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Speaker 2: follow us. He wants to know what is Tie's pregame
Speaker 2: ritual before the podcast. He always starts strong with great energy,
Speaker 2: wondering how he gets so jacked up. Tie, This is
Speaker 2: me speaking, Yeah, be four right, be truthful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, did I tell you I made the switch
Speaker 1: over from Lacroix to Bubbly spark Water.
Speaker 2: Well, Lacroix does have sparkles, isn't it.
Speaker 1: I think they're basically the same thing. But I'm drinking
Speaker 1: a Bubbly right now, an Apple Bubbly, which I've never
Speaker 1: tried before, and it tastes pretty good.
Speaker 2: Is that a full routine?
Speaker 1: Well, there's not really a routine. I'm always excited to
Speaker 1: speak with you, Daniel. Okay, what did you do today
Speaker 1: to Oh? I see where you're going with this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there may have been a bathroom situation prior to hitting
Speaker 1: to hitting record today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is going to be a great show.
Speaker 2: I have so much faith in the entertainment value and
Speaker 2: just the freedom that you're feeling right now.
Speaker 1: The impurities are out. I am ready to roll. I
Speaker 1: feel liberated. How about you? What is your pregame ritual?
Speaker 2: I had half a box of crackers, some Trader Joe sushi,
Speaker 2: and a lot of water. And listen to is it
Speaker 2: Camille Cabello? I think it's Camilla Camimila Cabello. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: listened to Havana eight and a half times. Camila Cabello,
Speaker 2: you're into this. I don't like pop music, tie, I
Speaker 2: don't like modern I don't like the youth music. But
Speaker 2: when I do, who do I like it?
Speaker 1: Well? Now I'm in you may, by the way here
Speaker 1: a little bit of an echo on my end because
Speaker 1: the studio, the new studio in the new place, is
Speaker 1: functional but not acoustically treated in the manner that we
Speaker 1: demand here as the pre eminent college football podcast. So
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in the new digs here. And because I
Speaker 1: am where I am, I've got a little bit of
Speaker 1: a longer commute to the mysterious day job, which means
Speaker 1: more time to imbibe ingest and really think about the
Speaker 1: pop music that the youth are listening to nowadays. So
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that in a few short weeks I can
Speaker 1: be back up to speed where I need to be.
Speaker 1: So you've moved in, just about moved in? Yeah, just about.
Speaker 1: You're sleeping in the new house, sleeping in the new place.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you get the always like fun like first
Speaker 2: wake up, like wait where am I?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, had one of those.
Speaker 1: I'm still having those exactly.
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Speaker 1: Why do not? It's what I'm saying, I need to
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Speaker 2: more questions there. We have some news to go over.
Speaker 2: We have housekeeping to address. Yes, you moved into a
Speaker 2: new house. I was just in Mexico City. It's all happening.
Speaker 2: George is dead. This is Jerry's Call me back, George Steinbrenner, Jerry,
Speaker 2: call me back. Yeah, So that's all I have.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, thank you everyone out there for tuning
Speaker 1: in when we last left our hero. That's you, Dan,
Speaker 1: Dan Rubinstein. You had a great show that you put
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Speaker 1: being a good sport, not only in dealing with our
Speaker 1: secret verbal madness, but also in coming on and answering
Speaker 1: what I thought were some really personal questions about gaining
Speaker 1: and losing weight as an offensive lineman. You really cut
Speaker 1: to the deep stuff there, man. So that was a
Speaker 1: good show. Hope everyone appreciated it. As Dan mentioned, we've
Speaker 1: got pages upon pages from our last Q and A show.
Speaker 1: We just didn't feel right about not addressing as many
Speaker 1: of these questions that remained after our last Q and
Speaker 1: A broadcast. So here we are also late May. It's
Speaker 1: late May. Yeah, we're getting into, as I said to
Speaker 1: you earlier this week, the territory where we can actually
Speaker 1: see a pathway through to the start of the season.
Speaker 2: Speak for yourself, ty, I am, I'm just looking for
Speaker 2: a pathway to a water park at this morning. Well,
Speaker 2: I just want to enjoy my summer. I can see
Speaker 2: all of you at the what is it? It's the
Speaker 2: Wisconsin Dell's. Do you know about the Wisconsin Dell's. Sure,
Speaker 2: it's like a water park city. So that's all I
Speaker 2: care about right now. College football will be there in
Speaker 2: late August.
Speaker 1: We will get to our housekeeping stuff here in just
Speaker 1: a little bit, as well as our present thing sponsors
Speaker 1: for the evening. But Daniel, let's talk. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to play the breaking news sound if only because of
Speaker 1: two reasons. A. I don't have the soundboard, I don't
Speaker 1: know what box it's in, and B I don't think
Speaker 1: this quite warrants breaking news. Let's say it's just talking
Speaker 1: points that we want to use to lead into Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll wear Q and A. Well, you put these together,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you to elaborate, because
Speaker 1: my guess is you've got more formed thoughts on the matter.
Speaker 1: But as we know, with Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan
Speaker 1: football program, they've been doing this international tour thing. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: At the start of now, the last two seasons it
Speaker 1: went to Italy year ago. Just got back from France.
Speaker 1: They've made their selection as to where they're going to
Speaker 1: be going in twenty nineteen, and that country is It
Speaker 1: appears to be South Africa. South This is cut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this Johannesberg and Cape Down. I guess it came
Speaker 2: out that a booster, I forget who the booster was
Speaker 2: paid for the trip to roam. It's pretty cool. This
Speaker 2: seems pretty sweet to me. But yeah, that's he He
Speaker 2: went on the radio and said that's where Michigan's gonna
Speaker 2: head next year. And I would love to go to
Speaker 2: South Africa. I would. I mean this is it can
Speaker 2: only be a positive thing. If you're a college kid,
Speaker 2: you get to go abroad. So I'm a fan. Have
Speaker 2: you been to South Africa?
Speaker 1: Did you?
Speaker 2: Have you gone abroad in college?
Speaker 1: I've never flown over the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 2: Wow, Ty, we got to get you as a stowaway.
Speaker 1: I'm not yet. That'd be great.
Speaker 2: I'm not a Michigan trip.
Speaker 1: I'm not against it, by the way, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: it's never I know, I know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Solid wife Kate just gotta get on kayak, get to
Speaker 2: get on Google flights.
Speaker 1: I don't know if South Africa would be my first selection,
Speaker 1: and that's no disrespect to South Africa. I'd probably take
Speaker 1: a trip if I were a Michigan player it were
Speaker 1: given to me for free. Yeah, that's a great opportunity.
Speaker 1: But I think I would probably want to knock out
Speaker 1: Europe before I moved to other continents.
Speaker 2: Will you go to Europe this summer?
Speaker 1: This summer? This summer, dude, I bought a house. We're staying.
Speaker 1: We're staying put for the duration of you know, the
Speaker 1: summer here.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, we'll go over the other ocean. Because a
Speaker 2: Wisconsin nose tackle, if he's not a nose tackle, God bless.
Speaker 2: But I'm pretty sure a Wisconsin nose tackle over the
Speaker 2: Pacific Ocean is from Hawaii. Did you see the slow
Speaker 2: motion backflip from a three hundred and thirty six pound
Speaker 2: man on the beach?
Speaker 1: Incredible? Absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2: I it is basically I will. I know I will
Speaker 2: never be able to do the other physical feat that
Speaker 2: I find to be impossible. I could probably do a
Speaker 2: backflip with some training, but the the videos of guys
Speaker 2: jumping out of pools onto the deck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that I.
Speaker 2: Can't get enough of. I am nowhere near a backflip.
Speaker 2: I'm nowhere near three hund than thirty six pounds. I
Speaker 2: guess that would be God. I waited at about bucks
Speaker 2: seventy two the other day. What how much time would
Speaker 2: it take you with something important on the line to learn?
Speaker 2: How much time would it take for you to train
Speaker 2: and complete a standing backflip?
Speaker 1: Well, the answer to that your current weight. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: answer to that question is contingent on how close I
Speaker 1: can get to a backflip.
Speaker 2: Now, I assume you would just jump up and flop back.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I don't. I don't. Gosh, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I could make it ninety degrees, let alone three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty. If I give you a month, Oh God,
Speaker 1: could I do it in a month? I could probably
Speaker 1: get pretty close in a month. Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1: How about you?
Speaker 2: Big where its No, it would take me like six
Speaker 2: or seven weeks, eight weeks, a couple months.
Speaker 1: That's an excellent question, tweet us. That's solid verbal.
Speaker 2: How long would it take you?
Speaker 1: Maybe there's like a physical trainer or a former g
Speaker 1: that listens to the show that can offer some insight
Speaker 1: on this one. How long would it take me to go,
Speaker 1: for my current state into about place where I could
Speaker 1: do a backflip?
Speaker 2: That is so, I don't know if this will serve him. Obviously,
Speaker 2: there's a huge degree of athleticism from this nose tackle.
Speaker 2: If he is able to backflip over a goal line
Speaker 2: situation to do like a reverse LeVar leap, it's all
Speaker 2: worth it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'll be roundbreaking to go to that
Speaker 1: to that extent, and let me add something else here.
Speaker 1: It's a totally different league when you're talking about just
Speaker 1: doing a backflip versus doing the thing where you jump
Speaker 1: out of the pool. I just wouldn't make that. I'm
Speaker 1: not equating the two. I think jumping out of a
Speaker 1: pool is an alienability. I don't know how anyone's able
Speaker 1: to do that, right.
Speaker 2: I think this standing backflip is so much cooler. Last
Speaker 2: year the big thing was quarterbacks throwing to guys on
Speaker 2: jet skis or water skiing, whatever it was.
Speaker 1: This is so so so so much better. Tie.
Speaker 2: It is impossibly better. So that's all I have with
Speaker 2: backflip stuff I do. There is a serious story if
Speaker 2: we can get into it real please please. A jury
Speaker 2: ruled that Todd McNair, former running backs coach for USC,
Speaker 2: who was singled out in the nc DOUBLEA sanctions, he
Speaker 2: was given a year show cause. He has then now
Speaker 2: in turn sued the NCUBLEA, and it made its way
Speaker 2: past the number of panels because the NCAA has wanted
Speaker 2: to throw the case out, but it finally made it
Speaker 2: to a trial. And of course his accusation was that
Speaker 2: he was unfairly singled out and that he the NCUABLEA
Speaker 2: acted recklessly and defamed him and caused him to not
Speaker 2: work since twenty eleven, and he was suing the NCUBLEA
Speaker 2: for acting recklessly in their imposition of sanctions as it
Speaker 2: relates to Reggie Bush and Lloyd Lake, the marketing guy,
Speaker 2: and he was suing them for twenty seven million dollars.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of money, by the way, it's a lot.
Speaker 2: Of money, saying it led to depression and it hurt
Speaker 2: his finances to a crazy degree, all of which seem
Speaker 2: like within the realm of possibility, given that he hasn't
Speaker 2: been able to work and had worked his way up
Speaker 2: to USC. There was an issue there was a lot
Speaker 2: that was in the case that was shown that the
Speaker 2: nc DOUBLEA was acting in a negligent fashion. I think,
Speaker 2: with the benefit of hindsight, it is very clear that
Speaker 2: the NCUBA acted crazy, harsh towards USC given the evidence
Speaker 2: that they had or didn't have, and USC should not
Speaker 2: have received the degree of sanctions that they've received. But
Speaker 2: I guess his attorneys were not able to prove to
Speaker 2: you know, to hit that burden that, because defamation is
Speaker 2: a very difficult thing to reach, that he was indeed
Speaker 2: worthy of receiving the award that he was seeking. So
Speaker 2: I think that the jury said that they felt bad
Speaker 2: and in no way sort of blessed how the NCUBA acted,
Speaker 2: but the burden was too high and he was not
Speaker 2: rewarded for twenty seven mili.
Speaker 1: I have a couple streams of thought on this matter,
Speaker 1: none of which are as serious as they probably should be.
Speaker 1: The first is that this is still going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's still going on. Todd mcnaer has been out of
Speaker 1: football since like twenty ten, twenty eleven, yeah, something like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a while since this whole thing.
Speaker 1: First off, it makes me feel old, mm hmm, you know,
Speaker 1: because this stems back to the whole Reggie Bush thing,
Speaker 1: which of course was a very big deal for a while,
Speaker 1: and I tend to agree that USC really got the
Speaker 1: short end of the stick on that matter. But the
Speaker 1: fact that it's still going on, I'm sure is going
Speaker 1: to be news to a lot of people if you
Speaker 1: didn't already read this. Yes, there were aspects of this
Speaker 1: whole thing that were still going on. The second is
Speaker 1: that twenty seven millions a lot of money. By no
Speaker 1: means that my skilled in the ways of you know,
Speaker 1: legal things, legal eues, if you want to call it that,
Speaker 1: sure the law, I would just like more information on
Speaker 1: how you come to that figure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a calculation of you know, if
Speaker 2: he had continued to move up the coaching ranks, how
Speaker 2: much he potents much he could right, Lloyd Lake did
Speaker 2: not testify, which I think it seems hurt his case that,
Speaker 2: you know, his lawyers could debunk a lot of what
Speaker 2: Lloyd Lake might have to say, and he was interviewed
Speaker 2: in a sort of misleading way. So it sucks to
Speaker 2: hear because I really had hoped that he would have
Speaker 2: received some sort of settlement for the way everything was handled.
Speaker 2: By a pretty terrible committee of infractions on the NCAA's front.
Speaker 1: So I'm curious as to how you get to that number.
Speaker 1: And I'm not criticizing the number. I'm just genuinely curious
Speaker 1: as to how you get there. And then my final point,
Speaker 1: you sort of stole the thunder a little bit, But
Speaker 1: does Lloyd Lake does a gentleman by the name of
Speaker 1: Lloyd Lake not sound like a marketing guru. It does
Speaker 1: sound like if you were going to invent a fictitious
Speaker 1: character that was going to be a marketing guru, a
Speaker 1: name like Lloyd Lake would have to be on the.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean it does.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a fake name too, right, exactly like
Speaker 2: you were pulled over and sir, what's your name? And
Speaker 2: you look at something and you look at a magazine
Speaker 2: in your car that's like, oh, it's Lake Michigan, right,
Speaker 2: and you're next to a lake. And yes, it does
Speaker 2: sound a little bit misleading, but man, it's a tough
Speaker 2: break for Todd MS.
Speaker 1: Tough break, tough break, all right. The other news that
Speaker 1: we mentioned a couple shows ago, quarterback transfers were in
Speaker 1: full on quarterback transfer season. Mm hmm. I don't know
Speaker 1: if there have been more lately or if we just
Speaker 1: hear more about them now, but the grad transfer thing
Speaker 1: has obviously been a pretty big deal, not just grad transfers,
Speaker 1: but transfers in general. Five star quarterbacks, highly regarded quarterbacks
Speaker 1: go to a school there's a logjam at quarterback. They
Speaker 1: obviously want to play, so they move on. The two
Speaker 1: names that we have spiked out here are Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: who transferred away from Ohio State and is now going
Speaker 1: to LSU.
Speaker 2: Yes has our will grad?
Speaker 1: Yes? Correct? And Hunter Johnson. Hunter Johnson a former five
Speaker 1: star quarterback recruit, he signed on with Clemson. Clemson's quarterback
Speaker 1: situation has obviously gotten very very muddied now given the
Speaker 1: fact that Trevor Lawrence has gone there. Kelly Bryant is
Speaker 1: presumed the starter as of now. Hunter Johnson, native of Indiana,
Speaker 1: really had no place on that totem pole at least
Speaker 1: if reports are to be believed. And it sounds as
Speaker 1: if he is considering either Purdue or Northwestern as his
Speaker 1: next stop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he has some connection to Northwestern, but yeah
Speaker 2: in Indiana, Native Indiana just got a grad transfer. I
Speaker 2: think it's a full grad transfer. Maybe it's such a transfer.
Speaker 2: Transfer from Brandon Dawkins of Arizona Purdue would make sense
Speaker 2: given what Jeff Brohm has done with quarterbacks over the
Speaker 2: course of his career. Will he be long for West Lafayette.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't bet on it at this point, but yeah,
Speaker 2: and it sort of. And the Joe Burrow thing makes
Speaker 2: sense obviously, Ohio State's recruited number of talent the quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: He did not win the starting job. It appears Dwayne
Speaker 2: Haskins is in the driver's seat for that after Burrow
Speaker 2: got hurt as the onset of twenty seventeen, and Dwayne
Speaker 2: Haskins did look very good against Michigan in relief of j. T.
Speaker 2: Barrett when he went down briefly. So Louisiana State University
Speaker 2: is where Joe Burrow ends up. Joe Burrow fight be good.
Speaker 2: Nobody really knows people are winning the spring game stats.
Speaker 2: But the good news is that I don't think anybody
Speaker 2: at LSU was all that confident in what they had
Speaker 2: in the quarterback room. You know, there are names that
Speaker 2: were recruited with certain cachet, but Joe Burrow, at least
Speaker 2: in terms of adding numbers to just you need to
Speaker 2: take as many shots as possible to find a quarterback
Speaker 2: that will work out. And LSU has, you know, gone
Speaker 2: through some things these past couple of years, a lot
Speaker 2: of that that roster has been overhauled, you know, a
Speaker 2: lot of attrition, especially some struggles on the offensive line,
Speaker 2: losing a couple of big names at receiver, at running back.
Speaker 2: So it's a new look LSU team, whatever the case is,
Speaker 2: if Joe Burrow starts or not. But I think it
Speaker 2: seems like a good move for all. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of hype around his name. I'm not it's good positive
Speaker 2: why goodbye association. Yeah, we talked about this a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago. Hey he went to Ohio State. Mm
Speaker 2: hmm ls.
Speaker 1: You could definitely use a shot in the arm in
Speaker 1: the quarterback department. It's been lacking for a while.
Speaker 2: What's sort of interesting at the same time is grad
Speaker 2: transfer quarterbacks. People are going to just immediately point to
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson, who was good, I wouldn't say excellent at
Speaker 2: NC State, but maybe that was the system that he
Speaker 2: was in with Tom O'Brien. But he obviously had an enormous,
Speaker 2: enormous year leading Wisconsin to the Rose Bowl and I
Speaker 2: think was the most efficient quarterback in the country. Vernon
Speaker 2: Adams moving up a level was obviously very successful for Oregon,
Speaker 2: but by and large, grad transfer quarterbacks after spending three
Speaker 2: or four years at a school and then jumping to
Speaker 2: a new place. It is not a situation littered with successes.
Speaker 1: Do not besmirch the name of malikue Zaire Dan exactly,
Speaker 1: ty exactly.
Speaker 2: So it's interesting. I mean Max Brown not not exactly
Speaker 2: world theater at pitt So, I you know what, listen,
Speaker 2: hoping for the best for everybody involved, but yeah, it's
Speaker 2: not an automatic thing. And then now people are saying
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts might take another year, hopefully graduate early, and
Speaker 2: then leave if he doesn't get this job. And there
Speaker 2: was a story about did you see the Tuas story? Yeah,
Speaker 2: came out if he didn't play in the National Championship.
Speaker 2: And you know, when he arrived at Alabama, there was
Speaker 2: some some growing pains. And he's from Hawaii, He's going
Speaker 2: to Tuscaloose, Alabama. I know his family moved to Alabama.
Speaker 2: But it's it's tough, man.
Speaker 1: A lot of hot takes out there, Dan, a lot
Speaker 1: of hot takes.
Speaker 2: The only thing I will say, and I tweeted this out,
Speaker 2: is that I hope on some level, because I have
Speaker 2: no problem with quarterbacks committing somewhere and then realizing that
Speaker 2: the situation isn't great and doing whatever they can to
Speaker 2: better their own situation, hopefully of their future, and going
Speaker 2: somewhere else, I hope that maybe there's more time and
Speaker 2: maybe they speak to more people in trying to find
Speaker 2: the best possible fit instead of just the best possible name.
Speaker 1: Well, we talked, We talked on our Howe Recruiting Work
Speaker 1: show about that. Right, that was one of the key tenants.
Speaker 1: Budd talked about that. Yeah, Bud talked about it. Lindsay
Speaker 1: Theory talked about it. Weah McQuay talked about it. There
Speaker 1: really is this romanticism involved with going to the biggest
Speaker 1: school out there, and for many kids it may not
Speaker 1: be the best selection. You got to pick the school
Speaker 1: that's right for you. You got to pick the system that's
Speaker 1: right for you. We talked a little bit to Todd
Speaker 1: Boyd about that very topic. He didn't want. He was
Speaker 1: very very set on the kind of system he wanted
Speaker 1: to play in. That helped guide his recruitment. Now changed.
Speaker 1: It changed once you got on campus. But the point
Speaker 1: is he at least had a sense of self. He
Speaker 1: knew where he wanted to go and thought he might
Speaker 1: be able to apply his skills in a certain way.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that always goes on. I think
Speaker 1: some kids really get taken by the process, and that
Speaker 1: could be part of why we're seeing so many transfers
Speaker 1: as of late. I don't know, but to your point, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think a little bit of due diligence up front
Speaker 1: to help counsel these kids in proper direction might be
Speaker 1: best for all parties involved.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still remember I think Aaron Murray and Zach
Speaker 2: Mettenberger were in the same class yep at Georgia.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep.
Speaker 2: And that's fine. And like I understand the will to
Speaker 2: compete and the belief in yourself that nobody is better
Speaker 2: than you. But you also, you know, you have to
Speaker 2: look at certain realities. I want to say at this point,
Speaker 2: Washington has four blue chip quarterbacks, great problem to have.
Speaker 2: Don't blame Washington for taking that many. I think Texas
Speaker 2: may have four blue chip quarterbacks on its roster right now.
Speaker 2: They obviously Sam Ellinger and Shane Bochelle. Then a couple
Speaker 2: of freshmen incoming. But it's interesting to me that there
Speaker 2: isn't a little bit more of a pragmatic attitude about
Speaker 2: you know what, there's a senior there, there's a good
Speaker 2: quarterback coach there. You know, maybe instead of going to USC,
Speaker 2: I go to Cal. Maybe instead of going to Texas,
Speaker 2: I go to Kansas State. There that they're you know,
Speaker 2: if if Kansas State is a place you want to go,
Speaker 2: if Cal is a place you want to go, I'd
Speaker 2: be interested to know if guys are going to be
Speaker 2: a little bit more careful about.
Speaker 1: The situations they put themselves in. Don't be Nate Montana.
Speaker 1: Don't be Nate Montana. Don't be Nate Montana. For transfers,
Speaker 1: I think, if memory serves, that was at the final
Speaker 1: he started at Notre Dame. Then he went to a
Speaker 1: small school. Then I think he went back to Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: and then he actually did go to Montana, and then
Speaker 1: he went somewhere else. Uh, West Virginia Wesleyan.
Speaker 2: Is that where he ended up.
Speaker 1: I think that's where he ended up. Don't do that, Okay,
Speaker 1: don't you want to go to a question. Let's go
Speaker 1: to a question where should we start all right.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's go to I like this quotquestion just because
Speaker 2: we are probably not going to address it in nearly
Speaker 2: the detail.
Speaker 1: Paul rache Reich.
Speaker 2: Once probably anticipates what is the upside downside of Stephen
Speaker 2: or Stevie? He calls it Monteze. I like that, Stevie Montes.
Speaker 1: I am rolling back that all year long.
Speaker 2: The cornerback of Colorado. Is he capable of being a
Speaker 2: top four or five quarterback in the PAC twelve.
Speaker 1: So the qualifier here is in the PAC twelve. In
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve, a top four or five quarterback in
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve. Let's talk about the quarterbacks in the
Speaker 1: PAC twelve. Let's all right. So we've obviously got your
Speaker 1: boy Justin Herbert up.
Speaker 2: Okay, So in order, who would you say is the
Speaker 2: best returning quarterback in the PAC twelve right now? I
Speaker 2: think it's obvious it's a Jake Browning.
Speaker 1: An it's Jake Browning. Yeah, it is Jake Browning. But
Speaker 1: we've also got Justin Herbert up there in the north.
Speaker 1: The Stanford quarterback situation's up at either Kaja Costello mm hmm.
Speaker 1: So that's three right there.
Speaker 2: I'd say Manny Wilkins is Anny Wilkins ahead is interesting.
Speaker 2: It's still in Tempe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Arizona quarterback situations intriguing to me.
Speaker 2: Khalil Tate, I think is probably ahead of Justin. Herbert's
Speaker 2: probably the second best right now, the best quarterback in
Speaker 2: terms of the Heisman potential because of his all around ability.
Speaker 2: So if there's a one A, one B situation with Tate, Browning, Herbert, Wilkins, Costello,
Speaker 2: the problem with Stevie Montes.
Speaker 1: Definitely going to be Stevie all year.
Speaker 2: I would have expected him to have a better year
Speaker 2: last year if he were capable of being up top
Speaker 2: four or five, because of what he had in the
Speaker 2: backfield with Philip Lindsay, the receivers that returned last year. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the defense took some hits with the loss of a
Speaker 2: number of big players from that twenty sixteen squad, but
Speaker 2: I would have expected more given what he had around
Speaker 2: him last year. So I will probably say also depending
Speaker 2: on what happens at UCLA with Chip Kelly and Wilton
Speaker 2: Spade or whoever ends up playing the majority of the
Speaker 2: year under center for the Bruins with JT. Daniels or
Speaker 2: you know, Jack Sears, whoever starts for USC. It's it's
Speaker 2: going for him to be tough to crack that top
Speaker 2: half of the conference.
Speaker 1: Is he in front of Ross Bowers in the Bower Hour? Yes,
Speaker 1: he is in front of the Bower Hour. Then you know,
Speaker 1: obviously a tragic and unknown situation at Washington States with
Speaker 1: you know, Luke Fox moving on to the NFL and
Speaker 1: the tragedy of Tyler Helenski and their uncertainty. I know
Speaker 1: they've got a freshman coming in that they're pretty high
Speaker 1: on it. I think his name is Camon, not Cameron, right,
Speaker 1: I think it's Cammon, Camon. I think it's Cammon.
Speaker 2: He is ahead of the Bower Hour. And then Utah situation,
Speaker 2: the Tyler Huntley started out really nicely, and I know
Speaker 2: they've got a pretty promising true freshman coming in who
Speaker 2: stuck with Utah blue chip kid, but that's nothing I
Speaker 2: can really count on at the moment.
Speaker 1: So I think I put Huntley in front of in
Speaker 1: front of Stevie, in.
Speaker 2: Front of Stevie Montes. Yeah, ah, he got kind of
Speaker 2: sloppy with the ball light, but that's fine. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I'd say top six seven somewhere in there.
Speaker 1: Stevie Montes, I love you Paul.
Speaker 2: That's Stevie Montes. We got another question about I think
Speaker 2: divisional quarterbacks this time. Oh, this is from Matt. I
Speaker 2: put this in today. We got the question today, when
Speaker 2: was the last time the SEC's quarterbacks were this good?
Speaker 2: I actually first read this as SEC East quarterbacks, which
Speaker 2: I had an answer for. But when was the last
Speaker 2: time the SEC's quarterbacks? And the quarterback situation? I mean
Speaker 2: there's across the conference. I'd say it's pretty good. Jared's
Speaker 2: did Amuel?
Speaker 1: So what do we got? We got Tua at Alabama
Speaker 1: presumed Tua or Hurtz. Yeah, Drew Locke at Missouri. I
Speaker 1: saw there was another question about Drew Locke for Heisman?
Speaker 1: Is that could that be a thing? I guess, I
Speaker 1: mean it's may Why not Jared Stidham had I thought
Speaker 1: a pretty good campaign last year. Nick Fitzgerald at Mississippi State,
Speaker 1: who for me is the sleeper given their coaching turnover
Speaker 1: and what could go on down there? Jake from at Georgia,
Speaker 1: where do we go next? I get like Jake Bentley
Speaker 1: or Jordan Tamo at Ole miss Or intriguing.
Speaker 2: I mean those are totally Yeah. I like both of
Speaker 2: those players. I like Tambo maybe a little bit more.
Speaker 1: We got a bunch of names here that I think
Speaker 1: Cole Kelly is like six foot nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we've managed to hit all of the
Speaker 2: good quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's a not a big Kyle Shermer guy.
Speaker 1: It's a much improved situation, is the answer to this question.
Speaker 1: And it's been a while since I thought we could
Speaker 1: go at least halfway through the conference feeling as confident
Speaker 1: as we do at the quarterpot.
Speaker 2: I would say it's probably twenty thirteen. With the collection
Speaker 2: of guys who were strong, I would say strong in
Speaker 2: the SEC. So that's doctor Bow yep, Johnny Manziel, right,
Speaker 2: I had to start with doctor Bow. Johnny Manziel had
Speaker 2: a ridiculous year the year before, Aaron Murray was a senior.
Speaker 2: In twenty thirteen, Aj mcchaeron was a senior. Zach Mettenberger
Speaker 2: was really good for LSU. Connor Shaw had a fantastic year.
Speaker 2: I think he had. I'm looking at the numbers in front,
Speaker 2: so I don't have to say I think eighteen touchdowns
Speaker 2: to one pick was efficient doing it. Nick Marshall not
Speaker 2: a huge thrower, but maybe underrated thrower for Auburn as
Speaker 2: they won the SEC. And then yeah, the duo casual
Speaker 2: address James Franklin and baby Matty Mock when he was
Speaker 2: still good.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they combined twenty twenty or twenty touchdowns to four picks.
Speaker 2: That was a good year.
Speaker 1: Did you say it that? The Baby Matty Mock when
Speaker 1: he was still good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a freshman and he was still good
Speaker 2: because he did not go in n upward trajection.
Speaker 1: On the way we expected.
Speaker 2: Did it? No, it did not. And then you also
Speaker 2: had an underwhelming deck and an underwhelming Josh Dobbs. So
Speaker 2: even the guys who were underwhelming, and Brandon Allen didn't
Speaker 2: have a particularly good year that year. So even those
Speaker 2: three guys who were underwhelming were still throwing a ton
Speaker 2: of passes in the SEC. I think twenty thirteen is
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: Arkansas built their whole offense around Brandon Allen. Like hell
Speaker 1: yeah later, so great, Okay, good question.
Speaker 2: I think that's the answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where are we going next?
Speaker 2: Let's go to Oh some guy asked us about ties.
Speaker 2: We'll get to the non football questions questions, how do
Speaker 2: you feel about Virginia Tech and Notre Dame or the
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech Notre Dame game, given the similar questions starting
Speaker 2: both programs returning quarterbacks the year this year, excuse me,
Speaker 2: and the game is in October. Do you think that
Speaker 2: it will have a market impact on the course of
Speaker 2: each team's season? Well, without knowing what happens before then, sure,
Speaker 2: a little bit difficult, But I actually it's a it's
Speaker 2: a particularly interesting question because those two teams at the outset.
Speaker 2: You know, at the at the end of last year,
Speaker 2: we went into the season saying, oh, this new quarterback
Speaker 2: real intriguing. You know, Josh Jackson had a good game
Speaker 2: against West Virginia to open the season. Brandon Wimbush looked
Speaker 2: pretty strong opening up the year, and then, for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: these two quarterbacks coached by what are known to be
Speaker 2: pretty good offensive mines, got worse over the course of
Speaker 2: the season, despite also having what I think we're both
Speaker 2: really good defenses.
Speaker 1: On the other side, I feel better about Josh Jackson
Speaker 1: at quarterback. If I could trade Wimbush for Jackson, I
Speaker 1: would take that trade, and a heartbeat, really I would.
Speaker 1: I would. He at least looks comfortable throwing the football.
Speaker 1: Wimbush never did. He never got any better on the whole, though,
Speaker 1: I have fewer questions about Notre Dame than I do
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech turns a lot over on both
Speaker 1: sides of the football Notre Dames. Notre Dame's defense should
Speaker 1: be really solid. They lost their defensive coordinator, which hurts, right.
Speaker 1: I think They've got the talent to again perform at
Speaker 1: a very high level defensively, so I'm fine with where
Speaker 1: they're at as a defensive unit. I think they'll be
Speaker 1: very good. But Virginia Tech lost some headliners really at
Speaker 1: all three levels of their defense. Bud Foster will get
Speaker 1: them whipped into shape before long, but I have more
Speaker 1: questions on that side of the football because of those losses.
Speaker 1: I have questions offensively. They haven't really used their running
Speaker 1: back position that well in I don't know, five years.
Speaker 1: I'm probably mixing up my years, but it's been a
Speaker 1: while since I felt good about what they did at
Speaker 1: the running back position consistently year in and year out.
Speaker 1: So I think that that's some questions to answer on
Speaker 1: that front. They lose a pretty big piece at wide
Speaker 1: receipt I think is going to take some time to
Speaker 1: sort out, and Josh Jackson to your point was not
Speaker 1: any kind of model for consistency in his first season,
Speaker 1: so I.
Speaker 2: Have surprisingly similarly years statistically. Yeah, yeah, I think verse.
Speaker 2: I want to say this is verse, yeah, versus winning
Speaker 2: record FBS teams. Josh Jackson had a rating of one
Speaker 2: twenty one, Brandon Wimbush one nineteen. Josh Jackson seven point
Speaker 2: two yards per attempt, Brandon Wimbush six point eight. I'm
Speaker 2: still on still Randon, which had more touchdown pass.
Speaker 1: I'm still taking Josh Jackson, Josh Josh Jackson, excuse me
Speaker 1: because I had to watch Wimbush all last.
Speaker 2: Year, So you're just going more of the unknown. Yeah,
Speaker 2: at least you don't know what you're getting into.
Speaker 1: Wimbush is probably a better runner, I'll give him that,
Speaker 1: Oh definitely. But Josh Jackson is pretty mobile, and I
Speaker 1: at least know that he looks a little bit more
Speaker 1: comfortable in the pocket. I know that. So I watching
Speaker 1: the Virginia Tech football So yeah, I and look the other.
Speaker 1: The only other point I'll add here is I don't
Speaker 1: know how it affects both teams moving forward, but I
Speaker 1: know that the situational play would be to go Virginia
Speaker 1: Tech in that game. I don't know if there'll be
Speaker 1: a home dog or not.
Speaker 2: Where are they playing the game? That in Blacksburg or
Speaker 2: is it in like DC or something.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where the game's at, but it is
Speaker 1: the week after Notre Dame is home against Stanford, and
Speaker 1: that game's.
Speaker 2: Always coo ooh, bodyblow theory tie.
Speaker 1: Exactly a week after Stanford comes to town, then Notre
Speaker 1: Dame goes on the road to somewhere. Whether it's Blacksburg
Speaker 1: or somewhere else, I don't know, but the smart money
Speaker 1: would be on Virginia Tech in that game if they're
Speaker 1: a home dog of some sort.
Speaker 2: Mike and Houston years it takes for Chad Morris to
Speaker 2: get a winning record at Arkansas. Or the number of
Speaker 2: tacos Dan eight while in Mexico City.
Speaker 1: How long were you in Mexico City.
Speaker 2: I was in Mexico City Thursday night, Friday, Saturday, most
Speaker 2: of Sunday.
Speaker 1: So you at least eight three tacos. I didn't check
Speaker 1: the Instagram feed, but you at least date three in
Speaker 1: the period of time you were there. I had many tacos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's saying number of years versus number of tacos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would I would put tacos ahead of the years. Oh,
Speaker 1: because they might have a win. It here four years,
Speaker 1: three years, it might be gone. They might have a
Speaker 1: winning record this.
Speaker 2: Year they very well met. I think their schedule is
Speaker 2: particularly impossible.
Speaker 1: It's tough. They're on the cusp this right, like seven
Speaker 1: to five. I think is is a reasonable goal for
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. I probably had.
Speaker 2: If you're also going to include times where I was
Speaker 2: served a dish and then a side of tortillos tortillas
Speaker 2: with the option of making tacos, which I always took,
Speaker 2: I probably had no less than a dozen fifteen.
Speaker 1: Why why did you go to Mexico City, By the way,
Speaker 1: did we talk about this? Sure?
Speaker 2: I went to Mexico City because it's great. Okay, it's
Speaker 2: inexpensive to fly there and back. I played under three
Speaker 2: hundred dollars. My friend Dave had never been, obviously, camera
Speaker 2: guy Dave. It's inexpensive to stay there. The people are
Speaker 2: super nice, the weather is great. It's seven thousand feet up,
Speaker 2: so there aren't bugs, or at least they're not mosquitos
Speaker 2: in the way that there are other places when it's
Speaker 2: warmer in Mexico. The food is tremendous. The the exchange
Speaker 2: rate is great, like an uber across town is like
Speaker 2: three dollars. But I can't recommend Mexico City an off tie.
Speaker 1: Interesting and you know Spanish that I usually do you
Speaker 1: know Spanish?
Speaker 2: See of course of West though. Next question, I seriously
Speaker 2: go to Mexico City. If you haven't, you should. Let's
Speaker 2: go to Let's go to l elle hi l. This
Speaker 2: is particularly relevant because you are in the midst of
Speaker 2: moving and setting up your new studio. What's the best
Speaker 2: piece of advice you've received about running a podcast.
Speaker 1: That we've received? Yes, ooh, I've always been asked this
Speaker 1: question sort of the other way around. What's the for
Speaker 1: you to give it? Yeah, what's the best bit of
Speaker 1: advice that you would give? Would and the best bit
Speaker 1: of advice is always to buy the best microphone you
Speaker 1: can afford. That's that's the best advice you can you could.
Speaker 2: And record consistently, be dependable.
Speaker 1: The best advice that we've received about run the podcast.
Speaker 2: You're in a lot of different secret paid for podcast
Speaker 2: forums looking about bit rates, right, we know a good
Speaker 2: number of podcasters.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to pinpoint it because we got
Speaker 1: rolling on this train very early. We were doing this
Speaker 1: literally before podcasting was a word, So it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of tough to pinpoint one thing we've grown up with it.
Speaker 1: I think the one that I always come back to
Speaker 1: is just be authentic, you know. I think I think
Speaker 1: for the people that have met us or will meet
Speaker 1: us in the future, you will find, maybe to great dismay,
Speaker 1: that Dan and I are very similar in person than
Speaker 1: we are when we're recording the show. Sure, and I
Speaker 1: like to think that on some level that has played
Speaker 1: into the success that we've had with the verbal you know,
Speaker 1: being ourselves has really worked out for the better. So
Speaker 1: I if I had to pick something, I guess just
Speaker 1: be authentic. That usually that usually tends to come through.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember twenty eleven when we were at grant Land.
Speaker 2: Dave Jacoby was our producer, and we'd send episodes and
Speaker 2: sometimes we'd hear back, sometimes we wouldn't, just in terms
Speaker 2: of getting feedback, and I remember early on he said
Speaker 2: he laughed hysterically when we started doing Nick Foles and
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Speaker 2: need to read stats. People can check box scores. That's fine,
Speaker 2: but like if something is like a thing to you, like,
Speaker 2: go into the brevity of the sports. So I feel
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Speaker 2: You know, everything that you know can be a thing.
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Speaker 1: Where are we going next.
Speaker 2: Gary wants us to deep dive Navy football. Okay, Hi,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you the platform. You said you had
Speaker 2: a long, extended, detailed monologue.
Speaker 1: Can I may make a mission on the program?
Speaker 2: You may?
Speaker 1: How big is the show that we do? You don't
Speaker 1: have to give numbers, but we're relatively big podcast, right sure.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, over the course of the last decade,
Speaker 1: we've gained a certain amount of credibility talking about college football.
Speaker 1: People actually listen. They they they sometimes say we have
Speaker 1: expert opinions, right, Uh huh. I still cannot say the
Speaker 1: name of the Navy head football coach, can you monololoone?
Speaker 1: I cannot say that word Neil. We've been doing this
Speaker 1: since two thousand and eight. I cannot say that that.
Speaker 2: Word Neo Nieu mata mata lolo lolo Neo matalolo.
Speaker 1: Neiu matalolo. That was pretty good, I can. I can
Speaker 1: do it phonetically like that, but you can't do a
Speaker 1: conversation now. Well, we're going through the rigors of the
Speaker 1: show that we do. I will not get Nia matalolo
Speaker 1: correct when I have to think about it quickly. I've
Speaker 1: never been able to say it.
Speaker 2: On the big stage during the season. If Navy blows
Speaker 2: out UCF or something in a crazy upset, you will
Speaker 2: not be able to say credit to Kenya Montolo. No
Speaker 2: now prepared, he got the middies.
Speaker 1: We're show about honesty here. I've always had trouble with
Speaker 1: that word. I've also had trouble with words such as
Speaker 1: globe tomatoes, which is neither here nor there. Sure I
Speaker 1: had to issues with words, but yeah, that's a pretty
Speaker 1: big one for me.
Speaker 2: So Navy season last year was super weird. They started
Speaker 2: five and oh they lose six to seven. They blow
Speaker 2: Virginia out in their bowl game. They lost a bunch
Speaker 2: of close games, which is fairly unusual usually a team
Speaker 2: like Navy, or specifically Navy, you know, as we've seen them,
Speaker 2: especially against better teams a couple of years ago against
Speaker 2: Houston edging them out in an upset in Annapolis. Navy
Speaker 2: doesn't generally lose close games, and they ended up losing
Speaker 2: a bunch of close games last year. Butt Tye, so
Speaker 2: he's a butt. They have Malcolm Perry. Malcolm Perry is
Speaker 2: real good. He played like a versatile role last year.
Speaker 2: You know, slot back running backs took some under center
Speaker 2: he's like the no brainer quarterback coming in this year.
Speaker 2: The defense improved last year, should be fine this year.
Speaker 2: They've got some pretty decent teams on the schedule once
Speaker 2: again in the in the American but they should be
Speaker 2: like they have Notre Dame and they're due to beat
Speaker 2: Notre Dame. That's just how it works. Ye, when you
Speaker 2: watch Navy football, they're due. I don't remember where they're
Speaker 2: playing that game this year, but it's probably not Annapolis.
Speaker 2: They have Army in Philly coming off that weird snow
Speaker 2: game last year. U SEF with a new coach they
Speaker 2: have I don't think South Florida's on their regular season schedule.
Speaker 2: But outside of that, Houston is a good defense. That's
Speaker 2: a defense that can hang with them. And outside of that,
Speaker 2: Cincinnati should be improved. Lehigh is always dangerous tie you
Speaker 2: know that. I know that you can get into that
Speaker 2: game for nineteen dollars right now. Temple should be improved,
Speaker 2: but this should be a comfortable Bowl team in twenty
Speaker 2: eighteen given the talent that they especially return at quarterback.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna go with they.
Speaker 2: Need to complete more passes. They were really kind of
Speaker 2: garbage through the air. Last year, and.
Speaker 1: Let me credit ken Neo Matalolo. Boom Neo Motalolo. It's
Speaker 1: too easy for the model of consistency that he is
Speaker 1: implemented at Navy football. You know, it might not be
Speaker 1: the kind of program gonna go like ten wins every year,
Speaker 1: but they are way more consistent now than I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people expect it when he took that
Speaker 1: job over. He's done a tremendous job.
Speaker 2: An I am genuinely bough. We have not seen him
Speaker 2: at a bigger place. That Oregon State didn't hire him,
Speaker 2: that Arizona didn't hire him, buckling to alleged buckling to
Speaker 2: pressure from some of the players the didn't want to
Speaker 2: play in that system or a system or any system
Speaker 2: that ken Neio Modolola may have been coaching because of
Speaker 2: his background with the sort of flexbone triple option. I
Speaker 2: think that was short sighted. I think he could succeed,
Speaker 2: excuse me, on a huge, huge level. I really am
Speaker 2: rooting for him to get that opportunity somewhere.
Speaker 1: All right, where are we going next? Let's go to
Speaker 1: also Gary. Let's stick with you so many Gary's here.
Speaker 2: He's getting married in a few weeks. Suit is all
Speaker 2: figured out, except he's undecided on a tie bar versus
Speaker 2: no tie bars. You wear a tie bar?
Speaker 1: A tie bar? I did not know?
Speaker 2: Okay, neither did I.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: At your wedding, I've been told they're out of fashion,
Speaker 2: but then I still see them here and there. He's
Speaker 2: wearing a three piece suit. Should he be wearing a
Speaker 2: tie bar? The answer is a clear no.
Speaker 1: I think we're team no tie bar.
Speaker 2: I'm okay with a tie bar ordinarily. But if you
Speaker 2: have the vest on which keeps your tie, you know,
Speaker 2: secure to your person tucked in, it's it's redundant.
Speaker 1: You don't need the tie bar. Go go clean with it. Yep,
Speaker 1: next question, tie We.
Speaker 2: Got some really good ones here, because this is still
Speaker 2: a spillover from last last time we did these.
Speaker 1: Oh, you want me to pick a question out?
Speaker 2: I want you to pick a question. Oh, okay, let's.
Speaker 1: Say buh buh. This one from Zach A very easy one.
Speaker 1: In your wheelhouse? What is the worst tailgate food?
Speaker 2: Anything that's not handheld? Okay, I do not want to
Speaker 2: hold a plate and utensils, because then I have to
Speaker 2: find a place to put down my drink. I want
Speaker 2: to be able to pick up burger, chicken, fingers, ribs, whatever,
Speaker 2: without having to worry about a plate and silverware and
Speaker 2: putting my drink down and then losing my beer or
Speaker 2: losing my water or losing you know, my bourbon. Whatever
Speaker 2: has to be handheld. Give me a breakfast brito, give
Speaker 2: me a burger, give me a dog, give me a
Speaker 2: you know, a brisket sandwich. Whatever it is has to
Speaker 2: be handheld.
Speaker 1: Has to you disagree, not entirely, not entirely, Okay, what.
Speaker 2: Is the worst? No, I think that really isn't a
Speaker 2: specific thing. That's when the only.
Speaker 1: Qualifier I would add is that a side, you know,
Speaker 1: like a good potato salad or macaroni salad, some other
Speaker 1: side dish would be an exception where I think it's
Speaker 1: okay as a complimentary addition to the tailgating meal. But
Speaker 1: the meal depends.
Speaker 2: It depends what your tailgate is actually like, how much
Speaker 2: seating is available. But when I think about tailgate, I
Speaker 2: think about, you know, a spread of food being put
Speaker 2: on a lot long card table or something like that.
Speaker 2: Everybody grabs something and you know, is wandering around with
Speaker 2: a beer and talking to people and watching games on
Speaker 2: a giant screen on the side of somebody else's SUV
Speaker 2: or whatever the RV. Yeah, anything. I don't want fish
Speaker 2: at a tailgate. I just don't. I don't want.
Speaker 1: The worst tailgate food that I've come across.
Speaker 2: I can tell you the best tailgate food I've come
Speaker 2: across was a steak sandwich in Nebraska. The worst one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we've had specific.
Speaker 1: We've had this question before, and we had a tremendous answer,
Speaker 1: but I forget what it was. It was like three
Speaker 1: years ago. Okay, I forget what it was. On the
Speaker 1: same lines here, let's go to our friend Peter, who
Speaker 1: asks a remarkable question. I would have thought for sure
Speaker 1: that we had we would have addressed it by now
Speaker 1: ten years into this podcast. But what is your favorite
Speaker 1: grocery store smell? Oh smell? My answer is the bakery.
Speaker 1: The bakery. He pausits a couple theories here. He says
Speaker 1: his top five are the cheese section, the deli counter,
Speaker 1: the coffee aisle, food court, and he spikes out Chinese
Speaker 1: food in particular, and the dog food asle smell is
Speaker 1: very specific and he happens to love it now. I
Speaker 1: would counter that a little bit. The cheese section sometimes, yes,
Speaker 1: does have a spell. I don't know about the deli counter.
Speaker 1: The deli counter, to me, at least at Wegman's, where
Speaker 1: they keep things nice and tidy, does not always have
Speaker 1: a smell. And I'm surprised here quite frankly, Cristmas a coolness.
Speaker 1: I'm a little offended he didn't go bakery. The bakery
Speaker 1: isle has to be like Alabama in this question.
Speaker 2: I disagree. I think the prepared food, especially if there's
Speaker 2: a fried chicken element, the fried chicken scent odor overwhelms
Speaker 2: the case, and that can smell enticing.
Speaker 1: The only answer here is the bakery, because the bakery
Speaker 1: includes not only the fresh breads. Not everyone's lucky enough
Speaker 1: to have a fine institution like Wegman's nearby. I understand
Speaker 1: that in that category, that's so, it's through no fault
Speaker 1: of your own, really, right, But where they've got fresh
Speaker 1: baked breads, they've got fresh desserts, they've got all of
Speaker 1: those fine smells permeating the air that you breathe. The
Speaker 1: only answer here is the is a bakery?
Speaker 2: Is there a pizza oven?
Speaker 1: There's all there is a pizza oven? Are is it an.
Speaker 2: Open pizza oven?
Speaker 1: Uh? Like?
Speaker 2: Are they bringing pizzas in? And out of like a
Speaker 2: wood burning oven.
Speaker 1: They are, it's not always open, and there's like a
Speaker 1: I think there's like a lid or a cover to it.
Speaker 1: Sure can't use my a door whatever the word ish,
Speaker 1: But no, it's bakery. The only answer here is bakery.
Speaker 2: Well, in a way, a pizza oven is a bakery, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: I would. I actually am going to change my answer
Speaker 2: from prepared foods too. If you go to a nicer supermarket,
Speaker 2: your your Whole Foods, your Weagman's, your Gelson's, and and
Speaker 2: there is that open wood burning pizza oven. I think
Speaker 2: that's my answer.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I sort of changed your mind for the
Speaker 1: first time in the history of the podcast.
Speaker 2: In the history of the show. This comes to us
Speaker 2: from Dennis. Since it's the off season, he's been watching
Speaker 2: a lot. I think this is no Dennis asked another question.
Speaker 2: We'll get to Dennis in a moment. I don't have
Speaker 2: who asked this question, but it's a great question. Since
Speaker 2: it's the off season, I've been watching a lot of
Speaker 2: classic games. What is the best quarter a team has
Speaker 2: played against a top five team in the last twenty years?
Speaker 2: And you can think about Notre Dame games. If you
Speaker 2: want because that's going to be the most emotionally relevant
Speaker 2: to you. In my opinion, it's between between two different options.
Speaker 2: The two thousand and eight Oklahoma against Texas Tech game
Speaker 2: when they outscore Tech thirty five to seven. I believe
Speaker 2: that would have been a Sam Bradford team or Alabama
Speaker 2: versus Auburn in two thousand and nine when Alabama outscored
Speaker 2: Auburn twenty one to nothing and didn't let Cam and
Speaker 2: Auburn gain a first down. I think that was the
Speaker 2: twenty ten season. I'm almost positive it was there for
Speaker 2: a year, and that year was twenty ten. That was
Speaker 2: the camback game. Okay, do you have them? I have
Speaker 2: I have an answer for Oregon against the top five
Speaker 2: team because I was there and I remember the glee
Speaker 2: that I felt.
Speaker 1: He's saying the last twenty years, the last twenty years.
Speaker 1: That's going a little too deep into the's till like
Speaker 1: ninety eight, a little too deep in the database for me.
Speaker 2: Okay, so in the last few years minus minus four
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 1: Last few years. I don't know if it was the
Speaker 1: first or second quarter, but let's just say the whole
Speaker 1: first half of I want to say the twenty sixteen. Okay,
Speaker 1: Notre Dame Texas game with Maleague's air twenty fifteen. I
Speaker 1: guess it was twenty fifteen, the opening Stanza to that
Speaker 1: Notre Dame Texas game where Maleague's air just went off
Speaker 1: and everyone kind of instantly dubbed him a Heisman front runner.
Speaker 1: In that opening game against Texas, remember, no one, no
Speaker 1: one knew what to expect. People thought Texas might be
Speaker 1: good Texas right, not good that year. No, that opening
Speaker 1: first half for me was just mind blowing how good
Speaker 1: Notity looked and how good Movia Air looked.
Speaker 2: Sure, I think my answer is so for Oregon. As
Speaker 2: relates to the Ducks the twenty fourteen Rose Bowl against
Speaker 2: Florida State. That third quarter they outscored them twenty seven
Speaker 2: to seven. Florida State. It was eighteen thirteen at half time,
Speaker 2: and it was completely out of hand by the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: And that culminated with that, like Jameis Winston slip on
Speaker 2: a banana peel rko Tony Washington scooping up the fumble
Speaker 2: and running it in from like sixty yards. That to
Speaker 2: me was because Florida State at that point, I think
Speaker 2: was the number three team in the country. That is
Speaker 2: my personal answer. I'll go with the big twelveth theme.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember if this was twenty fifteen or
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. It was I'm looking at the schedule right now, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was twenty fifteen. The I want to say it
Speaker 2: was the opening quarter of TCU Texas. This was not
Speaker 2: against a top five Texas team, mind you. It was
Speaker 2: against a one in three or one in four Texas team.
Speaker 2: But in terms of like the blowout ability of a game,
Speaker 2: I think TCU went up thirty one nothing or thirty
Speaker 2: to nothing in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was kind of magical. That was a Trevon Boycan team.
Speaker 2: That was a fun, fun horn Frogs team. All right,
Speaker 2: So that's my non top five answer.
Speaker 1: I have I have a question at the end of
Speaker 1: this show that I that I really do need real
Speaker 1: world advice on. I don't want to okay the waters here,
Speaker 1: let's do Let's do like two more non football ones
Speaker 1: here before we get in quickly, Yeah, quickly.
Speaker 2: Dennis wants to know the best pop punk albums for
Speaker 2: a half hour on the treadmill. I'm gonna say no bummers,
Speaker 2: so we can't go too deeply Emo right, because we
Speaker 2: need that energy level high. We don't need you thinking
Speaker 2: about past loves, past wrongdoings. I would say, take this
Speaker 2: to your grave is a great answer.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good Fallout Boys, fall.
Speaker 2: Out Boys original or at least their first big release.
Speaker 2: That is, it's high energy, it's it's mostly positive sounding.
Speaker 2: I don't know remember all of the lyrics, but it
Speaker 2: moves quickly. It'll get you to the place you need
Speaker 2: to be. I would make something on Spotify. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: say you need a specific band's album like I would
Speaker 2: put Fat Lip on there by some forty one if
Speaker 2: I needed a half hour treadmill mix full of pop punk.
Speaker 2: There's there's a lot of options I would pull, you know,
Speaker 2: I'd pull some Yellow Card into there. I'd pull some
Speaker 2: Newfound Glory.
Speaker 1: Hey, are we going to do a show with Bill
Speaker 1: Barnwell this summer? Are is that gonna do late July? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yes, we're gonna do an off topic show with Bill again.
Speaker 2: Of course, I'm very excited for that show. We've we've
Speaker 2: kind of got a thing going with him now, these
Speaker 2: late July shows. Sure. So we've done EMO and we've
Speaker 2: done nineties video games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 2: Okay, what other now starting line could be a little
Speaker 2: bit bummery I'm trying to think of Uh could go
Speaker 2: reliance that but royan little preachy, lill preachy, but it
Speaker 2: do get a little preachy usually.
Speaker 1: Positive sunny with the high seventy five. Yeah, MxPx is
Speaker 1: pretty good for that.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna go a little bit older. Damn, that's
Speaker 2: a good question. You know who's a good band for this?
Speaker 2: Cartel is a really good cartell rely pop punk band.
Speaker 2: I think that's always underrated. Yeah, they had a good
Speaker 2: EP and then they released an album right out. I
Speaker 2: think that's the move it honestly yes that whatever album
Speaker 2: has honestly yeah, or say anything else whatever that's I
Speaker 2: think that's a good option as well.
Speaker 1: All Right, one more non football and then I have
Speaker 1: a real question. I promise these are all real tie Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: mine is real though. This is a real role question
Speaker 1: where I need help.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's so, we've got a good one from Kelly.
Speaker 2: We've got you want non football?
Speaker 1: Right, non football? Give me non football?
Speaker 2: Uh, let's scroll down.
Speaker 1: Here's one. Here's one I got.
Speaker 2: You want to go Collin from Omaha, I want.
Speaker 1: To go Nicholas okay, right underneath it. We can get
Speaker 1: the colin quick too, we can get the Okay, Nicholas says,
Speaker 1: I just spent over one thousand dollars on five pairs
Speaker 1: of jeans. Uh huh, Am I a dumb ass or
Speaker 1: a guy who appreciates quality clothing that fits right? How many?
Speaker 1: How many pairs of jeans are in your closet at
Speaker 1: the moment that you wear in my closet, in my rotation,
Speaker 1: in your rotation? How many different pairs of gens do
Speaker 1: you own right now?
Speaker 2: So just the denim material, different colors, I will rotate
Speaker 2: two and a half.
Speaker 1: I believe I may own three total pairs of jeans.
Speaker 2: Over the last couple of years, I've gotten much more
Speaker 2: with with Chino's.
Speaker 1: Okay, I own three pairs of jeans at the moment. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm five. Five might be more than I'm now. Well,
Speaker 1: you don't know what Nicholas. We don't know what Nicholas does.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's a cowboy. True cowboys gets there, They get
Speaker 1: their jeans dirty time cowboys drop two hundred to pop
Speaker 1: though on jeans.
Speaker 2: Super wealthy cowboys, Troy Aikman. Probably because the real cowboys,
Speaker 2: the real cowboys. I would say that's probably excessive. But
Speaker 2: if you have the money to spend, and you like,
Speaker 2: by any like any shadow of a doubt, that these
Speaker 2: jeans fit your probably and possibly strange body better than
Speaker 2: any other pairs of jeans right, and they're comfortable, have
Speaker 2: the cash right, and they make you look good, I
Speaker 2: say that's fine.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm not judging if you want to spend your
Speaker 1: hard earned cash on five pairs of jeans, but.
Speaker 2: You could probably buy one hundred dollars pair of jeans
Speaker 2: and spend twenty dollars getting them tailored perfectly, and you'll
Speaker 2: save a good amount of cash. That's my guess. I
Speaker 2: generally spend about fifty bucks on jeans.
Speaker 1: I usually go about fifty bucks. Yeah, yeah, fifty bucks here.
Speaker 2: That's my answer.
Speaker 1: You're not a dumb ass, and you clearly are guy
Speaker 1: who appreciates quality clothing that fits.
Speaker 2: Go gators is what he says.
Speaker 1: Go Gatersgators.
Speaker 2: So not a cowboy.
Speaker 1: Now what was this from Colin? We'll go to.
Speaker 2: Colin quickly wants to know a long time first time.
Speaker 2: He's from Omaha, underrated city. I like Omaha. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: the best man in a wedding this summer. We met
Speaker 2: in near Omaha for the first time. I'm a best
Speaker 2: man in a wedding this summer and was curious if
Speaker 2: you had some advice or strategies for being strategies for
Speaker 2: being the best man. Also, what is a great joke
Speaker 2: to start the speech off with? See to the speech?
Speaker 1: Have you been a best man? I have. I'm not
Speaker 1: big on the whole joke thing. I'm not big on
Speaker 1: I'm not big on the whole joke thing in the
Speaker 1: best man's speech. I think you aim for center cut here.
Speaker 1: Don't get over aggressive, don't get too cute. The best
Speaker 1: bit of advice I ever got on giving a best
Speaker 1: man's speech was to compliment the bride early and be honest,
Speaker 1: it's not about you.
Speaker 2: I think I gave you that advice. Did you compliment
Speaker 2: the bride early?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I feel like I read that on those like
Speaker 1: self help posts.
Speaker 2: Oh it might be both, but yes, that is one
Speaker 2: hundred percent of the move and I did at my
Speaker 2: own wedding. I complimented the bride.
Speaker 1: And how compliment the bride early win over the crowd.
Speaker 1: That's the best bit of advice. And don't get too cute.
Speaker 1: Trying to come up with the best joke. Just be honest,
Speaker 1: be it, tug on some heartstrings if you have to.
Speaker 1: What you don't want to do is be the guy
Speaker 1: who tells the joke and it bombs. It's very hard
Speaker 1: to be funny. Very few of our emailers are dead
Speaker 1: on comedians exactly, so I would veer away from telling
Speaker 1: a joke altogether. Compliment the bride early, be honest, tug
Speaker 1: on some heart strings, and you'll be fine.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, after complimenting the bride, make sure you're
Speaker 2: as drunk as possible, like push past what you feel
Speaker 2: like is an appropriate level of drunkness.
Speaker 1: I was at a wedding once, Dan, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: The best man gave a speech that was eighteen minutes long.
Speaker 2: You can't do that. Do not do that, Colin, Please
Speaker 2: give yourself. I wouldn't go over three minutes, honestly, because
Speaker 2: being brief, being specific, being complimentary, you know, being able
Speaker 2: to edit. You don't need to tell three stories, tell
Speaker 2: one great story. You don't need to go on and on.
Speaker 2: You don't need to sort of make inside jokes. Inside
Speaker 2: jokes the worst thing to listen to. You're not giving
Speaker 2: this speech for the groom. You're not giving the speech
Speaker 2: for you. You're giving the speech for an audience. So get
Speaker 2: up there, compliment the bride, and whatever you talk about,
Speaker 2: make sure it's about the two of them.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Mick.
Speaker 2: Don't say like, oh, when we went to Cabo bra
Speaker 2: you remember the golf cart? No, yeah, you remember. That's
Speaker 2: awful to listen to. Think about your audience, So compliment
Speaker 2: the bride. Get up there and talk about why they're
Speaker 2: great for each other. Illustrate that with a story. If
Speaker 2: you really want to get a joke off, there's like
Speaker 2: the tried and true. You know, Brent and Lisa are
Speaker 2: getting married, and let me tell you something. Brent has
Speaker 2: amazing tastes. Just look at Lisa. Clap clap, clap, clap,
Speaker 2: and you know what else, Brent, you could not have
Speaker 2: had better taste in selecting a best man. And then
Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah yeah, then just like get past
Speaker 2: it the cheap way, make it under three minutes, tell
Speaker 2: everybody why they're great for each other, and while you
Speaker 2: love your buddy and you love his new wife, and
Speaker 2: then thanks everybody, see you on the dance floor.
Speaker 1: The other strategy, The other advice that I would give you, Colin.
Speaker 1: Let's just say, for hypothetical purposes here that your wedding,
Speaker 1: the wedding that you'll be speaking at as one hundred people.
Speaker 1: I don't know, one hundred people. Keep it nice and round.
Speaker 1: Of those hundred people, Dan, what percentage do you feel
Speaker 1: really care about what you're saying as the best man?
Speaker 2: I think it is over fifty percent. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: it's over fifty percent, but I think it goes down
Speaker 2: every thirty seconds exactly.
Speaker 1: So my point is, don't if you're the type that
Speaker 1: gets nervous in front of a group, but a lot
Speaker 1: of people do, and that's totally normal. Don't don't put
Speaker 1: too much weight on how you think other people are
Speaker 1: going to feel about the speech, like it really does
Speaker 1: go down into hurry, keep it short, don't worry about,
Speaker 1: you know, being too heart stringy or anything like that. Like,
Speaker 1: just get it over with You'll be fine. Most of
Speaker 1: the people there are more interested about when they can
Speaker 1: go to the open bar.
Speaker 2: This is true. And it never hurts to do a
Speaker 2: callback during your toast. If you make some comment about
Speaker 2: Brent how he met Lisa because she was, you know,
Speaker 2: her grocery bag broke and Brent stopped to talk to
Speaker 2: her or whatever, and that's how they met. And they
Speaker 2: met in a cute way. When it comes back to
Speaker 2: the toast, and everybody raised a glass and you toast
Speaker 2: their love and then to Lisa getting stronger grocery back.
Speaker 2: You know, that's always good.
Speaker 1: That's always don't love that just basically don't be Rachel
Speaker 1: McAdams and wedding crashers that. So, look, I have a
Speaker 1: question that I need to have answered.
Speaker 2: I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I have to sell two couches in the next eight
Speaker 1: days or else, or else I probably have to pay
Speaker 1: to have them removed. Okay, because my old house that
Speaker 1: that least that agreement is coming due at the end
Speaker 1: of the month. H I have two couches that I
Speaker 1: must sell. Why by the end of the month, because
Speaker 1: we don't want them in the new house here. They're
Speaker 1: they're sort of old, they're showing a little bit aware,
Speaker 1: still in relatively good shape. But we would rather sell
Speaker 1: them than either A have to pay to have them
Speaker 1: removed or b move them on our own in any capacity.
Speaker 1: Because one of them is a sleeper sofa and it
Speaker 1: is heavy as freaking hell. Ask you.
Speaker 2: Is one or both of them are one or both
Speaker 2: of them couches that pre date your relationship.
Speaker 1: Yes, is one of them or both of them yours? No? Okay, no,
Speaker 1: neither is mine. They're they're both. Yeah, they were solid,
Speaker 1: solid wife Kate brought these over. They were holdovers from
Speaker 1: her old apartment. Did you so your current couch is
Speaker 1: something that you bought together? Yes, okay, And so you
Speaker 1: definitely don't need more couches in your house. No, we don't.
Speaker 1: I I have we have no place to put these.
Speaker 1: And I'm really struggling with trying to sell it because
Speaker 1: it's an older model, older model couch, and I've tried
Speaker 1: posting it on various boards. I tried Craigslist. Someone tried
Speaker 1: to scan me. That didn't work.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't.
Speaker 1: Think I'm going to sell it on there, So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm deliberating between actually having to call the one
Speaker 1: eight hundred god junk people and paying to have it removed,
Speaker 1: or find some way that I can go all West
Speaker 1: Virginia on it, and just said on I.
Speaker 2: Would say Pennsylvania's next to West Virginia if my geography
Speaker 2: is correct, right.
Speaker 1: I know some people have gone the round of just
Speaker 1: ordering the state leaving it along the interstate. I don't
Speaker 1: think I want to go that route. It won't that's
Speaker 1: a college tactic. Yeah, So I'm really at a loss here, Dan,
Speaker 1: I could use some real advice here. What do I do?
Speaker 2: So when Jody and Jody with and I and I
Speaker 2: moved a couple months ago, I had a holdover couch
Speaker 2: from both of my apartments that predated our last one,
Speaker 2: affectionately called brown Beauty, very soft, excellent. Lot of memories
Speaker 2: on that couch.
Speaker 1: Tie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know where this is going, sure, but it was.
Speaker 2: And then we got a new couch at our last place,
Speaker 2: and Brown Beauty was in like the side room that
Speaker 2: I had, and at a certain point it was time
Speaker 2: to get rid of Brown Beauty. But we lived in
Speaker 2: an apartment complex, and the super we said, if you
Speaker 2: can take it, you can have it, because we didn't
Speaker 2: want to deal with trying to sell it and deliver
Speaker 2: it or whatever. So that's what we did with our couch.
Speaker 2: He just took it. He had a dolly and brought
Speaker 2: it out. So I assume there's nobody like that at
Speaker 2: your old place. I'm not really hmmm, Yeah, I would
Speaker 2: just offer it up for free. I'm getting to that point, Dan, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you just have to offer it. You got to get
Speaker 2: it off your hands.
Speaker 1: This is causing me undue stress more stress, can be
Speaker 1: more stressed than branded wimbush, Dan, getting rid of these
Speaker 1: damn couches.
Speaker 2: Damn, I'm sorry. Well, color, it's like an off welight,
Speaker 2: an off white sleeper. You've got a lot of old
Speaker 2: people in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Come on, not that many that you can get rid
Speaker 1: of that?
Speaker 2: Sure, Yeah, you just have to. I don't know what.
Speaker 2: Like Facebook? Have you tried Facebook?
Speaker 1: I haven't just put up free couch.
Speaker 2: If you can pick it up, it's yours, I guess,
Speaker 2: and somebody will tag some weird friend of theirs, probably
Speaker 2: named Brendan, right, and Brendan will pick it up and
Speaker 2: he'll be weird, but you'll deal with it and you'll
Speaker 2: forget about them.
Speaker 1: If anybody is in the area and wants a couch,
Speaker 1: just let me know, give me a holler at T
Speaker 1: and you.
Speaker 2: Can meet Tie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can meet me, and probably not Kate. I'll
Speaker 1: autograph it. Yeah, Kate will not be there.
Speaker 2: As part of the transaction. Kate will not be there.
Speaker 1: Kate will not be there. Okay.
Speaker 2: So if you are in Eastern PA and you want
Speaker 2: a free couch and you want to meet Tye, I didn't.
Speaker 1: Say free, you said free. I'd still like to try
Speaker 1: and get a couple bones for this thing.
Speaker 2: If you want to bring Tie a sandwich and you
Speaker 2: want a couch, Tie hilden Brandts are just solidverbal at
Speaker 2: gmail dot com, right sure, or it's Tie hilden Brandt
Speaker 2: on Twitter or whatever.
Speaker 1: I am desperate. This is a game used solid verbal.
Speaker 1: Couch Ty will let you run your hands through his
Speaker 1: hair in like a non creepy way, but like you
Speaker 1: can experience it, and you get a couch. Like if
Speaker 1: I put your words verbatim on Craigslist, Yeah you know,
Speaker 1: you get a couch and you could run your hands
Speaker 1: through my hair.
Speaker 2: Yeah you get responses would be.
Speaker 1: More successful than the scam message that I got this morning?
Speaker 2: What is the scam message?
Speaker 1: Will you take a cashier's check? How much you're trying
Speaker 1: to sell an off white sleep used sleeper. There's two
Speaker 1: of them. It's a it's a set like a queen
Speaker 1: size sleeper sofa and a love seat.
Speaker 2: How much you're trying to get for a used couch set?
Speaker 1: I start like four hundred or best off. Come on,
Speaker 1: I don't know we paid? She paid?
Speaker 2: Your mind?
Speaker 1: Well, what what's in approch? Maybe it's the dollar figure
Speaker 1: you have eight days tie? I know, well the price
Speaker 1: comes down every thirty seconds, But I know what? What
Speaker 1: what is a proper asking price here?
Speaker 2: I would just if you need to get rid of
Speaker 2: them and you don't care about the money, it's free
Speaker 2: if you want. If you want something that will give
Speaker 2: you at least a couple of bucks, but will seem cheap.
Speaker 2: I don't know, one hundred.
Speaker 1: Bucks, two hundred bucks, price is right? One dollar?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Just get rid of them.
Speaker 2: You don't want them, don't have no value?
Speaker 1: Really dressing me out, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 2: Move beyond the off white tie, Move beyond all.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, fun show. Thank you to everyone who wrote
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks ago. As we address our
Speaker 1: backlog here of questions, soliverblare.
Speaker 2: We're nose to tell with our questions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a lot going on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.
Speaker 1: Can also find us on Reddit, iTunes, Spotify, Google, Stitcher,
Speaker 1: all the usual hotspots. What do we have in the
Speaker 1: housekeeping variety here? What are our housekeeping notes? Okay, do
Speaker 1: you address before we move on.
Speaker 2: So we're going to be locked in on designs for
Speaker 2: I think we're settled on shirts, hats, and mugs. We're
Speaker 2: going to be locked in on designs this Monday, which
Speaker 2: means we're going to start speaking with the store we're
Speaker 2: going to use right correct. We'll have those designs on Monday.
Speaker 2: The hats will take a little bit longer because of
Speaker 2: some embroidery, which is fine, yep. So we're hoping for
Speaker 2: early to mid June that our store will be up
Speaker 2: and ready and we'll be selling some items. I'm really excited.
Speaker 2: I think you like what's in store. We have that
Speaker 2: we have the Chicago show in mid August. We have
Speaker 2: a very good idea of what the date will be.
Speaker 2: We just do not have a confirmed place as of
Speaker 2: this requit.
Speaker 1: We had some people asking about a date, and believe me,
Speaker 1: I want to give that date. We've said time and
Speaker 1: time again, it's going to be early to mid August.
Speaker 1: You could draw your own conclusions, probably on the weekend
Speaker 1: right more conclusions that you can I think probably draw
Speaker 1: as soon as we have a date. We will let
Speaker 1: you know. Cool absolutely, let you know. We're working on
Speaker 1: venues right now. We're going to find a place before long.
Speaker 1: We're very excited about the show.
Speaker 2: Yes, so we have that show. We'd like to do
Speaker 2: one or two additional shows outside of Chicago, but that
Speaker 2: means more venue selecting and we just need to we
Speaker 2: need to get on it. But we have an idea
Speaker 2: of the cities we'd like to be in, most likely
Speaker 2: DC in Austin, Yes, I think so, maybe New York again,
Speaker 2: I don't know. New York is very easy for us
Speaker 2: that has.
Speaker 1: Anyone out there ever planned a live tour for either
Speaker 1: a low level rock band or maybe another podcast, look
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Speaker 2: We're admitting to being I like the venues we've used
Speaker 2: in the past. I haven't loved all of them, so
Speaker 2: we are struggling with literally one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: It should be easier, So we'll get that all situated.
Speaker 2: Chicago's a done deal in terms of we are definitely
Speaker 2: doing it when we want to do it, and that's
Speaker 2: where we want to do it, and we will be
Speaker 2: doing it there. Outside of that, nothing is locked in,
Speaker 2: but we're learning. We're learning this process.
Speaker 1: That's right. Trust the process, Dan, Yes, trust.
Speaker 2: It'd be very easy to just book like a hundred seater,
Speaker 2: but we're going to places where we know we have
Speaker 2: a healthy number of listeners, so we want to make
Speaker 2: sure everybody can get in and have fun.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, on that note, thank you to everyone
Speaker 1: who canntinues to interact with the show. We will be
Speaker 1: back in a week. I guess it'll still be May
Speaker 1: when we record our next show. But as we get
Speaker 1: into June, as we get into July, and certainly as
Speaker 1: we get into August, Dan and I we promise have
Speaker 1: a lot more planned than just Q and A shows.
Speaker 1: Not that anything's wrong with Q and A shows. People
Speaker 1: love the Q and A shows. Believe me. The survey
Speaker 1: we learned about survey results bear out that people love
Speaker 1: the Q and A shows. That's cool, We're cool with them.
Speaker 1: But we've got big, grand plans for the weeks and
Speaker 1: months ahead. Keep it locked in on the Facebook, on
Speaker 1: the Twitter, on the Instagram accounts. We've got a lot
Speaker 1: of fun stuff that is certainly on the way. Daniel,
Speaker 1: you enjoy the rest of your weekend and weekend. Okay, hey,
Speaker 1: thanks you too for that guy over there, my good
Speaker 1: friend Dan Rubenstein. For myself, Ty Hildebrand. We will catch
Speaker 1: you all in a week. In the meantime, stay solid pace,