Hey, I'm glad you're here. It's the washed up walk-ons. It's a bounce back week for the players and the fans. I understand it's tough to get into the content, stay in the rhythm, when the hawks take a loss, but you're here. Let's find a way to bounce back. We're going to talk about how the Hawks still have life in both the Big Ten and the national scene.

We're going to talk about when it would make sense to give Brendan Sullivan some time and see what we got.

And we're going to answer the question is Xavier Wampa underperforming.

All of that plus more.

Have a day, let'm not. Oh, welcome in to the I'm still Dead Inside podcast. That's what I was going to start with.

If Kevin was here and then... And then he wasn't here. So now I'm dead inside because Kevin...

I think the joke's still good though.

It still works.

Yeah.

It's only two days later.

Yeah, I guess.

Yeah.

It didn't change much.

I did the reggae.

We're recording this early because I have I had an unexpected thing come up that's going to take me out of Wednesday afternoon slash all of Thursday. So Grant the producer and myself

stand in for the next 20 minutes until Kevin Ward, your third and probably most important host gets here.

And that's okay. Grant and I can do this podcast all right.

It's next man in.

It's the next man up.

You know, it's why we practice practice you know he's got didn't get a

reps with the ones this week but his reps with the twos look pretty good

think you can I think you can do it we took a loss with Kevin missing the first 20 minutes of this thing but we can't do it. We took a loss with Kevin missing the first 20 minutes of this thing, but we can't dwell on that okay? We can't think about that moving forward. For the next 20 minutes, 19 minutes and change, we have to podcast and just put out our best effort and it'll be what it is.

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