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You hear the celebratory paper pop.

I'm back.

It was that time a decade. I took vacation for the firstatory paper pop. I'm back. It was that time a decade.

I took vacation for the first time since COVID, which was like a year long.

Well, they counted them as non-vacation days, but we were out of the office.

But since then, it was on record.

I checked with HR.

I hadn't taken a vacation day since 2020.

So I took a whole week off that some call it a honeymoon, I believe.

And half the SEC and Big Ten was down in St. Lucia, so I really didn't get too far away from you guys.

More about that on the back end of the show, but we're jam-packed high atop, just a sparkling downtown

Nashville, Tennessee on this Thursday, June 12th, the year of our Lord, 2025.

Now, some may say that I missed a lot.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that because by missing, you're implying that I was kind of

without.

And I was not, but there were big news items that happened in college football while I was

gone.

I'm going to kind of talk about them, but from the standpoint like you and I would talk about them if we were out to lunch today,

not necessarily with all due respect the way someone would write about it if you're covering

the sport. I got Big Ten quarterback rankings. I didn't learn my lesson from the SEC.

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