This is an IHeart podcast.

And just like that, we're back.

Another edition of the Lake Kick Extra podcast, vitally important edition, conference

championship edition, coaching carousel edition, vitally important edition, conference championship edition,

coaching carousel edition, and always a mailbag edition. It is Thursday morning, December 2nd,

the year of our Lord, 2021. I'm Josh Pate, as I have been all season long, so it's probably

irrelevant to introduce myself by name at this point, but I do it nonetheless because a focus group

somewhere told us that's the way to introduce a podcast. We have got a lot to discuss,

you and I. We've got a trip to Atlanta to take after I record and head over to the gym this

morning, working out at Columbus State University Rec Center for the past two days. I haven't worked

out there in a couple of years. Before that, I worked out there every day for like five years, so it's been nice to get back over there and see some folks that I hadn't seen in a while. But it's busy. We're busy. This is obviously a very irregular week. Been on the road all week. Going to be on the road tonight. Late Kick Live in Atlanta. As I record right now, it's very early Thursday morning.

I got to be real with you, and it does not do me any pleasure to admit this.

I don't even know where we're doing the show from tonight.

All I can tell you is somewhere in the 404 area code, we will have late kick emanating live from Atlanta.

And if it doesn't happen, just want you to know

I take no responsibility. You know our motto around here. We want all the credit with none of the

blame. And that's the exact way, kids, that I instruct you to live your life. Now, anyone who's new

to the podcast, that's a joke. We joke around here. We do that from time to time. So there's the

thumb and the ribs. Just laugh. Let's move on. I have learned that I do have to every couple of

months preface some of these things with laugh. Laugh. It's okay. Laugh track. There you go.

So yeah, Lake Kick Live, allegedly from Atlanta tonight. That will be the title of the show,

allegedly from Atlanta. AFA. That is tonight's late kick. L-K-A-F-A. Those of you who will know will know, and the only way you'll ever be in on that joke is to have listened to whichever number of the late-kick Extra podcast this is. There's a whole lot going on. So what I want to do is I don't want to ruin tonight show but i do want to answer your questions because normally the late kick

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