Monday at SEC Media Days

Hour 2 of Monday's program continues from the SEC Media Days in Dallas as Craig and Cam discuss the latest news in college football and MLB Draft.

Episode Transcript

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So we welcome you to our coveragefrom SEC football Media Days here in Dallas
at the AMI Hotel Craig Way,alongside the producer Cameron Parker, and we're
with you up until five o'clock thisafternoon. We're with you throughout the course
of these SEC Football Media Days hereMonday through Thursday. Earlier today the Commissioner

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of the SEC, Greg Sanky,let it off. Then afterwards you had
the head coaches from LSU, BrianKelly, South Carolina, Senbeamer Ole miss
Lane Kiffin, and Clark Lee fromVanderbilt. Out of those four, only

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one Vanderbilt will be a Texas opponentthis year. But we were on the
air and I didn't get a chanceto hear Clark Leebell. We can always
dive into the audio if we needto see what he had to say about
it as well. But like wesay, and I mentioned this at the
top of the hour of our numberone, that in some ways the more

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things change, the more they remainthe same. In that yes, it
is all new territory for Texas andfor Oklahoma here in the SEC, and
Texas and Oklahoma are the new beesin terms of the athletic competition against these
teams. But for those of usin the media who've crossed past, but

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a lot of people of the yearswere quite familiar with a lot of these
people over the years. I soldDavid Kellham, the play by play voice
of the Ole miss Rebels. Afew minutes ago. I mentioned Toby Roland,
the voice of the Oklahoma Sooners comingby. There are other not only
play by play voices, but hereon radio row. And this is a

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I will tell you this, Cameron, because you haven't been to a Super
Bowl radio row, but this isa decent representation of a radio row.
It's it's pretty well represented. It'sit's not quite as massive as what you
would have at a super Bowl,but it's not bad. It stretches down
this Carnor quite a bit. It'spretty far. And I mean, look
at all the representation from the SEC. I mean there's four five six outfits

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from Texas, a loan six fromAlabama. That's just from two states.
And then of course you still havesome Florida. I think Miami. There's
Miami stations here, even though Miamiplays in the ACC as of right now,
there's you see the outreach from fromother cities who have vested interest in
covering the Southeastern Conference even though thatmaybe the schools in their respective city aren't

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in the Southeast Southeastern Conference. Whenthere was a guy who stood up at
the news conference today with Greg Sankie, the commissioner, and asked him a
question and and they ask you to, you know, give your name an
affiliation, and so he did.And he was from just regular radio station

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in Huntsville, Alabama, which isway up at the top part of Alabama,
far north. I was on theshow earlier with some friends from I
say friends, I mean people Ihadn't met before but had a chance to
visit with. Had a good conversationwith guys from Montgomery, Alabama, which
is the state capital and the closestSEC school that that would be Auburn,

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but it's maybe an hour away orforty five minutes away, something like that.
So yeah, there are stations herefrom Florida, Tennessee, Missouri,
Arkansas, obviously, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, because we saw one from
Jackson, I guess yesterday, Louisiana, and I think in South Carolina.

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I've seen plus plenty of other nationwidepodcasting groups, national national media as well
national media writers and broadcasters, andof course the Southeastern Conference the SEC work
is here as well, So it'sit's all a part of it in getting

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everybody ramped up. You know,the Big Twelve Media Days happened over just
a couple of days in Las Vegas. Next week are both running simultaneously,
the Atlantic Coast Conference, the ACCMedia Days and the Big Ten Media Days
are both next week, and Ithink also the American Athletic Conference are doing

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theirs in Jerry World next week,so I think that's where the American Media
Days are. So anyway, there'sit's it's a lot, and it's it
was you know, we were evensaying a year ago when we were across

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town in Arlington, some sixteen milesto the west of US, that's gonna
be something that's the last go aroundfor Texas in the Big Twelve, and
what's it going to be like inthe SEC. Well, first things,
the fact that was in Dallas andnot in Atlanta or Birmingham. It's gonna
be back in Atlanta next year.It was one thing. So all that

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did was to basically ensure the factthat you would have media outlets from all
over Texas and Oklahoma here for thisfirst one, especially given the fact that
it was right here in Dallas asopposed to being somewhere in the Deep South.
Yeah, cutting us some slack,thank you, Greg Zanki, because
we're probably going to have to travela lot in the future. But Atlanta's
not not so hard to get toit, and it's a it's a fun

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see now. Of course, Iwas joking with my cards earlier on The
Hard Knocks Life. At least it'snot Birmingham. Yeah, I will take
the drive up thirty five to Dallasover Birmingham any day. Well, it's
not like Birmingham's a bad Oh,of course, it's not a bad city.
It's just not the you know youhave you know, you have to

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fly there or you're driving ten hours. Now, Atlanta's two hours beyond it.
If you're driving, it's another onehundred and fifty miles. We're flying,
We're flying to Atlanta. I'm notmaking that drive to Atlanta. I've
already I made to drive to Charlottealready four times in my life. Yeah,
that's four times too many. Doyou know what I think I'm gonna
do. I'm gonna drive it wellthat might be near you your vacation thing.

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I'm gonna piggyback it to my vacationso that I'll just drive over and
just stop off in Atlanta on theway back. Maybe I'll do that.
I don't know, We'll see.We had a comment Craig on our live
stream on Facebook, John Baker,always a great listener, asking is the
doctor pepper strawberry similar to cheerwine?And I don't. I don't think it

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is. I think it's two differentflavors. As Craig takes a big swip,
it is not. And I've gota twelve pack of cheerwind City home
and our refrigerator. I card itat home from North Carolina. Mart Man,
it's not this. This has areal strawberry taste to it. The
cheer wine, as you know,John, cheer wine has a cherry kind

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of a taste. It is.I've described cheerwine for folks who don't know
what cheerwine is. It's a softdrink that is best bottled in the state
of North Carolina, being Salisbury,North Carolina. And it was originally developed
in nineteen seventeen, right in themiddle of World War One, and the

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way it was developed. Was thisin any global war production effort, be
it World War One or World WarTwo, there is going to be a
shortage of certain things, shortages thatmy father's tell me stories about. During

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World War Two, you couldn't getcandy bars, you know, they were
all going to the soldiers, orthey might yet they were ration and they
might have someone. They would goout and the and the trucks from then
Fort Bragg is now Fort Liberty,North Carolina, be rolling through my dad's
hometown of Ashboro, North Carolina,and the trucks would be rolling up the
street. And as they were rollingup the road, my grandmother would make

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hop biscuits, and my dad andmy aunt his younger sister, we got
and tossed the biscuits up to thesoldiers who were on trucks and takes.
And in turn, some of thosesoldiers would toss candy bars to them because
they would have the candy bars becausethere was a shortage of candy. But
that that would happen quite a bit. They would have they would have biscuits

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and they would toss them up tothat to the point of shortages during World
War One in nineteen seventeen, cornsyrup was not available, and corn cipper,
of course is a is a basiccomponent in a lot of soda soft
drinks back then as in now,and so corn syrup was not available.

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So what they did was a guycame up with the idea of using cherry
syrup. So he produced a sodawith cherry syrup, and he was going
to call it cherry wine, butit sounded too much like it was real

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wine. It wouldn't work. Sohe just kind of crunched the name together
and started calling it cheer wine cheerwine, and they still had to do
some explaining. He said, no, it's not wine. It's actually a
soft drink. It's a soda.But it's a cross between I would say,
you know, you've had more thanyour share of cheer wines over the
years. I would say, it'sa cross between cherry coke and then like

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a strawberry drink, but it's morecherry. In other words, it's more
cherry than cherry coke. But it'sgot enough bottom to it to where it
feels like a soda and not soto cherry soda. Does that make sense,
Yeah, I would agree. Iwould agree, definitely, definitely,
No strawberry type flavor at all morechair Yep. Yeah, that's so to

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answer your question, John, it'swhile we do like this strawberries and cream,
Doctor Pepper, it's now it's different. It's it's a lot different from
from Cherry Coke. I mean,while it's different from Cherry Coke, but
it's a lot different from Chair Wyeas well. All right, coming up,
we'll talk about this move to theSoutheastern Conference for Texas and for Oklahoma.

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We'll visit with the former Sooner quarterbackand assistant coach Cale Gundy, who
now works for the Sports Animal inOklahoma City. Will do that when we
continue live from here a SEC FootballMedia Days here in Dallas at the Omni
Hotel on Sports Radio AM thirteen underthe zone of the iHeartRadio app.