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#45 - College Football vs. The Summer Sports Shuffle: Who Wins Your Attention? · Life According to Brian and Jason

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  All right, friends, welcome to another episode of Life According
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  to Brian and Jason. Hey, Jason, it's another
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  week. It's late August. What's on your
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  mind? Hey, school started and so has college
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  football. It's gearing up. The college ranking
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  system is out for the preseason. And do you care,
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  Brian? I know you always try
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  to trap me with these questions. Actually, what's funny is early
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  college football, I don't care. And here's— I'll
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  give a few reasons. How much— where
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  do you put your attention? Right. We got baseball in
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  full swing action right now. We're heading into postseason.
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  This is where things get interesting. I'm starting to dial
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  in and pay attention to teams I've ignored all summer. So I got
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  that time and then,
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  oh, preseason NFL, I got that slipped
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  in there. And then right now, I, you know me, I like watching
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  bike racing. So it's not the Tour de France, it is the
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  Vuelta, which is the Grand Tour in Spain,
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  that's going on. So I got a 21-day bike race going on
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  that I'm trying to follow. And so,
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  yeah, it's just early college is going
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  to have to wait until I kind of get into college football
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  somewhere around mid-October. What's your thoughts?
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  Well, it's college football, it's college sports in general.
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  I would have to agree Part of it is, you know, having it on,
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  but I tend to be more of an NFL— I
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  really like the NFL, right? So if I were to have 2 days
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  of watching sports, it's like, oh yeah. But like
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  you, I do focus my energy in Colorado. Um, I grew up
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  in Colorado Springs, which has the Air Force Academy. I went to
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  games to those all my time there. My dad had season tickets for
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  over 20 years. So the Falcons, I try to pay attention
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  to them on the radio so I can do other things. And then I went
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  to CSU in Fort Collins, Colorado State. So I do kind of
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  care about them marginally. Right. You know, that they're doing good.
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  Other than that, I really don't care about college football per se.
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  You know? I think I like it in the sense of,
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  you know, I went to ASU, Arizona State University,
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  And they're kind of a system that's, hey,
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  we're back. Oh, we're gone.
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  They're not like Michigan,
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  you know. Michigan football seems to be on the radar every
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  year. Oh yeah. Some places like, you know, Nebraska football.
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  Sure. Right, right. There's just certain places where
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  football's always on the radar. You can always tune in and go, it's probably
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  going to be a pretty good game. And yeah,
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  my poor Sun Devils, they just can't seem to get
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  a break. However, they do produce players that wind up in the NFL and you'll
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  be watching the NFL and go, oh, so-and-so,
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  that's right, they went to Arizona State. So I try to kind of dial in
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  who are the— might be the good players back at my alma
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  mater and just kind of, you know, see, you know, is Arizona State
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  going to produce anything? So I'll do a deep dive there.
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  And just kind of check the scene. Tana, she likes
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  Michigan, so we'll follow big Michigan football even though she went
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  to another Michigan university.
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  But, you know, we'll kind of watch a little bit of Michigan.
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  And then living in Arkansas, you know, Razorbacks are huge around
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  here. You've asked me— Oh, I bet. Past podcasts, you know, there's got to
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  be a lot of Kansas City fans. Well, yeah, there is. But you see
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  the hog. You know, logo. That's such a great logo.
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  You know, you see that way more than you'd ever see anything
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  Kansas City Chiefs. So, so this is a college football state here.
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  And unfortunately, I don't get the best
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  broadcasting of that because I,
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  I don't pay for satellite and we live in the Ozarks,
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  which means you've got all this hilly, woody terrain
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  and I just can't get the local broadcast channels and
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  I kind of forget to go, okay, I got to hop out and buy streaming
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  to see them. So I try to catch them when I can,
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  even though it's not my university. I just try
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  to pay attention, you know, what's going on. Right. I will say,
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  and I mentioned the same thing, it's not your university. It is fun to go
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  see my mom in Wisconsin. And, you know, the Badgers,
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  Wisconsin Badgers are on TV everywhere.
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  And, uh, it's fun to go into a bar in Wisconsin and,
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  and have some local brews and watching them, everyone wearing
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  their, their other college stuff. You know, here we got Colorado State and
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  CU, right, the biggest. Uh, but it is kind of
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  fun to go and witness that stuff. I do not wear— this
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  is a side quest— I do not wear anything like that other than
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  I will wear from Wisconsin in Wisconsin because
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  I don't want to think, hey, what about this player? You know,
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  you know, I don't want to be that kind of guy. Right. But I do
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  love the Brewers. I've liked the Brewers for a while. Right.
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  Because I've had family in Wisconsin forever. So I do wear my Brewers hat
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  and I enjoy doing that. But going and watching other fans
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  enjoy their teams, Like that is fun. Have you done
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  that on your travels when you were going around? Well, I guess Michigan, when you
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  go back to Tannis's. Yeah, I mean, you know, you hit
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  up family, especially through my whole life.
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  Some of the relatives or friends that you see, they might have
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  an interest in their regional or their local
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  universities, things like that. I mean,
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  I haven't, I love good football. I don't care who's playing.
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  If it's a good game, it's got interesting personalities,
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  something's cool going on on the field. Hey,
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  I'm just a sports guy in general, so I can dial
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  in— I can dial in any game at any
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  time if it's got good action going on. If it's a blowout,
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  that's a different thing. Or, you know, sometimes the broadcast
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  makes it. But overall, if it's good competition, why not, man?
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  You know, I'll watch a Boilermakers game,
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  right? Oh yeah, I would watch. But like, to be like,
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  well, I'm going to go do that. I'm like, right, right.
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  Now, if— would I spend money?
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  Let's just kind of shift here a little bit. Would I spend money on seeing
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  college football? Well, here's the deal in
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  Arkansas. Unless you plan ahead, you're not getting a ticket.
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  Yeah, it would be fun to go to one of those, dude. That would be
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  fun to go to one of those in your— yeah,
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  that craziness. I've been to the
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  Razorbacks baseball, which they're, you know, obviously always
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  in the top 5 in the national NCAA rankings.
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  And they're a really good team and they were fun to watch. And I
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  was able to get kind of an early season ticket. Tanis and I
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  went down, kind of did the standing around vibe, you know,
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  stood out where the college kids sit on the bleachers versus
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  the reserve section. And it was great. You know, there's nothing like
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  a good college game, college crowd.
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  You know, in college you find those avid fans like
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  you walk around at any— especially in football,
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  and you'll find people that, yeah, I've owned these seats for 35
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  years, you know. Oh yeah. They just love their local you
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  know, college or university. And I'm not that guy. You know,
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  I've moved around a lot and I've lived in places that have always had smaller
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  college football teams. But I have
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  to say, when Deion showed up for
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  CU there in Colorado, in Boulder,
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  that was interesting. You know, it's like, what?
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  a long way keeping this production going. Thank you. That was
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  crazy, man. The shenanigans going
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  on, the atmosphere when you go to a good regional,
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  you know, the Air Force-CSU game, that's another one that's nasty,
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  man. They do not like each other, and it's always a good game. So those
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  cases, sure. But I really enjoy— we've
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  talked about this before. Listening to sports.
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  I really enjoy listening to some football and other things while I'm
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  doing other things. Not everyone's that way, but I can follow
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  it that way. Right. Right. But yeah, you know,
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  does, does any other college sports
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  get you? Because with the transfer portal, things are all different,
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  Brian. Yeah. Yeah.
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  You know, here's, here's what I know is it's
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  funny. I was raised out west and your
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  love of universities aren't the same as people who are,
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  say, Midwest or East Coast, right?
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  Tanis grew up in Ohio and Michigan. Well,
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  what's in Ohio and Michigan? 2 legendary football teams,
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  you know, Ohio State I don't know if you get any bigger than Ohio State,
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  Michigan State, you know, and those two are
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  rivals. And when you go to that region of the
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  world, which is pretty close to your Wisconsin, but not quite,
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  that's just not a sport.
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  That is— I don't even know what to call it. That's a
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  passion. Maybe that's it. It's like that is on everyone's
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  radar. There, that is true fandom. Like Arkansas
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  is pretty good, but if you go there,
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  I would think your Ohio Buckeye shirts
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  would— are probably everywhere, right? And same thing,
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  we've traveled down the East Coast and man, you just know when you're
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  in Georgetown, you just know when you're in all these different college
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  towns just by the look. You just go to the supermarket
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  and just grab a little thing and you can just tell you're
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  in a sports mecca, right? College sports mecca. So I
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  have to say, you know, I've kind of tuned into
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  Tannis a little bit more like, what's this East Coast sport? So yeah,
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  I, I really like, you know,
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  East Coast football, I have to say. And that's hard for me to say being
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  a Western United States kind of raised kid.
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  It's like, that's why ASU is hit or miss.
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  Why? Because most of them are imports. You know, they just
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  haven't really built the regional program.
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  And the reason why is there's so much influx of people moving in,
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  moving out into Arizona. California has kind of the same issue,
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  even though you could make an argument for like Stanford,
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  places like that. But I think
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  maybe we're turning a corner in sports
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  where the West, especially like if you move into NFL,
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  you got Seattle, things like that.
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  You know, I don't know. I— to answer your question
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  is I kind of fill my extra time in
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  sports with what's interesting. So I'm not going to dial in
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  like, you know, You know, I think I'm going to watch some college lacrosse
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  this year, or let's dial in here.
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  I kind of do the bigs. I'm an auto racing guy. That fills
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  my time. So if I'm doing the math, Jason, so right now I got Formula
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  1. Yeah. I got IndyCar. So just last weekend,
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  I just, okay, there went 2.5 hours for Formula
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  1. I watched about an hour of Indy, which that race was cool 'cause
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  it was in, Washington, D.C., downtown,
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  the 250, and they've never ran a race there. So I had
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  to tune in and watch that. And then I listened
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  to a little bit of Rockies on the radio. Preseason football,
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  I'm kind of avoiding, but I'm watching. So right there,
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  just in my weekend, I got 8 to 10
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  hours of sports watching. That's a lot.
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  That is— I might have a problem.
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  So are you retired? Yeah, sign me up for
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  a 10, you know, 10-step program or something because it's like,
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  man, if I— how do I even touch college sports with kind
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  of that focus on other sport areas?
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  Well, you watch your Michigans and all that stuff. You know, Ohio State
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  is supposed to be number 1, Georgia 2, Notre Dame is strong,
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  Oregon, Texas, those are than normal. But with all
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  the transfer portal and all that, which could be another podcast,
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  you just never know how all that's going to go.
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  And some teams can come up— out of all the college sports,
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  college basketball during the March Madness is what I would rather
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  really put my time and money into watching,
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  right? For me, I find that watching the story of the
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  teams as they go, you know, win, you know, win,
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  win, win. You get to know the kids. Right. So.
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  Right. Well, why do you think— why
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  do you think college football kind of jumps over
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  Middle America there? When I say like, like the
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  mountains and the plains to a certain degree.
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  So you got all these kind of East Coast, somewhat of the when
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  you say Midwest, that's like as far as like Ohio and
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  Michigan, maybe a little bit into Iowa.
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  And then you kind of got Nebraska in the middle of the country
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  and, you know, any kind of Colorado sports. But really
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  there's 2 ends of the book here, and one is you got Oregon,
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  maybe Boise, Idaho, maybe a few California college
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  teams, and And then you make this huge leap all the way
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  over to, you know,
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  into like the southern states, LSU on up,
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  right? Well, population. They got so many more people and,
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  you know, money to put towards facilities and the tradition.
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  And football is king. I mean, everything else is secondary. Look at the NFL right
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  now. They're doing preseason games on Fridays,
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  Thursdays. What are we doing here taking over all these other days?
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  Right. You know, it's just a monster. Then there's shows about football.
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  Football is obviously king.
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  Right. You know, us being so close to Texas, we'll get a lot of Texas
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  college games over here. You know, you got the Longhorns, all that
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  jazz. So, yeah, it's— yeah, you could
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  lose yourself time-wise. And really,
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  do I have that much focus. I guess I'm
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  a little ADD when it comes to sports
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  now. And I think what's made it worse is YouTube. It's like, oh, I can
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  avoid that game or watching that event. Why? Because I can go get highlights,
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  right? You know, I have never been one to do that.
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  I'd rather— what? Tell me the score. What? I don't really watch highlights
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  at all. I'm just like, if I can't watch it, just tell me who won.
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  Oh, yeah, that's interesting. Well, like today I was like,
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  I don't have the subscription to Peacock to watch my
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  bike racing, to watch the, you know, the Vuelta in Spain.
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  And it was stage 3 today. So, I popped it on YouTube
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  highlights and come to find out, 'cause I skimmed
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  through it, it's like, wow, 28-minute highlights. That's a pretty long highlight.
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  And skipped to the end. You know, I want to see the drama,
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  you know. Now, baseball, things like that, I could be like,
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  oh, You know, instead of watching the Rockies highlights, just give me the score,
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  right? Because why? Because they have 160+ games a
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  year, you know. And but things that come around on
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  the calendar once or twice a year, I'll watch the highlights.
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  Okay. Well, I'm not really much of a highlight guy, so. Really?
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  That shocks me. I don't think I ever— I don't really even do that.
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  Yeah. I'm just like, well, who wants to watch highlights? I'm just going to send
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  you highlights then. Say what? I got to
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  do— I got to watch these full games? Episode games over here. I don't have
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  28 minutes, Brian. I know.
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  So obviously sport and competition, I love. It's the
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  ultimate reality TV, right? Uh, college, you know,
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  the kids are working hard doing it. It is a, is a job though,
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  because, um, I know this is another thing. I think it's good
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  that they're getting compensated because their likeness and stuff was being
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  used and, you know, millions being made. And they
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  got nothing. So I know it's a mess. I know they have to still do
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  some work on it. But overall, college sports
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  is good. It's good for the economies. It's good for the school.
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  It's good for the kids. Football pays for everyone else. But,
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  you know, they had to get some, some little compensation
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  or recognition, right, for all the work the kids do. You can't just,
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  whoa, you know, you get to go here. We're going to make a lot of
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  money off you. Right. So, well, do you
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  think football is as strong as it's ever been?
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  College football? Yes. It's a great distraction
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  to life. Do you think— I mean,
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  I haven't done enough research to know, but you
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  hear a lot of schools don't have as
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  many kids because tuition's now crazy. Crazy expensive
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  and colleges are losing enrollment.
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  Will that affect sports? What do you think?
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  It will not affect football. Football pays everything else. But are they going
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  to get rid of the baseball team? Yes. Are they going to not have the
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  lacrosse? Maybe. Right. You know, football and the
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  money from that pays everything else. That's how it always has been. But at
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  some point they're like, well, you know, we're just going to cut out the water
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  polo team. We're going to cut out the swim team. Yeah. Cut out.
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  So those are the ones that are going to really be affected here.
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  Right. Yeah, that's a tough one. Even though they're supposed to
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  try to balance out, just when you build a stadium to hold
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  40,000, 50,000 people and you can fill it,
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  that's a lot of revenue. Yeah, it is. And exposure, name exposure for
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  your school, even if you're getting destroyed. Because here's the other thing,
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  teams will pay you to play them.
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  Sure. So, you know, they're getting cash whether
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  they win or lose. Right. So, you know, it's just kind
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  of happening. Well, there you go. Well,
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  so I think we're in agreement. Maybe not. Maybe I misheard
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  that you'll kind of pick up college football later in the season as well.
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  Yes. I mean, I'm aware of it. I'm like, okay, that's coming out and the
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  hype is up. But for me, college sports in
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  general do take a second fiddle to professional sports.
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  Okay. All right. Well, as a working man,
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  as you are, what's your go-to source to keep
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  up with? You're a huge sports fan.
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  So what's, what's your sources to keep up and go, okay, how do I keep
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  tabs on all these sports, especially, say, college football?
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  Where do you go? Well, hello, thanks Google.
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  I have my little feeds so I get scores and highlights for
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  games that I'm interested in. You know, Google knows everything and,
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  um, they just give me kind of what I want. And then I have,
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  I am a big MLB app person. I like the MLB app
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  for my baseball knowledge. And then, um,
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  I really just look up I
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  will look up the Air Force games. Like I said, you know, the games,
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  Air Force and CSU games, right? You just be cognizant
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  of that, right? Uh, because I've
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  been listening to them and I actually listen more than I watch those games,
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  right? I find it's nice to ride your bike, listen to a game. Okay.
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  Work on the yard, listen to a game. Sure. Uh, college football
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  is good for that for me personally. If I'm at someone's house watching it But
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  so yeah, Google, what about you? Right. You know,
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  again, it's funny, you talk about something, all of a sudden
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  your feed will change. It's like, you know, obviously we're
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  all being listened to. But I think,
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  I think what I do is when I'm working on the computer,
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  I create little widgets in my windows here and that just kind
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  of gives me, you know, I click in the left bottom corner
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  on the taskbar, you know, pulls up all the different things I want to
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  see. And so I'll probably throw in some college football in there.
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  That way you can just look at it real quick. You know,
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  I'm not a huge basketball fan until— well,
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  I'm more of a college basketball fan than NBA.
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  And you know that obviously NBA will be starting
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  up here this fall. We got hockey, way more of a hockey
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  fan. So I'll have that kind of little widget in
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  there. It'll kind of keep me going. Yeah. So I try to
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  find ways to kind of keep it front and center.
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  That way I don't— I can pick and choose on my time
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  where to go. I decided against the apps. Like I got rid of the
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  MLB app. Did you? I used to have the NFL app.
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  I used to have all these apps and it's like, nah, once you kind
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  of click in, now they got you on the hook, right? So I'd rather have
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  it just all kind of come up. One or 2 screens or a quick
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  scroll and I can just kind of boom, auto racing, baseball,
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  football, boom, boom, boom, boom. Take a look. Anything interests me,
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  then I'll deep dive. So I find
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  apps dangerous. And also do the MLB one. That's the one I really do.
• 23:32
  I used to. And then I'm like,
• 23:36
  you know, because I'm kind of— yes, I follow the Rockies,
• 23:40
  But I listen to them, so I always kind of know what's going on.
• 23:43
  So as far as regular baseball, I just kind of just hit the highlight
• 23:47
  news, you know, like what's Bryce Harper complaining about today?
• 23:51
  Something. Something.
• 23:57
  So, you know, so, so there you go, fans. 2 different ways to do
• 24:01
  it. Some people are a big, you know, they have their ESPN
• 24:07
  Sports page, you know, and then they have
• 24:10
  their CBS Sports page or Yahoo Sports from back
• 24:15
  in the day, if you remember Yahoo Sports. And so now
• 24:19
  I don't really do the websites anymore. It's much easier to do the widgets,
• 24:24
  get a lot of information at one time, move on.
• 24:29
  Yes. Yeah, there we go.
• 24:32
  And then I can look at the stock market all at the same time,
• 24:36
  be doubly depressed, you know, or something, or double cheer.
• 24:40
  Yeah. But no, dude.
• 24:44
  Well, college football, who I'm
• 24:47
  going to kind of watch— Arkansas, Michigan,
• 24:51
  Ohio. I just— that's, that's just a given this year.
• 24:54
  So what are your 3 you're watching? Well,
• 24:57
  once again, CSU. I'm also going to be watching
• 25:01
  4 smaller teams,
• 25:03
  CSU, Montana State, just because,
• 25:07
  you know, Ryan went there and it's a big part of them. And then the
• 25:11
  Badgers, Wisconsin Badgers, kind of watching them,
• 25:15
  adopting them to see what they do. Mm-hmm.
• 25:18
  Cool helmet. I love that. Yeah, yeah,
• 25:21
  yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you also— you can't mess with Oregon either,
• 25:25
  man. No, my teams aren't going to do anything, but I mean,
• 25:28
  Right. I will, of course, watch the Big East at times, but I'm going to
• 25:32
  watch— I'm going to be paying attention to them. What are they doing?
• 25:34
  Okay. Well, we will circle back on that here and there
• 25:39
  and just kind of check in on how the college football vibe's going and
• 25:43
  see, you know, NFL, I'm kind of not paying
• 25:47
  attention until regular season, which will be early.
• 25:50
  What? So you're not doing fantasy? That's what that tells me. No,
• 25:54
  no, doing fantasy. But I am watching Hard Knocks.
• 25:58
  I do like that. And, and I'm doing fantasy
• 26:01
  but not watching Hard Knocks. Okay.
• 26:05
  All right. Well, you're going to have to teach us fantasy football at
• 26:09
  some point. Oh, my gosh. Well, I was at the end
• 26:12
  of my— I lost everything, so I'm not the best.
• 26:17
  I just try to win a few games. Well, that could be the title of
• 26:21
  the podcast, How to Lose. Lose. How to lose at fantasy
• 26:24
  football. 10 steps from Jesus.
• 26:27
  Yeah, right.
• 26:30
  Right. So, no, I mean, hey, man,
• 26:34
  it's all about budgeting time in life, right? Yep.
• 26:37
  And some people are just diehards. They kind of pick their one lane
• 26:42
  and they're just a college football person or they're like,
• 26:46
  I know a person who's just hockey. They just— that's it.
• 26:49
  NHL. That's really their world. That's it. I mean, they enjoy
• 26:53
  everything else with their life. Yeah, right. Then there's other people
• 26:56
  just like they don't watch sports at all and they just
• 27:00
  have their hobbies or whatever. Yeah. And so,
• 27:03
  so it's always interesting. I mean, I don't walk around,
• 27:07
  you know, trying to start up sports conversations with people,
• 27:11
  but, you know, if someone asks, I'm ready.
• 27:14
  How about that? You have your stuff ready to go.
• 27:17
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, a little side note, I was going
• 27:21
  through my hats today doing the hat purge. But what's
• 27:25
  the number? What's the number? You know, no hats wound
• 27:29
  up in— I have to say, because Tana's put out a, hey, here's the donation
• 27:33
  box, you know, so I'm like throwing old socks in, you know,
• 27:37
  hey, I don't need these winter gloves, you know, stuff like that.
• 27:41
  And then I started going through the hats Not one hat made the pile.
• 27:45
  That's right, Brian. Pretty strong.
• 27:49
  I didn't even count. You know, I'm just like, well, I got to keep this
• 27:53
  hat. Got to keep this hat, you know? But I did see the
• 27:57
  Arkansas hat you bought me and I'm like, ooh, that's got to go to the
• 28:00
  front of the pile. Why? It's college football season.
• 28:04
  So yeah, yeah, right now it's just blazing hot. I don't feel like
• 28:08
  ruining that hat with sweat because that's a sweet looking hat.
• 28:12
  So I'll crack that baby out maybe September when, I don't know, we're below
• 28:16
  90 degrees at some point. Oh my gosh, yeah, that'd be great.
• 28:19
  Yeah, I'm just drenching. Right. Yeah. I got 5 Rockies
• 28:24
  hats, 3 of 'em are nasty 'cause of the sweat.
• 28:29
  Yeah, I have my work hats, you know, like, hey, I'm going to mow the
• 28:32
  lawn, this is the hat. I'm working the shop, that's this hat.
• 28:36
  And then, and then when I go biking, I like to
• 28:40
  take a trucker hat with me, so. Like Tannis and I go for a
• 28:44
  bike ride or I'll ride with someone. And if I'm throwing
• 28:47
  a backpack on, I'll throw a trucker
• 28:51
  hat on the back of the backpack so that when I get somewhere,
• 28:55
  put a hat on, I'm not wearing my sweaty helmet, you know,
• 28:59
  'cause the sun here is rough, you know? So,
• 29:03
  I'm always trying to keep my big old honking nose out of
• 29:07
  the sun anytime I can. So, that's right there my excuse of
• 29:10
  why I need 24 MLB hats,
• 29:13
  Jason. So, dude, let's go. I got at
• 29:17
  least 12. At least 12. 24 is a little high,
• 29:21
  but, you know, it is. It was fun. Really have 24? Wait, you really have
• 29:25
  24? No, no, no. But I have
• 29:29
  a lot. I'm a good— let's say there's 15 plus.
• 29:32
  Okay. That's right. And I thought, you never know, you're going to need it.
• 29:36
  Yeah, I've been stingy with them because it has been
• 29:40
  such a hot summer. I'm like, I am not cracking out,
• 29:44
  you know, the, the very expensive,
• 29:46
  especially some of the wool blend old
• 29:50
  hats. It's like, oh yeah, do I just want to
• 29:54
  ruin that? Make that stink forever? No. So it just
• 29:58
  sits in the closet. But the college hat is coming out, Jason, I have
• 30:02
  to say. Now, I do not own a football
• 30:05
  hat. See, like my Razorbacks hat, Could go—
• 30:09
  I could wear it to a baseball game, could wear it to anything.
• 30:12
  It's nondescript, just a hog, right? Yes.
• 30:16
  Yes. And I like that. I like that, that I have a hat that
• 30:20
  I could go to anything. What about you? You got college
• 30:23
  football specific hats? No, I don't have— I
• 30:26
  have baseball hats. I don't have anything.
• 30:33
  No, no. You know, one thing I loved about working
• 30:36
  in schools You know, I did 30 years
• 30:40
  in schools and you come around
• 30:43
  college sports, NFL, doesn't matter. Fall comes,
• 30:47
  right? And you're starting school. Wait till that first week
• 30:52
  of September when pro teams or college teams are starting
• 30:55
  to play. And then what happens on Fridays?
• 30:58
  People wear their swag, right? That's right. And you just
• 31:02
  walk around, you know, a lot of times I was an administrator of some sort
• 31:06
  and I would go walking into a class and all of a sudden I'd see
• 31:07
  a teacher wearing you know, a Cincinnati
• 31:11
  Bengals shirt. I'm like, what? I never knew that.
• 31:14
  You know, they're great conversation starters. Yes, they are. Well, tell me
• 31:18
  why you're a Cincinnati Bengals fan. Well, you know, I grew up in
• 31:22
  Cincinnati or I grew up in Ohio, whatever. And then
• 31:25
  someone, you'll go in the next classroom and it's like, whoa, why are you
• 31:29
  wearing a Hawkeye shirt? Why did— what? You grew up in Iowa?
• 31:33
  Oh, you're from Iowa. Okay. All right. See,
• 31:37
  so totally sports that you talk and obviously,
• 31:41
  right, interact with people. Yeah. Yeah. So you might be
• 31:45
  surprised this year, Jason, as you come Fridays, you'd be
• 31:50
  like, whoa, I didn't know so-and-so was a fan of that. So I don't know.
• 31:53
  Keep your eyes peeled, buddy. I will. I will. Yeah.
• 31:57
  Well, guess what, dude? What, dude? Hey, man, we are
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  out of time. Yeah, well,
• 32:04
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• 32:09
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