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Speaker 1: joining me as always over there in stunning New York City.
Speaker 1: Dan Rubinstein, sir, how are you it's been nice out? Huh?
Speaker 1: It's been real warm, Yeah, a little stinky.
Speaker 2: I you know what, I did sweat for the first
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Speaker 2: I'm a disgusting person yesterday. Sure, so that's a good sign.
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Speaker 1: How you doing. I'm good. It's going to rain for
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Speaker 2: It didn't fully take us a year. We started it
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Speaker 2: I would I would say a lot of what we
Speaker 2: do because people seem to like the minutia. I know
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Speaker 2: we were with it last year. I really like how
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Speaker 1: We tore it apart. Yeah, four or five weeks ago,
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Speaker 2: I was thinking about this earlier. Did we start our show?
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Speaker 2: We still get a ton of email and we try
Speaker 2: to answer it. But this is largely what Twitter and
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Speaker 1: Facebook. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The next I think the next one we do will
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Speaker 1: How about that? It sounds good to me.
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Speaker 1: do our best to pay homage to those folks who
Speaker 1: wrote in via whatever channel they so desired, be it social,
Speaker 1: be it via email. Got a whole slew of them here.
Speaker 1: We want to do our best to try and address
Speaker 1: them in kind. So, Daniel, if you could reach deep
Speaker 1: into that into that pot oh look of questions here
Speaker 1: and pull out pull out a good one for us.
Speaker 2: All right, let's start at the top. This is from
Speaker 2: Benjamin Most Intriguing Conference top to bottom next year.
Speaker 1: Ooh, so.
Speaker 2: I like how he phrased this, because best or worst
Speaker 2: conference doesn't really tell a complete story. It's largely subjective,
Speaker 2: as is intriguing. But intriguing is also nice because I
Speaker 2: think we can better define that, right, Sure, of course
Speaker 2: we can better define the subjective nature of that word.
Speaker 2: So to me, intriguing is a weird stew Aboolia base,
Speaker 2: if you will, of coaching intrigue, quarterback intrigue, and attrition intrigue.
Speaker 2: So like, oh my god, they lost their entire offense.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they lost their entire coaching staff. And
Speaker 2: to me, if his phrasing is top to bottom, it's
Speaker 2: probably the sec because I feel like that's where the
Speaker 2: Bulia base is in terms of intrigue with new coaches.
Speaker 2: And you have a quarterback who came in the second
Speaker 2: half and win the national championship. You have you know,
Speaker 2: a Heisman candidate Jarrett Stidham, we have a what is
Speaker 2: Florida's offense going to look like they're going to start
Speaker 2: a cheue freshmen with a new coach.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 2: But if the question we're top to middle, my answer
Speaker 2: is the Big ten, okay, because the Big Ten to
Speaker 2: me has more wildcard fun with Purdue and Nebraska in
Speaker 2: sky that middle section in the court.
Speaker 1: Will all right, bringing your fastball here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm the ACC isn't doing it for me as much.
Speaker 2: The Pac twelve seems too similar and questionable, and I
Speaker 2: think it'll still be fun. The Big twelve feels like
Speaker 2: it hasn't changed all that much. It's just sort of like,
Speaker 2: what is he going to do in year two? Tom
Speaker 2: Herman and Lincoln Riley. So that's my answer, what do
Speaker 2: you say?
Speaker 1: My answer is actually the PAC twelve really why? And
Speaker 1: perhaps it's just a matter of semantics and a matter
Speaker 1: of definition around the word intriguing. And yeah, furthermore, the
Speaker 1: definition of intriguing in a college football sense, what does
Speaker 1: it mean to you? For me, intriguing is questionable? What
Speaker 1: is the most questionable? That's what I find intriguing. And look,
Speaker 1: you could always make the case for the SEC being intriguing.
Speaker 1: There's not a season that we've done this show that
Speaker 1: I haven't thought about the SEC in some intriguing way.
Speaker 1: I'm always intrigued by it, and I think the same
Speaker 1: holds true for the Big Ten. Certainly the Big Ten
Speaker 1: now as we've had a team like a Penn State
Speaker 1: really rise up under James Franklin. New coaches abound in
Speaker 1: the Big Ten. That makes it an intriguing conference. That
Speaker 1: was the case last year as well the PAC twelve.
Speaker 1: Though I have no idea which direction the PAC twelve
Speaker 1: is headed, because USC without Sam Darnold could go one
Speaker 1: of a hundred different directions. Arizona fired their coach like
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, something crazy like that. Arizona State, We're
Speaker 1: not sure their coach knows what's going on. Oregon had
Speaker 1: to scramble and find a new coach at the Gun
Speaker 1: yet again. Yeah, and oh, by the way, Charles chip Kelly,
Speaker 1: coming back to the college game down there at UCLA.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of variables in the PAC twelve
Speaker 1: that to me, I don't know which direction it's headed,
Speaker 1: and that makes it really intriguing from top to bottom
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: So are you intrigued by the bottom of the PAC twelve?
Speaker 2: Like the Oregon State, cal Colorado you know you can.
Speaker 2: I guess put Utah even though they were the only
Speaker 2: I believe PAC twelve team to win a ball game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if the night or what is it, the day is
Speaker 2: darkest before dawn whatever that phrasing is eleven of twelve
Speaker 2: PAC twelve teams finish the season with a loss, so
Speaker 2: it's certainly not looking great. The South should be wide open.
Speaker 1: Ish.
Speaker 2: You can make a case for probably three teams, yeah,
Speaker 2: pretty evenly winning that division in USC, Arizona and UCLA,
Speaker 2: actually three and a half of Utah.
Speaker 1: I have the least amount of certainty about the PAC twelve.
Speaker 1: There are more variables to me in the PAC twelve
Speaker 1: than any other conference. And that's what makes it intriguing
Speaker 1: top to bottom. So you get you get hot and
Speaker 1: bothered by that. That's right, the mystery extremely Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: Dan seduced, Okay, I can appreciate that and the ACC.
Speaker 1: The only reason I don't lump in the ACC with
Speaker 1: the others is outside. I mean, listen, Miami and Virginia
Speaker 1: Tech and Clemson and Florida State all have intriguing things
Speaker 1: about them to me. It's not even like top to bottom.
Speaker 1: It's more top and bottom are interesting to me. The
Speaker 1: middle class of the ACC right now, Virginia, Pitt, Louisville,
Speaker 1: I guess, BC, and Wake I don't see. There's not
Speaker 1: a huge mystery fact, Dan, I feel like you could
Speaker 1: have a template saved on your computer. Oh, Yeah, with
Speaker 1: that statement tier ACC team dot doc X, and you
Speaker 1: could pretty much apply that to about eight teams in
Speaker 1: the middle.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, ty So. And by the way, low
Speaker 2: key on that, the AAC is going to be really
Speaker 2: intriguing next year. Okay, all right, the American is going
Speaker 2: to be real nice because I think Memphis returns a
Speaker 2: good amount. You still have UCF with the talent from
Speaker 2: last year. I think Jeff Collins improves Temple next year.
Speaker 2: Navy's always going to be fun. Like I think that
Speaker 2: is going to be not not underrated, but just consistently
Speaker 2: rated as fun and deep.
Speaker 1: How about that fun and deep moving, fun and deep
Speaker 1: before we going next, let's go too Oh, I like this.
Speaker 2: This was a big thing this week. I think it
Speaker 2: was Dennis Dodd from CBS who wrote about it. Maybe
Speaker 2: I'm wrong, I don't know, but beef Mick large huge.
Speaker 1: Is that a real name? That's that's probably family name. Yeah, okay, in.
Speaker 2: Your opinion, what is the reason? And I will parenthetically
Speaker 2: add reasons for the decline in attendance at college football games?
Speaker 1: So what did Dennis Dodd go with? Kids care about
Speaker 1: their phones and there's not enough bandwidth. Kids, these days. Ty.
Speaker 2: Okay, by the way, thank you for listening to the
Speaker 2: show on your phone. Weir Yeah, grateful. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 2: not the approach I would take. It's certainly one interpretation.
Speaker 1: I think that part of the reason why is because
Speaker 1: the home experience is so damn enjoyable. I think it's
Speaker 1: part of it. Sometimes the easiest answer and the best
Speaker 1: answer is the most straightforward joy as a college football
Speaker 1: fan infinitely more watching the game from the comfort of
Speaker 1: my couch on my HD television, not having to fight
Speaker 1: off crowds of one hundred thousand to watch a football game.
Speaker 2: I would pause it this, Ty, I think you're completely right.
Speaker 1: I My question.
Speaker 2: Is, is going to a football game and forget about traffic,
Speaker 2: forget about you know, cleaning up and setting up tailgating.
Speaker 2: Forget about like parking and the pain and the ass
Speaker 2: of you know, oh, I got to park on this
Speaker 2: shady dude's lawn because it's eight hundred dollars to park
Speaker 2: for whatever. Forget about all of that. It's football fun
Speaker 2: to watch in person, Like is it a sport built
Speaker 2: for an in person experience?
Speaker 1: It's built more for an in person experience than baseball.
Speaker 1: But I can tell you that the commercial breaks during
Speaker 1: a football game, particularly an NFL game. If you've ever
Speaker 1: been to one of those, yeah, that aspect of it
Speaker 1: is very much a kill joy when you're in the stands,
Speaker 1: and at least if you're at home, you can find
Speaker 1: things to do. You can check Twitter, you can like
Speaker 1: go to the bath, move your bowels, yeah, or same page.
Speaker 1: You have options when the game goes to commercial break
Speaker 1: that you don't have if you're actually there in attendance.
Speaker 2: I would almost push back, and I know this is
Speaker 2: going to be sacrilege on a college football show. I
Speaker 2: may like going to baseball games, and I'm not even
Speaker 2: a huge baseball fan. I think there's something a little
Speaker 2: more honest, like Baseball's like, yeah, we're slow, just chill out,
Speaker 2: look at the grass. We walk to you with the
Speaker 2: food and the beverages. Okay, there's something that is a
Speaker 2: very entertaining screen saver where it never really gets high
Speaker 2: impact and exciting, and football is like hig impact exciting stop, Hi,
Speaker 2: you packed exciting, stop? And that I think is the
Speaker 2: bigger issue. Or football just might not be a great
Speaker 2: in person sport. It's better with everything filled in by TV.
Speaker 2: That also said, if I were paid to improve the
Speaker 2: in person experience. I mean, you know what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2: I want more comfortable seating. Yeah, and I want better
Speaker 2: cheaper food. You can't just serve me boiled hot dogs
Speaker 2: and dry burgers.
Speaker 1: You just can't.
Speaker 2: And I know, I think it's the New Falcons Stadium,
Speaker 2: where the National Championship also was this year, Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 2: I think they have a bunch of local vendors, the
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets not too far from where I am broadcasting
Speaker 2: this very show. They have a local sausage place, local
Speaker 2: Mexican like there is something that's pretty familiar and exciting
Speaker 2: of like, oh, you can also eat and consume well
Speaker 2: while you're there, and that I don't think is the
Speaker 2: case of a lot of these schools.
Speaker 1: Tickets are also really expensive. They are, and we are
Speaker 1: very much in an age where it's easier now than
Speaker 1: ever to be very cost conscious and do a line
Speaker 1: item on everything you pay out in the span of
Speaker 1: a month, and you can be the biggest fan in
Speaker 1: the world. Never go to a game. You don't have
Speaker 1: to anymore because the coverage is there. You can watch
Speaker 1: whatever you want.
Speaker 2: All that said, the ceiling is still higher you're in
Speaker 2: the stadium for something incredible for your team, a huge upset,
Speaker 2: a huge play, whatever the communal experience of that untouchable.
Speaker 1: I don't begrudge anyone who chooses to go to the gy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to, as you said, posit a theory
Speaker 1: as to why more people don't fair. All right, where
Speaker 1: are we going next?
Speaker 2: Colin wants to know. Combination of questions. One does it
Speaker 2: get hard to be quote impartial? I use quotes because
Speaker 2: of Ty's blaytant disracespec so blaytant Yeah of Michigan State
Speaker 2: this past season, he says, MSU, So maybe it's Mississippi State.
Speaker 1: I don't sure. Two least favorite team or fan base.
Speaker 1: I have an interesting answer to this, God, here we go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: please buckle up for starters. Part of I think the
Speaker 1: charm of what we do is that we never try
Speaker 1: to mask our rooting allegiances, like you're an Oregon grad,
Speaker 1: you're an Oregon fan yep. And I don't think in
Speaker 1: any case we're gushing over the teams that we root for.
Speaker 2: If anything, it's more bitching and moaning, right, exactly what
Speaker 2: you're root for? Yeah, exactly?
Speaker 1: But we don't hide the fact that we have some
Speaker 1: rooting allegiance, so that that part is I think just
Speaker 1: that we're authentic. What I'll say is it actually gets
Speaker 1: easier to be impartial the longer you do this, because
Speaker 1: you reach a point where, in order to cover it
Speaker 1: the way we cover it, you have to imbibe so
Speaker 1: much college football all the time, and some of that
Speaker 1: raw emotion gets boiled off just just as part of
Speaker 1: the natural machinations of what we do.
Speaker 2: My least favorite team or fan base, my least favorite
Speaker 2: team is any team who is boring, because for a
Speaker 2: living I talk about this and I want weird and
Speaker 2: exciting and fun and creative and so and that will
Speaker 2: very year to year the boringness, quotion or whatever of
Speaker 2: a team. So that really is everything to me. It's
Speaker 2: if do you play slow? Are you throwing well short
Speaker 2: of sticks on third and four? Are you punting from
Speaker 2: your opponents thirty nine like I That to me, that
Speaker 2: is tough to be impartial. A by like, well, this
Speaker 2: is how they're thinking in defense of that mo Mel
Speaker 2: That is garbage, and that is who I root against.
Speaker 2: Anybody that is playing conservatively and for field position that
Speaker 2: is extremely boring. And soft, So that is who I
Speaker 2: do not like.
Speaker 1: I definitely do not have a specific team right or
Speaker 1: fan base that is my least favorite. To answer part
Speaker 1: two of Collin's question, there is not one team, There
Speaker 1: is not one base that I detest more than any other.
Speaker 1: One thing that we get though pretty frequently, that in
Speaker 1: my estimation, means we're doing it correctly. Yeah, there are
Speaker 1: multiple teams and multiple fan bases who believe in earnest
Speaker 1: that we are the least favorite. And that tells me
Speaker 1: that we're spreading around the hate just rout about the
Speaker 1: right amount, and the fact that there are more than
Speaker 1: one out there that that to me says we're doing
Speaker 1: something right.
Speaker 2: I should say, after we hit stop when we record,
Speaker 2: we just bitch about Michigan all the time. It's all
Speaker 2: all the time. Kevin Wade, our pal wants to know.
Speaker 2: Would you rather your team win a college football championship
Speaker 2: but then move to the FCS level? Oh okay, so
Speaker 2: a demotion of relegation or against you good? Or go
Speaker 2: into every season knowing you'll never get above second place
Speaker 2: in your conference. And I say that with a defending champion,
Speaker 2: I think coming in third place in their conference, right,
Speaker 2: if that makes sense, So okay, what is it? Would
Speaker 2: you rather have a ceiling or a hard success and
Speaker 2: a hard floor.
Speaker 1: There is nothing more frustrating than that glass ceiling. Okay,
Speaker 1: there is nothing more frustrating than knowing at the start
Speaker 1: of a season you can't get above second place. And
Speaker 1: I think in large part that's why every program outside
Speaker 1: Alabama and the SEC has changed coaches in the span
Speaker 1: that he's been at Bama, right, Because on some level
Speaker 1: everyone's felt that that that ceiling. Man, you can't get
Speaker 1: past Alabama. So no, I don't want to be in
Speaker 1: that position. It drives people crazy. I'd much rather win
Speaker 1: and then get relegated. We'll play in the Big Sky
Speaker 1: for the next fifteen years, but at least you'll always
Speaker 1: have that championship moment where you got to hold up
Speaker 1: the trophy standing next to our boy Grandpa Bill Hancock.
Speaker 1: I disagree. I haven't said that in a while. It
Speaker 1: would be miserable.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't be able to watch your team if they
Speaker 2: were an FCS team, depending on where you lived, you'd
Speaker 2: have to watch it on like ESPN three, watch it
Speaker 2: on the Stadium network, right, which looks good. I think
Speaker 2: our pel Jeff Schwartz does stuff for them, Christ and
Speaker 2: BALBONI all sorts of good people. But it would it
Speaker 2: would kind of be boring to go for rooting every
Speaker 2: year for an FBS team to an FCS team. I
Speaker 2: think competition. I mean, if it's the same team, if
Speaker 2: Notre Dame won a national championship and then was in
Speaker 2: the Big Sky, they would still attract a lot of
Speaker 2: talent and people. Game people love the Patriot League Lightning
Speaker 2: Round on this show.
Speaker 1: I know they do.
Speaker 2: I guess would that make the most sense FCS conference
Speaker 2: wise for Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It might be, yeah, let's got some Notre Dame Mount
Speaker 2: Union action. I think they're like D three. That'd be wonderful.
Speaker 2: Shout out Wisconsin, Whitewater. No, I would take second place
Speaker 2: because one, you can still get to the national championship
Speaker 2: coming in second place in your conference with the playoff.
Speaker 2: And two, I've said this before, I don't know that
Speaker 2: it is in an era where everything is so weighted
Speaker 2: towards the top and the teams that have the most
Speaker 2: money and the geographic advantages that if you have a
Speaker 2: fun season where you beat two of your rivals, that's
Speaker 2: that feels like a success. And you know, with the
Speaker 2: way everything is, I would take that more often than not.
Speaker 2: And coming in second place in your conference, and I
Speaker 2: know it's not it's a ceiling of second place. It
Speaker 2: still means you're making a conference championship game every so often.
Speaker 2: I think I'm going with that. I'm still going with
Speaker 2: the excitement. Huh playing FB. I just I don't want
Speaker 2: to watch FCS football every week.
Speaker 1: Wow. And I not fired.
Speaker 2: I apologize, but I'm saying I don't want to watch
Speaker 2: FCS football if I've grown accustomed, you know, like when
Speaker 2: you see the divorce proceedings, like, well, she's grown or
Speaker 2: he's grown a custom of a certain lifestyle.
Speaker 1: We're talking college football alimony here.
Speaker 2: At college football alimony. That's exactly right. And I have
Speaker 2: grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle and I am not
Speaker 2: willing to go back.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to Mason. Max More rites in
Speaker 1: and he says, since Bill Connolly is the world's biggest
Speaker 1: New Mexico State fan, can you guys take the mantle
Speaker 1: of being big Utah State fans? What up? Bags? Or
Speaker 1: maybe one of you could take Texas A and M
Speaker 1: and each of you could have your own Aggie allegiance. Uh,
Speaker 1: this isn't so much a question as it is a proposal.
Speaker 1: And since it is the end of February, Mason, you're
Speaker 1: on the board early. We can consider this as the
Speaker 1: year moves on. I'm open to being an Aggie faithful
Speaker 1: of some kind timely question. With CHUCKI.
Speaker 2: Keaton entering his junior year, I don't know how long
Speaker 2: he's been there. I assume he has just gotten medical
Speaker 2: red shirts and perpetuity. I apologize if CHUCKI. Keaton is
Speaker 2: dead or.
Speaker 1: Found the flower pot and there's traveling back in time
Speaker 1: to continue playing college football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I could be a textas ay
Speaker 2: and m Fan. I just I don't think it mesh
Speaker 2: as well with my person.
Speaker 1: It's an exciting new era, though, with Jimbo Fisher Dan.
Speaker 2: I suppose nothing like getting on board with a coach
Speaker 2: whose last fan base hated him for playing slowly right
Speaker 2: after I decried teams who play slowly. I'm on board
Speaker 2: with UC Davis Ty all right, the Aggies of UC Davis.
Speaker 2: Robert Mondavi is Bob mont Dave from out there. I
Speaker 2: believe I think that is the It's like the Robert
Speaker 2: Mondavi school of something of wine. I think, what is
Speaker 2: what is wine science?
Speaker 1: Do we know? Oh? Boy, what is that wine? Hooking
Speaker 1: it up right now? Idea? Look that up. I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of Bob Mondavi's fume blanc. Like you call
Speaker 1: him Bob on top. He's known as Bob in this household,
Speaker 1: wine science is called Oh man, I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: I just see wine making.
Speaker 2: There has to be something else. A vinter Sure that
Speaker 2: sound right to you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I vinification. I have no idea A winemaker may also
Speaker 2: be called a vintner. The more you know, have you
Speaker 2: been to a vineyard? Have you gone wine tasting before?
Speaker 1: I have? Yeah? I did it in Canada, Canadian wine tasting.
Speaker 1: I did a Canadian wine tasting in Niagara, Niagara Falls.
Speaker 1: Oh so, just on the other side of the border,
Speaker 1: just on the other side of the border. How was it?
Speaker 1: It was great. It was cold, we went and it
Speaker 1: was freezing, but it was it was a cool experience.
Speaker 1: Is my first time doing that? Solid wife Kate, She's
Speaker 1: been other places, cool, cooler places and done the whole
Speaker 1: wine tasting thing. But I enjoyed it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you were able to pull apart notes for full
Speaker 2: party canted SIPs.
Speaker 1: Oh god, No, I have no idea what I'm doing. No,
Speaker 1: I just I just sort of drink it for sport. Dan,
Speaker 1: I'm not really into the whole tasting thing.
Speaker 2: I don't drink wine all that often. I do like
Speaker 2: swishing it around, taking a sip, and I will say subtle.
Speaker 1: I have a theory that most people at wine tastings
Speaker 1: have no idea what they're doing, but like to be
Speaker 1: seen as if they do well.
Speaker 2: The Michael Scott line was, ooh, it's a nutty after birth, right,
Speaker 2: it's great? Next question? But bah, I may oh Michael
Speaker 2: is a mid forties Oregon State Beavers fan.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, it's been a long, trite, miserable life for
Speaker 1: that man.
Speaker 2: Okay, was two thousand and one, the two thousand and
Speaker 2: one festival. Ty your memories, I remember it well, the
Speaker 2: best it's going to get in my lifetime? Or is
Speaker 2: there something better out there? I mean there's friendship and love, sure, hobbies, travel, Yes,
Speaker 2: there's also lots of better things out there than being
Speaker 2: an Oregon State fan. Is their hope for a mid
Speaker 2: forties Oregon State Beaver span? And I would also add
Speaker 2: like teams that are Oregon State, but not Oregon States.
Speaker 2: So across college football teams that have had brief runs
Speaker 2: of success but kind of have the deck stacked against them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I for Michael here specifically, I'm going to say
Speaker 1: that was probably the pinnacle Chad Johnson, TJ. Hushmanzada if
Speaker 1: he's in his mid forties. Now realistically, now let's talk life.
Speaker 1: Let's talk lifespan in the continue.
Speaker 2: What is the average male lifespan in the United States
Speaker 2: of America. It's it's fallen fast h eighty one, okay,
Speaker 2: average American male lifespan okay, seventy.
Speaker 1: Eight point seven. Okay. So there's not nearly enough time
Speaker 1: for them to build up a program. So he's got
Speaker 1: what thirty three years if he's mid forties, let's say
Speaker 1: forty five, just to keep it nice. And since he's
Speaker 1: on the back nine tie, he's on the back nine Dan.
Speaker 1: So could they conceivably build up a program in thirty
Speaker 1: years at Oregon State.
Speaker 2: To that eclipses dominant BCS group of whatever? Yeah, New
Speaker 2: Year's how long did it take Boise.
Speaker 1: State to get to a point where we feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about their consistency? Twenty years? Not in a power five. Though,
Speaker 1: if we use Boise State as an example, even though
Speaker 1: they're not Power five, how many it was it.
Speaker 2: Wasn't twenty it was you know it was you had
Speaker 2: Dirt Hutter, you had Chris Peterson, you had Dan Hawkins.
Speaker 2: How long it was ten to twelve, eight, ten something
Speaker 2: in there, I say, pick a different team. Oh man,
Speaker 2: he's going to die before they eclipse that.
Speaker 1: It's going to be rough.
Speaker 2: Eclipsing that in twenty eighteen to twenty thirties is just
Speaker 2: with the investment of Oregon and Washington Stanford in that division,
Speaker 2: it's going to be a situation has to be a
Speaker 2: situation of getting extraordinarily lucky with quarterback recruiting and keeping
Speaker 2: a quarterback and sort of finding a season in which
Speaker 2: everywhere every position on the two deep is juniors and
Speaker 2: seniors is upperclassmen. That's the best, and that have all
Speaker 2: developed and worked out. Here's my question back to Michael.
Speaker 2: Not impossible, not impossible, but I think he's more likely
Speaker 2: to pass on to the afterlife. With the Fiesta Bowl
Speaker 2: in two thousand and one being the pinnacle of his fandom.
Speaker 2: My question back to Michael is, now that we have
Speaker 2: proven that much out, will he pick a different team.
Speaker 2: Will he play his college football fandom?
Speaker 1: Like people try to play the stock market and sell
Speaker 1: high and now try to buy low on somebody else.
Speaker 1: You know what he could do. He's right there.
Speaker 2: If he is in Central organ or Vicinity, that's wine country,
Speaker 2: tie olam At Valley.
Speaker 1: That's going to be the new wine country because it's
Speaker 1: getting warmer. That's what I'm told by the wine nerve.
Speaker 1: Yeah really, yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've had good wine from the Lamont Valley.
Speaker 1: Here you go. What's good?
Speaker 2: You and your Bob Mundabo. Yeah, this comes frost from Adam.
Speaker 2: We have we've received a version of this question before.
Speaker 2: Certain programs and fans seem to be alike despite being
Speaker 2: far apart. For example, the play style, drinking habits, statues,
Speaker 2: excuse me, status of Alice in Wisconsin nearly the same.
Speaker 2: So they are a match? Who are and they played?
Speaker 2: Who are the matches for your schools? Notre Dame, Penn
Speaker 2: State and Oregon. Ooh so stylistically, so we'll start with
Speaker 2: Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it feels Michigan. I was gonna say Michigan.
Speaker 1: It's Michigan. Yeah, it's one hundred percent Michigan. Tradition Midwest,
Speaker 1: you know, angry coach. Now. The only thing I don't
Speaker 1: know about Michigan fans, and maybe you can help because
Speaker 1: you're married to one, I don't know the drinking habits
Speaker 1: of Michigan folk.
Speaker 2: It's a Midwest, big ten school, big Greek situation.
Speaker 1: My impression of Notre Dame, after tailgateting there a number
Speaker 1: of times and going to more Notre Dame games than
Speaker 1: I can count, is that it was much more of
Speaker 1: a wine and cheese crowd. There's an element of that
Speaker 1: with Michigan. Absolutely. If you could meld maybe like Virginia
Speaker 1: with Michigan, that would probably be the perfect match for
Speaker 1: Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: I would all I mean, I think the overlap is also, yeah,
Speaker 2: Virginia and Notre Dame, Stanford and Notre Dame is not
Speaker 2: terribly far off the kind of academics. But the thing
Speaker 2: that I think Notre Dame and Michigan also have is
Speaker 2: they recruit students, not football players, but also football players nationally.
Speaker 2: So my wife is from Chicago. She's not local too
Speaker 2: in Michigan, but that is, you know, regionally local. But
Speaker 2: I knew a lot of kids from Calbasa's High went
Speaker 2: to Michigan. A lot of like Long Island, New York,
Speaker 2: New Jersey, Michigan. So same for Notre Dame with just
Speaker 2: like point to better GPAs anything for Penn State. Penn
Speaker 2: State's Ohio State isolated tradition, creative now.
Speaker 1: On the field, obnoxious sometimes as a fan base. Sometimes
Speaker 1: sometimes I'm gonna have to I have to play koy here. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull up pen Live comments real quick. I
Speaker 1: think it's a bio state.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but give me something out of the region.
Speaker 1: Florida State.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's not bad. I mean you had the long, long,
Speaker 2: long time coaches. That's still a looming shadow in a
Speaker 2: number of ways. Right, yep, another obnoxious quality. Sometimes you've got,
Speaker 2: you know, big enthusiastic recruiters. Yet to see the success
Speaker 2: for Willie Taggert. Okay, I think that's pretty good Penn
Speaker 2: State in Florida State.
Speaker 1: What about Oregon?
Speaker 2: Oregon is off the beaten path a little in the region.
Speaker 2: You know, there's another school that traditionally has done better,
Speaker 2: but they've been the up and comer, although now it's
Speaker 2: sort of back and forth. Oklahoma State TCU. I don't
Speaker 2: know if there's a team in the Big ten acc
Speaker 2: a little Virginia Tech ish okay, where there's there's a
Speaker 2: very specific brand and even though it's different at Virginia Tech,
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech is definitely isolated, you know. It's that that
Speaker 2: defensive brand, and I think it's very similar in the
Speaker 2: Oregon spread offense and like the quarters whatever defense that
Speaker 2: Bud Foster lunch Poilu they play in Blacksburg. I think
Speaker 2: that that feels like a little bit of a comparison.
Speaker 1: And there's probably a comparison in Boise State as well,
Speaker 1: just because they're sort of the newcomer, one of the newcomers,
Speaker 1: flashy in their own right because they are a newcomer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we want to address some non football questions. But before
Speaker 1: we do, Dan, I if people want to ask you,
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Speaker 2: It will no longer be tasteful nudes, ty, No, I have.
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Speaker 2: the yew shout out cam under what arepas or casdas.
Speaker 1: Okay, pause, you know what a case it is. I know,
Speaker 1: I know what a case idea is. A raypause? Is
Speaker 1: that how you pronounce that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I don't know if it's South American or
Speaker 2: Central American. It's I want to say, it's like Colombian salvador.
Speaker 2: No Salvadoran is papoosa, but is like a stuffed corn
Speaker 2: cake or like a corn cake sand almost like a sandwich.
Speaker 2: All right, So if you can imagine like a very
Speaker 2: thick corn tortilla on a like a griddle, stuffed with
Speaker 2: meat or vegetables or cheese and sauce.
Speaker 1: And I got to go caesada. It's the only one
Speaker 1: I've ever had, So I'm gonna go case ada here.
Speaker 1: It's I can't even say the other one dan, so
Speaker 1: let's get a Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm going case toda as well, just because I like
Speaker 2: a thinner corn tortilla. That's all it is. That's personal preference.
Speaker 2: The one from the Clemson site shaking the Southland just
Speaker 2: says Clemson defensive line question mark. Yeah, really good and
Speaker 2: even though you don't, I agree, real good, even though
Speaker 2: you don't have soundboard.
Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa O. It's a complete dood alert. Right, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, they all came back.
Speaker 2: I can't off the top of my head, which sidebar
Speaker 2: is not much? On the top of my head, I
Speaker 2: cannot think of a better unit going into this season.
Speaker 1: Such a good unit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's the answer to your question. Do you want
Speaker 2: to ask ask the Braiden one Braiden?
Speaker 1: All right, my roommate and I play tennis once a
Speaker 1: week in spring and summer. What's the most important thing
Speaker 1: I should work on to beat him? Now? As in
Speaker 1: aside here, Dan, huh, I don't know if we've discussed
Speaker 1: this on the program before. Okay. I have a friend
Speaker 1: with whom I've played many frames of tennis, many sets
Speaker 1: of tennis, many games of tennis, frames of tennis. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was a first word that came to mind. I've
Speaker 1: only ever beaten him once, and this is after hundreds
Speaker 1: of games of tennis matches. Sure, I've never beaten him
Speaker 1: more than like one game here, one game there. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I've ever actually taken a set. It's
Speaker 1: not that I'm unathletic, Dan, I suck at tennis, so
Speaker 1: I am. I am very interested in the answer to
Speaker 1: this question here as Braiden is is, well, how do
Speaker 1: you get good at tennis? What is the one thing
Speaker 1: you should work on? Honestly, like it's reps, You have
Speaker 1: to hit a lot of balls. But if you have
Speaker 1: an awesome serve and I wouldn't say speed, if you can,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you can look this up on YouTube,
Speaker 1: but you do have to go out and practice it.
Speaker 1: If you can develop a good kick serve which you
Speaker 1: have to put in the time, it bounces the wrong
Speaker 1: way and it jumps real high up and if you
Speaker 1: are playing somebody right handed, it will kick to their backhand,
Speaker 1: which is generally the weaker side. That's my most genuine answer.
Speaker 1: The easier answer is you have to get in their
Speaker 1: head because tennis is a mental game, and so I
Speaker 1: would assume most people who play tennis recreational are just
Speaker 1: as everybody is, and not in amazing shape. You run
Speaker 1: them back and forth, you drop shot them a little bit,
Speaker 1: and it's just wearing them out mentally as well as
Speaker 1: physically saying things like I'm and this is stuff I
Speaker 1: tell to my mom to tell her opponents.
Speaker 2: I tweet about my mom's tennis. Sometimes it's ridiculous. She
Speaker 2: gets in everybody's head because she plays a very like
Speaker 2: she's the Tim Wakefield of senior women's tennis players in
Speaker 2: southern California. A lot of slice and weird curving. But
Speaker 2: it's sort of like saying, and I don't think she
Speaker 2: does this, like why you move really well for your side?
Speaker 1: Stuff like that is I can't see your mom saying that,
Speaker 1: no trying ever met in my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she she refuses, but I try to get in.
Speaker 1: But what you're saying is that she plays her style
Speaker 1: of tennis is my style of of ping pong?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would, I would. Yeah, it's consistency, it's she
Speaker 2: slices off of both sides. But I would say, learn
Speaker 2: a really good drop shot. It's cheap as hell. But
Speaker 2: if you're playing to win and it's not purely social,
Speaker 2: you gotta you gotta.
Speaker 1: Pull out everything. That's what I'm saying. Pull it all out,
Speaker 1: all right, pull it all out.
Speaker 2: Let's go to John, what's the dumbest thing you've spent
Speaker 2: money on recently? And this answer, this answer will be
Speaker 2: to be continued, but from what you can say, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I went through my recent Amazon purchases and I
Speaker 2: do have an answer. But I'm actually kind of proud
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: Is that's a good idea. Why don't Why don't you
Speaker 1: go first? Because I actually want to do the same.
Speaker 2: I want Amazon honesty tie. So if you've ordered like
Speaker 2: a recent bomb sure or and by that I mean
Speaker 2: b A l M, let's let's go order honesty here.
Speaker 2: I'm opening my orders now.
Speaker 1: First off, you're living the prime life. Correct? Oh, of
Speaker 1: course I live the prime life.
Speaker 2: I feel a little guilty about it, but I do
Speaker 2: live that prime life. Okay, all right, I'm signed in.
Speaker 2: Yeah please, taco seasoning, USB wall chargers, a six pack
Speaker 2: of varying length lightning cables, a router, a book about
Speaker 2: the wire, a book about what is this? Oh, Shay
Speaker 2: Sano's Book of Basketball? Maybe like the sixth umbrella I've
Speaker 2: ordered on Amazon in the past year because I'm positive
Speaker 2: Jody with an Eye has four of them in her
Speaker 2: office drawer. UH coffee, a humidifier, sony headphones. And this
Speaker 2: is where I'm gonna stop.
Speaker 1: Ty.
Speaker 2: It's the very end of the page. I got this
Speaker 2: for camera guy Dave to return to at the end
Speaker 2: of his honeymoon because he doesn't travel well intestinally poop
Speaker 2: like a champion Cereal, highest fiber cereal one hundred percent
Speaker 2: of daily fiber and one point six servings more soluble
Speaker 2: fiber per serving than other cereals, Cilium colon cleanser, low
Speaker 2: carb gluten, Holy cow, poop like a champion, and it's
Speaker 2: a wow bowl of cereal on this box up on
Speaker 2: a golden pedestal in the clouds. WHOA, yeah, but I
Speaker 2: stand by that. I'm not embarrassed by it.
Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I didn't follow up to see how it did, though.
Speaker 1: I Uh. The one that I'm looking through here that
Speaker 1: I see on my Amazon is I went for one
Speaker 1: of those I think it was one of those Kinja
Speaker 1: deals that you see floating around all the time. Sure,
Speaker 1: I bought one of those Amazon Basics luggage scales. And
Speaker 1: the way it works is you kind of hook Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that is really nerdy. Yeah. You hook one
Speaker 1: of like a strap around the handle of your luggage,
Speaker 1: and then you connect it back up with this little
Speaker 1: device and you just pull it up and then it
Speaker 1: shows you on a little led screen how much your
Speaker 1: luggage ways. Now. I bought this mainly for solid wife Kate,
Speaker 1: because she travels a little bit more for the day job.
Speaker 1: Than I do. I don't think she's ever used it,
Speaker 1: and I thought to myself, you know, this would be
Speaker 1: really good when when I'm traveling, I can see if
Speaker 1: I'm going to be over the limit or I've really
Speaker 1: only ever been over the limit one time in my life,
Speaker 1: and that might have been my honeymoon. Most of the time,
Speaker 1: I don't have enough stuff that I can pack in
Speaker 1: there to go over, like the fifty pound limit. I
Speaker 1: spent seven ninety nine. I believe on this device it
Speaker 1: may never be used more than once.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize you had so much disposable income that
Speaker 2: you had luggage scale money.
Speaker 1: That's right, look at you. Yeah, all right, there you go.
Speaker 2: I hope that answers your question. That is a ridiculous item.
Speaker 2: I didn't I didn't know what existed.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I like this question a whole bunch. Even though we
Speaker 2: discourage these types of questions, I'm gonna roll with it
Speaker 2: for this show.
Speaker 1: Is a coach question.
Speaker 2: Which Big five conference or Power five? Yeah, Power five
Speaker 2: conference coach could eat the most hot dogs in one sitting.
Speaker 1: Oooh.
Speaker 2: Now, if you're listening, I assume your brain is going
Speaker 2: to go to who seems like the biggest eater who
Speaker 2: seems like it's.
Speaker 1: Going to go to like Brett Beelmo or Mike Leach
Speaker 1: or somebody not active.
Speaker 2: Right, Mike Leach is the other that's the second biggest
Speaker 2: coach you could come up with.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no. I'm just saying it's going to
Speaker 1: go to somebody like that. See that's where I diverged. Hy.
Speaker 2: If you know anything about competitive eating, it's the small
Speaker 2: It's about the expansion possibilities. Okay, the Black Widow Kobayashi.
Speaker 2: They're small, but they can expand. And I think being
Speaker 2: in good shape helps that. I don't know if the
Speaker 2: muscle prevents expansion. If it doesn't, the answer is Larry Fedora.
Speaker 2: He has the best yeah, right, the best core in
Speaker 2: college football. I was going to say Tom Herman because
Speaker 2: as we know from interviewing him, and if you've done
Speaker 2: any research on Tom Herman, Tom Herman is a is
Speaker 2: a Mensa Society member, and so my sense is that
Speaker 2: he would figure out a way to cut corners, a
Speaker 2: specific way to dip the bread in the water and
Speaker 2: eat his hot dogs maybe two, two and a half
Speaker 2: at a time, in order to game the system. And
Speaker 2: he's also in that in that slider vein right, like, right,
Speaker 2: he's not going to be the biggest guy in the world,
Speaker 2: but he's yeah, you know, he's kind of an average build.
Speaker 2: Herb's pretty slim. M her Edwards.
Speaker 1: Her Edwards though, would see some sort of like meta
Speaker 1: properties in the hot dogs and wouldn't eat him he
Speaker 1: talk about them.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, I'm trying to think, man, I'm looking across
Speaker 2: the conferences. Hmmm, Brian Harrison pretty pretty trim. Oh he's
Speaker 2: not power five. I'm gonna go Larry Fedora. You know what,
Speaker 2: I'm fascinated by.
Speaker 1: Ty.
Speaker 2: This is gonna sound very strange. You know what skinny
Speaker 2: fat is. Yeah, people who seem skinny but they just
Speaker 2: have small frames bathing Suco's on. You're like, oh weird,
Speaker 2: I don't I'm trying to think who would be the
Speaker 2: most secret or like skinny fat coach.
Speaker 1: It could also be Tom Herman. It could be It
Speaker 1: really could well could be.
Speaker 2: Man, this is good tweet us who you think is
Speaker 2: the most skinny fat or strong fat coach, because there's
Speaker 2: like the fat pack thing as well, but I think
Speaker 2: skinny fat is more interesting. All right, next question, Let's
Speaker 2: stick with the herr edwords.
Speaker 1: Thing.
Speaker 2: Will I ask you ever ful Phillips decades long sleeping
Speaker 2: giant label that comes to us from Brian. And if
Speaker 2: I'm interpreting this correctly, it's that ASU is fun place
Speaker 2: to go. So should it tract, you know, quality football
Speaker 2: players just because people are going to fun places. It's
Speaker 2: near southern California, the weather's great, and it's in a
Speaker 2: conference that's not stacked with national championship contenders. So ASU
Speaker 2: should be able to win a division every three or
Speaker 2: four years. You know, given those things, will they ever fulfill?
Speaker 2: It's decades long sleeping giant label.
Speaker 1: I say giant, No, I say no, no, sleeping small forward. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. The whole Herm Edwards thing really
Speaker 1: has me spooked in. I've been thinking a lot about
Speaker 1: this in the offseason. So far, I am so spooked.
Speaker 1: I have no idea which direction things are headed there.
Speaker 1: You know what we should do.
Speaker 2: We should do a Bizarro show because if we go
Speaker 2: through different conferences we have and I'm sure we don't
Speaker 2: agree on all of this, but there's a certain amount
Speaker 2: of conventional wisdom about each conference that, like Nick Saban
Speaker 2: will never be bad at Alabama, her Edwards is going
Speaker 2: to be a disaster at Arizona State. Willie Taggart is
Speaker 2: going to recruit super well at Florida State. You know,
Speaker 2: there's just everywhere you look there is conventional wisdom, like
Speaker 2: an assumed agreed upon talking point. We should do a
Speaker 2: Bizarro show and figure out how the conventional wisdom can
Speaker 2: be completely proven wrong. Like how would ASU see? Like,
Speaker 2: what is what is the formula for her Edwards to
Speaker 2: succeed at ASU despite all of the like the josh
Speaker 2: and around about him.
Speaker 1: Well, the thing is, we're pretty booked up this offseason, Dan,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it might be able to fit it in
Speaker 1: at some point in like June.
Speaker 2: All right, but do you have an answer to like
Speaker 2: what what is the secret sauce that like here is
Speaker 2: step and we can talk about it more on our
Speaker 2: Bizarrow show whenever that happens. But like, give me the
Speaker 2: short version of no, it can actually work if Her Edwards.
Speaker 1: The secret the secret sauce is that HERM Edwards and
Speaker 1: his little formula is good that it can build some
Speaker 1: level of consistency. M and ASU might not be the
Speaker 1: best team or the most talented team out there, but
Speaker 1: they're consistent, very consistent on both sides of the ball
Speaker 1: week in week out, and they're good enough to win
Speaker 1: nine games a year. Yeah, that I think is is
Speaker 1: where you'd have to go with it, because that's been
Speaker 1: a problem for ASU. They've been inconsistent and when one
Speaker 1: side of the ball is clicking, the other isn't. So
Speaker 1: if they can get better than average on both sides
Speaker 1: and do it consistently, that gets them going in the
Speaker 1: right direction. I think that's right.
Speaker 2: I would also argue that USC may not have a top,
Speaker 2: top tier coach like they did in the mid two thousands.
Speaker 2: UCLA has a you know, it could be a situation
Speaker 2: where Chip Kelly isn't old chip Kelly or previous chip
Speaker 2: Kelly or bloom or bust.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Utah and Colorado are in pretty good situations, though I
Speaker 2: don't know if the outlook for Colorado is great and
Speaker 2: Utah seems like they always sort of fade, have like
Speaker 2: a November fade after starting pretty well. I think in
Speaker 2: Arizona is they have a very similar ceiling. I think
Speaker 2: as a school they've succeeded a little bit more athletically
Speaker 2: because of basketball on a bigger stage, but it's a
Speaker 2: division without clear superpowers, having everything together. And the state
Speaker 2: of Arizona. I want to say they churn out blue
Speaker 2: chip quarterbacks pretty much every year, it seems, Kyle Allen,
Speaker 2: I know ASU has a current guy who was a
Speaker 2: blue chip quarterback. Oregon is getting one this coming season,
Speaker 2: so there is enough local talent to build around. I
Speaker 2: would say that is the path of hoping for coaching
Speaker 2: inconsistency at other programs and consistently getting and having a
Speaker 2: depth of quarterback that's higher quality than it has been recently.
Speaker 1: All right, where we're going next, Let's go two or
Speaker 1: three more quick ones here.
Speaker 2: All right, here's a quick one. John O'Meara, you want
Speaker 2: to read it. Do you have thoughts?
Speaker 1: Best Mike Tyson's punch out opponent? Mm hmmm. So is
Speaker 1: he saying best in terms of they're the hardest to
Speaker 1: conquer or just best because they're like the most fun
Speaker 1: to knock down?
Speaker 2: Who is who is your favorite to face? Who is
Speaker 2: to you is the most well developed character, most the
Speaker 2: best defined er.
Speaker 1: I always had a hard time with Great Tiger, of course,
Speaker 1: you know, with that little spin thing that he would do.
Speaker 1: I always said, difficult. He was like the third or
Speaker 1: fourth guy. I always had a hard time timing out
Speaker 1: that little spin thing he would do. Was it who disappeared?
Speaker 1: I think it was Great Tiger. It was Great Tiger. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So for me, it's a toss up between Great Tiger
Speaker 1: and Bald Bull because bald Bull was another one. You
Speaker 1: had a time it out when he did that charge right,
Speaker 1: Bald Bull all the way from Istanbul Turkey did the
Speaker 1: charge and you had a time it right, otherwise you
Speaker 1: get knocked down.
Speaker 2: Ty, I'm a showman. I love me some. Don Flamenco,
Speaker 2: Don Flemaco. Yeah, Flemenco. Isn't it flamenco like the type
Speaker 2: of Spanish dancing.
Speaker 1: That's what I said, Don funny flamenco. Flamenco. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I I don't know how we're gonna deal with this
Speaker 2: this autumn with you saying Mario Crystal Ball. I don't
Speaker 2: know what I'm gonna do. I don't know what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do. I'm going don flamenco. Uh slight but fun.
Speaker 1: I think the most the most fun to face, though,
Speaker 1: the most satisfying to knock down would always be King Hippo. Hmmm,
Speaker 1: you knew what you were getting each time, but King
Speaker 1: Hippo knocking him down. Yeah, he had a good statrum
Speaker 1: in the mouth and in the you know, he knocked
Speaker 1: the pants down. That was always fun.
Speaker 2: I'm partial to a good von Kiser staggerback.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 2: I like that a lot. But let's go to This
Speaker 2: was a very strange question, and I assume it's a joke.
Speaker 2: I really hope it's a joke. If you're watching a
Speaker 2: game on TV at a friend's house and they ask
Speaker 2: you to stand for the nat anthem, do you do it?
Speaker 1: Has that ever happened to you? I'm confused by the
Speaker 1: question because obviously, if you're watching the game, the people
Speaker 1: that are being broadcast on your television are being asked
Speaker 1: to stand for the national anthem right at the game.
Speaker 1: So is he asking do you stand along with those
Speaker 1: folks that are on TV? Or is he saying literally
Speaker 1: that the friend is asking the other friends at the
Speaker 1: house to stand for the national anthem. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's what it is that has never happened to me before.
Speaker 1: I was going to.
Speaker 2: Say, if maybe that does happen, and I accept that
Speaker 2: it's possible that it happens, that would be so strange
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm not I'm not taking a stand
Speaker 1: for or against it. I'm just saying that would be
Speaker 1: that's that's weird. It seems that it's weird. It does
Speaker 1: seem weird.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go one more question, one more last one.
Speaker 2: You choose ty Tye's choice.
Speaker 1: All right, Dan, let's go out on a high note here,
Speaker 1: just for you. Let's go to chuck. He says, if
Speaker 1: you had time for only one meal, and you're steering
Speaker 1: at a barbecue shack, a diner, a burger slash, fries joint,
Speaker 1: a taco truck, and a deli subshop. So you got
Speaker 1: like five options here, the barbecue, chicken, diner, chicken shack.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, like six options here? Which do you choose?
Speaker 1: And why assume that each is an elite version of
Speaker 1: its genre? Mm hmmm hmmm. Which direction you go? And again,
Speaker 1: your choices are barbecue, a diner, a burger joint, a
Speaker 1: taco truck, a sub shop, and a chicken shack. Six options, Dan.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to limit. Well, so we need to
Speaker 2: know why we're short on time. Are we heading to
Speaker 2: a big business meeting? Are we going to pick up
Speaker 2: a child at soccer practice?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What is what is the time crime.
Speaker 1: Are you going to catch Are you trying to catch
Speaker 1: a flight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's say that. Let's see you're trying to catch
Speaker 2: a flight. You're going to be somewhere where physical discomfort
Speaker 2: will be enhanced.
Speaker 1: So I think if that is the context, you need
Speaker 1: to veer away from the taco truck. Oh right, I
Speaker 1: love tacos. Tacos are one of my favorite things. But
Speaker 1: taco before any kind of flight is that's a recipe
Speaker 1: for digestive disaster. Disagree, disagree, but continue. So I rule
Speaker 1: out taco truck in that in that little world. I
Speaker 1: rule out barbecue in that world because again, could be
Speaker 1: stomach issues following barbecue. Love, barbecue could be stomach issues.
Speaker 1: I also rule out the burger. The burger can bring
Speaker 1: on some stomach issues that narrow. Don't worried about your intestines.
Speaker 1: I am worried. I'm on a flight. I know you
Speaker 1: know what happens when you go up and I'm pressing
Speaker 1: changes to your stomach purely, but.
Speaker 2: Let's say purely out of taste. Your stomach is fine,
Speaker 2: but you you know you'll have this food sitting in
Speaker 2: your stomach for a long time.
Speaker 1: The pressure does weird things. I'm veering away from those
Speaker 1: three and I'm picking from the diner, the sub shop,
Speaker 1: or the chicken shock. Those are all a little bit.
Speaker 1: Fried chicken is just super mellow in there. It's more
Speaker 1: mellow than a taco truck.
Speaker 2: Dan Oh totally disagree. There's nothing deep fried about it.
Speaker 1: I am going to go very conservative here. If I'm
Speaker 1: going on the flight, and I probably go either subshop
Speaker 1: or the diner.
Speaker 2: Diner can be pretty greasy. You get a what a
Speaker 2: patty melt, some steak fries. Going diner or subshop diner.
Speaker 1: You got options, though You're not pigeonholed into fried chicken
Speaker 1: or a taco or something that could really helping stomach.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is not a shock. I'm doing taco
Speaker 2: and not thinking twice. I'm getting variety. I can control
Speaker 2: portions and starch and heft and greasiness depending on which
Speaker 2: meat I get. Oh, the variables are so asked with
Speaker 2: the taco. If I want pastor if I want chicken,
Speaker 2: if I want to eat lighter, I can do like
Speaker 2: a veggie taco of some kind. I think you've got
Speaker 2: a layer of grease with the chicken shack, You've have
Speaker 2: a layer of grease with the diner, layer of grease
Speaker 2: with burger fries. There's there's a hef to barbecue that's
Speaker 2: pretty difficult to avoid unless you get like turkey, which
Speaker 2: is you know, barbecue. Turkey's fine, but I think it's
Speaker 2: taco for me.
Speaker 1: All right, we disagree, We disagree to close out the show.
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Speaker 1: And what else have we got anything else?
Speaker 2: I think that's it.
Speaker 1: TI. Life is good, well, Daniel, You enjoy your weekend,
Speaker 1: all right? Hey you as well to everyone out there
Speaker 1: listening in their off season. Hope it's going well for you.
Speaker 1: Please do reach out let us know what's on your mind.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, for that guy over there, Dan Rubinstein,
Speaker 1: for myself, Tie hillde Brandt. Get you on the weekend.
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