Room temperature takes on Bowl Season
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Andy Staples and Max Olson give their room temperature takes on all of the hot topics coming out of bowl season including player opt outs, Kirk Herbstreit's viral comments on college gameday, a playoff expansion bracket and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show. It is a Monday. There are but two games left in the college football season. |
| 0:23.5 | One is a Texas Bowl between LSU and Kansas State, and apparently there was a rodeo event that usually determines the winner. |
| 0:30.7 | So congratulations to LSU, I guess. |
| 0:33.1 | And then there's the national championship game between Alabama and Georgia, the product of two extremely boring semifinals that hopefully will create an exciting final. |
| 0:42.3 | It was pretty exciting the last time they played for the national championship, but we'll see. |
| 0:45.9 | But right now, we got to get into some takes. |
| 0:49.6 | And I realize when you are listening to sports talk, your audio version of sports talk, you're usually expecting some molten takes. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, we're not going to do that. |
| 1:00.8 | I brought on Max Olson because he and I are terrible at hot takes. |
| 1:05.6 | We are great at room temperature takes. |
| 1:07.8 | So this is going to be a day of room temperature takes. You have had an entire weekend of scorching takes. So this is going to be a day of room temperature takes. You have had an |
| 1:11.8 | entire weekend of scorching takes. You've had the folks on ESPN, Dan Wolkin at USA Today who |
| 1:20.3 | never met a take he couldn't heat up, Dennis Dodd, all of these people blasting you |
| 1:26.7 | from the take furnace |
| 1:28.7 | well we're here to bring the thermostat down a little bit |
| 1:31.7 | we're going to talk about these things |
| 1:33.4 | but we're not going to |
| 1:35.2 | we are not here to get ratioed today |
| 1:37.2 | no that's what we're not no we are not |
| 1:39.0 | we may get a little |
| 1:41.4 | spicy but if we do |
| 1:42.5 | the other one probably needs to start yelling at the other one |
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