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Episode 69-Robbie Faulk · Johnny's World

• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome back to the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_02: This is BW here with my co-host Johnny.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_02: Good evening, Johnny.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: Good evening, BW.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's a dark and stormy night here in Star Vegas as we record this.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, get some rain.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, uh falls in the air.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_02: It's pumpkin spice weather.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_02: It's coming through.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_02: You're supposed to be in the 40s up here in Memphis this weekend.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_02: The evening.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_02: Break out the sweater, man.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_02: It's the uh it's that time now.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_02: Break out the sweater.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_02: That's exactly right.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'm gonna declare this the the new start of the season, Johnny.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_02: I think we're ready to put the past behind us.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_02: We we we uh we lost the games I thought we would lose, and now the real season has begun.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: You're right.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh actually you're right on the uh you were right so far on your pickums for Mississippi State schedule at the beginning of the year.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I had had us beaten South Carolina, and you had us losing three in a row, so we're right on par with what you predicted.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_01: However, the play, I don't think you probably predicted our play to be like we're playing right now.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: So you know, it's I don't know.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_02: I I did not expect this to be in the game with Bama.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_02: I thought we'd be in the big game with LSU, and I thought South Carolina would be close.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, I I I think I'm still pretty close.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_02: I'm rolling, I'm rolling with it.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: I thought we were gonna get blown out by Bama, and uh we actually uh put up a fight.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, but I was not impressed with Alabama actually.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: I mean their Bama is always gonna be Alabama, but they're not as good as they're they're gonna get beat somewhere along the way because they're not as good as as the teams of the past.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: I just wasn't impressed with them.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_01: And it was good to see they get on the score board, scoreboard, score some touchdowns.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's been a long time coming on that, but they play out they play them this weekend.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna make a locks pick on it, but uh that's gonna be a heck of a game.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: It would not surprise me if AM pulls the upset, but we see AM in the past with all the preseason hype and they always falter, but they have beaten Alabama here past few years.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I think it's gonna be a really good game.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm excited to see that one.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_02: I was actually uh at dinner with an Alabama fan Saturday night.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_02: Really?
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_02: It was it was civilized.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_02: It's he it's kind of interesting.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_02: He he actually went to Auburn and um but grew up in Alabama and was always an Alabama fan, but went to Auburn for his uh his major, and so he said he cheers for Alabama most of the time, um and Auburn most of the time, as long as they're not playing each other.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I can't do that.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_01: I can't do pull for old mess being a state fan.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: I just can't do that.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh some people can do that.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, some people can, but you know, I just I I I don't I don't know how some people do it, but kind of like what we were talking about last week, you know, you can cheer for whoever you want to.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody's makes a rule that says you can only cheer for that team, but you know, I like I said in the other one, I cheer for LSU and other teams, but I just can't pull for for old old mess.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I like I said in the other one, I like Lane Kiff and stuff, but you you don't really pull for your rival, that's kind of hard to do.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: But there are people out there that they're they're they're different breed, I guess.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly right.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so um I guess we talk a little bit more about the game here in a minute, but I wanted to update everybody on the pickham.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_02: Um so we we were talking before we got on, we were trying to lay out the calendar because technically this past weekend was still September, the last day of September, but that was the fourth or fifth week, and so I was trying to section it off into four weeks at a time.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_02: So I did win that one, but somebody did knock me off the throne this past weekend.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_02: I was a little worried.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_02: I like I said, I wasn't positive, wasn't sure with all my picks, and got knocked off.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_02: I'm still in second place, but uh got a couple more weeks if whoever knocked me off can get some get some free coffee.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it looks like it's B D dirty dogs.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: If the dirty dogs are dirty enough, they can knock you off some more, but they might be cleaning.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_01: But uh that's right.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so the the eyeballers they came on uh came on through for the month of September.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: They were they were rocking and rolling, you were doing great on your picks.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_01: And last year, me and you were at the top of the board, but for some reason I I I got knocked down this year on some of my picks.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, but yeah, so it's it it you're not it's not rigged out there for people who are wondering.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: You really did win it legitimately for that month.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll see what happens.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, we got two more months to go of the season, so a lot of things can happen in this crazy world of college football.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I just wanted to talk a little bit about the uh you know, the game last weekend obviously was kind of depressing and disappointing and and everything.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and like you said, everybody the Alabama team is not they don't look the same as the same old Alabama team, but you know, it's still Alabama, they still have a lot more talent than we do.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm I mean, I've I've listened to some podcasts this week, and everybody's pretty in a pretty bad place about the program right now.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, like we were saying a minute ago, this is exactly where I thought we would be.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_02: So we've just really got to find out where we are these next few weeks.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_02: But I still I still have some faith.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_02: Um I'm not ready to jump off the bandwagon yet.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_02: I know a lot of people were saying that our net looked lost and just you know the press conference wasn't super reassuring or anything like that, but I'm still gonna give them a little credit.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_02: Now, if it if it turns out really bad here at the end of the season, I may have to reverse course here, but for now, I'm staying on.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_02: I have faith we can still get bowl eligibility, we can still win seven games.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm staying the course.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm with you, man.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm with you on that.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: Uh there's so many uh so many of our fans are just so hot headed, man.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: They want to, I mean, did we really expect to beat Alabama?
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen some people jump off the back wagon.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow, because we got beat by Alabama.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, we haven't beat the we haven't we've lost Alabama every year since 2007.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: So come on now, right?
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, it's just it is frustrating to see, but man, give the guy some credit.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he's uh uh he wasn't he was thrown into this position.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's not like he wanted to be a head coach right now.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_01: It was an unfortunate situation the way it's and yeah, he does appear over his head sometimes, but heck, we would be too if we were thrown in this situation, and but that's his job to figure it out, and and uh I have faith that he's gonna get it figured out, but um, it's just a tough, tough situation.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think it's fair for him for people to say we need to make a change after finishing this part of the season two or three, which we all thought even with Mike Fleet, you probably would have said we were two and three.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: So it's kind of hard to uh doubt the guy right now.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: Now, like you said, if we end the season winless and and lose to Ole Miss and just get blown out and not go to a ball game, yeah, then we could have that conversation at the end of the season.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: But right now, there's a lot of football to be played, a lot of games out there, there are swing games that you can win.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_01: So uh good thing that we have a cupcake this weekend.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: I say that, but I I don't know.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, don't take it for granted.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_01: Don't take it for granted.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm about to pick the score in a second, but uh we have a team that we we are overly better than our players are more athletic and bigger with we should win, and then you have an open date, and then after that open date, man, it is on.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_01: And that's when it's all the haters and all the all those people are really gonna come out, depending on how we do against Arkansas, AM, Auburn, Kentucky, those teams coming up.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: So lots of uh big big games coming up, and lots of ways that Arnett can prove the haters wrong by by winning some of these games that people are predicting them to lose to.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_01: So um, yeah, I'm not off the bandwagon yet with you.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh I'm I'm riding it till the bitter end.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_01: But um, I would like to see us get some get some wins and starting this weekend, starting this weekend with Western Michigan.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: By the way, did you see Western Michigan put out a a tweet that said, hey, we're coming to set coming to Starville to eat to eat some, and then they they had the dog like bully running and made it look like the Western Michigan player was gonna eat the dog.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_01: And then PETA came, I believe, or something, and they had to delete the tweet.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: No, I did not see that.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of like that tweet where the they Mississippi State put out of Woody Marks and the cactus, it looked like the cactus was sticking it up crazy.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I don't know what these people were doing, putting these weird graphics out there.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh not they're not read that or not look at it, but it looked they literally looked like if you go back and look at well, I'll have to send it to you.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: I think I saved it.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it looked like the Western Michigan guy is chasing the bulldog, like the mascot bully, and the bully has this weird expression on his face.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_01: And the captain said, We're coming down south to eat.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: So like wow, that's that's crazy.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, yeah, I don't know.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: I think their coach's name I read today is Lance Taylor, isn't that the coach from Friday Night Lights?
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's right.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: I forgot about that.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_02: Eric Taylor, but that's a good yeah, Eric Taylor.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_02: Lance was the quarterback.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, that's why I was confused.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: Lance Lance was a quarterback, and Eric was the coach.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but um, yeah, I think he's a young.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: I heard I heard um a scouting report tonight, and they said that he the coach is a young guy at Western Michigan, and so he's kind of in the same situation as Arnett, new coach, and uh, but like I just said before, we have more talented players on our team.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_01: So there's no question we should win the game.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if we come here on our next podcast and we drop this game, it's gonna be ugly, man.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be really bad.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um but I I fully expect us to come out there and get and get a win, a much needed win, by the way, and go into the bye week and hopefully get some guys healed and and um and be ready to fight on to the next part of the season.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: Well, uh, I guess go ahead and pick pick the scores.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, uh, I'm I'm gonna pick the score for this weekend's game against Western Michigan.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you talked to me maybe a year ago when we were just rolling with our offense and everything, I would put up, I would say we'd put up like 50-something points.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: I would pick like 52-6, something like that, like just smoking them.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: But after seeing what we did against southeastern Louisiana, who was a much inferior team as well, like this team, uh, I'm not gonna give us that many points because uh they haven't proven it yet.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: They can prove this weekend, it's gonna be wrong.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, I do think we're gonna win, but I think it's gonna be actually closer than the experts think.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I'm gonna say like 34 to 13 is what I'm predicting.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we're I think we're close on this one.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_02: Um you know, one thing we're we've got our guests coming on here in a minute, Mr.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_02: Falk, Robbie Falk.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: And I listened to his podcast earlier this week.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_02: And one thing he did say about our net was that he needs to show the fire that he was shown as the defensive coordinator.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_02: He's definitely seems to be a little bit more passive or just more calm acting, and I feel like he needs to he needs to flip that switch again.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, but just like the the tickets said to the first game, it says dogs finna eat.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_02: The dog's finna eat this weekend.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm with you, Johnny.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna be close on the score.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_02: 35-17 is what I'm saying.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: So take that to the take that to the sports book.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: We're usually right on the money on that.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I wouldn't touch that at all, though, with Mississippi State or these teams you don't know about.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: So, but I think the line was 20.5 or favored, but I do think we're gonna win handily, but I think it's gonna be there's gonna be moments where like, oh my gosh, they're getting back in the game.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: But I think at the end, second half, we'll probably pull away and and uh and get the win.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_01: And like I said, it's a much much needed win.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I'm like with you with what what Robbie said in that interview.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: We we need to see that emotion from from Zach Garnett.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, he's that defensive coordinator mentality.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: It seems like once he got the head coaching role, he's more of a like a yes guy, you know, like with the media.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like just throw it all out, don't be hiding anything, just be out there and be yourself, be true, be that dog mentality, man.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: This you know, just he's he's got that edge to him.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: Let's show it, just get out there and and get on to him if you have to.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: We don't care what he said, we don't care how many F-bombs you drop, just do it, just do it.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I I think I'm I'm with what what they said on that.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, but yeah, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out and uh and go from there.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, right, stay tuned uh um for this because we got Robbie coming on and and we we hit them all.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: We hit uh we start off basketball talk.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: We had that breaking news day about unfortunate news about um about Tolu Smith and uh just uh you know it's I told Robbie, it feels like once Mississippi State won that national championship in baseball, it's just like we're cursed.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's like everything you look forward to, something happens.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: You get look forward to football season, Mike Cleach dies, look forward to basketball season, you know, and then we look forward to baseball and we suck it up in baseball.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's just like literally everything, something snake bitten.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: It seems like I don't know what it is, but but uh anyway, they're gonna have to fight on through without their star player in the basketball season this year.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: And uh but uh heard Coach Jans talk tonight, he was kind of down in the jumps, where every reason to be uh with his star player out like that.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: But I I feel like that we'll have uh we have some guys, we got a returning squad coming back, and we got some shooters coming in, much needed shooters.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: So do feel confident about the borderline basketball, even though with the injury today, and then we hit on the baseball struggles and what we got to do in baseball, and then we wrap up about talking about football and what we what we think, and we discuss the uh Will Rogers, Mike Wright, where everybody talks about that and defense issues and all that.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: So stay tuned for that.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: But also, I want to show you something non-football related.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't tell Robbie about this on the air when we talked about I shot him a message earlier.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: Stay tuned for the uh uh after we talk about our Mississippi State discussion because I asked him about um I know he was a big uh TGIF fan in the 90s, like I was.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: I love meet some TGIF of Full House, Family Matters, Boy Meets World step by step.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: And he went to Boy Meets World.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's like a podcast thing that they do with the star of the show.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: They take it it's got so popular, they take it on tour, and he went up to Nashville to hear about it.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh I told him how I was that big of a fan with Full House, and I went to taping a Fuller House, and it was it was so cool.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: Been sitting in there in the stands and right there in the Tanner kitchen, like literally right in front of me, just so much nostalgia.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, but I didn't tell him this story.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: I've told you this, BW, before, but listeners out there will get a kick out of this.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: So I was in uh in Malibu uh a few years back, and I was eating at this place called Gladstones, a restaurant on the Pacific Coast Highway called Gladstones of all things, like Joey Gladstone Full House, even though it's not related to him, but that's the name of the restaurant, Gladstones.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: And we look over, a buddy I'm with is like, look over there, there's there's Bob Sagitt over there with a with a young girl.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, What?
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: I look up, lo and behold, there's Bob Sagitt.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'll go, man, I'm going over to speak to him.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: My buddy's like, No, no, no, no, don't do that, don't do that.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm like, Look, I'm never gonna see Bob Sagitt in my life.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: This is like a once a lifetime.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: If he's a jerk to me, who cares?
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: If he's happy, you know, good, whatever.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: I'm never gonna see him again, never gonna get this opportunity.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm doing it.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: So, man, I go to the bathroom, I scout out, walk by his table, I see this young girl with him.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like damn, is he on a date with like a really young, young girl?
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_01: This is gonna be weird, but screw it.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna do it.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say hey to him.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I leave in the bathroom, I head towards the table, I stop, they both look at me.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, uh, I just want to introduce myself.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um uh tell my name.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I know you hear this all the time.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna go ahead and say it.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm a huge fan, been a big fan ever since I was little.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: And uh if it was not too much, can you mean you just get a picture today together for keepsake?
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_01: And he looks at me, he's like, Well, I'm on a I'm I'm eating dinner with my daughter, but yeah, man, I'll be more than happy to.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, Oh, good, because I thought when he said that it was not gonna be good.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: So we go over there, he stands up.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's this is before the uh iPhones.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: I had one of those uh cameras that has the um it's like uh what's it phone?
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: Digital camera.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: It was a digital camera, like you can look, you can take the picture and then turn the camera around and look and see what it looks like.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: So I had one of those.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: So man, I'm standing there, he's standing there with me.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: He takes the uh he he takes the uh the photo of me of me and me and him, and he looks at it.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm quoting him when I say this.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: He looks at it, he goes, Oh man, I fucked this one up.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: Let's try this again.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Oh, Danny Tanner dropped the F bomb.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, that made my night.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, that's a bucket list thing right there.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: I can my life is now complete.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: I heard Danny Tanner drop the F bomb in person, and man, he thought he laughed, and we both laughed at it and grinned.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: And oh man, what a memory, what a memory.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: So I always had that memory.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: So man, it was a tough time when he passed away a few years ago.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, because he's he was a stand-up guy, and because he could have been a jerk to me in that situation.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: He was so nice, and and uh so I have that memory, and and we talk about like you know, the TGI show.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: So y'all still stay tuned and listen to that.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: But um, man, that like I told Robbie, they just don't make the shows today like they do back then.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: There's some some good stuff and uh very very nostalgic stuff for the people who who like that type of stuff, and really enjoy it.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that reminds me.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_02: I I got a quick story too.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: We were yeah, we were actually out in Los Angeles about 10 years ago, and we were at Marina Del Rey, we were eating the Cheesecake Factory, and we'd only been there a day or two, and I said, you know, I wonder if we're gonna see anybody famous here.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_02: And sure enough, I look up and Steve Urkel is in there.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_02: And he looked he was wearing a suit.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_02: He was, I mean, he was dressed up, he looked like he was meeting with somebody like an agent or something like that.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_02: And when we were leaving, he was leaving the exact same time, and he walked out like right in front of me and got my car pulled up and he got in the passenger seat and drove off.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: So I didn't say anything to him, but I saw him.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_02: Steve Urkel, how about that?
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, was it his name, even I can't even remember his name now.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: The actual place the little yeah, what's more he was probably more like Stefan Urkel though when you saw him?
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he was he was definitely Stefan Urkel there for sure.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: Stefan Urkel.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man, that's cool.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's one thing I love about LA so much, man, is you never know the of all the people that you're gonna run into.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's just like just randomly at random places, and you never know.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: When you it seems like when you go out there, like, hey, I want to go find somebody famous celebrity, you'll never see them, like ever.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: But then, like when you don't expect it ever, there'll be somebody like in the same restaurant or some same place as you.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: So really cool, uh cool experiences.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, it takes you back to the to the to the childhood days of TGIF and all that sort of stuff.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm glad they have.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: There's a full house one that I listened to, it's kind of like what he was listening to, and where they were discussed uh all the different shows.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: And actually, the one on Full House, um, Robbie told me that they they got the idea from the boy meets world one, and they literally watch this one has Andrea Barbara and Jody Sweeten, who Stephanie and D uh Stephanie Tanner and Kimi Gibler on that one.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: And they they've of all these years, they've never watched Full House, so they literally are watching every episode one by one and then doing a podcast about it each week, talking about uh things that they remember from the episode, the guest stars in the episode, uh really cool stories.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: So um a lot of cool stuff out there in the in the podcast land for 90s nostalgic people like us.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: But good stuff.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: But uh set up as far as uh Mississippi State goes, uh speaks for itself.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: We'll we'll just have to let it play out and see how the rest of the season goes.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, but yeah, y'all stay tuned.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: Robbie did a great job recapping everything from his opinion on on uh on Mississippi State athletics and then listen to what he talks about that and about the TGIF.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: And uh hopefully we'll we'll come back and enjoy this bi-week coming up.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: We won't we won't do one.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: And then uh, but yeah, encourage everybody still go johnnypacker.net, get that coffee.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: Uh 14 bucks.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I'm going on a trip.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: Uh our buddy Juan Valdez, Juan uh Wally invited me to come to uh a trip to Orlando to Halloween horror nights this coming week.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I'm gonna go out there and do that.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: I know he's a big supporter of Johnny Packer.net as uh we talked about last week, getting getting coffee.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: So be like Juan Valdez and go online and get you some uh Johnny Packer uh coffee and help our fight with uh cystic fibrosis because every about every every bag of coffee buy um proceeds help benefit the CF Foundation and helps people in their fight with CF like myself.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: And um can't do it alone, man.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know how much I work bust my butt to stay healthy, but it all boils down to research and and uh advancement in treatments.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: And there's still so many people out there that that need treatment with CF.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: And only way to get it is through money and and development of new drugs.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_01: So you're doing a part by I say this every week, but it's true.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_01: Every single time I'll say it is going online, johnnypacker.net, clicking buy a bag of coffee.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: And then that small purchase that you're making right there makes a huge difference in the life of the CF patients.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: So thank y'all so much for uh for all your support, and um, that's all I got.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_02: Well, thank you all for listening.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, y'all have fun down there with Juan Feldez.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, indeed.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_02: I will have some stories to tell.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_02: That's right, and we'll talk to everybody after the bye week.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_02: Go down.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, welcome back to a brand new edition of the Johnny Squirrel Podcast.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's Johnny here.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Uh, my co-host BW is off checking people's eyeballs today.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I'm doing it solo today, but regardless, we got your good show lined up here today.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um I'm gonna bring on our guest for for today.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh y'all might know him from uh from working for 247 or the start for daily news or Thunder and Lightning Podcast.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: He's a busy man.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: So Robbie Falk, welcome to Johnny's World.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for having me on.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: Glad you can fit me into your schedule.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: Well, man, you're the busy one.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you just tell tell the tell the listeners out there who aren't familiar with the stuff that I just said with you, uh, what you do.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I'm living the dream uh covering sports.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is something that I've wanted to do my whole life.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know uh what I was gonna do, but I just knew that I loved sports.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: I knew that I wanted to uh talk about sports, uh, whether that be on the radio or uh in a newspaper or online.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: I I just wanted to do that.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: So that's that's how I got here.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: And it's um right now I'm just I'm loving it, even though you know Mississippi State sports right now seems to be in some sort of a curse.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what happened, but I don't know if it's the the uh burial grounds on campus or what it is that's causing this, but it's still a fun time, man.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: I love um watching college sports for a living.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: I love watching high school sports too, and balancing those two things has been fun.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm over at Starkwell Daily News, um, high school beat writer there since 2015, 2014, 2015, uh 15, I think.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: I've been covering Mississippi State since 2013, just started Thunder and Lightning podcast a couple years ago, joining Brian Haydad.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: And uh that's you know, that's kind of basically the gist of what I do.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just uh to me, every single day is an adventure, and I love it.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, guys, guys out there listening.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, if you're all if y'all might be thinking, oh, I don't really care that much about sports, well, get on to the rumblings and thunder and lightning.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: Put your questions in.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: I look forward to that every week.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's some good stuff.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, y'all do a really good job with that.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: I love that, man.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: We we had somebody upset about us this week because we deviated away from uh sports a little bit, and I was wanting to talk about anything other than sports on Monday for whatever reason.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: I don't uh I guess this the last three weeks have caught up with me, but I just wanted to talk about something else.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: And the rumblings give us an opportunity to kind of get away from that every week.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: On Wednesdays, we always record uh or Tuesdays when we record for the Wednesday episode.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: We we ask fans to just give us whatever um questions they got and we'll answer them.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I love it.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's actually our most listened to show every single week.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: You always have those people that say stick to sports, stick to sports.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: But sometimes you just you gotta do what y'all do.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: And I really like that because like it kind of gives you a break.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: You get all these podcasts talking about sports, and you get that one and you can send in whatever you want.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: I love how y'all y'all rank stuff, that's really cool.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: And just uh uh I really like that.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: But um just talking to sports, you know, we're we're just what you just said, it seems like we're in a funk.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: It seems like maybe it's the national championship winning in baseball, man.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_01: We can win that national championship in baseball, and then it's like, what the heck?
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: Like baseball stinks, and then football, and then then we get the news today about uh in basketball.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: We're really looking forward to basketball, and our best player hurts his foot.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's like what gives, man.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know if it was the thousands of people in Omaha that day that said we'll do anything for a national championship or what it was, but it just seems like it's one thing after another.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: One every time you get excited about something, something else happens to take that away.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I I still have a lot of faith in the basketball team.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Chris Jans, what he did last year with the roster that he had and kind of the hand he was dealt, I think he's afforded some some trust, but that's a huge hit taking Tolo Smith out of that lineup for the first you know 12 games or whatever it is.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: But hopefully he recovers well.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: You get him back for SEC play and you're prepped for then, and there's something that the state fans can be excited about.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: So hopefully we can just um get through that non-conference slate and and and get healthy.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: And then when you have that full, let's talk a little bit about basketball first, then we'll go back to football.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, with the basketball team coming back, it's a veteran team.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: You got all these guys returning.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if that's ever happened in Mississippi State, bringing everybody back like that, and then bringing in the guys that they got coming in, like Josh Hubbard.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we're we're prime for a good season, it seems that way.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: What do you think?
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you have pieces at every position, you have leadership, you brought in some shooters, which is what you were missing last year.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: That was the biggest thing for them in the offseason is to try to find some guys that could come in and help you from the perimeter.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what they got.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: I think Josh Hubbard can do that.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_00: I think Trey Ford from the junior college system can do that as well.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and uh, you got you know some other guys that you brought in from the portal, from high school.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: You just brought in an, in my opinion, a huge upgrade from the three-point uh perspective.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: And that's something that they had to fix.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: It was basically their biggest issue last year because they just couldn't make three-pointers, and teams dared them to do it.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and now that's gonna be challenged in the first part of the schedule because teams are gonna dare them to do that again.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna clog up the lane and they're gonna make sure that Mississippi State beats them from the outside because you're not gonna have a Tolu Smith down there.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and that's the biggest thing.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Jimmy Bell's got to step up.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_00: Keyshawn Murphy's out for several weeks, too.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: So that's your two best big men basically are out.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: He was probably gonna get those minutes if uh Tolu was out.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's big for Jimmy Bell.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Cam Matthews is gonna have to move down probably.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_00: DJ Jeffrey's gonna have to play a bigger role.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: Those guys have got to step up, but I really like what they have.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: I like the roster, I like the the continuity that they brought back too.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: You get a lot of leadership returning, you get a lot of players that are hungry and they got a taste of that last year.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: But this non-conference schedule just got so much bigger for Mississippi State.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: They cannot slip up in this first part of the schedule because that is where you can really build your resume for postseason.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and that's basically what got them in last year, is what they did in the non-conference slate.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_01: And and it feels like that that game last year, and that we make it to the tournament, you know, the whole issue last year was like you said, shooting.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: And then it comes down to the tournament game, and we can't we can't make three-point shots.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: So hopefully that what you're just talking about, that's gonna test us for sure.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: Not be able to get the ball down to Tolu being in there.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: So uh hopefully our shooters can can do it and free throws.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: Gosh dog it, man.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: We gotta make free throws.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: It seems like being a lifelong Mississippi State fan, we cannot make free throws.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: But I don't know what that is, but hopefully they can work on that too, because that man, those are free, you know, you just make shots.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: That was very frustrating last year in the first part.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_00: I thought they got better at it, but it was killing them in some of those games that they lost.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: Early part of SEC schedule against Tennessee, Alabama, those teams like if you cut the misses in half, you're in the ball game.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: And it just it took them out of it.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I thought they got better at it, but that's one thing about the staff is they they noted they noticed the the trends of the team, the issues that they were having, and they did their best in the offseason to try to fix it.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what you're gonna see is you're gonna see a better team from a shooting perspective, whether it be three-point range or the free throw line.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: That was something they really worked on in the offseason, is fixing that.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_01: That's good.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and and yeah, hopefully we can see that.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_01: And and Chris Jans, man, uh we're we're blessed to have him as our coach.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: So like he he's a stud.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: And I uh and you can just see just in year one what he did.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_01: So I think the future is bright with Michigan State basketball.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_01: And and it needs to be because when Mississippi State's basketball is good, like back in the in the days with Stansbury.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we had it rolling.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's been a decade to get back, but hopefully we can get back with Coach Jans.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like we're in a good spot with that.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's been a long time, man.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: I I remember coming up in those uh early 2000s, uh coming up in high school and I had season tickets watching those teams.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I look forward to Mississippi State basketball every year.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: And um, the hump was rocking, the players were fun to watch, they played uh a great brand of basketball.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's what everybody's clamoring for.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, everybody wants that back.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody wants the the late 90s, early 2000s time period back because that was peak Mississippi State basketball.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_00: And um, you know, I I think Chris Jones Chris Jans has all the goods to uh bring that back.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: I agree with you.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: All right, let's move on to two sports that people aren't really happy about right now, but we're we're let's start about baseball first.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_01: All right, baseball season will be here before we know it.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I actually heard uh uh uh Justin Parker speak last week.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and uh coach, and I was impressed with what he had to say.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, what are your thoughts on the baseball?
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: How we can get this thing turned around.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: Do you think we can get it turned around?
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_01: What do you think the thoughts on Lamonas?
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: I've heard a lot of good things about Justin Parker so far and his philosophy, how he coaches the players.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: The players are really taken to his coaching well.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but they got to prove it, man.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm definitely in prove it mode at this point.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_00: We thought last year that, you know, they that was just kind of a fluke in 2022, and this was going to be an opportunity to turn it around, and you had the players and all that, and they just didn't.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: It was the same, it was a repeat of 2022.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's definitely prove it time uh for Chris Jan, I mean Chris Lamonis.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: And this is it for him.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, he's got to get it done this year, or Mississippi State's doing a coaching search next year.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's just plain and simple.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_00: He knows that.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: There nobody nobody needs to tell him that.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: He knows exactly where they are in that regard.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't think that they um addressed a lot of their needs in the portal.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_00: So you're looking at now, taking a lot of the same players that you had from last year, they're gonna have to make huge jumps.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the Bradley Loftons, the uh D'Arangelo, the Sinjas, um, the Nate Domes, those guys are gonna have to make major jumps to be really competitive in this league because they were not competitive in the SEC last year.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't like they were losing a lot of series by the skin of their teeth.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they were getting in some of these games.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: So um they've got to make a huge jump.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: I like what they got uh as far as the talent in the field and at the plate.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_00: I like a lot of those players.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: You got two all SEC players returning in Hunter Hines and Dakota Jordan, who are superstar players.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but you got to have guys step up in the outfield.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you're gonna have to have a couple of young players step up too uh in the infield.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think Dylan Cup, the light's gonna be riding on him as a true freshman.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then you got some transfers in, they're gonna have to be huge this year.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot of things that have to improve for Mississippi State, and it's definitely you know one of those deals where they've got to prove it because on paper, we just haven't seen it.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: And and when you're talking about Mississippi State baseball, you we can't let that fall down.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's that's uh that's that's what we're known for, Mississippi Baseball.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh, like you said, it's it's prove it this year.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_01: If it's if we if we have another flip up in that three years in a row, I mean there something's got to be done.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, but like you said, Lamonas knows it and everything.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_01: So hopefully we can see something different this year.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um all right, moving on to football.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I guess last but not least.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: Last but not least, you know, we we all thought we'd probably be in this situation as far as our record-wise, but not the way the performing on the field.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um what's your take on him and what what gifts?
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, what you're you've been in there talking to Arnett, and and what what what do y'all what do you think?
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_00: I I think he's really just going through a transition period of being a head coach for the first time.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I think Zach Arnett's a great football coach.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: I think that he's um he knows the game.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: I think that he's proven it tremendously on the defensive side of the ball.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_00: But this is a totally different game, man.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: You you go from defensive coordinator to head coach, right?
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I think he's he's learned uh, you know, pretty quickly the the week, the weekly, the daily tasks that he has to do as a head coach.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: That's not easy.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's hard.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: And this is a tough transition for a guy to go from defensive coordinator to leading an SEC football team.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I, you know, it's it's one of those deals where it's hard to truly gauge what Zach Arnett is going to be because I think he's still learning every single week.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_00: But at the same time, this can't be a uh a throwaway year for Arnett.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_00: I I think that he's he's got to find a way to win a few games here down the stretch.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because you look at that contract that he has, you look at the fact that Zach Selman is a first-year AD and this was not his hire.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think it's a foregone conclusion.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: This is going to be a multi-year deal for Zach Arnett.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_00: I I don't think he can just go out there and and win three or four games this year and everything be fine.
• 35:38
  unknown: Right.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I think there's going to be some pressure on Zach Selman to make a move if that if this doesn't turn out to go well.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_00: With that said, there are opportunities here for Zach Arnett down the stretch.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_00: I think Saturday is huge.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people are going to treat this game as a throwaway game, but it's big for Mississippi State.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's big for Zach Arnett.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: They have to win this game.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you got two games left on the schedule that are considered pretty much uh, you know, Mississippi State wins with Western Michigan and Southern Miss.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_00: And after that, every single game is basically either a toss-up, or Mississippi State is definitely gonna be picked to lose the ball game.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: So it's not gonna be easy, but he needs to find a way to get to six.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um I don't know much about them.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_01: You know anything about them?
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, is this are we looking like do you think we're gonna have a blowout that we're gonna smoke them, or you think it's gonna be a close game, or what what are you what do you take on that?
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: Well, on paper, you know, the state's heavily favored.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_00: You you look at the talent differential.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, Mississippi State should beat teams like Western Michigan fairly easy.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, from what we've seen with the inconsistencies on offense, the defense has been susceptible to big plays, to big games from quarterbacks.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you take nothing for granted.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_00: They got a first-year head coach in Lance Taylor, a former Alabama player, started under Nick Saban as a graduate assistant.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_00: He's been in the NFL, he's coached at um Stanford, he's coached at Notre Dame.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: So he's played in some big-time programs.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: He knows what it takes to win.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_00: I just don't think he has a team right now to win big at Western Michigan.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: And this is his first year.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_00: He's a he's a lot like Zach Arnett.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is his first year on the job.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_00: He's just getting started at uh in the Mac instead of the SEC.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_00: This is a must-win for State, like I said.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and if they lose, it's on them.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I don't think Western Michigan has the dudes to just come in and just win straight up.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's on Mississippi State if they lose.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_00: The Bulldogs had messed up tremendously if they lose this ball game.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_01: Well, let's talk about talk about Will Rogers.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you hear this stuff all the time.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_01: Put Mike right in putting my butt man, like I first of all, I'm gonna ask you about that.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen you tweet about it.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like, Mike Wright, I don't really understand.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_01: Feels like I don't, I'm kind of like you, like we throw him out there for like literally one play and then take him out.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't understand.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I know y'all have asked him, and then he says that he has packages for him, but I mean, what's your take on that?
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I mean, what are we doing with Mike Wright?
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, man.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, I I think when we've seen Mike Wright in the ball game and you've seen those explosive runs for the quarterback, it it really makes you wonder why he doesn't get more time in there.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_00: And on top of that, everything that they call when he's in the ballgame is just a straight RPO or a zone read or uh a straight handoff or something like that.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we just haven't been able to see his game expand.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: He he's basically running, you know, the same plays when he comes in.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: Defenses kind of know what to expect, but at the same time, you know, they know what to expect, and he's still been able to reel off some big runs and some touchdowns and things like that.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_00: So when you've had the struggles that you've had sometimes on offense, and you have a quarterback like Will Rogers, who has been an incredibly accurate passer.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_00: He's for the most part, he's made good decisions, good decisions in his career.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't make a ton of big mistakes as far as throwing interceptions or uh a ton of fumbles or anything like that, but he's a guy that's going to be a pocket guy.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_00: He he hasn't been able to escape the pocket well in his career.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you have a guy that can move the pocket a little bit and Mike Wright at least shake it up a little bit sometimes.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know, bring in a guy that can give you a little bit of a different look for the defense.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: And that's that's been my position on it.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_00: I don't, you know, I'm not saying that Will Rogers shouldn't be the starting quarterback.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not at that point yet.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm just saying, why not utilize one of the most dynamic quarterbacks from a running perspective in the entire country, Mike Wright, a little more than you do?
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_00: Because five, six plays to me doesn't really move the needle.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_01: And it seems like when you throw him in there, the defense knows he's gonna run.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's just it's kind of strange.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_01: Like you throw him in there, everybody's like, yeah, he's gonna run.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_00: But uh either he's gonna run or the running back's gonna run.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what we've seen so far.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and Will, man, he everybody gives him such a hard time, but man, what a leader he is, man.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_01: Leader on the field, off the field, just a class act guy.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: And uh just and it broke so many records under under Mike Leach.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_01: And and I just feel like uh I it's just an unfortunate situation with Coach Leach passing and and Will, because I mean they were, you know, not just coach and quarterback.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they're friends, and and he he pretty much made him who he is as far as throwing and everything.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_01: And and do you think that's part of the reason why the str we see the struggles, you think?
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I mean, I I just I don't know.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's definitely situation.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_00: He was definitely way more comfortable in the uh air raid, and that offense fit his skill set a little more.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, he was able to to um hit the shorter intermediate routes.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, he had the wider splits, so it it wasn't it was a little more difficult for teams to get in the backfield and get in.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um so yeah, I mean it's the change in offense has definitely affected him.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, it's obvious right now that he's not a guy that's going to be comfortable in a lot of these other offensive schemes.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_00: I think air raid really fit his his uh skill set.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, they had they had some issues in the air raid too.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_00: There were several games where they would go halves and quarters and several possessions without getting first downs or you know, scoring points.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_00: So the air raid had its issues too, but he definitely seemed to be more confident and more consistent in the air raid than he is in this offense.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_00: And it's a shame because it's a shame in two ways.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's a shame for for Will Rogers because it's gonna be a little tougher for him to get that SEC record.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and also you have a lot of people clamoring for a change in quarterback.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_00: And it's a shame for Mississippi State in this offense because I think that this offense has a lot of potential in it.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_00: I like the the scheme of it.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: I like a lot of the play calls, but a lot of the play calls are aren't there to be made because you don't have a quarterback that's going to sit out there and run the zone read, um, which could help, I think, this offense really expand a little bit.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, it's it's kind of going both ways right now.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know, this this offense hasn't allowed Will to hit his potential, and you know, the quarterback hasn't allowed the offense to hit its potential either.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and sticking on the quarterback subject, do you think we'll see uh I'm guessing Chris Parsons is redshirting this year?
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_01: And do you think do you think we'll see him in any games this year at all?
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_01: I know they get do they still have that game where he can play a little bit and keep a redshirt?
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they got the four-game rule.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's totally up to the coaches.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, um we'll see what happens this week, how the game goes this week.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: He's gotten healthy.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he had the knee injury last year, and he's about a year removed from that at this point, so he's healthy now.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_00: I just I don't think they want to rush him into anything.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_00: But this year, this week is a opportunity possibly to get him in there.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_00: There's not going to be a ton of more uh snaps available for him this year with the schedule unless you have an injury.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um from there we'll see.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, it would be nice to see him get a few reps just to get his feet wet because next year there's gonna be a wide open quarterback competition and he's got to be in the mix for it.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you you kind of always want to.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_01: It goes back to that.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_01: I I think back to that uh 2017 egg ball when Nick Fitzgerald went down to Keeton and we threw him into the fire.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_01: And gosh, he played good, and but we almost came back to win.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_01: But you want to get those quarterbacks in it because you like you said, you're like an injury away.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_01: You never know when you're you're gonna need someone.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: In there.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: So uh hopefully this will give him a chance, maybe that he can get in a play or so because I know people like to see him as well.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_01: But but overall, I mean, it it's like you said, it's it's tough.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_01: We knew we were gonna lose to Bama.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, everybody knew that.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I'm just glad we don't play him next year.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_01: That that seems like that's one game that you know you're gonna, it's the same story every year.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_01: Eventually, I guess it's I guess you know, uh I y'all might have talked about it or heard it somewhere talking about how we used to be getting blown out by LSU all the time, and then we were playing Bama competitively, and then it swapped.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_01: Then we started getting blown out by Bama and playing LSU competitively, except for this year.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_01: And Nick Saban is the is the key ingredient right there.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_01: He was there in the at LSU and out Bama.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_01: So glad we don't have Bama on the schedule.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_01: But you see, I mean, it's I guess it's gonna be like that until Saban retires.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't know.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, until until they somehow break the break the curse, or if you know the curse leaves the leaves the building, maybe so.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's just it's been you know, it's been rough.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, last week was the fifth time, I think, in 15 years that they've scored double digit points against Alabama.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's just hard to fathom.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_00: Because they've had some years where their defense has been a little lean for their standards.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, teams have scored on them.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_00: State just hasn't been able to.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think another thing that kind of made but made the the fan base sour after this past week.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we like we just said, we're not we knew we weren't gonna play Bama.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we weren't gonna beat Bama, but we played them tough.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_01: But seeing Ole Miss beat LSU and what LSU did to Mississippi State, just I know that kind of just uh I couldn't did you get to watching that game.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_01: That defense, LSU, I just could not believe that was it because I picked LSU to blow Ole Miss out after what we saw in Mississippi State.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_01: That was like night and day difference.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_01: Is it is Ole Miss really that good or is the LSU defense?
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't know.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean Ole Miss's offense, I think, is is good.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_00: LSU's defense looked really bad.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I, you know, I don't know what happened with Mississippi State in that game, right?
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_00: To have the game that they did against them.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it was an intimidation factor or the offensive play calling or what, but it, you know, it's it's hard to believe they had that kind of performance in that game, and Ole Miss had 700 yards on LSU.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_00: But I, you know, the LSU people uh you you you talk to them and they think this is a historically bad LSU defense.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_00: So that that's kind of telling of what we saw with with Mississippi State in that game.
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it does.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh what are your takes on on SEC overall?
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_01: Georgia really hasn't been that.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they haven't played anybody, but they hadn't shocked the world.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_01: Like what do you it seems like it could be open in the SEC West, it's no telling.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_01: So what are your thoughts on all that?
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, wide open, I think.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Georgia's probably going to win the East.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_00: I don't see a ton of games left on their schedule that uh really scare me, but the West is wide open.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_00: I think I I think that the winner of AM in Bama this weekend wins the West.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_00: I think because Alabama, you look at their schedule, and I know they haven't been great, but LSU looks like one of the only teams left on the schedule that I think could win against Alabama just because they've done it in recent years, especially last year.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_00: But um then uh then you remember LSU's defense and what they did.
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, you you take out um Texas AM, which looks like one of the last teams that could beat Alabama at this point.
• 47:41
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, the a loss to LSU doesn't really hurt them.
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_00: So they're in the driver's seat if they win.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_00: AM, quite frankly, could be in the driver's seat if they win this week, too.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they got they got some teams down on the schedule that are gonna be tough for them, but they're they're a team that I think is capable of winning it.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_00: They they're starting to come together a little bit, a lot better than people thought they were gonna be.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_00: So um I think the winner of that game wins the West.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's gonna be uh it's gonna be interesting to see.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I kind of like it like this too, you know, where it's not like oh Bama, you know, they're like, you know, it's you don't know.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_01: And that that makes it more makes it more interesting.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_01: Because you like you said, Georgia on the east.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_01: I don't see anybody.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_01: Kentucky might punch them in the mouth a little bit, but I don't see them winning at all.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_01: But um I think I think the West, like you said, that Bama um AM games can be a be a good one.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um let's see, uh switching switching off topic, so let's get off sports real quick and then we'll wrap it up.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_01: But I have to ask you personally, because I've been a f I was always a fan of KGIF in the 90s.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_01: I saw you went on the you went to the boy meets world thing.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_01: I had to ask about that.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_01: Tell tell us about that, what that was like.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I had a blast, man.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_00: So there is a uh podcast now called Pod Meets World.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's hosted by uh Daniel Fischel, who's Topanga, and then Ryder Strong, who was Sean, and Will Ferdell, who was Eric, on the show.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so those three host it.
• 49:08
  SPEAKER_00: They tried to get um Corey, uh Ben Savage, who was the star of the show, and he's just kind of cut them all off for whatever reason.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_00: That he doesn't have anything to do with them, apparently.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_00: But um basically it's a rewatch podcast, they're watching every episode, they're doing interviews with people that were involved in the show.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_00: They're um talking to other 90s stars, they've had Melissa John Hart on there, they've had um um who else did they have on there?
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Zach from Save by the Bell was on there.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so you know, they have some they have some really cool podcasts, and they've started going out um around the country and doing live shows.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_00: So the closest one they've got and stuff like that, like yeah, like uh that they came to uh Nashville to um a theater in Nashville, downtown.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's where my wife and I went to go see them.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_00: And basically they said, Everybody turn your phones off.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want you taking pictures, taking videos.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_00: We want this to be an intimate thing, and we don't like we want people to come in here and just enjoy the show, and it was really cool.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we got to take one picture of them before the show, and they said, put your phones up, and it was they had Melissa Joan Hart was there.
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, she lives in Nashville, so you know, she was on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, um and stuff like that on on uh ABC on TGIF.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so they talked about that, and it was a really cool uh deal.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_00: They writer uh read some poetry that he wrote, you know, it was really entertaining.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I've I really gotten into that.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_00: I love the old uh 90s and early 2000s era.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was that was my that was my time, man.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I grew up on TGIF, I grew up on Disney Channel, Nickelodeon.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that was my stuff.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_01: TGIF, man, that was where it was.
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_01: I loved it.
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_01: Born meet squirrel, step by step, uh family members.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_01: Full house, man.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_01: That was my that was my jam back in the day.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_01: I love full house.
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_01: And um, I was out, I went to LA back in March of 2016, and I saw there was a uh tape, or I think it was the summer of 2016, saw there was a taping of Fuller House.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_01: So um, so I ended up going to it, and you wouldn't believe like all the line, the lines of people.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_01: I think yeah, they taped like in the afternoon.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_01: I got there um like really early in the morning thinking, you know, I'm gonna be first in line getting there.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like I think I got there like 8 a.m.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_01: People camped out the night before.
• 51:44
  SPEAKER_01: I wasn't even close to the front.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_01: It was insane.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_00: And and we this was slam-packed at this show.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and people are they're selling out every show just at this little live show thing.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, people there is a huge market for this, yeah.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so yeah, the people I I'll stand in line.
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there were people from like New Zealand, everywhere.
• 52:05
  SPEAKER_01: I get up to the front, I get up where they're about to take you in, and it was just me, myself at that time.
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, people I was with didn't go.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_01: And so I was like, just one.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_01: And then because they they cut me off.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, Yeah, we're not letting you in.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna we're gonna uh wait to see if people come out, then we'll start letting people in.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Oh my gosh, I got here all this early.
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, this was my show growing up.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to watch, and lo and behold, and then they were like, How many is I was just me?
• 52:27
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, Come on in.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_01: So so I got in and they literally put me right in front of the uh the kitchen set.
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_01: So it was so surreal, man.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_01: I you know, you're you're watching these shows back in the 90s when we're kids and stuff, and you're watching it's the same set, like the kitchen's like right there, and you're literally right there.
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I love that type of stuff.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_01: I saw uh they do a podcast also on for uh full house.
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um Andrew Barber and Jody Sweet do one.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_01: I'm guessing assembled to that.
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_00: And uh they actually started it because of um, yeah, they came on there and did an interview with them, and yeah, they they were starting that up too.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_00: So pretty cool.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I think uh I want to say Joey's got one too.
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, he does?
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, cool.
• 53:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm pretty sure they did.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_01: I did hear they did uh a 90s con last week.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_01: Did you hear about that?
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_01: They had all the the about all the stars from the 90s shows and oh yeah, that type of thing.
• 53:23
  SPEAKER_00: They do a lot of those, man.
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_01: They just don't make them like it anymore, you know.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_00: I feel I feel all saying that, but that was sitcoms are just uh there's not many left, but um they're definitely not what they were in the 90s.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_00: 80s and 90s sitcoms were the best.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_01: They really were.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_01: They really were.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_01: Well, uh I don't have anything else.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_01: You got anything anything you want to plug or anything you want to say?
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
• 53:46
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, uh if if um if you have not interested, or I guess not interested, but if you're interested in my work and haven't seen it, uh come check me out on Twitter, Robbie Falk247.
• 53:57
  SPEAKER_00: We're over at 247 as well.
• 54:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, all things Mississippi State over there.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_00: I do our local high school sports.
• 54:05
  SPEAKER_00: I got a separate Twitter account for that if you guys are interested in Startville High School and Startville Academy, and then you know, Webster and October Webster and Choctaw schools.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that's Robbie Falk SDN.
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_00: And then check us out the Thunder and Lightning podcast five days a week, myself and Brian Hadeb.
• 54:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, y'all do a great job.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_01: Speaking of high school, I'm gonna ask you this real quick.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the Startville High quarterback, uh Petty, is he I know State was looking at one time, then I heard he was going to Illinois.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_01: What's has he decided or what he's doing, or did he?
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he can he committed to Illinois back in the spring.
• 54:39
  SPEAKER_00: And um since that time, and Mississippi State had kind of fallen off recruiting him a little bit with the new staff, but since that time, State has has picked up the pace with him.
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_00: Kevin Barbay has been a lot more active with him, and Zach Arnett, they were there to see him against Louisville and see him play that night, and he had a good night.
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_00: So they're they're recruiting him hard.
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_00: They're willing to take two quarterbacks in this class, and Trey Petty's the number two guy.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh they already got Josh Flowers committed, and they want Trey Petty to be a part of the class as well.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_01: Cool.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_01: Well, yeah, I'll be interested to see because he's a playmaker for sure.
• 55:13
  SPEAKER_01: He definitely could help out.
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_01: So uh it's always good to get the homegrown people too.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_01: So we'll see what happens.
• 55:18
  SPEAKER_01: All right, Robbie.
• 55:19
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think you thank you, thank you uh for coming on.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_01: Really appreciate it.
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, y'all follow him and listen to their podcast, and uh hopefully the dogs can uh can get a win this weekend.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_01: So see how it goes.
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate you having me on any time.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_01: All right, take care, everybody.
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_01: All right,