It is Friday. We're going to talk college football just like I promised with Andy Staples. So we move some things around. So I hope you

checked out the Bill Simmons podcast. Yes, Ray. So it's textically that was my solo podcast up with Bill Simmons. So we got you the

three this week and it just take a little bit longer to college ball, but that's okay because we'll start gearing it up and we got

to make sure you schedule coming up soon. Danny cannell is going to stop by Calhard and of course, Vampel at some point as we've worked all this stuff out. So big guests come in and celebrities prizes, probably not prizes, but we should get some t-shirts made up. I'm just not sure what they're going to be. I don't know what the theme of the t-shirt would be. Maybe we'll have Belvedere making produced in one of the world's longest running distilleries. Belvedere vodka is the world's finest all natural vodka part of a 600 year Polish vodka making tradition. Belvedere is made with 100% Polska ride.

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On the fence about USC Utah. I'd like to go, but I'm just not sure. I really like my setup here. And I have a doctor's appointment because I've not yet hit my physical peak and I'm ready to just get my body healthy and going again and just start dominating.

So we'll see. We'll see how that goes. So I want to start talking about tanking and it is a topic that is kind of ugly, scary. I don't know how you want to describe it.

But right now it's definitely falling into the ugly category because it's the Miami dolphins and I have a theory. It's about labeling label label label when you put labels on things in anything in life.

It becomes more complicated, but becomes even easier to criticize. I had a friend when I lived in Boston the long time ago.

And I was like, Hey, you date that girl. He's like, ah, you know,

It's like, we're just so you know, look, translate that however you want. Well, what's her situation? Like she's, she looks like she could have plenty of options. You know, what,

How are you getting away with this? How are you getting away with the not committing thing? And yet she seems like she could bounce from you tomorrow and have like five of the guys after he goes, well, you know, I did this thing where

She asked me like after a while, hey, what are we?

And I said, you know, I'm not really into labels.

And it was genius. It was truly, I go, that's good. But that's really good. He goes, yeah, yeah, works all the time. He goes, so it sounds like you're kind of committed.

But clearly you're not because if you were, you'd be like, you're my girlfriend and I am your boyfriend.

But he was just, you know, he was pulling magic tricks. He may have had a fake birth certificate to like I think he made me, he was just too wise for a guy that was apparently my age at the time. Like there were some rumors. There was a chance he was like five or six years older than me.

But we couldn't quite figure out maybe even 10 years like some guys are like, you know, that dude is like actually crazy old. I'm like, what?

He holds up well. And man, that label thing is really good. The reason I tell you that story folks is because when you label something in sports, specifically tanking, you are held to a different standard.

When the 76ers, which is this long running statement that I've made is a study on not just sports, but American people in general that when Sam Hinky was unapologetic about it, did not talk to the media, did not massage his media relationship. He didn't talk to anybody.

He was like, yeah, obviously, what I'm doing. I'm putting out all these terrible players. Every game I win is a disappointment. This is the plan ownership has to be on board. And then you have all these owners go, oh, you know, you're hurting road games. I don't even know if that was necessarily the case. But Sam Hinky wasn't an ex player.

He wasn't an ex coach. He didn't have equity built up in the NBA circles other than this guy that Darryl Mory was like, this guy is so smart. Like, I love him.

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