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Oh, what's going on?

I hope you're enjoying your evening slash early morning.

You know, it wasn't a sign of the apocalypse.

It was a sign of jackass, basically, is what it was.

So, real fast, Eddie Garcia has tweeted out, it's fake.

So if you're just joining us, I fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.

So initially the, I know, add me to the duped broadcasters list over here.

There was, I'll tell you real fast, the USFL had their draft on Tuesday night, and the Michigan Panthers tweeted out, it was a fake video of the pick being announced, and it's Shea Patterson, former Michigan Wolverines

quarterback. And they just have this bar going nuts. Turns out it's fake. Justin Cooper is like,

yeah, they've been doing that for a while now. I'm like, oh, news to me. So my initial reaction

was, this can't be real. It's Shea Patterson. I even tweeted something

about like, this can't be a real thing. And somehow from that first reaction, it went to,

it's got to be real. And it wasn't. I fell for it. So yeah, that's me raising my hand.

Jackass, you know, now serving number 55, that's me, that's me, I'm the jackass.

Yeah, it happens.

Feel free to hit us up, 8779 on Fox is your phone number.

Okay, I got a couple of things to get to here before we get to the calls.

Now, Tom Izzo, the Michigan State head basketball coach, we're not going to get into, like the Joanne Howard story.

We talked about it.

We're not going to reopen that whole can of worms.

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