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College Football & Iranian Election Interference · Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast

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It's plausibly live The Dave Bowman Show.
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Well, good morning, good evening or good afternoon, wherever you
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are, whatever you do. A lot of things happening in the
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world today, most of them are far beyond our control, you
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might say. So perhaps it's time we took a
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pause and thought about life and thought about the laws of
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gravity. The Heisman Trophy, it's the
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most meaningless, utterly useless, pointless trophy in all
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of sports, even more than the WNBA championship.
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We're going to talk about that. We'll talk about Iran and its
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election strategies, or maybe we'll get into some other things
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as well. Don't touch it, Dial.
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Just try to hear me out for a little while.
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This is actually the third take of today's show.
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It's not live streaming because I'm an idiot.
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You want to join the show? 209565 Dave is the text machine,
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Live a Loqui Conizio. Stand up, tell those who oppose
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liberty, don't tread on me. So it has been a morning.
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One of the things I struggle with I I would love to do this
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live every day, but dot dot dot. I have a wife who does not drive
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anymore. She can she doesn't like to.
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I have a 16 year old son who's homeschooled and they have a
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pretty set schedule except for things like today where my wife
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had to be at work at 8:00 this morning because she had a staff
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meeting which led to an interesting conversation between
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Ben and I about uselessness of staff meetings and why they
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shouldn't happen. But that's a story for another
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day as we were going to buy Cocoa Puffs because that's what
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he likes and we were out at. At any rate, he's, we, they have
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a schedule. And so really for me, the only
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window to do this live would be in that very short window from
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6:00 AM to 7:00 AM. Damn it.
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I just don't want to get up that early.
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I'm sorry. I get up at 7 anyway normally,
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except for Tuesdays, obviously, but I, I, I'm retired, I don't
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want to get up that early. So doing it live becomes
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problematic because there you go.
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However, comma this morning because my wife had to be at
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work at 8:00 because my son wanted to be up because my wife
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is going to be gone all morning. And he has class this afternoon
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and he likes to. He's a 16 year old boy and there
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are girls in the class. So he likes to get cleaned up
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before the before the class and that includes getting his hair
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washed. And if you've seen pictures of
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Ben lately, Ben has very long hippie ish hair and so he likes
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it blow dried so that it looks fluffy, but he can't apparently
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do this himself. So words I thought I would never
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pass my lips this morning. Dude, you're almost 17, you need
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to learn to blow dry your hair yourself.
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So he had to get up early. So because they had to get up
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early, I got up at early and I thought today's a good day to
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actually do this live, right? We got it.
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They sat down here and I had everything ready to go because I
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usually do my show prep the night before and I hit record, I
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hit start, I hit stream, everything was running.
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I'm talking away. I'm halfway through the 1st
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segment and I Rook up and realized there is no audio going
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out at all. None so much like yesterday when
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I completely fouled up. See, I, I said fouled up.
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I didn't say fucked up because even though this is a podcast
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and I can, I was trying to be polite.
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So I completely fouled up Bill's show yesterday because I wasn't
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paying attention to the audio output.
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So I did it again this morning, Did the same exact thing, this
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time on a live show. There's no, it's just me on the
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camera sitting there going nothing coming out and I only
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have X amount of time because I, I, I just get one shot at this.
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So Needless to say, I had to stop, delete everything, erase
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what was there, try to start over.
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I don't have time to start the whole thing over after I
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troubleshoot everything. Why am I not getting any audio
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output? Well, I one of the frustrations
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I have with Windows 11 is every time it doesn't update.
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Every single time it doesn't update, it resets everything.
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And of course, there was a major update yesterday afternoon after
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I had already fixed the problem that I had with Bill's show.
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It doesn't update. I didn't catch it, boom, out it
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went. So I don't have time to do that
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live show. So I get everything done, get
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Cammy to work, get Ben to the grocery store, get back here,
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get some breakfast, get some food, get some coffee in me and
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hit start again. Everything's working, but I
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messed things up. You know, if you're doing a live
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show and you follow things up, you just kind of keep going.
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But because it's a recording, I said, you know what, screw this.
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And I started over again. So to make a long story
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unnecessarily long shorter, this is the third take of the show
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today. I very much enjoyed doing it.
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You know how much I love sitting down in front of the microphone.
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You know how much I love talking to you and to Ben, because
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someday he's going to listen to this and he's going to be mad
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because I told him he needed to learn to blow dry his own hair.
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But we had a very good conversation, very good morning
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this morning and we'll go to class later.
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I'm excited because it's Wednesday, which means KFC has
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the country fried steak meal. So I get that for 5 bucks and
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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm excited.
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It's a great day. It's trash day.
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The trash people are out there banging around trash cans.
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It's it's, it's going to be great.
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It's going to be cool, it's going to be fun if I ever get my
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stuff together and managed to actually do the show right,
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which we will try to do right after this short break.
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hot takes but not quite. North Korean nuke under a
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mountain Hut. This is plausibly live.
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All right, let's get started for real.
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You want to text me 520-9565, Dave, 209-565-3283 E-mail, of
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course, Dave at the Dave bowmanshow.com.
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If you had been watching college football of any level last
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weekend, you would have noted that my beloved Oklahoma Sooners
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upset air quote, air quote our hated rivals, the Texas
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Longhorns. I do not like the Texas
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Longhorns and never have, never will.
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I think that burnt orange color is hideous.
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It's disgusting. I have a couple of cousins,
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Keith in in particular, who who love the Texas Longhorns.
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I'm not one of them. I love Keith, but I'm, you know
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what? I have not seen Keith in 40
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years. Talked to him a couple times,
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but I haven't seen him before. Anyway, So I'm sure he was kind
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of disappointed with what happened.
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The, the, the issue with what happened was that Arch Manning,
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who was the quarterback for the Texas Longhorns, who was the son
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of Cooper Manning. Cooper Manning, the brother of
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Peyton and Eli, who are two of my favorite players in the NFL
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history. Peyton especially.
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Peyton is probably my number three favorite all time player.
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John Elway has to be #1 Floyd Little is right up there and,
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and, and Peyton Manning. I love listening to Peyton
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Manning talk about football when he breaks down what's happening.
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He's so much better at analyzing things than Tony Romo ever was
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or Troy Aikman ever will be. The difference is he doesn't.
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He's not so full of himself that he has to be on TV talking about
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it and saying the same thing over and over and over again,
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week after week after week. Did you see the thing where
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somebody pulled all the tapes of Troy Aikman?
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Oh my God, that was funny. Anyway, so anyway, the Arch
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Manning is the latest incarnation of this whole thing
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that started with his grandfather, Archie Manning, who
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played for the Saints back in the 70s.
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Arch Manning decided to go to Texas, probably on an NIL deal.
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He sat out for almost a year, you know, learning the offense
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and stuff, finally got the reins and he is considered the front
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runner for the Heisman Trophy. The Heisman Trophy is supposed
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to recognize outstanding individual achievements in
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college football. That's what it's supposed to do.
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It's not going It's not supposed to go to the best player or the
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greatest player, or even the Most Valuable Player.
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It's supposed to recognize individual outstanding
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achievements which have long since faded from the whole
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thing. At any rate, you'll be happy to
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know that Arch Manning completely blew his chances of
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winning the Heisman Trophy. He had been the favorite to win
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it, but because of his play in the game, where he threw for 260
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yards but threw two fourth quarter interceptions to my
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beloved Oklahoma Sooners. The New York Post immediately
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glommed onto this, declaring that he has, quote, completely
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ruined his Heisman chances. Heisman chances long gone.
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Yahoo News Waze did weighed in by finding some NFL GM somewhere
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who compared the Texas Longhorn quarterback Arch Manning to a
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massive draft bust. He's useless.
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He's terrible, Which strikes me as AGM trying to drive down his
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draft stocks so that his team can draft him later on.
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That's what it that's what it strikes me as.
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But we'll see what happens. The article has completely
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connected this one game, this one quarter of a game, to his
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entire NFL career, which by the way, has not started.
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And it leaves us in this position where one difficult
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game, even even 2 moments in that game, have now become a
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referendum on an entire season and potentially a professional
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career. There's a lot of money being to
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be made if you're the number one draft pick.
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Look, Arch Manning made football mistakes.
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He also was a victim of very good defensive play.
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Sometimes. You know, there's an old saying
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in professional baseball and football and stuff like, you
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know, the other people get paid to play too.
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They're they're professionals too.
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So it's not like they're just going to lay down and go, well,
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that's Arch Manning over there. Maybe we should just quit, throw
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up their hands. It doesn't work that way.
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So now we've reached a situation where what is actually football,
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what is actually sports, what is actually live, someone has
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decided, the New York Post, the Yahoo News have decided that
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somehow this means that Arch Manning is not an outstanding
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player. The conversation has become he's
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blown it. Instead of discussing his actual
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performance over the season, it's almost as if they've said
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Texas, which now has one lot. Now, there was a time in the BCS
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and prior to the playoffs and all that, when one loss probably
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could end your season. Today, that's not the case.
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Texas has a long way to go and being part of the SEC, they're
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going to play. They win their division.
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They'll play in the SEC championship game.
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If they beat that, they make the they they make the NCAA
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playoffs. It's potentially possible.
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In fact, it's probably still in the the good betting zone that
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Texas could still be the favorite for the national
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championship. But the media has built these
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players into superstars long before they've ever earned any
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actual recognitions. We were talking about Arch
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Manning two years ago. Why isn't Arch playing?
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Why isn't he getting the reps? Why isn't he doing this?
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And now that he is, now all we're doing is tearing him down.
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My God the the the guy threw 2 interceptions and lost a game by
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three points to his hated rivals.
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The Heisman Trophy was first awarded in 1935 by the Downtown
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Athletic Club, named after a guy by the name of John W Heisman.
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He. It was intended to recognize the
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most outstanding college football player.
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Listen to what The official criteria, Even now the official
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criteria for the Heisman Trophy are diligence, perseverance,
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hard work. It was never supposed to be
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about statistics. It was never about your
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reputation, and it certainly wasn't supposed to be about
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publicity. But all three of those things
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are now what's deciding it Outstanding individual
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achievements versus being the best player on the team.
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I would submit to you that I don't know.
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I've played on a lot of sports teams in my life.
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I would tell you hands down that there was a big difference
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between the Most Valuable Player we had, the person who was
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scoring the most goals, throwing the most pads, the strikes,
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whatever, versus the person that we weren't going to win without.
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That grinder, that person that that was always there, that
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filled in, that did just enough to make sure that the team won.
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But that person never gets the recognition that the superstar
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gets. There is unfortunately a long
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standing preference for quarterbacks and backs and and
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receivers for the Heisman Trophy.
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That's it's. But again, is that the best
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individual achievement on a team?
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Occasionally you'll get a great defensive player or Rod Woodson
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I think. Didn't he win it few years ago?
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Maybe not. And of course outstanding
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performers at smaller colleges. Back in the 80s there was a guy
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at Holy Cross who was a two way player.
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He was clearly an outstanding of individual achieving on the
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football field and his name is Gordy Lochbaum and they just
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sort of threw him a bone to nominate him but he was never
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going to win. A couple years ago, the Navy
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quarterback, same thing. It's become more about the
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narrative surrounding the player than the actual contribution on
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the field. You get pre season Heisman watch
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list manufactured debates about who's going to be the the
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Heisman Trophy, who's the who's the best player in college
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football. That's not what the Heisman's
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for. You get sports networks, ESPN,
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fox promoting players. Hey, watch this guy.
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He's the Heisman favorite, the Heisman favorite.
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I've never heard of him. We've never seen him before.
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And now all of a sudden, you've declared him the favorite to win
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the Heisman. And oh, by the way, universities
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are investing money in Heisman promotions, publicity campaigns.
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Of course, you've got the NIL opportunities, the personal
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branding that goes with it, and every performance that a player
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makes, everything the player does is now judged against.
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That doesn't matter that Texas is what, 4 and 1?
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Five and one, whatever they are. Doesn't matter that they still
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have the rest of the season. They've got to play Kentucky
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this week and then eventually they're going to be in the SEC
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mix. None of the hell that's gone out
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of the window. Arch Manning's not going to win
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the Heisman now because he threw 2 interceptions against
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Oklahoma, one of which was not his fault.
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He got outplayed. Sorry, he just did.
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Which leaves us with the questions.
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Does the Heisman go to the best player or the player with the
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most successful publicity campaign?
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How much does playing for a national prominently program
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impact that? I'd say a lot because, you know,
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if, if the Heisman Trophy was legit, Gordy Blochbaum would
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have won the year that he should have won it.
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He was the most outstanding college football player, hands
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down. He was probably the most
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outstanding college player of the of the decade, if not the
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second-half of the 20th century. He got nominated.
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But you know, thanks for showing up, fella.
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Here's a here's a food voucher. Go down and eat a nice meal.
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Voters are not independently evaluating performances.
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They're being influenced by the prevailing media narrative.
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None of this, I don't think, is new.
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I just don't. It's amplification of problems
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that have begun and have continued for decades.
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The problem is, of course, that this leads to it gets in a
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player's head. I don't know Arch Manning.
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I've never met him. I do know a little bit about his
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father. I know a lot about his two
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uncles, never met any of them. And I know a lot about his great
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his grandfather. And I know that they are the
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most level headed quarterbacks I have ever seen in my life.
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You just cannot flap them. You just, you just can't.
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And you can say whatever you want to me about what the Eli
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was this or Peyton was that. Archie never won.
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Nothing maybe, but again, it's team sport and there's a whole
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professional team on the other side that's getting paid to make
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sure that you lose. So you might want to take those
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things into account. And I know that it's got to get
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in your head because it gets in my head and I'm screwed up stuff
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this morning and now I'm thinking what if I throw that
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up? If if love a word, do I start
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over again? Same thing happens with the
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quarterback. He can play exceptionally well
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for weeks and then become the subject of a career ending
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narrative, A narrative being formed by the media because they
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lost a game by three points. Is it an individual award or
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does it become entangled with team victories?
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I dare say that if you were to sit down with Arch Manning
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again, I don't know. I've never met him and asked him
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would you rather win the Heisman or the national championship?
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I bet I know what his answer is. Football is a game of mistakes.
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It's a game of adjustments. It's a game of overcoming and
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recovering from bad ideas, bad plays.
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A great player can have a terrible game.
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Does today's coverage though, allow for that?
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Do they let the player develop? Do they?
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Or does he have to be perfect number one draft pick, Heisman
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Trophy winning kind of quarterback from the very first
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snap? How much pressure are we placing
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on these kids when every mistake, every single mistake
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that they make is supposedly destroying their future?
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The Heisman Trophy has become a symptom of a much larger
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problem. We've talked about NIL, name,
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image and likeness. It's fundamentally changed the
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structure of college athletics. It's it's, it's ruined stuff.
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The transfer portal has destroyed the game.
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Conference realignment. As much as I love Oklahoma, much
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as I love our rivalry with Texas, this conference
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realignment stuff is just, it's bullshit, people.
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Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas belong in the Big 12.
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Actually, Texas belongs in the Southwest Athletic Conference,
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but that doesn't exist anymore. So hasn't for a long time.
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Those three teams, especially Colorado, they belong in the Big
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12. But this college realignment has
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sacrificed those rivalries. Oklahoma doesn't even play
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Nebraska anymore. My calendar used to be set by
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that, the Friday after Thanksgiving.
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It was one of the greatest, one of the most biggest family
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moments we ever had. 1976 after my my grandma's funeral,
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watching the Oklahoma, Nebraska game.
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The expanded football playoffs has changed the significance
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though, of of individual games. What happens right now if Texas
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runs the table? OK, they lost to Oklahoma by
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three points. They're hated, bitter rivals.
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And we hate Texas, too. What happens if they run the
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table? They win the national title.
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You realize that? Are they capable of doing that?
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Hell yeah. This compass, constant emphasis
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on rankings, playoff projections, NFL draft stock is,
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is becoming part of the problem. Maybe I've gotten to the point
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where I just don't care about the Heisman Trophy anymore.
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I, I just don't know. I haven't watched it in years,
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don't care who wins because of 91 Heisman Trophy winners, you
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know that only 10 have ever made the NFL Hall of Fame.
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You'd think if they were the greatest football player in
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Heisman true in college football history, they'd be a lock for
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the NF LS success. But it's not it's not a
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guarantee. In fact, some of them are really
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bad. Oklahoma's had a couple of those
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where they won Heisman trophies and not so great in the NFL.
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It's historical significance is undeniable, but the annual media
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campaigns around it have become increasingly overshadowing of
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the actual game on the field. Arch Manning's mistakes should
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be evaluated as part of a season.
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Do you think? Do you think he went back and
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went, oh, crap, I've lost the Heisman?
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Oh, no, I've cost us the national title?
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Or do you think he went back to the film room and went, OK, what
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did I miss you? You see him do these Warby
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Parker commercials where he's analyzing his footwork and stuff
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like that. That's what he's doing this
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week. He's looking at that film going,
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OK, what did I miss that that defensive back saw?
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And that's really what football is supposed to be.
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You can tell me, you just general manager, NFL general
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man, you can tell me all you want about Arch Manning is going
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to be a draft bust. Yeah, I'm, I'm not going to take
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that bet because I know his pedigree.
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I know who's in his ear. I know who's talking to him.
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And I know what he thinks, how he thinks.
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And I'm telling you right now, Arch Manning is probably going
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to be a success in college football this year and he's
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probably going to be successful in the NFL.
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He may never win a Super Bowl because again, it's a, it's a
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team game. It's a lot to love about college
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football. The rivalries, the traditions,
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the stadiums. My, my family's home is 3 miles
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from Gaylord Memorial Stadium in Norman.
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The games themselves, at least sometimes, are compelling, but
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the business and the publicity machines surrounding FBS
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football is making it increasingly difficult to enjoy
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the sport. And I think that's the problem
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that they have. The Heisman controversy is just
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one more example of the frustration that we're having.
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Of course, when you get right down to it, you know what the
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real problem is, right? It isn't that Arch Manning threw
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2 interceptions in the fourth quarter.
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The problem is people are betting on who's going to win
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it, and Arch Manning went from the favor to plus 30,000.
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Now he may not win the he may not win the Heisman Trophy.
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I might be tempted to put 20,020 bucks down on plus 30,000
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because I got a feeling that Texas, as much as I hate to say
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this, probably course for the facts, keep an
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eye on the people in charge, and whatever you do, don't wear the
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red shirt. This is plausibly live.
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So Alex had the news this morning, 2 senior Iranian
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officials and we, I don't know what that means.
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Does anybody know what that means?
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Senior Iranian officials have told Reuters, the news agency,
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that Tehran has changed the pace, type and geographical
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range on attacks on commercial vessels to maintain high oil
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prices and influence the November 3rd American elections.
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So they have said the reason we're doing this is to influence
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the elections, which means that, OK, no matter how you slice
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this, the Iranians do not like the current United States for
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government makeup. They want the other side.
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So if you're voting for the other side, are you taking that
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into account? Does this, does this really
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resonate with you? Oh my God, if we just want these
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attacks to stop, all we got to do is vote for the other side
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and the Iranians will go, well, that's it then we're going to,
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we're all done. No problems anymore, right?
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That's what's going to happen. That that's what you believe.
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You know, I, I, I said on Sunday with Rod that I'm, I'm reticent
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about the publicity of live streaming, the execution of
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Nidal Hasan, but I did read an article this week about by
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someone who has a different viewpoint.
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And he talked about the fact that, look, your argument that
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it's going to be used as propaganda is nonsense because
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they already hate us. They already despise you.
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They're already going to use it as propaganda.
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So send the message. There's the old story about the
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Soviet Union in the 80s where one of their one of their
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diplomats was kidnapped by Hezbollah or somebody in the in
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in Middle East and threatened. And the Soviets went and got the
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family members of the of the kidnappers and said OK, peace
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for peace and I don't mean P/E A/C EI mean P/E IC.
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So they started sending pieces of the family to the kidnappers
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and lo and behold, the Soviet diplomat got released.
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Whether that story is true or not, I don't actually know.
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I remember it in the way that there was a lot of stuff that
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happened in the 80s. Sound like a hippie talking
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about the 60s. A lot of stuff happened in the
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60s. I don't know if I really
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remember it but but I do remember the story making the
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rounds. If this story is accurate, Iran
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is attempting economic election interference through military
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pressure on commercial shipping rather than cyber operations Or
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just plain propaganda. Plain propaganda is not going to
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work because really, who's listening to them and and who
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the hell are these senior Iranian officials?
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An adversary's attempt to manipulate voters does not
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dictate the proper American response.
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Escalation could raise oil prices further.
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But again, something that I noted the other day, I was just,
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I was sitting there listening to something and I was talking to
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my wife, whom I love dearly. And someone said something
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about, you know, seven, $7.00 a gallon gas.
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If, if Trump doesn't end this war, the gas is going to be
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$7.00 an hour gallon, $7.00 an hour, That would make sense,
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$7.00 a gallon. And before I can even engage my
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brain, before I can even think about what he's saying, I looked
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at the person and I said, you know what?
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Three years ago you were telling me that $7.00 a gallon gas would
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help the world, it would help the environment.
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And now you're saying it's a problem.
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Is the difference what? What's the difference?
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The difference is you don't like the guy in charge.
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That's it. That's the only freaking
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difference. If your guy's in charge, $7.00 a
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gallon gasoline is great because it'll save the environment.
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If the other guy's in charge, $7.00 a gallon gas is bad
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because it's hurting the economy.
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Or is it? I don't know.
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Maybe it is, maybe it ain't. The strategic explanation comes
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from 2 unnamed, unnamed Iranian officials there in that alone
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should cause us to step back and go OK, is this real?
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Is it not real? What does it matter?
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The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly 1/5 of global oil
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production. That was before the war.
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The Navy LED maritime center rates the current merchant
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shipping threat as severe. And as you heard Alex tell you,
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shippers are avoiding that area. There are other issues that are
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going on. Most of us are completely
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unaware of the fact that Saudi Arabia is dealing with a major
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Houthi issue, uprising, attacks on oil production.
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So even if you open the Strait of Hormuz, those things are
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going to go down. It seems pretty obvious to me,
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and maybe I'm just the idiot here.
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It seems pretty obvious to me that the answer is what Once
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Upon a time we call drill, baby drill.
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Self-reliance for energy, modular, nuclear, wind where
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appropriate, solar where appropriate.
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But no, it seems to me like both sides are taking advantage of
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the fact that the other side has caused the gas to go $7.00 an
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hour, and that means you should vote for the other side.
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Even the Iranians seem to have gotten in on that one.
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Take the time right now. Tell the people that matter in
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your life you love them very much.
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You'd miss them if they weren't there.
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So don't pass up those opportunities.
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You don't want to have that regret.
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Plausibly Live. I'm Dave Bowman.
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We'll see you tomorrow for a brand new episode of Plausibly
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Live, the Dave Bowman Show right here on the on air across
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American network. Have a great day, everybody.
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Look, I made it through successfully.