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NIL's Impact on College Football, Trump's UFC Appearance, and Thanksgiving Traditions Debate
Is the allure of NIL deals tearing apart the fabric of college football camaraderie? As autumn leaves adorn Alabama's landscape, we unravel the nuanced influences of Name, Image, and Likeness agreements on the Georgia Bulldogs and their recent on-field struggles. While injuries plague the team, we dig into whether the promise of future NFL glory keeps players motivated or if the tempting individual payouts disrupt team unity. Our conversation spins a web of insights, balancing the scales between personal ambition and collective spirit in collegiate sports.
Shifting from the gridiron to the octagon, we examine Donald Trump's contrasting presence at a UFC event and what it means to be dubbed the "people's president" in today's political climate. The dialogue continues as we ponder the intellectual chess played by influential figures like Dana White, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy. As the online world evolves, what drives celebrities and journalists away from platforms like X amidst changing tides? We cap off the episode with an age-old Thanksgiving debate: stuffing versus dressing, sharing the quirky culinary tales that define our holiday plates. A spirited exchange on tradition wraps up our lively chat with a cheer for the Bulldogs: Go Dawgs!
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Hello, good morning, happy Sunday.
Speaker 2:Good morning one and all Beautiful day in the neighborhood today.
Speaker 1:Yep, it's going to be very nice today. Are we going to open the windows?
Speaker 2:Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, it's going to be one of those good days to open the windows. Hopefully we'll have some breeze coming through. Nice fall day in the state of Alabama.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:What's on your mind, sweetheart?
Speaker 1:Just watching these birds outside our bedroom window. They're really close to the window, uh-oh you think they can get in. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Uh-oh, I doubt they can get in.
Speaker 1:No, they can't. Oh, you were asking me. Can you say no, I'm afraid they're going to bump up against the window and peck on it or something.
Speaker 2:I think it would be like the birds, the movie the Birds. Yeah, that's scary.
Speaker 1:Well, we have a couple of things to talk about. First, let's talk about Georgia. I even watched it with you for a little while.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I even watched it with you for a little while. Yeah, you know everybody's writing Georgia off because they had a bad game against Ole Miss last week. They didn't look good, you know. I had my moments of doubts last night when the game started, but in true Georgia fashion, they dropped a lot of balls and made a lot of mistakes but still were obviously the better team last night. So we won yay, two touchdowns.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was kind of nervous there for a little while. Yeah, so was I, they just don't look the same like they used to.
Speaker 2:They haven't looked sharp. You know, like I said, the dropping of balls, of course too. As far as specialty people, when I talk about running backs and receivers, we're just depleted. Like I was telling you, last night we started a true freshman and we had basically three true freshmen playing running back In the SEC. That's tough to have. And then two of our top receivers were out, plus one of the next best receivers got hurt last night. So you know that's tough. And then you know there wasn't enough props.
Speaker 2:Everybody talked about Brock Powers, who's doing great in the NFL. Well, that little kid named Ladd McConkie is doing great in the NFL too. And then you had three or four receivers that are in the NFL that Georgia had the last couple of years. So we had a lot of great receivers that nobody really gave a lot of credit to. That we don't have now and that's tough to overcome. But that brand and the running backs that we had, they're all in the NFL one doing really good. So we had a lot of talent. So the talent level is not as big, but still at that level to catch a football you need to be able to do and that's the sharpness that just didn't look like it was there.
Speaker 1:So I have a question. All right, and just go with me because it's a long, I'll get there eventually, okay, so you say they used to have a really good team back, you know whatever, and then they lost them to the NFL, all right. Or now the ones that are playing are injured. So my question is the ones and you said, one position was like they were playing their sixth string or whatever, Right running back, yeah. And so that means five people ahead of him are injured.
Speaker 2:Well, when you play, when you play, okay, our top three to four running backs are injured. So you you don't have your fourth, fifth string guy play. Every play you got to have three or four rotating in because it's just that brutal that, that tough, that hard. So when you lose your first, your second, your third, you're down to your fourth, fifth and sixth. So, yes, the sixth string tailback would be playing or running backs would be playing.
Speaker 1:Okay. So my question is in the history, recent history of Georgia football, were they prone to get injured like this?
Speaker 2:Not this badly.
Speaker 1:And so my question is and I asked this of you yesterday, last night, while we were watching a lot of other things to consider, of other things to consider Do you think the NIL has anything to do with the injuries Not necessarily the injuries, but since, I don't know, they don't seem a team cohesiveness, Is that the right word?
Speaker 2:I don't know what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1:And they're more like independent contractors looking out for themselves.
Speaker 2:I don't think that has any effect on their play. No, okay, no, I don't think that has any effect on their play. It does affect it when they get to the end of the year and their team's, you know, got to go play a bowl game and it's not for a national championship or anything, and now a lot of those players are opting out not to play because they might get hurt. Okay, that has something. But when and maybe you know teams two and eight and they're playing a game and you know I'm getting ready to get drafted I may not play as hard as I want to play, okay, but when they're playing on the level of playing for national championships, they're playing hard.
Speaker 2:And it's like I told you, kind of like I said last night, when an NFL player is playing and he's on a team that's not performing well, he's not playing for that contract that he's under, he's playing for his next contract. So his next contract they're going to look at. Okay, well, he was playing and he wasn't playing hard, so we're not giving him. They're playing hard on every play in the NFL. They're not taking it off, even on a team that is a bad team, because they're playing for their next contract. Kids may not have the maturity to understand that they're playing for that next contract, but the ones that are there playing in necessary situations know that they're playing for their next contract. They know that the NFL scouts are watching them. They know that that's coming up now.
Speaker 1:So what about? Are they more prone to not listen? I don't know how to not listen to the college coach not listen to the team rules that the coaches have laid down. Well let's look at it this way, because they know they can go somewhere else.
Speaker 2:When you get a little older in the NFL and you're playing for your contract, you don't have the college feeding you and you don't have the college telling you where to go and telling you your schedule, and you're 18 years old and you know everything. Yeah, you're not going to listen. Sometimes, sure, 18, 19 year old kids they're not going to listen to you. Um, so, yes, there probably is a little bit more maturity when you get a little older, and that's probably one of the reasons why it used to be that you didn't get drafted until you had three years of college under your belt instead of one one and done type. Now, now, still in the NFL, you have three years where you get you know, before you get drafted. But now they've made it to where I can jump schools and get around to like make money, and you know all these people offering me money. I must know I must be big and bad.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm asking. Has that affected their lives? Attention level, team participating, listening to the coach type thing?
Speaker 2:In some aspects I think it has, but in a lot no. Again, kids are going to be kids and they're going to be influenced by outside people. I don't think, like I say, it's going to affect their performance on the field, but it may have a lot to do with them off the field and such. Or it's on the field, but it may have a lot to do with them off the field and such. There are a lot of ways to go on that question.
Speaker 1:I know, but I don't know. I guess I picture college. I'm not talking about NFL, I'm not talking about NFL at all but the college level, when you're supposed to have a team and a coach and it's a school-type thing. You're playing for your school. I mean, I know it's changed over the years because you've always said that now college is like the NFL and high school is like college. But I don't know. I just think it's changed since they've done this name and likeness and I think it affects the individual to where they just show up. They have to do their part. They don't pay attention to what the coach or what needs to be the team type aspect.
Speaker 2:On most of the good teams. If you don't play, somebody replaces you. There's always somebody there that wants it and that's willing to play harder if you don't play there, that wants it and that's willing to play harder if you don't play. So in that respect, yes, again, you're playing for your next play and you're playing for your next contract, and if you don't get out there and perform and bust your butt, there's somebody. The athletes are good enough now to where somebody behind you will step in and take your place because you're not performing. So you know. Yes, like I said, kids at that age are not going to listen because they know. Think about you when you were 18. You knew everything, you know. Nobody told you what to do, other than you know the military people. So, yes, I mean yeah, that dynamic has changed somewhat In a team effort, though.
Speaker 1:You show up not just for yourself, but you show up to help better the other people too.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:So is any of that going on? That's what I'm asking. Are people just being selfish and looking out for themselves?
Speaker 2:I don't know If they do, because you know you've got to have the quarterback and the receiver working together. If they do, they're going to be replaced. There's somebody there that will do the job and do it properly. Okay, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:All right, well, we'll move on, okay.
Speaker 2:All right, well, we'll move on. Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:What do you think about Donald Trump going to the UFC, being at Madison Square Garden, that Nazi venue, and?
Speaker 2:being welcomed. Was that where that was last?
Speaker 1:night.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh, my goodness, and being welcomed back in oh goodness.
Speaker 1:Not welcomed back in but just cheers. People just love him, obviously because we all voted for him.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess everybody in that arena was what a xenophobe, a homophobe. What other phobes do we have? All the phobes. So you checked your card when you went. Are you a Nazi? Are you a xenophobe? Are you a racist? Are you a homophobe?
Speaker 1:White supremacist White supremacist, let.
Speaker 2:Are you a homophobe? White supremacist? White supremacist? Let me see your tattoo. Do the signs. Can you speak? Nazi? Then you're in. Come on in and join the party.
Speaker 1:That's just bogus. I just think it's fantastic that he is being you know.
Speaker 2:He is the people's president.
Speaker 1:He is.
Speaker 2:Regardless of what these people on network news and social media and all that say, he is the people's president. You would never see Joe Biden getting out and doing this kind of thing, hell no.
Speaker 1:And I was watching the clip of the Secret Service being surrounded him and parting the crowd and he was walking in and he gets to Dana White and he just hugs Dana White in a bear hug and at first I'm thinking, well, what a nightmare for the Secret Service Second man to be in that inner circle.
Speaker 2:Look at this. They got Joe Biden stuck in the back of this thing in Lima, peru, and the president of China is in front and all those leaders. They got him stuck in the back right by himself. He probably, he probably, he doesn't know. Are we in Nashville? Where are we, god? Anyway, god bless him. Sorry, you got sidetracked. God bless him.
Speaker 1:We have the news on in the background and the gent just decided to comment on that.
Speaker 2:God bless him. Anyway, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:Anyway, what are you?
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Did you hear anything I said?
Speaker 2:I did, I heard it, all I did.
Speaker 1:Did you want to talk about it? Yeah, keep going, I was done.
Speaker 2:Oh, were you Okay? Well, being the man's man and being just, he's going to be a great president if they'll let him. That's my comment. If we can stay away from all of the and you know all of it's already started All of the, we're going to put plans in place to thwart everything Trump can do. You know it'll be, he'll have a great presidency, but you know he is the president of the people. That's just the way I look at it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my observation, though, was about can you imagine being in that inner circle?
Speaker 2:Like the.
Speaker 1:Dana Whites and whoever else you know.
Speaker 2:That would be an interesting thing.
Speaker 1:The Elon Musks, the Viveks and all them. It just would be crazy.
Speaker 2:It'd be interesting If I were to picture myself in that. I would just be a lost puppy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Just, you know, going wow. Yeah, you know, I can remember. I'll tell this one story. My dad was a pretty, pretty special person, as most all dads are. But he was a pretty special person. He was an entrepreneur, he was a renaissance man. He could do just about anything with his hands. You know, the last project he was working on was something that Musk has perfected. You know, they didn't have the computer technology and all that back then, but he was working on recovery systems for the rockets coming back, for the boosters coming back, and I remember looking up to him.
Speaker 2:But then I remember one time when we were in a room where there were some really really big and influential people and I saw my dad as a man and I saw these guys as what I perceived my dad to be, and it was a difference. It was like, oh shit, there's another level of people out there and I could picture myself, you know, in a, you know teaching a crowd of children and me being that person. And then picture me in the room with all the people that you just described and you know, and all of a sudden I become the child. You know that type of thing, just the intelligence, the I can't describe all the words that would. I can't say the words that would describe all of the ways to describe those people, I guess would be the best way to say it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:But just crazy how bigger than life they are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely yeah, and I don't know. We need to be careful with that too. We can't make them like into something more than they are. You know, we can't make them like gods and saints and all this stuff. They're just men yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:But I think they're men working for a common purpose and that's to make our country better than it is right now. And hopefully, hopefully, these left-leaning idiots and the left-leaning people that do have some common sense will understand and see that this is for the betterment of the country, that they're there to help the country. They're not there to take from the country, like all these bureaucrats are doing, because they don't need to take anything. I remember I had one gentleman who worked for me that said the only reason Trump was president was so he could make money. That's the only reason he's president, because he's going to steal every dime we got. I'm like are you crazy?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I have a take on why these so-called celebrities and journalists are leaving X.
Speaker 2:Detail.
Speaker 1:The leftists. You know they're leaving X because they're not going to have anything bad to say the next four years. They're actually going to benefit and they're not going to be allowed to say that on X. They might as well just leave it. That's my take.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right. They won't have anything bad to say and they won't be able to say anything. All right. And of course, if they hear something good, they're not going to like it, so that's going to be hate speech. You're saying things that set me off and I've got to leave.
Speaker 1:Yep, all right, we need to go on to the question of the day. All right, the gent has the question of the day.
Speaker 2:Question of the day is we're getting close to the holidays, thanksgiving is just around the corner and the question is with your thanksgiving meal, especially turkey, do you like stuffing or dressing, or both or neither? My preference is a cornbread dressing. I like cornbread dressing, stuffing I don't like, because sometimes it's kind of mealy and runny and not runny but gooey and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, and if an oyster dressing is done, well, that's good too. But we used to go to a friend of ours house they were maniacs, we called them, they're from Maine and she used to make to a friend of ours' house they were maniacs, we called them, they're from Maine and she used to make an oyster dressing and she just loved that oyster dressing but it was runny and the oysters looked blue and you know it was just like eh, you know, so you'd eat a little bit to say, mmm, this is really good, but it really wasn't. But I digress, that's the question. Stuffing, dressing, both or neither neither for me.
Speaker 1:Uh and stuffing goes in the turkey dressing is just a side dish, right? I don't like any of it. However, mr shantz has tagged us with a uh stuffing recipe that I need to go look at again, because it does. It did sound pretty good. Yeah absolutely All right got to go. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2:Go Dawgs.
