All right. Hey, man, we know it's football time when we got Brad Powers on the show,

loving the podcast, hit the books. You got to go check us out. I've shared it on the timeline.

I always learn something from Brad on Hit the Books. You got to go check us out. I've shared it on the timeline. I always learn something from Brad on Hit the Books. Brad, thank you so much for joining me. Really appreciate you.

Thanks for having me again. We've been doing this several years. Now the years go by quick, but I'll tell you what, no better time than this time of year. Because all the hopes and dreams are there for everybody.

Nothing's been dashed yet, but give it a few weeks, and it'll be a different tune for a few fan bases.

Yeah, no doubt.

Hey, I appreciate that you're rocking the Alabama hat.

So let's just start with the Crimson Tide because I heard you say this over the off season and I'm you know

I really value your opinion I believe you said you've bet Alabama you got good odds for them to

win the national title and I believe I recently heard you even say you bet Ty Simpson to win the

heisman now this this is not like you guarantee in either one, but you found good value in each of those.

Can you go into, why did you place those wagers and are you feeling good now that Ty Simpson is a starting quarterback?

Yeah, well, I think you hit on most important.

It's all value for me.

It's not like a prediction because, I mean, I'll make a ton of bets.

It's just always what number can I get it at and do I perceive, you know, for certain odds,

it's something overrated and underrated and not being priced accordingly.

But with Alabama all offseason, just I haven't felt they've been priced accordingly.

They were way low and when some of these

numbers were coming out, whether it be week one against Florida State or the wind total. And keep in mind,

some of this stuff has been out since as far back as January. So I've been very pro Alabama in the

betting markets. I'm willing to give Kalin-Nabor, you know, I'll give him an asterisk for last year.

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