Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal. I'll that for me. I'm
Speaker 1: a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well,
Speaker 1: I want to be happy. You want to be happy
Speaker 1: for day Edith State?
Speaker 2: Is that? Whoo whoom?
Speaker 1: And Dan and Tye.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Saliburbal boys and Girls. My name
Speaker 2: is ty hilden Brandt. I am joined as always if
Speaker 2: I'm a good friend, my colleague, my co host of
Speaker 2: many years, a gentleman, a fine gentleman by the name
Speaker 2: of Dan Rubinstein, Sir, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good and wanted to take this opportunity first of
Speaker 1: all to thank everybody out there for all of their support. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I am not going to be participating in this episode, okay,
Speaker 1: I am going to be training for our live show
Speaker 1: on January fourteenth, a Hill Country Chicken in New York City.
Speaker 1: Tickets available basically now, if you're listening to this, when
Speaker 1: is this show going up?
Speaker 2: The show's going up on Wednesday. We're recording on a Tuesday.
Speaker 2: So this feels like a situation where we need to
Speaker 2: record an account for two possibilities, one of which is
Speaker 2: it was a raging success.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry if you didn't get tickets.
Speaker 2: A huge success. We're sold out. Sorry, maybe next time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The second is plenty of tickets still available, any
Speaker 1: of great seats still available or running out real quick,
Speaker 1: so jump on it. Uh so whatever, just addit to that.
Speaker 1: Also saving my voice for our live shows, video and
Speaker 1: audio for the National Championship in Tampa. Yeah right, So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about my future. So today it's just going
Speaker 1: to be you and Bryce Love. Bryce Love. It's just
Speaker 1: gonna be you. And what's the backup plan? Maybe Darius
Speaker 1: Geis is going to be a part of it. Dais
Speaker 1: guys joining us on the skypeline. Sure, yeah, so I do.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate it, but I have to look out
Speaker 1: for my future. We should get the breaking news. Yes
Speaker 1: we had brackets.
Speaker 2: Boo boom. The topic at hand here if you couldn't
Speaker 2: figure it out from Dan's cute little intro there, Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 2: Leo Fournette, now shaq Linnwood I saw. Who knows by
Speaker 2: the time this show goes up if there will be
Speaker 2: any other names added to the list. But these kids
Speaker 2: are going to skip their bowl games to focus on
Speaker 2: the NFL. Yes, as you might have guessed, there is
Speaker 2: much conjecture out there in the sports media realm about
Speaker 2: what this means and how we should feel about these
Speaker 2: kids foregoing the game to focus on their pro future. Dan,
Speaker 2: do you have a sense here? Do you have a
Speaker 2: do you have a hot take?
Speaker 1: No? And it's it's one of those weird situations that
Speaker 1: we've come to sort of see with everybody that has
Speaker 1: to weigh in on every story that yeah, right. The
Speaker 1: reactions seem to be immediately understanding and supportive, but with
Speaker 1: an undertone of like in anybody that thinks otherwise is
Speaker 1: an idiot, which is a very strange sort of go
Speaker 1: between when you think about when you think about the
Speaker 1: story at hand, which is just guys that play running
Speaker 1: back don't want to play in TV exhibition games, and
Speaker 1: if their teammates are fine with it, if their coaches
Speaker 1: are fine with it, if their parents are fine with it,
Speaker 1: if everybody's supportive in their life other than studio analyst
Speaker 1: John Doe. I think I'm cool with it. I think
Speaker 1: I'm good with it. It's hard for me to get work.
Speaker 1: If it were to Shaun Watson doing it, I'd be like, man,
Speaker 1: that's a little bit off. He got his team to
Speaker 1: the college bable playoff and too the brink of a
Speaker 1: national championship game. He should be playing for his team
Speaker 1: and finish the season. But Sun Bowl, I I don't know.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question, Dan, Yeah, Tom Herman
Speaker 2: just left Houston before their bowl game to take the
Speaker 2: Texas job.
Speaker 1: Yes, what was the reaction to that?
Speaker 2: What a great hire from It was such a great
Speaker 2: move for Tom Herman for Texas.
Speaker 1: It just makes sense. Mm hmmm hmmm.
Speaker 2: When the shoes on the other foot now and it's
Speaker 2: the unpaid athlete, right, all of a sudden, it's it's
Speaker 2: a referendum on the bowl system, some sort of political
Speaker 2: statement in some cases. Yeah, many of the people arguing
Speaker 2: against this were never good enough to be faced with
Speaker 2: the decision to go pro early, right, And I just
Speaker 2: I believe in life that not everything's black and white.
Speaker 2: Sometimes a fresh dose of perspective can change your opinion.
Speaker 2: By the way, changing your opinion on something isn't a weakness.
Speaker 2: That can be healthy too. It's not all like black
Speaker 2: and white here, and it doesn't need to mean something
Speaker 2: more than Hey, I'm just I'm a little worried about
Speaker 2: getting hurt, and I really want to go pro and
Speaker 2: make a living at this full time.
Speaker 1: And I saw a lot of a lot of people
Speaker 1: referencing Jalen Smith from last year. Yeah, the all everything
Speaker 1: linebacker for Notre Dame who was a surefire top tennis
Speaker 1: pick and who stumbled into the second round, second round, Cowboys,
Speaker 1: second round. Yes, he took out an insurance policy so
Speaker 1: did make some money back after he got hurt against
Speaker 1: Ohio State in the festival, and he came out and said,
Speaker 1: you know, if I could do it all over again,
Speaker 1: I would play. And I saw I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was Kirk Herbstreet, who I like a lot. They
Speaker 1: were using that as a sort of referendum of saying, well,
Speaker 1: my opinion is correct. Because now that Jalen Smith would
Speaker 1: do it all over again even with an injury, then
Speaker 1: clearly that's the correct opinion. Here's here's how I come down.
Speaker 1: Just what you said, Ty, It's okay for different people
Speaker 1: to have different opinions and do what they feel is
Speaker 1: best for them. That's that's cool. I'm disappointed I don't
Speaker 1: get to see Christian McCaffrey play again, but he's touched
Speaker 1: the ball seven hundred and fifty times in two years.
Speaker 1: Feel like that's more than enough.
Speaker 2: And guess what tonight we're going to talk about what
Speaker 2: that means in the context of our confidence pool.
Speaker 1: Ooh.
Speaker 2: I think it's got some ramifications. So it was already
Speaker 2: a tough game to pick. Maybe this makes it a
Speaker 2: little easier.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll see, we'll see what we get there.
Speaker 2: But the point is, Hey, Tom Herman, great move, great
Speaker 2: move for him. I'm so happy for him. Houston players
Speaker 2: they were happy for him. Coach Herman, you don't sound happy, ty, No,
Speaker 2: it's kind of goofy, kind of goofy when the shoes
Speaker 2: in the other foot. In other news, Jimbo Fisher reupted
Speaker 2: through twenty twenty four. If math serves me, that's like
Speaker 2: what eight.
Speaker 1: Years ish sounds right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: If he leaves early, according to Bud Elliott, it's not
Speaker 2: a great deal for Florida State. If he doesn't leave early,
Speaker 2: then it's kind of a steal.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Either way, I think a good move for Florida State.
Speaker 2: Jimbo Fisher is a good coach. He's taken them to
Speaker 2: great heights in the early part of his coaching tenure,
Speaker 2: and we do hope for Florida State that they achieve
Speaker 2: continued success, so good for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how many active FBS coaches have won national championships?
Speaker 1: Like five something like that. Yeah, it's a very good coach.
Speaker 1: He recruits well, seems to be seems to feel at
Speaker 1: home and to not fully take overtures seriously to go elsewhere.
Speaker 1: We saw perhaps some mutual interests here with LSU that
Speaker 1: never really went anywhere. He seemed to ask for the world,
Speaker 1: So he's receiving the world in Tallahassee. Hope it works
Speaker 1: out for everybody.
Speaker 2: Also, the very first coaching interview we did on the
Speaker 2: show Jimbo Fisher.
Speaker 1: That is that true? That is true? The very first one.
Speaker 1: I know Al Golden when he was at Temple was
Speaker 1: very early.
Speaker 2: But Jimbo Fisher was the very first interview before he
Speaker 2: had coached a game, before he had coached a game
Speaker 2: as a head coach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who is the first interview we've ever done? Period?
Speaker 2: It was either Andy Gray or Jimmy Trena. I know
Speaker 2: it had to have been somebody from MESSI have be
Speaker 2: someone from MESSI that was our only connection back then. Well,
Speaker 2: we could have interviewed Stuart Andy, we could have that's true.
Speaker 1: Also, I'm going to use this as a jumping off tease, Ty,
Speaker 1: I think sometime this coming off season, this spring summer
Speaker 1: or something like that. Our pals at the Starters, we've
Speaker 1: referenced them formerly Basketball Jones. They did a magnificent show
Speaker 1: this past January or February outlining in detail their lives
Speaker 1: and the history of the Starter slash Basketball Jones. Oh,
Speaker 1: that was a great show. Look for it. It was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was January February. Look for it. It's a great
Speaker 1: It's like an hour and a half. Listen. It's it
Speaker 1: parallels our story in such crazy ways. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it'll be this year, maybe next year. This will
Speaker 1: be our God, we started the show in August of
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. This is going to be our
Speaker 1: tenth season.
Speaker 2: So in twenty seventeen it'll be our tenth college football season.
Speaker 1: Okay, so twenty seventeen will be our tenth college football season,
Speaker 1: so our ninth off season or whatever it is. So
Speaker 1: we will either do it this year for a nine
Speaker 1: year anniversary, or who knows.
Speaker 2: We could do it in celebration of our tenth season. Yeah, preemptively,
Speaker 2: I think that'd be fun. We got a long offseason,
Speaker 2: dog to talk about something.
Speaker 1: Can't stress enough. We are here once a week all
Speaker 1: year long, twice a week during the season, so don't
Speaker 1: don't alter those podcasts listening plans because it gets weird
Speaker 1: in June. It really does. It gets weird, but it
Speaker 1: gets fun.
Speaker 2: Yes, the other news, the only news unless there's something
Speaker 2: I missed that was glaring. Tulsa beat Central Mission in
Speaker 2: the Miami Beach Bowl by a score of fifty five
Speaker 2: to ten. Hopefully folks took our advice and went on Tulsa.
Speaker 1: By the way, what do you got?
Speaker 2: It looks like a lot of people did take our
Speaker 2: advice and they used this newfound East Coast Elliott strategicy.
Speaker 1: I have not informed Elliot yet.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's in our pool, but a
Speaker 2: lot of folks are doing exactly as we advised in
Speaker 2: front loading their points. Our group is now number six
Speaker 2: overall in the entire ESPN ecosystem. The gentleman who's first
Speaker 2: in our pool is only participating in our pool. But
Speaker 2: the way ESPN does it, you can enter your entry
Speaker 2: in a couple others. I think we've got the first
Speaker 2: place guy or gal in the Rosillo and Canal pool.
Speaker 2: We've got someone who's doing really well on the Todd
Speaker 2: Shay Pool, Like, we've got the finest of the fine
Speaker 2: here competing in the solid putable kindness. It's like fine,
Speaker 2: It's like the Champions League here is what we got
Speaker 2: going on, and you know, you go and play in
Speaker 2: the other suboptimal leagues, but we've got our Champions League
Speaker 2: going on here, and it seems like it's going pretty
Speaker 2: well so far. People have been having a lot of
Speaker 2: fun with it. So hopefully it continues and our picks
Speaker 2: keep winning. But so far, so good.
Speaker 1: Premature piculation, I hope, so yeah, I hope it keeps going.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Dane Evans had a really nice day for Tulsa.
Speaker 1: I had them with I think twenty seven confidence points
Speaker 1: because always anti Chippewak, Cooper Rush barely got by the
Speaker 1: bar Mitzvah threshold quarterback rating of thirteen point seven and.
Speaker 2: The bar Mitzvah threshold. The bar mitzva threshold is that
Speaker 2: a thing or did you just make that up?
Speaker 1: I have that in my head and I just assume
Speaker 1: everybody knows all the dumb statistical things that I invent
Speaker 1: in my head. But yes, the bar Mitzvah threshold is
Speaker 1: if you can have a rating or a QBR above thirteen.
Speaker 1: You're bad, but you're not embarrassing. So you just made
Speaker 1: that up now right on the fly. No, this I
Speaker 1: probably made up week seven looking at you, but you
Speaker 1: didn't use it until now. Now. I didn't use it
Speaker 1: until now. It reminded me because the QBR was exactly
Speaker 1: at thirteen point seven or so. He got just about
Speaker 1: he just had his bar mitzvah with his terrible performance.
Speaker 2: I am going to upon the suggestion of a loyal
Speaker 2: overballer named Mike, who I know is listening to the
Speaker 2: show forever and is a talented writer. He suggested that
Speaker 2: on the next iteration of soliverbal dot com, which I'm
Speaker 2: in the process of just cobbling together piecemeal here and
Speaker 2: I'll get it out at some point in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 2: his suggestion was to put some sort of glossary of terms,
Speaker 2: oh my god on the website, which could be a
Speaker 2: lengthy process, but I have started it.
Speaker 1: Ty, we are so stupid about so many things.
Speaker 2: We are so stupid about so many things. But we
Speaker 2: have a lot of inside baseball terminology, and you know,
Speaker 2: this could be this could be danalytics right.
Speaker 1: Here, like your version of analytics. Do you know how
Speaker 1: many pages I have in my Google document that is
Speaker 1: called analytics I have? I have so many pages in
Speaker 1: my document that Google has informed me that I've reached
Speaker 1: like the two hundred thousand cell limit. Okay, so I've
Speaker 1: had to create a d analytics part due. So I have
Speaker 1: there's like sixty seven pages.
Speaker 2: Why have you not allowed me like access to this
Speaker 2: so I can turn lose some scripting on it?
Speaker 1: Okay, That's what I'm gonna do eventually, because I'm all
Speaker 1: I'm doing is copy pasting your scripting, and we should
Speaker 1: well let you go crazy.
Speaker 2: We should find a time when maybe you're free and
Speaker 2: I'm free, and we can we can.
Speaker 1: You want to have a Google You want to have
Speaker 1: a Google document collabo.
Speaker 2: This is what the cool kids do on our Friday night.
Speaker 2: You're about to be married. This is what married people.
Speaker 1: Do Google documents. That's right. Yeah, we can broadcast that too.
Speaker 1: People can watch.
Speaker 2: All right, we got to pay some bills. Now, we
Speaker 2: got to pick some games here. Yeah, what do you
Speaker 2: do Dan when you want to snack on some Then
Speaker 2: you're asking what do I do when I want to
Speaker 2: gobble down sweets? Eating as much as an elephant eats.
Speaker 1: Gosh. I guess I would count on certain companies to
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Speaker 2: A lot of people out there, they don't got that
Speaker 2: kind of self control, true, they don't got that kind
Speaker 2: of self control to even think about, hey, what's healthy.
Speaker 2: They can't resist the temptation, you know, let's eat some cookies,
Speaker 2: let's eat some gingerbread. I don't know it's the holiday season,
Speaker 2: eat the junk food because it's there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't remember the names of everything, but they
Speaker 1: have some seracha cashews that are quite good. I can't
Speaker 1: have them too much because the solid fiance is definitely allergic.
Speaker 1: They were some like apple caramel popcorn clusters. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought were very very good. They have beer cheese pretzel
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Speaker 1: Do it up? Do it all right?
Speaker 2: We got picks til.
Speaker 1: The week, Dan.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you the last time I was feeling
Speaker 2: this energetic after a full day of work and without
Speaker 2: any caffeine all day. Have you been drinking more coffee lately?
Speaker 1: I have? Yeah. Ah, you're succumbing to the mistick. I'm not, though.
Speaker 2: I just drink it because I get bored and because
Speaker 2: it's warm in the morning.
Speaker 1: Keeps your regular time Belk ball, Yeah, what do you got?
Speaker 2: What do you get in Charlotte Bank of America Stadium.
Speaker 2: It's on Thursday, December twenty ninth now as we travel
Speaker 2: ahead in time at five thirty pm Eastern Time on
Speaker 2: ESPN Virginia Tech at nine and four A seven yes,
Speaker 2: seven point favorite over seven and five. Arkansas Dan, otherwise
Speaker 2: known as Arkansas Belk, I am told after many years
Speaker 2: of doing this show, come on Ty is a department
Speaker 2: store for Southern gentlemen.
Speaker 1: It is. I think it's for not just gentlemen, for
Speaker 1: ladies as well.
Speaker 2: So I would think if you could get your gift
Speaker 2: sheet out that this should be an outstanding gift situation. No,
Speaker 2: not very clear, but I think decent shopping trip to
Speaker 2: Belk department store, fossil watch. It doesn't indicate how much
Speaker 2: it's for, but it's I've been to a Belk, I
Speaker 2: think in Charlotte's and totally fine. Does it compare to
Speaker 2: like a Macy's, a JC Penny and nort likeke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think like a Macy's type. Yeah. See, I
Speaker 1: think if you're.
Speaker 2: Going to do a shopping trip, that's an okay place
Speaker 2: to do it because you got a lot of variety
Speaker 2: to pick from.
Speaker 1: You have variety if you need a suit jacket, if
Speaker 1: you need some pants, you need some jeans, you need
Speaker 1: a polo shirt of some kinds. It's such a business casual.
Speaker 1: I think you'll be good to go at Belk.
Speaker 2: So how do you feel about this game?
Speaker 1: Mixed? Yeah? Mixed? So lit is what we know about
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech at this point. New coach and Justin he
Speaker 1: had he did a great job. I think he exceeded
Speaker 1: expectations yere one, especially with the first Yer quarterback and
Speaker 1: draw to Evans. They were a good passing team, kind
Speaker 1: of an average running team, which all things considered, from
Speaker 1: what they brought back in the run game, that's it
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Iss af Ford and Cam Phillips were
Speaker 1: one of a few really good ACC receiver tandems. So
Speaker 1: all in all, Virginia Tech had the type of season
Speaker 1: where they beat decent teams, lost to disappointing teams and
Speaker 1: in disappointing fast but they won their division. They made
Speaker 1: it to the a SEC Championship game, and that was
Speaker 1: largely because of Bud Foster and that blue collar lunch
Speaker 1: pail defense. Sure that was largely. I mean, Woody Baron
Speaker 1: and Tremaine Edwards were very good on the line for them,
Speaker 1: and it was they have the best pass defense in
Speaker 1: the ACC. I think it's it's not unfair to say
Speaker 1: that given what they're able to do against some of
Speaker 1: the better teams in the conference. They were very good
Speaker 1: against the pass, and that actually is an interesting matchup
Speaker 1: against Arkansas, who offensively it's kind of only passing because
Speaker 1: it's definitely not defense. That got Arkansas here, or maybe
Speaker 1: it sort of did.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech seems to be the more talented and more
Speaker 1: together team. Arkansas has arguably the worst Power five defense
Speaker 1: in the land. So I like Virginia Tech here by
Speaker 1: double digits. I have him thirty seven to twenty Hokies.
Speaker 1: Austin Allen is alright, had his moments. Something I noticed
Speaker 1: in looking at some quarterback stats. He was tied for
Speaker 1: the lead in interceptions among SEC quarterbacks and was the
Speaker 1: top three quarterback in the SEC at the same time.
Speaker 2: Correct, there's that, correct, Dan. You talk a lot about
Speaker 2: the analytics I do. I do the esteemed analytics. If
Speaker 2: we could for a second, can we do a deep
Speaker 2: dive into the tiometrics.
Speaker 1: Tiometrics not statistics.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, okay, the tiometrics. Would you like
Speaker 2: a trivia question about about Jerrod Evans in this game?
Speaker 1: I could not wait more.
Speaker 2: What does Gerrod Evans have in common with Jake Browning,
Speaker 2: Brad Kaya, and Eric Dungeye from Syracuse all good quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: but also Kyle schrmer C J. Bethard, and Ryan Burns
Speaker 2: your company's computer guy from Stanford. Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know. Is a bad third quarter, quarterback or something.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: All of them through exactly seven interceptions this season. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: it's a fun little tidbit for you, completely meaningless. I
Speaker 2: feel like Tech's going to finish strong. Justin Fuente, first
Speaker 2: year head coach, damn near beat Clemson in the CEC
Speaker 2: title game. No chance in hell is he mailing this
Speaker 2: one in. And on the flip side you get Arkansas.
Speaker 2: They dropped their final game to Missouri. Defensively a mess
Speaker 2: all year. I think there's a chance Tech runs Arkansas
Speaker 2: off the field. Yeah, I really do. I think they
Speaker 2: finished strong. I think Justin Fuente is going to approach
Speaker 2: every single solitary game like he's trying to build the
Speaker 2: next great machine.
Speaker 1: Are you worried that Virginia Tech almost exclusively loses to
Speaker 1: teams that are clearly worse than the Hokies.
Speaker 2: I'm not because I feel like that game we saw
Speaker 2: against Clemson was like a sign of things to come.
Speaker 2: What I liked about them in that game is they
Speaker 2: were down. It looked the entire game as if they
Speaker 2: were going to lose, and they still continue to fight.
Speaker 2: And I feel like that fight's going to continue now
Speaker 2: into a Bowl game. I feel like Fluente's got something
Speaker 2: to prove.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, Arkansas doesn't force a ton of turnovers.
Speaker 2: They don't force a ton of turnovers. They're for the
Speaker 2: most part, pretty one dimensional on offense. It just seems
Speaker 2: to me like there's a lot working in tech fase here.
Speaker 2: So I think a big game from grod Evans. I
Speaker 2: think if they want to run the ball, they can,
Speaker 2: certainly they can. I think Tech wins thirty five to
Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty three points for me.
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech, according to the d Analytics, not the Taiometrics,
Speaker 1: the sixth best team in terms of preventing excuse me,
Speaker 1: chunk plays. That defense keeps things in front of them.
Speaker 2: Chunk plays huh ten plus yards chunk plays.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, on a per play level. Who are you
Speaker 1: going with? E I'm going with the Hokies thirty seven
Speaker 1: to twenty all right, we agree?
Speaker 2: We were Valero, Alamobile, Dan San Antonio. It's in the
Speaker 2: Alamo Dome.
Speaker 1: The Alamo Dome. Fun, you'ver been there. I've never been
Speaker 1: to San Antonio, And on my search for the best
Speaker 1: tacos in the world, that seems dumb, because I should
Speaker 1: go to major Texas and minor Texas cities to continue
Speaker 1: my search. So, no, I've never been to the Almo Dome.
Speaker 2: I've heard wonderful things about the city of San Antonio.
Speaker 1: Okay for the Alamobile, the Alamo itself is quite small.
Speaker 2: Maybe we should skip the title game next year, just
Speaker 2: go go to the Alamo, just go Amable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I could do that.
Speaker 2: Another game on Thursday, December twenty ninth, this one at
Speaker 2: nine pm on ESPN. We've got Colorado at ten and
Speaker 2: three a charmed season. They are a three and one
Speaker 2: half point favorite over Oklahoma State. Okie State finished nine
Speaker 2: and three. I understand Jim Levitt will not be part
Speaker 2: of this game.
Speaker 1: Correct, No, he's in Eugene already.
Speaker 2: So Jim Levitt, the former defensive coordinator for Colorado. He
Speaker 2: is leaving to be part of the new Willie Taggart
Speaker 2: staff up there in Eugene, Oregon. I learned that he
Speaker 2: loves pepsi pepsi. He like drinks forty pepsis a day
Speaker 2: that does that does not seem healthy.
Speaker 1: You don't hear that a lot? Also, soda might be
Speaker 1: a one seed on our things that people like that
Speaker 1: are actually garbage. Bracket.
Speaker 2: I saw something on Facebook, so it must be true
Speaker 2: that if you're having an issue with like hard water
Speaker 2: and you get the weird stains in the toilet.
Speaker 1: What is hard water? You never heard of hard water before? No?
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh, Dan art of the hard water. Hard
Speaker 2: water is a thing that has high mineral content. Yeah,
Speaker 2: high mineral content. Sure, it can harm your your appliances
Speaker 2: that use water. I've got a water software in the basement.
Speaker 2: I have to add salt to it periodically. Actually have
Speaker 2: to do it now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I'll go do it tonight. Can you do
Speaker 1: it live on the show? Sure? Why not? No, I've
Speaker 1: never heard of water hardness. You East Coast people are
Speaker 1: leading such bad lives. I'm one of them.
Speaker 2: You are one of them. Hard Water is a thing,
Speaker 2: and sometimes it can lead to stains. Sometimes you can
Speaker 2: get stains in your toilet from it. It looks like
Speaker 2: you're unsanitary, but in fact it's just because of the water.
Speaker 2: I've learned that these stains that are nearly impossible to
Speaker 2: just wipe out with a normal toilet brush. If you
Speaker 2: pour coke in the toilet, oh, I believe it will
Speaker 2: just melt it off.
Speaker 1: I think I cleaned out one of the apartment bathrooms
Speaker 1: I had in college or something with a bunch of
Speaker 1: Coca Cola, Like, we just let it sit there and
Speaker 1: eat away. That shouldn't be in your stomach.
Speaker 2: It will engine Yeah, yeah, as you might have guessed,
Speaker 2: Coca Cola not a sponsor this show.
Speaker 1: No, not a sponsor. And Jim Levitt not coaching in
Speaker 1: this game, not coaching at this game. All right.
Speaker 2: I looked at this matchup. I really wanted to like
Speaker 2: Colorado way more than I did. Then I looked at
Speaker 2: the spread, and I realized.
Speaker 1: I'm not alone, Dan, Okay, I'm not alone.
Speaker 2: Why am I hesitant here? Why am I so hesitant
Speaker 2: with Colorado? I've been all year.
Speaker 1: Their offense can stagnate pretty easily. Say Alufal keeps getting hurt.
Speaker 1: We saw him hurt. I believe his ankle against Washington
Speaker 1: in the PAC twelve title game. Philip Lindsay's talented, but
Speaker 1: overall they're only sort of okay on the ground, Okay
Speaker 1: through the air. They're all around pretty solid on offense.
Speaker 1: I like the receivers Sheffields and Devin Ross. Their defense
Speaker 1: is great. They have two NFL corners in Tedrick Thompson.
Speaker 1: I know they sort of play all over the place,
Speaker 1: Nickella Witherspoon. They led the Pac twelve and passes defended,
Speaker 1: so they should be able to keep this Oklahoma State
Speaker 1: defense in front of them. Because Oklahoma State another team
Speaker 1: the d analytics love. They love the chunk plays. But
Speaker 1: I don't think that Colorado is going to be able
Speaker 1: to generate enough offense if this gets into a shootout.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State's defense can struggle a little bit. You can
Speaker 1: move the ball on them. They're greatly improved running the ball.
Speaker 1: I have Oklahoma State here by ten. Whoa I'm going
Speaker 1: I'm going up with the Cowboys outright. I think they've
Speaker 1: got momentum. I don't think they're going to They don't
Speaker 1: lose to a team like Colorado who's going to struggle
Speaker 1: to move the ball. I have thirty one to twenty
Speaker 1: one Oklahoma State, especially because Saint Flulufau just always seems
Speaker 1: like he's hurt, because he is always hurt. I think
Speaker 1: Colorado in terms of interest, I think their season peaked
Speaker 1: with that Washington game, and it's a bit of a
Speaker 1: letdown part of the year. Interesting. So let me get
Speaker 1: this straight.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State has momentum because they lost by eighteen at
Speaker 2: Oklahoma to close out.
Speaker 1: Well, no, they lose, they will lose to a team
Speaker 1: that can take advantage of their defense. I just don't
Speaker 1: think Colorado is that type of team. Okay, and they
Speaker 1: were in that cham they shot themselves in the foot
Speaker 1: a ton I had you pegged for Colorado here because
Speaker 1: they're in the PAC twelve. But I really like Colorado,
Speaker 1: but it's I don't know against this Oklahoma State team.
Speaker 1: I think they're built to be able to play with Colorado. Interesting.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm going to go the other way, but
Speaker 2: you're right about Colorado. There is some reason to be
Speaker 2: skeptical here. They did get bombed in the Pac twelve game,
Speaker 2: and a lot of that was on the ground too.
Speaker 2: A lot of that was on the ground. Sure people
Speaker 2: are gonna say, well, Sefo lou Foul got hurt in
Speaker 2: the Washington game, and certainly that's when the game came
Speaker 2: off the rails. But Washington would have won that game
Speaker 2: pretty big either way. If you go back and look
Speaker 2: at it, they would have won that game. I think
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State's overrated. I am not at all impressed by
Speaker 2: their resume. The offense is good because it's always good.
Speaker 2: They just lost the Miami Beach Bowl by proxy, thank you.
Speaker 2: The defense is garbage garbage this season, and I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna favor the team with the better defense. I know
Speaker 2: they lose Jym eleven and I'm not super confident here,
Speaker 2: but i haven't been all year. So let's say Colorado plays.
Speaker 2: They're still playing to earn respect. They're I think a
Speaker 2: more balanced team than Oklahoma State. Not super confident. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go Colorado wins, but only fourteen points. Probably a
Speaker 2: close game.
Speaker 1: They are giving away. This might be my number one, ty, Really,
Speaker 1: this might be my number one. I'm going to start
Speaker 1: with the smaller items and work up in sort of
Speaker 1: against what I've been doing. A mini helmet, fine, whatever, team,
Speaker 1: panoramic photo. Yeah, there's some sentiment there. Whatever. Sure, A
Speaker 1: my charge hub plus portable charger, seeing on and on
Speaker 1: about it. It's the year the portable charger one hundred
Speaker 1: and ten dollars, Best Buy gift card one hundred and
Speaker 1: ten very specific but useful, okay?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: And an Apple Watch. Wow? Yeah, I think the Apple
Speaker 1: Watch is garbage. I think that figures in my bracket
Speaker 1: of things people like that. I'm wearing one right now.
Speaker 1: I know you are.
Speaker 2: Still that's an impressive haul. So you're going Oak State.
Speaker 2: I'm going Colorado here, correct, we disagree, we do disagree.
Speaker 2: All right, let's move on. Let's go to the AutoZone
Speaker 2: Liberty Bowl.
Speaker 1: Get in the Zone. Get in the zone baby.
Speaker 2: On Friday, December thirtieth, at high noon on ESPN, We've
Speaker 2: got Georgia at seven and five, a one point favorite
Speaker 2: over TCU at six and six. Dan, I would urge
Speaker 2: people who work in corporate America not to take a
Speaker 2: vacation day to watch this game. Do not, like, even
Speaker 2: if you're thirtieth, right, yeah, the thirtieth, even if you're
Speaker 2: a Georgia or a TCU fan or a lum roll
Speaker 2: your time over into twenty seventeen, Like, just don't don't
Speaker 2: do it for this game.
Speaker 1: So I have a story about the thirtieth, right, So
Speaker 1: that's Friday, December thirtieth, Yes, as it relates to these games.
Speaker 1: So we have the Liberty Bowl, we have the Sun Bowl,
Speaker 1: the Music City Bowl, and the Home Loans Bowl, the
Speaker 1: Home Loans Arizona Bowl. Right, So Solid Fiance is going
Speaker 1: to be in New York. I'm going to be in California,
Speaker 1: but I'm coming back the twenty ninth. And she wanted
Speaker 1: to go see a Broadway play because my mom wanted
Speaker 1: to get us a gift for like our engagement. She said,
Speaker 1: go to a Broadway play on me. It's cool. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's a great, it's very kind thing. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: solid fiance is going to be here, she's hanging out,
Speaker 1: she'll be bored not working during the holiday break. And
Speaker 1: she said, how about we get tickets to see And
Speaker 1: I was very happy about this. Oh hello, which is
Speaker 1: John mullaney and Nick Kroll their two man Broadway show.
Speaker 1: Why don't we see that on the thirtieth? And my
Speaker 1: first instinct was like, oh, I mean there's Bowl games.
Speaker 1: And then I looked at the schedule and I said, yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Sure can I it's at two pm?
Speaker 1: Wonderful have tickets. That's what I'm gonna be doing. I'll
Speaker 1: tape these good for you. So what do we have?
Speaker 1: So we're talking Auto's Own Liberty Ball Georgia Tco.
Speaker 2: It feels like the game between the car that starts
Speaker 2: fifty percent of the time and the car that always starts.
Speaker 1: But has a doughnut on the back wheel. Well, if
Speaker 1: one of those cars couldn't run or throw, it might
Speaker 1: be Georgia. Yeah, because their offense was a struggle this year.
Speaker 1: They couldn't run. They were even worse throwing the ball,
Speaker 1: which is sort of understandable. New coach, freshman quarterback dog
Speaker 1: defense was really really good versus the run, and they
Speaker 1: were pretty good against the pass. But man, it was
Speaker 1: just it was not a great year for Georgia. It
Speaker 1: was There's not a ton you can take away happy
Speaker 1: they beat North Carolina early, They I mean, disappointing on
Speaker 1: the ground, which is kind of shocking considering the running
Speaker 1: back talent they had. But here's the good news. TCU
Speaker 1: sees your embarrassing season and raises you one of their
Speaker 1: own because they ran pretty well. They were themselves also
Speaker 1: garbage throwing the ball. Defense wasn't great versus the run.
Speaker 1: It was all right versus the past. Josh Caroway's big
Speaker 1: ear was sort of lost in a lot of TCU struggles.
Speaker 1: I have because I think Georgia is a team of extremes,
Speaker 1: bad offense, pretty fun defense, and TCU is just sort
Speaker 1: of halfway disappointing on both sides. I'm actually gonna roll
Speaker 1: with TCU. Wow, I'm gonna go with TCU. I know
Speaker 1: they're what a one point underdog? Yep. I think at
Speaker 1: this point blue chip guys at Georgia will be more
Speaker 1: disappointed to be in the Liberty Bowl than TCU's team.
Speaker 1: So I have twenty one twenty seventeen TCU that went
Speaker 1: by a field goal.
Speaker 2: That's a really great theory. Wow, it could be totally
Speaker 2: wrong and there's a good chance of that. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: second guessing my pick. I'm gonna go Georgia here. I
Speaker 2: have zero feel for this game, zero feel for this game.
Speaker 2: I am going to act impulsively and spitefully inside with
Speaker 2: Georgia because you might remember TCU was now infamously my
Speaker 2: preseason playoff pick. They're in the freaking Liberty Bowl. They're
Speaker 2: my playoff pick. They're garbage against the run, and they've
Speaker 2: been dealing with whatever Kenny Hill's doing all year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know if they yanked him for good
Speaker 1: yet or.
Speaker 2: Not, but to be fair, Georgia is also hot garbage
Speaker 2: at least on offense, one hundred and fifth nationally in
Speaker 2: points per game. Defensively, You're right, though, they were above average.
Speaker 2: We got to stop calling people and things and teams garbage.
Speaker 2: We got to come up with new words, even though
Speaker 2: it might be true.
Speaker 1: We have to span. It's my fault.
Speaker 2: I have no place to slot this game because of
Speaker 2: the way I planned out the rest of my confidence pool,
Speaker 2: which is like a triple whammie. Here, I am gonna
Speaker 2: go Georgia and I'm gonna go twenty six points and
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna feel good about it at all. I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna roll the dice. It's a one point line, truthfully,
Speaker 2: you know it. I know it. This could go either way.
Speaker 2: So let's just let's go Georgia. I've said for a
Speaker 2: long time they would be my SEC team. They were
Speaker 2: nice to me when I went down to visit Athens
Speaker 2: a long long time ago, back in oh nine. Let's
Speaker 2: just go dogs.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Twenty six points, and let's just take the medicine and
Speaker 2: hope it works out.
Speaker 1: You know what surprisingly robust gift package though, Yeah, bass
Speaker 1: pro shops shopping trip. There's a little indicator. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the indicator means, but that's happening. What is
Speaker 1: what's set of bass pro shops? You've never been to
Speaker 1: a Bass Pro Is it like an la oh my god,
Speaker 1: ty people are rolling their eyes all over the.
Speaker 2: I know, well, listen, I live in eastern Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Do you know what Cabellas is?
Speaker 2: There is a cabell Is nearby, like the biggest cabela
Speaker 2: Is ever is, Like yeah, it's any minute to the Western.
Speaker 1: Outdoor Enthusiasm Place. Okay, So just equipment and clothes and you.
Speaker 2: Can find something useful there, coolers, whatever.
Speaker 1: Oculus Pro Team HD.
Speaker 2: Binoculars, Okay, if you're into that team HD Bro. Did
Speaker 2: you say Oculus Pro Pro not Bro?
Speaker 1: Okay? Pro Team HD binocular is a below of a watch, Okay,
Speaker 1: which I think that's pretty nice. It's nice enough for
Speaker 1: a college kid walk away with Nike athletic shoes, sports sandals,
Speaker 1: no indication if they're eye slides, backpack and sunglasses and
Speaker 1: a football. It's whatever they lack in quality, or maybe
Speaker 1: they don't lack. You're getting a bunch from this game.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm still hung up on when I thought
Speaker 2: you said Oculus Bro. I keep think Oculus Bro. I
Speaker 2: keep thinking Brady Quinn as Oculus Bro.
Speaker 1: You get Brady Quinn branded binoculars. All right, that's good haul.
Speaker 1: I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the Hyundai Sunbowl Dan and El Paso, Texas. HM.
Speaker 1: Is this the final game of Uncle Vern? I believe so? Yes.
Speaker 2: Okay, Friday again, December to December thirtieth. Excuse me, two
Speaker 2: pm CBS. We've got Stanford at nine and three. They
Speaker 2: are at least a time of recording. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they changed this at all, about a three to
Speaker 2: three and a half point favorite. They are now going
Speaker 2: against North Carolina. As you heard at the top of
Speaker 2: the show, Christian McCaffrey not going to be playing in
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 1: Yea.
Speaker 2: It is a big deal for obvious reasons. I saw
Speaker 2: David Lombardi from ESPN posted this little nugget. Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 2: has accounted for forty five point seven of Stanford's offensive
Speaker 2: touches over the past two seasons. That is the highest
Speaker 2: rate in the Football Bowl Subdivision. For reference, Danel Pumphrey
Speaker 2: from San Diego State is at forty four point four.
Speaker 2: If you throw in returns, McCaffrey has five hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety three touches in the last two seasons, which is
Speaker 2: obviously a tremendous amount, Dani. Yeah, I will also throw
Speaker 2: this little nugget in there. Everyone's talking about Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 2: right now. I read something for the first time last week.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of the quote unquote ditch for Mitch
Speaker 2: campaign yet?
Speaker 1: No, I've heard Mitch Trubisky's name, as he's going to
Speaker 1: be the first quarterback off the board, and I have
Speaker 1: very limited thoughts about that.
Speaker 2: The Browns are zero and fourteen. They lost again this weekend,
Speaker 2: like thirty three to thirteen of Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Some sports writers are now calling this the Ditch for
Speaker 2: Mitch campaign, as if it's some sort of like statement
Speaker 2: by the Browns to go out and achieve greater success
Speaker 2: by losing all their games to get I'm laughing here.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to get Mitch Trubisky. I like Mitch Trubisky.
Speaker 2: He had a great year. He's got great physical tools.
Speaker 2: But Dan, we need to pump the brakes on Mitch
Speaker 2: Trubisky here. When you start talking about tanking to get
Speaker 2: a guy, that guy he got to be like once
Speaker 2: in a generation, he gotta be can't miss, right. I
Speaker 2: feel like he got to be someone other than Mitch Trubisky.
Speaker 2: I don't think Mitch Trubisky's that guy. He's just he's
Speaker 2: not Peyton Manning, he's not Andrew Luck, he's not he's
Speaker 2: not any of those guys.
Speaker 1: So here's my general rule of thinking. And this is
Speaker 1: danalytic free. And you can look up Mitch Trubisky's his
Speaker 1: stats against better teams and they're fine, They're nothing crazy.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that tells the full story my
Speaker 1: d analytics free analysis of should you take a quarterback
Speaker 1: in the first round? And I'm not an NFL fan,
Speaker 1: I don't have a team. I don't have anything. But
Speaker 1: in terms of how I would work a team, if
Speaker 1: you look at a quarterback and you say to yourself, man,
Speaker 1: if I were an opposing defensive coordinator, I wouldn't sleep
Speaker 1: that week. I don't know, Like, how do you stop Mariota?
Speaker 1: He's so accurate, he's so fast. How do you stop Jamis?
Speaker 1: He just changes so much at the line. There's no
Speaker 1: defense that can fully contain him. Andrew Luck, he's just
Speaker 1: he's a surgeon out there. Like those are the guys
Speaker 1: where were just like, man, I don't what a We
Speaker 1: have a good defense, but he's still gonna pick us.
Speaker 1: I just you watch Mitch Trubisky, You're like, it's pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty good.
Speaker 2: But I.
Speaker 1: To like throw everything behind Mitch Trubisky. I would be
Speaker 1: happy to be proven pompous, even more pompous than people
Speaker 1: already think I am about Mitch Trubisky. But I not
Speaker 1: seeing it, not right now. Ditch for Mitch.
Speaker 2: I suspect it's one of those deals where it's so
Speaker 2: hopeless that you know, Rihanna looking for love in a
Speaker 2: hopeless place, m h and Mitch Trubisky just comes walking
Speaker 2: through that door. He's got a dynamic arm, he's got size,
Speaker 2: he's got the arm talent that I think the NFL
Speaker 2: is gonna like. But gosh, okay. Stanford Dan closed out
Speaker 2: the year with five straight wins. North Carolina lost two
Speaker 2: of their final three to duke An NC State. Since
Speaker 2: effectively taking over the quarterback gig at Stanford, Keller Christ
Speaker 2: has thrown nine touchdowns, just one interception.
Speaker 1: He did not play any defenses that scare me, nor
Speaker 1: will he in the Sun Bowl.
Speaker 2: I felt before this Christian McCaffrey announcement that there was
Speaker 2: more reason to like Stanford than I had thought previously.
Speaker 2: I felt pretty good about Stanford chances here. I had
Speaker 2: Stanford winning the game, maybe a close game, to the
Speaker 2: tune of nineteen confidence points.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Christian McCaffrey thing, though, to me, is a huge distraction,
Speaker 2: a huge distraction really, and I feel like the team
Speaker 2: now maybe has a reason to devalue this game, like
Speaker 2: it might not mean as much to the rest of
Speaker 2: them because they're their leader won't be out there with them.
Speaker 2: I am going to switch my pop. I'm going to
Speaker 2: say Mitch Trubisky is making his pitch for Mitch in
Speaker 2: the NFL. If you like that, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: UNC wins a close one, I'm gonna go nineteen confidence points.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I enthusiastically disagree. So one, I think North
Speaker 1: carolina Is defense actually improved this year. There were times
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, and yes, there were times in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen that were just atrocious, but when you look at
Speaker 1: what they were able to do, at least against teams
Speaker 1: that they should have performed defensively against some of the
Speaker 1: bottom of the ACC they actually did a pretty good job,
Speaker 1: and the numbers improved a little bit. But I thought,
Speaker 1: all in all, this team took a step in the
Speaker 1: right direction defensively, now Stanford, when they're operating at full mass,
Speaker 1: they are really really good, and that would include Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: North Carolina, big D, analytic offense, good at creating chunk plays.
Speaker 1: They stalled a little bit too often on these drives.
Speaker 1: Another good acc wide receiver duo in Bug Howard and
Speaker 1: Ryan Switzer. I believe, great names, both of them, both
Speaker 1: of them. North Carolina wasn't terribly far from ten to two.
Speaker 1: The Duke and North Carolina State games were both winnable.
Speaker 1: They were both dumb games. They should have been They
Speaker 1: were competitive in those games. They should have been better
Speaker 1: on those fields. Stanford ran the ball this year. Their
Speaker 1: passing took perhaps the biggest step back of any team
Speaker 1: that plays in a Power five conference. They had a
Speaker 1: four game stretch in which they averaged eleven points before
Speaker 1: making that quarterback switch. I get the feeling because I
Speaker 1: really do like Bryce Love as well in the backfield,
Speaker 1: who is the sort of one be back to Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: I get the feeling that this Stanford team, with time
Speaker 1: prepare against defense that still has struggled against the run,
Speaker 1: playing into the specialty of the Stanford offense. In Stanford themselves.
Speaker 1: They play really good defense, and we've seen North Carolina
Speaker 1: struggle when they haven't been able to run the ball.
Speaker 1: That's what Stanford stops. I think we might be seeing
Speaker 1: a lot of Christian who after Stanford wins this game,
Speaker 1: like that really dumb, crizy. It's just okay. I like
Speaker 1: Stanford here. I like Stanford with time prepare. I think
Speaker 1: it's a particularly advantageous matchup. I have Stanford twenty four
Speaker 1: to twenty.
Speaker 2: Twenty four to twenty. Yeah, I might change this pick
Speaker 2: again right now. I'm gonna go unc. I could see
Speaker 2: it going either way. I really could. It's going to
Speaker 2: be a close game one way.
Speaker 1: Christian.
Speaker 2: I like that line though. That's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Dan, you know it. That's exactly like you know, like
Speaker 1: the laziest and I include myself in this. The laziest
Speaker 1: writers are gonna be like, guess they didn't need him,
Speaker 1: Guess they said go train.
Speaker 2: They fell in love with somebody other than Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: The sun Ball is going to be giving away a
Speaker 1: trip to the gift Suite to a timely watch company,
Speaker 1: silvertone Watch. It sounds nice. I have no idea if
Speaker 1: it is it sounds it though. Majestic Pro base fleece,
Speaker 1: pullover base fleece. Yeah, you know that. If there is
Speaker 1: any coach that's like, yeah, I don't I don't need
Speaker 1: this sun Bull pullover, Bill Snyder will take that. Bill
Speaker 1: Snyder has a fee. Take it off your hands. Yep.
Speaker 1: You can get an Osio Polton backpack, nice and an
Speaker 1: under armour cap and a commemorative coin.
Speaker 2: Commemorative coin nice.
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty good. That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: You're going to watch again to give sweet You're getting
Speaker 2: a fleece and a hat. You know what they say
Speaker 2: in the business, Dan, Yeah, it's better than Lockheed Martin,
Speaker 2: better than getting an RPG from Lockheed Martin. The Franklin
Speaker 2: American Mortgage Music City Bowl in Nashville and Nissan Stadium
Speaker 2: also on Friday, December thirtieth, at three thirty pm Eastern.
Speaker 2: This one's between Tennessee at eight and four and Nebraska
Speaker 2: at nine and three. Tennessee's about a field goal favorite
Speaker 2: Dan quick sidebar here hit me?
Speaker 1: Is this a birth announcement on the show? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: nothing like that.
Speaker 2: There is a point in the near future where the
Speaker 2: solid wife and I are going to be in the
Speaker 2: market for a home, a home that we've got. Oh now, listen,
Speaker 2: po podcasting is a super lucrative business. You might be saying, well,
Speaker 2: don't you already have a mansion? Drinking tea out of
Speaker 2: my golden chalice here?
Speaker 1: Alas, I do not.
Speaker 2: I will indeed require a mortgage to purchase said home.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I saw this ballgame as an opportunity to go
Speaker 2: out there and say, what is what could Franklin American
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 1: Dan good News, the company has at least seventy million
Speaker 1: dollars because that's how much they were fined for the
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Speaker 1: they had to settle with the United States of America.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of false claims, we've got the Tennessee volunteers
Speaker 2: in this game.
Speaker 1: Dan Sue, Oh good, good one, thank you, good go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I've been big on home games and bowls. This
Speaker 2: might be a case where I don't think it helps.
Speaker 1: Okay, why.
Speaker 2: I'm just so sour on them at this point. It
Speaker 2: was supposed to be what do you mean why they're
Speaker 2: eight and four because of somebody else's hype, not because
Speaker 2: of anyone else's hype. They had their whole team back
Speaker 2: and they went eight and four. Okay, this was supposed
Speaker 2: to be like the awakening of volunteer football, though to
Speaker 2: win the SEC East. They finished in four.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you this? Yeah, you can ask me anything.
Speaker 1: As a counterpoint, did they lose a game sixty two
Speaker 1: to three?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: They did not, Okay, they they did not.
Speaker 2: Okay, just making sure we're on the same page. Does
Speaker 2: that then mean that you're going with Tennessee.
Speaker 1: I think I am going Tennessee, and that is problematic
Speaker 1: because I already know how I feel about taking teams
Speaker 1: that play in extremes and Tennessee. Offensively, they can do
Speaker 1: a lot of really interesting things. They've got two great receivers.
Speaker 1: They did lose Jalen Hurd. He decided to leave the program,
Speaker 1: but Alvin Kamara stepped in really nicely. They're another team
Speaker 1: the analyticslov in terms of chunk plays. They were hurt
Speaker 1: all year defensively, and it seemed at a certain point
Speaker 1: their defensive strategy was just that of a very lazy
Speaker 1: parents willing to let their children just run around until
Speaker 1: they exhausted themselves out. So like, well, they're gonna run
Speaker 1: all over us. So maybe maybe Texas A and M
Speaker 1: we'll just get tired. Yeah, maybe I'll just get worn
Speaker 1: down from all of the open lanes. Nebraska themselves, they
Speaker 1: could not run consistently. Their passing was mostly it was
Speaker 1: a disappointment, especially versus better teams. They're pretty good against
Speaker 1: the run, They're okay against the past. I really like
Speaker 1: the talent in their secondary. That's how they sort of
Speaker 1: kept a lot of plays in front of them. But
Speaker 1: I just I don't see how they are going to
Speaker 1: stop Tennessee consistently and or match score with them. So
Speaker 1: I have Tennessee thirty to twenty four. I think they
Speaker 1: figure out how to have a big enough game in
Speaker 1: Josh Jabb's final game.
Speaker 2: I really don't want to pick Tennessee, Okay, And this
Speaker 2: is where I get myself into trouble when I start
Speaker 2: allowing emotion into the picking process. The issue I'm having
Speaker 2: and the reason I'm no longer all in on Nebraska
Speaker 2: is George western Camp's out. Yeah, he had a non
Speaker 2: contact injury. He's out for the bowl game. Tommy Armstrong,
Speaker 2: at least at time of recording, is still dealing with
Speaker 2: some kind of hamstring injury he got earlier in the year.
Speaker 2: He's not even practicing with the team right now. Right
Speaker 2: that's a problem. That's a problem. So there are many
Speaker 2: logical reasons to go with Nebraska here either way, because
Speaker 2: of the way I because the way I box myself in.
Speaker 2: This is an eighteen pointer for me, So not overly confident.
Speaker 2: You can't put five points on every game. This one
Speaker 2: just ended up at number eighteen right now. I am
Speaker 2: gonna say Nebraska. I am gonna wait, though, to see
Speaker 2: what happens with Tommy Armstrong. If he doesn't play, I'll
Speaker 2: probably switch to to Tennessee.
Speaker 1: So after the tough loss to Wisconsin, I can't randall
Speaker 1: Nebraska played two pretty decent teams, two excellent teams, one
Speaker 1: excellent team, one pretty good team on the road that
Speaker 1: would be at Ohio State and at Iowa. How many
Speaker 1: touchdowns did they score? And bind the top two games
Speaker 1: stop they scored but one touch I know they lost
Speaker 1: those two games one hundred and two to thirteen. It's
Speaker 1: not the greatest score line I might have to switch
Speaker 1: this now. I just I think Nebraska is a team
Speaker 1: that can be interesting. They appear to be recruiting quite well.
Speaker 1: I think everybody's probably in the back of their mind,
Speaker 1: even the most optimistic Nebraska fans, which there are a
Speaker 1: lot of, are probably saying to themselves, you know what,
Speaker 1: it'll probably be good for everybody that Tommy Armstrong is
Speaker 1: no longer going to be our starting quarterback. And thank
Speaker 1: you for he was a total warrior out there. Everybody
Speaker 1: seems to like him, I think. But Nebraska right now,
Speaker 1: as they're currently constituted, they just sort of seem like
Speaker 1: the facade of a good college football I'm going to
Speaker 1: switch at to Tennessee. And here's why I'm going to
Speaker 1: do it, because I'm very good at persuading you. If
Speaker 1: you are and if you're wrong, I can blame you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely all right, you can quickly. Oregon should have beat
Speaker 1: Nebraska tie. Think about that. That's right, That's right?
Speaker 2: Oh boy, Okay, no more bills to pay and then
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Speaker 1: Hmmm. A lot of people responded really well to the
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Speaker 1: City Bowl is giving players access to their gift suite,
Speaker 1: a fossil watch, and an offer to destroy their credit so.
Speaker 2: Think it through, think it through, all right, quickly. We
Speaker 2: got three more games here to discuss. All right, let's
Speaker 2: do it. The Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl DAN in
Speaker 2: Arizona Stadium in Tucson. Also on Friday evening. This is
Speaker 2: a game between air Force DAN and South Alabama, who
Speaker 2: clear out the next hour of your life.
Speaker 1: Yeah to talk about? Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: Air Force is a thirteen and a half point favorite Dan.
Speaker 2: This game is on something called the American Sports Network.
Speaker 2: This sounds like the network that aired Sports Night in
Speaker 2: the late nineties, Like, not in real life, but actually
Speaker 2: in the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like a sports network on a TV
Speaker 1: show that somebody what like, oh did you hear about
Speaker 1: what's happening with the Detroit Panthers. They're talking all about
Speaker 1: it on American Sports Network. That's right. I've got air
Speaker 1: Force to the tune of thirty eight points here. I
Speaker 1: think I'm feeling pretty strongly about air Force as well.
Speaker 1: They can run, they can't throw, they can stop thrown.
Speaker 1: They can't stop people from throwing. South Alabama's offenses. All right,
Speaker 1: they can throw the ball a little bit. Their defense
Speaker 1: isn't great. I have twenty eight thirteen Air Force. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty confident in that's I would just strongly suggest anybody
Speaker 1: going to this game in Tucson make sure you wake
Speaker 1: up early because the Arizona desert has a distinct morning
Speaker 1: dew smell, and I love it. Some people don't like it.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love Arizona. I know you really
Speaker 1: are big on Arizona, huge on Arizona, big Southwest guy here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So can I ask you this? You have deep ties
Speaker 1: to Eastern PA. I do your extended family solid wife,
Speaker 1: Kate's extended family in a post apocalyptic scenario, sure, where
Speaker 1: you could take You and Kate are fine? You have money,
Speaker 1: you figured out you could sort of live anywhere you're
Speaker 1: not bound by those ties. Are you considering Arizona? It
Speaker 1: would be Arizona or Hawaii? Well you probably have to
Speaker 1: get there by car if we're talking post apocalypse post apocalypse. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: well then it would probably be Arizona. Yeah, because I
Speaker 1: still remember when in twenty ten you were taking pictures
Speaker 1: of the mountains in Arizona.
Speaker 2: I was such a tourist. Yeah, I was only missing
Speaker 2: the fanny pack. I think in twenty ten it was
Speaker 2: was it a digital camera that you were taking pictures
Speaker 2: with it. Probably probably probably we've been doing the show
Speaker 2: for so long.
Speaker 1: Ah, do you remember I was a huge nerd.
Speaker 2: That was when we saw Bill Hancock looking for his
Speaker 2: car in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: That is true. Yeah, you shared a moment. Now it
Speaker 1: would be Arizona for me. Okay, I'd listen. Half of
Speaker 1: my family's from Arizona. They are. They're giving away quite
Speaker 1: a bit in this game. By the way. Oh, in
Speaker 1: the Arizona game, you win a new loan, the Nova
Speaker 1: Home Loans, Arizona Bowl, South Alabama Air Force Red inflatable
Speaker 1: quote unquote big lazy couch. What okay, an inflatable big
Speaker 1: lazy couch, an inflamable couch. Okay. A Selco s c
Speaker 1: l c O watch, which sounds like a price is right,
Speaker 1: Like if there were a TV show with a prices
Speaker 1: right style show, you could win a cell Co watch.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a watch that they'd sell in the
Speaker 2: American sportsw.
Speaker 1: That's that's exactly right. Ty an ogo rocksack, which is
Speaker 1: just a backpack. I looked it up. It's just a backpack.
Speaker 1: It's called a rock sack. Beats by Doctor dre Power.
Speaker 1: It's two headphones with case. That's pretty good. I have those,
Speaker 1: I'd be very Are you happy with them? I love them?
Speaker 2: I believe those are the Bluetooth earbuds. Oh beautiful, fantastic.
Speaker 2: And the no sweat specialty sock. No sweat specialties socks
Speaker 2: is how it's worded here, and I will go on
Speaker 2: record once again, ty socks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're only as comfortable as your feet. So cool
Speaker 1: treating yourself with good socks. You're in a good place.
Speaker 1: I think the Arizona ball's taking care of its players.
Speaker 1: Good for South Alabama, good fair force.
Speaker 2: Two more games, Dan, I know, it's hard to believe
Speaker 2: that there could be any game bigger than the Nova
Speaker 2: Home Loans Arizona Bawl. I know, but ball season continues
Speaker 2: to surprise, continues to impress. Yeah, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about two games that occur on New Year's Eve earlier
Speaker 2: in the day, eleven am. This one is called the
Speaker 2: Buffalo wild Wings Citrus Bowl, Dan, Yeah, another Bowl game
Speaker 2: at Camping World Stadium in Orlando. This is an awesome matchup,
Speaker 2: an awesome, awesome matchup. LSU seven and four a three
Speaker 2: and a half point favorite against Louisville, who finished the
Speaker 2: year at nine and three, we already talked about Leo.
Speaker 1: Why would you say that like a Spanish tourist. They're
Speaker 1: playing a Louisville playing a Louisville. Yeah, I don't know, Okay,
Speaker 1: Louisville LSU. We already talked about Leo Fournette skipping this one.
Speaker 1: The difference between him and Christian McCaffrey is that his
Speaker 1: team has Darius Guice and so much disrespect for Bryce
Speaker 1: love Well.
Speaker 2: I like Bryce love but Darius Guys actually led his
Speaker 2: team and carries rushing yardage and rushing touchdowns this year,
Speaker 2: so it's not so much a backup situation. He led
Speaker 2: the team statistically on the ground. I like LSU in
Speaker 2: this game. I think Louisville closed out their season by
Speaker 2: getting bombed against Houston and losing a shootout in the
Speaker 2: Governor's Cup against Kentucky. And I just don't think that
Speaker 2: ed Or Jaran's going to sleep walk into a Bowl game,
Speaker 2: not after getting the job of his dreams. It feels
Speaker 2: to me like he's going to try and coach the
Speaker 2: hell out of this game. And I think defensively, they
Speaker 2: have what it takes to confuse Lamar Jackson enough that
Speaker 2: they can win this game.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think everything you're saying is
Speaker 1: right in line, and the point is taken about Darius Skice.
Speaker 1: He was their leading rusher. LSU as a team, when
Speaker 1: both of those guys are healthy, they're as good a
Speaker 1: running team as anybody in the country. Their passing ended
Speaker 1: up being not bad, but that was against a lot
Speaker 1: of sort of disappointing defenses. They score when they string
Speaker 1: together big plays. Louisville is very good against that, so
Speaker 1: that should be an interesting matchup. LSU's defense is pretty
Speaker 1: much the most complete non Alabama defense in the country,
Speaker 1: and they are particularly excellent in the red zone. So
Speaker 1: Louisville will not be able to win this game kicking
Speaker 1: field goals. I don't believe Louisville as good a running
Speaker 1: team as anybody in the country. They're also obviously a
Speaker 1: very good passing team, and Lamar Jackson at his height
Speaker 1: is the best. Louisville's defense I think was overlooked a
Speaker 1: little bit because of the genius of Lamar Jackson. They
Speaker 1: were very good.
Speaker 2: They were very very good. They got better too as
Speaker 2: the year. As the year were on.
Speaker 1: Ultimately, I am a little bit worried about Louisville's offense
Speaker 1: against LICs Hu's defense. L's Hu's defense is that good
Speaker 1: and if they are charged up, which I think you're right,
Speaker 1: I think Dacocho will have them ready to play. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go twenty four to twenty Lsu. I feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about it. I think Alice Hu's defense as unbelievable
Speaker 1: as Louisville's offense is. I think the time off, I
Speaker 1: think the sort of Heisman hangover. I think Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: will be good and we'll make good plays, but I'm
Speaker 1: going with Lsu here. I think they get it done. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Something that struck me down the stretch. Lamar Jackson, now
Speaker 2: you want the Heisman. He's a dynamic runner, He's a
Speaker 2: dynamic player. He was very average as a passer in
Speaker 2: some of those games in the second half of the year.
Speaker 2: You didn't see it so much earlier in the season.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was a situation where opponents
Speaker 2: figured out something with him or what it was, but
Speaker 2: I gotta believe that Dave Randa, with a couple weeks
Speaker 2: to prepare with this defense for someone like Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 2: he's gonna be ready They're gonna have a formula for
Speaker 2: him to maybe not totally clip his wings, but to
Speaker 2: at least contain him to the point that Louisville needs
Speaker 2: to get help elsewhere. I think LS wins, but I'm
Speaker 2: only gonna put like four confidence points on it. I'm
Speaker 2: not confident in this game.
Speaker 1: I have forty two confidence points, not on the outcome
Speaker 1: of this game, but on the fact that Jesse Palmer
Speaker 1: is going to start saying a Dave Randa defense in
Speaker 1: the way that he talks about a Gusmalson offense and
Speaker 1: a Bud Foster defense in the exact same way Dave
Speaker 1: Randa has heard his name. I've heard Dave Randa's name
Speaker 1: maybe ten times more than any other coordinator in college
Speaker 1: football in the past six months, and with good reason.
Speaker 1: He's excellent. But I think his specific story is what
Speaker 1: is going to be latched onto by Jesse Palmer in
Speaker 1: a very big way moving forward. And you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with it. I like Jesse Palmer, I like
Speaker 1: Dave Randa, but it is an absolute certainty that a
Speaker 1: Dave Randa defense is a thing. What is the gift
Speaker 1: situation here?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Coach O and the players actually don't know if the
Speaker 1: coaches walk away with anything, but in the Citrus Bowl,
Speaker 1: they will be walking away with a three hundred and
Speaker 1: five dollars Best Buy Shopping three to oh five five.
Speaker 1: You can do pretty well with that.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Can you get an Xbox or a PS four for that?
Speaker 1: Are think three hundred dollars now, meybe, Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: get a PS one for it for sure. Sure, get
Speaker 1: a Timely Watch Company, watch Eye Slide Sandals. There it is, wow,
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars towards Buffalo wild Wings because it is
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bawl. I like that they throw.
Speaker 1: I don't remember if the Chick fil A Bowl whatever
Speaker 1: was giving away Chick fil A. Here's the item that
Speaker 1: I love the most in this game. The Citrus Bowl
Speaker 1: is giving away and I quote EA Sports video game. Oh,
Speaker 1: EA Sports video game. Oh yeah, so that's not that's
Speaker 1: not so they're either giving away n CUAA twenty fourteen
Speaker 1: was the last one we got twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty fourteen. Maybe I'm wrong, whatever,
Speaker 1: but EA Sports video Game. That's awkward. Yeah, maybe it's
Speaker 1: the SIMS. Yeah, I guess that would just be ea.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think we both agree, Alsie.
Speaker 2: And then finally we've got the tax Slayer Bowl, same time,
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve, eleven am. They play this one in Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: It's on ESPN, between Georgia Tech and Kentucky. Dan, they
Speaker 2: call it the tax Slayer Bowl. How about the forward
Speaker 2: Pass Slayer Bowl?
Speaker 1: Now, Dan, No, no, you're not wrong, but still no, no, Okay,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about this game? This is what
Speaker 1: I have down you want, I'm gonna read it verbatim
Speaker 1: what I have here, Go ahead. Georgia Tech offense good,
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech defense not great. Kentucky ran super well, couldn't
Speaker 1: throw Kentucky defense not good. Kentucky thirty to twenty seven.
Speaker 1: That's what I have down here. Georgia Tech eight and four,
Speaker 1: three and a half point favorites over Kentucky seven and five.
Speaker 2: I feel like Kentucky played their bowl game last week
Speaker 2: of the season against Louisville, Okay, and they won. I
Speaker 2: don't know if they care much about going to the
Speaker 2: tax Slayer Bowl. To be honest with this is a
Speaker 2: pretty good game for Kentucky though. If I'm being honest,
Speaker 2: this is a good game to be playing on New
Speaker 2: Year's Eve. But I think, like I said, they played
Speaker 2: their biggest game of the year, final game of the year.
Speaker 2: Now they go to Jacksonville. I got to believe they're
Speaker 2: outnumbered by Tech people.
Speaker 1: It's still a smaller school.
Speaker 2: It's a smaller school, but Tech is closer to Jacksonville,
Speaker 2: and they've got more of a presence in the Southeast
Speaker 2: and Kentucky football does. I think they have a lot
Speaker 2: of success running their option. I like them to win
Speaker 2: the game to the tune of twenty one points here
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech wins twenty one twenty one confidence points.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: One thing that I did notice though, and this is
Speaker 2: probably more a story for twenty seventeen than it is
Speaker 2: for twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Both these teams are really young. Stanley Boom Williams was
Speaker 1: secretly one of the most fun players to watch this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a great talent for Kentucky. All right, so you're going Kentucky,
Speaker 1: I'm going Georgia Tech. Yeah. So we have let's see,
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Speaker 1: The tax Layer Bowl is giving away fossil watch. A
Speaker 1: lot of people giving away watches. Yeah, which I'm good
Speaker 1: with a carry on bag, that's not bad. Hey, I
Speaker 1: still use my freebie that I got. I would take
Speaker 1: it happily under armor sunglasses. Didn't even know they made sunglasses.
Speaker 1: Nice A football, A bobblehead with the player's face, a
Speaker 1: custom babble that's cool.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: That's real cool. I would be very happy with that.
Speaker 1: And name and uniform number. Oh, it's part of those
Speaker 1: say bubblehead with players face, cool, name and uniform number. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's just a common between face, name and uniform numbers.
Speaker 1: So you're getting a custom bobblehead with your jersey. I
Speaker 1: guess cool. Yeah, that does it. That's it. That's also
Speaker 1: for Bowl preview part four? What is that? In Spanish? Quatro?
Speaker 1: Good job.
Speaker 2: We're doing this recording on Tuesday evening, so if there's
Speaker 2: any news between now and Wednesday evening. When we pushed
Speaker 2: us out into the wild. Please forgive us. We hope
Speaker 2: if you haven't already, if you're in the Greater New
Speaker 2: York City area, or if you plan on being in
Speaker 2: the New York City area, that if you haven't already,
Speaker 2: you did get a chance to purchase tickets earlier today
Speaker 2: to our live show on January fourteenth, sort of a
Speaker 2: postseason post mortem. We'll talk about the Champion, we'll talk
Speaker 2: about some other central themes in and around the world
Speaker 2: of college football over the course of the past season.
Speaker 2: Hopefully all those tickets are gone, though there's.
Speaker 1: No way of knowing right now for sure. While you
Speaker 1: are all saying that, you all, while you were saying that,
Speaker 1: I was thinking of the rhyming schemes that if it
Speaker 1: weren't Mitch Trubisky, if it were another quarterback that you
Speaker 1: were trying to fail for, and I could not do
Speaker 1: better than don't play wiser for Kaiser.
Speaker 2: Yawn for DeShawn, yawn for Deshaun, Eliyah for Cotton.
Speaker 1: Now, whya is not really a word, but no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no sleep on a futon for DeShawn. I'm very bad
Speaker 1: at this. That's that's actually awful, especially bad. It is
Speaker 1: especially bad. I'm looking at the passing stats to see seniors.
Speaker 1: I know Davis Webb got attention early. I would not
Speaker 1: draft him in the top EBB for Webb it rhymes
Speaker 1: hate for Nate Peterman, I.
Speaker 2: Would hate myself. I took Nate Peterman that that early. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I like Nate Peterman, but not that much.
Speaker 1: Play smelly for Chad Kelly. There it is head for
Speaker 1: the Hills, Perry Hills, Perry Hills. No, that's all I
Speaker 1: got before I embarrass myself further. Well, this is a
Speaker 1: fun show. Ran a little long, but I think we
Speaker 1: covered a lot of ground. I disagree.
Speaker 2: We appreciate everyone tuning in and downloading the show.
Speaker 1: This is actually going to be our last.
Speaker 2: Show before Christmas, before the holidays, so we hope everyone
Speaker 2: out there wherever this podcast finds you, that you have
Speaker 2: a very happy holiday season. The next time Dan and
Speaker 2: I record our schedule anyway has it as December twenty eighth,
Speaker 2: so we'll be previewing the New Year's six Bowl games,
Speaker 2: the bigger games, the playoff games on December twenty eighth. Obviously,
Speaker 2: we'll do our best to kind of recap these as
Speaker 2: best we can here, but Dan.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your enjoy your holidays, enjoy your travel.
Speaker 2: Say hello to Mama Rubinstein, of course for me, Center,
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Speaker 1: Thank you for tuning in.
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Speaker 1: Did you do all of your holiday your Christmas shopping?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, I'm good, first time, happy with everything. I'm
Speaker 2: very happy. Yeah, some people who are getting gifts actually
Speaker 2: listen to the show, so I can't devolve there that
Speaker 2: gift is. But baby, right, I have a holiday gift
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Speaker 2: think I think is gonna be a big hit. So
Speaker 2: I'm excited to reveal it when we do our next show.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's for whom that you're saying is going to
Speaker 1: be a big hit. I bought the same gift for everybody,
Speaker 1: eye slides, sandals, that's right. Okay, yes, it makes it
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Speaker 2: That guy over there, Dan Rubinstein, for myself, Tie Hildebrand.
Speaker 2: Thank you again for tuning in. Good luck with your
Speaker 2: bowl picks, Have a merry Christmas, have a very happy
Speaker 2: holiday season. We'll talk to you all on December twenty
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