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Listen, I don't want to be hyperbolic, but I'm a little terrified for some of you, so much so that we changed the entire course of this week's programming. Normally we react on Sunday, we predict on Tuesday, and then it's upset alert time on Thursday. We got all that out of the way. I have cleared the schedule. I have pulled up the therapist couch. We're bringing

mood tracker back and we're doing it right smack dab in the middle of the season. We're jam-packed. High atop. Beautiful New York City reminds me so much of Harris County. There's, there's Billy's IGA there. There's the Chevron. There's J&J. So the thing about growing up in rural Georgia is it really prepares you for life in New York City.

Thursday, October 24th, the Year of Our Lord, 2024, proudly brought to you by Academy Sports and Outdoors. Like I said, we got Blue Bloods in peril right now. And they're freaking out at Michigan. And they're freaking out at Florida State. And believe it or not, they have the audacity to freak out at Alabama. USC, what are we doing? Are you going to make a bowl? What's going on here? And what's the mood? Like, what's the truth behind all of this? I will talk to you about that this afternoon. I have got Cole Kublich coming up in, well, you know what, Kubling can wait as long as we need him to wait. He's probably coming up in like 30 or 40 minutes, and we're going to talk a lot. Here's a little thing to think about as we get into today's show. How do you fix chronically penalized teams? And don't just be telling me work on it. Don't just be telling me you need to emphasize it in practice because I know good and well every one of these coaches do. and's still a very big problem. They're watching us in Bayman at Alabama, Clovis, New Mexico, Charlotte, North Carolina, and White'sville, Delaware. We really appreciate you guys. So I am doing the show early today because we're going to head over to the airport and fly to Las Vegas after this. and we're going to be on the sideline for UNLV hosting Boise tomorrow night.

Get your tickets if you haven't already. They're expecting the

biggest crowd maybe in the history of UNLV football. How could we miss that? How could G5 Josh miss that?

And then we'll fly back across the country and we'll go to Texas Vandy on Saturday. I tell you that

because the

Instagram story figures to be very lively with stuff that I can get you that you won't see

on the broadcast. We do it every week. If you're not following already over there at late

kick Josh. Also, Friday night lines will happen tomorrow. Wait on a posted time. It's probably not

going to be as late as it normally is because I've got stuff to do tomorrow night. So we may have ourselves one of those good old fashioned late afternoon Friday night lines coming. So maybe the kids can watch, not actually act on it because it's gambling-centric. But maybe the kids can watch. Let's dive into the show. We've got a lot of different directions to go. I appreciate you guys being tuned in live.

Many more of you will probably watch the replay because it's the middle of a workday right now.

What is the mood at Alabama? We do mood trackers all the time. We take a temperature of the fan base.

And right now, it is heavily dependent around Alabama football, your mood based on your age,

which is not normally the way we cut the pie. Normally it's a one-size-fits-all, but you're either false alarming or you're freaking

out. And basically, those people who are 35 or older have lived through famine as an Alabama

fan. And those who are 30 or younger, I know math, guys.

I know you were technically alive when Mike Shula and maybe even Mike Dubose roamed the sidelines

and Mike Price roamed the Gulf Coast, if you know, you know.

But you don't really know it because a child cannot really fully appreciate it.

If you don't have your driver's license yet, you can't fully appreciate the

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