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Now I can sit here and rant and rave like a lunatic about college football with a bunch of decent games.

Well, supposedly decent games.

Teams that have some hype around them playing, but I've got to stay true to my roots.

So I'm going to do something that's tap dancing on the third rail.

But I want you to go with me.

Years ago, I used to listen.

One of my favorite shows on the radio when I was younger.'s dead now but art bell coast to coast and George nor he does that we we compete against them but he art back in the day

we talk about conspiracy theories all the time and we now have an opportunity through a sports talk

radio format to discuss some of this stuff.

It has been the week of the Twilight Zone by former athletes going on rants.

Now, we talked about, if you're listening to a previous episode of the show,

former Saints receiver Joe Horn, who announced that NFL fans are apparently so gullible they would pay you.

Yeah, you if you're an NFL fan, would pay for flag football.

And we talked about that.

And that was my favorite whack-a-doodle story of the week.

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