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 dake Edo state. Is that woo woom? And Dan
Speaker 1: and tie welcome back to the solid Ruber boys and girls.
Speaker 1: My name is Ti Hildebrand, joining me once again, my
Speaker 1: good friend now back in this home of homes in
Speaker 1: New York City. Dan Rubinstein newly married? How are you?
Speaker 1: Is the word betrothed? Betrothed?
Speaker 2: Yes, I am newly married. I have a ring on
Speaker 2: my ring finger on my left hand, and it's official.
Speaker 1: Are you used to the feel of the ring yet?
Speaker 1: That's like, oh, I'm not betrothed, betrothed is engaged. I
Speaker 1: am wed. Are you used to the ring yet? That's
Speaker 1: my go to question as like an icebreaker for all
Speaker 1: my newly married friends. I'm not, Yeah, sort of.
Speaker 2: I take it off when I shower because it's a
Speaker 2: little bit big and so like washing your hands soap,
Speaker 2: it sort of gets a little slippery, and I'm so
Speaker 2: I need to get it sized a bit. But I
Speaker 2: mean I play with the ring all day. I'm spinning
Speaker 2: it all day with the thumb so I assume that
Speaker 2: doesn't stop. No, used to the rim, the ring, excuse me,
Speaker 2: used to uh married life. I've lived with her, lived
Speaker 2: with the now solid wife. I don't know what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna call her now, Yeah, because there's solid wife Kate.
Speaker 2: I guess I could call her by her name.
Speaker 1: I should probably we can't go A and B because
Speaker 1: that's demeaning to the B and certainly that's not our intention. Right,
Speaker 1: I will clear it with her. She's not famous.
Speaker 2: I don't know why this is such a big deal,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna clear with her because that's what you're
Speaker 2: supposed to do now, right, You're supposed to to really
Speaker 2: make sure.
Speaker 1: I got to get the waiver before you make any discsbsolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, her name is not Kate. Yeah, okay, so it'll
Speaker 2: be a little bit easy on that front. Life is good.
Speaker 2: Ty got back from mooning a few days ago. Was
Speaker 2: thrilled to have you in Solid Wife Kate in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Great. It was great. I'm honored to have been there.
Speaker 1: It was terrific to see you and Doc Rubinstein up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had a hearty discussion with Doc Rubinstein both at
Speaker 1: the wedding. At the rehearsal, dinner, at the wedding, and
Speaker 1: then the day after the wedding. That's incredible. We were talking,
Speaker 1: we were talking politics, we were talking religion. I think
Speaker 1: we even talked a little bit of space, which, as
Speaker 1: you know, is sort of my wheelhouse passion. If you
Speaker 1: want to know the thrust of a Falcon heavy rocket,
Speaker 1: I'm your guy. But now it was good to see everyone.
Speaker 1: Is that that's a euphemism. I'm assuming right, you are
Speaker 1: really going for it. Yeah, so everything was good.
Speaker 2: We're going to recap everything, I think at the back
Speaker 2: half of the show, but we're keeping everything thematic. We're
Speaker 2: keeping everything tight in terms of our discussion points today,
Speaker 2: and we have a show that I think interrelates college
Speaker 2: football sort of big picture and where we stand right
Speaker 2: now with marriage and a wedding and all things love.
Speaker 2: So I think we're just going to go forward in
Speaker 2: that direction.
Speaker 1: Without further ado. Here's what we're doing. Dan and I
Speaker 1: have put together a rather long list, if I don't
Speaker 1: say so myself, of college football marriages, college football unions,
Speaker 1: college football relationships. Yes, we're not necessarily talking about coach
Speaker 1: in school. Could be talking about school and conference, could
Speaker 1: be talking about quarterback in school, could be talking about
Speaker 1: man and actual wife, offense and school, a whole variety
Speaker 1: of different unions that we've come to own the college
Speaker 1: football world, and we've chosen this opportunity to not only
Speaker 1: evaluate those relationships but also talking a little bit of
Speaker 1: depth about what we feel goes on behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: Absolutely things of that nature. So body stuff, if I
Speaker 1: could there, it is there. It is Dan really going,
Speaker 1: really going exet Father the Bride music, by the way,
Speaker 1: it is, it is absolutely Father of the Bride music.
Speaker 1: First one up here. It's a new marriage, Dan. Okay,
Speaker 1: take that music down, thank you? Okay. Lane Kiffin and
Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic University, Yes, Lane Kiffen recently announced, as of
Speaker 1: you know, a couple months ago that he's a new
Speaker 1: head football coach at Florida Atlantic. Obviously they're excited to
Speaker 1: get someone of Lane Kiffin's caliber. M HM instantly raises
Speaker 1: the profile of Fau. Dan, what do you think so
Speaker 1: this is about six months old? Certainly not his first choice. No,
Speaker 1: in that realm he's recruited.
Speaker 2: Interestingly, I would say fair to say some you know,
Speaker 2: perhaps a little above Fau's normal level, some some interesting
Speaker 2: recruits there I would say it's awkward. It doesn't look
Speaker 2: like a long term fit, but it serves a purpose,
Speaker 2: maybe like a green card marriage tie. Oh maybe you
Speaker 2: know Lane Kiffen wants something out of it, FAU want
Speaker 2: something out of it. It's a marriage of convenience, and
Speaker 2: you know, Fau's profile is being raised. Lane Kiffin is
Speaker 2: there to prove that he can run a program responsibly,
Speaker 2: win have an Act two and so both parties are
Speaker 2: getting something out of it, and it feels like college football,
Speaker 2: the citizenship of college football, respectability.
Speaker 1: How about that? A celebrity marriage is what came to
Speaker 1: mind for me? Why is that one of convenience? One
Speaker 1: mostly about advancement in PR, raising the profile? This is
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian and Chris Humphries. Wow, I don't know who's who.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, Fa, you would have to be
Speaker 1: Chris Humphries. Okay, Lane Kiffin's always had a little bit
Speaker 1: of Kim king, but just feels like one of PR.
Speaker 1: PR is like the central theme here. I think for
Speaker 1: both sides. That being said, I think Lane Kiffin will
Speaker 1: absolutely make FAU better. I don't there's your question about that.
Speaker 1: He's already brought a little excitement to the program. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll bring a little bit more controversy to the
Speaker 1: program before his time is through there. But to me,
Speaker 1: does not feel like it's going to last more than
Speaker 1: what two years? It'll serve its purpose ty two years
Speaker 1: over under two years.
Speaker 2: And it's in Florida. So awkward marriages in Florida. That's fine,
Speaker 2: sort of a thing, perfectly on point.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on, Let's go to a different one.
Speaker 1: What do we got, I have more music. Let's stay
Speaker 1: in the state. Let's stay in the great state of Florida.
Speaker 1: This isn't a coach at a school. This is a
Speaker 1: quarterback in his school. This is Malik Zaire in Florida.
Speaker 1: I talked a little bit last week in your absence
Speaker 1: about this with our good friend Andy Staples. But Malik Zaier,
Speaker 1: of course, grad transferring away from Notre Dame didn't quite
Speaker 1: work out at Notre Dame the way he had hoped,
Speaker 1: the way frankly, a lot of Notre Dame fails had hoped.
Speaker 1: He now is going to press his luck at Florida.
Speaker 1: The overriding theme to me here is one of desperation,
Speaker 1: really desperation on both sides. I think if you're League Zaire,
Speaker 1: you're desperate to just go out there and at least
Speaker 1: play a full season of Maybe desperation maybe a might
Speaker 1: be an extreme word, but I see where you're going.
Speaker 1: Desperation for him and certainly for Florida. If you're thinking
Speaker 1: of this in pure relationship terms, like if this is
Speaker 1: a tender situation, Florida swiped right on everybody, everyone available
Speaker 1: who was other than what they presently had. They swiped right.
Speaker 1: It just so happens that Meleague's Ire swiped back. So
Speaker 1: for me, that's the theme here. It's one of desperation,
Speaker 1: maybe more so for the Florida Gators and Jim Maceawaine
Speaker 1: than than League's Ire.
Speaker 2: See, I'm looking at this as sort of a later
Speaker 2: in life, both parties looking for companionship grad transfer. Obviously
Speaker 2: it's very promising, just because you know these two people
Speaker 2: have sort of shared experiences. One is looking, you know,
Speaker 2: both are looking. It might be a little bit awkward
Speaker 2: for you, maybe as a grandchild scene as your nutty
Speaker 2: grandmother splitting from your grandfather, but it's sort of for
Speaker 2: the best you could see it, you know, like they
Speaker 2: just sort of what they weren't clicking anymore.
Speaker 1: So, And are you think that she found a companion?
Speaker 1: Are you thinking gated community met during the pinocle game
Speaker 1: kind of situation?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like ultimately, you know, it's probably not going to
Speaker 2: last decades, it's not going to last a long time.
Speaker 1: Well, the situation you're describing somebody dies first, Well, that's
Speaker 1: the morbid reality of what you're describing to me, the
Speaker 1: person that dies. And this is eligibility okay, right for
Speaker 1: a league. Are we're talking in all metaphors here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe sort of end your career, you know, fitting
Speaker 2: in somewhere with someone that sort of makes you feel
Speaker 2: like the real you. How about that? Come on, ty,
Speaker 2: I'm all about optimism. Now that I've been married for
Speaker 2: two one and a half weeks, I'm really feeling it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, that's great, really putting an optimistic slant on this.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, because listen, there is a higher ceiling for each now, right,
Speaker 2: because we don't know and.
Speaker 1: There is definitely a reason for optimism. Yeah, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: so we can duck out of the metaphor for a second.
Speaker 1: Florida won the SEC East with lesser talent. Oh, totally, Xaire, totally.
Speaker 2: So imagine what this marriage can be with a more
Speaker 2: attentive in every way.
Speaker 1: Ty, there you go, spouse. Here's the thing. And Andy
Speaker 1: brought this up when we talked to him on last week.
Speaker 1: You talked to him, when I talked to him. He's
Speaker 1: not totally convinced that Zaire is going to win that
Speaker 1: job over Felipe Franks. He's not totally convinced. I mean,
Speaker 1: he needs to see a little bit more the whipper
Speaker 1: snapper in the retirement community. Sure, I think Zaire would
Speaker 1: have to be the favorite at this point, but people
Speaker 1: are excited about Frank's He's just raw at a minimum.
Speaker 1: Provided everyone stays healthy. This gives you more depth than
Speaker 1: you've had ever. And then Jim macawain era and believe me,
Speaker 1: if you're a Florida fan, I think you take that
Speaker 1: at this point, even if Zire never sees the field,
Speaker 1: to know that he is there in case something goes
Speaker 1: wrong to your starter, which is something you've had to
Speaker 1: deal with the last couple of years. You'll take that.
Speaker 1: You're cool with that, all right? Moving on, speaking of
Speaker 1: the gated community fifty five an older relationship, Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Kirk Farrance and the Iowahawkeyes, Dan, what how you
Speaker 1: feel about this marriage?
Speaker 2: Okay, so I really like Kirk Farence. He seemed like
Speaker 2: a very nice guy. We talked to hibout to him,
Speaker 2: we did. So this is clearly longtime companion. Is he
Speaker 2: now the longest tenured coach with Bob stoop stepping down?
Speaker 1: Is that he's been at Iowa for like that it
Speaker 1: feels like ninety two years.
Speaker 2: So probably Yeah, so longtime companion Kirk Farens is to Iowa.
Speaker 2: There's nothing necessarily flashy. There's no spontaneous trips to a
Speaker 2: tropical island for you know, a surprise just just because ty.
Speaker 2: But he always remembers birthdays. He always remembers anniversaries. It
Speaker 2: doesn't hurt that he married into money. Is he still
Speaker 2: doing savings bonds for the grandkids? Absolutely, he's responsible about that.
Speaker 2: You know, he shows, he gets back from work on
Speaker 2: time for dinner whatever. You know, maybe a little bit
Speaker 2: of a it's a little bit strange that their adult
Speaker 2: child is still living with them, a little bit strange, bros.
Speaker 2: But other than that, he's a rock tie he is.
Speaker 2: He is a rock in this relationship, and everybody's happy.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes there might be looking outside and you
Speaker 2: know what else is out there? Should it be you know,
Speaker 2: somebody more handsome, more beautiful, whatever, But you know what,
Speaker 2: Ultimately they're right for each other.
Speaker 1: I would I would describe this marriage as Eminem the
Speaker 1: rapper or the candy. No, no, no, I'm talking Eminem. I
Speaker 1: made up my own acronym here okay, oh amm okay.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't stand for anything, you know, spicy. It
Speaker 1: stands for monotonous and monogamous. That's how I feel about
Speaker 1: this one. Have you ever seen a married couple that
Speaker 1: sort of looks a lot alike just physically, they look
Speaker 1: a lot alike when they walk through the mall. You
Speaker 1: see them next to each other, and it's, my god,
Speaker 1: sure they're becoming one another. I almost feel like that's
Speaker 1: what's going on with Kirk Farrence and Iowa. They've almost
Speaker 1: assumed each other's identity. And if you saw them out
Speaker 1: in public wearing you know, matching Jeane jackets, it would
Speaker 1: totally relate. I would.
Speaker 2: I would push back a little bit on monotonous. I
Speaker 2: would say that every so often they go on a
Speaker 2: vacation that is memorable and sparks fly, and you know,
Speaker 2: maybe at the breakfast nook. Every so often they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: remember Jamaica, the open bar on the boat. Okay, we're
Speaker 2: talking Orange Bowl, we're talking Rose Bowl, We're talking consistency.
Speaker 1: But there's there's a spike every so often you're like, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: remember when we went to that ski cabin. We need
Speaker 1: you need a spark for anything long term like that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, so I'm saying, not fully consistently monotonous. I'm saying
Speaker 2: there are there's some some heartbeats on that EKG.
Speaker 1: All right, moving on. So look, this next one, to
Speaker 1: me feels like it has potential to go to that
Speaker 1: Iowa level. Now, it's not quite as monotonous, I don't think.
Speaker 1: And there's definitely been some extramarital flirting. Really, I feel
Speaker 1: like there probably has been. But David Shawn Stanford mm hm.
Speaker 1: They also have a little begun to assume each other's identity.
Speaker 1: It might not be quite as as boring and meat
Speaker 1: and potatoes as the Iowa situation that I described, But
Speaker 1: David Shawn Stanford to me feels like a near perfect union.
Speaker 1: They're very alike in nearly every respect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say David Shaw and Stanford are the
Speaker 2: couple that they're just so dependably great on like a
Speaker 2: double date. Tie, He's like, you know what, God, I
Speaker 2: love David and Melissa. They're just they're great together. They're
Speaker 2: they're both successful. They both seem so into each other,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe a little over the top into each
Speaker 2: other that they're like, you know, giggly and whatever when
Speaker 2: they're out together. But he's thoughtful, dependable, he's adventurous. The
Speaker 2: fire still burns Tie, it burns bright. I would even
Speaker 2: go as far as saying, when the couple goes home
Speaker 2: after a double date with David Shawn Stanford, they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: why aren't you more like David? Why are Stanford bakes
Speaker 2: all the time for David? David comes back with flowers
Speaker 2: all the time for Why can't you be a little
Speaker 2: bit more like them?
Speaker 1: I think that's what is just a brilliant man, brilliant
Speaker 1: young Yeah, the younger son, Christian, he's going to turn
Speaker 1: out Okay. Absolutely, it feels like they're very very perfect union.
Speaker 1: To me, they're the Christmas card, the Holiday card for David.
Speaker 1: Shawn Stanford is just like, man, they just it just
Speaker 1: keeps getting. You know, one's an executive, one's a doctor,
Speaker 1: one's a lawyer, one's you know, traveling the world and
Speaker 1: you know, working in orphanages in Asia. Like just this
Speaker 1: family's got it together. And this couple, even with all
Speaker 1: of the kids and all of the time in college,
Speaker 1: all the that they've been through, David Shawn Stanford, are
Speaker 1: just still they just stare into each other's eyes and
Speaker 1: just have it for it. It's just reliable, absolutely reliable
Speaker 1: in every facet. If your car breaks down on the
Speaker 1: side of the road, you can call the Shaw household
Speaker 1: the Stanford house.
Speaker 2: There'll be anytime you anytime you doubt them, they're they're
Speaker 2: just still there for you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do another one here. Okay, I was good.
Speaker 1: All right, Dan, Let's take a little bit of a
Speaker 1: left turn. Okay, Hugh Freeze and old miss This marriage
Speaker 1: has seen some better days, hasn't it.
Speaker 2: Listen, Ty, it started out gangbusters. We're talking about they
Speaker 2: all trips, they all do We're the honeymoon period was
Speaker 2: just electric. We're talking mile high club tie. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: worked down now, Okay, I'm just saying, just can't keep
Speaker 2: their paws off each other. And at a certain point
Speaker 2: when you have two people who are so passionate. You know,
Speaker 2: it's sort of like with with the great fire comes
Speaker 2: a lot of smoke, comes a lot of you know, embers,
Speaker 2: comes a lot of heat, and that's not always the
Speaker 2: healthiest thing, Tye and you know, burn bright to start
Speaker 2: anything flaming out. But when you have that in your gut, tie,
Speaker 2: when you've got that fire and something's not always there
Speaker 2: to deal with it. Maybe maybe there's some cheating, maybe
Speaker 2: there's some you know, maybe not fully you don't have
Speaker 2: full evidence. What I'm hearing is that this is a
Speaker 2: marriage built on lust and not love. That's what I'm
Speaker 2: That's what I'm trying to get you. You know, maybe
Speaker 2: Ole missed, or maybe Hugh Fraze discovered some weird texts,
Speaker 2: maybe bank account activity that just seems a little bit off.
Speaker 1: See I wrote down credit card debt on my sheets
Speaker 1: here there it is ty credit. It feels to me
Speaker 1: like a situation like you described, a lot of passion,
Speaker 1: a lot of lust to begin the marriage, and then
Speaker 1: slowly but surely, one side has mismatched expectations. Sure once
Speaker 1: an in ground pool, once a beach house runs up,
Speaker 1: the credit card, things start to kind of come off
Speaker 1: the swivel very casually they become I don't know, different
Speaker 1: people on different page is and that's when things start
Speaker 1: to go awry. Started great every so often, though every
Speaker 1: so often they can still click. They can still click.
Speaker 1: Still remember what brought them together had a few great years.
Speaker 1: But doctor Bo, I mean doctor Bro brought them that
Speaker 1: brought him together. But uh, here we sit now, and
Speaker 1: I think it's a case of mismatched expectations at this point. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: not everybody was meant to be long term is almost
Speaker 1: going to be any good this year.
Speaker 2: I like quarterback situation. Yeah, like Shape Patterson, I like
Speaker 2: Sha Patterson. That can cover for a lot. I don't
Speaker 2: think the depth is going to be there for a
Speaker 2: double digit type run, even close to it. But I
Speaker 2: think they can be exciting. I think they could be exciting.
Speaker 1: I wonder though, with all the depth elsewhere in the
Speaker 1: SEC West, because even if that side of the conference
Speaker 1: dips a little bit because there's been turnover, it's still
Speaker 1: pretty tough. True.
Speaker 2: The good news is, I think the offenses right now
Speaker 2: in the SEC West aren't necessarily the scariest pack. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we don't really know what to spect out of LSU
Speaker 2: Techa and M still has quarterback issues. Mississippi State, as
Speaker 2: promising as Nick Fitzgerald is, didn't put up a ton
Speaker 2: of offense at all times last season. Alabama should be good,
Speaker 2: but lose a lot on defense. Offensively, I think we're
Speaker 2: more confident in Alabama than we have been for a
Speaker 2: long time, just in terms of certainty of system, even
Speaker 2: without Lane Kiffin, but just with what they bring back.
Speaker 2: But it's not the worst time for ole Miss to
Speaker 2: have to win every game. Forty one thirty three. All right,
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Speaker 2: We have a marriage between Notre Dame and not Brian Kelly.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame in independence, Notre Dame in independence. This isn't
Speaker 1: a real relationship though.
Speaker 2: I mean, what is Notre Dame's full time conference affiliation.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame is married to Independence, but Independence is not
Speaker 1: married to Notre Dame. It's the idea of independence. This
Speaker 1: is a my strange addiction situation, like where someone's into
Speaker 1: eating glass or hugging their car something.
Speaker 2: Like, wow, comparing Notre dames full time conference affiliation to
Speaker 2: eating glass.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's an unbalance between Notre Dame and independence. Notre
Speaker 1: Dame loves once needs that independence. Independence because it is
Speaker 1: not a real entity, couldn't give to you know what's
Speaker 1: about Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: I'm going to look up the standings on ESPN dot
Speaker 2: com for each conference and see where Notre Dame is
Speaker 2: lifted there.
Speaker 1: It is CEFP independence. That's what I'm seeing, Ty, there
Speaker 1: is a label joking aside. Here's what I know about
Speaker 1: Notre Dame in independence. I can't speak from the independence
Speaker 1: side of this relationship mm hmm, because I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a real side. But we'll just talk about the
Speaker 1: relationship as a whole. The relationship as a whole as
Speaker 1: this I can speak to it from the Notre Dame
Speaker 1: side of things. I was surprised, and I think non
Speaker 1: Notre Dame fans would be surprised if they really had
Speaker 1: a good sense for how much Notre Dame values it's independence.
Speaker 1: I think there is an impulse among Notre Dame haters
Speaker 1: out there to look at this and say that Notre
Speaker 1: Dame just thinks they're better than Big ten ACC at
Speaker 1: the Convention twelve. Right, they think they're better than college
Speaker 1: football norms, therefore they are not in a conference. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that that's an inaccurate depiction of Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame values that independence, and there are many examples
Speaker 1: of Notre Dame acting like it is better than something,
Speaker 1: all right, I don't want to discredit that part of
Speaker 1: the equation, but this is not one of those cases.
Speaker 1: They really truly have built this football program around this
Speaker 1: notion of independence, that they can go and play a
Speaker 1: USC one week, that they can go and play a
Speaker 1: Florida State the next week, that they're not tied into
Speaker 1: any real true conference affiliation though they play a lot
Speaker 1: of ACC teams. It really is the bedrock on which
Speaker 1: a lot of the thinking, the planning, the whatever that
Speaker 1: this football program is built. So it's definitely not coming
Speaker 1: from a place of Holier than Thou, though many other
Speaker 1: aspects of the program maybe so.
Speaker 2: I would say it's not an arranged marriage tie, but
Speaker 2: sort of in that old fashioned kind of way, they
Speaker 2: came together because they sort of fit together and what
Speaker 2: works for them might not work for others. And maybe
Speaker 2: they never had kids and everybody. They just sort of
Speaker 2: traveled the world and enjoyed life their way. And maybe
Speaker 2: their friends say, well, why don't you, you know, you
Speaker 2: live in a cold place, why don't you move to Florida, Arizona, California? Like,
Speaker 2: you know what, we like what we like, We like
Speaker 2: living here in Indiana.
Speaker 1: What about what about a common law marriage for this?
Speaker 1: That's not bad. Yeah, it's just they've been together for
Speaker 1: so long at this point the change wouldn't really make sense.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't make either of them happy to be apart
Speaker 1: from the other common law marriage. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the statute is for common law, but certainly they've eclipsed
Speaker 1: it at this point, right.
Speaker 2: Maybe an older couple who they just sort of they
Speaker 2: eat dinner, they eat breakfast at the place they like,
Speaker 2: They eat dinner at the place they like. Maybe their
Speaker 2: friends say, like, why don't you try Japanese food? Why
Speaker 2: don't you try Mexican food? And like, who whoa, we
Speaker 2: like our diner. Now, we're good like our diner.
Speaker 1: We like what we like. And there's you know, maybe
Speaker 1: every so often one or the other has some or
Speaker 1: maybe just notre dame. I guess, because that's the only
Speaker 1: true entity. Has some lingering resentment over what could have been,
Speaker 1: but ultimately, you know, we're just a We're just a
Speaker 1: diner couple. That's who we are, all right. I have
Speaker 1: nothing for this one. I have something. This is I
Speaker 1: always say something you do. This is Texas A and
Speaker 1: M and the SEC Dan. Yes, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I was trying to kind of conjure up to me.
Speaker 1: A and M in the SEC logistically speaking, fits very well.
Speaker 1: It made a ton of sense to bring them into
Speaker 1: the SEC. Yep. It still feels, though, like the SEC
Speaker 1: hasn't fully accepted A and M. Okay, so they don't
Speaker 1: they fit. They don't fully fit. And that's about as
Speaker 1: far as I got.
Speaker 2: Here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking of a divorce. A
Speaker 2: maybe not fully thinking through marrying a high maintenance trophy
Speaker 2: spouse looks great in pictures on paper in certain scenarios,
Speaker 2: you know, fancy dinners. You've got this beautiful human on
Speaker 2: your arm, but god, the maintenance is tough. There's you know,
Speaker 2: they're expensive, and you know they come with friends who
Speaker 2: are expensive and just sort of a pain. And you
Speaker 2: really didn't think through everything that would come along with
Speaker 2: you know, getting married so quickly after divorcing, and you know,
Speaker 2: the maturity, the understanding.
Speaker 1: It may just never happen. It might just be sort
Speaker 1: of separate pages that you know, we're satisfied with the situation,
Speaker 1: but never really fulfilled. You're describing, you're describing some sort
Speaker 1: of escort service that ultimately led to marriage. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm hearing here, Dan, Well.
Speaker 2: Money's involved, Hi, lots lots of money. So that's where
Speaker 2: I'm at right now. A divorce, a sort of thinking
Speaker 2: things would be better, but ultimately, you know, maybe it's
Speaker 2: there's just it's an uphill battle. Tie, it's an uphill battle.
Speaker 1: Who is a divorce in this equation? Well?
Speaker 2: Text A and m Lea at twelve? Okay, leaving the
Speaker 2: Big twelve, which was you know, an ex that was
Speaker 2: you know, it was a rocky relationship. Tie was a
Speaker 2: rocky but an ultimately, you know, a defensible break. But
Speaker 2: you know, there's there's baggage there, Tie, All right, there's baggage.
Speaker 1: But stay in the sec if you don't mind, please,
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this one. I have a hunch that
Speaker 1: after working on this show together for nearly ten seasons,
Speaker 1: now you and I are going the same place with
Speaker 1: edwar Gern in Lsu. Yes, this is when I think, so,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, this is raw ripping your clothes off passion here, Dan.
Speaker 1: It's still very early, So that's still very early. It
Speaker 1: could be a lust situation like we described earlier with
Speaker 1: Hugh Freeze, but I don't think so. I think this
Speaker 1: is I just wrote down on my sheet passionate intercourse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's different. I think it's different than
Speaker 2: Hugh frees I'll tell you why, Tye ed Arzron has
Speaker 2: long had his eye on this spouse. Okay, oh, long
Speaker 2: time crush.
Speaker 1: Like a high school sweetheart.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, But you know what, ty As, you know as
Speaker 2: is what happens. You know, you go your separate ways,
Speaker 2: you get married to others, and you live your life,
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe it could have been maybe not,
Speaker 2: who will ever know barring crazy circumstances.
Speaker 1: But here we are. Cam Cameron just didn't make you
Speaker 1: feel dangerous. Both divorced, both find themselves in the hometown,
Speaker 1: the home state, and you're like, why not? And finally
Speaker 1: made his move, perhaps a bit paranoid because so much
Speaker 1: has gone into this in his head that you know
Speaker 1: us you was getting hit on and eed all the
Speaker 1: time by all these other schools trying to have camps
Speaker 1: in the state of LSU. So he is fiercely protective.
Speaker 2: But we're still in that honeymoon stage, so you know,
Speaker 2: maybe a little over reacting. You know, if they're out
Speaker 2: at a restaurant and a stranger comes up, or you know,
Speaker 2: a friend comes up and is a little bit too
Speaker 2: hands or something like that.
Speaker 1: You're right, you're right.
Speaker 2: But you know, the passion runs deep. Let's hope it
Speaker 2: doesn't run too fiercely.
Speaker 1: And ls you always kind of had a type too, Yes,
Speaker 1: it always needed a little bit of crazy, a dash
Speaker 1: of crazy. It tried less miles for a while. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe this is a second marriage situation, you know, an
Speaker 1: over fifty union. Who knows. Oh, absolutely always kind of
Speaker 1: had that type, maybe with ed Ordron in the back
Speaker 1: of its mind. Yeah, getting a different kind of crazy now,
Speaker 1: but it's getting crazy in a different way.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, that's what they say to you. It's
Speaker 2: the it's your sexual peak.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I'm going with that. Let's move on
Speaker 1: very quickly. A weird marriage here that we're going to describe.
Speaker 1: You have on our sheet. You pick this one, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love this idea, the marriage between the Power five
Speaker 1: and the group of five. So, for those of you
Speaker 1: playing along at home, no idea, what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Power five conferences obviously, ACC Big ten, Big twelve, PAC
Speaker 1: twelve SEC, Group of five. I could go and name
Speaker 1: those two, but essentially Team sun Belts American Conference USA. Yeah, essentially,
Speaker 1: And you know it's not their fault. They're sort of
Speaker 1: viewed as the kids table. I'm sure there are a
Speaker 1: group of five fans out there who are going to tweet,
Speaker 1: and that's not the right analogy, but yeah, i'd say
Speaker 1: more like triple A, you know, quadruple a kind of thing.
Speaker 1: You get the picture, you get the picture. They're kind
Speaker 1: of not viewed similarly because fewer resources, fewer resources. It's
Speaker 1: it's difficult for them to compete with the big boys
Speaker 1: I have so to speak, this to me, Dan feels
Speaker 1: like the guy who gets married but golfs seven nights
Speaker 1: a week and just does his best to spend minimal
Speaker 1: time with the spouse. Okay, you know, maybe they both
Speaker 1: like Game of Thrones. That's their Sunday night, that's what
Speaker 1: they do as a couple. Game of Thrones. Sunday Night.
Speaker 1: Seven episodes during the summer, quick, easy, painless. They could
Speaker 1: even watch it on demand if they want, But otherwise,
Speaker 1: you know, they live at the same address, but it's
Speaker 1: not particularly close. Maybe separate bedrooms. Yeah, maybe not active fighting,
Speaker 1: but just maybe maybe sort of a more a marriage
Speaker 1: out of convenience, not a lot of love there.
Speaker 2: I'd say, Yeah, married early on and through their trials
Speaker 2: and tribulations, and you know, as what happens sometimes with
Speaker 2: a younger marriage, you know, maybe they grow in different
Speaker 2: directions ty you know, one gets in better shape, one
Speaker 2: sort of lets themselves go. One you know, is career oriented.
Speaker 2: One doesn't care about career at all and focuses on
Speaker 2: other things. Do you have the same general interest Maybe
Speaker 2: they're you know, they're good parents. You know they you know,
Speaker 2: what's good for one is good for the other when
Speaker 2: it comes to the kids. In general interests, good people,
Speaker 2: but there's just there's a gap that's growing between the
Speaker 2: two of them, and you know, maybe they don't want
Speaker 2: to acknowledge it. Things can be awkward on double dates
Speaker 2: and group dinners, yeah, but ultimately they're they're in it
Speaker 2: for at least one good reason, but not at the
Speaker 2: same time. Always the most compatible with their big picture stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, it was nice at Christmas when Charlie
Speaker 1: Strong was under the Christmas tree. Yeah. No, I thought
Speaker 1: that was a nice gesture. But things like that are
Speaker 1: few and far between. Sure, all right, moving on, it
Speaker 1: happens time, right Clay Helton and Usc. Yeah, you're still
Speaker 1: very young. You put this one down on the list. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was actually gonna put it down on the list
Speaker 1: if you didn't, but you beat me to the punch here.
Speaker 1: I have many thoughts on this one, but I want
Speaker 1: you to go first. I wonder, I wonder if this
Speaker 1: isn't another one where we're both thinking along the same
Speaker 1: the same wavelength. Yeah. So Clay Helton always in you know,
Speaker 1: it's been in USC's life for a little bit. Friends.
Speaker 2: You know, never really thought about each other in that
Speaker 2: sort of serious way. But you know, after a chance encounter,
Speaker 2: they realized they had more in common than I realized.
Speaker 2: It was sort of the right person for you. Honeymoon
Speaker 2: still ongoing. Spouse already has a beautiful house. You know,
Speaker 2: it's it's just a matter of you know, do your
Speaker 2: yard work, you know, take care of the simple things.
Speaker 2: Because Clay Hilton married into a lot of money. Just
Speaker 2: don't don't screw up things, and you're gonna have a
Speaker 2: good life. Those are aready a beautiful car in the
Speaker 2: garage just waiting for Clay to drive, and so just
Speaker 2: maintain those chores, just be just be a good guy
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, clean out the gutters.
Speaker 1: Tie. I don't disagree with any of that. I think
Speaker 1: that's spot on. I would layer on top of it.
Speaker 1: One other life event that led to this being what
Speaker 1: it is. There was definitely a one night stand involved
Speaker 1: here that led to a love child being Sam Darnald
Speaker 1: whoa child fraternity though the ex husbands, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I never really asked those questions. But
Speaker 1: I feel like the love child in this equation is
Speaker 1: Sam Darnald. Yeah, because let's be honest to Sam Darnald.
Speaker 1: Isn't there last year? If it's Max Brown the entire
Speaker 1: season and things come off the rails, and if they
Speaker 1: don't end up in the Rose Bowl, if they don't
Speaker 1: have the good Son, if they end up with Macaulay
Speaker 1: Caulkin from the good Son, it's a different story here.
Speaker 1: But Damn Darnold Rose Bull victory, exciting game over Penn state.
Speaker 1: You're alluding to a literal redheaded stepchild. That's right. If
Speaker 1: things go differently, we're talking about this in a much
Speaker 1: much different sense now in twenty seventeen. Sure, a little
Speaker 1: bit of a one night stand situation there, but it's
Speaker 1: working out so far. You know, I think it. I
Speaker 1: think they're a great couple. They're very cute. Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. The triple option and Georgia Tech always
Speaker 1: an unlikely marriage. I thought anytime, anytime you've got the
Speaker 1: triple option, go into a Power five school, it is
Speaker 1: certainly like it's not nineteen twenty anymore. To have that
Speaker 1: kind of system being run within a Power five school
Speaker 1: is certainly far from the norms. It's a little odd.
Speaker 1: One of them's got an exotic pet, which is okay.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a marriage that is in consoling.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm going to differ from you a little bit.
Speaker 2: I think this is the ultimate open marriage, Okay, where
Speaker 2: seems like a good idea. It's like, hey, should we
Speaker 2: should we do this? Should we run this flexbone? Should
Speaker 2: we like.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna get.
Speaker 2: Are we gonna like maybe look at other couples and
Speaker 2: you know, maybe they're a little bit younger and doing
Speaker 2: some crazy things like is this should we and they
Speaker 2: go for it. T absolutely, I don't think they fully
Speaker 2: thought through the repercussions, whether it's what the baggage that
Speaker 2: comes along with that, so, whether it be recruiting, whether
Speaker 2: it be you know, trying to convince players from in
Speaker 2: a certain way, whether it's you know, the quarterback situation.
Speaker 2: You know, and listen, I don't know this personally, but
Speaker 2: there are highs, tie, there are absolute highs where you're
Speaker 2: just you know, you've got situations brewing that you know,
Speaker 2: maybe other school, they just the limitations are preventing. So
Speaker 2: this open marriage, you know, with great highs come great
Speaker 2: lows though, and so they're they're very distinct and seems
Speaker 2: like a.
Speaker 1: Good idea and you know what type for certain people
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: Certain people can pull it off, but it takes discipline
Speaker 2: and it takes understanding, and the ups and downs may
Speaker 2: be too much for Georgia Tech long term. So other
Speaker 2: couples that are looking at Georgia Tech are saying.
Speaker 1: Look look what they're they're doing. So inter Dan make
Speaker 1: up some choices. This is also a second marriage, but
Speaker 1: it's one in which both sides have children from previous relationships,
Speaker 1: previous marriages. Oh definitely, And they all need convincing, like
Speaker 1: none of them are totally sure it's going to work.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, trust me, this is this is going
Speaker 2: to be spicy.
Speaker 1: Could be spicy, isn't always but right. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of counseling there, yeap, moving on fair Speaking of
Speaker 1: offensive marriages, more offensive marriages, depending on your point of view,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Gus mal Zhon's offense and its relationship
Speaker 1: with Auburn. Dan. I see this as a potential divorce
Speaker 1: in near future. Interesting fresh off the Sugar Bowl. Off
Speaker 1: the Sugar Bowl. I like Auburn, I like Jared Stidham.
Speaker 1: I think Sean White did an admirable job, excuse me,
Speaker 1: even though I did everything to tear him down in
Speaker 1: my power last year. But it's not the same. And Andy Staples,
Speaker 1: when we had him on a week ago, talked about
Speaker 1: this and he said, look, Gus Malzon knows how to
Speaker 1: coach offense, but it's not the same when he doesn't
Speaker 1: have Cam Newton. It's not the same when he doesn't
Speaker 1: have Nick Marshall. It's not the same when he doesn't
Speaker 1: have that true dual threat quarterback, and Jared Stidham has
Speaker 1: a little bit more of that than Sean White, no doubt.
Speaker 1: But he's not Cam Newton. He's a run like Nick Marshall.
Speaker 1: So Andy seemed reasonably skeptical that this is something that's
Speaker 1: going to work out long term. Malson applying his offense
Speaker 1: or his version of that offense to presumably what Jared
Speaker 1: did and brings to the table. So I see this
Speaker 1: as a as a potential divorce. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 1: I hate to be hate to be pessimistic when it
Speaker 1: comes to marriage, but you know, the statistics are about
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty nowadays. So I have coined to move
Speaker 1: get out there, Dan, you and I one of us
Speaker 1: statistically statistically speaking, it's not looking good for one of us. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got to be a realist here, So I'm sorry
Speaker 1: that Gus Malson might be getting the short end of
Speaker 1: the stick here.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm a little bit more optimistic than you are.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a relationship that has had its ups
Speaker 2: and downs. Started pretty powerfully, but you know, sometimes you
Speaker 2: just you need a spark, and this year with the
Speaker 2: Jared Stidham situation. Maybe they're going for outside help. Maybe
Speaker 2: they're just they're really going for it and taking a vacation.
Speaker 2: They're going to the Cream, they going to the Bahamas,
Speaker 2: they're going to Mexico, and they're just like they're going
Speaker 2: to sort it all out there, and we just need
Speaker 2: that spark, some kind of retreat, a retreat. Absolutely. You know,
Speaker 2: there's a situation from the Gus side where he always
Speaker 2: has this complex maybe overshadowed by his more successful in
Speaker 2: the marriage of the more successful big brother, you know tie,
Speaker 2: where you know, everything is sort of compared to them.
Speaker 1: Comments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not quite fair to either side. And I
Speaker 2: think what they have to do is get over that.
Speaker 2: And so if this couple can accept the marriage for
Speaker 2: what it is, I think there'll be an okay shape.
Speaker 2: But it's a matter of perspective, it's a matter of context.
Speaker 2: It's a matter of expectation and setting those expectations at
Speaker 2: a nimble place.
Speaker 1: You know what it kind of feels like to me?
Speaker 1: What's that? It feels to me like a situation where
Speaker 1: there's a marriage and both went into it thinking that
Speaker 1: they wanted children, but shortly into it, one of them
Speaker 1: changed their mind, it's like, yeah, I still want kids, No,
Speaker 1: I don't trying.
Speaker 2: To think of like who like who if your like
Speaker 2: older sibling was like, what is a marriage where at
Speaker 2: least from the outside we're thinking. Man, It's like Gus
Speaker 2: Malzon's older brother is John Legend and he's singing to
Speaker 2: Chrissy Tagan on TV. Yeah, And Auburn's like, why aren't
Speaker 2: you singing to me on why you're you're not John Legends?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What do you why aren't you doing?
Speaker 2: Like And then he's like, well, you're no Chrissy Tigan
Speaker 2: And it's a whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's a big thing. Yeah. And then he tries, maybe
Speaker 1: he tries, gets a gets a few shiner box in him,
Speaker 1: he tries, Dan tries to be Johnny Legend. But it
Speaker 1: just pisses off Auburn, Right, you know, quit trying to
Speaker 1: be something you're not. And she's just like, you're ed Sheeran,
Speaker 1: You're never gonna be John Legends. Yeah. And Edan's fine,
Speaker 1: ed Churan's fine, Sharan's great, he's great, but he wants
Speaker 1: to be John Legend. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta you just you have to know your role,
Speaker 2: you have to know the context. You have to know
Speaker 2: your place in life.
Speaker 1: Wow, I feel like we really got somewhere with that one. Dan.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I have a bonus one that I didn't put
Speaker 2: on our list, okay, just because I thought about it
Speaker 2: a few minutes before the show, And that is the
Speaker 2: still relatively young, but it is now developed into an
Speaker 2: interesting place marriage between Chris Peterson and the Washington Huskies.
Speaker 2: And I have some thoughts. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: have thoughts. I'm just springing this on you.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, let's let's think of some of the the
Speaker 1: atmospherics around this relationship here. There was talk for a
Speaker 1: while that Washington would be the only job he would
Speaker 1: leave Boise for Chris Peterson Bachelor for Life. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: was talk that that that was a job that he
Speaker 1: really wanted. He was obviously, he was obviously very very satisfied.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, from a career standpoint, being at
Speaker 1: Charlezy State, and there was much debate about if he
Speaker 1: would ever decide to go and play in a power
Speaker 1: five situation. He's obviously going on now to thrive at Washington,
Speaker 1: and he seems happy there.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking Chris Peterson is like you look at you
Speaker 2: look at him, and you look at Washington from Afar
Speaker 2: and you're like, is that the perfect relationship? This isn't
Speaker 2: a David Shawn Stanford where they've been together for a
Speaker 2: while and you've seen them in all sorts of scenarios
Speaker 2: and it just keeps clicking and working. But you look
Speaker 2: at them and you're like, man, they just they haven't
Speaker 2: figured out. He's he's printing itineraries for their trips. He's like,
Speaker 2: she comes home from work and he's cooking. He's organized.
Speaker 2: You know, he's very clean, he's it's good to be well. Listen,
Speaker 2: trust me as a disgusting person.
Speaker 1: Rush teeth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Like, oh, I'm just saying, like, he doesn't
Speaker 2: leave a mess in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Tie.
Speaker 2: You know, he doesn't leave a mess in the bathroom.
Speaker 2: You know, his toenail clippings aren't everywhere. He's just like
Speaker 2: he's a grown up. He's got it together. He's a
Speaker 2: catch tie and you.
Speaker 1: Know, maybe he's a little nervous and clams up a
Speaker 1: you know, fancy occasions, and that's okay. He's from a
Speaker 1: small town. He's a little out of his elements. It's
Speaker 1: great he's still in you earing. That's the thing about him.
Speaker 1: You take him in a heartbeat tie. Even though he
Speaker 1: might not fit perfectly into every high falutin situation, right,
Speaker 1: still a good guy. They're finishing each other sentences. Tie. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe they are the ones that start to look a
Speaker 1: lot alike. Yeah, just physics, see that. Absolutely. What was
Speaker 1: your shaving situation on this honeymoon?
Speaker 2: That's a great question. So I use a beard trimmer
Speaker 2: to sort of maintain the look. I you know, this
Speaker 2: this highly crafted look that they have, right, I didn't
Speaker 2: shave for a while, And this is totally true. I
Speaker 2: didn't shave for a while. It started itching like crazy.
Speaker 2: I had my beard trimmer with me, you know, trimmed everything,
Speaker 2: and it felt a lot better.
Speaker 1: I got home from the honeymoon, and what do I
Speaker 1: see as I'm like scratching my itchy neck because I
Speaker 1: didn't bring a straight razor on the trip, which I
Speaker 1: used to shave my neck to just so I don't
Speaker 1: have an Andrew Luck neck beard. A beard to bee
Speaker 1: is sure. So I get back and I've got this
Speaker 1: beautiful package from Harry's on my counter. I had this
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Speaker 2: From the gods, and I just I take a shower,
Speaker 2: I shave up, and then I use this Harry's in
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Speaker 2: It's phenomenal clean up the neck felt like a new man.
Speaker 2: And it all ties together to our beautiful wedding and
Speaker 2: marriage episode.
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Speaker 1: play this one more time here, Dan, I'm ready. So
Speaker 1: what I didn't want to do in your absence and
Speaker 1: I know you did it in my appsence when I
Speaker 1: was in Jamaica when he did a show with Ryan.
Speaker 1: But I did I recap you kind of did a
Speaker 1: recap with I apologize now it's fine bygones. That was
Speaker 1: like many moons ago, Dan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you did have the chance to eventually sure talk
Speaker 2: through it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I wanted to talk to you about your wedding now. Okay,
Speaker 1: we have many longtime listeners. They I feel were with
Speaker 1: me every step of the way through my wedding two
Speaker 1: years ago. And we've gotten a lot of tweets and
Speaker 1: emails and just commentary otherwise, people congratulating you on your marriage.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you another round of applause here.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to you. Thank you wife, the newest solid wife.
Speaker 1: That's true. You got married in Chicago. Would you like
Speaker 1: to walk people through the festivities what we what we
Speaker 1: all experienced a couple weekends ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we got married in Chicago May twenty. I
Speaker 2: should know my very recent anniversary.
Speaker 1: Don't forget that, Dan very eving forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sunday, May twenty eighth, Saturday was the rehearsal dinner.
Speaker 2: My parents hosted it at Manny really Good Deli in Chicago,
Speaker 2: just because we liked deli food and it was like
Speaker 2: an available space and it was big and could rent
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 1: It was cafeteria style.
Speaker 2: I don't think we talked about your rehearsal dinner or anything,
Speaker 2: because you know, I just am an idiot about food.
Speaker 2: But it was a terrific time, and there was trick
Speaker 2: or treating at the end of it. I didn't know
Speaker 2: any of that was going to happen. There were speeches
Speaker 2: that all turned out pretty well. I would say West
Speaker 2: Coast Kevin and Lioni fan Scott did a good job.
Speaker 1: They scripted that out. Yeah, they would go back and
Speaker 1: forth even if even if the speech bombed, which it didn't.
Speaker 1: The speech was great. But even if it would have,
Speaker 1: you still had to give them prompt because they put
Speaker 1: a lot of heart and soul into that.
Speaker 2: Yes, so they did a great job. The New Solid
Speaker 2: Wife I really got to get permission. This is such
Speaker 2: a pain in the ass to say every time her
Speaker 2: friends did a fantastic job. There was nobody overly drunk.
Speaker 2: There was no you know, it was just everything was
Speaker 2: just good.
Speaker 1: Doc Rubinstein put together was that an iMovie video that
Speaker 1: I saw? He uses photo to movie, which is like
Speaker 1: Okay software for just slideshows with more okay, I don't know,
Speaker 1: more and more pizazz, more pizaz, yes, okay, yes. So
Speaker 1: that was like the whole thing of pictures of her
Speaker 1: and I growing up and then together. And everybody seemed
Speaker 1: to like that. And it was candy and all the tables,
Speaker 1: and at the end everybody sort of could trigg or
Speaker 1: treat and grabbed candy. I neither one of us are
Speaker 1: huge sugar people, but it seemed like a fun thing, sure,
Speaker 1: and it was very cool to sort of see.
Speaker 2: Everybody gathered and ready for the big day. So did
Speaker 2: you eat well that night? I ate well, Kate, and
Speaker 2: I ate very well.
Speaker 1: Yep. We had We had numerous options at Manny's, which
Speaker 1: told is a very popular deli in the area. A
Speaker 1: lot of folks like it's actually quite big. When they
Speaker 1: opened up the dividing door dividing wall, he didn't realize
Speaker 1: how big of an establishment it was. But it was
Speaker 1: a very nice place. And yeah, a lot of great options,
Speaker 1: good food. What did you eat? Had some of their
Speaker 1: mac and cheese because they had they had it. And
Speaker 1: this is not because I'm uncultured. I mean I am uncultured.
Speaker 1: I find it looked very good, but They had two
Speaker 1: different kinds of mac and cheese, and I tried a
Speaker 1: kind with like a longer noodle that I hadn't seen before.
Speaker 1: They had some chicken there, which was really really outstanding
Speaker 1: turkey nice, so I think I had a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything, and then some of the dessert options were
Speaker 1: pretty solid as well. Good so I sang it a lot.
Speaker 2: I had only been there to eat once beforehand, but
Speaker 2: that is like the legendary deli of Chicago. It was
Speaker 2: fantastic style deli. Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Next day, so did not sleep in the same hotel
Speaker 2: room as the new solid wife. I think I shared
Speaker 2: a room with you. I shared a room with one
Speaker 2: of my brothers, and next day woke up, went for
Speaker 2: a run with camera guy Dave West Coast Kevin, a
Speaker 2: Lini fan Scott and that was nice. Ran along Michigan Avenue.
Speaker 2: So the hotel venue was right on it's called excuse me,
Speaker 2: the whole tel and the venue of the wedding we're
Speaker 2: on the same block. And it was on Michigan Avenue
Speaker 2: overlooking Monnium Park and the lake. It was great place
Speaker 2: called Venue six y ten. Highly recommend having an event there.
Speaker 2: It was really cool, so went for a run. Then
Speaker 2: later on got tacos at Rubies, which is if you
Speaker 2: have him into Rubies in Chicago, only open on Sunday's
Speaker 2: best Alpas store in the city in my opinion, So
Speaker 2: that was wonderful, And then came back, got changed. The
Speaker 2: photographer was in the room, also in solid wife's room,
Speaker 2: taking pictures as we're getting dressed and prepared with some friends.
Speaker 2: And then walked over across the street to the park
Speaker 2: took some pictures. Which where did you You took your
Speaker 2: pictures on the Lee High campus?
Speaker 1: Correct? We took our pictures, yes, on the Lee Hike.
Speaker 1: And it was a very nice day. It was a
Speaker 1: nice day. I think we would have preferred it a
Speaker 1: little warmer. But we got married April twenty fifth, so okay,
Speaker 1: April twenty fifth, Eastern Pennsylvania. Yeah, a little brisk, We
Speaker 1: had a steady wind. All things considered that time of year.
Speaker 1: We lucked out with the weather. So it worked out.
Speaker 1: It wasn't nearly as nice as I think it was
Speaker 1: for yours, but it worked out. The hours was like
Speaker 1: seventy and Sony was perfect. How many times would you
Speaker 1: say if I gave you an over under of eleven
Speaker 1: and a half. Yeah, how many times would you say?
Speaker 1: The photographer said, all right, Tyan Kate kiss. We didn't
Speaker 1: have a whole lot of the kiss photos. We had
Speaker 1: so many and it was not requested. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: not something I was like, hey, go heavy on the
Speaker 1: smooth requests. I never said that.
Speaker 2: I do not believe the new solid wife did either,
Speaker 2: because she was a little It was a lot and
Speaker 2: you know what, maybe the pictures will turn out grat
Speaker 2: haven't seen him yet. But it was all right, we're
Speaker 2: at the top of these stairs in the park, give
Speaker 2: her a kiss. Okay, we're walking down this path, give
Speaker 2: her a kiss, and like our parents and family are
Speaker 2: all there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The lasting memory that I have of the photography situation,
Speaker 1: I kept thinking to myself, are are you sure that
Speaker 1: we're not going to owe you extra for all the
Speaker 1: pictures you've take? I feel like they took oh y
Speaker 1: five thousand pictures? Yeah, so was this You took some
Speaker 1: though after the ceremony, right, Yeah, we had some during,
Speaker 1: We had some after the SERI I mean like the
Speaker 1: posed outside stuff. Ye yeah, yeah, I mean we had
Speaker 1: we had the full We had some at the reception,
Speaker 1: but by and large. It just felt like a lot
Speaker 1: of photos, a ton of photos, and they obviously went
Speaker 1: through and cherry picked the better ones. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: it the photo situation. To me. There were good photos,
Speaker 1: a lot of good photos that came out of that experience,
Speaker 1: but it just it was long. Yeah, it's a large,
Speaker 1: long and sort of uncomfortable. I'm not used to posing
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: We took one of those pictures, like on a median
Speaker 2: on Michigan Avenue, like the big street in Chicago, so
Speaker 2: like it's the cars passing by will be all blurry,
Speaker 2: but we're going to be and you know that kind
Speaker 2: of thing. So we took a couple of those.
Speaker 1: I have an important question, please, in any of the photographs,
Speaker 1: did they capture the mister Leatherman contest that was also
Speaker 1: going on in Chicago that weekend? Oh, we'll get there.
Speaker 1: They did not. We did not do that. I won't.
Speaker 1: I won't steal your thunder. You can get no, Okay.
Speaker 1: I meant to talk about that before.
Speaker 2: What Ties alluding to is on the same block in Chicago,
Speaker 2: and this is a thing that's been happening since nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy nine. Mister leather International, Yes pageant, I guess would
Speaker 2: be the word. I don't know what exactly it is,
Speaker 2: but it contests, and it's a lot of gentlemen wearing
Speaker 2: a lot of leather or excuse me, a little bit leather.
Speaker 1: Up. Yeah, oh, the leather being to leather. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: just you would.
Speaker 2: I would walk down and there would be a dude
Speaker 2: wearing shorts that were you know, we're talking about like
Speaker 2: a three inch in seam like short short leather shorts.
Speaker 1: The shortest umbros you can imagine and wait out, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe just a vest with nothing underneath it. Maybe
Speaker 2: later Hosen Ryan, of course Ryan. Nanny saw two guys talking.
Speaker 2: One said had like a later hozen or something that
Speaker 2: said daddy and like a bejeweled look, and the guy
Speaker 2: next to him had said Daddy's boy.
Speaker 1: Was it was? It was an interesting experience. Solid wife
Speaker 1: Kate and I walked into a tie restaurant and into
Speaker 1: a sea of men wearing tight leather and we looked
Speaker 1: around bewildered as to what was occurring because we can't
Speaker 1: go and after it for his wedding, that's what's coming. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure what kind of a wedding you were hosting. Dan.
Speaker 1: It fea. Then I looked it up online and I saw,
Speaker 1: okay that there was other festivities in Chicago, which added
Speaker 1: a little flavor for sure.
Speaker 2: I was thrilled with it. I thought, you know, the
Speaker 2: celebratory fevers in the air.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So absolutely.
Speaker 2: Also, my friend Mike, who was in town from Idaho,
Speaker 2: had been in town for two days because he got
Speaker 2: there early to go to a Cubs game and hadn't
Speaker 2: noticed a thing I hadn't noticed, and is like not
Speaker 2: because he's like, well, I just you know, I lived
Speaker 2: my life and whatever.
Speaker 1: He just was completely oblivious and like as he was
Speaker 1: saying this to me, and like the hotel lobby, a
Speaker 1: dude walked in wearing leather chaps, no shirt and a
Speaker 1: leather captain's hat. Yeah. And I was like, Mike, take
Speaker 1: a look. There's a lot of leather over there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the guy had like walked away by the time
Speaker 2: Mike turned around and didn't see it. And then I
Speaker 2: got a text from the next day he was like, well, yep, nope,
Speaker 2: you were right.
Speaker 1: He was staying at the same hotel. Yeah, absolutely he
Speaker 1: was that. Kate and I were at how you could
Speaker 1: possibly miss that is beyond me. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: leather bound weekend. By the way, I did have a
Speaker 1: chance to meet Mike, who I believe was your first ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. He was the first tie nice guy, way
Speaker 1: taller than he's great. Probably he was a lot taller
Speaker 1: but very short, deeper voice to the more talented broadcaster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I would.
Speaker 2: So then we go in to the to the venue
Speaker 2: and just sort of getting ready beforehand whatever, and.
Speaker 1: Just everything works out well.
Speaker 2: We have a couple of musicians playing music as everybody seated,
Speaker 2: and you know, there's the processional. Everything starts out pretty well.
Speaker 2: Everybody's walking in, brothers, solid, wife's brother, my now brother
Speaker 2: in law, parents, everything like that. I walk in and
Speaker 2: you know, obviously before the bride there are.
Speaker 1: Flower girls ring bear or whatever. And a flower girl
Speaker 1: just eats it just and I wouldn't fully blame. It's
Speaker 1: two years old, and there was like a very slippery
Speaker 1: runner running down the aisle, and you know, my parents
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, that wasn't like the easiest thing to
Speaker 1: walk on. And she just eats it and starts crying,
Speaker 1: as normal two year olds will do. And then it
Speaker 1: was sort of a thing and then everything went well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at the same oh, except for one other thing which
Speaker 1: was unexpected to me, which I'm sure you remember this.
Speaker 1: We have a rabbi who marries us. Yeah, oh wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't leave this part out. So I had never
Speaker 1: at him before. When I say we have a rabbi,
Speaker 1: it's not a personal rabbi of mine. He was you know,
Speaker 1: solid wife's family knows him, and he was great, and
Speaker 1: you know, met him on Skype a little bit beforehand,
Speaker 1: and he's going over things like you know, and Dan,
Speaker 1: you promised to take care of her, you know, as
Speaker 1: you know, spiritually and emotionally, and then there's just like
Speaker 1: this little gap in what he sang and then goes sexually,
Speaker 1: and I'm so all of a sudden, it's sort of
Speaker 1: like my mind is in like matrix neo slow motion,
Speaker 1: like as like the words are bullets. Fine happened. It
Speaker 1: was literally like the hot Stanky Drummond Fife, but during
Speaker 1: your wedding ceremony.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't like a vow. It wasn't like and
Speaker 2: you Dan will take care of you know. It was
Speaker 2: just sort of like this is what marriage is. You're
Speaker 2: gonna take care of her sexually. And he's like in
Speaker 2: his seventies.
Speaker 1: This is not like a cool hip young Nope, rap, No,
Speaker 1: this is just sort of like out of nowhere not
Speaker 1: and I in retrospect it's.
Speaker 2: You know whatever, It's fine, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: But after he says this, because we are we are
Speaker 1: facing forward, so it's not like it's not like we're
Speaker 1: holding each other's hands sort of perpendicular to the crowd,
Speaker 1: and we can like see people. It's just we're seeing
Speaker 1: parents on the side view and the rabbi in front
Speaker 1: of us. And he goes.
Speaker 2: Sexually, and all of a sudden, for the next twelve seconds,
Speaker 2: I'm hearing all behind me as there are one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty people saying did he just say sexual?
Speaker 1: Well, my first thought is I haven't been to a
Speaker 1: whole lot of rabbi rabbi led weddings, you know, Jewish weddings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, maybe that's part of the normal regimen.
Speaker 1: And then my second thought is that's probably not. And
Speaker 1: I bet Dan wrote that just to try and get
Speaker 1: a lot of people. Oh, and then I talked afterwards,
Speaker 1: and I talked to everyone else afterwards, and everyone else
Speaker 1: was also caught a bit off guard by the sexually
Speaker 1: reference there sexually and I get you know, obviously the
Speaker 1: ceremony ends, we kiss, I break the glass, which I
Speaker 1: did a great job with me. Yeah, you you really
Speaker 1: put some hooks butt into that din I stretched out
Speaker 1: before him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it was Ran came up to
Speaker 2: me and just went sexually. I was like, goddamn, it
Speaker 2: was unexpected, but it's a good story. But it was
Speaker 2: very strangely did he say that?
Speaker 1: And then so there was that.
Speaker 2: Everything went well. I thought the party was terrific. And
Speaker 2: I'm biased, but I thought the band was huge and wonderful.
Speaker 2: I thought they did a great job sort of. I mean,
Speaker 2: did you hear any classic rock, any eighties rock?
Speaker 1: Tie? I think you did a pretty good job of
Speaker 1: a song, a pretty good job of guiding the musical adventure.
Speaker 2: If it were a Spotify playlist, we're talking, you know.
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Riah Carrey. Just sort of eighties nineties,
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. Dance music, sing along whatever, a
Speaker 2: little bit of sort of older there was like earth
Speaker 2: Wind and Fire and Jackie Wilson whatever, but really going
Speaker 2: for high energy. We had like the first dance, Oh,
Speaker 2: I had a custom intro for myself with.
Speaker 1: The Chicago Bulls. I caught that introduction. I caught that,
Speaker 1: by the way, that hit on the wedding pool, which
Speaker 1: I will address here briefly. That oh good that we
Speaker 1: haven't discussed this at all, but that counts as a
Speaker 1: special dance intro. Absolutely, we're gonna like ten points.
Speaker 2: I walked in with wearing a warm up suit that
Speaker 2: I unzipped and ripped away tearaway pants to reveal my
Speaker 2: suit for that intro. Then we had the first dance.
Speaker 2: I thought the food was great. We had four stations.
Speaker 2: The doughnut wall was terrific. It wasn't as evenly dispersed
Speaker 2: as I picked.
Speaker 1: See that was going to be. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: one two split hairs like you. Really you really took
Speaker 1: a battle axe to my wedding, Dan, Is that true?
Speaker 1: There are people in my family who don't ever want
Speaker 1: to talk to you again.
Speaker 2: Wow, Oh, I thought you meant taking a battle axe
Speaker 2: to your wedding in terms of how good my wedding was.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no no, I'm talking you were very
Speaker 1: critical of my wedding after the fact. All I said
Speaker 1: you said the food was okay. You didn't like the music.
Speaker 1: This is no. There are people in my family, Dan,
Speaker 1: you better not come around these parts anymore.
Speaker 2: Just say, we all have First of all, we all
Speaker 2: have things we like and don't like that or unique
Speaker 2: to us. I thought the food was totally good at
Speaker 2: your wedding. I the band was talented, But again, what
Speaker 2: did I just say? I didn't want eighties rock and
Speaker 2: they played eighties rock. That's my taste, that's my personal taste.
Speaker 1: Just saying you come you come around these parts, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get brush backed.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear living on a prayer. That's fine,
Speaker 2: that's me, that's me. It wasn't my wedding.
Speaker 1: My one bit of critical feedback was going to be
Speaker 1: the asymmetrical quality of the donut wall peg. You're not wrong.
Speaker 1: I was trying. I was looking. At one point, I
Speaker 1: walked over to it and I stared at it as
Speaker 1: if it were one of those magic eyes, like I
Speaker 1: was trying to see the sailboat or some hidden shape within.
Speaker 1: I was really trying to figure out, for the life
Speaker 1: of me, what the logic behind the peg sequence was.
Speaker 1: It seemed to be somewhat random.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looked like an alien invader like the fixilated
Speaker 2: just sort of I had I did not know that.
Speaker 2: I thought it was going to be like looking at
Speaker 2: a connect four board, like.
Speaker 1: Right, That's what I thought. And on the wedding sheet,
Speaker 1: I had an over under of ninety donut pegs. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that was there were like fourteen on there, but in
Speaker 1: a different pattern than I had expected. The donuts were fine,
Speaker 1: The donuts were great. The donut wall, to me, I
Speaker 1: was it wasn't so much that I didn't like it,
Speaker 1: as I was just trying to figure it out. I
Speaker 1: was curious.
Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, I think a lot of or at
Speaker 2: least a percent of the donut wall appeal is at
Speaker 2: aesthetic of just looking at a wall with rows and
Speaker 2: rows of pegs of donuts. Yeah, and this was more
Speaker 2: and maybe this is an efficiency thing. I don't run
Speaker 2: weddings professionally. Maybe it was like a fewer pegs, but
Speaker 2: like have multiple donuts on each pegs. It's just like
Speaker 2: a more efficient way of doing things. I don't know,
Speaker 2: that's what it ultimately was. I got myself a blueberry
Speaker 2: old fashioned donut and I was thrilled.
Speaker 1: So they were very good. Ultimately ended up well, But yeah,
Speaker 1: You're not wrong.
Speaker 2: I did not know that was going to happen. I
Speaker 2: probably should have brought it up, but who you know
Speaker 2: at this point, you know.
Speaker 1: Spell water under the bridge. It's fine, absolutely nobody.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're going to go over the gambling pool.
Speaker 2: I thought the band was terrific. The food seemed to
Speaker 2: work out well.
Speaker 1: I don't I hope.
Speaker 2: I don't think people were waiting in lines for the
Speaker 2: majority of the time, if at all, for a lot
Speaker 2: of the stations. I thought it moved pretty quickly. The
Speaker 2: crowd was great. You knew a lot of like the
Speaker 2: espianation and sports people that were there.
Speaker 1: It was great.
Speaker 2: Our friend Bill Barnwell, who will be back on the show,
Speaker 2: yes in a few weeks here, probably to do a
Speaker 2: new specialty episode, had a good time. Our friend Nicole
Speaker 2: Auerback was there.
Speaker 1: You know it was. It was a great time.
Speaker 2: So I am I'm relieved it's all over, just because
Speaker 2: a lot went into it and UH had it like
Speaker 2: went to a bar briefly afterwards nearby.
Speaker 1: But no, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Our final song I think was Mariah Carey's fantasy Yep.
Speaker 1: I thought that.
Speaker 2: I thought they did a great job with that. I
Speaker 2: was on stage for a song, the customized song. I listened, Ty,
Speaker 2: I thought it was a.
Speaker 1: Very good jobs. You did a very good job Kate's thoughts.
Speaker 1: So Kate enjoy herself, Kate, Kate very much enjoyed herself.
Speaker 1: We both good. I've had a great time in Chicago,
Speaker 1: and uh, yeah, it was just a lot of fun
Speaker 1: and graduation.
Speaker 2: I don't I was not unlike the wedding that I
Speaker 2: attended in Allentown. I was not the best dancer on
Speaker 2: the dance floor that night. I was the sweatiest. I
Speaker 2: was perhaps the most enthusiastic. But Matt Offford, Matt Afford.
Speaker 1: Has moves, he does have. He goes after it. He really,
Speaker 1: you know, he fully commits to it. That's the thing
Speaker 1: about dancing. I'm not a good dancer's commitment. You're right,
Speaker 1: you have to fully commit. It doesn't matter how bad
Speaker 1: it looks. If you fully commit, that's fine. And really,
Speaker 1: he really goes for it, and he has moved there,
Speaker 1: doesn't move too. Yeah. Yeah, So his wife actually won
Speaker 1: the wedding pool. Is that true? Yes, his wife, His
Speaker 1: wife tied with my wife for the wedding pool. Actually,
Speaker 1: Ryan has been after me to send out the results.
Speaker 1: I have yet to do that. I've been tied, but
Speaker 1: I will be sending those out in short order. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I had things like, you know, over under length the
Speaker 1: wedding ceremony, how many guest tables are there going to be?
Speaker 1: How many toasts and speeches will there be? I told
Speaker 1: you about the pegs. The big one, though, was really
Speaker 1: the random events. And the way that the pool works
Speaker 1: is you put a series of events that could possibly
Speaker 1: occur and have people pick three of them. So things
Speaker 1: like the bride and groom doing a special dance move
Speaker 1: upon entrance at the reception, that's nearly a given. That's
Speaker 1: like a five to ten point. No, it wasn't dancing
Speaker 1: per se, but it was such a special intro. It's
Speaker 1: a special movie. You have things like the groom will
Speaker 1: cry or faint, which I've seen happen. I don't believe
Speaker 1: you did either.
Speaker 2: I did not do either. His old wife has seen
Speaker 2: it recently, but I have not.
Speaker 1: Then you step up the things like the MC is
Speaker 1: going to mispronounce somebody's name, which I also think they did. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't think they were, Yeah, I think they were.
Speaker 1: Think they were clean. Yeah, Then you get the things
Speaker 1: like an ice sculpture. Didn't see any of those. We're
Speaker 1: getting progressively higher in point total here right the flower
Speaker 1: girl or ring bearer getting spooked and or refusing to
Speaker 1: walk down the aisle. I counted that. I counted that
Speaker 1: because I heard.
Speaker 2: If I had known, if I had inside information, I
Speaker 2: would have said five out of five certainty.
Speaker 1: To go for it. We heard crying, We heard one
Speaker 1: of the younglings yelling no in the back before the ceremony.
Speaker 1: Kate and I counted that Nicole Auerback was the only
Speaker 1: one who got that wow, and that was like a
Speaker 1: solid fifteen twenty twenty five points somewhere in there. The
Speaker 1: other one that got a ton of action that I
Speaker 1: was a little disappointed didn't happen, was we had heavy action.
Speaker 1: Ninety three percent of our respondents thought that the Rabbi
Speaker 1: was either going to reference the University of Michigan or
Speaker 1: the University of Oregon, and he did not.
Speaker 2: Well, wait, who didn't reference universal Michigan. The rabbi didn't.
Speaker 1: He needed to actually say the words Michigan or organ
Speaker 1: and he did neither.
Speaker 2: Okay, but tangential ty the Yamica had both an organ logo.
Speaker 1: I specifically said in the random events section about the
Speaker 1: rat then you have other things about someone wearing jeans
Speaker 1: live doves. I had a first dance wager in there
Speaker 1: that someone would puke or pass out, things like that.
Speaker 1: The first dance was pre two thousand and five. Our
Speaker 1: song I believe you had Ingrid Michaelson, which I believe
Speaker 1: was two thousand and six. Maybe. Oh, okay, the override
Speaker 1: we had was like two thousand and eleven, so it
Speaker 1: was way under but okay, good. I will be sending
Speaker 1: those results out. I'll copy you on it. Wow. Just
Speaker 1: then it takes it home. Yep. Jenny and wife tied
Speaker 1: with with and my wife excuse me, tied with ninety points.
Speaker 1: And then we had some other wedding slash marriage luminaries
Speaker 1: like a LIONI fan Scott, your brother Alex. Someone else
Speaker 1: who tied for second was seventy five points. But yeah,
Speaker 1: good time all around. Again. I thank you for the invite.
Speaker 1: It was great to get out to Chicago, and I
Speaker 1: trust that you had a great trip. We don't need
Speaker 1: to go into the full details of the trip, but
Speaker 1: Greece and Italy.
Speaker 2: Mooning was great. Mooning was fantastic, eighty degrees and sunny
Speaker 2: every day. I had a ton of sun.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 2: A couple boat rides won in Greece, went in like
Speaker 2: not fairies, like we went on like excursions around the
Speaker 2: islands and jumped in sulfur springs and the beautiful a
Speaker 2: Malfy coast.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: I enthusiastically recommend Captain ted and Greece. He was that's
Speaker 2: his name, and he's wonderful and it was a great
Speaker 2: boat trip.
Speaker 1: Rome was great.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people are people either like
Speaker 2: really love Rome. It's you know, it's a little bit
Speaker 2: dirty and there's ruins everywhere, and you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: a lot to take in. I loved it ate really well.
Speaker 2: Our pal David Wonderlick, who actually I think lives in Naples,
Speaker 2: send me send us a long email saying to not
Speaker 2: eat Roman pizza. I did have Roman pizza once, just
Speaker 2: because it's thin and not as tasty as Neapolitan, the
Speaker 2: more classic or more well known style of Italian pizza.
Speaker 2: But I got plenty of Neapolitan pizza both in Rome.
Speaker 2: Outside of Rome, Nice a Malfi Coast was fantastic. I
Speaker 2: will tell you this tie at our hotel, which was great.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Casa Angelina and Priyano, the Malfy Coast one.
Speaker 2: They have a So it's in the cliffs over the
Speaker 2: water and there's a beach club at the base, and
Speaker 2: it's beach is sort of a misnomer because there's not sand.
Speaker 2: You just sort of jump off of like the cement
Speaker 2: on the club into the water and it's great.
Speaker 1: The water's great.
Speaker 2: I went topless, okay at the beach club, just because
Speaker 2: it's here in Europe and whatever. No, there were there
Speaker 2: were a number of people who sort of exercised that
Speaker 2: very European mentality with clothing or lack thereof ty. What
Speaker 2: I'm telling you is it was Mike Pence's nightmare.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was and you know what, tie. The people that
Speaker 2: were exercising this were not unattractive.
Speaker 1: Okay, they logical. Next question.
Speaker 2: There was an Australian contingent tie that acquitted themselves very nicely.
Speaker 2: So there was that situation, but that was great. The
Speaker 2: other thing I will add, and uh, this is the
Speaker 2: final night we decided to go to it the super
Speaker 2: nice restaurant that's within our hotel. It was we just
Speaker 2: didn't want to travel. We wanted it to be like,
Speaker 2: you know, we're just it's overlooking the water.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: So we go to this place knowing it's super nice.
Speaker 2: It was the most and I don't mean this in
Speaker 2: a purely negative way, because it was delicious. The food
Speaker 2: was very good. It was like the most pretentious experience
Speaker 2: in a restaurant I've ever had, And that's probably more
Speaker 2: reflective on me not really caring that much about fine dining.
Speaker 2: But I just didn't expect it. First of all, I
Speaker 2: walked in wearing a button down. It was a hot,
Speaker 2: hot day, it was at eight o'clock, eight thirty whatever,
Speaker 2: a button down shorts, nicer shorts though, gino shorts, and
Speaker 2: flip flops, which was probably that's on me. You gotta
Speaker 2: be you gotta be better with footwear. And so the
Speaker 2: elevator opens at the hotel right into where the host
Speaker 2: is standing the maitre d or whatever. The host is
Speaker 2: standing at this indoor outdoor hotel, indoor outdoor restaurant above
Speaker 2: the hotel. She looks at me and she's like, oh, welcome,
Speaker 2: What time is your reservation? All the eight thirty and
Speaker 2: then she.
Speaker 1: Says, all right, we will get you all set, but
Speaker 1: we do have a no flip flop policy, no eyes
Speaker 1: and no eye slides at all, no.
Speaker 2: Eye slides, none to be seen. So as soon as
Speaker 2: you're able to change into closed toed shoes, it doesn't
Speaker 2: matter what kind, but they do. We do need a
Speaker 2: closed toe from gentlemen. We'll see you and I'm happy.
Speaker 1: To serve you. Like, so we go back to the
Speaker 1: elevator and I'm fuming. I'm like, never in my life,
Speaker 1: never have I been so And I'm like, let's just
Speaker 1: go to the cafe across the and solid wife was like,
Speaker 1: we're here, you know, and she then was like, well
Speaker 1: maybe we should, Like no, let's go to the back.
Speaker 1: And I just put on, you know, with crappy shoes
Speaker 1: that I was walking in all day.
Speaker 2: And we go back. We sit down, it's super nice.
Speaker 2: We look at the menu. Woman comes over and she's like,
Speaker 2: can I start off wine?
Speaker 1: You know, water whatever?
Speaker 2: We say, yeah, I mean, let's do a glass of wine.
Speaker 2: And you like flat water, you know it's because it's flatter, sparkling. Sure,
Speaker 2: and she says great, and she comes over with not
Speaker 2: a piece of paper but a book. Why don't you
Speaker 2: take a look at our water? Why don't you take
Speaker 2: a look at our water menu. So we then found
Speaker 2: water that was like a seven seven dollars bottle of
Speaker 2: avy on because that was basically the cheapest I think got.
Speaker 1: A water menu.
Speaker 2: And our reservation was for eight thirty and like between courses,
Speaker 2: you we get appetizers and drinks whatever. They just keep
Speaker 2: bringing you little bites and the meal takes for friggin ever.
Speaker 2: It took so long, much like this podcast, but it's
Speaker 2: we're like two and a half hours in exhausted. We
Speaker 2: need to get up the next morning at like six am,
Speaker 2: and they just keep bringing stuff and it's all delicious,
Speaker 2: and we're just full and tired, and we ordered desserts.
Speaker 2: I get like a chocolate moose. It comes a little
Speaker 2: bowl of spoon whatever. And as I'm eating the chocolate moose,
Speaker 2: I look down and as you can imagine, chocolate boose
Speaker 2: comes a little bwl little spoon whatever. I realize that
Speaker 2: both the bowl and spoon are made of chocolate, and
Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, this is wonderful.
Speaker 1: This is Ex's not so bad. Life's not so bad,
Speaker 1: and we're full, and then I asked for the check
Speaker 1: and they're like, well, one more thing, and they wheel
Speaker 1: over a tray with like fifteen pounds literally fifteen pounds
Speaker 1: of just chocolate, and I have to turn away a
Speaker 1: dessert tray of chocolate because I'm full. And that was wow.
Speaker 2: Well I was turned away for my flip flops, and
Speaker 2: then evening ends with me turning away a fifteen pound
Speaker 2: chocolate tray.
Speaker 1: It was It was a good time.
Speaker 2: I recommend the Amalfi Coast to any but post Aitano
Speaker 2: was pretty touristy. Capri is very touristy. I yelled at
Speaker 2: a middle aged woman about over taxis who accused me
Speaker 2: of cutting a line. I didn't speak any Italian and
Speaker 2: she didn't speak English.
Speaker 1: It was not great.
Speaker 2: Other than that, that is a beautiful area of the world.
Speaker 2: Tie and it was very difficult to leave. So I
Speaker 2: had a great time.
Speaker 1: Well good, it's good to have you back. But I'm
Speaker 1: glad you had that experience and it was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun to to share in the festivities with you guys.
Speaker 1: So thank you again for the invite.
Speaker 2: And tell me who, tell me who was upset at me?
Speaker 2: Who was upset at the comments? You know about the
Speaker 2: comments of your wedding.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not saying, I'm not saying anything more. Is
Speaker 1: it that fraud? Elliott people? People on this side of
Speaker 1: this side of the fence seem to think that you
Speaker 1: were very critical of the Hilton brit nutsoles. Are we
Speaker 1: talking about Uncle Joe? I'm not giving out names. Are
Speaker 1: we talking Mama Ag' I'm not gonna give my sources away.
Speaker 1: I can't talk about it in an open session. I
Speaker 1: had a magical time at your wedding, all right. It
Speaker 1: was a Patriot League wedding. How could I be upset
Speaker 1: about that? This has been a fun show. Yeah, please
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Speaker 2: Man, one more question, yeah, please, or maybe you're already
Speaker 2: going in this direction. What do we have coming up
Speaker 2: until the season.
Speaker 1: It's funny you should ask that, Dan, because we're in
Speaker 1: mid June, right, we know each other quite well. We've
Speaker 1: actually done some long range planning, oh Man, which is
Speaker 1: uncomfortable for us. It's not something we learned until about
Speaker 1: a year and a half ago. But right, Yeah, we've
Speaker 1: got a few concepts coming up here in the next
Speaker 1: few weeks as we get into July, I think we
Speaker 1: really get into the stuff that we're really excited about.
Speaker 1: We've got another one of our How College Football Works
Speaker 1: shows coming up. We did How Coaches Get hired? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we did how new Quarterbacks Get brought aboard with Yogi.
Speaker 1: We're going to do a How Recruiting Works. We're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna roll out the red carpet here to do
Speaker 1: a full on production how Recruiting Works, which we're both
Speaker 1: excited about. We've got the show coming up with our
Speaker 1: good friend Bill Barnwell at some point later in July.
Speaker 1: We're still not going to give the concept of that
Speaker 1: show away because we don't want anyone else to do it.
Speaker 1: But I'm really excited about that one.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna it's gonna be a very polarizing show.
Speaker 1: We've also got later on in July probably before we
Speaker 1: get into August and start doing team previews and whatnot.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do the history of the Salaverbo because this
Speaker 1: is going to be your tenth full season doing the show,
Speaker 1: and much like our friends over at the Starter's aka
Speaker 1: the Basketball Jones, we're going to walk you through the
Speaker 1: full tenure history of how Dan and I got to
Speaker 1: do and all this stuff. Anyway, so that'll be a
Speaker 1: lot of fun team previews coming up in August. Obviously,
Speaker 1: latter part of August we're gonna start doing some, you know,
Speaker 1: some weekly previews, and before we get there, there is
Speaker 1: going to be a live gig, presumably on a Saturday
Speaker 1: night in August, where we do a Fantasy Things draft,
Speaker 1: which we got to start talking about probably after the show,
Speaker 1: but keep your ears peeled for that. We'll send out
Speaker 1: notice to the email list and we'll certainly talk about
Speaker 1: it on the podcast, but it's going to be one
Speaker 1: Saturday night in August. Yes, it's gonna be great. We've
Speaker 1: got a shirt coming out at some point in the
Speaker 1: next couple weeks which we're excited about. All sorts of
Speaker 1: things breaking here on soliverbal front, So pay attention. Where's
Speaker 1: we find out.
Speaker 2: I mean, will we send out a newsletter of intents?
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, we'll We'll do it much like we did
Speaker 1: for the shut Yeah, we'll take We'll take orders in
Speaker 1: advance so that everyone who wants one can get one.
Speaker 1: Just got to make sure you pay attention. I got
Speaker 1: some folks who are waiting for a new shirt to drop.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just stay tuned all the usual channels, Facebook, Twitter,
Speaker 1: and uh. If you're part of the newsletter of intent mailer,
Speaker 1: we'll send it there as well. Indeed, that's all I
Speaker 1: got in me, ty Dan. This has been fun, a
Speaker 1: little longer than usual, but we got the full recap.
Speaker 1: We talked about marriages on the college football side and
Speaker 1: on the Rubinstein side as well. Mm hmm. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: you again, find sir. It is good to have you back,
Speaker 1: and thank you to everyone out there for bearing with
Speaker 1: us here as we went through the full recap of
Speaker 1: all things college football and otherwise. For that guy over there,
Speaker 1: and for myself, Tie Hill and Grant here in good
Speaker 1: old Eastern PA. Thanks again for listening, catching in a
Speaker 1: week and in the meantime, stay solid, Hey Bud.