Hey, welcome to Hootin' and Hollerin'.

Got a very special episode for you here today.

Joining us via remote, via the internet, via the magic of the internet, we have Mr.

Jermaine Funny Mane Johnson.

You may have seen him on YouTube or on Facebook during the football season.

On Sundays, you can watch his How Bama Fans Watch videos, and then his fanalist videos go out on Friday, I believe.

Nailed it.

And then, of course, you can catch them on the road.

You can catch them in Hoover on the 28th of November at the Comedy Club Stardome.

That's the night before the Iron Bowl for a show, special one.

I'm guessing Barners are invited, or is it just Bama fans?

You know, there's always going to be some Auburn fans in my show.

There's going to be some Tennessee fans, some Vanderbilt fans.

I don't know where they come from, but I appreciate the love.

I don't know where the Beatty fans come from.

Yeah, now they're coming out of the woodworks.

Now there's two of them.

And so calm down, guys.

And you can check him, get information on that show and everything else at funnymaine.com.

You can check out his merch at rundaball.com.

Mr.

Funnymane, thanks for joining us.

No, man.

Thank y'all for having me.

Sitting around the table with the brothers.

I just love those couches that y'all are on.

That takes me back.

Yeah.

The process it took to get these.

Yeah.

Lucky for you, you can't smell them either.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I've seen that brown one off I-22, so shout out to me for cleaning up the town.

You're not too far off on that.

In our hunt for these, we went to a bunch of different thrift stores and they would tell us when we were asking, like, you know, obviously they didn't have any on the floor.

And so we were like, when you ever get any that come in, will you just holler at us?

Like, here's my information call.

They're like, oh, we just throw them away.

We don't even put them on the floor anymore.

Nobody wants them.

So I'm just curious, what did you go in there and ask for?

Do you say, I want to go Al Bundy Chic?

Or what was that process?

What were you asking for?

Well, I think, hey, remember that couch we all had in the 80s?

Just the one that has a scenery on it i can't think of another couch i've ever seen that has scenery on it it's a portrait so they knew everybody's seen it right away they did the couch from roseanne yeah yeah those couches fit many descriptions between the 70s and 80s for sure so we are well the point that we're recording this one we have just wrapped up week 11 but the point that this one goes out, I guess that would be knocking on the door of 12, 13, 14, week 14, then I guess.

Is that, is that rivalry?

Is week 14?

It is.

You know what?

I can't keep up no more because I think everybody gets two bi-weeks and then you get conference realignment.

So let's just say we late in the season.

The Army-Navy thing throws me off.

They get their own week, which is fine.

God bless America.

But then we have week zero now.

Now it's every season we got a week zero.

What's the point?

Money.

That's exactly right.

And revenue.

Absolutely.

So at this point, Bama's only got one loss this year.

It was the very beginning of the year against Florida State.

How are you feeling about this Alabama team?

I'm sure your feeling now has got to be different than it was after Tallahassee.

I feel like a genius, man.

I was probably one of the only people on earth that made a video in support of Coach DeBoer.

It is aging like fine wine.

If they do win the Natty, hopefully he'll invite me to the parade like that beat writer back in 92.

too.

I feel good, man.

All I ever wanted to see from the guys was some effort.

They're showing the effort.

It's paying off.

Some of these wins are close, but to go on the road to Georgia, to a good Mizzou team, and come out with those wins, man, I'm not satisfied, but I'm pleased so far.

Yeah.

I know that they're sitting in the SEC standings.

They're sitting second by default because A&M hadn't lost anybody yet.

But nobody has beat teams in the SEC this season like Alabama has.

They've dominated.

Yeah, well, not dominating in the run game.

That's the only thing that keeps me up at night is where is a running game?

He's on the back of a chocolate strawberry milk carton right now because we are just missing.

But other than that, Ty Simpson has proven to be a good leader.

The wide receiver core has really stepped up.

The defense is making strides every week.

Again, not perfect, but we're definitely one of the top teams in the country again.

I know your motto is run the ball, but every time I think about that, I'm like, please don't because we're not good at it.

Well, you know, we got we got to keep doing it to get better at it.

I do like how they supplement the run game with, you know, short deacon, dinking and dunking passes.

So there seems to be a plan.

I've been watching the film.

I don't know what I'm watching because I never played football, but it looks like we're close to crossing the running hump.

I feel like we got a young Derrick Henry back there and old Daniel Hill.

I like Daniel Hill.

He's more of a straight down, you know, get vertical, get downhill guy.

Jam, he likes a little bit of footwork, but he's bigger.

Did y'all see the muscle this man has put on?

I'm like, damn, put it to work.

Run some people over.

I think you could do it.

It does seem like Alabama was a different team when John Miller finally got into the lineup this year.

Yeah, and I mean, I don't even know how to feel about that because I thought once he got back, he was going to be the key piece to getting the running game back on track.

But Hill has stepped up.

I think the more reps he gets, the better.

But that defensive front, man, with Yonsei Pierre and those guys, they've just –, You know, I just enjoy watching them a lot.

Yeah.

At the beginning of the year, I would have panicked watching us give up so many explosive plays.

But now, like, we're going to give up two or three a game.

That's just how offenses are ran these days.

But now it's like in the third and fourth quarter, like, we're pretty locked down.

Yeah.

Especially against immobile quarterbacks.

Yeah.

Well, I've said it.

Like, they'll give up 80 yards, but then that's it.

So, I guess I got to be.

That's all you're getting.

Yeah.

I guess I got to be content with that.

People are kicking a lot of field goals against us.

We're still missing one per game.

I'm back to where I don't watch us kick field goals.

Right, right.

I think the trick is to put your kicker in the shortest shorts possible.

Just get him in some Daisy Dukes and they don't miss.

That's the new way, apparently.

Yeah, what school was that with the kicker?

Oklahoma.

But then another school, I saw another school this past Saturday that had a kicker just as short.

I can't remember.

He was in the SEC.

see yeah do you think he's copying the oklahoma guy oh for sure it well i mean part of it is that that knee pad rule now and i guess it's just less restricting but i mean hey just what's stopping him from no pants at this point like that i know i just i i always get concerned about how how far it's gonna go you know i don't yeah i don't need to see oklahoma thongs you know you know.

There was a florida lineman or something that had some very short ones a few like early on in the season as well.

Well, it is hot down there.

Yeah, it's hot.

It's correct.

A lot of humidity.

But I think they're just seeing what works with one guy, and then they probably are like, I'm going to try that out.

And now they all just free balling it.

Yeah, they always got to push the limits on it.

Right.

Oh, you said you said having DeBoer's back.

Have you have you met DeBoer yet?

Have you talked to him at all?

I met Coach DeBoer the first week that he was on campus.

Now, it's Nick Saban, who I never met.

Yeah, I got it.

I got a picture with him, a selfie.

And after I took it, I was like, that was cool.

And three seconds later, I was like, now that was strange.

I've never had this much access to the program.

So how did that happen?

They invited me to a practice.

I think that day it was myself, Roadtide Willie, and I believe, I can't remember, one more influencer.

But they were just trying to, you know, get notable fans involved and kind of get the word out.

So it was cool.

Yeah, I believe I remember seeing that.

Yeah, I didn't know that.

That's awesome.

Oh, yeah.

Is Roadtide Willie the same as he is on video or is he just a character?

He is exactly the same.

There's no way that man could be any different than that right there.

Right.

There's no camera cut, and then there's a British accent from an actor.

He may never be as road tied with.

No, he is who he is.

And when I tell you those players love him, I probably had about four players come speak to me.

The whole team spoke to Willie, so they let him address the team and everything.

So they love some road tied Willie for sure.

I believe it.

The dude, he like blew up last year and he was doing stuff with Drewski and he's just like, Theo Vaughn knows him too or something.

He was on Theo Vaughn's podcast.

Was he?

I'm pretty sure Drewski might just carry him around places if I'm not mistaken.

What a crazy story with Theo Vaughn.

2017, I got the text message.

I was doing a show in Huntsville and the manager texts me, said, hey, one of my guys, we're going to open for you.

I said, cool.

I'm always open to anybody.

But it was Theo Vaughn.

It was really cool.

We kicked it back backstage.

Clearly things have changed because he would not be opening for me now.

But that was just a really cool experience.

That's awesome.

He's blown up too.

I can't remember when I first saw him again.

Like I grew up watching, you know, MTV and he was on Road Rules.

And then I saw him surface around like he's doing stand-up comedy.

I was like, oh, hey, that's that guy.

And then he just, I feel like he, somewhere around the COVID years, it took off for him.

When I met him again in Huntsville, I thought I had already met him.

He just looks like everybody I grew up around in Lee County.

So that probably...

Go on the videos.

If you're listening or watching right now and you're not aware, Jermaine does these weekly videos that you've been doing for like 11 years now, if I read that right.

Season 10.

This is season 10.

But you're right.

But no, you're right.

These videos, 10 years.

But before that, I was doing some other type of Bama stuff.

So yeah, 11.

Yeah, so the videos come out on Sunday, and it's basically a breakdown of how Bama fans, the title nails it, how Bama fans reacted to not only Bama's game, but in the last couple of years, you've been good about adding in reactions to the scores around the SEC, which is great.

But what always amazes me is your comment section of people that are not Bama fans, angry at you, the Bama fan, in the video title, how Bama fans watch.

It's so mad that either you're not talking about them enough or not at all, or it's just not enough love.

They want funny manes respect.

They demand it.

And I mean, it's fair.

I used to look at it like, oh, y'all need to be validated.

I'm not the guy for that.

But I think it's a fairness thing because they know I'll chop them down when they lose.

So now they want to come back and be praised when they win.

So I guess that's fairly fair.

What team is, outside of Auburn, what team is probably the most demanding of that respect if they run on a hot streak?

Oh, goodness.

Good question.

Tennessee is Tennessee for sure.

They've been at it for years.

They were the first ones that, I would say Tennessee and Georgia, but Tennessee was first.

when they knew that they were kind of getting better and back into the conversation.

Are you scared to talk about us?

And I'm like, no, I just hate y'all.

That's what it boils down to.

And then Georgia fans...

Oh, they were insufferable at one point when they knew that their time was coming and they eventually did get two natties.

They demanded to be talked about every week.

So those two fan bases for sure.

What were those DMs like after that Tennessee finally beat Alabama up at Neyland?

I imagine you just got lit up that day.

Dude, a guy sent me, cash-apped me $52.49 for, I think it was for pain and suffering or something, but that was a score to the game.

Oh, they would not let up, man.

There was no.

That is genius, though, to make sure that your smack talk gets seen.

Like to send citizen cat you're gonna get that notification you're gonna see it oh yeah yeah so they i i mean yeah it was a rough go at it and then i did a show in nashville or was it chattanooga like the following spring it was more orange than crimson in there like they were ready, yeah like you will you will see us today absolutely yeah they they their smack talking has been leagues ahead of their football program for years.

And their football program is getting better, but their smack talk is increasing as well because I thought it was fantastic when they played Ohio State.

And before that, they were taking over all the jukeboxes up there in Ohio.

And I was like, this is great.

Bit them pretty hard, but that was pretty good.

They might be like the ACC champions of trash talk, Tennessee.

They're pretty elite.

I'm not going to lie.

If I don't give Tennessee credit for anything, They're trash talk of showing up in the worst of times and Pat Summit.

They're really good at those three things for sure.

Do you have any trouble with hecklers in Tennessee knowing that you're a Bama fan?

No, I never really get hecklers at the show.

What I get is drunk people who want to participate and not let me, you know, do the work.

But it's usually always love at my show.

But they'll get excited in there.

That's good.

Yeah, that's good to hear.

Now that we've got Texas and Oklahoma, are you seeing a lot from either one of those fan bases?

Are they still kind of, you know, figuring out what is ACC and what's not?

I think more of Texas because, you know, Texas played us tough that first year in Austin with Bryce.

And then the next year they beat us at home.

So they're kind of understanding that their trash talk needs some work.

Because it's a very liberal town and school, so they don't really do like the Southern smack talk, but they're getting there.

Oklahoma, they still seem to be searching for SEC identity, but one thing they will do is claim Jalen Hurts over us.

Oh, yeah.

So that's their claim to fame right there.

We can't allow that.

Yeah, I bet they do.

They cannot, will not.

I take that to eat you up a little bit.

Nah, man.

Nah.

It's like we were the long-term relationship.

They would have bounced back one night stand.

I get it.

He still calls us.

He still wears our T-shirt to bed.

I'm sure they love to hear that in Oklahoma.

Never saw an Oklahoma fan yell, go home, Jalen.

You know what I'm saying?

They don't know what they're doing up there.

Yeah Oklahoma fans are Texas fans I feel like I've I did a good job with them I think I kind of understand them they are their own little thing but it's almost like they they they carry themselves all like like Notre Dame fans or like USC fans when they're good they they they they see themselves in elite program and it's like the conference is lucky to have them like we should be thanking them for joining us Oklahoma I'm right there with you I don't I've had a hard time trying to pin down what is a Sooner fan, especially after last year, because that was a sad effort against some of those games.

I remember that South Carolina game was like, they're going to leave.

They're not going to stay in this conference.

And they get mad, and they're like, Matt doesn't understand Oklahoma.

I don't.

I wish y'all would explain it to me.

I think they may be still kind of stuck in the Big 12, like, you know, where they're old rivals and everybody was.

But I know you don't read your comments but sometimes I read your comments and it seems like the Missouri fans feel like they kind of beefing with you what did you do to those people man.

I mean, I feel like I have repaired that bridge.

But I just, they got really mad at the, and I did overuse the joke of, like, they don't belong here.

Like, they're not Southern.

But then I went up there back in, it was like week two when they played Kansas.

And that was my first time up there in Columbia and checking it out.

And I had a great time.

There's great people.

I knew that they'd be nice people.

And you're not going to go to an ACC tailgate and not get invited, you know, to come in and eat and drink.

And everybody's going to be nice and treating you great.

But it's definitely not the South up there.

Not at all.

But I like them.

But I've kind of backed off that joke of they don't belong.

But they really culturally don't.

But I just stopped saying it.

I think that's calmed them down a little bit.

You did create a great character for them, though.

Yeah, they love it.

The old men that don't get it hate it.

Yeah, I think that's what it was.

They have not gotten over that.

But, you know, I get it as adding Missouri as a TV market.

But yeah they don't fit I'm sorry and I'll be honest I completely forget that they exist.

It's not that I ignore them I just forget and I mean they've been good I believe they went to the SEC championship their first two years uh in the in the conference so uh they got a great basketball team some other sports so but I don't know what the disconnect is it's just got to be.

The distance, I don't think a lot of people from the deep south have really been to Missouri.

It's a drive.

And it's out there smack dab in the middle of Missouri.

Like you, I don't know if you can fly to Columbia or not, you can fly to St.

Louis or Kansas City and then drive, I don't know if it was an hour, hour and a half into the center of Missouri.

It's not convenient, not close to any of us at all.

All I remember is old people used to go to Branson a lot.

Yeah, and that's still north of that by an hour or two.

That's all I know about Missouri.

Yeah, and not only are they apart from the Deep South, but their state is far from the hip.

Y'all been to Kansas City and St.

Louis?

They're not the same place, like, at all.

Yeah, I've always heard that.

Very much different.

So I guess they're just up there, you know, in a world of their own.

I'm here in Memphis, so I'm a little bit closer to them, but they still feel far away.

Yeah.

What amazed me, too, is when walking around, I think this was my first night there in Columbia, and this was my, like, instant, like, no, this is not an SEC town at all, is that it was, I think it was a Thursday night, and so it was an NFL game, and it was Kansas City was playing somebody, and there were Kansas City Chiefs jerseys everywhere in Columbia.

And I get it.

Yeah, you're close to Kansas City.

All the fans are there.

But, like, in the south.

I mean, you can be in Atlanta on game day and you're still not going to see a ton of Falcons jerseys.

You ain't going to see any Titans jerseys up in Nashville.

But they love it out there.

And I get it.

They've won a couple of Super Bowls in Kansas City.

So they probably have quite a few more fans than normal.

But yeah, they love some NFL football.

And we watch it down here.

But it plays second fiddle to college football.

Absolutely.

I definitely keep up with all my guys that I, you know, loved in college.

You know, I'm a Saints fan, so that's probably why I don't watch much.

But I get it, man.

Kansas City Chiefs have been winning for a long time.

You know, this recent dynasty, if you will, is something.

But people forget when they, you know, those early Kansas City and Green Bay teams back in the 50s and 60s, like they dominated.

So I imagine the expectations have always just been high up there for that franchise.

Didn't they go to the first Super Bowl?

Absolutely.

Yep.

You get a lot of NFL knowledge, I didn't know you had.

Man, I have no life, guys.

I don't know.

Have you done some NFL content or you just stick with Alabama?

I just stick with it because even though I have my favorite teams and I know guys, Is this a lot of historical nuance that I don't have about the NFL?

Because like you said, it's not on local news here.

You don't get to follow.

You don't get to connect with a lot of different players.

Social media is changing that.

Nah, it's just different.

It's just really different.

I don't have the nuance like I do with Alabama.

Yeah, no how Saints fans watched.

I guess that would be a depressing series.

If I had that Louisiana accent, I would 100% do it for sure.

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I'm going to ask this, watching football, I thought about this question earlier.

I mean, when you, well, this could completely erase my question here.

When you watch Alabama games, are you listening to the TV broadcast or do you pipe in?

Are you listening to the radio broadcast?

Uh, I would say back in the 2000s, I was more of a radio broadcast guy.

Yeah.

Then, you know, once TV started streaming and stuff, it don't line up like it used to.

So it's just, it's just tough.

And my guy, Chris Stewart, man, anytime I'm in the car, I absolutely, I'm going to turn him on.

But it's just, it's just different now that you can watch the game on your phone and different things.

So majority TV now.

Yeah.

It was hard to beat Eli Gold back in the day.

That was, if he was caught in my games, I'd be listening to him every time.

I was thinking about this the other day.

You know, now you can see every single game on TV.

You know, 20 years ago, you still had to at least listen to two or three games on the radio.

And you don't really have to do that anymore.

Yeah.

Nah, everything has changed, man.

Consumption.

And, you know, they know that we will watch Eastern Tennessee versus Middlefinger State, so they don't give us as many games as possible.

I'm being a kid.

There would be some big games that wouldn't be on the television.

That'd be on paper.

You still have to listen to it on radio.

Right.

You need to go to somebody's house for the bar.

Yeah, I know y'all remember, you know, maybe the early 90s when the J.P.

Game started happening, and now we're up at 11 a.m.

watching.

These games and stuff.

So we've seen definitely if you're a millennial or older, you've seen the evolution of college football and TV.

Absolutely.

I was going to say, these kids don't know the struggle, but if those kids have YouTube TV, they get a little taste of it right now.

Yeah, it's good for them.

Right.

Now are you watching ESPN these days?

Yeah, are you a YouTube TV guy?

I am, man, and I had to bite the bullet.

You know what?

I looked up one day and just like, how much am I spending on these apps?

And it was ridiculous, dog.

I got all of these streaming apps and stuff, and I was like, something got to go.

So I got rid of the, well, I want to say just in case they want to offer us a sponsorship, but I got rid of one bundle in particular and thought that I was good, you know, just sticking with YouTube TV and then they fell out.

So now I got to go back and purchase something else.

And now I'm just, you know.

So in one week, I just tried to watch all the stuff on my, I watched Game of Thrones, I watched The Office, I ran through everything in like a week, slept for two days, and then deleted most of the apps of that.

It was just too much money.

I would love to see all the sports in one place, but then I know it'd be Monopoly, and it'd probably end up being Disney, ESPN, and they'd find a way to absolutely ruin it.

The commercial breaks are already insane as it is.

They'd have commercials on the screen during the game if you let them.

I mean, it's pretty much a monopoly at this point because with them not being on YouTube TV, you realize just how many not good games there are outside of the ESPN family.

So that's a fact right there.

To me, it's a monopoly.

It is funny.

Just a few years ago, we was so happy that SEC moved from CBS and now wish they'd go back so we could watch them if you have YouTube TV.

Yeah, it's a lot of greed.

That's making us suffer right now, man.

But I'm, you know, I believe in getting your money.

So I ain't going to fuss at them too bad.

I was with YouTube TV.

And then I saw Spectrum was adding in a bunch of streaming apps that I was already paying for into their, like, subscription to them.

So that's when I swapped out of Spectrum.

I'm like, I'm sitting pretty.

I get all my apps in my plan.

Try to stay live.

Even though the internet still sucks.

Yeah, you might have to give me an idea right there.

I mean, but whoever's going to get a sponsorship, I'm with you.

Hey, I got Peacock, Paramount Plus, everything all in my Spectrum app.

Yeah, that's pretty awesome.

Well, I am sponsored and paid to say this, but Drake TV is great.

You can bundle with them and safe.

Just don't know how they're out there.

They didn't sponsor this, though.

Yeah.

So when it rains.

No, no, no.

It's internet now.

There's no dish.

Fancy.

I don't want to get into it.

There's a video.

He's supple out there.

You can watch.

So anyway, going back to the broadcast, is there like a, I mean, just like Joey said, leaving CBS.

And I was, I was torn because I frigging love the CBS, like the package, like the score bug, the audio, like the little, their theme music for ACC on CBS was just like, man, that got me fired up every time I heard it.

But then, you know, two to four hours of Gary Danielson was grating on me.

I couldn't, I couldn't.

Gary Danielson back in the day was fine.

But as he gets older, he got like just argumentative with nobody.

Like he would just like argue with the coaches.

Like, dude, he's not in the, he's actually coaching.

There's a reason why he's on the field and you're in the booth right now.

He got bad.

And yeah.

So is there, is there.

I was just going to say, is there like a, when you hear a team has got a Bama game, the broadcast, is there ever, you're just like, oh, not these guys.

Or do you know, you don't have to say that, but is there a team that maybe you do like more than others?

Nah, nah.

I would love to hear Gus Johnson do more Bama games.

You know, I got that wish when we played Texas a few years ago.

He's exciting.

But I met Gary Dangerson a few years ago at the SEC Media Days in Birmingham.

And he saw I had on some Bama gear.

I think I had on my houndstooth hat and he kind of like was walking the other way.

But I walked up to him.

I said, Mr.

Danielson?

He said, yeah.

I said, nice to meet you.

I said, do you want to know what the problem is?

Why Bama fans don't like you?

He took a deep breath and said, let me hear it.

I said, your voice is attached to some of our worst moments.

That's it.

Full stop.

And I said, he sat back, he said, huh, I never thought about it.

I said, yeah, the Cam Newton game, maybe the kick six or whatever.

I said, your voice is on the other end of it.

So that's the beef.

Bro, he even made me mad in the Rocky block play when he's like, I hate to be a curmudgeon.

Like that line will live with me forever.

about how the ball was still technically live and Terrence Cody's taking off his helmet and everything.

I'm like, dude, shut up.

Like, let us live this.

Yeah, because, I mean, we're just biased down here, man.

Like, we don't, you know.

I can see some of the hate from Bama fans back in the day when, like, the dynasty was at its peak.

Because there was some just like, man, they always gave Bama that 230 CBS game, and they just blew whoever they were playing out of the water.

And I can see, like, if I'm the announcer and here I am, I've got sent to Tuscaloosa or whatever to watch my eighth Bama blowout this year.

I can hear it in their voices when a team was starting to make a comeback or having, like, some success against Bama.

that they would get a little giddy, but they just want to see good football.

I think that's what it came down to.

Yeah, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's the station, you know, leading them that way because you got ad dollars on the line.

And if somebody has bought those late game spots, you want to keep the people interested, you know.

Yeah, their job is to somewhat make the game exciting.

And if it's a blowout, you can't really do that.

Yeah, Brent Musburger understood it, you know, when he was talking about A.J.

McCarron's wife.

Holler roll that's my favorite clip if you're a young guy in alabama get out there and throw the ball that's our our next attorney general right there no please lord like nursing yeah so yeah i i i get the business part of everything now matt you probably that same way like Being on this side of the content, you've developed a respect for the audience and the putting on of these things.

And to be honest, we need the SEC to do well because what the hell are we going to do?

100%.

Yeah.

Oh, I need chaos.

I mean, like this past week, I feel like the only true upset on paper was Florida losing to Kentucky because they were two six-point favorites in that game.

And not only that loss, they got curb stomped.

But that was it.

And nobody cares.

Like, even Florida fans don't even want to watch an update about their team.

Yeah, we know they suck.

Let's just get this year over with and go ahead and bring Kiffin down here.

Be done with this.

And, yeah, but I know, like, there's no upsets in the week.

I don't know if you feel the same way.

It's just like, I'm going to make the video, but I know my views are going to be down.

Right.

Yeah.

The material gets tough.

Like on average, I probably across Facebook and YouTube, I may be average between three to five hundred a week.

But when we lost to Oklahoma, it was over 2 million.

So, you know, the way the games play out, it definitely affects how, you know, people are going to, you know, watch our content, you know, following.

So, yeah, no, that's for sure.

Yeah.

So, I mean, that's when people ask, like, who you root for?

I mean, I guess, like, I've been a Florida fan my whole life, but deep down chaos, I root for chaos.

And I knew that chaos was number one when Florida was losing to Vandy several years ago.

And I was like, I'm not really upset by this because this is hilarious.

This is great for me.

Sucks.

Sucks for other Florida fans.

But I'm going to have some fun with it.

That's when Vandy was bad.

That's when Vandy was Vandy.

Yeah, come on.

It hadn't been too long since they were bad.

No, ain't no shame in losing to Vandy now.

Just good luck if you can survive against them.

They're dangerous.

Right, right, right.

Do you think they keep this going after Diego hits the age of retirement, collects a Social Security check?

I do not.

I think that coach is going to get snatched up, as he should.

And people got to give Vandy their props, man.

They've had some pretty good coaches over the past, what, decade or so that have gone on to do some decent things.

I know James Franklin.

An old one's available for rehire.

James Franklin?

Yeah.

I don't think he's coming back, but we'll see.

But they've been quietly building up to this moment, but they got a great coach right now who wants to be there or wanted to be there.

We'll see.

I'm pretty sure he's getting a lot of calls right now.

I completely agree with you.

I think they'll go right back to being Vandy really soon.

This is, this is, this got me thinking because Vandy is one of these, the success we're seeing in Indiana is doing this because Indiana, I didn't realize has like one of the, if not the largest alumni base in the country.

And I was talking to my buddy who lives up in Indiana and you know, he's a, he's a big Notre Dame fan, but he's surrounded by Indiana fans.

And I threw out But to him, I was like, is it because they just got all this money coming in and they're using it for NIL and to pay their coach and they meddle in basketball?

It's kind of like I imagine like all like, oh, yellow fella does meddling with Auburn football.

Like, I'm giving you this money, but there's strings attached.

I want to name your next coach.

Like, I want let's get this old Hugh Freeze up here out of Lynchburg, Virginia.

He's turned to Jesus now.

I think he's pretty good.

And that worked out well.

Sidetrack on that one.

Yeah.

But so there's these strings attached.

But I was like, they're just throwing money at the football program and they don't care.

And they're letting them run a good football program because they're letting the people in charge do it.

And I feel like maybe Vandy's on the same track.

I don't know.

Do you think this is going to be a new thing?

We're going to see new powerhouses come out of nowhere because of the NIL money?

No, not really.

I think we'll see teams have a good spurt here and there.

And I don't know if it all comes down to money.

Now, Ohio State was proof positive that $20 million can buy you a championship, but if it was all about money, Arkansas would be unstoppable.

You got oil tycoon money, you got Jerry Jones money, you got Walton family money.

And I mean, they, they still suck.

So it's just money.

I think there's some other elements and little history and culture of your school.

What's going on with Indiana?

I know, you know, of coach Kurt from this time, Signetti at Alabama.

So, you know, he comes from that saving tree and he knows what he wants, but yeah, Indiana and Notre Dame in the same state, but they're not rivals, you know, so they're kind of the lone wolf as far as public education in that state.

So I just think they got more resources than we, you know, than we think about.

They got Purdue, but the way they talk about Purdue up there is kind of like the way we talk about UAB, but not in a negative way.

They like, oh, pitiful Purdue.

Like, I don't know.

I like UAB.

I want to see UAB succeed.

They're just like, shut it down at Purdue.

The fact that I, for a second there, forgot Purdue was in Indiana should tell you.

Shout out Drew Brees.

Of course, that's all I know about Purdue.

That's all I can name too.

Basketball.

Yeah, good basketball.

What about the other way around?

Do you think there'll be less powerhouses because of the NIL and things like that?

I looked it up, guys, over the past 40 years.

I believe maybe my number is off I think only 12 or 13 different teams have won a national championship in the past 40 years, The playoff is now 12 teams.

I don't think the championship is going to go too far.

I think the Blue Bloods and the New Bloods are going to run the show for the foreseeable future.

I mean, we saw what happened with SMU in Clemson last year.

No, SMU is ridiculous.

You know that TV contract they got to get into the ACC, they signed it so they don't get any of the TV revenue for several years.

Like they're joining without the money because they don't need it.

And that was their way in.

The money is weird at some schools.

That one, there's a history.

Them and Miami.

I'm pretty sure they saved a little money from the years they couldn't play football.

So, yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

I hope so.

Do you think 12 teams, the playoff, is it officially going up or are they still debating that?

Do you like 12 or do you think it should be more or do you just hate this whole thing?

I'm good with 12.

I'm good if they go up to 24.

I don't get.

Look, in the NFL, Division I playoffs, Division II playoffs, high school football, everybody else is like 18 to 20 plus.

It's only major college football that's went from four to 12.

So they're behind in that.

But, you know, I think they got that.

They're still worried about bowl money.

You know what I'm saying?

Bowls are still really, really big and big time college football.

So they got to, you know, make sure those bowls are taken care of.

So I think that's why, if anything, they're going to stay at 12 and maybe not go over 16.

I just hate so much neutral site games in college football.

I mean, college football has the best atmosphere in America when it comes to sports.

But we take them and put them in neutral site games more than anything else.

It drives me crazy.

I think it would help the season so much if you had a home field advantage throughout all of the playoffs up to the championship game.

I feel like that should be neutral site like the Super Bowl is and move that thing around.

But all the way up to that point, keep it like the NFL.

Home team, the better seated team gets the home field advantage on it.

Then you'd be...

Then you'd have teams not only fighting to get in the playoffs, but you'd have that top tier of those teams fighting for home-field advantage.

That would make those games a lot more interesting.

Because now you say, like, oh, you know, Texas A&M is pretty much— we'll have teams that will pretty much punch their car to the playoffs next week if they win in the SEC.

But that would, like, benefit them to dominate that rivalry game if home-field advantage was on the line.

I agree with you 50%.

Part of me enjoys the the neutral site games because it gives the opportunity to play a different variety of teams.

Because, you know, if you're not playing a neutral site out of conference opponent, then you're most likely doing a home and home.

Like we've been stuck with Wisconsin for the past two years.

Yeah.

Even though I've always wanted to go up there and do the jump around like that's it, you know.

But, you know, we also played them a few years ago, I believe in 2015, somewhere in that era at a neutral site game.

So it just allowed us to play like Miami, play Michigan, Michigan State without all these different teams without having to make it to a bowl game.

So I kind of liked it.

Good road trips.

You're able to split the fan base up a little bit that way to more 50-50 than not most of the time.

But it looks like most people are getting away from that because they need all of that home revenue now to fund these NILs and all these different things.

So it looks like it's going to be more...

Home and home series.

One thing that I've seen come back that was kind of prevalent in the 70s and 80s, but a lot of bigger name schools are going to these smaller schools.

And I hadn't seen that in a while.

Like Memphis beat Arkansas here in Memphis this year.

Some other games.

I believe Mississippi State went down to Southern Miss.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So that now that's interesting to me.

Because I like that yeah and they're structuring it I don't know how that Arkansas Memphis deal was but that Mississippi State Southern Miss deal I looked at because like this is kind of weird and but it was structured in a way like well it was over several years span like you'll come to us two or three years and then we'll come to you in that last year right and they spread their pay out to them instead of just one big lump sum it is spread out it was kind of a smart plan also it's It's just a good – that's a good game, Southern Miss, Mississippi State.

Like, I grew up – it was just every season Southern Miss is going to play Alabama, and then it just stopped.

And that was a rivalry game.

Cut it off.

Yeah, I think they thumped – Brett Favre thumped us one year, and then it was a little shaky after that.

Then you had the pro throw catch one year.

Then it was too close for comfort another year.

So that's probably why they backed off of that one.

But, yeah, I love to see these big schools go to, you know, what is it, power six now, power four, I don't know, to go to those schools.

Group of five, I think you know what they call them.

But buyer beware, Memphis has caught some bodies here.

Not only did they beat Arkansas this year, they beat Alabama a few years back, and they beat Peyton Manning and Tennessee in the late 90s.

So I don't know how many more schools want to come to that Liberty Bowl.

What, uh, you're up in Memphis now.

You're still in Memphis?

Yeah.

And how is, how is the fan, like, is the fandom in Memphis for Memphis visible?

Whereas in like in Birmingham, you know, that's UAB town.

UAB has literally eaten half of Birmingham.

Right.

And, but good luck.

You could, you could spend a whole day downtown Birmingham and not see a single piece of UAB gear.

Is it like that in Memphis?

No.

You see that blue M everywhere.

You'll probably see 95% the blue M everywhere.

You might see the orange T everywhere.

Twice a day.

So it's mostly, yeah, they love UM here.

They ride with them.

The older folks still say Memphis State, Penny Hardaway still in town coaching the team.

There's a lot of pride here.

And I get kind of jealous that we don't embrace UAB like that at home.

But I told Mark Ingram, the AD, when I interviewed him some years ago, I said, hey, man, everybody in Birmingham is a closet UAB fan.

Y'all just got to give them something to cheer about.

Y'all got to get out, connect with them.

And of course, he didn't listen.

But I made my case.

And I think there could definitely be brighter days for UAB.

But here in Memphis, that blue M is everywhere.

It dominates, for sure.

UAB needs a tailgating scene, in my opinion.

We're going to tailgate them at Topgolf?

They're going to have to come up with something.

They're going to come up with something there.

No, I don't think it's that.

The football program is still really young.

Let's keep it going.

They've had some successes over the year, but they're really young.

They just really got to establish their traditions, their identity.

Because the first time I went to the first UAB game when they got the new stadium, and I was like, huh, feels like a Barons game, but with less people and less culture.

You know, so yeah, yeah.

So you said it there, there's not, there's not a culture attached to that, that team really.

No, not at all.

It, I went to just about every home game in the first two years at Protective.

We bought season tickets, and my niece was in the band, and we maybe missed one.

And what kills me is, like, yeah, you had a decent crowd for that first game against Liberty because it was opener, and then it just fell off.

And part of it was, I was like, when are we going to get a frigging night game?

It's, like, two-thirds of the football season in Alabama is excruciatingly hot, and they played these suckers.

They gave them the afternoon game or the morning game exclusively.

Never got a night game.

It's like, yeah, that's why nobody's coming out.

It's awful.

This is concrete everywhere in Birmingham.

Well, they get it right with their opener every year because they'll book usually an in-state HBCU.

They need to play Alabama State this year.

They played Alabama A&M once or twice.

Maybe somebody else.

But, you know, you're going to get some entertainment with the band.

It's usually not going to be too competitive of a game, but it's usually at nighttime.

So that first game, they do well on attendance.

And then here comes Rice.

Yeah, I know.

And, you know, UAB fans, I remember the protest.

And for them to go from that to not showing up to the games is just mind-blowing.

It's tough to see.

I don't think that they've helped the situation.

And the games are, it's, God bless everybody that's over there working at UAB, but the music choices, it was like, this guy's my age and stopped listening to music after like 2010.

Like it was just a lot of 2000s rap, which I enjoyed, but I was like, I don't think any of these players know who Lil' Flip is.

And literally game over.

You got that going on.

And then you had old Speedy from the Rick and Bubba show is your on-field guy.

Yeah.

And I was like, all right, who is this for?

This is Brick and Bubba audience is elderly.

They're not coming to this game.

They are not there.

No.

No one wants to see Speedy.

You know, I like Speedy.

I've held that position at, you know, at the Stallions games and at Magic City Classic.

So I just respect the, you know, the art and the talent that it takes to be down there doing that.

But, yeah, you know, no shade to Speedy, but, yeah, who are they catering to?

I don't know.

And I really think it's a telltale sign that the Stallions in a few seasons seem to have more culture and more of a vibe at their games than at the UAB game.

Yeah, definitely.

That's absolutely accurate.

Are you a stallion's coming back this year?

I know there was some drama about that, but they are, they are back.

Do you have the inside track on that?

Like what was going on?

Why was there that scare that they were going to leave?

No, I just always think money.

I couldn't really say.

People think it's ticket sales.

I don't buy into that.

I just, so a lot of people don't understand the format.

First of all, you got to know that spring football leagues have been failing miserably since probably the 60s, maybe even before that.

So I think this new version of the UFL, which USFL and XFL combined, I think they learned a lot of lessons from the past and people got upset.

We're like, hey, these teams aren't in our cities.

They're all in Dallas.

I was like, that's smart.

That's helping them stay in business because now they only got one flight.

You know, they only can put the TV crew and everybody on one flight and do all these different things.

But I do think that hurts them connecting with, you know, the fans in those different cities.

And to be honest, I think they just wanted some, some bigger name cities.

That's why I think Birmingham was possibly on the chopping block.

I think they want some New York's and LA's and Dallas's because I think they changed Arlington Renegades now, or maybe the Dallas Renegades coming up.

I think I'm correct on that or something like that.

So I think they just want some bigger name cities.

Yeah.

That was interesting that they were threatening to take away the Stallions.

And a few years ago, they're playing every game of the USFL.

And we hosted them all.

Right.

But, you know.

It's Dwayne Johnson trying to get that return on investment.

Yeah, because he was in the hole $60 billion from that first season of XFL.

But hey.

You know, I love the league.

I love that a lot of guys from the league have getting their second chance and are in the NFL, especially these kickers.

Birmingham Stallions have put two almost Pro Bowl kickers if my guy can get in this year, but they're just doing good.

And Jake Bates up at Detroit was a UFL legend.

It's some good football, man, and they're out there playing hard.

So I enjoy those games a lot.

Yeah, I think people, you'll realize the guys that are playing at that level were stars in college i mean it's just like this is an insane level to be nfl talent but i mean these guys are still these these guys were well known on their college teams gave me a fresh fresh outlook on aj mccarran like yeah he was still aj still slinging it yeah yeah yeah lieutenant governor mccarran absolutely oh i was gonna ask you this and going back to speaking to coaching there for a second you i do want to get your like honest opinion on this one because i keep seeing his name floated out there, and I'm like, no, he's done.

And Nick Saban coming back, or is he done done?

Yeah, I saw you share something about Nick Saban and TLSU the other day.

You know, anything's possible, but they've got to be for real, man.

Even if he came back, how long do y'all think he would do this?

He'd be, after a year.

I mean, this is what ran him out, was just the way the game has changed, the way the NIL and, you know, going to get used to having players for one year and moving on.

and recruiting the guys you've already got.

I think that probably really pissed him off because that's insane.

You think you're done, you got a guy on your team and then you got to keep selling him on it.

Now you can see that he still has the coaching itch.

He's at the Bama game, literally taking notes and looking over his glasses and watching.

So it's just in him.

But I think that grind is just, it's a little too much, man.

And I don't know if ever in the history of any sport would a team, would a coach bring his team to play at a field that's named after him.

I don't, that would just be weird.

Well, he's got a statue of them outside with very intimidating hands.

It is a weird way they got, yeah.

They're huge.

I don't know if that was intentional or not.

They had to beef him up.

He's not a tall man, so yeah.

That's true.

Good point.

He also seems like a different person now that he's not coaching.

You know, he's like having fun and happy.

As before, he's always mad.

Who would have thunk it?

The whole college football universe likes Nick Saban.

Like his personality is coming through.

He's like making jokes and stuff on game day and everything.

He's like, is this the same person that was coaching Alabama a few years ago?

Yeah, and he and Pat McAfee are, they work together.

Like that chemistry is really, really good for TV.

Nobody's seen that coming either.

Nobody.

Because this is new.

Nobody.

We've been watching game day for over two decades now, and they, those two have kind of come in and just kind of pushed, literally pushed the other guys to the side and kind of taken over the show.

So, yeah.

I still think, I mean, he does, he does, he does good on game day, but I still think Saban would really shine in like end of the day studio type recap where they, they break down some of the games.

Like I remember growing up watching, like we never missed, even though I, I couldn't stand either one of them.

but I watched it and it was Lou Holtz and Mark May had that show on ESPN at the end of the day and they were doing like a little yeah Reese Davis wasn't Reese or was it.

Chris, it was Reese, wasn't it?

Reese was on it, too.

You know what?

Reese and Chris Fowler just entertained.

I know they are.

Yeah.

It's just the same, came from the same moment.

I'm always like, who's who?

Which one?

But, yeah, one of those guys, one of those two were definitely on there as a mediator, and they would do this kind of debate thing.

And they really did a good job breaking it down.

I feel like, say, being in a studio type, not in a big crowd, like it's in a, it's like you're playing in an arena or something in that last hour of game day.

At least that's the way I think, you know, McAfee plays it.

Yeah, but.

Try to get the crowd involved every chance you get.

Yeah, Saban probably wouldn't do it because after game day, he's got catchers get on his plane and catch the Bama game.

He's such a fan now.

I'm like, I know a fan when I see him.

He is a Bama fan.

And I think that Bama fans can probably look at that, like you're saying, and there's no way he goes somewhere else.

If he goes anywhere, it'd be step back in at Alabama.

It is hard to see him put on a polo for another team now.

It'd just be done.

Well, I'm looking at the total picture.

Here's one interesting, I guess this is my conspiracy.

Is he unhappy that DeBoer is doing well?

Does that kind of stick him in the rib?

He's like, hold on now, don't y'all forget who my name is up there now.

Y'all like y'all trying to forget about the old man.

All right, I'll go to Auburn.

And show you off.

Oh, my God.

I did think that was funny when Theo Vaughn was on game day and he made that statement like, well, last year they had the, talking about Alabama versus, I think it was Vanderbilt.

He said last year they had the previous coach's players.

Now he got DeBoer's players or whatever.

He said it right by Nick Stade.

Yeah, I watched his body language, too.

I'm like, keep in mind this is an ultra competitor, too.

so that him DeBoer doing well might not be.

Sitting well with him.

That's just my little conspiracy, though.

I think DeBoer's going to have to win quite a few national championships, I think, before.

And I don't know, you would think he'd be able to take a step back and look at the whole picture.

I mean, Nick Saban was more successful championship-wise than the Bear was.

Right.

But the Bear is still an icon in this state.

Saban's presence and his accomplishments did nothing to diminish what the Bear did, at least from what I can see in this state.

He's still worship.

There's still people naming their people.

children and animals after the bear.

A good example of that would be Gene Stallings.

Right.

Gene Stallings is still loved.

He only has one championship.

Just one.

Yeah, but he's not bear or Saban.

But I'll raise you this on Saban.

He is a creature of the moment.

Keep in mind, soon as a championship is won, he's on.

So that championship kind of doesn't mean anything.

So think about how he may be looking at his career.

Like it ended almost two years ago.

So he's like, I need, I need a, now I need a present, you know, victory.

But I think his broadcasting career and his commercials, which are hilarious, should be his, his victories.

But I don't know.

We'll see, man.

If he comes back, I'll, I'll be ready to do a video.

I bet.

He looked pretty comfortable in that recliner when Miss Terry told him to sit up in that one video of his birthday.

Yeah.

Oh, gosh.

I don't know how many.

Matt, I know you're married.

I'm not sure who else on the panel is married.

Yeah, we are.

Listen, that's another thing that'll get you back out the house.

You talking about what was going to run him back to coaching.

I thought him telling that story about him having to clean.

I was like, yeah, he's gone.

This man's never touched a broom before in his life.

Man, he's got to clean up.

if he's being told to sit up on camera.

Yeah, that might be what gets him back out the house, but we'll see.

Yeah, I don't believe it.

It's not a shtick.

I think Miss Terry runs that house.

Oh, yeah.

Not even close.

It's just very apparent these days.

You know, they was bringing that cake to him in his recliner, though.

That's kind of a powerful move.

That's a baller move.

That's just, that's Papa move.

That's Papa's in his chair.

Let's bring it to him.

Watching the dang.

The whole cake.

So you're like, uh-uh, no, no, no, no, no, no, you've done football for 40 years, uh-uh, sit up.

He's had a long week of eating things from Pat McAfee's hands.

It was the quickness at which he sat up and let me know, like, oh, this is different.

That tells you at one time he disobeyed Miss Terry and he paid the price for it.

That was PTSD that shot him up real quick.

Yeah, but I mean, I love them as a couple, man.

And they are, no, they're not originally from Alabama, but they are quintessential, you know, mom and pop of Alabama.

Just love everything about them.

So whatever Coach decides to do, you know, he's good.

And the Crimson Tide world for life, you know, one day we'll name a field after him.

What if he just did something crazy and just became the UAB's new head coach?

I'm for it.

I think that fits.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'll get my tickets.

You know, you got to get them because that's only going to last two seasons.

You being generous with two seasons.

Another thing, though, one last thing on saving that may bring them back.

I said for a long time that Saban looked up and all of his contemporaries were gone.

Les Miles was gone.

Urban Meyer was gone.

You know, the guys that he was with.

One of his buddies is back now in North Carolina.

And I'm wondering, it's, you know, maybe that'll be the thing.

Like, hey, well, I got a little company now.

I don't see him lasting another season.

I'm surprised he hadn't left already.

No, that's a weird move to me right there.

Hey, man, that money is talking right now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He'll probably have his girlfriend out on the field coaching next year.

I know.

We'll see how year two looks for Belichick.

Before we let you go, I did have one question here for you that I was wondering.

And when you're doing your videos, the How Bama Watch videos, How Bama Fans Watch, and 10 seasons of it now, Now, what game that Bama has lost hurt the most to the point that you're like, I don't want to do this video.

I don't want to make one.

That could be any number of games.

It could be all of them hurt.

It's got to be the Louisiana and Rowe game in 2000.

Or you didn't do it in 2007, though, did you?

Nah, nah.

Oh, my God.

Maybe it's between one of those Clemson losses and the national championship.

And no, I know what it was.

It was LSU 2022 because that was two days after my wedding.

We had a watch party because everybody wanted to stay over and we had family and friends come to Atlanta.

And, you know, we had not lost to LSU in quite a bit.

That just kind of ruined the whole week.

And I didn't have the energy the next day.

But I had to force it, you know.

So, yeah, that one, that would probably be the worst one.

That was Brian Kelly's first year at LSU, too, wasn't it?

Yeah, that was the game I thought.

This guy circled that the day he took the job.

Like, he just wanted—because he was coached Notre Dame in that national championship game, right?

Where Bama didn't let Notre Dame cross the 50.

It was the worst beatdown I've ever seen in a national championship game.

It was sad.

I like Notre Dame, and I felt very bad for them.

It was horrible.

Yeah, I felt mad at Alabama fans for doing that to these poor Catholics.

They just want to play football, and you wouldn't even let them get on the other side of the field.

But, yeah, I was like, he was looking forward to this game.

Yeah, and we weren't even, our national championship that year got overshadowed by Manti Teo.

He was the story that game and that entire season.

But we definitely won.

And won a story it was.

Yeah, that was pretty entertaining.

I don't remember anything else from that year except for Manti Teo.

It'd be a lifetime movie before we got it.

And there's that documentary.

Did y'all watch that documentary?

I actually felt bad for Manta after I watched it.

He got done really dirty.

He did.

But it was one of the, it was, it was probably like a quintessential story of this requires a lot of context in which you can't get in these like seven minutes sound bites on ESPN.

Like you needed a documentary to unravel that.

And he seemed like such a great dude.

I know.

For that to happen.

He really did.

And, you know, that's the quintessential taking somebody's kindness for weakness.

But outside of his story, AJ and Barrett getting into a shoving match at the game.

There ain't too much that people remember from that.

And boy, when they revealed who did it to him.

Oh, yeah.

You know what?

I'm going to have to spend a block on that.

I need to go watch that again.

Yeah.

Let's not touch that one.

Well, Jermaine, I really do appreciate you coming on and spending some time with us, talking football and stuff.

You got a comedy show coming up.

It started on...

If you want to plug that one, tell everybody how to get tickets for that one and a little bit about that show.

Yeah, y'all go to stardom.com.

We're going to do a show, film some content, just get back out there doing some new material.

Always a good time.

It's going to be Black Friday and the day before the Iron Bowl.

So if you and your families are in town and looking for something to do, come on down to the Stardom.

It's a clean show.

You can bring 18 and up, y'all.

People be bringing teenagers to my shows, 12-year-olds.

That's cool, but I don't know if they're going to get these old married man references, okay?

But it is a clean show.

I don't curse on stage or any innuendo, no politics, nothing like that.

So you can come on out, get your tickets, and have a good time.

It is.

And check out his How Bama Fans Watch videos every Sunday on YouTube and on Facebook.

and I always enjoy watching those and seeing what nickname you've got for Arkansas now.

You're about to run out of pork products.

I think the last of their bacon grease, that's what I'm down to right now.

You had to just sit there and Google things made with ham.

But there it is.

Thanks again, man.

I really do appreciate it.

Appreciate the invitation.

Keep doing great things, Matt.

You guys, great to meet y'all, man.

You too.

Look forward to hanging out.

Roll Tide.

Roll Tide.

Appreciate you.

Take care, buddy.

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When does this come out?

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Is this our first Wednesday episode?

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