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Another edition of the Late Kick Extra podcast.

It is Tuesday.

It is September 28th, The Year of Our Lord,

2021. I got about an eight of a tank remaining when it comes to voice. I barely have a horse right now. You notice I'm speaking a little bit lower and a little bit softer, mouths a little bit

closer to the microphone. I don't know if I'm going to make it all the way. I already feel like

I'm bear crawling to the finish line, but we cannot miss an episode right now for reasons I'm about to tell you about in just a second. So I'm going to try and make it if I stop at any time. If the voice cracks, if I begin whispering, don't make it awkward. Just go with it. You and I will make it together. For those of you unfamiliar, and judging by the

spreadsheet that our buddy Lance Glenn sends me every Monday morning, that means a few thousand of you

week by week. This is the late kick extra podcast. Not to be confused with late kick live. We do an

exclusive mailbag twice a week on Tuesday morning and Thursday morning. You can't find this anywhere

else. It is podcast only,

and it is you asking, and it is me responding as best I can. Josh Pate706 at gmail.com. That's one way

to get at me. The more frequently trafficked ways are on Twitter and Instagram in the DMs,

at late kick Josh. And also lately, I've just been tweeting out 20 minutes before I start recording. Hey, I'm about to start recording. Drop your questions here. And that's where I've been getting a lot of them. Also the podcast review section. I get them from there too. But thank you so much. So I told you I was about to tell you why we can't miss a show. Every Monday, I get a new traffic report. I get YouTube traffic.

I get podcast traffic. Our numbers are mind-boggling right now. We have low-range,

mid-range, and high-end estimates for what we can achieve every single month. And it's September

27th. As of two days ago, we had already hit above the top end of the projections for YouTube

and for podcast. And as you know,

podcast, although you happen to be listening to it right now, this is not even the main channel that we put

late kick on. YouTube is the main platform over on the 24-7 sports YouTube channel. That's the main way

that late kick has always been consumed. Podcast, as you've noticed, we've been taking a lot more serious lately.

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