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January 23, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 4: The Zoul eleven fifty AM, ninety three point seven FM.
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  Speaker 4: It is Will and Ryan and Riley and a host
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  Speaker 4: of others.
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  Speaker 2: You're back.
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  Speaker 4: I am back, well, I was kind of back yeah,
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  Speaker 4: week before last before Riley tripped out.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I'm good now though, are you yes?
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  Speaker 4: Are you sure? I mean, the walking boot is there?
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  Speaker 4: See the p's off the crutches now off the crutches.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't know that that is the medically pertinent
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  Speaker 4: thing to do right now. I don't think it was
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  Speaker 4: recommended that she should be off her crutches. Yes, I
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  Speaker 4: mean she's standing right here. Well, no, she's sitting right here,
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  Speaker 4: so we can ask her, Riley, are you supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be off of your crunches?
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  Speaker 5: Only about twenty eighty percent.
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  Speaker 6: Of the day's an athlete, so she's used to doing
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  Speaker 6: what she wants.
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  Speaker 4: I know, we got that. We got Caleb in here
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  Speaker 4: as well. I mean, we've got essentially the Afternoon Zoo
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  Speaker 4: going the whole house. We got a lot of transition
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  Speaker 4: going on here in it, but it's all great. I
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  Speaker 4: mean we had initially at the beginning of the year,
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  Speaker 4: we wanted Riley to come in and get some more
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  Speaker 4: you know, feel for what this live radio thing looked like.
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  Speaker 4: And then you know, she fell, and then I had
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  Speaker 4: to be in I had to be in Fort Worth
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  Speaker 4: for the cheer competition last last weekend.
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  Speaker 2: And you were going to be again just going to
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  Speaker 2: be correct, until Frost decided to spend Mother Nature.
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  Speaker 4: Oh gosh, I'm kind of excited about not having to
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  Speaker 4: go back to Fort Worth. Although man, that trip to
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  Speaker 4: Fort Worth, there were some very interesting things that occurred there.
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  Speaker 4: A couple to explain a couple of things. First of all,
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  Speaker 4: had fantastic meal. I had a It was this port
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  Speaker 4: chop on on cheese grits with in dewey sausage gravy,
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  Speaker 4: and a Frida egg.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds really good.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it was really good. So I was there
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  Speaker 4: for a cheer competition and my daughter's cheer team was
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  Speaker 4: practicing Friday evening a week ago right about now in
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  Speaker 4: the park across the street from the parking lot, I
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  Speaker 4: guess from their hotel, and they were out there and
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  Speaker 4: they're practicing their cheers. One of their cheers was it
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  Speaker 4: shouts over and over again, you know, shouting at the crowd,
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  Speaker 4: we want more. So they are doing this repeatedly. Apparently
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  Speaker 4: there was somebody who is uh what do they call
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  Speaker 4: it now housing is a homeless dude, right, but they've
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  Speaker 4: got a special PC name for it. In surprise, surprise,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know the PC name for it, but they
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  Speaker 4: had that. He came over the hill shouting I don't
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  Speaker 4: want any more. They were shouting I want, we want
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  Speaker 4: more to the crowd, and he came over I don't
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  Speaker 4: I don't want any more.
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  Speaker 2: Was he just like regular homeless or like homeless? And
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  Speaker 2: on something well, I mean, because I feel like that's
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  Speaker 2: regular homework.
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  Speaker 4: May come on, guys, you're gonna get me in trouble here.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all are bad mouthing, you know, people who are.
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  Speaker 2: Dishonst asking a question.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean with homeless people, you typically
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  Speaker 4: will have a lot of times you'll have mental instability
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  Speaker 4: or mental illness that results in people homeless people using
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  Speaker 4: drugs to try to self medica.
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  Speaker 7: OK.
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  Speaker 4: So I can't diagnose him because I'm not a psychologist,
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  Speaker 4: a physician or did I did not stay at a
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  Speaker 4: holiday and express, so I cannot tell you exactly what
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  Speaker 4: the problem was. I just know that he was very
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  Speaker 4: angry and did not want more. That's all that I
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  Speaker 4: could tell you about that.
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  Speaker 2: But of course they still gave more. Right, No, they ran, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they ran, you know what, second thought, that's probably the
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  Speaker 2: best right got.
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  Speaker 4: That on video It looked like the Blair witch man.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it was crazy running with the phone. It
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  Speaker 4: was absolutely nuts. And then the other crazy thing that
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  Speaker 4: happened was so they they did not make day two
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  Speaker 4: of the competition, so late Friday evening and we were
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  Speaker 4: staying a few miles away at a different hotel that
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  Speaker 4: was next to the convention center. So my wife goes
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  Speaker 4: at about eleven o'clock in the evening. We'd been sitting
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  Speaker 4: in the hotel bar for a minute. She said, we
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  Speaker 4: have to go take your daughter some stuff. And it
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  Speaker 4: was like, take her some stuff. It's eleven o'clock. She's
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  Speaker 4: at a different hotel, but she needed some stuff. So
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  Speaker 4: the only place that you could get stuff is that
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  Speaker 4: was opened with seven eleven. So I pull into the
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  Speaker 4: seven eleven, get in the parking spot, and even before
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  Speaker 4: I get in the parking spot, I can tell that
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  Speaker 4: there are people in the vicinity, in the very near
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  Speaker 4: vicinity that are having a good time. In the willy way.
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  Speaker 4: The devil's lettice was abundant to the smell there.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 4: That was going on. And then in the car next
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  Speaker 4: to me where two it looked like the windows were
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  Speaker 4: really tinted. It looked like two young females. Each of
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  Speaker 4: them had a bottle of a coke shaped bottle in
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  Speaker 4: one hand and a pint shaped bottle in another hand,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, take a pull off one, take a
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  Speaker 4: pull off the other. I'm like, okay, this is going on.
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  Speaker 4: The Craziest thing about it, though, was blaring at at
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  Speaker 4: top volume from the speakers there at the seven to
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  Speaker 4: eleven was opera music.
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  Speaker 8: Opera music, I mean, not the direction I was expecting
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  Speaker 8: to go Maria's. And I don't know, Riley, was it
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  Speaker 8: you that pointed out that you thought it was probably
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  Speaker 8: to keep people from hanging out there, And I thought
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  Speaker 8: that was brilliant.
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  Speaker 4: But I was like, hey, this is different. But I
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  Speaker 4: like all kinds of music, so why not? So that
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  Speaker 4: was my week last week. What about you guys?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that I can top that. Well, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I'm spending my days here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so but okay, let's look ahead to the future.
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  Speaker 4: Where are you spending the next couple of days?
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  Speaker 2: That is a great question. And yeah, in bed, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if I'm going to be hunkered down or not.
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  Speaker 4: Because it wasn't there a plan that you guys were
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  Speaker 4: going to like camp out up here and have a
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  Speaker 4: campfire and sing Kumba.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, there was a plan. It was not to uh,
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  Speaker 2: it was not to be here. The plan was actually
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  Speaker 2: to go to Houston, and it was going to be
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  Speaker 2: Louie and I were supposed to go to Houston tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: to have lunch with a really good friend, and she
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  Speaker 2: used to work here, actually she works down there in Houston.
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  Speaker 2: Now we were gonna go have barbecue. Was going to
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  Speaker 2: be a great day, and then of course mother nature
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  Speaker 2: stepped in, so we have had to push that back.
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  Speaker 2: So now my day will consist of I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 2: Live on Candy tomorrow because we have a duty here
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  Speaker 2: to keep people informed and I'm happy the public happy
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  Speaker 2: to do that. And thankfully, in the year twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: I have the capability to do that from my apartment,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't actually have to drive up here to
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 4: You kids, we used to have to go to the
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  Speaker 4: radio station uphill both ways in the snow, barefoot.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, twenty miles.
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  Speaker 2: I am very glad that I do not have to
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  Speaker 2: do that. So I will be doing that tomorrow. We'll
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  Speaker 2: be watching some basketball games. There's a lot of college
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  Speaker 2: games that have been moved up because of this, including
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  Speaker 2: A and M's game tomorrow against South Carolina, which is
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  Speaker 2: at New Now. So I will be doing all of
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  Speaker 2: those things, and then when that's over, I will just
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  Speaker 2: hunk her down in my apartment until all of this
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  Speaker 2: is done.
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  Speaker 4: However long that You've got all the supplies, are you?
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  Speaker 9: Now?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to the store and hope that like
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  Speaker 2: scraps or whatever is left, because from what I have heard,
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  Speaker 2: it is gone.
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  Speaker 4: I will carry a sharpened stick or a broken bottle
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  Speaker 4: or something with you because you're going to get into.
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  Speaker 2: It fighting over the last love.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so, I mean we all know. You guys can figure.
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  Speaker 4: My supplies are laid in, right, I mean, I'm good
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  Speaker 4: to go. Plan on making some gumbo and drinking some
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  Speaker 4: bourbon tomorrow and watching the chaos from out of the
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  Speaker 4: countryside where nobody is around. Riley, What about you? What
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  Speaker 4: is what is your weekend of frozen festivities look like?
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  Speaker 10: Well, tomorrow, I'm getting up early and I'm going to
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  Speaker 10: go to the track meet all day and kind of
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  Speaker 10: cover it, and then after that my game plan is
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  Speaker 10: to go home, hunker down, read a book, and do nothing.
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  Speaker 4: By the fireplace sound. Do you have an actual fireplace
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  Speaker 4: or is it one of those gas fed ones.
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  Speaker 10: I think it's an actual one. I've never used before,
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  Speaker 10: so it's going to be an experience.
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  Speaker 2: At least it's a fireplace.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have to put wood in it? Or is
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  Speaker 4: there already stuff in there. Do you have wood? Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 4: just checking.
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  Speaker 5: I ain't got that good stuff at Trug's play.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So you have stuff that'll light easily. Because I
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  Speaker 2: try to light a fireplace, I'm like sitting there trying
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  Speaker 2: to I can't get this to go. I'd be dead
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  Speaker 2: meat if I had to start a fire in the woods.
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  Speaker 10: Well, when I lived in Nacadoes, we had friends and
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  Speaker 10: we were all at one house together. The track team
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  Speaker 10: was and they were just like pulling limbs off the
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  Speaker 10: trees from outside, and I was like, this isn't gonna
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  Speaker 10: work out.
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  Speaker 4: That doesn't that, that doesn't work out.
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  Speaker 5: The smell was terrible. So I was like, uh uh,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going somewhere to go get stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay. And for folks who don't know, this is Riley.
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  Speaker 4: She is the sportsperson on the wta W morning show,
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  Speaker 4: The Info Maniacs with Me and Scott in the mornings,
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  Speaker 4: and she is a former collegiate athlete, a pull vaulter
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  Speaker 4: at Texas A and M. So, just so y'all know.
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  Speaker 4: And then we've got Caleb over here as well, who
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  Speaker 4: is training Trey over there, So we've.
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  Speaker 2: Got five people in here.
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  Speaker 4: I had to use my whole hand to count. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that was crazy.
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  Speaker 6: I think this is the max that we're legally allowed
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  Speaker 6: to have in the studio.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, fire marshals don't matter. Sorry say that out loud.
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  Speaker 2: Was just kidding, y'all.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just joking. They carry guns allegedly, allegedly. All right,
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  Speaker 4: we got good stuff coming up, of course, Kirk here
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  Speaker 7: Welcome to the College Football Report with Kirk Bowles of
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  Speaker 14: All right, we were joined on the phone line by
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  Speaker 14: to Miami every January wouldn't be bad, right.
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  Speaker 15: It's not the worst thing though. I would In fact,
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  Speaker 15: i'd probably recommend it. So yeah, they put us up
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  Speaker 15: at the Marriott, Marquee and wind and Dinas and then
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  Speaker 15: the top of all all Dusty. They gave us one
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  Speaker 15: of the best championship games ever. That wasn't a bad
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  Speaker 15: way to finish it.
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  Speaker 14: I can't remember a better one, because that one was
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  Speaker 14: for not having a rooting interest for either team. That
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  Speaker 14: one was exciting to the very end. You didn't know
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  Speaker 14: who was going to win. It was great and we
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  Speaker 14: haven't had a lot of that in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 15: To be honest, it doesn't seem like it. You know,
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  Speaker 15: the NFL has had this shure it's been the best
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  Speaker 15: NFL postseason ever. But you're right, we've seen some our
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  Speaker 15: shares of blowouts, you know, just as TCU. But you know,
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  Speaker 15: my standard has always been kind of the Texas USC
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  Speaker 15: Rose Bowl Game because you know, as one verse two,
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  Speaker 15: both scoring fifty points a game and star power all
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  Speaker 15: over the field, and the setting was a Rose Bowl,
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  Speaker 15: And to me, this one was just as riveting. And
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  Speaker 15: then you remember the Alabama Clemson a game as thirty
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  Speaker 15: five thirty something like that where Alabama all on side
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  Speaker 15: kick and but yeah, this is going to be memorable.
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  Speaker 15: And I just found it totally refreshing. And I don't
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  Speaker 15: know how it looked on TV, Dusty, but we were
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  Speaker 15: guessing in the press box that it was probably maybe
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  Speaker 15: seventy thirty Indiana sense did it look like that?
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  Speaker 4: It?
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  Speaker 14: Well, I was thinking more sixty forty, But if you
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  Speaker 14: told me thirty, I wouldn't be shocked. It was definitely
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  Speaker 14: more red in there than orange.
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  Speaker 15: Right, But the Miami fans, to their credit, made a
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  Speaker 15: lot of noise. Like you said, it was a back
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  Speaker 15: and forth kind of game, and you know, it wasn't
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  Speaker 15: decided till the last second. So yeah, this was just
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  Speaker 15: it was just been a spellbinding season by Indian I mean,
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  Speaker 15: just the fact that we're sitting here in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 15: sixth talking about Indiana winning the national championship. It's in
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  Speaker 15: a way it's tough to get your brain around.
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  Speaker 14: Isn't it as much fun as it was?
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  Speaker 16: Though?
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  Speaker 14: Don't we need to move this up about two weeks?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, And there's been a lot of discussion about that,
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  Speaker 15: and unfortunately they're moving in the other direction, Dusty, because
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  Speaker 15: it's going to be January twenty fifth in Vegas next year.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 15: If anything, it looks like we're creeping toward February, you know,
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  Speaker 15: more than moving it up. But you know, and that
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  Speaker 15: speaks to the playoff pension, which the old deadline is Friday,
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  Speaker 15: and you know, that's like they're going to be able to.
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  Speaker 14: Agree on the deadline, is right? I mean, is it
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  Speaker 14: a hard deadline or is it not? Who knows?
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  Speaker 15: I think this is because I remember they extended it
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  Speaker 15: from December one, ESPN did, and everything I've heard and
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  Speaker 15: everybody I talked to thinks it is a hard deadline today.
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  Speaker 14: And so it's just.
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  Speaker 15: They can't agree to agree, you know, which means it
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  Speaker 15: will default the twelve team field again next year in
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  Speaker 15: all likelihood, And I'm fine with that, I do feel.
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  Speaker 15: But I thought it worked pretty good this year. And
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  Speaker 15: we've only had one year of twelve teams, so it's
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  Speaker 15: a very small sample size, if you will. And you know,
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  Speaker 15: the SEC's going to nine games next year in the league,
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  Speaker 15: and the SEC.
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  Speaker 14: Is going to regret that. I think the SEC is
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  Speaker 14: going to regret going to nine games.
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  Speaker 15: They might, but just might.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, But the truth is, twelve teams is fine. Get
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  Speaker 14: the right twelve teams, and and and by the ACC
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  Speaker 14: fixing there and the Big twelve fixing their tiebreaker rules,
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  Speaker 14: I don't know if they would have had the next
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  Speaker 14: year's tiebreakers rules this year, both Notre Dame and Miami
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  Speaker 14: get in, you get one group of five, and you know,
• 15:31
  Speaker 14: a Texas and Vanderbilt still would have been upset. But
• 15:34
  Speaker 14: the truth is we probably would have had the best
• 15:37
  Speaker 14: eleven teams plus one, and the plus one we always
• 15:40
  Speaker 14: knew we were going to have to get. The fact
• 15:42
  Speaker 14: is we the fact is we didn't really know. I
• 15:46
  Speaker 14: mean I thought Miami or Notre Dame was every bit
• 15:49
  Speaker 14: the contender that Miami was, and so so you know,
• 15:54
  Speaker 14: maybe there was one team that was both deserving and
• 15:58
  Speaker 14: could be a contender.
• 16:02
  Speaker 15: I just think I just think their process is flawed,
• 16:07
  Speaker 15: and Dessie by mean that. I know on the Sunday reveal,
• 16:11
  Speaker 15: you know, I wrote the Houston Chronicle that, well, they
• 16:14
  Speaker 15: got it right. They went about it all wrong because
• 16:18
  Speaker 15: Miami was behind Notre Dame for five weeks, if you will,
• 16:23
  Speaker 15: and then they kind of came to their senses and thought, oh, well,
• 16:26
  Speaker 15: it's going to look bad if we put Notre Dame
• 16:29
  Speaker 15: ahead of the team that beat them, and they finally.
• 16:31
  Speaker 16: Got it right.
• 16:32
  Speaker 15: I think people just have an inherent distrust of committees,
• 16:36
  Speaker 15: you know. I think that's a big part of it.
• 16:38
  Speaker 15: Everybody thinks everybody's biased, and probably everybody is to a
• 16:42
  Speaker 15: certain degree. But I just don't know how they had,
• 16:46
  Speaker 15: you know, and the fact that they were hiding behind
• 16:49
  Speaker 15: well it was Notre Dame, there was somebody in between,
• 16:52
  Speaker 15: and then it was Miami that explained nothing to me.
• 16:56
  Speaker 15: It just seemed totally illogical.
• 16:58
  Speaker 14: And the fact is, I will still say that if
• 17:01
  Speaker 14: Duke doesn't win the ACC Miami doesn't get in. They
• 17:06
  Speaker 14: only decided to put Miami in and compare them to
• 17:09
  Speaker 14: Notre Dame had to head because they had to, and
• 17:12
  Speaker 14: they weren't going to leave out an entire conference.
• 17:15
  Speaker 15: I mean, they were kind of forced into it. You're right,
• 17:18
  Speaker 15: solutely right.
• 17:19
  Speaker 14: They didn't do it for the right reasons. They didn't
• 17:21
  Speaker 14: do it because because Miami won on the field. They
• 17:24
  Speaker 14: did it because the ACC was going to get left out,
• 17:27
  Speaker 14: and it was leave out an independent or leave out
• 17:30
  Speaker 14: an entire conference, and they weren't going to leave out
• 17:32
  Speaker 14: a conference.
• 17:33
  Speaker 15: And you know, all hell was going to break loose
• 17:35
  Speaker 15: if they left out a power for conference. And I
• 17:38
  Speaker 15: don't know how you feel. There's there's some saying let's
• 17:40
  Speaker 15: don't see them at all. Let's just I mean, not
• 17:43
  Speaker 15: let's see them, but let's just give it to twelve
• 17:46
  Speaker 15: at larges or sixteen at larges and don't put anything
• 17:50
  Speaker 15: into the conference championships. And if that happens, you know,
• 17:55
  Speaker 15: you better get rid of the conference championship games because
• 17:58
  Speaker 15: you know, like what it means even more even less
• 18:01
  Speaker 15: if they don't value with an automatic bid. So but yeah,
• 18:06
  Speaker 15: I back to your original question. You know, I think
• 18:09
  Speaker 15: they could move it up by getting rid of the
• 18:11
  Speaker 15: conference title games, they could move it up to the
• 18:15
  Speaker 15: week zero. Have everybody playing, you know, that first week
• 18:18
  Speaker 15: in August if you have to, and then uh, and
• 18:22
  Speaker 15: I'd like to see more home campus games.
• 18:25
  Speaker 14: I would too, because it was spectacular.
• 18:27
  Speaker 15: That's important.
• 18:29
  Speaker 14: The home campus games have been spectacular. But to me,
• 18:32
  Speaker 14: it was forty days from A and M Miami to Miami, Indiana.
• 18:38
  Speaker 15: That's too long.
• 18:39
  Speaker 14: And I think you could you could play that same
• 18:41
  Speaker 14: number of games in twenty five days, six.
• 18:46
  Speaker 15: Days exactly, you know, And I would I would even
• 18:49
  Speaker 15: adventure to say if if they went to sixteen, that's
• 18:53
  Speaker 15: the I think I wouldn't give anybody a buy. I
• 18:57
  Speaker 15: have everybody play because by the two precious are they
• 19:00
  Speaker 15: cost you momentum, you know, by virtue of so many
• 19:03
  Speaker 15: first round games, higher seed losing. So I would play
• 19:07
  Speaker 15: the first two rounds on home campuses. And I think
• 19:11
  Speaker 15: that would help with with fans and season ticket holders,
• 19:14
  Speaker 15: because you know, these expenses are becoming prohibited. And you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 15: when the average price to get in was like forty
• 19:21
  Speaker 15: three hundred dollars on game day in Miami, you know
• 19:24
  Speaker 15: that's just absurd.
• 19:25
  Speaker 14: Well that was absurd. But on the other end. Yeah,
• 19:30
  Speaker 14: people watch the Cotton Bowl. It was a great game.
• 19:33
  Speaker 14: I think the get in cost was about forty bucks. Yeah, right,
• 19:37
  Speaker 14: so that you couldn't give away cotton ball tickets.
• 19:41
  Speaker 15: So what does that tell you? Does that tell you
• 19:44
  Speaker 15: there's no interest or does that tell you they've got
• 19:47
  Speaker 15: money fatigue? Yeah, and they got to save some money
• 19:50
  Speaker 15: for rent and food, baby.
• 19:52
  Speaker 14: And you can't go to all of them. So if
• 19:54
  Speaker 14: you put that on campus, there's probably enough people in
• 19:58
  Speaker 14: the area that will go ahead and pay for the
• 20:00
  Speaker 14: ticket and get to the game. So yeah, I think
• 20:04
  Speaker 14: that absolutely needs to happen. And they just need to
• 20:07
  Speaker 14: figure out how to get the sponsorship that these Bowl
• 20:11
  Speaker 14: games would be missing out on to associate. You know,
• 20:16
  Speaker 14: they call it the Cotton Bowl and don't play it
• 20:18
  Speaker 14: in Dallas. You know, I don't know if that works,
• 20:20
  Speaker 14: but you know, something along those lines, because we all
• 20:24
  Speaker 14: know whatever makes sense, it's about the money that these
• 20:27
  Speaker 14: sponsors bring to the table to the TV network, So
• 20:31
  Speaker 14: you know, that's how it really makes a difference. All Right,
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  Speaker 14: Once again, we're joined on the phone line by Kirk
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  Speaker 14: Bowles of the Houston Chronicle, Switching gears to basketball. A
• 21:49
  Speaker 14: and M dominates the bottom of the conference team in
• 21:52
  Speaker 14: Mississippi State, Texas goes on the road, has a great game,
• 21:55
  Speaker 14: but falls short of Kentucky. Kind of a roller coaster
• 21:59
  Speaker 14: ride for Texas basketball right now, beating Alabama and Vanderbilt,
• 22:04
  Speaker 14: but then dropping two in a row again, and kind
• 22:07
  Speaker 14: of are you back where you started in that? Which
• 22:10
  Speaker 14: one was the anomaly?
• 22:13
  Speaker 15: That's a good question. I'd putty venture to say the
• 22:16
  Speaker 15: wins over Alabama and Vanderbilt seem to be the exception
• 22:20
  Speaker 15: to the rules, especially when you've lost two home games
• 22:24
  Speaker 15: already to Mississippi State and to A and M.
• 22:30
  Speaker 14: Yeah, this is a.
• 22:31
  Speaker 15: Hard team to figure out. That's the I mean, I
• 22:34
  Speaker 15: don't know if you heard Sean Miller's monologue after the
• 22:39
  Speaker 15: lost to Kentucky. He said, you know, we've got a
• 22:42
  Speaker 15: virus right now. Our team can will file the living
• 22:45
  Speaker 15: bleep out of you, and it said it doesn't matter
• 22:47
  Speaker 15: how it happens, but we're going to fail you and
• 22:50
  Speaker 15: put you on the free throw line. And his point
• 22:53
  Speaker 15: was well made. It's been a fouling team all year long,
• 22:57
  Speaker 15: Kentucky makes thirty thirty I free throws, and that's a
• 23:03
  Speaker 15: hard shat to beat, especially if you're on the road,
• 23:06
  Speaker 15: and it's just not good enough defensively, you know, to
• 23:10
  Speaker 15: overcome some of their lapses on offense. You know, dayland
• 23:16
  Speaker 15: Swayin is to me, he had an all conference kind
• 23:18
  Speaker 15: of year and he's carried them, he said, you know,
• 23:21
  Speaker 15: four twenty plus games, but you don't know if you
• 23:24
  Speaker 15: can count on Jordan Pope or if you can count
• 23:26
  Speaker 15: on Tremont Mark. And so it's a very flawed team,
• 23:31
  Speaker 15: if you will. And to me, it's very, very unlike
• 23:35
  Speaker 15: the aggie team that Bucky McMillan is putting on the court.
• 23:39
  Speaker 15: I watched the Mississippi State game after the Texas Kentucky game,
• 23:44
  Speaker 15: and I'm continually impressed with a job you know that
• 23:48
  Speaker 15: the first year coaches do today. It m I think
• 23:50
  Speaker 15: he's a slam dunk SEC Coach of the Year at
• 23:53
  Speaker 15: this point, being five and one. But what's so impressive
• 23:58
  Speaker 15: to me Dusty is how cohesive his team is and
• 24:02
  Speaker 15: how well they played together. And maybe it worked to
• 24:06
  Speaker 15: their advantage that he inherited a whole new team an
• 24:09
  Speaker 15: empty cupboard if you will, and had what eleven eleven kids?
• 24:13
  Speaker 15: That'll a transfer. But boy did they play well together.
• 24:16
  Speaker 15: And I guess that Texas just kind of been the
• 24:19
  Speaker 15: antithesis of that.
• 24:20
  Speaker 14: And honestly, they have to. I mean, there's no other
• 24:24
  Speaker 14: way for them to win because they're not the most
• 24:26
  Speaker 14: talented team in the SEC.
• 24:29
  Speaker 15: No, they don't have that Josh Hubbard is going to
• 24:31
  Speaker 15: go off for thirty like he did against Texas. I
• 24:33
  Speaker 15: mean Epsen Howard, you know, went off for sixty five
• 24:37
  Speaker 15: points against Texas when they beat him here, and then
• 24:42
  Speaker 15: what they have like twenty three against Aggie's, so it
• 24:45
  Speaker 15: showed it can be done quieting them. So but yeah,
• 24:49
  Speaker 15: I just think, you know, Griffin's terrific player. Ag Oh
• 24:53
  Speaker 15: my god, is he ever a force? What he's fored
• 24:55
  Speaker 15: like twenty three and twenty seven minutes right, you know
• 24:58
  Speaker 15: on Wednesday night.
• 24:59
  Speaker 14: So it's just just another double double, that's what he is.
• 25:02
  Speaker 14: He's a double double machine.
• 25:05
  Speaker 15: He really is. It hits all his free throws, never misses,
• 25:08
  Speaker 15: and I think wouldn't they missed one free throw out
• 25:11
  Speaker 15: of twenty four.
• 25:12
  Speaker 14: Twenty three out of twenty four last night, That's correct.
• 25:15
  Speaker 15: It's just bogg was your mind. So I just tipped
• 25:18
  Speaker 15: my hat to Bucky McMillan. I think that was an
• 25:21
  Speaker 15: inspired hire by Trevor albertson A and M. And I'm
• 25:26
  Speaker 15: just not going to doubt what A and M is
• 25:27
  Speaker 15: going to do. I really not. I love the way
• 25:30
  Speaker 15: they're playing, and I love their offense. You know, I
• 25:33
  Speaker 15: listened to the post game of Bucky after they beat
• 25:36
  Speaker 15: A and M. He said, we're kind of like the
• 25:37
  Speaker 15: running the Wish frol and we have a lot of options.
• 25:40
  Speaker 15: We don't have scripted set plays, but it seems so connected.
• 25:45
  Speaker 15: They passed the ball and share the.
• 25:46
  Speaker 14: Ball, you know, so well.
• 25:48
  Speaker 15: I'm just thoroughly impressed with the way the Aggas are playing.
• 25:52
  Speaker 14: When you look at the SEC as a whole. Last year,
• 25:55
  Speaker 14: we hey, they knew we're just going to get in
• 25:58
  Speaker 14: as many SEC teams into the two tournament as humanly
• 26:01
  Speaker 14: possible because the SEC was so dominant. When I look
• 26:05
  Speaker 14: at it, this year, the SEC doesn't have a top
• 26:08
  Speaker 14: end team, right. They do have depth. I do believe
• 26:13
  Speaker 14: that the bottom of the SEC is still pretty good
• 26:16
  Speaker 14: at basketball. But I agree, but I don't know how
• 26:19
  Speaker 14: deep they're going to get to go in the tournament.
• 26:21
  Speaker 14: Because of it. Whether that's nine teams ten teams, I
• 26:26
  Speaker 14: don't think it's going to be eight, but it's certainly
• 26:28
  Speaker 14: not going to be anywhere near the thirteen They thirteen
• 26:32
  Speaker 14: is right from last year.
• 26:33
  Speaker 15: Right fourteen? Yeah, okay, I do know right now they've
• 26:38
  Speaker 15: taken it about ten teams getting in, but that includes Texas,
• 26:41
  Speaker 15: which was the last team in according to ESPN bracketology,
• 26:46
  Speaker 15: and they were even seated one spot ahead of Texas
• 26:50
  Speaker 15: A and M, which I just flabbergasted when I see that,
• 26:54
  Speaker 15: and I know A and M didn't play a strong
• 26:57
  Speaker 15: non commerce schedule. I get that. This is one of
• 27:01
  Speaker 15: my big theories I'm always telling Chip about, is that
• 27:05
  Speaker 15: trust your eyeballs.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 27:07
  Speaker 15: Okay, A and M didn't play Yukon and Duke like
• 27:10
  Speaker 15: Texas did. But Texas was competitive in those games and loss.
• 27:15
  Speaker 15: So but when you look at the court and see
• 27:17
  Speaker 15: how good A and M did, is that that should
• 27:20
  Speaker 15: take everything. I mean, right now, there is the nine seed,
• 27:24
  Speaker 15: you know, which is a terrible place to be, as
• 27:26
  Speaker 15: you know, because you don't want to play the number
• 27:28
  Speaker 15: one in the second game. But you know, I just
• 27:31
  Speaker 15: really like them. But you're right, I mean, right now,
• 27:35
  Speaker 15: ten teams are in. I don't know if Texas can
• 27:37
  Speaker 15: hold on to try to get in, maybe get to Dayton.
• 27:40
  Speaker 15: But you know, some of the teams that are better,
• 27:43
  Speaker 15: like Georgia, you know, a scoring machine, A and M's
• 27:47
  Speaker 15: a different kind of team than Buzz Williams had, but
• 27:50
  Speaker 15: you know, they're just really improved. Arkansas has improved, but
• 27:55
  Speaker 15: like you say, Alabama is a shadow of itself.
• 27:58
  Speaker 14: Kentucky's more NBA players in.
• 28:02
  Speaker 15: Yeah, Bruce Pearl's gone at Oliver, so you know, they're
• 28:05
  Speaker 15: like twelve and seven something like that. Chris Beer's old
• 28:08
  Speaker 15: Miss team is down. Vanderbilt was number ten. They were
• 28:11
  Speaker 15: the highest ranked team. They've lost with three in a
• 28:14
  Speaker 15: row Tennessee. I mean, it's it's not close to how
• 28:18
  Speaker 15: good the Big twelve is, but I think on reputation
• 28:21
  Speaker 15: they'll probably get you know, nine teams or maybe ten
• 28:25
  Speaker 15: teams in, but.
• 28:26
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I feel like it's going to be nine because
• 28:27
  Speaker 14: I think the Big ten is top heavy there. They're
• 28:31
  Speaker 14: really good. The Big twelve is really good up and down,
• 28:34
  Speaker 14: and I think the ACC is making a comeback this year.
• 28:37
  Speaker 14: So you know, for those teams to get bids, they're
• 28:40
  Speaker 14: gonna have to come from somewhere, and I feel like
• 28:42
  Speaker 14: it's coming right now. A and M and Texas are
• 28:46
  Speaker 14: sitting forty two and forty three in the net rating,
• 28:49
  Speaker 14: which is pretty close to that cut line. You know,
• 28:53
  Speaker 14: as well as A and M's played and sitting a
• 28:55
  Speaker 14: top the sec standings today, they're still sitting near the
• 28:59
  Speaker 14: cut line. They have to do something, and frankly, they
• 29:02
  Speaker 14: need to play this weekend through this weather. They need
• 29:05
  Speaker 14: South Carolina to make it to town and show up
• 29:07
  Speaker 14: at rit Arena, And uh, I assume it's not going
• 29:11
  Speaker 14: to be quite as bad down in Austin getting Georgia
• 29:13
  Speaker 14: in this weekend.
• 29:15
  Speaker 15: Yeah, so I know, I mean, you know, Texas need
• 29:18
  Speaker 15: to find out a way to win at home. That's
• 29:20
  Speaker 15: the thing, because you know, they actually played better on
• 29:22
  Speaker 15: the road than they are at home. But uh, you know,
• 29:26
  Speaker 15: Florida is not as good as last year.
• 29:28
  Speaker 14: But you know they're they're they're playing really well right now.
• 29:31
  Speaker 15: The top of the standings. So but yeah, I don't
• 29:33
  Speaker 15: know what they if they've talked about the weather and
• 29:37
  Speaker 15: what they can do to the schedule, you know, where
• 29:39
  Speaker 15: they just cancel the game? Will they try to make
• 29:42
  Speaker 15: it up? Have you heard any I have but.
• 29:45
  Speaker 14: I have not, and I can think back through some
• 29:48
  Speaker 14: games where A and M went to Arkansas, for example,
• 29:51
  Speaker 14: during a terrible winter storm up there, and they played
• 29:55
  Speaker 14: the game. Now, they couldn't fly into Arkansas because the
• 29:57
  Speaker 14: airport was closed. I think they flew into like Wichita
• 30:01
  Speaker 14: and bust over or something, Yeah, to Witchita, to a
• 30:06
  Speaker 14: bus and they said, hey, figure out a way to
• 30:08
  Speaker 14: get here. We're playing the game. So on an individual basis, it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 15: Wouldn't hurt by feelings, Dusty. If Georgia Texas plays in
• 30:17
  Speaker 15: front empty gym and I'm home watching on TV, that
• 30:20
  Speaker 15: wouldn't be the worst short seague in the world for me.
• 30:22
  Speaker 15: But uh yeah, it's it's gonna be it's gonna be
• 30:25
  Speaker 15: a mess this weekend. So it's gonna be interested how
• 30:27
  Speaker 15: it transpires.
• 30:29
  Speaker 14: But I think there's a there's a lot to look
• 30:31
  Speaker 14: forward to. Is this SEC team. The SEC season comes
• 30:35
  Speaker 14: to the back half. I think it's going to be
• 30:38
  Speaker 14: an exciting finish fighting for some spots right there at
• 30:41
  Speaker 14: the end.
• 30:42
  Speaker 15: I totally agree there's there's a lot of parody in
• 30:45
  Speaker 15: the league this year, so I think it's gonna be
• 30:48
  Speaker 15: a battle every night. And even though in some ways
• 30:51
  Speaker 15: they maybe making a mockery of the league. I thought
• 30:54
  Speaker 15: miss Say it was one of the better teams, you know,
• 30:56
  Speaker 15: and now they're what are they two and four in
• 30:58
  Speaker 15: the league?
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 30:59
  Speaker 15: And they're just so dependent on Apps and Josh Hubbard.
• 31:03
  Speaker 15: You know that if they have a cold night, they're
• 31:05
  Speaker 15: in trouble because they don't have the front court that
• 31:08
  Speaker 15: some other teams do. So kind of the same for Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt,
• 31:12
  Speaker 15: And that's interesting because you know, we all know March
• 31:15
  Speaker 15: is a guards tournament and teams like Vanderbilt and Mississippi
• 31:20
  Speaker 15: State have that in spades. So maybe they'll be better
• 31:24
  Speaker 15: in March than they are during the rest of the
• 31:27
  Speaker 15: if you can get much of the season right, So
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  Speaker 4: It's this one eleven fifty AM, ninety three point seven FM.
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  Speaker 4: Will Ryan Riley, Caleb Trey, mister Snuffalop. Guess I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Friday by the entire gang here now thanks to Dusty
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  Speaker 4: It's time for us to talk about some entertainment news.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Yes it is. And given the impending doom, or maybe
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: complete opposite of that, you don't know what's happening this weekend.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: We're on the edge of doom.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: I thought that this would be a fitting story to read.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: And you may have probably already read this because it
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: was in our show prep this week. Did you hear
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: about the Canadian that froze his entire apartment?
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: This sounds like a joke, but no I did not.
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  Speaker 2: Go Okay, kay, well, then I shall read this story. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this happened in Quebec, Quebec, Yeah, Canada, where I believe
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: the story here was that the guy lived in an
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: apartment and the renter decided he was going to go
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: on a vacation and for some reason, he thought it
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: would be a good idea to completely cut the heat
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: to his house so he wouldn't have to heat an
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: empty home while he was gone.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, it might make some financial sense to somebody.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Maybe until you take an extra second to think and
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: you go, well, let's see, I live in Canada. It's
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: the middle of the winter. What could go wrong?
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: So what did go wrong?
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Well, a lot went wrong. So they were not there.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: They didn't want to heat an empty home, as I
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: was saying, so temperatures outside and then inside got so
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: frigid that the pipes in the home burst, shooting water
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: into the apartment. And then that water froze too, So
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: you had the walls, the ceiling, and the furniture, appliances,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: everything all covered in thick ice. They even say it
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: created abstract quote unquote ice sculptures.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Everywhere and charge admission for that.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: The floor was covered by about a foot of ice.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: So, needless to say, the building owner evicted the tenant
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: and they're basically going to have to strip the whole
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: place down to get all of the ice, water and
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: moisture out. But I think what you just said is
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: a great idea. They could get them turn this into
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: like a museum exhibit for a little bit, raise some
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: money and then use that money to fix the place up.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: Get a zamboni and put some hockey matches in there. Yeah,
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: I'm talking about it.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I think it's a great idea and I don't know
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: why anybody here in Texas would be crazy enough to
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: turn their heat off during this, and I hope the
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: power stays on this time around.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Look, you know, because I've got an airbnb and
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: then I've got the main house the airbnb, I've completely
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: drained the pipes, but I still turn the heat up
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: a little bit because you know, if nobody's staying there.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I keep it on about sixty, but I cranked it
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: up to about seventy through the weekend just to keep
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  Speaker 4: the house, you know, warm. I'm not going about our house,
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  Speaker 4: the main house, as much. I've done what I can.
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  Speaker 4: I've still got to do some pool stuff that, you know,
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: because it's going to get fairly cold. So I got
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: to take this fairly.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: We don't know, like I've seen it range from like
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: ten degrees to twenty degrees yeah on Monday morning, and like,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: we don't know, to be.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: Fair, anything under twenty sucks enough that it doesn't matter. Yeah,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: all right, what else you got? Ryan?
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: This was another statistic that was also in our show
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: prep this week, and I found it a little bit
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: difficult to believe it was a wallet Hub survey where
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: they ranked the best and worst states to drive in. Now,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: when I read this initially, I immediately was like, okay, well,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Texas is going to be in the bottom ten of this,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: because everybody that I have encountered on the roads here.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Sucks, especially here, Austin.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Here, and I lived in Houston for my entire life
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: before moving.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Up yours, San Antonio.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Would you believe me if I told you that not
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: only was Texas not in the bottom ten, they darned
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: near cracked the top ten on this list.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: I'm shocked at Texas.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Came in as the thirteenth best state to drive and
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: mortified and stupid mad.
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: Because of our speed limit.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: Well there's well, there's that.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: The rankings apparently were based on thirty one different factors.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: But to name a couple of those, gas and insurance prices, traffic.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: I don't see how there's any world where traffic well,
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  Speaker 2: I was rated high here.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: If you're in a city, traffic sucks. But we got
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: a whole lot of country where you can have to try.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: You take the whole stage. We have way more country
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: roads city roads.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Weather, road quality, commute times, accident rates, and then stuff
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: like car washes and parking lots per capita whatever that.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Means, parking lots per capita. Yeah, okay, I have a lot.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Of that's their wallet hubs, fancy way of wording that.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: So back in the day, entertainment people used to diet.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: This is before the GLP ones and all the stuff that,
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: all the fancy diets and so forth. Okay, So have
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: you guys ever heard of the wine and eggs diet? No,
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: the wine and eggs diet. This came out in the
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: nineteen sixties. It was a fad diet that was revived
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: on social media recently and not so recently. This one
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: comes up every so often. It involves eggs in a
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: significant amount of wine daily, often with steaks. Experts worn
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: that is nutritionally deficient, and it's dangerous due to its
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: high alcohol and harmful long term effects, lacking essential nutrients
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: and promoting unhealthy habits. So here's what it is. It
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: focused heavily on eggs and wine, sometimes with meat. Your
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: example structure for breakfast one egg plus a glass of wine, Lunch,
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: two eggs plus a glass of wine, dinner, steak and
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: the rest of the wine.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: And we're talking about a whole bottle of wine here.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was. It's always promoted by Helen Gurley Brown
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: in the nineteen sixties. Yeah, why it's dangerous. Well, no fiber,
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: no vitamins. You drink in today white apparently works temporarily,
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: But I mean it's just because you're not eating anything
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: the right way. Yeah, it's not medically endorsed. But back
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: in the this was like in vogue, it was, it
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: was everywhere, but this was before social media.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: They thought smoking was good for you back then too.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: To be fair, that is true, that is true. What
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: else you got entertainment wise?
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  Speaker 2: Oh honestly, let's see. I printed out the five random
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Facts for Friday page too, because I sometimes like to
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: read off of that.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Give us five random facts for Friday. Then we'll get
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: in the commercial break andhead into NCAA football conversation.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess this kind of ties into the driving
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: thing that we just did, where they said, if you
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: wonder why traffic is so terrible. As of the end
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: of last year, there are over two hundred and forty
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: two million licensed drivers in America, which is up from
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty seven million in twenty twenty three.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: That doesn't even take into account your unlicensed drivers.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's a lot of them out there on
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: the road. I would imagine Alaska is the most northern,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: western and eastern state. I don't know how it is
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: the most eastern. Apparently a few of the islands extend
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: past the one hundred and eightieth meridian into the eastern hemisphere.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, it's crossing over.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: There was a version of Playboy printed in braille starting
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy. I remember it didn't have Okay, I
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: will not ask any further questions. It didn't have any
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: photos in it, so you were literally getting it for
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: the articles exactly.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: That's what I've always said, I read it for the articles.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: This next one includes a word that I cannot read
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  Speaker 2: or pronounce.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: You want me to give it a stamp?
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  Speaker 14: Sure?
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Number four?
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: No four? Read over here? Number four. Let's see here.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: The longest palindrome in the English dictionary is tatar rat
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: tat tatarat tat tatar rats.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: That's how you say it.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Well, it's t a t t a r r r
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: a t t a t. Who's going to deny that
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: I said it? Right? It is a twelve letter palindrome
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: from Ulysses by James Joyce. That describes a knock on
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: the door. So it's just about a sound, so a
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: tat rat tat.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well you learn something new every day. Because I
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: had no idea what that was your piece of paper?
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: I have long arms.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: I was able to catch it before it hit the table.
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  Speaker 4: At your ankles without bending over.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Let's see what number five. Ray Romano was originally cast
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  Speaker 2: on the ninety Sitcom News Radio as the station's handyman
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  Speaker 2: slash electrician, but he was fired before the pilot when
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  Speaker 2: the producers decided to take the character in a different direction.
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  Speaker 2: An actor named Greg Lee replaced him and was also
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  Speaker 2: fired before Joe Rogan got the part for good.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever watched the show? I have not. It's
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: it's on you can find it on the streaming and
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  Speaker 4: it's a fun watch, okay. It has First of all,
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  Speaker 4: it's got Phil Hartman in it, which he was so
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  Speaker 4: so good.
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  Speaker 20: Uh.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: It was a It was a great cast and it
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  Speaker 4: is radio centric, so all of us, you know, have
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So sure it's a good one. You should you
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  Speaker 4: should watch it. Told me to watch it.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely have not done it.
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  Speaker 4: I've told Ryan one hundred and fifty shows. Ryan is
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  Speaker 4: a bowler and he's never seen Kingpin. Yeah, he's a
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  Speaker 4: sports guy and he's never seen Major League.
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  Speaker 11: Look.
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  Speaker 4: It's eleven ninety three point seven of them. Will Ryan, Riley,
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  Speaker 4: Caleb and Trey working the board. Over here. We've got
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  Speaker 4: the whole crowd in the smallest studio at Brian Broadcasting.
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  Speaker 2: Right where is it, say, I'm pretty sure there's one smaller.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm talking about the smallest on air studio. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: right in Brian is an on air studio? Was that?
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  Speaker 12: Yep?
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  Speaker 4: Technically, technically they all are. We can all you know,
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  Speaker 4: switch them around to plug in. But hey, thanks for
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  Speaker 4: what we bring you on here for anytime. All right. Hey,
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: we're talking some NC double A stuff here and we
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: got lots going on from an NC double a perspective.
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  Speaker 4: Where do you want to start. You want to talk
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: about Fernando Mendozo.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess we could. I mean, that's the game
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: from earlier this week. We can hit on that because
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: there's a couple of reactions to that, a.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: Couple reaction to it, and he is declared for the
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: NFL Draft. Yes, he was expected likely to go number one,
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: and I don't see why he shouldn't. I mean, I
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: think he's a mature kid. He has obviously got the arm,
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: he's obviously got the head. I think he's got the attitude.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: And I saw, really, and I think a lot of
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: people did, during that championship game why he won the Heisman. Yeah,
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: because I didn't watch much Indiana football, to be completely
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: transparent up until that game and the playoffs.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: To be fair, No, not may people did. Yeah, right,
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: John mellencamp and and Mark Cuban were the guys that
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: watched it in Indiana football. None of the rest of us. Hey, Yo,
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: we had a tertiary sort of thing. It was an
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: oddity that we looked at. Yeah, an incredible kid man
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: by all measure.
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: Zed.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: I mean what I was just so impressed by was
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: how every single time Miami got themselves back in it,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Indiana just pushed them aside. And when I, like I
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: said to Louis Man, Louis I made the analogy that
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: they were like the kool Aid man, just running through
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: the brick wall. Like every single time, every single time
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Miami came out, rebuild.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: The wall and boom, here comes kool Aid.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Like they were not going to be stopped. That seem
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: willed themselves to victory. They did, and and Mendoza was
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: a big part of that. Yeah, prompts to Miami. I mean,
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: I think they played pretty much at the top of
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: their ability. They made mistakes, but you get in desperate
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: situations and you start making mistakes. They played Indiana as
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: good as anybody in the entire playoff did, and probably
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: for the entirety of the regular season.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: And not not that it needs to be mentioned, but
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: we played Miami as good as anybody had played them
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: all year. Yeah before that, so uh well, with minor exception, right,
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: so uh but I thought it was pretty solid. Riley,
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: do you have thoughts of you're just sitting there in
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: your hoodie with your headphones on? Yeah? Thanks, Riley, sounds
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: like my.
• 47:00
  Speaker 10: Thoughts, my thought, I don't my thoughts were a lot
• 47:03
  Speaker 10: like different.
• 47:03
  Speaker 16: I don't know.
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: I've followed moreable more closely.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: But you did see the National Championship game.
• 47:08
  Speaker 10: Right, Yes, obviously I knew. I knew Indiana was gonna win,
• 47:12
  Speaker 10: so you knew it. Anybody that said Miami was going
• 47:15
  Speaker 10: to beat them, I.
• 47:16
  Speaker 14: Don't, I don't, I don't.
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: I mean the spread, Yeah, people picked Miami, but I didn't.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, I was great.
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: I picked the ESPN did for some reason.
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well because ESPN, I mean, do they even do
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: sports anymore?
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: That's a really good question.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna pick Miami to win. And this is
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: how that affects Lebron's legacy. There, you exactly, That's what
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: the people need to know. That's what Yeah, that's what
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Stephen A. Smith was talking about on Monday.
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: Probably legit. They weren't even talking about the weather, right,
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: this was the winter storm Fern and how that affects
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: Lebron's legacy.
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: This morning, when I was working techtags, I'm not lying.
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: I had about twenty minute intervals in between when I
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: looked at the TV, and every single time Lebron was
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: on the TV.
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: Isn't he not? There's some headlines he's not starting something.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: But look at the TV right now what they're talking about.
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: Wow, it's absolutely nuts. I don't The NBA lost me
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: a long time ago, and and there was a chance
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: of me kind of creeping back into it a little bit.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, beginning of the season, we had you know,
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: former Aggie player, we had Alex up there just bombing
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: for Oklahoma, and I'm like, this is pretty cool. Maybe
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: I can start. And then people started speaking out again
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: about topics other than the NBA, and that's why I
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: got turned off of it.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I get into the playoffs a lot now.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: I kind of checked out when the Rockets got really
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: bad for the last few years.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah. To be fair, Riley, who's your basketball team?
• 48:36
  Speaker 10: I do not watch basketball but for the Spurs because
• 48:39
  Speaker 10: they're closest to me.
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, it's what's crazy about this. And I
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: don't have skin in the game, but in this neck
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: of the woods in particular, if you are a Spurs fan,
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: you are hated by everybody.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Else because everybody else is either a Rockets or a
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Mavericks fan.
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, and they absolutely despise the Spurs. And I
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: don't know why I hate them all equally.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: So okay, well that's that's fair enough. I got you.
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, as you're sitting in here in your flyers jersey,
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: sweatshirt hoodie thing.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Well, we can go back on the college football thing,
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: because there was chatter about the playoff today as well,
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: which is going to stay at twelve teams. They did
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: tweak the qualification a little bit for it, so the
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: auto bids now go to each Power four champ, which
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: before it was just the five highest conference champions regardless.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: And that's that's how two group of fives got in,
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: right is it not? So it's going to be each
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Power four champ and then a group of six because
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: the PAC twelve is now going to be considered part
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: of that now that it's been the two years. And
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: then this is the part that I have the biggest
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: issue with that Notre Dame is guaranteed an at large
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: bid if it is ranked in the top twelve of
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: the final poll.
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: This is absolute stupidity. Yes right, they're calling it the
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: Notre Dame rule. Guaranteed a spot in the in the
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: twelve team field as long as they finish in the
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: top twelve of the final rankings. What happens if you
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: have somebody who is undefeated but they're not in the
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: top twelve on one of these other teams, how do
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: you justify that?
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I think there's even a scenario where you could
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: have a team that is in in the top twelve,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: like an at large at number ten or eleven, that
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: gets left out in favor of Notre Dame.
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: The Dame schedule this upcoming year super easy.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: That's what I was about to get.
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: Probably going to lose two would be Miami.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: So yeah, because I have right here on by you
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: now and I haven't put up right here on BYU.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: They're overhyped, a.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: Scrap going on.
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and you're comparing them to Notre Dame, who's not
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: over hyped.
• 50:41
  Speaker 10: Oh I'm not saying Notre Dame is not overhyped. I'm
• 50:43
  Speaker 10: just saying, if I'm going to pick between those two schools,
• 50:46
  Speaker 10: I'm going to go Notre Dame.
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: Counterpoint, b YU has a quarterback named Bear quite.
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: Hard to be much about BYU.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: So okay, well, she she gave up b YU.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: Miami and SMU are Notre Dame's three quote unquote toughest games.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Miami I know, at least actually toughest, But those other two,
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: I'm like whatever. Then you got Navy, Boston College, Syracuse,
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: North Carolina, Stanford, Perdue, Michigan State, Rice, and Wisconsin.
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a Notre Dame.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: And well, and with this new rule in place, like
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: why do they have any incentive to schedule anything else
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: other than that they are Notre Dame? They will They
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: could be twelve to zero beating up on Ablene Christian
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: every single game and they would get into the playoffs
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: because they are Notre Dame.
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, which is ridiculous at this stage of the game, right,
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: Notre Dame needs to declare a conference uh and and
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: and get into a conference affiliation.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: So they're not going to now and not with this
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: rule in place. They make Texas Tech schedule look difficult.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: And that was the other one that everybody was pointing
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: out and saying, why should this team get a guaranteed
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: because Texas Tech schedule is laughable too.
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: Well, you can only play the people that they put
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: in front of you, right, at least a conference.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not I'm not blaming the teams. Yes, Caleb,
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: you're right, I'm not blaming the teams. But I am
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: blaming the rules, yeah, and the ridiculous And the reason
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: we haven't expanded this apparently, this playoff thing is because
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: the SEC commissioner could not get along with a Big
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: ten commissioner, right, they couldn't come to an agreement. Well
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: because the Big ten was twenty four right yea.
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and the long term they want.
• 52:18
  Speaker 10: If SEC agreed to this, then the AC's counter was
• 52:22
  Speaker 10: if I mean Big ten's counter was, well, in a
• 52:24
  Speaker 10: couple of years, then we're moving to a bigger conference
• 52:26
  Speaker 10: just to keep expanding and expanding, like so they were
• 52:28
  Speaker 10: trying to get a little loophole through.
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: I think they were, and and you know they're looking
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: out for themselves, right, yes, But eventually it's it's gonna
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: come down to mega conferences. You know, eventually everything's gonna
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: We're just gonna come down to four big mega conferences.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, because there's I mean, the ACC is still
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: kind of in that pendent. What's going to happen when
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: that granted rights expires and what twenty thirty one is
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: right and the fallout that will come with that, because
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: there will certainly be other teams moving you know that
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Clemson and Florida state want out of there.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's been widely known. Yeah, so what we're predicting,
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: I guess is mass chaos, which is another round of
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: it fun to watch. What's really been cool in the
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: midst of all of this mass chaos and including the
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: transfer portal and everything else, is that here in Texas
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: A and M Country, we have not really been rocked
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: by transfer portal stuff. I mean, things are still the
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: bike Elcho ships smooth man, I mean, it's riding low.
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: It just just keeps on going. So I'm enjoying that fact.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: We don't have off seasons like we used to have
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: where you're looking at the police report every day and
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: seeing who Texas A and and police had arrested for jaywalking.
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: That sort of things seemed to be gone by the wayside,
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: and I really appreciate that.
• 53:46
  Speaker 8: Well that was before I moved up here, so I
• 53:48
  Speaker 8: never missed you missed out how frequently.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: By the way, we had a text come in that's
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: from Matt in College Station that said, is that Will
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: and Riley did the Info Maniacs take over the show?
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Pretty good, Yes, affirmative matts.
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: So yeah, this is just an expanded Info Maniacs at
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: this point, Ryan and I have.
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: Been doing this show for a while now, and then
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: Riley coming on board. And Riley is new to radio
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: right due to cracking the mic, and so anytime she
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: can get on a microphone makes her better. So I
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: was like, Riley coming to sit in here with this
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: wild bunch, and then all of a sudden, we've got
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: Caleb in here because he's training Trey on how to
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: push the buttons, and so that's why we have the zoo.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: And credit to Trey, he's done a good job, done a.
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: Really good job. And credit to Caleb for catching him.
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: Well yeah, because I mean look at him. I mean,
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: this guy, you couldn't figure him to be able to
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: learn anything.
• 54:34
  Speaker 6: And then wow wow, he said the same thing about
• 54:39
  Speaker 6: me when I started.
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I always always abuse the ones I love. There.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: There you go, not physically.
• 54:45
  Speaker 6: If police reports were in the next hour, they are.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: We also got a text from Dusty, who actually just
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: went out of his way to create a group chat
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: on our personal phones with me, and you was just
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: talking about yeah, yeah, come on us. You got to
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: add Riley into this too. He said ten wants more
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: than sixteen because that triggers more networks getting rights to
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: games that does, which, yes it does.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: It's all about the money. Follow the money.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yees, yeah, that's the way, follow the money.
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: All right. Hey, we're about to take a break here,
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: maybe something like.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: That, something along the lines of that, and then we, uh,
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: what do we got a preview coming up?
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