Hey, hey, where you been, look I talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in, welcome back to

Buck I talk with our version of the Alliance, the three man Emirates, Nathan Baird, Steven

Means, a power, there's power in threes, gentlemen, I think I'm not 100% sure. I think possibly

the ACC Pack 12 Big Ten Alliance is based on Buck I talk. Never know. So we're going to talk about it.

They announced it. They had a background that had all three conference logos on the same

background. And they're like, there was a digital background. Their heads were floating in it.

The George K who's the commissioner of the Pack 12, his head was really floating. I don't know

what his background was. He was disembodied a little bit. Kevin Warren was actually very sharp

and in focus. I know I've actually had the background behind him while everybody else had like

the zoom background because he actually looked his picture looked better than everybody else's too.

I know people are just waiting for like let's let's talk crap about Kevin Warren because that's

Big Ten fans favorite thing to do. He was the most in focus commissioner. So we'll start there. Nathan,

how would you rank the commissioners in order of their focus? Okay. So they announced this thing.

Doug Lamarie, Steven Means, it's book I talk. We were going to do the offense for the Big Wednesday

pod. We're going to make that the big Thursday pod. And this will be like a normal size Wednesday

pod because we have to talk about the Alliance. I made a joke on Twitter like my rants for this

podcast. They're real. I have three rants about how this was formed that I want to talk about. But

I want to just warn people my rants are pro the Alliance. My rants are aimed at people

who think they have some great solution that would be better than this because I will say

I am a cynical jerk. What? But days like this on Twitter just make me hate everybody,

particularly sports writers because everybody can't wait to be the snarky dingleberry who has no

analysis of the situation, but it's like, oh, Ryan, that's an alliance of nothing. That's a and

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