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Maybe there's a subculture within the Firestone plant, and they're the ones making the bum tires to pay us back.

So basically you're saying that everybody in Firestone

was in on this because they would have had to know

about it.

you don't understand what I'm

talking about.

I know what you're talking about, and it's out there, okay? The guy is basically asking you the question, everybody at Firestone.

I didn't say everybody at Firestone.

Some people are into like BDSM.

Some people are into everybody's into something different.

That's their vibe.

That's what they like.

And I'm telling you,

good stuff.

Something about Japan I didn't like was everybody's in a matcha.

I don't even know what matcha is.

Tennessee's true freshman quarterback starting in front of 100,000 people, 10 million plus watching this game at home.

College game day, big noon, the president of the United States, everybody in attendance for this game.

And to me, to me, the question is going to be connected here.

Can the young wide receivers of Tennessee make plays? That is when Faison Brandon gets them the ball, can they turn an eight-yard out route, a hitch into a 28-yard play by making a couple of guys miss? More importantly, can Tennessee's offensive line consistently allow the Vols to run the football? Can they put Tennessee into third and ideally never third down, but can they put Tennessee into third and two, third and three type situations where the whole playbook is open and as opposed to the third and six plus where you pretty much guaranteed are dropping back and everybody knows you're going to be passing and you're going to have some confusion.

Remember, Tennessee's got a brand new defensive coordinator on that side of the ball.

So we really don't know what exactly to expect from Jim Knowles.

Yes, we do.

And everybody seems to tolerate the traveling squirrel.

I was having a difficult time because I saw this squirrel.

It's a rodent, and it climbs trees, and yet I see it wearing a walnut shell hat and carrying a walnut briefcase.

And then you got, you know, I had

to interview, but I have to like go out and interview these guys and make it fun and like talk to the coach with the pedal pushers on and talk to Harbaugh about Pac-12 football by the back of the day and talk to Charlie Kolar and Alex Ingold and everybody else.

And then all of a sudden, you know, Quinton Q and all the lad McConkie.

I talked to these guys and, and then the season starts and they just don't look like they're on the same page playing very inspired football.

But it is, as we were reminded the other day by all of our guests and my partner, it is a week-to-week league.

So we'll see what happens.

As far as the Ole Miss thing goes, I don't know what I have to add that everybody else hasn't already said.

Obviously, it was really satisfying to see that happen.