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Episode 28-Mario Haggan · Johnny's World

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SPEAKER_00: Coming to you live from the Johnny Packer Eyewear Studio in fabulous Dark Vegas, Mississippi, please welcome our co-host, the best iDoc this side of the Mississippi, BW.
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SPEAKER_00: And now, welcome a true hero, a DF Warrior whose favorite motto in life is just keep living.
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SPEAKER_01: All right, welcome to a new new episode of Johnny's World Podcast.
0:44
SPEAKER_01: I'm uh Johnny with my co-host here, BW.
0:47
SPEAKER_01: How are you doing today, BW?
0:48
SPEAKER_01: What's new?
0:49
SPEAKER_04: Man, doing good.
0:50
SPEAKER_04: Just enjoying the um football season here.
0:52
SPEAKER_04: Glad football season's back.
0:54
SPEAKER_04: Uh if you told me earlier this year that we'd lost to LSU in Memphis but beat Texas AM on the road, I wouldn't have believed you, but you know, we'll we'll take it however we can get it.
1:06
SPEAKER_04: Uh it was it was a good game this past weekend and and um saw some uh some you know promising things there.
1:13
SPEAKER_04: So I'm excited to see that.
1:14
SPEAKER_04: What happens the rest of the year?
1:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I would not I'm I'm with you, man.
1:18
SPEAKER_01: I thought we might drop a couple games, but gosh, I thought we dropped NT State in and uh and Texas AM, but we beat both of those teams and lost to Memphis and evolved teams uh and LSG.
1:29
SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, you know, a lot a lot of people were down on the Bulldogs after they lost to LSG, and now they're back on it, back on the high after beating uh Texas AM.
1:39
SPEAKER_01: A lot of promising things showed over the weekend.
1:41
SPEAKER_01: So that was really cool.
1:42
SPEAKER_01: Uh it's gonna be a lot of uh a lot of fun games coming up on the football season.
1:46
SPEAKER_01: Just glad we have football and something to uh to to uh to work.
1:56
SPEAKER_01: And uh Dibbledog and a sport.
2:00
SPEAKER_04: Yep.
2:01
SPEAKER_04: Well, um we got a special guest with us today, and and he's got a little bit of time crunch.
2:05
SPEAKER_04: So why don't we turn it over to him?
2:07
SPEAKER_04: Let let's introduce him and then we'll let him talk.
2:10
SPEAKER_04: And then at the end here, we'll let him go and uh we can talk a little bit more about the glasses after after he opts off.
2:15
SPEAKER_04: So you want to go ahead and introduce him?
2:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
2:17
SPEAKER_01: We uh we're so happy to have our guest today.
2:20
SPEAKER_01: Uh uh Brand and I um remind remember him fondly because we were at school at the same time he was, and he was a uh member of the football team at Mississippi State who went on to have a career in the NFL and uh all around a great guy, a great uh defensive player for our football team um under Coach Cheryl.
2:36
SPEAKER_01: Um and uh so without further ado, I'm gonna introduce our guest, Mario Hagan.
2:41
SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the program, Mario.
2:43
SPEAKER_02: Hey, thanks, guys.
2:44
SPEAKER_02: Thanks for having me on, man.
2:45
SPEAKER_02: Uh I appreciate the great introduction.
2:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
2:49
SPEAKER_01: Well, well, tell our tell our listeners a little bit how you uh how you ended up coming to Mississippi State.
2:53
SPEAKER_01: I know you're from Clarksdale, right?
2:55
SPEAKER_01: How do you end up at State?
2:57
SPEAKER_02: Well, man, honestly, it was uh I can tell you, I my first time coming to Mississippi State.
3:02
SPEAKER_02: I went to a football camp uh when I was a sophomore in high school, and I was out there uh the seven-on-seven camp and I'm out there running around and doing a lot of stuff, making some plays.
3:13
SPEAKER_02: And uh this one little short guy came up to me.
3:15
SPEAKER_02: He said, You're gonna be a bulldog one day.
3:17
SPEAKER_02: And uh, and so I held on to that.
3:20
SPEAKER_02: You know, that was the first time somebody really told me, uh made me feel like I could really play on that level.
3:25
SPEAKER_02: And so um, you know, I was I was one of those kids that uh went on most of my recruiting visits by myself.
3:31
SPEAKER_02: Uh, it's a little bit of a story, but I'll tell you, it's kind of fun and cool.
3:34
SPEAKER_02: I went on all my recruiting visits by myself.
3:36
SPEAKER_02: So I came to Mississippi State.
3:38
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I had been going over to uh the school up north for many years going the game, official and uh, you know, a few unofficial visits and things like that.
3:46
SPEAKER_02: And uh Coach Art Kaufman was the guy who recruited me pretty hard.
3:49
SPEAKER_02: And they were recruiting me and this guy you probably know by the name of Eddie Strong.
3:53
SPEAKER_02: And they were pretty high on him from coming out of South Panola, who's a uh pretty uh a good friend of mine.
3:58
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, I go on my visit to Mississippi State, and uh I get back on that after the weekend, and I'm I'm thinking pretty hard about it because I was pretty impressed by what was going on over there.
4:08
SPEAKER_02: And so I'm walking down the hall, and uh I'm going to, I made up my mind I'm going to Mississippi State.
4:16
SPEAKER_02: And at the same time, Art Kaufman is coming down the hallway, and he's going into the office as I'm going into the office and kind of fax in and uh and talk to Coach Cheryl and Coach Glenn Davis and Melvin Schmidt and tell them my decision.
4:28
SPEAKER_02: And uh he wanted to talk to me how I felt about playing D-lineman because they liked David Strong better than me and linebacker.
4:34
SPEAKER_02: And at that moment, I was like, you know what, the hell with this guy, the hell with O Miss.
4:38
SPEAKER_02: Man, I'm gonna go to Mississippi State for sure.
4:41
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
4:42
SPEAKER_02: And that guy that I told you about, um, that that said I would be a bulldog, his name, he was my linebacker coach when I got there, Jim Tompkins.
4:51
SPEAKER_02: And so he always had a lot of a lot of faith in me from the beginning when I came over to the camps and everything.
4:57
SPEAKER_02: And he's one of my best mentors as we speak.
4:59
SPEAKER_02: So uh a little bit scared to leave home, a little bit mad at Ole Miss.
5:03
SPEAKER_02: Uh well, the way Coach Kaufman presented it.
5:05
SPEAKER_02: And uh that's one of the reasons I ended up in Mississippi State.
5:09
SPEAKER_01: Well, Coach Tompkins, let me let me give a shout out to him.
5:11
SPEAKER_01: I when I was uh a little kid, uh I I had a me and Coach Cheryl became really good friends.
5:16
SPEAKER_01: He kind of took me under, let me travel with the team a good bit.
5:19
SPEAKER_01: And Coach Tompkins on on one of the trips kind of kind of took me under his wing.
5:23
SPEAKER_01: And and uh he was a mentor, like you said, just a great, great guy.
5:27
SPEAKER_01: I love Coach Tompkins, such a great guy.
5:29
SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, you have one of the best coaching you for sure.
5:32
SPEAKER_01: And no doubt about it, man.
5:34
SPEAKER_02: I love him to death.
5:35
SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
5:36
SPEAKER_01: Well, uh well, talk a little bit about playing at State.
5:39
SPEAKER_01: You have any good memories, any games you want to talk about, or or what it was like.
5:44
SPEAKER_02: I yeah, man, you know what?
5:46
SPEAKER_02: There were so many great things about being at Mississippi State.
5:49
SPEAKER_02: The the people I heard you mention earlier how the fans uh they were all off the wagon, now they're all back on the wagon, yeah things like that.
5:57
SPEAKER_02: I don't know, uh we didn't have social media.
5:59
SPEAKER_02: Social media wasn't a huge present back back then at that time.
6:03
SPEAKER_02: So I didn't get a chance to experience all the boards and people talking and stuff like that.
6:08
SPEAKER_02: But one of my fondest memories just just the fan, the atmosphere that we always had.
6:12
SPEAKER_02: And back then, when I was playing, you know, we had a top, we had the number one defense in the nation in '99, would beat Florida in 2000 when we the Senzo and Dante Walker uh just ran all over that defense.
6:24
SPEAKER_02: We held them to negative 97 yards.
6:26
SPEAKER_02: So that to me, man, just beating Ole Miss with the kick and all of that, the kick, the interception and everything, that and Florida beating Florida the way we did, man, that's had to be uh two of my top memories at Mississippi State, man.
6:39
SPEAKER_02: I mean, what else can you ask for beating beating the school up north like that with the kick and all that?
6:45
SPEAKER_02: It was just a fun time to be a bulldog at that point.
6:49
SPEAKER_04: And I remember when y'all beat Florida and uh Coach Spurrier, I think that was maybe one of the first Mississippi State games I ever went to.
6:56
SPEAKER_01: And it was uh I was he.
6:58
SPEAKER_04: What's that?
7:00
SPEAKER_01: Go ahead.
7:00
SPEAKER_01: I was just gonna ask about Coach Dunn.
7:02
SPEAKER_01: What were you saying?
7:02
SPEAKER_04: Okay, yeah.
7:03
SPEAKER_04: Um, the coach Coach Spurrier had that visor he wore and he threw that thing down on the sideline.
7:08
SPEAKER_04: He was so frustrated about that.
7:10
SPEAKER_02: And then that's what we like most.
7:13
SPEAKER_02: You know, one of our things was the theme going into the week.
7:16
SPEAKER_02: Let's see how many times we can get Steve Spurrier to throw that visor.
7:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I think we may have counted a total like 19 to 21 times we got Steve Spurrier.
7:25
SPEAKER_02: Coach Cheryl said we can get him to throw it more than 10 times, we will win this football game.
7:29
SPEAKER_02: And I think we did what we needed to do.
7:31
SPEAKER_01: I love it.
7:32
SPEAKER_01: I love it.
7:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that was that was Brandon and I that was mine and Brandon's first uh home game as a freshman in college.
7:38
SPEAKER_01: So we're that was a welcome experience to start with being a college student.
7:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, one hell of a welcome to the campus.
7:46
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, absolutely.
7:47
SPEAKER_01: That's a great day.
7:48
SPEAKER_01: Great day.
7:49
SPEAKER_01: Well, what about Jolie Dunn?
7:51
SPEAKER_01: How was it playing under under him on the defensive unit?
7:53
SPEAKER_01: I mean, y'all had that number one defense in 99.
7:55
SPEAKER_01: I mean, that y'all were just loaded.
7:58
SPEAKER_02: Man, one thing about Joe Lee Don, you had to be you had to be a tough bastard to play with him, man.
8:03
SPEAKER_02: This guy right here is, I mean, he's listen, I tell people all the time if we ran 60 plays, we blitzed 66 times.
8:10
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
8:11
SPEAKER_02: So we blitzed more than more time than not.
8:14
SPEAKER_02: You had to have a quarterback who was smart, you had to have some offensive line, linemen that were willing to play against a Jolie Dunn defense.
8:21
SPEAKER_02: And I think uh what he did helped me a lot in the pro being able to blitz time blitzes, uh, just be an all-around physical linebacker.
8:29
SPEAKER_02: And he was one hell of a tough coach, man.
8:31
SPEAKER_02: And uh I appreciate what he did for us at the time he was there.
8:37
SPEAKER_04: Well, I remember um I used to go work out at the Sanderson Center sometimes, and and we used to see you in there.
8:43
SPEAKER_04: It must have been when you were about to graduate or about to leave, and uh you must have been getting ready um for for the uh you know pro day or something like that.
8:53
SPEAKER_04: But I remember seeing you in there and you just were were throwing it down every time you were in there.
8:58
SPEAKER_04: And I don't remember anybody ever being with you.
9:00
SPEAKER_04: So did you just kind of come up with your own program or did you have somebody that was kind of helping you get ready, or how did you kind of approach your strength and training and everything like that?
9:08
SPEAKER_02: Man, I was just shine.
9:10
SPEAKER_02: I'm from Clarksdale, Mississippi, man.
9:12
SPEAKER_02: I love my city, I love every opportunity that it made me, but I wasn't going back, man.
9:17
SPEAKER_02: And that was my one opportunity outside of graduating from college.
9:20
SPEAKER_02: Uh, that was the one opportunity, one thing that I wanted.
9:23
SPEAKER_02: So I I put my own program together at that time.
9:26
SPEAKER_02: I knew it was only one way.
9:27
SPEAKER_02: If you saw the type of workouts that not only Coach Grant, Mike Grant at the time, who's our strength coach, but the things that I put on myself, even after Grant would go and uh we'd have a two-hour workout, I'd get another 45 minutes in, man.
9:40
SPEAKER_02: And that's all I know nowadays is just the work.
9:43
SPEAKER_02: That's what I teach my kids.
9:44
SPEAKER_02: That's that's my life.
9:46
SPEAKER_02: Just work, work, work.
9:47
SPEAKER_02: And at some point it's gonna pay off.
9:49
SPEAKER_02: And when you saw me at that time, I was a man on a mission and wasn't gonna be stopped.
9:56
SPEAKER_01: Well, well, you did it by getting to the NFL.
9:58
SPEAKER_01: Tell us about that.
9:59
SPEAKER_01: Was it uh is it the Denver Broncos?
10:01
SPEAKER_01: Is that who you're with?
10:02
SPEAKER_02: Or um I first got drafted, I first got drafted uh by the Buffalo Bills, uh spent five to five years there, and then went to Denver, spent about four and a half years there, and then I finished up my career in St.
10:16
SPEAKER_02: Louis.
10:17
SPEAKER_02: And uh man, I can tell you, the uh the NFL is the NFL.
10:21
SPEAKER_02: What you what you see is it's fun, it's illustrious, it's uh it can it could be sometime bright lights if you can't if you can't handle it a lot, it'll gobble you up.
10:30
SPEAKER_02: But it's what you dreamed of, man.
10:31
SPEAKER_02: It's what you work for, it's what the young kids work for now, it's what every guy that's playing college football wants the opportunity for.
10:39
SPEAKER_02: Um listen, again, like I said, it's the NFL, it's the ultimate prize of playing football from a kid on up to a grown man.
10:47
SPEAKER_02: And getting, I get we got paid a king's ransom to play a kid's sport.
10:50
SPEAKER_02: And that's the way, that's the best way I can explain it to you.
10:53
SPEAKER_02: It's done a lot for myself, my family.
10:56
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I got a son now playing football.
10:58
SPEAKER_02: He wants to uh be better than his dad.
11:00
SPEAKER_02: And, you know, hey, if that's what you want to do, man, go ahead and handle your business.
11:04
SPEAKER_02: Uh but my time in NFL, man, I I played over a decade and I wouldn't, I don't regret one minute of it.
11:10
SPEAKER_02: And and and and it was all love while I was playing.
11:15
SPEAKER_04: And it's it's good to hear that, you know, that all that hard work you put in that that you were rewarded with with such a long career like that.
11:22
SPEAKER_04: So um, but you mentioned something about uh you tell your kids now.
11:25
SPEAKER_04: So so what are you doing these days?
11:27
SPEAKER_02: Nowadays, man, I get just get the opportunity to sit back and watch what they do.
11:32
SPEAKER_02: Man, I I got a uh a little couple little business ventures that I invest in, a couple of restaurants with some friends of mine.
11:38
SPEAKER_02: And we just sit back, man.
11:40
SPEAKER_02: I was fortunate enough that I don't have to go in and and clock in and go and manual labor.
11:45
SPEAKER_02: And that's the what you saw from me in the Sanderson Center.
11:48
SPEAKER_02: That's what I was doing.
11:49
SPEAKER_02: I was taking the opportunity at that moment, so I didn't have to bust my knuckles and bust my ass for the next 50 years of my life.
11:55
SPEAKER_02: And so I have that opportunity now.
11:57
SPEAKER_02: So I get this, get an opportunity to sit back and enjoy what I get with the fruits of my labor early in my life.
12:05
SPEAKER_02: So uh to say what I'm doing, man, I'm just chilling, bro.
12:09
SPEAKER_02: Just enjoying, looking for the next big opportunity.
12:12
SPEAKER_02: I uh we have an investment group called Fifth Court Investment, some uh former teammates of mine, uh, a couple SEC guys in there, Tequio Spikes, London Fletcher, Angelo Crowell.
12:22
SPEAKER_02: We just uh we we find uh commercial opportunity and restaurant strip malls and things like that, and we try to pull the money and make sure that we're making the right decision.
12:31
SPEAKER_02: And so far, we've been blessed to uh have a lot of success in what we've done.
12:36
SPEAKER_02: So pretty cool, pretty cool deal for us.
12:40
SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
12:41
SPEAKER_01: Do you uh do you ever you still keep up with Mississippi State football?
12:44
SPEAKER_01: Do you ever make it to start with any of the games or what?
12:47
SPEAKER_02: No, I don't I don't make it to start with much, but you know, I try to keep up with Mississippi State football.
12:52
SPEAKER_02: And speaking of, man, what the hell are we doing?
12:54
SPEAKER_02: Are we gonna be are we gonna be air raid or is it gonna be grounded?
12:58
SPEAKER_02: I mean, what what the hell the pirate gonna do?
13:00
SPEAKER_02: Is the pirate gonna steer the ship or is he gonna keep it at bay?
13:02
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
13:03
SPEAKER_02: What you guys tell me what's going on?
13:05
SPEAKER_02: You're in start, bro.
13:06
SPEAKER_02: I'm looking from afar.
13:07
SPEAKER_02: You know, you see a kid in Will Rogers that looked promising, but Mike Leach just hadn't unleashed him yet.
13:13
SPEAKER_02: I mean, what are we doing?
13:14
SPEAKER_02: Are we ever gonna run the football?
13:16
SPEAKER_02: Are we gonna throw the damn ball down the field?
13:18
SPEAKER_02: Somebody tell me something.
13:19
SPEAKER_02: Come on, give me, give me some answers.
13:20
SPEAKER_02: I'm looking for it.
13:21
SPEAKER_02: I don't see it.
13:21
SPEAKER_02: What do you guys see that I don't?
13:23
SPEAKER_01: That's a good question, you know.
13:26
SPEAKER_01: Uh, who would have ever thought watching football when we're on the goal line and we're gonna throw the ball?
13:31
SPEAKER_01: Like, what are we doing now?
13:33
SPEAKER_01: You know, back in the days when Jackie was a coach, we'd be running it, running it, running it.
13:37
SPEAKER_01: And we throw the ball on the goal line.
13:39
SPEAKER_01: It's crazy, but uh yeah, we'll kind of had a coming out party uh against Texas AM.
13:44
SPEAKER_01: I was real proud of him, and he did a really good job.
13:46
SPEAKER_01: So I I it's anxious to see.
13:48
SPEAKER_01: You know, everybody says air ray's not gonna work in the SC.
13:51
SPEAKER_01: And you know, I guess it's too soon to tell when when when Leach gets his players in and system in, you know, see, but it's it's gonna be interesting for sure.
14:00
SPEAKER_01: It's different, different type of football than we're used to seeing for sure.
14:03
SPEAKER_02: Man, well, you said something that that irks me.
14:06
SPEAKER_02: Everybody always talks about getting the players in and getting the system in.
14:11
SPEAKER_02: Hey man, you you got scholarship kid.
14:13
SPEAKER_02: This is your second year, it's time to see it.
14:14
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
14:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I'm not saying that leaks can't get it done.
14:18
SPEAKER_02: Let's not maybe not boys anymore.
14:20
SPEAKER_02: They're there they're some great football players on that field.
14:23
SPEAKER_02: We just need to cash in and get it done.
14:25
SPEAKER_02: You got a good quarterback, you got a guy, you know, who who's who's his number one receiver?
14:29
SPEAKER_02: Who's he gonna go to?
14:30
SPEAKER_02: Who's his main man right now, right?
14:32
SPEAKER_02: You know, let's figure this out.
14:33
SPEAKER_02: Let's take some shots down the field, let the kid go.
14:36
SPEAKER_02: You got a young sophomore quarterback, you have an opportunity to have him for a couple more years.
14:40
SPEAKER_02: Take take the uh the shackles off of him, man.
14:42
SPEAKER_02: Let him go downfield, right?
14:44
SPEAKER_02: Put the ball in uh and marks uh or some running back's hand, right?
14:48
SPEAKER_02: Let them run the ball to balance it out a little bit.
14:50
SPEAKER_02: We've on that that we've had some some good defensive players.
14:53
SPEAKER_02: You got Emerson and Forbes over there that can hold it down.
14:56
SPEAKER_02: Take some chances with those guys.
14:57
SPEAKER_02: You got Brew, who's who's a developing young linebacker.
15:00
SPEAKER_02: I like to see his the promise that he has.
15:02
SPEAKER_02: So you got some nice pieces in that.
15:04
SPEAKER_02: No, you don't have a Jeffrey Simmons, you don't have a Fletcher Cox on the front, where you can get something done.
15:09
SPEAKER_02: This offense, the way they advertise it, is to play an offense that we should be playing ahead.
15:15
SPEAKER_02: And I find a lot of time we're playing from behind, and that's what I don't like about it.
15:20
SPEAKER_01: You're absolutely right.
15:22
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I agree.
15:23
SPEAKER_04: I was I was at that Memphis game.
15:25
SPEAKER_04: I live up here in Memphis, and and just to watch them, they had that ball, they could have they could have gone up 24 to 7 or whatever it was, and and they were on the three-yard line and they couldn't punch it in.
15:34
SPEAKER_04: And I said, I said, here we go.
15:36
SPEAKER_04: This is about to flip on its head here.
15:39
SPEAKER_02: So it's it's tough.
15:41
SPEAKER_02: Watch.
15:42
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you look at the Memphis game, we can blame the call, we can blame whatever we want, but it should have never been that close with a Memphis team, you know, should have never been that close.
15:50
SPEAKER_02: We look at the LSU game, you have to come from behind, you lose by three points.
15:53
SPEAKER_02: And like you guys mentioned earlier, you get a surprise victory by uh what I think is an overrated Texas AM team, but it's still a great win to go down to Calfield and handle the business the way we did.
16:03
SPEAKER_02: And you expect a loss from an NC state and maybe an ACC opponent.
16:06
SPEAKER_02: I didn't expect a loss.
16:08
SPEAKER_02: Glad we came out.
16:09
SPEAKER_02: So, what that shows us is that we have we have what it takes, we have an opportunity.
16:14
SPEAKER_02: Why aren't we consistent enough to get those big wins?
16:17
SPEAKER_02: We lose, we lose to the team that we should lose to, and we beat the team that we're not expected to win.
16:22
SPEAKER_02: How can you guys tell me about that?
16:24
SPEAKER_02: And that's the that's the myth about Mike Leach.
16:27
SPEAKER_02: That I don't I I'm trying to figure out like what are we doing?
16:30
SPEAKER_02: What's our identity?
16:31
SPEAKER_02: Is it air raid or is it just air?
16:33
SPEAKER_02: What is it?
16:33
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
16:34
SPEAKER_02: So uh I'm looking, I'm looking for answers, man.
16:37
SPEAKER_02: You guys see the same thing I see?
16:40
SPEAKER_04: Man, I do.
16:42
SPEAKER_04: I, you know, I'm getting I'm getting frustrated by it because it's it's not what I was expecting that you know when he came in.
16:49
SPEAKER_04: And um, you know, I I don't know, you know, everybody says that that he's got a lot more passion and and everything on that, but they don't show that on TV, you know.
16:57
SPEAKER_04: I want to see some fire out of him, and I want to see some of those locker room speeches and him getting those guys fired up and and I want to see more of that.
17:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I want to see a lot of and stop blaming the our kids, you know, saying that the right people would and well, if you don't get this show that you can get it done with these kids, you think some big time receiver is gonna come down to Starkle and want to play off something that he hadn't seen.
17:20
SPEAKER_02: You think we're gonna get another big time quarterback in succession to come down there and run the air rate?
17:25
SPEAKER_02: You gotta show what you have now.
17:27
SPEAKER_02: We can't keep screaming about waiting and until he gets his recruit.
17:31
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you know, Sam Smith, they just lost, but hey, he got in there quick, took what Chad Myers had, and he's done a phenomenal job so far, right?
17:38
SPEAKER_02: You got coaches all over the place that go in with players that are not their recruits, but you knew you didn't have your recruits when you took the job.
17:45
SPEAKER_02: So don't give me all that we're gonna attack, we're gonna be great, we're gonna do this.
17:49
SPEAKER_02: I want to see you do the damn thing and quit making excuses.
17:52
SPEAKER_02: Now, does Texas A and the Texas A and M game show some promise?
17:56
SPEAKER_02: Uh for Will Rogers, yeah.
17:58
SPEAKER_02: As a team, I'm still questioning some calls.
18:00
SPEAKER_02: We got to see how we're gonna measure up against the Bama.
18:03
SPEAKER_02: Can we ever compete with a Georgia and teams like that?
18:07
SPEAKER_02: When we start doing that, then I'll start believing in what they're selling me right now.
18:12
SPEAKER_01: I agree, I agree.
18:14
SPEAKER_04: Well, Mario, um, I know you got we you got about two minutes, I think to you got to go.
18:18
SPEAKER_04: So I got one more question for you.
18:20
SPEAKER_04: So I remember Eddie Strong, and I remember uh he looked like a pretty big intimidating guy, but but let's let's have Mario and and Eddie Strong lining up next to each other.
18:30
SPEAKER_04: Who's who's winning that battle?
18:31
SPEAKER_02: Man, you why you even ask the question?
18:33
SPEAKER_02: I don't I don't take are you are you kidding me, man?
18:36
SPEAKER_02: Come on, it's Mario Hagen all day.
18:40
SPEAKER_02: There's no question.
18:40
SPEAKER_02: I mean, first of all, he wears an old miss jersey, so that's a striker.
18:44
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
18:46
SPEAKER_02: That's not even that that's not even a question.
18:48
SPEAKER_02: It was a great linebacker during this time, but I'm taking me all day, every day.
18:52
SPEAKER_04: I was hoping you say that.
18:53
SPEAKER_04: I knew you were gonna say that.
18:54
SPEAKER_02: Hey, I don't know.
18:55
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
18:55
SPEAKER_02: Well, you had a lot of hope.
18:56
SPEAKER_02: I'm glad I kept your hope alive.
19:02
SPEAKER_01: That's great.
19:03
SPEAKER_01: Well, uh well, Morio, we can't thank you enough for getting on here.
19:06
SPEAKER_01: And it's so good to hear your voice and know that uh I know that people will will listen to this and really enjoy listening to here and reliving these fine memories that y'all have when y'all had it rolling back in the 99 and 2000 years.
19:19
SPEAKER_01: And for me and Brandon personally, we were we were we were all on it, man.
19:23
SPEAKER_01: Being in college at that same time and watching you guys and what y'all did, and y'all were uh y'all were awesome.
19:28
SPEAKER_01: So all Mississippi State family will always remember you and your and that defensive team in 99, just unbelievable.
19:35
SPEAKER_01: So we thank you so much and uh and can't wait for our uh listeners to hear you.
19:40
SPEAKER_02: I know you got I said I had a couple minutes, man, but I just got a question.
19:43
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna stay a little longer because I got a question.
19:45
SPEAKER_02: I was listening to uh for Fred Schmoot on the Bo Bound show.
19:48
SPEAKER_02: And um he asked uh he was talking, you know.
19:50
SPEAKER_02: I love Fred, one of my favorite teammates of all time.
19:53
SPEAKER_02: And uh obviously we all know the great a great football player.
19:56
SPEAKER_02: And the question came up about why he's not in the uh MSU Hall of Fame.
20:02
SPEAKER_02: Can we can we get some can we get that out there?
20:05
SPEAKER_02: Because I don't care what what what part what happened after Mississippi State, what that guy did on the field at Mississippi State, there's no reason he's not in the MSU Hall of Fame.
20:15
SPEAKER_02: Can we can we can we start something and get that out there and let the people know that it's it's pretty shameful that Fred Schmook is not in the MSU Hall of Fame.
20:23
SPEAKER_02: So I want to make that known out there.
20:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he needs to be, man.
20:27
SPEAKER_01: What a playmaker he was, and just uh gosh, he he was one of the best out there.
20:31
SPEAKER_01: You're you're 100% right on that.
20:32
SPEAKER_01: He definitely needs to be in the hall of fame and stay in front of listen, listen, man.
20:37
SPEAKER_02: At my time there, the only other defensive player I would have took over Fred is myself.
20:41
SPEAKER_02: Other than that, Fred Schmoot was uh was one hell of a football player, you know what I mean?
20:46
SPEAKER_02: And so uh I just want to be known while I got a voice and an opinion right now when people get here.
20:51
SPEAKER_02: When somebody needs to answer some questions, why is Fred Smoot, our consensus all American Thorpe Award uh candidate, not in the MSU Hall of Fame.
21:01
SPEAKER_02: Guys, thanks for having me.
21:03
SPEAKER_02: I wanted to put that out there.
21:04
SPEAKER_02: If you got an answer, please ask everybody the question.
21:07
SPEAKER_02: Let's get Smoot in the Hall of Fame.
21:09
SPEAKER_01: Let's do it.
21:10
SPEAKER_01: Thanks so much, Mario, for joining us.
21:11
SPEAKER_01: Thanks, Mario.
21:12
SPEAKER_02: All right, thanks, guys.
21:17
SPEAKER_04: All right, man, that was awesome.
21:18
SPEAKER_04: Uh Mario, what a what a guy, man.
21:21
SPEAKER_04: He was he was fired up.
21:22
SPEAKER_04: I I love to hear that about uh still feels passionate about about his old school and everything.
21:27
SPEAKER_04: So but yeah, we definitely need to figure out a way to get smoot in the hall of fame.
21:31
SPEAKER_04: I I didn't realize he wasn't in the hall of fame.
21:33
SPEAKER_04: So we can um we can tag Bo Bounds, who we had on the show a while a while back, see if he can help us uh share a little love about that, maybe.
21:43
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Fred Smoot, man.
21:45
SPEAKER_01: He he not only you know, you you talk about people who can talk the talk and walk the walk, he could do both.
21:50
SPEAKER_01: He he, you know, that smoot smack, that's what they always call it.
21:53
SPEAKER_01: He when he told that Vanderbilt player, he said, I'll do your homework.
21:56
SPEAKER_01: Or you remember that?
21:57
SPEAKER_01: He was like, he'd always talking to all these people and talking.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: And he would back it up with his game on the field, one of the best defensive backs we ever had in Mississippi State.
22:04
SPEAKER_01: And he was on the JUCO guy.
22:06
SPEAKER_01: He came in, I think, from Hines, I believe.
22:08
SPEAKER_01: He was only here two years.
22:09
SPEAKER_01: And what a difference he made and made it to the NFL with the Redskins and the Vikings and a long, long career.
22:15
SPEAKER_01: But man, Mario was right.
22:16
SPEAKER_01: That that defensive unit we had when he was here, it could stack up with the best of them.
22:21
SPEAKER_01: They're just uh unbelievable.
22:23
SPEAKER_01: And and uh, but smoot, he was he was one of a kind.
22:27
SPEAKER_01: You couldn't ever forget his personality on and off the field.
22:30
SPEAKER_01: So remember that car he had.
22:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
22:34
SPEAKER_04: He'd ride that car around campus, and I feel like his license plate said Smoot or something on the back of it.
22:39
SPEAKER_04: Everybody knew it was him.
22:40
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it was like all jacked up like Buick or something like that.
22:44
SPEAKER_04: It was awesome.
22:45
SPEAKER_01: I know you could see him in town.
22:46
SPEAKER_01: You knew that's that was him, and uh what a guy, one of the best.
22:51
SPEAKER_01: And uh, but yeah, Morio's right, man.
22:53
SPEAKER_01: That that passion, you see, that's what we like to hear from these state fans.
22:57
SPEAKER_01: And I mean, state former state athletes that are still still involved with it and investing in it because, like you said, it he depended on that for his livelihood to get out of where he lived and to make a name for himself and better himself for his family.
23:09
SPEAKER_01: He's did that and contributed all those long, long hours of working, working out that we that you we would see him in the Sanderson Center doing it, and just props for him for doing that.
23:18
SPEAKER_01: He made a he made a great career in the NFL for that.
23:21
SPEAKER_01: And uh, we like to see that.
23:22
SPEAKER_01: We like to see people put in the hard work and get paid off and uh for their hard work.
23:27
SPEAKER_01: So uh thankful for Mario coming on, sharing his story, and and really excited about what we have uh going on, and hopefully a lot of people will listen to it and then also um learn about our venture with the with the glasses and about my fight with CF.
23:41
SPEAKER_01: And uh I had actually had a doctor's appointment today, um, and it went great.
23:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, since I got the miracle drug uh called Tricafta, and two years ago from right now, I got it in October 2019.
23:54
SPEAKER_01: I've gained 26 pounds, which people with CF, it's just a weight gain is a constant issue.
24:01
SPEAKER_01: I remember when I was in the fifth grade, my doctor said that if I don't gain any weight soon, I'm gonna have to be on a feeding tube.
24:08
SPEAKER_01: Well, when I heard that, I was like, no, no, give us one more chance.
24:11
SPEAKER_01: So every day after school, my mom would drive me through the McDonald's parking lot.
24:15
SPEAKER_01: We go through the drive-thru and I'd get a cheeseburger every single day.
24:24
SPEAKER_01: Matter of fact, people had us what order I wanted every day.
24:27
SPEAKER_01: And uh lo and behold, I put in put on 30 pounds, which is still just unbelievable that I was able to get that.
24:31
SPEAKER_01: It was a big deal to get to a hundred pounds back then.
24:34
SPEAKER_01: All my all the all the classmates were having gross bursts and get bigger, and here I was small, small Johnny right here.
24:41
SPEAKER_01: And and uh I got I got the uh I got that weight on, and then it's so it's just always been a constant battle.
24:46
SPEAKER_01: And I started working out, um you know, eighth, ninth grade, and continuously worked out um hard to try to build up muscle strength and help my lungs and all that stuff.
24:57
SPEAKER_01: And then when the pandemic hit, I had to quit working out at the gym and uh kind of kind of let let that go.
25:04
SPEAKER_01: But the tricafta, the the miracle drug that I take has really helped me.
25:09
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I eat all the time because it just makes you eat and and now I I've gained weight.
25:14
SPEAKER_01: I was I told my doctor that I have a dad bot now and I'm I'm proud of it, you know.
25:19
SPEAKER_01: I'm fat, fat.
25:20
SPEAKER_01: Never thought I'd be happy to be fat, but I I got one.
25:23
SPEAKER_01: And uh so maybe one day I can get back in shape and get back in the gym.
25:27
SPEAKER_01: But right now I'm just enjoying being being the fat life of a dad bot.
25:31
SPEAKER_04: Heck yeah, man.
25:32
SPEAKER_04: Well, you kind of you kind of broke up you when you said you went to McDonald's every day, and uh you got a cheeseburger and a milkshake.
25:39
SPEAKER_04: Is that what you said you got?
25:41
SPEAKER_01: Cheeseburger without pickles or onions and a uh, I think at the time a chocolate shake every single day.
25:47
SPEAKER_01: Uh we got out of school at three and head straight to McDonald's, good the drive-thru cheeseburger without pickles or onions and a milkshake.
25:54
SPEAKER_01: And I did this every day for I guess a year or so.
25:57
SPEAKER_01: And sure enough, I got 30 pounds on me, and uh, and I I avoided the feeding tube, thank God.
26:03
SPEAKER_01: And and um and then it just and then I then I started working out and doing all that, and I was able to keep weight on me.
26:09
SPEAKER_01: And then in 2010, I I I developed uh cystic fibrosis-related diabetes, and pretty much everybody with CF as you get older is gonna develop CF diabetes, is because CF affects your lungs, as we know, but also affects your pancreas, which is why I have to take um enzymes before I eat because food is not um digested.
26:31
SPEAKER_01: Um you can't absorb the fat in food, so I have to take pancreatic enzymes, and eventually your pancreas is I give up, I can't take anymore.
26:38
SPEAKER_01: And and you develop diabetes.
26:40
SPEAKER_01: And I was borderline diabetic for a while, and then 2010 I started having to do insulin, and I lost a lot of weight from all that, and uh, so it's been it's been an issue.
26:50
SPEAKER_01: So it's I got a double whammy on that.
26:52
SPEAKER_01: Not only was CF is it hard to gain weight, but CF diabetes, and then I have a short gut from at birth.
26:58
SPEAKER_01: I had lost lost half of my intestine at birth, and uh, so I had all this going against me.
27:03
SPEAKER_01: This really makes it hard to gain weight.
27:05
SPEAKER_01: So so people who listen to this, like, why is he talking so proud about being being fat and gaining weight?
27:10
SPEAKER_01: Now you know why it's so hard because it's a constant battle I deal with, and I got uh extra disadvantages going my way towards it.
27:18
SPEAKER_01: So anytime I step on the scales and I see improvement on the weight gain, I'm I'm really happy.
27:23
SPEAKER_01: Not many people out there want to be fat, but I'm one of them.
27:26
SPEAKER_01: So so um proud of my dad bought I got going on right now.
27:29
SPEAKER_01: Maybe I can get back in the gym one day and get added muscle strength.
27:32
SPEAKER_01: But just enjoying this disc right now.
27:35
SPEAKER_01: But so that went good.
27:36
SPEAKER_01: My lung function was stable, so that's always a good thing.
27:39
SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, I don't know how much more it will go up, but it went up significantly from where I was because we were at the point, and we talked about that today in the appointment, where I was uh meeting with a transplant team at UAB because my numbers had dropped so low that um I was about to be evaluated for a double lung transplant, which is the end stage of CF.
27:58
SPEAKER_01: You don't if you don't get new lungs and you die.
28:01
SPEAKER_01: So I was at that stage, and this drug, I can't say enough good things about it.
28:05
SPEAKER_01: It's just it is a miracle, it's changed my life.
28:08
SPEAKER_01: It moved my improved my lung function up to enough to where I'm off the transplant list for right now, and it was stable.
28:14
SPEAKER_01: Anytime, even if we don't see improvement on the lung function, as long as it'll stay around the same stable, um, we'll we'll count that as a blessing.
28:22
SPEAKER_01: So uh, so today was a great, great day with an appointment.
28:25
SPEAKER_01: I got a good report with that, and got a good report diabetes, and they say keep doing like you're doing, and uh and I go back in January, so it was a good day.
28:36
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and you're gonna be able to get your your COVID booster too, so that way you'll you can get back out and do some games or something too, right?
28:43
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so most people with uh with COVID, you know, everybody has their own opinions of stuff, but me personally, I know what it's like having a having a situation like me with CF I got something like that, it would do me in.
28:55
SPEAKER_01: So I have to play extra cautious.
28:57
SPEAKER_01: I was I was the guy at the Humphrey Cost Inn with basketball games with a mask on, sitting at the top top row of the hump during flu season.
29:04
SPEAKER_01: So now we're laughing about that today.
29:07
SPEAKER_01: I'll be sitting there with my mask on at the hump, but then people won't think anything about it.
29:11
SPEAKER_01: They always looked at me like, oh, what's wrong with that guy?
29:13
SPEAKER_01: What's wrong?
29:13
SPEAKER_01: Well now everybody will know.
29:15
SPEAKER_01: So uh so yeah, um, I'm planning on getting the tomorrow and uh weeks out to the booster and that and um so I'm looking forward to going to football games.
29:29
SPEAKER_01: I you know, me being a Dow Hard Bulldog, I never miss games.
29:32
SPEAKER_01: I haven't been to a game this year.
29:33
SPEAKER_01: Um, so I'm I'm anxious to get back to to Davis Wade and and uh get back out eating in public and just continue to live my life, but still be cautious um because um just can't afford to risk, you know.
29:46
SPEAKER_01: Thank goodness I got tricapta and I got my lung function up some from where it was because goodness, I if I was like I was before where I was borderline transplant, all this pandemic hit, I would be a nervous wreck.
29:59
SPEAKER_01: But now I feel like I got at least something to play around with in case I did get it.
30:03
SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't, I mean it would still be bad, but not as deadly as if it would.
30:07
SPEAKER_01: So so anyway, thankful to get the booster.
30:10
SPEAKER_01: Hopefully that'll that'll um that'll hold me off from and protect me where I can get back out in public till till the next go around.
30:18
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's one thing I've always known about you is you love blogs and you love to eat, and pandemic's taking both of those things away from you.
30:26
SPEAKER_04: So I know right for you.
30:29
SPEAKER_01: But you know me and the buffets, man, Pap's Place, you know, Hamels, those are my places.
30:35
SPEAKER_01: And uh that pandemic took that away from me, took me away from going to sporting events.
30:40
SPEAKER_01: But uh thank goodness I got movies and I got books and I got my golf cart, which golf cart's broken right now, but hopefully we'll get back to normal again and we're getting it fixed.
30:49
SPEAKER_01: And uh got both.
30:51
SPEAKER_01: So so uh that's kept me entertained through this pandemic, but ready to just get back out.
30:55
SPEAKER_01: And hopefully, one day I will be able to eat a buffet.
30:57
SPEAKER_04: I don't know when, but uh, we need to get our uh the uh the friend of the program.
31:03
SPEAKER_04: If he's listening, uh the the grill expert, uh Jonathan Graves, he needs to send us uh his situation.
31:08
SPEAKER_04: He needs to cook you up some ribeyes, put some put some pounds back on.
31:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that situation for sure.
31:16
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I'm I'm I'm happy.
31:18
SPEAKER_01: Uh I laugh about people laughing about me saying I like to be fat and and uh yeah, it's just something I never thought.
31:24
SPEAKER_01: First of all, I never thought I'd live to Z40.
31:27
SPEAKER_01: Here I am, 40 and a half years old, and uh and uh got me a got me a belly on me now, which is just unheard of for someone with CF.
31:35
SPEAKER_01: So tricast is a miracle drug, and you know, but they're not done.
31:40
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's not CF is not cured.
31:42
SPEAKER_01: People who watch this, I mean listen to this, might think, oh CF cure, that's not the case at all.
31:47
SPEAKER_01: I mean, if I if I quit doing my treatments right now, it would get me, it would get me right away.
31:52
SPEAKER_01: So it's just just a constant battle every single day that I have to fight.
31:56
SPEAKER_01: And uh a trichapta just made it easier, I guess I should say, is not stressful as waking up.
32:03
SPEAKER_01: I would wake up in the mornings and head straight to the toilet, throwing up, just throwing my junk from my lungs up, just awful.
32:10
SPEAKER_01: And thankful for trichaphtra, because when I wake up in the morning, I can breathe.
32:13
SPEAKER_01: I I don't go through that, but it's I can still get sick, it's tough to do IVs and all that sort of stuff, but it's just made life to where it's not as I mean, it's still inconvenience, but it's just it's just made it, made it made it to where you can breathe more.
32:28
SPEAKER_01: And and uh of course there, but that's not the cure.
32:31
SPEAKER_01: I mean, they're still working on working on stuff for and 90% of the people are able to take this.
32:37
SPEAKER_01: There's still 10% that do not have a drug at all.
32:39
SPEAKER_01: And I was in that category until I got my hands on track after.
32:42
SPEAKER_01: So there's still 10% of CF patients out there who have no drug that can uh uh change, no modulator, which is what they're calling these.
32:50
SPEAKER_01: So they're still in that mode of waiting, just waiting.
32:53
SPEAKER_01: I know how that feels and it's it's just an awful feeling, but but they're they said they're not gonna stop until every single person with with uh CF has some type of modulator.
33:03
SPEAKER_01: And of course, hopefully they can come up with something like a cure and make CF stand for as we all want it, say cure found.
33:09
SPEAKER_01: But anyways, until then, it's just a battle I'll I'll always deal with, but very thankful to you know wake up every day because no, and not just people with CF, anybody.
33:22
SPEAKER_01: Nothing's promised tomorrow.
33:23
SPEAKER_01: Your last your next breath isn't promised.
33:25
SPEAKER_01: So it's kind of gave me an outlook on life to to enjoy it, enjoy it every single day I have.
33:30
SPEAKER_01: And I hope I I hope uh my my way of life recording that has gone off to other people to where they can appreciate living and and and knowing that that hey John Clark's out there fighting it, but he's not down on himself.
33:46
SPEAKER_01: He's he's got a smile on his face and has all this adversity going through, but he's not giving up.
33:50
SPEAKER_01: And I don't want people to give up.
33:52
SPEAKER_01: You know, that's hate seeing I hate hearing people say the word can't.
33:55
SPEAKER_01: Don't tell me can't I can't do something, you know, because dang it, I'm gonna do it.
33:59
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna try all my best to do it.
34:01
SPEAKER_01: So that's it.
34:02
SPEAKER_04: With that said, uh need to get on there and uh johnnypacker.com and get you some get you some glasses, help us support CF Foundation and come up here at a Carrieville Vision Center or Carrieville, Tennessee, and get you some glasses.
34:15
SPEAKER_04: You can try them on up here, or we've got them down there at uh Mississippi Iwear in Starkville.
34:20
SPEAKER_04: I think uh they should be getting a big shipment of them in sometime coming up soon because I know they ordered them a while back and and I sent them some, and so they they had some in the shop, but I think they're they're waiting on a big shipment to get there.
34:32
SPEAKER_04: So and uh Coach Leach was sitting next to him a couple weeks ago at the dog talk.
34:38
SPEAKER_04: So um coach leach knows about him.
34:40
SPEAKER_04: We just got to get him in a pair of those too.
34:43
SPEAKER_04: Um so yeah, so we'll let you know when they when they get more down there, and we've got a couple other things down coming down the line with that.
34:51
SPEAKER_04: So, but just get on johnnypacker.com, you can get you some t-shirts, mugs, um, tumblers, all kinds of stuff in there that helps us raise more awareness about CF and raise money for uh research and everything else.
35:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, and when you go to johnnypacker.com, you can look at all the different different glasses and see which ones you like.
35:11
SPEAKER_01: And uh now they can't get them on johnnypacker.com anymore, right?
35:15
SPEAKER_01: You have to go into the stores that is that right?
35:17
SPEAKER_01: Or they can find it.
35:19
SPEAKER_04: Um, but yeah, we're about to to stop doing that, I think, and it's just gonna be store only.
35:24
SPEAKER_04: Um, but I've had a couple people reach out to me via email looking for specific things, so definitely reach out to me uh with email.
35:32
SPEAKER_04: And um, if there's something you got your eye on, I can still get it to you.
35:36
SPEAKER_04: So right now we've still got the store live.
35:39
SPEAKER_01: Right.
35:39
SPEAKER_01: And that store install.
35:41
SPEAKER_01: Well, I've been in it once, but it's uh prime location.
35:43
SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, I hear on the dog talk, like you mentioned that with Coach Leach, I think they're a sponsor of the dog talk every Thursday night because every Thursday, um, if you you go watch it on the Mississippi State football Facebook page, um, you'll see Mississippi Iowa, and they have a certain glasses or sunglasses that that are or that particular ones of the week.
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SPEAKER_01: And so they featured our glasses uh with Coach Leach uh earlier, I think the NC State game.
36:09
SPEAKER_01: Uh so that was really cool.
36:10
SPEAKER_01: So uh so yeah, if you're listening to this and you're in town for for a football game this fall and want to check out the that new shop in town, it's right there on Main Street.
36:18
SPEAKER_01: Uh it's downtown Starble by Mo's barbecue.
36:22
SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, I think when you walk in, our our Johnny Packer selection of glasses are to the right.
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SPEAKER_01: And yeah, it's uh really cool that they have that going on and and uh hopefully more people get it and and uh cause.
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SPEAKER_04: And they're open on game day too.
36:36
SPEAKER_04: So I think they're open at nine on Saturdays.
36:38
SPEAKER_04: I can't remember how late they stay open, but they're open, so you can at least swing by there before you go.
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SPEAKER_04: And then, of course, basketball season coming up, usually have a little bit more time you can swing by too.
36:48
SPEAKER_04: So awesome.
36:50
SPEAKER_04: Well, all right, Johnny.
36:51
SPEAKER_04: Well, uh appreciate you joining us today, and I think this is a good one.
36:55
SPEAKER_04: So um, we got another good one coming up in the next week or so.
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SPEAKER_04: Um with the the uh with the golf.
37:05
SPEAKER_04: Forget it.
37:06
SPEAKER_01: If you're a golf fan and you keep up with the PGA tour and uh or if you like the masters or anything like that, you're really gonna enjoy our next uh our next guest we have coming up.
37:16
SPEAKER_01: He's uh he's uh a dear friend of mine and our my dear friend Tom Sykes.
37:20
SPEAKER_01: And uh he has an amazing story, and it was featured on ESPN with Tom Rinaldi and just a really great guy all around.
37:27
SPEAKER_01: So I know uh he he messaged me yesterday and said he's excited about uh coming on.
37:31
SPEAKER_01: He's he was supposed to come on this week, but he uh he he follows the PGA tour and uh and they're in Vegas this week.
37:38
SPEAKER_01: So um in a couple weeks he's gonna get some time to where he he's gonna be in actually our time zone.
37:43
SPEAKER_01: So we'll be able to do it at the same time.
37:44
SPEAKER_01: So uh so yeah, if you're listening and and um be sure to tune in to that episode coming up in the next couple weeks.
37:51
SPEAKER_01: Y'all can really enjoy that.
37:53
SPEAKER_04: Yes, sir.
37:54
SPEAKER_04: We'll talk to you soon, Johnny.
37:56
SPEAKER_04: Y'all have a good one.
37:58
SPEAKER_01: Have a good one.
37:59
SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
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unknown: All right.
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