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It is Tuesday, at August 24th, the year of our Lord, 2021, had to be with the computer as we come on air. A lot of freak out in the control room. A few minutes late, one of the blessings of working on this medium is you can really just start whenever you want to. So if the Gremlin's, if the gerbils that are running on the wheels, that control the generators, that power our studio, if they're out to lunch, we can just start at 717. And you'll hang around as you've done. So thank you for that.

We got a jam-packed show, even though we're starting a little bit late. And if you're listening to the podcast tomorrow, you don't even know what I'm talking about. We have an alliance. Yes, we have an alliance. In this post-alliance world, how should we view college football? That's the question on everyone's mind tonight. Oh, side note, what is an alliance? You and I will discuss freely. The JP poll will debut tonight. About 2.30 in the afternoon, I said, Jesse, you ready to make a poll? He said, what poll? J.P. poll. What's a J.P. poll? Well, it's kind of like the alliance. Just wait and see. So the JP poll is debuting tonight. I'm also going to talk about what I can't wait for. And I was talking to a lot of you guys today about what you can't wait for. Now, a lot of you look forward to different things, different aspects of your life, different aspects of college football. I got some things that always come to my mind when I think

college football Saturday in the fall. And so I'm going to share those and you can feel free to

just lose yourself and think right along with me. All that plus, there's a really good feature on 247

sports.com right now about the sleeper players that came out of the transfer portal and some of the names you've heard of

but I think a lot of the names you either haven't heard of or you forgot about and a couple of

them are probably going to impact and maybe even to side games in week one and week zero for that

matter with one of them so make sure you're paying attention hey congratulations to us and

congratulations to you for making me able to

congratulate ourselves. We went over 60,000 subs on the YouTube channel today, which is notable

because Colin wasn't it March? It was March last year where we started the channel cold.

And then they threw a pandemic at us and we didn't know if we were going to even get a football

season. So 60,000 subs is phenomenal. Having said that, 71% of our viewers still aren't subbed. So go

ahead, click it. It's free. Keep the show free. It is free. Keyword free. Also, there were some things

that were leaked yesterday on my Instagram and Twitter pages, channels, whatever you want to call those. And there are going to be some more things coming, maybe even tomorrow. I'm going to let you know what it is at the end of the show. You can tell me when you want me to release it. I'm so happy. I can't stop smiling, which is a good Toby Keith and Sting song from back in the day, by the way. But you can let me know at Lake

Kick Josh. We got some stuff. We got a lot of stuffs that we have to release. I've been teasing

it feels like forever. It's time to release some stuff now. So with that in mind, I'm going to

dive into the show. And I want to tell you, we were going to do some grand season previews tonight.

But because the whole alliance showed up and crashed the party, we were going to do some grand season previews tonight. But because the whole alliance showed up and crashed the party,

I'm going to do our grand season previews a little bit differently this year anyway.

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