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You know it's funny how contenders, quote unquote,

contenders are held to a different standard.

What?

No one would do that. Josh,

we all judge these teams by the same measuring stick. No, you don't. No, you don't. I'll prove to you,

you don't. Georgia won a game by seven yesterday. It's a national crisis. It's the crisis of the

moment. I'm going to lead the show with it. I was at the game yesterday. They won a game by seven.

How dare they? And folks are criticizing them for it. That's because they're held to a different standard than other contenders. You notice how Washington also won a game by seven? No, what are you saying? You didn't notice that they only squeaked by Arizona's backup quarterback by seven? It's not a big deal. There is no freak out. Why? Because you expect more from Georgia than you do from Washington.

Even if some people on my I-Josh in my close personal social circle claim otherwise, we are jam-packed.

We are high atop a wide open downtown Nashville,

Tennessee. Every bit is wide open as that old playoff picture that we swear we'll never talk about

until the month of November, but may very well do tonight. It is Sunday, October 1st, the year of our Lord

2023. I got full week five reaction. Who is a contender? How do we even define the word contender these days?

I've got to talk to you about that.

I'm seeing things.

I'm hearing things.

I'm thinking things that I thought I'd never see here and think on October 1st.

And yet here we are.

I've got to talk to you about where we're going this Saturday for the week

six destination of the Once Upon a Saturday tour. I don't know if it's going to be the longest

Sunday show we've ever done, but man, from an elemental standpoint, from an atonement standpoint,

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