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Greetings for the next. Greetings from Arizona.

Max and Sam coming to you from the Fiesta Bowl for our latest episode on the Andy Staples Show and Friends podcast for the flagship college football podcast at The Athletic.

Thank you as always for joining us.

I'm Sam Kahn, senior college football writer, also known as the techspurt, joined by our Transfer Portal Guru, National College Football Writer, Max Olson. And we have a special guest today, Austin Meek, Michigan beat rider for the athletic, who is here in Arizona as well, along with the rest of our staff to cover the Fiesta bowl. We're a little bit more than 24 hours away from TCU and Michigan kicking off as we record this,

sitting here in Max's palatial two-story suite at the Camelback. So Max, first I'm going to start by asking, how the heck did you get a hotel room so much better than mine? You get another right people, Sam, you know? It's a pretty big deal. as the Marriott folks know,

sometimes you've got to use those

Sweet Night rewards.

Yours coming out. you know, pretty big deal. It's, uh, as the Marriott folks know, sometimes you got to use those sweet night rewards. Uh, yours coming to an end here and why not use them at the camelback. So yeah, it's been, uh, it's been a solid set up here. Uh, no complaints. Austin, how's your room? Is it as big as mine? Uh, I do not have the balcony in my room. I'm a little bit jealous of that, although I really,

I cannot complain. This is my first time at the Camelback. It's legendary among sports writers, so I'm glad to scratch this one off the list. This is also my first time at the Camelback. This place is sweet. Yeah, I got here in 2016 for the title game, Alabama Clemson part two and after being here that time I

swore myself if I ever had a chance I was coming back so as soon as I saw TCU was in the

Fiesta Bowl max I think you and I were together right after they lost the Big 12 championship game

and we found out they were coming here I was like buddy I want to come I'm coming I'm coming to

Scottsdale Arizona so glad we could all be here. You know, glad we could fly here too. Yes. Oh my gosh. I think we all, I don't know. Austin, you didn't have any travel. Some of us just flew here. I believe you guys had a little driving in there between airports. I fortunately avoided that, so I feel feel for you guys. We, I think Max, you and I drive, I think, six, maybe six and a half hours combined. Yeah. Yeah, I had to drive to Des Moines to fly to Phoenix. A fun fact for the listener, there is a direct flight from Des Moines to Phoenix. I learned that this week. Yeah, I had to leave Houston. My Houston flight got kids, so I had to drive

all the way to Dallas Love Field and then wait around all day and switch flights and endure multiple

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