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This is, is off track.
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Hello and welcome to Off Track with Hinch and Rossi.
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Um, there's a song, Alex,
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that I've liked since I was a kid.
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I can't remember exactly what year.
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Um, I heard it for the first time. Mm-hmm.
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It's by band called The Presidency
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of the United States of America.
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Hmm.
Have you ever heard of them?
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Mm-hmm .
Do you know what one
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of their most famous songs is called?
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What is it James?
It's called Peaches.
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Hmm. .
And, um,
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it's, it's, it's an, it's a, it's a banger.
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It's, um, I, I don't know why
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I ever heard about it or learned about it.
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Mm-hmm. I think it was my brother maybe
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that heard about this song.
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Mm-hmm . And it goes, you know,
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the, it goes something like this.
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It's move into the country.
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I'm going to eat a lot of peaches.
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I'm moving to the country. I'm going
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to eat me a lot of peaches.
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I'm moving to the country. I'm
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going to eat a lot of peaches.
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I'm moving to the country. I'm going
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to eat me a lot of peaches.
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First one, peaches come from a can.
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They were put there by a man in a factory downtown.
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If I had it my little way, ID peaches every day
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sun soaking bulges in the shade.
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Now it's better when they sing it,
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but for whatever reason, it just stuck with me.
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And it's, it's been sitting in the back of my head for years
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how much I missed hearing this song.
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Uh, and something recently made me think about it
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and made me really appreciate Peaches again,
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not just the song, but the fruit and evidently the bowl.
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This question, um, when was the last time you had a peach?
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Um, I would, it's within the last 12 months,
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like within the la not the last calendar
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year. 'cause obviously know you guys
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Went to the Peach Bowl and didn't have a
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Peach.
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Do you know what I'm surprised about?
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Surprisingly few peaches there.
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That's what I was gonna say. You go to the Peach Bowl
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and there is a surplus
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of Chick-fil-A, but zero peaches, but not
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A, not a single bowl of peaches.
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No. A single bowl of peaches.
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And here's the other thing that I found
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out about the Peach Bowl.
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Um, surplus of Chick-fil-A. Mm-hmm . Not any peaches.
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Mm-hmm . And apparently not enough beer. .
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Well, I, I do blame you for that .
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Wow. Was this just a,
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A factor of they didn't realize
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what Indiana fans' consumption was?
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I think that's exactly, I think that's
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exactly what they didn't realize.
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Becausecause, it looked like an IU
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Heavy fan base
There.
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'cause 90% of the people that were there, um, were IU fans.
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But before we get into the experience,
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'cause we need to go back.
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Yes. We need to backtrack a lot.
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Last week we mentioned, um, very briefly
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that the kind folks at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl reached
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out to this show that luckily I saw.
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'cause Tim doesn't do anything, uh, of his Correct.
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Still upset about that. Yeah.
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And they invited James Knight down
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and that was, why would I
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Check it if they're not
Inviting me?
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That was part one. Didn't
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Know
Of the puzzle.
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Part two of the puzzle is
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because Indiana is on this historic run,
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and Atlanta is not that far from Indianapolis.
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Uh, as the bird flies.
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And also as a car drives and a plane flies.
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Um, there was not many flights available, so
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limited on flights.
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Um, that United, not United Delta,
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American and Southwest between them, added nine flights
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specifically to get more people
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Hilarious.
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From Indianapolis to Atlanta.
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And despite their being nine additional flights,
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there was still no seats for James and I.
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So James and I were in quite a little bit
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of a travel conundrum.
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We had a D of a pickle
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And we were still gonna go.
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We, we were thinking about doing connections
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and, and figuring it out.
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Um, at one point I even looked at,
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there was direct flights out of Cincinnati
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and we were just gonna drive anyways.
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We were gonna get there because Too cool.
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Of an opportunity to pass up.
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Fortunately, our good buddy, uh, Ryan Hasbrook, uh,
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has some hours on the plane
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and was able to offer us a couple seats to get down,
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which just added to the experience.
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Um, I have done one other day trip dj, trip trip, DJ trip.
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I've done one other day trip, um, with Ryan
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and his comrades, um, down to Charlotte actually, uh,
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to watch Connor when he did, uh, the Daytona RO race.
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And Charlotte. And Charlotte, Val, sorry.
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And, um, that was quite a day.
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And lemme tell you, we had another day.
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Dude. It adds to the whole thing. Yeah.
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Like you say, I mean,
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there's almost three parts to the day now.
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Mm. Right. There's the flight down,
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which is it's whole own thing.
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Mm-hmm . There is the game mm-hmm .
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And then there's the flight home
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after a right rushing victory for the home squad.
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Mm-hmm . And, and honestly, that wasn't even,
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that wasn't even the whole day for some people
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because, you know, we didn't leave till the early afternoon.
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Some of them started in the morning. Mm-hmm.
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And, and when we landed, some of us went home,
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others went out
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and kept going For some, it was a five part night.
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You're right, you're right James.
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Uh, five parts, um, for some
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broad ripple being in included in that.
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But also, let's not forget, there was actually like five
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and a half parts because there was a
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tailgate that occurred. Oh,
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That's right.
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Post plane landing. Mm-hmm .
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Um, and going into the stadium. Yes.
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It was late game seven 30 game Friday night.
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Um, and at the tailgate
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there was a special guest appearance, um, by one Mark Cuban,
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which, yeah, I just gotta say is pretty, is pretty cool
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because Mark Cuban, obviously is IU alum.
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He's had, um, a big influence on why
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IU is a viable football team.
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Now. He's not the only influence.
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Don't, don't take what I'm saying for,
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for being the whole story.
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All I'm saying is his money has
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helped IU get to where they are.
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And, uh, a mutual friend of ours who also has a podcast,
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I don't know the name of it, I'm sorry.
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But, uh, Trisha Whitaker has a podcast
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and she reached out to Mark Cuban
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and was able to get Mark Cuban to show up at the tailgate
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for five minutes to talk about IU Hoosiers
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and his love of Indiana and all that sort of thing.
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So that was pretty cool, um, to again,
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be a part of that as well.
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Our buddies were in the background holding .
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I didn't even know this existed, but a keg of Fireball.
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Mm-hmm . Um, just, you know, really a keg of Fireball.
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A keg of Fireball really representing
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Like a baby keg, but a fireball. And, uh,
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Well, you don't need a full sized cake.
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Nobody even needs a mini cake of fireball.
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Yeah. Just so we, just so we can properly shout it,
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sideline stories Yes.
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Is Trisha Whitaker's podcast and
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Trisha Whitaker and Sidney Parrish do sideline stories.
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Yeah. But the, I mean, you said it Alex,
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but I love the, I love how it came about.
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She literally just like DMed them and he actually responded
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and came, like, that's how big of an IU fan he is.
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Like, he was ready to do anything indie related,
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anything local for the home squad.
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And that was super cool.
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So yeah, he rocks up to this tent that's posted up,
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you know, is easy up in the, uh,
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in the parking lot at the tailgate, does his interview,
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and then carries on to the game more about that later.
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Um, so then tailgate ends and it's time to head in.
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And we have to kind of separate from our buddies
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because of, of the group that went down, uh, with us
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or that we went down with, uh, on the plane.
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There were like two
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or three different areas that people were sitting.
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Uh, so everybody kind of broke up, went their own way.
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Alex and I had to connect with, uh,
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our new contacts at the Peach Poll.
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So Lee and Matt welcomed us, uh, with Open Arms fans
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of the show, which is still absolutely mind boggling
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to everyone involved.
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And walked us first, um, to show us
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where the field level suite was that we were sitting in,
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which was right behind one of the end zones.
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Never been in that part of a, of a football stadium.
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Never had that view of a football game before. Super cool.
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Uh, but on our passes,
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they were also two little letters that stood out.
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And I needed my friend Alex, who's a bigger football person
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to tell me what Ffl No,
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FFAI think it was Fa
Fa which stood for
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Field Access. James.
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So this is the, the, to put it into IndyCar, uh, parlance,
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this is the, um, grid access sticker that you look
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for when you're at an IndyCar race. No,
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No.
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This is, this is the grid access sticker
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at a Formula One race.
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Because at the 500, quite frankly,
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One most race, we call 'em,
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we call 'em race modes in IndyCar or grid access. Let's
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Go race, let's go, let's go race mode at the 500.
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Fine. Right. It's not a race mode at mid
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Ohio, I can promise you that.
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Fair, fair.
Um, so, so you guys,
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Like, could you just be on the field, the whole
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Thing?
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Or was it just like pregame? We did not postgame.
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We could be on the field, um, five minutes before kickoff.
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We could be on the field during halftime,
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and we could be on the field up
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To five minutes before kickoff
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Up, up to five minutes before kickoff, during halftime.
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And as soon as, uh, basically five minutes
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after the end, which unfortunately we weren't there for,
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because it was such a curb stomping that we all decided
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as a group to get home early ,
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because we didn't need to watch the end
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because it was very clear what was gonna happen.
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Um, but, but let me just say how awesome
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it was to, like, we, we literally stood at one end
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of the field during like the team introductions, right.
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And, and you're just getting to, to see
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that firsthand up close.
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But also as you look around
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and do a 360 of the stadium, the realization of how much
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IU support was there was just like crazy
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to see from down there.
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It, it, I, I'm not, I there No, no exaggeration.
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When I say it was 90 to 95% red, um, which some of
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that is due to the, uh,
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the traveling required from Oregon, you know, it's Oregon
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to Atlanta is not a, not a close journey.
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But also the, a lot of it is to do with IU
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has always been a basketball school.
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Right. They, they've never even been considered,
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they've been considered one of the worst football programs
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in the country.
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Yeah. And in the past three years,
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they have gone from being a team that's like, oh, they,
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they might be pretty good to, oh my gosh,
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they have potential to holy, this is the best team
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that we have seen in a hundred years, potentially if they go
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and win next Monday.
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Only one other team has done that.
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And that was Yale like in the forties. Yeah.
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And that's to be undefeated.
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They are currently to be undefeated.
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They're now what, 15 and Oh after
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15 and Oh yes.
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So they've got just the final left. I mean, yeah.
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It's, it's quite literally a historic run.
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And it's from a program that's not historically known
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for this particular sport
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and success in it, The
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atmosphere on the field,
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pregame was nothing short of electric.
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To your point, Alex, like, it was, you know, 95% IU fans.
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So it, it felt like a home game.
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Something that we both kind of noted was the noise
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of a hundred thousand people.
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I dunno how many people are in that stadium. It's a lot.
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And they're basically all cheering for one team.
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The noise that comes out of that many people
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that's in a closed environment all facing into,
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towards each other when you're in the center of it,
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it's pretty cool, man.
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And it's one of the few things that
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we miss out on in motorsports, right?
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Mm-hmm. Because in Motorsports, fans are spread all
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around in different places.
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There's a lot of noise by nature. They're
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Not in a dome.
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Not in a dome. You have, you know, ear pieces in,
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you don't really get that feeling as, as one
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of the participants, as one of the athletes.
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But even just sitting there
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except at Indie at certain moments, but it's, um,
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So much.
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But like, I think the point you're making is
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at Indie, it's open, right?
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They're making the noise and it's going up. It's going out.
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When you're a dome with so 75,000 people Yeah.
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They're a mile apart. They're five eighths
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of a mile apart, end to end.
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Right. So even though it's a lot of people, there's a lot
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of space and it's open.
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Yeah. And there's cars making noise and stuff.
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But, um, but no, it was a very, very cool atmosphere.
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The intros were super cool.
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We got to stand like literally beside the tunnel.
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Our, our eyebrows got singed from the pyro, which was neat.
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Uh, met the mascot.
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Alex got into a, a brief tussle with one
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of the Chick-fil-A cows.
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Um, which, you know, it's all just part and parcel.
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I mean, you were the one
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that said you were gonna go eat a lot of cows.
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Yeah, I was actually deflecting there.
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It was me that got into the tussle with the guy.
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Yeah. I just figured it was like a cracker
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barrel beef kind of thing.
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Yeah. It was like a Oh,
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True, true. Yeah. No,
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I'm sure I got into a tussle
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with someone, but I don't think it was .
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I, yeah, I think it was fish off later in the night that
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I just wish, uh, sign Netti was like a little less
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happy-go-lucky on the sidelines, you know?
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Mm-hmm. I just wish he would treat it
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with the gravitas it calls for Sure.
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He's just, uh, smiling and joking around.
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So anyway, we get down to five minutes to go,
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we get booted off the field
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and we go start watching from our field level
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suite, which was amazing.
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And again, all the, the people there were awesome.
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There was this, uh, host there, uh, Patty,
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who apparently has been working for the Peach Bowl,
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like since it started or something.
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Sweetest woman we've ever met took such
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good care of us in the suite.
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And yeah, we enjoyed some Chick-fil-A
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and a couple beverages of different selections.
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And it was like the first play of the game.
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Just set the tone for
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what was an absolute steamrolling performance by iu.
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It was pretty neat. It, yeah,
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It, it was cool because I think that, um, ever, every game
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really sends the, uh, big 10 championship game
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or including the Big 10 championship game.
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It's like, all right, IU is finally gonna,
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they're finally gonna be exposed, right?
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Because despite their record
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and despite the coach that they have,
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and despite having the Heisman winner, right?
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They don't have the,
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the pedigree in like the five star recruits.
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Four star recruits, like it's a bunch of granted
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three star and very good players, right?
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But they don't have the super high profile skill players,
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but they are this group that is a bunch of
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very talented individuals that are coached
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to such a high level that that's
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where the execution comes from.
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And it's really where you realize even more
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so than I think, well, it's, it's not unfair comparison.
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I was gonna say, you know, NFL teams are so focused
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on certain individuals, right?
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That play for, for, for an NFL team,
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whether it's a quarterback or a wide receiver
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or a linebacker or, or tight end, a defensive lineman
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or a tight end or whatever, right?
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It's, it's, there's like these four
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or five guys on each team.
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And I guess the reason why it's different is
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because all of them are pro ball players, right?
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Whereas not every single individual on IU is going
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to be a pro ball player.
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But I, I guess what I wanna say is it, it truly
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embodies the team effort mentality.
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Like every single player at IU just seems to be coached
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to do their job, to execute
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and to, to perform at their highest level
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for the task that they're asked to do.
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And no one is, is is doing necessarily anything
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flashy or anything crazy, but they just execute
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and other teams can't, can't compete with it.
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And so it'll, it'll be very interesting
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because I do think playing against Miami
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in Miami, even though I use a better team,
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and I'm sure there's gonna be a lot
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of turnout from my youth still, this is gonna be,
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this is gonna be quite a challenge
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because it's not, uh, it's not very often
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that the team hosting the, the, uh, CFP
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championship is also a team in it.
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So it'll be, it'll be fun to watch. Yeah.
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It's definitely gonna be more even split than
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what we saw in the Beach Bowl, just given the proximity.
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But look, it's, it's, it's almost easy for a team
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that has gone 15 to, oh, that's had that kind of run
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to get complacent, even in the championship game, right?
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Because I think a lot of people looked at Oregon
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as maybe a slightly stronger team in Miami.
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And so the winner of that was sort of predicted
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to be the favorite going into the final.
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But that doesn't mean anything when,
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when the game starts, uh, on Monday.
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So very cool.
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We got to go back down onto the field during halftime.
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So we watched the first half from there,
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went back on the field during halftime,
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which was even almost cooler
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because there was way fewer people, like way fewer
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excess people and ciliary people.
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It was really just the teams.
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And Alex and I kind of wandering
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around feeling like we shouldn't be there,
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but somehow nobody was kicking us off the
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field, which was pretty cool.
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Then we watched, uh,
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the third quarter from, uh, a different suite.
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We found some of our friends watched up there with them,
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and that's when it was sort of the collective decision
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after that to, uh, make an early exit
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and try to avoid some of the chaos getting outta there.
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But, um, flight home was a nice, fun celebration.
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Um, some live music was, was enjoyed, uh,
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which is always fun in a, in a small intimate space.
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People love a small, intimate concert.
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Um, and dude, I don't know if you got this
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Speaking, speaking of Clayton was on
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ESPN for a little bit.
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There was a, got a little,
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Uh, Clayton Clayton, Clayton Anderson, uh, good,
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good buddy of ours.
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Um, someone we should probably have on the show actually,
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um, has a song that came out, uh,
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I wanna say two years ago, 18 months ago, called Indiana.
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It has nothing necessarily to do with IU or the Hoosiers,
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however, uh,
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Indiana is in a lot more people's vocabulary these days,
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especially sports fans.
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And so there was a big push from a lot of individuals
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to get his song somehow incorporated into the Peach Bowl.
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And apparently ESPN played it five different times, which is
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incredible for Clayton.
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Um, you know, he's, he's someone who it much like racing,
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right, has the talent, has the, the background,
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has the songwriting ability, the live show ability,
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the instrument playing ability,
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but it's a competitive market. It's a triple
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Threat.
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And, and it just hasn't,
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pieces all haven't lined up yet. Got
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A pretty good bar downtown.
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Um, and so for him, knowing
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how many eyeballs were on that game, um, you know,
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it's gonna be nothing but, but a huge benefit for him
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and hopefully leads to opportunities for him in the future.
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So cool to, uh, to see that as, as a friend of his,
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I really hope that his, like iTunes sales
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or his Spotify downloads or however it works, it
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Works for iTunes, doesn't exist anymore,
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Bro.
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I know, but I still think of it that way.
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Uh, you are man, whatever the,
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whatever the measurable metric Yes.
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Is for artists. Uh, it was, it was pinging
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after, uh, after that game.
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And I, hopefully he gets a little love in the,
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uh, in the final too.
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Um, I don't know about you,
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but in the aftermath of that, with some of the posting
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that we did on social
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and things like that, the number of people that reached out
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to me, like, how the <inaudible> did you guys get that,
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you know, get in there and get field access
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and all this stuff that even led to then people calling me
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and saying like, Hey man, like, do you have an in,
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I'd love to go to the final.
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Or, you know, I'm an IU alum
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and it's, you know, uh, my, my husband went there
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and it's our 26th wedding anniversary.
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Is there any way? And I feel so bad
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'cause we don't have any connection to the final,
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we don't have any connection to the Hoosiers.
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We just have a connection to the Beach Bowl,
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which has come and gone.
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So, uh, sadly, no, uh, we have no connection there.
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We will not be going to Miami.
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Even though I'm gonna be in Florida because of Daytona.
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I'm gonna be just down the road.
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And I am now officially, look, I'm now a Hoosier fan.
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I've been here long enough. We've talked about it.
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I've, I've struggled to get into college sports.
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It's not been my, it's not been an easy thing for me
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to kind of gravitate to.
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'cause it's just not a thing back home.
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But, um, I have, you know, 90%
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of my friends here in town are IU alum or just huge fans.
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And so I've now got to experience it up close.
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I'm in, I'm on the wagon, I'm gonna stay, even if they,
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they falter from here on,
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I'm not gonna just jump on and off.
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Um, but unfortunately it will not make it to Miami
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because it's like $4,500 for general admission.
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I was, I was just gonna, I was just gonna close on that.
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Um, oh my God.
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Potentially the most expensive
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ticket prices for a non
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L playoffs slash superb bowl game I've
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Ever seen. Yeah.
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Incredible. Like
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Insane.
509
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I dunno if I've ever seen, you could Super Bowl tickets. Oh,
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I
Star at that
511
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For sure.
512
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But like, you could get World Series game six tickets
513
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for half of that, which is just mind boggling to me.
514
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This is a college football championship game that are going
515
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for 4,500 and parking is like $800.
516
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Like, it's, it's outta control.
517
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Well, I'll tell you what I do like though.
518
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I don't know exactly how it works,
519
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but you know, I know a fair number of people going
520
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and I'm like, dude, how are you?
521
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How are you junk? I get, it's a big deal, but like, damn.
522
00:22:21.495 --> 00:22:22.875
And they're like, no, no. Through the school,
523
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there's some system right where you can get on some list
524
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and they'll go through and they offer you tickets based on
525
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certain metrics or parameters or whatever mm-hmm .
526
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And they're not cheap, but they're not like, you know,
527
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these secondary markets scalper prices.
528
00:22:36.815 --> 00:22:41.595
So how, how it works is it goes in order of like games.
529
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Well, first it goes like season ticket holders.
530
00:22:44.305 --> 00:22:45.715
Well, no, it goes
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Donors,
Donors, field, sponsors of sorts,
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00:22:51.535 --> 00:22:54.355
season ticket holders by like number of years.
533
00:22:55.305 --> 00:22:57.915
Then season ticket holders by number of tickets.
534
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And then it's like games attended over the past X amount
535
00:23:02.675 --> 00:23:04.475
of years, months, whatever it is.
536
00:23:05.295 --> 00:23:09.675
So a buddy of mine who, um, actually went to Purdue
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but has lived in Bloomington
538
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for work for the past three years.
539
00:23:13.265 --> 00:23:14.995
Well, when they went down there, they loved sports
540
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and everything and they're not gonna be able to get home
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to go to the Colts Games or whatever.
542
00:23:18.595 --> 00:23:20.755
So they bought season tickets for the Hoosiers
543
00:23:21.335 --> 00:23:24.795
and for basketball and, and, um, and football.
544
00:23:24.915 --> 00:23:27.395
'cause it's like, well, it's something to do every week.
545
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And, and why not support the, the team that we're at now?
546
00:23:30.375 --> 00:23:32.355
And because of that, it just so happens
547
00:23:32.505 --> 00:23:34.475
that they've done it for three years.
548
00:23:34.545 --> 00:23:35.595
They had four tickets
549
00:23:35.975 --> 00:23:39.955
and so they were offered six, um, for kind
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00:23:39.955 --> 00:23:42.635
of this whole Rose Bowl, peach Bowl
551
00:23:43.655 --> 00:23:46.965
and now championship game at, at a price.
552
00:23:47.425 --> 00:23:50.325
But still, um, they're, they're able to go down.
553
00:23:50.325 --> 00:23:52.085
They're able to take friends and family and,
554
00:23:52.085 --> 00:23:54.565
and it's a pretty cool way that they, that they do it
555
00:23:54.565 --> 00:23:56.805
because it's, it's rewarding the people that have been
556
00:23:56.805 --> 00:23:59.685
with you for a long period of time and not James
557
00:23:59.685 --> 00:24:02.325
and Alex who have jumped on the bandwagon in
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00:24:02.325 --> 00:24:03.365
the past three months.
559
00:24:03.775 --> 00:24:05.685
Three weeks. Yes. A hundred percent. A hundred percent.
560
00:24:05.795 --> 00:24:07.525
Yeah. So, yeah. So it's very cool.
561
00:24:07.525 --> 00:24:09.205
I love, I love the system. I love the way it works.
562
00:24:09.325 --> 00:24:11.885
I love that those fans are getting to kind of live it out.
563
00:24:12.105 --> 00:24:14.165
Um, and we'll leave you with this
564
00:24:14.755 --> 00:24:18.045
mentioned early in the show, uh, earlier in the show,
565
00:24:18.045 --> 00:24:19.765
that there'd be more on Mark Cuban.
566
00:24:20.465 --> 00:24:23.285
Um, guys, I'm gonna make a,
567
00:24:23.985 --> 00:24:25.845
I'm gonna make a bit of an assumption here.
568
00:24:26.265 --> 00:24:29.285
Um, I'm gonna use deductive reasoning. Mm-hmm .
569
00:24:29.645 --> 00:24:31.565
I think is probably the, the best way to put this.
570
00:24:31.985 --> 00:24:33.765
But while we were on the field
571
00:24:33.905 --> 00:24:36.725
during halftime, or was it pre-game?
572
00:24:37.045 --> 00:24:38.845
Pre-game,
Pre-game, doesn't matter.
573
00:24:40.035 --> 00:24:43.885
Well, we were standing kind of near one of the end zones,
574
00:24:43.955 --> 00:24:45.525
just soaking it all in.
575
00:24:45.525 --> 00:24:46.725
We weren't even really talking.
576
00:24:46.995 --> 00:24:49.045
Alex was explaining something about the field
577
00:24:49.045 --> 00:24:50.405
that I had not known about.
578
00:24:50.565 --> 00:24:52.405
I was learning about football. Hmm.
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00:24:52.665 --> 00:24:55.805
And these couple, couple guys start walking out in a line.
580
00:24:55.865 --> 00:24:57.245
It was like a couple dudes,
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00:24:57.415 --> 00:24:59.925
looks like maybe security guards in hindsight.
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00:25:00.155 --> 00:25:02.525
Mark Cuban, a couple more people behind Mark Cuban.
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00:25:03.065 --> 00:25:04.685
And we're standing, there's a bunch of people
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00:25:04.705 --> 00:25:06.085
to our left, bunch of people to our right.
585
00:25:06.085 --> 00:25:07.965
And he comes over and he's, he's walking by
586
00:25:08.425 --> 00:25:11.405
and he, he clocks Rossi and he, we walks off path
587
00:25:11.425 --> 00:25:13.245
and he walks up to Alex and puts out his hand.
588
00:25:13.245 --> 00:25:15.125
He goes, Hey man, great to see you. He looks over me.
589
00:25:15.125 --> 00:25:16.165
He goes, Hey, great to see you.
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00:25:16.425 --> 00:25:18.445
Shakes our hands, gets back in line
591
00:25:18.445 --> 00:25:21.445
and keeps walking past everyone else on either side of us.
592
00:25:22.025 --> 00:25:23.645
And we just look at each James
593
00:25:23.645 --> 00:25:24.645
And I's response was this ?
594
00:25:27.635 --> 00:25:31.445
Wait, what guys? Mark Cuban recognized.
595
00:25:31.445 --> 00:25:33.965
Alex came over, shook both our hands
596
00:25:34.225 --> 00:25:35.845
and then kept walking. There's
597
00:25:35.845 --> 00:25:37.685
Only one thing to deduce from this.
598
00:25:38.235 --> 00:25:39.725
He's an off track listener, huge fan
599
00:25:39.725 --> 00:25:40.725
Of track,
Amazing race.
600
00:25:40.725 --> 00:25:44.325
Ross .
. He's an amazing race in Dancing
601
00:25:44.325 --> 00:25:45.965
with the Stars, diehard fan
602
00:25:46.635 --> 00:25:47.645
Mark. He's you're
603
00:25:47.905 --> 00:25:48.965
On tv. That is possible.
604
00:25:49.265 --> 00:25:51.925
That's true. We are Love
You an amazing race. Yeah,
605
00:25:52.185 --> 00:25:55.445
We are Fellow reality TV stars of all three
606
00:25:55.445 --> 00:25:56.485
of that's the main connection.
607
00:25:56.485 --> 00:25:59.525
Mm-hmm . No. So it makes me think that somewhere deep down,
608
00:25:59.915 --> 00:26:03.245
he's, he's an IndyCar fan and, uh, he knows what's up.
609
00:26:03.315 --> 00:26:05.765
Mark, if you're listening, uh, come on off track.
610
00:26:05.915 --> 00:26:07.245
I'll pitch you my business venture.
611
00:26:07.525 --> 00:26:08.965
'cause Shark Tank will not return my calls.
612
00:26:09.705 --> 00:26:10.725
Uh, well, we've learned,
613
00:26:10.725 --> 00:26:13.405
if we've learned anything from this episode, Tim, it's
614
00:26:13.405 --> 00:26:14.925
that you need to, those dms a shot.
615
00:26:14.925 --> 00:26:17.885
I'll slide in his dms and say, Hey Alex
616
00:26:17.945 --> 00:26:19.885
and James would love to have you on the show.
617
00:26:20.365 --> 00:26:21.845
I mean, you guys got the check mark
618
00:26:21.945 --> 00:26:24.525
and more than 8,000 followers on Instagram,
619
00:26:24.535 --> 00:26:26.485
maybe you guys reach out to him. It's not
620
00:26:26.485 --> 00:26:27.485
A terrible idea.
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00:26:27.485 --> 00:26:28.325
Well, yeah. So we'll leave you with that.
622
00:26:28.325 --> 00:26:31.245
We'll leave you with it seems that Mark Cuban's IndyCar fan.
623
00:26:31.245 --> 00:26:32.365
So if you weren't a fan of his
624
00:26:32.365 --> 00:26:33.525
before, you should be now. Um,
625
00:26:33.825 --> 00:26:35.205
He might just be a fan of me.
626
00:26:35.825 --> 00:26:38.725
You know, I did stand up for a while, like 15 years ago.
627
00:26:40.995 --> 00:26:42.885
That didn't cross anyone's
628
00:26:42.885 --> 00:26:44.205
Mind, I don't think that's it.
629
00:26:44.985 --> 00:26:47.445
If I'm, I don't think that's it.
630
00:26:48.145 --> 00:26:50.165
So how funny would it be if that was it?
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00:26:50.745 --> 00:26:53.325
So that's the Peach Bowl. Can't wait to go back next year.
632
00:26:53.435 --> 00:26:54.805
Hopefully the Hoosiers are in it.
633
00:26:55.995 --> 00:26:57.325
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