Welcome to the State of recruiting's open mic.

I'm Mike Roach of Horns 247, and this week's show features a sit-down interview with Josh Page of 24-7 sports.

Josh is our new director of video, and he's churning out great college football content with his show, The Lake Kick.

Josh talks about his career, The Path 224-7, some of the best players he ever got to see

in high school and his view of Texas from outside of the state. So please enjoy this conversation

with Josh Pate of 24-7 sports. All right, joining me this week on Open Mic is our new national director of video here 24-7 sports.

He is host of Lake Kick, and right now is crushing some of the best college football content you can find out there.

It is Josh. Hey, Josh, thanks for joining me today.

I appreciate you having me, man. I appreciate the compliments.

I need to get you to introduce me instead of myself introducing me. like I said I and I tweeted a couple weeks ago is you know it's been hard

you know as well as I do like what this pandemic has has really stopped all the built in content

that we get and all the built in things that we build content off of and yet you know you're

still out there

nightly putting out great content on your late kick show. It's something I've been tuning

into just to kind of get in touch with college football. And so I would definitely recommend

everybody to take a look at that. I wanted to kind of start and see, you know, what is your,

what has your road been

on getting to 24-7? What was your, you know, your past? When you came out of college,

what did you want to do? And how did you get here? Well, when I came out of college, I had no

idea what I wanted to do. I had a loose idea. Let me rephrase. I had a loose idea that I wanted to do

something in sports media. That's what I was passionate about. I did not have the wherewithal

or at that time the mentality to go about achieving such lofty goals. And so I worked in a fabric

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