Hey Fighten Tigers,

All right, welcome in to another edition of Hey Fighten Podcasts, presented by Marathon Petroleum.

That's right, Hester.

We have a presenting sponsor now thanks to the folks at Marathon Petroleum for making us feel like we're in the big leagues. I feel like the real deal now. This isn't just you and me in my office

with a roadcaster. Like we've got a studio. We've got Marathon Petroleum with the logo recognition

on the brand there. Like we're coming up in the

world, Hester. It's a new era. We've been doing this for a long time and this feels as official as

it's ever felt. We have done this show on a bench sitting outside of the Rose Bowl. We have done

this show on the back of a very loud bus after victories and after losses as which are the worst as well, which are you're trying to whisper, but you have to be loud enough for the people to be able to hear it when they play it back. So we've done this show in a lot of locations. I don't want to talk about your office that doesn't have any windows. Your old office. Old office. Because now you have windows in your office. So we've done it everywhere, but this, by far, is the nicest location we've ever done the pod. Yeah, and this is all brought to you by LSU Gold, which is really exciting. Everyone by now hopefully has heard about LSU Gold. Hopefully some of you are watching this on LSU Gold. But if you're listening on the podcast feed, go to LSU. Dot Gold, sign up there. I've done the sales pitch a million times right now.

I'm just going to fast forward through it.

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first of all, the numbers just kept going up and up of people subscribing, which was awesome. Right. And then the feedback was becoming more and more positive to the point where even a lot of the skeptical people that we had heard from, it was like reluctantly positive. It was like, you know what? I watched the first episode. It was actually pretty good. I actually, you know, watch the first episode of the follow documentary with brian kelly it was good i'll i'll go ahead and give

this a try so that that's what we want. We want to prove to people that it is worth the investment. So we're excited about that. But this stays free. This is, if you're listening on the podcast feed right now, and you can't see us. We are in a nicer space, but it's still the same old hate fighting podcast as it's always been. So in that spirit, Hester, let's dive in. You were at

SEC Media Days all last week. Was that last week? Everything feels like both yesterday and also

10 years ago. There's a chance it was two weeks ago. It could have been last week as well.

Sure, why not? I don't even know. I was out sick last week. So I think it was two weeks ago. Okay. It could have been last week as well. Sure, why not? I don't even know. I was out sick last week. So I think it was two weeks ago. And remind me where it was because I kept saying it was in Hoover and I think it was in Atlanta, right? It was in Atlanta. Yeah, we did. So we did do an episode from my hotel room off this iPad, which y'all were not very happy with the internet. That's right. Your audio sounded awful. It sounds great today. I don't think it was me. I think it was definitely you. I'm going to blame you. It wasn't the seven attachments that I had to this iPad that was on an ironing board trying to make the camera angle look good. I think it was definitely, definitely used. So yeah, I think that was

two weeks ago, though. Yeah, two weeks ago. So two weeks out from SEC Media Days, would you learn

about LSU there? I know you were there in your broader media capacity with like the six other

hats that you wear, whether it's off the bench, whether it's off campus? Yeah. Off campus.

I just like the off, I guess.

Yeah, the off, off.

I got a soccer podcast that's coming up off the pitch.

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