Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Kirk Ferentz speaks to the media | What the Big 10's conference schedule announcement means | Jarrod Uthoff is back in the NBA

Episode Date: July 20, 2020

Kirk Ferentz held a press conference Friday and provided clarity on a number of situations within the program so we break down what he said and what it means going forward. What are the Hawkeyes doing... to address racial inequality within the program, what steps are they taking to manage potential Covid outbreaks, and who's going to replace Broderick Binns? The Big 10 also announced they are eliminating non-conference games this year, which helps and hurts Iowa. We also break down all of the quick notes and hot topics from the last few days including Jarrod Uthoff signing with the Washington Wizards, recent college football award lists nominees, and the recent preseason ranking for the Hawks.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Rad Power BikesRight now as a limited time offer, get a free accessory with the purchase of a bike. That’s right. And FREE shipping to the lower 48 states. To get this special offer, text the word LOCKED to 64-000.FreshlyJoin almost ONE AND A HALF MILLION Satisfied Customers and skip the shopping, prepping, cooking, and clean up.  Freshly is offering our listeners FORTY DOLLARS OFF FOR THEIR FIRST TWO ORDERS at freshly.com/lockedon.Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.ManscapedGo to Manscaped.com and use code Locked On to get 20% Off and Free Shipping. Manscaped is #1 in men’s below the belt grooming and offers precision-engineered tools for your family jewels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I thank God I was born on the good arms of the Midwest, and not on the battlefields of Europe. It's a time of panic, and it's intercepted! It's picked off, run away! Intercepted by Marty Hooker! Pick six! Eight seconds into the game! Buffen sets up deep in the pocket, goes down the field for Smith! Oh! He got it! Smith! Decks down 85 yards. Iowa. Touchdown, 10.
Starting point is 00:00:30 Taking a shot in the end zone. It is caught. No offense. Touchdown. That's either one or you have it. Go ahead and three. Yes. Two-point lead for the Hawkeyes podcast,
Starting point is 00:01:14 your daily podcast covering your Iowa Hawkeyes on the Locked On Sports Network. As always, I am your host, Andrew Wade, and today's episode is brought to you by rockauto.com. Amazing selection, reliably low prices, all the parts your car will ever need. Visit rockauto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. And I am excited to be back. It has been exactly four weeks since we recorded our last show. I know it was a bit abrupt. I didn't really give any indication that we were going to stop airing shows.
Starting point is 00:01:45 One thing led to another, and here we are a month later. But I think overall the break was good for me to get away, kind of focus on some things I had going on at home, some things I had going on at work, and some other personal items before jumping back into the show. I wanted to make sure that if I'm coming back, I'm giving you the content you deserve and the content you want and not just rambling on like I have been known to do in the past. So I want to make sure I'm coming back with an even better show. And for those of you who've been around for a long time listening to the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast, you know, every once in a while, every probably seven, eight months, I take a little bit of a break. I come back with a little bit more energy, a little bit, you know, more ideas, more ideas on how to improve the show. So I hope the ones that are joining for the first time you enjoy this
Starting point is 00:02:28 episode, the ones who have been with me for a while, I hope you stick around. We have some great stuff coming up. We do have some interviews that we're going to be dropping this week. And next week, we have two recruits in the class of 2021 that are going to be coming on the show on a Wednesday, really excited about that episode. And then we also have Iowa's funniest woman in sports, Lucy Rodin. She's going to be hopping on the show as well. We'll probably have that episode airing probably a week from now, from the day you're listening to this now. And lots of stuff has happened in the last month
Starting point is 00:03:01 since I kind of stopped posting a lot on Twitter and since I stopped really posting episodes. So we're going to try to get through all that. We're going to try to take an analytical approach to a lot of it. So it might be news that happened a week ago, for example, the Big Ten schedule, but we're going to give the analysis of what that means kind of going forward and what our thoughts are.
Starting point is 00:03:20 On today's episode, though, we're going to break down a list of hot topics and things that have really popped up over the last week and kind of quickly dive into those. Going to try to make that a new segment every Monday, just hitting on the hot topics. Not really diving deep, but that'll give us a basis for what we're going to cover the rest of the week as we kind of dive into these things more and more, especially as we get more news. If we do have football, if we don't have football, we'll try to make sure we're covering that. news. If we do have football, if we don't have football, we'll try to make sure we're covering that. We're also going to break down the press conference that happened on Friday with Kirk, Javon Colbert, and Tyler Linderbaum and Brandon Smith had an hour long interview with the media or a press conference with the media learned a lot of great information. Big thing I took away
Starting point is 00:03:58 from the guys, the players is that you know, they are really excited to get you know, get to playing football. They feel like the team is stronger than ever. They feel like there's been some really great discussion, and there has been change already happening. So really enjoy hearing that coming out of the program, some positivity coming out. So great stuff there. But let's jump in to the hot topics.
Starting point is 00:04:21 The first one, I don't like to talk about other podcasts unless I am giving them kudos, because I think it's really important to shine light on the other people doing some really great work in the Iowa Hawkeye community. One of the podcasts I've always been very fond of is the washed up walk ons. If you want information coming directly from former players, getting some of that insight, there's no better podcast than them. Obviously, I think we have different analytical approaches, we have different verbiage styles, we have different speaking styles. So you're going to get different, definitely different content and a different presentation. But I highly recommend if you like this podcast, you should have checked out washed up walk ons by now. But this week,
Starting point is 00:04:56 there was a bit this weekend, really, Drake Kulik, former for fullback for the Iowa Hawkeyes had some interesting things to say on Twitter. When you've listened to their shows, especially as they talked about some of the stuff coming out of the program the last couple months, they have been very vocal about, we stand with our former teammates, but some of these things are not necessarily true. Two things kind of came out. Jack Kallenberger, if you remember his story, kind of being harassed in the Iowa program, calling him Simple Jack because he had a learning disability. Drake called him a baby because he cried about his name.
Starting point is 00:05:36 And then also told another former Iowa football player that he has been canceled and the cancel culture has essentially been canceled because that guy was pretty adamant about some of the stuff happening within the Iowa football program. So I, some interesting stuff there. I don't want to get into it. I don't know kind of what's going on.
Starting point is 00:05:55 I do think, especially the Jack Kallenberger tweet was within poor taste. I'll be interested to see how they address it on the shows going forward, but definitely interesting to see that, especially after, you know, they've had an opportunity to interview Jordan Lomax and James Daniels and those kind of guys and talk about what's going on. And then to see some of this come out is obviously frustrating, I guess you could say. Some award lists that happened and that popped up. Obviously, these yearly award lists are really just trying to find guys who have started last year who could be good this next year. These lists are long,
Starting point is 00:06:29 and later on in the week we're going to break down the possibility of these guys winning it, and who could actually win some of these awards, and who they would have to beat out. But wanted to quickly hit on three different awards that released their nominees. The Doak Walker, He hit on three different awards that released their nominees. The Doak Walker, Makai Sargent, and Tyler Goodson, both Doak Walker Award nominees. The Mackey Award, we got Sam Laporta. That just speaks volumes how big of a deal he's going to be in this Iowa football program considering he didn't even start until the end of the season and he is just a true freshman. So love seeing him show up on the radar here and get some love.
Starting point is 00:07:05 And then for the Blitnikoff Award, Amir Smith-Marset, as we probably expected, is on that award list as well. Like I said, we'll be breaking down that information later on in the week and what guys also could be finding themselves on those lists and what the opportunities are for them to potentially win. And again, these are not that important right now. They're just kind of an idea for what guys are kind of on people's watch list going forward, just to give you a sense of who to look at. But people kind of come out of nowhere at times, and those are always important to watch those guys as well. Broderick Binns is moving along in the program.
Starting point is 00:07:42 He is no longer the director of player development. He is the executive director of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This is something that Kirk talked a little bit about. I think it's really important that he does take over that role and to help foster growth within the program, especially among the black athletes. I think that will be really huge for that program. In the interim, they are not going to fill his director of football player development
Starting point is 00:08:10 role right away. They'll be filling it with several folks on the board, in the program. And then Sam Brinks, former Iowa football player, defensive tackle from a couple years ago, will be, sounds like Kirk said, he'll be taking on most of the responsibilities, and especially with those first-year guys. So love seeing that as well. A couple of basketball things I want to hop into, but I want to make sure I do get an opportunity to talk about one of our sponsors for the show today.
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Starting point is 00:10:00 All the parts your car will ever need. rockauto.com All right, so we are into segment two and we have not finished our hot topics. So I'm going to walk through those and then we're going to hop into the football press conference news. A couple of things. Jared Uthoff signed with the Washington Wizards. This is a guy who I'm honestly shocked he hasn't gotten more NBA opportunities. He has definitely taken a non-traditional path.
Starting point is 00:10:29 He did not want to be drafted so he could control his future. Got a 10-day contract with the Mavericks late in his rookie season. Has bounced around the NBA G League, putting up fantastic numbers. Played overseas for a year, putting up great numbers there as well.
Starting point is 00:10:41 And now he is heading to the bubble to play for the Washington Wizards. This is a great opportunity to showcase his talents. The Wizards are a terrible defensive team. I think they were the worst rated defensive team in the NBA leading into the shutdown. They're a terrible team in general. They're 24 and 40, and they do not have their two best players in John Wall and Bradley Beal. So this is a great chance for Jared Uthoff to show what he can do
Starting point is 00:11:05 and potentially parlay that into a future contract for an NBA team, especially on the defensive side. I'm honestly shocked he hasn't gotten an opportunity. He's a guy that fits the mold of what NBA teams are looking for these days. A 3 and D guy, great size, can defend multiple positions,
Starting point is 00:11:22 shoots the ball well, handles the ball well, and gets active on the offensive glass. I don't know why teams do not line up to get this guy on your bench, but hopefully he does well and we'll be tracking his progress as the NBA season starts up. Tyler Cook is also going to be in the bubble. So that is two Iowa Hawkeyes that are playing in the NBA right now. Tyler Cook is going to be with the Nuggets this season in the bubble. And interesting enough, just found out that he is going to be wearing, you know, they're going to be utilizing their opportunity to show the things they believe in and to show what they support.
Starting point is 00:11:56 And he's going to be actually wearing a jersey with the words Black Lives Matter on it. So super exciting stuff to see Tyler Cook kind of stand up for what he believes in as well. He's been getting some hate from Iowa Hawkeye fans. I think, to be honest, that's ridiculous. Whether or not you agree or disagree with him, please do not be jumping in players mentions and hating on them for whatever reason. And I think if you've been listening to the show, you know how I feel about what is going on. I firmly support, you know, our players of color and the people of color and our brothers of color who are struggling with inequality. I've seen
Starting point is 00:12:30 firsthand within my family, being a second generation Hispanic, about how they can be mistreated too. Definitely support the heck out of what he is, the causes that he's supporting and all that good stuff. Obviously, the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast and the Lockdown Sports Network supports the Black Lives Matter movement as well.
Starting point is 00:12:49 Also on the football front, our last thing for Hot Topics, actually probably second to last, the Phil Steele Top 25 has Iowa at number 23. And as I've said for some of the other things, we're going to be breaking down that news on a future show, but wanted to at least address the Hot Top topics before jumping into the big thing today. And Jack Horner is back with the Iowa football team after suffering that boating accident down in the Ozarks. He is back with the team. Sounds like he is doing well as well.
Starting point is 00:13:19 So really excited to see him make a lot of progress. Obviously still be caring about his friend as well, who lost the use of his legs. So scary stuff nonetheless, and whether or not you're a football player, wishing the best of luck and the quickest recoveries for those two and their families. So let's jump into some of the content for the day though. So I know a little bit more hot topics today than typical, but that will change, obviously, as we start having more shows. And we're going to be doing, I forgot to mention this, but our shows are going to be Monday,
Starting point is 00:13:49 Wednesdays, Fridays, no exceptions. We might add Tuesdays and Thursday shows if there is something that really important pops up. We also might be doing some video type of things, maybe creating a YouTube channel or posting some video clips on Twitter of some of our interviews that we're doing. So really, really kind of cool stuff. Like I said, we actually have two of the 2021 recruits coming on Jennings Dunker and Zach tweet. He's going to be coming on the show as well. They came on actually together and we did a video conference and really great guys. So I'd be posting some
Starting point is 00:14:21 of that stuff on Twitter. That'll be dropping on Wednesday. But let's hop into the stuff. Like I said, the big thing, the press conference happened on Friday. And I think this is kind of in place of media days. We usually have Big Ten media days at this time. But clearly, that is not the case right now with everything happening. And the Big Ten did change to a 10-game conference schedule. If we have an opportunity to, we'll get to that today. Otherwise, we'll break down what that means for Iowa on Thursday. But the press conference,
Starting point is 00:14:51 I'm going to quickly kind of go through a few things we learned, and then we're going to take a quick break and then break down what that means for the program. Kirk did say, you know, there is some COVID within the program. Symptoms have been relatively minor and no hospitalizations. Sounds like they're taking a lot of precautions. Some of the things he mentioned for that is before going into the program, everyone was tested. They have daily health questionnaires. Temperatures are being gauged literally every time someone enters the building. He actually mentioned that this was the third time he's had his temperature taken that day. Groups are spaced out a bit so they can limit the traffic and the flow. And there are no more meals inside the building. All are takeout meals. Now, as far as strength
Starting point is 00:15:31 and conditioning, typically they would group people by position and by size, which makes sense. But now they're putting players into pods that are based on their social network. So the guys who live together, uh, a lot, a lot of interesting stuff on that. But, um, so the guys who are living together, they're trying to keep those guys, um, together in the weight room and have other guys come in at other times. Typically in the past, the facility has been open in the afternoon for guys to do seven on seven stuff and, and just get their workouts in during the summer. Um, their voluntary type of stuff this year has been shut down for the most part, but it just reopened. So some interesting stuff. Obviously, it sounds like they're really taking the COVID pandemic serious
Starting point is 00:16:10 in there. Kirk also expressed the fact that he does not want to play spring football, but that still is a possibility. And that they're moving forward as if they have a 10 game conference schedule on the docket. And they're moving forward as if they're going to be in camp August 7th. So they're moving along as if they're going to be in camp August 7th. So they're, they're, they're moving along as if they're going to have football. We obviously don't know if they are going to have football, who knows what's actually going to happen with that. Lots of crazy stuff has been going on. And I think the big news is the fact that they have had people test positive and they've done a really great job of limiting the outbreak of that. And
Starting point is 00:16:43 Tyler Linderbaum, when he got up on the mic, he also talked about the fact that he feels like players are being smarter about, you know, not, not going in if they're sick, and understanding that the whole idea of contract tracing, or contact tracing, excuse me, and where they are getting people sick out of where they're getting sick from so that we can eliminate that or limit that as much as possible within the football program. Certainly doesn't seem like we've had as big of an outbreak as possible, especially when you have one or two people with the way COVID spreads, who knows how big that could have gotten. So great to see Iowa doing a good job managing that. That gives me hope going forward. Obviously,
Starting point is 00:17:18 it depends though on how everyone else does. The CDC just came out with a recommendation or with basically a guidance that if everyone wore a mask for four to eight weeks, we could shut coronavirus down. I'll be completely honest. I just spent the last week in Iowa visiting my father and my sister and my niece and no one wore a mask. I live in Denver now and everyone wears a mask. It's a public, it's a state mandate that you must wear a mask in public you have to at iowa i didn't feel like anyone really cared i remember walking to jethro's with the mask on and i was the only one there i wasn't going to leave because i did want to see my dad my dad doesn't care about mask i tried convincing him otherwise but um still it's important to wear a mask and
Starting point is 00:18:03 if we want this to stop and want football to be played, we need to have people wearing masks so we can eliminate the coronavirus as much as possible, as quickly as possible. But I could talk about that for a long time. Coming up, though, on segment number three, I'm going to round out the last few thoughts on the press conference and then might have a chance to get into a little bit of the Big Ten schedule before closing out the show. So we're going to take a quick break and give you a few messages from our sponsors before touching on some of the things we've learned about that. You know, the council that's coming up to talk about some of the racial issues that are within the Iowa football program and what some of the players said as well when they had an opportunity to speak to the media.
Starting point is 00:18:41 to speak to the media. We are back for our third and final segment of the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. Today, your daily show covering the Iowa Hawkeyes on the Lockdown Sports Network. And like I said before, we took a quick break. We're going to round out the show by covering the rest of the press conference and potentially hopping into the Big Ten schedule.
Starting point is 00:19:06 A couple things that Kirk also talked about, the Hush Blackwell investigation nearing the end. We should be getting results soon. They've conducted over 100 interviews. That'll be very interesting to see what comes out of that. Could be some big shakeups. Could be just some recommendations. Who actually knows?
Starting point is 00:19:22 It sounds like a lot of it's focused probably on Brian Ferentz, a little bit on Seth Wallace, and clearly on the weight program and what happened within that. Also, the team has had some really great discussions as a group. Recently, they had a one hour discussion just simply geared on the national anthem. Kirk has made it very clear that whatever they decide, they're doing it as a team. And at this point, they are not at a consensus about what they want to do, but he does feel like they are moving in the right direction, really doing a great job of communicating among the team. So that is good to hear. Javon Colbert also said a similar thing, that they're not all the way there,
Starting point is 00:20:00 but they are having great discussions as well. As far as the council that was formed, Kirk is not ready to release those 10 guys that are on that council, but he did say they've already met four to five times. It's players from the 1970s all the way up to recent graduates. No longer is Mike Daniels going to be the head of that. He has some family stuff that he needs to make sure he's there for. So Dave Porter is kind of leading, former offensive lineman is going to be leading that council. So nevertheless, exciting stuff to see what that council is able to do and to talk about and to decide.
Starting point is 00:20:32 It sounds like not just within the council, but within the program in general, Iowa has been taking a really deep, long look about what they do. And one of the big things that Kirk said was that there were no concerns really about how practice was ran, but mostly just the policies within the program and trying to determine what are the things that Iowa emphasizes that are not important and what should be modified versus what are the things they emphasize that truly are important to the success of the program. Basically, he said, you know, the frivolous stuff can go. He even mentioned, you know, Twitter, for example. He's clearly wrong on that.
Starting point is 00:21:06 He said, I wanted to protect my players. There's 110 guys in the locker room that would disagree with my original policy on Twitter. He's gone away with that. I personally think it's great. I love seeing the players being able to talk on Twitter and talk through what is going on. At some point, they have to be able to learn. I think Iowa already has it, you know, outside of some of the stuff that needs to be changed, they do have a good
Starting point is 00:21:27 program in place for helping players be mature in the right situations. It sounds like some of that stuff was not appropriate, but the stuff that is appropriate, I think we'll be able to deal with any concerns in regards to Twitter. So great stuff there. Got a chance to talk to three of the players, Jamon Colbert, Brandon Smith, and Tyler Linderbaum. All seem to be doing really well. They're really encouraged by the progress of the team, and they feel like these meetings and what has been happening
Starting point is 00:21:54 is bringing this team closer. Brandon Smith got a couple questions on quarterbacks. Sounds like he's actually worked out with all the quarterbacks, including Deuce, who's pretty fresh on campus. He did say Spencer Petras is a natural leader, a little bit more vocal than Nate Stanley. And he's really excited about him as well. Tyler Linderbaum had nothing but good things to say about Tristan Wirfs. They asked him a couple of times about him just because, you know, they have so much familiarity with each other.
Starting point is 00:22:19 Also said he's willing to be the team leader if he needs to be. If that's what makes the team successful, he is there for the team. And he's just really excited to move forward. Also said he understands that he doesn't know what it's like to feel what his black teammates are feeling, considering he is a white guy from Solon, Iowa. But that he supports them and he's there for them and he wants their voices heard. And he's really impressed with their strength and courage in speaking up. So, again, Iowa bringing three very important guys within the program to speak.
Starting point is 00:22:50 Thought they all three did a really great job, and it's really great to be able to hear from a few more players in the Iowa football program. Obviously love to any opportunity we can to get some time with those players is fantastic. All right, so I'm going to jump into the big 10 schedule, moving to 10 days. I'm going to talk a little bit about what this could mean going forward. First of all, to me, this is just the next step in the direction of not having college football in the fall. I personally don't understand how 10 games makes that much of a difference. I think if you eliminate, you limit it down conference games, there's doesn't really do a
Starting point is 00:23:24 lot. If you add a conference game from a coronavirus standpoint, you're basically just pushing it out two weeks. But does that really help? I don't think two weeks is that big of a difference, but maybe it does. But I do think they're trying to figure out any way they can to keep football this year. As far as Iowa's concerned, it helps and it hurts them. Iowa has a really tough conference schedule. They're breaking in a quarterback who hasn't started a game before. They have a few new
Starting point is 00:23:49 guys in defense, basically a whole new defensive line, and they're not going to have the warm-up games against UNI and Northern Illinois. They no longer have those. They also don't have the rivalry game against Iowa State, so now we have to deal with two sections of the state pretending like they would have beaten us this year. But they no longer have those warm-up games to get into the Big Ten schedule. That being said, if Iowa does well in the conference schedule, and I think they have the talent to, it's just a matter of whether they can get things going quickly. Not having the non-conference schedule actually helps them
Starting point is 00:24:19 because the Big Ten conference is so strong. If they do well, that conference schedule actually helped them. It'll be interesting to see how some of the independent schools though, handle this and whether that's even feasible. Notre Dame only plays a non-conference schedule. Does that mean that maybe they can look at joining the Big Ten in the future? What does that mean for a program like that? I mean, Notre Dame would make so much sense to be in the Big Ten. They've always made sense to be in the Big Ten, but obviously they want to have the money that comes with being an independent team and keep some of their traditional rivalries and play. But it could be interesting
Starting point is 00:24:54 to see how this plays out long term as well. Again, I think moving to 10 games does make sense, I guess, but it's just one step to moving in the direction of canceling like the Ivy League has done. They moved their season to spring. I think that is going to be more realistic and less, again, as you know, the CDC says we wear our mask and we can shut this thing down. There's still hope, though, for some reason that fans in the stadium, sounds like there's a seating plan arrangement coming in late July. So in the next week or so, we should hear more on that. And I was going to do some analysis on what team I thought Iowa would get with that 10th conference game. I cannot imagine they change anything up with what they
Starting point is 00:25:29 have. They would just add an additional game. It makes it a little bit easier, obviously, depending on scheduling arrangements. But as I was getting ready to do that, I noticed that Chad Lysakow had already put together some really great information on that. So I want to give him some credit. He thinks that based off of, you know, who Iowa plays this year, who Iowa plays in the future, and what games are available when he thinks that Iowa is going to be playing Maryland or what at Maryland. So not the best addition. But if you can get Maryland early on in the season, that would be an opportunity to once again, a relatively warm-up game, a relative warm-up game if you could.
Starting point is 00:26:07 He also thinks Illinois would have Michigan, Minnesota would add Indiana, Nebraska would add Michigan State, Northwest would add Rutgers, that would be a crap show of a game, Purdue would add Ohio State, and Wisconsin would add Penn State, that would be a ton of fun to watch. So that'll be interesting to see. It sounds like they haven't actually determined what that means yet from a scheduling perspective. I mean, that news is relatively fresh, so as we get that information, we'll definitely interesting to see. It sounds like they haven't actually determined what that means yet from a scheduling perspective. I mean, that news is relatively fresh. So as we get that information, we'll definitely let you know.
Starting point is 00:26:29 But right now, it sounds like Iowa starts their season at Minnesota. That is going to be a hostile environment if there are fans in the crowd. If there's not fans in the crowd, that would be a lot easier. I am not as impressed with the Minnesota team. I think they do have some really great parts. I think P.J. Fleck is a fantastic coach, but it could be worse starting the season off. You could be going to Wisconsin or you could be playing Ohio State right away, but they get Minnesota. Obviously, I'd rather have Rutgers or something, but nevertheless, that's what happens. But we'll see if Iowa does get their 10th Big Ten conference schedule game added earlier in the season and see what the Big Ten does ultimately decide with that.
Starting point is 00:27:08 But that'll do it for our show today, our Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. Again, I apologize for the month delay, but I think you're going to be really excited to see the changes we make going forward with the content, the research we have going on to make sure we're providing you the best content in the Iowa Hawkeye market and also some of the stuff we're going to be doing on social media. We were doing really well there for a bit. I kind of slacked off a little bit, so I want to make sure I'm giving you the best and what you deserve right here.
Starting point is 00:27:33 So stay tuned with us. We're going to be back every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If you liked this show, make sure to like, review, and subscribe. Give us that five-star review and download us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or the Himalaya Podcast app. And if you liked what you heard, make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Like I said, I'll be more active going forward. And we have some great shows coming up.
Starting point is 00:27:55 Don't miss that. Zach Tweet and Jennings Dunker, a combined interview. And we also have Lucy Rodin coming on later on next week as well. Again, thank you all for tuning in to today's episode of the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. I appreciate all of you, all of your patience, all of you just listening and stuff. And I really appreciate you spreading the message as well about what we do right here
Starting point is 00:28:15 on the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. Again, thank you all for tuning in. Have a fantastic Monday. Stay safe out there. And as always always let's go

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