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The culture is the culture. It's 4 to 6A to B, competitive excellence, and the Brotherhood.

The plan to win has never changed.

So the culture here and the plan to win is always going to be here in our Louth State. Welcome back to a day, your high school Welcome back to

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This is Bill Landis.

I'm in a hotel room in Birmingham, Alabama, joined by Ari Washman, who was not

in hotel room in Birmingham, Alabama. Ari, have you ever been to Birmingham before?

I have, yeah. Well, I drove through it once. I drove once from Dallas to Houston, and I wrote a

story about Ohio State in Houston. I can't remember what that story was.

And then I once drove back through Biloxi because I'm a gambling addict.

And I wanted to see the casinos down there and then up throughout Birmingham back to Columbus.

I'm excited to get, so I'm five hours from New Orleans.

We're recording us on Thursday morning.

I'm excited to get into New Orleans and get those gas stations with the random casinos attached to them. You're going to go in there and throw a few bucks on some video blackjack when you're getting some Doritos? That's the move. Yeah,

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