Ingram Smith, but Elliot back again for another episode of the Noelcast.

But as always, we kind of put our notes together to a collective sheet that we shared,

although this week I'll let the listeners know that you carried a lot more of the workload than I did.

We are pretty much going to turn this into just a listener Q&A.

We opened the floor for questions regarding whether it was Patreon, Twitter, whatever else,

and pretty much everything that we received to use an overused cliché,

checked every box that we had from a content perspective, and literally checked what we had on the

sheet. So we'll go into this and pretty much turn it over to the listeners, see where it goes,

have a good back and forth, free-flowing conversation. I'm sure a lot of this will be tied to the

new hire, new coaching staff, salary of said coaches, and everything else tied to the

Mike Norville era. But before we get into it, Louisiana Hot Sauce makes everything possible

for the Noelcast title sponsor, since show one, want to give them acknowledgement, thank

them for the support they give us, tip of the hat to them that makes everything that we do possible.

Absolutely, man. It's a great product for us, and we use it on just about everything, and they've

been with us throughout the process. All right, to lead us off here, we have a batch of questions

that are largely about the search and the search process. So, Christian asked, just for kicks,

can we hear some of the, some of the reported 30 names that the admin talked to that we maybe

wouldn't have expected? This is a name that I think we might have mentioned at the very earliest

part of the process, but I'm not sure we talked about much in the back half. I know they

good healthy glance at Matt Rule, that's not necessarily a name that people wouldn't expect.

I know other people mentioned it, but honestly, we were, we put most of the cards on the table

when it came to the names that we heard. There was, and we pretty much discussed every name that

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