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Speaker 1: So today's show is going to be a little bit different.
Speaker 1: We've actually gotten requests to do a show like this
Speaker 1: in previous years, but we didn't. And now because the
Speaker 1: spirit has moved us, You've got some free time. I've
Speaker 1: got a need to let off some steam here. We're
Speaker 1: not going to be talking college football today, at least
Speaker 1: not in the traditional sense. Now, we got a bunch
Speaker 1: of questions from social media, from our friends over at Reddit,
Speaker 1: through the email inbox at sliverbo at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: We're going to try and address as many of those
Speaker 1: as we can. But for the first time ever, this
Speaker 1: is sort of a combo show between the Q and
Speaker 1: A that we've received, and I think the topic du
Speaker 1: jour for many sports fans. This week the college basketball tournament.
Speaker 1: Marsh Maddness is starting up, right, Yes.
Speaker 2: So we're doing an NIT show. So Oregon As is
Speaker 2: opening up. It actually might be we're recording this on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: I think it might be tonight.
Speaker 1: Maybe tonight.
Speaker 2: I think they're playing Writer. Okay, can you tell me?
Speaker 2: Have you heard of the university or college named Writer?
Speaker 1: It's in New Jersey? Yeah, is it?
Speaker 2: I know they the mid Atlantic Conferences not. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: like the MAA C. Yeah, I know, never heard of it.
Speaker 2: I know heard of people who have gone to Writer.
Speaker 2: Is that true.
Speaker 1: It's a very good wrestling school, believe it or not.
Speaker 2: Name one person that went to Writer.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't know them.
Speaker 2: These are fine, Just kim, Just tell me who.
Speaker 1: Of my friend John's son went to Writer?
Speaker 2: Okay? Did he enjoy his time at Writer?
Speaker 1: I think?
Speaker 2: Okay? Did he wrestle?
Speaker 1: He did not wrestle? No, oh okay.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we are not doing an IT bracket. We're
Speaker 2: gonna do an NCAA bracket. But we also have a
Speaker 2: bunch of questions for an early March Q and a
Speaker 2: early to mid March Q and A. Is that correct?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: We took people's questions on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. A
Speaker 2: lot of good ones came in, so we sort of
Speaker 2: narrowed them down to the ones that we most want
Speaker 2: to answer, but more specifically to the bracket tie. How
Speaker 2: many games in total did you watch this year in
Speaker 2: the great land of college basketball?
Speaker 1: You can't quite quantify it like that, Dan, here is
Speaker 1: my process. Okay, we overload on college football between late
Speaker 1: August and early January, and when early January hits, I
Speaker 1: usually go pretty dark until fantasy baseball season rolls around.
Speaker 1: Then I do a little bit of research because I'm
Speaker 1: into baseball, but as it relates to college basketball. I've
Speaker 1: watched about thirty total minutes of college basketball all year.
Speaker 2: Wow, I've watched two and a half I'd say the
Speaker 2: equivalent of two and a half games. I watched the
Speaker 2: second half of Duke North Carolina, not in the ACC Tournament,
Speaker 2: although I did watch a little bit of that, but
Speaker 2: I watched the full second half at the end of
Speaker 2: the season. I watched a couple Oregon games here at
Speaker 2: like just patches of orgames. They they tip the Oregon
Speaker 2: games in the Packball tournament tipped at eleven thirty PM.
Speaker 1: That's a very heavy lift.
Speaker 2: They're not making it easy time.
Speaker 1: No, that's a heavy lift on the East coast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not making it super easy. I usually when
Speaker 2: in my previous job, I start at the end of
Speaker 2: February early March because I have to do live shows
Speaker 2: around the bracket. But I don't anymore, so I'm usually
Speaker 2: in that ken palm world. Yeah, just like Okay, this
Speaker 2: team plays good defense, this team plays quickly. These are
Speaker 2: the names of stars. I know who Ish is going
Speaker 2: to be taken in the lottery, but I have not
Speaker 2: seen Miles Bridges play basketball time right, right, and just haven't.
Speaker 2: So I arrive more unprepared for this bracket than normal,
Speaker 2: which makes me think I'm going to do better because
Speaker 2: we have a bracket, right, we have a challenge.
Speaker 1: We do have a bracket. So that's an important side note.
Speaker 1: If you are listening at home, if you want to
Speaker 1: get in on the festivities, heaven forbid, you should take
Speaker 1: any of this advice literally and pick according to our
Speaker 1: suggestions here. But we do have a bracket pool. It
Speaker 1: will grow to be very large, going out to our
Speaker 1: Facebook page or Twitter. We'll post it on Instagram, on
Speaker 1: our website, we'll post it. I think we can post
Speaker 1: it as part of the description of this actual show dope.
Speaker 1: So get in on it. It's free. It's through ESPN
Speaker 1: Tournament Challenge. You can enter like ten times if you
Speaker 1: so desire. But what we're going to do now.
Speaker 2: And we'll get that when we get the brackets of
Speaker 2: Mama h Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get them all in. Okay, we'll get them
Speaker 1: all in. Yeah, we'll get them all in. You could
Speaker 1: play against the star's solid wife Kate yep. Sure, and
Speaker 1: we're going to go through now we're going to pick
Speaker 1: all these games.
Speaker 2: Yes, we are going to do that. Do you have
Speaker 2: somebody asked this question if you have a particular upset
Speaker 2: that you've called through the years that makes you confident
Speaker 2: that like, oh, I know what I'm doing here, I
Speaker 2: know the right thirteen seed to pick. Do you have
Speaker 2: one that you remember.
Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't really apply this year.
Speaker 2: No, of course not.
Speaker 1: But I'll just say generally speaking, when Xavier isn't a
Speaker 1: number one seed, I picked Xavier to go inordinately far
Speaker 1: in these tournaments.
Speaker 2: It's not a bad call. It's not a bad call
Speaker 2: upset wise. I picked because obviously we have the Patriot
Speaker 2: League as a near and dear part of our hearts.
Speaker 2: I remember picking Lehigh over Duke, which I think they
Speaker 2: still sell shirts of like the score like Lehigh whatever,
Speaker 2: Duke whatever in the Lehigh bookstore, which I've been to
Speaker 2: that bookstore. Tie. I picked that game, and I specifically,
Speaker 2: in doing research, saw that they had a player named CJ. McCollum,
Speaker 2: and I said to myself, that sounds like a good player.
Speaker 2: Without having watched any Lehigh basketball ever before or since,
Speaker 2: I specifically remember saying like, hey, he's averaging a bunch
Speaker 2: of points. Let's go with Let's go with Lehigh? Why not?
Speaker 2: And I that had that makes me think that I
Speaker 2: just I know a little bit more than the average
Speaker 2: Mountain Hawk. Here here's my other, my other big point
Speaker 2: before we get into our bracket picks, which are very
Speaker 2: going to be very bad. How is and I know
Speaker 2: he you can subscribe? How is there not like a
Speaker 2: big splash cors light ad on Kenpalm dot com And.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I'm on, what are you doing? Ken?
Speaker 2: I am on his website, like, how how is there
Speaker 2: not like make a make your picks refreshing? He sells
Speaker 2: a subscription right that I'm assuming mostly reporters subscribe to
Speaker 2: h and it.
Speaker 1: Has to be all reporters, right. There's no banner ads
Speaker 1: on here at all. This This reeks of someone who's
Speaker 1: doing it purely out of love of the game, and.
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 1: But in March, I know, get paid Ken. There you go,
Speaker 1: new job, Ken first.
Speaker 2: Media does not last forever. Ken that money, take that.
Speaker 1: Money, Kenpalm dot Com. All right, So I have Ken
Speaker 1: Palm dot Com up on my screen. There are a
Speaker 1: couple things that I am going to use to guide
Speaker 1: me here, all right. A couple formulas at play, because
Speaker 1: really I've done no research and I haven't watched the games.
Speaker 1: The first thing is that I've read previously that teams
Speaker 1: that perform well on the Kenpalm dot Com defensive efficiency
Speaker 1: metric generally do better in the tournament sense. Speaks to
Speaker 1: the adage of defense winning championships that applies here. I've
Speaker 1: got that in front of me. The other is that
Speaker 1: I read via Twitter and I was trying to find it.
Speaker 1: I couldn't that the team that wins the second installment
Speaker 1: of Duke versus North Carolina usually does really well in
Speaker 1: the tournament, and they've won five national championships in the
Speaker 1: span of Like I don't know, maybe fourteen years, however
Speaker 1: long it's been since Roy Williams got to UNC side.
Speaker 2: Note real quick, this is a college football podcast that
Speaker 2: is truct Let's continue. Let's continue.
Speaker 1: And the team that loses that second installment is like
Speaker 1: five hundred over the same period of time. So, and
Speaker 1: who won the last installment? It was Duke or Duke
Speaker 1: won the last one. Duke won the last one. So
Speaker 1: they're going to be probably my national championship pick. Cool,
Speaker 1: all right. And then the other thing that I'll throw
Speaker 1: in here is the late great Marianne Calarusso, my grandmother,
Speaker 1: for whom for whom my annual college basketball pool is
Speaker 1: named not ours, but the secret on the sly money
Speaker 1: one that I do.
Speaker 2: Double chess, Sammy Sosa pound kiss to the sky.
Speaker 1: That's right. Grammy had her own little formula. She watched
Speaker 1: basketball every night religiously, and her formula was this. First off,
Speaker 1: Duke Duke was her toes. She picked Duke all the time.
Speaker 1: Duke was always her national champion. But after Duke she
Speaker 1: would veer very strongly towards coaches with Italian last names, okay,
Speaker 1: and then coaches from Catholic institutions. Oh, Okay, now it
Speaker 1: sounds funny, but Grammy won the pool numerous years, and
Speaker 1: it's not a bad formula when you when you actually
Speaker 1: see it in practice. Like obviously coach Uschefki is pretty successful.
Speaker 1: You picked Duke, You're gonna come out on top.
Speaker 2: Super Italian more often than not.
Speaker 1: Right, but think think of some of the Italian last names, Cola, Pari, Patino,
Speaker 1: until recently Izzo, guys who have historically done very well
Speaker 1: in the tournament seem to have Italian last names.
Speaker 2: If only, god, if only what Grandma h knew that
Speaker 2: not only was Rick Patino's last name of Italian origin,
Speaker 2: but also what he was able to do in an
Speaker 2: Italian wrestling.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Oh my god, exactly.
Speaker 2: He did win a national championship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you got the Italian last names, You've got
Speaker 1: the Catholic institutions, which you know normally would speak to
Speaker 1: Notre Dame but speaks now to Villanova, well Xavier. Right,
Speaker 1: So just throwing that out there, that is what I'm
Speaker 1: going to use is my basic framework for making some
Speaker 1: of these selections.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think Mama h is places she picks against
Speaker 2: Catholic institutions, and four places where she knows people that
Speaker 2: went to school there, or is confused about who.
Speaker 1: Went to sit Mama Rubinstein, you're saying.
Speaker 2: Mama rub excuse me, mam Rubs now, Mama h And
Speaker 2: So I do like the dichotomy of the sort of
Speaker 2: opposite theories at work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So how do we want to do this?
Speaker 1: Do we want to pick our own or do we
Speaker 1: want to pick one like unified bracket between the two
Speaker 1: of us that we can enter.
Speaker 2: Well, let's just go through. Just tell me. Let's start
Speaker 2: with the South Region tie. So it appears that's Virginia,
Speaker 2: who I think I just saw a lost a key
Speaker 2: player due to injury. Virginia and Cincinnati, which who knew
Speaker 2: Cincinnati was good this year? Do you have any Let's
Speaker 2: just go and tell me if you have any upsets
Speaker 2: in the first round.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm looking at this. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think I go Uva. I think I go Creighton
Speaker 1: over k State, which I didn't know until recently that
Speaker 1: Creighton's in Nebraska, by the way, that's on me.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, dude, it's an Omaha.
Speaker 1: Kentucky over Davidson Steph Curry no longer there. Kentucky actually
Speaker 1: has been playing pretty well, So throw Kentucky through. What's
Speaker 1: the deal with Arizona. There's apparently a giant scandal with
Speaker 1: their coach being picked up on an FBI sting operation.
Speaker 1: That is that accurate something like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was supposedly there was a wire tap of
Speaker 2: him discussing one hundred thousand dollars for DeAndre Ayton, who
Speaker 2: might be the number one overall pick in the NBA.
Speaker 2: But then there was a question about was it in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen or twenty seven and if it was in
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, he was already It was reported that it
Speaker 2: was twenty seventeen, but he would have already been enrolled,
Speaker 2: so it doesn't fully add up. And there was ESPN
Speaker 2: had some weird denial or retraction and then read unretraction.
Speaker 1: Okay, but they did he get caught on the sting
Speaker 1: or not?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's reported, but nothing has happened to him.
Speaker 2: He still there.
Speaker 1: I feel like I got to pick Arizona to go
Speaker 1: pretty far then, just to have a villain to root against.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean to me, it's a hero right
Speaker 2: well sure, yeah, yeah, I like that sort of bravado element.
Speaker 2: I'm with it.
Speaker 1: I picked Miami over Loyola Chicago. Is there any kind
Speaker 1: of ill will here with you picking Miami given the
Speaker 1: fact that your lovely wife is from the great city
Speaker 1: of Chicago.
Speaker 2: No, Loyola, I think is a private school and she
Speaker 2: has no connection to it. So that's fine.
Speaker 1: Tennessee over Wright State. I guess you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go Texas over Nevada because I always go Texas.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go Texas as well. Shouts to Andy Wall.
Speaker 1: Texas, according to Ken Palm is number ten in adjusted defense.
Speaker 2: Great and Shaka has good tournament resumes. Right absolutely, that
Speaker 2: feels right?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm gonna go Texas as an upset and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Davidson as an upset.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go Davidson, all right, I'm gonna go, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go since we're both gonna go Cincinnati in
Speaker 1: the end. So I'm filling this out as we go through.
Speaker 2: M HM.
Speaker 1: So that brings us to the next round, which is
Speaker 1: Uva against Creighton. I guess Uva. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, Yeah, I'll go with Virginia.
Speaker 1: There you've got Arizona Davidson. I've got Arizona, Kentucky. You
Speaker 1: gotta go Arizona given what we now know about Sean Miller.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to Arizona coming out of this bracket.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Out of this.
Speaker 1: Region, Miami against Tennessee. Here's my other Achilles heel when
Speaker 1: it comes to these bracket pools. H I always pick
Speaker 1: the number six seed to go very far. Why, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I was hung up on Mississippi State a
Speaker 1: number of years ago when they were a six seed.
Speaker 1: I was all in on Mississippi State all the research.
Speaker 1: I think they lost in the first or second round. Okay,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go Miami here over Tennessee. Okay, And
Speaker 1: then I think we'll go We'll go Texas over over Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Texas over Cincinnati as well. I think
Speaker 2: Texas is bad at basketball, but I don't know anything
Speaker 2: about either team, and Texas has the clear better Tacos.
Speaker 1: Let's go Uva over Miami for the final four coming
Speaker 1: out of the South.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna go Arizona over I guess Tennessee. How
Speaker 2: about that?
Speaker 1: Wow? Yeah, all right, not moving on, Let's go to
Speaker 1: the West.
Speaker 2: Bracket Dan Okay, the West bracket, so we have Xavier
Speaker 2: as a one seed North Carolina and Lipscomb okay, fifteen seed.
Speaker 2: That that bottom half Houston San Diego State. Very good
Speaker 2: food matchup. I think I'm just gonna I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: through this and just select where i'd want to eat eat. Yeah,
Speaker 2: where i'd most want to eat. And so Xavier is
Speaker 2: in Ohio. Uh, there's a playing game. But I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take Xavier there, Missouri, Florida State, So Columbia or Tallahassee.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Columbia, Columbus, South Dakota State. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go Columbus Spokane over Greensboro. Is that where UNC Greensboro
Speaker 2: or Greenville? What is it?
Speaker 1: It's a g here on the bracket.
Speaker 2: I don't know what UNC Greensboro. It is Greensboro. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Greensboro there, Houston, San Diego State.
Speaker 2: I'm going Houston, ann Arbor or Montana. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: ann Arbor, College Station of Providence. I do like do
Speaker 2: you like clams?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 2: I Still I'm still gonna go with College Station there.
Speaker 2: Lipscumb is in. I want to say, is it in Nashville.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Yeah, I'm gonna go with Nashville.
Speaker 2: I'm going North Carolina losing in the first.
Speaker 1: Round to Lipscomb.
Speaker 2: This is true. Whoa, yeah, whoa, I'm gonna go. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go College Station over Lipscomb. I'm gonna over Nashville.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Houston over ann Arbor. So I think
Speaker 2: the Houston has a star player that's that's very good
Speaker 2: and maybe the son of somebody famous. Greensboro is going
Speaker 2: to lose to Columbus. I did eat kind of well
Speaker 2: in Columbus, and I'm gonna go. Let's go Missouri over
Speaker 2: Xavier in the second round. I can't spend that much
Speaker 2: time in Ohio eating tiem Okay, and then we'll have Columbus.
Speaker 2: They've got it like a junior who's very good. We'll
Speaker 2: go Columbus over Missouri. Will go god College Station against Houston.
Speaker 2: I'm going Houston again. Houston's an amazing eating town. And
Speaker 2: so I think I'm gonna have Houston out of the
Speaker 2: West Wow into the final four.
Speaker 1: That's ballsy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going with what I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: According to Ken Palm, Houston's defense eighteenth.
Speaker 1: Overall in adjustice defense, come on, tie and hold on
Speaker 1: thirty first in adjusted offense.
Speaker 2: Have you spent any time in Houston.
Speaker 1: A little bit here and there.
Speaker 2: It's such a good city. I love it so just
Speaker 2: eating wise and people wise. It's a pain in the
Speaker 2: ass getting around. It's so fun.
Speaker 1: It's okay, I loved it. It's very easy, very easy
Speaker 1: to get picked off by the light rail.
Speaker 2: Picked off.
Speaker 1: You could get picked off by that light rail.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you got hit.
Speaker 1: I didn't get hit, but I'm saying I can see
Speaker 1: people getting hit that went dark. Tie.
Speaker 2: I know, Well, who do you have coming out of
Speaker 2: the West?
Speaker 1: Xavier and Florida State, Ohio State and Gonzaga, Houston and
Speaker 1: Michigan A and m and unc all chalk?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Then I've got Ohio State over.
Speaker 2: Xavier, big Ohio matchup, and.
Speaker 1: I've got Michigan over you, and see which sets up
Speaker 1: a great matchup in the Elite eight between Michigan and
Speaker 1: Ohio State. Wow. Okay, And I'm gonna go Michigan. Love it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Michigan. So my final two thus far
Speaker 1: are UVA and Michigan, two great American institutions.
Speaker 2: Do you know where Radford University is, Virginia it is.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to see that. It looks like it's not
Speaker 2: terribly far from I guess is it Lynchburg? Yeah, that
Speaker 2: sounds right like Christiansburg, Pulaski Princeton. Wow, it's it's out there.
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Speaker 1: to the East bracket.
Speaker 2: And I'm so glad I've determined that I'm just going
Speaker 2: through this with where I'd rather eat.
Speaker 1: Before we get back to the East bracket, let's answer
Speaker 1: some questions. Pick them out out.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Pick them out for us. We are a.
Speaker 2: College football show technically speaking, Yes, let's start here. I
Speaker 2: thought this question was really easy. It was about Missouri football,
Speaker 2: but I think it applies to everybody.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, do you.
Speaker 2: Know a question I'm talking about?
Speaker 1: I'm looking for it.
Speaker 2: This comes to us from Mike. You guys often Mike
Speaker 2: Slackiam you guys often don't talk about mid or lower
Speaker 2: level Power five teams, and rightfully so, Like Miszoo, it's
Speaker 2: favorite team without necessarily going into too much detail about
Speaker 2: every single one of these teams on that level, can
Speaker 2: you tell us suffering fans what it would take for
Speaker 2: our programs to have some consistency in our conference? Zoom
Speaker 2: made it to two SEC titles in its first three
Speaker 2: years in the league, but no Miszoo fan thinks at
Speaker 2: all that we will be title contenders. What can Miszoo
Speaker 2: fans or fans similar programs across the country look for
Speaker 2: slash hope for moving forward? And obviously every conference has
Speaker 2: a Missouri and I mean that neither in a good
Speaker 2: or bad way, but a team that has seen some
Speaker 2: success but has found it difficult to sustain right, So
Speaker 2: what is Is there a formula to you? You know,
Speaker 2: Missouri has some advantages of playing in a huge conference,
Speaker 2: of having I think really good modern history in terms
Speaker 2: of success and developing high level and well known players
Speaker 2: along especially defensive line, a wide receiver as well. Defense
Speaker 2: is as a whole has been excellent some of these
Speaker 2: past few years. But you know, with the coaching change,
Speaker 2: with the conference change, with some pretty major struggles on
Speaker 2: offense before last season, you know they've fallen upon not
Speaker 2: hard times, but inconsistent times.
Speaker 1: I think the big thing that we see, especially in
Speaker 1: this tier of teams, if you want to call it, that,
Speaker 1: is inconsistency. There's a consistency that does not exist on
Speaker 1: both sides of the football that often prevents these teams
Speaker 1: from having a reliable eight and four record. Let's say
Speaker 1: it's one of those two sides of the coin that
Speaker 1: brings them down. So I think, first and foremost, you
Speaker 1: want to just be consistent as you can on both
Speaker 1: sides of the football and just get to a point
Speaker 1: where it's like before the year even starts, we feel
Speaker 1: pretty confident about even four.
Speaker 2: Sure, and certainly with the SEC having high level bowl
Speaker 2: success in terms of getting to the playoff, you know,
Speaker 2: having really good bowl tie ends you win eight nine
Speaker 2: games a year, as Missouri will probably top out at
Speaker 2: as it stands now, with how much teams in the
Speaker 2: SEC have been investing and succeeding on the recruiting trail
Speaker 2: and beyond, you know Georgia now in Florida, Tennessee having
Speaker 2: new coaches, Arkansas with a new coach, Texas A and
Speaker 2: M with a new coach. So there's uncertainty there, which
Speaker 2: I think adds to Missouri. What it to me comes
Speaker 2: down to is they had Gary Pinkel for I want
Speaker 2: to say fifteen years. He started in two thousand and one,
Speaker 2: so there was an element of that was home for him.
Speaker 2: He had an incredible eye for assistant coaches. He had
Speaker 2: an ability to surround himself with assistant coaches who were
Speaker 2: blue chip I would say, evaluators and developers. That may
Speaker 2: have been highlighted by Craig Kulangowski, the defensive line coach
Speaker 2: who I think is now back at Alabama in the
Speaker 2: SEC after a couple of years at Miami and early
Speaker 2: on I think is where those these types of programs
Speaker 2: like Missouri and you can go across different conferences. I
Speaker 2: don't know, who do you think is the Missouri of
Speaker 2: the Pac twelve. It's like Washington State, Arizona State, I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, like Asu, Arizona.
Speaker 2: Right, maybe Texas Tech in the Big twelve, the Big ten,
Speaker 2: I would say, you know who's who's like the second
Speaker 2: and a half or the second tier in the Big
Speaker 2: ten wistern? Yeah, maybe maybe? Yeah? I mean to be fair,
Speaker 2: nor Or Northwestern has succeeded and Missouri went to two
Speaker 2: SEC championship games. To me, it is can you find
Speaker 2: coaches who are blue chip evaluators and guys who are
Speaker 2: not going to waste their time trying to compete for
Speaker 2: five and even four star guys, But you know, finding
Speaker 2: given proximity to Texas and the South, you know, three
Speaker 2: stars with a ton of potential that are physically there
Speaker 2: but are still a little bit raw and targeting those
Speaker 2: guys early and succeeding. And I think Missouri can do
Speaker 2: that year and in year out. They should be an
Speaker 2: eight win program every year in the SEC East, given
Speaker 2: that the changes in the division, given the recent modern
Speaker 2: successes and the number of players they've put in the NFL,
Speaker 2: I think that's fair to say that Missouri should win
Speaker 2: eight games a year. They have a good quarterback who
Speaker 2: put up huge numbers last year. They should be able
Speaker 2: to evaluate those guys moving forward. Being so close to
Speaker 2: Texas and that general region, the planes whatever, it's a
Speaker 2: tough region for local, local talent. But the good news
Speaker 2: tie in terms of consistency, and it comes back to coaching.
Speaker 2: For me, is Barry otam is mister missoo.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, went to school.
Speaker 2: He has all in on Missouri foot Yes, so it
Speaker 2: seems like, you know, it's stupid to call anybody a
Speaker 2: life or especially coming off of the first half of
Speaker 2: the twenty seventeen season when everybody wanted him gone before
Speaker 2: things sort of turned around with granted a somewhat advantageous
Speaker 2: back back half of that schedule, but they still won
Speaker 2: those games. They still put up a ton of points.
Speaker 2: So we had another email about saying Matt Campbell, Matt
Speaker 2: Campbell does not seem long for ames Iowa, No, and
Speaker 2: that's a credit to both the players and coaches whatever,
Speaker 2: and of course the job he's done, whereas barriotam is
Speaker 2: in a un situation where it seems like if Missouri
Speaker 2: will have him, he would love to be there for
Speaker 2: a long.
Speaker 1: Long yet's ol dream job is what we're talking about here.
Speaker 2: This is what we're saying. I mean, he's coaching in
Speaker 2: the SEC. He's coaching on the biggest stage at his
Speaker 2: alma mater, in a place where it seems, you know,
Speaker 2: some guys don't like coming back to their alma mater,
Speaker 2: but he's almost exclusively coached there during his coaching his
Speaker 2: college coaching career, So they're in a pretty good place
Speaker 2: if they're able to keep hiring well and keep evaluating
Speaker 2: high three stars.
Speaker 1: There is a very small subset of our listener base
Speaker 1: that is going to single out the last five minutes
Speaker 1: of Dan Rubinstein audio and just play it on the loop.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of Missouri football being injected into your
Speaker 1: ears right there.
Speaker 2: That's fine. I appreciate Missouri football. I've enjoyed watching Missouri football,
Speaker 2: and I hope that they succeed. I enjoyed my time
Speaker 2: in Columbia, Missouri. So that those are my general thoughts
Speaker 2: that applies to a number of schools. It's smart evaluation,
Speaker 2: it's smart recruiting, and it's figuring out some way to
Speaker 2: hire a head coach who I say this as a
Speaker 2: still kind of hurt Oregon fan does not view your
Speaker 2: job as a stepping stone situation, which, unfortunately, with how
Speaker 2: volatile coaching is, you just you have to understand on
Speaker 2: a certain human level, when somebody has the opportunity to
Speaker 2: make generational money that they just have to do it
Speaker 2: because they're going to be fired in two years if
Speaker 2: they're disappointing at all. All.
Speaker 1: Right, next question, Buck Hogan asks, I don't know if
Speaker 1: this is a real name. Okay, it's a fantastic name, sir,
Speaker 1: mister Hogan, excuse me if it is indeed your real name,
Speaker 1: God bless you. He says, if teams had to have
Speaker 1: their mascot play a position, what would the best fits be.
Speaker 1: I thought a ridiculous amount about this question, did you okay?
Speaker 1: And the one thing I kept coming back to was
Speaker 1: that the Michigan State Spartan would absolutely be a linebacker.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean he's got the build. I think,
Speaker 1: has the toughness, has a screw loose, definitely has a
Speaker 1: screw loose. Mm hmm. I think the Spartan is probably
Speaker 1: like an outside linebacker, middle linebacker, somewhere in that second
Speaker 1: tier of the defense.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this much, though, Ty Joe Morehead would
Speaker 2: absolutely target the Sparty in a wheel route situation. I
Speaker 2: do not trust Sparti in coverage. That's me and maybe
Speaker 2: it's from watching enough of like the Bullock Brothers or whatever.
Speaker 2: I would target Sparty like hell in the open field.
Speaker 1: Is there a position on the field for the Oregon Duck. Yeah?
Speaker 2: If the Orgon Duck is sort of an h back
Speaker 2: where you would underestimate the duck speed. Some people call
Speaker 2: him Puddles or her puddles, whatever. I just sort of
Speaker 2: see the duck as a versatile athlete who you see
Speaker 2: some more. You see bigger personalities these days at tight end, right,
Speaker 2: Travis Kelce, I see that type of person that the
Speaker 2: duck is willing to go up. You know, there's there's
Speaker 2: a showmanship aspect to the duck throwing Tostito's into the mouth.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go with a tight end h back situation. Versatile,
Speaker 2: willing to be a character.
Speaker 1: I thought a lot about the Stanford Tree mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: And red zone threat, Yeah, I mean red zone threat statue,
Speaker 1: immobile quarterback, another option someone who plays on special teams,
Speaker 1: maybe just to solely block a kick or get in
Speaker 1: the way. But then there is that component of also
Speaker 1: having a screw lose that I think makes a red
Speaker 1: zone I was thinking along the same lines of a
Speaker 1: red zone threat potentially is a better option there.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I think a specialty player. You're not trusting
Speaker 2: the Tree as a three down player.
Speaker 1: The Penn State Nitney Lion is maniac and I see
Speaker 1: the Nitny Lion as some sort of free safety type position, Okay,
Speaker 1: somewhere he can just work and pounce no pun intended.
Speaker 2: I'll stay in the big ten and I'm gonna put
Speaker 2: the wolverine and the badger because they're actually I mean,
Speaker 2: they have like the you know, there's obviously Bucky, but
Speaker 2: in terms of the actual animal itself, you're talking about
Speaker 2: a honey badger type situation where it's a little different
Speaker 2: from a standard badger. But screw loose maybe like a
Speaker 2: we keep saying screw loose but your nickelback on defense,
Speaker 2: or a gadget type player on offense where you don't
Speaker 2: want to assign too much to this player because they're
Speaker 2: untrustworthy and a little bit wild, but end arounds options.
Speaker 2: I think you're talking about heavy hitters right here, So
Speaker 2: I would I'd go with that.
Speaker 1: Would an actual alligator have been on the four deep
Speaker 1: for the Florida Gators roster at quarterback this year this previous.
Speaker 2: Year as the arms has the arms that hurts? I
Speaker 2: would go, Man, I don't know, I'm looking that there's
Speaker 2: so many all animals.
Speaker 1: Let's uh, let's move on to a different question.
Speaker 2: Next question, Ty, that was a fun little from.
Speaker 1: A little nugget.
Speaker 2: Well exit, is Oklahoma gonna win a championship? In John
Speaker 2: Christopher McDaniel's lifetime, still reallying that Baker Mayfield couldn't pull
Speaker 2: it off. Yeah, I'm gonna say yes. Hi, I think
Speaker 2: I'm going to say yes. They are a program and
Speaker 2: a Power five conference that is the program that everybody
Speaker 2: else has to go through.
Speaker 1: Yes, agreed. And the other thing I'd add is that
Speaker 1: since they are already one of the elite college football institutions,
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley being there mm hmm unless something goes terribly
Speaker 1: wrong there, there aren't a whole lot of rungs above
Speaker 1: him in the college game. Now. I could see him,
Speaker 1: because he's so young, being someone that the NFL talks
Speaker 1: to at some point, and I think that's that's the
Speaker 1: real threat with Lincoln Riley. But beyond that, I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be there for quite some time before
Speaker 1: that eventually happens, and should have coaching continuity. It's never
Speaker 1: really a problem to get talent to go to Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: especially the way they keep winning, So the odds are
Speaker 1: more in your favor than a lot of other schools
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say Oklahoma will They've been to the
Speaker 2: playoff what twice?
Speaker 1: Twice?
Speaker 2: Yeah, already in the young playoff lifespan and Oklahoma also
Speaker 2: has the infrastructure in terms of budget and what they've
Speaker 2: poured into the program. They've got a great stadium atmosphere.
Speaker 2: They're going to keep recruiting quarterbacks because of quarterback tradition,
Speaker 2: and if you've paid attention to draft stuff at all,
Speaker 2: there is at least something right now. And then this
Speaker 2: speaks to what you said about the appetite for more
Speaker 2: creative offenses, perhaps influenced by what the college offenses have
Speaker 2: looked like recently and what you know. Sean McVay asked
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield to explain if you read that. I think
Speaker 2: it was Robert Klemcoe somebody it was THEMMQB wrote it,
Speaker 2: thing about Baker Mayfield and the draft process, and with
Speaker 2: what Philly obviously succeeded doing and Kansas City succeeded doing that,
Speaker 2: there is this appetite for creative offensive minds, and at
Speaker 2: the college level right now with their current team, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure that there is somebody more well regarded in
Speaker 2: that way than how people feel about Lincoln Riley at Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: So you have that combination Oklahoma, I would say within
Speaker 2: the next I don't know, six, eight, ten years, they
Speaker 2: should win if he's there, absolutely.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do one question, one more question, then
Speaker 1: we're going to get to some additional picks here. I
Speaker 1: like this question, Dan. This one comes to us from
Speaker 1: our friend Dylan. He says, I spent my morning running
Speaker 1: around New York looking for a quiet place with good
Speaker 1: reception for a phone interview. If your home residence has
Speaker 1: poor reception, what is the best look for a phone interview? Dan? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, very timely question here.
Speaker 2: That's true. First of all, why can't you use Wi
Speaker 2: Fi calling?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Do you have Wi Fi calling?
Speaker 1: I have Wi Fi calling on my phone, but hypothetically,
Speaker 1: let's say the Wi Fi is broken.
Speaker 2: You can know receptathetically.
Speaker 1: You're living in like a steel trap. You can't get
Speaker 1: anything in or out. You got to go out on
Speaker 1: the town and find somewhere to do a phone interview.
Speaker 1: Where where are you going? First?
Speaker 2: Uh, probably a park. There's enough tree cover, and you
Speaker 2: know there are enough parks in New York during the
Speaker 2: day that you're not going to be right on top
Speaker 2: of traffic. You can probably find a nook, you can
Speaker 2: probably find a bench. And there is something about living
Speaker 2: in New York where people just understand there are so
Speaker 2: many people, it's going to get a little bit noisy.
Speaker 2: And as long as you have, you know, you carve
Speaker 2: out a tree, a nook or whatever for yourself within
Speaker 2: said park, and the weather's not terrible, I think you're fine.
Speaker 2: I think I would go to a park, but I
Speaker 2: would I would investigate Wi Fi calling.
Speaker 1: The only risk is sirens in the city.
Speaker 2: That's true theirs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And it's not so much that the people
Speaker 1: on the other end are going to dock you at
Speaker 1: all for that. But I could see if you're the
Speaker 1: interviewee potentially being knocked a bit off your game. A loud,
Speaker 1: sudden sound could could potentially derail you a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The coffee shop comes to mind, however, only if you
Speaker 1: can get like the back booth at a Starbucks, if
Speaker 1: you can get away from wherever people are coming and going,
Speaker 1: that's your best bet if you choose to go to
Speaker 1: a place like that.
Speaker 2: My other suggestion would be, ty, are you familiar with
Speaker 2: we work? Yeah, so at some we work locations if
Speaker 2: you can sort of identify where they are within New
Speaker 2: York and whatever cities. But he's in New York specifically.
Speaker 2: You walk in and there is a lobby of sorts,
Speaker 2: and in that lobby or in that sort of gathering area,
Speaker 2: there's some tables and coffee machines whatever. You have to
Speaker 2: use a card pass to to sort of scan yourself
Speaker 2: into the general area. But within that lobby there are
Speaker 2: some phone rooms, there are some little booths there. So
Speaker 2: if you know somebody who works out of a WE work,
Speaker 2: and I imagine if you're in New York and emailing
Speaker 2: a podcast, there's a.
Speaker 1: Very good chance, it's a pretty good chance, yeah, that.
Speaker 2: You have a connection to somebody that works at a
Speaker 2: sort of micro startup that might be renting space at
Speaker 2: a WE work and they can let you in, or
Speaker 2: they or you just sort of figure out where WE
Speaker 2: work is and you just go and if you can
Speaker 2: get in, that would be my tip.
Speaker 1: Here's a sneaky answer. And then I promise we're going
Speaker 1: to pick some games. Yeah, find a department store. That's
Speaker 1: not bad. Find a department store and walk around like
Speaker 1: the men's clothing section. You're not going to get an echo.
Speaker 1: For the most part. It's a quiet setting in.
Speaker 2: The middle of the day, not a lot of people there.
Speaker 1: Middle of the day, not a lot of people there.
Speaker 1: I think you can get away with it.
Speaker 2: I don't think sound will travel that well, because it'll
Speaker 2: and that's a good thing, because it'll the.
Speaker 1: Clos dead, the same reason we tell people to record
Speaker 1: a podcast in like a walking closet. Sure deadens the sound.
Speaker 1: No echo, probably not much commotion. I think that's a sleeper.
Speaker 2: That's a good idea tie. Look at you coming.
Speaker 1: Through, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: I want I advocate for trespassing, which I guess you
Speaker 2: sort of do, right, So you might have to buy
Speaker 2: a tie or something. Buy a soft drink. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: hold you know what you do, hold a tie in
Speaker 2: your hand as if you are. I'm definitely buying this tie.
Speaker 2: I just walking around making this call, and then I'm
Speaker 2: gonna buy the tie.
Speaker 1: There you go. So yeah, all right, let's move on
Speaker 1: to I think we nailed that tie. Thank you. The
Speaker 1: East region.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 1: Your number one seat in the East is Villanova. Your
Speaker 1: number two is Perdue. We got Texas Tech, Wichita State,
Speaker 1: West Virginia, Florida also in the same bracket. Okay, I
Speaker 1: got problems in this one.
Speaker 2: So there's a playing game against Villanova l Brooklyn, which
Speaker 2: is not far from me and d Radford.
Speaker 1: Radford excuse me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Radner, I think was on How I Met Your Mother?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bradner's down by Philly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, God, would I rather eat in Brooklyn or Philly.
Speaker 2: It's the uncertainty. I'm gonna go with Philly and Villanova. Okay,
Speaker 2: I assume you're going there as well.
Speaker 1: Gotta go, Yeah, I gotta go Nova. Virginia Tech against Alabama.
Speaker 1: Classic college football matchup here. This is true.
Speaker 2: I think they opened the season in like a Chick
Speaker 2: fil A kickoff a little bit ago. I would rather
Speaker 2: eat Blacksburg or Tuscalosa. I'm gonna go with Tea Town.
Speaker 2: I think Virginia Tech gets revenge here. Really, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go Tech. Yeah, buzz Williams and Tech. Alabama has a
Speaker 2: star in Colin Sexton. He almost single handedly won a
Speaker 2: three on five game. Remember that game. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with Colin Sexton and tuscal LUSA.
Speaker 1: Eats West Virginia against Murray State.
Speaker 2: Who tutors Biscuits. Give me the Mountaineers.
Speaker 1: West Virginia plays tenacious defense, they do. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: West Virginia. Wichita State against Mashall.
Speaker 2: I've heard underrated things about Wichita as a city, which
Speaker 2: makes me think that there's some good eating. I'm going Wichita.
Speaker 1: Now, you could set up the All West Virginia matchup
Speaker 1: between the Mountaineers and the Thundering Herd here if you
Speaker 1: went thirteen over a four. H I'm a sucker for Wichita.
Speaker 1: I'm going number four Wichita. Okay, here is where I
Speaker 1: have the problems. Okay, A, We've got the number six
Speaker 1: seed Florida, which I already said previously. I love the
Speaker 1: number six seed all the time. And then there's a
Speaker 1: play in game. For some odd reason, I read man,
Speaker 1: I read an article many moons ago that was trumpeting
Speaker 1: Saint Bonaventure.
Speaker 2: I think Nicole Auerbacker pal lovest the Bonnies of Saint Bonaventrics.
Speaker 1: I love the sixth seed and I love Saint Bonaventure. Dan.
Speaker 1: So now I guess I will get a chance to
Speaker 1: like see which way this one's gonna go, or I
Speaker 1: can get a better idea of which way this thing's
Speaker 1: gonna go after the actual playing game. Mm hmm. But
Speaker 1: if we assume Saint Bonaventure, that puts me in a
Speaker 1: bit of a bind having a pick between the two
Speaker 1: of them, Florida against Saint Bonnie.
Speaker 2: So where are you gonna go, really really dig deep
Speaker 2: into your I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go St. Bonaventure. Okay, I'm gonna go Saint Bonaventure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna go Uclaver Florida. I'd much rather eating
Speaker 2: West Weather ch Mouth, rather eat at a Dedie Reese
Speaker 2: or Dan Morey's. Yeah, give me the Bruins here over
Speaker 2: Florida and over Sat Bonnie's.
Speaker 1: Is it Ucla?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ucla is playing Saint Bonaventure.
Speaker 1: Oh crap, uh, I'm still gonna go Saint Bonaventure.
Speaker 2: That's fine with your heart.
Speaker 1: A classic showdown between Texas Tech and Steve and f
Speaker 1: Austin was Stephen F. Austin, a team that like two
Speaker 1: years ago had all seniors and they were very good.
Speaker 1: They had like one loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had Brad Underwood, I want to say, and
Speaker 2: now he's at Illinois. They had a super good coach. Okay,
Speaker 2: so they and they won a game. I think they
Speaker 2: upset somebody in the first round that year.
Speaker 1: And actually, unlike Texas Tech on the football field, this
Speaker 1: Texas Tech plays pretty good defense. You're number three in
Speaker 1: the nation according to Kent pom So. I guess I
Speaker 1: gotta go Texas Tech here because of defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna go Tech here as well.
Speaker 1: Arkansas against Butler, I gotta go Butler. Butler's just got
Speaker 1: the pedigree in the tournament.
Speaker 2: Did they. I think they just lost their coach to
Speaker 2: somebody recently, which worries me a little bit. But I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go Butler as well.
Speaker 1: Purdue against cal State Fullerton? Are they still the dirt bags?
Speaker 1: Cal State Fullerton?
Speaker 2: I think that's a nickname for their baseball teach. Okay,
Speaker 2: I think they have an official I think they're the Titans. Okay,
Speaker 2: I want to say, Actually, I don't think full is
Speaker 2: Is it Fullerton that's the dirt Beggs or is it
Speaker 2: Long Beach State?
Speaker 1: Long Beach State? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sorry, Okay, I'm gonna go Fullerton's not bad. Purdue eating
Speaker 2: is not great. I've been to I've been to the
Speaker 2: Purdue campus in West Lafayette. I'm still gonna go with Purdue, though,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go boiler Maker's brother went to Purdue.
Speaker 1: Villanova against Virginia Tech, I'm going nova.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going nova as well.
Speaker 1: West Virginia against Wichita.
Speaker 2: You would have you eaten in Philly A Lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, you feel like twenty times, I feel
Speaker 1: like I.
Speaker 2: Want to eat with you in Philly and go to
Speaker 2: all sorts of places South Philly, BARBICOA. Yeah, looks great.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Villanova over Alabama.
Speaker 1: Here. Does Wichita still have Greg Marshall? They do, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go Wichita.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he turned down or there was something that
Speaker 2: there's some complication with alib Obama. I want to say
Speaker 2: a few years.
Speaker 1: Ago, Texas Tech against Saint Bonnie. I'm gonna go Saint Bonnie.
Speaker 2: I'm well in UCLI over Texas Tech.
Speaker 1: Still rather eat in Westwood, Butler against Perdue. I'm going Purdue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna go Purdue. Is is Matt Painter still there?
Speaker 1: I think so?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Matt Painter is still there. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm going Purdue.
Speaker 1: I go Villanova over Wichita in my bracket.
Speaker 2: I feel as if Villanova always loses, other than the
Speaker 2: one time they didn't always lose. So I'm going Wichita.
Speaker 1: Here all right, and then I'm gonna go Purdue over
Speaker 1: Saint Bonnie. The run ends in the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2: I'm going Purdue over Wichita.
Speaker 1: And I am gonna go Purdue over Villanova. Okay, into
Speaker 1: the final four, which brings us Midwest, brings us to
Speaker 1: our final bracket. Here we've got Kansas against the number
Speaker 1: sixteen seed Pen another Philly school with a good eating situation, Dan.
Speaker 2: Ty give me the Quakers. WHOA give me the Quakers?
Speaker 1: Sooner or later it's gonna happen, right.
Speaker 2: I like Philly. We talk about Ivy League football within
Speaker 2: the context of Patriot League football. Kansas is untrustworthy in
Speaker 2: this tournament year over year over year. Agreed, agreed, give
Speaker 2: me the Quakers. That's a bold play, Dan, love them.
Speaker 2: Come on, Tye.
Speaker 1: Penn is seventy third in the nation in defense and
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifth in the nation in adjusted offense.
Speaker 2: All it takes is one day, ty all takes is
Speaker 2: one day.
Speaker 1: Does it matter to you at all that they lost
Speaker 1: to Villanova by twenty eight, to Temple by nine, and
Speaker 1: Toledo by thirteen.
Speaker 2: So there's something smart about Penn to me that says
Speaker 2: they're not showing all of their cards during the regular season. Tye, Okay,
Speaker 2: there's a hidden element to the Quaker ball that they're
Speaker 2: not showing to the Temples, to the Villanova's of the world.
Speaker 1: Have you ever Have you ever gone to the first
Speaker 1: round of the NCAA tournament anywhere?
Speaker 2: I have, and it was incredible slash exhausting. I went
Speaker 2: in Boise, Idaho.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a long day, It's an exhausting day,
Speaker 1: but I was, I believe. Back in two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: that was the year that George Mason went to the
Speaker 1: Final four and caused of bi Rucas with Jim Laira Naga,
Speaker 1: some friends and I were down at the arena in
Speaker 1: Philly to watch first round games and at the time,
Speaker 1: it was I want to say Albany, Albany or Monmouth
Speaker 1: one of those schools against Yukon, and Yukon was universally
Speaker 1: number one seed. They were incredible. But whoever they were playing,
Speaker 1: I think it was Albany. They're hanging around and we
Speaker 1: had no intention of going to that game. We actually
Speaker 1: were at the bar watching on TV. We saw that
Speaker 1: it was close. After halftime, we quick hopped in the
Speaker 1: soay to get back to the stadium nice and it
Speaker 1: ended up being a relatively close game by one versus
Speaker 1: sixteen standards, but ultimately Yukon did win that game. So
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I hope You're right, because when a
Speaker 1: sixteen is on the verge or at least challenging a
Speaker 1: number one seed in the NCAA tournament, the atmosphere in
Speaker 1: the room is incredible.
Speaker 2: Is I believe it?
Speaker 1: Truly?
Speaker 2: Have you been to the Palastra? I've been to the Pleustra? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I never have. I would love to awesome setting for
Speaker 2: awesome setting for a game. So yeah, I'm rooting for Penn,
Speaker 2: but I gotta go with I gotta go with Kansas here.
Speaker 2: I also make my picks based on which team's most
Speaker 2: sound like office supplies, okay, and so you have to
Speaker 2: go Pen. You have to go Pen in that situation.
Speaker 2: I also would rather eat in Philly than Lawrence Kansas,
Speaker 2: Seaton Hall, n C State. I'm going n C State,
Speaker 2: but I either eating Raleigh or New Jersey. Seaton Hall
Speaker 2: is a very specific part New Jersey, but I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with Seaton Hall. Eight girls have to be better.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Clemson over New Mexico State.
Speaker 2: Hmm. Yeah, I'm gonna go Clemson as well.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Auburn over Charleston. I know you love Charleston,
Speaker 1: Oh love Charleston.
Speaker 2: Bruce Pearl Auburn been real good this year. I've walked
Speaker 2: through the very small campus of the College of Charleston.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Charleston here, Ty, I
Speaker 2: hate super duper well.
Speaker 1: Right, TCU versus the winner of Arizona State and Syracuse.
Speaker 1: I am picking whoever wins that playing game over TCU.
Speaker 2: I'm going with TCU. I think I'm gonna I'm gonna trus.
Speaker 2: Jamie Dixon's there, right, yep. And one of those situations where, hey,
Speaker 2: Pitt was always pretty good with Jamie Dixon, and I
Speaker 2: learned this last week, Tie, and it is so funny
Speaker 2: to me. Somehow Pitt went eighteen in the acies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was bad. It was very bad.
Speaker 2: How do you do that?
Speaker 1: Very bad? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was so funny. I apologize secretly,
Speaker 2: decent Pitt fans, you deserve so much better. But I'd
Speaker 2: rather eaten fort Worth. And I'd also I just respect
Speaker 2: Jamie Dixon as a coach. The job he's done there
Speaker 2: seems good.
Speaker 1: So we go Dan. Here we go Michigan State against
Speaker 1: buck Nell. Gotta go on, Nelly, don't you.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people shout out Louisbourg. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of people who look at Michigan State in a
Speaker 2: bracket and they think to themselves, tom izz Owen Marsh,
Speaker 2: that's just how I'm going to roll. But those people
Speaker 2: underestimate something very specific, and.
Speaker 1: That is.
Speaker 2: That big, wobbling, sweaty, pulsating, penetrating I'm going buck now,
Speaker 2: baby wow, give me the Bison.
Speaker 1: A special off season edition of The Drum and Fife.
Speaker 2: I can't say that I'd rather eat in Louisbourg than
Speaker 2: East Lansing, but I haven't eaten in either place, and
Speaker 2: I don't know anything about Louisbourg or East Lancing food,
Speaker 2: so that's sort of a wash for me. And I'm
Speaker 2: just going with the big staggy Drummond.
Speaker 1: Five Rhode Island against Oklahoma, a seven versus a ten matchup.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm going Michigan State. You know my
Speaker 1: start's on buck now.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: Now, I haven't watched a whole lot of college basketball
Speaker 1: this year, Dan. I did read a little bit on it,
Speaker 1: just a little bit here and there in passing And
Speaker 1: is it true what the Internet tells me that ESPN
Speaker 1: killed Trey Young?
Speaker 2: Supposedly they kept watching him still.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't understand by that.
Speaker 2: I mean YouTube videos.
Speaker 1: Right, of course, I'm gonna go Oklahoma here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Rhode Island is coached by a Hurley. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not Bobby Butt, like a Dan or Danny Hurley. I
Speaker 2: have not eaten in Norman. I have eaten in Rhode Island,
Speaker 2: had a couple of very good clamshacks. So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go Rhode Island here.
Speaker 1: And then that brings us to the final game of
Speaker 1: the first round, Duke against Iona. I already said, I
Speaker 1: tiped my hand that I'm going to go Duke to
Speaker 1: win it, all right, So I'm gonna go Duke here
Speaker 1: over Iona.
Speaker 2: Iona is just north of New York City, I.
Speaker 1: Believe, Yes, I believe. So yeah.
Speaker 2: It looks like it's a new Rochelle so sort of
Speaker 2: the Hudson Valley or maybe closer to Connecticut. I don't know,
Speaker 2: whatever it is, I'm gonna go with Duke. Have you
Speaker 2: ever been to cookout? Tie?
Speaker 1: No, I have not.
Speaker 2: Oh, cookout is so good. I've been to a cookout,
Speaker 2: the one cookout I've been to. Maybe I've been to two,
Speaker 2: but one of them was in Durham and I was
Speaker 2: super hungry. And I think this was after I went
Speaker 2: to a Duke North Carolina game that I was covering
Speaker 2: for SI, way back when this would have been two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight nine, somewhere in there, and I went
Speaker 2: to Cookout starving, and a friend told me they have
Speaker 2: like a thousand different kinds of milk shakes, and I
Speaker 2: said that's not possible. And I got there and they
Speaker 2: had like a thousand different kinds of milkshakes, and I
Speaker 2: was starving, and I wanted a milkshake and everything I
Speaker 2: guess comes with hushpuppies, which I still claim totally not
Speaker 2: worth anybody's time anywhere. Hushpuppies.
Speaker 1: Sorry, But I heard like a burger.
Speaker 2: And chicken tenders and fry like, I heard a lot
Speaker 2: of food tie and like a black chocolate cherry milkshake,
Speaker 2: and it was like three seventy nine. It was so
Speaker 2: inexpensive and it was so good. So I still have
Speaker 2: very fond things and thoughts about Cookout, even though I
Speaker 2: haven't been in like ten years. So I'm going with
Speaker 2: I'm going with Duke here for Cookout being the most
Speaker 2: likable thing related to Duke basketball.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm going Kansas over NC State. Now, you
Speaker 1: didn't pick Kansas. You had Pin that's true. So and
Speaker 1: you had Seaton Hall. So does this mean you're gonna
Speaker 1: go Seaton Hall here? You're gonna go Pin through the
Speaker 1: sweet sixteen?
Speaker 2: My dad went to what was then the New Jersey
Speaker 2: School of Medicine, and I think it became the Seaton
Speaker 2: Hall School of Medicine. So I do have that personal connection.
Speaker 2: I'm going with Seaton Hall all right.
Speaker 1: I've got Kansas going through. I've got Clemson over Auburn
Speaker 1: Dan another rematch from an early season matchup in college
Speaker 1: football from this past season, and what is it?
Speaker 2: You know Clemson is Auburn with the Lake. Isn't that
Speaker 2: what something? Whoops? I'm gonna go with Clemson as well.
Speaker 1: We've got Michigan State against either ASU or Syracuse. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go h Tom Mizzle here.
Speaker 2: Who did I take in that game? You had a TCU,
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go TCU over Buck now here.
Speaker 1: And then I've got Duke over Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: I have Duke over Rhode Island.
Speaker 1: I've got Duke and Clemson in my Elite eight.
Speaker 2: I will go so I have TCO over Buck now
Speaker 2: So I'm going to go so TCU do Duke. I'm
Speaker 2: going to go Duke there.
Speaker 1: And then I've got Duke in my final four.
Speaker 2: So I will have let's see, I have Seaton Hall Clemson.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Clemson. I'm gonna go Duke over Clemson.
Speaker 2: I'll have Duke in my final four. It hurts, but
Speaker 2: I'm going with that.
Speaker 1: All right. So here we go my final four. I've
Speaker 1: got Uva against Michigan. I'm going to go Michigan. Here,
Speaker 1: give me the Wolvericks. And on the other side, I've
Speaker 1: got two number two's. I've got Perdue and Duke, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to go Duke. And eventually I've got Duke
Speaker 1: over Michigan in the National Championship eighty three seventy eights.
Speaker 2: My final so I have Arizona Houston, Duke Perdue. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm going to go Duke over Perdue. I'm going to
Speaker 2: do Arizona over Houston. Mom went to Arizona. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: Duke Arizona, which, by the way, sounds like a wonderful
Speaker 2: porn star's name.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go DeAndre and the Arizona Wildcats.
Speaker 1: Wow. Say hello to the bad guy.
Speaker 2: Absolutely all right, I've eaten well in Tucson. My mom
Speaker 2: is a wildcat. I just DeAndre Ayton might be the
Speaker 2: best player in this tournament. And I say might be
Speaker 2: because he is one of eleven players I've seen in
Speaker 2: this tournament, So he might be, and I feel confident.
Speaker 2: How about that.
Speaker 1: Don't forget to get in on the solid verbal bracket pool.
Speaker 1: We've got links posted everywhere. Thank you for hanging with
Speaker 1: us as we picked our games. Here. Let me ask
Speaker 1: a question before we address a few other ones. We've
Speaker 1: got time for, yes, a few short ones, but.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Have you ever done anything extra special for like the
Speaker 1: first round of the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: Generally it's either been watching at work, taking the day off.
Speaker 2: I remember in college I didn't go to classes, or
Speaker 2: I actually went to the tournament itself. So generally, it's
Speaker 2: just it's focus, it's good eating, it's hanging out with friends.
Speaker 1: It's always been a de facto holiday for me. And
Speaker 1: I mentioned the super secret basketball pool that I run.
Speaker 1: I started this pull back in nineteen ninety eight in
Speaker 1: a class in a math class in sixth period. I'll
Speaker 1: never forget it, and some friends and I had the
Speaker 1: idea to start this up, and it was going to
Speaker 1: be like five bucks an entry, right, You're not supposed
Speaker 1: to do that in school. And my math teacher at
Speaker 1: the time caught me collecting collecting money, called me up
Speaker 1: to the front of the class and wanted to speak
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: Can you can you please tell me that your teacher
Speaker 2: wanted in on this pool.
Speaker 1: My teacher wanted in on the pool. It's wonderful. My
Speaker 1: teacher calls me to the front of the class. I
Speaker 1: thought I had been busted. Mm hmm, and he sort
Speaker 1: of talks in a hush tone, saying, how much is
Speaker 1: it per entry? What are we talking? Fifty? Hondout? He
Speaker 1: flipped me a ten. He had two entries in and
Speaker 1: then on top of it, because he knew that somebody
Speaker 1: in the class had entries in this basketball pool, he
Speaker 1: wheeled in. Remember those old tube TVs that we had,
Speaker 1: You know, thing is on like the back of a truck.
Speaker 1: He wheeled this ty Yeah, he wheeled it in. He
Speaker 1: plugged it in, he started it up, tuned it into
Speaker 1: CBS and said, just humor me every now and again
Speaker 1: and look up, act like you're paying attention. But I
Speaker 1: don't care if you watch the games. That was the
Speaker 1: first year of this basketball pool that I run, so
Speaker 1: I've been running it ever since. The only other Opening
Speaker 1: Day of March Madness story that I can tell a
Speaker 1: side of that and actually going to the games back
Speaker 1: in oh six, which I've done a bunch of times
Speaker 1: by the way round in Philly. I did do the
Speaker 1: thing once where I went out to Vegas for the
Speaker 1: first in tournament. It was an interesting experience.
Speaker 2: It's got to be overwhelming.
Speaker 1: It was overwhelming. My friends and I weren't rich enough
Speaker 1: at the time to stay at Caesar's where they have
Speaker 1: all the TVs. Obviously, there are a bunch of places
Speaker 1: that do, but Caesar's was the closest to us and
Speaker 1: we couldn't afford to stay there, so we stayed elsewhere,
Speaker 1: and we pulled the move where I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's still configured like this, but we played quino all
Speaker 1: day because they the Keynot Room was adjacent to where
Speaker 1: they have the four big TVs and caesar Sports Book,
Speaker 1: and so we would play kino all day, win every
Speaker 1: now and again. But as long as you're playing, you
Speaker 1: have a seat.
Speaker 2: Mm hm.
Speaker 1: We sat in the Keno Room and we watch college
Speaker 1: basketball many many moons ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, I don't have stories beyond that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's see. I've run pools in the past, both school
Speaker 2: and work. The only pool I'm going to be in
Speaker 2: this year is the solid verbal pool. So you're getting
Speaker 2: the best of my picks. And I mean, this is
Speaker 2: the worst of my picks on this show, but I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm going to do better than somebody with
Speaker 2: the where I'd rather eat pool.
Speaker 1: So that's what my people are going to hate this show.
Speaker 2: Where are you gonna what are you gonna eat for
Speaker 2: the first day?
Speaker 1: Good question? Good question?
Speaker 2: Did Philly cheese steaks at work a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Ago and that was nice? M Okay, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna doing? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Do you check out pizza nearby?
Speaker 1: I'll tweet it. Let's do. Let's do a couple questions
Speaker 1: here before we go.
Speaker 2: Our pal Peter rank sporting events by background noise slash,
Speaker 2: ability to have on at all times and get into
Speaker 2: it no matter when. So to me, this is every
Speaker 2: sport with college football, and like the NBA Finals, they're
Speaker 2: the only really sports. And I guess the World Series
Speaker 2: if I have, like I was paying close attention with
Speaker 2: this past year with the Dodgers. But in terms of
Speaker 2: non championship level sports, I love casually ignoring baseball games.
Speaker 2: I love casually you know, looking at my laptop and
Speaker 2: you know, having the Olympics onto the background, or the
Speaker 2: World Cup or Saturday Morning EPL, I think is fantastic
Speaker 2: because you hear through the announcers, especially the British announcers,
Speaker 2: that rising tone. Yes, so they're there. There are good
Speaker 2: signals with Saturday Morning EPL. Make some coffee, have some breakfast,
Speaker 2: you're on your computer, catching up on whatever on the couch,
Speaker 2: so EP is up there for me. But the tournament
Speaker 2: is really good because the games are quick enough that
Speaker 2: there's always sort of action every few minutes, like oh
Speaker 2: let's go to Greensboro. Oh let's go to Spokane, Oh
Speaker 2: let's go to Anaheim, Oh let's go to Austin or whatever,
Speaker 2: where you don't have to be constantly there. But through
Speaker 2: like the tones of broadcasters, you get good clues. So
Speaker 2: that to me is I think the tournament's up there.
Speaker 2: The Masters is great.
Speaker 1: The Masters is up there. Baseball, I think is the
Speaker 1: obvious answer.
Speaker 2: Baseball is my number one NAP sport. Baseball over golf for.
Speaker 1: Napping baseball is a good answer here. What I would say, though,
Speaker 1: if you want to be internacial about it, Dan, and
Speaker 1: you mentioned the Olympics, like if we lived in Norway,
Speaker 1: where obviously sports like cross country skiing and some other
Speaker 1: winter sports are a little bit more prominent. Did you
Speaker 1: hear any of the commentary for the cross country skis
Speaker 1: events at the Olympics?
Speaker 2: Were they all in?
Speaker 1: It's very intense. I love that very intense. If the
Speaker 1: guy that NBC hired to commentate it can get that
Speaker 1: into it. My hunch is that whoever Norway has calling
Speaker 1: it is pretty damn into it too. True, So are
Speaker 1: you My international answer would be cross country?
Speaker 2: So good Internet. Are you more of a golfer a
Speaker 2: baseball napper?
Speaker 1: Probably?
Speaker 2: Baseball baseball is almost a podcast baseball commentary because it's
Speaker 2: just like fun fact about Brett Johnson in high school
Speaker 2: was in the drama club and it says here was
Speaker 2: in a performance of Chicago. He was the hello filler
Speaker 2: on the roof? How about right there? It's just like this,
Speaker 2: it's story time. It makes for such a good natural nap.
Speaker 2: And I grew up with Vin Scully and so you're
Speaker 2: topping talking top of the top NAP narrators. It was
Speaker 2: it was a base Sunday Avenue baseball nap to me
Speaker 2: is just unmatched. On where we go next, Let's go
Speaker 2: to Kelly. This question comes to us from Kelly Hitchcock
Speaker 2: on Reddit, who is from Kansas City, is a Kansas
Speaker 2: State fan who lives in Austin. Had a couple questions
Speaker 2: about are we doing anything for south By this year?
Speaker 2: We've done it in the past. Are you doing anything
Speaker 2: this year? Ty, I can tell you we're not. Nope,
Speaker 2: because you're in Pennsylvania. I am in Brooklyn as we
Speaker 2: are recording this in south By is happening and happened
Speaker 2: some last week. South By Southwest is It's a fun
Speaker 2: place to see people you like and haven't seen in
Speaker 2: a long time, and there are a few interesting talks
Speaker 2: and roundtables and panels and stuff like that. But if
Speaker 2: you like Austin, which I imagine if Kelly's living there,
Speaker 2: south By is not a good time to go to Austin.
Speaker 2: It makes you appreciate the rest of the weeks of
Speaker 2: the year in Austin. So we are not doing anything
Speaker 2: there this year, but good people, fun times. When we've
Speaker 2: done it, and what is it you like about where
Speaker 2: you live now because you don't have to deal with
Speaker 2: something you didn't enjoy from quote back home. Tough question
Speaker 2: for you, tough question for me living with general vicinity. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can answer this. I can answer that question. I'm
Speaker 2: sure the area has changed some too.
Speaker 1: The area has changed a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Actually the area is a lot more built up now
Speaker 1: than it was when I was living quote unquote back home.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot more to do now than there
Speaker 1: was when I was in high school. The obvious answer
Speaker 1: for me is Wegmans right now. I mean, let's be
Speaker 1: real about this. I can walk to Wegmans in a
Speaker 1: matter of minutes from my front door. That to me,
Speaker 1: I couldn't do that back.
Speaker 2: I think there's opening in Brooklyn at some point.
Speaker 1: Oh Dan, do it get on that?
Speaker 2: Well, it's they're putting it in. I think the Navy Yard,
Speaker 2: which is sort of a no man's land in terms
Speaker 2: of public transportation, which is fine. You can still get there.
Speaker 2: You have to rent a car or whatever, long walk
Speaker 2: from the train. I'm very excited to go. Yes, my
Speaker 2: answer is not driving slash, not parking coming from LA
Speaker 2: and sitting in traffic and even getting somewhere and then
Speaker 2: having to spend another ten or fifteen minutes looking for
Speaker 2: a spot, because ty, I do not make enough money,
Speaker 2: especially now to live that valet life. I just don't,
Speaker 2: so don't. I like public transportation a whole lot. It
Speaker 2: gets you places efficiently for the most part. I know
Speaker 2: the MTA is pretty bad, but for the most part
Speaker 2: it's pretty efficient. Hated parking. I hated everything like that.
Speaker 2: So that I mean, I drove a little bit. Last week.
Speaker 2: I went and saw a friend in a different state
Speaker 2: and rented a car, and even that it was fine.
Speaker 2: And I do very annoying things. And when I'm alone
Speaker 2: in a car. Have I done this with you? Have
Speaker 2: I done the FM game with you?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, we've played that game before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's some people like you appreciate that I do.
Speaker 2: Jody with an Eye does not like that.
Speaker 1: I can understand where she's coming from. That's a very
Speaker 1: dorky sports media thing there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's introducing songs as they come on the radio,
Speaker 2: is if you were an FMDJ, not unlike my serious
Speaker 2: XM game previews during the during the August time. So uh,
Speaker 2: that's that's our answer, all right.
Speaker 1: And the final question here Meg do Meg? Come on?
Speaker 1: Megan says, how do I get a boyfriend? That is
Speaker 1: a loaded question, Meg. Okay, I'm assuming we can call
Speaker 1: her Meg, and that's not being disrespectful.
Speaker 2: No, let's I don't know. She either went to Auburn
Speaker 2: as an Auburn fan whatever, and somebody else asked how
Speaker 2: do find somebody to date if you're anti social? So
Speaker 2: we can sort of encapsulate.
Speaker 1: This is a very broad question though, Meg, like bring
Speaker 1: me a rock. You know. It's we can only do
Speaker 1: so much with a question like this.
Speaker 2: But is there a location on her on her Twitter accounts?
Speaker 2: I didn't. Don't think that changes my answer necessarily.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't see the planes. And she's a mod at
Speaker 2: Redditt CFB the college football which is fantastic.
Speaker 1: Right uh oo? Okay, so I think first and foremost.
Speaker 2: In Kansas City, So it seems like you either in
Speaker 2: Auburn or from Kansas City or went to Auburn whatever,
Speaker 2: So not too different.
Speaker 1: I think the first thing that I would posit here
Speaker 1: is don't worry about asking the question about how to
Speaker 1: get a boyfriend. H don't like, don't don't psych yourself
Speaker 1: out about that. Okay, you know, don't think too much
Speaker 1: about that and just be yourself and just by being yourself,
Speaker 1: eventually you'll attract that other positive energy. See what I'm
Speaker 1: going with that.
Speaker 2: Let's get more specific, Ti.
Speaker 1: Okay, So beyond that, beyond just sort of a broad
Speaker 1: like mentality. I think we've discussed this before on the podcast.
Speaker 1: You want to go to places where people aren't necessarily
Speaker 1: looking for dates. Like everyone talks about, oh, let's go
Speaker 1: out to the bar and meet people, but like maybe
Speaker 1: maybe go to the supermarket, uh, and just hang around, like,
Speaker 1: don't work.
Speaker 2: Don't work in a creepy way, but go to the
Speaker 2: supermarket and I do have a particular aisle or section.
Speaker 1: I'm spitballing here.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh my god, no, keep going, keep spitballing. Go
Speaker 2: down that path, TI, commit Go somewhere.
Speaker 1: Go somewhere where there's not that eminent pressure on everyone to,
Speaker 1: you know, try and find a date. Go somewhere where
Speaker 1: you can be yourself. You're in your natural habitat, you
Speaker 1: can be yourself and if you meet someone, the pressure
Speaker 1: won't be there. Okay, maybe that's a supermarket for you,
Speaker 1: ale G. I don't know a.
Speaker 2: Lot of different paths here. Obviously online is not as
Speaker 2: daunting for men as it is for women. Straight men,
Speaker 2: straight women, So I mean it's a she's a woman
Speaker 2: looking for a boyfriend, and I from what I can understand, ty,
Speaker 2: it's a minefield for women. It's you know, dudes are
Speaker 2: not great as a species. No online, so that's tough.
Speaker 2: But obviously there are a lot of success stories, self included.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to go So a friend of the show,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to name him because this is his life,
Speaker 2: but a friend of the show who's been on the
Speaker 2: show met his significant other going too. And this might
Speaker 2: be very specific to big cities, but he met his
Speaker 2: significant other going to improv classes. Okay, And I think
Speaker 2: that's a really good and that's another good answer for
Speaker 2: the person who asked about finding somebody if you're a
Speaker 2: little bit antisocial, people go to improv classes, and I'm
Speaker 2: dying to go, you know, take an improv class. Maybe
Speaker 2: now is the time.
Speaker 1: I think our podcast is an improv class, isn't it.
Speaker 2: That's true, a very very bad improv class, but an
Speaker 2: improv class nonetheless, But it's really good for people who
Speaker 2: want to get better at speaking to others, be it
Speaker 2: professionally or personally, or performing or sort of engaging in
Speaker 2: a better way. So something like improv or acting classes.
Speaker 2: You know, I know, rec league sports are big out
Speaker 2: here in a bunch of cities because they're co ed
Speaker 2: and everybody's roughly the same adiaim professional and in a city,
Speaker 2: and it's just a good way to meet people. So
Speaker 2: if you don't make a you know, meet a significant other.
Speaker 2: A lot of times people go out for beers or
Speaker 2: whatever for food after the game and then like, oh,
Speaker 2: you should meet my friend Tim, or you should meet
Speaker 2: my friend Babs. Are people named Babs? Probably not, but
Speaker 2: that I think that the rec leagues and you get
Speaker 2: some exercise, you work off a couple lbs, you burn
Speaker 2: some cows. That that's a fun way bring you know,
Speaker 2: the endorphins are up, so you're perhaps more of yourself.
Speaker 2: So I would recommend rex sports. I would recommend an
Speaker 2: improv class. You know online is good, but you know,
Speaker 2: you just you got to wade through some mud. I
Speaker 2: would got them. I couldn't tell you about a supermarket.
Speaker 1: So I still think the supermarket strategy could be a
Speaker 1: potential game changer here.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I think it's also important to It's not
Speaker 2: a matter of not having shame, it's a matter of
Speaker 2: just going forward in sometimes people are ashamed to like
Speaker 2: ask their friends if they know anybody to like they
Speaker 2: they want to wait for a friend to be like, hey,
Speaker 2: do you want to be set up with? Like my
Speaker 2: friend's cousin Brad. Like I think sometimes you have to
Speaker 2: put yourself out there in terms of if you know anybody,
Speaker 2: I'd love to like, you know, have a drink or
Speaker 2: a coffee with somebody. I think putting yourself out there
Speaker 2: in the like letting people know you're open to being
Speaker 2: set up and just like meeting people.
Speaker 1: I still think supermarket.
Speaker 2: But tell me what you would do. Let's say solid
Speaker 2: wife Kate comes to her senses and Mary's a much
Speaker 2: more successful podcast or I don't know who that is, right,
Speaker 2: Let's you know Ira Glass, sure, sure, as reclined whatever,
Speaker 2: and you are are left to your own devices romantically, Okay,
Speaker 2: And you say, you know what I said it publicly
Speaker 2: that a supermarket is an option.
Speaker 1: I love Wegman's dannatal habitat.
Speaker 2: So what what are you doing at Wegmans No vibes?
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you have to work there to get
Speaker 1: a job at Wegmans. Do you get a job at
Speaker 1: the supermarket just so thatw you can interact with people?
Speaker 2: Is it a Wegmans with like a beer garden?
Speaker 1: Because those exist?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: They do exist? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, so would you like try to get a bartending job?
Speaker 1: I guess I got to work at Wegman's pub.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't think that's the worst idea.
Speaker 1: And sort of play that angle. But then that sort
Speaker 1: of is counter to everything I said about not meeting
Speaker 1: people in the bar. So I'm I'm kind of talking
Speaker 1: to myself in circles here.
Speaker 2: It's not a traditional bar.
Speaker 1: This is true.
Speaker 2: It's not a traditional bar. But if you are short
Speaker 2: of working for Wegman's tie.
Speaker 1: This is going to set relationships back about twenty years
Speaker 1: right here.
Speaker 2: Now, you're good because I set I set this up,
Speaker 2: I think successfully and saying that Kate has done better.
Speaker 2: It is her choice. This is not you leaving Kate right,
Speaker 2: It is her choice. And I want to put the
Speaker 2: record out there right now. Tye is deeply, deeply in
Speaker 2: love with Kate.
Speaker 1: This is correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as for everything I know, deeply deeply in love.
Speaker 2: Plans on no other other option than a lifetime together.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, But in.
Speaker 2: This hypothetical second world where she finds a more successful podcaster,
Speaker 2: more charming, earth too, better better production value, the whole
Speaker 2: like really heartbreaking. Right, You're at Wegman's and you're saying,
Speaker 2: I'm comfortable here and it's sort of nice that I
Speaker 2: could be dating somebody who also shops and has the
Speaker 2: same grocery taste as myself. Is what is once you?
Speaker 2: Are you just strolling? Are you sitting by a bakery,
Speaker 2: by the prepared foods?
Speaker 1: I haven't fully thought this strategy through, Dan, and have
Speaker 1: not gathered. I have not thought this the full way through.
Speaker 2: Eventually, you're going to have to circling on a Wegman's
Speaker 2: tour because word is going to get out.
Speaker 1: It's going to get out on the women. People are
Speaker 1: going to think of one of those in store cops
Speaker 1: that just lurks around with the Earbut right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would. I would probably you have to give
Speaker 2: yourself no more than like ten or fifteen minutes in
Speaker 2: the store, and I would. I would probably have to
Speaker 2: be mobile and comment in a positive way on something
Speaker 2: that a woman in Wegmans is ordering or buying, or
Speaker 2: like like ooh great, call on those pita chips. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my favorite? You ever try those with hummus?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What's your favorite? Like you have you have to keep
Speaker 2: it positive and you can and it has to be
Speaker 2: related to a purchase or a food decision.
Speaker 1: I think that's the move. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh. And then and you have to be willing to
Speaker 2: bail quickly because if if somebody is not super keen
Speaker 2: on being hit on it.
Speaker 1: A ground, you gotta go.
Speaker 2: You gotta go.
Speaker 1: You gotta move on to the dairy section.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to be like a special teams gunner.
Speaker 2: You gotta you gotta gotta try your best on that
Speaker 2: one play and then you're just back to the sideline.
Speaker 1: I need, I need to workshop the strategy a little
Speaker 1: bit more full disquition.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're fully wrong, but I don't think
Speaker 2: it can be habitual.
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think it can be habitual.
Speaker 1: Who we covered some ground in this show man. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you've got Arizona winning, I've got Duke winning. Don't forget
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Speaker 1: in the description of this show. If you're listening, we
Speaker 1: are publishing this on Tuesday evening, give everybody a chance
Speaker 1: to if you want to take our advice, I picks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: God help you.
Speaker 2: But there's playing games probably happening by probably by the time.
Speaker 1: We get this published. What you do, Daniel. We've got
Speaker 1: another show coming out in a couple of days. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be the next installment of our scheme theme show.
Speaker 1: We've got coach Joe Moorehead. We've already spoiled a bit
Speaker 1: of the fun, but people were starting to guess who
Speaker 1: it was, so we had to come clean on Twitter.
Speaker 2: He's it's so good, it's so nerdy, but not in
Speaker 2: an inaccessible way. He was. He was real good.
Speaker 1: Joe Moorehead, come in your way on third day. We're
Speaker 1: gonna post that on Thursday evening. In the meantime, Dan,
Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of your evening.
Speaker 2: Ty, I am going to spend the rest of my
Speaker 2: night plotting out our new podcast. If I were single.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh God, Heaven help me. Yep for that guy
Speaker 1: over there, Dan Rubinstein, for myself, Tie held very thanks
Speaker 1: again for tuning in. Catch you all and a few
Speaker 1: days stay solid peace