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You know I'm not a big newsbreaker.

I let Pete handle that. I let Delinger handle that.

But sometimes Pate State investigates has to jump in the fray. You may remember us from such investigative journalism as confirming that Connor Stallions was on the central Michigan sideline with recordable glasses, might I have.

Some say we broke the Taylor Swift

Travis Kelsey engagement today. I think they may have had that first, but I do need to tell you I'm going to wait to the end of the show to do it because I may get a little worked up. This is not a joke. This is not a drill. That Pate State investigates is going to break some news on the show tonight. And the reason I can afford to wait, even in this cutthroat news of,

or cutthroat world of newsbreaking is I know no one else has this scoop. And it's not good scoop,

people, but it is scoop that we can fix before it goes over the cliff. Meanwhile, we're jam-packed

high atop a sun drenched downtown Nashville, Tennessee on this Tuesday night, August 26th, the Year of Our Lord

2025. Not a sad show, a very happy show. College football kickoff week one is here. We've got game

breakdowns tonight. So LSU Clemson, yes. Notre Dame Miami, yes. Bama FSU, yes. Romanoodle

Express, got three best bets dropping on the show tonight.

I see, and I mean this, nothing standing between us and a three-and-o start.

I do see something standing between Dave Portnoy and accessing Ohio Stadium Saturday,

and that's been a big topic de jure today. I actually have some thoughts on it.

I knew about this.

I knew about it over the weekend. I didn't say anything on the show because, frankly, I didn't think it warranted being talked about on the show. But now that front office, sports is reporting it and Yahoo Sports is reporting it. Yeah, I'll tell you what I think about it. J.P. Pol, dropping on the show tonight. I told you this morning, if you were following me on the social, it's going to be a jam-packed show.

Friends and family, a little worried. Like, is the physical and mental health going to sustain? Not only are we sustaining. We're thriving. We're good. Are you good? We're good. They're watching us in Elberton, Georgia. Osan Air Force Base, which I am reliably informed, is in South Korea. Thank you guys for watching. Harrisburg, PA, which Jesse tells me is in PA. Thank you for watching. And Joplin, Missouri. Happy to have everybody on board. Listen, I need you to do two things. Subscribe to all the channels. And this is me giving you time to do that. And make sure you're following on the socials. At Josh Pate, CFB. You've noticed all of our feeds are blowing up. That's before games have started. We're going to be on the sideline at Ohio State Saturday. At least someone is, right? Unless we trash Ryan Day between now and then. And we are not want to do stuff like that. So we'll be

there. A lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that you get, especially in the Instagram story on

Saturday afternoons, Friday night lines in the Instagram story? Instagram live on a Friday night.

Like, what are you doing? It's free. Josh Pate, CFB over there. Okay, let's dive in.

Got a lot to get to. You here? You're the thickness.

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