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Speaker 1: of the way you want it, right. You want that

435
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Speaker 1: to be meaningful, and you want to beat your biggest

436
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,199
Speaker 1: rival in order to unlock the next level of the season.

437
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Speaker 2: Totally true, I in the way that I'm worried about

438
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 2: Notre Dame if I'm a USC fan, because Notre Dame

439
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 2: has nothing to lose but just play spoiler and just

440
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 2: be evil side of the rival for USC in this situation.

441
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 2: Same could be true of Illinois at this point, in

442
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 2: the manner in which they've lost. I see very few

443
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 2: universes in this parallel universe world in which Illinois beats

444
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 2: Michigan at this point because of what we really haven't

445
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 2: seen from their offense these last couple of weeks. And

446
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 2: now Chase Brown is beat up, and he is the offense.

447
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 2: You know, all due respect to Tommy DeVito, but Chase

448
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 2: Brown is not the heartbeat. You know, you got to

449
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 2: write off Illinois offense to a pretty dramatic degree. Illinois

450
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 2: can go in and say, screw it, we're gonna muck

451
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 2: this game up. We're gonna limit every single possession to

452
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 2: I mean, they're gonna do everything they can when they're

453
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 2: on offense to slow the game down and make Michigan

454
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 2: methodically beat them. And JJ McCarthy has been good at times,

455
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 2: but also this offense is a little bit prone to well,

456
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 2: we'll just kick a field goal here, which plays it

457
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 2: like it's we joke about Mario christ ball and guerrilla ball.

458
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 2: There is definitely that element to what Brett Bielamo wants

459
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 2: to do with this team.

460
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Speaker 1: My problem with Illinois, and you know, I don't want

461
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 1: to give the game way too much. We're going to

462
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: talk about this tomorrow, but totally let me just leave

463
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: it at this. I do question the strength of that defense,

464
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 1: the actual strength of that defense.

465
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough, and because of the schedule, they should

466
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 2: perform as they have.

467
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and that you know, that doesn't take anything

468
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: away from what they've done. It doesn't mean that it's

469
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,159
Speaker 1: not a good defense against better teams. It could very

470
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 1: well be, but we just we haven't seen enough data

471
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 1: to really suggest that they're going to hold down Michigan

472
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Speaker 1: in that way.

473
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Speaker 2: So I agree with you.

474
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: We've been talking about that game for a while now

475
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: as a potential lay in mind. It is a look

476
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Speaker 1: ahead spot for.

477
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 2: It's a total look ahead spot, of course.

478
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: So there are reasons that I think we'd bring it up.

479
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 1: But okay, which, by the way, if I'm going to

480
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: do my analogy here for the home stretch, oh please.

481
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: I see Michigan as a little bit timid passing other cars.

482
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 1: I see them as a little bit timid. That they

483
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: are structurally very sound, the engine isn't a good place,

484
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: The driver has a really good feel for the car,

485
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Speaker 1: but there is something about.

486
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Speaker 2: Is this the moment? Is that the moment is this

487
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 2: where I make my big move? And maybe that's the

488
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 2: red zone stuff. Maybe that's JJ McCarthy hesitating a little

489
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 2: bit too much or trying to do too much and

490
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 2: overthinking things at times. That'd be my analogy. And this

491
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,640
Speaker 2: home stretch against Ohio State, where everything has to be

492
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 2: such instinct and everything has to be so automatic car

493
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 2: term engine, that's my worry is picking the spot and

494
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 2: just going through it with the accelerator that would be

495
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:13,159
Speaker 2: my home stretch analogy.

496
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Speaker 1: If we're going to move over to North Carolina and

497
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: make a long stretch analogy. This is the guy that

498
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 1: I saw when I was driving up in Allentown the

499
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: other day who blew through a red light in the

500
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: turning lane and then was driving in the wrong lane

501
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: of traffic, swerved into another turning lane, just decided he

502
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: wanted to go straight, and he found any way to

503
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,200
Speaker 1: do so without crashing into other cars, pedestrians, telephone poles,

504
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: or whatever else. There's definitely a haphazard quality to North

505
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: Carolina this season, given the fact that they basically don't

506
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 1: play defense. They basically don't play defense. It is just

507
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,360
Speaker 1: all gas, no brakes, whatever the offense can do, that's

508
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: what they end up with.

509
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 2: Now, they've gotten better, they've gotten better. Yes, the breaks

510
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 2: have a little bit more give. They've gotten a little.

511
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,479
Speaker 1: Bit better on the defensive side of the ball compared

512
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: to where they were earlier in the season. It was

513
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: catastrophic earlier in the season. Dan, of course, they've definitely

514
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: improved on that level. Still not great, Still not great.

515
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: Part the SPP plus i'mucking hat it right now. One

516
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 1: hundred and tenth not great, but that's better. That's still

517
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 1: way better than they were at the start of the season.

518
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: North Carolina is interesting to me because of that offense,

519
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: because of Drake May. As we said on the Recap show,

520
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: Drake May five to one right now to win the

521
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy. He has been sensational his first year starting

522
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: as quarterback. He has been absolutely sensational. Closes out the

523
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 1: year with two home games Georgia Tech and NC State

524
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: and then the a SEC Championship game, right, I mean,

525
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna go to the a SEC Championship game, probably

526
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: against Clemson, and that will be a fun as hell

527
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: game to watch.

528
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 2: It's not probably, that's the game. It is the game. Yeah, Yeah,

529
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,360
Speaker 2: North Carolina's playing Clemson. Yeah, that will be fun as hell.

530
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, fun is hell to watch, and I eagerly await

531
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: what Drake May can do in a big spot on

532
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: a big stage against a team Michael Clemson. But Georgia

533
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: Tech and NC State, you know, Tech's been okay since

534
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: getting rid of Jeff Collins, better than expected, but I'm

535
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 1: not too worried about them going toe to toe and

536
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: scoring with North Carolina and NC State's kind of a

537
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: hot mess too.

538
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: With Devin Leary out. I like MJ.

539
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: Morris, you know, I'm rooting for him. They've got a

540
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: decent enough defense, but the offense continues to sputter.

541
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Speaker 2: It's sputtered. Last week. NC State currently on a Boston

542
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 2: College losing streak. Am I reading this correctly? Twenty one

543
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 2: to twenty? They lost last week?

544
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 1: Yeah?

545
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 2: Games in Chapel Hill? Am I reading that correctly? It

546
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 2: is a smooth road. It's not too slick, it's not

547
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: too rocky. The home stretch for North Carolina with arguably

548
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 2: at the moment, the most talented on field driver in

549
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 2: the game, your Maxi Verse Stappin type tie. I don't

550
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 2: know if you if you do understand that name again, Okay,

551
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 2: you're Charlie Claire, Charlle Claire, Sarah giol Powrez. I'm just

552
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 2: naming F one drivers. I don't know why, Carlo Science.

553
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 2: I think North Carolina is going to win these next two.

554
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 2: They also have Georgia Tech. Correct, Yes, Georgia Tech. Is

555
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 2: that in Chapel Hills or at the Atlanta both home? Yeah?

556
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 2: North Carolina? You know you mentioned the defense thing, and

557
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 2: maybe that is you know, a very specific mechanic gene

558
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 2: Chiswick accidentally leaving a pop tart in the engine. Other

559
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 2: than that, though, I don't see Georgia Tech's offense and

560
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 2: I certainly don't see NC State's offense at the moment

561
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 2: posing a big threat unless Drake may takes his eyes

562
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 2: off the road something like that. So this is it

563
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 2: is a smooth drive through the checkered flag of the

564
00:29:52,800 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 2: regular season. Clemson, though, obviously poses an enormous challenge. But

565
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 2: at this point, if you're in North Carolina, you fire

566
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 2: your defensive coordinator after last season, you make a change there,

567
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 2: you turn to youth at quarterback, and you know you

568
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 2: lose the two big running backs these last couple of years.

569
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Speaker 2: I I just think it was an incredible race because

570
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 2: it's not how you start, as we know, it's how

571
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 2: you finish. So we can look at some of the

572
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 2: flaws and the flies in the ointment early on. But yes,

573
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,479
Speaker 2: it was rocky terrain. Maybe they popped a couple tires

574
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 2: along the way, but they've very quietly gotten back into

575
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 2: a tremendous position to win this race, and.

576
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: Eleven and one regular season is a hell of a

577
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: way to finish out, even if you end up losing.

578
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: Clemson Clemson's gettable by the way, we saw that, but

579
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: you know, eleven and one for North Carolina would be

580
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: a really nice campaign, even given where the defense has been.

581
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: Speaking of checkered flags, Dan, let's go over to Tennessee. Yes,

582
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: you want to talk about a smooth road two road games,

583
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: mind you, but at South Carol line at Vandy.

584
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 2: To close out the season. Woo. Yeah.

585
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: Heavy favorites in both of those obviously this week over

586
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Obviously next week over Vanderbilt as well, they're

587
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: going to be favored by like thirty points in that

588
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: Vandy game.

589
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 2: So and then South Carolina game as well.

590
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

591
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: And then the other caveat is that Tennessee doesn't have

592
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: to worry about playing the SEC title game because they

593
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: lost to Georgia. They don't have to worry about any

594
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: other stumbling blocks. They could potentially just blow out South

595
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: Carolina and Vandy and then just sit around, take a

596
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: bye week, and wait to see if they make it

597
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: into the playoff, which kind of seems probable at this point,

598
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: depending how things go in front of them around them.

599
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: Tennessee stands, I think, to gain an awful lot from

600
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: whatever goes down in that Ohio State Michigan game. At

601
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: a minimum, TCU could lose this week, right, we'll find out,

602
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: But totally Tennessee I think is probably in the best

603
00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: spot of all. Yeah, Tennessee essentially at this point, a

604
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: little bit of autopilot going on, right. I don't know

605
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: how comfortable you are when you're on road trips throwing

606
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: the car into autopilot.

607
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 2: Not very, not very just kicking back and leaning some

608
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 2: peanut m and ms and some popcorn chicken. Now, no,

609
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 2: there is an autopilot nature. All due respect to the

610
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 2: job Shane Biemer has done and Clarkle has done at

611
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 2: their respective schools, Tennessee is behind three cars vying for

612
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 2: two spots in the straightaway. They're coming around the curve.

613
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 2: They're three wide and there's only room for two and

614
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 2: somebody's gonna spin out, and Tennessee is right there to

615
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 2: assume position. So Tennessee is in a terrific place right now.

616
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 2: Obviously getting that bounce back performance granted against Miszoo, but

617
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 2: not a terrible Miszoo defense. In fact, quite the opposite,

618
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 2: a pretty decent Missoo defense to perform like they did,

619
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 2: and they are the actual all gas no breaks team

620
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 2: when things are not, you know, finding themselves against Georgia

621
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 2: on the same field. They're that actual team they can

622
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 2: pouring it on. They've kept pouring it on against no

623
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 2: matter who they've played in the SEC. I'm in Odorna.

624
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: I've come away so crazy impressed with Tennessee's very specific

625
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 2: vision and strategy and identity. And that's important in a

626
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 2: race like this, especially when you're just drafted. You're just drafting.

627
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 2: You know something's going to go wrong on the track

628
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 2: ahead of you, and you've just got to keep moving forward.

629
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 2: That's it. Final team here.

630
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: Before we get to our guest of honor, Yes, Texas,

631
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: talry about a little bit about Tahas Dan. Yeah, Texas

632
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: is six and four right now. Lost last week against TCU.

633
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: Weird game, frankly weird game. TCU took them a while

634
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: to get going, never actually got going, only scored seventeen points.

635
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: But Texas was never really threatening at the end to

636
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: win that game, right, It was pretty much a TCU

637
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: controlled game down the stretch.

638
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 2: Texas closes out with a road.

639
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: Game this week against Kansas and then a home game

640
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: against Baylor. One of the things that I find interesting

641
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: about Texas and this has happened the last at least

642
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: three weeks running. But Vegas seems to really favor Texas.

643
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: Vegas likes something about the Texas Longhorns that, frankly, a

644
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: lot of the other projection systems that I've looked at

645
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: also see in Texas that I don't feel like I have.

646
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 2: Right.

647
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: They were favored by seven last week over to UCU,

648
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 1: and as we talked about on the program, that meant

649
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: that Vegas gave them about a seventy five percent chance

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Speaker 1: to win outright. This week on the road at Kansas,

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Speaker 1: I believe they're favored by about nine points. Now, that's

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Speaker 1: not to say Kansas plays much of anything on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, right, And certainly what we

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Speaker 1: saw from Texas last week on defense was also I

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Speaker 1: think pretty good. They looked okay on that side. They

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Speaker 1: should be able to contain Kansas's ground game, which is

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Speaker 1: what Kansas is really good at this season. But nine

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Speaker 1: points feels like a lot. I don't know what thatlor

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Speaker 1: games gonna look like. They'll probably be favored in that

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Speaker 1: Baylor game as well. To close out the year. They

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Speaker 1: finish out with Baylor come to Austin. So you're talking

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Speaker 1: about two weeks in a row, a nine point favorite

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Speaker 1: around a ten point favorite, and I'm not sure I'm

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Speaker 1: fully in on Texas on the home stretch. I could

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Speaker 1: see him winning both those games, but I can't possibly

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Speaker 1: imagine a world in which I'm going to bet on

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Speaker 1: them the cover. It just doesn't seem like they're trustworthy enough,

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Speaker 1: especially given the level that quin Yours is playing at

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Speaker 1: right now, which isn't great.

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Speaker 2: Too much uncertainty still with the Longhorns for me, I mean,

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Speaker 2: essentially they've gotten worse over the course of the season.

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Speaker 2: If we say it's not how you start, it's how

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Speaker 2: you finish, it's there were a lot of promising moments

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Speaker 2: under the early portion of the season when quin Yours

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Speaker 2: was healthy, and obviously the better of Hudson card was

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Speaker 2: impressive and he didn't always have his finest moments. But

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Speaker 2: this is not a team that finishes strong in games,

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Speaker 2: and I don't expect them to finish strong this season.

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Speaker 2: If they are amped up for the Kansas game, if

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Speaker 2: they are fully inspired, they should be able to shut

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Speaker 2: Kansas's offense down enough and get going enough themselves. With

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Speaker 2: Bjean Robinson arguably the most dynamic running back in the country,

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Speaker 2: and a host of pass catchers who have gotten better

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Speaker 2: over the course of the season and more varied over

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Speaker 2: the course of the season. Offensive line, while young at

686
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Speaker 2: certain spots, has improved over the course of the season.

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Speaker 2: But this isn't a team that gels completely all at

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Speaker 2: the same time every week, No, and certainly not over

689
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Speaker 2: the course of four quarters against pretty strong opponents in

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Speaker 2: the Big Twelve. And so you're looking at a team

691
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Speaker 2: that underestimates how much gas is left in the tank,

692
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Speaker 2: chooses the wrong tires for the wrong weather, and has

693
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Speaker 2: the brightest, shiniest, slickest coat of paint, the biggest custom engine,

694
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Speaker 2: and the driver doesn't know how to always use that

695
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Speaker 2: little joypad that you use when you're driving F one,

696
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Speaker 2: right that like, oh, I just kind of know how

697
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Speaker 2: to drive a Botto matic? Is that bad? That's the

698
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 2: issue right now where they're not fully on the same

699
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Speaker 2: page at any given time, And that's really tough to

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Speaker 2: finish out a year when you're tired, when you're beat up,

701
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Speaker 2: when your brain is tired after the way that they

702
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Speaker 2: lost to TCU, or they give their all on defense,

703
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Speaker 2: they don't get in the end zone on offense, So

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Speaker 2: I see this team sputtering, even in a winning effort.

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Speaker 2: If they beat Kansas, if they beat Baylor, whatever, I

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Speaker 2: don't see it as a pretty way to finish out.

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Speaker 1: No, And you know, the Baylor game is interesting on

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Speaker 1: a couple different levels, not the least of which is,

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Speaker 1: even though Baylor has had its moments this season, Baylor

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Speaker 1: is still well coached enough that they can make up

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Speaker 1: some ground. You know, David Randa doesn't get out coached

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Speaker 1: that frequently.

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Speaker 2: It happens. We're in the shadow of them losing demonstrably

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Speaker 2: to Kansas State and scoring just as many touchdowns on offenses.

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Speaker 3: Tech does not.

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Speaker 1: Happen that often. I agree that Dave Randa is out coached.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I mean we saw a game just

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Speaker 1: this past week where Jean Robinson was held to twenty

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Speaker 1: nine yards and the offense sputtered. They were lucky to

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Speaker 1: score ten points in that game. So final game of

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Speaker 1: the year, Dave Randa may need it to get to

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Speaker 1: seven wins. I don't know, just interesting to me.

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Speaker 2: It's at home. It's at home, I mean for Texas. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but I.

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Speaker 1: Could see Dave Randa putting some scheme together that can

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Speaker 1: continue to bottle up the Texas offense.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Let us know what you think. We're at saliverbo atgmail

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Speaker 1: dot com. You can also sign up at Verballers dot

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Speaker 1: com if you want to join the community and chat

731
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Speaker 1: on our discord server. The teams that we discussed here

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Speaker 1: today again USC, Michigan, Tennessee, North Carolina and now Texas.

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Speaker 2: Dan. By the way, you know what you don't need,

734
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Speaker 2: as you mentioned Dave Randa, you know what you don't

735
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Speaker 2: need to defeat Texas or whole Texas down in some

736
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Speaker 2: sort of important way, A mad scientist plan. No, you

737
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Speaker 2: just need a plan you need you need a mead

738
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Speaker 2: binder and an active big pen. Neither and write down,

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Speaker 2: Oh this might work. That's generally good enough to limit

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Speaker 2: Texas in a significant way in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Before we get to our guest of honor, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: want to give a big shout out to our friends

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Speaker 1: over at the Football Ramble. Ooh yeah, Football Ramble. It

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Speaker 1: is the UK's biggest soccer podcast and they are going

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Speaker 1: daily throughout the World Cup this fall. These guys have

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Speaker 1: been around forever. I've seen the Football Ramble for a

747
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Speaker 1: good long time since like seven, which is around the time,

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Speaker 1: and we started doing this. It is the go to

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Speaker 1: podcast for soccer fans around the world to want to

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Speaker 1: learn about the beautiful game. They're funny as hell. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I lo it is a good show.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: They're releasing every day throughout the World Cup. They're going

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Speaker 1: to have you covered from keeping up with the tournament

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Speaker 1: favorites in Europe and South America and all the underdogs

756
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Speaker 1: who might cause a ruckus in the tournament. Obviously, the

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Speaker 1: US is in England's group. I don't know if anyone

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Speaker 1: out there had a chance to go and listen to

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Speaker 1: my special World Cup preview that I did with Bill

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Speaker 1: Connelly averballers dot com, but.

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Speaker 2: With Verballers dot com in depth nerdy World Cup preview.

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Speaker 1: We talked a lot about US being in England's group,

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Speaker 1: and look, there is also this other side of why

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Speaker 1: are they doing this thing in Qatar in the first place?

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Speaker 1: Why is that controversial? The Football Rambles got a three

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Speaker 1: part documentary series available now inside the Qatar World Cup.

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Speaker 1: They traveled there, they met with the workers, tournament officials,

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Speaker 1: soccer fans, journalists, the work. So they've really been going

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Speaker 1: all out in preparation for the World Cup and even

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Speaker 1: better if you are just interested in football.

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Speaker 2: European football, yes, the real football, International football. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to be a diehard if you're just

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Speaker 1: If you're soccer curious, Dan, I want to learn more

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Speaker 1: New episodes every day starting Sunday, the twentieth of November.

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Speaker 2: Do we have a it is a cutter of Qatar,

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Speaker 2: I go Qatar. I know I'm gonna go cutter and

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Speaker 2: we'll see who's who when the coverage starts.

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Speaker 1: All right, Dan, Special guest time. Thanks to our good

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Speaker 1: friends over at Spotify and Spotify Live. They've been so

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Speaker 1: good to us this season. They've helped us put on

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Speaker 1: our weekly live show, College Football Thursdays, every week every Thursday,

786
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Speaker 1: five pm East two pm West, of course live on Spotify.

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Speaker 1: We talk about college football through the lens of games

788
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 1: and other associated goofiness. We invite you up on stage

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Speaker 1: to give your picks and much much more. Today's special

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Speaker 1: guest Christ Stefano. You could check out his Netflix special

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Speaker 1: right now called Specci Weshie. You can also hear him

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00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: on the Hey Babe podcast on chrisy Chaos, another podcast.

793
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Speaker 1: He can check out his comedy tour at Chris Dcomedy

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Speaker 1: dot com. Mister DiStefano, Welcome to the Solid Verbal Sir,

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Speaker 1: How are you today?

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Speaker 3: How are you doing? My friends? I like it? Happy

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Speaker 3: to be here.

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Speaker 4: I wish we were all in the same room because

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Speaker 4: I'd be tickling everybody.

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Speaker 2: Ty is a ticklish little guy.

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Speaker 4: That true, Ty looks more ticklish than than Dan.

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Speaker 2: Ty.

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Speaker 4: You, Yeah, you look like tickling person. You just look

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Speaker 4: like a ball like you like, you look more likely.

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Speaker 5: To not be wearing pants right now while doing the

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Speaker 5: Bland desk.

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Speaker 2: That's true because he's all business up top. And that's

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Speaker 2: the one. Those are the ones that you gotta watch out.

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Speaker 4: He's he's wearing a wet diaper down below.

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Speaker 2: Is it the collared shirt that gave it away?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, It's just it's just you know, like like I

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Speaker 4: just feel like, you know, you're you look a little

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Speaker 4: bit more like Dan's coming in. You've got T shirt

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Speaker 4: on glance like he's just like, I'm fun guy, I'm

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Speaker 4: chilling where he ties like I got to be the

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Speaker 4: professional here, but I know that you know you're the

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Speaker 4: one who's gonna get arrested one day.

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Speaker 1: That's true again again, Well, look, we appreciate your time.

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Speaker 2: We're thrilled to have you here.

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Speaker 1: And as we talked a little bit before we hit record,

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Speaker 1: we just enjoy talking to people who are college football adjacent,

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Speaker 1: people that you can see on TV or you can

824
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Speaker 1: hear about or know about otherwise out in popular culture

825
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Speaker 1: and we find out, hey, this is somebody who's into

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Speaker 1: college football on some level. So you're from New York,

827
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Speaker 1: which we've joked about on our show time and again,

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Speaker 1: what is the one true team, the one true like

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Speaker 1: college football team in New York City Because we've joked

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Speaker 1: it's Fordham, Rutgers would have you believe it's Rutgers. I

831
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Speaker 1: know you come from an area in New York that

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Speaker 1: has like a strong following for Notre Dame. But what

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Speaker 1: do you consider if you think about it, the one

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Speaker 1: true college football team in New York.

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Speaker 3: City see for college football.

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Speaker 4: If I had to say one, and I would probably

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Speaker 4: lean towards Rutgers, but you hit on the head.

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Speaker 5: What you'll see, at least in.

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Speaker 4: The neighborhood I grew up in, because it's all like

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Speaker 4: the cops, fireman criminals, like I feel like I grew

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Speaker 4: up with, like the entire FDNY, who are mostly, like

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Speaker 4: you know, just just big burly Irish guys. It's the

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Speaker 4: Notre Dame fighting Irish is. That's the most merch college

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Speaker 4: football merch you'll see around I think is Notre Dame.

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Speaker 4: It's Alabama, who I hate. We don't have a college.

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Speaker 5: I don't know in New York. I guess we don't

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Speaker 5: believe in college. I don't know. We're all just.

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Speaker 3: It's just fun. There's no college sports at all. We're

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Speaker 3: just about the pros.

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Speaker 4: We're just about being capitalistic, greedy pigs and going right

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Speaker 4: to the pros.

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Speaker 1: It's funny because I know a lot of people in

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Speaker 1: Philly and they have the same experience, the same relationship

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Speaker 1: with college football. It's almost as if college football does

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Speaker 1: not exist, Chris.

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Speaker 4: Which is crazy because Philly has so many colleges. They

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Speaker 4: have so many colleges. I mean, you know, if Penn

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Speaker 4: State is close enough, you Pen they got you know,

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Speaker 4: Direct Soul, they got all these they have all these

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Speaker 4: schools and yet they you know, they don't uh, they

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Speaker 4: don't care about they don't care about college.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I feel.

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Speaker 4: Like Philly here's at least with comedy. I'm sure it's

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Speaker 4: same in sports.

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Speaker 5: Philly is a Philly is a place you got to

866
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:15,839
Speaker 5: get through.

867
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 4: Like when you I was put in maybe the worst

868
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 4: case scenario for a comedian that you could be in.

869
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 4: I I was two weeks ago. I had a show

870
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 4: downtown Philadelphia Friday night, eight pm, right direct Game one

871
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 4: of the World Series. Philly alf started at eight oh five.

872
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 4: My show started at eight o'clock. Philly is already notorious

873
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 4: for like heckling comics booing you. You know, Bill Burr's

874
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 4: got the famous Opie and Anthony traveling virus story where

875
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 4: he's like, you know they they want to boom off

876
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 4: stage and he just keeps pounding his material. That happened

877
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:58,919
Speaker 4: to me. I mean these he got so bad where

878
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,239
Speaker 4: I just said to the venue I was at the

879
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 4: Fillmore and Philly great venue I was. I said, just

880
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 4: do me a favor, I said, fainly say, you said,

881
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 4: put the TVs on in the backbarn. Let them watch

882
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 4: the game. Those who want to watch the game, can

883
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 4: watch the game. Anybody who doesn't want to watch the

884
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 4: game and wants to listen to my comedy, then do

885
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 4: that because they they were, you know, screaming and cheering

886
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,760
Speaker 4: on random places where I didn't even have a punchline

887
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,439
Speaker 4: because you know, Philly, the Phillies gave up another run

888
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 4: or you know, Schwaber hit a home run. I was like,

889
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 4: you know, like people aren't your animals.

890
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 2: It's funny that you mentioned that specific example, because the

891
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:35,240
Speaker 2: college football tie in is you can't hold a wedding

892
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 2: on a Saturday in the fall in the South or

893
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 2: the Midwest. That if you are holding a wedding on

894
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 2: a Saturday, people are going to stare at their phones

895
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 2: the entire time, and they're going to find a Cornerbard

896
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 2: TV to put on Georgia Auburn to put on Texas,

897
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 2: Texas Tech, to put on Ohio State, Penn State, or whatever.

898
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 2: And it's sort of universal that it's cool that you're

899
00:46:57,680 --> 00:46:58,840
Speaker 2: here for something else.

900
00:46:59,239 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 3: Right.

901
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 2: Also, we have our priorities, well.

902
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 4: The passion well in a way, in a way, even

903
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 4: though you know I enjoy you know I do, I

904
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 4: will I do get around usually around like late November December,

905
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 4: start watching college football, become like one of those fair

906
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 4: weather fans, you know, watch the finals and all that.

907
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 4: But but I I am actually happy that I'm not

908
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 4: addicted to college football like some of my friends are.

909
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 4: Like you guys are, because literally it's like you will

910
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:29,919
Speaker 4: get divorced. You can't have Saturday and Sunday constantly. It's

911
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 4: like the wives are going to be like, why go,

912
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 4: I'm leaving because at least for me, Sunday it's like.

913
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 5: When the Giants are playing, I can't you know, I

914
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 5: can't be.

915
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 4: Spoken to him, like I gotta look at I gotta

916
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 4: make sure Saquon Barkley's thighs are getting more jacked. I

917
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 4: have to make I want That's what I want to

918
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 4: eat for Thanksgiving his thighs and I and and and I.

919
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 4: But at least Saturdays, I don't. I watch it casually,

920
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 4: but I don't get it's got to be insane. You

921
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 4: guys have to go insane, right like during college football season.

922
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 2: So it's games from basically noon Eastern to midnight one

923
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 2: in the morning because of the West Coast, we wake

924
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,959
Speaker 2: up early to watch everything we didn't see for four

925
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 2: hours and study everything. Then we record a show for

926
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 2: an hour and a half and then none of it.

927
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 2: It only is meaningful for like thirty six hours because

928
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 2: you're onto the next week.

929
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 4: Dude ties. Dude ties nineteen years old. Yes he looks

930
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:23,280
Speaker 4: like because stress the college football season.

931
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,800
Speaker 2: He is the most wrinkled out nineteen year old because

932
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 2: and then you have to follow recruiting, and then there

933
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 2: are message boards, and then there are every coach leaves

934
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 2: in December. It's a mess. One of the things I

935
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 2: wanted to ask you, though, is you mentioned getting on

936
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 2: the road. Is you grow up in New York. I

937
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 2: grew up in La so I didn't really have a

938
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 2: reference point either. And as fun as USC and UCLA

939
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 2: sometimes are, it's not a college football town, right, and

940
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:48,240
Speaker 2: so New York not a college football town. But I traveled.

941
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 2: I worked for Sports Illustrated. I traveled everywhere and that

942
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 2: kind of opened my eyes. And I use college football

943
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 2: to sort of see the country. Essentially, you see the

944
00:48:56,080 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 2: country via comedy. But you've been to college campuses at

945
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 2: this point, maybe you've been to a facility, or you've

946
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 2: been to a game, or you've been around. What has

947
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 2: been your experience on the road seeing schools, being on

948
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 2: campus and seeing the sort of unhealthy fever up close.

949
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 4: So I think the craziest one is I was performing

950
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:20,280
Speaker 4: at a great comedy club in Madison, Wisconsin called Comedy

951
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 4: on State, and the Wisconsin football was playing, and they

952
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 4: were it was about three days before the show, and

953
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 4: they were like, listen, they were like, there's not a.

954
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 5: Chance in hell, one person's going to come to your show.

955
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,959
Speaker 4: Because Wisconsin is playing college game, playing at like eight

956
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 4: pm a home.

957
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 3: So just don't we strongly advise you.

958
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 5: Not to come.

959
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 4: And I was like, they're gonna come. My fans don't care.

960
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 4: Let's do the show. I'll talk about it on my podcast.

961
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 3: It'll be fine. One person was there, Loane girl, who

962
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 3: was a.

963
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 4: Studying abroad from Korea who didn't speak English, and I said,

964
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 4: you know what, I'm doing the show. Yeah, I'm doing

965
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 4: the show because at at the very least, I'm gonna

966
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna bring peace to Korea with my

967
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:16,280
Speaker 4: comedy in Madison, Wisconsin. And and now I've learned my lesson.

968
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 4: Now it's gone to the point now where I won't

969
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 4: actually not perform uh in the South on Saturdays during

970
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 4: college football season or like you know, anywhere like in

971
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 4: that area, because I just know, like I got I'm

972
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 4: going in December.

973
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 5: I'm going to North Carolina and Charleston.

974
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,799
Speaker 4: But I made the show's Wednesday, Thursday and Friday because

975
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 4: I'm like, don't even screw with Saturday. Yep, I would

976
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 4: like to be I'm envious of the passion that people

977
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 4: have for anything, it's like for college football, Like to

978
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 4: love something that much.

979
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:47,359
Speaker 5: It's like I started.

980
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 4: It makes me realize like I'm I'm violently depressed and

981
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 4: I'm like disconnected. I'm a sociopath because I don't care

982
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 4: about anything the way people care about college football.

983
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 5: And I'm like, I got to talk to my doctor

984
00:50:58,640 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 5: about this.

985
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 2: Why do you hate Alabama?

986
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 5: You know?

987
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 4: I hate them because Number one, I think because you know, jealousy,

988
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:07,959
Speaker 4: you know, like I want to wear Nick Saban's skin.

989
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 4: I wish it was Nick Saban. I just a hot

990
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 4: older guy. I think that Alabama I dislike because to me,

991
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 4: for many years, I think part of the reason I

992
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,800
Speaker 4: didn't watch college football was because to me, it was boring.

993
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 4: I was like, you know, Alabama is going to win,

994
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 4: you know, it would be like the same teams.

995
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 5: It's always like Alabama or Texas or USC.

996
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 4: It's like, this is annoying, but I know, but being

997
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 4: a Yankees fan, New York Yankees fan, it's like that's

998
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 4: what it must have felt like in the late nineties,

999
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 4: where it's like it's the same teams always, so it's

1000
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,919
Speaker 4: like people stop watching. But now that Alabama is out,

1001
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 4: Like when I saw that that they went down and

1002
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 4: they're like no chance for the you know, the college playoff,

1003
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 4: I was like, okay, now this is interesting. Now, I like,

1004
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 4: you know, because it's Georgia or TCU these teams. Now,

1005
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 4: I'm like, Okay, I know Georgia has been winning a

1006
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 4: lot lately, but it's like, you know, they haven't won

1007
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 4: as much lately as like an Alabama.

1008
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: Well, and the other thing I think, I mean, I'm

1009
00:51:57,960 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 1: discovering through this interview that you and I like all

1010
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: the same pro teams.

1011
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 2: So I think with that run of the Yankees in

1012
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 2: the nineties, I can.

1013
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: Imagine from the outside. Look, again, it was great as

1014
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: a Yankee fan. However, if you weren't. Part of the

1015
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: issue is not just that they were winning and that

1016
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 1: they were so successful, but it almost felt like there

1017
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 1: was an inevitability in that they would never get worse, right,

1018
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people pick that up

1019
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: with Alabama. We hear it all the time. That's why

1020
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 1: this season in particular is sort of unique because Alabama

1021
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 1: has lost two games already. It seems like with respect

1022
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: to the playoff, they're kind of on the outside looking in, and.

1023
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 2: We hear that so much.

1024
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: I'm I just said to Dan earlier, I kind of

1025
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: don't know how to react. I'm almost uncomfortable with the

1026
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: notion that Alabama isn't just indestructible this season.

1027
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 3: Yep, you know it's good though.

1028
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 4: It's better for college football, and it's good that you

1029
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 4: know they are having a year like this because at least,

1030
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 4: you know, to me, the most exciting thing in sports

1031
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 4: is at nc doublea March Madness tournament, Like you know,

1032
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 4: all these games wanted done. You don't know who's gonna

1033
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,080
Speaker 4: win where With college football, just too many times I

1034
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 4: felt like, well now I know who's going to win.

1035
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 4: In the recruiting and I get it, like if you're

1036
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,959
Speaker 4: an amazing athlete and Alabama comes knocking at the door,

1037
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:10,320
Speaker 4: You're like, I'm just going to go to Alabama because

1038
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 4: why would I go anywhere else?

1039
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 5: I want to get to the NFL, so I'll go

1040
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 5: to Alabama where.

1041
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 2: So, So, then where are you going if you're a recruit?

1042
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 2: If you're a recruit, right, if you're this unbelievable high

1043
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 2: school player, do you want to be another guy on

1044
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 2: a roster at Alabama? Do you want to carve out

1045
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:29,919
Speaker 2: your own stardom at TCU at Ohio State?

1046
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 4: Oh?

1047
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 2: I guess Ohio State's sort of like Alabama that way.

1048
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 2: But do you want to go to you know, Oregon

1049
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 2: or USC or do you want to go to Florida

1050
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 2: State where you know, maybe you're not just another faceless

1051
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:44,759
Speaker 2: top recruit, whether it's geography, whether it's team put your eyes,

1052
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 2: put your brain in the head of a top recruit.

1053
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:48,479
Speaker 2: Where's where's Chris going?

1054
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 4: Okay, so, first of all, I don't like I don't

1055
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 4: like being away from home, Okay, not long. So I

1056
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 4: don't like I like to be like if I if

1057
00:53:58,520 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 4: I have a panic attack, I can.

1058
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 3: Drive home school. Here's your answer, Yeah, Wagner's Staten Island.

1059
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 4: No, I think that, honestly, you know, I think I

1060
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 4: go just because you know, it's just a fun town.

1061
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 3: I'm going. You're ready for this?

1062
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 5: You never expect this.

1063
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 3: You know where I'm going, Boston College.

1064
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 2: Oh wow, interesting.

1065
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:23,760
Speaker 4: To Boston College, just because I like history. I want

1066
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 4: to be close to home. I like Boston. I want

1067
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,919
Speaker 4: to I like the culture there. I I I it's

1068
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 4: just a fun, clean, you know, small city, not far.

1069
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 5: From New York.

1070
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:36,759
Speaker 4: I could be a big fish, you know, on a

1071
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 4: small team. And I like the uniforms I like. I

1072
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 4: like the colors. I like the colors of their uniforms.

1073
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 4: I'd either do there or I go off the one.

1074
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:45,320
Speaker 4: I go to Boise State to play in that blue

1075
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 4: field like that.

1076
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you've got any eligibility, you could start this

1077
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: year for Boston College.

1078
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 2: That's really terrible.

1079
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 3: Well you're ready for this.

1080
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Speaker 4: I played four years of college basketball, but I played

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Speaker 4: in not the NC Double A. It was called the

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Speaker 4: us CIA. It was like an independent small league. So

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Speaker 4: I think technically I have no NC Double A. I've

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Speaker 4: never used one day of NC.

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Speaker 5: Double ALBA because I wasn't in the NC Double A.

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Speaker 2: Wow. I think that's a good loophole. What position did

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Speaker 2: you play?

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Speaker 4: I was like a point guard shooting guard, so you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm only six to one, but Division three it's like,

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Speaker 4: you know, the center.

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Speaker 3: Was like six to three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, she was a girl. What's on your list

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Speaker 2: just to go to a game, just to tailgate, just

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00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 2: to eat your face off and drink beer and go

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Speaker 2: to a game. What's on your list? Like? Do you

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Speaker 2: want to get to the SEC? The Midwest, the West Coast?

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Speaker 2: Do you want to tailgate on a yacht in Seattle? Like,

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Speaker 2: what's the move?

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Speaker 4: So I've never been to a I've actually never been

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Speaker 4: to a college football game.

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Speaker 5: Okay never, I've never been.

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Speaker 3: It would be I would love to.

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Speaker 4: I think, you know, you know some of the iconic ones,

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Speaker 4: you know, Notre Dame, you know, University of Miami would

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Speaker 4: be would be great to go see game. But I

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Speaker 4: think the first college football game I'm going to go

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Speaker 4: to is next year. The Fighting Irish are playing in Dublin, Ireland,

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Speaker 4: and I'm going to book a I just did some

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Speaker 4: shows in Europe. I'm gonna do shows in Europe next

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Speaker 4: year around that they're actually playing in Dublin. The Fighting

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Speaker 4: Irish are playing in Dublin on August twenty sixth. It's

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Speaker 4: just my birthday. So I think I'm gonna book some

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Speaker 4: shows in Ireland and end it all on my birthday

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Speaker 4: with that Notre Dame fighting Irish game in Dublin.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful, great plan, that's you.

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Speaker 5: Guys gonna go?

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Speaker 3: Should we should? The three of us just go?

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Speaker 2: I'm in. I'm really I've never been Ireland. Tie's a

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Speaker 2: Notre Dame guy. My wife's dying to go to Ireland.

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Speaker 2: Would love to go to Ireland.

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Speaker 4: Dude, Ireland is h I just came back from there.

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Speaker 4: It's it's an amazing, amazing place.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: You know, like you you know, you learn, you know

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Speaker 4: Gaelic football, dude, Gayelic football is.

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Speaker 3: Like have you ever seen that?

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Speaker 4: In no I mean they're playing they're playing NFL College

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Speaker 4: Foot Division on college football level football with no helmets,

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Speaker 4: and they're just like they're just fearless, like completely fearless.

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Speaker 4: I was in all watching How crazy is that. I've

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Speaker 4: seen a Gaelic football game before. I've seen an NC

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Speaker 4: double a football game.

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Speaker 2: Would you rather if the football here didn't have pads?

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Speaker 4: Is it better so the Gaelic I spoke to a

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Speaker 4: Gaelic football player and he was saying that, yes, it

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00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 4: is better because he said, we know we're not going

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00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 4: in tackling you like, you know, having our bodies like

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00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 4: parallel with the turf, because we're not relying on the

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Speaker 4: protection of a helmet and pads that's giving you false protection.

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Speaker 4: He's like, we're literally using our actual bodies, so we know.

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00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 4: He's like, I'm not going full speed at you. I'm

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Speaker 4: tackling and getting to the ground, but I'm doing it

1143
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 4: in a protective way, he said, where your guys American

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00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 4: football will just be like, oh, I'm not going to

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Speaker 4: get you have this like false and invincibility because of

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00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 4: the helmets and the pads. It's like, oh, that's interesting,

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Speaker 4: you know, and and you know, I think like to

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00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 4: those guys, like I think they're all drunk, to be fair,

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Speaker 4: if they're drunk playing the game.

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Speaker 2: Final question for me because you hosted a show about

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00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 2: people building out their backyards. Okay, and people, I'm not

1152
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 2: breaking news here. You know this backyard of bar Wars

1153
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 2: BB people people are building out watch party setups at

1154
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Speaker 2: home more and more backyard whatever. What is your advice?

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Speaker 2: What is your advice for the perfect setup? It's college football,

1156
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 2: it's college basketball, it's NFL whatever, What is your advice

1157
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 2: having seen people really go for it in terms of

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00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 2: getting a setup, going to watch sports, backyard or otherwise.

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Speaker 4: I think the thing that people love the most is if,

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Speaker 4: first of all, if you have a pool had and

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Speaker 4: you know warm weather, have some type of television by

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Speaker 4: the pool that you can sit in the pool and

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Speaker 4: watch the TV. The other thing people love some type

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Speaker 4: of contraption to pour shots for you, some type of

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Speaker 4: thing where you don't have to do it, some like

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00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 4: ping pong ball that you can throw into a cup

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00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 4: and then it starts, you know, yeah, a shot, you know,

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Speaker 4: every time your team scores a touch down or gets

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Speaker 4: the first down. Depending on what level of alcoholism you're at.

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Speaker 4: That I think is key have some type of feature

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Speaker 4: for the bar that's like a wow factor.

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Speaker 2: I like that. All right, that's good advice. That's good advice.

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Speaker 2: Chris de Stefano check out a special on Netflix, specially

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Speaker 2: WESHI Hey Babe podcast Chrissy Chaos. Chrisdcomedy dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Is where you can go to find out more about

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Speaker 1: Chris's tour. As many of you are listening to this,

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Speaker 1: we'll have you know. He'll be in Toronto and Buffalo

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Speaker 1: seventeenth through the nineteenth.

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Speaker 4: Chris November, Yeah, November seventeenth, eighteen, Toronto, nineteenth Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming on for sharing some

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Speaker 1: of your college football experience with us. Thanks fellas, appreciate

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Speaker 1: it all right, Dan, there you go, Chris the Stefano

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Speaker 1: boom sharing his insight with us as a college football

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Speaker 1: adjacent city boy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was me way back when TI from

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Speaker 2: southern California, like I mentioned, hadn't been to the South,

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Speaker 2: hadn't really been to the Midwest to see games or

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Speaker 2: anything like that. And thanks to the SI Gig, I

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Speaker 2: just I recommend everybody who grows up in a pro

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Speaker 2: sports town, it's awesome. Have your teams celebrate your teams,

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Speaker 2: celebrate that fandom. Get to Baton Rouge, get to Eugene,

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Speaker 2: get to Madison, That's all I'm saying. And we get

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Speaker 2: the emails that the datchelor party emails tie. We're like

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Speaker 2: a bunch of buddies and I we go to a

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Speaker 2: different college football game and golf and go to a

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Speaker 2: brewery every year. Where should we go? We've been to X,

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Speaker 2: Y and Z. You gotta do it. You gotta do

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Speaker 2: it if you can. If you're listening to this show

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Speaker 2: in November, odds are you'd probably have a good time

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Speaker 2: going everywhere, So I hope people in whether it's New York, Chicago, Miami,

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Speaker 2: somewhere where it's not. And Miami does have a college

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Speaker 2: football team, to be clear. But if you're in a

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Speaker 2: big city and you grew up primarily around pro sports teams,

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01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 2: you gotta get to a campus, you gotta get to

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Speaker 2: a tailgate, you gotta see some weird traditions, you got

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Speaker 2: to eat some smoked meat.

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Speaker 1: It's the best Daniel that does it. For today's show,

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Speaker 1: we thank our special guest for stopping on.

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Speaker 2: Bye.

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Speaker 1: We thank you for downloading the show, for supporting the

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Speaker 1: solid verbal as you have all throughout this college football season.

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Speaker 1: in addition to some bonus perks, not the least of

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Speaker 1: which is early access to episodes like this one, as

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Speaker 1: well as bonus episodes like the one I did with

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Speaker 1: Bill Connolly talking all things World Cup, which I was

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Speaker 1: like a giddy fanboy doing.

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Speaker 2: When's When's the First? The US play is.

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Speaker 1: On November twenty first against Wales two pm East Monday,

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Speaker 1: am West.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're going to be.

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Speaker 1: Moving our schedule arounds so that I can watch this game.

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Speaker 1: FYI for that guy over there, my good friend Dan Rubinstein,

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Speaker 1: for myself, Tie Hilton Brand. Thanks again for downloading, listening,

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Speaker 1: supporting the show. We will talk to you all soon

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Speaker 1: meantime today Solar Base