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Mississippi State vs Arkansas 2024 · Johnny's World

• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: All right, welcome back to another episode of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: This is one of your hosts, BW.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: I am here with my esteemed colleague.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: He is calling in from Orlando, Florida.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: He's down there with our buddy Juan Valdez.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: You're at the uh Cabanas Hotel in Universal Studios.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: Johnny, how are we doing?
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we're doing great.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, yeah, uh Cabana Hotel, Universal Studios got here uh late yesterday evening and uh we went to uh went to went to eat dinner and then went to see uh grabbed a movie, went to see uh Beetlejuice, uh Beetlejuice Beetlejuice or Beetlejuice 2 uh at the theater last night because the parks were uh closed.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: But uh then we got up early today and we hit up the volcano bay, which uh pretty cool.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's a water park, and then it ended up Universal and got there in time to see the parade, which was really neat.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: They had uh well, my favorite movies, uh our all-time favorite movies are back to Future and Jaws, and they had a Back to Future Jaws uh uh uh floats in the parade, along with Ghostbusters, ET, and Jurassic Park.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: So it was really neat seeing that.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: And we got to ride some of the rides and did an 80-foot uh free fall drop at the volcano bay water park, which was insane.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: Tell us uh tell us what you were telling me about climbing to the top, the 80 foot to the top there.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so uh it you climb it, I think it's about 70 or 80 feet up, and uh so you're climbing up, climbing up, and you go up one flight of stairs, look up, like, okay, one more, one more.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: And man, like literally, I probably had it had to stop three separate times because I was out of breath.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_01: And there is no way possible I could have done that without uh tricatolite.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_01: Free try taking tricathane.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_01: There's no way I could have done it.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: I would have passed out.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: There's no way.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I got all the way up to the top.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, it's worn out by the time I got to the top, but I made it up there, and uh, like literally you get up there and there's like a little tube, it's a glass tube, and you stand in the glass tube and they and then it closes, and then they say three, two, one, and literally the bottom opens and you drop 80 feet straight down uh in the water.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's insane.
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  SPEAKER_01: You dropped in four seconds, you're at the bottom.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: So you don't, I mean it goes by so fast you don't even you don't even know it.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: You can't see anything, it's just uh water stuff.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: But it was uh one, you know, everybody one he he's he's a thrill adventure guy like myself, but he doesn't like uh he doesn't like free falling, so he didn't do that one.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but it was fun.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: Glad I did it.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: I saw it last year and didn't do it, but did this year.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: So uh tomorrow we're hitting up, we got two more days, and we're gonna do um probably do the Velocicoaster, which is the Jurassic Park ride and the Hagrid's ride.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_01: Those are the two most famous ones here, the longest wait times.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna try to hit those up.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: And then tomorrow night and the next night are the Halloween horror nights.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_01: That's why we came for this and came last year.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: And uh they have different different houses, different haunted houses, and uh with themes like uh this year there's a Ghostbusters house, which would be pretty neat.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so but um, but yeah, it's really really neat.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh BW, I know you don't you're not a big horror guy, so I don't think you would like like all these uh haunted houses.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: No people jump out and scare you, but it's all in good fun.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's it's it's so funny.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_01: I was kind of warned by that like yesterday.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like we want to, we literally we want to be scared.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_01: We want to go somewhere where it's like scary and stuff.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_01: And like I guess the older you get, movies aren't scary anymore.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: All this stuff's not scary, but it's still it's still fun.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, yeah, I've never never been big into the scares.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's not my definitely not my thing.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, but I don't know if y'all heard what Johnny said.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, a 43-year-old man with cystic fibrosis climbing to the top of the 80, 80-foot slide.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: Could not have done that without the miracle drug that uh we call tricapta and uh or the the drug called tricapta that's the miracle drug.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: And uh we couldn't do it, you know.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh cystic fibrosis foundation uh research, all that could not happen if it weren't for donations.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: And that's part of the reason we're doing this podcast, is so we can raise money for the cystic fibrosis foundation.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're interested in donating to us, go to johnnypacker.net and you can get on there and order you some fresh roasted coffee and uh some good stuff.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: And and most of what you're gonna be paying for that coffee is gonna go straight to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: So get on there, check it out, and you can help more folks climb to the top of 80-foot water slides at the CF.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and today's a big day, BWI.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know uh if you're out there listening, check it out.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: My Facebook post today, I uh re-shared it.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_01: Five years ago today is the anniversary.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I got Tricafta.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_01: So uh started uh the journey five years ago today.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: I was hospitalized uh September of 2019 for the whole month pretty much.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I did not want to, I was like, I'm not leaving this hospital until I get this drug.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, We're you know, we're we're where you you're gonna get it eventually.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh I had to go home and literally the next day it it broke.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: F FDA approved it.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: So I rushed back over there that next morning, got it, and uh took the took the first uh pill, first uh dose in the clinic, and that's what I shared a video of today on my on my Facebook page.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh check it out for people that want to see.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_01: And then uh, and then that night I I I took one and uh that's when I've talked about this before.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_01: I had the as it was called the purge, which is uh I woke up that night about 5 a.m.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: the next morning, just absolutely coughing my brains out, the most vicious, violent cough I've ever heard.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I was getting up, mucus had been stuck in my lungs for 40 plus years.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, they call that the the purge.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, and literally when I got all that stuff up, I could breathe immediately.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: And uh just total, total life game changer.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_01: And uh that happened uh five years ago today.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's really hard to believe because thinking about thinking back on how sick I was in 2019, like I couldn't do this trip.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: This trip is hard, man.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, we when you get we get a uh parts, you walk, I think Juan said we walked 19,000 steps today.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: So it's tough.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: But last year I did it.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: We walked 30,000 steps one day, which I'm sure we will tomorrow and the next day because the car nights is all night.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: So uh it's hard for a regular person to do this.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm sitting in here doing it with uh the lung function that I have, which is not that great, but it's better than what it was pre-tricafta.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: And uh it's it's literally uh kept me from uh I mean it's it's kept me alive, absolutely is what it has.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: And it's been uh five years today.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_01: So a big happy birthday anniversary to take a tricafta.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: What a way to celebrate it and climbing a 70, 80 foot water slide that granted Blay.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_01: And and even though it was tough doing it, uh I was able to do it.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I just know I couldn't, I would not have been able to do it before that.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, so well, what we're doing is uh with this podcast, like we say, we're we're helping spread the word, spread awareness.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I'm doing with this fight with CF, letting people know five years ago.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: I actually have to send you this video.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: I took a video, got my mom to record me five years ago tonight when I took the night dose, and uh I joked around and talked about how I was turning into incredible Hulk, man.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: It was like it's pretty pretty funny.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, so it's it's just an absolute uh life changer.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: But there's still people fighting, man.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: There's still people just like I was in 2019 pre-trica who don't have anything, and that's that's what we're uh raising money for and trying to get people out, uh get those folks their own type of uh effective treatment uh with a modulator that they can take because they can't take tricapta.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so the money that you get by going to Johnnypacker.net, buying a bag of coffee goes towards the CF Foundation and they use that money for research to uh help come up with new drugs.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, it's it takes years and years to come up with with uh with these medicines that they've been working on.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: And they're working on stuff right now for this 10% that do not have any.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, and once that that comes to be when everybody has effective treatment, then it's gonna be um I don't know if CFR ever be cured, but that'll be the closest thing ever.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: And we're we're very, very close.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: So uh eventually one day it will happen.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, but right now we're just uh we're so thankful for for the those that are able to take tricaptor like myself because uh it's been a long road and uh but it's not over yet.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, like I said, we're still fighting.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: I still I just finished doing my treatments tonight.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it and I gotta get up in the morning and do them again before we go.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: So it's a con constant battle.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: People probably listen, think and aren't familiar with CF like, oh, they got this miracle drug, he's good.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: Nope, it's a constant battle.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: 60 pills a day, breathing treatments, right left.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: I've got the an insulin pump, all this stuff that I've dealt with with CF and just added on, you know.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: I take this miracle drug that that goes along with it.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, but anyway, just very, very grateful for for it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh, especially today, a special day being five years and and being to celebrate by going doing the trip like this, it makes it make it makes it more meaningful than ever.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, but thank you all for for listening and thank you for uh going to the website and and thank you for donating.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: Please spread the word and and let's keep uh keep fighting.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Well, Johnny, um had another tough ball game this past week.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: Texas AM.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh team looked looking better, still moving in the right direction.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: Would have been nice to have won that one, but we didn't win.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe this week is gonna be the week.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh playing up against old Sam Pittman in the jukebox.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, the jukebox gets unplugged this weekend.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, you have any thoughts about last weekend's game?
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, last weekend was cool, man.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we had um my my mom is now the uh Capacig uh house mom.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: So um, and then and I was a Capital Sig at Mississippi State during my time.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: So we had alumni weekend, so she was kind of in charge of that.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I went up there to the house and and some guys that I hadn't seen in a long time came up, and and it was um it was real successful.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I I know she was real worried about how it was gonna go, but it really it was a real a big success.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people showed up, so that was really cool seeing that and uh getting to see all those people and then went and then went into the stadium and then in the end of the first quarter was a really neat moment, is when they introduced the 2014 team.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: And like we had uh Richie Brown on last week talking about the 2014 team and how special it was.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it was really neat to see.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, of course, Dak and and uh Dan Mullen came out and they actually rang the big cowbell before the game started.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: But that was cool.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: Entrance uh they um their their entrance during their time here at Mississippi State, uh they always came out to the song uh shipping up to Boston by the dropkick Murphy's.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: That was their entrance all the time.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: So anyway, they came out to that.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: That was pretty neat.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um, because I think now Levy comes out to um a money for nothing by Dower Street song.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: But but during the Mullen era, it was shipping up to Boston.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so they played that when the when the team came out and Dak uh they they had the camera behind him, you had on a scroll hat, and uh it was neat getting to see him and and uh all those guys that made that team so special were there.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um and then they remembered the two guys on the team that had passed away, their families were there, but uh I think everybody showed up that was part of that team and and uh and seeing uh Dan Mullen there, man.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: I was so happy that that people uh cheered him because whether you whatever your opinion is on Coach Wellum uh leaving, you know, that's your own issue.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: But for what he did for for Mississippi State and putting Mississippi State on the map, being number one, he deserves all credit for it.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, and I'm I was happy to see that the fans supported him and cheered for him because he actually you can tell when you hear uh him coach, I mean hear him talk in interviews, he loves Mississippi State.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_01: We had him on before he he was bragging about uh Mississippi, how his kids still say today that they're from uh Mississippi, that that's where they were born.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, someone asked him uh if he went if he ever was to get into some type of Hall of Fame, what would he be represented?
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_01: Would it be Florida or Mississippi State or you know what?
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: And he said he would be a Mississippi State Bulldog.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so that means a lot.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: And um just seeing them back together, and uh, it just brought so many, so many good memories.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: And uh and the team, you know, we have come a long way, BW, from the Toledo game.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, we're not winning, and we might not win many more games, if any, but we're fighting.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's hard to it's hard to uh for people not who are not, I guess, watching all these games, they just look at this schedule and say, Oh, they stink, man, they're losing, losing, but not paying attention to the games, you don't have really have a clue because it's obvious that we're improving.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: And uh moral victories, I hate that.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I feel like we're ranked number one in the country in moral victories at this point, and and exactly that's pretty much what we have going for us.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh, but as far as fighting and continue to fight and putting up points, we're doing it.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh it's our defense.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: That's the issue.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: Defense is good way too many points, they can't stop anyone, and it puts the pressure on the offense because you get if your defense gives up all these points, then your offense has to score a lot of points.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_01: And and um anyway, it just it's it's it's the defense is the issue with this team this year's team.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, I don't know how that's gonna get fixed, but hopefully in the future uh they'll make some changes or whatnot what need to be uh to get some guys in or do something.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: But right now, um we're literally just trying to stay in games and be competitive and uh and give a good fight and hopefully uh knock off someone.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: And we have a great chance this weekend with like you said, Sam Pittman and Arkansas coming in.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they're not they're not I mean they're they're all right.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they beat uh their big win was who they beat Tennessee, but they're their average football team.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: And that if you're looking at it, this would be we don't have that many chances on games remaining on the schedule to to get a win.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I would say this is a chance to get a win.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I don't know if I'm gonna go, I haven't decided yet if I'm gonna go that far and say we're gonna win, but I I really think that we have a good shot of knocking off Arkansas and a much need to win because these guys on the team, I know it stinks, man.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: That day every day, I mean I'm every weekend, they're fighting and playing hard, and that same result, lost, lost, lost, lost.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's gotta get to get old and uh and you know, seeing how how much improved they're waiting for their results to pay off and uh and they got, like I said, a really good chance to to get that win this weekend, I think.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: What what are your thoughts?
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, all I heard last week was how good Texas AM's defensive front was.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, obviously at the second half they they turned it on and and beat us, but we moved the ball on them.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: We we ran the ball on them, and and that was really I was really impressed by that.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: I I almost expected us, you know, after listening to some of that, to not really be able to do much against those guys.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: And so just the fact that we put up what 24 points on them, I was I was pretty happy with that.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um and so, you know, I don't think Arkansas is gonna have the same, you know, defensive front.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: So we should be able to move the ball against them a lot more, and their offense should not be as good as Texas AM's offense was.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I mean, if we if we play like we've played against the last basically three games, you know, Texas, Georgia, and Texas AM, we should beat Arkansas because you know, if you really think about it that way.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um But we'll see.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm I'm kind of with you too.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm kind of scared to to pick us to win when jinx it.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: But but I have a lot better feeling about this one than I have any other game so far.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think so too.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_01: I think uh, like I said last week, I think the the uh it's the defense, we just can't give up a lot of points.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh if we can't, if we give up a whole lot of points like we did against Toledo, then we're starting off from the uh it's it's it's hard to dig yourself a hole to come out of.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: So just don't get behind early and and uh and and play play uh play a decent game and you got a fighting chance.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: So I I think that I'm not gonna make a score prediction on this BW because like I said, I don't want to jinx anything, but if I was gonna pick anything, I would be heavily leaning on picking Mississippi State to win this game.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm not gonna do it because I don't want to jinx anything, but uh we have a great chance.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: But uh again, on the other end, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a close game and we lose.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: So uh but at least we're not getting blown out.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: So that's that's a plus.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I know moral victories, uh people they stink and they don't count and everything.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: That is true, but in the case of this year's team, with what went on the losing that bat to Toledo and getting embarrassed at home, these these close games, moral victories do count, in my opinion, and and it's showing that there Levy possibly is the right guy uh for the for the future for this team.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm with you, Johnny.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna make a pick either.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna say I feel good about it, and hopefully we're right.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to jigz anything either.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll leave it at that.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: The uh the only thing I do want to say is uh I was a little a little disappointed.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: I really thought in the fourth quarter, BW, since that Mullen and Dak and that guy, all those guys were back, I thought they were gonna break out Dolstyle Believing.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: I really did.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: I thought the fourth quarter they were gonna play it.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: They did not.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: They continued with our new uh with the song that we do now, fourth quarter song, uh Sweet Dreams.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh cool.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: I really thought they were gonna do that for for uh for those guys there.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, I guess it's just a different different era now.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: We're not gonna do that, but um, but regardless, it was cool to see see all those guys back on campus.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh man, that was that was uh that was a great time, uh BW.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: What what are your real quick?
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: Let's uh say, do you remember your thoughts on that Auburn game that when we went to number one where you had that game or you remember it?
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: I was there.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: I actually drove up um by myself, didn't have, you know, it was hard so hard to get a ticket.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: I got a standing room-only ticket.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: I was up there uh on the ramp on the west side, on the north end zone, uh about you know, midway up the ramp, kind of above where that that little area is now that forget that the little kind of tailgate area they have up there.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I was a little bit cut off on the uh the south end zone.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: I I I was I couldn't see like maybe part of the corner down there.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and and it was kind of raining.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: But luckily I was underneath the the awning there, and it was the most people I've ever seen in there, you know, like I said, standing room only.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, I just gotta get a ticket to this game, I gotta be there because I just had this good feeling about it, and I'm so glad I went up there and saw that and just that the noise that how loud it was.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um when we, you know, we what did we go go up 21-0?
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: 21-0 right off the and it was just insane.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just oh, one of the best Mississippi State football moments of my life.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it it really was that that three-game stretch, beating LSU at Tiger Stadium and and coming back at 8 a.m.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: and then Auburn.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's funny.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: I had uh the LSU game, I had uh tickets and uh got them from a friend of mine.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: We were in the literally at the nosebleeds BW, and they had a guy.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we a lady passed out before the game started, had to bring the stretcher up there from from heat Austin.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: The drink guy, the coat guy going around, he had a panic attack.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'll never forget this.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: He had a panic attack because of the height of where he was because I can't go.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: And all this happened before the game, but then we ended up winning the game there, which was just unbelievable.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: We had not won there in so long.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we actually ended up letting him in at the end, it was a close game at the very end, but I remember our buddy King was sitting uh right on the road in front of me, and he had a corndog in his mouth.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: He had a corn dog the whole game.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, it's pretty funny.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh still remember that.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: And then we come back the next week.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: We had that game against AM that we talked about last week where Richard Brown had the three picks and morning game, and then game day comes to town, Auburn.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was just I can still vividly see all that.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard to believe.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: That was 10 years ago, but you know, they they uh like you said, we we started off 21-0 up and uh and then they came back, and then it rained, like you said, in the second half, and and uh it just it was really it was really a surreal moment.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um just seeing that.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's it's up there, in my opinion, it's up there with the national championship just because uh yeah football has been so bad through its history, and they've never had, I mean, we've made it to Atlanta with Cook Cheryl and won the West.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but as far as being number one, seeing that one by your side that by your name that's never been done that I know of, and just knowing that you won that game, you're gonna be number one because um Auburn was highly ranked too, and then just getting it done.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: It was just a moment we'll always remember, and we held on for that ranking for like five weeks uh before we went to Alabama and lost.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: And that was uh that was a special time, man.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: Special time in Starboy.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: We're seeing, you know, when you came up this year and we saw all these condos and apartments, and we're like, man, all that stuff started then, man.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that that team and that year and Dak being there really just the whole economy of Mississippi in Starbucks and feeds off Mississippi State.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: And when that happened, it just kind of shot up.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: And we're still seeing 10 years later, uh, all this uh stuff on campus and uh in Startville, um, people are coming up and getting getting apartments and condos and stuff.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: And and it all started back then.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: So um it's just a surreal moment.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: And gosh, I'll never never forget that day.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: That was a top, top moment for all Bulldog fans to to be in Davis Wade that day when when uh when when we finally reached the pinnacle of number one.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I remember the next day getting seeing the seeing the thing, it was just surreal seeing it uh, you know, in person.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you're number one and then the college football uh playoff show, you know, they they picked uh the top four, and we were number one first time ever in the college football playoff poll um standing, I guess you could say, uh that we're one.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: And they're always that's always a trivia question.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone will remember who was the first team ever ranked to number one in the college football uh playoff, and there'll always be Mississippi State.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: And no one can ever take that away, BW, no matter no matter what.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: That that's there.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so prof to Dan Mullen, Dak Crescott, that whole crew.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh there will always be legends in Starbucks.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: Couldn't have said any better, man.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: Well, hopefully, like I said, we're unplugging a jukebox on Sam Pittman this weekend and uh maybe start a little winning streak or something like that after this weekend.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll see what happens.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: That would be great.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we'll we'll try to keep the cold beers to ourselves this weekend and I can pitman.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: We all stay tuned to us next week and uh appreciate everybody listening.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: All right, sounds good.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: All right, y'all have fun down there.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: We'll do it.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: See ya.