Welcome to Deadcast, a podcast taking you through the week of sports lunacy.

Here are Deadspin, editor-in-chief Tim Marchman and columnist Drew McGarry.

Call me crazy, Marchman, but seems to me like Missouri is trying way too hard to fit into the SEC now that they've joined it.

Am I wrong in assuming that?

It sounds right to me.

You know, it's weird, though.

I mean, honestly, because prior to them joining the SEC,

I never really thought about Missouri because Missouri,

why would you give a shit?

But since then, it's been a powder keg.

And this past week has been just this remarkable

cluster fuck. I don't even know how to say it, but, you know, of all these different, you know,

sort of, you know, we had these protests and now and now national interests are coming in and

hot takers are hot taking their shit all over it. And it's just this big

galactic mess. And it seems to me like this wouldn't have happened if they hadn't joined the

SEC. Like they're at the party being like, oh, do you guys smoke? Oh, we smoke too. Here,

give me eight cigarettes. Oh, I love, I love cigarettes. I try to fit it.

It's crazy.

So let's try and give the best overview we possibly can,

even though we're very, very far removed from the situation.

And are just as ill-informed about everything that's going on as you, the listener, at home.

So let's start at the beginning with the hunger strike from Concerned Student 1950,

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