From the Clark Ford studio in Oxford, Mississippi, MBW Digital, proudly presents the Oxford Exxon podcast.

I'd say thanks for tuning in, but why am I going to give you a round of applause for something that you're supposed to do, to be frank?

And now, here are your hosts, Chase Palm.

And broadcast school is really paid off.

And Neil McCrady.

I deserve to be on team. Welcome into our weekly visit with Ben Minth, Barstool Sports.

Ben's been doing this every single week all year as we record this on a Tuesday afternoon.

It's November the 22nd, a couple days, like about 48 hours as we record this before the Egg Bowl,

Ole Miss and Mississippi State wrapping up the regular season at Vaught Hemingway.

Obviously, that's not the storyline that everyone is focused on, but they will play a football game,

and there will be a lot of other football games.

And Ben has been kind enough all season long to go through the college slate, go through the NFL slate, help all of us with some little betting tip here and there. So Ben, as always, man, thanks so much for doing this all year. This has been great. Oh, yeah, I always enjoy it. Look, Neil, I love coming on here, and I love the audience. You have with Ole Miss fans, and it's great to get to reach them through this. And hey, man, you always, anytime I come on and talk to football gambling, I'm always always all for it. Thanks for having me. I guess I'll ask you real quick, Do you have any kind of thoughts on Lane Kiffin? If in the event that this is the end,

how will you reflect on his time at Ole Miss? quick. Do you have any kind of thoughts on Lane Kiffin? In the event that this is the end,

how will you reflect on his time at Ole Miss? And do you have any thoughts on what they,

what would happen moving forward? And is there any part of you that thinks maybe he ends up staying?

Well, look, my, I feel like, and this is something that's maybe people know this about me.

Like, I'm probably a little bit too much for an eternal optimist just at heart in general. And I feel like it's a good way to look at life. Like, I feel like I'm a glass half full guy and I try to always, like, make the best of everything. And it's like playing, honestly, it's like playing mental gymnastics a lot. Like, how can you look for the good in really crappy situations? You know, but this thing, like, the only thing that I'd say positive, I don't know anything that anybody else doesn't know. I'm not going to sit here and say that. I just know the way the coaching carousel and rumors and the agents and everything. Like, I still believe no one, like,

knows anything, like, firmly concrete. And maybe I'm wrong. We'll see. Obviously, I can tell the public sentiment disagrees to me heavily. And I don't know, like I said, I don't know anything. It's like saying, oh, I know he's going to stay. I just feel like no one knows anything when comes to stuff. I remember when Brian Kelly with Dillus you last year,

nobody had a had the first clue. It's just there's so much posturing going on with agents and ADs and coaches for money that, you know, I just don't know. And maybe that's me having rose-colored glasses and maybe I'm just about to eat it. I'm not coming out here on your program and saying,

oh, I know Lane's going to stay at Ole Miss.

I don't know that.

But until I see him announce that Auburn officially,

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