Hey Fighters, All right, welcome back to another edition of Hey Fightin' Podcast,

presented by Marathon Petroleum, get the most out of your drive.

Harrison Valentine, joined by one of the most recognizable faces in college football media,

and apparently executive producer for Outer Banks as well.

Hey.

Josh Pate, Josh, welcome to Baton Rouge, and thanks for joining us.

Yeah, you're not lying. I mean, you go to Wikipedia. It says my first and last name.

It says executive producers, so it's good work if you can get it. You know, like getting all the credit for a show, but actually not knowing anything about the show or doing anything to produce the show. That's the best work in Hollywood. You're getting some recommendations on how to improve the show from people in your DMs? Yeah, mostly in the unopened message category. I've got a lot of good suggestions, and I just forward those right on to the actual showrunners.

I saw that on your Twitter yesterday.

I had to bring that up.

But there is a football game to talk about, obviously a big one tomorrow, a de facto

playoff game between number 15 LSU and number 11, Alabama.

But before we get into that, I wanted to give you a chance to

kind of give our listeners a little look into you and your story as well. I saw a video of you

explaining how 2019 was a massive year for you and the growth of your shows. And you credited

a lot of that to LSU and the run.

They went on with Joe Burrow and Jefferson and Chase.

And so if you could, just walk us through what the last couple of years have been like.

And I know you talked about it on your show, but just break down how and why LSU may have a special place in your heart. Well, there's no maybe to me. I said

maybe because I have a national audience and you know you want to sort of sort of leave it up to

interpretation. In my mind, there's no doubt about that. So back around the mid 20 teens is when the

whole digital thing started to tilt and it started to be taken seriously and people didn't look at you

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