December 23, 2024 • 26 mins
This week on Weekend Warriors, Anish and Tom react to the first round of the College Football Playoffs, discuss Christmas presents, share their thoughts on NIL, and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Merry Christmas, Happy holidays, one and all we get to
that part of the year where Santa Claus has to
start pulling all nighters.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Have you ever seen the assembly instructions for some of
these kids gadgets and contraptions?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, no, because elves don't read instructions and they just
try to work to figure it out along the way,
which it extends the process and it's not overly efficient.
But that's what quality elves.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Do, right, That's why you go about at two am
instead of midnight.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Exactly exactly what was the one when you got done
with it, when your kids were younger, or you finally
put it together and you say, I immediately regret this decision.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh wow, probably, And this was such a short phase
and it only lasted for one one holiday season. It
was a very allowed brit dollhouse.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
That's what we had too and nightmare.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, and by the look of it, like, okay, so
I'll give you, I'll give you the equivalent. Have you
ever actually bought a grill and put it together? H No? Okay,
So I'm just gonna tell you right now, if you
ever have to go to loads or home deboat somewhere,
and you're gonna buy a grill and they offer to
set it up. I don't care if they charge you
one thousand dollars pay it. It is the most miserable experience.
(01:29):
You have no idea how many little parts go in
to setting up an outdoor grillth So that was kind
of the equivalent to this dollhouse. And it was just
too many little small parts. And whether it was wood dowls,
or pegs or glue or your allan wrench, like everything
is at Ikea, you know that type of deal. That
(01:51):
that was Probably that was rough for me, dude, I
don't know about you.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
We had a dollhouse situation a few years ago and
it was actually a gift from my brother, and so
this was assembled post Christmas, which you didn't have to
stay up, yeah, assembling it before as a gift from
you know who. But we had to assemble this thing afterwards,
and I probably cursed him a dozen times. Really, this
(02:17):
is the thing. It took forever. And then you got
to slide these boards in and again the Alan wrench,
and you know how it is, right if you do
one start or the other, it doesn't work. And then
you're reading the instructions, but the instructions don't have words.
It's pictures. And whoever put the picture together did it
in Microsoft Paint, Yeah, ninety five. So you're trying to
(02:39):
figure out, wait, does that go here? Does that go here?
Absolute nightmare. A couple of years ago, there was a
bike that I had to put together. Oh, never do
that again.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
See I've never had an issue with bike. Bikes were
actually pretty easy. But I'll tell you the best. Everything
that comes for instruction with instructions should emulate and replicate
the Lego brand. Have you ever noticed that Legos have
no words. It's a universal instruction booklet and anybody can
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do it of any age if you have eyes.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, that's what makes Lego Lego. It also reminds me
of one of the all time great Internet prank calls
is somebody pretending to be a Lego guy applying for
a job at a construction company and they ask him
how he does with tools, and he says, well, I
don't really have hands. They're more like claws, and well,
how do you use tools? You wouldn't believe it, but
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everything fits perfectly into these claws.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
True, and it's so true. Man, telling you all construction
of any type of toy furniture. What have you needs
to model what Lego has clearly ironed out and perfected.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Everything is awesome and they understand. Let's talk about college
football playoff first round where everything was not awesome if
you were looking for a competitive game. But what was
probably worse were the takes that came in the aftermath.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Ladies and gentlemen. The Weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Close to the episode.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Caught bite feeling touchdown Carolina Weekend Warriors.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Round one of the college football playoffs in the books,
the twelve team format. And this is just where we
are in society. We rail on society all the time
on this podcast. But should have been this team? Why
wasn't it this team? Oh they're not good, they're overrated.
As the kids say, they're mid whatever that means. App
(04:47):
stop stop. You were at Penn State. I watched every
single game. The white out scene in Happy Valley was electric.
The seque South Bend was electric. I just saw Dave
Pass yesterday. He was doing the Cardinals game when they
were in town for the Panthers. He did the Texas
game against Clemson in Austin. He said, of all the
(05:10):
games he had done at DKR. He had never seen
the stadium that raucus and that rocking, and you felt it.
And then obviously you've got Ohio State against Tennessee Marquee primetime.
That place was rocking. So can we just peel back
and go to the obvious here? Penn State, Notre Dame, Texas,
Ohio State. These are four iconic, iconic college football venues
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playing a home game with the most elevated stakes we've
seen for those games outside of a rivalry.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Right, So you.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Have that home field advantage, folks, is real. It is real,
and it played out and it's going to matter, especially
in the first round of this college football playoff. I
read it more than anything as these teams have an
incredible home field advantage and they took advantage of it.
You want to say, well, maybe there was a team, Hey,
well maybe ONLYSS gets blown out. Maybe Alabama loses by
(06:03):
three touchdowns too. The point is, I will argue, and
we've been to so many of these great locations. Yeah,
peak Apex. Home field advantage in college football is better
than any home field advantage in any North American sport,
professional or amateur. And you saw four of the most
(06:23):
iconic venues, four of the greatest home field advantages into
sport getting to host a playoff game and the road
team got destroyed. That's not a shocker, not a shocker
at all.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And three out of those four iconic venues also had
bad weather added to the mix, right, which made it
all the more fun. Amount Standing there on the sideline,
it's twenty two degrees and Happy Valley, it's about ten
with the wind chill. And you have half of the
student body, which is arguably the greatest student section in
all of college football, wearing T shirts. Right, and you
(07:00):
have a wide out on a new game you don't
usually have that usually have the wide out in the
primetime game. But I want to address something you've touched
on here because you know every like, for example, the
SEC is undefeated in hypothetical games right always and they
always will be right well, their.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Prob and I give Greg Shichi the credit here. Their
propaganda machine is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's unbelievable. Yeah, And nobody has a crystal ball. Nobody
knows who's going to match up with who, and who's
going to go out and lay an egg, and who's
going to go out and play really really well in
really in three of the four games. And I'm not
taking anything away from Notre Dame. I'm not taking anyth
away from Penn Sal I'm not taking anything away from
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from Ohio State. But the other team in those contests
also found enormous ways to lose the game or to
be out of the game early, turning the ball over,
free snap penalties, kicking game snap foods. I mean, you're
going to remind people who've got very short memories. We
are now in the expanded twelve team playoff tournament. What
(08:06):
did people think was going to happen? Because if you
look at the four team college football playoff, let's go
back to twenty fifteen semifinal game of the Rose Bowl,
complete annihilation of Florida State fifty nine to twenty. Okay,
you look at the championship game that year, Ohio State
destroys Oregon forty two to twenty. I can go up
(08:28):
and down. Twenty sixteen, Alabama beats Michigan State thirty eight
to nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Okay, Alabama Washington, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Washington Clemson beats Oklahoma thirty seven to seventeen. In the
twenty sixteen hoot, how about the playoff semi final in
twenty eighteen Alabama twenty four, Clemson six.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
What about TCU Georgia, which was a championship game.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Sixty five to seven, right there? How about here, here's
another one for you. How about twenty twenty two Alabama
twenty seven Cincinnati six, and that score wasn't even that close.
Georgia thirty four, Michigan eleven. And then Georgia destroys Alabama
in the National Championship game. The point is here, these
were supposed to be the four best teams, meaning that
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we didn't even get into eight, nine, eleven, twelve, whatever
you want to talk about, and you still have vast
majority of these games were complete in other blocks. Really,
the only one in the semi final that wasn't was
Georgia and Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl, the great fifty
four to forty eight two overtime game in twenty eighteen.
Right but the rest of the semi final games, for
(09:35):
the most part, were a complete annihilation to what did
anybody think when you added lesser quality teams to play
higher ranked teams? What did you think was going to happen?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And those higher ranked teams again are at home, and
what happens when you're a roads team and you get
rattled in a tough environment. You have pre snap penalties,
you have special teams miscues, you turn it over, you
have self inflicted wounds. That's the beauty of college football,
and that's the beauty of home field advantage. This idea
(10:05):
that oh, we are better, we should be in. Why
play the games? I always come back. Why play the games?
If you think you should be in, then why even
go through the exercise of a regular season. You're essentially saying,
let's just pick the teams at the beginning of the year.
Let's go off the preseason top twenty five people thought
were good, we should be here. We put them in.
(10:28):
And let's not forget the first PCs Championship game was
in the late nineties. Okay, so in the span of
a little more than a quarter century, we've gone from
a two team playoff if you want to call it that,
ye be four to twelve. When you look at the
vast history of college football, that's a lot of progress
(10:49):
because that's what they did before. Before they just named
a national championship a national champion and the game that
you had SMU and Penn State Street there you go
back forty years Penn State was awarded the national championship.
SEMU was an undefeated team, they had one tie, and
they had an incredible team. That was the heyday of
(11:11):
the Pony Express. The folks at SMU felt that team
they had in eighty four or eighty two, whatever it was.
I think it was eighty two a national championship should
have had the chance to play for a national championship.
They never got that chance, never got that chance. And again,
you have a lot of the people now right, the
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under thirty crowd that was born yesterday, who has no
concept and no context for the past. I'm not gunning
on gen z Well. I am a little bit no producer.
Matt Hogan. We like Matt Hogan. But again, do you
remember how broken this thing used to be?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh? Absolutely you, how arbit furry?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
This used to be the Auburn team that Tommy tubberhol
coach two thousand and four, Cadillac Williams all right, Jason Campbell,
they went undefeated. Think about this, An undefeated SEC team
finished third, didn't get to play in a national championship,
didn't get to play for a national championship. Could you
imagine that today, Oh deed an SEC team.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And we're hearing crying from three loss SEC teams.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Right stop.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
That's the thing, like, listen and I and I understand
that that Lane Kiffen loves social media, he loves to patrol,
he loves me. But dude, don't lose to four and
eight Kentucky at home. You have no defense of that.
You don't get to go out and say, oh, our
schedule was so okay, Well, your schedule is so tough.
That wasn't one of them. That was not one of them, right,
(12:41):
And then you don't lose at Florida on the road either. Now, Florida,
I think turned into a pretty darn good football team
finished State and bobbit, is that your game? Did you
have Florida tu Wayne?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I had Florida Tulaane? But again, yeah, Florida still was
playing a true freshman quarterback and yeah, true freshman, you're
old lies. I'm sorry, that's the game you gotta win.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Absolute and so at the end of the day, and
I don't know if this will change going forward, but
it does seem to me like, at least right now,
in the infancy of all of this, if you want
to be considered. You can't lose more than two. If
you lose more than two, you're on the outside looking in,
likely in probably most years. Right, But here's the deal.
(13:21):
Nobody can sit there and say, oh, well, you know
the ACC didn't belong or the Big ten didn't belong. Well,
according to this past weekend, half the teams didn't belong nobody.
So so either either nobody belonged or they belonged. And
if you don't like that, then we need to come
up with more of a concrete process that's less subjective
and force the committee to count certain quote unquote things.
(13:44):
And you said this a couple of weeks ago on
this podcast I believe it was you, and you said,
we were talking about the rankings, and you know how
many teams did you play that were ranked? The committee
makes the rankings. Yeah, right, And and people forget, like
for SMU, people don't realize is that when they beat
Pitt in Louisville, both of them were in the top twenty.
(14:04):
All right, they were ranked right at that time. Okay,
well then they're not ranked. And now you say they
didn't beat any ranked teams, Well, you know, and the committee,
you know, they you're sitting there. They keep a UNLV
in the top twenty five, whose Syracuse beat and don't
have Syracuse in the top twenty five. You have a
team like Illinois or Missouri in the top twenty five,
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but you don't have nine and three Duke right in
the top twenty five. So like they're making the rankings
and determining, Okay, well, this is team's ranked, this team
not ranked. It's just it's so flawed right now. But
it doesn't take away from the fact that the teams
that got in have magical college football season.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh they did, and they were Indiana SMU. I mean, hey, listen,
what is Indiana had on the football front? Ever? Veryver?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Right? You gotta go back to siwery just to be competitive.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
SMU is one of the great redemption songs in the
sport of college football. From how or how blue blood
power Conference member to exile and now return?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, yeah, exactly right. And it's great. It was a
great story and everybody loved it, and we all should
have loved it, the Arizona State story. We should all
love that. They deserved it. They earned it. I think
they just drew the worst draw in in the quarterfinal.
But that's neither here nor there. And by the way,
I was saying this to somebody this weekend off of
the Penn State at some U game. And can you
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imagine if the quarterfinals were on campus? Imagine imagine Penn
State going to Boise. Yeah, whoa can you imagine what
would happen to the city of Boise if that happened.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I've never been to Boys'd never done a game out
there on the blue terf. Oh it's awesome, but I
can only imagine the scene, especially you gets some snow.
I mean, shoot, Ohio State going to Oregon would be
a whole lot of fun. Again, yeah sure, Arizona State,
I mean mill Avenue would be you know what show?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Oh my goodness, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So listen, and I actually think the four teams at
all won in the first round. I think they all
have a real chance to win in the quarterfinals. I've
got the Texas Arizona State Peach Bowl game on radio
on the first so looking forward to that, looking forward
to Scataboo. We will save the conversation for the quarterfinals
for next week's show because we still got time before
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the lead up to those games. Next week. But you
got the perfect shirt on. So this makes for a
great segue. Tell people the shirt that you're wearing. This
is tremendous.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Does the nil House?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Where did you get that thing?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So it's a brand. Do you remember the sports science
guy John Brancis, Oh yeah, So he and a guy
by name of Rob Vaka have a basically a digital platform.
We're you know, they're doing shows and they're they're they're
highlighting different types of sports and things of that nature.
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And they have this show called The nil House talking
about the pit balls and the ups and the downs
and the problems and the positives too of where we
are right now. And name him a Delightness and is
what they named their show. So they sent me a shirt.
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I think the college football world is coming to a
reckoning because once you take out the bowl games that
have postseason playoff implications, the Round one game, Quarters, the Semis,
the eventual championship, you have to find a way to
fix ball season. It is getting to the point of absurdity.
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I've got the Liberty Bawl on Friday, Texas Tech in Arkansas.
I think I looked last night. Arkansas has its starting
quarterback playing, but their top receiver Armstrong, who's the top
receiver in the SEC.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
He's out.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Seven top eight pass catchers out for some reason, in
whether it's opt out, transfer, portal, injury, what have you.
Texas Tech. You know it's starting quarterback underwent shoulder surgery,
but they're missing a ton of guys. You know, their
top receiver, top running back may not play. They might
be down three.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh, lignemen.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You just go across the board and you're going, I'm
watching and looking at these depth charts and it's freshman,
true freshmen, guys who never play.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
It feels like.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
A preseason game, and we're here, Okay, how do we
sell this thing? How do we package this thing to
make it entertaining for our audience? It can get tough.
There has to be a better way here which serves everybody,
because what is happening right now. I just don't think
this is sustainable. And at some point, I'm a big
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believer in the free market. The market corrects itself, and
when the market corrects itself, that again can be a
day of reckoning in college football. You want to be
ahead of that to come to a point where people
get so turned off and so put off. Did you
see the story with Micah Hudson that wide receiver?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Oh yeah, the wide receiver from teach Yeah, five star kid? Right?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
How many catches did he have last year? Ten eight
the most?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah? And did you see what the quote unquote supposed
details are of his next deal? Right?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
He's got his own driver. Yeah, his family gets cars.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Based on what you haven't performed an ounce. It's unbelievable, dude.
And I don't know if it's all real or if
it's fabricated or it's been thrown out there regardless if
it's even being discussed, like this isn't Jeremiah Smith, dude, right,
this isn't Ryan Williams is a bullfrog. Yeah, dude, it's
(19:44):
so funny you say that because I have so. I
had the first bull game of the year with the
Sloops Veterans Bowl with Western Michigan and South Alabama. And
you know, the South Alabama coach, Major apple White, he
told his kids, if you want to play, but you're
going to go in the transferport, I'll let you play
as long as you make all meetings, make all practices.
And that's what they did. The Western Michigan coach took
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the exact opposite approach, and he said, hey, if you're out,
you're out right. Neither of the two teams had a
ton of opt outs and things of that nature, so
that was good. Then I've got the Rate Bowl on
the twenty sixth in Phoenix with Kansas State and Rutgers,
and we are still waiting to talk with Rutgers as
of today, which is Monday, the twenty third, And we
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don't know if Kyle Mnung, guy the running back at Rutgers,
we still don't know if he's playing. We think he's practicing,
we think he's in meetings. Nobody's talking, nobody's given it
dipping their hat in any way, shape or form. Fortunately,
Rutgers doesn't have many other opt outs. Kansas State DJ
Giddens their best running back, he's out right. Everybody else
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for Kansas State seems to be playing. But the point
you make is a great one because all of the
work that's being put in by these teams in the
fifteen week of blood and guts and years, and you've
earned the right to go to a bowl game, and
then the team that you take to the bowl game
isn't the team that got you there. That sucks. It
sucks for everybody. It sucks for the viewer, it sucks
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for the broadcasters, it sucks for the coaching staff, and
it really sucks for the players that do want to
be there. Like you think, you think sixty sixty players
at Marshall who didn't jump in the portal want to
play in a bowl game. Absolutely they do, and now
they don't get to right. And I'll and I've said
from the get going all of this, and I'll get
off my soapbox. The moment we started paying players, you
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have obligations to fulfill. Now that means you have to.
If you have a game that you are eligible for,
you play in it. Period.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
If you run into a spot now where again money
has infiltrated the college game and there's no turning back
from that one, we know, right, so it's going to
be there. The part that I actually do feel for
the players is I'm not sure that they know where
this is going, because shoot, if we're in their shoes
at eighteen to twenty two, we're dumb and stupid too,
(22:04):
And I mean that in a naive way. You see
the dollars, you see the money, and somebody's paying you,
and again you may not have had access to that
kind of money before. It's easy to get seduced by it.
Totally get all that. The point is, the more the
players make this a business, they have to worry now
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going forward about the people who do run this like
a business and have run this like a business, really
making it like a business for the players, because that's
where you're gonna have guys who may have had an
opportunity to go to college get an education because of
their ability to play sports, their ability to play football,
and you get some bad advice. You think there's greener
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pastors on the other side. Yeah, go chase some dollars,
and now you get left out. Now you don't even
have the degree. That happens to a lot of people.
What doesn't get talked about and needs to get talked
about more. All the guys that go in the portal
and disappear, he never yet and they don't land and
all of a sudden, wait a minute, I was halfway
to a degree, or I put in two years at
this school, and I could have stayed. I could have
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done this, I could have got that. I jumped into
the portal. Nobody wants me. Now, I don't have a
spot to land. And guess what's happening. You're gonna see
rosters go down to one hundred and five players. Yep,
there's gonna be a lot of extra dead weight that
is out there. And again people are giving these kids
all sorts of bad advice. There's a kid on Arkansas.
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I was looking at his story. His parents got an
agent when he was at Florida State, Rodney Hill. He
was the third string running back for a thirteen win
Florida State team last year. Parents got an agent, and
allegedly this bad agent started reaching out to other teams,
pretending to be Rodney Hill his client, saying he was
(23:51):
looking for and out. But Florence State got wind of this,
and so Rodney Hill goes on the record and says, yeah,
he was a bad agent. He was doing this without
my permission. My parents hired him. We didn't know what
we were getting into. And when the coaches found out
and the head coach found out, I couldn't go back
to Florida State, right. So he transfers to FAM. You
commits to FAM you, they fire their coach or they
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change their coach, whatever it was. Then he commits to
Miami D commits, goes back to fam you for a
sub not even a semester, for a month, and then
goes into the portal again and ends up at Arkansas.
So leaves Florida State, commits to FAM you, de commits,
commits to Miami D commits, commits to fam you, and
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roles in classes, hits the transfer portal and ends up
at Arkansas in about the span of seven months.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
It's it's it's complete insanity. It's completely out of control.
And I think the saddest part about all of it,
and you touched on this, is there's not enough scholarships,
you get bad advice, and what we're going to end
up having our players without a degree, not a dime
to their name, and not get drafted because they all
think they're going to the NFL and they all think
(25:05):
this is just going to spill over into real life.
They're not living real life right now. Wait will some
of these guys wait till somebody declares her for the NFL,
doesn't get drafted. He blew all of his nil money.
Now he has no degree. He's got to go out
and try to find a job for thirty thousand dollars
a year. You think he's going to think life's fare.
That's life, buddy, because that's exactly what you just got
yourself into.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And we'll end on this. Wait till he finds out
that the fact that he played at four schools in
five years. NFL teams don't really like that.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah right, Yeah, they're going to start asking why what's
going on with this kid? But did you not like
to compete? Why what's he doing? Who is behind this kid?
Who's pull in the string? But all kinds of things
start getting asked. It would not have been asked otherwise.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Oh, you opted out of a bowl game. Well, we
want guys who like to play football, all of them.
You hit the transfer portal on week eight. We want
guys that stand up for the guy next to each other.
Are you know in the locker room?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
That stuff matters.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
If you're a Day one, maybe even a day two pick. No,
most of these guys, you're a Day three pick. You're
a potential undrafted free agent. Those things they get you
crossed off the list.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
That's just real quickly, that's reality, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
All right, fun show, you got a coaches call to
get to, so we'll let you go on your way.
Big win for the Panthers. Do this again. We have
two more shows before the season, so we'll hit the
big college football preview and hopefully we got a Panthers
win again against Tampa to talk about when we do
our next show on December thirtieth. So enjoy Merry Christmas,
Happy holidays, and we'll talk next week. Brother sounds good.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, Happy holidays, one and all we get to
that part of the year where Santa Claus has to
start pulling all nighters.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Have you ever seen the assembly instructions for some of
these kids gadgets and contraptions?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, no, because elves don't read instructions and they just
try to work to figure it out along the way,
which it extends the process and it's not overly efficient.
But that's what quality elves.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Do, right, That's why you go about at two am
instead of midnight.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Exactly exactly what was the one when you got done
with it, when your kids were younger, or you finally
put it together and you say, I immediately regret this decision.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh wow, probably, And this was such a short phase
and it only lasted for one one holiday season. It
was a very allowed brit dollhouse.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
That's what we had too and nightmare.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, and by the look of it, like, okay, so
I'll give you, I'll give you the equivalent. Have you
ever actually bought a grill and put it together? H No? Okay,
So I'm just gonna tell you right now, if you
ever have to go to loads or home deboat somewhere,
and you're gonna buy a grill and they offer to
set it up. I don't care if they charge you
one thousand dollars pay it. It is the most miserable experience.
(01:29):
You have no idea how many little parts go in
to setting up an outdoor grillth So that was kind
of the equivalent to this dollhouse. And it was just
too many little small parts. And whether it was wood dowls,
or pegs or glue or your allan wrench, like everything
is at Ikea, you know that type of deal. That
(01:51):
that was Probably that was rough for me, dude, I
don't know about you.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
We had a dollhouse situation a few years ago and
it was actually a gift from my brother, and so
this was assembled post Christmas, which you didn't have to
stay up, yeah, assembling it before as a gift from
you know who. But we had to assemble this thing afterwards,
and I probably cursed him a dozen times. Really, this
(02:17):
is the thing. It took forever. And then you got
to slide these boards in and again the Alan wrench,
and you know how it is, right if you do
one start or the other, it doesn't work. And then
you're reading the instructions, but the instructions don't have words.
It's pictures. And whoever put the picture together did it
in Microsoft Paint, Yeah, ninety five. So you're trying to
(02:39):
figure out, wait, does that go here? Does that go here?
Absolute nightmare. A couple of years ago, there was a
bike that I had to put together. Oh, never do
that again.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
See I've never had an issue with bike. Bikes were
actually pretty easy. But I'll tell you the best. Everything
that comes for instruction with instructions should emulate and replicate
the Lego brand. Have you ever noticed that Legos have
no words. It's a universal instruction booklet and anybody can
(03:11):
do it of any age if you have eyes.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, that's what makes Lego Lego. It also reminds me
of one of the all time great Internet prank calls
is somebody pretending to be a Lego guy applying for
a job at a construction company and they ask him
how he does with tools, and he says, well, I
don't really have hands. They're more like claws, and well,
how do you use tools? You wouldn't believe it, but
(03:35):
everything fits perfectly into these claws.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
True, and it's so true. Man, telling you all construction
of any type of toy furniture. What have you needs
to model what Lego has clearly ironed out and perfected.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Everything is awesome and they understand. Let's talk about college
football playoff first round where everything was not awesome if
you were looking for a competitive game. But what was
probably worse were the takes that came in the aftermath.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Ladies and gentlemen. The Weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Close to the episode.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Caught bite feeling touchdown Carolina Weekend Warriors.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Round one of the college football playoffs in the books,
the twelve team format. And this is just where we
are in society. We rail on society all the time
on this podcast. But should have been this team? Why
wasn't it this team? Oh they're not good, they're overrated.
As the kids say, they're mid whatever that means. App
(04:47):
stop stop. You were at Penn State. I watched every
single game. The white out scene in Happy Valley was electric.
The seque South Bend was electric. I just saw Dave
Pass yesterday. He was doing the Cardinals game when they
were in town for the Panthers. He did the Texas
game against Clemson in Austin. He said, of all the
(05:10):
games he had done at DKR. He had never seen
the stadium that raucus and that rocking, and you felt it.
And then obviously you've got Ohio State against Tennessee Marquee primetime.
That place was rocking. So can we just peel back
and go to the obvious here? Penn State, Notre Dame, Texas,
Ohio State. These are four iconic, iconic college football venues
(05:33):
playing a home game with the most elevated stakes we've
seen for those games outside of a rivalry.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Right, So you.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Have that home field advantage, folks, is real. It is real,
and it played out and it's going to matter, especially
in the first round of this college football playoff. I
read it more than anything as these teams have an
incredible home field advantage and they took advantage of it.
You want to say, well, maybe there was a team, Hey,
well maybe ONLYSS gets blown out. Maybe Alabama loses by
(06:03):
three touchdowns too. The point is, I will argue, and
we've been to so many of these great locations. Yeah,
peak Apex. Home field advantage in college football is better
than any home field advantage in any North American sport,
professional or amateur. And you saw four of the most
(06:23):
iconic venues, four of the greatest home field advantages into
sport getting to host a playoff game and the road
team got destroyed. That's not a shocker, not a shocker
at all.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And three out of those four iconic venues also had
bad weather added to the mix, right, which made it
all the more fun. Amount Standing there on the sideline,
it's twenty two degrees and Happy Valley, it's about ten
with the wind chill. And you have half of the
student body, which is arguably the greatest student section in
all of college football, wearing T shirts. Right, and you
(07:00):
have a wide out on a new game you don't
usually have that usually have the wide out in the
primetime game. But I want to address something you've touched
on here because you know every like, for example, the
SEC is undefeated in hypothetical games right always and they
always will be right well, their.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Prob and I give Greg Shichi the credit here. Their
propaganda machine is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's unbelievable. Yeah, And nobody has a crystal ball. Nobody
knows who's going to match up with who, and who's
going to go out and lay an egg, and who's
going to go out and play really really well in
really in three of the four games. And I'm not
taking anything away from Notre Dame. I'm not taking anyth
away from Penn Sal I'm not taking anything away from
(07:45):
from Ohio State. But the other team in those contests
also found enormous ways to lose the game or to
be out of the game early, turning the ball over,
free snap penalties, kicking game snap foods. I mean, you're
going to remind people who've got very short memories. We
are now in the expanded twelve team playoff tournament. What
(08:06):
did people think was going to happen? Because if you
look at the four team college football playoff, let's go
back to twenty fifteen semifinal game of the Rose Bowl,
complete annihilation of Florida State fifty nine to twenty. Okay,
you look at the championship game that year, Ohio State
destroys Oregon forty two to twenty. I can go up
(08:28):
and down. Twenty sixteen, Alabama beats Michigan State thirty eight
to nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Okay, Alabama Washington, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Washington Clemson beats Oklahoma thirty seven to seventeen. In the
twenty sixteen hoot, how about the playoff semi final in
twenty eighteen Alabama twenty four, Clemson six.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
What about TCU Georgia, which was a championship game.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Sixty five to seven, right there? How about here, here's
another one for you. How about twenty twenty two Alabama
twenty seven Cincinnati six, and that score wasn't even that close.
Georgia thirty four, Michigan eleven. And then Georgia destroys Alabama
in the National Championship game. The point is here, these
were supposed to be the four best teams, meaning that
(09:12):
we didn't even get into eight, nine, eleven, twelve, whatever
you want to talk about, and you still have vast
majority of these games were complete in other blocks. Really,
the only one in the semi final that wasn't was
Georgia and Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl, the great fifty
four to forty eight two overtime game in twenty eighteen.
Right but the rest of the semi final games, for
(09:35):
the most part, were a complete annihilation to what did
anybody think when you added lesser quality teams to play
higher ranked teams? What did you think was going to happen?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And those higher ranked teams again are at home, and
what happens when you're a roads team and you get
rattled in a tough environment. You have pre snap penalties,
you have special teams miscues, you turn it over, you
have self inflicted wounds. That's the beauty of college football,
and that's the beauty of home field advantage. This idea
(10:05):
that oh, we are better, we should be in. Why
play the games? I always come back. Why play the games?
If you think you should be in, then why even
go through the exercise of a regular season. You're essentially saying,
let's just pick the teams at the beginning of the year.
Let's go off the preseason top twenty five people thought
were good, we should be here. We put them in.
(10:28):
And let's not forget the first PCs Championship game was
in the late nineties. Okay, so in the span of
a little more than a quarter century, we've gone from
a two team playoff if you want to call it that,
ye be four to twelve. When you look at the
vast history of college football, that's a lot of progress
(10:49):
because that's what they did before. Before they just named
a national championship a national champion and the game that
you had SMU and Penn State Street there you go
back forty years Penn State was awarded the national championship.
SEMU was an undefeated team, they had one tie, and
they had an incredible team. That was the heyday of
(11:11):
the Pony Express. The folks at SMU felt that team
they had in eighty four or eighty two, whatever it was.
I think it was eighty two a national championship should
have had the chance to play for a national championship.
They never got that chance, never got that chance. And again,
you have a lot of the people now right, the
(11:32):
under thirty crowd that was born yesterday, who has no
concept and no context for the past. I'm not gunning
on gen z Well. I am a little bit no producer.
Matt Hogan. We like Matt Hogan. But again, do you
remember how broken this thing used to be?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh? Absolutely you, how arbit furry?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
This used to be the Auburn team that Tommy tubberhol
coach two thousand and four, Cadillac Williams all right, Jason Campbell,
they went undefeated. Think about this, An undefeated SEC team
finished third, didn't get to play in a national championship,
didn't get to play for a national championship. Could you
imagine that today, Oh deed an SEC team.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And we're hearing crying from three loss SEC teams.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Right stop.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
That's the thing, like, listen and I and I understand
that that Lane Kiffen loves social media, he loves to patrol,
he loves me. But dude, don't lose to four and
eight Kentucky at home. You have no defense of that.
You don't get to go out and say, oh, our
schedule was so okay, Well, your schedule is so tough.
That wasn't one of them. That was not one of them, right,
(12:41):
And then you don't lose at Florida on the road either. Now, Florida,
I think turned into a pretty darn good football team
finished State and bobbit, is that your game? Did you
have Florida tu Wayne?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I had Florida Tulaane? But again, yeah, Florida still was
playing a true freshman quarterback and yeah, true freshman, you're
old lies. I'm sorry, that's the game you gotta win.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Absolute and so at the end of the day, and
I don't know if this will change going forward, but
it does seem to me like, at least right now,
in the infancy of all of this, if you want
to be considered. You can't lose more than two. If
you lose more than two, you're on the outside looking in,
likely in probably most years. Right, But here's the deal.
(13:21):
Nobody can sit there and say, oh, well, you know
the ACC didn't belong or the Big ten didn't belong. Well,
according to this past weekend, half the teams didn't belong nobody.
So so either either nobody belonged or they belonged. And
if you don't like that, then we need to come
up with more of a concrete process that's less subjective
and force the committee to count certain quote unquote things.
(13:44):
And you said this a couple of weeks ago on
this podcast I believe it was you, and you said,
we were talking about the rankings, and you know how
many teams did you play that were ranked? The committee
makes the rankings. Yeah, right, And and people forget, like
for SMU, people don't realize is that when they beat
Pitt in Louisville, both of them were in the top twenty.
(14:04):
All right, they were ranked right at that time. Okay,
well then they're not ranked. And now you say they
didn't beat any ranked teams, Well, you know, and the committee,
you know, they you're sitting there. They keep a UNLV
in the top twenty five, whose Syracuse beat and don't
have Syracuse in the top twenty five. You have a
team like Illinois or Missouri in the top twenty five,
(14:25):
but you don't have nine and three Duke right in
the top twenty five. So like they're making the rankings
and determining, Okay, well, this is team's ranked, this team
not ranked. It's just it's so flawed right now. But
it doesn't take away from the fact that the teams
that got in have magical college football season.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh they did, and they were Indiana SMU. I mean, hey, listen,
what is Indiana had on the football front? Ever? Veryver?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Right? You gotta go back to siwery just to be competitive.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
SMU is one of the great redemption songs in the
sport of college football. From how or how blue blood
power Conference member to exile and now return?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, yeah, exactly right. And it's great. It was a
great story and everybody loved it, and we all should
have loved it, the Arizona State story. We should all
love that. They deserved it. They earned it. I think
they just drew the worst draw in in the quarterfinal.
But that's neither here nor there. And by the way,
I was saying this to somebody this weekend off of
the Penn State at some U game. And can you
(15:26):
imagine if the quarterfinals were on campus? Imagine imagine Penn
State going to Boise. Yeah, whoa can you imagine what
would happen to the city of Boise if that happened.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I've never been to Boys'd never done a game out
there on the blue terf. Oh it's awesome, but I
can only imagine the scene, especially you gets some snow.
I mean, shoot, Ohio State going to Oregon would be
a whole lot of fun. Again, yeah sure, Arizona State,
I mean mill Avenue would be you know what show?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Oh my goodness, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So listen, and I actually think the four teams at
all won in the first round. I think they all
have a real chance to win in the quarterfinals. I've
got the Texas Arizona State Peach Bowl game on radio
on the first so looking forward to that, looking forward
to Scataboo. We will save the conversation for the quarterfinals
for next week's show because we still got time before
(16:23):
the lead up to those games. Next week. But you
got the perfect shirt on. So this makes for a
great segue. Tell people the shirt that you're wearing. This
is tremendous.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Does the nil House?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Where did you get that thing?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
So it's a brand. Do you remember the sports science
guy John Brancis, Oh yeah, So he and a guy
by name of Rob Vaka have a basically a digital platform.
We're you know, they're doing shows and they're they're they're
highlighting different types of sports and things of that nature.
(17:00):
And they have this show called The nil House talking
about the pit balls and the ups and the downs
and the problems and the positives too of where we
are right now. And name him a Delightness and is
what they named their show. So they sent me a shirt.
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I think the college football world is coming to a
reckoning because once you take out the bowl games that
have postseason playoff implications, the Round one game, Quarters, the Semis,
the eventual championship, you have to find a way to
fix ball season. It is getting to the point of absurdity.
(17:41):
I've got the Liberty Bawl on Friday, Texas Tech in Arkansas.
I think I looked last night. Arkansas has its starting
quarterback playing, but their top receiver Armstrong, who's the top
receiver in the SEC.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
He's out.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Seven top eight pass catchers out for some reason, in
whether it's opt out, transfer, portal, injury, what have you.
Texas Tech. You know it's starting quarterback underwent shoulder surgery,
but they're missing a ton of guys. You know, their
top receiver, top running back may not play. They might
be down three.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh, lignemen.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You just go across the board and you're going, I'm
watching and looking at these depth charts and it's freshman,
true freshmen, guys who never play.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
It feels like.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
A preseason game, and we're here, Okay, how do we
sell this thing? How do we package this thing to
make it entertaining for our audience? It can get tough.
There has to be a better way here which serves everybody,
because what is happening right now. I just don't think
this is sustainable. And at some point, I'm a big
(18:47):
believer in the free market. The market corrects itself, and
when the market corrects itself, that again can be a
day of reckoning in college football. You want to be
ahead of that to come to a point where people
get so turned off and so put off. Did you
see the story with Micah Hudson that wide receiver?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Oh yeah, the wide receiver from teach Yeah, five star kid? Right?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
How many catches did he have last year? Ten eight
the most?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah? And did you see what the quote unquote supposed
details are of his next deal? Right?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
He's got his own driver. Yeah, his family gets cars.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Based on what you haven't performed an ounce. It's unbelievable, dude.
And I don't know if it's all real or if
it's fabricated or it's been thrown out there regardless if
it's even being discussed, like this isn't Jeremiah Smith, dude, right,
this isn't Ryan Williams is a bullfrog. Yeah, dude, it's
(19:44):
so funny you say that because I have so. I
had the first bull game of the year with the
Sloops Veterans Bowl with Western Michigan and South Alabama. And
you know, the South Alabama coach, Major apple White, he
told his kids, if you want to play, but you're
going to go in the transferport, I'll let you play
as long as you make all meetings, make all practices.
And that's what they did. The Western Michigan coach took
(20:04):
the exact opposite approach, and he said, hey, if you're out,
you're out right. Neither of the two teams had a
ton of opt outs and things of that nature, so
that was good. Then I've got the Rate Bowl on
the twenty sixth in Phoenix with Kansas State and Rutgers,
and we are still waiting to talk with Rutgers as
of today, which is Monday, the twenty third, And we
(20:26):
don't know if Kyle Mnung, guy the running back at Rutgers,
we still don't know if he's playing. We think he's practicing,
we think he's in meetings. Nobody's talking, nobody's given it
dipping their hat in any way, shape or form. Fortunately,
Rutgers doesn't have many other opt outs. Kansas State DJ
Giddens their best running back, he's out right. Everybody else
(20:49):
for Kansas State seems to be playing. But the point
you make is a great one because all of the
work that's being put in by these teams in the
fifteen week of blood and guts and years, and you've
earned the right to go to a bowl game, and
then the team that you take to the bowl game
isn't the team that got you there. That sucks. It
sucks for everybody. It sucks for the viewer, it sucks
(21:10):
for the broadcasters, it sucks for the coaching staff, and
it really sucks for the players that do want to
be there. Like you think, you think sixty sixty players
at Marshall who didn't jump in the portal want to
play in a bowl game. Absolutely they do, and now
they don't get to right. And I'll and I've said
from the get going all of this, and I'll get
off my soapbox. The moment we started paying players, you
(21:31):
have obligations to fulfill. Now that means you have to.
If you have a game that you are eligible for,
you play in it. Period.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
If you run into a spot now where again money
has infiltrated the college game and there's no turning back
from that one, we know, right, so it's going to
be there. The part that I actually do feel for
the players is I'm not sure that they know where
this is going, because shoot, if we're in their shoes
at eighteen to twenty two, we're dumb and stupid too,
(22:04):
And I mean that in a naive way. You see
the dollars, you see the money, and somebody's paying you,
and again you may not have had access to that
kind of money before. It's easy to get seduced by it.
Totally get all that. The point is, the more the
players make this a business, they have to worry now
(22:25):
going forward about the people who do run this like
a business and have run this like a business, really
making it like a business for the players, because that's
where you're gonna have guys who may have had an
opportunity to go to college get an education because of
their ability to play sports, their ability to play football,
and you get some bad advice. You think there's greener
(22:46):
pastors on the other side. Yeah, go chase some dollars,
and now you get left out. Now you don't even
have the degree. That happens to a lot of people.
What doesn't get talked about and needs to get talked
about more. All the guys that go in the portal
and disappear, he never yet and they don't land and
all of a sudden, wait a minute, I was halfway
to a degree, or I put in two years at
this school, and I could have stayed. I could have
(23:08):
done this, I could have got that. I jumped into
the portal. Nobody wants me. Now, I don't have a
spot to land. And guess what's happening. You're gonna see
rosters go down to one hundred and five players. Yep,
there's gonna be a lot of extra dead weight that
is out there. And again people are giving these kids
all sorts of bad advice. There's a kid on Arkansas.
(23:30):
I was looking at his story. His parents got an
agent when he was at Florida State, Rodney Hill. He
was the third string running back for a thirteen win
Florida State team last year. Parents got an agent, and
allegedly this bad agent started reaching out to other teams,
pretending to be Rodney Hill his client, saying he was
(23:51):
looking for and out. But Florence State got wind of this,
and so Rodney Hill goes on the record and says, yeah,
he was a bad agent. He was doing this without
my permission. My parents hired him. We didn't know what
we were getting into. And when the coaches found out
and the head coach found out, I couldn't go back
to Florida State, right. So he transfers to FAM. You
commits to FAM you, they fire their coach or they
(24:14):
change their coach, whatever it was. Then he commits to
Miami D commits, goes back to fam you for a
sub not even a semester, for a month, and then
goes into the portal again and ends up at Arkansas.
So leaves Florida State, commits to FAM you, de commits,
commits to Miami D commits, commits to fam you, and
(24:35):
roles in classes, hits the transfer portal and ends up
at Arkansas in about the span of seven months.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
It's it's it's complete insanity. It's completely out of control.
And I think the saddest part about all of it,
and you touched on this, is there's not enough scholarships,
you get bad advice, and what we're going to end
up having our players without a degree, not a dime
to their name, and not get drafted because they all
think they're going to the NFL and they all think
(25:05):
this is just going to spill over into real life.
They're not living real life right now. Wait will some
of these guys wait till somebody declares her for the NFL,
doesn't get drafted. He blew all of his nil money.
Now he has no degree. He's got to go out
and try to find a job for thirty thousand dollars
a year. You think he's going to think life's fare.
That's life, buddy, because that's exactly what you just got
yourself into.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And we'll end on this. Wait till he finds out
that the fact that he played at four schools in
five years. NFL teams don't really like that.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah right, Yeah, they're going to start asking why what's
going on with this kid? But did you not like
to compete? Why what's he doing? Who is behind this kid?
Who's pull in the string? But all kinds of things
start getting asked. It would not have been asked otherwise.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Oh, you opted out of a bowl game. Well, we
want guys who like to play football, all of them.
You hit the transfer portal on week eight. We want
guys that stand up for the guy next to each other.
Are you know in the locker room?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
That stuff matters.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
If you're a Day one, maybe even a day two pick. No,
most of these guys, you're a Day three pick. You're
a potential undrafted free agent. Those things they get you
crossed off the list.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
That's just real quickly, that's reality, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
All right, fun show, you got a coaches call to
get to, so we'll let you go on your way.
Big win for the Panthers. Do this again. We have
two more shows before the season, so we'll hit the
big college football preview and hopefully we got a Panthers
win again against Tampa to talk about when we do
our next show on December thirtieth. So enjoy Merry Christmas,
Happy holidays, and we'll talk next week. Brother sounds good.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
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