This is an I-Heart podcast.

You may not know it.

You may not sense it, but I do.

You know that you're shaping the entire world of college

football coverage the way you always wanted to. I remember being a young JP and I would watch

the way games will broadcast and I would certainly listen to the way it was talked about in

random studios 2,000 miles away from me and I would think, I wish it was done this way. But that was it.

You don't really have control over it. At least you don't in 1997. But in 2023, you do.

Whole new world. And I just want to tell you without outright telling you, last week when we were

at Media Days, there were a lot of people there having a lot of conversations. I hope I've been specific

enough. And the conversations center around we can't afford to do it the way we've always done it

because the way we used to do it included us being able to take traffic in audience patterns for granted.

And now they've got so many options and they've got, you know, things like the internet.

And so they can choose where they want to go. Trust me, when I tell you, it may not seem like it's happening overnight. You are shaping we, because I think right along with you, actually, that's why we do the show the way we do. We are shaping the way the sport is actually covered and talked about every single year, it shifts more and more of that direction.

So happy to be a small part of it.

Appreciate you guys being a large part of it.

We are live, Hayatape Sun-drenched downtown Nashville, Tennessee at Sunday, July 23rd.

The Year of Our Lord, 2023.

Do a lot of people seem confused to you right now?

Maybe in your life. maybe in college football.

I think there's some confusion out there. I think we've got a mild disease that we need to talk about,

maybe even treat on tonight's show. I've got what ifs and bold predictions. I've got a deep dive on Mike Norvel. I've got South Carolina spotlight. All that. And we're headed to

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