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It is Sunday night, February 27th, the year of our Lord, 22, jam-packed high atop a festive and sunny

for a change downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Happy to have you alongside. Got a lot of interesting things

happening in the world of, well, streaming entertainment tonight that a lot of us are jacked up for.

But this is wall-to-wall college football. It's very quiet, if you haven't noticed, around the SEC. A lot of you think that's a good thing. Nope, that means disaster's probably right around the corner. We're going to talk about that to lead the show off in just a second. A lot of you want balance in college football too. And everyone's screaming every which way but up about a theory as to how we can achieve that fabled

balance, that competitive balance, even though we've never had it in the history of the

sport. People think in typical unicorn fashion, it's over there, just around the corner. Well,

to some extent, you may be right, just for the wrong reasons, I will detail momentarily. Paying

players. Got a question about this in the old late kick

in box. And I'm going to go down a road that I don't typically like going down tonight,

only because I don't like what the truth is. It's not convenient for my argument. But in the

interest of full disclosure, I will give you the reel, give you the behind the curtain,

on why paying the players has a lot of

people both right and wrong in the same conversation. All that plus the Oregon mood tracker.

The mood tracker series continues tonight on late kick and we will, hey, we'll start spring

in, well, now if you're Missouri and in a few weeks all across the country. So very, very

interesting times in the mood tracker and we're going to continue to do that as we turn our way on through spring. The Twitter space's idea is a go. Just stay tuned. That's all I can tell you. At Lake Kick Josh, make sure you're following on the social platforms. Stay tuned. You know, I used to do something down in Columbus, and I'm going to bring it back. I don't ever know why we stopped doing it. But it's just simple shoutouts. I had someone DM me the other day, I think it was yesterday, and say, hey, I live in Salisbury, Maryland, but they don't live in Salisbury. That's the way I would pronounce it. The locals pronounce it Salisbury. Now, I don't believe in that any more than I believe syrup should be pronounced syrup, but it's not my town. It's your town. So, Jesse, Colin, they are watching us tonight in Salisbury, Maryland, and they're watching us tonight also in Rexburg, Idaho. I think it's a first for us to hear from Rexburg. Now, you know, we have a heavy contingent of viewers in Pocatello and Pocatella,

but we have never heard from Rexberg. So thank you so much. Wherever you're tuned in tonight, Sunrise, Florida, we heard from you guys as well. Thank you for being tuned in. We're giving shoutouts. We're giving geographical shoutouts on the show from now on. I don't ever know why I got away from that. So look, let's dive into this.

We need to have a nice, honest, open forum here

to start the show tonight about approval ratings, but not presidential. We don't delve into the

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