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Episode 46-Arkansas Game Preview and Laura from B-Unlimited · Johnny's World

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Coming to you live from the Johnny Packer Eyewear Studios in fabulous Dark Vegas, Mississippi, please welcome our co-host, the best iDoc this side of the Mississippi, BW.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: And now welcome a true hero, a CF warrior, whose favorite motto in life is Just Keep Living.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, welcome back to your brand new edition of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Johnny here with BW.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_03: What's going on, BW today?
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: How much?
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: How are you, Johnny P?
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_03: Oh man, doing great.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_03: Doing great.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_03: Another day, another day of living, right?
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_03: Uh that's right.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_03: And uh falls here homecoming week in Start Vegas and dogs and hogs.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_03: So it's gonna be a good week.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_03: Good weekend.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_02: Why did we decide to pick Arkansas for homecoming?
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_03: Uh you know, you you used to play homecoming games against uh like the inferior teams that you expect to win.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_03: But you start scheduling SEC teams for homecoming, man.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_03: That's uh that's that's that that's on on thin ice right there.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_03: You never know what you're gonna get with an SEC opponent.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_03: But and and the game's 11 2, which that kind of stinks, but there's no control over that.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_03: But uh but it should be uh good, good, uh, good turnout, good weather.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I was a little disappointed in the crowd last week against AM.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_03: I mean that we the crowd, don't get me wrong, the crowd was fired up inside and stuff as far as like I don't know if you saw that on Twitter.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_03: The upper deck on the east side was hardly filled up, so yeah game.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_03: So uh this game's at 11.
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  SPEAKER_03: Usually the 11 games don't draw that many people.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_03: So hopefully, uh being homecoming, more people will come, but uh because I need to need the crowd, crowd there because it's been a tough one.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, but yeah, last week was awesome.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_03: We'll recap of that.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_03: Um I went, let me tell you this quick story before we get into it.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_03: So I met when we were talking last week on on about Texas AM and the game was on October 1st.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_03: And I I remember messaging Brandon after their podcast.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, I forgot to tell my story.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_03: So um, and and we were we were debating about whether to tell it or not because it's kind of superstitious, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: And so if it if it if it worked out and we won, it would be great.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_03: Well, it worked out we went, we won.
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  SPEAKER_03: So uh okay, so October 1st, 1992, 30 years ago, 30 years to the date, was my very very, very, very first Mississippi State football game to attend at Scotfield.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh as a season ticket holder, I was in the fifth grade.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_03: People who listen to this podcast, who sees my who sees my Facebook, probably like we've heard the story, John Clark, plenty of times.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm gonna listen to it again, but the people who haven't, let me tell you real quick.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_03: So I got out, checked out of school fifth grade, drove up with my grandparents to start well, and uh I got up to the stadium and it was a Thursday night kick, ESPN Thursday night, Jackie Sherrill, Steve Spurger, Shane Matthews as quarterback, Florida.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, they were they were really good.
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  SPEAKER_03: And lo and behold, Mississippi State whooped them 30 to 6 on a Thursday night.
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  SPEAKER_03: Never forget it.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was 11 years old, just in awe of everything.
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  SPEAKER_03: And uh I tell everybody that's the night I became a true dog fan.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_03: That night, at that moment, when I saw Mississippi State beat Florida, saw Spreer throw down his visor, and uh, and you know, and I got back home at uh like 2 a.m.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_03: and I and I had a spelling and math test, fifth grade.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_03: Math was not my favorite subject, but I made an A plus on spelling and math test the next day.
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  SPEAKER_03: So it was like the greatest day.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_03: Uh and I always remember that October 1st.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_03: So when I saw that the AM game was October 1st, 2022, 30 years to the date, I was like, we're not losing.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's no way we're losing when I have this superstition going on.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_03: So I had this hat that I had on 30 years ago.
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  SPEAKER_03: I wore it, had a jacket.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't wear the jacket, I can't fit into it.
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  SPEAKER_03: I did take take a picture of me trying to put it on, and then I had a shirt from 30 years, and uh and I wore it, sat on the same row, same seats 30 years later, and got the W on October 1st.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I told everybody October 1st was a good day, and it turned out it was a good day.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I'll take credit, take credit where credit's due.
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  SPEAKER_03: Mississippi State winning.
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  SPEAKER_03: I didn't do anything besides the superstitious part of it of winning on October 1st, but uh but uh so that was my story.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm glad I got to tell it now in case I told that when we lost the game, that wouldn't have been fun, but it ended up working out.
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  SPEAKER_03: So uh so yeah, uh it was a big, big, big, big, big uh win.
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  SPEAKER_03: And uh shut up all the AM people, and they're obviously overrated, overpaid, everything over there.
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  SPEAKER_03: So uh uh looking to build off that win.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, sir.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_02: Well you deserve the credit for that one.
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  SPEAKER_02: So who so fifth grade was the first year I was MRA, and so it was Miss Satter White, Miss Heron, and Miss Demer.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_02: So who who was your teacher?
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_02: I don't even remember that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh Miss Heron was my homeroom teacher, so she had the spelling test, and Miss Satter White gave the math test.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_03: So the classes were the ones I had to test in that next day, and I aged the most, man.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_03: Great day.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_02: And nobody probably cares about this, but I remember uh Miss Satterwhite used to live down the street from me uh in Jackson, and her husband Clyde was the very first person I've ever seen use an electric lawnmower.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_02: I remember like 1992, he had like one of the like he had an extension cord and he was mowing his grass in the yard.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, what is that guy doing with that electric lawnmower?
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  SPEAKER_02: And now it's like everybody has the same back.
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  SPEAKER_03: So anyway, little things like that.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_02: Well, uh we've got a guest with us today.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_02: Uh it's a hog, but I guess I guess we can forgive her.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_02: You want to you want to introduce her and tell everybody a little bit about her?
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_03: You know, uh, I told her earlier we tried to get John Daly on, and it didn't work out.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_03: So you're you're you're buying John Daly on us.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_03: So thank you so uh so much.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_03: Me and Brandon were racking our mounds, like, who can we get as Arkansas fan?
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_03: Who's who can we get?
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  SPEAKER_03: And then I remember meeting you, my good friend Nathan, over the summer, and you were on your way to Omaha and you're a Dall Hard Hawks fan.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, so I was like, and and you work at a place that's special to me, being best friends with Nathan at Be Unlimited.
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  SPEAKER_03: So this would be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_03: So uh Laura Poe C O O of Be Unlimited and Arkansas Razorback fan.
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  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to Johnny's World.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much for joining us.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for having me.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's a pleasure to be here.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well yeah, two dogs and a hog.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_03: So uh, so really just tell us uh tell the listeners out there.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, did you you graduated from Arkansas?
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_03: I'm guessing.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, graduated from Arkansas in 2012.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: So I've been in Fayetteville since 2008.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: Came up here after high school and could not leave this great town.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, high school.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: Jonesboro High School.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_03: Like, like, as far as like if someone's coming to Fayetteville, what would you tell them to do?
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: Someone's coming to Fayetteville on a Friday night, they're gonna immediately go to uh depending on what time they get here.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: The the best dive bar in town is Maxine's Tap Room.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's on Block Street, open at four o'clock every day, uh, seven days a week.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: And then about three doors down, they're gonna go to Hugo's and get get a burger at Hugo's.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's a really cool venue.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's um it's been open since the 70s.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: And so both of those places, I see all age ranges, obviously 21 and up, just you know, having the time of their life at those two places.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I still I go to both of those weekly.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: They're I never get tired of either of them.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: So those two places for sure when they get into town.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_02: So um one thing that's I always think is interesting about Arkansas.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_02: So I live in Memphis, and you know, there's not really that many Arkansas fans in Memphis, but as soon as you drive across the river to West Memphis, it's like Arkansas, Arkansas, this, and it seems like the whole state of Arkansas is Arkansas fans, and I feel like that's a pretty good advantage for y'all because in Mississippi we're we're split up, and yeah, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it's like everybody, yeah.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: Being from the other um from Jonesboro, the you know, Arkansas State's there, and my family, half of us went to Arkansas State and uh half of us came up to Fayetteville, and so we we don't necessarily call ourselves a house divided because we don't play them.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um you know, my my whole family's cheering for um the Razorbacks uh nine out of ten times.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I'll take that.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I can see why though.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I've been up there a couple times and it's really nice.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_02: I was I was surprised about how nice it is up there in Fayetteville.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_02: It's just so far, it's it's so far from everything.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_02: And because I'm from Jackson, Mississippi, and so it was way up there.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_02: I would never even think about going up there.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_02: And but I was like, man, if I had visited there, I may have I may have gone because it's nice.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's beautiful, yeah.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's the perfect.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: This is my favorite season up here in Fayetteville and northwest Arkansas as a whole.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: The leaves are changing, it's very hilly, and um, I mean, everywhere you go, it's it's beautiful at this time of year, especially.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_02: So my wife has a cousin that lives in Cersei, Arkansas.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_02: And she says that that everybody is moving to Northwest Arkansas, like from California and from like Austin, Texas.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_02: She's saying it's like the next hot place.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_02: Is that is that something you're seeing, or is she just saying that?
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: No, I feel like, I mean, I feel like it's been you know a hot place since I, I mean, even since I've been here for over a decade now, and just with the big Walmart, Tyson, JB Hunt corporations um up north of Fayetteville and Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville, it's it's been a hype place and and they're growing those cities like none other.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: So there's if you want to get out of Fayetteville, you just 15 miles up north, you get a whole different vibe, but you know, same, same awesomeness.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I think it's booming.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: I really do.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think it's slowing down.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think that's kind of like all the SEC towns.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I took a friend of mine to to lunch today in town.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_03: We went to uh to two brothers, and uh that whole area in the cotton district is just yeah, is it's just booming.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure that's like that in every SEC town with the way the way the way it is now.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_03: It's just uh everybody's coming in and and they're and you know, building more stuff.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_03: So that's a good thing.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_03: That's a good thing to have.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_03: And a lot of good for for business going on.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_03: But uh, but uh yeah, talking about business, let's let's transition over.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_03: So you work at uh at being limited, let's talk about that.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_03: We've talked about it a little bit on the show before about being limited and starble.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_03: So tell us a little bit about there.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so um I'm I'm about to celebrate my 11th year at B.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: I started in college, um just say simple get free t-shirts for uh for working there.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: And so uh for my sorority.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I've you know fell in love with the business, fell in love with the people, the process.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: And uh now we have five brick and mortar stores, like you said, and one being in in Starkville, and we have got one in Fayetteville and some other SEC towns, um, with custom collegiate apparel.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: So we've got all the gear for every game day.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's booming this time of year on on Friday afternoon and Saturday.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: You you can barely get into the store.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so we've got some we got some new drops every week.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: So everything you need from buttons and koozies, hats, shirts, polos, uh, we got it at B, that's for sure.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_02: So, how do you prepare for that?
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, what so do you have to start ordering stuff in the spring to be ready for the season, or how does that work?
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we try to be um a season ahead.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then we space out some shirts throughout the season.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like we don't drop everything, like here's all of our football stuff.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll drop stuff week by week, and the NIL stuff is cool.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm sure y'all talked about that on the show before, but that's we've we've hit on that a lot with with football.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: So we've got um a line for like our quarterback KJ.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: We got some shirts for him.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and he posts about it and repost us.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, I see that's the cool thing about going to the games as well, is I'm I'm looking left and right, and there's there's a being limited shirt everywhere around.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: So that's been really cool to see.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: And um, it is hard to keep up, but we try our best and and it gets fun.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: It gets really fun.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_02: So do y'all do mostly brick and mortar business, or do you do a lot online?
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_02: What's we do?
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we do a lot, we do a ton online.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we um we have custom markets in in almost every SEC school, and we're licensed with over 250 different universities um all across the nation.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so we we're definitely out there, and it's just fun to see that creative, the custom collegiate side of things.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we're Greek licensed as well, so we do that primarily for um college students around the nation, and then we have those brick and mortar stores.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it's just a good cherry on top to um for you know Arkansas fans, obviously Mississippi State fans and a few others as well.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we need go ahead, go ahead, Johnny.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_02: I was gonna say we just we just need to get uh get get like a Johnny and Bo t-shirt design, like with the bulldog logo or something like that on front of it.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, hey, we can do it.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: Once we start slowing down, we're we're extremely busy right now.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: We start slowing down, we'll get you hooked up.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, after uh I remember after State and then and Ole Miss both in Arkansas were waiting on Arkansas to do it, uh, when the college were I mean, I think Nathan told me that the business was just booming just like that, right and left.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_03: Was that just amazing to see?
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, that was awesome.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, we've got to do it back to back for um for baseball.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: And then Georgia went in the football uh this past January was super fun to be a part of that as well.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, we start printing.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, we started printing Mississippi State a little bit early since they were they went off last or two years ago, and then this past year.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, we started printing ninth inning, and I loaded my forerunner up and and drove to Oxford overnight to to get that store open so the the day after the big W, people could have those shirts.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: And that was a non-stop marathon uh after winning natty.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: So that was super fun.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: That's probably one of my top moments of the year thus far, even though it's it's for a team I didn't grow up with.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: And uh now I'm a fan of them all.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, Arkansas's gonna do it, they're due after that dropping that foul ball.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_03: That's they're due, they're gonna win it.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: One of your I'm trying to get a basketball natty this year.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_03: There you go.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: Knock on some wood there.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_02: So that's a pretty cool story, though.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, so you worked there as a student and now you're the COO.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's that's pretty neat to hear about that.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's been a fun ride, yeah.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: And um I would I had no idea.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: I went to school, thought I was gonna do physical therapy and uh go in the health field, and then I started working senior year, and I was like, didn't take one business class.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, we're all about we we say we're a people company that happens to print t-shirts, and so we've just good people is is what's kept me around.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: So I love it.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_02: Cool.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_02: Well, uh let's transition to the game here coming up.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_02: So you said something about KJ.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_02: So Johnny and I were talking before you came on.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, we were trying to figure out uh is KJ gonna play or not?
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_02: It it sounds like it could go either way.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_02: But what do you are you hearing anything?
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like um, well, I know he didn't practice.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: I think yesterday, did not practice yesterday, and I think that's a good thing.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: I think they're they're getting him healthy and well rested.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um I think he'll play.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: I think he'll end up playing.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: I think he'll be key for a W for Arkansas if KJ plays.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think it's a big big thing with him playing, like like you said, uh it changes the I'm sure Vegas is looking at it right now as far as betting wise, whether he's playing to change the line for sure.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I did look at that earlier and thought, golly, no faith for the Razorbacks right now, but I think it's up in the air for for that on on KJ for sure.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Johnny and I have always really liked Sam Pittman.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I mean he's just he's just hilarious in some of the the tweets, the the yes sir, and the jukebox and everything.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, we got plenty of shirts with that on it for sure.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_02: Oh man.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_02: If he ever decides to leave there, maybe he'll come visit and say that's I really like him.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: No, he's I think we've got him locked in.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry to tell you that.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: I think we've got him locked in at Arkansas.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: But funny story about coaches um he so being limited is very close to the university.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: And Martin Luther King Jr.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: Boulevard, I drive down that to go to Chick-fil-A about twice a week.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: And he and a couple of I guess assistant coaches or or buddies or whoever on staff are are walking, they're just walking.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: So it's super fun.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: He's he's does his laps every day and gets out in the community, and I always roll the window down and give him a honk and get pumped up for him.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: So he's he's a good dude.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_02: You need to roll the window down and say, Yes, sir.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: I have done that before too.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_03: I was have you seen the jukebox?
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_03: I'm I I've seen pictures of it on Twitter and stuff.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_03: Like it looks pretty awesome.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: It does.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I've seen pictures of it too.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't seen it in person, but um, I love when the videos after games when he gets in there and says that it just pumps those players up.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's hilarious.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he he seems like a guy that the that the team loves to play for.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_03: Like it seems like if you we want to play, you want to play for someone like him.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_03: And that's so cool, man, because I remember during that coaching cycle when when all these coaches came in, these big name coaches Leach and Kiff and all it and Arkansas, they're like, Sam Pittman, who is that guy?
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and lo and behold, he's turned the hogs around.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_03: So, like, he's awesome all the way around.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's revived the city um and the fan base.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so I feel like just seeing that stadium packed.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: I was at the game this past weekend.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, seeing it packed, of course, we played Alabama, it was just electric.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: And um, because I'd been there through the days where I could go sit wherever I wanted to, you know, and there wasn't that many people.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: And so seeing it packed is very, very exciting for the community.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was cool.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_02: I like how y'all have the big A when they come out and they they go on both sides of the A.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's been a tradition since I mean, who knows?
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: As far as I've been here.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: Tell us what you think's gonna happen.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_02: What give give us a score predictions here?
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_03: Score predictions.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: Well, uh that's a great question.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: I I do think that KJ's key.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um I mean, Rocket Sanders has been having a spectacular season thus far.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: I think he'll get um some big runs for us.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I I think we'll come out.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think we'll come out on top.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'll go, I'll go very close, but I'll go 35 to 28 hogs.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, okay.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_02: I can live with that.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_02: What do you think, Johnny?
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_02: Do you know yet?
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_03: We're talking about scores.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_03: Listen to this.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_03: We have me and Brandon are so one other thing, guys that are listening outside that are in our uh uh group pick'em.
• 19:21
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• 19:25
  SPEAKER_03: And people are gonna think it's home cooking because me and Brandon are up at the top of the standings.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_03: But hey, look, we're putting in our picks.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_03: There is one guy out there that won last week, Elite Mother.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_03: If you're listening out there, Elite Mother, I think his name is Adam Tell.
• 19:36
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• 19:38
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• 19:43
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• 19:47
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• 19:50
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• 19:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, check your email.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_03: Our previous winner the week before, JD, he said that he got it and shared it with his mother and sister, and that he would be ordering some more, that he was really enjoying it.
• 20:01
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• 20:09
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• 20:12
  SPEAKER_03: But if you're a winner, you're gonna you're gonna win you win your bag.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_03: So anyway, uh Brandon's sitting at two, I'm sitting at three, and Elite Mother is at one right now.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_03: So it changes every week.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_03: But as far as score prediction goes, you know, me and you, Brandon, we've been uh pretty much right on the money on our score lines every week.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you know, last week uh you said I think 35-21.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_03: I said 35-20 because I didn't want to do that score, but we had Nick Fitzgerald on, and Nick said uh he said 42 to uh 17 or no 42-24 or something like that.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I think yeah, yeah, and the score was 42-24.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_03: So I mean we're we're right on our pick.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_03: So so if you're out there and listening, you want to take it, take it to the bank on us, go to uh go to the casino or something to place a bet on.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_03: We're we're we'll be happy to take credit for that.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_03: So uh, but uh my score, I think it's gonna be a close game.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I think it all depends on like what we were talking about earlier, if KJ plays or not.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_03: Uh but you know, it really it really just depends on that.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_03: But uh I'm I'm going with the dogs on this one, mainly, you know, it's a home home game, homecoming, building off momentum.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_03: I think um if we had lost last week, you know, that would have been a just terrible loss because it would have just thrown the season off because we're still mad about that losing that LSU game.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_03: No excuse to lose that LSU game.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, but you know, as I talked about the week we had the LSU game, I was like, you know, in 1998, I was at the gym the other day and I ran into Coach Tompkins, who was our uh Jim Tompkins was our uh longtime linebackers coach uh with Jackie Sheryl.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_03: And uh he remembered and that I win in '98 on that trip with the team.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_03: And uh we talked about that, about how we dropped that game to LSU at Tiger Stadium in 98 and used that as a springboard for the rest of the season.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_03: And lo and behold, we ended up winning the SEC West.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, not saying we're gonna win the SEC West.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: But I am saying that it could build off of that loss LSU like it did last week with AM and just keep on going.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_03: So getting that win last week was a huge thing as far as momentum for the rest of the season.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: But I think it's gonna be a shootout.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's gonna be close.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_03: I see a lot of a lot of points on the board, and I'm gonna stick around kind of like what I picked last week.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna say uh 35, let's say 35, 24 uh dogs on top.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_03: What about you, Wally?
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_02: All right, Johnny.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_02: So I thought you were gonna steal my thunder for a minute there with the shootouts, but you didn't you didn't quite go as high as I plan to go.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_02: So um one thing that that I wonder about is like with KJ, I can see it both ways.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_02: So like if he's in, we've got film on him, you kind of had a game plan for him.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_02: But being a Saints fan, it seems like every time the Saints play against some backup quarterback, they just get roasted.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and I could also see it being like we don't have any film on the backup if he plays, and then he ends up, you know, just lighting us up.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I feel like the defense may may give up a few here, but I think that the offense is gonna stay hot.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_02: So I think we'll put up some points.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm gonna say it's gonna be really close, gonna come down to the wire, but we're gonna win 45-42 at the end.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_03: Is it gonna be a field goal?
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_03: Do you think field goal?
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_03: Because that's not our strong point.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_02: I'm hoping not.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_02: I'm hoping not.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_02: I I think I think Arkansas is gonna have the ball at the end of the game, and it's gonna it's gonna be a nail biter to the end.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_03: You know, that's what happened last year.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_03: We had that chance at uh at a on a field goal and missed it.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_03: So uh yeah.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_03: So we'll we'll see what happens this year.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_03: But I'm with I'm with both of y'all.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's gonna be a a close one.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_03: It's gonna go down to the wire and and um and you know, being homecoming.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_03: Hopefully it'll be like what we talked about earlier.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_03: Hopefully it'll be a big, big crowd, and everybody be on on campus.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_03: Sc Nation's gonna be there.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_03: Tim Tebow's gonna be there.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_03: You know, uh, I take Bo every year.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_03: Tim Thibault's been there, and uh Tim Tebow is uh always uh loves on Bo every every year.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_03: So we're going tomorrow to the junction and see if we can meet Timmy Timmy T bow again, see if he remembers Bo.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_03: So uh that's kind of our theme.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_03: But uh yeah, I'm expecting a big crowd and hopefully uh uh all around good game.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_03: And uh we'll we'll see what happens from there.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_02: Well, um you're not on the homecoming court, are you, Johnny?
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_02: They didn't let you in.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_02: They didn't let me in.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_02: They didn't let me in.
• 24:32
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• 25:13
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• 25:26
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• 25:33
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• 25:44
  SPEAKER_03: So all right.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_02: Go dogs.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, go dog.
• 25:48
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• 25:49
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• 25:50
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• 25:51
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• 25:52
  SPEAKER_02: Bye.