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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tice.

Nate, how you doing, buddy?

I'm doing wonderful. It finally feels like fall here in Las Vegas, which is just... What does that mean? High 70s. It feels... It's like late August weather. Everything is like a month behind here, you know, as far as like how I, how you grew up as well in Illinois and how I grew up in Minnesota. Like, you know, we in October, like the weather is perfect here. November, it's pretty good. And then it drops off a cliff. And it's that desert cold here in like December and January, like just that bone, chilling wind. Nothing to break it. Nothing like that. But I will put up with that way more than I'll ever put up

with another Minnesota winner. You're never going anywhere else. You're already too soft. You're

broken. There's no going back now. West Coast, best coast. I was born in Seattle and I just moved

back to the West Coast-ish Pacific time zone. And yeah, I'm never moving back best best sports time zone as well I

will stand on that argument always you said mountain you're a big mountain right for for sports

mountain time zone guy mountains good I enjoy the central times zone though I don't mind it as my

bedtime is getting earlier and earlier it gets a little bit different but we have to do the games

that I would typically watch late at night anyway. So I'm up.

I just need a little bit of a quick cat nap in the afternoon in order to get through them. That's where we are in life. I always wanted that. I know. I've only had to do the media career on a Pacific time zone. So it's like, you know, it's late for me. I always think about that. It's like you start It was worse in my 20s because I would watch games on Sunday and it was 10 a.m.

And I'm just deathly hung over as like a 26 year old rolling into my boss's house to watch football games, probably still reeking of beer and barely able to function. Now, if I was living on the West Coast, I'm up at 8 a.m. every day no matter what. It doesn't matter how late I'm up. It doesn't matter what I've done, which I don't really do anything anymore. And I'd be ready to go. So I just, I should have flipped it. I should have been on the West Coast in my 30s, not in my 20s. But nonetheless, we've reached a nice point here. I can, I can survive. My time zone journey is having a nice full circle moment. So it's been pleasant.

You're getting to fall over there in Las Vegas. It is already winter here in Chicago, and I'm not talking about the weather. What a 24 hours in the Chicago Bears building and at

Hallis Hall. I don't even know where we want to start with this. I wouldn't have even talked about

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