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of a despair carried lightly and yet heavily at the same time across the moors of Old England.

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Wow! College football's only podcast, the brainchild of, I don't know, several people who have to

combine to have a brainnet. I mean, leave a dead man as a society, but this show is Y'all's fault.

All of yours fault. No, I mean you and Jason, not the audience. It's true, although consider this,

we spend the better part, 11 months, conspiring, cooking up, things that we don't think can happen

in college football. And then rivalry week comes along and they all come true. And we did that,

Jason. I feel pretty good saying that. Yeah, I think it was a couple of months ago when the college

football producer came to us and said, hey, fellas, we need a script. And we sat down and we said,

okay, so we have a few ideas for the iron bowl. We don't have to do all of these, but let's say

Bama does just miss a field goal. We've seen that a billion time. Let's have Bama like

don't a field goal and like a late one, you know, like very, very critical crucial.

We've seen Bama throw a pick six before. Well, let's let's do like two of them. And like one in

the end zone off like the butt of Bama's best player for a hundred yards. What if we did that?

Yeah, yeah, let's also have that be like the third most embarrassing thing that happens during that game.

Yeah. And then like and then like toward the end, let's have the greatest college football coach

full-time like forget how to count, you know, maybe and be outwitted by a high school guy.

And we're you know, we went to the producer, we're like, okay, so like which of these ideas do

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