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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

Nate, how you doing, buddy?

Doing very well. Saturday, joining me today. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. Nate, how you doing, buddy? Doing very well. Saturday. Saturday. See, you actually know, I told Robert right before we're about

the recording, I'm out of espresso beans, and so I held up a can of sugar-free Red Bull.

So that's the type of episode we're going to get into, but I am stoked.

Yes.

Oh, man. Oh, I used to order by the case. That was like, that was like a community thing, though. Like everyone would rotate who bought the box the case of it. You guys all the QC. You have a joint problem when you're on the coaching staff. That's exactly right. You guys all engage in together. There's some crazy energy stuff people used to do.

What's the stuff that the stuff they pour,

they squirt into water? Like, people have that that has like the caffeine stuff. I know guys I just squirt that into it. Mio. Yeah. Yes. They would just squirt that into their mouth, like just mainline it. That's disgusting. That was a step too far for me. I was espresso and a little bit of Red Bull during my QC days or when I'm prepping for a playoff podcast for the athletic football show because here we go. A lot of fun stuff to dig into today. We have two games on Saturday. We're going to talk about both of those today. We're going to have a separate show breaking down the Sunday games. So right when we were prepping today, and I was looking at the schedule,

I was like,

oh,

the Saturday games,

that sounds good.

And all week in my mind, I've been like, oh, I've going to dinner with friends on Saturday. Like my friends, they have a baby and you have to plan around it. Yeah. And at one point today, I was like, you can't go to dinner on Saturday? Like, I'm working on Saturday. That's just how deep into it.

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