Well, welcome in to My Dogs Are Barkin on MPW Digital. My name is Landon.

And man, so glad for you to join us on this Thursday edition of the show.

We have a Friday special tomorrow that will be coming out, which is really, really special.

As we talk with Alden Thornhill, about the 2025 Starkville Derby, the Dots and Dash and everything else going on in the Cotton District on May 3rd.

Really a big deal for the city of Starville and something that I'm excited about.

So that episode will come out tomorrow.

But today we've got a lot of good stuff talking about the portal giving this time to Mississippi State in their recent commitment from Quincy Ballard,

the center joining Mississippi State Bulldogs.

So talk about what that means, kind of what I think his role will be.

And then later on the show, we will listen in from Jeff Levy and hear his thoughts after they wrapped up.

I believe it was their 10th practice.

And so we'll also give some thoughts as to some of the things we saw out there

enduring practice. And you know, I mentioned on the show on Monday, but I want to thank everyone

so much for listening to the show. We were credentialed to cover Mississippi State in person and cover

spring practices. And, you know, those things are very special. And we don't take that lightly,

the ability to be able to do that.

And so we thank you guys so much for listening to the show and giving us a platform to do that on. So a lot of good stuff to cover. But before we get to all those wonderful things, and I do want to apologize for those watching on YouTube, cameras giving us some issues. So we got this angle we're going to work on today. but before we get started, I want to let you know that the show is brought to you in part by Arpa's coffee bar there in the Cotton District. There in Starkville, Jose and his team are wonderful people, and it's a great, great spot. If you're looking for caffeine, if you're looking for food or drinks, man, Arpa's is the spot to go. It's a Venezuelan shop. So you've got Venezuelan coffee, Venezuelan dishes. It's unique. Look, there's a lot of coffee shops in Starville. And there's some good ones there. But you want something unique? Go to ARPAs because they also have some great food. And here's the deal. We'll save you some money, 15% off every single time you go to arpas you can't beat that

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