# Ep. 1147: Hot Take Monday: MSU football, basketball and the president; and the Brendan Sorsby ruling Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/couch-and-the-rube-814836/ep-1147-hot-take-monday-msu-football-basketball-and-the-president-and-the-brendan-sorsby-ruling Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/couch-and-the-rube-814836/ep-1147-hot-take-monday-msu-football-basketball-and-the-president-and-the-brendan-sorsby-ruling.md Podcast: [Couch and The Rube](https://stenobird.com/podcast/couch-and-the-rube-814836) Published: 2026-06-08T19:17:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-1147-hot-take-monday-msu-football-basketball-and-the-president-and-the-brendan-sorsby-ruling--72423653 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72423653/ep_1147_hot_take_monday.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/couch-and-the-rube-814836/episodes/ep-1147-hot-take-monday-msu-football-basketball-and-the-president-and-the-brendan-sorsby-ruling Duration seconds: 6306 ## Resource We dug into our takes and yours — on the Brendan Sorsby ruling, allowing the QB to play for Texas Tech after betting on college football, including his team, on MSU football recruiting, on MSU basketball, and why MSU should fight to keep President Kevin Guskiewicz, on the Tigers and what to make of their recent recovery, The Rube's anniversary trip to the Memorial golf tournament, and more. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/couch-and-the-rube-814836/episodes/ep-1147-hot-take-monday-msu-football-basketball-and-the-president-and-the-brendan-sorsby-ruling/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/couch-and-the-rube-814836/ep-1147-hot-take-monday-msu-football-basketball-and-the-president-and-the-brendan-sorsby-ruling.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.