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All right. Hello. Welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still the A for a mention Chase Thomas coming to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee Everything School, HQ.

Joining me, Caleb, Mitchell, of more important issues. Caleb, good evening, sir. How are you? Good evening. I'm doing good. As good as you can be coming off a loss. Yeah. It's not bad. It's been a couple days. You should feel pretty good. A lot of people, I mean, you have Joey Galloway putting you in the top three in the nation right now. It's taken a lot of personal growth to get to this point where just three days removed from a loss, I can be okay. Thank you for being honest. Well, I'm proud of you. Thank you. I'm proud of you, Kail. Sporting the ETSU golf hat. He's not ready to put back on the orange and white. He needs a little bit of a breather. I've won it all week. I just, this had, uh, I got it the week of the ETSU game actually.

It was sent to me the week of the ETSU game. Did you wear ETSU merch to the game? Do what? No, that's what I'm saying. I couldn't. So this is, I just took the sticker off this evening because I was, for a hat to wear and thought it was time.

Well, Caleb, you don't want to have Tennessee play West Virginia here in Charlotte because Alex Arcus, he's going to have some problems.

What a great segue.

It would have been an absolutely horrible week had West Virginia, and it looked like they were going to lose that game.

And, man, did Rich Rod do his thing and pull it off? And, I mean, the Steelers lost, Tennessee lost, but the Mounties pulled it out. So that's all I care about. Listen, I only hate West Virginia when we play them. I actually started on our podcast Sunday night, Alex, I started an eat shit pit champ. I think it's one of my favorites in all of college football. It is. And I'm sure

you've heard this week Caroline rendition. Yeah. Oh, that's what I sang. Yeah. It's fantastic.

Yeah. So yeah, it was almost a disastrous weekend, but thank you, Mountiers. What, did you call Mounties? Is that a nickname? Yeah. Did they do Mountaine? No, it's, it's, it's me and my dad, I don't know if it's a more, like, nationwide thing, but me and my dad have just always called them the Mounties. I don't know. Nears? We call them, okay, it's normally ears. It's not nears. It's ears. That's like the more well-known nickname, but I like calling them the Mounties better. I don't hate Mounties. I just had never heard it before I was like, I did. Yeah. Canadian. Yeah, it's interesting. I don't know if I've ever heard anyone else outside me and my dad say it either, yeah hey get it going man yeah trade market now

get ahead of this thing just in case it catches on you're like hey i'm stuck to sarcus family

planning their flag on the mounting name well uh before alex has to deal with the house divided

with west virginia tennessee and charlotte sooner rather than. We are going to talk some Tennessee football from this weekend.

Obviously, Caleb doesn't want to do it.

But, oh, I guess I'll ask you this, because Alex, you're in the press box.

You're kind of, this wasn't, I imagine the experience for you.

But Caleb, what was your personal experience with the security and everything else

that everybody's talking about?

Were you affected or no?

No.

I mean, it was actually one of the most orderly lines I've ever seen outside of a sporting event.

It's not an official gate, but when you come through the east side, right before you get to the concourse they've started a security

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