This is an IHeart podcast. Yeah, it doesn't look normal, but that's okay.

We do the Pate State speaker series all the time.

But occasionally we will schedule some home and homes.

No neutral sites here.

We don't go to Germany to play games.

So raise your hand when I call your name, Ty Hilda Brandt, Dan Rubinstein, both halves of the solid

verbal podcast mentioned on this show many times.

I used to listen to it.

I still listen to it.

It's way better than our show.

It's my favorite college football pod.

Gentlemen, how are we on the precipice of this 2025 college football season? We're doing well, man. Thank you for the invite. Thank you for the kind words that you offered on your show, I guess a couple weeks ago. We had a lot of new people stop by. So we're thrilled to be here. We've been trying to do this for a while. So I'm glad we were finally able to get it off the ground. couldn't be better by the way I looked at the schedule for week one

and I do it every like

Ford So I'm glad we were finally able to get it off the ground. Couldn't be better, by the way. I looked at the schedule for week one, and I do it every like four to seven days to remind myself that like I need to train for the stamina needed to ingest all of that college football.

We have week zero.

But like a first full Saturday with college football after the darkness of the summer without it, like I just don't want to get too excited at noon Eastern.

I have to pace myself for three full days and I'm not ready yet.

Sure.

I've been, by the way, in a knockdown, dragout internet fight over the concept of week zero.

You know, you do your countdown to kick off and your countdown to the regular

season. Now, it's my personal feel, and that's all it is, by the way, is a personal preference

sort of feel, that the season kicks off in week one. Because that's why we call it week one.

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