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The Paul Finebaum Show

Hour 2: Live from the Fiesta Bowl

The Paul Finebaum Show

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Paul is live from Arizona and is joined by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today, Jordan Rodgers, SEC Nation and Michael Katz, NE MS Daily Journal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi there. Surprise.

0:02.0

30 for 30 presents Booja.

0:05.2

Can I get a witness from the congregation?

0:08.1

You can't stop authenticity.

0:10.0

Boo ya!

0:11.0

Stewart was exactly like you saw him on camera, off camera.

0:14.5

He dialed it up 10%.

0:15.7

Can you imagine the impact of young black boys and girls looking at that going, I feel seen.

0:21.4

He changed the culture. He changed sports.

0:24.2

Stream Booja, presented by Medello, right now on the ESPN app.

0:31.0

The pride, passion, and pageantry of college football lives here.

0:39.8

This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, Our 2 podcast.

0:45.4

This might be college football.

0:50.1

Welcome back, and we're in beautiful Arizona.

0:54.0

Just spectacular, even though that's not from today.

0:57.0

If you look outside right now, you think you were in the middle of a hurricane.

1:00.0

Welcome back here to State Farm Arena. I just found that you did not really like it out here.

1:07.0

No, I don't at all. It's okay. I mean, first of all. I lot of people do. Yeah, I think it's a lot of overratedness. I don't love it. First of all, the fact that it's even going to rain out here is amazing. It never rains out here. And so the fact that it's sprinkled yesterday, it's going to rain today. We just had about an hour thunderstorm, lightning. I mean, It was like coming down heavy. I can't believe it. Look, I've played in this stadium a few times. I came out here when it was nothing out here. None of this other stuff. It was just grass that they cooked outside and then they bring it into the stadium. They rolled it in on the trays. I love the, you know, the technology behind that. That's really cool to have

1:45.5

natural grass indoors. But I want to know why you don't like it here. Okay, I'll just tell you.

1:50.5

All right. Here we go. Here we go, Paul. Number one, it's extremely hot. I think, I think,

1:55.2

you know, everything here is 45 minutes away. It is like nothing's close. I've done NBA All-Star

2:00.0

here mid. It was okay. A lot of traveling.

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