There was a day where New Year's Eve was a big deal. It was a really big deal, whether it be getting set to go out with friends and different activities and all kinds of stuff. I kind of wanted to rest up on New Year's Eve. Yeah, not anymore. Not anymore. And I'm talking with the staff today. I'm talking with Rich and Alex. Everyone's around here. And everyone's shutting it down early.

Like, we're on the West Coast. We're doing the show out of L.A. And everyone is like, okay, let's watch the ball drop in New York and, like, head to bed. Just a bunch of buzz kills. Shut it down. A bunch of buzz kills around here. New Year's Eve, it's supposed to be fun. We're supposed to be enjoying this. And we are going to take in one final day of 2025 and doing so in the jungle. My name is Trent Rush. So excited to be with you today. They had me last week. I got invited to sit in the Hall of Fame or seat once again today. It's an honor to do just that, especially on this day. I'm a college football

guy, and on this day especially, absolutely love it. By the way, I want to thank our folks at Granger

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or just stop by. You know, this time time of year i do a fair amount of traveling

i was in the airport actually this morning and when you're running around you see a different

group of people in the airport during the holidays which is a completely unique experience to when

you're going like the monday through friday. Everyone kind of knows what they're doing.

I feel like these weeks, this time between Christmas and New Year's and, you know, even

into the first of the New Year, nobody knows what to do.

Nobody, there's no structure, there's no organization, there's no anything.

And that's kind of reminded me a little bit of where college sports are right now.

The structure is out the window.

And we're going to get into some of that.

We're going to have Joshua Perry, former Ohio State Buckeye, national champion with them in 2014.

He'll be with us coming up shortly.

Tim Brando should be joining us as well.

But with the lack of structure in college sports, sometimes that chaos can be a little bit beautiful.

There is nothing beautiful about the chaos in the airport, especially when I see families struggling in the TSA line and the kids are running around.

And these people, they don't really know what to do to begin with. And then they're throwing into the mix like toddlers running. It's a problem. And then nobody at the airport can quite handle it. They're not sure what, they know there's going to be a lot of people, but nobody knows where they're going. Nobody knows what they're doing. And that's exactly what I've thought, watching how college sports has unfolded over the last

several years.

And we've heard from John Caliperi about this and Rick Bettino is now weighing in on this.

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