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Pate. It is Tuesday morning-ish. It is certainly March 2nd, the year of World War II. Got a loaded show, got a lot of housekeeping notes to get to right off the top. Let's remind you how this works. It's Q&A, wall-to-wall, unless there's a rare exception, which there may be in a week or two, and I'll let you know about that in probably about two minutes. Josh Pate706 at gmail.com. That's one way that you can submit a question or just a good faith comment. The second way is follow me on Twitter at Late Kick Josh. And remember, there's incentive there. Every thousand followers that we hit on Twitter, there is incentive, which I'm also going to get to in probably about 45 seconds. This is a tough timeline to stick to. So thank you so much for tuning in. What I was talking about, you know what, forget 45 seconds. Let's talk about it now. What I was talking about and what we have been teasing for a couple of weeks now is every thousand followers we get to, a nice even thousand mark on Twitter. I think 13,000 was the most recent that we climbed over. we're going to do something really fun. And so I told you it's coming and now it's here. Here are the details. I'm going to share this on probably late kick live Thursday night. I'll also put it out on Twitter at some point and I'll share it on the Thursday podcast, but you're here now. So you get an early head start. We're doing a very interactive Zoom recording next week that will be turned into a show that will be put on the YouTube channel. It'll also be turned into probably Thursday's edition of this podcast. So you'll hear it. And so here's what I want from you. If you want to be a part of that, if you want to get in on it, it's going to be very interactive, it's going to be conversational, it's going to be Q&A. So it'll sound kind of like what we do on every late kick extra podcast, except you'll be tossing me things instead of me just reading things that you've emailed or you've DM'd me. If you want in on this, email me, Josh Pate 706 at gmail.com. I can't guarantee everyone's going to get on it because I know we're going to get hundreds of submissions, but we're going, I'm working with producer Jordan now. We're trying to nail down the parameters and what the process is going to be. He's going to be our esteemed moderator. He'll probably have video off because as usual, we don't believe in the production crew showing their faces. That's how Colin, that's how Director Colin has become such an enigma on Lake Kick Live. And he prefers it that way. So anyway, here's how it's going to work. You email me, Josh Pate706 at gmail.com. You let me know you want your name, basically insert it into this little quasi-lottery we're going to do. And we will take your name.

We'll write it on a piece of paper. We'll put it in the bin over here. After the Thursday, late kick live, so probably Friday sometime, we will give that bin. We'll give the hopper a big spin. We will draw. I don't know how many names out. It's going to be in the double digits, but I don't know how many names exactly we've landed on yet. We will draw names out and we will let you know accordingly. And then we'll send you a date, a time. We think we're going to record this Monday night. So a week from yesterday, if you're listening on Tuesday, Monday night, if you got a normal job, like no one here at 24-7 has, if you got a normal job and you just work 9 to 5,

we're going to give you time,

so we're not going to do it in the middle of the day.

We're also not going to do it at midnight.

So it'll work out for you, schedule-wise. But again, email me and we will get your name in there, and you got a few days left, but don't put it off. And, you know, it wouldn't hurt to sell yourself a little bit.

It wouldn't hurt to give a pitch, maybe one or two sentences,

why I should be included in the as of now yet to be named, late cake, Zoom special extravaganza,

whatever, whatever. That could be the name, actually. We'll see how marketing feels about that.

So that's out of the way. Now, another thing that's going on is I, here, I'll let you listen to it.

Well, obviously, that's the sound of an apple. I'm spitting all over my windscreen right now. So we get done with the podcast the other day. It's really hard to talking to these things. We get done with the podcast earlier day. You know, producer Jordan says, hey, I got a tip for you. I say, hey, I'm all ears. What is it? He says, I want you to go buy some apples. I want you to eat him. He didn't tell me to do it on air, but he said, this is going to help you with your positives. Now, what positives are, as you noticed, if you've listened to this podcast, is anytime I pronounce a P or a T or, you know, anytime I have to close my lips and it pops this windscreen or if I, you know, if I open and close my mouth, hey, sometimes the Lord made some of us in such a way that it just makes a sound. Now, I contend, as I get done chewing this, I contend that that's just the way that I've been created and it is what it is. And we're going to have to deal with it.

And some of you walk away, I can't blame you because, hey, I can't stand that sound either. But some of you walk away, some of you walk away. But producer Jordan says, no. No, if you just go to Publix for 68 cents, they're going to be able to sell you a device also naturally created that will help you alleviate those problems. So I'll tell you this, friends.

I just bit into that apple.

You heard it right here.

I would not lie. And I just chewed it up. So now we're going to see, because you're going to be able to tell better than I, whether that worked and whether we can still hear any kind of these ridiculous mouth sounds that apparently only I make and none of the rest of the folks in this business have ever had to deal with. And the way I basically look at it is like this. Back in the day, when I first got into TV and they told me that they were going to expect me to wear makeup on air because I had a shiny forehead, I still do for the record. If all I have to do to make it in the podcasting world is eat an apple, which I should be doing anyway, according to my doctor, I'm good with it.

So we'll see a little test run this morning, but we've also got some really good questions this morning, and we will waste no further time. Let's dive in. Matthew has a couple of them, actually. Actually, I think Matthew has about five, but they're all in one submission, very smart on his part. So let me just go in order here. His first question is, how impactful do you think athletic directors are to football programs.

My answer there, Matthew, would be... So let me just go in order here. His first question is, how impactful do you think athletic directors are to football programs?

My answer there, Matthew, would be somewhat to very impactful.

Obviously, most of the time, your athletic director has made the head coaching higher.

Sometimes you'll get a situation where a head coach will be there and then the AD comes in, but most of the time it's the opposite.

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