Welcome to Andy and Ari on three. Happy Monday. I'm back home. Ari's on the road.

In my childhood bedroom. Yes. What posters used to be back there? There was the Britney Spears poster.

You know, the one with her and the schoolgirl outfit. I kind of still wish I would have kept that stuff up.

But now they just painted it. And it's where my dad puts all of his old stuff. So not a lot of remnants of early Ari, but, you know, it still feels good. A lot of, a lot of milestones in this bedroom. I don't want to know about that. Well, actually, I do want to know about that. Were any of those playing the college football video game back in the day?

Yeah, you used to have a TV television right there and I had my Sega Dreamcast.

That's where the NFL 2K stuff would go on.

And as I got older with the Xbox and the PS2 and all that, that's where this stuff would happen.

So I am very jealous of your trip, just everywhere you were in Florida this past week, but certainly your trip to Orlando. And I've got plenty of questions about the game and what you experienced. I was able to do that last year on a one-on-one visit with one of the makers of the game. And when I played it, I got a good sense for it, but the graphics weren't done. So there was a lot of, like, black boxes and stuff. I don't know. Yeah. Like, almost the finished product, what you played? So this one is an almost finished product. There's, there's, like, I didn't say what anybody's rating was because we were told they might not be done yet.

So that was one.

And last year was the same thing where the ratings were definitely not done when we did the preview last year.

But last year, there was a lot more that wasn't done yet.

I think because they had the game, you know, they brought it back from the dead.

They had a lot more to do last year.

This year, the engine was already created and everything was moving.

So there were a few things.

Like I wasn't sure when I was looking at the coaches, like if they didn't have the real coach,

was that because that guy's not in the game or was that

because they haven't gotten to load him yet like the like the belichick one he was never in madden

so i'm assuming he's not doing this one either so they they have like i want to say the north

carolina coach's name is like hector luna or something like that but yeah i was hesitant to say

if if a coach wasn't in there because maybe they are going to be in there or maybe they had.

Because like the South Carolina entrance where they come into the theme from 2001 now, apparently they just got the rights to that song like within weeks before what we got to play.

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