Greetings and welcome back to One True Pod.

We are the Big 12 podcast on the Andy Staples Show and Friends podcast feed.

Thank you, as always for listening.

My name is Max Olson, and I'm joined today by my dear friends and colleagues, Sam Con Jr. and Jason Kersey.

This is our holiday bonanza edition of the podcast.

I mean, not really.

We're, you know.

It's close. It's soon. It's almost Christmas time. Are we giving gifts to each other or what? Oh, I like that idea. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't plan ahead, but we could. I mean, I have come empty handed. Is this, is this like the last thing you guys have before, for a little Christmas break here? I have to file a story this afternoon.

And then after that, I'm done.

What a sucker.

I know.

Bowl blitz story.

We're doing tales from bowl season on The Athletic.com.

We have a special one for you.

We got a great, great series going this week on the athletic. All sorts of wacky bowl stories. Jason, do you have one of those two? I don't. I was going to, but the craziness of the beginning of the month. That's fair. Yeah, I decided to pass on that. It's been a great series. Hopefully people check that out. Sam, do you want to give a little tease on what you're writing about i'll just say the name without saying the teams i don't think i don't know if everybody will catch a 2012 ticket city bowl okay so

okay there must be a reason why you're why you're writing about that one there i look forward to

reading it there is a reason yeah no it's it's Houston and Penn State. There was a lot going on. Me and Audrey Snyder are doing that story, and there's a lot going on in that game. And mostly building up to that game. So we have gotten some really interesting nuggets, and so I think it will turn out very well. Cool. Cool. Teamwork makes the dream work. Have you guys done any 24-hour fasts lately or are we

kind of back on a normal eating schedule here? Pretty coherent overall or do you guys try to

copy Andy and Ari at all? No, I was I was was a jury world eating, uh, whatever they offered, which was like ultimate

nachos and hot dogs and hamburgers.

Like the, the, I was at the Texas high school state championships over the weekend.

And the spread is not what it is for the college games.

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