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Welcome to Unnecessary Roughness.

So first of all, if you're watching this on YouTube, which you should, because you'll see we have a new layout, which is a little bit of a teaser for what's to come next week when all the boys get together.

But before we get into that, we have to talk about twisted tea. Twisted tea is the official sponsor of unnecessary roughness. You guys know, we've been calling it Brandon Walker in a can. And that's a good thing. A lot of people might not want Brandon Walker in a can, but you do want twisted tea. It goes down so smooth. There's no carbonation, which makes it so easy to drink.

It's the perfect alcoholic beverage for any type of festivity, any event. Obviously right now,

it's the summer. It's the dog days of the summer. We're in the middle of July. But you know what,

folks, after SEC Media Days, which is going on right now as we speak, it's college football season in my mind. I'm not trying to wish the summer away, but I'm just saying that twisted tea tastes a little bit different knowing that kickoff is coming and coming quick. So make sure you grab a twisted tea, keep it twisted. We love them. We're so excited to have them on board. Now, if you, we've been on hiatus for about a month, okay, and I said,

it's going to look so different. Don't worry, guys. It's not just me. It's not just me,

but we're here because last month, we did an interview with Illinois head coach Brett Bilema

and Illinois quarterback Luke Altmeier. It was myself, Brandon, those two, and then our new podcast co-hosts. Like we said,

no one's leaving. Ev is still a part of it. Liam Blutman is still a part of it. And probably

the worst kept secret of all time, T. Bob A Bear will also be joining the show starting next week

and going all for the rest of time, for however long unnecessary roughness runs. And we are are going to have a new format it's going to be more of a debate style brandon is excited because he thinks that he can be all of us at once it's like it can be four against one he thinks he can do it um but we're really really stoked to have him involved and he was a part of the interview and that's what this episode is going to be you're going to see it, you going to hear it however you're consuming this right now so we're stoked about it he's going to be awesome um i'm really nervous to have to play kind of referee between him and brandon sometimes and then you've got ev and you've got liam it's it's going to be it's going to be great it's going to be But most importantly, wanted to give him a proper introduction before we go into the interview because he did sit.

And I know Lukey's behind. Is it called like the, the Michael Jordan chair? What is it called in the,

the mostly sports studio? The OJ Simpson Memorial Bench. Brandon will hate me for that.

The OJ. Simpson Memorial bench.

Okay.

I was actually trying to give Teabob, you know,

some sort of nice seat that he was sitting in.

Okay, so he was sitting in the O.J. Simpson Memorial bench in the family room.

So you will see him in this interview.

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