Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Discussing the future of Iowa United TBT team with Matt Crawford plus Iowa football lands another 2022 commit

Episode Date: June 16, 2021

We are joined by Iowa United GM Matt Crawford as he talks about the future direction of the team, what has changed over the last three years with the tournament, and who he thinks has the best chance to win this season. Plus, the Iowa football team lands an offensive line commit in the class of 2022. We discuss this and break down the rest of the news and notes around the Iowa Hawkeye athletic community.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.BetOnline AGThere is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus.Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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app. And on today's show, we have a lot of news and notes and tidbits that we want to cover, but the main highlight of today is we are joined by former general manager of the Iowa United the TBT team playing for the one million dollar cash prize at the end of the tournament comprised of Iowa Iowa State Drake and you know ideally you and I guys we're talking to him about why Iowa United is not playing in the tournament this year and is there a future for the team who are some of the Iowa Hawkeyes they wanted to try to get but they just you know they just couldn't get them for whatever reason and how the tournament has changed we're going to talk about all that on segments two and three before we get into that though again want to talk about some of the news notes and

tidbit around Iowa Hawkeye Nation starting off with Joe Wieskamp, who did receive an NBA draft combine invite. And that was kind of the big waiting, sticking point. I talked about this on the show earlier this week. I felt like if he got a combine invite, there was no chance he returned. I would say the chances of him coming back are very slim. The whole idea is that he thinks he's ready for the NBA. And I would agree. I just don't think he has a lot to prove at the collegiate level the fact that he got invited to the NBA draft combine means that NBA execs also

agree and he is a draftable prospect a guy who could go in the second round someone's going to take us you know take a swing on that size length and shooting ability so great for great for Joe Wieskamp I don't expect him back in an Iowa Hawkeye uniform anytime soon or ever. Also on the football front, got a couple interesting notes today. Cale Crow from Huxley, Iowa, goes to Ballard High School, did officially commit to the Iowa Hawkeyes. They offered him not too long ago, June 5th to be exact, and he committed 10 days later and he's officially visiting the Hawks in 10 days but um grew up a hawkeye fan wanted to be an iowa hawkeye uh this is a huge gift for iowa you want to keep

in-state kids in-state and you want to keep hawkeye fans in the family they understand what it means to be an iowa hawkeye 6.6 265 pound three-star tackle prospect the composite score has him at 776 nationally um a big-time grab in-state for Iowa to nab Cale for that offensive line for that outside tackle or the tackle spot for the offensive line. So huge news there. Also, Javon Tracy, brother of Tyrone Tracy, did announce his commitment yesterday. I thought there was a chance it could be Iowa. He ultimately chose to go to Miami of Ohio, a three-star athlete was choosing between really Iowa, Miami of Ohio. Iowa was the first person or first team to offer Javon Tracy. Thought that connection with Tyrone could be a big hit, but seemingly

he felt more comfortable at Miami for whatever reason. I wish him the absolute best. I know one of his other brothers plays at Miami of Ohio and it's a little bit closer to home, so I wish him the absolute best. I know one of his other brothers plays at Miami of Ohio, and it's a little bit closer to home. So I wish him the best nonetheless. But an opportunity for Iowa to nab another wide receiver and unable to succeed on that one. But there are still several prospects they are looking at, and I hope, I'm thinking we might get one committed this month.

So exciting stuff there as well. Continuing on the football front, Zach and Valkenburg made the locked impact watch list. It's that time of the year where we're going to, and honestly, probably not. We're probably getting more about August timeframe, but get a lot of these preseason watch lists, which really don't mean a lot other than these people are on the radar. That's all it means. That doesn't mean they're going to win. Doesn't mean they're going to be a first round pick. Doesn't mean they're going to be a big time player this year. It just means that they've had success in the past. And if they take the right steps, they could be on

that list going forward. So nevertheless, fun to kind of play with those hypotheticals here. Moving over into the golf front, Iowa golfer Alex Shaikh has earned a sponsor exemption to compete in next year's or next month's John Deere Classic. His brother Carson also qualified for the 121st U.S. Open. So two Iowa golfers making a big wave on the pro circuit. And Trenton Wallace was named a second team All-American after being named Big Ten Pitcher of the Year. The final thing I quickly wanted to cover before we got into the conversation with Matt Crawford was simply a tweet I put out yesterday about Brian Ferencz and his offensive play calling ability. Boomer Sooner, if nothing else, provides some talking points.

I don't understand. I don't think he's not very informed half the time. But today or yesterday, I thought he was very on point with the Brian Ferencz comp. the time but today or yesterday I thought he was very on point with the Brian Ferentz comp uh he had Brian I believe in the low 40s I'm gonna try to pull that up in terms of offensive play callers in college football and let me pull it up right now he has yeah Brian Ferentz at 41 and uh I made a couple points in this I thought it would just be fun to quickly recap. Brian Ferencz is legitimately Jekyll and Hyde. I think on a good day, Brian Ferencz is a top 10 offensive play caller in the nation. On a bad day, Northwestern or Purdue, he is a bottom three digits, hundreds, low 90s,

whatever it might be, because sometimes he gets very stubborn. And the stubbornness is something we enjoy, right? You look at the three quarterback sneaks in a row. That was just fun to watch. It was just Brian Ferron saying, we hate you, we're going to shove it down your throat. And then you see times where he just throws over and over and over again,

doesn't even try to utilize the running game. And he just gets very, again, Northwestern throwing 51 times. Spencer Petras not able to really handle that kind of responsibility that early on in his career you see it's very much a Jekyll and Hyde act but we see the potential we've seen what I the Iowa offense has done the fact they're able to have one of their best rushing totals in quite a long time last year was huge the implementation of jet sweeps and using speed um and the wildcat i mean these are all variations that you love to see from brian ference as he continues to grow as an offensive play caller so i do expect the growth to continue um expected you know continually be frustrated occasionally as no no play caller has a perfect

season where they can call everything perfectly and that's that's the case we're seeing with brian ference as well that being said though we're going to take a quick break and then get into the conversation with Matt Crawford talking about the Iowa United squad, whether or not there will be a team in the future and what Iowa Hawkeyes they tried to grab. All that's coming up on segment two. Before we get to that, though, I want to tell you about rockauto.com, a family-owned business serving auto parts customers online for 20 years. Go to rockauto.com to shop for all of your auto and body part needs from hundreds of manufacturers. They have everything from engine control modules and brake parts to tail lamps, motor oil, and even new carpet. Whether it's for your classic or your daily driver, get everything you need in a few

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Before we get into that, though, Matt, how are you doing today, man? Good. How are you? Good to see you again. Yeah, man. It's always nice to catch up with you. Obviously, we chatted for about a half hour before this, so I definitely, definitely, definitely enjoyed that. But the Iowa – Unerrible. Yeah, yeah.

Definitely can't air probably 97% of that, except maybe like the parenting advice you were giving me. Yeah, there we go. That's about it. But we are back to talk about the Iowa United. We've had you on the show several times over the last couple years as you put together teams that are comprised of Drake, Iowa, Iowa State, and you and I – well, no you and I players,

but Iowa, Iowa State, and Drake players on the show. Hard to get, man. It is tough. And last year we were starting to do all of our interviews, getting some of the players on the show. Hard to get, man. It is tough. And last year, we were starting to do all of our interviews, getting some of the guys on the show. We had Nicholas Bayer back as well. Tyrus McGee was on the show, Josh Young. But Iowa United did not get in the tournament.

And this year, you're not having a team. So I want to talk a little bit about that today. First, why no Iowa United team this year? Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, I think the big part for me was one of the conversations I had with Coach Horner where, you know, we're recruiting guys and we're trying to talk to guys. You know, like I've talked to you before, I mean,

the list is kind of the list of guys. And so, you know, we kind of go through that list and talk to them, recruit them, you know, that sort of thing, see if they're interested. And, you know, one day I was sitting there talking to Coach Horner. I go, I was like, Hey, I'm going to wave a magic wand for you here and give me the eight or nine guys. If they said yes, not to win it, but give us a realistic puncher's chance. And I'm going to write down that same eight or nine that I think it is. And so we both kind of did that. And we pretty much came up with the same list of guys. There was a little very not much, not enough to be important. So same eight or nine guys. And I go,

okay, well, coach, the problem is, I know for sure that we've got one of those guys, and that's Tyrus McGee. And that was kind of the point where I'm like, you know, kind of the point where I'm like, you know, how interested really is everyone in doing this, you know? And it just got to the point where I felt like I was kind of pulling teeth to do it now. And I'm going to say this, let me preface this. I don't fault any of these guys for not playing. Okay. They've got a month off and it's right when the tournament is, you know, they've got families, they've got other things. They want to come home. It was a COVID year. They want to come home and see everybody. And I get that, but at the same time,

you do have to have a certain level of interest from the players. And if you kind of look on Twitter and see some of these teams that are, some of them are run by former players and they're the ones recruiting, they're going, Hey, I'll go get this guy. I'll go get this guy. We just, for whatever reason, couldn't cultivate that where we had that interest and it just felt too much like we were pulling teeth to get guys. And at some point you just got to say, you know, you know, who's more interested in this. Is it,

is it us or is it the players? And if it's us, it's maybe time to do something else. Yeah, can't keep pulling teeth to try to get people to play. I want to ask you a question about – you actually brought up a good point. You put together that list of eight or nine guys. I just want to take a stab at naming some of the Iowa Hawkeye players. Sure. Peter Jock, Jared Uthoff, Aaron White, those three guys?

I think Aaron was on one of our our list not on the other okay devin marvel oh i complete i i forget about devin marvel sometimes because he's completely forgot about iowa well and it made sense made more sense why we weren't hearing back from him though that yeah he just doesn't like totally get it now it makes a hundred percent sense so coach harger and i had a good laugh about that we're like well that kind of makes sense why he's not answering I guess but yeah it doesn't doesn't play for any Iowa-based team yeah yeah so um yeah so at some point you got to just say hey you know we guys don't want to play they don't want to to play. And that's about all you can do. Yeah. So will there be a team in the future?

Will there be any sort of compilation of an Iowa United team, whether that's Iowa State-based or an overall team anytime in the future? I don't know. The problem is I'm sitting on – I've got a sponsor. That's the hard part is I finally got it to a point where I have a sponsor. So I've got money sitting here. Okay. I've got, you know, myself and I've got people that are willing to help. Well, I like yourself and, you know, video guys and stuff like that. I, I'm not going to do it where I've got to recruit the guys. If there's an alumni, if there's a guy that says, hey, I can call these dudes, I can get these guys to play,

and they want to just get the team together, I'll listen. I'll see who they can get. But I don't see a scenario right now where I'm going to personally do it or anything like that right now. Like I said, I don't fault them, but there's got to be a certain level of interest to do it. And it's just, like I said, it's I don't fault them, but there's gotta be a certain level of interest to do it and just not there. Unfortunately. Yeah. You mentioned one thing the fact that you do have a sponsor lined up and

I'd be, you know, I've been a little bit involved, you know, talking to you a lot over the last couple of years. And I feel like the evolution of the tournament, even in the last three years has been incredible. The first year, I feel like you were kind of scrounging to get people to pay for, you know, get jerseys and trying to line everything up and whatnot. Now you have a sponsor who's willing to, you know, potentially even pay to, you know, get some players on the team. Can you talk a little bit about how the tournament has changed over the last three years even? Yeah. So it used to be where,

I mean, you kind of budgeted maybe 10 grand and that covered your expenses for the guys that week, flights, you know, wherever they got to go, food, that sort of thing. Some teams are going to figure out how to get a corporate sponsor, and it's going to blow up because now they're going to have all this money and they can start paying guys, give them money. Because if you're a player, why would you play in this? I really don't understand. Because you're not getting anything unless you win, right? So your main job, like you're Tyrus McGee, you're making a quarter of a million dollars playing overseas, right?

What is your motivation? Well, Tyrus is different because he's just a gym rat and he's unbelievable but that example there bad example but why would you play in this if you don't get anything well now guys are starting they're not necessarily calling for it or asking for it but they're going to get money um so just to kind of give your listeners an idea i know of two guys at least and this is just at least I know one is getting 15 grand just to play and another one's getting 25 for a for a very prominent team that's just the two I know of so you know once kind of that ball gets rolling now if you're and I'm just pulling

a name out because he's familiar you're Mike Dom and I'm not saying he's asking for money or anything like that but if you're Mike Dom why wouldn't you you're Mike Dahm, why wouldn't you go – or a player like that, why wouldn't you go to a team and say, I'll play for you, but I know he got $10,000 just to play. I want $10,000 just to play. Now you're getting into an arms race that, A, I'm not going to partake in. I can't – it's hard to raise that kind of money. But you're going to start getting teams that can do that consistently.

Now you're going to be really top-heavy in this tournament. And that's kind of the concern for the tournament. But, yeah, I think that's the biggest change is now you're starting to see guys get paid just to play, and they're starting to get paid a lot of money just to come play. Yeah, you're starting to see almost – I feel like some teams are starting to get ringers, right? You might have a, let's say I'm just a Marquette alumni team, and then they might pull one, two,

or three guys who really don't have any affiliation with the university of Marquette, but they're going to play on that team and hopefully go get, you know, another W this upcoming year. So I think it's very interesting. Mike Don was also a guy who I feel like after last year's tournament performance could a hundred percent capitalize and get a lot of money if he really wanted to, but clearly wants to play for the Atlanta. And what's interesting too is –

and now that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to work because you've got some teams that are mainstays in this, like your sideline Cancers and stuff like that, that that's not necessarily going to work for them. They're a culture team they're a system team that that's not necessarily going to work for them so some of these teams don't need to do that other teams if they've got the money they can do it that's the route they want to go but it's certainly become quite the arms race as far as uh paying players and now you're

you know what you're going to have is you're going to have guys that are going to now um kind of bounce back and bounce around to the highest bidder like you talked about i don't know if that's necessarily good for the tournament either yeah i mean i like the consistency of knowing some of the same guys the same teams are going to be back each year year in and year out a couple of former iowa united guys are on other rosters now as the Iowa United are not playing this year. I saw Nick McGlynn is on the Creighton team.

Tyrus is playing on a team, and I cannot remember what actual team he's on. Wichita. Oh, that's what it was. I thought that was super funky. Isn't that great? That's rich. I love that, actually.

Yeah, I do too. And then you have Mike Dahm on the Illini team. Are there any other Iowa United guys playing on other teams that I'm not listing? I don't think so. No, I saw, I saw Clemens is on a team. I don't know if they'll get in or not, but I saw Anthony Clemens got on a, I was listed on a roster as well, but yeah, not that I, not that I can think of, no.

Out of those three teams, which one do you feel like has the best chance to make a deep run in the tournament, Tyrus's, Nick's, or Mike's? Well, Mike's. You know, especially with him playing in Peoria, that Illinois team was really good last year. You know, Wichita State, you know, they got a couple guys back from injury that didn't play against us. But, you know, it's a good roster.

I don't think it's as good as Illinois', especially playing at home. That'll be a tough team to beat. All right, y'all. We're going to quickly take a break from the conversation with Matt, and we'll get back to that at segment three. I do want to tell you about two of our other sponsors of the show today. You've heard me talk about them before. Built Bar is the way to go when you're looking for a protein bar.

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But, yeah, they'll have some guys, and that place will be rocking again for sure. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how Tyrus fits in with that group you know where's where's he slide in as far as uh minutes i mean he'd be perfect six man on that team i suppose but um yeah no it'd be fun to it'll be fun to watch him and and be supportive of him down there as well absolutely so my last question to you is how has covet impacted the iowa united so last year, the expectation was that the Iowa United was going to get in to the tournament. The tournament did shrink the tournament a little bit, but I thought that you all were pretty comfortably in.

The results are the tournament brackets come out basically in the seedings, and Iowa United is not in the tournament. Do you feel like had you had a team last year that there's a chance that Iowa United would be a part of the tournament this year? Yeah, because, I mean, you know, it really – and I've had those conversations, so I'm not telling you anything I haven't told the tournament. I go, that really screwed us from a program standpoint because, you know, I'm sitting here with Mike Dahm on my team, with Royce White on my team,

you know, to go with Tyrus and Pete and these guys to where, you know, you don't put us in, even though we're clearly talent wise. I mean, this isn't biased. I mean, you look at the rosters, I mean, talent wise, there's no way we shouldn't have got in. It's a, you know, we're not going to rehash it, but it was an awful decision. So when we don't get in, I can't, you know, we're, we got to do the right thing too, for these guys. So we don't get in my first call before we announce it is I'm calling guys. Some of my GMs I know going, Hey, we're not going to get in. Do you, is there anybody you want me to talk to, um, as far as playing for it? Um, and that kind of comes up, comes up, you know,

Hey, you know, and then, you know, Mike had a contact with Illinois. And so he went to Illinois. Well, I can't get Mike back. So I can't just go recruit another Mike Dom. So he's gone to the Illinois team and that's great for him. But it really messes you up from a program standpoint, because now I'm recruiting guys and I can't tell them, hey, we get, you know, Oh yeah, we didn't get in last year. Well, why am I going to play for you if you didn't get in? And so it's tough because you're, you're, but you're back to what do you do for a team to assemble a team? Right. And you're doing the Iowa, Iowa state thing.

And it's pulling teeth a little bit to get guys to really commit. So you go out of the state to get your Mike Doms, your Justin Carters, guys like that, and then you don't get in, right? So now what do you do? So, you know, we were really close. This will drive the Iowa State fans crazy how close we were on this. So after last year, and they basically said, you know, essentially it was almost like you had too many non-alumni, which is crap,

because if you look at some of these rosters this year, they're full of terrible reasoning. So, you know, after last year I said, well, okay, well, if this is the way it's going to be, I might as well just try to put together an Iowa state team. Um, you know, we had a guy just as a side note, we had a guy in Iowa City that was looking to put together just an Iowa team I was helping him as much as I could with that giving him advice everything I knew I was giving to him and it didn't take long and he realizes there's just no traction to it and so I they they uh they bailed on it so I'm sitting here going okay well let's try to put together an Iowa State team you know okay first thing I'm going do i'm gonna try to find a coach and i'm gonna let them recruit whatever just as a kick i go let me call larry eustachian let me see what

he's got going on finally get a hold of him he's in so i'm sitting here going okay i'm i've got a sponsor we're bidding des moines iowa uh which we're already doing we've been kind of working with that for the last couple of years. And I'm sitting here and I've got Larry Stacey called Marcus Fizer. Marcus Fizer says, yeah, I'll help him. Okay. Well, that's two big name coaches right there. Okay.

I've got, I'm getting good feedback from guys like Melvin Edgem, who can't play this year because it's an Olympic year, but next year he might be able to play. Will Clyburn, another guy that's kind of like, maybe, yeah, he might be able to play. Will Clyburn, another guy that's kind of like, maybe, yeah, that, you know, might be able to do that. Let me see how things go. DeAndre Kane has always kind of flirted with coming back. So this is where I'm sitting, right? Right. I'm going, okay, I've got two coaches and I've got three or four guys and I know Tyrus will play. All right. I got a five. I've got my starting five right here. And that's

going to be a popular five, you know, and it was going to be a Des Moines, everything. Right. So eventually, and I think he's going to do something else. So I don't want to, I don't want to air it, but I think he's going to take a certain job. All of a sudden I can't, I can't get a whole Larry stage. And I'm not talking like a couple of days, I'm talking like a month. stage. And I'm not talking like a couple of days, I'm talking like a month. So at some point I've got to sit here and go, okay, at any point, the tournament can say, Hey, we got your bid from Des Moines Drake, where they're going to, we're going to host there. And I'm going to sit there going, I don't have a coach and I don't have a full team that I guarantee is going to play. So at some point again, I just got to go, Hey, I called up, uh, I called up the visitor

bureau and I just said, Hey, I don't feel good enough about putting either of our names on this to, to do it. Um, I don't, I don't know where the coach is. I don't have a guaranteed starting fives that I feel comfortable will actually do it. I mean, you got to pull the plug on, but that's how close we were to having something really cool. Not only just with the Iowa State team, but we had a guy working on putting together an Iowa team as well that we were trying to kind of assist them with. Like, hey, maybe call him.

We tried him. Yeah, this sort of thing. But, again, it just fell through. And, again, you got to have that level of interest. Yeah, you can only do what you can do, right? I mean, if certain people don't want to play, you can't really do much about that. No, no.

And I feel bad. I feel bad for kind of the state and those two schools, because I'm telling you, we put as much as we could. We did everything we could. Everything we possibly could have done to get these guys, coaches, everybody to do it. You just can't make them do it. And that's unfortunate because you've got a lot of schools that are amped up to play and want to play and the players want to play.

The players want to recruit. The fans want to get into it. And, you know, that's what I was trying to build here. And we just weren't able to do it. You know, maybe at some point down the road, will open up certain players will open up and it's a possibility that someone maybe takes the reins and tries it again but it just the timing of it right now just this isn't going so that's what it is i mean i'll personally attest the fact that uh wichita was one of the most fun sporting events i've ever been

at um and being able to see you know josh play again a guy who i watched play at drake quite a bit um you know see some of the iowa guys nicholas bayer play uh you know matt gatins even seeing him uh go in for 10 seconds and just sit there on the three-point line i mean that was just uh was just a ton of fun to be able to watch that. So it would be cool to obviously see that team get back together at some point, but definitely understand. Matt, any last words about the tournament that you want to kind of bring up on the show today?

No. I mean, it's a neat tournament, and I hope folks tuned into it. You know, you got some Iowa appeal there kind of scattered across some different teams and stuff like that. And I think the next week is when they do their selection show monday or tuesday at like i don't know it's like monday or tuesday it's on facebook or twitter or something like that but um and then things kind of go from there but yeah um it's an interesting tournament i just uh um like i said i mean uh you you know there some teams don't mind kind of getting into it with no expectations of what's going to happen.

And they're okay going, okay, well, we're going to get our tails kicked here. Man, we just couldn't do that anymore. I just didn't feel like doing that. So, yeah. So, no, it's a great tournament. And I hope folks tune in and support it and things like that. And you never know, maybe down the road something pops up. Maybe a women's tournament pops up next year that we might –

A women's tournament would be a lot of fun. Yeah. I mean, that's some really good basketball teams in the state of Iowa from a women's perspective with Iowa State and Drake. Actually, I do have one last thing I wanted to ask you because last year you were kind of my go-to guy for the inside scoop as to what teams might do pretty well and what teams might not. And I won a lot of money. So I want to get a chance from you to say, what is your prediction? Who do you think is going to win this year's tournament? I know there's a lot of things going

on, but well, there's a lot of things going on even just today. So it kind of depends. I want to see the Bayheims army who i was basically counting out because they were kind of aging out a little bit um added some dudes and they got three more dudes they're pretty high on and if it's if it's a guy with the last name anthony that may pop up uh that might change things a little bit um sideline cancer will be really tough um they're always really good you know that carmen's crew from oheline cancer will be really tough. Um, they're always really good. You know, that Carmen's crew from Ohio state will be really good. Um, you know, I'm, I'm, this is a term that I definitely am pretty chalky on,

especially in those top three or four seats, because there is a definite, um, they try to say it's not, but if you look along the lines of these rosters, you look at like the top four, sometimes even five seasons, some of these regions. And then the bottom of that rosters you look at like the top four sometimes even five seasons some of these regions and then the bottom of that it's a huge drop off so i'm pretty chalky for the most part especially in those top seeds um but yeah sideline cancer and i want to see who these bayheim army uh guys are because i think they they've added a couple of guys. Tyrese Rice moved over from Challenge ALS just in the last couple of days for certain reasons that you could probably guess.

So we'll see. But those are a couple that really stand out. I love it. Well, Matt's given us the inside tip and the scoop on who to maybe look at for betting wise. the inside tip and the scoop on, on who to maybe look at for a betting, betting wise, Matt, always a pleasure having you on the show. Hopefully have you on,

uh, in the future as well. If there is ever a, an Iowa United or even an Iowa state team popping up. Yeah. Thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it. All right, y'all.

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