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The Matt Jones Podcast

Ryan McGee

The Matt Jones Podcast

Matt Jones

Sports

2.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Matt Jones Podcast welcomes on Ryan McGee, ESPN senior writer and co-host of the Marty & McGee podcast, to break down the latest in the world of college football and when we could see a return to action. Highlights: Is there more of a push to start college football than other sports? The outside forces at schools making things complicated The decision to bring fans back and who will be making that call Will we see a fan uproar about who can come to games and where they sit? The passing of Tennessee football legend Johnny Majors Does Ryan agree with Matt's take that Tennessee and Nebraska are the two schools that have fallen off the most, historically speaking? Why is NASCAR not as popular as it once was? Southern accents in the media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I was gambling in Havana.

0:17.0

I took a little risk.

0:25.0

Said lawyers, guns and money. dead get me out of this.

0:27.0

How!

0:28.0

Welcome everybody to episode 74 of the Matt Jones podcast the sixth one we've done since we restarted and I think the first person I scheduled to do one of these when we restarted

0:42.0

was Ryan McGee of ESPN you've seen him on you know he writes about everything he was NASCAR college football

0:48.9

Marty and McGee it's taking us a while to get connected because we've both we've been passing in the night, but it's good to have you here. How are you doing? I'm good. Yeah, so when this thing started which I had just seen you

1:03.0

I was in Lexington working on our Big Rex Chapman story.

1:07.0

And then like literally one week later,

1:09.0

right after I saw you is when everything shut down.

1:11.0

I was on my truck on the way to the airport to go to Nashville for the SEC tournament.

1:15.0

But when this thing started, we had this huge Rex Chapman piece,

1:19.0

and that kept me really busy like the first two weeks of quarantine. And I was like man I don't know what I'm

1:24.3

gonna do after that and I have been so busy I mean as you know every day I'll wake up

1:28.9

and there's something else I got to write about or something else I got to do. And, but I'll take busy over,

1:34.6

but cleaning out the garage and working in the yard

1:38.0

and all that stuff, as you can attest,

1:40.5

I can't even make time for a podcast.

1:42.4

So it's a little busy. test I can't even make time for a podcast so I totally understand you you

1:46.1

listen you're a busy man somebody are coming back yeah all that stuff

1:49.3

somebody is well it stopped somebody's beeping I'm hit my girlfriend's apartment and New York City is so different than everywhere else

1:56.4

and it's you have to buzz people in and people just ring it all the time

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