Welcome in, another episode of Bourbon South, Chase Farm, Steve Thomason, here at the Whiskey House in Oxford.

And today, joined by Michael Thompson, former Ole Miss executive, Texas A&M executive, now the head of the SEC network.

Michael, good to talk to you, good to see you.

Right off the bat, we get started, look.

We're going to move on or anything else, but you're in, you know, SEC country up in North Carolina and whatnot.

You get to go over and visit the bear ever so often. It's close by, I know, in some country up in North Carolina whatnot you get to go over and visit

the bear ever so often it's close by I know in some places up in that in that region so

just curious I I'm sure there are several I'm sure there are plenty but I have I have not

the transfer portal to Lenore Ryan and then you know yeah exactly that's exactly right it's probably a couple hours

away yeah yeah that's what i was thinking i bet i bet it i bet it has a i bet it has an odor that is

quite pungent uh we uh we got you to hook up with the uh the same bottle for this remote thing

here we'll get to that here in a here in a second. But I guess first,

before we crack that open, week one, obviously back this month with programming for the SEC

network overall, you've had volleyball, you've had soccer, different things. But first football

weekend with Texas and Oklahoma, and especially related to your job, what's it just sort of been

like with that level of extra inventory, all of the teams that are in the national conversation and kind of

putting this picture together for this football season? Yeah, I mean, it's been

something that, well, I'll back up. I mean, this is like a week of Christmas. I mean,

there's just this excitement, you know, around the office.

And you can just kind of feel it just around even in Charlotte.

I mean, we've got football here starting up.

And the way that Texas at Oklahoma, I mean, bringing them in,

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