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That's A-N-P-I-R-E. Always much appreciated it. Today, I'm joined by former Washington Corner,

Fred Smoot. Great conversation with Fred, always entertaining. We talk football, we talk

what he would do in the rematch against the

Giants. We talk about what's a Fred Smoot Christmas like. And guess what, folks, he's not the

loudest guy at the table. If you know Fred, it's hard to believe. We also talk a little bit about Mike

Leach, who coached at his alma mater, Mississippi State. So when I taped this with Fred, it was Tuesday. We just found out about Mike

Leach. So we did start off the conversation with that. Stick around for Fred for a minute.

I do want to go over a couple of injury updates. And one other thing that I'm asking, I want to

help out a little bit here. So if you remember a couple years ago, I did some private Zooms for people,

wanted to talk to people going through

maybe a tough time just to offer you a little, offer somebody a little distraction, talking football,

whatever. I'd like to do that again. If you know anybody going through a tough time, this holiday

period, for whatever reason, drop me a line, hit me up with John underscore Kime on Twitter. You can

drop a line on YouTube under the comments and we'll connect that way.

But take advantage of that and I appreciate it.

So that's one thing.

Two of the injuries.

Let's go over the injuries really quick.

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