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Welcome back. We are live in Austin.

Gorgeous afternoon here on the final day of October.

Calendar changes and football season will be changing at the end of this weekend as well

with some contenders going to the back of the line.

Marty Smith joining us.

Always great to see Marty on a sun-drenched afternoon,

and I'm always curious where the world, according to Marty, has been this week. Apparently,

you've been all over. Yeah, I'm doing a college game day feature for next weekend and made my way

to West Point. And I'll tell you, man, being up there and spending time with those young men and Coach Munkin, who's a great man,

you're reminded of just how accomplished and put together those young people are that achieve enough to have the opportunity to attend that institution.

And I can't wait for you guys to see that piece. It'll run next

weekend right before Veterans Day. It's a piece on that young man Larry Pickett and his father who

saved that man from that burning car. And what an incredibly heroic moment for them. It was great.

But to be up there with them was cool. Was in Riley Tuesday. I'm doing a moment for them. It was great. But to be up there with them was cool.

It was in Raleigh Tuesday.

I'm doing a piece for NFL countdown.

I did that all day yesterday, and then I came here this morning.

I got here, which was sort of a miracle.

Yeah, we've all, some of us today felt the government shutdown firsthand as the system has not broken yet, but the cracks

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