Ingram Smith Bud Elliot back again for another episode of the Noel cast Bud.

Real excited to continue to do our pre-season kind of preview series if you will.

And it's timely, appropriate, and it would not make sense to do it would not make sense to do any other

position group other than running back so we're recording this around nine

o'clock in the evening on Monday the 24th,

Bud, your site, all Florida State sites, beat reporters, etc.

Have covered the Dalvin Cook case.

Today we have kind of an absolute resolution as far

as that matter goes. So we wanted to wait on the running back podcast. We did wait

on the running back podcast and we can now have that podcast with a kind of much

greater sense of surety as to what's really going on at that position group.

But before we get into it, I did want to mention Syria Wars and George Franklin the author of the book

again talk about how just appreciative we are of the sponsorship and what they've

been able and how instrumental they've been in providing

the kind of capital to move forward with a lot of the projects that we've wanted to do with this

podcast for well really a couple years now. So we've wanted to do with this podcast for well really a couple years now so we've

talked about just some of the general topics of the book and Franklin's rise

in kind of the lobbying world or rather his start. But today I wanted to read your passage

that I think is as appropriate of any in the book, particularly when you consider the subject

of this podcast and what he's talking about. So very quickly.

Securing an insatiable demand for economic incentives commonly referred to as

corporate welfare has been the new growth area for government relations over the past couple of decades.

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