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Connect with a credential therapist by phone, video, or online chat. Visit BetterHelp.com to learn more. That's better h-e-l-p.com. (upbeat music) (dramatic music) ♪ 'Tis that time of the season ♪ ♪ When the blues and goblins prowl ♪ ♪ Witches ride their broomsticks ♪ ♪ And boner wildcats howl ♪ ♪ So scrape your claws together ♪ ♪ And make some chilly noise ♪ ♪ Where your haunted wild gadders ♪ ♪ Are those spooky basket boys ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ That's the boy ♪ ♪ Come on boys ♪ (laughing) - Boom, the boys are back and welcome to Spooky. This season, probably, I don't know, we've had so many good intro and theme songs. Man, I don't know, I don't know if it's my favorite or not, but I absolutely love it. So welcome to Spooky season. It is time for a Q and A episode, and honestly, I think the biggest difference, I think the biggest difference in, you know, episodes after wins and losses, maybe even more than the amount of downloads we get are the manner of the questions. Always a lot more fun questions after a win. Before we get into the questions, I want to give a special shout out to one of the best boneheads, a family friend, Alice. Alice, I know you're still listening, I know it pisses your sister off at you listening every morning. Just want to let you know that we love you here with your boss, his boys, and thank you so much for continuing to listen, you know. You're the best, you're truly the best, and I thank you for always listening, even if your sister wishes you wouldn't. So shout out to Alice, truly the best there is. So we'll get into the questions before we do, we'll give a shout out to Manhattan Brewing Company. Look, so right as I was retweeting this, I am so jealous. So at the Manhattan Brewing Company Lounge, they have a bullet rye barrel aged pumpkin ale right down there in Wichita. Absolutely delicious, everything that they put out is top notch. I'm begging Manhattan Brewing Company to open up a tap room here in Shawnee, Kansas, but until then, I will continue to buy at my local liquor stores and stock up every time I go to Manhattan. And again, folks, you know exactly where we'll be before the case at Wichita basketball game on December 21st and as the Manhattan Brewing Company Lounge. Shout out to those guys, best, best, best beer in the world, and anyone who gets their hands on some of that bullet age pumpkin ale, I am jealous of you. All right, all sorts of great questions. It is time to get into it and look, it was a fun game. We got some good questions. I'm gonna dive into them. Some of the, honestly, it's always the all sorts. All sorts always come through for us, but we have some good questions from some others. You know, you got the all sorts, you got the regulars and then you got some others, but we're starting with Paracat Ryan. He has a good one. BYU or Oklahoma State, which one is closer to the real KSU? Look, sadly, I think both can be the real KSU, but look, it might be as simple as saying road and what. We're definitely gonna find out the next two games. You know, you got the bye week, then you got at Colorado, then you have at West Virginia. So I think that's gonna be telling on if it is just as simple as saying home versus road or what. I would like to say that, you know, Oklahoma State, in Arizona, you know, that's closer to the real K State. Those are the two best teams we've played so far. Again, no disrespect to BYU. I, you know, they were able to hold on playing Baylor. Baylor's trash, but, you know, they're able to hold on versus Baylor. And again, it's probably coming off as a disrespect, but I think those two teams, even playing those two teams at home, I think on paper, those are more difficult games. But I think if you still line up, play BYU tomorrow in Lavella, Edward's team, I'd still pick K State to win. I'd pick K State to win by two scores. So I think what we saw for Oklahoma State is far closer to the quote unquote real K State. You made one really bad mistake. You weren't, you didn't let it snowball. I still think when you look at that BYU game, you had three penalties that probably took three touchdowns off the board. You had DJ Geton's first ever fumble of his career that was lost and it bounced completely away from where there was a bunch of K State players and directly popped up to BYU play for him to take it back. Two bad Avery interceptions. The defense wasn't able to live up to their standard. Look, I think there's enough things that I hope are the exception in that game and the rule was the Oklahoma State game. But look, ask me again in a couple weeks after that Colorado game. I might have to have a different answer. I hope I don't, but you know, we'll see. All right, we'll go to Colton Cooper next. How should we feel going into the bye week about how we perform on the road? The stadium is going to be rocking and bolderizing. Look, I don't feel great about it. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not excited about playing on the road. I would, especially since Colorado does seem to have some momentum, they're going into a bye week as well. So the coaches pole just came out in K State. K State is a top 20 team in the coaches pole again. I don't know if Colorado got into the rankings or not. I mean, I don't know. They may or may not have gotten into the rankings. So that might be a ranked on ranked matchup, if not. I know they're going to be receiving a lot more votes. Their coaches and players are going to be hyped. I think that the fans are going to be hyped. Again, I, look, I don't think the Dylan Edwards thing should be a story, but it probably will. So I don't know, man, I don't feel great, but just pulling up, Colorado, are you in here? I don't see it, but also I'm trying to record this while looking at rankings, Boise, Pittsburgh. No, Colorado not ranked in the coaches pole. But again, it's going to be a big game. Colorado, one loss, it's going to be two, four in one teams. I imagine it's going to be ABC or Fox. It's going to be a hype game. So no, I don't feel great about it. I'm not going to tell folks that they should just be like, "Yeah, whatever, everything's going to be fine on the road." I just, look, this is the worst answer ever. I should go back and delete it. How you feel, feel however you want, but I'm a little nervous. There we go, I'm moving on. Here's another one from Colton Cooper. After the worst answer in the history of Q&A, I apologize. Where would DJ be ranked if you ranked all the running backs in college football right now? One, top three, top five, top 10. Skibidoo from Arizona State and RJ Harvey from UCF. Those two guys, I know you asked all of college football, but I'm just going to keep it, I'm just going to keep it with, I'm just going to keep it in the big 12. Those are the only two guys that I could listen to putting on the same pedestal as DJ Getons. And look, RJ Harvey, no, I mean, he is good. RJ Harvey is definitely disrespected, but no, not RJ, and then, all right, let me take a quick look at Skibidoo. Absolutely amazing name, or Skataboo. Again, you guys know how bad I am with pronouncing. No, no, no, he absolutely got shut down versus tech. No, DJ Getons is the top running back in the big 12. So I'm going to put him top 10 in the country. There you go, there you go. I truly think that. I think he's the best running back in the big 12 right now. So again, in the country, probably top 10, but I think he's number one in the big 12 right now. So, shout out to DJ the bluejay Getons. We got Connor Balzizor. Where is Avery at right now relative to my preseason expectations? Now, asking me this after the Oklahoma state game versus the BYU game, it is probably completely different. Look, I think if you throw out the BYU game, which you can't, we're going to talk about that here in a second. But if you were to throw out the BYU game, I would say, hey, look, you know, didn't love the UT Martin game. And hey, he showed a lot of grit in that two lane game, but Arizona put on a show running the ball, had some good passes. Oklahoma state, again, I would have liked to see the completion rate a little bit higher. I'd like to see the yards per attempt like nine and a half. I mean, it's 8.8. So I'm really, really nitpicking there, but he had a great QBR, 60 yards rushing, two rushing touchdowns. I think he'd be right where I expected. What I didn't expect was a game where there was a complete and total meltdown. And that's what it was. It was a complete and total meltdown. If that's an isolated incident, then hey, I think Avery can meet my expectations, which I think was having him be, you know, in the conversation of being an all-American, but definitely getting all big 12 honors. I don't know if it's going to be first team or not. But again, Shadir Sanders, as much as I don't like him, he's having a good, good year throwing the ball. And look, that guy takes up all sorts of oxygen in the conference. So he's probably going to be first team, but can Avery be second team? I mean, I think that would be meeting my expectations. And I think he's on pace for that right now. I think you can make an argument that he would at least be in the conversation for being the second team quarterback. So I think he is slightly behind my expectations because of that BYU meltdown. But again, if he goes and has a quality game versus Colorado and a quality game versus West Virginia on the road, and we win both of those games, that alleviates the idea of, you know, Avery can't play on the road. I think he, there's a chance that going into the homecoming game versus KU, we could be talking about how he's exceeded our preseason expectations. I'd be interested in your thoughts on that, Connor. So tweet me, if you're listening to that, shoot me a DM, shoot me a text, let me know your thoughts on if you'd have him higher, lower than your preseason expectations. All right, this is perfect. Jordan, Xemaw, asks what is my target demographic for your listeners? So far, he's about beer, crew, next, and perfume to support my advertisers. First off, I will segue this into Charlie Hussle here in a bit. But I think it is like college K-State fans up to millennial K-State fans. I don't think there's a lot of Gen X, but there might be, there's a handful of Gen X listeners. I doubt there's many boomers, but I'm just trying to reach K-State fans. Obviously, I'm not as wild as I was in the early episodes. I'm trying to at least be presentable to all demographics of K-State fans. But I think it's anywhere between the Zoomers who roll their eyes at me. It's a older millennials and some Gen X. Mostly male, but I know we have, I know we have a strong contingent of female listeners. And look, you talked about the crewnecks. I'm currently wearing one right now from the Kansas City football collection. It doesn't matter if you're a man or woman, child or an old, Charlie Hustle has the best gear to make you look good and feel good and play good. Look, T-shirts on point. Crewnecks sweatshirts on point hoodies on point. They got joggers, boom. If you are one of our handful of female listeners, they got women cut T-shirts as well. Women's cut T-shirts. They have everything for everyone. Do you wanna celebrate a certain baseball team making it to postseason play? I think what, first wild card game, I assume as of time of listening is going to be at Baltimore. No, it'd be at Houston, at Houston. Look, they got stuff for the Kansas City baseball collection. Yeah, the Kansas City football collection. If you're a history guy like myself, they got Kansas City Monarch's gear. They have officially licensed sporting Kansas City and Casey Curtain gear. Officially licensed with all the big 12 schools and the big 12 conference themselves. I'm gonna go over to Charlie Hussle today. All right, we got three from my guy, Steve Z. First one. What were my thoughts when there's 13, seven bad guys? I tweeted it. I thought, here we go again. I was down. I think I also tweeted, Lisa Royal's made the playoffs. I was thinking, here we go again. Luckily, like we talked about yesterday in the game review pod, luckily Avery Johnson was not thinking that. Luckily, the offense aside now, we're gonna go score and the defense is like, all right, we're not giving up anything else. So I absolutely over the moon with the reception from 13 to seven all. Even if I was not mentally tough. There's a reason why I'm in the stands and there's a reason why I'm talking on a podcast instead of coaching or playing. The next one, middle name. Ooh, do I wanna give this out? Look, I don't give out. I rarely say no. I rarely say no on podcasts. If you wanna know my middle name, you can text me. But since I've said on this podcast, multiple times, my last name, I don't think I want every single listener to know my first middle and last name. So Steve, if you want to know, you can text me. Then the final one, what is my favorite style of wine these days? Look, I like a surah. I like a malbec. I mean, those are probably the two that I gravitate towards. But mainly just a Manhattan Brewing Company beer guy. 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Just an absolutely fun game, 11 a.m. Some was out, a tiny little bit of sunburn on the right side of my face, but all in all, just a perfect day out at Bill Snider family stadium, drove back, picked up my car with four new tires. Boom, yeah, we'll ignore how much tires cost, but it was good to pick up those tires, get home, watch college football, basically from 4.30 to 1 a.m. College football is the best sport in the world. I was feeling great after that one. Absolutely great after that one. The next one was how much more comfortable did Avery look? Seemed to me like he's playing free, working off instincts, especially more in the second half. I don't know about instincts, but again, I think he is at his best when you're getting play action, when you're getting more motion, when you're allowing him to get out of the pocket, when you're allowing him to throw on the move and allow him to just be moving square shoulders and fire, he made two great rushing touchdowns. He made some great plays with his legs. That second touchdown with that J hook, again, we said yesterday was an all American style play. The rolling to the left squaring the body and just firing to Jane Jackson for 17 yards. That's an all American type play. So again, I don't know if it's instincts or what, but he looks better when he's on the move, running or throwing the ball. So he did look comfortable. Next one from Mark, do we have any other tight ends that we can get a touchdown pass to? Look, I think it's time for Metzger. I think it's time to find a, whether it's like a shuttle pass or maybe it's like a flare out or maybe we get up big on someone and maybe it's Jacob Knuth or Taequann Roberson tossing a ball to Metzger for a touchdown. I think it is now the duty of this team to get Metzger a receiving touchdown so we can get five tight ends with receiving touchdowns this year. So I think Metzger's the next guy up. Got two more from Mark. The first one is realistically how close to this game are we as a team and how close can we play to this game rest of the season as a team? Do we need to start seeing how they do on the road again and how they can handle on a white crowd? Look, I want to see how they play at Colorado. I think there's a chance that West Virginia, 'cause I think, I mean, look, I think West Virginia might lose their next two games. I think they had a bye week this week. Let me look up West Virginia schedule. I wish, I really wish Colorado was playing this week. I wish they didn't get a bye week as well, but that's okay. You don't always get what you want. All right, so next week, West Virginia is at Oklahoma State. They're going to have to get back for that one. And then they're hosting Iowa State. Look, I hope they beat Iowa State. I hope they beat Iowa State, but there is a chance. There's a very real chance that West Virginia could be sitting at two and four and that hopefully will be a checked out team when we play them. I mean, I hope they are. Well, we'll see what actually happens, but I think there's a chance that West Virginia crowd might not be anything too special. Look, Colorado is going to be sold out. There's going to be a ton of folks there. I do think it's going to be a big TV game. We'll be finding that out tomorrow. I don't know if we'll talk about it on Thursday or not for the Thursday episode because so much is going to be prerecorded this week. But they need to handle that. Look, if they let things snowball and boulder and we lose that game, look, we're not going to have a fun time two weeks from now. The questions are not going to be good. It's going to be, why can't climbing one on the road? Why can't everyone on the road? Why does this happen on the road? Why does the defense suck? Like, I know the questions. I can see the questions already if they can't get it done in Boulder. So yeah, we need to see them. We need to see them win in front of hostile fans. We need to see them take care of business on the road. And luckily or unluckily, I don't know. I don't know where you fall on this. We're going to get two answers over the next three weeks. So yeah, we're going to find out soon. We're going to find out soon. Am I surprised we didn't end up with any sacks? Defense seemed to have a lot of pressure in the second half. Yeah, I'm a little surprised. Look, I think they did a good job, especially on the plays where Oklahoma State loves to run, whether it's a play action or a read for like a half-back dive and then Bowman or whoever the quarterback is, rolls out. And then the tight end has like a little flare route and then forces the defensive end to pick tight end or quarterback. We did a great job defending that. I thought we would have gotten one or two sacks on some of those plays that they played so perfectly, but Bowman really just kind of tossed it out of bounds at the last second each time. We got there on a couple of blitzes. We would have had a sack if Bowman could have controlled a snap with Desmond Purnell just absolutely snatching his soul, just running through the guy. So yeah, a little surprised, but like he said, we had good pressure. All right, we got Jordan Eam on next. Why don't they play E them up, E them up, KSU anymore? Blake or Ross or Bryce? Any of you banned boneheads? If you wanna let me know, I mean, I don't really notice much of what the ban plays in game. I'm so focused, but I don't know. Someone let me know. Someone let Jordan Eam on know why they don't play that anymore. All right, we got a couple from Map. We got Jeff, we got Novakat, we got Jim Allen. Real quick, before we keep things going, we'll give a shout out to our friends at Charlie Hustle and Manhattan Brewing Company. Again, these two great businesses, local businesses as well, have really made doing this podcast easier and more fun. Manhattan Brewing Company, obviously, the best brewery in the state of Kansas. Talk to your local liquor store if they don't have four packs. Also, always get some straight from the source in Manhattan or Friday, Saturdays and Sundays down in Wichita, the aviation capital of the world at the new Manhattan Brewing Company lounge right down there in Wichita. And then Charlie Hustle, the best looking, most comfortable, officially licensed K-State gear in the game. Also an official sponsor of K-Saflex as well. Shout out to Charlie Hustle, vintage made fresh. All right, we got Map. What player, if any, was a good surprise today? I don't know, that's a good question. Look, I mean, if I didn't predict Will Ancio to have a touchdown catch on Thursday, last Thursday in my conversation with Derek Young, I would say Will Ancio with his touchdown catch. Oh, here, no, I'll say Taylor Portier. I don't think he's been bad this season, but this was maybe his best game as Wildcat. So I'm going with Taylor Portier. The next one, did the receivers perform to my expectations stay or over perform? Look, I think they over performed to my expectations. My expectations were, you know, in the dirt, I did not have expectations for them. I wish I did, you know, I don't love that my expectations were so low, but they exceeded them. And look, if you want to talk about a well-balanced receiving threat, you had three wide receivers all over 50 yards, you had four wide receivers all with a reception over 19 yards. That's pretty good for K state in our history. Again, we've had some good one-two combos. We've had some seasons with better guys, but that's like a, that's a amazing performance if you kind of compare it to some of the past. Now, I guess in 2022, I'm sure you had some, you know, Kade Warner, Philip Brooks, Malik Knowles games where those three guys probably all had around 50 yards. But that was a pretty damn good performance. I got to give props for props for do. All right, we'll keep it going. The final one from my guy, Map, used to be a live show staple, RIP live shows. Look, if enough people reach out, we'll do a Twitter live show for the second bi-week. Or heck, maybe Monday Night Live? And publish that on Tuesday? I don't know if enough people reach out, maybe we'll give it a go. All right, where Avery's runs about the right mix or what I like to see in the offensive, or what I like to see a few more. All right, so, so one of them got called off. So you have to take that into account. So you definitely could have had one more on the box where how many did he end up being credited with? He ended up with five. There was a sixth one that was called back. It could have been more. I mean, I probably would have liked it to be around eight. So maybe, look, I'd like three or four called runs a game. I'd like three or four scrambles a game. But as long as he's moving in the passing game, as long as the pocket's moving, as long as he's bootlegging out, as long as he's doing stuff with his legs, if he chooses to pass versus taking off a run, that's okay by me. Again, when you are 19 for 31 passing, maybe in my ideal world, three or four of those intercept, or not interceptions, incompletions, three or four of those incompletions he takes off and runs and gets another 25 to 35 yards rushing, which would have put him right around a hundred yards. So it would have put him at 85, 95 yards rushing. That probably is where I would go. But look, I think the handful of called runs, I mean, there's two or three called runs, two or three scrambles. I think that's probably where the coaching staff and where Avery wants it to be. I think we saw Verced or Arizona that, hey, in a game that dictates it, a game that maybe needs it, let's go for it, but I don't think it was needed in this game. So maybe two or three more, but nothing too crazy. I liked how Avery uses legs on Saturday. We got Jeff, he goes, after today's effort, do you feel like our fans will back off the every wide receiver's trash stance? Look, I was dogging on the wide receivers last week. I was dogging on them a little bit throughout the year. I'm not going to point fingers because I've been critical of the wide receivers. Will fans stop that for a couple of weeks? If they don't have a good gamer's Colorado, it'll be back. That's the nature of fandom. That's the nature of college football fandom. But I thought it was a great game. I would love to see, if you could, again, we've played this game before, but if I could lock in that exact stat line for J.S. Brown, Keegan Johnson, Jayden Jackson, and Ty Bowman, for every game rest this year, I would lock that in. I would lock it in every single game. So yeah, the fans will back off for two weeks because we have a bye week. We'll see how the Colorado game goes. And then his final question, Jeff underscored Burkhardt. I feel super old saying this, "Am I crazy for being bothered by the cute play calls?" Pass on third and one early, quarter three in the pop pass to Ancyo and first and goal from the two. I love the pop pass. You're never going to hear me say anything bad about the pop pass. They did pick up a fourth and one passing in the ball. Honestly, in my world, I feel like every time it's like second and one or third and one, I say quarterback at two or three time, or quarterback sneak at two or three times. So maybe I agree with you, but I love the pop pass. Look, so maybe you're getting old. Maybe you're getting old. But some of the third down, again, we said this yesterday. I think Connor Riley, I thought he called a very good game and again, he had some absolute just grade A art in the form of football and a couple of those plays. But I do think sometimes he is a little out of whack with some of the plays he calls for down in distance, but I think he's growing into that. But all in all, yes, you're getting old, Jeff, but some of my so it's okay. All right, we're going to end with, we got three from Nova Cat and one from Jim Allen. First one, how K-State is it that the Arizona win is a non-conference game and it will turn out to be huge for title contention? Who's to say they would be on our conference schedule if it wasn't a non-conference game? I think in all and all, that's just a good non-conference win. I'm not going to lose sleep or be like, oh, that's so K-State, oh, I'm not going to get worked up over that. Because the chances are they wouldn't have been on our schedule anyways. If we would have replaced that game, say we would have played Washington State or Oregon State this year in South Arizona. Who's to say that we would have played Arizona or Washington State or Oregon State in South Arizona in the non-con? Who's to say they would have given us Arizona in the conference game or who's to say they give it to us in week 10 and we lose that game? That's not going to be anything I get worked up over. I would, I would. This is what I'll say. If there's any big Jjourno's listening, I would like someone to contact the big 12 offices and ask if that game will count for any tie-breaking situations. If K-State and say Utah are tied and one of the head-to-head tie-breakers would be common opponents and we have a win over Arizona and they don't, I would like someone from the conference or one of the big Jjourno's to ask the conference office right now if that counts. So we'll see. Next one from Novakat. Who ends up playing more this year? JD6 or Cam Rising and then he does #glassoff. Look, Cam Rising, who knows when he's going to play again? It's obviously a massive injury and they try to hide it but they don't play them on the road to Oklahoma State. They don't play them at home versus a big game versus Arizona that they end up losing. So obviously there's something going on there with Cam Rising. He's already missed two games. Look, Jalen Daniels at KU, he just sucks. He just isn't good this year. I mean, he's broken. He is not a good quarterback right now but he's healthy. So I don't know. I mean, look, he's played all his games so far. Cam Rising's already missed three games. So I think Jalen Daniels ended up playing more for KU and then the final one from Novakat before we end with Jim Allen. More nervous because Colorado is Colorado or because we set coming off by weeks. I think he meant, well, look, I ain't got more concern that it's an away game. Look, Colorado is beatable. UCF is not anything special. Baylor is not anything special. Look, we have two or three wins better than any win that Colorado has so far but it's on the road, it's going to be sold out environment. The two worst games we've played so far, obviously at Tulane and at BYU. So I'm not really concerned. Like if the game wasn't Manhattan, I would not be concerned at all. The bye week stuff, I don't know. I don't know if I buy into that much at all. I don't know. It speaks for itself, not very good coming off bye week. So I don't know. I don't know. I'm most nervous that it's on the road. So, yeah, that's where I am. Shout out Nova Cat. Thanks for the questions. Final one, Jim Allen. Do I think if Ollie Gordon had DJ's numbers today, it'd be all over Sports Center. The bias and I will say hatred towards K-State is real and it's in the media. I feel bad for DJ not getting recognized as he deserved, not to mention his draft stock. We'll go backwards. It's not gonna hurt his draft stock. NFL scouts are not basing their draft board on who gets play on Sports Center. I don't think the, so he says the media hatred is real. I don't think the media hates K-State. I think it is flat simple. It's a relatively small fan base and it doesn't have any attention or desired attention from national folks. I mean, just look at some of the TV numbers so far. Again, the BYU number, honestly pretty impressive for the late night slot, but it was one of ESPN's worst Saturday games ever versus Tulane. We were dwarfed by Nebraska, Illinois for the Fox Friday football game. We'll see what the Washington Rutgers number looks like, but at the end of the day, that there's no national media looking at DJ and K-State because it's not as big of a story. Now, the difference is, Ollie Gordon had a massive year last year, won the Doke Walker Award. Gundy is a cartoon character, so every time he gets in front of a TV camera or microphone, it's a story. So there is national attention on Oklahoma State because Gundy is a cartoon character. Chris Kalman is just a great football coach. He's not a cartoon character. So that's the reason why. I don't think that the media is out to get to K-State. It's just not a story that gets enough clicks. And DJ Giddens, he's not driving drunk all across the state of Kansas. Like Ollie Gordon was in Oklahoma in Texas. So again, DJ Giddens, he is a workhorse. He is a monster. He is an elite running back, but that's not enough to get national attention in today's day and age. So I don't think it's a media bias thing. I just think that the eyeballs and interests just aren't there for K-State. And look, whatever, I don't care. Just keep winning games and DJ Giddens will continue to go down as one of the most under-appreciated Wildcats of all time. And one of the most under-appreciated big 12 players of all time. So just keep grinding, DJ. DJ of the Blue Jay Giddens is elite. So that's where we're at. All right, that's all we have for the Q&A episode. Tomorrow, I have a full basketball episode. We'll be talking about my hopes and expectations for both K-State men's and women's basketball. Friday, we will have a big 12, or not big 12, a K-State fan podcast around the horn episode. Maybe if that goes good, we'll have a repeat with some new folks on next Monday or Tuesday. And then look, if you want a live show, if we want like a Monday or Sunday live next week, and you guys want to participate, reach out. If enough people say, "Yeah, I'll participate." Yes, I will listen. That's what it comes down to. If we can get a handful of folks who will participate, if you guys will listen to that, let me know and we'll probably do it via Twitter. So reach out. Shout out to number one, Bonehead, Alice, keep grinding. Always thinking about ya. And yeah, that's all we have. So Fort Chauncey, the best dog in the world. My name's Scott McFarland. We love you guys and go Cats. 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