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Here's your host, Brandon Adam.

I promise we will do today what you expect us to do, which is talk Georgia football and try to have some fun and keep you entertained.

Of course, we're going to do our job as it relates to all that here today.

But it just seems impossible because of where we are right here in the state of Georgia.

It seems impossible to begin the show,

to do the show without acknowledging the horrible, unspeakful tragedy at Appalachie High School yesterday

in the four lives that were lost in that, you know, terrible shooting. And in talking to some of

our video audience before the show began today, I think I am in a similar position to some of you

in that, to be completely

honest with you, and I don't know if this is the right thing or not, but this is just the way

that my wife and I have lived our lives. We have made a decision as parents to protect our

children's innocence at all cost, to let them be kids as long as they possibly can. And this December, my son will be a

teenager. And so some of that starts to slip away just based on just their natural ages. But

nonetheless, we've tried to hold on to that and preserve that for as long as we possibly can.

We're very, very selective about the kind of content we allow into our home. And

sometimes that means we don't just have the news on, right? It's like we're not pumping in all the

scary stuff going on in the world at all given times. We just don't do that really. But when you

have a moment like this at Appalachia High School yesterday, because of a lot of reasons, we just had too much proximity to that.

We were too close to that for a million different reasons to pretend that it didn't happen and not kind of lean into some of the scariness of it and the confusing nature of. And I think many of you sort of

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