open and get it, get it to them.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I feel like we kind of played a little bit out of our element.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: It seemed like we were real run heavy there for a while, which was good to have run success, but you know, that's not really what our team does.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: So it is just kind of an interesting game.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: But I was really hoping we'd come out with a win, but it's all right.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: I, you know, I I think my pride was ahead of me because I said we're gonna be four and oh at the third start of the season, but I think deep down I should have just realized, you know, probably pretty pretty tough shot to to win down there.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm still, you know, I still feel good about the team.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: And really the only thing I worry about is this special teams missing the uh field, the extra points, but surely that's gonna get better.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: It can't be a repeat of last year, but I guess you never know.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, um, and this guy that we got, I think he's from California, was supposed to be like an all-American type kicker, and and and he's the guy that missed the two last week at Arizona, and they put in the backup, and the backup guy's the guy that missed it this time.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_02: So it's a mess.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_02: Uh they uh Mike, they asked Mike Leach in the press conference yesterday.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_02: Have you just thought about just going for two every time or anything doing the kicks?
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_02: And he was like, uh I thought about it, but uh, but uh he goes, uh I might I might try myself go out there myself and try to make the kicks and see if I can do it.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_02: So I don't know.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_02: It's it seems like these days always had issues with kickers.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_02: It's uh from way back when we were in Cog.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_02: I remember when the we were missing extra points and stuff, and I don't know what it yeah, but Coach Harrell says special teams will kill you, and that's exactly what happened.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_02: It's the story of the game, and and uh things would have been a lot different.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like a lot of the uh the game too felt like well, a lot of the players are dropping passes, and Will was getting it to them.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: There's just no excuse for dropping passes, and yeah, but uh but the game played out a lot like last year's game, in my opinion, because I felt like last year's game we had a chance to win, you know.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_02: We were the best team last year as well, and we still dropped this.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_02: Was the same thing this year, you know.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_02: We dominated the first half, and then it's just like when we came out in the second half, it was like a different team, and and it just and then and it all, I mean, we're still in control in third quarter, fourth quarter is when it just went downhill when the the um with the muff punt, it's just right after that, it's it's like they forgot to play or they just gave up or something, or the crowd intimidated them and psychological thing, like I said earlier, set in, and I don't know, but uh it's just so tough to win down there, and and there are reason that's the reason why it's uh probably the best atmosphere in college, college football.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, uh the the bowling green.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't know a lot about bowling green, so I won't have a whole lot to say, but but before we get to them, I I can't not say anything about your boy Tom Brady uh instigating a little fight during the Saints game there on the sideline.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: Man, that that Saints game was killer.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was really just like the our game.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: It was it seemed like we had a chance to win it the whole game, and then the fourth quarter just fell apart, and it just like Brady Brady starts talking trash to to Marshawn, and then Marshawn comes back and Mike Evans comes over there and cheap shots him, and Fournette gets involved, and then they they boot Evans and Marshawn, which I don't think Marshawn should have booted in the first place, and then Brady goes down there and just throws a dagger, T D, and then Jameis starts acting like Jameis throwing the ball all over the planet and pick six and interceptions, and just it just blows up in the face.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: So I was so frustrated after that.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: It was a tough weekend of football for me.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_02: It seems like uh the Saints, uh, the same situation when Tom Brady plays them.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_02: It seems like it's a psychological deal, and they just can't can't uh however.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_02: I did go in in 2009, the year the Saints won the Super Bowl.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_02: I I wanted to see the Saints play Tom Brady, and I went Monday night in the dome against uh uh Belichick and and Brady and the Patriots, and the Saints just came out and dominated him.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_02: It was just it was the most amazing game I've ever seen.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_02: They just smoked Tom Brady, but it just seems like in recent years, uh Tom Brady, I mean, he had like no like hardly any of his top players, you know.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: Julio, I saw he was out, and you know, um and and he's and they still still ended up uh winning.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_02: So I don't know, man.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_02: It just seems like a psychological thing when Saints and Brady just like state and lsu, but but um man, they were they were four-o in regular season against him until till now.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: They I mean they lost the playoff games to him, obviously.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: That's true, you know.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_02: I I don't know it's frustrating, man.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, Bo's getting mad.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: He wants to quit talking about Brady.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um, well, anyway, so you you know somebody that lives up in bowling green.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: So you got a little info from us about our opponent this week.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm interested to kind of hear hear a little bit about that.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't know much about bowling green.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: I was I was looking at it on the Google Maps, and it looks like it's not too far from Nashville.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um maybe two hours from Nashville or something like that, up the Interstate 65 there.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so pretty decent drive from from Starkville from here.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: But um tell me a little bit more about what you know about bowling green.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm I'm getting uh getting Bo to come down the steps right now.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_02: So I don't know.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_02: Let me get him down here and then I'll fill you in.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_02: All right, but uh all right, he just got down the steps.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah, bowling green.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_02: Uh see, I had a guy that a friend of mine that I worked with when I did an uh internship in um at Disney World after after college that graduated from bowling green.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_02: So I shot him a message today, told him we were gonna be talking about bowling green and asked him what it was known for.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_02: And uh and he said that believe it or not, and I had to had to check and see he wouldn't make sure he wasn't screwing with me.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_02: But he said that they are uh that they are known for the world tractor pool annual championships.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, uh I Googled it, Google it, that's exactly what uh they're known for.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_02: And then uh he said they discontinued the men's uh tennis team in 2022, 2020, so they could add suites to the football stadium, and uh, you know, uh bowling green also that's where uh Urban Meyer and Dan Mullen were at one point.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I forgot about that.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so I think that was around that time.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_02: So uh yeah, okay, and uh I asked him about places to eat, you know, because we like talking about places, and he said uh polyes is like a a great place to eat.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_02: I said, poly eyes, don't you mean Popeyes?
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, No, poly eyes.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_02: So again, I thought he was screwing with me, so I googled it, and it's a pizza and pasta place.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_02: So sure enough, if you're in bowling green or people listening from bowling green, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_02: But the most interesting fact about bowling green that he told me was that the Cleveland Browns used to have training camp at bowling green, and that's how they ended up with the same colors.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_02: So if you notice bowling green and the browns colors are brown and orange, so I thought that was uh pretty interesting, but uh yeah, uh shout out to him.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Matt Lower is his name.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_02: So uh appreciate that, Matt.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, give me uh info on your alma mater.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_02: But uh, you know, we played uh bowling green.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_02: I looked it up uh because I remember one year when Mullen was here, we did play him, and that was in 2013.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_02: And I remember I was at that game and it was close, so I had to go back today to look to see what the final score was, and it was 21-20.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_02: So we won by we won by one point.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_02: So uh so yeah, it's uh I hope that that's not the case for this week, but um yeah, it's I I remember that game going down to the wire, but when I looked at the box score on the game, those who are listening to this podcast will remember it.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, we didn't score it, it was a Ladarius Perkins was uh a touchdown run, and then we had two DAC runs for touchdowns, so that was just the amount of scoring in the game, uh three touchdown runs.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, but the crazy thing, there was no points in the fourth quarter, scoreless in the fourth quarter.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_02: So at the end of the third one was 21 to 20, we were up, so we held on for a one-point victory um in 2013.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_02: And if you remember, that was the year that uh before we went to number one.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_02: So um we went to the Liberty Bowl that year.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_02: So uh anyway, okay.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_02: Let's let's hope that let's hope that it's uh not a uh uh one-point game.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm looking on here, so it looks like uh you know, bowling green, they have the lost river caves.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_01: You can go on a cave tour on a boat, uh, down inside of some kind of cave, limestone caves, boat boat tours.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's got uh it's got 4.7 stars on Google, uh 4.6, 2,400 people like it.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: So could be a place to go.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: You also got the the Corvette Museum is there, and uh the Baker Arboretum and Downing Museum.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a big I'm a big fan of arboretum, Johnny.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: You like arboretums?
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_02: There was an arboretum in uh North Bay or sometime.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_02: You remember that?
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_02: We went on a field trip one time to it.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Simmons Simmons Arboretum.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: And we've got the uh botanical gardens here.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: So arboretum is trees, and it's not like plants and stuff, but but uh botanic gardens is gonna be like flowers and stuff.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: So so if you like trees, uh you want to go visit Nolan Green, go to the Baker Arboretum and go to the Lost River Cave.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: And then um go get go eat it, pollies.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: What is it?
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, polys.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: So are we doing a home and home?
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: Replayed them next year up there.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_02: Um I haven't looked at I haven't looked to see uh the schedule, and I'm not really sure.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_02: Um but I know we have never played them up there that I know of.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_02: Uh that year in 2013 was a one-time deal.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_02: We just played down here, so it could be like that for this year.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_02: But let's just hope the game's not a one-point uh win this year, otherwise people will really be be upset.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: But uh well, I'll tell you, I mean, I'm a little worried about it because I'm looking at the schedule here, and I really I kind of just I didn't think it was gonna be much of a game.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: So they first week they lost UCLA 45-17.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: And then second week they they lost to eastern Kentucky 59-57.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: But then they beat um Marshall 34-31 on the 17th.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: And if you remember right, Marshall beat Notre Dame.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: So technically Bowling Green beat Notre Dame, if you think about it that way.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, uh, as I said, against after we got after we beat Memphis, man, uh winning college football games are hard to do, like, you know, uh with all the upsets and stuff.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_02: So so hopefully, I mean, we there's no reason we should not beat bowling green according to everything that we're looking at.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_02: So uh so if we get a win, even like like in 2013, if it was a one-point win, we need to be satisfied that we got a W on the board.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_02: But uh, but I'm hoping that we come out and take all of our frustrations out from last weekend and just absolutely dominate them and and put up a bunch of yards and and get back to get back to our winning ways because the run after this weekend is gonna get really, really tough with SEC play coming up.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_02: But we do have three three straight home games, which is good, but the competition is gonna get a lot harder.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, the only other thing I worry about is even though it's at home, it's that 11 a.m.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: kick, and people just don't seem to show up for those like they should.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: And so you don't necessarily get that that home stadium vibe as much at 11 a.m.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: as you would get, you know, at a night game or something like that.
• 21:49
  unknown: Right.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: So the the home field advantage may not be as as good as we hope.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, hopefully I'm wrong, and all the students show up and everybody everybody's there, but I think it's gonna be another Hot one and um I could see it being you know two-thirds full or something like that.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: But hopefully they'll show up.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm I'm with you on that, uh especially after uh after coming back from a loss too from LSU.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_02: A lot of people might be mad mad and not want to come, especially at the 11 a.m.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_02: game.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm not expecting a huge crowd by any means.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but uh if we can just take care of business and move on to the next one, that'd be good.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_02: Because and I was really hoping if we got that win against LSU, the win this weekend.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_02: You got AM com rolling in the town the next week.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_02: But of course they dropped on the app state.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_02: But if that if we had both been undefeated coming in next week, that would have been a massive game.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_02: National television, prime time, probably uh big, big uh in the we're probably in the top 10, both teams, you know.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_02: But uh as as we all know with college football, you never know what's gonna happen.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_02: So uh so anyway, but hey, we gotta just focus on one at a time.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_02: Let's the coach speak, you know.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_02: But uh, but we do have some tough ones coming up with AM in Arkansas coming up next.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_02: But uh just gotta get through bowling green first.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_02: But they're gonna break uh break out.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_02: Have you seen the new uh the uniforms are gonna break out for this weekend?
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_02: It's gonna be pretty cool.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, uh it's they're doing a tribute, um uh tribute uniforms to some players um back in the day.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_02: That Dowing Bell, I believe is her name.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_02: So just uh just Google it um and look at look at them.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_02: They're really cool throwback uh uniforms.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_02: So they're breaking them out for this game.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so that'd be pretty cool.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_02: But uh you hope everybody can turn out and and we can get a win and we can move on and and salvage the season after the loss last weekend.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: Well, let's make some picks.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, so you got Johnny Vegas here.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: Johnny, uh if if y'all if y'all hadn't been paying attention to Johnny's picks, don't need to get on board.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: You need to be like one of those guys, you know, call in 1-800 Johnny,$20, get my picks for the week, and uh, and people might can make some money off of you.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh because because you've been pretty hot.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: You so you won the pick'em last week, and so far three and oh on on Mississippi State game picks, and you've been pretty right, like on all the scores and everything.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: So um, I don't know how you're doing against the spread, but we may, you know, after this week, if if things are looking up, we may we may start another website, johnny's picks.com, and see if we can raise a little more money for CF.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, if you don't want to buy coffee, just come by pick some Johnny and you'll have it.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_02: So hey, we'll we'll we'll take it out.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_02: We get it.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, I don't know.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I I guess I can thank the LSU Tigers for helping me get through this one because uh because I I noticed not many people picked LSU in our in our group pick.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_02: A lot of people picked state, and and I just uh you know, listening to the podcast last week.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_02: I just I've had this feeling all along that we're gonna drop that one at night and it uh it came true.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_02: So uh so yeah, so something did could good come of the loss.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_02: I ended up winning the pick'em for this week.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_02: So so thank you, Brian Kelly and the LSU Tigers for uh for at least salvaging it for uh win for me.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_02: But uh, but yeah, you're in second place, man.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_02: Don't count the eyeballers outright.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_02: You're right on my tail.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_02: People probably think we have people think we have this uh league rigged, man, with me and you being one and two right now.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_02: But it's not rigged, guys.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we're just uh we're just good at making picks, I guess.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_02: So uh, but we did have a bunch of people.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I got on Nick Fitzgerald today, man.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_02: Sent him a message like, dude, you forgot your picks again.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, Man, I got so much stuff.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_02: I'm making an alarm, put an alarm from now on to uh to uh to set my picks.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_02: So uh yeah.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, he said he's gonna he said I'm gonna make a comeback.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, if you miss a week of picks, man, in the uh season, season total standings, you're you're kind of hurting yourself.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_02: You're gonna have to make up some ground.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_02: So uh so don't forget to make your picks.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_02: Some people hadn't even made picks for the year.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_02: I think they completely forgot about it.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_02: So uh but the people that aren't competing and playing, keep it up because uh yeah, you can win something from johnnypacker.com and and uh help us spread the word.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, we sent uh the week two winner JD J D got some uh Hope City roast.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_01: So he should be getting that in the mail pretty soon.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um well tell tell us what you think, Johnny, and uh then I'll I'll close this out and and um make my picks after you.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_02: Uh well my picks for this weekend.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_02: Um, well, you'll know my other games beside the state game in our pick em league.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_02: You'll see that.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_02: But uh for the state game, I'm gonna throw out the score to be 38 to 13.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_02: Mississippi's gonna uh get the victory, I believe.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_02: And I think we're gonna put up a bunch of points and uh 38-13 is what I'm saying.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: I like it.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, I'm gonna go with my my instincts because they I've always always felt like I have good instincts.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: So I if I just go with my instinct and I and I say what I think is gonna happen, usually it's right.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: If I start second guessing things and looking at stuff too much, that's when it goes wrong.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: So I said at the beginning of the year we were gonna win this game.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: I still think we will.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say it's gonna be 44 to 17.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna miss another extra point.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: That's where I'm getting 44 from.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: And it's gonna be the very first one, and then we're gonna just rattle off the rest of them, and then we're gonna roll in to the October schedule with some confidence, and we're gonna make it a game.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I think we're gonna be in some of these games, this AM and Arkansas game.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: I think we have a chance to beat those games, but we're gonna have to get some momentum going here, and and so these guys don't need to fool around and just take care of business here.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's what's gonna happen.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_02: 44-17 dogs, 44-17 and 38-13.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_02: And we're we're closing our picks on this.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_02: So uh I think uh I think we're we're right on the money, right, right around that.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, man, they don't need to they don't need to fool around, they need to build off this momentum, they need to need to come out there, dominate, and just uh savor the victory and get back on the winning side of things and have the momentum.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_02: That's what it's all about, having the momentum going into it.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_02: Because if we play, if we struggle against bowling green, or or if we lose to bowling green, uh or if we say even a close game, that momentum that we have is just gonna go downhill going into AM.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_02: And I can see AM just blowing us out if we struggle against uh bowling green.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_02: So this game is huge as far as our momentum if I sets up the rest of the season.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_02: So uh they really need to get in there, take care of business, get the W and then move on and prepare to uh to face AM because uh I think this game, you know, everyone said the LSU game, we're gonna know what our season's uh based off of after that game.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_02: And um, if our season is based off the first half of that game, then I'm feeling confident about it.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_02: But if it's based on the second half of the LCU game, we're in trouble.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_02: So uh so I still don't know a hundred percent about how we are.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_02: Um it's like a checkline high type thing, you know.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_02: You know, you think you're good at one point and then you're bad the other time.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_02: So we need to get it all together on the same page and play good for an entire game, build off of that, and then and then move on to the next week.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_02: So uh so yeah, hopefully it'll be a good week and we'll get back on the winning ways and keep up winning the picks.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_02: And I guess I'll have to let someone else join us.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_02: It's tough being on top, Brian.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_02: It's tough being the on top.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_02: So come join me, come join me at the top.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_02: I'll be there.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_02: There you go.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_02: All right, Johnny.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_02: All right, man.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: We'll talk to you later.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_02: Have a good one.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_02: Have a good week.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_02: Hell state.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: See ya.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: Hell state.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: Bye.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_02: Bye.