Transcript 0:00 [upbeat music] Welcome to another episode of Bedlam Buds. My name is Ryan Welton, your host from Oklahoma Memo, and I'm joined as always by Mr. Loyal and True, Dr. 0:18 Jeremy Cook, on a blackout weekend coming up against Texas Tech, the biggest game of the year. Is that a no-duh? It's been the biggest game all year leading up to this point. 0:31 You know, Oregon was huge, but because Tech is conference, it adds a little, you know, it adds a little bit more to it. So yeah, absolutely, 100% biggest game of the year. 0:40 And it, it, it actually is a blackout weekend at Boone Pickens Stadium, 8:30 p.m. kickoff. That game's gonna go on till midnight, Jeremy. How you feel about that? [laughs] I am not a fan. Absolutely not a fan. 0:53 However, uh, at least it's a home night game. Yeah. At least it's not a road night game- Absolutely... like, like next week. So, [laughs] you know. Yeah. 1:02 So as you noted before we got on, this is, this is a strength-on-strength, weakness-on-weakness matchup. Um, and that strength is clearly the offenses. 1:11 Uh, I believe Oklahoma State's third in the country in scoring points, and Texas, Texas, Texas Tech is eighth. And get this, Jeremy, the over/under for this game I believe is 72 and a half. 1:21 [laughs] That is a lot of points. And every week we say that about the line on Oklahoma State, and every week they go over. Well, this week it's shot way up. We've, we've had, you know, over/unders in the 60s, the 50s. 1:36 Did, uh- This is a whole new level... did Tech maybe, like, lose a defender or something that, uh, you know, one of their key defenders? Is a, did a guy get hurt or something? Why would it jump s- like that so much? 1:47 I mean- Well, I, I, I don't know. 1:48 But I will tell you, for, for, uh, college football fans who maybe have watched the, the games all day long and had a couple beverages, this game's gonna be a lot of fun for them to watch 'cause it's gonna be back and forth, uh, up and down. 2:02 Um, so how, how is the team approaching it this, this week? Um, I mean, I'm sure they see it as the challenge that it is. Um, but do, do you think that they see it as basically this is whichever best offense wins? 2:15 Well, I, I think that it... [sighs] I'm trying to think of a... They've been very relaxed, right? It, it, it's been a very relaxed vibe. It's been very business-like. Um, uh, they understand the situation. 2:31 They understand that this is the game and that, you know, there is still, if, if certain things happen, you know, if you hold your breath right and you cross your eyes, that Oklahoma State could still make the Big 12 Championship game, but we need help. 2:44 Uh, however, you know, if you don't get past this game, then none, none of it matters. And so they totally understand that this is the focus for this week, that absolutely everything has to be locked in. 2:59 Um, you know, guys, uh, on your own you can go in and watch film and do, do those type of things. I think g- uh, guys are doing extra some of that to try and get, you know, that much more prepared. 3:11 Uh, they're ta- Again, they're taking this very seriously. It's very business-like. It's very calm. Um, but it's Wednesday. Let's see what happens over the next couple of days. Um, and, and, and maybe we can report back. 3:23 But right now I think everything's kinda, it's that calm before the storm almost coming up. 3:28 And the whole athletic department's like that because the wrestling team, number two wrestling team wrestles number three Nebraska Friday night. 3:35 And then you have now, uh, s- ranked in the, in the bowl rankings Oklahoma State versus ranked Texas Tech, you know? So I mean, i- i- everything is really starting to come together in the athletic department right now. 3:48 Right. And a home field advantage, uh, not only, uh, well, for this week, uh, for sure. Next week they go to Arizona State. Um, but th- the Cowboys are a perfect 4 and 0 at home this season. 3:59 This is a sold-out nighttime blackout crowd. Uh, and as Coach Eric Morris said, "Uh, you assume the fans are gonna have a beverage or two." Uh, he had some good beer talk at availability this week. 4:10 [laughs] He said he was a Silver Bullet guy. Man, I, my understanding is that, like, Stillwater, Oklahoma, is Silver Bullet capital per capita in the United States. Well, it used to be when we were in college. 4:21 It, it actually was. Uh, but it was between us and Arizona State, uh, a lot of times. And Oklahoma State was, but, uh, um, Oklahoma State, uh, the, or Stillwater I guess has kinda shifted. 4:34 You still got your, your, you got a lot of now, uh, Miller Lite drinkers, I guess. Yeah. And, and Michelob Lite, which no thank you. Uh, but- Michelob Ultra? Yeah, maybe that's it. Maybe that's it. Yeah. Michelob Ultra. 4:47 Uh, plus your, your, your Bud Lights. Yeah, you know, and of course your Coors Lights- Mm-hmm... and, and those types. But, uh, I try not to drink those, so. Yeah. The, the, hey, life's short. 4:59 There are better beers to be had. Um, although I do, I don't mind a, a good Michelob Ultra after a lawn mow. You can just pound that. Pour it down. All right. 5:08 So let's, let's, uh, call this segment get to know your, uh, Texas Tech Red Raiders. I haven't watched much of them. 5:14 Look, folks, if you think Jeremy and I are out here poring over game film, if you will, it doesn't happen. We watch the games. 5:22 But as, uh, Jeremy, as fans of, uh, the, uh, Longview OU podcast found out last week, my predictions often tend toward a Tin Cup type of failure. 5:34 If you ever, if you remember the movie Tin Cup where Kevin Costner at the end just kept trying to, you know, get it over the water, get it over the water. Uh, he just wouldn't give up a- out of pride. 5:44 Um, but, um, as, as I look at this, I, I do see this as being an incredibly high-scoring game, but I think the challenge for OSU is on the defensive side of the ball and stopping QB Thomas Costales, who got the job just a few weeks ago, and Jakobi Williams, their Texas Tech running back. 5:58 Based on what you know of Texas Tech, what do you think are the other defensive challenges? I look at the ranking here, and the Cowboys defense in terms of scoring points is 64th, Texas Tech's 37th. 6:09 Look, you're in double digits. It's not that big a difference right there. Well, with these offenses, it's really not statistically a big defense. I mean, a big difference in the defenses. 6:21 Uh, you know, it, it depends on which quarterback Texas Tech plays because, you know, they've, they've switched and, uh, if they continue with the more running qu- uh, quarterback, then again, as, as Oklahoma State has had to do, you know, we gotta make sure we control those edges. 6:37 We gotta make sure that they can't hit us just right on tho- right, again, right on those edges. 6:41 And again, I'm not talking about out in the flat, I'm not talking about out on the corners, I'm talking about right on the edges of the line. If that- Yeah... 6:47 if that quarterback can break out of that type of containment, then, uh, then w- OSU's gonna be in, in trouble. We're gonna be in trouble at that point. And so, you know, is he a, a run first, pass second t- type of guy? 7:02 Or, um, you know, does he prefer to pass but can run? And then, you know, and then what happens if they switch back to the other quarterback, uh, who is definitely a more of a pass first guy. So, 7:14 um, Oklahoma State has quite a bit to prepare for, and that's, um, that helps out Tech in that instance because again, they have switched quarterbacks, you know, and kinda back and forth a little bit on that. 7:26 Um, and Oklahoma State, y- what you see on film is what you get, it's just can you stop. Yeah, so as you pointed out to me, um, and all season long, and by the way, I'll just refer to the whole edges thing. 7:39 The, uh, the UCF game, they really took it all the way out, but what you're talking about is just right off the edge of the line. Um, we've talked about OSU all year in terms of the offense. 7:54 Drew Mestemaker, uh, Caleb Hawkins, Wyatt Young, uh, Boeck, uh, Fields, Coleman, all of these household names, but you pointed out that Ladaerian Fields, he's leading the country in interceptions. 8:08 Ladaerian Fields ought to be a household name either right now or very, very soon, and he's got a huge opportunity this weekend. Absolutely. If he gets one this weekend, then the... 8:18 I mean, all eyeballs are going to be on Stillwater at that time. There are not a lot of other games, and 8:30 is just 8:26 early enough that the East Coast can catch the first part of it, you know, I don't know beyond that, and then the West Coast cl- clearly can catch all of it. Mm-hmm. 8:34 So the, all the eyeballs are going to be in Stillwater this weekend, and that is an opportunity, just like you said, not just for Fields, but for the whole team to show out, the whole team to show up and show, "We are a good defense. 8:49 We can beat another quality team out there." 8:52 But if Fields, if he has another field day, uh, I guess you could say, um, yeah, he, he would have to be rising the national ranks, uh, of quarterbacks, of All-Americans, you know, definitely All Big 12, those type of awards, 'cause he's leading the nation in interceptions. 9:09 And it's not that he's had one seven-interception game. He's done it over multiple games, including multiple, multiple interception games. 9:17 And so a- I mean, this is his chance with all the eyeballs to, to show out, again, as it is for the rest of the team. 9:24 Yeah, it reminds me of, uh, a guy who used to play cornerback for the, the Cowboys, uh, it was Stefon Diggs' brother. Is it Tayvon Diggs? 9:32 Um, but he had this run where he just got an interception, I think it may have even been an interception for a touchdown, like, in, um... The amazing thing was it wasn't all at once. It was like one a week. 9:43 You could count on him for one a week for a huge turnover, and maybe even to be returned for the touchdown. Uh, but he's not the only guy, uh, we wanna talk about on defense. 9:52 Uh, with Romney being hurt recently, you said another guy is, uh, getting some play and practice at the linebacker position. 10:00 Yeah, uh, Torion Davis, uh, got a whole bunch of play this, this past weekend, and man, and he, he played absolutely terrific. Coach mentioned him in the, uh, the availability this week. 10:12 Uh, you know, he's a transfer from, um, uh, Mississippi d- d- DeKalb, uh, Community College, I think, uh, down in Mississippi. It may, it may be DeSoto. It may have been- DeSoto, that's what it is. DeSoto... 10:24 I was like, "That's a Da- that's a Dallas name," but it's Mississippi. Yeah, uh, it's DeSoto. Yeah, got my big cities mixed up there. Yeah. Um, [laughs] uh, but yeah, he's a transfer from a community college. 10:35 Came up here, uh, you know, listed at 6'1", 210, something like that. Real s- big, strong kid. And it, it's that next man up. That's how you win college football. 10:45 That's how you win, you know, any long-term sport like this, is you gotta have, uh, the next man has to be ready to come up. That's right. Because there, it's a battle of attrition at times. 10:55 It's just who is the healthiest at the end, who is the healthiest coming into the game. 11:00 And so when you have a, a, a absolute stud like Romney get hurt and have to miss out, then when you have another guy c- step up, like Torion did, and just really show out, absolutely was involved in all the play. 11:12 Plus, uh, he is just a terrific kid. Absolutely great kid. Comes down, he, i- I mean, he introduced himself to the entire academic staff, and he didn't have to do that, you know, when he came in. 11:25 And just a, just a, a polite young man that when he's puts on those pads, he doesn't mind going and putting his hat on somebody, and that's what you want. That's linebacker mentality. 11:38 Um, a couple of, uh, elephant-in-the-room storylines that I'm sure will get talked about a lot this week. This is the first time for Coach Eric Morris to be coaching, uh, against his alma mater. 11:50 He played and coached at Texas Tech. Uh, played under the great, the late, great Mike Leach. Um, and he gets to face his former school. But the other, uh, storyline here is, man, the Red Raiders beat the Billikens. 12:03 What is that? Beat the, beat the something out of Oklahoma State last year, 42 to nothing. That was definitely under the 72 and a half points 12:11 Well, that's when Oklahoma State really didn't have an offense, and Texas Tech slowed it down. Uh- That's right, I remember that. They way slowed it down. 12:20 Yeah, well, and, and it looked like Oklahoma State played actually a really good game and, you know, because it was, um, you know, it wasn't four- It was 21-nothing for a long time, wasn't it? Y- that's exactly right. 12:31 It, it wasn't 42-nothing in the first quarter, then they, you know, they put in, you know, the cheerleaders and the, you know, the mascot and all of that. 12:38 It was, you know, they jumped out to a quick lead, and then it just kind of went back and forth for a little while. You could tell there was not a lot of urgency really on either team [laughs] and... 12:48 'Cause Tech knew that they had it, Oklahoma State knew that Tech had it, and you wanted to just get out and survive. And so it, it, again, it just kind of played out like that. 12:56 It was, if you were a neutral fan, it was not a game you wanted to watch. Yeah. If you were an Oklahoma State fan, it was not a game you wanted to watch. [laughs] Yeah. 13:05 It, it feels to me, uh, if I, you know, could travel in time, this is what games in, like, 1945 were like or '47. Yeah. You, you see all the... It's, uh, Army beats, uh, Army beats Texas 49 to nothing. 13:20 I, I imagine it was just a lot of running the ball and then wasting time. [laughs] It was that triple option or that, you know, flying wing T whatever. That veer, the... Yeah. Y- yeah, that flying veer. 13:31 Um, n- uh, I, I kind of consider it to like those games in the 1920s when you would have Kansas State play, uh, you know, Saginaw Community College. Yeah. Or, or- Colorado School of Mines. 13:43 Right, or the boys team, which was, you know, just a, a local group of dudes who, you know, uh, back, back when the rules were very much more relaxed. It was, it was probably a game like that. Yeah. So can I just... 13:55 Man, this is a total segue. It's not even a segue. This is just an off the, the planet tangent here. However, Grey Cup is coming up this weekend, Montreal versus Edmonton. You know, I'm... 14:06 W- we are an East Conference family. We root for Montreal, Toronto, um, Hamilton, uh, Ottawa, if they could ever get there. But it's, it's Montreal, and we'll be rooting for them to beat, uh, uh, the Elks. 14:21 They used to be the Eskimos, and they used to have an OSU quarterback. I forget which one. It was one... It was a quarterback you really... It's Cornelius, I believe. Cornelius. Yeah. Taylor Cornelius. Yeah. 14:30 Yeah, t- yeah. And, uh, but- The Corn Dog, as Mike Gundy called him. So, um, the reason I mention that is because I was looking through the history of Grey Cups, like back to the '30s and '20s. 14:41 It's gone on for a long, long time. But Jeremy, there was a team, I swear to you, the Toronto team is now... 14:48 They're the Toronto Argonauts and have been forever, but there was a team that won the Grey Cup, I believe in the '20s, called [clears throat] um, the Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers. 15:03 I think somebody had his, like a British sense of humor because Toronto's- Yeah... Yeah. I, I... When I think of balmy, I don't think of Toronto. Yeah. And it's too- But hey, th- w- why not? Why not? 15:16 Be a fun name like that. Why not? Why not? I, I, I, I'm- Okay... I'm... I mean, my fantasy football team name is the Fighting Amish, so. Right. Right, right, right, right. Not the productive Amish, the fighting Amish. 15:26 Yeah, 'cause- The furniture-making Amish... No, no, they're fighting Amish. They're the, they're the little-known sect. 15:31 Because Amish are pacifists, they absolutely do not engage in any type of anger [laughs] like that at all, so of course it makes sense to be the Fighting Amish. My, uh, fantasy football team is, uh, I have two of them. 15:42 Les Combattants, the fighters in French, and then, uh, my family, uh, fantasy football team is Pret a Man- Pret a Manger, which is ready to eat. Okay. All right. Let's get us back on track. I'm sorry about that. 15:56 Uh, all time, Texas leads this series 25, 24 to three. That's the definition of a rivalry. Um, but in Stillwater, OSU holds a 14 to nine advantage. I love this game brief. It says according to both athletic departments, 16:09 whatever they say. Yeah. That's it, man. Uh, but it's a high-scoring rivalry. Get this, the teams have combined for at least 70 points in 10 of their last 13 meetings. 16:18 In fact, if you remember, historians, um, OSU fans from way back, it was the OSU-Texas Tech game after which Mike Gundy went on his famous I'm a man rant. When he was 40. Well, and that's, that's... 16:32 Well, yeah, r- when he was 40. We definitely remember that. And I, you know, this is b- right at the cusp of the internet and, uh, barely at the birth of, like, social. 16:43 Um, and I remember getting a call from my news director, Sherry Brown, uh, and Mark Rogers at the time, saying, "You have to see this video. This is gonna be unbelievable." 16:53 Today it would've been 10 times more unbelievable, so. But we don't expect anything like that out of Eric Morris at this point. Okay. Let's talk about predictions. Definitely not. What do we think? Okay. 17:06 What's the spread? You're the betting man. What's the- The spread? Oh. I'm absolutely not a betting man. Are you kidding me? [laughs] You're a betting man. Uh, neither one of us are. You know why? 17:15 I'm, I'm betting- Because we've watched enough sports to know how it works. [laughs] That's right. Although I, on my radio show, uh, my predictions on my radio show, I am 51 and 36. Yeah. So I had a, a buddy one time. 17:29 H- his name is Keith. Uh, he was convinced that, um, that, uh, I would be good at making wagers on college games. So I said, "Let's take this... 17:38 Let's, let's put this to the test," and each week I would make my picks against the spread, whether it be over, under, you know, the spread, whatever. 17:46 Um, and it turns out, um, that when you don't put any money down, you can do really well. I was doing, like, nine out of 12, 10 out of 12 every single week. But I, as I told him, it's different when you put money down. 18:00 It's 100% different. And that's why we don't put money down. That's right. Do not do it at all. Um, and frankly, I think a lot of it's a s- you know, it's a, a scourge. Is that the word, scourge, on college football? 18:13 I don't know. Scourage? Scourge? The sc- [laughs] skir- Oof Skirge? Scourge? Uh, scourge Scourge. I, I always see the word- The scourge... but I don't always know how to pronounce them. Okay. 18:26 W- well, the place to try it the first time is on [laughs] a, an internet podcast [laughs] where no one will ever see it. [laughs] One of the things that people have figured out about me is I don't care. 18:38 [laughs] W- w- I don't care what you think. Whatever. I, I'm doing this thing. Um, okay. But- Here's the scr- yeah, go ahead. 18:46 Well, I was just gonna say that, uh, the Texas Tech game I like to look back is when we beat them in Lubbock 66 to 6. It like, I think it was 2011. That was the devil's delight. 18:56 Uh, we were s- we were scoring by accident that game, so. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Okay, so Oklahoma State's a three and a half point favorite here. This is according to DraftKings, blah. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Say that again. 19:08 Oklahoma State is a three and a half point favorite. This weekend? This weekend. This is according to DraftKings from the ESPN app. So I don't- But no, I mean, I believe you, but I'm just wondering, wow. Yeah. 19:26 That's a, that's a lot of respect. By the way, hold up. Holding? What? No, no, no. Um, I think maybe this is... 19:40 It says open, and I think maybe it refers to beginning of season or many weeks ago, because the open was 15 and a half points to Texas Tech. It was Texas Tech and 15 and a half. Well, not anymore. 19:53 Now the money's gone to Oklahoma State, three and a half point favorite for the Cowboys, with the over and under being 72.5. So imagine this, um, 38 to 34 is the score that comes to mind for a shootout. 20:05 So they're saying, um, it's either gonna be 38-34 if you're picking under, or like 41 to 34 if you're picking the over. I mean, that's, that's what this game is gonna have to be for you to win if you pick over. 20:20 Do you think... What, what... Let's start with the over under. What do you think about 72 and a half? That is a lot of points. 20:29 I mean, you know, but if you, if you, if you look at it, it's really only a, a team getting 40, which Oklahoma State is averaging over 40, and then a team getting 30-ish, and Texas Tech is right there. 20:43 So I mean, the numbers kind of play out. So I, I mean, it would not surprise me if, if the over hit, if, you know, if it did go over. It wouldn't surprise me at all. 20:52 So this is just a, a, like if I were somebody to put money down on things, I would probably go the under. 20:59 Um, because I feel like the number is a trap, and I don't know exactly, you know, where the, where the money goes on that. 21:05 I don't know enough about the science of, you know, uh, prognosticating and putting money on things, but I just feel like when you have a game that is, is already starting out at 72 and a half, that we end up seeing a, a 28-23 game, and you're like, "Hmm, that didn't turn out like that at all." 21:23 Like when the- But-... offenses are so good that the defenses are the ones that, uh, end up taking the spotlight a little bit. Man, I'm, I'm still just shocked that Oklahoma State is a three and a half point favorite. 21:34 Um, but y- I mean, you're exactly right. I mean, last week I thought it was gonna be kind of a grind 'em out type of game, and, uh, they had a- already hit my prediction by halftime. 21:46 [laughs] So- Well, and I wa- I, I wanna remind folks what you said because it proved true last week. 21:52 Even in the moment when the game was 7-7, where we were texting back and forth and we were like, "Oh, no, it's gonna be one of those," but then Oklahoma State extended that lead to 21-7, and as you said r- you know, in our preview show, what did you say? 22:05 Two scores and it's over. If Oklahoma State gets- Two scores and it's over... a two score lead, it's over. All right. 22:10 That's what- So- Every game that Oklahoma State has won, that's happened Do you expect that this week, or do you think this is gonna be a pure back and forth, back and forth? 22:19 I am terrified that it's going to be a back and forth, back and forth. That's what I expect. I really think that these teams know each other. 22:27 Um, you know, Coach Morris even mentioned about changing some of the signals and some of the calls, which they do often anyway, but to double change them just to make sure because of the similarities between Tech and Oklahoma State now with him bringing in, you know, those guys and w- you know, his whole staff and some of them also are Tech guys. 22:45 Um, yeah, I, I really expect this to be a back and forth. I expect this to be a very entertaining game for the neutrals. I do expect a lot of points. Um, I expect to see... Something unusual is going to happen. Yeah. 22:59 Uh, like the Iowa State when they did the onside kickoff, which caught Oklahoma State, you know, absolutely flat-footed. Uh, something like that is going to happen. Will it be an onside kick? 23:09 I doubt it because everybody's now aware of it because of what happened at Iowa State and then what Kansas State tried. But something i- is, is going to happen. But I'm gonna, I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict this. 23:19 I think Fields gets another interception. How's that for being specific? I think Fields gets another one. That is, that is very specific. Will this one be returned for a TD? 23:28 No, I don't think this one'll be returned for a TD, but I think he gets one over the middle. All right. I'm gonna make the prediction. Fields, touchdown. He's gonna return one, and it, it's gonna be 90 yards. 23:39 Texas Tech is gonna be driving, and then he's just gonna, like, cut it at the edge, and he's gone. 23:47 Um, one of my all-time favorite OSU pictures that I did not take was a picture of one of our guys with an interception running down the sideline against Texas, um, against the Texas sideline, and Mack Brown is loo- you're looking at him, and the whole Texas sideline is depressed as he's just happily sprinting down the field with it for a touchdown. 24:06 [laughs] Yeah. It's, uh, those are the best, man. And of course, those are the, [laughs] the ones where you're like, "Why was my camera not out? What am I doing?" Well, it was, it was in Austin, so I wasn't there. Okay. 24:19 All right. Well, um- The, uh, the only game I've been to in Austin, we lost Hmm. Yeah, Austin's a fun place, by the way. All right, so Oklahoma State, Texas Tech. 24:31 How do you see this one playing out, and who do you have to win, and what's your final score? I think Oklahoma State's gonna win, but I think Tech is gonna cover. I think this is going to be a one-point ballgame. 24:43 I honestly think it's going to be in the, gosh, I'm gonna say like a, a 49-48. I think it, it's... I think it's gonna be like that. 24:54 I think that Oklahoma State is going to score late to go ahead, not have any bad penalties, and be able to hold on. Um, give me 34-31 Oklahoma State. 25:08 So I'll, I'll agree with you that Texas Tech covers and it's very, very close. I think it's gonna surprise some people that it's a... I think it's going to be a s- a high quality ballgame. 25:17 Like, sometimes you get 34-31 and you're like, "I don't know how they..." But sometimes 34-1 is just, like, well played at the highest level, both teams. 25:26 Uh, th- this could be, I think, the game of the day on Saturday in terms of, like, how it actually plays out. Mm-hmm. 25:33 And I think Oklahoma State, I mean, they have a good home field advantage as opposed to, uh, the team that I graduated from, right? The team. The university. Oh, yeah, this is Bedlam Buds, remember. 25:43 I'm a Sooner, but I'm in blackout. I am... I'm in the uniform this week. I understand the assignment. Um, but the Sooners do have a little trouble getting it going at home. Oklahoma State, not at all. 25:55 Great home field environment, and I think, uh, I think Texas Tech is going to be up to the challenge. They're going to prove to be a worthy opponent, and I like Oklahoma State to win this one in a real close one, 34-31. 26:09 All right, now it's time for life advice with Dr. Cook. What do you got for us this week? Okay, today. Next week I have a special surprise, but, but today it, it's just verbal advice. 26:22 Today, life is about managing expectations, primarily your own. 26:28 You have to understand not everybody operates the same way, and not everybody does things the same way and, and has the same systems and, and beliefs and thoughts and processes. 26:38 So you have to manage your expectations, because you cannot put your expectations on other people. You will always be disappointed if you continue to do that. 26:49 So manage your expectations, and then everything generally works out. Right. I agree. In the business world, it's often about managing your expectations, but also managing others' expectations. 27:02 They say that you don't just manage down, like for people who are working for you. You have to manage up also. See, I... And I disagree with that. I, I'm... 27:11 I think you can try, but you cannot control what other people think, believe, or feel. But you can only control what you think, believe, and feel. 27:18 So you can help with that managing process, but ul- ultimately it's an internal process. Well, that, that's certainly part of it. Well, uh, I don't really... I don't come equipped with anything this week really. 27:30 Um, hot coffee in the morning, that's a, that's a necessity. Um- My tea... but that's not really life advice. That's just, uh, y- your tea. You're drinking tea. Yeah. I'm, I'm a, I'm a tea drinker. I don't drink coffee. 27:41 Yeah. All right. Uh, okay, so that's a, a, a good roundup of what we can expect this week at Oklahoma State versus Texas Tech. It's gonna be a blackout Saturday night at Boone Pickens Stadium. It's gonna be a lot of fun. 27:53 Uh, are you gonna be there on the sidelines? Oh, 100%. I will be there the entire time very nervously talking to myself the [laughs] the whole time. Nice. And I'll be pinging you with texts that you won't have time for. 28:08 [laughs] Oh, hopefully not. Hopefully I'm taking a lot of pictures of the Cowboys scoring, coming to me, you know? Right, right, right. Okay, so awesome. Great. Man, I cannot wait for this game. 28:17 Even though it's gonna be late, we're both gonna be grumpy because it's gonna be like 11:30, midnight. We'll have to record that podcast on Sunday. Absolutely. I vote that. All right. 28:27 Hey, if you enjoyed this episode of Bedlam Buds, we broke this down. Um, you know, w- we're clearly not rocket scientists here, but he is Dr. Jeremy Cook, Mr. Loyal and True. 28:36 Uh, and, uh, hey, we're both pulling for the Cowboys this weekend. We'd love to hear what your prediction is. We'd love to hear what you think of this. 28:42 And if you are an OSU fan, share this with your buddies, share this with your crew. Um, and, uh, let's, uh, spread the word on Bedlam Buds. 28:50 Leave a comment in the area below and we might include it in the post-game podcast. For Jeremy Cook, I'm Ryan Welton. We will talk to you later. Go Pokes.
