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The future is open. Welcome in to Outkick the show. I am your fearless leader, Clay Travis.

Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling into nearly the weekend.

Happy 21st anniversary to my wife, Laura, about to head out to dinner with her.

I hope that wherever you are, you are ready for an early Thursday.

No show tomorrow scheduled unless chaos happens.

And by the way, we're going to dive into a bunch of different things, but the D.C. crime story

continues to dominate all the news as we get ready tomorrow for Trump to go meet with Vladimir Putin.

We got a great clip from Northern Illinois football coach,

who is, I think, saying a lot of things that I believe are actually super important

and that very few people are actually willing to say about NIL and about making long-term decisions instead of focusing on short-term gain.

And I'm going to play that for you and just kind of expound upon it because I think it was so

fabulously well said.

And in fact, let's go ahead and start there.

This is Northern Illinois football coach, who you may remember from

their big win last year over Notre Dame, which arguably was maybe the biggest upset that we saw

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