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Monday Edition of the Drive - Hour One · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: WRKS Pickens Jackson. Hey, what do you say we sing
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  Speaker 1: a driving song? There's not going to be any singing
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  Speaker 1: around here.
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  Speaker 2: Just real sports.
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  Speaker 1: On the Afternoon Drive with Jake Wimberly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is going to be sweet.
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  Speaker 1: And it's all right here, right now. On ESPN 105.9
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  Speaker 1: The Zone and online at thezone1059. com. 24th day of August, 2026.
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  Speaker 1: Champion of the Chair Sports Maven. It is Monday, week zero.
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  Speaker 1: This is the real week zero, right? I kept saying
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  Speaker 1: last week, this is the real week. Yes, this is
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  Speaker 1: the real week zero. And of course, we're glad to
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  Speaker 1: be with you on a Monday as we get into
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  Speaker 1: week zero of college football. Also week one of all
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  Speaker 1: of high school football. The National Football League in their
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  Speaker 1: last weekend of preseason games, which will be probably a snoozer.
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  Speaker 1: David Murray will join us at 3.30. We'll get caught
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  Speaker 1: up on Mississippi State. They ought to be, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to play a ballgame, right? I mean, you're
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  Speaker 1: two weeks out. That's probably installs is already going on.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll talk to David Murray. Also, Chris Landry, 5
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  Speaker 1: to 5.30. How are you? You said it was, is
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  Speaker 1: it cool? I haven't been outside in three hours.
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  Speaker 3: Man, it is 77 degrees outside.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Is the rain still coming down?
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  Speaker 4: Nope.
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  Speaker 1: So I text my mother, who's back on the home place,
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  Speaker 1: and she said we got rain for like several hours,
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  Speaker 1: which is good because it's a powder house out there.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been trying to grow grass for three weeks
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  Speaker 1: on a hillside. There's no telling what the water bill
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  Speaker 1: is going to be, just sprinklers every night. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad of this. This is good. Good weekend? Did we
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  Speaker 1: sell a lot of jewelry? It was okay. It was
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  Speaker 1: an okay Friday night. So will we still do, like
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  Speaker 1: this week, high school football kicks off? Y'all still going
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  Speaker 1: to battle high school football and all that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, not this week because I'll have to be here
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  Speaker 3: showing a new person how to run an MRA football game.
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  Speaker 1: But after that, you'll be back on jewelry selling on
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  Speaker 1: Friday nights? Yeah, probably.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So your favorite quarterback, Thomas Castellanos, may have a new destination.
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  Speaker 1: And it would make sense. Have you seen this? Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 1: is going in on Thomas Castellanos. Can you believe this?
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  Speaker 1: Of course they are. Texas Tech needs a quarterback. Thomas Castellanos,
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  Speaker 1: the former Florida State quarterback, who said he would beat Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: and they did. And then he did nothing else the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the year. Not much of anything else. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like they're an early leader because he's filed a
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  Speaker 1: suit with the NCAA or against the NCAA to come
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  Speaker 1: back to college football and Texas Tech is the leader
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  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse. Now, this isn't official, but That's a
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  Speaker 1: very interesting fit here with week zero coming up and
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  Speaker 1: then with week one, you know, right down the chute
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  Speaker 1: next week. So we'll see where Thomas Castellanos lines up.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let me get some, there's several notes out here.
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  Speaker 1: Alabama has chosen Keylon Russell to be their starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: This was kind of coming out in reports over the
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  Speaker 1: last week or two, the former five-star quarterback. is the
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  Speaker 1: highest-rated recruit in Alabama football history. So can Keylon Russell
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  Speaker 1: pick Alabama up and put them where they need to be?
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  Speaker 1: Did you see Harrison Butker hit a 69-yard field goal?
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  Speaker 1: That thing hit the net, by the way. That means
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  Speaker 1: it would have been good from, like, 75. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: has he always had that kind of leg? He's good.
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  Speaker 3: He's been solid, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Man, he is really good. Also, I didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: this guy was still playing football. Georgia Southern has named
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  Speaker 1: Max Johnson as starting quarterback. Max Johnson's been playing football
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  Speaker 1: for 20 years, it seems like, in college. Formerly of
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  Speaker 1: Texas A & M, formerly of North Carolina and LSU. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he will be the starting quarterback at Georgia Southern. Also,
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  Speaker 1: you got something over there? Okay. Also, Tennessee has named
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  Speaker 1: true freshman five-star Fazion Brandon. It's starting quarterback. So a
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  Speaker 1: five-star true freshman will start for the Tennessee Vols starting
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  Speaker 1: next week. And Walker Jones, the executive director, former Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss Rebel, of the Grove Collective, said Ole Miss had
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  Speaker 1: FBI sweeping buildings for bugs after Lane Kiffin left for LSU.
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  Speaker 1: Walker was looking under his desk when someone asked what
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  Speaker 1: he was doing. He said, just trust me, you don't
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  Speaker 1: know that guy like I do. Isn't that interesting? The
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  Speaker 1: further down the road we get, it seems like this
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  Speaker 1: was a very fractured relationship, wasn't it? Walker Jones calling
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin out, and we'll get deeper into that story. Also,
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  Speaker 1: Brett McMurphy has his Week Zero college football playoff projections out.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get into this and see what Brett
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  Speaker 1: McMurphy has as we head to Week Zero. Will you
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  Speaker 1: watch any football this week, like Week Zero?
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  Speaker 3: I will look at Memphis. Yeah, I'm going to look
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  Speaker 3: at Memphis UNLV. I'll check in on the Dublin game because,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's kind of overall I don't care. But
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  Speaker 3: the Dublin setting, it's kind of neat. I care nothing
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  Speaker 3: about the game, though. So when I say I'll look
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  Speaker 3: at it, you know, that only means for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of minutes. But overall, I don't really care that much.
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  Speaker 3: But Memphis would be the team I'm most interested in
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  Speaker 3: looking at.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. We got, what, seven ballgames? One, two, three, four, five, seven.
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina, I believe the Dublin, they're going to get killed.
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  Speaker 1: Are they not? How are they not going to get killed?
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  Speaker 1: They take on TCU. TCU is an eight and a
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  Speaker 1: half point favorite this weekend. USC is a 38 point
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  Speaker 1: favorite over San Jose State this weekend. That's a two
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  Speaker 1: o'clock kick. Virginia is hosting NC State. Virginia is a
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  Speaker 1: five and a half point favorite. Jacksonville State, North Dakota State,
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  Speaker 1: North Dakota State, their first ever ball game as a
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  Speaker 1: division one program. They'll take on Jacksonville State. North Dakota
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  Speaker 1: State's a seven-point favorite. Sacramento State in their first-ever Division
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  Speaker 1: I game against Eastern Michigan on the road. They are
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  Speaker 1: a 10-point dog. And Hawaii is taking on Stanford at
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  Speaker 1: 6 o'clock at Stanford this coming up Saturday. Stanford's a
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  Speaker 1: five-and-a-half-point favorite. And did I get one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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  Speaker 1: eight games. New Mexico State's at Florida State. Florida State's
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  Speaker 1: a 31-point favorite. Six-o'clock kick on Saturday night. And the
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  Speaker 1: Memphis UNLV game, that's a not. No. West Coast after
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  Speaker 1: dark or whatever you want to call it. Old Pac-12
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  Speaker 1: after dark. Five-and-a-half point favorite. Dan Mullen versus Memphis. This
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  Speaker 1: feels like a game that Dan Mullen would probably lose.
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  Speaker 1: Opening weekend against a Memphis Charles Huff, first-time head football
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  Speaker 1: coach at Memphis. That didn't feel like Mullen would lose
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  Speaker 1: this game. He's expected to win his conference. Why not
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  Speaker 1: come out the gate 0-1? Dog-tired Florence. Are these last
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  Speaker 1: two scores for real? Let's see. Clarion Ledger, Southeast Lauderdale, three.
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  Speaker 1: West Lauderdale, nothing.
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  Speaker 2: St.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick, Catholic, two. Richland, nothing. I don't know that they're real.
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  Speaker 1: I would say that maybe they're real. The Southeast Lauderdale,
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  Speaker 1: West Lauderdale score probably is real at three to nothing. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: the MHSAA, everybody played a preseason game in there. mhsa
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  Speaker 1: this past week and a lot of your jamboree like
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  Speaker 1: i'll just tell you this i'll give you example brandon
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  Speaker 1: played warren central that was a 14-7 quote warren central
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  Speaker 1: victory but all of the scoring from both sides were
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  Speaker 1: from the juniors like the the underclassmen that was the
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  Speaker 1: twos and threes playing the ones played to a zero
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  Speaker 1: zero tie but they only played two quarters and running
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  Speaker 1: clock So everybody plays these weird games, these preseason games differently.
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  Speaker 1: So I would say that's probably real. Now, St. Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Catholic in Richton, I have no idea. You see anything on,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a baseball, maybe that's a baseball score
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  Speaker 1: David Murray will join us in 20 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Good afternoon. Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome back to the Afternoon Drive with Jake Wimmer.
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  Speaker 4: Where he's talking about anything and everything that's Mississippi sports.
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  Speaker 2: No, great afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Right here on ESPN 105.9 The Zone and online.
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  Speaker 2: Worldwide.
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  Speaker 1: ain't this blank crazy? I wondered why Lane Kiffin reached
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  Speaker 1: out a week ago. Now I know I didn't call him.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know I didn't call him back, so I
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  Speaker 1: guess I should have. This is in regards to former
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Brown headed to, looks like, Oxford. And it looks
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  Speaker 1: like Lane Kiffin's going to get a couple of these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Zenich reporting 29 minutes ago, LSU is currently expected
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  Speaker 1: to add former New Orleans Saints and ex-Ole Miss star
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  Speaker 1: defensive lineman Zabion Harris, 6'8, 330-pounder, who was an All-SEC
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  Speaker 1: selection at Ole Miss last season. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: about all this? I haven't really asked you that. But
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  Speaker 1: what do you think about these guys in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: now coming back to college this year? It's really stupid.
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  Speaker 2: I hate it.
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  Speaker 1: It's dumb.
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  Speaker 3: It's dumb as hell. Same as when it was happening
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  Speaker 3: in basketball earlier this spring.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think, and shame on me, because why would
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  Speaker 3: I think this wasn't where we were heading? I didn't
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  Speaker 3: think it would hit football for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: And some people are saying, well, it's just one year.
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  Speaker 6: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know they've got the new rule in place.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you graduate now moving forward, if you've
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  Speaker 1: got five to play five, if you're 19 or whatever
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  Speaker 1: the two criterion is. But is it really?
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly what I was thinking last week, because, you know,
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  Speaker 3: some people were trying to point out, well, yeah, exactly
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  Speaker 3: what you said. This is only for the class of 2022.
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  Speaker 3: But we know how this goes. Somewhere, someone will.
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  Speaker 1: It's the old saying, open up the floodgates.
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  Speaker 3: They will try to find this is like when, you know,
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  Speaker 3: everything's got to be retroactive because because in 2021, when
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  Speaker 3: NIL was made legal, first move from just an example,
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  Speaker 3: first move from Ohio State fans.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we got to go back and get our 2011.
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  Speaker 3: The players that were suspended, that should be that should
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  Speaker 3: be taken back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, remember that? Oh, yeah. But because something is
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  Speaker 3: legal now, we decide, well, it should have been legal
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  Speaker 3: five years ago. It should have been legal 15 years ago. So, no,
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  Speaker 3: it's not surprising and it'll happen in the future. Someone's
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  Speaker 3: going to try to use this. Well, we should get it, too.
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  Speaker 3: They'll try to find loopholes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I have zero faith that this will be just a
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  Speaker 1: one year. There'll be lawsuits to fight next year. This
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  Speaker 1: the sport has become lawsuit crazy. Lawsuit crazy. Brett McMurphy,
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  Speaker 1: his week zero college football playoff and bowl picks. Here
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  Speaker 1: we go. Let's get into some of these. Before I
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  Speaker 1: do that, let me get these texts real quick. Miko,
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  Speaker 1: did JUCO years count against the five? Now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so. I'll confirm that, but I don't think the
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  Speaker 1: JUCOs count against that. I think you still got the
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  Speaker 1: JUCOs and they still have five to play five. Bill, Jake,
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  Speaker 1: there is no such thing as college football anymore. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: colleges have their brands on some of these professional teams.
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  Speaker 1: slash semi-pro teams, but that doesn't make them a college team.
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  Speaker 1: There's no more college football. You have colleges buying proteins,
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  Speaker 1: or I think even players. That's all there is to it. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's not amateur football. It's just not amateur football anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything amateur about it?
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  Speaker 5: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: The quarterback at Villanova, Pat McQuaid, he's in a situation
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  Speaker 3: now where they're saying he's out of eligibility because League
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  Speaker 3: were they in the Patriot League? Yeah, I think it
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  Speaker 3: was the Patriot League was saying he's out of eligibility
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  Speaker 3: because he played one season at.
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  Speaker 1: It was here.
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  Speaker 3: I want to say it was at Gulf Coast Community College,
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  Speaker 3: but they're saying, no, we're going to count that Juco
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  Speaker 3: year in Mississippi against you. And from what I understand,
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  Speaker 3: that league came out and said, if he takes one snap,
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  Speaker 3: then Villanova will forfeit that game.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So there is that. And I'm looking up, let's see.
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  Speaker 1: I lied. Yes, junior colleges. Well, let's see. I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: contradictory reports here. I have to find out on the
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  Speaker 1: junior college. If it does count, five to play five.
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  Speaker 1: Possum Neck Joe. Oh, yeah, you're right, Beaver. There's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a 30-year-old ex-NFL player back in college before
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  Speaker 1: you know it. That's the way it looks. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's the way it looks. Nobody has any faith in
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  Speaker 1: the system right now. Zero faith. All right, Brett McMurphy,
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  Speaker 1: college football, playoff predictions. He has UNLV as a 12,
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  Speaker 1: taking on 5C Texas Tech. Number 9, Oklahoma versus number 8, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a rematch of the Red River Shootout.
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  Speaker 1: Number 11, Washington. I've been seeing some Washington push here
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  Speaker 1: in the preseason. Not that that matters. There's some Washington love.
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  Speaker 1: At number 6, Miami. Number 10, BYU.
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  Speaker 5: At....
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  Speaker 1: No. 7, Indiana. So that means two Big 12 teams.
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  Speaker 1: And I've seen a couple of these in here. Fiesta Bowl, No. 2, Oregon,
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  Speaker 1: taking on No. 7, Indiana. No. 4, Notre Dame, taking
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  Speaker 1: on No. 5, Texas Tech. No. 1, Ohio State, taking
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  Speaker 1: on No. 8, Texas. No. 3, Georgia, taking on Miami
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  Speaker 1: in the semifinals. Redman Burpee has Oregon versus Georgia. And
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State versus Texas Tech. And the National Championship, Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State versus Oregon, with Oregon winning the national title. That's
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  Speaker 1: Brett McMurphy week zero. He'll do these every week. That's
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  Speaker 1: his week zero projections. Uh, let's see here and looking
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  Speaker 1: through some of these other bowl games. Let me see
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  Speaker 1: those that you care about. How about the cure bowl
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  Speaker 1: on Orlando Tulane versus James Madison? Everybody cares about that
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  Speaker 1: army versus Kansas and the armed forces bowl. Also Michigan
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  Speaker 1: Clemson and the Duke's Mayo bowl. We've got, uh, Auburn,
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin and the Birmingham bowl. Seen several slight Auburn or
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  Speaker 1: move Auburn, slot them to the Birmingham Bowl. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: their fans would be ecstatic about that. Texas A &
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  Speaker 1: M versus SMU in the Gator Bowl. LSU, Minnesota in
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  Speaker 1: the Music City Bowl. LSU fans didn't pay Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 1: to go to the Music City Bowl. All right, let's
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  Speaker 1: go to the Mississippi Sports Medicine call line. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Gator Matt. Matt, happy Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Matt.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, he's coming back. All right, let's see. Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: versus Illinois in the Reliquist Bowl. Alabama, USC in the
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas Bowl. Neither fan base will be happy about
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  Speaker 1: that at all. Missouri, Kansas State in the Texas Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss, Penn State in the Citrus Bowl. Florida versus
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State in the Liberty Bowl. Get Matt back on.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see if he's ready to go to Memphis. And
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  Speaker 1: the Holiday Bowl, Pitt versus Arizona State. So there's Brett
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  Speaker 1: McMurphy's week zero. bold projections we're trying to get Gator
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  Speaker 1: Matt in here now Matt welcome in how are you.
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  Speaker 2: If you're an LSU fan you should be embarrassed I
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  Speaker 2: mean Jake am I am I all face here what
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  Speaker 2: what a slimy university they're terrible I mean not only
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  Speaker 2: academically are they about as bad as you can get
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  Speaker 2: I mean if we're off academics they'd be kicked out
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  Speaker 2: they're awful I mean, let's not.
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  Speaker 6: Talk about the basketball program, which is just two creeps,
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  Speaker 6: whatever that chick's name is, and then this guy they
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  Speaker 6: got now who's just trying to go out and get
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  Speaker 6: nothing but NBA. I mean, they're just awful.
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  Speaker 2: He plays for the Browns, Jake.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: And then I.
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  Speaker 5: Come to find out, I don't know if you guys
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  Speaker 5: have touched on this, but apparently.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: They're selling 10% of their media right to a private
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: equity firm for Jake, do you.
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: Ever play poker?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Do you ever play cards? Yes. Well, when
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: people drag a light on a pot, that means they're
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: trying to participate with money they don't have.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: And that's what LSU... Just slimy. Just awful.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, if I'm an LSU fan.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: You should be embarrassed.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Now, am I a little salty that Lane, you know,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: played footsies with Florida for the last two years and
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: then went to LSU?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: A little.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: But I'll be honest with you, Jake.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: I think we dodged a hell of a bullet.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I really do. Because that guy, if I'm an LSU fan,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: let me tell you something. If you don't win nine
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: games this year, oh, Jake. I mean, but anyway, Kevin's
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the biggest villain in all of sports. LSU, if you're
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: a fan, I wouldn't really advertise that. But anyway, Aaron
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Follow for Heisman.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: See you.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: See you. Stay on the phones. Let's get it ready, Teddy. Teddy,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: happy Monday.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: Gator Matt's 100% right about the private equity stuff. That
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: is insane to do that. And the fact that it's
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: money you don't have. Anyway, Jake, how does it feel
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: for your show, The Afternoon Drive, when your caller said
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: this was exactly Lane Kiffin and a Louisiana judge on
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: your show last week? I told you that's what this was.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Well, it feels that way for sure, right?
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's basically, well, who do we believe?
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: With the resumes of talking, do we believe Todd Munkin
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: that Lane called, or do we believe Lane Kiffin that
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: he didn't call?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, at this point, I'm sure he did call.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, or had someone call.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but Lane said that there's some inaccuracies in that story,
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: so I guess he had an underling call, so that
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: way he could say it wasn't him calling, but yeah,
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: it all stinks to high heaven, but we just got
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: to deal with it, and I'm with you. I don't
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: think it's going to be a one-year thing. I think
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: it's every person that doesn't make an NFL roster and
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: some that even might make an NFL roster and make
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: it in the league minimum are going to come back.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: But eventually, we don't know when. LSU is kind of
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: showing us the way of how it's going to end
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: or get corralled is going to be by going the
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: private equity route because they.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Don't have the money.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: And they're not the only ones that have the money.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: None of us have the money. Most schools have the
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: money to keep this up long term. They just don't.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: It doesn't generate enough money. per team to pay out
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: Ole Miss. And Ole Miss's roster is, what, 36 million
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: this year? We can't come at that again next year
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: and the year after, especially if they keep going up
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: 50% every year. All right, man.
• 21:14
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• 22:52
  Speaker 1: to game week. David, welcome in, sir.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Jake, man, good to hear from y'all on this Monday afternoon.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: We're inside the official two-week countdown mark for... football season
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: starting up. I think a week from Thursday, Missouri's playing,
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: and it's here. Ready or not, it is here.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: No, it is. It is absolutely here. David, I'll go first.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Injuries.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Any injury news to talk about or not for Mississippi State?
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Are not is probably a better way to put it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: We spoke with Jeff Levy following the Saturday scrimmage. and
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: that's the last contact we've had anybody from Bulldog Football.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: We'll actually get to talk to some players tomorrow. Whereas
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: after the first scrimmage, he was complimenting the team for
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: surviving the conditions and all. He didn't make any health
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: statements yesterday. Now, you can read into that whatever you
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: want to or not, but it did not seem to
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: be an area of concern for Levy in his post-scrimmage.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: And.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: A number of M Club members were able to attend.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: We've seen some various posts and stuff, and they don't
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: seem to report any injuries during it as well. So
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: as far as health goes, the Bulldogs should be in
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: great shape. I know I've been looking around the SEC
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: programs for what's happening there, and some places are having
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: some pretty interesting injuries already in the season. So fingers
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: crossed the Bulldogs should be in good shape to begin
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: the year if nobody goes the wrong way in the
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: next 10 days.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Devin, I did see something come across the wire. Correct
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. It was Aiden Williams. Is he
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: still a little banged up?
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: He is, but he's had trouble staying fully healthy ever
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: since he got here. But he remains in that top
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: six receiver rotation that Jeff Lee was talking about. In fact,
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: we asked about it. And he still listed Aiden. I
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: didn't mention that he is a little slowed down right now.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: But he went ahead and left him in his top
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: six and then added three more younger guys– obviously Cameron
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Capehart and Zion Crumpton and others. So it looks like
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: the receiver core is going to be at least nine
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: deep at this point. And I'm talking true wide receivers,
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: not just tight ends and running backs as well. So
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: I think they can handle that situation. Now, Williams is
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: one of the more physical receivers. It's not a big
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: imposing group by a stretch, but we're going to find
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: out when the season really gets going, all the speed
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: everybody's talked about, including the defensive players, praising the speed
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: on the offensive side and the receivers. We're going to
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: find out if that's real or not once they see
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: an opponent on the field.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: David Murray talking Mississippi State football. And, of course, get
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: them at jeanspage247sports. com. David, any notes on the offensive line
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: as we get closer to kickoff?
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: I think the first five is pretty well settled at
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: this point with Myles McVay and Jakeem Shumpert at the
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: opposite tackle positions, DJ Chester and LJ Prudhomme. at the
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: guard positions and Ken Boone, of course, as your center.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: So notice, of course, that three of those transfers, one's
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: a redshirt junior college guy and one's a true senior
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: out there. So it's another case, as is so typical
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: of the last several years, where Mississippi State's offensive starting
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: line going into the year is going to be pretty
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: much dominated by transfers again, which is the reason why
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: they keep going back and forth to the portal, because
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: that's just what you've got to do. You know, we
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: can argue about the merits of trying to be a
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: development program in certain positions, and historically, offensive line required
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: the most development. I'm just not sure that the development
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: paradigm works quite as well now with the free transfer
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: availability and guys just looking for playing time as well.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: But they rolled the dice again on the portal, and now,
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: of course, I think with Phil Voholt, a second year
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: in the offense, having better bodies to work with, and
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: the return of Mason Miller. I do not want to
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: underrate that. Getting Coach Miller back to work specifically with
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: the offensive line as well, I think that's going to
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: do really good things for the front line. And as
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: we've said maybe a time or 20 since 2026, everything
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: about this season hinges on Mississippi State's offensive line to
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: give Kamario Taylor and a really talented bunch of running
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: backs and receivers the chances to do what they're capable
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: of doing.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: David, any other scrimmage notes or news that you want
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: to pass along that may be interesting news for Mississippi
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: State people and then not Mississippi State people?
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: Well, by all indications, the aggressive approach they've turned loose
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: on defense. And I go back to spring ball when
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: one of the players just came out and said, well,
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: we don't really have assignments or gaps anymore. Well, that
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: was overstating the case. They do have traditional integrity ideas
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: in their positions to begin with. But aggression has taken
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: the fore, and I think that's showing up really well
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: on the defensive side. First off, it plays their mentality.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Whatever else has happened in recruiting in recent years, they've
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: brought in a bunch of defensive guys who really like
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: to play in attack mode rather than a kind of sit-back,
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: stand-and-take-it mode like they were in the past two seasons.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: So Zach Arnett's approach is playing. But I think they
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: have better bodies, too. If Will Whitson remains healthy... That's
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: a big stout guy with mobility on one end, got
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: Amari Williams coming off the other end. I think the
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: pass rush game, it may not show in sacks specifically,
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: but I think it's going to show in hurries. I
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: think it's going to throw in quicker decisions made by
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: the offense to get rid of the ball and thus
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: more opportunities for getting off the field or getting turnovers
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: as well. I just think this defensive mindset is playing
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: well with this particular group of players. and the fact
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: that now you've got more healthy bodies in the front line.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: I still want to see if Calvin Dinkins is up
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: to full speed going into the season, maybe some concerns
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: about his point. But he's not a guy that's struggled
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: to stay healthy his whole career. But I like the
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: additions they have. I think Trevion Williams is back at
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: home playing interior now. I think he's going to really
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: blossom here. One of those body-by-gods that you look at
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: and think, oh, when is it all going to click?
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: I think it's the year it clicks for Bam Bam. And,
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: you know, goodness knows I like what I hear about
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: the secondary, not just Kelly Jones and Jet Jefferson. But
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: you see how the safeties, Isaac Smith now playing more
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: of a true safety like he used to with Arnett.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: You've got the transfers coming in. I just think this
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: defense as a whole is going to be able to
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: let it rip and take their chances. And, frankly, in
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: today's college game, I think that's how you have to
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: play it.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: No, I would agree with you. I mean, if you've
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: got the guys on the back end that you feel
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: comfortable in and trust them in the coverage in the
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: third level of the defensive setup, then you've got your
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: guys up front. For Mississippi State, they desperately need that
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: pass rush. It was better last year, but to have
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: that even move forward in 2026.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Well, the pass rush, it was better statistically, but it
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: wasn't there when you had to have it. That's something
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: that can't be defined statistically, but much like special teams.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: On paper, special teams were outstanding last year, but they
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: would have this one breakdown every week or so that
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: ended up being pivotal in games. That's what I'm talking
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: about more. It's not just something that shows on a
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: stat sheet. It's something that shows inconsistency and can you
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: count on them in these clutch situations or just in
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: a situation that you don't want to become clutch by
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: just taking care of routine business. I think they're going
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: to be better at that this year.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Make sure to get him on X. Check him out
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: at jeanspage247sports. com. Mississippi State etching towards or easing towards that
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: week one. David, when we talk next week, it will
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: be game week, sir.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: And as always, it'll be a week until the opening
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: of dove season. We always have to get that in.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: And a reminder, everybody, go shoot your birds in the morning,
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: then turn on out to Scott Field in the evening
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: and do your tailgating as well. You can take care
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: of both in Mississippi this time of year.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: There is, no doubt, no doubt. Everybody needs to make
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: sure they do that. David, appreciate you as always. Have
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: a good week.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Jake, Ben, good to hear from you.
• 31:01
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  Speaker 4: And where?
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  Speaker 4: We're back to Jake Quiverley with the afternoon drive on
• 31:25
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• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the property. Bring it to the house. Take it to
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the dove field. Whatever you want to do with it.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Chris Landry will join us 5 to 530. Do you
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: think Mississippi State fans will forego week one to dove hunt?
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Did you hear David? Get to the dove field and
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: then get to Davis Wade Stadium? Like, will Mississippi State
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: fans forego Louisiana Monroe for dove hunting on Saturday, a
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: week from Saturday?
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know. It'll be an interesting test to see
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: if all this talk of, oh man, it's baseball season. No,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: it's baseball season. As if to say we're skipping football.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: So it'll be interesting to see. I guess that'll test
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: out if you're actually telling the truth or not.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Some will. Theoretical.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Some will.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think the overall majority. If you're a diehard...
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: love your team i don't think those will if dove
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: season and it is next weekend if it was the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: first weekend of baseball season would any state fans miss
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: baseball for dove hunting no no it's not happening miko
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: talking about the juco stuff said uh got at the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: juco impact full-time enrollment at a junior college starts your
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: five-year ncaa clock if you play two seasons at juco
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: then Two seasons count, leaving you with three seasons of eligibility,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: remaining for the next three years for your clock when
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you transfer to a four-year school. Thank you, sir. So
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: it does count. The Tennesseeman. The NFL has to just say,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: you leave. You will not be eligible to play in
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the NFL again. One and done. That will be on
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the NFL contract. Well, it should have been what should
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: have happened. It used to be if you signed with
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: an agent and you were done. But somewhere along the way,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: that went away. with the NCAA, talking about these players
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: and what they're doing. Coming back to the college ranks.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Yesterday was Wake Forest Jacob Dickert's 43rd birthday. He is
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the head football coach, second youngest in the ACC, 26th
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: youngest in the FBS. Also, Washington State's Kirby Moore, 36th yesterday.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Pac-12's youngest head coach, second youngest overall in the FBS.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Ross Dellinger reporting earlier today. During a regularly scheduled preseason
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: practice news conference, Lane Kiffin addresses the eligibility situation, quote,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: through players winning injunctions and entry into the portal, they
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: are available to recruit. Ourselves and many places around the
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: country are recruiting them. He goes on to say, because
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: of the rulings, they're going to play for you or
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: for someone else. We made the decision to recruit them.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: It's wrong to be critical of these kids. They were
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: granted a fifth year, and a judge said they were wronged.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: What do you think about Lane Kiffin now playing the
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: fiddle here?
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Of course these kids were wronged. And Lane Kiffin has said, hey, look,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: somebody's got to recruit them. We're either going to recruit
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: them or somebody else is going to recruit them. So
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: we're going to recruit them. Kiffin also says, quote, these
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: players should have been told that they were going to
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: be eligible for a fifth year. Had they known that,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: they would have stayed. and not sign pro contracts. Now,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: how do we know that? You may end up having
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: hundreds of athletes told they have a fifth year. It's
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: a unique circumstance. Yeah, it's a circumstance that has opened
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Pandora's box, so to speak. Also, Ross Dellinger will get
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: into this. Notable blue bloods are gearing up for a
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: possible coaching search, for many coaching searches, if losses mount up.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: This year's carousel may eclipse a historic 2025 coaching surge,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: but how quick will FSU move on it? How quick
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: will USC move on it? It's hot in Chapel Hill
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: as well. So we'll get into what the coaching carousel
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: may look like this year. Some are saying it could
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: be worse than 2025. Also, the Cleveland Browns have tabbed
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. Quarterback number one, QB1. Quote, I understand the frustration.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: And moving forward, I just want to focus on football
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: and make sure I'm putting the best product out there.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Any thoughts on Deshaun Watson being QB1 in Cleveland?
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: No.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: This has been the most ridiculous of the quarterback battles.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: The last.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just constant articles and stories about, you know,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: it wasn't until last year with the Browns that I
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: really started noticing that we keep stats on practices in
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: training camp. Like every article I'm reading, well, Deshaun Watson
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: has thrown nine interceptions in his last 12 practices in
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: the last few weeks and his completion percentage in practice
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: in training camp was this, this, and this. Look, both
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: your options suck. Deshaun Watson and Shador Sanders. First of all,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: it's the Browns. No matter who's at quarterback, they're not
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: getting it right. With these two people, they're absolutely not
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: getting it right. They still owe Watson all that money.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Then he did it again. He stuck his foot in
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: his mouth again, talking about the fans, talking about they
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: booed him the other day because, well, that had nothing
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: to do with their performance. That was just personal. Well, yeah,
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: a big part of it was personal, but it's also
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: to do with your performance. You've started 19 games in
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: four years in Cleveland. And then those 19 games have
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: not really been that excellent. So, yeah, a little bit
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: of delusion there from Deshaun Watson. But it's not surprising.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: At some point, he'll get injured because that's what he does.
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  Speaker 3: And Shador Sanders will take over. So let's just wait
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: and see.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you just kind of told us what's
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: going to happen in Cleveland. Hey, did the 49ers owner
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: get arrested?
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: He did indeed.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: What was he doing?
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Well, it started out as two charges and they were
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: going to be prostitution related, but it got it. They
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: got whittled down to two misdemeanor charges for I think
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: it was disorderly conduct and having. What was the wording having?
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: I can't remember the wording, but basically having a weapon.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: But the wording they used for this weapon, let me
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: go back because I got to get the exact wording
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: of this right because it's interesting.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Saints have a new kicker. The Saints are signing two-time
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: All-Pro kicker Daniel Carlson. His agent at Range Sports RMP
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: tells Ian Rappaport, the former Raiders kicker, brings experience to
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: New Orleans, which has been holding a competition between Tanner
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Brown and Charlie Smith, SMYTH. So the Saints sign an
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: all-pro kicker, Daniel Carson. Maybe they can get some field
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: goals in there this year in New Orleans. Also, let's
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: see here. Two SEC schools have emerged as frontrunners for
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: former NFL running back T.J. Harden. Harden played his college
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: football at SMU and UCLA. So it's just so weird
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: to read it like that. Two SEC schools have emerged
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: as a frontrunner for former NFL running back.
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: T.J.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Harden, which is just crazy. White Denzel. Criminal tools is
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: what the wording was. Criminal tools.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, possessing criminal tools. That was the charge, which they
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: said in Ohio, the criminal tools ranges wildly from... A
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: gun to a hammer to.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: What did I see on there?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Nitroglycerin was on the list. But I believe what finally
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: came out is what they're referring to the criminal tool
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: as is the phone. His phone was a criminal tool
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: because it was used to arrange prostitution.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Interesting stuff. And DX, Mr. DX, yeah, criminal tools. More
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: on this and criminal tools. I've never heard this. Brought
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